r.t. and sputnik was any evidence of russian involvement in the u.k. most recent works and of course boasts r.t. and sputnik made their effort to have a a an effect on the election media outlets. or directed in many cases by russian government i have no direct evidence to say that the particular narratives we see in these outlets during the election period in u.k. would have been directly directed from kremlin you're watching for news hour here in r.t. we're going to take a quick break now but when we come back we'll have more on our breaking news story the fact that twitter has banned r.t. ads on its platform will be back until minutes. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous. we can all middle of the room sick. hello again our breaking news this hour i'm not saying twitter has brought order ferguson from accounts of this channel to discuss this a bit further we're going to we're going underground host. afshin good evening good to have you on what do you make of this then in the move by twitter

r.t. decided the cost was too high the price tag was too have to and decided against going with twitter's offer subsequently as we said twitter released this report about r.t. spending and is now going before congress now all this makes very little sense if you think about it some of the r.t. was offered a package by twitter specifically for the us election which had a price tag presumably much bigger than the one quoted in the twitter report initially refuse that package which would have given them a far bigger audience reach in the u.s. than they have now and subsequently this scandal began now back to the breaking news story twitter has now come out and said they're banning advertising by r t and sputnik across all their platforms are german russian arabic french or twitter social media platforms and what makes it more ironic they begin their statement which they've sent to us with twitter we believe in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power they go on to say they want people to feel safe when they interact with our sites and advertisers br. value to our users yet at the s

with a title that russian interference in the twenty six thousand election misinformation again r.t. was mentioned there are some confidential information about how much oil to get spent on their twitter advertising but again no concrete allegations or real proof or or no real misconduct over the breach of any policies they're now in the vendor twitter officials are going to go before congress to testify on the issue of russian election acking twitter or rather will no doubt feature in that as well part of the wider pressure really the channel has faced over the last few weeks and months as our editor in chief has also pointed out let's take a listen to what she had to say. honestly i didn't believe that twitter was controlled by american security services it looked like a conspiracy theory to me not twee to has just come fast. especially because american news outlets operate in russia will now feel the tenderness of russian teach for tough measures now as the scandal takes new twists and turns it will certainly be interesting to see what exactly the twitter presenter to do say to congre

offered r.t. was offered rather a package by twitter this was an exclusive custom tailor made package specifically for coverage of the u.s. election it would have contained many perks products to customize the moji hash tag election analytics research solutions even a dedicated team of twitter experts to help with media strategy now all this was offered by twitter to create to deliver an unbiased point of view of the us elections with an edge utilizing the powerful technology of twitter distribute the message in real time so very much something that would have given r.t. a huge scope a huge hold on the social media market and increase its amount of viewers now already chose not to take that offer up the price tag was to have went over all the budgets for social media and that was subsequently rejected after the go now what's really happened here in from trusted media partners offered us the most packages to an entity that's been banned from even advertising over the last year as we. no over the last y

r.t. international now in the coming days twitter is set to testify before congress on claims of russian meddling in the us presidential elections in twenty sixteen that after it was included it included r.t. in its report on the matter but r.t. has revealed that it was in fact twitter that approached this channel with an advertising offer to promote our coverage of the campaign let's get more details with dan hawkins who joins us from central moscow dan what more do we know. well i'm going to give you a bit of background before it was twitter of course that a member of september released a report it was titled russian interference in the twenty six election what's missing from. ation a very dramatic sounding title there that contain references to of course those allegations of russian interference in the us election and more specifically confidential private contract information and how much exactly already had spent on marketing and advertising on the social media platform up some came to around two hundred seventy thousand u.s. dollars over the course of last year twenty sixteen as part of a strategy which is widely used by many international media outlets to p

twenty six the elections bots and misinformation r.t. was given a mention in that report specifically twitter released the amount of confidential information how much are spent on advertising on the twitter social media platform now in the very first of them a twitter present will give a testimony to congress regarding the alleged russian interference in the us election no doubt r.t. will be given a mention in that report as well this comes in the wider context of r.t. coming under pressure in the united states such as under the fair act as well which of course are editor in chief has commented on at length already let's take a listen to what's at the. door and you've done your reinventing recently new active measures except those targeting our reputation has been taken against us in the u.s. specifically newer ousts have we ever experienced the kind of pressure that we experienced today in the u.s. to the point eventually being forced out of the country. now in this context of the pressure the r.t. has come under this china has taken the de

look at the media coverage for the last year ever since r.t. was in the director of national intelligence report which looked something like a high school undergraduate sort of briefing paper that was submitted is a national intelligence estimate which is highly and should be highly embarrassing but there is no shame anymore in today's washington when it comes to all things russian but the problem is it's automatic assumption of guilt of anything that is russian so does that mean that everything that comes out of r t is propaganda does that mean every single person on r t is is viewing propaganda on behalf of the russian government this is what people in america believe this is what the new york times the washington post c.n.n. and most mainstream media outlets in america have been promulgating this idea they've thrown all journalistic standards completely out the window so everything that we've built up in civilization society in the last three hundred years has just been basically thrown out the window so no longer is the marketplace of ideas the

archives and is it marked the year twenty thirty now you might remember that twenty thirty was a pretty good year for r.t. that was the year that we became the first news network to surpass one billion views on new cheap and so we decided to mark the occasion we invited a guest in from you tube and that happened to be what we can so that was the your vice president at the time i think users generally appreciate its authenticity it's very apparent from everything that's going on on you tube so instead of having aspirational programming or agenda propagandise people really respond to all sorts of sort of what you saw happening with arab spring for instance who was authentic the audience that watches this was listen to city and with those who provided to them for years later and r.t. is the most watched news network on you tube we now have over five billion views but to some people are success is very suspicious and so the fact the new york times decided to single out probate kinsler piers to be an attempt to name and shame him for ever apparent on r.t. but this isn't the first time we've seen this done thi

that will be very interesting to see how they talk about that side of the story that the offer was made to r.t. to have a broader scope they've turned down that offer and subsequently the reasons why exactly they felt it was necessary to block adverts which have no real direct breach of twitter's policy conditions so very much an ongoing story very interesting to see how that testimony goes dana hawkins bring us up to date with a lot of information there thank you very much ok let's keep this story going and get some reaction to this because jim i'm happy to see ed joins us live on the program jim's a u.s. diplomat from washington d.c. very welcome how do you rate this move by twitter to block all artes and the timing if i can just talk and not coincidence. no it's not a coincidence that twitter is in contact with the correctional congressional committees looking at russian interference in the election then you know i'm not even sure that this is following some instruction from some government agency or from capitol hill it could be the opposite actually that twitter is so eager like it like a

r.t. international he was in the spotlight this week hitting the headlines as kremlin propaganda i know hawkins investigates. has been in the spotlight for a while from government officials the media even think tanks here some recent hot it's. led the charge in the u.k. house of commons with an attack on opposition m.p.'s who have appeared on this channel if you study the outputs of russia today it is a scam it is a scam that members of the party opposite continuing to. validate to validate legitimate. that kind of propaganda by going on those programs but some of his fierce criticism of the foreign secretary of peers to have missed out a bit of important information his own conservative colleagues have also appeared as guests on the shell as well as someone closer to home his own father stanley johnson was interviewed by going on the ground i was the afshin rattansi just last month. the times newspaper claims there are now calls by the labor party for the u.k. media watchdog to investigate artie's advertising campaign on the london underground they even contacted us for our take on the matter

with his own father because stanley johnson has appeared himself on r.t. he was on one of our shows going underground talking about his anti brecht it book and he was asked by host action returns the whether any of the characters in his book were based on either of his sons i do notice how you take sides in this book what does this mean or take kerry stokes the a bully a former mayor of london how he was absolutely living up to the expectations people have of him wowing the crowds where every went he could be serious too if it was absolutely necessary who is this former mayor of london character a little serious to do is absolutely as it were we all will face that reality sometimes we have to be we have to be serious well you are right you. know i said absolutely nothing will be that happy but no one who is this doc i'm not saying that that particular character is a million miles away from another member of my family whom you have. mentioned today though he didn't confine his comments to r.t. he took a russia as a whole in his inimitable fashion the russians have

r.t. now russian lawyer course the frenzy early this year when it was revealed that she met team trump during the u.s. election campaign tell us from the skies meeting with donald trump jr was seen by some as clear proof of russian meddling and collusion donald trump think he was about to get help from a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin we all know her name now on television. natalia vessel needs sky this is looking more and more like treason all these strange behavior from the president it's all explained well she is now back in the media or i after her memo with talking points for that meeting was released and it turns out it wasn't about giving trump on his rival hillary clinton has previously claimed according to her notes entirely it was getting ready to discuss the sanctions that were imposed by the u.s. on a number of russian officials they were being punished for the death of. he was in order to at a moscow north investigating corruption she says she want to prove that those sanctions were politically motivated. the thing is to pull up with something just to make it clear i was

r.t. miami. and today was the day thousands of people were waiting to see thousands of documents to finally be released regarding the j.f.k. assassination r.t. america natasha sweet actually has the latest on the document release that asha. yeah that's right monella you know as you mentioned but not all of the thousands of documents that we've all been anticipating have been released just in the past hour and now the f.b.i. and cia are asking for more time to make redactions to the remainder of the documents that have been withheld and the question remains you know once these documents are fully released all we really know the truth about president if case assassination on of ever twenty second one thousand nine hundred sixty three did lee harvey oswald act alone as the warren commission arbitrated the following year or congress form the assassination records review board or in the government to release all of its files on the assassination in twenty five years however the president would have authority in blo

their social media advertising on twitter that sum was given as around two hundred seventy thousand dollars in twenty sixteen across all their channels r.t. america spotted an international not so different strategy to any international news channel would use to promote their material on social media and i was also say twitter will soon be going to testify before congress with regards to these allegations of russian interference that will happen in just a few days' time on the first of november no doubt he will also be given a mention in that testimony this comes in the wider context of all of the america coming under increasing the president of russia united states has mentioned just last week a couple of weeks back by editor in chief going to somalia and here's what she had to say about the. and you don't know women till recently new active measures except this time getting a reputation has been taken against us in the us. new around so if we ever experience the kind of pressure that we experience today in the us to the point eventually being forced out of the country now it's in that specific context that artie's taken the decision to

r.t. even though it was years before he was accused of doing anything along the lines of meddling in elections or anything else scandalous like that but it just adds to the ongoing pressure that's been exerted on r.t. from all angles from the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson and shaming members of the opposition party for daring to appear as guests on r.t. even though members every zone party and even his own father have appeared on some of our t.v. shows to a european think tank calling itself the european values issue in their report listing thousands of people who have appeared on r.t. and branding them useful idiots. including ourselves right mickey thanks for the. state rex tillerson has advised around backed militias and other foreign fighters to leave iraq is the country edges closer to defeating islamic state. lucia's iraq five years. ago close those solutions need to go any further fighters in iraq need to go. where the iraqi prime minister had the office was quick to respond stressing that no one has the right to interfere in iraq's affairs the phrase however didn't come directly

r.t. international this friday afternoon was just three o'clock in the russian capital now we'll start in spain where the prime minister has appealed to the senate to vote to take control of catalonia and depose the cattle and lead members of the vote shortly to on whether to impose direct rule over the rest of region. request was met with approx. lipper the emotional state is because you are asking you senators to dismiss the president vice president and members of the council and government likewise the regional parliament must be from electing a new member of the three we mollycoddle and regional parliament is due to vote on whether to declare independence or not or to shot a defense case following developments. inside a crash just outside the capital on parliament many people here are pro independence this but there is a group of people who would like to remain the rise of spain and these camps are hoping that they will be. over this situation today as we know senator is in spain and we treat each of those on article five five when the stand the spanish prime minister and his deputies

of being as a kremlin propaganda to however no concrete evidence was or has been given in september the us justice department contacted r.t. america does not supply demand thing as a foreign agent in the us a law that was drafted in back in the thirty's and was actually a to prevent the spread of nazi propaganda this measure could potentially obstruct artie's work with the bizarre we can be asked to publish all data are now employee salaries telephone numbers and addresses we can be obliged to report every interaction we have with anyone we interview how the interviews are conducted and its contents so potentially that would mean that he will have some hard times getting any of the u.s. officials and the u.s. experts for for the interviews and the russian foreign ministry says the measure taken with minutes apart from own freedom of speech principles. human lives a blatant violation of u.s. domestic law and freedom of speech it's not only the freedom of speech that the us proclaims that's been violated it's the very principles that the us is actively exporting it is the foundation of american foreign policy in some places

r.t. is now banned from advertising on the twitter platform advertising anything any of its content whatsoever the justification according to twitter was the inclusion of r.t. in a u.s. intelligence report back in january seventeen which stated that r.t. may have on behalf of the russian government attempts to meddle somehow in the us presidential election last year again no clear accusations really of wrongdoing misconduct or breach of policy but there you go now this turn of events is almost comical really given that last last year twitter offered to deliver got a quote here an unbiased point of view of the us elections through the use of an exclusive social media package which they offered to our aim to promote artie's election coverage and reach a broader u.s. audience of the. absolute do you work in negotiations with them as early as april twenty sixth in fact negotiations went on for a certain period of time this offer which they negotiated included lots of special features i've got a list here customized him oh do you have tags analytics research even a whole dedicated team of twitter experts to help us with our media strategy t

victim of prejudice against the russian media going back to twitter's accusation the problem was apparently that r.t. interfered in the u.s. presidential race there citing the u.s. intelligence committee's report from january although the tech giant didn't put forth any clear accusations of wrongdoing misc. in the door breach of policy twitter did publish confidential data of how much are spent on ads on their platforms so we decided to reveal something else which might change how everyone sees this story twitter's own special offer to boost our t. on their platform ahead of the vote and with that r t would have delivered and unbiased point of view of the us election there were many inciting features suggested from special moggi hashtags to stuff on analytics and research solutions plus a team of experts to help with strategy and tactical support that brings us to the cost one and a half million dollars with a bunch of extra options three point three million you will see it on this screen the priceless right now the customized montes that i mentioned eight hundred thousand bucks alone well we chose

r.t. america service supplier demanding it register as a foreign agent in the us a law that was drafted to prevent the spread of world war two propaganda however registering would compromise the personal data of employees which the russian foreign ministry spokesperson explained was a safety issue for staff the fact that r.t. is no longer included in google's preferred u.s. advertising list won't concern the channel too much however r.t. is currently the world's biggest news network on you tube last month our channel smashed the five billion views mark on the website. i. knew. we value most i. i'll be back with more news after a short break. america has a colony it's called puerto rico and they overcharge them for stuff and now there's a disaster there leave them to rot and it's a failure of capitalism it's a failure of politics in washington it's a failure that we saw coming for decades and it's a failure coming to the shores of america. with this manufactured incentive to stick to the public will. when the right wing closest to protect themselves. with the flaming. lips and be the one pe

r.t. investigated given that to jeremy corbyn the late labor party leader himself was a very frequent guest on r.t. before he became party leader including having endorsed the channel on twitter let's take a look. i am very concerned this increase in u.s. bombardment of syria without as i understand it any legal basis. what we've done is involve herself in a civil war. well israel has been. grabbing land from the palestinians ever since not in any sense an international law well this of these are german corbin's comments on r t before he became labor party leader now it has to be said that this latest call from a deputy labor party leader to investigate r.t. comes just days after boris johnson who is a conservative m.p. and also of course foreign secretary here in the u.k. went ahead and bashed labor m.p.'s for being too lenient towards r t let's take a look. if you study the output of russia today and indeed if you consider the state of the of the prince in russia this present it is an absolute it is russia today it is a scandal it is a scoundrel that members of the party opposite continui

r.t. barcelona. for me was spain's foreign minister has caused outrage after suggesting some of the videos of the police crackdown on voters were misleading i'm not saying that all are fake beatrice but some of them are. you know there has been a lot of alternative and fake news here. videos of police using excessive force appeared on social media on the day of the referendum many cases of violence were also caught on camera by our own crews aswell witness testimonies. were just helping the people because they were throwing them from all. the steers and throwing them down upon the public here and kicking them so what is on the floor and there is a guy that jumps on the person that's down. meanwhile there is at least one place in catalonia that doesn't want to leave spain the arran valley a small region in the parity and mountains claims that if catalonia breaks away from spain they will break away from catalonia and it has a right to do it thanks to a law that was passed in twenty fifteen. that they are on vall

the needles are invisible apparently there was at least one needle that was visible that he chose not to mention francis jagow r.t. i'll be back with today's top stories in about thirty minutes. here's what people have been saying about rejecting the night was you know i was actually just pull along and i was the only show i go out of my way to launch you know a lot of the really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than blue buildings but i see people you've never heard of love right back to the night my president of the world bank so are you going to write me seriously send us an e-mail. in case you're new to the game this is how it works my economy is built around corporations corporations from washington washington post media the media. and voters elected a businessman to run this country business if. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. hand.

shadow of being as a kremlin propaganda to however no concrete evidence was or has been given in the us justice department contacted r.t. america. demanding it as a foreign agent in the us a law that was drafted in back in the thirty's and was actually aim to prevent the spread of nazi propaganda this measure could potentially obstruct artie's work as r.t. america will have to for example to notify the authorities of personal details of its employees and provides a transcript of the interviews so potentially that would mean that he will have some hot getting any of the u.s. officials and the u.s. experts for for the interviews editor in chief described the situation as intimidating and the russian foreign ministry says the measure taken with minutes apart from various own freedom of speech principles. i would like to reaffirm that are now with you know it's a blatant violation of your ass domestic law and freedom of speech it's not only the freedom of speech that the us proclaims that's being violated it's a very principles that the us is actively exploiting the ministry spokesperson also russia might even consider tak

was found in the attack it's. harvey and you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international. brutal scenes of violence alone is controversial independence referendum more than six for more than four hundred sixty people have been injured in clashes with military police that's according to barcelona. i. think it was i i was a were i work with. and this is not the first people at the store to see the earth in the attic from here by ambulance so from the early hours of the morning it seems to be escalating i. spanish civil guards have been forcing their way into polling stations for it across the region they've broken down dolls as activists inside try to prevent them from entering the number of people actually being dragged away. and police have been using rubber bullets to disperse the protesters this type of ammunition is used worldwide is considered to be non-lethal but the use of rubber bullets is associated with cases of blunt trauma to the brain and also damaged organs these can lead to permanent disability even death. the more spain's deputy prime minister says that polic

r.t. spoke to one of the reporters who was there now well you have a double stand out in a freedom of expression whilst found that four thousand got in other strand out for their own you condemn it when they shut down cambodia daily but you stay silent when a member states starts playing with freedom of expression if they shut the private websites if they start arresting jewelries how can you say this is cause additional that we don't have anything to say i mean this is freedom of expression anything else that we can help you with today. it's an internal constitutional problem according to you in the house to be sold into frame or called internal orders or do you go over there of being the problem is that this is true until until when certain issues arise like this in the last few days the issue of freedom of expression which is not only an internal constitution i mentioned spain it's clearly in your body you know which is that if you want to pass. constitutional order not only spineless because you cannot hold it that's what we've learned that the stars in less than an hour our teams both here

r.t. from imperial college was the lead researcher on the study i doubt and especially children are being targeted by by large food companies with unhealthy food advertising priced placed in the stores in a way that it actually encourages them to use it and their tools that governments have it they have used it in the past for things like tobacco tax it regulate it limited revising especially to children and make sure that those foods become harder and harder to to get. now paul gauguin is one of france's most famous artists best known for his paintings of polynesian women if they think of style also influenced a younger generation of artists including picasso and materialists is the subject of a major exhibition opening in paris but is the touch of bottle explains aspects of his time in the south pacific a still considered taboo by many in france paul gauguin has struggled for artistic recognition all his life the frenchwoman's bold use of color and abstract depictions of reality shocked nineteenth century art lovers but today he's considered a trailblazer a new exhibition in paris is pr

r.t. authorities say it was part of a counterterrorism operation. our lot of the. new york and spanish m.p.'s held a silent protest in madrid's parliament demanding the release of two cattle and independence leaders who will take on monday. even come to life from moscow are you watching r.t. international and i'll start with france where the parliament has passed a new anti terror law which bans increased powers to the security services the bills already sparked concerns that it will reduce freedoms r.t. shouted devinsky his feet delving deeper into the story for us and joins us live now so. further details do we know. well this law contains a raft a range of powers powers that were in the state of emergency that france has been under now for almost two years what it does is it consolidates a lot of those powers in the security services in law and this will take effect from november first after being passed through its last hurdle in the french parliament today now and this law will allow the police to have this huge we're after new powers this includes the ability

r.t. u.k. program going underground was given special attention in the report so we asked her the program host option to return and see what he thought of the mantra useful idiots amazing that reports like this are actually presumably being read by politicians and hopefully your guests who still continue to appear but as regards guests the guests that they mentioned in the delineate in this report i mean does she really think and the politicians here and in the united states have learned are going to think that he and his verify and the former first minister scott alexander the former mayor of london that they're just idiots the useful idiots of course the north and this is incredibly insulting i mean there is no logical consistency here and it is at the moment we're joking about it a little but of course there is a serious side the british foreign secretary did this week of democratically accountable politicians in britain that he should decide which networks are democratically elected politicians should be allowed should be appearing on that precedent well it's he apparently is doing its job

incident involving an officer and for pedestrians as terror related often are still flag was found in the attackers call. r.t. international line from our moscow studio with mean a day or two to welcome to the program according to catalan officials ninety percent of people who took part in an independence referendum there have voted to break away from spain the catalonian president has in the region deserves to be an independent country following sunday's vote let's hear what he said. i'm i guess a little nervous but i'm so happy with this day of hope and suffering that the citizens of catalonia have earned the right to an independent state in the form of a republic as a consequence my government will announce in parliament the center and expression of our people sovereignty and the results we have received today from the referendum. with voting there wrapped up spain's premier sent his congratulations not to the voters but to the national police for their work we have been very special things to the state security forces to the national police and the civil gods they have carried out their judy and the mand

of deep prejudice against the russian media going back to twitter's accusation the problem was apparently that r.t. interfered in the u.s. presidential race there citing the u.s. intelligence committee's report from january although the tech giant didn't put forth any clear accusations of wrongdoing misconduct or breach of policy twitter did publish confidential data of how much r.t. spent on ads on their platforms so we decided to reveal something else which might change how everyone sees the story twitter's own special offer to boost our on their platform ahead of the vote and where that r t would have delivered and unbiased point of view of the us election there were many inciting features suggested from. special moggi hashtags to stuff on analytics and research solutions plus a team of experts to help with strategy and tactical support that brings us to the cost one and a half million dollars with a bunch of extra options three point three million you will see it on this screen the priceless right now the customized montes that i mentioned eight hundred thousand bucks alone while we chose not

r.t. as guest to interview putin was very clear that any move to restrict press freedom media freedom would be highly damaging to that media environment. what we're seeing right now and what is happening around our media isn't comparable and much less powerful than argue worse and u.k. counterparts i don't even know what to call it they're flipping everything upside down. we're going to mirror any action we take and we will take action fast as soon as we see any steps being taken to restrict our media outlets are strong words there from the russian president making it clear ending days of speculation that if these laws should be passed if this pressure and threats should continue retaliation remeasured can and will be taken also added that u.s. sanctions u.s. actions fraud against russian diplomats and russian diplomatic facilities all over the u.s. was simply the result of a build up a long term build up of problems bilateral issues between the two countries this is what he had to say on that campaign. that isn't so sure it's the u.s. who put up with this some precedent and anti russian ca

r.t. new york. you know somebody was once said never go shopping when you hungry. are you a fan of the pastry stunt of the supermarket. the might be a problem in future there's a huge spike in the cost of a key ingredient in france's most iconic pastry the cost so there's a shortage in the country that could spell the end of the delicacy for the industry and precedent and pressure. but she news they saw by the way just cut to the to clamp down thing on us is really important point she was still of course on twitter as usual so you can follow your news as usual with the usual updates as they happen from us such for tea or any of our correspondents really good to know that you follow us i'm going to let you know next time to pharmacy with the next lloyd bulletin from r t h q mosco in thirty. one else seems wrong but i. just don't. get to shape out to stay. active. and engaged equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart. she's to look for common ground. can confusion bitterness and infighting within the g.o.p. and that's just this week alone d.c. seem

night he set fire to the door of a bank in paris because of him as he was arrested on the spot and placed in a police psychiatric unit r.t france correspondent sheila do bensky has more well it was here on sunday night that the performance artist set fire to this building the bank of frogs and you might be able to see some of the damage behind me from that incident there he was initially apprehended by the police and later put into the care of a psychiatric unit where they assessed his mental capability only be willy's from a psychiatric unit he was then arrested and charged by the french base for the damage caused here in the busty to the bank of france now he is a controversial figure not just here in france but also in russia where his performance art is attracted a lot of controversy in the past for example this is a man who cut off part of his ear saying that he was protesting against repressive psychiatry in russia and another time he also said to to plays. the front door of the. federal security service in moscow in november two thousand and fifteen for which he actually received some time in a psychiatric unit af