the failure of u.k. security services to prevent the beheading of a soldier in london puts them under scrutiny as the islamist linked attack threatens to further divide british society. riots rage on for. schools and far police have pleaded for reinforcements to contain violence in the swedish capital. lucian of the war on terror again vows to shut guantanamo bay but defends the cia's drone strikes as heartbreaking necessary our top stories this hour.

on screen online international news and current life from a studio sent to here in moscow this is. british security forces will face serious questions from parliament over the machete murder of a soldier in london it's been revealed that two of the suspects have been known to m i five for some time the edge of taxes beheaded their victim in broad daylight on wednesday saying it was revenge for britain's military action abroad sara furthur ports now from london. a flag at half mast a grizzly attack with a machete style knife and a murdered soldier his death leaves behind a two year old son the seemingly behind this priest a max seeking to bring scenes of violence usually seen in war ravaged parts of the world to the london suburb of will in a poignant interview r.t. spoke to an army officer he told us of the reaction among some in the armed forces to remain anonymous anger at the moment and i'm. not

scared scared. you never get someone to. be scared i witness accounts of the precise attack details the men chanting is the missed logan's as the body of soldier drama leverage to be a second battalion the royal regiment is they only pleading they asked people to d.d.a. then if you listen to the words of the attackers themselves it's clear that they will wish to bring the war which they saw prosecuted on the streets of baghdad and kabul to the streets of london to speaking at a press conference london mayor boris johnson again many senior political figures are trying to distance this latest act of violence in the case of recent aid to seize exploits this is not a question of blaming the religion of islam it is certainly not a question of blaming any aspect of british foreign policy or what our british troops are do in operations abroad when they risk our lives on behalf of all of us

the london mayor in charge at the time of the london two thousand and five bombings disagrees they are lying they are completely complicit with the united states policy to cite tony blair was with george bush they are prepared to stand and say well we think this strategy has been a disaster it has been just announced not just for the young man killed on the streets of london but for the hundreds of thousands of. people in afghanistan and in iraq who've been killed a simple reality if you invade other people's countries they come back it's one side of an argument but one that's going to be weighing heavily on many now that this has hit so close to home you feel less secure i think that's one ace. you think if we went out there then perhaps a bit more space scope for al qaeda to produce the sounds they'd be operate more

with in u.k. because when we're out there with strict and spice and not allowing them that freedom and then for now then that means that bicycle prices i mean he was we can both say the arguments because we're out there we're inspiring them all motivates in them our presence out there is sort of motivating the selves that back in the u.k. to operate more and carry out more attacks as the police investigation continues a deep sense of guilt and outrage from the local community here in southeast london at that briefing that tag and they sentiment echoed across the country as people struggle to come to terms with how a crime like that could happen here so i'll say london the murderous in a rise of attacks against muslims report suggests there were several dozen isn't a phobic crimes committed across britain on wednesday night extra police have been deployed to muslim sites well earlier i discussed the issue with ian donges editor of politics dot com what you can call us could be from the right wing british

national party. things one. of the existence of minorities who are violent the other the justification. and i absolutely agree the british would embody is that these us there are i do remember that the british guy and. also people of the church that were being one kind of now they think this guy and he's talking about supporting giving us who are trying to defeat the president assad who are those governing us and. so they contradictions old british foreign policy combine with social issues are the core of the program socially are you saying that multiculturalism is failing that in britain it's interesting you're europe won and you're representing british interests clearly hasn't failed for you. well they're putting things. to

words like multiculturalism and integration you know when you look at but. what imma get a should be responsible immigration just be a to get tools you have to get across the u.k. people who find difficulties to find you to be integrate. all right and they don't want to also get the fact that example it's immigration isn't working it's irresponsible and there isn't enough included in this efficiencies that. you know that on so of course the major problem the real id the other one makes a major problem with what he's saying is that his acts of terrorism really conducted by the far right you very generously describe the b.n.p. as a right wing party idea they're not right wing they're far right they're a fascist party and the acts of violence that they perpetrate against mosques against property the threats against muslims these are also acts of terrorism these

are also acts of violence by non-state actors for political means well i've got to learn from and i have something to do with with my father i have like i think that i say share is done by right wing fanatics and i have to get us all to the person. the other person who spoke and the signori completely defunct but i personally have an open dialogue with most communities that recently i had a debate with muslim communities in books in but the city in london about these very issues. for important staff will be voters will tell you about the. issue of these racist you should learn to read what are you know proud of on ok just listen to mr dunn now please but you know i wouldn't don't know we don't know we don't. have websites people. for all.

people frome from the. let me really judge the members all its allies are meeting our website and some other lunatics who also agree with your demented view of the world however that does not mean that you know what is there what is the mission of the world's he is not yet if you just look just for it is that it does not just cost you shorted the british people died there a pull by what's happened they want to stroll response from government they don't want a reaction that could be tempered by fears of political incorrectness what should be done there's going to be some strong reaction surely political correctness really has no connection to where the you have a viable response to a terrorist incident stopping terrorism is about having joined up services for intelligence agencies by the police by mental health authorities by schools by the muslim community these are the kind of sensible i don't mean that you take to prevent violence and what about the maintenance as well because a lot of fives you. misunderstand that it is something to do with an intrinsic

nature of islam ok mr did mention the fact that you can't have the manpower to track all these people down but surely there has been a lack of surveillance of many people who say we need to step up that now so what so-called snooping on people because clearly they were on the five radar but they got through i mean is that do you think that people be as you just make something very clear. where we don't really know what is how serious i mean there's a lot of people talking without any access to the information required to make a coherent judgment we know yes that they're one of my part it wasn't that it was a free country and they're even say it isn't all that might make your own intelligence list and not be tracked at all times i'm afraid that these things do sometimes happen terrible as they get mr particular they gave over my five they paid over my five toking in the council called ones say that. thousand and five the security services in the united kingdom of a mom or neither. every single song suspect who to be bald.

that is cave five talking now if you if you carry on in bathing out of countries killing muslims in iraq afghanistan and everywhere. you go how you we're going have ever enough security services to counter the unger of these people in down to editor politics dot com you can call us from the right wing british national party i spoke to him earlier today about the anti islam backlash caused by the machete murder in london earlier this week. meanwhile in sweden stockholm is reeling as two schools a police station and dozens of cars were set ablaze in the fifth night of riots twelve people were arrested as writers and police clashed with stone throwing youths in poor largely immigrant districts of the swedish capital of reports from

the suburb of who's been where the troubles first fled. nice neat and normal not the type of place you would expect to see this. speak on the outskirts of stockholm the epicenter of sweden's issues with race and that's bubbling over in sweden you get welfare you get access to the education system up to university level you get access to public transport to libraries to health care to everything and still they feel that they need to throw stones and molotov cocktails it's ridiculous it's a bad excuse the violence in the peaceful city become political football the swedish democrats are exploiting these events they make it all about immigration to suit their needs they see being anti immigrant as being pro sweden for the past week stone throwing in car burning become the norm in this part of town known for

its high unemployment predominantly immigrant population all sparked after a sixty nine year old man was gunned down by police while brandishing a knife that let loose a barrage of emotions it's what it creates type of getaways ation of men so they move everyone from abroad into these parts of town when it comes to unemployment sweden is below the average of almost one quarter of under twenty five out of work prompting some to say it's time for further action saying a lack of control by government has led them to the situation the police can put the ride down in five minutes if the politicians were to allow them although swedes defer over what caused this week's violence they are in agreement that it's government policy that must be changed to avoid scenes like this being repeated on the streets of stockholm peter all of r.t.

sweden. blogger and social commentator. says an open debate on immigration is needed now in sweden. one must now and that's very generous. actually you know you burn more fuel than is the case in progress or longer but beneath that is the never ending story like i'm going to be part of the group and probably it is high time that we can start making demands are we going there are going to have to learn the language of work or how can do something in order to get an employer accept rights that these so called a very pretty good part of the united. ohio appear to rise so far and you see these problems we learn from. some of the frost and former barriers and her very realistic immigration policy which means there when there are so many there

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news continues here on all t. a new face to the war on terror was unveiled by president obama in a major speech on america's national defense policy is for the second time in five years he promised to try and shut guantanamo bay but when it came to drone warfare the president appeared less enthusiastic about change promising only very guidelines a washington correspondent reports. president obama says he's appointing new people new on voice at the state department and the pentagon who will specifically work on the transfers of one ton of detainees it is not really specify when the transfers

will begin or how this will be done but he did say the administration is lifting the ban on transfers to yemen the yemenis are the largest single group of prisoners at guantanamo just two six out of eighty six detainees who've been cleared for release are from yemen and president obama also says he asked congress to lift restrictions on bringing the detainees to the u.s. to be tried by military commissions here in the state looks like after all these years of inaction indifference and injustice one time a detainees finally got president obama's attention whether it's just really sad that it took a massive hunger strike and so much physical suffering for them to be heard remember we've heard president obama talk about closing the prison five years ago nothing happened moreover he signed a law that made indefinite detention legal he shut down the office of the state department that was working on the transfers and just two months ago a pentagon official was in congress asking for nearly two hundred million dollars to renovate the prison so just a little while ago the prospect of closing the prison seemed so very distant now it

seems we could be seeing some action on the part of the administration but president obama has never been a guantanamo fan his preferred strategy is targeted assassinations the administration has been very secretive about how they determine the targets innocent people have died in those strikes and it has contributed to the growth of extremism in places like pakistan but we've heard the president mitigate the adverse effect that the drone strikes are having he of course underscored that the drones keep u.s. troops out of the battlefield he spoke extensively about how much he likes drones as opposed to other military strategies at one point he said putting u.s. troops on the ground would trigger an international crisis would lead to more anger among the locals which begs the question where the bombing from air does not trigger an international crisis or whether the local somehow like being bombed more than being shot it the u.n. has questioned the legality of the use of drones and here's how the president addressed the issue america cannot take strikes wherever we choose our actions are

bound by consultations with partners and respect for state sovereignty. america does not take strikes to punish individuals we act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the american people when the president talks about consultations with other countries one should mention that you have the whole population of pakistan its parliament unanimously opposing the drone strikes so the administration may be in consultation with the governments of those countries but obviously not the people there the president said this wednesday he signed a presidential policy guidance on the use of drones which is supposed to lead to establishment of some guidelines oversight and accountability now also on the issue of legality did mr ation still operate under the congress authorization for the use of military force adopted in two thousand and one which says the u.s. is at war with al qaeda and its affiliates based on the threats that the president talked about in the speech and he talked about the threat coming from al qaeda

a few different parts of the world the war on terror is still on and the drones are here to stay so obama is going to have to try another go have another go shouting going to the mobo but attorney david remes who represents seventeen going to move inmates to an even worse start the second attempt. we had been led to expect at least in the media that president obama would do something constructive all he offered however were the same empty promises that he's offered before he continues to defend indefinite detention he is going to appoint an envoy who has no power to do anything beyond what obama allows him to do he keeps plame in congress for the problem when he has the authority to transfer men and appointing a special envoy actually he didn't he simply designated a point person within the pentagon to address these issues my fear is that people will conclude from listening to this speech that there is forward motion the

problem has been solved guantanamo is closed and everybody can go on to other things that's exactly what happened in two thousand and nine and i'm very sorry that there was no forward movement here exultant democrats are hailing above speech is a new beginning a sentiment shared by republicans they cues the president of sector fighting national security even during obama's speech there was dissent with an angry audience member being escorted out and only my colleague over twenty outlined why the woman forced him to go off script something that we haven't seen really before was that the presidential veneer the the obama veneer was punctured somewhat by a heckler in the audience and i think we can have a listen and have a look at how obama dealt with not he when he went to. we went on.

we're addressing. the heckler was media benjamin of code pink with the heckling itself and that it took place is a real indication of. angry people are as far as we could pick up on the audio she she she pretty much addressed every element of obama's obama's speech so she called on him to compensate families who have been destroyed by joint strike drone strikes and she called on them to close guantanamo bay called called on him to release the prisoners who have been set for release for up to ten years from the camp that he dealt with he's a consummate performer and he dealt with it very well as any politician of his stature would he be point to the fact that free speech allowed this lady to have an

opinion and he felt she went on a bit and i think about stagey and after a minute or so we've had certainly had enough for me the key takeaway is. the policy of. strikes it needs to be changed obama is definitely trying to move responsibility for growing strikes drone strikes out of the shadow of the cia and into the department of defense and he's certainly trying to do something about guantanamo but i think the key takeaway in the key lesson is that these two elements of u.s. policy of the so-called war on terror are absolutely unsustainable when it comes to obama's drone based war on terrorism or activist david swanson feels the changes the president proposed don't go far enough. he claims that he is going to further limit his murder by drone program including applying these arbitrary criteria met in secret by himself to his own satisfaction and if these reforms and

limitations are needed on this program then what of the conduct of this program here too for what security threat was a sixteen year old boy what security threat are the thousands of victims of these drone strikes including children and women and seniors and so-called signature strikes these are strikes to kill people without knowing their name based on behavior that suggests they might be resisting an occupation of their country what about strikes at rescuers well documented strikes at the rescuers of victims of previous strikes what imminent threat to the united states are those strikes preventing or are they not rather the economy. the new primary we're proving tool of anti-american terrorism well later today abby martin discusses america's future fight against terrorism and breaking the set has a quick preview point. characters are deeply ambivalent about war. but having

fought for our independence we know a price must be paid for freedom a price for freedom well let's just break down how costly this so-called freedom has just been in the last twelve years over six thousand six hundred u.s. servicemen and women have been killed in iraq and afghanistan but the civilian death count as much more grave in yemen and pakistan drone strikes have killed almost three thousand four hundred people so that's a really heavy human cost for that so-called freedom and i'm not even talking about the six trillion dollar price tag of the afghanistan and iraq wars according to a new harvard study so how is the war on terror really even keeping us free. some other international headlines in brief british fighter jets have intercepted

a passenger plane arriving from pakistan after security was reported on board the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing just north of london and was raided by police two men were arrested for endangering the aircraft allegedly after they tried to enter the cockpit. the u.n. has footage that could confirm syrian rebels used chemical weapons in aleppo in march the material provided by russian journalists includes video from the surge of the and its incidents and interviews with eyewitnesses and doctors who examined the victims it's still unclear whether it was the rebels or the syrian army who used the alleged weapons u.n. experts have been stopped from investigation by syria who chooses them of being under western pressure. at least eight people were wounded in two killed in the taliban attack in the center of kabul several powerful explosions rocked the area near a u.n. compound in a gunfight erupted several minutes and took shelter in a house using guns and grenade launchers to shoot back at police. more news

for you in about thirty minutes with me in the news team in the meantime peter lavelle is here with the crosstalk that's after the break. paranoia and zero tolerance policies strikes yet again the latest in a string of children being punished for making gun noises or playing with toy guns involves the son of a u.s. marine who had the audacity as a child to use his imagination and p. pretended his pencil was our gun bang children imitate what they see in every t.v. channel and in many video games kids are going to see a lot of guns in fact the boy at that moment was admirably pretending to be just like his father a u.s. marine you know guns kind of come with that job description rather than complain

you all again about the obvious idiocy of zero tolerance policies against children playing let me give one suggestion to actually help fix the problem there are so many teachers and school administrators across america that i bet many of you know one of them try talking them well at the madness of zero tolerance a lot of people do things just because they were told to or they never thought about it before so please dear friends try to get teachers you know to actually think about it i can complain on t.v. all day long but one conversation from a friend or relative really could change many people's minds maybe but that's just my opinion.