and what facts might they be looking at to establish to determine the cause of the crash and how much clarity will those blank boxes provide. i rely on mainly on the on the cockpit voice recorder because it's quite unlikely that the crew has not communicated before the question usually of course is there is a problem in the cockpit and the two pilots communicate try to resolve it settle the problem into the something to each other ask questions and make tests or whatever. it is most likely would also be the case here so let's wait for the results of the crop it was recorded indeed aviation lore expert to elm our game a left thank you for your time sir. only four months after its liberation from islamic state people from the syrian city of raka are slowly returning to what's left of their homes but many buildings in the city remain riddled with land mines and booby traps and locals say they've been left to take on

the reconstruction by themselves. was still a thirty year we were forced to leave our homes because of ice and when we returned we found everything we used to rubble and look at all the devastation rock is a ghost city. the minute we're living in the midst of destruction we feel completely abandoned everything around has been destroyed. the city lies in rubble that have to be to remove the debris with all money there's no running water so we have to buy in barrels and the us coalition caused the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water supply in clearing the rubble.

i found a man on the streets near my house my friend and i tried to detonate it from a distance but it didn't go off we thought the mind didn't work and work towards it it's exploded my friend was killed i survived. a former terror suspect blows the whistle on security failings at london's busiest airport and got all the details for you after this short break stay with us. that was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles of. the new socks for the tell you that gossip like my. mother has been telling you all and i like. that

we all. want. normie manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round let's be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. welcome back russian athletes have won their second medal at the winter olympics in south korea a silver in the figure skating with cali kind of that getting gold on the u.s.

bronze medal was secured by fifteen year old lena the gates of a he's making her debut at the games but a fellow athletes not actually competing was far from complimentary on her twitter account a twenty six year old american sega skater actually was no accuse the russian silver medalist of killing time in her program and condemned her tactics in which she was of to have jumps for the second half of the routine and the remarks have sparked a furious reaction online i personally disagree that this wasn't a program it matches the belly of relatively well maybe you're just jealous you can't compete with that stamina and those jumping passes your face looks a big green with envy it's just your envy you can't jump like that in the second half and even in the first i know you're just trolling but also true. we got reaction from russian coaches on wagner's comments who told us it's points that win prizes. ashley wagner has done

a lot for figure skating she's an outstanding athlete the rules for the competitions have changed and it's like accounting we simply need points it's not about beauty in order to win you need to do what alina as a get over did today. as well as the competitive side there's also the social aspect to the games with most nations hosting their own hospitality house is there no russia of course isn't officially represented at the olympics but there's still a corner of pyongyang that feels very much russian as been finding out. as usual there are all kinds of national houses at the olympics and young chang the likes of the hall and house near the coast the countries like austria and switzerland naturally settled a bit higher in the mountains and since team russia doesn't officially exist here the traditional russian house doesn't either or isn't that a mature orsha. to

make sure russian fans have a home in korea it took a few tricks after all the i.o.c. must be respected the place is called the sports house obviously you find wide blue and red in the design but never specifically in the recognizable pattern like here's white and black in between what could appear to be flags stripes no official russian symbols the mentors because i haven't become official right other than that pure i ration fun and spirit.

among the attractions here are these hockey jerseys from every year at the olympics that russia one goes but this one from nine hundred ninety two like here in korea you won't find the letters russia or the u.s.s.r. i'll ask the guests if they know why and why did russia compete under a neutral flag at the olympics twenty six years ago and see the money i don't own voice you see what is. this increase. and i don't know sorry. i don't know i got some clues for you countries take turns with a while hey look a little respect to the i.o.c. it was just you know one of you i think it's number one finally i'm meant arguing over that patton at the same reason. that. told me i don't think so no i think it's. the third one russia looks just establishes

a country so being unique loves russia was just established as a country that's when the soviet union. had its break up so neutral flags weren't always down to the i.o.c. sanctions. have a drink go our tea young chang. one of the world's busiest airports london's heathrow in the u.k. is being accused of lax security a former terrorist suspect with a string of criminal convictions was reportedly given access to sensitive areas like the runway with no background checks made our correspondent in the city a check and picks up the story. another highly concerning incident circulating in the press here in the u.k. it's been reported that a former terrorist suspect and a criminal with seventeen aliases was able to get a job at heathrow airport which is in fact one of the busiest airports in the

country without as what's being described as proper security and background checks and being able to allegedly get as close to things like luggage area as well as airplanes it's being reported that this thirty one year old man had a criminal record lasting over a decade including for things like threats to kill robbery money laundering and assault now he has been reported to have spent five years behind bars previously and it's said that he was interviewed by anti terror fish oils as much as five times in the last two years now those charges against him were dropped however he must have been on some kind of watch list following all of those developments however this is exactly what is raising questions as to how this story was even able to unravel now curiously this man worked as a kitchen porter in the business and first class lounges at heathrow airport and he

himself has said that the fact that he was able to do so is a disgrace and he was trying to show a loophole in the security system the security procedures are a disgrace and need to be exposed i'm not an extremist a terrorist i love and want to protect it i can believe how close i can get to the planes and luggage i can't believe stuff with you through don't get checked it's crazy well it seems that heathrow airport officials seem to believe that there's not very much to worry about in relation to those developments. the conditions of. the individual to be constantly school to. start was also subject to robust and security each time he gained access to certain areas we've contacted the metropolitan police who have told us that they would not discuss such matters and i would have to be said that this man's temporary pass was active for just several

days it's been since been revoked and he no longer has this job but however the fact that this even came out of course raises lots of questions about the state of security especially this not being the first time that something like this unravels and i'm joined by chris phillips the former head of britain's national counterterrorism security officer mr phillips good to have you with us this hour now what do you think what we're seeing here is this particular case is just a one off and you know what is that about hey throws security procedures do you think. well it is not likely to be a one off and i would suggest that this is probably the similar situation in most airports around the world the simple fact is that airports employ huge numbers of people within their within their grounds some of got certain rights and others haven't and i think one of the big issues for them is is temporary staff and people coming in short notice and they realize to a great extent of sub contractors and subcontractors coming in have to do the same

levels of checks as those that work full time so i think this is a problem for heathrow it's a problem for all airports and if you think of the damage that an insider can do they can bring airplanes down as we saw a few years ago in sharm el shaikh insider is one of the most dangerous things that we can face and all airports owe it to us flyers to make sure that they're doing all the right checks and the man at the center of this story said the goal of this was to expose the lack of security and hey throw the person was a terrorist suspect they had criminal convictions that if he had really wanted to carry out an attack how easy would it have been given the access he had. well i think the airport heathrow airport said that he had a very limited pass so that that only allowed him to get to certain parts of the airport and also whatever he took into the airport had to go through some form of search and screening i think it would have been very difficult for him to do

anything however that's not the point the point is that all airports should really be making sure that their subcontractors are checked and and accredited with the same degree of. accuracy as those people that work there full time so it is worrying and what i would say again this is not just heathrow this is a problem worldwide if we want to keep ourselves safe when we're flying we need to make sure that the airports and the airlines and the providers of services within airports are really doing their job to a credit start to make sure that they're not a threat to us was be held accountable for such a security lapse and do you think anybody will be held responsible after this exposé well of course the reputational issues are for heathrow but also for the company that employed this man. my understanding is that he was on a short term basis and probably in the catering and from the catering side and of course catering units have real difficulties in filling their staff up and have to

take people sometimes at short notice but that's just not good enough the catering company should make sure that they're doing their checks accrediting people you can't get away with this just because you give a false name that's got to be more to it than that because airports have been consistently targeted by terrorists and will be consistently terror targeted in the future so it's really important that the catering companies get their act together and also the airport make sure that they're catering companies are the right thing as well it's a quick phillips on the head of britain's national counterterrorism security office thank you for your time. thank you well do you get in touch and show you thoughts on the day's stories by following us on social media and i'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines for you that.

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welcome to sophie and killing sophie shevardnadze don't trump has locked horns with his own intelligence and law enforcement how damaging can the rift between the white house and the american intelligence get well i asked him a decade ca veteran. in a public scandalous political cycle with the investigation of president trump putting them in an intense spotlight but his national. intelligence agency. the professionals at the cia and f.b.i. escape the polarization of politics. public and will therefore radically change the situation in the country. we're all follow it larsen former cia veteran who served as moscow section chief among other politicians welcome to the show it's really

great to have you with us. now wolf the american intelligence community has been accused of being politicized many times in a bush sheriffs' to politicians use it to justify well now agencies are again the world in a political scandal i know you pride yourself on your colleagues for being patriotic nonpolitical but can you really be about politics in this line of work i mean that sounds kind of like fairy tale almost. i think it's a standard you have to strive for have been a lifelong political independent for that reason that you outlined that it's crucial for intelligence officers to be independent and objective and serve the country not just the president and the government but we are also all citizens now the intel they were our taxpayer funded they have no private sector competition appointments there are made by politicians how can all that not be politicized.

actually the in the intelligence profession all of our officers are career professionals we spend our entire career inside the agency in my case i was undercover for my twenty three years in cia living abroad for most of those years and frankly i really felt it was not that difficult to me maintain my impartiality and i think you have to do that whether you're collecting information or analyzing it or disseminating it which is this initial mission of intelligence you have to maintain an ability to tell your policymakers the truth in other words speak truth to power. is that right for an intelligence professional to design for a high political office for instance the media in the us are saying that director of the cia might compel maybe replacing secretary of state rex tillerson singh staring too much into political territory. there's always a healthy discussion about the idea of particularly former intelligence

professionals getting involved in politics i personally don't agree with that as a principle for the same reason for military officers getting involved in politics but my pay zero was a representative who and often are cia directors or they are political appointees pointy and he's in a long line of cia directors who are political appointees and that that is the way our system operates just like many of our ambassadors overseas are part of a line politically always with the president so i don't find that worrisome or disturbing i think it's much more important that the the ranks of the intelligence officers remain professionalized how much freedom the cia have and decisions and when for instance bush administration ran torture prisons and then obama came in and closed them that the agency has the power to decide for itself whether you need things like that and whether it's ethical to use them. that's a great question

a sophia i feel the intelligence community has a good set of guidelines it starts with a given set of authorities we have in other words we can conduct certain activities are we call our mission without special authority for example the mission of espionage is a core intelligence mission of all intelligence services we can do that without seeking approval when we do something like interrogation or enhanced interrogation or have prisons that requires actually what we call a covert action finding that it requires a a finding from our department of justice that we can do that ik to vittie as well as very strict legal guidelines that are laid out in writing for the agency to follow and at the times when we we run afoul of that when we when we are accused of crossing the line we're held accountable by whatever standard has been laid out by our department of justice and our other authorities that are above us you know the

involvement on government agencies in this presidential election some starting from the f.b.i. role in the clinton e-mails now the trump investigation investigating both candidates and being quite public about it. it's unprecedented unprecedented in that i mean why has the intelligence community taken on this reasonable and political role this time around. i agree with you actually i find it very regrettable very concerned about the politicization of intelligence i do agree it's happening to some extent i think the f.b.i. and the cia are still very reliable organizations that that are following their their guidelines i still have complete trust and confidence in the organizations but you're right there's the questions do arise and it's because of the highly politicized nature of our domestic politics right now between the republicans and the democrats and between those who support the president those who don't support the president so i agree it's a very concerning time and i think it's going to be

a time when we in a way redefine our limits you know what is the proper role of the cia and the f.b.i. in the in our domestic affairs and we've learned in our history from the past that we should stay out of american politics and the house intelligence committee has released a republican numinous report which contains allegations that f.b.i. and let the judge in obtaining permission to spy on trump's presidential campaign this report has already been branded inaccurate and is a part of the blame game or is there some substance to this. personally i think it's the blame game that's my personal view the nunez paper in my view is a republican version of cherry picking the facts as they choose to present them and now i understand there's another version circulating this the democratic version i frankly find that whole process to be regrown also not something i'm proud of as an

american i'd prefer to see both parties sit down disks and discuss these things not in the public eye without declassifying or releasing classified information i think all of that is not something i as an american citizen that i would endorse or or say is a good thing especially as trump's election things haven't been like they used to that before like from what i understand about the american system the nation's foreign policy is largely decided in the white house and the state department and then there's a congress in the senate and they're more preoccupied was internal matters this time congress is so active in pushing his foreign policy vision on the president why. well i think that's true generally sophia and of course we also have the national security council and unlike russia and some other countries china and others that have a more continuity in foreign policy work and making we don't do largely through the political nature of our system we run in for a year cycles a lot

a large part of that which is consumed with electioneering and campaigning and i think that's a weakness of our system i still of course believe in the representative government idea that we that we sacrifice this continuity of stability in our policymaking but it is it is a vulnerability or a weakness and you can really see it right now because. largely because we are dealing with unprecedented issues that we've never had that considered we've never had such an aggressive intelligence attack if you will on the american democratic institutions and our and our election process that we just had in the previous election that has caused a great deal of this i think a soul searching inside the u.s. so what is coming out of the issue the trump russia story you said yourself there's no hard evidence yet yet of trump straight on collision with russia so why does the public believe it to be a fact and the media in america report such as the facts and also. i hope the

american people or the media don't believe it is a fact sophie i i i see it as the facts are clear that for whatever reason and i question why the russian intelligence services. attacked our system so aggressively but i think that as a fact i don't i don't think that's deniable the question then is what did that do and what impact did that have on the results of the election and for what reason did russian intelligence conduct that activity i don't have the answers to those questions and i won't speculate because i think that would be irresponsible i think we have to determine what happened and then decide what happened on the basis of the evidence and i don't think we're there yet. that's the think i don't know that anyone has presented the evidence and then the facts have been presented to the public by intelligence agencies american public has been misled intentionally or

not by its intelligence community many times like i am i'm thinking w m d's in iraq for instance since the consequences of that are still felt fifteen years or so widely wholehearted face in what the intelligence is telling them about russia now especially what you're saying it's a fact but every time russia asks to show them the facts they they they are unable to provide them. just like with iraq. i think that's a legitimate i think that's a legitimate accusation sofi to the extent that it puts pressure on the u.s. intelligence community to do something it's hard to do which is to present the if you will the secret facts or the story i don't even know frankly the secret story because i don't have a reason i need to know that as a retired cia officer however if they do present the facts there's a risk of of compromising what we call sources and our methods which would of

course not not be good so the question is how much evidence should be provided to the american people i'm personally and i stress this is my personal view an advocate of declassifying as much information as possible and presenting it to the american people and to present it to the russian government i think we really need is to initiate a process that we negotiate an end to this kind of aggressive cyber hacking and interference in our one another's domestic affairs if president putin believes the u.s. is interfering in russian domestic affairs or internal affairs it's not a good approach to interfere in our affairs in order to get us to stop doing it so i think it's in the interest of both sides a sit down and and talk this over and try to avoid a repetition of what happened in two thousand and sixteen in the future. ok let's take a short break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking to cia veteran

ralf malek larsen governess by age assistance mission and that's today's twelve tensional stay tuned.