checkmated riyadh here the saudis are ramping up attacks on iran on other fronts trudi this is an international game of chess with nations and populations at stake ironic given that last year saudi arabia has highest islamic cleric battened chess saying that the game causes and hatred between people and even when played on a giant geo political scale well it looks like he was right. the sudden resignation announcement made by the lebanese prime minister from the saudi capital which might just mentioned has been well it's also significantly adding to the tensions has been speculation that saudi arabia could be holding saddam against his will riyadh denies that allegation however the leader of lebanon's political and military has a ball of movement hassan nasrallah has accused the saudis of unprecedented

interference. the lebanese prime minister was forced to resign and he read a statement that was dictated by them he was placed under house arrest and prevented from returning to his country it's obvious that saudi arabia declared war on the entire nation of lebanon not just has been. as we've mentioned saudi arabia has denied all claims it's holding her or against his will but riyadh's closest ally of the united states only added to the confusion. in terms of the conditions of him being held or the conversations of the conditions of him being in the world is you know detention well. i'm not going to put that word behi i'd i'm not going to associate that word with that but where he is right now where is he was you know in this room i was writing about it and i i don't know personally where he is meanwhile the saudi arabia and its allies kuwait the united arab emirates and bahrain have ordered their citizens to leave lebanon quote immediately and we asked

various experts about the possible reasons for the current escalation between saudi arabia and iran riyadh is rolling out an entirely new plan no to create chaos in the region where a recount and lebanon will not risk which even the flu is an easy short it's a low hanging fruit there is a great momentum right now as i'm speaking this week in saudi arabia to try and create some sort of military strategy against iran to destabilize around or or any of iran's proxies in the region saudi arabia is isolated in the in the emerging new we believe they've lost in syria because of the feel of the dash project they've lost in iraq i was just back from baghdad and the talk in baghdad is about not the vulcanization but about iraqi national unity they lost again with the blockade against got there they are losing the war only yemen which is horrifying we then

saw thousands of civilian casualties and supported by the u.s. congress for that matter and using american weapons and u.k. weapons and now they're trying to change the narrative they're bringing the run they're trying to ratchet up a confrontation involving lebanon which is caught in the crossfire and it still is the same old story the saudi arabia yes the iran and countries seen the middle east states are going to be caught in the crossfire. on saturday night a massive crowd turned out in barcelona demanding the release of catalonia is jailed former leaders the demonstration was held on catalonia as national day and attracted seven hundred fifty thousand people. i was thinking. that if we are here to have a free country what we stand with pushed him on his key and all of the cattle in government are in our hearts we need to do this i went to all of the demonstrations

the is a long time glad sonce to have allies that we didn't have if i were here to defend politics defend those currently in prison and to defend democracy and. to find human rights vile if you chose to our culture and use all of them to flower children and they featured earlier this week pro independence protests ended in clashes with police as activists tried to block railway stations in the cities of both barcelona and. i. took place after a general strike brought much of the region to a standstill with activists blocking crucial transport networks in major cities again in protest over the jailing of regional leaders madrid accuses them of rebellion and sedition and as an old catalonia as declaration of independence now several catalan leaders including the ex president fled to belgium where they're

now awaiting a decision on their fate and mayors from a number of cattle and towns arrived in brussels to voice their support for the deposed colleagues they faced a rally staged by spanish unity supporters we spoke to anna ok a catalan spokesperson for the european partnership for independence she joined us from one of the pro independence protests. thank you deborah graphic for a. ride back on you do so obviously i don't want to talk you know i was not god god this guy i don't know god because i don't. it's an outbreak it's very great to garden for him probably that for the spine of the state to preach to make believe that they are the ones bringing peace when they are the ones bringing the bar and i know barring any money you know just some other way the

pats are on institution to spend just a little rice due for no morning so national trade these days songs that baby fat and i'm promoting sound so many shown on duty by some rugs in that i get to mess them up and then i believe our. sister channel america has been given until monday to register as a foreign agent in the united states that is on the orders of the us justice department which set the deadline on thursday november the ninth now if america fails to do so its bank accounts could be frozen the order was made on the legislation adopted more than seventy years ago before world war two to counter nazi propaganda in america. medina caution of i now looking at the reactions to the move. we are a news channel but at the moment we are in fact the news the mounting pressure an

r.t. as this week cominius it and an ultimatum sent to us by the us justice department r t america has been required to register as a foreign agent in the united states by monday with been left with no other choice but to comply but artie's adventure into the channel is being forced into conditions in wish. war. just imagine you work in the media and have to sign everything you do with foreign agent or produced by a foreign agent how does it feel for any media outlet to disclose its personal data it's dropped to have to declare any interviews that you do to ministries and institutions this can be called part of the job these conditions are aimed at destroying us as mass media. at the moment russian lawmakers are drafting tit for tat measures targeting american finance media in russia well there is a list of candidates that might be headed by vote and among them are c.n.n.

and voice of america radio liberty and its korean toin television channel but the crackdown on r t n the us poses some very uncomfortable questions. soonish to 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 it's not going to our media in the us is making a mistake an attack on freedom of speech itself the. pressure has been mounting on r.t. ever since we were accused of somehow making us voters too strong over hillary last year but can one channel really will that much power or is this just in a town to sell i fell alternative fuse and pressure on the russian media does not and u.s. lawmakers are now considering

a bill that would give satellite providers the right to block channels funded by the kremlin the document was submitted by sen john mccain. all the steps in the outrageous i think we could quit the coffee is what it really is my coffees are on steroids now is an. audience share in america and around the world it ought he puts a different narrative out to the war party narrative on issues like the syrian conflict for example so i think the war mongers in the us a very angry that all been so successful i have no personal link with russia and i'm not paid to appear i'm asked an opinion i give the opinion i've never been censored and i've never been edited i cannot say the same for my own personal experiences and appearances on c.n.n. or even here in london on b.b.c. . one of the hour here in the russian capital so i was donald trump and a lot of my appearance paths well they crossed at the apec summit in vietnam only briefly but productively i'll give you details just.

manufacture consent to stick to the public will. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the final merry go round. we can all middle of the room sit. room. i think. the old situations are coming the stand. is they are not in favor of the nato is coming. to the border for the shah but of

the other side i think if they came back the old oppression ofcom from patient. that's a mistake of the west especially by the americans the holes on the other side. thanks for joining us on this sunday u.s. president donald trump says better relations with russia are essential when it comes to solving world crises like syria and north korea he was speaking a day off to the apec summit in vietnam we have to get to work to solve syria to solve north korea to solve ukraine to solve terrorism and i feel that having russia in a friendly posture as opposed to always fighting with them is an asset to the world and an asset to our country not a liability getting along with other nations is

a good thing not a bad thing believe me donald trump also stressed the need to have a calm disagreement over alleged russian meddling in the u.s. elections a formal meeting between the russian and the u.s. presidents had been highly anticipated there never really happened apparently. problems. nevertheless the two leaders did briefly catch up on the summit sidelines and that was enough time for them to approve a joint statement on the situation in syria but they both confirm that determination to defeat islamic state presidents also agreed to be no military solution to the syrian conflict they also said that the final political settlement should be found through that of the geneva talks format and stressed that syria is still a software and country well we discussed the joint statement approved by both trump and putin with british i mean. he says that resolving the crisis will prove

especially if russia and the u.s. remain at all over certain issues. well that's all 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 are in america bidding it seemed to be to the death does nobody any good if all of the sides involved understand that a medicare and russia and the rest of the countries from the west all actually on the same side eventually they have to be a rapprochement and they have to understand that they will have to wait to get that it's not going to be because these things never particularly in the middle east it will have to happen and it's a good sign that american and russia have consumed the standing on this visiting the apec summit was a part of asia trip as president and throughout the visit to the north korean question remained a key topic with the war of words between the two sides heating up yet again on

saturday kim jong un's government stated that quote reckless remarks by an old lunatic meaning donald trump will never scare pyongyang off stop its nuclear advance. donald trump questioned in his tweet the need of the north korean leader calling him when he quote never would have called him short and fat. well throughout the trip he claimed numerous times that all options against pyongyang are on the table and that the country should never underestimate the united states we discussed the trumps rhetoric on north korea with dr mark shanahan a professor of international relations at reading university he believes that trumps tough talking won't bring any good. trumps rhetoric particularly when he's not speaking face to face to the leaders of those countries he's all about ramping up the level of broadness in relation to the side that he has an enemy that enemy is north korea and where there. is. or

defensive in his missile games that he's playing at the moment trump has decided that the way that he's going to school with this space at home is to make him look like the worst enemy possible and to talk tough talking tough doesn't quite work in the same way when he gets to run through the eight leaders though where he tends to come out rhetoric quite a lot like. german police are investigating claims that are organized criminal groups of people traded their ranks and other state services that's after a police union stated that members of an arab underworld manisha sneak an insider into the berlin force their clear indications that large arab clans have an infiltration strategy and try to keep certain family members away from criminal activities so that they can later infiltrate state services. however berman's police chief has denied all the allegations the scandal came just two days after

the city's police academy was accused of enrolling violent and criminal trainees peter all over investigates. amid accusations they were violent or even criminal recruits in its academy things were already looking bad for berlin's police force but now it's got a whole lot worse with the arrest of an intern which is a reported into a deeply embarrassing scandal a twenty year old female student is accused of illegally copying photos of people wanted in a police operation and sending them on it's alleged she was planted in the force by one of the city's notorious our mafia clans we forwarded the allegations to the police and this was all we received a response berlin police have launched a criminal investigation into a twenty year old student from the berlin school of economics and law she's accused of revealing state secrets is it true that the suspect has migrant roots yes.

those who devote their time to studying the mafia clans of berlin say attempts to increase diversity in the police as left the door open to infiltration the way to. the police academy the new government in berlin. before the. v. for the first phone port to three percent of. people by dilution big crowd who accept that it's was. good for them to. prefer doing last week an anonymous letter was sent to the berlin chief of police purporting to be from a long serving detective it claimed that arabic mafia families were using the

berlin academy to infiltrate the force something the city's police union says that currently isn't any proof of. at the moment we do not have any cases where there is clear evidence of that but we do understand that criminal organizations like these clans have an incentive to try and infiltrate government organizations like your police and sort of and that's why it's so important during training that we identify who belongs as part of the police force and who does not. who are these our big mafia clown that it's claimed run ins criminal underworld among us an example of it's impossible to put a percentage figure on how much criminality they account for but if you look into it then yes they are present in all different types of crime revenues drugs racketeering prostitution criminal revenue streams. and it's for those reasons that people directly involved. the issue of european identity european. values what it

means to be european and that very interesting philosophical question was right at the center of the still is at the center of the ukrainian call flick three years ago one of the proudest started gathering at my town square in kiev it was formulated roughly like that here is a dark and oppressive russia or here is a bright and shiny european free loving your crane in the middle now that ukraine has been freed from the deadly embrace of russia what's next what's next for ukraine what's next for europe what's next for russia i think is the perception of they will come for example a lot of mistakes think sometimes. it is not the us that is that with the russians that some things like crimea and some of them critically seen by international law but i think that a lot of mistakes on the western side there's a difference asians or western side think the americans have as

a bit the perception that's not mine and i think it's a holds them up to the perception of the whole europeans i think there's a tendency to to look at the things like the break but where does it come from because we are all we thought at least that we were all adults sure russia has its challenges fit their rule of law with building of its institutions with the authoritarian tendencies in its government but i think it was really striving throughout the ninety's to do something of itself and all of a sudden in two thousand and thirteen we heard that we were there is back or the process of people who don't give a hack about anything good in this world why did it come from this is a result of a kind of simplification of riches down of the western side. i think you think it was jan you know was it deliberate. i think it was not delivered that there was it changed never really i didn't see asian was not really seen i think

maybe of time nobody really either on the e.u. side nor in russia side realize that it was actually approaching that very critical confrontational moment and i want to ask you about the second part of these manichean image of the bride in shiny european union where did that image come from because the european union as successful as it was it was also having its own struggles do you think the clash over ukraine had anything to do with is own internal doubt i don't think so i think of first a little left to say quite straight the no litterbug to crane within the european union is very limited i think they have no good.