dimmy putin says the united states is attacking free speech by forcing on to its register as a foreign agent adding that a tit for tat response from russia is on the table. hundreds of thousands of barcelona protesting on catalonia national day demanding thing release of the jailed former leaders of the region continues in political crisis. power play in the middle east intensifies saudi arabia bombs yemen's defense ministry also being accused of declaring war on lebanon.

thanks for joining us this hour you're watching r.t. and tonight. attacks on r.t. in the united states are equal to attacks on free speech that's according to president vladimir putin he was answering reporters' questions on the final day of the apec summit in vietnam. to deal with. those who are doing this in the u.s. have always been proud of being the world's number one democrats and freedom of speech has always been the main value it here to buy them there's no democracy without freedom of speech and attack on our media in the u.s. is make no mistake an attack on freedom of speech itself mr putin also promised that the russian government will come up with appropriate retaliation such retaliation may affect american or american funded media that are operating in russia this is a reaction to a very recent decision by the u.s. department of justice to set a deadline for r.t. america our u.s. bra. to register as

a foreign agent and we were forced to obey because otherwise we would have been in trouble with the u.s. law but in any case as a foreign agent r.t. america will now face enormous challenges and difficulties something our editor in chief called unbearable conditions for a media organization aimed at destroying r.t. this brings us to why we're seeing all this hostility against russian media in the u.s. that's because of accusations of russian meddling in the us presidential race according to american journalists that are traveling with donald trump on his plane mr trump did bring this issue up during his few chats with a lot of our putin at the apec summit and here's a quote from donald trump that they shared every time he sees me he says i didn't do that and i really believe that when he tells me that he means it i think

he's very insulted by it going back to vladimir putin's press conference here's how he addressed the many russia related investigations inquiries hearings that are simply nonstop in america i think that everything regarding the russian dossier in the u.s. has to do with only going internal political standoff it's simply parts of the desire to use anything in the fight against the current president despite this internal political standoff in the u.s. vladimir putin said as he did many times before that moscow is ready to turn the page and look into the future for the benefit of both the russians and americans. despite the poor state of relations between moscow and the west at the moment the second day of the apec summit did see some positive moments for example the russian american presence released a joint statement on the situation in syria they both confirmed their determination

to defeat eisel in syria while insisting that syria is a sovereign country the president also agreed there can be no military solution to the conflict well adding that the final political settlement should be found through the geneva negotiations format british m.e.p. refinish says resolving the crisis will prove hard especially if russia and the us remain at odds what they're talking about is getting closer together and we're going on diplomatic solutions to problems not just in the middle east but around the world the fact is if we have an america bearing each other that does nobody any good if all of the sides involved understand that america and russia and the rest of the countries from the west are actually on the same side eventually there has to be a rapprochement and they have to understand that they will have to work together it's not going to be easy because these things never are particularly in the middle east course it will have to happen and it's

a good sign that america and russia have come to an understanding on this. much anticipated formal meeting between the two presidents never transpired here the pair did bump into each other more than once.

around seven hundred fifty thousand people on the streets of barcelona on what is catalonia as the national day they're demanding the release of their jailed former leader i mean if. it's a long process defend its movements have called for massive protests in barcelona the demonstration comes a day after the speaker of the council on parliament was released on bail from prison only the region's declaration of independence was formally an old by madrid he spoke to local journalist evelyn chin sco has been following the protests. thousands of people gathered today in barcelona to demand their release of eight

former ministers of catalonia to release the political prisoners karma for those already released yesterday by the criminal court on bail and people came here today to say they don't want political prisoners they want actually want their president back and barcelona the worst catalysed of them on palace of the known and they were screaming liberty they were screaming freedom the protests and so it was actually very emotional very peaceful people were putting candles they were like change your phones they were down seeing they were singing there were life music and there were families of the political prisoners on the stage saying and basically criticizing the government of spain the government in madrid and as you said before people were protesting of course in favor of independence because they want catalonia to to to

separate from spain they say would ever do the spanish government is doing it's not the mcgrath take it's not correct and it's not right and they were underlining all the time that they want the political prisoners out and they wanted their president back in a cut along. quick recap for you what's happened in catalonia over the past month or so of first the region hold an independence referendum which was mobbed by a violent police crackdown. an overwhelming majority voted to break away from spain independence was declared october twenty seventh though that day madrid stripped the region of self rule in order to snap elections last week eight former catalan ministers were jailed on charges of sedition and rebellion the following day madrid issued a european arrest warrant for the region sacked leader and only yesterday the catalan parliament spokesperson was released on bail.

videos being released of an unexploded rockets reportedly fired by saudi forces laying in the streets of the yemeni capital sanaa the head of the bomb disposal team claims the rocket was likely targeting a police academy in the area comes just a day after saudi led airstrikes hit the defense ministry that is feared that there may have been civilian casualties some of the buildings collapsed that scenes of destruction as you can see now have become a daily occurrence in sanaa we had has intensified its bombardment of yemen in response to a missile fired towards the saudi capital a week ago by the rebels. right after last saturday strike saudi arabia blamed around for it saying that tehran supports the fighters later senior u.s. air force official said the ballistic missile was made in iran tehran denies the accusations. then i read more of these are the businesses. that's been demonstrated and there are pictures that depict that to me that connects that to who i

am in terms of who supply. missiles and that capability of some i am going to and that we do not even have the ability to transfer the human. and we've managed to increase the missiles range. iran analyst and director of the international center for human rights are the sheers others are they believe that yemen proves civilians are paying a high price for the game saudi arabia and iran are playing in the middle east both contraries are trying to be the king of the middle it's iran and saudi arabia. in someone already declared that iran is impossible so i can't predict that they will come up with there is a loser and but that's the best strategy for civilians in yemen and even in the in

the area. plans to create a six branch of the u.s. military a special space corps of been rejected by lawmakers a proposal that initially been passed by the house of representatives back in july but lawmakers have now decided to exclude it from the final seven hundred billion dollars budget for the upcoming year the bill was amended so that any american military space activities would be controlled by the u.s. air force but as rog as the of reports air force commanders love the idea. little did you know this week may well go down in history the pentagon's announced it's weaponize ng space job one for an air force and an air component is to gain and maintain air superiority freedom from attack and freedom to maneuver unlike space superiority it's not an american birthright yet a resource that plan for the fight for it and when it the hints were all there almost a decade ago one hundred and seventy eight countries voted on the u.n.

resolution to prevent a space arms race only two countries abstained the u.s. and israel washington also blocked a joint russian chinese effort to ban all weapons in space after all who's to say what is a weapon. any object orbiting or transiting through space can be a weapon if that object is intentionally placed onto a collision course with another space object this makes treaty verification impossible yet they keep saying that everything they do has a peaceful purpose take the x. s. y. and the spacecraft. a jet that could put satellites into orbit on the cheap probably means if you can

take a satellite into orbit it can also take a hostile satellite out of orbit who's going to stop them there. last year the us put several mysterious satellites into orbit not your usual kind of ones that watch earth know these apparently monitor other spacecraft friendly neighborhood watch. the u.s. is not seeking to weaponize space our goal is to work with all responsible spacefaring nations to ensure a safe secure and stable space environment the u.s. air force is x. thirty seven b. which has spent almost two years orbiting the earth its purpose is classified its mission is classified its budget is classified.

then you've got the various kinetic bombardment and global strike projects that the pentagon is reportedly pursuing they'll probably say that those a peaceful to sue peaceful in the pentagon's space budget was doubled last year from five to ten billion and next year it's going up this year's budget increases the eighteen budget proposal increases what the air force is proposing to spend on space by twenty percent and we're shifting to space as a war fighting to me just think of the message these sends ready set arms race. the world cup host russia has now really lost to one of the tournament favorites argentina in a friendly played at the newly revamped luzhniki stadium the new hawkins was

following the match the bitterly cold wet weather here in moscow didn't dampen the fire and spirit states are now out on mass to see this spectacle of football at a new look. at some of the much itself those hoping for a goal first would disappoint of the one goal coming out of the game from suspiciously perhaps from what odds from an offside position but russia despite struggling it would feel that especially attack worked overs in the second half they did play better they created some sciences from counter-attacks on occasion. rattling the audience on gold as well so low there is months to improve on before next year suddenly there are some positives to take away well now we came to the stadium a few hours before the game to have a look around and see what preparations are on the way for the wall cup next year.

the last time i was here this year the whole place was a building site now evolution e.q. has been refurbished revamped and totally upgraded new pitch new seats new roof conditioning the weight has really been with. enough people writing zoology tina is fulfilled in the world russia is sixty fifth not the favorite in this game but for many the solstice is the measured spin that should messy i do well rosie paula is simply miscible some of those we can use now to play here in russia it's gearing up to be a real festival a full. day after the break we'll tell you how german form a nervous could turn out to be the country's worst serial killer in seventeen years .

i fear that we may see the iranians taking the first steps towards restarting the nuclear program which will only further ratchet up tensions and further increase the risk of the war that's the big danger here this is not just about killing the nuclear deal this is automatically putting the united states on it was a military confrontation to reach. them. that's already an entrenched. giant squid penetrating every facet of the economy and it's being financed by money that they can borrow. zero percent and buy anything without any. regulations bumping into them whatsoever so that you apply that to maybe five or six time companies five years from now you

can just five or six their share prices will be exorbitant like their google or amazon or berkshire hathaway stock prices over two hundred thousand dollars a share. forty years after the end of the vietnam war and the u.s. has released a series of videos of its military operations in the country who teaches american actor after upping phosphorus bombs and napalm the bombing campaign in north vietnam the videos were filmed in nine hundred sixty five some ten years after the start of the war during the vietnam war america faced criticism for its use of chemical and biological weapons vietnam also became a testing ground for the source of weaponry.

and i. think. the curdle are for people repel or produce the food affects of wandering soul in which haunting sounds said to represent the souls of dead or played in order to bridger the superstitious snipers the one who. heard the who her her her . former nurse in germany could turn out to be the country's worst post-war serial killer recent toxicology tests revealed more than one hundred of his patients have

been poisoned it's relevant as the details builds h. drug to patients in his care over a six year period in the hope of being able to bring them back and being seen as some kind of reviving angel he was arrested in two thousand and five and jailed in two thousand and eight on charges of attempted murder the main motivation behind this was so that mills h. could step in and save the day bringing people back from the coast of death but he's also admitted in a car twist that he also did this for kicks there was tension there and an expectation of what happened next it took a while before the true scale of his crimes became evident following the widespread media attention his incarceration gathered one woman became suspicious that her mother may have actually been one of his victims a further investigation led to neil's age confessing to having killed thirty by

lethal injection that saw his initial seven year sentence increase to life in twenty fifteen police admitted that major mistakes were made if the clues had been duly investigated or to time even in goldman horsed hospital then the deaths of many patients in our opinion could have been prevented by august of this year the forty year old was implicated in one thousand murders making him one of more than germany's worst serial killers trying to get to the bottom of just how many he may have murdered investigators have so far examined one hundred thirty four bodies and currently toxicological tests are being carried out in five separate cases to look for the drugs that were favored by mills h. we also understand that further bodies are to be exuded. field as poland and. prosecutors say they've linked. to one hundred six cases but.

they make never know the true number of people he murdered people of are. the latest pictures from iraq's mosul liberated from islamic state in the summer suggest it's now becoming something of a ghost town after a massive military operation u.s. led coalition and iraqi forces put an end to the terrorists' three year hold ninety percent of all territory in both iraq and syria previously seized by islamic state has now been retaken but in mosul this is all that's now left. coding to the u.n. the battle for mosul killed more than two and a half thousand civilians seven hundred of them were executed by eisel strikes by

the u.s. led coalition killed more than four hundred fifty civilians almost a million have been forced to leave their homes and spoke to an iraqi m.p. about the huge price of the liberation campaign. a minimal there are many towns line in ruinous on the right bank of the tigris river and then of a governorate in some towns the bodies remain under the rubble while the structure there is absolutely destroyed during the last hour ration the last of civilians died or to college of the new part of the city there are many children today because parents and relatives were killed and they are in dire need of orphanages the iraqi government should create special centers for them are over the last are women lost their families there are some who survived i say look at seventy eight who have been raped by the terrorists their relatives are from turned away from so that they would instead matteis the whole family when i. walk into has been urging iraq to pull sheer militias backed by iran out of the country now that they're on

the ice for mission is over u.s. congress is currently considering slapping sanctions on the militias but the response from baghdad has been harsh and it seems that several other countries are also not exactly on the same page as washington. it is for the fighters in iraq to be to go ahead allow the iraqi people to read good controlled areas that it overtakes and. popular mobilization unit fighters should be encouraged because the hope of the country and the region no party has the right to interfere in iraqi affairs.

it is said and he said we told secretary chiller said that as far as trade is concerned our trade with north korea has decreased significantly as far as the question about the embassy goes to see there is a very small but there is in fact an embassy i told secretary tillerson that some other friendly countries should maintain embassies there. he believes supporters i think of our allies the european allies and others could make the case in the world for that this is a meal really goes to me with a. constant national strongly behind cold case and to deal.

i think we developed a very bad habit during the early one nine hundred ninety s. when we emerged as they say the sole remaining superpower and we were in a position where pretty much everybody did whatever we told them to do. think that those habits die hard that people get into the habit of thinking we can tell you to do this we can tell you to do that but they'd think we'd go with that that we don't think that they notice that we're not as strong as we were say twenty years ago relative to other powers. i do joining us this evening a lot international but with the latest news headlines see you at the top of the hour. it's the cradle of jazz. the america is still very good we are. still

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killed by the u.s. government coming up on the show princes killed in helicopters and firefights is the middle east now on the brink of all out war because of decisions made in riyadh in washington found forty six years ago today hundreds thompson's fear and loathing in las vegas was first published we speak to its award winning illustrator real steadman about artistic assassinations gonzo journalism and drawing trump as a baby i'm from the headlines will review another full power from the foreign secretary and the new definition of strong and stable from the british government dollars more coming up today is going underground but first let's go to our top story the threat of all out war across the middle east in saudi arabia allied to the usa and israel defacto declares war on lebanon and iran let alone the people of yemen i'm joined now by abdel bari atwan editor in chief of the pad arab digital rial you have your thanks so much for coming on before we go to the tragedy of yemen the riyadh washington intentions are just your take on how israel is

currently influencing british politics after this week i believe israeli embassy in london is very active and running the show in this country is that i was really impressed he is above the new the can interfere the can actually tell the ministers what to do would be can influence the parliament to have a very strong and just you know few months ago it was a huge scandal and diplomat in the israeli embassy telling the minister what to do and saying that we can't be. anybody we. heard of the israeli embassy in london in london was then sacked he was by the ambassador after a huge scandal after a lot of criticism. of the government and also a lot of discussion in the media a lot of actually arguments so in the end he had to quit and that his government withdrew him so because they don't want more problems but it did the same.