yeah. that was former intelligence chief james clapper claims that president trump is being handled as an asset by vladimir putin. the first anniversary of the deadly christmas market attack in berlin germany's justice minister is admitting errors in their response to the atrocity he talks to people who lost loved ones. on the u.k. parliamentary committee talks break news and alleged russian meddling in numerous country's elections but fails to even get its facts straight. we would like to offer to the whole interview. he's holed up in the us one of them.

very good evening my name's neil harvey this is r.t. international america's former intelligence chief james clapper claims that putin is handling donald trump as a resource. or putin knows he knows how to handle it and that's what he's doing with the president. now the details behind his claim . the words from james clapper the former director of intelligence they were in reaction to words from donald trump now we recently in a speech u.s. president donald trump emphasized the importance of cooperation between the u.s. and russia and pointed out that u.s. forces and russian forces had recently collaborated and actually prevented a terrorist attack in st petersburg 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 important to be clear james clapper is not opposed to cooperation between the usa and russia in order to fight terrorism and such however in his remarks he said that this is a one way street and said that russia never returns the favor and cooperates with the united states well the record seems to indicate things to the contrary now when james clapper was director of the national security agency there were instances where russian authorities approached u.s. authorities about one of the design of brothers one of the people who perpetrated the bombing in boston and repeatedly indicated that this this individual was dangerous and potentially a terrorist now that is an example of russia going out of its way to help u.s.

authorities and try to prevent terrorist attacks at that point james clapper who made these comments saying it's a one way street at that point he was director of the security agency so he should have been fully aware of that taking place now it's pretty clear that james clapper has some rather strong opinions this is a comment that he made in the past the russians who typically almost genetically driven to co-opt. poetry to. gain favor rather than celebrate the fact that lives were saved in a terrorist attack was a verted he seems to complain about russia and make statements that don't exactly add up to facts well as we just heard on monday don't trump outlined his vision of the world and america's role in it in a keynote national security speech unlike his predecessor as 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. in a statement the u.s. defense secretary backed the president's security plan james mattis said that the new strategy will ensure american diplomats always speak from a position of strength in his speech trump outlined russia and china as rival powers challenging america's influence on 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 made to build partnerships with them beijing has branded washington's approach outdated but. 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 they will hurt others and destroy

itself political science professor joseph chang thinks it's in america's interests to have competition. the time these leadership responds in saying that you would like to have a new type of major power relationship with the united states meaning no major confrontations no major. challenges and so on the united states needs enemies to put it more nicely strategically competitors. are needed for the united states to remain alert to and to be able to muster enough resolve to me to be i think china and russia understand this and this is also well recognized by many americans. some to the coalition says that it is shot down a ballistic missile targeting the royal palace in the capital riyadh this video

apparently shows the moment to attack him and he sees of claimed responsibility similar incident took place last month when this intercepted you to miss out of an international airport. strikes by the side coalition of killed one hundred fifteen civilians and injured eighty three in yemen in just the last eleven days the u.n. says it's deeply concerned about the rise in civilian casualties in the country. help them up move has destroyed everything around even in the neighboring villages our we can rely only on a lot and point people they see was bringing water tankers one or two tankers is not enough even for the ten families.

were living happily inherit on the side of the airstrikes began their hearts but no one helped us here are you see or heard no the mattresses no movement of the children. we want britain a top arms supplier to saudi arabia says that riyadh has no excuse for cutting access to humanitarian aid in yemen the statement came from the u.k.'s international development secretary penny mordant 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 road to be a breach of international humanitarian law that would put that relationship into difficulty. but also plans to send fifty million pounds in age to yemen putting the

total u.k. help for this next year at two hundred five million but it pales in comparison with the volume of u.k. arms sales to saudi arabia the start of the conflict britain saw more than four billion pounds worth of weapons to riyadh. should be a lack of from the stop the war coalition thinks 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 that 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 part 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 have reacted to that

and 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. in the u.k. extra police and special armed units are being deployed during the festive period security has been especially increased the christmas markets where fire is put up to prevent possible car running attacks boarding to the author of these there's no specific knowledge of any planned attacks police asked they're warning people to be vigilant. this comes a year after the attack on a christmas market in berlin where a memorial ceremony has been held to remember those who died relatives of 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 a no good conversation that showed what weaknesses our state showed in this situation. germany's justice ministers also admitted errors were made in the response to the atrocity or the speech or all of it 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 season this year concrete blocks ringing the christmas markets intended to make sure that no one could repeat the atrocity. not each is model it 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 called in there was only information that she's not on the list so i didn't know anything either because the official statement was that she was missing. but of course of this known to the police that she was there he was pretty determined not to have any information at all this is really bad loser you are our actually how you telling your son about what happened tell you preparing him for all to meet him when he's all much older he will understand a lot more about this talk of how this is of course this is not easy because he doesn't understand fully yet. and 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 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 can be this west. us too 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 no amount. new documents have emerged in the german press that show the security services knew omri was a potential terrorist 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 about 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 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 terrorist attack it's left an indelible sadness on the festive period piece rather arty berlin. while the fate of cattle. and his independence bid may be decided this the day alleged russian meddling in it pops up in the united kingdom a lot more not after this but. apply to 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 to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just kill the narrowness and spending

to get the twenty million and one player. it's an experience like nothing else on to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy a great so will more chance with. a nice minute. the world is a finite place and yet humanity's capacity to generate garbage seems infinite oh my god how those two going to work how do you square that circle.

despite the rise of global extremism it appears that terrorist guidelines and bomb making instructions are easily available. so the thing for such material and less than ten minutes i was able to find multiple guides published by terrorist organizations through google searches clearly outlining how to make a bomb we've chosen not to show nor name the handbooks we found but they included step by step instructions in english from both al qaeda and islamic state and within them you can find lessons on kidnappings or carrying out various types of assassinations using explosives and the problem is and they want can find this information including those hoping to put it to use the bomb used in last week's new york subway attack included home or components of these readily available terrorist manuals. feeling very scared. i think it's kind of normal for these times were particularly in new york city which is targeted many times and it's the new normal once

a potential terrorist has the recipe for a homemade device that only leaves gathering the necessary materials and investigation back in september found that amazon's algorithm was suggesting items that could be brought together in order to create a bomb that surface just days after an improvised device was detonated in the london underground. not only got back from iraq i remember the sound of explosions sound. back in september amazon pledge to fix it algorithms but last time we checked just before recording this piece it was still there these easily accessed terrorist materials have been on the internet for years already and google has made promises in the past to fight their availability. commits it's a beam of the solution. and then civil society groups don't feel. when civil society groups that second the problem of extremism alone this would be a new place what's at risk on sons on all surfaces that statement came back in june

of this year and yet just this monday britain's the independent news website released a report outlining how they alerted google to the fact that their algorithms could provide extremists with dangerous materials and yet saw no change in the search result days later clearly despite the company's willingness to tackle terrorist content its own algorithms are failing with websites making a u.r.l. making a website all of these things online anybody can just start a new one so say for example you are a website that has the terrorist content or activity that's problematic or can lead to criminal activity if they shut that down if google didn't allow that to come up in a search result another one could come up right after you not only look at things like dougal which would be the search engine that it was found on but now you're looking at things like the web site hosts so now these are other private companies not just google search engine but other private companies that have to now look at who is starting to u.r.l. what are they doing how do they make this website so in terms of google they're

going to be having a cut out in the algorithm cut out the search results is going to be much more difficult now some would have you believe that terrorists are lurking soley on the dark web which most of us would never even know how to access but it turns out they're not quite as far away as one would hope cyberspace is the new training camp so individuals can find information about bomb making they can identify targets they can chat with their colleagues they can receive instructions they can receive inspiration if cyberspace flies underneath the radar screen of the police and in and security forces some of the internet companies the googles the face books and those can prevent that type of activity from coming into their space it's a cat and mouse game it's going to continue. i want to say it's a mission impossible but it's a very very difficult to remove all still live with the free and open internet to remove all elements of hate and extremism. well r.t.

ask google to delete such search results so that dangerous materials can't be found to let you know the outcome. in other news a u.k. parliamentary committee has convened to discuss fake news and in particular its potential impact on october catalan referendum and like in similar hearings in washington the buzz words again were alleged russian interference. discord disapproved of spanish democracy european union about the late fall to pieces form and division of this r.t. and split in the russian affiliated characters in the one on russian trolls and russian forums the specific of them spreading propaganda to feel did the goal was to fall arose but despite all the catchy buzz words the committee's experts failed to even get their facts straight or provide any real evidence parties and syria churkin explained. a new day is a new opportunity to discuss russia isn't it at this particular parliamentary

hearing focused on an inquiry on feek news was carrying on for over two hours and how does panel discussions with experts sharing their opinions and of course russia social media's use and 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 worth the two names of archy's editor in chief basically invented as well as realisations that some committee members don't really know where julian assange is. and not on twitter because life's too short this is the same you're not used to say we would like to all for the all to the to point to a few of these scenes but she feels he's holed up in the tennis world events to go over it with a reader or it was always with the girl that we need to research the letters with

well lo this the research was also widely focused on russia's allegedly meddling specifically in the capital on 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 is your evidence that the russian government is seeking to interfere with the outcome of the referendum in catalonia. i don't have evidence that i get the picture basically what you say is true that the evidence you claim to around the referendum to the chip a great deal of the consortium both would focus that we have we have no no specific give because this is a new. study says that it's that we don't know well and this was the first public evidence hearing of this particular inquiry so surely there will be more to come.

local elections in catalonia this could decide the fate of the region's independence but. the secession movement has been based on what it calls truth with war his artie's. 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. all my separatist leaders of catalonia she has branded them as betraying their supporters when they cool that independence referendum this year and she destroyed that referendum as being a fake as lead by the 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 towards the 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 on october twenty seventh these new fresh elections which will take place on tuesday at the same time the local government in catalonia was dissolved some of the separatist leaders were arrested and several other warrants.

for the full mccaslin president call this proves you want to actually travels she brussels where he remains at that european arrest warrant however he can still be campaigning for this election and says they from his base now in brussels in belgium the reality is we don't know whether this election owns this they 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 and they still could go either way. so you're right today tell me about with the latest news headlines and today's top story see you the top of the. spiritual people have been saying about rejected a night with the senators full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to run you know what is this really packed a punch. yampa is the john oliver of our three americans who have to say we are

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be the will. we can all middle of the room sit. in the room. the room broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. . coming up at this point futures trading began on monday for chicago mercantile exchange just a week after the trading of fifty one options began on the chicago board options exchange will talk about what it means for the former u.s. trading commission report chilton plus the u.s.

is the biggest consumer of your radio but could that change our t correspondent david miller will tell us now let's get to today's top business and financial headlines. regulators in the european union and now they're investigating his corporate tax structure the european commission is looking into whether the sweden based company was given unfair tax advantages by the netherlands according to member states cannot give tax benefits to multinationals that aren't allowed to other firms during a press conference a spokeswoman for the commission explained the probe is focused on interests here which is one of the groups that operates the entire business. we state in our prism and every concert that we have concerns that to. tax rulings from two thousand and six and two thousand and eleven may have a lot interact to pay less tax and given them an unfair advantage compared to other companies subject to the same national taxation rules in the netherlands which

would confirm to being breach of as you state rules ikea quickly responded to the announcement denying any wrongdoing and the statement the company wrote the way we have been taxed by national authorities has in our view been in accordance with the e.u. rules it is good at the investigation can bring clarity and confirm that. i can't isn't the only company in the e.u. under investigation the french finance minister bruno lemaire has filed a complaint against amazon for allegedly abusing its suppliers with one sided contract posits depending on the outcome of the investigation the company could face a ten million euro penalty although on amazon distribution center was just opened in the norther in northern france that's been a bit controversial throughout the rest of the country not too long ago paris complained that amazon prime now could quote destabilize the economy by hurting local restaurants and grocery stores meanwhile it remains as one of the most

popular e-commerce sites in the country that sees nearly three point five million daily users. the long term outlook for the uranium industry remains positive despite current market uncertainty we're joined now by r.t. correspondent david miller to hear more on how nuclear energy continues to play a significant role in the global energy mix. new reactor construction is happening now on a global scale with currently some fifty six new reactors under construction in addition many existing play. it's our adding capacity to meet those growing demand as nuclear energy does continue to play a significant role in the global energy mix the long term outlook for your brain remains positive despite current market uncertainty the challenges for the industry creates a pathway with the two.