still unsure where you're going more so if you pulled me through. it in the hands. of an artsy american fantasy police killed the suspect in barcelona terror attack or shot dead with explosives around his waist earlier today. i would president trump said to address the nation tonight on this plan for afghanistan we take a look back at how the war torn country had been ground zero between the east and west for decades. and ten u.s. sailors are missing after a u.s. destroyer collides with an oil tanker in the asian pacific a fourth major sea accident involving a u.s. vessel this year.

it's monday august twenty first four pm in washington d.c. i'm natasha sweet and you're watching our america well president trump is that to outline a new path forward in afghanistan tonight deepening u.s. military involvement in the country what's expected to be a troop increase will be announced just following a major shake up on the president's advisory team with senior white house counsel steve baron and execute the administration just last week and while the war in afghanistan has been officially waged since two thousand and one are to corresponding on your palm poll explains how the u.s. has been involved in the country for decades. the united states began openly meddling and ask an affair is in nine hundred seventy nine with the introduction of operations like clinton a cia trained equipped program and assisting the afghan mujahedeen in their fight against the soviet allied democratic republic of afghanistan the program that was

one of the most expensive in cia history spanning ten years it initially budgeted twenty to thirty million dollars a year to back the fighters by nine hundred eighty seven as that number rose to six hundred thirty million dollars a year why was it worth spending a billion dollars to deceit a democratically elected government the programs godfather former national security advisor to president carter zbigniew brzezinski once said its purpose was to believe the soviets and it's a decision he never regretted us national security advisor brzezinski pluto pockets song set about rallying resistance he wanted to arm the mujahedeen without revealing america's row. on the afghan border in the other type of pa. the soldiers of god to redouble their efforts we know their deep belief in god the day we are confident that their struggle will succeed the very gentle but the stuff

that does will help us live on on. that's the land over there is yours you'll go back to it once it goes your feist will prevail and you'll have your homes in your mosque back again because your cause is right and god is on your side. the purpose of organizing with pakistan's would be to make the soviets bleed. and joining us special relationship with washington the mujahideen was successful in both toppling the afghan government and draining the soviet union which crumbled in one thousand nine hundred one one maine fighter celebrated throughout the war for his dedication to the cause was osama bin ladin who would later found al qaeda in one nine hundred eighty eight the collapse of the country brought on three u.s. involvement resulted in civil war throughout the one nine hundred ninety s. the various warlords and jihadi groups battled for control of the country with the

taliban taking power in one nine hundred ninety six the taliban which also emerged out of the us back to john howard dean offered haven to bin laden and al qaida which infamously attacked new york city and washington d.c. on september eleventh two thousand and one that's right bin laden attacked the very country which once supported him as a freedom fighter so when the u.s. invaded afghanistan in retaliation on october seventh two thousand and one u.s. involvement in the country may have been something new to americans but for afghans it was the escalation of a policy in place for decades and twenty fourteen president obama celebrated the end of the combat mission in the country but as we here in the united states anticipate president trumped announcement of a troop increase tonight it should become more and more evident a war which has been waged for decades still has no end in sight and with no obvious goal in washington on a par until r.t.

and for more insight on the president's upcoming announcement we bring in michael maloof former pentagon official thanks so much for joining us today and so what is your take on president trump do you think he's going to ask for more troops and also will he try to work with other countries who you think will be invested in afghanistan's future as well i think the likelihood is that he will ask for more troops estimates are up to around five thousand that's what the going rate is right now this minute in terms of working with. the country's that is my personal hope and expectation that he can do that because the other countries surrounding afghanistan have a very vested and historical interest in afghanistan up until now there hasn't been all that much consultation which is surprising i know the russians for example have a working group on afghanistan the united states has been invited a number of times and the united states has turned down the russians on this and that that is just not the way you go about trying to bring some because all those

countries have a vested interest in the future of afghanistan from economic political to even military and i think one of the things we may see is the possibility of him trump hardening his position toward pakistan which has been a refuge until now for the afghan pakis afghan taliban which pakistan actually created to go into afghanistan years ago yeah i know a lot of times when they're short on men over there they can easily get somebody just across the border from pakistan to you know basically reload their troops so it's definitely an issue it's a refuge and i think one of the things you might see which is occurred in the past is hot pursuit just to go in pakistan notwithstanding any of the issues that pakistan may have about that but that would be legitimate if they're running from.

attack and in that regard i think we might also see a lessening on the rules of engagement they've been very strict until now hot pursuit for example into pakistan has not been allowed we have under the obama administration we did do some drone attacks and that created tremendous consternation but if you're actually going after a unit of taliban that might be allowed now before it was not you think pakistan would be willing to work with the u.s. in any capacity well it depends upon the level. the i.s.i. which is their intelligence service actually runs the the afghan taliban and they would be loath to have that happen at the more political level politically pakistan is in turmoil right now and the question is who has the most influence and and whether the united states can actually do anything and make headway i think what we what's really intriguing is that all the countries involved

with afghanistan from pakistan to china to to russia to iran to india they're all members of the shanghai cooperation organization they should be all convening together in meeting them and trying to figure out the problem of pakistan until now it's been a nato issue and because israel been a reluctance for nato countries to come back in after sixteen plus years it has all of a sudden become an american war all over again and we're stuck with it and. president trump has inherited that the question is what can he do to get us out of the conundrum and just sending in five thousand troops doesn't necessarily answer the question you got to engage the others in that otherwise it's just going to continue to sap our our resources which we don't have we don't know the budget for it anymore and we've lost over two thousand soldiers already so this could either become another quagmire which under under trump or if we can get more of the cooperation from the other countries i think that will benefit us all it's going to

take more diplomacy right do you think you'll have more strategy with the help that he has in the administration right now as opposed to just you know sending more troops do you think there'll be more strategy behind it this time i think there's going to be a balance i think he's going to i think it could be a hybrid type of thing i think the troops that go in would be do more and will do probably more advise and and train activities but i think you'll also bolster the. counterinsurgency aspects. to cia and bring in the more of the private contractors that actually erik prince wanted for example and so did sort of ban him before he left there i think there would be a hybrid element there that will allow certain amount of contractors combining we have a lot of contractors there already and i think it's about ten times the contractors to the number of troops that are there so it conceivably they could actually conduct the more counterinsurgency operations that would be much more clandestine

and so you're not moving a lot of troops around and that could save something and try to regain territory but then you've got to hold it what's the ultimate goal what's missing here is what's going to be the strategy he needs to outline that in game in his speech tonight and people are wondering well what we've heard so far doesn't this so you reflect a strategy for that endgame as yet and we know that the u.s. has received a lot of heroin in the past from afghanistan that is kind of changing now we're getting it more from mexico nowadays but do you think the heroin. the poppies the plastic the has anything to do with the number of troops that we have over in afghanistan to have any kind of impact on the war at this point no i think it used to we used to have we used to have elements that would go in and try to clear out the poppy fields but that became an issue because there was nothing to replace it with as a cash crop and it didn't bring in the cash that they as much as. they were the other other elements that were. that were subject to agriculture we didn't bring in

the cash crop that that heroin did so and so they basically leveled off but it still is a problem you you still have heroin and what have you going up through central asia into russia so it has another path of business like some of it still comes into the u.s. certainly into europe and it remains a problem but that's not the major focus the major focus is to try to defeat the taliban and that it does. appear to be the case that we have seen as your terms of the strategy and and the question then is how do we preserve that the existing afghan government because if the u.s. were to leave tomorrow which trump actually proposed during the campaign just get out the government will fall within days. your time thank you so much for and as always it was michael maloof former pentagon official. spanish regional police say the suspect a driver behind last week's parcel in a van attack has been shot dead and for the latest we cross live to our teams were

important in miami the marine of the suspect had been the subject of a massive manhunt since thursday's attack which left thirteen dead and more than one hundred twenty people wounded how did spanish police locate this the suspect well early monday morning catalan police released an image of eunice abeokuta but to the public identifying him as a suspect in last week's terror attack on less wrong last hours later police tweeted that an operation was under way in super azza town roughly thirty miles west of barcelona authorities asked people in the area not to broadcast the location of checkpoints as a security operation was ongoing local reports say twenty two year old abeokuta was shot as he approached a police vehicle according to some spanish media the bomb disposal unit deployed a robot at the scene to inspect what they thought was an explosive belt worn by the

alleged suspects abeokuta is believed to be part of a twelve member cell responsible for the deadliest terror attack in spain in thirteen years now as coalitions continue battling terror groups like isis the lebanese army scored meijer victories saturday's securing over a dozen of outposts from the islamic state and raising a spanish flag in solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attack in catalonia and marina now we're hearing the barcelona attack was supposed to have multiple targets and a much larger death toll what are you hearing. well according to spanish media the twelve person cell had originally planned to drive the explosives packing vans into a number of tourists hotspots including the famous grotto familia those plans were reportedly thwarted when one of the cells bomb factories one hundred twenty miles south of barcelona accidentally dent detonated inside now this cell was then

allegedly forced to resort to thursday's of an attack in the popular tourist area known as los rum plus as well as the knifing in the seaside town of cumbria brill's the day after no cattle and police say all twelve of the terrorist cell which carried out the attack are either dead or in custody however authorities have not yet closed the investigation right in miami for us thank you so much thank you that is authorities have named the main suspect behind friday's terror attack in the city of turku who reportedly moved from germany in late two thousand and fifteen place apparently knew about the suspects possible radicalization a year before the attack artie's peter all over has more from berlin. finnish courts of started giving out more information about their main suspect in friday's deadly stabbing attack deadly knife attack on the streets of the south western city of turd they've named their main suspect is eighteen year old abdel rahman meche

car moroccan national who had according to the authorities failed in an asylum application in finland it's also been revealed though that he had spent time in germany now. is the main suspect as he was shot at the scene following the attack that took place on friday that left two people dead eight more wounded in what authorities are saying is at a time it was designed to target women now it's also being put across is that the it's the first ever terrorist attack that's taken place in vinland it does throw up more questions about one of the key founding principles of the european union that of freedom of movement when we look the. it seems was able to travel from germany where they understood he lived back in twenty fifteen over to finland we don't know the route in which he took but he's he hasn't so far appeared on any. os dorothy's

watch lists along that way before popping up in finland as sad as they say being the main suspect in this fatal attack. coming up on our team ten u.s. sailors are missing after a u.s. destroyer collides with oil tanker in the asian pacific we've got that full story after this short break. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories there are critics can't tell you know why because their advertisers won't let. you know the order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when it's local ration makes

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controversial report focusing on extremist funding in the u.k. this was a report that was commissioned back in twenty fifteen and is largely believed to be focused on saudi arabia's activities and now the nine eleven survivors had sent a letter to theresa may demanding answers we respectfully urge you to release the report now finished and finished we'll show you to consider all the victims of state sponsored saudi finance terrorism and families in the survivors in the u.k. and all over the world the longer saudi arabia's complicity is hidden from sunlight the longer terrorism will continue while the british government has long maintained really for months now that diplomatic relations with saudi arabia have nothing to do with this decision to not reveal the contents of the report they've also said that it's actually reasons of national security as well as private information contained in the report that's keeping them from publishing it and they've also

said that the media has been misinterpreting this relationship with saudi arabia when it comes to this report let's take a listen to what theresa may had to say on this at some point bush explained her refusal is simply because the contents of the report would embarrass the government's friends in saudi arabia or is it because ministers care rather more about arm sales to riyadh than they do about public safety. it is absolutely nothing to do with that there is there is certain confidential information in the reports that means that it would not be appropriate to publish it but my right shoulder from the home secretary has made it available on a pretty council basis to opposition parties well we have to keep in mind that despite the british government and the home office particularly saying that saudi arabia is not in fact the focus of this secret report and it's in fact something that looks at overseas funding in general. criticism really have been running rampant about the british government would have released this report if they had nothing to hide physically these nine eleven survivors from the sense this letter

in the latest week see the contents of this decision of the british government. really believing that it's a special relationship that the u.k. has long had with saudi arabia this marriage of convenience cozy relationship that has led to decide to not reveal this information again and again we have to say that obviously this is something that the british government denies but does have quite a history of protecting the special relationship they have with saudi arabia the u.s.s. john f. mccain came back to port but ten if not the navy destroyer rammed into oil tanker just east of singapore the collision with a tanker ripped through the destroyers hole causing flooding in some areas of the ship including the crew sleeping quarters the navy dispatched the u.s.s. america to singapore to aid in searching for the ten missing sailors at least five sailors were injured it's the second such incident this summer seven u.s. sailors died in a crash off the coast of japan and. the

national weather service in sterling virginia has issued a special memory warning for chesapeake bay from drum point it would just move point virginia chesapeake bay from north beach to drum point maryland and river to cambridge maryland in the middle child and river banks and river to booms i remember him ten years out in the inland waters surrounding bloodsworth island until six fifteen pm for nineteen pm a strong thunderstorm was located near port tobacco river moving used it in months . hazard wind gusts thirty four knots or greater and small. source radar indicated impact boaters and small craft could be thrown overboard by suddenly higher winds and waves capsizing their vessel locations and past include coupled creek greenwell

state park down creek cooper island light drum point calvert cliffs solomons island the targets richland point and brooms island frequent lightning is occurring with the storm cloud on the open water stay below deck if possible way from ungrounded metal objects. griese slowly cooling the volcano the team hopes that given enough time in this process will take enough heat from the volcano to prevent it from ever erupting according to the b.b.c. brian wilcox a former member of the nasa advisory council on planetary defense talked about the actual devastation that could come from an eruption and the risky techniques that the agency is considering for preventing one including ways that could potentially set one off the possible plan would drill into the bottom of the yellowstone volcano using high pressure water to release heat from the magma chamber but wilcox said this could be very risky he told the b.b.c. this could make the cap over the magma chamber more brittle and prone to fracture

and you might trigger the release of harmful volatile gases in the magma at the top of the chamber which would otherwise not be released all over nasa is considering other plans it seems that cooling down the volcano could work even though it's a risky process and it's not cheap either the plan would be around an estimated four point five billion dollars reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. well that's it for now for more on the stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash or to america also check out our web site our fourth last america you can follow me on twitter at josh just tweet question what are. you guys and i made a professional is power point you are to america it's the greater media landscape our tears not laughter all right we are a solid alternative to the we don't skew liberal or conservative and as you can see from this bar graph we don't skew the facts either talking you have left these talking head right oh there you go. to look at world is in the spotlight now every

lead might have no idea how to classify as and it actually took me way more time than i care to admit. there. the democrats are having a rough time of it let me just say out of the gate i feel really bad for them i hate to see a fight so and evenly matched i mean it's their own fault for having lost the election and the white house which they should've been able to walk right into but still it's pretty ugly out there for the blue team and it just got a little worse because now even c.n.n. senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny is saying that the democratic party has no leader and is in complete disrepair and as the reg he was on a panel talking about possible candidates the democrats could run in two thousand

and twenty now that might sound preposterous to people outside of politics like twenty twentieth's so far away we just got through with twenty sixteen but considering how listless the democrats are right now i think it's mission critical for them to be thinking about how to run because three years flies by fast especially in washington so on the panel delany actually admitted that the democrats are math and that the party needs someone to look at that's new not old and he said the democrats can be laughing all they want about these poll numbers for donald trump but the reality is the democrats are in complete disrepair and disarray in their own party and that there's no leader there of course is that donald trump not president trump because this was still c.n.n. after all but it was great that c.n.n. senior correspondent actually admitted something obvious anyway but then the panel also moronically discuss the candidates the democrats have already seem to live up

and they exemplify exactly where the unease that the dems should not do because so far. the dems have. harris cory booker and deval patrick for possible candidates in two thousand and twenty and these are all extreme examples of the old not the new harris has gotten donations from steve menuchin who she refused to prosecute magically when she was attorney general in california so then i said there bugger has ridiculous ties to wall street and actually has defended mitt romney's bain capital on the record and patrick actually works for bain capital how are any of these people supposed to represent what the democratic party is supposed to represent they don't that's the end there and these are the people they're lobbying up to run against donald trump who took down a clinton so yeah that when he got it right about the dems being

a mess for the sake of a fair fight i hope they reach a little deeper all way from the deep state for their twenty twenty candidate and i hope they do it soon because like it or not the clock is already taken. people have got to know whether or not fair present or support american people deserve to know at this point does it mean a guard against the military industrial complex. we shall never. or should know that there is still yes we do but we must think. future doesn't hurt.

all the future we don't need something. every in the world should experience. and you'll get the old the old. the old according to just. come along for the. budget.