president trump signed into law a defense bill sanctioning russia's north's train to gas pipeline ignoring germany's objection so its contract all season has suspended work on the project because of the measure. russian officials reveal the identity of the gun man who killed 2 and injured 5 in a shooting at a 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 accident he used to tell me that he liked shooting with it even wanted to get some peace right become

a most old school. after more than 3 years of deadlock and numerous rejections the u.k. parliament finally backs prime minister boris johnson's breakfast with all agreements . live from moscow where just past 6 o'clock in the morning you're watching international i'm rosana loquitur thank you for joining us. now swiss dutch construction company also it's has suspended work on the north stream to pipeline project and this is in response to a defense bill signed by u.s. president almost trump that imposes sanctions on russia's gas pipeline projects. you free sabai nery choice stop now and leave the pipeline unfinished the express intention of the sanctions legislation which we offered or make a foolish attempt to rush to complete the pipeline and reese putting your company out of the busy. yes forever for the next half decade your company in personnel

will be entirely barred from the united states any transactions will be blocked oh property will be frozen in the stream too is a gas pipeline being built from russia to germany through the baltic sea it spans more than a 1000 kilometers and the us has long voiced its opposition to the project going as far as to threaten european companies 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 in the russian military aggression. we don't want your energy

supplies to be dependent on flattery approach is to give federal government is against extraterritorial sanctions we don't approve of this practice we oppose especially extraterritorial sanctions that has german and european companies. well to get a bit more insight on the scope of these sanctions and what it really means we're joined by former u.s. diplomat jim thanks for joining us quite late in the seat way you. let's just start hit why is the u.s. supplying sanctions the impact america's own allies we heard there from germany and germany has voiced objection to sanctions being placed on why i think donald trump is going to go ahead and done this well i leave president trump aside for the moment the talking about the washington policy establishment is a big dumb dinosaur that can never admit that it sailed stream to will be completed i think that this this latest round of sanctions on the cessation of workers is a hit it will be finished and will go into operation but these people washington

can not hit their policy has failed just like they can't admit that assad is going to survive in syria we still have to keep. their key people dying in a case of nord stream we have to keep trying to disrupt it in any way we can even though there was an article recently in bloomberg where administration officials were admitting privately that we have failed that this thing is going to go in operation but we don't know how to adjust ourselves to a reality we don't like we only have one reality that is russia is bad and it think that connects russia to europe is bad too but we must do whatever we can to try to stop it and if we can stop it let's just make life difficult. and sadly what's on the penny all this of course is energy and money will come back to that but i want to talk about how effective these sanctions can be because we do know that this was spaced all cities has suspended it's not strain to put on activities teach these sanctions we had there from ted cruz the cause of threatening language use to the

company saying if you don't stop this we will we will make you stop but you say quite confidently that jim that you think the project will continue to just how effective can the sanctions be. i don't think they'll be very effective i don't know specifically about this company all season i don't know how irreplaceable their work is i've heard conflicting with the reports about that where they can find some way to circumvent the sanctions whether if they can't some other company will step in i again i am confident and i think people in washington know that this thing will be completed but i do hope europeans listen to the challenge of senator cruz's comments and those of others is this a voice of a friend is this little voice of a friend who is saying we want partnership with you in europe we want to have a best relationship we can have in europe or is this the voice of a master or head job that dictates to other countries as though they were vassal states or satellites and i think that's an important way the ugly thing of what we've seen in washington for some decades and or input in their rage as the worst

wondering and threatening it becomes well let's talk about that friends and diplomatic relations because one might see the way the president trump an administration here behaving by imposing these sanctions is a bit of a sort of change of tack we've seen from president trump and his sort of relations towards russia is it is it just that what's independent to painting this is that it is energy and it is 0 and it is a business deal now is something that does you know has got president trump fired up in the process is that was on the painting this or is it truly as you say that. problem with russia. well look. we're going to sell to europeans much more expensive and admired mentally hazard hatters hazards freedom gas in place of russian gas no this is not driven by business yes i'm sure there are some companies on the american side that would love to push the russians out of the european market but that's about what this is about trump in 2016 said he wanted to improve ties with russia that is long since gone by the boards not impeachment of russia

gate and ukraine gate all of that may have been feel yours in terms of getting trump out of office but they have been smashing successes in making sure there could never be any warming of relations between washington and moscow to that extent whatever trumps personal views more or personal preferences are utterly irrelevant that the establishment as you hear through the voice of like hands or who or ted cruz and many others in washington are in control russia is the bad guy we will do whatever we can to be the spoiler and that's really all there is to it will alongside these this know it stream to project in the sanctions that we've been talking about one of the arguments in washington to pay allies ingleton too has been that it deprives ukraine of gas transit but now russia and ukraine talking about being ready to sign a 5 year contract for gas transit so wouldn't you think that would a pais washington. i know not at all exactly i think i will accept them all the

more because when they say oh this will cut ukraine out of the transit they will they will get less money you really think they care about ukraine they will carry about ukraine at all ukraine is not important to anybody in washington except as a club to beat the russians where and the only reason they would be concerned about ukraine being cut out of any trance it seems is that that would be what they could more difficult to put pressure on russia by having a puppet ukrainian hand on the on the spigot with regard to europe's gas if that is no longer the case no we're really talking about is grain being included in a more cooperative relationship between europe and russia that's the worst possible outcome from the point of view of people and washing that's about one the other key players in this which it which is gemini because they were the at the end the other end of the pipeline and they've said quite vociferously that no in favor of the sanctions so why did the us egg know those objections and then put the sanctions on

on the pipeline project. because we're used to having our so-called allies as i say really vassals or satellites doing what they're told but remember a few years ago one chancellor merkel found that her cell phone was bugged by the obama administration and she was very very upset about that and what did she do about it well nothing at all what could she do she realizes that she is the chancellor of the semi sovereign state however i think there are increasing signs in europe that people are sick and tired of being treated like us and especially when it comes to the business community in germany and other places where it comes to there will be financial bottom line i hope they're waking up and smelling the coffee in seeing where their interests lie and that frankly if i were a european would be in your asian integration and moving closer to the belt road initiative would be closer but you would economic ties with russia that really the united states is not in a position to replace them and frankly from an american point of view we should be

we should be looking at other directions why don't we develop an arc them a sphere the same way that russia and china are developing eurasia i think this is simply another example of how miscast the entire orientation of america i would see . can i just bring up another pipeline project that if you're familiar with it but the as present as already signed similar sanctions against the turks stream pipeline potato treat the black sea and how do you expect techie to react to that. i think turkey will react with seeing what it is they're reacting to threats over their purchase of the $400.00 missile system they're going to it's going to further a strain john crow from washington and they're going to do what they think is in their national interest as they should. course remember the turk stream was a substitute for the south stream that actually was the europeans that took the lead in killing dikes i suppose that your money is in is very very principled when it comes to her own gas gas supply but when it's gas supply going to southern

europe greece and italy and so forth they can afford to play politics. i mean you can i don't i don't i don't know how much leverage washington really has over these things that we can do damage to people we can damage to companies that are involved in these things i don't know that we can actually put up with any more we pretend still that we're all powerful suddenly plenty of moving parts here and energy very much at the front line of chip political relations for me as diplomat jim chatteris thanks her insights and. and other news 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 afghani minear of lived in the moscow region he killed in f.s.b. officer before being shot dead himself another officer died later in hospital 5 other people including one civilian were injured at the moment the investigation

into possible motives is still ongoing here's how the situation unfolded at the scene of the shooting. was usually when you get to the end we heard strange sounds we needed to realize that we should hide then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back. to the signal the signal going 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. the city in a basement we're watching now when a guy came and we've just been outside and he told us there was a shooting outside also an injured passenger he told us the injured party had been dragged into the cafe. well 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 the 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 star or 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 died. 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 know is what we've been finding out now from the media. with some more details on the story here's our correspondent stan off. 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 bars cafes and restaurants so at 6 o'clock it wasn't just the end of the work shift wasn't just the end 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 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 bursts 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 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 key 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 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. while security analysts outlined where he thinks things could 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 was actually involved in any planning aspects or in terms of assisting the government and that might take some time for example the examination of mobile phone records of any c.c.t.v. records and of course any. communications and so on that might be held on the suspects 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 will react violently and sometimes it's a fact just really funny because it's probably because of instances of background or the circumstances of their own personal lives. and some of the headline news 3 and a half years after the british people voted for the u.k.

to leave the european union 3 prime ministers later and fullbacks it deals rejected by parliament and peace have finally given given their backing to an exit plan he 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 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 drugs it still leaves many issues on the zoltan also leaves the country bit 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 the. 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 vote want to be dragged out of the e.u. and that they want independence and those divisions remains clear in the house of commons today before that vote was held. as 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 still totally and utterly rejects ca this tale is a road map for the reckless direction in which the government prime minister. to

take our country the story story of the last $3.00 you will be active and we would be able to move forward one of the consensus activity for the labor leader jeremy corbyn was workers' rights and the government has now taken out a part of that bill the motion within the bill that would have ensured the protection of workers' rights following practices 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. or independent political commentator and c weber believes the opposition will now lessen its for still a t. to the government there is cause for celebration for the country because the 1st period of uncertainty will be over those causes celebration because boris johnson is 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 bracks and its course. of the concern might be on other issues where. you could argue that they haven't really yours or mandates but i think the public have given a mandate on the subject to break. and i think certainly some of the

opposition we think is will probably turn their rhetoric including even the who are a lot of people are getting fed up with because they're 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 really sort. of a man accused of stealing and burning an l.g. b.c. flag from the us church has been sentenced to 16 years in jail after being found guilty of committing a hate crime adolfo martina's was 1st arrested in june and accused of desecrates in 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 caused 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 while 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 all the 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 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 i don't believe that this flag necessarily represents the rainbow flag i don't think it represents gay individuals maybe at

one point it attempted to but it is we've come to a point where the rainbow flag and all the symbolism represents an l.g. b t political ideology there are still loads of discrimination 3 practices and laws and institutions there are parts united states where l.g. because most 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. from housing on the base of the search already that exist those rights just in 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 their 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. the setback for the u.s. space program boeing's still on a spacecraft has failed the nasa flight test on friday the starliner was supposed to dock with the international space station when the orbital procedure went wrong and the ship was forced to return home the test flight was a key part of massa's plan to end u.s. dependence on russian space writes no one was on board as the flight was supposed to be one of the final tests before a manned launch during the flight boeing announced or twitter that there had been an all normal insertion and on air announcers said mission control was weighing all its options and the light was cut. well those are the that's the round up for now we back at the top of the hour with some more news from

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occasion for mind and so on i guess today i'm having a good laugh herself and having others rolling around the floor talking to neuroscientist professor of cognitive psychology and stand up comic saucy scott's. welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us so let me start off by asking why is laughter important to psychology i mean laster hasn't been studied for a long time why are scientists getting into it now. i think there's probably 2 answers to that i think 11 answer is that psychologists and neuroscientists have got 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 to positive emotions and.