hey don long enough something. else and then look my. what i can and maybe maybe maybe a. hundred is preparing to start the procedure to deprive catalonia of its autonomy down to the council on lead it confirmed the region's declaration of independence was suspended not council. this channel is again in the middle of a scandal as ati's adverts in the london underground sparked controversy in the u.k. . and russian t.v. personality and magazine editor because i knew a subject leave some scratching their heads after announcing her bid to run for president in russia's twenty eighteen election.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. the spanish government is planning to discuss on saturday the procedure of triggering article one five five which revokes catalonia has autonomy the statement follows the catalan leader's confirmation in a letter today sent to spain's prime minister that the region's declaration of independence was suspended not counseled this is french and remains in place if the government insists on preventing dialogue continues its repression the council and parliament may go ahead if appropriate with a formal vote on the declaration of independence. well this came after spain demanded the catalan lead a carrot fied the region's position on independence by monday something that didn't happen now another deadline for the cancer leader to proclaim whether the region will break away from madrid has also expired today well the spanish prime minister

has demanded an answer several times we formally require the catalan government to confirm it has declared the independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into a fresh implement it's not difficult it is just to answer a simple question have you declared independence of catalonia or not while the referendum on independence was held on the first of october with an overwhelming majority voting in favor of secession the day saw scenes of violence as police exerted brutal force against voters in spain has seen mass protest since then with tensions over the crisis intensifying well thousands of priority supporters took to the streets of basra not on wednesday night we discussed the issue with professed that we mallinson a former british diplomat he believes the standoff between madrid and the region is just a war of words the central government is being too heavy handed sort of game of semantic poker and it's charged with emotion and that's dangerous what is

independence what is a declaration and that's also very much a legal question why when you've got such flexibility then the madrid government should be extremely careful about bringing down the guillotine and then in a sense threatening the whole population of catalonia with. harder methods which would be very dangerous because that would lead to a knock on effect if you like to me to affect in other parts of europe they need to understand the meaning of diplomacy. well to discuss the issue let's cross live now to tell us could all you here's an emmy peter was also an observer at the catalonia referendum tell us tell you thank you very much indeed for joining us as such short nice i mean do you expect the spanish government to trigger article one five five on saturday. i don't think so you know for the time being

a game of thrones or if you if you want a game of poker with every side given to say about bluffing at the same time for the one part of the prospectus government says that you have to tell me until monday and then i'll do the thursday that means today what you're going to do with the dependents and the other side says no no i'm not going to. do that you know i'm not going to declare independence but i just want to have a dialogue what is really covered in you know in the in the in the back. in the background there is a secret because he should be doing the government of madrid and the local authorities the government of catalonia they are trying to find how the solution. scholz as long as this dialogue are still exist i don't think we have to wait for some. as drastic measures as the suspension of the

catalonia autonomy or the entire suspension probably they will do some little moves towards this that actually i mean my read there will do but i think we have to the way to see. so let's look ahead then i mean what developments do you think would follow if spain were to trigger the article. well if spain is. the govern the spain. will trigger the course as usual at the course i think it would be an escalation of the control days from the other side who would declare of course kind of independence. but then that would be the way they would be sent to jail probably the leaders including the president of catalonia and some of his. close advisors are. colleagues and this

will of course will cause as a result the the. rest of the population in catalonia so this is a he's a kind of escalation i think the most. the most probable and most peaceful outcome of this mess right now is the lectures in catalonia and probably this will be the outcome if the of course the government of korea does not want to cover lectures not right now because they're going to their power will be challenged but over the probably other side do you have to take into consideration that the earth or dish. that only i very much pressed from one side from the mother. government while the side from the more were most radical part of the debate that moving them over there was the it was the now so probably

solution was elections will give. in to this to two days and no way out the situation we actually have well as you said that you are looking at elections as being the the answer here that would involve there being some dialogue at some point between the sides i mean do you think that there will be dialogue you think it will be coming soon or you think this standoff is going to continue for a while yet. well be. told you these dialogues. going without any kind of is going on without any kind of publicity because. the spanish government the government about it does not work but i go to nice of that peace negotiated in a way it's cabinet dialogue with the autonomy just you know so this is. the kind of completely unofficial. negotiation that's going on right now to avoid the worst

i don't know if the worst could be avoided given the you know the moves very by the . moves that mainly the mr hoyer the prime minister of spain has done but let's. let's hope that at the end you know the you know the. shooter's ness and the sun. he will prevail. that's a serious kill you n.e.p. and observer that referendum on the festival type of thank you very much indeed thank you. now russian t.v. personality and fashion magazine editor because a new subject has left some scratching their heads by announcing her decision to run for president in russia's twenty eighteen election well karen has more on the celebrity's decision to stanley is that jack is quite the modern day media darling a socialite fashion journalist reality t.v. presenter and former playboy model she's touted as the russian paris hilton and has

a legion of loyal followers and she's now decided to exercise her influence in the world of politics. i'm thirty six and now like any other russian citizen i have the right to run for president and i decided to use this right because i'm against the people who've been using this right so far whatever they promise whatever they're calling for we are against it against them all of them some chalk says that she wants to be a loudspeaker for those in russia who are fed up with the lies and corruption of their leaders is seemingly taking cue from the playbook of opposition figure alexina valmy who she's openly said she supports and admires and this is fully constitutional any russian citizen not banks by a political party has the right to run as an independent presidential candidate as long as he or she collects at least three hundred thousand signatures which given

slovaks profile shouldn't be too hard because danielle staub isn't totally disconnected from the world of politics she's the daughter of the late mare of peter is a man who once employed flooded me uprooted and has been described as putin's mental so given this cozy family connection because there is quite the rebel it raised eyebrows when in two thousand and twelve she joined off position protests against president putin and surprisingly there's been plenty of suspicion about the legitimacy of her decision to enter the race alexina valmy himself. called subject a kremlin stooge being used to simply lend legitimacy to a sham vote also belittling her as a showbiz celebrity just seeking more social media likes and follow is something sobchak denies saying she will even step down if nirvana himself is allowed to run for president so the twenty eighteen elections just became a bit more exciting thought jack could be the first female candidate to run for the

presidency in fourteen years which means russia could have a reality t.v. star as its new president. now florida's governor has declared a state of emergency ahead of a rally of white nationalists on thursday among the speakers at the event will be richard spencer he was one of the organizers of august pyrite rally in charlottesville in virginia where one person was killed and nineteen injured well florida university where the rally is taking place plans to spend half a million dollars on additional security measures bus routes have also been changed to neighboring buildings closed and counseling is also being offered to those worried by the rally well almost three thousand people have signed up for an anti spencer event posted on facebook activists also launched a petition to ban the rally with several thousand signing it the state is on edge about potential violence between supporters and protesters and the event has again raised the issue of social divisions in us society while american media is linking

the rise of these divisions and hate crimes to trance presidency several research groups have reported a sharp rise since his inauguration however in some cases so-called hate crimes have turned out to be due to deliberate provocation as we go from sunday argo explains. seems like there's been a lot of talk about hate crime in america i mean it's just pop culture these days to be a victim isn't it in new york a jewish man reported to the police that swastikas were spray painted on his home i was horrified i thought to myself what i had to do something crazy like this and guess what it was fake according to local jewish leaders mr king wasn't even jewish himself local authorities did know that a falsely reported hate crime is just as bad as a real crime but it doesn't end there a professor at the indiana state university claimed he was receiving and muslim threats via e-mail he also told the police that at university he was physically

assaulted now this sparked a frenzy throughout the campus the university doesn't tolerate intolerance if someone has experienced an intolerant act either in person or by e-mail or by phone we encourage them to report it to law enforcement but oh no they were all wound up over nothing but another hoax investigation didn't find any witnesses to the alleged attack and later the cyber department found out the professor himself sent out those muslim hate mails based upon the investigation there is no belief that hussein was trying to gain sympathy by becoming a victim of ons in muslim threats which he had created himself playing the victim when i'm behind bars and here is one more case for you joshua will call the police to report a stabbing because the attacker in his own words mistook him for a neo nazi. party i looked like a near nazi and got stabbed for it luckily i got my hands up to stop it so he only

stabbed my hand. but what really happened is joshua braid pocket money for the nearby store and accidently stabbed himself in the arm so he came up with the way to hide the embarrassing situation by playing the victim of a hate crime and sometimes it gets as weird as this earlier this month a michigan state university student found a new saying on her door and immediately thought it was an act of intimidation and reported to the campus authorities i want to be clear this type of behavior is not tolerated on our campus and noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in america well it turned out to be a tad more innocent turns out the news that was found hanging outside a dorm room was actually just a leather shoes lace and as he says the shoe lace and its match found outside the dorm were packaged in a way that someone could perceive them to look similar to a noose one of the most powerful of emotions one of the most powerful and frankly

one of the most destructive emotions is the idea of victimhood certainly there are ways to even get money from the government for being a victim there are ways to get other benefits for being a victim and so they gather there's definitely something to that and i think that is incredibly destructive i would say that the first answer a wiser or such a rise in fake a crimes is that they want to scrap that dollar start there's whole they're invested in this narrative that donald trump is responsible for creating this wave of hate crimes because he's emboldening the racist he's a racist himself he's a white supremacist according to this narrative by the left so therefore they want to show that he's a bold in these races so therefore they want to publish that crimes to make it seem like that's the case. forty three afghan soldiers have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in afghanistan we bring you more on that after the short break.

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always in the why our. friends. welcome back well this channel has once again found itself in the middle of a scandal of those in the london underground have provoked an angry reaction from some labor m.p.'s that don't wanting the u.k.'s media watchdog investigates the outcome pain well on this honest joins us live from london well how about a nice day has anybody else picked up on this story. well you know kato of course specifically yet another example of r.t. having done it again upsets some politicians as well as the times newspaper over its latest ad campaign here in the u.k. we do know that in this latest anti r t bashing piece dubbed quote kremlin t.v.

adverts on to trigger call for off comment quire a now r.t. is not even referred to as kremlin back to kremlin sponsored t.v. anymore it's just kremlin t.v. now this times report on the this times report on r.t. it describes the situation the latest situation with the deputy leader of the labor party who had called for the u.k.'s broadcast regulator off car which doesn't even deal with advertising to investigate artie's latest ad campaign that was that has been featured in places like the london underground featuring posters along the lines of mr train lost a vote blame it on us now it's been interesting to see the labor party get involved in sort of demanding that our t.v. investigated given that jeremy corbyn the labor party leader had been a frequent guest on our t.v. for becoming leader of the party let's take a look. i am very concerned. increase in us bombardment of syria without as i understand it any legal basis for doing it all

those are the issues faced by the right there has to be some more nuanced more systematic political process in the whole area. well israel has been grabbing land from the palestinians ever since not in any sense an international law israel's continued causation occupation is illegal. what we've done is involved a selves in a civil war between the sound system government and the gadhafi regime in tripoli and i suspect this is going to run for a very long time and incredibly nasty but the. is the world a safer place no is the threat of terrorism there is no is this a good way forward for world international law no the issue is this country involved itself in what i believe to be an illegal invasion of another country.

well despite often being and extremely unlikely in terms of possibly getting involved in investigating these latest r.t. ads because they don't deal with advertising still the times article was not in use they even referred to the r.t. ads as ironic you know for some reason using inverted commas to refer to these ads that clearly are meant to be ironic now and what makes this story even better is that the article claims that r.t. declined declined to comment on this story and here's what reality actually looked like. two questions do you wish to respond to this complaint which advertising agency created the adverts for what they made in house how i probably know which bring to responding to a complaint to an authority it does not regulate out of door advertising campaign was developed in-house by the team and fully approved by an r u q vendors we are glad that so many are engaging our advertising understood thanks for swift response

. well though despite this latest of much ado about nothing it seems that our t.'s followers and twitter users have certainly not found these latest ads and posters featured on the london underground to be evil let's take a look. well

ego and media analyst lie no believes the anti russian hysteria is getting ever more ridiculous goes to show you yet get the hysteria the absolute mind boggling hysteria that occurs whenever the word russian. wherever is even mentioned people say. rush is there added again how are they at it again i don't know but you know how they are who the russians what russian dolls russians. now in afghanistan forty three soldiers have been killed and nine injured after two suicide bombers and several gunmen targeted

a military base in kandahar province the country's ministry of defense has also confirmed that ten militants were also eliminated local journalists will also ari has the latest the minister of defense has issued a statement saying last night around two fifty attackers targeted a base in the district of maya one killing at least forty three soldiers wounding nine six of them are missing and clearly this sort of attacks or huge blow to the morale of the afghan national security forces if these attacks are only increasing this is the third time this week in which the taliban have used onward hound vs packing them with explosives and driving them. against major military bases i think what we're seeing is a very deliberate shift of strategy on part of the militants almost for a year or so now where they're taking the fight to cities and creating another

headache another front for the afghan government and its international are lies. well the taliban still controls a large portion of the country despite efforts by the afghan and american military to eradicate them however over the past sixteen years the group has actually gained a number of provinces than since the start of twenty seventeen the terrorist group has carried out several deadly attacks. you've . did. unlike other terrorist groups

it was for a time a political party and it was a ruling party in afghanistan that the whole country so i believe the following. day i thought of giving. afghani police. the or fortitude that was imposed by american occupation and i'm gonna stand this of course undermines american control of this country. fifty eight people have reportedly been arrested in israel cheering a series of anti draft demonstrations by an ultra orthodox jewish group they've been protesting against the jailing of two students accused of trough dodging one female officer was forced to control an angry crowd by herself. was i was i was was was was

was was was i. i. i. i was i. members of the jewish hardline minority are examined by nor from serving in the israeli army not in september the country's supreme court struck down this legislation making it more difficult for the ultra orthodox to avoid conscription the leaders of the scripts say that those eligible for investment and in particular students studying religious texts should focus instead on preserving the jewish religion. now you can check out our website on t. dot com for the latest world updates and more and i'll be back with more news in just over half an hour.

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fear into the heart of employees everywhere something could be going on behind the scenes here we're going to look at that also china's communist party meets for its congress which is held every five years president xi jinping says it's time for china to take center stage and my guests tonight take a look at the economies of china and india both are powerhouses both are saddled with debt we've got their growth forecasts and now it's time to read the tea leaves . room for us starts right now. a judge has run out a seventy two million dollar award for a deceased cancer patient and her family the lawsuit accuses personal care product

manufacturer johnson and johnson of contributing to the ovarian cancer which took the life of jacqueline fox in missouri appeals court vacated the previous ruling citing location problems a recent supreme court decision limits where injury suits can be filed since the plaintiff's place of residence was alabama and should not have been tried in st louis courts the original ruling awarded the millions it was one of four jury awards totaling three hundred seven dollars or three hundred seven million dollars rather in st louis now johnson and johnson is accused of not warning consumers about the cancer risks of talc based products like its baby powder the manufacturing giant faces lawsuits by forty eight hundred plaintiffs nationally over similar claims regarding those tao tao based goods in california a jury awarded one woman alone four hundred seventeen million dollars.

one of the world's biggest mining companies is in hot water with the securities and exchange commission rio tinto and two of its executives stand accused of lying about the value of a mine purchased in africa back in two thousand and eleven it paid three point seven billion dollars for the mine in mozambique it then received a rude awakening less than a year later when it realised its investment was worth significantly less than the purchase price the f.c.c. says the mine contained not only less coal than previously thought but also had coal of a much lower quality this meant it could only sell about five percent of it rio tinto kept those findings from shareholders until two thousand and thirteen that's fraud the company says it will now vigorously defend itself in that case they ultimately sold the mozambique mine for just fifty million dollars in two thousand and fourteen rio tinto already paid the u.k.'s financial conduct authority thirty six billion dollars for failing to carry out an impairment test on that mine and

failing to recognise the loss in asset value. under obamacare insurance companies are required to charge customers with lower income levels a lower rate on their health insurance the government offsets that cost by giving insurance companies money a subsidy but president donald trump has decided that is not legal without the approval of congress so insurance companies should not count on that automatic injection of cash congress votes against it and as the tussle over the details of the ac intensifies on capitol hill it's important to remember that the argument over paying insurance companies has a storied past and it's about to get more dramatic hadley heath manning director of policy for the independent women's forum joins me to discuss pretty much what we're

talking about a bipartisan agreements possibly extend these obamacare subsidies to insurers. explain to me sort of the fight that's gone on the state's attorneys general numerous of them have come out fighting against the trump executive order something payments. but you say the fight took place long before trump sort of declaration tell us about that. this was a fight that started between the obama administration and the u.s. house u.s. house filed a lawsuit against the obama administration when these subsidies called cost sharing reductions initially started to go out and the claim from the u.s. house was hey we have the power of the purse were the legislative body and we never appropriated this money so earlier this year a federal court actually deemed to be subsidies unconstitutional and they've been continuing to go out operating under a temporary stay so that litigation was never really settled and this week of course the president from announcing that the cost sharing reductions were not going to continue to flow from his administration and inviting i think congress to

act and actually appropriate the money if that's what they wanted to do what about this agreement bipartisan agreement looks like to extend these payments for the next two years obviously there's going to be a lot of discourse going forward over this is the week goes on but on the face of it what do you what do you think about this. it's not a surprising deal we know that the niggers lamar alexander and patty murray have been trying to work together to find some kind of bipartisan compromise that would shore up the obamacare exchanges where people go to buy their health insurance plans if they don't have employer sponsored plans or medicare or medicaid and so there has been a deal shaping up i think president from gave republicans a little more negotiating power by announcing that his administration was not going to continue to send out these subsidies because that came a bargaining chip as a part of this deal so in the deal we know democrats are getting an extension of

the subsidies so they are actually going to get appropriations for the subsidies if the deal passes both houses and in exchange republicans are supposedly getting some kind of increased flexibility for states in terms of how they implement the affordable care act and flexibility for states with a theme we heard it many times over the summer as the senate tried to pass different versions of a repeal and replace type piece of legislation but we don't know exactly what that looks like yet we do know however it's not going to include flexibility on the so-called essential health benefits or their fireman's of what every health insurance plan has to cover so let's hope that we get more details on that and president trump seems interested in the deal he would be interested in signing it if of course that can get through congress politically does this frustrate the issue for republicans on the hill with donald trump making this sort of an action post you know in the house and the senate and these executive orders these declarations it's already a very difficult issue. well in terms of the politics there has been an ongoing

blame game between the republican controlled house of congress and the republican controlled house and i think a lot of the positioning here from the white house is congress failed to act on the affordable care act therefore the white house is going to act by shaping up these executive orders stopping the cost sharing reduction payments to insurers and in a way that sends the message that president tromp is doing everything that he can to respond to his voter base he promised he would repeal obamacare meanwhile the ball is back in the court of king gresham republicans who made the same promise to their constituents but so far have failed to act so i think in twenty eighteen when we come back to these midterm elections it's really going to be up to members of congress and u.s. senators who are up for reelection to explain to their constituents why they failed to act you know and that's yet to be seen maybe they'll act before reelection time rolls around but so far the president is definitely protecting himself giving an

answer to his voters for ways that he can act within his executive authority right and we've watched it time and time again he sort of sues his base and then congress goes it's got to take up the reins and do these the real writing of of what goes into these bills the real meat the juice of the issue and it seems like the g.o.p. better start up some sort of preemptive strike because midterms are coming up and how are they ever going to have an excuse for not getting health care done after all of this time how are they going to shore up the base that their constituents who have benefited from the ac a and those who are unhappy with it. it's right it's a really divided country even within political parties we see some people benefiting from subsidies in the medicaid expansion and do they see other people feeling the strain of additional costs whether it's higher premiums or higher out of pocket costs or having their health insurance plans canceled some people getting

cancellation letters over and over again because of the shifts and they see exchanges in the carriers that are available to them but another important consideration here is the timing because right now the executive orders that we saw issued at the end of last week as well as the cost reduction payments that are going to be stopped will not have a big effect on the twenty eight thousand planned year because so many of those contracts have already been written and signed and open enrollment starts november first so that's right around the corner but by the same token what happens this time of year next year when for example some of the changes that republicans have the opportunity to make could impact the rates that people are facing in the plans that are available to them for the twenty ninth teens planned here so that's i think where publicans really need to focus their attention now in a lot of ways it's too late to do anything about the plans that are available and the prices that people are facing for next year but certainly this time next year this will be a very hot topic politically as they face those midterm elections ok so back to

this bipartisan bill do you think it's got legs on the face of things. on the face of things it does have legs in the u.s. senate where we thought very close margin republicans almost faffing with a simple majority some of their repeal and replace plans that again had that the most states like the ability so i think you'll see a handful of republican moderate senators join senator alexander and showing interest for this the question is will there be a full party of democratic senators coming behind this deal because of course any changes to the affordable care act require democrats to admit that the law does need shoring up that it does need help in the case of the cost sharing reduction payments i think you'll see a lot of enthusiasm but the question really lies with democrats how much flexibility are they willing to give states what does that mean for the future of the law thank you so much for joining me on this hadley he's manning director of policy for the independent women's forum thank you. test blood the famous cutting

edge electric car company has let go between four hundred and seven hundred employees some of those hundreds have spoken to media now and it's not painting a rosy picture for them or for their former employer current and former employees say it's a cost cutting measure but management says it's just a part of the annual employment review process a report by the san jose mercury news claims that the numbers last reflect between one and two percent of its entire automotive workforce people given their walking papers have claimed they were notified of their employed status or unemployed status rather with an e-mail or a phone call telling them not to come in and this comes as tesla announced that in september and met only two hundred sixty of its model three orders falling well short of its fifteen hundred car goal goldman sachs' analysts have chimed in with concerns over the company's ability to consistently churn out a profitable high quality model three s.

. we're going to go to break now but stick around because when we return my guest gives us the latest on chinese debt china's nineteenth party congress has begun communist party leaders there say it's time for china to take center stage as we go to break here the numbers at the closing bell. is still exist. or rico's treated as one as our own oil goes on the hind limb alito and then. on the portal three cool. little can i do i want to toss and they could use you know the island is controlled by the u.s. government and some puerto rican screw even dependents gentlemen will see it only gonna. do it either way like that i'm going to sort out i mean we're

digging a game where you. still many do wish to join the u.s. hundreds more leave every day. with the country at a crossroads anger of the island is on the rise. big difference between. president obama policy president obama was. gauging iran. he was after. iran. to come to international negotiations and see the. president he's. come. into the region.

it's capability not currency that's the message block chain proponents want the travel industry to hear and airline giant lufthansa is answering that call it's entering into the industry's first ever partnership with a block chain provider it's involved in the presale of winding trees financing of a block chain marketplace entendre says a big selling point was the neutral information documentation system which could

for example increase transparency in-flight maintenance but that's just for starters winding tree says that the traditional web of complex and seemingly endless data points collected on every traveler's trip would be reconciled and tracked more easily with this technology it's set to change the face of ticketing loyalty memberships security and identity and that all important aircraft maintenance. china's nineteenth party congress has officially kicked off in beijing where president xi hailed the country's tireless struggle as he calls it he also said it was finally time for china to become a mighty force on certain global issues but. has more on that for us every five years the communist party of china gathers for the national congress at the meeting

officials announce changes to leadership and discuss the biggest issues facing the country considering china's impressive growth anticipation built quickly to hear president she's remarks on the economy and it was during the last congress that she became the party's general secretary and ever since has emerged as one of china's most prominent leaders ever during his speech he said china needs to innovate more and work on protecting the environment while also staying true to socialist brutes . we must uphold and improve china's basic socialist economic system and socialist distribution system there must be no year resolution about working to consolidate and develop the public sector there must be no resolution about working to encourage support and guide the private sector we must see the resource allocation the market plays the decisive role during the rest of this three and a half hour address he painted

a bright future approach to the chill hundred thousand two thousand plus delegates in attendance but he also acknowledged some challenges ahead like corruption in climate change something that everyone agrees requires a unique solution. it's you've got political structural reform is not something that can be achieved overnight china will not blindly copy or replicate the models of other countries she did not touch upon certain global conflicts like the growing tension between ally north korea and the u.s. but he did briefly commend the building efforts made in the south china sea which has been a source of contention between a handful of nations she also warned against what he called separatist activity in regards to taiwan and the gathering is expected to last for about a week where we could eventually hear comments on those hot topics and hear more about the next five years ahead. taiwan always a hot topic and i think that's going to go anywhere any time soon to wrap it up

what are the main sort of takeaways from this first day of the national congress i understand it was a pretty long speech we haven't really thought of hours but there was a lot of focus on innovation and encouraging and in order to expand their presence in the world and there really was a lot of focus on the economy president said he wants to level the playing field for foreign companies that are trying to get into china which that complain that the restrictions are just too burdensome and make it hard to be successful there which makes them question why they're even approaching china to begin with but they also have some pretty lofty goals about eradicating poverty he essentially wants to lift everyone out of poverty across the country by two thousand and twenty so in three years he hopes to get rid of poverty so they have lots of goals basically you know push everyone up and then expand their presence throughout the rest of the world he's just trying to leverage his power and stay as is as a very strong leader of this party in ways that no other leader there has has shown

in generations i mean it was broadcast all over the country all the the world in some cases but wasn't fully accessible via social media what can you tell us about that because some people did see some of it but not everywhere some of us were watching closely so the message was very controlled which i'm sure doesn't exactly how much as a prize the night before the congress began we bow when we chatted several of their social media apps in china all the sudden underwent maintenance and that companies did not comment on why the government obviously didn't say anything so most china watchers are assuming that it was a direct order from the government so they could control the message during the duration of the entire congress because like i said it last for about a week but we saw some other similar restrictions air b.n. b. in for the entire month of october took their listings in beijing down and when they were asked why they did that they said well several other companies in. hospitality industry are doing the same things they kind of they like the most

information everyone else around very quiet but it was clearly very much an industry wide thing for every sort of company that was put on hold for this week and as we watch is going forward we can at least have something to grab as we watch these speeches unfold thank you so much but about. sticking with china growing debt in two of the world's largest economies india and china have analysts the world over warning of possibly another financial crisis joining me to discuss marshall auerbach research associate b.v. economics thank you so much for coming and very timely discussion for this sort of some are concerned that the recent debt boom in these economic powerhouses such as india and china could be what causes the next economic meltdown do you think this is a reasonable fear or is it just an overexaggeration. it is somewhat

of an overexaggeration it's a good headline the reality is that most of the debt in both countries is domestically denominated so it's not really tied in as much to the global financial infrastructure in the same way that they would be if it was europe or north america and you can always inflate away the debt domestically because you can always create the want of the rupees needed to. offset the the debt itself and that's probably what both countries will do so down the road they could both have an inflation problem but as of yet the foreign debt component of the overall debt is not large enough to create international repercussions ok well china has faced some setbacks recently with regard to its that s. and p. downgrade of china's credit rating because of the potential risks from growing debt

the ratio to g.d.p. is pretty pretty astounding if a financial crisis were to emerge because of china's surging debt would that government be able to to handle it. you know it's a good question well first of all i wouldn't take the s. and p. downgrade that seriously i mean they've made similar calls in the past for example on japan and japan thirty years on and still running fairly steadily so. the rating agencies have not had a great record in that regard but the other consideration which i think you pointed to in your question is that you know you're you've got some fairly important political anniversaries coming up. not just the. ascension of the communist party the government but the but also been important anniversary got into the formation of the communist party and there's going to be a lot of celebrations in china regarding those events and clearly it would not be who the country's leadership if there was

a price on their watch so i think they will pull will pull all stops but you know if you look at the most recent data has actually been reasonably robust so it doesn't look like you're in a point where things are slowing down dramatically i think things were much weaker back in two thousand and sixteen but i think you had a reasonable rebound since that time in china and in india again you've got a country where there's been a lot of talk about reform it's been more talk than reality at this point you've got a very very rigid system both in the sense that the federal government can exert a comparatively small amount of control over what the state governments to and that does make any substantial force and to remove impediments to growth be much more difficult and that's a real challenge that india has right now well india you know they do monetization changing of the tax code to centralize it and make things run more smoothly across

state as you mention is that just moot is that not going to work i mean the big credit debt credit i'm sorry economic growth forecast was downgraded from seven point four percent to six point nine. what do you think do you think that this monetization process is affecting that i mean how is india going to look based on these huge reforms the government has made well they've they've announced but implementing them is always the problem exactly you know you don't really have a well developed infrastructure and you know as far as the tax reform goes there's still a comparatively small number of indians that actually pay the tax i mean it's virtually impossible for us and you've got so many people that are below a threshold where they would actually start paying a tax so the main concern they've got to get is to have more people growing and becoming middle class so they could actually. pay taxes but the reality is that you know it's they've still got a very very archaic and. almost

a prehistoric. infrastructure in regard to the tax collector collect taxes and i think that that just creates huge challenges and that's something that you know it's a generational problem it's not something you're going to fix in the next two years . i want to get your opinion on shadow banking in china it's very interesting if you take a look at this graph we can see that china's shadow banking is estimated to be up in the trillions the world bank has said that that shadow banking is the biggest one of the biggest threat to its regional prosperity is this something western economies should be paying attention to. yeah and let's be clear here because shadow banking as the term is used in china is not the same is a labrat system of. debt that we have in the us and it's really more more akin to. the kind of stuff that you saw in the you know you

you almost want to call them back alley bang right and so in time into this system that it's not even worth calling them an entity it's just well it's right so it's a way it's much harder to regulate it creates and if you go to them of course it creates all sorts of problems for you if you don't pay it up it can create a again it's the kind of thing where ultimately it will create a problem and it will be met by the federal government probably by the states introducing some form bailout to these entities taking them over and probably putting a few people in jail and it won't actually solve the underlying problem but it certainly could over the some of the create an inflationary problem depending on the scale of what's actually. what's actually done to prevent it but it's it's goldstar loan sharking is a reality thank you very much for input on this marshall auerbach research associate with levy economics institute thank you thanks for having me. we all know

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kate politics you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. the spanish government is planning talks on triggering article one five five on saturday which would revoke catalonia is autonomy the statement follows the council on leaders' confirmation in a letter sent to spain's prime minister this thursday that the region's declaration of independence was not council but suspended this is french and remains in place if the government insists on preventing dialogue continues its repression the council and parliament may go ahead if appropriate with a formal vote on the declaration of independence well this came after spain had initially demanded that catalonia horrified the region's position on independence

by monday which didn't happen and the next deadline for the catalan leader to betray whether the region would break away expired this thursday. well article one five five allows the spanish government to act if any autonomous community fails to obey the constitution the government should os for the senate's approval and once this is given madrid will then be able to give orders to that community was by his prime minister has threatened to use the article against the council on wage and government several times we formally require the catalan government to confirm if it has declared the into balance of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into effect it's not difficult is just to answer a simple question have you declared the independence of catalonia or not. while the referendum on independence was held on the first of october an overwhelming majority of those who cause their ballots voted in favor of secession the day also

sore scenes of violence as police exerted brutal force against photos well spain has seen mass protests and increased tension since then thousands of pro the unity supporters took to the streets of barcelona on wednesday night for a finish an m.e.p. for the u.k. independence party fears the decision to revoke catalan autonomy may have regrettable consequences. that are going to be armed riot police in the streets of the cities and you know we we can see cheer you see gas in rubble bullets being deployed to go we had almost a thousand people injured in the last well it's going to get much worse if this spanish government insists on withdrawing the rights of the council on people should govern themselves the fact is as with all of these types of issues the best thing to do is go to some form of arbitration i understand the castle and president has already offered to do so i would think that the spanish government in the interests of the old people in the interests of spanish unity should actually

achieved today and whipped through a peaceful should we should. now this channel has once again found itself in the middle of a scandal artie's adverts in the london underground have provoked an angry reaction from some labor m.p.'s they're demanding the u.k.'s media watchdog of com investigates the ad campaign with more on this and as i say check it out once as live. well have been asked i mean has anyone else picked up on this story. ok definitely r t seems to have done it again specifically upset some politicians as well as the times newspaper this time over its latest ad campaign now the times have published a piece titled quote kremlin t.v. adverts on tube trigger call for off comment choir note how it's not even kremlin backed t.v. or kremlin sponsored t.v. anymore it's just kremlin t.v. and in this report they do go on to describe how the deputy leader of the labor

party has called upon off calm which is the u.k.'s media watchdog that doesn't even actually deal with issues of advertising investigate artie's latest ad campaigns featured on the london underground featuring posters such as missed your train missed a vote blame it on us and it's interesting to note that the times piece describes these ads as ironic using inverted commas even though clearly these odds are in fact intended to be ironic and what makes it even better this whole story is that the times piece claims that r.t. denied to comment on this topic and it seems that the reality was a little bit different let's take a look. i am very concerned this increase in u.s. bombardment of syria without as i understand it any legal basis. what we've done is involve herself in a civil war. well israel has been grabbing land from the palestinians ever since

not even in the sense of international law. well that was actually a clip showing jeremy corbyn appearing on r.t. which is ironic in itself given that this is a deputy party deputy labor party leader that was saying that our teens to be investigated for these ads yet just before jeremy corbyn became the leader of the labor party that was a clip showing his very frequent appearances on the channel he had also endorsed started on twitter so certainly strange times for labor party to be creating these jobs now it has to be said that this particular latest item against r.t. comes just a few days after a member of the conservative party and also foreign secretary boris johnson made really an accusation against the labor party saying they're being too lenient towards r t let's take a look if you study the output of russia today and indeed if you consider the state

of the of the prince in russia. at the present it is an absolute it is a russia today it is a scandal it is a scoundrel that members of the party or because it continuing to validate to validate and lead you to meet. that kind of propaganda by doing all those programs. well these comments also seen as quite ironic given that boris johnson's own father had recently appeared on r.t. as well so a really lots of attention towards this channel certainly from both the labor and conservative party in the u.k. within just less than a week. two questions do you wish to respond to this complaint which advertising agency created the adverts for r t what they made in house high probably not much point in responding to a complaint to an authority does not regulate out of door advertising the ad

campaign was developed in-house by the team and fully approved by an archaic evander we are glad that so many are engaging our advertising understood thanks for swift response. that was a clip that we tried to play earlier showing the exchange that unraveled between the times journalist as well as r t clearly responding to the questions that he had where as he went on to write this piece saying that our team had declined to comment and taking stuff an associate check it out in london thank you very much thank you well legal and media analyst lionel believes the county russia hysteria is getting ever more take us. goes to show you yet again the hysteria the absolute. boggling hysteria that

occurs whenever the word russian. whatever is even mentioned people. rush there added again how are they at it again i don't know but you know how they are who the russians what russians told russians. when we were russian t.v. star and political activists because then you saw surprised many by announcing their decision to run for president in russia's twenty eighteen election artie's mccarran has more on this unexpected political move this to me is that jack is quite the modern day media darling a socialite fashion journalist a reality t.v. presenter and former playboy model she's touted as the russian paris hilton and has a legion of loyal followers and she's now decided to exercise her influence in the world of politics. and thirty six and now like any other russian citizen

i have the right to run for president and i decided to use this right because i'm against the people who've been using this right so far whatever they promise whatever they're calling for we are against it against them all of them from chuck says that she wants to be a loud speaker for those in russia who are fed up with the lies and corruption of their leader is seemingly taking cue from the playbook of opposition figure alexina valmy who she's openly said she supports and admirers and this is fully constitutional and the russians that is the not banks by political party has the right to run as an independent presidential candidate as long as he or she collects at least three hundred thousand signatures which given for banks profile shouldn't be too hard because danielle staub isn't totally disconnect. from the world of politics she's the daughter of the late mare of some pate is a man who once employed flooded me uprooted and has been described as putin's

mentor so given this cozy family connection. is quite the rebel it raised eyebrows when in two thousand and twelve she joined opposition protests against president putin and surprisingly there's been plenty of suspicion about the legitimacy of her decision to enter the race alexina valmy himself has called sobchak a kremlin stooge being used to simply lend legitimacy to a sham vote also bill little in her is a showbiz celebrity just seeking most social media likes and follow is something sobchak denies saying she will even step down if nirvana himself is allowed to run for president so the twenty eighteen elections just became a bit more exciting thought jack could be the first female candidate to run for the presidency in fourteen here is which means russia could have a reality t.v. star and six new presidents. two suicide bombers and several gunmen

have killed forty three soldiers and injured nine others at an attack on a military base in afghanistan's kandahar province local journalist so ari has the latest on the attack planned by the taliban extremist group the ministry of defense has issued a statement saying last night around to fifty attackers targeted a base in the district of maya one killing at least forty three soldiers wounding nine six of them are missing and clearly this sort of attacks or huge blow to the morale of the afghan national security forces if these attacks are only increasing this is the third time this week in which the taliban have used onward humvees packing them with explosives and driving them. against major military bases i think what we're seeing is a very deliberate shift of strategy and part of the militants almost for a year or so now where they're taking the fight to cities in creating another

headache another front for the afghan government in its international are lies. the taliban still controls a large portion of the country despite years of afghan and american military operations to eradicate them however the group is apparently growing claiming more provinces over the last sixteen years and since the start of twenty seventeen the taliban has carried out many deadly attacks.

on history professor jamal wakim believes that with the taliban recovering the u.s. is losing control over the situation in the country. unlike other terrorist groups it was for a time a political party and it was a ruling party and i'm going to stand the whole country so i believe. they are targeting. afghani police. are on the or thought it did that was imposed by american occupation and i've got to stop this of course undermines american control of this country. after the short break. there is a big difference between strong policy and president obama policy president obama

was in gauging iran the regional issues he was after he engaged with you ron like you know i think you want to come to international negotiations and see the. president trump he's trying to tell confrontation oh come on nation be gone in the region. with manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round. we can all middle of the room. really.

walk a back in the u.s. florida's governor has declared a state of emergency ahead of a rally by white nationalists on thursday among the speakers at the event will be richard spencer he was one of the organizers of all this far right rally in charlottesville in virginia where one person was killed and nineteen injured well florida university where the rally is taking place plans to spend half a million dollars on increased security bus routes have also been shut down a nearby buildings closed while counseling is also being offered to those worried by the rally. well almost three thousand people have signed up for an anti spencer event posted on facebook activists have also launched a petition to ban the nationalist rally with it already receiving several thousand signatures the state is on the edge about potential violence between the two sides the event has again raised the issue of deep social divisions in us society when

major in the us are linking the rise of these divisions as well as a disturbing number of hate crimes to donald trump's presidency several help groups have reported a sharp rise since his inauguration however in some cases so-called hate crimes have turned out to be true to deliberate provocation as miguel francis sunday august explains seems like there's been a lot of talk about hate crime in america i mean it's just pop culture these days to be a victim isn't it in new york a jewish man reported to the police that swastika is were spray painted on his home i was horrified i thought to myself well go ahead go do something crazy like this and guess what it was fake according to local jewish leaders mr king wasn't even jewish himself local authorities did know that he falsely reported hate crime is just as bad as a real crime but it doesn't end there a professor at the indiana state university claimed he was receiving and in muslim threats via e-mail he also told the police that at university he was physically

assaulted now this sparked a frenzy throughout the campus the university doesn't tolerate intolerance if someone has experienced an intolerance act either in person or by e-mail or by phone we encourage them to reported to law enforcement with oh no they all wound up over nothing but another hoax the investigation didn't find any witnesses to the u.s. attack and later the cyber department found out the professor himself sent out those muslim hate mails. based upon the investigation there is no belief that hussein was trying to gain sympathy by becoming a victim of unseen muslim threats which he had created himself playing the victim way anomie hind bars and here is one more case for you joshua witt called the police to report a stabbing because the attacker in his own words mistook him for a neo nazi so apparently i look like a neo nazi and got stabbed for it lucky i got my hands up to stop it so he only

stabbed my hand. but what really happened is joshua braid pocket money for the nearby store and accidently stabbed himself in the arm so he came up with the way to hide the embarrassing situation by playing the victim of a hate crime and sometimes it gets as weird as this earlier this month a michigan state university student found a new saying on her door and immediately thought it was an act of intimidation and reported to the campus of stories i want to be clear this type of behavior is not tolerated on our campus and noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in america well it turned out to be a tad more innocent turns out the news that was found hanging outside a dorm room was actually just a leather shoes lace and messy says the shoelace and it's match found outside the dorm were packaged in a way that someone could perceive them to look similar to a noose one of the most powerful of emotions one of the most powerful and frankly

one of the most destructive emotions is the idea of victimhood certainly there are ways to even get money from the government for being a victim there are ways to get other benefits for being a victim and so they gather there's definitely something to that and i think that is incredibly destructive i would say that the first answer a wiser or such a rising fake a crimes is that they want to discredit dollars there's whole they're invested in this narrative that donald trump is responsible for creating this wave of hate crimes because he's emboldening the racist he's a racist himself he's a white supremacist according to this narrative by the left so therefore they want to show that he's a bold in these races so therefore they want to publish that crimes to make it seem like that's the case. crowds have been gathering in the somali capital in a show of unity against terror the series of deadly attacks in mogadishu on saturday were the worst in somalia's history. it.

was throughout. somalia's deadliest attack today saw two truck bombs hit mogadishu claimed the lives of more than three hundred people officials believe an al qaeda affiliate group al-shabaab is responsible for the attack they say it rightor being carried out in retaliation for u.s. led operations in the country for the past twenty five years the pentagon has rotated more than twenty five thousand soldiers in the region members of the somali community in the u.s. are questioning the white house's lack of response to the tragedy. i call it our nine eleven eleven of somali people we are also today questioning our own president trumps. lack of response if this attack has targeted people by their feet or other

races we believe he would have made an immediate comment on his social media or in other sports the statement world leaders have strongly condemned the bombings u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson had this to say about the attacks in mogadishu wispy get our house we wish to join me in condemning the atrocity in mogadishu on saturday which claimed at least two hundred eighty one lives those who inflicted this heinous act of terrorism only thriving capital city achieve nothing except to demonstrate their own wickedness well boris johnson's comments on another african country in libya spark controversy recently he described the war torn region as a possible business opportunity but sidestepped to make an apology for his remarks .

but johnson isn't the first politician to infer that recent war zones and investment shouldn't be a profitable combination africa has tremendous business potential i have so many friends going to your country is trying to get rich i congratulate you they're spending a lot of money in south sudan for example documents leaked to the guardian newspaper over the summer revealed that cigarette giant british american tobacco may plans to launch itself that just two days before south sudan gained independence from the north off to years of civil war and millions killed the u.k. serious fraud office is now looking into a form of b. eighty employees allegations that the company was involved in bribery and corruption in africa tech companies use

africa as a supplier of mind minerals like gold and titanium there will vital to the production of small phones but in the democratic republic of congo these minerals are sometimes sold by groups on the u.s. government's now changing the law in order to make it easier for companies to buy so-called conflict minerals and holiday for consumers to trace the. and all those so may not quite be the next dubai libyan oil fields are slowly beginning to swing back into action with some help from abroad back in april italy's state oil company teamed up with libya's to reopen the l. fields site in the west of the war torn country its elite just happened to be part of the coalition that intervened to overthrow moammar gadhafi government in two

thousand and eleven amongst all this first johnson's comments as a reminder that war can be horrific for some and lucrative for others. a gathering of the world's youngest and brightest minds is in full swing in sochi the southern russian city is hosting this year's world estable of youth and students well more than twenty five thousand people from more than one hundred countries are taking part it's not day five with students enjoying events covering culture sport and science as well as discussing political issues while the festival was first held in nine hundred fifty seven and the initial participants have been recalling their memories. need. to choose which suv no it's not going to send us but as. the doors was closed that could damage. up to six months it would literally premier. the. ideas that cannot

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welcome to well the part of the united states and iran reverted to had big game of chicken threatening to abandon the nuclear deal and counting on the adversary to be the first to do that while open hostility has been the most typical feature of their relationship over the past four decades can it lead to anything extraordinary this time around well to discuss that i'm now joined by sayed hossein mousavian a former nuclear negotiator for iran and now a nuclear policy specialist at princeton university mr mousavi and it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you and you first of all let me congratulate you on the accuracy of your forecast in an interview earlier this year you predicted that the trumpet ministration would attempt to undermine iran by all means possible without directly with drawing from the nuclear deal and i think

that's what what is going on right now the question is why now trump has already certified the iranian compliance twice refusing to do that again is that a sign of him easing into his new job or perhaps on the contrary he him feeling the pressure. during his election campaign he would promise that he would withdraw from the deal he would tear up the deal. after the election as you have seen he has done everything to on their mind and damaged. his decision was fair only to redraw to decertify and to withdraw from the. press the world the international pressure on he was one reason the second reason many former politicians current politicians

congress members. including his national security advisor the security of defense general mathis even the security of a state. they all advised him not to be draw because the international atomic energy agency for two years at least a tire has confirmed iran has fully complied with all its commitments and there is a failure on the iranian side absolutely there is no argument about the fact that iran is indeed compliance complying with the deal of these that the russian position but. i think many people in not only in this country but in the european countries as well are analyzing trans behavior from a political point of view what he's really trying to achieve here and he's an

outstanding clia unusual person i think it's hard to understand his pattern of thinking would you risk to trying to predict what he's likely to do now that this issue has essentially been handed over to the congress look president trump unfortunately rather than a lawyer himself with the majority of the. public opinion and u.s. politicians alarming the over velleman majority of international community unfortunately he has allied himself on levy to three countries which is israel saudi arabia and emirates that's why trump has totally isolated the u.s. on the nuclear deal what he would do i believe he would continue his most to damage to undo to on their mind the deal to prevent iran from economic benefits of the deal this is number one what he would look number two is

he would do his best to bring into his national con consensus an international unity to far and iran in the region because now the regional issues the big issue the u.s. allies saudi arabia is losing very badly after two years of bombing killing destroying young man killing thousands of people they have created their warst humanitarian crisis in this war and unfortunately the us have been allied with sold the arabia in this militarists right well mr must have been in all fairly is the american support for the saudi campaign in yemen didn't start with president trump present obama was also quite comfortable with it but that leads me to my next question mr trump is explicitly opposed to everything associated with his predecessor president obama and yet these nuclear deal maneuver and the

ratcheting up of tensions with iran have some similarities with what obama did on syria when he essentially threw that politically difficult decision to the congress what do you think the congress is going to do now because back on the syrian both it shared their responsibility do you. it will have the guts to kill the deal now there is a big difference between strong policy and president obama policy president obama was engaging iran on the regional issues though even during president trump he was supporting. the rebels in syria or supporting saudi arabia invasion of your man however. he was after in gauging with iran like inviting iran to come to international negotiations and syria but president trump is total confrontation of

all confrontation with iran in the region do you think the congress is going to support him in this endeavor noid i believe he would weaken the us position in the region more and more by confronting iran in the region because first the world iran is not alone iran russia this syrian government iraqi government has been law they are the most powerful forces fighting isis in the region and that's why they say they are playing a big role in syria or iraq or in the region and the u.s. coalition has proved to be too frayed for the last five six yeah i'm sorry for interrupting you perhaps too often but again i want to bring you back to the question that i pose do you think the u.s. congress is likely to support. mr trump in his endeavor as you said to

raise the stakes and pick up the battle with iran do you think the u.s. congress is going to play along when i said trump because after full confrontation with iran in the region i believe the u.s. congress or the majority of republicans they are in line with trump administration in order to. the iran in the region they have the same alignment that sold the arabia emirate israel therefore i believe the us congress would go as much as they can to bring new sanctions and pressures on iran under the umbrella of regional issue terrorism human rights and destabilizing the region they would find such a excuses to fight iran in the region i think the us administration trying but this ration and the congress they are in freule alliance together to fight iran in the region on the regional issues the difference is about where there's the u.s.

should withdraw from j.c. purely or not many in the congress they believe this would totally isolate the us here is there is there is a little bit difference about the nuclear deal now in what way do you thing add the rainy and should respond because we just heard the uranium foreign minister muhammad have ads that are you saying that the other day that he this is indeed what attack iran is considering at the moment withdrawing from the deal itself do you think the arena's should give it. to charm that easily iranians they have. the deal up to now i believe they would continue to comply iran would keep its full committee been with the deal as long as the deal is alive if the us is going to withdraw the deal you should be sure this food be a huge damage to the credibility of the deal because many countries in the war they

would be afraid to do business with iran if the congress is going to reimpose the nuclear related sanctions therefore practically if if trump redraws practically the nuclear deal would be dead because iran would not be able to benefit from. economic relation between the national community and iran would remain alone only with the commitments and. limitations on its nuclear program therefore in that case i don't believe iran will. would remain in the deal however what your own should do i think there is a great sympathy internationally supporting the nuclear deal iran should. shake hands with the international community to support the d. to put pressure on trump administration not to violate the bill because this is not

a bilateral this is international deal it has u.n. resolution supporting the deal based on new and charter all members are. responsible it is mandated for all members to implement the united nations security council resolution therefore it is an obligation for trump administration to implement the deal well mr mousavi and i would agree with you that iran has substantial international support on its side especially coming from the european countries but the europeans are also highly oppressions if of trump they believe him to be capable of reckless act and they would certainly want to prevent that don't you think that because of that international sympathy that you mentioned the europeans would be much more likely to put pressure not on the americans but on the rainy and accommodate trump simply because they see tax run as the only adult in the room. on the regional issues i

think still there is a huge potential for iran and other members of international community to cooperate look today detroit angle of tory key turkey's member of nato russia and iran they are the most. powerful the most influential international correlation supporting a peaceful management for syrian crisis. therefore this is something iran and the international community iran and europeans they can do i believe there are a lot of rules common interest between iran and europe iran russia iran china fighting isis definitely is one of the most important issues and their war powers are there than the us they recognize on the ground iranians are extremely helpful to support. their integrity and sovereignty of iraq and syrian government.

second and preventing the expansion of terrorism to our their original countries is not their point of interest peaceful management of the crisis in the region is not their common interest well mr mousavi and we have to take a short break now but we will be back in just a few moments stay tuned. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the sixties the long run for the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it was that really packs a punch home at least yampa is the john oliver of marty americans do the same we

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europeans have enough at stake to either contradict our openly break with the trumps policy on iran the french for example they have been investing billions of dollars into the iranian economy do you think they have spent enough money to be on your side when the push comes to shop i'm sure europeans they would continue to support the nuclear deal because it is initially a european initiative they have started nuclear negotiation in two thousand and three with iran it took twelve years until they have reached to a solution therefore europe can show they have played extremely valuable role for peaceful management or one of the most difficult crisis internationally however europeans they are showing sympathy to traum in order to to to discuss the regional issues because they say they are also against the iranian regional

behavior but if this is the case if europeans they come to see it with iran to start negotiations with iran on the regional issues they would find iran cooperative like you went towards your started to negotiate with iran. is cooperating with iran and russia i believe that would be another positive international movement because then you also would join in the attempts of russia iran. turkey to bring. peaceful settlement for the crisis in the region like yemen like iraq like syria however at that point again trump would be an problem because as long as president trump is going to stay with saudi arabia which is the source the main source of funding and supporting the terrorists everyone nor was that the source of ideology of all these groups are

uses of their book. they are all coming from wahhabi them rich the motherland the saudi arabia many u.s. officials they have said even stronger but trump himself before election said saudi arabia is the source number one but he changed his position after the election because he made a deal for selling three hundred fifty billion dollars almost in saudi arabia that's why he's trying to be quiet about saudi arabia however if the europeans are going to join iran russia. for such an initiative already experienced by triangle of russia toward iran i believe the europeans they would have positive guests to cooperate massage and i think it's pretty clear that europe at this point of time is acting really carefully so i personally believe that you're being overly optimistic in believing that the european union any countries of the

european union would break openly with the united states i think their strategy now is essentially to wait out till the next american president don't you think that your hopes are a little bit misplaced here as far as the europeans are concerned because you just said that the europeans would be in favor of the nuclear deal i'm sure they would be in favor of iran keeping its and of the bargain but i'm not that sure that they would keep the their own and of the bargain what do you think. europeans would. break the. the. alliance between europe and the us is extremely powerful and historical they are not going to break the day us because of iran however. while the europeans are in favor of nuclear the while there is the un security council or the international atomic energy agency is fully satisfied while there are there are members of the

international community from nonaligned movement from african union from european union from russia to china everybody is happy with the deal and their compliance of iran therefore i think europeans they are in a well position to put pressure on the u.s. congress and the u.s. administration not to break the deal i didn't say europeans they would break with the u.s. up to now they have been really successful because i believe they have been a very influential to convince the u.s. congress not to reimpose their nuclear related sanctions. what i said. they would support the. are you see this opportunity the international community or all last you rupie and are all. a positive impact to trying. to break the.

dispute between europe and iran and the us would come to the regional issues more. in this case if europeans are ready to start negotiations with iran they would find iran. positive constructive reaction again i can ask a specific question on that because i think this is an important point and this is a point it was also raised by one of your colleagues professor joshua landis a prominent expert on that part of the world from the university of oklahoma here recently abroad then he agrees with your. idea that the main goal of this. time but mr ations new policy on the run is to your hobble the iranian economy but he also says that for the first time in almost a century iran iraq syria and lebanon are on friendly terms in part thanks to iran and that in and of itself there really at least represents new possibilities for

peace and prosperity in the middle east do you personally believe that that chance could be realized and is that something that could perhaps entice the european partners to your look more favorably at the what you call the rhenium behavior in the region. i think even many americans they also understand sixty years the middle east has been totally dominated by the us and the support. dictators corrupted the regime from shar to mubarak to men. we are the dictators today in the region and they all understand the source of instability in the region. was the us attacking iraq the us attacking libya. the us attacking of coniston the us soldier attacks on your man everybody and many many of the understand even in

the us and europe that wars initiated by december seventh i didn't ask you about the american behavior i ask you about the of raney and behavior do you think the iranian behavior could be more productive in their region because the rain and influence the increasing your brain influence is looked at negatively it could be a force for good. what i am saying saying many in the us in europe in the international community the understand the past sixty years of u.s. policy have created such a problems for the middle east and they understand today is at the forefront iran is at the forefront fighting isis and the understand iran is one of the raid various stable powerful countries in the region that are their us allies are there they have collapsed or they are very vulnerable therefore they understand the importance of cooperation with iran in the region and. are completely sure their amiens ruled have open hand. for for cooperating with your all

cooperating with russia and turkey to bring peace and stability in the region that's why i am optimistic if your peers are ready to start dialogue a regional dialogue with iran there would be a huge progress now while we are talking about the prospects for peace and stability in the region there is another potentially explosive situation unfolding in and around the city of kirkuk where the central iraqi government is hoping to regain the control of the city they have been already reports that a force says abandoned the city do you think the deal of work here cork has already . been made behind closed doors or will it still have to be decided on the battlefield i think both i think the bad battlefield is very important and at the same time they are negotiating i believe the iraqi government would be able to manage to cork because the and it is the constitution of iraq should be

respected by barzani and core they are member of iraq a constitution they are breaking iraq a constitution and the international community is fully supporting iraq the constitution except israel israel has been the only country who is supporting this in take a disintegration of iraq israel is totally isolated and i believe this is going to be perhaps a meeting problem in order to manage the core of the sheetrocking government dispute however is more optimistic the integrity of iraq would be preserved and the rocky government would be able to resolve within the framework of constitution which means they rock to go and rent would have to recognize the. rights for quarters in the core of the stone province of iraq however it is not

going to be managed very soon. i. welcome back we now breaking our will to get into russia's president vladimir putin he is now speaking at a plenary session at the annual valdai discussion club in the russian resort of such a cell it's taken us. and years shows. some positive examples as well and i'm talking about. and probably you know don't expect me to say that the syrian example it shows that such so for short and destructive policy can be a challenge to some alternatives and russia is countering terrorist together with the legitimate government of syria and other countries in the region we are. working based on the international law. and i would like to say.

that those action this positive developments come at a price that are lots of contradictions in the region but we have been patient. and by measuring every step and everywhere to have been working with all the participants of this process while paying respect of our interests. and our efforts . as they were challenged by our colleagues do give some food for hope they were professional right and in line with the times or another example all this hype around the korean peninsula i guess you've heard a lot about that and spoke a lot about that we definitely condemn the nuclear tests carried out by the t.p.r. ok. at the same time we are implementing all the decisions regarding the d.p. r. k. taken by the security council and i would like to highlight that. so there wouldn't

be any dubious understanding that we are implementing all the decisions of the security council. but this problem should be resolved through dialogue and depair occasionally backed into a cornish not be frightened with the use of power and we should not resolve to being rude and having this conflict. whether you like the depair kid regime or not whether it's good or not you should not forget. that the d.p. r. k. is a serene state. and any contradictions should be resolved peacefully and through the duduk of civilizations and this is what russia has always supported we are strongly convinced that even the most difficult no the crisis in syria only be on the korean peninsula or in ukraine. should not be cut but rather to tangled. and stability might be fragile even in the well off

state and we can see that in the example of spain who could have expected that the discussion on the status of catalonia which has such a long history would result in such an acute political crisis russia's position is unchanged it is an internal affair of spain and should be result within the framework of the spanish law in line with the democratic traditions. we're aware that the country's leaders are taking steps in that direction. that catalonia situation showed the unanimous condemnation of all those freedom fighters by the e.u. and a number of other countries. in this regard i would like to underscore what you should have thought about that before. has no one heard about the same trees long country dictions in europe you were aware of that show you did.

but you even welcomed the collapse of a number of states in europe and you were not hiding that you were happy about it. but why you were so heedless into using this political situation and the desire to appease the big brother from washington. to support the separation of casa so unanimously by provoking. such processes in other regions i don't mind you when crane mia declared its independence and then as a result of a referendum of joining russia. those results of that now see what's happening in spain remember what's happening in kurdistan and it's a different religion and this is not a complete list and then the question arises what do we do what do we do about that so our colleagues some of our colleagues believe that there are correct or there

are correct freedom fighters who will support and there are those who we do not support to our enemies. and these double standards these this what i've talked what i've been talking about is example of double standards and this poses threat to the development of europe and integration process processes throughout the world. apologists all globalization's were used to say they used to say that we need economic interdependence but it was that this this doesn't help us. actually and the character of relations between the countries has become more diverse and what we see today is more and more examples of how politics interferes with economic relations just recently we've heard that this is impossible that it is counterproductive but now and those

who said that are doing that some are clearly showing that. they clearly show that they are just promoting their own but it is nurses and economic interests and for example. if you put in for example what it did what the u.s. congress did recently that all with the package of measures which awards to russia and europe was clearly aimed against russia and the energy supply and its supply of energy to europe. you know if we see this unit in the diversification of an er just supplying us with and i would like to say once again that every country has its own political and economic and other interests the question is how to which means do you support them in the promoters and to.