Good evening. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in spain, demanding National Unity and dialogue to end the crisis over catalonias demands for independence. The biggest demonstrations were by supporters of the National Government in madrid, calling for tough action against the Catalan Leaders, who have said they may declare independence in the coming days. Other people across spain were urging peaceful dialogue, to resolve the crisis. James reynolds has sent this report. In spains capital, demonstrators came out to deliver a simple message this country should not be broken into pieces. The region of catalonia must give up its plans to declare independence. Translation this is horrible, i dont agree with any of it. And i hope we reach a solution soon, because its very bad for spain. Translation we have come to ask for the unity of spain, we dont want spaniards to fight amongst each other. There are minority separatists, but i think the majority of catalans want to be with us.
Accuweather forecast. We continue with maggie ruely live in mobile, alabama. Walter, its been raining nearly nonstop as Hurricane Nate pounds the gulf coast. Hurricane nate sweeping over louisiana, mississippi and alabama. Waves and rain lashing the coastline. We are only in the outer bands of Hurricane Nate and already in gulf court mississippi, the waves are over the storm wall, one of the biggest concerns, a state of emergency and curfew in effect in towns and counties louisiana to florida. No one should take the storm lightly. Its proven deadly in honduras and nicaragua. The city lying below sea level and relying on pumps to avoid flooding. I put no faith at all in the pumps. I met with pump operators. They are in a good place working hard. They tied up boats all saturday. Others not sure what to expect. We have tornadoes and you dont know when they pop up. The big concern here in mobile are storm surge along the port and tornadoes. We heard the siren at least once tonight. Maggie
Showers to the west. A full forecast coming up. First, our main story. Hurricane nate has hit the United States, causing torrential rain and powerful winds. People in parts of mississippi, alabama, florida and louisana have been ordered to evacuate their homes. The storm has already caused major damage to several Central American countries, leaving at least 25 people dead, before hitting the us as a category one hurricane. They watched it approach, and then it hit. The us is facing the full force of Hurricane Nate, winds of up to 150km h, with storm surges. The category one hurricane has hit the gulf coast of the states, as torrential rain and flooding in parts of mississippi, alabama, florida and louisiana, where people have been ordered to evacuate. The central americas already felt it with deaths in honduras, el salvador, costa rica and nicaragua, where tens of thousands of people are now without Running Water in costa rica. And scenes like these have become all too familiar in the
Prix. And our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9. 35 this mornings reviewers are Caroline Crampton from the new statesman and the sunday times Foreign Editor peter conradi. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Hurricane nate has hit the United States, causing torrential rain and powerful winds. People in parts of mississippi, alabama, florida and louisiana have been ordered to leave their homes. The storm has already caused major damage to several Central American countries, leaving at least 25 people dead, before hitting the us as a category one hurricane. Luxmy gopal reports. They watched it approach, and then it hit. The us is facing the full force of Hurricane Nate, winds of up to 150km h, with storm surges. The category one hurricane has hit the gulf coast of the states, as torrential rain and flooding in parts of mississippi, alabama, florida and louisiana, where people have been ordered to evacuate. Being a fast moving storm, we had to make sure the plans were in plac
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