Hello youre watching the week here on alt International Im resigned a lot welcome to the program im glad im a putin has personally thanked donald trump for a tip off from u. S. Intelligence that helped intercept a terror plot in St Petersburg medina cochon of the reports. Russias federal Security Service detain 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of St Petersburg now according to the Security Service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during a new years celebrations it was also reported that avid and shedding light on some of their intentions was also found this scene while they were being detained Russian Federal Security Service a mages these a rest on the 27th of december following information that was received there america. Colleagues now some may say that it was a significant step in the relationships between the 2 countries and in a telephone conversation the russian president Vladimir Putin tha
And im George Howell from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. Newsroom starts right now. And we begin with the attacks that have shaken two u. S. Communities during the holiday season. In texas, a man opened fire killing two people during a Church Service before he was shot by armed parishioners. We will have the details in just a moment. Also in monsey, new york, the suspect accused of stabbing five people during a hanukkah celebration inside a rabbis home, this happened saturday, that suspect is being held on 5 million bail. Grafton thomas has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and first degree burglary. His Attorney Says he has a long history of Mental Illness and no history of antisemitism. We must warn you the video youre about to see may be disturbing. These are photos from inside the rabbis home right after the attack, and you can see blood on the floor and chairs overturned. And Surveillance Video from a neighbors home appears to show the attacker running toward his car afte
March across iraq and we are speaking to people here in mosul one man said we jumped for joy when we heard him we heard that he was dead but of course theres not much joy here in mosul i still may have been defeated baghdad he may be dead that people here are living with the legacy the psychological trauma of what happened here under ice so we were just speaking to these men right here they were standing in front of a bird shop one man told us that in 2017 his house was bombed he lost his 8 year old daughter he says i have 2 sons born since 2017 when the city sells back into the hands of the Iraqi Government and i cant find a job my son has cancer i cant get them healthcare another man said that everyone he knows in this city has suffered in some way as a hands of eisel he was reminding us how when ice will nationally came to mosul they were using tactics to gentle tactics to slowly lure people into the fold promising jobs reeling against the government offering a better way of life an
Armed groups. It was july 2014 when the world got a glimpse of the man best known as abu bakar a bucket that he and iraqi whose real name is abraham a wide ibrahim. He walked out of the shadows to declare in islam it stayed in iraq and the levant from the great mosque in the iraqi city of mosul he led friday prayers after naming himself caliph or religious leader it was a show of power by an armed group which took over much of iraqs sunni heartland after the iraqi army all but collapsed 5 years later it was back daddys state that collapsed eisel once controlled 88000. 00 square kilometers of territory stretching from western syria to eastern iraq it lost its last stronghold in syria in march this year weeks after back that he made his 1st appearance in 5 years putting to rest many unconfirmed reports of his death in a video the ice a leader wanted to show he was still in charge and along with his group survived the territorial defeat back that he was behind the groups creation and expa
This is two hours and ten minutes. Thank you for coming. My name is seth jones, the harold brown chair and director of trance National Threats project for the center of international studies. We have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject and i think increasingly important subject and part of the motivation i think from Suzanne Spaulding and i in looking at this and i have to give you u credit, suzanne, for being the brain child behind this, was to look at some of the recent attacks including el paso and the synagogue attacks and note that there has been a dialogue debate within the u. S. About how to respond to it. The degree of threat and how serious it is then how to respond to it. So what we like to do is move in the following sense. Were going to begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat. And how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for these groups is the racially motivated violent groups. I cannot promise the panelists are go