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a very warm welcome to our international just after nine pm this friday night here in moscow you know neal our top story this hour and we begin in syria where the russian defense ministry say its submarines have targeted al nusra terrorists in the province of. has been following developments for us from there. in the mediterranean. which is the domain of. syria they targeted various.

terrorist strongholds the troops and even vehicles to various surveillance. drones one of the targets intended to be struck struck it isn't by coincidence that the russians chose to shrike. about the rebels headed by. the syrian government in northern how mona twenty kilometer wide front and trapped in it was a unit of russian military police twenty nine strong they were then a deescalation. shouldn't have been happening at dool they were surrounded and for many hours the. special forces unit was scrambled to help them to break through to them and evacuate them the operation was successful offensive itself has been stalled they managed to penetrate twelve kilometers into government territory but almost everything they took his being retaken huge

casualties as well we had a few days ago about eleven tanks lost. and dozens of vehicles. and eight hundred and fifty apparently killed. and just what is helping in some sort of context almost ninety percent of syria's territory is now liberated from islamic state figures we have received from the russian defense ministry in the ongoing battle against the terrorists since the beginning of the campaign two years ago russian forces have killed more than fifty terrorists rushed. fighter jets have conducted double figure interest strikes during over thirty thousand flights to eliminate terrorism in syria one of the country's main bottles is now in dairies or were you just saw a correspondent speaking from where syrian troops backed by a mosque or trying to get rid of remaining pockets of us are indeed travel to the

city to talk to people who live there for three years under siege. have no money to buy food for my children i've only been able to feed them properly once in the last few months shell exploded in killed many innocent people including children the result has been soaked in blood and. i would play with them i would push them and i was like a mother and a father took them but only both died. when i went outside the floor good and that simple my mother she was sick she had a strong kind of heart attack when i went out 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. being given no explanations why the us inside career are refusing to follow it and china is suggesting to freeze their military drills as a step towards resolving the north korean nuclear crisis that's according to foreign minister sergei lavrov food just a short time ago finished his media conference at the u.n. general assembly well for more on all this we can force live in york kaleb we were both just listening in that one of the first things we saw the foreign minister say was that war on the korean peninsula is all except well what else do you have to say in the fifteen minute talk. while the russian foreign minister was

taking questions from reporters at the u.n. headquarters in the press briefing room and he touched quite a bit on the crisis on the korean peninsula one of the main thrusts of his comments was that there should be a rational solution and that the kind of heated dialogue we've been hearing from the united states and from korean leaders is not going to solve the crisis he directly spoke about the need for for rational words to be used for diplomacy this is a lab or of addressing the crisis on the korean peninsula sudha the as i said at the general assembly each and every one of the u.n. security council resolutions it far from sanctions they have a clause on the need for a political process i western colleagues when they refuse to work along these lines they're not fulfilling their obligations which we're undertaking during this you go of the u.n. security council resolutions together with our colleagues will continue to strive for the reasonable and not the emotional approach instead of the kindergarten fight

between children and no one can stop them. now one thing that was raised is that from the beginning of the crisis russia and china have had a joint proposal for what they call a double freeze they've called for south korea to end its provocative military exercises and in exchange north korea would end its nuclear proliferation and its provocative missile tests this proposal from russia and china seems pretty straightforward both sides need to just stop being provocative everyone goes back to the negotiating table but no one seems to be taking that proposal seriously now later in the press conference was asked about the iran nuclear deal and he said that russia stands fully in support of keeping the iran nuclear deal intact and said that it's actually particularly relevant to the crisis in korea that if if the iran nuclear deal were be to be abandoned u.s. leaders were to were to change or pull back on the nuclear deal north korea could

look at that and say look the united states is not keeping agreements that it has made and it could have a negative impact on a diplomatic solution for the korean crisis so a lot of interesting comments from surrogate lab rob but specifically talking about the korean crisis he was saying people need to be mature and they need to focus on diplomatic solutions and not the intensification we've been seeing you know the media come from the united nations general assembly which happened within the past hour kill a bug and bring us right up to date with the main points from it from new york thank you. let's move on to lumia worth gathered outside a court in barcelona demanding the release of a dozen regional officials now they were arrested by sponsorship authorities in a kruk done against the region's upcoming independence vote which madrid brown's legal you should look back at the events surrounding the council on referendum.

it's legally legitimate for a thousand year old nation the likelihoods of that's lonia referendum will be held on sunday the first of the time. i've got it. it's just us that has the problems in this case and spanish justice and not the some one hundred twelve my ass thank you. i get this aggression is outside of the law it damages the states of law and all of the constitutional guarantees thank. this referendum can be over noise it was never legal all it gets moved with

the i i. was we took a chance to hear differing opinions on the issue from a political analyst from madrid on a pro independence activist from barcelona. the referendum it's our legal it's against the law. of the of the regional law that is suspended by the highest court in a spain it was. young was the only of the house of the original parliament some of the terminations democracy is legal we have voted with absolute majority of the members of our parliament and if they have a problem with democracy they will have to justify it to international community because this madness natale government members are being arrested private

people that they all know where house they are being arrested and then being questioned is here not only against the spanish law on the european revolutions it's even against the. most important things right now. they have to restore their order their under law in dr ian. 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 selling their things and their business is the rest of the country so. business in catalonia without the rest of the country they are they all can do anything so that is an important thing and madrid is not forcing anything catalonia is a dynamic contrie with. gives and net result to the

european europe we are not defeated to terri and we are once a most exploited and i want to receive the most the international investment. there is no compromise on the referendum they have to drop that idea and to leave the referendum back because that. he's not going anywhere and only as a nation he was all. three kind to. go they didn't they got it when they owe us and we are just correcting we're just amending that mistake well it is little surprise catalonia has bid for freedom has the backing of a number of other regions in europe where talk of secession is strong one of which is 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 if they have to tell me nation is an important international principle and

i who 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 of council want to go and stand with them on the basis of fundamental democratic values we believe that whatever your views are on the indian independence the catalonian people themselves should be the ones who have the big to choose the future course of the country i feel very 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 they demonstrate in favor of the government process 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 well in fact catalonia has pushed for independence was very much encouraged by scotland's only attempt to go it alone it held a referendum back in twenty fourteen but fifty five percent voted against leaving the u.k. however following the break said vote of twenty six thing 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 castle me and calls for independence with columnist leslie. for the catalans and for the skulls the case that's being made as an aspiring thing these are nations who want to become states now do you tend to think as an onlooker what else can the catalans do if their attempt to event haven't vote is resulting in such heavy handed approaches so it looks like it will be in practical terms it may be impossible to hold but the question is what next. facebook has agreed to release to congress data allegedly bought by russian that's amid the ongoing investigation into moscow's alleged interference in the twenty 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 counseling to russia and 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 or facebook claims it's this covered three thousand paid for political ads that could have links to russia they cost a hundred thousand dollars in total and were bought between twenty fifteen this year the company all the purchased advertisement are linked to quote in authentic icons now the kremlin has reacted to facebook's move saying it has never placed any

political ads on the social network. meanwhile told trump has reacted on swift her seeing the accusations of moscow meddling in u.s. elections are just quote a hoax we discuss the latest with the funder of the on scene encrypted server chris . well they're running out of time they can't prove anything that russia did anything bad 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 a 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 as 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. with a german general election just a run the corner politicians are busy making a last push in their campaigns friend of merkel it's been a particularly tough day those are speech was greeted with whistles and. made it sound even standards now even handed out you know fun flaunts chinese does your dad die in the region drink on wednesday do you know i am. evil deeds guns guns was not in this place and john. was sitting on see is. any undermines. kids who comes down it's none this father no mother. the child is no good. to close down it's not and the shi'a

nist has started to. chelsea and mentioning it there too well merkel's main rival martin schulz also held a rally today in berlin let's join artie's done a hawkins live in the german capital now. done yet almost time to go to the polls of the candidates been using their last day of electioneering that. all that's right so you know it's been a fun live campaigning here in germany love the country before the day of silence marco is way ahead in the polls she's got her on a fourteen or fifteen point lead over her closest rivals the social democrats has not been easy on the ground as we heard earlier although really an even encounters with vegetables being thrown become rather a regular occurrence for her recent campaign trail. was the you on the.

moon a dish easy to see why does she did she. not really shine star of the fierce fighting kids i'm sure you know unite the. well there was no such strong emotion at the rally just those strong emotions at the rally just here behind me just concluded the martin schultz social democrat rally while michael called for unity and told the crowds how good germany has a muscle shoals plate news from called the social reform tax. income tax reform increased school funding secure pensions i don't see gender pay parity taking a swipe at the charts perceived connectivity to tackle that particular issue take a listen. going to americans are going to michael says we invest enough she says we

don't need to invest any more in schools we don't have enough they can't places we should buy one million elementary schools me i'm nothing different to women unless the men in this country and i'm sick and tired of acceptance have been woman at the helm of this country when it doesn't care about. a little too late for schultz just a few months ago he was viewed as real opposition to the real chance for change in germany but since then his campaign really has fizzled and so have his figures in the polls it was always going to be hard for him given that he was playing the figure of an opposition leader at the same time the leader of part of it was in coalition government and to many voters that means his campaign lacked any real power trying to sit on two stools play two different roles in a balancing act if you have it now within two days of course we'll find out of schultz manages to harness some of that frustration and resentment towards. some voters and turn it into votes or if we'll have more of the same of course merkel

has soared in the polls. or perhaps we'll see you coalition in the. there's no to go now for you the latest. comment more of the yeah there have been a lot of claims on the other was a lackluster campaign let's see will it pushed into action this week in hawkins life from the german capital for us. third place seems to be the real battle as dan was just alluding to there at the end raging between the anti immigration alternative for germany. or the left or to peter all over visited today. in berlin. my point is. basically. because i want change in germany because we had twelve years of economic rule and i think it's time for a new party to get into a position of power. that

can be there is. able to make. the future and more steps into the rights which were doing at the moment i'm afraid to talk a little bit about who the left. on the left side of the political spectrum here is their name suggests they're campaigning on this election in the minimum wage for. the major cities across the country also they want to see. more investment in health care and the dissolution. strongly against that. they also want to see higher taxes a tax rate of seventy five percent. being one of those that's caused some controversy as being one of the candidates for.

controversy suggesting the wall was a necessary evil also her views when it comes to refugees and migrants. receive a cream pie in the face from some of her party members or some of those that support the party anyway who say that she was too critical and even closer to the populist alternative for deutschland. policies when it came to refugees we spoke to the noise he's a senior member about where they stand on the refugee crisis and what caused it in their opinion. in twenty six tino washington university study revealed that most refugees coming to europe originated from countries that were bombed the second group is economic refugees when the west destroys other economies which are not competitive we then demand free trade and say we want to sell our goods there and if the economy turns to ruins we don't care

about it us certainly coalition with angela merkel is off the table the chancellor saying that she wasn't interested in any potential coalition with the left all the right wing alternative for germany so they could well be the third party and but they all certainly set to be the left wing opposition to whoever forms the next government here in germany. a lot of questions a lot of things to play out in germany on tomorrow saturday we start our special coverage of the german election twenty seven to.

go back to the u.s. now where a black woman from texas who criticized the sale of cotton decorations for being racially insensitive has faced the backlash online down the aisle writer wrote this facebook post after seeing roll call being sold as a decoration in a high street store she complained that cotton represents the hardship of african american slaves on should therefore be removed from sale however her post sparked such a strong reaction she blocked her social media account. what is really wrong with my post is the reaction that is receiving from across the nation i have to. because my facebook page has turned into a. feeling of burning racism. a group of black students also find offense when similar cotton decorations are used as a table centerpiece dinner hosted by the university's president he later apologized

for the incident saying he should have been where sensitive although that's got many questioning just how far a fence can go. you know slaves are a lot of different things. pete and. greens mostly greens the whole thing is just silly because if you follow that chain of thought then everything that you pretty much use on daily basis would not be able to be using the more if you're a white person you know these days you get called a racist as were being called a murderer anything goes average a black person is just being honest the body is really silly is just

a flower is not anything but i think his race is av a high bar for actually being a racist if you are using racial slurs or you try to deprive someone of opportunity i think that americans need to kind of up our bar as well because it a racist in that received. by hurricanes harvey the americas are not suffering the terrifying effects of a new storm the high winds and driving rain of hurricane maria already borrowing the islands of puerto rico. the strongest hurricane to hit the territory in eighty years it's already left. dozens more injured hundreds of high schools destroyed the turks on k. cos islands on the bahamas are expected to be next in line however maria has now we

can to make two storms so there is hope that it will disperse a little bit well with one hurricane following on the heels of another people are coming up with some rather surprising explanations from politics to divine intervention or to your account has been keeping abreast of some of those. 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 misused 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 p.r.c.

to resist trump and he's caught manipulating racist administration javi 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 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. feel mother nature's rage ralph 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 calm a pretty.