i. have really outnumbered a group of russian military police for a palace a prize attack by alan us for terrorists in syria. thousands take to the streets across the learned to show their support for the upcoming referendum but madrid slams the region's bid for independence as nothing but a dream. it is now no more dream. i am. and c.n.n. is reporting donald trump is former campaign chairman was wiretapped by the u.s. government just several months after the same network poured scorn on the

president's claims the secret service had been snooping on his team. watching r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me in india today welcome to the program a small group of russian military police stationed in syria have been caught in a terror ambush according to the defense ministry that russian troops managed to repel militants despite being surrounded and heavily outnumbered and this is some of the latest video of russian strikes targeting al nasra positions as part of the air support for ground forces. one of the main goals of the terrorists was to capture the unit operating inside the zone of the escalation more reports on the latest from syria. the rebel offensive in north hamad 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 and deescalation deals with and in. a few details of the rebel offensive. russian military says. around and kept. 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 were rounded and outgunned never the less they 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and was forced to repel enemy attacks despite being outnumbered the russian military police units are said to have withdrawn without casualties the syrian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 air force they say they've killed more than eight hundred fifty hardest fight eleven tanks full armored personnel carriers as well as dozens and dozens of pickup trucks. blunting the. rebel offensive. and india is a massive operation to eliminate remaining terror pockets is ongoing more than eighty five percent of the territory is now under the control of syrian government forces nearby villages are also being liberated these are the latest updates from the russian defense ministry it also said some parts of the opposition syrian democratic forces are on their way today was all to join eisel battalions according to the ministry syrian government troops have been targeted twice from the area controlled by the s.d.f. u.s. led coalition. to catalonia now attentions over the

upcoming independence referendum reaching boiling point after a day of arrests and raids spain's prime minister to abandon what he called an impossible dream. i'll respond cheval if their argument is that 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 of the met it is now no more than an impossible dream or what is wars' the xcuse that some seem to have found to deepen this bleed that they have provoked in the car the landfill sites it was meanwhile an eight hour standoff involving land between police and demonstrators and with offices abandoning attempts to enter the office of the region's pro

independence party apparently without an official warrant the readers president pilot recent news by spanish authorities as coordinated aggression and accused of putting in place a state of emergency in the region and look at the when you're stuck objective we do not get a catalan government has been subjected today to a coordinated aggression committed by the police forces directed by the spanish interior ministry the objective has been to 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 it 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 has put in place a state of emergency. following wednesday's crackdown forty thousand people gathered in powerful owner to protest local journalists collison

andress was there for us. we are in the center of the margins right now is taking place in the heart of arcelor not being good m.b.o. where thousands of the telephones are under streets you are invited to participate during these mourning because of the pressure of the national government we remember that this morning what do you mean started came in to different places around the city looking for information and people there are friendly that will take place first of all. they're citizens of barcelona reacted spontaneously to what they say is an attack to democracy under freedom of speech. i came here today because i was born on a council on my grandparents i catalans my languages the catalans and all that is

here in this land and today this land is attacked by all the democratic ways possible from the spanish states push me about it forty years ago we had a 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 we 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 join our side there were taken by asking for the right of voting on the referendum on the first of. madrid has used a range of measures in an attempt to stop the referendum from taking place it declared the upcoming vote and conducted numerous raids to seize pro referendum material currently more than seven hundred men under investigation over their support for the vote and most recently met with announced plans to take control of

catalonia as 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 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 are the military police for 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 a will not be able to come out unless the people suffering right now and in the

street allow them to come out and we are ski 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 you in other places in europe. donald trump's former campaign chair with wiretapped by the u.s. government both before and after the election c.n.n. is reporting and that's just six months after the president was mocked for claiming his resident was tapped welcome to obama tapped my phone i went population president dropped the in and has learned that investigators wiretapped former champ campaign chairman paul mayor ford under secret court order both before and after the twenty six thousand election. to recap in march the president tweeted that he had learned obama wiretapped trump tower c.n.n.

as this was done because his campaign was yet again suspected of quotes having ties with russia. former campaign chap. demanding the justice department immediately probe the obama administration's actions on. 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 man a fort 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 is 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 the time or as a candidate or against his campaign they can't talk about wiretapping or trumped scandals it up throwing russia in there somewhere the c.n.n. report suggests that data collected from spying on paul manna for 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 so. sandow on the alley of 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 man a 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 after this break. it's. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the senate it's full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really

packs a punch. is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of love redacted the night president of the world bank so take. me seriously send us an e-mail. what politicians to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want. to go on to be the slightly before. the more people. interested in the water.

welcome back to the program hollywood style morgan freeman has targeted russia in an unusual video in france suppose it 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 motherland plots of course for revenge then he sets his sights on his sworn enemy the united states glad i'm here to stand by and this is no movie script. the clip promotes the committee to investigate russia a new group created by artists but question marks are being raised over who's behind the project daniel hoare can this 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 a time of the creasing ted you and it is going to. be you conclusion america to make your. strange journey we suspect the truth playing a cia director at the center of a tense standoff between the usa and a hard line 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 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 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 speaking of patriots rob reiner has made it pretty clear what he himself thinks of donald trump supporters how do you explain the millions and millions of people who actually like would be here from donald trump and are taking messages and orders from us in the media by now what we do there are a lot of people who are racist are my guy position is clear here's another member of the committee a familiar face to those following the rush to 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 crime then spokes person downplayed the video noting actors can be misled by one side of me getting on media analyst line or 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 trumper 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 sons 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. at hollywood is far from the any top group clamping down on moscow as u.s. lawmakers issue the bill that could block russian protocol sense from being shown in the u.s. samir khan takes up the story. men mints 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 us back in january r.t. was singled out in an intelligence report which accused the network of trying to sway the us 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. each hour. it's also worth noting that there are several foreign governments who funded 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 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 experts 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's how 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 of figuring that the whole damn thing will get passed to members of congress don't read the bills and so. but it really could slip past most of the members completely. presumably they have staff people that read it better but they don't read it in obsession on capitol hill and in the mainstream media with with r t because argues it's active in our tears washed but also in this is very important because our t.

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 and it's costing a fortune they cannot stand competition in the area of ideas russia is not only the flavor of the month it's the flavor of the year you know there's an obsession there is the investigate russia committee or a bunch of hollywood liberals got together with a bunch of neo cons and are finding reds under our beds there's a hysteria going on in america i still would like to believe that the imagine. average american thinks it's absolutely no i hope it stays that way hopefully this will blow over at some point in the well what. the critically acclaimed netflix

drug drama narcos has crossed from fiction to a brutal reality after one of the location managers was shot dead in mexico the man had reportedly been scouting neither cations ahead of the show's me from colombia to mexico for its upcoming fourth season the victim was found dead in his bullet ridden call in a remote area which is said to have some of mexico's highest murder rates but it's not the only controversy the creators of the narcos have found themselves in. roberta 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 was on the streaming service of dangerous consequences if his demands weren't met the escobar family has had issues with the series before.

does he have any real experience in acting does he have any real experience in making transactions. and would never do to survive in the jungle with the columbia i have done that. i offered to provide them with the factual information from my point of view somebody who was there but they were not interested in that. about the round up of the news this hour don't forget you can find us all over

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right away we go to new york where emotions ran high today at the u.n. security council meeting where world leaders called for a more clear strategy on peacekeeping artie's trinity travel as reports today at a u.n. security council meeting the world leaders gather to discuss peacekeeping operations life's president pence reiterated a lot of what president trump said on tuesday pence called for reform of the united nations to be more efficient more effective accountable and credible he also said every mission must have an exit strategy and the united nations peacekeeping missions must adjust to progress and failure when a mission succeeds we should not prolong it. when a mission under performs we should restructure it and when a mission consistently fails to fulfill the mandates of this council we should end

the british prime minister theresa may also called on the un to establish a clear political strategy for resolving conflict because so often the council reaches deadlock and are unable to act she calls for better peacekeeping on the ground and when a certain standard is not and that there must be accountability meanwhile a day after president made his debut on the world stage and threatened to quote totally destroy north korea the iranian president hassan rouhani addressed the u.n. general assembly today and said trump's speech was quote ignorant absurd and hateful rhetoric he also said iran would not tolerate threats from anyone to go on we never condone tyranny and we always defend the voiceless we never threaten anyone but we do not tolerate threats from anyone and that our discourse is one of dignity and respect and we are unmoved by threats and intimidation and we believe in dialogue negotiation based on equal footing and mutual respect. and on the topic

of peace president met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas and said achieving peace between the israelis and palestinians may be quote the toughest deal of all that he's tried to negotiate but nonetheless his administration is working very hard for peace in the region they just want to thank you for all of the time all of the meetings all of the work she complex subject always been considered the toughest deal of all peace between israel and the palestinians to toughest of all but i think we have a very very good chance. to vote everything within within my heart and within my shoulder get the deal made and another meeting the president met with jordan's king abdullah and during the meeting trump held a relationship with jordan saying it has never quote been better than it is right now and praised king abdullah for taking in a large number of syrian refugees saying quote who knows what would happen without you reporting in new york one of the charges are today.