mom got up out of the local one down. in the state at the impulse to not abort the stone ruin of her going to shoot me in the movies. music is always. going to. be a. time when it. this is our to you know recap of some of the biggest stories in the last seven days catalonia as independence referendum source spanish police use force against voters and. as the calls the push for secession illegal well coming up on also ahead. coming up empty handed the u.s. senate intelligence committee admits finding no evidence that so-called russian meddling affect the presidential election. fortunately the committee who's who of

the wall the issue of collusion the still open no vote. were affected headlining to russia's prosecutor general reportedly considering registering american media outlets as quote unwelcome here in russia all in response to a president of pressure against r.t. in the us. as the syrian army continues to push back islamic state into result province residents in liberated towns talk to us about life and terrorists see. one three three sons many families give more than me when they beat me up the cell block long down my back my sister started screaming and hitting. moscow kevin zero in with you this hour with the weekly around the big stories of

the last seven days and one of the stories that dominated our coverage still very much happening right now in spain let's start there showing the latest is the spanish prime minister said he will not allow catalonia to go independent that was in an interview with the national paper that came out today last sunday's referendum so the majority of catalans who voted say yes to leaving spain riot police across catalonia use rough tactics on the day of the vote that left almost nine hundred people injured.

one video in particular shows the tactics used by riot police as people queue to vote. one officer see a drop kicking a person literally down a stick and those were thrown. 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 were not very it's where they

got this girl that was one of the organizers and they grabbed her and they broke their her hand if you imagine if that's supported by democracy you were there is saying that's the law that's what you consider the law well since we can't catalonia in other regions in spain are seen a number of mass protests both for and against independence right now a pro unity rallies underway in boston low. as i was to sit check and i reports that the streets of records yet again was of thousands of people who are worried that it was real the streets of the central barcelona was yet another day of protests taking place here and that's ok thanks to the rule of these people carrying the i was going to do anything they say they saw was separated from the rest of the truth was were overweight are were letters rosaries.

was covering and there was a was right at your door it was that was the future oh that's no good i was. going day to day was all the protests that have been taking place here i was continuing to try to figure out if it's interesting that we were all right. but 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 thank you ok i can see the police ever riving right now and people are starting to clap we can hear right now siren shells police cars and we can hear khalid copters and the sky

. this is a lot like a holy aware as you can see the protests continue here on the iconic swear off of the barcelona says he hundreds of students have gathered behind my back to protest against the events that we saw here on sunday they're protesting for the independence of catalonia thank you. that's really. good so i think he was treated by a lot as many people we see here different kinds of people now not only sudanese or young people who came here holding black something different in concert line you know 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 line at. the we can see hundred.

gathered here. probably you see any independent like they are quite loud and really are symbolic. to me was here and. thank you 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 was i thank you sinn feiner square in front of the catalan leaders headquarters is packed with thousands of people dressed in white for 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 you are going to go live there just a second ago in the meantime an e.u. commission statement called independents voted illegal but said that it was an internal matter that spain should deal with prompting on grew reactions inside the european parliament for jimmy peace stephen wolfe shared his thoughts on the e.u.'s reaction to events in catalonia with us. it's been despicable it's been dishonest and it shows really that the e.u. has favorites and they will stick 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 and also those in catalan but the must first be a denunciation of the violence by the police over vies the police will feel that they could do it again a civil go by a lie the let's check out what's happening at a pro unity rally in barcelona right now these live pictures coming through this is white house happening right now in the capital and capital this day for it saves just days before camp president. will address the region's parliament choose

a question is what's he going to say is he softening his tone first with supporters of what could announce independence on tuesday maybe not but you can see the crowds are the ones looking out there in support of a unified spain they don't want passed alone and the catalans to break free will keep your post i. see. it more the big news of the week 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 i believe that no vote totals were affected they did not in any way shape or form that we've been able to find alter that this channel is also being a washington to our editor in chief says the network now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both stuff and contributors being targeted although no evidence suggests that once 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 you know 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 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 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 sang a song of russian meddling last week and a report that 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 tutor's 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 getting our reputation have been taken against aspecific room number and so have we operate through. it's the kind of. experience last twenty to twenty three. out of the country washington 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 r.t. or hate our tea the idea that the u.s. government can tell you what you can watch in 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 now than mulling over whether or not to declare some u.s. media outlets as unwelcome here in russia while meanwhile it could possibly see big networks being removed from russian cable television but won't have an impact partly on bureaus in journalist stationed in the country and the foreign ministry has also said like for like measures are on the table. the need that i say the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists chipping in the wiki leaks editor julian assange he weighed in on it in the week tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism his advice for being a reporter in twenty seventeen and seemed to be take a random global news story and basically link the story back to moscow suggesting

the kremlin is pulling the strings. donald trump also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials are looking into u.s. news outlets and their possible role of 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 berettas 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. in the week that was

america is still coming to terms with the deadliest mass shooting in its modern history fifty eight people were massacred at the country music festival in las vegas last sunday another five hundred were injured.

i. think. we need to try to get people out of the hospital ok. the gunman knocked out the windows of his hotel room overlooking that festival before unleashing a shower of bullets into the crowd below he also fired shots at fuel tank station

thereby 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. feels like they're just it's like hunt you down and make those shots don't start you don't hear that i think being in a word alone in just the fact of having to run over all these bloody military 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 steven partake in the community for retired people in nevada seems to turn the gun on himself before the authorities got to him 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

authorities say they found twenty three weapons in public so tell room nineteen more were discovered in this home. reported that the killer had two devices with him called stocks which are low semiautomatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic ones there are also thousands of ammunition rounds at public's house and explosives in his car the tragedies reignited the whole big debate over gun control in america in fact 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 there security analyst charles hsu bridge in the week told us 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 and no recording needs to be kept so the amount of ammunition or weapons are fine 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 then stop an individual from going to hyped vantage point such as in his 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 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 any 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 rif it was not now after the break if you can stay with me we go to syria and the ongoing battle to liberate their resort from.

europe has to either change or cease to exist people who work in this building the e.u. headquarters should change the world cup the european union would have to work on fewer issues both with better results we 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 still would transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. things that should be taught international this weekend so the syrian army is inching closer to driving islamic state out of terrors all province after three long years the city had to resort finally emerge from being under i still see at least from a military perspective next as more goes to have reported in the way people there are now struggling to recover from living in the long shadow of terror. in there is or you'll find little i'm mocked 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 track no hit him in the back in the waist and the legs a piece wanted 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 data's 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 dels two were others were also in the army defending their as order they were literally protecting their family against isis he is the only one left alive these family's loss is neither unique nor the worst. i was i'm only one to lose one through 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 you can see 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

what i guess the r.t. from there is what syria. 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 then as the kingdom's a long term ally of the united states but the king's visit didn't get off to the best of starts as you can see as he disembarked his plane his iconic golden escalator which usually goes with him everywhere suddenly stops over in the summer and may have been cheered up when his driver to moscow he was welcomed by a number of posters across the city center to mark as a rival and king someone didn't cut corners when it came to choosing accommodation it seems either the saudi delegation didn't just reserve several rooms they in fact booked at least three whole entire luxury hotels in the city center is no great surprise when you think it travels with essential is like furniture carpets and that aforesaid gold and escalator and the way down to business the meeting resulted

in three billion dollars worth of arms deals being signed and future investments in technologies and also were also a great industry oil economist dr mann do sell in may believes that saudi arabia and russia working together could in fact be good and solve global issues. better cooperation could help extend depression cuts and thus bowl start of the oil 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 syria although saudi arabia and russia are opposite sides and you call put 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. but so the news look these last seven days just a reminder you can continue to watch live stream of

a bounty count on it and it's march going on right now at r.t. dot com go where the train thousands of turned up feelings running really on both sides i'm kevin always thanks for watching for. what. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last turn. up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm 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 day. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was

a case 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 might. speak to you because there were no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker. this is where they pierced america's heart on the eleventh of september two thousand and one fifteen years after the attacks new york is celebrating its heroes the military. parade to on a one point five million troops. the saviors of freedom every eleventh of november this parade on as generations of troops from the fallen of world war one to those

returning from iraq or afghanistan their replacements are waiting the young generation the future of the world's most powerful military. these recruits is still in school they are between fourteen and seventeen years old and belong to the junior. jr o.t.c. is a pentagon program. like the feel. not for art like speak right from head to young. six year old three year olds not. just the price you're born with the price up.