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today welcome to the weekly. we do start with. almost half a million people have protested in support of independence. to impose direct rule strip the local government. the spanish government is also calling for a regional election. and. 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 mine tension is to hold it as soon as we recover. all of us but you know what about 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 act we crossed all boundaries by nasa edge attacked a coup d'etat to oust a democratically elected government yet legs it was ordering article one five 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's now stripped of the capacity to elect a new president artie's within a caution about now reporting from barcelona on local reaction. many people that gathered here at the square they were listening to the address that was made by the castle leader and they welcomed its with applause they were shouting slogans including the bit of that which means freedom so for them it was a big address quite a big decision that was made to now we've heard other reactions coming from

different catalan government officials including the had of the council and parliament that had house denouncement 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 salon and now 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 it's relief when the other in other planets not. even. countries day leave they say what they say all the time the same thing and they repeat the same rewards and 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 the a mania local authorities call defacto coup de town and a blow to democracy. we spoke to thomas hiring to a professor of liberian studies he says exerting this kind of pressure on a democratic country is illegitimate. what is the role of force in elective democracies in the twenty first century. i think the consensus on the cattle on site 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 several of our days 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 has 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 is the president of an organization that promotes catalan language and culture and since then boss alone has seen even big demonstrations uniting hundreds of thousands of people with thanks. be to. god. was. was.

was. thought back a ways and i'm going to pick that goshawk one of us has. was for a moment here on the program let's take a quick look back at how spain's been cracking down on kaplan's push for independence. to those in charge in the catalan government who are the protagonist in this challenge to our coexistence i ask them to cease illegal activities they should

abandon their objective. need we are now applying to one five five because no government at all in a democratic country can accept that the law will be ignored violated changed and this has all happened under false criteria and they impose that criteria on everybody else. it's been a week of intense scrutiny for what this channel attacked left right and center and propaganda. used on your holdings in plastic. 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 russia today it is a scandal it is a scandal that members of the party opposite are continuing to to validate to validate legitime eight. 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 shuttle 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 artie's political agenda these useful idiots remain oblivious to r.t.c. intentions and be seriously just mysie 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. a proportion 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 some of our guests that were mentioned in that list of useful idiots how they feel about that description. 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 the 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. that 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 the recent attacks on r.t. come amid a russian meddling frenzy the latest incarnation of which comes from britain where a labor party m.p. has called for a probe into moscow's alleged difference in the practice of food given the widespread public concern over foreign and particularly russian interference in western democracies with this house that 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. to russia

hysteria has been making headlines for months it started with alleged moscow meddling in the us election and then it moved on to the french and then the german votes and there were even been suggestions that the russians hacked the cattle independence vote russian president vladimir putin says it's all part of a very deliberate campaign launched around the time of donald trump's victory. so it's the us who put up with this some president and then russian campaign which was not provoked by anything someone lost the elections to mr trump and russia was blamed for this then they unfolded the russian hysteria and now any failure will be connected to us and one of the loudest complaints is coming from the politician who claims that russian interference cost the american presidency. in germany members of parliament have been hacked by russia.

and france that crohn's campaign was hit by a massive cyber attack just before their presidential election. you know the evidence that russia has a hunk you e-mails no civil civil war there is no possible to so you've obviously a stated silversea a criminal group it really can be anyone. still the simplicity of the technical part can make us think it's just a simple person who created it and so this person can be in any country with any kind of motivation. maybe you've even seen the ads and on london underground one russian state funded

propaganda distortion 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. russian is there 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. here

in southern russia. by discussion club and our topic is us russian relations and the state of the world.

thanks for joining us here on r.t. this week the pentagon couldn't for the victory of the coalition lead kodesh fighters against islamic state and 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 caliphate iraq in syria and now we're actually in the beginning i think the stone age and watching the caliphate is the latest pictures from iraq exactly give us a sense of success it's a virtual ghost city the destruction you can see here caused by eisel of militia shelling and vost coalition bombardments aid agencies say a huge effort will be needed to end the humanitarian crisis that i still claim iraq as is de facto capital in twenty fourteen and the first major offensive against the

terrorists there began two years later and used to be one of syria's largest cities but is now little more than rubble. recently called mission after us is we're ready to demolish the whole building to target one member of ice and they have no problem convincing to me that's something we ran from death and fear any human being would be afraid of the sound of the planes makes us afraid they were shelling the civilians destroying buildings and houses that kill is destroyed by coalition aircraft only ten percent hit the targets the rest hit 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 the children it's actually. it's just getting. what humanitarian relief teams are only now beginning to arrive there has been a destruction in the larger supply their political mission of 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 a 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 bail giving increased powers to security services the new low. has drawn criticism from various rights advocates who fear it will cope civil liberties police will now have a greater ability to search houses without a warrant and conduct stop and search operations on the streets the law also allows the authorities to wiretap communications more widely including telephones and emails places of worship suspected of promoting extremism may also be temporarily shut down at the architect of the law is president himself who says this is an alternative to the current state of emergency which has already been extended six times because of course you do awful so on a secure the anti terror draft law on the reinforcement of internal security has been adopted by a parliamentary majority and it will come into power in november the first when the state of emergency expires the state of emergency was effect however we've seen in

recent months that unfortunately doesn't protect us from the reality of certain tax because any state of emergency can protect us in 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 november twenty fifth terror attacks in paris a new law has raised some controversy though with many slamming it as an endangerment to basic freedoms and we gauge the reaction on the streets of paris and almost. 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. i think when you look for something to have real reasons for doing so me personally am not against it. but i really don't think it will help to fight any terrorists it will only harm personal freedom is now i believe it is designed more to control the. minorities more young i think we were to have the means to control people there are already

laws in place we know we're in the control and the africans are being monitored if they will now be able to get into our apartments i don't believe the. he's fighting terror earlier the united nations also raised objections to the anti terror bill and said the measures if implemented would limit freedoms in french society and warned of possible repercussions we discussed the new law with former m i five officer sean and political analyst dan glazebrook. 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 mission creep so that someone who protests against the government is deemed to be a radical and you know their work me close 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 there being some people who decide to 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. thanks for sharing your sunday with us here on our international the top stories of the week and over the weekend continue at the top of the hour.

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