Very warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me becky erin good to have you with us this hour now americas former intelligence chief James Clapper claims Vladimir Putin is handling donald trump as an athletes it comes after the russian president finds the u. S. Leader sharing intelligence that helped to foil terror attacks insipidus burg. What a group q. Source or. Them or putin knows he knows of a handle. 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 wealth and americas role in it and it came to National Security speech like his predecessors hes not letting go of the idea of us and them. 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 back to the president s security plan james mattis that 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 weapons that could threaten u. S. Infrastructure 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 spurn are dated ideas such as a cold war mentality and Coalition Game otherwise it will hurt others and destroy itself or Political ScienceProfessor Joseph chang thinks its in americas interests to have competition. The time used leadership responds in saying that you would like to. Type of major power relationship with the United States meaning more major confrontations. 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 and to and to be able to muster enough resolve to maintain deep. China and russia understand this and this is also well recognized by many americans. In the u. K. Extra police around special armed units are being deployed during the festive period security has been especially increased at Christmas Markets where barriers have been put up to prevent possible car ramming attacks according to the or thirtys there is no specific knowledge of any planned attacks but the police are still warning people to be vigilance. Well this comes a year after the attack on the Christmas Market in berlin where a Memorial Ceremony has been held to remember those who were killed relatives of the victims as well as survivors laid flowers and lit candles at the memorial at the site of the attack chancellor Angela Merkel was also there 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 an open conversation that chilled what weaknesses almost a child in this situation. Or germanys Justice Minister has also admitted errors were made in their response to the atrocity they saw all of a look back at last years events and speak 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. Not each is 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 when you lose if you are a power actually how are you telling your son about what happened how are you preparing him for anything when hes all much older he will understand a lot more about this were 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. 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 quest. To painful to go to berlin 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 Angela 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 the terrorist attack. Is pretty known that this person is dangerous and still the authorities didnt. Arrest him didnt work here for some reason what bugs me also is that nobody actually. Actually took the responsibility. Its still you know everybody is doing their own work still the time has passed 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. Parliament. The committee has convened to discuss the fake news and in particular its potential impact on catalonia as independence referendum in october and like in similar hearings in washington the both words again were russian interference greek discord disapproved of democracy European Union about to fall to pieces form and division old it r t and. Affiliated characters medlin got them on russian trolls and russian forms no specific of spreading propaganda russian interference the goal was to polarize but despite all of those buzz words the committees experts failed to provide any real evidence of meddling and even to get a number of basic facts straight and thats to say a check and explains. A new day is a new opportunity to discuss russia isnt it at this particular parliamentary hearing focused on an inquiry on fake news was carrying on for over two hours and had a Panel Discussions with experts sharing their opinions and of course russia social medias use and 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. Not on twitter because lifes too short this is the signal 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 sense for them to go over it with the reader and it was always with the goal that we need to resist it was worth it well know this the 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 bronx that 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 key to interfere you see and become the referendum in catalonia. I dont have evidence that i get the picture they speak but you say hes treated the evidence you claim to around the referendum to the chip a great deal of the consortium goldman focus that we have we have no no specific evidence that this is the new. Studies that its that we dont know well and this was the first public evidence hearing of this particular inquiry so surely there will be more to come. Well this thursday voters in council lonia will head to the polls in an election that could decide the future of the regions independence push we have all the details on that after this short break. The single most important social equalizer of our time the internet is under great threat the decision by the federal Communications Commission essentially gives Internet Service providers the keys to the internet without Net Neutrality will be Economic Opportunity only white meat for all. Welcome back local elections in council onya this thursday could decide the fate of the regions independence push madrid says this in Session Movement has been based on what it calls post truth solid deep and ski hospital. 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 if there were other 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 steer it to wards 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 to wards the goal of creating that independence referendum and she said by doing that there she 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 food stay 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 carlos pushy want to actually travels to brussels where he remains of a thing that european arrest warrant however he can still be campaigning full. Selectional thursday from his base now in brussels in belgium the reality is we dont know whether this election on thursday will play into the hands of the separatists again all will play back into the hands of the spanish Prime Minister it is a big gamble on this still could go either way. A story Like Coalition says it has shot down a Ballistic Missile targeting the royal palace in the capital riyadh this video apparently shows the moment of family who have claimed responsibility family who have claimed responsibility a similar incident took place last month when saudis intercepted a healthy missile over an International Airport near where at. Strikes by the Saudi Led Coalition have killed one hundred fifteen civilians and injured eighty three in yemen in the last eleven days the u. N. Says it is deeply concerned about the rise in civilian casualties in the country. Has destroyed everything around even the neighboring villages our we can rely only on point people they see drinking need to because one or two times is not enough even for the ten family that. Were living happily on the side of the airstrikes began. But no one helped us here i got to see the mattresses nobility of the children. Meanwhile britain a top arms the plier to saudi arabia says riyadh has no excuse for cutting access to humanitarian aid in yemen a statement came from the u. K. S InternationalDevelopment Secretary penny mordaunt. It is very 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 but it also plans to send fifty Million Pounds in aid to yemen putting the total u. K. Help for this and next year at 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 shabbir laugher from the stop the War Coalition thinks the only way the u. K. Can really help yemen is to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia one saudi arabia started its war in yemen in the first few months of the 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. But despite the rise of global extremism it appears a terrorist guidelines and bomb making instructions are still easily Available OnlineJacqueline Vega has been surfing for such material. And less than ten minutes i was able to find multiple gods published by terrorist organizations through google searches clearly outlining how to make a bomb weve 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 and they will confine this information including those hoping to put it to use 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 or 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 in september found that amazons algorithm was suggesting items that could be bought 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 iraq i remember the sound of explosions sound. Back in september amazon pledge to fix 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. To be part of the solution when working with Government Law enforcement and Civil Society groups to tackle the problem of stream is the place whats at risk on suns 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 extra provide. Us with dangerous materials and yet saw no change in the search result days later clearly despite the companys willingness to tackle terrorists 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 dougal which would be the Search Engine that it was found on but now youre looking at things like the web site 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 starting to 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 lurking soley on the dark web 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 if 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. 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