look suspicious. 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 are outraged at madrid's crackdown on film by catalan leaders who are behind the region's independence declaration. a highly anticipated formal meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin fails to materialize for the pad on the sidelines of the apec summit and agreed to cooperate on syria. the us justice department demands that r.t. america registered as

a foreign agent by monday if it fails to comply the channel's bank accounts could be frozen. a warm welcome you are watching the weekend here on r.t. international all the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories that shape the week i make you care and good to have you with us but to political rivalry between two of the middle east's main powers saudi arabia and iran has been destabilizing other regional players yemen and lebanon. in the latest developments saudi led airstrikes targeted the defense ministry in the yemeni capital it was back in march twenty fifth this saudi arabia first began its incursion into yemen by launching an air campaign against who think 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. but the second rocket hits 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 the poor person that i was fairly new my head in leg 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 fight is saudi arabia was quick to blame it on iran saying to run it directly supports the his face latest senior u.s. air force official claims the ballistic missile had been made in iraq. better than

i already markings on the business. that's been demonstrated and there are pictures that depict that to me that connects the dots to iran in terms of who's supplying. missiles and that capability has 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. are just more gassy 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 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. interfering through our countries in lebanon syria. yemen what i would like to say

would be ron and his followers that they would be losers in there. 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 that. the hardest allies are losing and assad is winning and while syria may have unexpectedly share committed riyadh here 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 stay at her very against his will react has denied the claims however the leader of lebanon's political and military hezbollah has accused the saudis of unprecedented interference. well allan 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 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 detention well. i'm not going to put that word behi and 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 meanwhile saudi arabia and its allies kuwait the united arab emirates and bahrain have ordered their citizens to leave lebanon immediately we asked analysts for their take on the current situation between saudi arabia and iran riyadh is rolling out an entirely new plan no to create chaos in the region we're. not descriptive of this it is an easy shot it's low hanging fruit there is a great momentum right now as we speak in this week in saudi arabia to try and

create some sort of a 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 it's about not vulcanization but about iraqi national unity they lost again with the blockade against gawker they're losing the war on yemen which is horrifying with tens of thousands of civilian casualties and supported by the u.s. congress. asked 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 the saudi arabian 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 catalonia has jailed former leaders the demonstration was held on council only as national day and attracted almost a million people. we are here to have a free country and with the more you and all of the catalan government are in our hearts. i went to all the demonstrations because i wanted my grandsons to have a life that we didn't have. to defend our politics defend those currently in prison and to defend democracy and we do find human rights for our future. for our children and a future aspirants 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 covers the whole hosting the gathering is full of people supporting spanish integrity waving national council landslide. earlier this week pro independence protests sparked clashes with police as activists tried to block railway stations in the cities of barcelona and. came after a general strike brought much of the region to a halt again in protest over the jailing of the region's former leaders but ridiculed as the 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 local council and merits travel to breast. to offer support but were confronted by

a spanish unity rally we spoke to on r.k. a catalan spokesperson for the european partnership for independence she joined us from one of the pro independence protests in the catalan capital. just said to rethink their aggressive force tried to crack down on institutional and obviously there are reports that. this guy is not going to get more than it's an outbreak it's very good to garden for him for that for the spanish to stay to preach to make believe that they are the ones reagan please when they are the ones bringing the bar and borrowing in an illegitimate way the pats are an institution to spend just a morally righteous morrow mornin so national charities that day. that they be fair number of all the servants omen

a shot under universal rights in that bond i legitimately and i live like. our sister channel r.t. america has been given and so monday to register as a foreign agent in the us that's when the orders of the u.s. justice department if r.c. america fails to do so its 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 a lot of the propaganda machine a caution ever 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 in r.t. as this week coleman eats 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 added her into the channel is being forced into conditions and wish cannot war with. me just imagine you work in the media and have to sign everything you do with a 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 well 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 it's korean time television channel but the crackdown on r.t. and the us poses some very uncomfortable questions.

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 at here to buy 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 r t ever since we were accused of somehow making us voters choose trump over hillary last year but can one channel really will that much power or is this just an attempt to sell my fellow alternative fuels more of this week's headlines coming up in just a moment. but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich.

that's what the press is what. three of the people. interested always in the why. question. i think. the old situations are coming back i have to stand. understand that russia is they are not in favor of the nato is coming 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 west especially by the americans also on the other side.

welcome back u.s. president donald trump 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 vienna 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 shed chilling problems. nevertheless the two leaders did briefly catch up on the summit sidelines and released a joint statement on the situation in syria they both confirms that determination

to defeat islamic state the president also agreed 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 is still a sovereign country british army french believes washington and most realize co-op . ration is necessary. to talking about is getting closer together and working on diplomatic solutions to problems not on the world the fact is if we are in america bearing 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 here eventually they have severe of course more and they have to understand that they will have to work together it's not going to be 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 come true on the standing on this on the

last leg of his asian tour donald trump landed in the philippines today but it didn't get the warmest of welcomes on the capital streets was was was hundreds of people descended on the u.s. embassy in may 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 are being described as the worst corruption scandal in u.s. navy history yes some are surprised that handing over classified information to a foreigner is being treated as fraud and scallop more pain explains. but what did they do well allegedly they were seduced by leonard francis a.k.a. 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 a 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 didn't catch up 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 and he 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. months later i started working at the agency where you were at the time.

so it looks like photographers without malintent and whistleblowers get hit with stiff 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 stiff penalty is just don't apply been are seeing new york. tuesday this week at russia marks the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and throughout the week has been running a real time historical news feed on twitter you can follow the hashtag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were unfolding minute by minute one hundred years ago on the feed right now of some petersburg then called petrograd have

become the epicenter of revolutionary tensions but as opposite sides of a fierce battle both inside and outside the city supplies of essential goods become critically low electricity and feel are already guess. now you may be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november well that's because some of you adopted a new calendar after the post of aix to power on the twenty fifth of october one thousand nine hundred seventeen past november the seventh according to difficult goal for korean calendar used in most of the world has a short recap of what happened in russia but that. it's october ninety. 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 drive than pain zhan nicholas 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 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

hundred it took them just two days to come to power on october twenty fourth and twenty fifth they swiftly see post offices the 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 artie's online project reconstructing this critical chapter in russian history at nine hundred seventeen dot r.t. dot com.

channel challenges both russia and the european union that would much rather leave ukraine to its own devices can it survive in such a geopolitical limbo no longer than the east and north with the west to discuss that i'm now joined by our high booth former vice chancellor of austria dr bozak it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time now i know that you're often asked about 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 conflict three years ago one of the proudest started gathering square in kenya if it was formulated roughly like

that here is a dark and oppressive russia or here is a bright and shiny european union and in a sense 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 how they view the perception of their old conflicts a lot of mistakes i think sometimes. it is not on those that sit with the russians that some things like crimea 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 american service will be the perception that's not mine and i think it's the old remote perception of the old europeans i think. there's a tendency to to look at things like 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 fent 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 but 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 it was it changed never really i think the press action in the rest of the western europe is concerning to changes in russia then it's going to relate to the subject i think it was for a very long time russia over time i mean. very primitive it was the differentiation

was not really seen i think maybe the reception of the changes even then they go but you of go into the right direction and afterwards i think. for a lot of people it was not really of it was a tremendous change in the russia happening for sure you needed time to consume it it's not happening from one day to the other and think everybody has to learn out of the only history now and if it is coming begged to to create you know confrontation then the old images are coming up but i think at that point of time nobody really either on the e.u. side nor in russia side realized that it was actually.