no voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . your charts internationally now recap of some of the week's biggest stories catalonia independence referendum saw police use force against voters and what turned out to be a violent crackdown has been good also called the push for secession and legal. coming up empty handed the u.s. senate intelligence committee admitted finding no evidence of the so-called russian meddling affected the presidential election unfortunately the committee who's who of the wall issue of collusion is still open no vote. brushes prosecutor general's reportedly considering registering american media outlets as quote now here in russia in response to unprecedented pressure against this channel in the

united states. as the syrian army continues to push back islamic state and province residents in the break to tell us about their experience of life living under the shadow of terrorists. want to leave one street all three sons many families. when they beat me up the cell block long. my sister started screaming and heating. and we did this with the weekly roundup of the big stories of the last seven days and one of those stories that dominated our coverage very much continues in spain that will into next week as well but where we are at the moment with catalonia is that the spanish prime minister said he will not allow catalonia to go independent in an interview with

a national newspaper that was today last sunday's referendum so the majority of catalans who voted to say yes to leave right place across catalonia use rough tactics though on the day of that vote last sunday it left almost nine hundred injured. i.

think you can. imagine that if. i one video in particular shows the tactics used by riot police as people queued to vote in barcelona one officer could be seen drunk literally pushed down a staircase others were thrown. who were just helping the people because they were throwing them from up. the stairs and throwing them down a pulling 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 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 catalonia and other regions in spain have seen a number of mass protests both for and against catalan independence right now with . a pro unity rally is underway and bus loads i was to say took over. the streets or some of the records yet again that was of thousands of people carrying that it was real the streets of the central barcelona that was yet another day of protests taking place here and that's ok because you were all these people carrying it was refuted they say thank god a load of separated from the rest of the country was a world obeyed orders rolled right. over was that was happening and there was a was that it was or it was that was.

quite 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 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 police ever riving right now and people are starting to clap we can hear right now sirens 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 their protesting for the independence of council on the the at. was really then he was she was a lot as many people we see here do in terms of people now not only students or young people who came here holding lack something to do and 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 and cancel any of . the if you can see hundred. gathered here there. probably you could see any independence. they are quite loud and really are symbolic you. see me was here and.

thank god as you can see the atmosphere is quite stance 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 so you can see them there are 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 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 for the new commission statement kolkata loney's independence vote illegal but stated it was an internal matter the spain should deal with prompting on reactions

inside the european parliament and one of those who spoke was in the piece stephen wolfe who came up to speak to us directly to about the 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 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. for. another big bit of unexpected news in the week was that there's still no evidence of collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia

according to the us senate intelligence committee they were unhappy about it by the sounds of it on wednesday they briefed the public on the ongoing probe looking into moscow's alleged meddling in last year's presidential election but no proof forthcoming still 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 here 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 and our channels been on washington's radar of course our editor in chief says the network is now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both stuff and contributors being targeted although again no evidence suggests r.t. influenced 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 charge and and. not the left or vice versa 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 report the disclose 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 pushed forward and like cheney of course you sure it is the president he shouted out hurts so does how much it cost and we even 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 the. new active measures excessive reputation have been taken against last specifically no where else have we average spring. it's the kind of pressure we experience again due to the point

we through truly being forced 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 r t 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 so in response russia's prosecutor general now is 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 it won't have an impact there on bureaus and journalist ation in the country and the foreign ministry also said indeed like for like measures are pretty much on the table. needed us the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media

outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists national instantly wiki leaks added to julia sands weighed in on the issue as well tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism his advice of being a reporter in twenty seventeen was to take a random global news story basically link the story back to moscow and then suggest the kremlin is pulling the string somehow because on and on and 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 hear from the director of grassroots political consulting he 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. a huge story that we just going to america still of course trying to come to terms with what turned out to be the deadliest mass shooting in its modern history fifty eight were massacred at the country music festival in las vegas last sunday another five hundred were injured. if i were. i.

i. i i. i i. i. we need to truck we just need 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 right into the crowd he also fired shots at field station nearby thankfully they didn't go up 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. 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. military. you would. so. i just there's also so much pain and thinking like why. why did those people do

deserve. the shooter's name stephen power that he was sixty four he lived in a community for retired people in the seams he turned the gun on himself 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 in publix hotel room that night nineteen more were discovered in this home it's also reported that the killer had two devices with him called stocks things which allow semiautomatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic ones there are also thousands of ammunition rounds at publix house and explosives in his car the tragedies reignited the big ongoing long running debate over gun control of america particularly this little thought that critics have highlighted the absurdity that it's illegal to carry a fake gun on that famous las vegas strip but there are no restrictions for

carrying a real firearm security on this child's bridge in the week told us it's near impossible to prevent attacks like that that night 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 so if 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 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 that you're going to have metal detectors that each and every hotel to detect such weapons and even then you can 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. in more of these that shape the week after the break kid ninety seconds we go to syria and the ongoing battle to liberate their resort from my sil . the fiction. to be. after a common interest to look at. why. to mobilize. business community. in culture entertainment and sports you know too. much.

europe has to either change or cease to exist the people who work in this building the headquarters 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. to see this weekend the syrian army is inching closer to driving islamic state to the dealers or province earlier this week government forces entered the eastern town of maya dean considered to be one of our last remaining strongholds in the

country now the russian military also gave aerial support in the latest advances. after three long years the city of deer resorts finally emerged them from being on the ice least from a military perspective. a senior correspondent talked to people about how they're struggling to recover from living in the shadow of terror. in there is or you'll

find little and mocked by war every crater has its 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 is so was right here trapped no hit him in the back in the waist and the legs a piece wanted his lungs is still suffers pain from it. isa eyes now survive the ice is shell's 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 beat me up they so blood flowing down my back my sister started screaming and hitting herself and the first time he was nearly killed by isis she felt 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 dust craters bullet holes and devastation everywhere entire districts of the city are in ruins

entire generations traumatized entire generations lost. most of the hands 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 a daughter they were literally protecting their family against isis is the only one left alive these family's loss is neither unique nor the worst suffocating the one to lose one or three sons and 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.

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 to russia on wednesday last and it's been seen by many then as an unexpected shift in riyadh foreign policy because the kingdom is a longtime ally of the united states but the saudi king's visit didn't get off to the best of starts as he just about off his plane is iconic golden escalating which usually goes with a neighbor with dogs. and may have been chewed up that is driving to moscow he was welcomed by a number of posters across the city center to mark as a rival and when he got the king some didn't cut corners seems when it came to

choosing accommodation the saudi delegation didn't just reserve rooms they booked at least three entire luxury hotels in the city center perhaps no great surprise when you consider there are travelers sensuous include furniture carpets and maybe until today anyway that golden escalator ahead of the talks with the saudi monarch president putin was asked about saudi arabia's choice of allies but let's face saudis. is always going to be the states when it comes to your political interests do you worry the saudis are using you because you said always will remain is that anything in the world that is so absolutely constant well deals were done big time the meeting resulted in three billion dollars worth of arms deals being signed in the future investments in technology is also agreed all industry economists talk to members sell in may in the week believe that saudi arabia and russia working together is a good thing that could help solve global issues. better cooperation could be

headed extend the production cuts and thus start of the only prize in coming months and of course such a shift in the saudi arabia and russia could be a positive or could reflect positively on the conflict is see the old boss out at a bad but i sure hope wasn't so right an equal but issue between them could congress situation and google as they could reach eventually a break in the deadlock and bring peace to see it. that's the way the week's news panned out here from out international i'm kevin zero in thanks for watching this bullet.

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