coming up a sinister threat to cripple britain's communications links the country's most senior military officer warns that underwater cables are at risk of sabotage by russia. a high profile bribe case stands in a guilty verdict for russia's former economy minister making the highest ranking official in the country to receive such a conviction. as well concerns of extremism right on the doorstep we got an exclusive report coming up from a village that suspected of being a jihadi. see the smaller. one of sixty five communities across the street that's. said to be radicalized. and

u.s. police are accused of being too trigger happy with tasers as video of the office is appearing to use excessive force. four pm friday afternoon near a moscow hello welcome this is r.t. live with me kevin from h.q. here and first off that the chief of britain's defense stuff is warning that russia could take nato countries off line by sabotaging underwater fiber optic cables polyploid has got more from london. warning has come from ph he is a senior nato official and he's also the chief of british defense staff and he says that russian ships have been spotted perilously close to land tick cable's these are underwater very important strategic cables that cross the atlantic from europe

to the u.s. and since according to peach russia has continued to develop its unconventional warfare well the internet could be the kremlin's next victim russia in addition to new ships and submarines continues to prefer both unconventional capabilities and information war for there is a new risk to our way of lines which is the vulnerability of the cables that crisscross the seabed well according to says ph that kind of disruption could have catastrophic event effects and he stressed that russian ships are constantly cruising the atlantic's waters potentially with the purpose of causing these cables when no one is watching and as is often the case when military officials make these warnings well there is a way of mitigating this threat that he's talking about according to him and that is by spending more money on defense quite an important and perhaps also ironic

side note to this story is the fact that these cable cables that we're talking about are the very same cables that we know that britain and the u.s. have been tapping we know that thanks to the leaks of edward snowden from back in two thousand and thirteen we know that g.c. h.q. the british spy agency also its u.s. counterpart the n.s.a. they've been gathering intelligence through these cables for years for example g.h.q. tempora program that placed dates or interceptors on those fiber. optic cables that connect the u.s. and europe and all the information flowing from the u.k. was intercepted it made this sort of transplanted network that allowed british intelligence to access huge amounts of traffic going from europe to the u.s. that n.s.a. had a very similar program which is called prism as well none of that appears to both

this nato official who is making this warning about russia potentially cutting the cables the message from him and pays to be that next time that your internet is playing up well before you start casting your internet provider make sure it wasn't the russians fast yes it was so so something else to worry about there let's get the thoughts from financial affairs commentary to jonathan steele jordan this on the line from the u.k. jonathan what do you make of this is there a significant basis for these allegations against russia no. road to it is an old allegation i mean two years ago already very full officials in the pentagon in washington were making exactly the same claims i mean it's just part of the new technology that's available to. countries like russia and the united states and britain part of the sort of hybrid. capabilities would sure everybody seems to be developing what sorts of rights. just to be clear what's what's the worry the

allegation is that russia's going to tap into these lines all physically cutting them and them. well as they are saying i think peter is very new talking about cutting but it could be just talking keeping the cables open but topping them i mean we know that the. united states managed to top the secret on the water curve ball in the sea of the hordes of nuclear forces to find out what sort of nuclear probabilities in turn trends were so this is a very old technology which through the russians are catching up on i wonder if there's more to it as well in this world. proposed cutbacks to the u.k.'s armed forces including reduction in marine numbers because if there's a warning out now like this it's going to strengthen the argument not to cut back maybe. well that's always true i mean these days very views and forces and farmers are always trying to get more money they're always against cuts so anything that helps them put forward what they think is

a strong argument they will try and use of course. similar claims against russia as you say came up back in two thousand and fifteen would not go remind us. where to go well are there any went anywhere because the u.s. is very cautious about. saying what they can do is countermeasures obviously didn't u.s. must be trying to do things to defend against turn for cutting or to repair cables that are caught as quickly as possible but they don't want to give a game away by explaining how they would do that sort of he's a very one sided sort of stories which talk about threat but don't talk about defense as we say i'm sure that the russians are trying to defend against terrible cutting by the western side as well. thanks for your thoughts to steal international affairs commentator which is. is it from russia former russian economy minister lexically care has been found guilty of taking

a multi-million dollar bribe he's the highest profile government officials were seen such a conviction correspondent jacqueline bogus got more. who kind of 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 run oil company here and russia and according to the court he demanded that sum and exchange for his ministries approval of the sale of another major oil company here in russia to ross snuffed saying that he would actually impede the deal if he was denied for his part has pled not guilty from the start and claims that he's the victim of a setup however the court found no proof of that claim he insists that the bag that he received the night of the sting he was under the impression that it contained a gift of wine and not a massive bribe he is to be fined around two million dollars and faces eight years in prison he's called the decision unfair but says that he's not giving up hope and his lawyers have already said that they will be appealing the court's decision this

is of course been a very closely followed case here and russia and today's verdict does make will cry of the highest ranking russian official to be convicted of corruption charges ever . from the state to police officers in the u.s. city of cincinnati is being blamed for using excessive force and poor judgment tasered so specs during a domestic dispute inquiry. examines just. revealing the instant the took place earlier this year and i want to you may find some of the footage coming up at the. very. the officers confronted two men inside a house tasering them without prior indication that they were under arrest one of the men suffered from a collapsed lung as a result of the confrontation a complaint was filed but the county prosecutors prevented the officers from being interviewed until a criminal investigation is completed the stun guns are considered of course to be a non-lethal weapon to subdue targets but when misused can result in death since

the year two thousand over a thousand people have died in fact in the us after being tasered by police on average nine out of every ten of those victims were unarmed worth bearing in mind as well it's also been revealed the number of those who were tasered were mentally ill quite a big proportion concerns of police abuse of prompted amnesty international to issue an appeal never stick to taser rules in the united states one victim of fact sued offices in describe to us what he went through. recovered like physically but mentally on the. heart of think about still even though it's been one year. had.

gathered. 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. floor 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 who represented skilled norris cheering his case he told us the police actions could amount to five to torture here. 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 religion at 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. the defeat of islamic state in syria and iraq may pose a more serious threat to the security of europe as fighters who fled to join. in both in the air over two hundred extremists were recruited in over fifty back to that country thirteen of those fighters a wanted by interpol on terrorism judges the islamic community in both neighborhoods to govern is seen millions spent on the radicalization projects but

there are worries that may not be enough as charlotte to bensky reports next. we're heading to the small village it's one of sixty five. is considered to be radicalized they've been dubbed sharia religious nuts because residents practice what hobby is an ultra conservative form of islam. it looks like an ordinary sleepy village 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 in this

one lot of the there are people who went to syria and forty on the side of i still but we tried to stop them. bosnia 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 when it's only one person now and we 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 the stop listening and islamic caliphate in europe. in bosnia and herzegovina there are already small caliphates existing the reason that they are far from the cities and towns is that it allows them to perform any covert activity they need in the fact

that they're recruiting members means in the future they will be a big threat to europe the bosnian government try to curb the terrorist threat by making illegal it. tough fight for a foreign military and more than a dozen of those who have to turn from syria have been jailed while the country is also spending millions of euros on the radicalisation projects but is it all working the local imam says he fears for his life after speaking out against those who joined eisel redo the simple really with these radical elements are always unpredictable these people prayed 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 perfectly safe area in the heart of europe works three miss him has already taken roots charlotte deep in ski r.t.

bosnia and herzegovina. thanks for being with us today it's not exactly fifteen minutes past four moscow time this afternoon covered up in just eighty seconds the curious tale of a farmer in russia who could be imprisoned for keeping tabs on his apple. i i. was . i played for many clubs over the years

so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman kill the narrowness and spending to do the twenty million on one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great one more chance for. the thinks this minute. i get a quote in russian lol could see a farmer facing a hefty fine or even jail for using a tracking device to follow what he would in the right. 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 gani the suspect it's. slash farmer. slash father. you know i was going to make a cola for this cough and attach a g.p.s. tracker to it was so that i can see his whereabouts at least roughly when i need to see. the calf is a terrible way he just disappears every now and then. we have huge areas of abandoned farmland it's hard for me to run after him because i have 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 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 him that will ruin my daughter's future a fine would be very harsh it would really hurt our pockets so i don't 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 people were found guilty under the same law what can you say about that. i didn't even get the reasons for using g.p.s. for. purpose. ordered the gadget online from china because the calf would run loose

is that illegal was he obliged to pay for it there is an article in the russian criminal code under which people can be charged. 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 cats to make sure they don't get lost what's the problem with couse this needs to be sorted out i'll handle it there's years of that i didn't think my problem would get publicity i hope this means that they reconsider the law because lots of people have suffered because of this when i was watching the t.v. i was nervous i hope the case is resolved in my favor and maybe we can breathe freely by new year. so there's mr terre waste chance to be less of a troublemaker without any laws being broken he'll have a train go our t. . fingers crossed at least we'll let you know they get on something different out

down r.t. we get more legends the world football past and present stan collymore continues the countdown to the big twenty welcome. which. it's really going to. do is one of these. cool thing every generation england against knowledge and so you know what was the mood about playing against maradona all through the 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 anyway they can get away in any way that's all that matters and then that second goal when he

picks the little pirouettes and off he goes that's a loss and when you're on the football pitch you wear that that's a. moment i see and so ever in my career i thought i ought to applaud i didn't i just saw my god how could because she got to realise well we're playing their massive problems with the pitch so how we did what we did on the surface and the turns and twists especially the first little bit just on how i didn't just fall over as you say you had that low center of gravity anytime kind of shape. it really was an astonishing go i think has to be 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. great shows is great names that so you can watch the late step or sort of the stand kind of michelle right after this news bulletin. concerns are growing over the freedom of the internet in the u.s. after federal regulators scrub so-called net neutrality rules major tech giants

including facebook twitter and netflix of slammed the decision calling it a blow to innovation and freedom of speech they were joined by new york's attorney general to vote to sue the federal communications commission over the 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 ok so if you need to rephrase here's how net neutrality works we access the web through internet service providers and up until now companies have to treat equally all online traffic but the u.s. federal communications commission says that's prevented websites were investing trillions of dollars in this services so now with the regulations gone internet providers will be free to charge a premium to prioritize and service is still with me severe or can reports of a bit more detail while the f.c.c. is latest decision will repeal obama's regulations that were passed in twenty

fifteen and as expected to 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 or say well that of course remains to be seen. saluted well we talked to experts about this decision where they thought it was going to go and its ramifications. 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 that we'll see 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 the 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 billions the million dollar industry is will have even more control over what you and i see and you are mine. on the lighter note choosing between the traditional

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it would seem the more they push to have the president removed from office the more we learn about the media in such the f.b.i. how they really work to date the investigation. has revealed preciously little we're learning there was collusion elsewhere. i very well could lead to the stan collymore show as we count down to the greatest show on the wall cook golden boot we know and a personal hero of mine that's got related to disclose stories.

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