my catalan, only a few words. spanish was and is a privileged territory where i feel alive and well. my father grew up in new york and havana and married a cuban woman, my mother. all my family shared a great loving for havana, a city they call home. but contrary to my family, i grew up dreaming of traveling and wanted to leave havana for dublin, where some of the most famous writers i keep admiring were born, and also dreaming of paris where my grandparents, my grandfather, spend many important years of his life. also i want to move to my place, i don't know what was the name of that place. every time people call me la englicita, the little english woman because in cuba, in the caribbean, they didn't make any difference. all the irish were english. and all the people from asia were chinese. all the jews were called polacos, polish. that is interesting because the irish were part of the spanish community in cuba, but usually they didn't make the difference. so they call me and they call my father el inglis, the en

the politicians lined up behind the catalan flag are right-wing nationalists. the hecklers and once them and the socialist shop stewards heckled. protests grind on. hear, tube workers are on strike against a 5% pay cut. >> it is a cut in our pay for all the lines. we have to stop this. >> this year, but the austerity measures will change the spanish life style forever is well grounded. ultimately, it may be impossible to achieve. >> it is very important to the guy who decides the election. he has this extremely protected job. a very generous pension. 100% free help service. very strongly subsidized social programs. free roads. fast trains. and of course, he is going to try to hold on to that. >> so nobody can reform it? >> the markets can. >> but the man in charge of the finance system looks not so much what the problem as an opportunity. >> 50% are submerged. they are all undergoing restructuring plans. that is a major restructuring that has not happened in other places. [unintelligible] we have a major adjustment taking place and in europe. i believe we are g

it is an attempt by nationalist- minded catalans to reject one of spain's best known traditions. >> here in catalonia, bullfighting has been losing support for many years. now, bullfighting has been banned altogether and the matadors know they only have one sees and left in which to fight. have vowed to extend their a -- these activists have vowed to extend their fight across the country now. of brazilian tv host accused of ordering killings to boost his crime show ratings died while awaiting trial. he was being treated in hospital. because of its debt has not been confirmed. he often featured exclusive footage of crime scenes. he is accused of ordering qt::[okillings and alerting hisw said they could be first to be seen at the crime. health officials in moscow are urging people to stay indoors. this is the worst smog to get the city in a decade. pollution levels are 10 times normal. it may seem like an unlikely duet, but the former american secretary of state condoleezza rice and a wreath at franklin performed today art -- perform together for charity. the concert was raising money for

the city is extravagant and an enormous, and its church was begun by a catalan architect over a century ago. it still is not finished, and now there are fears it will not as a high-speed rail tunnel could put it in danger. >> it has been a work in progress for 128 years. even unfinished, the church is an impressive sight. the team charged with completing this most ambitious and final work now fear for its future. because of debts. separations for a tunnel that will carry a train line through here to madrid. -- because of this. construction work is well underway. trains will be moving through here in two years' time. look at where we are. this will essentially be the main entrance. it is called the glory facades, and it should be ready when pope benedict comes to consecrate the church in november. the original work is protected by unesco, said the team has reported its concerns. it has also asked the high court of spain have the trained rerouted. >> this building is a world heritage monument. the tunnel runs with 5 meters from the church, and the subsoil is unstable. we tried to get the

iraq top stories russia and germany wrap up this summit in the city of the catalan borders both leaders praised moscow's ever improving relations with the west and agreed to use food as a diplomatic weapon. america's longest war the u.s. involvement in afghanistan surpasses the now in this frustration builds a growing human and financial costs attacks in afghanistan reached an all time high in june the bloodiest month for foreign troops since the start of the war. russia and the us smart going to verse three of the first joint space flight in the forward cold war relations that followed all the states thirty five years ago two spacecraft one salvi at one of the blasted off and later dr goldberg in the apollo sewing machine. our programs continue tonight for the very beginning the recent spy scandal between russia and the us read like the pages of an espionage novel now famous author of frederick forsyth offers his interpretation of what it was all about in our interview coming up. i'm here with frederick forsyth internationally renowned crime fiction writer seth and we're talking about

extension with this spanish champions last week and also explained why he didn't want to time self to the catalan side for any longer. but why the more we don't work much better under short term contract i need to know that things work fine and we understand each other i'm talking about the players which are the ones i work with i need to know we have a good relationship and that we want them to get even better and if everything goes fine and i feel strong enough then i'll stay for another year or more. now and ice hockey in ice hockey rushes. won't be coming home any time soon after the double world champion resigned with n.h.l. club the new jersey devils couples who had been pondering his future for over a month but decided to stay put despite speculation he could join scar st petersburg in the kontinental hockey league he will be officially revealed as the new jews and choose date news conference the last time the twenty seven year old played for a russian side was during the n.h.l. lockout back into by another news fireworks of promised in the tour de france today luxembourg rider and each le