it was. ninety percent of voters in catalonia independence referendum say yes to secession from spain. and eight hundred forty cats one voters have been injured in brutal assault by national police who got a heartfelt gratitude from the country's prime minister. your. security feces at least. i still claims responsibility for a knife attack at last sais main train station where a man reportedly shouting god is great to stop two people on sunday.

and while police in canada say stopping and ramming incident involving an officer and four terror related off flag was found in the attackers call. national live from studio with me welcome to the program according to catalan officials ninety percent of people who took part in an independence referendum that have voted to break away from spain the catalonian president has announced the region deserves to be an independent country following sunday's vote let's hear what he said. i guess it will have us but i'm set up with this day of hope and suffering 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 the results we have received today from the referendum. with voting now wrapped up spain's prime yes sent his congratulations not to the voters but to the national police for their work. yes but you are very special things to the state security forces to the national police and the civil goods they have carried out there judy and the mandates they receive for you you'll store it's easy to get that there are mariano rajoy there praising the national police but let's take a look at how officers stood out over the course of the day brutal scenes of violence small and catalonians though over eight hundred forty people were injured in clashes with national forces according to catalan authorities epic. mickey. was

was . sick. it was the. police have been firing rubber bullets to disperse protesting voters this type of ammunition is deployed worldwide in considered to be non-lethal however the use of rubber bullets is associated with cases of blunt trauma to the brain and damaged organs it can lead to permanent disability and even death. despite injuring hundreds of voters madrid insists police acted in a professional and proportionate way but some think the videos images emerging suggest otherwise was here you can see

protesters injuring ne in catalonia facing off against officers demonstrators have their hands up in a sign of nonviolence but police apparently start hitting them with battens we spoke to one man who was injured in these clashes. we sold there will be trying to take off from falling. stations will never fold but they will be such a bias from the police. to the old people he says if you simply unacceptable we were seeing again we saying not by humans was thing we just want to bolt we're seeing we're all friends kindly he does with the props. many people. older before i don't know what they feel it's proportional but we know one year i was doing nothing i was them sitting in them and asking for our freedom but they were not making any distinction at all they were hitting every one they were not looking

at and it's just another video from catalonia shows police jumping on and violently taking protesters as one is dragging the activist out of a polling station at another polling place people two came under ferocious attack by the national guard and now the man with his dome for singled out with police roughly dragging the gentleman out along the floor and angrily shoving animals as you can see in the video and none of the people were also being aggressively pushed and dragged away. as the voting day drew to a close spanish prime minister mariano rajoy spoke to the nation he came out with a rather surprising message within a caution of reports from bottom line. to many people here and the cities the 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 the movies well i think that is notable for all those arrested for. violence of the. responsibility of the bullets might taint the safety of the people and the air creating the is in security 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 and the mood in the crowd seems to have changed now we've heard

reports of 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 catch a line and now we were we kept receiving different videos including the ones where you can see several police officers running away from the crowd us people 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 a video of a police officer crying trying to hide his face and i. you could see how difficult it is for some castle and police officers to really still fulfill their professional duties now that was a very emotional day to go and eat it was a very tough and a very difficult day for council lonny at now the polling stations are closed and

people here on the square are waiting for some outcome for the results. the spanish prime minister said quite a few things in his address that turned out to me rather different from the reality on the ground and just a few examples. oh you know i'll be going to put in the field that i mean if you're going to get the map was i feel even we have to feel a foot of that she would oppose this she would tell him to stop. we are not here not. to be a people. i. owe . him a she don't know simple but i don't. i. fighting day has been especially tough on the local police in catalonia at one point as they had to confront the national police that

was sent in to try to keep the referendum from taking place this footage shows a catamaran officer who tried to protect protesters and called his overzealous national colleagues for his troubles he was pushed and shoved by spanish civil guard offices the crowd watching the scene was visibly enraged international action upset at that town and he believes the conduct of spanish police is anything but praise worthy. actuations of the of the policeman of the spanish policeman has been completely scandalous i mean 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 them so much respect to these policemen 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 relation of the tell and nation. for. a difference now the islamic state says is behind a knife attack that killed two women in mass a main train station the perpetrator was shot dead by security service minutes later stopping his assault and preventing further casualties r.t. correspondent shot depends can 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 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 paper. 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 security forces have had and that state of emergency will be consolidated into their jobs as normal will actually be voted on this week. money tweeted his outrage at what he

called the barbaric act the president also praised the work of operation center now soldiers from this initiative are credited with killing the attacker sentinel is france's first wide scale military operation in peace time ten thousand combat troops across the country are involved and have become a common side to transport hubs and tourist hotspots the operation was launched after the terror attack on the charlotte had mike is enough this is an early twenty fifteen and was reinforced later that year but the soldiers themselves have often become a target for attackers british former intelligence officers an emotional believes the operation allows a quicker response but 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 in 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 know in place so the not targeting investigating 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. lisa in canada treating at the kilo a killing of a fellow officer as terror related after finding an eyeful flag in the attackers car the thirty year old driver has been apprehended a manhunt followed the ramming of the officer who was stabbed several times he survived the driver was then stopped but managed to flee in a truck hitting pedestrians in a high speed police chase no deaths have been reported military expert come out told us that with the terrorists losing ground in the middle east they are shifting tactics to stay in the headlines. i was told three shrinks more of the fighters

will escape many of them are worse than citizens who'd been going to fight in iraq in syria for the last six years or they have. 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 on the ground in losing to syria and iraq some of these attacks to make themselves feel in the headlines the international community needs to work with the syrian government the russians and the iraqi government to tackle terrorism that is the best way because these go to small attacks will keep increasing unless there is more cooperation in the global strategy on how to fight and stop supporting insurgent groups in other people's countries. and syria now government forces are clearing the remaining terrorist pockets in days or islamic states 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 have made key gains driving out i saw the russian military has now also established a bridge allowing all that cause to cross the river the remaining terrorists in a nasa rounded 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 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 what it isis attempts to cross the river at times it was a close run thing and we don't have sort of an anonymous 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 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 it's 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 while everything behind that is isis is 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 then 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 using precious oilfields and strategic towns to the advancing syrian army and the us backed rebels that is. it's. isis has nothing left. according to the syrian military and the families of isis fighters and diehard supporters have allegedly retreated to the town of my 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 there is order syria. and another big story from this week a major tech firms are cooperating with the u.s. authorities by handing over information apparently related to russian meddling in the twenty sixth presidential election in a statement also took a swipe at this channel r.t. . looks at the latest efforts to retirement 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 the 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 i think that they don't care about what hillary was doing and they want to their very biased against that from pain so far they haven't showed me and that was a that was a pro trump 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. germany has seen a number of protests this week denouncing the policies of the alternative to germany polity it's not as last week's election breakthrough for the polity as it and to polly meant for the first time.

one of the biggest rallies took place outside the athens headquarters the protesters shouting at the party's leaders and they celebrated the election results the f.t.c. says the protesters brighton so aggressively that they were afraid to leave the building. the one to stand elections also made headlines since i called despite coming out on top so a plunge in support had christian democratic party registered its worst result since one thousand nine hundred forty nine that means hard times could lie ahead as artie's daniel holkins explains. so many i'm going to merkel is the embodiment of stability in the face of crisis makes and diplomacy with a firm hand and sound decision making well as for that skill this term has been marred by a series of setbacks firstly she decided to open the doors to asylum seekers out the height of the refugee crisis almost

a million flooded into germany in twenty fifteen alone while some more welcoming others started to worry the country just wouldn't be able to cope. year after mark a lot to open door policy germany saw a rise in modern crimes one of the most shocking hundreds of women alleging they were sexually assaulted in cologne new year's celebrations by men of north africa and the arab appearance. the events in cologne took their toll on merkel's popularity. the chancellor's controversial refugee policy is also blamed at least partly for something much more so. and dangerous roy is the most terrorism.

poorly vetted or later radicalized migrants cross the border germany saw multiple terror attacks take place markel faced the biggest leadership crisis. of all. finally the g twenty summit presents an international p.r. opportunity for chancellor merkel but walsh advertised hamburg as a gateway to the world protest groups had other ideas welcome to hell and the authorities failed to prevent the chaos.

the city descended into riots torched cars and pitched street battles with the police much of the media held accountable for this even choosing that venue to start with she may still be queen of the polls but merkel may need a fourth term just the right some of the mess she created in the third. the news this hour don't forget we're all over social media on facebook twitter and of course our website about salty dot com i'll be back at the top of the alice said to stay with us.

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