intelligence factors interesting stuff caleb maupin in new york thank you. now islamic state says it carried out monday's attack on a military academy in the afghan capital kabul killing eleven servicemen and injuring sixteen local journalist also ari reports there were five suicide attackers two of them killed by afghan national security forces and another two of them detonated their explosives and one of them was detained suicide jacket a rocket propelled grenade in four a k forty seven s were seized the. almost when to about four hours residents in that area reported hearing loud explosions there was the use of having small weapons so the fact that these militant groups can't really strike while in target 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 a deadly one for the afghan national security forces remember they were killed not on a front line somewhere in some remote district or in a province where there is every day of fighting i think that alone tells you that cities including kabul is becoming another. front in the afghan government just continues to struggle to prevent these militants from carrying out these attacks. in afghanistan is experiencing a wave of deadly terror attacks with three in the past ten days alone.

well both president and the commander of the u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan john nicholson say washington will spare no efforts to defeat the insurgents and bring peace to the region the taliban has responded by strengthening more attacks in retaliation to what it calls a policy of aggression well u.s. has considerably stepped up its air campaign in the country over the past year in twenty seventeen washington dropped more than four thousand bombs on afghanistan between august and december the u.s. carried out as many as strikes as it had in the previous two years security and political analyst mushtaq he thinks military action alone won't bring peace but 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 and different

provinces in different parts of the country but considering it is the sole response to the current situation or the only way to resolve the of one conflict we are on our understanding because at the end of the conflict needs a political settlement and dialogue and that is where the of one government has tried to complement the american strategy which is mainly focused on fighting the militants or using the military might. conference in germany off facing a public backlash over human animal testing more on that after the break.

we've seen that rocket failure many times we saw in two thousand and eight we saw in night scene ninety seven we saw in one nine hundred eighty seven and we're going to see it again probably in the very near future because the underlying design of this capitalist system has not been modified to account for changes in technology over the past fifty sixty seventy years and we keep having these catastrophic really.

welcome back let's return to our top story and bring in investigative journalist dave lindorff dave thank you very much indeed for joining us to. be here let me sorry i'm just waiting for that i'm just waiting for the delay here to come to you sorry about that dave right let's talk about the about the scandal that we're talking about this memo that's been released the scandals surrounding the meme has been compared to watergate i mean do you think it's that important. you know i don't you know it doesn't rise to that level it's more of a farce i think i would have thought do you think the alleged bias and counterintelligence abuses and government surveillance of people surrounding president trump well actually go. that's hard to say you know i mean i think that a lot of this is being manufactured by democrats who are still trying to make a case that the russians do the steroid the electoral process and through the

election to try. it's not a lot of evidence for that holding up and the republicans at the same time are throwing up a lot of things that. you know the f.b.i. is is somehow a deep state that's trying to undo trump and i don't think there's so much evidence of that either. they're both kind of pushing these agendas i mean the nunez or noons memo is actually not a secret document it's a document composed by his staff. so. it's based on the evidence from the hearings which democrats and republicans at the hearings all heard so. you know it's somewhat farcical and a lot of people have seen it on the republican side. and then the same with the democrats have a have a memo which they want to release these are memos of their own committee these are secret documents that are coming out of the phase

a court or you know some. something nobody knew about before what do you think the fallout will be if the memo is given a wide release. i think it's going to be a lot less significant than people think or are implying that it's going to be. there might be some things that will come up that are embarrassing to somebody. you know there there is some evidence of some people who. have been you know laundering money profiteering on the side of the campaign and things like that which are real and which the f.b.i. is investigating and they're all about trying to find out if trump tried to obstruct justice with the firing of comey which has nothing to do with any allegations being true or not about russian interference of the election

it has to do with simply lying about why he wanted to fire coming so you know in our justice system lying can get you in trouble even if you're lying about a non-issue if you're lying to the f.b.i. or you're lying under oath so you know that's where this game is all about it's about trying to meall trump. on obstruction of justice and lying about what he did and why and funny that i mean the cia chief has claimed that he expects russia will try to interfere in the u.s. mint ten elections i mean how far will this go i mean what will russia be accused of next. isn't russia accusing us now of interfering in the in the russian election i mean it turns out that that's what we do you know you guys interfere in our elections we interfere in your elections it's becoming the norm i mean after a while it's going to be a non-story everybody will assume it's going on. it's getting quite entertaining

this isn't it dave lindorff investigative journalist thank you very much andy. now fitness trackers are raising major security concerns for military forces this comes after an australian student was able to discern the locations of secret training bases by looking at a global map that show where people exercise the most r.t.s. as more. 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 you are 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 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 to it looks like the reported cia annex at mogadishu airport 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. now some major german carmakers are under fire to change some of their old testing methods it's been revealed they have previously been involved in potentially

hazardous experiments on humans and animals peter oliver has more. having humans inhale toxic fumes is apparently how the german 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 but through it arc in university hospital the experiments were given the ok by the university 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 be on set the same organization it previously found itself in the hope water for experiments on 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. action over attempts to cheat all emissions test for diesel vehicles allegations of carry out experiments on people and animals it's unlikely to improve the industry's reputation peter all of a r.t. . for animal rights attorney jaish says 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 the shown time and time again that they're willing to use it and kill animals for frivolous reasons these major industries have colluded together and have successfully lobbied governments around the world including the us government to basically rarely enforce the few laws that exist to protect

animals at all so it's extremely rare that any kind of enforcement will take action even against what is in this case extreme violence against animals. russian gas will soon be heating american homes despite the u.s. continuing to hit russia's energy firms with sanctions a french cargo ship loaded with liquefied natural gas from siberia has docked in boston well this winter has been far colder than usual on the east coast of the u.s. leading to a greater demand for heating and so gas the docking here is owned by a french company which says it bought the cargo because of the current rise in demand while the ship made a delivery in the u.k. before sailing on to the u.s. and is thought to be the first shipment of russian liquefied natural gas or l. and g. to america and the second tank that originating from russia is expected to dock on the east coast in mid february. well the fuel was produced by yaml n g of which

russian company novacek has a controlling interest both the car is subject to u.s. sanctions but russian oil and gas shipments are not french and chinese companies hold almost fifty percent of your mouse shares so technically the cargo isn't subject to sanctions as long as it's bought and delivered by a third party that's not russia or former british diplomat william alanson says the situation is contradictory. 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 it's 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 move is slightly suicidal thus it is important to get round the sanctions as 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 art. 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 well we'll be back with more news at the top of the hour see that. here's what people have been saying about rejecting. the only show i go out of my way to you know what is there really. is the john oliver of our country of marriage this seems. fairly better than. see people you've never heard of. jack to the next president of the world bank very.

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that. it's in the december morning and i'm on a bus headed down south from chinatown new york there breathless driver speeds up on the ice who really it's and traveling across the states in a snowstorm because of a book. written over dishpan of twenty years back and forth from the mining areas to eastern kentucky the book by italians corner. is a monumental collection of moral history it tells the struggle of the words built around mining of coal when amy grants were to come to the area to work well paid but often has faded jobs the book tells the story of harlan county

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bringing in sin arcade until ten o'clock tonight so i'm talking to some of the best music of two thousand and thirteen playing the song but all. is holding its own groove. in one thousand nine hundred i was the first woman to work in this one particular mine and my job was what they called the belt boy and then they started calling me the belt person because i was a female so when i would go underground everybody would be kind of gathered to see the. women coming out of the mines you know and then i remember my face will be all black but the coldest since i was a little bit vain so i would have a handkerchief and i would wipe my face off before i would come outside so it would be all clean. so that it but the guys were always looking for me to come out

because it was just so amazing i guess to them to see a woman working in the mines molding it's all proved. more inform on my watch. i remember when i was in high school i loved the earth science i love the mountains all of anything he was brock's and my earth science teacher back then said there's going to be eight hundred years of coal and when he said that that's when things were good you know where everybody was working like the guys that worked in the mines they always had.