i. brush and officials have identified the suspect of a shooting at the federal security service building in central moscow 3 people were killed and 5 injured in the attack. so the stories that shake you awake moscow in the you lash out in u.s. sanctions targeting russia's nordstrom gas pipeline to germany berlin saying it amounts to interference in domestic affairs and another inspector breaks ranks from the global chemical weapons watchdog the a.b.c. saying its final report on an alleged attack in the syrian city of duma misrepresents the facts.

follow their latest news and look back at the last 7 days to you watch the weeklies here on r.t. international now russia's investigative committee has released the identity of the gunman who opened fire at side the headquarters of the federal security service building in central moscow on thursday evening the shooter was 39 year old you have any minute of who 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 the investigation into possible motives is still ongoing we spoke to the suspects neighbors and father. but lately he became very secretive and also got some kind of strange eastern accent used to tell me that he liked shooting leave and 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 but 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 your house and 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. but there are reports too that the russian investigative committee has the home of the suspect and interviewed his family and friends has a reminder of how the attack unfolded. we're

usually means if the when we heard 3 sounds we needed him to 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 who 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 you know sitting 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 pos and he told us the internet has had been dragged into the cafe. 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 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 buzz 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 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 their christmas decks. patients 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 bursts 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 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 hugo should. we spoke to. security expert shall shew bridge for their thoughts on the attack. nobody in his right mind would take an a k $47.00. attempt to get into the bianca and start firing at the guards he's bound to be killed he knew that he could have gone into any restaurant and floated as many people as you like but that was not his objective he just wanted to kill those associated with the security services now the f.s.b. and if you killed. one loony would then say that i have achieved my objective

because i would be killed as well given that the target appears to have been dispiriting obviously so publicly linked with the security services in the state and given the timing on the almost that the anniversary of. the security forces day . be quite strong indications as to the motivation assuming that the government is a rational actor had this attack i think taken place against a more soft target which is usually the case with more explicit or overt terrorist acts then you would have expected i think far more casualties to have resulted. now the european union and moscow have slammed the latest u.s. sanctions targeting companies involved in russia's north gas pipeline to germany the kremlin stresses that washington has broken diplomatic etiquette once again while berlin and brussels say that america should mind its business we're looking

very closely at the us crossing a crucial edge of foreign policy as it starts imposing sanctions which russia has already become accustomed to against its own allies we can see the intention to make europe buy american liquefied gas and thus to slow the development of the continent's economy to undermine its capability of competing with the u.s. in the global markets washington has decided that even the closest nato allies don't deserve mercy if the us geo political and commercial ambitions are at stake the german government has regretfully taken into account that sanctions against north stream 2 and turks stream initiated by the us congress they affect german and european companies and are tantamount to interference in our domestic affairs. well the pipeline is being built from russia to germany through the baltic sea ample supply enough gas to power almost $30000000.00 households the sanctions target

companies involved in building the last remaining leg of the pipeline and the main swiss contract has now pulled out the over washington's tough penalties and old stream spokesperson told r.t. that completing the project is essential for european energy security and says to that work will be finished as soon as possible the u.s. though has long voiced its opposition to the project the united states commands all our european partners who've 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 player in 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 or we don't want your energy supplies to be depended on whether. we want russia and ukraine seem to find

a solution to their dispute over energy supplies they had disagreed on a contract that allows russia to send gas to europe by ukraine but that so you have now come to a settlement the new agreement is supposed to maintain gas transit between moscow and kiev for the next 5 years it also states to that russia will pay ukraine almost $3000000000.00 to settle a long running dispute and in return kiev will drop a legal case against moscow former u.s. diplomat contrasts and german left party member began to have a soley believes that america's approach is souring relations with europe. when they say oh this will cover in ukraine out of the transit they will they will get less money but really think they care about ukraine they will carry by ukraine a lot and the only reason they would be concerned about re ukraine being cut out already transit sees is that if that would be make it more difficult to put pressure on russia by having

a puppet ukrainian hand on the obama spigot with regard to europe's a gash you know that is no longer the case and all we're really talking about is ukraine being included in a more cooperative relationship between europe and russia that's the worst possible outcome from the point of view of people in washington damage to the german american relations is down and. the idea that america is conscious of the imposing extra china extraterritorial sanctions to the german colony to what the german consumer is now firmly implanted into germany's minds from the left to the right that is absolutely outraged by the actions of the u.s. government. the u.k. at primary school was in the firing line this week to parents they were angered by changes to the wording of traditional christmas carols white old primary school in the southeast of england has redacted several carol is replacing for example little

old with baby boy jesus critics say the changes do and it's the whole point of the celebration and some parents have reacted angrily. if he was just a baby boy named jesus there wouldn't be a celebration in the 1st place he's our lord and savior and king of all kings that's the whole point it's also a tradition is taking away the traditions of the country i believe my children have been discriminated against and the have been denied the freedom to fully express their faith christian belief and tradition of being 2nd feist and silenced in the name of inclusion and political correctness the words lord jesus are about the central message of christmas which is that god is with us in jesus to put it very simply but it's what christmas is about where the school in question says it promotes british values including tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs and it has defended to the move by saying that some students did not attend

last year because of their religious beliefs and it wants to include all pupils during the festive period we discussed the issue with him via a page from christian concern and also with the social commentator. the key mr christianity and the whole reason why we celebrate christian christmas is because jesus was born as a human being and yet was god as well and came down and it's an incredible thing to think that god became a human being but that's what actually happened and that's what we're celebrating here and they wanted to remove that reference as well as jesus being king and jesus being savior if we don't have those things what are we celebrating i think it's a massive distortion let's be quite clear jesus wasn't god he was odd agreed from a theological perspective not agree he was a mighty messenger a prophet there is very little theological evidence the public space and the educational space is one which is secular it does not mean it is bereft of theology or education of belief or conscience but is inclusive of it so if we want to have

standing advisory councils and religious education that include all strains of all walks of life of humanism as well and atheism of people who want to come in there with so of more free n.g.'s they are included nowadays and the question is whether children should be free to opt out from a nativity where is mary jesus a baby jesus in a 1000000 or the question that is not decided on in a stable which isn't true i think that such the parents of the think still composition i think they could come a watch if they wanted to they're really so upset about people saying jesus or that they have to not even be in the same presence there's something to talk about there why are they so upset about people saying jesus is lord i can't even go watson and observe it you know and so i think i want to discuss that with them but ultimately i want to respect their rights if they want to opt out of it they cannot sign of it another person should be made for that the head teacher has seen that she has had 60 people who last year opted out from religious services worshipful activities and under the education act collective worship is wholly or broadly of a christian tradition but it doesn't have to be

a particular question is not what they did i was out that's not a commercial you want to opt out no none of that the question you know you just don't see the cost of the presenters whether you should tell us the wording if it's not what a people should opt out if one agrees that they're not out. why because it was my only reason i don't have one side of things there's not a question that my study where they say things that would take me off traditional cowles through a move to keep belief of christianity on 10 and to something that's non-christian after all that's the question islam is best is the completion of god's revelation we are not here to supersede christians we have to live alongside people and one another and in a modern secular society in the educational space we need to have a plural system where everybody is welcome this is the same old tired arguments that some so how do you do that how do i know you know migrants i know when you have a situation that was a christianity i know yes i should say is not welcome you saying belief and 2nd is the one so much as i. said although i would say all of what i think i will say

that's of christianity you are the one that's being intolerant here because you'll saying they shouldn't saying the well this is a little that's the in solomon attitude here. still ahead on the way to the series of chilling sketches produced by an mit time i shed light on how the cia should prisoners would have known the story of this tape just off the press. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on off and spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. want to be rich. that's a great. to be close as it was before 3 of the more people get. interested in the waters of. course you're. welcome back now this week the russian president held design your q. and a session with journalists from home and abroad the event took place in moscow's world trade center i'm run for over 4 hours so i mean poussin fielded questions on both domestic and international affairs with presidential terms of russia and the

impeachment of donald trump among the key issues right. the orange what could be done is to cancel the 2 in a row amendment we have 2 terms in a row yours truly served 2 terms then resigned and had the constitutional right to return to the presidency because it was not 2 terms in a row and the amendment confuses some of our political scientists and public figures so it could be counselled much. when it's just a continuation of political infighting one party that lost the election of the democratic party is working for result through other methods accusing trump of collusion with russia then it's discovered that there was no inclusion that can't be the basis for impeachment and now they've come up with pressure on ukraine i

don't know what's there your representatives have a better idea. so it's always girls or as for statements from certain people various political figures about russia about me as the head of the country i have been used to treating this accordingly but i know what the interests of my country are and that it doesn't matter at all what anyone else says there is absolutely no value in comparing what they say with the fundamental tasks which russia is interested in solving congratulations to boris johnson nevertheless he turned out to be the winner he understood the mood of the british people better than his political opponents. have been cast over the credibility of the international chemical weapons watchdog the a.p.c. w. more the details published by wiki leaks this week reveal concerns from yet another member of the team that proved an alleged attack on the ground in the syrian city

of during the last year he says the final report into the incident suppressed and distorted their findings. the fact finding mission report does not reflect the views of all the team members that deployed to doom or only one fact finding mission team member a paramedic of the so-called fact finding mission core team was in duma we are not insisting on being right in our assertions but we are demanding to be heard we have been stonewalled throughout by obfuscation exclusion and even thuggish bullying behavior. the alleged chemical attack in april last year reportedly killed dozens of civilians in response the united states and its nato allies france and the u.k. were quick to conduct airstrikes against syrian military targets the biggest western military action of the 8 year war. related to point to the scene to investigate and their subsequent report pin the blame on the syrian government our senior correspondent. has been looking into the revelations. i don't know about the

3 little piglets but the o.p.c. w is having its house blow right down from the inside the 1st whistle blower they dismissed the 2nd they sort of excuse themselves and now in what is an absolute bombshell their most qualified inspector the f f m report does not reflect the views of all the team members that deployed to duma i found that i was being excluded from the work for reasons not made clear allegedly the only team member who went to syria and there was allowed to cool right this syria report was the team paramedic and of the chemical inspectors were allowed to pitch in i attempted to submit my report to the f.m. team leader who's starting from the 15th of february 29th team after noting continued reluctance from the f f m team to receive my report i deposited the report in d r a for collection on the 27th of february 29th and advised all relevant persons of

this shouldn't have bothered it seems no one wanted to read it 48 hours later the u.p.c. w. published its 1st report and sutherland had to really taken a razor to it so much so that the actual team that went to syria didn't recognize it the consensus within the f.m. team was that there were indications of serious inconsistency isn't findings the conclusions appear to have been turned completely in the opposite direction now that. exist published what the preliminary report looked like here's what the u.p.c. w. deleted one evidence that contradicted witness testimony meaning what the alleged witnesses said deferred wildly from the hard evidence found by inspectors to the fact that the hospital videos which shocked the world will think the victims were all actors the spade symptoms inconsistent with chlorine poisoning or poisoning

with anything found at the scene 3 and this is the big one in the final report they found chlorine not how much just chlorine which you can fire did your kitchen in any home in any swimming pool maybe you're right what about removing trace or some other wording may work i'm still worried that a stock standard phrase such as chlorine containing compounds were detected or similar present the danger of it being misrepresented as a damning conclusion it's a political word smithing situation not purely technical and it was the anti acid war hawks trumpeted the fact what the o.p.c. w. did is akin to saying you found radioactive materials and someone's house without mentioning it was a tiny amount to use then far alarms and this on top of previous whistleblower revelations hard math cast doubt that the canisters at the scene were ever dropped

their observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were money placed at those $2.00 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft it all began with ian henderson when he 1st blew the whistle he was mocked smeared insulted u.p.c. w. claimed he wasn't even part of the team they lied leaked documents clearly show he was working for the u.p.c. w. shame on the o.p.c. w u r o. of the highly questionable behavior surrounding this f.m. we as others in the team who would like to but are unable are questioning the work practices followed during this investigation this is more than a rebellion this is a catastrophe for the u.p.c. w a best this is a case of gross negligence worse than i pray i'm wrong this is corruption corruption in the very organization that's supposed to keep the world safe from

chemical weapons either way from now on or a new p.c. w says something people are going to be thinking twice before taking their word for it but i can still have their will on top of that a former newsweek reporter claimed that he quit the magazine when editors scrapped his story the question the chemical attack investigation the magazine says it was dropped because it was a conspiracy theory and not objective reporting he spoke to the journalist he explained why reporters should not be exploited to justify war. it was a bit disturbed. you know i wasn't really given any valid reasons other than i had a few to sort of call like a certain or source to be trusted in my opinion. and then finally what kind of happened as i was i kept pushing to try and do the story because i feel like it's of extreme you know public interest the attacks on me these organizations have taken a long time for us to get here in terms of

a historical point of view when we shouldn't be weaponized in them to kind of create the public opinion needed to go to war at the moment there are very few western well mainstream western journalists that are reporting on this so i would say this complete failure of the media our job as journalists start to hold governments to account and if governments are going to war on false premises then you know we have good evidence to suggest that now and no one is reporting it then we're not doing our job as journalists. now a series of chilling sketches produced by an emetic lantana may have been published in a report called america tortures the pictures illustrate the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used against abu zubaida between 20022005 he was captured at a jihadi safe house in pakistan in 2002 and was then sent to a so-called cia black sites in thailand and his drawings relate to alleged torture

there he was then transferred to guantanamo bay where he still being held without charge he was the 1st person to be subjected to the brutal interrogation program which was approved by the administration of george w. bush and his since been acknowledged by the cia is a quick overview of what happened. as soon as they locked me up inside the box i tried my best to sit up but in vain for the box was too short i tried to take a curled position but to no avail for it was too tight the very strong pain made me

scream unconsciously. they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose and my mouth until i really felt i was drowning and my chest was just about to explode from the lack of oxygen . and. the long hours went by while i was standing in that position my hands were tight to the upper bars. it felt like an eternity to the point that i found myself falling asleep despite the water being thrown at me by the guard.

and that's how the way he looks this sunday morning it's good to have a company but back again in just. alone welcome to well to part running like rats in the maze in pursuit of yet more great things has long become a matter for for the more than

a lifestyle which more often than not results in the failure of success and the scarcity of abundance what happens when the rats stop running and even try to leave the maze well to discuss that i'm now joined by gary john bishop by new york times bestselling author and a life coach gary it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time yeah great thanks for having me now is the 1st time on this show that i cannot side the titles of the books because that peppered with the expletives except for your latest one called do the work i know how much you care about language as a means of self-expression what was the reason for using the before it's in the your 1st 2 titles and defying that habit with the latest one yeah well you know that's just basically the way that i talk i really wanted to write a book that was an all stand they kicks pression of me i don't want.