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greetings and salutations it was a night like any other in las vegas the clang of slot machines tourists and the echoes of live music floated down the strip when over twenty thousand people gathered to experience a country music concert none could have believed such a horrible event could change their lives forever the las vegas shooting on sunday evening of october first killed at least fifty nine injured more than five hundred and as more than likely traumatized every person who witnessed the attack those who have seen the videos from that and the people left behind and it would be easy for us to simply label the act of the perpetrator as evil to move on with our days and forget what happened that's the thing about designating evil it makes it easier for us to handle the idea that a human being could do this to another human being but it also clouds the reality of what anger for any reason can make a person do but we can't just ignore what happened or brush it off as a supernatural force or a simple issue of policy while we have what we have to do. as honor the memories of

the victims hope each other through these troubled times and start watching the hawks. you. know what you did the. real thing is what. lies at the bottom. of. what it looks like you know that i got. exactly what we. would so i. welcome everybody watching the hot sun tabitha wallace and joining me from las vegas is artie correspondent natasha sweet. hello tabitha and it's also people from what you know all over no go ahead go ahead go ahead. and i was going to tell you you know all over town you can see support

for the victims pouring in those who were slain on sunday and as for the victims the the people who actually survived this you know they're speaking out and they're sharing their stories of the psychological and physical scars. what. it was like a concert goers were running for cover as to shots ring out because you're used over going to make it like he's not shooting with you know up or get high but he has an automatic rifle like those shots don't stop like you don't hear that it's like being in a word i would. have never heard of. a five hundred people get in given shopping for other than the civil war i mean i know it's probably the greatest tragedy in american history other than nine eleven matthew edwards of san diego was visiting biggest for a week of fun but was absolutely devastated when he found out exactly what happened

. the jason aldean concert sunday night his friend went and was luckily a survivor yes she was there at the concert she was calling on of the bleaches bleachers and she got a couple stitches last night she was at sunrise. and we were there for a couple hours and it is this minute as it's been a terrible day people are mourning the loss of the fifty nine victims who tragically lost their lives too soon as you can see people are coming together for going to the hotels all along the strip or showing their support offering prayers to the victims and their families i was afraid i have two kids at home so i just kept thinking play we just need to get on to our kids and you don't. expect to ever be in that situation like you don't prepare for it and. you just you despite her fight edwards says it's all about understanding we all

come from the same place imagine everybody in the world held held hands. just just held hands for one second i'm imagine the power that would be put upon the planning i mean i don't think there really any any more. well several people that i spoke with mentioned just how traumatized they still were one woman that i spoke with our cameras said that she never wants to go to a concert again but meantime officials are still trying to help those who have not been reunited with their loved ones and they are also offering grief counseling at the las vegas convention center tabitha mentors of people from all of the country to have family members who were killed or injured in this tragedy is is anything being done for them and to help them out for this time. yet have a just as you said i mean this is a huge destination just last year alone there were forty three million visitors and as you can imagine a lot of people from many walks of life come this way. and so this part the sheriff

you mentioned that there are now twenty two different hotels that are offering free room and board to those people who are coming here to find their loved ones so hopefully they can be reunited tabitha thank you so much natasha i really appreciate the work you're doing there on the ground. while the numbers and facts of an event are important to understand the psychological effects can often be much more profound the tragedy in las vegas is making us think about how we process these things how politicians think about it how they react and joining us now from las vegas is my watching my co-host tyrrel ventura who is there on the ground getting the first

hand perspective on the aftermath and how it feels to be on the ground there. tyrrell who traveled. i gotta say it is. quite a few times in my life i've never seen a virus like this i could honestly say but around your city the city you see the tourists you see the. but you know everybody in the hotels in the and the black blackjack dealers and and all of that it's like the city just how to use a universal gut punch you just see the the car white faces never walk run everyone is going about their daily routines but there's no energy there's no life too you can see that all they can think about is what happened earlier this week it's very strange because vegas has a very specific mood you know it's it's always sort of happy there's always somewhere to cheer you up. it's it's

a very welcoming city for obvious reasons it feels like anybody can go there anybody can be there and this seems to have changed that it shifted the dynamic and there are always there's always a lot of strong statements from politicians and activists following situations with gun violence about you know policy changes the debate of mental health issues versus guns what do you think why oh why do you think at least i think i only seem to be worked up about the safety of innocent civilians when it's politically convenient when something like this happens. to have you know it's not it's not standard thing it's like nobody in congress no politicians really want to do the job until it jumps up and bites them in the face and you know when you see a situation like this when everybody kind of birds looking around going like oh what happened how could this happen when really there's many things that you could do and and laws and things like that that you could work on you could pass to help

predict someone snapping and going nuts or to help increase security in certain areas and you know i didn't it's not always the johnny come lately we'd be over and over and over again in our politicians it's always after the fact always reactionary because we don't have politicians today that think ahead that actually have a vision you know down the line there's very few i would say in the democrat and republican parties i know you know that. well most of them when you look at something like this this shouldn't be an issue. at any point that has anything to do with what political party or what i acknowledge you believe in but when you look at something like this vegas is you know it's easy to be jaded as we've all thought about politicians using every tragedy is that like fill their campaign coffers or push their special interests and their own agendas. we forget that places like vegas are just a place isn't just a playground if people live there and there's a community that lives there what do you seen of that community.

you know it's interesting. flying in the morning the pilot and the tundra and both used. to have a peaceful berry have a lovely day. it was overheard peace and love. spoken in the limit i have in the last few days and you know i. that you can tell they're trying to find some hope in their city that the for all those cynical moments of the tourist taking selfies in front of mandalay bay and you know on bridges taken pictures of the carnage there's a lot of people here in a lot of the community who are actually trying to stop and say look you know i know that sin city you know it has the documents but we're also we're also a safe city we're trying to be a safe city we're trying to be a place where families can come where tourists can come enjoy themselves and tragedies like this that are to a certain extent unpredictable you can't you know you can't legislate against chaos

it's next to impossible things like this are going to happen in life we have to take that deep exhale and realize that there is going to be violence in this life in this world we live in but it's how you respond to the violence and i just pray that we don't see that kind of knee jerk reaction we're suddenly you've got a patriot act that takes away rights or things like that that we saw after nine eleven i want to see the good elements we saw for nine eleven happening here in vegas yeah you know we hope or yeah i do see a lot of similarities to having lived in manhattan when nine eleven happened and seeing how everybody came together how important that is and you see that strength it's just become sad and we're watching you know watching the videos watching people live through this and it's so easy to just say it's evil it's evil but i mean when you when you talk about saying nothing of hearing it seems like that

when we see these worst moments of evil and you and i and this job we see a lot of evil we see a lot of violence every day. do you think in these moments that we come together even stronger or how do we hold on to that. move of a good question how do we hold on to that i mean i you know we've talked about it many times i think it's just people have to really tell. step back and just look and say look you know. like law enforcement try to discover why this happened so maybe we can you know put some things in place to prevent something like this again but at the same time let's not let's not forget the we're all human beings at the end of the day that the you know for every violent thing we do we can create beautiful beautiful moments in life you know you see that with the space program you said i would many things and i think for a city like regulus i don't think they were you know city could ever be prepared

for something like this but you know and it's going to be interesting we'll be here the rest of the week and i'm very curious as to what kind of plays with the tourists with the with the with the people community living there and talking with them and seeing what their plans are think a lot of times in today's world it's very easy to kind of say oh well we need to do this we need to do that next comes for a lot of people outside of a community telling our community how to you know do better how to deal with the p.t.s.d. of a tragedy and i think we need to leave it up to the regulars to a certain extent at least let them figure out how to heal themselves in something like this. yeah i mean we're we're looking forward to i'm glad we have you there on the ground in las vegas you're going to be talking to some people getting an idea about sense while a lot of people are out looking for the sensational i think there's a lot of stories and that healing and those stories and i'm really glad that you're there to help us with that on the ground and we're looking forward to to what you

can bring us here back in d.c. and the world thank you so much tyrrell. thank you for for joining us from vegas and we'll talk to you more tomorrow. keep that ship you know keep that ship sailing study always. as we go to break don't forget to let us know what you think of a topic for it on our facebook and twitter see our full shows at r.t. dot com. coming up we discussed the undemocratic push against democracy in catalonia. kenya. watching the hocks. i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not

provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied that the n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics.

big money corporate interests a lot of voices that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i'm michel i do on our t.v. america i'll make sure you don't get railroad you'll get the straight talk on the straight news. to me. on october first over two million catalonians cast their votes in a controversial referendum to proclaim independence from spain the result was an overwhelming ninety percent victory for independence but spain's national government did all they could to the legitimacy of the vote by seizing paper ballots blocking access to polling sites and arresting local government officials in the days since the referendum catalonia has descended into

a state of uprising with businesses and workers going on a general strike and protests against the madrid government and military police continuing with no end in sight as barcelona remains in turmoil and the international community remains largely silent on a crisis with significant implications for the rest of europe in the world we were earlier joined by. a professor of international politics who observe the referendum on the ground. as you know in the referendum this past weekend saw well over two million catalonians braving militarized police barriers to cast a vote nevertheless the nation national military police maintains that its presence and the government just refuses to to budge on denying the votes legitimacy has it all been for nothing. well let me first of all claimed that i was there i was there for about a week i was in catalonia following observing the vote i was accompanying

a filmmaker with a commentary maker i have to say that all you witness scenes that i never thought that would take place in spain or indeed in the european union she didn't switch including which included beating up on the vulnerable using police buttons against innocent unarmed civilians using fire bullets. which by the way rubber bullets which by the way are forbidden in cuts alone you're pulling women by their hair grabbing women by their mouths and even sexual assaults against women conducted by the spanish national police on this bonnie cvo guard by the spanish paramilitary police all of these against let's stated once again innocent. protesters innocent voters who only wanted

to express their opinion on the future of catalonia i think it is very important that we start by pointing out that the first of october we witnessed instances of police brutality which are unworthy of any state which claims to be democratic. it was incredibly violent times but we've seen images of police indiscriminately just breaking finger as a woman and and the things you are talking about what isn't the the mainstream media reporting from there that you saw aside from you know some of the violence but what did you see that they are kind of ignore. well it is fascinating the spanish media in particular is completely ignoring the police brutality they are in a state of denial the spanish government was claiming that the actions by the police

the brutal actions by the police were proportionate were exemplary and one of the spanish government spokespersons he even claimed the nine hundred injured let's remember nine hundred injured they were faking it's so he was mocking the victims of police brutality i think it is extremely worrying that spain is in denial of what is going on. in ca to learning there is nothing. spanish nationalism cannot justify what took place on a hill where the first in barcelona and we already see the reactions and got on it today we had a general strike which was followed by the vast majority of cousins at the ones which were once again field with hundreds of thousands with millions of people which were didn't own sing song song these police brutality and one of the things that so strange to watch is that the spanish government has been pretty successful

in getting allies on board even even the united states government is condemning the catalan for for even asking for independence and sort of as if they caused all of this what what is a do you think that the brutal police tactics employed over the weekend which were shock and will eventually take their toll on what other countries are able to either tolerate or ignore. these issues quite striking indeed and i would like to focus in particular on the european union my question to the spokesperson of the european commission margaret this sheena's is for how long are they going to ignore responders police brutality in catalonia how many injured or indeed dead do they need on the table for them to art for how long are they going to turn a blind eye on grows wider lesions of human rights because in the state of the

union debate mr euchre he claimed the values are the fundamental pillar of the european union well those very values are being violated in qatar lonny a ds days so what is the european union doing on the answer is nothing they are talking about violence and whenever they were asked who initiated the violence they were not even brave enough to say that the violence was initiated by the secure. forces and indeed they are absolutely being disgraceful my question is if they are so adamant so enthusiastic in using human rights values and freedoms and democracy to complain whenever countries like china or iran or russia or turkey are conducting those actions why are they silent on whenever these is happening and perhaps even more brutally in one of its own members and my answer to

my rhetorical question is that maybe those values didn't really believe in those values but those values are simple mere political instruments to use against your political adversaries which would of course lead me to conclude that there are very serious double standards. beyond belief. one of the things you see with analysts now is we you and i discussed this a few weeks ago the government police tactics do seem to be backfiring some want somebody to collateralize are saying that the violence as the violence increases the chances catalonia will simply declare independence unilaterally and not the regional government hands are tied now that they must respond to the violence unleashed on its supporters how do you feel about that analysis. indeed first of all i think after sunday's police brutality the catalan republic up attentional got to learn republic used as

a more legitimate done and done it was last week internally speaking as well we have seen today people from all walks of life demonstrating condemning the actions also the spanish paramilitary forces and the spanish national police so we see that support for independence is growing and growing and growing but the spanish government is doing is simply hiding and they are in denial of the true and the print dependence movement is growing on partly due to the actions of the spanish government. one of the things that we've been saying is there's a lot of comparisons and analogies in the press but in a way this is catalans independence is even more. massive and bigger than a lot of similar activities we've seen in the last couple of years. because one is an economically much more crucial component of spain than say scotland is in the

u.k. and many analysts are also saying that this could be a much more catastrophic situation for the future of the e.u. than even brecht's it was since it could accelerate other breakaway movements in italy and belgium and the neighboring basques in spain as well as cause the euro to spiral there's so many components to it you understand why there is all this pushback but something that needs to be discussed do you do you see madrid's reaction as a potential first. two one first domino to fall of many is this the first one and we're going to see more and more of your scotlands and your cattle and breaking away from these big governments. i think a do stage madrid is fully concerned with catalonia but there is indeed a potential at least in spain or the fear that if gradual and goes away the bust

country may be next on indeed we see so many basque artists busk policy makers coming to cut the loan you're on a program the first. to give support to cut the loans but also to learn from the cut the learning experience and i would say that rather than these being problematic i think disease this is actually quite a positive story because governments are showing the bust that there is another way to earn a gift of violence to achieve their national goals violence didn't work very well for the busk for the basques where it seems that the nonviolent must movement campaign in catalonia it's working pretty well and it's indeed at least shaking the very people of the spanish state. in one of the world's most mysterious regions something incredible took place this

past july one of the world's largest icebergs broke off of antarctica flourished and sea ice shelf iceberg a sixty eight a as it was named is larger than the state of delaware and double the volume of lake erie but since the break off took place during the south pole month long winter the only visual evidence we had of the iceberg were thermal satellite images that is until now in the spring time daylight finally allowed us to meet a sixty eight and. smaller sibling six to be the c.e.o. area surrounding the larsen sea ice shelves sees one of the world's fastest warming climates and steadily developing cracks in the shelf that there trillion times iceberg may not be the last we see in coming months keep an eye on those ice bergs well that is our show for you today i knew how to listen as my co-host tyrrel always says in this world we're not told we're loved enough and today of all days i

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i'm going to do just that if you're watching all. welcomed on contact today we discuss the rise of the violent left with author mark . is not a recipe for changing all of society with the politics aimed at self-defense around a specific threat. with chris hedges. behind the rhetoric of the all right about white nativism and protecting american traditions history and christian values is the lust for violence behind the rhetoric of anti for the black bloc and the so-called old left about capitalism racism state repression and corporate power is the same lust for violence the two opposing groups largely made up of people who've been cast aside by the cruelty of corporate capitalism have him.