Welcome to bbc news. Spains Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, is chairing an emergency meeting of his cabinet which is expected to start imposing Central Control over catalonia. The Regional Government says it will respond with a unilateral declaration of independence. My colleague tim willcox is in barcelona for us. Welcome to a beautiful and sunny barcelona. Im standing here high above one of the best known streets in barcelona, just behind me on my left the cathedral designed by architect gaudi. In the next few hours we are expecting hundreds of thousands of demonstrators to take to the streets here, pro separatism, very much against direct rule imposed by madrid as a result of article 150 five. An article that has never been used before. About an hour ago spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy convened an extraordinary meeting of the spanish cabinet to discuss which measures they plan to impose here on barcelona in the next few days. Its a slightly complicated process. They have to agre
Welcome to bbc news. Spains prime minister, mariano rajoy, is chairing an emergency meeting of his cabinet which is expected to start imposing Central Control over catalonia. Its Regional Government says it will respond with a unilateral declaration of independence. My colleague tim willcox is in barcelona for us. Hello again. What news in the Cabinet Meeting . That Cabinet Meeting is underway, it started at ten oclock local time. Mariano rajoy is holding this exceptional meeting with his entire cabinet to decide what measures they are going to impose under article 155, basically taking autonomy away from the region of catalonia. Just on the process of that, he is going to have to ta ke process of that, he is going to have to take that to the senate, they we re to take that to the senate, they were debated. He has a majority there. Those first measures could be imposed. We are looking properly at the local Catalan Police force, 17,000 strong, being taken under control of the national p
Occasionally wet start to the weekend. Improving tomorrow, but still blustery. I will have all the weekend weather and the very latest on what we can expect from storm brian, in the next half an hour. In sport. The sound every football manager dreads. Booing. Boos ring out after west ham lose 3 0 to brighton, piling the pressure on manager slaven bilic. When youre weary. The teenager who lost her love for music after the Manchester Bombing finds her voice again. Good morning, first our main story. Speed limits through motorway roadworks could be raised from 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. The proposed changes follow trials by highways england which showed drivers feel safer at higher speeds. Jon donnison reports. Roadworks and mile after mile of Little Orange cones are the bane of many drivers lives. The current speed limit when passing through motorway roadworks is 50 mph, but highways england says that could be increased to up to 60. It follows trials where drivers were fitted with heartrat
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