pro unity rally held. in the council only in capital barcelona at the same time launched the petition to pressure regional officials. from madrid. it's exactly sixteen years since the u.s. entered down this week look at what's been achieved in america's longest. wiki leaks founder julian assange is a twist on western journalism as he mocks the recent coverage of the so-called russia gate in the country's alleged interference in the us plus. the

president is the one that's keeping the world from. the statement from the white house press secretary president's harsh rhetoric towards. becoming military drills with korea. just after midday in houston ten pm. in the evening right here in moscow this saturday october seventh welcome to our to international i mean our top story the standoff between madrid barcelona deepens following last week's independence referendum the latest protest. has been focusing on dialogue with the spanish government. to reports from barcelona. thank you this entire square in front of

the cattle on leaders headquarters is popped with thousands of people dressed in white who are here to call for dialogue they don't want any harsh decisions and steps to be taken let's take a listen to what people have been saying here right now that it shouldn't look like the conservation it's just right here we cannot discount air quality the we have to say a war and say we don't want to go for fishing people from trolls who would want to speak about our program starting already been the case comes from the spanish government that we want to do it. with the most pristine i mean that is what the result of tension in our society there are various opinions and catalonia many of us hell no voice we don't want cruelty we want peace peaceful coexistence and with don't want any confrontation was in politicians elision us to confrontation but we don't want it to tony's

a peace loving civilized region we have almost coexistence in peace was going on right now is madness and it's no wonder that these people are calling for dialogue and no more confrontation because images of violence like these ones really some shock waves throughout the region here. was was was this comes as the latest that we know of is that the time the regional parliament is trying to meet on tuesday along with the leader of the cause was going to potentially launch the process of them to come to us 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 take place on monday but we do know that the talks on leadership did say that. we did 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 protesting 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 land leadership is running out so he definitely wants to watch these guys gathered here to take a showing out that's because i decided he was also much to my do not be to god and rush thank you god thank you god god god god are you saying they represent because it was necessary to come out and make up good ninety percent of gaza thank you thank you thank you i'm trying to talk to you

guys all madrid is continuing to put pressure on the brick away region as it sees the whole process as illegal spain's foreign minister house warned the catalonia risks becoming an article or state on the now seems like even the leader of the breakaway region is softening his stance in the face of madrid's opposition. no mother little daughter today after the first of october we will start a new period so you can go into consideration the will of the castle and us cannot do not underestimate the strength of the people of catalonia. a woman of the situation asks for mediation and mediation means that we need a third passes and i get to me i will make a direct appeal to the european union or still the pro independence camp and catalonia has launched a petition calling on authorities to stick with the secession plan ninety thousand people have signed it to date meanwhile calls are coming from castle on officials

for president carlos puts them on to speed up the independence process but members of his own party are emphasizing that things must be handled the right way 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 well madrid's latest move was to pass a new law making it easier for companies to relocate away from catalonia and their big ones at that several banks as well as energy telecommunication textile companies have already decided to move their headquarters i do of the region the recent business exodus was among the topics we discussed with several economists. i think it's the companies that are genuinely concerned about the break of the knoll and more importantly you know completely random the decision of which flows

does the government to buy to them which ones they don't because this is this poses a significant risk of full investment security and full for many other issues. and he wanted to go new kind of republic is not dissin yet audio 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 the color. although europe and central park. although the headline aside ninety percent of cuts loading and voted for independence in the cuts 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 you know there was a lot of controversy as well. over

to the u.k. were eleven people have been injured after a car mounted the pavement in central london that's according to medics on the scene the incident happened near the natural history museum one of the u.k.'s biggest tourist attractions london's metropolitan police are investigating and at the moment they're reportedly not treating it as a terror attack well police say the driver has been detained is now in custody the u.k. is of course on the edge following several terror attacks this year alone. but

as more exact details emerge from today and we will of course get it too soon as possible from central london. now 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 must remind of 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 the u.s. and nato signs saying afghanistan has been occupied by america well it comes as the united nations released new figures showing an increase in casualties over the past twelve months. 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 the americans are killing our women and children every day in afghanistan and they just

say sorry it was a mistake. it was sitting in a room together and suddenly we had the massive bombardment of religion and i was injured. last night when the explosion happened i was near to my uncle and cousins american soldiers opened fire and 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 now as the u.s. military has decided to relax its rules of engagement in the afghanistan across the story for us this hour. president trump 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 med 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 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 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 national security policy is not geared to learning from the past of course as everyone knows the united states was unable to achieve the goal that it had set for itself which was

to. basically put the taliban movement on the defensive and prevent them from being able to continue their advance now we're seeing united states 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. now almost a year on from donald trump's shock victory in the twenty sixteen u.s. election russia is still making the headlines with just about any issue from the vote flagged up and traced back to moscow with little or no evidence and with all that mind wiki leaks had to regina songe has tweeted a guide to modern western journalism delving a little deeper here is miguel francis santiago. 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 colbert 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 axis and ya go r.t. . well media analyst line of things thought linking something to russia has become so commonplace people automatically take it as fact when ever you say the russians weighed in on something the russians have bought at the russians

did something by that inclusion of the word russians you create this snuff farias connection russo full 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 how big a 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 julian assange is absolutely. correct ok just a note on the story from london where a car went on top of a pavement. well we don't know whether to amount of people but people were injured

none the less well the london metropolitan police have not come up with a statement saying the london car incident was not a terror attack it was instead the person driving the car we know went to a local police station we're just waiting on more details but that is the latest line on the it was not terrorism but it was a traffic accident we'll have more on in the coming hours i'm sure also coming up a british teenager pleads guilty to trying to hack the computers of top u.s. officials we'll get on top of them in about ninety seconds. i have the absolute conviction that today europe will do you. ever russia have a common interest to look at closer corporation 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 or washington controls the media the media the voters elected to 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. just coming up to twenty minutes into the program welcome back political opposition

marches are taking place right across russia today being called by kremlin critic blogger alexy volume lists this further nikki are in joins me in this studio hi nicky. just give us a sense of what these rallies are all about ok well these protests have been organized take place in cities eighty cities across russia today and some of some people are calling them a birthday gift to president putin today the russian made to celebrate his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a bid to spoil the day the opposition figure. called for these rallies to take place across the country now here in moscow we store turnout of around seven hundred people in a small number of people were detained that rally has now come to an end those people have also been released i should point out that none of these rallies have been authorized by city or thora cities though they are in fact illegal and so all attendees understand that they risk arrest if they do turn up to take part in these events now police have been present in all of these rallies they've largely been

there to maintain you know the peace maintain people remain safe and no violence breaks out so showing a great deal of restraint considering these are illegal events to you as you see iran russia one of the biggest turnouts of petersburg that's right the largest turnout being instant petersburg where we saw just under a thousand people turned out that not one that also happens to be president putin's hometowns or perhaps symbolic that the biggest turnout was that we did see confrontations earlier as protesters tried to block police access and we understand according to russian media that around one hundred people were detained as a result now what was interesting about this protest in some petersburg is that they had earlier told his social media followers that this was an. authorised events however the city of dorothy's maintain that. they were not granted permission for this protest to take just live pictures that you're talking burger

were just. darkness approaches a sizable police presence a lot of people there and ferguson ok and so. gather so what we see now is hundred people detained as a result still waiting on the official police think is that what was i was saying is what's interesting about this is an avanti told his followers this was an all for wind event but actually unauthorized so some people might be turning up to this event unknowingly. thinking it's a legal event but obviously it's not. but overall. the tame and modest turnout for all of these rallies today considering you know the rallies that we saw earlier this year which were pretty violent we'll keep a close eye on that as we're looking at live pictures from some petersburg thank you very much. global powers fend off chaos on

a number of crisis including the nuclear threat of north korea and the war in syria the white house says there is one owning it all together for world peace. i think that the president is the one that's keeping the world from chaos to keep the world from five year period totally destroying north korea it would be devastating i could tell you the. devastating. moochers we are sending. as an incredible team around him 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. goals and 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 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. while most of the statements of the u.s. president that we just heard are devoted to north korea now and it's not known for leaving us threats go on uncertain peering young house call for a nationwide struggle against american actions it's described them as gangster like moves for domination and aggression the statement comes as a u.s. warship is reportedly heading towards the korean peninsula for more drills with the song well as we spoke to say yes there's still no united policy towards coming from washington. we do not see a credible strategy on the part of that on those. administration it is not prepared to negotiate to offer grand bargain and it does not really have a credible military strategy at the time it does state surgical strikes against

north korean nuclear. capabilities are also very risky such a surgical strike will be opposed by south korea as well as strongly by china and russia and we also know for sure that diplomatic condemnation and you cannot be extensions are not going to push north korea to give up is new program pins program . a british teenager has pleaded guilty to trying to hack top u.s. officials personal computers cain gamble these are tests that was only fifteen years old when he tried to hack the computers of the cia chief and the head of security of the of the obama administration he was released on bail to be sentenced by a british regional court in december but mark chapman from the u.k. pirate party thinks cain got close enough to the cia for it to be really concerned

. that's one for the cia. to be looking at themselves it's very concerning that. however close he gulped whether or not he got in the it was close enough for them to be concerned for them to know it just brushed it off as i understand it they were personal computers but actually that distinction isn't significant is as people often make out if you can access someone's personal computer you learn all about their life you can then use that information to get. everything that they you know they have to maybe you to then use that information to access further. time for his family their whole lazzara sunday evening news update looks you can catch me again in just over thirty minutes time for more stories from right across the globe.

economic development is all about really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six point two. but what do we know about the other food. when i think about that there are see mike do. over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart is says. with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are. just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society. the part of the government tried to do. martin. so.

the. work this is our. rome would all talk 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 from fewer issues both with better results should be paying more attention to protecting external borders fighting against to curbing illegal immigration as well as harmonizing economic policies on the judicial system otherwise the europe we have today. would transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. with the france this is being biased broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight the meeting in moscow between saudi arabia's king solomon and russia's president

vladimir putin to produce some enormous deals in energy my guest and i 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'll take a look at the topics that 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 size.