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this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. we start with yet more protests in spain they follow madrid decision to impose direct rule on catalonia in the wake of the region's independence fight the senate is expected to approve the sacking of the region's leadership on friday and while the council on parliament won't be dissolved it will be stripped of its power to elect a president but he the question of are reports from barcelona. walk alone or stay together at the kaplan people had a chance to respond we saw those fully supporting independence and also those who want to be confluence but part of space. probably independence leaders sounded better this in the beginning than the tone changed. the people of get lonia won the right to become an independent state.

of we propose that parliament suspends the proclamation of a dependants. they were critically deciding the future of a nation not a crime so here is what we have the region is stuck in limbo while the cattle government has been and for weeks and the jury 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 and the founders using similar arguments on each other. in a greatly irresponsible act christ all boundaries by announcing and in fact a coup d'etat to oust a democratically elected government if this is a complete dr there is a clue to fall is the one that have been you know followed by. mr bush with

his government. with no applying or 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 us or it is still think they could win local media speculation 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 is the first time we found ourselves in such a situation there are people here doing demonstrations week after week and they don't talk about the only talk about some people that is doing other demonstrations but not the cut to the majority of the spanish senate still house to approve the measure is presented to him

a treat and if it does council will remain in time and. at least till the next treason elections to take place within the next six months by the question are. barcelona. on me while spain's foreign minister has sparked anger for saying videos of police cracking down on tattle 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 facts and fake news here. well a number of videos of police using excessive force appears on social media on the day of the referendum many cases of violence were also caught on camera by our own crews along with witness testimonies. were just helping the people because they were throwing them come up. the stairs and so in that down upon the public here and

taking them so what is on the floor and there is a guy that jumps on the person that's down meanwhile a small region in the pyrenees mountains the valleys says if catalonia breaks away from spain it will break away from catalonia and it has the right to do so thanks to a law passed in twenty fifty one and the like. 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 and culture only nineteen percent of those who voted in the referendum in favor of catalan independence that i will show that 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. people are really afraid especially for the economy

the economy of their run valley is very french general because it is entirely dependent on tourism therefore any sense that we can see it makes people really afraid. well in the wake of catalonia as referendum in two major italian regions overwhelmingly voted for greater autonomy on sunday and here's what the leaders of long body and photo hoping for. we want to overcome the inability of europe to solve problems and face up to them by offering a new dimension we want to more united stronger europe one that takes into account the specifics of territories this is what can be simply called the europe of regions were 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 man of the democratic. and compatible in line with the constitution. well the two votes are the first of their kind in italy they are non-binding however the

regions may now seek greater economic independence some locals are unhappy at having to subsidise poorer parts of the country while the regions are two of italy's economic powerhouses accounting for almost a third of the country's entire g.d.p. and they are home to several tourism industry hotspots including milan unfairness and university of milan politics professor marco but sunny believes the map of europe will change dramatically in the near future. we really 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 states. that we know if catalonia. and this break apart then the lot of things will happen that that will have a definitely a domino effect with vanity 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 field from i still. there as all province was captured by the terrorists in twenty fourteen of the site produces up to nine thousand barrels a day became a key moneymaker for the terror group the syrian democratic forces have been fighting terrorists mainly on the eastern side of the euphrates river meanwhile government troops backed by russian and support are are on a separate anti iso mission these exclusive pictures are from the town they recently liberated my indeed the operation began on the west bank of the river and government troops are now clearing up pockets of terrorist resistance on the east side the aussie arabic spoke with residents about what life is like and i still. i saw militants declared jihad a bit more than a month ago this was

a general mobilization and everyone had to participate in the established age of those subject to mobilization as from twenty to thirty years did they take all the young pino 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 where headquarters the living room was used to gather women why did they collect women in the living who were there 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 milton's 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 intercourse to the police station once i was standing in

a park and watching the children playing city caught me in which me eight times and these are the latest pictures from the syrian city of rocco where the u.s. led coalition's long fight is now over but the battle has left wide scale destruction president trump branded the liberation a critical breakthrough adding the campaign against was set and a new phase in the kara. the liberation of iraq is indeed a critical breakthrough in the fight against islamic state in syria it brings an end to the four month long siege of the city which is actually his the defacto capital and headquarters of islamic state in the country but the liberation of the city has come at an immense civilian cost human rights groups estimate that almost all of the city's residents have been forced to flee the city due to the fighting it's also said that thousands of civilians have been killed in coalition bombings this comes as it said almost eighty percent of the city has been completely

destroyed but little mention of this from the u.s. president donald trump who instead boasted that u.s. military forces have made more progress against islamic state in the first nine months of his presidency than it had under his predecessor barack obama in the final year of his administration also most curiously is how donald trump mentioned what would be the next phase of the u.s. in syria speaking of a political transition which has come as a bit of a surprise to the russian side and of course the syrian government as well earlier today the russian foreign minister was asked for his response to these comments. when we hear about the new u.s. law in syria which establishes local councils on sovereign syrian territories this raises concerns would put this question to washington and expects to receive an honest and clear answer. the russian foreign minister also mentioned serious concerns about the role of coalition forces in iraq are during the liberation

campaign in particular cases where i saw feiss had been able to exit the city of raka without resistance and then go on to fight syrian government forces elsewhere in the country. there were numerous cases when our so far has flooded areas controlled by u.s. backed opposition forces to fight syrian government forces in particular there were cases of a mass exodus. so far is two minutes from the u.s. coalition operations to liberate the city so while the recent victories are being seen as a major milestone in the fight against the terrorist group in syria the horseman raising serious concerns about the lack of clarity on what the u.s. role and intentions are in syria. now reports obtained under the freedom of information act shows america has been simulating an invasion of west africa following an imaginary terror attack in new york artie's police boyko explains this fictional scenario begins in may twenty twenty three there's been

a devastating terror attack in new york terrorists detonate truck bombs at either end of the lincoln tunnel that they kill and injure hundreds of americans and just like nine eleven led to the war on terror in the middle east this fictional attack leads to the deployment of u.s. and canadian troops in africa they're fighting african al-qaeda militants and the president promises it'll take just three years according to this fictional script but two years into the war and things aren't going well there is a ninety percent increase in violence in mauritania and mali where the war has quietly spread to as well and that's despite the fact that there's seventy thousand u.s. and canadian troops in the region now three years later just as the troops are meant to be pulling out according to the president's timeline the war game throws another painfully familiar spanner into the works and that is a fictional general sending

a fictional communique saying that he recommends delaying pulling out the troops by one year at least in fact he recommends sending more troops to the region in order to avoid the mission failing entirely so the word quagmire essentially springs to mind it is all pretty reminiscent of the u.s. says other real. forays abroad for example in afghanistan but the whole point of this war game is to help prime the future generals of the us it was being simulated in the most elite military training academies across the us and it's interesting that the action plays out on the african continent bear in mind there are already one and a half thousand u.s. troops in africa already is this all of them slip about where the pentagon thinks the war on terror is going to shift to next and does it share the pentagon's stark

realism about the way that u.s. military conflicts tend to pan out. or intriguing stuff and discuss this further let's now bring in yemen oberg director of the trans national foundation for peace and future research yung thank you very much indeed for joining me what is an as i said in treason stuff i mean do you have any issues with the u.s. simulating a new york terror attack to invade africa. no i mean first of all this is a kind of war game and those are happening this is not the only one i mean it happens generally people are thinking about what will the future be were what is really a kind of interesting is that it ends with you know getting stuck in africa too like everywhere else will always fail to wars by the us secondly it's very interesting that the african experience has to do with the fact that libya was mashed up and that's where we have a lot of the of the new generation of new terrorism and training

a new terrorist in that part of the world so it's very indicative and revealing after sixteen years of fighting terrorism look globally the war on terror there's not one person in the united states who obviously are beginning to think have we done things wrong the last sixteen years because statistics tell you left the global terror problem cost eighty times i said luck percent but times more human lives today than they did in the year two thousand so their main creator today of terrorism is the war on terror it's not terrorists it's the war on terror that provokes that and so we're there where this war game illustration is that the only answer the american military and political people is to for tat violence against violence and this is our ending we're never going to have solve the problem of terrorism by killing terrorists it's as stupid as it would be to say we want to

eradicate all diseases by killing all patients this is this is such a low intellectual level that the world war two and the europeans and others who might be still be able to think constructively would ask the americans to think differently about this type of warfare and it's also pretty specific as well as that and how they did they describe it as well i mean do you think also it's a coincidence that you got a simulation comes as the u.s. africa africa they created that two thousand and eight they were ramping up operations across the continents and does it that's a coincidence. larry it's not a coincidence of course there are more you are globally present and the americans have a military base facility is about one hundred thirty countries of these two hundred thirty countries whatever happens there will be seen as a national threat to the us and so you know if you go somewhere and you get resistors the best would be to pull out or not go in there the best would have been

not to start the iraq war the best would have been not to destroy our libya the best would have been not to do secret operations for five six years in syria the best would have been to fort with people you know if you're really strong in the only let's say don't mention of power that you have in the and how much or problems in the world will be seen as something that will be solved by means of hammers and or the end instead of you know using other tools to ending up smashing one country after getting hate it and that is to summarize it all examples of this game two of the. it decreasing or tendency to fall of the us into power that's the unfortunate a very dangerous period we have to go through the next five to ten years not the united states and dissolution but the u.s. in power must go before it can become a better world and at that point we'll leave it yeah they're back director of the trans national foundation for peace and future research thank you very much. i have

leisure. and after the short break don't trump gives a short explanation why the e.q. isn't backing iran sanctions. what politicians do sometimes. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. let you go right to be this is what. three of the people. interested always in the water. should. make this manufacture consensus. well. when the right thing plus is protect themselves. in the final.

we can all middle of the room. welcome back donald trump claims the e.u. would have supported his call for sanctions against iran if he'd been persistent but he claims in an interview he didn't do that because he wants them to continue making money do you think you're going to get the europeans to support you in terms of sanctions in terms of not selling technology to iran obviously i told them to friends of mine they really are i get along with all of them whether it's a manual or whether it's on the i get along i really like those people i told them

just keep making money don't worry about it we don't need you on this you just keep making money. well earlier france germany and the u.k. issued a joint statement denouncing trump's decision not to recertify iran's compliance with the nuclear deal they also said they're concerned about the possible implications and reminded the president the deal was implemented by all sides not just the u.s. . it is not a bilateral agreement it does not belong to any single country and it is not up to any single country to terminate it this is a difficult and in our view dangerous signal and the agreement with iran has shown for the first time that it's possible to prevent all through negotiations of the destruction of this agreement would mean that others around the world here no longer rely on such treaties it's therefore a danger that goes far beyond iran the rules of war two weeks ago donald trump said he wanted his country house of the nuclear agreements and announced he would do

certify as the us congress now has about two months to decide whether to we impose sanctions against iran as well as come up with new legislation to try to amend the nuclear deal political analysts we spoke to thinks that there are other issues that need donald trump's attention he pays to iran mr trump really you can say whatever he likes but i think the reality is that europeans perhaps nod their heads and agree with mr trump but in reality they would continue to do business with iran because europe is not in a wonderful place at this moment economically therefore any business coming from iran is in the interest of european nations whether it's france germany u.k. spain or holland there are a whole host of internal issues that mr trump should be focusing on rather than sort of trying to come out of this particular treaty which is in the interest of

everyone and as our british minister said that for international and global security people will not accept any other agreement in future if few years later you tear the agreement away and one of the parties says that we no longer want to be part of it so it doesn't create diplomatic relations it doesn't create goodwill on the. well the nations to negotiate with america or other european nations. top russian radio has been stabbed in the neck while working in ten years freeman most k. she's now in hospital the doctors saying her condition is not life threatening though they describe it as a serious. as the days. we means to be at cold moscow is seen as an independent voice among radio stations in russia it's yes include all kind of opposition figures including some of the radical voices so this struggle

knife attack was really something that grabs so much media attention the place was packed with journalists just a short while ago and there are still great reporters on the scene events here in the office in central moscow unfolded fearing quickly the man first attacked a security gallery events here in central moscow unfolded very quickly the man first attacked the security guards downstairs with some concentrate then he went upstairs on the elevator and went through the elevator doors on my right and proceeded straight into the room where he stopped but if you go our the deputy editor in chief with his knife in the neck the surgery is now over but that yana remains in critical condition the attacker was arrested shortly after of the incident the attacker was arrested shortly after fi incident he has already been officially accused of murder attempt the radio station itself has released reputed

to be a diary that belonged to the attacker where he described things like that shall if you can get our hands on the radio station itself has the radio station itself has released what appears to be a diary of the attacker where he described how tensiometer your god was telepathically stalking him which. could prove that the police were actually right here no political motivation perhaps the man was just mentally ill despite this western media outlets have guns drawn powell well as with other crimes against journalists in russia that appear to have the power political motivation they're making lists to what they're calling a crackdown on and investigative an independent reporting in russia although many people here including the employees of the radio station itself house called on everyone to wait for the end of the investigation of more on these and plenty of

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the iraq war that killed wounded or displaced tens of millions of civilians halliburton reports results on the new york stock exchange the company referenced by the president leader of britain's labor party when alleged war criminal tony blair was in power the american led ministration. is now proposing the privatization of resources it's handing out. next to bechtel and how to burn all companies that supported george bush's election campaign well one division of the infamous halliburton company whose c.e.o. was dick cheney before he became u.s. defense secretary is called k.b.r. today's results will reflect the company's successful attempts at fighting lawsuits against u.s. soldiers over what some are comparing to u.s. chemical weapons used in vietnam this could be the next agent orange now military members can only carry so much so they'll dig holes in things like chemicals munitions human waste and food doctors don't know.