street nearby to is also being closed to prevent overcrowding so let's get more details now from afshin rattansi he's at the scene for us at the moment i think he joins us now on the one he's trying to get even to action just describe them what we know so far. so good crewmate in the past hour or so. good shots being fired i should just sat in the perhaps two or three minutes that really is it so there's no trace of shots no trace of casualties moochers or suspects but the area around objects work is one of the busiest shopping areas. in the whole of the ruled is being evacuated he will write it before once that was mr stops at the london palladium lots of people in the dinner jackets or around here they can't get it more seriously no journalists were allowed very near the scene and the internet services were all pulled down in this area certainly over the past off out there they have been restored so for british transport police only saying that there's been a minor injury in an evacuation that was actually valid we have accusation three fire engines were sent here no sound of any ambu

international order on which we all depend it looks to me that the reason i haven't been talking afshin. but here she also says we know what you're doing i presume that is directly about it we have putin from the lord mayor's banquet in the city of london we know what you're doing and certainly can say that the baras country well if they knew what the russians are doing why did they do something about it is the other thing about it here's the other point what does boris not know that the reason i'm a knows boris is meant to be the factional foreign secretary i think they need to have a little bit of a cup of tea and a bit of a chant about who's right but maybe boris is to find the pocket of the kremlin to listen to his own prime minister is meeting the un secretary general today and the husband of the accused british subject imprisoned in iran let's go to more dubious leaks and information in your next story from some magazine called the atlantic which i don't think anyone takes that seriously that there's a relevant point there actually action but let's start with headlines atlanta quo

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edgar hoover and joe mccarthy action thanks for your thoughts this hour afshin rattansi host of our t.v. show going underground. it's another of our news headlines this hour thought reasons of students and trade union members are marching in cities right across france they're voicing their anger over president mccracken's labor reforms the changes were signed into law in september under widely seen eroding workers' rights and power to employers let's cross live now to forest because our correspondent has been there for a number of hours just keeping track of developments what is helping there in the french capital charlotte. thousands of people have come on to the streets to protest against the changes the president might call months to put into the power here in france but i just want to bring you up to date with some of the latest that we've seen a nice some of the damage to the shops that we're seeing along the street where this protest is going on this is a transfer western union shop and this is one of a number of shops that we've seen this small group of individuals taking part in

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we haven't received any reports about deaths and i am actually now joins for more of an update by afshin rattansi is of course the host of going on the ground on r.t. action just bring us up to speed with everything that you've heard in the past two minutes the police have said that there are no major injuries certainly no fatalities which makes it says seem all the more remarkable that albeit the royal variety performance was supposed to start at seven tonight the entire area of one of the most busiest shopping areas in the whole world should be evacuated this is a testament to how panicked this country is at the moment it's different and the country understands fully that britain is under a sharon lurch they understand the british foreign policy and the blowback on the streets of london very clearly tonight and this will take of course the news of the hundreds of dead or wounded in egypt right off the headlines here in britain you did mention as well just to me off camera that you've heard of report of an injury that might have been more from the comic than the actual incident which mi

host afshin rattansi british journalist neil clark. when we heard last week that r.t. had until the following monday to register as a foreign agent in america there was silence from groups like amnesty and other groups that are supposed to be defending free speech and free media and yet when russia very reasonably announces reciprocal measures in response to these measures from the us then all of a sudden these so-called impartial western pro human rights organizations come out and say this is outrageous this is terrible russia is clamping down on free speech so really it's very very transparent you only have to look at what's happened the last five days to see the racket pocket see well u.s. authorities want to the media war and russia giving it right back to them i presume that if radio free europe and the voice of america are on this russian list one can only presume that the russian kremlin and the russian government they understand that these were well known as propaganda outlets well before that is decision so obviously it is just no one in the world would think

i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground as today in london disgraced former u.k. international development secretary pretty big tell us what the future of the tory party is coming up on the show so watch her representatives hundred thousand workers tells this program about plans for unions to unite in strike action against the policies of u.k. minority government leaders to raise in may and ahead of tomorrow's berlin security conference addressed by e.u. bricks and negotiator. what about the personal security of british m.p.'s we speak to the u.k. just a select committee john howell about death threats plus the art of war on terror with this month marking nine years since a u.s. airstrike on a wedding in afghanistan killed thirty seven civilians. from all around the world to reflect major nation atrocities in their work. coming up on today's going underground but first reverberations from the budget of the chancellor continue to resonate around the united kingdom more than fifty thousand children will reportedly have no money from juries amaze new universal credit

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afshin shahi is a security and terrorism expert from the university of bradford.s responsible, the suspicion is it his so—called islamic cammack state. responsible, the suspicion is it his so-called islamic cammack state. you have to look at the wider picture and the way these worshippers were indiscriminately targeted in a sufi mosque. definitely, you can claim it has the whole hallmark of an isis attack. time and time again, they have been talking about targeting sufis. specifically, they talked about this mosque. they executed a very prominent sufi person in the same region this time last year. our correspondent in cairo this morning saying that authorities say that up to 30 children were among those killed. he talked about the indiscriminate nature of this attack. yes, this is indiscriminate in every sense of the term. you have to remember this is a specific region, that sinai region, it has a very long history of insurgency and terrorism. since 2013, insurgency and terrorism has been a new type of momentum. when the leader was toppled and replaced with the cu