here's what people have been saying about. me all the show i go out of my way. is that really. is. better than. ever heard of. the world bank. i. i spain's constitutional crisis hits boiling point. independents moves into the government and sees direct control. of precious twisted disclose personal messages. by wiki leaks social networks lawyers are set to testify in congress on alleged russian meddling in the u.s.

election and bribery and billionaire drug company boss faces charges for allegedly getting doctors to overprescribe. some of them fifty times stronger than. you watching international in our top story this hour. deposed president says madrid's decision to sack the regional government goes against the will of the people that was expressed during the referendum that came in his first statement since the spanish prime minister put his deputy in charge of the government. but you also banish ministers agreed to depose the cattle and governments intervene in our self rule and dissolve the parliament these are decisions that contradict the will of the citizens of our country expressed at the ballot box in

a democratic society it is the parliamentarians that elect or depose a president while reacting to the speech the spanish government said that it's now up to the courts to decide about the genome there as he's not a political figure anymore region of elections have been called the late december new trade to seize control is catalan leaders finally proclaimed independence. god was with. was. was there but here we decided to sack the president vice president and other high

ranking officials in the council on government was it was was was a rallies in support of the country's unity continue this saturday to thousands have gathered in one of madrid squares holding national flags the same time in catalonia a pro independence syndicate is calling for a ten day general strike starting on monday r.t. shouted to pinsky has been following events in the capital and capital. the spanish government in madrid says it is now taking full control of catalonia it says it has dismissed the catalonian government as well as high ranking officials and the president called us to push him out it also says it has dismissed some senior

police officers including the chief of the police force in catalonia the most who is already under investigation for sedition now in addition to that these pronouncements by the government in madrid just came hours after the castle and parliament actually voted for independence and declared independence a republic here now i was in a crowd of pro independence. surrounding the parliament at the national guard suggested they were up to twelve thousand people there and it really was like a sea of people they screamed in delight yes yes yes or c c c in catalan and spanish when they heard that result we spoke to some people this is what they told us they are guarding our liberty or freedom we are just a country we feel like a country we feel like we're representing our our government we need to be free.

what our population wants i think. people you specifically. when people is trying to explain their opinions and someone is trying to punish that and trying to use the violence to stop that. is of all human being i feel kind of scared well spain says that the powers of catalonia will not be exercised by the spanish vice president but the pro independence supporters i've spoken to here in barcelona say they will not recognize the authority of spain as far as they're concerned they have no seceded from spain and this is an independent republic indeed that is something that remains to be said because madrid says that within the legal framework of the spanish constitution its ability to take control of what it sees as being

a spanish region is illegal and it is very likely that if this goes to the courts the courts will side with the spanish government on this one so in just less than a day since catalonia declared independence it's not yet clear whether they will be able to retain that independence a tool and a stand that the some of the pro independence lobby are actually trying to draft a document which they're hoping to release within forty eight hours which will show how they plan to secede from spain but it's not clear if they will be able to implement that is clear though is that this crisis is everything and this remains a highly divisive issue in the society. well we asked marcus sania professor of politics at the university of milan what kind of pace resistance the cattle on people could actually apply against madrid. i imagine in the next few months there will be some serious attempt to this field resistance now in fiscal

resistance group talking about more than two million people or at least one million productive people that can start paying their taxes to madrid and so that could really cause some problems and that's peaceful right mari impression is that the that's that's really what's going on inside it's a block you know since they're really use violence. to the ouster of the international community so there is something they are pretending they can use force but they're not actually using that while also hitting the headlines today has been the broader reaction from around the world that has been overwhelming support for madrid and warnings to similar independence movements in the european union and says it looks now it is and who isn't backing a united spec. there is plenty of reaction coming in given these major developments happening in catalonia albeit with very few surprises we have heard from the

president of the european council donald to school has said that nothing changes and that the e.u. will continue to speak directly with madrid we've seen reaction from germany of course the german government said they do not recognize this unilateral declaration of independence we've heard from of course the french president also showing his support and full support to the spanish prime minister mari honor of oil here in the u.k. of course also plenty of reaction we've heard from downing street saying the does not and will not recognize the unilateral declaration of independence because this vote the referendum on october first was deemed illegal by spanish courts that was a reaction from to recently but from scotland's nicolas sturgeon we have seen a reaction of seeing the people of catalonia should have the ability to determine their own future so supporting what has happened in catalonia given scotland's own sort of plight when it comes to this issue we've heard from the u.s. as well the u.s. state department has the support keeping strong and united spain together also

similarly from nato so as all of these reactions are continuing to come in it's important to really remember that despite the fact that political leaders throughout the european union have consistently said they don't want catalonia to break away from spain to really keep the european union and tax the pro independence movement in catalonia has repeatedly said that despite the fact that they want to leave spain they don't necessarily want to leave the european union whereas throughout the year we've heard them say that if catalonia doesn't fact leave spain they're going to have to essentially get at the back of the line to get back into the european union we spoke to the u.k. independence party m.e.p. david coburn and he believes the push for independence does stem from a loss of power to brussels. from chatting with present you i spoke with a couple of weeks ago the the european union have no intention of interfering in

spanish affairs internal affairs i think they've now got the idea with the problems though taking part in spain that maybe is for a good idea of the actually key posts of internal affairs of the various countries because it's just a farce to many other countries in europe who have problems with the central administration spain doesn't govern itself anymore is governed by the european union decisions are no longer made in madrid they're made in brussels maybe the city is the european union has brought this to a head and it's not just. the same brain problems with the boxee of the front of the the floodwalls in belgium and various parts of europe but are there problems people want to secede because people don't want to be ruled by faceless bureaucracy in brussels they want to make their own decisions locally and then have a national government as well catalonia as the richest well the rich a parts of spain so they are that's why they're feeling very upset watching us international and of course we will be keeping

a close eye on developments in spain throughout the day. or and. now a senior u.s. senator is demanding that twitter disclose account details relating to wiki leaks and its founder hugh sanj including releasing direct message conversations dianne feinstein listed her demands in a letter to twitter's founder and c.e.o. jack dorsey you can have a look at it here it is a pretty big list with lots of demands and among them she wants to know whether twitter has identified the camps linked to the alleged russian meddling investigation and also its methods for doing so also there are secrets mentioned see our twitter accounts are also under suspicion well as for wiki leaks his some of the a list of some of the accounts linked to that the senator thinks their

private message history could prove to be vital in the investigation with more his . feinstein the u.s. senator from california is requesting that the direct messages on twitter sent by wiki leaks be turned over and given to the congress for their investigation you know they're asking for the direct messages of wiki leaks the direct messages of julian a songe as well as the direct messages of the hacker known as good for to who is reported to have been the person who turned over the e-mails of the democratic national committee to wiki leaks now it's important to note that dianne feinstein who's requesting these direct messages on behalf of congress that she is certainly no fan of julian assads this is what she said about julian assange in the past well mr sun just one of my most unfavorite people in the world and i believe he's done

a great discredit to this nation now dianne feinstein is not the only figure within the us political establishment who has voiced opposition and hatred for julian assad and many figures within the u.s. government many senators congressmen leaders of the military have spoken of julian a sonnet accused him of being a russian agent called for prosecution of julian assad called for wiki leaks to be shut down this is a widespread sentiment in washington d.c. i mean he's a tool of russian intelligence and if he's such a you know martyr of free speech why doesn't wiki leaks ever publish anything coming out of russia you should be treated as an enemy combatant we should be closed down permanently and decides we wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons assad is a narcissist who has created nothing of value here lies on the dirty work of others to make himself famous he's a fraud a coward hiding behind a screen disguise

a traitor a treasonous and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it. illegally shoot the son of a as we know on november first the owners of twitter will be testifying before the u.s. congress and this is all part of the investigation of alleged russian meddling in the us presidential elections in twenty sixteen and now we see this additional requests to being given to twitter just a few days before they're set to testify so one wonders is any new information going to be determined from these direct messages or is this the government of the united states in particular the congressional committee putting additional pressure on twitter in the lead up to their testimony investigative journalists that have been in both bodies that the senate is requesting violates free speech there is no indication that wiki leaks is a tool of russia wiki leaks has been major source for american journalism and

british journalism for a long time but feinstein's trying to imply that we can leaks is somehow in league with this alleged russian effort to swing the election in the united states in two thousand and sixteen even if you took the worst case scenario and you said that russia was behind an effort to get people's perspectives about one candidate or the another in the election that is not a crime so to me and that is private communications on twitter when there isn't any criminality being even alleged is over the top and a terrible threat to first amendment rights in the united states. still to come this hour the big find of the u.s. drug companies face serious charges bribing doctors to prescribe addictive based medicine.

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they come to god in a very negative we have you on your world. again now around britain plaques found on buildings do often represent a place of historic interest but now some are pinpointing locations where shady undercover policing has taken place the project was launched at a bookshop in london by a group of campaigners. they say they are opposed to police surveillance because reported cases of abuse carried out by officers working undercover they want complaints to be fully investigated and for victims to receive support they're also encouraging people to come forward

if they've been affected or britain's spy cops operated officially from one nine hundred fifty nine until two thousand and eight officers infiltrated different groups from trade unionists to environmental issues and some even deceived women into entering into relationships with them to win their trust while working on the cover london's metropolitan police apologised and paid compensation for their officers wrongdoing but the activists to fear that such practices still continue and want more transparency. what i haven't got yet is any information at all not one single scrap of detail about why these people were targeting there why they had their life simple trade to this extent and why they found themselves sometimes in an intimate relationship with somebody who was being paid to spy on them the reason i feel the forty's so to spoil in the west in general is because they consider the left a threat to. national security we don't actually

know whether they still live for treating him whether they continue to do that and of course there is now the digital spy the. there's the digital spy. eavesdropping the big stuff so david you may say that they maybe don't need it anymore but i do think they're still doing. now a billionaire pharmaceutical company found to face serious charges in the u.s. over claims that powerful medicines were being misplaced scribed to boost sales poor here is charged with bribery racketeering and also fraud for his alleged role in persuading doctors to hand out an opioid painkiller called subsidies.

the medicine there is seen as a breakthrough in the treatment of cancer pain designed for patients need fan stages of the disease but by can each strong medicine there are risks to it does come with warnings it can cause addiction fatal heart conditions or react badly with other medicines and in extreme cases an overdose can actually be fatal the pain killers main component is called for until and it is up to one hundred times stronger the morphine but only that it's also ten times their view. harry when according to the new hampshire police forensic lab just three milligrams in fact is enough for a lethal dose used properly it is undoubtedly good for relieving pain for many cancer patients however one former company employee decided to blow the whistle if it was given to people who didn't need i knew there was something going on there i started doing some research i realized that i wasn't there to help people that i

was actually hurting people. medical workers have leaked similar stories in the past but it is rare that those implicated are at the very top of major drug companies john kapoor's roy however says his client the gristly denies any involvement white house spokesperson bob wiener believes that such abuse is actually widespread in the industry this is vast it is a vast conspiracy in each company the same as it tobacco lobby did for so many years and got away with it it's not a matter of regulations it's a matter of and force mint and the lack of will for enforcement they have let these companies and the doctors who illegally prescribe the drugs that are supposed to be just for severe cancer and they get everybody else addicted it's not even just a matter of the of the suffering because some of the addicted people like getting

high it's a matter of it's illegal and dangerous what they're doing and yes there isn't force meant. to mislead twenty fans of last year football club have been rounded up by police after they posted stickers at the stadium defaming and frank the girl who became the symbol of jewish suffering during the second world war. the italian club last year has been in the headlines since last sunday following a match with roma scandal broke out when anti semitic imagery was found at the stadium the next day controversial stickers depicted a holocaust victim and frank dressed in a roma jersey janitors also discovered the insignias and graffiti of an ultra right let's see ofan group infamous for being nasty sympathizers. the football club itself has been trying to clear its name ever since the news broke first for the last year the president paid a visit to a local synagogue he also promised to send the ultralight fans to visit the site of

the conflicts concentration camps for your kids young history this is one quarter of all that all that up if you want it is still just short in a go food video when you get caught susie orbach thinks it will all be out on a few but his gesture was marred by an unfortunate gaffe although some members of the jewish community appreciated the move it seems not all that convinced as the grief brought by the lads here boss to all of the holocaust victims was reportedly found floating in the river tiber hours later as for the latino ultras they didn't seem to understand what the fuss was about. it was a joke it's not a crime to harangue an adversary fan accusing him of belonging to another religion . let's try to get the idea across by using the imagery of anne frank on the team's training t. shirts and reading out passages from the diary of the holocaust victim before matches but the ultras found a way to wreck the team's reputation once again. police

now say they'll consider stricter punishment if more incidents like this take place in the future. the french president's visit to the territory of french guiana in south america has been met with violent protests demonstrators held petrol bombs at police who responded with tape. gas five arrests were made and two officers were injured this discontent among the territory's two hundred fifty four thousand residents over neglect of the health care and school systems there on twitter though emanuel macron explained that he was not father christmas and that comment sparked anger with some french politicians we spoke to the editor in chief of people magazine about microns latest. he is very sure of himself in a bit of good to eat showed it recently and we are saying that he's not such a clause that people who are poor and have problems but he did it also informs

recently using words that i wouldn't use on orbit new soon or a very vulgar the french left or right it's not a matter of politics considering that as a country we now after several cases like that the government of course should not give away public money without really looking at what they do it was right in saying of course that a lot of money is being spent and we are not that there are real problems but it's not a recent to to show his exasperate nor to show isn't northern the fact that people come back with their own problems so in this case now it's more the unpleasantness of seeing the elite. talk talking can't a condescending way to the people. now some news just in a suspected suicide car bomb has reportedly killed at least ten people in the

somali capital mogadishu it happened in a busy neighborhood we understand filled with popular restaurants and gunmen have also reportedly stormed a nearby hotel there are also reports to a second explosion near the former parliament building in the city center those blasts come just two weeks after the deadliest explosion in the country which took the lives of more than three hundred fifty people no one has claimed responsibility for the although al qaeda affiliate. operate in the region that's the latest that's what we know for now we'll be back with more though and other stories too at the top of the. it's.

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