on a very difficult front line which is the city's. defense and security analyst come on alarm says a number of factors led to the relative success of the attack. i think unfortunately the afghan security forces are just not up to the standards or there's too much pressure on them and there's not much coordination between nato forces and the afghan police there are multiple threats there's the taliban there's there's i says there's also has this army which is also in the government so there are number of opponents and i think this simply isn't the right intelligence to counter these kind of attacks because they're happening on the regular basis one day it's a civilian target one day it's a military target one day it's a commercial road or a hotel like today had to counter terrorism in afghanistan you need regional approach and the regional approach means working with iran working with pakistan and working with russia in the central asian states at the moment the u.s. is not really doing that they have their own strategy and it's not doesn't fit in

with the region strategy. told trumps first year in the white house has been marked by a government wide shutdown this follows the senate's refusal to approve a bill to fund the government all but five democrats voted against it main sticking point lindstrom's refusal to include protections for undocumented young immigrants . a man in the republican leadership do the job they are paid to do today they put politics above the national security everyone thinks of themselves as a leader in that building is going to have to look at themselves in the marriage and ask are they really being true to the ideals of this country democrats hold our local citizens hostage over their reckless demands we have a divider in chief in the white house this is behavior the structure just loses not legislate. well this is the latest example of just how bump

a the first twelve months have been for the president. up and takes a look at how trump's tenure has unfolded so far. one trouble sworn in a year ago. emotions were running high on all sides. ok. u.s. 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 meant less interference in other countries well that's not

exactly how it played out tonight i ordered a targeted military strike we are so proud of our military that it was another successful event we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary on the home front from 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 between 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 was a phrase that. we may be in. 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 dream. of washington d.c. . but it looks like that slump 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 war 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 to have some wonderful. prototypes that have been put out 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. thomas

presidency has also be mocked by a string of quirky catchphrases and diplomatic moves that have kept the world and the media gets. what is going to do next here's our take on trump's first twelve months. at least eleven. donald trump's oath of office means nothing this is one of the most miraculous in our bureau speeches we've ever i'm not going to give you if you actually use a car you are fake to do. donald trump's incoherence is all a direct result of the potential collusion rough inclusion of u.s.

officials are growing increasingly concerned about possible russian intrusion. we've just launched fifteen. heading to iraq where we're headed to syria. heading towards syria. you just got back from the middle east to get saudi arabia is. still. going to go to a. meeting with.

we are totally prepared for the second option totally destroy north korea is a sick puppy north korean regime is calling the president. a load of nonsense obviously he's a pretty smart cookie. he wish you a very happy. thinking about what's going on and the love that's all over. jerusalem.

a british student has been making headlines after appearing on a radio show and confessing her support for communism twenty four year old fiona lolly told the b.b.c. programme she felt communism was never given a chance to develop in the soviet union and so didn't actually fail the story whipped up a storm of debate over how universities are you ring students to the left one repeatedly quoted professor says law is downplaying the crimes of stalin when r.t. spoke to her about the media storm. i think it's completely hypocritical and very typical of academics like him to kind of passionately you know talk about the deaths under the soviet union but i think this is you know very much selective outrage the media in general obviously don't paint marxism or socialism or really any kind of left wing politics in a positive light and that's because obviously in you know the media is owned by

a certain group of people in the media is owned by a billionaire class that have certain interests they want to protect i think people can think for themselves and i wouldn't take their headlines general opinion or the british book. and it seems red alerts have been flashing a few times recently in the british media much was made of the prime minister wearing a bracelet featuring frida kahlo a communist known for her concerns about the poor and a buzz feed signs that it felt compelled to look down her social media account following the abuse she received after writing that she wanted communism for christmas but does the public share the media's read fear well according to a new opinion poll nine percent of young adults view communism as a danger to the world compare that to global business which almost a quarter think actually poses the biggest threat or political activist george barda says there's a need to distinguish between history and propaganda. what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and older in this country and certainly in the u.s.

of course much of the west identifies communism in the soviet union and the like hard left or extreme left as pretty much different aspects of the same thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. when when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rates of economic growth the mainstream foreign policy journals were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try and explain away why the demonized system was apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the propaganda and the historical realities. twitter has started sending emails to those who might have followed it retreated or lying to suspected russian propaganda accounts during the u.s. presidential campaign twitter estimates almost seven hundred thousand users fall into that category where its message to those uses the social media platform urge

them to learn more about the nature of the russian propaganda effort one of those contacted by twitter is political comedian tim young and he told us that liking or retreating shouldn't be considered as propaganda. well i thought it was very interesting getting a letter from twitter because. i never recalled re tweeting or liking something that i would have viewed as russian propaganda to have donald trump elected or or manipulate the election is a propaganda tool if you agree with what you're liking or re tweeting i'm not sure who is being influenced as an american by the tweets especially the tweets that they showed they had a few example tweets and a lot of them were just basic political messages that anyone in america could come up with so i think twitter and a lot of the democrats think americans are extremely stupid so i'm not sure exactly why twitter thought that i would have been fluence to buy something. outside of this country to begin with in the election. he requested that to assure explain how

the times had to find accounts related to so-called russian propaganda that hasn't received enough to say fuck us no make is how to accuse the scientists playing host to a torrent of disintegration june the twenty sixteen election campaign trisha said it would want to identify and inform people about that alleged propaganda. a letter that i wrote calling on these companies to individually inform all users who are exposed to false misleading and inflammatory posts generated by russian agents we will be working to identify and inform individually the users who may have been exposed to the ira accounts during the election it's it's nearly impossible to be able to show what is actually political propaganda because in and election cycle everything can be considered political propaganda and what is considered a different country meddling in another country's election because i've been

contacted i've done digital marketing before for many people and i think contacted by foreign leaders to run their digital campaigns and do social media for them so would that count as an american meddling in their election like there's so many different ways you can categorize this and it really doesn't make sense but it plays into the old now one year old or longer conspiracy theory that russian the russian government colluded with the trump campaign which there's still no evidence of. how about the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of our stories. banks geysers financial survival you know they say money to develop for. close to easing this is our central bank supported by a common kind of problem right now so stop the bad.

light for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i dived. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just billionaire owners and spending two hundred twenty million one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy was great so what more chance for. peace is going to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

come on. started working on the question. before the euro was why. we had such concerns what we were preparing to do.

thank you all very much. and are for me to be here to. pay tribute to a hero freedom. milton friedman. documentary the nation was at risk of default under pressure of the european institutions the berlusconi government had just resigned in favor of. a technician who did the forthcoming catastrophe it was the first time in a decade that i came back to the land where i was born. to advance a moral vision. where men and women are free.

to choose. by the breeding agencies and they'd lost credibility in the eyes of international markets there was everywhere a climate of fear and uncertainty about the future. when government attempts. it's. for the judgments of free people. the results are usually disastrous. the italian case with its debt out of control could have even caused a domino effect on the whole european economy only dose of the pigs. what was going on in europe in contrast to the free markets invisible hand. which improves the lives of people the government's invisible foot. tramples on people's hopes and destroy surgery.

that's the word spread and austerity had entered into everyday speech but no one knew what consequences the economic crisis would entailed be taken to the streets across spain to join the general strike that's stretching throughout europe still european politicians who shared us with the crisis would be resolved soon applying effective economic recipes and structural reforms they might. like. after four years of austerity the economic conditions of the pigs are even worse but the european press continues to believe that corruption in indolence are the sources of our problems and at this point we deserve this crisis.

chris for. the. post in austin. and a lot. with the. out of these they can. be the only ship. that is sound the big kid enough to buy into my new ship a season in the league cup as an eleven that she for all countries that we wish the weaker economies are. working hard to be spendthrift and so that's mostly complete nonsense so for example greeks work on june more hours per week than germans do. in one thousand

nine hundred two the my strict treaty was signed and the european union was formally born. but let's take a break because this story also talks about. that in that very same year found in the social cooperatives. me of which he is now president in twenty four years cloudy in their colleagues and given back dignity to those who had just been released from mental hospitals schools prisons or simply from their homes they left with the fam a few up to colorado full of crazy people they drove around month utah into a small town in north of draw monday the eyes of the outraged locals and they got to change the face of their city a cooperative has dealt with more than five hundred people with disabilities and more than five thousand people took advantage of services a tenth of the population of want to return today the likely risk is that it would be shut down triggering a real social bump in the event yeah and he should be doing that one hundred.

percent say. with macroeconomics you can understand the limits and then with microeconomic you understand everything that happens if out of those lives so macro economic might put you in this role and then the micro would be everything that happens inside the role playing ultimate all the. i think. that. if you send one hundred dogs to the room to get some bones there's always ninety five there you've got a macro problem a structural problem five of those dogs are going to get any. she gave a lot. of it is now the micro. psychologists will take those five guys out and they'll be examined then they'll say ok they need more training we need structural reform experiment again this and those are do get and sure enough the next time those dogs get back to. me.

what they forget this is going to be just five other dogs that don't get bones because there's a macro problem it's good to have better dog stronger darts faster dart but if the problem is to short by bones if a short fight bone nothing the micro can do about the. you is it really possible that there is such between the upper floors of economic power and small everyday problems is it true that we are one hundred dogs in a room with only ninety five bones and who decides when the bones must be ninety five or one hundred. eighty days keep.

going on. if you need to see. but a. little . more than. that i really miss.

elizabeth starting a little street shaken to its very foundation t.j. you had a hundred fifty billion dollars co-payment today. and. also the other big question tonight the fate of the thousands of employees who work in a building. in the u.s. financial crisis spread to europe in the form of a crisis and quickly turned into an economic crisis. there's a lot of discussion about what's going to come out of. but democracy was never the strongest suit the european union wants to become

the only way of imposing such highly irrational toxic policies of for three shifting the losses from the banks onto the shoulders of the weakest taxpayers of europe. whatever democracy. events if you. trace it if you do. you just need. to know i did it.

because. he treated me unique. feel a. massive government intervention launched a new. yes economy creating jobs balance and social conflicts in protecting the weakest segments of the population this was called the new deal found. that word that there were family. named. the new deal was inspired by the father of macro economics john maynard keynes argued the need for public intervention in the economy of

a nation on the opposite side milton friedman yes that treatment of freedom and economic consumption of the bloodthirsty dictator pinochet theories remain the source of current economic policies of the past and anything we can do to keep down government spending is a good thing we should restrict it to those activities like defense which we really need to do thank you because it's a political decision that's why in the past i've called it a crime against humanity because it's an act of decision a kind of walk they have run out of money the central bank discredits the cost there's no limit to the amount they present so let's see how money is created in the united states. rather than.

that i know it was covered by that class i thought before was that a. political battle when i could cut. and. i didn't lose a child for a tough call that i'd. make that. hi michelle and also. it's whole full plate choice news i haven't had time in syria has said. who she ought to give us. a model for other than after the whole fuck around mr hate that for jim and then oil for folks that are fed him and for. the money.

in order to overthrow a regime it does take popular discontent and popular mobilization but it also requires actors with in 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 but did not have support at higher levels. yes it was pretty hard with a large couple of it but you put something. up in the will of the last election i believe will move forward slowly we don't and we will all soon but you know one of the open stuff in little push.