this is out of the week's top stories catalonia independence referendum c. spanish police force against voters in a violent crackdown as madrid calls 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 the issue of collusion is still open no vote. of. russia's prosecutor general is reportedly considering registering american media outlets as quote unwelcome in russia in response to unprecedented pressure against r.t. in the us. as the syrian army continues to push back islamic state from.

residents in liberated towns to talk to us about life on the terrorist c. three sons many families gave. when they beat me up the some blood flowing down my back started screaming and hitting yourself. with you. sunday edition of the program where we look at the biggest stories of the past seven days as reported here first the spanish prime minister has said he will not allow catalonia to go independent in an interview with a national newspaper last sunday's referendum so the majority of catalans who voted say yes to leaving spain right police across catalonia used rough tactics on the day of the vote and what's being described as a violent crackdown on democracy. little

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

i've been following i would all unfolded 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 forest ok this is why they got aliyah whereas you can see the protests continue here on the iconic sware of the barcelona says he hey thanks this really impressed the benefits i was seeing out on the streets was a lot as many people we see here different sorts of people know not only sudanese or young people who came here holding plaques up in the ground in council on you we see here families with small children we see elderly people here and they are asking if they're shouting at national police forces to leave the region the consul

lining up thank god it was thank you thanks a we can see it was wondering if it was gathered there was this throw us here and our indiscriminate firing what i say are quite loud and really are symbolic of the fastenings three weeks was here and her was as you can see the atmosphere is quite stands out 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 are 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 i

think. i think this entire square in front of the catalan leader's headquarters is topped 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 and we have seen people protesting for independence we have seen people protest against independence. catalonia as independents voted legal as well that it was an internal matter that spain should deal with prompting an angry response from some in the european parliament. why did the madrid government feel it necessary to stop this in such a heavy handed brutal and in the final analysis council productive manner we now have a template which every independence movement so no consonant can use to provoke and rest 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 one 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 of crossover without a referendum and to recognize palestine as a nation state even though the e.u. treaties did not permit the m.e.p. that you just heard speaking there steve bould also shared his thoughts with us on the 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 vies the police who feel that

they could do it again well and he independent rallies expected to take place in barcelona later on this sunday will be across that for you when it happens. there's still no evidence of collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia that according to the u.s. senate intelligence committee on wednesday they briefed the public on the ongoing probe looking into moscow's alleged meddling in last year's presidential election. the issue of collusion is still open. that 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. that no vote totals were effective they did not

in any way shape or form that we've been able to find alter that on those channels also being on washington's right senator in chief says the network is now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both stuff and contributors being targeted although no evidence suggests that r.t. influence the election 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 chart and. not the left or vice versa they were indiscriminate it seems that the overall theme of the russian . involvement in the us elections and create chaos at every level all of this is

just the latest segment of the russian did it saga we're now all attention seems to have shifted to our channel and its social media ads well it's no secret that r.t. does advertise on twitter and other platforms just like most other media outlets the little bluebird sing a song of russian meddling last week and report the disclose 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 in clint's 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 we choose of course i don't nonsense tutors contacted us with their proposal to florida election 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 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 viewed 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 and so recently no active measures except getting our reputation have been taken against us last specifically no where else have we average experience the kind of pressure we experienced to danger to the point of ritually being forced out of the country is absolutely insane with the idea that our two years out there they want to condemn it as somehow russian propaganda but the fact of the matter is whether you love your tea or hate the idea that the u.s. 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 telling a three measures to declare some u.s.

media outlets as unwelcome in russia could possibly see big networks being removed from russian cable television but will have no impact on the bureaus and journalists stationed in the country the foreign minister has also said like for like measures are on the table meet that i see the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists. release editor julian assange has weighed in on the issue as well tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism his advice for being a reporter in twenty seventeen is to take a random global news story and if it's already being reported on by the russian media that should be enough evidence to suggest moscow is in some way responsible for it donald trump also took to twitter to ask why u.s. intelligence officials are looking into the news outlets and their possible role in manipulating public opinion with fourth reports and 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 apparatus 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 shouting 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 that 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 knocked out the windows of his hotel room overlooking the festival before unleashing a shower of bullets on the crowd he also fired shots at fuel tanks that were stationed nearby but luckily they didn't explode when police stormed the room they found the shooter's body as well as an arsenal of weapons including a hum gun and numerous rifles here's how some witnesses describe 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 it's like being in

a word when i realize we're actually. actually still. does this actually have. a real. interest. to run over all these. military. i'm just so. i just there's so much pain and thinking like. why did. the shooter was sixty four year old stephen paddick who lived in a community for retired people in nevada he turned the gun on himself before the authorities got to him police say he had no prior criminal record and no military background the f.b.i. says he wasn't linked to any terrorist groups to spy claims by islamic state u.s. authorities have released body camera video of police responding to the shooting could be heard as officers try to locate the gunman and clear people people out of

the firing line. yes they are there don't judge them for the way. they are through i rather doubt very much if they don't they know that. place like this like this by the way this thing will go go go go authorities say they found twenty three weapons in his hotel room nineteen more were discovered. it's also reported that he had two devices with him called stocks they allow semiautomatic weapons to be modified and fully automatic weapons that were also thousands of i mean ition rounds of products home and explosives in his car and the tragedies reignited the debate over america's gun laws. critics have highlighted the absurdity that it's illegal to carry a fake gun on the famous last vegas strip but there are no restrictions for carrying a real firearm security analyst charles schumer bridge says it's near enough impossible to prevent attacks like this considering the state of nevada scandals

given that the initial acquisition of the weapons themselves is in nevada is 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 percentage 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 i guess you're going to have metal detectors 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 and 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. well take

a look at syria's ongoing operation to remove islamic state from the country when the weekly returns after the break. europe has to either change or cease to exist people who work in this building 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 on the judicial system otherwise the europe we have today. would transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. this is how. the economy is built around. corporations washington washington. is not to

run this country business. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. the syrian army is inching closer to driving islamic state province earlier this week government forces entered the eastern town of my considered to be one of the last remaining strongholds in the country the russian military also aerial support in the latest advances.

after three long years the city of deer and soars finally emerge from being on deisel siege at least from a military perspective as well i guess you have reports people there are still struggling to recover from living with terror in there 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 one 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 and 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 order 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 riyadh foreign policy because the kingdom's a long term ally of the united states and the saudi king's visit didn't get off to the best of starts as he disembarked the plane his iconic golden escalator which usually goes with him everywhere suddenly stopped however king solomon may have been cheered up on his drive into moscow he was welcomed by a number of posters across the city center to mark his arrival and king solomon didn't cut corners when it came to choosing accommodation the saudi delegation didn't just 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 of course that escalator. ahead of the talks with the saudi monarch president putin was asked whether he was comfortable with saudi arabia being a close u.s. ally. but let's face it. it's always going to be the united states

when it comes to you. do you worry that the saudis are using you. you said always will remain is that anything in the world that is so absolutely constant. in the meantime resulted in three billion dollars worth of arms deals being signed and future investments in technology is also agreed global oil industry economist dr mamdouh sodomite believes that saudi russia working together could help solve global issues better cooperation could help stem the production cuts and that's the start of the old price in coming months and of course such cooperation between saudi arabia and russia could be a positive or could lead flecked positively on the conflict is although saudi arabia added i sure hope wasn't side an equal but issue between them could come to the situation and to know as they could reach eventually

a break in the deadlock and bring peace to syria. and that is the weekly if you were to get in touch with us look it up on facebook and twitter i'll be back and often with your next edition of the we can. make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the fine. be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. loic. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the

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welcome to worlds apart from the brats it's a prize to the french and german elections to their own breasts and catalonia the question of european identity and european values is once again the subject of hard debate other european still cool they think they are well to discuss that i'm now joined by john crystal voss founder of the global conference it's a boss it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you. for having me mr boss i know that you often talk about this subject of identity which i think is at the core of many recent political changes in the europe.