the. castle owner suffers another night of unrest is pro independence demonstrators target police with violence low others do their best to show they are peaceful and give out flowers also to come north macedonia has called early elections after its hopes of joining the european union with dashed despite meeting the requirements and the british charity is demanding the u.k. take back all children of terrorists who left the middle east and not just those who have been orphaned guests of. some of them will be very dangerous that this is bringing back problems i do. also realize that.

there good afternoon you're watching r.t. international now the unrest in barcelona at the moment is showing no signs of dying down independence demonstrators are into their 2nd week with riot is targeting police again last night amid the violence police vehicles were vandalized and profs protesters also stood outside a government building they want madrid to open talks and they say they won't back down. everyone has become a rebel everyone catalan is together young and old people of writing and left me oh people are outraged we're going to be out in the streets every day we have been protesting peacefully for a lot of years and no one heard it it's only through fear we get from the government and disparagement the people of have enough we've reached our breaking point that protesters also do this. spanish prime minister during his visit to

barcelona on monday after sanchez spoke to injured police officers in hospital were refused to meet with the president of the local government. now looks at the latest protests and so i. thank you i was the he battleground to barcelona for days or rather nights the city has been reliving the same scenario from a peaceful march to violence in the flash of a stun grenade. spearheading the end raster these guys they aren't hiding from the cameras quite the opposite there are waving flags and dancing they're not the main force though think of them as cheerleaders but these guys while they are the real deal they hide their faces behind masks and ballet class they're ruthless while they're armed with stones spit

tonsil grenades tiny thing they can use to wreak as much as possible their main focus the police thank us. thank you these are facing a difficult task 3 nights they put themselves on the line every night as like a battlefield i can't say these things and it is necessary to distinguish the 2 types of protesters the 1st ones are just demonstrators and they're nonviolent but there's a group of youngsters who triggered all these violent incidents that we all saw in the photos just as relentless security as violent protesters use dangerous weapons and they threw molotov cocktails and bottles with acid at us it is a new situation for us we haven't faced this on such a level before so yes we feel threatened. both spanish and catalan

a story this confirms there are radical elements that hijacked the protests you could have their moment in the bin and they think that the independence movement sciences has always been peaceful democratic a nonviolent and it is demonstrating that yes radical groups which we've condemned have created some scenes which we've disliked enormously and which we reject and we condemn. what we believe they have the backing of citizens because the guarantor some of the most brushes which is the defense of public it's a sensible rights so thank you for your work and thank you for containment in the face of big strewn with provocations. while thousands of barcelona citizens marching average night condemned the recent violence and even try to support the local police forces this is how the building of barcelona pity's quarters looks like at this moment and the citizens of the city continue to bring down worse at

the gate and a show of support for the work they have been doing for the past days are fun rest and some have even taking it further and put up posters on the walls which state clearly thank you is the goal of most i also support the catalog and i want to say the majority of police support the constitution. that i as a catalan and spanish citizen want to say think you believe all that work in a bus or a. lot of friends and work with the police and i support them so far the radicals have refrained from calling for a direct assault on police like in hong kong but with such overwhelming support hopefully it will never come to that i do not question r t reporting from barcelona. macedonia has called the elections after a setback in its bid to become a member of the european union that is despite the balkan come. meeting the

conditions laid down for its admission the entry talks along with 5 other balkan states were blocked by france president a menu mccrone said that the you needed to reform before expanding although that decision was criticised by other leaders and the going european commission juncker said it was in the storage area taylor has more. power s. the city of love unless you are more faster during your which is just being dumped by president not crawl the balkan countries been dealt a bit of a blow off the e.u. said no it twits joining its club and like any wrong it's sure the e.u. is going to look back with regrets surely a great injustice was inflicted on us in brussels the european union did not deliver on its promise i'm disappointed and angry but what makes this rejection all the more painful is that northwestern has been gunning to be brought into the news

fold for a long time and has made several significant sacrifices to that end date at all and it's worth mentioning by the e.u. itself for example just over 10 years ago it officially recognized kosovo off to the last declaration of independence from serbia precisely because it's the position of both nato and the e.u. but perhaps the biggest compromise it made was when it changed its very identity to brussels e.u. member states greece has an ancient region called macedonia and was a bit miffed that just across the border another country was using the very same name taking the high road muster don't you decide to lay the historical dispute to bed under great shape itself with the e.u. by adding north before it simple but brussels was playing hard to get over all the muck or was off to 7 hours of wrangling behind closed doors the french president vetoed opening talks on. issue the only one of $28.00 members to do so

and he used the classic it's not you it's me phrase before we decide to enlarge the e.u. we need to reform ourselves the fallout is potentially significant prime ministers are over is now calling for a snap election more crucially given its troubled. past there are concerns over whether this decision will potentially jeopardize the peace in the region this is not a moment of glory for the e.u. to refuse acknowledgement of proven progress will have negative consequences including the risk of destabilisation of the western balkans with full impact on the e.u. but that like any decent jump to his just not quite ready to close the door on his love interest well ladies and gentlemen i introduce mr donald to us i would like to send a message. if. you load the giver.

i fully understand your frustration. because she did your show. we have so also not lost joining the e.u. is still in the future of north macedonia but while brussels what some itself may be the balkan country should ask the question what anything it had to do be good enough for those bureaucrats in brussels. r.t. paris. u.k. charities demanding the government comes to the rescue of young children born to ice or fighters of british origin it has the authorities to make use of the current cease fire in northeast syria between turkey and the kurds. we have an opportunity in the next few days urgently to repatriate them to bring them back home these are children in 85 percent of them across these camps are under 12. more than nearly

half are toddlers. they are not they are innocent children they are not responsible for the crimes that their parents have committed and we need to separate. or save the children says that 60 u.k. children are now trapped in the region the figure is twice that previously reported many are thought to be under 5 years old however the u.k. foreign secretary has said that britain will only help those who are orphans. in relation to minors unaccompanied minors or orphans i can tell you that assuming that they would represent no security threats we would be willing to see them return home if that can be done in a safe way given the situation on the ground with harvey discuss the issue with the former head of counterterrorism in the u.k. and also with the secretary general of the year of pain was literally. one of course has children they are completely innocent and almost certainly they don't at this moment pose any threat i think the difficulty comes with those that are with

their parents who have made the deliberate choice to go to these places and are potentially really very dangerous themselves i disagree britain's position. citizenship i think that it's totally rabbits the actions written cup dictate not. right. and i think those should be restored we haven't brilliant legal system if those parents have committed defense let's put them through the colts' i do think as was mentioned before we've got some brilliant legal system that's going to protect the public well it just won't do that there is not going to be enough evidence to deal with the with the parents there's not going to be enough evidence because the people that have witnessed atrocities are going to be dead in iraq and syria so let's be honest we're we're going to we're going to know very little about some of these people actually

whether they are kids from british parents is another part of this we have to be careful because it's ok same we should bring these people back book actually would you like them living next door to you know you probably wouldn't do and i think we need to make sure that we've got the systems in place and the lock up those people for as long as we possibly can that are a danger to us but the children of course should be treated differently and should be given every. chance to to get themselves back into civilized society if one is more complicated maybe one parent is still alive or both parents of the so-called i sold child what do you do did you bring these children back and say you deserve a better life or do you just leave them to their fate no you can't leave miller well certain. you know especially in the dairy because they would be in danger of being radicalized let's bring them home cook them through counseling give them the

backup in the care that they need let's be quite clear that if these people do come back the vast majority if not all of them will not go through the court system they will be released into society some of them will be very very dangerous and in fact some of these children we call in them children depending on your a you know what you consider a child their age range but some of them will be very dangerous that this is bringing back problems i do have concerns but i also realize that past responsibilities and we have no problems on the rest of the world we don't know how secure those holding facilities are and you know we britain burst take responsibility and it is not doing that at the moment as real dangers wherever these people end up because they are radicalized most of the youngsters will have been through some kind of radicalization piece they are going to be very dangerous

and it's all very well us bringing them back but some of our live next door to them and someone may well end up dying as a result of one of these people coming back. the martyr he's president has warned that his military offensive against the kurds will resume imminently if the west fails to keep its promises washington persuaded ankara to put the brakes on its campaign for 5 days that cease fire there it is expired today the issue will top the agenda we heard when meets his russian counterpart a bit later on meetings taking place in russia's black sea resort of sochi from there his in particular. everyone who is somehow involved in this ultra complicated game of chess near the turkish syrian border will be waiting for news to come out of lot of our putin's summer residence on tuesday by the way to be fair it's even more complicated than chess because there are just way too many players now just think of everything that was happening before top aired on strip 2 saw earlier this

month turkey once again went to war against the kurds in northern syria who by the way for years were fighting terrorists together with u.s. troops but now all of a sudden the american president donald trump told his soldiers to get out of there leaving the kurdish forces one on one with a mighty nato member and their guns now here's one of the latest statements made by donald trump on the crisis with the kurds with good relationship with. the we've never agreed to you know protect the kurds respond with them for 3 or 4 years we're going to need to protect the kurds for the rest of us but the kurds weren't alone for a very long time they struck an alliance with the damascus government of bashar assad backed by russia by the way moscow has been very careful with everything it's saying and doing about what turkey's up to unlike american officials for example in one of his latest remarks the most senior u.s.

diplomat mike compose said that washington is ready to take military action if the situation in syria requires that now the question is whether there will be ready to somehow go against a nato member like an karrar now having said that we have to bear in mind that it was the american vice president mike pence who convinced time dared to go on to announce a 120 hour ceasefire with the kurds now guess when that ceasefire expires on choose day right when russia's president vladimir putin get. together with turkey's time paired off so worrisome but very fascinating times. members of the u.s. congress want ukrainian national guard regiment added to the list of terrorist organizations will have a look at why that is the case just to. join

me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

welcome back no members of the u.s. congress are calling for a regiment of ukraine's national guard to be recognized as a terrorist organization the so-called as of battalion is accused of being involved in white supremacist movements in america one quarter as the story. and maybe yet another story of militants once friendly to the u.s. and now finding themselves on washington's terror list congress is urging the state department to do so with the as of battalion and 2 other the far right paramilitary groups while the subcommittee leading the charge is looking for support on both

sides of the political spectrum i'm baffled as to why my republican colleagues have refused to sign on to this not only are as of battalion national action and nordic resistance movement directly connected to inspiring attacks in the homeland they direct purveyors of anti semitic ideologies that inspire attacks against jews the state department has yet to respond but their contemplation is understandable given they fought washington's battles in the past but these guys are not your every day soldiers.

these neo nazis were supposed to be confined to the imagination of russian propagandists so why the sudden 180 well washington was only fine with them when they were all the way in far away ukraine and those guys have since come to the us remember this. nation was in shock such a large gathering of the extreme right a protester killed but there were other events lurking. background to that got barely any media coverage the organizers of these right wing riots actually flew to ukraine and were trained by the as of battalion on august 1st 2018 and instagram user tagged right brand clothings account in a post containing

a photograph of rise above movement members during their trip to germany ukraine and italy meeting with simone young the leader of the international department for the national couper which is a political party in the ukraine that was founded in 2016 out of a regiment of the ukrainian military called the azoff battalion only a year later a u.s. soldier was charged with planning a terrorist attack he was planning to join you guessed it as of battalion smith was reported to have disseminated guidance on how to construct improvised explosive devices and to have spoken about his desire to travel to ukraine to fight with the ukraine based violent far right paramilitary group as of battalion once they come knocking on the us his door they become a lot scarier some of the more radical groups including the one with nazi ideology are not really happy with mr selenski as they're putting a lot of pressure on him not to go forward with any kind of. status where they're going boss any kind of reconciliation that were free to an end or in the standoff

with with russia show i don't know why suddenly these congressmen who are by no means. unsupportive of ukraine as a as a tool against russia they are not happy i'm sure with any kind of an issue for mr was allegedly why they would undermine people who up till now have been their allies in ukraine so there are a lot of paradoxes that. bangladeshi stepping up security to full people were killed and dozens injured in a protest over a facebook post criticizing the prophet mohammed the comments was posted by a 25 year old his. the man who now claims his account was hacked and he say they opened fire on the protesters after stones were thrown at offices facebook c.e.o. has repeatedly said that he created a platform in part to oppose us. most of us felt like we were

powerless to do anything about it and i remember feeling that if more people had a voice to share their experiences then maybe it could have gone differently and those early years shaped my belief that giving more people a voice gives power and the power of us and pushes society to get better over time well there has been examples too of other information being posted on facebook that has led to violence. we spoke to political analyst and public about this he says that facebook is struggling to meet its same standards i suppose the face book there by some ways it

probably unites in other ways. but what i don't think it does is help us by truth i think that facebook is despair as other you know traditional outlets in terms of. being a purveyor of untruth. conspiracy theory. it's also now an age in a war that sense reign itself. which prevents people from asian birds you know i just so i. longstanding very popular how. they spoke page was taken down by facebook. so again i think that made why news i don't see facebook is brilliance you need interest of truth. is that. my client. some world news in brief bolivia's president looks set to win the country's election but with ballots still being counted even morale is may not have enough

votes he says to avoid a 2nd round runoff violence has erupted in a number of cities with the opposition alleging fruit elsewhere european farmers around greenback new reforms they say favor large produces they are protesting outside the european parliament and strasburg some brought their tractors to blocking the access to the building and. it's going to come under are the other was the and emperor now though he has ascended to the japanese trainees the country's $126.00 emperor prime minister was among you see him at the ceremony. that brings you up to more news from us at the top of the.

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greetings and sal you've tasted. the controversy criticism and political spin is still swirling around us president donald trump's decision to pull u.s. forces from the turkey syria border and like always the donald took to twitter over the weekend to defend his decision tweeting that according to mark esperanto the u.s. secretary of defense the ceasefire is holding up very nicely there are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly new areas being resettled with the kurds trump went on to exclaim in the now deleted tweet usa soldiers are not in combat or cease fire zones we have secured the oil bringing soldiers home. but not actually really. you see there is reason that our brand name and she deleted the

tweet 1st as many critics rightfully pointed out the u.s. secretary to punch his last name is not as wiranto it's actually a spur and 2nd those u.s. troops are not coming home from n.b.c. day b.c. and all the various news outlets in between they are now reporting that the punch secretary mark asked her esper said late saturday that all of the nearly 1000 u.s. troops pulling out of northern syria will now had to western iraq to continue the campaign against islamic state militants so unless we are now counting iraq as our 51st state maybe sorry but no one is coming home mr president a victory day it is not in fact we are far from pulling troops out of the middle east as this map shows our military is entrenched there in 10 different countries to the tune of about 60000 troops my friends under these war hawks are men and women in uniform aren't leaving the middle east for

a very very long time and that tragedy is why we are watching the hawks. but the. real thing is. that if. you. like you know that i got. this. world we're going to watching the ox i am i robot. tell. shocked i know you know what i hate you don't hate more than war hawks i mean war hawks who dress themselves as peaceniks and you know like donald trump is right like oh.