from. the syrian army and its allies liberate the last stronghold in syria bringing the terror group's self-proclaimed caliphate in the country to and. fro independence protesters clashed with police at a railway station in barcelona it is part of a general strike that has seen demonstrators block key roads in protest over the jailing of top politicians. and cia chief mike pompei all comes under fire for meeting a former intelligence official who says last year's hack of the democratic party was an inside job rather than a russian directed cyber attack we speak to the man behind the claim.

all right broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team for national armstrong thomas glad to have you with us. now the syrian army and its allies including the lebanese militia has blas a that they have liberated the last major eisel stronghold in syria the town of all it will come all the townies on the border with iraq and was the terrorists last major bastion after they were driven from the city of the areas or the recapture of kemal gives damascus its first border crossing with iraq since the region fell under control of eisel back in two thousand and twelve russia's dimmock fence 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 isis defeat in the region. president assad is a very dominant position but there are significant sections of syria in the north around italy province in the south near which are still. by rebel

troops so that it's going. prosy her lipstick turkey has entered in the order we know that you know to states also in the north and the kurds so assad has not taken back all syrian territory as he's promised you know the real question will be what happens. 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 mike pumpin has come under fire for meeting a former intelligence official over the alleged hacking of the democratic party back in two thousand and sixteen the u.s. intelligence community has laid the blame for the hack on moscow. met with william binney a former national security agency official turned whistleblower but he believes that the alleged hack of the democratic national committee was in fact a leak carried out by a d.n.c. employee who 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 goose of her two point zero claimed responsibility for that attack but the d.n.c. did not confirm that he took credit for another breach on july fifth and later that month wiki leaks released thousands of the democratic party's e-mails earlier my colleague neil harvey spoke to william binney who believes the files in the second attack were copied much too fast for a remote breach to be the method used. one of the main issues i was there telling him was 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 is the veteran intelligence professionals who have technical experience all of the technical data that we had available and could look at the analyze 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 it 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 privacy violations in the n.s.a. 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 but he himself says the channel uses labels instead of actual evidence they have a problem of course because they've been asserting this kind of. speculation of 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 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're 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 . probably depends protesters have clashed with police and saying that railway station and barcelona officers tried to move the activists the way after they block the entrance to that stage. it was. police found themselves massively outnumbered by protesters who were chanting pro

independence slogans the standoff took place after a general strike brought much of the region to a halt the activists blocking crucial transport networks in major cities in protest over the jailing of regional leaders madrid accuses them of rebellion and sedition and as today an old region's declaration of independence. i dreamed astride roads and trains were blocked by protesters these are pictures from your own where protesters cut off the regional route connecting spain to france and. that is around a train station hundreds of demonstrators have broke through a police court. i was.

a quick recap of what has happened in catalonia over the past month or so on october the first the region held an independence referendum marred by a violent police crackdown an overwhelming majority voted to break away from spain and independence was declared on october the twenty seventh later that day though madrid stripped the region of self rule and ordered snap elections and last week eight former catalog ministers were jailed on charges of sedition and rebellion meanwhile the spanish foreign minister says madrid is ready to amend the constitution in catalonia as interest have created the committee in the parliament to explore the possibility of amending the go situations to be able to accommodate better vs predations of some of the couple of people i think we are ready we you know we acknowledge that there is a political situation that deserves to be looked at an archaic 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 forced by attacks on institutions and obviously before. you have you just thank you. it's just it's an outrage it's very critical for him for that for the spine of the state to preach 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 pats are an institution especially just a morally righteous due for no wars in so national charities that day sorry that they'd be found on promoted sound so many nations under universal rights in that band i legitimately dance i believe.

it was 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 of it growing tensions with russia. the other petition of the nato command structure will further strengthen our ability to reinforce our laws quickly effectively. but military will be that this is not only about new moms it is also about the ability to move forces on the quitman quickly with the right transport means the right infrastructure or 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 there are 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. and a meeting in brussels of the nato chief are also announced of the introduction of cyber activity and military operations political analyst chris bambery believes that the moves are a threat to world peace. a continuation an 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 in the arctic a return to the sorts of dogfights without boots we saw between russian and american planes russian american warships in the atlantic all of this is ratcheted 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. the u.s. and north korea have traded insults again pyongyang has called a trump a lunatic old man that before adding at that washington is unfit to act as a judge of human rights this comes after a 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 trumpet did not miss a chance at to stick it to north korea on twitter he released a warning video companied by a rather dramatic soundtrack to. all response to. this charge. isolate. our response our duty to run this danger to get. us. right. we will get up and secure. us for. our secret lives. and president trump is now in china for

the next much anticipated leg of his trip and visit has already proved fruitful it is it being reported that the u.s. and china have signed some twenty trade deals worth nine billion dollars the chinese side has dug them a warm up before a bigger ceremony on thursday but he samir khan 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 be purchasing it from the united states. thank you very much.

now trump is counting on the chinese president to back him up as he puts pressure on pyongyang president xi where we will be 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. later carry over and will he be able to strike a sweet deal for the us. r t washington d.c. . in top heavyweight boxer has become the latest russian to be cleared of unproven doping allegations by the world governing bodies earlier my colleague neil harvey discussed the story without user on calls. safley has been going through something similar to what other russian athletes have been gone through of last years and hoping now this particular one that xander know and following that it was swift

trial or rather known and even quicker punishment than he was that decision one was laboratory that was in los angeles california that his results proved negative of steroids use so the story is quite interesting and there's a lot to be said about it but the. by the russian other clients as well and consequently decision of one lab unchecked all of the governing. back into their ranks and he will be back in the ring in december ran an elaborate state sponsored doing agency had provided no proof to support the findings in a recent or an artist but i got to have 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 samples 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 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 them mass duping distance 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 . allegedly claimed that the athletes that these were illegal substances but after doping tests 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 who is now in the u.s.

and works with professor mclaren telephoned a former saddam had and asked her to sell him the database of russian athletes test results the former senator had told russian investigators about this and now the committee has records of their conversations earlier this month of course to russian athletes skiers both were banned for life from composites of 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. or do you spoke exclusively to russia's sports minister pawel of kolob off on the country's cooperation with the international olympic committee and water as well as if we russia will take part in the upcoming winter olympics in south korea. here's a little clip of the announcement made today by russia's investigative body is very important i think by russia's investigative body aeration between these entities with the aim to determine the truth if the area you see does decide on making

sanctions against russia in games such as not allowing these from the opening ceremony would you consider that as being an acceptable then consider a fully cooked game it's a bit overwhelming when you know the i don't like the word boycott it will boycotts in the one nine hundred eighty s. and had a very adverse effect on sport now the team is calmly putting constant contact with the i.o.c. greet birds i still hope that the final thought i've said many times that i'll be punished but clean athlete shows breaching the rules our 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. or u.k. international department a minister a pre-teen patel has just quit it comes right after an official talks with key israeli officials in

a letter to the prime minister patel apologize for what had happened and offer her resignation it has been revealed that she held twelve meetings while on holiday in august including with the head of the israeli foreign ministry but patel failed to inform the foreign office about it she is the second cabinet minister to fall in the u.k. in just a matter of days if you're going to report now from a lot of. this has led to lots of accusations of rebellious behavior acting in defiance with existing process as well as calls to not just sack her but also u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson and we shouldn't be applying a special standard. and if if if. if particular terrell has to go i find it difficult to see how he can stay you know the old adage that you know careless. cost lives supplies above zero true britain's chief diplomat. i find it difficult to see how he can stare at them well of course johnson is obviously no stranger to controversy but his latest blunder came following comments that he had made

involving a case of a british citizen being kept in iran that could potentially prolong the amount of time this british citizen house to stay in jail in iran lots of questions about whether or not that behavior on his part was appropriate and all of this calms as to recent may's house of cards really seems to be tumbling left and right because of course we have been seeing most recently the scandals and accusations and investigations looking into the potential sex sexual harassment involving cabinet ministers as well as of course just very recently the resignation of the u.k. defense secretary michael fallon over issues of inappropriate behaviors and that does it for me i'll be back with headlines in about thirty five minutes your church international stay with us.

in terms of foreign policy done all chompers already earned himself the title the low expectations president this title is now being put to the test during his tour of asia is the u.s. a status quo power in the asia pacific region. oil challenging china. got a very wide grin on my friend because that saudi prince. we tell them it does good and now yet all is well confiscated any sleep put on a. brit so tell the middle riyad up up up up up.

time after time she were going underground a century on from the day of the bolshevik revolution that would arguably save britain from hitler coming up on the show as britain's chancellor for the problem is no way to be seen for an emergency parliamentary question on the paradise papers should britain's head of state apologize for offshoring millions of pounds for aggressive tax avoidance we speak to germany koreans u.k.

labor party shadow emergencies minister chris williams and band we asked dorian b.n. deputy chairman of the u.k. just a select committee john howell if minority government needed to raise a maze premiership is sustainable in the wake of what appears to be a new scandal every day there's new figures show in. arming rises in u.k. food bank use award winning director sean baker an oscar nominated actor will devote one what the western economic crisis is doing to the children of the usa all the civil coming up today is going underground but first this week marks one hundred years since a revolution without which arguably britain today would be in the hands of nazi descendants the rapid industrialization that took place after ten days shook the world and russia would ensure the defeat of hitler on the eastern front at enormous human cost and allowed britain's escape from being an outpost of the third rush but of course according to go marks the revolution was supposed to happen here in london not three and a half hours by east of this studio in moscow it's something you can detect in the

work of no i'm chomsky the soviet union called it socialism in order to gain whatever to benefit from the marl appeal that true socialism had among large parts of the general world population but this was about as remote from socialism as you can imagine so what about a socialist revolution in britain some marxist analyses require for conditions one a split amongst ruling classes like say over fifty fifty if you like direct it to winning over the middle class say by catalyzing resentment over paradise papers tax dodging three instability over law enforcement say slashing police numbers by more than twenty thousand which has happened under the tories for increasing worker democracy arguably like that proposed for british boardrooms by u.k. prime minister to raise i'm a has self i was i've clarified today's meeting very clearly what work is representation on boards and workers on boards are also advocated by u.k.

labor leader jeremy corbyn so are the conditions right for a real revolution unlike russia nine hundred seventeen there's certainly class resentment over revelations from the so-called paradise papers detailing tax dodging by the rich that people will no doubt decide by joining me now is the british labor party's shadow him a. minister chris williams and before we get to revolution the paradise paper is your reaction to these new revelations which is a seriously injured people from the manchurian attack did not get medical help for an hour that's the may twenty second attack in manchester the ground in a concert hall that's incredibly troubling and certainly merits further investigation as to why that happened i mean i can speculate i mean one of the reasons i think potentially could be the fact that the services all massively under-funded and i've seen a substantial reduction.