was made in the republic of central asia by the islamic state. that, for today example, many attacks in turkey were made by people from central asia. even if we go back to 2012 and 2013, the first family jihad, which are i worked on for "france 24," it was coming from central asia. i followed a family of 50 persons for seven months. all of them joined jihad in syria in 2013. it is an old dilemma. it will be increasing, i guess. the islamic state is very present innospec a stand. and with the diaspora from those countries, which can go into action and be attracted by the jihadi ideology. he spoke to me earlier in the program. in other world news, the french government is racing criticism over a sweeping new counterterrorism bill which comes into effect today. bill's supporters say it and say two-year state of emergency. it's critics argue that it violates civil libertities. the interior minister hailed success of a two-year state of emergency. we have this report. searches at any ame of day or night, without judge's authorization -- a k key elemen

you're going to see a lot more change power projection all over the world east europe definitely central asia and all through the philippines and southeast asia and you'll you'll see that in it's going to be through the economy you know people want business they want their livelihoods they don't need you know look at africa china builds schools hospitals the bridges and they're putting plants and he's in europe and we bring grown bases i mean so who which one where you get more benefit what are the risks for china that could be ral what's happening there obviously people talk about a housing bubble that could be a problem but are there is that a problem or not and are there any potential all you know that you say risks that could pop up and what that look like them there's always risks you know since we've been coming on your show makes probably six seven years now james g.d.p. is double you know the china bears have been talking about a collapse since two thousand and one guys like gordon john. what a book on it was really a childish book i mean it's nonsense. china does have risks they know

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he is a foreigner from central asia. there must be terrorism. i want to look at the first layer of this. >> and he leaves a note. >> which the reporting is that was supposedly in english and said i'm doing this as a supporter of isis. i know there is a whole debate about what that expression is supposed to mean versus how it is used by the terror guys. >> i need to know a lot. drug and mental state, what his family says, employers say. he's been in the united states seven years. i'm just following the facts. i'm not putting a phrase or a term on this guy. give me a couple days to determine what the facts are. >> when they start off saying it's a terror investigation, do you think they're getting ahead of themselves? >> no. i'm 95% sure this is terrorism case. if i talk to his family and they say, oh, he lost his job last year, he's estranged from his family. >> these are news choppers down here. there is no threat. the paintball gun and the pell elt gun, arms raised as he comes out of the truck, according to one of the eyewitnesss we will have o

do isa going to build infrastructure eight bridges power plant this is what china is doing in central asia they're already they've already got rail lines connecting directly from china to europe this is a bow growing the economies in their neighborhood so to speak you know all the way from from the west you know kazakhstan uzbekistan all the way to europe you know the one built one road ends in some place like serbia you see eastern europe not china has a lot of influence you know in places like the serbia where you know they get promised to come into the e.u. they get promise all this and that but actually nothing happened and now china has come in and you know greece will build your port restructure will will buy a port restructure serbia we're going to build high speed rail line for you from belgrade to budapest so this one built one road is introducing the r. and b. it's going to it and it's going to be introduced chinese technology which is really quite good now high speed real high speed rail in china they have more rail line high speed rail lane than the rest of the world combined a

what we know about the man behind the wheel. 29-year-old sayfullo saipov is from uzbekistan, in central asia and he came to the united states in 2010. after crashing his truck, he got out with two fake guns in his hands, and reportedly shouted "allah akbur". a police officer confronted him, and shot him in the stomach. good morning washington. frost advisory remains in effect for parts of the area until 8am. - seasonably cool, more clouds today - milder end to the week (70s) - a few showers possible this weekend today: mostly cloudy. seasonably cool. highs: 58-64 winds: se 5 mph tonight: mostly cloudy. not as cold. lows: 46-55 winds: s 5 mph thursday: mostly to partly cloudy. much milder. highs: 72-76 winds: s 5 mph now to the very latest on that terror attack in new york. 12 hours later - the scene - still very active. the attack killed at including five people from argentina visiting new york to celebraeate a high school reunion. overnight.. the f-b-i searched the suspect's home in new jersey and a local mosque .. as we learned about his travel from uzbekistan, his past as an uber driver,

located in the heart of central asia. is kurdistan second largest city. after nightfall to drivers stock up on supplies. they bought expensive chinese mandarins from a local trader and hope to sell them for a small profit in neighboring tajikistan. the truck is loaded with cases full of the fruit. of. the drivers wrap the mandarins in a blanket to protect them from the cold. they top off their load with a few sheets of plywood in. the loading completed they head off into the night. as i was hearing you sure are you sure are you sure. is the driver and mechanic who won the senior of the two a companies. they pray for a safe journey ahead but don't us albert j. take up. with a child other than that of course their leisure. was brought in but that's over the . pressure of that down the. outside it's minus twenty degrees and not much warmer inside where the heating is not working. and i went there the function of hamas. all together that. god did not. like the man did not fall off. on. the whole. a daybreak. arrived in a small town. oh yeah that it was a good

located in the heart of central asia. is koga stands second largest city. after nightfall to drivers stock up on supplies. they bought expensive chinese mandarins from a local trader and hope to sell them for a small profit in neighboring town has done. the truck is loaded with cases full of the fruit. of. the drivers wrapped the mandarins in a blanket to protect them from the cold. they top off their load with a few sheets of plywood. the loading completed they head off into the night. so it was really you should you should you should. do is the driver and mechanic who was the senior of the two accompanied him. they pray for a safe journey ahead but there were no us albert to take up. which i love and that of course their leisure. was brought in but that's no good. sheriff and that the. outside it's minus twenty degrees and not much warmer inside where the heating is not working. that wind there the folks not so much salt tether that. are developing are not that hard like the wind they're not far off. the top nine will not gone up a. little bit of. a daybr

georgia as a singapore of the caucuses may still seem premature new rail links to china through central asia and a new deep sea port mean the country could soon revive history as an important stage on the new silk route and a center of eurasian trade. we are following some breaking news for you police in london are saying they're responding to what they're describing as an instant at oxford circus subway station these are live pictures now that subway station is one of the busiest in the british capital currently being evacuated police are advising people to go into surrounding buildings not to stand around on the streets we will update you on that story as we get more details here on the at the top of the hour thanks very much for joining us and ceasing. now. you're just after the collapse of the coalition talks in the french political instability in germany. on may well be one of the most important allies for. reform. next. and doesn't have this is what i think it's really important to give a bit of time and love back to the families who make so much effort. for. your children like chocola

far more expensive undertaking if the city hadn't brought in tens of thousands of workers from central asia most of these men won't see their families in kyrgyzstan tajikistan or is they can stand for months that doesn't center years at all but we've got work in tajikistan but the pay is worse they're here the pays normal and the technology in moscow is normal not like in tajikistan but there is work there. workers from the central asian republics generally earn less than russians that's also the case on the building side of the new terminal at moscow's dumb idea the international airport the airport six-pack to handle forty five million passengers next year on a par with major european airports to the story that is just nothing got to within twenty eighteen will have the soccer world cup with a few energy vend. tourists from all around the world will be coming to russia by them so we need infrastructure to accommodate them as soccer world cup comes and goes you know the infrastructure will remain. the expansion comes with a. price tag of around five hundred million euros total plan duratio

we also know there have been a number of people from central asia involved in terrorism plot attackswest and involved in an attack in stockholm in april. here in the united states, there was a big counterterrorism investigation in 2014-2015 centering on a group of extremists in brooklyn. they want to travel to syrian iraq to join isis. there have been six arrests over the past few years. five of the six being osbeck nationals. they are looking at if there are possible links to other conspiracies in the united states. in that case, back in 2015, that group discussed shooting president obama and discussing the attack on coney island. there's record of them getting involved in jihadi terrorism. there's a bit of a network, even in the united states and there are many who have gone from their home country to syria and iraq. of course, they are going to have to look through all of this. it's not clear whether this individual had direct connections to any foreign fighters overseas or anybody involved in jihadty terrorism. one of the things they are looking at is travel patterns, did he go b

through portugal central asia europe it is just really really actually quite astounding what if they do lose face can he afford that. well i think that. he's going to be walking on the razor's edge because he's going to position himself and take a strong man position and that means that he's going to have to take ownership of what goes right and what goes wrong and he's proven by given state controlled companies more credit over the past few months which is the opposite of the deed leveraging which is the propaganda that the government has been trying to sell we will have to see if he's capable of holding things together or whether he pushes himself into being more of a dictator and we see china begin to backtrack in terms of the economic progress it's made we've never seen a non capitalist economy as such in modern history come out to present itself and become the dominant world's super economy ok just an anecdotal question now you mention his successor is heading that red carpet and out in front of the cameras relatively young how long do you think it is before one of them will sor

build up infrastructure you know they're going to control central asia and east asia economically everybody's already was in the grips of ways the philippines said they walked away from us they said china we're with you you know help us build our economy so they are gradually becoming the regional power in economically the global power but the internationalization their army is the new thing they know the deal some bond they're trying to internationalize this in the big strait you know there's thirty countries now holding r. and b. as a reserve asset and it's just going to continue to grow from here yunus the international arm be it compete with the dollar in and i think out my estimate by twenty twenty five twenty thirty when we get in the united states when we get to thirty forty trillion dollars in debt. that's when the game's up right sort of put that in the context the u.s.s. carl a just under are about twenty trillion dollars and that they're saying when we hit forty to fifty trillion dollars and that and any hope of ever being out of debt permanently put out of range then china simply

socialist system managed to establish itself across continents from the arctic to the steps of central asia. or a. in space the soviet union even stole a march on its so-called class enemy the first unmanned satellite sputnik. the first living creature. the first manned national hero yuri gagarin. and the first woman but on tina turner. were sent into orbit around the earth from the cosmos drummin baikonur kazakstan socialism was conquering the universe lenin would have been pleased. back on earth soviet culture was exported to warsaw to prague berlin and budapest russian was a compulsory language in schools and increasingly supplanted the national languages in the soviet republics. yes. but for many this was all propaganda of the system never truly won their support. this is still the most repressive system. it was founded on the suppression of private ownership and markets replaced by the monopoly of state ownership. command economy. and once you introduce these measures you'll have to abolish civil rights democracy it's impossible to have a democratic side with more of the. popular revol

sayfullo saipov, an immigrant from uzbekistan in central asia who‘s become radicalised in the us andver the truck that he weaponised, the president is combing over america‘s immigration system and is demanding that the green card lottery be ripped up. so we want to immediately work with congress on the diversity lottery programme, on terminating it, getting rid of it. we have to get much tougher, we have to get much smarter and we have to get much less politically correct. the tradition has always been that after a terrorist attack when the nation is in mourning, the political class will put aside their differences and come together, united. not in today‘s america. less than 2a hours after the attack in lower manhattan, the political battle lines have been drawn in a sharply divisive way. the president tweeted this morning, the terrorist came into our country through what is called the diversity visa lottery program, a chuck schumer beauty. i want merit—based. the visa lottery was introduced when republican president george hw bush was in the white house and though democratic senator

what we know about the man behind the wheel. 29-year-old sayfullo saipov is from uzbekistan, in central asia to the united states in 2010. after crashing his truck, he got out with two fake guns in his hands, and reportedly shouted "allah akbur". a police officer confronted him, and shot him in the stomach. good morning washington.

you're going to see a lot more change power projection all over the world east europe definitely central asia and all through the philippines and southeast asia and you'll you'll see that and it's going to be through the economy you know people want business they want their lives you know since we've been coming on your show max probably six seven years now james g.d.p. is double you know the china bears have been talking about a collapse since two thousand and one by at the china money report dot com they can reach us on twitter a cause or report intellects. with gold make us manufacture consent to the public wealth. when the ruling class is protect them. so. when the final larry go around me the one percent. we can all middle of the room say. the real news is. north korea conducts a ballistic missile test japan claims it came down just two hundred kilometers off its coast. but government is to receive a helping hand from media giants facebook and twitter to look into alleged russian interference in last year's break suppose. i'm i'm i'm right i'm president my problem is met with protests in

seeks to leverage pakistan's look asian because it is at the intersection of south asia china and central asia which are three engines of growth in asia and let me also say that by twenty fifty it is estimated that asian economy will form fifty two percent of world g.d.p. is the future of global economy and within asia we have proximity of three engines of growth so we want to leverage our location to create not south and east west quad adores to integrate these three engines into one big market of three billion people that is where china has started a new initiative under its own one belt one drawer debt also seeking to reach out and i think it's a very progressive vision because what it is seeking that while the world economy has slowed down in order to there why economy we need growth in order to have good ought we need new markets in order to have new markets we need new connectivity so china is helping build that connectivity and also helping us get investment in energy sector than an infrastructure sector which have suffered greatly due to the past conflict in our region pakistan will be

harsh climate here camels don't just live in the desert they're also common in colder regions like central asia. they can withstand forty to fifty minus and you know they get long fur in the winter and right now they have lost their fair share karnow. looks more skinny and. but when they have that big fur you know they look like. something between the sheep and. this time saturday and his family moved to ak a few are from oslo a few years ago they wanted to live in harmony with nature by starting a camel farm they want to promote sustainable tourism on the yard and. they're also working on a cultural center they hope it will become a meeting point for different people institutions and organizations. a place where ideas and projects for a sustainable future. this satirizing family is using social media to help promote their ambitions project. they're looking for support to realize their dream. something you really would like. volunteer workers to come up here and. both experience and see how beautiful it is. an experience to work in this fantastic nature. work with the camels and also. help us t

know that he was an immigrant from back is gone which is obviously a muslim majority country and central asia he's been living in the u.s. since two thousand and ten he came to the country and lottery game that enables people to apply and get a green card if they are lucky enough and that number comes up and they come from a country that has a relatively low level of immigration to the u.s. anyway. being in the u.s. he's been living in florida part of the new jersey which is just across the water from new york city and also heigho he was a legal resident in the country and he had been working for the taxi driver for the the app company. probably come to the attention of police a couple of times he was arrested for driving offense in mid to late last year and there have been reports that he was under investigation perhaps in connection with other people the u.s. president has said that the u.s. green card lottery is symptomatic of a politically correct thinking that he said had come over from europe you said that europe's inability to see that its own immigrants had now come to the united stat

akhmed rushy to rise to an author on the book taliban militant islam oil and fundamentalism in central asia and in london nadia relief and protection manager at amnesty international a very warm welcome to all of you thanks for being here with us on inside story first was give an idea of what's actually happening in pakistan at the moment where the protesters may have ended their citizens but are they going to be coming back out onto the streets. well i think it's. much deeper roots that the question of religious tolerance. the government apologized about the role. that it took a change the wording. to learn about. the cumulation a program to build up to the election next year. in the. mental part. of the corporate military united of course but there's a lot of speculation that some of the party that been. military particularly. the leader. of a militant group that piped in kashmir i was responsible for the mumbai probing into. it made great from her correct and. it will be starting a religious movement also. group. this country by protests you know actually. in. the room. but the number of

in the second session the bbc has been given permission to visit the republic of uzbekistan in central asia2 years. since the death of the authoritarian president islam karimov last year, a cautious programme of reform has been carried out in the secretive nation. we asked ordinary uzbeks how they feel about the changes taking place in their country. hearing there from ordinary or back for the first time that the bbc has been allowed into the republic of pakistan —— uzbekistan. tom baker has made a surprise return to the tardis to film an episode of doctor who that was abandoned almost a0 years ago. strike action at the bbc meant studio scenes were never completed. now, the 83—year—old actor has donned his trademark stripy scarf once more to complete the story. here's our entertainment correspondent, colin paterson. shada, a doctor who story which started to be filmed in 1979 that had to be abandoned halfway through due an engineering strike. there have been many attempts at finishing it. novels, audio plays, even a vhs version with tom baker explaining what happened in the scenes which wer

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he was shot by police and is now in custody — he's said to be a 29 year old from central asia who livedn florida. new york city mayor says this was a "cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians". bill deblasio says their spirit will never be moved by an act of violence. stay with us. now on bbc news, it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. for now, the bbc employs human beings like me to question the way the world works. but for how much longer? as research into artificial intelligence intensifies, is there any sphere of human activity that won't be revolutionised by aland robotics? my guest today is alan winfield, a world—renowned professor of robot ethics. from driving, to education, to work and warfare, are we unleashing machines which could turn the dark visions of science fiction into science fact? alan winfield, welcome to hardtalk. delighted to be here, stephen. you do have a fascinating title, director of robot ethics, i'm tempted to ask you, what's more important to you, the engineering, robotics or the ethics, being an ethicist? both are eq

the bbc has been given permission to visit the republic of uzbekistan in central asia for the first time president islam karimov last year, a cautious programme of reform has been carried out in the secretive nation. we asked ordinary uzbeks how they feel about the changes taking place in their country. sport and england haven't been able to capitalise on a good opening session at the gabba in brisbane. steve smith is keeping australia in the game with the first century of the game with the first century of the series. earlier england took three australian wickets but have so far failed to break up the partnership bewteen the australian captain and tail ender pat cummins. a short time ago, australia were 274—7, trailing 28 behind england's first innings total. tom baker has made a surprise return to the tardis to film an episode of doctor who that was abandoned almost a0 years ago. strike action at the bbc meant studio scenes were never completed. here's our entertainment correspondent, colin paterson. shada, a doctor who story which started to be filmed in 1979 that had to be abandoned

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sayfullo saipov, an immigrant from uzbekistan in central asia who's become radicalised in the us andheir radar screen. as forensic experts continued to pore over the truck that he weaponised, the president is combing over america's immigration system and is demanding that the green card lottery be ripped up. so we want to immediately work with congress on the diversity lottery programme, on terminating it, getting rid of it. we have to get much tougher, we have to get much smarter and we have to get much less politically correct. the tradition has always been that after a terrorist attack when the nation is in mourning, the political class will put aside their differences and come together, united. not in today's america. less than 2a hours after the attack in lower manhattan, the political battle lines have been drawn in a sharply divisive way. the president tweeted this morning "the terrorist came into our country through what is called the diversity visa lottery programme, a chuck schumer beauty. i want merit—based." the visa lottery was introduced when republican president george

the suspect has been named as sayfullo saipov, who came from central asia to the us.es believe it was a loan wolf attack. it is a very painful day in our city. a horrible tragedy on the west side. let me be clear, based on the information we have, this was an act of terror and particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians, aimed at people going about their lives with no idea about what was going to hit them. on twitter president trump wrote... at the moment, authorities say there is no evidence of a wider terror plot but why here and why now? in the shadow of the new world trade center and when children were coming out to celebrate halloween. extra police have been deployed on the streets and at airports. this is a city that is no stranger to terror attacks. a few blocks away is the world trade centre but, of course, new yorkers are known as a resilient bunch and this evening many of them are going ahead, celebrating halloween, ensuring that life continues as normal. behind me many law enforcement officials will be spending the night poring over the

sayfullo saipov, an immigrant from uzbekistan in central asia who's become radicalised in the us andcreen. as forensic experts continued to pour over the truck that he weaponised, the president is combing over america's immigration system and is demanding that the green card lottery be ripped up. so we want to immediately work with congress on the diversity lottery programme, on terminating it, getting rid of it. we have to get much tougher, we have to get much smarter and we have to get much less politically correct. the tradition has always been that after a terrorist attack when the nation is in mourning, the political class will put aside their differences and come together, united. not in today's america. less than 2a hours after the attack in lower manhattan, the political battle lines have been drawn in a sharply divisive way. the president tweeted this morning, the terrorist came into our country through what is called the diversity visa lottery programme, a chuck schumer beauty. i want merit—based. the visa lottery was introduced when republican president george hw bush was

to fight against some trees to re diversify their traditions with russia central asia and europe aggravated with an affidavit that thank you very much for joining us on the program. another new some asa ceded control of the gaza strip's borders with egypt and israel to the palestinian authority. it's a first key test of a landmark reconciliation agreement reached last month. the handover signaled hamas a remains committed to respecting the terms of the deal and bringing its tenure rift was fattah to an and we got a bus. it's the gateway to improved economic prospects for gaza. strip has been isolated under hamas rule for a decade. was on wednesday it handed over administrative control of five border crossings to the palestinian authority. it's possible deal agreed during we conciliation talks with the pa ruled thoughts on a political party. not a real man it's a great day for the history palestinians cleaning the legal authority. i'd like to. less on. for the great. the egypt brexit talks in october opened up the prospect of the flow off people and goods in and out of gaza without israeli p

perhaps iraqis but others are from turkey and from western europe also some maybe from russia in central asia so there is a problem that the defeat of isis on the ground in syria and turkey may have had the side effect that some of the more radical well trained fighters have been read dispersed back. then or are ignorant and undemocratic that's how the french president's political movement has been described from the inside that one hundred members of his centrist political group are quitting after publicly expressing contempt for its policies and actions shouted as the story it's only six months since emanuel much corn came to power in france on the back of a wave of his new movement or march french president and his political revolution is fading one hundred members of what is now level public amash see they quitting the party because the party which promised democracy isn't they say democratic and they say it's arrogant. the movement launched by emanuel macron in april twenty sixth seen started with the slogan the french people should be at the heart of political life not its deck or now t

against russia he wanted to conquer back lost territories in the caucasus and expand the empire into central asia. winter became a trap typhoid cholera and hunger decimated the poorly equipped ottoman troops at times even before any fighting had occurred. but rather than accept responsibility for this disaster the ottoman high command saw to scapegoat in the armenians. but as of the long allegedly the armenians had collaborated with the russians in turkey somewhat to the much exaggerated number of eight and a half thousand damini and who it said had collaborated with the russians i think every. convert fossicking took a cousin given that around thirteen million soldiers on the russian side and several million muslim soldiers on the ottoman side fourteen world war one eight and a half thousand people is a drop in the ocean a few good dog and dog valdana sound dominate. oh the n.c.i. and i'm lenient population was accused of these quote chronons and that they also thought that they were going to be targeted for collective measures by the ottoman state that would lead to the eradication of the armen

i might just add to that i'm temperature heat waves of fifty degrees celsius in central asia asi. acid the monsoons and relentless droughts is hope that releasing it today will help instill some urgency here in these talks particularly given the looming shadow. of a reduced you eades presence ryan and and as you mentioned and that there is a reduced u. s. present this is the firs. at major global summit on the environment since president trump said he was pulling the u. s. out of the paris accords. and how is that affecting tulips. well was supposed to be a relatively straightforward technical negotiation here on that obviously change when on a trump made that. announcement insurance is being a lot of question marks of the role the u. s. should play here eat any at all. i've we look at the glass as half full the u. s. has seems a delegation to be smaller than previous sees. that promise to be constructive while protecting american interests glass half empty we know that the administration is going to take part. in a side of and that will promote cold as one of the solutions to cur

he was shot by police and is now in custody — he's said to be a 29 year old from central asia who livedterror aimed at innocent civilians". bill deblasio says their spirit will never be moved by an act of violence. stay with us. now on bbc news, it's time for hardtalk.