russian officials identified the suspect in a shooting near the federal security service building in central moscow 2 people were killed and 5 injured in that attack. and other stories that shape the week moscow and the e.u. lash out at u.s. sanctions targeting russia's nordstrom to gas pipeline to germany berlin saying it amounts to interference in domestic affairs. and another inspector breaks ranks from the global chemical weapons watched on the o.p.c. w. saying its final report on the alleged attack in the syrian city of duma distorts

the facts. you're watching the weekly here on r t international a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days. russia's investigative committee has released the identity of the gunman who opened fire outside the headquarters of the federal security service building and central moscow on thursday evening the shooter was 39 year old give men year of who lived in the moscow region he killed an f.s.b. officer before being shot dead himself another officer later died in hospital 5 other people including one civilian were injured in the attack the investigation into possible motives is still ongoing meanwhile we spoke to these suspects neighbors i'm father. 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 to 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 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 your house and he wasn't aggressive very calm quite quiet he was lonely no friends no girlfriend we found out about his whole be by accident he invited my husband to join him at a shooting range when he refused the topic was never raised again although we now know is what we've been finding out now from the media. the russian investigative committee has reportedly searched the home of the suspect and interviewed his friends and family here's a reminder of how the attack unfolded. with

recently means if the when we heard 3 sounds that we needed he realized that we should hide it then we heard someone in the street shouting go back go back. to those signals and you'll 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. and what i'm looking for in the city in a basement we're watching now when a guy came and put just going outside and he told us there was a shooting outside and we sent an injured possum 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 decker. 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 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 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 in the nets could 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. to russia analyst mark mccully and security expert trial shareware to get their thoughts on the attack. nobody in his right mind would take an a k $47.00. 10 to get into the lubyanka and start firing at the gods he's bound to be killed he knew that he could have gone into any restroom and floated as many people as you like but that was not his objective he just wanted to kill those associated with the secret service is now the f.s.b. and if you killed one clue he would then say they have achieved my objective because i would be killed as well given 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 the anniversary of. the security services. because strong indications as to the motivation assuming that the government is a rational actor 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. from both the e.u. and moscow have slammed the latest u.s. sanctions targeting companies involved in russia's nord stream to gas pipeline to germany and brussels say that america should mind its own business foreign minister sergey lavrov added that russia will respond to washington's. i'm convinced that north stream too as well as took stream will be completed to extremists it for launch in just 2 or 3 weeks will respond to sanctions but in

a way in which we will not homo cells but we will definitely respond of course we will keep in mind when developing our relations i'm surprised the politicians reach such decisions which give no credit to high profile political figures the german government has regretfully taken into account that sanctions against north stream to turks stream initiated by the us congress they think german and european companies and tantamount to interference in our domestic affairs the pipeline is being built from russia to germany through the baltic sea and will supply and enough gas to power almost $38000000.00 households the sanctions target companies and vald in building the last leg of the pipeline and the main swiss contractor has now pulled out over washington's tough penalties nordstrom's spokesperson told r.t. that completing the project is essential for european energy security and says that work will be finished as soon as possible meanwhile the u.s. has long voiced its opposition to the project the united states commands all our

european partners who have taken a strong stand against north stream 2. 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 depended on. at the same time russia and ukraine seem to have found a solution to their dispute over energy supplies they have disagreed on a contract that allows moscow to send gas to europe via ukraine but the 2 have come to a settlement a new agreement is designed to maintain gas transit between moscow. and kiev for the next 5 years it also states that russia will pay a crane almost $3000000000.00 to settle a long running dispute and in return can't will drop legal actions against moscow

for us diplomat jim doctress and member of the germany's left party is on top us all a believe america's approach is sowing 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 at will and the only reason they would be concerned about rue you brain being cut out already trance it seems is that is that would be make it more difficult to put pressure on russia by having a puppet ukrainian hand on the lawn this very good 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 sank she's had

the german economy to hurt the german consumers 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. u.k. primary school was in the firing line this week after parents were angered by changes to the warnings of traditional christmas carols white help primary school is in the south east of england and it's redacted several carols replacing for example little lord jesus with baby boy jesus critics say the changes i'm at the whole point of the celebration and some parents agree. 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 forced 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 the schools are promotes british values including tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs but as a fan of the move by saying that some students did not attend last year services because of their religious beliefs and it wants to include all peoples during the festive period we discussed the issues raised west tim dave from christian concern and also a social commentator will answer. christianity and the whole reason why we celebrate christian christmas is because jesus was born as a human being and yet it 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 want a true movement 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 our degree 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 of 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 an itty bitty whereas mary jesus a baby jesus and all the question is not decided on in a stable which isn't true but i think that sets the parents for the fix or 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 and watch

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 sound of it another person should be made for that and 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'll just go to the car see the question is whether you should tell us the wording if it's not what people should opt out everyone agrees that they're not out. well i will just as my only reason i don't have one place is not a question of my city where he or she and i use the word of traditional carols to remove to keep belief of christianity and 10 and to something that's non-christian after all that's the question islam 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 i know you know my current so i knew it would mean having a position that was a christianity. is not welcome you're saying belief and 2nd if they wanted so much as i. said oh no i would say all of what he's doing then i will say that's of christianity you're the one that's being intolerant here because you will saying they shouldn't saying the word says it all that's the it's all an attitude here. a series of chilling sketches produced by an inmate at guantanamo bay have shed light on how the cia have tortured prisoners that story and more after the break. 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 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 it was the action and i started to notice that i could co-exist with it while still living a life that went beyond that. to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from station let it be an arms race. it's clearly a dramatic development only really i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and tom.

welcome back this week the russian president has held his annual q. and a session with journalists from home and abroad event took place and moscow's world trade center and ran for more than 4 hours but important fielded questions on both domestic and international affairs with presidential terms and russia and the impeachment of donald trump among the key issues raised. george 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 in a row them well the amendment confuses some of our political scientists and public figures so we could be counselled on much.

it's just a continuation of political infighting one party that lost the election of the democratic party is working with the result through other methods accusing trump of collusion with russia but then it's discovered that there was no inclusion there can't be the basis for impeachment and i see now they've come up with pressure on ukraine i don't know what's this your representatives have a better idea. as for statements from certain people various political figures about russia about me as the head of the country and i've been used to treating this accordingly but i know what the interests of my country 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. fresh doubts have been cast over the credibility of the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. more leaked emails published by wiki leaks or a veiled concerns from yet another member of the team that investigated an alleged attack on the ground in the syrian city of duma last year he says the final report into the incident suppressed and distorted the 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 and 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.

or quick to conduct air strikes against syrian military targets the biggest western military action of the 8 year war the o.p.c. later deployed experts to do more to investigate and their subsequent report pin the blame on the steering government our senior correspondent rhonda stare of has been looking at the revelations. i know about the 3 little piglets but the u.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 the most qualified inspector the fs 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 who was allowed to cool write this syria report was the team paramedic of

the chemical inspectors were allowed to pitch in i attempted to submit my report to the f f m team leaders starting from the 15th of february 29th teen 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 f m team was that there were indications of serious inconsistency eason findings the conclusions appear to have been turned completely in the opposite direction now that we can exist publish what the preliminary report . it looks like heres 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 so shocked the world will think the victims 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 in someone's house without mentioning it was a tiny amount to use than fire 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 in 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. you are aware of the highly questionable behavior surrounding. yes f.m. we as others in the team who would like to but are unable are questioning the work practices follow 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 groups 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 when the u.p.c. w. says something people are going to be thinking twice before taking their word for it. a series of chilling sketches produced spine inmate at guantanamo bay have been published in a report called how america tortures the pictures illustrate the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used against the body 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 and there he was then transferred to guantanamo bay where he still being held

without charge he was the 1st person to be subjected to those to the interrogation program which was approved by the administration of george w. bush in a sense been acknowledged by the cia here's 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 it curled position but to no avail for it was too tight the very strong pain made the screen 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 guards. my colleagues you know neal spoke to the inmates lawyer and he says the u.s.

isn't transparent when it comes to the treatment of guantanamo detainees. as he suffered any lasting physical psychological. torture. well you know he must you know anybody would but it's i've visited him 67 times a year really isn't and it's really quite hard to see 'd over the. years in the midst of adjustments because of what techniques were used on him the waterboarding made it produced some problems were feared the fact is they were used for him for 17 straight he did it is. road you didn't want. to. believe he's not going to face any charges he has not faced any charges there the clear issue is here why it's being kept for so long in kuantan i'm obeying. well i think it is yes or is there's no question that for 17 years he's never been charged

i reverted for 10 years we've asked repeatedly for him to be charged and that is very frustrating but they do it in c. and the cia is to say in the united states. as far as he was never a member or nothing to do. or ever did in terrorist acts what's the purpose all that when it's been shown to to essentially fail to yield accurate information from many suspects so i think it failed to produce accurate interation from almost anybody splits certainly the field to attract in any way to obtain any accurate interpretation throws a bit of fire because they didn't know it or probability is that he agrees 'd and i would love to have many people held accountable for the terms of the murder model right now 'd is to look forward not backwards of course the problem we have right

now is look if they don't would read words that digital who are stuck there are going to remain stuck where. no i don't think your code will 'd be the formal systems are believe there are many people 'd who feel they're all ringback right if you buy what they get in the 'd car or truths that didn't exist that's a recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days as i think for tuning in. what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be rich.

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