Have been stepping up efforts to stop the vote claiming that most voting stations have been closed. It follows a raid at the Catalan Governments i. T centre to disrupt electronic voting. The vote is considered illegal by the government in spain. The National Police have sealed off over a thousand schools which are intended to be polling stations. Its prompted the president of the Catalan National assembly to make this plea. Translation i want to make a plea to the police and appeal to their sense of responsibility and community. Well, this was the scene in madrid earlier people against the vote showing their support for a united spain. But many catalans say they are determined to vote. Heres our correspondent tom burridge who is in barcelona. This is how parents and people in this part of barcelona a scene repeated across the city and across the region of catalonia, are trying to keep this school open. They hope the police cannot get in if they organise activities with their kids and s
Later in the programme well get the inside track on a tech company which aims to tackle the worldwide problem of poor eyesight. A new survey has found that online spending in the uk has fallen for the First Time Since 2013. Today we want to know whether your expectations of the future are affecting your Spending Decisions . Do get in touch just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. So Emmanuel Macron has won the french presidency, and now the hard work begins. His first challenge will be to form a government with crucial parliamentary elections in june. The outcome of that will determine how much power the new president has to tackle the lengthy list of economic problems. France has had a high Unemployment Rate for decades currently around 10 of the workforce or 3 million people. That compares with less than half 4. 3 across the border in germany. The problem is worse for young people 24 of those between the ages of 15 and 2a dont have a job. The other big iss
Election, frances new president Emmanuel Macron looks set to win a landslide in the countrys parliamentary elections. Can he pushed through the major reforms that you promised voters, including Cutting Spending and overholding frances strict laws. Do you still trust the politicians . Do they deliver on their promises . Or do they just say what you want to hear to win your vote . Let us know, use the hashtag bbc Business Live. A very warm welcome to the programme. Do get in touch with your thoughts. The Prime Minister has formed a new government, and today she will be holding her first Cabinet Meeting says the election. Senior ministers reappointed by theresa may have publicly given hubbard backing, but several are reported to have demanded greater influence in return for their support. Meanwhile, the uncertainty caused by the General Election has led Business Confidence in the uk to sink through the floor. That is according to a lobby group that did according to a lobby group that did
Roane. The advisories are still in place. Lets go to allyson rae now with the very latest. Yeah, we still have a wind advisory. Its going to be a very windy day. But each and every hour the wind will let up a little bit more kind of losing that dangerous component. However those winds have been howling all night long right through this morning. We even recorded a wind gust of up to 72 Miles Per Hour. It will be out at Andrews Air Force base. Still powerful one more gust up to near 50 Miles Per Hour. Yeah the potential for a damage is still there. Were not going to see the winds subside until later on tonight. Look at all these wind reports with the blue dots that are going to be wind reports as far as high the winds are. The ones lighter in color are trees down, trees on top of the power lines, the trees on top of houses. So yes this was a damaging night and right through this morning. So things are starting to let up just a little bit, but it is still a very windy day. Feels pretty ni
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