really. look at the special little. a proxy war between two of the biggest powers in the middle east iran and saudi arabia has escalated directly affecting other countries in the region. thank almost a million people have taken to the streets of barcelona outraged at madrid's crackdown on form of have to learn leaders who were behind the region's independence declaration. a highly anticipated formal meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin fails to materialize though the pad did chart on the fine lines of the apec summit and agreed to cooperate on syria. the u.s.

justice department demands r.t. america registers as registered as a foreign agent by monday if found to comply the channels bank accounts could be frozen. a very warm welcome you are watching the weekly here on r.t. international the day's headlines and a breakdown of the stories that shape the week and the caring. but geopolitical rivalry between two of the middle east's main powers saudi arabia and iran has been destabilizing other regional players yemen and lebanon. and the latest development saudi led as strikes targeted the defense ministry in the yemeni capital it was back in march twenty fifteen this saudi arabia first began its incursion into yemen by launching an act pain against the rebels who are

backed by iran yemeni civilians have also been affected by the latest saudi led bombings here's what they told our sister channel r.t. arabic. my house was destroyed i'm just an ordinary person in the 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 this is just a house and i'm a poor person but i was fairly new my head and legs were injured our houses were destroyed this is the result of aggression how how's this 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 his the rebels saudi arabia was quick to blame it on a wrong saying to iran directly supports the who thinks later a senior u.s.

air force official claims the ballistic missile had been made in iran birth integrated markings on the business. that's been demonstrated and there are pictures that depict that to me that connects the dots to iran terms of supplying. missiles and that capability from i am going to end that war which 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. artie's mark gasnier takes a look at the current 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 its arch 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 who's the rebels in yemen who saudi arabia has been bombing for many years fire a rocket riyadh that the saudis could only describe as a rainy an aggression the saudis also ready to throw that allies under the bus to create an excuse to denigrate iran. cue 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 never iran is present 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 ass ad 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 dia arabia has

highest islamic cleric battened 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 unexpected resignation of the lebanese prime minister has only added to the tensions there's been speculation that saudi arabia could be holding hariri against his will riyadh has denying to the claims however the leader of lebanon's political and military hezbollah movement has accused the saudis of unprecedented interference. 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. despite saudi arabia's repeated

denials it's holding her very against his will the country's closest ally the u.s. added to the confusion in terms of the conditions of him being held or the conversations that visions of him being held as you can depend. that i'm not going to put that word behi out i'm not going to associate that word with that but where he is right now where is he is you have a nice room i was right i don't know personally where he is or saudi arabia and its allies kuwait the united arab emirates found bahrain have ordered their citizens to leave lebanon immediately wells to analysts for that take on the current situation between saudi arabia and iran. riyad is rolling out an entirely new plan no to create chaos in the region where a recount and lebanon and not respective little clue is an easy shot it's 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 they're talking about that is about not when i was asian 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 using american weapons and nuclear weapons and now they're trying to change the narrative their brain in 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 is saudi arabia against the run and countries see in 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 khan's alone he has jailed a formal leader is a demonstration was held on catalonia as national day and attracted almost a million people. i. we're here to have a free country at risk and with a push to mourn your key and all of the catalan government are in our hearts we need this i went to all of the demonstrations because i want my grandsons to have a life that we didn't have. that was we here to defend our politics defend those currently. reason to differ in democracy and here we do fight for our human rights violation you chose our culture. for our children if you got

a spanish prime minister is now in barcelona he's attending a presentation of his party's candidates for the upcoming regional election vowing to end quote separatist the whole hosting the gathering is full of people supporting spanish integrity there waving both national and catalan flags. early this week pro independence protests sparked clashes with police as activists try to block railway stations in the cities of barcelona and you were. a standoff took place after a general strike brought much of the region to a halt when 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 has an old castle only as declaration of independence several former catalan leaders including the ex president fled to belgium where

they're now waiting a decision on their face mare's from a number of catalan towns arrived in brussels to voice support for their deposed colleagues they say still rally staged by spanish unity supporters on friday x. catalan parliamentary speaker has been released from prison on a one hundred fifty thousand bail out as a number of former counsel and lawmakers still remain behind bars we spoke to r.k. castle and spokes person for the european partnership for independence she joined us from one of the pro independence protests in consequence capital. of the regressive course. so obviously. not. it's just not right it's an it's an outrage it's very gritty garden for him for that for the span of this day to

preach to make believe that they are the ones reagan peace when they are the ones bringing the violence barring in an illegitimate way the cats are an institution that spans just a morally has to do for oh lord international treaties that day. that they'd be fair number of all the servants omen asia and the universe are right in that pond i legitimately endeavor to answer my little. sister channel r.t. america has been given and so monday to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. but on the orders of the u.s. justice department if r.t. america fails to do so is bank accounts could be frozen the order was made and the legislation adopted more than seventy years ago before the second world war to counter nazi propaganda machine a cartoon of a looks at the reaction to the move. we are

a news channel but at the moment we are in fact the news the mounting pressure on r.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 adventure into the channel is being forced into conditions and wish it simply cannot 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 trucked 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 there might be headed 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 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 but 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 say i fell alternatives. will bring you more of this week's headlines in

just a moment including donald trump and father me of parenting crossing part of the apec summit in vietnam and hundreds of u.s. navy forces being investigated for bribery and what's being called the worst corruption scandal in american maritime history do stay with us for those stories. that i was telling you on the idea the dropping bridge to the chicken or forcing you to fight the battle. for the value of because of what. has been telling you and i like. that we all. know what.

i think. the all situations are coming out of the stand. understand the russia is they are not in favor of the nato is coming directly to the border for russia but of the other side i think it came back to the old question of confrontation that's a mistake of the rest of the special by the americans also on the other side. welcome back u.s. president donald trump has said better relations with russia would be key to solving world crises like syria and north korea he was speaking a day off for 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 a formal meeting between the russian and the u.s. presidents have been highly anticipated though it never happened apparently due to shuttling problems nevertheless the two leaders did briefly catch up on the summit sidelines and released a joint statement on the situation in syria. confirms that determination to defeat islamic state the president's also agree to that can be no military solution to the syrian conflict they also said a final political settlement should be found through the geneva talks format and stressed syria's still a sovereign country well parsers i mea p. re french believes washington and moscow realize cooperation is necessary. but the

talking about is getting closer together and working on diplomatic solutions to problems not just in the middle east book around the world the fact is if we have russia and america. that does nobody any good if all of the sides involved on the stone but america and russia and the rest of the countries in the west all are actually on the same side here eventually they have severe uprush more 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 but it will have to happen and it's a good sign and america and russia have control understanding on this and the last leg of his asian tour donald trump landed in the philippines today but he didn't get the warmest of welcomes on the capital streets was. was hundreds of people descended on the u.s. embassy in manila to protest against the visit riot police used water cannon to

push the crown back. muscle bribery and fraud has engulfed the u.s. navy that's according to prosecutors in the so-called facts leonard case who've now revealed the true extent of the scandal their little inquiry took place more than four years ago when twenty eight personnel including two admirals were indicted but now it's transpired four hundred and forty navy staff are under investigation including more than sixty admirals and scores of officers all of them are suspected of sharing secret information in return for bribes such as alcohol and prostitutes the identities of the majority of people implicated are being held back to avoid jeopardizing the investigation. the release of such information would likely reveal sensitive details about the breadth and scope of the criminal investigation and pending cases these revelations of being described as the worst corruption scandal

in u.s. navy history but some a surprise that the handling of a classified information to a foreigner is being treated as a food. and explains the what did they do well allegedly they were seduced by leonard francis aka fat leonard he offered them booze parties luxury hotels and cash in exchange for information about where u.s. navy ships were going in the pacific ocean he did this in order to earn contracts now fat leonard aka leonard francis is the san diego jail so giving away military information launched an inquiry into corruption now these navy officers admitted to giving away ship schedules and they pleaded guilty to bribery but leaking and giving up classified government information under u.s. law isn't called bribery it's called espionage why is the espionage act not being applied to corrupt navy officers christian saucer took some photos with his cell

phone in a classified area of a u.s. nuclear submarine nobody paid him anything and he didn't leak them to anyone he simply lost his cell phone well he ended up getting sentenced to a year in prison now his mother thinks her son got a raw deal in two thousand and nine there was no cell phone ban on submarines at that time technology was new and in quetta maybe hadn't caught up yet and i really have no doubt in my mind that it was a twenty two year old guy that wanted to get out of where he worked yeah we were already took pictures and so forth were allowed now when it comes to whistleblowers who reveal u.s. forces killing civilians or the n.s.a.'s massive surveillance it doesn't take long for them to be charged with espionage. you know right.

to months later i started working at the agency were you aware at the time or did you. the fifth of october one thousand nine hundred seventeen that's november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar used in most of the world in a short recap of what happened in russia back then it's a cation seven months ago. at a quarter to ten pm a blank shot fired from cruise a rural signaling the start of the storming of the winter park on the twenty sixth of october the new bolshevik government was formed with lenin at the helm.

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rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each other. but then my feelings started to change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now as there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. act had. a could have fully state that the abuse really made it to contracts awarded to k.b.r. represents the most blatant and improper contract abuse i have witnessed during the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how to go to no bid contract

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illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their what they believe service connected how injuries say that k.b.r. short sighted didn't install incinerators when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste when it was a guess the o.t. regulations to do so and as a result they're sick of all the contracts that k.b.r. and held. require them to comply with e.p.a. regulations the allegation is that k.b.r. rather than complying with the contract complying with these environmental regulations.