these militant groups can't really strike a world in target these key military institutions as well as secure security areas in kabul remains a serious source of concern for people living here in kabul today's attack is deadly one for the afghan national security forces remember they were killed not on the frontline somewhere in some remote district or in the province where this is every day fighting i think that alone tells you that cities including kabul is becoming a. deadly front in the afghan government just continues to struggle to prevent these militants from carrying out these attacks. on the country has seen a wave of deadly terror attacks recently with three of them in the past ten days alone.

following the recent string of violence both president trump on the commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan john nicholson said washington would spare no effort to defeat the insurgents and to bring peace to the region the taliban the responded threatening more attacks in retaliation to what it called a policy of aggression. the u.s. has considerably stepped up its campaign in the country over the past year and twenty seventy washington dropped more than four thousand bombs on afghanistan between august and december of last year the u.s. carried out as many as strikes as it did in the previous two years combined security and political analysts believes even though military action is important

in the fight against extremists this alone will not bring peace to afghanistan. a military offensive is always needed because you have to keep the militant groups from the main cities and from or from taking over the country in different provinces in different parts of the country but considering it as the sole response to the current situation or the only way to resolve the one conflict will be wrong understanding because at the end of that the end of conflict needs a political settlement and dialogue and that is where the our one government has tried to complement the american strategy which is mainly focused on fighting the militants or using the military might. and it turns out you don't necessarily have to be a spine to uncover secret military facilities around the world when australia institute was able to do just that by looking at the global map which shows where people exercise the most explains how fitness trackers are now raising major security concerns the military forces. did you know now anyone who's got an internet browser

can locate even the most secret army bases around the world say journalists thanks to these little things so how come people are saying fitness trackers could have become the soldier's worst enemy look at this global heat map by a g.p.s. tracking company wherever it gets bright are the areas of the stronger apps most active use some places seem totally black like of ghana's stand for instance but we know there are american soldiers and parts of it zoom in tot all the little bright dots is where sam must hang out or to be more precise exercise it was a twenty year old student who first noticed how easy it was to find the u.s. bases this particular track looks like it logs or break into jogging route a shouldn't be able to establish any pattern of life from this far away so that's

a real threat which the pentagon's admitted while only a few years ago they were happy to distribute thousands of fit bits among staff by the way there must be a number of temporary or even permanent u.s. bases that we don't know about journalists have zoomed in on areas around mosul and iraq and roc-a in syria we're told uncle sam is there to train and assist since the rest of iraq and syria are pretty much all black perhaps locals don't really have many of these devices so it's fair to assume that the bright spots are where americans train others and train themselves another journalist remembered this article and scrawled all the way to the capital of somalia some heavy jargon activity on the beach around with looks like the reported cia annex at mogadishu airport no one can say for sure all of this is correct but the

concern. as out there u.s. troops security issues aside i was going to show you the koreas how's that for a contrast but even then young yang there are a couple of bright zigzags could it be mr kim enjoying a bit of western technology well i bet he'll never tell us and we're going to take a very short break but when you coming up c.n.n. moment.

lead to one story she's using the press the right. so let me say this. in this business sense to see if we. just put up. welcome back while the united states continues to hit russian energy firms with sanctions it turns out that russian gas will actually soon be heating american homes this is after a french cargo ship loaded with liquefied natural gas from siberia docked in boston

this wind has been far colder than on average on the east coast of the u.s. and it's led to much greater demand for heating and gas and the tanker that you see in our video there unloading in the united states it's owned by the french company which says that it bought the cargo because of the current spike in demand the ship itself made a delivery in the united kingdom before sailing on to the u.s. is thought to be the first shipment of russian liquefied natural gas or l.n.g. to the u.s. a second tanker originating from russia is expected to dock on the east coast in mid february. the fuel itself was produced by your mar l.n.g. of which the russian company novacek as a controlling interest that both are currently subject to u.s. sanctions but russian oil and gas shipments are not french and chinese companies hold forty nine point nine percent of the shares in your model l.n.g. so technically the cargo is not subject to sanctions as long as it's board and

delivered by a third party that's not russia. please speak now to william alanson former british diplomat author and professor at marconi university so william and i suspect i'm learning here this is how sanctions a circle navigated over the years and still now perhaps so we got russian gas heating american homes how does that fit in with the anti russia sanctions imposed by washington. it underlines firstly the hypocrisy of the whole thing with a great deal to say about this so do interrupt me for if i rabbit on for too long this whole question of sanctions. almost began over two hundred years ago oddly enough when russia the catherine the great imposed the blockade on britain which was being very bolshie towards a free america and paradoxically that strengthen the british economy and helped to lead to a very strong british industrial revolution so the more effective these sanctions

are the paradoxes the more they are likely to strengthen the russian economy which has to become more independent and self-sufficient than it is even more so. we've seen signs of that recently the other effect that is likely to have is that it's helping the russians and the chinese to move away from the dollar so in that sense the u.s. move is likely suicidal thus it is important to get round the sanctions as is hypocrisy or the presentational yes we've got sanctions but then a french company a clever french company makes a profit by buying liquefied gas at a certain moment. i cannot help thinking of what i now call the you see of a rather than the us in other words the united corporation of america with a business flag on top because of course behind this attempt to keep up the cold war and expand nato you know with britain poland the baltic states of course being the main nato cheerleaders behind all this is also heavy business interests don't

forget it was i think an american president very honest man called calvin coolidge american business so the american military industrial congressional complex cannot stop it's almost spastic spasmodic it starts it has a business objective it wants to make a profit but. this is not a very diplomatic way of going about things because it actually in the long run damage. not only the u.s. economy itself but. i just wanted to touch on what you said earlier about the effect that sanctions are having on russia i mean what would you say the long term effect has been of these sanctions on russian businesses. the long term effect is that it will strengthen the russian economy and make it more independent and weaken the dollar from what i can see because a lot of people especially germany because you must remember that this whole thing is about the battle for germany in the battle for europe who controls germany and

europe is it going to be the russians or the u.s. hopefully nobody hopefully europe will be its own master but at the moment europe is still very much. under the american wing and i think that the long term effect will also be to see people like schroeder don't forget schroeder who is anti the war in iraq etc coming more and more to the fore and convincing the most important sectors of the german economy and even the french economy after that because of the franco german axis that being so hostile toward russia is simply going to weaken their own economies because russia is a very strong independent economy so long term if this policy goes on and i'm not sure it will depend what trump does or whether he he he proved to be more stable goes on then it will it will strengthen russia that's all i don't see it helping the the u.s. military industrial complex by the way one very important final point is another excuse for these for these sanctions of course is the. alleged

meddling in the us elections i've never seen such hypocrisy from the arch medlar of the last century which is the united states which is meddled in not only meddled in foreign elections but actually replaced government cynically so. i do apologize william we are that time yes i do appreciate you're a great speaker and i appreciate your views surely william mallinson british diplomat only university thankfully. over. swedish retail giant h. and m. is recall the series of children socks after complaints the patent on the rhythm of the word ally in arabic h m m's apollo. i said it was unintentional but the clothing giant's been making plenty of headlines recently a few weeks ago he was accused of racism after its catalog featured a black child wearing a hoodie with the words coolest monkey in the jungle the child's mother though rejected claims it was racist you could drive

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to sophie and co the north korean ships are causing global concern the us russia spat is paving the way to yet another arms race as a world free of nuclear weapons a beautiful dream or an achievable target i ask santa down apollo former united nations undersecretary for disarmament affairs. one diplomatic spat one moderator read from one button pushed by a tire jump the officer or one successful cyber attack even if only one nuclear weapon is fired off accidentally the catastrophe that would be unimaginable. is the way to contain and control the danger seem old saying this. never stop the world wide spread of nuclear weapons and will humanity ever be rid of them. chanting down

apollo the former united nations under-secretary for disarmament affairs welcome treasure it's great to have you with us. ambassador would talk a lot about nuclear weapons and north korea that's constantly in the nearest pakistan about iran but right now in asia china is seeking to build a missile defense against a potential nuclear strike from india and with some border tensions between the two asian gentlemen is south and as days are going to be where the next big missile race will take place i don't think your story to be as serious as it is made out to be by some newspapers but is certainly the potential for a showdown between. india and china is there because they are both nuclear weapon countries perhaps not to the same level that they have been that in the case of iraq where the theater of war has been present in international relations in the

cold war era so we haven't really been a nuclear weapon states five of them recognized by the u.k. or nonproliferation treaty and the other four save the n.p.t. now we must also be concerned about the fact that illicit missiles are also greater trade ben cyber warfare is a very real possibility and so the possibility of saber attacks and cyber attacking nuclear weapon systems is a very real one today. but the north korean affair has made it regional powers uneasy now even japan is mulling over next to beef up its own security as nonproliferation crumbling completely at least in asia because of this north korean nuclear project through i think the pace bought by letterman

multilateralism and has meeting reduced very sharply from the days when reagan and the soviet leaders of us negotiated by the left really means you don't have anybody left really the means being that she had to know and i think that's a great shame. mr trump as the new president of the united states there appears to be no movement at all well as any kind of design movement we have the comprehensive nuclear test mad b.c. which is yet to be ratified and implemented. the russian federation has invented it and has signed and ratified not yet the united states and. seven other countries still to sign so we have a lot of unfinished business when the nuclear genda which makes the situation very very frankly i don't remember it's only unfinished and probably also unclear

because right now we're supplying an unsettled intend to have regular talks even putting their athletes under one flag at the coming lympics and this might seem like a wonderful opportunity for the united states to negotiate with kim jong il and yet what we hear is cool is nuclear button is bigger from trump so it gets you wondering who is a bigger nuclear threat here. i know this is a very sad situation where the leader of the united states is peaking in a very aggressive and very unfortunate way it is broken tip i think we need to have go back to the language of diplomacy and restraint that succeeding or. i think we have will we will back to the time when we had some kind of restraint shortened by the previous leaders world of the united

states and the russian federation. this is important to realize the enormous power of the nuclear weapon and those who control that weapon must act with greater responsibility on the other hand they have said it yourself that a nuclear north korea is to me a reality show will just accept it stop stressing out and move on could that help to face tensions i mean if not what is making kim jong un jumpy probably a calm down and stop where the threats are he won't. well he himself has cited the example of libya and saddam hussein in iraq where they were street seeking to get a nuclear weapon in order to protect themselves from their own security and now that kim jong un has blocked the weapon and has been able to guess if milicic

misael capability. waning as far as merely united states is that certain maybe he will act militaries a sense of responsibility i think we need to bear that in mind. force is something that we should not accept it because it is in violation of the n.p.t. and security council resolutions but without formally accepting maybe a defacto acceptance is the only choice rather than to attack the gave it feels all consequences and unpredictable consequences such as a data matter that you have to decide because they're not great power and not crave power countries like north korea or pakistan with nuclear capabilities or even israel need nukes as a guarantor against invasion and they will never give up as long as they fail there is danger to their security how do we deal with that and how he will make them give up their security guarantees i think the deceit be

a way joints oration agreement with iran which was negotiated by ne europeans plus the united states is an excellent example but unfortunately mr trump is seeking to undermine that and to under evelyn's that's a very serious setback because a country which was ready to negotiate the dismantling of its nuclear weapons is now being faced with the threat of having to have that agreement scrapped in this case nobody has any faith in him. it will see asians in puja the naval forces of great powers ensure that the michalis share of destruction doctrine works and that has kept us royal war free for seventy years now take x. away in wars are much more likely to break out and stir risks are much lower without them put in getting rid of the doors to pass that is arguable the detail of the effects of nuclear weapons has been the major argument in favor of it by

nuclear weapons staves but we don't know with a spec this is workable all restraints no new development states taking action and we don't want to test that because it will be wholly destructive of the human race so we have to find other ways to dismantle the current nuclear weapons arsenals of these countries we have to find other ways to bring down the level of tension you need international affairs and when diplomatic solutions political solutions talking about tamsin political tensions between big powers neither the us nor russia are ready to start disarming and tensions between them are growing and they're actually siding which will threat so what do you do to sometimes feel that your choice for disarmament is overshadowed in today's political reality at the moment yes we are not seeing any prospects of negotiations

but i think we must continue to pursue that and i think here the united nations with its new civilization as a major ruling may and that is something that we would like to see do clearly sensitive time that the united nations is given an opportunity of negotiating to someone directly. pentagon is now considering deploying smaller so-called tactical an x. what does that mean for the risk of a nuclear confrontation breaking out i mean is it more attempting to nuclear bomb when you know it's only a as powerful as the one yes in hiroshima well that is one way of looking at it but i think if you meet again with tactical nuclear weapons you then do it on a slippery slope and you tend to do with the whole world so i think no nukes is better than having even a small amount you because it's very difficult to control the slave to flu scare

nuclear war when you start with one year and that's why i think it will be very very saddled with the human race saying gates in any kind of nuclear exchange so doesn't the nuclear war means destruction for everybody how can it be difficult if y.b. because you can't have different grades of nuclear war was a nuclear war is central then i think total destruction of the world is what is likely to happen and we don't want that to happen because we all from scientific evidence that the use of one different can last lorenda as destruction has struck this structure the ambassador and you bring me to my point to my point that that is exactly why it's never really going to happen i mean even people who have nuclear weapons understand what you're saying right now. that is not an argument because

that means that we have to be all lucky you know that a few days ago a phone why there was a wrong button press and there was a thirty eight million it's absolute panic now this could happen again and the panic and then going to one foolish man using a button to press the right button and sent over nuclear exchange so that is why there are risks of axis of very great in this tense atmosphere that we have we can't trust to luck we know the cuban missile crisis was narrowly averted as a result of response in the behavior on the part of the russian federation or the soviet union at the time and the united states but we got always trust to luck and that is why we need to have better controls with regard to the possibility of nuclear more being settled so america's nuclear modernization is underway and detractors are crying foul over

a potential new arms race but isn't what are not making the weapons and the arsenal safer more up to date better everybody is modernizing their weapons and by modernization it does not need that you are making it safe it may be modernizing you are building bigger and better weapons and refining the systems that you are using. and that is where it is very dangerous to continue with this modernization as a dismantling of weapons is the way to go as you did said there were by that alarms agreements between the also it union and the united states and. multilateral agreements so we need to move now to us actually having talks between need nuclear weapons staves so that we would use the level of danger who are at a mask.