hundreds of thousands in barcelona have demanded the release of catalonia has jailed former leaders as the region remains in a political crisis. but even putin says the united states is attacking free speech by forcing r.t. to register as a foreign agent adding a tit for tat response from russia is on the table. the u.s. military steps up its efforts to militarize space splashing cash on warfare capabilities. and unexploded rocket is filmed on the streets of yemen's capital sanaa just a day after saudi led asked write to the defense ministry that.

joining is this. this is r.t. international. turned out to protest in barcelona demanding the release of catalonia is jailed former lead this demonstration was held on council national day on the track today huge seven hundred fifty thousand people. i i. i really was led by relatives of politicians jailed by on the do it for the role they played in the regions independence referendum last month speakers at the stage read out letters. some of the politicians had written in prison earlier the region's

declaration of independence was formally a no on the trade journalist. has been following the protest hundred thousand people today gathered in barcelona to demand their release of political prisoners they came from all over the cut along as in buses they came in public transport families friends they were all here to say we don't want this in catalonia we want the political prisoners out one of them fought a kind of in court that there was actually released yesterday by the spanish court on bail we are still waiting what's going to happen with the others but we are here to have a free country and with the morning he and all of the catalan government are in our hearts through this i went to all of the demonstrations because i want my grandsons to have a life that we didn't have before i was here to defend our politics defend those currently in prison and to defend democracy and here to find human rights for

our future for our culture for them for our children they feared the protests was actually quite peaceful and very very emotional people were putting their lights on they were putting the lights on their mobile phones they were singing there was life music so everything was actually very emotional people were crying before or saying we want our president callus pulls them all back in catalonia we want him with us so as you can as you can see as you could hear the screaming they were holding papers liberty they were holding papers freedom they were saying that they want their children to grow up in democracy. is a quick recap of what happened in catalonia over the past month or so on october first the region hold an independence referendum which was mauled by a violent police crackdown the overwhelming majority voted to break away from spain and then. pendants was declared on october twenty seventh later 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 following day madrid issued a european arrest warrant for the region's sank leader just yesterday the catalan parliament spokes person was released on bail. a tax on our t.v. in the united states are equal to a tax on free speech that's according to president vladimir putin he was answering reporters' questions on the last day of the apec summit in vietnam difficult to deal with soonish lot of those who are doing this in the us 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 us is make no mistake an attack on freedom of speech itself mr putin also promised that the russian government aimed at destroying our

we're seeing all this hostility in russian meddling in the u.s. president wayne do you chats with a lot of our produce that and i really boil back to vladimir putin's president the russian dossier in the u.s. so it's ready to turn the page the problems not just in if all of the sides involved they have to understand that they will have because these things never are and it's a good sign that america and russia have can truly understand english. much anticipated formal meeting between the.

plans to create a sixth branch of the u.s. military a special space corps have been rejected by lawmakers the proposal had initially been passed by the house of representatives in july but lawmakers have now decided to exclude it from the final seven hundred billion dollars budget for the upcoming year and that was amended so that any american military space activities will be

controlled by the u.s. air force because rodriguez 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 birthrate 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 is

to say what is a weapon. any object orbiting or transiting through space can be a weapon if that our jet 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 is going to stop them there. last year the us put several mysterious satellites into orbit not your usual

kind the ones that watch earth know these apparently monitor are the spacecraft a 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 us air forces x. thirty seven b. which has spent almost two years orbiting 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 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 domain just think of the message these sends ready set arms race. videos being released of an unexploded rocket reportedly fired by saudi forces playing 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 and says the day after saudi led airstrikes at the defense ministry there it's feared there may have been civilian casualties as some of the buildings collapsed this is our locals describe the events. and then a second rocket hit us my house was destroyed i'm just an ordinary person i'm

a bus driver i'm not a military commander not an agent of the state why did they do that to me my house didn't hold a single bullet it did they fear that i had weapons so i want them to watch this i have nothing this is just a house and i'm a poor person that would appear to do my head in lack were injured our houses were destroyed this is the result of aggression how how's this and there were affected by the strike. thank you riyadh has intensified its bombardment of yemen in response to a missile fired towards the saudi capital a week ago by the rebels it was quick to blame it on iran so in that iran supports the fighters later a senior u.s. air force official said the ballistic missile had been made in the ran around denies the accusations in iranian markings are business. that's been demonstrated. for the pictures that depict that to me that connects that to our air in terms of

who's supplying. missiles and that capability from i am going to we do not even have the ability to transfer the human it's the missiles and we've managed to increase the missiles range. you're an analyst and director of the international center for human rights are the shias are desired they believe that yemen proves civilians are paying a high price for games saudi arabia and iran are playing in the middle east both contraries are trying to be the king of the middle is iran and. saudi are. in someone already declared that. iran is impossible so i can't predict that they will come up with there is a lucian but that's the best strategy for civilians in yemen and even in the in the area. football world cup host russia's narrowly lost

one of the tournament favorites argentina in a friendly match played at the newly revamped luzhniki stadium hawkins was at the game. the brutally cold wet weather here in moscow didn't dampen the fun spirit states and now it's all mass to see this spectacle of football at a new look refurbished revamps stadium and some of the much itself those hoping for a goal first would disappoint in the one goal coming violates all in the game from my grocer speciously pal before next year certainly there are some positives to take away as 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 what's the. last time i was here earlier this year the whole place was a building site evolution has been the fabric revamp and totally upgraded new pitch

new seats new roof condition the sixty fifth not the favorite in this game for many this is simply on miscible some of those will. stay with us for more stories after this short break. i think. the old situations are coming back on the stand pulpit better understand the russia is they are not in favor of it nato is coming good to live that it's good to the poor do for the shah but they'll be other side of think good thing came back to the old the repression of confrontation that's a mistake on the western side too especially by the americans but also on the other side. 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 war that's the big danger here this is not just about killing the u.k. deal this is automatically putting the united states on a course of the confrontation. forty years after the end of the vietnam war the u.s. has released a series of new videos of its military operations in the country voted shows american aircraft dropping force response and napalm during the bombing campaign in northern vietnam the videos were fielded nine hundred sixty five the same year the us formally introduced combat troops there during the vietnam war america faced

criticism for its use of chemical and biological weapons vietnam has become a testing ground for other sorts of weaponry. and. the kurds were people repeller produce the food affects of wandering soul in which haunting sounds said to represent the souls of dead were played in order to protect the superstitious snipers. who.

her. former nurse in germany could turn out to be the country's worst post-war serial killer recent toxicology tests reveal more than one hundred of his patients have been poisoned or to bring them back and being station of what happened next had been duly investigated at the time really considering slapping sanctions on the militia. if fighters in iraq feed. it was our hope for the country and the region no party has the right to think. that it is suddenly so we told secretary chiller said that aspirants trade is

concerned our trade with north korea has decreased significantly as far as the question about the embassy goes but embassy 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 support to go of our allies the european allies and others so much the case of the world. that this should be a really i mean really. to international community strongly behind the cool place and to deal. by staying with us here on r.t. international my colleague jacqueline vogel will be here to bring you right up to date at the top of the.

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time after time they were going underground as us president all trump continued his visit to vietnam where perhaps four million were 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 and forty six years ago today hundreds thompson's fear and loathing in las vegas was first published we speak to its award winning illustrator around stedman about artistic assassinations gonzo journalism and drawing trump as a baby i'm from the headlines will review another photo power from the foreign secretary and the new definition of strong and stable from the british government dollars or more coming up today's 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 don't have to thank so much for coming on before we go to the tragedy of yemen the riyadh washington intentions and just your take on how israel is

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

attitude continue you know mr bethell actually was it was clear she maintaining a completely different line of contact with israeli officials ministers just reminders of the significance of pretty patel a cabinet minister visiting the elite israeli illegally occupied part of syria's golan it you know it is a goal and it's really an extension of that wine and about this contact you have got is that with all these different people why do you think giving away six was incompetent here didn't sufficiently have the surveillance of a british cabinet minister or m i six didn't know that a cabinet minister was on the illegally or. it is it is if we don't know this is you know sit back if we know and they keep silent it's even worse so i believe definitely be should know she is a minister she's a company member and these al qaeda linked militants that are in the golan or it

during this period yes they are there are you know it is boiling area there is a war there and there are some. islamic state members who actually infiltrate that region there.