BBCNEWS BBC News October 21, 2017
Spains Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has confirmed that the National Government will take temporary control of the autonomous region of catalonia. Tim willcox is in barcelona. Welcome to central barcelona. In the next hour we are expecting hundreds of thousands of people to protest against the decision by the spanish cabinet in madrid to impose direct law, that wont happen immediately in terms of the imposition of direct rule, it has got to go through the senate but the spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has made it very clear what will happen, unless there is any climb down, basically there ...