for a party america is a. parent better than. the see. heard of. jack tonight president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. rival protests over the future of catalonia as the spanish region is left in limbo by madrid's decision to impose direct rule. r.t. gains exclusive access to the syrian town of freed from islamic state by government forces. and the document released under the freedom of information act reveals the pentagon a simulated a middle east style war game invasion of west africa. a

good evening to you my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international. and we start we have yet more protests in spain they follow decision to impose direct rule on catalonia in the wake of the region's independence vote the senate is expected to approve the sacking of the region's leadership on friday while the catalan parliament won't be dissolved it will be stripped of its power to elect a president medina cochon of a report 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 cashless but part of spain. probably independence leaders sounded better this in the beginning than the tone change just. look at the people of get lonia won the right to become an independent state but. him we propose that parliament suspends the proclamation of

a dependants. we critically deciding the future of a nation is not a crime so here is what we have the region is stuck in limbo while the cattle our government has been and for weeks imagery took an unprecedented step and asked the national senate to depose that we. call attentions now that cattle and presidents called it the 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 crossed all boundaries by announcing and in fact a coup d'etat to oust a democratically elected government if this is a complete drive there is a clue to fall is the one that have been you know followed by. mr bush and his government. we're now applying 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 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 the very messy way so i'm not surprised by what's happening is that 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 by my treats and if it does council will remain in time and.

at least till the next reason elections to take place within the next six months i do the question are. barcelona. meanwhile spain's foreign minister has sparked anger for saying videos of police cracking down on catalan voters were misleading i'm not saying that all are fake beatrice but some of them are and you know there has been a lot of alternative facts and news here i number of videos of police using excessive force appeared on social media on the actual day of the referendum and the cases of violence were also caught on camera by our own crew so long with witness testimony. we're just helping the people because they were throwing them from up. the stairs and throwing them down or putting them probably here and taking them on what is on the floor and there is

a guy that jumps on the person that's down and while a small region in the pyrenees mountains the arran valley says if catalonia breaks away from spain it will break away from catalonia and it has the right to do it thanks to a law passed in two thousand and fifteen. when they live their lives for their own 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 i will show that it's 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 did you know people are really afraid especially for the economy they come out 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. well in the wake of catalonia as referendum two major italian regions overwhelmingly voted for greater autonomy on sunday is what the leaders of . veneto are hoping for so. 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 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. the two votes are the first of their kind in italy they are nonbinding however the regions may now seek greater economic independence some locals are unhappy at having to

subsidize poorer parts of the country the regions that two of italy's economic powerhouses accounting for almost a third of the country's entire g.d.p. they're home to several tourism and industry hotspots they include notably milan and venice and university of milan politics professor marco by society believes that the map of europe will change dramatically in the near future. i think we witness in 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 states. that we know if catalonia. and spain break apart then a lot of things will happen there that will have a definitely a domino effect with scotland and all sorts of other regions there might be easily thirty five to forty five new countries coming up the. u.s.

backed forces in syria have liberated the country's most lucrative oil fields from modern day resort province was captured by the terrorists in twenty fourteen this site produced at the nine thousand barrels a day and it became a key moneymaker for the terrorist group the syrian democratic forces have been fighting terrorists mainly on the eastern side of the euphrates river while government troops backed by russian air support are on a separate anti isaw mission these exclusive pictures from the town they recently liberated my idea the operation began on the west bank of the river government troops are now clearing up pockets of terrorist resistance on the east side of the arabic spoke with residents about life and i saw. 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 do they collect women in the living where there are 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. the militants died the second married his woman. that was. to mountains drove also jurors from to syrian arab 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 the prayer they beat us we deal with intercourse to the police station once i was standing in a parking watching the children playing city caught me in which me for eight times . in neighboring iraq the standoff between kurds and iraqi authorities has

continued after baghdad took control of the oil rich province of cork the province is in the area known as iraqi kurdistan and was governed mainly by kurds according to various estimates up to one hundred seventy thousand civilians have been forced to flee the conflict in the arabic visited they could cook hospital treating those injured in fighting. we were there is part of the forces they had to retreat and i was wounded with a burst of fire from the machine gun on the forces of the iraqi military talk we hear where they carried out surgery remove bullets from me. and. i was wounded and i was brought here by fighters of the iraqi militia.

when i know. you're killing me how does targets define well the push mugger type everyone always came down or no kids they destroyed us we were mine people in one house one person doing. lottie continues its campaign to bring russian speaking children back home from iraq their parents have gone missing or have been killed fighting for islamic state is the story of one boy so i who is about be bringing a night in with his family. was that it. just . kind of. was. your mother you know scuzzy. i just.

told how she was. was i i just was on there with mr sulu and what's what's just cut in the. media or what the queen with. these ministers. you know was going to do. you really move. quickly tom good to see. you not you sure sure this.

now reports obtained by the media under the freedom of information that shows america's been simulating an invasion of west africa following an imaginary terrorist attack in new york all these police 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 sent you springs to mind it is all pretty reminiscent of the us is 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 the. already one and a half thousand u.s. troops in africa already is this all a forty m. slip about where the pentagon thinks the war on terror is going to shift to next and doesn't share the pentagon's stark realism about the way that u.s. military conflicts tend to pan out. you know burke from the trans national foundation for peace and future research says it isn't easy for washington to change its approach to conflicts where this is a war game illustration is the only answer the american we're going we'll cerium political people out is good for tat violence against violence and this is our ending we're never going to have

a 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 if you're really strong in the only let's say don't mention of power that you have and how much all 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 you ending up smashing one country after the other going to getting hate it thanks staying with us say are they saving our team to national plenty more news to come your way after this break.

here's what people have been saying about redacted and they. pull on ourselves the only show i go out of my way to talk to you know what it is they're really packing the pipe leak yeah because the john oliver of our three america is doing the same. we are verily better than. see anybody ever heard of redacted and i. wrote the world. very. seriously. i. will come back at least five soldiers have been killed in

a shootout in a military compound in russia ok let's get information now from marty's nicaea and he joins me in the studio and i know nic you this story has only just broken so i imagine probably the facts are a bit thin on the ground at this point but what do we know well and official a statement from the national guard's press service we understand that a first lieutenant of the russian national guard basically wounded four of his fellow officers adding that the incident took place at around four pm local time today now we understand that the shooter was subsequently shot by the response team this occurred at the russian national guard unit in the chechen republic the national guard is the internal military force of the government of russia as you said details are still emerging as to what might have led the lieutenant to turn his gun on his fellow servicemen a special response team along with psychologists are working at the site and a special commission has also been set up to try to get to the bottom of why this

tragedy occurred today it's not the sort of story we're used to hearing when it comes to a shooting it actually been an internal one within the military have the been into dense like this in the past well it's not the first one we've heard of in late september last year a similar incident took place in russia's far east when a dog a stun borne soldier opened fire on three of his fellow servicemen with an automatic rifle now he attempted to flee the scene and was later shot dead by the by a counterterrorism unit and following that incident the defense ministry said that what may have led to this soldier to. turn his gun on his fellow servicemen was that perhaps a nervous breakdown. ok well given some idea of what happened i'm sure more information will come from many thanks. now in other news israeli police have arrested a palestinian man for a post that he made on facebook harlow and holloway posted a picture of himself at work wishing good morning to his friends facebook

incorrectly translated the post as attacked them and the police got involved he was released shortly afterwards when they realized that there'd been a misunderstanding gideon levy a journalist for her ex newspaper says that the actions were illegal it has nothing to do not only with more realty but also always. legal to legal it's looked only in more of it was illegal we just have to mention that he was relieved of the few hours saw the scene didn't develop too far but it is a baby laugh and it's just an indication to the it's you know are the palestinians without any respect to none of their basic rights. this isn't the first time that a palestinian has been in trouble with the law or over remarks made on line when activist was arrested after he wrote a facebook post mocking anti israel arsonists with the hash tag sarcasm in it the

police released him after admitting they hadn't understood the sarcasm of the cases that are less click but the nineteen year old was charged with inciting violence for posts praising the palestinian uprising against israel and a palestinian poet has been under house arrest since twenty fifteen for sharing a video of her reading a poem called resist my people resist them she still awaiting a verdict which could land her in prison for up to eight years and he's levy once again he says that palestinians are often targeted for their political activity. as . she went through all this only for poor i'm sure old quite a innocent boy may can tell you and even if it's not an innocent boy i mean poor me is only a poor there are hundreds of palestinians why what we call what israel is calling it with the strength of the tension which is being arrested the result a trial which doesn't exist in

a democracy hundreds of them including some members of parliament part of the only because of the political activity so there are political prisoners that's the dark side of the occupation. we don't need you strong trumps dismissive message to the e.u. leaders on iran in a fox news interview the us president also joked europe should just keep 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. i really like those people i tell them just keep making money don't worry about it we don't need you on this he just keep making money. 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 said that they're concerned about the possible implications and reminded the president the deal was implemented by all sides not just the

united states president of the united states as many posts not this one 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 we cannot afford as international community as europe for sure to dismantle and nuclear agreement that is working and delivering especially now this is a difficult and in our view dangerous signal the agreement with iran has shown for the first time that it's possible to prevent world through negotiations or the destruction of this agreement would mean that others around the world could no longer rely on such treaties it's therefore a danger that goes far beyond iran. two weeks ago donald trump said he wanted his country out of the nuclear agreement and announced that he would decertify it congress now has two months in which to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on iran as well as come up with new legislation little analyst shabbir razvi told us

there are other considerations for trump ahead of tehran. mr trump really you can say whatever he likes but i think the reality is that europeans perhaps maybe nod their head 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 say that we no longer want

to be part of it so it doesn't create diplomatic relations it doesn't create goodwill on the part of other nations to negotiate with america or other european nations. ok thanks staying with us here on out international don't forget we have plenty more stories available for you check them out our website. all.

the google. politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure . more some want to. let you go on to be for us to see what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first sit. here in southern russia in sultry attending the ball by discussion club and our topic is u.s. russia relations and the state of the world.

hello welcome to. a migrant influx and europe is causing a major political shift as more voters to their right to their frustrations is the political realignment here to stay and what will it mean for the well i ask the former chancellor of austria and a member of that discussion club. with the rise of the right shaking up european politics the divisions between members coming to the forefront fuel but you cannot make disparities and the migrant crisis. of multi-speed integration the division process in its tracks will reforms floated at the highest level. leader's speech is

under the law and will major change a cold break the european project. that's really great to have you on our program today welcome thank you so we're going to talk about what's going on in europe right now. do you think europe is at risk of being split into a core center and a perjury because you know i hear french president saying that actually needs different speech for those who want to move forward and for those who want to stay behind i would be much more concerned maybe two years ago but now all of the european countries are growing spain portugal ireland out or for the monitoring mechanism of the e.u. same european stability mechanism only greece is still. complex but i'm sure in spring time greece results will come out of these problems and greece economies always will the situation economically is now much better what we see

today is a political challenge to the decision of the british electorate one year ago to vote with a slight majority in favor of so. leaving the european union this is something which concerns us and this is of course something which will be an enormous problem for the brits themselves producer for europe but do you support the idea of two speed europe to support what michael owen is proposing right now that those who want to move faster should move faster and have different type of economic zone and then those who want to stay where they are you know then stay in a different kind of this is the present situation of the treaties that you came for more cooperation or you can be a normal member and i'm sure that in some areas there will be much more engagement for instance when you need to produce e.u. or indeed you do.