americans are constantly warned about the threat of terrorism terrorism is very real very deadly however terrorism is not the primary killed in america american song. is important but why is america. unprecedented. for the united states. concluding that presidential election results. are following the investigation. closely at america's own media outlets. across. bringing even more spanish police to the region. and also the french president. insulting the country's working class.

struggling. to live. in the russian capital. welcome to the program. he's facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with authorities there intimidating not only employees but even those cooperating with the network this was revealed by r.t. is editor in chief. she spoke at a parliamentary committee meeting. but you don't know rahm until recently new active measures except those targeting our reputation have been taken against us in the us this effectively nowhere else have we ever experience the kind of pressure that we experience today in the us to the point eventually being forced out of the country ever since the first allegations of fresh interference in the us election

emerged last year this channel has found itself under mounting pressure back in january the u.s. intelligence community presented their report into alleged russian meddling the report devoted seven pages to artsy and its supposed influence on the public discourse accusing this shadow of being as a kremlin propaganda to however no concrete evidence was or has been given in september the us justice department contacted r.t. america does not supply demand thing as a foreign agent in the us a law that was drafted in back in the thirty's and was actually a to prevent the spread of nazi propaganda this measure could potentially obstruct artie's work with the bizarre we can be asked to publish all data are now employee salaries telephone numbers and addresses we can be obliged to report every interaction we have with anyone we interview how the interviews are conducted and its contents so potentially that would mean that he will have some hard times getting any of the u.s. officials and the u.s.

experts for for the interviews and the russian foreign ministry says the measure taken with minutes apart from own freedom of speech principles. human lives a blatant violation of u.s. domestic law and freedom of speech it's not only the freedom of speech that the us proclaims that's been violated it's the very principles that the us is actively exporting it is the foundation of american foreign policy in some places they force it some places they recommend it in others they try to embedded with every means possible those principles that they blatantly violated inside their own country i directed solely against one russian channels. the ministry spokesperson also said that russia might even consider taking seats for test matches equivalent response to the us media working in russia that i see means the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists social media companies that cooperated with us have also faced pressure happened now it looks like the tech

media giants are also joining in these complain again start see a few weeks ago tweets a featured art scene in support of the us congress on the russian exceed it is on the platform among various boards and trolls most surprisingly it disclosed confidential details about the amounts of money these shared all spend some advertising on the platform which would be over two hundred solvent dollars actually which of course is hardly enough to sway the election compared to the millions and millions of dollars the main candidates spend so they can paint everybody but most of the make it look as if we've done something obscure shady. which is of cool subtle nonsense twitter with their proposal of the action of the day showed us a presentation of the absence told us how much it would cost if we agreed that feels like the list is getting longer and longer every day but who is the latest to jump on the anti r.t. bandwagon latest of the tech giants turning up on. google according to the media reports google is removing it from its u.s.

advertising package on one of its major platforms you tube that would potentially mean that's artsy would be out of the you tube's least of most popular channels it's all face to the market says and here's the reaction from marty's deputy editor in chief r.t. has been google's premium partner since twenty ten and accredited to an official status of the most watched t.v. news network in need it is absolutely unacceptable that while there were no notifications of very policy changes sent to r.t.e. says internal info appears to have be leaked to the us media by google so if that is no longer included in google's preferred advertising least in the us won't likely concern the channel too much currently and already the world's biggest news network on you tube last month i'll smash the five billion jews mark on the website so the main intrigue now is if we'll see any actions from the russian government after that today's hearing of the federation council. following the latest news on alleged russian meddling trump asked why the pilot isn't looking at america's news outlets which according to the president are producing too much fake news this was

his response to an n.b.c. news report on alleged allegations rather against state secretary rex tillerson tennyson tried to quit but was talked out of it by allies and even vice president mike pence who had to give to us in what's described as that pep talk the vice president has never had to persuade me to remain the secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post and the secretary called the president a moron and in front of all those before he said it loudly enough for you. i'm just i'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that i mean this is this is what i don't understand about washington again you know i'm not from this place but the places are come from we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense and it isn't to do no nothing but divide before. following it to listens butyl of that

story trump accused them b.c. of low reporting standards and suggested that they should apologize to america earlier this year c.n.n. had to actually retract the story claiming congress was investigating ties between a trump aide on a russian investment fund and aids threaten the network with one hundred million dollars suit apology was issued on three journalists resign some c.n.n. employees have even been caught on camera saying the channel is exaggerating stories of russian alleged meddling for ratings. what do you think's going to happen this week with all russia. russia going to be nothing really. the morning c.n.n. constantly in. russia this front with. this rating. from the right. who are. those who. are bringing political analyst daniel horowitz you for more on this thanks for joining us good to have you on the program now the white house just reminded that there's

still no evidence of collusion found between trump and russia specifically will a line do you think of be drawn under this these state senate committee off rules so that there was no influence on election results so is this a sort of final chapter if you like in this whole saga. i think we have two stories happening here one is from twitter from what the president demanded on fake news we have about five corporations that control our entire media apparatus people are profiting off of them there has been as your report as shown c.b.s. new york times c.n.n. n.b.c. so many retractions have had to be made from fake news stories that have taken place but this propagandize propaganda. coverage benefits either republican or the democratic party people are profiting off of it and it's completely controlled and at the same time you have congress investigating and

seeking regulation on free media any alternative news media coming from international sources like this channel spreads to bloggers social media now facebook having to go troll through with physical people so many different news stories because their focus is on shouting voices of anything that's not mainstream media and it was an interesting tweet from president trump onto your secondary question the second subject being with russia. in this investigation i've come on here of variety of times and continue to repeat that there is no compelling interest for the united states government to wrap up this investigation they want to continue to propagate the investigation continue to cause conflict in syria and ukraine and nato presence squishing all around russian borders continue to enhance sanctions on russia and diplomatic struggles all because of war.

basically trying to get ahead of russia and its access to bases across the ornate for the future global conflict over natural resources or oil and freshwater and this is been happening since two thousand and eleven continues to happen conveniently now through this alleged collusion that has absolutely baseless and no merit whatsoever and will just continue on because there is no compelling interest for the united states government to stop allowed to go back to a point you mentioned i know in the mainstream media because they've often made very headline news breaking news stories of these sort of hyped up accusations the often reluctant and sort of concrete evidence or sources that have been open available to the public verifiable sources when those are then debunked door proved you know to be groundless doesn't make headlines and everybody sort of seems to forget about them so i mean should they be consequences for this sort of reporting

the result just part of you know the landscape of having free media that says you know whatever they want to say. well we should have truly free media there shouldn't be a crackdown from youtube on our t.v. or trying to quiet bloggers and social media in any alternative media from being able to attend press conferences or get credentials because they're not certified we protect free speech in the constitution in this country and sources but when you hit we were never intended to be set up to where five corporations controlled close to our entire media apparatus and allowed propaganda to basically promulgated the entire news that predecessor of what we watch and read every single day whether it be radio print or on television and these anonymous sources are just part of the lowering of the standards and as long as ratings are sky high the media is not held accountable the media watchdogs are not strong enough and nobody really cares it is

sensationalized twenty four seven media however and one good side is that we have a generational divide in this country and it's mostly the baby boomer generation that trusts a lot of these sources because that's what they grew up with however our largest population block rising up being the millennial mix with the generation above them as well do not trust the news media or the media apparatus whatsoever and happen to get most of their media from social media or actual research and reading and using the educational tools that have been given to them to be able to really try to find out what the truth is so the large mainstream media is going to have a lot of problems over the next several years as there is a brand new audience that is a much larger population and they don't find any credibility whatsoever in what they're reading or watching ok who's going on less than zero for all of the things

we're in sought them out onto the national grid to talk to very interesting stuff. fames constitutional court suspended a castle and parliamentary session set for monday where the regional government promised to proclaim independence madrid wants additional security forces to stay in the region now adapting several military bases to house them and it has been following the story. tensions and political division on the future of catalonia really remains tense here in the atmosphere we are indeed in the small town of sun boys lover god which is about a half hour away from barcelona where locals have come out onto the streets and two opposing protests this particular group here was a peaceful march walking through the streets hundreds of people who have come out to speak against the police brutality that has been at the forefront surrounding the events of the of trouble for a stress friends are on council on independence as you can see the atmosphere is

quite tense as the protesters here the ones who are against the police brutality and for the independence are being confronted by another group of protest over there you can see them there so police between these two groups to avoid any kind of trouble and these two groups have come out onto the streets to really as yet another example of how high the division has been here during these last several days surrounding the referendum now in terms of the military base that you have referenced there is indeed a military base not far from here where reportedly supplies and equipment have been weakened in what is seen as preparation by madrid to potentially locate the national guard here and this is exactly the reason why these people holding up their hands to show that they're peaceful have been gathering on these streets tonight just almost a political we don't want security forces here they're preparing everything to bring repressive forces we saw how they behaved on the first of october we don't

want either the civil guard or the national police just visit us will be of little children or shortly after what happened on the first of october will patients who can bear to be beaten to a toe elderly people and children to be treated badly i will especially if you can see protesters holding spanish flags are trying to confront some of the people who have come out here to speak for independence and yet we're. to say this is yet another night of protests which is quite symbolic to represent exactly the events that have been unraveling here in catalonia making it clear that their future of this region as well as spain as a whole continues to be in question. now another sign that the additional security forces may stay longer in the region can be seen in the port of barcelona spanish authorities have prolonged their contract on three ships that are used as accommodation for the officers three navy vessels are also heading to barcelona there a spot of annual boat show organizers though stressed their ships are there as part

of the program and their visit has nothing to do with the volatile situation in the region. now because alone in independence has also driven a wedge throughout the region's police as well some of them are calling on the central government to help them join the spanish national police force or the civil guard others irritated by the actions of security forces during the war for and are determined to protect the rights of catalans on their struggle for independence we spoke to a number of police independence movement this is what one of them to say. we had orders to act in case of aggression but we didn't witness any attacks my colleagues and i are desperate over the actions of the spanish police they were beating cattle in school going to the entry school so while we could do nothing about i think we didn't show any disobedience we did try to prevent holding stations from opening despite the fact that a lot of our force didn't want to do with the. french

president has found himself in the media spotlight for the wrong reasons this time by all micron has some strong words for the country's working class while he visited a struggling company. there are some who'd be better off significant get the job done rather than some who got the qualifications to do it and it's not that far for them to grant was visiting that training center in central france on wednesday when he was basically outside there was a protest taking place by the g.s. and what workers and it's thought that he was aiming his comments at these workers who had been under threat of don't see now for around ten months and basically he said that instead of protesting they should perhaps be out looking for would be in far pretty along which.

is not the first time that mr mark warner's called the controversy over some of his comments some people saying that he's basically sort of said very bad things about the working class showing contempt for them he's previously talked about illiterate people and people who use the bus to travel to work and he's also said that he wouldn't yield to lazy people in response to the protests that came over his controversial labor reforms here in france basically he's called the working class slack is i will not yield in any way not just workers. not to the extremists there's been huge criticism from the opposition parties in france people saying that mr marquand doesn't know what it means to work and that mr marquand should watch his language and have much more respect from the people it also comes

amidst other criticism that mr markham is a president for the rich he recently unveiled his government's first budget in in that but. many people saying that he has become the reverse robin hood as in that he's taking money away from the poor and he's actually giving it to the rich and this incident on wednesday outside that training center in central france sparked again scuffles between the police and protesters these protesters from g.s. and and from some of the trade industry unions here in france just unhappy about the fact that all they want to do is to speak to their president about the future of their jobs about the future of their security for them and for their family these workers around two hundred eighty have been under threat of redundancy now for around ten months and as we know from previously speaking with them they are just at the end of their tether and willing to do anything to gain the attention to try and save their jobs or not protest those economic cuts that are of

a small village in france a short portrayed in the town hall a third of the picture has disappeared the same amount as the village budget. president vladimir putin has welcomed king solomon of saudi arabia to the kremlin on his first official visit to russia should be seen by many as an unexpected shift in real foreign policy as the country remains a strong u.s. ally we also heard from the russian and saudi foreign ministers who held

a news briefing at the kremlin. is following this for. the question is does the visit of king solomon signal a shift in the saudi foreign policy well it could be too early to use the word shift but see for yourself as the two foreign ministers were busy shedding the lights on the historic talks details they kept using the words common ground seeing eye to eye about almost everything you may argue that it's impossible to iran and damascus are still friends for moscow force for riyadh and also the gulf kingdom backs the syrian rebels but pay your attention after the talks on the highest possible level saudi arabia says that it supports the syria peace talks and asked to now that are mediated by turkey and iran and in the meantime russia praises saudi arabia for its efforts to unite the opposition and syria and what we hear next from the saudi top diplomat is that new horizons in cooperation between saudi

arabia and russia have been opened ones that we had never seen before that brings us to the deals and the big bucks it has been put on paper that there will be several billion bucks and invested in the energy and high tech sectors one of the most important is a memorandum for the sales and the production of arms we have heard reports that saudi arabia has made a decision to buy the s forty that is russian made state of the art missile defense system and we haven't had the official confirmation for that agreement but it could be worth three billion u.s. dollars not to mention the many smaller agreements on a variety of things ranging from cooperation and joint space exploration and also collage of machine guns being produced and saudi arabia so the two countries could

be. a step away from becoming true strategic partners or maybe it's even fair to say that they've already become such partners after the meeting between king saul maher and vladimir putin. joined now by maggie a professor of political science at one university and research associate at the university of manchester thanks for joining us good to have you on the program today i mean what does this visit really mean for the future of saudi russian relations it's a landmark visit also a bit controversial though what do you make of it all. let me portray this way we are talking about two statesman here what's the difference between a statesman and the politician a regular politician a statesman changes all the geo political realities on the ground what happened. between the two statesman i can label them as two statesman here

put in has pushed his way and changed the geo political realities in the middle east. kinks of man led pollution really. by his change agent crown prince muhammad the man you see what's happening in the saudi local communities now this is addressed i mean nobody believed that this is happening in this short range now the balance foreign policy of saudi arabia is drastic now nobody would believe what's happening i mean if you talk to me like two years ago. saudi arabia is going to be a strategic ally with russia would be very skeptical

now what can you see ground now you could see as. portrayed what's happening now when you look at a very important aspect of the corporation. that's not included in the report said the anti terrorism agreement this is to me it's more than b.s. four hundred the strategic missiles that proved to be very reliable and very effective in syria as well as the nuclear peaceful program in saudi arabia now i believe that the un to terrorism. agreement is the most important of all now we are talking about strategic alliance in having. brew cutting a deal now i believe that russia or france or if i can just interrupt. you very briefly sort of draw is just what i want to get as many questions as i can into

what we have you on the program i mean you speak of a strategic alliance here i don't know if you saw a report from our correspondent i mean is it really too early to speak of a strategic alliance because russia and saudi arabia. they're not on the same page when it comes to politics they're not on the same page when it comes to syria they support directly opposing sides in that conflict and saudi arabia has come in for a lot of criticism also for its human rights abuses that's what makes this visit quite controversial. is it too is that we're painting too much of a rosy picture here perhaps is this visit perhaps more of a formality could it be argued that way not something longstanding a deep change in foreign policy playing devil's advocate here what do you make of it. now when you talk about alliance you talk about road maps. the corner store owner of a strategic alliance is you talk about the road map the road map he it is already drawn by the historic visit by the crown prince of saudi crown prince.

to russia to moscow he met with president putin and he paved the way for. the old map of what's going on how they are going to be strategic allies now if you go back to what prince. prince some hamad bin man the crown prince did with. the with the united states before. president. the president of united states visited saudi arabia to draw a policy to. fight terrorism he had a visit and he paved the way for this strategic american islamic strategic alliance. conference so what we

are talking about. road maps now human rights and other subsidiary or secondary issues. come on the second. step but the main the main agreements talk about the. road map the road map is. ok when you talk about going to another i don't question him about just very briefly warning of times have to be very quick here but how do you think the u.s. is going to react to one of its main allies in the in the middle east you know building closer ties with russia do you expect some sort of response here from america. now let me be a bit critical to what's going on between. the u.s. and. saudi arabia and saudi arabia has skepticism about the wrong signals. sent by washington d.c.

washington d.c. sends one signal saying that iran. is abiding to the nuclear deal and another signal. by the presidency the leadership saying the u.s. leadership saying that iran should be punished for not abiding to the nuclear agreement now. they they are not very pleased with. their credibility. partner in the u.s. so they are going to have the balance between the u.s. and russia this is strategic balance drastic change in their foreign policy it seems so yeah very interesting to see how that pans out obviously in the long run for the you know development in the middle east with the syrian conflict etc we'll see what agreement saw saw signed after this search.