that's. following strong support for catlin independence from spain anti independence protesters are now gathering in barcelona complicating catalonia options on its future. multibillion dollar deals are on the table as the king of saudi arabia arrives in russia on the kingdom's first ever official visit and it could be a signal of a wider shift in saudi foreign policy. sure for sure with no vote works a. plus coming up empty handed again the latest u.s.

senate committee hearing into russian meddling finds the presidential election was not affected. you're watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital with me thanks for joining. following those massive strikes against the spanish government that attracted over half a million people in catalonia now anti independence activists have gathered in barcelona this is all of course after last weekend's controversial referendum which saw violence break out across the region and associate churkin a has been following events for us in barcelona and you can see hundred people. gathered there right there. oh you didn't see any signs that you know the kind of rally thanks they are quite loud and really are symbolic terms of passing seemingly right right. here in barcelona if you can see the street here it was people are

quite fascinated about keeping spain and how we have been speaking out against the independence they've been talking about how they want the rule of law to prevail how their extreme. the way that we've been conducting with the rest and their friends in the crackdown of course that of course we criticize on the day of the referendum on of your. people here now just this you know the ones who are coming out they think one thing they were talking about the embassy was a huge issue to do i think what they should do is respect the lure in the constitution as all of europe and the european union have honest the only thing we are that they have by the constitution and the law which is what will defend the council and people. i think its allies say it will not give us anything respond if citizens festival we want a united spain this independent side air space to my eyes is just

a robust so far we do know that the council on 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 stance of the cats 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 remains to be seen could you months also said that he does want some mediation to be involved between barcelona and madrid and whether or not that happens and what kind of mediation is going to be and whether or not is actually going to bear fruit is what we're going to be watching now. earlier the general strikes over seven hundred thousand people take part in it as people with flags and chanted pro independence slogans across the per pack streets. catalonia now has several options regarding its future one would be opening dialogue with the e.u. and spanish authorities to mediate the crisis that's been soured by madrid's

attempts to disrupt the referendum however the catalan president says spain hasn't responded positively to the idea of talks. i'm but there's a number of what we have never received any positive response from the state to any of the proposal so mediation that we have of the table at the moment with a look at spain's prime minister has so far rejected and negotiations once again stressing that madrid sees the vote as illegal meanwhile overnight protests in the capital stock crowds calling for national unity and the central government not to enter talks with catalonia. q. q. a couple of gourami's really you know insisting in these objectives that for us it's very important that the. international

community recognize what is happening here in the in catalonia and also there and we are making calls here in order to receive some international support even. in the process of negotiating with. us by the government with the first option currently doubtful catalonia may look at other options of course now that could lead to include the its regional government going ahead with declaring independence and a parliamentary session confirmed that could happen as early as next monday. if they're out of the ninety eight hour an extraordinary meeting will take place next monday ninth it's a debate to making the most of the results of the referendum in other words to declare the independence of catalonia coupled it was once an independent country twenty years ago is establishing not only our view that into the course of the four

to go already so i don't see what but it has to be concerned about how do you come to libya and portugal shooting to ensure that with them as you live many other parts of you watching with interest as to what is up you can't loot it but i think we have to look at a couple you know its own merits given over how to catalonia it is it is thought think every place is different but it looks a couple only it is on that we do independence and it will certainly be credited for many others across you. perhaps the worst scenario for catalonia would be madrid taking back power over the regional government under article one fifty five of the spanish constitution the central government can suspend the north eastern regions autonomy it's seen as a last resort but the spanish justice minister has confirmed that spain could suspend kablan autonomy if catalonia declares its independence next week we spoke to load the newest and international affairs consultant who says spain needs to tread carefully. if there's something going in they would search in step then then

they would then they really exclude themselves from membership or if the e.u. would accept such as you do ration that is the and. as an international organization we can never accept that the e.u. member state uses the army against its own people we should also not forget that the reason and the circumstances that spring spain the game remember was among other things too and to delete data should such a scenario would be a catastrophe to strain to call it alone you know obviously and for the european union absolutely. the king of saudi arabia has landed in moscow on a historic trip it's the first time the kingdom sitting monarch has made an official visit to russia and the move is being seen by many as unexpected as an unexpected shift in riyadh's foreign policy can follow him and will meet with russian

president vladimir putin with huge oil deals at stake go has the details. deals with the biggest and the richest gulf monarchies always mean big numbers on paychecks and king solomon of saudi arabia is in moscow to do just that for these contract signatures but it is no secret that when it comes to international politics russia and saudi arabia aren't exactly friends but that only adds spice to the story because when it comes to the economic partnership high ranking officials on both sides have been teasing the journalists with these big numbers multibillion dollar contracts are expected to be announced including three billion dollars worth of arms purchases by saudi arabia plus one billion dollars of extra cash for the joint and or g. fund to riyadh is also going to invest in gas production in russia moscow is going

to build plants in saudi arabia and so on so is this the case of economic interests first politics second we'll see because i'm not sure that the leaders will be able to dodge that many issues where moscow and riyadh don't see eye to eye in international politics another issue that we have to watch out for when it comes to the context is of course the very close ties between saudi arabia and the u.s. remember donald trump chose saudi arabia as the first destination for his first foreign trip the president of russia vladimir putin was asked about all that last night but let's face it is this major is always going to be the united states when it comes to political interests he said always will remain is there anything in the world that is so absolutely constant. well king solomon's visit to russia had a bit of

a dodgy start because the golden clad escalator that he carries around the world suddenly stopped when the moderate was disembarking his plane but there was compensation for that moscow understandably once to make the king as welcome as possible in russia he could see welcome posters on his way to central moscow and of course he's going to enjoy the best view of the crowd blown from his words calls and sweet and i'll tell you what the saudi delegation didn't just book several suites at the ritz carlton not even the entire hotel but a whole cluster of moscow's most lavish hotels in the heart of the russian capital so there's a bit of a saudi kingdom there right now the leaders of the world's two largest oil producers are going to meet behind the kremlin walls later in the afternoon we'll be showing you how it's happening and we'll give you all the latest updates from there. the u.s.

senate intelligence committee says the voting in the two thousand and sixteen present presidential election was not affected by alleged russian meddling however hillary clinton who lost to donald trump claims russia scared off some voters. i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim commies letter on october twenty eighth and russian wiki leaks raise doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off but we can certify. that no vote totals were affected the powers are accurate the outcome of the election based upon we can move. they did not in any way shape or form that we've been able to find all true 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 us 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 weren't 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. 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 that in pretty strong success at this point when we heard the members of congress speaking to the press they seemed 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 as we saw there the senators focused on

russia's alleged use of social media platforms as a tool to influence voters they invited three social network giants to work with the senate to help determine whether these ads were generated by foreign entities we think it's important. that the three companies that we've invited google twitter and facebook will appear in a public hearing so that americans can begin to hear both about how we're going to protect i would argue three areas one making sure that if you see an ad that appears on a social media site that americans can know whether the source of that ad was generated by foreign entities. we talked to former u.s. intelligence officer scott rickard he told us the social media giant can be easily manipulated. what's interesting to hear here is out of the hundred thousands of dot one hundred thousand only dollars there was that supposedly by the russians very

few views were actually made of that actually those posts well that being said that's because you can easily control who sees these these posts using the hadrian algorithm and other algorithms that limit these the exposure of these pows vice versa when the democratic party was posting things those posts were getting widespread view because of their collusion with google and facebook so this is really a comical joke to me and it's and it's really proves the red scare of russia can survive here even in the year two thousand and seventeen meanwhile one of those tech giants google has removed r.t. from its advertising package in the u.s. without any notice artie's deputy editor in chief kelkar nova cello has slammed the move as absolutely unacceptable this speaks to the unprecedented political pressure increasingly applied to all our t. partners and relationships in a concerted effort to push our channel out of the us market entirely and by any

means possible with anti russian hysteria now seemingly reaching a climax of sorts the root of it all goes back to the one nine hundred seventy s. and america according to declassified u.s. intelligence documents at the time the soviet union was trying to influence small groups of people with telepathy and hip hypnosis. the. little. little. little. but they don't worry about it.

it's time to do so if you still have all this tension and stress. this might cause . a little sleep because it's like. the legal limit a little a little. group photos are still proving a sticking point for some countries and the block that story and more after a short break.

thank. you. think you're new to the game this is how it works my economy is built around corporations corporations from washington to washington post media the media over voters elected businessmen to run this country business because. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . welcome back the f.b.i. is being sued by a victim of an islamic state inspired attack in two thousand and fifteen at

a controversial cartoon drawing contest in texas a lawsuit alleges that the bureau may have been complicit in the terrorist incident by not acting upon early warning signs my girlfriend to santiago has more. 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. now

garland could have been a massive tragedy but mr joiner along with other guards and the police managed to stop the terrorists now he wants to get to the bottom of this quite shocking revelation bruce who's 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 bases accusations on well for starters the f.b.i. allegedly helped the terrorists oh pain 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 to 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 an undercover agent sees fellows jumping out of a car and he drives on. according to research by an american university a 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 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 comey the former f.b.i.

chief while he didn't mention any of this during 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 haystack and the needles are invisible apparently there was at least one needle that was visible that he chose not to mention francis jago r.t. . a polish member of the european parliament has launched a scathing attack on the new over its migrant policies during the during a debate he accuse the block of ideologically bulldozing member states and repeating mistakes graphic policy is to suckle too complex a problem to be imposed by the you appear political and ideological bhutto's. has to be a consensus of all member states otherwise we will be back in the situation where the big guys do what they want they could get away with that has to be.

the mandatory quota 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 two thousand and fifteen but the quotas were never fully accepted by everyone in the union the so-called redistribution system was decided by a majority vote 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 the crisis also proved a challenge even for the biggest and wealthiest countries like france and germany r.t. spoke to the hungary and 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 obligatory photo system is a total bad in st. at least since our europeans we're honest about that but you

know those western european friends of ours who praised this decision very loud lee and best us very loudly have completely deployed to up to up to twenty five percent so basically no one complied we did a decision of the of the european commission you know it's medical people procedure is 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 they not and thirty two of their country and when they do nothing to hurt them. in germany two suspected members of an infamous nazi death squad have been identified by jewish human rights organization one of the directors for the rights group claims the men are responsible for some of the nazis units worst atrocities during world war two the nazi task force took an active role in mass killings among them was the massacre of over thirty three

thousand jews in just two days that occurred in babi yar in ukraine shortly after the war ended twenty four of the death squads leaders were charged for crimes against humanity a word of warning you may find some of the following images distressing. looking at langley it's. looking at it it's a. chimp. it isn't a show that's. just a. we spoke to human rights activists your friends are off who believed criminal should be should still be prosecuted were guard left of their age. about ten years ago the german judicial authorities change their prosecution policy

viz a viz nazi war criminals now any person who served in a nazi death camp a death camp is a concentration camp with the apparatus for mass annihilation which is either gas chambers or gas fans was served in the eyes at scroope britain can be almost automatically convicted. for service based on service alone. for example first of all one of the people denies participating in in any atrocities he says that he was a mechanic but that's irrelevant in other words he was a mechanic working on cars or trucks that took the shoot is to the pits to kill the jews so there's no question he's an accessory to murder. punishment for excessively to murder is as i said between five and fifteen years in prison and obviously when you give a person who's ninety four

a five year sentence that's basically a life sentence don't be fooled into seeing frail old people think of people who in the flower of their youth. with the height of their physical power they spent all their energy mass murdering innocent men women and children. i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more of today's top headlines so do stay with us. when lawmakers manufacture consent to sell it to the public well. when they're running plus a summer project themselves. the famous merry go round certainly the one. we can all middle of the

room six. million morrill knew. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you'd like to be the first to say what the fuck are you the more people that i'm interested in always in the waters of our. city.

this is where they pierced america's heart on the eleventh of september two thousand and one fifteen years after the attacks new york is celebrating its heroes the military. parade to on a one point five million troops the saviors of freedom every eleventh of november this parade honors generations of troops from the fallen of world war one to those returning from iraq or afghanistan their replacements on.