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a very warm welcome. independence. demonstration the spanish. police were forced to intervene to try and separate groups independents.

a speculation that carlos may declare the region's independence in his speech the catalan society and politicians alike split on the issue. 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 over catalonia session bid and some of the statements have resorted to that of personal threats. 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 the spanish prime minister spokesperson and making a reference to catalonia was former first minister. who declared the regions independence back in one thousand nine hundred thirty four he then fled to france where he was captured by the nazis and handed over to spain's fascist regime in one hundred forty the politician who was tried and executed for quote rebellion. now that comparison has sparked a great deal of controversy on capital and he said they don't need to be reminded of that tragedy while the leader of the leftwing damus party accused the spanish prime minister spokesperson of being quote either ignorant or irresponsibly provocative in barcelona with more. 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 calming its rhetoric. the day after the first of october we will start a new period so you can. to consideration the world of the castle and us do not underestimate the strength of the people of catalonia. a woman a poncho yet 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 in the film. i will make a direct appeal to the european union but what happens this tuesday is key catalonia 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. that you have and i think that they could calmly why it's a 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 with 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 wish that i would it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know if independence if the solution to this it demonstrates that half of the population is tied up in just the fighting 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 ensure cannot for our. ninety percent of those who cast their ballots in the cattle on the referendum voted to split from spain but if indeed the region does move to become independent it will have a lengthy to do list. if catalonia were to become an independent country that would presume a new constitution new election law and a change in the political parties let's remember that about half the population doesn't want to be an independent cut a lawyer 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 are candidate countries now maybe cut alone you would be in a position to jump the line because there. already in the e.u. as part of spain and their institutions presume membership in the e.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 cuts alone he has that require membership in nato. if it's a unilateral declaration illegally against spanish law nobody took a nobody of importance will recognize. if on the other hand it's

a negotiated separation with madrid's agreement then it will not be a controversial matter for other countries to recognize catalonia. eight largest unions in france saw set to come together later in this day to protest against the president's labor reforms the unions are calling on five million civil servants to walk out of their job some pot taken one hundred thirty planned marches nationwide details here with these shot it depends. 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 infuriated you. also know that 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 sell or ease the protests could come at a worse time for president much 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 the 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 would 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 paralyze the country hospitals many services are likely to suffer delays with medical staff and joining the action is. schools in paris fifty five percent of teachers are expected to strike seventy schools closing judicial services including some police services while tribunals could be cancelled as well as a roll off to other services such as the personal service libraries and on the employment census airports will all say be affected as the country's civil aviation authority

has cooled on stick cancel thirty percent of flights. even skiing on c. paris. u.s. backed fighters in syria now say they're just a week away from liberating islamic states one time defacto capital rucka 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 very latest pictures from inside iraq.

kurdish led forces launched a military operation against the terrorists and rocca in early june they've liberated some ninety percent of the city although i still continues to fight for control of the center of a lot of the old city would be a shoot blow to the terror group the syrian army now also pushing them out of debt as all considered i suppose last stronghold in eastern syria. the story of rock is the focus of most media attention not far from the city are a number of assyrian christian villagers which were previously targeted by 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 razed to the

ground and that's precisely what happened before our rice was washed the smoke rise from our houses. from then on our life as hostages as a slimy state started off it was uncertain everything was uncertain. but after the call the planes didn't differentiate when they were bombing they hit i still find tears 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 relentless. 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.

facebook is coming under increased pressure over the way it was used in russia as alleged meddling of the us twenty sixteen election media outlets on low because accused 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 all well in style ministry of truth is r.t. correspondent so america. 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 have celebrated act. demick says 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 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. 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'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 this channel has also been in the spotlight over alleged russian meddling price and the prospect now of being british today in america as a foreign agent but now russian officials say they are mulling countermeasures oxys elaborate trying to discuss this with my colleague neil harvey. 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 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 r.t. america for instance would have to provide the personal details of the staff or share and reveal transcripts of interviews since these allegations were made of russian interference in the election pressure all over the place 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 of that report were devoted toward last month's 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 and the mean time 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. roles us fake news organizations.

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country must. deal. with brussels. having failed to produce. i believe it is profoundly in all our interests for the negotiations to succeed it is also our responsibility as a government to prepare for every eventuality so that is exactly what we are doing . joining us there from london are good to see you pollie would also. have to say well you can see to resume a making contingency plans there she said that talks with the e.u. are expected to drag on for another year and she wants to be prepared for all

eventually and when she is speaking there in parliament she said that real and tangible progress is being made towards an agreement which a lot of people would argue with but she also said that the country has to be prepared for a no deal outcome and illustrating just how seriously the government is viewing this option to reason may announce the release of these two so-called white papers on trade and customs these are documents that show the government's plan in case of that hard no deal crash out of the european union the purpose of the papers is to reassure the british public and british businesses that britain could operate is what reason made calls an independent trading nation no matter what the outcome of these talks with brussels so you've got the prime minister really being brutally honest about the way things are going she's admitting that there might not be

a deal at the end of this process and also she said that if there is a deal it probably wouldn't happen until the eleventh hour until this negotiation period that we have set out is nearly over the admissions of course was something that the opposition leader jeremy corbin was quick to capitalize on take a lesson. street among the referendum was still no clear on what the future of this country will look like. the question must be arsed watching the us has the government been doing all this time if this government can't negotiate a deal for britain they should make way for a team that. a lot of people will say that that is a very good question in deed the conservative party has been squabbling quite publicly for the past couple of weeks and the opposition party here says that they need to get on with negotiating bragg's it rather than fighting with each other so

you've got to resume a attempting to show that some sort of contingency planning is taking place of course she herself is under intense pressure right now her popularity has plummeted and she just can't shake all this talk of a party coup against her and in these circumstances it is incredibly difficult to reassure the public that the government's ready for any situation however undesirable and disruptive that situation may be hard on his part of work a life in london. now a new police unit combating hate crimes on the internet is said to be well it's going to be put up in the u.k. the british home secretary says the problem it 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 very been the victim of hate crimes online however critics say it will threaten free speech we heard opinion from journalist martin somers and commentator 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 the secretary right 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 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 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

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