stand as a total and complete disaster let's get with it get out of afghanistan we will also expand our american armed force donald trump does a total u. turn on his repeated pledge to quit to afghanistan now vowing to expand the military operation with no plan for withdrawal. the president also makes another attempt to heal the u.s. political divide amid claims both sides are now trying to exploit the divisions for political gain. and the u.n. voices deep concern reports at least forty civilians had been killed in a u.s.

led bombing raid in russia i still stronghold in syria. thank you for joining us you're watching r.t. international with me making air. a total disaster donald trump as a presidential candidate denounce the u.s. military campaign in afghanistan pledging his lead america out if he becomes president but now he's flipping on his promise and actually expanding what's already there began to stand as a total and complete disaster let's get with it get out of afghanistan we will also expand authority for american armed forces to target the terrorist and criminal networks while trampin regularly slammed obama's approach to our. down astonied

even calling on him to get smart trump also insisted on a speedy withdrawal repeating it was time for american soldiers to come home he added a bomb as financial support for afghanistan was a waste of money but that was all of before he was elected president some note saying it's almost as if he's become a completely different person it's now faded pentagon troops that will be stuck there indefinitely with the commander in chief giving no deadlines for any withdrawal when it came to sending additional soldiers chummed chose to keep it a secret although his administration has already hinted at a boost in numbers he also wants nato allies to throw more troops and money into the pot we will ask our nato allies and global borders to support our new strategy with additional troop and funding increases in line with our own we are confident

they will responding to trump statements the german foreign minister has stressed the u.s. should coordinate afghan policy with the e.u. five mohammad marandi from iran's university of tehran believes no matter what trump says the approach to afghanistan won't change from 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 top 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 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. the new announcement on u.s. strategy in afghanistan comes amid a shakeup in donald trump's in a circle his under fire chief strategist steve bannon has become the latest to head for the exits and this kind of open reports the president's foreign policy decisions with his new team may 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 cut 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 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 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. 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 as 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 political analyst john raines told us trump faces a tough challenge not just for not gonna stunt but also in neighboring pakistan. i think it's going to be difficult i think that you have two 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 for it's also very difficult for the u.s. to be able to make the afghan army what it probably originally envisioned it's very difficult project it's been a lot harder than they originally thought it was going to be and we have seen isolated air strikes in pakistan on 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. trauma's being accused of using his big afghan policy announcement as quote damage control for widely criticized mark remarks about the deadly violence in charlottesville last week after the violence he issued a call for unity but was condemned for his alleged reluctance to single out the role of white supremacists in the clashes divisions in us society resulted in fresh confrontations over the weekend between the left and right wing groups were both raised. was. worth.

it and now one side 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 signed in just five days requiring the administration to now issue a response and respect to sion rules on the struggle in vehicle looks at how opposing sides are turning 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 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 as the left were exactly used by the right to make a political statement this was the reaction and that we really never saw an. it was going on in the streets i think frankly much of the media focus and 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 with the president timing and as well. if you see the 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. . and it seems that even a rare and beautiful not too phenomenon monday's coast to coast solar eclipse over the u.s. couldn't stop americans from exploiting it for political purposes and each find came up with its own version of what the event symbolizes. it did. to her.

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the u.n. has expressed deep concern over civilians killed in the u.s. led coalition strikes in syria we've got more on that after the break.

same wrong. just don't. get to shape our. culture. and in the detroit. trailer. find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and i welcome back the un has expressed deep concern over reports at least forty civilians have been killed in a u.s. led bombing raid in the i still held syrian city of raka he on a guy who was an advisor to the un special envoy to syria told us the loss of civilian life is common in urban warfare. in the which is

a heavily dense densely populated town there has been some 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 very many artists are gassed you have looked at the heavy price civilians are paying in raca as well as a similar operation in neighboring iraq. 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 nice 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 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 what. will change we all remember the horrendous price paid by civilians in mosul during the city's liberation this 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 how 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 fodder which the iraqi military says it is determined to retake from isis and whom 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 talent with the. 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 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's tell of for and surrounding communities during the iraqi military operation there's little doubt that isis in telephone 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 as the u.n. warns of a new mass flows of refugees from talor five young eagle and again says that his organization is working to help and who is also secretary general of the norwegian refugee council added to civilians in war torn cities both in syria and iran face numerous threats including both terror attacks and strikes. they know we rescue council we are in the first line really of reception of civilians from tel afar

conditions are horrific forty five degrees celcius mid day people have to go through long areas from 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 terror attack in barcelona has been shot dead by police in a suburb of the city the man was wearing a fake explosives belt at the time of his death you know it was believed to have been in the driver of the van that plowed into more than a hundred people along a major pedestrian a street in the catalan resort artie's kate poetry look at how the story 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 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 what were 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 them down there 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 around and police have been hunting him ever since meanwhile later in the evening there was also an attack in 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 lasik died meantime the police then took five of those men were shot by

police they were also wearing what we expect to be explosive belts relating to the polls also a day before the 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 basra and campbell's was when the men subsequently took more actions into their own homes. earlier police warned the suspect may have fled to france just like the berlin christmas market attack or escape to italy and people linked to terror attacks in paris were found in belgium that the car used to run over people income brill's just hours off to the boss alone arrests has reportedly been spotted in france just a week ago jennifer breeden an attorney specializing in international law on terrorism believes the ears open borders play into the hands of terrorists reports

of now come out that the barcelona cell has contacts with another cell in another country or that country is not been released we can probably guess it could really be any of the twenty european countries european union specifically can wake up to this direction 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 out 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.

spoken russian theatre and film directed karylle sarah bernard called has been detained in some paid his book he will now be probed over a huge embezzlement case. with the details that follow the detention and short of the official statement from the investigative committee that looks into high profile criminal cases in this country. called is suspected of embezzling more than one million you was dollars of government funds that were allocated for. production and his theater 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 and 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 led to critics of the sub coming trial 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. and campaign for a smoothie in austria has cost control the say after his developers decided to add michael and into the mix. once again i'm calling for a boycott of true fruits i think that's very very wrong for big profits to promote

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