ninety percent of voters in catalonia controversial independence referendum say yes to secession from spain. over eight hundred forty have been injured in brutal assault by national police who got heartfelt gratitude from the country's prime minister. your. security. police. i sold claims responsibility for a knife attack at a mall ses main train station where a man reportedly shouting god is great and arabic stabbed two people.

while police in canada say a stabbing and ramming incident involving an officer and for pedestrians as terror related. was found in the attackers call. it watching r t international line from a moscow studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program according to officials ninety percent of people who took part in an independence referendum to 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 says. 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. the voting there wrapped up spain's premier sent his congratulations not to the voters but to the national police for their work we have been 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 for your fuel storage fees. mariano rajoy 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 mata catalonians vote of eight hundred forty people were injured in clashes with national forces according to catalan authorities. was thinking was was i

i was you know i was looking i was. police have been firing rubber bullets to disperse protesting voters this type of a new mission 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 and 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 emerging suggest otherwise. was hey you can see

protesters in general ne in catalonia facing off against officers demonstrators have their hands up in a sign of nonviolence but the 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 your station we never told that they would be such a biologist from the police to us but to the old people he simply unacceptable we were seeing again we saying no by humans was thing we just want to go we are seeing we also sounds on the he does with the props. many people. older before i don't know what they feel it's proportion but we know one year i was doing nothing i was them i was thinking that i'm asking for trouble. they were not making any distinction at all they were hitting every one they were not looking up to and it's just. another video from catalonia shows police jumping on on violently kicking

protesters as well as trucking reactiveness out of a polling station as another polling place people too came under ferocious a time by the national guard an elderly man with his dog was singled out with police roughing dragging the gentleman out along the floor and i am greatly shoving the animal as you can see in the video of the people also being aggressive and pushed on track the way. as the voting day drew to a close spanish prime minister my honor a holy spirit to the nation he came out with a rather surprising message medina caution of i reports from buffalo and. to many people here and the cities a main square who are listening to spain's prime ministers might and of course address his words came as a complete surprise really was sad today hundreds of people injured as police attacked these voters yet somehow 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 well perhaps this is just wishful thinking but i talked to people here to listen to their reaction to the prime minister's address i don't know i. don't think so i think because being out of a movie well i think that there is no to. how they justify. violence of the us there for responsible of the of the bullets might taint the safety of the people and the area creating insecurity you're not allowing us to go 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 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 out 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 speedball 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 and trying to hide his face and i you can 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 prime

minister said quite a few things in his address that turned out to be rather different from the reality on the ground here are just a few examples of what we don't put in the field that i mean if you think of the my god i believe we have been here. before that's what a petition to the minister. we are not here not. to be a. i. owe. him a she don't know him but i love the. fighting there has been especially tough on the local police in catalonia at one point they had to confront the national police that was sent in to try to keep the referendum from taking place this footage shows a counselor an officer who tried to protect protesters and call his overzealous

national colleagues for his troubles he was pushed and shoved five spanish civil guard offices the crowd watching the same was visibly enraged international election observers been identified as believes the conduct of spanish police is anything but a prize for having. the 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 do to act like they did so that's what they will do to show to humiliate people here and show. electors voters

are really. very much. 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 minutes later stopping his assault and preventing further casualties altie correspondent shot it depends could reports . all 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 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 has said in paris is that while the motives are not yet clear what they're doing is that they 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 stay. see in november two thousand and fifteen after that deadly night attacks in paris were around a hundred and thirty or people were killed in cool ward mated series of attacks now since then francis seen a number of attacks including a nice which is also in the south of france and in two thousand and seventeen a number of smaller attacks no current president emanuel much wants to end that state of emergency in france and wants to do so by november of the seasick just 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 emanuel micron tweeted his outrage at what he called the barbaric act 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 peacetime ten thousand combat troops across the country are involved and have become a common sight a transport hubs and tourist hotspots the operation was launched after the terror attack on the sharlee abdo magazine offices in early twenty fifteen and was reinforced later about the year but the soldiers themselves have often become a target for attackers british former intelligence officer 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 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 well. police in canada are 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 stopped several times but 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 on told us that with the terrorist news and ground in the middle east they're 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've 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 they're losing to syria and iraq so they will 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 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 a clearing remaining terrorist pockets in dairies 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 armored cars to cross the river. there raining terrorists and terrorism and 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 sit and also be driven out all travel to the city to witness the fighting a 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 sort of an animal 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 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 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 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 on syria.

and another big story from this week 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 twitter also took a swipe at this channel altie. 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 buys 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 as 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. 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 and to palm and for the first time. was. was the of the one

of the biggest rallies took place outside the airfield headquarters with protesters shouting at 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 election also made headlines since i'm glad merkel despite coming out on top so a plunge in support her christian democratic party registered its worst results since nine hundred forty nine that means hard times could lie ahead as artie's daniel hawkins explains. to 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. 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 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 her biggest leadership crisis. for the first. or. burgers of. the three to leave london is going to hold the gun to be one of the all finally the g twenty summit presented in. but walsh advertised as a gateway to the protest groups had other ideas come hell thirties failed to prevent the chaos. the city descended into roy it's torched cause and 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 just the right some of the mess she created in. the new thing that we're all over social media on facebook twitter and of course website but salty dot com. will be here at the top of the alice so stay with us.

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