A last minute attempt to disrupt russian gas supplies to europe u. S. Senators warner Swiss Company that crippling sanctions will put it out of business if it doesnt start work on the almost completed north stream to block. Thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. Russias Investigative Committee house released the identity of the gunman who opened fire outside the federal Security Service building in central moscow on thursday 39 year old you get a minute of lived in the Moscow Region he killed an f. S. B. Officer before being shot dead himself another officer died later on in hospital 5 other people including one civilian were injured at the moment the investigation into the possible motives behind the attack that is still ongoing there are reports that russias Investigative Committee has searched the home of the suspect and interviewed family and friends we spoke to the father and neighbors of the alleged shooter. He became very secretive and also got some kind of strange accent. He used to tell me that he liked shooting and even wanted to get a sports rank become a more star all sports team where he worked he replied in the Emirates Embassy as a Security Guard though i do not know if it is true he was a very calm guy and then somehow the change started growing his beard maybe it happened of the his grandmother died. Hes a lawyer worked somewhere in moscow he comes from a good family mother grandmother she was a good man she was always very polite attentive i cant say anything bad about him i cant believe whats happened in the country does in your house and it was he wasnt aggressive very calm quite quiet he was lonely no friends no girlfriend we found out about his hoby by accident he invited my husband to join him at a shooting range when he refused the topic was never raised again although we now know is what weve been finding out now from the media chief heres how the situation unfolded at the scene of the shoot. Of the when we heard strange sounds we needed to realise that we should hide it then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back. Signals and thats when the mom wasnt shooting randomly and i think we heard him shout out something but we didnt manage to make out what he was shouting at. The sitting in a basement were watching now when a guy came and were just going outside and he told us there was a shoot out that im so injured pass and he told us to enter us had been dragged into the cafe. Wasnt calm last night and the f. S. B. Building is just. To the left of me and the whole thing happened at around half past 6 in the evening right on the opposite side of this main f. S. B. Building of this f. S. B. Had quarter according to an unconfirmed video which we can show you right now the alleged shooter took his position between behind one of the columns right again on the opposite side of this building he took aim armed with an Assault Rifle and he opened fire it seemed that he was specifically targeting f. Is b. Offices coming out of the building now just to give you an idea as to how busy it was here last night what youre seeing right now is pretty white desolation compared to that because this is the heart of moscow its the very center of the russian capital its a trendy and hip area with plenty of baas cafes and restaurants so at 6 oclock it wasnt just the end of the work shift wasnt just the end of the work they wasnt just people leaving their offices offices out on the streets but also plenty of people just out and about plenty of tourists i mean if you just look over there Christmas Decorations are already up here so people were doing their Christmas Shopping theres a St Regis Hotel right across the street from me so there were literally hundreds of people out and about on the square and they were terrified by the shooting but initially many of them were confused because with christmas right around the corner many of them mistook the 1st burst of fire with well fireworks. I was sitting with my friends in a bow when the shooting began and it was the sound of a kalashnikov Assault Rifle i know what it sounds like my friends were like oh it must be firecrackers but i told them no way its not firecrackers and then we saw people running down the street it was scary at 5 or 10 minutes past 6 the gunfire began and it was not just a few shots it came in bursts we saw all. Taking cover behind the cars. Left work met up with my girlfriend and when we heard some dull sounds in the distance i thought at 1st it was fireworks or some firecrackers but as the sound continued we realized something was wrong Traffic Police who were and because thats good bridge as usual began evacuating people barely caught on to what was going on people started running we heard the gunfire plenty of details are missing right now no more official information as as of yet we do know that the russian president is being kept in the loop of this attack right here in the heart of moscow security bridge on land where he thinks things could go from here. Theyve said. From according to reports that nobody else was involved in this attack they will want to be sure that nobody else was actually involved in any planning aspects or in terms of assisting the government and that may take some time for example the examination of mobile phone records of any c. C. T. V. Records and of course any. Email communications and so on that might be held on the suspects computers and elsewhere and of course that would require house searches and so on but the fact is i think. Even if you were going to have the most benign government the most benign state in any country or what you would get some people. Seem to have a sense of that just wanted to because of policy because of instance or background or the circumstances of their own personal lives. 3 and a half years after the british people voted for the u. K. To leave the European Union 3 Prime Ministers later and for briggs it deals with parliament and piece of finally given the backing to an exit plan he has details. It would appear that way off the 3 and a half years of delays and gridlock in the house of parliament that overwhelming victory in terms of the seats won for the conservative Party Last Week in the general election means that Boris Johnson could today get his drugs that deal approved by parliament he did so with a majority of our 120124 he managed to get it through and so what that means is by january 31st the u. K. Will be leaving the e. U. At which point they will enter into an implementation period or transition period that despite that vote today despite the win for the conservatives last week drags it still leaves many issues on the zoltan also leaves the country bits of a divided one of the main divisions of course comes to the issue of scotland now scotland voted by 2 thirds roughly to remain in the European Union during that referendum and also last week they won an overwhelming number of the seats in scotland the s. N. P. That is the Scottish National party was of course for independence and so they take that as a mandate that the scottish people dont want to be dragged out of the e. U. And that they want that independence and those divisions remained clear in the house of commons today before that vote was held this bill is the emphatic lesson of the last call and unlike members opposite and reject any. Scotland could not talk been cleared of last week we did not call for breaks it youre coming to the s. N. P. With a greater monday shows still totally and utterly rejects break ca this tale is a road map for the reckless direction in which the government of Prime Minister. To take our country the story story of the last 3. 00 you will be attrited and we would be able to move forward one of the consents to the. For the labor leader Jeremy Corbin was workers rights and the government has now taken out a part of the bill the motion within the bill that would have ensured the protection of workers rights following briggss so thats now no longer going to be part of that deal of the governments priority with that deal and also they have inserts of the clause making it strict making it more difficult if not impossible for an extension to the transition period what that means is that the government would only have from the day leave by the end of january of next year till the end of december takes year to negotiate a trade deal there are many who say that 11 months simply isnt a long enough time for a trade deal to be struck and also go having provisions for u. K. Courts to be able to question and challenge and the piece of legislation by the European Court of justice that remains in u. K. Law so as far as Boris Johnson is concerned hes going to be powering on with his efforts to take the u. K. Out of the European Union independent political commentator Anthony Webber believes that the opposition will now lessen its will still a t. To the government. There is cause for celebration for the country because the 1st period of uncertainty will be over and theres cause for celebration because Boris Johnson is actually married a commitment which has come true the conservative party has got a huge majority they can get through anything very wants. But it will be a positive thing from the point of view its course. Of the concern might be on other issues where. You could argue that they havent really yours or mandates but i think the public have given a mandate on the subject to. I think certainly some of the opposition think is will probably turn on their rhetoric including even the who a lot of people are getting fed up with because very only had 45 percent of the vote very claim to speak up for the scottish people which very very clearly dont so i think over the coming months were going to see some more rigorous. U. S. Senate is appalling pressure on Companies Working with russia on the north to pipeline after passing legislation wednesday to impose sanctions on moscow in the latest round of threats washington also vowed to slap a key Swiss Company with retaliatory bases for their role in the pipes construction societe looks at how the us is trying to blackmail allies on energy policy. They say politics is a dutch a game and its players can be selfish greedy and unethical but for the most part the least pretend they are in it for the right reasons in a playing by the rules i think someone might have forgotten to tell ted cruz is you fisa binary choice stop now and leave the pipeline unfinished the express intention of the sanctions legislation which we authored or make a foolish attempt to rush to complete the pipeline. And reese putting your company out of the business forever so whats called an elected u. S. Senator so riled up that hes sending out letters with the distinct whiff of that come out to them how did you guess its russia almost specifically north stream to the 1225 kilometer pipeline running from russia to germany thats on the brink of completion the us though is in its greatest john the United States commands all our European Partners who have taken a strong stand against north stream 2. And we commend others to do the same germany is totally controlled by russia because they were getting from 60 to 70 percent of their energy from russia and they knew by the way this pipeline if completed would make europe even more dependent on Russian Energy would generate billions of dollars for putin billions of dollars that would follow in the Russian Military aggression. We dont want your Energy Supplies to be defended. But america couldnt risk letting people make the decisions times running out of to rule they decided to get it down in writing and possibile which will require dont try to impose sanctions on any Foreign Companies and individuals who are lending a helping hand in building the pipeline like the lucky recipient of cruises lets all see is a company over 6000 kilometers away from washington in switzerland and like youd expect from a politician at that level the latter is filled with all the signposts of a moderate person whos just ready to sit down and reach a compromise for the next decade your company and personnel will be entirely barred from the United States any transactions will be blocked all property will be frozen now clearly this is a matter very close to cruzs heart because earlier this month he introduced another piece of legislation protecting Europes Energy Security act thats despite some in europe not actually wanting any protection European Energy policy must be decided in europe not the us we fundamentally reject outside intervention and sanctions with extra territorial effect but cruise thinks he knows better he needs to save poor europe from falling victim to those devious forces in moscow it would make europe even more dependent on Russian Energy and that makes europe susceptible to economic blackmail europe depended on russia is not good for europe its not good for america i wont waste time and pointing out the irony and its not even a cheeky one off blackmail kind of thing earlier this year u. S. Ambassador to germany Richard Grinnell previously described by a judgment politician as acting like the high commissioner of an occupying power and persona nongrata also thought hed flex his muscles we emphasize that Companies Involved in Russian Energy exports are taking part in something that. Prompt a significant risk of sanctions now thats not being a fine of something and then theres going to these kinds of lengths and causing diplomatic disputes its almost as if the us has something to lose from nordstrom to going ahead but it helps american jobs much better for European Energy needs to be satisfied by American Natural Gas that creates jobs here in america rather than fueling military how much and that we have it americans who propounded the virtues of the free market arent happy about some healthy competition especially when the competition is providing a cheaper and faster alternative though ill admit it does have one thing missing with the us in another year of record setting natural Gas Production im pleased that the department of energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of u. S. Freedom to be exported to the world and does cruiser like his freedom gas in fact last year alone he liked 765000. 00 of it thats how much in donations he got from the oil and gas lobby making him the sectors top recipient in all of congress but really thats just by the by we spoke to professor hans going to pull whos a spokesperson for the Consumer Advocacy Group and he told us that the u. S. Is trying to force its allies to buy liquefied natural gas from america. Do this project is almost finished and america have intervened if they wanted to do something then they should have done this is the stance its clear that germany and europe will be dependent on russian gas and because of that america is right in saying that if europe becomes more dependent on russia then americas influence want to crease that much is clear the other aspect is related to economic interests america would like to sell its gas produced in their fracking location as. Dozens of former french soldiers sometimes from elite units of joint jihadi groups in the middle east since 2012 thats according to a new report by the center for the analysis of terrorism explains. This new Study Released the lid to what seems to be a very problem in the French Forces it talks about former military personnel who have gone on to join the terror groups in areas like iraq and syria the center identified around 30 former french soldiers who had been in syria or iraq or who had taken part in attacks in france after training for several months sometimes years the xix all just made the choice to abandon the french flag and fight instead under the banner of a terrorist group now it talks about the numbers it says around 35 have been logical eyes in the last 8 years while that number doesnt seem to be huge it does point to a very worrying problem frank show me a strategic ground for terrorists because they are looking to pick up people with specialists military and tactical and also weapons expertise during their time in the french army they learned how to handle weapons and explosives skills that enabled some of them to take up strategic roles within terrorist groups others having failed to reach combat zones determined to take up arms against france by planning attacks on different Strategic Sites typically of a military kind but the reality is this isnt a new issue in france back in the 1990 s. And even in the early 2000 they were cases of former french soldiers who when i made jihad going to countries such as pows and afghanistan to join up with groups to fight this report also goes on to talk about why if these soldiers are these former soldiers the scene is being so important not just because of that military knowledge but because they can pass the knowledge on to know this jihad the free so it may only be 30 individuals over the last 8 years but those 13 divisions could if trained hundreds if not thousands of others passing on that expertise knowledge. That is what the real concern is about this there was even some examples in this study of some individuals who had already decided they were going to make jihad and had decided to join the military after that so they could glean that specialist information that could be used for terror groups in the future now the report does conclude that the french army has taken measures try and prevent radicalization its also got measures in place trying to text but equalization that might be taking place thats all well and said for those who are still in the army but it doesnt address the problem of former french soldiers who left the army and now prime targets for terror groups. Indians are defying a police plan to hold the biggest antigovernment rallies in protesting against the passing of a bill to grant citizenship to non muslim illegal migrants. The citizenship of simplifies applications from neighboring countries but excludes muslims critics say the legislation is both discriminatory and unconstitutional the Prime MinisterNarendra Modis insisting that the law reflects a culture of compassion this is how the protest movement unfolded. Washington to induce law pounders explicitly and to muslim stands in stark contrast to the u. S. Outcry over chinese treatment of muslim minorities. Cared deeply and always well about protecting minorities protecting religious rights everywhere and we honor indian democracy as they have a robust debate inside of india a massive crimes against humanity committed by the Chinese Government against the weavers the legislation would require the administration to categorize a report on the human rights abuses be committed by the Chinese Communist party we have to remember something that us Foreign Policy has never historically been about human rights whatsoever its always been about securing 2 things u. S. To teach it interests in different geopolitical parts of the world 1st of all and secondly in opening up Different Countries to transnational corporates on a nation under nation of human rights is simply a strategic instrument in the area and in the underlying u. S. Us our Foreign Policy the United States chooses who its going to condemn and who whose Human Rights Violations its going to ignore so what we see is that the United States says nothing about human brutal Human Rights Violations and for instance hunters in saudi arabia in bolivia since the coup detat and now in india and yet it condemns Human Rights Violations in china in venezuela and bolivia before the coup because thats what determines who gets condemned for Human Rights Violations whether that country is strategic and alight with u. S. Interests or not. Appreciate you coming here a lot international dont forget you can check out more stories if you had to a website assaulting dot com. All of us will hoops and have been absent from the babies but the sense of behaving appears even in deaf and blind babies even if youve never heard of seen laughter you will know if youre tickled by a parents. 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