i. i i i. i. i. i i. spain's prime minister the senate to suspend catalonia autonomy and dismiss its leadership members are expected to vote within the hour on whether to take direct control of the region these are live pictures from barcelona where people are campaigning for independence. these live pictures from barcelona where people are acting the streets this afternoon. again asking for independence. also to come this hour twitter targets are taken stops us from advertising on its platform in the latest attack on russian media. billion dollar cyber security industry could be

a back to double in value in the coming years under the constant threat of the internet. can you watching r.t. international this friday afternoon was just three o'clock in the russian capital now we'll start in spain where the prime minister has appealed to the senate to vote to take control of catalonia and depose the cattle and lead members of the vote shortly to on whether to impose direct rule over the rest of region. request was met with approx. lipper the emotional state is because you are asking you senators to dismiss the president vice president and members of the council and government likewise the regional parliament must be from electing

a new member of the three we mollycoddle and regional parliament is due to vote on whether to declare independence or not or to shot a defense case following developments. inside a crash just outside the capital on parliament many people here are pro independence this but there is a group of people who would like to remain the rise of spain and these camps are hoping that they will be. over this situation today as we know senator is in spain and we treat each of those on article five five when the stand the spanish prime minister and his deputies vice but i missed that meeting at the moment to discuss what's going on before that vote takes place if we expect. our now also two point five five is being described as option it's part of the spanish constitution which

has never been without it before and essentially it means that if it is in that state that the regional autonomy that you had for many years you take it away from it and the trade respectively controls what's happening here is that the only i'm looking speaking to some of the people in the east about what they think was article one i thought i remember what we watched the program in the first october with the polish. people in the school so we know the. country up in again. despite a europe is trying to say to the whole you that this is not acceptable by us in any situation but we assume that the possibility there will be. but hear hear. so we continue we are going to resist because we know we will respect the law and they want to. leave half an hour right and

then it's not possible anymore we are ready to fight these are to go and we're going to support the independence of catalonia and now we are here hoping that our president puts them on if you will finally the kurd in the bands of california and so we will be following what the president with those are some of the feel whose only streets here in barcelona are mainly people from the pro independence camp of course this is a divided country with many people wanting to remain how to spank but let's discuss some of the issues there with our guest ed with two of these from the think tank out of public eye ebus and all and i thank you very much for joining us the first question is article one five five looks like it's going to be passed by the spanish government there is an expectation that declaring a declaration of independence here catalonia how to fight it is not just spain but catalonia right now. i think that there's really deep suppression either in the politics in spain believe some are still innocent. people

in the family or institutions i think spain will probably go up by one hundred five because. you can only apply if you have the power here can convince people there is some confusion or find out what will happen if article one five five be spirited on by senators in madrid before there is any declaration of independence say we don't know that that is going to happen but it is widely expected if the declaration comes after the senate is voting which way it can catalonia still declare independence. that's that's the thing that's why today and we have the same eight and the parliament debating it who is the first one to make. one place or independence it's something important i think that we have a problem and can serious concern about it and they will proclaimed independence

because i want to take i will. apply when he has been bright in. spain of the great it's called of the boy and i think it will be tomorrow so i think we have plenty of time in order to declare the debt independence edward two years thank you very much for joining us that was from the think tank republican bastille known to many people out in the streets now just waiting to find out exactly what will happen will there be a declaration of independence from the catalonian parliament we're expecting that session to start very soon and of course we're waiting for the outcome of that vote in madrid if senate is really an act that nuclear option article one the fifty five which will remove the regional autonomy away here from captivity and. now twitter has blocked r.t. from advertising on its platform in a number precedented move that was also out of the blue to be clear though it

doesn't affect any of our news feeds on twitter which you can still follow as usual now as you'd expect there has been plenty of reaction to this not least from russia to talk more about that so we're joined now by illegal trying to highly so what sort of response have we heard so far. the press secretary of the russian president vladimir putin had a few things to say about that twitter's decision is disappointing he says and art he has become a victim of some deep prejudice in the russian media that's the reaction from the kremlin and just to remind you twitter says that r t r b half of the russian government has interfered in the american presidential election last year referring to a report by the us intelligence committee. that dates back to january twenty seventh thing though the tech giant itself doesn't put forward any clear accusations of any wrongdoing misconduct or policy breach but look at

what twitter had lined up for our before the us election it's a very important detail in this story it is as special offer to boost our tea on the social platform here of parts of that special offer let's take a look. there were many features there with it r t would have been able to deliver an unbiased point of view in the u.s. election also among the features there there were special customized moggi hashtags plus stuff that had to do with analytics and research solutions and the even suggested providing us with a team of dedicated twitter experts for strategic and tactical support now let's take a look at the price list because the cost i'm hearing is that even initial cost was one point five million u.s.

dollars but when it comes to the special options that could've gone with it the price could have ended up being three point three million dollars and just the special and facts that i was telling you about guess what the price for that was no idea what i was under one million but still eight hundred thousand bucks here we have it the little rides and what it comes to the customize them all g.'s eight hundred thousand bucks but i can tell you that the our team management thought it was too expensive and they declined the offer. earlier i said and it's this is being described as out of the blue and the reason for that is because right up until this point the did it pay to be good relations in there between twitter business like relations yes but it all changed i guess at some point and we remember that when twitter took part in the private hearings the private

briefing with the senate intelligence committee according to people who are actually taking part in that twitter management members never mentioned that special offer that i was telling you about according to our editor in chief margarita simonyan she thinks it's not all that simple when it comes to the twitter management dealing with the american government honestly i didn't believe the twitter was controlled by american security services it looked like a conspiracy theory to me but twitter has just confessed it's a pity especially because american news outlets operating in russia will now feel the tenderness of russian tit for tat measures. well in november twiddle twitter sorry will publicly testify before congress and of course we'll be watching that because once again if we look at the situation our channel declined the special

offer from twitter but still twitter blamed us for interfering what they also did is published the confidential info on how much we spent on the ads and that was just under three hundred thousand u.s. dollars that's confidential but you know it's much less than the proposal that we got from twitter if we think about money matters here but if you look at this again basically twitter wanted our tea to get more involved in the u.s. election we declined and now they're blaming us for interference and also not mentioning that special offer so let's see if it comes up when twitter publicly testifies yeah it will be one to keep an eye on things he did that was that. we did discuss this twitter ban with legal and media and this lawyer who told us that it's just an attempt to distract from the embarrassing revelations this is a deliberate move to get everybody off of what's happening right now to the hillary

clinton f.b.i. investigation everybody's favorite now let me get this straight r.t.d. buys it ads or ads ok like the world does what did these ads do did they survive the election did they cause or were they evidence of or in d.c. of colucci ed what pray tell did these ads accomplish they made americans. i think and maybe caused curiosity dissension perhaps that was the cole ocean so that's a great move for freedom of speech way to go twitter it's discussed well the moves against r.t. were described as a witch hunt by the russian foreign ministry last month and they been gathering pace to the us justice department demanded that r.t.

america register under the cold war era foreign agents act moscow said that that would result in serious legal consequences google then removed r.t. youtube's premium advertising service in the u.s. without any prior notice the attacks against this channel started after the us intelligence report on alleged russian meddling back in january has never been any solid proof that are to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. election despite a flurry of attacks in congress but one propaganda machine contributed to the influence campaign both serving as a platform for criminal messaging using russian government funded outlets russian propaganda media outlets like r t i think it's a propaganda arm of government is definitely not on our side reports have it that russia not only wanted to weigh in in the election with the also want to undermine u.s. confidence the citizens confidence in our electoral process and in our democratic values well the experts that we talked to did believe that twitter might have been

pressured into making the move against ati. it's them trying to curry favor with congress before having to go before congress and i know this is coming from from from from some sector in the government we just don't know which one but i think that when the hearings take place and twitter comes up and asked to explain this and they're going to come up and say hey look what we did now leave us alone it's not they're not going to leave them alone they're going to push them even more so when the hearings take place i think we're going to find out who behind the scenes is done this again it's probably within the american intelligence community but it definitely is pressure it's just the question is from what area of the government is it coming from. of course it's not a coincidence i mean this mayor in the count's me is showing clinton and trump i mean it's just another not just

a bashing of a but bashing of russia as well i don't lot of people they look at the social media accounts like twitter and facebook and instagram and somehow believe that these are the past year ins of free speech but we're increasingly seeing senshi if anybody dead told how to gains that mainstream narrative so i understand where this attack is now come on and come see what r.t. have done wrong or to we get this unholy alliance between the force the state machine the press and the people and politicians it's not a good and it's not a healthy relationship. no i don't think it was an accident or or a mix up or in any way i think it was directed look you know back during the old days during the cold war it was the soviet union that sought to protect protect its population from infection by any voice that descended from the dissented from the official media now we have american media companies and the american government

trying to shut down dissent and make sure we could only listen to c.n.n. and we see no defense in the settings. choices at all this is a very ominous development it's not so much even r t but what does this say about what the american government the american agencies and now these social media companies are willing to do to compromise information coming to the american people well thanks for watching on say this afternoon we're going to take a quick break now but we'll be back in time it's. when else seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't. let me. get to stamp out this thing become active. and engaged equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

for over a year we have heard nonstop that somehow in some way trump world colluded with russia to win the presidential election we have yet to see the evidence of this however it appears more likely it was the democratic party the difficult looting. anyone and you go there resist the american designers of. your review to do it in the. local mall there has been happening with the. result of the news other than. hello again now the u.n. chemical weapons watchdog has reaffirmed its claim that syria is to blame for a deadly incident in april in an internal report more than eighty people were

killed on the eighth on the fourth of april in what's thought to have been a sarin gas attack on the rebel held town of cancer kuhn in northwestern syria the government was widely blamed even though no evidence was found to back that up with a u.n. chemical weapons watchdog did assign a special panel to investigate but none of the experts visited the site in their conclusions were based on witness testimony and items tested by a third party the incident saw the u.s. launch a missile strike on a syrian military airport which it claimed was where the chemicals had been located a quote from that internal report made it into the hands of several mainstream media who seized on it is irrefutable proof that the syrian government's at fault for what happened in can secure in russia says it is concerned by the leak. we are surprised by the flag the direct quotation from this internal review when

they see documents are being reproduced by some western news agencies. ok let's get the thoughts now jim our king who is a history in international relations professor at lebanese university in beirut and a very welcome thanks for coming on what's your reaction then to this report we know there have only been leaks we haven't seen the full report but the report says it's confident that the syrian government was responsible for this sarin gas attack . well i believe that this report is fabricated and it's based on false data that was collected by a third party and not by the commissioners do you and commissioners them selves because they were located in dirty and it was terrorist groups that were. active in the northern parts of syria who collected these data and transmitted them to the . commission and that's why i believe that the facts were distorted

and this u.n. commission relied on distorted fact the reason why they are doing this because they want to give the united states wants to have a pretext to. exert pressure on the syrian government and its supporters mainly the russians and the iranians but maybe the russians and the u.n. council in order to mount their political pressure especially at a time when the syrian army is achieving more and more successes in the northern part of the northern and eastern part of the country and at the same time to take it as a pretext in case the united states wants to direct a military attack against the syrian army in order to what the top obstructed from achieving more and more successes i went trying to ascertain he did it jim out is an important fact and what motive that the syrian government have had

to carry out an attack like this. well i don't believe that the sitting government had any moral to do direct chemical attack. country one at the time when it was already achieved being major advances in value spots of the country on various fronts so that's why. it would be illogical for the sitting government to use chemical weapons which it didn't have based on the american people because we already know that the chemical arsenal of the city and government and sit in army was already destroyed during the days of obama by american military by the american navy. in two thousand and fourteen based on a deal between the americans and the russians so how all of a sudden the city ins got. chemical weapons to use them and country so i

believe this is all forged by pro western and pro-american. group in order to give the americans a pretext to attack syria. we've got about twenty seconds left what sort of reaction do you think we'll get from america now given that they actually bomb the syrian f.a. would often discuss attack took place. well i believe the. russians and the syrians to do that if you are such claims and the russians have already acted. when they defused what he knew the. investigative commission as for the united states i believe that they are mounting that pressure they want to direct an attack against syria because they already failed. on various fronts in the middle east and they have their influence. both

in syria and iraq ok we'll leave it there. time today professor of history and international relations at lebanese university in beirut thank you. the internet has long had a sinister side which few people ever experience but which should be of concern to anyone who gets online. this is just. well securing information held online is now and endless battle with cyber crime having rocketed in recent years and it's thought the cost of countering it could

double over the next five years cyber security expert barry spielman explains some of the dangers. the dark web has become a place where a lot of very bad things are going on over there it wasn't always that way and it wasn't meant to be that way the dark web was a set up a originally by the united states navy to be used as a place for dissidents or people in third world countries who want to have connections with the outside world or to provide privacy and anonymity but the problem is is that the dark web has been hijacked by bad people because of the same reasons that it's providing that same anonymity and basically today you have tremendous amounts of cyber crime that are being run off in the dark where different sites different forums marketplaces reflect like look like amazon where they actually selling things broken down into categories and i say selling things i mean everything you can possibly imagine drugs weapons pornography all the bad things you can imagine. it's also

a place that is beginning to threaten organizations because if someone is breached and there's large data breaches this information can find its way for sale on the dark web or just the density of people being stolen whether it's students at a university whether it's the medicare program in australia which is brit's recently so a dark web cyber intelligence company is a company like our six kill that basically is analyzing information that's on the doc web and other sources like the deep web and basically providing a threat intelligence picture of the different threats that are out there in these different and these areas. he without say thanks for watching us off the name will be back with more news at the top of the.

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well welcome to sophie shevardnadze as the taliban gains more ground in afghanistan their road ahead for the government in kabul becomes more treacherous what can i get just as neighbors to to help will ask former chief of the pakistani intelligence service. despite years of need to operations against the taliban still pose a deadly threat in afghanistan and with american troops staying put after promises of a total pull out the chances of talks between the warring factions in the country are getting slimmer regional powers like pakistan use their influence to turn the tide of the conflict is of going to some becoming a just bored neighbors rivalries are being played out in washington's new policy the only difference. in the it's so great to have you as the guest of our program one more time. to talk about. president trump has announced

a new ask policy and in regards to pakistan he's actually saying that he will cut aid to islamabad. it starts if it doesn't start doing enough to five taliban in afghanistan in european in these pakistan not doing enough to combat taliban. who you know. showed. north korea or maybe some other countries. the policy still continues to be run but i do use a lot of russian know. nomen cliche nomen clout to toe the deep state in the united states runs the potus obama used to speak softly.