as barcelona enters a 2nd week of protests and support of jailed separatist politicians the catlin independence crisis looks like it will only intensify as head of spain's general election next month. also this hour and 80 year old rabbi helping to me and farmers in the west bank is brutally beaten i want are alleged to have been masked israeli settlers. and still to me with clubs and with stone. with clubs only paid so i tried to be friendly said we know you had. and. and pro establishment media in the us come up with

a new catchphrase to denigrate the unconventional views of presidential hopefuls. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow concerning us this hour. protests have been gripping the spanish region of catalonia with pro independence activists angry over the jailing of separatist leaders a week ago on sunday people rallied outside the spanish government's residence in barcelona and dumped trash there they were calling for the release of the jailed separatist leaders found guilty of sedition for their involvement in the referendum 2 years ago that was deemed to be illegal by madrid meanwhile a national newspaper has also been dragged into the column controversy as medina explains. one country one nation well not when it comes to spain the state has once again divided over can't. swanny and it's an dependence it's 2 years since

the referendum and it hasn't done much for them that and it seems there is not much clarity over the issue so are you spanish or are you catalonian well it's hard to decide even for the country's leading newspaper that came out on saturday with 2 differ in hand lines well this is a national edition and it says massive march of independence for the freedom of the damned and this one says violent groups spread chaos and the center of barcelona barcelona has become the at the center of the separation movement and is literally on fire every day some protesters take the idea of an dependence to the extreme.

but not everyone shares that view even in barcelona. this road to self-determination but whatever you do do it within the law if you want to have a referendum do it according to the law we've seen a lot of violence and alarm on the streets we can't allow that to scare off to tourists our streets to be destroyed and the protesters do whatever they want the constitution must be respected and must be respected no matter what the catalonia belongs to everyone that alone is what it is because of the efforts of all of us people like my grandparents my parents and myself so why should they drag me away from cut along when must to stop being spain ish the man who started all this is quietly sitting out the crisis. in brussels but protesters in the streets are

blaming madrid our politicians have been asking for dialogue since years and they always deny it so they just send the police and they think that with the recession we would change our thoughts that they could be uplifted because during this week every day and every night there is more and more protests on the street youngest of us in this conflict dates back centuries it goes way back now the stakes are high and we need to show that we are ready for the day we can talk and have a referendum agreed by all let us vote in peace and tranquility. this relationship between spain and catalonia has been broken out old old so no no way no way out no no way back you know what i mean because i don't believe in spain i don't believe in. anything in spain and i don't want to be part of this pain anymore while the catalan president says violence has never been their past radical groups have

spread throughout the city hijacking the protest and what has been the response from petro sons has government the government to spain reiterates that the problem of catalonia is not independence which will not occur because it's not legal nor do the majority of catalans want it but rather coexistence madrid could still trigger article $155.00 of the constitution which would allow in just the found the ration of government and as soon direct rule but so far prime minister sanchez has fallen short of doing this is facing a general election in november and right now it's not looking good these protests and the lack of response might prove fatal to the central government sanchez has been accused of sticking his head in the sand over the crisis sanchez says that with moderation everything will end up going where it has to the community dialogue with those who make us alone. the government cannot remain paralyzed before this

tsunami of violence mr sunshine is all to call 155 we are late. it's not unusual for spain though the pack for getting adopted after franco died and his regime fell basically an ally of the new government to not deal with anyone a new thing franco related like move on nothing to see here but will this approach work nowadays or is it time to take have out of the sand and finally face the problem because until they do cats in one year could be burning. the newspaper has since explained the inconsistency in its headlines saying it was down to the different opening times of their divisions in the country we discussed possible solutions to the callen crisis with 2 political scientists. the solution is quite easy it's to sit down to negotiate a. referendum of that mission for lacing all the political precedents and then the

police without hitting the streets that's if when the moment that we reach this thing anything for me to stop traveling to stop but that's a growing problem that i'm not of the professors thus blackmail so all you are descended by all in stew for state government to negotiate. when the government says it's to do one the government you agree we saw one thing you have pre-approved so you don't want to negotiate you want me to accept your conditions and well we had to know that we got down on one point decisions all of. the moment and gave the idea because they broke the demographic groups and it was group in there with the do stick with regard to justice that's the. one they're for fun that's history but i don't think that it's pretty far from the throw of the constitution that there is no right of that it does not recognise this private so that every mission i think we have been asking for that for this right to be recognised that contentious and

got on the up so that their mission referendum on we can be talking if it is like. so but that of endeavor and then the 48 percent or $55.00 about the only way that all the way to solve this international it with is without referendum so that their nation that we didn't get a warning out we didn't know spain or which ever gone democratic country you got a few rules to follow and you can't you can't you have goals election you've got so many artists margaret so many decision that are supporting you've got john kyl which you don't just think you can go to madrid with them and you can but we didn't get one of them in the can change the constitution but please don't stand we don't be able to fight. just reach because we're going to bring the light this conflict needs to be solved democratically the problem is not think i don't have a problem is with a punishment on the wires. past attackers have beaten up an elderly

rabbi in the west bank while he was helping palestinian farmers pick all of 4 other volunteers including foreign nationals were hurt as well the farm was located near an israeli settlement and the rabbi suspects that's where his attackers were from. were picking gold leaves. suddenly we heard shouts in hebrew. go away go away we don't mean he'll settle etc people started to run away because we are not violent of course we are against any violence whatsoever they came with clubs i don't clubs and stones and old people you know were run away but i'm. 80 years old it was it would be difficult for me after all between ran away they returned and singled me for 5 people and started to beat me with clubs and with stones i did with

a with the clubs on my head so i tried to defend myself with my hand through the broken. i mean cluster no. and stones one of the stones. to my head and it was bloody internally the people probably from the settlement would call gets how the. jewish school. and the people the students know for the violence and for aggression and this is actually the reason that we are we'll there to defend the palestinians from them. israeli police have launched an investigation into the incident and the settlement has issued a statement it says the farmers and volunteers pose a potential threat by coming too close to the outpost more settlements are built every year and the west bank this is seen as an illegal occupation by palestinians and by the international community some 200 localities have sprung up in the last

50 years with television authorizing most of these they're home to over a half a 1000000 israeli citizens in clashes between palestinian and jewish communities occur frequently in the region who says he wants the fighting to stop politically i think that the palestinians deserve the right for self-determination as we jews have all right for said you didn't mention in israel i think that 2 states by the state in israel you should leave each 2 are 2 other next to the other. the but unfortunately no type in league. but our aim is that organization is most political of human is human and we do our best to. us democratic 2020 hopeful tulsi gabbard has hit back at claims she is getting help from russia the allegation was made by hillary clinton who blames moscow for her

own loss in 2016. they've got their eye on somebody who's currently in the democratic primary and they're grooming her to be the 3rd party candidate she's a favorite of the russians they have a bunch of sites and bot and other ways of supporting or so far but if they can falsely portray me as a traitor then they can do it to anyone and in fact that's exactly the message that they want to get across to you that if you stand up against hillary and the party powerbrokers if you stand up to the rich and powerful elite and the war machine they will destroy you and discredit your message. clinton's remarks came after russia came up in the latest democratic debate with certain raise topics now brennan as kremlin talking points. explains. what you're about to seen probably means it's time for someone to go and we get pedia and come up with a page for a one new yet already well established concept talking points that really came out

of the kremlin from the talking point kremlin talking points in russia talking points kremlin talking points and once talking points a credible and talking point is what i was talking about so why waste time on pronouncing the full 3 words if the kremlin talking points are really everywhere couldn't we just say katie p's that would probably save white house candidates a few seconds of their debating time anyway speaking of the democrat debates even saying something like this we have to let russia know look we get it we've tampered with the elections you've tempered with our elections and now it has to stop and if it does not stop we will take this is an act of hostility against the american people will get you katie p. busted i now retract any vaguely nice thing i have a said about yang knowing technology things because he answered the question on putin with moral equivalency and the kremlin talking point it will take

a few seconds of blood see googling to realize the. andrew yang is making a valid point american journalists people working for the government have written about how the us pulled political strings abroad in the past but nowadays dammit cram one talking point alert comes the reaction here's something else for another dumb candidate donald trump has the blood of the kurds on his hand but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties wait for it literally crawling talking point that whatever look apart from total see pretty much everyone who's capable of doing a bit of research pointed that out all kinds of media ran the story on how different generations of d.c. politicians turn their backs on the kurds so katie p.s.r. haunting americans just about everywhere someone takes a hit at the democratic leadership for not being progressive kremlin talking point

someone has a go on john mccain for being too belligerent kremlin talking point fears of a nuclear war another quote talking point i'll tell you what though why would a few absolutely sane people from way outside the kremlin walls would just call these comments or concerns legit points do you know any more examples for the k t p we keep eating a page anyway at least it's a bit of free publicity for moscow's most famous landmark there are a number of ways that we can refute a particular case that we're talking about in this instance number one is a call something a conspiracy theory conspiracy there is when somebody said something which is usually true that you don't like now we have a new version of this when you say this repeatedly kremlin talking point kremlin talking point people will start to believe it then when you say it when it's

received yes excellent you must be. well red you've said kremlin talking point at least 6 times in that sentence welcome aboard remember the election isn't 13 months instead of them worrying about what kind of world they're going to be promising democrats or people who vote for them they're talking about chris the kremlin and dusting off roofs so phobic 'd red baiting nuns. still to come the u.s. is relocating its troops from syria but they aren't headed home as some expect and look at where they're going after the break. what holds us do you should. put themselves on a lot. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure.

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welcome back a court in london has heard the opening statements in the extradition case of julian assange rejected a request from the wiki leaks co-founder to postpone the next hearing for 3 months instead he will appear on nov 18th via video link from belmarsh prison protesters gathered outside the courthouse chanting julian a son meanwhile melzer and a un special rapporteur on torture and visit in prison and may along with 2 medical experts he says assad has been subjected to sustained psychological torture adding to his call for u.k. authorities to investigate has been turned down. by the us the u.k. to domesticate this on their current. case the trial the violation to law school of prosecute and punish the music hall and of officials.

for 4 months i didn't receive any results of pearl and. she. responded in a very short page 2 paragraph letter at they rejected all allegations. that the u.k. would have been wall to do treatment for mr assad and that he was free to leave the embassy also quick or at any time and so clearly they did not investigate the case request kingdom is a party to the united nations convention against torture which is why it is all the state's party to conduct the permanent partial investigations as soon as there is a reasonable ground in the united kingdom has a clear treaty obligation to investigate it's to escape. over in the us a songe is charged with possession and distribution of classified information if found guilty he could receive up to 175 years in prison the journalist has been in

washington's crosshairs for more than a decade that after wiki leaks published a video showing the u.s. military attacking journalists and civilians in iraq in july 2007. join us and he was jailed in may for jumping bail in 2012 and denied early release in september over fears he would up scotland wales melzer again says his right to due process has been systematically violated. clearly showed is true but it's typical for victims of psychological torture because mr siege has been a salute it's barely 'd controlled by him and for more than 6 years. we could identify the causes for the symptoms a degree of certainty we could see is that there was this humility of stress levels that were added by the various systems the arbitrary just the procedures that's a sound like torture for someone spontaneously but after a couple of years when you are with every state authority you are exposed to treats

you with extreme return missed and by this you will become actions and you will lose trust in your imagined. elsom world news in brief starting and limit on where people are bent in their anger over the dire state of the economy the protests began over it mounts up plans to tax what's app use and other rescue measures will be voted on later on monday. in brazil thousands of catholics are celebrating after the chemist nation of the 1st brazilian a born a female saint to start off a is known as the mother of the poor. and a tornado ripped through dallas texas on sunday some 100000 people were left without electricity or some homes were destroyed and there are serious injuries or fatalities have been reported. the u.s. is pulling up more of its troops from northern syria power they are not on their way back home as some expected. the current game plan is for those forces to

reposition in western iraq the ones coming out that's original $1000.00 and then 2 missions one is to defend iraq and 2 is to perform accounts are his mission. the pentagon has not ruled out the possibility of the troops being sent back to syria at a later date to conduct anti terror operations the president apparently has other ideas . on twitter he said he was bringing soldiers home but that tweet was removed a couple of hours later and repulsive with the reference to bringing troops home removed at the pledge he's made often before we have one good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly now we've won it's time to come back we just took over you know you kept hearing it was 90 percent 92 percent the caliphate in syria now it's 100 percent we just took over we're knocking the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon it's time to bring our soldiers back home

that's the way it is. last thursday washington negotiated a 5 day cease fire between turkey and the kurds this is meant to allow the kurdish forces to pull back turkey wants to establish a so-called safe zone reaching 32 kilometers into syria both sides have accuse each other of violating the cease fire turkey's incursion into northern syria began earlier this month right after the u.s. said it was leaving the region middle east analysts also have arbor now told us america's exit has nothing to do with strategy. i think trump is trying to find a way to sign and his critics so. they've created this idea that they can shift the 1000 troops gradually from the base in northern syria to iraq this makes it seem like they're just redeploying the troops to where they're more needed strategically as if there is some kind of plan so i think it's a tactic for political gains at home rather than actual strategic

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hawks. no matter of how they were 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 a show on the anniversary of wiki leaks iraq revelations exposing british military incompetence we speak to the u.k. television 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 devoting for war and the spanish state sponsored violence

in catalonia is defacto backed by the european union ask what it would take for the pro independence s.n.p. to support a break that 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 the 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 well i never have to choose who pays me. now it's amazing great actress and she portrayed

it really well i think and you know 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 spy on the un security council members and then potentially blackmail them into voting for the war on iraq that these 2 guys port. 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 that you read there juicy h.q. said because david oberland the former head of g.c.a.

has been enormous 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. educate your defense as portrayed in the film even well maybe you were on the red carpet with ralph with joe mcdonald shadow chancellor was saying tony blair is no war criminal. that shouldn't be arrested and your defense was this

war was illegal therefore you were 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 they use they said it was 1st of all it was because. they couldn't. they weren't convinced of a conviction. and. so they didn't want to waste taxpayers' money subsequently they've said it was because i couldn't have a fair trial and you know it it begs the question why couldn't i have a fair trial what was 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.