being in the spanish estate and 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 from madrid which has in turn insisted public services into austerity cuts. this is not fair i mean we are the ones who're . doing our best in mccormick reasons we cannot afford 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 what's more withdrawing from spain could also force this region to draw back to the european union those against separatism believe it could do more harm than good. separatism for going

this election which is not a referendum but a general election to the catalan parliament how to know the turnout has increased by four point five per cent with respect to the last elections you want to call in the us it doesn't make you're an economist does it really make economic sense for catalonia to go out alone while it makes a lot of sense knickers in a world of globalisation of open markets it is more likely that small countries don't need to belong to a larger domestic market in order to exporting scoots they belong to the. regional bloc and from a fiscal point of view catalonia is very mistreated nicely in the spanish government of each europe it in taxes by catalan citizens and businesses in the last twenty years only fifty cents has been spent in catalonia so it makes a lot of sense and catalonia has a g.d.p. per capita. than that of denmark and the european union is made up of a lot of countries that. are down that have applications nor are there ten million an adult and so it is normal that you have to stick to a two hour local national government that is close to your p

the regional election in catalonia as people prepared to go to the polls there more than half of catalans are now set to want to form the newest state in europe with a desire for sovereignty and exacerbated by the economic turmoil argues and reform or has more. 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 our straight 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 being that ban them from. a country. which is. really a really bad situation is a bargain for. it's a bargain for the cool cool to prague castle 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 for mass has made it the centerpiece of his campaign this convergence the union party to hold an independence referendum if

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

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 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. separatism for going alone or 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 after mass will win reelection barcelona and madrid look set free showdown the president this banished 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 w

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 a

despite the defiant mood of the catalan president last night, his political remover -- maneuvering has been complicated by these elections. in the and the parties will have a majority after this vote and the road ahead is even less certain. abc news, barcelona. -- bbc news, barcelona. >> is released and iranians working side by side. -- israelis and iranians working side-by-side. yes, it may sound impossible. but scientists from across the middle east are working on an accelerator in jordan right now. our correspondent has been given the exclusive access. >> a new research center in jordon and something almost unimaginable is taking place. a hand of friendship is offered across a violent divide. and he -- a palestinian side by side with an israeli. he is a scientist -- these are scientists that have come from across the middle east. science is achieving what diplomacy has failed to. these researchers from countries openly hostile toward each other, even is a lot -- iran and israel, are happy to stand together. they're working on a bass instrument designed to investigate the -- bass ins

for these two catalan artists, it has been a fulfilling experience. what was born in the imagination of one artist has been translated and skillfully brought into being by another. it has been more than five years since miro accepted this project. the end is now in sight, but first "femme" must be prepared for her trip. hundreds of mothballs are scattered for protection before the tapestry is cut from the loom, covered, rolled and packed for shipment. the finished tapestry roll is 20 feet long, weighing well over a ton, and the task of moving is not a simple one. a window has to be enlarged to accommodate the passage of this huge parcel from royo's studio. ( muffled comments, crane engine rumbling ) the people of tarragona watch as "femme" is cautiously lowered onto the waiting truck to begin a long voyage across the atlantic. first she must travel to barcelona to be crated, before passage by ship to her home in america. royo follows "femme" to washington, d.c., to supervise the installation on the south wall of the east building's central court. ther

born in the catalan city of barcelona in 1893, miro has remained close to the land and its people. but as a young man in paris, he joined th friends like max ernst and jean arp in the emerging surrealist movement of the 1920s. in his painting "the farm," miro's characteristic symbols and themes began to appear: serpentine shapes, checkerboard patterns, infinite space represented by the moon or a star. in 1922, he painted "the farmer's wife," the ancestress of countless female symbols that also became a continuing motif in miro's art. in 1924, his art broke free of gravitational constraints in the surrealistic world of "harlequin's carnival." over the years, he developed his own personal symbolism, and in the 1950s, the scale of his art grew with such works as a mural at harrd university and "the wall ofhe sun" for unesco in pas. as his work grew in size, miro continued what he termed "a process of simplification." he stated, "little by little, i have managed to reach a point at which i use no more than a small number of forms and colors." this process found a culminating expression

are happy about and so if it did prove to be the case who knows many catalans might prefer the status quo. and the article spokes person for a group dedicated to helping separatist movements believes a sovereign catalan nation could have a mutually beneficial relationship with the european union but have to put society to cast the books to care for our it represents once in their parliament with this object if and this to start the institution of process for them governments of its own you know which is a process those not all days in economic plan or do everybody may believe that actually the reason side of this what we want is the poly to go in that one turns which means the one to decide about the political and the social political policies like immigration education commerce stories church existed except to say that well we have to understand that actually spain now all get on the spanish state machinery and trying if here come that's a land so we are european cities it's and now there's not such press of that that the group could be out of the european union seven a half million

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 breakup of spain. andrew farmer. if we had over to our web site r.t. dot com you can read all about the latest scandal which is hitting all the headlines in the u.k. what children suffering from the political games for own ups. in britain kids have been torn from their foster parents after social workers brand of them as a politically unfit because they were questioning their support for the new take independence party. also for you on our side to mapping out a controversy china's these passports are causing regional concerns after maps printed on its pages stake china's claims just in the territories all that for you r.t. dot com. the opposition in bahrain has vowed to resume peaceful street protests in order to defy a ban on public gatherings imposed last month the ruling family had claims that the restrictions which sparked criticism from abroad were necessary in order to restore order. the uprising in bahrain has been ongoing fo

of view catalonia is very mistreated by say the spanish government of each europe paid in taxes by catalan citizens and businesses in the last twenty years only fifty cents has been spent in catalonia so it makes a lot of sense in catalonia has a g.d.p. per capita. than that of denmark and the european union is made up of a lot of countries that is more than in that have up operations north than ten million an abbott and so it is normal that you have to just stick to our to our local national government that is close to your preferences and then you belong to the latter unity secular read unities. now to some of today's news in brief this at least five people have been reportedly killed and more than seventy injured by a bomb attack in northwest pakistan the blast went off in a shop on the roof of a shia muslim procession the taliban has already claimed responsibility for the attack it's the second explosion to hit the district in less than twenty four hours taking the number killed over the weekend to thirteen days blast comes despite attempts to mobile phone services which the authoritie

then the process of the rim many arguments good arguments for and against these are issues that catalans have had to mull over over the last few weeks but today they do have to make their minds up and we should get a result later this evening. on our web site r t dot com you can read all about the latest scandal which is hitting the headlines in the u.k. where children are suffering from the political games of grownups that's after a foster family has torn apart a local authorities the side the parents membership in the u.k. independence party makes them unsuitable as carers. plus from thanksgiving to bind we have the video and stories of black friday nightmares as america went on its biggest shopping spree of the year. the opposition in bahrain has vowed to resume peaceful street protests in order to defy a ban on public gatherings that was imposed last month the ruling family had claims the restrictions which sparked criticism from abroad were necessary in order to restore order now that uprising in bahrain has been ongoing for some eighteen months with shiites calling for more rights

are part of madrid's efforts to cripple the catalans independence argument on the spanish state machinery and trying to fear campaign cancel and so we are european cities as no there's not such stress of that that we would be out of the european union some a half million us people suddenly you know how that would be more difficult actually to manage who to order what is necessary to be out and it's not a consideration and we don't believe we're going to be out of the european union like it's cutline i'm not going to be outside european union just because we are exercising universal rights as you know us are going to suffer to the nation we talk about democracy here it's an audience of rich country we do have g.d.p. of two hundred thousand million which is like a dead mike economy that we have to understand that in the european economic and context we are a country of super rabbit we are not that it should syria that country and more disunity in europe as a budget talks and with no result. european leaders have postponed a further debate until the new year after failing to work out a deal

long and lengthy process of the many arguments good arguments for and against these are issues that catalans of how to mull over over the last few weeks but today they do have to make their minds up and we should get a result later this evening. and send pollute seeing economist at university barcelona believes that catalonia will be a successful addition to the in u. . the show that the majority of katherine population was independence let's see what's the result of this election which is not a referendum with a general election to the catalan parliament up to now the turnout has increased by four point five per cent with respect to the last election laws of globalisation of open markets it is more likely that small countries don't need to belong to the larger domestic market in order to exported schools they belong to the. regional bloc and from a fiscal point of view catalonia is very mistreated rice the spanish government of each year of the eighteen taxes they got their own citizens and businesses in the last twenty years only fifty cents has been spent in catalonia still it makes a lot

are part of madrid's efforts to cripple the catalans independence argument the spanish state machinery and trying to fear campaign cancel and so we are european cities and no there's not such stress of that that the we would be out of the european union seven a half million of people suddenly enough how that would be more difficult actually to manage through the order of what is necessary to be out and it's not a consideration and we don't believe we're going to be out of the european union like a scotland i'm not going to be outside european union just because we are exercising universal rights as is the grosser grant of subtlety to nation let's talk about democracy here it's an audience of rich country we do have side g.d.p. of two hundred thousand million which is like dead my economy we have to understand that in the european economic and context we are a country of super rabbit we are not and if you should syria that country. the u.n. human rights commission plans to send a team of experts to bahrain next week amid growing concern the nation is slipping into protests chaos the mai

meanwhile with financial troubles taking their toll on european regions catalans go to the polls in an election dominated by separatists feeling. welcome back you're watching the weekly are with me lucy catherine of the cease fire in gaza that ended an eight day israeli offensive remains intact despite the fact that details of a lasting peace deal have yet to be negotiated more than one hundred sixty palestinians were killed in the assault while hamas rocket attacks killed six israelis. many of them are disappointed with the outcome of the operation and see the truce as a victory for hamas. alyssa and rachel packing for the us a cease fire might have been announced but they're not waiting around to see if it works the women were part of an internship program to see what it's like to live in israel so they came they saw and now they choosing to leave if you spend very anxious living on a mess like knowing that at any moment the size right off i may have to go into a bomb shelter and like it's being scared of public transportation and staff. the streets of tel aviv are a far cry from the

and lengthy process of the rim many arguments good arguments for and against these are issues that catalans have had to mull over over the last few weeks but today they do have to make their minds up and we should get a result later this evening. right on our website to read about the latest scandal which is hitting all the headlines in the u.k. the children suffering from political games of grownups that's after force a family is torn apart after local authorities decided the parents membership of the u.k. independence party makes them unsuitable as carers. plus of from thanksgiving to buying we have the video and stories of black friday nightmares america went on its biggest shopping spree of the year. the opposition in bahrain has vowed to resume peaceful street protests to defy a ban on public gatherings in paris last month the ruling family had claimed the restrictions which sparked criticism from abroad that they were necessary to restore order a un team is said to visit before him in early december to assess progress towards its a promise reforms a follow up on a similar mission at t

believe the catalan president will have a lot of if he has to deal with if a he wins the elections. the issue that's kind of overarching throughout the elections is sort of cattle on independents however there's also. a lot of sentiment against the two of mass by people that are not in his party's i guess immediate ideological range i mean he just had a general strike against him on the fourteenth of november that's also drew nearly a million people into the streets so the problem with this is that between the nationalist sort of sentiment and the anti austerity sort of majority view their opposition to article the mouse is either confused or doesn't really have a referential point in in the form of a political party to vote against him so he sort of has the strongest group out of all the electoral formations. and we're closely following they've got the loney in the elections on our web site at archie dot com the latest details and the full timeline of the region's protest movement for independence also available online. syrian rebels looking to overthrow president assad have receiv

these elections could represent a step towards any final breakup of spain and that is because the catalan president has promised to hold a referendum on independence from spain if his conversions and union party do win and that is something that is striking a chord with many cattle lands the economy here is actually pretty strong it's the size of portugal's but the region itself pays far more in taxes to the spanish government that it actually receives back in terms of investment from madrid and that is something that annoys a lot of people particularly when unemployment rates here at around twenty five percent and many people are having to endure tough austerity measures so the feeling is that they feel that they could do a better job if they could govern themselves and also do a better job if they could govern their own economy also there seems to be a lot of support for the center pendants move there but how much of an uphill battle would it be to actually break away from spain. well there are several sticking points firstly the mass would have to gain an absolute majority to be sure o

for these two catalan artists, it has been a fulfilling experience. what was born in the imagination of one artist has been translated and skillfully brought into being by another. it has been more than five years since miro accepted this project. the end is now in sight, but first "femme" must be prepared for her trip. hundreds of mothballs are scattered for protection before the tapestry is cut from the loom, covered, rolled and packed for shipment. the finished tapestry roll is 20 feet long, weighing well over a ton, and the task of moving is not a simple one. a window has to be enlarged to accommodate the passage of this huge parcel from royo's studio. ( muffled comments, crane engine rumbling ) the people of tarragona watch as "femme" is cautiously lowered onto the waiting truck to begin a long voyage across the atlantic. first she must travel to barcelona to be crated, before passage by ship to her home in america. royo follows "femme" to washington, d.c., to supervise the installation on the south wall of the east building's central court. ther

puebla y atlante ante león cierran barcelona hizo historia , haciendo 9 victorias , y 1 empate los catalanes, el número 18 , atención troyanos ante patos de oregon , 20 pases acertados en 23 intentos , josh se escapaba , touchdown , mark también hizo lo que pudo , con 35 de 54 pases , 5 de anotacion oregon gana 62 a 51 , anotando 62 puntos algo que nunca había sucedido desde su existencia , en la nba , pierde clippers y gana golden state , 114 a 110 , gracias william . >>> alan el de los giants de san francisco , tras sus jugadas en la serie mundial convivio con sus fanáticos en una tienda departamental . >>> es importante dar un ejemplo a los chicos que van subiendo yo quiere que dejen un legado positivo , autografio a sus fanáticos felicidades ,

. >> catalonia to the central government than it receives in investments, but the cattle on -- catalan central government says it is not just about money. >> and is much more likely we could emerge successfully from these tough economic times if we had had yet our own disposal, and of not talking about money. for me, it is more about freeing ourselves from the constraints imposed by national legislation. >> with spain's economic situation worsening daily, the debate over catalonia's status is likely to intensify. >> coming up, we will get a peek at everyday life in iran and have the smallest things can be an act of defiance. >> first of all, here are other stories making news. syrian aircraft have continued air raids against rebel positions in a town near the border with turkey, the third day in a row that the town has been bombed. dozens of residents have fled into turkey. heavy fighting was also reported in the syrian capital. >> at least 14 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of bombings across iraq. police said at least six devices exploded in baghdad and kirkuk

personas salen a la calle planteando un cambio polÍtico de esta magnitud el presidente del gobierno catalÁne mi paÍs sea amo de su propio destino y en donde mis hijos puedan crecer en condiciones superiores y con mÁs posibilidades de progreso de las que tienen ahora. la idea de independencia no es solamente una idea econÓmica, es un ideal polÍtico y un ideal por el que han dejado la vida muchos de nuestros ante pasados, es una esperanza, vamos a hacer una nueva cataluÑa. >>> no voy a negar, la crisis econÓmica. >>> no habrÁ marcha segundo cataluÑa. no sÉ si va a ser de aquÍ a un aÑo o tres aÑos, lo que es indiscutible es que empezamos un camino que no tiene retorno. >>> antonio mÁs veÍa una naciÓn independiente para el 2020, la uniÓn europea dice que no lo van a permitir ¿no es uno de los principales obstÁculos?. >>> no ha habido manifestaciÓn oficial de la uniÓn europea. >>> rechaza la independencia de cataluÑa. >>> bruselas siempre rechaza las independenciass hasta que se producen. >>> en espaÑa la convivencia se rige por una constituciÓn votada por todos los espaÑoles y tuvo su mÁximo re

something many cattle hands are happy about and so if it did prove to be the case who knows many catalans might prefer the status quo. eurozone finance ministers and the international monetary fund convene in brussels to decide the fate of greece's next bailout payment their two previous meetings failed to reach any agreement without the bailout cash greece is likely to default and be forced to leave the single currency bloc patrik young writer an executive director of the investment consultancy devi advisors i spoke to a little earlier he believes whatever decisions made today the idea of a great future in the eurozone is fantasy right at the moment greece is on target even on the official doctor and frankly i don't believe but because i think it's far too conservative she freezes on target fire by twenty fourteen twenty fifteen to have a debt of one hundred ninety percent to g.d.p. basically that is just really just sixty percent is reasonable one hundred percent is a lot one hundred twenty percent is probably unsustainable but we can talk about the greek economy and the greek governmen

and lengthy process of the rim many arguments good arguments for and against these are issues that catalans of how to mull over over the last few weeks but today they do have to make their minds up and we should get a result later this evening. and we'll also hear as the following there got a lot any lectures on our website at our t.v. and dot com the latest details and a full timeline although we just put it as we went for him depends. and also available the online. syrian rebels looking to overthrow president assad have received a serious backing this week the european union welcomed the new syrian opposition group the national coalition as a legitimate representative of the country's people although even ministers stopped short of official diplomatic recognition which must be decided by each member state france and turkey with the first polish to give the rebel alliance a stamp of approval with britain following suit soon after turkey is now pushing for nato to deploy patriotic missiles along its border with syria to defend itself russia and iran are among the countries strongly opposing