it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles down to the bone. there's no relief. just not sure. what. they've done is. used the words have the cards for differently and that's a. preventative. we we agree with i. think is appointed to the m i five in u.k. hamal face softer a government report details security failures that could have prevented a string of terrorist attacks that rocks great britain in twenty seventeen.

after seventeen years and billions of dollars spent a new study finds that america's war on terror has quote triples the number of islamist extremists around the world. give a pill to go french m.p.'s are told to ditch their use of the web giants for at the local of tentative by the new year as president micron pushes for more independence from the united states. is just ten four am in the russian capital we're watching aussie and smash no with me in the. more could and should have been done to prevent the major terror attacks efforts 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 invest the tragic events. neither m i five nor

counterterrorism police took any follow up action and my five decided not to place travel moment tringle 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 time 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 the so lack of coordination between the intelligence services and the home office played a part in failing to prevent the tragedies and as i said check in there as the details. david ansen he's recalled used the words have the cards for and 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 call which would normally should have been because a lot of those things mean that it's text may not have been stopped but there was no warning signals that were not followed before routinely which should have been so what we can all say it was a difference the lack of referral could have been 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 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 man. chester 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 to make 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 of these areas yet the government failed to talk of the lessons to last year's tragic events must no result in real. well among some of the other issues highlighted in this report on the london bridge attack or 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 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 shafique of the ramadan foundation an islamic anti extremism charity told us that the u.k. needs to take the report's lessons on board. i think a number of years ago after july the july the seventh terrorist attack in two

thousand and five. the soldier. a few years ago five or six years ago recommendations were made on the intelligence agencies have been implemented and 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 goods 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 rochester with 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 the us congressional delegation which visited the country this week in particular bank

says security is being undermined by the rise of islamic state regional affiliates eisel k. he 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 of the deadliest this year it killed fifty five and injured close to one hundred others 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 step 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. the facts on tackling stream is them. 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 your it is to have sufficient forces engaged in sufficient political engagement sufficient economic resources to make sure that we put. 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 taliban or i suspect 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. google francis latest talkativeness 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 this tentative has a paris correspondent sean. much corn and trumps 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 hit you couldn't it it will 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 quantz 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 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. it's net 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 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 jones. that has a fresh in military intelligence this passed away age sixty two and his death this 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 program donald trump has refused to condemn saudi arabia's crown prince for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi despite the cia reports to be concluding that mohamed built some on or to the med speaking to reporters at his mar-a lago resort on thursday when asked who should be held responsible the u.s. presidents had only the following to say. maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious boys. that comment was consistent with an official statement trump made on choose day in a press release on the importance of standing with saudi arabia he stressed the need to maintain close ties with reality in order to counter the perceived threats from iran and prop up the u.s. economy the president's unwillingness to criticize the gulf kingdom however stands

in sharp contrast to how he has responded to america's rivals over some of their alleged activities. you look at a rare just take a look at iran's leaders so. death. and destruction. the united states will respond if chemical weapons are deployed by the assad regime. that is taking advantage of the united states for many many years china's market distortions. has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election so you agree with us intelligence that russia meddled in the election in twenty sixteen and i've said that before if i have said that numerous times before. since because she was killed in saudi arabia

is a stumble consulates in taber riyadh has offered several conflicting fish and of events it made tain say that the made it was carried out by rogue agents in the crown prince was unaware of the plan middle east analyst told us the us in any case by preserving washington's partnership with the gulf states trump is protecting u.s. interests. charges saying is what is actually said behind closed doors every single time. i don't think it's sitting well with a lot of people that is the only truth of their illusions politicly we all need an enemy and since you aren't so ready are gods and iran and israel those are odds the us is going to go against iraq can't get it to trump's president tom smart. you know on one hand he may be actually trying to protect us interests on the other hand if he sees this ultimate outcome is coming he may be politically trying to

absolve yourself from play where he can point to everything you said instead says i didn't want to do it but all of you who made this happen so don't blame it on me. the head of russia's military intelligence died on wednesday the russian defense ministry has reported he was sixty to. 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 age to sixty two eagle cut above took over the position two years ago after his predecessor died from a heart attack he said in russia's armed forces for the last forty five years carb 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 boys and sergey downing m h seventeen and other assorted foreign policy gambit has died of illness aged sixty two his previous essar died aged fifty eight in twenty sixteen. the long and serious illness lost to two seconds as he fell out of window. 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. ten less but in mcdonald's gave us his thoughts on carb of staff and the reaction to it. nobody should ever accept everything and 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 this is bush's i mean a sixty two year old man sixty two year old man unfortunately died 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 playing to stereotypes you know and looking for. looking for like which are the modern currency of the rusko or discount as it may be. you know it saves event has been tracked into a route between the french presidents and it's nice to see prime minister has been trading insults online now ramus reconsidering learning the masters priceless works for a major exhibition in paris. we need to renegotiate everything the french cannot have

it all their murder is a talent here only darden france to give the louvre all these paintings would put italy on the margins of a major cultural event paresis re now and leave the museum was hoping to boris some of the ventures notable works for a big show in twenty nineteen marking five hundred years since his death rome also stressed that front should than in return learn something equally important like the mona lisa. and so the arctic remains the louvres to to learn works by other talian wrestles master rafael for twenty twenty exhibition marking the anniversary of his death although most of his masterpieces already in italy we talked to people in both countries about where they think the painting should be shown. i did never tell you that we are out of the hospital close to. this job full of holes. in the dolly out there is just vivid to

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. cranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year girl and truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like the gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and just slow down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's

not what it used to be. and that's a tough reality to deal with. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past . it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

this is a poem bus broadcast around the world from washington d.c. i'm partial thanks for joining us we appreciate you hanging out with us coming up today we focus on inequality around the planet we'll be joined by professor richard wolfe and our t. correspondent on your part and bill looks at a recent united nations report on poverty in the united states and some reactions at home and abroad plus the c.e.o. of strong market we're word which looks at the wealthiest and poorest nations around the world and r.t. correspondent trinny charges goes to fisher island florida of the wealthiest zip code in the u.s. for a special report part of it from. us r.t. correspondent dan cohen looks at the more on work at the poorer areas in the nation including right here in the nation's capital the belly the beast washington d.c. all that straight ahead but first let's get to a few has what we seek to bring a global perspective to the issues we cover here at boom bust so to get a real grasp on the problem of inequality we begin with a report from the library of the british house of commons which is analogous to the

library of congress here in the u.s. on what our world will look like in twenty thirty if trends continue the report finds that the richest one percent of humanity is on track to control sixty four percent of the planet's capital and wealth by twenty thirty up from the current fifty percent and measured in dollars that one percent will increase their huge holdings from the current hundred forty trillion dollars to three hundred five trillion dollars the labor. party's m.p. lam byrne who requested the survey told the u.k. guardian that absent major reforms global policy makers are quote risking a new explosion instability corruption and poverty on the other side of the proverbial coin a november twenty seventh a report from credit suisse found that people on the bottom fifty percent of the income scale on less than one percent of global wealth got that fifty percent of lower income folks on less than one percent o.-m. g.

. turning back to the u.s. for more granular view of the problem the pew research center noted late last year that the so-called great recession of two thousand and seven to two thousand and nine further exacerbated inequality by race gender and income as one of most trusted analyst of demographics polling and policy in the united states using figures from the federal reserve they found that among americans poor and middle class the gap between white households wealth and black and hispanic households increased in the wake of the great recession and twenty sixteen white households in these brackets had four times the wealth of comparable african-american families and three times the wealth of hispanic households interestingly pew did find that among lower income household white families lost more wealth than their african-american and hispanic peers.

reports about the poor are unfortunately not a new thing over the years we've seen a steady flow of papers studies and reports about the growing poverty in ited states and what seemed to many people some obscene numbers separating the rich and the poor the haves and have nots as we say with all of this information and data being delivered revealing the staggering level of poverty in the country we may need help to break it all down and put it into the proper perspective again. that regard we are fortunate and honored to have just such a person joining us now is a professor of economics of merit to the university of massachusetts am her friends are richard will professor we're very pleased to have you join us again. thank you bob glad to be here so let's start with a benchmark i mean you teach classes and look at these sorts of things all the time as an income inequality always existed in the u.s. .