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. almost a million people have taken to the streets of boston alone or outraged at madrid's crackdown on forward catamount leaders who were behind the region's independence declaration. a highly anticipated formal meeting between donald trump and lattimer putin fails to materialize the pair did chart on the sidelines of the apec summit and agreed to cooperate on syria. the us justice department demands that r.t.

america registers as a foreign agent by monday if it fails to comply the channels bank accounts could be frozen. a warm welcome you watching the weekly here on r.t. international the day's top headlines on the roundup of the stories that shape the week nicky aaron. the geopolitical rivalry between two of the middle east's main power saudi arabia and iran has been destabilizing other regional players yemen and lebanon. and the latest developments saudi led as strikes targeted the defense ministry in the yemeni capital it was back in march twenty fifth dina's saudi arabia first began its incursion into yemen by launching an ad campaign against toothy rebels who are backed by iran yemeni civilians have also been affected by the latest saudi led bombing here's what they

told our sister channel r.t. arabic. and then a second rocket my house was destroyed i'm just an ordinary person on 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 would feel that you knew my head and leg were injured our houses were destroyed this is the result of aggression oh how's this and there were affected by the strike. has intensified his bombardment of yemen in response to a missile fired towards the saudi capital a week ago by hoofy fighters saudi arabia was quick to blame it on iran saying to iran directly supports this is these latest senior u.s. air force official claims the ballistic missile had been made in iran. been

a great marking softness. that's been demonstrated. there are pictures that take that to mean that connects the dots to iran in terms of who supply. missiles and that capability from what i am going to and all 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 not as more gas you have takes a look at the current tensions between two of the biggest players in the middle east. recently benny a days 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 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. 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 lou inching into a tirade about evil raney an influence plunging the region into chaos and destruction. were of iranian prison simply discord and destruction and interfering through our countries in lebanon syria. yemen what i would like to say

would be iran and its followers that they would be losers in there. you lose a poor and gain an opening then there's the blockade of cata. a trade embargo seva ties ultimatums and warnings punishment some say for cata daring to deal with the iranians and then there's syria the saudi sponsored rebellion is dying. the hardest allies are losing and assad is winning and while syria may have unexpectedly check mated riyadh hear the saudis around picking 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 saudi arabia's highest islamic cleric banned 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 unexpected resignation of the lebanese prime minister has only added to the tensions there's been speculation saudi arabia could be holding sayad have very against his will riyadh has denied the claims however the leader of lebanon's political and military hezbollah movement has accused the saudis of unprecedented interference. well and the lebanese prime minister was forced to resign when 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 hezbollah 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 of your visions of him being held as who is he in 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 does he have a nice room i was invited to do i i don't know personally where he is or when we will saudi arabia and its allies kuwait the united arab emirates and bahrain have ordered their citizens to leave lebanon immediately we all stylists for that take on the current situation between saudi arabia and iran. it is rolling out an entirely new plan no to create chaos in the region where a recount and living in another squidgy of the flu 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 the last in iraq i was just back from baghdad and the talk in baghdad is about not bach and i was ation 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 dance of thousands of civilian casualties and supported by the us congress for that matter and using american weapons and nuclear 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 is saudi arabia against the run 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 a demonstration was held on catalonia as national day and attracted almost a million people i. we're here to have a free country but we stand with you pushed him on your key and all of the cattle in government are in our hearts you need to do this i went on the demonstrations the is ironic my grandsons to have a life that we didn't have. that was we here to defend our politics defend those currently in prison and east. different democracy and we do find our work human rights volatile future for our culture. for our children and if you 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 havoc the whole hosting the gathering is full of people supporting spanish integrity and waving both national and after land flags. early this week pro independence protests sparked clashes with police as activists tried to block railway stations in the cities of barcelona. i. came after a general strike brought much of the region to a halt again in protest of the jailing of the region's former leaders madrid accuses them of rebellion and sedition and has an old castle only as declaration of independence several members of the deposed leadership fled to belgium where they now await to see if they'll be deported back to local towns along catalan mazur traveled to brussels to offer support but were confronted by a spanish unity rally we spoke to an arcade spokes person for the european

partnership for independence she joined us from one of the pro independence protests in catalans capital. just said to. the regressive course you. can only do so obviously. that. was. just not right. and it's a great it's very critical. for the spanish state. to make believe that they are the ones reagan peace when they are the ones bringing the bar and i know barring in an illegitimate way the pats are an institution that spans just a morally righteous morrow mornin so national treat this that day. that they'd be free and i'm promoting sound so many nations and the universe are right

in that pond get a madman dance by live. our sister channel r.t. america has been given until monday to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. house on the orders of the u.s. justice department if r.t. america fails to do so it's bank accounts could be frozen the auto. made on the legislation adopted more than seventy years ago before the second world war to counter nazi propaganda machine a cartoon ever looks at the reaction to the movie we are a news channel but at the moment we are in fact as the news the mounting pressure on 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 art he's editor in chief of the channel is being forced into

conditions in wish cannot war with. 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 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 vote and among them are c.n.n. and voice of america radio liberty and it's korean time television channel but the crackdown on r.t. and the us poses some very uncomfortable questions. if 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 adhere to by 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. the pressure has been mounting on our 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 a town to sell my fellow alternative. more of this week's headlines in just a moment including front line it's the name given to a corruption scandal to be the one step in american naval history stay with us for all the details. i think. the old situations are coming. pulpit

understand that a shot 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 of confrontation that's a mistake of the west especially by the americans 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 or. was a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russian.

my. 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 after 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 had been highly anticipated though it never happened apparently due to shared tooling problems nevertheless the two leaders did briefly catch up on the summit sidelines and released a joint statement on the situation in syria although both confirmed their determination to defeat islamic state the president also agreed there can be no

military solution to the syrian conflict but also said a final political settlement should be found through the geneva talks format and stressed syria's still a sovereign country british army 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 are in america. that does nobody any good if all of the sides involve the stone but america and russia and the rest of the contrition 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 on the standing on the. on 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 crowd back. a colossal bribery and fraud has and gulfs the u.s. navy that's according to prosecutors in the so-called facts led case has now revealed the true extent of the scandal the initial 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 fix the admirals and scores of offices 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 was corruption scandal in u.s. navy history yes some also price that handing over classified information to a foreigner is being treated as fraud kenneth moore can explain. but 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 in 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 i'm with. working at the agency where you were at the time.

looks like photographers without malintent and whistle blowers get hit with penalties but if you're a good ole boy in the u.s. navy brass and you trade military secrets for sex and cash well it looks like the penalty is just don't apply. are seeing new york. day russia marks the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. answer out the week running a real time historical new state on twitter you can follow the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were unfolding minute by minute one hundred years ago on the feed right now are with counter revolutionary forces waging outside then capital some petersburg meanwhile the reds have issued warnings against the press for spreading fear.

now either be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november that's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar of the bolsheviks took power in the twenty fifth of october one thousand nine hundred seventy that's november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar used in most of the world here's 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 their friend in me 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 to work his 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 lord de thousand look you can check out our team's online project reconstructing this critical top. and russian history at nine hundred seventeen. to go over the job is. to put all of.

my 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 dust a big danger here this is not just about killing the video this is automatically putting the united states on it was a military confrontation in the region. but holds its hands to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more so more want to be preached. to going to be for us was like them before three in the morning can't be good good i'm interested always in the waters in the. first city.

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i've had to really negotiate that memory over and over and over again. and again water flying in screaming in. the summer after i turned eight. when ever really knew what to expect from. during a particularly bad swing she went through some desperate things there and she put us all in the bronco and to the spread drive down of the river. before we got to the river she was just purely robotic. she decided it was time for all of us to die. my memories of that moment were really in black and white. i'm not sure that i ever really met my mom again after.

a strange story out of florida this morning where the mother of three children drove into the ocean off the daytona beach. the pregnant mom spoke of demons before driving into the atlantic. police say they've never seen anything like this. the tiny city of newburgh new york is trying to come to grips with the deaths of three young children who died when their mother drove them into the hudson river among the victims are two year old lance peer and his eleven month old sister cops we should take nothing for granted not our lives nor our lives our families or friends even a sanity one minute all is well the next we're plunged into darkness unable to

process what is real and what isn't a nice. autumn stringin realized this old too young for the summer after i turned eight she should not be in line and she knows it was a moment. that shattered trust. you know how do you know how to trust anybody after that. forced to confront a mystery beyond comprehension she spent decades haunted in search of answers in pursuit of peace when something like killing all six of her children. made sense enough to put the kids in the bronco and drive into the river i see it. gravels it again water flying and kids screaming and somehow she managed to dig it up to back out of that.