well look it's like the. german police detained former catalan president carlos proved a month after an arrest warrant was reactivated by spain where he's wanted for rebellion the last years independence referendum. in the stories that shaped the week the diplomatic rift over the poisoning of surrogate screw powell and his daughter sees russian and british diplomats being expelled moscow again insists it's not to blame when they get an act of terrorism. and the facebook forces takes out a full page ads in british and american sunday newspapers to apologize for the massive data breach which stored tens of millions of personal accounts exploited.

a warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international all the latest world headlines and a roundup of the stories that shapes that week. first the president of the spanish region of consul lonia has been detained by police in germany collars demond has had fled spain after holding an independence referendum last october which madrid had ruled illegal and international arrest warrant was reissued on friday by spain where he's wanted on charges of rebellion and sedition with more details in berlin his. the former catalan president colors pollution man has been detained in germany he's wanted in spain on charges of sedition and rebellion and was held after crossing the border from denmark on his way to belgium now german police have confirmed his arrest and he said to be in the local police station greeting its legal team since there is a cushion on his feet on

a visit to helsinki investee in finland to give a lecture that on his way back to the gym authorities arrested him off to spain reissued his arrest warrant but his lawyer tweeted that he was returning to belgium to be of course at the disposal of the belgian justice system there he's been living in self-imposed exile in belgium that's after leading the pro independence referendum last year which was deemed illegal by the spanish authorities this was a vote that caused tensions across the region with accusations of police violence as well now tensions have still been running high in the region with rallies taking place from time to time and calls for the release of other political prisoners as well as the return of carlist could face up to thirty years in prison in spain and the spanish courts have already signed documents for extradition. the diplomatic standoff between the u.k. and russia came to a head this week with twenty three diplomats from each country returning home britain made the first explosions following the poisoning of former double agent

group powell and his daughter in england three weeks ago even though the investigation is still under way british officials have repeatedly said that a russian link is highly likely. and on thursday the prime minister asked the e.u. tobacco. it was highly likely that russia was responsible for with things that the current analysis is already very well grounded and nobody questions that everyone was also indicating do willingness to do follow as far as russia is concerned. we have different positions different. interests political landscape in europe russia and this is why it's not so easy to keep the. twenty eight. group. together. the kremlin has flatly dismissed the claims that it was involved calling

the poisoning at terrorist act russia has also expressed willingness to cooperate with british authorities but that's gained little traction so far the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson has been among russia's harshest critics even agreeing with nazi comparisons at a parliamentary herring. because the roads like to the. pigeons go the way of these things. here so i think the comparison with the one hundred thirty six is is certainly right most school considers this kind of statements made under the level of the foreign secretary in any way unacceptable and totally irresponsible. the british government discrete to make a decision about this but dissipation in the world cup but nobody has the right to

insult the russian people who defeated naziism and lost more than twenty five million people by comparing our country to nazi germany. did he goes beyond the common sense and we do not think british war veterans including those of the arctic cold voice would share this opinion hot on the heels of boris johnson's comments the russian embassy in the u.k. also posted this photo in a controversial moment the english football team was ordered by british all parties to give a nazi salute before friendly match with germany in one nine hundred thirty eight. well the ratcheting up of animosity towards russia seems to be making its way into british schools too and this is their china can as takes a look at an educational project likely to be reinforcing hostilities what's better than helping the young to try to maneuver the ever tricky world of global current

affairs. of the day is an online news service that is used by one in three u.k. schools teachers much variance from satori b. schools use around schools and activities across all subjects for lessons homework research. here's one handed to tory and provided by the service to help educate the young and broaden their horizons talks of putin on mission to poison west ouch and among questions to discuss is putin europe's most dangerous leader since hitler class this gus. to help students out topics like the ongoing five scandal where an investigation is still underway are broken down despite this incriminating evidence of international outrage to release monks and everything in case there is confusion still there is

a dictionary included which explains the meaning of the words marks surely this teaches you to put things into perspective not the choice of an blitzkrieg are also if you're a military tactic designed to question the enemy with overwhelming force a short space of time coincidentally made famous by hitler in world war two just to make it a bit easier to connect the dots brutal assassinations cyber attacks as well as plotting the downfall of western democracy also laid out as food for thought a you decide section let students consider the following questions is putin the most dangerous man in the world did the cold war ever end as well as what impression does putin give about what russia is like. the day help students develop information literacy and critical thinking prepares them for the challenges ahead and the ever changing world critical thinking is key the toxic put in class is dismissed and associates are going to party wild come in spokes person to me has

been talking exclusively to artie's sophie shevardnadze about the square pal case. first we have to remember the starting point is the words of president putin that russia has nothing to do with this accident. the first blaming came from politicians just a couple of hours after the accident. and now we're see with the words of experts and experts are for going to zation for four or four. p.c. w. that say that the preliminary examining of this agent will take about three weeks is it contradictory yes it is.

france was struck by terrorism again on friday when i gunmen hijacked a car and took hostages at a supermarket and a small southern town three people died that day while a fourth succumbs to his injuries on sunday had pledged allegiance to islamic state and was eventually shot dead by special forces. in the movie i went shopping with my wife and sister in law after some time we had an explosion well several. i saw a man lying on the floor and another person who was very agitated still with

a handgun in one hand and a knife in the other and yelling allahu akbar. after that i took my wife and my sister in law and some customers nearby and were going to look for shelter i put them in a butcher's fridge closed from the inside. because it's peaceful here where it's seedy like any other he was very kind very sociable adorable he overt sweets to the children and he's a terrorist. the terrorist has been identified he was killed during his solo investigation will have to answer some important questions when and how was he radicalized and how and when did he procure the weapon. we have for several years paid with our blood to know the terrorist menace. well among those who died was police officer or

know about trial who swapped places with a female hostage he left a mobile phone switched on for the authorities to listen then when special forces heard gunshots they moved in and found charm had been wounded he passed away in hospital on saturday morning and is being hailed as a national hero well over the past year alone there have been repeated terror attacks on thwarted attempts in france in fact he. two thousand and seventeen a man attempted to enter the louvre museum in paris with a machete while an attacker was stopped at all airport just one month later a police officer was shot dead last april on the shantha leeds day and last october two young women were stabbed to death at a railway station in mass a former british intelligence officer an emotion on says the fact that the gunman was under police surveillance exposes wider failures is part of the passing that we're seeing emerging across europe over the last few years of people carrying out

these low tech type of attacks with high victim rates who are of course on the radar of at least the police if not indeed of the intelligence agencies but for some reason they're not being watched carefully enough they're not being monitored carefully enough and being followed around. and they're allowed to get more radicalized and carry out these are appalling deeds it's hard to see what more fronts can do go i mean they had a state of emergency declared after better planned attacks all the powers are still there in france it just changed the name they've changed the terminology and yet all those powers are still preventing the security agencies and police from protecting the french citizens so i still see how much more they can do. facebook's mark zuckerberg has taken out a series of ads in sunday newspapers in the u.s. and u.k. apologizing for failing to protect users data it follows claims that the private information of tens of millions of people was collected without their permission

and exploited for political gain jacqueline verga has the details. several u.k. and american newspapers featured full page apologies from facebook boss mark zuckerberg the ad states this was a breach of trust and i'm sorry while promising to do better in the future that's after having written a post online about the changes the company will be making and saying facebook has learned its lesson during a c.n.n. interview we need to make sure that there aren't any other cambridge general because out there right or folks who have improperly access data you know we need to make sure that we don't make that mistake ever again but not everyone is buying what zuckerberg is selling this cartoonist gave his response is a big thumbs down mocking the statements more than anything it reads i'm sorry that we've been forced to stop ignoring these data breaches and they aren't alone in thinking that facebook has some explaining to do dr burke has been called to testify both in the u.s. and the u.k. on the situation now the whole scandal is centered around the british data gathering firm called cambridge analytic dated they collected was involved in

donald trump's presidential campaign and possibly others as well the whole story blew up when it came to light that the company allegedly mined fifty million facebook profiles for its operations while its parent company was reportedly involved in psycho social studies for the u.k. defense ministry cambridge analytical is now under investigation its offices have been raided and its chief executive has been suspended the company denies any and all wrongdoing the scandal has also led to a backlash against the social network facebook's share price plunged to a four year low and the company is now facing multiple lawsuits from shareholders over on twitter meanwhile the how to delete facebook has been trending with some high profile people joining in as the fear of breach privacy is at the front of everyone's minds the point is being missed here it's not cambridge analytic it's the fact that facebook is a tool a proxy if you will of that government and it just. it was

it was conceived it sudar to see. money this this feigned oh do you think they use the information against her i you kidding me facebook apple everything that we do is basically sucking up every bit of information we have or despite the two major firms at the center of the data scandal having roots in america and the u.k. a c.n.n. reporter tied the story to russia more and takes a look. imagine being a liberal a democrat and being stuck in a trump presidency for a year is it must be horrible waking up every day guessing that what russia is songe bots or hackers have cooked up today cambridge analytic i had powerful connections to candidate trump including one time top adviser steve bannon and

billionaire donor robert mercer so presidential son in law jared cushion or and consultant brad parr scale brought in the company which is now accused of utilizing data from fifty million facebook users without permission facebook was how donald trump was going to win way that six something's wrong where's the bad guy who do we blame this on. there it is questions are also swirling about a possible link to russian metal cambridge c.e.o. reached out to julian assange of wiki leaks seeking access to e-mails from hillary clinton's private server there's no evidence ricky leaks had such information but wiki leaks was releasing e-mails from the computers of other democrats which authorities say were hacked by russians and another trump advisor roger stone great innings i actually communicated with this what how do you even make the

connection what's your logic if someone speaks to a songe their russian agent there is zero connection here other than the word russia being in every other sentence there is only one explanation c n n's report must have been put together by a random generator literally this explanation makes more sense than cnn's report at savage the d.n.c. oil trump the russians cambridge had because we've got the key words just fill this. he says with whatever he also directly message to russian hacker he says he did nothing wrong and despite another claim that cambridge had ties to a russian oil company the campaign insists there were never any links to russia are you comfortable that the trunk campaign through their cameras analytical had a connection to wiki leaks. they did have

a connection wiki leaks let me demonstrate if you are of average height and your birthday is in july you are closely tied to a sound see how easy it is let's do this again if you like snow and the russians like snow you are aligned with russia or if you want lots of money and all the guards have lots of money you are susceptible to russian influence it's all nonsense but who cares it's about getting the keywords out there about confusing and confounding not explaining or investigating keywords people keywords the russians everywhere. well thought is in the central russian city of camaro of say four people including three children have been killed in a fire at

a shopping center another twenty six people are believed to have been injured in the blaze in southern siberia which spread to an area of more than a thousand square metres where this is say a start it's close to a cinema and children's play area emergency services have now evacuated the complex they say over one hundred people were in there at the time there was also a petting zoo inside around two hundred animals are thought to have been killed there have been reports that at least one person jumped from the building an investigation into the cause of the fire is under way. but it was a calm on the weekly wrapping up questions presidential election and unrest in front of the president tough economic reforms boils over stay with us. what holds if you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

so you want to be president and she. wanted. to be right. this is what. we believe that. there's that. there should. fundamentally the united states and russia are have been for decades two scorpions in a bottle each capable of destroying the other but all the at the price of being destroyed itself. and said well these weapons were overcome u.s. missile defenses u.s. missile defenses were totally ineffective against russian forces already so there will be more effective against russian forces.

welcome back the final results of the russian presidential election were announced on friday saturday appears in took seventy six percent of the vote to secure his fourth term in the kremlin and his decisive victory has already called many questioning just how long he might be in the top job for people at the moment i'm not planning any constitutional changes with the states because i was more than this you do think you will be in the presidential seeds until twenty thirty or course if you change the constitution it's really just mission and i think what you're saying is. you know until i turn one hundred there was though it was putin's biggest ever election win with the other seven challenges left far behind the communist parties millionaire candidate pav

a great dane and finished second and ultranationalist firebrands lot of major and all ski and liberal socialite casimir subject came third and fourth respectively and flamboyant unorthodox hopefuls weren't the only highlights of the contest. thank you abbi thank you thank you thank you. thank you. thank you it will be. well one of the more on the usual

election highlights that grabbed attention was a pledge by the communists have a good dean in he vowed to shave off his mustache if he got less than fifteen percent of the vote and well it's god who didn't says that he hasn't seen himself without it for thirty years. it was wrong so nationwide strikes on thursday as public sector workers vented their concerns over social and economic reforms students and transport workers say president micron's proposals will make long term unemployment and low wages commonplace many schools shut for the day and airports were also affected more than two hundred thousand people reportedly joined rallies with more demonstrations planned for april and may in paris the on rest escalated into clashes with police.

i'm going to. ruin it but i want to do we are not here to be violent we are here to protest democratically against the liberal politics of macro wanted by the call of the cuckoo that in a market we disagree with the government we can't accept this reforms that's why we are always here with us because it's the most like of course the promises he made i think it's absolutely not been fulfilled. some protesters at the paris rallies there were rocks at officers who responded with morton cullen holiday bensky was at one of the flashpoint areas. thousands of people have been marching in paris trying to make a voice discouraged to the government of president marcos saying they're unhappy with many of the ideas of p.c.

ministration including that she got a hundred and twenty thousand jobs in the five years since he's a president see there have been some violent confrontations during this day strike in paris now where police clashed with the protest is some suggesting that the police had used extreme violence and some of the protesters had been injured from the civil savants to the right way start to students form here to voice their concerns with this current administration this is actually also the first over thirty seven days of strikes by the railways two strikes are going to take place over the next few months until the end of june the way we were just saying this is the only way that they can get a voice is heard and they will speak directly with the government about changes that are proposed to their line of work charlotte even ski. azzi paris. well they

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welcome to well the vice president trumps hiring and firing practices have long stopped to surprise but their recent designations first of my compare as the secretary of state and then of john bolton as the national security adviser did leave an impression on friends and foes alike what can we expect from old the president's men well to discuss that i'm now joined by michael o'hanlon senior fellow at the brookings institution mr howland it's good to talk to you thank you very much for being here my pleasure thanks for having me now the trumpet ministrations h.r. policies have been unconventional from the very start but it says that now is a high time for letting people go and bringing new people on board do you see that as a random coincidence or is there a reason the strategy to all of these appointments happening right now well as you know there was a lot of turnover last year throughout much of the white house staff in particular but i do think that there is a purpose to changing both the secretary of state and the national security adviser

in the same month i don't think that could be a coincidence and i think part of what's happening is the president has decided that he knows what kind of personalities he likes to work with he senses that he had ok relationship with general mcmaster but it wasn't all that close. and there maybe people that he would feel closer to politically in terms of partisan politics in terms of world view and of course secretary of state tellers and was a little bit of an enigma he seemed to be very reasonable and moderate and thoughtful in some ways but he didn't really click with the president and he didn't really click with his own state department and so i think president trump took all this in stride took all this together talked to his chief of staff john kelly and they decided to make some national security check.