injured or they were killed this is still an ongoing situation almost forty five minutes ago two loud explosions were heard afghanistan's best and most elite forces the members of the crisis response unit team are afghanistan's best hope to fight this sort of an attack they have experience they have been fighting these attacks for years they've been trained by westron special forces but we still door nor who is really inside the hotel how many casualties and fatalities we're talking about in a war and family members already taking to social media into local media simply wanting to know what exactly is happening to their loved ones i think it's also a failure on the part of the afghan government that this still have not been able to stablish some sort of a helpline despite years of these attacks so that people could at least get some sort of an update about their family members ok thanks for bringing us up to date

the latest information there from kabul from local journalist sorry. ok let's change tack now to the united states on terms first year in the white house is being marked by a government wide shutdown this is after the senate refused to approve a bill to fund the government among democrats all but five of them voted against the main sticking point being trump's refusal to include protection for undocumented young immigrants. demand that the republican leadership do the job they are paid to do today they put politics above the national security everyone who thinks of themselves as the leader in that building is going to have to look at themselves in the mirror and ask are they really being true to the ideals of this country democrats hold our local citizens hostage over their breakfast of moments we have the divider in chief in the white house this is behavior the obstruction

just loses no legislative. well this is just the latest example of how bumpy the first twelve months for the president to being takes a look at how trump's tenure has unfolded. when trouble is sworn in a year ago emotions were running high on all sides. ok. the us media described it as a pivotal moment in american history you're not having a terrible terrible dream also you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell it will be very bad americans and others will now die washington d.c. the establishment is terrified and they should be they call that the trump revolution trump promised to completely overhaul u.s. foreign and economic policy he promised a brave new world that was cheered by his supporters and dreaded by his detractors as a distro be an apocalypse so a year on where are we well with all this america first rhetoric you might have

thought that would have met less interference in other countries well that's not exactly how it played out tonight i ordered a targeted military strike. and it was another successful event we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary on the home front some promised a new level of protectionism against mexico and china but the usa is increasingly buying more foreign goods and producing less of its own the trade deficit with mexico is up by eleven percent the trade deficit with china is up by seven percent unemployment is low but so are wages there is record amounts of household debt in the united states right now and retail stores are closing across the country and here's one thing that didn't change between trump and previous administrations during the election trump talked about getting along better with russia and his detractors called him a kremlin puppet but now one year later things which we washington and moscow are

about the same as they were before bad for their action by the. congress to put these sanctions in place from the way they do that's the decision they made that made it very overwhelming it was on. except we may be at an all time low in terms of the relationship with russia this is built for a long period of time now trump promised to drain the swamp of corruption we are going to drill. washington d.c. . but it looks like that swamp is still here and deeper than ever policy stay the same our foreign policy is the same the monetary policy in the federal reserve is the same spending as the same deficits are still rising so there has not been any significant changes in the direction of our country which i had been hoping for is that he has perpetuated so many of our deeply flawed policies especially in foreign policy foreign policy is

a little bit more confusing i am very pleased he's at least made an honest effort that he's reduced the amount of regulations and i think that's one of the reasons we've had an economic boost. and that is that is good and he's made an effort to reduce taxes that's for from perfect but lower taxes less regulation is good and the marketplace is reflecting that oh and don't forget about that wall we're going to build the world we have no choice we have no choice. yeah how's that going we have some wonderful. prototypes that have been put up now despite the president's ambitious timetable for construction it remains unclear when the wall might actually go up on the surface donald trump looks like a president like no other he's allowed brash he doesn't care about political correctness is even turned twitter into an official white house channel but if you look a little bit closer and judge him by his political actions he's

a little bit more the rule than the exception. artsy new york. meanwhile a growing number of us republican congressmen are demanding the release of a top secret. intelligence document i believe it reveals political bias against trump in the ongoing russia probe i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and this f.b.i. that's how serious this is that there has been a real attempt to undermine this president and it's the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately the american people deserve they mosques they want to know what's in this document sadly much of the mainstream media will not be covering this today but in this house on this day let us know that indeed we are still one nation under god and willing to protect life. well the content of the

secret document is unknown and it's still unclear whether it will be released but based on comments made by some republicans it's thought intelligence officials under the obama administration were politically motivated during investigations into alleged trump russia illusion democrats were quick also to react to this memo they've denounced this content they've called the document profoundly misleading a set of talking points which attacks the f.b.i. and gives a distorted view of the bureau and she will submit a special social media with the hash tag release the memo trending on twitter in the u.s. late on friday and it wasn't long till russia was added into the mix to a group of research is accused alleged kremlin linked accounts of pushing for the memos release on twitter they say the use of the hash tag increased massively of the course of a day among roughly six hundred users they were monitoring independent journalist martin summers thinks though that russia just got caught up in parties and crossfire think the russian linked account seems to have appeared from nowhere the fact that there's a very partisan situation in the us where the f.b.i.

quite likely would being used to try and undermine trouble think that's a fairly likely thing that's happened but of course both sides in their digging do this on each other accusing each other of being russian stooges and of course with the world at large what is this and it's becoming increasingly bizarre and ridiculous these allegations are being flung around in the way that they are what's happening now is that the republicans are turning this russia probe on to their enemies by saying we're not sure fact it looks like the democrats have been. playing fast and loose and are not playing by the rules both sides actually probably are cheats that's what i would suggest. and stay with us here on r.t. more news after this break. the winner take all mentality it's a lottery mentality in america either where are your dead and the pharmacy companies of course a lobbyist going to washington to change the laws of a possible to all cost in america and nobody cares because it ever learned

a lot as a wal-mart to. get. something did these really important for us. not to be only a common market. as we see to be a community of that. view was both process as if you twit it is so good to power that through moscow prides dalmiya need to it why the their way to be unsearchable to communities be to some. kind of.

a comeback forget the war on terrorism it is russia and china that are now america's biggest threats that's what u.s. defense secretary james mattis town to see unveiled the country's new defense priorities well he's my guest if picks up the story. trump's new defense doctrine can probably be summed up in just three words bring it on and to those who would threaten america's experiment in democracy they must know if you challenger it will be your longest and your worst day the war on terror is now secondary the priority is the new great game of global proportions great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of u.s. national security the logic here is that the technological and hard power gap between the us and the competition is narrowing and washington simply can't let

that happen it cannot expect success fighting tomorrow's conflicts with yesterday's weapons or equipment. investments in space and space nuclear deterrent forces missile defense advanced autonomy a systems and resilient and logistic will provide our high quality troops what they need to win. i that is a new arms race or race is a nuclear arms race at me races side by race space to what has that ever made the world a safer place sure we can have competition and all of that internationally but we

should be working more cooperatively with each other because last time i heard the cold war was over what i'm really concerned about is that we're going to be seen. draining i drain resources to something we really really don't need already they're talking about a hypersonic fighter who needs it that really requires billions upon billions of dollars of research and development and again it's really aimed at keeping the defense industry in business it's been said that budget cuts have done more damage to the u.s. military than anything else they say is an attempt to undo that damage but these are ambitious plans remember the f. thirty five or the columbia class submarines lethal weapons at least when it comes to destroying budgets but then that's what friends of fool you know it winston churchill it once said the only thing harder than fighting with the allies is

fighting without them the growing economic strength of today's democracies and partners dictates they must now step up and do more. making everyone else pays this much is part of the planners all the fancy toys europeans especially haven't been all that enthusiastic about spending fortunes in defense understandably but then there's a new domain to fight in the cyber world this is a wild west right now as you know people in their bedrooms can be doing things that are causing your bank account dire problems at this point an urgent challenge and the u.s. is going to overhaul and boosted cyber forces giving them greater capability to deal with the random guys in their bedrooms i think we've got some serious challenges ahead we don't have the resources for the kind of spending that they want to do and i think we need to be

a great deal more concerned about how those finite resources are going to be allocated and we need to be meeting immediate threats and that's terrorism. a defense ministry claims that america is still sitting on ten percent of its chemical weapons stockpile and that this is in violation of washington's commitments and disarmament convention jaclyn very good as mine. back in the ninety's both the u.s. and russia signed the chemical weapons convention arms control treaty and that pact prohibits the use deployment and stockpiling of chemical weapons and yet a statement from the russian fence ministry has highlighted the fact that the us has yet to meet its obligations with that according to the statement the us still has around ten percent of its chemical weapons arsenal and that it's kept combat ready meanwhile russia was already able to say last september that it had destroyed all of its chemical weapons and that was done of schedule president putin held that as a historic moment whereas the u.s. has repeatedly pushed back their deadline using an excuse that putin found to be

rather lacking. russia and the u.s. with just possesses of chemical weapons but now only the united states is unfortunately they do not fulfill their obligations regarding deadlines to destroy their chemical weapons the terms of destruction have been postponed three times already including of the pretext of a lack of sufficient budget funds now the idea that they simply lacked funding really is hard to reconcile with the fact that the u.s. has a massive military budget every single year now we contacted the u.s. department of defense to comment on these claims coming from the russian ministry of defense and they have sent us on to contact the state department so we'll see what happens there and this all comes as washington has once again accused president assad of using chemical weapons and of moscow supporting the syrian leader and that russia has of course objected to those accusations on a number of fronts first of all there's the fact that all chemical weapons were in fact removed from syria back in two thousand and fourteen and destroyed that was

all carried out by russian authorities and confirmed by the o.p.c. at the time plus there's the fact that these investigations that have been conducted into chemical attacks in syria really have been quite flawed those who were conducting the investigation never actually went to the site and any evidence that was collected was actually sent out of the country by people who are actually part of the opposition. which of course would be a distinct conflict of interest. cleanup operations underway in germany after the country and other parts of europe were battered by storm friedrich violent cross winds meant that the skills of the pilots were tested to the mt example this video is the most online of what can only be described as something of an extreme landing into as you can see here the plane picks a real pummeling from the wind it lurches from side to side looks in danger of flipping over at one point the pilot amazingly battled the elements all the way safely down

a flight although i'm sure it was not too much from for the people on. this busy news hour but back with more than half an hour. in order to overthrow the regime it does take a popular discontent and popular mobilization but also requires actors with the leadership of the regime who feel that the regime is no longer serving the national interest you need people in the military or the bureaucracy or both who are willing to see the regime change otherwise they would be able to put down a popular revolt that did not have support at higher levels.

u.k. firefighters warning of lives at risk the national health service in crisis and police got steam to disaster for national security you're watching an emergency special of going underground coming up on the show will the government learn any lessons from the. karelian prices of tens of thousands of threatened with losing their jobs in the u.k. we speak to an n.h.s. nurse about the public private partnerships the chill edges of destroying universal health care system and our austerity cuts killing young people on the streets of britain we speak to a former metropolitan police chief with over twenty years experience about why he believes u.k. prime minister tourism a has blood on their hands but the government is not running really and the government is actually a customer of caribbean according to the pm the british government is merely just another customer of the multi-billion pound liquidated private contractor chaired by her former corporate responsibility adviser told us more coming up in today's

going underground but first across british civic society there appears to be a consensus that is a relative got to be n.h.s. universal health care system to bail out the banks have caused a crisis even the normally stoic u.k. health secretary in the past few weeks has apologized for the enforced cancellation of tens of thousands of operations for lack of money that is unacceptable and i apologize wholeheartedly that apology came before the mass multi-billion pound corporate failure of karelian which while not being able to manage itself was put in charge by tourism have managing n.h.s. facilities treating patients right across the united kingdom joining me now is an n.h.s. nurse on the front line of britain's universal health care system jackie barrie jackie welcome back to going underground eight thousand of karelians twenty thousand staff work in the health sector which means that companies liquidation immediately triggered emergency plans in britain's universal health care system the n.h.s. just give us an overview of what the private sector does in government health care

system. effectively the private sector have been at large in national health service for twenty thirty years now successive governments have had a policy of outsourcing. risk high yield lucrative contracts to. private companies things like portraying cleaning maintenance and i've also been involved in the construction of private finance mischief hospitals where effectively the taxpayer pays enormous amounts of money over the odds to private construction firms for shiny hospitals but then gets hired into these thirty year contracts where money is drying out of the service away from the frontline and away from the patients so the idea is not what they say obviously they say the government labor ministers and tory ministers they all say this is a great we're making things more efficient because you know just rewarding their

friends in big multi-billion pound contracting firms but i think if we can learn anything from what's happened really is that actually that's not the case for successive governments so worship to the old to the free market as the the be all and end all for the delivery of goods and services actually today the chickens are coming home to based the market doesn't work when it comes to the provision of public services essentially what's happened is this government and governments before it have given karelian and companies like karelian by the way they're not the only ones billions of pounds to do work which actually the n.h.s. could do just as well and just as cheaply and these companies have effectively used the n.h.s. as a way of siphoning public money public resources well that we. into the pockets of private shareholders you know korean put their diffidence up last year

something like eighteen i seen point four five percent time when they knew the profits were going down so that no these companies don't add any value if anything they just siphoned. off a seven karelian it operates two hundred operating three hundred critical care beds does remember website when we were. running in now eleven thousand inpatient beds on the coalface would you see these managers walking around the wards or were these so you have people who do and i chest jobsite porto's or kleeneze or people who demand but i don't work for the n.h.s. i work for private companies a lot of these people actually used to be and i just stuff through the outsourcing of contacts to the privatisation process which actually not just the tory government but the labor government before and i've seen a massive proliferation of these sorts of arrangements so workers have effectively

been tighten out of the n.h.s. and how can i fit into private contracts which means that the conditions of richest collectively organized stretching in a way they leave them why do they leave the private sector because the contracts so the job to do. only are you doing the same job publicly democratically the next you know we're a labor ministers the blairite and equal been people in the parliamentary labor party they don't raise a maze luck with the impress though it's only a website karelians website they have on rival experience in managing critical complex environmental assets and they support thousands of patients and health care professionals on a daily basis to begin with words like that that persuaded our democratically elected politicians that they're the ones to do it not public sector workers like yourself well i mean mr five the marketing mark oh no why patchouli we've had this

government and governments before it which have had an ideological commitment liberalism. cannot mix where actually it doesn't really matter of all of these companies say that i'll commit to breaking up public services because i. i feel for him but what public service is represent and that is the idea if we will pay him what like what we can and take what we made so. the labor party the war the responsibility because this is all pioneered under brown actually part of the people who supported it mostly the people who tried to we were destroyed germy corbin's leadership in the labor party but i think there are some parts of the labor party which have a legacy in privatisation of the health service and actually goes beyond the tender in the pure process with things like karelian paget's at the y. that the n.h.s.

is structured an organized in itself give you an example there was announcement a couple of weeks ago the fifty thousand and i guess patients were not going to get their elective surgeries in january february now that's going to impact not just on those patients who are going to have to wait longer for their hips and their knees in their shoulders but it's also going to impact on i just trust because now the n.h.s. is this no one in h.s. it's divided up into a competitive competitive trusts trust on the price of work. and it was under brown that an enormous premium enormous tariff was introduced for elective surgery so it means that the n.h.s. won't get that money and i just trust now won't get that money which is going to push more more trust over into into the red in the new financial year and actually that stems what the player browny the focus was to try and get.

his patients to go in and have their operations done in the private sector so it was about transferring wealth transferring assets out of the public purse into the hands of private companies obviously the cancellation of tens of thousands of surgery after surgery appointments like that is a unique advanced economies but we have. secretary jeremy hunt said that had to happen because there was flu that flu every year we know there's going to be flu every year and actually the question isn't did it need to happen or didn't happen i don't know prysner level watch lay there on the beds to put these elective search operations in a lot of cases but why was that allowed to happen why is it that we don't have the beds for these patients we have lost over the last six years fifteen thousand beds from the n.h.s. so we don't physically have the beds to put the patients same way on that even if we have the beds we don't have room in hospitals to put patients because we've had

asset stripping wear. and we wear land effectively it's been sold off to the private sector and that is a process that big seller right it's it's reason why it's government continues on top of that with an oven of staff to look off the patients once they're in the beds so you know we've got an operational crisis in place in the n.h.s. i tried to ask the health secretary hunted the tory party conference in manchester about this question why are nurses now leaving the national health service. well we haven't had a pay rise in seven is in fact we have had real to have cut your fourteen percent i've lost seven years. workload is increased exponentially where unsupported we have enough staff to do the job so when you don't have enough staff that increases eleven was a stress so it makes it even harder over shifts for nurses and hospital. it depends

if every month for three now was overruled over what undervalued we are underpaid. and for the first time in my in my professional life if i met a young person and he said that i was considering asking i would not encourage them actively discourage them i suppose the defenders near liberalism would say the british actress had to fund the bailing out of the city of london therefore britain's national service already funded of the level as percentage of g.d.p. that the united states has is that when germany and france it has to be cut further critics of course say that it's a deliberate attempt to force people to go private and kill off the n.h.s. where still you have you witnessed the. people around you see new doctors and so on saying maybe you should go private but you know i don't think it's just saying it out. some people in the n.h.s.

who are completely ground down but this government's attempt to dismantle our service that i don't necessarily feel like there's any other option however as a child genius and as a health campaigner i feel that we've covered sponsibility to give some leadership to people inside actually to noble the n.h.s. is the single greatest achievement of british working people collectively taking action and fighting for something and if we are prepared to let that go we would open up a door to a system not what they have in america. now the reason i spend so much more as a percentage of g.d.p. in the united states and we do in the u.k. is because the market is fundamentally an inefficient system the delivery of health care we've witnessed this just over the last couple of days with the collapse of korea we want to a good thing here and we need to fight not just to defend what we've got but actually to take back into public ownership the karelian contracts the g four s. contrast contrast the people that are running ambulance service up and down the

country and the people running community services furch care and build i fully integrate his national health and social care service not on the basis of cuts and privatization but on the basis of democratic public ownership so that we can give the care that we're trying for so long to be able to do the big. bird and i think the demonstration of that effect korea has got the opportunity to ten show a real lightning rod for a lot of the anger that is out there we have got people dying in college or is on trial days in pain without seeing a doctor or a nurse that is the situation is an except in a pill lab to everybody who's watching if you can come down to london on the third of february to type in a demonstration and to get involved in a movement up and down the country in your communities to defend the national health service and to send.