Very well malcolm youre watching Aussie International with me good to have you with us this hour now americas former intelligence chief James Clapper claims Vladimir Putin is handling donald trump as an athlete it comes off of the russian president finds the u. S. Lead different sharing intelligence that helped to foil terror attacks in some pages. Of a good source or one of them or putin that 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 we 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 when asked which is touched on monday dont trump outlined his vision of the wealth and americas role in it and i came to National Security speech and like his predecessor is hes not letting go of the 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 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 and his speech trump framed russia and china as rival powers challenging americas global dominance the two countries are also accused of developing advanced weapons that could threaten it u. S. Infrastructure however trump of all 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 obsolete but. 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 Political Science Professor Joseph chung thinks its in americas interest to have competition. The time is leadership responds in saying that you would like to. Type of major power relationship with the United States meaning nor major confrontations. Challenges and so on the United States needs enemies of to put it more nicely strategically competitors are needed for the United States to remain alert and to and to be able to muster enough resolve to me to be i think china and russia understand and theres also a 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 at Christmas Markets where barriers have been percept to prevent possible car running attacks according to the or far it is there is no specific knowledge of any planned attacks but the police are still warning people to be vigilant. All this comes a year after the attack on a Christmas Market in berlin where a Memorial Ceremony has been held to remember those who were killed were relatives of the victims as well as survivors laid flowers and candles at a 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 showed what weaknesses almost a child in this situation. Germanys Justice Minister has also admitted errors were made in their response to the atrocity peter 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 atrocities. 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 loser you are a power actually how you telling your son about what to tell you preparing him for all to meet him when hes all much older he will understand a lot more about this talk of how this is 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 for 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. Us too 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 angola merkel the families have asked why help promise to them hasnt been forthcoming and why amery has been free to carry out his attack in the first place what im really angry abroad is actually what happened before the terrorist attack. Spree known that this person is dangerous and still the authorities didnt. Arrest him didnt work here for some reason. Bugs me also is that nobody actually. Actually took the responsibility. Its still you know everybody is doing their own work still the time if Nothing Happened germanys Christmas Markets remain on high alert but for the families of those killed and injured during last years terrorist attack its left an indelible sadness on the festive period piece rather arty berlin. Aka Parliamentary Committee has convened to discuss fake news than in particular its potential impact on catalonia is independence referendum in october and like in similar herrings in washington the pathway taken well russian interference. Greek discord this a predator democracy European Union about to they fall to pieces form and division these outlets are tea and sport new affiliated characters meddling in the morning on russian trolls and russian forums no specific of spreading propaganda russian interference is the goal was to polarize but despite all of those buzzwords the committees experts fail to provide any real evidence of meddling and even to get a number of basic facts straight unless theyre checking explains. A new day is a new opportunity to discuss russia isnt it 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 our 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 realizations that some Committee Members dont really know where Julian Assange is not a normal interest 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 schemes but she felt she was holed up in the service for them to go over it with a reader or it was always with the group that we need to research the letters with well lo this is a research was also widely focused on russias allegedly meddling specifically in the cattle 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 bracks 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 that the russian government is seeking to interfere you see and come to the referendum in catalonia. I dont have evidence that youre going to betray st but you say hes very good at the evidence you claim to round 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 a new. Study says 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 oneill will head to the polls and the election that could decide the future of the regions independence push weve got more on that so after the break. What politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line. To get accepted or rejected. So you want to be president interim. Some want to reach. Out to the right. This is what before three of the people. Interested in the why. Should. Anyone else chose seemed wrong. Why dont we just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out just to come out today. And in detroit because the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Welcome back now dont trump the National Security adviser has that the u. S. Is prepared to force north korea to abandon its Nuclear Weapons program if necessary h. O. Mcmaster stated that while washington washington would prefer a diplomatic solution to the crisis it is not committed to peace. We have to be prepared if necessary to compel the denuclearization of north korea were not committed to a peace work remitted to a resolution on the comments come as the u. S. Holds joint drills with south korea and the pm china mountains which is where the upcoming Winter Olympics will be held around two hundred twenty marines from each side to taking part in the three week long exercises in an effort to reduce tensions on the peninsula ahead of the games though the south florida has said hed be willing to resettle other drills planned for next year. It is possible for south korea and the us to review the possibility of postponing the exercises and i have made such a suggestion to the us and the us is currently reviewing them. Were now joined by t. V. Host of political commentator Steve Malzberg to discuss this but to have you with us mr miles back now what do you make of the comments made by the National Security advisor that you think that this serious threat terror or is it just bringing mage ship in your opinion and i think its brinksmanship i think he was probably also answering a question because you said you know were not committed to peace were committed to a resolution and probably the question might have been are you committed to peace in the region its hard to talk peace and sanity when youre dealing with someone whos willing to act as a madman whether theres a method to his madness or not and that of course is kim jong un and you know hes been provocative not only in his rhetoric but more disturbingly in his actions in launching test after test and hes tempting and daring the United States to do something about it eventually that will bring bad consequences do you expect the u. S. Will work with south korea to ease the tensions and postpone those joint military drills ahead of the lympics next year. I think thats a possibility certainly it short of postponing them totally and coming to the table which is something that i think the north was willing to do and russia and china are on board with that but so i think thats a happy medium that the United States would consider especially they would like to see the olympics or go off without a hitch athletes from all over the world including the United States are planning on being there so if it could temper down a little bit but again youre dealing with an x. Factor or a wild card and you never know that even if they do that you never know how the leader of the north is going to react but the bigger question is if they dont postpone be doing drills what might the consequences be any thoughts well again its a its a safe now i mean im sure that he will look to you know exploit the fact that the olympics are taking place in his backyard of time i came in and im sure that he will be as provocative as possible if the exercise is a postponed he could claim victory by saying see they postponed they were afraid they listen to me he he although he may do more but if theyre not postponed he may in fact launch another missile test or he may threaten something that could happen during the olympics whether he would do that or not i highly doubt it but again he is the problem the American Media and to an extent the International Community seems to portray donald trump as the problem but its not donald trump its john moon and he has to be held accountable for what he is done and plans to do and might god forbid do in the future and look at u. S. Policy brutally why is it the u. S. Thinks it has a right to decide which of the countries have Nuclear Weapons. Well its not that the u. S. Has a right to decide we have interests we have troops in the region the fact of the matter is that if a terrorist regime has Nuclear Weapons its a threat to the whole world and when it comes to countries like iran and north korea if theyre able to develop and have Nuclear Weapons were talking about nightmare scenarios not only that they would use them against innocent populations around the world but also the nuclear blackmail but look what north korea just did they were just held accountable or accused by the United States in the wanna cry cyber attack which affected over one hundred thirty countries a country like north korea cannot be allowed by the International Community to to to have the capability of launching a Nuclear Weapon i dont think its just the United States it might be the United States its willing to do something about it but i think the world including russia and china would say we dont want north korea to have a Nuclear Weapon but somebody has got to step up and make sure it doesnt happen on that night political commentator steve miles back thank you for your time. In catalonia this thursday could decide the fate of the regions independence push madrid says this is a city Secession Movement has been based on what it calls post truth shante penske. Just a few days to go now before the elections on thursday december twenty first and the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister has taken the opportunity to slam my separatist leaders of catalonia she has branded them as betraying their supporters when they call that independence referendum this year and she described that referendum as being a fake as if there was a 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 and 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 towards 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 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 flues day at the same time the local government in catalonia was dissolved some of the separatist leaders were arrested and several other warrants would issued for the former catalan president carlos proves you want to actually travels to brussels where he remains of aiding that european arrest warrant however he can still be campaigning fool. 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 or will play back into the hands of the spanish Prime Minister it is a big gamble on this still could go either way. Assad like coalitions that has shot down a Ballistic Missile targeting the royal palace in the capital riyadh this video apparently shows the moment of the attack yemeni who these have claimed responsibility a similar incident took place last month when saudis intercepted a who three missile over an International Airport near riyadh. As 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 in the neighboring villages our we can rely only on point people they say was bringing water because one or two tankers is not enough even for the ten families that. Were living happily inherited when the saudi air strikes began there. No one helped us here either you see or heard no the mattresses no below 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 International Development Secretary penny more dont it is where it 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. Which and also plans to send fifty Million Pounds in eight to yemen putting the total u. K. Help for this the next year at two hundred five million but that pales in comparison with the volume of u. K. Omphale to saudi arabia since the start of the conflict britain sold more than four billion pounds worth of weapons to riyadh. Should be allowed from the stop the War Coalition thinks the only way it 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 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 the 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 of 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 them weapons stop giving them diplomatic cover. That with the latest at the top of the us either. When lawmakers manufactured them sentenced him to public wealth. When the ruling classes to protect themselves. With the financial merry go round the sun we know one person. Doing all middle of the room sit. Around in the real news room. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. About your sudden passing ive only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. 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