RT News - December 21, 2019 (12:00 MSK)

Berlin reacts angrily to the latest US sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany - branding it an "interference in domestic affairs." That, as the project's main Swiss contractor pulls out, over Washington's tough penalties. A US court rules that it's OK for American spy agencies to collect data on citizens without a warrant - if done by accident. That, as the lessons of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowdon - who lifted the lid on US mass surveillance - seem to have been forgotten. A man accused of stealing and burning a rainbow flag from a US church, is jailed for 16 years. Our guests debate weather the time fits the crime.