kyra's locked in another day of protests over the president's dictator like grab for power that's been described as a coup. spain's got the lonia prepares for a key regional ferry to which could potentially force a referendum on independence from central government. a master says there's no deal to stop the smuggling of weapons into gaza as a shaky truce with israel holds despite sporadic violence. you're watching r t a live from moscow good to have you with us egypt's capital is experiencing a second straight day of clashes between opponents and supporters of president

mohamed morsi and to regime protesters say they have no intentions of leaving to leave for at least a week after having announced a message in at the symbolic square people flooded the streets across the country angry at the president's decision to grant himself a new polls that put him above other branches of government the opposition compared the move to a coup while the latest comments came from egypt's top judges who called it and i'm president of the attack on the country's judiciary the demonstrations quickly turned violent as protesters clashed with security forces and pro regime activists journalist ahmed party believes the opposition's concerns over the future of democracy in egypt have solid ground. what have mohamed morsi done mobarak in bihar youth of his power could not even dream of achieving morsi is part of the muslim brotherhood and islam or fascist group do have control over do remember.

supporters it is very simple in a country with more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion gyptian is are now seeing clearly they have replaced the military fascist style origi of the mobarak into the religious fascist regime of mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood egyptians have undertaken a revolution back in january twentieth levon calling for three simple things bread freedom and social justice neither of these three. calls demands that they have called for and in the revolution have been achieved the state of the egyptian arcana me is in shambles this state of freedoms it's been marginalized people wanted to establish a democracy they wanted to establish solid to human rights they wanted to have social justice applied not to turn it from the military to the

religious fascism. more pictures of the brawls and skirmishes that have ripped through the streets of egypt the biggest cities as well as expert comments on the crisis available on our website. by the people of spain's minds prosperous and most attacks region will choose a new parliament on sunday their choice could ultimately decide whether that alone e.-l. will remain a part of spain or go it alone after being stricken by the financial demands of central government artie's enter farmer has the story. there's a wind of separatism blowing through europe at the moment and it's reached the northeastern shores of spain catalonia is the latest region to officially aspirate independence is something people here have long felt in their hearts but now they're feeling it in their pockets. i think it's a good idea to be in the band them from. a country. which

is. in a really really bad situation is a bargain for. it's a bargain for the cool culture but the cattle i'm flags can be seen hanging from balconies throughout barcelona reflecting a growing desire for home rule under a drive to break away from the central government in madrid this weekend's local election is being fought on that issue alone catalan president mass has made it the centerpiece of his campaign this convergence union party to hold an independent referendum if they win and say a free catalonia would be a cure all for the region's economic problems that have seen unemployment top twenty five percent the economic context in europe and in the south of europe has been a catalyzer of. the. movement we can see in the sense that people into the now

believe that with our own resources human capital economic resources we could be better off if not being in the spanish estate this is a reality that a lot of economic research has show many cattle and find it a persuasive argument it's one of spain's wealthiest regions producing a fifth of the country's economic output but it pays around sixteen billion euros a year more in taxes than it gets back in madrid which has in turn insisted public services enjoy austerity cuts. this is not i mean we are the ones who're. doing our best in mccormick reasons we cannot afford the weight of this measure and the sense of government that for us is the one who is spending the most and not in the best way last september barcelona witnessed one of the largest separatist rallies here since the nineteen seventies over one and a half million cattle and took to the streets to call for independence but the path

to becoming a new european state is far from smooth the proposed referendum is against the spanish constitution what's more withdrawing from spain could also force this region to drop out of the european union those against separatism believe it could do more harm than good. symbolism for catalonia would be an economic disaster multi-national companies located in barcelona for access to the spanish working and being in the e.u. that would be lost which more even of separatism does not happen just talking about it creates uncertainty and that is the last thing the economy needs during this current crisis. with poll suggesting aftermaths will win reelection barcelona and madrid look set free showdown the president of the spanish military association colonel leopoldo sanchez has even suggested it might lead to another civil war political parties dismiss that as extreme rhetoric but the remaining cattle lands

in hope this weekend will mark the first step towards the break up of spain. andrew farmer for r.t. catalonia pilar of forney the founder of the brussels base a think tank of the cia p.-i foundation says the mistakes of my space are central government put catalonia its future in question. but a large majority of the people in gaza like to be banned from speed. never. to be defeated after the team's century and it's. good to look at the economic situation here of course very very touchy and difficult because. there had to be allowed the central government in madrid two months ago over one billion euros this happened because of the very bad management of music management and that the central government of the movie the star of the old bassem that the triggers this deficit situation. could really nice anyway he. does through

the space then he is the only one of the so can eventually compete. with the rest of europe of course the government you shouldn't as you were mentioning he does have a lot of course authorities i'm. not the outcome is quite unpredictable but i would say that whatever is the outcome of the hand the relationship between salute them and read trade and the risk even to become violent. and you can find out more about they cut the lonny and move men for independence on our website so the timeline of the protest and in-depth analysis of spain's the economic troubles waiting for you. also while you're there online at the mass murderer responsible for the deaths of seventy seven people ran to his prison conditions as inhumane

find out what anders breivik is complaining about at r.t. dot com. some us says the ceasefire with israel does not mean an end to the smuggling of arms into the enclaves hamas official denied media claims that egypt and the u.s. had secretly agreed to stem the flow of weapons. coming into gaza through the sinai this comes on day three of the shaky trees with television which is largely holding despite several outbreaks of violence one palestinian civilian was killed in one thousand by israeli gunfire on the border after gazans trespass on the buffer zone sporadic clashes followed with several incidents also taking place in the west bank meanwhile some us is hailing the seize fly as a victory and some analysts say the militants have every right to celebrate. the israeli side i think netanyahu and his government have lost and or or i would pretty much put them in the category of the short term losers in this news fire if

you just the whole thing sure that clearly how israel has no long term strategy in dealing with the. killer of the gaza hamas by clinging so. hard to this approach to resist and of course. verging on more. to be honest with you just before the attacks or. popularity was pretty much it and now it's coming back again to the scene and. preventing. a ground invasion. pretty much defending at least those with the with the public and go those things. early and my colleague kevin know when interviewed a spokesman from the zerilli prime minister's office. admitted the government lost popular opinion over the outcome of the conflict which sought so called

a surgical israeli bombings killed killing dozens of gaz and civilians. you know definitely there are many people in israel the thing the prime minister should. get more and more get more of this operation go in ground operation because these people don't believe but hamas will really stop firing rockets and fortunately unfortunately people in israel cannot believe that the international community can . pressure and enforce the cease fire and that's why people are so kind of frustrated that the prime minister started. and i'd like to ask you about that say while you're on the line and interested party course in all this looking on some officials there said that israel is showing weakness by letting her master of the hook how concerned are you with terrans reaction well first of all i don't think israel was weak israel de while it is needed to stop the rockets we

did you know very surgical attacks on terrorists and even now with the very surgical it that some terrorists we don't want to use force more than we need and that in every every case just let us live in peace we will not use force believe me there were dozens of civilians in gaza killed including thirty seven children will anyone in your government or military be held accountable for those deaths you think differently and we really really sorry for these deaths but you should know that hamas terrorists are behind civilians they fire rockets from schools they hide their rockets in hospitals they use apartments of people in order to fire rockets on our civilians you know when we hurt civilians we really regret that but very get our civilians they see victory in hurting save us when we do that unfortunately we're really sorry and we see failure and believe me if we do want the civilians

will not be heard we call upon civilians and we are. every time before every strike we call a phone surveillance now so be it round the wrist and lot through enough to lead the terrorists use the civilians and then nobody will hurt and that's good do what we want we want to target in her own need those who fire rockets on. the false or the system is undermined by consul in the u.k. as we report late on policies we have three kids from their forced a family branding the parents politically unfit to look up to ethnic children plus . first day of the year which one thanksgiving or black friday the day after black friday exactly you love it yeah it's a great time of year to go shopping and travel people. a resident also the people of new york called they feel about the long awaited start to the holiday season and this is much more coming your way to the shop.

british live demo minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power and such a children are set back for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave or would that be paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic of her view but my question is featherstone is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way up a ladder to buy a big car to replace your shortcomings is a very male way of judging success are women who choose to have families failures or at least unsuccessful in your book even as a marriage know that my pocket is really empty after having the first of hopefully

many kids but i don't see our child as a financial setback keeping me from buying an x. box guess what success is. relative to the goal and maybe a corporate boardroom vision of success isn't for everyone women who have kids are failures in my opinion but then again that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. is.

he watching our t.v. live from moscow to have you with us three children have been removed from their four step parents in britain because of the political views of the couple needing to public anger the council brand of them unfit for fostering because they are supporters of the u.k. independence party and when looking off to ethnic children early as. about the confusion and control of a c. so wrong in this case. this by all accounts is a family with an exemplary fostering record they've been fostering kids for the

last twelve years and why is that membership of a political party a very mainstream political party should now a fact that it's unclear but it's the fact that this local council received this temple for as they say that they are members of this party and that's the reason why the children were taken away so a lot of people very angry about that in the u.k. at the moment if you think about it in one way it's kind of like it defeats the point if a couple wants to adopt a multi-cultural children and then you have a government to say well we don't want that how is that working it's a very very strange shabby as i said a lot of people saying that this is a clear case of political correctness gone very wrong once again in britain with kids that need to be cared for taken away from a very good loving home because these political views that are very mainstream by the latest polls are something like nine percent of the u.k. support you can't yes they euro skeptic yes. they want immigration to be

cub but it's very peculiar indeed what's the rest of the general public saying about these i mean should we now expect all foster families to undergo scrutiny of political views if they think you'll all be adopting kids. well the short answer is no. foster family should not undergo any sort of scrutiny about their political views there's lots of children that need to be fostered and these people do a very brave a very. courageous thing and the fact is that it's to move has ruffled the feathers not of just. supporters of you can't but of people that campaign for fostering because they say that it's a very bad move that's going to put a lot of prospective foster parents that want to do a very good thing. off potentially fostering more kids that really need to be re home so it's a very sensitive issue and as i said she's ruffled the feathers of

a lot of people. syria has condemned turkey for asking nato to deploy patriot missiles near their shared border the alliance says it's considering the request from ankara but insists it will be purely defensive if the move is seen by some as the preview to foreign military intervention to all see assad regime syrian rebels are creating a no fly zone to help them hold a territory against government forces that now have overwhelming a moscow believes nato has missiles buildup congreve threats and probably occasions that would end up in an armed conflict the west is backing the syrian rebels many of whom are militants and political activist dr. abdullah says a foreign intervention could ignite an all out regional war. the point such missiles is not really going to be for defensive measure what do they need to defend against at least turkey has an army and they can defend against more tire

for example this is clearly for a larger scale intervention where they want to secure a no fly zone area and we've been hearing the country especially britain and france advocating such intervention recently where they've been talking about limited intervention however how. comprehensive and how normal out war style this is going to be i think it is not going it's not going to be a war style it will be a war of attrition it's not going to threaten the syrian government of a sudden intervention they know very well that this is going to ignite a. response from the syrian side that made. a lot of chaos and in the region. tolerance towards immigrants is something norway adopted centuries ago tens of thousands of people displaced by wars in their countries have found their way to

the welcoming land of the vikings however some modern migrants are being accused of taking their new home for granted as many of the national reports. tolerance is no is well known trademark maybe even to well known thirteen percent of the country's five million population a remembrance but it seems it may be suffering from its own hospitality wow look at this sixty years since i was like everything that we do it's because this city started its immigrant community population for years it's been home to a large number of outsiders who believe in peace and many locals treat it like it's decided it's not enough a while ago a radical islamic group demanded to make its independence from the city and the sharia law territory to feel literally. in a letter sent to some of the country's politicians and journalists and known extremists have threatened to carry out and nine eleven in no way if their demands

are not met. that it's really something. to be taken seriously but this is not the first death threat coming from noways muslim community in this media a pakistani born in mom preaches those not praying should be brought to prison for those not fasting during ramadan decapitated is it possible to kill here in the river yeah no problem or weapon is made to kill we hear concerns over how some immigrants bring part of their cultures to norway from the head of the country's hunting union. our or something course in this there were pending for muslims who seem to have more interest in weapons than in nature and helping attending courses is one of the two legal ways in no way to get a personal weapons license if you don't respect the ridge of rules and you want to

live the way we live in norway and then you can go back to your country opposition party member he himself came to know we as a. dickel refugee in the late eighty's he says the ruling labor party is importing voters immigrants are indeed among the parties strongest supporters but the prize is high how can you integrate minority when the minority is actually the majority in the society who is going to learn from. such rhetoric is too familiar to every norwegian a homegrown terrorist killed seventy seven here last summer protesting against the takeover of muslim immigrants also one towards one of those on that island last july his comrades and friends were killed right in front of his very eyes he says he survived to fight for what brave it tried to destroy the most important lesson is that we've never paid. ground values for ground.

it's a fight the fight for democracy or. justice it's something that we need to focus on despite concerns the threat to kill made by some immigrants may be real noways unlikely to give up its taller and small toe in fact it's quite the opposite for many the only response to brave immigrants motivated massacre is seen immigrants embraced more than ever before. r t no way. the turkey dinners had barely been dead just this week before most americans turned their attention from thanksgiving to buying black friday has become one of the country's biggest shopping days of the year now it is new york resident has been to see what people actually think of the retail hysteria. the holidays have arrived in the united states but instead of talking about family

and religion americans seem only to be talking about shopping why is that this week let's talk about that do you think that americans are aware of the irony of having a crazy frenzied shopping day the day after we give thanks for what we already have best day of the year which one thanksgiving or black friday the day after black friday exactly you love it yeah it's a great time of year to go shopping and trample people. the world's ending anyway twenty. calendar so we don't have to worry about fixing our consumerism we don't have to worry about shopping nothing do you think it's an american thing or do you think it's a worldwide thing. i think americans are probably worse than do you think americans are a little too obsessed with shopping for the holidays no i think it's great it's wonderful friends great to get out but it's spending money and stuff you don't necessarily mean he doesn't know the holidays are about let's make the economy. is that the most important thing you know we're having from this great are people obsessed with

shopping where you're from well yes because we know the whole reason why we come here so we can show so we are obsessed and we count wife it's mara what does it say about us as a society as humanity that we're so obsessed with consumerism. i think it's very pretty sad why do you think americans are so crazy about shopping during the holidays. no idea media you guys i don't know how everyone's advice that exactly and so they do with an economy in the tank a climate in shift and a world at war it might behoove us off to focus less on consuming and more on what's really important this holiday season. after the break it's tomorrow's world today technology update is just ahead you know not.

the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul has provided inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago schuman ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west the volga dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe it powers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the revel like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's

prized sturgeon the source of caviar. hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stopped fish swimming up river to the spawning grounds. within a year all these houses would have gone fallen into the river depending on how many of the hydroelectric plants turbines are on the water level can change suddenly and dramatically too suddenly for the banks to absorb. control of the river flow by the plant has made building on the shoulders flood plain more attractive serious floods are less likely but the water that is put into the drains is taken away from the fish that need it now but last the voice of the voters of color jay might start being heard. the first time in fifty years the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the volga battle. meaning that the mighty phone is treated with

the respect it deserves. hello and welcome to technology update here in moscow we're always on the lookout for the newest of the new and there's been no shortage of big announcements in the high tech world especially if the russian capital plays host to the open innovations forum. the first ever gathering under this name got kicked off at the end of october even looked to bring together high tape gurus and investors from across the globe more than ten thousand participants from dozens of countries flocked to the expo center along the moscow river to handle the influx to.