quarters should change the rules of the european union would have to work on fewer issues both with better results it 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 is doing it were transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. it's our independence pressure kaplan's launch a petition as they fear now the region's officials won't declare independence from spain after last sunday's referendum which saw my ninety percent of those who did vote yes. coming up to six sixteen years now since the united states entered afghanistan look at what's been achieved and lost in america's longest war. wiki leaks founder julian assange has a twist on western journalism as he walks the recent coverage of the so-called

russian and the country's alleged interference in america. hello i'm kevin zero in this is art international just in two pm then here in moscow this saturday and first to spain and fears that the cattle parliament will push on with its independence pledge a growing in that breakaway region last week's referendum which was marred by violence so the majority of those who cast ballots vote yes to leave spain but now the pro dependents camp in catalonia feel officials are now pushing for dialogue with madrid instead so they've launched a petition calling on the authorities in barcelona to stick with this is such an plan some political parties in catalonia have joined the calls for catalan president charles put him on to speed up the declaration of independence but it's not that cut and dried it seems as there are also many voices that favor less

radical approach including those improvements 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 i. mean this weekend lot of protests and interesting to see what's going to come up in the next couple of days as we go into next week what's the mood of barcelona right now though. well kevin that we are in the heart of barcelona where thousands of people have come out for protest in support of dialogue between barcelona and madrid as tensions do really build up ahead of promises by the catalan leadership to go ahead and proclaim independence as soon as the beginning of next week if you can see this entire square in front of the catalan leaders headquarters is packed with thousands of people dressed in white who are here to call for dialogue they have been chanting here and saying that they don't want any harsh decisions and

steps to be taken they don't want to barcelona to act in a way of unilaterally declaring independence very quickly without talking to madrid and they also don't want madrid to invoke so-called article one five five which would according to the spanish constitution allow madrid to basically block whatever the region is doing because they see it as unconstitutional let's take a listen to what people have been saying here. that it seems looks like the concentration it's just right here we cannot discount. to we have to show you more we don't want to know for sure people from china would want to speak about our problems having our trade be indications from the spanish government that we want to do it. with the money. this comes as the media that we know is that the cats run regional parliament is trying to meet on tuesday along with the leader of the that's what religion was to march

to potentially launch the process of independence because this continues to be resisted by madrid to try to get in the way of this by blocking the initial meeting that was supposed to. on monday but we do know that the past monday edition did say that within forty eight hours of counting up all the votes of the of trouble first referendum they would go ahead with this process and it does seem that this is still the intention but this is yet another protest of many that have been taking place here throughout catalonia in the last week where we have seen people protest for independence we have seen people protest against independence now these people are saying let's roll take a break and talk to each other which they think is crucial at this particular moment as sort of this deadline announced by the cats when the ship is running out so he definitely wants to watch and these guys gathered here today are showing that he wasn't here was also rushed to be whether or not he needs to go it was rushed and that he was black you could see the look. there yes i think they

represent the people who didn't necessarily come out and made up to ninety percent of the people who voted yes he is a yes they would be great and talk to each other you have pretty noisy enthusiastic protests around you isn't there i would come back to keep track of what's happening in itself through thanks so much from the nice to church there in boston. for 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 already decided to move their h.q.'s out of the region the recent business exodus was among the topics we discussed with several economists them. 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 flows does the government to buy to and

which ones they don't because this is this poses a significant risk for investment security and for for many other issues. and he wanted to go new card on a 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 color. of 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 estimates at that only forty two percent of the actual cuts learning and population turned up for the referendum and we know that a lot of controversy as well so with a potential independence declaration looming we'll be keeping you know well up to date with what's next for catalonia that.

for. some today marks sixteen years now since the u.s. invasion of afghanistan in two thousand and one that then president george w. bush accused the afghan government of sheltering the al qaeda leaders who'd mastermind of the nine eleven attacks that saw the beginning of the so-called war on terror now america's longest running conflict head of the anniversary hundreds of people been protesting in the afghan capital kabul against the continued presence of u.s. troops in the country demonstrate is scary down to us so nineteen nato sign saying afghanistan has been occupied by america it comes as the united nations has released new figures showing an increase in casualties from the previous year to.

date 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 why americans are killing our women and children every day in afghanistan and they just say sori it was a mistake. sitting in a room together and suddenly we had the massive bombardment of village and i was in . the side of 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. fears of even greater civilian casualties are emerging as well as the u.s. military's decided to relax its rules of engagement now in afghanistan so americans got the details about. 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 mcg. a judgment 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 funds of measures against the taliban previously having only defensive permissions general mattis also announced that the u.s.

now france a place of 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 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. all talking the dates in the diary almost a year on from donald trump's shock 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 been 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 abeche taking out taken and also asked checking out what caught in a cell and pushing them off 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 where with a lot in mind that we can exert a tool in the sun is the market guide to modern western journalism these days the go francis and the good things and close a look. 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 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 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. me journalist line all things that linking something to russia has become so commonplace these days people to magically 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 and the news people in particular themselves have how big you waited to this they've condition where they don't even ask any questions they don't obey and never 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 to creative what's known as a purple heart of want the two million troops to give the medal so far now a police officer has been convicted for fraud though after he lied about having one . meet former army officer and veteran shane lardner 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 was a power for and by the way he claimed he was decorated in one thousand nine hundred nine for his service in panama in operation just cause and that he had 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 or unclassified he didn't exist in fact the court ruled mr loughner 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. coming up saudi arabia's been on a weapons shopping spree of sorts we'll look at the deals with washington and moscow right now after the break. i have the absolute conviction. to be europe. and russia. have a common interest to look at closer cooperation and this is why i seemed. to mobilize the driving force into business community but also in culture entertainment and sports we did you know to bring it to societies much closer.

here's what people have been saying about rejected a knighthood to us exactly just full on ourselves the only show i go out of my way to find you know a lot of the really packed a punch. yap is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than booth. and see people you never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank so they. were going to. send us an e-mail. i guess don't trump success in the twenty sixth election was largely put down wasn't to his bold statements non-compromising campaign pledges let's remind ourselves. well you know a lot of people are killed by guns but i'm a big second amendment we were. much stronger

than waterboarding that's the way i feel madame president can you imagine. while you're on for a shock election victory some of trump's fellow republicans look to distance themselves from his views now they're dipping into his playbook to secure themselves and spot in the house of representatives it's complicated picture caleb maupin unravels it all. 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 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 and 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. 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 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. first battle cry from the president of course but it's not just about him nobody voted for donald trump ok we voted for bold trumps 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 right you know going to base your future on a person ok 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 it would mop and art see new york other news this weekend the u.s. government's approved the possible fifteen billion dollars sale of its missile defense system saudi arabia the deal could go ahead in just thirty days time in fact unless it's rejected in the u.s. congress the delivery is expected to include launches miss mobile control stations and radars washington says it will help support red in the face of regional threats the sale was announced just a day after saudi arabia reportedly decided to purchase a russian as four hundred defense system that deal was allegedly discussed in the saudi king's first official visit to moscow remote with president putin but it

seems that the agreement on but has yet to be officially confirmed meantime bilateral relations between the two states could be about to improve as well in the back and other agreements there's talk about those three billion dollars worth of sales was signed and future investments in technologies rules were greeted meeting we also former pentagon official michael maloof what's behind the timing of this latest saudi. he said it deals with 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 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 trump administration to come forward in supporting both the saudi and the gulf states as opposed to trying to have a reproach more with the iranians the f.b.i.

has had a busy show you recently arranging raids on animal shelters in search of two piglets here you're right that was stolen by animal rights activist of the twist here is those responsible will likely face some serious charges under the animal enterprise terrorism act it seems cases where a person has caused damage to property belonging to farms or so-called animal enterprises as domestic terrorism and that's led to questions about how terrorism is defined by law considering some atrocities don't fall into the same bracket. no no.

we spoke to one on the rights of a kid who says most senior officials would be a polled by the f.b.i.'s recent combed. 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. as global powers fend off chaos in a number of crisis including the need for the threat of north korea and the war in syria seems the white house says there's one man holding it all together for the

sake of will face. i think that the president is the one that's keeping the world from chaos to keep the world from. totally destroying north korea it will be devastating i can tell you the. devastating. moochers we are sending and there. is an incredible team around him that's helping them believe that effort it has never moved the u.s. to care about what other countries say north korea will be destroyed and we all know that we have many. children he's had tremendous accomplishments on the international stage iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided transaction the united states has ever entered and 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 so i'm a problem solver. part of life's rich

tapestry as i say i'm kevin to the international i'll leave you with that thought for now the next live update from th cube mosco thirty minutes time with me on the program continue in your part of the world what after this break. because there's survival guide books they say just like all the stored safely at. least. in the past. repatriations well look at the rest of seventy years. bill of the century was kaiser report.

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