two of the biggest in the middle east iran. other countries in the. highly anticipated meeting between. the chatter on the sidelines. and agreed to cooperate on syria. the us.

thanks for joining us your time is good for the weekly top headlines of the week the main stories of today. the geo political rivalry between two of the middle east power players saudi arabia and iran has been destabilizing other regional players for example. in just the latest development. the defense ministry in the yemeni capital it was back in march twenty fifteen saudi arabia launched. by iran yemeni civilians have also been affected by the latest bombing here's what they told. but then a second rocket hits 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 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 wants me to do my head in lac were injured our houses were destroyed this is the result of aggression how houses and 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 who people i think saudi arabia quick to blame it on iran saying around the record we support the who things later a senior u.s. air force official claimed the ballistic missile back in may you know. great the markings on the business. that's been demonstrated and there are pictures that take that to mean that connects the dots to iran in terms of who's supplying. missiles and that capability of some i am going to end that war that we do not even have the ability to transfer missiles to yemen it's the missiles and they've managed to

increase the missiles range. now has a look at the escalating tensions between two of the biggest players in the middle east recently barely a day seems to go by without saudi arabia making headlines and it almost always boils down to it's enemy iran it is a game of chess that spans an entire region on every front in every country the saudis see iran's evil influence. the huth the rebels in yemen who saudi arabia has been bombing for many years fire a rocket at riyadh that the saudis could only describe as a rainy an aggression the saudis also ready to throw their allies under the bus to

create an excuse to denigrate iran. q the lebanese prime minister holding a successful meeting with the iranians and then going to saudi arabia and out of the blue without warning declaring his resignation while lou inching into a tirade about evil raney an influence plunging the region into chaos and destruction. were overrun his presence it will discordant destruction of. our countries in lebanon syria. yemen where i would like to be iran and its followers that they would lose in their. you lose a poor and gain an opening then there's the blockade of cattle. a trade embargo seva ties ultimatums and warnings punishment some say for

cata daring to deal with the rain ians and then there's syria the saudi sponsored rebellion is dying the hardest allies losing an aside is winning and while syria may have unexpectedly checkmated riyadh here the saudis are ramping up attacks on iran on other fronts truly this is an international game of chess with nations and populations at stake ironic given that last year so dear aby as highest islamic cleric battened the chess saying that the game causes and miti and hatred between people and even when played on a giant geopolitical scale well it looks like he was right. the sudden resignation announcement made by the lebanese prime minister from the

saudi capital which my dad just mentioned has also significantly added to the tensions as been speculation that saudi arabia could be holding saad hariri against his will riyadh denies the allegation however the leader of lebanon's political and military has bought a movement. has accused the saudis of unprecedented into ferrand's. the lebanese prime minister was forced to resign then 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. mentioned saudi arabia has denied all claims it's holding korea against his will but riyadh's closest ally of the united states only to the confusion in terms of the conditions of him being held or the conversations of your visions of him being held as who is he and

detention. i'm not going to put that word behi i'm i'm not going to associate that word with that but where he is right now where is he because you have a nice room i was invited to but i don't know personally where he is meanwhile the saudi arabia and its allies kuwait the united arab emirates and rain have ordered their citizens to leave lebanon immediately and we asked our 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 are not respective little clue is an easy shot 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 ne in the emerging

you'll be the least they've lost in syria because of the feel of the dash project they'd lost in iraq i was just back from baghdad and the talk in baghdad is about not buckin as they should but about iraqi national unity they lost again with the blockade against got there they are losing the war on yemen which is horrifying we then saw of thousands of civilian casualties and supported by the u.s. congress for that matter and use the 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 is still is the same old story the saudi arabia against 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 was jailed former leaders the demonstration was held on catalonia as national day and

attracted seven hundred fifty thousand people. i thank god if we are here to have a free country list endless pushed him on key and all of the cattle in government are in our hearts then i went to all of the demonstrations because i want my grandsons to have a life that we didn't have. i was here to defend politics defend those currently in prison and to defend democracy and. to find human rights if i was you chose a lot. of them children they featured this week pro independence protests ended in clashes with police as activists tried to block railway stations in the cities of both boss alone. i.

i. i the standoff took place after a general strike brought much of the region to hold with activists blocking crucial transport networks in major cities again in protest over the jailing of former regional leaders madrid accuses them of rebellion and sedition and as an old catalonia as declaration of independence several former catalan leaders including the ex president fled to belgium where they're now awaiting a decision on their fate mayo's from a number of catalan towns arrived in brussels to voice support for that deposed colleagues a face day rally staged by spanish unity supporters and we spoke to an r k a catalan spokesperson for the european partnership for independence and she joined us from one of the pro independence demonstrations. i guess i should thank you deborah the graphic horse ride back on you to stand on obviously

was not god god was just you know god and yet i don't know. how you write it's a very good thing for him probably that for the spine to say to pretty sad and soon made me believe that they are the ones bringing peace when they are the ones bringing nevada and i know who you are being a nun you know just imagine way cats i mean sleepers show respect to this day. morrow morning so national security is. so many under universal right in there. are legitimate. and i believe. our sister channel america has been given until monday to register as a foreign agent in america that's on the orders of the u.s. justice department which set the deadline for thursday november the ninth if r.t.

america fails to do so which 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 cotton of a reports. a news channel but at the moment who we are in fact is the news the mounting pressure on our t. as this week cominius it and an ultimatum sent to us by the u.s. 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 out of her into the channel is being forced into conditions and wish cannot war with the suitable to me 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

its contract 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 to destroying us as mass media. at the moment russian lawmakers are drafting tit for tat measures targeting american finance media in russia while there is a list of candidates that might be had by those 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 u.s. 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 pressure has been mounting on r.t.

ever since we were accused of somehow making us voters to strummed 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 doesn't it and that u.s. lawmakers in are 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 now vice presidential candidate for the green party in the twenty sixth election the crackdown on r.t.m. america calling it quote outrageous mobarak also said that media outlets like c.n.n. in the new york times should be registered as quote agents of capitalism because they received huge amounts of funding from various private enterprises but we spoke to various analysts for their reaction. well this is absolutely outrageous i think we could quit but it really is my coffee on steroids now as an. audience share in

america and around the world in our t. puts that 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 artie's 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. . so donald trump and a lot of. the apec summit in vietnam only briefly but productively will give you details and i. think. the. situations are coming.

if they are not in favor of the nato is coming. to the board for the show but the other side of. the old. confrontation that's a mistake of the west especially by the americans but also on the other side. one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence is not an understatement to say the russian revolution. was a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russian.

with us today for your world news u.s. president donald trump says better with russia are essential when it comes to solving world crises like syria and north korea he was speaking a day after the apec summit in vietnam we have to get to work to solve syria just north korea to solve ukraine to solve terrorism and i feel that having russia in a friendly 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. also stressed the need to overcome disagreement over alleged russian meddling in the u.s. elections the formal meeting between the russian and u.s. presidents had been highly anticipated they were never actually happened apparently

to show you are willing problems nevertheless the two leaders did briefly catch up on the sidelines of the summit and that was enough for them to approve a joint statement on the situation in syria in fact they both determination to defeat islamic state presidents also agreed that there can be no military solution to syria they also said that the final political settlement should be found through the geneva talks format and stressed that syria is still a sovereign country we discussed the latest joint statement approved by trump and putin with british i mean. he says america and russia realize that cooperation is necessary. 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 nuzzi to each other that does nobody any good if all of the sides involved understand that america and russia and the rest

of the countries in 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 come to an understanding on this. visiting the apec summit was a part of trump's first asia trip as president and throughout the trip the north korean question remained a key topic with the war of words between both sides heating up once again saturday kim jong un's government stated that quote reckless remarks by an old lunatic meaning donald trump will never scare pyongyang or stop its nuclear advance. that trump questioned in his tweet the need of the north korean leader calling him old when he quote never would have called him short and fat or throughout the trip he claimed numerous times that all options against north korea are on the table and

that the country should not underestimate the united states we discussed trumps rhetoric on north korea but dr mark shanahan professor of international relations at redding university he believes tough talk won't do 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 this in relation to the side that you have been enemies enemy is north korea and where the. fences or defensive in the 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 in front of the leaders there where he tends to come out rhetoric quite

a lot like. german police are investigating claims organized criminal groups of infiltrated their ranks and other states over says that's after a police union stated that members of an arab underworld and managed to sneak an insider into the berlin force. no clear indications the 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 berlin's police chief has denied the allegations now the scandal came just two days after the city's police academy was accused of enrolling violent and criminal trainees who were all over investigations. 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 ruptured into a deeply embarrassing scandal the 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 is to. of. it because in the police academy the new government in berlin has less. reform.

for the first stone port three percent for 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 in 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 the police 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. go to who are these our big mafia clowns 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 in law enforcement and the citizens of berlin. well to know if the police force is being compromised by criminals these are all of a lid. on tuesday russia the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and he's been running a real time historical news feed on twitter you can still follow it actually the

hash tag nineteen seventeen to find out how events were unfolding minute by minute one hundred years ago on the feed right now continue the revolutionary forces now controlling the main streets around the kremlin in the event capitals in speedos bug the anti bolshevik press is shut down for fear mongering with fake news. now you may be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november that's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one hundred seventeen that's november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar used by most of the world today is a short recap of what happened in russia back then. it's october one thousand nine hundred seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning

points in its history the country had been turned upside down by the february revolution and exhausted by the first world war the whole country floundered in a cold and of anarchy enormous russia bearing the new world rise in pain zhan eclipse the second living in exile in siberia with his family following his abdication seven months ago the provisional government occupying the russian monex main residency the winter palace moderately liberal and aiming to create a new constitution then there frenemies the petrograd soviet group formed of workers and soldiers the two institutions are supposed to share power but in reality are competing for it and that's where the bolsheviks and vladimir lenin come in. it must be explained to the masses that the soviet of workers' deputies is the only possible form of revolutionary government place power in the

hands of the proletariat and the poor a structure of the peasantry the bolsheviks promises essentially boiled down to this power to the soviets peace to nations lands of peasants and bread to the hungry it took them just two days to come to power on october twenty fourth and twenty fifth they swiftly seized post offices key railway stations the state bank the port and other strategic locations across the city at a quarter to ten pm a blank shot fired from cruise aurora signaling the stars of the storming of the winter palace by two am on the twenty sixth of october the revolutionaries occupied it and arrested the provisional government the new bolshevik government was formed with lenin at the helm. for a more detailed look checkout all to use online project reconstructing this critical chapter in russian history at nineteen seventeen dot com for the meanwhile

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polystyrene these batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor there was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the berm pids would really literally send a be a pro and they don't want to pay it so the wady and decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they won't have to pay and. call for help and get the know hear their views and model is. delayed and i hope you die. by 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 city or this is automatically putting the united states on a car or similar issue. like so many who tumbled into the world events depressants without forethought david carr michael did so unaware of the potential dangers when i was on paxil we had no idea katrina delusions or none of that was out in the public to me for so many years you just assume my doctor knew best and then about the side effects hardware it's like i can't just immediately i'm too busy worrying when everything happened and i had just finished grade eight for my friends who knew my father and they just knew that something was wrong because they knew who my dad wise and you just would never in a million years think that he would do something that he did. currently was a high priority of mine to be the best person passes.