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of qatar in the whole world you want to make the most of the money for them they have been threatened by the development and the evolution of the i work you know what republican we don't you don't get this you get in your view of the possible risks referendum and the possible separation of god the only. way they try to transfer their support a legal basis in the region that's going to put them into a beast which she debacle which there are believed to be while some strong words there from spain's prime minister mariano rajoy let's just briefly wake up on some of the issues he was talking about there he's described the constitutional crisis with catalonia as the most difficult crisis of recent times and the points he was emphasizing were legal and constitutional issues which he said were unprecedented in spain's history he said that he is pretty predisposed to dialogue which is something that carlos brigitte wanted all the cattle has been talking about but he also said that the government was there to represent all of the spanish not just the catalans as well but he was keen to point out as he sees it that the vote the
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result doesn't count as ten million documents he claims were seized by the police and that the declaration the vote the results came through before all the votes are being counted and he says that internationally no country would be able to accept that this result he also said that the government was there to defend public order he defends the actions of the police he ends with the vote that he says it wasn't democratic and it wasn't legal well we'll have more on this issue after the break even.
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that's been happening so out that quite incredible speech by mario. well ok you know this is really a chess board that's been unraveling here in the mud ridden barcelona continue to try to see who blinks first in this quite major crisis obviously that they find themselves in and yes we did just listen to the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy address to the spanish congress where he basically made a longer version of really what he said earlier today where he said that article one hundred fifty five could potentially still be on the table and that he wants some answers from the caps a lot of the to put him on to within the next couple of days going to. do just that at that we will not return to any parliamentary activity until steps towards the implementation of the republic to. well of this speech that roy just gave was really a longer version of what he said previously where he basically told the pro independence
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movement and caps alone off for being naughty really he said if an illegal referendum it's not ok that it took place the results of this referendum will not be recognized so all of these things we really heard before now the question is what exactly you are listening to monitor the leader of capsule odeon going to do because obviously madrid is expecting some kind of answers from him because according to reports they're not sure whether or not catalonia has actually declared independence or not so a lot of point to a lot of this is going to stem from what really happens next now all of this of course comes from an expectation to have the castle our leader now it's a huge statement proclaiming cattle on independence and this is something certainly that we haven't seen for the. the reason are. lots of people coming out to listen to what he has to say which he had done and this has been a huge issue including some within the kaplan parliament calling it a betrayal. of the let's see where it goes from there and associates thank you very
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much indeed well to discuss this further i'm now joined by the us there's a catalan literature and culture expert from the university of santander's study thank you very much indeed for joining us well we've been hearing from audio not a whole i mean strong words there i mean if madrid does decide to strip catalonia of its autonomy i mean what kind of reaction then you expecting. it is difficult to predict but those who spoke to the. president will go ahead with the independence much will depend on whether that is. whether people take to the streets yet again must see flew in order to demonstrate you feel a bit of independence it all depends on whether the spanish government sends in the spanish army needs also depends on whether the european union or some international institution palooza rule mediator between the two governments or you as a situation is very volatile only in day i mean as you're referring to then
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introduce it about the reaction i mean what can you say about that since the referendum was being held and also what do you now expect from them. well that is of course your mark on the yesterday's decision on the part of the catalan president to declare independence at the same time to suspend its effects for an unspecified period of time which in any case kind of very very long. may lead us to believe that the efforts are being made behind the scenes for that some form of mediation takes place but noble the. no well nobody except the actors evolve. you know with the details at the moment. i suspect that a couple of government expects something to harp on the european level
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but there remains to be seen because so far the european union. been rather reluctant to get involved into these issues well let's also look about what about the build up to this i mean catalonia said that they wanted to be heard this is the build up whether it insisted the referendum was illegal we've now heard from both sides saying that even though they have strong stances they are predisposed to now have dialogue so is there any way that we then could move on to this whole crisis. well the crisis was not avoided because only one of the of the sides was prepared to engage in dialogue this has been brewing seen around two thousand and six the earing the last ten years or so of the catalan government on how she tried often enough to engage in dialogue with the spanish government and tried different avenues but norville because there is these documents in spanish politics of among spanish national these the country kind of be divided there is also the
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theory that majority of the catalan people are against catalan independence but it is only one way to find out i mean in order to find out who is in favor and who is again against you need to have a vote either through an election or via a referendum and that has already been tried twice in very difficult circumstances . the president pushed the moment this morning he was prepared to dialogue without any previous conditions but i have not heard the same message from the spanish government i must say you know in order to have a dialogue you need. two sites it takes two to tango do you think nicholas pushed in one's position is still in a strong position given the fact that he said he's held back on the adoption of the declaration of independence he's apparently passions are silly inflamed many locals
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are surprised and some fear is out and just think that people will still support him in holding back with this fear. i think there was a degree of this appointment yesterday among those who were in favor of independence because they thought the might end the day sort of living in an independent republic or reflection i think that many people would come to realize that this is a clever move on the part of players and pushes them on probably one of the very few he had that he's disposal yes to the it was actually inviting the spanish government for one last time presumably to sit down and to negotiate and it was also telling the international community that he was prepared to listen he was prepared to negotiate without any previous conditions. i suppose that the spanish
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government will show which callers and that is no willingness is there to negotiate a door. i think that this state of play cannot last for longer very much a few weeks and either something happens in terms of the mediation of a neighbor in the next couple of weeks or saw even before that all depends will be declared. and then the spanish government will unleash all sorts of repressive mechanism us against the catalan population and trying to do what it kind of timescale you're expecting for various events that you're predicting that you think that be the next few weeks the next month or so the next year or could we have a swift a resolution there seems to be the mood at the moment. it's anybody's guess nobody knows i mean of these morning the spanish socialist party has discussed the possibility of changing the spot constitution if the word to happen in or the poor
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com or the third referendum on the situation in catalonia that might take a long time but not necessarily although i very much doubt that these. this is the way forward so if. nothing happens in the next two or three weeks. i guess that the catalan government not president bush the born will make a move that move will be to declare full independence without any suspension of its effects. and that we certainly see that way judiciary are a custom literature and culture expert from st andrews university thank you very much indeed for your time and. now back to one of our top stories syria's foreign minister has demanded the dissolution of the u.s. led coalition in his country he claims the operation is nothing but
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a cover up for syria's destruction. 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 decided we 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. now those comments from the syrian foreign minister were made during talks with his russian counterpart part sergey lavrov and of course moscow has also in the past question america's intentions and the fact of this in the region the activities over u.s. led forces raise many questions in some cases the forces of courage to the terrorists to attack strategic positions rightfully regain but the most because
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well they have deliberately engaged in bloody provocations against our forces well jackie some strong allegations there but is there any evidence to support that well there's been little indications that are sort of piling up at this point on wednesday the russian defense ministry actually claimed that three hundred or three hundred islamic state terrorists in pick up trucks freely past arizonan in syria's . region where the coalition has a base and has determined an explanation from the u.s. side given that in the past any investment on that base or any movement in that area has been met with very strong reaction from the u.s. but these militants seem to a pastoral untouched a ditch additionally in the end of september the russian ministry of defense released aerial images which they said showed u.s. army equipment and outposts near dare's or that had been held by eisel just days before and the problem is there was no indication no signs that fighting had taken place in the area indicating that the locations had possibly been taken without
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force plus of course no. trolls were obviously being conducted again and acadian that the u.s. forces felt safe in that area theoretically if they'd just taken those locations from islamic state there would be the fear of them coming back in attempt to retake them but no patrols being conducted encouraging the speculation that the us may have had some sort of understanding with the terrorists that a simple handover may have taken place and of course we contacted central command asking for an explanation or at least some sort of comment on the images they flat out deny the claims adding however that they would not and could not comment on the locations of the coalition forces and whether some of those some of the criticism and i mean syria they alone in condemning the u.s. led coalition was the international reaction there has actually been a number of wide condemnation from humanitarian organizations as well right now one of the coalition's manes main fight is to push i saw out of rock which is of course
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at this point the defacto capital of islamic state both humanitarian organizations and the u.n. have raised alarm over the number of civilian casualties that are being reported in rocca as the coalition continues to heavily bombed the city were set up to twenty five thousand innocent civilians may actually be trapped at this point in time so questions and objections have been swirling for a while now especially given the fact that washington was never actually invited into the country in the first place so at this point all we can do is wait and see what sort of reaction will be coming from the coalition. now a former adviser to barack obama has revealed the so-called special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. was seen as a joke for decades american and british leaders have made a point of stressing how strong and important it was. as well. repeat something long enough and people will believe it the relationship between america and britain will remain strong our relationship is a very special special relationship that exists between our two nations people
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forge friendships together that is what makes this relationship special i hope to have a good relationship with them he has 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 leaders as something that you some personal interest that you have in common maybe in religion or somehow or to our newsmaker we both you colgate toothpaste tony blair as support for the u.s. led invasion of iraq and tame the unsavory nickname of bush's poodle america was less reciprocal in its loyalty though when bush's success so weighed in on the
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u.k.'s brags that referendum in twenty sixteen there might be. u.k. u.s. trade agreement is not going to happen in time soon and u.k. is going to 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
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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 the term 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 no particular special before it might have pain i think it's going to be sour and now everyone is like going on their own way they'll do all
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they want to do regardless of what we want to do there are elements of fragments of what was once a special relationship in the sense 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 . all about more news in a couple of minutes. what politicians do you shouldn't. put themselves on a lot. to get accepted or rejected. so when one of the first century. or something want to be rich. but you'd like to be first to see what before three of them or ten people get. interested in the waters of. the ship. about your
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sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a cave still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one might differ as i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker.
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but. let us a. lift up above a cause. welcome back 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 after the team because of two nil well crowds across my son celebrating the country making its way to next year's finals here in russia it's the smallest nation ever so reach the championship which has a population of fewer or hundred fans and.
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the a. 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 local well i'm just simply extremely proud. on behalf of the players and on behalf of all eyes on this who 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.
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pitches pick cheese coaches pitches at schools it's now bearing fruits this is no miracle this is something that happened a decade or so ago and it's now i'm starting to produce it's not just about professional footballers but people the already enjoying their sports and iceland is a is a huge sports center. 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 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 note to all girls that's that question soon 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
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will not find anywhere in the world the same density of indoor football pitches and outdoor official grass as you will find in iceland associates wait to russia with love are you going to go the going to be lots of heads of states their prime ministers presidents will you be one of the twelve on in moscow will so she'll simply be doing the hoop yes i'll be going. and if iceland success is wetting your appetite. next year as well as cup in russia. new football program the stan collymore show that's coming soon. a play to many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got it. all 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 manager billionaire owners that spending two to twenty million on one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want
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to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game great so what more chance for. peace going to. now russia has offered to act as a mediator between iran and saudi arabia the two countries have longstanding diplomatic differences which some have compared to a lot cold war. explains the scale of the issues that russia has to help resolve so the russian government is ready to take up the job that is challenging to say the least the deputy foreign minister says that moscow was ready to provide the venue for the talks and if tehran and riyadh agree to sit at one table the russian diplomats will be there and will be able to help the two countries find common ground and you may wonder what's in it for russia mr lavrov the deputy house told
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journalists that it will be much easier to sort out issues or even conflicts in the middle east if there is understanding or at least a certain level of trust between saudi arabia and iran and this brings us to why i said challenging task in the first place saudi arabia is a sunny islamic kingdom which heavily relies on its ties to the west the very countries that once put iran and i see. iran is a shia islamic republic which has the top with russia and china the spat between the two countries has even been labeled the middle east cold war the two powers are fighting for geo political religious and economic dominance there they both accuse each other of supporting terrorists and when it comes to diplomatic ties well there hasn't been any ever since january twenty sixth well if
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russia's initiative works and riyadh and tehran find themselves at one negotiating table somewhere in russia this could turn out to be one of the political outcomes of the first ever visit of the saudi king to moscow. now five more russian speaking children had been left stranded in baghdad all for their return to their home country they were reportedly taken to iraq by their radicalized parents who joined islamic state well following the terror of war and weeks of waiting their own tale is almost over and arrive in their home towns in southern russia. the children will still require a psychological resupport after what they've been through and hear their stories.
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