was. ninety percent of voters in catalonia controversial independence referendum say yes to secession from spain. over eight hundred forty voters have been injured in brutal assaults by national police heartfelt from the country's prime minister. your. security. police. claims responsibility for a knife attack at a train station where a man reportedly shouting god is great to stop two people on sunday.

while police in canada say a stopping and ramming incident involving an officer and four terror related after an ice and flag was found in the attackers call. watching r t international line from almost a studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program according to catalan officials ninety percent of people who took part in an independence referendum that 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'm i guess a little nervous but i'm so happy with this day of hope and suffering that 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 and the results we have received today from the referendum. with voting there wrapped up spain's premier sent his congratulations not to the voters but to the national police for their work because very special things to the state security forces to the national police and the civil gods they have carried out the jews the mandate they received from will storage fees. rai they're 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 counseling is a vote of eight hundred forty people were injured in clashes with national forces according to catalan authorities. it was ok it was god's

sake of was you know was doing was i was. police have been firing rubber bullets to disperse protesting voters this type of ammunition is deployed worldwide and 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 photos madrid insists police acted in a professional and proportionate way but some think the videos emerging suggest otherwise was.

you can see protesters in toronto or in northeastern 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 the clashes were. we sold there will be trying to take off from the corner station we never thought that they would be such a biomes from the police. to be all people he simply unacceptable we were seeing again we saying no by humans was thing we just want to bolt we were seeing we also found on the he does with the props. many people. older before i don't know what they feel it's proportion but i would we know one year i was doing nothing i was am i seeing him i'm i'm i'm asking for a photo. 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 kicking protesters as well as dragging the activists out of a polling station at another polling place people too came under freshness attack by the national guard an elderly man with his dog was singled out with police roughly dragging the gentleman out along the floor and angrily shoving reanimate as you can see in the video of the people were also being aggressively push than trying to weigh. as the voting day drew to a close spanish prime minister marianna roy spoke to the nation he came out with of all the surprising message within a culture of i reports from buffalo. to many people here in the cities a main square who are listening to spain's prime minister has made an offer to address his words came as a complete surprise really was saturday hundreds of people injured as police attacked peaceful voters yet you 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 and perhaps this is just wishful thinking but i talked to people here to listen to their reaction to the prime minister's address. so i think that it has been over for them well i think there is no referendum how they justify . violence of the. response ability of the bullets might taint the safety of the people in the area creating a day in security and you're not allowing us to go but it's incredible it's incredible that this is it is just 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 fun. mental human rights but reading throughout the day the mood in the crowd seems to have changed now we've heard

reports of police men 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 of baghdad so lonnie and now we were kept receiving different videos including the ones where you can see several police officers running away from the crowd a speedboat 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 video of a police officer crying and trying to hide his face you could see how difficult it is for some casual and police officers to really still fulfill their professional duties now that was a very emotional video indeed it was a very tough and a very difficult day for consul lonny at now the polling stations are closed and people here on the square are waiting for some outcome for the results the prime

minister said quite a few things in his address that turned out to me rather different from the reality on the ground here with just a few samples. oh you don't put in the bill that i mean i'm getting got the my hitler feel each feel we have to feel about a foot of that she could post as she would tell him to stop. we are not here not. i. owe. him a she don't know simple but i don't. i. voting day has been especially tough on the local place in catalonia at one point they had to confront the national place that was sent in to try and keep the referendum from taking place this footage shows

a council an officer who trying to protect protesters and calm has over sallust national colleagues for his troubles he was pushed and shoved by a spanish civil guard offices the crowd watching the same was visibly enraged international action and set up an odd dynamite if it leaves the conduct of spanish police is anything but praiseworthy. 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 disbelief what 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 voters that are really very much. in addition to look. for. over to france now the islamic state says it's behind a knife attack that killed two women in marseilles main train station the perpetrator was shot dead by security services that minutes later stopping his assault and preventing further casualties altie correspondent shot it depends reports. well we know that those two women were killed following that knife attack in the station at last say the main station so we understand that the man who's 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 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 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 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 or 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 across the country are involved and have become a common sight at transport hubs and tourist hotspots the operation was launched after the terror attack on the sharlee abdul magazine offices in early twenty fifteen and was reinforced later that year but the soldiers themselves have often become a target for the attackers british former intelligence officer and he 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 the place so the not targeting investigating and stopping potential terroristic type attacks and that is an ongoing problem as 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. meeting the calendar or treating the 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 but survived the driver was then stopped but managed to flee in a truck it in pedestrians in a high speed police chase no deaths have been reported military expert to come out told us that with the terrorists losing ground in the middle east the shifting tactics to stay in the headlines. as told to shrinks more of the fighters will

escape many of them are worse than citizens who'd been going to fight in iraq in syria 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 in the news because obviously on on the ground they're losing to syria and iraq so they would carry out 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's more cooperation in the global strategy on how to fight and stop supporting insurgent groups in other people's countries. the syrian government forces there clearing remaining terrorist pockets in de resort islamic state three a 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 by 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. and the remaining terrorists in there is who are now surrounded by both the syrian army and u.s. back to kurdish forces this week the russian ministry of defense said these remaining tire pockets will soon also be driven at r.t. 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 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 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 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'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. 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. 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 major attacks cooperating with the u.s. authorities by handing over information apparently related to russian meddling in the presidential election in a statement also took a swipe at this. russian. 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 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 follows last week's election breakthrough for the polity as it ended paula meant for the first time. was i.

was the the the one of the biggest rallies took place outside he's had what is the protesters chanting in the party's leaders as they celebrated the results of the vote the f.t. says the protesters were acting so aggressively that they were afraid to leave the building. the action also made headlines since anglo-american despite coming out on top saw a plunge in support of christian democratic party registered its worst result since one nine hundred forty nine that means hard times could lie ahead as artie's daniel hawkins explains. so many i'm going to merkel is the embodiment of stability in the face of crisis mixing 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 at 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. a year off to 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 an hour of appearance. 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 sinister and dangerous

a rise in 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. for the interest. or. burgers of. this really. going to hold the gun to be one of wonder all finally the g twenty summit presented it in. p.r. report to duty for chancellor merkel but while she 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 her accountable for the chaos and for 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. and the round up of the news this hour don't forget we're all over social media on facebook twitter and of course i website about salting dot com i'll be here at the top of the hour so do stay with us. here's what people have been saying about rejected a night with two other senators full on awesome well the only show i go out of my way to launch you know a lot of the really pacs upon our leadership is the john oliver of our three

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hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter all about again this network r t is in the spotlight and under attack now the russian authorities are pushing back what is called the info wars is heating up should in the news consumers be allowed to decide. cross talking real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with sputnik international and in london we crossed to adam garri he is a writer for the duran dot com cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate adam let me go to you first in london i think over the last few days of the first time the the the russian authorities are beginning to push back on on attacks.