the syrian army and its allies liberate the last stronghold in syria bringing the terror groups the self-proclaimed caliphate in the country to an. independence protesters clashed with police and i railway station in a barcelona it is part of a general strike at the scene demonstrators block the roads in protest over the jailing of top politicians. and cia chief my pump comes under fire for meeting a former intelligence official who says the last year of the democratic party was an inside job rather than a russian directed to cyber attack we speak to the man behind the claims.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our two international sean thomas certainly glad to have you. now the syrian army and its allies including the lebanese militia has blonde say that they have been they have liberated the last major ice stronghold in syria the town of all welcome all of the town is on the border with iraq and was the terrorists last major bastion after they were driven from the city of dairies or the recapture of all become all gives it damascus its first border crossing with iraq since the region fell under the control of eisel back in two thousand and twelve russia's defense ministry recently noted islamic state controlled less than five percent of territory in syria and that was before these last two major victories joshua landis director of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma told us about the possible problems to follow defeat in the region. president assad is a very dominant position but there are significant sections of syria in the north.

around it late province in the south near did which are still. by rebel troops at that so that battle is going to proceed for what's to come turkey has entered in the order we know that you know it is states also in the north helping the kurds so assad has not taken back all syrian territory as he's promised now the real question will be what happens to the oil in syria much of the oil is dominated in the north by the kurds syria would eat out a window in order to rebuild. the cia director mark mike pump a zero has come under fire for meeting a former intelligence official over the alleged to hack king of the democratic party back in two thousand and sixteen u.s. intelligence community has laid the blame for the hack on moscow. pompei o met with william binney a former national security agency official turned a whistle blower but he believes the alleged hack of the democratic national

committee was in fact a leak carried out by a d.n.c. employee also coauthored a memo to the president on the issue back in july let's remind you about the d.n.c. hack it was announced by a cyber security firm working for the d.n.c. on june fourteenth two thousand and sixteen and was blamed on two russian linked groups the next day an anonymous hacker who sued for two point zero claimed responsibility for the attack but the d.n.c. didn't confirm that he took credit for another breach on july fifth and later that month we could weeks release thousands of the democratic party's e-mails earlier my colleague neil harvey spoke to william binney who believes that the files in the second attack were copied much too fast for the remote breach to be use for the method to be used one of the main issues i was there telling him is that i didn't believe the intelligence agencies were telling him or the president the truth so i went through the technical data that we as the veteran fresh knows who have technical experience all of the technical data that we had available and could look at the end. lies and from that was very clear that it was

a local download because of the speeds and all i mean we've even tried to transfer data across the atlantic through the web. and see what speeds we could achieve the most we got was like twelve megabytes per second and you needed at least thirty eight megabytes just to pass the data not counting housekeeping so that meant that the capacity was about one fourth the one eight what would be necessary to transfer that data to somewhere in europe for example and when you spoke about wi on lies the data is that meaning i was reading about an expert forensic aids or is the person who was an allies in the data for you well he was looking at the data yes and so were about five or six other people. and i was looking at the output of that trying to assess that. just to verify and we also tried to test it in the real world not in the speculative world trying to do the transfer to make it something that would be compatible with that download rate and we could not achieve that either so i want to challenge you on this one because i read that one of the

members of your kind of team that was working on this. they disagreed with you but they weren't so convinced and i mean convinced that this was definitely the case that this had to be a download is it's not possible to transfer that spade the best we got was from a data center in new jersey to a data center in the u.k. and the best was twelve megabytes per second that's what i said was one fourth the one eight the necessary capacity to transfer that data at the rate it was download so it had to be done locally there was no substantive evidence anywhere if they could produce some factual evidence that we could look at and analyze find but so far they produced absolutely nothing. back in two thousand and thirteen william binney was a welcome guest on american news channels when he exposed the privacy violations in the n.s.a.'s spying program then c.n.n. described him as a whistleblower with a dramatic story however now the network seems to have changed its tune describing him as a conspiracy theorist william binney him self says the channel uses labels instead

of actual evidence they have a problem of course because they've been asserting this kind of. speculation at the gender driven stuff for over a year now and it would be kind of difficult to go back off that so but i mean to me it basically shows the shallow weakness of the argument when you have to throw labels at people instead of dealing with any factual evidence in fact the f.b.i. knows a lot more about this than they are telling anybody so it is n.s.a. but they're not saying it either so and they're not telling that this is information i'm getting from other sources i don't have it substantiated but they need to come forward and say exactly what they've got so far they've not done that . pro independence protesters have clashed with police at st railway station in barcelona officers tried to move the activists away after they blocked the entrance to the station.

police found themselves massively outnumbered by protesters who were chanting pro independence slogans standoff took place after a general strike a brought much of the region to a halt the activists of blocking crucial transport networks in major cities in protest over the jailing of regional leaders madrid accuses them of rebellion its addition and has today an old the region's declaration of independence. it was. it was during the strike roads and trains were blocked by protesters these are pictures from iran where protesters cut off from the original route connecting spain to france and at asia run a train station hundreds of demonstrators broke through a police court. a

quick recap of what happened in catalonia over the past month or so on october first the region held an independence referendum ard by a violent police crackdown an overwhelming majority voted to break away from spain and independence was declared on october twenty seventh later that day madrid stripped the region of self rule and ordered snap elections and then last week eight former top a lot of ministers were jailed on charges of sedition and rebellion meanwhile the spanish foreign minister says madrid is ready to amend the constitution in catalonia is interest to have created the committee in the problem and to explore the possibility of amending the constitution to be able to accommodate better vs predations of some of the crap from the people i think we are ready we you know we acknowledge that there is a political situation that he says to be looked at r.k.

a cuddle on spokes person from the european partnership for independence told us madrid will not bring peace to the region. thank you thank god the regressive force right back on you do so obviously. not. just thank you you are right because it's an it's a great it's very critical for him for that for the spine of the state to preach and to make believe that they are the ones reagan peace when they are the ones bringing the bar and i know who far away in an illegitimate way the cats are an institution to spend just a little rice do for no morning so national charities that they sorrowing that they'd be found them promoted to sergeant so many nations under universal rights in

that fund i legitimately mean daven dance i believe i'm. switching gears now nato is increasing the number of its military headquarters in europe for the first time since the cold war it is so the alliance can move troops quicker across the continent all amid growing tensions with russia. the other petition of the nato command structure will further strengthen our ability to reinforce our lives quickly effectively. but military will be that this is not only about new moms it is also about ability to move forces on the quitman quickly with the road transport on the right infrastructure all the idea is to create this europe wide zone where it's easy to move forces and equipment around nato commanders want to get rid of a lot of the red tape in europe in order for them to take things like tanks and military hardware and personnel and move them transport them from one country to

another across the continent at speed and even though the chief of the military alliance insists that they're not targeting any specific country nato. turns on the senses the text of against any specific nation in recent years one of its top priorities has been containing russia we have seen the much more assertive russia we have seen the russia which has over many years invested heavily in. their military capabilities modernize the military capabilities now as part of this announced revamp they're also plans to help protect sea lines of communication for the military alliance which in the event of war would be a vital supply route to europe now all this talk of preparedness for a potential war with russia is pretty reminiscent of the sort of rhetoric we heard all those years ago during the cold war the kremlin has accused nato of pursuing an

aggressive strategy on its borders that threatens to destabilize eastern europe with nato his latest move to expand its military capabilities on the continent this cycle of military saber rattling appears to only be getting worse. well a meeting in brussels the nato chief also announced the introduction of cyber activity and military operations political analyst chris bambery believes that the moves are a threat to world peace. it's a continuation expansion program of needs or which is very dangerous to world peace and the idea there is going to be a central atlantic command to talk of a possible war in the article why this should be the case i don't know but a possible war with russia and there and then in the arctic i return to the sorts of dogfights without bullets we saw today russian and american. russian american warships in the atlantic all of this is ratcheting it up and it comes at

a time when really i think we do need to be concerned about what is going on here and the potential threats to peace in europe and on the wider field. you are so north korea have traded insults again pyongyang has called trump and lunatic old man before adding that washington is unfit to act they judge of human rights that comes after president trump described north korea as a hell that no one deserves during his stop in seoul as part of his asian tour. and as usual trump did not miss a chance to stick it to north korea on twitter he released a warning video accompanied by a rather dramatic soundtrack take a look at the response to the story first isolate. our response. our duty to run this danger to get. us. out. you. would secure.

our secret every. president trump is now in china for the next to much anticipated leg of his trip to visit has already proved to be fruitful has been reported that the u.s. and china have signed some twenty trade deals worth nine billion dollars the chinese side has dubbed them a warm up before a bigger ceremony on thursday r.t.s. american looks back at trump and she's previous meeting. as donald trump arrives in china on its five nation asia tour it's now the chinese president's turn to roll out the red carpet just six months ago the chinese leader came to washington and the two hit it off bonding over chocolate cake but trump couldn't help but be a bit theatrical during the dinner topping the magnificent dessert with a show of washington's military might we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen and president she was enjoying it so what happens is i said we've just launched fifty nine missiles heading to iraq and what were you

headed to syria yes heading toward syria trump loves his weapons so much he thinks they're the solution to every problem and when the threat is as serious as north korea all the other countries in the region must be armed to the teeth and prepared to respond well that's the idea he's been trying to sell on his asia trip so far in both japan and south korea prime minister the band is going to be purchasing massive amounts of military equipment as he should south korea will be ordering billions of dollars of that equipment we make the best military equipment by far we make the greatest military equipment in the world the f. thirty five fighter which is the greatest in the world the greatest in the world missiles of many different kinds whether it's planes whether it's missiles we make the best the greatest military equipment by far in the world the purchasing it from the united states.

now trump is counting on the chinese president to back him up as he puts pressure on pyongyang president xi where he would leave tomorrow china has been very helpful we'll find out how helpful so on but he really has been very very helpful well it's often said that diplomacy is merely seduction in another guys so the question is will trump's efforts to seduce the chinese. leader carry over and will he be able to strike a sweet deal for the u.s. so marathon party washington d.c. russia has rejected claims by the world anti-doping agency that russian athletes have used banned substances in competition that story much more after a short break stay with us.

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e-mail. welcome back this is our t. international top heavyweight boxer has become the latest a russian to be cleared of unproven doping allegations by world governing bodies earlier my colleague you know harvey discussed the story with our two sort of uncle . safley has been going through something similar to what other russian athletes have been gone through the last years and that's of course related to. this particular war in that example that kid was accused of taking steroids a year ago and following that it was swift trial or rather no trial at all and then and even a quicker punishment and he was banned for life and that decision one was based soley on one laboratory that was in los angeles california meanwhile european independent labs in switzerland showed that his results proved negative steroids so

the story is quite interesting and there's a lot to be said about it but speaking about that particular lab the. there was a complaint launched against him by the russian company also by some other clients as well and consequently that lab was suspended from work for some time so you can see because of that decision of one lab unchecked and the athlete last sentence are a year off for his career but thankfully right now all of the governing grounds ations like w.b.c. w b o. and all of them have accepted it put it back into their ranks and he will be back in the ring in december. meanwhile russia's investigative committee has rejected claims the country ran an elaborate a state sponsored doping program it said the world anti-doping agency had provided

no proof to support the findings in a report by canadian lawyer richard mclaren comments. well they carried out an extensive in-depth investigation involving more than seven hundred athletes their coaches various medical personnel and they question them about the allegations in the mclaren report and a number of them they rejected firstly they rejected the claim that some of the some pills was switched and this claim was made in the mclaren report it said it said that some of them are normal or some of the samples indicating that perhaps they were mixed with salt and distilled water in order to hide the banned chemical substances in the samples while the investigators stage their own experiments and they found that depending on how intensely an athlete trained what he had drunk his unique physiological exchange process as well many samples could be found as

anomalous the second claim that they rejected was that the urine sample bottles themselves were tampered with were opened them manufactured by a swiss company and they're made to be incredibly difficult to open if not impossible to open and close without leaving any sort of mark and back in march there was an experiment that investigation which found that these a urine bottles can't be opened without damaging the integrity of the bottles themselves or even destroying them so that claim doesn't fly either the other claim that they rejected was that there was a state sponsored massive national doping program in russia investigators say the evidence that they have is that there is no evidence that mclaren report hasn't offered any of a mass duping to stem but the investigators did say that they don't deny that there

may have been individual cases of athletes using banned substances but those seven hundred questioned many of them said that. they did indeed buy performance enhancing drugs which they believed to be legal from grigori he's the former head of the russian anti-doping agency on whose testimony much of the mclaren report was was made and here's what they had to say matthew that's what caught our docking while taking the drugs i'd bought from roche and give it said the tests would always been negative if we used these drugs later he took them off me and never gave them back my athletes was disqualified for two years even though we deny using prohibited drugs later i remembered i bought some drugs from rob chink of jury in the testing period now i suspect the drugs he sold me were banned. of allegedly claimed that the athletes that these were illegal substances but after doping test they were marked as positives nevertheless grigori watching of himself

investigators claim they have this phone call on record on tape he called the current head of the russian anti-doping agency and offered money a bribe in return for a database of all russian athletes doping results. it was concluded that flushing cough who is now in the us and works with professor mclaren telephoned to form a new site i had and asked her to sell him the database of russian athletes test results the former site i had told russian investigators about this and now the committee has records of their conversations earlier this month of course two russian athletes skiers both were banned for life from competing in the olympics due to positive results in doping tests but the questions being asked here now is that if the investigation is still ongoing why are athletes already being banned for life. i just broke exclusively to russia sports minister of public cough on the

country's cooperation with the international olympic committee and water as well as if russia will take part in the upcoming winter olympics in south korea here's a video clip of the announcement made today by russia's investigative body is very important i think what they should take into consideration the conclusions reached by russia's investigative body i very much hope there will be cooperation between these entities but with the aim to determine the truth if the area you see does decide on making sentients against russia in that way to games such as not allowing the russian national anthem to play bowing down to get their feet from the opening ceremony would you consider that as being an acceptable humiliation for russia and would you consider fully cooked at the games violate doping rules should be punished but clean athletes shouldn't have to pay responsibility for those breaching the rules goal is to make sure clean athletes get the rights to compete i think the international sports organizations have the same goal while making such

decisions we must think about every individual athlete involved. and that does it for me i'll be back in about thirty four minutes with a full of true news you are watching contractional and we're glad that. in terms of foreign policy done all champ is already earned himself the title the low expectations president this title is now being put to the test during his tour of asia because the u.s. a status quo power in the asia pacific region. the oil challenging china. good politicians to do something that. they put themselves on the line they get except the reject. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to press.

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the dr saunders to do you know we were being responsible and what the real side effects. was chemically altered when i did was done on a cocktail of lethal drugs. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's safe. greetings and salutation. an important milestone has passed us this week arc watchers can you can you guess what it is i can give you a hint it was three hundred sixty five days in the making it will be considered one of the biggest turning points and events in modern world history if you're still haven't guessed what i'm referring to. take

a look at my final here. which republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general. one of the declared ones right now in donald trump. america is crying and i'm not sure how much of america but a very very significant portion literally. shine the light of democracy one dog feels like the end of the world that airports now. we're going to and learning how to live when you're not having a terrible terrible dream also you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell this is

your life now this is our election now this is us this is our country it's red. like. oh. yeah i'm talking about the election of one donald j. trump as president of the united states hawk watchers this week on november eighth we marked the official one year anniversary of the night u.s. citizens chose donald trump over hillary clinton jill stein and gary johnson to be the quote unquote leader of the free world and what a jam packed three hundred sixty five days it is men we've seen political discourse devolve into namecalling finger pointing paranoid zina public conspiracy mongering and that is just on the democratic side of the country we've seen republicans finally get the ball in their court by having not only the presidency but the congress and the supreme court in their grubby little hands and still find a way to consistently fail there based on their long time campaign promises it's

been quite quite quite the year but despite all the exasperate in the broken promises the new way of looking at the ism the embarrassing twitter wars the fake news the tapper's tapping the blitzers wolfing the military industrial chest thumping the kim jong un the protests the all right temper tantrums an anti was adolescent a. we are here we here in the united states are well we're still standing the world hasn't ended and thankfully thankfully there are still those of us out there in the dark.