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international we begin this hour with breaking news several people have been injured in a knife attack. let's go straight to germany now. to give us the very latest now maria what is the latest we now know on this. higher it is a developing story and a new information is coming in every minute but for this time of the picture is the following what we know is that an unknown person with a knife attacked several people in downtown munich here in germany on saturday morning injuring five police reported that the wounds are not life threatening the suspect is also reported to be at large and police is claiming that they are looking for him with all the vailable resources helicopters have been seen and

heard in the skies above the cordoned off area numerous v. emergency vehicles as well as police and rescue workers on the ground local law enforcement officials urged all the people to stay at home warning avoid rosenheim up lots of tucker is currently still at large locals are advised to stay indoors. the suspect is described as a man in his forty's stout figure and shaved medium short blond hair wearing gray trousers and a green jacket and reportedly he was on a bike but police has warned and has. urged all the journalists to avoid any speculation wait for detailed information from the officials and there is no any information so far over the man's identity or his possible motives so we are

following this story our daughter has more information out there with the latest on this breaking news here on international maria thank you. damning new report from a think tank called european values has taken aim at this china thousands of people who have appeared as guests on our network the institute which receives funding from the us as well as a number of other western governments describes them all as useful idiots he's an associate turk and i joined my colleague neil harvey to discuss the report it's a bit of a surprise for you the r.t. bashing continues now in this particular report the issues that artie's guests are having really a good at themselves this is a report via think tank based in the czech republic called european values reporters called the kremlin's platform for useful idiots in the west an overview of ortiz editorial strategy and evidence of impact now what this report does is

neatly compile a list of basically all of our t.'s guests because it features thousands of people and it's not just you know or a round of list not only are there seven categories in this report dividing our guests into us politicians and political figures british politicians european and other international politicians writers journalists academics and so on so. seven categories and if that wasn't enough it also indicates the number of times each guest appeared on r t and links to some of the most relevant episodes it's clear that this particular think tank really worked hard at watching r t here in the u.k. in the states and all around the world he doesn't really mince words when it comes to our team gets not only is the report dubbed useful idiots but it also calls the guests naive and oblivious to our t's intentions so certainly something that is not being too nice to people who have chosen to come and express their opinion on our

network and here is why the report decided to really look into all this the purpose of this list is to identify individuals who either underwent a political agenda or indeed explicit support of it and instead names and credibility to see to it and proxy agents of the kremlin is pretty clear we need to start to know the most famous neal and. what. all we need to be ashamed about a missing one the two things what have i done what have you done what have we done wrong well apart from looking at all of our guests of course this wouldn't be a proper think tank report if we didn't actually try to get our t. itself it does say that the goal is to look at the history agenda of evidence of impacts of the channel that they describe as quote pushing program one agenda or under the guise of free speech and alternative journalism now not only does this

report claim to be debunking certain what it calls myths about the channel such as being a reliable news source saying that it's not harmful and also goes into key points such as saying that archie's whole goal is to denigrate the west and our t. is rooted in the denial of truth we can say that some of the sponsors behind this piece is mostly private donors but as well as open society which is obviously a georgia. sorest foundation the european parliament the u.s. embassy in the czech republic and we do know that the author has been doing some work with the atlantic council which of course is known for certain anti russia hype so really no surprises there we'll have to wait and see what kind of reactions we see from all of those thousands of people who have been coming onto our channel to express their views. and r.t. u.k. program going underground was given special attention in the report so we asked her the program host option to return and see what he thought of the mantra useful

idiots amazing that reports like this are actually presumably being read by politicians and hopefully your guests who still continue to appear but as regards guests the guests that they mentioned in the delineate in this report i mean does she really think and the politicians here and in the united states have learned are going to think that he and his verify and the former first minister scott alexander the former mayor of london that they're just idiots the useful idiots of course the north and this is incredibly insulting i mean there is no logical consistency here and it is at the moment we're joking about it a little but of course there is a serious side the british foreign secretary did this week of democratically accountable politicians in britain that he should decide which networks are democratically elected politicians should be allowed should be appearing on that precedent well it's he apparently is doing its job according to the regulator here

in britain but not according to politicians the clearly do not want certain views being expressed and given the oxygen of publicity to the british public. all right let's bring up some other names you might be surprised to see on the list of a useful idiots american senator for example john mccain a vocal critic of russia is listed among the politicians who have appeared on c and then we go to the celebrity section for instance a film director rob reiner actually now part of all organization called the committee to investigate russia other politicians including a u.s. senator and former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as the current american president of course mr donald trump even former first lady michelle obama got a mention as well now according to the report all of these people appeared on a program on this network called politicking with larry david the problem is that

famous american comedian there has never had a program here on aunty politicking has always been hosted by a veteran journalist larry king and i wasn't the only mistake the think tank says it took guests names from show descriptions of our website which apparently led to more confusion take boris johnson for instance its claim that he appeared on artesia news thing comedy show but let's show you his appearance it's always someone with their finger on the right side of the international affairs. boris welcome. all we go and get a chance to fight the spanish before america and russia kill us so. the soju brood to ease. proportion with us for genuine guess that actually did appear on our channel we asked some of them what they thought about the way they're being described in the report as useful idiots.

development is somehow trash it gets more and more aggressive across europe the political debates and one of these games they are playing. they are destroying the reputation of politicians they don't like i don't think that it's fair to say that we are simply here is russian stooges i am not anti russian but sometimes i'm quite critical of russia over syria and over the detention of political prisoners like dad and others. you know of course everybody has their agendas but i think it has certainly not tried to constrain my expression or the expression of many other people i know i work with a network we speak our mind and we're critical of the west when it's appropriate and were critical of russia when it's appropriate. the reality is there is a dissident voice in the u.k. the only very rarely gets any airtime in the mainstream media r.t. is is the only place that has been providing

a regular platform for what used to be dissident voices in the u.k. but now much more mainstream voices that well perhaps those some just find it hard to leave the past behind seventy years ago saw the start of america's so-called anti soviet or anti russian witch hunt. chairman j. parnell thomas of new jersey all funds an inquiry into possible communist penetration of the hollywood film industry the committee is seeking to determine if red party members have reached the screen with the first a propaganda. borrows

the some. believe and the cover of the jackal. which is always found of the trail of anyone who dares to expose individuals come in the same time get off people sick. to death of different macs and not be very different because of what a lot of their futures are paying for t.v. manual plotting with the wind.

if a person defends the activities of communist nation block and physically attacking the domestic and foreign policy of the united states she may be a problem and i will say if they object they are now carrying out the desires and ambitions of flattery up. i think. a bloodless coup engineered by russia with at best the traitorous indifference of the republican party and donald john trump and the military apparatus of this country is about to be handed over to god or beholden to start russia and if. the spanish cabinet is now meeting to initiate the process of triggering article one fifty five on suspend catalonia as a regional autonomy that's our show you some of the very latest pictures from the round table meeting and i dread catalonia as fate is now being determined to use that medina question of a has been following the development of the crisis that is still gripping spain.

the constitutional crisis in spain continues and the situation here and the region of council lonia remains to be quite uncertain the spanish government has given council and leaders up until thursday to back away from proclaiming independence or to be ready to face the possibility of a direct rule coming from a treat and now the spanish government has announced that it is ready to trigger article one fifty five of the country's constitution to suspense council on autonomy was. a clear and precise response in spanish work out is yes or no and we didn't get that so the requirement that supposed an initial step to begin the stablished procedure in article one hundred fifty five of the constitution has been putin in motion. article one fifty five has only two short paragraphs and the in one nine hundred seventy eight constitution of the country

and it might be applied if a regional government does not comply with the obligations of the constitution now this move should also be approved by the majority of the spanish senate and this article has never been used before and the country's history now hold this follows the recent. statements made by the councilor leader who once again confirmed the suspension of the region's independence and we've seen a lot of protests happening here across the region of cuts and in this competence city of barcelona this past week now tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the city on tuesday after a court ordered of the detention of two castle and separatist leaders further leading the situation and here on plus the consul luna located right in the heart of barcelona we expect to see another mass protest to take place later this saturday meanwhile the crisis is impacting catalonia is a call to me over

a thousand and the prices of move their headquarters from the region ten percent of companies have frozen their investments and eleven percent of open bank accounts outside the region. some pro independence activists in catalonia are protesting madrid's actions by withdrawing their cash from spanish banks and we heard from some of them. i came here because pro independence organizations have called on us to take collective action to withdraw cash from banks i think is a fantastic idea because in amana it allows us to show the power and motivation we have as well as give us strength without harming anyone. hey i will swell an evolutionary change has not begun with civil disobedience there's one part is that we have to get to this point to be heard as they deal thing would be for the government to be available to hear these demands from society so wouldn't have to get to this point because that's not the two point five million of us

a cow times he wants independence so we withdrew a little money on the bank from after that assets. they will have to react to move see that they shouldn't tend their backs on us it's spain and to read it is out international you well by headlines for a saturday continue in just a. what

politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so if you want to express an issue. or some want to be. captured like. this is like the korean people. i'm interested always in the why. aren't there. it is all t. international thanks for joining us iran has reiterated that it is complying with the nuclear deal that donald trump is threatening to. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov weighed in stressing that international security would be threatened if the u.s. scrapped the agreement and that the north korea crisis could worsen. but you've

missed the point is clear that the failure of the way iran deal one of the five plus one members especially one of its most active members is essentially the leader of the group would be an alarming signal to the architecture of international security including the settlement of the nuclear issue on the korean peninsula if you want to negotiate with kim jong un and your goal is to avoid war and try to be able to have a diplomatic resolution the worst thing you can do is first threaten to destroy his country in the united nations and secondly screw around with the deal that has already been made because the message is don't make a deal with the united states they won't keep their word last week because the us president announced he would decertify the deal that means the u.s. congress now has sixty days to decide whether it wants to reimpose sanctions against iran or agree on new legislation relating to the accord donald trump said he wants his country out of the nuclear agreement even though it is widely

acknowledged that iran has not violated that. we have agreed on the fact that iran is in technical compliance the deal in the nuclear deal with. technical compliance technical violations of the nuclear i'm all for agreements but that was a bad one they have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement they are not living up to the spirit of their agreement iran deal was hammered out back in twenty fifteen by the so-called p five plus one group consisting of russia america china france germany and of course iran that followed nine years of tough talks and was hailed as a major breakthrough the former head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog spoke. in told us it's important to work to preserve this deal. great achievement. by the p.

five in the security council and we have seen that before in the. syrian chemical weapons. settlement and there is also now some sort of agreement. between the p five so it's very important to preserve. these these precedents. between the p five and the security council and be damaged in the. very serious i think for the future authority of the security of. human rights and n.g.o.s the greek to improve conditions at refugee camps in the country as winter approaches there's a growing concern that ill prepared asylum seekers may be left to face freezing temperatures all on their own just last week a five year old girl died from cold and a lack of medical support at the morea refugee camp on the boss just hours before

her death parents were reportedly denied extra blankets like other refugee camps in greece the morea is notorious for its conditions more than fifteen hundred people including children and pregnant women are living the many without any true source of heating now in winter temperatures can drop below zero and dozens of refugees have died in just the last few years as a result of the now the e.u. has pledged to give more than a billion euros to greece twenty twenty to help cope with the ongoing crisis over a million refugees have reached greece main entry point to europe since twenty fifteen but the influx threatens to overstretch the country's resources the e.u. is response has been called into question. the challenge. governments with the increase simply can't cope with the influx and haven't got the administrative resources talking nice proper relief for refugees

a bill proper cabinet the official a current. of the you has a hole have not been signed off by the court awarded to the e.u. zone accountability for the last twenty three years we know that the e.u. is very little idea about how its money is spent and that's always been true disputed before the crisis and it's to nigeria the migrant crisis and the e.u. doesn't know how to manage its money. and you know a lot of the money goes into the bloated bureaucracy and the governments of greece and italy i'm afraid i'm not renowned for the how can i put it it minnesota deficiency or credibility. but it's get back to our breaking news story for you here this hour on r.t. international several people injured in a knife attack in central munich let's go straight to germany now ati's maria

financial joining us with the latest samaria updates on this breaking news story. this person has just come out to the media saying that they have detained a suspicious person but at this point they cannot confirm whether this is the man behind such a day morning knife attack in downtown munich they have also said that four people have been injured during the assault and we know that as soon as that happened a large scale operation search operation has been launched with helicopters in the skies emergency vehicles as well as rescue and police workers on the ground police has also earlier issued. a description of this suspect. he was described as and then in his forty's tout figure blonde hair and shaved

wearing green jacket and gray trousers and he was reportedly on a bike and he was reported at large and we know now that someone was detained but again it tees yet to be confirmed whether this is the person behind the attack earlier police has also urged people to stay at home so we wait for further information from law enforcement officials maria thanks for the. all right i thank you for joining us here on all to international sharing your saturday with us here on your world news continues and a half an hour. when lawmakers manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling closest to protect themselves. in the final merry go

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