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Catalonia which is home to more than seven and a half million people already has a high degree of autonomy but the catalan government has pledged to declare independence from spain within forty eight hours if the yes side wins huge crowds of anti referendum demonstrators rallied in barcelona on the eve of this historic vote but the thousands gathered at the heart of the catalan capital really don't want this vote and they don't want this banner which reads more democracy. for anti referendum protesters it's a slogan that embody some defiance of the catalan separatists but a symbol of a breakaw...

So the situation is that there's long queues of people turning up the polling stations across the region so we're getting in and some aren't. i just to get some context this vote is so controversial can you tell us why it's so contested. well the spanish government in madrid claims that this vote is unconstitutional because it goes against the constitution of spain does not permit a referendum like this and that the guideline regional governments several months ago passed a law in their regional parliament which is the legal groundwork in framework for an independent catalan state so what happ...

Spain forbids us to vote. so we're here to be able to vote. local police were under orders to clear them out but many settled in for a pre-dawn confrontation. on camping mats in corridors an uneasy sleep punctuated by dreams of independence. correspondent pablo farley ileus is in barcelona and now joins us with the latest what's the situation in buffalo not a people there able to vote. well the situation across the region is that a lot of people are turning up and they're attempting to vote they're managing to do so in some of the polling stations and others they're not because they've been cl...

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