Guest: Omar Shaukat - Research Fellow at the Afro-Middle East Centre

Guest: Prof. Hennie Strydom – Holds an National Research Foundation research chair for international law at University of Johanneburg

14:20 Guest: Anton Du Plessis - Criminal justice and counter-terrorism legal expert, and managing director of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) He is currently in Vienna attending a conference or a session presently which is looking into all related Global Terror matters

The number of people killed by terrorism reached a record high in 2014, with almost four in five of these deaths occurring in just five countries, new research shows. Terrorism killed more than 32,600 people last year, an 80 per cent increase from 2013 and the sharpest yearly rise on record, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2015. The index is compiled by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global think tank based in Sydney, New York and Mexico.

Deaths from terrorism, 2000-14. Nine times more people were killed by terrorism in 2014 than in 2000. Source: Global Terrorism Index 2015 The death toll was heavily concentrated. Seventy-eight per cent of fatalities occurred in Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria. Nigeria recorded the largest increase in deaths from terrorism. Fatalities quadrupled in 2014, reaching more than 7500. But Iraq stands out as the worst-affected country, accounting for 30 per cent of all deaths from terrorism, according to the report. More than 9900 people died in 3370 attacks in Iraq last year. "This is the highest number of terrorism incidents and fatalities ever recorded by a single country," the institute's press release reads.