pro unity rallies are held. in the capital of barcelona the same time launched the petition to pressure regional officials. also wiki leaks founder. of so-called. other countries. the president is the one that's keeping the world from. coming amid the president's harsh rhetoric towards north korea becoming military drills with.

a day in san francisco eight pm in belfast ten that night right here in moscow welcome to our two international good to have your company our top story as the standoff between madrid and barcelona deepens follows last weekend's independence referendum the latest protest in catalonia has been focusing on dialogue with the spanish government. is in barcelona she filed this report. thank god 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 but now that to me looks like the vision it's just right here we cannot discount quality of the we have to show more and say we don't want to support this show people control 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 pressing i mean talk and see what the result of tension in our society there are various opinions in catalonia many of us have no voice we don't want cruelty we want peace peaceful coexistence and with don't want any confrontation was in politicians alison has to confrontation but we don't want it to tony's a peace loving civilized region we have almost closed systems 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 sunk shock waves throughout the region here

was . was was. was thanks this comes as the media that we know is that the that's one regional parliament is trying to meet on tuesday along with the leader of the god of egypt 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 and 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 land leadership is running out so he definitely wants to watch these guys gathered here today are showing us that because of my design he was also nice to me my dear not you need to god and god thank you god god god god god yes i think they represent the people who didn't necessarily come out and made a good ninety percent of the people voted yes thank you david thank you very much as you well madrid for its part is continuing to put pressure on the breakaway region as it sees the whole process also legal sprains foreign minister has warned the kasumi a risk becoming an eye claw state and it now seems like even the leader of the

calculus is softening his stance in the face of madrid's opposition. no mother little daughter day after the first of october we will start a new period taking into consideration the will of the castle and us not 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 party to and i get to me i will make a direct appeal to the european union well nevertheless the pro independence camp in catalonia has launched a petition calling on authorities to stick with the secession plan ninety thousand people have signed up to date meanwhile calls are coming from castle officials for president carlos puts them on to speed up the independence process but members of his own party are emphasizing the 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 some might look familiar here because several banks as well as energy telecommunication textile companies they've already decided to move their excuse out of the region their recent business exodus was among the topics we discussed with several economist. i think it's the companies that are genuinely concerned about the break of the low and more importantly you know completely random the decision of which laws does the government to buy to you and which ones they don't because this is this poses a significant risk for investment security and for for many other issues.

and you prepared to go new. is not dissin at audio the treaty system receiving the european union all of the article money and then it would be outside the european union and outside the utah and outside the color. all the european central bank. although the headline aside ninety percent of cuts alone and votes that 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 learning and population turned up for the referendum and we know there was a lot of controversy as well. for . now almost a year on from donald trump shocked victory in the twenty sixteen u.s.

election and russia is still making the headlines with just about any issue from the vote fly dop trace back to moscow with little or no evidence but a lot mine but he leaks hundred julian assange has tweeted a mock guide to modern western journalism miguel francis something aigle takes a deeper look. 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 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 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 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 francis and ya go r.t. . well media analysts line all things that 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 ads 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 and the news people in particular themselves have how big your way to do this they've condition where they don't even ask any questions they

don't know b. and they have a line they just listen to this the russians did it again did what i don't know so joe you know sancia is absolutely. correct. all right moving on the russian military say's its latest round of earth 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 hears rock because the if. 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 wooding 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 as 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.

well as global powers fend off chaos on a number of crises including the new clear threat of north korea on the war in syria the white house sais there is one man holding it together for world peace. 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 would be devastating i could tell you the. devastating. moochers that we are sending and. there's 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. a problem solved. most of the statements all of the u.s. president that we just heard are devoted to north korea that nation is not known for leaving us threats go on answered pealing young house call for a nationwide struggle against american actions it's described gangster like moves for domination on a question the statement comes as a u.s. warship is reportedly heading towards the korean peninsula for more drills with the side. a political analyst that we spoke to says there's still no united policy towards be young young coming from washington. we do not see a credible strategy on the part of that on those from administration it is not prepared to negotiate to offer a grand bargain and it does not really have a credible military strategy at the time at this stage 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 for sure that diplomatic condemnation and economic sanctions are not going to push north korea to give up is new crowbar pins program still to come it's exactly sixteen years since the u.s. entered afghanistan after the break we'll look at what's been achieved in america's longest war. i have the absolute conviction that the two d. . you. ever rush on have

a common interest to look at closer call duration and this is why i seem. to mobilize driving force into business community but also in culture entertainment and sports we need to you know to bring it to two societies much closer. to. home and was hard selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce talk spread of tell you that every gossip and public are file for the most important news today. the hottest of advertising telling you are not cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with our. watch.

today saturday marks sixteen years since the u.s. invasion of afghanistan in two thousand and one then president george w. bush accuse the afghan government of sheltering the al qaeda leaders who must remind the nine eleven attacks that saw the beginning of the so-called war on terror america's longest running conflict i had a big anniversary hundreds of people protested in the afghan capital kabul against the continued presence of u.s. troops in a country demonstrators carried us an ante natal signs saying afghanistan has been occupied by americans it comes as the united nations released new figures showing an increase in casualties over the past twelve months.

he says i mean 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 destroy our house and our family members wife the americans are killing our women and children every day in afghanistan and they just say sorry it was a mistake. was sitting in a room together and suddenly we had the massive bombardment of religion and i was injured. last night on 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. well fears of even

greater civilian casualties are emerging the u.s. military has decided to relax its rules of engagement in afghanistan across the story for us sim your account. president announced a new strategy to the u.s. this sixteen year long war over a month ago which is just outlined by the pentagon chief earlier this week the old rules included. both rules of being under rules of engagement and operating principles included a requirement for proximity of the enemy to be engaged by our air forces so i've removed proximity and that in itself open to the enemy were ever they are found to the nato air support so u.s. forces will now be fully engaged in afghanistan giving authorization to launch direct off kinds of measures against the taliban previously having only defensive

commissions 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 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. political opposition march is being taking place across russia today they were called by kremlin critic and blogger alexina volley i

spoke to our team's nikky are in about it a little earlier. round eighty cities across the country scheduled to be holding these rallies today most from a call it a birthday gift to the russian president is to say to me a person celebrates his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a plot to spoil the day opposition figure alexina valmy had called for these nationwide protests here in moscow resort turnout of around seven hundred people and a small number of people were detained that's now over those people have been released now what i should point out is that not all of these rallies have been authorized by the off 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 that largely being there to ensure that everything remains peaceful so yes so far no violence voted in the one of the biggest turnout was op north or was that in some petersburg that's one of the biggest turnouts was in st petersburg up to

a thousand people reported to have been about a 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 as the one hundred people had been detained that is off that we saw some confrontation protesters attempted to block police access also police and were forced to issue warnings after a number of protesters used force to break a police blockade now what's interesting about this rally. is that the is that electing a volley actually told his followers on social media that this was an authorized event however city was dorothy'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. eleven people were injured when a car mounted the pavement plowed into pedestrians in central london today the

incident happened near the natural history museum one of the. the u.k.'s biggest tourist attractions london's metropolitan police say it was a traffic accident not terror related the driver has been detained and is now in custody i discussed the situation with terrorism expert and consultant david lowe he says the u.k. should be prepared to remain at a heightened security level for the first seeable future. the u.k. has been on severe which is the next highest level being the full three years. and i suppose really it's a sad state of affairs but we're having to get used to this you know it's sort of being prepared for talks obviously today's you know like a motor vehicle accident 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 i think this this is chris is

quite important i think also looking at security of crowded places i mean for example with say the month. you know how far do you help us security code because don't forget. the bomb a came from outside in towards the entrance towards the end of the council. to another story we're closely following this hour a british teenager has pleaded guilty to trying to hire top u.s. officials personal computers kane gamble he's artistic was only fifteen when he tried to hock the computers of the cia chief on the head of security of the obama administration he was released on bail and on is due to be sentenced by a british regional court in december mark chapman from the u.k. pirate party thinks cain got close enough to the cia for it to be concerned. that's one for the cia to be looking at themselves it's very concerning that.

however close he got whether or not he got in that it was close enough for them to be concerned for them to not just brush it off as i understand it they were personal computers but actually that distinction isn't pap's is significant is as people will 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 their passwords to get their everything that they know that they have to enable you to then use that information to access further. stories being updated by the minute literally on our twitter page keep up to date with the stories affecting your world today their. economic development is all about nobody really pleased to report this quarter we

are one hundred six point. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike do. over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. . with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just how 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 divided society. the whatever the government tried to do it wasn't necessarily making. it might be making things worse. by saying this is not how capitalism works this is

this one goes hopelessly disastrously wrong los angeles the city of luxury and free but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. to get this man found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept. tiny house on a city parking space is not a solution. someone wanted to ring the site otherwise it will be a free for all there are

a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. i am asked eyes or this is the kaiser report you were in denver fifty two hundred eighty feet above sea level behind me is devil's peak and somebody's head famous landmarks that define the skyline and of course this is where john elway plays football keisha we did a while ago in the denver broncos of course no one hears about them anymore because of new england patriots are fricken great tom brady's awesome and even talks about the denver broncos any more avatar i've ever heard about is anyone talk about that now anyway let's get into it. this is like a fighter jet sorry i just didn't recall i must go fight the enemy.