i'm a girl it's in smoke altie witnesses the fierce frontline battle for wannabes lovick spates last strongholds in serious debt as all province isis is really cute. is one of the jihad just briefly showing themselves while spray in the way on follow to. the spanish prime minister demands clarification from cuts alone here about whether or not it's declared independence as he threatens to suspend the region's autonomy. former u.s. presidential adviser jeremy shapiro reveals the so-called special relationship with

the u.k. was seen as a joke by barack obama and his team despite decades of american and british leaders claiming its importance. those are the headlines here a challenge to international coming to live from moscow thank you for joining us on . the syrian army banks by russian air cover is gradually a drone sing against islamic state in the province of darrow's or but each victory comes at a high price the terrorists are fighting fiercely to retain their last stronghold in the region well the village of which was which has just been liberated witnessed a brutal battle. well following the liberation of heartland the syrian army is now advancing on iso positions to the northwest but before that r.t.s. what i guess the of followed the troops as they moved into had they traveled across

the areas only bridge over the euphrates river from where he sent us this report. under a bright blue sky through devastated country across the euphrates over the only bridge in the entire province we came to the village of had less than a day ago this was part of the caliphates but no longer from what we were told the syrian army's fifth division did the heavy lifting here much of had has already been swept and cleared but not all it isn't like the movies doors rarely open at the first peek. then came the first warning might have. gotten any no no no. one will. tell you. he was right it wasn't one of their as.

isis back up had arrived reinforced the jihad ists felt confident enough to pick a fight and we weren't in a good place the syrian army responded quickly but there was some confusion at first. then about it. there will never know how many. five hundred meters from hadleigh village isis is making it still. doesn't it dug in. behind that house over there. to. try to be harassing syrian troops what they're doing is they're driving around in circles games of speed and distance as their protection taking potshots the other things

hiding behind house driving out firing the critical. then why do you back before the series. with heavier weapons it isn't going to get the game the very much but it's a harassing you and it's keeping everyone ok during the fierce firefight one of the pickup trucks stopped here is one of the jihad ists briefly showing himself while spraying away on full auto with a clear target out came the heavy of weapons. it was a miss try again. the scrap i says last but everything you just saw was shot within the span of

a single hour in one village with a small unit these scenes being repeated hourly across the front hundreds of kilometers wide more i guess do you see from how to syria. nine years of islamic state terror have left lives devastated in a baghdad often h r t previously found russian speaking children who are believed to being taken to iran by their radicalized parents however some of them are now preparing to be reunited with their families. now within the last hour the spanish prime minister's addressed the media following an emergency cabinet meeting but they are not a high call for clarification about whether or not comes alone declared independence or r.t.s. and as the situation that was listening in on us well how that master me what is the pm calling for clarification. well you know because there seems to be a sort of chess game unraveling here in spain as we speak to see really who blinks

first and the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy did say he wants catalonia to. clarify what exactly unraveled here because following this highly anticipated by some and dreaded by other others proclamation of independence that never came last night there seems to be a bit of confusion on the ground in terms of what exactly is unraveling here with both madrid asking those questions but also the region here of catalonia kind of trying to figure out what happens here next and the spanish prime minister did say he would like catalonia to really clarify because one of the reasons is that the spanish government still hasn't excluded the possibility of applying article one hundred fifty five from the spanish constitution this is something that would be quite unprecedented which would mean that the region's autonomy would basically be frozen and for them to be able to potentially do that they need to know what happened whether or not independence has actually been declared because yesterday we did see them on to mounds that's what they're doing is they're kind of declaring

independence but they're suspending declaring it to allow for several weeks of talks let's listen to the spanish prime minister. the cabinet has agreed to seek a formal clarification from the council and government as to whether or not it's to clear the independent counsel this requirement is necessary when activating article one five five of the constitution and of the measures we may take a. while now the question is really the next step or the ball at least seems to be in the field of catalonia carlist pushed him on following this really intense rhetoric leading up to the referendum claiming he would be potentially ready to go to prison over the issue of independence he said catalonia would declare it within forty eight hours of counting up the official results of the referendum all of violence we have seen unraveling here on the day of october first when the police clashed with those who came out to vote and i mean really so many events and now following this a potential big announcement which never came the question is why and what's going

to be happening next and some here on the ground have been supporting independence have been describing. what's the cataloging leader did as a betrayal. because that we will not return to any parliamentary activity until steps towards the implementation of republic. well that comes from the c u p which is a key party in the catalan parliament they are part of this program dependents coalition that was formed two years ago one of them and see together for us formed a majority of government which was seen as the beginning of the process towards independence so clearly at this point which demands seems to he needs to figure out on which chairs he wants to sit because right now he seems to be kind of all over the place and trying to please everybody he wants dialogue with madrid he didn't go ahead and proclaim this independence without any exceptions and also he needs to satisfy the people obviously who did come to vote in this referendum and support

the independence but as well figure out what is happening with his negotiations with madrid moving forward. that's honest to say in barcelona thank you very much indeed but we spoke to a number of analysts who feel the council on president has caved in to immense pressure. well i think it appears there are more there's a very difficult. situation there's been you know an overspread sort of for a lot of sides both of political pressure from moderate and also the european union but there's a financial presence to the to not make this declaration about to develop this as a catalyst side that was expecting a kind of international intervention which is not a cop and without this and there are sort of the there is very sort of a cover to face this party state the mother eat and mother it is much more a bottle full of the. government on the one hand has to think of course about spain

in the spanish state but on the other hand he has to think about this huge move coming. to grips with the pain being critical to the plates and to the failure as a result of the referendum please and so clearly no he has to think to us to think of the gracies independence agenda in a way that matches the ambitions of the present from the he owes the house to consider the any other conflict with the spanish the. now the relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. has long been branded a special american and russian leaders have made sure to stress how important and strong it was but a former advisor to barack obama has prevailed it was seen as a joke on boyko as more repeat something long enough and people will believe that the relationship between america and britain will remain strong our relationship is very special special relationship that exists between our two nations people forge friendships together that is what makes this relationship

special help to have a good relationship with them has eighty years been a special relationship it was very important for us to mention the special relationship in every press conference that we had when the u.k. were here but really we laughed about it behind the scenes. nowadays on both sides of the pond the phrase special relationship is rarely outed without a generous dose of irony some say that you started with the bromance between these two does something maybe that you some personal interest that you have in common maybe in religion or somehow or your music we both. grace tony blair's support for the u.s. led invasion of iraq and him the unsavory nickname of bush's poodle america was less reciprocal in its loyalty though when bush's success so weighed in on the u.k.'s brags that referendum in twenty six there might be a. u.k.

u.s. trade agreement is not going to happen in time soon and you could be. in the back of the queue in a glossy magazine interview the same month barack obama gave david cameron a dressing down for his handling of the libyan intervention. i had more faith in the europeans given libya's proximity being invested in the follow up david cameron soon stopped paying attention becoming distracted by a range of other things twenty seventeen ushered in a new jew as the figureheads of the world's most famous long distance relationship keen to prove it specialness to reason may was for us to visit the newly inaugurated donald trump q some awkward hand-holding and yet more talk of friendship we have one of the great bonds we pledge a lasting support to this most special relationship but according to reports donald trump's promise to prioritize a trade deal with the u.k.

was broken just days later when the german chancellor angela merkel convinced him to deal with the e.u. first and just last month the u.s. didn't shy away from slapping heavy import tariffs on bone body eight jets made in northern ireland after a complaint from u.s. company boeing and basically disappointed by this news of hugely important to northern ireland in terms of the jobs that tell them special relationship was immortalized by winston churchill but over seventy years down the line the rhetoric and the reality don't seem to match and that makes it increasingly prone to ridicule in a particular special before it might have pain i think it's going to be sour and now everyone is like almost like going on their own way they'll do all they want to do regardless of what we want to do there are elements of fragments of what was

once a special relationship in defense of his good water and waters and it depends on who is in charge of the two camps and it's very wide at the moment it's complicated . now the tiny nation of iceland has qualified for the football world cup for the first time it is who. that story and more after the short break.

level blogs dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw spreading tell you the lobby gossip the public by. telling me you are not cool enough to buy their product. that we all. want. welcome back to it a husband a campaign post by a republican come to the running for senator in tennessee marsha blackburn is a close ally of donald trump a known for her strong anti-abortion stones in her video post she spoke about a fight against an organization which she claimed sold children's body parts i

fought planned parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts thank god. well twitter remove the video claiming it was inflammatory however it's since we emerged well this comes as another social media giant facebook has faced increased pressure for its failure to remove questionable content its security chief said there's a danger people want it to become an orwellian star 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 we heard conflicting opinions on the issue from political activists or within and journalist mattie oberg a meanie. that post is that hasn't been removed because they were under pressure from trump's government to really move it that post has been removed because most of the. social media giants have been captured by left wing mind

this idea that somehow the left to control social media frankly for me is i think utter nonsense and if you look at the blogs and the groups like the one facebook completely uncensored i think it's completely nonsensical the idea is that you know corporate giants like facebook and twitter they don't have a responsibility in my view to central control certain opinions they are there they provide us a platform and that is what it is and i think people are misguided in walked social media is a platform for people to voice their opinions do you think social media giants are under too much pressure now to remove unwanted content quite the opposite i think they are going around censoring stuff with no good reason the real problem is that all this culture is growed up without any moderation whatsoever and by moderation i mean the old term where somebody sits and looks at what people are posting i think

we need a filtration system the taking out all the dross and all the inaccurate stuff that i would be letting through the posts that are sensible meaningful in the same way that we have an editor of a newspaper all the same way that. you know the is an editor on a news program. are strongly disagree with i think for me a social media like twitter facebook instagram of things like that we need to realize what they are they're not blogs where you have moderators looking at your post before they go on law and we don't want to turn them into cheap versions of the guardian or the telegraph with some of that because they're not. aren't they all a place for people to share opinions be bigoted or not and essentially mirrors what society is like and yes and sometimes society is ugly sometimes of opinions we do

not agree with should they be censored should they be moderated of course not it's a place where people can talk bait and engage with in a free and open way. now it's a day of national pride for iceland after the country qualified for the world cup for the first time in its history after the team beat kosovo two nil. while crowds across iceland celebrated the country booking its place in next year's finals here in russia it's the smallest nation ever to reach the championship and it has a population of less than four hundred thousand people. allies

as prime minister revealed to form a footballer stan collymore the secret of just how his tiny nation surprised the pundits and defied the odds. how would you feel as prime minister of the the smallest nation ever to qualify for the faithful local well i'm just simply extremely proud. on behalf of the players and on behalf of all eyes on this i've been following the body closely for a long time now. probably this is the way i feel if you really what cards you can achieve amazing things and that is for me the most valuable thing investments in. pitches cheese coaches pitches at schools it's now bearing fruit this is no miracle this is something that happened a decade or so ago and it's now starting to produce it's not just about professional football as people the already enjoying their sports and iceland is

a is a huge sports center yeah official turf is what we are introducing now and it's been happening over a long long period of what the club so doing for the kids straight out of school the gold go to clubs and they can use the facilities and see what is happening in the social life is also reflected by their. participation in different sports when i was growing up there was this one or two out girls that would practice in simon england football knowledge my girl is thirteen c. is in a club where that out of forty fifty at her age only in my small town i believe you will not find anywhere in the world the same density of indoor football pitches and outdoors official grass as you will find in iceland associates wait to russia with love here are you going to go the going to be lots of heads of states their prime

ministers presidents will you be one of the tolls on a moscow wall so she'll simply be doing the hoop yes i'll be going. and if iceland success is watching your appetite for next year's world cup in russia then don't miss the stan collymore show coming soon. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the guy even saw a guy. the ball 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 superman each of killian erroneous and spending stupidity twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else on here because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game like great so what more chance for. peace minute.

now russian speaking children had been left stranded in a baghdad all from h. and now just hours away from returning home they were reportedly taken to iraq by their radicalized parents who joined islamic studies but now following the terror of war weeks of waiting their own jail is a less diverse. little did i know you were smart. to do it is to talk a little bit off just. bothers. me. about the stuff that is bigger than just numbers.

artie filmed the children in the orphanages and appealed for help to trace their relatives back in russia since then a number have been identified but others still need help if you recognize any of the children in fortitude or know someone who might contact us by the e-mail you can see at the bottom of your screen. and i have some breaking news here on r.t. international syria is demanding the dissolution of the u.s. led anti eisel coalition the syrian foreign minister says that the alliance is destroying everything in the country except by so terrorists the minister added he believes that washington is using the coalition's actions to prolong the war in the

country and we'll bring you more updates on the story in the next hour. we're going on the ground takes a closer look at the latest political comedy movie the party we spoke to p.q. blindest darchinyan murphy for his take on politics and satire a lot of. if not all of the cast you know very politically engaged. and yes the brig's result came through as we were filming a smack bang in the middle of a production so you hadn't had an effect what i like about these types of films is that the first and foremost entertainment. you know if he smuggled through messages or you you provoke your audience to to ask questions about themselves or about society but whatever it is like a bonus you know because otherwise you're making a polemic or you're making a documentary which we certainly weren't we're making a black comedy but that does kind of reflect i suppose on what's happening today.

and i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines see that. in case you're new to the game this is how it works in the economy is built around corporate perforations from washington to washington post media the media over voters elect the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . hollywood elites present themselves to be the champions of virtue in liberal values the harvey weinstein scandal presents

a very different picture a truly ugly picture of hollywood now face up to its own hypocrisy. still exist. ricos treated as one. and then. as. the island is controlled by the u.s. government and some puerto ricans crave independence. either way. still many do wish to join the u.s. hundreds more leave every day. with the country at a crossroads anger on the island is on the rise. reading

salyut age when you look around the world these days from street to street coast to coast. one can't help but wonder can it can it can it really get any more bleak or could it get bleaker than this from the very real threat of an impending nuclear war between the united states and north korea to the mass shootings to isis to white supremacists to climate change to yemen to disease famine war there who there is quite a bit to be scared depressed about these days but fear not walk watchers fear because through all the pain stress. if in los each new headline brings there is also hope beauty and compassion and while stories of hope beauty and compassion may

not make for good click bait they are just as important as the celebrity gossip and political bootlicking that mainstream cable news delivers every day so today let's celebrate the good news of the day starting with some compassion in particular the twenty seventeen international compassion games i kid you not this last september pokes from around the world and all walks of life took part in these cooperation games where all that is required to participate is just one simple act of compassion or two or three or four i know it sounds rather hippy dippy but it's more of a zero of the good news network points out in previous years as part of compassion games international prison inmates at the california institution for women telly forty five one hundred acts of kindness that included sharing food cleaning into and cleaning each other's living spaces. where women in prison.