Its friday 27th october. Im vicki young. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has called on senators to approve direct rule over catalonia, amid an escalating crisis over the regions push for independence. The Catalan Parliament could respond by declaring independence. Lets cross over live now to my colleague in barcelona. You join me live outside the Catalan Parliament, where after weeks of turmoil, demonstrations and chaos and anger, this Catalan Crisis finally looks to be coming to a head. In the last few minutes, ca rles head. In the last few minutes, Carles Puigdemont, the catalan president , arrived here at parliament. We understand one of the motions he put to a vote today is a declaration of independence, a declaration of independence, a declaration that catalonia will be a sovereign state, independent, they will notify the eu, and any think madrid two sides will be irrelevant because it will be outside catalan law. That flies in the face of
Handed. Reporter 398 days behind bars in egypt, the family of jailed al jazeera journalist peter greste called again for his release. Plus. Im charlie in New Hampshire finding out why milk is now cheaper than bottled water in uk and what it means for dairy farms like this. Egypts president sisi is cutting short his trip from ethopia to deal with a string of deadly attacks in egypts see that peninsula and says the attacks killed 26 people and most of them soldiers but some reports put that figure at more than 40 a group that pledges to the Islamic State say they carried out the bomb ings and the group that calls itself the sinai province is retaliating on the crack down of supporters of the former president mohamed morsi. A car bomb targeted a military base, a Police Headquarters and a housing complex for army and Police Officers. The town of rafa on the gaza border also hit. A Security Officer is said to have been killed by a roadside bomb in the city to the south. Earlier we spoke to
Speaker was invited to give a commencement speech at san jose State University. A four hours later he says police beat him up. Kpix 5s betty yu has video of the confrontation outside a nightclub in downtown san jose [ screaming ] no, no reporter the guy in the white shirt in this Youtube Video so this left him badly bruised and traumatized. Threw me to the ground and then picking me up again to throw me back on the ground and then what if you know [ indiscernible ] pull out a baton. 23yearold nate howard spoke to me from his san diego home by skype. He said he had just given a speech at san jose states black graduation ceremony. I was a visitor. I didnt deserve that treatment. I was looked at as another brother with dreds causing trouble. Reporter he said they celebrated at a nightclub and things got messy as his friend was charged with public urination. I speak for the millennial generation. Reporter nate is a motivational speaker who graduated from usc. He says he was simply standing
Bruised and traumatized. Threw me to the ground and then picking me up again to throw me back on the ground and then what did you know, [ indiscernible ] 23yearold nate howard spoke to me from his san diego home by skype. He said he had just given a speech at a black Graduation Ceremony in san jose. I was a visitor. I was looked at as another brother with dreads causing trouble. Reporter he said they celebrated at a nightclub and things got messy as his friend was charged with public urination. Nate is a motivational speaker who graduated from usc. He says he was simply standing up for himself when the cops forced his hands behind his back. [ indiscernible ] media we play this idea is he using the race card . Yes. Im im going to speak out as the idea that were not in postracial america. Reporter with the support of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights, he filed a complaint with the citys independent police auditor. Thats correct. If any of these allegations are sustained, that means
Services had sent six ambulances, a mass casualty truck and supporting officers and equipment to help. Reporter what you see down there . What was the storm like . It was just pouring down rain real hard. It just came up real quick. And then it was a lot of hail and a lot of damage. Wind blowing, trees blowing. Its been a lot of stuff. The area was under a Tornado Warning this morning after a National Weather Service Radar indicated a water spout over the chesapeake bay. Howard, were not going to have problems like that here but we certainly have seen some rain this morning. We v. I want to take you to southeastern virginia at 8 00. It seemed to be happening about 8 00, 8 15. This is the storm. This is norfolk, the Virginia Beach area, richmond. We had some heavy storms down here. Not so much by us. You can see all the lightning popping with it. This came across, certainly had some wind and rotation with it. Whether or not its a tornado, the Weather Service will go and do a survey. Loo