more rival protests over the future of council only as the spanish region is left in limbo by madrid's decision to impose direct rule. we gain exclusive access to the new liberated syrian town of mine had been recently freed from islamic state by the syrian army. and the czech republic is said to be governed by its own donald trump after euro skeptic media mogul billionaire wins the country's parliamentary elections.

thank you for watching the headlines he went on to international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate. we start in spain where there have been more protests across the country east following madrid's decision to impose direct rule in catalonia the weight of the region's independence vote while the senate is expected to approve the sacking of the region's leadership on friday and while the council on parliament would be dissolved it will now be stripped of its capacity to elect a president artie's within a question of a report from barcelona. walk alone or staying together in the catalan people had a chance to respond we saw those fully supporting independence and also those who want to be confluence but part of spain. was pro independence leaders sounded better in the beginning than the tone change.

the people of won the right to become an independent state. we propose that parliament suspends the proclamation of a dependence we practically deciding the future of a nation is not a crime so here is what we have the region is stuck in limbo while the catalyst government has been and for weeks three took an unprecedented step and asked the national senate to depose that we are told. now that cattle and presidents called at their worst attack since franco's dictatorship if you reward over a with both attackers sanda founders using similar arguments on each other. in a greatly irresponsible act crossed all boundaries by announcing and in fact a coup d'etat to oust a democratically elected government if this is a coup d'etat if there is a coup thoughtful is the one that have been you know followed by. mr bush

and his government. were now applying article one five five because no government a tool in a democratic country can accept that the law will be ignored or violated or changed . the spanish government illegally proclaimed itself the representative of the catalans kaplan a story to still think they could win local media sakya late that the president could even officially proclaim independence this week but it seems ordinary catalans are the ones on the losing site. independence was declared in a very messy way so i'm not surprised by what's happening. we're a bit lost it's the first time we found ourselves in such a situation there are people here doing them straight week after week and they don't talk about that they only talk about some people that is doing other demonstrations but not you know how the cuts and the majority of the spanish senate still has to approve the measure is presented by my treat and if it does cancel

lynell will remain a time in this in the moment at least till the next reason elections to take place within the next six months i mean the question r.t. barcelona. for me was spain's foreign minister has caused outrage after suggesting some of the videos of the police crackdown on voters were misleading i'm not saying that all are fake beatrice but some of them are. you know there has been a lot of alternative and fake news here. videos of police using excessive force appeared on social media on the day of the referendum many cases of violence were also caught on camera by our own crews aswell witness testimonies. were just helping the people because they were throwing them from all. the steers and throwing them down upon the public here and kicking

them so what is on the floor and there is a guy that jumps on the person that's down. meanwhile there is at least one place in catalonia that doesn't want to leave spain the arran valley a small region in the parity and mountains claims that if catalonia breaks away from spain they will break away from catalonia and it has a right to do it thanks to a law that was passed in twenty fifteen. that they are on valley is a unique territory within catalonia it is self-governing has its own institutions its own language and its own history in culture only nineteen percent of those who vote in the referendum in favor of catalan independence that it was. our right to self-determination was unanimously approved by the cattle and parliament and by the spanish state we could become a part of france or china tomorrow for instance if we chose to do so but we won't do it we want to remain a part of catalonia and spain you know people are really afraid especially for the

economy becoming mayor of their run valleys very french general because it is entirely dependent on tourism therefore anything that we can see it makes people really afraid. of following catalonia as referendum two major italian regions overwhelmingly voted for greater autonomy on sunday here's what the leaders of long body and the beneteau say they're hoping for so. we want to overcome the inability of europe just 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 where not 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 and compatible in line with the constitution. well the

two votes are the first of a kind in this hilly they are non-binding meaning they won't result in a transfer of power us however the two regions may now request greater economic independence from rome because some locals are unhappy at having to subsidize poorer parts of the country well under so long but they are two of it's nice economic powerhouses accounting for almost a third of italy's g.d.p. that home to several to resume and industry hotspots including milan and venice and lock up a saudi who's a politics professor at the university of milan believes the map of europe will change dramatically in the near future. we witness and really the disintegration of this kind of european order and there will be a confederation in europe clearly like ten or fifteen years from now but not based on the nation day that that we know if catalonia and and spain break apart then a lot of things will happen that that will have

a definitely a domino effect with vanity so scotland and all sorts of other regions there might be easily thirty five to forty five new countries coming up. u.s. backed forces in syria have liberated the country's most lucrative oil fields from i still. like aged in the province of dare is or was captured by the terrorists in twenty fourteen the oil fields produces up to nine silos and barrels a day and it became a key moneymaker for the terror group or the syrian democratic forces have been fighting terrorists mainly on the eastern side of the euphrates river while syrian government troops backed by russian air support are on a separate anti iso mission they began their operation on the west bank of the river and are now also clearing up pockets of terrorist resistance in the east the syrian army has now almost liberated the provincial capital these exclusive

pictures are from the recently recaptured town of my dean assy arabic spoke with local residents about life under i still. i still militants declared jihad a bit more than a month ago this was a general mobilization and everyone had to participate the established age of those subject to mobilization is from twenty to thirty years did they take all the young people know because many of them escaped the militants confiscated all state property for example i am a civil servant so they took my house and turned it into a living room or headquarters the living room was used to gather women why did they collect women in the living where their hostages where did they come from they were brought from everywhere they were kidnapped i mean what i say the militants marry them when one of the militants died the second married his woman. that would go to mountains drove also jurors from desir an army into cages and put them into the water put into the water to drown they were lowered into the water to militants

for sister attention read classes and go to a mosque when they found someone's empty place during prayer they beat us we did with into custody a police station once i was standing in harken watching the children playing city caught me in which me eight times. meanwhile the long battle for the syrian city of raka has now come to an end but as left behind wide scale destruction president trump called the liberation a critical breakthrough and said the campaign against eisel will soon enter a new phase of war this artie's joint. i then a q so what has been the response to this idea of a new phase well the liberation of iraq is indeed a critical breakthrough in the fight against islamic state it brings an end to the four month long siege of raka which is acted as a defacto capital and headquarters of islamic state in syria but while i still have suffered a major blow the ordeal for the city and the people of that city is far from over

human rights groups estimate that all out almost all of the city's residents have been forced to flee the fighting while thousands of innocent civilians have been killed in coalition bombings we're talking about a city that which has been almost completely leveled does believe that around eighty percent of the city now lies in ruins but there was little mention of this from the u.s. president donald trump here on saturday boasted that the u.s. military forces had done more under his administration in the past few months than it had under his predecessor barack obama in a year is he also curiously mentioned what the next phase of the u.s. operation in syria would be speaking of quote a political transition that honors the will of the syrian people and these are comments which came as a bit of a surprise given that it's news to the russians thought the u.s. has cooperated any decision with the russian side and perhaps even a bigger surprise to the syrian government itself so earlier today the russian

foreign minister sergey lavrov was of course asked for a response to these comments here's what he said. when we hear about the new u.s. line in syria which is stand which is local councils on sovereign syrian territories this raises concerns we put this question to washington and expect to receive an honest and clear answer. now while these recent victories are indeed a very important milestone in the fight against islamic state in syria these latest developments show that there is still a very distinct lack of clarity over what the u.s. the u.s. ultimate goal in syria really is. we wait to see what that is nicky aaron thank you very much. we while in neighboring iraq r.t. is continuing to run a campaign to bring russian speaking children back home their parents of god missing or have been killed fighting for islamic state one boy as i read is about

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speaking that was going to do. you will move. here you're going to see in. complete top of the what car. you want off you surely surely this was. a billionaire populist up to the czech republic's donald trump is on course to become the country's next prime minister the party of. the podium entry elections by love slide over the weekend. explains where the comparisons can be drawn with america's president. i bet most of you have never been bothered by the heartbeat of political life in prague the time has come i'll tell you why it's worth checking

out how the czech republic voted for its next parliament meet the man set to become the country's new leader representing the winners a n o anti immigrant anti-establishment bobbish. i'm ready to four point for our interests in brussels and didn't feel interest there because we have to fight for ourselves progs interests first brussels interest second understood dammit does he have any relatives with the last dame trump even if not mr bob as well deserves check donald trump title given by the media despite already being part of the system as finance minister for a while no way this guy has kept up the image of being beyond the system i was working for two years twenty hours a day before the election i met thirty thousand people i don't need to fill my ego my ego is really full mr bobbish and his billions make him the second richest man

in this country journalists call him a media mogul but his business toys vary from farms to chemical plants no golf courses though is younger than trump he's got time to catch up oh wait he's focused on the new job with confidence from the state like a business we went home and unlike politicians have to understand i've been a businessman but i have good common sense in that business and i've told you andrei bobbish is not a fan of migrants or the way brussels deals with them for now there is no place for migrants in europe we will soon begin the construction of a great great wall along our southern border and be led and it is obvious there is no check donald trump without rumors of him being a kremlin favorite mr bobbish has been trying to throw that off he even wrote an open letter to the washington post maybe thanks to it we won't hear the media go on

about russia helping their man when the check polls maybe. political analyst adam gary says the new check leader appears like trump but has more political experience in some ways and certainly in the superficial ways he takes those boxes he's a billionaire he's been subject to control the sea revels in blunt statements in other ways he's very odd like donald trump he's got many more years of big spirit in government then trump will be it not in a leadership position he is someone who is officially part of the establishment key thing with this election is to realize that all of the policies that really won the top spots with the exception of the party that came in second the the conservatives the center right party everyone is really on of the new policies that so what this election represents is very much trumped like in the sense that it's

a rejection of everything old and an embrace of many things new. coming up after the break we hear about the new war game which sees the u.s. preparing to inside africa. with nor make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. the final. be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sit. really. really really well. but what is gaining any more that you say are breaking but the fact that they are

damaging both sides it's it's the reality. damaging the russian economy and the russian financial system and i know a lot of people who are looking for a creative ways to get a better result. welcome back reports obtained under the freedom of information that shows america's been simulating an invasion of west africa according to the intercepts news website this would come often imaginary terrorist attack in new york for this let's cross live now to the point. by the poly will the u.s. base in the drums of war offer deadly terror talk sounds

a bit. yeah well this all star. arts' this fictional war game with a devastating terrorist attack in may twenty twenty three and just like with nine eleven well it would be the worst attack actually since nine eleven terrorists detonate truck bombs that the sight of the lincoln tunnel and just like nine eleven led to the war on terror in the middle east this leads to a war on terror but this time in africa because the group responsible for this fictional attack in new york is al qaida in africa so in june twenty twenty three just a couple of months after this sort of hideous fictional attack in new york city the u.s. and the start of operation desert strike which for many people will sound very familiar just like the name of the gulf war was operation desert storm and it sees u.s. and canadian ground forces arran see powell descending upon mauritania the

fictional president of the us then promises that it will be a well planned rapid and efficient operation that would conclude in just a three is time but lo and behold two years down the line and by the pentagon's own simulated war game violence in mauritania and also in mali where this war is now spread to as well has increased by ninety percent the civilian population that is suffering that's despite the presence of a seventy thousand u.s. troops in the region so things according to this planned well to this simulated war game things have gone from bad to worse and when it comes to the end of this stated three year window that's been allowed for this conflict the war game throws another painfully familiar spanner into the works on march the eighth

twenty twenty six a fictional general sense. a fictional communique saying that this general recommends delaying pulling out the troops for a minimum of twelve months in fact the general recommends sending more troops to the region and he says that the mission is at risk of failing if that doesn't happen so the word quagmire every does spring to mind and just like with the u.s. is real forays abroad this this does all sound painfully familiar take a look at the sequence of events that's taken place for example in afghanistan in recent is. on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime and afghanistan commander in chief i have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional thirty thousand u.s.

troops to afghanistan starting next month we will be able to remove ten thousand of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year is it going to require additional u.s. troops who believe it will involve additional forces i'm also sending general mcmaster to afghanistan to find out how we can make progress alongside our afghan partners this is a room game that it's meant to help prime the. military generals of the u.s. this is being it was being simulated in all the elite military universities and is interesting that this all takes place on the african continent bear in mind there are already one and a half thousand troops u.s. troops in africa right now is this all of them slip about where the pentagon thinks the war on terror is going to go next and what sort of kind of information does this simulated fictional wargame give us does it show

a striking new city from the pentagon about how u.s. military interventions tend to pan out all of the generals of the future being trained to avoid this sort of situation happening again or are they being groomed to be ready for it or is it a little bit of both. well indeed some deja vu and some deja viewing there as well polly we're going on to thank you very much. well you may think it is only the all saudis that can collect your personal data and kampar terrorist watch lists the case of one journalist highlights there are other entities doing this sometimes causing big problems for everyday people now imagine that suddenly your bank account is closed and you cannot pay your bills and then it's also the mystery not knowing why or what's wrong with me why why are they closing down my account and not only my personal accounts my family accounts and my business accounts all of

them were closed all the activists you just saw there as i am tamimi was mistakenly designated as a terrorist by the database will check run by reuters it's a subscription only service providing various files on individuals the database is popular with banks as well as the u.k. police to me he told us he was shocked when he learned that he had been placed on a list of terrorists or both rather distressed because this is not even the united nations it's not our government and living and their democracy like britain you don't expect something like this to happen if you are not a criminal and if there is nothing against you legally then this should not be you should you should not be proscribed you should not be alienated or excluded and the united essential services. well off to the issue gained publicist a voice has apologized to me me and compensated him for his expenses however this isn't an isolated case the company also had to issue an apology for

a similar mistake involving u.k. based radio presenter now us. a lot about who the latest headlines in just over half an hour me wall from oracle all the stories.

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