often advertising telling you are not cool enough and let's go buy their product please. these are the hawks that we along with our audience will watch for. this is r t in a recap of some of the week's biggest stories catalonia is independence referendum police use force against voters in a violent crackdown of the week as with the push for succession and legal. he handed the us senate intelligence committee admits finding no evidence that so-called russian meddling affected the presidential election and. fortunately the committee who's who of the wall the issue of collusion is still open no vote totals of. russia's prosecutor general's reportedly considering registering american media outlets as quote unwelcome here in russia in response to unprecedented pressure against r.t. over the us. and the syrian army continues to push back islamic state india as all

problems residents in liberated towns talk to us about life now under terrorists he . wants a lease on three or three songs many families. when he happy so lucky that my sister started screaming and heating. to moscow kevin we do this thanks for watching and bringing you the weekly a round of the big stories of the last seven days for us and one of those stories that dominate the coverage still very much happening this weekend in spain where the latest is that 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 speight right place across catalonia use rough tactics on the

day of the vote and what's been described as a violent crackdown on democracy. one

particular video shows the tactics used by what places people queue to vote to check it out yourself one officer can be seen from the president and stick right. down but. we were just helping the people because they were throwing them from up. the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the hair 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're there is saying that's the law that's what you consider the law

since the vote in other regions in spain has seen a number of mass protests both for and against dependents right now pro unity. rallies underway in barcelona as a society can report trauma to the streets or some gridlock yet again because of thousands of people who are writing about it was real the street was the central barcelona was yet another day of protests was taking place here and that's ok thank you all of these people who are was you was a was separated from the rest of the country was going to make you obey god that is all right. was that was happening and there was a it was or was it was a. nice day to day he was approached was taking place

here was a continuing to try to figure out it's a huge shadow we do know is the just two blocks away from here there was another polling station that has a building of a school and just an hour ago police raided that building and forcibly removed people out of there at the ok this is not like at holy a where as you can see the protests continue here on the iconic swear off of the barcelona says he i think was was really impressed than the kids was he was treated by the law as well the many people young people who came here a holding lack something bigger than consul anya over 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 anya was would say we can see it was on your it

was gathered there was a. do you see any independent thanks they are quite loud and really are symbolic. to me when i was here and. 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 protest over there you can see that there are so police between these two groups to avoid any kind of trouble. i thank you entire square in front of the catalan leader's headquarters is popped with thousands of people dressed in white who are here to call for dialogue thanks but with the commission statement called catalonia is independents voted it legal but stated it was an

internal matter that spain should deal with that prompted 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 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 cost of a without a referendum and who recognized palestine as a nation state even though the e.u.

treaties did not permit it the m.e.p. you just heard speaking this stephen wolfe also shared his thoughts with us on the news reaction to the violence in catalonia last weekend it's been despicable it's been dishonest and it shows really that the e.u. has favorites and they will stick by by 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 under 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. all right let's leave the store for a minute take about those live pictures with a camera trained in barcelona there on the crowds out today this is happening right in the middle of a cattle and cattle capitals you speak just days before cattle and presidents collis addresses the region's parliament choose they still don't quite sure he's going to say he could announce independence or people out there today in support of

a unified spain we came across a. few . more big stories the week the still no evidence of collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia according to the us 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 certifiably say that no vote totals were effective they did not in any way shape or form that we've been able to find alter that course this child

lottie's been well and washington's radar artie's editor in chief in the week says the networks now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both staff and contributors being targeted although no evidence suggests dotty 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 charge 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. looking for 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 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 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 summers utter nonsense critters contacted us with their proposal and put forward and like cheney are you sure it is presentation and hurts so does how much it cost and we don't reach 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 and so recently new active measures excessive use reputation of having tiki games last pacifically no where else have we operate through. it's a kind of shared experience of danger to the point he threw. out of the country washington is absolutely insane with the idea that our tears out there 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 in response russia's prosecutor general's reportedly mulling over whether or not now to declare some u.s.

media outlets as unwelcome here in russia could possibly see big networks being removed from russian cable television but will have no impact on bureaus and journalist ation of the country and the foreign ministry has also said 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. we kill exerted to julia sands waited in the week as well on the issue tweeting a mock god to western journalism than the modern day his advice for being a reporter and twenty seven team is to take a random global news story and if the russian media is already reporting on it you can simply link the story back to moscow and suggest interim interest possible for whatever it may be a whole donald trump also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials aren't 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 who told us

he shares the president's concern over the state of american media. we have about five corporations that control our 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 shouting voices of anything that's not mainstream media and it was an interesting tweet from president trump. and then we just go on americans still trying to come to terms with the suffering the country's deadliest mass shooting brought about them fifty eight people were massacred at the country music festival in this vegas on sunday of the five hundred were injured.

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we need to try to get people out of the hospital ok. cool. the government knocked out the windows of his hotel room overlooking that festival before leashing a shower of bullets into the crowd he also fired shots at fuel tank station nearby thankfully they didn't explode when police stormed the room they found the shooter's body as well as an arsenal of weapons including i'm going to numerous rifles. you can just hear the rounds almost like creeping up on you. feels like they're just it's like cut you down make those shots don't start you

don't hear that i think being in a word alone when i realize. i actually stored. it does this actually happen. also real. in just the fact of having to run over all these bodies. still you would know. i'm just so. i just missed it but there's also so much pain and thinking like why. why did those people do to deserve the shooter was sixty four year old stephen prothero who lived in the community for retired people in nevada he turned the gun on himself before the authorities got him police say he had no prior criminal record and no military background the f.b.i. say he wasn't linked to any terrorist groups despite claims by islamic state authorities say they found twenty three weapons and products hotel room nineteen more were

discovered at his home it's also reported that the killer had two devices with him called bump stocks which are low semiautomatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic ones there are also thousands of ammunition rounds at products house and explosives in his car the tragedies reignited the whole big debate over gun control in america critics have highlighted the absurdity that it's legal to carry it for instance a fake gun famous last vegas strip but there are no restrictions for carrying a real firearm in the week security analyst charles hsu bridge told us it's near enough impossible in fact 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 and no record even needs to be kept of the amount of ammunition or weapons you're buying and since it's also perfectly legal to buy the very simple mechanisms that are aquatic 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 vantage point such as in his hotel room and then using that 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 city texas weapons and even then you're going to have a mechanism a legal mechanism in place to prevent people actually owning firearms 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. shoshu bridgeable take a look at syria's ongoing operation to remove islamic state from the country when the weekly returns right after this break. europe has to either change or cease to exist people who work in this building. should change the rules of the european union would have to work on fewer issues

both with better results it should be paying more attention to protecting external borders fighting against terrorists curbing illegal immigration as well as harmonizing economic policies and judicial systems otherwise the europe we have today. would transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. with the fiction. to be europe. and russia. have a common interest. at the ration and this is why. to mobilize. business community. in culture entertainment and sports you know too. much.

syrian army's inching closer to driving islamic state of province earlier this week government forces entered the eastern town of maya dean that still considered one of the last remaining strongholds in the country now the russian military also gave aerial support to the latest advances in the week.

and after three or long years the city of deer resorts finally emerged from being under i still see egypt least from a military perspective more ghost of a correspondent the people how than i was struggling to recover from living so long and of the shadow of terror. in that as order you'll find little unmocked 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 the site 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 adele's two were others were also in the army defending dead as a 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 of the. want 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 and war is. and destroys everything. for many the worst is over the breaking of the siege of daters or heralded a new beginning yet for others in the 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 syria. the king of saudi arabia made his first official visit to russia wednesday it's been seen by many as an expected shift in riyadh foreign policy than is the kingdom is a long term alley of the united states but the saudi king's visit didn't get off to

the best starts quite as disembark that plane is iconic golden escalator which usually takes and everyone goes rather than if it was suddenly stopped king someone may have been cheered up by his driving to moscow it was welcomed by a number of posters across the city center to mark is a rival seems a visit where wealth king someone didn't cut corners when it came to choosing accommodation the city delegation didn't just reserve several rooms they thought they booked at least three whole entire luxury hotels in the center perhaps no great surprise when you travel essential is included furniture carpets and the aforesaid golden escalator and the way to the business end of the talks and the saudi monarch president putin was asked about saudi arabia's choice of allies but let's face it this. is always going. well when it comes to your interests do you the saudis are using you because 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 in future investments in technologies also agreed all industry economists. made told us that saudi arabia and russia working together could help solve global issues. better cooperation could help extend the production cuts and thus ball instead of the old price in coming months and of course such. as saudi arabia and russia could be a positive or could inflict positively on the conflict is old the us out at a very bad that i shall hope wasn't side an equal but a shim between them could come to the situation and do know as they could reach eventually a break in the deadlock and to bring peace to see it. that's the news reel of the

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