boy. that's so. he's. following strong support for capital independence from spain now anti independence protesters are gathering in barcelona complicated catalonia has called in its own future a correspondence that. heads to the supposed a morning molting billion dollar deals are on the table is the king of saudi arabia arrives here in russia on the kingdom's first ever official visit and it could be a signal of a wider shift in saudi foreign policy to. also weaken the certifiably so that no vote were. coming up empty handed again it seems the latest u.s.

senate committee hearing into russian meddling finds no evidence that the presidential election was effective. good morning a.t.m. first of the fifth of october live from moscow kevin all when we do this and our focus again this morning on spain and what's happening there a lot more to tell you about. well let's get on with it then following those massive strikes against the spanish let's continue government that's attracted over half a million people in catalonia now anti independence activists have gathered in barcelona demonstrators in the catalan capital are pushing for the break where region to stay is a part of spain but so all of course after last weekend's controversial referendum which saw violence break out across the region and this is a church committee has been following events for us in barcelona and you can see.

the other was there. the yes and incident right thanks that was and really are symbolic of. me was you know you can see the street here was people are quite fascinated about keeping steam in scouts have been speaking out against the independence they've been talking about how they want the rule of law to prevail how there. was no way that the team was interested in your answer the crackdown of course that was actually criticized one day of the referendum was reversed. here now i just said i was coming the right way which i. was beside a you're going to shoot it like think what they should do is respect the law in the constitution as all of europe and the european union have asked the only thing we

are asking is that the it be the constitution and the law which is what will defend the catalan people. i think is so nice it will not give us anything responded citizens first of all we want a united spain this independent side air space to nice is just to rub ass so far we do know that the catchline parliament said they would hold a session on potential independence process as soon as this monday so certainly this critical situation seems likely to continue given this a stance of the cattle on leadership to continue. to pursue the results of the referendum where ninety percent of the electorate did vote to leave spain how exactly this is going to unravel the means to be seen could you want also said that he doesn't want. to be involved between barcelona and madrid and whether or not that happens and what kind of situation is going to be and whether or not it's actually going to bear fruit is what we're going to be watching how. early is that general strike you've seen of seven hundred thousand people take part in it is

people waving flags and chanting pro dependence slogans on the park streets i couple only now that has several options regarding its future one would be opening dialogue with the e.u. and spanish authorities maybe to try to mediate the crisis that's been soured by madrid's attempts to disrupt the referendum using riot police to stop people voting but the council and president says spain hasn't tried to initiate any talks as of yet anyway i'm a big number but we have never received any positive response from the state to any of the proposals of mediation that we have at the table at the moment. even if negotiations do get under way pleasing both spain and catalonia would be a tough task after a fiery exchange of words the council president recently called the government of madrid a democratic disgrace while the spanish prime minister said the referendum was illegal and unconstitutional we spoke to one council in parliament member who says his government's opened to negotiations a couple gourami's really interesting in these objectives but for us is

very important. international community recognize what is happening here in a long year and also they are and we are making calls here in order to receive some international support in the. process of negotiating with. the spanish government. so then with the first option currently doubtful catalans may look at other options what could they be why could include its regional government going ahead with declaring independence and indeed a parliamentary session confirmed that could happen as early as next monday. out of the ninety eight hour an extraordinary meeting will take place next monday ninth told her it's a debate to make an imagination of the results of the referendum in other words declare the independence of catalonia couple what it was once an independent go to twenty if you stop watching not only have you been into the course of portugal

really so i don't see that you could so into it i think uploading and portugal shooting at the lunch hour with those with many other parts of you watching with interest as to what is up to you. but i think we have to look up to the you know its own merits given all that's happening now to look at it is there to start i think it is different but it looks a couple only is on that we do independents and it will certainly be voting for many of us but you know. all the third and perhaps worst scenario of catalonia would be madrid taking about power over the regional government under article one five five of the supposed constitution the central government can suspend the northeast and regions autonomy in fact it's seen as a last resort but the spanish just as minister has confirmed that spain could use its constitutional power to suspend catalan autonomy he added that the measure is being considered if the regional parliament declares independence next week we spoke to live in our cities say former international affairs consultant he believes

spain could be expelled from the e.u. if it doesn't tread carefully here too there's a lot of irons in the fire here. in december going in they would search in step and then they would then they really exclude themselves and membership or if the e.u. would accept such as she duration that is the and for the new. as a as an international organization we can never accept that the e.u. member state uses the army against his own people we should also not forget that the reason and the circumstances that straight stay in the game. was among other things too and in the data should such a scenario would be a catastrophe to strain to call it alone you know obviously and for the european union absolutely. senate intelligence committee says that voting in the twenty sixteen presidential election was not affected by russian

meddling. we can certify. that no vote totals were affected but the pallies are accurate the outcome of the election based upon the commode. the they did not in any way shape or form that we've been able to find and alter that from there we heard members of the senate intelligence committee say that they believe that russia was currently in the process of trying to create chaos in the u.s. elections and they talked about social media the vice chairman of the committee who is mark webber he went on to say that social media platforms were not taking the threat of alleged russian meddling seriously enough facebook recently turned over three thousand ads that they say were russia linked over one hundred thousand dollars worth of advertisements that were bought between the years of two thousand and fifteen and twenty seventeen other social media giant revealed that most of the views that these ads received were accumulated after the election took place now

senator warner went on to say that the american users of ads should be informed about whether or not ads are purchased by what he called foreign entities now he didn't define what a foreign entity is or how it would be determined if someone who purchased an ad was a foreign entity or not he just felt that ad should be labeled from there are we went on to hear about how facebook has talked about the contents of these ads in the comments made to the press we heard it hinted that it's pretty clear that these ads are one exactly linked to any particular candidate let's take a listen there's no way that you can look at that and say that that was to help the right side of the ideological shore. and. not the left or vice versa or they were indiscriminate it seems that the overall theme of the russian. involvement in the u.s. looks create chaos at every level. and i would tell you the fact that we're sitting here nine months later investigating the increased storms it seems at this. when we

heard the members of congress speaking to the press they seems to insinuate or suggest or maybe even believe that the reason that their investigation is taking so long is because of the alleged success of the russian medlars and that they've done it so well that it's just very very hard to find the evidence they didn't seem to acknowledge the possibility that maybe the evidence they're so desperately looking for just isn't there. it's been almost a year no says donald trump victory in the u.s. election and since then washington's been convinced that russia has meddled in the vote numerous hearings testimonies and commissions were held almost on a month to month basis to try to find evidence that back in january former u.s. national intelligence director james clapper claimed that russia impacted on the election outcome we cannot say they did they did not change any vote tallies or anything of that sort we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact

that sort of the intelligence community can't gauge the impact it had on the choices of the electorate made there's no way to for us to gauge that we spoke to rigid black u.s. senator from virginia state he told us nothing's been found to tie anything to russia or on alleged meddling but it won't stop agencies looking nonetheless i heard them make the comment they said russian intelligence is determined and clever what does that mean i mean i would think any intelligence service is determined and clever much of what they said was totally meaningless even though to me it would not be an reasonable to wonder whether russia. tried to influence the election i have not seen any evidence there is nothing of substance

to support it so far i think the evidence shows. trump has had nothing no improper relationship whatsoever with russia and there is they there are vague allegations but no real proof that russia had anything to do with the american elections that's that's my assessment. as a career prosecutor. we've been to russia steer in a seemingly reaching a climax of sorts then the root of it all goes but the one nine hundred seventy s. in america according to the declassified u.s. intelligence documents the now the soviet union was trying to influence small groups of people with telepathy and gnosis.

but hey don't worry about it. too soviet steel cause tension and stress. like this it's like. a polish member of the european parliament has launched a scathing attack on the e.u. over its migrant policies during a debate he accused the bloc of ideologically bulldozing member states and repeating mistakes more graphic policy is to suckle too complex

a problem to be imposed by the european political and ideological bulldozer that has to be a consensus of all member states otherwise we will be back in the situation where did the big guys do what they want they could get away with anything that has to be . the e.u. is mandatory quotas scheme has been the focus of much of the criticism each member state was required to take in a specific number of asylum seekers after the migrant crisis all began back in twenty fifteen but the quotas were never fully accepted by everyone in the uni and that's where the problems began nor can they started the so-called. redistribution system was decided upon by majority vote back then but the sudden influx of migrants led to several countries appealing against the quotas poland and hungary have been the most vocal critics refusing to take in any refugees at all the crisis

also proved a challenge even fold the biggest and wealthiest countries france and germany we spoke to the un garion foreign minister for his take on the block's common migration policies it's obvious that the migratory policy of european union was a failure so far you know the probably got three quarter system is a total bad and st. at least central europeans were honest about that but you know those western european friends of ours will praise this decision very allowed lee and bash us very loudly to have completely deployed to up to up to twenty five percent so basically no one complied with the decision of the of the european commission you know it's medical people proceed as a matter of political correctness instead of being honest and straight to the problems this is actually against the european the regulations and you broke your own laws because that decision takes away the right from the member states to make their decisions on their own in daylight and the rebuilding of their country and

when they do not come to them. much more first and used to come in the next fifteen minutes including the saudi king is arrived here in moscow for a story told to the putin it hasn't all been plain sailing for the monarch though we'll tell you more after the break.

has a colony is called what a recount and they overcharge them for stuff and now there's a disaster there leave them 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. and the f.b.i. is being sued by a victim of a twenty fifteen isolated spot attack at a controversial cartoons drawing contest in texas the lawsuit alleges that the bureau may have been complicit in the terrorist incident by not acting upon early warning signs go from susan thiago explains. the f.b.i.

is under fire accused of encouraging a terror attack the accusation comes from a security guard who is taking his case to court bruce joyner was wounded in two thousand and fifteen and in iceland speier terrorist attack targeting the draw mohammed contest in garland texas. both of them had assault rifles came around the back of a car and started shooting at police. cars. now garland could have been a massive tragedy but mr joyner along with other guards and the police managed to stop the terrorists now you want to get to the bottom of this quite shocking revelation bruce has been a loyal law enforcement officer for most of his life and only seeks the food truth

as the f.b.i.'s role in his near death all made that the two thousand and fifteen we did not understand why our own government will not tell us even privately what really happened that day so what does he base is accusations on well for starters the f.b.i. legibly help the terrorists hope to gain weapons by lifting a restriction during a background check it's also believed the agent even texted the terrorists inciting them well to have a good time. and finally the f.b.i. is accuse the following the terrorists for the scene of the attack not to pretend them but only to drive away and let them get on with it i don't like to think that they let it occur but it is shocking to me that are now under cover agent sees fellows jumping out of a car and he drives on. according to research by an american university shocking fifty eight percent of people charged with links to eisele had contact with either

an undercover u.s. agent or informant helping the terrorists do well who knows what it's very troubling to know that not only was the f.b.i. aware of this attack but likely perhaps complicit in carrying it out and even enticing the two terrorists to carry out the attack in garland texas some of the facts are indicating that they had an undercover agent that was trying to get in with isis or if the attack had been carried out successfully and people died that was likely that this undercover agent and his superiors his supervisors in the f.b.i. felt that this would prompt him up to high ranks within isis he didn't have a legal duty to prevent it but it certainly is negligence at the very least remember james komi the former f.b.i. chief well he didn't mention any of this here in the twenty fifteen gharlane press briefing and when asked whether counterterrorism investigators are looking for a needle in a haystack he said the whole country is a stack and the needles are invisible apparently there was at least one needle that

was visible but he chose not to mention your glasses jago r.t. . the king of saudi arabia has landed here in moscow on a story trip it's the first time the kingdom says sitting monika's made an official visit to russia the move seen by many as an unexpected shift in the movie in riyadh foreign policy king solomon will meet with the russian president vladimir putin with a huge oil deals at stake as cross over to any patrol is like in central moscow in cold storage and expect what one come out of this meeting though was that all of . seven good morning well deals with the richest and the biggest gulf kinda always mean big numbers on paychecks and it is no secret of course that when it comes to the international geo political scene russia and saudi arabia aren't exactly friends but this actually adds some

spice to this story for when it comes to the economic partnership officials ahead of this visit on both sides didn't hesitate to tease journalists with the big numbers that i was telling you about it is expected that when it comes to mainly oil and resource trade and also the development of infrastructure and the sphere the two countries are going to sign more than three billion dollars worth of contracts but of course we're talking about a visit of the saudi king it is historic it is the first ever to moscow it's always about the lavishness about the luxury the russian side even prepared a golden clad asco later for king saul model although maybe because of the rain it stopped working just when he got out of that airplane but perhaps a bit of compensation for that one of the billboards that he could see on his way

to central moscow where he will be enjoying a magnificent view from his presidential suit at the ritz carlton and speaking of the accommodation here they didn't just book a number of suites at kargil i have to tell you that the whole cluster of the most luxury look serious hotels and the center of moscow were actually reserved by the saudi delegation they're all now occupied so perhaps the center of moscow right now resembles a bit of the saudi kingdom at this point while we understand that in about five hours the saudi king is going to meet a lot of our prudent and of course we'll be watching not indeed we will best laid plans of that escalate to the way any of the central moscow things from us will be heard from the editor in chief of the arab news sites feisal for his thoughts on this lead me to be them. this is groundbreaking this is the first saudi monarchy to

come as a monarchy to to moscow. it sends a lot of the signals the terms of where this relationship can go forward i just want to clarify what turd small school hurts saudi arabia and i think you can say that everybody's interest for this industry for the sector to stabilize for any solution to a lot of these conflicts specially on c.b.s. we need to sit together and try to resolve these matters now when you come to the kind of particulars there might be disagreements but these are this is essentially what negotiations are for and i do not think it is in anybody's interest to see more bloodshed to see more lives being lost in the region it is certainly not saudi arabia not what the saudi arabia once and i do believe it's also not what russia wants. all the latest time from us online r.t. don't come from now i'm kevin zero in saying thanks a lot should stay with us if you can.

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