chris philips former head of the u.k. national counterterrorism security office thank you for joining us on the program thank you we'll have live racks into turkey's offensive in syria after the short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back we return to our breaking news story now turkey has launched a military offensive in syria against kurdish groups and islamic state we go live to load of a news former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament now how extensive could this operation become do you think. m l d so this could turn out to try to go wrong because what indeed turkish president is doing is calling for much harder than what he's saying it's going to do it's all about creating a border zone now i'm not a specialist on the whole syrian issue but i do quite a lot about the common foreign policy of the european union towards the middle east historically and today and it's quite app

chris philips former head of the u.k.'s national counterterrorism security office now it's the fact the attacks took place on the jewish holiday younker for could be significant. just one day a year that could have been chosen but of course it is a significant day we often see terrorist attacks take place on significant occasions religious occasions and i suppose you will soon find out who the suspect the people all that did this but the fact that a turkish bad job has been attacked as well tends to lend to this is probably some something of the right wing extremism and so it's on this well there's always a possibility of prevention but that comes from a good intelligence work and clearly does not always going to be successful the interesting point here is that synagogues do take security seriously and and i think the fact that they are. aware of the dangers that they face when there are a prayer accept are probably prevented the deaths of. thousands are protesting against austerity and of course capital for a 6 day earlie

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