president says a total u. turn on his campaign pledge to quit afghanistan now vowing to expand the military operation in the country and proclaiming the us. president also makes another attempt to heal the u.s. political divide blames both sides are now trying to exploit it for political gain . and the u.n. a massive civilian exodus in iraq with people the broad base of communities says government forces launched a large scale. city. warning

from moscow just eleven am here in the russian capital you're watching our teams national with me daniel hawkins now a disaster how donald trump described the u.s. military campaign in afghanistan during the election with a pledge should pull america out but now he's out with a complete reversal of those plans and instead of getting out he's expanding what's already there. this destructive cycle of intervention and chaos must finally folks come to an end we will also expand authority for american armed forces to target the terrorist and criminal networks let's take a look at what this new strategy involves the u.s. president gave no deadlines for any withdrawal saying u.s. troops will fight to win regardless of how long it will take when it came to additional troops there was no talk of numbers although he said ministration has

previously hinted at a boost and that more nato allies are now welcome to join the club we will ask our nato allies and global partners to support our new strategy with additional troop and funding increases in line with our own we are confident they will. achieve has already welcomed trump's new strategy but some field trump will achieve nothing more than his predecessors that. sixteen years and counting the afghan war continues to rage with. over a trillion dollars that have been pumped into this war including eighty billion. afghan forces there are over eight thousand u.s. soldiers in the country. barack obama's troop numbers there from a peak of nearly one hundred thousand obama campaigned on a promise to bring american troops home and repeatedly said he does not support the

idea of quote. we've heard pretty much the same from trump as world goodwill in the policy of intervention and as he puts it must come to an end we will destroy radical islamic terrorists took over a mess. we're going to. make it a lot less messy putting to some reports the taliban are in control of between ten and forty percent of the country out of four hundred troops the taliban dominates forty eight three more than in june that what he's really talking about is a kind of a surge like we saw in anbar province in iraq that at least temporarily superficially stabilize the situation and many people here in america want to say great we have now achieved the victory and of course we hadn't achieved any kind of victory we've simply kept a lid on things for a while but the fact the matter is that afghanistan whether the current government stays in place or whether the taliban when will be

a hard line intolerant sharia ruled government really the united states has been has been for the as long as we've been in afghanistan fighting to make afghanistan for sharia and this doesn't change that a major change in u.s. military strategy in afghanistan comes amid a shake up in donald trump's in a circle as controversial chief strategist steve was the latest the head through the exit doors and i skated more per reports the president's foreign policy decisions with his new team surprise the very people who voted him into the oval office. so you want to be an american president what gets you elected is it pledges of more wars or the opposite we've been moving from one reckless intervention to another kinda libya syria iraq iran this destructive cycle bad decisions we cannot be the policeman of the world polls show that promises of peace

were key for trump voters more than half of americans said that they would prefer that the next president curb u.s. involvement in military conflicts and trump isn't the only president to have gotten the job of writing hopes of peace but as we confront a vicious adversary that abides by no rules i believe the united states of america must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. that is what makes us different from those whom we fight he got it they even gave obama the nobel peace prize preemptively by the time he left office he had drawn a bond that intervenes even more than his predecessor many hoped that the donald would make a difference however it looks like he may be set on a similar track with words of love being replaced by war and i don't order a targeted new jersey story or if you can see who we are sending an armada very powerful we have submarines very powerful we have

many options for venezuela including a possible military option north korea. not make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see but thinking out of policy is pretty far from a one man job here are some of the people who helped think out and develop strategy you know the one that got him elected well they're all gone except for one meanwhile the white house routinely invites people who have a pretty clear interest for wars to go on people voted for trump because they knew hillary clinton was a warmonger and that she had wanted to destabilize the middle east as she did with libya the people in charge of the white house are now jared kushner trump gary gary cohen h.r. mcmaster paul douceur all very pro-war people and those are trumps close

advisors i think that most people who support trump hope they keep to his promises but they do recognize that all of his closest advisors are now opposed to the agenda that got trampled elected yes the new team trump isn't exactly made up of peace mongers and it's pretty far from the vision that americans voted for caleb oppen r.t. new york. critics claim trump's also used his major policy speech on afghanistan as damage control for his previous remarks about deadly violence in charlottesville last weekend is issued a call for unity after he came under fire for his alleged reluctance to single out the role of white supremacists in the clashes divisions in us society resulted in control confrontations over the weekend between groups on the right and on the left was was.

one of the science has upped the ante by launching a petition on the white house website calling for an eighty five to be declared a terrorist organization more than two hundred thousand people have signed in five days and now the administration has to issue a response auntie's jacqueline who looks at how the opposing sides have turned divisions into a tool for political gain. local tensions are reaching new heights in america and both sides of the divide the left and the right are trying to paint the other's most radical violent elements as being the true face of their whole movement. politicians are happy to pour gasoline on the flames as well trump has made it

clear with ban and gore can the white house and the klan in the streets it is now the white supremacists house the hyperball that vitriol from the left has spurred threats amount action without historical power but violent extremism within political groups is far from a new thing for the u.s. except earlier they didn't appear as tools in a political debate take timothy mcveigh a white supremacist who actually blew up a federal building twenty two years ago killing one hundred sixty eight people at the time politicians draw a line between his political leanings and his actions motives to me of course is irrelevant no political motive is worth the life of a child or an innocent human being so this appears to be a domestic terrorist act but that sentiment of motive being irrelevant is suddenly no more nowadays after the recent neo nazi attack in virginia both motive and blame will place at the feet of president trump by the mayor of charlottesville he should look in the mirror and he made a choice in his presidential campaign the folks around with them to you know go

right to the gutter to play on our worst prejudices and i think you are seeing a direct line from what happened here this weekend to those choices the same goes for the other side in one thousand nine hundred nine some forty thousand anti-globalization the city of seattle into a battleground protesting a world trade organization conference. right by what some may today branded the left were exactly used by the right to make a political statement this was the reaction and we really never saw any. excitement that was going on in the streets and i think frankly much of the media focus my attention on what was going on on the streets from the fact that most of the serious meetings were going on behind closed doors a similar left leaning crowd wreaked havoc in berkeley earlier this year and scale it failed to match samples events and the political outrage had a very clear target what the president timing and as well. if you see the does not

allow free speech impressions does violence on innocent people with a different point of view no federal funds this is been kind of an evolution of things throughout the past i'd say two or three presidencies where it's easier to divide people and make them feel like everyone again is against them on the opposite party so when you start playing with identity politics and start looping in hate groups with that identity politics game it's not going to go away and it's not something that started with trump it's not something sadly that i think will end with this thomas or it might tell you politically motivated violence is something new but it's not maybe the bigger picture is it's just now being exploited for political gain. r.t. washington d.c. . a black lives matter activist has come up with a solution to racial inequality in the u.s. should the movement organize a talk you wrote an article she made suggestions for white people the first says they should leave the property to minorities if they have any descendants. reduce

the record of people who make racist comments in the workplace and get them fired we spoke to hell about the initiative and also invited comment from political activist. one of the later numbers of the ten suggestions was chew essentially seek out nazis in the workplace and get them fired and the word nazi has been so watered down lately that i don't think anybody really knows what it means anymore let's remember where the word nazi even comes from it comes from germanic people who are who proclaim to like have the superior race that's what white supremacy is that's what white supremacy is in the us we are talking about a systemic economic barriers that prevent black and brown people black and brown people who were already on this land from even up painting really and in various different rays the main issue we're talking about here is there's black people who've never been slaves asking. for money from white people who've never owned

slaves and so it's difficult for me to be able to wrap my brain around somebody something when i clearly don't owe them anything and the notion that the that the list of ten things wasn't racist when it's when all it's doing is talking about race the list is essentially implying that black and brown people are incapable of achieving economic growth and as a result white people need to give them economic advantages i think it's very racist against black and brown people to essentially tell them they're not capable of this i think that is dangerous in this since to say that what i wrote was doing was was a racist or dangerous because it wasn't in the least none of what i wrote was dangerous in the least i think was dangerous is the backlash that i am personally receiving from it in one of the points you even say something to effect of you have hands colin use them very much harkening back to this overused phrase

right now about punching nazis and we talk about nazis and plenty nazis we are talking about white supremacy why is the perfectly good deal some of the most deadly is. that our world has ever think we're not talking about something that's just a list of things i want to talk about using your hands because nazis are violent it's perpetuating a lot of this racial tension it's furthering the divide between races which i think if anything we should be trying to come together and it is encouraging some level of violence and it's very naive to act like you don't think it. divisions in american society was somewhat shunted to the saw as of monday as millions of onlookers turned the sky for a coast to coast solar eclipse for some politics still overshadowed the celestial spectacular.

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to shape out these days become active. engagement equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to the program iraqi forces backed by the u.s. led coalition of outs the new operation aimed at retaking the city of tal afar it's been under that is that it controls state control rather since two hundred fourteen in recent weeks the city has been extensively bombed both by iraqi aircraft as well as coalition forces on sunday iraqi prime minister how to out of body issued the

following ultimatum and the town of tal afar will be next in the march of liberation the heroic security forces preparing to liberate this region i say to islamic state you have a choice surrender or die we. are following that out some of the un's humanitarian body issued a statement they call the situation inside the city very tough thousands of civilians are expected to flee the city as a result of the operation while there are also large numbers reportedly still trapped inside the u.n. says there's an acute shortage of basic supplies and medicine. thousands of civilians or expected to flee from iraq's tella far and surrounding communities during the iraqi military operation. we spoke earlier to get egeland who's an advisor to the u.n. special envoy for syria and the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council he told us conditions are horrific for civilians fleeing. they know which in refugee council we are in the first line really of reception of said billions from

our conditions horrific forty five degrees celsius day eight people have to go through long areas from. state. control these people are really courts and i think across urban warfare and especially air raids are always massively risking civilian casualties in other developments the pentagon is now working to declassify it struck targets in mosul where many u.s. bombs failed to explode the movies however with american law that's the plate such details should be kept secret for at least twenty five years the u.s. commander in iraq and senate general stephen townsend says the information could be vital to help make the city habitable once again every army if you fight over

a piece of ground you leave a dot bombs don't go off will find a way to help them i think it is a public relations exercise to try and show that they're taking new issues civilian . lives seriously so should send in a military engineers to try and search for the unexploded ordinance and move it out and they will of course have the coordinates in the maps and they're stupid that's much more important than just publishing the coordinates and relying on civilians to somehow works their way through safely i mean these people are not trained to read maps they don't know what they're going to looking out. live to syria now where at least forty civilians have reportedly been killed in a u.s. led bombing raid in the isolate held city of raka that's according to local sources women and children are said to be among the dead according to reports the death toll could rise further as many people are feared to be trapped under the rubble

and r.t. has requested comment from the u.s. coalition you can see the reply we received just on your screen it says the allegations of civilian casualties are being assessed and that the coalition takes any such reports seriously however international law professor says but the very presence of the coalition forces in syria raises a lot of questions issue of gross negligence which is equivalent off a willful misconduct is a major. factor in any country any group any entity that. resort to violence. within state without the approval of the government of that state is operating on very thin ground and they don't coordinate with people on the ground with. a part of the first place and apparently they don't have even among their own

friends they don't have reliable information to avoid making major mistakes there has been a history of civilian casualties caused by the coalition's bombing campaign and similar sentiments have been expressed in the past.

ok back to our news coming in at least thirty three people have been injured after a high speed train crash that one of the busiest terminals in the u.s. state of pennsylvania a commuter train slammed into the back of an empty train just outside the city of philadelphia that took place shortly after midnight the driver is among those injured all of those are believed to be non-life threatening because of the incident is under investigation. now the main suspect in thursday's terrorist attack in barcelona has been shot dead by police outside the city the man was wearing a fake explosive belt at the time eunice who was believed to have been the driver of a van plowed into more than one hundred people along a major pedestrian a street in the city auntie's k. partridge looks back at how the story unfolded. eunice cooper who's twenty two and of moroccan origin has been shot dead in the suburb of soviet outs which is about twenty eight miles about forty five kilometers west of barcelona last thursday

eunice abuja coupe was one of twelve managed appears in this terrorist cell that police are now saying has been in some ways neutralized in other ways they have been detained but there still is an ongoing investigation looking for any other accomplices they performed well with several incidents over the course of nine hours first driving in a van that runs along la rambla right in the heart of barcelona hitting at pedestrians nothing and so sheen people died and one hundred twenty were injured he then fled on foot is through love a career which is the main and famous market just off the ground and police have been hunting him ever since meanwhile later in the evening there was also an attacking countability which is a coastal town not far from barcelona about one hundred twenty miles away where several men were in a car that rammed into pedestrians on the promo not where a woman was later died meantime the police then five of those men were shot by police they were also wearing what police believed to be explosive belts which were later proved to be false also a day before that been an explosion in

a house in alcoa which is also one of the coastal towns where they've been an explosion and several men died there too and they're also believed to be part of this terrorist cell and also there is a belief by police and in the reports coming out that a gas explosion a bigger explosion was meant to be second place in the meantime what happened what unfolded in barcelona in campbell's was when the men subsequently took more actions into their own homes. thought the suspect may have fled to frauds just like christmas market at soccer skate italy or people linked to terror attacks and. belgium also the call used to run over people and. the boss. reportedly been spotted in froze just a week ago jennifer brito who's specializing in international law and religious terrorism believes that you use open borders to play into the hands of terrorists on the grow reports have now come out that the barcelona cell has contacts with another cell in another country or that country has not been released we can

probably guess it could really be any of the twenty eight european union countries european union specifically can wake up to this can wake up to the fact that they've allowed open borders people have not assimilated they've been talking they've been discussing with each attack they get smarter and how to subvert national authorities who would try to be investigating to try to listen in to what's going on they're going to know better how to do it secretly in these smaller villages in smaller towns so the threat is still very high there are still many people there that likely had here to radical islamist ideologies and this is information i've gotten from my contacts in the middle east when i travel there these are muslim moderates who are saying you have to fight radical islamic jihad is you have to do that they're trying to sneak into europe and the europeans are not listening to them they're mainly not investigating they're waiting until something happens all in the name of more liberal values. without paying for a smooth schools controversy develop as the saud it's moderates into the mix.

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