breaking news at least two people have been killed in a hostage incident at a supermarket in the southwest of france they got a lot of reportedly pledged allegiance to islamic state and demanded the release of two thousand and fifteen paris attack suspects this alarm. president trump picks john bolton as his latest national security advisor the white house veteran known for his hawkish stance on iran and north korea and was in favor of military action against both countries. and the saw goes around being data harvesting from facebook takes another twist as it's revealed that the british defense ministry paid cambridge to analytic as per the parent company for psychological profiling of target audience it's.

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me niki error and now we begin with an update on our breaking news story the french interior ministry says two people have been killed and three more wounded after a gunman took hostages in a supermarket in southwest france the interior minister has confirmed on twitter that the attacker has been killed a major counter-terrorism operations underway in the town of tribal can now cross live to our correspondent in france call it depends what more do we know at this point can you update us on the latest situation. within the last few minutes we understand that the man who carried out this hostage situation has had a number of people held hostage in that supermarket in the turn of the. south

france has been killed that information coming through and being confirmed by the interior ministry here in france we've also heard from president might call he's been giving a live press conference as he was asked to in the e.u. summit in brussels today this is what he said about the incident. hostage taking. this morning and it's still ongoing and from everything leads us to believe it is a terrorist attack but the police are responding in a coordinated manner. so we understand people have been killed and also on top of that the attacker has been killed in this hostage situation that's been going on since about quarter past eleven local time here in france on friday an operation involving hundreds of police officers were deployed to the area to try and coax this hostage taker away to release people we've been hearing from reports of people on the ground who were in the supermarket when the gunfire was first

heard people including supermarket employees at the super you supermarket saying they tried to get out as many people as possible they were initially fifty people it's believed in the supermarket when the hostage taker first went in we understand that only about eight or a dozen people remained in that supermarket doing the hostage situation including two who were killed and we understand three who were injured in this incident being treated as a major terrorist incident here in france we falso heard from the interior minister that it has been confirmed that that attacker has been shot dead let's listen to what she had to say. in trap near characters thomas house to. be forces have been quickly deployed to the area and operations are still ongoing at the moment then to terrorism prosecutor's office in paris are investigating and according to the information we have now. it appears to be

a terrorist. through the timeline let's take you through a timeline of what happened today earlier this morning in cuckoo song which is about a fifteen minute drive away from the term the tribe where this hostage situation had been going on for a few hours we understand that fire shots from a gun were fired at a group of c.r.s. police officers wounding one of them then fifteen minutes later we understand that the hostage situation started at the supermarket in the town of treb we heard that gunfire was heard from inside then we heard the police were trying to negotiate with the hostage taker who apparently had sworn allegiance to eisele so i asked and also said that he wanted to have one of the men who claim to be behind the paris attacks in two thousand and fifteen that killed one hundred thirty people to be released from jail but we have had it confirmed that the hostage taker has been

shot dead and we're getting reports about the information of who this hostage taker was french media reporting that he was a twenty five year old moroccan origin and saying that he was on a watch list here in france therefore he was a known to antiterrorism police that's not been confirmed yet by the interior minister we're waiting for information on that but the suggestions are if this is another attack here in france carried out by another individual who was already known to the security services to have potentially have been radicalized people are going to be questioning what is happening french police here have a new anti terror. that was given to them when the state of emergency diminished here in france which was taken away back in november under the mark on government. the ability all of the services here the police the c.r.s. to be able to deal with. regards to terror so if these claims these reports that

this twenty five year old hostage taker who has been shot dead was on the watch list many people will be questioning how on earth that was able to happen yet again here in france. thank you for the update on this story excuse me let's cross live to our guests now mr. excuse me just security analyst and former u.k. counter terror intelligence officer mr shubrick thank you for joining us on the program now whenever something like this happens the obvious spotlight falls on security has enough been done to prevent terror attacks especially after france lifted the state of emergency in november last year how has the security been there was the situation been like in france. well the fact is that i think and it may well be that this is a case in point that if your intelligence systems fail to the extent that a terrorist suspect is able to get through to his target particular if that target

. is or includes civilian unprotected soft targets as very little it can be done to physically prevent that attack and i on the limited information we have so far i would suspect that the state of emergency being lifted or otherwise don't actually have any impact on this for example when we look at the state of emergency we saw in france a lot of military a lot of extra police deployed onto the streets while those police were doing extra shifts and so on and so that of course will have an impact on protecting certain key points places that people might suspect might be terror targets for example train stations concert venues all the kind of places that have attracted terror attacks in france and elsewhere in the past but what that would tend to do of course is just displace those attacks elsewhere perhaps to a small town perhaps that's what happened in this case where there won't be so many armed officers there won't be any troops on patrol and so on and so really once again if this person was known to the police and intelligence services if he was not on some kind of watch list and yet wasn't being watched questions out have to

be asked really about the decision making processes that those intelligence services are made to not places person under surveillance and of course depending on circumstances it may have been the decisions were justified given that of course resources aren't infinite nevertheless it's perhaps inevitable that some people are going to call for more security at the dish no security to be put in place but is there really much more that france can do without seriously eroding civil liberties . yeah you're absolutely right to bring this up and of course what we see is its shores night follows day and day follows night that we see a terror attack and instantly it's jumped upon by certain sections of society particularly the media particularly the security industry and the intelligence services to demand more powers and especially more resources especially in terms of funding we see that especially united kingdom we see in us and no doubt in france

but the fact is that again and again powers and resources for the intelligence services have increased and in france for example particularly after the charlie have their attacks and also of course attacks you referred to earlier in paris the police and intelligence services were given a great boaster abilities particularly and their powers particularly those that even impacted quite greatly on civil liberties the fact is that those powers haven't had a great impact on preventing terror attacks as far as we know terror attacks like this will continue to occur simply because especially at a time when somebody can shall we say self radicalized or can act alone as this person may well have done and given the prevalence or the availability of firearms and other weapons such as for example knives of just very coarse it's actually very difficult to stop these attacks taking place but of course it may be that another factor emerges here which is that yet again we may well find and again it's too early to say that this person has had some kind of contact of some kind of

involvement in the situation in syria or in libya and again if that proves to be the case once again there would have to be questions asked by the french population as elsewhere in europe whether their country's foreign policy is in destabilizing those areas empowering groups such as isis narco dealing terrorists whether that that foreign policy of intervention in those ways will have been proved why it's given this blowback that repeatedly has taken place although it's too early to say in this instance whether that is true in the wake of this latest attack to what extent do you think we can expect to see a backlash against france's ethnic minority communities. i think it's clear that most whether it's in france or elsewhere that the majority of those ethnic communities minorities of whatever form they take find these attacks repugnant not least because in many of the attacks for example the seven seven bombings in london is a good example muslims as everybody else have become victims of these attacks. there

may be some sympathy of course among some groups for the motivation here but in terms of if we don't know what the motivation is but if emerges that motivation was a protest of some sort in response to french interventions for example against isis belatedly it should be said in places to syria then there may be some sympathy for the message but of course i doubt very many people will be sympathetic towards targeting civilians in this way and again we need to know a lot more about this attack is motives and what his background is it's also should be said that a lot of cases like this of proved to be involving people with psychological disorders although again we shouldn't use that as an easy excuse to brush away the reasons why in many cases terrorism happens but again let's wait and see what the facts are and then we can perhaps make more informed judgment on this notwithstanding that many of course as we've said earlier many including those that would wish to get more resources for intelligence services and so on will jump on this is

a way to advance the agenda notwithstanding that it may have had no impact whatsoever in preventing this attack indeed security analyst and former u.k. counter terror intelligence officer thank you for your time. well this is the first act of terrorism in france since president mccraw lifted the country's almost two year state of emergency last year it was put in place by his predecessor off a string of terror attacks the deadliest was in november two thousand and fifteen in which i saw inspired terrorists killed one hundred thirty people in paris. during was worried. thank.

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during. in other news now britain's defense ministry has been caught up in the scandal surrounding cambridge and i listen to the company accused of collecting personal data from millions of facebook members the next voicing it for political goals it's been revealed that the ministry paid cambridge analytical parent company s.c.l. group for what's been 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 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 it's a 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 say s c l used to be on the payroll of the british defense ministry thanks to a freedom of information request from twenty sixth we know that in two thousand and eleven the energy paid for the provision of external training and in twenty fifteen it paid us 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 why did government investigation into the company's activities there are now growing concerns about whether there should be a wider investigation into the to reduce there are concerns about the implications for democracy about information being used in an illegitimate way and no one has the chance to counteract 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 on the list who 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. ration zone their clients 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 their goal to win back control of the netsky findings replied to designed localized communications campaigns to erode and weaken the 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.'s. the british defense ministry has reacted to the story think it has no current relationship with the group and that the company has no access to classified information. to the u.s. now donald trump has announced that he's appointing john bolton a former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. as his new security adviser bolton is known for his hawkish starts on both north korea and iran the appointment was made on twitter in typical trump style the

president also made use of the social media platform earlier this month when he fired his secretary of state to listen in takes a look now at the latest arrival through 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 at this point 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 unproductive meeting we hope that these new measures directed at the arena of dictatorship will compel the government to reevaluated its pursuit of terror at the expense of its people well i think he's on the verge of making the mistake i think his advisors are pushing him in the wrong direction you know honestly 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 peace but a comfort each has

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be. the victim is twenty two year old stephanie clark he was the father of two both of his children 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 us police it was reported there throughout the whole year only fourteen days went without a fatal police incident in response that sacramento police have placed the officers involved in the fatal shooting on the paid administrative leave i.

say case time. 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 blank lives matter movement is calling the incident murder and are demanding answers we spoke to thought you lewis from the movement. don't take any value black life because we are collateral damage we are always when it comes to this 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 it was. 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 be in the next story was he had a tool bar or role in the next story was he had a bridge it took find out that he was shot with

a cell phone in this here we want to see those officers prosecuted or their decision to shoot their guns twenty shots we could no longer live with to be satisfied with officers being fired or given slaps on the wrist for murdering people are. almost one hundred thousand people have now managed to escape syria's war ravaged eastern ghouta region this month and with government forces pushing to recapture the remaining rebel pockets there the russian defense ministry is reconciliation center has struck a deal to evacuate some of the militants and their families these are drone pictures captured by our video agency you can see buses believed to be carrying insurgents and their families leaving eastern guta as part of the agreement in exchange for their surrender they will be allowed to travel to the rebel held city of italy in the country's north on thursday around four hundred militants left along with one and a half thousand family members r.t.

arabic me why. has been speaking to some of the civilians who have been able to leave the area as bashar assad's troops continue to regain territory benefit honest we suffered a lot thanks to syrian army's efforts we were set free he was alone on the i want to say to my wife and my song that i was set free thing got him safe and sound i hope we'll meet soon i have been missing them a lot. we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media are back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines i'll see you then. the far right in britain isn't just on the march it's taking violent my daughter's

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