here's a story. it's called. and it's that. i was. there are. thousands rally in madrid and barcelona vowing to keep spain together after the cops parliament's declaration of independence. the u.s. senate's a precious twitter to disclose personal messages and accounts held by wiki leaks the social network's lawyers are set to testify in congress on alleged russian meddling in the u.s. election. and bribery racketeering and fraud

a billionaire drug company boss faces charges for allegedly getting doctors to overprescribe highly addictive painkillers some of them fifty times stronger than heroin. you're watching all to international live from almost a studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program catalonia deposed president says madrid's decision to sack the regional government goes against the express will of the people that came in his first statement since the spanish prime minister put his deputy in charge of the government a regional election has now been shadowed for late december madrid seize control just as has finally proclaimed outright independence today in parliament the parliament of our country a legitimate parliament to come largely expected step and largely for four step. citizens of california there comes

a time when it is up to all of us to maintain the pulse of our country our peace our civic duty and dignity as we have always done and always will without any doubt was with god thing was. was was. was. there but here we decided to start the president vice president and all the high ranking officials at the council on government was it was it was

was it was rallies in support of the rallies in support of countries unity continued three saturday hundreds gathered in one of madrid squares holding national flags of same time in castle and the independence and ticket is calling for a ten day general strike starting on monday charlotte has been following events in the catalog capital. of 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 squatter who is already under investigation for sedition now in addition to that these pronouncements by the. going to madrid just came hours

off to the castle and parliament actually voted for independence and declared independence a republic here now i was in a crowd of pro independence school just surrounded the parliament and the national guard suggested they were up to twelve thousand people there and it was like a sea of people they screamed in delight yes yes yes or c c c in the capital and spanish when they heard that result we speak to some people this is what they told us they are guarding our liberty or freedom we are just so angry we feel like a country we feel like we are representing our our government we need to be free is what our population wants i think. people are specifically. clear that we are a nation. when people is trying just to

explain their opinions and someone is trying to punish that and trying to use the violence to stop that. is all about 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 to 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 chords 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. whether they will be able

to retain that independence to hold and to stand that some of the pro independence lobby are actually trying to draft a document the state helping 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 what is clear though is that this crisis is everything and this remains a highly divisive issue in the society we discussed the crisis with the political commentator and also a former cast. and they have very different views on what's happened or they are trying to do is to demolish our regional ago remember institutions. and take control of. social movement the problem right now is the. nationalist movement the independent movement is living in a part of the wall in another war because they have of their people in the radio and they want to keep remain in

a spain you can say that these are democratic to to to to loosen the voice of the people and what we have been trying to do hearing about one year is always not really like if you don't know if you are not the majority or. the point is that you're the one people be expressed. their opinion what we've been trying to do two years ago is to find the possibility for a couple in society to express this was on the first before over the business and did these movements and until this terrible time where it is not a question of how do you know it's an undeserved crisis democracy and right now the story but this is not a question of companies and business what you have in madrid this is a question of democracy and you should listen what people have got on people.

little one for the future the international sphere is going to give. right now despite he's going. to restore their constitution. in the region on. the road to the heart of the garden and they want to keep their rights they want to keep it remain. it's very grim of you are just saying that you want to save fifty percent of trouble in society you should care about one hundred percent of problems with. violence or hitting the headlines today has been the broader reaction from around the world has been overwhelming support for madrid and warnings about similar independence movements in the european union and is to see it looks at who is and who isn't backing a united spain 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 tusk who 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 in full support to the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy 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 recent but from scotland's nicholas 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 said they 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 intact 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 is a independence ponty m.e.p. david coburn he will push for independence times from a loss of power to brussels by new book from chatting with present you as for with a couple of weeks ago. the european union have no intention of interfering in

spanish affairs internal affairs i think they've now got the idea with the problems i was taking part in spain that maybe is for a good idea to actually keep chipping terrible sanctions against this is just a farce to many other countries in europe problems with the sense of ministration spain doesn't govern themselves anymore is governed by the european union decisions a little bit me to drink they're made but maybe the city is the european union has brought this to a head it's not just speak they get sick bring problems with the boss see the scenes look. at the flood walls in belgium the various bunch of europe over there all these people want to secede. because people don't want to be ruled by a faceless bureaucracy bumping they want to make their own decisions locally and then the national government as well as the richest well the richer parts of spades to there that's why they're feeling very upset. you're watching out international

and we will of course be keeping a close eye on spain as events there continue to unfold. a senior u.s. senator wants twitter to disclose account details relating to wiki leaks and its founder julian assange including direct message conversations diane feinstein made her demands in a letter to twitter's founder and c.e.o. jack dorsey as it turns out it's a pretty big list let's have a look at what some of the demands are for want she wants to know whether twitter has identified the accounts linked to alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election and also its methods for doing so of course salty gets a mention to our twitter accounts are also under suspicion as for wiki leaks the letter provides a list of some of the accounts linked to it apparently the salad things and their

message history could provide vital to the information to the investigation here's more from caleb moore pin. 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 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 a son 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 u.s. 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 assange 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 journalist dave lindorff believe that sentence request is an attack on freedom of speach. there's 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 now feinstein's trying to imply that we cue 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. to experience have struck the somali capital mogadishu at least eighteen people but killed and thirty wounded in a suicide car bombing just minutes after the first another bomb went off in

a busy neighborhood popular with restaurant goes according to police a suicide vest was also detonates in that area the islamic extremist group al-shabaab says it is behind the attacks authorities have exchanged fire with the gunmen on the plane and stormed and nearby hotel this comes just two weeks after the deadliest explosion in the country's history which killed more than three hundred fifty people look at what. you're referring to were. around britain planks found on buildings do often represent a place of historic interest but now some of pinpointing occasions where shady undercover policing has taken place the project was launched at a book shop in london by a group of campaign is. they all say they say they're opposed to police and. balan's because of 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. britons a spike cops operated officially from one thousand fifty nine until two thousand and eight officers infiltrated different groups from trade unionists to environmentalists some even deceived a number of women into entering relationships with them to win their trust while working undercover. london's metropolitan police apologized and paid compensation for their offices wrongdoing but the activists fear such practices still continue and want more transparency what they haven't got yet is any information at all not one single scrap of detail about why these people were targeting them 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 the list in general

is because they consider the list of french. portably. against national security we don't actually know whether they are still in for trade to get in but if they continue to do that and of course there is no digital spy the. just the digital spy. eavesdropping the big data stuff so david you may say that they maybe don't need you to be more productive do you see they're still doing. a billionaire pharmaceutical company founder faces serious challenges in the u.s. over claims that powerful medicines were being mis prescribed to these sales john kapoor is charged with bribery racketeering and fraud for his alleged role in persuading doctors to hand out an opioid painkiller called the subsidies.

the medicine is seen as a breakthrough in treating cancer pain designed for patients in the advanced stages of the disease but like any strong medicine there are risks it comes with the warnings that can be causing addiction fatal heart conditions or react badly with other medicine in extreme cases an overdose can be fatal the pain killers the main component is called fenton and it's up to one hundred times stronger than morphine not only that it's also ten times deadlier than heroin according to the new hampshire police forensic lab just three milligrams is enough for a lethal dose used properly it undoubtedly relieves pain for many cancer patients however one former company employee decided to blow the whistle after it was given to people who didn't need it 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 of leaks similar stories in the past but it's rare that those implicated are at the very top of major drug companies john kapoor's lawyer however says his client vigorously denies any involvement former white house spokes person believes that such abuse is widespread in the industry. this is vast it is a vast conspiracy in each company the same as a 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 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 is in force

meant. the french president's visit to the embassies region of french guiana in south america has been met by violent protests demonstrators hold petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas five arrests were made and two offices in shit there's discontent among the territories two hundred fifty four thousand residents over neglect of the health care and school systems on twitter emanuel micron explained he was not father christmas that comment sparking anger with some french politicians we spoke to the editor in chief of the purple magazine about trans latest folk paul. is very sure of himself in a bit of good to eat showed it recently and we are saying that he's not some good cause that people who are poor and have problems but he did it all saw him from this recently i'm using words that i would use on the new scene or a very vulgar the french left or right it's not

a matter of politics consider him as out of control 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 there is a lot of money's being spent and we are not that there are real problems but it's not a reason to go to show his exasperate not to show his northern the fact that people come by with their own problems so in this case now it's more the unpleasantness of seeing the elite. talk talking con in a condescending way to to the people. over to italy now where twenty fans a volunteer football club have been rounded up by police after they posted stickers at a stadium marking and frank that's the girl became a symbol of jewish stuff in june the second world war. the italian club last year has been in the headlines since last sunday following

a match with roma the 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 roman jersey janitors also discovered the insignias and graffiti of an ultra right let's see oh fun 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 president paid a visit to a local synagogue he also promised to send the ultralight fans to visit the site of the conflicts concentration lawyer your thing but this one quarter of a whole hour and i'm old enough to feel that it is still just short and it will grow to deal with it but still supported by critics it will 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 but convinced of the grief brought by the latter your 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 see i tried to get the idea across by using the imagery of anne frank on the teens 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. a line from a provincial city in western russia showing the world of rock pop that when you want to look cool and sound great is any one thing you need. a russian made mikes medina cochon of a has the story from coldplay to radiohead and sharon amanda as

you can see this or retro style microphone and old there are videos if you know it's nice to see you are only ten per cent emotion says yes to two hundred kilometers from moscow company founded by two friends the war melanie company before the creation of this company i worked for a large western company and i liked it but i always dreamt about something else something more interesting and i wanted to work for myself pinal got his break back in twenty thirteen when he met david brown branson. so i organized his concert here into work it was the first one i organized on the way to the gig we had a long conversation with the u.s. and russia they were both countries cup a lot to offer each other and we thought it would be really exciting if you combine these two worlds to get something cool out of it this is how she used microphone was born i personally feel that there is. i think the potential is that.

there are certain skill sets and certain resources available there that are runtastic business that they share to take makes five trips of my career and sells them around the world title says their biggest market is the u.s. but it hasn't all been the same problem when you cross the line we have problems at almost every turn the most difficult task was sexually get the business off the ground how to sell it to investors to future customers how to prove that it is an interesting product we were looking to investment funds but no one wanted to finance our idea step by step we let the world know about us well and so our microphones to different music producers and they like that. they now employ twelve close family friends and when radio had a recording engineer placed an order had helped deliver it himself as well. the old one nigel godrich from radiohead put two of our microphones i have an open you keep

these up so i put them in my hand luggage very carefully and went to the airport nigel was very pleased indeed it was my first single and it still remains my dearest title says he doesn't want to move on the contrary the ones to develop his hometown and make it a world audience you're still going to listen to i'm from to what i was born here i want money from the u.s. to come here and not elsewhere like moscow or st petersburg i want the economy of this region to grow and i'm happy that i can be a part of. my generation are eighty two of us are roundup of the new. programs coming up next and i'll be back at the top of the hour.

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