breaking news three people are killed as an armed eisel sympathizer hijacks a card takes hostages in a supermarket in the south of france a terrorist is eventually shot dead by police. leaders diverged over russia as the british prime minister rallies her counterparts at the poisoning of a former spy tourism a's calling for punishment but some say dialogues the way forward. and the saga surrounding data harvesting from facebook takes another twist as it's revealed the british defense ministry paid cambridge on a list of his parents' company for psychological profiling of target audience it's .

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me becky aaron good to have you with us. three people have been killed in southern france after a gunman hijacks a car before taking hostages at a supermarket the attacker had pledged allegiance to islamic state and was eventually shot dead by special forces officers our correspondent in france can tell us more now charlotte a lot more details have been confirmed in the past couple of hours can you bring us up to speed please. yes that's why we know that the hostage taker has been killed or neutralized by the police who were monitoring that situation in the turn of tribe in the south of france where we understand two people were killed we know in fact they've been confirmed as two people killed inside that supermarket and. number of others were injured and we've also been hearing from the interior

minister. who took control of this operation some hours ago this is what he had to say. what he did this morning here taxi driver of a car gravely wounded another was also wounded he then left came across police officers who he also wounded and it arrived in tripoli the storm the supermarket shot and killed two people this point the police intervened and were able to help some hostages leavell left town and colonel who was with his officers offered to take the place of a hostage so he stayed with him the terrorist fired shots the officers intervened and killed the terrorists who was here. well let's take a look at now know what we know about the hostage taking who has been killed by the police in france we believe that we were told that he was a twenty six year old his name is why do one liked him and he was known to the

police for petty theft and also for some drug use and now we understand he was under police surveillance but there were no signs according to the interior minister although radicalize ation and in fact they've said that the action that he took today was deemed to be very unexpected we know that the president might call has been attending a meeting in brussels an e.u. meeting today he said he'll return to france to recall to coordinate the response to this attack which has been deemed a terror attack and i want to tell you a little bit more about what's been emerging from inside that hostage situation in the town of trade. that when the gunfire was first heard some of the supermarket workers actually try to get some of those who are inside the supermarket out to safety we understand a number were taken and able to shelter nearby while this operation was undergoing the operation. the hostage situation almost around four hours in duration. we

also understand that police were trying to negotiate with the locked him who apparently said he wanted vengeance for what was happening in syria and he also made the demand it's been reported that he wanted one of the men who survived the paris attack and he's accused of carrying out that paris attack in two thousand and fifteen in which one hundred thirty people were killed to be released that person is currently under facing. a trial for that attack and we also heard about some acts of heroism today it appears that one member of the gendarmerie in france offered to swap places with a hostage in that super you supermarket and in doing so left his mobile phone open throughout the incidents of that when the police the hundreds of police who were outside and who had been trying to negotiate with the hostage taker heard gunfire

shots they went in and stormed that supermarket and killed the hostage taker but just to confirm three people dead in a series of incidents including two inside that hostage situation at the supermarket the hostage taker has been killed by the police it's be confirmed he is a twenty six year old red to one liked him and he was known to the police although the interior minister has said that there was no signs that he had been radicalized and the action he took today nikki was unexpected shiloh's thank you for those details when so many conflicting reports over the past few hours thank you for clarifying some of those for us are solid defense can speaking live from paris. ok well if discuss this further with our guests now an admission for my five intelligence office that always good to have you on the program so it's a month that the from the interior minister has said that this suspect was on the.

police surveillance if the attacker was known to police for petty crime and had been monitored to some degree then you know they should have picked up on his extremist views or is that unlikely. i would have thought it should be likely it's part of the passing that we're seeing emerging across europe over the last few years of people carrying out these low tech type of attacks with high victim rates who are of course on the radar of at least the police if not indeed of the intelligence agencies but for some reason they're not being watched carefully enough they're not being monitored carefully enough they're being followed around. and they're allowed to get more radicalized and carry out these are appalling deeds so this used to be one of the latest in a series i mean most recently in the u.k. we had the trial of the young man iraqi asylum seeker who planted a bomb on the london underground possum's green chub which failed to detonate fully but still in just a number of people and it turned out that he was known to have been radicalized he

was known to have gone to isis training camps and yet was still allowed into the u.k. still allowed to carry out this attack so how do they stop these sort of attacks and i think this goes back to the point i keep making which is the intelligence agencies have an overreliance on electronic snooping and they're trying to surveillance and they you neglect to a certain extent the real importance of preemptive human intelligence we send agents into these communities to find out what people are thinking what they're planning what they might be about to do and that's what is lacking at the moment when something like this happens and understandably rattled people's sense of security what will the repercussions of the attack be do you think. it's hard to see what more fronts can do i mean they had a state of emergency declared after the massacre and attacks of which slam was one of the key members he's currently on trial in brussels and this guy like him is apparently. supported him. but they had

a state of emergency which was then rescinded to great fanfare by president micron in october last year and yet at the very same time what he actually did was sign into the legislation a new piece of law which was just a trick pony and is that state of emergency and that is counterterrorism so all of howlers are still there in france they've just changed the name they've changed the terminology and yet all those powers are still preventing the security agencies and police from protecting their french citizens so i fail to see how much more they can do i mean civil liberties campaign is in france have been a gulf coast at the new sweeping powers put in place because counterterrorism. for in the past commented on the incident saying that france for that war planning very similar to the one president and also long ago president along what do you make of those comments. i think that's quite inflammatory i mean france has experience of terrorist attacks for many decades just like the u.k.

had with the provisional ira the french had problems with algeria in terrorist during the separatist war and and afterwards in the one nine hundred ninety s. so they have experience they haven't. given away their liberties and their freedoms and the protections of their constitution even under very sustained attack from algerian terrorists in the one nine hundred ninety s. so why they do it for very low level attacks i fail to see and it's an ongoing pattern as i said across europe these low level. displaced dispossessed arab youth across europe often involved in low level crime. and on the fringes of such gangs do become radicalized and i think the question is how to identify those who might be susceptible such radicalization is what the communities in our societies need to look at in order to work house trying to counter it rather than cracking down on all our civil liberties all our human rights in the name of fighting terrorism. and

the mission for me and my five intelligence officer thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. this is the first act of terrorism in france since president lifted the country's almost two year state of emergency last november 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 saw inspired terrorists killed one hundred thirty people in paris. thank . you. thank. you sis magazine directions mon waltz to rent a truck and drive into a crowd. go out.

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thank the british defense ministry has been course up in the scandal surrounding cambridge on the list a company accused of collecting personal data from millions of facebook members and then exploiting its a political goals is being revealed that the ministry paid cambridge to others because power and come. in the s.t.l. group who was being described as human and social influence work on top of that the firm was reportedly granted access to secret government documents it's also said to have carried out research to see how people would interact with certain government messaging artie's polly boy takes up the story. cambridge on the 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 say 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 to s.c.l. 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 trees its 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. ration is on their client's political rivals and circulating the evidence online among as sales clients was ukraine it was hired by the kiev government to help recapture the self-proclaimed republic of donetsk. it was

contracted to deliver a data driven strategy for the ukrainian government in pursuit of the goal to win back control of the netscape 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 is 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. . the british defense ministry has reacted to the story saying it has no current relationship with this group and the company has no access to classified information. now almost one hundred thousand people have 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 evacuees some of the militants and their families these are drone

pictures captured by our ruptly video agency you can see bus is believed to be carrying insurgents and their families preparing to leave eastern guta as part of the agreement to 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 hundred and a half thousand 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's efforts we were set free alone and i want to say to my wife and my son that i was set free thank god i'm safe and sound i hope you will meet soon i have been missing them a lot. please body comforted has a much showing the moment officers fatally shot an unarmed black man in california after mistaking his mobile phone for its mungo story still ahead of the break stay

with us. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice or the biggest reason. to stand used this is just the dance the right questions and the right answers. well the truth seems wrong. why don't we just don't call. me. yet to ship out just didn't come out to. and in detroit it was betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back moscow has expelled at twenty three british diplomats as relations between the u.k. and russia continue to deteriorate over the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in the south of england the officials left the embassy compound earlier on friday the explosion near is a move taken by the u.k. last week and it comes as even members gather for a second day of summit talks which they're considering how to respond to the tac well our correspondent he said he is following what's happening at the summit in

asia good to see you now the leaders are grappling with breaks it and how to put on some sort of unified front of the script power poisoning is it a coup or do a lot of us fear that. well touring the e.u. summit in brussels the agendas being discussed on the second day included trade and of course high only agenda was this was the salzburg attack on script on his daughter back on march the fourth now a member states have agreed to take further steps against russia in the next coming days as moscow is being accused of being behind the attack now when discussing russian leaders backed britain's stated that there was no plausible alternative explanation now the u.k. prime minister to resign may has been pushing for the states to express solidarity and take action against russia here's what she had to say. well last night the european union councillor agreed with the u.k. government's assessment of the attempted murder that took place on the streets of

salzburg that it's highly likely that russia was responsible for that attempted murder i think it is clear that russia is trying to enjoying the values we share as europeans and it is right that we are standing together together in defense of those values. of course other leaders where president to including chancellor angela merkel and french president micron who both say from germany agree that additional measures against russia will be necessary also speaking at the summit there was donald tusk president of the european council and president of the e.u. commission they say east states have different approaches to russia and one somewhat open approach for a discussion with. we have different positions different. interests it's also about different traditions. political landscape in europe tools russia and this is why it's not so easy to

keep. twenty eight. group. together should wait also for some. results of investigation so everyone was also indicate didn't do willingness to give as far as russia is concerned. so there are suggestions that of creating an open channel with more scary there but just a reminder that sergei scrapple and his daughter were discovered on a bench in the cathedral city of seoul three on the fourth of march it's been almost three weeks now since they were found unconscious on the bench there after being in legibly poisoned by a native agent is a former military officer who was jailed in russia for handing out secrets to the british intelligence and move to the u.k. in the spy swap in two thousand and ten but for now there is the e.u. have taken one step and that is withdrawing its ambassador from moscow for

consultations so one thing is clear from that press conference and that's that more e.u. sanctions may be coming. the steps are may occur as an early as monday though not quite the unified friends that series the may was perhaps hoping for the nations that they thank you for the update. now apart from the script poisoning a number of economic issues is being discussed at the event political strategist anthony webber believes terry's a major focus on greg is it instead of pushing for action over this group powell incident. i don't think. it's all the wider issue is why the tories of mary is where he's doing 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 water seen as a betrayal of british interests with the gaucherie sions we have to look at it in

the whose 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 have done so does it benefit somebody else and this is where we need to put our miss marple house and ask a lot of questions and get the answers we need to have the full folks. protests are growing in the u.s. city of sacramento after the release of body count video showing the moment u.s. police fatally shot an unarmed black man and his grandparents backyard the incident happens 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 shot him twenty times. nine one one one functioning emergency if you. were

a little hard to. think of trying to change the subject after the backyard. or the description of the man with the black money. i got a guy at a backyard. where. i could get a credit card. thank . gosh i don't. think. that's getting only saw him a couple times is that before we. let you guys more go ahead.

we're going to be. the victim is twenty two year old stephanie clark 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 without a fatal police incident and response sacramento police have placed the officers involved in the fatal shooting on paid administrative leave. oh. the case has outraged locals who are demanding justice demonstrations took place at city hall into the sacramento kings basketball

arena a major highway was also blocks during rush hour the black lives muscle movement is calling the incident. demanding aren't we spoke to sanju lewis from the me spent. they don't take any value black life because we are collateral damage we've always been 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 mirror to those 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 in the next story was he had a tool bar or crow bar then the next story was he had a bridge to 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

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back in december the us federal communications commission voted to kill what is called net neutrality which was designed to ensure that consumers will all of us have access to the internet with no preconditions like throttles or governors on speed or content since the internet crosses state lines the determination has been seen as a federal responsibility but now some states are challenging that determination in an effort to ensure consumers have access to free and fair internet holland cook host of the big picture here on r.t. america has been following the net neutrality issue in detail and he joins us now collins thanks for being with us the left wheel.