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this is a new. president. to prevent from taking hold in the united states he also praised the arrest of a suspect wanted in connection with the series. has been identified and has a criminal record. from the ground also coming to a german national on terrorism charges against six years behind bars for membership in the kurdish militia his family he says he was in turkey on
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a hiking trip. says the case with turkish president. on saturday. plus irish voters decide whether time is up on a religious loss for me the role. called me to. hold a referendum on the role that even the catholic church says is obsolete. i'm glad you could join us but he's in the united states have detained a suspect in connection with a series of explosive packages sent to high profile public figure investigators in the saw the state of florida apprehended a man believed to be in his fifty's and seized this white van from a parking lot two additional suspicious packages. found earlier today
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a police bomb squad was called to a post office in new york city where workers discovered one of the possible their intended targets were a u.s. senator and former director of national security both prominent critics of president trump and the past half hour president onil trump addressed a gathering at the white house he said the us must not allow political violence to fester these terrorizing acts are despicable and have no place in our country and. five instructed authorities to spare no resource or expense in finding those responsible and bringing them to swift and certain justice . we will prosecute them him her whoever it may be to the fullest extent of the law. and for more on what investigators are doing we're joined now by keith noble he is
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a former cia bureau chief and a professor at florida university international university's public policy institute thank you for joining us so this arrest was made not far from where you're located what is known about the suspect at this stage well good evening what is it all right now that the subject is a misuse or junior if you're so use a registered republican a native american he was captured in arrested at his place of business and surrounded by a.t.f. . agents right now in the next twenty four to seventy two hours mirror and security officials are going to be working at this place of business this whole family and social media to get an understanding of whether or not the act of a low end to collect evidence the open air for a grand jury to officially charge you is there any evidence of this point that he may have acted with other people. that's something that's an important question
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everyone is trying to get you in a frankly right now that no information is not no the most critical time right now for law enforcement is going to be all over the next two to three days as they collect information intelligence from his feet over his place of business and its residents to build a road or broader that of this person this network so on and so forth but we found out the moving at a legal journals is that mr assyria has been arrested on new persecutions going back to the one nine hundred ninety s. at least one of those arrests being for some all so this is someone who was known by police but is not known as whether or not the el radical political beliefs and how he got radicalized but what like that we have to know is that d.n.a. was collected from one of them and no operatives that yet submit that i believe that well now counting and that was probably run through a national database is what they were looking at the and they are fingerprints and that's probably
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a healthy construct with the dragnet to identify right now you say his political views are not known so does this mean that up until now we still don't know what his motivation was. that is correct i mean he has targeted critics of the president nine states donald trump he started news organizations he's targeted high profile democratic donors so it's safe to say that he has. issues he has an anger and resentment towards the democratic party which is obviously the opposition party here in the united states but until we get more intelligence and details on the ground with his place of business and residence we can't know point what was the particular driver i do can sell you based on the open source reporting that's been let out there when he rose an arrest that this van was covered in what we call right wing propaganda trumps cigarettes and other things that give an indication of his political leanings but we're still of you know still faces of the best the geisha now that he's been arrested in again over the next couple hours more
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information will make itself there right and as that information trickles to the investigators what can we expect from then from from them from here on. well lou for the first thing that they're going to look is they're going to look or act local school evidence or this powder on the loops that directly tie to those loops and packages that were sent against the investigators they have to do quote on approach of one they have to build a legal case against them to air and the president have what we call a granger in every jury they're going to probably charge him for assessing weapons of mass destruction they're going to try to probably charging for or intent to kill those sites and so they have to get that information collected on the other hand they also have the bill a bigger profile of mr stay on the determine whether or not there were accomplices was this a conspiracy they're going to do that looking at social media going to do their
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solo phone talking to his employees talking to his family will determine whether or not people are working with some i'm pretty confident that we're going to get that information in sometime between the next twenty four to seventy two hours and we'll definitely be watching this story very closely from a cia bureau chief keef novel thank you thank you a turkish court has sentenced a german man to six years in prison on terrorist charges patrick was arrested on the turkish syrian border in march now prosecutors accuse the twenty nine year old of being a member of the kurdish militia group known as y p g a group which ankara classifies as a terrorist. patrick keiko is a twenty nine year old carpenter from the southern german town of geese he claims he was just a tourist hiking near the syrian border it's an area in which the turkish military is fighting a war against kurdish militia groups this much is known on the sixth of march this
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year caica traveled by plane from germany to ghazi and type in turkey on the thirteenth he boarded a bus to the town of news i've been the next day turkish security forces arrested him in the town of sea looking for security police also say that i had written an email offering his services as a fighter to the syrian kurdish militia y p g k k admitted writing the email but claims not to have known that turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist organization the news comes just as the german economy minister peter is in turkey trying to improve relations between the two countries the focus of the visit is on business deals but i would my i will also raise the issue of german nationals and turkish presence he knew of the case i admired told german media on friday and the government would closely monitor the verdict the german foreign ministry in berlin was tightlipped. this is a decision offered turkish traditionally and of course our embassy use in contact
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with mr clarke or. we assume that he will file an appeal under turkish lord with the help of his to a concert legal council. earlier this week the foreign ministry stepped up its travel warning for german nationals going to turkey since the failed coup d'etat in two thousand and sixteen the turkish government has imprisoned thousands of critics among them were several german nationals including join the list then as you jail and mazola told both have since been released but at least five germans including caica are still in prison in turkey. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world dozens of migrants including families with young children are still camping near bosnia's border with croatia this eating passage into the e.u. have to authorities block previous balkan routes to western europe police say they expect to persuade the migrants to leave the border area by the end of the day.
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india's opposition congress party has held a protest in the capital delhi over allegations of corruption and bribery linked to the government this issue has plunged the country's chief investigative agency the c.b.i. into a collision course with the government india supreme court has called for a swift investigation to ms of the dispute. british police have arrested a man suspected of trying to steal one of the four magna catarrh documents from salisbury cathedral the charter granted by england's king john in the year twelve fifteen is an enduring symbol of the rule of law police say the document was not harmed in the incident. now in ireland blasphemy is still a serious crime that carries heavy penalties but like many of the country's religious traditions that may change soon irish voters are heading to the polls today to elect a new president and they're also being asked to decide what the blasphemy laws should be removed from the constitution the issue is uniting both catholics and
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atheists one man has been fighting the law for years. the christian dog is an evil maniac for giving babies bone cancer jews are of their father the devil all i said was that piece of halliburton was good enough for jehovah blasphemous statements like these could come at a high cost literally up to twenty five thousand euros to be precise michael nugent head of atheist island is comparing the dublin shopping zone he's informing irish voters about a longstanding law that could soon be history if you say only thing that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by only religion and cause by doing so then that's a criminal offense the need to double in there has been fighting the paragraph and islands constitution for years. he things that should have been removed a long time ago. it's a mediæval crime it's been added into our constitution in nineteen thirty seven
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when ordered was a very catholic country. and it was crowbarred into our laws just ten years ago so it's a mess for any number of reasons and the sooner that we get rid of it the better. but since the law was implemented no one has ever been convicted of blasphemy even the catholic church called the law or data. and audience church in dublin sees one simple reason for that. there's no need for such a goal god doesn't need to. god is not mocked. not everyone agrees celine of the islamic cultural center thinks throwing out the blasphemy class will threaten the freedom of all irish people. we have a wide diversity of various communities residing in our land this kind of. referencing in our legislation is not to defend
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religion but it is to defend respect among people of all faiths and people of no faith still it looks likely that my community and his group will finally get their way recent polls show that just twenty percent of likely voters i favor of keeping island suppress free law. in tennis and really care for is out of the double tier finals in singapore after losing her match to sloane stephens earlier dutch player kiki battens booked her place in the last for better as is competing in the season ending time and for the very first time and she continued her dream to be you after her own aunt naomi osaka retired with a hamstring injury. because movement was hampered throughout the match and despite receiving treatment on court for the injury she called time on the match after losing the first set. he writes i remind him now of the top stories we're following for you president donald trump says he will do everything in his power to prevent
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us from taking hold in the united states. of the series of letter bomb sent to prominent democrats is what the president said. these jurors are despicable and have no place in our country. five instructed authorities to spare no resource or expense in finding those responsible and bringing them to swift and certain justice. we will prosecute. her whoever it may be to the fullest extent of the law. a. man to office six years in prison. patrick was a member of an militia. well
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