when the british approach. ross had opted to cross the river of it bladensburg, still a couple of miles up the river from where we are now. august 24, at noon, when he sense his forces across the river, the first ones cross on the bridge at bladensburg, which the americans had neglected to blow in the chaos and confusion of the moment. led by colonel william thorton, one of ross's brigade commanders, they hit the maryland militia head on. they took some initial casualties, but pretty quickly were able to envelop the americans. get around them, and force the militia to start retreating pretty quickly. the militia retreated to a second line of defense. and the british kept on coming. they also had congress rockets. this was a relatively new weapon at the time. cockburn had used them in his chesapeake campaign with quite a bit of effectiveness. most of the american militia troops had not seen him before. these rockets were notoriously difficult to aim, but they were really weapons of terror. they were a most like

this was not symbolic by the british. they wanted this war to end on british terms. they thought by essentially forcing the collapse of madison's government, burning the white house and the epitope -- the capitol, they could force the americans to sign a treaty that would bring an end to the war on british terms, which at times during this conflict, in fact, the same day that we fight the battle in bladensburg, the in belgium arees presenting the american delegation with what are really -- demands. they include british control of the great lakes, navigation rights on the mississippi, and at that point, they are making demands for a 250,000 square mile swath of territory in the old northwest, much of ohio, illinois, indiana, that would become a permanent indian buffer state. these were terms that, frankly, would have neutered america. the british, in coming to washington, were trying to establish a weaker united states on the north american continent, possibly even force its dissolution. they have not started this war. we declared war on them. they wanted to make sure

british,s, set by the they came back toward the british. which were ceilings, pioneered as an architectural feature, they managed to act as fire breaks. the protected a lot of the capitol. if you want see the parts that in near thego old supreme court where the senate used to meet. see columnse:'s -- c topped with corncob features by -- the by -- card carved by giovanni. there are husks of corn. the corn shows. vegetable.in the -- best of all -- vestibule. in the rotunda, there are places that survived. there is a room occupied by the house majority leader which doubled as a room at that time, a committee for the district of columbia and in office for the president when he went to the capital. the admiral wanted a souvenir. he went into the office, which book stands, and found a on the table belonging to medicine -- madison. it was written, president's copy. it was expenditures for the u.s. government, 1810. admiral, taken by the on the destruction of the capital during the occupation of washington. in given by him to his brother, governor

of the british commander. he said, if we only had this man -- i forgot his name now. he would teach these people who are so anxious to crossover and engage the enemy, he would teach them the value of patience. they were horrified to see this. by then, it was too late. the british were storming through. so it is very unfair to blame the americans. those who fought, fought as we would expect. there is a myth going around that the commandant's home at the marine barracks was saved. i did not find any documentary evidence to support the theory that the british were so enamored of the bravery of the marines that they spared that house. i did not find the any documentary evidence to supply that. i do not know whether that is true or not. >> thank you for your presentation, anthony. could you give us some information about the burning of the navy yard? terrible story none of us would want to go , what the commandant went through that night. succeeded at the battle, and they were seen to be within the boundaries of wa

british commander. they said oh, if we only had this man, he would teach the value of patience. they were horrified to see this, but it was too late. the british were storming through. so it's very, very unfair to blame the americans. that's why there is a myth going around that the commandant's home that the marine barracks were saved. i didn't find any documentary evidence of the bravery of the marines that they spared that house. i didn't find any documentary of the evidence to support that, that's a myth that's come up into the modern age, i don't know whether that's true or not. >> thank you for your presentation, anthony. i was wondering if you could give us some details about the burning of the washington naval yard. >> of the naval yard? yes. the question was can i give some background to the burning of the navy yard. this is a terrible story. none of us would want to go through what commandant thomas tingy went through that night. he had been told by the secretary of the navy that if the britis

the british believed because he served as a british officer, he was a deserter. he had taken up arms against his king. one british officer's view was typical. inam happy to see mr. lee custody and will be happy to hear he has been tried as a deserter and hanged." here is an example of what fate lee had before him. this is from the scottish rebellion. execution of lord lovat. his head was removed so he was not actually hanged, but that is still not a good resort. the treatment of officers -- captured officers was not certain. the test case was ethan allen. begottenured a fort himself captured ahead of an american army said to invade canada. when captured, he was brought before major general prescott who plays a major role in my book. he was one of those british officers who considered rebels to be criminals. traitors, weren't all criminals? prescott turned purple with rage and yelled at allen he would not execute him but he would grace the place in london where they would hang programmers -- pr isoners. allen was treated terribly. he was brought to england and pla

we could be speaking with british accents today if the british had prevailed. key goes back to a hotel in baltimore and finishes -- you know, there were 4 versus to this poem or song, and we will talk about whether it was a poem or a song in a little bit. he wrote one letter on october 4 in which he talked about what happened. never mentioned writing a song or a poem. he talked about dr. beans and the british officers, whom he did not like. the account we have about what happened that night, the one you have already, the one i read, comes from something that was written by frank's brother-in-law published in 1853, 40 years later. he said that frank had told him this after the battle, and so many people wanted to know, he wrote it down for posterity. that is what we have, along with an article that john stewart skinner wrote after tonic -- tawny's book came out, which sort of makes skinner the hero, although he does not claim to write the poem. somebody, maybe frank's brother-in-law, who married one of poly's sisters, took this poll him to a printer in baltimore

, ven though the british had eclared war on hitler, that it would be completely impossible for the british to defeat hitler once france fell, on their own. and that is why churchill pursued the alliance with the united states. i do not think winston hurchill ever dreamed that the united states and britain ogether could liberate poland, iven the strength of the germans in 1942 and 1943. t simply wasn't on the cards that they could defend, could nvade and protect poland against soviet forces. there has been a great deal of discussion about it because it seems tragic to surrender to the russians knowing what they are going to do. both roosevelt and churchill knew that it was the russians who had murdered tens of thousands of polish. in order to preserve the united nations alliance with the soviet union we had to pretend that the germans were responsible for the massacre, but it was quite clear to both president roosevelt and churchill that the russians were behind it. churchill said in 1943, speaking to a catholic cardinal, that he was very sorry, but as things look we will defeat the third r

us against the british. we're talking millions of dollars which in those days was big money. never paid it back. interesting point to keep in mind when we get so concerned that other countries don't pay us back. let me tell you about probably what i think is the key point in the war where intelligence play such an important role. there's a couple of points, and if i time out how to go into another one, but it was december 1776, washington had just been swept out of new york. he was pushed across new jersey, it's snowing, he's down to about maybe an army of 5000 people effective, maybe 3000. they have no ammunition but these guys are marching literally barefoot through the snow. the enlistment about to go up in january. this is a low point. washington action is thinking at this point that if i ca get you something, i'm going to take what troops i've got and i'm going west of the alleghenies and going to conduct a protracted war from back there. knows how that would've worked out. but then it turns all around

the british ships were outside the range of their guns. they just had to wait until the shelling was other. >> we have a piece of shrapnel that we're allowing our visitors to touch so you can see the thickness of the metal that would have exploded when that piece would have hit into the fortification itself. >> francis scott key was actually being held by the british. he had gone to negotiate the release of a dr. beans who was mayor of the local town. and the british troops had come into the town when they were passing up towards baltimore from washington. as usually happens there was a few stragglers that stayed behind after the main troop left. and they were a little rowdy and they got arrested and because beans had promised neutrality to the british, they were offended that these soldiers were arrested. and they seized beans for violating the neutrality. the u.s. government hired francis scott key who was a georgetown lawyer to go and negotiate his release. so he went out to meet the british troop to try and arrange this release of dr.

-- been british. tdrchill simply blame gandhi. it was better not to give the indian self-government in 1942. wascome singapore surrendered to the japanese after only a few days? british empire troops surrendered, which included something approaching 60,000 indians who were mercenaries. ,000 of those fight withered to the japanese to get control of their own country. one of the things that i so admire, and it is a central moment in this book, is what happens in the february of 1942, winword comes in from macarthur to the white house. it is a signal from mcarthur saying that the president of the philippines, which are still an would likerritory, to surrender or negotiate with the japanese. you mr. president must make the decision. he intimated that he thought thatbly it was a good idea the philippine government should surrender and therefore spare themselves the more casualties. this is during the japanese the campaign. and was another great deciding moment of the war. not just militarily but morally. y

the british forced against him is about 5500 men. the casualty figures really tell the tale of the battle. it will be 2000 men killed. it is a decisive, massive but jury. radiates out is terrifying. it will be president of the united states today. americans here at jackson's victory. there were some other but trees on their minds. victories, especially jackson's were really the biggest myth of the war of 1812. that is that america wins the war of 1812. it is entirely for that reason that i think the war of 1812 is so inconsequential. it will bring a surge of nationalism. most are commenting on this. there is a greater sense of unity, nationalism. starts start -- it takes . the word is not create these things. different america than it would have been if we have lost the war. >> we had a night at the museum. they asked if it was one of dolly squeezes. they would all recognize each other. on most everyone says it would know almost everyone else. it is a small world. never would truly expect to have the reason because of transportation

>> by the british in paris. the british did an excellent job of penetrating the french government and also penetrating extremely well our -- >> americans spying on the french. >> no. we were too busy, basically, hanging on. there was, however, one proven -- well, in paris the february. government -- french government obviously watched the three commissioners, the american commissioners very carefully, and there's reporting on that. but in the army itself one of the foreign contractors -- this is an interesting point -- they started a tradition that today people seem to think just started during one to have gulf wars which was to -- one of the gulf wars which was the hiring of contractors to serve in the u.s. army. the continental congress hired a lot of foreign military officers in specialized fields like engineering and artillery because the expertise didn't exist in america. one of those officers, dekalb, actually was a french spy who while he died gal hasn'tly leading maryland troops, but he reported back pri

and another british engineer. they used these videos very effectively for several -- to terrify their enemies, to embarrass western governments and to recruit people to their cause. >> very briefly, we're running out of time, we heard david cameron speak on numerous occasions about a threat to the uk. if these men come back. >> half of them have come back. at least half. and they're being monitored. how efficiently, i don't know. but, yes, they are very worried about it they're going to import this kind of ideology of extreme violence back into the uk. it is something which actually doesn't just affect britain, but helped in france and belgium that the attack in brussels was a part of this and neighboring countries like saudi arabia are deeply worried about it. >> frank, thank you very much. thank you very much, imam cary, joining us from the set in the north of england studio. >>> stay with us here on "bbc world news." i'll be back in just a moment with all the latest headlines. the new samsung galaxy tab s, the

sir michael howard, the great british historian who was at salerno as a young british captain, i justinner with him in england two weeks ago, he is now 92, sir michael howard wrote that alexander evinced -- these are howard's words -- a calm, gentle, friendly presence whose influence like an oil slick spread outward. churchill adored him. the prime minister's physician lord moran said this was because in churchill's eyes alexander, quote, redeemed what was brutal in war, touching the grim business lightly with his glove. and alexander's hands, it was still a game for people of quality. while that brings us finally to lieutenant general mark wayne clark. he was an army brat, he was the youngest member of the west point class of 1917. he was wounded as a 22-year-old battalion commander in world war i. and then he was stuck at the rank of captain for 16 years during that sad neglected period between the wars. he subsequently skipped the rank of colonel altogether. at the beginning of the italian campaign he's 47. he's among the youngest american lieutenant generals in our history and a y

erin went over some of this but what precautions is the british government likely to ask of british citizenslso of, you know, maybe train stations or airports, things like that? >> my guess is that this is or the reason why britain is doing this is they have a lot of people under surveillance, there are increased concerns about what's happening in syria, and it may be that they've lost track of people that they were following because i don't want to say this came out of the blue but it is a height. ed elevation that would come from likely intelligence that they may have lost, which is a clue that a cell or a group of people may have gone underground to attack. so what they're going to do now is ask for increased vigilance of the british in terms of, in particular communities that may know where people are, and to keep an eye out on what's going on in their communities, and then you're just going to have obviously the increased physical presence, visual presence of police and other lawfficials in transportation given what happened july 7th with the attacks several years back in the train and

the british strategy which seems to be focused on protecting the british homeland from the threat of isil is much more arctic cue latd than the strategy that we heard from president obama yesterday which was much more focused on protecting iraq. for president obama, the isil problem is still a regional problem and although u.s. officials have said that isil has aspirations and perhaps capabilities to attack the u.s. homeland, the problem still has not come home for us here yet as far as president obama is concerned. prime minister cameron can't afford to make those distinctions. there are many more british jihadis than there are american. the threat is much more immediate to britain than they are to the u.s. this has forced the u.k. government to take a more comprehensive approach combatting this problem on the extremist level, on the radicalization level, on the home front, on the homeland security level. they seem to be a little bit ahead of us in dealing with how it affects them. right now in the u.s., obama is dealing with how it affects the region. >> i was going to ask michelle

but the assumption was that the british navy would handle the atlantic. now there was a possibility that the united states would have to fight japan and germany and italy and that germany and italy would, in the meantime, avail themselves of much of the british and french fleets. that was a truly catastrophic situation, and it demanded an immediate response. there were two specific fears about what the germans might do that dominated thinking for the next 18 months. and both involved direct threats to the western hemisphere. one was that they might leapfrog across the atlantic by repeating the norway operation first in iceland, then in gleanland, then newfoundland, labrador, and then they would be in bombing range of the united states. the second which was even more within their reach was they would send their army through the french liberia and even in west africa at dakar. at that point they would be able to seize some of the atlantic islands, the canaries and the asors and the cape verdes, and they would be only 1800 miles from brazil. and those were t

sir michael howard, the great british historian, who was at salerno as a young british captain -- i just dinner with him in england -- she is now 92. howard wrote that alexander had a calm, gentle, friendly slick thatke an oil spread outwards. churchill adored him. physicianminister's said this was because in churchill's eyes, alexander "redeemed what was brutal in war, touching the grim business lightly with his glove." in alexander's hands, it was still a game for people of quality. finally, tous, lieutenant general mark twain clark. theas an army brat, youngest member of the west point class of 1917. he was wounded as a 22-year-old battalion commander in world war i. then he was stuck at the rank of captain for 16 years during that sad, neglected period between the wars. he subsequently skipped the rank of colonel altogether. at the beginning of the italian campaign, he is 47. he is among the youngest american lieutenant generals in our history. a year later, he will become the youngest american four-star general. he is meticulous, highly intelligent. he is something of a screamer. ca

>> nothing but a bunch of british elvis presleys. >> it's not true, it's not true! >> when the beatles arrived, from then on, a thousand different things arose. ♪ >> is it a sex thing or -- >> it's sexual. >> yeah. >> completely. ♪ >> there is a desire to get power in order to use it for good. ♪ how does it feel >> pop musicians in today's generation, they can rule the world. ♪ ♪ ♪ she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ >> yeah, yeah, yeah. this is beatleland, formerly known as britain, where an epidemic called beatlemania has seized the teenage population, especially female. >> cbs, they do a story on what they probably think is a goofy band from england that's doing quite well. >> these four boys from liverpool with their dishmop hairstyles are britain's latest musical, and in fact, sociological phenomenon. they symbolize the 20th century nonhero, as they make non music, wear non haircuts, give non mercy. meanwhile, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is alexander kendrick in beatleland. >> some little girl heard just a hint of what the beatles were

they doubt either the british immigration authorities or british intelligence services have a real handle on the size of the problem, and say that all of these statements, all of these proposed measures may be jut a bit of politics rather than anything concrete to curtail any measured uncertainty. mr. cameron saying yesterday there was no specific intelligence about an imminent threat. this is much more generic, natalie. >> karl penhaul for us there live in london. we'll wait and see what other things develop this week, when david cameron announces changes to security and safety. thank you. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry urging a global effort to defeat isis's in a clump in tole "new york times" saying, no decent country can support the horror es of isis and no country can shirk its responsibility to help stamp out this disease. it's hard work but extremists like isis can only be defeated when "responsible nations and their peoples unite to oppose them." >>> the u.s. military has shed more light on its operations against isis in iraq. the pentagon said friday american forces have

in this case, this, you know, when it was a british citizens that was found out it was a british citizens responsible for the beheading of american journalist james foley, this became a domestic political problem. this is something, the issue of growing is bum community and some extremism that was born there. we have the astonishing round table with some british muslim citizens who were basically not app gettic at all for the killing of james foley. >> and, chuck, i'm thinking the prime minister did talk about the issue of returning fighters, which he justalluded to going b to great britain. is there anything you see as far as what the prime minister called an overall comprehensive approach that could include maybe joining with the united states in dealing with isis in syria? >> i think he seemed to make it almost perfectly clear we know one member of the coalition. the last time one year ago at this time, you had a british parliament reject david cameron's choice, essentially, to join the united states in a possible strike and assad and the chemical weapons. of course, that essentially u

it seems like a british homeland issue. they are going to start taking away passports of some people inside britain. juliette, you worked for home land security here in the united states, is it your experience that these heightened alerts and increased measures, do they work? >> i think they do. i think what's interesting right now is this is in my memory, this may be one of the greatest instances where now the united states has to assess its own new terror threat system. people should remember we no longer have the color codes. a lot of people forget that. they were dropped a couple of year ago and a new system call the national threat advisory system is called ntas is in place. it is more descriptive, narrative, tells people what to do, tells local officials what to do, so they will be an assessment about whether an ntas alert or bulletin is put out to local its, so that's the process that's going on in the interagencies right now, that's probably why we haven't heard specifically from dhs yet, and may hear from the white

america inherits the mantle of the british. of a s so in a foreglare modern media and political public, a public in teheran that literate, politically able, and making their own decisions. send a detail off to the local capital to say we're because it pened, becomes an event. it feeds in to it. this is one of the things i the book isok at in how essentially historical created to change the way we look at each other. if you look at the most book on ve iran-american relations. the council of foreign they'll say what we need is engagement. examples of how the recent incidences are praying in particular way. the media is pivotal at this by the way. take the academic level. americans will frame their relationship, u.s. and iran in 1979. starts it e quite clear who the bad guy is. they took the embassy, the staff hostage. a nightmare for americans. that's when it started. if that's where you start the problem. where you frame your narrative, then, you know, we know that's where it started. iranians, the narrative frame is not 1979. t

at the battle for four months in 2016, the british and the french lost 4,000 men, and british forces lost an estimated 27,000 men dead. in contrast, in 8 and a half years in iraq, some 4800 americans were killed. a war that began with military planners amassing forces to equip large cavalries ended with bombard. civilian populations. monarchies in germany and russia all ended the war with republics with monarchs discredited or dead. for years that shook the world, the great war is the "inside story." meeting at the site of one of europe's intense battles, the french president and the german president took comfort in how much the world has changed 100 years from world war i. >> we the descendents, it's up to us to recall the ordeal that they faces and barbarism and never coming back. >> the two leaders in former enemy nations ended the ceremony by sealing a time capsule for future generations. >> france and germany's history proves that determination can overcome fatality. and in a few years, reckon sile. >> reporter: world war i is one of history's deadliest conflicts. sparked by the

the assumption was the british navy would handle the planet. now there was a possibility that the united states would have to fight japan and germany and italy and germany and italy would in the meantime have availed themselves of british and french fleets. there was a truly catastrophic situation and it demanded an immediate response. there were two specific fears about what the germans might do but dominated thinking for the next 18 months. both directed threats to the western hemisphere. one was that they might leapfrog across the atlantic by repeating the norway situation first in iceland and greenland and the clinton -- newfoundland and labrador and then they would be within bombing distance of the united states. the second they would send their army through this iberian peninsula and even in west africa. at that point they would be able to seize some of the atlantic islands that canaries in the azores and the cape verde's and would-be agent of miles from brazil. those were the nightmares of the occupiers. so what was to be done? roosevelt

and british authorities have been left shocked by the growing number of people being radicalized into jihads they now want to take away passports of those going to war zones on encouraging citizens to spy on potential terrorists. welcome my name is the harvey and you're watching international. russia will do its best to help set up a peace process in ukraine those words coming from putin this handshake you can see kicked off the first sit down meeting of the russian and ukrainian presidents at an international summit in minsk. has more. ms clinton is the first ever here between the current president of russia and ukraine and just your onlookers hoped it would herald some kind of breakthrough but didn't put in said talks went well but insisted the most pressing issue finding a solution to the conflict in ukraine was something needs to settle but if you go there should we didn't talk in detail about it and frankly speaking russia can propose any conditions for a cease fire or speak about possible greenman between kiev and donetsk or lugansk this is ukraine's affairs we can only try to h

with me, the royal british region.d and immaculate tombstones. >> we have our first casualties of the first world war. we have the word reconciliation friend and foe buried together. this is a very important cemetery for which it started and where it finished. >> this is where one of the first battles of the great war was fought. the common wealth, british forces had to retreat to paris. it was only just before 1918 when they came back. as you say, another british casualty there. >> indeed. this is the battle site here to see exactly both sides of action and enormous cost to all nations particularly our own. >> we were talking earlier about the collective memory that exists in belgium about what happened. even though there are no veterans obviously left from the great war, do you get a sense there were new generations coming through remembering the great war and still a real interest in what happened? >> we have our school programs, many coming out. if you went this evening or any night in the week, there's between 1,2

he was against the british, 30,000 british troops in north america alone, and the most powerful navy in the world. then on christmas washington turned back into new jersey, across the delaware river on a cold snowy night and early the next morning the troops converged on clinton new jersey where the mercenaries were sleeping off a night of festivities. after brief battle the continental army captured near the entire regiment to it was a stunning victory that raised morale at a critical time for the colonists. so you know this story already, right? you all learned this in school. most of you have read david mccullough's wonderful account of 1776, which is certainly a page turner. you've probably seen this iconic painting. this was done by emmanuel in the 1850s. so this is a story we know. it holds -- it is been retold many times. today i want to disk explore the other continent of 70 took sick. why is this a case? i growth in san francisco. this is 2500 miles from boston. san francisco did not even exist when british soldiers and american minutemen met in battle at lexington and conco

i have no british friends of any kind. >> americans guess british words.ky because now we have a british translator in the form of our new cohost and friend, welcome to the show, and welcome to the "right this minute" family. you are here because oh good friend, our cohost, steven fabien is leaving us, so sad, but proud of you, you're headed back to the east coast to be with friends and family. >> welcome, ollie, you'll do an excellent job, a lot of fun here at the table talking about god knows what, but i'm going back to new york to work for "inside edition." >> we are proud of you. >> thank you. >> steven is still here a little while longer, we'll have the fun and start trying to guess some british words. you got to go first, and we know you know the answer. >> okay. >> goolies? >> i think of something scary. >> these are some sort of toilet monsters. >> name of a fruity treat. >> you don't want to get kicked in them. it's your man parts. >> oh! >> it's your junk. >> fiddy? >> 50 cents? >> or if you go to the gym, you're really fiddy. >> you're close. if

you have 500 british men.ome of them, obviously, have either returned or plan to return and carry out attacks in the united kingdom. so this is very serious, even though the threat is not imminent, the british government says it's highly probable and it wants to make sure that the public is vigilant. and also if i were the british government, this is part of the task. you want to let the plotters know that the british government and society is vigilant. >> it seems a few days ago we were talking about whether isis would ever be a threat to the west. and here we are at this moment. this group that has come on so fierce and so strong, so fast is focused on building that caliphate in the middle east. why the emphasis to turn back to the west now? just because they can? >> you're asking a very, very critical question, really. i'm not trying to basically be patronizing. i think what your viewers should know is that the key target of the isis or the islamic state is the near enemy, near enemy as opposed to the far e

the generation of young predominantly british, pakistani men who feel disenfranchised, and british societyful, law abiding, but there's concern there is a social dissection, and sense of purpose and identity that links with extremism more than it does with the united kingdom. obviously that's a great ideological struggle for the british government and something they're talking about a lot. >> with the different groups, al qaeda, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, what is it about isis, is it the track record of i hate to see success, given bloodshed and brutality, but is that what is alluring for the young, malleable men? >> i think part of it is the fact that the islamic state have been open to having foreigners come in. i wrote a piece recently analyzing their videos. to young men that feel disenfranchised, it is grand theft auto in the flesh. it attracts people that feel already angry and want to go join a group to be part of something that they see is bigger than themselves, and it is a big challenge in that way. i think the fact that the islamic state welcomed these people in and the

but for young british pakistani man, which are a very small minority of the british pakistani community, who feel they are differentiated from the rest of society and who see the islamic state achieving what can be called at least by extremist preachers an ordained series of victories, there's a sense of violence, i've described it in the recent piece, like the grand theft auto computer game in the flesh. a religious fervor which has appeal. >> an imam said there was a disenfranchisement. but it's hard for americans to understand, can you help explain? >> yeah, sure. no, it is a big issue. i think partly because of the british class culture, partly because of immigration to the united kingdom after the second world war period and partly because of a lot of immigrant communities in the united kingdom in contrast to the united states quite a mixing of different ethnic populations have in the u.k. lived together, and have been somewhat isolated, and judged with some prejudice, actually, by the british state. that does foster extremism. it certainly is the main cause here, the interpretatio

some of british's largest cities. a lot of british muslims may see that as a suggestion that it could be an attack on their clothing, the kind of clothing. are they going to be allowed to wear veils on the streets of british? or do they have to adhere to a british set of clothing? will they be able to carry on in the way they do right now with their beliefs, with their religious beliefs? all that up for debate. that said, with some of the people i was talking to over the last few days in east london, british born and bred, were saying they do fear this multicultural britain because they don't like the fact that some britains now may speak another international language in their corner store. they don't like perhaps the fact that women are walking down street in veils. so those words by cameron may go down well on some fronts but the question is, now, is this going to be an attack on the multicultural value, of some british cities, brianna. >> karl penhaul, thank you. britain raising its terror alert level coincides wi