was. i. i. i. breaking news on r.t. international a mass shooting in las vegas kills a just fifty people and leaves and the other two hundred injured. police say it's the deadly shooting in u.s. history the perpetrator was shot dead by officers. there must have been exhausted. local cause you to believe the supposed secrets of the. past but spain's prime minister had to say after the independence referendum in catalonia in which almost

nine hundred voters were injured in assaults by military police on sunday. you're watching r.t. international live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. police say that over fifty people have been killed and two hundred injured with some in a critical condition after a mass shooting near the mandalay bay casino in las vegas the police are treating this as a lone wolf attack the suspected shooter has been killed and named a sixty four year old local resident stephen paddick police say this is the deadliest shooting in u.s. history the shooter's female companion has been located and is being questioned. thank you thank you thank you thank.

you thank you right now. thank you thank you thank you thank you. thank . well las vegas police say they don't believe the attack chris terrorism the video now on the screen shows people fleeing the scene we also heard from local journalist dana gentry. well we've just learned within the last few minutes from sheriff joe navarro it was fake a special police department that the death toll has been upgraded to more than fifty people as you said injured is a two hundred people stephen had a. nearby mosquito that is the dead suspect that mosquitoes about.

an hour hour and a half outside of las vegas and we do know that he has some sort of police history in mystique he is known to the local police there as far as motive we just have no idea if you have to earlier this evening yes all of the clubs were on lockdown i can't imagine that any of them would be open at this point the story is i was born here i have lived here fifty seven years i can't remember anything like this we are all in stop. for now joined by an eyewitness of the massacre his name is on day abbi thank you very much indeed for joining us well first of all all the people that you know your loved ones are they ok. yes everyone. luckily enough was actually sleeping at the time i don't have much family here a jury of my family's actually in london. so i'm i'm thankful for that at the time

i was actually working security at the affair and what had happened was i walked away from my post which i'm glad that i did and where i was supposed to be standing was actually there for me was in front of the main stage where the jury of the stuff was happening and. i left my post and i remember walking towards my friends when i heard the first round of gunshots and i thought to myself that it was the music because if you could tell and you look at the videos closely they timed it perfectly to where it started where he started singing and started going off and as soon as he stopped and the music cut out the first round of gunshots cut out so when the second run the gunshots came it was clear that it was gunshots and it wasn't the music messing up. once i heard that and i seen people started running my completely just dropped everything and just ran. how soon did people realize what

was going on i mean to begin with as you said it was time to the music say to me took a few seconds for people to realize right exactly for sure that people didn't hear a majority of the people didn't realize until the second round of gunshots that's went oh my started seeing people running people were just starting going through the gates going through all types of stuff. that could you make out where the shooter wasn't how many people were affected. everyone that was there at the festival was that that's for sure. to the main stage where the main crowd was was that that was a place that was targeted and that was for sure the most populated place at the test and i'm. just very it's everyone that was there in the middle of the crowd and doing the homes that could you could get make out where that where the shooter was

could you make out where the shots were coming from after i was actually. luckily enough i was at the main entrance which is pretty far away from the main stage is actually towards the back stage and. i thought where i was standing i couldn't make it i couldn't tell where the bullets were coming from but i knew that they must have been coming from towards the main stage which was also mentally which is where they said the shooter was shooting for ups. and how quickly did it take for the police and the emergency services to to get to you guys. i'm not sure i remember running a lot out there us dr arnie there's police officers maturity is everywhere actually ran into a complex and just remember going inside this guy's house and there was a whole bunch of people already in there and they had all the lights turned off and they're telling everyone to be quiet because it was still nearby and we didn't know

if the shooter is walking around or not so i stayed in that room for about twenty minutes i think and when i got out of that room away i went back down the street and i saw. that's where us all stuff that happened i didn't see but i saw endless is and a lot of people were carried in carried by sure lose and you know just a lot of people cry. and pain that has been extremely traumatic abdi thank you very much indeed for your thoughts i say thank you. the bronx have a great night. when we can also show you another video from inside the concert venue that's appeared online a word of warning that you might find it disturbing. that was . cut. cut

was a guy was the guy i. i i was i. was. it was. well let's get some insight now on the situation from roger gray a former police officer roger thank you very much indeed for joining us well i think the key question that everybody's asking now is what do you think the motive could be the police are saying it's a lone wolf attack what do you think. well i think it's probably right it is

a lone wolf or tank generated five was it ever a grievance or perceived or real that this man was was carrying. grievances and things against the saudis a whole lot sections of it occur throughout the world what's particularly. disturbing about this is the izzy's in availability of firearms in the volga. ratings just a little of this morning i find that apart from sort of by sick character checks when a weapon is first bought as and you from the many outside list that we do have been developed in america and then passes from person to person with no checks whatsoever no licensing. and i should imagine the periphery of farmers makes them cheap there's no limit on the the quantity of ammunition that even you're going to hold and what we're dealing with here is a currency of loss of life just because they have this. the right to bear

arms in america is supported by the national rifle association and the cost has been paid is a very very human one i can understand perhaps the need for a perceived need for home defense but the core the weapons that were described be describing here in the core of the weapons that's obviously been deployed here today there can be no excuse no good reason of private ownership of where weapons of of this very city when as you mentioned that i mean it's an automatic rifle here the attack is being called the deadliest that any shooting in u.s. history do you think it will change people's attitudes. well so far it hasn't so much has happened in the past which doesn't seem to be able to move what seems to be a political lobby associated with the national rifle association. you know we can look back in time you know and there's a kind of wild west i think you've that goes way back in. in history and now we can

see that we've all watched the start of films but you know this is a different idea living in these are different lessons what are they going to be like after realize what the price of fame piety are and who's playing it and it's not all across the campus it is individuals loss of life and the grief and suffering that's been called but also looking at the things the type of weapon as well and whether the it seems that the shooter fired from looking at the thirty second floor of the hotel given the fact that there are guns in society do you think that there has been a lapse in security that. well the majority of the hotels are there is it's it's very difficult to open windows to any extent at all because of the clear of suicide so i would suggest that this individual or device for many hours to that particular building oldboy research has found a nice kink in the armor of that particular building in which it was able to shoot from a from a very high advantage and he's got a you know what we would very sickly call a target rich environment the really bad you would have to i mean from up there is

destroyed a crowd with a fully automatic weapon and to avoid things like they think you're not going to do it by increasing the security of the building you've got to deal with the availability of pharo and and also looking at his companion him they've now they've now arrested as well do you think that she will be able to offer up any any important information based on what happened. well i think she's the only person the at the moment seems to have any direct connection but i think yes that's that's probably the case it's not going to be our sit there indefinitely and say nothing. maybe we'll find out you know what the the the mood were that what the motives were that drove this individual to do these things you suggest to me i'll be surprised if this is terrorist related all be are just think this is one of these things that happens in america caused by just disenfranchised people who want to exact some god of revenge on society and they give you the easy availability of forums out there

gives them the exact means to do so and this is been done with a terrible force on this occasion they are thank you very much for your thoughts a raja gray former met police officer thank you. well i'll bring you more developments on the las vegas shooting as they come in. or france also saw a deadly attack on sunday islamic state claims it was behind a knife attack that kills two women at marseilles main train station the perpetrator was shot dead by security services minutes later the authorities have since revealed that the attacker had been detained for shoplifting and released the day before the attack he was also known to police for drug related crimes.

well no until we heard women screaming outside then running in people that know what was going on were taken out of the train and then evacuate. well canada has also just experienced an attack police in edmonton are treating the ramming and stabbing of a fellow officer on sunday asked terror related after finding an i saw a flag in the attack us com. thirty year old driver who was a refugee from somalia was apprehended a manhunt followed the running of the officer who was stabbed several times but survived the driver was then stopped but managed to flee in a truck hitting pedestrians at a high speed police chase no deaths have been reported the driver is now facing terror charges military expert come out along things terrorists are resorting to vehicle attacks after i lost ground in the middle east. as told to shrink 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 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 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. almost nine hundred cattle on voters were injured in aggressive clashes with military police during the spanish regions referendum on independence more on that after this short break.

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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the. i. welcome back almost nine hundred cattle on voters were injured in assaults fine military police during the spanish region's independence referendum on sunday you can see now live pictures of a pro independence protest in vassallo now in the trades deems the vote illegal but despite its efforts to stop the referendum from going ahead the council on government has already published the results with ninety percent supporting catalonia as break away from spain responded prime minister addressed his country just minutes before the end of the referendum which he tonight have taken place. or you know i'll be gone but if i didn't feel that i mean if you think of the. love i

believe that. we have to feel. good about she would oppose this she would go to stop all aboard if you're not you're not you're not one of your people. i. must be going to implode but i don't. i. well violence erupted moments after the polling stations opened twelve people were standing in line to vote here's a recap of what happened on sunday. that. was that the teacher.

how i how. was. was. ati's medina question about reports from barcelona own sunday's events in catalonia . so today was a very difficult and no warning day for this citizens of consul and for so many people here as started way before sunrise in the middle of the night when they came to different areas with their family members with their friends to protect the polling stations of their neighborhoods from police forces and they told us that it is important for them to remain

a peaceful gathering it was important for them to defend their rights to vote to defend their fundamental human rights this is what they kept telling us throughout the day yesterday but very quickly right after the polling stations were open everything got violent and we've seen a police pushing people out of polling stations using force to worse a different source of people from students to absolutely people they were breaking down doors breaking down windows self the polling stations doing everything and their power to prevent the referendum from going forward now for many people in council on and it was a shocking experience we talked to had devastated people in the streets of boston long and they never expected to see said attitude coming from the police forces but the leader in the evening of the drafts made by the spanish prime minister surprised almost everyone. very special things to the state security forces to the

national police and the civil goods they have carried out the jews and the mandates they received from you'll thirty's quote i'm sure you can be the party with this day of hope and suffering and that the citizens of catalonia have earned the right to an independent state in the form of a republic but this is different approaches so represent dramatic contrast in and to choose that catalan people will just have to deal with now another thing as the splits and police forces that we witnessed yesterday constant police and sam areas were even great taxing the citizens catalonia from national guard and there were standing arm in arm in defending the population from police forces now we've seen other videos in other areas where a great crowd started to throw rocks at police officers and as a result. police officers were injured so again we've seen a lot of unhappy

a lot of discontent people saying that they were deprived of their fundamental human right to vote i don't know i. think so i thing with them because they're not afraid of well i think that is noted for how they defied. the violence of the. responsibility of the bullets might taint the safety of the people and their creating the insecurity and they are not allowing us to vote but it's incredible it's really what this is it is it's in europe europe. we do know that forty unions and associations and catalonia have already called for a region wide strike against what happened here in this region against the force of the violence that was used to to prevent the referendum on independence of catalonia from happening. well the way civil guard officers try to disperse the

crowd has raised concern here you can see people holding up rubber bullets fired into the crowd and the protesters in your own or in northeastern catalonia also faced off against offices demonstrators have their hands up as a sign of nonviolence but police apparently started hitting them with batons and another video has also sparked an outcry and a warning you might find the following images distressing well this video circulating online appears to show one of the officers trying to remove a woman and twisting her wrist in the process she claims her fingers were broken intentionally. the actuations up to 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 is be 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 voters that are really very much. in this relation of the telling nation. well being you has now reacted to sunday's events in catalonia it's cormorants though was somewhat by a key word it well for more on this they cannot cross live to our team any boyko in london will hello their colleagues so what's been said. well they have finally come out with a statement and some say it's long overdue it refers to the spanish constitution it says that yesterday's vote was not illegal and that it's an internal matter for spain to deal with but it does add and i think they would have been really frowned

upon if they didn't add this violence can never be an instrument in politics there has been a degree of reticence from across the european continent in response to what's happening in catalonia in the run up to the vote is something that journalists in brussels were keen to kind of confront take a listen to the european union spokes person responding to journalists questions in the run up to the vote now will you have a double stand out in a freedom of expression whilst found that four thousand. in other stand out for the long as you condemn it when they shut down cambodia daily but you stay silent when a member states starts playing with freedom of expression if they shut the private websites if they start arresting jewelries how can you say this is cause addition all that we don't have anything to say i mean this is freedom of expression

anything else that we're going to help you with today. well just like in that footage that there is a sense that catalonia is making the european establishment political establishment collectively squab over what's happening the reaction to the referendum has really been punctuated by a silence that speaks volumes about the degree of discomfort and the di lemma that's facing politicians over this one of the few exceptions to the silence has been the belgian prime minister he's called for political dialogue to resolve the crisis he's insisted that violence can never be the we've had a similar reaction from the civilian prime minister who's called for political dialogue and peaceful solutions the u.k.'s opposition leader jeremy corbyn has condemned events in catalonia and perhaps unsurprisingly scotland's first minister of the pro independence nicholas she's called spain's actions wrong and

damaging but overall there appears to be a disconnect between how the politicians are presenting this the rather mild mannered reaction from them and the way many ordinary people have responded to the images of violence that flashed up on their t.v. screens when they watched the news yesterday a number of newspaper editorials in the u.k. have condemned spain's heavy handed response to the vote although sky news tweeted a rather interesting tweet while invents were unfolding yesterday it said that the people of catalonia a finding out what happens when and the legal referendum is held the tweet was deleted soon after it was published but not before quite a few people managed to screengrab it and express anger about it people on line have accused the channel of supporting what some see as violent oppression really others have called it disgraceful some people even called it fascist at the very

least it seems unfortunately. it carries an air of i told you so and some degree sort of a political alignment to madrid side of the argument but looking at catalonia apart from the odd politician really the only ones condemning the violence unanimously unequivocally regardless of whether or not it's legal or constitutional has been human rights groups and the difficulty this whole situation appears to pose for european leaders and the e.u. as a whole is that the last thing they want to be doing is being seen as sort of fanning the flames or encouraging separatist movements so the e.u. is presenting this in the context of is it legal is it constitutional well no it's not but of course with self-determination and the right of people to choose who they are where they belong morally the situation is much more of a gray area. treating deila artie's poly boy came from london thank you very much

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