the real. is. what i did was on the tomb of legal drugs. just because some things leak. russian submarines fire rockets at all knows there are terrorist positions and western syria the russian defense ministry says all targets were hit. north korea threatens to test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific just hours after washington flopped the state with yet more sanctions. thousands gather in barcelona demanding the release of a dozen regional officials arrested by spanish authorities madrid called catalonia the upcoming independence referendum illegal. with the joy of the elections just around the corner signs of outside meddling have been revealed not coming from

russia as everyone had been predicting but from america's all trite. it's just turned four pm here in the russian capital i'm just coming to you live from r t h q thanks for joining me. we start in syria where the russian defense ministry says it submarines have targeted a terrorist in the province of idlib artie's women cossar of its following the developments for us submarine of the russian black sea fleet which is currently stationed this part of the naval group in the mediterranean shots caliber cruise missiles towards terrorists or gets into syria according to russian defense ministry also argues that they have been destroyed and among those are terrorists command posts training bases weapons storage facilities armored vehicles and of

course military power as well now all of those have been destroyed now defensive ministry stresses that some of the targets had been those militants. who ambushed its twenty nine a russian military police personnel in the province on no wednesday now the russians were heavily outnumbered by that but despite that they were able to fight back and the russians have not lost any matter whatsoever but three of those men have been injured so you could say that's a couple of days later after that ambush a russian defense ministry came out with this so-called vengeance. almost ninety percent of syria's territory is now liberated from islamic state this is the latest figure from the russian defense ministry on the ongoing battle against the terrorists since the beginning of their campaign two years ago russian air forces

have killed more than fifty thousand terrorists russian fighter jets have conducted almost one hundred thousand air strikes during over thirty thousand flights to eliminate terrorism in syria one of the country's main battles is now embarrass or where syrian troops backed by moscow are trying to get rid of the remaining pockets of the hottest are to travel to the city to talk to people who live there for three years under eisel siege. have no money to buy food for my children i've only been able to feed them properly months in the last few months shell exploded and killed many innocent people including children has been soaked in blood. that i would play with them i would push them and trust them i was like a mother and a father to go but only because she died. when

i went outside to buy food and that's it for my mother she was sick she had a stool going to heart attack when i was injured. what can i do now i used to do all the housework and stand in line to buy food now i can only see and cry. north korea has threatened to test a powerful nuclear weapon in the pacific ocean saying it would be a response to escalating saber rattling by washington the north korean foreign minister says it could be them. most powerful detonation of a hydrogen bomb the pacific region has ever seen he added that the final decision had not yet been made and will come from the country's leader to pan says it's bracing for the possible launch as its defense minister warned the device could fly

over the country's territory the north announcement came just hours after donald trump promised a new round of economic sanctions against pyongyang however the russian foreign minister speaking at the u.n. general assembly stressed that sanctions are just quote provisions to return to the negotiating table and am announcing a new executive order just signed. that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals companies financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea the other than the ones who we strongly condemn the rockets and nucular adventurism of pyongyang in violation of un security council resolutions but the pressure of military history is not just a dead end in the destructive path there is no doubt at all resolutions of the un security council should be fulfilled day long with sanctions continued provisions for the need to return to the gauche asians we call for

a halt to the blocking of these provisions of the fresh threats came amid a round of name calling between washington n.p.r. news donald trump took to twitter branding kim jong un quote a madman that's after the north korean leader slammed trump as mentally deranged adding he was not a politician but a rogue and a gangster. bear in mind that a few days ago at the u.n. general assembly trump also threatened to quote totally destroy north korea but as kayla martin explains the u.s. president appears to be turning off world leaders with his hawkish words as world leaders gathered for the united nations general assembly the united states seems to be out there on their own when it comes to the iran nuclear deal donald trump called it one of the worst and most one sided transactions that the united states has ever entered into france sees things differently. i would like to defend the nuclear agreement with iran already gauge went on nonproliferation allowed us to

work out on the fourteenth of july two thousand and fifteen a solid robust and verifiable agreement that enables us to ensure that iran does not obtain nuclear weapons renouncing it would be a great this could apply to north korea to immediately dialogue control and multilateralism these are the efficient weapons this is the only way forward meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov stressed the need for diplomacy on north korea instead of the pressure and threats we've been hearing from the troubled ministration they will be met with fire fury things will happen like they never thought possible we heard the foreign minister of germany slammed trump for is national ego and warned against pursuing the interests of just one country you know the country needs to more national compensation and less prosperity and there will be losers. looking around the world today it seems now will be which puts one's own national interests first and is no longer engaged in

the balancing of winches between nations and countries of this world is even more. national and is worthless as a true principle. for this world views describes the world isn't a rino economy around which everyone is fighting against everyone else and which everyone has their own and. united states likes to present itself as the leader of the free world but if you look at this year's general assembly speeches it seems like the free world is a little bit reluctant to follow washington's lead kaleb mop and r.t. new york. the u.s. representative to the un nikki haley has admitted washington always puts america's interests before other nations but global policy expert georgism only leaves such exceptionalism is doomed to failure first let's take a listen to what haley had to say it has never moved the u.s. to care about what other countries say what does move the president is are we doing

everything in the best interest security interest for the american people saying what she said she's expressing a kind of us our egos in which you guys just say it's just does whatever it feels like doing it it will not be restrained by any forces at all of course this is completely idiotic because you guys it just is simply isn't strong enough big enough to be able to have its own way on everything international cooperation requires everybody to be on the same page and work on the same script and try to achieve the same objectives. to catalonia now where thousands have gathered outside a court in barcelona demanding the release of a dozen regional officials they were arrested by spanish authorities in a crackdown against the region's upcoming independence vote which madrid brands as illegal here's a look back at the events surrounding the cattle and referendum. is

legally legitimate for a thousand year old nation like this of catalonia that referendum will be held on sunday the first of october. i think. it's just as the house the problem in this case it's spanish justice and not the some one hundred twelve minus i. disagree is outside of the law it damages the states of law and all of the constitutional guarantees. i. this referendum can be organized it was never legal all legitimate i.

i. i. i earlier we heard differing opinions on the issue from a political analyst from madrid and a pro independence activist from barcelona. they store a friend them it's our league out it's against the law. of the of their regional law that is suspended by the highest court in a spain it was. young was there all of the house of their original parliament some of the terminations democracy is legal we have voted with absolute in my journey to of the members of our parliament and if they have a problem with democracy they will have to justify it to international community because he said magnus natale government numbers being

a rest that private people that they all know where house there is being a rest that and that being quest is here not only against this funny issue all on their being relations it's even against the. most important things right now out of there they have to restore. they are all over the law. we're not going to step back we will talk with all the international committee. with which we already have thousands of treaties the main places that they are certainly in the things and their business is the rest of the country so. business in catalonia without the rest of the country they are they have can do anything so that is an important thing and margaret is not forcing anything catalonia is a dynamic can treat with gives

a net result to the european and europe we are not different to terry and we are the ones of most exports and the ones i receive the most their international investment. there is no compromise on the river and when they have to drop that idea and to leave the referendum back because that the river and is not going anywhere that's a known as a nation he was all. three hundred years ago they did on the legality when they occupied us and we are just correcting we're just amending that mistake. it's little surprise catalonia bid for freedom has the backing of a number of other regions in europe where talk of secession a strong one of which is of course scotland i think is of concern anywhere is for a state to seek to deny the rate of people to democratically express their will at the rate of self-determination is an important international principle and i hope

very much that it will be respected in catalonia and if we did a survey and there's a chance for glaswegians to stand with the people council want to go and stand with them on the basis of fundamental democratic values we believe that whatever your views are on catalan independence because a winning people themselves should be the ones who have the big. the future course of the country i feel barry proud and that's well very moved to see scottish people especially glaswegian people have been living glasgow now for a year to see that be the one state in favor of the government brushes that we're leaving that we should we shall have a referendum we will cover it for in the and that we will we will vote for you i'm very moved to saying that. in fact catalonia is push for independence was very much encouraged by scotland's own attempt to go it alone it held the referendum back in two thousand and fourteen but fifty five percent voted against leaving the u.k. however following the braggs a vote of two thousand and sixteen when

a majority of scots went against the national decision to leave the e.u. talk of a new referendum emerged again we discussed both scottish and catalonia calls for independence with combest leslie riddick for the cash nuns and for the scots the case is being made as an aspiring saying these are nations who want to become state . you tend to think is it on what else can the catalans do if their attempt to even have a vote is resulting in such heavy handed approach is so it looks like it will be in practical terms it may be impossible to hold but the question is what next. with the german general election only two days away news outlets are doubling it one of the most boring campaigns in memory especially after the fireworks of the vicious french campaign just months ago by many were waiting for reports of russian meddling to emerge just to spice things up peter all over picks up the story. we're

into the final stages of this german federal election but one question keeps popping up with the question suppose to interfere in this. expectations that russia would try and meddle in the german vote half and being met but that doesn't mean that there hasn't been interference the house just hasn't come from moscow german researchers say they've tracked down online trolls who've been posting attacks against angle or merkel and other leading german candidates while putting online and promoting support for the anti immigration alternative for germany party

a lot of the stuff we're seen in germany can be or at least inspired by the right movements in the us the german cabinet meets every wednesday morning just behind me and after this week's meeting the interior minister came out and sounded almost disappointed that they haven't uncovered a russian plot to the ferrous the fiddle in this year's federal elections. we don't see that putin has meddled in the election campaign maybe they didn't try maybe it's still common sense mr dunne is the seems to think that an attack is possible perhaps he should look into the german government's own election software since it apparently only took one. not too long to find holes in it. we have found several fundamental errors in the p.c. will software had tasted full through july twenty seven c. including insufficient protection of the service and lack of encryption the transmitted results the weaknesses and now influence an election results in various

attacks and are issues with fewer than two days to go before polls open fear mongering over a russian hacker if the election come to nothing perhaps with this election being something of a foregone conclusion it's no wonder that we've seen conspiracies and fantasies about foreign intervention and interference being a little more interesting and more exciting to pitch than talking about the race itself peter all of her off to you the. latest polls show that two party is angela merkel's c.d.u. and martin schultz s.p.d. lead the race however third place could play kingmaker should there be a minority minority government currently predicted to edge that spot is alternative for germany or a f.t. known for its strict anti immigration policy is we discuss the f.t. and many other issues and an exclusive interview with the german foreign minister sigler gabriel you can watch the full version on r.t.

dot com but here's a quick preview. mr gabrielle first played thank you for one ring ounce by agreeing for a second interview agreeing for a second interview is a big honor according to that spiegel yes that's how we would like to thank you can we take it as a step towards a tongue tie between germany and russia. the fact that i'm giving you an interview no i think we should get accustomed to having more media outlets covering german politics we also communicate with turkish channels and newspapers in germany many people watch russian channels so of course we should pay some attention to them to make sure german policies are expressed in their content i'm convinced that we do need a new day terms with russia despite some very complicated disputes of the crimea and the situation in ukraine we can't tackle global problems without working with russia. facebook will help the u.s. with its probe into suppose and russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen

election that story and more after a short break. that will block selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battle. to stop the spread of tell you the public gossiping about. advertising. and i like. that we are on the. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice so the biggest raid in truth to stand the news business you just need dance the right questions demand the right

answer. questions. come back facebook has agreed to release to congress data about ads allegedly bought by russia that's amid the ongoing investigation into moscow's alleged interference and the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election we are actively working with the u.s. government on its ongoing investigations into russian interference we've been investigating this for many months now and for a while we had found no evidence of fake accounts link to russians to russia running ads and when we recently uncovered this activity we provided that information to the special counsel we also briefed congress and this morning i

directed our team to provide the ads we've found to congress as well we may not always be able to share all of our findings publicly but we support congress in deciding how to best use this information to inform the public and we expect the government to publish its findings when their investigation is complete. facebook claims it's discovered three thousand paid for political ads that could have links to russia they cost one hundred thousand dollars in total and were bought between two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and seventeen the company ads all the purchased advertisements are linked to quote in authentic accounts the kremlin has reacted to facebook's move saying it has never placed any political ads on the social network meanwhile double trump has reacted on twitter saying the accusations of moscow meddling in u.s. elections are just quote a hoax we discussed the latest with the founder of the unseen encrypted server chris kits. well they're running out of time they can't prove anything that russia

did anything with the with the american election so they're obviously trying to you know put some news out there to make to try and keep the story alive well they're contributing to the russian hysteria there you know there's two sides to this there's president trump and then there are the other people and the other people lost power they were surprised they lost the election and now what they're trying to do is get back at president trump it's just that simple and what's happening now is they're finding that their whole russian story fell apart right in front of their eyes because there was nothing there and now they're trying this so it's going to be it's another bit of nothing they may try and use this is a way to try and regulate people like matt drudge or other with news websites to say well you're accepting ads from you know potentially from foreign people but you know there's no way that a news website really even knows who the advertisers are. battered by hurricanes harvey and irma americans are now suffering the terrifying effects of

a new storm the high winds and driving rain of hurricane maria are already already barreling the islands of puerto rico. marias the strongest hurricane to hit the territory in eighty years and has already left one thousand dead and dozens injured with hundreds of households destroyed the turks and caicos islands and the bahamas are expected to be next in line however maria has now weakened to a category two storm. and with one hurricane following on the heels of another people are coming up with some rather surprising explanations from bad politics to divine intervention artists american reports with natural disasters ravaging entire cities and driving millions from their homes some see them as a form of divine punishment i'm looking at all those and i'm saying here's

a city that has boasted of its l g b t devotion its affinity for the sexual perversion movement in america they're under water and most americans repent and this used to repent unless new orleans repent they will likewise perish that's the message that the lord jesus christ is sending home right now but if you don't buy into the divine punishment idea what about the blame trump theory and see fall stands with b.o.c. to resist trump and he's caught in the manipulative racist administration how the whole say and katia i blame triumph of this heart of the government will manipulate the weather to exterminate blacks even if they have to queue whites some hollywood celebrities have turned that around suggesting that mother nature has an axe to grind with trouble that climate change is due to human activity and we continue to ignore it and the only voice that we really have is through voting. so.

we voted and it was really startling. me watching these hurricanes now and it's really hard especially while promoting this movie not to not to feel mother nature is. rage around celebrities love making outrageous claims for attention but that's hardly what you'd expect from a respected academic i don't believe in instant comma but it kind of feels like it for texas i guess since we're a red state we deserve some bad karma too right yeah those you voted for him he deserve it as well can story a sociology professor was fired for tweeting that texans deserved hurricane harvey because they voted for donald trump and guess who else believes hurricanes and earthquakes are divine punishment. the islamic state well i just think it's absolutely ridiculous i mean anybody who thinks that a hyper active hurricane season is anything new doesn't know how to do minor

historical research i think there's been a growing trend i've noticed at least in america that this belief that whatever you like or think or believe that you automatically hate the opposite entirely you're either this half or you're this half and you two are supposed to hate one another and so now we're at a point where no matter what anybody believes or says even if it's a joke they're demonized by an entire group now it seems that when it comes to natural disasters rationality and common sense can be overridden so long as it serves their political agenda. don't forget you can find us all over social media facebook twitter you tube and of course our website our team dot com i'll be back at the top the hour with more today's headlines.

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