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hello good evening eleven pm friday night here more. international first in this bulletin three people have been killed in southern france after a gunman hijacked a car before taking hostages at a supermarket pledged allegiance to islamic state was eventually shot dead by special forces offices president mccrone called the incident a terror attack by islamist. that would be our country today suffered an islam is terrorist attack in caucus on and treb terrorist has been identified he was killed during his so an investigation will have to answer some important questions on this when and how was he radicalized and how and when did he procure the weapon the attack was claimed by the islamic state group and these claims are being assessed like we have for several years paid with our blood to know the terrorist menace the interior ministry says the gunman stopped a car on the outskirts of the turn of car says saw on friday morning shooting dead

one passenger and seriously injuring the driver then drove to a nearby town of tread but was told the supermarket had immediately opened fire killing two people is one eyewitness account. i went shopping with my wife and sister in law after some time we had an explosion well several. i saw a man lying on the floor and another person who was very agitated on with a handgun in one hand and a knife in the other yelling allahu akbar. after that i took my wife and my sister in law and some customers nearby and were going to look for shelter i put them in the butcher's fridge closed from the inside more details have been emerging about this series of attacks in the south of france which cumulated in a hostage taking situation of around four hours in the town of tire some confirmation now about who the attacker was the interior minister saying it's

a twenty six year old head to one locked him who is a french. national who is known for petty theft and some small drug crimes that he was under police surveillance we understand however there was no suggestion the interior minister said that he had been radicalized and in fact it's been claimed that the action that happened on friday in france was completely unexpected and what's also been emerging is more detail about what happened inside that hostage situation inside the supermarket in that small town of twelve we understand that when gunfire was first heard some of the supermarket employees tried to get some of the customers out of the shop there were apparently around fifty there when not going to fire was first heard some were able to make it to safety others then of course became the hostages hundreds of police descended on the town to try and remedy this situation police first of all try to negotiate with

the twenty six year old hostage taker apparently he had said that this was vengeance for what has happened in syria and he told. made demands such as the release of one of the men accused of carrying out the paris attack in two thousand and fifteen well one hundred and thirty people were killed now we also have been hearing about some of the her isn't that took place today was one of the offering to swap himself for one of the hostages when he did so he took a mobile phone with him and we understand he kept that line open and when the police officers heard more gunfire from inside the shop they then stormed it and at that point killed the hostage taker british intelligence officer and marshawn told us the fact that the gunman was under police surveillance exposes therefore a failure in law enforcement. is part of the passing that we're seeing emerging across europe over the last few years of people who are carrying out these low tech

type of attacks with high. 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 an appalling it's hard to see what more fronts can do i mean they had a state of emergency declared after the massacre and attacks all the powers 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 police from protecting their french citizens so i feel see how much more they can do 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 post predecessor after a string of terror attacks the deadliest was a nov twenty fifth he in which inspired terrorists killed one hundred thirty in

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russia's expelled twenty three british diplomat says relations continue to deteriorate over the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in southern england the officials left the embassy compound earlier on friday the expulsion there is a step taken by the u.k. last week it came as e.u. leaders met for a second day of summit talks with the british prime minister pushing for joint retaliatory action against russia now they've expressed solidarity with britain and recall the e.u. and boss of the from moscow for consultation while still considering further measures against russia but it seems not all member states are united in taking direct action against moscow right now. we have different positions that friends. interests it's so thought about you know different traditions. political landscape in europe to us russia and this is why it's not so easy to

keep. twenty eight. group. together should wait also for some. results option the stipulation so everyone was also indicating the willingness. to follow as far as russia is concerned. the british prime minister earlier said she was happy that there is a joint e.u. condemnation against russia i welcome the fact that last night the european union council agreed with the u.k. government's assessment of the attempted murder that took place on the streets of solsbury that it's highly likely that russia is 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 get together in defense of those values so guess crippling his daughter were discovered on a bench in a small city of souls on the fourth of march of the big allegedly poisoned by

a nerve agent cripples a former military officer who was jailed here in russia for handing secrets to british intelligence he moved to the u.k. in a spy swap in twenty ten british police expect their probe into the attack to take months but nonetheless politicians have been rushing to blame osco from the outset political strategist anthony webber believed to resume a should focus on breck's it instead of pushing for action over the scribble incident. i don't think very convinced at all but the wider issue is why the trees of mary is wasting this by the time but the e.u. are on this destruction when she should be leaving the best deal for britain from the e.u. so there's a great deal of concern about water it's seen as a betrayal of british interests with the brits to go show asians we have to look at it in the whose interests is it for these accusations to be made 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 hats on and ask a lot of questions and get the answers we need to have the full facts investigated . meantime still in britain the british defense ministry has been caught up in a scandal surrounding cambridge analytic care the company accused of collecting personal data from millions of facebook members and then exploiting it for political goals has been revealed that the ministry paid cambridge a little because parent company s c l group for what's been described as human and social influence work on top of that the firm has 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 part of our team in the u.k. 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 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 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 traces real problems outside of the u.k.'s c l's and cambridge analytic 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 and extensions 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. contracted to deliver a data driven strategy for the ukrainian government in pursuit of their goal to win back control of donetsk findings replied to designed localized communications campaigns to erode and weaken the dinette people's republic this particular campaign didn't bear much fruit for the ukrainian government the website reveals yet another tied 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. in. the 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 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 ministry of defense has reacted to the story saying it has no current relationship with the group and that the company has no access to classified information as a footnote. almost hundred thousand people have no managed to escape syria's war ravaged eastern ghouta region this month from the government forces pushing to recapture the remaining rebel pockets there the

russian defense ministries reconciliation center as no struck a deal to evacuate some of the militants and their families check out these drone pictures captured by agency you can see buses believed to be carrying said insurgents and their families preparing to leave eastern guta as part of the agreement in exchange for their surrender they'll be allowed to travel to the rebel held city of it lived in the country's north on thursday around four hundred militants left along with one of the half hours and family members r.t. arabic meantime has been speaking to some of the civilians who've been able to leave the area as bashar al assad's troops continue to regain territory bennett's lives we suffered a lot thanks to syrian army's efforts we were set free to learn and i want to see to my wife and my son that our search free thing got him safe and sound i hope we'll meet soon i have been missing then a lot. of these tonight donald trump has appointed his third national security advisor it's the washington veteran and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n.

john bolton who is known for his hawkish stance on both north korea and iran. secretariat building in new york has thirty eight stories if you lost ten stories today it would make a bit of difference. the russians have walked all over the obama administration for eight years it's really been a pathetic performance if you make them feel pain and others feel pain then the possibility

of deterring future conduct like this increases that's what we need to do. the caliphate that isis is now holds king abdullah of jordan who is not simply the muslim king of a muslim country. like our president i. the appointment was made on twitter and typical the president also made use of the social media platform of course is the end of this month when he fought his secretary of state rex tillerson next column open in new york takes

a look 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 a short and unproductive meeting we hope that these new measures directed at the iranian dictatorship will compel the government to reevaluate 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 is seems so as you just heard a job can be known for his love of russia but his appearance in a russian gun because he video five years ago already has got some american media speculating about possible connections to mosco. where the russian national

government to grant a broader right to bear arms to its people it would be creating a partnership with its citizens that would better awhile for the protection of mothers children and families without in any way compromising the integrity of the russian state this has been one of the most in sane baseless. theaters of the absurd that we've ever seen you know normally when somebody pursues something and it's not working they will say you know what let's go to a different theory the collusion thing isn't working we have no evidence of it but let's just find something else not here oh no it is builds up steam it builds up force this is this is still going on we're still trying to find out to this day how somebody wait

a minute correction i think we finally we found out that russia and or the kremlin and or you and or putin and or somebody changed the course of the american election by sowing discord by buying facebook ads that's the collusion so might be this adds to it nothing is too absurd for this theater of the absurd. if the football supporters of cause chaos in amsterdam had a friday night's friendly against the netherlands police arrested a total of twenty eight public order offenses across the last two days. the was at a a. i really o's emerged showing england supporters chanting slogans and hurling beer

bottles from bridges and boats one man threw a bike into the canal with another to see taken off the shirt and diving in head for those who have condemnation of england fans online woman wrote how he'd love to take his son to watch england but that won't happen because he says quote we have zero class and quote another says supporters just keep embarrassing themselves the head of this summer's world cup in russia which often gets criticism for football hooliganism of course talk in russia india manager gara southgate told a news conference earlier that english football has to sort out its own problem too . so we keep pointing the finger at russia. where we're going to be guests in the next couple of months but we haven't resolved the issue in our own country and until we do i think we should stop far enough off those things elsewhere. comment into r.t. football host stan collymore he says checks are in place to make sure that troublemakers are kept away from the world cup. struggle. to moscow

to get in close you have to live a fine idea. of what i do you have to buy a ticket to buy a ticket you have to pay off on travels or be official england supporters globe of which there are course checks cost. cutting funds. russia only estimates around sometimes. brady very wealthy high of not five now does the problem me even the shingles owning curriculum i saw this week something when planning. on in the european championships in two thousand and sixteen. if you know about who's going from london to politics whether the football match no i still go to go souls or burning and travel for a long trying on the court and that's what a cauldron like the situation there was a lot calmer ahead of another international friendly between russia or brazil into trying to check the atmosphere around moscow's luzhniki stadium. russia are taking

on brazil not be carried out it's where the twenty two football world cup final how has the city sorted out all state of the issues for the. thousands of almost all the roads outside the arena have been closed it's probably wise for security purposes but car owners are not happy at all. but if you want to see the public transport there are four bedrooms stations at your full disposal and the extra bus routes to by the way the true entrance is free for two hours after the full time was so close it's always great to feel the crowd funding.

i don't really see any wives or other issues out of the security checkpoint area. surely the fans around me would love to see that kind of fixture russell versus brazil for the final of the world cup in the suburbs but brazil was made for this is after all they've already won the world cup five times and it's really a football legend kelly famously said and watch it absolutely all week with the football world cup where i asked the fans here whether they know the rest of the frame for answers for you have to choose one. when the first steps on the mars surface they be when the brazilian ice hockey team win the world cup in hockey. see one vote. out of our boat stops playing hockey and starts playing football and

the world in call ball in rush hour gets moved to january what do you think. are you going to be the one going to get to work to january and i did see maybe the fiscal cliff i said before going must i think the fourth one when the world cap is moved to junior you. know i think when the brazilian we're some hockey team in thirty minutes at least the stadium where the final will be staged pass the test is what the brazilian international gilberto silva had to say about the luzhniki stadium. i want to tell you. i've seen some clips on t.v. of the russian team training i think they're in good shape excellent even i was at the luzhniki arena yesterday it's a very good stadium and the pitch is good inside it even looks like the maracana stadium it's got the same round shape we're looking forward to the games there when

the expectations are very high on all sides on the part of the visitors fans and the teams themselves i think a great job is being done. and as they say in sports the taken the counts that's the news right so far this friday evening fans watching it keep you up to date with all of these twenty four seven revenue of course one of main site. first in traverse hiring and firing practices are still surprising the recent appointments of mike and john bolton have left an impression on friends and foes alike what impact will they have on american politics.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle fifteen years ago this month the united states and its so-called coalition of the willing to illegally invaded in occupied iraq american troops remain there to this day and iraq continues to grapple with that fateful decision many call the invasion of iraq a blunder should we call it what it really is a crime.