we. point that out for that so. this is out in a recover some of the week's biggest stories catalonia is independence referendum c. spanish police use force against voters in a violent crackdown last weekend as madrid pulls a push for secession illegal. coming up empty handed the u.s. senate intelligence committee had submitted finding no evidence that so-called russian meddling affected the presidential election. unfortunately the committee who's here toward the issue of collusion are still open to no vote or effect. plus from 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. . and the other big news of the week the syrian army continue to push back islamic state interests all provinces residents and liberated towns talk to us they tell us about their life living under the shadow of terrorist siege i wasn't the only one to lose one or three sons many families gave me when he became a cell block long down my back my sister started screaming and eating. this the weekly around of the big stories of the last seven days with me kevin zero in francs for joining us here now to internationalise a wish list and six pm that one of the big stories we covered was in spain and that's how we go in next. there's been developments there the spanish prime

minister's said he will not allow catalonia to go independent today that interview gave to a national newspaper last sunday's referendum for the majority of catalan voted say yes to leaving spain though riot police across catalonia use rough tactics on the day of the vote that left almost seven nine hundred other people injured.

one video particularly shows the tactics used by one brought the show officers of people queue to vote. one officer can be seen literally drop kicking a person down the staircase while others were thrown. were just helping the people because they were throwing them from up top of the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the care and kicking them someone is on the floor and there is a guy that jumps on the person that's down and they went out and very 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 if that's 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 independence right now pro unity rallies underway by. so i don't know if it was a set truck or about reports from. the streets or some of the records got a guy that was of thousands of people writing about it was real the streets of the central barcelona that was yet another day of protests taking place here and that's ok because the rule of these people carrying was refuted they say thank god a load of separated from the rest of the country was were overweight are were letters rosaries. was that was happening and there was

a was that it was already was that was the future oh that's was a. day to day we've been following all the protests that have been taking place here was thanks continuing to try to figure out it's a huge part of the world already. but we do know is 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 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 sirens of police cars and we can hear khalid copters and the sky.

this is classic ottilia where 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 that they're protesting for the independence of catalonia thank you. i was really impressed then yes i think he was she was a lot as any people we see here do in terms of people now not only students or young people who came here holding flack something different 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 any of . the you can see. gathered here there. probably you could see any independent like they are

quite loud and really are symbolic. to me when i was here in barcelona. 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 of protests over there you can see them there is a 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 entire 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. and the commission statement called couple only as

a dependent voted illegal but stated it was nonetheless an internal matter that spain should deal with but prompted angry reaction inside the european parliament in front of me piece stephen wolfe spoke and he spoke directly to us as well about the ease reaction to events 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 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. for the people now in the streets pro unity rally today in barcelona people want to keep spain together these are the latest pictures in literally just within the last hour or so stunning it calls the capital and capital hundreds of thousands portably hoping to keep spain to get there is just days

before council president kelly is. set to address the region's parliament on tuesday not quite sure where he's going to go what exactly is going to say a lot of his supporters were is going to bit soft on it we'll keep you fully posted . for. it is joining us by the way if you can see that little box on the screen there we've got cameras trained on a d.i.y. store that's called far in the northwest of moscow bigelf can cover in about three thousand square meters of that property hundreds were evacuated a helicopter has been sent there look take a closer look at that will keep her pictures almost see what happens throughout the course of the next hour or so next so the still no evidence of collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia it was big news in the week it came out

from 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 affected they did not in any way shape or form that we've been able to find alter that channels also be no washington's reda our editor 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 influenced the election. they are to the ads on twitter were almost uniformly anti clinton and those i think you look at them and you have to conclude now 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 the complete opposite there's 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 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 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 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 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 sometimes legal summers or nonsense contacted us with their proposal and pushed through or don't like change of course you sure it is presentational it out hurts so does how much it cost and we don't reach 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 of the most feared news network on you tube and facts last month we hit the milestone of over five billion views nevertheless this ban only adds to the mounting pressure on the channel so recently new active measures excessive reputation of having taken to games last specific number and so have we operate through once a kind of a high shirtless experience. to a point it's virtually out of us to contrary 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 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. in response to russia's prosecutor generals reportedly mulling over whether or not to close some u.s. media outlets as unwelcome here in russia that could possibly see big networks being removed from russian cable t.v. but it won't have an impact partly on bureaus and journalist stationed in the country also the foreign ministry said yeah like for like said the measures are on the table. you can i say the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists. wiki leaks editor julie disarms weighed into on the issue

tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism as he put it his advice for being a reporter in twenty seventeen was to take a random global news story basically link it to the story about moscow then suggested in the string somehow and i've heard that before well donald trump also took to twitter as well to ask why american intelligence officials aren't looking into u.s. news outlets and their possible role of manipulating public opinion with false reports we had from the director of grassroots political consultant 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 the big news in the week america still of course coming to terms with the deadliest mass shooting in its modern day history fifty eight were massacred at the country music festival in las vegas last sunday another five hundred were injured. i. i. i i i.

i i. i. i i. i i i. i i. i. 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 shots of fuel tanks at the station nearby thankfully they didn't explode at least when police stormed his 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. 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. military. you would know. i'm just so. i just there's also so much pain and thinking like why. why did those people do to deserve the shooter was

a sixty four year old called steven power that he lived in the community for a tired people in the he turned the gun on himself it seems 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 despite claims by islamic state authorities say they found twenty three weapons and products hotel room nineteen more discovered it is home it's also reported that the killer had two devices with him called bomb stocks which apparently allows semiautomatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic ones there also thousands of i mean issued rounds of products house and explosives in this car the tragedies regretted that whole big long running debate over gun control in america and critics have highlighted the absurdity that it's indeed illegal to carry a fake gun on that famous las vegas strip but there are no restrictions for carrying a real firearm security bridge in the week told us it's near impossible to prevent attacks like that last weekend considering the gun laws. given that the initial

acquisition of the weapons themselves in nevada is certainly perfectly legal no recordings needs to be kept so if the amount of ammunition or weapons are part 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 of that can be done then stop an individual from going to a high percentage 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 at 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 earning 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. has been with us off the break we go to syria in the ongoing

battle to liberate there is of my son just one of what you looking about is this all going fire in a wider market in moscow big plays we'll tell you more about that as well coming up . in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corcoran's confirmation from washington to washington post media the media the. voters elect a businessman to run this country business if. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want. to be for us this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. syrian army is inching closer to driving islamic state out of diapers all providence after three long years that city and there is always finally emerge from being under i still see at least for a military perspective more goals of reports next on how people there are struggling though to recover from living in the long shadow of terror. in there is

or you'll find little i'm mocked by war every crazy as it's 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 trapped 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 the isis shells twice he 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 the sole 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 and shrapnel the baby lisa slicing off a toe in all he has eleven scars and

a lump of jagged metal in his lungs that still eventually kill him but at least he made it the other two year old boy at the scene wasn't so lucky they sought health 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 davis or where the population could find sanctuary there is no place that the battle left untouched and 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 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 suffocating wants to lose one or three sons many families even more than me in my office there was a man who lost five sons and a daughter this is what. destroys everything in the end of it

for many the worst is over the breaking of the siege of dead us 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 dinners or syria. the king of saudi arabia made his first official visit here to russia on wednesday and it's been seen by many as an unexpected shifted in riyadh foreign policy is the kingdom's a long term ally of the united states but said the king's visit didn't get off the best the start says you bet see here as he got off his plane his iconic golden school eight inch usually goes with never was a nice dogs. ever king salmon may have been cheered up by his drive into moscow at least he was welcomed by a number of posters because that is the market. didn't cut corners when it came to choosing accommodation apparently the saudi delegation didn't just reserve several

rooms they booked out a whole three entire luxury hotels in the cities and maybe no great surprise when you think the travel with all those essential xin clothing furniture carpets for sort for said golden escalator the meeting resulted in three billion dollars worth of arms deals being signed and future investments in technologies also agreed all industry economists talk to man to sell him a believes that saudi arabia and russia working together in the future could be good news and help solve global issues. better cooperation could help stem the production cuts and thus out of the oil price in coming months and of course such cooperation between saudi arabia and russia could be a positive or could inflict positively on the conflict is syria old or saudi arabia and the latter opposite sides 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 see it come of six twenty seven time just for a levy a quick look at those pictures again of my shoulder more of that huge fire that engulfed in a shopping mall a do yourself shopping mall on the outskirts of moscow no injuries reported there thankfully but run three thousand people were taken to safety from a building try to keep across that some dramatic pictures there the live feeds on our site right now still got a camera trained on it along with the rest of the news comes a place to be for. europe has to either change or cease to exist the people who work in this building a new headquarters should change the rules of the european union would have to work in 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 and judicial systems otherwise the europe we have today is doomed it will transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. with manufacturing consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fire. larry go read me the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million real really lucky.