you. headline news this hour independent counsel and launch a petition as they fear the region's officials are working to declare independence from spain after last sunday's referendum which saw ninety percent of those who turned out ok yes. exactly sixteen years since the u.s. and afghanistan we'll look at what's been achieved and lost in america's longest war. wiki leaks founder julian assange offers a twist on western journalism as he mocks the recent coverage of the so-called russia gate and the country's alleged fear into the america.

hello from r.t. h.q. in moscow with your world news is this our first that catalan independence referendum marred by violence a week ago in the majority of those who cast their ballots voting yes to break away from spain and the regional government vowed to declare independence next week but now there are fears from some pro independence camp that officials might not go through with that promise after all so they've launched a petition calling on the authorities in barcelona to stick with the succession plan some political parties in catalonia have joined the calls for the castle president to speed up the declaration of independence however it's not that cut and dried because there are also many voices that favor a less radical approach including those in the president'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 anyone from the process. artie's honest to see a chicken 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 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 council and i. mean do not underestimate the strength of the people of catalonia the central government may have many laws many bullets but there's one thing they don't have they don't have you they don't have the people of catalonia not even a woman of 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. 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 because. 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 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 well madrid's latest move was to pass a new law 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 here's what some economists have been telling us about the recent business exodus. i think it's the companies that are genuinely concerned about the break of the low and more importantly you

know completely random the decision of which slows the. government to buy to them which ones they don't want because this is this person significant risk for investment security and for for many other issues. and he prepared to go new. republic is not dissing at ideo the treaty system leasing the european union or the article money piece and then it would be outside the european union and outside the utah and outside there probably. all the european central bank. although the headline aside ninety percent of catalonians voted for independence in 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 loney and population turned up for the referendum and we know that a lot of controversy as well with monday's potential independence declaration

looming will be keeping you up to date on what's next for catalonia. for. saturday marks sixty years since the u.s. invasion of afghanistan in two thousand and one then president george w. bush accused 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 anti nato signs saying afghanistan has been occupied by america it comes as the united nations releases new figures showing an increase in casualties from the previous year.

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 our house and our family members wife 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 a massive bombardment of religion and i was injured. when 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 uncle

and cousins were dead so i went to the village to tell everyone on another move the u.s. military has decided to relax its rules of engagement in afghanistan which it's feared could result in even greater civilian casualties samir khan has 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 kinds 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 win 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 united states paranoia trying to do something along the same line 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. now almost a year on from donald trump's shock victory in the twenty sixteen u.s.

election and russia is still making bad lines because just about any issue from the vote flagged up and 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 live matter ad taking out taken and also asked checking out what got in f.l. and pushing them out of the 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 but with all that in mind we can leak said it to julian assange just reacted to the allegations by tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism miguel francis santiago looks at that. here is all the 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 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 cede 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 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. . media analyst lionel thinks 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 snuff farias 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 how big your way to do this they've condition where they don't even ask any questions they don't obey and they have to like they just listen to this the russians did it again did what i don't know so joe you know sancia is absolutely. correct. american soldiers wounded in combat all decorated with what's known as a purple heart award they need two million troops have been given the medal so far and one u.s. police officer in the state of georgia has been convicted for illegally trying to claim that he had one. meet former army officer and veteran shane ladner he 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 lochner 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. there was a pro for parents by the way he claimed he was decorated in one thousand eight 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 rules 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 has been a weapon shopping spree of sorts we look at the deals with both washington and moscow after the break. i have the absolute conviction that somebody europos do you. ever rush hour have a common interest to look at closer cooperation and this is why i seem to be so important to mobilize the driving force into business community but also we are in culture entertainment and sports we need to you know to bring it to two societies much closer. to.

earth in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington hurt washington controls the media the media the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power who must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. well again the u.s. government approved the possible fifteen billion dollars sale of its 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 radars washington says it will help support riyadh in the face of

regional threats they say was announced just a day off to saudi arabia reportedly decided to purchase a russian s. four hundred defense system that deal 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 bilateral relations between the two states could be about to improve on the back of other agreement. three billion dollars worth of arms deals were signed 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 it's an interesting development that there's 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 and i would suspect that this this is part of the new policy do again by the trumpet

ministration to come forward in supporting both the saudi and the gulf states as opposed to trying to have a reproach more with the iranians. 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 that's 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 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 fight for you 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 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 i. 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 incorrect and proud of it. there is trouble for establishment republicans in arizona where the senator is accused of being a weak globalist 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. battle cry from the president of course but it's not just about him the movie 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 eighteen approaches it looks like they may now be moving away from the politics of reagan and bush and toward something completely different cable mopp and art see new york. the f.b.i. has had a busy show recently arranging raids on animal shelters in search of two piglets that was stolen by animal rights activists and those responsible are likely to face some serious charges too under the animal enterprise terrorism act and that seems cases where a person is cause damage to property belonging to farms or so-called animal enterprises as domestic terrorism that's led in turn to questions about how terrorism is defined by law considering some atrocities don't fall into the same

bracket. it was such a no no was it was the the was i. was was was was who. we spoke to an animal rights advocate who says most senior officials would be a polled by the f.b.i.'s recent conduct. 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 in 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. well that's it for now news of the twenty four seven by following us on facebook and twitter i'll be back have opened just about half an hour. economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six points. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. . with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right.

is that just a a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are the just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devalued society from the whatever the government tried to do it wasn't necessarily making. it might be making things worse. by saying this is not how capitalism works this is our capitalism goes hopelessly disastrously wrong. what politicians do you can. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go right to be press that's what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always

in the waters in the. first sitting. room. in the u.s. a child can choose a school. with his as teachers we don't. recruit will says to the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves. the pentagon is funding a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers. to step up to an apollo so that comfortable with yourself. you can't go wrong with the military it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do but some veterans are willing to tell enthusiastic children a little more they ask me call of duty is a very popular first year video game. it's play and that's because the military

like call of duty to turn off call of duty oh yeah well you can't turn off your lot of these kids just don't hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them to be told or does it just need more recruits. time when the francis is in basra. passing around the world from washington d.c. tonight the meeting in moscow between saudi arabia's king solomon and russia's president vladimir putin produce some enormous deals in energy my guest tonight take a look at the implications for oil and gas also predatory lenders could soon feel a big squeeze on their businesses as lawmakers push for tighter regulations to

protect consumers and more trade talks between japan and the united states are coming up we take a look at the topic set to dominate that agenda standby but start right now. a global deal to stem the oil glut and raise barrel prices has been strengthened according to the leaders of russia and saudi arabia in the first visit of a ruling saudi monarch to russia saudi saudi arabia's king solomon and russia's president vladimir putin met in moscow they worked out a slew of deals including trade and economic cooperation telecommunications security weapons and oil agreements it's ushered in bilateral ties reaching a new level after decades of rivalry nearly a year ago the two lead

a deal within the organization of petroleum exporting countries and its affiliates states to cut oil production by one point eight million barrels per day for six months it was a bid to shore up prices that deal was extended in prices have gone up hitting now above fifty dollars dollars a barrel though it cannot be said that all countries involved are sticking to their promises after an extension to that agreement we may see yet another. to dig deeper into the oil issue between saudi arabia and russia and how it affects the wider world as well as the future of the opec cut extension i'd like to bring in chris martenson c.e.o. and co-founder of peak prosperity dot com chris thanks so much for joining me on this saudi arabia russia looking to sign a three billion dollar deal enjoying investment which includes one point one billion dollars in an agreement for cyber and a russian petrochemical plant to build that plant in saudi arabia is.