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the weekly top stories of the day. and we start the program with spain where thousands of support both the madrid barcelona and the. activists hit the streets waving spanish flags from their cars and bikes the protests reflect a deepening crisis in society the region for many declared independence on friday and the move triggered outrage in madrid which sacked. government and arranged. reports on how events unfolded on friday. 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. because of that the citizens party is not going to allow spain to be cool down we will not allow you to give orders and a number of the members of the polish she left the chamber and decided they would not take part in that vote they are parties that are generally in favor of the union see spain. money upfront fees come by yes when this album about it is evolving. 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 crowds would soon be crazy here thank you thank.

you if. i was just talking to a couple people moments ago who said it's not just then meets that parents they come parents and even their great grandparents have been waiting cool because this is something that many cuts alone in so have been fighting for independence for almost a hundred years all our lives are our parents grandparents 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 of the 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 only whether they would take away the regional autonomy from catalonia and took it up or whether or not it was 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 those snap elections for december twenty first and he's also stopped the chiefs of police over

the catalan police force with was . with. one of the things it really resonates from this entire situation the spin weeks or weeks if uncertainty about the future of catalan is the fact that today outside the parliament they were fro independent supporters as well as those who approach unity and want to remain spain and they were standing side by side catalans will say that they do not want a society to be ripped apart by this indecision they were discuss the crisis with a political commentator and a former catalan m.p. both of whom have very different fears. what 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 arabian and they want to keep remain in a spain you can say that these are democratic to to to to listen the voice of the people and what we have been trying to do hearing about one year is always not really like you know. the point is that you go 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 this was on the first of all over the business and

did these movements and until this terrible time where he did not a question. of which crisis 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 the moderate sea and you should listen what people have got on people . who they want for the for the future anybody in the international sphere is going to give a recognition to a decent state right now this money is working to restore their constitution there in the region and we have to broaden their to protect the heart of the card balance they want to keep their rights they want to keep it remain. it's very sad really in that you are just saying that you want to save fifty percent of the. in society you should care about one hundred percent of problems was i did i'm not

getting violent with the spanish government's been given overwhelming support from european institutions with nato when the un also one side most to you member states along with the us australia and several latin american countries all of them calling for spanish unity however there are those who have said at no point would they recognize an independent catalonia for example belgium finland and sweden called for dialogue between barcelona and madrid or russia stress the cut plan crisis is a completely internal matter in scotland though was back to the independents will saying catalan should be free to determine their own future and senior fellow at john hopkins university for the riga been the fears that catalonians are not looking at the wider picture 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 emotional moment and i don't think they are seeing clearly what is going to have been off the words i mean they within you know nato or the us they were the single member states adult of starting to come out there were also all very clear that they are new to the nice spain. already over one hundred enterprises moved out of gaza lumia. the stock market is going down the so i don't really see how they can understand that that alone they're not going to have that future they're dreaming of. meanwhile the drive for independence in catalonia knows no limits when it comes to age an alphabet of independence is on sale the book shops in the heart of barcelona letters are not the only lesson children will learn for example stands for manifestation s. or c or yes also i of course for independence week reaction on the

streets of boston or 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. again oh 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. the. kind of things 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. so

a new round of pro unity rallies are expected throughout this day in barcelona and here on this channel will bring you all that about. it is r.t. international twitter has blocked this channel from advertising on its platform in unprecedented out of the blue move to be clear it does not affect artie's news feed accounts which you can still follow as usual. details of 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

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specific aim of having a bigger reach to american voters and viewers why would twitter have offered this to a kremlin propaganda tool seeking to control the election after the negotiations r.t. didn't take up the offer because of the hefty price tag it went over all social media budgets what happened over the last year and a half how has r.t.e. gone from trusted media partner to being on par with mysterious russian bots and trolls here are the facts r t never violated any rules while advertising on twitter r.t. has never dealt with and will never deal with bots or any other compromise tools on any so. media platform r t has never spread any sort of deliberate misinformation if this had not been the case r t would have been banned by any social media platform in question as all of them have strict rules for policy violations however twitter included this channel in their report russian interference in the twenty

sixth elections it even went as far as releasing confidential information on spending on the platform a marketing strategy used by most international news outlets by the way in this day and age but again no proof of real misconduct the unprecedented actions of twitter might end up backfiring for all media outlets as artie's editor in chief has warned . honestly i didn't believe that 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 in the twitter officials will testify before congress on russian election meddling no doubt auti will be given a mention and while tia happy we've played by twitter's rules can twitter say they've avoided by the very principles of free expression they say they believe in and since twitter has already disclosed confidential data about the ad contract

with r.t. let's just get it all out in the open and twenty sixteen the social media giant made a special us election offer to r t with quite a hefty price a price tag would have cost about 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 well for one thing you get a customized emoji and that would have set this channel back some eight hundred thousand dollars so wattis management decided to decline twitter's offer. and we discussed the twitter advertisement and with legal and media analyst lionel he told us was just an attempt to distract from inconvenient narratives and us 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.d.

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in case you're new to the game this is how it works in our economy is built around . confirmations from washington washington post media the media. voters elect me to run this country business because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done. they did accept the reject. so present. this is. interesting.

as the u.s. tries to piece together what led to the deaths of four. this month has complained they actually had no idea that troops were even in that african nation three weeks ago a group of american troops. for us. support was not provided until. after the battle big. thought to have the second biggest u.s. military presence in africa eight hundred out of six thousand troops all across the continent the tiny country of djibouti is first with four thousand. four hundred and three hundred soldiers respectively. reporting more on the

disconnect between u.s. lawmakers troops on the ground. 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 geography and senator graham is not the only one senator graham there you know we have a thousand troops and did you know i did not 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 pause 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 administration's use the 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 their ways and already. consist in considerable complete. lack of. transparency and accountability ministration you know it's gotten significantly

worse in the trash touted dishes reform on reform this policy mine or my. wonderful before you're going to even listen to me. how many troops are in place. when the former defense secretary and cia director leon panetta was once. the u.s. . seemed rather lost it's a good question but you know it's. to stop and think about that now with very little transparency operations may not exactly like to laugh about. our team washington d.c. . one of the twentieth century's darkest moments was back in the spotlight this week classified documents relating to president kennedy's assassination were released by donald trump's administration this was after

a decades long deadline to keep the information under wraps 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 j.f.k. and dallas and nine hundred sixty three the president had been traveling in an open top car with the first lady when the shots rang out also told was swiftly arrested but was himself shot and killed two days later while under police escort historians discussed his motives and his past including an interesting if brief experience in the soviet union and retracing his steps there. 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 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 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 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 on 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 a lost world and that was through the american embassy. ilya patrol. tracing the footsteps of lee harvey oswald in moscow. this is international that's mid-morning on sunday here in the russian capital thanks for joining us for the weekly top headlines of the day and the week returning in a half an hour. hold .

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