Where people are already queueing at a voting station for a referendum on independence for catalonia thats a vote that the Spanish Government considers illegal and has tried to stop. Spanish police earlier sealed off polling stations and raided a Communications Centre where votes were due to be counted. The polling stations are due to open in just under three hours time. From barcelona, heres tom burridge. Those against the referendum last night took to the streets. A sea of spanish flags outside the headquarters of catalonias devolved government. All chant espanol, espanol, espanol those protesting happy that thousands of Spanish National police are on board two cruise ships docked in barcelonas port. This is madrid saying it is ultimately in charge. Together, we are more stronger, together is a great country inside of europe, and the majority of catalonia, we want to continue to be a part of spain. But those who want the referendum have occupied schools so they can be used as polling
To back her remaining in office. The sunday times continues the theme. One of its headlines claims borisjohnson believes mrs may will be gone in a year. A rather kinder front page from the sunday telegraph which says the pm is set to announce a tuition fees revolution to help students. Thats more like it, mrs may is the verdict in the sunday express. It reports the pm will launch the change as part of a policy blitz to woo younger voters. The mail on sunday says shes gambling that the tuition fees changes will head off a tory coup but the paper calls it another huge u turn. And more on the conservatives in the sunday mirror which claims the prominent pro life tory mp Jacob Rees Mogg has admitted to benefiting financially from a firm which produces drugs to end pregnancies. Now on bbc news, click. This week. Explosions. Big taps. And goats on the loose. The beautiful welsh countryside. Home to valleys, lakes, the odd feral goat and. Electric mountain. Hidden inside this mountain is the
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Mr. Royce this hearing will come to order. Before my opening statement, without objection, id like to play a video, short video, from our friends at radio free asia. That highlights very much, i think, the scope and severity of the violence against the rohingya. So if thats prepared, lets play that right now. While were waiting for that, i see ms. Muhammad ali in the audience and i wanted to thank her for her focus on this issue. [applause] appreciate her presence with us here today. Thank you. [video playing] mr. Royce so, one of the reasons that i thought we would show the video from radio free asia is to make a point. Theres very Little Information outside of these types of coverage that are coming into the outside world. And more importantly, the burmese people themselves. In myanmar there is no coverage of this information. So people do not actually know what is happening. The generals that run the country have a different narrative. And so theres very little recognition of the re