all of our of our three americans do the same we are apparently better than. the sea people you've never heard of love right down to the next president of the world bank so very. seriously send us an e-mail. a long shot at u.b.c. who live in paris where police will be here casting a test to demonstrate against the marcos government or break through to the latest in the next few minutes. a crucial day for spain as catalonia braces for a potential declaration of interest independence despite growing pressures from madrid we have all the details live from barcelona. when we won in other news the leader of britain's main opposition party slams to resign may's government for

failing to secure a brick city agreement as the prime minister warns the u.k. must be ready to quit the e.u. without a deal. i'm kate partridge and those were the headlines at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow thank you for watching. and we start in france where police have used tear gas amid a nationwide anti-government strike unions called on five million civil servants to walk out of their jobs and take part in one hundred thirty planned marches against president micros labor reforms.

well for the latest on this we can now cross live to paris and our france correspondent charlotte do whisky behind the lucky to have been peaceful so far in paris what's it looking like now. well the peace is over as police have been firing tear gas on the protests to say in paris now we're in the middle of a crowd and to give you a sense of what how angry people all we've got stewed to spot behind me who was unhappy about the cuts that hates to support the teacher the hospital workers and the rest of the city was taking place in this nationwide day of protest around five million people all represented by these unions who told them to come out on strike and it was peaceful but as we've been improving along the destination he too wants

a nation in paris we've already seen some of the damage that's been caused by the protesters and of course the police are now responding in kind with that scene you gas we've seen people leaving past just impacted by the effects of that see gas now many people here are unhappy about what they see is the monsoon government's cuts to the civil service the strike took a hundred twenty thousand jobs to be cuts over the next fight is a pay freeze and many people feeling that mr market just doesn't represent the working class in fact many people think that mr mack going to is actually still here showing contempt for the white house in the past in the past as well last that being fairly am indiscriminate about how he. his disgust protest is what he thinks of them take a listen to what he said previously to be absolutely determined i will not give you any way not to slack is not to cynics not to extremists well let's be clear who the slackers are according to mark wrong 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. well just as we waiting here we are being kept in this area as the protesters are trying to move forward and we are hearing tear gas being fired in the background now what is the impact of the strike on across fronts many schools are closed including paris with fifty five percent of schools are estimated to be without their teachers today up to seventy schools closed in two thousand and links eighty percent certain rights have been cut today in funds and many hospitals she disagree services and other services are facing severe delays as a result of the strike we're going to keep an eye on it for the next few hours but for the moment things are becoming tense see in paris as they are now clashes

between the police and the protesters kate. let's hope that everything stays peaceful and you keep out of trouble as well shall i shall the day bensky in paris thank you very much indeed thank you. well meanwhile french officials are choosing unusual ways to show their disapproval of president micro matters in central france have turned the president's portrait in their office to for it to face the wall well that's after they were tear gassed by police as they tried to enter a building in which mackerel was holding a meeting in a bid to speak to him while another man in the eastern region has cut the bottom third off his portrayed in protest over a thirty percent cut in the state budget. well meanwhile people are gathering in the catalonian capital of boss alona for a march in support of independence it comes amid speculation the region's president could eclair a break from spain later this tuesday. and for more on this we

can also cross live to our teams an associate you see in barcelona why they're not mean what's the mood like in the streets there. well kate this is a crucial day for the region the leader of the council on the region is expected to make a highly anticipated speech where he's finally supposed to shed light terms of what's going to be happening to this region in the time to come certainly following the october first referendum that took place here where ninety percent of the electorate that came out to vote on the day have said they want to leave spain he's now expected to finally say what exactly is going to happen next and we're in a central square in the barcelona where you can see already people have been gathering in support of independence there are some trucks here that rolled in earlier in support of what's to come there is a stage being set up here where no doubt this entire place is going to be packed with people as up which to mark makes his speech in the hours to come and really it's anybody's guess at this point what exactly he's going to be saying because we

do know that before the referendum he used very harsh rhetoric think he's even ready to go to jail for catalonia his independence if he has to but in the time following the referendum he hasn't really been using that kind of harsh language with pressure coming from madrid on all sides including a politician comparing him to the leader of north korea saying the two are capable of suicide to their region within seconds but lots of voices of indignation from madrid let's take a listen. to what i say to people that they should be absolutely assured that the government is going to block any independence declaration that might be expressed. disagreed with the law but you cannot disobey the law. if you disobey the law to become. the president of the governments of those the governments of cuts alone you're who have broken the law to return to leave us to their full place themselves within the constitutional order. willow we have to be clear that it's not just

madrid and also leaders within the european union that have been calling for pushed him on to really take it down a notch and not make any harsh decisions society here in catalonia has also been largely split we have seen throughout this past week massive crowds coming out onto the streets in support of independence but also huge numbers saying they want unity they want catalonia to spain to stay inside the country and we've been here throughout the week gauging opinions of people in terms of what they expect to come tonight let's take a listen. i think he will declare independence you know because he has no other option after the referendum one possibility is that he would do it but without immediate effect. after negotiations. they really do declare independence it will take time to come into force in a way i don't think there will be independence. it is necessary to show rebellion. if the solution that's a demonstrates that half of the population is. well the catalan parliament is

really not far from here and that's where the cattle are leaders currently meeting with parliamentarians here parliamentarians he is going to be coming out coming out to make a speech very soon so certainly we are expecting this square to pop up within this time to people watch what happens and what kind of future awaits this region as well as the whole of spain considering this has been seen as the biggest crisis this country has been gripped with in this generation. will certainly be watching as well as our teams and associates in barcelona thank you very much and thank you . for me one on monday a pro independence march in the east and spanish city of balance here descended into violence as it faced. off against a counter-demonstration the spanish community. or police intervened to try to separate the two groups pro independence organizers accuse the unity supporters of provocation.

well officials in madrid are particularly outspoken about catalonia secession bid some have even resorted to making personal threats to history should not be repeated let's hope nothing is declared tomorrow because perhaps the one who declares that round up like the one who declared it eighty three years ago today that it's. all a spanish prime minister spokesperson was referring to catalonia as former first minister luis gone by nice who declared the region independent back in one thousand nine hundred thirty four he fled to france where he was captured by the nazis and handed over to spain's fascist regime in one nine hundred forty the politician was

tried and executed for rebellion well the recent reference by the spanish prime minister spokesperson to that episode has sparked anger one catalan m.p. said the people don't need to be reminded of the tragedy while the leader of the left wing but they must party accuse the spokes person of being either ignorant or irresponsibly provocative. while ninety percent of those who cast their ballots in the catalan referendum voted to split from spain but if the region does move to become independent it would have a legacy 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 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 and. if it's

a unilateral declaration illegally against stanislaw nobody took a nobody of importance will recognize the lawyer 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. britain's prime minister to resign and has won the country must prepare to quit being you without a deal if you conduct me with brussels on how to exit that's often months frustrating talks may be have failed to produce any clean and i believe it. it's 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 now to resume a said that talks of the european union could drag on for another year at least and despite insisting that real and tangible progress is being made something that very

few people believe right now almost in the same breath she admitted that the country has got to be prepared for the eventuality of a no deal outcome proof of the fact that the government views this as a realistic possibility is the publication of these two so-called white papers these are documents that set out the government's plan for customs and trade arrangements in case britain ends up crashing out of the european union with no deal obviously all these admissions were more than enough material for jeremy corbyn to pounce on and to capitalise on in parliament. the referendum with still no clear on what the future discontinuity. he asked what should the government been doing. if this guy. can't

negotiate a deal for britain they should make where you drew dream good job with. the conservative party has been rather distracted with public internals. over the past couple of weeks we've got jeremy corbin saying look we need to stop fighting with each other and get on with the business of negotiating britain's departure from the european union and a fresh round of negotiations is getting underway now so that statement from two reason may about being prepared will be eventually ality it wasn't just meant for domestic consumption it's also another signal to brussels that look we're prepared to rule a way with no deal if we don't get what we want and of course we've got both london and brussels lobing the responsibility for the progress of these talks at each other achieving that partnership will require leadership and flexibility not just

from us but from our friends the twenty seven nations of the e.u. the ball is in their court this is not exactly a ball game the ball is entirely in the u.k. court it's important to remember that domestically had to resign may's position is incredibly precarious she's under intense political pressure she's seen as politically weak and her popularity has plummeted she can't quite shake talk of an internal party coup against her and this is something that diplomats and negotiators in brussels are watching very closely. and with reason may being closely observed has more of the grinning she faced during her latest speech in calling and. the british people voted for control of the borders and to their money fifteen

months songs in the referendum made so little progress leadership and flexibility still no clear on what the future of this country will look like leadership in flexibility watch in the us has the government been doing all this time. so tittle progress no solution to the scale of the mess so little progress food is in there cools ok reeses no exactly a bowl game if this government can't negotiate a deal for britain they should make way for a team but. this is a serious. good photo this is a serious issue. now after the break facebook's in the spotlight for its role in russia's alleged meddling in the u.s. election.

seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days to come out ahead and gain from it equals betrayal. when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the cost may teria higher ha that's true but by banning the empire 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 the banning of bombing folks in the

middle east for cheap oil at the planning subsidies given to china for cheap electronics everything in the grocery store is going to be double the price triple the price. welcome back facebook is coming on the increased pressure over the way it was used in russia's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election media outlets and lawmakers accuse the social media giant of not doing enough to investigate the issue only one facebook security chiefs hit banks saying the company must not so end up becoming an orwellian style ministry of truth r.t. so miracle on how the story 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 lots of journalists have 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 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'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. we spoke to some participants at a conference on the cyber crime taking place in moscow right now we're headed into post cyber security and it is there as well as a c.e.o. of a company working with countries all over the world and they discuss the role russia plays in the fight against cyber crime and explain why allegations of russian meddling in elections shouldn't be taken at face value. speaking. of the

biggest supporter to international police corporations to interpol even in the field of cyber crime has made a significant if forward to contribute the fighting cyber crime pseudo joint operations against takedown so i think that they have done something they could do but of course i think fighting cyber crime especially attribute is not easy as you know so i think that's the the they have done what they could do and then that we continue to trust that will show is going to be is making contribution to international police corporations trying to pull the or most definitely those attributes criminal hackers or russian government state capabilities to certain attacks. if they always attributed wisely that seems to be seen as we often don't

see the actual source material the country that is often the topic of conversation from. the u.k. reportedly hacking into belgacom in belgium so this would be sure to cue for that n.s.a. supposedly hacking into going to their respective adversaries such as russia or russia trying to influence the democratic process in western nations and i think these are all examples of where people really try hard to attribute what's happening to the nation states which in some cases seems analytically valid based on what we can see it in some cases it is attributed normally. based on who you're talking to. me while the trunk administration has yet again criticized iran the pentagon chief insinuated terror on is a key supporter of terrorism with washington now poised to announce its new approach towards the new clear deal with iran the international situation is the most complex and demanding that i have seen in all. my years of service and that

over four decades one state sponsor of terror in the mideast cannot hide behind its nation state status while in effect it is actually a destabilizing revolutionary regime while the white house is expected to with giora support for the nuclear agreement this week earlier president made some statements calling the deal the worst in history or europe particularly germany france and the u.k. have urged him to stay in the deal but for more on this let's cross live now to adam garrett managing editor of news site that you run. adam thank you very much indeed for joining me well let's cut directly to the obvious first question do you expect president trying to pull out of the iranian nuclear deal. well received wisdom is that he is going to pull out of the deal which makes me really at a fifty fifty difficult to anticipate a man who himself has touted the element of surprise but what we can't say is that

there is a great deal of discord within the united states itself if trump actually is going to make good on his threat and withdraw from the j.c.b. away it means he'll be going against the recommendations of his own state department the testimony of the u.s. defense secretary before congress the european union a formal statement by the joint jointly issued by germany france and the u.k. will be going of course against russia and china but when has the united states ever cared about incurring anger from two nuclear armed superpowers and it means that the only country in the world that they'll be on the side of is of course the israeli regime of benjamin netanyahu so if trump does go through with it it means he'll be isolated from many voices in his own internal washington circle and from his own allies but whether he actually pulls the trigger or not in some ways the more people say he's going to do it the more i'm inclined to say it's really

a coin toss at this point well let's have a look at the consequences that i what you think they would be if the u.s. were to break the sale i mean what do you think this would do for security within that region. well in the short term it would show that the united states is a totally unreliable negotiating partner for everyone and anyone but north korea of course comes up in that context particularly and so said the german foreign minister to seek more gabrial in terms of the wider conflicts if the u.s. really wants to launch another lead from behind war against yet another middle eastern country they will have to think twice iran is stronger than any country that america has yet invaded they are very prepared for an onslaught and they're even prepared from a kind of gee hardest incursion the car in that the united states tried and ultimately failed to succeed with in syria so iran is no man's fool they've been preparing for the various american strategic destabilizing mechanisms for decades

the other knock on effect is that it's drawing many countries of the world together it's drawing china russia iran and turkey which can now accurately be described as a former u.s. ally closer together and added into that mix europe who seems to be fairly happy doing business with iran they are all too happy for the j c p a way to remain in place they like any other objective observer realize that iran is doing everything it was all stu do and there there is no real problem except in the minds of the anti iranian demagogues in washington and tel aviv so congratulations donald trump he is isolated america and turn most of the country against it and i think i will have to leave it there thank you very much indeed thank you and i thank you. and i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour.

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