thousands of people have taken to the streets of basra lono to protest against riot police brutality following the violent crackdown on the region's independence referendum on sunday. the death toll is now fifty nine people following the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history of music festival in las vegas. and a u.s. senator claims juden a song which has proof russia didn't meddle in america's presidential elections and

will trade the information for a poll that says donald trump what needs him to discuss the deal. these are the headlines for mounting international live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for watching. thousands of people are out in barcelona protesting against the police brutality witnessed during catalonia independence vote on sunday these are the latest pictures from the council on capital a general strike and rallies are now being held all across the spanish region artie's medina question of our reports from barcelona. thank that's really the ground that's what you want the street bought a lot of people out of people that have gathered. here in the arc of this they see

this tuesday afternoon to protest against the law and that we saw on the streets against the police group than saying ordinary citizens of pots of money of their own bolting we see here different kinds of people now not only sudanese or young people who came here are holding flags up in the ground in catalonia we see here families with small children we see elderly people here now sometimes the crowd starts to shout slogans. it was. it and there are asking they're shouting at national police forces to leave the region and that's a line yet now you can see how it will look at the ground it wound me as you can see a lot of young the boat as well as up in the ground in council lining the union of workers out all day for a general strike to take place around the city and the barcelona says it is that on

a lockdown it is very difficult now to get in or out of the city it probably transport as a perhaps a green on operation a matter o. stations are close that almost all shops are closed as well we know that local radio stations to local radio stations are not up and wish not the same goes to two local newspapers and this is the biggest constitutional crisis thank god and that's a concern the unions are calling for the authorities i think was the one in madrid to somehow say to the negotiating table and find a way out of this that's waste and throughout boy were there as elation and while the unions were calling for that this is what's happening on the streets of boston are now. we spoke to a lot of pele the vice general secretary of the trade union she says action is necessary as the government refuses to listen. ishall annoying way this is not a normal general strike it is more about people deciding to stop everything they're

doing and protest is that 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 other police activity disproportionate oppression a lot of 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 so well because we have to eighteen times talk and it's a wall because they just don't want to talk about it but the spanish government turned a blind eye to the police violence and demonstrated a complete incompetence at establishing dialogue integrating a political solution to this crisis you know for the national well ninety percent of voters chose to break away from spain officers raided polling stations beach faces and fired rubber bullets into crowds. was i was. i

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a professor at the university of barcelona and a former catalan m.p. thank you very much indeed for joining us well how far then is too far from madrid i mean was a heavy handed police presence the only approach to the referendum. we seem to be having some technical difficulties with coming to get you back again meanwhile pro independence sentiments have been seen elsewhere across the european union well these have come from belgium and france and moving to eastern europe poland and slovenia and it's not just catalonia that's held a referendum on independence back in twenty fourteen scotland voted not to break away from the united kingdom but this year though a second referendum was proposed by the scottish government in the wake of breck's it something the current tory government has ruled out and later this month the italian regions of long body and the beneteau are also holding votes on autonomy or

we spoke to stephan over the committee an m.p. in beneteau as parliament he says it's important to listen to the will of the people. they need to rejoin the military people are very rules that the lonely people of many of the ceremony when you get the new year will be. the young people use a relation we want to call rise of it we make them young people are most important to female from the mission a community has been here economizing are very montenegro for example but then they don't talk that for a very you said being the most free to be not only mcgrath you have a mentor. well meanwhile spanish authorities claim the vote in catalonia was illegal and unconstitutional the commission has issued a statement in which it expresses trust in spain's prime minister mariano to hoyle

and refuses to condemn the violence will be keeping you up to date on developments in the story throughout the day. now america is mourning the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in its recent history fifty nine people including an off duty police officer was killed in the massacre at a country music festival in las vegas sonny melton was out the concert with his wife he was fatally shot in the back as he cheerlead her from the bullets albany's body to stein in a husband tony's arms just minutes after she posted a photo of the two of them at the consulate and jessica kim cho was a single mother who leaves behind four children here's how events unfolded on sunday night.

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we need to truck we just need to get people out. the hospital ok. the gunman was located on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel which overlooks the festival he broke a window before unleashing a shower of bullets on the crowds below when police stormed the room they found the body of the shooter as well as twenty three weapons including a handgun a numerous rifles witnesses have been recording the horror of the rampage. whoever

whoever shooting they. put a new clip in 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. can you feel like they're just it's like cut you down i just kept thinking plate we just need to get on to argue when i realise we're actually. actually still trying to frozen in time or the. other way it was surreal to be honest. in just the fact of having to run over.

to you it oh. i'm just so grateful that i wasn't i just missed it but there's also so much pain and thinking like. why did those people do to deserve it. it was. such a great day that. was. being read his birthday present make it so you could ever have is being able to live with. sixty four year old stephen paddick lived in a retirement home in nevada who committed suicide right after the massacre police say he had no criminal record and no military background also according to the f.b.i. he wasn't linked to any terrorist groups despite claims from islamic state. well

the shooter's father patrick patrick who was once on the f.b.i.'s ten most wanted list he was known as a violent bank robber during the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's in the f.b.i. as wanted poster it said he was diagnosed as psychopathic and had suicidal tendencies however stevens brother eric patrick says they didn't really know their father he says he had no idea his sibling was planning such an attack he would have his car here. every time i mean he played high stakes video to be able to stay home and. there's an exactly go no live you know reach for me where my brother would have done. there's still. there's not. we discuss the events with brett kenyon who was working near the scene of the tragedy and had been personally affected by a previous shooting rampage in twenty twelve. 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 twelve i did attend a funeral of one of the victims and so i have been personally affected by gun violence in the past.

a u.s. senator claims julian assange has proof russia didn't meddle in america's presidential elections that story after the break.

manufactured. public wealth. when the closest project. we can all middle of the room. welcome back home let's return to our top story now a sow's of people are out in barcelona protesting against the police brutality

witnessed during catalonia independence vote on sunday well for more on this we can now cross life but ran away a professor at the university of barcelona and before that catalan m.p. ordeal thank you very much indeed for joining us again well let's have a look at some of that reaction then that's that's going on in the situation on sunday i mean how far then is too far from madrid i mean was that heavy handed police presence the only approach they could have taken to the referendum. yes it was a really. dramatic situation where morse one thousand people was injured was hard by the spanish police all the because i want to quote because i want to go to. our self determination right and we did ask for police riots couldn't stop our willing of

vote so we bought more than two million guns vote for doing that by months neighbors would end up and once and now we are protesting against these police violence and supporting the unilateral declaration of independence that i want that our parliament clue in the following days to end this process of their mission once the citizens hostis. we deserve our own state with our in the. well is you say there cheerily people voted ninety percent of people say it that they wanted dependence but in light of what spain has said about it being an illegal referendum how strong is the catalonia claim for. dependence we've seen strong resistance now in barcelona or across catalonia how strong though is that playing. well you have to think of the constitution are low in this

thing is something that is there and see a from the dictatorship regime from franco's version because it was an agreement between democratic forces and previous antidemocratic he said there should forces so that constitutional law is not a democratic low in the sense that peoples have the right to suffer their munitions so our friend them is legal because the united nations in the form the mental laws of the united nations are such as there were initial rights is arise does is totally legal is coming to the earth and these international laws passed all bore the cost to bush and al the spanish constitution so we are defending this referendum from the human rights from the laws coming from united nations and that is the reason we've gone through the deuce referendum is totally illegal and there are precedents in union for instance of conlan called

a referendum years ago and is totally legal so our affair in the midst of the legal . and is the spanish government do not want consider desire for any moment because it is more approach to the dictatorship regimes than to the democratic regimes is not our problem is something that the spanish well i don't have to solve by themselves do you think now that it's gone too far in light of what happened on sunday is it too late for madrid and barcelona effectively to come to some kind of compromise with concessions on both sides. well now. the one look between the want to be doing. really deep because there are. wrong cases of violence so we can not forgive this and we are not going to forgive now the solution to be good neighborhoods is that motherhood respect our decision to respect ourselves their mission rights respect our willingness on the

end up announce recognize the new crackdown on a state that in the following this we are going to declare through our parliament and after this and after spain demonstrate that is a democratic state that recognizes what the people of catalonia want we can be good neighborhoods we want to be a good neighborhood in the future because of course we share as your off we go space and we share proximity but after the recognition of our governments now before india we'll leave it there or deal that ran out a way for mccutcheon m.p. professor thank you very much indeed thank you. thank you. all republican congressman says there is a way to prove russia didn't meddle in the u.s. presidential elections and apparently the man with solid evidence is which an expanded genius song senator dana rohrabacher says he met a songe in london back in august and even promised him a deal

a presidential pardon in exchange for the evidence the problem now is the senator says he can't meet donald trump r.t. samir khan has more. 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 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 for a backer 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 stuff 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 a thons 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. now britain's top diplomats boris johnson is accused of being remarkably undiplomatic after a video emerged of him or citing the colonial poem on his visit to myanmar earlier this year even the u.k.'s ambassador to the southeast asian state felt obliged to tell him it was not appropriate.

for the raid. well the director of the u.k. burma campaign says the foreign secretaries gaffe was humiliating for the local people and some say it's time for us 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 boris johnson really thinks of thought 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 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 work to 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. showing both him and his party to be in a very poor light. now the new u.s. ambassador to russia jon huntsman has been sworn in by the russian president vladimir putin in the kremlin artie's daniel hawkins now joins us live with more on the new ambassador hi there dan i mean what do we know about jon huntsman and i mean what's his view on relations between the u.s. and russia. it's official now kate in that ceremony we saw mr hunt's from met president putin shook his hand listen to his speech and took up his post officially him and his wife mary kay of course arrived in moscow just a few days ago he's got a very long and impressive c.v.

it has to be said he was the governor of utah state in that in that post twice he was a bastard to singapore and later to china under both democratic and republican administrations he now has the task of trying to repair relations between the u.s. and russia something quite an enviable that has to be said given the complex relationship currently ongoing between the two countries. in terms of how he sees russia how he sees relations between the two countries and indeed russia's place on the world stage he could be described as a bit of a hard liner in some quite firm rhetoric about that let's take a listen. there is no question underline no question that the russian government interfered in the u.s. election last year and moscow continues to meddle in the democratic process of our friends and allies. jon huntsman has promised to hold russian officials what he describes to account during his time in moscow to end human rights abuses to meet

dissidents suz got a lot of plans if you like a busy shows you'll coming up according to his own words it's interesting though that despite his quite strong words about russia the alleged election interference alleged meddling all over the world huntsman family actually has direct business interests in russia this isn't to say jon huntsman himself has any direct day to day involvement in running these these business but the. corporation has several. several locations in moscow and st petersburg processing chemicals indeed he also has links to russia through seat chevron's board displays again that he's allegedly not involved anymore the day to day running of those business but business nevertheless has been present in russia since the fall of the soviet union so an interesting fact for you that now given his very strong rhetoric outspoken russia rick it will be interesting to see how exactly he moves along with repairing those

relations mr putin said today in his speech that they're not happy with the current state of affairs between russia and the united states that russia wants a mutual respect of interests and a removal of interference in internal affairs finally adding that putin wants a predictable constructive and mutually beneficial cooperation with the united states so it will be very interesting to see how that goes over the coming months and years. indeed interesting times daniel holkins in central moscow thank you very much. well we'll be back with the latest headlines at the top of the hour in the meantime for more news.

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