tonight we can all middle of the room sit. really really really really well. join me every thursday on the island so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you that. was. a dunce. used the words to cut the cards for him differently than those which say that may have been prevented and we we agree with that. saying disappointed that the m i five the new k. home office software a government report details security failures that could have prevented

a string of terror attacks that rocks great britain in twenty seventeen. off to seventeen years and billions of dollars spends a new study finds that america's war on terror has quadrupled the number of as a mystic stream missive around the world. give a pill google french m.p.'s the toll to ditch the use of the web giant for the local tend to have by the new year as president micron pushes for more independence from the united states. you're watching t. international welcome to the program. more kurds 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 the ten my five missed

a number of opportunities to a vets 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 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 echoes by other members of the committee they also stress the selective coordination between the intelligence services and the home office played a part in failing to prevent the tragedies and that's to say a chicken a has the details david anderson in his report used the words had the cards for them differently then there's a chance a may have been prevented and we we agree with that title 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 a warning signals that were not followed the part of routinely which should have been so what we can all say it would make 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 this report 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've 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 know result in 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 because the ramadan foundation and islamic anti extremism charity told us that the u.k. needs to take the reports lessons on board. i think a number of years ago after july this july the seventh terrorist attack in two

thousand and five and then the brutal murder of lee rigby 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 british citizens british libyans to go to libya to fight khadafi to come back into this country the person responsible for this atrocious to a terrorist attack here in my home city of manchester was some minor baby he was responsible and it was the isis are your legit 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 a u.s.

congressional delegation which visited the country this week in particular jim bank says security is being undermined by the rise of islamic states regional affiliates eisel ok here in 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 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 war on terror yet in all that time more recently unveiled research shows it's had a severely limited effect on tackling extremism. the horrendous attacks that took place on september eleventh two thousand and one in which nearly three thousand. and 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 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 insufficient political engagement sufficient economic resources to make sure that we're putting pressure and 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. all right says 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. google is france's latest target in its push to be less dependent on european and cities following on from president micron's call for an army france now wants to wean itself off the web giants news this tentative has a paris correspondent dubinsky. much corn and trump's friendship is down in the dumps right now but it seems that the fission 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 here from the 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 rule to moves increasingly towards digital warfare front is looking to make sure it slips out from under. the u.s. is net the french her for 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 russian military intelligence is passed away age sixty two and his death as prompted a raft of far fetched conspiracy theories we look at that and more after the break .

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welcome back to. the head of russia's military intelligence died on wednesday the russian defense ministry is 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 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 volunteer novich passed away age to sixty two igal court above took over the position two years ago when after his predecessor died from a heart attack he served in russia's armed forces for the last forty five years

quote above leaves behind a wife and two daughters. however some commentators in the west are not satisfied with the official explanation of car above steph 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 sesar died aged fifty eight in twenty sixteen. the long and serious illness last to 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 skin to process a nation the head of the g.r.u. suddenly dies of a long and serious illness to enlist by mcdonald's gave us his thoughts on carb of steph and the reaction to it. nobody should ever accept everything the 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 their suspicious 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 shown no true windows i mean there's two reasons i think one is the lack of knowledge of russia or other 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 like mature 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 second station owners 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 prohibit female genital mutilation female genital mutilation is a local criminal activity which in keeping with longstanding tradition and or federal system of government is for the states to regulate not congress the judge said 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 sects from india called the border. female genital mutilation is a widely been practice found in africa asia and the middle east is 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 bleeding infertility infection and in some cases even death an estimated two hundred million women around the world her thoughts have undergone the procedure which the u.n. and world health organization describe as barbaric and a violation of human rights. we put the issue up for debate with anthropologist and women's rights activist for one be my due and media commentator jean allowed in. 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 this 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 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 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 do not see themselves as disfigured in any way i think they do not very important to

make it's interesting as there 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'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. condone 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 minority is 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 consider it 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 or 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. leonardo da vinci's been dragged into a rabbit when the french president and its least deputy prime minister have been trading insults online now reconsidering learning the masters priceless works for a major exhibition in paris we need to renegotiate everything the french cannot have a to. use a term in human guard in france to give the louvre all these paintings would put italy on the margins of a major cultural event. paris's to be announced live the museum was hoping to borrow some of the vinci's notable works for a big show in twenty nine thousand marking five hundred years since his death rome also stressed that front should ban in return something equally important like the mona lisa. of the arts agreements the louvers juta loan works by another italian wrestles master raphael for twenty twenty exhibition marking the anniversary of his death although most of his masterpiece is already in italy we talked to people in

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a bit be. overly mean. because some of the. less well but i live in a market even bloody no money to the on on. so real time updates on facebook and twitter i'll be with you in thirty minutes with more headline yes. the british government and the british establishment and mrs smith and mrs mrs may

have looks themselves up into his studio about so-called new deal just self is incredibly. as i just said in so doing they've allowed the european union to impose completely draco union is on the u.k. which we've lost anyway. the russian military deteriorated terribly at the end of the soviet union and russia was always going to rebuild its military the question is how can we the united states and russia construct a relationship where we are both confident that all of the intentions or more confident of the intentions of the other so that we're not worried it's not that we shouldn't. but we should make sure that our counterparts understand why we have it and when and where we would use.

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welcome to the alex salmond's show this week it's not back to the future but back to brics it gets in. vents of the last week the subject is back yet 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 magick her allies in the democratic unionists and the pro european a said p and the alex talks to hollywood star brian cox about his intervention and the european debate and also find some light hearted relief from the boys of pricks it by playing the newly launched breaks a board game with its creator danny headland but first your tweets i messages will receive an enormous response to our special remember its programs on the loss of love and cast your largest loss of life in british naval history first we hear from gabby who speaks of artist and jacqueline who be featured last week gary says i've

had the pleasure of meeting both jacqueline tyner at the memorial service for the link last year at the katherine creature church in london artist is quite a remarkable man who deserves recognition first headed as them as to all the other personnel who are 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 the 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 andrew says my great grandfather was one of the men who lost his life on the island castillo my grandmother talks often about it.