
Catalan Vote Begins Amid Police Crackdown
Catalonia's independence referendum has begun in chaotic fashion, with clashes taking place as police attempt to prevent the vote from taking place.
Catalonia's independence referendum has begun in chaotic fashion, with clashes taking place as police attempt to prevent the vote from taking place.
The Spanish government has pledged to stop a poll that was declared illegal by the country's constitutional court.
Also in the programme; OJ Simpson is released from jail on parole after serving nine years in prison; and a 95 year old German holocaust survivor reflects on the rise of Germany's far-right nationalist AFD party.
Picture: Spanish police push people with a shield outside a polling station in Barcelona. Credit: Pau Barrena/AFP/Getty Images
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