ah. god thank. god. i. caught stories here on t. international a gunman fires into the crowd as a music festival in las vegas killing at least fifty people in the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. the local police say they are treating the shooting as a lone wolf attack and that the perpetrator has been killed. in exult. capacity to believe and supposal still at each step. that's what spain's prime minister had to say after the independence referendum in

catalonia in which almost nine hundred voters were injured in the salt mine military police. thank you for watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate cartridge. we start with news from las vegas where a gunman has gone on a shooting rampage at a music festival killing at least fifty people and injuring more than four hundred police say it's the worst shooting in u.s. history the incident is being treated as a lone wolf attack. the

shooting took place during an outdoor performance by a country singer jason aldean at a three day music festival it was attended by around forty thousand people the gunman fired at crowds from the thirty second floor of a nearby hotel and casino there were at least three rounds of rapid fire with the longest of them lasting around nine seconds here's how some of the witnesses described what they saw.

was suspected gunman's been identified as stephen paddick a sixty four year old from nevada he was shot dead on the search the second floor of the mandalay bay hotel police are also questioning a person of interest named as mary lou donnelly a woman believed to have been with the gunman before the shooting took place. well police have released a photo of the sixty two year old who was a roommate of the suspected shooter or thought is now saying they think they've quarter space journalist dana gentry has more well we've just learned within the last few minutes from sure joe navarro it was vegas special police department that

the death toll has been upgraded to more than fifty people dead as you said the injured is upwards of two hundred people stephen had. nearby that's about it 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 risky he is known to local police there boat as far as motive we just have no idea yet 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 strip is i was born here i have lived here fifty seven years i can't remember anything like this we are all in stop war from nine hundred ninety six until june this year the country seen one hundred thirty mass shootings almost nine hundred adults and one

hundred forty five children have been killed but these numbers don't include the latest massacre in las vegas and there are question marks of what is officially classed as a mass shooting well earlier we spoke to form a intelligence officer and he may show and she says access to high caliber weapons in the u.s. is too easy. in america i mean obviously they have the second amendment of the constitution it's about the last right they still have in america which is the right to bear arms so it's very easy for assistance to get access to very high caliber weaponry and you know a lot of different things can trigger these sort of attacks there's a a long and awful history of these lone wolf lone shooter attacks both in american schools and in nightclubs such as in the florida nightclub last year and they can be triggered by any range of different issues they can piece of christian fundamentalists trying to have a go at pleasure seekers in las vegas it be race related it could just be

a nation or mental health issues could be far right extremism i mean you know where do you stop there are so many. problems in that society and the easy access to heavy weaponry is i think going to cause more and more of these attacks. while we're watching developments in las vegas and we'll update you as soon as we have more information. or france also saw a deadly attack on sunday islamic state claims it was behind a knife attack that killed two women at mar ses main train station the perpetrator was shot dead by security services minutes later the author it is 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. i.

don't know what good women screaming outside then running into people didn't know what was going on were taken out of the train and then evacuated. well canada has also just experienced an attack police in edmonton are treating the ramming and stabbing of a fellow officer on sunday as terrorist ated after finding an i saw a flag in the attack as call the thirty year old driver has been apprehended a manhunt followed the running of the officer who was stabbed several times but survived the driver was then stopped it managed to flee in a trunk hitting pedestrians in a high speed police chase no deaths have been reported a military expert a lot of things such attacks are the main way left for terrorists to make headlines as i.f.c.

is losing ground in the middle east. shrinks more of the fighters will escape many of them are western citizens who've been going to fight in iraq and 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 more of these attacks to make themselves still 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 and 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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voters elected to run this country business equals. boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. welcome back almost nine hundred cattle on voters were injured in assaults by military police during the spanish region's independence referendum on sunday madrid deems the vote illegal but despite its efforts to stop the referendum going ahead the council on government has already published the results with ninety percent supporting catalonia as break away from spain the spanish prime minister addressed his country just minutes before the end of the referendum which he deemed he denied i should say had taken place. but in doing so that i mean if you think of the. love.

we have to feel the food of that she would oppose that she would go in to stop. if you're not yellow to be a few. simple but i don't. well violence erupted moments after the polling stations open while people were standing in line to vote here's a recap of what happened on sunday. well

the way civil guard officers trying to disperse the crowd has raised concern here you can see people holding up rubber bullets that were fired into the crowd and protesters injured 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 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 wrists in the process where she claims her fingers were

broken intentionally here's how people on the streets of bosler that describe sunday's violence. we didn't deserve this kind of treatment i think our people deserve more freedom and not the oppression that madrid is putting us under we have seen a lot of repression against the people people who are just waiting in line ready to vote. i have seen brutal scenes on the part of police that saw it is right this place children and now that the people in front of the potent stations. some of my friends were in schools building barricades to defend the polling stations from police forces on my friend told me that she was grabbed by police and this one he went to the floor he was also hit in the head but i think this fence should be made known to the public. well for more on the story i'm now joined live by artist medina a question of well how about medina so what's the mood like in barcelona today.

while we're standing in the middle of class like a loon which is really the iconic square here and the city of abbas a lawn and as you can see behind my back protests continue and the catalan capital now as you can see behind my back hundred south as students that have gathered here to protest for the independent shelf catalonia and against the events that took place here on sunday now as you can see there clapping and singing and shouting slogans including the slogan good bye my hand off on which good bye mr president now they are screaming that old that these pro that protests started about an hour ago at a different square now they are marched through the center of the city another stop here at buffets allouni out to finish their protest and tomorrow they promise that there is going to be more and now again they are protesting mostly against unprecedented violence that we've seen on the streets of boston on and across the

region of console on the on sunday of their protesting against the police crackdown on calling stations that were witnessed on sunday we witnessed police and national guard pulling people out of polling stations using force on different sorts of people including students and elderly people and they were. or breaking down windows or breaking down doors and doing everything in their power to prevent ordinary citizens self consul lonny up from voting now we have been receiving more reaction from the council and authority as this monday now the gotland president said that the government has decided to create a special commission to investigate what happened in the region on sunday to investigate possible violations against humanity now he also believes that in order to find a compromise between madrid and barcelona the help of a party is needed so as you can see the situation is at the moment so complicated

that even the us or it is a chronology that there are unable to find a way out without the help of an independent party now the president of consul demands of the force of self and national police to leave the region he says that for many people here are many people here were protesting for years and many times and never in the streets of boston and never in the streets of council on us or that much of while and violence that we saw on sunday it is really the biggest constitutional crisis spain has seen in and decades and it really seems that the two sides has to somehow find a way to sit down and negotiate to avoid escalation. today but in a question about in barcelona thank you very much indeed thank you. well earlier we heard from ben on the elevators who is an election observer at the referendum and here's what he had to say about the police reaction. actuations up to

a policeman of the spanish policeman have been completely scandalous i mean it's 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 being 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 humiliation of cotillon nation. while some e.u. politicians have now reacted to sunday's events in catalonia though the comments have favorite from cautious to curious for this now i can just live to ati's police

coming on to close the place so what is it this being said. well it's been quite a muted european reaction the european commission has finally come out with a statement today but it condemned the violence but backed up madrid in reiterate saying that the referendum in catalonia was illegal take a listen. under the spanish constitution yesterday's vote you got a loan you know was not legal this is an internal mother for spain but it has to be dealt with in line with the constitutional order of spain well essentially we can see the e.u. there sticking to the same line it's had all along in the run up to the vote as well and gender stem brussels have had a lot of questions about the e.u.'s tongue tied response to the crisis in catalonia take a listen to them quizzing the east spokes person just before the referendum ted pace

. all you have a double standard in freedom of expression whilst found out four thousand. in other strand out for. you condemn it when they shut down cambodia daily but you stay silent when a member states starts playing with freedom of expression. private websites if they start arresting jewelries how can you say this is cause additional 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 you can see the spokes person squirming there and there is a sense that collectively european leaders are squirming over this crisis as well there's a degree of discomfort is seems that few have come out and condemn the violence the belgian prime minister the slovenian one but critics say that overall the response has been much milder than say it would have been if this crisis was unfolding in

a new european member states say hungry or somewhere like vogue area now in terms of the media reaction sky news has drawn a bit of attention to itself for a tweet that many people have said was inappropriate i think you can see it up on your screens now is that the people of catalonia are finding out what happens when the referendum is held the tweet was deleted soon after it was put up but not before quite a few people managed to screengrab it and express a lot of anger about it as well people online have accused the news outlet of supporting what they see as violent oppression in catalonia others have called it disgraceful some have called it fascist at the very least it does seem unfortunately. unfortunately worded it carries sort of an air of i told you

so about it there's a suggestion of some sort of political alignment to madrid side of the argument and probably a degree of insensitivity given that some nine hundred people in catalonia were injured in clashes with the spanish police yesterday. a fascinating tweet artie's polly boycott from london thank you very much indeed. well deputies from the european union have now proposed holding a session on what happened in catalonia however top european officials have remained largely silent though previously they stress that the issue is an internal one for spain m a r k from the european partnership for independence says that what happened in catalonia is no fronts to european values. all democrats in europe should just stand up and say this is not acceptable when they are going to see the emergence of old people families be hit by the police just

because a pervert friend of ours will be shaken out because he goes completely against any fundamental. value add no we've fought for our not short so. you can't some shot say that all men should stall i see the shoot to say much more than the pilots have stalled we know. now let's go to a recap of our breaking news story police say fifty people have been confirmed killed and more than four hundred putting hospital with some in the current critical condition after a shooting near the mandalay bay casino in las vegas the police are treating this as a lone wolf attack the suspected shooter was found dead in his hotel room in the search the second floor and named a sixty four year old nevaeh resident stephen paddick police and this is the deadliest shooting in modern u.s. history. discuss this further let's now cross live to former u.k.

home office counter-terrorism adviser shanahan mahmoud zahar thank you for joining us i mean do you believe that this incident will reignite the debate over the right to bear arms in the u.s. . yeah i definitely think that i mean the fact that this man used an assault rifle killed about fifty people injured two hundred i mean that is the huge casualty list there the largest after nine eleven i believe it's the largest mass killing as well on. u.s. soil. well there are some people in social media there expressing fear that the police have the incident as this lone wolf attack and this and they're saying it's not terrorism due to the fact that the attack was a white american i mean what's your take on that. i mean there is that discrepancy often i've seen this time and time again that the killer is a muslim for instance for the way he has to have ideological purposes for why he carried out an entire let's go back to the orlando shooter for instance a guy whose name was in he was gay according to his ex-wife and he took it

out on the gay community in orlando but immediately it was labeled as a terrorist attack whereas when it tends to be white shooters it is predominantly a case of he must be a lone wolf and he must have mental health issues like mental health issues contras transcend the community let's also look at the the details of the shooting the shooter it seems on the thirty second floor of a nearby hotel he was able to fire off a barrel of shots i mean do you think this this was a lapse in security that they allowed him to go through. why i mean it really depends because you know he wasn't actually on the ground where this first of all this music first was taking place but what i would like to see in addition to the united states government trying to curb gun laws certainly on assault rifles is that they should have something like for instance they have. counter extremism program in place we should have something similar that prevents people taking to

the streets and killing people indiscriminately as the case has been once again in the united states well on those particular age it details the reports the gunman was known to police and yes is as you're saying they still possessed a gun that's what we understand i mean do you believe police are doing enough tracking to keep keep effectively an eye of people on their watch list. where they can't keep an eye on everyone once again similar problems have appeared when it comes to potential terrorists so it is a huge task but certainly assault rifles off think they need to be outlawed in the united states and those that do have assault rifles they should be converted to single shot because the fact that he could shoot off so many rounds without being our friend it clearly should send out warning signals to the u.s. government that this is called continue i mean this is a huge. massive attack on american soil the largest after nine eleven. times and

you had not moved forward his counterterrorism adviser thank you very much indeed thank you. well for more on these and other stories please go to www dot com meanwhile i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour. when the ruling classes project themselves. ignore middle of the room six. dollars million really is

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