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morning on tuesday here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international we have your latest world headlines. pro independence monch in the spanish. descended into. a demonstration the spanish you. police were forced to intervene to try and separate the two groups.

the violence comes ahead of the catalan president's address to the regional parliament on tuesday where some think he may declare independence society and politicians are divided. but we need to declare independence to be on the same political level as the spanish our to be able to negotiate a friendly break up with just any contacts in the current context the results of a referendum cannot look taken as an endorsement for proclaiming catherine independence officials in madrid are particularly outspoken over catalonia secession bed and some other statements have resorted to personal threats. history should not be repeated let's hope nothing is declared tomorrow because perhaps the one who declares that up like the one who declared it eighty three years ago that

it's a spanish prime minister spokesperson making a reference to catalonia is former first minister. who declared the regions independence back in one thousand nine hundred thirty four he fled to france where he was captured by the nazis and handed over to franco is regime one hundred forty the politician who was tried and executed for quote rebellion. now that comparison has sparked a great deal of controversy on cattle and he said they don't need to be reminded of that tragedy of a leader of the left wing party accuse the spanish prime minister spokes person of being quote either ignorant or irresponsibly provocative details now from. following the crucial referendum of october first the catalan people are holding their breath to see what happens next and no one is indifferent to 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 it's rhetoric. the day after the first of october we will start a new period taking into consideration the will of the castle and us 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 passive i honestly believe that we have the right to be heard if. i will make a direct appeal to the european union but what happens this tuesday is keycap slowly as leader karl has 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 will do it but without immediate effect postponing it until after negotiations.

even 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 and quietly think about what they exactly will do 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 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 it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know even dependence if the solution that's it demonstrates that half of the population is tied up. 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. ninety percent of those who cast their ballots in the catalan referendum voted to split from spain but if i do the region does move to become independent it would have a lengthy to do list. 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 of the growth of terrorism with people in ca to 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 cut alone he 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 spanish law nobody took a nobody of importance will recognize the law yet if on the other hand it's in the . no 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 in the day to protest against the president's labor reforms and unions are calling on five million civil servants to walk out of their jobs and take part in a one hundred thirty planned marchers all across the country details now with artie's shot up and. france 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 strictest sick leave and the axing of civil service jobs all in theory eighty eight you need. to know the this is very simple we are rebelling against the laws that micron has prepared these laws go against workers this government favors businesses and is against workers from working conditions to salaries the protests could not come i don't worry it's 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 rather than wreaking havoc would be better off seeing if they could get a job there because some of them have the right qualifications i will be absolutely determined i will not give a name anyway not to slackers not to cynics not to extremists well let's be clear who the 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 into prices to work the nationwide strike is expected to power lies the country hospitals many services are 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 be cancelled as well as a role of other services such as the personal service libraries and on the employment center is airports will also be affected as the country's civil aviation authority has cooled on lines to cancel thirty percent of flights so it's even skiing on c. paris. coalition back fighters in syria now say they're just a week away from liberating islamic states one time to facto capital rocka the effort to push the terrorists out of the city which was once populated by more than two hundred thousand people has left it in ruins here are some of the latest pictures from inside iraq.

kurdish forces launched a minute. the regime against the terrorists in iraq. they've liberated some ninety percent of the city although i still continues to fight for control of the sense of the loss of the old city would be a huge blow to the terror group the syrian army now also pushing them out of date as are all considered i suppose that last stronghold in eastern syria. however the story is the focus of most media attention not far from the city are a number of assyrian christian villages which were previously targeted by eisel and here's 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 i watched the smoke rise from our houses. from then on our life as hostages as islamic states started off it was uncertain everything was uncertain what. they call the planes didn't differentiate when they were bombing they hit i still fighters as well the civilians we were living amongst the terrorists the jets didn't discriminate but we feared 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 dropped and looted there's nothing left. for the past the hour here in moscow facebook's coming under increasing pressure over the way it was used in russia as alleged meddling of a twenty sixteen u.s. election media outlet some lawmakers accuse the social media giant of not doing enough to investigate the issue of facebook security chief was hit back saying the company must not end up becoming an orwellian style ministry of truth has some erica. 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 most of journalists of celebrated academics who've made wild

claims of how easy it is to spot fake news and propaganda 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 you a puzzle by iss 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 that 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 as a legit 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 so this channel has also been in the spotlight over alleged russian meddling facing the prospect of being registered as a foreign agent in america but now russian officials say they are countermeasures also used to trying to deceive us discuss this more with my colleague. 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 it is fair to assume 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 r t america's service supplier requiring it to register in the us as a foreign agent based on a law that dates back to ages ago r.t.

america for instance would have to provide the personal details of the staff or share and reveal transcripts of interviews 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 those targeting our reputation has been taken against us in the u.s. specifically new around if we ever experience the kind of pressure that we experienced today in the u.s. to the point eventually 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 u.s. elections this channel has come under an awful lot of pressure you know you remember the report by the u.s. intelligence committee on the allegations of the russian meddling and to the u.s. election seven pages. that report were devoted toward last month also twitter how

to put together a report on the allegations of russian interference 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. headlines here with international today. for a new police unit to fight online hate crimes criticized as a threat to freedom of speech that story and much more after the. show seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't. let me.

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it's good to be with us today for your world news a new police unit of 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 online hate crime is completely unacceptable what is illegal offline is illegal online and those who commit these commonly crimes should be met with the full force of the law . the new unit will be run by police officers and has initially been allocated some two hundred thousand pounds in funding its main work will consist of assessing complaints from people who believe they've been the victim of hate crimes online however critics say it threatens free speech and we heard opinion from journalist martin summers and commentator paul viola's the amount of crime this 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 with the norms squeezing out in the judgment debate and i think the leader will have to see how this operates and hopefully it will be done in a sensible rather than the stupid way for example if you can go into many websites and forums and you'll 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 in that 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. have the same rules in both. iraq now almost free from militant control the country's oil industry is looking to the future and russian help. after fourteen years of conflict and insurgency iraq has seen better times in worse sit province on a rainy and border we see

a semblance of normality as work bustles in a twenty four hour operation despite the scorching fifty degree heat there have been no incidents here in years but security is still extremely tight the front line in the fight against was one point just an hour's drive away even for short trips safety is always paramount the badr oil field holds around three billion barrels producing up to one hundred seventy thousand barrels per day the region is a tough place to drill thirty million square meters had to be d. mind with over twenty thousand explosives from previous conflicts found and deactivated there are also natural obstacles but the last few years have seen engineers from russia and korea overcome this challenge. i joined the project in twenty fourteen the main problems we faced were tired your logical locations we came across problems with the construction of wells what chemicals to use three

years on we have construction times all those problems have been minimized. under the government contract at least twenty percent of the workforce has to come from the local area. as well as jobs iraqis from badr are given training giving them key roles on a drilling rig. some of their children also study at a local school built by gas prom left just minutes from the base itself. next year will see two hundred fifty kids studying at the school aged between six and twelve point seven team teacher someone you project especially in the pipeline is opening the school just for the girls as the current one is very far away and this will mean that kids from three nearby villages be able to come here and study much closer to home but. the oil sector isn't the only area of the rocky russian corporation guest from nafta recently completed construction of the gas and power

station this will be a key electricity source for surrounding regions as well as providing gas for export the company is already in talks with the iraqi government to develop more oil fields in the region from other companies doing very well an era we very much sets fire to the performance we need the companies we need the technology and we need the president and. the experience we really. need to improve the sort of lucian. bhadra iraq. and i thank you for joining us joining us on this tuesday here on r.t. international many more of your worldwide headlines coming your way in about thirty .

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