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a shooting incident u.s. national security agency marlin leaves several people injured according to the n.s.a. the suspected shooter being detained also coming up on the program. enough of sweet nothings of this uncertain approach. a few remaining says come from the government i accept that this morning i'm not going to. dissuade. britain's foreign secretary say those opposing brag to our british train country boris johnson defends the u.k.'s exit from the european union during a media grilling. on the dutch foreign minister quit feeling that he lied about a meeting with the russian president in two thousand and six when he claimed that
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we were putin spoke about ambitions for a greater russia. live from moscow every hour of the day this international my name's you know neal good to have your company we begin our bullets in in the us where a shooting incident house on folded outside the national security agency headquarters at fort meet several people have been taken to hospital according to an n.s.a. statement but out of their injuries are not attributable to gun fire authorities say the instant is over and under control with more on that here's our t. sim your account. the shooting took place just outside the n.s.a. headquarters at one of its secure entry gates and according to a statement from the n.s.a. several people have been hospitalized and local reports say that
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a security guard was injured and then taken to the hospital immediately following the attack and we don't know the particulars regarding who was responsible but photos came out on social media showing a black van and a handcuffed man sitting on the ground and you can also see a bullet holes on the little windshield of the van and the f.b.i. has sent personnel to respond to the incident but the n.s.a. says that the incident is under control and local authorities have more that highway m d a thirty two is closed in both directions advising drivers to take alternate routes and expect long delays and a president trump has reportedly been briefed on the shooting but we haven't heard anything else from the white house now this isn't the first time there's been an attack at the n.s.a. headquarters back in twenty fifteen two men disguised as women rammed a stolen van into the agency's gates now the attack left one person dead and two injured so far we're not sure how serious today's incident is but the numbers haven't even been confirmed yet so we're just going to have to wait to hear from
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authorities the u.s. says no joining in the chorus of growing concern coming out of europe over foreign fighters returning to their home shores washington urged its allies particularly britain to pay more attention to citizens who fled europe to join the terrorist organization or year the u.k. defense secretary said they should not be allowed to return home i don't think they should ever set food in this country again they turned their back on britain use everything we stand for then the worst of the worst we're working with the coalition on foreign fighter detainees and generally expect these detainees to return to their country of origin for disposition. well another british official suggested extreme measures be taken the minister for international development said several months ago that the only way to deal with returning fighters was to kill them for fighters of u.k.
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origin who come back are facing prison sentences some european countries have tried to reintegrate former eisel fighters back into society in denmark former even received apartments and jobs to promote reintegration we are we heard opposing views from our guests on how to deal with returning to have. initially britain said we're going to make them stateless remove their passports not going to allow them reentry other countries then said let's take a more light approach some of the nordic nations said let's try to repatriate them have counted radicalisation programs which in part have actually been quite successful in some areas at the same time then the u.s. is now taking the lead and the u.s. defense said foreign countries need to repatriate their own citizens and deal with them using the rule of law and i think that's a sensible way to go they should not come back here it's as simple as that because they've committed the crimes abroad so why should the taxpayers. foot the bill for
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all this rehabilitation and all the shore and then probably that they're in jail for quite a while that cost more money when these crimes have been committed of course let the authorities deal with him under the rule of law in them. you know there are lots of different stories about what happens to these people if we make them stateless stand simply they will stay out there they will keep breeding extremism terrorism and radicalization and they'll keep killing and they'll keep hating us so we have it's a problem have to deal with you can't hide from it you cannot fall back on this british passport so you know i committed atrocities abroad but all for we british passport into the mix so we get sent back home no how do we know people have committed crimes without putting the evidence in front of them and putting them on trial just to assume people went out there so i want to go out of here in london regularly on trial here and go on in my own regularly well these are obviously the the u.n. is so weak. the you again is so weak just nonexistent the should have. should have the un peacekeeping forces making safe and so we could properly categorize
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these people rather than so ok these people go into fight for whichever side these people fight. against but now because they're fighting for the kids to be in class here it becomes a ridiculous situation. well in russia generally the most dangerous former journalists are imprisoned though in the past a number did join the radicalization programs which closed however one case has come to light in the country a former fighter sees he escaped the terror group and turned himself in to the russian security services he then face trial in russia but was later released the court explained that he was never involved in combat and also cooperated with the investigation after admitting his guilt our team members to speak with him about his time in syria. i got interested and started reading forums and watching video online i was given
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a phone number of a person who could help me get to syria he is sure me that those who came could leave it any time and no one would be kept there but they immediately took away our documents and telephones it was a shock for me i felt helpless everything was different from what they told me. in syria he lost a leg in an earth strike before finally deciding to flee he's now working closely with security services and has been shown a certain amount of leniency your action was one of the thousands of russians who went to syria and iraq to join us. to their own. after an explosion i lost my sight and felt a sudden pain i realized my leg had been torn off i had surgery and went through rehabilitation at the same time they were making a prosthetic leg for me while i was lying in the hospital people came up to me and tried to convince me to become
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a suicide bomber and they said that i anyway had no leg what else could i do i couldn't refuse directly it could have caused a suspicion. i was first overcome with joy while on a bus in turkey and only once i was in russia did i realize i had managed to escape and sort of i went to the f.s.b. department and wrote a confession i decided that it would be better i was interrogated a lot and i told them the whole story now i have a new family i married a russian muslim girl i work at a construction company and still stick to islam but i don't want to go to mosques anymore i want to avoid questions. to the u.k. and it's planned exit from the european union the british foreign secretary boris johnson has been giving an update on the divorce negotiations with the view which many have criticised for lack of progress with the story here's laura smith. this
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is the first in a series of six speeches to be made by cabinet members in the next three weeks boris johnson has opened this series of speeches in titled road to bret's it and it was an address aimed at persuading people who do think that leaving the e.u. is a very good idea that it's actually all about hope and opportunity but in the same breath saying that reversing that decision would be a very bad idea here is a fear that some people are becoming ever more determined to stop brics it to reverse the referendum vote of june twenty third twenty sixteen and frustrate the will of the people i believe that would be a disastrous mistake that would lead to permanent and in the radical feelings of betrayal he's identified three main fears that people who don't want to leave the e.u. have they talk about security the fear that it would cost the u.k. address to fend for itself they talk about it being a pulling up of the drawbridge that bret's it is synonymous with xenophobia and
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also of course economic worries that britain would be worse off outside the single market and the customs union so johnson this morning tried to address those fears in turn the consensus is a speech that as i say was long on what full and slightly off color jokes but very short on detail which is arguably what might make some remain as change their minds about bret's it on twitter of course opposition m.p.'s were very quick to point this out yvette cooper said that with thirteen months to go what we need is this is a not bluster and david lammy made a similar point we've heard it all before a few bad jokes and a few long words even boris himself was sounding a little bit desperate by the end he hears under a hail of questions from journalists enough of your sweet nothings with the clarity do you think that you are the right person to be reaching out to to those remaining do you worry that this uncertain approach to break sits there with feeding this country is because we have a pm who weren't so sure vote for it today some of the anger that
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a few. remain is has come from your own government i except this morning i'm not going to. persuade everybody but i've got to i've got to try and i've got to make the effort because in the end these are people's feelings and people's feelings matter to questions that remain that were also asked today's media conference and that is whether boris is the man to deliver this message and of course whether it's actually too little too late. america's top diplomat is on the relations building tour across the middle east one of the hot topics on the early legs of rex tillerson strip is donald trump's the session to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital important to note that when president truman made his decision regarding the drizzling he also made two very important points as well one of which was. where he was not advocating for any changes to the status quo as to oversee
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all the holy sites and secondly he made clear that the positions on the final boundaries are borders of jerusalem is that is a matter that's left for the parties to negotiate and discuss. well back in december president trump threw his support behind israel's claims over the city of jerusalem saying that the u.s. would move its embassy there from tel aviv on the you know it's been sparked violent protests around the world. her. the. very. day that. let's dig a little bit deeper into the u.s.
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secretary of state two are nowhere to meet three a member of the fatah revolutionary council i'm supposed to have you back on the program how successful do you think rex tillerson this trip is going to be what i assume is his number one agenda here improving relations with middle eastern countries. i think this is doesn't go beyond a public relations effort after the. the mess that was caused by trump's decision on the collaboration on to islam back in december i don't think you will be successful he is known to be a lightweight in the u.s. foreign policy especially pertaining to the middle east as he admitted himself the peace plan that he talks about it's only you have seen it he have seen points in it that these are his words so in other words the secretary of state has no idea what
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he's talking about. also on the other side we know that how the donald trump runs his white house they're ones that like a corporation and he is all. the one with the idea is his own want to take credit for everything but he will push fairly on everybody else and i believe that tillotson means involvement at this point that just in case something goes bust which things are going that way in that direction in the middle east personally comes to the peace process or the nonexistent peace process i think tillerson is here just to get the blame later on that's all just looking through the schedule he's wrecked person is going to end the trip in turkey do you think he's going to expect a warm welcome from correct things have looked a little bit shady in the past number of weeks up in a. yes but we understand i mean we all have to understand that turkey is a nato ally it's member of nato and there are so much that brings. on
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this side of. israel and the united states much more than it would bring get through the rhetoric used by its official leaders namely argonne who said that he will cut off ties if donald trump declares jerusalem as a capital said israel that was a day before the declaration and until today we have yet to hear anything on the contrary they are receiving the secretary of state so. i know you're on the television course in syria of course her thing. yes they are but you know this is in syria are not so permanent in terms of who's in the same side over who at what time things have changed the only ad says that has been consistent is this. the russia and the syrian government and hizbollah otherwise everybody has been trying to change places like musical chairs
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yet another aspect here just to get your thoughts on rex tillerson believes or he say's at least that u.n. member states should increase their funding to the united nations relief agency that seems to be a beacon call for a policy palestinian refugees in in the near east you think countries are going to block his call and give money to that. people actually countries are doing bad and his call has no value once the united states has boiled down or pushed down its contribution to the honor i think it has lost a lot of status lot of influence and other countries smaller countries with less fortunes have stepped up to fill up the gap even though the gap has not been filled yet and the are what is suffering a lot and therefore children and the elderly and refugees in general passing them by fiji's have been suffering a lot as as a result direct result of the decision taken by the trumpet ministration and i mean
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i really think that the us has been losing a lot of influence especially in the middle east area with the rise of the west and star and such polls really bear no meaning as teller since specifically is becoming more and more irrelevant to politics here dmitri a member of the fossil revolutionary council thanks for your take this hour. the winter olympics in south korea has been fast paced so far but so is the weather after the break we take a look at a hurricane that's been keeping up late and. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich. but you going to be
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hello again severe weather conditions prompted the evacuation of olympic park inside creole on wednesday spectators were asked to go indoors and a number of events were postponed strong winds forced the thora to use to dismantle information tents and leave a tranquil was in the eye of the storm for us. some very serious wind issues in this part of south korea we saw earlier on wednesday for the first few days of the olympics people were complaining about the cold and then when it finally got warmer some unbearable wind gusts here just a few hours ago i was working outside the coastal olympic park in the end and we have to stop filming every other minute because it was almost impossible to work with the volunteers to stay outside and i even saw one of them being carried away and then taken away by an advil and so there have definitely already been injured reason because of the high winds i saw the temporary tents with the merchandise
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being blown away fences falling things falling off the roofs and the trees so that is the reason obviously why the fans were being told to stay indoors but again the volunteers they just have to continue doing their job so it remains incredibly dangerous for them obviously this kind of weather is a headache for the athletes and the organizers and a number of sporting events have already been postponed including al bunting skiing and biassed lawn speaking of my own duties here and beyond chang i just want to show you a few funny moments that happened to our crew a little earlier because of that very same high wind. would say this kind of thing would have been. just let's wait for the wind is
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a bit slower. to dislike it. it's a hard thing to say. it's a hard. in front of almost two fellows unknown citizens who travel to join islam mixtape intelligence sources there are sixty seven came from one particular part of suburban charlotte is there for us. a short train ride from paris is trapped on the surface there's nothing much to set aside from the thousands of other towns in the country but you don't have to scratch very deep to see that trap is very different where you won't see any non butcher shops there were i think at the moment over
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fifteen hundred prayer rooms and five mosques if you look at people on the street you won't see couples holding hands you'll see the women are dressed in strict islamic dress. there's a lot of home schooling so you couldn't really consider trap. typical french town anymore it's a little bit like a state within the state for decades it's been considered a magnet for muslim fundamentalists hardline salafism and one hobby is a widely practiced and trap has become synonymous with jihadism. and dozens of people. islamic state i was have carried out attacks on french soil have been linked. in two thousand and fifteen while the terror threat appears to. think that. there is some plain white pride remaining bad but your heart is only
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a matter of time before we have another attack the basic problem is that the ideology that's driving this and this goes much deeper than terrorist cells planning and executing attacks that ideology is so ingrained that last year a poll of french high school students revealed thirty two percent of muslim students believed islamic doctrine was superior to scientific fact another in two thousand and sixteen showed that sixty eight percent believed islamic law was superior to french law there's also concern that in an area like this that was once run. by the authorities. syria is becoming the lands. the full veil covering has been burned to the eighty's yet the police are often reluctant to intervene off the riots in two thousand and thirteen when officers try to i.d. a woman who is fully covered with
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a very very fragile situation which the government doesn't want to provoke urban riots which would quickly spread like wildfire all over france. president mccord says he wants to reorganize islam in a bid to fight fundamentalism but some experts say that's a pipe dream radicalization in places like this they say he's already far too deep rooted to dick out jollity bin ski r.t. trap. media reports that are being merkin led coalition in syria has killed dozens of russian mercenaries have raised the specter of a direct u.s. russia confrontation moscow has never responded to that. russian citizens might be in syria but they don't belong to russia's armed forces over if they do remain russian citizens once again we are calling on everyone not to move on in time to move forward from formation and serious approach in describing such an important
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issue to me because also suggested all media sources to reach out to russia's defense ministry to various facts before publishing and asked for the us side the world there has been no confirmation coming from there on the contrary the u.s. defense secretary said that he has no information that a knee a russian army servicemen were the casualties following the u.s. air strikes now a number of reports first appeared on different social media platforms last week suggesting that anywhere from several dozens to up to several hundred russian mercenaries were killed in syria and the reports of russian casualties were very quickly picked up by different international media sources including the bloomberg c.n.n. and the daily mail the new york times and many others so as it stands for now there has been no confirmation provided to regarding the story of what we could go
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pro-government forces in syria worked by the u.s. led coalition near the euphrates river the coalition says it was responding to an unprovoked attack on the syrian democratic forces headquarters there were fighting the government here we can see some of the survivors being treated at a local office. the dutch foreign minister has been forced to resign after admitting he loyd over attending a meeting with president putin in two thousand and six but in a fall over. so many don't. i mean if the boat was did. it's good. for. an emotional resignation for a. departure comes just a day before he was supposed to meet his russian counterpart in moscow let's look at whether those false claims were actually worth it because. in early two thousand
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and six i was advised to meet putin's country side house i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well vladimir putin talking about a greater russia he said this included russia reuss ukraine and the baltic states and that kazakstan would also be nice to have. has now acknowledged that it was a lie that he wasn't even in russia in two thousand and six you know described it as the biggest mistake of his political career he said he did it to protect his source reportedly been revealed as a former oil executive the businessman confirmed that although the conversation of bipolar did take place what claims was said that wasn't relevant to the actual conversation a little looks like some of his fellow dutch citizens were in agreement over it being a big mistake. not at the fill. that's a merit if that fits into a frame that you want to create but it slowly turns on you like
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a boomerang because it becomes this thing that gets linked to foreign policy experience from the trustworthiness of the netherlands is questioned internationally making things extremely difficult there's a benefit because if they need their lands wants to remain credible you can't have people saying that your minister is lying about being at a specific location at a specific time that's not right especially not about that place and that time. but some did see the funny side twitter exploded with the hushed. was right there feet as you can see photo shop pictures of him at some historic events and visiting landmarks well in fact who's to say he didn't meet looking at these pictures from the past but in more seriousness back in twenty sixteen when he that's when he first made the claims about a decade before that no one question them and at the time russia was frequently
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accused of many things including aggressive politics in response to the news the dutch prime minister quickly jumped to the defense of his no former top diplomat saying that the remarks are directly reflected russian policy at the time we spoke to journalist neil clark who believes that a climate of russia for beer takes over in such statements the idea that this man would actually come out and say that he was at this meeting with putin when in fact he wasn't actually in russia at all i mean what does it tell us it tells us that really we're in this climate at the moment of russia phobia where we're hearing from british government ministers to a lot of outlandish things about how russia is plain to invade russia is a major threat to the u.s. this is going on as well and so i think it's all in this sort of climate that it's sad really sad and of course this man has been found out but there's lots of others lots of other leading politicians to be making other claims they were actually saying that they were in the room with putin but they were making similar claims about russia about russian aggression and in fact it's all been fake news isn't it
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it's a conspiracy theory that the elites are actually peddling themselves. all right beginning in just a moment to our exclusive interview with the head of the court of arbitration for sport the main topic being the exclusion of team russia over doping accusations from this side career winter olympics. next geysers financial survival they say that the. closer to this is this is the central plank the floor diagram is the problem right now so you stop the madness of . the games have begun the younger sister of north korea's kim jong un has captured the attention of the media well u.s. vice president mike pence was mocked as a dud even undiplomatic the.
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