And the vote over one hundred countries ignore the intense pressure from washington as the us president and ambassador both threaten u. N. Members voting against america. A very warm welcome you are watching r. T. International with mina karen good to have you with us this hour now preliminary results from the catalan Regional Election indicate that Pro Independence parties all set to keep their absolute majority in parliament but are projected to win seventy out of one hundred thirty five seats the pro unity Citizens Party meanwhile took around twenty five percent of the vote although that makes it the single most Popular Party the unionist parties together that will only have fifty seven seats the official results will be announced on the fifth of january his journalist Martin Roberts with more details. Seven parties in the elections are vying for votes cast by record turnout and this is all the more remarkable when you consider that elections were held on a working day like today ra
With the top stories from the past seven days and the right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r. T. Welcome to the program militants in the eastern go to district of syria are indiscriminately shelling the capital damascus according to Russias Defense Ministry thats despite the United Nations voting on saturday to implement a cease fire our war correspondent where augustus was here in the studio earlier with the details. Russian reconsideration Center Monitoring center in syria says that over the last twenty four hours rebels in the east launched no less than thirty one shells into damascus and i know what that looks like every time weve stayed in the mosques every time weve been in damascus we have shells landing all over the capital all over the masks because its the last rebel stronghold in the vicinity of the capital the last stranglehold you know the residue revolutions because all of the on claves around the capital have been. Retaken by the Syrian Gover
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And i welcome you watching r. T. International this monday afternoon which just gone three oclock in moscow now our top story this hour the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says some Media Outlets are spreading false information aimed at slandering the Syrian Government. Lots of reports are being planted in the media about chlorine allegedly used in eastern guta news outlets are citing an anonymous source from the us let me remind you weve been warning about such for each story since yesterday and there will be more such stories from social media from the White Helmets and provocative with a history of freak reports specially when it comes to Chemical Attacks for which there is no evidence also there is a syrian observatory for human rights run by a man renting an apartment somewhere in the u. K. So these provocations will continue with a single goal to blacken the Syrian Government by accusing it of all sorts of violations and workarounds. What is mr lavrov mentioned there have
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