As autonomy and take control of the rest of regions where barcelona and madrid. Thanks very much for your company we begin with those developments in spain where the countrys senate has approved Government Proposals to take control of catalonia it comes just after Catalonia Regional Parliament voted in favor of declaring independence from spain all the vote for independence followed a fiery debate in the calland parliament with Opposition Lawmakers walking out in protest. Separatist members of the Catalan Parliament singing their Unofficial National anthem in the way. For a peaceful defense of their land the the Opposition Politicians had long since left the chamber refusing to take part in the. Leaving the parliaments president to
thrilled when it happened you had chants of Freedom Freedom from people who are out there on the streets many of them bare in mind have been waiting for years decades even for an announcement like this still now there were Hundreds And Thousands of people on the streets in barcelona across the city people of all ages so far things are remaining relatively peaceful now the scenes that were seeing here in barcelona are also being repeated in regions across catalonia not just here just to give you a sense of how euphoric those who are for independence a feeling here a short time ago when we were outside the parliament they were big screens everywhere showing the crowd exactly what it was that was going on at one point they showed the spanish pride being taken down from a Government Building injuring a huge cheer braze up from the crowd everyone was incredibly excited one thing that
i do really want to emphasize they were wish showing these pictures of people celebrating is these people dont represent everybody in catalonia this is a region that is extremely divided we know that heartbeat the people didnt even turn out to vote in the referendum that took place on october first and recent Opinion Polls suggest people here Dont Want Independence so this is. A region that is very split tonight a region that is very split martin want to go to you in madrid how is spain in practical terms planning on implementing a direct role. Ok well first of all the preparations in many ways of the homes where for weeks thousands upon thousands of extra National Guards and the National Police you know were transferred to pass on to i had a long. Has a lot of police and i was the most is described im there have been some tensions between the two so one of the directors expected or you havent is expected to
announce in one hour service is that they will replace the head of the house and. There has a man who is you know said that they dont follow rules this was on the other hand if they have to are saying who. Are Arrest Members of the house and im governments who you know choice or very real risk of chance would sedition well they will have to tread very carefully to avoid somehow the scenes that we saw on the first of october during the independence post because there was one bottle of very much tarsus and you got lots image of the thing that will help the Central Government is the current way to go how some governments finances a few weeks ago so theyve done a lot of the ground work over there so a lot of the groundwork is already in place charlotte i have a similar question for you how is the catalan Leadership Planning on carrying out their plan of the breaking away from spain. At the moment i think theyre just enjoying the moment. On has been on twitter celebrating
on responding to action it may be too lazy maybe closing on how long. Martha roberts reporting from madrid and barcelona to w. s or charlotte some pill reporting on those unfolding events thank you for your coverage. And as Polling Officers in kenya count ballots for that countrys president ial Election Rerun ordinary people are counting the cost of this device a vote one person has been killed in clashes between protesters and police today bringing the overall death toll to at least five or kenya has been locked in Political Uncertainty since the Supreme Court an old president ial elections held back in august. The streets of kenyas Capital Nairobi are unusually quiet worried about the prospect of violence many are staying indoors those few who have ventured out have had enough after months of political tension. I would like
politics to quieten down so we can continue with our work we dont want people to fight or kill each other we want kenya to be peaceful. We want life to continue as normal. Our incomes are being hurt and we are struggling. Old were tired of politics. Thursdays Repeat Elections were marred by skirmishes between police and opposition supporters the clashes stop some ten percent of Polling Stations from opening and delayed voting in many others in the kibera slum area of nairobi the situation was particularly tense. They decided to keep people from the Voting Existence there because very difficult for us because we had a lot of violence from the probe youths were going to be forming officious. Voting in four counties was initially postponed until saturday because of the unrest. Opposition leaders continued to call on their supporters to boycott the vote citing Security Concerns. Everything has its own time. Fasting we are trying to convey to our people at this point in time is that the forced repeat election tomorrow. We want to make sure that theyre not injured and were telling them to stay away because they might walk into a trap where they will be in debt that is our priority we dont want any lives to be lost. Because of the new outbreak and violence Election Officials announced that the new runoff would be delayed until further notice as counting continues officials said just over a third of registered voters cast a ballot on thursday some have heeded the call to boycott all but assuring a victory on paper for current president or her kenyatta who cast his vote in
a jubilant mood but the rerun looks as if it will fail to ease the conflict. A very tense situation right now in kenya you can take you to the Capital Nairobi now where correspond with commom it is reporting from edith have we learned more about the finish of results. The results are changing obviously every hour as the electoral body continues to feed more of the numbers that theyre receiving and this is a process expected to continue in the coming days however there was confusion and a little bit of concern earlier this morning because the Electoral Commission had said that forty eight percent of the registered voters had participated in the election but later this morning they reviewed that number down whats now of course a lot of kenyans looked at this suspiciously because the main reason why there was a rerun of the election was because there was a problem with the tallying of the votes in august and so all eyes are squarely now
on the electoral body to make sure they get it right this time around and tell us a little bit about those four districts that were supposed to have separate reruns tomorrow but we understand that theyve been delayed again working to us about that they have and the electoral body says that it is due to insecurity or other Security Concerns in those four regions they did add two other counties as part of the places that would get a reelection and those two areas specifically will be able to continue on with the vote but the people from the regions that have been affected where voting has been suspended indefinitely actually actually reacted joyfully to the news saying that they didnt want to participate in the election in the first place theyre not going to participate in any kind of rerun and no matter when the data sets they will still boycott the election taking that into consideration what youve just eluded to only a third of the registered voters went to the polls compared to the eighty percent back in august can we call this election
a legitimate election. This is a question that a lot of kenyans are grappling with particularly on social media obviously there is one half of the country that participated in the vote and another half that either chose not to participate or could participate for one reason or the other but analysts have been quick to say that people stayed away from the poll because of various reasons not just because of the boycott that was called by the opposition but because of rain which affected a lot of voting areas and also people who are not potus and these are people who stayed away from the from the election protesting of various institutions including the judiciary and the electoral bodies saying they dont trust it and they dont think these bodies are acting independently. To do double use that has come out of reporting from the kenyan Capital Nairobi thank you and were going to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world to White South Africans have been given long jail terms for forcing a black man into
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