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police stage raids across the u.k. off to the daylight decapitation of a british soldier in london both suspects are already known to authorities and one is understood to be a twenty eight year old muslim. analysts warn of more spontaneous attacks caused by the rapid spread of radicalism in london multiethnic suburbs spurred by britain's military for is a broad. up in smoke police stations and dozens of places. for a fortnight fanning out across the swedish capital. reinventing the war on terror as a major security rebranding taking in the hunger strike paralyzed. the white house is drawing top stories this hour.
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on screen online international news and comments live from our studio center here in moscow this is. it's been revealed that both suspects in the cold blooded murder of a soldier in southeast london were on the radars of british security services before the attack they allegedly beheaded their victim in broad daylight with a machete video footage shows one man describing the attack as revenge for british military campaigns in muslim countries. is here with the details. well one of the attackers has so far been identified on internet forums and in the twitter sphere as a michael adds a boy larger he's thought to be a british citizen of nigerian descent now just to clarify his identity hasn't been
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formally released yet but he and the other suspects are both thought to converted to a radical form of islam and so far they're not thought to have any links to any large terrorist cells such as al qaida or any terrorist organizations in nigeria these two individuals may have been on the radar of the intelligence services now scotland yard has confirmed that the man killed yesterday was a twenty year old british soldier david cameron recently spoke outside downing street saying that the british public must pull together in the face of terrorism and this will only make the public stronger he said that the only way to deal with this sort of terrorist action is to go about your daily lives as you would normally however we do know that security has been heightened especially around army barracks around london because we do know that this was a soldier that was killed so it seems to have been
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a targeted attack at the same time david cameron couldn't say much about the ongoing police investigation but there have been reports that two houses allegedly belonging to relatives of one of these suspects of michael odds of a larger have been raided one in london and one in lincolnshire the police investigation definitely under way and a lot of work still going on and details yet to be released the fall of the do not murder in london has seen hundreds of protesters skirmishing with police near the crime scene the charge of anti muslim slogans and accuse the government of turkey which avoided by radical islam or to sort of first has more on the implications for british society. well the shock waves from not brutal attacks still reverberating around the local community here in south east london as that police investigation to try to establish exactly what happened continues now the man killed serving
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soldier the attack taking place in broad daylight outside the army barracks and you can see the green fences of the barracks there you've had people from the local community giving flowers to the police to lay down throughout the day now it's he had gained an exclusive interview with the soldier he gave us his poignant response to that attack and how that could be affecting servant serving soldiers at the moment it makes it feel a lot closer to home it makes you feel like you'll think twice now about going out in public you know uniform happening to soldiers abroad you don't think you'll be targeted at home that's now going to have to be thought about in terms of security for the armed forces. we've had the statements from the prime minister today and earlier on the london mayor boris johnson was here at the scene in a statement on the line saying that this had nothing to do with islam nothing to do with british foreign policy in saying that the attack is would be brought to
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justice the suspects had remained at the scene here until police arrived and they were shot and taken to london hospitals and placed under arrest now earlier we spoke to a member of the mist and public affairs committee he told us that the government's response might not necessarily be the right one and that the importance here is going to be to acknowledge exactly what the problem was to prevent anything like this from happening again take a listen to that. in this town a different town speak to you again about. this is not going away there's too many people that are suffering too many people that are angry about the suffering they don't know that they can take a peaceful. way to bring change and there's a heavy police presence there with concerns that this attack could stake ethnic tensions now last night we've been filming in the center of town where members of the extremist english defense league had turned up and there were clashes with the
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police i know we've heard from community leaders the missing community have openly condemned this act saying that it has nothing to do with this law now r.t. have been following this story quite closely looking at the concerns over radicalization in the case recently we were filming with members of the shoe reappear troll. calling for the implementation of sharia law and amongst some of the statements that we had from them at that time there were very strong concerns from a member of the british community that these were openly radicalized individuals who were being able to operate openly in britain and so there's going to be a huge emphasis now on ensuring that. much more is done within the mizzen community to try to deal with these potentially radicalized elements and ensure there's something like this isn't able to happen for the time being the police have called for calm in the area as that police investigation continues sara first reporting
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there will for more old be with attack and let's join m.p. george galloway he's there in london mr galloway in a recent tweet you compared the attackers with u.k. sponsored syrian rebels what do you mean by that well this was a grotesque and sickening madara involving either the attempt or the successful beheading of someone by fanatic extremists the sort of thing that happens in syria every day except sometimes the even the heart and the liver of the deceased and it it on video for the entertainment of the brothers in the box afterwards and britain is helping to pay for the sickening barbarism in syria but when it comes close to home happens on our own streets by the same kind of people these people influenced by the mindset are exactly the same kind of people
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that we are paying for arming giving all kinds of war material and budgeting to give them more in syria and so i simply asked david cameron as i've asked him before in parliament if he would the key differences between the dropping throat cutting fanatics that we saw in willits yesterday and the hand chopping throat cutting fanatics we're giving money and weapons to in syria. the london mayor boris johnson he said it is wrong to blame u.k. foreign policy for this you would clearly disagree with that would you say that if we did pull out the troops from afghanistan we wouldn't get those sort of incentives again. well britain has been helping to radicalize these extremist fanatics for a very long time with its support for israel in its crimes against the palestinian people with its participation in u.s.
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invasions and occupations of muslim countries we have spawned across the world maybe tens maybe hundreds of millions of radicalized muslims from not to size by the injustice and the double standards of western policy towards the muslim world and all i see is that in a kind of grotesque double whammy we've now added to that by ripley's ing our policy in the one nine hundred eighty s. of actually helping to build a frankenstein monster in syria and the very same raw material of radicalized fun not to sized extremists is being used and it came back to haunt the united states spain and britain and many other places after the afghan experience when we built the first frankenstein monster and now we're doing it all over again in syria as we did a year or so ago in libya so let me just quickly ask you i know that you are very
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very well knowledge about islam and some people say is this something about islam that is pushing people to do such extremist acts. no i don't accept that at all any more than the butchery of frank or the spanish fascist dictator had anything to do with jesus christ even if the people doing the torturing and the butchering were wearing the cross on their sleeves george w. bush was a fanatic born again christian he said but that had nothing to do with jesus so i don't accept that at all what is the case is that in palestine in iraq in afghanistan or whether it's last decade and more are much more in the case of palestine western complicity in mob and mayhem and misery in the muslim world
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has generated extremism and for not so why mr galloway do we see why you don't hear if you're saying it's u.k. and u.s. policy abroad why we seeing then this homegrown terrorism from these two suspects in which they were brought up in the u.k. they were educated in u.k. that's not coming from abroad is it well they told you or didn't they video i assume your viewers have seen it or at least read about it they told you why they committed this grotesque and sickening yesterday they told you from their own mouth that they were doing it because of the situation facing muslims abroad i see no reason to disbelieve them the crime the sin is that the young man who paid with his blood just like on seven seven when more than fifty british people paid with their lives and hundreds with the blood maimed and wounded ruined for ever was that
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innocent people were being punished for the crimes of guilty people and that's a crime in any language it's a sin in any religion and p. george galloway live in london really interesting to hear your thoughts in your perspective thank you for your time here on r.t. . well the alleged motives of the murder striking similarities to those described by the boston bombing suspects. not to discuss the legitimacy of drawing parallels between that incident there in boston and what's happened recently in london that. incidents that happened but across the course the learn to learn to discuss the implications and the parallels here is alina so what sort of similarities are we talking about well we can start with the basics and that is the message that both of the attacks seem to be trying to translate to the world and basically it all boils down to the fact that they are terrorist activity it boils down to the fact that they are this is of retribution for the attacks on muslims
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committed in one case supposedly by the u.s. in another case by the u.k. governments and they're they're saying that if you're going to solve muslims on their soil abroad or at home you're going to pay for it or rather not you but this particular country's people are going to pay for it and this seems to be the underlying message that they're transmitting these people seemingly were acting alone they didn't seem to be part of a major terror network as such and yet they had very similar messages to the messages because absolutely in fact i think what we could build looking at is sort of the rise of the new terrorism you can call it the open source jihad so to speak and this is one of the prime examples it's an online edition of the magazine that is published by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and there they have all sorts of recipes how basically to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom using a slow pressure cooker and then go on to present the ingredients that you can use and also say that if you use them you will never be caught because they're so easy
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to obtain and you don't reason suspicions and this is just one of the many examples that you can come by search across the internet there's also other other other options for example like most tactics there was a winter two thousand and ten edition which said how to blow up buildings. basically it's a manual on how to kill mass amounts of people all of the name of this edition is actually being published by like i said al qaeda in the arabian peninsula but it was started by anwar. who was called the bin laden avenger not because he was extremely internet profession of course he was killed in two thousand and eleven but his legacy seems to live on and this is the particularly interesting part is that you start getting mostly muslims living in the west young about twenty six year old educated men with the with a good degree of education who are going to be essentially their own terrorist leaders they're out there on their own so this sort of material is openly available you can see this on the absolute so what about the security services what are they
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doing about that it will be they can find out where it's coming from absolutely i mean if we're looking at this right here right now obviously we can fight it but it's clear that there is information that the authorities both in the us and then you know about these sources they have actually been keeping track of the brothers as well as apparently of the machete killers but they haven't really done anything and that is one of the biggest questions why were they not able to prevent these terrible attacks from happening and clearly one of the biggest questions that we have to be to answer and of course keeping in mind that there is a whole lot of information available on the internet and so on not only is the good kind of thanks very much indeed for that. well plenty of information on the internet and of course on our web site plenty of reaction of. what you think about this latest incident in willage in london what. could it be just a random act committed by two men or an isolated incident of homegrown terror or
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was it perhaps sponsored from abroad these are the results we're getting so far the questions we're asking on or online poll fifty five percent believe that this is indeed connected to u.k. foreign policy it's a blowback against u.k. with a broad eighteen percent suggest that this is a man. of isolated terror homegrown terror followed by seventeen percent who think this is an act of violence committed by mad people and ten percent believe that this could be indeed orchestrated by foreign influences that's what you'll think. we could to hear from you right now.
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to police stations and dozens of cars have been set ablaze during a fourth lot of rotting in the swedish capital clashes between police broke out on sunday in the largely immigrant suburb of husband before fanning out across poor neighborhoods the violence comes as a shock to a country with a reputation for social justice and welcoming refugees reports from stockholm. or c the fourth night of violence here in stockholm wednesday had been relatively quiet we've seen community leaders out on the streets trying to stop young people from rioting from setting fire to cars and other things as you can see promotes going on just behind me once they've gone in for the evening it seems because of all of the people have started setting for more fires we've seen stones thrown it at the police at journalists as well and this is all continuing from what we've seen start on sunday here in stocco now it's being claimed this was all started following a police shooting of a sixty nine year old man he was killed by police officers in his apartment
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apparently holding a machete while he was slain by police that started the first night of violence not continued throughout the week here in stock and i talking to community leaders they say that one of the reasons for this is being down to unemployment here in these particular areas i'm in the suburb of who speak which is not too far from the center of stock obviously one of the worst hit areas by violence in recent nights. they say let's although sweden's unemployment figures are actually below the e.u. average when you look at youth unemployment we're talking about the under twenty five's nearly a quarter of the swedish population are out of work and if you look at the people who are being taking part in the violence that we've seen they are all very very young people in the that's one of the reasons why on wednesday evening it seemed like things were under control when we saw parents. religious leaders out on the
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streets it seems that once they have gone to bed then the trouble has started again as violence continues to rock the swedish city. and swedish journalist khaled fist says immigrants expect too much from the country's wealth and system. the problem is not from the government or from the swedish people the last twenty years or so we have we have seen so many immigrants coming to sweden bedmate really doesn't like sweden they don't want to integrate they don't want to live in this society where you know working taxes and so on the people that come here now they come here because they know that sweden will give them money for nothing they don't have to work they don't have to pay taxes they can just stay here and get a lot of money and that is you know really the problem the police could do so much they have told the public that they mean to do as little as possible but they could go in there they could use you know water cannons they could do. not letting people
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out in the streets at night there are so many things they could do within the law but they don't do it. well immigration policies in france lead to an even more desperate form of protest an award winning historian outraged by multiculturalism and changes to gay marriage laws commit suicide inside the symbolic. cathedral that is coming up very shortly here at r.t. . but first the u.s. could be facing a security policy facelift as president obama prepares a major speech on national security matters expected to feature is going to mowbray which has been paralyzed by more than three months of mass hunger strikes but he's going to carnac so what else may be in line for a shake up. we have a major national security speech coming up and we have a word trickling down from the administration through various news outlets that the president is going to announce the resumption of transfers of some guantanamo
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detainees now these sources say that in the speech we're probably not going to hear details as to when these transfers will start happening but we will presumably hear about the administration's plans to lift the ban on sending detainees to yemen the yemenis are the largest single group of prisoners at guantanamo then you have saudi and afghan nationals there as well as others there are one hundred sixty six detainees now held at guantanamo it is six have been cleared for release including fifty six who are from yemen after years of inaction injustice and indifference and after more than three months of starvation the detainees have finally got the president's attention last week the president said he was going to remain us to close the prison something that he probably promised to do four years ago the hunger strike certainly served as a push for these statements but one would argue it said that the detainees had to subject themselves to so much physical suffering to be heard after all this march and by then the hunger strike had already started critics argue that all this time
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the administration had the tools to release many of these men especially those who've been cleared for release but it seems that the fear is that even those who had nothing done nothing wrong and who were wrongfully captured after all they've been through a guantanamo all the humiliation they've seen the u.s. may have created enemies there so many of these men have fallen victim not just to their wrongful capture but also to u.s. politicians assumptions of what they may or may not do in the future now apart from going tunnel which the administration always pointed out it inherited from the previous administration the president is going to talk about his own counterterrorism strategy his seat. drone wars this wednesday the u.s. attorney general for the first time officially confirmed a u.s. drone strike killed four american citizens including the sixteen year old son of
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anwar likely in yemen there was no mentioning of other countries citizens killed by u.s. drone strikes in his state of the union address president obama said the administration would get more transparent on drone operations we haven't really seen bad but we expect to hear more from him this thursday the suicide of a far right writer inside the north of the cathedral in paris to political clashes nationalist leader marine le pen called it a political act which should be a wake up call to france and its artie's to cilia reports gay rights and islamic sentiments are all being used to explain what drove the man to shoot himself at the altar. here already we can see the a clash in the words and the positions of politicians but this is also reflected on the ground when it comes to the ordinary french citizens but the story does not end there when we talk about what happened in not another protest followed after after that a feminist activist from the theme and group had gone into the church as well into
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the very same place and staged her own a protest this time against a that she was not a mock suicide she has put a gun in her mouth and had a message on her chest which essentially was calling for poland quote the death of fascism now where we've also seen a massive protest a stunning from this those opposing of the bill we've seen them continuing to protest still planned in the future as well it's interesting to point out the social cohesion in europe is very very volatile right now considering the economic situation and even supporters of francois hollande here in france leftists who had voted for him say that the political elite here are focusing on the wrong issues and therefore this again the social cohesion is so important and the fact that there is still a substantial number of people who are voicing their opposition going into very extreme measures such as suicide it would be very hard for francois hollande and the ruling government to continue to ignore that voice of the french population. and look now at some other world news headlines of the world update two separate
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loss of hit towns two hundred fifty kilometers apart in one targeted military barracks in the town of a day is killing at least nineteen soldiers after that a suicide bomber locked himself up in an office together with several hostages the other blast hit a french uranium mine in elliott wounding thirteen the extremist movement for unity and jihad in south africa has claimed responsibility is being seen as revenge for support of the french led counter insurgency in neighboring mali. china has offered up to five hundred military personnel as part of a united nations force which will be deployed in mali in july it would be the country's largest. it's the largest ever contribution to a un mission more than six thousand african troops are currently in the country but the un has called for thousands more to bolster the force. your state secretary john kerry and his british counterpart when you hey you could
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both arrived in israel for discussions on restarting peace talks of palestine it's already kerry's fourth visit since he took office in february and he praised the israeli leaders serious approach to negotiations take that was met with criticism from israel's intelligence minister who wanted against lecturing about settlement policies. brings up today for the moment i'll be back with a news team with more in half an hour from now the meantime we have a financial guru pulling no punches on the dark side of the world's finances that's after a break. could
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