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told a national newspaper that he will not allow the region of to break away a disputed referendum there last sunday so i vast majority of voters a vote for secession from spain although turnout was low and. the poll was illegal . violent tactics on the day to try and prevent it almost nine hundred people were injured.

if it'll. get it. i think. one video two emerging particularly captured the shocking brutality of riot police as people queued to vote in barcelona an officer can be seen jumping

down a staircase and jumping some. were just helping the people because they were throwing them from up top of the stairs and throwing them down to point them from the hair and kicking them 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 and they broke their her hand if you imagine if that's supported by a democracy you were there is saying that's the law that's what you consider the law will sense of the vote in catalonia and other regions in spain have seen a number of mass protests both for and against cottle 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 referendum day were seen hugging and women giving them flowers as well now other pictures show some at the rally with spanish flags giving nazi salutes and he's honest as your commanding medina caution

of a report. the streets are some of the blocks yet again. thousands of people. and . yet another. of these people was. a god. god. god god god god god. god god. god god was. good i was. coaching. that was taking place here was a continuing to try to figure out its huge and i was told they were already know this 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 forest where it works ok thank you ok i can see bally's ever rising right now and people are starting to clap we can hear right now sirens of police cars and we can hear khalid copters in 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 as it was really and pressed the down this

was heating up on the streets because a lot as the only people we see here are different sorts of people now not only students or young people who came here holding plaques up in the garden council on here we see here families with small children we see elderly people here and they are asking their shouting at the national police force this to leave the region the consul on the other this so it was so it was so that we can say it was great it was gathered there was this it was here it was in the room and we were there are quite loud and really are symbolic were passing through me was carrying her was. 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 protest 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. i thank you sometimes square in front of the catalan leader's headquarters is packed 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 and you can mission statement a call to catalonia as independents voted illegal bug stated it was an internal matter the spain should deal with that prompted angry actions inside the european parliament and the piece even wolf spoke to us about that use reaction to events in telomere. 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. i. feel. there is 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 investigation 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 hit

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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 bluebird sing a song of russian meddling last week and report the disclosed how much we spend on ads this 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 which is of course nonsense tutor's contacted us with their proposal to florida election are you sure it is a presentation. it's adverts so that is how much it would cost and we'd 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 until recently no active measures except those terms getting a reputation have been taken against class specific room number as have we average experienced a kind of high share experience. to point. out of the country is absolutely insane with the idea that our t. 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 r t 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 a prosecutor general is reportedly considering whether to declare some u.s. media outlets as unwelcome in russia that would possibly see big networks being removed from russian cable television but of no impact on bureaus and journalists stationed in the country foreign ministry has also said like for like measures are on the table. and i see the russian foreign ministry can take countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists working weeks editor joining us on has weighed in on the issue as well tweeting in mark guided 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 a link of the story back to moscow somehow suggesting the kremlin is pulling all of the strings and donald trump also took to twitter to ask why american intelligence officials aren't 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 that he shares the president's concern over the state of american media 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 shutting voices of anything that's not mainstream media and it was an interesting tweet from president trump. diplomatic relations between turkey and the us have suffered another blow has cut visas services and its diplomatic facilities across america in response to

washington taking the same step following the detention of one of its consular employees. recent events have forced the united states governments to 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 our 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 he is accused of espionage and plotting to overthrow the government turkish authorities claim that he has links to exiled cracka fatah law golan who lives in the u.s. and who the turkish government says was the mastermind behind last year's failed coup attempt. turkey has long been urging the u.s. to extradite the runaway preacher but washington is yet to commit to any such move

and that is just one issue that has been stoking tensions washington's a support for kurdish forces fighting islamic state has also angered girl which sees both groups as terrorists and the turkish leaders bodyguards were also calling contacting opposition protesters during a trip to the u.s. back in may is also a strange this is what. i was saying the middle east technical university told us relations are likely to deteriorate even further first time in the history we have this type of jewish 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 major errors from both sides it is not a good thing for our nato members is not good for a start there and i it is not yet nor poor.

like this but the tendency is not to better promise and be more charged and america will have different views not only in syria about the and other issues. america is still coming to terms with 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 . oh oh.

i. think. i. read. that we need to truck we just need to get people out of the hospital ok you got. to let. her touch her.

the gunman knocked her out of the windows of his hotel room overlooking the festival before unleashing a shower of bullets on the crowd he also fired shots and field tanks that were stationed nearby but they did not explode when police stormed in the room they found of the shooter's body as well as an arsenal of weapons including a handgun and numerous modified rifles. you can just hear the roar almost like creeping. in you feels like they're just it's like make those shots don't stop you don't hear that it's like being in a word. it just. to run over. to you it. i'm just so grateful. i just there's also so much pain i'm thinking like. the shooter was sixty four year old stephen paddick who lived in

a community for retired people in nevada he turned a gun on himself before the authorities got to him police 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. authorities say they found twenty three weapons and products hotel room nineteen more were discovered at his home is also reported that the killer had two devices with him called stocks which allow semiautomatic weapons to be modified into basically fully automatic ones there are also thousands of ammunition rounds and paddocks house and explosives in his car the tragedy has reignited the debate over gun control in america now critics have highlighted the absurdity that it is illegal to carry a fake gun on the famous las vegas strip but there are no restrictions for carrying a real firearm security analyst says that it is near enough impossible to prevent attacks like this considering that. given that the initial.

perfectly legal. needs to be kept. perfectly legal to buy the very simple mechanisms that. semiautomatic weapons into far more lethal. or effectively fully automatic weapons there's really very good. let the 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 any firearms 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 all news from militants in western syria the 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 which were made being implemented by the us we are operating together with the free syrian army while russia is outside. is now supporting the free syrian army against. terrorists in a mission that has been coordinated with moscow the 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 a model called believes that there is now a tacit agreement between ancora and damascus. well the very fact that. this time around when turkish observers and troops are heading into the country and we haven't heard from this hearing. 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. and now a days we've heard or previous like you 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 is out. staying in syria now after three long years in the city of. finally emerged from under and i still see charlie's from a military perspective that is as they have reports people there are now struggling to recover from living in the shadow of terror in there as or you'll find little 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 wanted 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 data's 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 i delves to where others 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 thing 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 war is it consumes and destroys everything. for many the worst is over the breaking of the siege of daters or heralded

a new beginning yet others in areas still being liberated it's just the start psychological scars left behind will take decades to heal more i guess the odyssey from there is on syria. does it for me i'll be back in about thirty four minutes or so with a full look at your news and a weekly question or two. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the senate it's full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch. yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently

better than that and see people you never heard of love redacted tonight was the president of the world bank so take. me seriously send us an email. europe has to either change or cease to exist so people who work in this building headquarters should change the rules or stop 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 on the judicial system otherwise the europe we have today is doing would transformed into a strange loose community of twenty seven countries with nothing in common.

welcome to world apart from the brats that surprise to the french and german elections to the end. european identity and european values is once again the subject of hard debate i think europeans still because they think they are well to discuss that i'm now joined by john crist of boston founder of the global conference it's about it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you. for having me mr boss i know that you're often talk about the subject of identity which i think is at the core of many recent political changes in europe how well do you think the europeans on distant who they are as opposed to articulating who they want to be or who they think they should be. you

know there are several questions here that like to share with you first i mean what do we mean europe is europe the e.u. is europe much broader i think it's very important in a way to clarify who to sort this out you know because usually when we mention europe people consider that it is only e.u. twenty eight or the twenty seven if you consider that the u.k. still out but is or knows a way to look at what europe means and as you may know you know my last job. before creating the global com past was as a director of education and you said the council of europe and the council of europe comprise forty seven countries and member states including russia including turkey including. crane and many other counties that are not part of the

e.u. how well aware mr buswell let me of them and they're all my question because when we talk about the european identity or the european values speech by the way why where at the center of the ukrainian kong for a conflict i think we in russia at least we mean first and foremost the european union and the values the so-called european values that. it sets out to promote you mentioned that europe is still searching for that identity but i don't think this is the kind of view that we get here in russia because we actually think many people think here in russia that the your europe is setting out to impose its values on the other countries. i don't think that europe or the e.u. is trying to impose its values it is indeed trying to promote its own set of values and and i think it is important you know way to bring together and to create this as free to call. europe.