oh the military policy in afghanistan paul flynn is with me now but before we talk to him let's just see a clip of the video that got him barred from parliament the role of our brave soldiers of the moment is to act as human shields for ministers' reputations the danger to our soldiers is being prolonged by those on that binge who have the power to stop it other countries over remove soldiers from this dangerous area where they're not doing all we're doing which is arming and training our future and to be isn't this very similar to the end of the first world war where if we say the politicians lawyers and soldiers died and the reality was as it is know that our brave soldier lives are being led by ministerial donkey's pull through and after that you were disciplined by the speaker and barred from parliament for five days

presumably you knew that what happened that you thought it was worth it oh it's very worthwhile it's a very rare event and the result has been that my words have been seen almost all over the world this prison extraordinary effect and i believe that this may well be a turning point in public opinion i believe eighty percent of public opinion would like to see the boys home by christmas and the government in this sense they're ignoring that you've been a longstanding critic of the war in afghanistan so what brought on this specific out there this one was about the the futility of the of the deaths in the last few days and the utter imbecile lying ministers who come before us and made excuses for continuing the war there's only one reason why the war is. and that is to protect the reputations of politicians soldiers of the as human. deals for ministers reputations what they're trying to do is to

keep a war going on to the best moment that would reflect on the reputation of politicians absolutely no reason why you shouldn't bring our troops home now the only reasons that we tied in with the politics of the united states we don't independent state we have to remind ourselves that we can take our own decisions and what we're going to see in the future is deepening trouble they'll be more slaughter because of this whole of this fictitious fictitious aims of the war we've seen to collapse happening now there is no possibility that we can train the afghan people and army and police the poor who will fight their own people who will kill brother afghans for for a corrupt election read election rigging dupré the president or to

defend a the interest of a foreign country it can't happen you maintain that what britain is doing is arming and training its enemies and i suppose there's a historical precedent for that there is a very powerful precedent that the americans trend an arm the mujahedeen and the mujahideen are the worst government the afghanis are as hand in one hundred years the taliban were great will forming improvement. but we've done this in the past and we are going to do it again there is no way that a taliban army or police are going to risk their lives killed their brother afghans in the service of a foreign country when we've gone or in the service of a corrupt a president they going back to their tribal loyalties the. and the passions will be divide. as they always have been divided and the likelihood is that there will be

disorder where really we went a civil war was going on the country was bitterly divided when we after we leave after we've left a few years the situation will be very similar they'll bill be more civil war and it likely future rulers will be the taliban what lessons then should have been learnt from both britain's own colonial past and the soviet union's experience in afghanistan in two thousand and one in strasburg a very a bali and member of the duma tapped me on the back and said you british i'm going into afghanistan and you captured it in a few days and saying that we russians did that and we were there for ten years we killed a million afghans we spent billions of rubles and we lost sixteen thousand of our own soldiers and when we came out we left a puppet government there but there were three hundred thousand. in the hills who

eventually took over and he really said to me it will happen to you. and he's absolutely. right we deluded ourselves we told ourselves fairy stories about what was going to happen we could change things and we couldn't there was a ba nine cause that the russians were taking up in afghanistan of taking people into bodden life giving them a chance to improve materially i mean nothing really happened in the end in we went in decided we couldn't get rid of the drugs trade we were ending corruption we were going to give women a better deal and nothing has changed as corruption is exactly the same possibly as drugs trade as it is is ninety percent of the drugs in britain come from afghanistan tony blair told ninety percent twelve years later ninety percent of the drugs still come from afghanistan it is a different there is more of the cheaper of the street so more people corrupted in

two thousand and one afghanistan was the second worst place in the world for a woman to live no it's the second worst place in the wall of we're going to live but the object it was of the war was a hopeless were utopian and we've we've wasted lives and make huge sums of money and we end up in two or three years' time with a situation just as bad as the one. before we invaded and let's talk a bit about the logistics and message that pulling out now would send what about the soldiers who are serving in afghanistan at the moment those who have already served and the families of the soldiers who've died when pulling out now send a message that everything they've done has been essentially for nothing it's certainly a tragedy that those families must go through this trauma of realized that this was a war in which nothing has been achieved but sadly that they have to face that

eventually. what is would be immoral and cruel is to tell other people the same lies and the people more lives should be lost in order to comfort the bereaved or to comfort politicians and be made the right decisions at the moment there's no conceivable reason and no you shouldn't start telling the truth to people and say that there isn't this mythical threat. of terrorism in britain somehow ending by b b afghanistan if we say to the taliban why are you killing our soldiers when they say when we've killed all your soldiers we're coming over to newport and to cardiff and we're going to blow up your streets no interest in that the reason the taliban is a killing british soldiers is because we are the foreigners with the in for the

world with the for a rainy day and we're occupying by force of arms their country it's this sacred religious duty to kill us if we're not there they don't kill us i mean to for the simple argument to understand so what you're saying is that pulling out of afghanistan right now wouldn't affect the security situation in the rest of the world nor not not in the slightest there's security threats to come from pakistan they come from the yemen they come from somalia i mean they come from bradford we have. an attack by al qaeda that was from people brought up in england is it not there better to have the us as friends rather than enemies what kind of message would leaving now send to america which at the moment is a supposedly a trusted friend and ally we have a claim that we are an independent country and we spend billions on an independent nuclear weapon we should be an independent as far as afghanistan is concerned we've

already seen countries that we greatly are. in the same with themselves pulling out of the cong quite likely all rudely they've given huge contributions in blood and treasure we should take our own decision we know that at least eighty percent of the population are same for goodness sake bring our boys home by christmas pull thank you my pleasure. if you're passing through rushes to veer region you really can walk on the wild side. thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land and enterprising locals so the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road such spectacular scenery makes it

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order strikes turkey fires in syria again in response to a mortar mortar attack as turkish prime minister air to one says he will go to war if provoked for a began its shelling on wednesday retaliation for a syrian mortar round that killed five civilians. return of the republic crowds rally for venetian independence frustrated with rome's crowds and calling for a thousand year state to make a comeback. and under its demand an end to u.s. drone strikes in pakistan with a two day march into the heart of the strikes on a convoy traveling from islamic bad to south waziristan and being led by credit legend imraan khan who since become an opposition politician. sports is next stay

with us here on r.t. . and i welcome to the sports and these are the headlines. out of steam locomotive and missed the chance to go joint top of the russian premier league often using one military to cuba. while red bull flying sebastian vettel dominates qualifying to three inches for pole position of the season to sunday's japanese promptly. and top two tussle reassure up of the easiest part to not lead to set up a china final against world number one turiaf bizarre encounter. but let's kick off with football where love what if moscow have missed the chance to join us at the top of the russian premier league after losing one military band. went out of his

way to keep his side's goal intact but the croatian just failed to stop what turned out to be the only goal with the game as a mark romania strike at all they will couldn't reach him to the far post with twenty minutes left handers despite the visitors newsy are trying fiedler to a second yellow card in the final minutes recursions young side hung on to defeat his former club to stay for a walk a ban or up to fifty. one in a basement back to second baltimore debut moved to within a point of safety after winning two nil at rock bottom vulgar after eleven minutes a penalty by michonne put the visitors in front but ten minutes before the break so that up have a chance to equalise get sky the ball from the penalty spot and coach says he'll penalize the striker who was supposed to step up while a last minute free kick from kid open gave mordovia the two no victory and left four points adrift. in the late game really as the act of twice came from behind to

make sure the spoils we shared. oh yeah i don't like or scored in each half of the home side joint top of the score as this one goes into the gate but the brazilians brace and the season was cancelled out as the money to go and could not tell if you want to stay because it is the point moves a line above the number into twelve a ninth time champion say eight. over in england chelsea have gone four points clear at the top of the premier league after coming back from a goal down to win four one at home to now second bottom norrish the blues rallied from grant but not with first half strike from to nando torres. then as out before he later branislav ivanovic for everton twice came from behind to draw two to work we're going to space west brom a fourth after beating rock bottom q.p.r. three to arsenal came from behind to win a three wanted west ham to go fifth false ones he came from two goals down to draw

two too much help to reading and champions manchester city remains second after a three no lunchtime win over sunderland ending the visitors and even record. we will be superior to you. i would have very little complete complete obviously as with force. we had possession of the ball we give it away too easily. could have been further trouble before the. for me my spain royal madrid coach chose a merino expect the world to stop and watch his side play at league leaders and not rivals barcelona in sunday's classico champions way out a sixth in the league and eight points behind the council on johns with just six games go on in the new season but marino feels the pressure is on both sides to put up a good show. the old stoke. everybody wants a big much. of

the responsibility. to give them. so. what's the real madrid. they're interested in the course of the. well may want it was a losing debut for you then to send it to me strike up this sound for del piero in the a league as the thirty seven year old new side sydney f.c. lost to know a new zealand side when two phoenix newly signed belgian striker it's a high as the heavens gave the hosts the lead right before the break before teenager in the east end to dive to score a cracking heads every fifteen minutes to go to make it to nil don't care or fail to wipe out his tally down despite a couple of shots on target in d.c. wins capital. now to formula one and two time defending champion sebastian vettel has claimed his fourth pole position of the season as the red bull team dominated

qualifying for sunday's crunch japanese grown prix the twenty five year old was the only driver to record a lap time of under one minute thirty one seconds and this is a new contract that was straining to meet mark webber who also stopped from the front row after coming in second but aaron's jenson button was fastest on the day the britain was demoted to eight spot on the grid of to changing the gearbox well the penalty moves. into third while rome grow shaun. of lotus will complete the second row ferrari's fernando alonso will start six of the spinal cord to defend his twenty nine point overall read ahead of vettel however the german believes he can bridge that gap. a look couldn't really ask for more the car felt fantastic from the start i think we didn't have the best start to the week and your for the morning i wasn't very happy but then we seem to get better every time we go out so very pleased with the result very happy the car feels fantastic around here and i

was able to pick up a little bit overnight so all in all i think came together nicely and. hope for a very good race tomorrow. now on to tennis and world number two maria sharapova is set to face top ranked victoria azarenka in the final of the china open after both spencer in straight sets her up from three one down in the first set against a local start nalini and then the french open champion never looked back securing a six four six love win. shrugged off a slow start to outlast marion bartoli six four six two and the belorussian will be hoping to extend take good form again after beating the russians in the last five hardcore battles between the two. while in the men's draw top seed novak djokovic will play a third seed joe will meet somewhere in the final to serve in our last job is probably a lie in straight sets six one six four and french secured a spot in the decider after his spanish opponent if they are low threat we tied in

the second set due to a left wrist injury. he's going. to top. of that he's been cruising a couple retirements but you know it was. serving big school it's open you know it's finals we'll see we'll see what happens when we were in japan while number three andy murray smashed his racquets during an epic defeat at the hands of big serving milosz rail mich. limburg and u.s. open champion lost a game and his tent in the second set as she went on to win however radio niche prevailed in the decider as the canadian blasted a total of thirteen aces and sealed the deal with another. mari returned it long ago crushing at six three six seven seven six after almost three hours on fourth final round it took a local favorite paying for it with fresh and that is six two six two. and finally

to basketball where you're only run is that says moscow are preparing for the season with a much changed roster and a new italian head coach authority messina legal younes has more on the always new recruits. discussed most successful coach of recent times a tour messina is back in the russian capital after three years of absence during this period the team's dominance domestically has continued in a similar trajectory the sisk i would in every league title on offer however in the euro league things weren't as good as in two thousand and six and again two years later when the muscovites led by the tail in coach became champions of the continent they were just seconds away from their seventh ground last year with us because those guys in charge that led the victory sleep into the imperatives hands by the most messina called the team the best in europe last season was that they were the best team because the results through the year. they were i would say i'm

not afraid to use the word to mean. fortunate in this league but the championship is assigned with a single game maybe just one single game can say prevent you from receiving a draw for interviews or. much water has gone under the bridge says the previous season however not only the captain of the boat has lost because he has abandoned ship but also talisman and regular lampert jamal gordon and alex a shred have left a big hole which need to be filled. as a result the political new players were introduced to defense the american trio aaron jackson. called up to hopefully lead to new heights. because it's a great organization with you know all the way from organization to the coaching staff to the players you know obviously. the highest level every year and.

to make the final four and to win the show as well as all the other competitions that we play and so you know it's i consider a great honor to play for a club like this and just try to win. and the team has already won if you try this for susan silverware but still sealed the first call coming from germany well the most recent one the alexander of almost the cup was claimed at the weekend but the club's ultimate goal is to conquer europe once again and with the new faces involved it would surely be missing his biggest chimes which. don't agree on. more school. and that's. why.

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