for a party america is doing the same we are apparently better than food let's see some people you've never heard of love back to the night my president of the world bank though kate was really pretty seriously send us an e-mail. syria demands the u.s. led coalition in that country is dissolved saying the forces are destroying everything bonte islamic state meanwhile syrian government forces edge forward against eisel in day as all province r.t. witnesses fierce fighting with our correspondent reporting from the front line in one of the areas last terrorist strongholds isis is the key. here is one of the jihad just briefly showing himself while straight away for loto . the spanish prime minister says no you mediation

alma cattle on crisis is possible saying talks cannot be held between democratic law and disobedience and unlawfulness. and a former presidential adviser to barack obama spills the beans are what was once branded the special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. . you're watching r.t. international live from moscow i'm kate partridge thanks for joining us. we start with syria where the government army backed by russian air cover is gradually advancing against islamic state in the province of darrow's or but each picture becomes a high price the terrorists are fighting fiercely to retain their last strongholds in the region the village of half which has just been liberated witnessed a brutal battle. well following the liberation of the syrian army is now advancing

on iso positions to the northwest but before that's what i'd guess the of form of the troops as they moved into consular 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 doors rarely open at the first peek. then came the first warning minute before you could. go to let me know and.

tell you. he was right it wasn't one of the. isis back up had arrived we enforce 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 a. there were no 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 using speed and distance as their protection taking potshots the other things hiding behind house driving out firing the critical. at that in hiding back before the serious. with heavier weapons it isn't going to get the game the very much but it's a harassing kick in keeping everyone today during the fia's firefight one of the pickup trucks stalled. 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 isis lost 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 due. from hard luck syria. when meanwhile syria's foreign minister has demanded the dissolution of the us led coalition in his country he claims the operation is nothing but a cover up the serious destruction. love woodman the u.s. led coalition has to be dissolved because it commits crimes against the syrian people fountains of syrian citizens most of them women and children have become victims of these crimes during the past two months this coalition was created to destroy eisel but instead it destroys syrian people not. on the contrary it

protects i saw this coalition must cease to exist so that it ceases to commit crimes in syria 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 questioned america's intentions and the fact of this in the region the activities over u.s. led forces raise many questions in some cases these forces of courage of the terrorists to attack strategic positions rightfully regain but damascus where they have deliberately engaged in bloody provocations against their forces attack you some strong allegations there but is there any evidence to support them 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 to three hundred islamic state terrorists in pick up trucks freely passed 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 in that area how often met with very strong reaction from the u.s. but these and also seemed to pass through 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 an outpost 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 patients had possibly been taken without force plus of course no. trolls were obviously being conducted again and acadian that the us 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 denied 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 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 rucka 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. and in the syrian capital this wednesday a triple suicide bombing has reportedly killed up to nine people according to reports on the ground it began with two attackers attempting to enter the city's police headquarters this resulted in clashes with the guards which prompted the bombers to detonate their explosives shortly after a market nearby was also hit on a suicide explosion. now spain's prime minister mariano the hoary has called on cuts alone his leadership to respect spanish law addressing the country's parliament he added that there was no possible mediation between democratic law and disobedience. of course it's impossible to start a dialogue on something prohibited by the constitution this is something that those numerous mediators who offer to help broker a solution for this crisis most of them with the best intentions should take into

account i have to thank them for their involvement and interest but mediation is not possible between democratic law and disobedience and a lawful us. thank the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy in the latest statements that he's made said he wants a clarification he said this earlier today to the press he said this at the congress and he wants marcello to really clarify whether or not they have actually declared independence now in the speech or a point said that he hinted that article one hundred fifty five of the spanish constitution is still not completely out of the picture now this particular article is quite crucial because it would be unprecedented for it to be used it would be something that would basically be autonomy of catalonia now this is not happened yet but for it to be able to even be considered madrid does need to hear from barcelona whether or not independence has actually been declared let's take

a listen. the cabinet has agreed to seek a formal notification from the capital government as to whether or not its declared the independence of catalonia this requirement is necessary when activating article one hundred fifty five of the constitution and other measures we may take well these statements come following the events of tuesday night which was supposed to be a huge historic key night years in the making where the catalan leader was expected by many to declare independence for catalonia following the referendum of october first but where we have seen instead is cast one leader karla's which demands a chronology the independence but he said it would be suspended for several weeks of negotiations to potentially take place with madrid. and obviously now we have a situation where madrid remains confused and catalonia today we haven't heard anything from prince demands in that regard quite yet now it has to be said that his the non-typical ration of independence very straightforwardly was seen by

somebody as something that raised eyebrows because of course the referendum created so much noise and concern and left nobody in difference including with the violence that had problems on the day of the referendum that people really expected him to go ahead and the fact that he did and was seen by some as a betrayal. we will not return to any parliamentary activity until steps towards the implementation of republic. well this is a statement from the c u p which is a crucial party in the castle and regional parliament which does along with still see which is together for yes look a group of peace that supports the issue of independence and so they are quite crucial in terms of being able to coordinate obviously with the council on leaders moving forward and at this point it looks like at least here in barcelona carlist which to my needs to decide whether or not he's going to try to continue to sit on many chairs at once because he's now in

a situation where madrid is unhappy the people who came out and voted in the referendum some of them of course are not understanding why the ration of independence didn't quite take place as soon as expected because if we remember he said it would come within forty eight hours of announcing official results so really a lot at stake here right now obviously including we've heard from the spanish prime minister rough voice himself acknowledged that this is the biggest crisis the country has seen in decades so how this is going to be unravel is anybody's guess but dialogue right now is not quite taking place. and to discuss how this might one rival we're now joined by diego sun chapter like true is a political and economic analyst who's in madrid thank you very much indeed for joining us well we've listened from but both sides now which. more we've also heard from marianna about oil let's look at the consequences here if madrid's decides to strip catalonia all of its autonomy i mean what kind of reaction do you expect.

hi good evening thanks for having me i think that it's quite clear that the rule of law is going to prevail in spain yesterday was a key moment in all of this the souldier with catalonia moving towards independence perhaps moving now back in the direction of complying with a long yesterday what we saw was a very symbolic. declaration by the by the parliament which never actually resulted in a vote or a proclamation of independence so what we see moving on is that the rule of law will be enforced and there's two ways this will play out either because not only in government will admit that in fact it has not because of independence after receiving this request of clarification by the central government or it will admit having done so and in that case the output of me would be suspended but only partially it's important to say this because. not a single package that is take it or leave it it does spread in different elements different. powers that are delegated to the catalonian government so for example

they've got to learn in government if it wants to still exercise their way to manage local infrastructure local police local health care local education this is not necessarily the question however the president and the executive powers will in fact be suspended if there is confirmation that indeed there's also the correlation of independence which of course will be breaking the law in a country where the rule of law prevails and it's pretty well it's also look at what colors predictable has been doing over the last couple of a couple of days he has effectively he signed this declaration but he said that he is effectively suspended while he's awaiting talks with money out of the government do you think on these items that the council and leader shot himself in the foot because the castle people a lot of their own. particularly happy with this delay what they say is a vote for independence result. yes indeed. you have to keep in mind that seems king for. last week the tide has been turning completely against the

separatists and the demonstrations on sunday in barcelona were massive there were more than a million people in the streets supporting the unity of spain and standing against the separatist government and indeed. the regional premier mr puts them on has not played a very smart and instead of actually taking note of this reaction taking note of the fact that dozens of companies are moving the reporters away from catalonia he decided to press forward with only did so with this partial declaration that it's non-binding that he signed off the parliament and in the parliament he did this weird. experiment story where you sort of claim to be independent but suspended immediately so obviously a lot of people felt alienated yesterday many a few supporters went home instead of having the big celebration that had been planned. before you were discussing right before i came on air that the coupe

which is a key part of the. party but the one that has the key to their majority in the parliament in catalonia has announced that they will not support the government if it doesn't move forward with independents so put them on just dropped i mean did he shot himself in the foot and very briefly day i guess i could just ask you to keep it quite short one final question i mean what can you say about the e.u. reaction since the referendum was held we had for money i don't know why they're saying that no international country would support this but what's your view on this. this is absolutely clear the council of europe have spoken the european commission has spoken german french italian governments have spoken there is no international support whatsoever for cutting. for an independent catalonia because alone eons know this there are regional leaders and but i don't yet know with as well they tried to play as you they don't but they're quite clear that indeed there is no support from the european institutions some from any other european country

for their declaration of independence so it's no surprise dot indeed they type us turned against the separatists some as they have tried to actually move towards independence this russian has been working better for the unity of spain indeed related that dagestan chef de la cruz but as an economic analyst thank you very much indeed for your thoughts and. now a former adviser to barack obama reveals the so-called special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. was seen as a joke or on that after the break. with more make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous.

be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. welcome back the journalistic standards of the new york times newspaper have been questioned after a video surfaced of one of its head it is revealing his political and professional

views were born this week and cross live now to our washington correspondent well hi there samir a so what is it that's come to light exactly. well project for readers has released hidden camera conversations with new york times video editor nick dude it as part of its american prop the series which began with undercover recordings of its c.n.n. employees in it to do to achieve bragged about his lack of journalistic integrity admitting to slanting stories against president trump and lying about his relationship with former f.b.i. director james comey. and you're going to go there with a time to. think you would be a. very. sick. while discussing journalistic ethics he blatantly admitted to not being a jerk objective saying and no i'm not that's why i'm here in the video dude i just

said that he would target president trump by going after his businesses and also revealing that he always makes sure that trump stories make it to the front page. this is. the sort of. gold or the road. like. it was or. where you are. or he was shot but it was she. it seems that to do dick has violated the new york times article handbook according to section sixty two employees must do nothing that might raise questions about their personal professional you try. or that of the times before too before joining the new york times student who worked on the political campaigns of both barack obama and hillary clinton in two thousand and sixteen he was recruited for the clinton campaign quitting his job in journalism in

order to do so and explaining that his activism motivated his return to the news industry and now it's also worth mentioning that in the second half of the video talked about his relationship with james komi claiming colby was his grandfather who asked him to join antiphon now this is a claim his own father refuted saying his son was embellishing but all of but out of all the revelations in the video it seems that to do. slanted anti trump coverage has at least some credibility considering the new york times hasn't exactly denied anything issuing a statement saying that they were reviewing the situation. but this isn't the first time project worried as has exposed the mainstream media. what do you think's going to happen this week to be told russia. didn't. really. want to construct. this is really. the story.

that we are right. now this is only part one of project very does american progress series so we can definitely expect more stunning revelations to come. so he was waiting for. permission to thank you. now a former advisor to barack obama has revealed the so-called special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. was seen as a joke but decades american and british leaders have made a point of stressing how strong and important it was. 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 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 leaders as something maybe 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 u.k.'s brags that referendum in twenty sixteen there might be a. u.k. u.s. trade agreement is not going to happen 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 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 a jets made in northern ireland after a complaint from u.s. company boeing and basically disappointed by this. is 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 it's our now everyone is like almost 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 the sense of risk and water and water isn't depending on who's in charge of the two camps and it's very wide at the moment it's complicated

. and so from a male hobby we're here at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. colin is still exist. ricos treated as one. point three cool. and i knew a lot of seats and they could be seen. the island is controlled by the us government and some puerto ricans crave independence. either way but i mean. still

many do wish to join the us hundreds more leave every day. on time along. with the country at a crossroads anger of the island is on the rise. greetings and salutation when you look around the world these days from street to street coast to coast. one can't help but wonder kind of can it really get any more bleak or could it get bleaker than this from the very real threat of impending nuclear war between the united states and north korea to the mass shootings to isis to white supremacists to climate change to 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 strife and loss each new headline. bridge there was 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 were all that is required to participate is just one simple act of compassion or two or three or four i know it sounds rather hippie dippie but it's more a zero of the good news network points out in previous years as part of.