whom you know. somewhere. this is our in our recap of some of the week's biggest stories independence referendum police use of force against voters in a violent. elite. coming up empty handed the u.s. senate intelligence committee admits finding. affected the american presidential election. fortunately the committee who's who in a war the issue of collusion is still open. russia's prosecutor general is reportedly considering registering american media. in

russia in response to increasing pressure against. the syrian army continues the islamic state in a province. liberated to talk to. terrorists. once he leaves one of three sons many families. block long time my back my sister started screaming and eating. up to the moment developments alongside the big stories from the past seven days here with the weekly here on r.t. international our top story the spanish prime minister said he will not. go independent in an interview with

a national newspaper last sunday's disputed referendum sold the majority of council voted say yes to leaving spain but madrid the vote illegal riot police. use rough tactics on the day and almost nine hundred people were injured. wow. little.

one video in particular shows the tuc tics used by riot police songs people queued to vote in barcelona one officer can be seen jumping with force on a person down a staircase. we're just helping the people because they were throwing them up the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the pier 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 where they got this girl that was one of the organizers. they grabbed her and they broke their

hand if you imagine 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 of the other regions in spain have seen a number of protests both for. council on independence today three hundred fifty thousand people went out onto the streets of barcelona in a pro unity rally some protesters expressed their gratitude to civil guard officers they were the ones accused of using excessive force against voters on referendum day catholics were seen hugging giving them flowers. other pictures show some of the rally what sponsorship flying's giving nazi salutes reporting from barcelona want to see if i was. not yet a god because of thousands of people carrying god as god will distribute this

central barcelona that was yet another to. take place here and that's. all that these people have a right to was you think they don't mind i don't know you haven't read in the country and i'm a god of a god that is rejoicing. that it was i that was not thinking there was that it was that was it i was being. was am today we've been following all the protests that have been taking place here i think is continuing to try to figure out its future thank you. thank you but we do know is that just two blocks away from here there was another calling station that has a building of a school and that 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. god i can see the police ever riving right now and people are starting to clap we can hear right now siren sounds pretty. these cars and we can hear how it contras in the sky. this is classic absolutely 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 and what was really impressed the dentist was being out on the street was a law that so many people we see here different sorts of people know not only students or young people who came here holding blacks up in the ground in council

on you we see here families with small children we see elderly people here and they are asking if they're shouting at the national police forces to leave the region the consul or any of the so so so that we can say it was hundred it was gathered there was this throw us here and so it was a kind of our way was they are quite loud and really are symbolic for the past three weeks i was here in barcelona was as you can see the atmosphere is quite hands as the protesters here are the ones who are against the police brutality and for the independents 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 thanks thanks entire square in front of the catalan leader's 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 call council only as independents felt illegal but stated it was an internal matter that spain should deal with prompting angry reactions inside the european parliament and the piece 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 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 russian 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. 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 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 this channel has also been on washington's radar artie's editor in chief sais the network is now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both staff on contributors being targeted all the out the spite no evidence to suggest 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 charge and 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 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 funds on deal like she actually went on to candidates spend about one billion dollars to make it look as if we've done something obscure shady or semi-legal summers or nonsense there's contacted us with their supposed to include florida and like cheney of course you sure it is presentation and afterwards 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 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 the. new active measures excessive reputation have been taken against last pacifically no where else have we average spring. it's a kind of shared experience again due to the point a through truly out of the contrie washington 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 well in response to all this russia's prosecutor general is reportedly mulling over whether to declare some u.s. media outlets on welcome 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. the russian foreign ministry can take count of matches against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalist russian what he leaks founder julian assange has weighed in on the issue too tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism his advice for being a reporter and 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. donald trump also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials aren't looking into u.s.

news outlets and 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 more of the week's news right after this.

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 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 doing will transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common. i have the absolute conviction. to be europe. and russia. have a common interest to look at closer corporation and this is why i seem. to mobilize. into business community. in culture

entertainment and sports you know to bring the two societies much closer. hello again america is still coming to terms with the deadliest mass shooting in modern history fifty eight people were massacred at a country music festival in las vegas last weekend another five hundred were injured.

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the gunmen knocked out 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 but they didn't explode when police stormed the room they found the shooter's body as well as an arsenal of weapons including a hunger and numerous trifles. you can just hear the rounds almost like creeping up . like they're just it's like. don't you don't hear that. in just. to run over. you with it oh. i'm just so. i just.

like. the shooter was sixty four year old steven lived in a community for retired people and he turned the gun on himself before the authorities got to him police say he had no prior criminal record no military background on the f.b.i. say he wasn't linked to any terrorist groups by islamic state authorities say twenty three weapons and. nineteen more were discovered at his home it's also reported that the killer two devices with them called bump stocks semi automatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic ones there were also thousands of ammunition rounds of products explosives in this car to the tragedies reignited the debate over gun control in america critics have highlighted the absurdity that it's illegal to fake the famous las vegas strip but there are no restrictions for carrying

a real firearm security analysts say it's near enough impossible to prevent attacks like this considering the state of nevada is. given that the initial acquisition of the weapons themselves is in nevada it certainly is perfectly legal and no recording needs to be kept of 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 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 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 less 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 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. turkey has launched a military operation against al nusra militants in western syria the move comes after turkey russia under ron reached an agreement during talks in kazakhstan last month you know. russia and iran developed a plan the decisions which were made being implemented by. 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 moscow turkish troops are poised at the syrian border but have not yet we believe crossed into the country director of a british thing tank on the middle east amar waka believes there is now a tussle agreement between. 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 that this has gone into you know a further step previously when turkey went into syria for example in northern syria in 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 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 for 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 is out staying in syria where after thirty six months the city of during the war has finally emerged from under and i still see at least from a military perspective as much as the reports people there are now struggling to

recover from living in the 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's still suffers pain from it. isa has now survived the ice is shell's twice he remembers his last brush with death and how his sister found him. i said judy judy my back hurts but she sat on my legs were hit when they beat me up they so blood flowing down my back my sister started screaming and hitting herself the first time he was nearly killed by isis she felt he was just ten months old and shrapnel 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 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. 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 to brothers 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 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 areas still being liberated it's just a start psychological scars left behind will take decades to heal more i guess the team from dinners or syria. dell days. into that story and more on r t c n thirty. called the feel we don't know something. everyone in the world should experience to lead their lives and you can get it on the old the old. the old according to

just. the modern world come along for the ride. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money coburn and president has thrown down a lot of boys that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i mean it's still fun r t america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get the straight talk in the straight news. to me lead. all the world's a stage and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are into

american playing artie america offers more artsy american personal lives in many ways the news landscape is just like this you know real news fake names good actors that act and in the end you could never hear on. so much parking all the world's a stage all the world's a stage all the world's a stage and we are definitely a player. would you have for breakfast yesterday why would. put those up faces your wife that's. why janine when that was your biggest fear when you're in a bit on a hay ride with no less time reading the book to see if you ever miss the things the best part about. exploring the topic that doesn't belong in the. now i did to do duty question more. feel. my passion tonio and this is america's lawyer

a few weeks ago as the state of florida was bracing for hurricane erma to make landfall millions of florida residents were ordered to evacuate due to the destructive potential of the storm many chose to heed those warnings in evacuated while others made the decision to stay put some residents were allowed to make a choice at all and they paid for it with their lives a nursing home in southern florida refused to evacuate their residence after the storm hit the facility was left without electricity had no means to care for the residents at all not surprisingly nearly one dozen elderly citizens at that nursing home died as a result and tonight will tell you why this disaster happened and how the governor of florida refused to do anything when he was alerted to the problem and later in the show a brazilian organization says members of an amazon tribe were ruthlessly murdered by gold miners leading to an official investigation so don't go anywhere.