intelligence that helped intercept a terror plot in st petersburg medina content of reports. russia's federal security service detain 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of st petersburg according to the security service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during a new year's celebrations it was also reported that avid and shedding light on some of their intentions was also found the scene well they were being detained russian federal security service maint is these the rest on the 27th of december following information that was received from their american colleagues now some may say that it was a significant step in the relationships between the 2 countries and in a telephone conversation the russian president vladimir putin thanked his american counterpart donald trump for this piece of data that helped prevent these attacks they prevented what could have been a tragic catastrophe as the city of st petersburg russia is north and capital is packed with people during new year holidays so this

intelligence the foiled terrorist plot in st petersburg also to come this hour the u.s. military carries out airstrikes in iraq and syria killing $25.00 people and injuring dozens in what american officials call a defensive operation against an iran backed militant group and as the year through through a close we begin our review of the key events that shaped 2019 claiming divine intreat protests that seemed to grip every corner to play. like good morning welcome you watching at international is just one item in moscow . and is personally thank donald trump for a tip off from u.s. intelligence which helped a terrorist plot in st petersburg medina corps chain of reports. russia's federal security service detain 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of st petersburg according to the security service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during a new year's celebrations it was also reported that avid and shutting the lights on some of their intentions was also the scene well they were being deta

wright just heard get back as quickly as you can to petersburg. but horatio wright was a dutiful soldier. when he learned that crook was out with 8000 men going against early with 16,000 men, he would probably crosses force over on the they would unite on the 17th 16th. , and together, the forces would begin advancing toward the stickers cap. on the 17th, crook would send of calvary under the command general alfred, and they would t isover that the for blocked by john gordon's division of infantry. and the federals are going nowhere. so they are going to wait until the next day and report back to horatio wright who was the overall commander. wright is going to formulate a plan. george crook is going to take the lead. his orders are to cross the river and attack the enemy if practicable. and then the sixth corps and the rest of the army would follow suit. george crook the next morning writes back to his department commander, general hunter, at harpers ferry, and tells him -- i am going to attack enemy. there are no if practical's in george crook's

lee sent away from petersburg to save lynchburg from capture. and phil shared end up in the shenandoah valley. the is the mission and assignment the jubal early had been out here for and he succeeded at it wildly. troops, theral rank-and-file of the federal troops, they knew that their campaign had been a failure. one soldier of the 12 west virginia spoke of the battle at kearns town on sunday which is sometimes called the battle of winchester. can portray the scenes that occurred on that day at winchester. nor had i the time or inclination what i want to make them public. a soldier of the sixth army this road home and said, campaign has been a disgraceful failure. another soldier wrote of the retreat and said bull run was nothing in comparison hurry at it would remain at this point jubal anderson early was the king of the valley. he would see how lucky to keep up his command of maneuver and quick lightning marches and avoid being trapped by larger forces once still shared and took command. thank you. [applause] >> if there are any questions, ra

actually st petersburg in their lingo. you're still single economic union and it was controlled and managed to. get. back in the soviet china now that. the 2 regions but it's actually just one region. interests on different. schools. and we know that many people in that region go to same put his work and work there and they produce that garbage and then it's transported back anywhere it has to be transparent 100 percent sure the situation shall change and we'll try. you all soon need to set up the necessary facilities we need to repower the number of those facilities recycling facilities you need to be communicated to the completely need to understand what are their what can be their operations with all the impacts on the environment kind of it will be high. community is. megacities tokyo for example but there are. but if you're good at the recycling plant within the territory of the city there are no is no pollution no mission they don't have an impact on the. people impacts are only environment so if we don't use the cut

calls donald trump to thank him for information that helped full a nuclear terrorist plot in st petersburg. and in the stories that shaped the week a passenger plane crash in kazakhstan kills 12 people on the dozens injured plus. u.s. presidential candidate michael bloomberg a poll of johnson's on his team used prison labor to promote the billionaire's election campaign. you're watching the weekly here on our 2 international armors on the welcome to the program now a lot of putin has personally thank donald trump for a tip off from u.s. intelligence that helped intercept a terror plot in st petersburg medina kitchen of a reports russia's federal security service detain 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of st petersburg now according to the security service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during the new year celebrations it was also reported that avid and shedding light on some of their intentions was also found the scene well they were being detained russian federal security service a mage's these a r

to thank you for information which helped prevent terror attacks on st petersburg during the holiday. week 12 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes moments after. marty dozens more are being treated in hospital. u.s. presidential candidate multi billionaire michael bloomberg apologizes after his team used prison labor to promote his election. is joining us this is the weekly. we start this hour with breaking news for. trump for information we help to prevent new year's terrorist attacks on st petersburg has details. russia's federal security service detain 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of st petersburg now according to the security service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during the new year celebrations it was also reported that avid and shedding light on some of their intentions was also found the scene well they were being detained russian federal security service a mage's these a rest on the 27th of december following information that was received from their american colleagues

trump to thank him for information which helped prevent a terrorist attack in st petersburg. stories this week a plane crashes in kazakhstan soon after takeoff killing 12 people dozens more are being treated in hospital. on the wealthiest us presidential candidate multi-billionaire michael bloomberg apologizes to his team used prison labor to promote his election campaign. and even welcome this is an international. trump for information which helped to prevent a new year terror plot in st petersburg. has a story. russia's federal security has detained 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of st petersburg according to the security service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during the new year celebrations it was also reported that avid and shedding light on some of their intentions was also found the scene well they were being detained russian federal security service maint is these the rest on the 27th of december following information that was received from their american colleagues now some

a terrible siege at piecering bupiecering -- petersburg at this time. john bell hood lost atlanta but he is going to try to get into the union interior, try to capture nashville, tennessee and move east. it was a plan that had a chance of winning but he was slowed up here. they will fight the battle of franklin. they push the union army back that results in the battle of nashville and nobody can figure out what hood was trying to accomplish by being there. he is out numbered three to one. he is destroyed at that point by 1864. william tecumseh is march to the sea. it is the last stronghold they had to get to get to the sea. you can see the footprints of the soldiers walking in the sand to try to avoid the confederate land mines known to be in their path over there. they capture fort mcallister. a great reserved site, i recommend you go there. the march to the sea is complete. photographers come in and actually take photos, something you don't see much. clouds in the civil war. the type of photography at the time, the blue spectrum didn't capture clouds

jane minor was born into slavery and she worked as a nurse in petersburg. she gained her freedom in 1824 as a reward for heroically nursing the citizens of petersburg through an epidemic so to reward her for that service, her owners freed her. jane minor went on to continue practice nursing and we have some objects related to her practice. blood letting was a very standard medical practice up through the middle of the 19th century and we have a couple of items used in cupping and bleeding in blood lettinging practicing. one is a listen lan lance et, a bladed knife that you would use to cut into a vein. then another item is this cupping jar. and you would burn a candle under the cupping jar to heat up the air and create a vacuum and then you would put that cup over the lacerated skin to draw out the blood. so these are the kind of tools that jane would have used in her practice as a nurse. in addition to being a nurse, jane minor became an emancipator. after she herself was freed, she went on to use her earnings to purchase the freedom of 16 other enslaved w

and we have reproductions of the deeds that were issued by the petersburg court. it shows what is often a two-step process. first jane purchasing enslaved people and the second transaction was her giving them their freedom. it is quite a remarkable story. one of the women jane minor freed was phoebe jackson. and her deed is reproduced here, gaining her freedom in july of 1843 jane minor's help. and we also have a medical account book that phoebe jackson capped. phoebe jackson herself was a nurse. jane minor taught her the craft of nursing. it is a remarkable story and they passed on some kind of apprenticeship. we have phoebe jackson's account book in which she listed the various treatment that she provided. this is when she obtained payment for that particular treatments. and like jane minor, phoebe jackson performed typical practices of the day, also preparing bodies and tending to the sick. the story is also an important reminder that there were many freed blacks in virginia during the antebellum period. there were particularly vibrant communities in the larger

langston also served as the first president of what today is virginia state university in petersburg. >> langston was encouraged by both whites and blacks to run for the u.s. health the u.s. house of representatives in 1888. it was first thought that he lost, but he contested the results. he was eventually declared the winner, and he took his seat in 1890, only able to serve the few remaining months in his

territory people can now travel from st petersburg southward to the crimean city a service to pull the trip takes 44 hours and crosses the recently built crimean bridge the european union criticized the opening of the bridge and the rail line as a violation of ukraine's sovereignty. it's the leading story on russian state t.v. bloody near putin's opening of a controversial railway bridge that links annexed crimea to southern russia it's a major triumph for the russian president the bridge was built despite international protests following russia's annexation of ukraine's crimean peninsula and 2014. this event is important for crimea for sevastopol for all of southern russia indeed for the whole country infrastructure projects like this magnificent bridge we've built will have an effect on the entire economy and if. the mega structure is 900 kilometers long and took nearly 4 years to build costing more than 3000000000 euros the 1st scheduled train departed from st petersburg today starting wednesday up to 45 passenger trains will head for crimea each day that route bypasses mainland ukr

federal security service releases video showing the arrest of 2 people suspected terror attack in st petersburg and new year's eve they were seized from u.s. intelligence something. for in a phone call also ahead. as the year draws to a close we begin a review of the key events not shape $29.00 during the protests that seem to grip practically every corner of the globe. one minute past 9 am in houston at 9 pm and 6 in the evening right here in moscow welcome to our 2 international i mean and o'neil. we begin the program in the russian. foreign minister zarif is working as he earlier met russian counterpart sergei lavrov who stated that the west must return to compliance with the iranian you're. that's because it's the u.s. is forcing the countries not to fulfill their obligations despite iran's compliance with the reach degree. ment's we demand that the u.s. and the e.u. both return to full implementation with the legations voluntarily and then iran would do the same but if our western partners do not want to confirm their respect for international law then the. must be recognized as dead. the

nearly 4 years to build costing more than 3000000000 euros the 1st scheduled train departed from st petersburg today starting wednesday up to 45 passenger trains will head for crimea each day the route bypasses mainland ukraine. the bridge spans the current strait although russia hopes to increase tourism in the area the bridge is mainly a display of power until now crimea could only be reached from russia by ferry or plane and now there's a direct land route to the peninsula which russia annexed in violation of international law in 2014. football now and then in while the professional players association is calling on the british government to launch an inquiry into racism well that comes after chelsea and germany defender antonio for digger allegedly faced monkey chants during his team's 2 know when over tottenham on sunday. the latest racist incident in the premier league chelsea defender antonio grew to go faced monkey chants by some spurs fans after clashing with sun one man who received direct caught for the fall and who to go complained about the verbal abuse the referee brief he stoppe

lee is surrounded at richmond and petersburg. he comes up with a poll -- with pland plan -- four-point that he knows, if he stays there, grants, because of his superiority in everything is going to overwhelm him eventually. what does he decide to do? confederates the are really hurting for everything, including food. railroad.controls the he decides that he wants to drive the union forces out of the shenandoah valley. number 2 -- and this comes in a to freeater, he wanted the union prisoners at point lookout. you all know where point lookout is, right? crownot very far as the flies from washington, but to get there, you have to go a circuitous way. there were about 15,000 confederate troops imprisoned at fort lookout. that was something lee desperately needed. i think his main objective was to try to alleviate what was going to be the end of the war for him and that was to force grant to take troops away from richmond and petersburg. and the other big part of the war was to "threaten washington, d.c.." basically the order said if

nearly 4 years to build costing more than 3000000000 euros the 1st scheduled train departed from st petersburg today starting wednesday up to 45 passenger trains will head for crimea each day that route bypasses mainland ukraine. the bridge spans the current strange although russia hopes to increase tourism in the area the bridge is mainly a display of power until now crimea could only be reached from russia by ferry or plane now there's a direct land route to the peninsula which russia annexed in violation of international law in 2014. in france a nationwide real strike is well into his 3rd week and it's wreaking havoc on transport across the country all the strikers are protesting presence in many records plans to reform the pension system and its destructing travel right in the middle of the holiday season. the hustle and bustle of the holidays is nowhere in sight at this parisian train station nearly every other long distance train has been cancelled across france still many are determined to travel or go home for the holidays some passengers try to rebook others give up. my ticket has bee

calls donald trump to thank him for information which helped to prevent plant terror attacks in st petersburg on the new year holiday. the week 12 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes after takeoff that largest city el monte dozens more are being treated in hospital. as the wealthiest u.s. presidential candidate multi-billionaire michael bloomberg apologizes after his team use prison labor to promote his election campaign. which in the weekly here on out international thanks for joining us 1st this hour breaking news from texas where a shooting has taken place today church during the service there are unconfirmed reports of casualties 3 people are believed to have been shot with 2 dying one said to be in a critical condition this is a developing story we'll bring you updates and more information as we get them just hours sprite of the texas shooting a machete attack on a synagogue in new york state left 5 people injured 2 of them in a critical condition. and that attack happened during a hanukkah party police arrested a suspect soon after the incident the counterterrorism unit is

so, first of all, i'm in petersburg. i have made myself the 2016-2019 chair due to lack of anything happening. this is a community that is so focused on the confederacy and the petersburg national battlefield, even though there were u.s. colored troops, even though it was the first free black community in pocahontas island. i am refighting the civil war. so, i need asalh to help me. i just met with the city manager. she is at least from baton rouge, so she understands. we have a common background about these things. people -- we grew up in the same time and we know what our folks have gone through for us to be free now and for us to tell history completely. they do not want to do that in petersburg. so, i made an economic development argument, cultural tourism. i'm still being fought. i need asalh. dr. higgenbotham, i need us -- i need us to meet afterwards to really talk about this plan. i'm meeting the superintendent of the petersburg national battlefield is african-american, but he is constrained because he is in the

know if you look at various locations around moscow well maybe around russia i mean you go to st petersburg. there's plenty of iconic targets in st petersburg and again this will be busy as we're approaching christmas and libby told us that you know going to enjoy themselves and obviously naturally this is really city enjoying themselves so it may be looking that props increase. the physical presence well also perhaps being analyzing again what intelligence state is there and see if they can make any links and what may come out is looking this individual that once they identify as individual look at his promises look at what he's been looking at online there may be some links there and we just don't know that's the thing with the investigation you got to be open minded about this and look at everything objectively we heard him say here's a few months ago donald trump was saying that islamic state had been defeated yet the terrorist attacks continue they claim responsibility including the recent one in london we don't yet know if this will be confirmed terrorism is responsible but . given th

the band have travelled on the overnight train from st petersburg and are keen to see some of the moscowry on earth, home to 142 million people. russia is the largest country on earth, home to 142 million people. and it's had a turbulent relationship with the west for a long time. for seven decades, it was a communist country, and russians had very little contact with people outside. communism ended in 1991, but adapting to a capitalist society has not been an easy transition. still now, fewer than a third of russians have a foreign passport and you don't have to look far to find negative stories about russia in the world's media. more is now known about the substance involved in the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. vladimir putin has been the political face of russia either as the president or prime minister for nearly 20 years, and that means for teenagers like katya, he's the only leader they've ever known. katya's day may only justjust be starting, but forjoy, halfway through the school day, it's break time. i have school six days a week. i would love to

petersburg to crimea. and from moscow. says the of state railway shows russia's control of crime area -- of crimea. isthe economic element vertical. without a bridge, crimea is essentially isolated and increasing russian tourism and economic links to the mainland is critical. in many ways, it is expected. it still violates international law. utility in a way that creates a chokepoint and a hazard for ukrainian shipping. in bridge was constructed ukraine, it would have been a lot higher. russia is using this to choke ukraine economically. increasedes russia's -- continued interest in decreasing ukrainian sovereignty and territory and also rejecting the international sanctions against russia area the international community rejects russia aion and gives free hand, it is not only crimea that's going to come under russian domination. in many ways, the crimea story is a larger part of the future of ukraine and the future of europe, because russia's interest and ambitions extend beyond crimea. >> chile's president has proposed a

they do not want to do that in petersburg. so, i made an economic development argument, cultural tourism. i'm still being fought. i need asala. dr. higgenbotham, i need us -- he is constrained because he is in the national parks system. so, i understand everybody's viewpoints. they gave us the economic and the political lessons growing up in jackson. that's question one for asala. national trust person, totally need you. melissa jest is a good friend of mine. and there's a gentleman who started a petersburg preservation task force. now, you know the word preservation didn't mean to me what it now means growing up in mississippi. it had a whole different context so it made me nervous. they invited me to the first meeting because they thought i was that negro. they found out i am not that negro. so, i need the trust. they want to throw out some markers. i want a mu see crumb. that's at the beginning. i want to change curriculum. we finally got the names changed at ap hill, black students in robert -- i'm going to wrap this up. p

they were supposed to reinforce around petersburg. thank you, my friend. i spent a lot of time on that. we got reinforcements coming, but will they get there in time? it will divide the union army and the federal capital one full day. lou walls will have to make every exertion to save washington and baltimore. so, july 9, 1864, there is a half-hour pitch battle along the anks of the river. they will fight a very strong self-defense. towards evening, they will be driven off the field. if you can see in this image here, james is going to be covering the left flank. when they're driven off the field he has no option but to head towards baltimore. think about this. he is retreating towards baltimore, there is nothing in he way of washington dc. he says the way to washington, before i get there, listen to this accountaccount from lou, as his army is retreating towards baltimore. what do you think about this? "from 9:00 a.m., to 5:00 p.m., when they overwhelm the numbers, retreating battered, forces of at least 20,000, they do not seem to be resuming. you will h

petersburg south toward the crimean city. the trip takes 44 hours and crosses the newbridge moscow is accused of bridging -- building illegally. >> is the leading story on russian tape -- russian state tv, putin's opening of a bridge that links crimea to russia. it's a major triumph for the russian president, the bridge built despite russian protests following annexation of from you it's what he 14. >> this event is important for crimea, for all of southern russia, infrastructure products lilike this will have an effectn the entire economy. >> the project took three years and cost 3 billion euros, the first schedule train departed st. petersburg today. starting wednesday trains will had crimea each day, bypassing may lead ukraine. the russia hopes to increase tourism of the bridge is mainly a display of power. until now, crimimea could only e reached from russia by ferry or plane. now there is a direct land route to the peninsusula which russia annexed in violation of international law in 2014. laila: it is been 30 years sinc

but like i said, i'm living in petersburg and i grew up in jackson, mississippi. i always thought i was free. my family made that possible for me. summer of 1964, my mother went through that pregnancy, that was a pretty bad summer in jackson for those of you who know. so i feel very blessed to be here. but god has taken me through some changes from mississippi to florida to the dmv, and now, he is stuck me in petersburg, virginia, and i am like what is wrong here? i seriously came today. i am the great-great-great-granddaugh ter of gabriels rebellion. my father has worked on this research until his death, 1950s to 2014. i am trying to finish his book, which is one of my questions for you. so i felt free all my life, and then i got to central virginia and people are not free in petersburg. i can't explain it, i pray for your brother every day, when he sat down on lee jackson day i said ooh, they really wanted to run him out on a rail. i cannot even believe there is a lee jackson day, but it is the friday before the king holiday in the state of virginia for those of

st petersburg is fine but usually it was and how many votes has a critic us defense keep 18.54 percent legion for those who are tissue that's an outrage. the campaign office was run by dimitri medvedev who tin's former subordinate from his time in some petersburg who was little known at the time you. should see. the force if you look at the bigger issue though it was still a. new. idea. oh damn it talk to me a little busted. and there's not another to smuggle. a little worth the risk of you people. are going to far east all the reindeers have voted there. in fact the campaign managers were experienced political operators who could take advantage of the administrative resources provided by former and future federal ministers heads of the presidential staff and media and sociological service bosses. what's the public opinion. that sasha what's the forecast 61 percent who are known for serving dear oh dear are you. going to tell you. so what your data sucks. this is anatoly to. co-chairman of the union of right forces the center right democrats were in fact the only non-governmental parli

petersburg.t you to know we're with you in spirit as you honor six truly remarkable americans. i was glad to learn that the proceeds for tonight's event will provide scholarships for the children and spouses of fallen or disabled members of our armed forces. and it's truly inspiring. and we thank you all. on behalf of president donald trump and myself, let me thank you all for tonight's patriot awards. and for starting this new tradition. we look forward to many more years honoring heroes at the fox nation patriot awards. and god bless you. may god bless all of our heroes in uniform at home and abroad. and may god continue to bless the united states of america. >> when we come back, a performance by john rich. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an orde

cross the entire european part of russia before that train bound force of awesome fall from st petersburg will reach this bridge but just for a moment let's go back to talking about the bridge itself for you to understand how much of an engineering technological marvel it is i can tell you that the effort that was put in by the construction workers it was so big they had to endure 10000 hours of rough seas but for some other facts about the bridge have a look at this little clip. that people were cheering the crowd that you can see behind my shoulder of course for them there is a lot to celebrate i can tell you that tens of thousands of tickets of already been solved and of course that is explained by the high demand that i mentioned there will be another train that will be departing the russian capital very soon and trains from all other cities are still to come so it will get very busy just wait for the holiday season to begin and you'll see it all. big day for russia all right still ahead in the program. free support to libya's un recognized government just as the west deals with a riv

and the 1st of all in st petersburg we've never built 4 or ships. that's a dedicated industry we now have. next generation very efficient industry production facilities academies about one take defense. there's been a huge progress not all of. our progress has been really on ends. it's been just definitely to get politically motivated restrictions and try has a huge. weighs in heavily on the global economy. where serious dixon's against china there's a sanction to the fact that. the entire economy. the world try to shrink. the world trade will continue to decline finally we're seeing. prospects definitely has an impact on us because there's. so there's nothing positive about it but our economy. i can assure you has adapted to external shocks. currency. against. shocks prices for sources. and this is how we try to work. about global energy prices. defense industry. but. even. the times of the soviet union we had a number in the factories and enterprises in the defense. in the. we've been listening in again to a lot of reporting here just commenting t

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where people that people could buy tickets for but there's another one that just departed from st petersburg and actually you can just think of it it will take more than 40 hours to cross the entire european part of russia before that train bound force of asa paul from st petersburg will reach this bridge then of course it will have to ride all through crimea set off the ball is in a bit of a different direction but just for a moment let's go back to talking about the bridge itself for you to understand how much of an engineering technological marvel it is i can tell you that the effort that was put in by the construction workers it was so big they had to endure 10000. hours of rough seas but for some other facts about the bridge have a look at this little clip. the people were cheering the crowd that you can see behind my shoulder of course for them there is a lot to celebrate i can tell you that tens of thousands of tickets of already been solved and of course that is explained by the high demand that i mentioned there will be another train that will be departing the russian capital very s