the rift between madrid and barcelona deepens as catalonia says it's ready to declare independence from spain in a matter of days. the leadership of the algos for a terror group in syria is all but eliminated off the twelve top commanders died in the group leaders left in a critical condition following a russian air strike. on the middle east is also in focus at the russian energy week for a broad saudi king solomon set to arrive in moscow in talks with president putin.

thank you for watching antti international live from moscow ok. madrid's excessive use of force during the council on a referendum has been criticized it's a session at the european parliament any piece have been calling for dialogue between the spanish government and regional chiefs despite catalan leaders promising to declare independence by next week and the stasi churkin a is following events in barcelona at the european parliament's discussion today we have been hearing voices saying that people need to stick to the law aka of course this is a job that crowd's lonia the european parliamentarians do believe that they need to adhere to the spanish constitution there are no surprises there they've been talking about how going against the law is not a good idea and dialogue is needed with madrid now this is all great but when it comes to the reality we do of course now see really a critical situation. between madrid and barcelona with no really signs in sight

that they're going to be able to agree on anything given the vigorous mess with which the capital and leadership has been wanting to move forward we did hear few voices from the european parliament on the violence or brutal police crackdown on the of tuber first referendum let's take a listen to what was said but i wish to be honest. spin this collapse. not. but. we will travel to your intentions. can change you should be out of the image of your government. well what's crucial in terms of what we're going to be watching here in barcelona throughout the day later on today we do expect the capsule leader a preacher mons to make a statement where he is likely to outline some kind of deadlines in terms of when a potential process of launching independence from spain could begin we do know

that there is going to be an emergency session being held in the regional council on parliament here in barcelona on monday where this is likely to come to the forefront and set some kind of clarity in terms of the timeline of when the capsule region wants to step out of spain but certainly this is not going to be an easy fight whatsoever despite these diplomatic slogans from the european parliament for the two sides to get together and negotiate moods are quite intense both here in catalonia as well as madrid in terms of seeing the situation completely differently now of course this whole situation has been leading to yesterday tens of thousands of people coming out for a general strike on the streets of catalonia we are expecting another protest later on tonight which is going to be an anti independence one and we're going to see how many people come out to our demonstrate for that but certainly a busy day and busy time had

a very crucial in terms of what is going to unravel here next to me while the european union says it won't condemn the violence the police violence in spain and instead gave its backing to the spanish prime minister to resolve the crisis spanish authorities continue to say that they see the vote as illegal and unconstitutional but meanwhile the mayor of barcelona says she's received reports from several women who say they were sexually assaulted by police on the day of the referendum. well sunday's referendum led to violence scuffles between riot police and fotis almost nine hundred people were injured by the will start to see who were trying to stop people from casting their ballots will you keep m.e.p. for the northwest of england stephen walt expressed his anger at the spanish response during a session of the european parliament. and what of the european union's response their first response should have been to completely condemn the violence but no whilst every right minded person was outraged they were critically silence on the

violence they sought to deflect the issue as a matter of breaking the rule of law by catalans this is by the e.u. to recognize the independence of crossover without a referendum and who recognized palestine as a nation state even though the e.u. treaties did not permit it. stephen wolf joins us live right now is this a steven thank you very much for joining us there i mean just to clarify all the things that you've been saying that we want do you think in a nutshell of the response to sunday's violence. it's been despicable it's been dishonest and it shows really that the e.u. has favorites and they will stick by by by their favorites as long as it means keeping everybody in the club we pointed out if this was poland if this was hungry having this sort of conduct with police attacking their own citizens you would have heard any peace and the commission and all the presidents denouncing poland and

hungary if this was america or donald trump or russia or putin or even china they would have done exactly the same but this is the king of spain and raul is one of their favorites who's leading and the police violence that we were saw was as bad as any that you would see in any desperate country and yet they have kept silent about the violence what they have done is there not be any peace accord in catalonia to open up dialogue with madrid they see the way forward is that that is the way forward it's all about negotiations but do you think that that's going to happen now. well i always hope that one gets some sort of dialogue between parties because we don't want to see innocent people beaten as they were on sunday sunday is a day of shame for spain and will be historically remembered as such in the the way . people remember franco and his dictators beating people insane and put four hundred thousand of those who opposed his view in prison now i'm not saying that spain's going back to the exactly the same as when you put individuals at the being

attacked by their own police then people are going to have those images so i demand that they must be some sort of negotiations and talks between the spanish government and also those in catalan but the must first be a denunciation of the violence by the police over vies the police will feel that they could do it again. but this also lets them for them in spain's foreign minister he's rejected the possibility of europe getting involved but the castle as they do want the i mean do you expect a reaction now you mean to go to the meetings and do you expect now more of a positive reaction from the e.u. countries. i don't think there will be actually it was very clear today that you saw mr simmons who is the european union's commissioner in this area in the last speech this afternoon again denouncing the catalans separatists as he calls them for breaking the rule of law and that the e.u. will only help hold the rule of law as the e.u. see it so it is clear that what you're looking at in the european union is their

closing ranks and what i'd like to say is i've received thousands of e-mails over the past few days even a few over hundreds over the last few hours after the speech is in there and the council on people are begging for the european union and the people of the world to come to their aid and protect them as they believe they have the right to democrats are clearly demand a referendum of whether they should remain in spain or not and be protected from violence it is up to worlds as citizens of the world to protect them from those violence and demand that the e.u. and other countries recognize that no violence should occur in the future and finally stephen if i may on one if you could answer very briefly the castling government promises to declare independence by next monday what do you think will happen if madrid doesn't accept the referendum result as seems likely very briefly if you don't. i think they'll be more chaos in spain and we will see more acts of violence by the police against the people of council. and not like stephen wolf you

keep m.e.p. for the northwest of england thank you very much i don't know so it's thank you. well the crisis has even crossed into football in spain as national teams prepare for their final qualifying matches to reach the twenty eighteen world cup here in russia barcelona defender gerard piqué and outspoken backer of catalan independence was booed as he trained with the spain squad. it if p.k. is from catalonia and has had a good touring career for both his club and the spanish national team for whom he's won the world and european cups however piquet has said he is willing to retire from international football over his staunch backing of catalan independence well barcelona football club is a focal point of catalan nationalism supporters can be heard chanting independence slogans during matches after seventeen minutes and fourteen seconds seventeen fourteen being the catalonia became a part of spain well the club also took part in the recent strike against the

government and after last sunday's game was played behind closed doors due to fears of crowd safety p.k. got emotional talking about independence during a t.v. into the. soil in the year story. or much going on. your show and they got the win over the. years i mean it's almost a little too much of the newsroom as well as. you know. where you know you're only going to. know your name or not very soon. or hear from particular. that i've heard of him but i'm. sure you. are going to roll him on the hollow. now the leader of the algos retire a group abu mohammed al giuliani has been seriously injured in a russian as strike in syria russia's defense ministry says its fighter jet

successfully targeted an al nasra meeting essentially eliminating the group's leadership or advise the of reports from syria. this is all in the off the mouth of last month's attack on a group of russian military police in northern hamma they were there to monitor a deescalation zone and book caught in the middle of a rebel offensive they were surrounded by fighters jihad ists led by nusra front and what ensued was a battle that lasted for many hours as a result of the bandits attack and what we're approaching of military police numbering twenty nine people was trapped for several hours and was forced out of the enemy attacks it was despite being outnumbered that military police unit was with the help of then surely able to withdraw break out of the encircled monday but since then russian surveillance and military intelligence has gone into overdrive looking for new stores leadership and their fight is on the third of october they learn that they would be meeting with senior officials nusra officials in

attendance and when sources on the ground confirm that two jets would dispatch to carry out and they strike it was hugely successful twelve field commanders were killed abu mohammed. the leader of nusra front apparently lost a hand and is now in critical condition fifty of the fighters and gods but also feel as well as many others injured this is extremely important because nuestra among the jihad list and rebel factions in syria is arguably the most powerful with the most sophisticated weapons and the most fight is.

allowed to elevate the highly effective. the gas through bucket full of the extremely toxic chemical on the floor this is one of the methods of torture that was juice by the militants. however the fight against terrorism isn't over despite most militants being driven out of syria and iraq russia's president has warned that the series of major defeats has forced the terrorists to change their tactics and locate and later as an event in moscow he also touched on the state of relations between moscow and washington regarding the middle east correspondent. reports. well the event is indeed called the energy week and who can really needed a lot of energy not to go on about all and other resource business but to answer

the many questions and loads of the global difficult political issues everyone always wants to hear from the man in charge of both countries what is going on between russia and the u.s. today a lot of our putin has said that moscow washington relations are the hostage to america's own political battles and he still is a little us russian relations through victim to the internal political situation in america so this influences are using these relations to address the into the political problems in the u.s. but we are patient. this process is over because a lot of our putin says that working with the americans on taking out the terrorists in syria and also on the syrian peace process is very challenging but still promising and he still hopes to do

a lot of things together besides this the russian president also believes that there are many other issues that he needs to worry about that could be much more dangerous or no less dangerous than the difficulties between america and russia for example the north korean crisis because we often forget that russia shares the border with north korea when it comes to more than a billion dollars in cooperation in the energy sector blah timer putin is hoping to do all lot of things with saudi arabia whose king is about to come to moscow here's what was said about that issue during the main plenary session of the russian energy week. we're looking into the future with confidence. as far as saudi russian relations are concerned as well as russian relations with such countries as egypt jordan israel and the syrians. but let's face it

saudi major is always going to be the united states when it when it comes to its geopolitical interests do you worry that the saudis are using you with because earlier you said always will remain is that anything in the world or not is so absolutely constant. as our correspondent just mentioned king solomon of saudi arabia is set to join president putin later during his historic visit to russia it's considered controversial but also groundbreaking as it's the first ever official trip of a saudi monarch to the country jacqueline berger tells us what we can expect. saudi king solomon is coming to moscow and it's the first time in the kingdom's history that its monarch is officially visiting russia the trips being heralded as a groundbreaking visit and here's why numerous unprecedented energy deals are on the table for one moscow and riyadh plan a one billion dollar fund to invest in

a wide range of projects from oil and gas to renewable energy plus russian firms are apparently discussing an agreement with saudi energy giant aramco for joint ventures on saudi soil riyadh is also looking to invest in russian gas production which could benefit both countries it is good given that if you just use a little about the exhibit about developing relations between our countries and expanding business cooperation energy is still a dominating thing russia and saudi arabia are the biggest producing countries and we could use our experience in the field. and benefits. a century what it boils down to is two of the top players on the world energy market responsible for a quarter of global oil production are forging ever closer ties which will definitely have a global impact cutting oil output is also on the cards paving the way to extend a historic opec deal they helped to seal last year.

but some warn moscow in riyadh have a history of tension and seem unlikely partners between locking horns on the oil market and saudi arabia's close ties to the u.s. with whom relations with russia have hit new lows such close cooperation could also seem quite surprising but despite saudi arabia's where you can i did love affair with the trumpet ministration the opec kingpin also needs russia a key and growing player both on the world energy market and in the middle east. content of the detainee show off their creative side in a controversial exhibition in new york or on that story after the short break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around

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welcome back danish prosecutors have released new details on the murder of swedish journalist kim all they say an autopsy found at least fifteen stab wounds to her live in this torso she was last seen on board a submarine belonging to invent a peta manson who's been charged with a murder but he's also discovered videos of the torture and murder of women on manson's computer artes nor smith takes up a story. this is a really appalling story it's a terrible way for life to mirror arts really because of course the plot it's more like the plot of a scan dean war crime thriller than it is real life it's a wealthy danish inventor who's accused of murdering a swedish journalist on board his homemade submarine came wall we know it was just thirty years old and on the tenth of august she boarded peter madsen's submarine in copenhagen she is understood to have been interviewing him for

a feature story that she was writing about him she didn't come home though so the following day her boyfriend reported her missing meanwhile peter madsen himself was fished out of the water by coast guards out of his submarine which had sunk prosecutors are now saying that it was sunk deliberately ten days later torso minus heads legs and arms was found floating in the water just off copenhagen and a couple of days later it was identified as being kim walls her legs and head which prosecutors believe were cut off deliberately haven't been found her blog was found inside a submarine police also have said that the body was tampered with to make it sink pieces madson he's quite an idiosyncratic guy he's a danish aerospace engineering enthusiastic private investor also and of course he had this submarine that he had built himself madsen says that wall died

accidentally when she was hit by a heavy hatch door on his submarine he says he panicked and threw her overboard he insists that he didn't dismember her and he told the court that he had buried her at sea he's subsequently been charged with manslaughter but this is obviously an ongoing investigation. detainees from guantanamo prison are about to have their creative side on show at an exhibition in new york however the artists are suspected of taking part in the deadliest terror attack in u.s. history. has been to the exhibition. an unusual entrance into the new york city art scene this is art from guantanamo bay thirty six pieces of art created by detainees and get mall some of the artists whose work is on display are a bit controversial to say the least.

organizers of the exhibition say they did it to draw attention to the prisoner's plight the goal of the exhibition is to give other people a different way to think about this man but also for them to think about themselves in a different way there are workers on display on the very same island where the twin towers once stood we decided to talk to some new yorkers and see how they feel about this controversial exhibit sixteen years after nine eleven i can see why that would be difficult for a lot of new yorkers are in series and were two different things and usually a fairly recent doesn't both as the same think it's a sensitive issue. you know to give support to people who brought a lot of you know bloodshed it's still very visceral even years later i think the memories are still there in new york how would i have felt about it in two thousand

and two. i would have been surprised it would even get this far. u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson has long been one through controversial statements and actions however some say this time he's gone too far promising a bright future for libyan city hit kids up its dead bodies first reports believe you could be telling me just. how to use how to say. things to your body to be used. remember he believes. this is a pretty unwelcome reminder of a major stay in on britain's recent foreign policy decisions the libyan war was with the help of the u.k. the u.k.

was a major partner in the french led intervention back in two thousand and eleven when the decision made when the decision was made to topple the government of one hundred sassy britain was also a major sponsor of that military action the u.k. contributed over a billion pounds to the bombing campaign in libya and it's the problem that's been a good knowledge with by most of the leaders involved in that intervention is that there was no planning for what happened afterwards so libya has undergone years of continued violence political chaos as rival factions fight against each other in the country perhaps the only consolation for those trying to mitigate the effects of this latest boris cap is that it isn't likely to cause a huge diplomatic scandal simply because libya is in too much of a mess politically to respond to this there are two rival governments vying for power they have currently got bigger fish to fry than boris johnson's comments.

were boris johnson his space for his cutting remarks he previously mentioned limerick about the turkish president having sex with a goat he told the chinese the u.k. invented their national sport of ping pong he also resigned to kipling poem about cody lism in the now independent states of me an la political activist george brandis thinks johnson's latest comment shows contempt for the libyans who died in the conflict. it just seems to me extraordinary that especially in the context of a place where britain clearly has blood on its hands in terms of yet another attempt at reamed regime change that ended in bloodshed. to be able to make what was meant to be just i mean this was this was a punchline in an optimistic speech about libya the very fact that what he's talking about is british businesses coming in and turning stuff into dubai you know itself has huge huge questions in terms as well many people call disaster capitalism whether the powers that be economically in the world are better and

better exploiting catastrophe to come in with foreign money and take over beaches and all sorts of other things you know that but leaving that aside it just seems. to me it's incredible that he can have such sort of callous disregard for other human lives i mean it would be unthinkable if boris johnson had referred. you know this is the scene of the bombing in manchester for instance that happened in the u.k. and said oh well once we get clear of the dead bodies then we'll be able to get back to business you know i was just being optimistic. we'll have more news at the top of the. when lawmakers manufacture consent to sell it to the public well. when they're

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