trucks chose to truck people who rushed to a small town in north dakota was among the rate of zero percent just like the gold rush is very very similar to. this beautiful story and with pollution and a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in. the last job got laid off. change that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality. they don't. use the words of the cards for them differently the most a chance that may have been present. when we agree with the. thing is appointed at the m i five home office after a government report details security failures that could have prevented a string of terror attacks that wrong great britain in twenty seventeen.

to seventeen years and billions of dollars spent a new study finds that america's war on terror has quadrupled the number of his name is sixty three missing around the world. and give up google french m.p.'s are told to ditch their use of the web giants of the local alternative by the new year as president pushes for more independence from the united states. it's ten o'clock and you're watching r t international live from almost constant you're with me. welcome to the program. could and should have been done to prevent the major terror attacks suffered by the u.k. in twenty seventeen that's the conclusion of a new report from the u.k. intelligence and security committee which has found that m i five missed a number of. to avert the tragic events. neither in my five nor counterterrorism

police took any follow up action and my five decided not to place travel monitoring or travel restrictions on some of the baby and my five admitted that given the information they had on the baby they should have done so deficiencies in my five system for monitoring those individuals of interest but in my five systems move too slowly one can see how the outcome could have been different or might have been different if certain things that happened which did not the chairman's words were a code by other members of the committee who similarly stressed that lack of coordination between the intelligence services and the home office played a part in failing to prevent the tragedies artie's on the senate job can i get this tells me david anderson in his report used the words had the cards for them differently then there's a chance it may have been prevented and we we agree with that little puddle did not

request support from the home office intervention provided a fall which would normally and should have been the case of all of those things being that it may not have been stopped but there was warning signals that were not followed up on routinely which should have been so what we called so it was a difference the lack of research could have made a difference this is quite a damning report that was indeed released today by the intelligence and security committee of parliament focusing on the terrorist attacks that shook the u.k. back in twenty seventeen and westminster attack the manchester arena london bridge finsbury park and parsons green those five attacks that ended up taking a total of thirty six people's lives.

you know. one of the police. now on the manchester talk specifically the attacker bedi the support talks about how he was able to visit extremist in prison more than one time however without any follow up from the police or the m i five he was also apparently been able to return from libya without any interception from officials just days before killing twenty two people at that pop concert in manchester and also it's been said in this report that he was actually flagged for review and known to the m i five since twenty fourteen however he was not referred to the

government's anti-terrorism programme this is a bit of what the report had to say on that. we concluded that there were a number of failures in the handling of some of the biggest case it's impossible to say whether any of these if any of these had not happened but the devastating attack of the twenty second of may could have been prevented but we can say that as a result of the failings the opportunities to prevent it were missed we previously made recommendations in all these areas yet the government failed to talk of the lessons to last year's tragic events must no result be real. well among some of the other issues highlighted in this report on the london bridge attacker this committee had found that the attacker was actually arrested eight months prior to the attack but was released they also spoke about how he was known for his links to an extremist group in the u.k. and that m i five intelligence services believed that he was supportive of isis it

was also talked about in this report about some of the files and documents that were found on him that authorities had believed at the time could have led to him being prosecuted under the terrorism act however none of those things of course as we now know happened and among some other things on the westminster attack also are underscored by the committee that officials feel to connect the dots and that that attacker had known links to al qaeda and yet nothing prevented him from carrying it out so really lots of questions raised about whether or not some of those attacks could potentially have been prevented. afghanistan now feels like a more dangerous place than it did four years ago according to the leader of a u.s. congressional delegation which visited the country this week specifying the rise of the isis branch in the region known as isis kay jim banks and six others had to

leave on tuesday just as they had learned of a suicide bombing in the afghan capital. the attack on a religious celebration in kabul is one that the. killing of fifty five and injuring close to one hundred things islamic state is suspected of carrying out the bombing there's been a wave of bloody violence in recent weeks in which one can say died as minutes and stepped up to have a silence and to flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the seventeen year war on terror yet to know not time the recently unveiled research shows it's had a severely limited effect on talking extremism on 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 us 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 hose. nine eleven wars now that only includes iraq pakistan and afghanistan with the authors of the study saying that with other countries included 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 or it is to have sufficient forces engaged in sufficient political engagement sufficient economic resources to make sure that we're putting pressure in disrupting those networks the current administration just like the obama administration believes that it does not need any additional authorization to use force against al qaida the taliban or 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. r.t. new york. says latest in its push to be less dependent on non european entities following on from present. wants to wean itself off the web giant and use its own alternative here's our paris correspondent charlotte depends . not going 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 hit you couldn't see it it will catch on i'm sure we have to set an example security and digital solvency 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 use. which is perhaps one of the worries of government officials here from the u.s. intelligence can access data on companies clouds south 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. few who 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 it is in washington. already faced the wrath of trump after suggesting that europe needed an army to

defend itself from countries including from 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 world moves increasingly towards digital warfare front is looking to make sure it slips out from under the u.s. its net the french 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 other moves in france do the french discriminate 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 reason. so 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 song global technology giants. talks on turkey's a session to the european union and back on the agenda this thursday with the e.u. officials in the turkish capital and chris being praised for making positive steps but it was stressed it's too early to talk about opening a new chapter in relations or reading further with e.u. membership talks turkey has repeatedly been knocked back since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven when it first applied for membership although a special talks began eight years later they stalled several times over territorial issues with cyprus twenty sixteen began on a more positive footing with brussels and christening a refugee deal it meant turkey would help take the burden of the migrant influx in

exchange for a session talks later that year however a coup against president derailed relations and revealed this year the e.u. commission's long term budget proposal excludes turkey. turkey is still working on six remaining requirements to ease visa access for turkish citizens and europe is still unhappy about a number of internal issues in the country including the rule of law and human rights and the indefinite detention of journalists and cross or so had strained relations with some of the blogs leading members. i can see turkey being admitted to the european union i have never been able to see it happening. a germany you have no relation whatsoever to democracy and you should know that your current actions no different to those of the nazi period president your jeopardizing everything that you've built together with others and your unspeakable nazi comparisons do not cut the ties to those who want

a partnership with. i'm calling on all my countrymen in germany. christian democrats the s.t.p. and the green party are all enemies of turkey support those political parties who are not enemies of turkey it is from the minister for fair says both on crack and will benefit it accepted into the book this is a win win scenario for turkey for turkey's neighbors and especially for european union today european leaders have started to understand that europe needs turkey at least as much as turkey needs europe but this is a unique relationship and it takes two to tango yes we want to be a part of the european union family but they have to want us as well or else we have other options that we will be able to utilize we have been trying to become a member since the one nine hundred fifty eight we are determined to increase the living standards of the turkish people to the living standards of ordinary either

member citizens that's why we are committed to this but. the head of russia's in a chain tenet and died on wednesday of the russian defense ministry has reported he was sixty two. the defense ministry of the russian federation general staff of the armed forces and main directorate of the general staff of the armed forces inform with great sadness that on twenty one november two thousand and eighteen after a serious and long illness head of the g.r.u. and deputy chief of the g.s.a. colonel general corps above eager volunteer novich passed away aged sixty two. he got a cut above took over the position two years ago after his predecessor died from a heart attack he served in russia's armed forces for the last forty five years cut off leaves behind a wife and two daughters. however some commentators in the west and not satisfied

with the official explanation of coroplast death. the head of the g.r.u. accused of election hacking poisoning sergei downing m. age seventeen and other assorted foreign policy gambits has died of illness aged sixty two his previous sesar died aged fifty eight in twenty sixteen. the long and serious illness lasted to seconds as he fell out of window some say i guess he should be happy that he didn't stop himself in the back before throwing himself out the window after having the entire russian g.r.u. network in europe exposed and ridiculed following the unsuccessful script hours as a nation the head of the g.r.u. suddenly dies of a long and serious illness. journalist brian mcdonald gave us his thoughts on carbon death and the reaction to it. except everything i need government says to be gospel truth but it doesn't necessarily mean that everything they say is

a lie as well. and it doesn't mean that every single russian who dies that is this is specious i mean a sixty two year old man sixty two year old men unfortunately die of cancer all over the world all the time in various positions and it doesn't mean that your windows i mean there's two reasons i think one is the lack of knowledge of russia or a lack of interest in having knowledge of russia so pure ignorance in other words and the second reason is just playing to stereotypes looking for. looking for likes which are the modern currency of the rosco or the scoundrel as it may be. an illegal first for the us a judge in the city of detroit has declared america's law banning the practice of circumcision known as female genital mutilation to be constitutional. as laudable as the prohibition of a particular type of abuse of girls may be federalism concerns to deprive congress of the power to enact this statute congress overstepped its bounds by legislating

to bridget female genital mutilation female genital mutilation is a local criminal activity which in keeping with longstanding tradition and our federal system of government is for the states to regulate not congress. the power to outlaw it was down to individual states not congress as he dismissed some of the charges against eight people including two doctors for conducting the procedure on two seven year old girls the defendants are members of a small islamic sect from india called the burra. female genital mutilation isn't widely and practice found in africa asia and the middle east it involves the removal of external genitalia on mainly young girls usually for religious reasons regarding sexuality there are no health benefits instead it can have serious consequences including leading infertility infection and in some cases even death

an estimated two hundred million women around the world are thought to have undergone the procedure which the u.n. and world health organization describe as barbaric and a violation of human rights well we're joined live by media commentator and dr form by. an anthropologist and family rights activist who was a witness expert in the detroit case thank you both very much for coming on to the program controversial subject i know i'm going to start with you jeanne i think it's important to note that the judge is not condoning or permitting the practice of s.g.m. states can bring their own case forward so so why has this judge's ruling drawn attention and criticism. we've lost jenas so apologies are technically ok we'll go on to you form by. actually why do you think that this case in particular has drawn so much attention

chris's criticism and you were the witness expert on it. well clearly the topic female genital mutilation it's a topic that's very emotive everybody has something to say about it and it's usually outrage so certainly with a ruling like this many in the in the united states and obviously all over the world many activists and just people generally were were upset about the ruling and mistakenly that the judge in this instance was was approving. of what is being referred to as female genital mutilation as and their apologists and as somebody that comes from a culture in a society that practices a form of female circumcision. i do want to state outright that the term female

genital mutilation is something that we reject completely and we think that terminology as well as global policies and legislation discriminate against women in our communities or women who. are not suffering people who are polled female circumcision. this is a very important ruling for us as well as the of course the community because. it's the first time that we've had a major court and especially here in the united states. declare that this law this very controversial law is unconstitutional i mean gina you know it's almost as if form by saying that this is a positive thing for those who support and g.m. why do you think that this particular case has drawn so much attention and criticism. well i'm a doctor of human development and i can tell you that this flies in the face of

everything that i've ever studied regarding women's rights regarding. really human rights in ways that. are just flagrant and for this judge to be such a radical i would even say fascist activist points to the problem that the united states has right now in judicial activism and impartiality within our court system and that's why i'm very glad that the president is now has such a strong majority in the senate that he can fix some of the judicial activism that we're seeing in cases like this and return it to a constitutional governance you know the whole world right now are take is taking major steps to remove female genital mutilation and so the for the very fact that this judge in the united states would make a decision like this really does fly into in the face of human rights as we know it

in our western culture and in our constitutional governance here in the united states former you can't ignore some of the facts that. that we have here and also gina has mentioned that it's banned in twenty five african countries nineteen western countries according to unicef sixty seven percent of girls and women who've undergone it say they want the practice end and i've got more you know pretty horrendous statistics here that don't support the bill gentlemen mutilation i mean you're even arguing the point that the terminology is wrong. you have to kind of explain why you were pro this and why you think that this court case has been so important for your cause well. so i want to make it clear that i am not pro mutilation i would never support the mutilation of anybody boy or girl what i'm saying is that there are

a set of practices that supporters like myself refer to as female circum. and there are many different forms usually what happens with this terminology female genital mutilation or s.t.m. is at the most extreme form which is very actually quite rare interview lation type three categorizes that is type three that involves the stiff stitching of the outer libya and really there's a prevalence in sub-saharan africa is less than ten percent is what gets gets conflated with all the other practices including the practice among the dowdy burra community which is really an absolutely benign but not i met mick it's a symbolic nick the practice the four skin of the of the girl but dowdy bore practice male circumcision which involves the complete removal of the male for skin

so we can test this hypocrisy we see it as sexist and we also see it as racism we see it as racist that there are many practices for instance female genital cosmetic surgeries lavey a class that absolutely fit the definition of female genital mutilation that has been laid out by w.h.o. as well as in the legislation that we have here in the us and in other western countries but lady aplastic is not included other forms of female genital cosmetic surgeries are not included and this is because most of the women and adolescent girls who opt for these practices who undergo these practices are wealthy or the affluent countries they're white they're educated and we're not including their practices in the category of of mutilation so we absolutely contest that we reject that most of the women from my knowledge from my twenty five years of research as

well as from my experience do not. consider themselves as mutilated and don't experience themselves as mutilated. to not see themselves as disfigured and you would i think but i do not very important to make that distinction which is because of because my counterpart here is is comparing apples and oranges she's talking about the difference between women who make a conscious decision as an adult to have to undergo some sort of cosmetic or other sort of procedure no one has a problem with that here and that's not what our conversation is about we are talking about seven year old children almost babies having these decisions to make them essentially a sexual and to risk their lives doing it so when we're talking about conflation it's a conflation to say that that somehow the same thing as some sort of elective surgery as an adult those are not the same two things and i think when you're going to try to impose cultural mores from different religions on

a constitution like ours in the united states are going to have a problem because i'm asking myself what's next i mean in certain very very small minorities perhaps but in certain islamic cultures it's ok to stone someone to death because they're gay that's not ok in american culture so how far do we let those values impose themselves up on american values which are based on constitutional and individual freedoms and certainly genitally mutilating a child without their ability to even consent as an adult is not an american value . ok listen lady ladies ladies i'm really sorry about this we have run out of time at this point thank you both very much for coming in very very controversial subject controversial case thank you both for coming on to the program. roundup of the news from now i'll be back at the top of

the hour with more. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. sex drugs or spinal survival. when customers go buy your do something. good now well reducible our. that's undercutting but what's good for food markets is not good for the global economy.

hello and welcome to worlds apart among the many differences that russia and the west have on the ukrainian crisis the most stark is what it signified and our own relations for many in the west was a sudden unprovoked breakup with an ungrateful and violent partner for many in russia it marked the end of a date. mistreatment and decide small degree on the definition of the problem can they ever find their way out. joined by william hale global fellow at the wilson center and the author of no place for russia mr hill it's good to talk to you thank you very much for coming on thank you for having me now you recently published a book.