among the stories that shape the week. 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. unfortunately the committee who's who of a want. to know vote were. prosecutor general is reportedly considering registering american media quote. in russian in

response to increased invented pressure and can start to be in the us. syrian army continues to push back islamic state in. residence and liberated to talk to us about life on terrorists. one c three sons many families give. up the cell block long. my sister started screaming and heating. up to the moment developments alongside the big stories from the past seven days this is the weekly in our international response prime minister said he will not. go independent in an interview with a national newspaper last summer. spitted referendum so all the majority of council

voted say yes to leaving spain but madrid dubbed the vote a legal riot police across cuts alone a use rough tactics on the day and almost nine hundred people were injured.

because of. that. one video in particular shows the tactics used by riot police people. in boston one officer can be seen jumping with force on a person donisthorpe. we 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 i'm very it's where they got this girl that was one of the organizers and they grabbed her and they broke their her head. on the eve of your imagined that supported by

a democracy you were there is saying that's the law that's what you consider the law well since the votes council only on all the regions in spain i have seen a number of mass protests both for and against scotland and the pendants a pro unity rally took place today in barcelona and i was to stay you know was there for us. the streets or some of the gridlock yet again was a thousands of people carrying was built the street was the central barcelona that was yet another day of protests was taking place here and that's ok because you was these people it was you because they say they just was separated from the rest of the country was made was rejoicing was that was not going and there was a it was or it was was

was am today was all the protests that have been taking place here was continuing to try to figure out its huge was cool because. we do know is that just two blocks away from here there was another polling station that has 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 right 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 holocaust trees and the sky . this is not like a tele. you know 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 they're protesting for the independence of catalonia and what was really and pressed the benefits was being out on the streets was a lot as well many people we see here different sorts of people know not only sudanese or young people who came here holding lakhs of independent counsel on hand 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 the consul on the other. so thank you so we can see a couple hundred people who was gathered there was there. over here at c.n.n. and somebody in the premise right away right there are quite loud and really are

symbolic terms of passing through three weeks i was hearing her was. as you can see the atmosphere is quite stands out 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. thanks thanks entire square in front of the cattle on leaders headquarters is popped with thousands of people dressed in white who are 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. e.u. commission statement as call council only has independence for the legal 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 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. there is still no evidence of collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia according to the us 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. we continue to investigate both intelligence and witnesses as it relates to the steel dossier. but unfortunately the committee has who have a war 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 well this channel has also been on washington's radar artie's editor in chief sais the network is now facing on precision to pressure in the united states with both stuff on contra peters being targeted although no evidence suggests r.t. 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 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 short and 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 for 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 bluebird 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 because it is not only not to me because of position on direction 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 or nonsense shooters contacted us with their proposal and pushed through or don't like change of course are you sure it is presentation and hurts so that is how much it cost and we don't 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 and so recently new active measures excessive reputation of having tiki games last specific number and somehow through. kind of. experience last friday to try and beat your child out of the

country is absolutely insane with the idea that our t.v. is out there but 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 well in response russia's prosecutor general is reportedly mulling over whether to declare some u.s. media outlets i was on welcome in russia but 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 take counter matches against journalists representing media outlets of countries

that have restrictions on russian journalists. well wiki leaks editor julian assange has weighed in on the issue as well tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism he's advice for being a reporter in twenty seven is to take a random global news story and basically link the story back to moscow suggesting the kremlin is pulling the strings. well donald trump also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials aren't looking into u.s. news outlets there are a possible role in manipulating public opinion with false 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. we 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 the deadliest shooting in modern u.s. history happened this week we'll bring you up to speed on the investigation after the break. 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. have to go right to be cross that's what before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters in the. city.

in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington washington post media the media. voters elected businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done for. a quarter of an hour into the program welcome back america is still coming to terms

with the deadliest mass shooting in its modern history fifty eight people were massacred on a country music festival in las vegas on sunday another five hundred for injured. 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. well 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 shaped

nearby they did not explode though and when police stormed the room they found the shooter's body as well as an arsenal of weapons including a hung gun and numerous trifles. 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 stop you don't hear that i think being in a word. it just. to run over all these. 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 stephen park who lived in a community for retired people in the he turned a gun on himself before the authorities and police say he had no prior criminal

record no military background the f.b.i. say's he wasn't linked to any terrorist group the spying claims by islamic state. authorities say they found twenty three weapons in politics hotel room nineteen more were discovered at his home it's also reported that the killer two devices with him called bump stocks no they allow semi automatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic ones there for more deadly their world so thousands of rounds of products. in his car as well the tragedy has reignited the debate over gun control in america critics have highlighted 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 say as it's near enough impossible to prevent attacks like this considering the father's. given that the initial acquisition of the weapons themselves is in nevada it's certainly perfectly legal.

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 a high planted 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 i guess 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 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. turkey has launched a military operation against militants mainly former al qaeda fighters in western

syria the move comes after turkey russia under ron reached an agreement during talks in cassocks down last month. you know. russia and iran develop the plan the decisions which were made being implemented by us we're operating together with the free syrian army while russia is outside yanker is now supporting the free syrian army against. terrorists in a mission that's being coordinated with russia turkish troops are poised at the syrian border but have not yet crossed into the country we believe director of a british think tank on the middle east them or what kalf believes there's not a tussle agreement between damascus. will 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 that this has gone into you know

a further step previously when turkey went into syria for example in northern syria in general blows 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 all previous like one or two weeks ago we've heard the syrian foreign minister say that this is going to be like a test for turkey so this is a step forward which tells you that the cooperation between the countries has taken a step forward and apparently go to what he's hoping to take it all along the way to ease the syrian crisis out while staying with syria on the right of islamic state from there is a war province this week government forces entered the eastern town of maya dean considered to be one of those last remaining strongholds in the country the russian military also gave support in the latest advances there.

after three years the city of. being. released from a military perspective. of reports from there people are struggling to recover from living in the shadow of terror. in there is or you'll find little and mocked by war every crazy as it's

a 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 one to his lungs he still suffers pain from it. isa has now survived i says she tells him 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 and shrapnel peppered the baby 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 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 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. at the hands during the battle with isis i was shot just above my jaw the bullet and still there my left eye was destroyed and i have ten percent vision in my right eye. the reality of war two were others were also in the army defending dead as a 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 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 and war is it consumes and 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 there is syria. although they are the new. stories that affected your world this week back with more in half an hour's time more r.t. programs right it. has to either change or cease to exist people who work in this building headquarters should change the world cup 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 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. wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. we can all middle of the room.

this is where they pierced america's heart on the eleventh of september two thousand and fifteen years after the attacks celebrating its heroes the military. parade to on a one point five million troops. the saviors of freedom every eleventh of november this parade on as generations of troops from the fallen of world war one to those returning from iraq or afghanistan their replacements are waiting the young generation the future of the world's most powerful military. all. right. these recruits is still in school they have between fourteen and seventeen years old and.