all. right. this is a recap of some of the week's biggest stories caseloads independence referendum see spanish police use force against voters in the fall and crack down 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 has here a wall the issue of collusion is still open no vote totals were affected. russia's prosecutor general is reportedly considering registering american media outlets as quote unwelcome in russia in response to unprecedented pressure against the u.s. . as the syrian army continues to push back islamic state province residents in

liberated towns talk to us about life on the terrorist see. once you lose one or three sons many families gave me when he beat me up they so long long time my back my sister started screaming and he was. eleven am here in moscow. rundown of the biggest stories of the past seven days. in spain the prime minister has said 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 voted say yes to leaving spain why police across catalonia used rough tactics on the day of the vote itself in what's been described as a violent crackdown on democracy. the

one video in particular shows the tactics used by police as people queue to vote one officer can be seen dropkick in a person down a staircase others for throwing down the video was shot with one of the boss known as polling stations who were just helping the people because they were throwing them from out up the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the cave and kicking them someone is on the floor and there is a guy that jumps on the person that's down and they went up there it's where they got this girl that was one of the organizers and they grabbed her and there broke her 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 a correspondence of. following i would all folded we do know the 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 ok this is not like a holy a where as you can see the protests continue here on the iconic sware of the barcelona sez he thank you thank that's really impressed the down the kids i was seeing out on the street by the law that so many people young people who came here holding plaques up in the ground in concert line and 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 thank you

thank you we can see a couple hundred people. gathered here i was there. for you to see and i'm sorry if i miss our what i say are quite loud and really are symbolic of the past three weeks ago right here and her was 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 that there are so police between these two groups to avoid any kind of trouble thank you thank you fire 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 thank you. statement called catalonia has independent vote illegal but stated it was an

internal matter that spain should deal with prompting angry reactions inside 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 template which every independence movement so no 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 main for solving political conflicts and one of the european union's response that first response should have been to completely condemn the violence but no this is by the e.u. who recognize the independence or cost of a without a referendum and who recognized palestine as a nation state even though the e.u.

treaties did not commit. the m.e.p. you just heard speaking there stephen wolf 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 that 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 council on what the must first be a denunciation of the violence by the police over vies the police will feel that they could do it again. on an anti independence rally is expected to pay to take place in barcelona later on on sunday will be across that for you when it happens. for. there's 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 ongoing probe looking 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. 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. now this channel has also been on washington's radar ati's editor in chief says the network is now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both stuff and i'm contributors being targeted although no evidence suggests to 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 so 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. 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's social media ads well it's no secret that our t.v. 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 this 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 commerce or not since tutors contacted us with their proposal to florida election are you sure it is a presentation it's 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 of 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 until recently no active measures except those hurting our reputation have been taken against us aspecific no where else have we average experienced a kind of shared experience of danger to the point a through truly being forced out of the country washington is absolutely insane

with the idea that our t. is out there they want to condemn it as somehow russian propaganda but the fact of the matter is whether you love our tea or hate our tea 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 well in response rush's prosecutor general is reportedly mulling over whether to declare u.s. media outlets unwelcome in russia that could potentially see big networks being removed from russian cable television but will have no impact on the bureaus or journalists stationed in the country the foreign ministry has also said that like for like measures are on the table. the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists and wiki leaks editor julian assange has weighed in on the issue as well tweeting a guide to modern western journalism his

advice for being a reporter in twenty seventeen take a random global news story and if the russian media is already reporting on it then you can simply link it back to moscow and suggest that the kremlin is responsible for whatever it may be donald trump also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials are looking into u.s. news outlets and their possible role in manipulating public opinion with false reports we heard from the director of grassroots political consulting he told us that he shares the president's concern over the state of american media. we 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 last sunday another five hundred were injured .

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

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. 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 handgun and numerous rifles you can just hear the rounds almost like creeping up on you. can you feel like they're just it's like you down make those shots don't start you don't hear that i think being in a word alone 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 stephen paddock who lived in a community for retired people in the volga he turned the gun on himself before the authorities got to him police say he had no prior criminal record 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 later released police body camera video shots can be heard as officers try to locate the gunman and clear people out of the firing line. after their drug charge them up over the. third or through right out of guys there are three don't they don't. play this like this like this by the way this thing will go go go go go that we got we got we got the authorities say they found twenty three weapons in his hotel room one thousand more were discovered at publix home it's also reported that he had two devices with him called stocks they

allow semiautomatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic weapons and also thousands of rounds of products home and explosives in his car 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 las vegas strip but there are no restrictions for carrying a real firearm security analyst charles shubert says it's near enough impossible to prevent attacks like this considering nevada's gun laws. given that the initial acquisition of the weapons themselves is in nevada it certainly is perfectly legal . to needs to be kept certain amount of ammunition or weapons required and since it's also perfectly legal to buy the very simple mechanisms that are required to convert those semiautomatic weapons into a far more lethal fully automatic or effectively fully automatic weapons there's really very little it can be done to then stop an individual from going to a high planted 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 that 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 a legal mechanism in place to prevent people actually running from autumn's and 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 this is our table take a look at syria's ongoing operation to remove islamic state from the country when the weekly returns after the break. i have the absolute conviction. to be europe. and russia. have a common interest to look at closer cooperation and this is why. to

mobilize. community. in culture entertainment and sports we need to you know to bring it to two societies much closer. to europe has to either change or cease to exist the people who work in this building the headquarters should change the rules set up 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 terrorists curbing illegal immigration as well as harmonizing economic policies on the judicial system otherwise the europe we have today is doing it were transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. more of the week's headline news now the syrian army is inching closer to driving

islamic state out of province earlier this week government forces entered the eastern town of maya dean considered to be one of isis last remaining strongholds in the country the russian military also gave aerial support in the latest advances . well after three long years the city of deer is or has finally emerged from being on the ice all siege at least from a military perspective you have now reported people that are now struggling to

recover from living with terror in their head as or you'll find little unmocked by war every crater has its own tragic story and i think actually 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 trap no 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 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 brothers were also in the army defending dead 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 getting me 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 dinners or syria. opposition activists held marches in some eighty cities across russia on saturday they were called by kremlin critic and blogger alexina valmy nicky aron has the details. some are calling a birthday gift to the russian president vladimir putin celebrates his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a plot to spoil the day opposition figure alexina valmy had called for these nationwide protests so here in moscow we store turnout of around seven hundred

people in a small number of people were detained fast now over those people have been released now what i should point out is that not all of these rallies have been authorized by the or thorazine is authorization is something you need when you bring together a large number of people for safety concerns traffic regulations and things like this so while police have been present at these rallies that last evening there to ensure that everything remains peaceful the biggest turnout was in st petersburg up to a thousand people reported to have been at that rally now police say dozens have been detained for violating traffic regulations so after we saw some confrontations protesters attempted to block police access also police and were forced to issue warnings after a number of protesters use force to break police blockades now what's interesting about this rally in some cases is that the is that electing a volley actually told his followers on social media that this was an authorized event however city of dorothy's say that they did not grant permission for this to

take place so maybe some people have turned up to this this rally thinking it's legal when perhaps it's illegal. just to explain many screen that you can see in the corner but it's another rally in the wake of the catalan independence referendum this woman in madrid it's a pro unity rally pretty good natured as you can see as well attended as all the rallies have been throughout the week we'll keep watch on that for you returns in half an hour see them. spend your fight you can sense it still will. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the final merry go round certainly don't. ignore middle of the room signal. the real news is really

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