yeah it is the john oliver of our country america is going to say we are apparently better than blue. sea people you've never heard of love jack the next president of the world bank so very. seriously send us an e-mail. get out of afghanistan we will also expand the thought for american armed forces donald trump does a total u. turn on his repeated pledge to quit afghanistan now vowing to expand the military operation with no plan for a withdrawal. the president also makes another attempt to heal the u.s. political divide i made claims both sides are now trying to exploit the divisions the political gain. and sleep un voices deep concern on reports at least forty civilians are being killed in a u.s.

led bombing raid in russia i still stronghold in syria. that this is our senior international broadcasting to you last and most unlikely aaron good to have you with us. a total disaster how donald trump as a presidential candidate denounced the u.s. military campaign in afghanistan pledging his lead america out if he becomes president but now he's flipping on this promise and actually expanding also already that. gather state is 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 where you might remember how trump has regularly slanted obama's approach to afghanistan 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 obama's financial support for afghanistan was a waste of money but that was all before he was elected president so i'm noting that it's as if he's become a completely different person now the commander in chief also giving no deadlines for any final withdrawal from the war and when it came to the question of how many more soldiers to send trump chose to keep it a secret. there is administration has already insisted that it will be a boost in numbers he also wants nato allies to throw more troops and more 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 and now u.s.

allies are beginning to react to trump statements but german foreign minister stressed the u.s. should coordinate afghan policy with the e.u. but as live 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 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 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 the scale of more pain 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 a lecture is it pledges of more wars or the opposite we've been moving from one wrecked was intervention to another coup 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 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 gerrard question are trump gary gary cohen h.r. mcmaster paul these 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 with trump now committed to continuing the afghan war here's a look at once he'll be getting himself into. on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime and afghanistan i know that many of you have grown weary of this conflict. as you are well aware i do not support the idea of endless war given what's at stake in afghanistan i am firmly convinced that we should make this extra effort seventeen years our longest wars it's a very big decision for me i took over a mess and we're going to. make it

a lot less messy. to understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate 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 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 it's been a lot harder than they originally thought it was going to be. were during his

statements trump also his house at pakistan for allegedly harboring terrorism and the u.s. and its affairs the nuclear states could be dragged into the afghan situation we're also spoke to a former pakistani general on the. 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 reuters spillover effect into a nuclear armed pakistan or other nations in the region of pakistan has been alerted all of it is supporting the taliban are participating we have got a group which is basically a part of taliban but what we have to look at pakistan say pakistan itself is undergoing the remand discretions of. terrorism not today since two thousand and five and if i'm not it got pink and if american believe their bags are compassionate pakistan they'll be able to bring peace in afghanistan i think they're certainly mistaken. trucks accused of using his big afghan policy

announcement as damage control although widely criticized remarks about last week's deadly violence in charlottesville 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 and that if his ins and u.s. society resulted in fresh confrontations over the weekend between left and right wing groups. thank you. the other. me. out to be. a petition was launched on the white house websites calling for anti fought to be declared a terrorist organization more than two hundred thousand people have signed it requiring the administration to now issue a response under its petition rules stuck 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 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 charlottesville he should look in the mirror and he made a choice in his presidential campaign the folks around with him 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 as the left were exactly used by the right to make a political statement this was the reaction and we really never saw any of the excitement that was going on in the streets and i think frankly much of the media focused. on what was going on in 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 based element 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 natural phenomenon monday is coast to coast so the eclipse over the u.s. can stop americans from exploiting it for political purposes and each side came up with its own fashion for the event symbolizes.

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four suspects and thursday's barcelona terror attack are at this moment appearing in court one of the alleged assailants has admitted that a big attack was planned at the city's iconic the ground a familiar church the attacker who drove the car into the pedestrians on last round less last week was found and killed on monday as the council and police released footage of the raids conducted in a spanish town a ripoff where the barcelona attack suspect has lived the offices searched several apartments under numerous gas canisters were found on cheese pizza all of is in repose for us. as the investigation continues into who was behind last week's terror attacks that took place in spain that investigation is focusing in on

this small town just to the north about an hour and a half's drive to the north of barcelona they paul is where it's understood that the terrorist cell was put together and radicalized and it's believed that radicalization was carried out by. now he's understood to have been the a man who was operating out of a mosque based in the building just behind me here. he did have a criminal past he was sent to prison back in twenty ten for a number of years for being involved in the dealing of the imports of hasheesh from his native morocco into spain and it's during that time in prison that we understand that he became radicalized himself he may well according to some reports have been in contact with some of those who were currently it was serving time who were involved in the two thousand and four madrid bombing which killed one hundred and ninety two people which al qaeda took responsibility for what we are piecing

together from the investigators as they give us bits of information is that this was the hub for a group of twelve a number of dead. already caught in with those that are in court and those in custody that were hoping to get more information out of what we know so far is that they were all local they were all relatively young we know they played football together they they were some went to a local institutes and study together but they all had one thing in common and that was contact with. this particular mosque here and that's where the investigation is focusing because this is a very small very quiet town in the foothills of the pyrenees mountains but it seems that this was the by his nest that was able to raise up a group of people and radicalize them in order to strike and attack in two spots alone on the surrounding area killing so many. the u.n.

has expressed deep concern i have a civilian killed in u.s. led coalition strikes in syria more on that this break. the feeling of. every. good experience. that you get. according to just. seems wrong. just don't. get to

shape out these days. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the un has expressed deep concern over reports at least forty civilians have been killed in a u.s. led bombing raid in the eisel held syrian city of raka yelena a good man his an advisor to the u.n. special envoy for syria told us the loss of civilian life is comin up and wolf. 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 obvious large gouty have looked at the heavy price of billions of paying in iraq as well as in 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 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 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 and if their previous responses are anything to go by we'll hear more apologies some regret condolences and we'll see more strikes not a lot 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 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 are preparing to liberate this region i say to islamic state you have a choice surrender or die as with mosul they're pounding talent with all they've caught me sile. 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 far and surrounding communities during the iraqi military operation there's little doubt that isis intel of 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 and the u.n. warns about neema flows of refugees from california there are fears that refugee camps will simply be unable to cope with the latest influx of people at the camps that say that the conditions that are already atrocious. but it. is difficult there is no air conditioning there is no food we pay for the room food the transit system to salute is no money no. people are in chaos everything in our life is destroyed this is my mother she could not walk so i put her over my shoulder and we walked like that for thirteen hours but now we are here and we have

nothing. we don't know we don't know where they will take us we don't know wat or fetus as the u.n. warns about new mass flows of refugees from telephone i do young again says these are his organization is ready to help a good man who is also secretary general of the norwegian refugee council added the civilians in war torn cities both in syria and iraq face new missed threats including both terror attacks and air strikes. the norwegian refugee council we are in the first line really of reception of billions from tel afar conditions are horrific forty five degrees celcius mid 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 campaign for a smithy 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 bred to promote the product by all means principles. i think this is politically incorrect here in australia unfortunately seventy five percent of australians associate the color of ground 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 fire the p.r. agency but no you go on. as if it will 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 they're poor and i see shit between people is getting stronger and when we have so many

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