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A step back in things that they believed in people cannot lead like this. Very good evening to you thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. We will start with breaking news this hour because police have confirmed a stabbing incident in Central London was a terrorist attack we can show you witness videos taken in the area which is a busy thoroughfare in the city and as you can see people were wrestling with the suspect trying to pin that person to the ground while my manages to get the knife off of the attacker an armed officer is seen with his weapon drawn a short time later a shot at least confirmed that the attacker was shot dead at the scene short time ago the mayor of london said a number of people have been injured in the knife a tie. Some of the. Correspondent. On the scene for a good evening there was the latest information coming out. While London Bridge is still completely on lockdown not follows the incident that broke out earlier this afternoon at 158 local time as you can still see there are still Mass Evacuations happening from the Office Building surrounding the London Bridge vicinity it was indeed a Major Incident and earlier this afternoon the assistant Police Commissioner and theyll pursue confirmed it was terrorist related. As you would expect to make sure we respond to this notice which terrorist relations are now in a position to has been declared a terrorist incident. Now the suspect who was also a fake a hoax explosives attached to him he was shot down at the scene on London Bridge is understood that before he was shot down dead there are members of the public that were pinning him down that was video footage that emerged not reportedly at this moment in time as i say the incident broke out somewhat 3 hours ago and since then there were convoys of Emergency Services flooding into the scene descending onto London Bridge including counterterrorism officers at the time it was a precautionary measure of course now its been confirmed as terrorist related but accompanying them was also a specialist armed force offices too as well as the Ambulance Services and indeed the fire brigade we understand that many victims are now being treated at hospitals for their injuries some of which are a serious level the police are still offering statements saying that the public must remain vigilant and say calm at this moment in time as they say the incidents over its no longer ongoing but of course earlier this afternoon there were scenes of absolute pandemonium and chaos. Rushing people. Talking. No i was. Thinking about it yes its a big slug of people rushing around calling every child excited by shooting somebody with. A panic. What. Kind of counsel is not why do you do something doing. Something everybody said go down into the basement weve taken down by troops storm and now weve been evacuated. Well we have had some reaction then from the Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeting out thanking the Emergency Services for all theyve done the softer news we also heard from the home secretary. Saying that she was offering her support. For us with all victims and all of those affected by this incident jeremy called into had tweeted out thanking the Emergency Services again but as you mentioned just we heard d from mayor of london city and he says that hes standing in solidarity and says weve seen the most humanity for members of the public at a time where weve also seen the west. And with the authorities declaring this terrorist related this incident this is going to bring back a lot of memories for the people of london. Absolutely this is a very emotive location for the people in the heart of the capital particularly hit London Bridge where we saw very familiar scenes way back in june 27th teen where we witnessed a very cool plowing down London Bridge 3 attack because driving that car and then they took to the streets and wilting knives in the area of London Bridge in the outside vicinity of bara market that incident 9 people were killed on the scene again that is a terrible year of major terrorist incidents 27000. 00 also sing the Westminster Bridge attack whereby again a vehicle was used as the method of violence there again coming out of their cars vio. Yet another night again they tell it to step process after injury but mostly get another terrorist related incident with using a vehicle as a method of choice knife crime though in the capital of london is out a record highs at the moment people are understandably very worried and concerned and day. I thank our correspondent in london said it edwards dashti. Ok lets get some expert analysis now from Peter Williams whos a policing and terror expert at Liverpool John Moores University very good evening to you. So you have no doubt a chance to say you have a look at the some of the pictures coming from the scene and the latest news reports whats your initial response having saying. Well my initial response is that its. I sell 3 probably was linked to a terrorist site mon sim was a couple reasons for me saying that one as being the recent stock by the americans on the leading lysis. I was expecting some sort of. You know some research. Anywhere really because we in the u. K. As you probably know meal on the new year or your views will know what are in the middle of a general Election Campaign in the lead up to christmas the whats the u. K. Very much in the full forms of news and of course one of the chemos a very scenes of any sort of course is to exploits as much Media Coverage possible so i think thats very an issue my 2nd mike baird response is this one looks absolutely no intelligence at seoul that this is going to happen because only a few weeks ago the threat level here in the United Kingdom was reduced some severe whats it been for 5 years this went to 14 so. Of substantial implications of that decision by jade joint center is another sense i was not alone it was in the words an extract wont was that at the moment of the they didnt expect wall on there was no intelligence to indicate so as a few thoughts up the moments well have to wait and see when the dust settles what we know about this individual on the motivations but i would say in the lacy what shall be a set in relation to knife crime. Unfolds in the no terrorist attacks have utilized this mode this method in the last few years and the reason they do this of course is there is less chance of them being detected by the Security Services that is so simple and easy so long since as this. As you quite rightly said the information so fresh after this a tag information is its a little bit sketchy so lets just stick with what we do know and if you said there are 30 said read reduce the writing of the. Reality of a terrorist attack from severe to substantial to the public that wont really making much in reality on the ground what difference does it make is there any do they change the operational manner of the of the police. No it doesnt its just in the cases theres a lack of basically as far as i can see it is a lack of indication since lacking in sounds to indicate that sac is likely. All low shall be as pointed out was a close one out meets once in 7 seem like iraq was a moment of glory suit the secular prominent ones which accounted for that some substance of those. It indicates of course that theres no goods no immediate since allergens that will lighten its you and joe in the sack now what it was a bounce course is a low we didnt 27. 00 seen until the certificates which series 3rd since riots are not we in the u. K. Here and has been no mainland attack we must casualties since 7 sevenths on the Security Services the police and im like fog in particular have been extremely successful in green able to prevent or waltz in the sack because many of these attacks havent been as mentioned using low level still physicals as enough meat thats of use in the vehicle all alike all of the knife there have been a bit more of them of being bit more substantial in sense of planning but its in the planning throw sense the law that allows the Security Services to still be on intervene so im particularly interested here in leo as to what the intelligence was and here in relation to this individual was he a subject of a subject of interest as the wreath that said i was not any pacific and savage and thats an attack such as this is lightened to happen if so the threat level may have been set at substantial too hastily and that is of course information that we would have to wait for all the details to come out if we made it back to what weve seen today a lot of bystanders witnesses have been quick to post video of the minutes several different videos several different elements of the. Incidence it gives you a picture where it appears as if some members of the public maybe some of those who are being attacked or attempted to grapple the assailant now though will probably have the heroes for that i presume that something that you would not encourage those members of the public to be doing. Think its their natural instinct very often the show that in the 27 scene its acts that you know people did become involved in you know assisting casualties on day chance to overpower the offender and people just tend to do that anyway well equal rights. They need to be clear that the put themselves in you know. In serious noms like just look at the protective equipment the armed officers and then send all the Police Officers themselves and see that theres you know soon extends there if they are placed on equipped to deal with this sort of this sort of incident. I think it will acknowledge that extreme bravery in which you think cindy can honestly say well the treatment and we saw this again its once a 7 c. I think its an unnatural reaction to want to say and it would say in relation to the videoing of please remember this could lead soldiers subject to call proceedings so be very careful what you comment on any form of social media if youre going to place it on there its all and as he said we most likely witness extreme bravery from from those people who appeared to a tackle this assailant. But lets also display a word for the Police Officers who always put their lives on the line and again i would assume it makes the job actually more difficult when there are members of the public in there in a fight with an assailant i mean to very quickly decide who is the threat to them. Absolutely i mean. It was just noticing that the host of the promise it socks 2015 when series of mayors home secretary until she was born as chancellor they range sent ringfence a certain amount of money for the Council Terrorism bill just to enhance an increased training the numbers of Police Firearms officers not just in will need but across the country as well in particular on the in the transport network the good some for police now we seen the benefits of that in the 27 c. In its act and it looks like today as well well youre absolutely right but what we need to remember what we need to remember thats a recon a Police Firearms officer its an extremely proceso on the course key parts of that live or without a weapon in the Selection Process is keyed to make is key Decision Making skills remember that theyve got less than a split 2nd to make a decision when they make that its likely to be the result in effect silence see on the close one that they have to justify a laser possibly in a criminal in the criminal course so all i do. Recognize a thing most people do as well on upload the professionalism of the Police Firearms officers these days the Police Services cell selves has led from its previous incidents and i can say that i think republicans witness as well putting the Good Practice what theyve learnt in place here on their doing the job which is protecting the public of london im making hopefully making the streets safer and i would imagine given how many stabbing attacks there have been in the u. K. Over the last few years i have to say someone who hasnt been living there for the last few years it feels like the country i dont recognise it from the one i used to live in in terms of knife crime in the way that thats risen its kind of bizarre to watch on from a distance how do the authorities deal with this. When you could be dealing with an armed state it could be a terrorist in the home but now its. Just on it well they dont get it online soriano being consistently making the point of course policing is changing completely and drastically lenience made the point to self that some sounds since youve lived here in the u. K. Well life in the u. K. Has moved on a lot and so is crime. Its money trusting itself which is robbing the headline of course things like what was so jayson the knife crime on the hill is key arguments and key issues why that is around not possibly linked in 1. 00 sense the suicide receipt or lack of visible policing on the streets maybe accounts of years and then all of the reasons as well its not something which the can can be solved in a matter in a massive week some months it needs to take a longer view as to its address that well and it also understands it also illustrates how professional these days Police Officers need to be in order that they can respond to so many diverse and since the days of gone with the lobby was basically just it just dealt with the volume crime showing children across the rolled and lost dogs they go on its a thing that its a thing of the past on the Police Service now on a very confessional now as asian one of these continuing to. Develop enough professionalism and say you know in particular neil these need should rolls on the same these needs roles where counterterrorism policing dealing with night crime when we need the public that sickly in the area of neighborhood policing where we need to do that protect the public and keep the streets safe and you mentioned several elements go into dealing with increasing crime and increased terrorist threat in the modern world as a general election coming up in the u. K. Very shortly if you could say to the next leader the next Prime Minister the one thing they need today what would have been are they doing to increase bodies on the ground increased Police Numbers increased funding what what would you focus on. Well interestingly enough i went to a lecture of police found out which is going to be the Police Foundation which is the prints and the only main one really gave me u. K. Which focuses on police and last july they have a guest that lecture and missy and it was the commission of the metropolitan police she made the point she was looking at how Police Investigations change soon when she joined in 1803. 00 in the contemporary period and she made the point thats an interesting one is that most prosecutions these days although it still contain an elements of surrender evidence that was in the case plus an 8 seats 3 because within an obvious area criminal Justice System like one here turning into glenns very often concession evidence the admission by the defendants was sufficient symbols of. A prostitution that has now changed investigations of becoming extremely cynical and its in this area where we need the highly skilled forensic people so what i would say to. Whoever is the the out in the next film and we welcome the next in the policing with that one is johnson absent of visibility really what we need to do is to invest mole in the skills of Police Officers so when we can constantly address this changing crime its an audio but ive said it soon see you minutes ago. Peter i really appreciate your expert analysis a great to have you on iran r. T. International Peter Williams my guest policing and terror expert at Liverpool John Moores University thank you once again. Onto other news now donald trump has to spend his thanksgiving paying his 1st ever visit to afghanistan and greeting american troops space there and he had a message for them revealing talks with the taliban are back on despite being declared dead just 2 months ago in my colleague Daniel Hawkins discussed this with artist. They call it a surprise visit but the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan the bloody almost 2 decades long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars trump wanted to and did for his own kristis at home and for his global influence in that region and internationally of course and hes been given this promises so many times that thanksgiving feels that short reason to afghanistan was all about that to demonstrate hes in charge and he is taking everything under control and everything is according to his plan and peace is near thats a perfect plan and you know strong promises except we heard that before and so many times. The taliban wants to make a deal well see if they want to make a deal its going to be a real deal but well see talking to the taliban have a very good discussions well see what happens talking about a plan i dont know whether or not a plan is going to be accepted or acceptable to me and maybe its not going to be acceptable to them but we are talking we have good talks going and well see what happens in these negotiations have been quite stops have there been any success is in the past it would be unfair to say that there wasnt any success because for almost a year a trans key negotiator mr heller former ambassador to afghanistan held 9 rounds of talks extensive talks with the taliban very influential on the ground in afghanistan everybody agrees that they say is a player no one can ignore and the peace cannot be restored without although many countries still view them as a terrorist group some were saying that to merica was closed and these negotiations were success but that it was called off last minute because of the bloody incident to dozens of lives including an american soldier so some say that america is losing this game in afghanistan. Because trump is trying to play is solo game there are so many peace initiatives on afghanistan led by moscow by iran but trump always rejects all the invitations and never takes part in these talks and hes trying to kind of settle it all on his own and just before go into afghanistan this thanksgiving he pasted afford to shop picture of himself as rocky balboa and i think this is how he feels maybe and maybe this is what he wants to be for afghanistan a hero but as they say you can tell what they are by what they do not by what they say or what the post on twitter sure as you mentioned there its a good photo opportunity good p. R. For the election next year exactly in terms of realistic chance of getting a deal how optimistic are you its very hard to say because its been on and off all the time but what we can say for sure and you made this point already trump is not going to give up he needs it he needs to regain this influence in afghanistan and in that region and globally and of course they say that ending the war in afghanistan he would rise his chances up to be reelected at home so i mean its not yet over. The rocky Prime Minister. Resigned to allow lawmakers to form a new government iraqis have been celebrating the news these are the latest pictures from the capital the Prime Ministers announcement follows weeks of violent protests across the country people been demanding a change of government theyve been angry over poor service is unemployment and chronic corruption more than 300. 00 people have been killed thousands injured since the rallies began last month. There was one is an Award Winning Iraqi Kurdish journalist joins me on the line good evening. This announcement will it be enough the Prime Minister to stop the protests. Definitely not no it is just the tip of the iceberg i think it was only the start of a long process the Prime Minister has been a stumbling block. In front of change that people in the various and the various protestors have been calling for. The key issue here for the protesters is that to bring those who killed over 500 protesters injured 12000 disabled more than 3000 people to be brought to justice to conduct a transparent investigation and the transpired and. Trial through to the perpetrators of violence over the past 2 months the other key issue for the protesters is that. The institution that perpetrated the violence is the same that installed either of them at the end it is the same that has been keeping him in power for the past 2 months that institution remains intact today and we have to see whether the replacement of the Prime Minister or the alternative will be more of the same or will be somebody from the same set up of the same mindset or mentality all will he be someone totally different and is determined to say take the country interested in itif and be bring to justice those who are responsible for the violence perpetrated over the past 2 months if youll indulge me im going to go all the way back to but 2003 because thats when iraq came into globally a lot of peoples public consciousness with the u. S. Led invasion it seems that the countrys been suffering instability ever since that what went wrong with this new found system of democracy that the u. S. Was supposedly bringing. Well the key issue with the new system that was installed in 2003 was the ethno sectarian quote that was adopted by the various Political Parties that through the government for every position that has to be everything was split along the lines of sunni. Although it was although the rights of the Kurdish People or the rights of the other components of Iraqi Society was supposed to be so saved by the constitution but at the same time the way it was divided the positions and places in the country were divided led only to 2 corruption and it led to a small islands or silos of power that did not correspond to each other and to be fair to the outgoing Prime Minister hes only really a Prime Minister for the past year or so the countrys problems much or go way back. In one year the turn of the recent problems started in 2003 and before that there was a long history of death of destruction of genocide of dictatorship where all of these problems accumulated led to last months. Protests and it was reciprocated by violence by the government and. He will have to rough it of them afraid really enjoy speaking to him was meant Award Winning Iraqi Kurdish journalist thank you. Ok to my have a small town in bolivia he was brutally assaulted by protesters amid and arrests triggered by the countrys political crisis is refusing to resign but out of say it has now left hospital images of the attack on her emerged on social media revealing the violence towards politicians of the party of the ousted leader. Well morales warning you may find some of these scenes disturbing at the start of november after setting the tower on fire and antiviral as mob paraded the barefoot skirts her hair in public and sprayed it red during the 4 hour ordeal she was made to kneel and sign a letter of resignation she told us that she is still being treated for kidney damage sustained from the blows she received. The bundle what happened was disgusting i am now recovering from renal damage that i suffered during the assault and i am still in pain the also cut off my hair they beat me up but they can change my views everything was so confusing at that moment many of them covered their faces but we recognise some of them it was sad to see all those people attacking me its been a difficult time for my children to see their mother in such a condition i dont want this to happen again in bolivias now facing Political Uncertainty the selfappointed right wing government of service a janine and yes has already been accused of abuse ever more or less resigned after the countrys military suggested he step down that on the back of a wave of protests following octobers election and allegations of vote fraud his supporters protest what they see as a coup in the countrys postelection unrest 34 people have been killed more than 800 injured. And the big brother today thanks for staying with r. T. Join me for updates in half an hour. You know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth. Time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. This is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the street. What happens to her family and daughters in florida no mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the Police Needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court b b b b. Shot shot as far as i feel. We dont know childress from. 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