Trump. The new investigation. Into their own safeguard users from convicted sex offenders and i guess debated where the responsibility to protect women lies. We need companies to take a moral stand or at least have some sort of responsibility you cant trust these Companies Good and bad you need to take that into your own hands. Commuting the weekly here on r. T. International. The f. B. I. Is presuming the Pensacola Naval base shooting which left 3 people dead 8 injured on friday was an act of terrorism and investigation is continuing no terror group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. We are as we do in most active shooter investigations work with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism this allows us to take advantage of investigative techniques that can help us more quickly identify and then eliminate any additional potential threats to the rest of our community of the gunman was shot dead at the scene by officers he was a saudi military trainee and at the base the study aviation intelligence Officials Say the shooter had been based there for 2 years its still unclear how he got the weapons which are not allowed on site incident happened at the u. S. Naval air station pensacola located on the florida coast it has 16000 military and over 7000 civilian personnel still it has Many International students who are required to undergo background checks before training or prior to the deadly shooting or twitter accounts which allegedly belong to the force officer posted anti u. S. Messages condemning washingtons policies in the middle east you have to be i said it is working to confirm those tweets. Ok im joined on the line now by Gregory Copley who is an author and also president of the International Strategic studies Association Welcome gregory the attack happened in the heart of the u. S. Military installation. The obvious question is how did the authorities miss this in terms of all kinds of different aspects security clearance possible warning signs. Well i think its very hard to delve into the minds of individuals and i think were at an age where we see people radicalized online to a large extent so that they can turn at any moment clearly this young officer. Was personally motivated to underpay was anti american act and very hard to stop people from that kind of allegiance weve even seen as you know in the past some u. S. Officers undertake acts of terrorism and the american acts of terrorism within their own military unit so this is not surprising it does however actually cause a problem for d the saudi government and the u. S. Government because saudi arabia and the United States were busily trying to to repair the fences between them because theres been a breakdown in their strategic relationship over the past few months particularly as the saudi government and the u. A. E. Government each thought that the u. S. Was going to abandon them and do a deal with iran and that caused a big upset with a lot of a lot of shouting to cover the u. S. Was betraying them you said that about its impossible to get inside the minds of people and if it turns out to be true the claims of anti u. S. Posts made on twitter is it is the extent of surveilling their their own troops or military members within the country does it does extend that far to looking at what people are putting on social media there is not a much micromanagement of individuals without some. Just cause really in fact if you look at the any american tweets of various individuals around the country you have to look at least half of congress so basically looking at some saudis 2nd attendance. Is would be well down the list of probable thrilly. I thought very interesting. Elements of what was was that was announced by fischers was the use of the word presumption that this was terrorism because that somehow aids the investigation does that does that open things up for the investigators is it getting more powers in some way well it does give them more more power investigative powers and more ability to demand a response from. Individuals and from Government Agencies so yes and frankly an act like this you have to assume that there was some ideological motivation whether or not that links back to a formal terrorist organization or not is unknown at this stage and to a degree not so material the reality is that were seeing. In the last 345 years many more individual acts being motivated by online rhetoric radicalize ation so that you dont need a terrorist group to communicate directly or liaise directly with such such people but is it an act of terrorism give it depends on how you define terrorism act of terror are designed to destabilize paralyze and polarize social and political situations what this one did was not so much terrorize the community because this is a military community which can handle all acts of violence but it does have a political ramification in that it makes it difficult in the publics sphere for the u. S. Government to mend its spencers with the saudi government gregory really appreciate your analysis my guest Gregory Copley president of the International Strategic studies association there thank you thank you. France to seeing yet another day of demonstrations they spilled over from a one day National Strike on thursday one of the biggest in the country for years the protesters of the angry at the governments plans to overhaul the Pension System. Passive demonstrations we have right across the country 1st on the omagh site also clashes between drug place and protesters the largest trade union says 1500000 people marched in support of the interior ministry claims the figures were just. Used to get us to disperse the crowds with the most violent rallies occurring in the french capital to show the dave school books that. This strike has been planned for many months now and this is against the proposed changes by the french government to the Pension System here in france the idea is that they want to amalgamate number of different systems around 42 different systems into a universal system but people say that i will have a massive impact on their pensions because it will mean that their pensions perhaps could be lower in the feature or in fact that they might have to work even longer and that has caused a huge fury here in france the crimes go all the way back more than a close to god do nor which is where this process was originally due to start off with what was come for many hours has turned to huge tensions with clashes between the police and the protest as we saw a van or so who am on fire and they got tear gas really coming quite close to us and you might get a sense of it just down that you can see there more tear gas come into the protesters shariah and move people away incredible is famous just being there and as you can hear you know were seeing protests is smashing shops in front of us tear gas is bringing down and those crews are battling about battling to half contain this fire theyve also been tensions elsewhere in fronts north just tensions in places like. Other cities the suggestion now is that this one day strike the. It was initially planned by transport workers and is now encompassed teaches health work is the fire fight isnt even the police could now start a ruling striking in the lead up to christmas in going on until the new year as the strike is attempt to make the french government me think these Pension Reforms for the moment here in france people are adamant that they want to have their voices heard this come out to the streets to make sure thats happening. Earlier this week nato leaders gathered in the United Kingdom to celebrate the military alliance is 70th anniversary but it turns out many people even the host country have little knowledge of its relevance. Most people think of the main 3 achievements of the. Year but. In terms of achievements know very little i dont know what i have no idea any advantage of nato or gee i honestly dont know anything about any sort of the day and only my husband recognized what it was poor its a good question but let me think of a little bit. So one probably to be honest i dont have i dont have even one leaders use the occasion to claim the nato is the most successful alliance in history though some of the members disagree as to what the main threats are to the bloc they did agree to share its running costs more evenly something the us has long been simon right from the political satire show in case you missed it gives an alternative take on the some. 2 29. 00 Nation Alliance which makes up the whole of the worlds military spending yet still calls itself. Has turned 7 c. Congratulations nato leaders are lovely. In london. Spread some President Trump accused the president of france and anyone of being nasty bullied the least popular. Video from being laughed at by trudeau micron and even Boris Johnson has been seen around the world today wouldnt say exactly plain sailing for this nato meeting but here come all the leaders now coming in with the. Many of us a president of somewhere oh yeah i know that one i know that one. Together last. Next to you. Leader of turkey thats the least popular to keep this christmas. Happy they. Are. I suppose they are having to listen to this guys trying in the school to. Know one thing. Before the main festivities started a select group of leaders had the chance to meet at the u. S. Ambassadors residence we didnt like kids going to. Play by the orange one sat on a Golden Throne i suppose he does pay for nato presence after all something the head of the alliance un stoltenberg knows very well but again this critical new twist of this on this is we have. To get america to pay the bills you know ive always thought that being the head of nato must be the least powerful powerful job in the world despite their recent differences france is a man you mark on did meet trump and hes gone with the to put on a frankly all some display of man spreading. And passive aggression this is where the nation would be great if you know. You could done so. You could have Something Different from the u. S. I didnt think about this but. The water. And a coke you. Know well with nato which has become like any 70 year old this waistline has expanded since its prime become a bit of a financial burden to the family they cant work out who it is like small the russians the chinese all the middle easterns the Anniversary Party was marred by protests the english capital some demonstrators venting their anger against certain attendees others objecting to the pressure in the midst of race. Because rick sanchez asked his guests about the current purpose of nato and if it really is obsolete as dump truck bombs put it before changing smart. Youre a diplomat youve had a lot of experience in this field what is it that nato either must do today to stay viable or does do we even need it anymore you know its a bureaucracy in search of a mission i was right in 2016 when he said it was obsolete and so afraid was the establishment that he meant what he said on the very day he was inaugurated and they tried to ram through the addition of a new country montenegro eventually got through because it turned out they didnt have to worry about trump intentions once he filled his administration with a bunch of bushies and retreads of the Heritage Foundation theyve simply adopted the policies weve had the last few decades and somehow turned into nato as obsolete into lets make nato great again which are strong on these countries to pay more for their defense against nobody in particular you think you know has in fact outlived its usefulness i thought so in 1909 and i think so today its been as a list of from a standpoint of being a naturalized american and having read the Founding Fathers warning you cant seem to angling alliances i mean what is this but in entangling alliances its our own Foreign Policy that did reason nato is being kept around by the Foreign Policy hawks in washington is not because its necessary for the actual military operations and nato itself doesnt really contribute a whole hell of a lot there are very few countries with the notable exception i want to say france and turkey but it put a bit in as if this is not a good idea for the United States and its very close allies to have an association a military cannot close our eyes thats not what i was trying to say france and turkey could theoretically mountie independent military operations everybody else is just a hanger on and theyre just window dressing for us military operations the literally like roman exactly erisa started when i was in here things go bad where did the word of the destruction went or where that is what it seems to be a dismissive alliance and 991. 00 when the soviet union and the warsaw pact would out of business nato should have as well as why didnt they let russia in i mean that literally that time ive read on many occasions buddha himself has said why dont you get is that. If you are youre going to tell you who it was but one of the european european nato hacks said if we did that the nato would be like the un just to talk shop it couldnt take action by which they meant military action all the civil way to listen to what you just said if youre saying it doesnt work if we dont have enemies exactly what if we have to create the ad be about as the ability to inflict military force and i dare to say aggression in places like serbia and libya whatever we want to using nato as a platform but enemies could change by the way russia could be s. O. B. s at one time like of the 1950 s. But not so much now right but better why dont you have a system that allows that ability because because whose interest is that serve and all these all these are the head of these military companies and these bureaucrats who have the nice cool rice balls at the expense of their taxpayers because theres a threat out there is a bear in the woods for that. Kind of money so we have to wrestle break. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have. Let it be an arms race. Theory dramatic. And. Very critical time to sit down in. The defensive alliance that has shaken several countries its the union of the supposedly like minded that cant agree on what the main threats of its the appear to me of military might but said to be both in great shape and brain dead at the same time as the organization celebrates its 70th anniversary is it time for a just think about. Popular free dating apps such as tinder are not protecting their users from sex offenders on their platforms according to a new investigation by the american Nonprofit Organization pro publica the probe that they carried out looked at more than 150 incidents of Sexual Assault over the past decade finding that the majority of victims were women who met their attackers through match group in turn percent of cases they were paired with men whod already been accused of all convicted of sex crimes. Over 40 of the most popular up says that they didnt conduct background checks before paid accounts for the more the company says it disputes the findings of the investigation. The implication that we know about such offenders on our site and dont fight to keep them off is as outrageous as it is falls as Technology Evolves we will continue to aggressively deploy new tools to eradicate bad actors including users of our Free Products where we are not able to obtain sufficient and reliable information to make meaningful bang ground checks possible. More a journalist a spectator magazine a resurface in a womens rights advocates give us their thoughts on dating platforms and the screening policies. The match group is a 1000000000. 00 company there is no reason why they couldnt allocate just a small portion of their revenue to screen the people on their ab just so that there is just a smaller since of increased safety its a precaution its a measure but its deserved if they appear if theyre suddenly saying that we want in order to join the service we want to perform background checks on everyone who joins 1st of all that would kill the business and they know it theres a moral responsibility on these companies that are making billions of dollars 1700000000 dollars from women looking for love to say oh you know what its too expensive for us to do a little bit to protect you nobodys going to want to join these apps with these kind of if theyre doing that theyre being this invasive about background checks with that said people maybe shouldnt be on them especially women and not only are these dangerous for women but is destroying women so just get off the dating apps if you dont perform your own background checks in your own time with your own money get off were not going to restrict women from using the internet because there are predators we do desire for these companies to at least take the step into the right direction why do you want to put that kind of power on these monolithic Tech Companies and up saying you know ban women from dating apps im simply saying you should rely on this and you cant trust these companies to tell you whos good and whos bad you need to take that into your own hands so if you meet someone do a background check before you did before you go out on a date if they work in tandem with the courts to get the names at least of the 1st and last names in the location of where these people are and perhaps create some type of monitor of their internet thats a step in the right direction its going to be a mess i think no matter what and theres always going to be people who perhaps squeak through or dont get picked up who then commit assaults and crimes get a gun ladies. Protect yourselves and we dont and by the way these incidences are obviously extremely rare and you know by and large the vast majority of men are not sexual predators one woman is enough we need the companies to take a moral stance or at least have some sort of responsibility to protect the women that utilize their app and then what happens you know its its never going to be a perfect system. Has denied its been unwilling to cooperate with German Authorities of an investigation into the murder of a Georgian National in berlin in august itself to berlin expelled 2 Russian Diplomats on wednesday let me hasnt been forthcoming enough russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told r. T. It appears most will again be blamed for a crime that was never involved in. The federal Foreign Office today declared 2 employees of the Russian Embassy in berlin to be persona non grata with this step the federal government reacts the fact that the russian authorities despite repeated high level and in fact it requests did not sufficiently participate in the investigation of the murder of tony k. K. In berlin zoo. They said we did not cooperate enough this is groundless some countries today recalled the tragedy of m. H. 17 my dutch counterpart said we didnt do enough then we supplied them with all the necessary information with data from our radars and so on we gave them everything were on the satellite images the us promised nobody answered that we asked them what kind of cooperation they want from us and they responded by saying you have to confess you did it that would be corporative if germany wants to follow suit nothing good will come of it thats not a good way to deal with anyone and with russia in particular. The murder in question happened in late august in a berlin park the 40 year old victim was shot and killed on his way toward moscow eyewitnesses say a cyclist shot the man in the back of the head and then fled the scene the slain manors ilam carve Congress Really also known as tony k. K. Was a georgian citizen who since 2017 had lived in germany as an Asylum Seeker he had ties to a high profile chechen terrorists there russia and fought against Russian Troops and police during the 2nd chechen war than was wanted by russian authorities on terrorism charges the case was seized on by the controversial belling cat Investigative Group which along with german newspaper the spiegel was quick to point the finger at moscow with allegations of russian authorities that helped the assassin create his fake identity economist ica harmon told us the evidence presented so far has been inconclusive. You can definitely see that there are certain interests who want to poison the relationship between russia and germany but it seems that there is some cleaning out work going on where isis and everything around and this high profile terrorist who might be related to all these happenings in there with isis and syria and so on so i think there can be many more reasons why this was done and who did this apart from russia the problem is that we cannot trust any of those explanations from german governments at all it was already with the script it was with iraq all these socalled big evidences turned out to be just nothing and in this case to make such a big thing like sending 2 people home is without any proven fact it is just a disgrace im feeling very ashamed of the federal bureau of foreign affairs. I think this thing with the whole problem a but now do stick around my colleagues on the luck with will be here with the latest News Headlines at the top of the. 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