police in the u.s. identify the gunmen who killed twelve people in a busy california bar on wednesday as a twenty eight year old former marine he is believed to have committed suicide following the atrocity. thousands rally in the u.s. against donald trump's decision to fire attorney general sessions fearing the moller meddling investigation is now under threat. and the u.k. government continues to face a backlash over its and the laying of the grand felt power fire it is accused of placing gagging orders on experts investigating the tragedy which left seventy two people dead in two thousand and seventeen.

are broadcasting live coverage from our studios in moscow this is our t.v. international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. i police in the u.s. say they have identified the gunman who killed twelve people in a crowded bar in the small california city of thousand oaks on wednesday they have named the suspect as twenty eight year old local resident ian david long he had served in the marines and reportedly suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder police say he was known to them for minor offenses and had been referred to mental health experts back in april long's motive for the shooting is not yet known here's how witnesses described the events. i was on the dance floor dancing on experience you know and then all my friends were at the table right by the door and then they turn your i heard the gun shy turned around and i'm sorry for him shoot

a couple more times and in a split second everyone yelled get down so i ran to the left of the dance floor where the back door is and everyone pretty much dog probably on top of each other they were very very loud gunshot they were very clear what they were the shots kept going and going and going we just heard people say right and we looked at assassins we cut. calls to police started coming in at around eleven fifteen in the evening and terrified customers hid under tables and in bathrooms during the shooting the bar had been holding a country music night for a local university students hundreds of people were there at the time. president trump has ordered the national flag lowered to half staff at the white house to commemorate the victims of the mass shooting. in hundreds of cities across the u.s. rallies are being held after trump's decision to oust the attorney general jeff

sessions protesters claim no one can be above the law in fear for the future of mahler's investigation on alleged ties with russia however as artie's came up and found out people on the rally are not fans of the former attorney as well. jeff sessions the u.s. attorney general has just been removed as some new friends liberals and progressives are taking to the streets across the country there are protests and over nine hundred cities it's a major mobilization but was jeff sessions really a friend of progressive's not really jeff sessions that i was a zero rating from the human rights campaign on gay rights a guy who asked the department of the national council of nannies why they were buying so many books on islam the zero tolerance policy means zero humanity and it makes zero sense for his politically motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws back in two thousand and sixteen when jeff sessions was first nominated the liberal

organization known as move on dot org issued a petition opposing him they accused him of making racist comments opposing equal pay for women and immigration and opposing hate crimes legislation this is how jeff sessions confirmation hearings went nearer and i asked. oh yeah eric. but now the very same organizations that protested against his nomination are now protesting his departure they fear that the removal of sessions could pave the way for an end to the bob muller investigation into alleged ties between trump and russia he. nothing i like about most of the people that donald trump appointed. i mean but you're protesting his departure right will actually now see keep the new lease of physician open and investigating until he finishes if it takes

a month or it takes two years so this isn't really about jeff sessions about a mole or. knowing just knowing supposed to look that's what i'm here for what did you protest when he was appointed. i protested the immigration policy on the families that gathered day and are you protesting now. because i'm mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore and move on very very definitely protested and had a petition going which i signed with regard to the appointment of joe of social as attorney general given his track record as a racist but the point is at this stage of the game i'm not but and i don't think move on is protesting his removal of raul there who it is who is before steve outside of the constitutional provisions to be his replacement very deep board this thing back in two thousand and sixteen jeff sessions was public enemy

number one as far as lots of liberals were concerned but now that he's been removed it seems that jeff sessions has joined an elite group of people who've been fired by donald trump it seems like in twenty eighteen in the united states politics isn't so much about principles but rather about who is your friend and who is your enemy. r.t. new york. in the wake of the u.s. midterm elections which saw the democrats take control of the house donald trump has launched a series of scathing attacks on journalists at a press conference the day after the pivotal vote the president accused the media of being divisive and hostile and again called c.n.n. an enemy of the people. it isn't good what the media is doing and that i do have the right to fight back on the campaign trail you called yourself a nationalist some people saw the as emboldening white nationalist that situation is to question i would never do that and i don't use race and if you marched. in america it's people like this that cause division one of the statements that you

made in the killing of the campaign there we go. i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n. all right and if you didn't well your ratings let me. ask one of the other folks that said remember on this person that's enough the president the other folks said . you are a rude terrible person. mr president. in jim's defense i traveled with him and watched him as a diligent reporter big fan of yours either so either step to be. meanwhile the left wing movement has gathered or targeted rather a fox news anchor activists from the group surrounded tucker carlson's home chanting insults. that's. right. the t.v. host wasn't home at the time however his wife was she managed to lock herself in

and call the police the couple have four children activists rang his doorbell and broke his door we were joined by social commentator anthony bryan logan to talk about trump's worsening relationship with the media following the midterms. you got a late beach front that's where he's going here as well as got him here so far he's not been the conventional president housing market is able to think for themselves that for themselves rather than being told what to do for now say which up is doing is the right thing to do when you put in false information misleading information to confuse people to discourage people from going out here voting that could be considered voter intimidation voters' oppression so what do you say here about being an enemy to people is pretty accurate as a description initially it be misconstrued with inciting valley's the left they are attacking everywhere it is now and even those that are kind in its center i think

it may come from fear that they're losing their power to lose in new grip and they are afraid of what trump is going to do so it's not really a you know a two party thing is not bipartisan valley's it usually comes from the other side has to defend. for them. so about that jumping the gun more than five thousand victims of war have been treated so far this year in hospitals run by a u.n. back to humanitarian organization in afghanistan a third were children the organization called emergency has been active in the country since one thousand nine hundred nine and says in the violence there is relentless. moscow is preparing to get warring parties together for negotiations playing host to afghan peace talks on friday a dozen countries are invited and the taliban is also sending a delegation it is the first time the militant group will take part in this kind of high level meeting after almost two decades of war in afghanistan because. of

comments not everyone has welcomed the talks. by any measure the afghan war has dragged on for too long too many people the dead too little achieved too much hatred bred why don't try something new this is a very good opportunity and we would like to participate and raise our genuine issues we would urge these world powers to help resolve the afghan issue as per international laws and principles the afghan high peace council will send four delegates the taliban five reportedly representatives of a dozen nations have also been invited and it couldn't have happened sooner enough . on just one day the twentieth of october journeying elections three hundred and eighty eight civilians were. plethora of attacks so no wonder that even nato

is calling for peace the taller from must understand it to continue to fight this point first they must sit down on the negotiating table the potential for peace is created in our interest being in many years unless of course peace is made in moscow in which case the u.s. won't support it america is skipping the moscow peace summit saying washington only supports afghan led efforts but it will send an observer the united states believes that all countries should support direct dialogue between the government of afghanistan and the taliban to reach it and to the war and. we've been clear that no governments including russia can be a substitute for the afghan government interact negotiations with the taliban wave which never stopped the u.s.

special envoy from meeting taliban officials in cata last month for direct negotiations i think the more countries that approach the afghan government and the taleban and all the warring parties and say let's talk let's have peace rather than war that's a very logical thing for most people and for most countries i just don't think in the united states the united states at this particular time wants to see it also the military industrial complex in the united states is a very very big part of the u.s. economy the guns and the planes and the ships and the bombs that they use and sell all around the world support a lot of jobs in the united states i don't think that the wars in general are going to end if they can do some maneuver to make a better situation for the united states in afghanistan they are probably talking

about that and would like to see that seventeen years of war and terror is nato sold that countless thousands dead on each every side generations fed and misery and violence drunken hatred and the heroine finally the taliban agrees to open talks it's a huge deal ed the u.s. possum's war it seems is preferable to peace that comes with russian help. the u.k. government is continuing to face harsh criticism over its handling of the grunfeld tower fire that story much more after a short break this is our international. institution

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is auntie international live from moscow and the british government is facing a wave of criticism for its handling of the aftermath of the grunfeld tower fire seventy two people died a year ago in a blaze that and golf to a block of flats in london and westminster has been accused of placing gagging orders on experts investigating the tragedy he's honest to see brings us to tales. well love critics of the british government have dubbed it shameful in light of information that has emerged about a company that was hired just days following the grand fell fire tragedy to analyze and investigate u.k. government state building c fifty and that company was reportedly told not to criticize to resubmit and her government this was revealed as part of a comprehensive investigation carried out by the times newspaper which disclosed

that among hundreds of other contracts the specific one hundred thousand pounds contract with an engineering company called w s p had instructed that particular company not to quote create. adverse publicity for the cabinet or other crown bodies when looking at the situation involving other buildings around the country following the grunfeld fire and of course reactions to such a gag order on clotting experts was was not met with open arms this shows unforgivable crime which is if you respect. it. was full of the truth wherever it led. rather than gagging experts in perth ties in reputed damage this conservative government should be doing everything in its power to ensure they never happens again coming just a few weeks after the prime minister promised to get tough on gagging closers these

shocking revelations show the government to be deeply hyper critical as well as paranoid and this is how the government had to respond to all of this standard contracts in the public and the private sector contain provisions to protect the commercial interests of government and its suppliers in a reasonable way these contracts do not prevent individuals from campaigning on specific issues acting as whistleblowers or even concerns about policy while over the grenfell tower of course took place on june fourteenth last year it was a fire that killed seventy two people it lasted many many hours and really brought lots and lots of criticism in terms of the initial reaction of theresa may and her government and as well as the days that followed.

well the grandfather united campaign group reacted to these latest revelations with a statement saying quote the focus at every level of government must be to get to the truth about how and why grand fell happened no one should be deterred from speaking out and. ukranian it neo nazi militias are suspected of training white supremacist groups which have been arrested for inciting violent attacks during protests in the u.s. back in two thousand and seventeen that's according to an unsealed criminal complaint by the f.b.i.

. the azoff battalion is a paramilitary units of the ukrainian national guards which is known for his association with neo nazi ideology and use of nazi symbolism and which is beliefs or participated in training and radicalizing united states based white supremacist organizations this was a quote from a criminal complaint and the man who wrote it was behind investigating terrorist groups in america for the f.b.i. and right here you will be able to see the photos posted by the defendants he was trying to bring to justice they are members of the white supremacy rise above movement just recently a number of charges have been brought against them and clued in conspiracy to start riots the men were involved in the deadly twenty seventeen charlottesville riots it was. it was.

it was it was. it was. the. uk. so the f.b.i. agent found that the rise above movement members toward europe and went to countries like germany italy and ukraine and there they met with the members of the local extremist neo nazi groups besides this according to the f.b.i. operative the defendants were seen on a photo with one of the leaders of a ukrainian far right party which was founded out of a regiment of the military but tally and that is the battalion that was mentioned and the quote that i showed you are. earlier now as of was seen on the frontlines

of the conflict in east ukraine which broke out when a number of the regions there refused to accept the results of a bloody coup in kiev which led to the government being over thrown in there now you don't have to be an f.b.i. agent to prove that absolve is actively using neo nazi symbols you can just look at their insignia their emblems and neo nazi salutes or even just slogans are a common thing now i just want to show you what rather frequent marches of members of such organizations and their supporters look like in the ukraine i i i. i i i

i i i so this criminal complaint could be important because it appears to be the first instance of f.b.i. actually looking into claims that ukrainian neo nazis could have been involved in the training of extremists across the atlantic. the annual g. seven meeting could eventually be a thing of the past european commission president john quote younger thanks and none of the e.u. member states will be part of the group by mid century saying the writing is on the wall for europe's economic might. three are losing economic weight in the next coming decades their role in small us twenty two twenty three percent to do you

through fifteen sixteen seventeen percent to twenty years in thirty years and a single member of the european union will be a member of to the g seven form of demography point a few we are losing weight to put in front of the g seven is composed of the seven most industrial and advanced countries which meet annually to discuss global economic policy the first summit was held back in one nine hundred seventy five combined the group's members represent approximately half of the world's wealth journalist lugar of a told us that he thinks that younger is correct about the e.u.'s economic decline but this to occur as always being very provocative it's his way and all and frankly these right obviously we will. know more in the sky i mean india and china ever more than one billion five hundred million people and qualify and technology their techniques fair are just at the same level as ours here in europe

so maybe mr young says that just to justify a united europe but in thirty years time he's right there will be maybe still germany but the others italy france etc will have gone from the g seven that would have been replaced by china or india russia needs to be backing the g seven that's for sure of course because it's one of the giants in the world so we need we need to start making use in politics in the economy for you. and that does it for me i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news that's about thirty five minutes from now stay with.

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. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance i'm bart chilton in the financial center of the world today new york city we're glad you're with us coming up on the broadcast today we told you about how china has reduced its importation of iranian oil but where are they getting their needs filled may surprise you alex mahela bitch brings us up today and caleb often joins us to look at the collateral impact to other nations of the u.s. china trade war and we'll be joined by international regulatory attorney myles edwards to look at the action earlier this week on net neutrality and war was

trying to travel as it gives us a special report on the basics of bit coin plus add a measure of add a measure trading is back and we look at stocks related to the u.s. federal reserve they just concluded meeting a little bit ago i'll see if we can get a few stock tips from adam to all that coming up but first we have a few headlines let's go. home prices and property values in the united kingdom are decreasing at a faster rate than any time since september of two thousand and twelve the show. harpist declines are in areas of london and the south east of england that a climb was worse than expert analysts had predicted since twenty sixteen the british housing market has been slowing and appears compounded by uncertainty over . brazil's far right aleck to higher bolus and their old elect president has seen and set back even more before the presidential inauguration on january first brazil has been plagued by deficit problems and mr balsam narrow has strongly

opposed the pay raise for the judiciary but the brazilian senate has approved the raise which also serves as a benchmark for other public employee cost of living increases he just your increase alone will add four billion reale that's brazilian reale their currency of course that's about one billion u.s. dollars to the brazilian deficit next year also of note is that g twenty meeting in argentina we've spoken about before on the program that is coming up here at the end of the month current brazilian president michel to mare has invited mr balsam narrowed to attend the meeting with him in order to meet other world leaders. new australian prime minister scott morrison has announced a two billion dollar australian dollar fund that's one point four six billion u.s. dollars to provide loans to think nations related to infrastructure development the vote is seen as a direct reaction to china's large belt and road initiative and as an effort to gain greater cooperation and coordination with australia from other nations in the

region. and speaking of china they know a bargain when they see it with canadian oil more than fifty dollars below west texas intermediate futures last month the asian superpower has been looking beyond the u.s. and iran for its energy needs snapping up barrels in the great white north here with the details from canada is our team's alex mahela bitch hey alex what's the latest on this i was a little bit shocked to see it maybe i shouldn't be but give us the lowdown. well you know bart as well as i do our oil is tar. and it's not really the cleanest stuff on earth but it's at bargain prices right now and as you mentioned china always knows a good bargain when it sees it and if you compare numbers back in april they bought about one point five eight million barrels of canadian crude and actually i should say that's what they bought in september that's about fifty percent.