it was. headlining this independent pressure to launch a petition and they fear the region's officials won't declare independence from spain after last sunday's referendum which saw ninety percent of voters who turned out to vote yes. it's exactly sixteen years since the u.s. entered 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 as he mocks the recent coverage of the so-called russia gate the country's alleged interference in america.

go to this saturday's midday here is calling right welcome to the global news from r.t. international first up this hour fears that the castle and parliament won't push on with its independence pledges are growing in the breakaway region last week referendum which was marred by violence or the majority of those who cast their ballot voted yes to leave spain but the problem dependent camp in catalonia feels officials are now pushing for dialogue with madrid so they launched 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 the catalan president colors puts them on to speed up the declaration of independence but 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. well let's go live to boston we could talk to a correspondent on this has been there for the past few days keeping a close watch on things and the developments to report about so one of the. well local and pressures are certainly certainly mounting here in catalonia as the cattle our leadership is in fact expected to keep its promise and basically what carlos which one has been saying this entire time was that catalonia would declare independence within forty eight hours of the votes being counted and announced following the referendum and we have seen just last night the cattle on leadership didn't register the final results of the referendum of october first with the parliament they were the same ones that were announced earlier that ninety percent of those who did come out to vote did vote in favor of leaving spain so now the expectation is that they would go ahead with announcing their independence and puts

them on to earlier this week did say that this would come as early as this weekend or potentially the beginning of next week so certainly all eyes are now on that and we do know that of course pressure from madrid has been mounting the latest comments we've heard were from the spanish foreign minister who threatened that if catalonia leaves they would essentially become an outlaw. who disagreed with the low but you cannot disobey the law if you disobey the law to become. well all of this comes as a carlist which the months he did use very strong language when it came to this referendum something that of course has been years and years in the making for the caps on the independence movement continuing to push for this go ahead and he used very strong language initially but then did seem to kind of push back slightly following the referendum he did reference mediation and at some point during the week he came out to make a speech where he was expected to announce deadlines however he again just very.

widely said that the institutions of catalonia would follow up on the results of their. and 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. do not underestimate the strength of the people of council lonia. a woman of the situation asks for mediation and mediation means that we need. and i get to me i will make a direct appeal to the european union. well it's obviously very safe to assume that politicians here in catalonia as well as in madrid are having sleepless nights right now trying to figure out their next steps now what we do know is that the capsule and regional parliament is going to be meeting on tuesday the leader of the catalonia puts them on is going to be there and that is now the day when they are expected to announce either you know actually going ahead with this independence

that they've been talking about or some kind of further steps so all eyes are on that but we do know that this was supposed to mislead have been taking place on monday and the spanish constitutional court had banned that stop so now it's been changed to tuesday so we'll see really what comes out of that at this whole independence issue obviously has been sending crosses flying with been seen protesters coming out onto the streets throughout this last week the issue of police brutality came to the forefront to an extreme really here for an even member state to have seen the images that circulated the world where police forces had cracked down on the voting stations where we saw them driving around voters of all ages and as many as over eight hundred people ended up being injured so we can safely assume also that following all this drama the people who did come out to vote in support of catalonia leaving spain are now expecting just that to happen. at a crucial seventy two hours coming up i guess we'll just have to see who blinks first . madrid thank you. 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 telecommunication 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 law and more importantly you know completely random the decision of which laws does the present government to buy to them which ones they don't because this is this person significant risk for investment security and for for many other issues. and he wanted 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 paula. all the european central bank. although the headline aside ninety percent of cuts alone ians voted for independence on the council on a referendum this past sunday these results are quite screwed because estimates at that only forty two percent of the actual cuts known in population turned up for the referendum and we know that a lot of controversy as well with a potential independence declaration looming boobie here to keep you up to date on what's next for 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 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 us and anti nato signs saying afghanistan has been occupied by america this comes as the united nations has released new figures showing an increase in casualties from the previous year. he says amy 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 the americans are killing our women and children every day in afghanistan and they just say sori it was

a mistake. was sitting in a room together and suddenly we had the massive bombardment of village and i was in . this house 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 uncle and cousins were dead so i went to the village to tell everyone of the u.s. military has decided to relax its rules of engagement in afghanistan which is feared could result in greater civilian casualties samir khan has the details. president announced a new strategy to the u.s. as 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 plans to place a military advisors in almost every afghan unit we have got to reorganize or are 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 paranoia 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 victory in the twenty sixteen us election and russia is still making the headlines with 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 lives matter advice taking out taken and all stash checking out boycott 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 and with all that in mind wiki leaks editor julian assange has tweeted a mock guides to modern western journalism we go from santiago looks at the. 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 colbert really 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 is raining. 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.

all media analyst lionel thinks that linking something to russia has become so commonplace that people just 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 for big red scare kremlin baiting suggestion and it has been done with such frequency and such volume that people americans in the news people in particular themselves have hope big your way to do this they've condition where they don't even ask any questions they don't obey and they never lie 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 decorated with what's known as a purple heart award then he two million troops have been given the medal so far or now a police officer has been convicted for fraud after he lied about having one. 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 having lied about some of his own has like his purple heart medal i woke up the hospital there was a power for and 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 at the 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's been on a weapons shopping spree of sorts we'll take a look at the deals with washington and moscow after the break.

despite all the efforts of the central banks to kill the economy by keeping bankers solvent when they should have been declared bankrupt years ago the index is showing that interest rates are going to go higher this means two things number one property market's going to crash and number two bond markets going to. europe has to either change or cease to exist people who work in this building headquarters should change the rules of the european union would have to work on fewer issues both with better results should be paying more attention to protecting external borders fighting against curbing illegal immigration as well as harmonizing economic policies and judicial systems otherwise the europe we have today. would transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common.

the us government's approved the possible fifteen billion dollar 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 but 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 this sale was announced just a day off to saudi arabia reportedly decided to purchase a russian s. four hundred defense system. of that deal was allegedly discussed during the saudi king's first official visit to moscow a few days ago 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 agreements. 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 all 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. seven seats are up for grabs during next month's congressional and state elections in the u.s. 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 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 but 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 school dnd 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 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 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 mop and art see new york.

the f.b.i. has been pretty busy of late 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 as well under the animal and to price terrorism act. cases where a person is cause damage to property belonging to farms or so-called animal and to prizes as domestic terrorism and that's in turn lead to questions about how terrorism is defined by law considering some atrocities don't fall into the same bracket. no no.

we spoke to an animal rights advocates who says that most senior officials would 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 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 of the f.b.i. and to pursue these animal activists instead of the people who are actually abusing animals is actually a massive waste of resources. i was global powers fend off chaos in a number of crises including the nuclear threat from north korea the war in syria the white house says there's one man holding it all together for world peace. i think that the president is the one that's keeping the world from chaos the world.

as totally destroying north korea it will be devastating i can tell you that devastating told you new jersey shore we are sending an armada has an incredible team around him that's helping him leave that effort it has never moved the u.s. to care about what other countries say or korea will be destroyed and we all know that we have many options to do so and he's had tremendous accomplishments on the international stage the iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided transaction the united states has ever entered into we're going to continue doing that we're going to continue doing that as a team with the president leading that effort these problems will be solved by me problem solved. well that we are sure we can all sleep soundly now right that's the news from.

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