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

welcome to news headlines here at r.t. internationally moscow i think. excessive use of force during the council on referendum has been criticized as a session of the european parliament and the peace have called for dialogue between the spanish government and regional authorities despite catalan leaders promising to declare independence by next week and has been following events in barcelona at the 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 at cards lonia the european parliamentarians do believe that they need to adhere to the spanish constitution there are no surprises there they have 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 occur

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. really necessary . heavy hung. on in the final analysis productive manner we now have a chen place which every independence movement can use. 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 putin monster make a statement where he is likely to outline some kind of deadline is 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 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 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. well at the start of the meeting a council on any p.c. from a party supporting independence gave rose. says to the court to suppose that the

president of the european parliament he got a flower as well. well the european union says he won't condemn the police violence in spain and instead gave its backing to the spanish prime minister to resolve the crisis spanish authorities continue to say they see the vote as illegal and unconstitutional. for me while 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 was on those referendum it led to violent scuffles between riot police and voters almost nine hundred people were injured by the or sorties who were trying to stop people from casting their ballots. now the leader of the terror group abu mohammed al giuliani has been seriously injured in a russian air strike in syria russia's defense ministry says its bite a jet successfully targeted an remeeting essentially eliminating the group's

leadership would have guessed 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 where the platoon 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 manned 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 learned that there would be a meeting with senior officials nusra officials in attendance and when sources on

the ground confirm that two jets would dispatch to carry out and then 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 twenty gods were also killed 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 denigrate the highly effective. and. the gap through

bucket full of the extremely toxic chemical to put on muscle this is one of the methods of torture that was used by the militants. well al gilani the leader of al nusra who is reportedly being gravely wounded for american troops in iraq and quickly rose through the ranks of al qaeda after being released from a u.s. prison in iraq he joined islamic states and became one of its senior members when al nasra was established in twenty twelve he became one of its leaders russia's foreign minister has once again pointed out there's no sign that the u.s. led coalition is actively fighting the group. we have long been trying to draw the international community's attention to the fact that the u.s. led coalition before the russian military had started its anti-terrorist campaign

in syria it's quite possible a sighting i saw and not striking our news or at all after russia launched its operation the coalition became more active doing it strikes against i saw but even after the new u.s. administration stepped in we haven't seen the coalition making any serious effort to target al newsroom. all the issue of anti terror cooperation between moscow and washington in syria was also touched upon by the russian president r.t.c. or trying to reports. lattimer putin says that working with the americans on taking out the terrorists in syria and also the syrian peace process is very challenging but still promising and he still hopes to do a lot of things together about other things the russian president believes that there are issues he needs to worry about that are no less important than the difficulties between moscow and washington like the north korean crisis for example while the report reminded the audience that russia shares

a border with north korea when it comes to more than a billion dollars in cooperation in the energy sector blotter approved 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 may plenary session of the russian energy week movie in this movie. we are 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 with syria. but let's face it so this. is always going to be the united states when it comes to your political interests do you worry that the saudis are using you because earlier you said always will remain is that anything in the world that is so absolutely constant.

well king solomon of saudi arabia has just arrived to moscow to join president putin later during his historic visit to russia what is considered controversial but also groundbreaking as it's the first ever official trip of a saudi wanted to this 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 given that if you just need all about the energy six a bit about developing relations between our countries and expanding business. energy

is still a dominating thing russia and saudi arabia or the biggest producing countries and we could use our experience in the field. and benefits for. a socially 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 were ignited a 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. well let's now discuss this visit with just below ahead of. research at london capital group just to thank you very much indeed for joining us well russia and saudi arabia extensively working together in the energy sector just how promising is this for the two countries and for opec and also the wider world. hi kate with respect to the two countries involved they're obviously the two largest oil producers in the world and so if they can work together and. be a part of a number of joint projects together cross cross country investment that's obviously a good thing for them as far as the rest of the world probably their relationship is most important with regard to the oil price and i think war everyone likes to see at the moment is stability in the or price obviously in the context of

a massive slide in all prices we had in two thousand and fourteen people just want all prices to just stay at about the same price for a while and that's where these two countries working together is good now if it translate if it turns into a situation where actually they're manipulating the market traditionally what a cartel is designed to do then obviously that's not as good for the world but that's not something i forsee russia's aim being here i think they just stepped in really as an emergency measure because of the lower prices well let's also look at russia here i mean some are arguing that moscow has become one of the main driving forces when it comes to opec decisions i mean do you believe that to be true. well of us i'm not a fly on the wall in those meetings but just by the size of the output from russia it means that they're one of the big players in the room and if opec are determined to work with russia they really have to pay attention to the output commitment that russia can contribute and so for that reason i think yes there are the statements

made the moment is always somewhat hedged so it's never quite certain what their plan is for the future but i think what we learned from before russians involvement with with opec is the saudi arabia weren't willing to go it alone with just the other opec members it was only. when russia stepped in with opec that actually they were willing to step in and reduce output in order to stabilize or prices well before december last year when some experts were skeptical about opec saying that i thought its days were over i mean do you think that last year's all production cut deal that was brokered by russia and saudi arabia is enough to prove them wrong. well there were a number of criticism opec some are more or less valid still today one of which is that they just have a much smaller role in the world than they once did just because the share of output of oil globally for that comes from opec nations is less than it once was they're not probably able by themselves to create

a sort of nine hundred seventy. crisis where they could suddenly cut their output and cause dramatic or prices increases because that production that they cut would be absorbed from other players around the world so from that standpoint they're less powerful the other the other point is that oversee things are looking quite rosy at the moment or prices are quite well off the lows they once were they're all in agreement of cutting output if times get hard again maybe they will price starts to drop and that puts pressure on national budgets and suddenly maybe saudi arabia steps aside and things will maybe they're not doing the right thing by cutting output they're just passing market share to the u.s. for example then that's when things can get unstuck again and when opec's viability gets question do you believe it there thank you very much indeed for your thoughts just below the head of research at london capital group thank you once again. thank you. now u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson says he sees libya as a potential terrorist hotspot but his choice of words hasn't gone down well we'll

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as usual it's business like it's never been done before. welcome back and let's return to our top story madrid's excessive use of force during the catalan referendum has been criticized as a session of the european parliament well for more on this and they are joined by a hell of an amends a belgian teenage joins us live now thank you very much indeed for joining us well what do you think of the use reaction to sunday's violence. well i pursue our personally and my party also founded appalling the way this

european parliament in the piece of theater supported the spanish so called the rule of law the so-called constitution not only that that they actually legitimized the violence that the spanish state has been showing in the in the weekend this european union you cannot count on them if you have an independence movement and i hope that catalonians will go on to their independence it very soon well spain's foreign minister i mean he rejected the possibility of europe getting involved as we've been hearing some very strong opinions there from madrid but the catalans they want the you to react i mean what kind of reaction do you expect from the whole the e.u. countries as a whole. well we cannot expect anything from the european union the union european union is against all these regional autonomy any changing of the european. map and changing whatsoever of the existing powers

go against the majority here new here in the european parliament so you the majority of the european parliament and the european commission as well will try to stabilise talk about a dialogue which has as and been let in ten years the process of what is now going on in catalonia leads to independence the independence of a catalonian state republic as it was on the on the ballot papers last sunday so they will have to go on because they cannot count on this european union what i said from the beginning to the catalonians to the catalonian friends also don't count on this european union but as we know an issue that the e.u. parliaments been holding this meeting about the counseling crisis and the message that we're getting from the m.e. pieces that they're calling on catalonia to to basically start the dialogue they want to see negotiations with madrid between madrid or barcelona but do you think it's gone too far do you think that the dialogue will resume. well i

that is a word birds were today used to escape the real debate it was by the way no debate or were a few declarations from the majority parties in the european parliament but the parliament a parliamentary dialogue was nom although every one of these a majority leaders said there should be a dialogue in catalonia although ten years along the sides of the catalonians there are several referendums the several calls for a dialogue dialogue have been ignored by the spanish the spanish violently want to prevent that catalonia goes to morrow ptolemy so what the catalonians did was go for the maximum autonomy being there in the. republic and that's a logic reaction and what i expect is that the catalonians will go on on this path without having any thing to do because there is. anything to do with the spanish interference with that or a dialogue the spanish have shown the last ten years that they are not kin to

dialogue that they are they are not ready for any kind of dialogue the dialogue of the spanish is the metric and the black uniforms that we have seen on sunday and that is not a nation in dialogue or keen or prepared to have a dialogue with the catalonians and tell you if i can ask you to be age of the dialogue is behind us here are the one final question if i might very briefly in the past on government they prepped they promise to declare independence by monday what happens say very briefly if you don't mind what happens if madrid doesn't accept the referendum result what's the next step. well the river in the river and there will not so you must ask whether or not it will there will not defeat the action the actual question now is will the european nations one by one as far as i'm concerned belgian first will they recognize this young and new republic in the european union or in the european community so i propose belgium would recognize as

a first nation the french republic that we will see occur on monday really the kind of ottomans belgian n.e.p. thank you very much indeed for opinions thank you. but. now us also it is have released body camera video of police responding to the deadly last vegas shooting which took the lives of fifty nine people and injured over five hundred shots can be heard as officers try to locate the gunman and keep people out of the firing line. yet here there are drugs out there for those that would. be. very very few are avid gardener thirty i don't think there was a doubt. like this like this like this where the biggest thing go go go go go that was out without well some people have found themselves unwittingly connected to the last space shooting after learning about the attack want to respond and he stayed

in the same hotel room last year where the shooter committed the atrocity in this video he gives a tour of the suite and shows a few of the last vegas trip not knowing what was going to happen there and here is how one pizza delivery man describes his feelings when he discovered major delivery to the gunman. i looked at some of his supporters i want to see who was the last person i actually saw because i wanted to just. help her happen to be and stars were freaked out not sure exactly how to. raise a very. big surplus money. he was doing something for. her so. a lot america is still trying to come to terms with the deadliest shooting in its history some are using it as a platform for their political aspirations francis santiago explains vegas used to be known as the city of entertainment is now associated with yet another tragedy that shook america and the world stories of bravery and self-sacrifice grief for

their loved ones the struggle of coming to terms after the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history but now this tragedy has got dragged into political mudslinging here is c.b.s. is vice president of business affairs in her view on the horror i'm actually not even sympathetic because country music fans often the republican gun. yes she was fired shortly after that post of course following with an apology but the rest of the media haven't been shy of pigeon holing the massacre into their political and bi partisan agenda something else i think to keep in mind a lot of these country music supporters were likely from supporters and this is something that of course is hitting the tapestry of all americans and it's not just the news outlet celebrities fall in line just as easily saying there's just no way not to politicize this event after all it contains three of the most controversial elements in america's melting pot white men with guns and we obviously can guess

who those type of men are said to support should you be surprised not really even natural disasters are used to point the finger at political opponents here is hollywood's darling jennifer lawrence essentially blaming the hurricanes on trump that climate change is due to human activity and we continue to ignore and the only voice that we really have is through voting. early voting and it was really startling. thing watching these hurricanes now and it's really hard especially while promoting this movie not to. feel mother nature is. rage ralph and online you could also see people cheering for the floods because they quote our colognes in texas from racist white people and it doesn't change from one horrific event to another no matter if it's a hurricane or a mass shooting so what are we left with the so much needed uniting in the face of tragedy is marred by hateful messages of division think about it we've got francis

giago r.t. . u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson has long been known for controversial statements and actions however some say this time he's gone too far promising a bright future for libyan city if it clears up its dead bodies first and he boyko reports. with. far. too small. for the real this is a pretty and welcome reminder of a major staying 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 that french led intervention back in two thousand and eleven when the decision made when the decision was made to talk pull the government of one

legged saffy 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 program that's been a good knowledge where 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 gas 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 covered the got bigger fish to fry than boris johnson's comments. and these are the live pictures from moscow where saudi king solomon's plane has

just landed this is the first time a saudi monarch has ever officially visited russia well the king is expected to meet president putin to discuss billion dollar energy deals and the situation in the middle east. will be back with more news after the short break. erica has a comic it's called puerto rico and they overcharge him for stuff and now that there's a disaster there lived up to rot and it's a failure of capitalism it's a failure of politics in washington it's a failure that we saw coming for decades and it's a failure coming to the shores of america. when almost seemed wrong we all just don't all.

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