the f.b.i. is treating friday's naval base shooting in florida as an act of terrorism a saudi military member killed 3 people and injured 8 others when he opened fire in a classroom. in france violent clashes blocked roads and just to transport services as a nationwide strike against the government's pension reform spills into days of protests. we saw the. fire and they got to the gas really coming quite close to us and you might get a sense of it just down to actually can see that more cheer gas coming down each of the protesters trying to move people away. nato 70th anniversary so much exposes new divisions within the block where the viral hope mike video from

a bench showing world leaders apparently mocking president donald trump. and a new investigation wants the free dating app so just don't safeguard users from convicted sex offenders guess debated whether where the responsibility to protect women lies we need the companies to take a moral stance or at least have some sort of responsibility you can't trust these companies to tell you there's good news bad you need to take that into your own hands. hello i'm resigned a low could bring you the weekly here on our team to national sank you for joining us. now the f.b.i. is presuming the pensacola naval base shooting which left 3 people dead and 8 injured on friday was an act of terrorism and investigation is continuing but no terror group has yet been claimed responsibility for the attack. we are as we

do in most active shooter investigations work with the presumption that this was an act of terrorism this allows us to take advantage of investigative techniques that can help us more quickly identify and then eliminate any additional potential threats to the rest of our community well the gunman was shot dead at the scene by officers he was a saudi military trainee and was at the base to study aviation intelligence officials say the shooter had been based there for 2 years it's still unclear how he got the weapons which are not allowed on soyuz the instance happened at the u.s. naval air station pensacola which is located on the florida coast it has 16000 military and over 7000 civilian personnel this is still if he hosts many international students who are required to undergo background checks before training. prior to the deadly shooting

a twitter account which allegedly belonged to the saudi air force officer posted anti u.s. messages condemning washington's policies in the middle east the f.b.i. said it is working to confirm those tweets. offer a bit of analysis let's we can now cross live to journalist nicholas davies he's the author of blood on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq nicholas thanks for joining us look the attack happened in the heart of a u.s. military installation which raises questions about security and how were able to miss warning signs how do you think this was able to happen. well i think i think the u.s. has a very. complicated relationship with saudi arabia in which it just keeps turning a blind eye to the fact saudi arabia and it be or salafi ideology. are closely linked to

to al qaeda and islamic state and. you know this. all this whole ideology has been bred in madrassas around the world that are paid for and founded by the saudis and. and yet and yet the u.s. . is using saudi arabia as a proxy for its failed military effort to militarily dominate that part of the world and and so you know this you'd have to say that the this was really an incident waiting to happen and of course the have been you know many other incidents involving. you know saudis. you know killing or or

attacking you know western military trainers in saudi arabia and many western military trainers who have worked in saudi arabia will say things like the saudis are basically untrainable their officer corps is dominated by members of the royal family you know and where their trainers can't even criticize them who you know or try to enforce normal military discipline so so so essentially this is this is just a deeply deeply flawed relationship between the united states and saudi arabia well let's let's hone in on the relationship because that's where your area of expertise lies the u.s. relationship with the middle east in the gulf a little bit about the process surrounding the investigation into this instance

because it's taken several days for the f.b.i. to say that the incident was terror related do you think politics and diplomacy is involved in that. well yes perhaps i mean they they flew a lot of saudis out of the country immediately after. september the 11th when no one else in the u.s. was even allowed to fly. and yes this is again it's just one more symptom of this is this deeply corrupt and flawed relationship you know you compare this with why what happened on london bridge in the u.k. where you know the whole response where it was very measured. and you know the police are very reluctant to just sort of jump to conclusions until they freely fully investigate things in the u.s.

yes i mean you know i throw these these words like terrorism and which of costs the nato summit just. for as well you know trying to define you know what is terrorism essentially you know the u.s. was quite happy to use you know to fuel watch others might call terrorism in syria . you know armed armed jihadi us including many from saudi arabia you know infiltrated into that country across the turkish border by the cia and british and french intelligence to you know to try and overthrow the government of syria so you know when the terrorists are on our side. you know nobody that the u.s. does not have a problem with nor does britain or france you know as george orwell once wrote he

said. that. people do know. only that people not only do now. disapprove of atrocities committed by their own side but they have a remarkable way of not even hearing about them and so you know most americans are really unaware of the extent to which the us supported. you know the terrorism in syria. you know people believed during the obama administration that obama was you know reluctant to intervene in syria and yet you know it was a it was a covert operation completely destabilize the whole country so you know. it's. you know we we we have to say and of course the u.s.

had supported. and the you know all. certainly well in afghanistan what we want to share. so sorry to cut sorry to cut you off those a slight delay certainly we were watching to see what kind of impact this is going to have of course on the relationship between those firm allies saudi and the u.s. we really thank you for your insights independent journalist nicholas davies. of france the scene yet another day of demonstrations they spilled over from a one day national strike on thursday one of the biggest in the country in years protesters have been angered at the government's plans to overhaul the pension system. i. know. a massive demonstrations were white across the country on purpose they must say i'm nonce also clashes between riot police and protesters one of the largest trade union says 1500000 people march in support although the interior ministry claims

the figures were off that officers used tear gas to disperse crowds rallies occurring in the french capital charlie to watch them on fold. this strike has been planned for many months now and this is against a proposed changes by the french government to the pension system here in france the idea here is that they want to amalgamate number of different systems around 42 different systems into a universal system but people say that i will have a massive impact on their pensions because it will mean that their pensions perhaps could be lower in the future or in fact that they might have to work even longer and that has caused huge fury here in france the crimes go all the way back more than a close to god do nor which is where this process was originally due to start off with what was come for many hours is turned to huge tensions with clashes between the police and the protest as we saw a van

a certain item on fire and they got tear gas really coming quite close to us and you might get a sense of it just down that you can see there more tear gas come into the protesters shariah and move people away incredible as frames just beginning and as you can hear you know we're seeing protests is smashing shops in front of us tear gas is bringing down and those crews are battling. battling to half contain this fire they've also been tensions elsewhere in fronts north just here tensions in places like i know and other cities the suggestion now is that this one. a strike that was initially planned by transport workers and is now encompassed teachers health work is the firefighters and even the police could now start a rolling strike in the lead up to christmas and going on until the new year as the

strike is attempt to make the french government me think these pension reforms for the moment here in france people are adamant that they want to have their voices heard this come out to the streets to make sure that's happening. earlier this week may turn leaders gathered in the u.k. to celebrate the military alliance the 70th anniversary but it turns out many people in the host country have little knowledge all of its relevance. most people what they think are the main 3 achievements of nato. in terms of achievements know very little i don't know what it's about have no idea any advantage of nato or gee i honestly don't know anything about it so the flag still a day and only my husband recognized what it was poor it's a good question but let me think a little bit. so it's probably yeah to be honest i don't have i don't

have even one well leaders used the occasion to claim that nato is the most successful alliance in history though some of the members disagree as to what the main threats to the bloc are they did agree there to share its running costs more evenly something the us has long been urging fine right from political satire show in case you missed it gives no time to take on the summit. 2 2 $29.00 nation alliance which makes up the whole of the world's military spending yet still calls itself. has turned 7 c. congratulations nato leaders are lovely. in london and drinks spread some president trump accused the president of france and anyone michael of being nasty bullied the least popular guests at video from being laughed at by trudeau micron and even boris johnson has been seen around the world today wouldn't say exactly plain sailing for this nato meeting but here come all the leaders now

coming in with. many of us a president of somewhere oh yeah i know that one i know that one. together last. next to. leader of turkey that's the least popular turkey this christmas. in the past. i suppose they are having to listen to this guy's trying to listen to. no one. before the main festivities started a select group of leaders have the tools to meet at the u.s. ambassador's residence wheeled in like kids going to. play by the orange one sat on a golden throne i suppose he does pay for nato presence after all something the head of the alliance un stoltenberg knows very well but again this critical new twist of this on these differences we have proven again and again if you want to

get america to pay the bills you know i've always thought that being the head of nato must be the least powerful powerful job in the world so despite their recent differences france is a man you mark kong did meet trump and he's got. to put on a frankly all some display of man spreading. and passive aggression this is where we. were really great if you know. ok because i don't know if. you can have some foundation from the us i didn't think about this but. the water. and a coke. is not well with nato which has become like any 70 year old his waistline has expanded since it's prolly become a bit of a financial burden to the family they can't work out who it is like small the russians the chinese all the middle easterns. or the anniversary party was mobbed

by protests in the english capital some demonstrators vented their anger against attendees while others objected to nato pressure members to raise defense spending decisions on t. america's rick sanchez asked his guests about the current purpose of nato and if it really is obsolete as donald trump once put it before changing his mind. you're a diplomat you've had a lot of experience in this field what is it that nato either must do today to stay viable or does do we even need it anymore you know it's a bureaucracy in search of a mission i was right in 2016 when he said it was obsolete and so afraid was the establishment that he meant what he said on the very day he was inaugurated and they tried to ram through the addition of a new country montenegro thankfully they got it through because it turned out they didn't have to worry about intentions once he filled his administration with a bunch of bushies and retreads of the heritage foundation they've simply adopted the policies we've had the last few decades and somehow turned into nato as

obsolete into let's make nato great again we'll just strong on these countries to pay more for their defense against nobody in particular you think you know has in fact outlived its usefulness i thought so in 1909 and i think so today it's been as a loser from a standpoint of being a naturalized american and having read the founding fathers warning against seem to angling alliances i mean what is this but in entangling alliances it's our own foreign policy that did reason nato is being kept around by the foreign policy hawks in washington is not because it's necessary for the actual military operations and nato itself doesn't really contribute a whole hell of a lot there are very few countries with the notable exception i want to say france and turkey but it would put it in as if this is not a good idea for the united states and its very close allies to have an association a military cannot close ties that's not what i was trying to say france and turkey could theoretically mountie independent military operations everybody else is just a hanger on and they're just window dressing for the u.s.

military operations but the are literally like roman exactly erisa want to do what i've been hearing go bad what word the word of the destruction world or what that is what it seems to be a dismissive alliance and $991.00 when the soviet union and the warsaw pact would out of business nato should have as well as why didn't they let russia in i mean that literally that time i've read on many occasions booed himself and said why don't you get is that. if you are you're going to tell you who it was but one of the you're a big european nato has said if we did that the nato would be like the un just to talk shop it could take action by which they meant military action all the way to listen to what you just said if you're saying it doesn't work if we don't have enemies exactly what if we had create the ad be about as the ability to inflict military force and i dare to say aggression in places like serbia and libya whatever we want to using nato as a platform but enemies can change by the way russia could be s.o.b.'s at one time like the 1950 s. but not so much now right but better why don't you have a system that allows that ability i guess because because whose interest is that

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thousands hit the streets of hong kong on sunday for another anti-government protest there this time it was authorized by police some demonstrators brought along u.s. flags and the police confiscated the weaponry the protests began 6 months ago over a now scrapped extradition bill and continue with new calls for great independence from beijing. elsewhere israel has carried out strikes on the gaza strip in response to rocket fire hours earlier according to local media reports 2 people were injured in the air raid in the israeli military says it targeted hamas positions. that's the weekly will be back here at the top of the hour with another round up of the stories that shape the week see them. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday

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a dedicated team of field inspectors casey says that it inspects channels but they don't make any of those inspection records available. they say that they've got rigorous standards but they really don't know what those standards are real terms they say that they kick people out we don't really have a comprehensive record of when they're doing that or what the consequences are even if they can still keep breathing and they can still keep operating so what's the value of their inspections program there in force and efforts for all we know are completely meaningless we don't know what they even inspect for when they go into these facilities because they don't make their inspection records public quite frankly if they were meaningful inspections there would be no reason not to make them public. while the a k c boasts of a rigorous inspection program in 2011 only $1500000.00 of their

$59000000.00 in revenue. has spent to employ just 9 inspectors across the entire united states. big case is a group that says it's the dogs champion but in practical terms is consistently leading the fight against efforts to establish humane dog breeding standards in the states at the federal level. over $5000.00 kennel inspections last year. the american kennel club. we make all this possible because you make us possible. just or your dog the only us registry that matters is in any case sea org and or ever we advance that sort of legislation not radical not far reaching just basic fundamental anything that a.