breaking news three people were killed as an armed i still sympathize there hijacked the car and then stormed the supermarket taking pasta to the assailant has been shot dead by police. leaders diverging over russia as the british prime minister rallies her counterparts over the poisoning of a former spy to reason may's calling for punishment but some say dialogues the way forward. and president trump picks and john bolton as his latest national security advisor the white house veterans known for his hawkish stance on iran and north korea and was in favor of military action against both countries.

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me taking aaron we start with breaking news three people have been killed in southern france after a gunman hijacked a car before taking hostages as a supermarket the attacker had pledged allegiance to islamic state and was eventually shot dead by special forces our correspondent in france can tell us more now charlotte good to see you what more do we know at this point. what we've been getting confirmation from france is interior minister john howard a little bit more details about the hostage taker we understand from the interior minister that he was a twenty six year old french moroccan who had been in the area in trade for petty theft there had been some suggestions that he was on the watch

list as being somebody who was potentially radicalized but the interior minister has said that's not the case he was. known for petty theft and there were no signs of any islamic radicalization that's despite reports that the hostage taker this twenty six year old french moroccan had pledged allegiance according to reports from. that he had pledged allegiance to eisele or islamic state where we also know that we've been hearing from the french president and mind your mark on who has said in the last hour this is being treated as a terror incident which. is everything leads us to believe it is a terrorist but the police are responding in a coordinated manner. well we know that three people have been killed today in the south of france it's believed that the incidents are all linked to this hostage taker that twenty six year old french moroccan man who has not yet

been and names we know that this incident started around about four or five hours ago and lost it a number of hours the hostage situation in that supermarket in the small town of twelve in the south of france we know that people were killed inside the supermarket and a number of others were injured now this was one of three incidents of the said to have taken place in the south of france today it's believed all may be connected including gunfire shot at a number of unarmed c.r.'s police officers who are taking a jog this morning one of those is said to be injured the how injured we're not sure but it said two he has been hit in the shoulder and then there's also said to have been a third incident in which a man was shot in caucus on which is about fifteen minutes drive away from where this hostage situation took place around about four hours now we've been hearing reports from some of the workers who were inside that supermarket when this first

started they said they heard gunshots and one employee has told local. reporters that he then try to take out as many of the people who were in the supermarket as possible they then took shelter in a nearby other shop and waited out the situation there was a huge police operation that took place hundreds of officers deployed to the situation helicopters and we know that police had apparently tried to. do just discuss what they could do to try to get the hostage taker to release those hostages suggestions that the hostage taker this twenty six year old had said that this was vengeance for what it happened in syria and also reports that he had asked for one of the surviving attackers one of the men who claimed to be one of the attackers of the paris attacks in two thousand and fifteen in which one hundred thirty people were killed to be released that individual is currently facing trial

for those attacks however the police were able to neutralize the hostage taker he has been confirmed as dead what we know is that two people were killed in the supermarket today in there in the south of france another individual was also killed in what we believe is an attack related to this the interior minister now will have many questions to be asking about how this happened and more led to this individual carrying out this latest terror attack here in france the first since the state of emergency was lifted back in november charlotte thank you for keeping across the developing situation there in france today that solid dubinsky live from paris. where three live now to our guest peter kirk and former u.k. police officer mr kirk and thank you for joining us in r.t. international inevitably whenever an attack like this happens the spotlight falls upon security how tight how security been in france recently do you think enough is

being done to prevent terror attacks like this from happening. i know the french and various other countries of the. security services and their intelligence gathering. oh over recent years particularly after the spate of very serious incidents that happened in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen and i think they learnt a lot from that where there were gaps in their systems so it has improved. this sort of attack though it's the sort of thing that will get through the very best of intelligence gathering. functions it's a small town in the middle of nowhere it's not in a big city it's not predictable target it's relatively low tech yes there's a firearm involved but they're not that difficult to obtain if you put them on to the criminal connections here exactly as a national was known to police for

a petty crime do you think that indicates an failing on the part of police and security forces do you think. know we see this all the time and critics will say oh well you know if you knew of him why weren't you watching him but there will be hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in france and in other countries with similar levels of record even if it turns out often turns out to be the case he's on the periphery of some other investigation the security services simply don't have the resources to monitor let alone put under surveillance significant numbers of people i mean the figures are i don't know what the figures are in france but they'll be similar in the u.k. and here we've got something like thirty thousand twenty to thirty thousand people who are on the radar to some extent we've got three thousand that are considered to

be a significant threat and yet we're not in a position even. you know twenty four seven monitoring and surveillance even on those three thousand it's is a hugely manpower intensive operation even just monitoring communications and trying to make sense of who they're talking to. that story to interrupt it is a much is asked of the interior minister says that this particular suspect was already under police surveillance what do you make of that. we need to find out exactly what that means. i suspect that he probably wasn't under twenty four seven surveillance because if he was there would have been an intervention at an early stage of this incident but even if you have someone under twenty four seven surveillance it's very easy to lose them even with all that certain a logical gadgetry that's available these days it is simply impossible to monitor

all people all the time we have got thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands more people with some question mark against them we've got resources to look at them and some fortunately will get through it's as simple as that unfortunately peter kirk i'm former u.k. police officer thank you for sharing your thoughts with there's an r.t. . now this is the first act of terrorism in front since president mccraw lifted the country's almost two year state of emergency last november that was put in place by his predecessor after a string of terror attacks the deadliest it was in november twenty fifth the in which isolated by terrorists killed one hundred thirty people in paris. her arrest was arrested

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was. arrested. thank you. you needn't have been discussing the poisoning of a former spy on his door say in the u.k. agreeing that they believe russia is highly likely behind the incidents that expressed solidarity with britain but it seems like all of us states are united in taking direct action against. we have different positions different. interests it's also about different traditions. political landscape in europe towards russia and this is why it's not so easy to

keep the. twenty eight. group. together should wait also for the some. of the results of the investigation so everyone was also indicating do willingness to give as far as russia is concerned about the relations. they were paying union has recalled its ambassador from moscow for consultation while still considering further measures against russia and british prime minister earlier said he was happy that those joined the e.u. condemnation against russia. well last night the european union council agreed with the u.k. government's assessment that the attempted murder took place on the streets of seoul but it's highly likely that russia was responsible for that attempted murder and i think it is clear that russia is challenging the values we share with

europeans and it is right that we are standing to go together in defense of those values i think a script and his daughter were discovered on a bench in a small city of salzburg on the fourth of march after being allegedly poisoned by a nerve agent screwball is a former military officer who was jailed in russia for handing secrets to british intelligence he moved to the u.k. in a spy swap in two thousand and ten british police expect their probe into the attack to take months but politicians have been rushing to play moscow from the outset the spark between britain and russia continues to sour with tit for tat measures being taken by both sides twenty three british diplomats and their families have now left the u.k. embassy in moscow their expulsion was in response to britain's similar move a week earlier the cole to organization the british council has also been ordered to stop its work in russia political strategist danton he were believed to reason

may should focus on greg's it instead of pushing for action over the script powell incident. i don't think. that's all the wider issue is why the tories of mary is wasting this for other people time but the you are on this destruction when she should be given the best deal for. from the e.u. so there's a great deal of concern about what watered seen as a betrayal of british interests with the gaucherie sions we have to look at it in his interests is it for these accusations to be married against russia if it's would be of no benefit to russia whatsoever to do what they're alleged to done so does it benefit somebody else and this is where we need to prove our miss marple house and ask a lot of questions and get the answers we need to have the full folks.

over to the us 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 rex tillerson caleb morgan 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 where it could be assured and unproductive meeting we hope that these new measures directed at the arena of dictatorship will compel the government to re-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 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. let's discuss this new appointment further now with our guests joining us from to iran political analyst says i it must close tension i mean the question thank you for joining us on the program how do you think john bolton's appointment is going to affect u.s. foreign policy particularly with regard to iran. hello and thanks for having me well as a matter of fact the we all know that the u.s. is going to this court the nuclear deal and in the next few weeks and iran will have a couple of options under such circumstances first to go along the same path with with others with russia china europeans and the second option is dropping the deal and resuming nuclear activities as before before the deal was developed and struck

an iranian officials have valid to do that to take the second options to go along with their nuclear plans and they have also valve to you know double or triple the out who have given the new kind of offensive huge machines that they have the hollow and the has confirmed that and now the changes in the white house not just that but also the maneuvers the drills minute to military drills done by israel the united states and even saudi arabia this theater that includes also the appointment of john bolton is meant to encourage to iran or to forced to go for the first option continue with a deal with europeans which is not valuable for tehran of course and why because the united states would be out of the deal and the french stance is it could remove

the sanctions on tehran even the nuclear related sanctions with their secondary you know m. pacts on businesses all throughout the world wind tehran will be forced to comply with all its undertakings while it's inside to deal with the europeans so that would be the ultimate goal and the united states is trying to you know prove all to to forced iran to go for this option if not possible at least if iran drops the deal in a reciprocal action then they are trying to intimidate tehran to. you know increasing the level of their uranium enrichment and avoid using the new centrifuge machines so that's the basically a move in order to influence the calculations made by tehran what do you think of president trying to appoint such a controversial and hawkish think i do think that was a wise move on his part and will last well oh

well of course not of course not because john bolton is known for starting wars and he has vowed not to start a war but that's his use if they tried to kill the deal nothing would be earned by the white or else with regard to north korea it has been shown by north koreans that the they would reciprocate any intensification of threats and the you know escalation of crises are along the borders with the south or with south korea the same is true with regard to iran iran has always proved and shown in action that if it's threatened and it's if it is behaved or through the use of force then it would go its own path and he would reciprocate the deal the nuclear deal showed that the only language is the language of respect when you want to deal with iran political analyst i had less of

a question thank you for your time. welcome back after this short break to stay with us. lots of countries in europe to understand that russia is and take a part of your appendage you cannot think about prosperous europe and developing europe but if you use your head and don't see a russia being in both of them over european proces. that russia's royce. has to be taken into account then sourness with more. shots seemed wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any world

yet to shape out these days comes to educate and in games from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back 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 where 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 ruptly video agency you can see buses believed to be carrying insurgents and their families preparing to leave 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 firm family members r.t. arabic meanwhile has been speaking to some of the civilians who've been able to leave the area as bashar assad's troops continue to regain territory. we suffered a lot thanks to syrian army jefferts we were set free. i want to see to my wife and my son that i was set free thank god i'm safe and sound i hope to have been missing them a lot. protests are growing in the u.s. city of sacramento after the release of body come video showing the moment u.s. police fatally shot an unarmed black man in his grandparents' backyard the incident happened last sunday when officers responded to a suspect breaking car windows in the area police say they mistook the man's small

phone for a weapon and shot him twenty times. nine one one one commission the emergency in. order to. be compliant educate the character of the backyard. or the description of the man with the black. i got a guy at a backyard. where. i can get a credit card. thank . you yes. let's get on only saw him

a couple times is that before we go. do you guys want to go ahead and. we're going to put your. victim is twenty two year old stephanie clark he was the fun a father of two but 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 throughout the whole year only fourteen days went without a fatal police incident and response sacramento police have placed the officers involved in the face who 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 black lines matter movement is calling the incident murder and are demanding answers we spoke to sanju 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 reese 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 near to. what actually was taking place during the time of the incident so when you come out with the

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