get out of afghanistan we will also expand. for american forces. repeated pledge to quit afghanistan now to expand the military operation with no plan for withdrawal. president also makes another attempt to heal the us political divide and claims that both sides are trying to exploit the divisions for political gain. at least forty civilians have been killed in a u.s. led bombing raid. in syria.

very good evening to you my name is. international. a total disaster that is how donald trump as a presidential candidate denounced the u.s. military campaign in afghanistan pledging that he'd lead america out if he became president but now he's flipping on that promise and actually expanding what's already there gallus there 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 would trump ours regularly slammed bombers approach to afghanistan even calling on him to get smart impulses insisted on a speedy withdrawal repeating that it was time for american soldiers to come home

he added the bombers financial support for afghanistan was a quote waste of money but that was all before he was elected president my how things change some noting it's almost as if he's become a completely different person and the commander in chief also gave no deadlines for any final withdrawal from the war when it came to the question of just how many more soldiers to central chose to keep this a secret although his administration has hinted already at a boost in numbers he also wants nato allies to throw more troops are 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 their own we are confident they will and now u.s. allies are beginning to react to trump statement for example the german foreign minister stressed that the u.s. should coordinate afghan policy with the european union in order to avoid a surge of afghan migrants into europe side mohammed but under from iran's

university of tehran believes that no matter what trump says the approach to afghanistan won't change from its 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 trapes 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. with new announcement on u.s. strategy in afghanistan comes amid a shakeup in donald trump's cool his under fire chief strategist steve bannon he's become the latest ahead for the exit door desire to kill him or put imports now the

president's foreign policy decisions with these new team may surprise the very people you voted into 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 into 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. 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 helped 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 they're 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 with committed to continuing the afghan war here's

a look at what he'll be getting 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 or longer stores 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 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 envisioned it's very difficult project and spend a lot harder than they originally thought it was going to be. they say it can speak now to former u.s. congressman and former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul joins me on the line great to speak to you again

wrong we've got a rough i did not know they always be six coming from donald trump at this point but what do you think of his new plan for afghanistan. i don't think there's anything new words or do a little bit different he says he's not into nation building but that was a pretense anyway how many nations that we can really build are improved we've torn nations apart but so he changes the words and makes it sound like the world will come apart if we don't continue to be the world's policeman and we as libertarians believe it's the opposite we think that more that we're involved over there is less likely we'll have peace in the more attacks there will be on our personal liberties here at home so i think there's going to be perpetual war nobody knows exactly who the enemy is and nobody will know when it is ended i think trump has been maybe a little bit more up front his goal isn't to get done in six months or

a year it looks like he's planning to be there for the long term he knows he wants the crease the troop levels and he will but we don't know exactly and we who are on the pro peace side think that he should do very very little without the consent of the congress and get it sounds to me like even he wants to give away some of his authority as they will the generals are in charge the generals in charge let them make all the decisions and of course generals are very necessary very important for national defense but generals also are trained to kill people and trump says that we should be killing more people in afghanistan and i think the. recipe for disaster i don't see it coming any way toward the position that we hold as libertarians and it's going to be very costly so i think it will finally end in our empire well and when we run out of money and maybe in the too distant future.

just completely flip flopped and let down his supporters he said he's going to get out of afghanistan now what he's doing is he's committing more troops and he's giving the military free rein without a deadline to finish the job. and you would think that he needed those supporters that was one thing up until now people were getting upset with him here in this country is certainly the left the democrats and also the republican establishment have become very annoyed with him but he had this solid relationship with his base they got him in office which meant populous and independents and conservative and even some libertarians who were hopeful about his language about having better relations with russia but now it looks like he's going to undermine his base which makes puts him in a more precarious position i don't know and nobody would know for sure exactly what

his motivations are but i do wonder seriously whether or not the deep state the people who really pull the strings might have been powerful enough to send him the messy a look if you want to stay in office you better toed the line but the whole problem with that is even if he flip flops and goes along with the neo cons which it looks like he has he's not going to win them over the people who support mccain and graham and rubio they're not going to follow us and say oh yeah it looks like trump is one of us now we're going to support up so i think he loses i think he loses in a political way he loses support from some of his base and he's not going to gain any support from the people who are now saying oh he looks like he's waking up in the he's accepting the neo con position approach or as you said donald trump has said we're not led to nation build anymore it's a new approach we're looking to kill terrorists now my understanding was that the u.s. went into afghanistan originally just to kill one particular terrorist osama bin

laden they did that but sixteen years later the still there what are the chances of success of achieving this goal of donald trumps of killing all the terrorists. what was zero because they can't define him even he admitted there are twenty different groups and what is a terrorist a terrorist is somebody. uses a tactic so any group can be called a terrorist you know we have problems in this country and we have people committing suicide and killing people but they are and they're called terrorists but it's very very rare when any american is killed from somebody coming from a foreign country there's a lot of foreign anger directed toward us but the american people aren't really threatened by this and yet this confusion that we have to send the troops over there and kill more of these terrorists or they're going to come and kill us but that's the propaganda but i'm convinced if you talk to enough american citizens they're not going to say you know i lie awake at night because i think somebody

from afghanistan is going to all of a sudden appear in my community and start killing a lot of americans it hasn't been happening is not going to happen and yet they go along with you know supporting this president but i do believe that the american people traditionally have voted for the candidate that was more likely to give us peace you know go back all the way to world war one world war two vietnam where we elected presidents and trump to yes we we want to have a different type of foreign policy want to peace obama was the peace candidate too so the american people will come up on the short end of this said of course that is what the institute that i have for peace and prosperity is designed to do is try to change the opinion of people or get the opinion of the american people who are pro peace out in the open but it's very difficult whether it's on the internet or whether it's through our t.v.

stations they're not very open to our viewpoints why do you think it's taken so long to come up with a strategy. i think he's in a dilemma i understand mcmasters was told to get a strategy and he'd bring a strategy to tromp and try and trump admitted about his gut instinct to be change so he says every time he would bring a strategy to trump trump would say this isn't right redo it but. mcmasters would come back with another one and then on another one it was always the same and then finally trump capitulate so i think you know trump has some gut instincts but so far he hasn't been able to stick to them so he is seen as a flip flopper which i think politically is a bad position to be and he'll lose both both sides of the argument frequently in the past i'd say that when the us proposes military action particularly my home run

the u.k. i'd be very quick to jump into line behind them maybe not so much anymore germany's fused already to fully back the strategy they can see possible blowback migrants heading the way do you think that taking the right approach to to step back from this. absolutely we take the wrong approach by being over there and putting pressure on them to put our weaponry they're right up on the borders of russia we're just looking for trouble on ours i'm never understood why europeans go along with it other than the fact that we're very rich and very powerful. consequence so this mass migration although we have some problems with that it's nothing like what europe is. putting up with and literally tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands coming from the middle east but from the wars that we have literally encouraging got involved in whether it's afghanistan or syria or iran.

and libya people are coming in there are invade they're literally invading your libertarian actually believes in pretty much you know as much free migration and immigration as possible but there is a time when political conditions get to such a point where it's driven by politics either by this promise of free stuff from free subsidies in a welfare state or we find out that they're being coming from countries that have been disrupted and then it becomes an invasion and that's what europe is it's you know putting up with right now so i think it's strange that the europeans have been quite willing to do what we tell them to do and but i do think it makes them more vulnerable you know. why should the europeans feel safer if we go and like we have you know participate in a coup and change the leadership of ukraine and then get into the debate between

the pro russian ukrainians and the pro european ukraine has that doesn't help the europeans i think i think the old principle of self-determination is a good idea and that is something that our country has preached and certainly woodrow wilson preached it. we don't follow it through self-determination is a great idea smaller government is a better idea i can see the break up of the government when people want to declare their independence from huge government i think we all be better off. as always i greatly appreciate genuinely you taking the time to come on and give us your opinions there was interesting poll former u.s. congressman and indeed founder of the rome poll institute now the u.n. has expressed deep concern over civilians killed in u.s. led coalition strikes in syria i'll explain all political news coming your way after the break.

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are. back for suspects in thursday's barcelona terrorist attack or at this moment appearing in court one of the alleged assailants has admitted that a big attack was planned at the city's iconic site get out of familiar church tag who drove the car into the pedestrians in las ramblas last week was found and killed on monday and that's is the catalan police have released footage of the raids conducted in the spanish town of reports where the barcelona attack suspects lived offices searched several bartlett's and numerous gas canisters were found two of the suspects now in court have confirmed that the republican was the mastermind

behind the attacks on these b. two all of it is in the town now 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 baal solo and they pull is where it's understood that the terrorist cell was put together and radicalized and it's believed that that radicalization was carried out by abdel baccy and now he's understood to have been the a man who was operating out of a mosque based in the building just behind me. 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

of beating 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 hope for a group of twelve a number of dead some cotton with those that are in court and those in custody that we're 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. ok let me bring some breaking news just come in the u.n. has expressed concern over reports of dozens of civilians being killed in coalition air strikes in the last twenty four hours in the syrian city of rock are serious sun a news agency reported seventy eight people were killed there on tuesday here's what the spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general said military colleagues tell us they're deeply concerned by unconfirmed reports of a high number of civilians killed by air strike in iraq a city over the last twenty four hours these attacks if confirmed are shocking reminder that civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict in many parts of syria. this follows other reports that at least forty civilians were killed in a u.s. led bombing raid in iraq on sunday aunties and i guess the of looks at the heavy

price of millions of paying in iraq are as well as in a similar operation in 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 is be the 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 they're investigating but you know if confirmed 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 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 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 father which the iraqi military says it is determined to retake from isis and to him and 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 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 for 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 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. also joining us this evening on all things or

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