Region of its autonomy while King Philippe says catalonia will remain an essential part of spain as the crisis intensifies it will go to barcelona also coming up the Czech Republic is poised to elect a populist Prime Minister to look at the man theyve dubbed the czech donald trump and ask why the country is so critical of the European Union. And in the bundesliga will look back at shall go climbing in the standings with a win over mayans and forward to dortmund ski matchup with frankfurt in just a couple of hours. Welcome to the program i marry in evanston its good to have you with us. The crisis over catalonia is independence but it is at another crucial juncture today Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is holding an emergency Cabinet Meeting to pave the way for establishing Central Control in the region now this comes after a Catalan Leader carlist paused a moment refused to abandon his thread to declare a breakaway state. A brief run on catamaran banks a symbolic protest to put pressure o
This comes hours after a spanish Prime Minister Marianna Hoyo announces plans to dissolve catalonia as government and call an early election well find out from madrid and barcelona what this all means also coming up partial results from elections in the Czech Republic suggest the next Prime Minister will be a populist billionaire dubbed the czech donald trump a far right party is in second place. And well tell you about a young man overcoming a disability and living his dream. Hes a professional video gamer and he is blind well tell you how he manages not only to compete but to with. All. I met her welcome this week spain gave catalonia an ultimatum withdraw your declaration of independence or face the consequences well today Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy made good on that warning roy said that he was triggering article one fifty five of the constitution to bring a rebellious region back under Central Control that would mean an end to catalonia as wide ranging autonomy instead of handin
Concerns that can you could see more violence as authorities postpone the president ial Election Rerun its opposition and strongholds and the fee is for the safety on election officials. Time and home free thanks for joining me. Sax cattle and a president called has pushed him on to cold for quote democratic opposition to the sake of catalonia upon the trees and an address he said the spanish governments decision to dismiss him was illegitimate and vowed to piss you his struggle for what he said to be a free country madrids actions have left castle and supporters of independence outraged here in catalonia some towns have lowered the spanish and e. U. Flags a symbolic move after the region declared its independence. This was the moment catalan leaders stepped into the unknown lawmakers and barcelona voting officially to split from spain after the opposition walked out in protest. For many this man carlos peter man is the hero. Hes the one whos led catalonia into this confrontation with
British driver. All eyes on catalonia as the Spanish Government takes control of the regions institutions. There are rumours the sacked catalan president could be tried could try and turn up for work. I am it sank ankrah station where rail bosses are trying to transform the network of the uk over the next 18 months and i am looking at how they are going to do it. St pancras station. do it. St pancras stationli never really would harm a never really thought it would harm a pet. That passive smoking can pose to your pets. And carol has the weather. Good morning. It isa it is a cold and frosty start to the day with a widespread frost, actually, but for most of us it will be dry and bright with sunny spells, showers along the north sea coastline and later thick cloud will bring rain and drizzle into the west. Ill have more details in 15 minutes. Thanks, carol. Good morning. First, our main story. The leader of the house of commons has been asked to make an urgent statement about tackling S
Donald and indeed the White House Well donald trump as usual has taken to twitter also pointing out that the charges nothing to do with his campaign and instead saying that Robert Mueller should look into Hillary Clinton and the democrats connections to russia clearly this is a distraction from the bad press that once again is getting here but it might work with his base and thats certainly the line that the white house and the trump allies tread for the rest of the day cause of phenomena in washington thank you. Now to some of the other stories making news around the world forest fires in northwestern italy have forced more than a thousand people to leave their homes towards an italian media set of the blazes near the French Border believed to have been started deliberately. The u. N. Weather agency is warning that the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere grew at record speed last year it calls for drastic action to cut Greenhouse Gas emissions to avoid temperature increases tha