but. look. at this stage is a total and complete disaster let's get with it get out of afghanistan we will also expand with our american armed forces which. does a total u. turn on his repeated pledge to quit downtown the song now bombing to expunge the military operation van with no deadline with. the president also makes another attempt to hail the u.s. political divide amid claims that both sides are now trying to exploit it for political gain. the u.n. warns of a massive with a billion x.

the deaths in iraq if people are deprived of basic i mean if he has his government forces launch a large scale offensive on the i'm still held city of tyler bomb. three pm here in the russian capital and you're watching aussie international with me thank you aaron good to have you with us. a total disaster that's how donald trump describes the u.s. military campaign in afghanistan during the election with a pledge that he would pull america outs but now he's announced a complete reversal of those plans and instead of getting out he's expounding on what's already there. this destructive cycle of intervention in chaos must finally folks come to an end we will also expand authority for american armed

forces to target the terrorist and criminal networks trump have 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 brandon get 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 row when it came to additional troop numbers that trump preferred to keep it a secret although his administration has already hinted as a boost he also wants nato allies to throw more troops and money into the pot 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 find mohammed runs in from the university of tehran believes that no matter what trump says his policy in afghanistan will be just as that's and his predecessors. 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 now whether trump has changed his mind or he's been forced to change his mind. i don't know but i think 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 permanent presence in afghanistan he will remain there he

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 a major change in u.s. military strategy in afghanistan be at comes amid a shakeup in donald trump in a circle his controversial chief strategist steve bannon was the latest ahead through the exit door and escape moping 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 a lecture is it pledges of more wars or the opposite we've been moving from one wrecked was divergent to another in 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

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 even 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 know you ordered a targeted new jersey strike 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 best 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 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 cushion are trump gary gary cohen h.r. mcmaster paul these are all very pro-war people and those are closest

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 week and he's 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 her face up. to.

the. now one of the sides has upped the ante by launching a petition on the white house website calling for anti fire to be declared a terrorist organization more than two hundred thousand people have already signed in just five days and now the administration has to issue a response artie's jacqueline looks at how the opposing sides have turned to 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 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 near enough the attack in 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 the city of seattle into a battleground or 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 that we really never saw an. what was going on in the streets i think frankly much of the media focused. 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 with the present 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 trump this tablature 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. . ok let's go back to our top story now that said donald trump's new strategy in afghanistan we can discuss this further with our guest a political analyst john that mr raines thank you for joining us on the program

it's very good to see you now trump was always extremely critical of obama as policy in afghanistan how can we forget but now he's doing the exact opposite of what he personally promised so do you think we will see a grace a military presence and then now. i think it's going to be marginal i think it's somewhat interesting the point you just brought up in that he tweeted on a regular basis that he wanted to pull out of afghanistan and what happens is that when you actually get into the job you find the reality is very different from where it was when you were campaigning so i think maybe a marginal change are certainly going to see probably in any where the neighbor of three to four thousand more troops there a little bit more forward presence but overall pretty much the same as what we saw under the last few years of the obama administration and it's been sixteen years since the u.s. sent to afghanistan huge sums of money have been involved but in that time the taliban has actually gained more ground so how is that happened.

well i think it's i mean any time you go from one hundred thousand troops a thousand troops you're certainly going to have less folks on the ground to be able to kind of thwart any kind of offensive done by the taliban and so i think that's part of the issue i think it's also very difficult for the u.s. to be able to make the afghan army what it probably originally envisions very difficult project and spin a lot harder than they originally thought it was going to be but nonetheless i mean certainly this is to counter some of those things at least keep it in a holding pattern so you can actually develop further strategies down the road are you optimistic that chung will be able to improve the situation i think it's going to be difficult i think that you have to entrenched into t's there you have the government and the taliban and it seems at this point no one's really willing to give ground of course without any u.s. support whatsoever i think the taliban would certainly have a distinct advantage there but with u.s. support you pretty much have a stalemate going forward so ultimately i think most folks in washington realize there's going to have to be some kind of political settlement here the question is

does this help you along that path there is one u.s. senator has voiced quite an interesting suggestion as to why american troops should stay out of the country let's just take a listen to remind ourselves what he said. we want to be invest in afghanistan i mean the kind of put it bluntly so that what happens in afghanistan stays in afghanistan the right is spillover effect into a nuclear armed pakistan or other nations in the region there so that we have a what happens in afghanistan should stay in afghanistan that's what he said now trump was also critical of pakistan in his speech yesterday hinting at the widespread terrorism that do you think has a chance that the u.s. will decide to expand its presence in the region to pakistan for instance i think it's going to be quote somewhat difficult i mean we have seen isolated air strikes in pakistan in the path that possibly will occur in the future any kind of major military incursion into pakistan be extremely difficult nuclear power has a pretty healthy and sizable army on its own so i think that's probably unlikely

but of course you could see isolated airstrikes absolutely what are your thoughts on the critics who say that the u.s. has already lost afghanistan well i you know i guess i guess it depends on your definition of lost i mean i think last would be a situation like vietnam or basically you're pulling up and you have a situation where the government is just about to fall i don't think we're at that you know that you know i don't think we're there yet by any stretch of the imagination but i mean i think there's a big question which is that when donald trump said we're not winning in afghanistan i think that's probably the more relevant question there last not quite yet but i mean they're certainly not at the point where they're expanding their presence in the areas where the taliban has really firm control i found on those message on reins and u.s. political analyst thank you for your time thanks for joining us on our international. good to be with you. well u.s. airstrikes in the syrian city of raka cape raising questions we were feel the reaction of the u.n.

to a recent ad bombardment after this short break stay with us. seems wrong. but we all just don't. get to see how it just didn't come out to. engagement because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

the feeling of. every. experience. that you get on the old low. according to just. come true the. hello welcome back the u.n. has expressed deep concern over reports of at least forty civilians who have been killed in u.s. led bombing raid in the i still held syrian city of raka yong a galon who is an adviser to the u.n. special envoy to syria told us the loss of civilian life is common in urban warfare . 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 of very many. looks of the heavy price of billions of paying in iraq operation and in a similar operation in iraq to. well just to bring everyone up to speed racket was once considered the capital of isis in syria and for many months now it has been besieged by the u.s. led coalition and its local allies in syria and it has been a brutal siege not a week goes by without reports of not civilian casualties and this last week has been no exception the u.s. led coalition is accused of killing forty civilians in an airstrike and that's a conservative estimate there are more people believed to be still buried under the

rubble we've contacted the coalition asking them to comment on this matter and they said that they take reports of civilian casualties very seriously in the that they're investigating but you know if confirmed then if their previous responses are anything to go by we'll hear more apologies some regret condolences and we'll see more like the war will change we all remember the horrendous price paid by civilians in mosul during the city's liberation there's talk of as many as twenty thousand dead killed by isis and killed by the u.s. led coalition by the iraqi military in ceaseless airstrikes they kept apologizing saying how sorry they were they regretted the loss of civilian life but the bombs kept raining down and the civilian death toll kept mounting it's happening again

this time just west of mosul in an area known as fatah which the iraqi military says it is determined to retake from isis and whom i love the town of telephone 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 as with mosul that pounding california with all. they've got missiles strikes artillery tanks the sorts of weapons that don't discriminate between isis fighters and civilians now consider that in the middle of this hell there are forty thousand civilians according to the u.n. and the situation is desperate food medicine even drinking water becoming a luxury and the u.n. is warning that there's a real exodus thousands of civilians or expected to flee from iraq still

a four and surrounding communities during the iraqi military operation there's little doubt that isis intel or fire will be defeated but the cost will be tremendous the iraqi military and the u.s. led coalition have shown time and time again that it is a price they consider worth paying. you know in a gallon again who also works as the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council told us about the horrific conditions for civilians fleeing california. they know we rescue council we are in the first line really of reception of civilians from tel afar conditions of horrific forty five degrees celcius mid day people have to go through long areas from a mixtape you know control these people are really caught in a horrific crossfire urban warfare and especially air raids

are always massively risking civilian casualties. 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 you know be yaki was believed to have been the driver of a van that plowed into more than one hundred people along a major pedestrian a street in the city pantry looks looks back at how the story did evolved. 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 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 driving in a van that went along la rambla right in the heart of barcelona hitting at pedestrians nothing them down we're searching people died and over one hundred twenty were injured he then fled on foot through korea which is the main and famous market just awful around and police have been hunting him ever since meanwhile later in the evening there was also an attack in count brill's 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 promenade where a woman was later died meantime the police there and 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 our canal which is also one of the coastal towns where they've been an explosion and several men have 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 say can 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. an ad campaign for a smoothie in austria has caused controversy after its developers decided to add migrants into the mix. once again i'm calling for a boycott of true fruits i think that's very very wrong for big profits they're ready to promote the product by all means principle is that. i think this is politically incorrect here in australia unfortunately seventy five percent of australians associate the color of brown with good luck the extreme right. cannot

find anything bad in this shit must be used and. some of you worried or annoyed probably out of ignorance and or simple stupidity we could have turned to the right other come from the right and celebrate our campaign for wrong reasons and or from stupidity you could have just said ok that was a bad idea robin out of the campaign and fired it be our agency but no you go on. as if it is all just say this bill bill does not have any impact on me it does not look nice at all i've seen it in the newspaper but i don't have any feelings about it is new ok nice but that's it. in times like those we have today when the point i see between people is getting stronger and when we have so many problems with

people from different nations i don't think the slogan should be put on a billboard. now so i can take brandy compas being arrested in an investigation over a huge embezzlement case was easily put trying to has a story first we heard about the arrest of career from his lawyer and then shortly came the official statement from the investigative committee that looks into high profile criminal cases in this country carol burnett called is suspected of embezzling more than one million you was dollars of government funds that were allocated for production in his theatre it is called the gogle center and it has been a magnet for fans of contemporary art in moscow since the director took charge in two thousand and twelve so now. will have to appear in court where he could face up to ten years behind bars the man is indeed

a prominent director in this country he has received multiple prizes and awards both at home and abroad for his theater works and filmmaking besides this there has been a perception that he is an outspoken critic of the kremlin from the messages that he said through his works of art and interviews this lead to critics of the sub coming calling it a politicized one so let's just see what happens in court what kind of evidence comes up and what his lawyers will have to say. now back in about thirty minutes with more news in the meantime to get in touch and show you both on the day's stories my father has them facebook and on twitter. with this manufactured consensus still to the public will. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the famous

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