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. hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets of barcelona outraged at madrid's crackdown on former counselor leaders who were behind the region's independence that collaboration. also this hour a highly anticipated formal meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin fails to materialise did chart on the sidelines of the apec summit 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 could be frozen else could be frozen. good morning from moscow you're watching at the international live with me daniel hawkins were everywhere thanks for joining us this hour now the geopolitical 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 strikes targeted the defense ministry in the yemeni capital that was back in march twenty fifteen but saudi arabia first began its

incursion into given by launching an economic buy in against who the rebels who are backed by iran yemeni civilians have also been affected by the latest bombing here's what they told us is the shuttle. and then a second rocket hit 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 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 had been lacking were injured our houses were destroyed this is the result of aggression how how is this in the area were affected by the strike . the related to iran in terms of who supply. missiles and that capability of some i am going to and that we do not even have the ability to transfer missiles to yemen. and they've managed to increase the range.

of takes a look at the current tensions between two of the biggest to go by without saudi alliance 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 and aggression the saudis also ready to throw their ally. is 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 entering into a tirade about evil raney an influence plunging the region into chaos and destruction. were never iran is present it will discord and destruction of. our countries in lebanon syria. yemen where i would like to see iran and its followers that they would be losers in their. use 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 aside 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 saudi arabia's highest islamic cleric battened 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. now the unexpected resignation of the lebanese prime minister has only added to the tensions as many speculations saudi arabia could be holding saad hariri against his will riyadh has denied these claims really himself has just given his first interview since quitting and he said he's freezing leave saudi arabia whenever he

wants. and one hundred one look how look i'm free in thirty arabia if i wanted to leave tomorrow i would leave tomorrow all live in these people need to know that i did resign i know it's not an ordinary way of resigning by any prime minister i know that but i did it because i wanted to send them into short positive shock so lebanese people would realize that our country is in danger and 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. riyad is rolling out an entirely new plan no to create chaos in the region where a recount and lebanon another squidgy of little blue 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 bulk and i was stationed 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 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. on saturday night

a massive crowd turnout in barcelona demanding the release of catalonia is jailed former leaders the demonstration was held in custody only as a national day and attracted almost a million people i. doubt if we are 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 to do this i wanted all of the demonstrations the is a long time plan sounds to have a life that we didn't have. that was we're here to defend our politics defend those currently in prison and to defame democracy. see and hear to find human rights far as if you chose a flower culture for the flower 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 elections vowing to end what he calls separatist have

a. hosting the gathering was full of people supporting spanish integrity and waving both national and flags. early this week pro independence protests spark clashes with police activists tried to block railway stations in the cities of barcelona. i. this came after a general strike brought much of the region to hold again in protest over the jailing of the region's former leaders madrid accuses them of rebellion and sedition and has an old corrosion of independence several members of the deposed leadership then fled to belgium where they're now waiting to see if they'll be deported back local council on mass travel to brussels to offer support but were confronted by a spanish unity rally we spoke to. the spokeswoman for the european partnership for independence she joined us from one of the probing departments protests in the

capital. thank you. for a. ride back on you do so and obviously. you. know you want to get you know. how do you rate it's very good for you for this day to. day you know that once again when i was bringing the bar that i know i you know just imagine way perhaps i mean. they look right. morrow morning so national security is. under universal right. and. i was just a shuttle r.t. america has been given until monday to register as

a foreign agent in the united states on orders from the us justice department now if america fails to do so its bank accounts could be frozen the order was made out of just lation adopted war than seventy years ago before the second world war to counter nazi propaganda but then of course you never 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 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 in which play cannot work. 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 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 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 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 truth trump over hillary last year but can one channel really will that much power or is this just in a town to say i fell alternatively. u.s. president donald trump has both relations with russia would be key to solving world crises such as syria 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 part 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 our formal meeting between the russian and u.s.

presidents had been highly anticipated though it never actually happened apparently so you to show you in problems nevertheless the two leaders did briefly catch up on some of the sidelines and release their joint statement on the situation in syria let's take a closer look at what that contained they both confirmed their determination to defeat islamic state the president's also agreed there can be no military solution to the syrian conflict they added a final political settlement should be filed through the geneva talks format also stressing syria is still a sovereign country however the downside of course putin trumps common views on those issues were immediately causing a backlash. boss john brennan claimed trump was intimidated by the russian president while former intelligence chief james clapper dubbed the friend innocent naive and even a threat to america it could very naive and again for a period was to this country to make an assumption that russia is going to be

with. the best interests of the world or the united states in mind or following his meeting with trump with putin rather trump took to twitter to address his critics here underscore that russia's help is necessary in resolving many of the world's conflicts. when will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a good relationship with russia is a good thing not a bad thing they're always playing politics bad for our country i want to solve north korea syria ukraine terrorism and russia can greatly help. and i'm michael patrick flanagan president at fighting and consulting and former congressman thinks partisan politics lies at the root soviets acts on the us president think the agenda is that brennan particularly is a d.n.c. guy not a professional intelligence guy he's a d.n.c. guy was put in the job and they he has a desire to see the democratic national committee succeed and if trump succeeds

they can't it's a zero sum game for them and so i when these things come up they talk about oh trump is wrong trump is naive trump is bad on these things and they use and they burnish their credentials to try and make their point there they are finding it recently at least that they have fewer and fewer people standing next to them going yeah they're right those these two are pretty much alone now saying these sorts of things because we cannot go on with our minute anime's around the globe as these two apparently want us to have and having a permanent enemy of the russians is insane and i don't think trump is interested in doing that as a dealmaker he wants to wants to proceed successfully in the world wants the world to proceed successfully and look at his goals it's not territorial ambition it's not making money for the clinton foundation it's solving the crises in syria in ukraine in north korea and elsewhere and doing it with not only with russian cooperation. hundreds of people have been killed and many more injured excuse me as

a result of a vonage earthquake that hit the border region between iran and iraq on sunday iranian media reporting a death toll of at least one hundred forty eight hundred sixty injured the powerful tremor of seven point three magnitude was centered in eastern iraq roll some reports of severe structural damage in the area we'll bring you more information as that comes in. the last leg of his asian top donald trump landed in the philippines on sunday but he didn't get the warmest of welcomes on the capital streets. was was was as you can see there hundreds of people the soap of the criminal investigation and pending cases all these revelations of being described already as the worst corruption scandal and u.s. navy history so i was surprised that handing over classified information to a foreigner is being treated as fraud kaleb often has more. so 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 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 as it called bribery it's called espionage why is the espionage act not being applied to corrupt a 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 make it out of where he worked yeah we were ready 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 were 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 penalties just don't apply. aren't seeing new york. over to belgium now where hundreds of moral can football fans have classed with police in brussels following that country's qualification for next year's world cup in russia.

celebrations turned violent when russia police fired water cannons at the crowds in an attempt to bring them on the controlled police claim twenty two officers were injured while the number of cars were torched in the clashes. well for a few steps back in history seventeen live to find out how out of the city and are now trying to. you may be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution under the bolsheviks took power in seventeen last november the seventh according to the gregorian calendar you can look at a short recap of what happened it's october nineteenth seventeen and russia the first world war the whole country frowned drive in pain tsar nicholas the second living in exile in siberia with his family following his abdication the provisional government occupying the russian monex main moderately liberal and aiming to create

a new constitution then their friend in me the petrograd soviet group formed the two institutions are supposed to share power but in reality are competing for it and that's where the bolsheviks and vladimir lenin. it must be explained to be only possible form of revolutionary government place power in the hands of the proletariat and 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 seized post offices key railway stations the state bank the port and other strategic locations across the city at a quarter to five from crews aurora signaling the stars of the storming of the window i am on the twenty sixth of october revolution bolshevik government was formed with. do make sure you check out that fantastic historic project on

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the best place in the we're. following welcome to crossfire. all things considered i'm peter lavelle one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence it is not an understatement to say the russian revolution or bolster big coup d'etat was the defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russia and the world. crosstalk in the russian revolution i'm joined by my guest here in moscow geoffrey

robertson is a professor of history at university college cork and a member of the royal irish academy we also have mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and of course we have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with sputnik international all right gentlemen as always cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it. geoffrey robertson we go to you first here one hundred years on i will ask the most obvious question was it worth it was it worth it yes i think it was one because what the revolution showed was that it was possible to come a whopping one hundred seventy was that the people in to be in history fundamentally changed the course of world history but there are those that say that it was a coup d'etat that the bolsheviks didn't represent the people that represented even to bury. your ideology. and they were sure it was a popular revolution the bolsheviks came to power. on a wave of revolution is what for russia revolutionary movement or

a bolshevik revolution or removed what were. revolutionary. majority when they seize power but they were very strong minority and they actually had a majority or they had majority in the in the urban areas so the point is that the it wasn't just the post or insurrection and russia there was a revolution and the bolsheviks were the beneficiary of it and the part this revolution rocks but it was too you know not to just bring to power a particular group of people it was all in a rematch in the future you know trying to find.