a land nation you know more this wasn't stupidity or short sightedness this was political tactics polarize people as much as possible promote and teakettle and sentiment and the votes in the rest of spain are there for the taking. since then laws passed by the catalan government have often been met with opposition in madrid and often end up before spain's constitutional court. these new laws don't necessarily relate to the independence need notes they can also govern issues such as gender equality energy regulation accenture. spain's constitutional court has forbidden catalonia from splitting from spain leaving the nation at an impasse and the catalan town of my your people are calling for international support they have this plea help us europe. was cross over to barcelona now the capital of catalonia our correspondent fanny