business community but also in culture entertainment and sports you know to get to society's rules or. headline news independent pressure cattle to launch a petition as they fear the region's officials won't declare independence from spain after last sunday's referendum which saw ninety percent of those who turned out vote yes. exactly sixteen years since the u.s. entered afghanistan we look at what's been achieved in that time and lost in america's longest war. and wiki leaks founder julian assange has a twist on western journalism as he mocks the recent coverage of the so-called russia gate and the country's alleged interference in america.

from in the team here in moscow saturday morning a day here with your news this hour first off the castle on independence referendum marred by violence so the majority of those who cast their ballots vote yes to break away from spain and the regional government vowed to declare independence as early as next week but there are now fears from the pro independence camp that the officials might not go through with that promise so they lost a petition calling on the authorities in barcelona to stick with the succession plan now some political parties in catalonia have joined the calls for catalan president carlos put him on to speed up the declaration of independence however it's not that cut and dried there are also many voices who favor a less radical approach including some people in put it a man's own party the struggle for independence unites us but we need to make things right. we have to try not to loose or expel and one from the process. he's

honest to say a check and has been following all the latest developments in barcelona really it seems like everybody here is holding their breath to see what will happen next because the fact that these final results have finally been registered with the parliament is quite crucial because we've been hearing from the catalan leadership that it would be within forty eight hours after that that the announcements of independence would come now in fact the final results results did confirm the numbers that were announced earlier that ninety percent of the population who came out to vote said yes to leaving spain so this certainly is seen as something reaffirming the cattle and a commitment to keep moving out of spain now we do know that the cattle and leader project montalban meeting with the mediation committee just behind us and there was supposed to be a press conference held right after which ended up being cancelled which is sort of to this thick veil of excitement and secrecy at this point in terms of what exactly is going to unravel next and we can say that obviously around the time of the referendum we've been hearing very strong rhetoric from the cattle on leadership

that did become a little bit softer following the referendum result let's take a look. the day after the first of october we will start a new period taking into consideration the will of the castle. not the mean do not underestimate the strength of the people of catalonia the central government may have many laws many bulletins but there's one thing they don't have they don't have you don't have the people of catalonia a woman can show you the situation ask for mediation and mediation means that we need a third passive i honestly believe that we have the right to be heard if in a policy of you know i will make a direct appeal to the european union. but there's a number of what we have never received any positive response from the state to any of the proposals of mediation that we have on the table at the moment. well what we've been observing throughout these last days following the referendum is

a sort of chess game with the council on leadership taking certain steps and certain reactions from madrid one thing we've seen of course is the announcement to potentially hold a parliamentary session on monday where the declaration of independence was supposed to have been discussed we saw in response to that the constitutional court in spain that they would block this kind of vote and as a result we've seen a push from put him on to have this serious and very important session where potentially the announcement of independence could come to be held on tuesday which is quite crucial to watch how exactly that's going to be unraveled because of course madrid continues to insist that they're not going to accept any of this. when madrid have adopted a new law making it easier for companies to relocate away from catalonia several banks as well as energy telecommunications companies already decided to move their headquarters out of the region we also number of experts about the recent business exodus. i think it's the companies that are genuinely concerned

about the break of the lol and more importantly you know completely random the decision of which laws does the present government to buy to them which ones they. think this is the. full investment security and full for many other issues. and he prepared to go new kind of republic is not dissing at audio the treaty says not receiving the european union or the article money and then it would be outside the european union and outside the utah and outside that paula. all the european central bank. although the headline aside ninety percent of cuts alone eons voted for independence on the council on a referendum this past sunday these results are quite screwed because the estimates that only forty two percent of the actual cuts learning and population turned up

for the referendum and we know there was a lot of controversy as well because it's an area where feelings are still running high we'll stay across all the developments in spain and catalonia. for. saturday marks sixteen years since the u.s. invasion of afghanistan in two thousand and one then president george w. bush accused the afghan government of sheltering al qaida leaders and washington viewed as masterminding the nine eleven attacks that saw the beginning of the war on terror and now america's longest running conflict ahead of the out of hundreds of people have been protesting in the afghan capital kabul against the continued presence of u.s. troops in the country demonstrators carried out to us and nato has signed saying afghanistan has been occupied by america it comes as the united nations releases

new figures of the casualties from that war and it seems that the situation worsens in comparison to the previously. he says any for me i was praying in my house and when i saw american helicopters i told my wife and children to save themselves after that i just heard a loud noise and then my house was destroyed six people were wounded including women and children. they destroyed their house and our family members why the americans are killing our women and children every day in afghanistan and they just say sorry it was a mistake. was sitting in a room together and suddenly we had the massive bombardment of village and i was injured.

last night on the explosion happened i was near to my uncle and cousins and they're going soldiers opened fire in a bullet flew about my face i ran in here and came out only hours later my. cousins were dead so they went to the village to tell everyone meanwhile the u.s. military has decided to relax its rules of engagement in afghanistan which means proximity is no longer an issue when it comes to striking the taliban the some experts they fear the new rules of war might result in greater civilian casualties samir account of the details the president announced a new strategy to the u.s. this sixteen year long war over a month ago which is just outlined by the pentagon chief earlier this week the old rules included. both rules of ng and or rules of engagement and operating principles included a requirement for proximity of the enemy to be engaged by our air forces so i've removed proximity and that in itself open to the enemy were ever they are

found to the nato air support so u.s. forces will now be fully engaged in afghanistan giving authorization to launch direct authentic measures against the taliban previously having only defensive permissions general mattis also announced that the u.s. now finds a place in military advisors in almost every afghan unit we have got to reorganize or our advisors because those units with nato and american advisors when and those without them often do not win so we're going to spread the number of units with advisors but how much of a shift will this really be on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime and afghanistan commander in chief i have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional thirty thousand u.s. troops to afghanistan starting next month we will be able to remove ten thousand of

our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year is it going to require additional u.s. troops who believe it will involve additional forces. so far it seems like every u.s. strategy in afghanistan has failed now the taliban still controls or contests twenty percent of the country and it's unclear if these new policies will make any difference at all the clue they're not learning anything from the past but i would argue that the system that we are using to make foreign policy and national security policy is not geared to learning from the past of course as everyone knows the united states was unable to achieve the goal that it had set for itself which was to. basically put the taliban movement on the defensive and prevent them from being able to continue their advance now we're seeing united states currently trying to do something along the same lines with far fewer troops obviously on the face of it it's an absurd idea one cannot fathom how they could

imagine that they could be successful in this. almost a year on from donald trump shock victory in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and russia is still making the headlines with suggestions on new ways that allegedly meddled with the vote there been accusations of moscow trying to swing the presidential race to just about anything that the media's managed to trace back to russia russia has hacked into a lot of things but the criminal clan that was bought by this russian troll farm on facebook was a black lives matter ad they were taking both sides of the argument this past weekend and pushing them off their troll farms as much as they could to try to just raise the noise level in america this isn't about the two thousand and sixteen presidential election it's about russian influence in nato countries i mean we can he said it's julian assange has reacted to the allegations by tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism mego from santiago looks about. here is

only to know to become a top mainstream western journalist these days giuliana's sun she has just put together the perfect guide for all you want to be media pros first randomly pick and newsworthy event make sure it's one the russians will definitely cover now all you got to do is blame the kremlin for covertly pulling the strings behind that event why well because the russian press was covering it in the midst of the ever growing hysteria of russian particularly r.t.s. meddling in u.s. politics let's see whether songes russian hysteria guide is being thoroughly followed global event brags it made its way across the globe everyone reported in this major global event including russia of course and guess what brags that somehow got added to the list of russian involvement or for that matter any election this past year.

i guess we can solidify house bought on a songes guide really is because even in catalonia that never had anything to do with russia moscow somehow got the blame for the catalans will to seed from spain simply because well russia that's right reported on it and now we're getting to the most important part of the guide the motive which according to songe is of course profit them on c.n.n. constantly like russia the structure of. this is rating. when you see the news tomorrow and there is something fishy about russia just remember you already know the formula for that headline francis and ya go r.t. we asked media analyst lionel to take a look at the mock god here's what he made of it. i think it's

a brilliant and it may be dismissed as being satire but it is probably one of the best appraisals and best descript doors and descriptions of what happened because what's happened right now is for the longest time the american people have been conditioned into thinking you are actually nazi as soon as you say the word russian it's like out of a dog whistle something turns off their head their brains turn up russian. and that's all they need to hear by that inclusion of the word russians you create this nefarious connection this almost post actually new cold war russo phobic red scare kremlin baiting suggestion and it has been done with such frequency and such volume that people americans and the news people in particular themselves have big to way

to do this they've condition where they don't even ask any questions. former us police officer in the state of georgia has been convicted for falsely claiming he received a military honor in order to commit fraud but he's avoided jail because it's his first offense. meet former army officer and veteran shane ladner made the headlines when he and his wife were injured in a train accident at a veterans parade in twenty twelve family members claimed he made up the war hero story to get an invitation to the celebration which ultimately left. seen the coverage attracted the unexpected attention of the local sheriff's office it turned out the former serviceman had lied about some of his own as like his purple heart medal i woke up the hospital there with the power for and he claimed he was decorated in one thousand nine hundred nine for his service in panama in operation just cause and that he that got lost in the mail due to hurricane katrina but an

investigation concluded the only injuries he received were scars from an appendix operation and a heart knows after he was hit in the face by a door we had no combat operations conducted other my facility classified classified they didn't exist in fact the court ruled mr ludlow had lied about the whole thing to get free license plates for his car and save some five hundred dollars he now faces ten years probation and a six thousand dollars fine and a far less honorable title. saudi arabia's been on a weapons shopping spree of sorts we look at the deals with washington and moscow right after the break.

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welcome back the u.s. governments approved a possible fifteen billion dollars sale of its fat anti missile defense system to saudi arabia the deal could go ahead in just thirty days time unless it's rejected by the u.s. congress the delivery is expected to include launches missiles mobile control stations and radios washington says it will play a role in supporting american foreign policy objectives and support riyadh in the face of regional threats the sale was announced just a day off to saudi arabia also decided to purchase a russian s. four hundred ad defense system and that deal was reached during the saudi king's first official visit to moscow this week where he met president putin and if that sale goes through it will likely strengthen the bond that relations between the two state usually riyadh buys from washington however it wasn't the only deal discussed during the saudi monic stay in russia. deals to the value of three billion dollars for science and future investments in technology is also agreed we asked former

pentagon official michael maloof what's behind the timing of the saudi deals with both moscow and washington both missile systems are different in terms of their technical capabilities that is definitely oriented more toward ballistic missiles incoming ballistic missiles and your s four hundred is more an aircraft. but it's a very effective system against any aircraft now and it depends upon where they position both systems they would have to put them close to. the the eastern side of saudi arabia aimed at. aimed at iran but given they're given the range it's an interest it's an interesting development that that it's all happening at once because i think it's it's politically meant to show that the united states backs the saudi and the g.c.

. the see the gulf cooperating countries in terms of their in terms of their defense. seven places are up for grabs during next month's congressional and state elections in the us most of which were vacated by former members of the trumpet ministration giving democrats a chance to win back a majority in the house of representatives takes a look at the possible new faces. it's primary season and the old guard of the republican party is out in full force but the question is how long will establish mint republican faces like these be around neoconservative hawkish close to big business that's how people used to know the republican party economic freedom and responsibility respect for free trade those are the principles that made us who we are iran's had to monaco ambitions present a threat to our homeland the libyans right now are very grateful to us but this is just the beginning we know how hard democracy is and with

a new they're going to need a lot of assistance protectionism isolationism. are really not conservative values some of them have already been lost and to quite a controversial anti establishment candidate who seemed an unlikely winner even to his fellow party members i fought in the courts against liberal judges that have usurped their authority of the constitution and i'll fight for you if united states senate and fight for the people of this state and of this nation who want to bring our country back to scrape and we can and we will let's go get and make america great the victory is one of the first signs of a new cast of characters and a very different message moving up in the ranks of the republican party i believe in the second. week the firebrand front runner for tennessee she's an outspoken advocate of the wall on the border with mexico and she carries a gun in her handbag i'm a hardcore card carrying tennessee conservative i'm politically incorrect and proud

of it. there is trouble for establishment republicans in arizona where the senators accused of being a weak go lobel ist who was abandoned his conservative values he is a self professed globalist he much prefers the global community to putting america first and that is unacceptable in arizona and it's unacceptable in this country we know the america for. this battle cry from the president of course but it's not just about him nobody voted for donald trump ok you voted for the trump's agenda they voted for president trump as president trump because of because we're going to but also because his personality is not enough right now you know going to base your future on opposed to going to based upon what he says he's going to do for you only thirty nine percent of republicans now say they approve of the job being done by the party in congress a huge drop from seventy seven percent in january their grassroots base seems to

have a very different perspective than those running the party and if things shift this wouldn't be the first time the republicans have had a complete make over let's not forget they began as the party of abraham lincoln and liberal reformers who were opposed to slavery as twenty eighteen approaches it looks like they may now be moving away from the politics of reagan and bush and toward something completely different cable mop and art see new york virginia state senator richard black told us about several key politicians who might not make the cut this year. what we're about to see is kind of an earthquake in the united states senate which is so important in controlling the direction of american policy makes you got senator mccain chairman of the armed services committee and hoover war hawk and he is he has brain cancer like not likely to continue a great deal longer you've got senator corker the chairman of the foreign relations

committee he announced in light of everything that's going on he's not going to run for reelection. senator menendez the former chair of the foreign relations committee and a war hawk he's the one who introduced the resolution to attack syria the one that fortunately failed he's now under indictment for corruption and tied ups and and we've got others senator jeff flake who's on armed services is likely to lose his allies from then in twenty eighteen to kelly ward who is very much a. she's very much opposed intensely opposed to regime change in the middle east and to normalizing relations with russia and that sort of things so i think would want him no one knows exactly how it will all play out but i think for ordinary

americans this this the results of this election were uplifting and they they just suggested that. the american people are beginning to exert genuine influence over their government which they did not do before. not show up today this hour join me again in about thirty five minutes for your next global news from alta international. i have the absolute conviction. to be europe. and russia. have a common interest to look at closer corporation and to see why i seem to be so important to mobilize the driving force in did business community but also we in culture

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