i'll. say. this is our international in our recap of some of the week's big stories to come in the next thirty minutes then cut alone is independence referendum see spanish police used force against voters in a violent crackdown called the push for legal. had to come up empty handed the u.s. senate intelligence committee admitted in the week finding no evidence that so-called meddling affects a presidential. run fortunately the committee has here a wall the issue of collusion is still open no vote totals were affected me prosecutor general reportedly considering registering american media outlets now as

quote here in russia in response to unprecedented pressure against r.t. in the us. as the syrian army continues to push back islamic state. residents in liberated towns tell us about the horror of life living terrorists. songs many families keep. when they beat me up the cell block long down my back my sister started screaming and eating herself. i live from moscow kevin great to have you company this is the weekly a roundup of the big stories of the last seven days one of the stories we're covering first coverage of the week still happening right now over in spain let's check that out first the latest on the spanish prime minister. he will not allow

catalonia to go independent that was in an interview with the national newspaper wrote today last sunday's referendum sold the majority of catalans who voted say yes though to leaving spain riot police across catalonia use rough tactics on the day of the vote that left almost nine hundred injured.

video a particular shows the tactics used by riot police as people queue to vote in barcelona one officer can be seen kicking a president instead a case of those who simply throw. were just helping the people because they were throwing them up the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the hair and 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. by her hand if

you imagine that supported by a democracy you were there and seeing that the law that's what you consider the law since the vote count followed you know the regions these are live pictures of michelle in spain i've seen a number of mass protests both for and against independence this is one again. believe over my shoulder right now at this pro unity rallies underway in barcelona as an assistant check of the reports of the streets or some of the gridlock yet again because of thousands of people carrying was ill the streets of the central bar so low that was yet another day of protests taking place here and that's ok thanks to you all of these people carrying was you ready they say thank god alone separated from the rest of the country was a world a dark side of world right. now was that was happening and there was already it was already was that was

right was a good day was all the protests that have been taking place here i think is continuing to try to figure out its future and i was told they 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 in the sky.

this is public at holy aware as you can see the protests continue here on the iconic sware 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 end. in and of catalonia was really. was he was she was a lot as many people we see here do in terms of people now not only sudanese or young people who came here holding lack something to run in council 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 on the other. thing you can see. was gathered here. oh yes indeed.

they are quite loud and really are symbolic. to me was here and. thank you as you can see the atmosphere is quite hands 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 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 was this entire square in front of the catalan leader's 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 know and the commission stable in kolkata loney as independents voted

illegal but stated it was an internal matter the spain should deal with from the non-green reactions and inside the european parliament any priest even wolf spoke in the week about this new talk directly to us and give us his thoughts by the use reaction to events in catalonia. has 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 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 well as quickly and check in back at that pro unity rally in barcelona got live shots from there this is happening right now in the catalan capital safe to say hundreds of thousands of turned for that the south after noon hoping to keep spain together that's what they're there for they want to see unified spain is just days of course before the council and president's colors is

to address the region's parliament on tuesday the big question what is going to say it's thought he could announce independence or maybe we'll take a step back from a call for more talks with spain to try to get more autonomy it's really hard to know which way this is going to go but feelings running high on both sides they're looking to continue the coverage here on this channel. this is big news in the week the 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. that 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 channels also be no washington's raid editor in chief says the networks now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both stuff and contributors being targeted although no evidence suggests r.t. wins 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 and. not the left or vice versa or 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 russians did it saga where 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 bluebird sing a song of russian meddling last week and 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 tutor's contacted us with their proposal to forging 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 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 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 terms getting our reputation have been taken against last pacifically no where else have we operate through. it's a kind of shared experience of danger to the point we threw. 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 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 to russia's prosecutor general now than reportedly mulling over whether or not to declare u.s. media outlets as unwelcome here in russia that could possibly see big networks being removed from russian cable television but would have no impact on bureaus and journalist stations in the country it seems also the foreign ministry said yeah 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 are relevant to this in the week wiki leaks editor julian assange has weighed in on the issue as well tweeting a guide to modern western journalism it advice for being a reporter in twenty seventeen is to take a random global news story basically link it back to moscow suggesting the kremlin is pulling the string somehow. meantime donald trump to took to twitter to us 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 about this he told us he shares the president's concern over the state of american media right now. we have about five corporations that control or 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 still coming to terms of course with the deadliest mass

shooting in modern history there are fifty eight who were massacred in 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. that gunman knocked out the windows of his hotel room overlooking that festival before unleashing a shower of bullets into the crowd he also fired shots at fuel tanks stationed nearby they didn't go up when police stormed his room they found the shooter's body

as well as an os and all of weapons including a handgun the 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. in just the fact of having to run over all these bodies. still you would. just so. i just missed it but there was also so much pain and thinking like why. why did those people do to deserve the shooter was stephen power because sixty four year old who lived in the community for retired people in nevada seems he turned the gun on himself before the authorities got to him police say he had no 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 it's also reported that the killer had two devices with him called bump stocks things which are low semiautomatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic ones there were also thousands of ammunition rounds at publix house and explosives in his car the tragedies reignited that whole big debate over gun control in america in fact critics highlighted the absurdity that it's illegal to carry a fake gun on that famous last vegas strip but there are no restrictions for carrying a real firearm security analyst charles shoe bridge told us is near enough impossible then to prevent attacks like that from happening considering nevada's gun laws. given that the initial acquisition of the weapons themselves is in nevada it certainly is perfectly legal and 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 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 high 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 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 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. it more than use the week just ninety seconds away after the break we're going to syria and the ongoing battle to liberate the resort for myself . 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 he should be paying more attention to protecting its borders fighting against terrorists. 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. this is how. the economy is built around. washington. businessman to run this country business. it's not business as

usual it's business like it's never been. inching closer and closer to driving islamic state out whole province earlier this week government forces entered the east and. considered to be one of the last remaining strongholds in the country the russian military also gave aerial support in the latest advances.

after three long years the city of de resorts finally emerged from being under i still see least from a military perspective in the way more goes to have reported the people there are now struggling though to recover from living in the shadow of terror in their head as or you'll find little 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 shrapnel hit him in the back in the waist and the lags 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 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 odyssey from there is on syria. when you saudi arabia made his first official visit to russia on wednesday and it's been seen by many as an expected shift in riyadh foreign policy is the kingdom's

a long term ally of the united states but nonetheless the saudi king's visit didn't get off to the best start as he got off his plane his iconic golden escalating which usually goes everywhere with him suddenly stopped whether king summer may have been cheered up by his driving to moscow at least he was welcomed by a number of posters across the city center to mark his arrival and king someone didn't cut corners when it came to choosing accommodation the saudi delegation didn't just reserve several rooms in fact they booked at least three entire luxury hotels in the city center perhaps no great surprise and you can see the travels with essential furniture carpets and that of also a golden escalator anyway ahead of the talks with the saudi monarch president putin was asked about saudi arabia's choice of allies but let's face saudi this. is always going to be the states when it comes to your interests do you the saudis are using you. you said always will remain is that anything in the world

that is so absolutely constant. deals were done the meeting resulted in three billion dollars worth of arms deals being signed in fact in future investments in technologies also agreed all industry economist dr mamdouh seller may spoke to us about it he believes that saudi arabia and russia working together could be good news and solve global issues. better call british in could help them the production cuts and thus start of the old price in coming months and of course such a british in between saudi arabia and russia could be a positive or could believe flecked positively on the conflict is old or saudia arabia ad but i sure hope wasn't sides i knew called but issue between them could come to the situation and do know as they could reach event should be a break in the deadlock and to bring peace to see if. that's the way the news pans

out this last week come carbonneau in thank you for watching more for you on this channel right after this break. what politicians do. put themselves on a lot. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express an injury. or some want to be. that you'd like to be close to see what before three of the people. interested always at the water's edge. there should be. a patch or sudden passing i phone we just learned you were a south and taken your last bang turn. to us we all knew it would i

tell you i'm sorry. 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 spring. but then my feeling started change you talked about more and i can't was a kid still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our art. and i secretly promised to never again like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one quite different i speak to now because there are no other takers. to play and that mainstream media has met its maker.