the same we are apparently better than blue. sea people you've never heard of love redacted tonight my president of the world bank so kate was really pretty seriously send us an e-mail. spain's prime minister asked the senate to dismiss catalonia as maine all surratt is and wants new regional elections as soon as possible. and these are the live pictures from barcelona where people are gathering to protest against what they claim is a grave attack on its liberties. a european think tank publishes a list of thousands of arties guests including president jiang calling them useful idiots in a controversial report on this channel's policies. and he rights organizations warn the deaths could rise in greek refugee camps this winter after

cold weather and a lack of medical help and kills a five year old girl. this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. and we start in spain where madrid has asked the senate to remove key figures in the catalan government and how their responsibility is to ministers the measures were announced by prime minister mariano rajoy after article one five five of the constitution was trickett. were no applying article one five five because no government at all in a democratic country could accept that the law be ignored or violated or changed and this is all happened under false criteria and they imposed a criteria on everybody else. we can see now the live pictures in the center of

barcelona where the protests that we've been hearing about from medina caution of earlier were said will be taking place later this evening and these people are there protesting against the arrests earlier and also the the triggering of article one five five that was announced by mary our office. it's the spanish prime minister the people we can see here the peaceful protests so far there they've gathered in favor of independence and also to make their voice heard in in support of that referendum result which was announced after the october the first vote where ninety percent of the people who turned up a forty three percent turnout voted in favor of independence a cattle let me. now to discuss the situation i'm joined by bernard damon's a board member of the international commission of european citizens a brussel based pro independent n.g.o.s and he joins us live that's a very long title that they have there but i thank you very much indeed for joining us i mean we can we can see that the process there and what we've heard that the

this speech this that today from from my new era i mean you're an independent observer when you saw the referendum in catalonia i mean do you expect what we actually you expecting from madrid you expect it to act as violently as it did on the voting day that's if the council has refused to abide by article one five five . well i can only see that even before the river of them took place the spanish authorities have been acting only in repressive ways they're arrested civil servants of the catalonian government weeks before the referendum took place. and they've been threatening with with prison and with fines all the mayors that over wanting to organize this referendum what we didn't really expect but it happens was on the day of the referendum there was this police violence which was really rude and brutal with which no proportionate do towards

this pacific crosses the catalans were displaying in towns and villages so that has been. a real shock to us that the international community has condemned these actions of. police up to a certain stage but we hope certainly that they would have put the puts pressure on the spanish to to change their only repressive approach of this this. events and catalunya and politicians have also been all skiing for dialogue that been asking for a dialogue for years and years. but we can only see that the spanish government only knows of one ling which is of repression finding arresting people and now even

. several persons of the civil society you were not even political elected persons have been put in jail and now we're going a step forward and that they are going to suspend catalan autonomy and put aside an elected government of the catalonian people so we can only observe that that spain has moving only in this way of repression and that's been nori all the signals and all the. desire of the two indian politicians to come to the table and negotiate. i mean it is a case that the big concerns would never be able to peacefully break away i mean if the national constitution the government always blocks this is it a case of there will never be an opportunity for independence for the gas and people. well independence is of course.

something which is mostly not for seen in the constitution but there is also something like the will of a people and the will of a determination that it's a human right and that should be recognized not only by spain but only by european institutions but that's why we find that european since institutions are so. disappointing on this moment in fact they've been backing the spanish government for let's say on turn of october when. the catalan prime minister was about to declare independence day mr donald tusk. begged him to make a gesture of goodwill. mr praised him and to the prime minister did he suspend that the clear ration of independence so it would open

a possibility of talks but no he. does say mr dunne of dusk is just saying that spain is alright to to to to follow its repressive mood i think they're making a big big mistake we're very had some experts opinions here in that they're saying that brussels is staying silent on the castle in crisis as it fears that secessionist movements across the bloc could also then come into play i mean do you think the best the case. excuse rick. yes stephanie we've we've been hearing from experts who think that brussels is staying silent in this particular crisis they're not getting involved across the what they see as a spanish interior problem because the e.u. fears that secessionist movements across the bloc will then basically rise up do you think that that's the case. well. of course i'm i don't

really agree that europe is not interfering they are interfering they are backing up the spanish government they are taking. a choice and backing the spanish government and not being neutral or anything but this lead to. several other secessionist processes. well maybe is maybe no i mean it is not. like mr young. to the president of the european commission he claimed that europe with eighty or one hundred states small states would not be not be possible to. to to to run but we are not talking in the first place about eighty or one hundred states through about to break up it's

a process that may. be achieved in catalonia maybe someday in scotland or in flanders or in a few other regions that there is a democratic solid. desire of independence but we are not talking about. tens and tens of new states about to be two raisin in europe and then i would really certainly to mr younker who is comes from luxembourg luxembourg a small country to five hundred thousand people. the catalans have twelve times as many people and look somebody that also speaks some kind of german why doesn't he. make the move and ask for germany to integrate to germany then that would be already one stateless if that's his main problem. or leave it there ben

the developments from the international commission of european citizens i got to talk to at this time thank you very much indeed thank you. now a think tank called european values has released a damning report about this channel and criticized more than two thousand people who appeared as guests the institute which gets funding from the u.s. and other western governments browns the guest useful idiots auntie's anastasio discussed the report as my colleague neil harvey it's a bit of a surprise for you the bashing continues now in this particular report the issues that artie's guests are having really a dig at themselves this is a report by think tank based in the czech republic called european values report is 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 around a 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 our t.v. 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 tease 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 due to an awareness of political agenda or indeed explicit support of it and then stand names incredibility. and proxy agents of the kremlin is pretty clear we need to start. hello my name is neil and. what. 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 pushing program one a gender 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 our cheese whole goal is to denigrate the west and our tea 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 george soros 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 here are some other names she won't be surprised to see on the useful idiots list senator john mccain a vocal critic of russia is grouped among politicians who have been on r.t.

film director rob reiner also makes an appearance and he's actually now part of an organization called the committee to investigate russia where other politicians on the list include former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as the current president donald trump and even former first lady michelle obama gets a mention well the report clearly states all these people appeared on a show called politicking with larry david the problem is the famous american comedian has never had a show on r.t. politicking has always been hosted by veteran journalist larry king and that wasn't the only mistake either the think tank says it took guests names from show descriptions from our website which apparently led to more confusion take boris johnson for instance it claims he was an r.t.s. nice thing comedy show but this was his appearance so that's all we're citing one with their finger on the rights of every international affairs its foreign secretary boris johnson boris welcome. are we going to get

a chance to fight the spanish before america and russia kill us so. he saw. portion. well to discuss those reports i'm now joined by retired u.s. army general paul valley paul thank you very much indeed for joining us again well your name is among those on the list that you feel about being described in the report as a useful idiot. it seems like a propaganda thing for your theory and. you know i was with forks lose three years and probably many thousands of shows in the national security and military. but never called. useful with the i'm sure than would bring me back on if i was an idiot so it's ridiculous well as i look at some of the other was that the report uses it says that i guess undermine western democracy and police the information space i mean do you think that's what

that your ups and the rest of the guests are up there when you're on it with us. no i don't think so you know as a matter of fact you know the interviews i've been ordered to have been very focused they've been guarding about the middle east. that's happening with trump in the united states but again i mostly do interviews or political but you can see here that this is a very. very negative thing put out to me by propaganda but if you look at the b.b.c. you look at all the media in the united states there are very politically motivated and i can see every day a number of and i don't call them useful idiots but i call many in that sure are a knowledgeable people to get on the air but to call them useful idiots is very inaccurate well it's also let's look at the wider picture hammy i mean why do you think it's so much governmental western government mental pressure is on right now

. well i think it goes back to this whole a conundrum that's been developed in the united states as a result of our election trying to blame russia for everything there's nothing no factual information that's come out at all and actually it's being reversed now we're rather they're looking at the you know the clinton and clinton foundation and their collusion with the uranium reported uranium one but i think all of this from the press standpoint it's a way for them to attack russia all the time always for the most case unfounded the same thing with u.s. politicians attacking a russia but i have searched to research all of this kate and i've seen no collusion i've seen no developmental things of by the russian government or putin to attack to europe and their leaders or president trope so it's all this is very unfounded on unnecessary well let's also look at the sink tank itself i mean the

one that they that published this report to sponsor via monk of us the us embassy in effect that public i mean do you think that exposes it to the challenge of bias perhaps. well it probably doesn't especially if you put george soros is the name up there is very anti american first the very anti trump certainly not loved by anybody in europe but anything they fund seems to be targeted at bringing down governments and attacking even legitimate governments though we may not agree with the leadership in the policies all the time certainly you have to respect these people that are serving their country and george soros is a very evil man and some of those other organization jews have on their evil intense they're not good organizations that are not positive. pain at that point we'll leave it there aside the u.s. army general paul vali thank you thank you thank you kate. now human rights organizations warn deaths could arise in poorly equipped greek refugee camps this

winter more on that story after this short break. what holds us do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or interim. or somehow want to be. actually going to be for us this is what before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters of my. first city. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington controls the media the media.

voters elected businessmen to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. welcome back counting is underway in the czech republic where saturday's general election will decide its next leader with the votes counted in most areas in second place is the right wing freedom and direct democracy party behind the anti establishment went which is almost a third of the ballots while the head of the party a euro skeptic billionaire and former finance and deputy prime minister had been gaining popularity prior to the vote. the group system we've heard for so long is what i call

a system so yes we are in and this is the movement. there is no place for migrants in europe. i don't want to be in the eurozone i don't want the country to be a guarantor for greek banks. let's face it they're not impaired by the e.u. they're forming this economy governance and the eurozone is so weak. that some of our political approaches need to adjust the real world. well across the euro skeptic parties have recently been gaining support in france marine le pen the leader of the national front party was the main rival to elected

president emmanuel mccraw while in germany the a.f.d. not only entered parliament for the first time but it became the said largest party in the bundestag while the freedom party in austria also came third in the elections there were four were checked foreign ministers serious of other things the mood is rife for us skepticism in the e.u. in europe are on the face you. could say euro skeptic horse is going to seem so far believe in germany of course in austria or this is a very massive victory of the euro skeptic forces. may be in the czech republic mr buckbee and his move on or belongs to the. two d. group of party is that we are against because das within the e.u. or or who. does or which so called the

very strong send european position. now human rights activists and n.g.o.s are urging the greek or sar it is to improve conditions at their refugee camps as winter approaches there's growing concern asylum seekers are not equipped to cope with freezing temperatures well last week a five year old girl died from the cold and a lack of medical support at the morea refugee camp on the island of lesbos just hours before her death her parents were reportedly refused extra blankets well like other refugee camps in greece morea is notorious for its conditions wells and fifteen hundred people including children and pregnant women are living there many without any source of heating. well in winter temperatures can drop below zero and as a result dozens of refugees have died in the last few years the e.u.

used pledge to give more than a billion euros to greece by twenty twenty to help it cope with the migrant crisis where more than a million refugees have reached the country a main entry point into europe since twenty fifteen but as the influx threatens to overstretch greek resources the response has been questioned. economic could be a challenge to governments with the increase simply can't cope with the influx and the haven't got the administrative resources talking nice proper relief for refugees or build proper camps the official accounts of the whole have not been signed off by the court awarded to the accounting body for the last twenty three years we know that the has very little idea about how its money is spent and that's always been true does be true before the crisis and it's through during the

crisis when the e.u. doesn't know how to manage its money. you know a lot of the money goes into a bloated bureaucracy and the governments of greece and italy i'm afraid. and for how can i put it. into sort of efficiency or credibility. now let's return to barcelona and here you can see live pictures from the city with hundreds of thousands of people marching in support of the independence movement but also demanding the release of two key members of the breakaway camp who were recently arrested but earlier today the spanish prime minister asked the senate's to remove the main figures in the capital and government and transfer their responsibilities to ministers he also expressed his desire for a snap election in the region at the earliest up. chancing. done. while they bout with no news at the top i want to say that.

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