in the week's top stories on our independence referendum see spanish police use force against voters in a violent crackdown called the push for secession illegal. coming up empty handed the u.s. senate intelligence committee admits finding no evidence that so-called russian meddling affected the presidential election. unfortunately the committee who's here at the issue of collusion still no vote were. russia's prosecutor general is reportedly considering registering american media outlets as quote unwelcome in russia in response to unprecedented pressure. in the u.s.

. and says the syrian army continues to push back islamic state and. residents in liberated towns talked to us about life on the terrorist scene. during the battle with isis i was shot just above my jaw the bullet is still. sunday morning here in moscow and this is the biggest stories covered here on the past seven days first events in spain where the prime minister says he will not allow catalonia to go independent he was talking to a national newspaper last sunday's referendum so the majority of catalans who turned out to vote say yes. riot police across catalonia used rough tactics on the day of the vote in what's been described as a violent crackdown on democracy. one

video in particular shows the tactics used by riot police as people queue to vote one officer can be seen kicking a person down a staircase throwing down the video of some one of barcelona's polling stations we've spoken to some eyewitnesses. who were just helping the people because they were throwing them up the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the player and someone is on the floor and there is a guy that jumps on the person that's down and they were now i'm very aware they got this girl that was one of the organizers and they grabbed her and they broke their hand if you imagine that that's supported by a democracy. that's the law that's what you consider the law what in the week that followed catalonia and other regions in spain have seen a number of mass protests both for and against catalan independence all

correspondents have been following how it all unfolded throughout the week. we do know is that just two blocks away from here there was another polling station at a building of a school and just an hour ago police raided that building and forcibly removed people out of there they broke the windows of the school as they a pushed people out they used force this is classic absolutely aware as you can see the protests continue here on the iconic sware of the barcelona says he was really impressed the benefits and i think he was treated by a lot as any people we see here different sorts of people know not only sudanese or young people who came here holding flex up in the ground in consul on you we see here families with small children we see elderly people here and you are asking if they're shouting at national police forces to leave the region the consul lining up if you can see a couple of hundred people have gathered there there. probably you can see here i'm

sorry in defending our rights they are quite loud and really are symbolic passing three weeks. here and her as you can see the atmosphere is quite stands as the protesters here the ones who are against the police brutality and for the independence are being confronted by another group of protests over there you can see them there so police between these two groups to avoid any kind of trouble and these two groups have come out onto the streets to really as yet another example of how high the division has been here during these last several days thanks thanks entire square in front of the cattle on leaders headquarters is popped with thousands of people dressed in white who are here to call for dialogue but this is yet another protest of many that have been taking place here throughout catalonia in the last week we have seen people protesting for independence we have

seen people who just against independence. the e.u. commission's cold cuts alone as independent vote illegal as well but stated that it was an internal matter that spain should deal with bumping and angry response from some in the european parliament. why did the madrid government feel it necessary to stop dish in such a heavy handed brutal and in the final analysis counterproductive manner we now have a chen place which every independence movement so no consonant can use to provoke unrest and violence so disproportionate cannot be justified no buts and no excuses whatever you think about the referendum whatever you think of independence i think that has to be clear that violence is not a mean for solving political conflicts and what of the european union's response the first response should have been to completely condemn the violence but no this

is by the e.u. who recognize the independence or cross of a without a referendum and who recognized palestine as a nation state even though the e.u. treaties did not permit the n.e.p. you just heard speaking that steve wolf also shared his thoughts with us on the huge reaction to the violence in catalonia. it's been despicable it's been dishonest and it shows really that the e.u. has favorites and they will stick by ban by their favorites as long as it means keeping everybody in the club by demanding that they must be some sort of negotiations and talks between the spanish government and also those in catalonia with the must first be a denunciation of the violence by the police over by the police who feel that they could do it again. now we're going to be staying across the developments in catalonia throughout the day another anti independence rally is expected to take place later. on we'll cover that for you.

for. there is still no evidence of collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia according to the u.s. senate intelligence committee on wednesday they briefed the public on the progress of ongoing probe into moscow's alleged meddling in last year's presidential election the issue of collusion is still open. we continue to investigate both intelligence and witnesses as it relates to the steel dossier. but unfortunately the committee has hit a wall we can certify i believe the no vote totals were effective they did not in any way shape or form that we've been able to find alter that those channels also been home washington's right up marty's editor in chief says the network's now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both stuff and contributors

being targeted although no concrete evidence has ever been given allegations that ati influence the election is still being made. the r.t.s. on twitter were almost uniformly anti clinton and those i think you look at them and you have to conclude no there was a clear design in these ads so that's one congressman's opinion yet on the same day the senate intelligence committee probing alleged russian meddling for the complete opposite there is no way that you can look at that and say that that was to help the right side of the ideological shore. and and. not the left or vice versa or they were indiscriminate it seems that the overall theme of the russian. involvement in the u.s. looks create chaos at every level all of this is just the latest segment of the russians did it saga we're now all attention seems to have shifted to our channel and it social media adds well it's no secret that r.t. does advertise on twitter and other platforms just like most other media outlets the little blue bird sing a song of russian meddling last week and

a report the disclosed how much we spend on ads the sum was two hundred seventy five thousand dollars and it's funny to consider is that being able to make a sufficient influence on the election when all the candidates spend about one billion dollars to make it look as if we've done something obscure shady or semi-legal of course i don't nonsense tutors contacted us with their proposal. are you sure it is a presentation of the adverts so that is how much it would cost and we greet recently google became the latest internet giant to jump on the anti r.t. bandwagon when it yanked us from its premium ad service in the us without any warning whatsoever now that move is unlikely to have an adverse effect on our channels reach as we are already the most feared news network on you tube and fact last month we hit the milestone of over five billion views nevertheless this ban only adds to the mounting pressure on the channel until recently no active measures except to do is turn getting our reputation has been taken against aspecific room

number and so have we operate through. it's a kind of shared experience. to the point. of the contrary washington is absolutely insane with the idea that our team is out there and they want to condemn it as somehow russian propaganda but the fact of the matter is whether you love r.t. or hate the idea that the us government can tell you what you can watch and can't watch the idea that there's a government censor or something like google in bed with the government telling you what you and or can't watch this is like something out in one thousand nine hundred four russia's prosecutor general is reportedly mulling over three measures to class some u.s. media outlets as quote unwelcome in russia i could possibly see big networks being removed from russian cable television but will have no impact on the bureaus and journalists to a station in the country the foreign ministry has also said like for like measures

are on the table. need that i see the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists. we can leaks editor julian assange has weighed in on the issue as well tweeting a mock guides to modern western journalism his advice for being a reporter in twenty seventeen is to take a random news story also being covered by russian media to he then suggest you accuse moscow of secretly being behind the event citing the fact that russian media also reporting on his as evidence. trump also took to twitter to ask why intelligence officials are looking into u.s. news outlets and their possible role in manipulating public opinion with false reports that we heard from the director of grassroots political consulting he told us he shares the president's concern over the state of american media you have about five corporations that control or entire media paradis people are profiting off of them and it's completely controlled and at the same time you have congress

investigating and seeking regulation on free media any alternative news media coming from international sources like this channel to bloggers social media now facebook having to go troll through with physical people so many different news stories that their focus is on shutting voices of anything that's not mainstream media and it was an interesting tweet from president trump. americans are still trying to come to terms with suffering the country's deadliest mass shooting fifty eight people were massacred at a country music festival in las vegas another five hundred were injured here's how events unfolded on sunday night.

we need to try to get people out of the hospital ok. thanks. liz.

the gunman had positioned himself on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel overlooking the first of all he broke two windows before unleashing a shower of bullets on the crowd below and police stormed the hotel room they found the shooter's body as well as an arsenal of weapons including a handgun and numerous rifles here's how some witnesses described what happened you can just hear the rounds almost like creeping up on you. feels like they're just it's like make those shots don't stop you don't hear that i think being in a word when i realize we're actually. actually still. actually have. a real.

interest. to run over all these. military. i'm just so. i just there's also so much pain and thinking like. why did. the shooter was sixty four year old steven paddock who lived in a community for retired people in nevada he turned a gun on himself before the authorities got in police say he had no prior criminal record and no military background and the f.b.i. says he wasn't linked to any terrorist groups despite claims by islamic state u.s. authorities have released body camera video of police responding to the shooting shots could be heard as officers try to locate the gunman and clear people out of the firing line. yeah to hear their dogs out them up over there that way.

there's your average guy just there don't they know that. place like this like this by the way this thing will go go go go that without a doubt without the authorities say they found twenty three weapons in his hotel room one thousand more were discovered the public's home it's also reported that he had two devices with him called. they allow semiautomatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic weapons that were also thousands of i mean issued rounds of products home and explosives in his calm tragedies reignited the debate over america's gun laws. and critics of highlighted the absurdity that it's illegal to carry a toy gun resembling a real one on the famous las vegas strip but there are no restrictions for carrying an actual file security analyst bridge says it's near enough impossible to prevent attacks like this considering the state of nevada gun laws given that the initial acquisition of the weapons themselves is in nevada and certainly perfectly legal.

needs to be kept so the amount of ammunition or weapons are gone and since it's also perfectly legal to buy the very simple mechanisms that are required to convert those semiautomatic weapons into far more lethal fully automatic or effectively fully automatic weapons there's really very little it can be done to stop an individual from going to a high vantage point such as in this hotel room and then using the weapon and indeed any number of weapons in the way that he did and so unless you're going to have metal detectors that each and every hotel to detect such weapons and even then you're going to have a mechanism and legal mechanism in place to prevent people actually earn from. possessing them in this way there's nothing that can be done to stop this kind of attack taking place the fact is that america has a firearms problem. after the break we look at syria's ongoing operation to remove islamic state from the country the latest on that in a couple of minutes. europe

has to either change or cease to exist the people who work in this building the e.u. headquarters should change the rules of the european union would have to work on fewer issues both with better results should be paying more attention to protecting external borders fighting against curbing illegal immigration as well as

harmonizing economic policies and judicial systems otherwise the europe we have today is doing it were transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. the syrian army is inching closer to driving islamic state out of dared sole province earlier this week government forces entered the eastern town of my it being considered to be one of isolation last remaining strongholds in the country the russian military also gave aerial support in the latest advances.

but after three long years the city of deer it saw has finally about from being on the ice i think from a military perspective as well because they have reports next people are still struggling to recover from living with tara in there as a lot of you'll find little by war every crater has its own tragic story and i think it exploded right here a neighbor was sitting here holding his two year old nephew another man was there and my son isa was right here shrapnel hit him in the back in the waist and the legs a piece went to his lungs he still suffers pain from it. isa has now survived isis shells twice he well remembers his last brush with death and how his

sister found him. i said judy judy my back hurts but she said only my legs were hit when they picked me up they so blood flowing down my back my sister started screaming and hitting herself the first time he was nearly killed by an isis shell he was just ten months old then shrapnel peppered the baby isa slicing off a toe in all he has eleven scars and a lump of jagged metal in his lungs that could still eventually kill him but at least he made it the other two year old boy at the scene wasn't so lucky this hell lasted for three years it left a mark on everyone. the word tragedy does not begin

to describe what happened in there is or any door you knock on any family you talk to tell you of their loss and their suffering truly the one thing that unites this city is that everyone has a horrific story there was no place in daters or where the population could find sanctuary there is no place that the battle left untouched dust craters bullet holes and devastation everywhere entire districts of the city are in ruins entire generations traumatized entire generations lost. during the battle with isis i was shot just above my jaw the bullet is still there my left eye was destroyed and i have ten percent vision in my right eye. the reality of war i delves to where others were also in the army defending dad as

daughter they were literally protecting their family against isis he is the only one left alive these families loss is neither unique nor the worst thing i was a moment one to lose one or three sons many families give more than me in my office there was a man who lost five sons and a daughter this is war war is it consumes and destroys everything. for many the worst is over the breaking of the siege of daters or heralded a new beginning yet others in areas still being liberated it's just the start psychological scars left behind will take decades to heal more i guess the team from there is on syria. the king of saudi arabia made his first official visit to russia on wednesday and it's been

seen by many as an unexpected shift in foreign policy because the kingdom's a long term ally of the united states didn't cut corners when it came to accommodation in the russian capital either a saudi delegation book several rooms or even just one entire hotel but two luxury hotels in the city center perhaps no great surprise when your travel essential include furniture carpets and a golden escalator. ahead of talks with the saudi monarch president putin was asked whether he was comfortable with saudi arabia being a close u.s. ally let's face so this. is always going to be the states when it comes to your political interests do you worry that the saudis are using you because earlier you said always will remain is that anything in the world that is so absolutely constant. the meeting resulted in three billion dollars worth of arms deals being signed and future investments in technologies also

a great global oil industry economist dr mom to sell a maple leaves that saudi russian cooperation could solve a number of issues around the world their core very issue could help it stem the production cuts and that's the start of the oil price in coming months and of course such cooperation between saudi arabia and that i share could be a positive or could lead flecked positively on the conflict is syria although saudi arabia that i sure hope wasn't side and you called but a shim between them could come to the situation and who knows they could reach eventually a break in the deadlock and bring peace to syria. and that's the way kelly had online for more of the biggest stories of the past seven days and today's developments are as well aware of ulti dot com also you.

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sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker.

if you take an economics course you're taught that markets are based on informed consumers making rational judgments as opposed to turn on the television set and take a look at the ads i'm going to they trying to create informed consumers making rational choices oh contraire they're trying to create uninformed consumers who will act irrationally in the so huge industry one of the biggest industries in the country. it's. like a.