moment of the twentieth century how did it change russia. hundreds of thousands in barcelona demand the release of catalonia has jailed former leaders as the region remains in a deep political crisis. a lot of real putin says the u.s. is attacking free speech by forcing our teacher breakfast or as a foreign agent having a tit for tat response from russia is on the table. the u.s. military steps up its efforts to militarize space splashing the cash a new orbital warfare capabilities. and unexploded rocket is filmed on the streets of yemen's capital just a day after saudi led airstrikes hit the defense ministry there.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from the russian capital i'm jack and thanks for joining us this hour. massive crowds have turned out to protest in barcelona demanding the release of catalonia is jailed former leaders the demonstration was held in catalonia as national day and attracted a whopping seven hundred fifty thousand people. over. the rally was led by the relatives of the politicians jailed by madrid for the role they played in the region's independence referendum last month speakers read out letters some of the politicians wrote from prison earlier the region's declaration of independence was formally unveiled by madrid local journalists even. has been

following the protests for us 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 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 and put it that there was actually released yesterday by the spanish cards on bail we are still waiting what's going to happen with the others but if we are here to have a free country we stand with the morning in chile and all of the cattle in government are in our hearts through this i went to all of the demonstrations because i long to my grandsons to have a life that we didn't have before i was here to defend defend those currently in prison and to defend democracy and. to find human rights for all of you chose. a future the process was actually quite

peaceful and very very emotional people are putting the 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 divorce or saying we want our president bush them all back in catalonia we want him with us so as you can you can see as you could hear day screaming that they were holding papers liberty they were holding papers free them they were saying that they were on their children to grow up in democracy. here's a quick recap of what's happened in catalonia over the past month or so elect tobar first the region held an independence referendum marred by violence police crackdowns 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 last week eight former catalin ministers

were jailed on charges of sedition and rebellion the following day madrid issued a european arrest. warrant for the region sacked leader on friday the catalan parliament spokesperson was released on bail. attacks on r.t. in the us are equal to attacks 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 fifty students short 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 it's not going to our media in the us is making a mistake and 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 our team america our u.s. brands 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 a normas 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 us has to do with an ongoing 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 us a lot of our 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 and american presidents 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 while adding the final political settlement should be found through the geneva negotiations format british french says resulting the crisis will prove hard especially if russia and the u.s. remain at odds. but the talking about is getting closer together and we're going on diplomatic solutions to problems not just in the middle east book around the world the fact is if we have an america bearing. that does nobody any good if all of the sides involved understand that a medical 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 to get

there 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 consumed the standing on this. a much anticipated formal meeting between the two presidents never happened yet the pair did bump into each other more than once. with.

plans to create a six the 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 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 more august and 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 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 n a 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 u.s. put several mysterious satellites into orbit not your usual kind the ones that watch earth know these apparently monitor other 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 u.s. 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 see the moves a peaceful to sue peaceful in the pentagon the 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 to me just think of the message these sends ready set arms race. videos been released of an unexploded rocket reportedly fired by saudi forces laying in the streets of the yemeni capital the head of the bomb disposal team claims the rocket was likely targeting a police academy in the area it comes just a 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 how locals describe the abouts. and then a second rocket hit 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 to the fear that i had weapons so. i want them to watch this i have

nothing to do this is just a house and i'm appalled. that i would feel if you knew i had an leg were injured our houses were destroyed this is the result of aggression how how is this in there were affected by the strike. riyadh has intensified its bombardment of yemen in response to a missile fired towards the saudi capital a week ago by with in brussels saudi arabia was quick to blame it on the ramp thing to iran supports who think five years later a senior u.s. air force official said the ballistic missile had been made in the ramp denies the accusations. integrated markings on the business. that's been demonstrated. architectures that take that to me that connects the two to iran in terms of supplying. missiles and that capability of someone i am going to end it which we do not even have the ability to transfer. the missiles and they've managed to increase

the missiles range. iran analyst and director of the international center for human rights are to share as our zonday believes 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 east iraq and saudi arabia and the. long only to the clerics that iran is impossible so i can't predict that they will come up with there is a lucian but that's the best is threatening for civilians in yemen and even in the area. football world cup hosts russia's narrowly lost to one of the tournaments favorites argentina and a friendly at the newly revamped luzhniki stadium daniel hawkins was following the match for us. but the brits and the 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 not in the game from my gross especially perhaps from old from an offside position but russia despite struggling in would feel that especially attack pushovers in the second off they did play but they created some soldiers from counter attacks on the taser and threatening the audience on goal as well so low there is much to improve on 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 way for the wall cup next year. the. last time i was here earlier this year the whole place was

a building site now evolution he has been the fabric revamped and totally upgraded new pitch new seats new roof conditioning the way it has really been with. him the people writing zoology team is full in the world russia is sixty fifth not the favorites in this game the for many the chance to see leisure in spain that should messi i do well it is simply miscible some of those we can use now to play here in russia it's gearing up to be a real festival. coming up in the program a former nurse in germany could turn out to be the worst serial killer in the country since world war two that story and more after a short break. i

think. the old situations are coming and the stand pulpit understand that a shock is they are not in favor of the nato is coming good to live that it's good to the border for the shut up of the other side i think it think a bank the old impression of confrontation that's a mistake on the western side specially by the americans but also on the other side . i fear that we may see the iranians taking the first steps towards restarting the new fearful ground which will only further ratchet up tensions and further increase the risk of one big danger here this is not just about killing the deal this is automatically putting the united states on a course of the competition. welcome

back over 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. the footage shows american aircraft dropping phosphorus bombs and napalm during the bombing campaign in northern vietnam the videos were filmed in one thousand 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 but the it also became a testing ground for other sorts of weapons. and

. the kurds or people repel or produced 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. her. a 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 peter all over has the details pale as a 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 would happen 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 that 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 at the time even in golden horse hospital when the deaths of many patients in our opinion could have been prevented by august of this year the forty year old was implicated in nineteen 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 as far afield as poland and turkey prosecutors say they've linked germany's noxious nurse to one hundred and

six cases their first to admit that they may never know the true number of people he murdered people of berlin. washington has been urging iraq to pull shia militias backed by iran out of the country now that their anti ice on mission is over the u.s. congress is currently considering slapping think sions on the militias however the response from baghdad has been harsh and it seems several other countries are also not exactly on the same page as washington. it is for the fighters in iraq to see to go ahead allow the iraqi people are we going to try is that if it all works as it was.

popular mobilization fighters should be encouraged because it was a hope for the country and the region no party has the right to interfere in iraqi affairs. and there was a critic in the seventies that we told secretary tillerson that aspires trade is concerned our trade with north korea has decreased significantly as far as the question about the embassy goes but our embassy there is very small but there is in fact an embassy i told secretary tillerson that some other friendly countries should maintain embassies there. would be the support i think of our allies the european allies and others could

make the case in the world. that in this scenario really has to be revisited. and. we have to international community strongly behind the cool implementation of the deal. that's a wrap up of the news for this hour but don't forget you can head to our web site r t v dot com for all of those stories and more or you can find us on any of your favorite social media platforms i'll be back with more on today's headlines in about thirty minutes. thank you.

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can all middle of the room sick. to leave room for the real new. one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence is not an understatement to say the russian revolution or bolshevik could a top was a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russia. hey

remember gold. yeah well you know it doesn't get a lot of buyers out there and now on google we see that the search for buy bitcoin is assuming ahead of buy gold and other stuff big data analysis max it's almost like you knew my headline before i even got to it that is my first headline in fact the headline reads by big queen overtakes by gold as on line search phrase adequate into the list of things denting gold appeal bull yon's rally faltered in the past

two months as the dollar strengthened and global equities set new records while concerns over breaks and cuts a loonie as push for independence fail to drum up notable haven demand now between surge is attracting investor interest toward the crypto currency and away from the metal the biggest online vaulting service said this is in the united kingdom in they say that crypto currencies have kind of dented the appeal of gold right all the millennia who grow up online and with apps the app economy then a stand technology and they understand bitcoin and they're flocking into bitcoin and right now big going to market cap is about one to two percent that of gold ever gold is worth seven trillion dollars let's call it a bit coin is above one hundred billion of trying to get to two hundred billion but that's quite a gap in order to close that gap in order to see it going truly equal gold and market cap we're going to have to see bitcoin trade above one hundred thousand dollars

a coin just to get just to get started i think to try to achieve complete parity it actually would trade higher higher than that but you know we've got a ways to go yet. but we've made an excellent start affairs for a few years of because. i mean just think about the price rise kind of gives me the vapors like colin powell remember that is like oh there's no weapons of mass destruction i got the vapors swell up well in fact on the screen you should see a chart here if all goes according to plan in the edit suite and that is the bitcoin outperforms gold you'll see gold is up eleven percent so far this year whereas of course between has risen seven fold and according to google trends max global searches for buy bitcoin have overtaken by gold after previously exceeding searches for how to purchase silver last month the amount of gold changing hands on bully involves online trading platform dropped by almost.