police in london confirm they are treating a car crash in westminster as a terrorist incident after a vehicle smashed into security barriers outside parliament during morning rush hour. also this hour a highway bridge collapses in the northern italy city of genoa sending vehicles plunging meters below with thirty five people confirmed dead. and the latin american news outlet tells her is blocked on facebook for the second time in two thousand and eighteen raising questions over freedom of speech on the social media platform.

this is our to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned midnight welcome to the program. police in london have confirmed that they are treating a car crash outside parliament as a terror attack the vehicle crashed into security barriers after injuring cyclists and pedestrians during tuesday morning rush hour the driver was detained by armed police who rushed to the scene the suspect who is now in police custody on suspicion of terra fences has been identified as a twenty nine year old british citizen the head of the u.k.'s counter terror unit so as the suspect is not cooperating he is not believed to have been previously known to british intelligence and it is thought to be from the city of birmingham and the english midlands police are now searching three outer says in the region here's video of police responding to the incident. there are.

times. to the westminster area. of parliament. this would normally be. very popular with tourists police have now lifted the. area. previous attacks are now considering closing the road outside parliament altogether. three people injured. injuries.

and the government's emergency response committee. reports from. we are as close as physically possible to the houses of parliament that area is now cordoned off as you can see behind me while police now investigate what it is exactly that happens what we do know is about twenty minutes before eight in the morning what is being described as a silver ford fiesta had hit cyclists and then crashed into security barriers right outside houses of parliament again the parliament right now is in recess so no m.p.'s were present there at the time and we know that armed police had arrested one man and taken him to into custody to a police station in south london where he is being questioned according to scotland yard however this mound is not cooperating with authorities quite yet this is what

they had to say the driver of the fiesta who was alone in the vehicle was arrested at the scene by armed officers who were already knew. the man is in his late twenty's and he's been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offenses and has been taken to a police station where he remains in custody. given that this appears to be. the method of this being an iconic song it's we are treating it as a terrorist incident and the investigation is being led by officers from the counterterrorism from the two people were injured and taken to hospital it's understood that they're not in critical condition and are going to be fine following this attack and so we've been talking to a witness here a local resident who saw it all with his own my eyes let's take a listen to how he described what happened i was seeing. a car driving erratic lead towards i was apartment and the bridge the. the one of the big logs the

barrier is did you see the man who was in the car who they arrest. he seemed quiet. to me didn't seem he was and i didn't see him i didn't hear him screaming or anything or show in and didn't resist a raise is worrying because i'm a father of two young sons you know age almost seven and five and a half and it's worryin i mean but this is. this is like this is one of this is like the number one city in the world in my prince of london you know you so many tourists come here throughout the year and you know it's beautiful weather and you know another thing i understand all the m.p.'s on holidays where to land is i don't know what it's all about well if confirmed by the police that this is

a terrorist attack it's going to turn out to be the first one this year but unfortunately one of several have taken place recently. he won't succeed and you want to fight us we'll be cowed by terrorists. you will see over the next few days i mean creased number off and on and off it says across london. the attempt to divide us that countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together. and. they continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of offices.

in london as will see an increased police presence today and of the. course of the next few days no reason to be alone so could. you please let me take. that as we'll see an increased number of visible police officers. we discussed the incident with expertise police officer roger gray and former intelligence officer charles shoebridge. there's no question that intelligence is key to foiling sorting and i believe in preventing these attacks taking place and in that respect for example as we've seen today if the intelligence systems fail to

the extent that an attack actually gets through to its target today it was against a hard target but was it to be a softer target in terms of civilians in the street for example tourists and so on then of course there's nothing can be done at that stage and very little can be done to actually protect them should this indeed turn out to be a terrorist attack but of course it's too early at this stage at least to speculate about today's incident and whether any of those considerations were actually applied but generally speaking of course intelligence cooperation between the different intelligence bodies and the trust that's needed between those intelligence parties to actually share intelligence in a meaningful way and in a timely way rather than just sitting on the intelligence is absolutely vital and not just between your pin and other partners but between the intelligence services and the police in the countries themselves including as it's been a problem in the past in the united kingdom to there's a danger of overreaction as well london is congested enough as it is it toyman if

we start being more sort of no go zones that we're. going to become worse but also we don't want to give any terrorist or the process any sense of success in carrying us into doing one thing or the other the result of their actions so it's something we should be considered but why very carefully. a major highway bridge has collapsed in the northern italian city of genoa something vehicles plunging one hundred meters right now we can show you live pictures from the scene all that you're seeing to the side is where the section of the bridge that collapsed rescue teams are still sorting through the debris and the number of counties is expected to grow the italian prime minister has said the official death toll is twenty six people with sixteen injured but earlier. since the services said thirty five people have been killed including a child. will

stay breached like the general wants could be highly patched on or the wheels are when you slow week but the problem is that the concrete that is would be probably already cracked and the or solutions dog or natural we blow we fully release the risk or breeder trash or failure of this kind of structure of the asunder and highly destructive maintenance of such that we should be as it is highly costly their works done for the maintenance and where problem is he sent but the problem he was unpredictable on

a such return structure they're going to be managed by doing and the seizure that would be totally closed after work and rebuilds. the latin american news channel telesur has been banned from facebook for the second time this year and the outlet is not alone and being sidelined by the social media giant artie's daniel hawkins looks into a possible new trend of censorship. a news outlets activist old radio host banned by a social media platform for violating terms of use some familiar nowadays just as one scandal over suspending or banning subsides another one brews this time it's the latin american news channel tellus good that's been on the receiving end of a facebook blackout and not for the first time back in january this year the news outlet temporarily disappeared from facebook allegedly due to an internal mistake on the platform today though things got more serious your page jealous or english

has been removed for violating our terms of use telesur a say they received no further explanation of why exactly their page was removed they see this incident as no coincidence but rather a pattern of censorship by social media giants now in case you're wondering this isn't a case of deja vu just last week in fact in four wars an alternative controversial media platform run by alex jones was also banned by you tube our poll and facebook for violating policies and terms of use now what do these have in common an independent platform criticized for spreading all right conspiracy theories and a left leaning channel publicly funded by venezuela cuba bolivia. and seemingly diametrically opposed views the answer is both a critical of the american establishment war lobby and global regime change both have now faced bans during the battle against fake news conducted by facebook along

with its new partners such as the digital forensic research lab now this is an offshoot of the atlantic council think tank in turn a member of the atlantic treaty organization although formally independent of nato and washington openly sharing both their values and speakers fighting fake news is a noble cause terms of use platforms. violet expect a burn increasingly though the question will be asked is it violating social media policies or violating mainstream consensus and prevalent narratives that can really do you in hot water we asked facebook to comment on why they banned the outlet so far they've chosen not to respond earlier we spoke to touch on that all the english multimedia director for telus or who says that facebook's move is extremely alarming. we're not aware and we didn't get an explanation we going to any mail yesterday afternoon saying that our page was removed and this e-mail said that we

were violating the terms of use but it didn't we don't consider that an explanation since we've doing got to resign or we are they didn't explain how in what way were we violating supposedly violating the terms of use not a specific content that we posed not a specific article or video nothing so we're still waiting for the tell us we answer back and we got an answer saying they were there in generics we're checking in the case but that was it certainly we don't want to speculate but what it brings this remove it brings like. alarm about how facebook works and how. like any instructors to help them and to hold them into accountable and but they're not providing like greece and so it is arming we still hope with some estate we're still hoping for them to apologize for this mistake but if it's

not we're going to prepare a response and we do think it's alarming and a bit scary that facebook could be yeah a place where. are a span and where some voices are not allow it's we were not doing anything different from what we have been doing since the beginning of our english outlet. in in facebook so we were aware of the terms of use when we started and we were not violating this terms and we would i'm like change the way our perspective is and the coverage we do for this not an inch why would we. taliban militants have overrun a military base in northern afghanistan killing seventeen soldiers that's as the u.n. has confirmed over one hundred civilians were killed in the latest clashes between

the taliban and afghan forces in the city of gaza locals who managed to flee the area describe what they've been through. but. you have got many people including the one of my neighbors were killed there i saw my friend dying he was among thirteen people including children and women who were killed during an airstrike last night guys in the province no no no no i have escaped from gaza province where the fighting is still ongoing it's been about five days since the conflict started but there's no attention from the government and no facilities for the residents dead bodies are still on the road sides i've also been injured. now the city of grozny has long been considered a strategic area due to its close vicinity to the capital kabul fighting there escalated on friday when the taliban attempted to storm gussy and take control taliban fighters have been blocking the roads in and out of the city to prevent the afghan military getting reinforcements they were trying to look at how almost two

decades of the american led war in afghanistan has failed to make the country it appears any safer. this is what's happening just a little more than one hundred kilometers from the capital kabul there is barely a camera in gaza any available to film this dreadful battle locals say there are stronger descriptions than simply the taliban is back in action and if it wasn't for u.s. airstrikes the afghan army could have been in far worse trouble so it makes you wonder do american diplomats and their military keep in touch there is nothing that precludes us from an gauging with the taliban we're doing everything we can to ensure that our actions help the taliban and the afghan government does the same table. everything they can only a few weeks ago the state department said talking with the taliban was

a good idea and regardless of how hostile their actions the extremists say they're forward to this is what we wanted and were waiting for to sit with the us directly and discuss the withdrawal of foreign troops from afghanistan the rumor is there's already been some direct contact at least we know for sure alice wells went to qatar last month where the taliban's got a political office i'm confused the armed group has all but regained its might which not so long ago earned them a reputation of outright islamist barbarians in america and pretty much all over the world we acted and the taliban no longer is in power in afghanistan which is not only good for the security of the free world it is incredibly good for the people who suffered in afghanistan on the barbaric rule time flies us administrations come and go fair enough but the things the people in charge say

about insurgents today could be totally different tomorrow taliban this taliban that the taliban are fighting isis and we encourage that because isis needs to be destroyed. oh so they're good for something at least if it's about knocking out islamic state yet just a few months earlier general nicholson said the taliban's fight against diana she was a piece of russian propaganda we see here a narrative that's being used that grossly exaggerates the number of isis fighters here this narrative then is used as a justification for the russians to legitimize the actions of the taliban and provide some degree of support complicated heart of ghana stand business as usual and the american strategy for afghanistan see above the american strategy a strategy from the beginning of the so-called war on terror which was launched after the september eleventh attacks as this war has turned out to be an utter

failure. you know i was we all know it was in a stronger position than it ever was in two thousand and one. so hence i think it's proof that the u.s. has been pursuing a wrong strategy in defeating terrorism on the contrary i think that the u.s. involvement up until now when the focus on military force in the region has the growth of terrorism the taliban is not just pulling out a gun it's firing it it could be time for the pentagon and the state department to hunt for ideas together and be more precise. more than twenty five thousand refugees have returned to syria in the past four months authorities say that people have been coming back from victory over terrorist groups they're now your stomach but some of the return of. the border

between syria and lebanon which is literally some two kilometers away from here is expected to become a major flood gate for those whose home sickness has turned into something big gains of the actual return home right now we are one out of five ports of entry east. by the syrian government as they welcome its citizens whole way there were many things to run from terror. pointless and unspeakable brutality but now there's one homeland. we suffered from terrorism for three years and eight months all kinds of weapons were used against us but we stood firm and did not give up and kept fighting until we were transferred here the terrorists who are against life itself against peaceful citizens women and children it was very difficult for us to leave but the terrorists were living in good conditions come to the terrorists left my city so i decided to return because it is safe there now i learned my town in syria is safe and that is why i decided to return with my family

the government has promised to restore infrastructure in a modest scale from hospitals to schools judging by the rules in this school there's a new subject on the curriculum and it's called survival from different types of landmines to improvised explosive devices and to simply objects that kids should be aware of this is what children in this school will be taught about when it opens this september but not everyone will be welcomed back to revive a peaceful existence here like the white house hailed as a rescue organization by the west damascus isn't looking forward to their return syria's living abroad who have committed nothing against their i mean citizens should the shield over nothing get all the government would ensure their safety and also chose to flee the country should they have committed the crimes.

which made them very afraid of staying in the country so their white helmets are criminals and they should be treated this way there are many displaced syrians who are being warned against getting ready to come home just yet we did. it's premature to promote returns serious feel very insecure there's still a lot of war going on in syria even though out of the seven million people did escape the conflict almost a good rule of them do come back to syria but there will be no hope rebuilding the country from the west far to do over to be a particular western countries should support the return of syrian citizens and lift economic sanctions against syria because people who want to return need schools hospitals food and shelter for their families the e.u. and the us have been and when we say the e.u. we must remember that britain is the driving force of the policy towards toward

syria what britain and us led in you following along in its wake have since twenty eleven made it their policy to destroy syria to destroy the syrian government by any means necessary to facilitate a train and equip a sectarian brutal sectarian insurgency that laid waste to the country their policy has been to make syria uninhabitable and their policy remains to ensure that it stays uninhabitable so syrian refugees in europe absolutely caught between well a rock and a hard place is putting it very very mildly on the one hand they have the e.u. then the us still continuing to enact this policy of making their own country uninhabitable and then in the same time you have this growing fascist street movement in. in the e.u. that's actually has even influence over for example the british government whose policy is to basically make europe uninhabitable for them hatred towards assad

unites a lot of syrians who chose to flee their country well now at least judging by the promise is the syrian government seems to be extending an olive branch to those who seek to do no more damage and we go. john of reporting from syria see. the media is almost always hungry for more when it comes to the details of the private lives of top politicians even if the story is about ten years old already one french channel got caught red handed with what turned out to be a very misleading report.

shuttle to be compatible with the college closing. it's not fake but an involuntary arrow which the information direction from the television redress. was. such an involuntary error it's a ploy to phrase it looks like the incompetence. france who doesn't take time off from the breaking news. to lose all credibility and to meet such. a good. that's a breakdown of the day's top stories for now but keep in mind you can always find us on all of your favorite social media platforms for up to the minute reports.

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