whom you know. somewhere. among the stories that shaped the week. independence referendum. voters called. illegal. coming up empty handed the u.s. senate intelligence committee admits to finding no evidence that meddling affected . presidential election fortunately the committee who's who of. pollution. were. another blow to the.

on washington visa services for each other citizens following the. u.s. embassy in turkey last week. up to the moment developments alongside the big stories from the past seven days you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international our top story the spanish prime minister said he will not allow. to go independent in an interview with a national newspaper lost some of these disputed referendum sold the majority of. say yes to leaving spain but the vote a legal riot police are. rough tactics on the day and almost nine hundred people were injured.

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video in particular shows the tactics used by riot police asked people to vote in farsi an officer jumping with force on a person down mr. were just helping the people because they were throwing them up the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the pier 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. that's supported by a democracy you are there is seeing that the law that's what you consider the law well since the vote to place cuts alone all the regions in spain have seen a number of protests both for and against council on independence today sunday three hundred fifty thousand people went into the streets of barcelona in

a pro unity rally some protesters expressed gratitude to civil guard officers here they were the ones accused of using excessive force against. voters and my friend the day couple months were saying having them and giving them flowers of our picture shows some of the rally with spanish flags giving nazi salutes a sissy a trophy reports from boston to. the streets or some of the gridlock yet again because of thousands of people carrying was will the streets of the central barcelona that was yet another day of protest take place here and that's ok thanks to you all of these people carrying was refuted they say thank god a load of separated from the rest of the country was going to make the world a dark side of rolls royces. was that was happening and there

was a that it was already was that was the. day to day was all the protests that have been taking place here i think is continuing to try to figure out its huge shirt was cool right. but we do know is 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 right 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. gathered behind my back to protest against the events that we saw here on sunday they're protesting for the independence of catalonia i think i was really impressed than the kid was he was treated by a lot as any people we see here different kinds of people now not only sudanese or young people who came here a holding blacks up in the ground 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 the consul lining up. so that we can see it was wondering what it was to gather here it was there.

for you to see and i'm going to remember right away like they are quite loud and really are symbolic terms of fastenings he was here in barcelona that was thank you. as you can see the atmosphere is quite stands 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. thank god thank you thank you entire square in front of the cattle on leaders 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 or among the musts is a reaction to what occurred an e.u.

commission statement called council only as independence vote illegal but stated it was an internal matter of spain should do with prompting andree reactions inside. grippy in parliament and the piece stephen was 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 the eyes 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 that's according to the us senate intelligence committee on where this day 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. that we continue to investigate both intelligence and witnesses as it relates to the steel dossier. but unfortunately the committee has hit 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 will this channel has also been in washington's radar artie's editor in chief says the network is now facing a preset dented pressure in the united states with both style funk compter pewters being targeted all of this by 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 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. 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 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 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 of course i don't nonsense tutor's contacted us with their proposal to florida election. it is 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 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 channel to 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 it was hurting our reputation has been taken against last specifically no where else have we operate experience

a kind of high shared experience. to point. out of the country 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 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 when response russia's prosecutor general is reportedly mulling over whether to declare some u.s. media on welcome in russian that could possibly see big networks being removed from russian cable television but will have no impact on bureaus and journalist stationed in the country the foreign ministry has also said like for like measures are on the table. meet 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 and very julian assange is 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 on base of dealing the story back to moscow suggesting the kremlin is pulling the strings somehow donald trump also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials aren't looking into u.s. news outlets on their possible ruling manipulating public opinion with false reports we heard from the director of grassroots political consulting he to lists 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 the deadliest shooting in modern u.s. history happened this week we'll bring you up to speed on how the investigation is looking into this. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want. to go right to the

press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters and. i have the absolute conviction. to be. you. have a common interest to look at closer corporation and this is why i seem. to mobilize the driving force into business community but also we in culture entertainment and sports we do you know to bring it to societies much closer. to. a quarter of an hour into the program well in diplomatic relations between turkey

and the us have suffered another blow. visa services to its diplomatic facilities across america in response to washington taking this same step following that attention of one of its employees last week. recent events have forced the united states governments reassess the commencements of the government of key to the security of u.s. mission facilities and posts now in order to minimize the number of visitors to our embassy and consulates while this assessment proceeds effective immediately we have suspended all known immigrant visa services at sole u.s. diplomatic facilities and. the employee and question who worked at the u.s. consulate in istanbul was arrested last week he's accused of espionage and plotting to overthrow the government turkish authorities claim he has links to exile or it fit to local lynn who lives in the u.s. to the turkish government say as was the mastermind behind last year's failed coup

attempt turkey has long been urging the u.s. to extradite they run away a preacher but washington has yet to commit to any such move and that's just one issue that's been stoking tensions washington's support for kurdish forces fighting islamic state has also angered on caret which sees both groups as a terrorist organization a turkish leaders bodyguards were caught on camera talking opposition protesters during a trip to the u.s. back in may also straining ties hussein by chief of the middle east technical university told us the relations are likely to worsen further. first time in the history we have this type of for situation and the tension will increase because the american side and the turkish side are ready if you want to fight in this case and probably in the coming days there will be some other measures from both sides

it is not a good thing for nato members is not good for a strategic ally it is not yet nor poor and. not lawless like this but the tendency is not very promising the more turkey and america will have different views not only in syria but the another issue of. america is still coming to terms with the deadliest mass shooting in its modern history fifty eight people were massacred out a country music festival in las vegas last sunday another five hundred range. i. think. if i were i.

think. i. think. i. i. i. guess. we need to truck we just need to get people over to the hospital ok.

i. prefer. the gunmen knock down the windows of his hotel room overlooking the festival before unleashing a shower of bullets in the crowd he also fired shots at fuel tanks that were stationed nearby but they did not explode when police stormed the room their fun the shooter's body as well as an arsenal of weapons including a. a new wrist rifles. you can just hear the rounds almost like creeping up. like they're just it's like make those shots don't start you don't hear that it's like being in a word. it just. to run over. you and i know. i'm just so.

much like. the shooter was sixty four year old steven who lived in a community for retired people in it he turned the gun on himself before the authorities got to him police say he had no prior criminal record or no military background and the f.b.i. says he wasn't linked to any terrorist groups either the spite. turkey house launched a military operation against militants in western syria the move comes after turkey russia. reached an agreement during talks in kazakhstan last month. you know. russia and iran developed the plan the decisions which were made being implemented by us we're operating together with the free syrian army while russia is outside

i'm crazy is now supporting the free syrian army against. terrorists in a mission that's being coordinated with moscow turkish troops are poised that the syrian border but have not yet crossed into the country director of a british thing all the mid east tough believe there is now a tacit agreement between the moscow. 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 blues to drive out isis or. the syrian state did not endorse the operation on the called it in a in the fischel statement as an aggression. now adays we've heard all previous like you know 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 to what he's hoping to take it all along the way to ease the syrian crisis out staying in syria and after thirty six months the city of duress or house finally emerge from under an idle siege at least from a military perspective that's not the of 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 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 track 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

isis shells 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 shrapnel peppered 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 this 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 and 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 brothers were also in the army defending dead as order

they were literally protecting their family against isis he is the only one left alive these family's loss is neither unique nor the worst. i was in the me once lose one c three sons many families gave more than me in my office there was a man who lost five sons and a daughter this is a war it 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 others in areas still being liberated it's just the stott psychological scars left behind will take decades to heal my dad. from then is syria. lost the way the week's news

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