trump does a total u. turn on his campaign pledge to quit afghanistan now vowing to expand the bill with no deadline for withdrawal. from the polls or makes another attempt to heal the us political divide that made claims both sides are trying to exploit it for political gain. of a massive civilian exodus iraq with people deprived of basic communities as government forces launch a large scale offensive on the city. after

. one here in the russian capital thanks for watching the national with me. i would total disaster that's how donald trump described the u.s. military campaign in afghanistan during the election with a pledge to pull american troops out now he's announced a complete reversal of those plans 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. had previously been hugely critical of obama's approach to afghanistan even calling him stupid in the past he welcomed and even insisted on a speedy withdrawal saying it was time for american soldiers to come home trump was

adamant that obama's financial support for afghanistan was wrong branding it's a waste of money but that was all before he was elected president now he's in the oval office it's a very different picture american troops might now be stuck there indefinitely with the commander in chief giving no deadlines for any withdrawal when it came to additional troop numbers trump prefer to keep it a secret although his administration had already hinted at a boost he also wants nato allies to throw more troops and money into the pot we will ask our nato allies and global portman's to support our new strategy with additional troop and funding increases in line with their own we are confident they will say it from the university of tehran believes no matter what trump says his policy in afghanistan will be just as that under his previous ones. well trump has flip flopped on so many different issues that it's really nothing new to to say

that he's flip flopped here he is now pursuing a policy that the obama administration was pursuing there's no real difference he's trying to make it a bit different but what is clear is that under the trump regime the united states will have a can permanent presence in afghanistan it will remain there it will increase its presence in the country and it will not do it in the name of nation building he will do it in the name of striking out at paris but it's really the same thing and the major change in u.s. military strategy in afghanistan comes amid a shakeup in normal trumps in a circle his controversial chief strategist steve bannon was the latest ahead through the exit doors and it scared him open reports the president's foreign policy decisions with his new team might now surprise the very people who voted him

into the oval office so you want to be an american president what gets you aleck to is it pledges of more wars or the opposite we've been moving from one wrecked was intervention to another kinda libya syria irak 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 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 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 you got it they even gave obama the nobel peace prize preemptively but by the time he left office he had droned bombed and intervened 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. life 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 help think out and develop trump 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 deuce are all very pro-war people and those are trumps close advisors i think that most people who support trump hope that he'll 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. now critics claim drums also used his major policy speech on afghanistan as damage control from his previous from marx about they believe 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 confrontations over the weekend between groups on the right and on the left. how do you phrase going to tell me about it was. the. thought was. i think. we have. one of the signs has upped the ante by launching a petition on the white house website calling for it 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. how the opposing sides have turned divisions into a tool for political gain political 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 bannon gorka in 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 and action without historical parallel but violent extremism within political groups is far from a new thing for the us 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 knew nothing at. i can virginia both motive and blame were placed 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 when the city of seattle into a battleground for protesting a world trade organization conference. right by what some may today branded the left work exactly used by the right to make a political statement this was the reaction and that we really never saw any of the 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 stemmed 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 u.c. berkeley does not allow free speech impressions this 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 you 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 trouble their status or it might tell you politically motivated violence is something new but it's not maybe the bigger picture is that 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 united states so now how the movement's organizer in kentucky wrote an article making ten suggestions for what people first says they should leave the property to mano or tease if they don't have any descendants the list also urges readers to record people who make racist comments in the workplace and get them fired we asked tell me about the initiative and also invited to comment from political activist jeffrey klein. one of the later numbers of the ten suggestions was to 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 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 are 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 owing 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 sense to say that what i wrote was they

was was a racist or a 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 clinton nazis we are talking about white supremacy wife that purposely did deal some of the most deadliest types of genocide that our world has ever. thing for i we're not talking about something that's just in a ten a list of things i want to talk about using your hands because nazis are violent against 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 experience even to act like you don't think it divisions in american society was somewhat shuns of the sidelines on monday as millions of all.

the scoring for a rare coast to coast solar eclipse for some politics still overshadowed the celestial spectacular.

in. the u.n. warns of a massive civilian exodus from the iso held city of tal afar iraqi army offensive games with mental health off the brake. thank. you.

i put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. to be the same like them before three of the people. interested always in the water. in the program iraqi forces backed by the u.s. led coalition about the new operation aimed at retaking the city of tal afar that's

been under islamic state controls and twenty four teams in recent weeks the city has been extensively bombed both by iraqi aircraft as well as coalition forces. issued the following ultimatum. and to him 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 announcement the un's humanitarian body issued a statement calling the situation inside the city very tough thousands of civilians are expected to flee the city as a result of the operation there also large numbers reportedly still trapped there the u.n. says there's an acute shortage of basic supplies and medicine. thousands of civilians or expected to flee from iraq's tell of for and surrounding communities during the iraqi military operation earlier we spoke to jan egeland he's an advisor to the u.n.

special envoy for syria also the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council it's all those conditions are horrific for civilians fleeing telefon you know we rescue council we are in the first line really our reception of billions from our conditions are horrific forty five degrees celcius day people have to go through long areas from. you know control these people are really caught in a horrific crossfire urban warfare and especially air raids are always massively risking civilian casualties and other developments the pentagon's now working to declassify it struck targets in mosul where many u.s. bombs failed to explode the movies however at all those with american law which stipulates such details should be kept secret for at least twenty five years u.s. commander in iraq lieutenant general steven townsend says the information could be

vital to help make the city habitable once again every army if you find a repeat of ground you leave a dud. bombs don't go away we'll 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 the 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 there where you through safely i mean these people are not trying to read maps they don't know what really looking at. the un has expressed deep concern over reports that at least forty civilians have been killed in a u.s. led bombing raid and i still held city of raka women and children are said to be

among the dead according to reports the death toll could rise further with people feared trapped on the rubble requested a comment from the u.s. coalition you can see the reply we received here on your screen it says the allegations of civilian casualties are being assessed and that the coalition takes any such reports seriously yeah nagle and who's an advisor to the u.n. special envoy for syria and the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council says many civilians have lost their lives in the us that bombing campaign of raka in which is a heavily dense densely populated town that has been now been bartman from the coalition for a very long time inside the islamic state by this. whole thing as civilians as human shields it is very hard for people to escape. from the remaining enclaves and rucka we know that there are casualties are very many

the has been a history of civilian casualties caused by the coalition bombing campaign and similar sentiments about regrets have been expressed in the past. now the main suspect in thursday's terror attacks in barcelona has been shot dead

by police outside the city man was wearing a fake explosive belt at the time eunice who was believed to have been the driver of a violent plowed into more than a hundred people on a major pedestrian a street in the city and he's paid partridge looks back at how the story unfolded eunice cooper who's twenty two and of moroccan origin has been shot dead in the summer the soviet outs which is about twenty eight miles about forty five kilometers west of barcelona last thursday eunice abuja cooper was one of twelve men it 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 what were several incidents over the course of nine hours first obvious driving in a van that runs along la rambla right in the heart of barcelona hitting at pedestrians nothing in town where social people died and one hundred twenty were injured he then fled on foot is through love a career which is the main and samus market just awful around and police have been

hunting him ever since meanwhile later in the evening there was also an attack in town bilis which is a coastal town not far from barcelona about one hundred twenty miles away where several men. or in a car that rammed it into pedestrians on the promo not where a woman was lasik died meantime the police then five of those men were shot by police they were also wearing what used to be explosive belts but later falls also a day before that being an explosion in and out which is also still 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 and campbell's was when the men subsequently took more actions into their own hands earlier it had been thought the suspect might have fled to france just like christmas market attack a scapegoat it's really all people linked to terrorist acts in paris well in

belgium also the car used to run over people in cumbria was just hours after the barcelona attack had reportedly been spotted in france a week ago jennifer breeder who's an attorney specializing in international law and religious terrorism believes that you use open borders play into the hands of terrorists on the ground. reports have now come out that the barcelona cell has contacts with another cell in another country where the country's not been released we can probably guess it could really be any of the twenty eight european union countries their opinion and specifically can wake up to this reckon wake up to the fact that they've allowed open borders people have not assimilated they've been talking they've been discussing and 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 so for me for that i. bring you more headlines from the wall in just over. with this manufactured consensus to the public will. when the really close is project themselves. with the flaming. lips and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sit. in the. room.

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and salutations there is a dark shadow creeping its way across the land here in the united states and no i'm not talking about magnificent celestial event we saw earlier this week i'm talking about the four hundred military installations crisscrossing the united states some active some long closed whose use of toxic chemicals over the years have contaminated or are suspected of contaminating the grounds and drinking water of the communities that surround them in fact almost forty per day almost forty percent of those military bases the pollution is so severe that the environmental protection agency has declared them super pond sites but but. i thought we cared about our soldiers and the communities that support them i really

did i mean after all the pentagon paid top dollar to the national football league to show us how much we care with all those amazing halftime soldier in the crowd gimmicks and national anthem jetplane stadium flyovers. according to the troubled water investigation from news twenty one the contaminating agents range from toxic paints to explosives to cleaning solvents to firefighting bone lovely but what about the clean up us clean up happening well a research study from the berkeley a school of laws found that even though the d.o.d. is made significant strides in identifying investigating the level of contamination of domestic based sites the pace of actual cleanup has been quite slow as the government of governmental accountability office g.a.o. recently found most of the time and money has been spent studying the problem yes studying the problem to the tune of eleven point five billion taxpayer dollars and

study in cleanup costs so far meanwhile residents living near those four hundred bases in the over three hundred yet to be tested are still drinking bad water while walking on toxic grounds. our military industrial complex my friends the gift that just keeps on giving now and start watching all. of. you that i got. this. week. well there are plenty to watching. for us and that's happening while it's.