Privilege of welcoming a friend of mind peter who has done Ground Breaking work in fighting challenge in the u. K. He has been directing for how long peter . Seven years. Seven years. Hes been one of the goto guys on all Things National security, terrorism, he has done phenomenal research. Last but not least delighted to welcome fernando who is from spain, hes done tons of policy related in terms not only foreign fighter phenomena in spain but also more generally speaking counterterrorism. Bottom line youre not going to get better scholar pra thank you very much, frank. Its a pleasure. Thank you. This is a wonderful turnout. We have reluctant to have an event on a friday morning. Almost august. Peter was more optimistic about the turnout. The star power from fernando helped us to have a wonderful turnout. Thank you very much for coming. The first that the program has had the pleasure to direct here and the center of Homeland Security here. On such an important topic wonderful colleague
As one of those District Centers is taken over within hours the Afghan Security forces are taking it back. They have the ability now, the capability to react much quicker, to move forces all around the country to go back and take over those District Centers. I think thats a sign of progress as they move forward. Again, they have technology, they have the people they have the training. I think the difference this fighting season is getting the right leadership in place, holding the leaders accountable for the welfare of soldiers and police. And then building the moral of the folk as they continue to take the offensive. Theyre very defensive in nature. 80 of the Afghan Security forces are on check points and youre vulnerable to attacks. Thats where theyre taking a lot of their losses on the small check points. Afghan local police were designed to be the guardian tofs village. Theyre supposed to guard that village. But theyve employed them five kilometer, 10 kilometers outside of the vill
The victim woke up as it was happening and was able to free herself and get away. Police say she was origionally with friends that night but was seperated from them as the evening progressed. At one point she flagged down a cab. Police say sanchez was driving that cab. They say hes part of a small cab Company Called checkered flag yellow taxi. The car he drove also listed the site e taxiit dot com. sot being a young woman and in campbell its definitely nerve racking and scary because you think of all your friends and just hope that Something Like that never happens. Reporter detectives believe sanchez sexually assaultaed another woman in a separate instance. They say most of the circumstances in that case were different but the victim was also intoxicated. Those we talked said this news is upsetting and disheartening. sot it can definitely come off as the ultimate horror story that can be taken that far because you want to be able to trust the person that is driving and when that trust
The gunmans wife is now in the spotlight. It appears she was aware of her husbands plans to carry out the attack. And a Police Locked down as england and russia football fans to send on the french city for their next 2016 their next euro 2016 matches. Hour, weng up this will be hearing from people in the british enclave and how they are worried about the u. K. Voting to leave the european union. Princess, the newest disney theme park opens in china. Whole new world is causing trouble for the local economy. Belle hello and thanks for 24. Weth us on france begin in france, where a moment of silence has taken place in memory of a Police Commander and his partner killed in a terror attack monday night. Salvaing was was to the guess stabbed to death. His partner, jessica schneider, was taken hostage with their threeyearold son inside the house. She, too, was stabbed to death. The killer was shot to death by Larossi Abballa or he spent time in prison for recruiting jihadists. Catherine norri
To kill should never have been available to the public. And we begin in sydney where a 16 hour hostage standoff is now over. Authorities say that three people including the gunman were killed. Four others including a Police Officer were hurt. Australian Prime Minister tony abbott says his country is not immune to these kinds of acts. There are people in our Community Ready to engage in politically motivated violence. The events in martin place also show that we are ready to deal with these people, professionally, and with the full force of law. Al jazeeras Andrew Thomas has the latest now from sydney. Hostages took their moments and ran for their lives. Moments later police storm this central sydney cafe. One officer appears to throw a stun grenade, then the flak of explosive. From different areas of the scene the play out. The seize began during monday mornings rush hour. The phone to her ear, three police on motorcycles arrived and others on foot very quickly. She was telling them sh