Anthony zurcher in washington will explain. And well be getting more on the impact of brexit on the uk economy. Thats all coming up on outside source. Yesterday, the uk delivered new proposals for a brexit deal. Today were getting the eus reaction. First up, European Council president , donald tusk. The core obstacle to a brexit deal is this how can the uk leave the eus Single Market and Customs Union and avoid there being any checks on or close to the border between the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland . The current agreement that the Uk Parliament rejected repeatedly, includes the irish border backstop. It says that after brexit, the uk remains aligned to the eus Customs Union until a new trade deal is signed. But borisjohnson and many brexiteers want that gone these new plans are their alternative. The Brexit Steering Group at the European Parliament says. Heres its chair, guy verhofstadt. Well, we are very sceptical about this proposal. Because mainly, it is a repackaging o
Well again im peter w. Watching aljazeera live from also coming up the u. S. Health secretary resigns off for a scandal over his use of taxpayer money the private flights. A new reality for a community in nepal cut off by a powerful earthquake two years ago the people there are still trying to adjust. And the u. S. Pulls out more than half of its Embassy Staff from cuba to whats being called mysterious attacks on its diplomats. Top stories so far today the castle only a region of spain is twenty four hours away from a political confrontation bans the session referendum a shuttle to take place on sunday campaigners for a yes vote to occupy. Schools expected to be used as polling stations but the Spanish Government insisting there will be no vote it says the referendum is illegal and is deploying police to ensure no ballots accost opinion polls suggest forty percent of registered voters in catalonia want to break away whole reports not from barcelona. Thank the fields and into the politi
Anger in madrid as demonstrators take to the streets in protest against sunday succession referendum in catalonia. If anybody out there is listening to us. We are dying. Puerto rico urges the u. S. To speed up pay it has it struggles to recover from Hurricane Maria. And we have a special report on a Nigerian Army crackdown on the oil pirates who are raiding refineries across the niger delta. And far as small have all the days sporting including unbeaten Manchester United pile on the misery for Crystal Palace beating them for a nail in the English Premier League. The. Spains government is cracking down on the bounce a session votes in its catalonia region on sunday describing it as a mockery of democracy its were born volunteers at polling stations they could be fined more than three hundred fifty thousand Dollars Police have already begun deploying ahead of the ballots and sealed off more than half of the schools designated as Polling Centers offices say they will remove voters in the
Hello im adrian forget this is the news i live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. Thousands of people lined up to vote in catalonia is secession referendum is the police use force to shut down polling stations. Accusations and insults between President Trump at the scene the puerto rican official as the u. S. Caribbean territory struggles to recover from hurricane maria. A rare admission by secretary of state Rex Tillerson the u. S. Is in direct talks with north korea. And living in a climate of fear nigerians in the northeast mark Independence Day with subdued celebrations. Scuffles between Spanish Police and voters in catalonia as controversial session referendum paramedics have been treating people who were injured outside polling stations elsewhere catalans a custom that ballots in some polling stations referendum leaders of urged voters to use passive resistance if police try to interfere with the vote lets go straight now to our series john hendren whos in barcelona w
Live from studio fourteen headquarters and im dead you know welcome to the news grid its happened catalonia has declared independence from spain the procession politicians passed the motion to turn the autonomous region into a new republic the National Government meanwhile isnt acting unprecedented measures to stop the split as these breaking developments ripple across europe and the world we have full coverage from barcelona and madrid. Thanks for joining us here with the news grid relied on air were streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and aljazeera. Unprecedented momentous shocking illegal just some of the words being thrown around right now after the parliament of catalonia declared independence from the rest of spain so they want to create a catalan republic while approval has been given to spains National Government to impose direct rule over catalonia lots of ground to cover lets start at the very beginning and the moment the declaration was made. So that move was bac