it's not. coming out. right. i. i islamic state claims responsibility after fifty are confirmed dead to last spake is music festival in the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. the local police say they're treating the shooting as a lone wolf attack and that the perpetrator has been found dead. in a few examples throughout a propensity to believe i'm supposed to teach or something. that's what spain's prime minister had to say off to the independence referendum in catalonia in which

almost nine hundred voters were injured in assaults by military police. these are the news headlines when r.t. international outrage thank you for watching. islamic state has claimed responsibility for the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history fifty people are confirmed dead and more than four hundred injured after a gunman went on the rampage at a las vegas music festival the incident is being treated as a lone wolf attack police say the attack because motive is not yet known we must warn you that the following video you might find disturbing.

shooting took place during an outdoor performance by country singer jason aldean at a three day music festival it was attended by around twenty two 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 last in around nine seconds here's how some of the witnesses described what they saw.

or the suspected gunman has been identified as stephen paddick a sixty four year old from nevada he was found dead on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel along with several weapons police are also questioning a person of interest named as mary lou donnelly a woman believed to be with the government before the shooting here's a video from the scene of people taking shelter in a tent at the festival. i. i. i i. i i.

we spoke to an eyewitness called abdi he told us how people were scared but had to remain quiet as no one knew if the shooter was still around. at the time i was actually working security at the of. capitol as i walked away from my post. that i 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 but when the second round of gunshots came it was clear that it was gunshots and it wasn't the music messing up . once i heard and i seen people started running i completely just

dropped everything and just read. there was police officers maturity they were 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 were telling everyone to be quiet because it was still nearby and we didn't know if the shooter is walking around or not. well from one thousand nine hundred ninety six until june this year the u.s. has 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 asp a guess and there are question marks over what is officially classed as a mass shooting. well earlier we spoke to former intelligence officer animation she says access to water magic 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 citizens 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 be so 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 were closely watching developments in las vegas and we'll update you as soon as we have some more information. well meanwhile francaise also suffered an iso linked terror attack on sunday

a man armed with a knife kills two women it must say as main train station minutes later the perpetrator was shot dead by security services. don't know we heard women screaming outside then running in people didn't know what was going on and were taken out of the train and then evacuate. we all thought his house since admitted that the attacker was detained for shoplifting and released the day before the attack he was also known to police for drug related crimes and the law is like a belief in france's national front party lays the blame for the tragedy on the

government. issue is when you know. that someone is danger worse what do we do. use that influence we do nothing we let them go they can walk freely in our streets and then become terrorists or something else so once again we don't take as a good measure the issue is not our police is issue is our government especially mr . grammont. we want canada also suffered a terror related assault on sunday a police officer in the city of edmonton response though his injuries are not life threatening and i saw a flag was found in the attackers car the thirty year old driver has been apprehended a manhunt followed the running of the officer who was then stamped several times but survived the drive that was then stopped but managed to flee in a trunk hitting pedestrians and by speed police chase no deaths have been reported mich experts come along things such attacks are the main way to let terrorists make

headlines as i-s. is losing ground in the middle east as territories shrinks more of the fighters will escape many of them are western 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 in the news because obviously on the ground they're losing to syria and iraq so they would carry out these attacks to make themselves kill 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. and we'll have more news after this short break .

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or something want. to go right to the press this is what the three of them want to get. interested in the why. should. anyone else seem wrong. just don't call. me. yet to say proud to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 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 from 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 to night had taken place. but in doing so that i mean if you think of them.

we have to feel. what a poster should be going to stop. to be a few. well violence erupted moments after the polling stations opened while people were standing in line to vote here's a recap of what happened last sunday. well

the way civil guard officers try to disperse the crowd has raise concern here you can see people holding up rubber bullets that were fired into the crowd well madrid claims the police response was professional and proportionate but let's take a look at some of the videos that have sparked public outcry here you can see peaceful protesters facing police demonstrators have their hands up as a sign of nonviolence but officers start hitting them with batons well this incident took place in she wrote in northeastern catalonia and another video has also sparked outrage and a warning you might find it distressing 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 well after a day of massive violence in catalonia protect testers are taking to the streets decrying police brutality artie's within a question of a s.b. one rally in barcelona this is classic absolutely aware as you can see the protests continue here on the iconic sware of the barcelona says he hundreds of students had gathered behind my back to protest against the events that we saw here on sunday they were protesting for the independence of catalonia they're clapping they're shouting slogans including goodbye mr president good bye mariano and now there are trying to remain peaceful and they're also protesting against the violence unprecedented crackdown on polling stations that we saw on sunday and indeed there

are a lot of unhappy people here on the streets of wasilla now we didn't deserve this kind of treatment i think our people deserve more freedom and not the oppression that one dream is putting just under the because we have seen a lot of repression against the people people who are just waiting on line ready to vote. on the part police on either side is wrong it's. not place children now than the people i front of the potent stations. some of my friends were in the barricades to defend all of. us on these measures and told me that she was grabbing me and this is not said that he was also he had done enough i think in this sense to do a known to the. we have been receiving more reaction coming out from the consul on us or it as this monday now the presidential council lawn and said that the government has decided to create a special commission to investigate the events of sunday to create a special commission to investigate possible crimes against humanity that might

have taken place here are over the weekend he also believes that in order to find a compromise between madrid and barcelona independent party is needed so as you can see the comp the situation here is so complicated that even authorities are ready to acknowledge that there are unable to find a way out without the house and now other independent side now the president of cause a lot of demands that the forces of national police will leave the region he says that for many years and many times people of conscience on your work protesting and never there's been violence on the streets so it is really the biggest constitutional crisis spain has been in decades and it really seems that it is time now for both parties to sit down and try to negotiate in order to avoid further escalation. deputies from the european union have now proposed holding a session over what happened in council lonia however european officials have

remained largely silent previously stressing that the issue is an internal one for spain ortiz party boyko has been taking stock of the international response. 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 reiterating that the referendum in catalonia was illegal under the spanish constitution yesterday's vote. was not legal this is an internal matter for spain that 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 journalists in brussels have had a lot of questions about the e.u.'s tongue tied response to the crisis in catalonia now will you have

a double standard in freedom of expression once found out for. another four. if you condemn it when they shut down cambodia daily would you stay silent when a member state starts playing with freedom of expression should private websites if they start arresting jewelries how can you say this is a cause additional that we don't have anything to say i mean this is presumably expression anything else that we're going to help you with today where 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 a few have come out and condemn the violence the belgian prime minister the slovenian one but critics say that over rule the response has been much milder than say it would have been if this crisis was unfolding in a new european member states

a hungry or somewhere like vogue area now in terms of the media reaction sky news has drawn a bit of attention to itself a for a tweet that many people. have said it was inappropriate you can see it up on your screens now it said the people of catalonia are finding out what happens when and the legal 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 word it carries sort of an air of i told you so about it there's a suggestion in it 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. now donald trump has downplayed recent remarks by his secretary of state who called for a diplomatic solution to the north korea crisis the u.s. president says that negotiations with pyongyang are a waste of time. picks up the story for the past two months the world has been watching the escalating tensions on the korean peninsula and while some in the trumpet ministration continue to strive for a diplomatic solution the president himself sees those efforts as useless. i told rex tillerson our wonderful secretary of state that he's wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man so term thinks negotiating with north korea is a waste of time honestly adding that the u.s. will do what has to be done the us secretary of state rex tillerson was in china

talking with top diplomats there and trying to find ways to ease the nuclear tensions i think the whole situation's a bit overheated rights now i think everyone would like for it's a calm down obviously it would help if north korea would stop firing of missiles that have come things down a lot but it's seemingly impossible for things to calm down with trump lashing out and insulting north korea and almost every chance he gets we are totally prepared for the second option totally destroy north korea that's called the military option fire fury a military option like the world has never seen devastating. deficit devastating never seen before rocket man mad man is on a suicide mission for himself rocket man shooting rockets all over the place suicide mission for himself he has been very thread should have been handled a long time ago that's called the military option five year period it will be

handled we handle everything over the weekend u.s. trolls were again carried out in the south china sea and all that is within washington's rights to conduct those drills many have called for them to be paused for the time being at least given how they currently provoke p.r. netting but despite terms insults and international disapproval of his handling of the situation some in washington still speak highly of his diplomatic skills i think the pick the president is an effective communicator i think people know exactly where he stands we have had a good deal of success in pushing forward with our diplomacy campaign that hasn't changed one thing that definitely hasn't changed is the deadlock in the north korean crisis and the world's left waiting to see what exactly trump leaves has to be done. well we spoke to george someone a global policy expert from london metropolitan university he thinks that trump and telus and have adopted a good cop bad cop strategy. well i think trump is doing the the familiar good cop

bad cop routine so tillerson is playing the good cop he's negotiating trying to work something else and then trump is doing the the bad cop it's a familiar double leg i mean it's pretty which is he's laying it on the line to the john yang hey you better do the deal with phyllis and. because otherwise you know i might get fed up with it and i'll do something really terrible so it's certainly a great risk i mean this is this is brinkmanship and brinkmanship is always very dangerous you know we've had brinkmanship before we had the you know cuban missile crisis where. powers backed down at the last minute you never know with with these things it's hard to know exactly what military options the united states has up its sleeve you know korea is in an awkward position are they really willing to go the distance of the really willing to risk. total annihilation and then and therefore the complete annihilation of their regime so that's why i think killing yang's hand

isn't really that strong but you never know i mean this. this is dangerous stuff it could easily get out of hand. in germany the all stories are stepping up their fight against hope speech online with social networks coming under increased pressure from this month tech giants will have to pay a hefty fine if they fail to delete illegal content peter oliver explains. fifty million euros that's how much the german government can fine the big social media giants don't remove a legal racist or slanderous comments and posts from their sites within twenty four hours the new law. taking effect was written during an uptick in racist refugee online postings following the arrival of more than a million people into germany between twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen but it was

announced this summer that it would be coming into full force or privacy activists out to show any less than happy with the do you wish to add to the controversial points of the law could see this high it's a regulation potentially on things which are not even liable to legal for sick you shouldn't if this happens internet providers will likely be cautious and potentially what we consider freedom of communication dissenting voices were on the rise in germany in just the last week the immigration alternative to germany party took a big bite out of space in the federal elections. i mean according to the current situation last around one point three million voters to the f.t.p. and one million to the anti considering the and these voters it is our duty to win them back through the good policies and solutions to problems i call mass germany's justice minister called out one of social media's biggest names directly saying

they shouldn't have to be forced to do more. first but i think that this is in the interest of facebook nobody can have an interest in being known as a medium which is being used in an extra way by far right extremists to overwhelm the world with ideological waste companies will have to report back on how they're doing every six months so let's have a look at how the big three stacked up before they slow came into place well according to the new york times over a one month period facebook removed way less than half of all online hate speech within twenty four hours for twitter. an embarrassing one percent for them are far and away the best performers if you chub removing ninety percent of flags content within one day it goes without saying that racist and bigoted posts need to be

taken down but who is deciding what we should and shouldn't be seeing is a cause for concern for many the obligations placed upon private companies to regulate and take down content raises concern with respect to freedom of expression this isn't just a german issue posts that are blocked or removed here will also be blocked or removed all over the world but this new law with its hefty fines gives the german government a weapon against online hate with the power to hurt companies that don't hear but the shoe to be a lot of focus into how it's used and against whom peter all of l.t. . and will be about with the latest headlines at the top of the hour in the meantime for more stories. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were

a south and taken your last bang term. here at the top to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words and helps to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was a kid still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters mind it's consumed with this one. speak to him now because there are no other takers. to the claim that mainstream media has met its maker. in case you're new

to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington washington controls the media the media the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. the economic development is. really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six morning. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think. that our c.e.o. mike du made over a twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart associate. with all due respect i have to say.