as independent. speculation the president made. as over five million french people are expected. president. number of us media.

international we have your latest worldwide headline a pro independence march in the spanish. descended into chaos as people faced off against a demonstration for spanish unity. police were forced to intervene to try and separate the two groups independence organizers are accused the unity supporters. now the violence comes ahead of the catalan president's address to the regional parliament on chews day

west some think he may declare independence but society and politicians are split when we need to declare independence to be on the same political level as the spanish state to be able to negotiate a friendly break up in the current context the results of the referendum cannot be taken as an endorsement for proclaiming catherine independence officials in madrid are particularly outspoken of catalonia session bid and some of the statements have resorted to well personal threats you're going to get history should not be repeated let's hope nothing is declared tomorrow because perhaps the one who clears that up like the one who declared it eighty three years ago and the man. who was making reference that luis companies he was first minister of catalonia in the thirty's a company's declared the regions independence back in one thousand nine hundred thirty four and he had to flee to france where he was later captured by the nazis

and handed over to franco is regime and that was in the nine hundred forty companies was tried and executed for rebellion now that whole comparison has sparked a great deal of controversy and one catalan m.p. said they don't need to be reminded of this tragedy or the leader of the left wing per day must party accuse her hoist spokes person of being quote either ignorant or irresponsibly provocative are to use an association reports from boston. following a crucial referendum of october first the catalan people are holding their breath to see what happens next and no one is indifferent the series of protests have shown that society is split massive crowds have been coming onto the streets in support of proclaiming independence as well as those calling for unity meanwhile the catalan leadership seems to have stalled recently calling its rhetoric. the day after the first of october we will start a new period taking into consideration the will of the castle. 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 i honestly believe that we have the right to be heard and if. i will make a direct appeal to the european union what happens this tuesday is keycap slowly as leader carlos pushed him onto the expected to address the region's parliament and potentially declare independence but will he and what happens next let's talk to locals here to find out what they expect. i think he will declare independence because he has no other option after the referendum one possibility is that he would do it but without immediate effect postponing it until after negotiations. if they really do declare independence it will take time to come into force anyway i don't think there will be independence. i think that they could calmly way to few

days quietly think about what they exactly will do it's they who are in a hurry so they must know what they're doing i would like him to stop everything he's incapable of doing. he has to do something it is necessary to show that right soon the half million voters in catalonia that are against what the party that controls the state does. this independence will hurt both spayed and catalonia. it took many years to make the country whole and to divide it just like that is absurd i can that it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know it and dependence is the solution that's a demonstrates this half of the population is tied up. it's necessary to negotiate with the spanish government to find a solution so that the cattle people with significant number of the council and people feel comfortable inside spain. think about it i don't think that they will declare independence because they don't have the permission to do that and the

government will not allow it. if the state were intelligent it would negotiate a special agreement with catalonia so that catalonia remained inside spain but their mentality ideology and franco ism prevents them from doing that as people wait to find out the direction in which their leaders will take them it's clear that the time for answers has come and clarity on this major crisis is now overdue reporting from barcelona and it's this issue. if it did become independent it has a long list of tasks to achieve. if catalonia were to become an independent country that would presume a new constitution a new election law and a change in the political parties let's remember that about half the population doesn't want to be and independent cut the lawn and that would become the basis for i think a very contentious political division within any new independent country. brussels

has made it very clear that if catalonia breaks away from spain they would have to reapply separately to become a new member of the e.u. this would put them in the position of many other countries that our candidate countries now may be cut alone you would be in a position to jump the line because they're already in the e.u. as part of spain and their institutions presume membership in the u. and that means use of the euro as well. as we know is completely useless when it comes to the actual security threats to europe like the uncontrolled migration the growth of terrorism with people in cut the law and you want to join nato simply as part of the larger bureaucratic structure of europe maybe so but clearly there are no defense or security needs that kata lundy has that require membership in nato. if catalonia became

independent i don't think it would have much of an military establishment to defend itself from home seems to me that the kind of leadership cut the lady has which is very pro european institutions would be. very happy to be something close to a demilitarized state. if it's a unilateral declaration illegally against banish law nobody took a nobody of importance will recognize the lawyer if on the other hand it's a nigga. so she added separation with madrid's agreement then it will not be a controversial matter for other countries to recognize got a lawyer. the eight largest unions in france are set to come together later on tuesday to protest against the president's labor reforms the unions are calling on five million civil servants to walk out of their jobs and take part in

a one hundred and thirty planned marches all across the country r.t. correspondent charlotte dupers who has more. privacy is poised for a nationwide day of strike action tens of thousands of people are expected to take part all angry about new labor reforms that people say put employees before workers' pay caps strict distinctly and the axing of civil service jobs all infuriated unions assiduous all. this is very simple we are rebelling against the laws that micron has prepared these laws go against workers our rights were fought for and won by workers in the one nine hundred fifty s. since then the government's done all it can to destroy what social protections there are in the labor code this government favors businesses and as against workers from working conditions to salaries you should know that in the commercial sector

seventy percent of employees earn the minimum wage which is very tough this is what we are unhappy about the protests could come i don't worse time for the president not good whose approval ratings have already taken a severe beating since he took office accused of being the president of the rich he trying to shake off that image by shelving plans to abolish a tax on luxury items like your thoughts but such gestures are unlikely to achieve much given his recent outbursts over striking workers and i have found you do there are some. who'd be better off seeing if they could get the job rather than stirring up some have got the qualifications to do it and it's not that far for them to go i will be absolutely determined to that i will not yield in any way not to slack is not to cynics not to extremists.

to. no surprise the new means all serious. well let's be clear who these slackers are according to micron that's us all workers are slackers slackers are the people who work hard to earn a living to feed their family to pay their debts their mortgages this is purely a provocation from the head of state and from the government meaning that slackers wake up every day to go to their inner prices to work the nationwide strike is expected to power a life of the country hospitals many services a likely to suffer delays with

medical staff joining the action schools in paris fifty five percent of teachers are expected to strike and seventy schools closing judicial services including some police services while tribunals could also be cancelled as well as a roll out of other services such as the postal service libraries and unemployment sent to airports will also be affected as the country's civil aviation authority has called on airlines to cancel thirty percent of flights. so let's. see this. u.s. backed fighters in syria now say they're just a week away from liberating islamic states one time to facto capital but the effort to push the terrorists out of the city which was once populated by more than two hundred thousand people has just left it in ruins and here are some of the latest

pictures taken from inside rocka. kurdish led forces launched their military operation against the terrorists in iraq early june and they've liberated some ninety percent of the city although i still continues to fight for control of the center of the last of the old city would be a blow to the terror group the syrian army now also pushing them out of debt as all considered to isolate a last stronghold in eastern syria the story of iraq is the focus of most media attention not far from the city or

a number of assyrian christian villages which were previously targeted by i still hear the story of one woman whose village was reduced to rubble. islamic state attacked us by surprise at four in the morning. they said leave everything behind because the village is going to be a race to the ground and that's precisely what happened before our rice we watched the smoke rise from our houses. from then on our life as hostages as islam and states started a faith was uncertain everything was uncertain what. they call ition planes didn't differentiate when they were bombing they hit i still

fighters as well as civilians we were living amongst the terrorists the jets didn't discriminate but we feel most was the aircraft as they were bombing relentlessly. this is the house i lived in as you can see it's totally burnt down it's been robbed and looted there's nothing left. it is art international law from moscow just about a quarter past eight in the morning so up up so no surprise to some facebook coming under fire for its role in the election battling that story and more just a market. high

that's true but. in the case of america it means that the cost of everyday goods will be high in other words if you're not depending on slave labor in china. bombing folks in the middle east for cheap oil. subsidies given to china for cheap electronics everything in the grocery store is going to be double the price triple the price.

for your new year's facebook is coming under increased pressure over the way it was used in russia as alleged meddling of the twenty sixteen u.s. election media outlets and lawmakers accuse the social media giant of not doing enough to investigate the issue facebook's security chief has hit back saying the company must not end up becoming an old style ministry of truth. american reports. alex stamos took to twitter to address accusations directed at facebook saying that journalists largely underestimate the ability to filter content for billions of users stamos also stressed that it would be naive to assume that the algorithms are entirely unbiased now his patients seem to have run out when he tweeted that there might be a way to battle fake news if you're not afraid to turn facebook into the ministry of truth. so if you don't worry about becoming the ministry of truth with machine

learning systems trained on your personal biases then it's easy this type of twitter storm is highly unusual for facebook a company that sticks to very restrained statements facebook has recently come under focused after revealing over three thousand ads allegedly purchased by russian actors during the two thousand and sixteen election totaling to about one hundred thousand dollars now the company is under pressure from all sides with politicians and media claiming that facebook hasn't done enough to stop what they call an influence campaign be useful to understand what the. social media outlets are doing and i was concerned at first that some of these social media platform companies did not take these threats seriously enough i believe they are recognizing that threat now they've provided us with information don't know the answer to this question but it's interesting to me are they a telecommunications platform or are they a news organization however facebook has itself stated that the ads amount to

almost nothing in terms of total content explaining about campaigns have spent over one thousand times that but that didn't help to calm the storm as i've said before social media giants are now writing reports and releasing statements on russia's alleges activities on social media platforms during the two thousand and sixteen election but they are doing so without proof or evidence to substantiate any of their claims well this channel has also been in the spotlight over alleged russian meddling facing the prospect of being registered as a full room that agent in the united states but now russian officials say they are countermeasures. for trying to join my colleague neil harvey to explain. the russian justice ministry has sent notices to several american news outlets that are operating in russia one of them actually confirmed this by the way that they may face restrictions according to russia's law on foreign agents here we're talking

about at least three news organizations including radio free europe and a video channel called current time the question is what does the word restrictions mean in this case and i guess it is fair to assume and sources within the ministry of justice are hinting at it that the russian authorities may make some amendments to the legislation and then this will lead to a situation the legal circumstances when these news organizations will have to register as foreign agents i'm guessing at this point this might be retaliation looks like it is retaliate as you may well remember the american justice department just recently got in touch with our tea america's service supplier requiring it to register in the u.s. as a foreign agent based on a law that dates back to ages ago and the law that was initially drafted to counter nazi propaganda and where does this leave our network r.t.

america for instance would have to provide the personal details of the staff or share and reveal the transcripts of interviews so the russian foreign ministry previously warned that there could be retaliation to this and our editor in chief once again stresses that the amount of and wanted attention and the us to our network is just enormous and you don't know we have until recently new active missions except this time getting a reputation has been taken against us in the u.s. specifically you are asked if we ever experience the kind of pressure that we experienced today in. the u.s. to the point eventually being forced out of the country and i think that's the key with the pressure because ever since these allegations were made of russian into favorites in the us elections this channel has come under an awful lot of pressure

you know you remember that report by the u.s. intelligence committee on the allegations of the russian meddling into the u.s. election seven pages of that report were devoted toward t. and these supposed influences that r t might have had on the american public discourse and that report r t was called the kremlin propaganda tool that many times we heard from u.s. congressman last month also twitter how to put together a report on the allegations of russian interference and in that document artie's ad spending was put on the same page as internet bots and trolls in the meantime on that very same twitter platform the us president donald trump has wondered why the u.s. intelligence committee and the senate have done nothing to get rid of the trolls and us fake news organizations it is an international and your police unit

combating hate crimes on the internet is to be set up in the u.k. the british home secretary says the problem needs to be properly dealt with. on my hate crime is complete man acceptable what is an illegal offline is illegal online and those who commit these covered the crimes should be met with the full force of the little new unit will be run by police officers and initially be unallocated some two hundred thousand pounds in funding its main work will consist of assessing complaints from people who believe they have been the victim of hate crimes online or of a critic so you will threaten free speech you had opinion from journalist martin some most on a commentator whole view on us. the amount of crime that's perpetrator of the internet from hate crimes to hate speech even to the recruitment in planning isis uses the internet for is something that we absolutely have to put our arms around that again i wish we didn't have to have this conversation but we certainly do and

you know compliments to secretary rod for taking the step front in this in the global community you've got to define it very tightly. nobody except for freedom of speech i could break into swearing now and that would be acceptable for all sorts of reasons and within the society those are rules about language but you've got to be very careful in north squeezing out in the debate and i think the leader will have to see how this operates and hopefully it will be done in a sensible rather than a stupid way for example if you can go into many websites and forums and use you know say see anything that resembles a heated conversation you'll find a lot of users complaining that their comments have been been blocked and they're very angry about the fact that they feel they're being censored so do we need to worry about going too far not direction it's all about balance we don't want to eliminate the ability for us to have as you are facilitating right now a healthy good solid debate we don't want to do that because they think that damages so many things in our global community but we do need to put our arms

around hate speech we've got to actually be realistic in adults about this people are going to have strong opinions but they can't go around threatening groups of people or individuals because that's just not all the principle should surely be that what's already illegal offline should be illegal online for the same kinds of reasons. really a big step to have the same rules in both spheres is what i thank for joining us so far here on r.t. international today right now it's running a twenty five tuesday morning october the tenth your headlines continue in a short while. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football

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i'm lindsey francis is broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight more european airlines are in trouble passengers have been stranded employees taken off the payroll as air carriers struggle to stay aloft and the unrest between catalonia and the spanish government has not wound down with spain

threatening economic turmoil at the push for independence continues and my guest former u.s. trading commissioner bart chilton joins me to talk about the effects of the recent hurricanes on u.s. jobs and some new developments coming out of the u.s. treasury which could see a change on the wall street standby starts right now. european airlines are in trouble last month britain's fifth largest carrier monarch airlines came to a screeching halt much to the consternation of passengers literally about to board their flights at airports around the world flight z.b. three seventy five from tel aviv landed in manchester at.