i am. russian officials revealed the identity of the gunman who killed 2 and injured 5 in a shooting near the federal security service building in central moscow we spoke to the father of the attacker. lately he became very secretive and also got some kind of strange eastern accent used to tell me that he liked shooting that even wanted to get drunk and become a milestone schools. for more than 3 years of deadlock a new mission rejections the u.k. parliament finally backs prime minister boris johnson's bragg's its withdrawal agreement. and a last minute

a term to disrupt russian gas supplies to europe the us senators warner swiss company the crippling sanctions will put it out of business if it doesn't start work on the almost completed now stream to. buy the great have you with us this is r.t. international. russia's investigative committee has released the identity of the government who opened fire outside that corps of the federal security service building in central moscow on thursday evening 39 year old you again even you were off lived in the moscow region and 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 investigation into the possible motives is still ongoing there are reports the russian investigative committee has searched the home of the suspect and interviewed his family and friends we spoke to the neighbors and father of the shooter.

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

unfolded at the scene of the shooting. will usually need to fill in with her and 3 sounds we needed here realize that we should hide then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back. to. those signals and you'll listen 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 outside and we sent into the past and he told us the injured has had been dragged into the thing. that wasn't come

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 in 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 st regis hotel right across the street from me so there were literally hundreds of people out and about on this square and they were terrified by the shooting but initially many of them were confused because with christmas right around the corner many of them is still the 1st burst of fire with well fireworks. i was sitting with my friends at a bar when the shooting began 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 toward 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 on the connecticut bridge as usual began evacuating people they apparently got on to what was going on people started running we heard the gunfire plenty of details a 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 analyst learned where he thinks things could go from here. dave said. from according to reports that nobody else was involved in this attack they will want to be sure that nobody else was 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. 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 but the fact is i think. 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. some differences of that just because of policy because of instances of background to the circumstances of their own personal lives. 3 and a half years after the british people voted for the u.k. to leave the european union 3 prime ministers later for briggs that deals rejected by the parliament in place of finally given their backing to an exit plan has more 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 that deal 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 but despite that vote today despite the win for the conservatives last week drugs that still leaves many issues on the zoltan also leave the country fit to be 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 for independence and so they take that as a mandate that the scottish people don't want to be dragged out of the e.u.

and that they want that independence and those divisions remains clear in the house of commons today before that vote was held this bill learns the emphatic lesson of the last call unlike members opposite and reject any delay 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 consents to security. for the labor leader during the quarter it was 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 year 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 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 independent political commentator antony whether believes that the opposition will now lessen its hostility to the government. there is cause

for celebration for the country because the 1st period of uncertainty will be over those calls of celebration because boris johnson is actually married a commitment which has come true the conservative party has got a huge majority they can get through anything very want. but that will be a positive thing from the point of view of black suit of course. the concern might be on other issues where. you could argue that they haven't really gotten mandates but i think the public have given a mandate on the subject to break. and i think very some of the opposition figures will probably turn on their rhetoric including even the who a lot of people are getting fed up with because very only had 45 percent of the vote very claim to speak up for the scottish people which very very clearly don't so i

think over the coming months we're going to see some more rather it's. yet another security breach scandal as it social media giant facebook is a new massive online database is being found that could potentially be used against the sites uses more than 267000000 facebook users are phone numbers and names were exposed most of the affected users are from the united states this database has been taken offline facebook stated to r.t. that they think the records were obtained before recent security upgrades. we're looking into this issue but believe this is likely information obtained before changes we made in the past few years to better protect people's information facebook has been marred by security breach scandals that despite its efforts to combat leaks is a look at some previous examples. we

didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry. activist and technology expert bill new joins me on the line now getting team built not the greatest last few years in terms of security for facebook cambridge

analytical plenty of other things why do they seem so vulnerable when they got so much in terms of money and resources at their disposal. the approach taken in development facebook and some of the new way technology companies will move quickly break whatever barriers there are. all they didn't necessarily take as much caution in the development of some of their systems as was traditionally taken by a little more traditional players. what we're seeing now is some of that coming back to haunt them we've had a series of different data exposures data leaks and so scoop has had to respond reactively to a large number of them because it's been on the back foot we are going to see more breaches more incidents to come because 1st of all they haven't fixed every single problem and secondly there are amounts of data the 2 already being taken through

facebook that have yet to be exposed elsewhere as was the case here and therefore think we're going to see more of these incidents in the future we also know that facebook has told their investors that they put a large amount to something like 3000000000 a site in order to settle claims that may result from things but facebook is a very wealthy organization and can afford this the problem that facebook has is that eventually it is going to lose people's trust if it continues to behave in this way and no amount of money is going to buy back that trust and at the same time with the new g.d.p. our regulations in europe it may face big blocks for processing data and you're all even sharing data with the u.s. and if that occurs no amount of money is going to buy that back and buy them out that's jewish and there's been a very recent court case that has forced that handles that regulators in ireland were so spoke it's based in europe and the it's been told that it can't turn

a blind eye to this. do you think that users of facebook of cottoned on to the fact that they're basically being harvested nonstop for their information and that this information is is extremely valuable this is how organizations like facebook make their money because the advertising revenue and other income sources that come from just knowing what you like where you go is extremely valid and people have latched on to that yet that they're actually giving away a lot of value. i think the problem we have is not unique to facebook there are any number of organizations look to collect and that share it with advertisers and there's a trade off being had every time that we go to a whole host of different online sites so facebook isn't alone here a number of different major organizations have built their business model around

the sort of use of data in this way what we need to do is to ensure that they are abiding by the regulations and the letter of the law as well as the spirits of the law and that abuse isn't happening either by these organizations themselves or by bad actors who are taking money from scraping the web taking money and takes off from trying to breach their security and or possibly using malware apps to do this and therefore we need to remain cautious but so do these large organizations what is the danger to the general member of the public if perhaps their password is as been taken from facebook's. data service i guess is the word if you lose your personal information because a mistake by facebook how big a risk is it in your everyday life. i think we have to exercise a little responsibility ourselves we need to change our passwords relatively

regularly we use need to use different passwords with different sites and we need to actually show a level of actual personal responsibility for our own security and our own data obviously when it comes to something like this if you while concerned you're used if there is a breach you could reset your password the complexity comes later on when people are looking to do they start biometric indicate such as your face or your d.n.a. all or possibly even your fingerprints once you start using biometric data these cults to change the culture. you can't change your fingerprints and therefore i think we need to have a level of real caution before going down that particular route as some organizations are looking to and at the same time as users we need to extended responsibility about changing our pilots were regularly using different passwords on different platforms and showing that we care about much about dangerous we

really should appreciate it bill i guess privacy activists technology expert bill knew that thank you. to the news now russia ukraine the european commission have agreed in principle to a new gas deal starting in the new year that despite heightened pressure from washington over russia's nord stream to gas pipeline project skitter looks at how the u.s. is trying to blackmail allies on energy policy. they say politics is a does he gave him and his players can be selfish greedy and unethical but for the most part these pretend they're in it for the right reasons and a 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 gotten 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 that's on the brink of completion the us though isn't 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 on 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 is a company of 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 fan of something and then there's going to these kinds of lengths and causing

diplomatic disputes it's almost as if the u.s. has something to lose from nordstrom to going ahead 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 military how much and that we have it americans who propounded the virtues of the free market aren't 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 hans going to lose a spokesperson for consumer advocacy group b. he told us that the u.s. is trying to force its allies to buy liquefied natural gas from america. do this project is almost finished and america have intervened too late if they wanted to do something then they should have done it is the stance it's clear that germany and europe will be dependent on russian gas and because events america is right in saying that if europe becomes more dependent on russia then america's influence will decrease that much is clear the other aspect is related to economic interests america would like to sell its gas produced in their fracking location as. 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 from the center for the analysis of terrorism dubious he 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 the terror groups in areas like iraq 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 army called a strategic point with ground for terror groups because they are looking to pick up

people with specialist 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 when i made jihad go into countries such as pows and afghanistan to join up with groups to fight this report also goes on to talk about why these soldiers or 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 know this jihad the fruit so it may only be 13 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 text but equalization 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 left the army and now prime targets for terrorists to make them radicalized. indians are defying a police baton to hold the biggest anti-government rallies in years they're protesting against the passing of a bill to grant citizenship to non muslim illegal migrants.

the citizenship a moment to simplify example occasions from neighboring countries but excludes muslims critics say that the legislation is supposed discriminatory and unconstitutional prime minister narendra modi's says that the law reflects a culture of compassion this is the protest movement unfolded. thank. you. there. in ready. washington's muted response to india's law explicitly until muslim stands in stark

contrast contrast to the u.s. outcry over chinese treatment of its muslim minorities. because deeply and always well about protecting minorities protecting religious rights everywhere we honor indian democracy as they have a robust debate inside of india a massive crimes against humanity committed by the chinese government against the weavers 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. to teach it interests in different geopolitical parts of the world 1st of all and secondly in opening up different countries to transnational corporates on the nation phantom a set of human rights is 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 it's going to ignore so what we see is that the united states says nothing about human brutal human rights violations and for instance hundreds in saudi arabia in believe the 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. thing without international this evening told me for updates on top stories in half an hour's time. that.