MI6 Chief: We are operating in space 'between peace and war'

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The new Head of MI6, Blaise Metreweli, says that across the globe "we are now operating in a space between peace and war". In her first public speech as the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, Metreweli added "our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades". Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Let's be in no doubt. Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades.

00:08Conflict is evolving and trust eroding just as new technologies spur both competition and dependence.

00:16We are being contested from sea to space, from the battlefield to the boardroom,

00:22and even our brains as disinformation manipulates our understanding of each other and ourselves.

00:30Across the globe, we are now confronting not one single danger but an interlocking web of security challenges,

00:38military, technological, social, ethical even, each shaping the other in complex ways.

00:45We are now operating in a space between peace and war.

00:50This is not a temporary state or a gradual, inevitable evolution.

01:00Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national and international security.

01:07Institutions which were designed in the ashes of the Second World War are being challenged,

01:11new blocks and identities forming and alliances reshaping.

01:16Multipolar competition, intention with multilateral cooperation.

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