6 i. think. without a little tough love. without a little tough love it would have never made this deal.

it's welcome to the program. has been met with a lot of protests over the jailing of separatist leaders they were sentenced by the supreme court in spain on monday since then large crowds have been venting their anger on the streets of the city.

i said only as president has condemned the violence and called for talks with madrid spain is acting prime minister though says that won't happen until toto issues a stronger message about the unrest artie's more than a caution has been following the events for us. well people of barcelona are protesting and taking it to the streets again there are taking part in this vast demonstration now for the 7th day in a row these crowds are descending on to plastic at the lumia which is located right

and the heart of the council capital now it's a quite a peculiar thing about these protests that they all started in a rather friendly matter but then and we've seen that in the last 2 days in a blink of an they turned very violent at the very end late in the evening now they have consul lonny a is calling for people to come forward for dialect and also telling that violence is not really the right path so we've seen before there are so many different radical allemands within these crowds so. rather a very calm crow to this can turn into a very violent very up scene burning scene that in the blink of an ally i well we spoke to different people both for and against of the end dependence now some told us that they demand their democratic rights to be respected they demand and now

their referendum to be housed in catalonia as soon as possible and demand the use referendum to be legal others believe that the ex-president of consul on your car list put him on * come back and face the crisis in his homeland but whole are condemning the violence that we saw on the streets and i can tell you it was these were obscene scenes really that we saw now barcelona is protesting since monday after the supreme court in madrid geale separatist leaders for terms from 9 to 13 years for their role in the 27000 cattle on independence period and tonight it seems that the protest will continue that the mood is still with. in the crowds and as i've told you before they kept telling us that these these movements these protests will only go on for quite some time here. sundays protests were mostly peaceful like on other days this week when some demonstrations in barcelona

devolved into violent clashes with police. jailed the separatist leaders were found guilty of sedition for their role in organizing an independence referendum in 2017 which spain because illegal it was sentenced to between 9 and 13 years in prison madrid based journalist mark roberts believes the government faces a very tough challenge lots of the demonstrators want. the politicians to be pardoned and the government clearly rule sides of the same time the government are trying to try to very fine line between not inflaming the situation anymore because this pulls on them from the right of the political spectrum to reintroduce direct rule as they did 2 years ago and on the other hand there are part of them so again they're just trying to try to very down the middle not to inflame it but certainly. basically i think that says it's damage imitation

of the moment the problem is that you know passions run deep this is been going on for 2 years however it plays out. i think there's going to be a lot of ill feeling and cut of the road for many years to come whatever happens it's quite clear the prussians in catalonia very much inflamed. there's no easy way out of this problem and they could drag on for quite some time. in protests elsewhere in the world thousands of marched in hong kong in defiance of a police ban and yet again the violence has erupted protesters smashed up shops on the inside of metro stations and started fires and beijing rallies have gripped the city for months with unrest the frequent feature your authority has recently introduced an emergency law banning facemask china's the now the protests the separatists accusing foreign countries of meddling in the situation. the president of the e.u. council don alter scares confirmed he's received a request from the u.k.

for a brick said extension robin to the boris johnson was forced to send a letter asking for more time after a vote didn't go his way in parliament where he refused to sign the document and in total johnson sent 3 letters the brussels the one he didn't sign that asks for the extension plus a 2nd from the u.k. ambassador to the e.u. saying the 1st letter was from parliament not from the government and a 3rd letter from johnson himself where he describes any potential extension as damaging and urges the e.u. to help him get the deal into force donald tusk seems says they allow discuss the situation with e.u. leaders before deciding how to act now all this comes after british m.p.'s voted on saturday for an amendment to delay their approval of boris johnson's e.u. divorce feel a deal that was heavily criticized by the opposition. you cannot trust a word that the size of the. mississippi go voting for a deal today and breaks it it once delivered certainty and the

people should have the final say the prime minister has returned from brussels to present a deal that he knows that we all know is actually who are seeing. the visa means deal he knows that if given the option that people will reject his bad deal i don't choose to remain in the european yeah what i heard was a man who does this country who wouldn't know people don't trust and he keeps a trust who gave who would trust the british people if we want people to trust what he agree with me we should have a referendum so people can judge this deal for what it is and then we can have a general election after that. vote was on the way in west was that it was a huge protest outside parliament against pricks it organizers of

a rally calling for a 2nd referendum claimed hundreds of thousands have been marching in london we quiz their lists about where bricks that may be heading now. the problem is not brussels the problem is our own people in westminster who have deliberately set out to undermine the british government who've deliberately set out to make sure the deal is as bad as possible and have deliberately set out but democracy i say shave off the steel is a bad deal but it's not a catastrophic deal a catastrophic deal is one that you can never escape from and when you saw to resume a backstop you could never escape from bats whereas with boris johnson's deal whilst it's bad you can't escape from it and it does give future british governments the ability to a bad and our relationship with europe i think what will happen over the next week or 2 is that we will have a clearer view not of the worst because i think that that's fairly separately but

of the future relationship and i think that's going to be the real battle there are no doubt there will be attempts. at amending the legislation going through parliament to for example try and have a referendum to confirm the agreement so there'll be lots of shenanigans but i think that in the end this deal with slight amendments will be what the parliament will agree. the pentagon is claiming a ceasefire between turkey and kurdish forces in syria is being broadly maintained that despite both sides accusing each other of violations and grow greed on thursday to suspend its military operation for 5 days after talks between the turkish leader and us vice president mike pence that all trump was quick to take the credit. sometimes you have a lot of fight. like 2 kids in a lot you gotta let them fight then your problem apart president there are no one was a gentleman he understood it but without

a little tough love you know what tough love is really without a little tough love they would have never made this deal turkey's going to be happy the kurds are going to be happy isis is going to be unhappy. now the 5 day window is to allow for the withdrawal of kurdish forces from a designated area on saturday to an invalid to continue to crush the heads of terrorists if the kurds don't leave turkey same spin to clear fighters from a so-called deeper safe zone stretching 32 kilometers into syria a turkish political leader has said they welcome the pause in hostilities but will not accept the turkish occupation additionally there's a disagreement over the wording of the deal between washington and ankara. today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. this is not a cease fire a cease fire was established between 2 digits of my policies we oppose in the operation for the terrorist to lead the safe side we can end the operation only after the terrorist elements be the area vice president spoke after

a high level delegation of u.s. officials met with the turkish president in turkey pen says that there will be a pause in military operations for 120 hours to allow the u.s. allied syrian kurds to withdraw and it was also agree that kurdish militias will lay down heavy weaponry if the terms of the deals are fulfilled turkey will finish its operation there in northern syria or that area will then be controlled by syria's army at the talks look as if it was a little tough just judging by the faces of the vice president and president airline before the meeting pretty somber and a little hostile but one week ago turkish forces crossed into syria leading to the president earlier this week to take decisive action and call on turkish forces to stand down to end this violence and agree to negotiations the u.s. had been slapping turkey with sanctions and threats trump even writing to air to one telling him not to be a fool on this one will trump promise to lift sanctions as soon as the turkish

operation is over the president even called area one now a friend the deal to me is reminiscent of the days of european colonialism before world war 2 when european powers would get together and they was conspired amongst themselves to divide out the sovereign territory of another country we have a similar situation here in syria where the usa is not an invited party in syria where turkey is not invited party into syria these these 2 countries are in syria illegally in violation of international law and the un charter will it work the answer is it might but my guess is that the. the s.t.'s will take this window of opportunity provided 120 hours to move out of the way of the advancing turkish army once the s.p.l. leave the area the turkish army may decide that their military objectives have been

made and the government may in fact withdraw the turkish army back to the turkish rentier in which case the syrian government would start to reassert its sovereignty over that part of syria turkey began its operation earlier this month after the u.s. withdrew its forces from the area and managed to get access to one of the bases abandoned by washington these are some pictures from inside we also spoke to an advisor to president bashar al assad who told us the incursion is an act of aggression against syria itself you know it's really not done karajan if you send a good ashen it is a horrible good action i gave it. again. to the end people and what they think about this safe zone just imagine if any country would like to have this if go on inside another country there and tell the international community again is this invasion and the gun.

lie about his objectives and about his fitness is that about what he wants. but i mean a person has been in the saudi capital riyadh this week on his 1st visit to the gulf states and over a decade the president held talks with king solomon on the crown prince and they signed a long list of deals 20 agreements worth over $2000000000.00 was signed in sectors such as aerospace culture health and advanced technology there are also some gifts handed out with the russian media presenting his hosts with a red bird of prey while receiving a painting in return into trying to break down the current state of relations between those who countries.

saudi arabia and russia is a remarkable example of how 2 countries could be great partners or friends and foes at the same time everything that riyadh gets itself involved in and the middle east be it about iran yemen or syria gets full support from washington and you do realize that and all these cases russia is on the different side of the barricade. but when the russian leader in the saudi crown prince get along so well in person by the way they are the authors of probably the most famous high profile high 5 in the world the chances that the dialogue could work well always be very high.

by natural time as between saudi arabia and russia have. there is we consider russia to be friend. years ago in 1926. was the 1st foreign country to recognize the young kingdom we value your efforts to boost our ties surely we do have to bear in mind that the 2 countries are the world's largest oil producers are they competitors you know in this case opec plus partners so all kinds of oil and gas and issues related to. energy sector are on the agenda especially after the drone attack from last month on one of saudi arabia's most important oil refineries which put the country's output by almost a half and almost put the region on the brink of a real crisis. yemen's

who the rebels said we did it washington and allies almost immediately blamed it all on to iran it was feared that a u.s. led strike on iran could have been imminent the incident even led to vladimir putin suggesting that saudi arabia whose army is almost totally dependent on arms imports from the u.s. should buy russian made air defense missile systems it's another chance for mr putin to sell those but even without them 2000000000 dollars worth of contracts are signed between moscow and riyadh.

a lawyer representing donald trump's reelection campaign a center that has a c.n.n. warning of their intention to work. against the president. and cool it at best. this comes off an expose a full month contract for the t.v. network turned whistleblower his material was published by a project veteran american nonprofit watchdog and include secret recordings of editorial meetings which reportedly reveal a crusade to trump bias within the highest levels of the. when i came to work at c.n.n. i mean it was my dream job and that dream actually just turned into a nightmare i decided to wear hidden camera to secretly record the 9 am rundown hall meetings and it's basically run by jeff zucker the president of c.n.n. and c.n.n. was just pumping out propaganda it's basically me wanting. the news to be what they

used to be news and not a in front taman are a game show or chasing the ratings i like c.n.n. purports it to be facts 1st and that's clearly not the case. correspondent laura guys they have takes a closer look at the claims involved. hate is a hell of a thing it brings out the absolute worst in all of us none of us is immune to it from little timmy at the kindergarden who's livid that bobby played with his favorite toy the jeff zucker the president of c.n.n.

. all that against. number one is on every day just hammering trump in some way shape or form or republicans in general the only thing that varies is how much power you have little timmy for example might call babi a rude word mr zucker on the other hand might subvert the global news corp betray all impartiality the ideals of journalism and misinformed millions all because of a petty grudge that how powerful hate ease. these revelations board was courtesy of project veritas

a conservative activist group and this is just part one that's after a c.n.n. employee a technician at their washington d.c. bureau spent months wearing a hidden camera at work spilling the beans so to speak and providing recordings of court of the say sions at the news that work kerry added dream to work in journalism at c.n.n. the spread news and then you found out how naive he was how things really work at c.n.n. it is one of 2 on whether i like hey if we if we have to cool let's just say we left if we lean right. let it be known but again it just tells back nothing i just want people to have the information of make up their own minds now which if you didn't see the hints about what was going on i mean is there any surprise that these revelations have you watched c.n.n. rode it to impeachment the impeachment of president trump a formal vote to open impeachment probe revelations i should say in the impeachment

inquiry the beginning of a new phase in this entire impeachment course it takes 2 to tango and 2 to feud just like little timmy and little bobby there is and trump can you give us a question. you know if you get what i mean i get to give you a question you speak out if you are shaking do attacking our network i just want to ask you sir i'm changing from fake news though doesn't that under very fake i know but aren't you. know this doesn't mean everyone at c.n.n. is a propagandist there are plenty says kerry who want to stick to journalism not opinion who want to show off the bat being dragged into zach because you it's a lot. here. it's like it's too. late. to.

be everything. all the time know every one of the major everyone in the know can be a summer day carries 1st stream didn't pan out but he hasn't given up hope he's optimistic that what he did will help set things right to resurrect journalism. short time see i'm going to ground coming your way in just a few of its time the team went back in half an hour with the latest global news headlines about. what politicians do. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to like to be

crossed it's like i'm up for 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the waters and my. face should. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. after it had said we're going on the road 24 hours ahead of a court appearance by the brother religion manchester arena bomber be extradited from a libya destroyed by nato warplanes coming up in the show on the anniversary of wiki

leaks iraq revelations exposing british military incompetence we speak to the u.k. teligent services whistleblower catherine played by keira knightley in the new film official secrets about tony blair's involvement in corrupting the united nations security council and devoting for war and the spanish state sponsored violence in catalonia is defacto backed by the european union we'll ask what it would take for the pro independence s.n.p. to support to break that plus we speak to the lawyer of one of the democratically elected politicians being hunted down by e.u. backed spanish authorities told us more coming up in today's going underground but 1st we speak to one of britain's greatest whistle blows katherine gun played by keira knightley in the new film official secrets souring refines and matt smith about british corruption of the united nations security council to aerially bombard and occupy the middle east gather and welcome back to going underground so what's it like being played by keira knightley portraying the misery and pain as tony

blair's allegedly. trying to destroy you for revealing that britain was part of a sinister plan to corrupt the un security council i never have to choose who pays me. and now it's amazing great actress and she portrayed it really well i think and now she actually caused me to sympathize with her when i watched that usually sympathize with you. surely i mean you believe the plan was just spine i all in the un security. and so members and then potentially blackmail them into voting for the war on iraq that these 2 guys supported yes that was and that is what happened i mean they did actually send out you know send out people to africa to african nations to south america to you know talk about withdrawing aid or giving aid and various things in the run up to the war there was

a big campaign to get people on board to vote for this u.n. security council resolution over this is this really blackmail and that's what the memo yes the read there juicy h.q. said because david oberland the former head of g.c.a. being normal this show actually proudly about g c h q he said. he said everything was by the book at him did not ask him directly about what you did g c h q though there was some solidarity with the fact you blew the whistle on this memo that appeared in your outlook in books wow a few of my friends yeah they're still my friends and they do you know they've left them saudis and so it's all right for them to be seen with me and you know be in correspondence with me someone in this building has betrayed their government and their country other people who are still working there i don't know how they feel whether they support me or not i don't know but they certainly wouldn't give that

impression to g.c. educating your defense as portrayed in the film even well maybe you were on the red carpet with ralph with john mcdonnell labor shadow chancellor was saying tony blair is no war criminal. that shouldn't be arrested and yet your defense was this war was illegal therefore you are right i find that extraordinary you know i mean there are a lot of questions so that having been on set about why they dropped the case against me why they charge me in the 1st place you know if they were just going to turn. around and drop it and the years they said it was 1st of all it was because. they couldn't. they weren't convinced of a conviction. so they didn't want to waste taxpayers' money subsequently they said it was because i couldn't have a fair trial and you know it begs the question why couldn't i have a fair trial what what what was their position did they actually think that what i

what i did was the right thing to do. and in that case you know if you're logically thinking through those things it was the right thing for me to do and do they agree that the war was illegal that your took out the public interest defense yassar people and life i was just next door people then know that even if there is a public interest in revealing the information they have no right to do so i have no right to do so and in this day and age where you know we're talking about you know social justice and accountability and transparency you know the this doesn't set a good example above and beyond the legal. inability for anyone to whistle blow they threatened you. they threatened your marriage and it's exposed here that they wanted to deport you or as an act of revenge when you make sure he had already applied for asylum yes which was denied yes and that's when you married him

yes did he pay you absolutely no i'm sorry i didn't mean to upset you.