a sinister threat to cripple britain's communications links the country's most senior military officer that underwater cables are at risk of sabotage by russia. and extremism on the doorstep we reported to me this from a village that suspected of being a jihadi hot. see the smaller regional it's one of sixty five supposed to be split he said to be close. to us police are accused of being too trigger happy with tasers these days as video images of offices appearing to use excessive force.

two pm friday afternoon here in moscow a warm welcome this is a international with me because you know in thanks for tuning to us and first breaking news to tell you about former russian economy minister alexy if he's been sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of taking a two million dollars bribe he is the highest profile government official than to receive such a conviction as get across this is just coming a correspondent jacqueline brooke has got the details what she's been found guilty of exactly jacki tell us more so the verdict of guilty did come in just a couple hours ago the sentencing we have just figured out that eight years in prison and around a two million dollar fine look i have who was the who held the position of. economy minister for three years was arrested last november during a late night sting operation where he accepted a two million dollars bribe from the c.e.o. of rosneft a state owned oil company here and. russia and according to the court have demanded

that some an exchange for his ministries approval of a deal to buy another major oil company here and russia and he actually promised to impede that deal if he was denied this bribe for his part he has pled not guilty from the start saying that he was actually the victim of a set up but no evidence of that has actually been found up to this point he said that he believes that the bag that he was given that evening during the sting operation actually contained wine and not a massive bribe so his lawyers have already said that they are going to appeal the court's decision but this has been a very pro high profile case that everyone's been following and it does today's verdict does signify the highest ranking russian official to ever be convicted on corruption charges. speak sentence handed down there is no thank you. agreed to integrate the defenses into a more unified force it means member nations will have to increase the military spending european council president to scribble the plug of the summit. today this

dream becomes a reality we are launching permanent structures corporation so-called. which is a practical expression of our will to build european defense esko is not only good news for us but it is also good news for our allies. and the better you'll see it well past has been nearly two decades in the making in fact it will now unite twenty five member states and includes eighteen defense projects so far lot of them. do mirror the existing nato project to take a closer look let's look at some of the similarities for a start they cluetrain the sis missions which are common in nato operations it will also tackle cyber attacks as well as creating crisis resolution centers is that to get similar to what nato is already doing poland which is signed up to the pact is

already questioning the need for a duplicate defense is that we will see how this experiment works out we can always leave the pact if it's in satisfactory for poland the question is whether we really need to have a second defensive body in the u. peace campaign a polka we can martineau believes that even with an extra layer of defense the e.u. still going to struggle to tackle one of its biggest problems and that is violent extremism they are now entering into agreement where they are going to have to increase their military spending at the cost of other needs pascoe does not help with the issue of violent extremism you can invest as much money as you want in tanks and airplanes and other type of military warfare that does not solve the problem of the lone wolf or the easy violent extremists attack or investing more monies in these other type of military toys and tanks instead of investing money in

the long term solutions that will help around the issues of violent extremism the more you spend on the military the more apt your you to use that rather than diplomatic tools and other means to solve crisis. just beyond the borders of religion bosnia and herzegovina which is seeing a number of radicalized fighters returning from syria and iraq as had been predicted shela do bed ski has been to see whether the e.u. has gotten extremism hotbed for mentoring on its very doorstep. we're heading into the smaller regional it's one of sixty five communities of course it's a skill set to be radicalized basically it's shari'a religious nuts because residence practice. ultra conservative form of islam.

it looks like an ordinary sleepy feel it's a few houses nestled between the hills not how you might imagine a cradle of terror. but the local a mom is telling me that some of the residents have joined islamic state and it's one load of the there are people who went to syria and forty on the side of i still but we tried to stop them. both near has been one of the main targets of islamic state propaganda a recruitment hotbed. with eisel suffering dramatic losses in syria the recruits are expected to come home some of them already did a little it's only one person now who are distancing ourselves from him we have nothing to do with him. the fear is that us fighters come back they may not

just spread radical ideology but also in far on establishing an islamic caliphate in europe or. in bosnia and herzegovina they're already small caliphate existing the reason they're far from the cities and towns is that it allows them to perform any covert activity they need to and the fact that they're recruiting members means in the future they will be a big threat to europe the bosnian government has try to curb the terror threat by making it illegal to fight for a foreign military and more than a dozen of those who have returned from syria have been jailed well the country is also spending millions of euros on the radicalization projects but is it all working the local mom says he fears for his life after speaking out against those who joined eisel we do this in a parade of these radical elements are always unpredictable these people breed with

me the aid at the same table as me and they want to shoot me i saw defeat in syria and iraq will most likely try its foreign fighters back home for many of them as we've just learned home means here a sleepy village in a reclusive area in the heart of europe where stream ism has already taken root charlotte deep in ski r.t. bosnia and herzegovina. next in a day the chief of britain's defense staff is warning that russia could take nato countries off line by sabotaging underwater fiber optic cables like the london our correspondent polly boyd has called for while a chilling threat from a very senior british officer polly was this come from. well the threats come from a man named piccies a senior nato official and he's also the chief of british defense staff and for him it's quite simple he says that russian ships have been spotted perilously close to

atlantic underwater cables these are very important strategic cables under the sea that connect the u.s. and europe and since according to him russia has been developing its unconventional warfare well the internet could be the kremlin's next victim take a listen to what he had to say russia in addition to new ships and submarines continues to push search both unconventional capabilities and information war and there is a new risk to our way of life which is the vulnerability of the cables that crisscross the seabed. and according to says joe ph that kind of destruction would have catastrophic effects he stressed that russian ships are constantly cruising the atlantic's waters potentially with the purpose of cutting these cables while nobody is watching and as is often the case when military officials make big serious

threats well there is a way of mitigating that threat according to assess trip each and that is by spending more money on defense quite an important and perhaps ironically side note now as well these are the very same cables that britain and the u.s. have been tapping into the reason we know that is thanks to the leaks of edward snowden back in two thousand and thirteen we found out that d.c. h.q. the british spy agency and its u.s. counterpart the n.s.a. they were doing just that thanks to the temporal program from g.h.q. they placed data intercept is on fiber optic cables that carry internet data from the u.s. to europe and in and out of the u.k. and they had a whole transatlantic network that would allow british intelligence to intercept huge amounts of traffic crossing the atlantic the n.s.a. had a very similar program it was called prism that did something extremely similar that doesn't appear to balls the nato official making this very grand claim

and making this big threat for him the message seems to be that well next time your wife i was playing up and you're cussing your internet provider make sure it wasn't the russians fust small world in that boy boy carrillo thanks for the update. these offices near a city of cincinnati are accused of using excessive force after tasering suspects during a domestic dispute inquiry body cam footage of the incident that happened earlier this year is only just surface no warning for you may find the following footage upsetting it. one of the officers confronted two men inside a house tasering them without a question of their own even under arrest one of the men suffered from a collapsed lung as a result of the confrontation a complaint was filed but the country's prosecutors prevented the officers from

being interviewed. since two thousand over one thousand people have died in the us after being stunned with tasers by the police nine of ten were also on arm now a number of those also suffered from mental illness as well it's very worth pointing out concerns of police abuse have prompted amnesty international to issue an appeal for stricter taser rules in the us one victim who sued officers describe for us what he went through. recovered like physically but mentally on the. heart of think about still even though it's been one year. already. ready to.

get it. i just repeatedly did it over and over and over and two days into it they just kept telling me that there was not going to be a bomb on the. wall around. the way they were laughing and. pretty much having fun with it. that they were going to try and kill me. we spoke to the lawyer representing jordan norris steering is casey said the police actions could amount to torture. i first met with jordan actually in this office

and he told me what had happened and it was hard to believe frankly the question that the law asks is whether or not the use of force had a legitimate law enforcement purpose in other words was it necessary to keep this person in custody in a safe environment to use the force in question in this situation or he's already fully restrained he's being taste anyway i didn't see any religious law enforcement reason for that force to be used and if they're using you know painful force against this young man without any reason i can't really think of a better word than torture to describe that to keep you posted if we in the next equivocated russian lol could see if facing a hefty fine or even jail for using a tracking device he's bull to follow away would cabo. took the matter to the very highest level. up to four years in prison for a simple g.p.s. tracking device attached to a cow sounds weird if not surreal but thanks to one peculiarity in russia's

criminal law it's real. meat eve guinea the suspect it's. slash farmer. slash father. you know i was going to make a cola for this coffin attach a g.p.s. track to it of mosul so that i can see his whereabouts at least roughly when i need to know who is in. the cafe is a terrible just disappears every now and then. we have huge areas of abandoned. it's hard for me to run off to him because i've asked him there were times with this one once i spent two whole days searching for. a tiny gadget that would save the day why not fetch it online for a bargain price and so you gave me did only to be met by officers at the post office the g.p.s. tracker had a built in mike which makes it an illegal spying device if there's no license technically here's your crime the result a confiscated gadget and either

a crippling fine or prison plus the dubious honor of being the first ever spy in the village or really in the middle of nowhere. getting in trouble like this i couldn't have imagined not even in a nightmare. if the jail who were in my daughter's future i find would be very harsh it would really hurt our pockets so i do it's terrifying for us after a bit of research we thought it could be one of the things our t. should bring up on thursday. as far as i know last year more than two hundred found guilty on it is the same last of all what can you say about that. i didn't even get the reason for using g.p.s. for the. ordered the gadget on the line from china because the calf would run loose it was a bit is that illegal was the obliged to pay for it there was an article in the

russian criminal code under which. i didn't even know that such an order existed i'll definitely look into that article in the cases with those individuals it's the first time i'm hearing about problems with attaching such things to cat was i know the trackers are even put on caps to make sure they don't what's the problem with this needs to be sorted out. years ago i didn't think my problem with getting published. just means that they were considered the law because lots of people suffered because of this when i was watching the t.v. i was nervous. the case is resolved in my favor and maybe a minute or so there is mr terre waste to be less of a trouble maker without any laws being broken up a train go r t. if you were to get a job done in a while coming up after the break federal regulators scrap net neutrality rules big news this raising widespread concern over the freedom of the internet in america

tell you all about eighty seconds away. for. most people think just in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice so the biggest raid in truth to stand

ins is just the dance the right questions and the right answer. the. question. is the same for brightening concerns are growing over the freedom of the internet in the u.s. these days particularly now after federal regulators scrap so-called net neutrality rules that a major tech giants including facebook twitter and netflix have slammed the decision the calling it a blow to innovation of freedom of speech they were joined by new york's attorney general who vowed to sue the federal communications commission over that move. this is more than an attack on the future of our internet as we know it it's a travesty for anyone who cares about the integrity of their voice in government so we are going to fight back so if you need

a quick refresher on this is this is how net neutrality works we access the web through internet service providers up until now companies had to treat equally all online traffic but the us federal communications commission says that's preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in this services so now than with this regulation gone as of yesterday internet providers will be free to charge a premium to prioritize certain apps and services so when it comes go more well the f.c.c. is latest decision will repeal obama's regulations that were passed in twenty fifteen and as expected the vote was three to two along party lines with republicans voting in favor of the deregulation order and democrats voting against it but one democratic commissioner who voted against the order made her feelings known and had some very fierce for marks for the committee to say the very least i dissent from this rash decision to roll back net neutrality rules i dissent from the corrupt process that has brought us to this point as

a result of today's misguided action our broadband providers will get extraordinary new powers. they will have the power to block websites the power to throttle services and the power to censor online content now our broadband providers will tell you they will never do these things they say just trust us. but know this they have the technical ability and business incentive to discriminate and manipulate your internet traffic now many are outraged understandably so but with all the backlash this could eventually end up going to court and activists might even pressure congress to overturn the vote but this is a partisan issue so would it really have any effect nonetheless these online democracy defenders shouldn't really lose hope because they aren't exactly without allies thirty nine senators sent a letter to the f.c.c. expressing their discontent representative keith ellison he even spoke at today's protest is just to the american people and we are not going to stand by for we're

not going to stand here we're going to fight back and we are going to win now with all that being said scrapping net neutrality could very well affect how we surf the web but is it really the death of the internet like some are saying well that of course remains to be seen did it does what we talked to experts about the decision and its ramifications and i was they saw it. the idea here is that with the removal of net neutrality protections that were passed during the obama administration with those out of the way that big telecoms internet service providers would have the ability to throttle certain web traffic that's the big fear and i think it's a legitimate in the sense of activists and independent media being concerned that they might be pushed out for political reasons and that the i. can affect that now that could potentially in the future lead to direct blocking of websites some worry today's vote is definitely a step in the wrong direction i think is that internet service providers is that internet service providers can charge more for some companies to get in front of

consumers faster or completely block other companies that don't pay so for consumers what that could mean is that prices could go up as their favorite service providers are forced to pay more only people that have their control the networks right now are the ones that are going to be able to charge more and just have more control and those millions and millions like mysteries will have even more control over what you and i see and you are mine. so the different no it's good to meet more legends of world football past and present come up to the big twenty eighteen world cup stun cullimore continues the countdown. it's not really going to. there is one of these college football

matches that cool every generation england against knowledge and say you know what was the mood about playing against maradona aldridge best player in the world you were scoring goals. didn't he was that outside boy. you know south american their backgrounds what they grow know they fight is any way they can get to win anyway that's all that matters and then that second goal when he picks the little pirouettes and off he goes that sort of loss and sort of gravitas that when you're on the football pitch you wear that that's an eye moment i see and so ever in my career i felt i ought to applaud i didn't just oh my god how could because you've got to realise as well we're playing that massive problems with the pitch so how we did what we did on that surface and the turns and the twists especially the first little bit distant i didn't just fall over but as you say you had that low center of gravity need i'm kind of shape it really was an astonishing go i think has to be

i think the most the best individual goal level because you've got to i mean as well the significance of the occasion of course of the game. deciding what decoration to put a christmas tree used to be straightforward enough traditional style range of maybe not anymore though now there are famous faces getting their wings.

thanks so much for this bullets and you can follow us on twitter and facebook and also of course on my side. kevin i would this is international news continues in thirty minutes in our programs right after the break. it would seem the more the anti trampers push to have the president removed from office the more we learn about the media in such places is the f.b.i.

how they really work to date the investigation known as russia gate has revealed preciously little we're learning there was collusion elsewhere. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. for. publicans have stepped up their attacks on special counsel robert mueller and the

russian investigation critics dismiss the attacks his political strategy designed to protect trump from muller's findings we're taking the lead on this edition of. taking on larry king a lot to talk about in this episode including that stunning upset in the alabama senate race and a handshake agreement between g.o.p. leaders in the house and senate on their tags were formed package but first the russian probe and a redoubling of efforts by republican lawmakers this week to discredit special counsel robert mueller and his investigators even before mullen has a chance to present his findings why and what effect might this have on the russia investigation for that i'm joined by richard painter a professor of law university of minnesota he was the chief white house ethics

lawyer during the administration of george w. bush and is currently the vice chair of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington he joins us from minneapolis which is. republican lawmakers some conservative media outlets a slamming the russian investigation accusing robert malas frog of being rigged riddled with liberal anti trump bias what do you make of the. this plan a lot of words i can pick out to describe robert muller. brave courageous man. liberalism ana i know him. be i and i was in the bush white house and he was a very professional director of the f.b.i. no politicization over at the f.b.i. under robert mueller even though he was a republican he was kept on by president obama he is an experienced prosecutor and

he does not traffic in any nonsense these allegations about robert mueller are just false there are no problems with his team that cannot easily be overcome he had one or two people he added dismissed from the time they have appropriate authorizations from the department of justice whether respect to the few conflicts of interest there are and this investigation of the prosecutions native birth sede the united states is but attacked by a foreign power that is interfered with our election and we need to find out who in the united states was cooperating with that effort and i can't think of anyone better to do that than robert mueller i believe you tim a couple times when you said of the f.b.i. and i phone to be straight as an arrow and would you say didn't do the attorney general rosenstein told the house judiciary committee he sees no evidence to

warrant firing mr mohler i guess you agree with that.