and we are joined now by margaret gilmore a security and terrorism expert in london welcome to the program we have reports of multiple locations of potentially several attackers does this appear to you to be a coordinated attack and if so is it a failure of intelligence very difficult that you're. the authorities have. at least one of them have been jailed and been released in general less than a year ago and he is in jail or it's linked to islamic state and for terrorist. linked crimes so in that respect you really expected him to be very much watched some day and it would be difficult for him operate what we all seeing is just as you have described at all of all marks a crisis a cell a small group of people who got together who've managed to obtain guns which is relatively easy in europe they can come across the border from the old soviet countries or even through russia that getting able to get hold of arms through criminal means and they have decided to attack today said yesterday i should say several of them at the same time and they clearly to have these the terrorist ideology if you

well earlier we spoke with security expert margaret gilmore when i asked her whether this was likely to be a coordinated attack and if so perhaps even a failure of intelligence. that the authorities have at. least one of them had been jailed and been released in general less than a year ago and he's been jailed or. islamic state and for terrorists. linked crimes so in that respect you really expected him to be very much watched some day and it would be difficult for him operate what we are seeing is just as you have described at all of all marks a crisis a cell a small group of people who got together who've managed to obtain guns which is relatively easy in europe they can come across the border from the old soviet countries or even truth russia the outgassing able to get hold of arms through criminal means and they have decided to attack today said yesterday i should say several of them at the same time and they clearly have these the terrorist ideology if you like that with. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world starting in france where th