i gravitated to t.v. so i just finished i finished a show called snow fall which is an f.x. show it's terrific it's true show actually set in one thousand nine hundred eighty three in los angeles about the rise of the crack cocaine trade and it's a fascinating show i don't know how much it gets out of the out of states but it's really good we certainly cover journalist gary webb's articles about the rise of about at that do when you're in the industry that people know that you and you in a way made a path for this kind of darkness in popular culture rule films i do i get a bit of that which i'm very happy to do it's always funny to me if i step on set to do something in a and a young want to be filmmaker type somebody who's working on saturdays doing something else as you know i really like your movies and a lot to me that's great you always want to hear that but when it's you know that i really like the dark twisted humor of the movies i go great that's what i like to hear like the women thank you thank you. the four k.

restoration of heathers is out now in the u.k. and on demand around the world from the twentieth well for decades the spanish civil war has been tackled in the visual arts from communist pain to public assets jeremy corbyn supporter ken loach today the leader of ease largest economy i'm going to merkel is in madrid and their meetings lie arguably in the shadow not only of britain's shameful role in aiding general franco but today's imprisonment of catalonia as democratically elected politicians the entire history is chronicled in catalonia reborn how catalonia took on the corrupt spanish state and the legacy of franco by george caravan and chris bambery chris joins me now chris welcome to going underground how is it that catalonia is in a sense the story of europe as we know it today i think it's a story old the european union is. last october you remember when they tried to hold a referendum which the party. catherine popularized in catalonia on independence

from spain the spanish government sent in paramilitary police to break up a french attacked police stations to seize ballot boxes to attack voters and there was this complete silence from the european union about what was happening and i think since then there's going to gradual realization that really for the small nations of the regions of the europe the european union doesn't really work and it doesn't really work it's run by the big states and then run essentially by germany and germany and france to the extent of worried about what would happen if catalonia broke free again self-determination the brown vacations that would have elsewhere and essentially sided with spain in repressing that democratic referendum and when i talk about it being europe story if we go through the chapters and the spanish civil war arguably missing from british school textbooks is when britain was supporting the fascists there that's how we came to the second world war and we

may live in the shadow but i think it's a very important story that if the western democracies had supported the spanish republicans frankl then it would have been a major blow block to the second world war the fact they didn't encourage him or to believe that he get away with seizing more and more territory we have a few statues around the country of celebrating the international brigades perhaps not taught as much as they could be in schools around europe but as far as what understands of the mainstream media there was this seamless drift from dictatorship to democracy frank was overthrown in your talking in this book about a corrupt state you alleged torture i mean this is one of the key stories what happened after frankel eventually did die in one hundred seventy five words for nine months they tried holding on and eventually realized they couldn't the grassroots movement for democracy was too great but what he did was he brokered a deal with the main opposition parties that tend socialist and communist parties and essentially they agreed to maintain the institutions of the state as the world would know. attempt to purge them whatsoever in return for being they themselves

been legalized in standing in parliamentary elections and that they came into existence in the markets it was very very limited there was an agreement for instance a pact of silence about the spanish civil war that no one really talked about it there was despite the fact spain has agree it is number of unknown civilian greaves in the world outside cambodia there was a complete pact for anyone who carried out acts of political violence during the franco franco years and there was nothing done to solve corruption in particular which was really central to the franco dictatorship here in utah it didn't seem to harvard's jobs of being a member of european union you say that and to remember that people go to holiday to this place you're seeing the world organization against torture based in geneva looking at allegations of torture this is not during franco's bordering with this is in recent years this isn't recent years and what that is a consequence of a dirty war which is force in the basque country known this is not to justify the

current military campaign of air to the basket terrorist organization but the response of the spanish state which included death squads and legal death squads been sent into neighboring france to kill people but as the past record in legislation and permit torture of prisoners which goes on so there's a lot of concerns about what ho democratic spin is and then bring us slightly more up to date we have this cataclysmic financial crash how did it affect people in catalonia a lot of catalans say well we warned about this no we're expected to pay for us there it emerges as elsewhere we're looking we pay our taxes to madrid they're not coming back to us but they're also not going to the poorest areas of spain in the south they're staying in madrid will be invested in infrastructure we want to get away from this we want to be we would be better in our own and we could do better economically significant was this october first twenty seventeen referendum after repeated attempts to do quickly here by madrid and perhaps the european union to stop democracy i think was it. it's very important because what you had this

situation since two thousand and ten when the spanish constitutional court in a case brought by the center a popular body had struck down a statue autonomy given to catalonia agreed and voted on by the spanish and catalan parliament and then by a referendum in catalonia this was struck down by you know unelected judges you had that shift towards probably a majority support for independence leading to that situation when he decided to go for this referendum admin blocked by spain who refuses them the right self-determination and then you have this very very heavy handed response the likes of which i have not seen in western europe really in decades you know sending in the police to break i think at that stage the repression and the repression subsequent of that with people being held in jail as political prisoners by the spanish state has increased the number of catalans who may not necessarily support independence but do say we have a right we have a right to say to ourselves without any of this do you think anyone reading this

book by the end of it is going to come to the conclusion britain has to get out of the european union because it seems such a rotten place i don't know if you come to that conclusion i think of myself and george the other author i think we have divided opinions and i see the european union as being undemocratic and run in a very near liberal agenda which is one of the reasons i think it is undemocratic which i think neal liberalism tends towards authoritarianism i also think it's interesting coming back to what's happening katter when you contrast that with the same silence towards the right wing parties reemerging across europe and implementing measures against migrants against muslims and so on you know the european union is not a bastion of democracy chris bambery thank you and that's it for the show will be back on monday job as a good cia backed coup screw ups in the colonialism in congo one of the most it will take is the resource rich and poor countries of the world building to be judge of us by social media will be back on monday like you do years since the birth of the revolutionary and the diversion list repeatedly targeted for assassination. by

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two palestinians are killed and over two hundred are injured in the latest on. rest on the israeli gaza border. the senator from florida says rush's penetrated the u.s. states a voter registration system ad in the midterm elections state authorities though say there's zero evidence to support back claims. and space tops the list of countries receiving the most migrants on the mediterranean this year as a new refugee deal comes into effect between spain and germany. never a good afternoon for me kevin owen just to midday here in moscow you're watching r t international first this saturday then two palestinians have been killed and over

two hundred injured in the latest violence in the israeli gaza border the protests erupted after a cease fire deal between hamas militants and israel came into effect on thursday that agreement should have ended all rocket fire on israel and airstrikes on the gaza strip. he was at the latest protest. i mean let's not get meters away from chanting slogans like i was ready. to i was. right to demand a new political protests. israeli forces. to fight. scene in protesters. the policy protesters have been burning tires to hurt the vision of the israeli

snipers that their israeli forces continue to use live ammunition or scores of palestinians have been injured at least five are in severe critical condition i thought into what i saw today and according to all of the injuries. i have to tell you that the tear gas that being thrown today is a new complication on the palestinians listing is now complete is that the katyn summing up the twentieth friday of the great march of return a palestinian prime minister was killed while one hundred ten were injured forty the french yuri's were treated in the medical point seventy were treated in the hospitals and transferred directly to the hospitals where their injuries were not to easy five paramedics were injured and palestinian journalist was also injured and the numbers state and showing dedicate how the put the israeli forces continue their violence against the palestinians for the twentieth friday live ammunition

and tear gas have been filling the place and a sense said the power of the sense the beginning of the protest protest would continue and the israeli today also used tank shelling on the protesters. was pretty happening there began almost five months ago since then over one hundred sixty people have been killed and thousands. more injured mass protests dubbed the march overturn a largely supported by the hamas group thousands of protested the israeli occupation of palestinian territory for their part the israeli military say its soldiers opened fire in self-defense acting in accordance with standard procedures they claim protesters threw explosives and entered israeli territory are the headlines now today. a democratic senator from florida hoping for reelection in the upcoming mid-term elections has claimed russia has hacked the state's voter registration system authorities there however say there's no information to support that claim caleb maupin reports from washington. bill nelson democratic senator

from florida has some alarming news he says that russia has hacked its way into the state's voter registration records they have already penetrated certain counties in the state and they now have free rein to move the boat well time demand the battle stations this is big news except for some reason no one in florida has ever heard about it there are revelle from the florida department of state says that no law enforcement is aware of anything of this nature she says they have received zero information from nelson about his claim and that the f.b.i. the d.h.s.s. and all the florida law enforcement have is observed nothing of the kind the department of homeland security in washington d.c. has now confirmed that they've never heard about it spokesperson sarah sendek says that it didn't happen to she says we have not heard any news of compromises by russian actors of the election infrastructure build nelson however says he has

obsessional inside information about russian hackers in florida but he can't tell us the details because it's classified he can't tell us which counties have been hacked because it's classified and he can't tell us who told him this you guessed it it's classified nobody in florida has heard of it the department of homeland security has not heard about it but let's take bill nelson at his word let's say the russians actually have hacked into the voting records don't you think that bill ought to be giving whatever information he has to the d.h.s.s. and to florida officials shouldn't he be telling them before he tells the media if they haven't heard about it yet shouldn't they have heard about it now and shouldn't they now take that information and stop the breach why is bill not swing into action getting all the local and federal officials involved well that's classified so classified.