you know the ministry of defense is supposed to be nonpolitical and the question of the wars we fight in should be something this determined democratically by parliament and it shouldn't be any role by the defense ministry or any other section of the civil service in trying to shape public opinion and we do know we ourselves have had leaks from the ministry of defense over the last five or six years saying that they're very worried about british public opinion which is anti war and is concerned about these disastrous foreign interventions so clearly they they were concerned about this kind of thing and it that makes it seems to me quite likely that they've used this propaganda company mystically but it's an absolute scandal if they have another concern must be that you've got a you know government department that may have purchased possibly harvested information about u.k. citizens potentially to use it against them to manipulate them do you think they'll be a serious investigation to see if anything like that's occurred. what they definitely should be a serious investigation. no the

s ministry of defense i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least. in. the series of campaigns around the world of propaganda and manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money. on a propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation it's likely that the next chapter in the cambridge analytical scandal won't be its links to facebook but to governments around the world including the u.k. the british ministry of defense has reacted to the story saying it has no current relationship with the group and that the company has no access to classified information as a footnote. almost hundred thousand people have no managed to escape syria's war ravaged eastern ghouta region this month from the government forces pushing to recapture the remaining rebel pockets there the russian defense ministries re

s ministry of defense i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least is in gauge in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda and manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on. the kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation it's likely that the next chapter in the cambridge analytical scandal won't be its links to facebook but to governments around the world including the u.k. . donald trump revealed who will take over his new security adviser the man being appointed is former u.n. ambassador john bolton who is known for his strong stance on north korea and iran the appointment was made in typical trump style on twitter the us president also made use of the social media platform earlier this month when he fired his secretary of state rex tillerson hill apartment

s ministry of defense i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least. in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda and manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money. on a propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation it's likely that the next chapter in the cambridge analytical scandal won't be its links to facebook but to governments around the world including the u.k.'s. the british defense ministry has reacted to the story saying it has no current relationship with the group and the company has no access to classified information. we're turning now to our breaking news story from france where there are reports of multiple shootings in a third and french town one of the attackers is believed to have barricaded himself inside a supermarket. he joins us live now with the l

i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least is in gage's in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on. the kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation. facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the massive data breach in a lengthy apologies of coburg detail exactly what went wrong with privacy policies and what steps have been taken to solve the problem he added that the company quote learn from this experience to make the community safer for everybody going forward and despite the fact the scandal concerns an american tech giant and a data mining company with offices in new york london and washington there's still been attempts in the media to tie this story to russia to explain

i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least is in gage in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on. the kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation facebook founder mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the massive data breach and a lengthy apology admitted that the company's privacy policies have failed he added that the company will learn from this experience to make the community safer for everybody going forward even though the scandal concerns an american tech giant and a u.k. data mining company there have still been attempts in the media to tie the story to russia r t what are guns do you have as commentary. imagine being a liberal a democrat and being stuck in a trump presidency for a year is

i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on. the kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation facebook founder mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the massive data breach and a lengthy apology admitted that the company's privacy policies have failed he added that the company will learn from this experience to make the community safer for everybody going forward even though the scandal concerns an american tech giant and a u.k. data mining company there have still been attempts in the media to tie the story to russia or does what i've got to have as commentary. imagine being a liberal a democrat and being stuck in a trump presidency for a year is it must be

that so many of the generals including mattis who is sector defense are kelly who is the white house chief of staff believe is necessary to again maintain the empire i think the british ministry of defense calls them because of this rather than soldiers but britain is in. deed on the ground some type of british shooting will boot is on the ground you talked about all of that what is the actual a move all of this look if you look at what's a general mattis or general kelly. talked about if you go back and look at their speeches they view america the u.k. the west as the apex of civilization they view themselves as modern day legionnaires who are protecting the republic who are defending the empire and what they need to do is necessary in terms of warfare being a constant state of humanity and that these forces are just there to maintain the base level of order they've called in the special operations community or the cia for years now they've called it mo in the grass not they idea that you have to do maintenance that you have to continually do these strikes on these wallace areas on the areas that you can't subjugate or bring on or control and this is what the greatest differ

i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least is in gage's in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on. the kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation. facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the scandal surrounding the social network it was revealed the personal details of millions of its customers we used to influence elections in a lengthy facebook apology zuckerberg detailed exactly what went wrong with privacy policies and what steps have been taken to solve the problem you noted that the company quote will learn from this experience to make the community safer for everybody going forward. but despite the fact the scandal concerns an american tech giant and a data mining compa

that so many of the generals including mattis who is sector defense are kelly who is the white house chief of staff believe is necessary to again maintain the empire i think the british ministry of defense calls him because of this rather than soldiers but britain is in. deed on the ground some type of british shooting will boot is on the ground. about all of that what is the actual aim of all of this look if you look at what's a general mattis or general kelly. talked about if you go back and look at their speeches they view america the u.k. the west as the apex of civilization they view themselves as modern day legionnaires who are protecting the republic who are defending the empire and what they need to do is necessary in terms of warfare being a constant state of humanity and that these forces are just there to maintain the base level of order they've called in the special operations community or the cia for years now they've called it mo in the grass not the idea that you have to do maintenance that you have to continually do these strikes on these lawless areas on the areas that you can't subjugate or bring on or control and this is what the greatest difference is betw

that so many of the generals including mattis who is sector defense are kelly who is the white house chief of staff believe is necessary to again maintain the empire i think the british ministry of defense calls him because of this rather than soldiers but britain is in. deed on the ground some type of british shooting will boot is on the ground you talked about all of that what is the actual a move all of this look if you look at what's a general mattis or general kelly. talked about if you go back and look at their speeches they view america the u.k. of the west as the apex of civilization they view themselves as modern day legionnaires who are protecting the republic who are defending the empire and what they need to do is necessary in terms of warfare being a constant state of humanity and that these forces are just there to maintain the base level of order they've called in the special operations community or the cia for years now they've called it mo in the grass the the idea that you have to do maintenance that you have to continually do these strikes on these wallace areas on the areas that you can't subjugate or bring on or control and this is what the greatest diffe

the british ministry of defense minister of defense rather said that russia should go away and shut up and in a way this these statements that are being made from the british side are kind of playing into the russian hand today said that the minister of defense is clearly not educated he's called several times on britain to stick to diplomatic protocol so russia can really use these statements to portray britain as very much hot headed and not sticking to the facts josh as the kremlin says that its next retaliatory steps could come any minute hasn't said what those steps would be but what additional measures could we see britain take. it's hard to know that right now i think you've already seen that twenty three knots is going to russia i think also it will cost cutting out some of that could be a key point to the obvious they also. will russia clearly and i think you'll see it also begin to sneak in a. new government people who rule out of that spoil consummated and try to send a strong this is not insensible to the it's a very challenging moment as he said because i think a lot of th

prohibition of chemical weapons continues to investigate we've also heard from the head of the secret ministry of defense lab important down you know we've got the highest levels of controls of security. around the work that we do here we would not be a loto or pre if we had lack of control that could result in anything leaving the four walls of our facility here the russian embassy has reacted to his comments saying that they amount to admission that the secret facility is a place where new components of military grade poisons are being researched and developed and that most notably mr eight at the head did not deny the existence of chemical weapons stocks referring to the disputed possible sources of the nerve agent in question moscow has openly condemned the attempted murders as an act of terrorism and denied any involvement despite that though it seems the relations between the two countries are continuing to deteriorate and the situation doesn't look likely to get better anytime soon british pm to raise in may has rallied to a european counterparts calling for a united front against russia to strike

show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again now the russian defense ministry says the campaign to liberate the rebel held enclave in series eastern is almost over i discussed the latest developments with dan hawkins list is a big step forward them due to of course is an area right next to damascus it's been on the rebel control since about twenty twelve with government forces laying siege and trying to retake control of the towns and cities in that area now what we hear from the russian ministry of defense is that there are negotiations in process that have succeeded which will enable armed rebel groups from that area to be evacuated north province where rebels in syria effectively have the last power base this evacuation may be complete over the next forty eight hours or so depending of course on comes with all the rebel groups in the area and what are the details then has the russian defense ministry given here the areas under a patchwork of rebel control those many different groups operating there some of them for example far as we understand have agreed to

cyber espionage and disruption this is included meddling in elections and hacking the danish ministry of defense and the buddhist among many others. during his recent state of the union address president putin showed video graphics of missile launches flight trajectories and explosions including the modeling of attacks on the united states with a series of warheads impacting in florida while the extrajudicial killing of terrorists and dissidents outside russia were given legal sanction by the russian parliament in two thousand and six and of course russia used radiological substances in its barbaric assault on mr litvinenko we saw promises to assist the investigation then but they resulted in denial and obfuscation and the stifling of june process and the rule of law. mr speaker following mr litvinenko death we expelled russian diplomats suspended security cooperation broke off by the true plans on these us froze the assets of the suspects and put them on international extradition lists and these measures remain in place furthermore our commitment to collective defense and security through nato

prohibition of chemical weapons continues to investigate we've also heard from the head of the secret ministry of defense lab important down you know we've got the highest levels of controls of security. around the work that we do here we would not be a low top three if we had lack of control that could result in anything leaving the four walls of our facility here the russian embassy has reacted to his comments saying that they amount to admission that the secret facility is a place where new components of military grade poisons are being researched and developed and that most notably mr eight at the head did not deny the existence of chemical weapons stocks referring to the disputed possible sources of the nerve agent in question moscow has openly condemned the attempted murders as an act of terrorism and denied any involvement despite that though it seems the relations between the two countries are continuing to deteriorate and the situation doesn't look likely to get better anytime soon british pm to raise in may has rallied her european counterparts calling for a united front against russia the stra

and cambridge on the one in the say s c l used to be on the payroll of the british defense ministry thanks to a freedom of information request from twenty six we know that in two thousand and eleven the energy paid to s.c.l. for the provision of external training and in twenty fifteen it paid us for psychosocial research to top it all off s.c.l. got the green light to hold british government secrets on its premise this britain's information commissioner's already investigating cambridge analytic over the facebook data breach but in light of the defense contracts with its parent company as c l the chair of britain's home affairs select committee is now demanding a why did government investigation into the company's activities there are now growing concerns about whether there should be a wider investigation into the. there are concerns about the implications for democracy about information being used in an illegitimate way and no one has the chance to counteract it and the trees it's real problems outside of the u.k.'s c l's and cambridge on the list of his client list reads like a who's wh

s ministry of defense i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least in. the series of campaigns around the world of propaganda and manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money. on a propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given access to top secret information and this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation it's likely that the next chapter in the cambridge analytical scandal won't be its links to facebook but to governments around the world including the u.k. . to another ever headline stories this hour bali come video has been released showing the moment u.s. police fatally shot and all armed black man in his grandmother's backyard the incident happened in the city of sacramento last sunday when officers responded. to a suspect breaking car windows in the area they say they mistook the man's smartphone for a weapon and opened fire on him twenty times. nine on

that so many of the generals including mattis who is sector defense are kelly who is the white house chief of staff believe is necessary to again maintain the empire i think the british ministry of defense calls him because of this rather than soldiers but britain is in. deed on the ground some type of british shooting will booties on the ground you talked about all of that what is the actual aim of all of this look if you look at what's a general mattis or general kelly. talked about if you go back and look at their speeches they view america the u.k. the west as the apex of civilization they view themselves as modern day legionnaires who are protecting the republic who are defending the empire and what they need to do is necessary in terms of warfare being a constant state of humanity and that these forces are just there to maintain the base level of order they've called in the special operations community or the cia for years now they've called it moaning the grass the they idea that you have to do maintenance that you have to continually do these strikes on these lawless areas on the areas that you can't subjugate or bring on or control and this is what the greatest diffe

broadcasting live on the website of the russian defense ministry and the russian t.v. channels. certain. groups. are ready to. surrender and leave lay down arms and we will. but they are waiting for instructions from their patrons and broad. we want to avoid unnecessary casualties. three humanitarian convoys did deliver a humanitarian aid to eastern gooda delivering four hundred forty five tons of food and other necessary items after leaving medicines to morrow in their town the duma and the other humanitarian convoys by the un. twenty five heavy trucks will arrive. the operation to their kids civilians and provide community are in need. are others who are surely most by the russian reconciliation center together with the syrian government. representatives of the un and monitors from other international organizations are present. little or what is the russian reconciliation center does similar at your job in other parts of syria for example there is a humanitarian corridor set up together by russia iran and turkey. who are. all done and the lives deescalation area that you three

this is totally false, and it's available and should you want interviews i would ask the ministry of defensed the national director of security to share all of the figures with you. >> i have been interviewing you, mr. president, for the last 18 years and in all your different government positions and now as president. you have been trying to work this problem for that long. is this a last-ditch effort for you? what happens if it doesn't work? what happens to you? what happens to your people and to your country? >> well, first of all, no effort for peace is last ditch. we will succeed. our past against all odds is to be able to do impossible things. when the soviet union invaded us in 1979, was there anyone in the world that believed that we would succeed? friend or foe, we succeeded, but subsequently were unable to benefit from our gains. when i became president the overwhelming opinion was that we would collapse within six months to nine months. we are moving forward. let us please understand that the absolute majority of the men and women are under 30. there is a generational change in go

that so many of the generals including mattis who is sector defense are kelly who is the white house chief of staff believe is necessary to again maintain the empire i think the british ministry of defense calls him because of the rather. than soldiers but britain is indeed on the ground some type of british shooting will boots on the ground you talked about all of that what is the actual a move all of this look if you look at what's a general mattis or general kelly. talked about if you go back and look at their speeches they view america the u.k. the west as the apex of civilization they view themselves as modern day legionnaires who are protecting the republic who are defending the empire and what they need to do is necessary in terms of warfare being a constant state of humanity and that these forces are just there to maintain the base level of order they've called in the special operations community or the cia for years now they've called it mo in the grass not they idea that you have to do maintenance that you have to continually do these strikes on these lawless areas on the areas that you can't subjugate or bring under control and this is what the greatest differences

has a specialist unit which is dedicated to offensive cyber actions it is jointly run by the ministry of defense and the intelligence services which are known as the g c h q u k commit as a number of tools at its disposal in the sphere of cyber warfare the u.k. offensive cyber capabilities and one might expect expect that these are put against russia in the eventuality that it's needed i think it's well within the realm of possibility that the u.k. government will undertake or use it offensive capability they didn't the russian federation and if it does then i think it will most likely target those entities and organizations in russia the responsible for conducting russian information warfare against the west. well i'm joined now here at the big table by john france want gun yeah he is the c.e.o. of the canadian based company element ai one of the globe's go to places for firms that want to use artificial intelligence he's also an advisor to the office of the canadian prime minister on cyber security zhang for what it's good to have you on the day you were at a conference earlier today a panel y

they had agreed that the millet -- ministry of defense for the submarine program. today's announcement would ensure the work that we use it to rebuild. remains on schedule and as a number -- another sign of keeping our company safe. it means they will benefit from extra 800 million and the next financial year and we continue to exceed the 2% target. this is very unseemly. the honorable legislation. it's well known to all members of the house.hing in the face of our democracy. that is the challenge of meeting with that. clearly the allegations but people should be able to have confidence about how their personal data is being used. they were investigating this matter. i expect any others involved to cooperate fully. in our protection there will strengthen our commissioner. and also around data protection. as well the other steps they have taken this is a government that is committed that there is a safe place to be. will they report so will i personally hope will resemble the existing customs union. we've given it in the negotiating stage that was completed last week

shock and were comforted and provided aid after reaching government positions the russian the ministry of defense has stressed that militants in the enclave are preventing others from the scaping by opening fire on them the ministry also says insurgents there are using people as human shields of a un security council earlier adopted a resolution demanding a thirty day cease fire across syria without delay now russia sees the opening of its humanitarian corridor and its attempts to establish ceasefire windows as steps towards implementing that call damascus has also attempted to evacuate the wounded and tried sending forty six aid trucks to the area. but they were unable to get through as milton. opened fire along the man a turnaround of about eight workers stationed at a government checkpoint close to eastern good i told us about the plight of civilians there. i'm here with the syrian army and i'm ready to help leaving eastern ghouta we have ambulances here with the words of the list the best they hear around the clock to provide first aid to people from eastern guta a medical labs also work twen