caro's not on the day of protests over the president's dictator like grab for power that's been described as a coup. spain's catalonia prepares for a key regional which could potentially force a referendum on independence through central government. says there's no deal to stop the smuggling of weapons into gaza as the shaking truce with israel holds despite sporadic. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day egypt's capital is experiencing a second day of clashes between opponents and supporters of president mohamed morsi

regime protesters say they have no intention of leaving tahrir here for at least a week having announced a mass sit in the symbolic square people flooded the streets across the country angry at the president's decision to grant himself new powers to put in the power of other branches of government the opposition compared the move to a coup the latest comments from came from egypt's top judges who called it an unprecedented attack on the country's judiciary the demonstrations quickly turned violent as protesters clashed with security forces and probation activists ten years after the fact he believes that the opposition's concerns over the future of democracy in egypt have solid ground. what have mohamed morsi done mobarak in the height 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 their members and supporters it is very simple and the country was 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 regime of hosni mubarak 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 this 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 at the here and to human rights they wanted to have social justice applied and not to turn it from the military

to the religious fascism. well we hope to join the journalist based in karabell true as those second day of clashes continue there in the capital of egypt can you tell us what you seeing there today. what i've seen is continue clashes just off the square on the neighboring streets streets and i saw a nice treat these clashes actually have been going on since monday where they escalated yesterday and we had a huge call opposition forces against. the president's recent constituent constitutional declaration so really what i've seen today is lots of fightings that interfere much smaller numbers and also marches to the supreme court of justice prosecutor general's office in support of the judiciary because of course in this constitutional document that the president announced yesterday actually takes quite a powers from the judiciary so that's what's been happening today while supporters

of morsy on the streets along with of course the opposition but just give us an idea how strong the opposition movement is. it's quite big now i mean they called for a weeklong sit in on to her ear and really we can see probably about thirty or forty tents is not as big as we've seen before but still quite significant and they said there was a march today led by the opposition forces to the judicial buildings against this document which which removes powers from giving awarding them to the president and what we're seeing really is a unique opposition forces uniting around this anger towards this document and really coming together and actually organizing themselves the first time in quite a long time so i think it's quite significant even though the actual numbers and the here are quite small right now what about the president and indeed his supporters how are they reacting to these latest events. well what happened to days when this protest against this constitutional declaration actually arrived at the high court of justice the supreme court of justice they were met by go. what people

are saying are pro brotherhood or brotherhood members who attacked the protest as the meeting was actually taking place in the supreme court meeting of the judges to discuss this contentious document on top of that on tuesday the opposition forces have organized a massive march and mass protest across the country against this document and listen brotherhood answered this by rallying their members together to to counteract that by making a pro president rally on tuesday so what they're really doing is countering every every move the opposition makes both literally on the street in terms of actually fighting women and also across the country causing these recordings of these large marches and protests bill thanks very much indeed for. that live update from true in cairo thank you. the people of spain's most prosperous and most taxed region will choose

a new parliament on sunday their choice could ultimately decide whether catalonia will remain a part of spain or go to loan after being stricken by the financial demands of central government former 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 it's something people here have long felt in their hearts but now they're feeling it in their pockets too. i think is a good idea to be in the band them from. a country. which is. really really bad situation it's a bargain for. it's a bargain for the cool culture. 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 from mass has made it the centerpiece of his campaign this convergence union party to hold an independence 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 sons of people in cologne i 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 catalans 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 the dream which hasn't insisted public services into austerity cuts. this is not fair i mean we are the ones. you are. doing our best in mccormick reasons we cannot have all the weight of this measure and the central government 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 catalans 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 while small 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 going alone year would be an economic disaster multi-national companies located in barcelona for access to the spanish

work it and being in the e.u. that will be lost once more even of symbolism 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 after mass will win reelection barcelona and madrid look set free showdown the president of the spanish military association can only apologise sanchez has even suggested it might lead to another civil war political parties dismissed that as extreme rhetoric but the remaining catalans of this weekend will mark the first step towards the break up of spam. andrew found that the r.t. catalonia. poller if only the founder of the brussels based think tank the cheapie foundation says that the mistakes by spain central government put catalonia future in question. the large majority of the people in gaza who live to be independent from speed they are never accepted what has been their feet after

the eighteenth century and it's a should. get a little in the economic situation is now of course very very touchy and difficult because of alone had to ask for a bailout the central government would read a few months ago one billion years but this happened because of the very bad management of mismanagement that the central government in the venous not looking back that triggered this deficit situation got a little bit at least anyway. he does through area in spades and he is the only one that can eventually competes. with the rest of europe of course the constitution as you were mentioning in your reports does not allow for separatism. the outcome is quite unpredictable but i would say that it will

taper is the outcome in the end the relationship between salute them and read would be its trade and they risk even to become violent. and you can find out more about the catalonia movement for independence on our website the timeline of the protests and in-depth analysis of spain's economic troubles awaiting right there. also online the mass murderer responsible for the deaths of seventy seven people friends his prison conditions as inhumane fun up wants and is brave because complaining about it r.t. dot com. amasses dismissed media claims that the flow of smuggled weapons to gaza is under threat and has vowed to keep itself it says reports that egypt and the us a teaming up to stop arms coming through the sinai peninsula a fabrication this comes on day three of the shaky truce with tel aviv which is. not to be holding despite several outbreaks of violence one palestinian civilian was killed and nineteen wounded 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 the masses hailing the ceasefire as a victory and some of us say the militants have every right to celebrate. the israeli side i think that anyone who's government has lost and or i would i would pretty much put them in the category of short term losers in this fire just the whole thing surely clearly how israel has no long term strategy in dealing with the palestinian people early. hamas by clinging so hard to this approach to resistance. on bridging on and. to be honest with you just before. the bitter attacks. that. popularity was pretty much it and now it's coming back again to the scene and.

preventing. a ground invasion on the power of pretty much defending at least that's what the public in august thinks. but only my colleague kevin and interviewed a spokesman from the israeli prime minister's office and admitted the government most popular opinion over the outcome of the conflict which source so called surgical israeli bombings killed dozens of gazan civilians. no definitely there are many people in israel the think 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 start 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 the prime minister started that peroration and i'd like to ask you about

that so while you're on the line an interested party course in all this looking on some officials there have 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 thing israel was weak israel deed was poor is needed to stop the rockets we did you know very surgical attacks on terrorists and even now with the very surgical attacks and 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 garza killed including thirty seven children will anyone in your government or military be held accountable for those deaths you think differently and we're 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 come us target our civilians they see victory in hurting civilians when we do that unfortunately we're really sorry and we see failure there and believe me if we do want the surveillance will not be heard we call upon civilians and we are. every time before every strike we call of points of view and not so be it round but there is and lot in not to lead the terrorists use the civilians and then nobody will hurt and that is going to be what we want we want to target and hurt only but those who fire rockets on. the full string system is undermined by a council in the u.k. as we report later on they were to move three kids from their foster family running the parents to take you to the gulf to ethnic children plus. those 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. a resident also the people of new york how they feel about the moment we can start the holiday season this coming your way after the short break. texas wants to pull away from the usa in fact at least twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with well just a few voting irregularities but guess what suspicion will never happen it is a very easy thing to do to sign a petition and it is another thing entirely to leave the usa that little civil war thing that happened back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are

governor has the ball determination to actual rebel i don't think there's a single george washington type among them well maybe just see fit tura kind of but he's out of office how do what makes it seem like revolution or succession is this fun cool easy thing to do with cool slogans and texan flags flying but the reality looks a lot more like the arab spring before you put your name on the dotted line to cede you should really understand what that means and what you're in for the founding father sure did but that's just my opinion.

the life here in moscow the news continues now three children to be removed from their foster parents in britain because of the political views of the couple leading to public anger the council branded them unfit for fostering because

they're supporters of the u.k. independence party and were looking to ethnic children we spoke to about the confusion and control of the surrounding 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 the 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 off 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 once. lost a multicultural 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 curbed 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 the thinking of 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. cool rageous thing and the fact is that it's this 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 all potentially fostering more kids that really need to be re home so it's a very sensitive issue and as i said 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 yet the move is seen by some as a prelude to foreign military intervention to oust the assad regime syrian rebels are creating a no fly zone to help them hold territory against government forces that now overwhelming. moscow believes nato missile buildup could create threats and provocations that would end up in an armed conflict the west is backing the syrian rebels many of whom is an islamic militants and political activist dr young says that foreign intervention could ignite an all out regional war. deploying such mess

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 time for example this is clearly for a larger scale intervention where they want to secure a no fly zone area we've been hearing the e.u. country especially britain and france advocating such intervention recently would have been talking about limited scale intervention how about how how. comprehensive. how a 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. go and ignite a. response from the syrian side that made. a lot of chaos and in the

region. tolerance towards immigrants is something norway adopted sentry's 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 there's more if an ocean reports. tolerance is no is well known trademark maybe even to well known thirteen percent of the country's five million population in remembrance but it seems it may be suffering from its own hospitality marlen district near oslo. every day would sometimes people call this optimistic city the start of its immigrant i mean its population for years has been home to a large number of outsiders who believe in peace and many locals treated it so decided it's not enough a while ago the radical islamic group demanded to make its independence from the city and 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 a week if their demands are not met. that it's really something really i think it's . really to be taken seriously but this is not the first death threat coming from noways muslim community in this video a pakistani born in mom preaches those not strange should be brought to prison those not fasting during ramadan decapitated is it possible to kill him 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 no way from the head of the country's hunting union on one of our hunting courses 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 rigid 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 political. 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 who who is well who are you going to integrate 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 never can pay. ground and well use from ground. it's a fight the fight for democracy or. for justice it's something that we constantly need to focus on despite concern for the threat to kill made by some immigrants may be a real noways unlikely to give up its dollar and small toe in fact it's quite the opposite for many the only response to brave the immigrant motivated massacre is seen immigrants embraced more than ever before. r t no way. the turkey dinners are barely been digested 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 new york resident has been to see what people actually think of the retail hysteria.

the holidays has 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 two well as that calendar is all going to end 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 at it do you think americans are a little too obsessed with shopping for the holidays no i think it's great it's wonderful fun scared to get out but it's spending money and stuff you don't necessarily need that over the holidays are about let's make the economy go round

is that the most important thing you know we're hearing from a scrape 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 life it's him our 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 have to tell everyone to buy satisfactory and so they do with an economy in the tank a climate in shifts 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. will use for me in half and half not next after the short break is. on the money with putin.

you can tell an ordinary russian and a siberian appalled in the blink of an eye wrote one thousand nine hundred. in those days siberians were different clothes a different food. different animals but what about now my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny all funded skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian outpost. so i decided to travel to that of a small town just outside. many these humble me dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine.