In sport, theres a festive feast at the emirates. Three goals in five minutes for arsenal, but its not enough as liverpool strike back to earn a draw in a cracker to kick off the christmas fixtures. One of the worlds rarest pigs, caught on camera scientists thought the javan warty had been driven to extinction. Well hear how its now been rediscovered. And matt has the weather. Good morning, another incredibly mild state across the uk, fairly grey for many at the risk colder air getting closer. While it arrive in time for Christmas Day . Yourfull forecast is coming up. We look forward to finding out, thank you, matt. Good morning. First, our main story a former us marine has been arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack in San Francisco on Christmas Day. Everitt Aaron Jameson was held after allegedly discussing the plot with undercover fbi agents. Our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. One of San Franciscos most popular tourist attractions, pier 39, packed with sh
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
Contains it is something we understand why people are concerned about it. Its one of the reasons why the Electoral Commission approached us in october of last or and said we would like you to assess about whether or not there was indeed misinformation coming from another country. And we were keen to cooperate on that. We reported some findings from an initial investigation to chair the committee. I think its fair to say we havent done enough work having reflected on that. Is we wont be able to tell you until that work is completed. We are committed to telling the committee the outcome of those results. The one thing i would say is unlike the u. S. Election, we intelligence any reports that suggests there were downright russian interference using facebook involved in the brexit referendum. Different where there is an Intelligence Report demonstrating. Obviously the referendum was about the membership of the European Union Going Forward. Countries within the eu, not the u. K. , had more
We will go straight into the second panel. Somewould ask monica Background Information about the Senate Intelligence investigation into russian intelligence. Some of that work has been quite insightful for us and lead to us contacting facebook and asking for similar insight to be done as to when he as to whether there was any russian activity in the u. K. I want to ask about the information that facebook has provided. Is it correct to say that all the unit all the evidence so far and the number of people that were exposed to content creation disputed by the Internet Research agency in st. Petersburg, all of that announced so far comes from the analysis facebook did identifying payments made in ruples related to advertising around that content. Monica the information we gave to the committee in testimony is the best source of information for the details about that. Didhat testimony, colin speak to how facebook conducted that investigation. Payment in rubles was one of the signals. That
Again, their own lawyers said, no, we should tell people about this because they urge ranking it in their water. , a newe devil we know documentary looking at how residents in West Virginia five dupont to expose the dangers of c8, the chemical in teflon, nonstick hands and other household items. Today, c8 is now in the bloodstream of 99 of americans, even newborn babies will stop then to anotes ark. The issue of Climate Change remains the most challenge for us. What is going to happen was . Ofis going to be the fate the world. In ago we talked to the Pacific Ocean island nation of kiribati in fighting to save his country from rising waters. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, the senate has voted to end the government shut down after democratic lawmakers capitulated on the demand that any spending deal include a resolution on daca thats the deferred action for childhood arrivals progra