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Catalonia tries to vote on independence

07/10/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The World This Week, Catalonia tries to vote on independence

Spain attempted to stop the Catalan separatist poll.

Spain attempted to stop the Catalan separatist poll. And images of Madrid's security forces beating voters suggested a return to a darker past.

Spain attempted to stop Catalan separatist poll. And images of Madrid's security forces beating voters suggested a return to a darker past.  Pascale Harter reports from Barcelona. Also in this programme/podcast: signs of movement on gun control in the United States after the Las Vegas mass shooting; why Hamas and Fatah are trying to make friends; and Theresa May's conference speech: was it a defining - and catastrophic - moment?
(Photo: Spanish police officers seize ballot boxes in Barcelona.
Credit: AFP/Getty)

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