if. among the stories that shape the. independence referendum police use force against voters in. madrid calls the push for secession illegal. coming up empty handed the u.s. senate intelligence committee admits finding no evidence that so-called russian meddling affected the american presidential election last year. but unfortunately the committee whose who want. to move. were. russia's prosecutor general is reportedly considering registering at murray can

media. in russia in response to increase pressure against. the us. the syrian army continues to push back islamic state in. the launch is an offensive against terrorists in syria a lot of reaction to that later in the program. but the top stories from the past seven days on right off to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international i mean the only our top story they spawn the prime minister has said he will not. to go independent in an interview with a national newspaper last sunday's referendum saw the majority of who voted say yes to leaving spain riot police lonia tactics on the day of the vote that left almost

nine hundred people injured.

i one video in particular shows the time pixie used by riot police people to vote in barcelona one officer can be seen dropping person in a staircase while others suffered similar fates. people because they were throwing them from. 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. that supported by a democracy you were there and seeing that the law that's what you consider the law

well since the vote and all the regions in spain have seen a number of protests both for and against council on independence a pro unity rally took place today in barcelona. was there for us. the streets are some of the results yet again was of thousands of people carrying it out it was real the streets of the central barcelona that was yet another day protests taking place here and that's ok because we're all of these people carrying the i was going through it it was they say they saw was separated from the rest of the truth was were overweight are were letters rosaries. was diabetic and there was a was that it was already was that was the reason that so it was.

quite a day to day was all the protests that have been taking place here was continuing to try to figure out its teacher who was the old school rule. we do know 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 this 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 and the sky. this is a lot like a 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 independence of catalonia thank. goodness really and chris thanks a lot. he was she was a lot as any people we see here different kinds of people now not only sudanese or young people who came here are holding black something different in counseling and 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 hundred people. gathered here i was there. for you to see any independent thanks they are quite loud and really are symbolic terms of passing things 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 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 leader's headquarters is popped 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 while a new commission statement called cuts alone is independence vote illegal but stated it was an internal matter that spain should deal with prompting angry

reactions inside the european parliament and me piece stephen walt spoke to us about the e.u.'s reaction to events in castle near. 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. well there is still no evidence of collusion between double trumps election campaign and russia according to the us senate intelligence committee on wednesday they brief 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 channel has also been in washington trade r r t's editor in chief sais the network is now facing. pressure in the united states with both staff and contributors being targeted although no evidence suggests r.t. influence the election. the archie ads 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 in 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. he sure does a presentation of the adverts to 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 of 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 to skirting our reputation have been taken against us last specifically no where else have we ever express. it's a kind of shared experience to damed us to point you through truly being forced out of the country is absolutely insane with the idea that our t.v. is out there and 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 russia's prosecutor general is reportedly mulling over whether to declare some u.s. media outlets as unwelcome in russia that 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. that i see the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists. wiki leaks founder julian assange chose

weighed in on the issue as well tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism his advice for being a reporter in twenty seventeen is to take a random global news story and basically link this story back to moscow suggesting the kremlin is pulling the strings somehow. donald trump he also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials aren't looking into u.s. news outlets and there are 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 have about five corporations that control or 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 and we've got live reaction on the latest developments from syria in about ninety seconds times they with or to international. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around. washington washington media the. voters elect the businessman to run this country business because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done.

europe has to either change or cease to exist people who work in this building the headquarters should change the world the european union would have to work on 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. would transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. quarter of an hour into the program welcome back turkey has launched a military operation against militants consisting of former al qaida fighters in

western syria the move comes after turkey russia reached an agreement during talks in kazakhstan last month. you know. russia and iran developed a plan the decisions which were made being implemented in the us we are operating together with the free syrian army while russia is outside. well i was supporting the free syrian army against. terrorists in the mission that's being coordinated with russia turkish troops are poised at the syrian border but have not yet we believe crossed. the country. also in syria on the rights of islamic states jurors or province another development this week government forces entered the eastern time considered to be one of the last remaining strongholds in the country the russian military also gave aerial support in the latest advances

there. ok back to the latest developments of what's happening today open province on the border with turkey we're joined by keith amar is director of a british thing that focuses on the crises in syria the mideast you're very welcome at live province it is one of the last al qaeda strongholds in syria that come

turkey on the free syrian army drive. good evening it's actually in the talk but yes the whole point is as we understand from what is being published in the public sphere is that this province is going to be divided into certain spheres turkey is going to be positioned or turkish observers and allied forces remnants of the euphrates shield will be called the free syrian army and i think it to be positioned in a certain place apparently as we understand now the firstly the very city of it live itself and then there will be other areas where it is about the nusra or hit that. are going to be the interest rate out and then there will be other areas where. al qaida is going to be mainly focused and apparently the there is going to

be a coordinated effort to push them out of certain areas and hunt them down in other areas that are in between the three countries turkey syria russia the point as you say the operation was coordinated with russia and iran how deep is their cooperation with on korea. well the very fact that. this time around when turkish observers and troops are heading into the country and we haven't heard from the syrian government it means that this has gone into you know a further step previously when turkey went into syria for example in northern syria general blues to drive out isis or. the syrian state did not endorse the operation on the called it in a in an official statement as an aggression. now adays we've heard or previous like it one or two weeks ago we've heard the syrian foreign minister say that this is going to be like a test for turkey and really understand that the forces

a started to come in there has been. some few observers you know starting to we. have some recall on the ground from the turkish army still but yet the syrian government hasn't said anything so apparently they're saying ok we are going to be more subtle about this now we're not still we're they're not fully fully endorsing this officially endorsing this but they're not going to the commission as well so this is a step forward which tells you that the cooperation between the countries has taken a step forward and apparently to what he's hoping to take it all along the way to ease the syrian crisis out of moscow how's being wary of the free syrian army are they reliable allies for turkey. well. not very much but then there is this. how do you say dichotomy you know the in

a sense if you don't offer them hope they will still want to resist and sabotage every single political agreement and if you want to over them hope who's going to guarantee them is going to be turkey and do they want to cooperate with the key not so much even though they are dependent on turkey and at the same time about the most raw the affiliated group the main threat in that region is basically threatening them day and night saying you know you've got to pay for this you're treated traitors and once you deal with turkey and russia are you going to be punished and that you think yourself that because you're not backed by the turkish army that you are like you can you can do whatever you want we can hunt you down and so on so it's a very tricky situation but this whole position needs to be firm and did the slightly you know should slowly but surely hopefully into a situation where those groups could be hopefully turned into some sort of

a political power in equal settlement and they could lay down their weapons and you know go back to syria proper amar calf's director of the nooses the thing speaking to us from london thank you very much for your time thank you very much so . now america is still coming to terms with the deadliest mass shooting in its modern history fifty eight people were massacred out of country music festival in las vegas last sunday another five hundred were injured.

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

well piecing together what occurred the gunman knocked on 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 they did not explode when police stormed the room they thought in the shooter's body as well as an arsenal of weapons including a humvee a numerous rifle. you can just hear the rounds almost like creeping up on you. 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. military service that you would oh. i'm just so.

i just there's also so much pain i'm thinking like. why did those people do to deserve. the shooter was sixty four year old steven public who lived in a community for retired people in the he turned the gun on themselves before the authorities got to him police say he had no prior criminal record no military and the f.b.i. says he was not cling to any terrorist groups the spike claims by islamic state. where authorities say about they find twenty three weapons in public so tell room nineteen more were discovered i was home so also reported that the killer had two devices with him called bump stocks which allows semi automatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic weapons they were also thousands of ammunition rounds of products ice on the explosives in this car the tragedy has reignited the debate over gun control now in america critics have highlighted the absurdity of 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. 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 aquatic 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 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. well more can we find on america is a deadliest shooting in modern times on our website at r t dot com a plethora of other stuff there as well as always more of the story so that shape the week here in thirty minutes time. i would need to make this manufacture consent to step into a public well. when the roman closes and protect themselves. with the flame of. lifts only the one percent told.

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