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in the united states. everybody here. with breaking news straight from. the southwest of the country. the crew didn't have time to eject and were killed in the crash the plane ran off the end of the runway early reports of. problems with the craft understand the two pilots did not have time to have perished we will have more details on this breaking news here later this hour. a pro. independence march in the spanish city of valencia descended into violence

as it faced off against eight counter demonstration i mentioned. i was. police were forced to intervene to try and separate the two groups pro independence organizers accuse the unity supporters of provocation. i. was the violence comes ahead of the catalan president's address to the regional parliament later in the day where some think he may declare independence however society and politicians are divided. and we need to declare independence to be on

the same political level as the spanish to be able to negotiate a friendly break up first and you can fix 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 over catalonia secession bed and some of the statements have resorted to well personal threats. ok history should not be repeated let's hope nothing is declared tomorrow because perhaps the one who declares that it will end up like the one who declared it eighty three years ago that the spanish prime minister spokes person there making a reference to catalonia was first a former first minister luis come palace who declared the region's independence back in one thousand nine hundred four he fled to france where he was captured by the nazis and handed over to spain's fascist regime in one thousand forty a politician was tried and executed for quote rebellion. that whole comparison

sparked a great deal of controversy one said they don't need to be reminded of that tragedy or the leader of the left wing today must party hewas the spanish prime minister spokes person being quote either ignorant or irresponsibly provocative in barcelona or details artes and i started here. 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 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 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 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 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 is the solution that's a demonstrates this 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 is this issue for our. eight largest unions in france to come together later in the day to protest against the president's labor reforms and 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 has details france is poised for a nationwide day of strike action tens of thousands of people are expected to take poets all angry about new labor reforms that people say put employees before workers' pay caps strict just sick leave and the axing of civil service jobs all in theory eighty eight you need. 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 again. to workers from working conditions to salaries the protests couldn't come at a worse time for a 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 breaking 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 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 for tribunals could also be cancelled as well as a roll of other services such as the postal service libraries and unemployment centers airports will also be affected as the country's civil aviation authority has called on airlines to cancel thirty percent of flights charlotte even. yes. coalition backed fighters in syria now say they're just a week away from liberating islamic states one time defacto capital rocka but the

effort to push the terrorists out of the city which was once populated by more than two hundred thousand people as left it in ruins some of the latest pictures from inside russia. kurdish led forces launched a military operation against the terrorists in iraq in early june they have 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 huge blow to the terror group with the syrian army now also pushing them out of

debt as your considered isolates last stronghold in eastern syria the story that is the focus of most media attention and not far from the city are a number of assyrian christian villages which were repeatedly targeted by i still has the story of one woman whose village was reduced to rubble. the 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 islam and 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 as 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 robbed and looted there's nothing left. facebook's coming under increased pressure over the way it was used in a rushers alleged meddling of the twenty sixteen u.s. election media outlets some lawmakers accuse the social media giant of not doing enough to investigate the issue of a facebook security chief has hit back saying the company must not end up becoming

an orwellian style ministry of truth our two correspondents america has details. 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 your puzzle 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 a legislator 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 platforms companies did not take these threats seriously enough i believe they are recognizing that threat now they have 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'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 this channel has also been in the spotlight over alleged russian meddling facing the prospect now of being registered in america. as a foreign agent russian officials say they are mulling counter measures. to try to join my colleague neil harvey to discuss this. 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 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 u.s. 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 and to the u.s. election seven pages of that report were devoted toward last month's also twitter how to put together a report on the allegations of russian interference 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. stories still coming your way on the program today including. a new police unit to find online a hate crimes is being criticized as a threat to freedom of speech after the break.

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interested falls in the waters in the. first. one in twenty past here in moscow a new police unit combating hate crimes on the internet is to be set up in the u.k. the british arm 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 coverly 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 we heard opinion from journalist martin somers and commentator. mr paul beyond 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 road for taking the step front in this in the global community you've got to define it very tightly nobody except for the free speech i could break into swearing now and that would be acceptable for all sorts of reasons and within the society those are bruised by the language but you've got to be very careful with the norms squeezing out in the gym and 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 you'll see

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 and 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. with iraq now almost free from militant control the country's oil industry is looking to

the future and russian help hawkins has details. 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 tom geological 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 near ft just minutes from the base itself. over the next year will see two hundred fifty kids studying at the school aged between six and twelve taught by seventeen teachers and one of the new project especially in the pipeline is opening

a school just in girls as their 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. the oil sector isn't the only area of the rocky russian corporation. recently completed construction of the gas and power station this will be a key electricity source for regions as well as providing gas for export the company is already in talks with the rocky government to develop more oil fields in the region because of. companies doing very well and there are very much that for months we need the companies we need the technology and we need. the experience. to improve the dilution. iraq. or let's give you

a reminder of our breaking news for you this hour here on r.t. international a russian fighter jet crashed during takeoff airbase on syria's western coast the two man crew did not have time to object and were killed in the crash yes you twenty four plane a run off the end of the runway only reports a plane technical problems with the plane. air base has been a strategic center of the russian anti terror operation in syria which did begin two years ago. all right well you had us continue here on our international fortunes day and about thirty two. applied for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spend the

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