the headlines there's no evidence of kremlin meddling in catalonia that's the message from spain's prime minister in response to claims of russian involvement in the region's independence referendum. also this hour the u.k.'s prime minister to russia in a speech critics say is designed to the plate attention from the struggling brakes it negotiations and facing immense pressure from the u.s. justice department this channel is forced to register as a foreign agent in america we take a look at what that means for arctic. hello there welcome to r.t. this choose the evening where it's just turned eight o'clock here in moscow now our

top story this hour spain's prime minister has said there is no evidence the russian government interfered in catalonia is independence referendum this comes in response to claims in the media that moscow was attempting to meddle and the situation or reports. as if we haven't seen enough attempts recently to try to drag russia and certain events unraveling in the west lately we've seen attempts to try to implicate russian activity even in the catalan crisis despite this year's long standoff between barcelona and madrid really newspaper headlines from around the world have seen galore excitement about potential russian meddling yet again for instance a big spanish newspaper el pais certainly seem to have dedicated lots of attention to russia despite this being obviously a national crisis we've seen also this week in brussels some spanish officials trying to talk to their e.u. partners on this topic discussed the possibility of russia haven't carried out some

kind of decent destabilisation activity when it comes to the cattle our friend on and the events that are rivaled afterwards however we have seen high ranking officials such as the high representative of the you for foreign affairs federica marini as well as nato secretary general even not comment on these issues following those meetings and of course the spanish prime minister himself marianna rahowa said that there is no proof i have no data which can be used as evidence on the involvement of the russian government nothing well we've heard similar message come from the spanish foreign minister as well so now with these high profile comments being made by spanish politicians hopefully this topic will have exhausted itself and spain will be able to move forward in actually solving the biggest crisis to touch this nation in a generation meanwhile britain's prime minister has joined the bandwagon making

russia a major topic of a twenty minute speech mention the country eight times. chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal an accession of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach of the responsibility russia can russia does not well the british prime minister's message has come on the back of a tough week for her domestically to resume aid continues to be hounded by m.p.'s over her breaks in negotiations which are seemingly yet to yield any real positives for the u.k. so much so in fact that the huge chief negotiator says he won't rule out a no deal scenario meaning that breaks it talks could collapse entirely pressure is also building on may with room is that forty m.p.'s are preparing a letter of no confidence and that number is just eight short of the total needed

to force a new leadership election within her conservative party we discussed the p.m.'s predicament with party veteran and former government minister peter lee he believes her speech though wasn't just directed at moscow. it was as much a message to europe as it was to russia saying we are the major security in the european continent we have the best armed forces and the greatest ability to deploy them we want to continue to be allied with our european neighbors when we leave but they've got to remember if they want us to be helpful and firm and stand by them they don't want to weaken us or weaken their relations with us. we do deal with the second half war she was saying that we won't call a deal relations with russia we certainly don't want to return to the cold war we recognize that we're actually the opposite ends of europe and for hundreds of years we've been natural allies even when we don't like each other's regimes we're

natural allies. now after facing months of pressure from washington r.t. america has now been forced to register as a foreign agent in the u.s. . as more on what that means for the channel. just think about it r.t. america is now officially a foreign agent in the us eighty years after far came into being our us branch registered under the foreign agents registration act which dates back to the times before the second world war back then the purpose was to make sure that no minds of u.s. citizens are influenced by organizations funded by nazi germany whatever was the purpose of the u.s. department of justice in the twenty first century they said at deadline for r.t. america r.t. america chose to meet that deadline because nobody wants to be in trouble with u.s. law enforcement so let's just take a look at some of the things that our u.s.

branch could now be obliged to do all the time for example that is attaching a public disclaimer to every piece of information that gets sent out or filing a copy or a version of it to the u.s. department of justice within forty eight hours of transmission and i'll tell you that it will take a long time to adjust to the still reality and even to figure out whether it is possible in the first place does that mean that every tweet that gets posted by america requires a disclaimer does our channel in the u.s. now have to send all its tweets to the u.s. department of justice many experts have argued that in the twenty first century with the current social media output which is normal for all news organizations it is simply impossible although this cracked out on r.t. america has been ignored largely by those who you would expect to speak on the issues with freedom of speech and didn't go completely unnoticed take the

committee to protect journalists that's a new york based ngo they were very critical of the ultimatum said by the u.s. department of justice and here's bits of their statement compelling r.t. to register under far as a bad idea we're on comfortable. with governments deciding what constitutes journalism or propaganda and you may well argue that the us authorities are applying double standards here take china is. america that is operating in the us without any issues then the us version of al-jazeera was there for a few years all perfectly fine and i will be lying if i say that here at r.t. we are waiting for more critical reaction both from individuals and geos when it comes to russia's retaliation it is still work in progress the lawmakers are working on it but we just heard. the russian foreign minister once again say that steps and response will be taken. measures mean adequate measures you may come up

with difference to the president already sent our reaction will be swift and strong so let's be patient the question now is which media outlets will be affected by this retaliation previously russian official said that it could be american based media or media organizations that are directly funded by the us government think voice of america or the likes of c.n.n. the video channel that is operating in russia called current time and also radio free europe slash radio liberty dow here's something important in order for these news outlets to become foreign agents in this country russia's old legislation requires amendments and currently the m.p.'s are sorting this out we also heard from the vice for the duma he says that according to the drafted amendment news agencies will not be touched but if a news organization is not a news agency but it's from any other country not only the u.s.

or if it gets funding from abroad it may find itself on the list of foreign agents in russia. that would just to remind you then the pressure began the u.s. intelligence claimed channel was an instrument of meddling and. lation in america back in september the justice department then demanded we register as a foreign agent social media then began blocking our adverts to you on google you tube and twitter and they did that ahead of testimony in congress despite having no problem with r.t. prior to that analysts we spoke to believe that the measures against r.t. america remain to a deflection tactic and an unwillingness to acknowledge domestic problems let's get the views now from senator richard blackies the virginia state senator and joins us now good evening to you richard thanks for coming on firstly what's your reaction then to the news that r.t. america is now a foreign agent. well i think that it makes a mockery of brief speech in the united states we go around lecturing the world

about how they need to have freedom of the press and freedom of speech and yet here we are cracking down on free speech i think it's important to remember that the objective of doing this to r.t. news is not to block information from going to russian citizens it is to block the truth from reaching the american public in the united states so it absolutely makes a mockery of free speech. there is a tendency to say well some of these organizations. engage in propaganda and i will tell you that i know madame out americans who have come to rely on our t.v. news as the most valid truthful broadcast media

in the united states. we consider c.n.n. fox news and pam as n.b.c. all of them are just a bunch of people screaming back and forth that want another most of it is just propaganda it is it is extremist opinion and you listen to our chinos and they present a very accurate information that is verifiable when you go and you and you actually research it and we should stress again of course we'll still be broadcasting in the u.s. the merican will still exist but do you think this move is just has just been done to try and tanishaa to perhaps persuade people not to watch us. well i think that is part of it they want to undermine our team news in any way

that is possible. here's the problem for them. r.t. news has been one of the principal sources for accurate information about what's going on in the middle east. and it also has been. a source of accurate information about nato's provocations their military provocations and their aggressive actions towards russia in in europe and i think probably more than anything the disclosure of the the deep rooted corruption and the american willingness to align itself with with al qaida. with with nor ouzinkie with hideous hideous terror groups. the

fact that this has been disclosed it's an embarrassment because it's totally censored on the broadcast news in the united states in fact the united states broadcast media has never reported on the vast. theater campaign waged by syria against isis that swept isis out of much of the nation all the way to do your hours or main while they reported nightly on much lesser fighting that was going on by the u.s. organized kurdish forces. north of the euphrates river so what's happening is that. everett the american people have been able to

obtain news from various sources to compare the information against the facts that they see emerging on the ground and too many americans have been saying you know what what we're seeing on our team news seems to be much more factual and what we're seeing on c.n.n. and some of these other broadcast media sources i'm rich would be go to minutes left to just as a regular guest one of our regular guests he comes on to say decease make life more difficult for the coming onto a latte not registered as a foreign agent tool do you think some people would be more looked into if they were not channel nine. you know. they have had a great deal of difficulty silencing they. they they have tried in many ways and frankly you know they can do whatever they want i'm going to continue speaking out but it does worry me when i see. very fine

journalism by organizations like syria girl syria girl it's a web site but a woman who has very very keen insight into what's going on and they have managed to silence her i do worry that some people who are a little bit. less courageous perhaps will tend to to draw back a little bit i hope not i hope that our t.v. remains are very robust source of news because i rely on it and i will tell you millions of americans have come to rely on or to news. you can have to leave a definite we've been at it but you're always welcome that was senator richard black the genius state senator thank you. now you want to thank you. we're going to take a quick break but when we come back a british teacher reason trouble for saying well done to his peoples we've got the

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that they would roll back the blockade to a partial one again however human rights watched as they that says that that claim is a form of cruel fiction explaining that the ports that riyadh will reopen aren't enough to provide essential supplies of food and medicine saudi arabia says it will continue with a partial blockade until its convinced there is no flow of weapons from iran going to the who three rebels the civil war in yemen is seen by middle east analysts as a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran r.t. jackley muga looks at whether the current cold war between the region's most powerful countries could lead to a full scale conflict. the rivalry between middle east powerhouses saudi arabia and iran is nothing new yet it's becoming ever more tense with fears growing of a full blown war a missile launched by yemeni rebels directed it earlier this month has already got the saudis talking about direct aggression and war the coalition's commom considers this a blatant active military aggression by the iranian regime and could rise to be considered

as an act of war against the kingdom of saudi arabia jordan you know the mite's imposition of the public people more powerful than you have been able to do anything against the iranian people you're not strong enough to do that's where we look in the region conflicts can often be boiled down to saudi arabia and iran countering each other by proxy the saudi military campaign against the who is the rebels in yemen backed by iran saudi backing of sunni rebel groups in syria while iran's supports the assad government both of those conflicts are exactly panning out well for saudi arabia so how would they fare in a direct conflict with iran let's break it down. looking at a global military strength rating the two countries aren't far apart on the list with iran at twenty first and saudi arabia taking the twenty fourth position. and all riyadh's aviation outstrips tehran's iran wins out when it comes to tanks

and naval assets by a long run. it's probably no surprise that the saudi kingdom has a massive defense budget coming in at over fifty six billion dollars in the islamic republic's six billion and change. but when it comes to male power iran has significantly more citizens fit for service and the event of war you have a very rash ruler in saudi arabia i'm talking about the prince. you know he's just about ready to do. if you look at what happened with the lebanese prime minister it was basically forced to resign. that gives you just an indicator of the how far will have not been so learning is willing to go but i personally would be very very surprised if saudi arabia lost the war on iraq i would completely rule out iran launching a war on saudi arabia or started. guarantees or chance of

winning i think it would go ahead with the war but i think saudi arabia believes it doesn't have a chance of winning a war against iran the rhetoric might be at a boiling point at the moment but there's still no sign either side is ready for open conflict. a british school teacher has been suspended after praising his students it sounds old joshua sir cliff congratulated his math class by saying well done girls but that upset one pupil who identifies as male the teacher insists he apologized immediately and says it was an accident the student in question. came in did very well and i said rather than girls he started really well and i was met with a fierce rebuttal. and i sincerely apologize. i then found out six weeks later that i was going to be under investigation for

mischief enduring within the community and initially for one day transpired to be two days and then three days and then it's now been six days where have been sat in a in an office not being able to teach my math lessons well joshua there also told us that he believes he's being singled out by the school over his own religious beliefs. i think i've been bullied really for you know for who i am within the school setting up a bible club and then it being shut down with an iron fist really having so many people coming along to the bible club and being interested in the bible i feel like i've been discriminated against within the community and i think that's a trend. nationwide is that christians are able to. live out their faith in a professional setting where the incident is a big talking point in britain right now as to whether the school is highlighting

a sense to me that does need careful handling or in fact if it's over reacting this particular teacher accidentally missed gender by calling a trans boy pupil or a girl it was not intentional he hadn't meant to cause a phone so i think that his suspension is disproportionate i think that the school should obviously the point out to him that he made a mistake which of course he doesn't recognise and then get his assurance that it won't happen again i think that is the end of the matter it's absolutely stupid he called the girls girls because he thought it was a class of girls made an honest mistake. apologized that should have been the end of the matter this whole transgender agenda he's getting much much too much influence in the british media and in british society there are very small minority

i feel sorry for anyone who thinks they are trapped in the wrong body they should be treated with respect and tolerance but where is the tolerance for this man he's a christian but of course you're not allowed to be a christian anymore are you in modern britain ah i don't see that he's doing anything wrong actual the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me watching us into. thanks being with us this evening we'll have more news in just a behalf and. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. sit.

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