i don't. get the. headline news independent pressured catalans launch a petition as they fear the region's officials to declare independence from spain after last sunday's referendum which saw ninety percent of those who turned out vote yes. it's exactly sixteen years since the u.s. sent to afghanistan we look at what's been achieved and lost in america's longest war. and wiki leaks founder julian assange offers a twist on western journalism and he mocks the recent coverage of so-called russia in the country's alleged interference in america.

their saturday morning nine here in moscow calling for the r.t. international news first off the castle and independence referendum marred by violence a week ago so the majority of those who cast their ballots vote yes to break away from spain and the regional government vow to declare independence as early as next week but now there are fears from the pro independence camp that officials might not go through with that promise so they've launched a petition calling on the authorities in barcelona to stick with the secession plan now some political parties in catalonia who've joined the calls for the catalan president carlos pushed him on to speed up that declaration of independence however cut and dried because there are also many voices who favor a less radical approach including those in put it in own party the struggle for independence unites us but we need to make things right we have to try not to loose or expel anyone from the process. he's an associate check and has been covering the

twists and turns in barcelona for us 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 mons has been meeting with a 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 council and i. mean do not underestimate the strength of the people of catalonia the central government may have many laws many bullets and but there's one thing they don't have they don't have you they don't have the people of catalonia not to a woman of the situation ask for mediation and mediation means that we need a third passer i honestly believe that we have the right to be heard if. 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 of 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 votes 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. madrid's made another move as well with new making it easier for companies to relocate away from catalonia several banks as well as energy telecommunications and textile companies have already decided to move their headquarters out of the region the recent business exodus was among the topics we've discussed with a number of expert. 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. this is the. full investment security and full for many other issues. and you 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 the call of them all the european central bank. although the headline aside ninety percent of cuts alone ians voted for independence in the council on a referendum this past sunday these results are quite skoot because the estimates that only forty two percent of the actual cuts loney and population turned up for the referendum and we know that

a lot of controversy as well with monday's promise of independence looming we'll be keeping you up to date on what's next for catalonia. for. saturday marks sixteen years since the u.s. invasion of afghanistan two thousand and one vend president george w. bush cues the afghan government of sheltering the al qaeda leaders who masterminded the nine eleven attacks that saw the beginning of the so-called war on terror now america's longest running conflict ahead of the anniversary hundreds of people have been protesting in the afghan capital kabul against the continued presence of u.s. troops in the country demonstrators carried anti u.s. and nato signs saying afghanistan has been occupied by america comes as the united nations released new figures showing an increase in casualties from the previous year.

you said to me 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 our house and our family members why americans are killing our women and children every day in afghanistan and they just say sorry it was a mistake. 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 american soldiers opened fire in a bullet flew about my face i ran in here and came out only hours later my uncle

and cousins were dead so i went to the village to tell everyone. well in another development 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 some experts fear those new rules of war might result in greater civilian casualties as american as the details. 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 being under 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 off fronts of measures against the taliban previously having only defensive permissions general mattis also announced that the u.s. now france a place a military advisers in almost every afghan unit we have got to reorganize are 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 forty percent of the country and it's unclear if these new policies will make any difference at all clearly 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 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 the 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's shop victory in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and russia is still making the headlines with just about any issue from the vote flagged up traced back to moscow 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 the ash taking out taken and all stashed taking out what caught in a cell and pushing them off of their troll farms as much as they could there they are in the u.k. and in france and in spain and in the middle east and in the united states and in all of these other disparate places. over there but in mind wiki leaks editor julian assange has reacted to the allegations by tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism and alfonso santiago looks at that. here is all you need to know to become a top mainstream western journalist these days giuliana 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 out spot 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 those from. this rating. when you see the news tomorrow and there is something fishy about russia just remember you already know the formula for that headline axis and ya go r.t. medium list line all things that linking something to russia has become so commonplace that people automatically take it as fact. when ever you say the russians weighed in on something the russians have bought ads the russians did something by that inclusion of the word russians you create

this nefarious connection 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 they don't know beyond the headline they just listen to this the russians did it again did what i don't know so joe you know sancia is absolutely. correct. former u.s. police officer in the state of georgia has been convicted for falsely claiming he received the military on an order to commit fraud but he's avoided jail because it's his first offense. meet former army officer and veteran shane lerner who 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 his war hero story to get an invitation to the celebration which ultimately left mrs lautner and . 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 for four and he claims 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 at the heart knows after he was hit in the face by a door we had no combat operations conducted other might the show of 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 for far less vulnerable title. saudi arabia's been on a weapon shopping spree of sorts we look at the deals with both washington and moscow after the break. with this manufactured sense of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous. one percent. we can all middle of the room.

hello again the u.s. government's approve the possible fifteen billion dollars sale of its fad to anti missile defense system to saudi arabia the deal could go ahead in just thirty days time unless it's rejected by the us congress the deliveries 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 after saudi arabia reportedly decided to purchase a russian s. four hundred air defense system a bad deal that was allegedly discussed during the saudi king's first official. visit to moscow where he met president putin however any agreement on that has yet to be officially confirmed but we could be about to see a strengthening of bilateral relations between the two states on the back of other agreements that have been reached. three billion dollars worth of arms deals were signed to 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.c. the gulf cooperating countries in terms of their in terms of their defense. seven seats 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 and i'm open 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 individual sponsibility respect for free trade those are the principles that made us who we are iran's had demonic 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 did have usurped their authority of the constitution and i fight for you united states

senate i 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 make america great the victory is one of the first signs of a new cast of characters with a very different message moving up in the ranks of the republican party i believe in the second. meet 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 and politically correct and proud of it. there is trouble for establishment republicans in arizona where the senator is accused of being a weak globalist who has 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. 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 a person ok to base 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 eight thousand 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.

the f.b.i. has had a busy show if you will recently have ranging raids on animal shelters in search of two piglets that was stolen by animal rights activists not for sponsible will likely face some serious charges as well into the animal and to price terrorism act that deems cases where persons cause damage to property belonging to farms or so-called animal enterprises as domestic violence now that's led homewards to questions about how terrorism is defined by law or considering some atrocities don't fall into the same bracket. you know what i was. cool. the a god i. now do was be.

we spoke to a former anti terror worker on to animal rights campaigner who says most senior officials will be appalled by the f.b.i.'s recent conduct. the animal enterprise terrorism act was adopted at the behest of not just the meat industry but the fur industry the milk industry the animal research industry and other industries that are extremely cruel and their use and abuse of animals it's absolutely true that most senior counterterrorism officials would be appalled by what by this recent conduct at the f.b.i. and to pursue these animal activists instead of the people who are actually abusing the animals is actually a massive waste of resources. but since you are now up today join me again in just about half an hour film next global news from monte international.

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