she is behind such success. in the news this morning saudi arabia allegedly ordered rebels to attack damascus early on in the syrian civil war it seems supporting them with weapons according to the latest shocking n.s.a. leak from whistleblower edward snowden we'll tell you all about it. in this half hour of news division could worsen between pro and anti independence police offices in spades catalonia if madrid goes ahead with seizing control of the rest of the region and the local police force close to the u.s. is about to release classified files into president kennedy the assassination all those years ago for a fifty year deadline lifting the lid been on one of the country's darkest episode

. of this thursday morning the twenty sixth of october money was kevin owen and thanks for tuning into this live update from r.t. international first saudi arabia originally ordered syrian opposition forces to quote light up damascus back in twenty thought thirteen is the news while providing them with tons of weapons for the assault that revelation is from unverified n.s.a. documents leaked by whistleblower edward snowden similar accounts got more. well according to an n.s.a. document leaked by edward snowden the syrian armed opposition was under the direct command of foreign governments the document reveals that the damascus attacks on march eighteenth two thousand and thirteen were directly ordered by

a saudi prince been sold on who reportedly provided provided one hundred twenty tons of explosives and other weaponry to anti assad forces under the free syrian army umbrella also giving them instructions to quote light up damascus and quote flatten the airport of the memo also says that u.s. intelligence had a prior knowledge of the attack three days before hand to be precise and not only that but the report states that the saudi government was quote very pleased with the outcome but it should also be noted that these attacks resulted in heavy clashes between the two sides let's take a look. at. the old i

know we haven't been able to independently verify these documents but if proven true the top secret intelligence memo will confirm that saudi arabia aided an armed insurgency that launched massive attacks on civilian civilian infrastructure as well as military targets for the eventual goal of regime change. this american reporting there were twenty thirteen was a critical point in the war in syria the conflict spread from local areas across the country with foreign powers beginning to support both sides and what then became a fully fledged civil and it led to mass civilian and military casualties former cia officer jack rice told us he believes the international players change the balance of power. the problem is when you start seeing proxy wars when you start seeing riyadh step into this and you see others step into this what happens is it will take one small group one schism in that entire revolution if you will and fund

it dramatically which gives them enormous power frequently over everybody else because remember in the middle of a civil war like this yes there was a turnover of some weapons from the damascus army but those are relatively small when you look at it in the big picture it's when you see outside forces come in and dump in this case i quote tons of weapons into the region it changes and it really flips everything on its head and it makes it that much worse and that's exactly what happened in this case well i can tell you we are saudi arabia to comment on these allegations and i will bring in a response we get from riyadh if they do get back to us. next new light could be shed on one of the twentieth century's darkest episodes later thursday donald trump's administration is allowing the release of classified documents into president kennedy's assassination as the fifty year congress deadline to keep the information under wraps says kennedy was killed in dallas in november one nine hundred sixty three was in an open top car at the time of the first lady will

remember those pictures when shots rang out the killer was lee harvey oswald he was swiftly arrested but was shot and killed two days later while under police escort historians of long pulled over oswald's motive for. his past it has been retracing a significant chapter in the dettori is killer's life. where might you find the most drama and lee harvey oswald's life story before the events of november nine hundred sixty three well it could be his short but eventful stay in this city four years before he is sas unaided president kennedy. most of the places which formed part of extraordinary trip still exist like the. railway station where he arrived from helsinki in finland his last stop in

a western country before reaching the u.s.s.r. . stayed right here at the hotel berlin which is now the savoy it's just a few minutes walk from. the former k.g.b. headquarters. his visa meant that he only had six days to get a soviet citizenship so he wasted no time in trying to secure his hammer and sickle passport which began with this letter i believe harvey oswald request that i be granted citizenship in the soviet union i want citizenship because i am a communist and a worker i have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves i do not want to return to any country outside of the soviet union there was interview after interview with the k.g.b.

but couldn't convince officials he should be allowed that passport then back inside hotel berlin his russian guide in reality a supervisor that is assigned to every foreign visitor. inside the bag. inside one of these rooms he slashed. wrist attempting to commit suicide doctors managed to save oswald's life he was allowed to stay and wait for mercy from a higher soviet authority with this confidence boost to the extreme asked american diplomats to revoke his citizenship then he agreed to an interview with one u.s. journalist i would say he was extremely superficial. very immature. and very misinformed and. it took the former u.s. marine an enormous effort more than two months to get

a soviet passport only for one year the day after he got hold of the document he set off for minsk and bell reuss the capital of one of the u.s.s.r. small republics to work out a soviet factory he boarded his train ride on this station and minsk oswald met his first soviet lover but she turned down his marriage proposal because she was afraid to marry an american and just two months later he met a nineteen year old marine a person his future wife and mother of his first child yet with a drab job and nothing to do outside of work according to oswald himself he would soon make the decision to leave the u.s.s.r. for good along with his family. after what seemed to be disillusionment with the u.s.s.r. there was only one way home for the last waltz and that was through the american embassy. ilya patrol. tracing the footsteps of lee

harvey oswald and moscow. spanish leaders are about to start two days of deliberations on know whether or not to seized control of the catalonia region there's been a state of flux the since the controversial independence referendum on top of the first parliament threatening to push ahead with six. session and madrid's been piling on political pressure of a sense whatever happens the choice is proving this divisive catalonians local police force in charlotte do bensky explains was the we were i was i was when the national guard deployed well i mean we see that same lady friends down the road running the bases the local police the most o.c. squads right she's a force now is the spanish senate is set to was fifty five suspending the breach

was isabel summoned a retreat was they say it's the worst was that we see the implementation of article one five five as the least desired scenario we call for all opportunities for dialogue to be used prior to the adoption of this article but if old simply it turns out to be impossible because of political failures clashes within the institutions and overall crisis we ask for this article to be adopted at least with the catalonian autonomy its institutions and especially the police taken into account. one of the symbols of catalyzing nation needs most especially it's going back to the eighteenth century the seventeen thousand strong force is considered to have a big influence here with the population of seven point five million people in catalonia now the council and police are undergoing their own test of independence

despite statements to the trilogy this seems to be a divide within the ranks do you most offices have told the media on conditions of anonymity that there is at both pro and anti independent sentiments with the catalog police. at the moment castle in society is deeply divided and that's a fact that would be hypocritical to deny the same division can be seen inside the police but first of all we want to say that we remain calm of course we will continue to do our everyday work no matter what happens and we want to cast one place to stay as the police for all catalans when we dread to take so most of us will face a tough choice between sensually government and the capital and cause now one of madrid's first moves will be most likely to remove catalan authorities the question is will most of us follow orders charlotte david's good ulti barcelona.

hillary clinton's election team in the democratic national committee reportedly helped bankroll the now infamous dossier on donald trump the document was published back in january and outlined instantiated links and deals between moscow and the trump campaign in the run up to last year's presidential election here's how the u.s. president reacted to this latest news about it all very sad what they've done with this fake was made up. i understand they paid a tremendous amount of money and hillary clinton always denied it the democrats always denied it and now all we. because it's going to come out in a court case they said yes they did it they admitted it and they were barrister by it but i think it's a disgrace it's just really it's a very sad it's a very sad commentary on politics this is donald trump and he is responding to media reports that seem to show according to sources that this dossier was paid

for by the clinton campaign and by the democratic national committee now folks will remember the infamous da ca it made unverified and rather salacious claims about donald trump is and his associates and attempted to link donald trump and his campaign to russia the dossier the dasi a bit controversial document it alleges overt no we wild unconfirmed accusations it was a bombshell furthermore it was possibly used in the f.b.i. investigation into donald trump and allegations that he colluded possibly with russia in his campaign well donald trump is coming forward and saying that this is just something invented by sour democrats disappointed that they lost the election and that they want to attack him the whole russian thing is what it's turned out to be this was the democrats coming up with an excuse for losing an election fusion

g.p.s. which is a political firm that does opposition research that first began looking for information and we all do remember that the cia was traced back to christopher steele christopher steele is a former u.k. spy if this report is true it seems to present quite a problem for the democrats because it would seem to show that the democrats had gone out of their way to solicit the work of a former u.k. spy in order to get opposition research on donald trump. the company which produces the deal so if using g.p.s. declined to testify before congress of the month or earlier this month and he clinton the campaign manager have so far not commented on the report say the we discussed it with to america host ed schultz he thinks the democrats will need to do some serious damage control here. i'm disappointed because it's a sad commentary for politics in our country and i also think it's very damaging to the process but this in boulder the president and his credibility because he has

said all along he has been a victim of fake news you can't get any more fake than this it was surrogate after a surrogate that went out on the cable shows in this country for months on end that tried to blame this on russia and accused the russians and the trump campaign colluding to deep six hillary clinton in the election i think this is horribly damaging for the democrats i think the democrats are going to have to distance themselves from hillary clinton and i think hillary clinton has to answer a lot of questions about how and why. we'll hear from the parents of an escaped trying to return back to the u.k. but his country isn't helping far from it we're told about that on the rest of the morning news up from break.

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good morning from moscow on this day fifteen years ago russian police raided the do put of kid theatre here of more scope bringing one of the country's most deadly terror attacks in its history to an end is the bucket how it all unfolded. let's look so both two thousand and musical theatre books. the performance trick. hours of sleep it's a go as to the city's subrata theater and once the venue was packed with people enjoying the critically acclaimed show. dozens of mosques stormed the building i have. within minutes hundreds of people would say can hostile to many children and elderly

people spend the next three days trapped in the concert hall the food water medicine. can find our way. of negotiations that sack is agreed to release forty one people they also allowed some journalists and saw it and stated that and then there's a russian military campaign against the islamist insurgency in chechnya thank you so. when we wish the worst the kremlin offered to let the group leave russia if they released the hostages but it soon became clear the militants had no plans of making it a lawyer. from the. national good. saturday to the hostages with. als later authorities decided to launch

a rescue operation a father caught up in the morning a chemical agent was pumped into the building's ventilation system to knock out the jihad ists come from another from that's named in the explosives. in this town no not all of it nearly fifty terrorists were killed the first hostages were then carried out the building and rushed to hospital the sea was over one hundred thirty laws were lost. fifteen years on and the theater siege is remembered as one of the worst terrorist attacks in russia's history and the title. remains synonymous with the tragedy. jihadi jack your british man who joined islamic state in syria is now looking for

a way to return home we can report r.t. spoke to his parents who say the british government's left him to rot in enemy territory since he's been out of isis territory he's been say we're now like now i can explain that to many people friends who work against isis from the inside they have to address the issue that it is immoral and illegal to leave somebody else in a hole with no trial no process no charge what he did why he did all that kind of thing with those questions he can answer but he can only answer them if there's a proper process and a proper kind of trial in questioning and that way he can address those things at the moment he's been locked in a real they've thrown away the key and he's just been left to rot judge judge real name is jack let's now twenty one years old to travel to syria to join eisel back in two thousand and fourteen after his rival jack was jailed by the terrorist but eventually managed to escape some reports later suggested that he was captured by kurdish forces in the city of rocket according to the u.k.

more than eight hundred britons have left to join islamic state to join their cause we've been debating whether the u.k. government should be doing anything to help bring back these people or not. the story put forward by his parents is so ludicrous that i actually had to check the date to make sure it wasn't a real the first the notion that this guy went to syria to infiltrate islamic spirit a kind of a modern day james bond is laughable and painful under no circumstances should this terrorist be allowed back into the u.k. i just think we need to have the rule of law this is an idea that we just because people are muslim or fighting for one side or another that we suddenly brush aside any kind of rule of law any kind of trial any kind of hearing an evidence i think that's unconscionable i think his parents are being very strong to use this issue but their hunger striking our outside some polls they're protesting out there we

need to hear what the evidence is if david is correct and jihadi jack has been in fact fighting with them then absolutely he should rot in prison he should face all kinds of summary justice the problem is we don't know i would simply say this if we believe that it's right to hunt and kill islamic terrorists in syria if we believe we've got three and a half frozen of them here in the u.k. surely on the same logic but must also prevail at the end of the day you only win a war if you defeat the enemy we should hunt each one of them dying in a matter of where they come from it doesn't matter what their fifth is but mo if they fight for islamic state but maybe a clue in the theater of war on the battlefield there are rules of engagement but outside that if we are carpet bombing and blow your soldiers i'm just going into place and killing people why because you're looters lady muslim you're hanging about with the wrong crowd the collateral damage has been horrific iranians are written to come by and using words like exterminate these are human beings they have families regardless of what side of the divide they're on at the end of the

day no idea of no confidence that our government can successfully track these individuals it's time to fight bike stop them returning it's a simple message it works. u.s. secretary of state has called on pakistan to wipe out the terror groups undermining political stability in that country too many terrorist organizations find safe place in pakistan for which to conduct their operations and attacks against other countries we have extended to pakistan shortly expectations we have of their government and their leadership to deal with in particular these organizations the leaders of these organizations just the day before rex tillerson gave that statement america's top diplomat didn't receive the warmest of welcomes in the military have put in pakistan relations between the two countries have dipped of late to washington accused islamabad of allegedly providing safe havens for taliban

militants so. the retired three star pakistani general deuteronomy to discuss the u.s. but to study relations if you watch the full interview here on our to international friday someone point within the area and pakistan this is taliban so why do you think why does it it's so hard to keep them out from pakistan why should. there not against us and there is one element there to free remains. sure the americans would leave americans call someone a terrorist and they go after them it has precise consequences for instance american drone strikes on your soil they have been targeting some people who did not like or just to give a message but. there was a stage when we decided enough is enough you've done enough of this. so we seized the plane of communication for seven months this pakistani intelligence

have enough leverage in different taliban groups in afghanistan to actually help push afghan peace talks should they ever take. we have pushed them very often but whenever you push them who does it. who was. not. as you mentioned yesterday this sort of marks one hundred years since the october revolution in russia and twentieth century politics ahead and our teams got a unique project to help you learn more about those momentous events with virtual reality videos recreating what it was really like at the birth of the soviet union .

thank. you. liane. every day will be new videos like that they're going live instead in a couple of hours and r.t. dot com slash three sixty but there are others there right now if you two came on yesterday online you can add a real time revolution cheer twitter stream to trace the events of a century ago over search and house josh tagg nine hundred seventeen live lenin's got a feed and other key figures other as well. as well breaking revolutionary news we called the russian telegraph though back in that time nine hundred seventeen lives an open project anyone can join brazilian novelists. already done it he's been

writing a timeline of the last days of the first world war spy matter harry imagining her thoughts in the months before execution it was something you think you get involved in get right and we'd love to see what you can do for us. history for buying up to date totally should keep up to date with all the latest news happening right now as well and i'm inside the next update with me since the. program so.

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