the. work. over eight hundred forty. gratitude from the country's prime minister. has been. security. responsibility for a knife attack at a train station where a man reportedly chanting god he's great in arabic stabbed two people on sunday.

while police in canada say there's a stabbing ramming incident involving an officer for pedestrians terror related flag was found in the attack his car. thanks for joining us. this is international. the independence referendum has taken place at the moment the counting of the vote under way spain's premier sent his congratulations not to the voters but instead to the national police for their work. yes but you know we're a special things to the security forces to the national police and the civil gods they have carried out there judy and the mandate they received for your fuel storage fees but. now they are praising the national police

but was it correct let's take a look at how obvious is the standout over the course of sunday brutal sings of violence marred catalonians vote on eight hundred forty people were injured in clashes with national forces and that's according to catalan authorities. it was was i was i you know was. that was. police have been firing rubber bullets to disperse protesting voters varnishing is deployed worldwide and is considered to be non-lethal but 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 even death. in spite injuring hundreds of voters madrid insists the police acted in a professional and proportionate way however some think otherwise after seeing the videos and since emerged. was for example in this video we can see protesters in jerome in northeastern catalonia facing off against officers demonstrate is there you can see with their hands up in a sign of nonviolence as police hit them with batons we spoke to one man who was injured in those clashes. we saw there will be trying to take us from your station and we never thought that they would be such a biomes from the police. but to be all people he says it is simply unacceptable we

were seeing him and we saying by islands thing we just want to go we are seeing we are also hands on the he does with the crops. many. of the port i don't know what they think it's for for sure but we know one year worse than nothing owes them i know. i'm asking for i was afraid of what they were not making any distinction at all they were hitting every one they were not looking at and it's. another video from catalonia shows police jumping on and violently kicking protesters as well as dragging activists out of the polling station. and another voting station people came under ferocious attack by the national guard of the now demanding these dogs singled out as police roughly dragged gentleman out on the floor and angrily shoved the animal as you see the video where the people were also being aggressively push and dragged away. our within just the last few hours

spanish prime minister mariano rajoy addressed the nation and came out as well with a rather surprising message as medina coach of the explains from barcelona. to many people here and the cities a main square who are listening to spain's prime minister has. to address his words came as a complete surprise really was saturday hundreds of people injured as but he said tact peaceful voters yet serai think the officers should for their work and another surprising thing that was sad by the prime minister is that there was actually no referendum here and catch a line well perhaps this is just wishful thinking but i talked to people here to listen to their reaction to the prime minister's address. and so i sing with them because they're not a for them well i think that is no to. how lasers differ. the violence of the. responsibility of the bullets might taint the safety of the people

on the area creating the is insecurity you're not a low enough to both but it's incredible it's really what this is it is it's in europe this is europe. well this morning people were ready to gather peacefully and there were telling us many times that for them it is very important to remain a peaceful gathering just to protect their fundamental human rights but reading throughout the day the mood in the crowd seems to have changed now we've heard reports of injuries police man as a result of scuffles between the crowds and security services people were building barricades around different polling stations not only here in barcelona but in other parts out by cats a lawn and now we were kept receiving different videos including the ones where you can see several police officers running away from the crowd us we were actually throwing stones at them so police officers had to get into their cars and drive

away at the same time there was also quite an emotional and a video of a police officer crying and trying to hide his face i. you can see how difficult it is for some catchment police officers to really i still fulfill their professional duties now that was a very emotional very odd indeed it was a very tough and a very difficult day for cats a lot now the polling stations are closed as the counts are at their votes has begun and people here on the square are waiting for some outcome for the results. as medina mentioned this and this vote has been especially tough on the local police in catalonia one point they had to confront the national police that have been sent in to try to keep the referendum actually taking place now this footage shows a catalan officer he's the guy on the right there with the hat trying to protect protesters and to calm down this national poll exam the left for his troubles he was pushed and shoved by the spanish civil guard offices the crowd that was

watching that happen was visibly enraged international election observer burn adela vance believes that the conduct of the spanish police is anything but praiseworthy . actuations of the of the policeman of the spanish policeman being completely scandalous i mean it's it's there was. extreme violence against specific people that only they didn't even for the work 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 this police what it is because they want to touch him they wanted them to do to act like they did so that's what they will do to show to humiliate people here show to spin this elector's photos that are really very much. in this humiliation of

total emissions. out to take a let's bring you some live pictures from catalonia that means our crowd safe. gathered on a central square in the capital of catalan in barcelona and many many people as you can see there even though it's what just past midnight in spain they are waiting around to hear the results of the referendum with the votes of course still being counted after what's been a very complicated day with the ballot boxes we saw or even being carried away by national police. that's that. islamic state says that it was behind the knife attack in massey's main train station on sunday the perpetrator was killed by security services just minutes

later but not before he slit the throat of one woman and stabbed another to death or to correspond to other dubious ski reports. 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 and 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 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 nort and the 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 satirical 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 cool warden eight hundred series of 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 security forces have had and that state of emergency will be consolidated into their jobs as normal will actually be voted on this week. when your micron tweeted his outrage at what he called the barbaric act the president also praised the work of operation sentinel soldiers from that initiative initiative are credited with killing the assailant sentinel is france's first wide scale military operation conducted during peacetime ten thousand combat troops right across the country are involved and they become quite a common sight at transport hubs and tourist hotspots the operation itself was launched after the terror attack on the charlie hebdo magazine offices in early two thousand and fifteen and reinforced later on in that year but the soldiers themselves they've actually often become a target for attack is british former intelligence officer believes the operation

does allow a quicker response but more must still 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 stopping potential terroristic type attacks and that is an ongoing problem that it's many times but they don't seem to learn from that and perhaps it's very difficult to try and tackle it as well. the more police in canada are treating the ramming and stabbing of a fellow officer as terror related after they found an eyesore flag in the

attackers car thirty year old driver has been apprehended a manhunt followed the running of the officer who was stabbed several times but survived the driver stopped but managed to flee in a truck hitting pradesh truancy in the high speed police chase that ensued amazingly no deaths have been reported military experts think that such attacks are the main option left for terrorists to make headlines after they lost so much ground in the middle east. as territory shrinks more 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 or 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 there 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 on the iraqi government to tackle terrorism that is the best way because these got a 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. more of the week's top stories coming up for in just a moment after this short break.

in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around cooperation operation washington washington and meet. the. voters elect a businessman to run this country business equals. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. back in syria government forces are clearing the remaining terrorists pockets india is sore and slamming state's three year siege of the eastern city was recently broken by the army and allied forces these are exclusive pictures from the western

side of the euphrates river where government forces of make key gains in driving out i saw russian military is now also established the bridge that's allowing armored cars to cross the river remaining terrorists into a resort now surrounded by both the syrian army and u.s. backed kurdish forces this week the russian ministry of defense said these remaining terror pockets will soon also be driven out artie's travel to the city to witness the fighting our correspondent has this report from the front line. food 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 we don't have saudi can on him 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 and they 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 it has soared 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's part of the city of the. 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 see it that. 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 caliphate this is the final act the dream of an islamic state has been shattered but even in its death throes will inevitably

claim more lives. from davis or syria. and another big story from the week a major tech firms are cooperating with u.s. authorities by handing over information apparently related to russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election in a statement twitter also took a swipe at this channel r.t. . it looks at the latest efforts the 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 bias 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 larry's 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 i think that they don't care about what hillary was doing and they want to

their 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. ok that's all for me for the savings been great having you know company rest assured you'll be right up today to the top of the hour my colleague david chu to obey him.

i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories that are critics can't tell and you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth artie's able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working.

on. and. i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta scheme ailes and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied the deep n.s.a. . was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the u.s. . the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally

important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. interests. i just. want. the. world according to.

police the polies police need better training and a better relationship with the community minneapolis pretty odd talk or do you. know laura. bush. governor we've seen some really awful police shootings in your home state of minnesota last year we saw that graphic video of finland has steel being shot in his car during a traffic stop with a beloved cafeteria supervisor at a local elementary school and his death left the community stunned and confused more recently and unarmed australian woman just seen diamond was killed by police after calling them to investigate a possible sexual assault behind her house now since you were governor and have a deeper understanding of what police go through what is your perspective on these incidents well first of all my perspective on the incidents are.

naturally there tragedy and you've got to look at the big picture people are dying and being put to death by our police forces and for for what purpose when you truly look at it in our country and minnesota doesn't have capital punishment which i'm glad as a governor that i didn't have to face being the last person to sign off on a death when you're putting someone to death minnesota doesn't even have the death penalty we don't even have it and yet police officers are killing people because you don't the only thing you can be put to death for by the courts is first degree murder. you don't get put to death for resisting arrest or running away from a police officer or not listening to instructions from a police officer but it seems today that can be

a death penalty that if you don't follow those rules on the street the police are now justified in shooting you that to me is it really bothers me and then when you look at the situation of philander castillo particularly he was a licensed conceal and carry permit holder to carry a weapon he did everything the way you're instructed i know this well because i actually wrote the law it didn't get implemented till the governor after me came in but i worked on it and i made sure conceal and carry were vetted to complete back criminal background they can have it they have to go to a accredited gun safety course no alcohol you can't have it in your system if you're carrying and what's the oh you have to shoot a minimum because i want to make sure if you're carrying a weapon and you weren't to get in a situation f. .