seventeen years billions of dollars spent a new study finds that america's war on terror. the number of islamist extremists around the world. give your girlfriend. ditched their use of the web for the local alternative. president for more independence

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and afghanistan. and with more. the horrendous attacks that took place on september eleventh two thousand and one in which nearly three thousand people lost their lives were followed up by the launch of the u.s. war on terror that was seventeen years ago and the war on terror is still taking place it certainly produced results but not the kind of results that many were expecting a new study shows that at this point there are roughly four times as many just hottest in the world as there were at the time of the nine eleven attacks at this point there's two hundred thirty thousand militants spread across seventeen different countries while the united states and allied governments have weakened some groups many of the underlying causes of terrorism have not been adequately addressed sunni arab disenfranchisement has been among the most important causes of instability and an important source of recruits but how can this be by twenty nineteen the usa will have spent five point nine trillion dollars on

counterterrorism operations and activities and at this point researchers are saying that the us military brass lacks a coherent roadmap there is no strategy to end the wars other than more of the same in the hope that one day iraqi and afghan security forces will be able to fend for themselves now the costs are not simply financial but also come in terms of human lives the latest study indicates that roughly half a million people have died as a result of america's post nine eleven wars now that only includes iraq pakistan and afghanistan with the authors of the study saying that with other countries including the numbers would be much higher. now there's no sign that america's drones missiles and tax dollars will stop rolling anytime soon the art is to have sufficient forces engaged in sufficient political engagement sufficient

economic resources to make sure that we're putting pressure in destructing those networks the current administration just like the old. ministration believes that it does not need any additional authorization to use force against al qaeda the taliban are isis we're not leaving based on a timetable terrorism is something that all civilized people oppose working to eradicate it is certainly an honorable goal however with such a dismal results at such a high human cost perhaps the overall strategy of the war on terror should be reconsidered caleb r.t. new york ny u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is threatening grave consequences to anyone shipping oil to syria trying to quote prop up. the us treasury department slop sanctions on tuesday on three or companies on several people as well involved in selling iranian oil to syria united states today sanctions and international

network that the iranian regime and russia are using to provide millions of barrels of oil to the assad regime this is in exchange for the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars to the i r g c could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas well if you look at the details of this the new sanctions targets one iranian company to russia based oil companies the six individuals meanwhile targeted there from various countries on the include iran and russia moscow has condemned washington's latest move claiming it will only strengthen the terrorist position in syria. the effort to charge others with providing oil to syria which is back to terrorist aggression for seven years looks like a statement of support for terrorists and similar taney slee an effort to hamper the reconstruction of the war torn country much of its population is deprived of electricity and heating does the us really want this. or we saw reaction from

beirut based political analyst he say's the u.s. is affectively giving aid to the remnants of islamic state. how ironic that the united states that claims claims to be fighting terrorism and is imposing sanctions on those who defeated isis to those who participated and the war is still ongoing in syria. this is not completely dismantled there is more reward effort by the syrian army with the help of the russian army with the help of the iranian forces in order to completely destroy these terrorist organizations. that are affiliated with that i think the whole world these sanctions are illegitimate they are illegitimate against syria they are illegitimate against illegitimate against hezbollah because they are baseless they are not based on a decision made by the united nations or by some actions that are proven to be illegal actions or by direct support for any terrorist organization.

leonardo da vinci has been dragged into a row between the french president and italy's deputy prime minister material salvini been trading insults online no room is reconsidering loaning the masters priceless works for a major exhibition in paris we need to renegotiate everything the french cannot have it all they're not easy talent he died in france to give the louvre all these paintings would put italy on the margins of a major cultural event or. museum was hoping to borrow some of the vinci's most notable works for an exhibition and next year marking five hundred years since his death be italian minister also stressed that french should loan something equally important like we are for instance or under the art agreement the

louvre is jus too long worked by another italian master raphael for a twenty twenty exhibition marking the. a virtue of his death although most of his masterpieces are already in italy we talked to people in both countries about where they think the paintings should be shown. once again close to. this john paul of. any diety out there a sense if he didn't foresee that saudi arsenal was his little heaven on the penny you know they don't steal some of the media again holby year save us enough that fancy didn't get to keep them on the. famously. if it was a. movie a few dents in your feet see. she dove in and we're now up to date being passed to

see a little bit of a new fantasy any time but many see me in a video that you. like. the. numbers really mean. because some of you know less well but. you don't know the true the on the. well speaking of fronts a google is the country's latest target and its push to be less the pendent on non european entities following on from president might call for an e.u. army fronts now wants to lean itself off the web giant on use its own alternative

with more in the story you're sharp correspondent charlotte dubinsky. much corn and trump's friendship is down in the dumps right now but it seems that the fish in between them has spread to a much wider now it seems that france is even turning its back on us tech giant google so what do you do if you want something on the internet here you couldn't it it'll catch on i'm sure we have to set an example security and digital sovereignty are at stake here which is not merely an issue for geeks only quotes is partly french and so far it's been free of major data breach scandals and it claims that it doesn't track uses which is perhaps one of the worries of government officials given that u.s. intelligence can access data on companies clouds. where they're located both the french national assembly and the french army ministry and now sitting court as they

default. saying to digital colonisation. if we don't regulate the internet we risk up setting the fundamentals of democracy if we don't regulate companies relationships to data and the rights of our citizens have to their own data that access and sharing what is the point of a democratically elected government is this another major step away from america and towards a european defense force if so it won't be music to is in washington. already faced the wrath of trump after suggesting that europe needed an army to defend itself from countries including the good ole us of a what came next was a twitter rant from trump telling the french that they would be speaking german if not for america's help as the will to moves increasingly towards digital

warfare fronts is looking to make sure it slips out from under. the u.s. it's not that the french have shown that they are very concerned about data privacy issues but also about the domination of u.s. technology giants it will be interesting to see how this is followed in other countries and by all the moves in fronts do the french discriminates against global cloud service providers in the way that they're discriminating here against a global search engine a lot of this is going to play out and there's a lot of pressure on some of the countries in europe to keep data on shore for data sovereignty reasons to focus on supporting local technology companies especially ones that are going to pay tax in the countries that they serve which is a criticism that has been bought against some global technology jones. ok to the

middle east now where villagers in the west bank are still unsure of the fate of their homes a decision was taken in may by israel to remove the residents i'm told those their properties some though aren't losing hope on are continuing to fight for their village. if we know that israel went to. a new and that to happen it's. we we feel. and look at it we're afraid for our families and for our children how we're living is very hard psychologically it's not going to.

the bit in the law is what did we feel much stronger than netanyahu stronger than anyone in the world because we're fighting for the right thing we're strong thanks to our belief and we will stay on our land as. well some of the reaction to this is really prime minister binyamin netanyahu says no exact deadline is set for relocating the villages but it is to occur soon israel also saves the projects being coordinated alongside the palestinian authority. a major italian fashion brands following dave can't cut it in china after being embroiled in a costly racism we'll go through the details among our stories with us.

and. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see you than. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something want to. have to go right to the press that's what i'm up for three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should.

just coming up to sixty minutes into the program welcome back italy is struggling to get its contentious budget passed e.u. finance chiefs could in fact face sanctions the country wants to give tax breaks and provide a basic income for people in poverty says' know it. is already burdened with so much debt the european union has already moved to launch disciplinary procedures but really bout would be a last resort if italy fails to fall in line. assessment is that it elise that afterwards to the east in particular to see this noncompliance was

a consulate accommodation of sorts these are to live with what they tell and government. of the able we see of the country sleepwalking into instability. will discuss this with the european commission president. as you know on saturday night i'm invited to dinner for what will be a constructive confrontation we have always been convinced about our draft is a draft that we thoroughly thought through and prepared we are convinced about the concrete notice of our political economic plan and so i'll be happy to evaluate the next steps you're pretty direct words there from the italian pm the e.u. is the session to warn it comes out of the blocks the making branch that the european commission rejected the budget last month the e.c. said the country was taking a risk and backtracking on previous reforms. when relations were already

strained between the e.u. and italy over the migrant crisis of course which is scenically shoulder some of the biggest influx of refugees from north africa and the middle east. we have shown that we know how to defend our borders and we will show that we can also block european budgets and actions as long as europe. and some countries keep marking a tally and. or italian northern league party members stefano bargee say exactly should stay the course as e.u. policies aren't helping to fix the economy. although these. politicians. for asked. to change exchanges should. be able to change.

from going to the last yes. this is for workers. who are. only of the involvement of. italian luxury fashion brand doll share and have been forced to postpone a major fashion show in shanghai after a racially insensitive promo was posted online. by me archer those who are trying to. change are. more those are all of the time. not equalize the social you don't need until those you grow up you have he can scan your heart and once not problem came it spread rapidly online as did furious comments that it was mocking chinese culture then it got worse when racist

messages appeared on the instagram account of the browns founder stefano get well as you might imagine the angry reaction to that came thick and fast mr gubb he later put up this post insisting that the whole thing the promo had been a high. ochs and that he had written the offensive messages but even get bombers. own models well they really took it against the company saying that they're not me was seized upon by all the models in the show distancing themselves from their brand or the company denies it's behind the insulting messages this is what we set . our instagram account has been hacked so who's the accounts are still fun to go by our legal office is urgently investigating we are very sorry for any distress caused by these unauthorized posts comments and direct messages we have nothing but respect for china and the people of china well it is hurting them in the pocket

it's proving to be a costly blunder for d.m.g. whose clothes have been pulled off line by several retailers in china one chinese entrepreneur who's based in italy told us that the odds were inappropriate but still does not believe they were intended to offend. a person oh yeah i was a lot. of the fog it doesn't look so crowded you know i'm on the. charm school and if i hadn't i think personally that chopsticks are the best you know about them or maybe it was a bit too much like the music was a bit you know the traditional. music. sure somebody who thought behind the production of it wasn't local cos there i mean you know why would understand. especially in china where leg sarcasm isn't. doesn't really work it doesn't translate very well i'm in charge now but i'm sure there were i'm trying to offer

an anybody who just won't make something. for the younger generation in china maybe but it just didn't work. so i just want to keep this team going a little bit longer because when it comes to taking offense times do change fast and what might have once been seen as pushing the boundaries in popular culture can rapidly drop out of favor falling victim this time is there a known feminist stage show that they join a monologues which won us college thinks no overstepped the mark for one particular reason. i was worried what we think about the jainas and i was even more worried that we don't think about them i was worried about my own china. after they call it a paki. d.d. me she dignity.

cannot that's a problem war. you don't do it you will. invent sexual the son just say they're kidding themselves.

all right almost time for this week's visit to the alex salmond show scotland's former first minister i guess will be here for the shortest offerings. amazon already has a significant portion of all u.s. commerce something approaching twenty percent i guess their goal is to get fifty percent of all commerce in america it would be amazon commerce and they need artificial intelligence to do that an artificial intelligence needs data to run effectively so jeff bezos but the call out to all the cities and they said we may come to your town just give us all the data on all the people living in your town and will dump it into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get anything. from.

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welcome to the alex salmond show this week it's not back to the future but back to bricks it gets most offensive the last week the subject is back yes again at the top of the agenda and this week sure we examine whether the prime minister can secure support for her bricks and deal from with the conservative party we talk to the two key third parties in the commons arrest mystic throughout allies in the democratic union s on the pro european a said p and alex talks to hollywood star brian cox about his intervention and the european debate i know suffice and light hearted relief from the boys it breaks it by playing the newly launched bricks at board game with its creator danny headland but first your tweets i messages were received an enormous response to our special remember its programs on the loss of living cost year largest loss of life in british naval history first we hear from

gabby who speaks of artist and jacqueline to be featured last week got to says i've had the pleasure of beating both arness beastly and jacqueline. at the memorial service with ellen castra at the catherine creature church in london artist is quite a remarkable man who deserves recognition first head of islam as to all the other personnel who were serving their country or were civilians that were on board on that fateful day nathan says two wonderful episodes about the loss of the lancaster i especially enjoyed the interviews with the survivors handled with respect lest we forget that the only says good documentary a personal thank you to un marcos for your efforts to bring this disaster to the public notice my father was a survivor of the sinking and when he received his medal from the scottish parliament it became a prized possession bill says i had been aware that mr summited been instrumental in getting the scottish government towards a lancastrian meadow and then and she says my great grandfather was one of the men

who lost his life on the land castillo my grandmother talks often about it she's also the only person i've heard mention it fucking up your point stephen says i've never heard about the lancaster a quick search suggest this is something everyone should know about it as she was kept quite at the time to avoid the bad news of so many deaths and finally a g.p. who i think is are a family member of this beastly says he this one hundred one you do all survivor and especially at this year's london immortal service here's a picture of artists at the service and here's one that are in a sent us last week from his family actually when he was enjoying his job of whiskey from his quick. detail for just now it's a hollywood star brian cox it is latest blockbusting though an h.b.o. hit succession he plays. are ruthless sunday born media local writers of course themself to andy born others could talk with them and edge and to talk show business politics and the case for people's food on bricks it. by cause

let's start with succession this h.b.o. sensation which storm for this year another seal is set up for for next year and we've got in january a new play logan roy the reverse patrick head of this media family how difficult was that. difficult how difficult it is to be ruthless and petty archerd well i have children. and i know what it's like to be a father so that's that's part of it because you have twice wrecked out of the universe i have met many many visits back to the to the city but recently too to see the new victorian all but often the the banks of the t.v. show first impressions of the v.n.a. and then the whining is tremendous and then you know i think that you know that your goal always be the complete others in the room i have you but i.