pro-union. spain. barcelona at the same time in favor of secession. petition pressure regional officials. and also. the president is the one that's keeping the world from chaos president trump is a force for peace that's the message from the white house says the u.s. leader tweets out there is only one solution to the north korean crisis and its.

wiki leaks founder julian assange offers a blistering critique of western journalism mocks the coverage the. meddling in other countries. in five. and one in the morning here in moscow this sunday october eighth i'm you know the only real welcome to r.t. international our top story is the standoff between spain and catalonia deepens following last week in independence referendum protests urging unity and dialogue held across the country want to see it was more an eye for us 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 but now that it shouldn't look like the conservation it's just right here we cannot discount their quality of the we have to show more and say we don't want to go for fishing people from trolls who would want to speak about our problems having already been the case since from the spanish government that we want to do it. with the most pristine i'm talking still the result of tension in our society there are various opinions and can tell on him 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 sunk

shock waves throughout the region here. was was this comes as the latest that we know which is that that's one regional parliament is trying to meet on tuesday along with the leader of the cause why did you cause you 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 take place on monday but we do know that the talks monday to should 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 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 council and they do ship is running out so he definitely wants to watch and he was gathered here today showing us that he was he was a regular said he was it was made a good night said was he was very dry well for its part the madrid is continuing to put pressure on the tribal region stresses that it considers the whole process illegal spain's foreign minister as

one the catalonia risks becoming an outlaw state are there now seems even the cattle on leader is softening his stance face with madrid staunch opposition. letting the mother little daughter the day after the first of october we will start a new period taking into consideration the will of the castle and i 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 party and i get to me i will make a direct appeal to the european union. well nevertheless the pro independence campaign council only has launched a petition calling on authorities to stick with the secession plan where ninety thousand people have signed it so far calls are also coming from council on officials for president carlos puja to speed up the independence process but members of his own party say the things must be handled in 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 in a further development in the country madrid has passed the new law making it easier for companies to relocate away from council near several banks as well as energy telecommunication textile companies have already decided to move their headquarters art of the region the recent business exodus walls 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 you know is the government to buy to them which ones they don't because this is this person significant risk for investment security and

for for many other issues. and he prepared to go new. 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 paula. although europe and central park. although the headline aside ninety percent of cuts alone ians 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 alone in population turned up for the referendum and we know that a lot of controversy as well. now

as a number of regional crises threaten to spill over into global scale a catastrophe the white house has said that there is a bowl one mom who is a force for peace. i think that the president is the one that's keeping the world from chaos to keep the world from. purity totally destroying north korea it would be devastating i could tell you the. devastating. moochers that we are sending and there. is 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 many of. these 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. on the majority of those statements you just heard concerning north korea most recently donald trump claimed on twitter the previous american presidents have not achieved anything by trying to negotiate with pyongyang he added only one thing will work when it comes to resolving this standoff partly referring to a military solution reportedly a u.s. warship is heading towards the korean peninsula the moment it's stalled but more drills will be held with still young young house again last american actions describing them as gangster like moves for domination aggression. we spoke to washington still lacks any clear policy towards north korea. 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 it does state surgical strikes against north korean nuclear. capabilities are also very risky such a surgical strike will be a pause 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. now almost a year on from donald trump shock victory in the twenty sixteen u.s. election russia is still making headlines with just about any issue from the vote

flagged up and traced back to moscow with little or no evidence with all that in mind wiki leaks editor julian the sun just tweeted a mock guide to modern western journalism miguel francis santiago has more. 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 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. on 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 new people in particular themselves have whole big to way to do this they've condition where they don't even ask any questions they don't know b. and they have to 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. the russian military saying its latest round of earth strikes in syria has killed a number of eyes on the field commanders some originating from the north caucasus region of southern russia with the latest from syria you're right because the. 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 quoting to many reports foreign as our 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 they 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 it symbolic fool a quarter of an hour into the program we're back with more in ninety seconds.

europe has to either change or cease to exist and people who work in this building headquarters should change the rules of the european union would have to work on fewer issues both with better results 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 doomed would transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. you're welcome back to the program mark sixteen years since the us invasion of afghanistan in two thousand and one then president george w. bush accused the afghan government of sheltering the al qaida leaders who must remind the nine eleven attacks that saw the beginning of the so-called war on terror america's longest running conflict ahead of the anniversary hundreds of people protested in the afghan capital kabul i can still continue the presence of u.s. troops in the country demonstrators carried us on the. signs saying afghanistan has

been occupied by america 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 destroy our house and our family members wife the americans are killing our women and children every day in afghanistan and they just say sori it was a mistake. it was sitting in a room together and suddenly we had the massive bombardment of village and i was injured.

on 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 on the hours later my uncle and cousins were dead so i went to the village to tell everyone figures of even greater civilian casualties are emerging as the u.s. military has the side to relax its rules of engagement in afghanistan samir a come as across the story the 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 are 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 mad 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 defense of the missions general mattis also announced that the us now france a place a military advisers in almost every afghan unit we have got to reorganize or our 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 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 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 that out of states paranoia trying to do something along the same line with far fewer

troops. slee on the face of it it's an absurd idea one cannot fathom how they could imagine that they could be successful in this. to the u.k. where eleven people were injured after a car mounted the pavement and plowed into pedestrians in central london on saturday 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 not terror related the driver has been detained and is now in custody and i discussed the situation with terrorism expert and consultant david lowe he says that the spite of a false alarm the u.k. should be prepared to remain at a heightened security level for the forseeable future the u.k. has been on severe which is the next highest level in 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 does make sense to do that it's easier to scale it down rather than having to scale. investigation of boots and 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 just to attack you know how far do you help us security code because don't forget. the boma came from outside in towards the entrance towards the end of the cones it's a hopeful. medical opposition march is being taking place across russian they were called by kremlin critic and blogger alexina volney i spoke to nick urine about it a little earlier round eighty cities across the country scheduled to be holding these rallies today muslim according to a birthday gift to russia. president as today to me

a person celebrates his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a plot to spoil the day position figure alexina valmy has called for these nationwide protests 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 now what i should point out is that not all of these rallies have been authorized by the or otherwise ation 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 been 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 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

that after we saw some confrontations protesters 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 now what's interesting about this rally petersburg is that the is that elected novelli actually told his followers on social media that this was an authorized event however city of daraa cities 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. and paul's cathedral in london all are bottle of the spires after feeling too tired of their places of worship in a twitter post. it's all part of world architecture to. sean

thomas is here in just a word time with more global news from r t h tuesday. in

the u.s. a child can choose an army course in school. with retired offices as teachers we don't. recruit we'll sisters if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't crowd ourselves. the pentagon is funding a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers. to step up to an apollo so that also waypoint comfortable with yourself. things about yourself you can't go wrong with the military it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do but some veterans are willing to tell enthusiastic children a little more they ask me call of duty is very popular first sure video game. it's playing. call of duty to turn off call of duty oh yeah. or.

the darker side does the pentagon know them to be told. just need more recruits. i have the absolute conviction that to be europe. and russia have a common interest to look at closer cooperation and to see why i seem to be so important to mobilize the driving force into business community but also in culture entertainment and sports we need to you know to get the two societies much closer.

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