these key military institutions as well as very 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 front line somewhere in some of the more district or in the province where this is every day of fighting i think that alone tells you that cities including kabul is becoming a. front in the afghan government just continues to struggle to prevent these militants from carrying out these attacks. the country has seen a wave of deadly terrorist attacks of late with three of them in just the past ten days.

following the recent string of violence both president trump and the commander of the u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan john nicholson said the washington would spare no effort to defeat the insurgents and to bring peace to the region the taliban responded threatening more attacks in retaliation to what it called a policy of aggression the us has considerably stepped up its air campaign in the country over the last year twenty seventeen washington dropped more than four thousand bombs in afghanistan between august and december last year the u.s. carried out as many airstrikes as it did in the previous two years combined security and political analyst mushfiqur rahim believes that 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 at bay from the main cities and from from taking over the country and 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 a wrong understanding because at the end of the day any conflict needs a political settlement and dialogue and that is where the afghan government has tried to complement the american strategy which is mainly focused on fighting the militants or using the military might. and turns out you don't necessarily have to be a spiny to uncover secret military facilities around the world australian student was able to do just by looking at the global map shows where people exercise the most lipitor interest rates our fitness track is 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 soldiers' 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 you or jogging routes i 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 rocca 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 to it looks like the reported cia. bought no one can say for sure all of this is correct but the. cern is out there u.s. troops security issues aside i was going to show you the koreas how's that for

a contrast but even in pyongyang 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. major german car makers under fire after it was revealed that they had been involved in the past and potentially hazardous experiments on humans and animals with details is peter out of. having humans inhale toxic fumes it's apparently healthy to have an automotive industry carried out its health impact research it's emerged in the media that the giants of the german car industry allegedly sanctioned experiments on both humans and animals the experiments were carried out by a now defunct research group that was funded by volkswagen daimler a big m.w. in the experiments twenty five of volunteers inhaled nitrogen dioxide put through.

university hospital the experiments were given the ok by the university's ethics board and it's understood that there was no adverse health effects for those who took part in the study however this hasn't stopped people being outraged and shocked that this was given the green light in the first place for us according to what is known to the public the discuss that many people are feeling is absolutely understandable these tests on monkeys or even humans can in no way be ethically justified they raise many critical questions for those who are behind these tests and those questions must urgently beyond the same organization it previously found itself in the hope water for its servants of all the animals including forcing ten monkeys to inhale the exhaust fumes of the w.p. cell while watching cartoons the car manufacturers for their part of being quick to

distance themselves from these experiments. we believe that the scientific method chosen that the time was wrong the b.m.w. group is in no way influenced by the design or methodology of studies carried out on behalf of the e.u. g.t. the animal experiments in the study are superfluous and repulsive generating around four hundred billion euro yearly the german also industry has come in for criticism in recent years as well as lead. over attempts to cheat the missions tests the diesel vehicles allegations of carrying out experiments on people and animals and likely to improve the streets reputation peace or all of our party. well earlier we spoke to animal rights attorney jerry schuster he told us animals are routinely mistreated by private industry for research purposes we can't trust these companies to be able to give any kind of meaningful assessment of whether

this was the correct option we can expect these industries to be able to give any kind of meaningful cost benefit analysis given that they shown time and time again that they're willing to use and kill animals for frivolous reasons these major industries have colluded together and have successfully lobbied governments around the world including the u.s. government to basically rarely enforce and the few laws that exist to protect animals at all and so it's extremely rare that any kind of enforcement will take action even against what is in this case extreme violence against animals. swedish retail giant recalled a series of children's socks that after complaints the pattern on them resembled the word alarm in arabic h. and m. has apologized and claimed it was unintentional but the clothing giant's been making plenty of headlines of late just a few weeks ago it 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 the rejected claims that that was racist the new controversy over the sox plenty of reaction online this is ridiculous the next will be that they forbid the small w. and them people have choices if you don't like them then don't buy them getting a little tired of saying you can't make this stuff up. things that cause offense is the latest topic of artie's new online project in case you missed it with polly you can follow her page on twitter. in case you missed it one of the great things about life in twenty eighteen is that you're free to be offended by anything. it's quite confusing recently people have been offended by history literature being a man being a woman meat pro-immigration anti immigration the list is endless because it's actually hard to tell is our guide to being offended in the modern world if i'm

sure as you are offended twitter will always let you know what you're offended about if only one person out of one hundred is offended you need to pretend that you are offended to go actually signalling will cover you every time there is no time limit shakespeare was writing four hundred years ago i'm still some of the one dickens that cambridge university had to be warned about the distressing cvs even friends is too much for some millennial zeal to choose an italian american a guy with a transvestite dad who missed twitter and even throwing in a lesbian couple wasn't diverse enough apparently not used always about the nineteenth century imperialist sessile rhodes students at oxford university wanted his small barely noticeable start to go on why because he was bad one hundred and fifty years ago who wasn't. there and so are these chances michelangelo's david

possible weinstein situation that your liberty immigrant and christ the redeemer possibly offensive to jews are on the list limbs the little guy being in the fountain naked it's time to act what is great is there are places where everyone's mind can rest in peace these are militants based is these are places where freedom of speech and expression are put on hold in case anyone should have their feelings . america safe. while the u.s. continues to hit russian energy firms sanctions it turns out russian gas will soon be heating american homes this is after a french cargo ship loaded with liquefied natural gas from siberia docked in boston and this winter has been far colder than average on the east coast of the u.s. it's led to much greater demand for heating and gas and the tank you're about to

see in this video unloading in america it's owned by the french company and g.e. which says that he bought the cargo because of the current spike in demand the ship itself made a delivery in the u.k. before sailing on to the u.s. it's thought to be the first shipment of russian liquefied natural gas or l.n.g. to the united states the second tanker there originating from russia is expected to dock on the east coast in mid february. the fuel was produced by your model l.n.g. of which the russian company novacek has a controlling interest both the 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 shares in your model l.n.g. the technically the cargo is not subject to sanctions as long as it is bought and delivered by a third party that's not russia william allen some former british diplomat and author used the word hypocrisy to describe the situation. 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 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 us is slightly suicidal and thus it is important to get round the sanctions is this hypocrisy or the presentation yes we've got sanctions but then a french company a clever french company makes a profit by buying. gas at a certain moment and by the way one very important final point is that 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 replace the government cynically. the u.s.

spy plane has been intercepted by a russian jet over the black sea the us navy claimed that its plane was in international airspace over the sea moreover it claimed the interception was an unsafe maneuver however russia's defense ministry said the mission was conducted in accordance with international regulations. the syrian war is not only about the fight against islamic state it's also about the political struggle between the opposition and the government and now damascus representatives and opposition groups are gathering in the russian city of sochi for a new round of peace talks. previewing that event. minutes after landing in camera man juking the stiff we've been diverted to be rude look at the banners he said. they're everywhere the entire city seems to be plastered in them peace for the people of syria five hundred ten journalists were

registered for the sochi peace conference in just four days representatives from seventy eight different channels as well as dozens and dozens of different news agencies most of them foreigners these army of journalists covering this event. only by the number of delegates one thousand six hundred delegates a descending on sochi to take part in these talks syrian politicians and the opposition reconciled rebels and active ones commanders and thousands of men christians edis muslims all faiths and denominations aiming for peace. crews are hard at work putting the finishing touches in place they even have special prayer rooms for both muslims and christians this is a new format no middleman the group she has these

a direct talks face to face the aim here is into replace other platforms like the geneva peace process it is to supplement them to get the bull ruling say organizers everyone's tired of this war sochi is about letting people admit it. was a such a peace talks get underway the reconstruction of serious city of aleppo continues the mosque one of the holiest places in islam was badly affected by the war in syria the mosque was built between the eighth and thirteenth centuries but was damaged in clashes in twenty thirty the minaret was brought down by shelling of the whole complex is riddled with bullet holes on the most ancient mosques on the planet it's located in aleppo the old city which is a unesco world heritage site as much as sixty percent of it was severely damaged some thirty percent completely destroyed by the war.

israel and poland have agreed to hold talks over a controversial new law being proposed that would make it illegal to suggest that polish people pour any responsibility for nazi crimes during the holocaust. last night i express my strong opposition to the law passed in the polish parliament last friday and i'm sure that all ministers would agree regarding the holocaust that befell our people on polish soil the law is due to go through two more stages before it's finally adopted expressed our clear position that it must be changed we will not accept any attempt whatsoever to rewrite history. israel's foreign ministry has already some of the polish envoy to express the country's anger at the bill the proposed law would forbid linking the polish nation to nazi crimes moreover anyone using phrases such as polish death camps could face up to three years in prison more than three million jews lived in poland prior to the

second world war most of them were killed during the conflict the concentration camp auschwitz birkenau which was built in poland during the nazi occupation has become one of the defining symbols of the holocaust it was there alone that around one million jews were killed the chief rabbi of moscow in just goldsmith told us that polish nationalists being behind pushing that proposal. in israel nobody is arguing that. the death camps were were created by the germans of run by the nazis nobody argues that what they argue about is saying that poland's is saying none of the polish people had any responsibility or collaborated with the germans with the nazis during the war here the jews especially survivors have a problem because we know of many stories of survivors from the warsaw ghetto living together going into the wards and being killed by polish partisans maybe

it's. part of this new nationalist ideology in poland the nationalist party. in power and i think that's part of the nationalist agenda there's a far right groups all over europe it is a problem i mean i'm here to oversee a conference all these things are being discussed over here. thanks so much for tuning in to us here on alt international they saving us all from a foot now do stay with us ok paul twitchell because we can right up to date at the top of the. release the memo russia gate morse into the f.b.i. gate also are the u.s. and turkey on the path the confrontation in syria and the great debate jordan peterson is called a one man army and is taking the internet by storm. welcome

to sophie and co the north korean you are causing global concern the u.s. russia spat is paving the way to yet another arms race is a world free of nuclear weapons a beautiful dream or an achievable target i ask john to down apollo former united nations undersecretary for disarmament affairs. one diplomatic spat two men one way to reach 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 would be unimaginable. is the way to contain and control the danger signal to a new job or stop the world wide spread of nuclear weapons and will humanity ever be rid of them. jan to down apollo the former united nations undersecretary for disarmament affairs welcome to the show 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 jans i mean as south and as days are going to be where the next big missile race will take place i don't think it's going to be as serious as it is made out to be by some newspapers but essentially the potential for

a showdown between india and china is that because they are both nuclear weapon countries perhaps not to the same level that they have been at in the case of iraq where the theater of war has been present in international relations in the cold war era so we have a really nice nuclear weapon states five of them recognized by their nuclear nonproliferation treaty and the other full say the n.p.t. now we must also be concerned about the fact that illicit missiles also greater trying to bend cyber war 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 regional powers

uneasy now even japan is mulling over nukes 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 peso bought by electoral and multilateralism and has reading 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 affleck lehman's 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 or was any kind of design movement we have the comprehensive nuclear test mad p.t.v. just yet to be ratified and implemented. the russian federation has implemented

it and has signed and ratified not yet the united states and. seven other countries still too radical signing so we have a lot of unfinished business when the nuclear genda which makes the situation very very frightening i remember it's only unfinished and probably also unclear because right now is 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 your wondering who is a bigger nuclear threat here. i know this is a very sad situation where the leader of the united states is seeking in a very aggressive and very unfortunate way it is broken

to i think we need to have go back to the language of diplomacy and it's strange that succeeding or. 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 so that 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 you 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 as he himself has cited the example of libya and saddam hussein in iraq

where they were straight 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 middle raise 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 formally accepting it may be 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 yeah they're sad because they're not great power and knowledge

rate 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 last 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 event scrapped in which case nobody has any faith in him. it will see asians in puja the nuclear forces of great powers and sure 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 military defects 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 restraints non-nuclear weapon states taking action and we don't want to test that because it will be poorly destructive race so we have to 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 to national affairs and plane diplomatic

solutions political solutions talking about tansen political tensions between big powers neither the u.s. now 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 to do clearly since it is time that the united nations is given an opportunity of negotiating to someone directly. the 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 use than a clear bomb when you know it's only a as powerful as the one years 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 and you because it's very difficult to control the slated 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 being gauge in any kind of nuclear exchange so doesn't the nuclear war immense destruction for everybody how can it be difficult if wily 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.