a cia and joshua katz, a former the operations officer and counterterrible experts who sizes in. >> i'll start with you first. should we be concerned? so many americans have yet to pack their bags and get on the airplane, the train, getting in their car. should we be worried? >> i'm going to be one of those traveling to new york city tomorrow. look, i would not recommend anyone be deterred at all from traveling. with that said isis has made credible threats. i think we have to be very vigilant, and as much as i though pope mar downplayed the threats there's clearly on tips duke what we need to do is continue to live our lives like we always do. if you see something suspicious, you must tell someone and most importantly recognize that people are going to be out to essentially do harm to us as americans, and, again, foreign fighters. we've got to look where the targets are coming in. we're not going to have members of your mother's bridge club attacking us so we need to look at the foreign fighters and take this very seriously. >> josh yeah, you have specific nudge of security procedures,

joshua katz with me now, how is it possible with more than a thousand raids issue belgian, french, germanice all looking for him, he got back to syria. >> it comes down to one word. communication. there is an abhorrent lack of communication, this case, this manhunt, really symbolizes the lack of communications throughout europe, and throughout the security apparatus. deirdre: these are certain sources, not confirmed that he is back in syria, but he will be harder to trace once there. to what extent does this show european law enforcement needs to change. should citizens be allowed to have duel citizenship. >> it shows from the on set from right the minutes after the attack in paris, things from security stand point were not being done in the way we would expect them to be done. france closed borders they did not really close the borders. we see this guy who went to belgium, then later went probably back to syria, more than likely. over a week ago. this is really complicating it. then you add in immigration, with the even just singular citizenship in the e-- e u, with that e.u. passport yo

. >> joshua katz, the founder of terror view the app thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> volkswagon is being investigated for tax evasion. saying it's connected to cheating on emissions tests. officials say they are focusing on five unnamed employees. volkswagon stilts it will cost about $23,000,000,000 to reimburse european governments that granted tax breaks for clean cars. that's on top of $7,000,000,000 the company has set aside to address the scandal. the philippines is considering auctioning off millions of dollars worth of jewelry seized from imelda marcos. they began appraising the value. one diemonted from the collection, a rare 25 carat pink diamond could be worth $5 million. officials claimed the jewels when marcos fled to the u.s. after her husband was overthrown. that's it for this international newshour. i am "al jazeera america." i will be back with more news in two minutes. >>> good evening. this is al jazeera america. diffusing tension between the west and russia. the diplomat i can manoeuvring underway after turkey shoots down a russian fighter jet and the impact i

want to bring in joshua katz. founder of terror view.com.r being with us here. when we heard the president, president obama speak with president hollande earlier and said when it comes to you americans and light of all of this that's happening, we are doing everything we can to keep us safe. tell us when it comes to this increased alert here what we'll be seeing and won't be seeing. >> i think we are seeing, we are going to see and won't see two things really. i mean, we are going to see an increased security presence. we are going to see a lot of security and security procedures but then there's the clandestine covert side. intelligence side ramping up. that's an aspect that we will not see at all. >> some case, why is this alert different? how's it different than others? >> well i think that the world is on edge like you were talking about in the last segment with the shooting in france. everybody's on edge. even law enforcement in the united states. so i think with this travel alert, the u.s., u.s. authorities, world authorities are reall

. >> joshua katz is a former cia operations officer and joins us now. heard that terrorism analyst say they must have gleaned some very accurate information and decided to act on it now. would you agree with that assessment? >> i agree with it to some point. i think that if they had really accurate information, you would see -- be seeing a lot of raises going on and a lot more police activity. normally when governments do something like this, they have a credible threat. they probably have a bunch of credible threats and what they're trying to do is they're trying to keep people away from potential attack points. but i don't think they have that real specific piece of information. >> so, some of the arrests, then, that we've seen there and even the raids we've seen just in the past week in belgium, are those more situations that you believe were being monitored and just out of an abundance of caution they decided to act now? >> well, i think what we're seeing here is a development of a bunch of different threads. one is, you know, tied to the -- the pari

joshua katz, terror view founder on security app who alerts users to bad guys that might be nearby. tell me about it. >> neil for the first time ever people will have access to information, awareness, and recommendations by former intelligence officers through terror view they never had before. we're going through hundreds of thousands of sources of data. we're analyzing it at points by hand to make sure that people have the awareness that they need in order not to be fearful and to understand what the threat actually is and get beyond the rhetoric. neil: all right. so how would it work then? in other words if i'm punching in where i am going to go, for rome for vacation or wherever, is that how it works? you cite the dangers there or what? explain. >> we're looking for threats, mostly threats directed against america and directed against the homeland right now. we do have threats all over the world but we're looking at threats that are really going to impact and change americans lives so that we can better be informed and start to have the conversation we really need to have, with

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