the. heavily outnumbered group of russian military police repelled a surprise attack by al nusra terrorists in syria. thousands take to the streets of learned to protest the arrest of fourteen officials madrid's latest bid to prevent the upcoming catalonian independence referendum. and c.n.n. is reporting donald trump's former campaign chairman was wiretapped by the u.s. government just several months after the same network poured scorn on the president claims the secret service had been snooping on his team.

r.t. international live from moscow studio with me in india today welcome to the program . a small group of russian military police stationed in syria as you can see on the map have been caught in a terror ambush it happened in a province where deescalation zone is in place according to the defense ministry the russian troops managed to repel militants despite being so rounded and heavily outnumbered and this is some of the latest video of russian strikes targeting on the strip positions as part of the air support for ground forces moscow said one of the main goals of the terrorists was to capture the unit operating inside the zone of deescalation more reports on the latest from syria. the rebel offensive in north was apparently huge in magnitude supported by tanks by artillery

by personnel carriers and joined by hundreds and hundreds of jihad fighters in violation of all established deescalation deals in northern hama in. a few details of the rebel offensive. russian military says. around and. russian military police monitoring the deescalation. tentative in the area apparently it devolved into a ferocious fighting the group of the group of russian military police just twenty nine people. outgunned nevertheless held their own. as a result of the ambush a platoon of military police numbering twenty nine people was trapped for several hours and was forced to repel enemy attacks despite being outnumbered the russian military police units are said to have withdrawn without casualties the syrian

military has gone on the counterattack supported by the russian air force as well as the syrian they say they've killed more than eight hundred fifty hardest fighters the eleven tanks personnel carriers as well as dozens and dozens of pickup trucks. blunting the. rebel offensive. and says this was initiated by the united states. to distract the three in its fight against isis which is very successfully in the vicinity of the. province. was instigated by american special forces. a terrorist organization. they actually the american they have a plan they don't want the syrian army to retire there is salt which is very close

to the area iraqi border they don't want to third tools to create or to allow some sort of connection between or passes between the iraqi army and the syrian army in that part of syria and the east of syria this is this is the most dangerous thing it seems that america and they actually would like this court this old to be closed for ever and the same time they don't want to let the syrian army took control there is or simply because it has only feeds it has gas fields and also it is very strategic position and if the syrian army won this all war this would be the last war on the syrian territories so maybe the americans they would like to prolong this war well as long as they can. over to catalonia now where thousands of protest after the arrest of fourteen local officials by

spanish authorities trying to stop months independence referendum local journalist collison andras was there for us. we are in the center of the magistrate now is taking place in the heart of arcelor not being that i'm be aware of thousands of cattle and car on the streets you are invited to participate during these mornings because of the pressure of the national government we remember that this morning when you have to be in the step that you came in to different places around the city looking for information and people there are friendly that will take place the first of october to see the sense of barcelona as it reacted spontaneously to what they say is an attack to their modesty and a freedom of speech. i came here today because i was born here on a council on my grandparents' account salon's my language is the catalogs and all

that i am is here in this land and today this land is attacked by all the democratic ways possible from the spanish states. but it forty years ago we had an dictator today we have another actually there are quite a few in the government but i mean this is a repression i couldn't believe it when i sold the news so i will left everything and came here i think it is a really important moment and we should be here on the streets we're sending in peaceful message and we need to express ourselves other cities like you don't outside and were taken by c.d.'s and asking for the right of voting on the referendum the affairs of. meanwhile an eight hour standoff involving learned between police and demonstrators ended with offices abandoning attempts to enter the office of the region's key pro independence party apparently without an official warrant the region's president branded recent moves by squarish

authorities as coordinated a question and accuse madrid of putting in place a state of emergency in the region. we're going to look at the year i started that we are going to catalan government has been subjected today to a cordon aided aggression committed by the police forces directed by the spanish interior ministry the objective has been just stop the catalan society to express themselves freely and didn't peace on the first of october this aggression is outside of the law it damages the state of law and all of the constitutional guarantees and also damages the european union bill on human rights in the last few days and particularly today the spanish state has suspended the self rule of catalonia and is put in place a state of emergency. despite the push for independence the country's prime minister urged catalyst to abandon what he called an impossible dream. well responsible is their argument only those in charge of the cattle on government who

are the protagonists in this challenge to our coexistence i ask them to seize in their illegal activities they should abandon their objectives they now know that this referendum cannot be organized it was never legal all legitimate it is now no more impossible dream or what is wars' the xcuse that some seem to have found to deepen this bleed that they have provoked in the gutter lands of sightsee. to. madrid see a range of measures in an attempt to stop the referendum from taking place declared the upcoming vote illegal and conducted numerous raids to seize pro referendum material currently more than seven hundred mayors around the investigation over their support for the vote and most recently madrid's announced plans to take control of catalonians budget in order to ensure money won't be spent on referendum

purposes. a member of the barcelona city council believes the international community should be stepping in to prevent matric abuse in the region. they don't want to let us vote but people are voting with their feet they are actually crossing the street going over to wherever the intervention has taken place and defending the institutions from the street massively this is an attack on democracy this is actually a state of exception we're the military police are intervening in the normal democratic functioning of the catalan institutions and this is why our people are on the street blocking the entrance to some of these institutions saying that whoever enters will not be able to come out unless the people suffering right now and in the street allow them to come out and we ask the international community to

intervene and stop this abuse this abuse on the catalan people on democracy in catalonia and in europe in general this concerns all of us because right now it's catalonia tomorrow it could be the rest of spain or even other places in europe. donald trump's former campaign chair was wiretapped by the u.s. government both before and after the elections c.n.n. is reporting and that is just six months after the president was mocked for claiming his residence was tapped. in and has learned that investigators wiretapped former champ campaign chairman paul made a fort under secret court order both before and after the twenty six thousand election welcome to obama tapped my phone ireland population president tried to recap in march the president tweeted that he had learned obama wiretapped timet trump tower c.n.n. as this was done because his campaign was yet again suspected of quote having ties

with russia. former campaign chair paul manifolds now demanding the justice department immediately probe the obama administration's actions auntie's kaleb more reports. trump's former campaign manager may have been wiretapped by the f.b.i. c.n.n. citing its sources says that paul man a fourth was wiretapped before and after the u.s. election under a warrant issued by the foreign intelligence surveillance act this sounds serious but remember how no one took trump seriously after he claimed he was tapped where is the proof i mean it was an idiotic move to anyone here disagree he wasn't going to hold anybody radionic where to get these ideas where is he getting his information we have a quote ridiculous unquote president well now it turns out that perhaps donald trump wasn't losing his mind after all especially when you take into account that paul man a fourth has a residence at trump tower now the c.n.n.

report about the f.b.i. spying on metaphor it could of course be wrong but if it isn't it suggests that lawmakers from both parties and leaders of the intelligence community misled the public i have not seen any evidence that this has occurred intelligence committee has not seen evidence of this is occurred what the president charged president obama with wiretapping him it's not true there was no such wiretap to be mounted against the president the president worked at that time or as a candidate or against his campaign they can't talk about wiretapping or trump scandals but up throwing russia in there somewhere the c.n.n. report suggests that data collected from spying on paul man afore it shows that he encouraged russia to help out with trump's campaign the spokeswoman for russia's ministry of foreign affairs says she can't wait to hear what comes next do you see russia's role you're right to legitimize illegal actions without this external factor it would be a new watergate but with this foreign madley the story was signed on they only have

national security the finale will be spectacular can't wait to see it now there's a lot of contradicting claims from a lot of high ranking people. at this point there's a lot of key players involved obama trump manna for the democrats the republicans and the russians now paul man a fourth says he wants an investigation to help clear things up but it could easily have the opposite effect cable mop and artsy new york. hollywood looks to crack down on russia those details after this break.

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hollywood style morgan freeman has targeted russia in an unusual video for its present meddling in the u.s. presidential election. we have been attacked we are. at war imagine this movie script a former k.g.b. spy angry at the collapse of his mother land plots of course for revenge then he sets his sights on his sworn enemy the united states bladder can stand by and this is no movie script. the clip promotes the committee to investigate russia and ukraine created by artists the question marks are being raised over who is behind the project ati's daniel hawkins takes a closer look. hollywood legend morgan freeman is those stranger to dramatic movie scripts like this one welcome to the cia's course at the time of the creasing tend to do it and it is going to fight. the. americans to fight each other.

and strangers we suspect the truth playing a cia director at the center of a tense standoff between the usa and a hardline russian president sound familiar it seems the boundaries between hollywood fantasy and real life politics are increasingly blurring indeed freeman himself supported hillary clinton's presidential bid i'm hillary clinton and i approved this message. to law school you could have joined a high priced law firm but in spirit she worked to reform do the knowledge justice in south carolina her life's work has been about breaking barriers and so would her presidency now he's waving to the russian election hacking scandal his latest video is part of a new initiative called the committee to investigate russia a lot of pretty big names from the film and media industry such as hollywood director rob reiner teaming up with the government elites as if the multiple

investigative committees already looking into alleged russian meddling weren't enough here's a team of true patriots the media does talk about it a lot and for whatever reason it doesn't seem to be penetrating into what we what i refer to as the real americans i mean patriotic americans that wave the flag and speaking of patriots rob reiner has made it pretty clear what he himself thinks of donald trump's supporters how do you explain the millions and millions of people who actually like what they hear from donald trump and are taking messages and orders from us and the media how do you explain that what was there there are a lot of people who are racist my. position is clear here's another member of the committee a familiar face to those following. the russia us election hacking saga james clapper former director of national intelligence investigated moscow's meddling but didn't find enough evidence to prove collusion between the trump campaign and russian foreign nationals but he's still convinced the russians did it after all

it's in their blood the russians who typically. genetically driven to co-opt. purgatory to. gain favor or whatever so we await their latest findings perhaps one day they will be the subject of their very own hollywood blockbuster the kremlin spokes person downplayed the video noting actors can be misled ever once actually going on media and this line all added some context to the story. vladimir putin apparently seeking revenge for the collapse of his country against what the united states that caused this but then we have a group of people a couple of neo cons and intelligence head who said that the n.s.a. never spied and his people said that there was no wiretapping of of trump or anybody in his news group you had the individual mr frome who came up with that

classic axis of evil and then you have the most preposterous cobbled together glued series of how by virtue of this revenge we're russia yet again somehow caused this election to be hacked or lost or whatever absolving hillary clinton of just losing it wasn't her fault and the sixty three or so american million americans who voted for drop they were part of a brainwashing some weird kind of telepathy that from the kremlin where people all the sudden found themselves like robots voting for donald trump for reasons they don't know why hollywood imbues certain people with this sunset of expertise and everything they are actor they play roles they inhabit

positions that they're not they're almost chameleon and all of a sudden and given the opportunity to do so they become experts. but hollywood is far from the anytime great clamping down on moscow as u.s. lawmakers issued a bill that could blow russian broad concept something shown in the u.s. samir khan takes up the story. amendments was proposed by senator john mccain and could potentially create a major barrier for russian channels broadcasting in the u.s. it would not require distributors to carry content from television networks owned or controlled by the russian government the proposal is bundled into a defense spending bill if this becomes law it could jeopardize current contracts between russian channels and u.s. distributors could potentially impact our t.v. which broadcasts in the u.s. now to put this all in context r.t. has been the focus of a long running witch hunt in the united states back in january r.t. was singled out in an intelligence report which accused the network of trying to

sway the u.s. presidential election in donald trump's favor the report however contained no evidence whatsoever only citing what's viewed as a negative reporting on hillary clinton r t is also a regular topic at senate hearings russia today a propaganda call them whatever are probably going to or the russian propaganda on steroids or again of the russian government i don't know whether average citizens find it more persuasive but. i'm afraid. in the area of public diplomacy. russia eats our lunch it's also worth noting that there are several foreign governments who fund channels in the us including france twenty four which is fully owned by the french government all jazeera owned by qatar also a b.b.c. which is funded by fees set by the british government but russia is the only one targeted so as always russia seems to be getting special attention. as samir

pointed out the amendments part of the national defense authorization act but the bombshell plan is buried deep inside the multi-page document the part about russia's summarized in just a few lines between details on funding of the us military sector has told us all this is no coincidence. the defense bill often has thing stuck in it have nothing to do with the fence it's like that congress gets things done that they wouldn't be able to just do. as a freestanding bill because it would be too ridiculous or it would have too much opposition so they stick it in the defense bill figuring that the whole damn thing will get passed to members of congress don't read the bills and so. they really could slip past most of the members completely. presumably they have staff people that read it better but they don't read it and there's an obsession on capitol hill

and in the mainstream media what's with r t because argues it's active in our tears washed but also in this is very important because r.t.d. carries perspectives that are not available on the mainstream media the fact of the matter is john mccain and lindsey graham the people behind this amendment the atlantic council and the others that are trying to silence art they are the totalitarians they are the enemies of free speech they are the enemies of the first amendment they don't want anyone coming on television saying that america's foreign policy is a. disaster it is broken it is making us more vulnerable to attack it's costing a fortune we cannot stand competition in the area of ideas so rush is not only the flavor of the moment it's the flavor of the year you know there is that obsession there is the investigate russia committee or a bunch of hollywood liberals got together with a bunch of neo cons are finding reds under our beds there's a hysteria going on in america i still would like to believe that the emergent

average american thinks it's absolutely nuts i hope it stays that way hopefully this will blow over at some point in the blowups. the critically acclaimed netflix drug gang drama narcos has crossed from fiction to brutal reality after one of the location managers were shot dead in mexico the man had reportedly been scouting new locations ahead of the show's new from colombia to mexico for its upcoming fourth season the victim was found dead in his bullet ridden car in a remote area said to have some of mexico's highest murder rates speculation is rife the killing of the t. of the t.v. executive was at the hands of drugs crime gangs. is not that the only controversy the creators of narcos have found solace in roberto escobar the brother of one of the world's most infamous drug lords is demanding a billion dollars for image rights after the family story was featured in the first

two seasons he warned the streaming service of dangerous consequences if his demands weren't met the escobar family has had issues with the series before. and how. does he have any real experience in acting does he have any real experience in making cocaine transactions. and would never dare to survive in the jungle or colombia i have done that. was my offer to provide them with the factual information from my point of view that somebody who was there but they were not interested in that.

escape was planned from when the jail was constructed my father ordered them to leave a few bricks loose i would have liked the shows version to not be so sweet. around at the news this hour don't forget you will find us all over social media on facebook twitter and of course our website that's called i'll be back at the top of the hour so stay with us. thank.

you. german interests your opinion interests are really deeply intertwined with each other i think the. thinking about. having the interests. of those of other nations the one side has to win with the opposite of this abuse that's really exactly the world's the it isn't relevant to the.

greetings and salutation. while everyone focuses on the pomp and circumstance and donald trump at this year's united nations general assembly there was there was one story that tragically while not seeing much airtime on most of your cable news channels a story that at the very least directly affects roughly forty million people across every continent of the small blue planet that affects women and children have an obscenely disproportionate rate. that men in it reaches across all racial and cultural lines. what is this vastly important story the definitely definitely will never get the same amount of air time as sean spicer i mean appearance of the alleged trump russia collusion election election meddling celebrity gossip well

it's just the you know the new global slavery figures and statistics released this week by the united nations international labor organization and the walk free foundation you know those which found that there is an estimated forty point three million people are victims of modern slavery in two thousand and sixteen now see modern slavery is used as a sort of umbrella term that according to researchers refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats of violence code words and deception and or abuse of power this obviously includes forced labor forced marriage and debt bondage in a press release out of the forest chairman and founder of the walk around asia as stated if we consider the results of the last five years for which we have collected data eighty nine million people experience some form of modern slavery.