28-Jan-19 TV News in 100 Seconds: ‘Spanish prosecutor claims no need for trial observers’

The trial against Catalan leaders is due to start in the coming days, and Spain’s general prosecutor says there’s no need for international observers. Jailed pro-independence leaders don’t trust the Supreme Court to give them a fair trial, and organizations such as Amnesty requested to act as observers. But the prosecutor sustains Spain is respectful towards the guarantees of everyone. Meanwhile. the negotiations to pass Catalonia’s general budget for 2019 have been suspended. The government needs the votes of a left-wing party standing in-between the independence and unionist blocs… but they broke talks today, claiming they don’t know yet where the money will come from.