The world is 'more dangerous than it has been for four decades': MI6 chief warns West faces a 'reckoning' with a new generation of terrorists, Putin rampaging in Europe and Iran going nuclear

The chief of MI6 has said that the world is more dangerous than it has been in the last forty years amid ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the West’s mounting tensions with Russia. 

Speaking at the British embassy in Paris, Sir Richard Moore also warned that Britain and its allies are facing a ‘reckoning’ as a new generation of potential terrorists are radicalised over the war currently erupting in the Middle East.

Sir Moore added that the threats Europe faces ‘could hardly be more…