i. i i i i i i. i i i sunday's independence referendum approaches police reinforcements. bob woodward says that he's managed to shut down most of the polling station. it's been exactly two years since first airstrikes in. syria will be looking towards change in time. and grow chemical giant monsanto has been banned from the european parliament after refusing to attend the hearing

questioning studies about its products. very good evening to you my name is the this is our team international. spanish region of catalonia is on the verge of what could prove to be an historic decision for this independence referendum for sunday tensions are mounting in the region with extra police deployed on the streets and raids to prevent the counting of electronic votes is the latest pictures that we have for you from barcelona crowds have gathered to protest against the upcoming referendum similar demonstrations have been stays throughout the day cross the capital and capital. in mali madrid spanish unionists staged a rally there against the vote in front of the sea. hall activists were seen

singing the anthem of the fascist spanish followings party a number of protesters also gave nazi salutes and as tensions mount between madrid and barcelona officials from both sides have been trading accusations extremism. if there is disturbance it will clearly be on the side of those who are advocating the referendum are. adopting nazi like by you know pointing out people who. are against the referendum all you have yet another is a government of real horror has crossed a very dangerous red line has decided to resurrect the best of franco as. june one demonstration a man attempted to ted down a pro independence banner from boston in this town hall but after trying to do so for over a minute to pull down that sign which read more democracy the protester eventually gave up his body to coach of the reports from the capital and kaput. this saturday

as they were last on the crucial day before the referendum on the end dependence of cats a lot a kick start and we've seen a lot of movement and the streets of partial want an across the region and now this morning spanish civil guard has raided the center of telecommunications and technologist information to switch off applications that will be used to count the votes and we do know that the spanish police cordon off the building now police presence has been tightened in different areas of the city especially on all the major squares and around school buildings that will be used as polling stations on sunday spanish authorities say that they have already shut down thirteen hundred schools across the region and this is really the half of old schools that catalonia has catalan officials say that they are ready to find a compromise for you know we have said to the spanish government that it's still not too late to send a message expressing their will to find

a new scenario for the referendum for a whole his government we will be the first to welcome it to say let's talk and even postpone the october first vote meanwhile this saturday we see a lot of protests here in barcelona mostly people are protesting against the referendum to take place on sunday now we managed to speak to some people and listen to what they have to say. president of spain has been sleeping for the past five years and during that time the government in catalonia has been preparing and fighting for independence and now the president has to act quickly and he's running around trying to solve this somehow. with the cold war here franco to think that though they were they bought it but he's not democracy to me. what that thing is what to vote on how to vote it. and i think that vote is kind of democratic but it felt to me if you take it to the extreme it can be on our cased on friday there was . massive rally on plant this spiny which is also located on their fargo barcelona

we've seen thousands of people supporting the raf around the mostly young people drinking facts of consul lani n.o.c. and shouting slogans so as you can see as the date of the referendum draws near the splits within the cast line society is getting more and more and the dance with people from all stripes of society taking their views to the streets was. a few huge huge. i. was. now the polling stations are defended by so-called neighborhood watch is

comprised of locals who support the vote and so times but the buildings are no standing guard there even come under physical attack one barcelona province municipality for people sustained injuries to the neck and chest after they were shot with the pellet gun activists were defending schools meant to serve as voting stations in sunday's independence vote the identity of the assailant has not yet been revealed another polling station of the secondary school was vandalized on friday night for station defenders was sleeping there at the time of the assault here's how one of the activists described the attack. he goes no it's what we were preparing for the votes a group of around twenty people turned up and tried to enter the polling station they still did hanging signs writing graffiti on the walls and provoking they were hitting things just doing things shouting slogans in favor of spain in favor of spanish unity and against the. wall in the spanish capital people there of voted in

a mock referendum the question on bad ballot paper was do you want catalonia to remain part of spain hundreds of people against catalan independence took part the division in spanish society grows into european partners are also not rushing to off the. field it is a problem. and so. little that this is. the latest technology that of the. e.u. should cover either free or not to take sides for their effort a referendum and they do pay their share note but as we see that those measures taken but. the government goals are not acceptable imagine if the president. over it is really just got done the same things there would be if we did not show scandals will come out resolutions could the measures everything and now

we cover side there's no i would like to be your appear to you to do a good three or more to push you to do what she will peace. negotiation lucia the spanish interior ministry now says that most of the polling stations which photo canards had designated to host the referendum have been shut down by the authorities. law and order in the region is maintained by the catalan regional police force they're known as the most of their squad there this replace the spanish police locally almost ten years ago and it's controlled by the cattle and government and the cattle and forces where they've been tasked with preventing sunday's referendum from actually taking place but fears are being expressed in madrid that offices might not comply the spanish government has deployed national military forces the civil guard therefore to the region to ensure the vote does not go ahead six thousand civil guards have been stationed at ports in the region they arrived on cruise ships that were chartered by the spanish interior ministry and

they will stay in barcelona up until october third earlier on saturday morning a convoy of police vans left the port area heading into the city and while the spokesperson for catalonia police forces said that while the orders will be followed it doesn't necessarily mean that anything will be prevented in the hope of a more interest of the product when the main rules of police used to guarantee the into little security of our society in this respect police do not support those either for or against the referendum but rather all catalans we have no choice but to a baby the decisions of the court and prosecutor's office when it's about control over crowds and public order we have to see what happens in each individual case if we can't prevent something it doesn't mean we don't follow orders but the probably we can't do anything about it. the g. seven summit in the italian city of turin has received a less than warm welcome after hundreds of angry protesters surrounded the bench.

was clashes broke out between police and demonstrators who were voicing fury at the policies of the g seven economies several arrests were reportedly made and while ministers discussed prospects for a fourth industrial revolution protests on the streets of tehran show no sign of calming down because i was beat i was was going to was was. the. french president among your micro has been hit by a fresh wave of criticism after he cut taxes for the wealthy he responded by saying

that his latest tax reform is a and that encouraging investment and promoting talent in the country but many people in paris don't agree warning that the new leader is already becoming a president for the rich and that the reform will only worsen inequality in the country on the charlotte dubin ski as more proud you know when you're not just rich but your filthy way. your fast cars and resources and definitely signs the more than a pretty penny to spend right. well not so much in france where the tories the rich and famous no longer eligible for tax and that's causing quite a stir if you think this is. i think this is unfair but justice no longer exists in france there isn't a justice system anymore this is the hunger for power of

a prince who wants to rule our. tree how he wants. government is only for the rich and he doesn't care about the poor we don't have a middle class there are only poor people who work for the rich yes i am outraged and we the young people should protest against this much switching how frons taxes wealth is government change that it wants to you of the extremely wealthy including tens of thousands of millionaires who fled the country because of the country's old tax system and even though only a tiny fraction of french people pay the old tax money going to own m.p.'s admit they going to face a hard time explaining this. how could i explain this to six year olds who own an old apartment that they will be taxed more than young trader's driving a ferrari so cool that the taxes raised under the old system i cancelled out by the money that lost by people trying to avoid it but many people particularly pension

is say they'll be harder hit under the new system and they do you realize they claim that much because government is only for the rich and the super rich. all see how this comes economic reforms are spot numerous protests right across france demonstrations have seen retired workers on the streets there angry with taxes on pensions while student protesters in the background and sparking clashes with the police a french left wing party member told does that if nothing changes the policies his popularity is going to sink even further attracting a rich people to invest in france is always a similar government but. forgot that france is one of the. best countries already the best country for. foreign investment for was elected with with them i

guess you could it was presented by many medias. like a new president young it would change things and it was a light because what he's proposing is this same old politics that this is only been the first beneficiary for the rich are seeing the impacts will be that less and less people. believe me so much and that this. will go down i'm precious antiterrorism campaign in syria to two years old today after the break we'll take a look at what it's a changed. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to be rich. but you going to be for us it's like well before three in the morning can't be good

. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should. be. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington post media the media. and voters elected a businessman to run this country business equals power who must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. syrian militants are suffered the most serious losses in months according to

russia's defense ministry over two thousand islamic state and archiver extremists including sixteen eisel field commanders were killed in just eleven days the ministry said russian airstrikes also injured almost three thousand militants among those dead four hundred citizens from former soviet states people who joined up with the terrorists the minister conferred with the help of russian airstrikes the syrian army will soon drive eisel from eastern there is or and today marks two years since russia lost the second pane against the terrorists in syria our correspondent rego's the air is reporting on the anniversary in war torn berries or one of many locations that has been filming for since the start of the campaign. now on the second anniversary of russia's operation i stand in dead as sort a city that was besieged by isis for three years one of the most horrendous sieges in modern history its people suffered they stabbed and they died yet they now have

hope the city is slowly coming back to life but as with all things in syria it isn't that simple. isis still hold the small parts of the city and a few days ago they cut the highway linking did as in the middle of this vast deserts to the rest of government controlled syria this morning they attacked the airport of their disorder but will force back defeated that it has been a rollercoaster of defeats and victories escalations and deescalation seize fives and betrayals certainly an action packed few years. this is the ad base in left akio from which russian jets launching their suits he's

against islam ics they thought gets in syria. whether it's. in a time the pilots are ready to go it's a moment's notice. in this ad fifty at the lay down by the romans almost to. thousand years ago that isis staged one of its sickest massacres the russian military considers it the crowding jewel of the operation here in syria.

one come to the government's side of aleppo the sees what you see on your way here just a few hundred meters away from the front lines. where in the island. and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. the rescue as and now digging through the rubble looking for the body of a thirteen year old go. and did this to. you.

were it's a syrian still reposition overlooking the industrial quarter if there is order the battle is said to be theists isis fired back as we filmed shells speak and fooling around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept firing. life even did as ordered is still far from normal but at least it will be stun. him to death anymore. let's take a look at the map now showing how much totally isolated lost in syria since the start of the campaign most of the terror groups strongholds they fall into

president assad's army and according to russian defense ministry eighty seven percent of syria is now islamic state free. want. hope. but the most significant came at the beginning in a candid october twenty fifth in the syrian government forces to that point really on the ropes i feel we're at the gate of damascus. russia coming in leveled the playing field and favor today for

the syrian government you have to remember that before that point the west and countries and the gulf countries had been fending off we've been who is land this fourth fifth. regardless of consequences for all whether that actually helped i feel the west been powered through it and saudi arabia but continuing to pour in to fit in to the jihadi forsooth rush to the intervention and particularly with airstrikes turned the tide. we've heard a giant monsanto has been kicked out of the european parliament this lobbyist were banned after refusing to attend hearing this was about where the secret studies into the safety of monsanto's products were flawed or exaggerated for commercial means more makers also slammed the secrecy surrounding the studies. how can we be

sure of develop deity of the conclusions of all deceased fifty or otherwise of the lifeless eight when there is lack of transparency when it is publicly revealed by the latest us court cases that the scientific data provided by the company experts was for to fight the glaive so just mentioned there is used by monsanto in some of its weed killers chemists say can cause serious side our mission is toxic to animals and people the w h o claims that it can cause cancer we're going to consumers association says monsanto's happy to sweep all that under the carpet if it means bigger profits. the stakes for monsanto are extremely high they have an eight billion dollar industry that they're trying to protect in the united states there are hundreds of people who have gotten cancer from exposure to monsanto's roundup herbicide who are currently suing the company we have a paper trail that goes back to the one nine hundred eighty s. that shows that monsanto knew that round up causes cancer and they have been able

to successfully suppress this evidence and it was only until two thousand and fifteen when the world health organization determined that monsanto's roundup was a probable human carcinogen they've been trying to cover their tracks and convince regulators that things should proceed business as usual in the united states and in the european union they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars euros every year to suppress the evidence that their products are dangerous and to improperly influence regulators and decision makers in parliament or in the congress if it means billions of dollars in sales to monsanto i think they probably would be better off continuing to hide the evidence even if it means being banned from lobbying. the u.s. and russia have agreed to work together on a new project to build

a space station the little bit the moon station will serve as a launch pad for further space exploration including mound missions to mars we spoke to former i assess commander leroy chiao who thinks that joint projects like this how to nations to improve the relations on earth this deep space gateway is one of the cute components of the new architecture that is more moon century now and it's basically a node very small a human tended kind of a space station there will any if you were asked to both explore the moon and also service a departure point to go farther into the universe including possibly or hopefully one day to mars if you want. i'm going to mars in my opinion i think it makes a lot of sense to go back to the moon first because we want to make sure that everything we sent to mars before we send the crew there is going to work so we want to make sure habitats work the power sources power generators the rovers spacesuits we want to train crews there the moon is only three days away so if something goes wrong you can get your crew back pretty quickly when the d.s.t.

does gives you a lot of flexibility for exploration and i would fully expect all of the partners currently working on the i s s and hopefully new ones as well when we cooperate together in a big simple program like that like a space program that trickles down into other parts of the relationship and that can only be positive. it would positively joined at the top of the hour of the back then with the latest headlines. there are some nazis in the fifty it's not the mass of the a fifty voters but you know saying that our culture of atonement. our remembrance of nuns nazi crimes is wrong that's too much it's the attitude of some people in the if d. which by the way is no in the process of tearing itself apart.

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students take drugs to boost their academic results thanks dad fit to mean defectives they can study through the night without showing any signs of tides you to my friend stage of life break you can. i'm here and there are. two. pm. in the united states the study drugs have become a public health issue more than a third of american students take them regularly. go to columbia thanks to an exam she took under the influence of infection. to avoid a disciplinary action she will hide her identity i didn't have any expectations of getting in the essay i wrote was it hot a biography five pages i ended up speaking. madison it just it puts you. in a mental space where you can focus entirely why not take

a pill if everyone else is doing it to give you a competitive advantage. the helping hand that she got told off very easy. a friend of mine prescription for concern and he gave it to us for free i'm probably down like a dozen times or so. and you will see how these pills are almost sold us over the counter drugs on campus. we walk through the streets around new york university with a hidden camera. after twenty minutes of searching become across the stooges we'll call him joe. seriously. you know it. just doesn't seem to be shocked we ask him if he can soldiers out. friends. like. people like. luke.