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

is this evening this is the weekly here on r.t. international. 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 the shooter was 39 year old you have guinea minute off 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 investigation into possible motives is still ongoing we spoke to the suspect's 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 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 or you 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 the reason 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 know is what we've been finding out now from the media. there are reports the russian investigative committee has searched the home of the suspect and interviewed his family and friends is a reminder of how the attack unfolded. we'll usually means if the when we heard 3 sounds we needed him to realize 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 wasn't shooting randomly and i think we heard him shout out something but we didn't manage to make out what he was shouting. at. them when i'm with them in the city in a basement we're watching now when a guy came and could just going outside and he told us there was a shooting out i'm certain into the past and he told us the injured party 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 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 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 where 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 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 to 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 connecticut 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. we spoke to russia analyst martha macauley and security expert charles shubert for their thoughts on the attack. nobody in his right mind would take an a k $47.00. 10 to get into the early bianca and start firing at the guards is 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 secret service is now the f.s.b. and if you killed one blue he would then say they 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 at 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. from. the e.u. or moscow slammed the latest u.s. sanctions targeting companies involved in russia's north stream to gas pipeline to germany berlin and brussels say that america should mind it's own business foreign minister sergey lavrov added that russia will respond to washington's. unconvince the north stream too as well as turkey string will be completed so extremist set for launch in just 2 or 3 weeks will respond to sanctions but in a way in which we will not harm ourselves 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 2 and turks stream initiated by the us congress they think german and european companies and are tantamount to interference in our domestic affairs. the pipeline is being built from russia to germany through the baltic sea and i will supply enough gas to power almost 30000000 households the sanctions target companies involved in building the last remaining leg of the pipeline and the one swiss contractor has now pulled out of the washington stuff penalties don't seem spokesperson told r.t. that completing the project is essential for european energy security and says that will be finished as soon as possible the u.s. 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 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 europe's energy supplies to be depended on flatter me or put. in while russia and ukraine seem to found a solution to that dispute over energy supplies they have disagreed on a contract that allows moscow to same gas to europe value 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 though so states that russia will pay almost $3000000.00 to settle a long running dispute in return kiev will drop legal actions against moscow former u.s. diplomat jim generous and number of germany's the left party john thomas ollie believe

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 rue you brain being cut out of any trance it seems is that if that would be make it more difficult to put pressure on russia by having a puppet ukrainian hand on the longest speak it 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 consciously imposing extra charity extraterritorial sanctions to 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 schools in the firing line this week after parents were angered by changes to the wording of traditional christmas carols while whole primary school in the southeast of england has redacted several carols replacing for example little lord with baby boy jesus critics say the change is a myth the whole point of the celebration and some parents have reacted negatively . 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 they 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 that's what christmas is about. still says it promotes british values singling tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs it is defended the mayor by saying that some students didn't attend last year's service because of their religious beliefs and it was to include all peoples during the festive period we discussed issue with india from christian concern and social commentator my answer. the key mr 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 wanted to move 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 our greed 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 'd 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 where is mary jesus a baby jesus and all the question of that is not decided on in a stable which isn't true i think that sets the parents of the think still composition i think they could cover what 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 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 presenters whether you should tell us the wording if it's not what people should opt out of what 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 this is a change the wording of traditional carols to remove to keep a leaf of christianity into 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 some so this is not how they do that you know migrants i mean when you have

a situation that was a christianity i know you say sure she's not welcome you saying belief in fact is the one so much as i. said although we can see all the why do you think i will say that's of christianity you're the one that's being intolerant here because you're saying they shouldn't sing the well this is all that's the it's all an attitude here ok more of the best stories from this week on the weekly in just a few minutes. backscatter survival guide. to get to the store simply reading all these are. you sure you don't get. back to. the. good citizen repatriations keep look at the rest of 70 years. ago at the federal

treasury board. 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 knowledge so you know i 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 it while still living a life that went beyond. this week the russian president held its annual q. and a session with journalists from home and brought the event took place in moscow's

will trade center and run for more than 4 hours letting the putin fielded questions on what the best account international affairs the presidential terms in russia and the impeachment of donald trump among the key issues raised. someone will always be yours 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 to turn in a row and the amendment confuses some of our political scientists and public figures so we could be counseled on much. when it's just a continuation of political infighting each one party that lost the election of the democratic party is working for results through other methods accusing trump of collusion with russia but then it's discovered that there was no inclusion that

can't be the basis for impeachment so now they've come up with pressure on ukraine i don't know what's this your representatives have a better idea. of us girls on you 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. 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 with real concerns from yet another

member of the team that investigated and i legit attack on the ground in the syrian city of duma last year he says the final report into the incident suppressed and distorted their fight. 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. and the alleged chemical attack in april last year reportedly killed dozens of civilians in response the united states and its nato allies france and were quick to conduct airstrikes against syrian military targets the biggest western military action of the 8 year war the o.p.c. w. later deployed experts to do more to investigate and a subsequent report pin the blame on the syrian government and senior correspondent

ron goes deah has been looking at 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 there 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 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 teen and advised all relevant persons of this shouldn't have bothered. 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 eason findings the conclusions appear to have been turned completely in the opposite direction now that we can exist publish 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 so 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 in someone's house without mentioning it was a tiny amount used in 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 of the 2 locations suggest that there is a high. probability they're both cylinders were money placed at those 2 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft it all began with ian henderson when he 1st blew the whistle he was mocked smeared insult at u.b.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 this f 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 o.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 when the o.p.c. w. says something people are going to be thinking twice before taking their word for it. on top of that a former news of a reporter claimed that he quit the magazine when editors scrapped his story that questioned the chemical attack investigation the magazine says the piece was dropped because it was a conspiracy theory and not objective reporting we spoke to the journalist he explained why reporters should not be exploited to justify war was a bit disturbed. you know i wasn't really given any valid reasons other than i had a few to decide to call unlike 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 of the moment there are very few. weston well mainstream western journalists are reporting on this so i would say this is a complete failure of the media our job is jonah starts a whole governments to account and if governments are going to war on false premises then. we have good evidence to suggest that now and no one is reporting it then we're not doing our job as journalists. numbers about it today and i'll be back with the latest in just a half and i was talking hoped to see them. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for them to let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical

time time to sit down and talk. burgers through the rule i do in the room light of. a little. more limited role more than i was for this to die in prison by the regime of my life. take a stick grab some media attention and it's a shooting in a 16 year old's 16 birthday party so so i think the police just held a lot of pressure to. close the case. for me is. just wrong it's like i couldn't believe those higher. you know so far

they are all more than the sure don't want peace be with us those are all the issues because i was there right next to. me for hours before you got to keep in mind one of the doings 1617 years old so. this could lose one believes and i just wonder of his fear of them both of them tonight in the whole food really. for more than just calls through drool and the other girls. now the true.

there is one organized force which traditionally plenty of fluids but with all its flaws it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the general population that's organized labor it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. of the major reason for the concentrated on off fanatic attack on unions are organized labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights but also popular rights generally. then it that it interferes with the pariah that is now or for those who own and

manage the society. i should say that anti union sentiment in the united states among the leads is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions u.s. has never ratified and. i think the us may be alone among major side. it is in every spec. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. herber the leaders has a long and very violent labor history as. a society. but the labor movement had been very strong by the 1920 s. in the period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich.

by the mincer is it began to reconstruct. the dozen or is felt he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to somehow get it passed so he informed the labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is you go out and demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement.