sunday morning here on the. program with. supporters. and the. activists hit the streets waving spanish on. the. deepening crisis in society. now the move triggered. local government. reports on how. well many people have gathered outside the spanish parliament and i don't know if you'll be able to see just behind me but it has been entirely blocked off because they are expecting this crowd to potentially get agitated depending on what happens

today whether that is the implementation of article one fifty five by madrid or whether indeed it is a declaration of independence here in catalonia the catalan parliament and now discussing the possibility of making that declaration. and because of that the citizens party is not going to allow spain to be cool down we will not allow you to divide us a number of the members of the polish actually left to change but decide that they would not take part in that vote they have parties that are generally in favor of the unity with spain. money upfront fees by year when this album about jewish people. you certainly in an area of people who are pro independence because when not vote was released that catalan parliament had declared an independent republic of catalonia the crowd would soon be crazy

here thank. god if. i was just talking to a couple people moments ago who said it's not just their mates their parents they come parents and even their great grandparents have been waiting cool because this is something that many cuts alone and so have been fighting for independence for almost a hundred years all our lives are our parents around her and they are waiting for the same years and years and years and years dreaming about leaving the spring which is not to them across it we are finally in catalonia a new member of the international community today in parliament the parliament of our country a legitimate parliament to come largely expected step and largely for four step. citizens of cathal or any other 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 yes the catalan parliament have said that that is what they voting for but there are many other steps to take including the fact that we saw the reaction here then to article one five five this is that the article that spanish senate is in madrid was voting on on whether they would take away the regional autonomy from catalonia . or one of the measures regarding implementation of article one five five which were proposed to the senate are approved article one five five part of the spanish constitution has never been enacted it's been described by many people as a nuclear option and that's because essentially what it does is removes regional autonomy trisha there but here we decided to sack the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on government he's called to snap

elections for december twenty first and he's also stopped the chiefs of police over the catalan police force with was. one of the things that really resonates from this entire situation the spin weeks and weeks of uncertainty about the future of catalan is the fact that today outside the parliament they were pro independence supporters as well as those who approach unity and want to remain with spain and they were standing side by side catalans all say that they do not want their societies to be ripped apart by this indecision we discuss the crisis with a political commentator and a former catalan m.p. have both of whom are very differing views. or they are trying to do is to demolish

our regional government institutions. and take control of. social movements the problem right now is the and nationalist movement the independent movement is living in about a war in another war because they have people in the radio and they want to keep remain in a spain you can say that these are democratic to to to listen the voice of the people and what we have been trying to do hearing about one year but it's always not really like do that all. the point is that you're the one people be express their. opinion and what we've been trying to do two years ago is to find the possibility for a couple in society to express and this was on the first of all over the business

and did these movements and in this terrible time where he was not a question. of which christ democracy and right now the story but this is not a question of companies and what you have in madrid this is a question of democracy and you should listen what people have got on people. who they won for the for the future anybody in the international sphere is going to give a recognition to these a state right now this money is going to mean is walking to restore their constitution or their in their region and we have to broaden their to protect their heart of the card balance they want to keep their rights they want to keep it remain a spanish this is very sad really in that you are just saying that you want to save fifty percent of the. well in society you should care about one hundred percent of

the i'm not getting violence on. the spanish government spin given overwhelming support from european institutions also with the nato when the un on side most e.u. member states along with the us australia and several latin american countries called for spanish unity some stress they would never recognize and independent catalonia now belgium sweden and finland called for a dialogue between boston and madrid russia stressed the catalan crisis is a completely internal matter scotland though has backed the independence will saying catalan should be free to determine their own future and senior fellow at john hopkins university federica bindy fears catalonia has pushed for independence might affect the economic outlook for the whole region. the moon is deeply divided on the part of the separatist and that is also a source to all of the. i would use the word did you know me even if it's not

a good word i mean they they are in this collective moment and i don't think they're seeing clearly what is going to have been off the day within you know nato or the us they were the single member states also starting to come out they were also very clear that they all knew that the nice spain it's already over one hundred enterprises move out of. the stock market is going down the so i don't really see how they can understand that they're alone they're not going to have that the future they're dreaming up. of a drive for independence and catalonia knows no limits when it comes to age an alphabet of independence is on sale and bookshops in the heart of barcelona. are not the only lesson children will learn for instance or stands for manifestation for c. or yes and i of course for. independence we gauge reaction

on the streets of boston lonna on whether children should be taught with this book . i think they don't have to learn about police they are definitely too small they will have time to learn about it but maybe in ten years not now you will never you know. well why not i can give it to my daughter i think it is a bit simple and doesn't properly explain things but still why not it can be interesting for her. be. kind of seems to be i think it's something. at this age children don't have the ability to form their opinion properly they believe in what we told them i don't support the idea of independence and therefore i won't show this to my children i want them to have the right to decide for themselves. and you

. are expected throughout this day here on this channel will be following all the developments. international twitter has blocked channel from advertising on its platform in. the blue move to be clear it doesn't affect our to use news for your columns which you can still follow as usual but details on what it does mean. a story worth the plot thickens and develops almost weekly r.t. has received notification from twitter it began positively we believe in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power it ended ironically with the news that all accounts on our brand from advertising any content on the social media platform

twitter has made policy decision to all of board advertising from all accounts owned by russia today and sputnik according to twitter r t on behalf of the russian government attempted to interfere in u.s. elections as claimed by the us intelligence report back in january twenty seventh team no clear accusations of wrongdoing misconduct or breach of policy now this turn of events is almost comical given that last year twitter offered to deliver an unbiased point of view of the us elections through an exclusive ad campaign aimed to promote artie's election coverage and bring it to a wider american audience ortiz released some details of the election collaboration offer to provide a clearer picture now this special offer included many features from customize the mode to analytics and research solutions even a dedicated team of twitter experts to help with media strategy now this had the

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t let's just get it all out in the open and in twenty sixteen the social media giant made a special us election offer to our today with quite a hefty price tag it would have cost us one point five million dollars over just four months but with a few more bolt on options we would have ended up spending three point three million dollars and what do you get for that kind of money for one thing a customized in moji and that would have set this channel back some eight hundred thousand dollars artie's management decided to decline twitter's offer. we did discuss the twitter advertisement bond with legal and media analyst lionel he told us it's just an attempt to distract from inconvenient narratives in u.s. politics 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. buys it ad 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 what pray tell did these ads or conflicts they made americans think and maybe caused curiosity dissension perhaps that was the collusion so that's a great move for freedom of speech way to go twitter it's disgusting. as u.s. congress tries to piece together what led to the deaths of four servicemen in new jersey this month lawmakers complained they had no idea the troops were even in that african nation three weeks ago a group of american and local troops were pushed by islamic state fighters for us on ten nigerian soldiers were killed the pentagon admits full support was not

provided and told two hours after the battle began now a new jersey thought to have the second biggest u.s. military presence in africa eight hundred out of six thousand troops across the continent of the tiny country of djibouti is first with four thousand servicemen of somalia and cameroon house four hundred three hundred soldiers respectively however it may soon be hard to tell how many u.s. troops are stationed in that region and other parts of the world samir khan reports . so it's official washington has intervened in so many different countries even u.s. senators seem to have lost track but i didn't know there was a thousand troops and this is an endless war without boundaries no limitation on the geography and senator graham is not the only one senator graham there you didn't know we had a thousand troops and did you know i didn't and there you have it two sitting senior senators one republican and the other a democrat had no idea the u.s. currently has over one thousand troops in news year so how is this possible past

administrations have used the authorization for use of military force against terrorists or the. to warrant military operations involving non-state actors or terror organizations passed by congress right after september eleventh that allows the president to use force against those who planned it committed or aided the nine eleven attacks and only one person voted against it congresswoman barbara lee let's step back for a moment let's just just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control according to a two thousand and sixteen congressional research office report the bush and obama administrations used on thirty seven occasions to initiate military action in over a dozen countries and now with trump it appears there's even less oversight the pentagon has just announced that they will no longer disclose troop numbers in iraq

and syria but can this apply to other regions besides iraq and syria there are ways and already. consistent considerable complete. lack of. transparency and accountability and rigorous ration you know it's gotten significantly worse and attract has touted dishes reform. reform this policy and mine are mine one. you're going to even listen to me. troops. when the former defense secretary. was. other last it's a good question but you know. to stop and think about the now with very little transparency.

in the spotlight this week documents relating to president kennedy's assassination were released by donald trump's administration and this was after a decades long deadline to keep the information under wraps that finally expired here's a snippet of what's being revealed the thing i'm concerned about is having something issues so we can convince the public that oswald is the realest. lee harvey oswald was blamed for killing. nine hundred sixty three the president as most people know had been. oswald was arrested but was himself killed two days later while under police escort historians discussed his motives on his past including an interesting experience. retracing

his steps. 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 president kennedy. most of the places which form 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 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 guy 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 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 oswald and that was through the american embassy. ilya patrol. tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald and moscow. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international top stories of the week the main headlines of today here on. inhofe and.

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