breaking news that a hostage situation is under way at a supermarket in southwest france the gunmen inside has pledged allegiance to eisele unconfirmed reports say one person has been shot dead. hundreds of police are now at the scene and the area has been put on lockdown. as r.t. international with me mccarran good to have you with us this hour we start with breaking news from france and number of people have been taken hostage in a supermarket by an armed man in south west of the country shots were reportedly

fired earlier on the instance being treated as a terrorist. he joins us live with the latest now charlotte so what do we know about the situation right now. well in the last few minutes we've heard the police union spokesperson here in france confirming that one person has been killed in that hostage taking situation in the south of france in the town of tire just about fifteen kilometers away from the caucus on that historic town that's well known to many people we also understand that a second person was injured in that shots that were fired inside at the supermarket we don't have any details yet as to how serious that injuries of that second hostage but this is what we've heard from the police union here in france one person is dead and another person has been injured in that hostage taking situation that's now been ongoing for the last you how as it started at quarter past eleven local time when a gunman. took people hostage inside

a super you supermarket in that town now another incident occurred just before that hostage taking situation where a group of unarmed c.r.'s police officers were apparently on a mission in the area they were jogging they come there from our say and apparently a van at attempted to try and run them over then a number of shots was shot at them and including one shot and she hates one of the officers who is said to have been injured in that incident we're not sure as well. how terrible that incident is or how bad that injury is you're waiting for confirmation for that at the moment now there have been reports as well with the local prosecutor saying that the gunman who took up hostage is in the supermarket has pledged allegiance to islamic state of course we're still waiting for confirmation on that too but what we do know is that this is being treated as

a serious incident a terror incident and a large scale operation and investigation is now under way under the control of france's interior minister we've heard from the french prime minister saying that he's treating this as a serious incident but what we know so far from the police officers union here in france is that one person has been killed and another has been injured this is of course not the first time that france has been subjected to a terror attack this is the first time france has seen what seems to be a coordinated terror attacks if these two incidents with the police officers and the hostage taking are joined together for quite a number of months in years here now in france france is currently not under a state of emergency that was lifted back in november is it had been into that state of emergency for almost two years when president mccollum's government decided to introduce a new anti. terror legislation and measures to prevent incidents like this however

the terror operation is now underway in the south of france where we understand that one person has been killed and another has been injured. thank you for those updated details and thank you very keeping across the story for us now this would be the first act of terrorism in france since president mccrone was elected in may last year he was the one who lifted france's almost two year state of emergency last november a charlotte was saying it was put in place by his predecessor after a string of terror attacks the deadliest was in november two thousand and fifteen in which i'm still inspired terrorists killed one hundred thirty people in paris. thank you. thank you.

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we were all. thank you. but us defense ministry has been caught up in the scandal surrounding cambridge alyssa the company accused of collecting personal data from millions of facebook members and then exploiting gets a political goals is being revealed that the ministry paid cambridge on its because parent company as c.l. group was. being described as human and social influence work on top of that the firm was reportedly granted access to secret government documents is also said to have carried out research to see how people would interact with certain government messaging artie's polly boyko takes up the story. cambridge on

a ticket is seemingly everywhere apart from helping the campaign to victory by using information harvested from millions of facebook profiles it turns out the company's services have been used by the british government to cambridge on the parent company is called the f c l group the whistleblower who on earth the facebook data breach calls the two entities as c.l. and cambridge on the one in the same s.c.l. used to be on the payroll of the british defense ministry thanks to a freedom of information request from twenty six d. we know that in two thousand and eleven the energy paid s.c.l. for the provision of external training and in twenty fifteen it paid for psycho social research to top it all off s.c.l. got the green light to hold british government secrets on its premise britain's

information commissioner's already investigating cambridge analytic over the facebook data breach but in light of the defense contracts with its parent company as c l the chair of britain's home affairs select committee is now demanding a wider government investigation into the company's activities there are now growing concerns about whether there should be a wider investigation into the. there are concerns about the implications for democracy about information being used in an illegitimate way and no one has the chance to contract it and the traces real problems outside of the u.k.'s c l's and cambridge on the list of his client list reads like a who's who of contentious elections and political hot spots cambridge analytical was hired by kenya's ruling party ahead of its elections last year the company is accused of stoking ethnic tensions and manipulating voters online prejudices to help kenya's leaders stay in power the company's also accused of orchestrating

political. sting operations on their client's political rivals and circulating the evidence online among s.c.l. is clients was ukraine it was hired by the kiev government to help recapture the self-proclaimed republic of donetsk. contract to deliver a data driven strategy for the ukrainian government in pursuit of the goal to win back control of the netsky findings replied to designed localized communications campaigns to erode and weaken the jeannette's people's republic this particular campaign didn't bear much fruit for the ukrainian government the website reveals yet another time to the british government the ukraine report it says was delivered to kiev and shared with the u.k.'s ministry of defense i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least he's engaged in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda and manipulation apparently

and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money. on a propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation it's likely that the next chapter in the cambridge analytical scandal won't be its links to facebook but to governments around the world including the u.k. . well the british defense ministry has reacted to the story saying it has no current relationship with the group and that the company has no access to classified information. donald trump has revealed who will take over as he's

new security advisor the man being appointed as former u.n. ambassador john bolton who's known for his strong stance on north korea and iran the appointment was made in typical trump style on twitter the us president also made use of the social media platform earlier this month when he fired his secretary of state rex tillerson r.t. scale of morgan has a look now at the new arrivals at three washington's revolving door. he is the third national security advisor to the donald trump administration in the last fourteen months and john bolton is a long time advocate of the use of force against iran and against north korea now those are two countries that are rather vital for the trumpet ministration in the coming months in may donald trump will have to weigh in on the iran deal whether or not it will continue and furthermore the usa is on the verge of carrying out the historic meeting the first meeting between a head of state of the usa and the leader of the democratic people's republic of

korea so it disappoint a lot of questions remain so the fact that john bolton has been selected is rather interesting i think they want to make peace i think it's time so it could be a long and unproductive meeting or it could be assured non productive meeting we hope that these new measures directed at the iranian dictatorship will compel the government to really evaluate its pursuit of terror at the expense of its people well i think he's on the verge of making a mistake i think his advisors are pushing him in the wrong direction you know i destroyed the certification question is utterly irrelevant john bolton served as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations under the administration of george w. bush and his appointment was quite controversial at that time for statements he had made harshly criticizing the united nations can trail donald trump was quite critical of military intervention isn't by the united states saying that he wanted to stop toppling regimes however john bolton is

a long time advocate for military interventions around the world so big developments on the horizon regarding iran and north korea from u.s. diplomat jim johnson was told is that don't bolton's appointments might occur of eight the situation with iran. a lot of people mistakenly said that during the campaign trump said he would tear up the agreement because it was a very bad agreement he did exactly said that he said it was a very bad agreement but he likes to make bad agreements good i think he came in with the notion that if he was threatening and up we could get the europeans on board and pressure the russians or the chinese to say that we want to add missile technology and not threatening israel a lot of other things to the agreement to change the agreement to something he likes better maybe that's still their game play and maybe they think if they have somebody who is sufficiently bellicose they can scare the europeans and decided with the americans on changing the agreement and not have to pull out of it but i

have no doubt now that regime change is going to be a cardinal conscious goal of american policy and failing that there would be an attempt to do so by military means. but now to our breaking news from france where an armed man has taken hostages in a supermarket in the southwestern town of trip and was being treated as an act of terrorism a police union official is quoted as saying one person's been shot dead inside the grocery store but that's not been officially confirmed earlier there were reports that police officers were shot at a nearby park a son a little police units have moved in on the instance being treated and terrorism local prosecutors say the assailants that has pledged allegiance to islamic state the french prime minister has called the situation serious where across developments as we learn more.

in other news now almost a hundred thousand people have managed to escape the syrian and eastern goose or near damascus this month that's after the russian defense ministry is reconciliation center struck a deal with some of the militant groups in the area these are exclusive drone pictures from our ruptly video agency you can see verses which are reportedly carrying militants who used to occupy eastern ghouta together with their families is part of a deal which guarantees them safe passage in exchange for letting thousands of civilians out of the war ravaged area on thursday around four hundred militants left as well as one and a half thousand civilians who were mostly members of their families some have already arrived in the rebel held city of live in northern syria. protests are growing in the u.s. city of sacramento after the release of border come video showing the moment u.s.

police fatally shot an unarmed black man in his grandparents' backyard the incident happened at last sunday when officers responded to a suspect breaking car windows in the area police say they mistook the man's smartphone for a weapon and opened fire on him twenty times. nine one one what's ok show me emergency. the one that occurred with my dog under the. sink i'm trying to change the subject after the backyard. for the description of the man with a black hoodie. i got a guy at a backyard. where. i get a predicate. thank

. you so. let's get on only saw him a couple times is that before we go. do you guys want to go hands. and. we're going to go you're. the victim is twenty two year old stephan plug he was a father of two both his children are under the age of three his brother described him as an entrepreneur. more than eleven hundred people were killed in two thousand and seventeen alone by us police it was reported that throughout the whole year

only fourteen days went without fatal police incidents in response the sacramento police have placed the officers involved in the say so shooting on paid administrative leave. the case has outraged locals who are demanding justice demonstrations took place at city hall and at the sacramento kings basketball arena a major highway was also blocked during rush hour the back climbs muscle movement is calling the incident murtha and are demanding on says we spoke to some new lewis from the movement. they don't take any value black life because we are collateral damage we've always been when it comes to this kind of grease history at the end of the day the motive has always been a lack of value for black life or black bodies and so it's easy to shoot first ask

questions later sort things out after the facts come up with nearer to the evidence that don't fit what actually was taking place during the time of the incident so when you come out with the story and say yes he had a good or at the in the next story was he had a tool bar or crow bar then the next story was he had a bridge it took find out that he was shot with a cell phone in his hand we want to see those officers prosecuted for their decision to shoot their guns twenty shots we could no longer live with and be satisfied with officers being fired or given slaps on the wrist for murdering people in our community. the b.b.c. is being accused of patrolling the u.k.'s opposition leader as to russian more on that after the short break.

lots of countries in europe to understand that russia is and take a good part of europe and you cannot think about prosperous europe and developing europe but if you if you. see russia being involved in the european process. that russia is why this. has to be taken into account dishonestly schools.

welcome back start with their returning to our breaking news from france now where a number of people have been taken hostage in a supermarket by an armed man in the southwest of the country shots were reportedly fired earlier in the instance being treated as terrorism so the defense did joins us live with the latest now charlotte what's being confirmed at this point. we've heard from the police didn't call mation that what has been killed and another has been injured in the hostage taking situation in which is under way at the moment in a town called in the south of france just fifty. away from the history of caucus on now we are all hearing from security sources on the ground to giving information to some of the agencies that have killed but that is unconfirmed at the moment that the second person has died but their injuries in this hostage taking situation as

you mentioned this is being treated as a terrorist incident and to be in the front of the. issue which is including one hundred police officers who just did on the scene to try and sort that what we know it seems of the timeline of events. of on our police officers were joking in the area there on a trip from our say when apparently a van tried to run them over it didn't sick people and then stand the shots were fired in the direction of those are normed officers one actually hit an officer now within about fifteen to twenty minutes of that incident happening then we have reports of this hostage situation beginning at a supermarket in the town in the super you supermarket. how many hostages were

taken but we do understand to more than one and us to say the police you have confirmed that one person has been. while another as been injured in that hostage but we don't know how. they're. persons minister ok thank you for that update our correspondent there apologies to our viewers for the poor connection there we will bring you more details on our breaking news story throughout the day of course so do stay tuned for that. in other world news now the b.b.c. is under fire for its alleged bias against opposition leader jeremy corbett it was claimed the british broadcaster is deliberately trying to portray the labor party head as too russian and us to see a check and it has the story take a look at this image that the b.b.c.

used in one of its news programs causing quite a stir in the u.k. and generally spend on germany has been on the wrong side of history for the last thirty five years or for the right side of history and libby on the right side of history on afghanistan the right side of history in relation to iraq so which which side of history is he on the picture depicts the opposition party leader jeremy corbyn on red square wearing something that strongly resembles a russian hat and here is the original image. suffice it to see twitter wasn't happy nice impartial backdrop b.b.c. news night perhaps could be split with a picture of pm clutching fistfuls of roubles and laughing. that backdrop is some absolutely shameful shameful stuff asking for international cooperation and strong evidence before we ramp up war rhetoric is russian collusion now is it shameful columnist for the guardian and corbin supporter or when jones pointed this out to the b.b.c. on air yesterday the background of your program you have jeremy corbyn dressed up

against the kremlin. is no no no it's got to make it work for you and i met a boy dressed up as a soviet state was it was a real picture and i mean it was a you even photoshop his heart to look over should this part of the debate was left out of the version posted online something that also didn't go unnoticed the b.b.c. denied photoshopping the image of the labor party leader but then joe rome a top u.k. barrister himself a corbin critic threw his weight behind the claims of b.b.c. bias my conversation which was conducted entirely in writing took place with x x is an individual at the b.b.c. whose seniority and sphere of work is such that it could not sensibly be suggested that x. is not properly qualified to speak on such matters x. talked explicitly and unambiguous fully about how criticisms of korban that the b.b.c. could not voice were deliberately coded into imagery or to approach the b.b.c.

for comment but the broadcaster said it would not release a statement as it hadn't seen the evidence it did say though that the views of its program editors as expressed in their tweets did largely reflect the b.b.c.'s own mom says he can swear on the truth of his tweets adding that lying in his position would be a very big deal this storm of controversy comes after corbin called on the government to take a more measured approach to the school poll poisoning case it could be argued we only take these days to be branded a foreign agent and if that's it you're going to r.t. london last half an hour i'll be back in half an hour with your latest world news including an update on the hostage situation in southern france you're watching r.t. from moscow. ratings and salutations war is big big big business possibly if one

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