then the. protests over the president's dictator like power that's being described as a coup. spain's catalonia prepares for a key regional vote which could potentially force a referendum on independence from central government. and a british couple have their foster children taken away because of their political beliefs triggering outrage over how the country's care system is being run. international news in comment live from moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day a second day of clashes between opponents and supporters of president mohamed morsi

in the egyptian capital cairo the country's top judges accuse morsi of launching an unprecedented attack on the just fishery by taking more presidential palace that is now from based journalist. what we've seen today is a continuation of the clashes that have been going on for five days now of protesters against the president in particular the president's constitutional declaration which was issued on thursday which really gives him sweeping powers in addition there were protests organized by opposition forces in the form of marches to the supreme court of justice because a meeting was being held by the judges of the country against this constitutional exploration because it really doesn't mean a lot of powers of course when this march actually arrived at the supreme courts they were actually attacked by an unknown groups of people identified as pro brotherhood and pro president supporters so really we're seeing continued clashes and key key marches and protests happening across cairo today all supporters of

morsy on the streets alone with of course an opposition but just give us an idea how strong the opposition movement is the opposition movement is actually getting stronger every single day even though there are fewer numbers on doherty and there is actually tents going up because they've called a sit in for a week and they've also called for a mass protest on tuesday which is the against this constitutional declaration made by the president as i mentioned on thursday which really does grant the president sweeping powers that a lot of people have really dubbed him now a pharaoh and called his document a coup so really they're building their uniting for the first time against the president and against this document and creating process the marches into here and across the country for the next week the president supporters seem to have counteracted all of the oppositional forces movements in the sense that today as i mentioned there was this march to the supreme court of justice and it was met by pro president supporters whether or not they're actually affiliated with the president officially we don't know in addition the president or he has his

organization the muslim brotherhood have called for their members to come to this to the streets in a millionaire on choose day in support of the president which is directly counteracting an oppositional protest on tuesday against this document. and joining this ultimate fight he believes that the opposition's concerns over the future of democracy in egypt have a solid basis. what have mohammad 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 they have control over their members and their 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 egyptians 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 their 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 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. more pictures of the proven skirmishes that have ripped through the streets of egypt bigger cities as well as expert comment on the crisis is available right now on our website r.t. dot com. 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 it alone after being stricken by the financial demands of central government always under former has the story. there's a window of separatism blowing through europe at the moment and it's reached the northeastern shores of spain catalonia is the latest region to officially our spare independence it's 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. the country. which is. really a really bad situation it's a bargain for. it's a bargain for the cool good to prague castle and 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 the 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 sense that people in colonial 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 from a dream which hasn't insisted public services in two austerity cuts. this is not fair i mean we are the ones who 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 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 going alone your would be an economic disaster multi-national companies located in barcelona for access to the spanish

market and being in the e.u. that will be lost which 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 this spanish military association colonel leopoldo sanchez has even suggested it might lead to another civil war political parties dismissed that as extreme rhetoric but remaining catalans you have this weekend will mark the first step towards the breakup of spain. andrew pharma r.t. catalonia. more on this let's not talk to us is a sociologist from university in barcelona so carlos you are very in the city how did the but georgie of catalans view this upcoming vote. well it's a very conflicted situation right now the issue that's kind of overarching

throughout the elections is sort of cattle on independence however there's also. a lot of sentiment against out of total mass by people that are not sort of. his parties i guess immediate ideological range i mean he just had a general strike against him on the fourteenth of november that also drew nearly a million people into the streets so the problem with this is that between the the nationalist sort of sentiment and the anti austerity sort of majority view their opposition to a lot of the mass is either confused or doesn't really have a referential point in the form of a political party to vote against him so he sort of has the strongest group out of all the electoral formation well this election was called two years early all for a failure to convince the spanish prime minister to ease the tax burden on

catalonia but this is the most prosperous region spain hell exasperated all the people that are actually with the financial crisis all they really that badly affected. they are strongly affected there is badly affected as most of the other regions in spain i mean the unemployment here is around that twenty five percent that is the unemployment in the rest of the state and there's also over fifty percent youth unemployment i mean it wasn't too long ago that members of our party told spanish catalan use you know go serve coffees in england and learn english because there's no work for you here now that generates a lot of rejection and we're probably going to see some manifestation of that in the electoral results so it's going independent is that really going to sort out the problems that the financial problems people are experiencing what analysts said a little this will do more home the good for catalonia. well i mean

it's really quite uncertain because the way debt works right now we don't know what exactly the size of cattle on debt is i mean it's definitely true that the loonie it does produce. does have a higher g.d.p. for instance on the river than other regions of spain but they have a lot more debt and they've been in acting austerity they enacted austerity year before the rest of the of the spanish state so there's not a lot of there's nothing really to suggest that it would be that much better to do a mass did say that you know the day after elections there are still going to be you know austerity measures and budget cuts and layoffs and people out in the street and what's been remarkable about this these elections is the degree to which appealing to the nationalist sentiment has completely trumped i guess the discussion in the public sphere about austerity that lasts for only so long because eventually what's going to happen is the material deprivation is a real thing that really affects over a quarter of the population and not to the masses guilty of all of that so it

couldn't be him probably won't be as strong as. the radical right it won't be as strong as we as we would expect people to be very why wouldn't you try to go to alone couldn't survive on its own and also couldn't survive not being part of the e.u. european union. well that's that's that's really the question it's really not clear the eat apparently but also has said that because the lumia that's outside of the year that is outside of spain is outside of the european union other people have said it too. we don't know if that's better or worse for catalonia necessarily. but that does seem to be sort of the discussion a lot of the the independence party say that that's not true though so there are people are dealing with really bad information because parties are sort of throwing accusations around the lot of the right wing centralist spanish government party so it's circulated a communique that accused mass of a lot of corruption for instance that may or may not have been false so to me just

a lot of confusion over this all feelings then really running that high over the bid for dependence we have one analysts said this could lead to civil war and that's been mentioned in the other media too just very briefly is that really likely know carlos thank you very much it was a simply war here because i want to very briefly say no and thank you that you were looking for thanks very much indeed carlos del close going sociologist from pump diversity in boston that. all right take care. well the fostering system is undermined by a local council in the u.k. as we report later on here is a forty three kids from their foster family the parents politically unfit to ethnic children the story in detail just. the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul it has provided

inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west the vote the 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 and 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 river 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 stocked 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 the boulders flood plain more attractive serious floods are less likely but the water that is put into the drains is taken away. they from the fish that need it now but lost the voice of the voters ecology might stop being good. for the first time in fifty here is the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the volga back to life. meaning that the mighty vogue is treated with the respect it deserves.

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dot com. live here in moscow three children have been removed from their foster parents in britain because of the political views of the couple leading to public anger the local council branded the month for fostering because they're supporters of the u.k. independence party looking after ethnic children but only i spoke to paul nuttall he's an m.e.p. from the u.k. independence party he described the decision as outrageous it's an absolute disgrace and i think it's a case of desperation really from the labor party we have a byelection rather than exactly in the same area where this terrible incident has taken place on the council have gone ahead and persecuted this family because they're members of ukip i'm not too sure whether this is a coincidence or not now your party is though critical of multiculturalism and political correctness is this incident an indication that perhaps you are being misunderstood in your failing to communicate your policies. absolutely not i think

our policies are quite clear i think the fact that when our around ten to twelve percent in the opinion polls goes ahead and shows that in the fact is that at miliband the leader of the labor party has come out and said there needs to be an investigation into this michael gove the conservative education secretary has come out and said that this is a disgrace so we're getting backing not just from the people because the public is on the whole behind us on this they think it's a disgrace i would also getting the backing from other political parties as well so you agree with the whole idea that no matter what political persuasion couples are they should be able to help children. well look this corporal have been foster parents for the past seven years they've been giving children homes and doing a good job what happens here is a case of persecution i think it's absolutely wrong the people who will suffer as a result will be the children because what will happen to these children now look at but it isn't isn't bringing children up in a political environment of consideration for example would you be happy to see

members of the british nationalist party adopting or fostering children for a political party accused of racism. well look i think each case needs to be taken on a soul basis and we are not a racist party it's quite clear that's written into our constitution we actually van members who have been members of the british national party in the past we are completely and also the racist could ukip see this is a political advantage and bring to the attention the fact that the adoption fostering laws in the u.k. really do need a shake up understand that seven out of eight parents are rejected the. possibility to foster or adopt it is that an area that perhaps you could now pursue. well i think it's something that certainly needs to be looked at i mean there are seventy thousand children in care in this country which quite frankly is obscene that is too many and what we need to be doing is getting these children out of care and into good homes because you know the statistics don't rely on those children in care are more likely to go or prison and not to well at school etc the best place

for children in care to be is with loving families and that's why this whole thing is obscene. other world news now here in r.t. police in thailand used tear gas to disperse the first major protest against the current government which around ten thousand poured into the streets and a group of demonstrators were tear gassed when they tried to break through a police barricade the protesters accuse the prime minister of. corruption promise a sixteen month old government is on high alert and says it could call in army support if the situation gets out of control. remains of late palestinian leader yasser arafat will be chouse day his sudden death in two thousand and four led some palestinians to claim he was poisoned by israel something tel aviv deny its investigation into his death was renewed earlier this year after traces of deadly radioactive polonium were found in arafat's clothing samples will be examined by experts from russia switzerland and france. at least eighteen people are being

killed by gas explosion inside a coal mine in southwestern china many miners are now trapped underground with rescue teams trying to reach them incidents like this remain common in the country with almost two thousand mine workers killed last year alone. and at least seven people including four children are dead after a blast hit a ship procession in pakistan's northwest the air is considered the stronghold of al qaeda linked sunni militants that have stepped up sectarian attacks during a major share holiday this month dozens of already been killed in violence in the last week. the boss of russia's energy giant gazprom says his company would support the creation of a united football league if the idea gets off the ground it would potentially include clubs from former soviet republics. takes a look at whether the grandiose plans are likely to become reality. the it is currently the champion of the russian recently found itself in the center of a scandal when during a match with the team one of the needs found through a flare right on the field seriously injuring the. bring his eyes to the match was

stopped and his unit was punished with a technical defeat later were heard from the team's management who protested the penalty saying that zeke may stop taking part in a russian football championship all together analysing it is sponsored by gas prom and the energy giants c.e.o. aleksey miller has met with the team's management and he's now saying that he needs new start taking part in a whole new other tournament between states which currently doesn't exist but miller says that if somebody started working on the idea then gas plant would definitely support it now gas problem is known to be quite a supporter of sports it's deputy c.e.o. alexander me to be there is the chief ideologist of the kontinental hockey league which is currently the second largest in the wall you know it's probably the strongest hockey teams in the whole area so the energy giant definitely has the

financial resources to help create a new football tournament as well say between the former soviet republics but again this is all now being talked about not actually being worked on and it's also a question how successful such a project would be how interesting it would be to watch and how competitive it would be compared to other football leagues in the world i'll be back with more news for in about thirty five minutes from now in the meantime max kaiser ruffles the feathers of the richest one percent and the kaiser report after this break.

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a banks or in these days of zero percent interest rates printed exclusively for the banks or. max you sound like somebody from k k r they're one of the banks of the world london bankers become landlords as rents hit record so london rents max have risen more than six per cent in the past year to a record even as job cuts by banks reduce employment in the financial services industry to a twenty year low technology and media companies are drawing workers to the city while lenders restrict mortgages to all but the most credit worthy customers that's encouraged individual investors and companies including k k r and company to enter the rental market as central banks push down yields on debt to record lows right so this is a classic case of rent seeking you've got the central bank and the investment banks colluding they get interest rates down near zero so the jack the price up rents are going higher k.k.

are predatory bankers in the mix it's the result of a completely. conceived monetary policies causing massive rent seeking and financial dislocation well it's also something that you've called before the jim crow laws so any no ordinary person the bottom ninety nine point nine percent of the population they are excluded from zero percent interest rates it looks great on paper wow zero percent interest rates around the world record low gilt eales low yields on. treasury bonds is super we can go to the fed's discount window and borrow it zero percent well actually you can't unless you're a bank stairs protozoan anshul jim crow laws using interest rates to discriminate yes if you are you know in the big house. you can borrow money at close to zero percent if you're on the field work and then your rate of interest is going to be twenty five thirty percent your rates are going to be jacked up you're shopping at the company's store whether it's tesco or wal-mart now demand for rental properties

is growing because first time buyers in the city typically need down payments of about twenty five percent the average deposit is fifty seven thousand one hundred seventy five pounds now consider that that's almost twice what the average salary annual salary here in london is so of course i mean had we had this from the beginning and we never had that financialization on the boom and the lowering of credit standards of course we would never have prices at this level if if from the beginning we always had a twenty five percent deposit but now people are being forced out excluded and it's bankers who are able to borrow a zero percent like a k r and they go over a whole list of other bankers who have buying properties and renting them out right well the flip side of zero percent interest rates are bond prices at three hundred year highs and so when the bond price bubble pops and interest rates go to ten.