[000:00:00;00] i . mean. hurricane or a category five storm is currently slamming into the caribbean experts say she could hit florida bonnie this weekend i'll show you how residents are preparing. and a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a united states air base in afghanistan this following the u.s. distribution of highly offensive leaflets if our pentagon official joins us to discuss the incident. it's wednesday september sixth four pm in washington d.c.

a matushka sweet and you're watching r.t. america hurricane arm is moving toward northern puerto rico and the virgin islands after unleashing its fury on a string of caribbean islands this morning a category five storm slammed barbuda early wednesday before hitting st martin and willa images posted on social media from st martin showed massive flooding overturned cars and destroyed homes with wind speeds of one hundred eighty five miles per hour or more is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the atlantic a state of emergency has been declared in florida were erma is currently a means to make landfall this weekend as our team is more important i reports residents in the sunshine states are stocking up and preparing for the worst erma is likely to make landfall somewhere in the sunshine state over the weekend and evacuations of all residents in the florida keys begins tonight individuals with special needs began evacuating from miami this morning and officials in miami dade

county have advised residents in some low lying areas. to start leaving some grocery stores have been struggling to keep water and canned food on shelves as residents stock up on hurricane supplies tuesday evening for gas stations i visited had run out of gas and this morning drivers throughout the region waited in long lines to fuel up florida governor rick scott is warning residents not to ignore evacuation orders ahead of irma calling the category five storm life threatening and larger than anything this state's has ever seen storm surge in extreme winds the biggest concern right now the storm is bigger faster and stronger and do not sit and wait for the storm become is extremely dangerous and deadly because diversity should give the poor right now hurricane andrew hit florida in one nine hundred ninety two killing sixty five people and damaging some sixty eight thousand

homes it was the most destructive storm ever to hit florida has prompted president trump to declare emergencies in florida puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands he addressed the storm during an oval office meeting with vice president mike pence and congressional leaders to see what happens we'll know a version or period of time but it looks like it could be something that will be not good believe me not good one major concern in miami is the dozens of construction sites and cranes throughout the city miami officials say that tower cranes hanging above residential areas are not designed to withstand a category five hurricane according to the buildings department the arms of cranes are not tied down and pose a potential danger to residents living in nearby buildings there are so many cranes throughout miami they've basically become part of the city's skyline if one hundred

eighty five mile per hour winds blow against. those heavy structures the damage could be catastrophic marina porter r.t. miami the house overwhelmingly approved a seven point eight five billion dollars disaster aid bill today the measure passed four hundred nineteen to three now it heads to the senate however this comes as existing disaster funds are approaching dangerously low levels the federal emergency management agency disaster relief accounts fell to one billion dollars of that remaining account five hundred forty one million dollars have already been allocated for hurricane harvey recovery efforts four hundred seventy two million has also been set aside for wildfire recovery in southern california and for the fast approaching hurricane wilma by friday fema is warning lawmakers they expect to completely run out of funds meanwhile in houston the environmental protection agency is investigating a hazardous plume of the carcinogen chemical benzene originating from

a petroleum refinery local officials say high levels of benzene have been detected within close proximity to the energy refinery luminary air samples from the manchester district of houston show concentrations of the chemical have reached three hundred twenty four parts per billion last according to loren ron the chief environmental science officer for the houston health departments health officials also detected high levels of volatile organic compounds linked to a variety of health problems including liver damage and cancer well dozens of wildfires have erupted across the western united states this includes oregon were state and federal politicians sent in urgent request to the trump administration requesting the aid to help tackle raging wildfires as one politician points out these fires are so severe they demand immediate action from federal officials quote my state is on fire washington idaho california montana are on fire congress needs to act they need to act now peter courtney said in

a. went he said this is no time for politics it's time for action the national interagency fire center in idaho reported eighty large fires were burning across an area of two thousand two hundred square miles in nine western states in northern california alone a fire destroyed seventy two homes and forced two thousand people to evacuate and one thousand more were evacuated as high winds ignited flames in the canyon north of salt lake city utah. washington has said it will continue to deploy troops and weapons to the korean peninsula one top u.s. army official says that's to address pyongyang's self destructive actions the u.s. is deployments of hardware includes aircraft carrier strikes groups anti-missile ships as well as fighter jets and helicopters washington and seoul are reportedly preparing to hold more military drills south korea may also ask the u.s.

to redeploy its nuclear weapons to the peninsula artie's jaclyn reports south korea is currently eyeing a possible redeployment of u.s. nuclear weapons on its territory which if approved would bring the military buildup around north korea to the highest level. we would need to find realistic countermeasures by reviewing all of military options in a serious security situation with north korea's nuclear missile threats but the question is will this drastic move have the desired effect of making north korea back down well if the past few months have taught us anything no but he and yang and washington are nowhere near to dialing their saber rattling back only raising the stakes higher and higher kim jong un shows no such understanding his abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war any threat to the united states or territories including. or allies will be met with

a massive military response. president trump the commitment of the united states to defending our homeland territories and on ice using the full range of diplomatic conventional and you can you capabilities so disposed so as a nuclear option the next step would trump make that call looking back trump has always had a rather shall we say unconventional approach to nuclear weapons during his iconic one thousand nine hundred interview with playboy he confessed nuclear war was on his mind and it seems the idea hasn't exactly gone away first of all you don't want to say take everything off the table not just you know there you go shoot if you do this nuclear weapon nuclear should be off the table but would that be a time when it could be used possibly the trouble is when you said earlier even america's oldest allies can't count themselves one hundred percent safe can you tell the middle east or not use the nuclear weapon would never say that i would never take any of my car just the table but europe we won't use and you're not going to take it off the day you might use it in europe you know and surprisingly trump wants the u.s. to expand its nuclear arsenal because apparently if you're going to have nukes you

better have more than everybody else it would be wonderful the green would be that no country would have no. but if countries are going to have nukes we're going to be. at the top of the pack yes for every major world leader at the option is always on the table and to be fair trump has said that it's highly highly highly highly unlikely he would resort to nuclear action and prefers a world without nukes but even if it's just about scaring the enemy when nukes are dominating the thought processes of kim and trump the rest of the world would appreciate more predictability and transparency in the thought process. r.t. washington d.c. the u.s. military can promotable casualties today after a suicide bombing that bag ram air base just outside of kabul afghanistan r.t.s. american has the latest on the situation. well a suicide bomber has detonated explosives at bag ram air base in afghanistan u.s. military forces have confirmed

a small number of casualties but the exact number remains unknown at the moment the attack is believed to be a response to a highly offensive leaflet distributed by u.s. forces in the part one province on tuesday that depicted part of the taliban flag along with a passage from the koran on a dog this is an animal that's considered on clean in islam the bombing occurred only hours after a senior u.s. commander in afghanistan apologized for the leaflets the taliban responded saying it showed america's hatred for islam and that it proves the war in the country is a war between islam and unbelief according to news reports but this isn't the first time controversy struct struck the area in february two thousand and twelve u.s. soldiers mistakenly burned korans at the same bedroom base alongside damaged books and texts from the airfields library with the incident prompted widespread protests and resulted in several deaths but we have to think that while fire fundamentalism

is mostly to blame for this incident it seems like us imperialism plays a strong role in providing these terrorists with a motive to perpetrate these attacks one can only wonder if trump's new policy on afghanistan will further exacerbate the situation. i witnesses who sell to detonate explosives at the bagram air base told local media outlets multiple people have been wounded and the afghan interior ministry spokesman confirmed that three civilians were injured in the blast two of whom are in critical condition that nation took place at one of the entrances of the airbase the attack was reportedly carried out by a suicide bomber riding a motorbike all this comes after a senior u.s. commander in afghanistan apologized for a highly offensive leaflet distributed by u.s. forces leaflet depicted part of the taleban flag which includes a passage from. chrono dog an animal considered and clean in islam and taliban responded saying the leaflets convey america's hatred for islam and to discuss more let's bring in michael maloof former pentagon official thank you so much for

joining us michael has your and so one is your take what are your thoughts on the taliban saying that this is a war against islam when in fact the u.s. does show religious tolerance here there are mosques here do you think this is a war against islam or terrorism. from the u.s. perspective it's a war against terrorism from their perspective it would be a war against islam if they can can if they can convey to their constituency there that the population that that the united states has shown a total disregard for for their cultural sensitivities that they just want to make war. they're going to win converts that way and you couple that with the bombings that have been occurring on civilians this is not the way to win hearts and minds but do you think it's a little bit of a definite standard we hear other countries chanting death to america and then when something like this is done using the dogs something that they see is unclean is you know out of the question do you think the u.s.

should be sorry for what they did they should be they should be trained before they go in on cultural sensitivities of the country and indeed the history of the cunt country that is not happening and consequently you have these young kids who come in there they've been trained for war they're not given any kind of background training or maybe just a little bit of what some of these cultural things are i remember. and the way prisoners were treated and they were letting women touch the men that just created tremendous animosity and you built up a lot of deliberately deliberately and this this created some of what was non-deliberate because we have. females in our military and the. in that case of a grave they were mingling with the prisoners they were bringing in dogs and scaring them to death and this this does not bode well for trying to get

information to try to prevent further attacks it only hardens that hardens them and they go out and become die in the wool terrorists as a consequence. any troops that are going in there including the commanders need to know the history of the country they need to know about the cultural sensitivities because you're trying to win the hearts and minds on the one hand but on the other hand if they conduct themselves the way they are combined with the bombings that have been occurring on civilians accidentally which leads to other investigations which you never hear the results of this this will only create new resistance and you're not going to eliminate the problem that you've been. there for in the first place and leadership and you know the bomb is are still under investigation if this had been to happen but would you be surprised if this was in retaliation to the leaflets i would not be surprised because if you have in the dog in a in a leaflet like that shows the disregard for their sensitivities but when you equate

it with islam. which is their their their religion and which they are dying for that sets up the resistance and there's no turning back from their standpoint they then regard you as the ultimate enemy and going to a point that you touched on earlier about the civil and casualties we know it's a different airstrikes just last week twenty six civilians were killed what do you make of this it's tells me we don't have good intelligence shows to me that our rules of engagement in terms of bringing in air. bomb droppings from the air are becoming more and more indiscriminate and and as a consequence it's resulting in these casualties these casualties will create greater animosity greater resistance a. as a consequence you can just imagine if it happened to our own homeland and to our own families getting wiped out by some but you're going to go out and fight regardless so i think what's happening that no progress is really going to be made

that we're doing more harm than good over there right now we need a better outreach system we need people who understand the culture of who can meet with the local local tribes people and can make them understand that we appreciate their culture we are sensitive to it it isn't just going out and killing it you've got to go out and have outreach you got to talk to folks if it should be a combination of things it's basically a combination of hybrid warfare and a counterinsurgency that will be lasting there's only been one counterinsurgency operation that ever worked and that was when the french went into algiers years ago they stayed and they worked with the local folks we're not doing that anymore we'll go into an area then we would retreat then we then we bring in new people who are totally unaware of the realities on the ground and the problem begins all over again and in some areas report she alluded to something that happened back in two thousand and twelve where you know some of the chron caught on fire and one of the libraries there do you think it's still

a sore spot for them oh yeah you burn the koran you are desecrated in their holy book i remember when there was an episode where a number of qur'an were taken out they were damaged or something and they were burned well somebody found out about it and reported it and the word spread like crazy and there was tremendous animosity in fact people were killed in the demonstrations because of it that's what if this can lead to you know a you know building new friends or not when in their hearts and minds you're actually building greater animosity that's why i think to get to your point that we need better training we need if we're going to be in those countries we need to have a better understanding of the culture. and we need to be very careful where we start placing our bombs particularly in the killing of civilians it's clear the pentagon is now now feels that they can. absorb

a certain number of civilian casualties but when you're that individual with that family your family members killed that's that's it that's or anything it's not we really appreciate your insight as always thank you so much michael maloof former pentagon official. and a syrian forces have for several isis fighters out of the city of the war well this city has largely been occupied by the terror group for the last three years and says that it has become one of the largest pockets of extremist forces in syria. the government army brigades were reunited after the siege on the city with finally lifted one had been trapped inside all that time the train co has more on the liberation campaign the people of their resort won't have to pray for these to

appear in the skies anymore for three years air drops with their only lifeline and they prayed for what was really just a handful of syrian soldiers to never let the city fall completely to islamic state while i saw used any means absolutely anything to take their resort it's all over now but nearly nine months ago a sea of i saw all around the city and beyond the country and black as you can see on this map since that point it's only been shrinking two thousand and seventeen so far a nightmare for islamic state and syria i'll break down the milestones for you number one palmira. the city with more than three thousand years of history had really been caught in a tug of war before march when the syrian army with russian air support took full

control number two the city of raka the one known as the capital of the self-proclaimed caliphate. no more capital in iraq looks like the terrorist commanders ran from there and thanks to the efforts of the kurdish units and other u.s. led coalition fighters the hottest in the city are fully surrounded number three breaking the siege of there as or. this was one last chance all the remaining war might be had to offer off it went to deir ez-zor according to russian army intelligence crossing islamic state in this

area is the next step time to check up on the map now that's progress three black traces left the rooms of the self-proclaimed caliphate. two men have been arrested in a suburb of paris on suspicion of plotting a terror attack the news coming just hours after it was revealed that spanish and moroccan authorities detained six people with alleged isolates dubinsky has been following the events two men have been arrested and will be charged with terrorism offenses the men were arrested in an apartment in the south suburb of paris school view now what we understand is that a maintenance worker plumber had been in the apartment fixing a problem then had diluted the authorities to suspicious materials in that apartment now when the police raided that apartment they found materials that could be used to make explosives and bombs such as gas canisters and wires now. the situation becomes even trickier when we understand that one of the men arrested

apparently has admitted during his questioning in custody that he had been selling bullet proof vests to another man who is a suspect in a murder case here in france and he is also under suspicion of planning terror activities. here in france that's the latest on the situation here in france meanwhile spanish forces have arrested six people who are alleged to have links with eisel. state we understand that one of those arrests took place in a city which is in the spanish territory next to me rocco and the other arrests took place in morocco of those six suspects. suspects had been holding nightly meetings including holding terror training

sessions in which they were simulating assassinations that come from police of but we have also heard from the police that no apparent links between this alleged terrorist cell in the city of medea and the terrorist cell that carried out those attacks just a few weeks ago in boss alone income on the mainland of spain. the best is coming up next right here on our team america and the france doing just a preview of what's ahead lindsay hey they're coming up we've got a wrap up from the bric summit in china also hurricane barrels toward florida but the texas gulf has barely caught his breath and what is that to happen to the price of oil because of all of this we take a look at that coming right up all right thank you so much lenzie and that does it for now for more on the stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash our team america also check out our website our get out forward slash americana and you can follow me on twitter at natasha's sweets and a quick reminder our team can now be found on direct t.v.

on channel three twenty one question more. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big body work for you that's thrown down a lot of boys that's how we use them in the culture in this country now that we're economy. i bet. on are you america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded you'll get off in the break. right now in the infancy of the global age we. got a lot of political superstars it's a big show with a huge cast of characters and the show runners would like you to believe that each

character is either good or evil not both and i hate that because that's not the way human beings work take for example one of the current american political stars nancy pelosi the house minority leader has been in congress for forty years now and as the top democrat on capitol hill she's been very vocal against president trying to position herself as a good character well trump is an evil character for instance she recently got on a microphone to say that trump's motion to end the dream or program was a cruel act of political cowardice she's also said that trump needs sleep and that she's worried about his fitness and she made a big push to have trump censured too even though that doesn't mean anything legal it all so close he has been bashing trump as much as she can in every way she can come up with she also said that trump has sheltered and encouraged the forces of bigotry and discrimination and condemned him for saying there was violence on many

sides in charlottesville. but then things got a little messy because both the actually came out to say hey you know why and see that is actually bad to that no american should be taking up arms against another american way now so she's actually ending up agreeing with trump there that mylan from any side is bad and now she just came out to say that many americans don't want to hear democrats criticizing trump all the time because many people still support him who don't have all the microphone's like the anti trumpeters do in the media palosi actually publicly recognized that endless trying bashing is not what the country wants or needs even though she's been doing it herself so with that statement she completely broke the good vs evil character narrative and for that i totally respect her i don't. everything she does not even close but i really like the fact that she recognized the disgustingness of the endless endless trouble

. and i really like the fact that she just broke the good character vs evil character narrative because that's just not how human beings work humans are complex individuals we all do good and bad things every single one of us to paint someone as an angel or a devil and to blindly hate or love everything one person dies. the simple minded it's dangerous it is ripping apart society right now actually and so for standing up to that this time i applaud you nancy pelosi. people have got to know whether or not fair present or supply american people

deserve to know your difference at this point does it may must guard against the military industrial war we shall never go. to war should know that. yes we do but we must think. future doesn't hurt. the mission of newsworthy is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think the mainstream media in this country can say you know i think average viewer knows that r.t. america has a different perspective so that we're not hearing one echo chamber that mainstream media is constantly spewing. we're not beholden to any corporate sponsor no one

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