try to do. it might be making things worse. the. strike is being held. in favor of. one eyewitness describes the. polling station. we're just helping the people because they were throwing them up the stairs and pulling the hair. on the floor and there is a guy that. fifty

nine people. in the deadliest mass shooting in. this country music festival in las vegas. and a u.s. senator claims. proof that the russians did not meddle in america's presidential elections and is ready to share the information in exchange for. the senator. welcome to you from all of us here at international and we have. a general strike and rallies are being held. today live pictures you can see right now behind me it's just awful. noon in barcelona in the town students are out protesting against

the riot police brutality witnessed during the spanish region's independence vote on sunday let's cross live now it has been a question of his out the rallies now joining us from wasilla to do you know you are in the mix of things that a lot of people often about what's the mood on the streets. while this is that right that does things that are barcelona doesn't have to understand that the arcade is right in the heart of the castle on capital and you can see was not now i'm standing right in the middle of a quite a huge crowd of people now it all started as a student protest but very soon a different source of people like you have decided to join this crowd and i believe that we are now looking at thousands of people here protesting the evidence of sunday protesting against the president said at least by land that we saw on the

streets of boston long and crossed the region and now people that came here they're supporting the independence of counseling and they're supporting the referendum and name came here holding flags and they're clapping and they're shouting and there is singing songs now we've got a police helicopter about our hats and assume that it arrived basically all of the crowds put their hands every single person here almost everyone put their hands up and the air showing county hands that's the symbol that it's people here are sending to the police forces that this is a peaceful gathering now what we're i can see that police presence is fighting here around the area and we see police cars coming in and every time the crowds here are shouting at the police forces demanding that demanding the national police forces to leave the region now indeed we saw a lot of violence in the streets of boston lined up and in the region of. why get

some people here has been still very unhappy and they're in shock about what happened. we're just helping the people because they were throwing them from up top of the stairs and throwing them down upon the public here and kicking them someone is on the floor and there is a guy that jumps on the person that's down and they went off and buried where they got this girl that was one of the organizers and they grabbed her and their brokerage for her hand if you imagine that that supported by a democracy you were there is saying that's the law that's what you consider the law. now to protest against it the events of saturday against the police violence that we saw on the streets unions of workers here in council on and i decided to hold a general strike across the region and especially here in wasilla not so basically at the castle and capital is that a log down on lockdown at the moment it is very difficult to get inside of the city or to get out of the city now eight we do know that so many roads are at the

morning or at the moment cordoned off by police forces cinemas are closed around this city now we've got more than half of the. thousand crowd. on the outcome yeah i think people believe. and bob are now coming back to strike as i said that they see as not practically on lockdown now we've got a new wave of local news it was also not working to have the local newspapers radio stations also decided to fight the war and then try now barcelona the next lab very small on how it would look up and you know on the football that also not liking the . strike now we managed to speak to a representative of the union of workers here and basilan out and she told us that people are still in shock after the violence and all the wine is. to protect their

fundamental rights. that's still annoying way this is not a normal general strike it is more about people deciding to stop everything they're doing and protest instead we call it a lockdown of the region why are we supporting the strike we support it because of the violence on referendum day citizens decided to use their constitutional right to vote and one who were deprived of it of police activity disproportionate oppression this problem must be solved but not with oppression of the citizens not by taking away fundamental rights i think the spanish government is a wall is so well because we asked eighteen times to talk and it's a while because they just don't want to talk the spanish government turned a blind eye to the police violence and demonstrated a complete incompetence at establishing dialogue and creating a political solution to this crisis within us. this is the biggest cause additional crisis they have and tacky it's how the unions our colleague here in counseling are calling b.s. or it is both and basilan my trade to somehow said i don't negotiate in table and

negotiating table and try to work out a lot of this that's wasted to avoid further escalation but meanwhile ordinary citizens of this region and order is serious and self basilan are here in the streets protesting and showing their well they're protesting against the violence and showing their support for the in the palace and for their voices to be heard. god has been a caution about life in barcelona thank you. well it was ninety per cent of voters who chose to break away from spain when response officers raided polling stations they feed voters and shot rubber bullets into crowds.

i. you know i. think. that. i. i i i would just love it if the spanish administration of come together collectively and read the history books let's make no mistake about what we all witnessed yesterday we saw i mean you

remember state government deploy in place forced to physically and violently prevent people from actually voting no make no mistake about it had this happened in the middle a star in south america in some of the newer member states we would have you have members leaders lining up with the most vicious words of condemnation it's not good enough the response from the or paying union has been pathetic 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 the pro independent sentiments have been seen elsewhere across the european union for example the in belgium in france even moving to eastern europe poland and even slitheen well it's not just catalonia that's held a referendum on the matter for example back in twenty eight fourteen scotland voted not to break away from the united kingdom and this year a second referendum was proposed by the scottish government in the wake of that

something the current tory government has ruled out and later this month over in italy the regions offer one body and vonetta while holding votes on autonomy as well and we spoke to stefan of all the barrie an m.p. and parliament he says it's important to listen to the will of the people. and then it will resume and the minute the people are very rules that the people may need. to be. the real people. we want to. be. free from. this being your record i see that you have got to grow for example. for me you said being more free to be and democrats. meanwhile spanish authorities claim the vote was illegal and unconstitutional the e.u.

commission issued a statement in which it refused to condemn the violence instead expressing trust in spain's prime minister. here on r.t. international we will be keeping you up to speed on all developments throughout what is expected to be a very tense day. first . 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 and police officers a sunny melton was at the concert with his wife he was fatally shot in the back as he shielded her from the bullets at denny's but atos died in a husband tony's arms just minutes after she posted a photo of the two of them at the concert and jessica was

a single mother who died leaving her four children behind of course many families will never be the same again here's how events unfolded on that fateful night. i i. i i i. i i i. i. i. i i

i i. i i. i i. we need to try to get people out of the hospital ok. the gunman was located on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel ultimately overlooking the festival as you can see here he broke the window before

unleashing a shower of bullets down on the crowd but when police stormed that room they found twenty three weapons including a handgun multiple rifles witnesses have been recalling the horrors of the rampage at this las vegas music 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 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 word zone and you can just hear the rounds almost like creeping up on you. like they're just it's like i just kept thinking late we just need to get on to argue

when i realize we're actually we're. actually still kind of frozen in time and this is. like it was surreal to. him just. to run over. oh. i'm just so grateful that i wasn't i just missed it but there's also so much pain and thinking like oh i mean. this. thing read is a pretty big prison make it so you could ever have is being able to live.

who sent bullets and tear raining down on thousands attending the concert in las vegas lived in a. he killed himself right off the rampage police say he had no criminal record no military background. also according to the f.b.i. he wasn't linked to any terror groups other las vegas shooter's father patrick patrick was once on the f.b.i.'s ten most wanted list he was known as a violent bank robber during the sixty's and seventy's and the f.b.i. is one to post to it so he was diagnosed as psychopath and had suicidal tendencies however the shooter's brother eric parker says they didn't really know their father he says he had no idea that his brother was planning this attack. he would have his car. every time i mean he played high stakes video to be able to stay in the desert there's no no life you know. for me

or my brother would have done. there's still. there's not. we discussed the events with brett kenyon who was working to the scene of the tragedy and who was personally affected by another notorious shooting rampage in the past one of my friends who is his program so 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 but 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 them something i am from originally from the sandy hook area so when those shootings happened in twenty zero i did it the funeral of one of the victims

so i have been personally affected by gun violence and that's. this is international still many stories coming your way here on the program today including a republican congressman says there was a way to prove that russia did not meddle in the u.s. elections but the senate's a complaint is that the president won't meet with him to hear the details but. it's .

clear that you saw tell you that let me. tell you.

we. were walking. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow a republican congressman says there is a way to prove that russia did not meddle in the u.s. presidential elections and the man with the evidence is supposedly none other than julian a son of a senator. says he met. a deal a presidential pardon in exchange for the evidence the problem is the senator says that he can't meet with in fact according to he's being blocked from meeting with the president. 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 now 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 wore a boxer talked 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 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 a songe is ready to tell the truth but it looks like washington doesn't want to hear it. britain's top diplomat boris johnson is accused of being remarkably diplomatic it's off to a video emerged of him reciting a colonial poem on his visit to me and earlier this year even the u.k.'s ambassador to the southeast asian state felt obliged to very quietly tell mr johnson it was quote not appropriate. listen. we don't. want to right. now the director of the u.k. burma campaign says the foreign secretaries gaffe was humiliating for local people

some say it's time that boris perhaps 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 culturally insensitive i wonder if boris johnson really thinks at all when he does these things i would 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 before 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 clown but for

a man who is representing britain on the world stage i think it's it showing both him and his party to be in a very poor light. the new u.s. ambassador to russia john huntsman is being sworn in right now by the russian president vladimir putin hawkins joining me live now with more on the man daniel what do we know about jon huntsman what does he stand i suppose on u.s. russia relations. well rory jon huntsman's list of credentials his c.v. is certainly very long and very impressive he's former utah governor was in the roles of a presidential candidate in terms of diplomatic experience he served under two different administrations republican and democratic former master to singapore more importantly former ambassador to china another tough role given trump's outspoken views on relations with that country now he's been sent to russia who arrived in

moscow just a couple of days back with his wife mary kay he's got the unviable to. trying to repair relations with russia at a time that they've reached an all time low according to the former us ambassador to moscow at least that's what he said now his views on russia are all quite outspoken he has been known to say that russia did interfere in the u.s. election there is no question whatsoever about that that is a quote from him he also accuses moscow of continuing to meddle in the democratic process is all of our friends and allies and his tenure in moscow he's promised to hold russian officials to count he's going to speak to putin right now i believe and go to that ceremony live as well. now as we can see. he's giving his credentials to president putin this is

a. usual process when you knew about it a rives in a new country i don't get you to make a good first impression to shake the president's hand or the president will also make a short speech to be introducing a row of other new ambassadors i believe and thinking to moscow as well it's interesting of course how jon huntsman will combine these quite tough views on russia and their allegations of meddling in interfering all over the world with the task of trying to repair relations the kremlin presidential spokesman due to press corps has already said he hopes that there will be a chance to prove these relations between russia and the united states jon huntsman will be a key contributor to that so very much that relationship between him and the russian foreign ministry and right here putin of course lover of will very much be under the spotlight. all right i'll live just outside the crime. arthur worldwide headlines for a tuesday continue in about half an hour. it's

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a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers. to step up to. the ball with yourself. you can't go wrong. it's a great stepping stone for whatever 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 sure video game. it's played. like call of duty to turn off call of duty oh yeah. for these kids to still hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them to be told does it just need more recruits .