so. it's a. pro unity activists hold rallies across spain including in the cattle on capitol barcelona at the same time catalans in favor of secession launch a petition to pressure regional with him to declare independence also. the president is the one that's keeping the world from chaosium president trump is a force for peace that's the message from the white house as the u.s. leader tweets that there is only one solution to the north korean crisis and it is not a diplomatic. and wiki leaks founder julian assange offers a blistering critique of western journalism as he mocks the coverage of depicting

russia as a maligned power meddling in other country's affairs. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our two international incheon thomas to have you with us as the standoff between spain and catalunya deepens following last week's independence referendum protest urging unity and dialogue have been held across the country and associate reports now from barcelona thought. this entire square in front of the catalan leader's headquarters is packed 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 that students looks like the concentration of it's just right here. we cannot discount air quality of the we

have to show you a little change we don't want to make a profession people control 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 pressing i'm told is one the result of tension in our society there are various opinions and can tell on in many of us how 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 this comes as the latest that we know is that that's one regional parliament just trying to meet on tuesday along with the leader of the cause why did you 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 take place on monday but we do know that the facts monita 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 protest for independence we have seen people protest against independence now these people are saying let's roll to take a break and talk to him. other which they think is crucial at this particular

moment as sort of this deadline announced by the council on the ship is running out so he definitely wants to watch. the show because. i was right i. was. so. i was. there yes they said they. had made a good night it. was. madrid is continuing to put pressure on the troubled region and stresses that it considers the whole process illegal spain's of foreign minister has warned of their catalonia risks becoming an outlaw state and it now seems that even the catalan leader is softening his stance faced with madrid's starch opposition. when the mother daughter of the day after the first of october we will start

a new period taking 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 still the pro independence camp in catalonia has launched a petition calling on authorities to stick with the secession plan over ninety thousand people have signed it so far calls are also coming in from catalan officials for president carlos poor man to speed up of the independence process but members of his own party say that 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 anyone from the process in a further development in the country madrid has passed a new law making it easier for companies to relocate away from catalonia several

banks as well as energy telecommunication and textile companies have already decided to move their headquarters out of the region the recent business exodus was among the topics we discussed with several of contrasts. 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 laws does the government good bye to them which ones they do. this is this poses a significant risk for investment security and full for many other issues. and i mean prepared to go new. is not dissin at ideo 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 paula. although europe and central park. although the headline aside ninety percent of cuts loading and

voted for independence of the council on a referendum this past sunday these results are quite skoot 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. as a number of regional crises thread to spill over into global scale catastrophes the white house has said that there is above all one man 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 crucial. totally destroying north korea it would be devastating to take it to you to. have the staging.

moochers the way we are standing and there. is an incredible team around them helping them believe that effort it has never moved us 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 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. i mean. the majority of those statements you just heard concerned in north korea most recently on saturday donald trump claimed on twitter that previous american presidents have not achieved anything by trying to negotiate with he added that only one thing will work when it comes to resolving the standoff apparently

referring to a military solution and reportedly a u.s. warship is heading towards the korean peninsula at the moment it is thought that more drills will be held with seoul for its part has again lashed out at america describing its actions as gangster like moves for domination and aggression and political analyst we spoke to says 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 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 economic sanctions are not going to push north korea to give up its nuclear weapons program . almost a year on from donald trump's shock victory in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election and russia is still making headlines over its alleged interference with little by way of evidence provided wiki leaks editor julian assange has tweeted a mark guided to western journalism francis santiago has his own personal view on this. 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 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 axis and thiago r.t. . media analyst lionel thinks that meddling claims are so frequently made against russia most people no automatic really accept them 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 so 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 hope big your way to do this they've condition where they don't even ask any questions they don't obey 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 says its latest round of air strikes in syria has killed a number of eisel field commanders some originating from the north caucasus region of southern russia has brought garcia as the latest. 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 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 was the largest city still held by isis in syria now it is perhaps the hottest battleground in syria was through this 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 dog expect an offensive of these ferocity but eighty people a.t.g. hardass were allegedly caught in a slew of russian air 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 to prevent it symbolic fool hundreds of people have gathered in kabul afghanistan to protest against the continued president president of u.s. troops in the country sixteen years on from its invasion story much more still coming international.

europe has to either change or cease to exist people who work in this building the e.u. 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 doing it were transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. and welcome back to watching r t international wire from moscow now saturday marks 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 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 adversary hundreds of people protested in the afghan capital kabul against the continued presence presence of u.s. troops in the country demonstrators carried anti u.s. and nato signs denouncing what they see as america's occupation afghanistan of. stan it comes as new figures released by the united nations reveal an increase in casualties in the country over the last 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 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 fall village and i was injured. to miss out 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 on the hours later my uncle and cousins were dead so i went to the village to tell everyone and fears of even greater civilian casualties are emerging as the u.s. military has it decided to relax as rules of engagement in afghanistan artie's samir khan as. 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 ng and or rules of engagement and operating principles and clude it 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. 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 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 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 state sparingly 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. they could imagine that they could be successful in this. 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 and not terror related now the driver has been detained and is now in custody terrorism expert and consultant david lowe joined us to discuss the situation he says that despite saturday's crash being a false alarm of sorts the u.k. should be prepared to remain at a heightened security level for the for seeable future. the u.k.

has been on severe which is the next highest level been there 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 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 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 manchester it's dark you know how far do you help us security called because don't forget. the bomber came from outside in towards the entrance towards the end of the concerts i hope. opposition activists tell marches across russia

on saturday they were called by a kremlin critic and blogger and here and joined you know neil in the studio earlier with details. around eight hundred cities across the country scheduled to be holding these rallies today most of them a call it a birthday gift to the russian president has to say about me a person celebrates his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a plot to spoil the day position figure alexina valmy had called for these nationwide 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 now what i should point out is that not all of these rallies have been authorized by the will for a seat otherwise ation is something you need when you bring get 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 launched being there to ensure that everything remains peaceful so yes so far no violence in the one of the biggest turnouts was up north there was an instant petersburg bounce one

of the biggest turnouts was in some pages broke up. one thousand people reported to have been at that rally now that's officially over although still quite a lot of people on the streets so some pages back now as a result police say dozens have been detained for violating traffic regulations softer we saw some confrontations protesters attempted to block police access to also police and with force to issue warnings off to a number of protesters use force to break up police blockades now what's interesting about this rally in some cases is that the is that electing a volley actually told his followers on social media that this was an over the rise of ben's however city will star as he's say that they did not grant permission for a base to take place so maybe some people have turned up to this this rally thinking it's legal when perhaps it's illegal right that does it for me i'll be back in about thirty four minutes or so with a full look at your news watcher to international standards.

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take their place however are in the right has retreated into christian fascism and a celebration of the gun culture the left knocked off balance by decades of fierce state repression in the name of how the communism is struggling to rebuild and to find itself popular revulsion for the ruling elite however is nearly universal it is a question of which ideas will capture the public's imagination if a nonviolent popular movement is able to india logically disarm the bureaucrats civil servants and police to get them in essence to defect nonviolent revolution is possible but if the state can organize affective and prolonging violence against to send it spawns reactive violence or what the state calls terrorism violent revolutions usually give rise to revolutionaries as ruthless as their adversaries whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become

a monster friedrich nietzsche wrote r.t. correspondent on your part in power looks at why nonviolence was such an important tactic in the civil rights movement. rutherglen rest has always played an important role in the struggle for civil rights peaceful tactics are vital to the movement as well in one thousand forty two a man named james farmer began a sit in at the jack sprat coffee shop and mobile alabama in protest of unequal treatment of black customers who were made to wait and charge higher prices for their donuts and coffee farmer and his friends sat in the shop demanding to be served as local police told the owner there was nothing they could do and they actually one core or the congress of racial equality was formed these same peaceful tactics would help fuel the civil rights movement just a few years later in december one thousand fifty five dr martin luther king jr organized among.