Great to have you with the. International first this hour americas former intelligence chief James Clapper claims putin is hounding donald trump as an asset and this comes after the russian president thanked the u. S. Leader for sharing intelligence that hope to foil terrorist attacks in St Petersburg where the grid case source or one of them or putin knows he knows how to handle it and thats what hes doing with the pros and the words from James Clapper the former director of intelligence they were in reaction to words from donald trump now recently in a speech u. S. President donald trump emphasized the importance of cooperation between the u. S. And russia and pointed out that u. S. Forces and Russian Forces had recently collaborated and actually prevented a terrorist attack in St Petersburg this is donald trump they were able to apprehend these terrorists before the event. With no loss of life and thats a great thing and the way its supposed to work that is the way its supposed to work important to be clear James Clapper is not opposed to cooperation between the usa and russia in order to fight terrorism and such however in his remarks he said that this is a one way street and said that russia never returns the favor and cooperates with the United States well the record seems to indicate things to the contrary now when James Clapper was director of the National Security agency there were instances where russian authorities approached u. S. Authorities about one of the design of brothers one of the people who perpetrated the bombing in boston and repeatedly indicated that this this individual was dangerous and potentially a terrorist now that is an example of russia going out of its way to help u. S. Authorities and try to prevent terrorist attacks at that point James Clapper who made these comments saying its a one way street at that point he was director of the Security Agency so he should have been fully aware of that taking place now its pretty clear that James Clapper has some rather strong opinions this is a comment that he made in the past the russians who typically almost genetically driven to coopt. Poetry to. Gain favor rather than celebrate the fact that lives were saved in a terrorist attack was a verted he seems to complain about russia and make statements that dont exactly add up to facts as we just heard on monday donald trump outlined his vision of the world and americas role in it in a key note National Security speech is pretty to senses hes not letting go the whole idea of u. S. Exceptionalism. America has been among the greatest forces for peace and justice in the history of the world a strategy is to advance american influence in the world the American People are generous america will lead again when the American People speak all of us should listen in a statement to the u. S. Defense secretary backed the president s security plan james mattis said the new strategy will ensure american diplomats always speak from a position of strength in his speech trump outlined russia and china as rival powers challenging americas influence in the world the two countries are also accused of developing advanced weaponry that could threaten u. S. Simple structure however trump did say attempts must be made to build partnerships with them Russias Foreign Ministry responded by saying the document has conflicting directions and tries to retain weakened u. S. Domination worldwide beijing branded washingtons approach outdated. We urge the u. S. To stop deliberately distorting china and spirit are dated ideas such as a cold war mentality and Coalition Game otherwise it will hurt others and destroy itself Political ScienceProfessor Joseph chang thinks that its in americas interest to have competition. The time these leadership responds in saying that you would like to have a new type of major power relationship with the United States meaning nor major confrontations no major. Challenges and so on the United States needs enemies of to put it more nicely strategic competitors are needed for the United States to to remain alert and to and to be able to muster enough resolve to maintain deep i think china and russia understand this and this is also well recognized by many americans. In the u. K. Extra police and special armed units are being deployed during the festive period security has been especially increased that Christmas Markets are berries are being put up to prevent possible car running attacks according to the authorities there is no specific knowledge of any planned attacks but the police are still warning people to be vigilant. And this comes a year after the attack on the Christmas Market in berlin or a Memorial Ceremony has been held to remember those who were killed relatives of the victims as well as survivors laid flowers a candle sort of memorial at the site of the attack chancellor Angela Merkel was also there and she admitted the country could have handled the situation better. Yesterday and spoke with the relatives of the victims and those injured in the attack it was no good conversation that showed what we can assess our state showed in this situation. Germanys Justice Minister also admitted errors were made in the response to the atrocity that is peter oliver takes a look back at last years events and he speaks to some of those who lost loved ones in the attack. A year on from the berlin Christmas Market attack tributes to the victims mixed in with the usual jorja season this year concrete blocks ringing the Christmas Market intended to make sure that no one could repeat the atrocity. Now teaches model that stopped by the Christmas Market like many others that evening she was killed when armory plowed the stolen truck into the crowd leaving behind a grieving husband and young son. It was when i call the hotline there was only information that shes not on the list so i didnt know anything either because the official statement was that she was missing. But of course it was known to the police that she was dead he was pretty determined not to have any information at all this is really bad news if you are a power actually how you telling your son about what to tell you preparing him for to meet him when hes all much older he will understand a lot more about this talking. Of course this is not easy because he doesnt understand fully yet. And this will change definitely he will ask questions so i try to answer all his questions as best i can. So thats probably the only thing i can do while maybe we can try to look into it to find out what happened actually i would be interested myself. But. The question is how successful can be this west. In west to painful to go to really mean for this anniversary so we preferred to commemorate our girl here where she was born and grew up there is no amount of money that could offset the death of my daughter now amount. New documents have emerged in the german press that show the Security Services knew omri was a potential terrorist threat back in twenty fifteen and may have allowed him to remain at large in the hope of using him to catch biggest fish. In open letter to angola merkel the families have asked why help promise to them hasnt been forthcoming and why amery had been free to carry out his attack in the first place what im really angry abroad is actually what happened before the terrorist act. Its pretty known that this person is dangerous and still the authorities didnt. Arrest him didnt work here for some reason. Its me also is that nobody actually. Actually took the responsibility. Its still you know everybody is doing their own work still of the time so if Nothing Happened germanys Christmas Markets remain on high alert but for the families of those killed and injured during last years terror attack its left an indelible sadness on the festive period piece for all of our party berlin. U k. Parliamentary committee has convened to discuss fake news and in particular its potential impact on catalonia independence referendum which was convened in october and like in similar hearings in washington the buzzwords again were russian interference. Discord disapproved of democracy European Union about the late fall to pieces form and division of this r. T. And split new version of. Meddling in the one on russian trolls and russian forums specific given to spreading propaganda to feel that their goal was to polarize but spite all of those buzz words the committees experts of failed to provide any real evidence of meddling and even to get a number of basic facts straight. Explains. A new day is a new opportunity to discuss who russia is and at this particular parliamentary hearing focused on an inquiry on feek news was carrying on for over two hours and how does Panel Discussions with experts sharing their opinions and of course russia social medias use of a role as well as this channel were discussed in abundance yet again however not without a hick up from one member of the committee away admitting that he doesnt even use twitter apparently not even deeming it worth the two names of artes editor in chief basically invented as well as realisations that some Committee Members dont really know where Julian Assange is. And not on twitter because lifes too short this is the same youre not used to say we would like to offer to the to go into a few of these scenes but she felt she was holed up in the stands for the story as it were the reader and it was always with the goal that we need to resist that is with us here well lo this is a research was also widely focused on russias allegedly meddling specifically in the cattle on our friend if you remember there was plenty of talk here in the u. K. About attempts to try to drag russia into its alleged involvement in the bratz it referendum which led to nothing so this time around the context was catalonia however a lot of attention was paid to it but as soon as the tough questions popped up about evidence that was a bit of a problem is your evidence to the russian government you see he to interfere you see on the referendum in catalonia. I dont have evidence that i get the picture they speak but you say its true that the evidence you collect around the referendum to the show a great deal of the consortium told with focus that we have we have no no specific given so this is a new. Study says that its that we dont know well this was the for. First public evidence hearing of this particular inquiry so surely there will be more it took our. Local elections in catalonia this the state could decide the fate of the regions independence push madrid says the Succession Movement has been based on what it calls post truth shall the dubious scheme has more. Just a few days to go now before the elections on thursday december twenty first and the Spanish DeputyPrime Minister has taken the opportunity to use the lam for my separatist leaders of catalonia she has branded them as betraying supporters when they call that independence referendum this year and she described that referendum as being a fake as misled by the scenario as betrayal has been to catalyze who genuinely believed in independence because they were made to believe that it would come true when in reality it was all a big show a symbolic episode a fake in the full sense of the word back on october twenty seventh the catalonian government the Catalonia Parliament declared that catalonia was an independent state within an hour of that happening madrid took some very unprecedented steps and actually took control back of the region using a piece of legislation that had never been used before in the thirty years since it has been created now the deputy Prime Minister was then asked to take control of the region to spirituals these elections on december twenty first now she has accused the cats of land leaders the former leaders of that region of misusing public funds saying that they use public funds tools they goal of creating that independence referendum and she said by doing that they are actually neglected other areas such as the Judiciary Health and education now the spanish Prime Minister as we know also called back on october twenty seventh these new fresh elections which will take place on tuesday at the same time the local government in catalonia was dissolved some of the separatist leaders were arrested and several other warrants issued for the former catalan president colas pushy want to actually travels to brussels where he remains of baiting that european arrest warrant however he can still be campaigning who. From his base now in brussels belgium the reality is we dont know whether this election will planes the hands of the separatists will play back into the hands of the spanish Prime Minister it is a big gamble and they still could go either way. Saudi Led Coalition says that it has shot down the ballistics missile targeting the row palace in the capital riyadh this video now apparently shows the moment of the attack yemeni who things have claimed responsibility a similar incident took place last month when saudis intercepted over an International Airport near riyadh. As strikes by the Standard Coalition have killed one hundred fifteen civilians and injured eighty three in yemen in just the last eleven days the u. N. Says its deeply concerned about the rise in civilian casualties in the country. Has destroyed everything around and even in the neighboring villages we can. Bring. One or two tanks is not enough even for this one family. Were living happily in the south the airstrikes began. But no one here you see. The children. Meanwhile britain a top arms supplier to saudi arabia says riyadh has no excuse for cutting access to humanitarian aid in yemen the statement came from the u. K. S InternationalDevelopment Secretary penny mordant it is wary clear that if youre using starvation as a weapon you are in breach of International Humanitarian law i very much understand the strategic importance of our relationship with saudi arabia but we do not help that relationship by not speaking about the facts of the matter if the route to be a breach of International Humanitarian law that would put that relationship into difficulty britain also plans to send fifty Million Pounds in aid to yemen putting the total u. K. Help for this and next year two hundred five million but that pales in comparison with the volume of u. K. Arms sales to saudi arabia since the start of the conflict britain sold more than four billion pounds worth of weapons to riyadh should be a locker from the stop walk of elation thinks the only way the u. K. Can really help yemen is to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia. When saudi arabia started its war in yemen in the first few months of that war britains arms sales to saudi arabia went up by a thousand percent during the course of this war despite the evidence from human rights organizations that those weapons have been used in war crimes it has been admitted that British Forces are part of the joint operations. Command in saudi arabia theyve been part of Training Forces of picking targets so theyre very much accountable these war crimes or this blockade has been discovered yesterday its been going on for a long time and you know weve seen how the British Government have reacted to that and i think if britain really wanted to help the people of yemen then they should stop supporting saudi arabia stop selling their weapons stop giving them diplomatic cover. Despite the rise of global extremism it appears that terrorists guidelines and bomb making instructions are still easily available. Has been surfing for such material and less than ten minutes i was able to find multiple guides published by terrorist organisations through Google Searches clearly outlining how to make a bomb we have chosen not to show nor name the handbooks we found but they included step by step instructions in english from both al qaeda and Islamic State and within them you can find lessons on kidnappings or carrying out various types of assassinations using explosives and the problem is anyone can find this information including those hoping to put it the bomb used in last weeks new york subway attack included home or components of these readily available terrorist manuals. I think its kind of normal for these times were particularly in new york city which is targeted many times and its the new normal once a potential terrorist has the recipe for a homemade device that only leaves gathering the necessary materials and investigation back into. Found that amazons algorithm was suggesting items that could be brought together in order to create a bomb that surface just days after an improvised device was detonated in the london underground. That only got back from our. Sound explosion sound. Back in september amazon pledged to fix its algorithms but last time we checked just before recording this piece it was still there these easily accessed terrorist materials have been on the internet for years already and google has made promises in the past to fight their availability. Committed to be boss of the sun working with governments Law Enforcement and Civil Society groups working with good month Law Enforcement and Civil Society groups to tackle the problem and stream is the place whats at risk on suns on all surfaces that statement came back in june of this year and yet just this monday britains the independent news website released a report outlining how they alerted google to the fact that their algorithms could provide extremists with dangerous materials and yet saw no change in the search result days later clearly despite the companys willingness to tackle terrorist content its own algorithms are failing with websites making a u. R. L. Making a website all of these things online anybody can just start a new one so say for example you are a website that has the terrorist content or activity thats problematic or can lead to criminal activity if they shut that down if google didnt allow that to come up in a search result another one could come up right after you not only look at things like google which would be the Search Engine that it was found on but now youre looking at things like the website hosts so now these are other private companies not just Google Search engine but other private companies that have to now look at who is studying the u. R. L. What are they doing how do they make this website so in terms of google theyre going to be having it cut out in the algorithm cut out the search results is going to be much more difficult now some would have you believe that terrorists are looking soley on the darker. Which most of us would never even know how to access but it turns out theyre not quite as far away as one would hope cyberspace is the new Training Camp so individuals can find information about bomb making they can identify targets they can chat with their colleagues they can receive instructions they can receive inspiration in cyberspace flies underneath the radar screen of the police and in Security Forces some of the Internet Companies the googles the face books and those can prevent that type of activity from coming into their space its a cat and mouse game its going to continue its i want to say its a Mission Impossible but its a very very difficult to remove all in still live with the free and open internet to remove all elements of hate and extremism. Has asked google to delete such a result so that dangerous materials cant be found well let you know the outcome. Donald trump says he has no plans to fire special Counsel Robert Mueller whos leading the probe into the president s alleged ties to the kremlin and that may come as a disappointment to miss critics whove been bidding on this scenario to make a case for a potential impeachment american takes a closer look at the efforts to removed from office. So help me god so help me god congratulations with the great. Crusade to impeach donald trump started the second he was sworn in the idea of impeachment my prediction of a donald trump and peach with the prospect of impeachment this is time for impeachment and whats trumps latest move saying he doesnt plan on firing Robert Muller the person in charge of investigating the alleged trumped russia collusion. So much for the plans many were making to take to the streets and demand trumps impeachment if he did indeed fire moeller democrats have also been trying to use allegations of Sexual Misconduct to get rid of trump but unless he decides to resign himself thats not an option because harassment isnt considered an Impeachable Offense even members of their own party have dismissed it i think we need to move on and not get distracted by those issues lets get on with the real issues that are facing peoples of this country right now. And i dont think that the president ought to resign at this point now if democrats are detectives pursuing trump for any wrongdoings hes certainly not a very cunning offender but hes leaving plenty of clues in the first year of his presidency democrats and even some republicans have formally accused him of an Impeachable Offense at least once a month senator al green alone has done it four times rise to mr speaker. To call for the impeachment trial and removal from Office Donald jiang trump by betraying his trust as present it democracy is at risk now here are just some of the reasons trump has given his rivals to call for his impeachment struction of justice after trump fired f. B. I. Director james komi his unsubstantiated claims that Hillary Clinton only won the popular vote due to voter fraud leading to accusations of deceit and remember when he almost called on the police to violate the Constitutional Rights of suspects in custody i said please dont be too nice like when you guys put somebody in the car and youre protecting their head you know the way you put their hand over. I said you could take the hand away ok its a sure rod for a number of reasons i mean neither the democrats nor even the news media can keep up with donald trump actions whether theyre positive or negative you know every day is something new and im not even sure that this is a concerted strategy on trumps far apart as much as it is simply a result of his rather manic personalities and his priorities seem to change all the time and this political structure isnt set up for that and that what really makes it come off as a sure rod is of course the fact that the Democratic Party is in no position to launch impeachment proceedings against anyone because they dont control either house of congress but the story is always the same time slips making some sort of outrageous statement in public or on twitter and democrats come running all guns blazing but so far trump still winning this catch me if you can call it some work on our two washington. The pentagon has confirmed it spent millions of dollars trying to identify airborne objects that reportedly violated the u. S. Air space the five year u. F. O. Probe is said to have been cancelled only in two thousand and twelve and that news provoked excitement as this was read confirmation of an official u. F. O. Hunting program but its results classified. Civilization could be like native americans encounter in columbus didnt turn out so well. Because thing with as you watching R T International my colleague mickey ave bring you right up to date in half an. 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