very. seriously send us an e-mail. thousands of people have been out on the streets of boston well enough protesting against police violence following the brutal crackdown on the region's independence referendum on sunday. to. the talk of a mass shooting at a music festival in las vegas becomes the deadliest in modern u.s. history killing fifty nine people and injuring hundreds more.

and the new u.s. ambassador to russia is sworn in at the kremlin by president person amid a period of high tension between the two nations. these are the headlines from r.t. international live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for watching. thousands of people have been out in barcelona protesting against the police brutality witnessed during catalonia as independence vote on sunday a general strike and rallies are now being held in across the breakaway region artie's medina question of our reports from barcelona. i think that's really the damage that's likely on the streets by the law that's dealt with any people out of people that have gathered here in the heart of the day to eat. this tuesday afternoon to protest against the it was that we saw on the

streets against the way these groups than say ordinary citizens of pots of money of their own well take what we see here are different kinds of people now not only sudanese or young people who came here are holding flags up in the ground in class line you know what we see here families with small children we see other lead people here now sometimes the crowd starts to shout slogans. was a if and we are asking if they're shouting at national police forces to leave the region of gaza lining up the man of him in the middle in well i was hit on the shoulder and on the leg as well it is still swollen to missed the band of strikes by the has several times i was pushed to the floor a guy standing next to me stop me from feeling the policeman was hitting my friend

with his helmet you know my father stopped him but he was as well that the now you can see our look at the crowd it wound me as you can see a lot of young people i was up in the ground it was a line of the union up was out cold for a general strike to take place the round of it and the worst was that it was that was out was that because of the shots i saw they felt it was a soviet union so i was thinking of doritos was the one in my dreams to somehow sit at the negotiating table and find a way out of this that's always and throughout boyhood there as always and while the unions were calling for that this is what's happening on the streets of boston hard us as well as mediator said the general strike includes transport employees refusing to work prizing traffic across the region buses own metro services have also been counseled taxi drivers have been refusing to take passengers. and some

public transport to the airport has also been stopped but we spoke to a lot of pele the vice general secretary of a local trade union she says action is necessary as the central government refuses to listen 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 so it is decided to use their cousin just not right to vote and one who are deprived of it are the 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 at eighteen times talk and it's a wall because they just don't want to talk to 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 well ninety percent of voters chose to leave spain but it's in a bid to stop the referendum taking place national police raided polling stations

beat voters and fired rubber bullets into the crowds.

now when the european union is negotiating nation trade agreements they are trying to put into those agreements human rights colson's which essentially say that these countries most live up to what the european union says standards on human rights and yet it's refusing absolutely refusing to condemn something that's happening in one of its own member states which any reasonable person would say was just provocative and overreaction if people wanted independence then you should at least give them the option of the votes the fact that the spanish government has refused to do so and this crackdown in such a dangerous and ridiculous way has actually caused more all i feel more

feelings for independence from ordinary castle and super ups previously would have thought it was fun. well meanwhile pro independence sentiment is on the rise across the in over a dozen countries minorities of vying to have their own state for example in belgium germany and france and it's not just catalonia that's had a referendum on this issue back in twenty fourteen scotland voted not to break away from the united kingdom well this year a second referendum was proposed by the scottish government in the wake of brecht's that although the current tory government has ruled out another vote and later this month the italian regions of long body and the veneto are also holding votes on autonomy we spoke to stefano again betty an m.p. in venice has parliament he says it's important to listen to the will of the people . then it will rejoin the military people are very rules that the only people many

of us out of are when you drop the we are to be. the real people use of elation we want to rise a bit we make some young people a lot more food for the free from britain that is from a community that's been. wanting to grow up for example don't talk. you say be free to be. proud. mommy was spanish authorities claim the vote is illegal and unconstitutional and the e.u. commission has issued a statement in which it refuses to condemn the police violence and expresses its trust in spain's prime minister or will be keeping you up to speed on this developing situation throughout the day he.

says. 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 and over five hundred injured sonny nelson words at the concert with his wife he was fatally shot in the back as he sure did her the bullets on the knees but details died in her husband tony's arms just minutes up she posted a photo of the two of them up the concert jessica came chuck was a single mom who leaves behind four children aunt jenny parks was a teacher in los angeles she was also a wife and a mother of two and another victim nessa tong's also leaves behind three children here's how events unfolded on sunday night.

i. think. we need to try we just need to get people out of the hospital ok.

the gunman was located on the search the 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 and numerous rifles witnesses have been recalling the horror of the rampage. 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 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 realized. i actually still trying to frozen in time to. actually have. it was so real to. him just. to run over. 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 . this. thing read is a pretty big prison make it so you could ever have is being able to live with. sixty four year old stephen paddick lived in their retirement home in nevada who committed suicide right after the rampage but he 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 by islamic state laws are to say they found twenty three weapons in his hotel room besides that nineteen more

word discovered at patrick's home you also reportedly had two devices called bomb stocks with him allowing him to legally modify a semiautomatic weapon into a fully automatic one i want to mention thousands of rounds of ammunition also found in the shooter's home and apart from guns or storage is also found explosives in paddocks car. well let's discuss all this with security analyst and former u.k. army officer charles sure bridge charles thank you very much indeed for talking to us i mean let's just actually start with a clip if we can hear it i mean judging from the sound of the gunfire we can hear multiple videos what kind of weapon do you think was used in this attack let's have a list. thank you ok i. thank you. so then

charles what kind of weapon was used in the attack. so you can hear the two things you can hear the rounds going off which is the deeper sound and the rounds are arriving the lights are sound or much like the but it's country by the measure. really from the outset it was really clear that this was a weapon or a series of weapons capable of firing very rapidly indeed when i first watched it as somebody who has used. weapons just for the mission from the first listening of this tape watching this videotape it's something houston's kind of weapons in the military i would add on a very large number of occasions it was really have to watch these being used on a crowd of civilians festival and start really it's suggested initially an automatic weapon such that you just press the trigger and it continues to fire you don't need to continually trigger on a number of occasions but then when you listen to it again and again you can

actually hear that there are variations there's an inconsistency in the following which suggested that actually some kind of a mechanism might be used now there are a number of ways you can convert for example a semiautomatic weapon to say a weapon that if you press the trigger once and it fired a round and then immediately you can fire the trigger again to fire that another round off these are unbelievable that may seem to many audiences around the world these are perfectly legal in most of the united states and particularly the wagner and a lot of for example there are no controls understand even on the number of such weapons you can possess legally and so if you can buy these equally legal mechanisms very basic tools that can upgrade that weapon into an automatic weapon that's to say you don't have to individually far politically each time you can convert this kind of capability. we've talked about all we've heard enough to mention of the problems this is a spring that's mounted in the butts of their weapon that then uses the record of

the. to actually push the weapon against you holding the trigger in the same place that's one breath that another method is a kind of a crank that you can turn which then will actually just repeatedly fire the trigger on top with up it's been known for a very long time that issues with gun laws one way of circumventing that is to buy these very basic devices or indeed a number of other ways to convert semiautomatic weapons such as can be legally held into automatic weapons or similar to automatic weapons such as we saw used it would seem almost occasion i was caught wearing them if you think about those particular loopholes but looking at the location itself i mean how could such an attack happen in las vegas of all places i mean particularly tourism and so forth some of the heavy security and police presence. i think it necessary for first of all it's legal to hold these weapons that's the first problem and any number of them and secondly of course i think this person was induced for a number of days of course it would be possible over a period of time to actually even if it wasn't legal to actually smoke with me and

i shouldn't have metal detectors in every hotel before you can get into the rooms or you're not going to be a person having this kind of austin of weapons i mean some people have such clips that. you could hear that a person was trying to knock it seems it may well be that if you're using semiautomatic weapons at such a high rates of that you need to actually change weapons not just the magazines in order to prevent those weapons from overheating so maybe that gap so actually could be even putting down loaded weapons and picking up another loaded weapon so then fought similar right now may be a reason why you got so many weapons. find scenario that. security analyst and former u.k. army officer thank you very much indeed. all russia has a new u.s. ambassador i will find out more about him after this short break.

that was always the number one concern the curse of oil because if prices go up and you get lazy and not diversified because you are making huge gains on the oil then the price went down. and you need to pump more oil to get. so the diversification of the russian economy never came but these sanctions forced diversification thank you very much the sanctions.

i. welcome back the new u.s. ambassador to russia jon huntsman has been sworn in at the kremlin by president putin huntsman's an experienced envoy previously leading diplomatic missions across asia when appointed to singapore in one nine hundred ninety two he became the youngest us ambassador in this century he speaks mandarin and has also worked as a mormon missionary in taiwan for several years while trying to considered him for secretary of state before choosing rex tillerson huntsman is also said to have had business interests in russia with his family owning several chemical processing companies in the country daniel hawkins takes a closer look at huntsman's nomination. for met president putin sic his hand listened to a 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 serving that in that post twice he was ambassador to singapore 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 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 bring some quite firm rhetoric about that there is no question. underly no question. that the russian government interfered in the us election last year and moscow continues to meddle in the democratic process easier for 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 got a lot of plans if you like a busy shows you'll coming up according to his own words given his very strong rhetoric outspoken rhetoric it will be interesting to see how exactly he moves along with repairing those relations mr putin said today in his speech that are not happy with the current state of affairs between russia and the united states that russia want to 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. however while he was envoy to beijing in twenty eleven huntsman was criticized for taking part in pro-democracy protests known as the jasmine revolution the u.s. embassy claimed it was a coincidence that huntsman was just taking

a walk i'm aware of any demonstrations but after the incident his name in chinese was even a blot on the country's search engines well after leaving his post in beijing huntsman campaigned unsuccessfully for the republican presidential nomination in twenty twelve but was slammed by donald trump for supposedly giving away america to china. now football governing body fever has fined the german football federation after its fans chanted nazi slogans at a qualifying match for next year's world cup here in russia the incident happened in prague on the first of september during germany's two one win over the czech republic alexey airships he executive producer of artie's new football program the stan collymore show says pfieffer are cracking down ahead of russia's twenty eighteen. well it's a double find from fee for to the german football association of about thirty thousand euros and also the czech federation for five thousand swiss francs which is also about five thousand euros for crowd disorder the incident in question

happened on september first which is also the anniversary of the german invasion of poland when the game the qualifying game for the world cup was taking place in prague and german fans some of which bought tickets illegally walked into the stadium set off flares started chanting during the minute of silence for the two check officials. and then chanted not to slogans so this made a lot of noise in germany because as we know germany is trying to raise its past when it comes to not isn't all that and even the manager of the national team your human love spoke about this in very fiery terms. this is what happened that some so-called friends used an international football match to bring shame on our country with their disgraceful appearance and behavior indeed as i've said in germany this is a very sensitive issue but it's not even the first time that german fans doing something like that they were printing t. shirts getting ready for the twenty thousand world cup in russia with a nazi slogan and also words that russia this time we're coming in this summer

which is you know making quite clear references to that so what all this tells us it tells us basically that in any country things like that can happen but the agenda is always different remember last week when we had two champions league games in moscow between sparta in liverpool and c.s.k. manchester united the whole of the press were saying that you know russia was a place of naziism and all that but we can see germany which is trying to raise this kind of stuff and this thing's happening there we did have a few incidents minor incidents here in moscow but you know a crowd of fans walking into a stadium for a qualifier game on the day of the anniversary of the nazi invasion and chanting now slogans this happens unfortunately everywhere but credit to feed for their trying to root the south they're not letting these things slide and these. fines are very brutal that. britons could face fifteen years in prison for viewing terrorist material online according to new plans by the

u.k. government home secretary berard intends to change the law to make watching it stream its content on sites like you tube a criminal offense it comes in the wake of several terror attacks in the u.k. well for more on this story let's cross live now to our correspondent pauline boyko one of polly tell us more about this well look the way the law works now is that it is illegal to download extremist content into storage as well and at the moment that carries a punishment of up to ten years but take a listen to what the home secretary wants to do now i want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online including jihadi websites far right propaganda and bomb making instructions face the full force of the law. so while i'm around to want to do it she wants to make it illegal to stream extremist content online as well and she wants to increase the maximum penalty from ten years

up to fifteen years in prison now runs point is that this is simply a case of the lure needing to catch up with the realities of modern online behavior because whether it's illegal or legal most of what we watch online or most of what we watch and the content that we watch isn't downloaded anymore it streamed online so legislating for downloads is a bit like banning v.h.s. tapes of extremist content but not you tube videos the examples that rog used to illustrate a point was about a man who had repeatedly accessed bomb making videos on you tube but he couldn't be charged because he hadn't downloaded those videos so the argument is that the lore is simply outdated now into the toughest sentencing well that clearly the home secretary is really determined to tackle this problem of online

radicalization the for the u.k. is a particularly big problem a recent report found that isis propaganda gets more clicks in the u.k. than it does anywhere else in europe and unfortunately we've seen the repercussions of that over the past year there's been a slew of horrific terrorist attacks in the u.k. last month terrorists planted a very crude homemade bomb on a london tube train rod herself has said that there have been twelve attempted terror plots in the past year five of which have been carried out so this is a whole new level of terrorist activity that the u.k. is facing right now and part of our drive to combat this has been to tackle tech giants as well like facebook like google she says she's been putting pressure on the. in order to remove extremist content in fact he says it's their moral obligation to do more to get rid of these propaganda videos it's important to

remember that this law doesn't just apply to jihadist material it's any sort of terror propaganda that could be far right it could be bomb manuals as well and of course as it is with laws that in theory and laws in practice there may be questions about the law's implementation for example does the government have a full proof way of knowing who access to what and when by way of example a couple of weeks ago after the parson's green incident i spent an entire day googling bomb making manuals and bomb making know how as did journalists from pretty much every other news organization in the u.k. because everybody was researching a story about how easy it is to build a homemade bomb and access that information online so when this lot for john.