i over seven hundred sixty cattle voters have been injured in brutal assaults by police you've got heartfelt gratitude from the country's prime minister. who has been a very special things to the security forces to the national police and the civil. terror probes launched in france after a man reportedly shouting god is great in arabic to people to death in masses main train station. police in canada say that a stabbing and ramming incident involving an officer. is terribly late after an i

saw the flag was found in the attack is. a. very good evening to you my name is the harvey you're watching the weekly here on international. so the catalan independence referendum taken place at this very moment the vote counting is underway spain's prime yes and it's congratulations to the voters instead to the national police for their work. yes but you know very special things to the state security forces to the national police and the civil gods they have carried out their judy and the mandate they received from the authorities. manara who they're praising the national police let's just take a look at how officers stood out over the course of the day brutal scenes of

violence marred catalonians vote more than seven hundred sixty people injured in clashes with national forces in all of this according to catalan author of this. week was fired i was . was the. police have been firing rubber bullets to disperse the protesting photos this type of ammunition is deployed worldwide it is considered to be non-lethal however the use of rubber bullets is also associated with cases of blunt trauma to the brain and damaged organs which can lead to permanent disability and even death. and despite injuring hundreds of

voters madrid insists that the police acted in a professional and proportionate way some though think the videos that have been emerging since suggest otherwise let's take a look at one of them here the people queuing up to vote in this case came under ferocious attack by the national guard over the man and his dog singled out at the scene police roughly dragging the gentleman out along the floor and angrily shoving the animal. as you can see in the video other people are also being savagely pushed and dragged away. and look at another video shows footage of a catalan policeman trying to protect protesters and to calm down his national colleagues for his troubles though he was pushed and shoved by spanish civil guard officers the crowd watching that unfold were visibly enraged. i. see here is protesters enjoy

the northeast in catalonia facing off against offices demonstrators as you can quite clearly see how the hands up a sign of nonviolence the police though hitting them with their batons and spoke to one man who was injured in those clashes. we saw there will be trying to take from your station we never thought it would be such a byron's from the police. but to the all people he says it is simply unacceptable we were seeing him and we saying not by your hands thing we just want to go we are seeing we are all friends on the he does with perhaps. many people crying over the port i don't know what they think it's proportional but we know one year it was for nothing else than staying in and asking for our freedom what they were not making any distinction at all they were getting a very what they were not looking at and it's. ok let's cross over now to pass

along our correspondent dina cochon of iran is that how she has been throughout the day i'm a do you know whatever way people try to paint this it was people trying to vote and they were met with violence what kind of reaction is the been. well we have just received some reaction coming from the spanish if the story it is from the trees now spanish prime minister mariano hawley has addressed as the nation this evening and here and the hard hour for the catalan capital barcelona hundreds of people well listening to his address ally if they gather it on plastic loonier which is right in the center and now the prime minister has said that there has been no referendum in council on and he also says some other quite interesting things. prosody to believe i'm supposed to assume at each step.

well leave a scene of violent clashes between the police officers and the citizens of barcelona and other areas of council on answer days starting as early as right after the polling stations were open so we spoke to the two those people gathered here at the square and most of them disagree with the address made by spanish prime minister. milo i know the owners and raise them so i sing with them because they're not afraid of losing well i think that a little bit is no different for a child is arrested for. the violence of the. possibility of the bullets might taint the safety of the people on the air creating the is in security the are not following us to the boat but it's incredible that's really what this is it is it in europe is europe. the number

of a near it people the sunday has surpassed seven hundred and sixty people and while citizens of barcelona as well as other regions other areas have cats a lawyer told me that they want to keep this movement peaceful but still of the mood of the crowd has changed throughout the day and we do know that over thirty police men were injured as a result of a different clash as well as citizens of the city and off of the region and now we as i sat with a we saw a lot of violence and this street silva bustle on it today and to discuss the situation and this crisis really and more details our joint a life here and the center of barcelona by an international action observer ban delamont thank you so much for joining us. two nights and it is quite a late now you had a very long day as i understand you have been seven as an observer at this

referendum what are your impressions from today's vote. i can also only told what i've seen personally but also what i heard through the media i've been as early as five o'clock in the morning i've been to the polls station because it was said that policeman. intervened from six o'clock to two shut them down but what i have seen is a crowd of people very proud determined to vote really in a disciplined way pacific. there were for me an example of citizenship and they really made it. despite our in despite of old efforts suspended state has made it through to have had before there are stations of politicians and civil servants that have been they were there standing for the. ballot stations to defend them and to use them and to exercise their rights so i think this is amazing

amazing and i think the heroes of the day are the citizens of hell telling. us face premises said that there has been no referendum today in catalonia so what is that swished all thinking or something else do you agree that. i think this is completely absurd it's his absolutely gay sion of. a feeling that lives for years and years and years in catalonia there have been many frustrations over millions of people year after year after year. or ignoring that saying that it shouldn't happen that it isn't happening and this is strictly. censorship in the mind of spanish people and by those books but as politicians count rough we also offer dad very special thanks to the. national guard and police for their actions over the day but do you think that the manner in which security

forces handle it as those of voting deserves at these banks the actuations of the of the policeman of the spanish policeman have been completely scandalous i mean it's it's there was. extreme violence against specific people that only they didn't even fold back they were just torn away torn on the floor this behavior has been really scandalous but if the prime minister is. giving so much respect to these policemen it is because they want to touch him they wanted them to to to act like they did so that's what they will do to show to humiliate people here and show to spend his electors photos that are really very much. indeed she relation of cattell and nation and the premier also claimed that spain has said that good example for other countries

today how good an example was that really in your opinion this is so even a more shameful a proposition because of an old over the seat of the parents is from the belgian state or the belgian prime minister already condemned to see this of this behavior and i hopes certainly that more and more european politicians finally look to what's happening in qatar in a bucket but goes they also have been ignoring it because they always follow to disband his line and i hope these events of today open their eyes and at europe's leading persons gets committed and open here a dialogue and open. a chance to to offer the catalonians. the dignity the time where it's right international observer ban on down a man's thank you some. time i thank you for your insights as a sad it's been a very tough and a very worryingly violent day for accounts

a lot on the air this sunday but the referendum has taken place despite spanish authorities saying that there has been no referendum people here believe that there was and the counting of the votes has begun and thanks for the the coach of the bring is the very latest from barcelona about today's referendum thank you now let's get some live pictures from catalonia this is the scene as you can see there lots of people gathered there waiting for the results of today's vote the vote which never happened in the eyes of. the spanish prime minister and apparently people have stuck around in particular because of a call that was made to do so to ensure the security of the vote count you can understand given or the intervention seen today by the spanish national police.

and when another major story today prosecutors of the terror probe after a knife attack left two women dead in marcy's main train station police say that they are treating the incident as a likely terrorist act but no official confirmation as yet been given to correspondent sheila do pinsky has the details. well we know that those two women were killed following that knife attack in the station at mar say the main station so we understand that the man who is wielding that knife actually slit the throat of one of the women that's how she died and apparently according to passers by he screamed out. god is the greatest while he was carrying out that attack now the security services at the station waybill to respond fairly quickly and shot the man dead at the scene and what the prosecutor's office has said in paris is that while

the motives are not yet clear what they're doing is that they are treating this as a killing linked to a terrorist organization now the security services have been praised for reacting responding so quickly to this attack with officials on the ground saying they fear that this could have been far worse happy not and those security services are part of some seven thousand troops who are deployed across france and have been for the last three years as the country has been under a state of high emergency since january two thousand and fifteen that's when the offices of the city newspaper. were attacked with twelve people being killed and then the country was put into a state of emergency in november two thousand and fifteen after that deadly night of attacks in paris were around a hundred and thirty people were killed in coordinating the recent attacks now since then frances seen a number of attacks including in nice which is also in the south of france and in

two thousand and seventeen a number of smaller attacks now current president emanuel wants to end that state of emergency in france and wants to do so by november of this suggests next month and in fact this week the first draft of his new controversial legislation which will consolidate some of the powers that some of the sick. the forces have had and that state of emergency i will be consolidated into their job as normal will actually be voted on this week. and the new micron tweeted his outrage at what he called the barbaric act the president also praised the work of operation sentinel soldiers from this initiative are credited with killing the attacker sentinel is france's first wide scale military operation in peacetime ten thousand combat troops right across the country are involved and they become a common sight at transport hubs and tourist hotspots operation was launched following the terror attack on the charlie hebdo magazine offices in early twenty

fifteen and reinforced later that year but even the soldiers themselves have often become a target for attack is british former intelligence officer sean believes that the operation allows a quicker response the more must be done to prevent assaults in the first place. well i think we're seeing a much faster reaction time from the police and security forces in all countries across europe i mean particularly in london as well with the attacks that happened in a few months ago that the reaction times much faster to stop further deaths but of course you can't stop the initial attacks themselves because these tend to be lone wolfs they tend to already be on the radar of the police or the security services but it seems that they're drowning in information because of the dragnet surveillance infrastructure they now have in place so the not targeting investigating and stopping potential terroristic type attacks and that is an ongoing problem i said this many times but they don't seem to learn from that and

perhaps it's very difficult to try and tackle it as well. police in canada are treating the ramming and star big of a fellow officer as terror related after they found an eyesore flying in the attackers car the two year old driver has been apprehended a manhunt followed the ramming of the officer who was also stabbed several times but survived the driver was then stopped but managed to flee in a truck hitting pedestrians in the high speed police chase that ensued amazingly no deaths have been reported the two expert thinks that such attacks are the main option left for terrorists in order to make headlines after losing ground in the middle east. as territory shrinks more of the fighters will escape many of them are western citizens who have been going to fight in iraq in syria for the last six years or they have friends and other people in continental europe or north america which might carry out these attacks and this is to make themselves still relevant and indeed news because obviously on the ground they're losing to syria and iraq so

they will carry out more of these attacks to make themselves still in the headlines the international community needs to work with the syrian government and the russians and the iraqi government to tackle terrorism that is the best way because these kind of small attacks will keep increasing unless there's more cooperation in the global strategy on how to fight and stop supporting insurgent groups in other people's countries. coming up after a short break we'll have more stories that shaped the way. down. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around corporations corporations from washington washington media the media

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a three year siege of the eastern city was recently broken by the army and allied forces here exclusive pictures from the western side of the euphrates river government forces are making gains to drive i saw the russian military is now also established a bridge that allows armored cars to cross the river remaining terrorists in their resort now surrounded by both syrian army and u.s. bank kurdish forces this week the russian ministry of defense said the remaining terrorist pockets will also be driven out soon r.t. travel to the city to witness the fighting our correspondent greg as the if has this report from the front line. four out palace once that is sort of most exclusive resort now a modern day fortress out of necessity. for three years the garrison here has thwarted isis attempts to cross the river at times it was a close run thing and you don't have saudi going on an hour from the onset coming

up to the roof was very dangerous because of the snipers it was really bad but when the army broke the siege of the fell back a month ago it would have been suicide to film up here not anymore. these five star hotel seem better days but thanks to its grandiose design and height acted as something of a fortress here indeed as sort and just to show you how close we are if you have a look through this hole at that hospital well everything behind that is isis part of the city of that is or across the river they also hold sway this is all their territory that's the euphrates river and across it is isis it's from there that they shelled the city at will and from there that they launched the occasional raid across the river taking the other banking is key to liberating the city entirely

isis still sends fighters and alms back and forth across the river at night it may take weeks but it is inevitable isis in syria is on its last legs its collapse has been as spectacular as its rise since the beginning of the year the so-called caliph it has lost thousands of square kilometers losing precious oilfields and strategic towns to the advancing syrian army and the us backed rebels that is. not to say it's over that it will be. isis has nothing left to lose according to the syrian military and the families of isis fighters and diehard supporters have allegedly retreated to the town of dean they have nowhere else to go in the shrinking. this is the final act in the dream of an islamic

state has been shattered but even in its death throes it will inevitably claim more lives. from their syria. tech firms are cooperating with the u.s. or thorough by handing over information apparently related to russian meddling in the twenty sixth presidential election in a statement twitter also took a swipe at this channel r.t. . looks at the latest efforts to root out alleged russian trolls. the internet is now trying its hand at hunting down even the slightest sign of moscow lurking in the shadows facebook twitter and now google are all gearing up to testify in congress on pesky russian meddling next month. twitter has released a report with that name just made to fill headlines russian interference in two thousand and sixteen u.s. election bots and misinformation now it sounds spooky but the findings are more

than a little vague twitter apparently found and shut down a grand total of two hundred one suspicious accounts that broke their spam rules and while russia is mentioned in the report those accounts aren't actually proven to have concrete links to moscow what was clearly laid out however was this channel spending on ads shockingly proving that r.t. uses social media and by as advertisements. facebook released similar findings earlier revealing four hundred seventy in authentic accounts then admitted most ads run by those accounts didn't even reference the u.s. presidential election at all so the kremlin is so sneaky that it was able to rig an election without mentioning the actual election pretty impressive facebook also said russia spent one hundred thousand dollars on those ads and other words less than one percent of how much candidates spent campaigning on facebook. while stories of how moscow sway u.s. voters with a bunch of social media ads continue to dominate the mainstream media the most shocking social network revelation is all but ignored wiki leaks has posted an

email conversation in which facebook's chief operating officer seemingly proposes helping hillary clinton's campaign head. i still want hillary rodham clinton to win badly i'm still here to help as i can i'm thrilled at the progress here louise making. looking forward to working with the first woman president of the united states. google is also accused of having close ties to the clinton camp a leaked memo written by clinton's digital strategist surfaced online. i'm in it he talks about eric schmidt boss of google's parent company and the work that he's done for clinton i have been kept apprised of the work being done by eric schmidt's group and others working directly and indirectly with your team on the whole i am comfortable with where we stand and confident in our roadmap to launch day and beyond but if you're waiting for these special committees and investigations to be set up into whether facebook or google actually help the clinton camp don't hold

your breath just in case but i think it's a witch hunt that i think that they don't care about what hillary was doing and they want to they're very biased against that from him pain so far they haven't showed me an ad that was a that was a pro trump ad that was paid for by the russian government i just see what's happening in this post-election period as a result of a bunch of sore losers that were shocked that they didn't win the election but i think that the responsibility for us ought to be is what has our government done has our government been involved after they're in power and unfortunately we're involved too much around the world and that is a you right up today thanks staying with me for the very latest news headlines at the top of them.

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