Catalan halts independence to pursue talks

The leader of the northern Spanish region of Catalonia has made a major speech, telling the region's parliament that it had won the right to be an independent country, but pulling back from declaring outright independence. Catalonia's president, Carles Puigdemont, urged parliament to suspend an independence declaration to give space for talks with Madrid. Sebastiaan Faber is a Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College in the US and author of the forthcoming book Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War.