russian officials 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 spoke to the father of the attacker. lately he became very secretive and also got some kind of strange beast an accent used to tell me that he liked shooting and even wanted to get the speech right become the most of the schools. after more than 3 years of deadlock a numerous rejections the u.k. parliament finally back spine minister parse johnson's breaks that withdrawal agreement. and 16 years behind bars stop how long an

american man has received the burning of the flag the case had sparked heated reaction on both sides with some saying the punishment is just proportionate to the crime. he did not express any regrets and justify his actions based upon his particular extremist interpretation of the should say no way. it is absolutely 100 percent constitutionally protected speech. hello you're watching all t.v. international i'm rosana lockridge thank you for joining us. on russia's investigative committee has really stuck density of a gunman who opened fire outside the headquarters of the federal security service building in central moscow on thursday evening 39 year old if any manure if 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 at the moment the investigation into possible motives is still ongoing here's how the situation unfolded at the scene of the shooting. because usually when you get to the end we heard strange sounds we needed here realize that we should hide it then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back. to us and that's when the 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. at them in the city in a basement we're watching now when

a guy came and we just going outside and he told us there was a shooting alchemy so an injured pass and he told us the injured party had been dragged into the cafe. but there are reports that 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 eastern accent used to tell me that he liked shooting and even wanted to get a sports rank become a more stores. 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. he's a lawyer worked somewhere in moscow he comes from a good family mother grandmother she was a good man she 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 hoby 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. with more on how it all unfolded in central moscow here's our correspondent dan elf. it wasn't calm last night here 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 quarter 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 baa's cafes and restaurants so at 6 o'clock it wasn't just the end of the work shift it wasn't just the end of the work 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 st regis hotel right across the street from me so there were literally hundreds of people out and about on the 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 mistook the 1st burst of fire with well fireworks. i was sitting with my friends in a bow 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 gun. fire 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 apparently caught on to what was going on people started running we heard the gunfire plenty of details are

missing right now you know 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 of security analyst charles shute bridge outlined where he thinks things could go from here. they've said that 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-mail 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 watch you will get some people. and i assume to herself that was just one of the because of policy because of instance or background or the circumstances of their own personal lives.

well 3 and a half years after the british people voted for the u.k. to leave the european union 3 prime ministers later and 4 rejected by parliament m.p.'s have 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 and 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. 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 drags it

still leaves many issues on the zoltan also leaves the country bitterly 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 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. learns the emphatic lesson of the last caller unlike members opposite and reject any. 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 and still totally and utterly rejects break ca

this tale is a road map for the reckless direction in which the government prime minister adi term and 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 the. 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 of the government's priority with that deal and also they haven't set of 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 go having provisions for u.k. courts to be able to question and challenge and the you know piece of legislation by the european court of justice that remains in the u.k. laws 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. well independent political commentator anthony weber believes the opposition will now lessen its were still se to the government. there is cause for celebration for the country because the 1st period of uncertainty will be over and there's cause for celebration because boris johnson has actually married a commitment which is come true the conservative party has got a huge majority they can get through anything very wants. but that will be a positive thing from the point of view of black suit of course. because of concern might be on other issues where. you could argue that they haven't really yasser

mandates but i think the public have given a mandate on the subject to break through. are very very some of the opposition think is will probably turn 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 rigorous. man accused of stealing and burning and l. g.b.t. flag from the u.s. church has been sentenced to 16 years in jail after being found guilty of committing a hate crime adolfo martinez was 1st arrested in june and accused of desecrating the flag belonging to a local church in iowa earlier in the week he was convicted on charges of not only committing a hate crime but also 3rd degree harassment and reckless use of fire martinez

admitted to opposing homosexuality but the length of his sentence has course some debate. why does the left cheer when the american flag is burning no one goes to jail for that but they do for burning an activist movements flag wow he got more years than murderers get in the u.k. unbelievable so burning a rainbow flag is hate speech burning an american flag is freedom of speech i see. he should have burned the american flag then he would have been praised statues dedicated it is disproportionate it is not commensurate with the crime committed however there are some disturbing elements a he was not given the sentence purely for stealing the flag and for burning it there were also. accusations and claims of arson and threats to burn

down other properties namely a strip club when it came to course he did not express any regrets and indeed justify his actions based upon his particular extremist interpretation of the christian faith no a crime happened here it is absolutely 100 percent our institutionally protected speech to burn the gates of the gay pride flag in the same way that according to the supreme court's also protected speech to burn the american flag i would say that the l.g.b. flag is a bit different from the american flag because it days ignites a specific community in the same way as maybe burning a jewish flag might designate the jewish community and i think on balance probably we have to defend the freedom to burn a flag but what is exceptional in this particular case is the arson the threats the harassment this guy's sentence was yes there was a threats of arson but it was may is so extreme because of the hate crime

designation and burning this flag now i don't believe that this flag necessarily represents the rainbow flag i don't think it represents gay individuals maybe at one point attempted to there are still loads of discrimination free practices and laws and institutions there are parts united states where l.g. because people do not have protection in the workplace for example they can be sacked from their jobs just because of their sexuality they could be a victim victim from housing on the basis of the sexuality that exist the rights exist and sums. those rights exist in some states that exist in all states america loves gay people we don't need there's this narrative of discrimination is complete phooey and we don't need more laws to try to protect the border not necessary quite clearly with this incident that happened with this particular man the battle is not over there are some people who are prepared to go to violent ends to dehumanize our community to express their opposition to our community gay americans outspend and

out there straight counterparts they have every right in this country they can get married now in many respects gay people at the top of the food chain so why would these laws even still be on the books especially for gays it's a non-issue and and i think we need to repeal. a setback for the u.s. space program boeing's a star line a spacecraft has failed a nasa flight test on friday the stollen it was supposed to dock with the international space station when the over to proceed to went wrong and the ship was forced to return home the test flight was a key part of nasa plans to end u.s. dependence on russia for space rides no one was on board as the flight was supposed to be one of the final tests before a manned launch during the flight it was announced on twitter that boeing had an off normal insertion on the announcer said mission control was weighing all its options and the life was cut. off facebook suffered yet another security breach

with the personal data of millions of users exposed but that story and more just after this short break. all of us will hoops it has been absolutely new babies since a behavior that appears even in deaf and blind babies even if you've never heard of seen laughter you will know if you're tickles by your parents. and then we learn how to use the cinema. complex why i'm one of the things that we learn is to have to join in with love to contagiously to love when somebody else loves even you don't know why they're laughing. and. one of the things that i started to realize is that the noise in my head as it me i started the practice of organizing my wife around what i wanted my life to be

about even when it conflicted with my internal noise so you know why i wrote a book but in my head i'm not smart enough people like me to write books. but what i held myself to was the action and i started to notice that i could co-exist with that while still living a life that went beyond. russia ukraine and the european commission have agreed in principle on a new gas still starting in the new year and that's despite heightened pressure from washington over russia's nordstrom to gas pipeline project suskind looks at how the u.s. is trying to blackmail allies on energy policy. they say politics is a does game and its players can be selfish greedy and unethical but for the most part they do is pretend they are 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 on russian military aggression. we don't want your energy supplies to be defended. but america couldn't risk letting people make the 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 a moderate 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. it could prompt a significant risk of sanctions now does it 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 u.s. 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 putin's 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 well we spoke to professor. paul who's a spokesperson for consumer advocacy group he told us the u.s. is trying to force its allies to buy liquefied natural gas from america. this project is almost finished and america have intervened too late if they wanted to do something then they should have done it at the start it's clear that 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 than 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 this. yet another security breach scandal has hit social media join facebook as a new massive online database has been found that could potentially be used against the site's users more than 267000000 facebook users id's phone numbers and names were exposed most of the affected users were from the us this database has been taken offline facebook stated to us that they think the records were obtained before recent security upgrades. were 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 or facebook has been marred by security breach scandals a matter spite efforts it took to combat leaks is a look at some past 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. we've had a series of different day 2 exposures data leaks and facebook cuz how to respond reactively to a large number 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 they're all amounts of data that took already be taken through facebook that have yet to be exposed as was the case here the problem that facebook has though 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 back the trust and at the same time with the new g.d.p. all regulations and europe it may face being blocked from processing dates when you're all even sharing that with the u.s. . well that is your day and now i'm words on a lot quit now be back here with the rest of the team in about 30 minutes time to bring you more news from around the world wealthier than.

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hello and welcome the cross-talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle well and finally happened donald trump has been impeached by the house of representatives in complete opposition to what the founders had in vision 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. talking trumps and pietschmann i'm joined by my guest david. he is a cultural critic and host of the radio show a neighbor's choice in washington we cross to richard goodstein he is a democratic strategist and former campaign adviser to bill and hillary clinton

right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate david i asked a very simple question at the end of my introduction it seems very unlikely that the republican and republican controlled senate is going to vote on these articles of impeachment that is if nancy eventually gives it to them which we can actually talk about that right now as well i mean what is the point of this exercise outside of the exercise itself because it's doomed to failure from what we understand about the members of the g.o.p. caucus in the senate go ahead david. well i think it's christmas time in d.c. nursing a lot of guilt for their various sins around this country the things they've done to the american people or the things they do to the people abroad and they need a little scapegoat they need someone to cast their sins are into it's christmas they need a christ figure apparently and that's what donald trump is serving for the vessel.