trying to block growth since early this morning but the cabinet meeting chaired by prime minister pedro sanches went ahead anyway ministers agreed on new infrastructure spending for the region. well joining us from the daily news desk is my colleague publicly at least who has reported extensively from spain and knows it very intimately so it's great to have you here with me in person set the scene for us one unfold it today in the streets of barcelona what we saw it there already in the images that there were protests across the region in particularly in barcelona because of this cabinet meeting that was taking place in barcelona it's believed that there were rand one thousand protesters gathered but of course we saw over twenty roads main roads across the region being blocked let's not forget this is friday just before christmas and a lot of people are getting taking their holiday so of course a lot of disruption across the region of the clashes are of the awful scenes to see there you mentioned that there are at least eleven protesters have been arrested in fact in just the past few minutes i