i met her and welcome this week spain gave catalonia an ultimatum withdraw your tech ration of independence or face the consequences well today prime minister mariano rajoy made good on that warning madrid says it plans to sack cattle on leaders and has gone down well in barcelona where the masses have taken to the streets in protest and w. s barber of a zal is among those protesters in barcelona we have her on the line oh oh well i suppose we don t have her on the line there is a bit of a crowd on the streets so let s take a look at the day s events so far now marianna roy said he was going to trigger article one fifty five of the constitution to bring a rebellious region back under central control and that would mean an end to catalonia as wide ranging autonomy handing control instead to ministries in madrid