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where almost half a million people have protested in support of independence following decision to impose direct rule on strip the local government. the spanish government is also calling for regional elections within six months. the move. but you 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. all of us but you know a lot of our part of 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. or who even agreed we irresponsible actually crossed all boundaries by nasa edge of fact a coup d'etat to ask a democratically elected government yet. triggering article one fifty five which allows for the transfer of powers to madrid and the dismissal of those officials are 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 question of a now reports on a reaction from barcelona. many people that gathered here at the square they were listening to the address that was made by the castle leader and they welcomed the plaza they were shouting slogans including leave it at that which means freedom so for them it was a big to address quite a big decision that was made to now we've heard other reactions coming from

different council and the government officials including the had of the council and parliament that had housed announcement treats decision to invoke article one fifty five and dismiss the local government now madrid's decision provoked radio wave of outrage and we've seen hundreds tens of thousands of people here in the streets so far salonen el protesting and marching and we managed to talk to some of them loses the muslim because we're a bit lost is the first time we found ourselves in such a situation we've heard talk of possible support from durham for example but it seems that the e.u. is not interested as a tool in what's going on here but i think. we need i mean are there other planets not. even. countries day leave they say what they say all the time the same thing they repeat the same words that's on monday and for the other

leaders so it's it's it's it's impossible to talk to them so i'm not going to be don't know what they did by triggering article one five five it 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 council on a mania local authority a school defacto and a blow to democracy. we spoke to thomas harrington a professor of iberian studies he says exerting this kind of pressure in a democratic country is illegitimate. what is the role of the 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 fight 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 spain tightening its grip over catalonia on monday to catalan independence leaders were arrested for the key roles they played in organizing the referendum and one of them was the leader of the cattle and national assembly and the others the president of an organization that promotes cattle and language and culture since then boss alone has seen even bigger demonstrations uniting hundreds of thousands of people. with three. beach. was. god.

god. was. but that was something that i think that gets all of us as. i for a moment here let's take a quick look back at how spain has been cracking down on catalans push for independence. to those in charge in the council on government who are the protagonist in this challenge to walk coexistence i ask them to cease illegal activities they should

abandon their objective. need we are now applying article one hundred five because no government a tool in a democratic country can accept the. changed this has all happened under false criteria and they impose that criteria on everybody else. it's been a week of intense scrutiny for this channel attacked left right and center as kremlin propaganda. holkins investigates. ati has been in the

spotlight for a while under fire from government officials the media even think tanks here are some recent highlights. boris johnson led the charge in the u.k. house of commons with an attack on opposition m.p.'s who've appeared on this channel if you study the output of of russia today it is a scandal it is a scandal that members of the party opposite are continuing to to validate to validate and to meet. 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 the artes 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 swift response.

and it gets better one thing tank recently completed the mammoth task of compiling a list of all the thousands of guests who've appeared on our shows ever from politicians and journalists to academics and thirty's 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 troubling naivety about r.t.s. political agenda these useful idiots remain oblivious to r.t.c. intentions and b. c it's legitimate 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 guest list taken from web site descriptions for the comedy show news thing well they may want to double check that one as well its power in say three boris johnson boris welcome. are we going to get a chance to fight the spanish before america and russia killer so. to be. proportion of the reporters 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 some of our guests that were mentioned in the list of useful idiots how they feel about this description. developer is somehow trashy 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 than 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 and now much more mainstream voices. the recent attacks on r.t. come amid a russian meddling frenzy the ladies incarnation of which comes from britain where a labor party m.p. has called for a probe into of moscow's alleged into ferrand's of the bracks had. given the widespread public concern over foreign and particularly russian interference in western democracies we're sure sure 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 the russia hysteria has been making headlines for months it started with alleged meddling in the us election then it moved on to france then it went on to many every means suggestions that russians hacked the cattle and independence vote president vladimir putin says it's all part of a very deliberate campaign launched after donald trump's victory. it's the us who put up with this some president and then a russian campaign which was not provoked by anything someone lost the elections to mr trump and russia was going for this than they unfolded the russian hysteria and now any failure will be connected to us and one of the loudest complaints coming from the politicians who claim is that russian interference last heard the american presidency. in germany members of parliament have been hacked by russia.

and france crowns campaign with the head by a massive cyber attack just before their president. now the evidence that russia has a hockey you email no civil civil war there is no possible to city school bisley a state to deal with your criminal group it really time be anyway. 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 london underground one russian state funded

propaganda distorted bragging watch our t.v. and find out who we are planning to. the fact is they're also opening a new scottish. goes to show you yet again the his stereo the absolute. boggling hysteria that occurs whenever the word russian. whenever it's even mentioned people say ah russians they're added again how are they at it again i don't know but you know how they are who the russians what russia and those russians were back in just a moment. discussion

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it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. it's good to have you with us today for the weekly here and it was this week that the pentagon confirmed the victory of the western led coalition and kurdish forces against the islamic state in syria's rocka hailing the operation as a great success against terrorism. we're having great success against what was once known as the core caliph like iraq in syria and now we're actually ending the beginning i think the interest stage and watch for the caliphate is. over the latest pictures from don't exactly give a sense of success it's a virtual. ghost town and you can see here the destruction caused by i sold militia coalition men's aid agencies say a huge effort will be needed to end the humanitarian crisis that it was

a twenty fourteen that i still claim to rocka as to fact the capital of the first major offensive against the terrorists there began two years ago it used to be one of syria's largest cities but now it's little more than rubble. recently called nation after ready to demolish the whole building. 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. destroyed. nearly ten percent.

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 the children essentially. it's just getting. the monetary relief teams are only now beginning to arrive there has been a disruption in the water supply there for the pollution of food because of course the area was under siege for such a long time there is a severe lack of 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 hour here in moscow william shakespeare's literature has been stamped with a trigger warning by lecturers at cambridge university to avoid potentially causing students distress they have been warned about which texts contain scenes of sex and violence on the boy asks why the work is raising so much concern over four centuries later. ok to me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pit whenever man's i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rode my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lost the that's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain english lecturers at cambridge university

are putting special warnings on their time tables when they're going to be covering potentially distressing topics like these they're going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept people talking about thorny issues like close relations race relations and anti semitism for centuries i want to know what the people visiting the famous shakespeare gloated share in london have to say about the warnings i think. demis down the students. in the churn for smart enough to be able to handle this without a warning. being good enough

for them. if you're reading literature you should expect to have some surprises you expect to be shocked to see or similar at that particular student i think the problem with the world these days is that there's just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do cambridge university has told me that any warnings that they put out are the initiative of individual professes and that it's not a policy adopted by the english to pump. and has a hole by the way when the glue theory is just stage tight to some john three years ago several people fainted from the graphic violence including one of the theories secret six reviewing the show that very same critics still gave the production an exceptional review art isn't always comfortable the most challenging arts can be anything bods and now there are growing concerns not just in academic circles that

modern students are being too morally called old if they can handle the content in classic literature how are they going to cope with life in general however there is a growing backlash social media users of question whether students have become overly sensitive others warn that if people can no longer cope with fictional violence then they are likely to struggle with life off the university now the measure is also raised concerns among many in academia and literary circles the artistic director of the cambridge shakespeare festival says shootings are shouldn't study the literature if they're not aware his works portray some violence and we hope that some literary classics that this might also have to to apply.

sikes batters nancy to death and have bet the corpse is so deformed that the person who identifies a body is so scared by the experience that they're led away in a straight jacket. on. your new court sullen people's half devil tough child. his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and restored dawson scarred with a numerable puncture marks finally thrust the sharp point home press down the tiny piston. society isn't becoming sensitive just a few snowflakes who are in position of the influence at university they are

pushing this agenda but the real agenda is to cut freedom of speech and cut freedom of expression this is artsy international thanks for joining us for the weekly so far it resumes in about thirty three minutes. give me no must is this something. new then she'll have to do.

yeah use a little for the. whole thing to go much but i feel a lot of them are out of the out. she just for the cowards who don't need the militia recovery will attribute. them all into it is the food of this bunch of the. but i mean. he. gets to live it up with other.

long welcome to the party after years of being unable to strike a peace deal with the palestinians israel now wants to have a say in the resolution of another conflict this time in syria its objective is to minimize the regional influence but just a little bit late in the game to discuss that i'm now joined by. a prominent israeli politician foreign minister on. israel ms levy it's great to see you thank you very much for talking to us thank you now you are currently in the opposition to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu but as far as i understand when it comes to the issue of iran most israeli politicians agreed that it represents

a major deadly threat to israel that has to be curtailed through all possible means at my ride in formulating your position yes not only for recently police to show and so we believe that iran is supposed to use well but not only to you but to the into. and therefore we need to be dealt with the international community as such. i see him prime minister netanyahu who recently visited russia communicated something along those same lines to russian president vladimir putin do you by any chance know what how the russians have responded to those concerns raised by the israeli prime minister i hope to understand that these were. the sort of. the concerns of other states in the region the not only listen iran is both of the problem iran would not accept the right of israel to exist iran coast.