Calls the. Catalonia an attack on the rule of law. Of brutality. U. S. President. His war of words with north korea undermining his top diplomat. The head of the World Food Program visits refugee camps in bangladesh as aid agencies struggle to help the more than half a million who fled maam. Im joining. With. The biggest sports team plays behind closed doors fans a shutout of football match after clashes over the referendum. We begin in spain where the head of the castle long Regional Government says catalan citizens have won the right for an independent state but spains Prime Minister has called a an authorized secession referendum an attack on the rule of law its been a day of anger and violence with police accused of using unjustifiable brutality to shut down the vote at least eight hundred forty four people have been hurt according to the Regional Government. There was no independence referendum in catalonia today and the Prime Minister and the leader of the government and we have done what we have to do within the law weve only active in the law we are showing the top Democratic State house was also has to defend itself against such a serious attack as the one which has been tried in this illegal referendum today the one. Well in the last hour the catalan president Carlos French to more criticize that response by the Spanish Government accusing it of violence and prussian blue. The banners and im here to pay tribute to the bravery and courage of millions of catalans who took part in the referendum on selfdetermination in the state try to stop. Today the Spanish Government has demonstrated a shameless attitude showing that its only through violence that they can get their message across the Spanish State has always on such questions with violence and repression. How is life for us and. Monitoring what he was saying that well more can you tell us about what his message was really. Well i think from the messages both from the Prime Minister and also from catalonia first minister carlos posed among you can see that neither side is talking the same language neither side is backing down and both sides indicating that this political crisis is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better we still havent had any official results from the referendum yet but ive been looking up the limit the results coming in from some of the smaller voting stations that are showing an overwhelming support for a yes vote and now the wellman support of breaking away from spain weve also heard in the last few hours. The main labor unions here in catalonia fred general strike starting on tuesday to push not force a session but just so we can i must on what went on in the course of the day lets take a look at this poll from my colleague john hendren. Catalans lined up by the thousands devote many paying a high price for. Spanish National Police in riot gear battered their way into one Voting Center after another trashing peaceful voters downstair striking them with the terms and as promised confiscating ballot boxes. They did not discriminate by gender or age it dancing on those peacefully protecting the pole sometimes retreating and sometimes clashing verbal ewood patterns local moves with beneath the. Apparently over the use of force they just died in a cry. They stole materials they violate that human rights they. Injure people that east a crime still voters lined out side by the thousands here at the polls on election organizers a special tactic they gave the entire voter registry to the only place so that a police shut down one place holder simply went to another this ninety two year old voter remembers when the catalan language was outlawed until the one nine hundred seventy s. Now she comes to vote only to be turned away by a system shut down. I believe we will gain independence because we are sick of the current government that we have. This hundred two year old waited out several outages to cast her ballot. Outside the center of barcelona where residents proudly fly the spanish banner some catalans quietly oppose independence. I lived here for sixty years of course i love catalonia its where my children are where my family lives but theres no reason why we have problems with this obsession east. If i am catalunya and i dont think like the session is to then im from the outside but then when i go to my family home then im also from the outside so where am i from and what identity do i have yet the n. T. Secessionist seem largely to have boycotted the referendum which the Spanish Government again declared illegitimate under spanish along. Navi no benefit and there hasnt been a referendum all the resemblance of one i asked the Catalan Government and the parties that support it to ceases irresponsibility to assume from this moment that what had never been legal is clearly unfeasible it makes no sense to continue this farce that leads nowhere. This International Observer says the vote passed global voting standards if you look at whats happening here in my state right. Here with their official identity and the register that says that they just simply. Write in the phone. As cattle and celebrate the way the outcome and perhaps the declaration of independence john hundred zero barcelona. And call the council only there also said that the e. U. Really couldnt look away now because of the violations as he called them that were committed during this vote how important do you think it is for the movement for something now to go forward that the external world especially the e. U. Backs. Well it certainly was a very strong hold from the head of the castle and government for the International Community to step in and mediate but take a live call to the European Union saying you know what happened today the actions of the Spanish Riot Police according to opposed to mark violate that the use of the European Union right on civil charter on Civil Liberties so strong hold the International Community to step in they go shaper right now the position of the International Community has been more to hold for respect for the spanish constitution which has ruled this referendum illegal so i dont think over the next couple of days we can expect too much that what will happen over the next couple of days assuming that there is a yes vote tonight when the final tally is in within the next forty eight hours by tuesday pushed him on will declare independence from spain for the region of catalonia that declaration will also be backed by region wide general strike by the main labor unions and that will really drive a deeper way between the Central Government and the dread the catalonian government here in barcelona it will push deeper political crisis which already is the worst political crisis in spain since the end of the Francisco Franco dictatorship in one nine hundred seventy five so thank you karl copenhagen is the very latest there from buffalo new well lets drop down now to the spanish capital madrid where tony burke play is standing by for us tony one of the other things the council only decided was that they had won the right to become an independent state im guessing that kind of sentence not going down very well in the Prime Ministers residence in madrid the same thing. Certainly not and i think his statement was notable for two reasons firstly it took so long for him to make an address and secondly he made no mention whatsoever of the Police Action in catalonia he spoke eight hours after his deputy mrs senter cites the dissent to maria she had said that the police had acted proportionately but if you saw as the day drew on the images coming out of catalonia of women being pulled by their hair and thrown downstairs people being kicked older women with blood strewn faces those told a completely different story and its going to be hard for a lot of people to accept that these were actions by a police force using proportionate actions even people i know here that spoken to me who are against the referendum of said they feel ashamed and appalled by what the government has done so its causing friction i mean to see evening in madrid there was a huge demonstration by Civil Liberties groups and they kept on chanting this is almost like a throwback to the days of franco and totalitarianism and all thora terrorism and doing using the methods of the dark old days it may be that these are going to be counterproductive measures by the police it may embolden people harden their standing cattle on it made me make people actually get off the fence and then support the community where theyve seen images of their neighbors coming back being treated so badly so it may actually be a case of Spanish Government shooting themselves in the foot but i have to say also that the socialist party and the Opposition Liberal Party after they were all condemned the violence as they call it of the police mr roy did say one positive thing when he made his nine minute address which he didnt actually take questions on he said that spain has been through many difficult times in the past and they will get through this again having said that its a positive note on a very negative day one. Wonders how the Spanish Government mr always been criticized for handling this so badly is going to extricate themselves from this incredibly difficult situation and on the question of turnout tony when he spoke earlier on he did mention that he didnt think the majority of catalonia had gone out to the poll and they hadnt added their voice to this referendum that comes out with that figure that ends up being quite a high figure that will damage surely his credibility on the stand he took today even more. I think so i mean you hear the language on both sides not just this one of government but specially his side because he has handled this he is directed what has happened today although hes blaming the Catalan Government for the actions its going to be counterproductive. Counterproductive because people can say well hang on where are you getting your figures from hes saying that the majority of catalans didnt want the referendum the majority of peaceful the majority of the who are going to vote in the referendum will have done have been fooled by the Catalan Government where is he getting the information from the images youve seen of mass streets and protest and flags and people being resilient tell a different story again so its very hard to fathom out what is actually fact and what is fiction is according to mr roy many thanks tony tony betty there live for us in madrid well Sebastian Balfour is amoret us professor of contemporary spanish studies London School of economics and wonderfully joins me here now in the studio thanks very much for coming in to our ages there at lets just talk about this position the Spanish Government tony theyre saying that maybe that shot themselves in the foot how badly have they handled handled this whole situation and in some respects people talking all over social media about the brutality almost has made people want to take a stand in catalonia that might not have even voted before absolutely i mean in a counterfactual situation had the vote been allowed say as. A nonbinding consultation by the Spanish Government its very likely they would have got the result they wanted and that is majority of people voting against independence this way its been very counterproductive indeed and i think a lot of people who might not be convinced about independence have been swung over to it and theres no way of proving this obviously because the vast majority of those who gone to the polls are those who are going to vote independence anyway because those who dont want to dependence have always stated that they will boycott the referendum could this be really serious for Prime Minister harper i mean theres been cause for him to resign today especially from catalonia is oh i think so the problem is rather his government is a minority government and it depends on negotiation and support from other parties in the Parliament One party in particular who you have Something Like seven or eight seats have said that their support their future support especially over the budget issue is coming up next year will depend very much on and thats the past National BossNational Party will depend very much on the way rory handles the catalan issue and hes handled it extremely badly the use of force and and pure legality without any political approach at all. I think has been profoundly counterproductive and of course that use of force is one of the areas that the Catalan Leader called on today marks on today saying the e. U. Cant look away because of this what he called violations this brutality that many of our reporters are documented out on the streets today do you think the you will respond will actually come to that core from the catalonian weve heard weve had a statement from the belgian Prime Minister who has condemned the violence weve had the slovenian Prime Minister expressing concern otherwise not much not much response. From government. Not much response from the e. U. The problem for the nation states in europe is that there are many successions movements quite a number we know sort of course but theres a diner there is flanders there is the but in spain itself is the Basque Country as well so that theres not enormous interest in fact theres a certain degree of insecurity about encouraging a new form of secession so and also of course the e. U. Has been pretty adamant that. Catalonia will not remain a member of the e. U. For achieves independence and this of course would be an enormous blow to the catholic Independence Movement that sees itself as profoundly european. The battle lines are drawn that weve heard from both parties if you like today. What happens next i mean the Prime Minister did actually leave that door open for dialogue and one of his comments do you think theres any chance that they will speak on that were just going to see them more entrenched as we wait for the vote i dont think theres going to be any dialogue simply because theyre both very committed to their positions. Roy has always said hes open for dialogue but the dialogue would be about deepening the rights of the autonomy not about secession not about independence whereas the Catalan Government has always said this is about independence or nothing yeah so whats the likely result as i said ive said already that this is an Unstoppable Force against an immovable object and i think the result is likely to be rather serious that is to say that the end in forty eight hours or the independence moon my well declare victory say that the majority have voted for independence the majority would be rejoicing of those of the turnout irrespective of the number of people have turned out to vote thats the law of the. Referendum what is his response likely to be. On a unilateral declaration of independence its like two between invoke article one five five where the government takes over your ptolemy all together that so its a very serious that could as serious i mean a more serious constitutional political crisis and anything since one thousand nine hundred one when there was an invasion of the parliament and the attempted military coup difficult times faster before thank you very much for coming in. Still to come on the aljazeera news hour or to recount is fighting for survival ten days after the devastation of hurricane rita. A ceasefire with colombias last remaining rebel group comes into force but talks about a permanent deal passed still going on. And ferrari scraped through the weekend at the malaysian grand prix care will have a detail in sport. U. S. President donald trump has resumed his war of words with north korea over its Nuclear Weapons and Missile Program on sunday he tweeted i told Rex Tillerson wonderful secretary of state that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with a little rocket man a reference to leader king. He also said will do what has to be done well for more on this lets speak to mike hanna who is live for us in washington d. C. This kind of breaks all the rules of diplomacy doesnt it mike lee is supposed to put a united front up to whichever side youre trying to talk to. Well so even by the standards of the tran previns presidency this is absolutely extraordinary a u. S. President a setting Foreign Policy using his thumbs in morning tweet and at the same time completely undercutting and distancing himself from his secretary of state towards whos already established a policy on this issue the north korean issue but lets just take a look how the day panned out secretary of state risks to listen h