richard clarke, we're so fortunate to have your unique insights.nks so much for joining us. >>> and of course, as we know, the latest in the war in syria is the relentless bombardment of ghouta, the suburb of damascus. there has been some brief humanitarian pause. we'll see how it goes. we know syria contributed to the worst refugee crisis since world war ii, but it's not just the middle east. huge numbers of africans try to reach europe's shores and for years they've been making the journey across the sahara through war-torn libya and across the mediterranean. libya is most dangerous of all. cnn revealed last autumn that smugglers were auctioning off migrants as slaves there. and now correspondent, the one behind that shocking report nima is back going undercover in northern nigeria to show the central role that rape plays in the smuggler's operation. i spoke to her about this earlier. nima, welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> so, the idea of women and the sexual abuse and harassment, the physical dangers they face in all aspects of life, inc

and import of them leaving many to wonder what this development means we'll start there with richard. clarke university of minnesota he was the chief white house ethics lawyer during the administration of george w. bush and he's currently vice chair for citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington he joins us from minneapolis ok richard what do you make of this and why do you think it's sealed. well the number is a prosecutor would want a sale and indictment portions of an indictment and usually other reason is to not disclose to other potential subjects of the investigation of the information that the prosecutor know. and he is continuing to investigate a number of different things not just the money laundering with respect to the mastermind of fort mr gates but also the russian ferrous and the election whether they had anything to do with it and there are a number of people being investigated in connection with the russian inner ferret's with a election and robert miller may not want to tip his hat as to what he is and what he doesn't know what the stage of the investigation the ju

clark. any additional general public comments? seeing none, commissioner richards? >> ms. clark, if you could spend 20 or 30 seconds telling us about bay lands, please. >> sure. do we want it? >> go ahead. >> sorry. so there is talk about doing a statewide piece of legislation that would take the entire decision away from the city of brisbane and i think that makes a lot of sense. the current, as commissioner moore brought up, the current economic difference that they're looking at, they ran a feasibility test on a project that was purely just commercial. they would make $7 million a year. the one that's mixed use office in housing, they would only make $1 million a year. and so all of the talk about every other way to look at that, they are looking at a difference of $6 million. i do not believe that the city council will be capable of saying no to $6 million and that is the way these decisions end up being made all down to south bay where we see this jobs-housing imbalance so i do believe that we're going to require a specific piece of legislation to be passed at the stat

richard galpin, bbc news. let us discuss what might happen next. michael clarkeirector general of the royal united services institute, the defence and security focused think tank. good evening. in terms of that final point, in fact, good evening. in terms of that final point, infact, being good evening. in terms of that final point, in fact, being stripped of british citizenship, how does it work? who decides that? the fact that it has apparently happened, what does even tell you about all of this? it tells you that the british authorities are in a bit of a quandary. it happens because the home secretary has powers to strip people of british citizenship. if people of british citizenship. if people are dual citizens you can do that and take away their bridges and —— british citizenship if they are a citizen of another country and it is contrary to international law to do it if they only have citizenship of your country. the government gave themselves powers under counterterrorism acts to do that and they have stripped about 81 people of sitters ship it is believed