in the stories that shaped the week. the u.s. senate intelligence committee admits to finding no evidence that. the american presidential election unfortunately the committee whose. collusion is still open. were. another blow. and washington cut back. a u.s. embassy employees in turkey last week. broadcasting

live director. thomas week's top stories with our weekly program the spanish prime minister has told a national newspaper that he will not allow the region of catalonia to break away disputed referendum last sunday saw a vast majority of voters a vote for secession from spain although turnout was low and moderate insists the poll was illegal riot police across catalonia used violent tactics on the day to try and prevent it and almost nine hundred people were injured.

if you think you're. going to get. one video to emerge and particularly captured the shocking brutality of riot police as people queued to vote in brussels an officer can be seen jumping down

a staircase and then stomping on somebody. who are just helping the people because they were throwing them from up. the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the here 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 there it's where they got this girl that was one of the organizers and they grabbed her and there broke her hand if you imagine if that's supported by democracy you are there is saying that's the law that's what you consider the law well since of the vote catalonia and other regions in spain have seen a number of mass protests both for and against 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 the force against voters on a referendum day or seen hugging them and giving them flowers as well now other pictures show some of. a rally with spanish by giving nazi salutes parties honestly

try and imagine a culture of the port was the streets or some of the records got to god because of thousands of people carrying it was real the streets of the central barcelona that was yet another day of protests taking place here and that's ok thanks to you that all of these people carrying was refuted they say thank god alone separated from the rest of the country was the world a dark side of rolls royces. was that was happening and there was a was that it was or it was that was it the future oh that's was. going to take was all the protests that have been taking place here i was continuing to try to figure out it's huge and i was told they were all right. but we do

know is that 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 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 khalid copters in the sky. this is classic utterly 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 end of the. in and of catalonia think i was really impressed than the kids

i was seeing was. a lot and still the many people we see here are different kinds of people now not only sudanese or young people who came here holding black something to burn in concert line you know 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 consulate any other. thing you can see it was it was gathered there was there. were you could see an incident and then right away they are quite loud and really are symbolic terms of passing through three weeks was here and. as you can see the atmosphere is quite hands 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 i thank you 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 and the e.u. commission statement called catalan his independence vote illegal but stated it was an internal matter that spain should deal with that prompted angry reactions inside the european parliament and stephen wolf spoke to us about that use reaction to events in california. 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 their eyes 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 is 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. 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 artie's editor in chief says the network is now facing unprecedented pressure in the united states with both staff and contributors being targeted all that despite no evidence to suggest are to be influence the outcome of the election the r.t.s. on twitter were almost uniformly 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 for 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 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 for now all attention seems to have shifted to our channel and it social media adds 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 of course i don't nonsense tutors contacted us with their proposal to florida election the shortest. 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 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 to skirting our reputation have been taken against last specifically no where else have we average experience a kind of high shared experience. to a point it's virtually forced 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 in response russia's prosecutor general is reportedly considering whether to declare 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 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 countermeasures against journalists representing media outlets of countries that have restrictions on russian journalists. well we give each other to join us on it has a weight 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 that the kremlin is pulling all of the strings and donald trump also

took to twitter dies 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 a grass roots of political consulting he told us that 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. diplomatic relations between

turkey and the u.s. have suffered another blow has cut visa services at its diplomatic facilities across america in response to washington taking the same steps following the detention of one of its consular employees. recent events have forced the united states government's 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 embassy and consulates while this assessment proceeds effective immediately we have suspended immigrant visa services at sole u.s. diplomatic facilities and. the employee in 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 that he has links to exiled cleric fatou la goodman who lives in the u.s. and who the turkish government says was the mastermind behind last year's failed coup attempt in turkey has long been urging the u.s.

to extradite the runaway preacher but washington is yet committed 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 guards were caught on camera attacking opposition protesters during a trip to the u.s. back in may also straining ties. between bob the middle east technical university told us relations are likely to deteriorate further the first time in the history we have this type of situation and the tension will increase because the american turkish side are ready if you want to five 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. members is not good for

a start there and i it is not the yet nor. about the tendency not to be to promise and be more charting on america will have different views not only in syria about the in others 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 . i. was.

just. going. we need to truck we just need to get people out of the hospital ok. was.

her. gunmen knocked out of the windows of his hotel room overlooking the festival before unleashing a shower of bullets on the crowd also fired shots at fuel tanks that were stationed nearby but they did not explode when police stormed 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 railroads almost like creeping up. 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. you it oh. i'm just so. i just there's also so much pain and. 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 and police say that he had no prior criminal record and no military background and the f.b.i. says that he was not linked to any terrorist group despite claims by islamic state . authorities say that 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 bump stocks which allow semiautomatic weapons to be modified into fully automatic ones and there were also thousands of ammunition rounds at panix house and explosives in his car the tragedy has reignited the debate over gun control in america and 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 charles troubridge says it is near impossible to

prevent attacks like this considering nevada's own gun laws given that the initial acquisition of the weapons themselves is in nevada certainly perfectly legal. needs to be kept at the amount of ammunition or weapons or part 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 price 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 autumn's 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 that move comes after turkey russia and iran reached an agreement in talks in kazakhstan last month . you know. russia and iran developed a plan the decisions being implemented by us we're operating together with the free syrian army while russia is outside. ancora is now supporting the free syrian army against a target al shaab terrorists in 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 believes that there is now a tacit agreement between ankara 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 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 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 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 now after three long years the city of has finally emerged from under and i saw that least from the military perspective. ever ports people there are now struggling to recover from living in the shadow of terror. in the resort you'll find little unmocked by war every

crater has its tragic story and i think it exploded right here and 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 did use long's 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 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 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 families loss is neither unique nor the worst i was a moment one to lose one two 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 dead us 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 my dad. from did syria and it doesn't for me back with thirty four minutes with polak. people. because there's survival guide book stacie just like all the stored safely at. least it's still there you don't get it back.

repatriations will look at the rest of seventy years. philip a seventy year watch kaiser report. and you know in the years yeah you know until you go into her job as a. to go in another place i didn't intend to do that then. you're. just. glad i. got. the money taken out of. my. mind i'm. not. going to.

see you become worthless. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle russia gate continues unabated without any hard facts to back it up will catalonia take the next step and declare independence also will trump be called a deal breaker when it comes to a red. cross

talking real news i'm joined by my guests here in moscow exactly a morrow he's the founder founder of the center for political strategic analysis struck paul we also have victrola levitch he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst we spoke nick international origin across the girls in effect that means you can jump in anytime up and i always appreciate gentlemen the senate foreign intelligence committee came out big press conference. no evidence of the trump campaigning campaign colluding with the russians in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election but that's not going to stop them there are going to continue we also have twitter google and facebook coming up with their number crunching scant evidence at best in meaning even less ok nonetheless where you work where i work sitting in this chair freedom of speech in the united states is under threat sputnik n r t we're being threatened.