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helping refugees cross. the week's top stories. welcome to the week. with russia in a speech. of military aggression and little surprising details but apparently the key issue of brecht's it much less important . 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 the day after may's claim with the times newspaper alleged russian interference in the brics to vote one example was a supposed russian whose profile didn't fit a typical british political observer yet posted or read tweeted nearly one hundred posts mentioning praxair and the political and media scare mongering may have now actually had an effect as polly boy who investigates. in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress the brags that talks on the problems facing to raise their maze of government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite

a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia is enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and the could be a lot more so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg i believe there is some of the books movies and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's fire. for us i did use. the idea about four hundred twitter people will affect. as it were mostly mostly people who don't read anything on twitter is absolutely laughable the prime minister spokesperson has said that downing street didn't have any evidence of successful interference in british electoral systems and this was the way the

foreign secretary put it. but that doesn't matter because if you ask a member of the public care if russia did magill the answer is most likely to be down. to these or me and other leaders are doing across the west is trying to divert attention from their own responsibility for for the enveloping crazies the political crazies are taking place at home and abroad too in this context they don't need evidence russia is seen as an easy target inspired me contributing to the attacks on moscow she was later forced to clarify her claims turns out she wasn't actually implying that russia about all of in breaks that they learn to look

at the speech i gave on monday that would see the examples i gave of russian interference when not in the united kingdom but britain was far from the only one to dig deeper on anti russian claims this week spanish officials also alleged moscow meddling this time in catalonia separatist movement. in many messages and many interventions that have occurred through social networks come from russian territory and they use the expression russian territory that does not necessarily mean that you have confirmed that it is the russian government mainstream media insisted russia may have actually destabilized all of spain however the spanish leader mario not our hoyt denies all allegations saying he has no information about any of this i have no data which can be used as evidence on the involvement of the russian government nothing. the blame russia card has also been played in the deepening scandal over sexual misconduct in the

u.s. and to tell you an industry star trek actor george takei was this week accused of acting inappropriately with a male model all the way back in the early one nine hundred eighty s. he denies the allegations in a now deleted tweet said russian balls were fine the allegations against him he attached a charge which claimed to show he was targeted by russian trolls or if he didn't manage to win over those of social media. he sure knew by repeating what magic is a chavez forty years old but it's great commentary. after months of growing pressure from washington this week are set up to combat nazi propaganda during the second world war it will have to disclose all of its broadcasts and social media output to the american government it must have a transparent financial structure and be ready for

a full inspection at any time is artes in eastern hour. let's talk about the first amendment more american than apple pie freedom fries and gun violence the first amendment is supposed to protect the freedom of speech right right it allows anyone to have a voice in till you speak too loud artsy america was forced to register as a foreign agent wife forced because the other option was legal action and accounts frozen so let's say you're an american journalist and you want to cover stories the mainstream media will never talk i'm a spy the o.j. is using a law from the nineteenth a as long as they don't see walking washington's line they became respected journalists you are not a respected journalist coups you are not a respected journalist if you go on live t.v. call out the country that funds your network but keep your job you are not a respected journalist if you risk your life to cover proxy wars violent protest

police brutality and coverage without corporate censorship you are not a respected journalist if you win multiple prestigious awards an emmy nominations you are not a respected journalist if you only work for r.t. because it's one of the larger outlets that will actually let you say what no other network will and touch topics you would be fired for anywhere else you are a spy a foreign agent it's official the u.s. government now decides what is journalism and what is not but this is just the beginning it starts with russia and it will end as home right in the heart of america. meanwhile the russian state duma responded to the treatment of artsy america and voted in favor of requiring media outlets funded from abroad to register as foreign agents the russian justice ministry subsequently released a list of the organizations that could be affected by the law and failure to

register would lead to prosecution and the outlet could be banned and just like with r.t. america all output by the channels will have to be mocked as a product released by foreign funded media for london mayor ken livingstone believes the current wrangling will actually drive people towards the media. think there's more more of a tent over the years to come to try and suppress what the american people get here because if you american people could see the truth about a lot of what's happening around the world they would be questioning what their government is doing behind all of that and so on the idea that there is a free press is nonsense any in here in britain and certainly in america so many of the newspapers are owned by billionaires who don't pay their taxes locally long to their money offshore the result of this is going to be more people now finding out i want to hear what's on our t.v. i mean there be people out there have never heard our t. exist now that want to know. what's going on i would be a total surprise to find foreign listeners avanti will be more in

a few weeks' time than they are now. the u.k. think tank claims the e.u. is criminalizing people who help refugees cross borders it says laws fail to distinguish between people traffickers who exploit migrants and smugglers who might actually be acting in the interests of the refugees now one person mentioned in the document is former british soldier robert lawrie he made headlines last year when french authorities around on him for trying to help a four year old illegally cross into the u.k. he found her living in the notorious kalai jungle camp here's his story. years ago i went over to help him again in france in the notorious jungle and i was bill used to help me for many weeks and you know months building shelters until one day i found out she had a family who lived literally two miles from myself and i decided to you know with

with you know a little bit of salt some of it i decided to try and get still her family is quite obvious that you know i didn't do it for money it was quite obvious i didn't do it full you know any political gain or anything that it was probably she had a purely did it out of a humanitarian the desire to help the refugees about which i met these moment but take dollar to donald trump is trying to eat ten g.'s around the world that kind of kid and sells in a kind of well we realize that you know something has to be done quite a pos they are here in the russian capital saudi arabia has finally agreed to reopen some air and sea ports in yemen to allow in a vital aid supplies a moral that i guessed as well after the prank.

the war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles. that you thought to try to tell you to be gossip the public i felt. my eyes tell you they're not like they're proud. of the hawks that i'm all for the war.

it's good to have you with us today for your weekly on r.t. returning to catalonia now where on saturday rival crowds marched in barcelona amid deep divisions over the region's independence movement thousands took part in a unionist march under the banner of catalonia is spain it's the latest in a series of pro unity rally since last month's referendum which was branded illegal by the spanish government meanwhile a group of independent activists gathered denouncing withdrew its crackdown on their movement. and is a new program here on the form a scottish first minister alex salmond spoke

exclusively to the ousted president. was sacked in october and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion spain issued an international arrest warrant after he fled to belgium where rhys currently on bail on friday a belgian court delayed till next month his decision on whether to extradite him on to madrid and speaking to r.t. he recalled the region's referendum day and told alex salmond how he sees the future of catalonia. let it take you to that the that extraordinary day in the first of it talk or tell me what your emotions were that the in the one hand there was the celebration of. millions of your fellow country people coming out to exercise the vote for self-determination on the other hand was the the violence that we all saw on our television screens from the state police or what will the conflicting emotions that you felt as president of catalonia on that famous day

there was a day of the victory of catalonia and the other hand of course there was a day of the extremely violent i couldn't imagine the the direction like that from the democratic state in the european union it was a tragic day today because i see directly the violence in the face school in my hometown there are a lot of injuries i was of injuries by the start of the next week the spanish judicial system or rolled into actual and took away the constitutional prize that catalonia had gained well this mistake in fact start a new era in the end of his era that will start a time rapidly because in these conditions is not possible is not possible there is no future at all and to remain spending these conditions what is your message to

the people of catalonia we must to be confident resilient because we will win. we will succeed finally democracy will prevail. it is all to international after a week long blockade of saudi arabia has bowed to pressure from the u.n. saying it will begin a reopening some air and sea ports in yemen humanitarian groups have long been demanding life saving supplies be allowed in.

just days before without the red cross issued a report saying one million people are at risk of a renewed cholera outbreak in three yemeni cities due to saudi arabia's blockade and that is after the city's clean water supplies were cut we cannot cross live just a mile to far from the red cross in yemen joining us here on r.t. international today fines for coming on the program the new red cross report states that one million people across three yemeni cities are at risk of a cholera outbreak how dire is the situation. this situation is

very dire because actually this consequence is actually another and another level of the consequences of the blockade on yemen because fuel is needed to make actually the water and sewage treatment plants work. it's not only because for water as you know fuel is important to make generators work for hospitals for health different health facilities around the country it's also important to make unbalances works and fuel is really important to run things and for sure actually as you said the three main cities one of them is her data and her data is one of the biggest governorates in yemen it's one actually of the most poorer governorates in the country and they people they cannot just provide this they cannot provide that the water and sewage treatment plan stop working because

the consequences will be even worse than the case it is now so i misspoke if you're saying that it's a good thing that saudi arabia is doing a partial lift on the opening some seaports and other blockades but is it enough is it enough for the people of yemen to allow him to get in or the vital aid they need so badly. and fortunately it's far from being an off. i think it's a common lowitja when people look at yemen we know that two thirds of the population they are in the north and the lift the blockade even if we see it does a good gesture at the end of the day it just lifting from one side of the country and not taken into consideration the other side and for this reason the i.c.r.c. issued a second news release just two days ago because we believe that this is not enough and we need to have full access to the country now it goes back to what about twenty fifteen when the saudi incursion began into into yemen to fight the

so-called who are the rebels or opposition fighters has the red cross ever seen a humanitarian catastrophe of this scale actually i'm here since already one year and i can tell you i could see the situation deteriorates every day more and more the public health system is almost collapsing the water and sewage system is to having the same thing people are not getting the most important and even basic things like having bread or having cooking gas to make something to eat and to put on the table the two years and a half almost of this conflict is really bringing a lot on yemenis and the civilian population on the day to day we've heard some concern voiced by the u.n. we've also seen one american official the u.s. house of representatives also voicing concern showing a picture of

a severely malnourished child where is the blame going what why has the reaction from the global community towards riyadh in saudi arabia why has it been so muted. at the end of the day the i.c.r.c. as a humanitarian actor these are not our concerns what we are concerned is more about the population and the suffering that they are subject to we cannot prevent wars we cannot stop wars but we remind all parties because of the end of the day this is their responsibility they need to make sure that humanitarian aids and humanitarian workers will have axes to the almost population who are in dire need and this is what we call and recall again to all the parties to the conflict or we hope as you continue to call for more help but your calls are heard red cross spokes person so my ability for joining us here on r.t. international thank you very much for your time and your insight today thank you.

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