A bid to break away from spain activists have threatened mass protests in response to the verdict lets bring in our desire oh so youre going to go shes joining us from the council on regional capital barcelona what more reaction are you getting to this sentencing sonia. But as anticipated already people have started coming out with the. Need for a cataloging nationalists and the guys who have started to congregate in one of the main square in the city and also end up last night got the young there is a sense from this group of people of acts of outrage that you know that its the 2nd thing the president of the capsule and government graph fly by other members of his government hold the ruling today very much a political trial and he strongly condemned the results of his well said it was a case against him a nation of catalonia as well meanwhile was a voice message was put out by the Vice President audio youll get us he said that. The sentencing was extremely tough and he called it an ac
I want to play societies all quiet now across japan a lost a clear dry and sunny weve got a little area of High Pressure now pushing in replacing a storm at typhoon thats well and truly gone and we are looking at last he settled conditions the right is out there in the open waters sunshine for the most part based on pieces of fair weather clad take it up to 20 celsius as we go through choose to add a similar temperature as we go on into wednesday perhaps a little breeze or on wednesday but it will be dry and settles at the tip operation not hampered by the weather at least try and study to to the east and parts of china down towards the fall southwest is still looking rather disturbed and some heavy rain affecting a good part of vietnam over the next couple of days driven in by this key northeasterly wind right across the south china seas western parts of china will also see some wet weather some other 2 into central and southern parts of the philippines as showers slide in the way dow
Opec of course that Work Together to reduce supplies to World Markets to keep prices relatively high but the been on opposing sides on a number of issues especially syria and iran the 2 nations have discussed cooperating on Missile Defense which is a controversial issue for the United States of course saudi arabia currently relies on u. S. Made systems which washington recently agreed to strengthen the thoughts of nicholai a question of who is an associate professor at the Gulf Study Center of how to university he told us the timing of this visit is significant. There are basically 3 priorities the 1st one is to ensure the signing off as much economic contracts as possible in the nuclear petrochemical that are in the oil and gas petrochemical fildes. Secondly to achieve the understanding on the system to continue the corporation within the opec bloss between saudi arabia and russia and possibly even the further decrease in the Production Output and finally to reach the common understan
Hello and welcome to world news today. Us secretary of state mike pompeo has dismissed questions about Donald Trumps attempts to push ukraine and china to investigate democratic rival joe biden as a silly gotcha game. Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry into President Trump have issued a legal order demanding the white house hand over more documents on its dealings with ukraine. Mr trump is accused of abusing his position to put pressure on the ukrainian leader to investigate mr biden. Our north america correspondent Chris Buckler reports. No matter where americas commander in chief goes, theres no escape from the talk of impeachment, or the many questions about his request for a Foreign Government to investigate one of his political rivals. Requests for documents from the white house have become demands. With a subpoena issued by the democrats, alongside a strongly worded letter, that accuses the president of choosing a path of defiance, obstruction and cover up. Among the many
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Masked protesters have again taken to the streets of hong kong in defiance of their leader carrie lam who has introduced a new law banning face masks in public. A human chain was formed to show theyre against the legislation which came into effect on saturday carrie lam is warning that she can no longer tolerate rioters destroying the territory. Translation the government will suppress violence with the greatest determination. I appeal to everyone to support the government to condemn violence together, and to cut ties with rioters with a firm will. Our correspondent robin brant has more now on how the shutdown is affecting the territory. A big slice of yesterday and now all of today, hong kong s metro system, the light rail underground trains will not be running. The only service you can get is from the centre of the city to the airport. The decision yesterday by the authorities to essentially shut down authorities to essentially shut down a key part, the