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Raids in belgium and france, et cetera. That shouldnt surprise and thats appropriate, but in many ways, the larger lift, the 20year plan, the thing that is going to be a lot harder to do is integrating communities that have become ghettoized and not at all integrated, and ill leave you with just one strange and disturbing statistic. I asked local Police Officers in brussels if they were able to work with local imams in brussels when they found people who were drifting off either into criminality or from criminality into radical ideologies condoning and justifying violent extremism, and they said largely not, and for two reasons. One, theres not a religious but a cultural taboo that makes it very hard for them to reach out to many elements of the community. There are lots of efforts to do this, and some of the most successful for example have been to reach out to mothers, but they have a real problem getting past the social taboos ....
And launch the Global Counterterrorism Forum among other institutions. And eric has now joined the prevention project, which is organizing against violent extremism. So with that, let me turn the microphone over to matt. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for turning out so early on a friday morning. I wish it was for a more better topic, but here we are. Last week i as it happens, spent the week in belgium, meeting with belgian intelligence and counterterrorism officials. As it happens, i was sitting with one of the chief belgian counterterrorism officials on tuesday, as they were about to raid a safehouse in the neighborhood of forest. One person was killed in that raid. They did not find their primary targets Saleh Abdeslam but found his fingerprints and three days after i left they found him in the neighborhood in which he grew up, molenbeek, a corner around t ....
Brent i am brent goff. Good to have you with us. Migrants are still making their way to greece even though an increasing number of European Countries have sealed their borders to them. 1100 arrived at a port just today. Many of them are like did end up stuck in refugee camps like the one on the border between greece and macedonia. Our correspondent is there and he sent us this exclusive report. Reporter it is my fifth day in a place that gets more unpleasant with each passing day. Nonstop rain has left the grain left of the ground muddy and waterlogged and this has increased the misery for refugees. This young man from syria shows us what he is doing to keep the water out of his tent, but keeping himself dry is another matter. We dont carry many clothes with us, so we cannot just put something new on, and since there is no sunshine, i cannot dry my clothes. They are all wet. It is a hard place to get used to come and so was th ....
A country which is useful at this time might suddenly be a place receiving 20,000 refugees in three days or Something Like that. One of the things that we are already doing and have to do more of is theable to surge staff between posts and also between functions within the Foreign Office in london so that we have a more flexible structure is that can respond to reseissly sh reseissly the reality that priorities can change and change rapidly and we need to respond in a way that is appropriately agile. Can i ask you about another area of your budget. At the present there is still an fco grant to the British Council. Is that one of the areas that you may well be getting rid of, and what are the implications to you do, for the branding of the British Council and the s ....