the country at a crossroads. is on the rise. in . syria demands the dissolution of the us led coalition in the country adding the forces are destroying everything passes amik states. army while the battle against iso in syria rages on as government troops edged forward in day as all provinces off the witnesses famous fighting in one of the areas lost terrorist strongholds. this is. here is one of the jihad just briefly showing himself while spraying away on full auto to. spain's prime minister demands clarification from catalonia about whether it's

declared independence as he threatens to suspend the region's autonomy. and a former u.s. presidential adviser reveals the so-called special relationship with the u.k. was seen as a joke by barack obama's team despite decades of leaders claiming it's importance. thank you for watching r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate. under start with our breaking news story syria is demanding the dissolution of the u.s. led coalition against eyes till. now joins me in the studio with more details well hi there jackie so what more did he have to say well you actually have a lot to say during these talks the syrian foreign minister accused the alliance the u.s. led coalition of destroying everything in this country apart from us. well which is

of course who are there to be fighting reportedly and apart from demanding the dissolution of the u.s. led coalition he added that he believes washington is actually using the conflict to prolong using the coalition's actions there to prolong the war itself in the country let's take a listen to what he had to say. then that thousands of syrian citizens have become victims of u.s. airstrikes in russia and dear resort provinces not only men but also women and children besides that the american coalition systematically destroys economic infrastructure that's why we decisively demand the dissolution of the u.s. led coalition and from member states withdraw from it as it's obvious the u.s. is using it as a cover up for the destruction of syria and maximal prolonging of the. now the syrian foreign minister made those comments during talks with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov who of course also has in the past question america's

intentions and effectiveness in the region let's take a less know what he's had to say. the activities over u.s. led forces raise many questions in some cases the forces of directly courage to of the terrorists to attack strategic positions rightfully regain but the most well they have deliberately engaged in bloody provocations against the forces which hearing them mean what allegations or what evidence should i say about allegations of war crimes and other well there's been a series of concerns really especially back in the end of september the russian ministry of defense released aerial images which they said showed us army equipment at outpost near there is or that had very shortly just days before been under eisel control and the problem was there was no signs of fighting whatsoever from any of the aerial images everything looked perfectly intact giving meaning that it was clear that the coalition had forcibly taken over those locations. plus of course

there was no sign of any patrols being sent out in those areas obviously meaning that the u.s. forces felt safe in the area which theoretically if they had just taken it from terrorists then they would have the possibility of them coming back to retake those locations and so that will encourage speculation that the u.s. may have had some sort of you know understanding with the terrorists in the area that a simple handover had taken place and of course at that time we asked u.s. central command for comment on the images and their of course the night off any cooperation with the terrorists but they also said that they cannot comment on the location of any force is there also a number of questions surrounding the de confliction zones in the city of tal of which is located have been located near the iraqi border u.s. led coalition says their presence there is simply too stupid the so-called moderate rebels that they're backing in the area but the thing is there's no sign of eisel in that area whatsoever so what they're doing there is also under question and in

a nutshell ben so given everything you've just said so what is the u.s. led coalition then doing in syria well right now their main goal one of their main goals right now seems to be attacking eisel in iraq which is of course i souls defacto capital at this point in time but the thing is we've heard from civilians in syria who have fled iraq and they say that of course this it has been heavily heavily targeted right now especially by the u.s. led coalition's bombs and human rights groups have been objecting to the number of civilian casualties that are taking place in iraq and the civilians themselves that a flood have confirmed their suspicions saying that it's are using the civilians as human shields and they're being caught in the crossfire so questions and objections have been swirling for a while now especially given the fact that washington was of course never invited into the country in the first place. thank you very much indeed thank you.

well meanwhile the syrian army backed by russian economy is gradually advancing against islamic state in the province of pterosaur but each victory comes at a high price the terrorists are fighting fiercely to retain their last strongholds in the region where the village of which has just been liberated witnessed a brutal battle well following the liberation of the syrian army is now advancing on myself positions to the northwest but before last r.t. is what i guess they have followed the troops as they moved into her after 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 caliphate 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 do is rarely open at

the first peek. then came the first warning my interest under contract. go to me no more no. one wanted to. tell you. he was right it wasn't one of theirs. the. isis back up had arrived we had forced the chartists 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. but. they develop. their own already.

five hundred meters from hadleigh village isis is making it still. doesn't it dug in. like that house over the. top of the truck to be arrested syrian troops what they're doing is they're driving around in circles using speed and distance as their protection taking. the other things i do behind house driving out far in the east for a little bit then hiding back before the syrian city with heavier weapons it isn't going to get the game them very much but it's a harassing you know it's keeping everyone today 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 the clear targets 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 or i guess dia. from hadleigh syria. now the spanish prime minister has addressed the media following an emergency cabinet meeting not a on how to why he called for clarification about whether or not catalonia had actually declared independence r.t.s. anastacia to is in barcelona for us seems to be. 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 nouns 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. has agreed to seek a clarification from the council as to. the independence of. this requirement is necessary when. fifty five over the constitution. now the question is really the next step or the ball at least seems to be in the field of catalonia karla's 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 the 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 potential big announcement which never came the question is. why and what's

going to be happening next and some here on the ground who have been supporting independence have been describing what's the catalan leader did as a betrayal that we will not return to any parliamentary activity until steps towards the implementation of the republic. that comes from the c.u. piece which is a key party in the current 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 means 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 to proclaim this independence without any expects options 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. and to discuss always developments let's cross live now to alfred bosch the barcelona city council republican left leader alfred thank you very much indeed for joining us well as we were hearing then from nasty reports from barcelona we we get us right here from the prime minister isn't a stretch to suspend catalonia so tell me. mr rouhani seems to understand nothing and he's been understanding nothing for quite a few years now we're talking about democracy the bottom line here is that people should decide and of course there was a decoration of independence as was the it was signed but then it was suspended to give some way to give some air for talks and for negotiation so i think this is just quite simple we're giving a last chance to the spanish government that they want to take it or not that's the issue and do you think then given what's been said that this will inflame the situation you think it. will help to resolve it. no it's actually

calming down many spirits. even the raw seem to be puzzled to know what to do what to do next it's very clear if you want to talk let's sit at the table and talk with international mediation we have this group of the elders with coffee and with there's been through to bank ki-moon and all those volunteered to conduct these negotiations so we're willing to sit we want to talk as long as the mark receive is preserved and as long as the people at the site and the people's rule which is literally democracy is our red line but aside from that we can talk about many things of course but instead you i mean you referred then to to people you referred to then about democracy but do you think that the catalan leader looking at carlos picked up on that he could have shot himself in the foot by suspending the adoption of the declaration i mean a lot of the locals there seem pretty disappointed some of them are pretty angry as well. as. well i'm sure there's all kinds of people and feelings around

but in general we feel this was a very clever move because it enabled him to explain for a half an hour why we are here why we want independence and why we don't want to live in a country where our grannies and elderly people are being beaten up for the by the police for just for the sake of voting because they want to vote so i think he has quite a point there in saying and we are peaceful and we are an open country open to dialogue so that's what we want to show we want to prove it to the world through let's give a last chance you open the door for a last chance this will take advantage of this last chance that there will be close and dependence will be in action and i just finally have split a society then now given the fact that the independence the independence day for has not not now resulted in a declaration of independence what is. now how split is it or is it coming together

. there is a declaration it was it was a proved immediately after the vote because in the law which was approved by the parliament before the referendum it stated very clearly that if the yes vote. that law will come in for effect and that law includes the declaration of independence so the only thing was the result was clear ninety percent of the voters say yes so this comes into effect and now i request you to come with me and suspend this for some weeks for a little while so that we can we can get in through talks about how we can find a path together. saying very clearly also that here and set the ground for the decision of the people because that's something we're not going to retreat or surrender date and we'll leave that alfred from barcelona city council thank you

very much and if you thought this afternoon thank you you're welcome welcome coming up after the break iceland's prime minister explains how his tiny nation beat the odds to reach the world cup. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go to the press this is what before three of them all can't be good. interested always in the waters about how. things should.

welcome back the relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. has long been branded as special for decades american and british leaders have made sure to stress how important and strong it was but a former adviser to barack obama has revealed it was seen as a joke funny boyko has 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 i hope to have a good relationship with them has over the 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 is something maybe that you some personal interest that you have in common maybe in religion or somehow or to our newsmaker we both. grace tony blair as 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 bomb 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 telecom 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 risk and water and waters and depending on who's in charge of the two camps and it's very wide at the moment it's complicated. well meanwhile it's a day of national pride for iceland after the. country qualifying for the world cup for the first time in its history that's offered as team beats kosovo two nil. crowds across eyes then celebrated the country booking its place in next summer's finals here in russia it's the smallest nation ever to reach the championship that has a population of less than four hundred thousand people. while

iceland's prime minister revealed to form a footballer stan collymore the secret of 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 faith. but i'm just simply extremely proud. on behalf of the players and on behalf of all eyes on this issue i've been following the body closely for a long time now. proud to say 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 pitches at schools it's now bearing fruits this is no

miracle this is something that happened a decade or so ago and he'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. turf is what we have 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 they go go to clubs on 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 all girls that that practice in simon england football knowledge my girl is thirteen c. is in a club where that out forty fifty at her age only in my small town i believe you

will not find anywhere in the world the same intensity of indoor football pitches and outdoor official grass as you will find in ice associates waits to russia with love you're going to go the going to be lots of heads of states their prime ministers presidents will you be one of the tolls on in moscow will. be doing the hoop yes i'll be going. and if iceland success is watching your appetite for next. well cup here in russia and don't miss the stun column or show coming soon to watty . play too many flips over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the shaper money just to leave their own lives and spending to do the twenty million at one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i

think what i know about the beautiful game played great so we'll pull chance for. peace. now these seeding pictures from the black scene show you where construction of the foster kush the straight bridge is entering its final stage the bridge will be the first line connection that links crimea to the russian mainland when the bridges a second notch is being carefully pulled into place with over one hundred engineers workers on the site mistaking bones the seabed even had to me day for this so the boats could approach the arch will hold part of the bridges four lane highway and meanwhile it's rail line it was installed back in august. well for more stories go to dot com and i'll be back in just over half an hour with the latest headlines for you.

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