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Remarks from nicola sturgeon, scotlands first minister on this? just teasing away at the different instincts around the uk of symptom managing this. what did she say? she talked about the past uk government is following through england and removing the requirements for basic mitigation alongside the relaxations onjuly 19th, something of an exception compared to other places in the world and there will be pressure on her to follow suit and there are some relaxations to come in scotland... hmm... ...

That health matters are devolved, so decision—making and implementation may differ across the uk administrations and we will continue to work with the devolved administrations to ensure we achieve our shared objectives of a safe, sustainable and robust return to international travel. lets speak now to the shadow secretary of state for transport, jim mcmahon. hello, i very good afternoon. your thoughts? hello, i very good afternoon. your thouuhts? . , hello, i very good afternoon. your thouuhts...

And theres a western presence there, military presence and we were able to stop isis with air power. so the idea that trump was convinced not to pull out everybody but to put 4,000 troops, air power and support the afghan government was a sustainable proposition i think to his support, but the problem is political, trace. the military, the state department and these administrations have not been able to convince 55% of the people, 62% are against being there, that the 2,300 dead, $1 trillion and...

Today is hes leveling with the american people and he is saying our strategy for 20 years now needs to change. it hasnt been a failure because the mission has been to prevent homeland attacks emanating from afghanistan like a 9/11 attack, and we have done that successfully. we have done that across republican and democratic administrations. so to that extent the mission has been achieved and now if we want to retain a robust military presence in the region, in the middle east, to find, fix and f...

Dynamic vibrant hong kong and went -- and made it a part of china. and nobody did anything. >> thats right, and the people here that talk about fighting china, and thats what the important thing is is that a lot of the americans dont understand what it is like. its kind of like that movie "the untouchables" where kevin costner is talking about going after al capone, and he says i want to get al capone, and sean connery says if you really want to get them? and unfortunately thats what is happenin...

Right now president biden is meeting with key leaders in his administration and members of the intelligence community as the white house races to finalize the government-wide strategy to deter future ransomware attacks. it comes after two more major cyber attacks in the past week. actors based in russia. russia knows about them. jeremy diamond joins me from the white house. this is something multiple administrations have struggled with. they tried sanctions, a whole host of things. do we know wh...

And would we know about it if it happened necessarily? >> we may not know about it because putin and russia may not want to admit that we found a weak spot and took advantage of it. it could range from everything such as taking the infrastructure for this particular ran some ware syndicate off-line, potentially going after their cryptocurrency stores. it could also be sending a warning in very subtle and not-so-subtle ways that we may not actually know about. >> beyond specific cyber options, th...

North where tens of thousands of people have been displaced as they flee the fighting. peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban are at a virtual standstill and the threat of civil war is looming. for the afghans we speak to, they say there is no end in sight to the violence and have little confidence there will ever be peace in this country. cnn, kabul. >> so earlier .with the analyst general mark hurt blg that withdrawal. he said the u.s. hasnt set the afghan government up to f...

Going after the actual attacking group as we did with the last ransomware attack, where we recovered a lot of the ransom money paid and possibly crippled some of their operations, or we actually go further and demonstrate to the russian government that we have the capability to attack their critical infrastructure if we decide to do so, im not sure. my guess is we would respond incrementally, working our way up to more serious responses. so maybe the next one would be seizing all of the ransom m...

So in attacking actual russian infrastructure, are you advocating effectively a kind of more open, more public tit—for—tat? isnt there a risk there of escalation? a very serious risk. i have been working in this area for over 20 years, including two us administrations, and you always have to calculate not only the actual risk that when you strike at something, whether its a power grid or a financial institution, youll miss your target and/or cause collateral damage by hitting other targets t...