it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful. us former intelligence chief james clapper claims president trump is being handled as an asset by vladimir putin. first anniversary of the deadly christmas market attack in berlin germany chancellor merkel admits errors in the government's response to the atrocity r.t. talks the people who lost loved ones. the u.k. parliamentary committee talks fake news and alleged russian meddling in numerous country's elections but fails to even get its own facts straight.

used to say we would like to offer it to the point of view of the schools he's holed up in the zone as well that ends. well welcome to midnight here in moscow my name is neil harvey you're watching r.t. international first this hour america's former intelligence chief putin is handling donald trump as an asset after the russian president thanked the u.s. leader for sharing intelligence that helped to foil terrorist attacks in st petersburg. what a group q. source or one of them or putin knows he knows of the handle. 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 if 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 as we just heard on monday donald trump outlined his vision of the world and america's role in it in a keynote national security speech unlike his predecessor sees 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 the statement the u.s. defense secretary backed the president's security plan james mattis said the new strategy will ensure american diplomats always speak from a position of strength. in a 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. impressed rocher but trump did say attempts must be made to build partnerships with them russia's foreign minister responded that the document has conflicting directions and the tries to retain weakened u.s. domination worldwide in turn ging 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 the school science professor joseph chang thinks that it's in america's interests to have competition. ship responds in saying that it 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 strategic competitor yes. they are needed for the united states to remain alert and to and to be able to muster enough resolve to maintain the i think china and russia understand this and this is also well recognized by many americans.

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 have been put up to prevent possible car roaming attacks according to the authorities there is no specific knowledge of any planned attacks but the police are still warning people to be vigilant. now this comes a year after the attack on a christmas market in berlin where a memorial ceremony has been held to remember those who were killed relatives of the victims as well as survivors laid flowers and lit candles that are moral at the site of the attack chancellor angela merkel was also there 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 an open conversation that showed what weaknesses our state showed in this situation. germany's just dismissed as also admitted that errors were made in the response to the atrocity auntie's peter oliver takes a look back at last year's events and he 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 jorja 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 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 not to have any information at all this is really bad loser you are a power actually how you telling your son about what to 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 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 while 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 the. west. in west to painful to go to really mean 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 angle a merkel the families have asked why help promise to them hasn't been forthcoming and why amery has been free to carry out his attack in the first place what i'm really angry abroad is actually what happened before the terrorist attack. is 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 has passed 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 of our party berlin. the u.k. . a parliamentary committee has convened to discuss fake news particular its potential impact on catalonia its independence referendum in october and like in similar hearing seen in washington both words again were russian interference. discord disapproved of democracy european union about to fall to pieces form and division of this r.t. and split in the russian affiliate meddling in the one on russian trolls and russian forums the specific given to spreading propaganda to feed the goal was to polarize but despite all of those buzz words the committee's experts failed to provide any real evidence of meddling and they even to struggle to get the number

of basic facts straight and churkin as more. a new day is a new opportunity to discuss who russia is and to at this particular parliamentary hearing focused on an inquiry on feek news was carrying on for over two hours and how does a panel discussions with experts sharing their opinions and of course russia social media's use our role as well as this channel were discussed in abundance yet again however not without a hick up 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 am not on twitter because life's too short this is the signal used to say we would like to offer the alternative

point of view of the same treatment she felt she was holed up in the stands for them to go over it with a reader and it was always with the goal that we need to resist it was worth it well know this the research was also widely focused on russia as a legit meddling specifically in the cattle are a friend of 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 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 that you collect around the referendum to the show great deal of the consortium told with focus that we

have we have no no specific evidence that this is our new. studies that it's that we don't know well that this was the for. public evidence hearing of this particular inquiry so surely there will be more took our. local elections in catalonia this could decide the fate of the region's independence push madrid says the secession movement has been based on what it calls post truth with 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 slam my separatist leaders of catalonia she has branded them as betraying their supporters when they call that independence referendum this year and she destroyed that referendum as being a fake as if there were other scenarios you know 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 cat's of land leaders the former leaders of that region of misusing public funds saying that they used 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 for these new fresh elections which will

take place on food stay at the same time the local government to catalog. it was dissolved and some of the separatist leaders were arrested and several other warrants were issued for the former catalan president called us to she want to actually travel to brussels where he remains that european arrest warrant however he has still be campaigning this election day from his base now in brussels in reality of the separatists again all will play back into the hands of the spanish prime minister it is a big gamble on this still could go either way. suddenly coalition says it has shot down a ballistic missile capital riyadh this video now apparently shows the moment of the attack yemeni who thinks of play responsibility similar incident occurred last month when saudis intercepted a goofy missile over an international airport near riyadh. strikes by the saudi low

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. crude everything around even in the neighboring villages we can rely on because one or two tankers is not enough even for this and found. were living happily on the side of the airstrikes began. but no one helped us here are the children. top arms supplier to saudi arabia says that it has no excuse for

getting access to humanitarian aid in yemen the statement came from you case international development secretary penny mordred. it is werry clear that if you're using start 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. britain also plans to spend fifty million pounds in aid to yemen putting the total u.k. help for this and next year two hundred five million that pales in comparison with sales to saudi arabia will britain's arms sales to saudi arabia went up by a thousand percent during the course of this we're going to zation is that those weapons have been used in well crimes has been admitted the british forces. the joint operations. command in saudi arabia they've been training forces picking targets so they're very much accountable these war crimes of 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 really wanted to live human life. 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 your 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 are components of these readily available terrorist manuals. 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 bought together in order to create a bomb that surface just days after an improvised device was detonated in the london underground. not only that but i thought oh oh. remember the sound explosion sound. back in september amazon pledged to fix its 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 b. ball it's of the solution when working with go month law enforcement and civil society groups that second the problem stream is the place what's at risk on sun's on all surfaces that statement came back in june of this year and yet just this

monday britain's 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 terrorists 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 website 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 studying the u.r.l. what are they doing how do they make this website 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 that 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 it's i want to say it's a mission impossible but it's a very very difficult to remove all in still live with a free and open internet to remove all elements of hate and extremism. has asked to google to delete such results so that dangerous materials can't be found we'll let

you know the outcome. donald trump says he has no plans to file a special counsel robert mueller who's leading the probe into the president's alleged ties to the kremlin and that may come as a disappointment to trump's critics who've been bidding on this scenario to make a case for potential impeachment on the speed of context closer look at the efforts to remove trump from office. so help me god so help me god congratulations mr craig . the 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 moeller 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 people 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 writes today 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 their hand over. 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 or on twitter and democrats come running all guns blazing but so far from still winning this catch me if you can't go somewhere call on our to washington d.c. . the pentagon has confirmed it spent millions of dollars trying to identify born objects that reportedly violated u.s. airspace the five year u.f.o. probe is said to have been canceled only in two thousand and twelve and the news provoked excitement as this was rare compilation of an official hunting program but the result is the classified.

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