drills are pushing the region to the brink of war. only last week pyongyang launched one of its most advanced missile tests further inflaming tensions. that missile has the potential range to hit the us are flown in a straight trajectory. in the uk british media say two men in a london court charged targeting british prime minister teresa may, the men allegedly planned to detonate a bomb in the prime minister s office to assassinate her in the aftermath, this comes a day after a report on the recent terror attacks but some attackers say no to intelligence services, chances to stop the more mixed. several other possible terror plots in the uk have been thwarted by authorities including the latest one. yesterday the international olympic committee despite russian athletes only compete at
uzbek and one extra note is that there was an uzbek national that was responsible for a deadly truck attack in stockholm this year which killed a number of people in the swedish capital. so there is a track record of uzbeks getting involved in these kind of plots and uzbek groups having links to terror plots in the west, in fact, there was a plot all the way back in 2007 against a u.s. air force base, the ramstein base in germany, linked back to an al qaeda affiliate uzbek group in the tribal areas of pakistan, anderson. and peter, just in terms of vehicle attacks like this, i mean, there really is it s very difficult, obviously, to prevent these sorts of things. yeah, i mean, unless we plan to turn ourselves in sort of some kind of prison system where anywhere where there is kind of large crowds and vehicles able
like i said begins sometimes back at the ticket counter, electronic devices and better deployment of canines that detect explosives. this affects 105 different countries, more than 180 airlines, more than 2,000 flights, flying into the united states daily. when secretary kelly first announced these new changes he said this was a necessary measure to thwart terror plots to blow up passenger planes. he said simply putting it, we have to make it harder for the terrorists to succeed. john and poppy. sara ganim important headlines, thank you very much. moments from now on capitol hill the senate armed service committee holds a hearing on the deadly attack on the u.s. troops in niger. as we learn new details about the mission of the green beret team and the terrorist suspect they were after. david mckenzie joins us live
she had previously used him as a human shield. there s more to the story. trace gallagher has more. explain how this woman was a high level target in the first place. u.s. authorities believe she and her husband who was killed in an air strike in 2015 were behind a dozen isis terror plots including a 2015 plan to assassinate the queen of england and prince phillip during a celebration in london. the failed kidnapping of a u.s. army veteran in syria. sally white jones was a guitar player in a punk rock band in britain before converting to islam and leaving her husband and fleeing to syria with her 12-year-old son. the past couple years, he was behind a new wave of all female isis cells planning revenge attacks on the west. u.s. intel agents told the sunday times they cannot be 100% sure that jones was killed during the air strike back in june because there was no
they surprised people that claiming things that were isis-inspired not necessarily directed. in the case of las vegas what it seems is based on the losses of territory they are suffering on the ground and also the psychological trauma to the islamic state which also includes, by the way, all the people who are surrendering, they are looking for relevance and attention. so sacrificing their credibility by claiming this attack in las vegas might be a sign of the desperation they have for relevance as part of the global jihad. bill: you do not suggest this group is buried and done with yet. there is a case in new york city about a terror plot on time square. what has come of that? this is one of the more classic terror plots in terms of how it was disrupted and also some of the targets that we ve seen when you talk about radical islamic terror. you have a few individuals working together. they were a would be cell trying to attack either concert venues, time square, new york city subw