we can cross live now to audio but on our way a professor at the university of barcelona and a former catalan m.p. thank you very much indeed for joining us well how far then is too far from madrid i mean was a heavy handed police presence the only approach to the referendum. we seem to be having some technical difficulties with coming to get you back again meanwhile pro independence sentiments have been seen elsewhere across the european union well these have come from belgium and france and moving to eastern europe poland and slovenia and it's not just catalonia that's held a referendum on independence back in twenty fourteen scotland voted not to break away from the united kingdom but this year though a second referendum was proposed by the scottish government in the wake of breck's it something the current tory government has ruled out and later this month the italian regions of long body and the beneteau are also holding votes on autonomy or we spoke to stephan over the committee an m.p. in beneteau as parliament he says it's important to listen to the will of the people. they ne

going to defend the republic all right thank you so much i listen to a professor of economics at the barcelona university now and she was here with us a line for right and the heart of barcelona and again what we're witnessing right now is really the biggest constitutional crisis spain has sin in decades and now we're going to see a lot of protests happening on the streets of catalonia especially this evening we expect a mass protest here at plus a cut to luna and we will bring you the latest from barcelona. it ima come back to you for those protests as well made a question about in barcelona thank you. now i think tank called european values has released a damning report about this channel criticized more than two thousand people who've appeared as guests the institute which gets its funding from the us and other western governments promised the guests useful idiots. discuss the report with my colleague neil harvey. a bit of a surprise for a newbie r t bashing continues now in this particular report the issues that artie's guests are having really a dig at themselves this is a reports why think tank bas

of the nonprofit advisory group independent diplomat an organization that has previously advised the catalan government also in barcelona is edward roig he's a professor of constitutional law at the university of barcelona he also served as deputy director of the prime minister's cabinet in madrid welcome to you all edward maybe i could start with you because you're an expert on constitutional law neither side here seems to be backing down how grave is this for spain and for its constitution when it's maybe mauls to grieve at tech and spanish constitution we have had things one hundred seventy eight since our present constitution was adopted and there it's for sure the most stressing. the situation for a constitutional law from from that moment on. really we are stealing expecting that maybe we would have some kind of step back catalogue authorities and specially in the last the. state of spain show for it is half half expressed we said that they expected the cutoff or it is we'll go back by going to elections to new york at all in elections in the next two months that would be maybe. a careerist and the least grief of their of the solutions and the exit ways for for today albert let me ask

yeah william's report to barcelona university what opinions unfit independence remain divided. the university of barcelona is symbolic of the yes votes in the oktoberfest referendum many students have mobilized in favor. of kataloniya becoming independent but now that divided. over what the regional president of kataloniya because the german should do next. money if they are going to been at this question to him for. independence is just enough troops on politically and i think that is not possible to declare it now is there isn't a big enough majority supporting the cause. yeah. well actually we don't know if there is or not. to be senate's in there needs to be an authorized referendum i'm not gonna be in connecticut in the back that are gonna good okay syntnthetic a program i mea. i think we have to declare independence. puts the months governments has been preparing for this for two years. you going to put it back on so i imagine that the state structure is already in place. and ready to go. which of the skies there is that you have less than that but i. just like the students the independenc

brussels we have peter clarke the head of the brussels office of open you're up in barcelona we have sonia and a lecturer at the university of barcelona and in dublin via skype michael keating professor of the university of aberdeen and the author of the book the independence of scotland welcome to you all sonia i want to start with you since you're there in the heart of it we just heard those statistics anderson and they sound terrifying have you seen the impact on the ground is the economy suffering. it is that's what it looks like we're just saying many m.p.'s already living holliman in a run away fast it was for the. parties that have left the parliament room which are the opposition party is part of there are many official cars coming in very fast and it seems they are going to pick up all the m.p.'s who have voted in favor to get away from here as many are fearing spanish police could and. parliament. peter let me ask you this we know that it would cost catalonia if they took this step and tried to succeed for a secede from spain what would the impact be on spain and broader europe of course on the short end of the

have decided so let's bring in our guests and first in barcelona we have enrique let's say dick hell of senior professor emeritus at the university of barcelona in madrid we have spanish writer and political analyst daniel that guest gone and bruce belgium via skype luke that leg and health a senior researcher at the institute for european studies welcome to you all and i'm going to begin by asking each of you to answer as quickly as possible if you have any idea what happens next and rick. it's extremely hard to say the. government has taken legal control of the region the president two thirty this afternoon implied that he was going to push back in other words if there was a situation of two governments in a confrontation daniel to you what happens next well i think that this is very difficult to say i hope that. when the state can. return to look at iran at the legality as soon as possible and i think the election for twenty first. for doing so and look over to you what what happens but i think we are in a very difficult dynamic this moment so anything is possible but basically there will be a confrontation between the catalan

is a lecturer at the university of barcelona specializing in conflict security and defense welcome to you all dr martinez if i can start with you and what we've seen today pictures of riot police smashing glass doors to go inside polling stations and confiscate ballot boxes why did the spanish government go to the lengths a did today to stop this vote and how is the violence acceptable. goes over the fall of the guys i am a leveling board as if all of the got almost. this fall they inspired some raw authorities by extremists from both. the right wing extremist but not always all of them and there's always. people from us going through from germany from italy from the foreign european grounders here who have to organize riots. fortunately we have a world frame. work for. all these people who are going. to be proportionate in the use of going over all police behavior they have been quite. soft. who was the is the most vocal in us saying what the deputy spanish prime minister said today miss on those let me bring you in here because i can see that you don't agree at all with what dr mont

put to the test and to simmons' al-jazeera barcelona where perry villanova is a spanish constitutional law expert and professor of political science at university of barcelona joins me now via skype thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us. now we know that card is pushed amount is defined here is refusing to relinquish any control what does that mean in practical terms for the trades ability to now impose direct will on catalonia. why it's a mystery he probably knows what he means by that but the fact is that the central government in less than twenty four hours is news the chief of the regional police and regional police except it in full discipline and then they dismiss from something like two hundred how you feel shows of all the regional ministers what we call councils. so. we had that the central government have full complete control over the regional budget. perhaps there will be some kind of performance going to get some audience or some attention from international media but i really don't see what is the blind they have in mind the use of the band in this camp. and what about carter's push him on himself he faces a potentia

little bit more about this with my guests he's a lecturer in international politics at the university of barcelona thanks for joining us on your what do you think will he or won't he i think you want. mainly right now trapped between the water many people expect from him and what he knows there could be way for the cotton society so i think he's going to find a farmer which carrying something similar to independence but not putting it into action today gives a bit of time for a possible international mediation that is that's going to require some pretty fancy footwork isn't it in the speech because there's a huge amount of pressure on him to do it from the two million plus people who voted for it and the rest there's also a huge amount of pressure on him not to do. to step back from the brink pressure from madrid from other european capitals is not an easy position but he was willing to be in this position we should not forget. that had a different president thought because many of the reasons he was kind of pushed away from the far left. for not being. dependent or enough willing to take risks no

hold al-jazeera barcelona well joining us now is the more gnaws a research fellow at the university of barcelona joining us from barcelona sir thank you very much for being with us on this news hour now do you think that. is justified in being quite as optimistic a while as confident as he is when he says we're going to prevent independence from occurring i can tell you with absolute frankness that he will not happen do you think he's being a little bit too or too optimistic. well he said the same thing of all last sunday's vote and they've all been right along with obvious problems. from the bullies in the region but their vote did happen over two million people to vote that and that was not what we were saying before the vote so yeah he has a history of being a bit overconfident they would say. i mean we've seen we've seen pictures right next to you now of the many many people that turned out who actually aren't for independence and they do want to see a united states but what do you think authorities in barcelona will do because it's kind of you know the next move is sort of day there as you

and current professor at the university of barcelona. the classified information suggests the final conclusion of the hillary clinton e-mail scandal was prepared before the investigation concluded former f.b.i. director james comey his final statement ready and to clinton's use of a private server while she was secretary of state two months before the probe ended in july twenty six let's get more details now from samir account he joins us live from washington with the details hi some euro just expand if you will on what we're learning about all of this. well according to newly released documents f.b.i. director james comey began drafting his statement regarding the clinton e-mail investigation months before his official announcement now the release is titled drafts of director khomeini's july fifth of july fifth two thousand sixteen statement regarding email server investigation which is of course in reference to the press conference in which coney komi announced that the bureau would not recommend any charges now the five page document h

of human rights and freedom. we just walked through a protest behind me. this is the university district of barcelona.dents and others taking part in that protest. there were cattle and flags being waived, as you would expect. era."talian cry of "no pass a protest of manual reggie -- a hisest of rajoy and government. a lot of anger in the streets is directed toward the spanish police over what they did on sunday -- images we have seen of ballot boxes being torn away, of protesters being torn away in some cases by their hair -- violent images which were seen around the world. it should be pointed out there have been weeks of protests here spain, inia, and in favor of keeping a united spain. out on the streets today, it is very much those who believed in the referendum. a majority of people in catalonia one the referendum to go ahead. they wanted it to happen in peaceful circumstances. that is not how it pans out on sunday. anchor: we are feeling the impacts in spain. the spanish government still saying the referendum was illegal. evil in catalonia very determined to push through with it. what happens n

sonia and also is an international politics lecturer at the university of barcelona she says many catalans are not prepared for the impacts the session from madrid would have on the economy. the thing is during this last years debate has been so focused on why should be allowed why we should be allowed to vote the sector hasn't been very clear explaining the potential effects like you canonical ones that you were just mentioning and just want to two weeks over a thousand companies are living their headquarters moving them to other parts of spain people or many people who are supporting independence were not aware of all this potential effects. ration from spain you know the question of independence from spain top so they are feeling not only shocked but also scared of what is now going to happen because we haven't spoken about any of this potentially but. you're watching the al-jazeera news still ahead the u.k.'s defense minister tells them pains not to criticise saudi arabia for fear of hurting on sales. but the u.s. expected to declare the opioid epidemic as a public health crisis we bes

about what has been going on here lately she is a professor of constitutional law at the university of barcelona and her name is are here thank you for joining us let me ask you for for starters the big question that i think everybody around the world is asking and that is was this referendum legal not on the. other. i mean the constitution of the constitution that's not. independent referendum. or constitutional court. several times not. with the current constitution so we should change it. carlos. the president of catalonia has said that he's going to declare independence or that he's going to ask the parliament here to the local parliament is that legal or not i mean from the point of. the constitution again it is not legal but the thing is that three weeks ago with the three weeks ago or one month ago already yes they. parliament. in bridge in breach of the constitutional. right now so what are spain's options you've got prime minister mariano rajoy. what are his options now can he take over this province if declares independence what are always options well i think that the best option woul

his key goals here let me bring in sanya she's a lecturer in international politics at the university of barcelona asone we spoke earlier. what do you make of what happened here is it a good outcome do you think i'm not sure there were any good or wrong outcomes today but i would say it's a soft onset which as i have understood from the president's words it's cutting it continues and it's past independence it's not going to stop but it's not going to happen today or tonight so as you just said many people was waiting for that but i think it's going to give some time for potential mediation now what is not clear is that spain keeps rejecting it and now i think it's going to be their turn for the spanish government to say if they want to take this lead and sit down and talk what we know they'll be some sort of an event tomorrow in madrid when we might hear more but do you think they've had. thoughts conversations about what is a plan b. in other words if madrid were to simply say no as they have as you say you said in the past unless you completely and utterly drop this claim for independence will b

thousands of university students in barcelona demonstrating against spain's plans to dissolve the castle and government catalonia as president promised which is due to speak shortly. prominent american civil rights organization the end is advising african americans not to fly on american airlines is accusing the airline of a pattern of disrespectful and discriminates very behavior american airlines has offered to hold talks about that it's up next inside story with patty. israel's accused of the systematic abuse of palestinian boys an occupied east jerusalem summer detained in the middle of the night accused of stone throwing.

barcelona to discuss the regions. if article fifty one fifty five is approved it's expected to come into effect on saturday and thousands of university students in barcelona are demonstrating against spain's plans to dissolve catalan his government could see the live video of that happening right now iraqi forces have launched an assault to recapture. from eisel the towns on iraq's western border with syria or two of the armed groups last strongholds in the country leaflets were dropped over the area and northwestern are province on wednesday warning of that operation and the iraqi prime minister says his government won't accept anything but the cancellation of the kurds the session bid. is in tehran for talks with the iranian leaders iraq's kurdistan regional government had offered to freeze its secession bid better rock says that doesn't go far enough at least forty seven people have been killed in an explosion at a factory in indonesia this happened at an industrial complex in the city at tanger rang there so the headlines news continues an al-jazeera after witness you could hear. you. see. i. had the o.t. . and then eat eat. eat

let's speak now tojose rodriguez mora, he's a professor of economics at the university of edinburgh. and in barcelona who recently voted for independence. thank you for both being with us. professor, what are you frightened of next week? what are you concerned about? everything. i think uncertainties are enormous. it's likely that the catalan president will make some sort of declaration of independence, i imagine. on tuesday. i doubt they will try to implement it, it would be very difficult for them. but some sort of declaration, i do not think he can back out of that. if he does that, does that mean that prime minister brockway has two imposed direct rule in your view? i don't know. i wish she did, but probably it's not in his character, he probably will try to control things by economics. the cata la n to control things by economics. the catalan government will have to pay bills. they would be under control, even more after a possible declaration of independence. i imagine that would be the root. this is very unnerving because the economic consequences are huge. you area economic consequences are h

thousands of university students in barcelona demonstrating against spain's plans to dissolve the castle and government catalonia as president promised which is due to speak shortly. prominent american civil rights organization the. devising african americans not to fly on american airlines is accusing the airline of a pattern of disrespectful and discriminate to read behavior american airlines has offered to hold talks about that it's up next inside story with patty. israel's accuse of the systematic abuse of palestinian boys an occupied. some are detained in the middle of the night accused of stone throwing the occupation by israel is considered illegal under international law but is it breaking other laws and is there a hidden motive ation this is inside story. hello and well. come to the program i'm patty call hain handcuffed arrested and questioned without the presence of their lawyer or their parents a new report says that's common for palestinian teens picked up by israeli police the human rights group that salam and hama could accuse israel of systematically abusing young detaine

a teacher of political science at pompey a fabro university here in barcelona we were listening to that intently both of us there was a moment at the end there wasn't there when we thought gosh he might actually be about to do it what do you make of all that well i think that as you said he is very. friendly he has to make the same ball a declaration and we have to remember these two points first of all here soon a pretty any saying that he says you mean them and they drove the people express through the referendum because the referendum was a fact and the legal fact but it was a fact it was something that happened. despite. their vision of the police and no sure he's suspended he's making he's telling it to spain soon all of these their creation without any period of time you saying that these the donation is now suspended. that does a two point zero he seems to be holding himself up at this point as a man who wants to be seen as the leader of all cattle and this is been a very divisive issue he doesn't want to be seen standing in this parliament as the man who stands only for. he reac

universities here to close down. fc barcelona will be closing shop over the course of the day. we saw 15,000 people on the streets near barcelona we may see many more this afternoon. >> willem, thank you very much indeed for that. >>> let's move on. our next guest says a bullish stance on growth from the ecb means the central bank is like to make another qe taper decision in october. marcus shermer joins us. very interesting you say make another decision on tapering they are still buying 60 billion euros of asset on a monthly basis. i'm waiting for something more aggressive for a central bank which is seeing very good pmis, respectable growth number, and unemployment coming down >> the ecb is not aggressive we know that for years you're right, you're citing the good macro back drop which is behind the idea of gradually slowing down the pace of asset purchasing they did that once we expect them to slow it down from 60 to 40 that sets the stage for ending qushg e e by td of next year >> oil prices have picked up, that should be a support for inflation. but is that only a temporar

protesters gather in university square in barcelona these are live pictures as catalonia enters a pivotal forty eight hours waiting on the outcome of a spanish senate vote on its future. also to come sorry rabia allegedly threatens to attack the mask this in the early stages of the syrian civil war supporting them with weapons that's according to the latest n.s.a. leak from the whistleblower edward snowden and the u.s. will release classified files to president kennedy's assassination after a fifty year deadline passes lifting the lid on one of the country's darkest episode. hello welcome thanks for watching r.t. this is they often emerge just two o'clock am in the russian capital our top story this hour tensions are rising over catalonia push for independence you can see live pictures behind me here from barcelona at the moment where protesters have gathered in university square that's ahead of meetings in the senate and also catalan parliament we can go live now to because he's in amongst that lot for us as well. good afternoon feelings obviously running high on both sides and cathal are new what's happening where you are at the

yes it's a little loud so forgive me if i can hear you too well we're now at university square in the center of barcelona remember i was saying earlier that there had been two demonstrations one that we were out earlier on outside the offices of the reviles ruling party the popular party and then another one outside the equally reviled national police compound here there were a couple of thousand people easily at each of those they've now converged here university square and joined up with all the students. who and this is another who who are very very strongly pro independence and i think this is going to be the probably the focal point at least of the demonstrations for the next few hours remember i was saying before there's a general strike of unionized workers there's also a different stoppage which we which we call in the country stop which that sort of spanish translation more or less and so what's happening as the day goes on is that these things a merchant and throughout barcelona room beyond there are different things taking place that there have been tractors blocking the main motive to fronts

and pretty chaotic first of all you had demonstrators all over the center of barcelona students high school students university students then suddenly reports came out on local media that pushed them all had actually done a deal with madrid and was going to announce snap elections now snap elections really are so there's some way of actually putting article one five five in the bin so to speak because a deal apparently was in the process of being done but anyway everyone resisted that in the crowd in the center of barcelona and then started marching on the government building to protest against the the government effectively so this was a really confusing situation for anyone watching it and then there was a statement suggesting that pushed them all was going to make his announcement that then was suspended in the words of his officials a few hours later he did make an announcement it was brief and this is what he had to say. one issue that's been. you know that i'm willing to call an election so long as there are certain guarantees so that we can hold elections under normal circumstances those guarantees of n

of the citizens. or to discuss this issue further let's bring in extra lopez the ball field a lawyer and law professor at the pump a u fabray university in barcelona professor thank you very much indeed for joining us well as we heard there the council of europe's calling all madrid to private police brutality the allegations on fighting day why do you think the e.u. is refusing to make any such calls. well because the you always not interested. in talking of all human rights on the lawn and what's going on. since by the moment and they are. the show on. but i think that they would react if. his government goes forward with the repression of human rights we cannot forget. the kingdom of the spin that's more than one train beyond euros mostly european banks so by the moment european union countries are not interested displeased. and that's why. by the moment the only improvement that we had from the consul you were up. complaining about the human rights violation. that. you were first of all before and. do you think that a lack of condemnations a condemnation from brussels could encourage more violence coming from madrid. i think that my group is n

constitution which allow suspension of catalonia political autonomy also thousands of university students are protesting in barcelona demonstrating against spain's plans to dissolve catalonia as the government is going down to andrew symonds who is live and barcelona so andrew what what we know about when and where we may actually hear from carlos poached them on there was a sentence a patient about the statement there's an announcement he was supposed to make and that it's been suspended i believe it's a language they're using not cancel per se so what do we know about where and when we might hear from him. well that is the big question that's the question what good you would cope with the camera there right away it's a question that the students in the demonstrators all round this well what should house is the policy of general the tax that is where the government is that is where the president should be making a statement to the world post volumes all through school where he was going to make mistakes with the whole country was awaiting its own local media was reporting that he was going to allow a snappy lecture

difficult to run hospitals, civic community centers, universities, schools, without the connent cent of the people actually running them. >> reporter: at barcelona's beach today, political limbo seemed secondary to catching the late-october sun, those christina and javier had been discussing whether they were living in catalonia or spain. >> i guess spain has the strong of a state on his side. so i think it's very, very difficult that cantano independence can go on. >> reporter: around 1700 businesses have already moved their legal address outside of catalonia due to the economic uncertainty. reena. >> ninan: well, thank you so much, seth. hundreds of white nationalists faced off with counter-protesters today in tennessee. white lives matter rallies were held in two cities about 25 miles apart, and despite tensions, police managed to keep the peace. and there was nothing like the deadly violence last summer in charlottesville, virginia. gurg of the houston astros were punished today for racist gesture he made last night at the world series. gurriel mocked the japanese pitcher, yu darvish, of the dodgers after hitting a home run off him. he will be

university square in barcelona. a pivotal forty eight hours waiting on the outcome of a spanish senate vote on its future i'd also the u.s. will release classified files into president kennedy's assassination after a fifty year deadline passes lifting the lid on one of the country's darkest stepaside. thanks for watching this thursday afternoon which just four o'clock in moscow. has revealed the details of an advertising offer made by twitter in the year during the u.s. presidential elections back in twenty sixteen twitter did make a large sum proposal to r.t. offering to promote the channel's coverage in the media giant is set to testify to congress on alleged russian meddling after including r.t. in its report on the matter let's get more details now from hawkins who joins us from central moscow. new information coming out damn which does change things slightly. indeed and before we go to that story let's just give a bit of background of what exactly has happened here as you just mentioned at the end of september twitter published a report it was titled russian interference in the twenty six thousand us election bo

protesters gather in university square in barcelona these are live pictures as catalonia enters a pivotal forty eight hours waiting on the outcome of a spanish senate vote on its future. also to come sorry rabia allegedly ordered rebels to attack the masochists in the early stages of the syrian civil war supporting them with weapons that's according to the latest shock an essay leaked from the whistleblower edward snowden the u.s. will release classified files to president kennedy's assassination after a fifty year deadline passes lifting the lid on one of the country's darkest.

barcelona. edgar illas, professor and director of catalan studies at indiana university, joined me from bloomingtonhort while ago. i asked him for his assessment of the day's developments in catalonia. my my assessment is, we've seen a logical step. the spanish government has done what they said they were going to do. and therefore, we have seen another chapter in the same direction. there is no... we don't see a plot shift or anything. i don't think it's... i mean, there is an irony in all this. the suspension of the catalan government is also what the catalan secessionists want. they want to suspend the regional government. 0bviously they want to suspend the regional government. obviously the difference is that they want to create a new state. the spanish state wants to establish some sort of a democratic body that somehow manages the situation. but there is an irony here, that what we saw today is in a way a step in the same direction that both sides want to see. carles puigdemont is convinced that he can set upa puigdemont is convinced that he can set up a successful separate country. is that,

of the constitution to creating a more federal system. barcelona spain john. director of the iberian studies program at stanford university he warns that the crisis over. could escalate rapidly. it does look like spain will almost immediately very very soon invoke article one fifty five of the constitution that is it will suspend the government self-government and anything can happen at that point depending on people's reaction but it does seem from what we've seen in today's fear in barcelona and throughout come money and the people are not likely to lead their their position their votes be stolen now by the by the spanish government invoking that article and shutting down their institutions. could there be violence. let's hope not but it is not to be ruled out i have news now that some people are being called some army members are being called to their headquarters so the our nations to be a little bit of some kind of preparations in the army. and to the way the invocation of external mediation that is not my my invention i have not proposed these that got a limb president's proposal the e.u. is refusing to take that ro

of people climbing into that area i'm joined now by popular martin and lecturer in spanish studies at princeton university a warm welcome to the program so we've got scenes of celebration in barcelona and we're going to hear from the spanish prime minister in ten or fifteen minutes time these two scenes seem to be good kind of juxtapose against one another we've got almost this slightly premature if i can put it that way celebration and then we've got a government on the other hand with no clear way forward or at least we don't know one yeah yeah i think both sides are playing the optics on a trying to influence opinion yes we're seeing scenes of jubilation in barcelona but this is obviously we just don't know what percentage of barcelona wants in the pens that this is a real question. so that he might have a whole you expect for him to be you know quite serious. tried to bring tranquility to the situation and try to get this is on there his control a little bit because the evidence is morning i think they're really open it up and have gotten away from him a little bit so article one five five this morning it seemed quite simple didn't it was like well if this happens we invoke art

of the constitution to creating a more federal system. barcelona spain. joining us. now is director of iberian studies program at stanford university he is live from palo alto very good to have you again with us on al-jazeera so what do you make of what the king said today in his speech he expressed the position of the government basically opposition to the vote but no words about the shocking scenes we saw on sunday in boston a police beating voters he made no appeal for dialogue was this a missed opportunity for him. that is correct it is a silly mistake on the part of the king it's a spanish monarchy it's no secret it has had trouble in recent years it's a question institution in catalonia particularly although he remains strongly popular in spain. this king's popularity has been very low in colonial and i think that what he's done basically last night with with his speech is to burn all the bridges he has adopted the hard line the spanish government and given absolutely no option to the government but to stand by the man did the popular mandate that he got on sunday at the polls so it was a missed opportunity then to push the t

much indeed for talking to us and for waiting is our best but feel a professor of law at the pump a father university in barcelona thank you very much indeed. well this channel has once again found itself at the center of a scandal artes and hurts in the london underground have provoked an angry reaction from a high ranking labor party m.p. the times claims the party is now demanding the u.k.'s media watchdog off calm investigates the ad campaign with more honest i see a check in at a knife in line why the nastiest so what is this claim based on. well ok to get another case of r t scandalising a poll a labor politician here in the u.k. as well as the times newspaper why all due to its ad campaign where we've seen yet another r t bashing piece appear in the times with a headline quote kremlin t.v. adverts on tube trigger call for off common choir and quote note how they're not even saying kremlin backed or kremlin sponsored it's just kremlin t.v. at this point and in this article is the time reports on how the deputy leader of the labor party has requested that off calm which is the u.k.'s broadcast regulator that

protesters gather in university square in barcelona's catalonia and says a pivotal forty eight hours waiting on the outcome of a spanish senate votes on its future i'd also succumb to the west will release classified files into president kennedy's assassination after a fifty year deadline passes lifting the lid on one of the country's stepaside.

protesters gather in university square in barcelona these are live pictures as catalonia enters a pivotal forty eight hours waiting on the outcome of a spanish senate vote on its future. to come saudi arabia allegedly ordered rebels to attack damascus nearly stages of the syrian civil war supporting them with weapons that's according to the latest shocking n.s.a. leak from the whistleblower edward snowden and the u.s. will release classified files since of president kennedy's assassination and fifty year deadline passes lifting the lid on one of the country's darkest episodes. welcome thanks for watching our say this thursday afternoon three o'clock here in the russian capital our top story this hour tensions are rising over catalonia push for independence you can see live pictures here in fact from barcelona where protesters have gathered in university square there and this is happening while we are waiting for a statement from the catalan leader that's expected any time now. we can go live to the catalan capital in charlotte. among the protests for a. lot of tension building on both sides. was. a chance that started the old days

of the dreaded did not agree to talks. or dollars is a lecturer at the university had to devise a loader and aside a law school she joins me now live from barcelona good to have you with us on the program what do you make of the current situation of the potential that madrid could suspend the to load years autonomy and catalonia and parliament and the leadership there saying we're going to do it if you don't talk to us. definitely looks like the spanish government is going to actually suspend the tunnel me and trying to do what they are calling to be to recover or take over the contrary again from the capital city in winter it. would. probably create a reaction from the cart along government to actually stop the suspension or cancel the suspension of the so called a coronation of independence which in real facts would mean that we would move on to a final declaration of independence it confusing it is very confusing to me how do you actually see this playing out on the ground with there was a very clear split in the. region for those that do want to dependents and those that don't to be demonstrating on the streets what's your sense of feeling fr

an economics professor barcelona university the independent this movement is a very very peaceful movement and he has never shown any sign of violence so i don't expect that type of violence the only violence here comes from the spanish city. well the practice that was organized today was practiced it was to protest against. the fact that people didn't change their leaders off to see the society are going to easy search out of the center of these sanctions now of course. these demonstrations. how it has been given more fool by the decision taken by that means to response spanish ministers can see this morning so yeah people are angry but people in catalonia are peaceful people they are not going to use violence at all that they can ensure you are. a think tank called european values has released a damning report about this channel and it's criticized more than two thousand people who appeared as guests at the institute gets its funding from the us and other western governments has branded the guests useful idiots discuss the report with artie's and us to see a chicken. it's a bit of a surprise for you the bashing continues

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