i. most of the million people have been protesting in catalonia as madrid decides to impose direct rule dismiss key officials and call for a regional election. come under scrutiny with the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson britain's the times newspaper and the european think tank all slamming this channel and insulting our guests. just mails the liberation of the syrian city of rakoff from islamic state by u.s.

backed opposition forces although the city has been left in ruins. good to have you with us this hour my name is the harvey and you're watching the weekly here. hundreds of thousands of people have been out on the streets of catalonia expressing their support all opposition to the move for independence it follows madrid's decision to impose direct rule and to strip the local government of its powers the spanish government is also calling for a regional election to be held within six months catalan leaders have branded the move a coup. but you have to know 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. the spanish government has carried out the worst attack

against catalan institutions and residents since the orders of the military dictator francisco franco we. were hawaii in a greatly irresponsible act crossed all boundaries ban asking at a factor coup d'etat to oust a democratically elected government. the transfer of powers to madrid and the dismissing of officials alleged to have broken the law is expected to be approved by the senate within days while the council and parliament well be dissolved it will now be stripped of its capacity to elect a president. protests continue in the streets of wasilla and across the region of council anya now people that gathered here in this area of the city earlier well they were against the independence and many of them were from different union shops the region now they came here this sunday with their families and with their

friends they brought flags shelf spain and they were shouting slogans including out of a spine you know which means a long live spain at the same time on saturday we saw tans of thousands of there are protesters that also took it to the streets of boston lawn and they were supporting independence and they were supporting the results of the referendum that took place on the first of october now all these people now feel that they are. it will in no way stuck in a state of limbo and at least for the next six months now we managed to speak to some of them here in the streets of barcelona and. it's nonsense that the cattle in the region wants to become independent it's about territorial unity formed in the roman times spanish unity is worth fighting for against the nonsensical actions of the council on board was eat more so than me though i would come here to honor and express respect to the spanish on forces because they're insulted and blamed in

catalonia the children of the civil god and national police offices are told in school that their father on to reduce the spanish constitution does not forsee any referendum because it's illegal and most of all it doesn't foresee a referendum to break up spain for centuries spain was one it won't break up to do the will of criminals poesy differing mood among people industries and a lot of uncertainty really old this shows a deep crisis that the region is at the moment and it isn't the biggest constitutional crisis this country has seen in decades now many believe that the inability to really go. ways out of the situation between the spanish government and the a local catalan officials at last to this particular situation to this crisis now spanish government gave the catcher leader up until last thursday to back away from proclaiming independence out or to be ready to face the possibility of a direct rule coming from

a treat. catalan as sore it is it kept confirming the independence however at the same time they're also kept suspending the declaration of independence and all these allowed to the events of saturday when the spanish government and nouns that it isn't vote king article one fifty five of the constitution for the first time avar and this measure can only be applied if the regional government does not comply with the obligations of the constitution so now spanish prime minister met and calling for a snap elections to take place in this region within the next six months he is also calling for the dismissal of the local government asked the local government allowed to this crisis but important detail is that all these measures should first be approved by the majority of the spanish senate but nonetheless what we're witnessing here is a big crisis not only a constitutional crisis but also a crisis within the the nation within the catalan people we spoke to thomas

hurrying to a professor of iberian studies who says that existing this kind of pressure in a democratic country is not 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 circle of artists 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 has been tightening its grip of account alone year last monday to independence leaders were arrested for the roles they played in organizing the referendum one of them is the leader of the catalan national

assembly the other is the president of an organization that promotes the council on language and culture since then boss alone is seen even big demonstrations uniting hundreds of thousands of people. with the out. was. was. was was back i always i'm going to think that that's one of us has. was to take

a look now at just how spain has been cracking down on catalonia push for independence. to those in charge in the government who are the protagonist in this challenge to walk coexistence and i ask them to cease illegal activity they should abandon their objective. i.

need. applying to one five five because no government at all in a democratic country can accept that the law be ignored or be violated changed and this has all happened under false criteria and they impose that criteria on everybody else. on the heels of catalonia referendum to break away two major italian regions have finished voting for greater autonomy on sunday the region's leaders explained how they see the historic ballot. we want to overcome the inability of europe to solve problems and face up to them by offering a new dimension we want to a more united stronger europe one that takes into account the specifics of territories this is what can be simply called the europe of regions. a page of history will be written in any case village so will not be the same as before we

want to initiate this in a manner that's democratic lawful and compatible in line with the constitution. polls are closing for the areas first referendums of their kind and with more than fifty percent of the people having voted in then and the vote is considered valid although the votes on them binding meaning they won't change any powers they are expected to send a signal from locals who are angry at having to subsidise poorer parts of the country or this vote has been much anticipated in these two regions in fact for more than sixteen years that in turn long but they are two of italy's economic powerhouses together both regions account for almost a third of italy's g.d.p. and almost a quarter of the nation's electorate home to top tourism and industry hotspots including milan and venice we spoke to the university of milan politics professor marco but sania he believes history has been made. we are witnessing for the very first time people that go to the polls oscon or negotiate on our

behalf the more autonomy we just want more autonomy we want more of our money in our regions and never happened before the birds were just fiscal slaves of the rest of the country so were the van into people the nations and. and they were the very first time i say no we don't like it it's going to be a big change it's going to just put the issue all the north back into the political discussion so first right now it's a call from all our autonomy that is we want to keep more of a money on this it's not clear from the legal point of view or constitutional point to be how it's going to happen but from the symbolic point of view it was incredible you know more i guess tonight more than sixty percent of the van and two people maybe forty five fifty percent of the lombards will have voted for that so that's really

a very clear sign in national politics. self-proclaimed capital city of rock was liberated this week but the victory wasn't without sacrifice more on that after this break.

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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 off 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 swift response. and it gets better one thing tank recently completed the mom of the 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 thirties and even groups them into categories and then dismisses them as useful idiots many people in europe and the us including politicians and their persons of influence continue to exhibit troubling naivety about artie's political agenda these useful idiots remain oblivious to r.t.c. intentions and b.c.'s legitimacy 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 saw. 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 that list of so-called

useful idiots what they think about the 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 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 voice. this week the pentagon confirmed victory for coalition led kurdish troops fighting islamic state in the syrian city of raka the defense department hailed the operation a significant breakthrough. we have a great success against what was once known as the core caliph like iraq and syria and now we're actually in the beginning i think the stone age and watching the cal fighters rocket. the latest pictures from rock our show despite the victory it's now a virtual ghost town the destruction you can see here was caused by a combination of eisel militia shelling and coalition air strikes aid agencies also say a huge effort will be needed to end the city's humanitarian crisis eisel claimed rock car as its defacto capital in twenty fourteen the first major offensive against the

terrorists there began two years later used to be one of syria's largest cities it's now mainly in ruins. recently called nation after us is well ready to demolish the whole building to target one member of 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 rakhal was destroyed by a coalition aircraft only ten percent hit their targets the rest hit civilians.

the un 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. the scariest i get it. would be humanitarian relief teams are only now beginning to arrive there has been a destruction in the larger supply there is a political mission 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 a severe lack of lot of course and so there is a massive massive humanitarian need on the ground. members of the u.s.

led coalition have already pledged millions in humanitarian help to iraq are but this is prompted questions from russia's defense ministry which has provided aid to other liberated syrian cities what is this rush of western countries to finance rucka alone big storm seems only one thing remains to quickly cover the tricks of the barbaric bombing of the u.s. and the coalition which buried thousands of civilians liberated from still in the ruins of records. the french parliament has adopted a controversial counter-terror bill giving increased powers to security services the new law is drawing wide scale criticism from rights advocates who fear that it will curb civil liberties police will now have even greater powers to search homes without a warrant and to conduct stop and search operations on the streets or also lets all thought is wiretap communications more including phones and emails places of worship suspected of promoting extremism may also be temporarily shut down the

architect of the law is president macron himself and he says that this is an alternative to the current state of emergency which has already been extended six times. you did what office on a secure the enter terror draft law on the reinforcement of internal security has been adopted by a parliamentary majority and it will come into power in november of the first when the state of emergency expires the state of emergency was a fact 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 from the state of emergencies due to be lifted at the beginning of next month it was first issued following the terrorist attacks in paris in two thousand and fifteen that many fear the new move encroaches on even more basic freedoms we gauge 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 it when you look for something they 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 freedoms now i believe it is designed more to control the people normally the more your point i think we already have the means to control people there are already laws in place we know we are under control and i phones are being monitored if they were now also be able to get into our apartments i don't believe the goal is fighting terror earlier the u.n. also slammed the anti terror bill it warned the measures if implemented would limit freedoms in french society political analyst anglaise but warns the new law won't work if france doesn't change its policies. and deal with the root causes which is the brutal foreign policy on the one hand and then the alienation of entire

communities 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 decides to lash out unfortunately if you're never going to be able to keep your population one hundred percent safe because your whole farm policy is about setting fire to two other countries ok that is all from me for the see if you think staying with this international my colleague sean thomas will be here to bring you right up to date with. the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money quote we're good friends throw down a lot of boys that's how it is in the new culture in this country now that's where i come in. i don't argue america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded

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i'm interested always in the waters in the house. first city. yes see her. world according. to everyone we're back with more from our road trip to aspen this month we took the world according to jesse to the streets of colorado where we spoke to the people and learned about the most important issues in the state today two gubernatorial candidates get advice from jesse on what it takes to be a good leader but first the governor joins me from minnesota a sit down the show starts narrow. the war. americans are sick of the

status quo when it comes to government now a new gallup poll finds that sixty one percent of americans believe the two major parties are inadequate and that the united states should have a third major political party jesse you ran for governor and won as an independent but of course it's really hard for third parties to gain support now many people don't know this about you but prior to becoming the governor of minnesota you were also the mayor of brooklyn park how did you get in politics. well brooklyn part is this it was the sixth largest city it's of north ring suburb of minneapolis and how i got into politics bruges was really an accident i didn't have any desire really to be to get into politics or be an elected official but it started for me and i lived in an old neighborhood along the mississippi river very developed that had a few undeveloped lots while a developer came.