all u.s. commerce something approaching twenty percent i guess their goal is to get fifty percent of all commerce in america 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 all the people living in your town and we'll jump into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get anything. that was. david jones. used the words of the cards for him differently then there's a chance it may have been prevented and we we agree with i. think his appointed said the m i five in u.k. hamal face softer a government report details security failures that could have prevented

a string of terror attacks that roll to great britain in twenty seventeen. off to seventeen years and billions of dollars spent on new study finds that america's war on terror has quadrupled the number of islamist extremists and around the world. give up till google french m.p.'s the told to ditch they use of the web giants for the local tentative by the new year as president micron pushes for more independence from the united states. you're watching r t international welcome to the program. more could 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's how my five missed

a number of opportunities to events the tragic events. neither m i 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 m i 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 echoed by other members of the committee they also stressed this a lack of coordination between the intelligence services and the home office plays a part in failing to prevent the tragedies necessary has the details david anderson in his report used the words have the cards for them differently then there's a chance that 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 the attack may not have been stopped but there was warning signals that were not followed the part of routinely which should have been so what we call so it was a difference the lack of referral 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.

now on the manchester attack specifically the attacker soundman abedi the support talks about how he was able to visit an 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 attacks of the twenty second of may could have been prevented but we can say that as a result of the failings potential opportunities to prevent it were missed we previously made recommendations in all of 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 underscored by the committee that officials failed 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. mohammed saffi of the ramadan foundation an islamic extremism charity told us that these needs to take the reports lessons on board. i think a number of years ago after this july the seventh terrorist attack in two thousand

and five. the soldier. a few years ago five or six years ago recommendations were made and the intelligence agencies haven't implemented them the key issue about the the libyan connection is that the intelligence agencies under british government turned a blind are you actively encouraged these citizens to teach the kids to go to. libya to fight khadafi to come back into this country the person responsible for this atrocious top terrorist attack here in my own city by just some minor baby he was responsible and it was the isis. violence that was responsible but we should be able to learn lessons to stop any future attack on our country. afghanistan feels like a more dangerous place than it did four years ago according to the leader of u.s.

congressional delegation which visited the country this week in particular jim banks says security is being undermined by the rise of islamic states regional affiliates eisel k. he and six others had to leave on tuesday just as they learned of a suicide bombing in the afghan capital the attack on a religious celebration in kabul was one of the deadliest this year it killed fifty five and injured close to one hundred this islamic state is suspected of carrying out the bombing there's been a wave of bloody violence in recent weeks in which hundreds have died as militants stepped up their assaults amid a flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the seventeen year on terror yet in all that time more recently unveiled research shows that have severely limited effect on tackling extremism. on the horrendous attacks that took place on september eleventh two thousand and one in which nearly three thousand people lost their lives. 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 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 destructing 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 alright alright a sport. leaving based on a time table 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. google is francis latest target in its push to be less dependent on non european entities following on from president micron's cool for an army france now wants to wean itself off the web giant news its own alternative has a paris 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 hit 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 here from the u.s. intelligence can access data on companies clouds marked out 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 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 front is looking to make sure it slips out from under. the u.s. is net the french has been 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 other moves in france do the french equally 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 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 giants. the head of russia's military intelligence died on wednesday the russian defense ministry has reported that 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 informed 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 valentino which passed away aged sixty two eagle

court 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 kind of leaves behind a wife and two daughters. however some commentators in the west are not satisfied with the official explanation of carb of staff. the head of the g.r.u. accused of election hacking poisoning sergei downing m.h. seventeen and other assorted foreign policy gambits has died of illness aged sixty two his previous essar died aged fifty eight in twenty sixteen. the long and serious illness last to two seconds as he fell out of a 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 our

nation the head of the g.r.u. suddenly dies of a long and serious illness. journalist by mcdonald's gave us his thoughts on cardboard staff and their reaction to it nobody should ever accept everything any 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 bush's 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 they've been thrown out or 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 plain to stereotypes looking for. looking for like. the modern currency of the rusko or discount as it may be. an

illegal fest for the us a judge in the city of detroit has declared america's law banning the practice of circumcision and his female genital mutilation to be unconstitutional. 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 judge set the power to outlaw f.p.m. 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 border. female genital mutilation

is a widely bound practice found in africa asia and the middle east is involved the removal of external genitalia mainly young girls usually for religious reasons regarding sexuality there are no health benefits instead it can have serious consequences including bleeding 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 will tell full denies ation described as barbaric and a violation of human rights. we put the issue up for debates with anthropologist and women's rights activist for. media commentator gina loudon. what we are contesting is that we have these separate policies for girls and for boys and that has to do with the cultural acceptance of male circumcision and religious acceptance of male circumcision in the united states and then. the obviously the

lack of understanding in this understanding of the value of the female part which is very important to us because for us this is about gender complementarity concision for little boys is a completely different thing it actually is a much cleaner thing can prevent infections and that the medical risks to the little boy once he's been circumcised are many practices for instance female genital cosmetic surgeries layby a plus he's absolutely fit the definition of female genital mutilation that has been laid out by w.h.o. most of the women and adolescent girls who opt for these practices who undergo these practices are wealthy or the affluent countries there are 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 do not see themselves as disfigured in any way i think they do not very important to make that distinction interesting as there because my counterpart here 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're 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 you can do and you can do. don't subjecting boys against their will to mutilation but it's ok but you reject it for girls let's end the hypocrisy i think we're going to try to impose cultural mores from different religions on

a constitution like ours and 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 the ability to even consent as an adult is not an american value when you know when you say something like that you are as far as i'm concerned you're exposing you are exposing your own racism and your own your own phobia for other religious beliefs and practices you know the whole world right now our 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. palestinians facing eviction and losing their livelihoods have condemned the demolition of dozens of buildings in east jerusalem owners say they were delivered notices concerning more than twenty palestinian and shops and lead to be built without official permission locals say they will be left with no other option but to tend to refugee camps. the fate of many palestinians has been tracking on since may this year when israel decided to remove residents from the west bank village so their properties could be bulldozed some they're giving up hope and are continuing to fight for their homes.

and if we know that israel wants to destroy our home and wonder to happen it's a shame we were born here we do a good piece. and look at it we're afraid for our families for our children how we're living is very hard psychologically. to get a lot of 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 i'll work with god's help we'll stay on our land. israel says the projects being coordinated alongside the palestinian authorities

will take place soon meanwhile israel has slums donald trump's long awaited peace plan which outlines a road map to end the conflict in the region. they get between the palestinians and israelis is much too big you know all due to bridge to be bridged so you would tell trump president trump don't waste your time with this. medina caution never discuss trump's initiative with talk to you on a time frame and from the hebrew university he says it will be clear whether the plan should be backed only ofter it's discussed between israel and the us. she gave an opinion. that she believes personally about the plan that could be or not be when the plan is presented it will be discussed and debated at the israeli government and then the government itself will decide whether to back it or not there is a pall actually that was released last month which found that seventy three percent of israelis do not believe that u.s.

president donald trump's peace plan would actually lead to peace and again we heard from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he also said that he does not see any urgency and having the plan released so again i'm asking why do you think israel holding out for what could israel be holding out for why the rejecting that plan so strongly i think we have to differentiate between statements that are made publicly to statements that are made in rooms we are a democracy there is public opinion there is a way for everyone to express what they think in the government and outside of it but in the end the policy which is what israel is really believes israeli government believes to do is something that will be discussed. in in deliberations and probably the liberation government and the american government trump planned the deal of the century it's not called the peace deal of the century it's called

the deal of the century that's on it's very very important for it's really it's first off not having war peace will come later but the deal is about. having lowering the cost of the. per test says representing the public health workers union in greece clashed with riot police on thursday in an attempt to break into the finance ministry building the stray sions reached boiling point for the government's failure to increase the budget for public hospitals in twenty nineteen. the old. group the union members were filmed pushing police officers and throwing stewart them and it's press release the me and said its actions are aimed at the lack of government support for health care in the country this year greece completed its bailout program with the last bailout loan to be repaid in twenty sixty. leonardo da vinci

has been dragged into a row between the french president and it italy's deputy prime minister has been trading insults online now rome is reconsidering loaning the masters priceless works for a major exhibition in paris we need to remove everything the french cannot have it all their murder is a term him here on the guard in france to give the louvre all these paintings would put italy on the margins of a major cultural event paris is renowned for their museum was hoping to borrow some of different she's notable works for a big show in twenty nineteen marking five hundred years since his death rome also stressed that front should then in return learn something equally important like the mona lisa. and to be asked agreement's the louvre is to to loan works by other italian wrestles master raphael for twenty twenty exhibition marking the anniversary of his death although most of his masterpieces are already in italy we

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