for a party america is. better than. the c. . heard of. jack the. president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. the u.n. voices deep concern over reports of dozens of civilians being killed in a u.s. led bombing raid in the syrian city of wrapped up some reports say that seventy eight civilians have been killed there by coalition strikes in just the last twenty four hours. get out of get out and stay we will also expand. the american armed forces. 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. and as for suspects in last week's barcelona terror attacks appear in course it's revealed an even bigger assault was being planned to go to the town

where the terrorist cell was that. evening to you thanks for joining us this hour my name is neil harvey your watching r.t. international we will start this hour with breaking news for you because the united nations 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 there is the news agency claimed seventy eight people were killed there on choose day and earlier the u.n. also condemned the deaths of forty civilians this was. an incident that reportedly killed forty people in iraq on sunday. 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 in recent days and weeks scores of civilians have reportedly been killed and injured in iraq juda air strikes and shelling and up to twenty five thousand people remain trapped in the city. it's cost live now to washington speak to a correspondent jacqueline vuguru we just telling of you is about the the deaths on sunday and this latest incident being condemned by the u.n. what are the spokes person have to say yes the u.n. has come out expressing deep concern and outrage in fact saying that if these reports do turn out to be true it's clear that civilians are more often now becoming the victims of the crossfire in syria. these attacks if confirmed or shocking reminder that civilians continue to bear the brunt of the conflict in many parts of syria. so the u.s. coalition has been hitting rock a hard recently given that it's the defacto capital of eisel in syria and if

verified these reports would confirm that civilians are more often becoming victims of that campaign and of course it's not only happening in syria in neighboring iraq the situation is also very critical according to the u.n. and the city of tal afar now that city has contained thousands of innocent civilians who are unable to have just basic supplies to reach them at this point and putting medicine and so while of no it is clear that isolate is being hit and affected by these campaigns it's coming at the cost of the lives of innocent civilians. there and watch to bring is right up today thank you. now as the u.n. warns about new mass flows of refugees coming from tel afar in iraq as we heard that there are fears that refugee camps simply won't be able to cope with that new influx people at the camps say that the conditions that are already atrocious the

logit nobody knows who is difficult there is no air conditioning there is no food with the full run of food the transit system to say there is pneumonia just. a lot of 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 bad for thirteen hours but now we are here and we have nothing that not we don't know we don't know where they will take us we don't know why all to often it is. well young egland who is the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council says that his organization is ready to help he added that civilians in war torn cities both in syria and iraq face numerous threats including both terrorist attacks and strikes the norwegian rescue council we are in the first line really of reception of civilians from our conditions are horrific forty five degrees celcius mid

day people have to go through long areas from. state. control these people are really caught in a horrific crossfire urban warfare and especially air raids are always massively risking civilian casualties. a total disaster that is donald trump as a presidential candidate denounce the u.s. military campaign in afghanistan pledging that he would lead america out if he became president now he's flipping on that promise and actually expanding what is already there gather 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 or trumpet regularly slammed barack obama's approach to afghanistan even

called on him to get smart from paul who insisted on a speedy withdrawal repeating that it was time for u.s. soldiers to head home he added obama's financial support for afghanistan was a quote waste of money but that was all before he was elected president some noting it's almost as if he's become a completely different person the commander in chief also giving no deadlines for any final withdrawal from the war when it came to the question of just how many more soldiers to send from chose to keep that secret salvato his administration has already hinted at a boost in numbers you also want to 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 use allies they've been reacting to statement the german foreign minister stressing that the u.s. should be coordinating its afghan policy with the european union in a bid to avoid

a new surge of afghan migrants into europe but former congressman ron paul says the deeper the u.s. gets involved in the country the more attacks america will face on its freedom. 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 in the opposite we think the more that we're involved over there there's less likely we will 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 nobody will know when it is ended but i think trump has been maybe a little bit more up front that 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 and trump says that we should be killing more people in afghanistan and i think that is a recipe for disaster 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 that's maybe not in the too distant future 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 i think it's strange that the europeans have been quite willing to do what we tell them to do 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 that doesn't help the europeans a consequence of this mass migration although we have some problems with that it's nothing like what europe is putting up with 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. well the new announcement on u.s. strategy in afghanistan comes amid a shakeup in donald trump's in a circle is under fire chief strategist steve benen he's become the latest to head for the exit door on a scale of open reports now 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 elected is it pledges of more wars or the opposite we've been moving from one reckless intervention to another kinda 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 that 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 of 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 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 douceur all very pro-war people and those are from 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. and with sean now committed to continuing the afghan war here's a look at what he will 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 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 it's been a lot harder than they originally thought it was going to be. ok let's not cross live to political analysts said most of us chessman who joins me on the line said what do you make of this stunning trump expanding military intervention when he suggested all along it was going to do the opposite. hello and thanks for having me well this is a question with lots of repercussions and you know lots of problems socioeconomic problems and security problems all for you know not just afghanistan but the but iran and pakistan europe china russia and the entire region and i could say the globe you know the taliban is justifying its war of insurgency on the

pretext of flooring the floyd men in afghanistan and they just today reiterated that they would continue the fight more fervently than ever because of this the sion by donald trump that would actually increase the number of contingent forces the u.s. contingent forces in the country around fifty percent as the of now eighty seven hundred contingent forces in the country and trump is reportedly trying to increase all or at another four thousand or to be exact thirty nine hundred troops to the country in the contingent forces in afghanistan and just today the u.s. officials stated that they have followed the a commitment of their i'll there to natal all member states to send a similar number of troops there well that means to put it you know in a nutshell that means continued war of insurgency in afghanistan which means

all souls' slimmer hopes for peace and that would send tens of thousands of refugees to iran pakistan and europe with all their socioeconomic problems and security problems that that they would cause for these hosting nations also an increasing number of militants that would get to your up in disguise among the public to conduct terrorist operations but still the most all of you know a vital strike is an all blow is the struck as china i believe. because china sees afghanistan as a chunk of vital chunk of the modern era silk road that it has been trying to revive for the past several years and it has many argue no economic projects potential ones and active ones in afghanistan and this move that encourage is continued war of insurgency by the taliban as well as eisel and others that would deter our chinese state and private sector investors from making any further

investment in afghanistan and this is just yet another means to me of course within the overall strategy of the united states against china and chinese economy because the united states has been trying to create hotbeds of tensions near you know china consider the decision today about afghanistan as well as increasing tensions on the korean peninsula lot that has brought an increasing number a warship u.s. warships in our waters near the chinese territories and territorial waters as well as trans continued contacts with tyvon all these shows an overall strategy that is aimed at you know chinese economy so to put it in natural in one single sentence this is to me this is a decision and a strategy you know that has costs lots of costs socioeconomic and security costs

that the world is going to take let me just right now are going to count will not it wanted to go and i just want to quickly ask you about pakistan because the interesting critical suggesting they're not doing enough to combat terrorism do you think we could see the u.s. expanding into the region perhaps with troops in pakistan. well the united states claims all these you know to be fighting terrorist groups but if there is one thing about one thing good about donald trump is that it is showing the united states foreign policy make it the united states is not at all after the terrorists in pakistan they might be pressuring pakistan in order to comply with their decisions to defend saudi arabia and send more troops to solve the arabia to defend against the country against the yemen and to help the country in the war against yemen because the pakistanis have declared or at least they have shown some

kind of these corage and they want to get out of saudi arabia they are increasing pressures against pakistan also to comply with the united states foreign policy against chinese and that's a very important move and smart move made by trump because he is striking several blows at chinese at the chinese economies are through this new policy and strategy in the region also there are repercussions for iran and this means and an answer on specifies a period of time of u.s. presence in afghanistan with its bases that are operating spying dry you know all of spying drone flights against iran and that means these flights will continue are in future for an unspecified period of time said thanks for coming on to say my guest political analyst said most of us just. we turn to our breaking news

this hour the u.n. has expressed concern over reports of dozens of civilians being killed in coalition air strikes in the last twenty four hours this is in the syrian city of rocca there is sana news agency claimed seventy eight people were killed there on tuesday earlier the un that already condemned the deaths of forty civilians reportedly killed by a coalition strike in iraq are on sunday military colleagues tell us they're deeply concerned by unconfirmed reports of a high number of civilians killed by your strike in iraq a city over the last twenty four hours in recent days and weeks scores of civilians have reportedly been killed or injured in iraq juda air strikes and shelling and up to twenty five thousand people remain trapped in the city. ok you can discuss this with military analysts kemal alum joins me on the line kemal the u.n. is deeply concerned about these reports of large numbers of civilian casualties in iraq are two separate incidents sunday choose dating the pentagon will admit to

those casualties will be more of what we used to hearing which is that it's tragic and they'll investigate i think yes so far if you go by the last twelve months history the they come out with a standard explanation saying they'll investigate and it's tragic often they blame the parties on the ground for for the attack rather than themselves and i think this basically shows that the need to work very closely with the russians and the syrian government to coordinate his strikes because as we speak the americans don't have real time intelligence coming on iraq they don't have reliable partners on the ground and it leads to innocent people dying this is been happening for the last twelve months not just in iraq over syria we heard the u.n. official speaking there i mean not so much they can really do at the moment but the language was interesting he described it as a staggering loss of civilian life do you think that was a fair comment. yes because some of the reports are saying it's almost hundred

sixty one hundred eighty dead in the last two three days there's been very. noise coming out of iraq saying that the bombing has been very intense and the damage has been extreme in the euro nations to say that it's quite rare so there must be evidence of the ground suggesting that more than a hundred civilians have been killed in two three days and the americans must investigate in future coordinated strikes properly as perfidious collations. move to iraq u.n. reports say the flow of refugees coming from the city of tal afar are only going to get worse. do you believe that there's enough aid on the ground to help these people because the information that's been coming out is that the aid is there the camps the appalling conditions. i think again as we speak i mean the defense secretary mattis is visiting iraq and jordan there is conflict the problem

with tal afar is that you've got the shia militias as well as the iraqi government there is a conflict between the peshmerga north because there are two different forces attacking telephone and there's a politicize ation of aid the different groups do not want to share aid and it's a fragmented force that's fighting isis it's not one unified force there's one coming from the peshmerga as i said from the kurdish north the turks are involved as well and so is the iraqi government and that's creating confusion on the ground for the refugees leaving as well as distribution is it likely telephone will suffer the same fate as mosul that end up a city in ruins. could unfortunately as we saw months and months and intense fighting tell a far is likely to go the same way one of the things that could save tell a far is the recent cooperation bill signed between the syrian military and the iraqi military and with that coordination because again tyler far is linked also to

the syrian surge and sea and vice versa that could perhaps alleviate some of the suffering but i because there are so many players on the ground and regional actors it just muddies the waters have been here in the thoughts of military analysts come all along come all thank you. we've had two other news for you now four suspects in thursday's barcelona terrorist attack are at this moment appearing in court one of the alleged assailants has admitted a bigger attack was being planned at the city's iconic so good are the familiar church the attacker who drove the car into pedestrians in las ramblas last week was found and killed on monday and that's the catalan police have released footage of the raids conducted in the spanish town of ripple where the barcelona attack suspects have been living officers searched several apartments numerous gas canisters were found two of the suspects now in court confirm that a report the mom was the mastermind behind the attacks the court heard that the

a man planned to blow himself up with a bomb vest according to reports in the spanish media auntie's peter oliver is in town there 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 model 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

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 hub for a group of twelve a number of dead some low already caught him 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 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. into sparse a loner and the surrounding area killing so many. a north korean diplomat says that preparations are complete for a strike on the u.s. territory of guam if america quote will not act sensibly it comes as the country state television has been airing a warning over the us south korea war games which have started already on the been in thier unbundle year clues as options and no one can vouch that these huge forces concentrated in south korea will not turn to actual your so now that military tensions have reached give a speech on the korean peninsula the current eleven day drills involved fifty thousand south korean troops along with seventeen and a half thousand american soldiers computer programs are also being used to simulate war prior to the exercises south korea's defense ministry voiced concern that the

drills could trigger a missile launch by its northern neighbor the regret possibility that north korea will carry out strategic or local provocations to process the latest u.n. sanctions and the year of g. exercises public affairs expert a professor at the city university of new york daniel schorr thinks that the u.s. actions are disturbing. no question that the united states is provoking north korea and they've been provoking north korea for decades now what they call war games or anything but gains in d.p. r. k. is employing a strategy because they have very astutely watched as iraq in libya of yugoslavia so. they want to different destiny for. their system they're trying to match the us with its might with with ensuring that then i afraid in an armed or in a nuclear north korea is

a sceptical susceptible north korea to being invaded is all the countries that i mentioned have been the way to solve the crisis has to come from internally in the united states we need strong anti-war movement in it in fact there was only one korea one korean people one korean territory one korean language until the genocide a war that the u.s. weighed from one thousand nine hundred fifty to one nine hundred fifty three when the us divided north korea and bombed. in the rest of the cities of korea to smithereens so it's always been the korean people who have suffered the most because of this. these threats and would the korean people want the most of the people of the world one is peace and situating into his this evening here in r.t. international quick reminder as well if you like good news on social media you can check it out facebook good also.