headlining right now u.s. authorities are putting unprecedented pressure on r.t. according to the network's chief over claims are channel influence the presidential election despite senate leaders ruling out any impact on the vote. division in spain intensifies as pro unity and pro independence demonstrators rally in catalonia and madrid wraps up its deployment of police in the breakaway region. and france looks set to approve a new anti terror law which critics say essentially puts the country in a permanent state of emergency.

global update from the studios of r.t. in moscow i'm calling bright thanks for your company this hour first for you r.t. is facing unprecedented pressure in the united states according to the channel's editor in chief she believes draconian measures are being used to target not just the network's employees but also those cooperating with us this may campaign against artie's being based on claims that are channel influence the twenty sixteen us election although no concrete evidence has ever been given high ranking officials in washington continue to make allegations. the r.t.s. on twitter were almost uniformly anti clinton and those i think you look at them and you have to conclude no there was a clear design in these ads so that's one congressman's opinion yet on the same day the senate intelligence committee probing alleged russian meddling so the complete opposite there is no way that you can look at that and say that that was to help the right side of the ideological shore and 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. looking for create chaos at every level all of this is just the latest segment of the russians did it saga where now all attention seems to have shifted to our channel and its social media adds well it's no secret that r.t. does advertise on twitter and other platforms just like most other media outlets the little bluebird sing a song of russian meddling last week in a report the disclosed how much we spend on ads the world now knows we shelled out two hundred seventy four thousand dollars on advertisements in two thousand and sixteen a pretty small price to pay to win an election don't you think hillary clinton spent a whopping five hundred sixty five million on her entire campaign and yet some think we lost her the election with just a couple of internet ads what we're really guilty of is self promoting and hell twitter even approached us about buying the ad is a pretty but most it's make it look as if we've done something obscure shady semi

legal which is of close. to it to contact us with that proposal before the election they showed us a presentation of the advents told us how much it would cost and we agreed recently google became the latest internet giant to jump on the bandwagon when it yanked us from its premium ad service in the us without any warning whatsoever now that move is unlikely to have an adverse effect on our channels reach as we are already of the most viewed news network on you tube and fact last month we hit the milestone of over five billion. views nevertheless this ban only adds to the mounting pressure on the trail door until recently no active measures except those targeting our reputation has been taken against us in the us specifically new or else have we ever experienced the kind of pressure that we experience today in the us to the point eventually being forced out of the country what it comes down to is of all of these attacks against the russian media continue moscow has announced that

equivalent measures may be taken against american media in russia. the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists meanwhile president trump who sees the russian witch hunt as a hoax has suggested that his government take a look a little closer to home saying that american media is full of the ever present fake news. donald trump is of course all too familiar with the battle against fake news the president and his administration say they've been long term targets of false reporting the latest victim seems to be secretary of state rex tillerson. tennison 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 a 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 secretary called the

president a moron and it was wrong of all those for he said it loudly enough for. those who resist. 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 i'm not from this place but the places i come from we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense and it is intended didn't know nothing but divide before following to lessons rebuttal of the story trump accused n.b.c. of low standards in its reporting and said it should make a public apology c.n.n. has also been in the firing line over some of its reporting earlier this year it had to retract a story claiming congress was investigating ties between a trump aide and a russian investment fund when the a threatened the network with a one hundred million dollars lawsuit an apology was issued and three journalists resigned some c.n.n. employees have also been caught on camera claiming the channel runs on alleged russian meddling stories only to boost its ratings but what do you think's going to

happen this week with the rest of. the things that make up the really. the point c.n.n. constantly in. russia the thrust of. this ratings president is probably right to say. look. you know you. we discussed the issue with a number of commentators who've been outlining their concerns with us media. i agree with the spirit of what he's saying which is that the american mainstream media is doing an absolutely terrible job it's lost all journalistic practices aside in an effort to get the president on on very trivial matters and then in large sense made up matters but the idea that the u.s. government needs to go after any news organization is is very false and very unhealthy the american people are deciding the american people have lost faith in

the mainstream media we have about five corporations that control our entire media apparatus people are profiting off of them 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 to bloggers social media now facebook having to go troll through with physical people so many different news stories that their focus is on shouting voices of anything that's not mainstream media and it was an interesting tweet from president trump. spain's defense ministry is giving additional aid to the police and the civil guard being deployed in catalonia right now the region says it will declare independence next week which has led to opposing protests across the country as we've been reporting in madrid's latest move to ramp up pressure has been getting plenty of

attention approximately twenty trucks with beds kitchens showers are being sent out to the police in the castillo knew with some media speculating this point effectively sending in its army to get a handle on the situation spanish authorities are already feeling the heat of course following the violent crackdown on the day of the catalan referendum which left more than eight hundred injured last sunday. madrid's extra support for its forces in catalonia comes after five hundred officers in barcelona were evicted from premises that anastasio churkin has been following developments in the catalan capital. we are indeed in the small town of sun boys remember god which is about a half hour away from barcelona where locals have come out onto the streets and through 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 tobar for a strat friends and on castle an independence as you can see the atmosphere is

quite hands as the protesters here the ones who are against the police brutality and for the independence are being confronted by another group of protesters were there if you can see them there are 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. thank. the violent police crackdown on catalans on the day of the referendum is often at the forefront in sandboy deliberate got near barcelona equipment and supplies sent by madrid to a military base have been met with resistance the move is seen as preparation for more trouble to come if president bashar will be out after what happened on the first of october last patients we can bear to be beaten to a toe elderly people and children to be treated badly lost 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 i. was. the spanish national guard has been vilified since over eight hundred people were injured on polling. in towns around catalonia locals have demonstrated against the police there but proved unity supporters were against independence and the police about it within the law the police violence they did what they had to to restore law and order reporting from catalonia an associate circular for r.t.

meanwhile arriving officers were given a jubilant welcome by prohibiting supporters in parts of catalonia and the two different forces in spain the civil guard and the national police were seen hugging each other. a six suspects has been arrested in an investigation into a failed bombing in an upmarket paris neighborhood an explosive device was found on saturday and point five suspects were arrested it comes as a new anti terror laws being passed in the lower house of the french parliament and is expected to be adopted in the upper on this month to do better he takes a closer look at the new legislation. science has been under a state of emergency for almost two years and doubts he's about to end the catch is

that essentially it becomes permanent with many of these emergency powers being signed into law under the new already approved by the lower house of the french parliament the police will have moved no is just such close to carry out stop in the search operations so why a top coat and e-mail communications it will also allow the closure of places of worship suspected of being sightings terrorism and placing alleged jihadi sympathizers under house arrest now a recent poll in france suggested that fifty seven percent of people are in favor of the war even if sixty two percent think it will be to use their freedoms. i think these who've become dangerous in the long run and would be beneficial today they say it's against terrorists to morrow against ecological protesters and nancy

global it's just a day after to morrow it will be against journalists this opens a pandora's box. and this is i think this they misread it. i believe the whole program is useless human rights activists say it's a violation of privacy even emanuel mocked for himself admitted that these measures do not to war against terrorism so why are they pursing them maybe the regime is getting weak maybe they are anticipating social unrest maybe they just want to chase around that we could pinion and tell them we are doing something but what we need is for the french government to do the right thing in the right thing to do to force us to question why do these terrorist attacks happen and second world with their keep happening emanuel michael pledged to end the state of the marriage and see by november and this is key to him keeping about comics and while there is no doubt that this will be for the powers the police it's unclear

if it will the people dogs any more safety despite the sacrifice of liberty so that even skiing. carries on top of all that a new anti terror measures underway at one of the world's most visited tourist attractions the eiffel tower in paris will be secured to ground level by a bulletproof glass wall the new counter terror measure was approved back in february after a wave of attacks in france and europe. a

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us congress is judicial trials begin over what's known as insider trading the illegal exchange of information to make a profit on the stock market before any of that information to be made public now previously the knoll didn't affect congress members we carried out our own investigation and some a recount. insider trading using confidential information on companies to make gains in the stock market is a criminal offense and could result in jail time however the law doesn't apply to everyone most congressional staff members get away with it scot free but the question is is this legal well a few years ago the stop trading on congressional knowledge act or stock was fashioned to curb insider trading and prevent members of congress from trading stocks based on nonpublic information gathered on capitol hill the stock act makes it clear that if members of congress. from asia to gain an unfair advantage in the market then they are breaking the law.

however about a year later the bill was amended allowing top federal employees to hide their financial dealings from the public now the new change didn't apply to members of congress but nothing was said about their aides or staff members comfortably leaving them in a gray area allowing them to trade stocks freely without obstruction after going into the legislative resource center in the cannon office building the only place where you can actually go and research this information we've found that diane do you hers who's the deputy chief of staff to nancy pelosi disclosed her purchase of stock in pharmaceutical companies right before a medical research bill was passed in congress. as for david hoppe who's the chief of staff to paul ryan he and his wife purchased and sold

shares in energy and form a suitable companies while he worked for ryan and also before congress passed bills benefiting companies traded. the people in congress should be no better than the ordinary americans and it's a privilege to invest in the stock market if they want to have their investment in our american stock market they don't have to pick individual companies they can buy indices so i think it's a gross miscarriage of justice the rules are written exam these aids from any kind of penalty so they believe that there are you know entirely within their rights doing this kind of stuff and let's keep the pressure up to get change to work for the vast majority of this country instead of just for the connected elite class a former j.p. morgan investment banker is now serving a three year term for insider trading having been convicted earlier this year the

judge called his actions outrageous choosing personal convenience over ethical obligations but one only has to wonder where's the outrage in the court cases when congressional staff members are guilty of the very same crime. samir han r. t. washington d.c. . the syrian army is inching closer to seizing islamic states last stronghold in david's or province itself the government forces made a decisive advance towards the town of my at the inn russia's air force has also been targeting terrorist positions inside the town.

suffered another major blow elsewhere in the country of syrian forces backed by russian planes have now completely liberated the eastern province of hama syrian army officers showed me the horrifying legacy left behind by the japanese. didn't expect. them from the rear to fly in their own positions. stronghold in the area which was heavily guarded i still fourth of the death to defend it to the terrorists have special places for torturing prisoners they have jos with police officers this is one of the prisons which they use for torturing people who didn't want to follow their ideology. and another terror group in syria has been dealt a series of setbacks according to russia's defense ministry with a jadis to leadership eliminated in an airstrike the russian military received intelligence of a high ranking al nasra meeting on october the third with the exact time and location confirmed through several channels russian forces then conducted an air

raid killing dozens of terrorist fighters including twelve commanders and leaving the main leader of al nasra in a critical condition but i guess they have reports now from syria. nusra front jihad ists were thrown into confusion apparently surviving field commanders called for an emergency meeting to decide on how to carry on don't know what to do in the future to organize so to speak fortunately for them russian military intelligence learned of that meeting also once confirmed and verified the location the date and the time a suit thirty four flew out to carry out an ashtray according to what we've heard from the russian ministry of defense another seven field commanders were killed as well as forty nine other bodyguards and jihad lists but these two airstrikes have dealt nusra front a tremendous blow it is by all reports the biggest and the strongest rebel faction

with the most fight it is the best training and the best weapons but compounding the damage done to them there the russians have also learned of nusra front biggest underground ammo dump weapons store holding allegedly more than a thousand tons of various arms and munitions with the course of several days that the russians studied the movement of trucks patrols around this location which they didn't yet know espionage on the ground surveillance recon they finally learned its exact coordinates finally the go ahead for an ashtray was given and the jets carried to special bunker buster bomb and it penetrated its targets and the fires apparently raged for hours and alice signifying that the store had been hit again another huge blow to al qaeda in syria. and that's the news

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the natural disaster in puerto rico and the largest mass shooting in american history we're going to take a look at each of these and more on this edition. of politicking on larry king we're talking about the framework for his four post tax plan donald trump referred to it as a middle class miracle it's no surprise that democrats and other critics don't see it that way they say mr trump's plan benefits only the richest among us we're going to talk about that and more with congressman roger marshall republican of kansas serves on the house agriculture committee and the committee on small business he joins me from washington thomas and before we get that a tax framework is that trump has issued words of comfort for the victims in las vegas prays for the first responders hasn't mentioned anything about gun legislation did say on the way to puerto rico that we'll be talking about gun laws

of time goes by what do you make should we have tougher gun you couldn't buy a machine gun in nevada legally. it's a controversial issue and i've always been a very strong advocate of protecting all the amendments and all of our freedoms of americans i don't know why we have to think we can have either or i think we can protect our our liberties that we've been granted in the constitution and maintain public safety my dad was the chief of police in a small town for twenty five years so i think i understand a little bit of that side of as well so we can have both but the people can to sit me here to had that conversation and we need to get to work on it. does that second amendment read clear to you. yes sir it sure does raise very clearly that i have a right to bear arms just that plain and simple what it says to form a militia. it sure does and i guess what i. i would say is we need to be able to

bear arms in case we need to form that militia so i'm very much an advocate of the second amendment but we can have both we can have both our second amendment and public safety and you know one thing we've worked on is addressing mental illnesses as a physician the last twenty five years certainly i've seen the number of people with mental illnesses severe mental illness is out and about there in our there in our parks are the homeless people there the people that are feeling are homeless shelters so we've taken some addressed address some of those issues in the most recent congress to try to have adequate funding to help some of those people so we can have both public safety and our second amendment on one of the big man area you will get to the budget and other things. why is it so hard to agree on a band for semiautomatic rifles of what they. will certainly be high powered rifles are used in hunting there is a there are used a sportsman as marksmanship some of those types of.