i am. officially reveal the identity of the gunman who killed 2 and injured 5 in a shooting near the federal security service building in central moscow we've spoken to the father of the attack and. lately he became very secretive and also got some kind of strange eastern accent he used to tell me that he liked shooting and even want to get become a most of schools. more than 3 years of deadlock a new mr jackson's the u.k. parliament finally backs prime minister boris johnson's briggs it with brawl with greene. and in a last minute to turn to disrupt russian gas supplies to europe u.s. senators won a swiss company crippling sanctions will put it out of business if it doesn't start

work on the almost completed pipeline. this is r.t. international. russia's investigative committee has released the identity of the gunman who opened fire outside the headquarters of the federal security service building in central moscow on thursday evening 39 year old you again even you were of lived in the moscow region he killed an f.s.b. officer before being shot dead himself another officer died later in hospital 5 other people including one civilian were injured and the moment the investigation into the possible motives that is ongoing there are reports that russia's investigative committee has searched the home of the suspect and interviewed his family and friends we spoke to neighbors and the father of the shooter. school.

but lately he became very secretive and also got some kind of strange. to tell me that he liked shooting that even wanted to get a sports rank and become a more star all sports team where he worked he replied in the emirates embassy as a security guard though i do not know if it is true he was a very calm guy and then somehow the change started growing his beard maybe it happened of the his grandmother guy. he's a lawyer worked somewhere in moscow he comes from a good family mother grandmother she was a big man she was always very polite attentive i can't say anything bad about him i can't believe what happened does in your house and the reason he wasn't aggressive very calm quite quiet he was lonely no friends no girlfriend we found out about his whole be by accident he invited my husband to join him at a shooting range when he refused the topic was never raised again although we know is what we've been finding out now from the media chick his alice situation

unfolded at the scene of the shooting. with usually means if the wind with her and 3 sounds we needed he realized that we should hide it then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back. to those signals and you'll receive when the man 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 at. them when i'm with them in the city in a basement we're watching now when a guy came man who'd just been outside and he told us there was a shooting out that i'm certain into pass and he told us the injured has had been dragged into the thing. that wasn't calm

last night he had the f.s.b. building is just to the left of me and the whole thing happened at around half past 6 in the evening right on the opposite side of this main f.s.b. building of this f.s.b. had quarterlies according to an unconfirmed video which we can show you right now the alleged shooter took his position between behind one of the columns right again on the opposite side of this building he took aim armed with an assault rifle and he opened fire it seemed that he was specifically targeting f.s.b. offices coming out of the building now just to give you an idea as to how busy it was here last night what you're seeing right now is pretty white desolation compared to that because this is the heart of moscow it's the very center of the russian capital it's a trendy and hip area with plenty of bars cafes and restaurants so at 6 o'clock it

wasn't just the end of the work shift wasn't just the eye. of the word they wasn't just people leaving their offices offices out on the streets but also plenty of people just out and about plenty of tourists i mean if you just look over there christmas decorations are already up here so people were doing their christmas shopping there's a saying regis hotel right across the street from me so there were literally hundreds of people out and about on this and they were terrified by the shooting but initially many of them were confused because with christmas right around the corner many of them mistook the 1st burst of fire with well fireworks. i was sitting with my friends at a bar when the shooting began and it was the sound of a kalashnikov assault rifle i know what it sounds like my friends were like oh it must be firecrackers but i told them no way it's not firecrackers and then we saw people running down the street it was scary at 5 or 10 minutes past 6 the gunfire

began and it was not just a few shots it came in bursts we saw officers taking cover behind the cars. left work met up with my girlfriend and when we heard some dull sounds in the distance i thought at 1st it was fireworks or some firecrackers but as the sound continued we realized something was wrong traffic police who were and because that's good bridge as usual began evacuating people they barely got on to what was going on people started running we heard the gunfire plenty of details are missing right now no more official information as as of yet we do know that the russian president is being kept in the loop of this attack right here in the heart of moscow security on the bridge outlined where he thinks that things will go from here. they've said. from according to reports that nobody else was involved in this attack they will want to be sure that nobody else is actually involved in any planning aspects or in terms of assisting the government 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. emails 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 but the fact is i think. even if you were going to have the most benign government the most benign state in any country or what you would get some people. on it and sometimes it's a fact it's just funny because it's probably because of for instance a little background to the circumstances of their own personal lives. 300 of years after the british people voted for the u.k. to leave the european union 3 prague ministers later and told briggs it deals with ject bipolar finally given the backing to an exit plan has the details. it would appear that way off the 3 and a half years of delays and gridlock in the house of parliament that overwhelming victory in terms of the seats won for the conservative party last week in the

general election means that boris johnson could today get his drugs approved by parliament he did so with a majority of our 120124 he managed to get it through and so what that means is by january 31st the u.k. will be leaving the e.u. at which point they will enter into an implementation period or transition period that despite that vote today despite the win for the conservatives last week drags it still leaves many issues on the zoltan also leaves the country bits of a divided one of the main divisions of course comes to the issue of scotland now scotland voted by 2 thirds roughly to remain in the european union during that referendum and also last week. they won an overwhelming number of the seats in scotland the s.n.p. that is the scottish national party was of course pro independence and so they take that as a mandate that the scottish people both want to be dragged out of the e.u.

and that they want that independence and those divisions remained clear in the house of commons today before that vote was held. as the emphatic lesson of the last call and unlike members opposite and reject any delay in scotland could not talk been cleared of last week we did not call for breaks it come in the s.n.p. with a greater monday shows still totally and utterly rejects break ca this tale is a road map for the reckless direction in which the government of prime minister. to take our country the story story of the last $3.00 you will be at today and we would be able to move forward one of the concerns to take to the fore the labor leader jeremy corbin with workers' rights and the government has now taken out a part of the bill the motion within the bill that would have ensured the

protection of workers' rights following prices so that's now no longer going to be part of that deal or the government's priority with that deal and also they haven't said to the clause making it strict and making it more difficult if not impossible for an extension to the transition period what that means is that the government would only have from the day leave by the end of january of next year till the end of december takes you to negotiate a trade deal there are many who say that 11 months simply isn't a long enough time for a trade deal to be struck and also that breaks it go having provisions for u.k. courts to be able to question and challenge and the piece of legislation by the european court of justice that remains in the u.k. you know or so as far as boris johnson is concerned he's going to be powering on with his efforts to take the u.k. out of the european union. i'm joined on the line now by him otis professor of international history at the london school of economics that's alan scared very

good he needs a lot of talk now about that you know briggs it finally across the finish line for to come play is it really don't just want to put a couple of scenarios to you 1st of all what about it being ratified the withdrawal agreement bill doesn't the european parliament still have to do that next month is there any chance that that wouldn't happen well that's quite true it does have to be ratified by the european parliament but every indication is that they will ratify it i think the europeans want bricks the way it is quickly as possible also and if they didn't ratify well i think it would just mean under the majority that the horse already has the present irish commons that we would just have to be with no deal would leave on the surface of january without a deal. to be up to the europeans but i can't see any problem and what about all the remain and peter let's be honest they've managed to usurp the will of the people by spoiling attempts to come up with

a withdrawal agreement in the past or all they all been voted out now they've all been voted diode mean all the trouble makers of go on the speaker who is one of them is also gone boras has. a huge majority in many of these m.p.'s was signing up today to get him to autograph the withdrawal bills. he's got no trouble what serve and his own backbenchers. so the lead vote is they are happy scottish independence supporters very much less so they want to stay in the e.u. and they're going to be forced to leave what's new comes next for the scottish independence movement does it have any legs left in. i think a great deal of frustration is the. the only did they may have won a majority of seats in the scottish in the in parliament as far as scotland was concerned in the election but the only got 43 percent of the vote and that

sidestream marginally less than the for independents and the $214.00 referendums. it's not really much in advance also this little evidence for many of the recent polls and scope the majority of people want independence or even of the want to 2nd referendum so the sturgeon has to make a great deal of noise to keep a militants happy but she can't actually do anything westminster is only place that can allow the referendum in boris johnson keep saying no and she's also got the problem that in march this year the former leader of the s.n.p. goes on trial for 13 counts of sexual misconduct including $22.00 counts of attempted rape and i'm told his defense is going to be that the state felt by sturgeon's the scottish national party is going to split probably

publicly when that trial takes place and that's going to rather dampen s. and p. prospects i think part of the withdrawal the green bill is. this is an amendment to it it ensures that there's no extension of the transition period beyond 2020 so it limits the negotiation period for what 11 months is that enough time to get a deal done or look at that again become a pressure point where either side will use it as leverage. it will become a pressure point to me i think boris is idea is that it will concentrate the minds of the european union negotiators. and they'll have to come up face to face with the prospect of no deal as far as free trade is goods. a lot of bricks to use would be quite happy with no free trade deal i think the european union would be very happy with that but. you know boris has been told in numerous occasions that with things are impossible they always proved possible i mean when you still do can do

things he ends up doing them so it's quite likely we will get a free trade deal by the end of next year alan pleasure to speak to my guest alan scared of motas professor of international history at the london school of economics thanks again thank you. russia ukraine and the european commission have agreed in principle on a new gas deal starting in the new year that despite heightened pressure from washington over russia's nord stream to gas pipeline project ski taylor looks out the u.s. is trying to blackmail allies on energy policy. they say politics is a dutch game and its players can be selfish greedy and unethical but for the most part they do is pretend they're in it for the right reasons and of playing by the rules i think someone might have forgotten to tell ted cruz you fisa binary choice stop now and leave the pipeline unfinished the express intention of the sanctions legislation which we all heard were make a foolish attempt to rush to complete the pipeline and reese putting your company

out of the business forever so what's called an elected u.s. senator so riled up that he's sending out letters with the distinct whiff of blackmail to them how did you guess it's russia almost specifically north stream to the 1225 kilometer pipeline running from russia to germany but on the brink of completion the us though is in its greatest fan the united states commands all our european partners who have taken a strong stand against north stream to. and we commend others to do the same germany is totally controlled by russia because they were getting from 60 to 70 percent of their energy from russia and a new pipeline this pipeline if completed would make europe even more dependent on russian energy would generate billions of dollars for putin billions of dollars that would follow and the russian military aggression. we don't want your energy

supplies to be defended. but america couldn't risk letting people make their own decisions time's running out of to rule they decide to to get it down in writing and possibile which will require don't try to impose sanctions on any foreign companies and individuals who are lending a helping hand in building the pipeline like the lucky recipient of cruises let's all see as a company over a 6000 kilometers away from washington in switzerland and like you'd expect from a politician at that level the latter is filled with all the signposts of them all to person who's just ready to sit down and reach a compromise for the next decade your company and personnel will be entirely barred from the united states any transactions will be blocked all property will be frozen now clearly this is a matter very close to cruz's heart because earlier this month he introduced another piece of legislation protecting europe's energy security act that's despite

some in europe not actually wanting any protection european energy policy must be decided in europe not the us we fundamentally reject outside intervention and sanctions with extra territorial effect but cruise thinks he knows better he needs to save poor europe from falling victim to those devious forces in moscow it would make europe even more dependent on russian energy and that makes europe susceptible to economic blackmail europe depended on russia is not good for europe it's not good for america i won't waste time and pointing out the irony and it's not even a cheeky one off blackmail kind of thing earlier this year u.s. ambassador to germany richard grinnell previously described by a german politician as acting like the high commissioner of an occupying power and persona non-grata also thought he'd flex his muscles we emphasize that companies involved in russian energy exports are taking part in something that. prompt

a significant risk of sanctions now does not being a fine of something and then there's going to these kinds of lengths and causing diplomatic disputes it's almost as if the us has something to lose from nordstrom to going ahead but it helps american jobs much better for european energy needs to be satisfied by american natural gas that creates jobs here in america rather than fueling pollutants military how much and that we have it americans who propounded the virtues of the free market and happy about some healthy competition especially when the competition is providing a cheaper and faster alternative though i'll admit it does have one thing missing with the us in another year of record setting natural gas production i'm pleased that the department of energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of u.s. freedom to be exported to the world and does cruise the like his freedom gas in

fact last year alone he liked $765000.00 of it that's how much in donations he got from the oil and gas lobby making him the sector's top recipient in all of congress but really that's just by the by we spoke to professor. who's a spokesperson for consumer advocacy group he told us that the u.s. is trying to force its allies to buy liquefied natural gas from america. we wouldn't do this project is almost finished and america have intervened late if they wanted to do something then they should have done it at the start it's clear that in germany and europe would be dependent on russian gas and because of that america is right in saying that if europe becomes more dependent on russia's then america's influence with the crease that much is clear the other aspect is related to economic interests america would like to sell its gas produced in their fracking location that's what. dozens of former french soldiers sometimes from elite units

have joined jihadi groups in the middle east since 2012 that's according to a new report by the center for the analysis of terrorism explains. this new study released the lid to what seems to be a very problem in the french forces it talks about former military personnel who have gone along to join terrorist groups in areas like a rock and syria the center identified around 30 former french soldiers who had been in syria or iraq or who had taken part in attacks in france after training for several months sometimes years these exile jews made the choice to abandon the french flag and fight instead under the banner of a terrorist group now it talks about the numbers it says around 35 have been logical eyes in the last 8 years while that number doesn't seem to be huge it does point to a very worrying problem french. a strategic point with ground for

terror groups because they are looking to pick up people with specialists military and tactical and also weapons expertise during their time in the french army they learned how to handle weapons and explosives skills that enabled some of them to take up strategic roles within terrorist groups others having failed to reach combat zones determined to take up arms against fronts by planning attacks on different strategic sites typically of a military kind but the reality is this isn't a new issue in france back in the 1990 s. and even in the early 2000 they were cases of former french soldiers who went i made jihad going to countries such as pows and afghanistan to join up with groups to fight this report also goes on to talk about why if these soldiers are these former soldiers the scene is being so important not just because of that military knowledge but because they can pass the knowledge on to nobis jihad the preacher so

it may only be 30 individuals over the last few years but those 30 individuals could have trained hundreds if not thousands of others passing on that expertise knowledge. that is what the real concern is about this there was even some examples in this study of some individuals who had already decided they were going to make jihad and had decided to join the military after that so they could glean that specialist information that could be used for terror groups in the future now the report does conclude that the french army has taken measures to try and prevent radicalization it's also got measures in place trying to tect radicalization that might be taking place that's all well and said for those who are still in the army but it doesn't address the problem of former french soldiers who've left the army and now prime targets for terror groups to make them radicalized. indians are defying police to hold the biggest anti-government rallies for years

protesting against the passing of a bill that grant citizenship to non muslim illegal migrants. the citizenship amendment. is from neighboring countries but excludes muslims critics say the legislation is discriminatory. prime minister narendra modi insists the law reflects a culture of compassion this is how the protest movements unfolded 'd .

but washington's muted response to. explicitly and to muslims. u.s. outcry over chinese treatment of muslim minorities. care deeply. about protecting minorities protecting religious rights everywhere. they have a robust debate inside a massive crimes against humanity committed by the chinese government against the. the legislation would require the administration to categorize a report on the human rights abuses be committed by the chinese communist party we have to remember something that us foreign policy has never historically been about human rights whatsoever it's always been about securing 2 things u.s. strategic interests in different geopolitical parts of the world 1st of all and secondly in opening up different countries to transnational corporates on the nation and to mention of human rights as simply a strategic instrument in the area and in the underlying u.s.

us our foreign policy the united states chooses who it's going to condemn and who whose human rights violations he's going to ignore so what we see is that the united states says nothing about human brutal human rights violations and for instance hunters in saudi arabia in believe the a since the coup d'etat and now in india and yet it condemns human rights violations in china in venezuela and bolivia before the coup because that's what determines who gets condemned for human rights violations whether that country is strategic and alight with u.s. interests or not. they appreciate compare the saving 5 staying with all things the national be about with mourinho for now. i maximize or more of my guide to financial survival this is a hedge fund and a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these house

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volunteers so because visionaries made sophie shevardnadze so they say laughter is the best therapy and instead it's the patients for mind and so on i guess today is skating around having a good laugh herself and having others rolling around the floor talking to neuroscientist professor of cognitive psychology and stand up comic saucy scots. sophos scott welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us so let me start of by asking why is laughter important to psychology i mean lost or hasn't been studied for a long time why are scientists getting into it now. i think there's probably 2 on sr that i think 11 on sirius the psychologists neuroscientists a good a lot more interested in positive emotions in general most of the research in psychology into emotions has focused on negative emotions and there's been a general recognition of the last 15 or so years that we need to pay more attention

supposed to be emotions and i think secondly. when you still it's pay attention to it actually is a very interesting emotion in terms of how interesting me it's used by humans but also how extremely widespread he says ok so what we're going to actually try to deconstruct in detail wise laughter so peculiar and interesting let's start with gestures like gestures like nodding or finger rocking are different have different meaning from region to region but laughter and smiles there's sort of universal aren't they. exactly so as far as we can see there are a subset of emotions with the express or the face of the voice which you can find anywhere in the world many things that emotions are very different from place to place but these emotions fear anger disgust sadness surprise and laughter they are recognized everywhere and they seem to be used in that cool in very similar way so

cultures can still be very different in how they used to that core you'll find it has this very important role in social interactions and and of course we're not the only animals that love so these same basic emotions including laughter or with emotions that we find versions of in other mammals we'll talk about that in a bit later but before that in a tad talk you would have pointed out the lack of laughter recognition among boys with thick traits does that mean that people who never laugh are somewhat mentally disturbed more or less. no i think it's probably not that simple so i think there's an interesting distinction to draw between. learning to love and learning to love with other people and the things that could affect you in that so all of us all of us will have sort of been able to laugh we would buy a vis but so.