thank. you very much. exclusive video from syria's daryn's or our correspondent takes you to the heart of the decisive battle for the country's future amid claims that some forces are exploiting the games plus. happening right now in barcelona these are live pictures from the catalonia regions capital another well attended rally against the national government's attempts to quash this sunday's planned independence referendum. u.s. officials backtracked on claims that russian hackers targeted voting systems in the state of wisconsin admitting there is no evidence. i am hoping to capitalize on the

korea crisis the japanese prime minister calls a snap election triggering protests in tokyo. this is our to international coming to you live from moscow with me jacqueline booga thank you for joining us this hour. first syria's ambassador to the u.n. has accused the u.s. of trying to take credit for the operation to retake the city of bears or from eisel. the u.s. coalition and rebel militias they support halted their operation in iraq which was a stronghold of eisel and through their forces behind trying to push the syrian army out of the areas or as if the americans were competing with the syrian government over control of the areas or instead of fighting ice and rock. the remaining terrorists and areas or are now surrounded by both the syrian army and

u.s. backed kurdish forces our correspondent ryan goes they have is in the city. the siege may have been lifted but it's not over yet isis holds out in parts of that as sort of not for a long. day and night battles rage around the city the jihad ists the throwing everything they have into the fight. every day there is combat they'll use heavy weapons from range although trying to infiltrate in the middle of the night. attack with suicide vests and car bombs the battle goes on every day but the tables have turned it is isis now that is surrounded and slowly being squeezed out. we're it's a syrian artillery position overlooking the industrial city the industrial corridor of their resort for supporting troops that are staging the offensive down there an

offensive that began earlier this morning with a barrel of airstrikes but the battle is said to be fierce with isis giving no quarter from here syrian spotters watch for isis fighters from above this is why height is so important in war better vantage and better. and this range you can't really miss a lot with hillary. he gets a verified and confirmed in real time it was at this exact spot as nest that a russian lieutenant general advised syrian offices fifteen minutes before his death he was killed several days ago by an isis shell just a few hundred meters from here.

isis fired back as we filmed shells began falling all around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept firing. will be liberated in a week at the most and will free some of the suburbs to. the cost will undoubtedly be high it's a challenging battleground from dense urban areas to lush river banks and even trenches. the euphrates is both a blessing and a curse isis still uses the waterways to move men. and even launch surprise attacks. this bunker is manned during the night because the tower across the river belongs to eisele for three long years captain he bring in the squad has bled and died in the trenches along the euphrates sacrifice not enough to break

the law stalemate that's now everything changed now that we need more i guess. from the resort of syria. after three years of terrorist siege many people in tears or are in desperate need of medical help this is the only hospital in the city that's working and as you can see it's riddled with holes and shrapnel for now it has just seven doctors and is overwhelmed by patients medicine is also in short supply mohammed is one of the patients there he was wounded in terror shelling his father was killed in the same attack. we spoke exclusively to syria's foreign minister on the sidelines of the un general assembly who shared his thoughts on the future relationship between the syrian government and u.s. backed kurdish forces he also thinks his country's crisis is now in its final chapter. in iraq. over the last three months the syrian army and its

allies have managed to liberate more than fifty five percent of syrian territory that's why they say that the main fighting in syria is coming to an end and that we are writing the last chapter in the history of the crisis when we're done with eisel we can sit down at the negotiating table with our kurdish brothers and agree on the terms of our future relationship i always see every reasonable person must learn from the past and in the past the united states always turned its back on itself ice that's why i hope that our kurdish brothers will learn from that. the russian military has released new videos of its anti terror air raids in syria's province it says that throughout the week all air strikes were focused on the terrorists hardware and meeting places they also for the terrorist plans in neighboring hama province were all nurse or of fighters were apparently planning other attacks. and now to

spain these are the elite the live pictures from barcelona were crowds have gathered just days before the planned catalan independence referendum they taking to the streets to voice their protest against the spanish government the latest polls they eighty percent of the catalans want the vote to go ahead while madrid is now trying to block the referendum that's scheduled for sunday in the run up to the vote madrid confiscated campaigning materials and began newspapers from publishing anything regarding the voting but it's not stopped activists putting up posters and banners in support of the referendum here's one of the what one of the activists had to say. this is a fight for those right to vote on referendum sounds to me but those are the funds over. you know being able to say that a. spanish authorities have already arrested fourteen regional officials and seize up to ten million ballot papers the official campaign website has also been blocked

and madrid is increasing its presence in catalonia by sending extra police and is planning to take over polling stations. but not all catalans are in favor of breaking away from spain something woodridge is in the right. if you just a little bit people here will support your side of people so you could see it was believe you but they didn't really go to your face isn't the only time you smile on t.v. we seem to start thinking that delicately that picture that. you never get the goalie or the net the stuff in the field has been a little bit responsible much like the little short little issue of. the latest polls suggest that forty one percent of catlin's are in favor of breaking away from spain while forty nine are against this by the clampdown and mixed opinions catalans are determined that the vote will go ahead on sunday you know the only every day i see new people who are ready for action and i don't see anything i see

people wearing it out whether they're going to happen or not so what will happen is i haven't met anyone who would say they're going to stay at home because they're scared to go outside i see now how the movement has been evolving for the last four years right here i've never seen anything like this before. we know that there are hispanics police. here. it's a sight to. be relieved to hear them make you really be ready to do your. hair. be led. by. the region's minister for foreign affairs has called on europe to intervene in the situation he says that by trying to block the vote madrid is violating the democratic principles of the e.u. the call echoes the callin president earlier statements accusing the european

commission of turning its back on his region's right to vote you could look at that i was going to i think will have earned the right to be heard this is something that has not happened up to now this is something the european commission has been deaf to they will not be able to continue ignoring this issue. well catalans worth their anger at madrid journalists have been trying to pin down the e.u. to get its view at a medium briefing this week r.t. spoke to one of the reporters who were there. knowing that double star in freedom of expression was found that four thousand got in other sound out for. you condemn it when they shut down cambodia daily but you stay silent when a member states starts playing with freedom of expression. private websites if they start arresting jewelries how can you say this is cause you do it all that we don't have anything to say i mean this is freedom of expression or anything else that we're going to help you with today. and in turn will constitutional problem

according to the e.u. and the house to be sold into frame or cold internal over there for you go over there of spain the problem is that this is true until until when certain issues arise like this in the last few days the issue of freedom of expression which is not only an internal constitution not an issue of speaking it's clearly. to you which is if you want to. constitutional or not all the spying scorsese mission or that it's. officials in the us are backtracking on accusations that russian hackers infiltrated the election systems of twenty one states in the run up to last year's presidential election and investigation in at least two states wisconsin and california found no evidence to support those allegations here's my girlfriends

a phone tag on the contradictory messages blaming russia the state of wisconsin has been hit and it's the russian hackers they're back. to. that breaking news. russian hackers try to hack wisconsin's election system now that looks serious all this already been retracted back tracked and reinstated at least three times it all started last friday with homeland security informing the electoral commission that twenty one states have been targeted by the russian computer wizards one of those states was wisconsin where donald trump won by a very tight margin but just three days later on tuesday comes a stunning reversal homeland security tells wisconsin officials that the russian government did not scan the state's voter registration system based on our external analysis the west constant ip address affected belongs to the wisconsin department

of workforce development not the elections commission wait a minute so not the election system is constant but workforce department why who knows the press of course went back to home and security for clarification and they were told that homeland stands firm by its assessment that the twenty one states including was consonant did get scanned the department stands by its assessment that internet connected networks in twenty one states were the target of russian government cyber actors seeking vulnerabilities and access to u.s. election infrastructure now wisconsin state's chief information officer has stated the complete opposite i quote our systems were protected and we had no incidents we have to bring up every now and wisconsin football coach for clarification now. you might be confused but so is the editorial commission of wisconsin it spokesperson read magni said that there is still trying to understand what happened

. parliament has been dissolved and a snap election has been called in japan more details on the public's reaction to that after a short break. walk you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forced me to fight the battles they're going. to do socks for the tell you that they'll be gossiping probably but. the bad guys tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product. that we along with all the one. i.

i. i i. i i i i. i. i. welcome back protesters have rallied at japan's national parliament building in tokyo after prime minister dissolved the lower house the move paves the way for a snap election next month. demonstrators fear the prime minister wants to capitalize on the high approval ratings to see if more legislative power he says he wants to get a mandate for

a tougher defense policy towards north korea daniel hawkins looks at the power play and whether our base gamble will pay off. a rise in popularity and opposition in disarray and a sinister forward threat looming on the horizon a perfect recipe for calling an early election which is exactly what prime minister the shoes are has announced. going up on your trip by calling an election i'm seeking a public mandate for the government's handling of north korean issues. the korean crisis could be a blessing in disguise for conditions of corruption and cronyism as well as unpopular policies knocked his ratings over the summer falling to lows of around thirty percent according to some polls but with rising regional tensions his popularity is already back at fifty percent now if he's reelected. all we would become japan's longest serving prime minister and this could allow him to make a historic change to the country's pacifist constitution discarding article nine

which completely without says all military action supporters say this would simply legitimize japan's army and right to self-defense but critics would open the floodgates to participating in full blown foreign conflicts on the diplomatic strains with china and military tensions with pyongyang japan has already stepped up shows of military force holding joint drills with the united states and south korea as well as the new was shipped the most significant deployments in seventy years. or so is even more cooperation with the united states. and america because it's very willing to take risks in confronting korea and japan join. in doing so it will be a major step but i see the dangers to reach but public resistance to the increased militarization has been strong for our growers who are.

the protesters are the only opposition faces governor. has already formed a new party of hope to challenge the government in a personal standoff with. that just enjoy while we're facing a crisis with north korea is it ok to create a vacuum in politics of course not however prime minister abbott has already decided to use the premier's exclusive right to distort the lower house and call elections. she is right wing of his right wing so the two of the dream to cooperate on paper here is they have to propose to each other so we can think of these majority for no obvious seem certain he will win the election and strengthen his. man that so confident in fact he's promised to resign if he doesn't the last time a leader took such

a gamble just to strengthen the majority well we all know how that ended the big gamble. as election results show a hung parliament parliamentary majority is gone. that is no majority at all bold move could be a historic moment for japan or a spectacular fail for the prime minister. football fans are getting a taste of what's in store for the two thousand and eighteen world cup british fans have been in the russian capital for a u e f a champions league group stage both manchester united and liverpool supporters get a warm welcome when their teams played in spartak moscow brand new stadium so you see a lot of the new. being very aggressive but when you actually call me see the. way they are. there's no fair fights in the scott of. moscow's big place and you know it you know it goes it does slow.

very. slow down the streets. won't found very good. they. were trying to do the most. lovely to think about it but didn't get to. be seen to be amazing i can tell you how i would love to be in specially to. talk about this more i'm joined by former england international footballer stan collymore he's also going to host his own show here on our team do to prepare this autumn so stand you've been here for four matches before how are things this time is fantastic and it was too big. to rewind a little bit. there was trouble there was some russian who begins with some english or the greens or some. driven her to guns and i filmed i was amongst it was one of the only sports journalist to do so fast forward to the last couple of days the

british press of made a really big deal about. when you get off the plane if you're black if you're right and if you all english you're going to be attacked and you just heard there from liverpool fans a bit of law in here from a journalist who just dropped on. police. with noids rightfully abused rightfully discriminated left britain busted him for dead these are the things that did not happen soon in moscow this week drunk a log of drunk spirits left with my new my watch live a poll got frustrated with football it's weeks these are the things that did happen to me in moscow this week that was replicated. the reason why the last couple of days has been very important is that it's two of england's biggest clubs the poll of manchester united a huge supporter by traveling to moscow with moscow two of moscow's biggest clubs so we wanted to see and film around for the new show them doing all say the

security the police in and the experience. and as we say experience the little poll finds that in particular it was from sixty. off to all this game only it's been going on in social media by people it's a it's a be able to shine from them and i think it's been absolutely fine experienced to the stadium experience in moscow and it's been absolutely brilliant. well we've heard that some people really were wary of coming to russia but you didn't get that impression from any of the family the problem means is when you set a narrative two or three days ago in some of the british tabloids and look all right for a british tabloid i'm proudly because it's about the sport of football as well as presenting shows around for. some of the newspaper headlines of. whites and for english just inflames the situation the vast majority of russian football fans want to go and watch their team play is there a small minority that cause trouble yes but coming from

a country that i do read england we've had problems with hooliganism for thirty forty fifty years in some cases and it's taken a quite a long time to deal with it so the to launch of english football fans where. there was something called gentle fans which was. a must go and sports at moscow and initiative by both sets of fans given a blanket. warm welcome that's not going to be on the front page of. what they are looking for is rice isn't what they're looking for is trouble they didn't find any so to dial was on social media often a look at a plane credible have quite it's been on social media from some of the journalists that two or three days ago what. didn't happen people just had a really good time for will also predicted as expected thank you stan collymore who's got his own show coming here on our team thanks for staying across that for i

have. people and corporations have rights so it's time for nature to follow suit and byron mental groups in the us are suing the authorities on behalf of the colorado river demanding it be granted personhood so it can be better protected the colorado river is asking for judicial recognition of itself as a person with rights of its own to exist and florrie the recognition that the state of colorado can be held liable for violating those rights held by the river the colorado river provides drinking water for thirty million americans that's one in ten it flows through seven states from the rocky mountains down to the gulf of california and it also irrigates over two million hectic years of farmland contributing greatly to american agriculture there are fears over future water shortages due to the current imbalance of supply and demand plants and wildlife are being believed to be in danger through over development although critics say it's absurd to give a human to give

a river human rights campaigners argue it's because environmental laws aren't enough. the river itself is given right so you could actually go into court on behalf of the river like we as a guardian of the river or fiduciary of the river currently you can't go into court in argue that until it's too late giving rights to nature and to the colorado river would elevate that status and make it possible to go into court and actually do things that would help preserve and restore and allow the river to exist in florida let me think absurd can i go now we've done. i mean it's ridiculous i believe in protecting the environment i'm a huge protect of the environment but but in order to put you know put people and rivers and mountains on the same moral level to me is so lacking of decency it's unbelievable so i think the whole idea the whole notion is totally absurd corporations have rights in this country and they have more rights than human

communities do nature has just as many rights as corporations colorado river you know should have a right to exist florists naturally evolve regenerate and be restored and currently as that is it does not and colorado river is in serious trouble what is a corporation a corporation is basically a bunch of people who come together to form a corporation to protect their interests so the government had to find a way to give them certain protections that those people who owned a corporation would otherwise not have the same cannot be said for a river for a mountain for a tree and it's a misunderstanding of why a corporation is given personhood is because protecting the rights of the people who own that company that's a wrap of of today's top stories this hour i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more.

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