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Persian who have been following this story today. But first, lets hear a little more from mahsas mother. In a bbc persian exclusive, shes shared a moving account of her life for the first time. Baby girland brings baby girl and brings them light and love and beauty. She bloomed like a flower and turned my life into a garden. Due to restrictions in schools and universities i had to register her name as mahsa amini. It means beauty of the moment. But we used to always call her gina. I had high hop...

Russia was poisoning people with war class military grade nerve agents on western soil. it wasnt happening when most of the world was turning their back on putin for his war-like behavior. its stunning that the odd man out is the american president, the leader of the free world, ostensibly. >> um-hum. listen matthew senator mccain slammed the president as well. he county jail timed turkishs erdogan. trump praised chinas xi jinping. why does the president cozy up to strongmen? >> its not by black...

Pivot, but we learned about the phone call to putin from russia. then donald trump confirmed it today to the president and then sarah sanders came out and basically confirmed that, no, the issue of the elections, the issue of the poisoning had not been addressed. look, you know, i remember when republicans used to be against us cozying up to dictators of this kind. i found it appalling when barack obama went to cuba and legitimatized raul castro. i found it appalling when jimmy carter and his fo...

Barack obama congratulated vladimir putin after a few days, albeit with the 2012 victory. but it wasnt a at a time when russia was poisoning people with war class military grade nerve agents on western soil. it wasnt happening when most of the world was turning their back on putin for his war-like behavior. its stunning that the odd man out is the american president, the leader of the free world, ostensibly. >> um-hum. listen matthew senator mccain slammed the president as well. he county jail t...

Room when the heads of state meet. this is an important context that seems to be missing. you know, most of what trump said to putin in both content and form is normal. bhaes not normal is the context. a context where everything trump says about put isnt scrutinized understandably so. its where russias behavior is war like. they just at the same timed an armed attack on uk soil. one of our allies. the kent of the conversation. totally abnormal context. >> go ahead, julia. >> i agree with matthew...

Destroy the united states. lets back it up and put it in proper, sensible, human terms. what they can do and what theyre seeking to do every day of the week is wage these kind of spectaculars. not to destroy whole cities on western soil. to terrorize, traumatize communities, and change how we conduct our domestic politics. its playing into their hands, that you have the rise of these far right populous demagogues in europe and now in the united states, who say close all the borders, keep the mus...

London. see it in new york. in washington. this initial 48 hours is really just the immediate response. and in that immediate response you have to assume something else will happen. so you have that show of force. you get heavily armed police in paris, heavily armed military it on the streets to be aware of anything. once you get through that period you started to do the investigation of these attackers, you get a better sense of their network and then start to narrow the likelihood that there i...

Despite successful air strikes targeting isis militants, the u.s. is still one of the groups biggest targets but isis is far from the only group wishing to strike the west. barbara starr reports. >> in iraq and syria, propaganda videos of isiss bloody violence intimidation and killings. in yemen, the al qaeda affiliate puts out its new video showing pictures of its top leader nasr al waheshi. the two the terror groups now vying for power. >> having to compete with isis for recruits from the arab...

In the cross hairs as the rivalry grows. >> theres no doubt, if isis decides to, they have the ability to launch a major terrorist attack on western soil. this is a group with up to 1,000 western recruits. >> reporter: al qaeda and yemen posting a new addition calling for attacks on the west and complete with updated instructions, yet again, on making explosives. the type of instructions that inspired the boston bomb attack. the chaos in controlling al qaeda in yemen made more difficult after a ...

For attention global jihadist community. >> and the u.s. may be in the crosshairs as the rivalry grows. >> i dont think theres any doubt if isis decides to, they have the ability to launch a new a major terrorist attack on western soil. this is a group with up to a thousand western recruits. >> and al qaeda in yemen posting a new edition of its magazine again calling for attacks on the west complete with updated instructions yet again on making explosives. the type of instructions that inspired ...