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of today. the program with. almost half a million people have protested in support of independence. rule and strip the local government. regional election within six months. the move. but we have this measure we are going to implement has a lot to do with the goal of holding an election in catalonia the region will have to hold an election within six months but my intention is to hold it as soon as we recover you know. the spanish government has carried out the worst attack against scotland institutions and residents since the orders of the military

dictator francisco franco we appreciate them. to do integrate into responsible across all bond response and to talk to who to talk to asked i didn't practical it does not just government this that the fact that triggering article one fifty five which allows for the transfer of powers to madrid and the dismissal of those officials alleged to have broken the law is to be passed by the senate within days and while the cattle and parliament won't be dissolved it is now stripped of the capacity to elect a new president artie's within a caution over ports now on the reaction from barcelona. many people that gathered here at the square they were listening to the address that was made by the cast of the leader and they welcomed the playas they were shouting slogans including leave it at that which means freedom so for them it was. quite a big decision that was made to now we've heard other reactions coming from

different catalan the government officials including the had of the catalan parliament that has denounced madrid's decision to invoke article one fifty five and dismiss the local government now madrid's decision provoked really a leave of outrage and we've seen hundreds tens of thousands of people here in the streets of barcelona now protesting and marching and we managed to talk to some of them this is the muslim focuser we're a bit lost it's the first time we found ourselves in such a situation we've heard talk of quotes from durant for example. but it seems that the e.u. is not interested as a tool in what's going on here but i think it's a relief when the other in other planets not. even. contraries day leave they say what they say all the time the same they repeat the same words and that's on monday and for

a boy the other leaders so it's it's it's is impossible to talk to them i said i'm not going to show you don't know what he did by triggering article one five five he was suicidal because as you can see there are millions of people defending catalinas right to independence what happened this saturday in the region of counsel lanny a mania local authorities school defacto coup de town and a blow to democracy. we spoke to thomas harrington a professor over barry and studies he says exerting this kind of pressure in a democratic country is a legitimate. what is the role of force in elective democracies in the twenty first century. i think the consensus on the catalan side is a very strong one and i can't imagine that the people who are rightfully elected in the september two thousand and fifteen elections going along with a new election after the government that they were elected to form part of is is overthrown by the central of artes and i think president bush among makes

a very compelling find when he says well if this can be done to us what other things can be done to other people if you're going to sit by and let it happen throughout the week madrid's been tightening its grip over catalonia on monday to catalan independence leaders were arrested for the key roles they played in organizing the referendum one of them's the leader of the catalan national assembly the other as the president of an organization that promotes cattle and language and culture since then boss alona seen even big demonstrations uniting tens of thousands of people. thank you to do thank you thank. god. god.

god us. but i wasn't going to think that gus was one of us yes. i. let's take a quick look back at how spain has been cracking down on a couple ounce push for independence.

to those in charge in the council and government who are the protagonist in this challenge to our existence and i ask them to cease illegal activity they should abandon their objective. need we are now applying to one five five because no government a tool in a democratic country can accept that the law will be ignored or violated changed this has all happened under false criteria and they impose their criteria on everybody else. watching the weekly here on r.t.

international he was in the spotlight this week hitting the headlines as kremlin propaganda i know hawkins investigates. has been in the spotlight for a while from government officials the media even think tanks here some recent hot it's. led the charge in the u.k. house of commons with an attack on opposition m.p.'s who have appeared on this channel if you study the outputs of russia today it is a scam it is a scam that members of the party opposite continuing to. validate to validate legitimate. that kind of propaganda by going on those programs but some of his fierce criticism of the foreign secretary of peers to have missed out a bit of important information his own conservative colleagues have also appeared as guests on the shell as well as someone closer to home his own father stanley

johnson was interviewed by going on the ground i was the afshin rattansi just last month. the times newspaper claims there are now calls by the labor party for the u.k. media watchdog to investigate artie's advertising campaign on the london underground they even contacted us for our take on the matter later saying our press office refused to comment except we did two questions do you wish to respond to this complaint which advertising agency created the adverts for r t what were they made in house. high probably not much point in responding to a complaint to an authority that does not regulate out of two advertising the out campaign was developed in-house by the other team and fully proved by all u.k. vendettas we are glad to say many in the u.k. are engaging with our advertising understood thanks for the swift response.

and it gets better one thing thank recently completed the mom of the task of compiling a list of all the thousands of guests who've appeared all our shows ever from politicians and journalists to academics and thirties and even groups them into categories and then dismisses them as useful idiots many people in europe and the us including politicians and of the persons of influence continue to exhibit. billing naive about r.t.s. political agenda these useful idiots remain oblivious to r.t.c. intentions and be seriously just in to see by granting interviews on the shows and news casts so only useful idiot list john mccain one of the most vocal critics of russia even film director rob reiner gets

a mention in the celebrity section he's now part of an organization called the committee to investigate russia as not to mention u.s. senator and former presidential candidate bernie sanders as well as none other than the current american president donald trump i guess that's finally the smoking gun of russian election influence former first lady michelle obama gets a mention although her name only appears in the program description she was never an actual guest checking the episodes would have confirmed this back to boris johnson himself he's listed on the reports official r.t. guest list taken from web site descriptions for the comedy show news thing well they may want to double check that one as well exploring say trade boris johnson boris welcome. are we going to get a chance to fight the spanish before america and russia kill us saw. to beat the blue portion of the report is sponsored by george soros as well as the

u.k. and u.s. embassies in the czech republic it certainly spares no criticism of those giving interviews on this channel. we decided to ask our guests that were mentioned in the list of useful idiots whether they agree with that description. development is somehow drash 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 we're 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 for. the recent attacks on r.t. come amid a russian meddling frenzy of the latest incarnation of which comes from britain where a labor party m.p. has called for a probe into moscow's alleged interference in the record given the widespread public concern over foreign and particularly russian interference in western democracies. this house but the government and the electoral commission will examine these reports very carefully and reassure our country that all of the

resources spent in the referendum from permissible sources. and to russia histeria has been making headlines for months it started with alleged moscow meddling of the us election then moved on to the french and german votes and there are even been a suggestions that russians hacked the cattle and. independence vote president vladimir putin says it's all part of a deliberate come pain launched off the donald trump's victory. so should the u.s. who put up with this some precedent and then play russian campaign which was not provoked by anything but he someone lost the elections to mr trump and russia was blamed for this it was the unfolded this entire russian hysteria that you know any failure will be connected to us and i one of the loudest complaints coming from the very politician who claims russian interference lost both the presidency.

many members of parliament have been hacked by russia. and france its campaign was hit by a massive cyber attack just before their presidential election. you know the evidence that russia has a hard q e mails no civil civil war there is no possible to say you've obviously a state it still was still a criminal group it really can be anyone. still the simplicity of the technical part can make us think you just assume. you created it and so this person can be in any country with any kind of motivation.

maybe you've even seen the ads and a london underground one day on propagandist or rag watch archy and find out who they are planning to. the fact is they're also opening a new scottish. goes to show you. yet again the his stereo the absolute mind boggling hysteria that occurs whenever the word russian. whenever it's 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 are russia and what russia and those russians. more of your week's headlines are just.

through here in southern russia in sochi attending the ball by discussion club and our topic is us russian relations and the state of the worlds.

it is good to have you with us today this week the pentagon confirmed the victory of the u.s. led coalition against islamic state in syria's rocka hailing the operation a great success in the fight against isis. we're having great success against what was once known as the core caliph like iraq and syria and now we're actually ending the beginning i think the emphasis stage in watching the caliphate is rocket however the latest pictures from iraq i don't exactly give a sense of success it's a virtual ghost city the destruction you can see here was caused why i sold militias shelling and coalition fighting and bombing campaigns aid agencies say a huge effort will be needed to end the humanitarian crisis there i still claim

graca as just a fact of capital in twenty fourteen for the first major offensive against the terrorists there began two years later it used to be one of syria's largest city is it but it's now little more than a rubble. recently called nation after us is well ready to demolish the whole building to doget one member i say they have no problem killing civilians. we ran from death and any human being would be afraid the sound of the planes makes us afraid they were shelling the civilians destroying buildings and houses that killed is destroyed by

coalition aircraft only ten percent hit their targets investigate civilians. the u.n. estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day. and they seem to be no real escape for these civilians their level of suffering friends relatives family of these children essentially. it's just getting. humanitarian relief teams are only now beginning to arrive there has been a disruption in the water supply the pollution because of course the area was under siege for such a long time there is severe allow. medical services medical care hospitals that are functioning severe lack

a lot of course and so there is a massive massive humanitarian need on the ground. the french parliament has adopted a controversial counter-terrorism bill giving increased powers to security services and the new law has drawn criticism from various rights advocates who fear it will civil liberties the police will now have a greater ability to search houses without a warrant and conduct a stop and frisk operations on the streets of the law also allows authorities to wiretap communications more widely including telephones and e-mail places of worship suspected of promoting extremism may also be temporarily shut down the architect of the lower us president himself who says this is an alternative to the current state of emergency already extended six times. because you do a full sauna securely to the n.t. terry draw flow on the reinforcement and internal security has been adopted by parliamentary majority and will come into power on november the first when the

state of emergency expires the state of emergency was effective however we've seen in recent months that unfortunately doesn't protect us from the reality of certain attacks because any state of emergency come protect us and totally reduce the threat france is a state of emergency is due to be lifted at the beginning of next month it was this year and following the nov twenty fifth terror attacks in paris. the controversial new law has been making headlines with many slamming it as

endangering basic freedoms we gauge reaction on the streets of paris and almost and with seizures but no i don't agree with it and i'm sure we can do things differently i don't think it is the way to solve the problem of terrorism supposed to leave them on the i think only the first something they had no reasons for doing so out me personally i'm not against it was going to close up and i really don't think it will help to fight any terrorists it will only harm personal freedoms and i believe it is designed more to control the people. and only did more than quote for his own i think we already have the means to control people there are already laws in place we know we are in the control and the afghans are being monitored if they were now also to be able to get into our apartments i don't believe the goal is fighting terror. the united nations also raised objections to the anti terror bill and said that measures if implemented would limit freedoms in french society and warned of possible repercussions and we discussed the new law with a former m i five officer an emotional and

a political analyst downplays parker. the state of emergency was passed because of the appalling attacks but that was any seem to be for a limited time what nikon is doing is now codifying the same terms and putting it forever into french law i think they've expanded the stop and search powers around major transport hubs and also this idea that they can close down centers mosques places religious worship if there's hints of radicalization but there's no proof required for that closure and that is quite concerning as well because of course what is radicalization at the moment of course everyone in france is focused on the concept of islamic radicalization but what if that spreads what if there is a mission so that someone who protests against the government is deemed to be a radical and. down if you don't deal with the root causes which is the brutal foreign policy on the one hand and then the alienation of entire communities due to

your systematic institutional discrimination and racism on the other hand if you're not going to deal with those even the most vicious police state will not be able to stop. being some people who decide to to lash out unfortunately you're never going to be able to keep your population one hundred percent safe because your whole foreign policy is about certain fire to two other countries this is art international law from moscow thanks for joining us a sunday morning here in moscow of course we're doing the weekly top headlines of the day and of the week we're back in about half an hour. but with these gaming anymore. but without the damaging both sides it's reality damaging our economy the image of the russian economy and the russian federation system and i know a lot of people who are looking for a creative way to get

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