bring it home to the american people. i mean talk this week in las vegas president trump visit survivors and i met a man who saw it all that coming up. and tensions between cuba and the united states as cuban diplomatic personnel are ordered out of the u.s. how cubans are reacting. when some european leaders are criticizing spain's response to the catalan independence vote or have the latest from barcelona later in the show.

it's wednesday october fourth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm ashley banks and you're watching our team america we begin today with the new developments out of las vegas president trump is on the ground there as authorities reveal more information about what they've learned about the gunman and sunday night's attack the gunman opened fire on a music concert from the thirty second floor of a nearby hotel killing a nearly sixty people and injuring more than five hundred we're also hearing from more people who survived the horrible ordeal we have a live team coverage the moment over a zarya in our d.c. news room with a new video released by officers and the latest on the investigation let's start with natasha sweet and las vegas natasha tell us more about the president's visit today. gashly it's been a very busy week for the president as you can imagine these back to back hurricanes

and now here with the deadliest u.s. shooting in history here in las vegas well president from his first visit to the university medical center working privately met with survivors now while the country is divided at the moment his goal was to put politics aside and bring people together during this project time. the mass murder that took place on sunday night fills america's heart with grief. america is truly a nation in mourning i visited the hospital earlier today where many victims are still recovering from their wounds and we ask god to ease their suffering and to speed their healing we pray for the recovery of the injured. and those injured officers. many families tonight will go to bed in a world that is suddenly empty. now many of the survivors that i've spoken with

may be in one piece physically but i mean one can only imagine what they have gone through running for their lives seen people shot with their very own eyes will create harmony is one of those survivors and he shared his experience which unfortunately is still all too real you see but you're still wearing your wristband from sunday nights what is the reason for still wearing it is it to pay respects to the victims. so sorry you had a witness that. i don't want to forget and i've never been in fear special las vegas i mean of sport law enforcement know my i know the community well i mean i know the back of houses and how to get around these venues easily. so i've never had that fearing zaya the i mean the back your mind you know vegas is one day going to get i mean it's just

you can't afford it i mean there's a lot of people here if someone wants to make a statement isis whoever i mean you've got the community where you go a lot of people just to be a town that you can make a statement out scare people like they just did you sell a similar type of panic during ariana grande days concert in manchester a suicide bomber detonated himself in front of the arena that was an enclosed area this one was open so it's you think something like this can be predicted even though we seems like we have a lot of intelligence all around las vegas but something like that he predicted. i don't see him you're not going to know about a guy who lives in the stede or someplace in utah are california or whatever reason residing you don't know what's going through his mind right now i know you don't work specifically in the security field but you do you work with hotels as as clients per se and you you know want. in and around it and see the amount of security that is here on the strip do you think any of that needs to be changed or

do you think that they're doing a good job the way it is right now. i think they do a good job i mean i have a concealed weapons permit i carry most the time. and there's times i'm going to an event and i'm got my weapon i mean i have to walk back out to my car and leave in my vehicle before i go in to see a concert except that as long as they're keeping thorough rick checks and i see them doing that i go to a lot of concert venues i mean so they're they're good in the way they check i feel safe i'm not. there so in a big venue like this back when mine i'm always with you can exit were my places i go right now if something goes down how can i safely and lastly it's an interesting misconception so you just witnessed a shooting just like police did himself yet he's not against second amendment he's not for taking away the rights of your arms and you said that you actually carry yourself are you worried with this gun debate about being disarmed as a u.s. citizen i don't think they'll pull that off. too many people that you couldn't pry

it out of their dead hands americans are proud to don't want to hurt just protect and my intention is i don't think i don't see them be able to pull that off there is to me in vigils to enjoy the privilege of having that comfort i mean in nevada you can open carry i can have displayed on my hip right now walk pretty much everywhere i want to go i would do it now mind you but but it's an open carry state i'm not worried about that i don't think they'll be able to pull that off. now go fund me account has been made for the victims so far eight point eight million dollars has been raised live in las vegas and sweeps our team natacha just like the survivor you spoke with that's left to many people this event has left many people speech us let's turn now to simone del rosario in the news room who's been following law enforcement in bed. to geisha and to the massacre simone i understand they have interviewed the shooter's girlfriend's. sixty two year old mary lou

danley arrived back in the country late tuesday night from the philippines she landed at los angeles international airport and was seen being pushed out in a wheelchair now according to authorities she is a person of interest which does not mean she's a suspect she has not been charged with a crime but law enforcement is eager to talk to her family was in the philippines at the time of the shooting her sisters told australia's channel seven network that she didn't know anything regarding the shooter's plans and that the trip to the philippines was a last minute surprise when the shooter her live in boyfriend gave her a plane ticket somehow. so that they can plan what this bloody without interruptions. in that sense i thank him for sparing my sister's life but the one with the compensate the people live. together no one except maybe no because the thought anymore on the matter you know can maybe

help. and that's exactly what authorities are hoping the f.b.i. was waiting for her in los angeles where she's sure to face a grilling investigators trying to figure out a motive here authorities will likely ask her about the shooter's mass purchases of high powered weapons leading up to the attack and his finances as well werther any troubles along with a reported one hundred thousand dollars he wired to the philippines a week before the attack now we know the killer thought out the massacre in great detail even setting up cameras at the hotel there were two cameras located in the hallway so that the suspect could watch as law enforcement or security approached his room and there was another camera placed inside the hotel room door people so that he could see down the hallway. we still do not yet know if those cameras were recording and if such recordings have been recovered the f.b.i. is looking into it but we are getting a look through a different lens police body cameras as officers rest their own lives to save

others. from. the barrage of bullets continuous the officers take cover behind a wall or zero. zero zero zero zero zero for the middle of a split of wood and taking cover behind these patrol cars and officer. like look up it's hard to see with this officer is standing over a woman i got a first story he says as he shield her from the fire like this like this like this with little respect for go go go go out without without without. you see them ushering out the public while they stayed to fight the madness the shooting went on for between nine to eleven minutes now photos obtained by a local t.v.

station show some of the high powered weapons in the hotel room ammunition scattered on the floor authorities say that at least a dozen of the twenty three rifles the gunman had in the hotel room were modified with a bomb stock which allows a semi-automatic rifle to fire even faster up to hundreds of rounds a minute ashley thank you so much in the news room in the tanisha sweet reporting in las vegas thank you both. at this time many are reluctant to call the las vegas gunman a terrorist however according according to nevada law he was just that the law states an act of terrorism is defined as any act that involves the use or attempted use of sabotage corrigan or violent which is intended to cause a great bodily harm or death to the general population but even if the las vegas gunman were deemed a terrorist by federal law it may not have made a difference in two thousand and three the f.b.i. created the terrorist screening database an order to help the u.s.

track terrorists and prevent any terror attacks from taking place in the u.s. however time and time again this system has proven to be flaunt just last year on june twelfth two thousand and sixteen omar matina carried out a mass shooting at an orlando nightclub killing forty nine people according to media reports mateen was on the watch list and twenty thirteen yet was removed after ten months this is just a one a recent example of how ineffective the f.b.i. is watchlist can be earlier i was joined by former f.b.i. agent and was so blower colleen wrongly and i asked her if she thought it was strange a las vegas gunman wasn't on the f.b.i.'s watch list watch list is really not accurate or really a fair obviously as you mentioned it's not effective that's because it's not possible to profile future criminal activity things like committing suicide or any act of violence is next to impossible to predict from past actions you know

so you can you can guess at those things which is is what the terrorist watch list is but it's always going to be grossly full of positives it's going to have a lot of people that would never commit anything that they put on there it's airing on the side of caution and it will also miss many people like the shooter in las vegas. which to the nevada wall where it says that the gunman was a terrorist out why isn't this being called domestic terrorism at the very least well i i read that log in it's a little bit worded a little differently than most definitions of terrorism most definitions of terrorism call for a political motive so it has to be to coerce a political body now that the remains are known and it's why you know everyone is asking what was the motive here it looks to me from all that all that you can see

so far at least unless they find a suicide note or something like that that this was one of those senseless suicide homicide mass shootings that actually argue more typical now than than someone who actually does have a political motive obviously mentally ill people and and vulnerable people who are just you know copycatting what they see as giving them some five seconds of celebrity or basically using a gun to shoot people as a way of solving their personal problems and that's hardly a political motive so i don't think this does at least from what we do know now does not really fit the definition of terrorism calling in the past we've seen muslims and other minority groups targeted as terrorists however the mass shootings that take place here in the u.s. are almost always carried out by a white male and we're not calling this recent gunman a terrorist but why do we see this time and time again white men carrying out these mass shootings. well what you can say if you get beyond all this

compartmentalisation and categorization according to motive and certainly i don't think it's really accurate to characterize by race except i think you have violence you know across racial divides in across the age divides except for a but what you can say and this is very clear is that americans are committing more of the mass shooting violence than any foreign or even immigrant person we have some of those the majority are what they call homegrown americans that are again picking up guns going into a public place thinking that shooting a lot of people will solve their personal problems and they actually don't really fit the definition of terrorism but they are americans doing these things it's something it's something we need to ask about because we are getting an error to have always about terrorism that does not include it really kind of omits the mass

shootings and they've tripled maybe tripled in the past couple of years colleen i want to go back to something you said earlier when we were talking about the f.b.i. out at the i watch less and how we are saying that it's an effective so i'd like to know from you why do we have these types of watchlist and surveillance programs if they're not able to predict what could possibly happen in the future or stop these attacks like what took place in las vegas and taking place. you know what's what is affective is sharing information with the public it's a very simple thing to do if there is some direct threat you share the information and sometimes a member of the public is in the best position to actually stop an attack like this they may have some clue about a family member except for a it's kind of what they say if you see something you know share it with because the government has not been really good at a gaining trust of the people i think they've hurt their own efforts in trying to

get more information from the public that's really the only thing that's effective these lists are are something it's a busy work exercise and you know millions of dollars into the budgets of our homeland security and f.b.i. they have to show that they're doing something with that money but if they really an ally things like compiling lists and and you have episode after episode where it's not possible to predict future behavior then i think it really is for not i really i think the other bad thing about creating the list is it gives the public the notion that they are on the problem and they're doing something about it so people can feel relieved as if they don't have to take responsibility themselves so there's actually a downside there are things that make sense but predicting future crime is not really possible at this time and in the history area calling we're a little short on time a little less than thirty seconds of anything but what could end these mass shootings. well i think they need to work with hollywood in our mass media not to

stop glorifying violence violence begets violence and the movies like the american sniper where you have people applauding a sniper shooting up a woman a child credit the start of the movie is not a good thing it's going to give a lot of vulnerable people the wrong idea because so much i was calling raleigh a former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower thank you so much as the nation remains stunned by the extreme level of violence and least in los vegas many are wondering how do we make sense of it all to discuss this further i was joined by dr stephen a diamond forensics and criminal psychologist and author of anger madness and the dying monic a psychological genesis of violence evil and creativity i first asked him what can you say about the gunman's mind said based off of the limited information we know about him. dr diamond you have written extensively about unresolved anger and

pathological rage as we have very little information about the gunman paddock psychological history what can you say about his mindset just based on his actions well it's it's awfully hard to speculate since as you say we have so little information but generally speaking i what i've noticed in studying these kinds of cases of mass shootings and i mention murder in general is that the perpetrators typically have two things in common at least one is that they're very very angry people you know the reasons for anger or their rage can vary from one to the next case but the other part of it is that they also have what i call a we could rage for recognition. these are often individuals frequently individuals

who feel. neglected who feel invisible who feel insignificant whose life has lost a sense of meaning and purpose and they're seeking some some kind of attention some kind of. way of distinguishing themselves in the world and have and having not found a constructive way to do that they tend to do it in destructive ways and instead of gaining fame for example they they settle for infamy now dr diamond when it came to pass out there were virtually no red flags so we don't know obviously if he was an angry person even padded son brother wasn't shocked and had no clue about the side of his brother so how is that possible to show no signs of mental illness and yet does something so extreme. yeah

it is mystifying i know. but the reality is that just because someone doesn't show outward signs let's say of being angry for example doesn't mean that that anger isn't there it means that they learn to hide it it means that they've learned to suppress it repress it and when anger is repressed over time. overlong created time chronically it tends to fester and eventually it can attain the power to just take over the whole person and drives a person into destructive behavior now mr paddock. the only information that i'm aware of and i'm not even sure of its accuracy is that a few things he apparently was a. we might think we could say a compulsive gambler. he was spending inordinate amounts of money

every day on i think it was video poker and you know generally when people have composed conserved different kinds of addictive behaviors of different kinds whether it's gambling or sex addiction or food addiction or drug addiction. it it suggests an underlying problem that isn't really being addressed and so there was that kind of a red flag he was also drinking alcohol while he was gambling so there was a you know that may be made it may be a significant factor as well. i understand that he may have sought some medical help last summer and was may have been prescribed some anti-anxiety medication vallium

so that suggests that he was experiencing some kind of symptom some kind of discomfort and he went and sought some assistance for him to a to a professor to a medical professional i don't know if that was a his family physician or whether it might have been a psychiatrist we don't know that. i mean as you mentioned we do know that he was a compulsive gambler but we don't know a lot about his personality and as time goes on in their investigations we might find out which may lead us to a motive but this is not the first mass casualty hued ing out what does this say about anger in our society and culture. well again too to me my interpretation of this kind of. horrific act is that it's it's one of hatred it's one that is motivated by rage by

hatred also by this wicked rage for recognition in in many cases so what it says to me about society is that is two things one is that there's a lot of anger kind of floating around in our culture there's a lot of anger is a difficult emotion for people to deal with and i think that there is a we we could see a shadow as as karl young used to call it a shadow of the culture a collective shadow and there's a lot of there's a lot of anger and rage around and often individuals who are having problems connect through the are susceptible to that so what i think we're seeing in these shootings is is that in part a manifestation of this anger in the culture that's raging in the culture. i mean

we're going to have to give it a right there about dr steven a diamond forensics and criminal psychologist thank you so much. as you can imagine this tragedy has taken its toll on a city known for its glitz and glamor the mood has definitely changed let's bring in tyrrell ventura co-host the watchman of the hawks here on our two america tara you talked about the tone of the city yesterday and today you're hearing about it first from someone whose livelihood depends on big business in vegas what can you tell us. very much i talked to david sacks was whose family has deep deep entertainment roots in this city in fact just bother was a band leader for frank sinatra in the rat pack all the way back in the sixty's and fifty's and he himself was a iconic show producer here on this trip was probably seven you know fifteen to seventeen shows going current currently right now and i asked him when this occurred what really truly surprised him in the city's response to

a great tragedy like we saw earlier this week let's take a listen to what he had to say well i am shocked. we're all shocked but. there's so much going on in this town there's so many concerts in advance and i guess in retrospect now i think wow i can't believe something didn't happen sooner and there's just so many opportunities but i guess. the police and all the efforts here so heightened all the time that there. just goes to show you how effective it's been to date a slocum's people who were born here i was born and raised here there's just a vibe though. i guess this is the first time i'm ever feeling it that. we were hit at our home and it's never really happened never never like this and it's just boys it putting this community together everyone is affected in some way shape or form and i know so many people my my daughter's dance instructors. the

lady that runs the dance school and i see her every day it's looks like she's going to pull through though she got shot chest and i guess trump's meeting her today. but so many people you know my box office. in my box office gross the discovery last night and it's a it's a mutex that she's she's going to have to go back home and get therapy and she has to quit immediately because her best friend was shot right next to her and. i mean my carpenter here working here he was there his wife is a nurse and they were at the concert. left started to leave heard the gunshots went back because they just she just knew she was registered nurse and she just knew she was going to have to help people so there's definitely a sense of the community of well we have to help right away. as you can see for david on the rest of the entertainment community here in las vegas

there are all in shock but they are all at the same time moving forward and trying to heal david also told me in an interview you can see later tonight i'm watching the hawks that he kept to cells growing he kept his shows going despite the tragedy because he felt that there's so much to go on and we've got to give people some kind of stability in all that chaos this is tyrone ventura in las vegas back to you actually thank you so much tyrone. over now on to cuba where the united states is ordering two thirds of cuba's diplomatic personnel to leave the united states state department officials say the expulsion announced tuesday is connected to mysterious attacks that have damaged the health of u.s. embassy staff and have vanna artie's marine important visit at the heart of cuba's exile community in miami to find out how people are reacting to the diplomatic row . the cuban coffee window at little have on a restaurant has been the focal point of many heated political conversations.

this morning the expulsion of cuban diplomats from washington dominated the dialogue you know. more and more serious just plain strange for the spread united states. growth and the u.s. and a meeting on tuesday the trumpet ministrations said it was expelling fifteen cuban diplomats in response to months of mysterious sonic attacks which have injured twenty two u.s. diplomats and their family members in havana u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says quote the decision was made due to cuba's failure to take appropriate steps to protect our diplomats in accordance with its obligations under the vienna convention this order will ensure equity in our respective diplomatic operations the move comes days after the u.s. pulled roughly sixty percent of its embassy staff from the cuban capital the castro

government has vehemently denied any involvement in the incidents and is cooperating with an f.b.i. investigation during a press conference on tuesday the country's foreign minister said the expulsion will strain bilateral relations with the us shortly the unjustifiable unmotivated political position to demand fifteen cuban diplomats from our embassy to leave the united states is a completely political act which only benefits those who want to derail the ability of both countries to improve relations. as president continues to unwind the detente between washington and polls show sixty five percent of american voters who are policies of engagement with cuba. francisco parata is among those who supported president. mommas effort to reestablish ties with cuba after decades of isolation i see dyson how do you demand their best bargain for their relationship

with the weak you in the usa i try to maybe try to show you some believe. there's nobody friendly with the cuban government and the government really it doesn't make any any step two hundred better here nation with we the usa others don't see the embassy drawdown as a game changer those was going to me soon seen the bullying you know you're stating. that these something in the region boardrooms would know the moving will put some of these a political maneuver to have no importance and while the trumpet ministration hasn't blamed the castro government for the mysterious attacks the u.s. has stopped processing these as for cubans seeking to visit the u.s. a travel warning has also been issued for americans who want to visit cuba meanwhile the fifteen diplomats expelled on tuesday have been given seven days to leave washington reporting from miami marina port nyah r.t.

to talk more about this i'm joined now by elizabeth newhouse director of the cuba program at the center for international policy thank you so much for joining us today and allez about now we heard the announcement yesterday and in a press conference today senator marco rubio he said the state department's actions are an appropriate diplomatic procedure i want to take a listen to what he said bottom line is you cannot set the precedent that american personnel can be attacked and severely injured abroad forcing us to draw down our presence in our country yet the country responsible for their safety and security gets to keep their full complement of presence in our country so that this is a well established rule of international diplomacy what's your reaction to what marco rubio said well i think this is a very illogical position because we have made clear our government has made clear that we do not think the cubans are responsible for these attacks. the cubans have been incredibly cooperative in trying to get to the bottom of the they are serious

attacks so the position seems to be because we can't do our business down and have ama the cuban shouldn't be allowed to do business in washington it's not their fault that we took our our diplomats out i just think it's a very shortsighted policy it seems very punitive even though we say it's not punitive there really isn't any logical reason for this now the department the state department said yesterday that another u.s. diplomat was a fact of bringing the total number to twenty two or the investigation of course it's ongoing both sides and recent weeks have held by lateral meetings and they seem to be willing to cooperate with each other cuban officials they've claimed that there's no evidence supporting these attacks do you believe moving forward cuban officials are going to continue to cooperate i would think so i think it's very much in their interest and very much as well as very much in the interest of the united states to get to the bottom of this i mean it's a total mystery we have no idea what it what's happened and i really believe the

cubans do not know either it's they've had the f.b.i. down there i think on three different occasions this summer they've given the total access to the the homes of the diplomats and every every kind of. bit of technology and information that they need and they have come up completely dry so i mean something's going on there for sure. but it's going to take a while to figure it out i just i hope we can given the ministry of foreign affairs they strongly condemn what they called unfounded and unacceptable decision could we expect retaliation from cuba i don't i can't imagine that they would retaliate i would be very surprised if they did i mean what's going to happen is it will just slow down tremendously our bilateral discussions. we've had some issues as you pointed out in the last few weeks but we have a lot of important bilateral issues now we have said that they will not discussions

will not take place in havana because we don't want to send our diplomats down there that they will take place in the united states but let's see if the cubans how ready they are to cooperate now. really remains to be seen moving on to u.s. relations these accusations obviously have been the latest setback when it comes to u.s. cuba relations since the reestablishing of the diplomatic relations they're now trying to ministration they have announced a new regulations that have yet to be finalized can we predict what sectors could be impacted by these accusations i think he's made it very clear that it's going to be tourism and doing business with the military and they're going to try to cut back on people to people trips which are the cultural trips president obama allowed for these trips to be made by individuals. president trump wants to go back to the old system where they have to be done by groups n.g.o.s or or other organized tour

groups people can go down that way so it's really going back to the old system but the other thing is the insisting that there's no we can't do any business with the military and of course the military are. very very. endemic in everything to do with cuba so it's it's hard to see how a lot of business can be done if the military is excluded now the state department is supposed to be coming up with a list of all the tourism and to and other entities that the military controls and those are going to be out of bounds for americans to do business with it's going to it's going to have an impact for sure and i want to talk about the timing when it comes to the accusations of the attacks given president raul castro he announced earlier this year he won't be run. after for a second term in twenty eight he won't be running after that but the u.s. presence on the island as we can see now is much smaller what kind of impact can

this have been cuba's political future well it can have a big impact i might point out that he doesn't run because this is this is not a democracy he's appointed by the general assembly. of the country. but he is definitely according to him is going to retire in february and that will mean it's the first time since one thousand since in fifty eight years that castro has not run has not been at the helm of cuba and it's going to be very significant now there's an heir apparent but not everybody thinks that this they are a parrot is actually going to make it so it's kind of up in the air what is going to happen then so it really really behooves the united states it seems to me to have diplomats down there at this really critical time thank you so much it's like we ran out of time elizabeth thank you so much that was elizabeth newhouse director of the cuba program at the center for international policy thank you so much. over

to spain now madrid's excessive use of force storing the catalan referendum has been criticized at a session of the european parliament and the peas have been calling for dialogue between the spanish government and regional authorities despite catalan leaders promising to declare and dependence by next week and a stasi a churkin it's reports from barcelona finally the council leader has come out to make a statement that was supposed to clarify exactly what kind of process awaits the caps a lot of people next in terms of potential declarations of independence however the speech he just wrapped up was quite v in terms of what happens next he did see that the institutions of catalonia will follow up on the results of the referendum this is pretty much all the detail that he had given in terms of what to expect in the days to come which was could be seen as slightly disappointing because i think a lot of people watching this were expecting something

a bit more specific because so far we do know that the council on parliament said they would hold a session on potential independence process as soon as this monday so the latest that we do have is the council on leaders saying that the people want to stay strong he's called for people to avoid violence that they're not quite happy to have seen he said they will continue to support the popularity of spain he did address the speech that's the king of spain had made me just last night where he talked about where he was kind of seen as talking down to the council on pro independence movement and leader now said to the king missed the opportunity to address all the people in his country and had disappointed a lot of people he said that the people in this referendum did come together again and that they will go their democratic way but in terms of specifics not too much was announced just yet but we do know of course that the people who have been coming out here on the streets of cups loney over the last couple of days day after

day include. just yesterday our general strike where we saw tens of thousands of people come out to support the independence and the results of the referendum so certainly this critical situation seems likely to continue given of this stance of the cats leadership to continue to pursue the results of the referendum where ninety percent of the electorate did vote to leave spain how exactly this is going to unravel remains to be seen we don't we do know that madrid of course is a very insistent on not recognizing the results of this referendum and that they clearly don't want catalonia to go anywhere so really it seems like this tense situation is going to remain until some kind of dialogue either takes place or doesn't we do know that could you months also said that he does want some mediation to be involved between barcelona and madrid and whether or not that happens and what kind of mediation that's going to be and whether or not is actually going to bear fruit is what we're going to be watching now. coming up on r t a senator says

there's a large consent says russia hack the u.s. he will action but is that that he will be right back after this short break. there's a real irony going. show that i don't think. it's new people in there it's always well that's what i thought it was always seen examples of dealing with all the ordinary no wholesale surveillance you feel you have already while there's an issue that's been trying to use the social media that it will always sort of the story goes it's garbage real. the. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. we still want to reach. out to the right person for she was.

beautiful. you know. there's that. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories there are critics can't tell you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people with a company in the environmental business ins up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the

dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. today the senate select committee on intelligence met to provide an update on their nine month long investigation into the alleged russian interference and the twentieth sixteen presidential election senator mark warner said there was a large consensus that russians hacked into political files and released information and then that for to influence the election results the senate investigative committee is saying they have not decided whether russia coronated with the trunk can pm to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election but they also claim the issue of collusion is still open earlier i was joined by dan kovalchuk professor of international human rights at the university of pittsburgh

and author of the plot to scapegoat a right. how the cia and the deep state have conspired to vilify ted and i asked him does this make any sense we've been now over a year into this investigation into claims of collusion between trump and russia in the two thousand and sixteen election so far they have produced not one shred of proof or even evidence of such collusion and in fact all these stories seem to fall apart. it once you get to the end of the story now they're just grasping at straws at facebook and twitter ads. for example the facebook ads by the way fifty six percent of the ones they claim were from russia didn't even appear till after the two thousand and sixteen election. there's some smoke here but there appears to be no fire and i think that you're going to see this investigation.

and dan to you at stateside say the department of homeland security is a wrong about election california and what's constant both say their election systems are not targeted and yet the fit committee said this one of the things that is particularly troubling to both of us is the fact that. become evident twenty one states tural systems. or not all penetrated there was at least it was at least. trying to open the door in these twenty one states those little warner said make any sense to you dan. no i mean the department of homeland security where those allegations came from ended up with tracting their claims because as you say to the states to the twenty one states said no we weren't hacked and the story from the department of

homeland security fell apart they ended up. saying that in fact they were wrong that there weren't twenty one states that had been hacked and yet we continue to see these. false claims rehashed time and time again because again the senate committee the f.b.i. they have nothing. on this whole scandal. and so they're trying to manufacture claims down you alluded to these facebook ads a little bit earlier that have been linked to russia and you said these ads they came away after the two thousand and sixteen elections what do you make of the claim that russia is somehow meddling and u.s. he lections by buying ads about black lives matter an anti fracking issues. yes so first of all there's been no evidence that i've seen even linking russia to such ads number one number two as i indicated over

a majority of the ads they're pointing to came out after the two thousand and sixteen election. also twenty five percent of the ads the there pointing to were seen by nobody but finally even if russia if we assume argue endo that russia took out ads about such important issues why is this considered meddling. you know every country tries to influence some how other countries societies in fact the u.s. probably is the most effective in aggressive country in the world at doing that you know we do that all the time through frankly you know hollywood movies. through our own media which appear throughout the world like c.n.n. is a great example of the voice of america which is even more blatant. i don't see an issue there again i think they're trying to make something out of nothing and dan

speaking of hollywood movies let's talk about the highly promoted hollywood ad campaign with actor morgan freeman which accused russia of a lot our lection interference and claim russia was out war with the us what's your response to that ad campaign we have about a minute left. yeah well it's completely disgusting i mean for someone like morgan freeman who is well respected in plays the voice of god in movies to say that we're war with russia how irresponsible and dangerous and it is sadly folks from it appears the liberal stablish men from the democratic party like morgan freeman like rob reiner famous hollywood liberals that seem to be pushing for war with russia. this is bizarre these are the same types of people that used to oppose. war that used to be actually the victims of mccarthyism now they are pushing the new mccarthyism day we're going to have to still leave it there thank

you so much that was dan kovalchuk professor of international human rights at the university of pittsburgh school of law thank you so much thank you. leader of the l. ners right terror group abouta hammad algernon ia has been seriously injured in a russian air strike in syria russia's defense ministry says its fighter jets successfully targeted and only asked for a meeting and centrally eliminating the group's leadership radagast you have has more from syria but we must warn you there are some disturbing images and this is all in the off the mouth of last month's attack on a group of russian military police in northern hamma they were there to monitor a deescalation zone and book caught in the middle of a rebel offensive he was surrounded by fighters jihad this led by nusra front and what ensued was a battle that lasted for many hours as a result of the bandits attack a platoon of military police numbering twenty nine people was trapped for several

hours and most force to repel enemy attacks despite being outnumbered that military police unit was withheld potentially able to withdraw a breakout of encircled monday but since then russian surveillance and military intelligence has gone into overdrive looking for new stores leadership and their fight is on the third of october they learned that there would be a meeting with senior officials nusra officials in attendance and when sources on the ground confirm that two jets would dispatched to carry out and then strike it was hugely successful twelve field commanders were killed abu mohammed. the leader of nusra front apparently lost the hand and is now in critical condition fifty of the fighters and twenty gods were also feels as well as many others injured this is extremely important because nuestra among the jihad list and rebel factions in syria is arguably the most powerful with the most sophisticated weapons

and the most far does. generate the highly effect there is always. the new guy so there's two pocket full of these extremely toxic chemical to put on the sleeve this is one of the methods of torture that was used by the militants. king solomon of saudi arabia said to join the russian president vladimir putin later during his historic visit to russia up it's considered controversial but also

groundbreaking as it's the first ever trip of a saudi monarch to the country jacqueline virga tells us all what we can expect saudi king solomon is coming to moscow and it's the first time in the kingdom's history that its monarch is officially visiting russia the trips being heralded as a groundbreaking visit and here's why numerous unprecedented energy deals are on the table for one moscow and riyadh plan a one billion dollars fund to invest in a wide range of projects from oil and gas to renewable energy plus russian firms are apparently discussing an agreement with saudi energy giant aramco for joint ventures on saudi soil riyadh is also looking to invest in russian gas production which could benefit both countries it is you could cover that if you just need one about the energy six a bit about developing relations between our countries and expanding business cooperation energy though is still a dominating thing russia and saudi arabia of the biggest producing countries and we could use our experience in the field. and benefits. it's essentially

what it boils down to is two of the top players on the world energy market responsible for a quarter of global oil production. are forging ever closer ties which will definitely have a global impact cutting oil output is also on the cards paving the way to extend a historic deal they helped to seal last year. but some warn moscow in riyadh have a history of tension and seem unlikely partners between locking horns on the oil market and saudi arabia's close ties to the u.s. with whom relations with russia have hit new lows such close cooperation could also seem quite surprising but despite saudi arabia's reignited love affair with the trumpet ministration the opec kingpin also needs russia

a key and growing player both on the world energy market and in the middle east another two nobel prizes have been awarded since the kickoff to the announcements for the twenty seven thousand nobel prizes began on monday the nobel prize in physics was awarded to rayner why is barry c. bearish and kick ass forward for their decisive contributions to the why go detector and the observation of gravitational waves of feet that took four decades to achieve or as jack used to bash a jewish frank and richard henderson were awarded the nobel prize in chemistry for developing cryo cryo electron microscopic for the high resolution structure determination of bio molecules and solution basically allowing scientists to see bio molecules and their processes and for as in time the nobel prize announcements will conclude on monday but congratulations to all the recent nobel laureates. watching the hawks is coming up next here on our t.v. tyrrel been torrid joins us from las vegas earthquake preview hi there ty. and i

don't watch in the hawks we're staying in practice as myself to about that are two correspondent latasha suite will be coming on to talk about some of the people that we've taught that we've interviewed here on the ground out here in vegas on the taj will be speaking with craig harmon who was in front of right at the concert and right at the stage when the violence broke out and then later i'll be showing an interview i did with david sachs which family has a long entertainment history here in las vegas and to find out the impact on the entertainment community here in vegas that is all that and more on tonight's watching tyra we look forward to seeing your show thanks so much well that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to dot com slash r.t. america also check out our website our team dot com forward slash america you can also follow me on twitter at actually banks underscore r t and don't forget to question more. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by

washington politics. big money for you that's thrown down a lot of boys that's how it is in the new sculpture in this country now that's where i come in. i mean it's still on our to you america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded that you'll get the straight talk in the straight. to. if you listen to the mainstream media here in america russia is our enemy trying to destroy the very fabric of our society in every way possible while america is an innocent. victim m.s.m. he has rachel maddow dedicating hours upon hours to this topic and even hollywood

just got in on it with spinal taps rob reiner actually forming an organization called investigate russia and making a video with morgan freeman literally saying that we are at war with russia he literally says we are at war so if that's the case that russia is evil and we're at war with them then this little piece that new is sure is confusing because the u.s. and russia actually just signed a joint statement of cooperation to support a new space station that would orbit the moon called deep space gateway yes the two countries who are supposedly a war with each other are working together as partners to help humans go further out into space nasa just released a statement saying that both nasa and its russian counterpart cosmos along with other international space station partners see the gateway as a strategic component of human space exploration architecture well deep space gateway is only conceptual at this point it's still pretty amazing that americans would dare to even think about working with the russians in any form if we are

indeed at war with them like morgan freeman would have you believe if everything rachel maddow says were true then people in the us are either dom or really crazy being a bit of as the base lever myself i've met a bunch of metal folks and i would never call them either which makes me wonder that maybe just maybe middle one more akin to the ones who've lost the thread there's a lot of further study there both as the and most cosmos plan on doing to figure out how to build and maintain the deep space gateway not to mention how to fund it these days a lot of science is done on the i pad and that would probably be a part of the gateway too which is also pretty funny considering how a lot of people who think we're at war with russia also like to say that science is somehow dying when the opposite is very true we're doing more science than ever and we're doing a lot of it with russians in space but most people probably have no idea because our mainstream media didn't even mention it when nasa announced the deep space gateway that's the real news and the fact that our media buried it is a real shame. what

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