clashes in catalonia more than sixty are injured and at least thirteen arrested in the spanish region in a pro independence protest against a meeting between the prime minister and local leaders. a secret project by u.s. democrats to test online tactics during a state election is revealed in a new york times report it's claimed they used the methods of. those. russian. another hit for the trumpet ministration defense secretary james says he's stepping down just a day after the u.s. president surprised allies by saying he's withdrawing american troops from syria.

this is r t s news at eleven pm live from moscow with me and well more come to you first. independence protests in spain's catalonia region more than sixty people have been injured including at least thirty five police officers as fled rallies time to coincide with a meeting between the spanish prime minister and catalonia region leaders. thank you thank you there's a thank you thank god thank. you. thank. us it was extra police were drafted in at least thirteen protesters were arrested demonstrators threw rocks at officers the start of the

bill barricades while police responded with baton charges what a journalist evelyn kaczynski who's in barcelona but earlier on she brought me up to speed with friday's events. thousands of catalans took out of the streets today to protest against a meeting between the petro sanchez and their regional readers of cuts along normally the cabinet meeting is held in madrid that as pedro sanchez it already and also want to do it here in barcelona and people took it as a provocation because only one year ago catalonia declared independence so people obviously are angry because they want to be independent and they want to be separate separate from the hosting so as you can see behind me you have signs of the but at this is politico's which means these libor rates the political prisoners still nine of them are held and the tension and basically you have all those people you have young people protesting and still trying to remember what happened here

one one year ago so a people took out of the streets not only here in the center but also they blocked eighty said seven which is the three way leading to the airport so many people were blocked today and couldn't go home for christmas. the authorities had hoped that relocating the meeting to barcelona would reduce tensions in catalonia the spanish prime minister in the capital and later agreed on thursday to an effective dialogue and independence referendum held in october last year was due to bad trade which there rested cattle and leaders for a bellydance edition spanish prosecutive recently claimed the former catalan president colors pushed him out spent more than eight million euro on that referendum is something that pushed the roll calls bizarre. sports dr alexander kroger but he's reader in spanish history at newcastle university in britain this is the rallies if should have been expected because current catalan leaders aren't

listening to protestors concerns i'm. trying to work through. the mind. and. do you see many ways that was expected the government thinks it cannot control everyone in. the crew stand under spanish and we can. see in the elections in december last year. was somehow symbolically meant to both the spanish and the cameron government and the current government because they haven't been able to do much in the last year in terms of legislation. russia's ledged online meddling a service once again but this time moscow it seems can't be blamed the new york times is reporting that a group of democratic party members undertook a secret project to test online tactics gere in an election in the us since it took

place in the state of alabama last year by employing methods allegedly used by russia to influence campaigns is a senior correspondent were against it with more details. for years the public you me were barash by stories of russian bots on t.v. radio papers daily they told us of malicious programs of evil software soulless slaves puton an existential threat to america take the alabama election a year ago russian bartz the media reported interfered medaled corrupted on behalf of republican candidates roy moore so surprise a tougher supporting more they both have a deep love of country the countries russia but still rather. choose for you it's pretty alarming when a guy's lives in

a fluent russian or speaks fluent russian russian it everywhere year later it's moving closer to the oval office one might wonder why on earth russia would bother with a massive dis information campaign in alabama of all places to fence taliban of both on as juicy a targets room or himself was clueless about it i had no idea why this was happening so as is republican tradition he blame the democrats for setting him up the democrats as a source are tradition change the subject and insulted him maybe more should check with putin who shares his views on depriving people of their civil rights here is where it gets really good the new york times did some digging and found a report titled the alabama project and figured out those weren't putin's bots

at all they were faked dressed up to look like russian bots. we orchestrated and a labrat false flag operation that planted the idea that the more campaign was amplified on social media by a russian but that i've seen some dirty stuff in politics all over the world but this this is platinum tear this on this deplorable and dirty tricks turns out it was all of fake psyop orchestrated by a group of i.t. experts who wanted to help the democrat win by cheating by lying and by their fraud being millions of voters in an attempt to frame the republican as being helped by russia the guy who allegedly financed all of this is billionaire reid hoffman co-founder of linked in and apparently a guy with

a really faulty moral compass often comes with the money my experience now here is the kicker and lighty is telling people shouldn't worry it's only one hundred thousand dollars peanuts when it comes to elections whatever world the democrats live in a hundred grand is change joe trippi a season's democratic operative said it was impossible that one hundred thousand dollar operation had an impact on the race journalists no longer report the news they report their opinions same new york times when talking about how alleged to think russian facebook accounts spend the same money hundred thousand dollars on advertising on a national campaign the disclosure adds to the evidence of the broad scope of the russian influence campaign. so when

a democratic group is all but cool with spending a hundred grand on this information on lies framing and defaming someone it's just one hundred grand pocket change but if it's the russians at one hundred thousand dollars becomes an absolute fortune crime against america and go on i've always been suspicious that the russians bought in there it was slim z. and was probably made up simply because that's the kind of saying that the democratic party does they make things up in order to create the basis for an attack on the right wing and on the conservatives this is in the character of the democratic party and in the a lack of character i should say and it's it's a criminal element that has taken over the democratic party the mainstream media only talk about things that service that democratic party agenda and it's an agenda

that we saw in syria you know it's an agenda that will lead to war it's an agenda that risks nuclear conflict with the two great nuclear powers it's an agenda that needs to be stopped. the truck has been astray sions taken another hit defense secretary was mattis is announced he's leaving his post pointing to differences of opinion with his commander in chief. because you have a right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects i believe it's right for me to step down from my position james mattis has served in the military for over forty years and has been defense secretary from the start of trump's term he supported the president's calls to strengthen the military but was known to disagree with trump on many points including this week surprised to see him to withdraw u.s. troops from syria that announcement seems to have been the last straw for mattis it also appears to have driven a wedge through the u.s. at large as well with many media establishment figures criticizing the move or the

american public largely seem to support it with more caleb maupin. comes announcement withdrawing the usa from syria has got the media up in arms the republicans and the democrats are livid they say that the usa is losing out i believe it is a catastrophic mistake the job's not over dangerous premature jeopardize america's mission in theory and hurt allies makes our country an even bigger laughingstock than it already is that gift it benefits iran the only reason they're not dancing in the into iran in isis camps is they just don't believe in density media's outrage does not match public opinion polls show that eighty six percent of americans say that us military force should only be used as a last resort now that opinion used to be very common on the opposite side of the political spectrum remember the peace marchers the antiwar movement this is what bernie sanders had to say my main concern terms of the middle east is to make certain that the united states does not get involved in perpetual warfare in the

quagmire of iraq and syria trump made the same announcement last year but forces swiftly moved in to change his mind russian president vladimir putin who sent forces to support the syrian government against the terrorists a big game changer in the conflict he says he's a bit skeptical of trump's announcement abuse today to you concerning the u.s. withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means for example the u.s. has been present in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year they say that they are withdrawing the troops they are still there now is the presence of american troops needed in syria or do you think so let's not forget that the presence there was illegitimate it was not agreed either with the un security council nor with the syrian government if the us plans to withdraw that is the right decision while politicians and media from both sides of the political spectrum is voicing outrage trying to move is at least complying with international law now let's see if he sticks to his guns this time. r.t.

new york for time for mr franken for t.v. told us he thinks the moves a step towards a political resolution to syria's war. i yield very much dead president will keep the promise to withdraw from syria because no doubt that tang's to the commitment on the russian federation tends to the cooperation with the turkish shows florida is a possibility to go into wars it political solution in the future or syria not in military one endy a withdrawal of united states troops with panic in order to avoid krises areas that can three where unfortunately the victims are innocent simply aliens concerning afghanistan i know very

well we have been talking about the withdrawal in foreign troops for years and years and years now there is a concrete threat i see the reserve gentz all taliban and first of all our guy which is a span ding in afghanistan what to do in my view only under united nations umbrella that they could be and mission to try to fight terrorists in afghanistan while still be allies ing that count three after seventeen years of foreign presence there. the turkish foreign ministers welcome the united states decision some analysts though warning the us but kurdish fighters will now be left abandoned and vulnerable because of it turkey indeed has threatened an offensive in northern syria against kurdish groups which they view as

terrorist. so you know we're burying the terrorists and the well they dug themselves and will continue to bury them we spoke to mr trump those terrorists would go east of the euphrates if they won't go than will send them there because they're bought the ring us were asked were strategic partners with the us then we should do whatever is needed. in more reaction from syria the official spokesman of the armed opposition the syrian democratic forces confirm that the surprise withdrawal could endangered kurds in the region because the american decision to withdraw from syria is sudden and shocking to us and even for the american troops here on the ground the american withdrawal will surely contribute in one way or another to escalating the continuous turkish threats toward the north of syria in general and towards the kurdish people in particular. meantime the u.s. plan to pull its troops from syria's caused anger among the mothers and wives of

local fighters killed by eisel they gathered near what's thought to be an american base in aleppo province appealing for the decision to be reversed and for the u.s. to help the syrian democratic forces. one zero zero of our america turned its back on us as we continue to fight indeed. it was our airline vanny raca and. why did they leave and said this time. we went to the airfield they promised has that they would not leave and now they've sold us out. shaking hands is a sign of friendship most places but it's causing a major fallout in denmark the country's adopted a new law now obliging people to shake hands as part of the ceremony to become a danish citizen supporters of the law and says that shaking hands is a custom part of being danish the reason is causing consternation is because of claims it targets muslims for whom physical contact with non-family members of the

opposite sex is forbidden for religious reasons some town mayors there for now are refusing to comply it's against my ideology and conviction to have to force other people to have body contact with a subject of fire a big discussion earlier here on this channel with both sides proclaiming it's all about respecting their respective traditions. it just shows how petty and vindictive the danish government is shaking hands is a personal choice there are many members of the jewish community you would choose not to shake hands of the opposite sex you can be vibrant members of society you can play an integral part in health and education as a lawyer in business and be a good citizen without having to say well actually you know what for religious reasons i do not want to shake someone's hand and therefore i'm not going to do that doesn't make you any less of a human being less of a responsible citizen and you want to live in denmark they want to shake hands well from a shaking hands get in the modern world use this nonsense we don't shake hands it

doesn't tell us how it's going to be better for us to the village guy go they finish go back to their country want to be forced it's a sign of friendship if you don't want to be friendly if you don't want to make similar coach or if you don't want to be tolerant go home i'm sure there's loads of places where you don't even have to shake hands but you can chop each other's hands off if you steal some of the job enjoy it is going to play to the gallery are going to talk to you about individual freedom human rights. to the gallery. does it necessarily make it possible that you won't be responsible citizen engaged in society played an active role just being able to practice your faith the ferry the fact that people have been forced to do this you've got dozens of mares of. no you don't are jehmu to the law on the point is the central point is this that it's about individual responsibility it's about human rights and it's about

stopping bigotry and this law pacifically designed to target just a muslim community is discriminatory and inacceptable if you read the articles if you take the time to do it rather than just play with a chip on your shoulder you'll see it's not just about muslims and secondly if you don't like to shake hands don't move to denmark or don't because. i'm at the initial citizen and this idea that it's an attack on your human rights come on grow up whatever you want to simulate what do you want to fit in with western culture but no they want to be the other people out there scar mohamad ease always doing this it wants to spread create division and then he accuses me of played to the gallery listen we shake hands in the west it's the way it is by not shaking hands does it make you less of a human being doesn't stop them from contributing to society i'm making a positive contribution now i'm somebody who personally my own choices i do shake

people's i'm male and female but there will be people out there who choose not to buy statutes. invention and deception in germany were a top journalist from the respected to speak of news magazine has been sucked for making up stories for years parody don't call to takes us through what's been uncovered when it comes to trustworthy journalism the mainstream media might tell you there's no alternative. meet one of their poster boys of honesty class for lotus work for one of germany's most respected newsmagazines der spiegel he was even named cnn's journalist of the year back in two thousand and fourteen for a story about prison inmate care the report takes the poetry can an interesting

approach to a major social problem classroom mooches paints pictures in the reader's mind the food like a film. well an acting career might have been better suited for real odious because the paragon of modern journalism seems to have faked his way through his seven year career of the sixty articles we know der spiegel published reloading us admitted fourteen contained fake news and a story about a young syrian boy he made up quotes and locations the tale of a guantanamo bay prison or a complete fabrication it was only after his colleague revealed his doubts over a story they were working on together about the us mexican border that the truth came out the. first there were just like little mistakes that i paid attention to things that seemed suspicious a vigilante group that doesn't allow you to take pictures of them but they tell you unbelievable stuff even admit to their crimes like that they detained mexicans and

crossed the mexican border with weapons were no went through the ringer with his managers trying to bring his doubts forward imagine challenging the legitimacy of an award winning western journalist praised by c.n.n. itself and if you're thinking this is a glitch in the mainstream media think again all these outlets have parted with journalists after they fabricated stories some more award winning journalists but awards in journalism are a whole other matter take journalist. he faked his own death with the help of the ukrainian secret service attempting to pin the blame on russia for an assassination it was a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime that chant go with killed due to his professional activities he was only working on things that were critical and investigative of russia you know it was it was one of the biggest fake news stories of the year but he was even given the time award for journalistic bravery if the

mainstream media insists you should question less you might want to take a second to question more donald quarter r.t. . russia's media regulators launched an investigation into where the b.b.c. world news which broke us here in russia on the b.b.c.'s websites are in compliance with the country's laws but a coach that has been following the story. the b.b.c. has already commented on this new development saying that it's in russia as in any other country the company brings independent information to its audience following all rules and regulations by the local government now russia's media regulator launched this investigation into the b.b.c. world news just a day after the british media regular said that the news channel broke impartiality rules and the kremlin says that that was

a measure taken and response. of course it's a retaliatory measure though there are plenty of questions for the b.b.c. overall coverage of some events coverage i should say so join the driven unbiased however no one can judge the channel except the special regulator. we are now seeing this investigation earlier this year off gone which is the british media regulator launched a number of investigations into to determine whether the channel had complied with the broadcasting rules and as a result of these investigations off calm has found that the news channel broke broadcasting rules by failing to preserve due impartiality and relation to seven use programs and the aftermath of the souls very nerve agent poisoning. that it was a deeply disappointed by the results of this this investigation it also added that

it appears off calm has failed to food take on board what was said in response to its investigations and also the channel said that it broadcasts in the u.k. following old rules set by the british for. later. china has denied u.s. allegations that it's behind an extensive hacking campaign in a dozen different countries it comes after two chinese citizens were indicted in america over what's being described as a mass cyber theft of sensitive data china also urged washington to retract its accusations to. me found me so sure to sing your new year's fabric is facts out of thin air the chinese government has never pretty sick beat it i supported anyone in students even secrets as the years to me did lou throw this so-called indictment of china's citizens so the chinese nationals are accused of stealing data on one hundred thousand u.s. navy employees as well as on a nuclear power research center in california and a nasa jet engine propulsion lab delegations of

a campaign come with relations already strained of course between the u.s. and china over the ongoing trade war three weeks ago at the g. twenty summit president trump and she jinping agreed to a ninety day a halt to new trade tariffs being imposed on steel and aluminum exports in a hope briefly of a broader trade agreement being reached somewhere else down the line but that agreement quickly overshadowed by the arrest of the chinese tech giant official in canada at washington's request we heard from the director of the china national association of international studies who says the u.s. accusations are sensational and they are political. position against the two individual chinese cannot be worse at a time when china u.s. relations are very much strained not only by the trade war but whatever that has been made available by the u.s. government is very flimsy the don't seem to really want to get to the facts they seem to have a major design to says cease in the lies and politicize this whole situation and

they want to create the fear of china not only in the united states but in many other countries and i see in the rest of the world knows for sure. the u.s. government is the biggest acute abuser of cyber security this is really going to strain the relations between china and the united states. dozens of migrants rescued at sea including three children of arrived in the spanish port of a marea hours earlier the bodies of eleven people including a pregnant woman were found in a small boat of southern spain the country's maritime rescue services recovered thirty three migrants still alive on board the boat but one later died in hospital as it stands and i didn't have an other is still missing in time across the mediterranean on africa's northern coastline in the spanish enclave of. seeing more than one hundred migrants reportedly attempt to storm the port there around half of the people involved were arrested when attempting to cross from morocco into

spanish territory it's believed the border is now been shut despite the dangers many migrants in the region continue to put their lives on the line every day in the hope of reaching european shores. it can be ending she knew how to get them and read and study i also want to get a job to make some money and go back tomorrow cruden. list. of.

the ambulance took me to hospital with a broken arm where doctors took care of. the head examined a border guards catch illegal migrants at the ferry they beat them up. there is no work no education nothing i want to live like europeans our life is just suffering. on the street in the cold when the locals insult us we cannot turn to the police as they might deported. in the tragedy this story year on year continues. so far for those bullets and thanks for watching out international law with me given from moscow and i showed you a news update is just after i was time we've got programs like that from your part of the world after this break. not long ago the political left to the guardians of free speech along with the left

today has gone from protecting speech to enforcing speech even to the point of penalizing you if you say the wrong thing in public you could lose your job and libel welcome to the era of simply shut up. welcome to sophie shevardnadze the relations between the us and e.u. are in tora with uncertainties. and calls for a new european army are the tensions temporary or a major divide in the making i talk to matthew and that are in cia analyst and former national intelligence councilor is also taking part in the amber attack conference tonight.