a minister sounds the alarm in the house of lords. it is quite terrifying for these things to come up behind you. you can t hear them and you can t see them until they re upon you, and they really go quite fast. but first, the home secretary has condemned the racist abuse on social media against members of the england football team. three players marcus rashford, jadon sancho and bukayo saka were targeted after missing penalties in the euro 2020 final against italy. priti patel said those responsibile should face the full force of the law , and she warned social media companies that if they don t act against racist, violent and hateful content on their platforms, the government will take action against them. she also condemned the thuggish and violent behaviour of some fans
better system than we had back then. are you surprised in a good way that there hasn t been another huge attack on american mainland in the last decade? very surprised. if you would have asked me on september 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, the days after, i would tell you there is no chance we re not going to be attacked numerous times. i wasn t just guessing at it. that s what i was being told by responsibile intelligence services. i think it s a combination of having taken very, very strong action, and continuing to take strong action. i also think it is they want to exceed the impact they had with september 11th. and therefore they haven t done a lot of the small attacks, which i think we re very fortunate that they decided to do that. and we ve had some time now to prepare ourselves for all the things that they can do. on that day, you were having breakfast at the peninsula hotel here in manhattan. how did you hear what had happened? one of the police officers that was with me cam
i wasn t just guessing at it. that s what i was being told by responsibile intelligence services. i think it s a combination of having taken very, very strong action, and continuing to take strong action. i also think it is they want to exceed the impact they had with september 11th. and therefore they haven t done a lot of the small attacks, which i think we re very fortunate that they decided to do that. and we ve had some time now to prepare ourselves for all the things that they can do. on that day, you were having breakfast at the peninsula hotel here in manhattan. how did you hear what had happened? one of the police officers that was with me came up to my denny young, who was having breakfast with me, and bill simon was the third person, whispered in his ear. denny came over to me, got up from the breakfast table and said there is a terrible fire at the twin towers. a airplane has hit the north tower. we better get down there right away. when we first heard it, we didn t r