protesters gather in university square in barcelona these are live pictures as catalonia enters a pivotal forty eight hours waiting on the outcome of a spanish senate vote on its future. to come saudi arabia allegedly ordered rebels to attack damascus nearly stages of the syrian civil war supporting them with weapons that's according to the latest shocking n.s.a. leak from the whistleblower edward snowden and the u.s. will release classified files since of president kennedy's assassination and fifty year deadline passes lifting the lid on one of the country's darkest episodes.

welcome thanks for watching our say this thursday afternoon three o'clock here in the russian capital our top story this hour tensions are rising over catalonia push for independence you can see live pictures here in fact from barcelona where protesters have gathered in university square there and this is happening while we are waiting for a statement from the catalan leader that's expected any time now. we can go live to the catalan capital in charlotte. among the protests for a. lot of tension building on both sides. was. a chance that started the old days here last session.

the man who likes to make you try to explain this is ok yes it was you did you. see i knew he was pushing sixty one fifty five. he was actually thank you the next thing. you reach you explain to me getting into this thing so i work on a speech which is the leader of the catalan regional government has been meeting with his members today and he used you to keep china. there are no us. the us. actually how many must move. one is that if he does that it means sensing a trade we must be lucky to. be able to move regional autonomy over catalonia and also it could in fact election takes place potentially

strengthen the case that independence in catalonia it could also we could not arguments on the outcome of speech when you look at unity to be just going to have its own dignity you know in the middle of the street protests was. decided. by five could be voted on by the senate is going to change and this is just one example was. the our society going to new people on was told they are much too much difficult is it then. also to describe where we are stuck between. some of the deep divisions emerging within the police force. you thank you thank you my gosh. i think it was

when the national guard deployed by train to catalonia crackdown on the referendum they just the local police the most of the squad to run the fuse to use force now as the spanish said it seems set to approve article one if i fight suspending the region's economy most is about to come and get me to its control they say it's the worst possible outcome. we see the implementation of article one five five as the list desired scenario we call for all opportunities for dialogue to be used prior to their doctrine 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 catalogue nationhood most especially is going back to the eighteenth century the

seventeen thousand strong force is considered to have a big influence here called the population of seven point five million people in catalonia now the council and police are undergoing their own test of independence despite christian state and secret charity this seems to be a divide within the ranks at the moment castle and 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 the cost one place to stay as the police for all catalans. the chief of a most source has already been accused of inciting people to rebel against the state josep in the eastern apparel has become a hero for some and a traitor for others.

when madrid takes over most us will face the tough choice between central government and the cats a life force one of which is the first news to be most likely to move the council on thursdays the question is will most of us follow orders charlotte t.v. skank. auntie bosler. now saudi arabia

allegedly ordered syrian opposition forces to quote light up damascus back in twenty thirteen while providing them with tons of weapons for the assault that revelation came from the n.s.a.'s most well known whistle blowers samir a can't explain. 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. oh . 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 samir ican reporting there will twenty thirty more as 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 in what became

a fully fledged civil war and it led to massive really in a military casualties former cia officer jack rice believes that the international plays altered 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 it makes it that much worse and that's exactly what happened in this case well we have asked saudi arabia to comment on those

allegations though so far there's been no response from riyadh. and other news new light could be shed on one of the twentieth century's darkest episodes later on thursday donald trump's administration is allowing the release of classified documents into president kennedy's assassination that is the fifty year congress deadline passes to keep the information secret kennedy was killed in dallas in november of one nine hundred sixty three he was in an open top car with the first lady 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 are wrong pored over oswald's motive and his past has been retracing to a significant chapter in the notorious killers life on the other side of the atlantic. where might you find the most drama and lee harvey oswald's life story before the events of november

nineteenth sixty three well it could be his short but eventful stay in this city for years before he was 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. . also old 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 requested 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 his 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. 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 oswald and that was through the american embassy. ilya patrolling court t tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald and moscow. british filmmaker is have revived attempts to find any trace of russia or interfering in the outcome of last year's brecht referendum we can get more details now from our correspondent. is this a bit strange because what exactly could they be looking for given that this vote was well over a year ago. well andrew really nothing new here we've seen this before this anti russia hype continues and this witch hunt now spreading its wings across the u.k.

following the very brave but few trial example of this having already happened in the u.s. following unfavorable outcomes of an election result we here in london we have seen the committee the digital cultural media and sports select committee in the house of commons sent a letter to facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg asking him to provide all sorts of details when it comes to facebook ads and russia linked account accounts in connection to not just the breaths that referendum but also the last general elections in the u.k. so this is seen as part of a bigger inquiry they're conducting into fake news looking into for an actor's potentially using online platforms to interfere in the electoral process is here in the u.k. now we do know that the russian ambassador to the you can xander you can vent who has mentioned that he sees this as surprising given that to the referendum was of

course called by the previous conservative government here in the u.k. and he said it wouldn't really be clear what kind of government here is in place if russia was able to carry out all of these things now this follows just really days previously we saw a labor m.p. at the house of commons ben bradshaw say that an investigation needs to be carried out into potential interference particularly by russia in western democracies and really all of this is seen as a sort of repetition of this having been carried out on a also quite wide scale in the us of this kind of obsession of trying to figure out whether or not russia was intervening in the elections there obviously just to really know outcome but if you remember previously we saw facebook had said that russia linked accounts had bought one hundred thousand dollars worth of ads but obviously this was seen as. largely seen as very little proof of anything given the multi million dollar budgets when it comes to the election campaigns in the u.s.

and we also of course know that the c.e.o.'s of facebook google and twitter are going to be appearing in the. to testify before the senate intelligence committee in the u.k. in the u.s. on november first so really all of this despite lack of any tangible proof this is continuing and all of these allegations really continuing to stir all of this action up really showing us that the show must go on considering russia has become everyone's favorite bad boy it seems sure is ok thanks very much for the update there was a line for stay in the. well meanwhile russia's foreign ministry has been speaking about boris johnson's upcoming trip to moscow he's the u.k.'s foreign secretary an across the first is done. so well what's been said that. well the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson became the latest politician to join the chorus of

criticism a great started just last week when he publicly chastised m.p.'s in the house of commons just for daring to hear on this channel four interview let's take a listen once again to what he had to say a few days ago. if you study the output of russia today and indeed if you consider the state of the press in russia this president it is an absolute it is russia today it is a scandal it is a scandal that the members of the party opposite are continuing to to value deeds to the deeds to meet. that kind of propaganda by going on those programs not a lot of more i'm assured by my minister will do none of them do so none of the probability that mr johnson is actually due to visit moscow before the end of the year as part of a worldwide trip what the u.k. foreign ministry describes as a robust and sustained engagement that what happened at the days

a russian foreign ministry briefing where he has a heart with a spokeswoman said that made light of the situation with r.t. saying that in the press briefings the q. and a sessions that would follow that visit there what allows be a presence of journalists who may be would want to ask mr johnson a couple of questions and she had some advice as to what you could do if you wanted to avoid engaging with them this is what she had to say. first we want to warn barres johnson that there are a lot of correspondents in moscow and even if he was you can't avoid the spotlight the only way we see is some kind of cap on his ability. caper the visibility there of course cloak of invisibility with reference to russian folklore. cloak and visibility today. of course these comments are part of maries all result from. trademark humor in these press conferences but all we can know for sure is that mr

johnson visit will of course attract a lot of media interest a lot of media attention when he does come here to moscow towards the end of this year whether he does wear that cloak of invisibility or not. it was always good to see you down that was a down holcomb's for us thank you. fifteen years on russia just pay its respects to the victims of one of the country's worst terror attacks we'll have more on that after the break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around. washington washington. voters

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history to an end is a look back at how it unfolded. play took so both two thousand. production doest in moscow the performance drew crowds will see it's a go as to the city's theater on ones the venue was packed with people enjoying the critically acclaimed show. until dozens of stormed the building. within minutes hundreds of people would say can hostage to many children and elderly people spend the next three days trapped in the concert hall deprived of food water medicine. if you wanted to anyway. after hours of negotiations that sac is agreed to release forty one people they also allowed some journalists inside

and stated their demand an end to the russian military campaign against islamist insurgents in chechnya thank you so. when we wish 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 a law even. with. national. on saturday two hostages trying to flee hours later authorities decided to launch a rescue operation a father caught in the morning a chemical agent was pumped into the building's ventilation system to knock out the jihad ists and prevent them from detonating the explosives.

in the standoff that followed 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 nor doest remain synonymous with the tragedy. well today the victims are being remembered outside the theater in the russian capital white balloons were released as a tribute to every person killed in the attack. this autumn marks one hundred years since the october revolution in russia turned twenty twentieth century politics on its head and r.t. got a unique project to help you learn more about those momentous events to with virtual

reality videos recreating what it was really like at the birth of the soviet union . thank. you. all those new videos to go live in a few hours time at r.t. dot com three sixty well worth a look but there are others there right now fusion joy to you and you can add a real time revolution to your twitter stream also with the hash tag nineteen seventeen live lenin's got a feed there and other key think is there as well an r.t.

is also there breaking the revolution uses the russian telegraph nine hundred seventy nine of his a open project or anyone can join brazilian novelist paolo coelho has he's been writing a timeline of the last days of the first world war spy or matter how imagining her thoughts in the months before her execution but it's something you think you like to get involved in then do you get writing would love to see what you can do. fascinating project you have a look that's how the news is the king so i thought today here not say we're back with more in a back hoffa now it's time but don't forget you can keep cross all these stories because of the state.

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