following protests a general strike is such a take. over the. police. to prevent the region's independence one eyewitness describes. who were just helping the people they were throwing them up the stairs and throwing them down to the player. on the floor and there is a. fifty

nine people. dead in the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history at a country music festival in las vegas. and a u.s. . proof that russia did not meddle in america's presidential elections and is ready to share the information in exchange for a pardon. and a very warm welcome to you. seen protests with the union now set to stage a general strike over the violent. actions of spanish riot police during the region's

independence referendum. voters did choose to break away from spain the officers raided polling stations they beat voters and fired rubber bullets into the crowds.

is following developments for us and. the pundits who took to the streets. so long away it's only monday to. independence referendum that was held. now the people that went to the streets the worst singing and. they were also protesting for the independence and for the rebels for this a referendum and they were protesting against the police brutality and indeed as a result of that. scrofulous eight hundred and ninety three people were injured the

crowds were demanding national police forces which are still here to leave for the area now we saw a lot of wireless on the streets of barcelona on sunday with some police forces being real violent force different sorts of people from students too as in the people there were pushing people out they were breaking down doors and breaking down window shelf school buildings and doing everything in their power to prevent people from voting so catalan citizens are in shock after the events of sunday were just helping the people because they were throwing them from up. the stairs and throwing them down a point the problem here and kicking them someone is on the floor and there is a god that jumps on the person that's down they went up i'm very aware they got this girl that was one of the organizers. they grabbed her they broke their her hand much indeed that's supported by a democracy you were there is saying that's the law that's what you consider the

law when i arrived there i saw volunteers and voters lying on the floor and the police cordon around it was like this the police entered the belt station building and everyone who was in there teamed up to peacefully resist the police blockaded the place that no one could interact after that they started throwing people out they took out the ballot boxes cut the demonstrators off and brought the boxes to their cars we sat down in front of those cars so that they could drive away it lasted for about an hour this huge day more than forty unions and associations across the region of council lonia have called that region whites trying to protest against the events of sunday now we were told that many places here in barcelona no way to be close throughout tuesday and there's going to be very difficult to move around the city so one should plan accordingly people do plan to protest against a number of polling stations that were raided. by the police forces so once again

we do expect to see some protest movement here in barcelona and across the region of council lining up and we also expect to see crowds of people and the streets of the city. we discuss the situation with coffee and irish m.e.p. he says the deployment of riot police goes against european values i would just love it if the spanish administration come together collectively and read the history books let's make no mistake about what we all witnessed yesterday we saw member state government deploy and police force to physically violently prevent people from actually voting no make no mistake about it this happened in the middle east or in south america in some of the newer member states we would have e.u. members leaders lining up with the most vicious boards of condemnation it's not good enough the response from the your opinion has been that patrick it's quite clear to me that democracy took

a big hit yesterday but so too has in the intervene and i was the credibility of the european union meanwhile spanish authorities claim the vote was illegal and unconstitutional the e.u. commission has issued a statement in which it refuses to condemn the violence and expresses trust in spain's prime minister well here on r.t. international we will be keeping you fully up to speed on developments throughout this day. it's r t international america is now mourning the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in its history fifty nine people were killed in the massacre at a country music festival in las vegas among them husbands wives mothers teachers graduates police officers assignee melton was at the concert with his wife he was fatally shot in the back as he shielded her from the bullets of denise politicus

a died and her husband tony's oms just minutes after she posted a photo of the two of them at the concert and jessica clincher was a single mother she died at leaving behind her four children of course many families will never be made whole again here's how the events unfolded on that tonight. i. i. i i i. i. i i.

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stephen paddock. taro raining down on thousands of tiny tiny the concert in las vegas lived in a retirement home in nevada he committed suicide after the rampage police say he had no criminal record and no military background also according to the f.b.i. he wasn't linked to any terror group the shooters brother says he never saw what was coming. he would have his car. every time i mean he played high stakes video to be able to stay home in the casino there's. no logic no. for me or my brother would have done this. there's no. there's not a witness i've been recording the horrors of the rampage at the las vegas festival whoever whoever shooting they. put a new clip in new magazine and start shooting again so we get down that that happens only four times before we even get out of the whole complex and there's so

many people around here that are i mean they were all dropping. so they were hurt or they were injured or they were dead and we just kept running my boss he got hit in the back as he was fleeing with me he was behind me and then my friend got here he was in front of me so i was kind of in between don't make those shots don't stop you don't hear that it's like being in a war zone and you can just hear the rounds almost like creeping up on you. can you feel like they're just it's like put you down i just kept thinking play we just need to get on to our good packing he was shooting from above and like they were just sitting ducks that they couldn't go anywhere that just like a different kind of evil you would think. you know they have no one security tight security here but it just goes to show you there's no place to exempt from and it's like he's reloading and then that's when everyone pretty much started running there's this little space that people could get through and so people were trying

to run through the space wishing everybody people are getting burnt barbecue and i did see a lady standing there just. covering her whole face is bloody standing there the guy. you just see people just laying on the ground just you know we don't know if they were shot. rock star. and champ told everybody crying everybody crying everybody's shot all of we discuss the events with brett kenyon who was working near the scene of the tragedy and it was also posted only affected by another notorious shooting rampage in the past. one of my friends who is is pro-gun and so believes there needs to be stricter laws you can go to gun shows here and buy guns without any id you can buy an unlimited ammunition so it's just insane for me to think that we don't have stricter laws and i know that there are people that are so pro the second amendment. the world is changing and we need to

consider also changing these laws because how many more mass shootings do we need until we realize that these laws are outdated and we need to change something i am from originally from the sandy hook area so when those shootings happen and oh and i did it the funeral of one of the victims so i have been personally affected by gun violence in the us. a republican congressman says there is

a way to prove that russia did not meddle in the u.s. elections the man with all that evidence is supposedly none other than julian assange so now dana rohrbacher says he met assad in london back in august and even promised him a deal a presidential pardon in exchange for the evidence the problem is the senator says he now called to meet with donald trump according to rohrabacher he's being blocked from meeting with the president. correspondent semitic on a small. it's an undercutting of democracy when the guy who is elected his staffers take it upon themselves to make the decision rather than let the actual president make the decision when asked about a possible deal with assad president donald trump told reporters he hadn't heard anything about it julian assange is the founder of wiki leaks the website that's been responsible for releasing tons of information much of it very embarrassing for the u.s. government has been hiding from extradition in the ecuadorian embassy in the u.k.

for the last five years now a white house official confirmed that for a boxer talk to white house chief of staff john kelly about his plan however kelly reportedly turned him down and said that the plan should be left up to the intelligence committee congressman rohrabacher believes the president's aides are preventing president trump from learning about the possibility of a deal with a songe this would have to be a cooperative effort between his own staff and the leadership in the intelligence communities to try to prevent the president from making the decision as to whether or not he wants to take the steps necessary to expose this horrendous lie that was shoved down the american people's throats so incredibly earlier this year by iran this live a congressman is most likely referring to russian collusion speculation that russia was responsible for the d.n.c. hack assad has always insisted it was non-state actors who leaked the d.n.c. files to wiki leaks now according to congressman rohrabacher assad is ready to tell the truth but it looks like washington doesn't want to hear it well plenty of stories still coming your way here on our international on this tuesday for example

britain's top diplomat boris johnson well he's accused of being remarkably diplomatic the full story after the break. here's what people have been saying about rejected and. the only show i go out of my way. really. is the john oliver of our. parents better than. the c. people you've never heard of redacted tonight president of the world bank. seriously send us an e-mail. seems wrong.

and in. the trailer. park. to look for common ground. joining us today for your news on r.t. the syrian army backed by russian is making a final effort to push the remaining terrorists out of the largely liberated city. according to the russian defense ministry over three hundred terrorists were eliminated in the last forty eight hours. or has been on the militant siege for three years and residents there are trying to get their lives back on track.

and has been talking to locals. in there is or you'll find little i'm mocked by war every crater has its own tragic story and i think it exploded right here a neighbor was sitting here holding his two year old nephew another man was there and my son isa was right here trapped no hit him in the back in the waist and the legs a piece one to his lungs he still suffers pain from it isa has now survived isis shells twice he well remembers his last brush with death and how his sister found him. i said judy judy my back hurts but she said only my legs were hit when they picked me up they saw blood flowing down my back my sister started screaming and hitting herself the first time he was nearly killed by an

isis shell he was just ten months old then shrapnel peppered the baby isa slicing off a toe in all he has eleven scars and a lump of jagged metal in his lungs that could still eventually kill him but at least he made it the other two year old boy at the scene wasn't so lucky hell lasted for three years it left a mark on everyone. the word tragedy does not begin to describe what happened in there is or any door you knock on any family you talk to tell you of their loss and their suffering truly the one thing that unites this city is that everyone has a horrific story there was no place in daters or where the population could find sanctuary there is no place that the battle left untouched dust craters bullet

holes and devastation everywhere entire districts of the city are in ruins entire generations traumatized entire generations lost. during the battle with isis i was shot just above my jaw the bullet is still there my left eye was destroyed and i have ten percent vision in my right eye. the reality of war i delves to where others were also in the army defending dad as daughter they were literally protecting their family against isis he is the only one left alive but these families loss is neither unique nor the worst so i think i was a moment one to lose one or three sons many families give more than me in my office

there was a man who lost five sons and a daughter this is war war is it consumes and destroys everything. for many the worst is over the breaking of the siege of daters or heralded a new beginning yet others in areas still being liberated it's just the stot psychological scars left behind will take decades to heal more i guess. from disorder syria. the city of los angeles is suing the u.s. department of justice over slashing federal funds for immigration agencies but a lawsuit claims that the measure is unconstitutional as a allocates funds only to activities that counter illegal immigration now l.a. is one of america's so-called sanctuary cities meaning it limits enforcement of immigration law now u.s. immigration and customs officers have been conducting raids in such cities

including los angeles new york massachusetts denver and philadelphia now all of the u.s. immigration enforcement authorities are see these cities as safe havens for criminals during these raids some five hundred undocumented immigrants were arrested among them three hundred who had been convicted in the past of crimes eighteen of the detained were identified as gang members so auntie's it delves into the story a little bit deeper sanctuary cities have a policy of not cooperating with federal immigration authorities they don't open up the jails or detention centers the way they see it they don't want immigrant communities to be afraid to report criminals or cooperate with police investigations we have a president who is bent on trying to vilify immigrants and punish cities that prioritize real effect of public safety over splitting up hardworking families by falsely claiming that sanctuary cities are havens for criminals nothing could be

further from the truth this city will not be bullied by this administration into appeared to be in our core values to ca. as a place where the american dream is open to all this works it has been working to not touch our money let us do what we do in these cities have become a focal point for resistance to donald trump's crackdown on immigration. and. now the new immigration chief says that these cities are simply protecting criminals and becoming a magnet for undocumented immigrants sanctuary jurisdictions that do not honor detainers or allow us access to jails and prisons are shielding criminal aliens from immigration enforcement and creating a magnet for illegal immigration furthermore in some areas locals have spoken up against the policy of shielding undocumented workers but my community has been

a big story by a race and a legal immigration and we're not going to ground zero and not pay we do it where the right people come here indeed jump the border the break into my house this is my house los angeles is my house and it's a shame and i'm going to speak up against it well many sanctuary cities whether we're talking about chicago or they were talking about los angeles they operate as magnets to people who will break the law here's the thing if you come to america and you overstayed their visa you've already broken a law what other laws are people going to be breaking when you have lives that this is a sanctuary city you're calling all law breakers to operate here here's an example that's likely to make the case against sanctuary cities a little bit stronger sergio martinez is an undocumented immigrant was charged with rape in july he had already been deported from the united states twenty times the

local authorities in portland actually released him without letting federal authorities know now on both sides of the debate it's raging both sides. say the protection from crime and the safety of the public should be the primary concern. archie new york. so britain's top diplomat boris johnson is accused of being a remarkably on diplomatic license offer a video of most of him first citing a colonial poem on his visit to me and earlier this year even the u.k.'s ambassador to the southeast southeast asian states felt obliged to quietly tell him it was not appropriate. right. now the director of the u.k. burma campaign says the foreign secretaries gaffe was humiliating for the local

people though some say it's time for the boris had a change of career. it's absolutely an embarrassment for britain as a whole i think that's exactly why the british ambassador picked him up on this and said look we can't do this it's culturally insensitive i wonder if forrest johnson really thinks of tall when he does these things i would tell him to close his mouth for the time being and then promptly forge a career as a stand up comedian i'm sure he'd be brilliant but he is not a brilliant foreign secretary these rapidly i mean he's cultivated this image of himself as this bumbling buffoon balancing from here to there and spouting whatever is on his mind and. that might be fine for someone who's appearing as a panelist on have i got news for you it might even have worked the mayor of london as someone who's seen as this sort of teflon coated. but for

a man who is representing britain on the world stage i think it showing both him and his party to be in a very poor light. some a live pictures for you right now from barcelona where it's just turning ten twenty seven on tuesday morning people are protesting against the spanish prime minister to hold a right outside his party's regional headquarters as we show you these live pictures it's understood that a general strike is being held today all across. and it's following riot police brutality as the region voted in favor of independence on sunday in fact that was a ninety percent vote in favor of independence we understand the past few days have been tough for the next couple of days could be even tougher on r.t. international we will keep you posted on the protests throughout this tuesday for the meantime though your world news headlines continue in about thirty minutes. i.

oh. in the us a child can choose an army course in school. with retired officers as teachers we don't. recruit will says to you if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves. the pentagon is funding a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers. to step up to an apollo so that comfortable with yourself. you can't go wrong with the military it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do but some veterans are willing to tell enthusiastic children a little more they ask me call of duty is a very popular first year video game. it's play and they ask me it's like call of duty to turn off call of duty oh yeah or you can turn off your lot of these kids

just don't hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them to be told or does it just need more recruits. hahaha.