no. us former intelligence chief james clapper claims president trump is being how both as an asset supply flatter me if he were to. on the first anniversary of the deadly christmas market attack in berlin germany is justice minister admits everest's in their response to the atrocity talks to people who lost loved ones. or u.k. parliamentary committee probes and russian alleged fake news and interference in catalonia independence referendum but fails to find any evidence. m k politician you watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us now america's former intelligence chief

james clapper blodgett putin in his handling don't trump as an asset what a group. of them are putin you know zero to handle. and that's what he's doing with the pros. so strong was there and joining me live to discuss this is ots caleb moore queen in new york so i like how can you sum it all up for us and why is the being such a strong reaction well this was a reaction to a recent speech by u.s. president donald trump where he pointed out that that there was cooperation between u.s. intelligence and russian authorities and they were able to avert a terrorist attack in st petersburg and he said this was an example of good cooperation between the two countries this is donald trump they were able to apprehend these terrorists before the event. with

no loss of life and that's a great thing and the way it's supposed to work that is the way it's supposed to work so we heard trump say that and then we heard clapper on c.n.n. arguing that this was not the reality now he wasn't saying that the usa shouldn't cooperate with russia but he said that in cooperation it's a quote one way street saying that at no point does russia ever return the favor is that the usa does well the actual record does point out contrary facts in fact if one looks at what went on with the boston bombing repeatedly russian authorities had warned us authorities about one of the czarina of brothers one of the perpetrators of that bombing had been repeatedly pointed out by russian authorities to u.s. officials and in fact james clapper was the director of the national security agency at the time that that took place so there are examples of russia working

with u.s. authorities and helping the united states now clapper and just in particular had a lot of strong opinions when it came to russia this is some of the things that james clapper has said about russia in the past the russians who typically almost genetically driven to co-opt. poetry to. gain favor. so it seems that james clapper was not happy about what donald trump said pointing out that cooperation between russian and u.s. authorities had proven to a terrorist attack in st petersburg and he was kind of pulling out his old spy kit and reiterating some some of his old statements and old opinions on c.n.n. however the record seems to point to the opposite when russian officials repeatedly warned the u.s. officials about the czarina of brothers or one of the czarina of brothers. in

bringing about some history that artie's caleb maupin in new york thank you. well as we heard on monday donald trump outlined his vision of the world and america's role in it in a keynote national security speech and like his predecessors he's not letting go of the idea of u.s. exceptionalism america has been among the greatest forces for peace and justice in the history of the world a strategy is to advance american influence in the world the american people are generous america will lead again when the american people speak all of us should listen and in a statement the u.s. defense secretary backs up the president's security plan james mattis said to the new strategy will ensure american diplomats always speak from a position of strength well into speech trump outlined russia and china as rival powers challenging america's influence in the world the two countries are also accused of developing advanced weapons that could threaten u.s.

infrastructure however trump did say attempts must be mazed to build partnerships with the beijing has branded washington's approach as outdated. we urge the u.s. to stop deliberately distorting china and spirit are dated ideas such as a cold war mentality and coalition game otherwise it will hurt others and destroy itself and political science professor joseph chang thinks it's in america's interest to have competition. the time you see the ship responds in saying that you would like to have. type of major power relationship with the united states meaning no media confrontations no major. challenges and so on the united states the enemies of to put it more nicely strategic competitor. they are needed for the united states remain

alert to and to be able to muster enough resolve to be the right thing time and russia understand this and this is also well recognized by many americans. the saudi led coalition says it is shot down a ballistic missile targeting the royal palace in the capital riyadh this video apparently shows the moment of the attack really fiji's responsibility there are no reports of casualties or injuries while no official statement only incident has been released. when our strikes by the saudi led coalition have killed one hundred fifteen civilians and injured eighty three in yemen in the last eleven days the u.n. says it is deeply concerned about the rise in civilian casualties in the country.

cut them up move has destroyed everything around even in the neighboring villages our we can rely only on coins people they save us bring water because one or two tankers is not enough even for the ten found many of them. were living happily character in the south the airstrikes began their hearts. no one helped us here i thought you see we had no the mattresses no milk of the children. and meanwhile britain a top arms supplier to saudi arabia says riyadh has no excuse for cutting access to humanitarian aid in yemen the statement came from the u.k.'s international development secretary penny morton and it is very clear that if you are using

starvation as a weapon you are in breach of international humanitarian law i very much understand the strategic importance of our relationship with saudi arabia but we do not help that relationship by not speaking about the facts of the matter if the right to be a breach of international humanitarian law that would put that relationship into difficulty for britain also plans to send fifty million pounds in aid see evan putting the total u.k. help for this and for next year a two hundred five million but that pales in comparison with the volume of u.k. arms sales to saudi arabia since the start of the conflict britain sold more than four billion pounds worth of weapons to riyadh. or shall be a lack of from the stop the war coalition things the only way the u.k. can really help yemen is to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia when saudi arabia started its war in yemen in the first few months of the war britain's arms sales to saudi arabia went up by a thousand percent during the course of this war despite the evidence from human

rights organizations that those weapons have been used in war crimes it has been admitted that british forces are part of the joint operations. command in saudi arabia they've been part of training forces of picking targets so they're very much accountable these war crimes or this this blockade has been discovered yesterday it's been going on for a long time and you know we've seen how the british government reacted to that i think if britain really wanted to help the people of yemen then they should stop supporting saudi arabia stop selling their weapons stop giving them diplomatic cover. i mean while in the u.k. extra police and special armed units are being deployed during the festive period security has been especially increased at christmas markets where barriers are being put up to prevent possible car running attacks according to the authorities there is no specific knowledge of any planned attacks but the police are still mourning people to be vigilant. well this comes

a year after the attack on the christmas market in berlin where a memorial ceremony has been house to remember those who were killed relatives of the victims as well as survivors laid flowers and lit candles at a memorial at the site of the attack chancellor angela merkel was also there she admitted the country could have handled the situation better. yesterday and spoke with the relatives of the victims and those injured in the attack it was an open conversation that showed what weaknesses our state showed in this situation. germany is justice minister has also admitted errors were made in the response to the atrocity peter oliver looks back at last year's events and speaks to some of those who lost loved ones in the attack. a year on from the berlin christmas market attack tributes to the victims mixed in with the usual joy at the season this year concrete blocks ringing the christmas market intended to

make sure that no one could repeat the atrocity. now teaches model that stopped by the christmas market like many others that evening she was killed when armory plowed the stolen truck into the crowd leaving behind a grieving husband and young son. it was when i call the hotline there was only information that she's on the list so i didn't know anything either because the official statement was that she was missing. but of course it was known to the police that she was dead he was pretty determined not to have any information at all this is really bad loser you are a power actually how you telling your son about what happened tell you preparing

him for to meet him when he's all much older he will understand a lot more about this talk of how this of course this is not easy because he doesn't understand fully yet. this will change definitely he will ask questions or try to answer all his questions as best i can. so that's probably the only thing i can do for maybe we can try to look into it to find out what happened actually i would be interested myself. but. the question is how successful the. west. us to painful to go to really for this anniversary so we preferred to commemorate our girl here where she was born and grew up there is no amount of money that could offset the death of my daughter now amount. new documents have emerged in the german press that show the security services knew armory was a potential terror threat back in twenty fifteen and may have allowed him to remain

at large in the hope of using him to catch biggest fish. in open letter to angela merkel the families have asked why help promise to them hasn't been forthcoming and why amery had been free to carry out his attack in the first place what i'm really angry abroad is actually what happened before the the

terrorist act. it's pretty known that this person is dangerous and still the authorities didn't. arrest him didn't work here for some reason what bugs me also is that nobody actually. actually took the responsibility. it's still you know everybody is doing their own work still of the time if nothing happened germany's christmas markets remain on high alert but for the families of those killed and injured during last year's terror attack it's left an indelible sadness on the festive period piece rather arty berlin. investigations probing a fatal train crash in the u.s. have revealed it was traveling at eighty miles an hour in a thirty's when the accident occurred the reason why it was speeding is still

unknown the amtrak service was on its maiden journey when it d. rails and plunged into a busy highway southwest of seattle. we conduct a triology of the incident we performed extrication using the jobs of life to remove the injured. there are three confirmed fatalities that we know of and we transported over a hundred patients. the life. is out of forty five degree angle. like shaking my car just started shaking like really really really badly treated starting to. see

my side. car. myself. now all the fate of catalonia is independents bad maybe just so i did this the state alleged russian meddling in it pops up in the u.k. more on that after the break. 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 families it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spending to get to the twenty million and 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 game played great so what chance with. the base it's going to take. the world is a finite place and yet he marries capacity to generate garbage sam's internet oh my god how those two are going to work how do you square that circle. welcome back a u k paul human tree committee has convened to discuss fake news and its impact on

the independence referendum angle i can simulate herring's in washington the buzz was again an edge to russian interference. greek discord disapproved of spanish democracy european union about to late fall to pieces form and division old it's r t and split the russian affiliated character smedley and you've got the money the russian trolls and russian forms you know the specific of it and spreading propaganda russia the defeat of the goal was to. offer more details on this we can now cross live to our t's and assess a check in a in london behind us just so what were the most interesting bits of this meeting ok to new day it's a new opportunity to discuss russia isn't this particular parliamentary hearing focused on an inquiry on feek news was carrying on for over two hours and how the panel discussions with experts sharing their opinions and of course russia social media's use of role as well as this channel were discussed in abundance yet again

however not without a hiccup from one member of the committee away admitting that he doesn't even use twitter apparently not even deeming it worthy to our names of artes editor in chief basically invented as well as realizations that some committee members don't really know where julian assange is. and not on twitter because life's too short and this is the same you're not used to say we just would like to offer the alternative point of view of the same church before she was holed up in the stands for them to go through it with the reader but there's the issue of the book and we need to research the letters within a few. well know this the research was also widely focused on russia's alleged meddling specifically in the cattle our friend if you remember there was plenty of talk here in the u.k. about attempts to try to drag russia into its alleged involvement in the bronx that

referendum which led to nothing so this time around the context was catalonia however a lot of attention was paid to it but as soon as the tough questions popped up about evidence that was a bit of a problem in this regard that still is your evidence that the russian government is seeking to interfere with the outcome of the referendum in catalonia. i don't think i get the picture basically what you're saying is victory that the evidence that you collect you around the referendum to the chip a great deal of the consortium baldwin focus that we have we have no no specific evidence that this is a new. this or that is that it's that we don't know. well this was the first public evidence hearing of this particular inquiry so surely there will be more to come. and we look forward to those are he's an associate in london thank you. local elections in catalonia this thursday could decide the fate of the region's

independence bit madrid's says the secession movement has been based on what he calls post truth. as more. just a few days to go now before the elections on thursday december twenty first and the spanish deputy prime minister has taken the opportunity to use the lam for my separatist leaders of catalonia she has branded them as betraying supporters when they cool that independence referendum this year and she described that referendum as being a fake as if there are other scenarios he got the worst betrayal has been to catalyze who genuinely believed in independence because they were made to believe that it would come true when in reality it was all a big show a symbolic episode a fake in the full sense of the word back on october twenty seventh the catalonian government the catalonia parliament declared that catalonia was an independent state within an hour of that happening madrid took some very unprecedented steps

and actually took control back of the region using a piece of legislation that had never been used before in the thirty years since it has been created now the deputy prime minister was then asked to take control of the region to spirituals these elections on december twenty first now she has accused the cat's of land leaders the former leaders of that region of misusing public funds saying that they use public funds to which they goal of creating that independence referendum and she said by doing that there she neglected other areas such as the judiciary health and education now the spanish prime minister as we know also called back on october twenty seventh these new fresh elections which will take place on food stay at the same time the local government in catalonia was dissolved some of the separatist leaders were arrested and several other warrants were issued for the former catalan president carlos proves you want to actually

travel to brussels where he remains a bating that european arrest warrant however he has to be campaigning who. selectional from his base now in brussels in belgium the reality is we don't know whether this election on thursday will play into the hands of the separatists again or will play back into the hands of the spanish prime minister it is a big gamble on this still could go either way. the pentagon has confirmed it spent millions of dollars trying to identify airborne objects that reportedly violated u.s. airspace the five year u.f.o. probe is said to have been counseled only in two thousand and twelve well the news provoked excitement as this was rare confirmation of an official u.f.o. hunting program but its results are still classified.

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who ignore middle of the room sick. hello i'm alex karras or this is the kaiser report you know the world is a finite place. in mary's capacity to generate garbage seems infinite oh my god how those two are going to work how do you square the circle so maxwell the circle is not being squared in fact there's a finite amount of space even in the financial system where many think you can print an infinite number of dollars well china saying yankee go home to all

american toxic waste whether it is actual trash trash garbage trash sort of stuff or trash us treasury bonds so they don't want any of them here's the first headline recycling chaos in us as china bans foreign waste and they set out to look at the classical virtue signaling sort of you know portland oregon couple and what it means to virtual signaling essentially it's going to get a lot more expensive to signal your virtue like many portland residents such ish and arlene carr are serious recyclers their house is coated with recycled bluish white paint they recycle their rainwater compost their food waste and carefully separate the paper in plastic they toss out but recently after loading up

their prius and driving to a sorting facility they got a shock. the fellow said we don't take plastic anymore scientists says it should go in the trash so apparently china has said from january first is the official date no more foreign waste to. they except you know all those container ships plastics and cardboard and all sorts of stuff sent to china to recycle well they don't want any of it anymore here. you know i remember the story about an entrepreneur in china this woman who noticed that all of these big cargo ships were going to china return to china empty because of course america doesn't export anything to china they only import she said well send us your garbage send us your corrugated cardboard for one thing and she recycled it re fabricated it in china and sold it back to the u.s.

essentially and she became a billionaire and there was a huge garbage trade flowing from america to china america's biggest export to china was garbage literally garbage huge tankers full of waste and now china is hit the maximum capacity for garbage and toxic sludge and air pollution and people are choking to death on the street and mercury poisoning is killing babies and whatnot so the governments like hey you know maybe we should take less garbage from america so they put the kybosh on this old garbage export business and now that as you point out these virtual signallers in other words you know weasely types and portlandia which is a great show by the way are on able to exercise their virtue by composting their own banana peels and by growing you know their own organic plan.