pro unity rallies are held across spain to lumia capital barcelona the same time as have launched a petition to pressure regional officials the hearing independence from madrid. also wiki leaks founder julian assange said twist on western journalism mocks the recent coverage of so-called russia gate the country's alleged interference. in politics plus. the president is the one that's keeping the world from chaos. from the white house press secretary coming amid the president's harsh rhetoric

towards pyongyang upcoming military drills with side. you're shooting in from right around the globe this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my names you know neal good to have your company. as the standoff between madrid to unbar solona deepens following last weekend's independence referendum the latest protest. has been focusing on dialogue with the spanish government artie's on the sea a church brings us more now from barcelona. this entire square in front of the catalan leader's headquarters is topped 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 the amount that. looks like the concentration of it's just right here we kind of just kind. of have to show you more and say we don't want to come for sure. people can talk who would want to speak about our program starting already been the case since from the spanish government that we want to do it. with the most pressing i mean that is one 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 allison has 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 was would this comes as the latest that we know of is that the that's one regional parliament just trying to meet on tuesday along with the leader of the cause was egypt was to was 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 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 protests for independence we have seen people protest against

independence now these people are saying let's roll to 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 while mr shop is running out . so he definitely wants to watch and he was gathered here today i showed was that he was i was right. and. so guy was like yeah i said they represent. god and they got a good night it was a good idea to. try while madrid for its part is continuing to put pressure on the breakaway region as it sees the whole process as a legal spain's foreign minister has warned that catalonia risks becoming an outlaw state and it now seems like even the leader of the catalans is softening his stance

in the face of madrid supposition. let no mother little daughter of the day after the first of october we will start a new period taking into consideration the will of the castle. cannot do not underestimate the strength of the people of catalonia. a woman upon 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 but the pro independence camp in catalonia house launched a petition nonetheless calling on authorities to stick with the secession plan ninety thousand people have signed it so far meanwhile calls are coming from catalan officials for president carlos push 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 won from the process well madrid's latest move was the past and 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 q i to all of the region the recent business tax this was among the topics we discussed with several economists. i think it's the companies that are genuinely concerned about the break of the lol and more importantly you know completely random the decision of which laws does the government to buy to them which ones they don't because this is this position significant risk for investment security and for for many other issues. and you prepared to go new about

a republic is not dissin at audio the treaties to stop receiving the european union or the article money piece and then it would be outside the european union and outside the utah and outside the call of them although europe and central park. although the headline aside ninety percent of cuts loading and voted for independence on 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 learning and population turned up for the referendum and we know that a lot of controversy as well. for . eleven people were injured today saturday when a car month to the pavement and plowed into destry inns in central london the

incident happened near the natural history museum one of the u.k.'s biggest tourist attractions london's metropolitan police say it was a traffic accident and not terror related the added that the driver was detained and is currently in custody. let's cross live to terrorism expert consulted david low for just more on there what we saw today a very welcome to the program as we mentioned police are now saying it was a traffic accident but first several hours there was speculation was in there of a possible terror attack is that the new reality david suspect terror first. i think you're quite right we have to just look at what's happened certainly in the u.k. and certainly in the london area the number of a tux used by motor vehicles been used but we just look at what we've got used to sublease over the last well certainly since the niece of. last year

we just look at these these attacks is taking place so but it makes sense if you like to start a high level and to treat it like a terrorist incident it does make sense to do that it's easier to scale it down rather than having to scale. investigation of puts yeah the threat level was raised to critical last month meaning that an attack is expected imminently it's there for not surprising that tensions are high. well this is right i mean the u.k. has been on savaii which is the next highest level been there now for three years and i suppose really it's a sad state of affairs but we're having to get used to this. you know and you know it's sort of being prepared for tox obviously today's you know like a motor vehicle accident these sorts of attacks be it with most of us that he saw

so it's a vehicle. or any of the blade incidents it's looking easy to carry out what we call soft targets you know like cafes restaurants or crowded places yeah without in mind do you expect more security measures to be introduced are we looking at a sea change in terms of you know longer queues at things than airports railway stations maybe pedestrian areas where people have walked all their lives. will not allow cars in those areas anymore maybe there was cars being able to walk in the same places but it's just we're going to be seeing a big change ahead. you know i think i mean i'm in these areas of risk of a tox so i mean classic case of being the bridges across the. bodies all the way across. ports i think port security is really really trying. i think if there is even what was the. the most softer area which was the entrance to an

airport for to go to the check in desk you can see how they're designed out. by the entrance and then as you said you know pedestrian areas it could be a case of having to put more physical. place but there again because you go business is that it's a large pedestrian area will be delivery vehicle so it will be timing when you can have access and maybe these are things to look out and i think these this is chris is quite important i think also looking at security of crowded places but we can only go so far when for example with say the manchester itzhak you know how foggy how about security code because don't forget. the bomber came from outside in towards the entrance towards the end of the concert. i think we have to all everyone must stop playing their parts i think can be a bit more vigilant and the big debate of the day is not privy to see versus security and where that leads terrorism expert consultant david good to have your

thoughts thank you. now almost a year on from donald trump shocked victory in a twenty sixteen u.s. election russia is still making the headlines with just about any issue from the vote traced back to moscow with little or no evidence without in mind. tweeted a mock guide to modern western journalism miguel francis santiago delves a little deeper into all that. here is only 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 guy really is because even in catalonia that never had anything to do with russia moscow somehow got the blame for the catalans will this is seed from spain simply because well russia that's right reported on it and now we're getting to the most important part of the guide the motive which according to songe is of course

profit them on c.n.n. constantly like russia the structure of. this regime. when you see the news tomorrow and there is something fishy about russia just remember you already know the formula for that headline miguel francis and thiago r.t. . the russian military say its latest round of first strikes in syria has killed a number of field commanders who were originally from the north caucasus region of southern russia with the latest for us he guessed it. one hundred twenty fight is killed just by the russian air force and just over the last twenty four hours the russian ministry of defense says that a good amount of those fighters were foreigners from the central asian republics from various arab countries and countries of the former soviet union and that would be highly characteristic of isis holding to many reports foreign as out number

locals syrians within the ranks of isis but many of those casualties were suffered by isis in the vicinity of. this city forty five kilometers south of that is sort of where we are now twenty four hours ago it was the largest city still held by isis in syria now it is perhaps the hottest battleground in syria was fighting lasting throughout the night and continuing now but the syrians are allegedly in possession of over half of the city more than fifty percent the northern and western side isis is rushing reinforcements to dean obesity the don't expect an offensive of these ferocity but eighty people eighty jihad this were allegedly caught in a slew of russian ash strikes as well as eighteen technicals pickup trucks with mounted high caliber weapons nevertheless the fight there continues and isis is

still rushing reinforcements. to prevent its symbolic fool still to come it's exactly sixteen years since the u.s. entered afghanistan after the break we look at what's been achieved in america's longest war. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. with the fine. be that one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

your welcome back to the program politico opposition marches are taking place across russia today they have been called by kremlin critic and blogger alexy well that's the scots all this no further with nichiren who joins me live in the shooting yet to tell us more about these rallies quite a few of them taking place nikki absolutely around eighty cities across the country

scheduled to be holding these rallies today while some are calling a birthday gift to the russian president is to say that my peers and celebrate his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a plot to spoil the day position figure alexina valen he had called for these new. protests now here in moscow resorts one out of around seven hundred people and a small number of people were detained that's now over those people have been released but what i should point out is that none of these rallies have been authorized by city or thora cities no authorization is something you need when you bring together a large number of people for safety concerns traffic regulations and things like this so while police have been present at these rallies they've largely been there to mange will ensure that everything remains peaceful there's no violence everyman remain safe and so yes so far no violence voted in moscow you sit home in moscow one of the biggest turnouts was op north there was that in some petersburg that's one of the biggest turnouts was in st petersburg go to also happens to be

president putin's hometown perhaps symbolic that the most people turned out to a thousand people reported to have been at that rally now that's officially over although still quite a lot of people on the streets sausan petersburg now as a result police say dozens have been detained for violating traffic regulations however earlier we heard from russian media that one hundred people had been detained after we saw some confrontations protestors attempted to block police access also police who were forced to issue warnings after a number of protesters use force to break a police blockade and i was interesting about this rally in some petersburg is that the is that the actual told his followers on social media that this was an authorized event however city will doris's say that they did not grant permission for this to take place so maybe some people have turned up to this this rally thinking it's legal when perhaps it's illegal ok. thank you.

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 protested in the afghan capital kabul against the continued presence of u.s. troops in the country demonstrators carried us an antenatal sign saying afghanistan has been occupied by america and 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 americans are killing our women and children every day in afghanistan and they just say sorry it was a mistake. sitting in a room together and suddenly we had a massive bombardment of religion and i was injured. 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 all the news doesn't get better fears of even greater civilian casualties are emerging as the

u.s. military has the side to relax its rules of engagement in afghanistan across the story for us is similar. 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 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 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 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 as global powers fend off chaos and a number of crises including the nuclear threat of north korea and the war in syria the white house sais there is one man holding 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 and. there's an incredible team around 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. goals and we 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. but most of the statements all three u.s. president we just heard are devoted to north korea and the nation is not known for

leaving us threats go on answered the young young house called for a nationwide struggle against american actions and described. for domination on the question the statement comes as a u.s. warship is reportedly heading towards the korean peninsula for more drills with the sun. a political analysts we spoke to say there is still no united policy towards young young coming from washington. we do not see a credible strategy on top of that on those administration it is not people had to negotiate to offload grand bargain and it does not really have a credible military strategy at the time to state surgical strike 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 that diplomatic condemnation and you cannot make sanctions not going to push straight north korea to give up its nuclear weapons program live from moscow this is. 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. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be

president and you. want. to go. for us this is what before three of them can't be good. interested in the water. pressure. it's. the government i mean will be driven not by the interests of a privileged few but by the interests of ordinary working class families. seven hundred forty. victory for the tories this really was an astonishing result this truly is a government that is working for everyone and for every part of the country why

doesn't the prime minister understand that load he is a straight to an already weak giving economy he couldn't lead to a protest i believe your country. conservative government when particularly worried about the opposition now i don't think they even think it exists and. i have just seen the company where we agreed that the government should call a general election the polls for example showing massive leads for the conservatives theresa may change is how manifesto policy on social care after just four days but insists it's not a u. turn nothing has changed. nothing has changed a number of polls in the u.k. are showing a large role in support for prime minister theresa let's just go forwards to get votes trying to seventy eight it was a gamble it appears to work backfire as the british prime minister teresa mayes political future looks on so.