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he will not allow catalonia to go independent in an interview with a national newspaper last sunday's referendum saw the majority of council lands who voted say yes to leaving spain riot police across catalonia use rough tactics on the day of the vote but left almost nine hundred people injured.

one video in particular shows the tactics used by riot police people queued to vote in barcelona. can be seen kicking a person case others were thrown. 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. supported by a democracy you were there is saying that's the law that's what you consider the law. since the catalonia and other regions in spain have seen a number of mosque. protests both for and against council on independence a pro unity rally took place today in barcelona to see a church was there for us. the streets or some of the records yet again because of thousands of people carrying that it was filled the streets of the central barcelona that was yet another day of protests taking place here and that's ok thank you all of these people carrying was trying to do anything they say thank god alone separated from the rest of the country was going to make the world a dart that is all right. was right that was happening and there

was a that it was or it was that was the future that's was right was day to day we've been following all the protests that have been taking place here i think is continuing to try to figure out its future and i was already 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 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 classic utterly 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 the thing was really impressed the dentist was being out on the street by a lot as so many people we see here different sorts of people now not only sudanese or young people who came here holding back something different in concert long as we see here families with small children we see elderly people here and they are asking if they're shouting at national police forces to leave the region and cancel any of this. so we can see a couple hundred people was gathered there was there. were you could see and i'm

sorry in the primaries where i was there are quite loud and really are symbolic forms of massive things to me when i was here in barcelona i was as you can see the atmosphere is quite stands out as the protesters here are 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 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 of the old thanks and fire square in front of the cattle on leaders headquarters is parked 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. well the commission statement kolkata loney is independence vote illegal but stated it was an internal matter that spain should deal with prompting angry reactions inside the european parliament m.e.p. stephen walt spoke to us about the e.u.'s 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 council on what the must first be a denunciation of the violence by the police over vies the police will feel that they could do it again. i. feel. there is still no

evidence of collusion between donald trump said election campaign that's according to the us senate intelligence committee on whedon's 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. but unfortunately the committee has who have 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 well this chalo has also been on washington's radar artie's editor in chief sais the network is now facing on preset dented pressure in the united states with both stuff and contributors being targeted although no evidence suggests 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 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 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 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 semi-legal of course i don't nonsense tutor's contacted us with their proposal to florida 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 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 those terms getting our reputation have been taken against last specifically

no where else have we average experienced the kind of pressure we experienced to danger to the point it's virtually being forced 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 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 of nine hundred eighty. for oil in response russia's prosecutor general is reportedly mulling over whether to declare some u.s. media outlets unwelcome in russia could possibly see big networks being removed from russian cable television but will have no impact on bureaus and journalists stationed in the country the foreign ministry has also said like for like measures

are on the table. need that i see the russian foreign ministry can't count on matches against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists working leaks senator julian assange has weighed in on the issue as well tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism his advice for being a reporter in twenty seven dean is to take a run them global news story and basically link the story to moscow suggesting the kremlin is pulling the strings somehow. well donald trump also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials aren't looking into u.s. news outlets on their possible role in manipulating public opinion with full reports we heard from the director of grassroots political consulting he told us he shares the president's concern over the state of american media you have about five corporations that control our entire media apparatus 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. america is still coming to terms with the deadliest mass shooting in its modern history fifty eight people were massacred about a country music festival in las vegas last sunday another five hundred were injured .

i. i. i. i. i i i. i. we need to try to get people out of the hospital ok.

the gunman knocked the windows of his hotel room overlooking the festival before unleashing a shower of bullets on the crowd he also fired shots at fuel tanks that were stationed nearby did not explode when police stormed the room the shooter's body as well as an arsenal of weapons including a numerous rifle. you just hear the rounds almost like creeping up on you. can you feel like they're just it's like hunt you down and make those shots don't

stop you don't hear that it's like being in a word. in just the fact of having to run over. you with it oh. i'm just so. i just there's also so much pain i'm thinking like. why did. the shooter was sixty four year old steven who lived in a community for retired people in the he turned a gun on himself before the authorities got police say he had no prior criminal record no military background and the f.b.i. say he wasn't linked to any terrorist groups the spy claims to otherwise by islamic state. well authorities say they find twenty three weapons in publix hotel room nineteen more were discovered his home it's also reported that the killer two devices with him called bomb stocks which was semi automatic weapons to be modified

into fully automatic weapons there were also thousands of ammunition runs at publix hosts and explosives in his car the tragedies reignited the debate over gun control in america critics some highlight that the absurdity that it's illegal to carry a fake gun on the famous las vegas strip but there are no restrictions for carrying a real firearm security analyst charles shewbread sees it's near enough impossible to prevent attacks like this considering nevada's gun laws given that the initial acquisition of the weapons themselves in nevada is certainly perfectly legal. needs to be kept so the amount of ammunition or weapons are gone 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 that can be done to then stop an

individual from going to a high percentage 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 to detect such weapons and even then you're going to have a mechanism a legal mechanism in place to prevent people actually running from the arms 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 after the break we go to syria on the on going battle to liberate dirs or from myself. europe has to either change or cease to exist people who work in this building the e.u. headquarters should change the rules of 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 why there was the europe we have today is doing it were transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common.

twenty minutes into the program welcome back to r.t. the syrian army is inching closer to driving islamic states out of doris or province earlier this week government forces entered the eastern ton of considered to be want to buy sales last remaining strongholds in the country the russian military also gave aerial support in the latest advances.

well after thirty six months the city of terrorist or house finally emerged from being under ice all seen least from a military perspective as murat does the of reports people there are struggling to recover from living in the shadow of terror all the time. 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 guilty 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 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 these 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 order 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. the king of saudi arabia made his first official visit to russia on wednesday and it's been seen by many as an unexpected shift in riyadh foreign policy the kingdom is a long term ali of the united states but the saudi king visit didn't get off to the

greatest of starts disembarked the plane his iconic golden escalator which usually goes with him everywhere suddenly stopped however king solomon may have been cheered up on his drive into moscow he was welcomed by a number of posters across the city center to mark his arrival and king solomon didn't cut corners when it came to choosing accommodation the delegation didn't just reserve several rooms they dined at least three entire look sharee hotels in the city center perhaps no great surprise when your travel essential include furniture carpets and not called an escalator. when the meeting itself resulted in three billion dollars worth of arms deals being signed on future investments in technology is also agreed upon oil industry economist dr mom do salomé believes that saudi arabia and russia working together could help solve global issues better

cooperation could help stem the production cuts and thus that of the prize in coming months and of course such. as saudi arabia and that i share could be a positive or could lead flecked positively on the conflict is although a saudi at a very bad but i sure hope wasn't side and you call but a shim between them could come to the situation and google is they could reach eventually a break in the deadlock and bring peace to see it. well valve is the way that week's news pun died here in our to the international i mean you know meal which for watching. would need to make this manufacture consent to stick it to the public well. when

the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the primary go round lift certainly don't want. to ignore middle of the room sick. delusion in the real news. the world. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us 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 other . but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again

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 quite different to speak to now because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker.