A most of the schools. After more than 3 years of deadlock and numerous rejections the u. K. Parliament finally backs Prime MinisterBoris Johnsons breaks it withdrawal agreement. Hello there youre watching r. T. International im Rosana Lockwood thank you for joining us. Now swiss and Dutch Construction company all seize has suspended work on the north stream to pipeline thats in response to a defense bill signed by u. S. President on the next imposes sanctions on russias gas Pipeline Projects u. S. Senator ted cruz who also the provision warned of consequences for failing to heed washington. You free choice stop now and leave the pipeline unfinished the express intention of the sanctions legislation which we offered or make a full should tell. To rush to complete the pipeline and reese putting your company out of the business forever 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 north stream 2 is a gas pipeline being built from russia to germany through the baltic sea it spans more than a 1000 kilometers and the us has long voiced its opposition to the project going as far as to threaten European Companies the United States commands all our European Partners who have taken a strong stand against north stream to. 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 a new pipeline 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 europes Energy Supplies to be dependent on planet he put his federal government is against extraterritorial sanctions we dont approve of this practice we oppose especially extraterritorial sanctions that have german and European Companies and. Now to discuss some of the wider implications of this we can cross live to jack rasmus hes a professor of political economy at St Marys College jack thanks for joining us lets so hit the north streets the pipeline its not a complete so why is washington imposing the thanks and right now. Well its kind of ironic that the u. S. Is saying they dont want germany and europe to be dependent on cheaper russian gas but they wanted to be dependent on more expensive american gas you see ted cruz is from texas and nerdy is very tight with the big oil and Gas Companies in texas and the u. S. Has a lot of excess guess right now and then oil as a result of fracking the new technologies and its been putting pressure on europe particularly germany to buy u. S. Gas and u. S. Of oil even to the point of saying the u. S. Will help fund a liquid national gas ports but of course the u. S. Gas is going to be more expensive thats right germany is walking into doing that and what you see here in this latest move is that they couldnt u. S. Couldnt get germany to. Pull out of the nordstrom too so its going after Smaller Companies building some of the parts of nordstrom to its kind of an act of desperation in a sense but its all part of all alone or term at least couple decade long u. S. Pressure on europe and particularly germany because the u. S. Is getting concerned that europe and russia is becoming more integrated economically and especially now integrated possibly were nordstrom to go for natural gas so its all about money its about selling us natural gas and about to some. Extent trying to keep russia from be looking unlikely more in agreement with europe which is the big strategic objectives the us is trying to achieve well if it is really all about money and you know making your Main Customer safe say more reliant on your Energy Supply the u. S. Over russia and selling your as its content freedom gas to europe a sanctions really the most effective way to go about this. Well thats another trend in u. S. Global relationships in recent decades and that is the u. S. Is really relying more and more on a turf wars and on sanctions both of those an element if youre leaning its Swift International bounce of payments control system to bring out you know its economic allies are allies in line keep them in line as the global comedy begins to slow down the u. S. Wants to make sure it maintains control over these trade relations and economic relations is not just about money its this strategic control of political military as well as economic thats really behind this although you know overlaid on that is this immediate thing about texas access to the gas that the u. S. Wants the pressure europe particularly germany to purchase instead of the cheaper russian gas. You mentioned that you know. It could its one way of forcing countries to be reliant on your gas but isnt there a way that this pipe line project could be completed so its them based all thies as weve heard has suspended its activities on north stream to response to the sanctions but is there any possible way that the pipeline project could continue for example if there was another company that wanted to step in and do this well there are a number of companies who could continue building that pipeline it would cause a delay of course until they got wind up and to us by going after all season is putting a shot across the bow. Of a warning to any of these other companies or dont step in or were going to slap some sanctions on you know to and its interesting that the sanctions and include freezing of assets and the finances of these companies that may exist the United States you know using that kind of for free as you say you are going when the u. S. Really wants to destabilize a. From it in a country like venezuela but. You know in this case you know the u. S. Seems to be getting you know maybe more dismayed maybe tougher law aggressive in trying to send a message to europe which he considers its economic backyard for russia to stay out in europe not to develop the deeper ties economically with russia even though if its even though its more economical and profitable to do so best talk about one of the other big parties involved in this which is germany because that is ultimately where the pipeline was ending up they did this in for a sleep voice their objections to the u. S. Imposing sanctions on base projects but the u. S. Has gone and imposed the sanctions agitating that effects the u. S. Relationship with germany and what white germany did response to think well you know the fact that germany would not go along with the u. S. Politically on this is really a kind of a defeat for the u. S. A temporary one and going after all seize can be viewed as a kind of a less act of desperation you know if you cant get germany to go along with the debt would be built furred way well will will go after the individual companies that may be involved in this well germany is standing up to the u. S. On this and not simply because its an interference with germanys sovereignty perhaps but because its a more economical i mean germany is moving away from courts moving to alternative energy and cheaper. Climate changes c o 2 producing Energy Natural gas is a less you know a Climate Change in power and germany a lot of politics are behind going to cheaper cleaner energy so the promise to. Our arent easy for the u. S. To force a germany to comply jack finally i want to ask you this about the timing of the sanctions because we call ignore the fact that 2 days ago President Trump was in pain well heading into 2020 u. S. President ial election is a thing you think about that that could have led to the sanctions being placed by the current government now. Well i started to tell you know whether trump is losing his influence within his inner circle there you know theres a lot of business opposition to trump and what trumps you know direction hes been going in a number number of policy areas there a little bit you know discontent with his failure to achieve anything significant with this trade war with china you know not withstanding all the hyperbole and all and all the claims that are going on now very little has been achieved in that deal very little is cheatin the new nafta agreement so you know the pentagon interests in the military Industrial Complex you know and other business interests maybe getting discontent with them and this is a time that perhaps the ted cruz and and the more hardliners russia hardliners and the u. S. Political scene see an opportunity here and they got that provision plugged into the National Defense act so who knows whats going on politically behind the scenes in the maneuvering trade advantage is that on the pending some big typical may take Jack Rasmussen all political economy at St Marys College thanks your insights. Now some other Headline NewsRussias Investigative Committee has released the identity of the gunman who opened fire outside the headquarters of the federal Security Service building in central moscow on the state evening 39 year old afghani manure of lived in the Moscow Region he killed an f. S. B. Officer before being shot dead himself another officer died later in hospital and 5 other people including one civilian were injured at the moment the investigation into possible motives is still ongoing heres how the situation unfolded at the scene of the shooting. Was usually when we get to the when we heard strange sounds we needed to realize that we should hide then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back. To. The signals and the signal going 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 them in the city in a basement were watching now when a guy came and weve just been outside and he told us there was a shooting im so injured possum he told us the injured party had been dragged into the cafe. There are reports that the russian Investigative Committee has searched the home of the suspect and interviewed his family and friends we spoke to the neighbors and father of the shooter. But lately he became very secretive and also got some kind of strange eastern accent used to tell me that he liked shooting and even wanted to get a sports rank become a more star or sports team where he worked he replied in the Emirates Embassy as a Security Guard but i do not know if it isnt 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 he 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. Always some more details on the story his own correspondent. It wasnt calm last night here 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. S. 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 bars cafes and restaurants so at 6 oclock it wasnt just the end of the work shift it 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 at a bar when the shooting began 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 officers 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 on the connecticut bridge as usual began evacuating people they apparently 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 well security analyst Charles Schumer it outlined where he think 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. Emails 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 that even if you were going to have the most benign government the most benign state in any country to what you will get some people will react violently and some differences 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 all through the british people voted for the u. K. To leave the European Union 3 Prime Ministers later and 4 bricks it deals rejected by parliament and piece of finally give me back into an exit plan he said alie has more 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 approved by parliament and 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. 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 bitterly 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 pro and dependents and so they take that as a mandate that the scottish people vote want to be dragged out of the e. U. And that they want that independence and those divisions remains clear in the house of commons today before that vote was held this bill learns the emphatic lesson of the last caller unlike members opposite and projects any. Scotland could not talk been cleared of last week we did not call for breaks it come in 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 Prime Minister adi term and to take our country the story story of the last 3. 00 you will be at today and we would be able to move forward one of the consents to the. For the labor leader during the quarter it 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 prices so thats now no longer going to be part of that deal the governments priority with that deal and also they have insights of the clause making it strict and 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