the spanish prime minister rejects media claims of kremlin meddling in dependence referendum. also this hour ought to use force to register as a foreign agent in america under pressure just as the. u.k. prime minister hits out of russia in a speech her critics say a design to deflect attention from stalled negotiations. rather welcomes the live from moscow. for the next half an hour spain's prime minister has said there is no evidence the russian government interfered in catalonia independence referendum that's the spy delegations in the media and this

report. 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 catchline 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 and refer under him and the events that unraveled afterwards however we have seen high ranking officials such as the high representative of the you for foreign affairs federico

you're really as well as nato secretary general even not comment on these issues following those meetings and of course the spanish prime minister himself marianna roh hoary 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 speed will be able to move forward in actually solving the biggest crisis to touch this nation in a generation when well britain's prime minister has joined the bandwagon she focused heavily on russia with a twenty minute speech mentioning the country eight times. you would imagine to be more important in the u.k. came up just once. chief among those today of course is russia but it is

russia's actions russia's illegal annexation 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 and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it. comes on the back of a tough week for her domestically the reason may continues to be hounded by m.p.'s over her breaks at negotiations which are similar get to yield any real positives for the u.k. so much so in fact that the e.u. chief negotiator says he won't rule out a no deal scenario meaning that the talks could collapse entirely now pressure is also building on mrs may with rumors that forty m.p.'s are preparing a letter of no confidence that number is just eight short of the total needed to force a new leadership election within the conservative party discuss the p.m.'s predicament with political commentator adrian gallant he believes she focused on russia to the struck the tension from issues with bricks or people talk about that but she chose

instead to focus on the issues with russia you haven't got much you need it frankly looks like the european union and the u.k. are both preparing for a no deal on actually to see you know if you can crashing out of the european union and european economic area on the all which will massively impact the economy and i think that. britain is in a place where it itself is quite large and i think that you know talking about russia at this moment in time perhaps it is a usual deflection for the prime minister to deploy. after facing months of pressure from washington r.t. america has now been forced to register as a foreign agent in the united states. has more and what exactly 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 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 as an 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 won't 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 law makers are working on it but we just heard. the russian foreign minister once again say that steps and response will be taken and uses that could lead to 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 lifes 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 peaker 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. now the pressure on t.v. got off to u.s. intelligence claimed off china was an instrument for meddling and manipulation in america back in september the justice department to monitor we register as a foreign agent tech giants then began brooking our adverts on google hits you by

the twista they did that ahead of the testimony congress despite having no previous problems with teeth unless we've spoken to believe the measures against thought see america amounts to a deflection tactic unwilling u.k. m.p. jules got away and virginia state senator richard black that it makes a mockery of. we go around lecturing the world about how they need to have the freedom of the press and freedom of speech and yet here we are are cracking down on free speech i think it's important to remember that the objective of doing this to archie 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 the free speech well it's dark and dangerous path on we don't know how

to follow the path we'll know goal. is branding of journalists as agents and that's very dangerous of course for the safety of journalists in many hotspots .