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. wonder the thousands of taken to the streets of boston alone raged at madrid's crackdown on former catalan leaders who were behind the region's independence declaration. a highly anticipated meeting between donald trump and putin fails to materialize kept on the sidelines of the apec summit and agreed to cooperate. the u.s. justice department demands that r.t. america register as a foreign agent on monday if it fails to comply the chinese bank accounts could be

frozen. joining us harvey you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international geo political rivalry between two of the middle east main powers saudi arabia and iran has been stabilizing other regional players yemen and lebanon . the latest developments saudi led airstrikes targeted the defense ministry in the yemeni capital back in march of two thousand and fifteen that saudi arabia first began its incursion into yemen launching an air campaign against rebels who are backed by iran yemeni civilians have also been affected by the latest saudi led bombing is what they told our sister channel r.t. arabic. but again the second rocket hits 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 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 i had an leg were injured our houses were destroyed this is the result of aggression how how is this in their area are affected by the strike. we had has intensified its bombardment of yemen in response to a missile fired towards the saudi capital a week ago by hooty fighters he was quick to blame it on iran saying tehran directly supports who thinks they too a senior u.s. air force official claim the ballistic missile are being made in iran integrated 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 supply.

missiles and that capability of some i am going to end there although we do not even have the ability to transfer missiles to yemen it's the missiles and they've managed to increase the range. of things because the it 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 attack 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 his presence it will discordant destruction attested to go into 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 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 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 tensions and speculation saudi arabia could be holding the saad hariri against his will riyadh has denied those claims or himself has just given his first interview since quitting and he said that he's free to leave saudi arabia whenever he wants all live and those people have to know what's going on terms of my resignation are you know this is not the normal way of presenting that resisting reclusion new prime minister and you know that that's. one to two cause any positive short. positive short not a negative for. you well saudi arabia and its allies q eight the united arab emirates and bahrain 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 where a recount and lebanon another squidgy of the flu isn't easy sure 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 new we do 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 i was stationed but about iraqi national unity the last i get 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 their narrative their brain in the run they're trying to ratchet up a confrontation involving level which is quite in the crossfire and is still is the same old story the saudi arabia yes the iran and countries seen the middle east states are going to be caught in the crossfire. and saturday night a massive crowd turned out in barcelona they were demanding the release of catalonia is jailed former leaders the demonstration was held in catalonia is a national day and is trying to almost a million people. i. doubt if we are here to have a free country but we stand with a push to mourn your key and all of the cattle and government are in our hearts we need to do this i went to all of the demonstrations the is a long 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 to find human rights

far as you chose to our culture. our children they feature. spanish prime minister is now in barcelona he's attended a presentation of his party's candidates for the upcoming regional election found to end quote separatist. hosting the gathering was full of people supporting spanish integrity waving both national and like. all of 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 came after a general strike brought much of the region to a halt again in protest over the jailing of the regions formally does it accuses them of rebellion and sedition and is an old count alone is the declaration of

independence. from 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 they were confronted by a spanish unity rally spoke to an archaic catalan spokesperson for the european partnership for independence he joined us from one of the pro independence protests in the catalan capital. thank you do you think there were a graphic forced by the fact that i mean there were so obviously there. was. this guy i don't know i guess you're right because i know it's an outrage it's very critical for him for that for this man in this day to preach to make believe that they are the ones bringing peace when they are the ones who bring in the bar and i know people are going in and you know just imagine way cats

i mean. if you show just spend just a little. more no more it seems the national trait is. that they do that number more than sound so many shows on did you mean by some rights in that i legitimately dance i lived i. our sister channel r.t. america has been given until monday to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. now that's on the orders of the united states justice department and if r.t. america fails to do so it's bank accounts could be frozen it was made under legislation adopted more than seventy years ago prior to the second world war to counter nazi propaganda but in the culture it takes a look 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 our it see 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 adventure into the channel is being forced into conditions and wish it simply 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 this at the moment russian lawmakers are drafting tit for tat match time television channel. soonish that those who are doing this in the us 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. 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 in a town i fell alternative. and more of these this week's headlines for you in just about including fun that's the name given to a corruption scandal full to be the worst ever in u.s. naval history david. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. the find.

the root sic. i think. the old situations are coming back i have the stand. on the stand the russia is they are not in favor of it nato is coming. to the border for the shah but on the other side i think if they came back the old impression of confrontation that's a mistake on the western side especially by the americans also on the other side.

this president donald trump said better relations with russia would be key to solving world crises such as 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 solve north korea to solve ukraine to solve terrorism and i feel that having russia in a friendly pasha 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 u.s. president had been highly anticipated but it never happened apparently due to shared tilling problems nevertheless the two leaders did briefly catch up on the summit sidelines and they released a joint statement on the situation in syria. they both confirmed their determination to defeat islamic state the president also agreed that there can be no military solution to the conflict in syria also they said that

a final political settlement should be found through the geneva talks format and stressed that syria is still a sovereign country. finch believes washington and moscow 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 book around the world the fact is if we have an 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 from the west are actually on the same side 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 course it will have to happen and it's a good sign that america and russia have come to an understanding on this. on the final leg of his asia tour donald trump landed in the philippines but he didn't get

the warmest of welcomes on the capital streets was was. was hundreds descended on the u.s. embassy in manila to protest the bank's visit riot police use water cannon to push bank cramp. colossal bribery and fraud has engulfed the u.s. navy this is according to prosecutors in the so-called fat leonard case is now revealed the true extent of the scandal initial inquiry took place more than four years ago that was when twenty eight personnel including two admirals were indicted now though it's transpired that four hundred forty navy staff are under investigation they include more than sixty admirals and scores of officers all of them suspected of sharing secret information in return for bribes such as alcohol and prostitutes and 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 of these revelations are being described as the worst corruption scandal in u.s. navy history yet some a surprise that handing over classified information to a foreigner is being treated as fraud killam open 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 at he took pictures and so forth grow louder 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 were you we were at the time or did you. 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 caleb happen are seeing new york. hundreds of moroccan football fans of clash with police in brussels that's following the country's qualification for next year's world cup and russia. i was. russians turned violent when riot police fired water cannon at the crowds in an attempt to bring them under control at least claimed twenty two officers were injured and that a number of cars were torched in clashes. on tuesday russia on the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and throughout the way county 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 one

hundred years ago on the feed right now battle for moscow is underway as the sides in the revolution struggle to secure the strongholds for the reds have already taken over most of the city or loyalist forces hold on to the kremlin just like in st petersburg banco petrograd the lack of essential supplies due to the conflict is also being felt. well you might wonder why we're talking about the revolution in november well it's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october nineteenth seventeen that's november seventh according to the gregorian calendar used in most of the world is a 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 rived in pain zhan eclipsed 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 his injury 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. and you can check out all of these online projects on this critical chapter of russian history it's at nine hundred seventeen.

to go. drive to medication is widespread on the u.s. market and a frequent cause of death at play in my life. like everything was as my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. to commit some sight was all who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the

doctors told us to do we were being responsible and what the real side effects. was is chemically altered when i did was done on a cocktail of legal drugs. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's safe one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence is not an understatement to say the russian revolution or a top was a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russia.

welcome to worlds apart three years after the russian of violence in ukraine the conflict still remains a battle of identity for kiev but not so much from moscow or brussels increasingly preoccupied by their own internal challenges both russia and the european union that would much rather leave ukraine to its own devices that cannot survive in such a geopolitical limbo no longer with the east north with the west about 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 are 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 call for a three years ago one of the proudest started gathering square in kiev it was

formulated roughly like that here is a dark and oppressive pressure 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 birth separation of the old conflicts a lot of mistakes i think sometimes. there's a lot of those that stood with the russians that some things like crimea critical to seen by the international law but i think that a lot of mistakes of the. it's the inside 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 holds them up to the perception of the whole europeans i think there's a tendency to to look at the things that like to partake but where does it come

from because if we are all we thought it means that we were all adults sure russia has its challenges fent their rule of law with the 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 the western side. i think you think it was jan you know was it deliberate. i think it was not the live it it was it changed never really i think the press action in the rest of the western european concerning the changes in russia then it's going to relate to the subjects i think it was for a very long time russia over time i mean. very primitive in what was the differentiation

was not really seen i think maybe the reception of the changes even then they go but you of it didn't 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 i think everybody has to learn out of the own history now and if it is coming begged to to create you know a confrontation.