in the stories that shape to the week catalonia is independence referendum season spanish police use of brutal violence against voters as madrid calls the push for secession illegal. coming up empty handed the u.s. senate intelligence committee admits to finding no evidence that russia's alleged meddling affected the outcome of the american presidential election unfortunately the committee has hit a wall of collusion still open no vote totals were affected. another blow to bilateral relations and washington cut back and services for each other citizens following the detention of a u.s. embassy employee in turkey last week.

whether you're watching from the gallery and it's your birthday right here in moscow or from anywhere in the world of this is our international and we're certainly glad to have you with us all right the spanish prime minister has told a national newspaper that he will not allow the region of catalonia to break away from his country last sunday's disputed referendum saw the vast majority of catalogs who voted say yes to secession madrid however insists the vote was illegal and riot police across catalonia used violent tactics on the day to try and prevent it and almost nine hundred people were injured.

i. particularly. remember that. one video in particular shows of the tactics used by riot police as people queued to vote in barcelona one officer can be seen jumping with force on a person down

a staircase. we were just helping the people because they were throwing them from up top of the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the cage 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 it's where they got this girl that was one of the organizers and they grabbed her and they broke their her hand if you imagine that that supported by a democracy you were there is saying that's the law that's what you consider the law since the vote catalonia and other regions in spain have seen a number of mass protests both for and against come on independence on sunday three hundred fifty thousand people rallied in barcelona to show their support for unity and some protesters expressed their gratitude to civil guard officers some of whom were using force against the voters on the referendum day catalans were seen hugging them and giving them flowers and other pictures shows at the rally with spanish flags giving nazi salutes or. it is like

a social circle ports the streets or some other records you got a guy was a thousands of people carrying it was real the street was the central barcelona that was yet another day of protests taking place here and that's ok because we're all of these people carrying was refuted they say they saw was separated from the rest of the country was were overweight are were letters rosaries. was diabetic and there was a was that it was or it was that was. quite a day to day was all the protests that have been taking place here was continuing to try to figure out it's a good start with the old school rule. but 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 thank you ok i can see police ever arriving 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 what i got aliyah 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 thank you this is really. and then

he was she was a lot as you know the many people we see here do find signs of people now not only sudanese or young people who came here i holding flak something different 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 any of. the you can see. gathered here. rather you see and. they are quite loud and really are symbolic. to me was here and. as you can see the atmosphere is quite stands 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 this entire square in front of the catalan leader's headquarters is packed 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 that was artie's an associate and artie's medina coaching over there for us in barcelona now an e.u. commission a statement called the catalonians independence vote illegal bud stated it was an internal matter that spain should deal with prompting angry reactions inside the european parliament and stephen wolf spoke to us about the use reactions to events in total. 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 catalan but the must first be a denunciation of the violence by the police over their eyes the police will feel that they could do it again. i. feel. i switching gears now there's still no evidence of collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia this according to the us senate intelligence committee on wednesday they briefed the public on the ongoing probe 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. this channel has also been on washington's radar is editor in chief so the network is now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both staff and contributors being targeted all that a despite no evidence or to suggest r.t.d. actually influenced to be 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 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. elections was 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 it's 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 disclose how much we spend on ads the sum was two hundred seventy five thousand dollars and it's funny to consider 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 tutors contacted us with their proposal good florida election 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 u.s. 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 to skirting our reputation have been taken against last specifically no where else have we average experienced the kind of pressure we experienced a danger to the point it's virtually being forced out of the country is absolutely insane with the idea that r.t.d. is 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 in response to 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 a bureaus and a journalist station in the country 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. would you accept it or join a songe has weighed in on the issue as well tweeting a mock guide to modern western journalism his advice for being a reporter in two thousand and seventeen is to take a random global news story and basically link the story back to moscow somehow suggesting the kremlin is pulling the strings with every story available now donald

trump also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials are looking into u.s. news outlets and their 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 they 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 shutting voices of anything that's not mainstream media and it was an interesting tweet from president trump or the deadliest shooting in modern u.s. history happened this week we'll bring you up to speed on the investigation after

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business. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. i welcome back you're watching r t international and the weekly diplomatic relations between turkey and the us have suffered another blow has cut services at its diplomatic facilities across america in response to washington taking the same step following the detention of one of its employees last week. recent events have forced the you know it's a stays good months reassess the commencements of the government of key to the security of u.s. mission facilities and personnel in order to minimize the number of visitors to embassy and consulates while this assessment proceeds effective immediately we have

suspended all known immigrant visa services at sole u.s. diplomatic facilities an. employee in question who worked at the u.s. consulate in istanbul was arrested last week is accused of espionage and plotting to overthrow the government and turkish authorities claim he has links to exiled cleric but who lives in the u.s. and who the turkish government says was the mastermind behind last years of failed coup attempt now turkey has long been urging the u.s. to extradite of the runaway preacher but washington has yet to commit to any such move and that is just one issue that has been stoking tensions washington's support for kurdish forces fighting islamic state has also angered which sees both groups as terrorists and the turkish leaders bodyguards were caught on camera attacking opposition protesters during a trip to the u.s. back in may also straining ties. hussein of the middle east technical university

told us relations are likely to deteriorate even further first time in the history we have this type of 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 and i it is not yet. put it like this but the tendency is not to be a problem it's in the more turkey and america will have different views not only in syria but in others issues. america is still coming to terms with it the deadliest mass shooting in its modern history fifty eight people were massacred at a country music festival in las vegas last sunday another five hundred were injured

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we need to try to get people out of the hospital ok. thanks. liz. a gunman knocked out of 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 handgun and numerous rifles you can just hear the rounds almost like creeping up

on you. can you feel like they're just it's like like those shots don't stop like you don't hear that it's like being you know we're. just. having to run over all these military service to you it oh. i'm just so grateful. i just missed it but there's also so much pain and thinking like. why did those people do to deserve the shooter was sixty four year old steven who lived in a community for retired people in nevada he turned a gun on himself before the authorities got to him places say that he had no prior criminal record and no military background and the f.b.i. says he wasn't linked to any terrorist groups despite claims by islamic state. and turkey has launched a military operation against al nusra militants in western syria that move comes

after turkey russia and iran reached an agreement during talks in kazakhstan last month you know. russia and iran developed a plan the decisions being implemented by the us we are operating together with the free syrian army while russia is outside. ancora is now supporting the free syrian army against. terrorists and a mission that has been coordinated with moscow turkish troops are poised at the syrian border but have not yet crossed into the country director of a british think tank on the middle east amar all cough believes there is now a tacit 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. 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 cold in a in an official statement as an aggression. now adays we've heard or previous like you want to 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 now after three long years the city of dare is or has finally emerged from under and i still see at least from a military perspective as 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 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. 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 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 adele's to brothers 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 family's loss is neither unique nor the worst. i was a moment once a lose one three or 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 he concedes and destroys everything. for many the worst is over the breaking of the siege of datas or heralded

a new beginning yet others in areas still being liberated it's just the stot psychological scars left behind will take decades to heal more i guess. from dinners or syria. that doesn't for me this hour we back again in about thirty four minutes with a full look at your news and the week we watch march international. in the u.s. a child can choose an army course in school. with retired officers as teachers we don't. recruit we'll sisters if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves. the pentagon is funding

a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers who chance to step up to an apollo so there are also great for comfortable with yourself. things you can't go wrong with the military it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do but some veterans are willing to tell enthusiastic children a little more they ask me call of duty is very popular first sure video game. is play and that's because the military like call of duty can turn off call of duty oh yeah or you can turn off your lot of these kids just don't hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them to be told or does it just need more recruits.

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