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. i. hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets of barcelona they're outraged at madrid's crackdown on former leaders who are behind the region's independence declaration. highly anticipated formal meeting between donald trump and putin failed to materialize the chant on the sidelines of the apec summit and agreed to cooperate on syria. and the u.s. justice department demands that r.t. america register as a foreign agent by monday if it fails to comply channels bank accounts could be

frozen. anything to my name is the this is r.t. international. geopolitical rivalry between two three middle east main powers saudi arabia and iran has been d.c. stabilizing other regional players yemen and lebanon. in the latest developments saudi led air strikes targeted the defense ministry in the yemeni capital it was back in march of two thousand and fifteen that saudi arabia first began its incursion into yemen by launching an air campaign against the rebels who are backed by iran yemeni civilians have also been affected by the latest bombing here is what we were told by our sister channel r.t.

arabic. and then a second rocket hit 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 i would feel if you knew 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. but it has intensified its bombardment of yemen in response to a missile fired towards the saudi capital a week ago by who fight is. quick to blame that on iran and in tehran directly supports the who police later a senior u.s. air force official claimed that the ballistic missile had been made in of around. three markings on the business. that's been demonstrated and there are pictures

that depict that to me that connects the dots to who i am in terms of who's supplying. missiles and their capability i am i am going to and that while 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. because the of takes a look now 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 never iran his presence it was discordant 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 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 that. the hardest allies losing an aside is winning and while syria may have unexpectedly checkmated 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 enmity 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 is only added to the tension there's been speculation saudi arabia could be holding saad hariri against his will realize denied those claims but the leader of lebanon's political and military has but our movement has accused the saudis of unprecedented interference . 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 that it's holding her against his will the country's closest ally the u.s. has added to the confusion. in terms of the conditions of him being held or the conversations of your 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 this your most room i was writing was i don't know personally where he is or while saudi arabia and its allies kuwait the united arab emirates and bahrain have ordered their citizens to leave lebanon immediately we are stanley's for their take on the current situation between the saudis on 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've lost in iraq i was just back from baghdad and the talk in baghdad is about not buckin as they should but that 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 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 is saudi arabia against iran and countries seen the middle east states are going to be caught in the crossfire. and saturday night a massive crowd turned out to barcelona demanding the release of care to learn is jailed former leaders demonstration was held on catalonia is national day and attracted almost a million people i. doubt

if we are here to have a free country at risk and was pushed him on your 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. that was we here to defend our politics defend those currently in prison and to defend democracy and. here we do find our human rights far as flower culture for them for our children they fear. the spanish prime minister is now in barcelona he's attended a presentation of his party's candidates for the upcoming regional election going to end quote separatist however he or hosting the gathering was full of people supporting spanish integrity waving both national and catalan flags.

earlier this week pro independence protests sparked clashes with police as activists tried to block railway stations in the cities of barcelona and sharon. i . i. i 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 as an old catalonia declaration of independence several members of the deposed leadership fled to belgium where they now wait to see if they'll be deported back. to travel to brussels to offer support but were confronted by a spanish unity rally. catalan spokesman spoke personally say for the european partnership for independence she joined us from one of the pro independence protests taking place in the catalan capital. just. under

a grassy forest why how can you do it and obviously if. you. don't get your. friends how did rape it's very problematic for him for that for this man in this day. to make believe that they are the ones bringing peace when they are the ones bringing the father and i know. in an illegitimate way the cats i mean. they. do why no. national trait is. that they say i don't promote the south in so many nations i'm did you mean by some rights in that i get to meddle and i live by. our sister channel r.t. america has been given until monday to register as a foreign agent in the united states that's on the orders of the u.s.

justice department farty america fails to do so is bank accounts could be frozen the order was made under legislation that was adopted more than seventy years ago before the second world war in order to counter nazi propaganda parties but in the culture the takes a look at the reaction to the move. we are a news channel but at the moment we are in fact is 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 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 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 headed by vote and among them are c.n.n. and voice of america radio liberty and its korean time television channel but the crackdown on r.t. and the us poses some very uncomfortable questions. soonish to those who are doing this in the u.s. of 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 is 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. we were accused of somehow making us voters too strong over hillary last year but can one channel really will that much power where is the town to sell i fell alternative. but more of this week's headlines coming up in just a moment including fact the name given to a corruption scandal thought to be the worst in american naval history stay with us . here's what people have been saying about rejected in the sixty's. the only show i go out of my way to you know is the really packed a punch oh yeah it's the john oliver of a party america is doing the same. apparently better than. i see people you've never heard of love jack to the next president of the world bank very.

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ocean he did this in order to. on cut into giving away ship schedules a classified government information under the leaf and anyone he simply lost his his mother thinks her son got a raw deal in two thousand and nine. months later i started working at the agency where you were at the time word which you. saw 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 penalties just don't apply killam up and are seeing new york. hundreds of moroccan football fans of clash with police in brussels this is following the country's qualification for next year's world cup in russia. was up. and now you think they'd be happy but the celebrations turned violent when riot police fired water cannon at the crowds in an attempt to bring them under control police twenty two officers were injured while a number of cars were torched in a clash. on tuesday russia marked the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and throughout the week r.t. has been running a real time historical news feed on twitter you can follow the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live to find out how events were unfolding minute by minute

exactly one hundred years ago and on the field right now the demise of the provisional government has socialist parties scrambling for power but the disagreements are many and it seems that neither side mincha cobol she is willing to enter a coalition government. now you may be wondering why we are talking about the october revolution in november well that's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one thousand nine hundred seventeen now that november the seventh according to the calendar this used in most of the world is a short recap of what happened in russia by exile in siberia with the station in the state bank at a quarter to ten pm a blank shot from cruz a rural signaling the start of the storming of the winter palace by two am on the

twenty sixth of october revolutionaries occupied it and arrested the provisional government the new bolshevik government was formed with lenin at the helm. and to get a more detailed look simply check out these online project this reconstructing this crucial chapter in russian history it's all available at nine hundred seventeen dot com.

the financial survival. first to visit this industry difference. is a good. well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something over the cayman islands or do we go through all these banks are complicit in there. to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did well we've got a nice watch for max and for stacey old beautiful jewelry. from that you know what money laundering is highly. much keyser of course. 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. that would lead to little ball if he had a lead up would do it because it could fall if it there are. no turban one hundred seventeen the bolsheviks led by vladimir lenin seized power and set out to build the most equitable society on of the fall on the other countries followed russia's example but so far the recipe for universal happiness remains of use if people are still searching to this day.

you could be just in the boat in a fairly easy lot of woosh only by did it got up when we were shown to treat. can we even remember the events of a century ago and if so why is that we went out in search of people who view russia's nine hundred seventeen revolution as a global event. first of all we went to visit a leftwing ideologist and famous french philosopher. so. maybe it's not a surprise you know that your books focused on the bust of teeth. and.

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