as the u.s.n. breach what she could is behind such success. because former intelligence chief james clapper claims president trump is being handled as an asset by vladimir putin. on the first anniversary of the deadly christmas market talk in berlin germany just this ministers admitted errors in their response to the atrocity. talks the people who lost loved ones. in the u.k. parliamentary committee talks fake news and alleged russian meddling in you risk country's elections but fails to even get its own facts straight. used to say we would like to offer that the point of view of the schools he's holed up in the front is for them.

good evening to you my name is neil harvey this is our. america's former intelligence chief james clapper claims the diva putin is handling donald trump as an asset to the russian president thanks the u.s. lead to fish sharing intelligence that helped to full terrorist attacks in st petersburg where the grid case officer. amir putin knows he knows how to handle it and that's what he's doing with the president the words from james clapper the former director of intelligence they were in reaction to words from donald trump now 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 and like he's pretty discusses he's not but to

go with that 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 the statement the u.s. defense secretary backed the president's security plan james mattis said the new strategy would ensure american diplomats always speak from positions of strength in his 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 made to build partnerships with them russia's foreign minister responded that the document has conflicting directions and tries to retain weakened u.s. domination worldwide inturn beijing branded washington's approach 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 political science professor joseph chang thinks it's in america's interests to have competition. the time is leadership responds in saying that you would like to have a new type of major power relationship with the united states meaning no media confrontations no major. challenges and so on the united states needs enemies or to put it more nicely strategically competitors are they are needed for the united states to remain alert and to and to be able to muster enough resolve to me to be i think time and russia

understand this and this is also well recognized by many americans. and the u.k. extra police and special armed units have been deployed during the festive period security has been especially increased the christmas markets where berries have been put up to prevent possible car running attacks according to the authorities there's no specific knowledge of any planned attacks but police are still warning people to be vigilant. and this comes a year after the attack on a christmas market in berlin where a memorial ceremony was held to remember those who were killed well the tips of the victims as well the survivors lay down flowers and lit candles of a moral at the site of the attack. was also and 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 just this minister also admitted errors were made in the response to the atrocity of 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 joy at the 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. you know so when i call the hotline 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 it was known to the police that she was dead he was pretty determined you know not to have any information at all this is really bad and you lose your 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 for 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 which will create the best i know i can. so that's probably the only thing i can do for maybe we can try to look into it find out what happened actually i would be interested myself. but.

the question is how successful can be this 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 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 abroad is actually what happened before 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. 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 terror attack it's left an indelible sadness on the festive period piece for all over. u.k. parliamentary committee has convened to discuss fake news and in particular its potential impact on october the catalan referendum and like in similar hearings in washington the both words again where alleged russian it defeats greek discord disappeared democracy european union about to fall to pieces form and division of this r t unsplit new version of. meddling in the morning on russian trolls and russian forums no specific given to spreading propaganda to feel the goal was to polarize. despite all the catchy buzzwords the committee's experts failed to even get their facts straight all to provide any real evidence and explains. a new day

is a new opportunity to discuss russia isn't at this particular parliamentary hearing focused on an inquiry on feek news was carrying on for over two hours and had 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 artes editor in chief basically invented as well as realisations that some committee members don't really know where julian assange is but. i'm not on twitter because life's too short this is the same you're not used to say we would like to offer the alternative point of view of the same age but she felt she was holed up in the stands for them

to go over it with the reader and it was always with the goal that we need to resist what is with us here well lo this is a research was also widely focused on russia as a legit meddling specifically in the cattle 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 it 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 you see key to interfere you see and become for the referendum in catalonia. i don't have evidence that i get the picture a street but you say he's treated the evidence you claim to around the referendum to the chip a great deal of the consortium goldman focus that we have we have no you know this specific given so 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. this thursday could decide the fate of the region's independence bid says the secession movement has been based on what it calls post truth. explains 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 slam 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 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 and 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 it 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 catalan 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 they actually 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 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 thomas proves you want to actually travels to brussels where he remains. european arrest warrant however he can still be campaigning for this election on thursday 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 saddle coalition says that it shot down a ballistic missile targeting the royal palace in the capital riyadh this video coming up now apparently shows the moment of the attack given who thinks of claimed responsibility similar incident occurred last month when saudis intercepted a missile over an international airport near riyadh. those strikes by

the coalition have 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 but one or two tankers is not enough even for the ten found any of them. were living happily carrot on the side of the airstrikes began their hearts but no

one helped us here i got you see we had no the mattresses no milk of the children. meanwhile britain top of supplier to saudi arabia says the re it has no excuse for cutting access to humanitarian aid in yemen the statement came from the u.k.'s international development secretary penny mordred it is wary 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 and also plans to send fifty million pounds in aid to t.m. and putting the total u.k. help for this next year at 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 has sold more

than four billion pounds worth of weapons to riyadh. severe lack of from the stop the war coalition thinks that the only way the u.k. can really help yemen is to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia one saudi arabia started its war in yemen in the first few months of 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 for these war crimes or 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 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. despite the rise of global extremism it appears that terrorists guidelines and bomb making instructions are still easily available. been surfing 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 will confine 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. like 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. that only got back from the ira 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. but committed to be part of the solution when working with governments law enforcement and civil society groups to tackle the problem of extremism online place what's at risk on sounds on the surface. 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 google 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 web site so in terms of google they're

going to be having it 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. and 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. lottie's asked google to delete such

search results so that dangerous materials can't be found we'll let you know the outcome. donald trump says he has no plans to fire special counsel robert muller who's leading the probe into the president's alleged ties to the kremlin and that may come as a disappointment to troops critics who've been bidding on this scenario to make a case for a potential impeachment spirit takes a closer look at the efforts to remove trump from office help me god so help me god congratulations with the great. crusade to impeach donald trump started the second he was sworn in the idea of impeachment my prediction of a donald trump and peach with the prospect of impeachment this is time for impeachment and what's trump's latest move saying he doesn't plan on firing robert muller the person in charge of investigating the alleged trumped russia collusion.

so much for the plans many were making to take to the streets and demand trump's impeachment if he did indeed fire muller's democrats have also been trying to use allegations of sexual misconduct to get rid of trump but unless he decides to resign himself that's not an option because harassment isn't considered an impeachable offense even members of their own party have dismissed it i think we need to move on and not get distracted by those issues let's get on with the real issues that are facing peoples of this country right now. and i don't think that the president ought to resign at this point now if democrats are detectives pursuing trump for any wrongdoings he's certainly not a very cunning offender but he's leaving plenty of clues in the first year of his presidency democrats and even some republicans have formally accused him of an impeachable offense at least once a month senator al green alone has done it four times. mr speaker. to call for the impeachment trial and removal from office donald jiang trump

by betraying his trust as present it democracy is at risk now here are just some of the reasons trump has given his rivals to call for his impeachment struction of justice after trump fired f.b.i. director james comey his unsubstantiated claims that hillary clinton only won the popular vote due to voter fraud leading to accusations of deceit and remember when he almost called on the police to violate the constitutional rights of suspects in custody i said please don't be too nice like when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head you know the way you put the hand of i said you could take the hand away ok it's a sure rod for a number of reasons i mean neither the democrats nor even the news media can keep up with donald trump actions whether they're positive or negative you know every day is something new and i'm not even sure that this is a concerted strategy on trump's far apart as much as it is simply

a result of his rather manic personalities and his priorities seem to change all the time and this political structure isn't set up for that and that what really makes it come off as a sure rod is of course the fact that the democratic party is in no position to launch impeachment proceedings against anyone because they don't control either house of congress but the story is always the same time slips making some sort of outrageous statement in public are on twitter and democrats come running guns blazing but so far from still winning this catch me if you can pull some miracle on our to washington d.c. . confirm they spent millions of dollars trying to identify born objects that reportedly violated u.s. space the five year u.f.o. probe he said to being counseled only in two thousand and twelve and used by the excitement as this was read confirmation of an official u.f.o. hunting program although its results still classified.

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