one person is killed in a shooting at the federal security service building in central moscow witnesses have described the attack. very wide the 10 minutes past 6 the gunfire began and it was not just a few shots that came in bursts we saw this is taking cover behind the car as the newly released footage reportedly shows the shooter at the moment of the attack police say the attacker acted alone in the shooter's identity has still not been confirmed.

9 from moscow where it's just past 2 in the morning you're watching r t international welcome to the program and we start with that breaking news from central moscow numerous shots have been find in the immediate vicinity of the federal security service building one person has been confirmed at this rate is reportedly showing the shoes at the moment of the attack on the shooter is thought to have been acting alone and is identity has not yet been confirmed the area around the scene have been cordoned off the following is footage of the moment of the shooting. but this is i was sitting with my friends at a bar when the shooting began and it was the sound of the kalashnikov assault rifle and i know what it sounds like my friends were like oh it must be firecrackers but i told them no way it's. firecrackers and then we saw people running down the

street it was scary 1st resort people running and then a swat team armed with assault rifles came running in the opposite direction and then we heard a massive government fire we don't know what exactly happened that our offices asked us to stay away from the windows and they let us leave the bar after a few hours. but i was recently moved into the when we heard 3 sounds that we needed to realize that we should hide then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back since i don't know who was screaming because i didn't see anything like the shooting last it for bear a long time it seemed to me that it was about 15 minutes but maybe it just felt like that some random shots were heard for the whole hour until 7 pm. lottie's roman culture of has been following developments at the same for us. the area behind me is a cordoned off that's where that attack took place of course this is the iconic russia's f.s.b. a building which was also home to the k.g.b.

during our saga times and said this is where that taxi place now this is the only area that's blocked off at the moment right after the attack took place this entire place was a blog for both for traffic for pedestrians and the entrances to the metro stations workloads as well but at the moment as you can see traffic the transportation has setbacks more multidimensional stations are open people something has to be said about where their attack took place this is the heart of the russian capital the heart of russia if you will like to the right of me said the choice to one of the oldest the oldest toy store in the rush of the biggest one as well the kremlin is still only about 5600 meters away russia's state to my russian florida is also just the most broke away on russia's presidential administration building is also right over there there are plenty all for boutiques

and restaurants here and other stores sue the famous set records street which was very popular during the evil world cup in the summer of 2018th is also right here so a very busy area indeed so had the assailant's being a successful in his endeavors there would have been a lot more casualties but as we do know right now one f.s.b. officer had been killed as a result of that attack and russian health ministry reported that 75 people are being treated with the very same injuries in now moscow hospitals until one f.s.b. officer is currently on the operating table and medics. trying to save his life russia's. police russia's national guard and even trying police were all instrumental in making sure that said there were no more casualties and they

cleared the streets and made sure that nobody else that got hurt of course we spoke spoke to some of the people that were the nischelle i witnessed this in this incident and this is a what they told us and what i'm with them and he was sitting in a basement we're watching now when a guy came man who just going outside and he told us there was a shooting out and also an injured possum he told us the injured had been dropped into a cafe well we don't know the details we were busy walk an obvious time to iraq to you know who should do it yeah it was scary to be flying without him up there were shots being fired and people came running down the street i was at work at the time soon all the area was cordoned off and some people say they saw people running across the street from the cafe still it was frightening really even the bomb disposal teams were deployed so we were afraid to leave russian in investigative

committee have launched a criminal inquiry into what happened here in the center of moscow and of course and they investigations a maze are still working here at the scene well and my colleague neil harvey spoke with our correspondent on hawkins he's been following the story from the beginning and told us more. sorts of incidents of course neal it's always a case of slowly building some sort of tar and some sort of picture of exactly what happened as we know as we've seen over the last few hours a lot of contradictory information coming in from media reports from eyewitness accounts understandable of course given that the panic that happened what we can say for sure is that there was one attacker involved and confirmed reports officially that he's been neutralized but certainly doesn't seem like an active. anymore we know that this attack and attempted to enter the headquarters of the f.s.b. that's the russian federal security service or it's a building very much in central moscow it's within a stone's throw from the bolshoi theater red square in the big shopping center at

rush hour this would have been packed with people very busy people leaving work to go home and go about their evening activities this happened at about 10 past 6 in the evening now security forces and police were very quick to respond that attacker was quickly reports say he was quickly shot but not before sadly he managed to kill and injure at least 5 people we can't say exactly what their condition is we know that one officer was tragically killed another one was in a critical condition the other 3 people we don't have any information from the health ministry as of yet we know they've been taken to local hospitals we know he was carrying an automatic assault rifle which for moscow for a city you which as we discussed earlier has suffered its fair share of terrorist attacks of bombings that set for is quite a rare sight and seeing these streets are deserted of after this certainly is is quite surreal that certainly wasn't the case that posix in the evening we do

have some more witness video shot on smartphones which we can show you which shows that the moment of panic when police began screaming at people to run to hide to get out the way of this assailants far we can bring it out again. could you actually at a minute or 2 past 6 i was leaving work you know i don't like staying at work late so i left work met up with my girlfriend and when we heard some dull sounds in the distance which i thought at 1st it was fireworks or some firecrackers as the sound continued we realized something was wrong traffic police who were in the connecticut bridge as usual begin evacuating people shit barely caught on to what was going on people started running we heard the gunfire so i too decided to it would be better to leave that area in case it was

a terrorist attack us. signals and your mom wasn't shooting randomly and i think we heard him shout out something but we didn't manage to make out what he was shouting all i saw was a don't see who it the pillars the shooter was hiding behind the opposite the f.s.b. car park and there were people behind the cars it's hard to say whether he was shooting at those people all the cars 1st we heard the gunfire and then we saw a traffic police officer lying next to the barrier and he was laying there for quite some time. past more videos have come in this is another video we can we can show you now and this allegedly shows the moment that the attacker was targeted by police or by security forces that we have and it's in the video to. the most graphic cards and this is i confirm it's quite brainy shaky for it is unbelievable how close these people filming how have managed to get to the attack and really at risk of their life it does show the attacker wearing some sort of cut off large

some sort of dark clothing his face his head is covered he's wearing some sort of backpack that may well have been the case which it was speculated earlier in the evening was left in the lobby of the building which security officers were worried may have been. sort of some sort of explosive device those reports of course i'm confirming we don't know what's happened since security forces are doing a sweep of the building are believed to be in short there is no further danger to the public from any device like we said video unconfirmed but it does show what appears to be a shootout with police and security forces as i say the on edited version of the video will try and show you a longer version obviously what we've blurred out the most graphic parts of the show security forces on the left hand side shooting across the screen the walls of the assailants that's the latest update new york obviously we are still waiting for official confirmation this is being treated as a terrorist incident and i we can speculate of course we want at this stage given

the target of the attack the f.s.b. given the timing of the attack the speech by president putin today both his conversation with journalists and of the kremlin as well given tomorrow of course russia celebrating security services day until that is officially confirmed that's all we can bring our viewers and this is a fragment of the speech by police and given a little earlier today. if you would use to me we need to be more active in countering extremism. on compromising lease a prisoner provocation. that's meant to drool visually you into the social radical actually that it was good but i mean we've covered tragically so many stories in the studio on the ground the attack the nice attack london bridge 2 attacks etc this is an event which is becoming more frequent lone wolf attacks are hard to prevent whatever tactics they use whether that's suicide bombers left those

knives robbing attacks shooting they always cause designed to cause mass panic fear and of course ultimately a debate which takes place after such attacks about the balance of the say which one protecting rights liberties and privacy of people and public safety it is a debate that is going to be heard again. after this attack after each attack and that's to be taken very seriously well you know we spent a chance to bridge security analyst and former british army officer and he gave us his appraisal of the situation and told us where things could go from here. well the police in the security services will be looking really to establish 2 aspects of this is an absolute priority the 1st of course is the identity of this person and i may well already know that and of course will give a very good and a very strong indication i think of what their motivation in this case was what it was political or personal or indeed some other aspect that was driving the motivation here and 2nd of course even though they've said it's from according to reports that nobody else was involved in this attack that will want to be sure that

nobody else was actually involved in any planning aspects or in terms of assisting the gunman and that may take some time for example the examination of mobile phone records of any c.c.t.v. records and of course any. e-mails communications and so on that might be held on the suspect's computers and elsewhere and of course that would require house searches and so on and so it's going to be some time i think some hours until there's a definitive picture emerges of course until we know the full picture it's speculation hopefully informed speculation but nonetheless we still need a lot more information. sorry but i think even from the footage that we see we can say complacently that this was a an automatic weapon it is a complex issue as many overlapping factors and the facts will differ in each individual case and we can until we know more about this individual case it's difficult to say what the motivation is or what the factors that might lie behind it but the fact is i think that even if you were going to have the most benign

government the most benign state in any country to what you will get some people who will react violently to the policies of that oprah's just a vanity because of policy because of instance or background or the circumstances of their own personal lives. well we will of course be staying all across this breaking news from moscow and bringing more news from around the world after this short break. well it finally happened donald trump has been impeached by the house of representatives in complete opposition to what the founders had in beijing and the articles voted on were along party lines it is highly unlikely the senate will vote to remove the president from office so what is the point of this entire exercise.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is what before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. welcome back not earlier in the day the russian president's annual q.

and a session wrapped up at the moscow well trade center spawning well over 4 hours this year led to putin fielding questions on both domestic and international issues with the latest doping scandal and the impeachment proceedings against donald trump among the topics raised on teasingly. quite a surprise to hear about potential amendments to the russian constitution that something president putin doesn't talk about quite often well this time he did and he even said that it could be a good idea to make changes to the russian constitution to make sure that it allows only 2 presidential terms well why is that a big deal this was a long a reason for public debate in russia actually since the year 2012 was a lot of our pushing was reelected for his 3rd term after a break when the president of russia was dmitri medvedev and here's what mr putin said about that in particular. what could be done is to cancel the 2 in

a room and didn't we have 2 terms in a truly civil 2 terms then resigned and had the constitution to return to the presidency because it was not to to lose in a row humans when confuses some of our political scientists and public figures so we could become to them a. lot of our putin was even asked who he believes could become his successor and a few years well we didn't get any answer to that although mr putin did hint that he believes that a woman could become the president of russia at some point most of the reporters in that massive hall war from russia's regions which explains why a lot of questions were on domestic issues from pension reform in russia to issues with medicine and so on and so forth but let me move on to something that's probably more interesting for an international audience that is the impeachment proceedings in the u.s.

well a lot of my pope did say that he believes attempts to knock down donald trump won't succeed and also went on to say that he believes that the reasons for all these impeachment proceedings. as we're actually invent it it's just a continuation of political infighting each one party that lost the election of the democratic party is working for exult through other methods accusing trump of collusion with russia when it's discovered that there was no collusion that can't be the basis for impeachment so i see now they've come up with pressure on ukraine i don't know what your representatives have a better idea of the russian president did get a question from the b.b.c. and it was well the usual about russia's alleged attempts to interfere in elections and politics altogether in other countries well here's what mr putin said regarding interference or not interference many times officials and their representatives

from various countries including the u.k. made assessments about what's happening in russia mr putin believes that this doesn't count as interference and said that russia reserves the right to do the same in the opposite direction at all or part of the very same question from the british media was prime minister boris johnson personally whole was sad some very harsh words to say about mr putin well this was the russian president's response this time look assertive with girls when you as for statements from certain people various political figures about russia about me as the head of the country i've been used to treating this accordingly but i know what the interests of my country own and that it doesn't matter at all what anyone else says there is absolutely no value in comparing what they say with the fundamentalists which russia is interested in solving congratulations to boris johnson nevertheless he turned out

to be the winner he understood the mood of the british people better than his political opponents but if you can move it on to the latest tensions between berlin and moscow that have to do with the. murder of a georgian national and germany with a terrorist background while germany's believes that russia is somehow involved in it even led to 2 russian diplomats being expelled from berlin while of lot of my putin you didn't know any involvement and also went on to remind the audience again of the terrorist bag and all the brutal things that this man who was previously involved though not just going to. get upset in the can he was a criminal and a killer in one attack alone in the school because says he killed 98 people in other countries they hold meanings there are many and where there are less victims and this is far from the full list of actions and we raised this question but most

of the solutions in syria we see what is going on in the coming jail as well i still find most being killed people from central asia and russia and 2nd place but there are also many people from western europe from from from germany we see that these people terrorists move freely in european capitals we also heard questions about pressure on the russian media and european countries in particular in a stone age where there are some real issues where the russian sputnik news agency . staff members of that news agency said that they were being pressured into leaving this particular outlet if they want to continue working in that country which are put in response referred to as a real disgrace. going to shoot and what you do a lot all sorts of attempts to still pure activity can go unnoticed i'm very

surprised because russia is always accused of all evils including pressure on independent media and they do the same that they accuse us of this is cynical government measures such as restrictions can't work because you will hold. those who want to spoke to school between our countries we can't allow it you must try to work in those countries that are scared of your information on other grand vladimir putin press conference is done and dusted for more of what he had to say you can also check out our website and social media pages. well over to the u.s. now where the house democrats have stuck to their guns adamantly going head and in pay chain donald trump he's accused of abuse of power and obstructing congress but the whole impeachment saga could backfire on the democrats as it appears to have rallied republican support something the u.s. president has been quick to note. they are 230 the nasal

197 present is one. article one is adopted. this lawless heart assume is a political suicide march for the democrat party have you seen my polls of the last 4 which well according to the latest polls trump is gaining more support from the public since october just off the democrats started their inquiry against him his approval ratings and grown by 6 percent at the same time the number of people who think he should be impeached is declining from just over hall for an october to 46 percent now and it's up to the republican dominated senate now to decide whether to remove trump however mitch mcconnell who leads the majority there said that is unlikely he anticipates a partisan outcome just like in the house which voted almost entirely along party lines after 8 hours of heated debates with only 3 democrats saying no to an

impeachment. this process has been partisan vindictive dishonest the president's actions seriously jeopardize not only america's national security but security of our closest allies this investigation was unfair the articles of impeachment are not based on facts but instead are entirely politically motivated present trump abuse the power of his office for his own personal and political gain history books will tell of this day. it will tell of a purely partisan effort to remove the president of the united states that shows that his junction and who between the american liberal establishment and the general society. the fact is that. trump's approval ratings remain strong it is a clear breach between the little of their case hostility on what wasn't about people and the elites and. that is a sign off for our e.q. you know democratic ticket and you know that lack of accountability of

establishment of the society and trump is going to use this break between the he supporters and the liberal establishment to try and win the election again thank you and i think as a right wing populist use able to turn this whole impeachment saga into victim who are negative you know are saying that basically these and do nothing democrats as he keeps taunting them have failed the people i'm creating the jobs for the economy i'm not trying to revive the country and they cannot target my success so they're looking for you know underhanded means to remove me from power saw i think it just shows the you know the break between the establishment and the people and it shows our of populism you know people said the good stuff passing a blip but it does look like it could very well be aviv that is going to sustain itself for some time well that is your day for now i'm resigned

a lot cannot be back in the rest of the team into stay with us here minute's time with more news from around the world will see that. you know world's big partisan news. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome to the alex salmond show as we examine the fallout from the you case christmas election to do to turn topless to just panel of political pundits to assess the consequences all think johnson triumph has brought us back the vote but lost the united kingdom can labor survive the election post-mortem i what ever happened to the likely liberal democrats and the blue corner we have peter oborne the man who has a great deal more about the tory party than was told he's in the election peter became that reduced to political animals it's additional tortie who voted for gedney corp and as for votes euphemistic corbin i thought it was the economically

sensible thing to do i thought it was much more likely to be economic security with mystical bins planned. of a. of a final say referendum after the choice between a soft bricks it and staying in the mr johnson's plan of basically wes risking everything on a heart breaks in the yellow corner we feature length it will pick one time liberal democrat presidential candidate but now a rebel born again brick city or led by emerged as a clear winner among our forecasters by not only predicting the election result which many people said but the defeat of just winston which virtually nobody else did. but want to watch is just winston's own seat she needs to remember what happened to nick clegg in sheffield hallam when he was leader and he lost under the red corner a newcomer to our panel in chris williamson rebel former labor m.p. who stood against his own party as an independent and suffered the same fate as

most other independents in this election however chris has some crude advice for his old colleagues on how to avoid eminent self-destruction i think is a say whether comes forward as a leader needs to go as a body said accept a progressive people's briggs's might not argument repudiate this old nonsense of the of the which and and infuse the members bring the party together before the new employees of managed to get their feet under their desks indeed before they even have desks they've been picked to work by their new taskmasters returning m.p.'s come back to a very different place the boarding is the same but inside it has changed and changed are totally instead of a truckload minority parliament we have a stepford essentially with a huge majority of 80 super loyalist m.p.'s or is johnson is master of all that he surveys no longer will little known m.p.'s be asked with breathless excitement by the media how they are shaping up for the next knife age fort there will be any

such words household names like anna soupy and dominic grieve will disappear from our t.v. screens perhaps forever but is it all plain sailing for the prime minister sometimes in politics nothing feels like success alex asked our panel how events are likely to unfold. i know i'm trying to read the ruins of the general election by a prestigious spinal of political pundits but i'm no colin the rebel musketeer bitter or bottom or rebel tory who ended up voting for jeremy called the chris williamson a rebel liberal m.p. who ended up voting for themself and lembit opec rebel little who's the greatest black city other than the the rights of the liberal democrats and this to you. because you have won the prize as the greatest forecaster of our political panel let's have a look at you telling us what was going to happen in the election.