the. heavily outnumbered group of russian military police repel a surprise attack by al nusra terrorists in syria. thousands take to the streets of boston learned to show their support for the upcoming referendum that madrid slams the region for independence is nothing but a dream. dream. i am. i am. and c.n.n. is reporting that 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 welcome to the program a small group of russian military police stationed in syria have been caught in a terror ambush according to the ministry of defense in russia the russian troops managed to repel loudness from militants despite being surrounded and heavily outnumbered and this is. the latest video of russian strikes targeting al nusra 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. 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 nevertheless 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military police units are said to have withdrawn without casualties the syrian military has gone on the counterattack supported by the russian air force as well as the syrian air force they say they've killed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 in there is still where 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 two nearby villages have also been liberated these are the latest updates from the russian defense ministry and it's also said some parts of the opposition syrian democratic forces are on their way to terrorists or to join i saw the talons according to the ministry syrian government troops have been targeted twice from the area controlled by the s.d.s. and the u.s. led coalition. to catalonia now where

tensions over the upcoming independence referendum are reaching boiling point after day of a wrestler a spain's prime minister urged catalyst to abandon what he called an impossible dream i'll respond chambliss their argument only those in charge of the catalan government who will be pretty hard nosed in this challenge to our current systems on all seem to cease in the illegal activities they should abandon their objectives they now know that this referendum can be organize it was never legal or legitimate it is now no more than an impossible dream or what is worse the excuse that some seem to have found to deepen the splits that they have provoked in catalan society . i. was i mean while an eight hour

standoff involves the line of between police and demonstrators ended with offices abandoning at times to enter the office of the region's pro independence party apparently without an official warrant the region's president branded recent news by spanish authorities as coordinated aggression and accuse madrid of putting in place a state of emergency in the region. got a look at the moon your car stopped objective we do not going to cattle and government has been subjected today to a cooling. it's an aggression committed by the police forces directed by the spanish interior ministry the objective has been to stop the cattle and 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 has put in place a state of emergency. following wednesday's crackdown forty thousand people

gathered on path around a to protest local journalist. was there for us. we are in the center of the matter right now is taking place in the heart of arcelor not think it and be aware of thousands of cattle and car on the streets you are invited to participate during these mourning because of the pressure of the national government we remember that these morning what has to be the status to came in to different places around the city looking for information and people there are friendly that will take place the first of october. tenth of barcelona as a reaction spontaneously to what they say is an attack to their modesty and a freedom of speech. i came here today because i was born on a council on my grandparents i catalans my language is the catalan 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 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 saw the news so we left everything and came here i think it is a really important moment and we should be here in the streets we're sending a peaceful message and we need to express ourselves other cities like jews are on our side they were taken by sea the sense asking for the right of voting on the referendum no affairs. where it is used a range of measures in an attempt to stop the referendum from taking place it declared the upcoming vote illegal and conducted room is raised to seize pro referendum material currently more than seven hundred men surrender investigation

over their support for the vote and most recently madrid's announced plans to take control of catalonia as budget in order to ensure money won't be spent on the referendum purposes. a member of the barcelona city council believes the international community should be stepping in to prevent trade and peace in the region they don't want to latest 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 the block recy this is actually a state of exception we are 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 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 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 you in other places in europe. donald trump's former campaign chair was wiretapped by the u.s. government both before and after the election c.n.n. is reporting and that is just six months after the president was mocked for claiming his residence was tapped welcome to obama tapped my phone ireland population president trump c.n.n. 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. to recap in march the president tweeted that he had learned obama wiretapped him at trump tower c.n.n. as this was done because his campaign was yet again suspected of quote having ties with russia. form a campaign chat poem on the phone it's not demanding the justice department immediately probe the obama administration's actions. 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 looked at the time or as a candidate or against his campaign they can't talk about wiretapping or trump scandals without drawing 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 war in madly the story would. 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 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. artsy new york hollywood looks to crack down on russia after this break. local was telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken

hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw the president tell you that will be gossiping publicly. off the bat as he tells me you are not cool enough to buy their product. that we already know what. german interests and european interests are really deeply intertwined with each other i think. the world's. thinking of. having interests silly opposed to those of other nations to one side has to work with the opposite. that's really exactly the world. today it isn't relevant to the .

welcome back to the program hollywood style morgan freeman has targeted russia in an unusual video over its suppose it meddling in the us 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 in the united states glad i'm here to stand by and this is no movie script. the clip from the committee to investigate russia and ukraine created by a lot has been question marks are being raised over who is behind the project daniel hawkins takes a closer look. hollywood legend morgan freeman is those stranger to dramatic movie scripts like this one welcome to the cia support at

a time of the crew sometimes you do it and it is gone. because you're going to go america to fight each other. it's truly just 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 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 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 and the media how do you explain that what we do there are a lot of people who are racist my guy position is clear here's another member of the committee a familiar face to those following the russia u.s. 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 are 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 and spokesperson downplayed the video noting actors can be misled over once actually going on media analyst lionel wanted some context to this 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 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 ne tom clamping down on moscow as u.s. lawmakers issued a bill that could block russian broadcasters from being distributed in the us it could have my us distributors to break that contract leaving question channels without any legal recourse samir khan takes up the story it's in my. it 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 u.s. to 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 the mayor pointed out the amendment is part of the national defense authorization act but the

bombshell plan is buried deep inside for multi page document the part about russia's summarized in just a few lines between details on funding of the u.s. 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 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 as an obsession on capitol hill and in the mainstream media with with r t because argues it's active in our two

years watched but also in this is very important because our tea 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 our t. 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's 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. it's absolutely not i hope it stays that way hopefully this will blow over at some point

in the article what. the critically acclaimed drug gang drama narcos has crossed from fiction to brutal reality after one of the location managers for its produces netflix was shot dead in mexico the man had reportedly been scouting new locations ahead of the show's move from colombia to mexico for its upcoming fourth season the victim was found dead in his bullet ridden car in a remote area which is said to have some of mexico's highest murder rates but it's not only the only controversy the creators of narcos 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 warned netflix of quote dangerous consequences if his demands weren't met the escobar family has had issues with to see these before.

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welcome to well to party germany goes to the polls next sunday in the elections that most probably won't change much and yet mean a whole lot and that's because the country which was once blamed for destroying europe is now tasked with saving it how well are they john months coping in balancing their guilt for europe's past with the sounds of responsibility for its future well to discuss that i'm now joined by harold james professor of history and international affairs at princeton university professor james it's great to talk to you again thank you very much for your time well it's really it's very good to be with the orks on this now this sunday elections are not expected to change the direction of germany to quite the same extent that the votes in the u.k. with the united states last year changed the political trajectory of those countries i think it's almost certain that i go america a real remain chancellor for yet another term and yet i think there's a perception both in the west that there's some extent here and in russia that these vote is hugely important do you share that perception is

a very important if people have been waiting for a long time to fix the bits of the european architecture and the story has always been there waiting for the job and elections and so in that sense having these elections since it's going to put a final bit of the puzzle into place and i think there will be quite dramatic move to reform in europe and the wrinkle it is i think is that although as you say it's very very very likely that mrs merkel as party will be the largest party it's not completely clear who the coalition partner would be the future for germany and for europe would look very very different if it were a continuation of the great coalition that you have at the moment the s.p.d. the search for democrats and the christian democrats to cover or if mrs merkel has to find and a new coalition partner now i spend the last few days among. ones living in the

united states and when you discuss elections for them two names invariably come up one is trump. honestly speaking most germans are repulsed by him second is america and here the situation is interesting because on the one hand many people support her and they say they are going to vote for her but on the other hand there is a sense of drudgery and some an exciting familiarity associated with her and i want to if that's the consequence of the chum phenomenon when the safe some would say boring option seems attractive once again i don't know i mean i think you're right in terms of the end of last year there was a lot of thinking that mrs merkel had run out of steam and that. really wasn't very much of a future for her. but this year has been.