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the headlines in r.t. the security crisis in afghanistan worsens as a suicide bomb attack in the capital claims the lives of at least forty eight civilians that is a taliban attack on the security based on the same day reportedly killed forty five . or so to come this hour the right wing group the pride boys becomes the latest victim of twist his crusade against hate speech guess debate whether this now amounts to more than censorship. one thing could be hate speech here but it's not hate speech over here they just need. to fight hate speech. right right i got it i'm privileged to take a fight racism yeah the only one of you. un peacekeepers are set to return to the
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disputed golan heights after militants repelled from the region syria and israel have been fighting over the resource rich area for decades. hello they're welcome it's just gone eight pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. international. now the death toll from a suicide bomb attack in the afghan capital has risen to forty eight and is likely to rise further according to local health officials sixty seven others were injured in the attack on an education center in a shiite neighborhood of kabul no one has yet claimed responsibility the taliban denies it's behind the assault where this comes after reports of at least forty five security personnel being killed after the taliban attacked a military camp north of kabul local journalists. reports. it has been
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a very deadly day for afghanistan it's a very bloody day for afghanistan not only in northen afghanistan but also in eastern afghanistan some twelve at least twelve soldiers have been killed and three are missing but in babylon province specifically in. in that location were still it's there are conflicting reports that you know all forty five people or afghan security forces have been killed but speaking earlier to a spokesperson for the north and corpse he didn't confirm the death of the soldiers he said that twenty eight soldiers were there and there are missing men they have lost connection and they tried to send reinforcement but they have been also ambushed many people have been actually you know have been you know questioning the management of the security forces that what have been doing so basically falling you know post twenty fourteen. they have been only involved the forces on only
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involved in training assessed and advice mission basically they are not on the ground but they have been conducting air strikes that have been causing sometimes civilian casualties well this is the latest in a string of taliban attacks heavy clashes between the militant group and the country's security forces erupted last week. i saw my friend dying he was among thirteen people including children and women who were killed during an air strike last night there's no attention from the government facilities for the residents of the dead bodies are still on the roads and i've also been injured. while the professor of history and international
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relations the lebanese university in beirut came believes the u.s. is exhausting its ability to provide stability in the country the united states is being involved in too many crisis the resources are being drained and at the same time it's antagonizing russia china. iran even pakistan india and other countries and their attempt to maintain its head germany over global affairs but this is exhausting the united states and i believe that it's leading it to overextension the way. they did. by the historian paul kennedy in his famous book the rise and fall of great empires so i believe the united states is being overstretched and it might lead to a crisis within this country and of course it's wrong worldwide.
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police in the u.k. say the man detained after tuesday's westminster car running incident is being held on suspicion of attempted murder and performing an act of terror he's been identified as a british citizen of sydney's origin details now from. we do know that the press here are saying that this is a man who is twenty nine years old he is being named as sally kadir british citizen of sudanese origin it's been reported that this man came to britain back in twenty ten as a refugee and applied for asylum and was granted british citizenship within the last two years it's also being reported that this is a man who lived in birmingham and was actually according to some reports being made now in london to reportedly apply for a sudanese visa to be able to visit his family back home it's also being reported that he was not known to the m i five or the counter-terror police but local police
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in birmingham where he lived were aware of his identity and we do know that police here who are now investigating this case have been saying that he's not been cooperating with them and that their main priority remains to be able to determine what exactly has motivation is police have investigated and looked into two properties that could have been associated with him still searching another but no other people have been arrested in connection to this so the police are continuing to look into that and we're also hearing here that the car that he had driven to london in from birmingham actually arrived the night before this incident took place and interesting leigh just to mention we know that the metropolitan police commissioner here in london has said that it might be not the worst idea to consider pedestrian rising westminster because of what she's described these vehicle attacks being weapons of choice all see if that happens and we've also heard from the london mayor said it can see that it also might not be a bad idea to have security not just in westminster but in london. we
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can go live to space because as i speak at the moment the russian cosmonauts are carrying out a record long seven hour space walk at both are equipped with cameras right behind me you can see pictures coming live from them. speak well for all of our earth it's his third time in space for this for surrogate. it's his maiden trip the two of them are carrying out the space walk at the moment the been out there for about an hour already and they're due to carry out repairs repair work on the outside of the station also while they're there for nano satellites made by russian students apparently will be released by hand we do apologize we've lost pictures there just briefly but we do understand that they do switch off their cameras temporarily to save the batteries that are on their cameras at the moment but anyway we'll get back to them it seems they start broadcasting again meanwhile the walk also offers
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the cosmonauts a chance to test a new generation of space seems to they are equipped with climate control and cameras that she three hundred sixty degree videos rubber elements two we're told have been replaced by a polyurethane which is hoped will give the suits a much longer life. if we just seen it work briefly there is also named his space blog which is detailed his trips to the i assess since twenty forty. because here is the other with a good. thank you thank. her was a nurse or i was curious to see. her.
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now another day and yet another banning on social media because twitter is the latest blocking measure targets the counts of libertarian commentator gavin mcinnes and his organization the pride boys pride boys is a group that operates in the u.s. u.k. canada under strain and it promotes itself as a collective of western chauvinist some of its members took part in the notorious all right rally in charlottesville in august last. but since then it has tried to distance itself from the right with a pride boys band came ahead of a similar rally to be held to the one held in charlottesville cooled unite the right to it said the organization has violated its policy on violent extremist groups. and this is the debate the issue with the guests if you read what we wrote including what i personally wrote before and after charlottesville it was something we wanted nothing to do with it was an absolute abject disaster run by
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psychopaths and i'm happy it failed i think it might just be coincidental that it was shut down after that unless of course somebody didn't want people to know that there are reasonable people in the new right who are saying we don't want anything to do with that kind of racist nazi dreck which we don't which is a good thing the left should be celebrating that there's right wing groups saying don't do that you're a you're a very fringe extreme for it wasn't true our boys disagree spouses and you can do whatever you want to prove it or as far as i'm concerned of it i don't i don't follow you i don't want to be by you you know what it's like you have no argument other than say racist racist racist and you think that we're going to cower and go oh i guess you win we're not racist you know we're not racist well i know there's violence in your eyes your wants man but there's any hate. if it oh do you now now if there's any they all hate you read me the line that i wrote. it's all hate speech in other words you have no argument you did no homework your own educated
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twist this decision somewhat surprising given that it cools boyens violent extremists create that they themselves have denied for years connections to the right group so any extremist may have meant say is activism now considered extremism is this she went to beijing hanau we would like to have no hate speech no racism no divisions in our country and they are the divisions in our country and the racism do not come from twitter they do not come from facebook they do not come from our email and such and i believe that the poor racist boys should have their website i mean i believe that there should be on twitter i believe they should have facebook's who gets to pick out who gets to pick out what hate speech is who gets to pick out what racism is how come one thing is racist for one people but it's not racist for another people how come one thing could be hate
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speech here but it's not hate speech over here it does your privilege and only thing to add to fight hate speech evolution what is right right i got it i'm privileged to have a fight racism yeah the only one what are you ok only picked for you're the most privileged person in this conversation right now i guarantee you the only thing to fiery hate speech is more speech and better speech. to fight we had his. u.n. peacekeepers to sit through to into the golan heights after the area was liberated from jihadi however the region is still hawkie contested would syria and israel fighting over it for decades because you've done of reports. this city in the golan heights is one of the latest sites where the syrian army has brought terrorist ruled to an end. we were among the first international news crews inside after its liberation just
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months ago the city of me was still under the control of well with most of the infrastructure gone this is the main focus of the syrian government now. liberated but far from safe we weren't allowed further inside the city if you hardy's have made the mining the area a painstaking process for decades the golan heights have been fought over both syria and israel claims the land. as far as the un is concerned it's definitely syrian but that's food to stop the exchange of fire. when the jihadi advance so un peacekeepers flee into any fourteen they've been the
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only force to try and ease tensions considering the volatility of the situation here at the golan heights the u.n. made a big point out of establishing a presence here well speaking about this particular checkpoint they were driven out by terrorists al nusra front and i still are the two main factions that briefly gained a foothold here and well this area doesn't need any more hostility there's plenty of it here already after all the front line was just over there with again. holding some territory and it is. doesn't need terrorists on its border and its jet points begin right over those mountains now at least the un patrols can begin again with the help of some russian backup. put it together with a un representative we conducted an initial patrol during which we checked the safety of the roads are still there but the main problem is that there are lots of
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explosives which we've sent all the information we have to the un peacekeeping force for analysis to reconstruct you in checkpoints the russian military police are helping the u.n. mission to inspect the u.n. checkpoints on the golan heights may still be territorially be in a state of flux but at least the terrorists have finally been repelled and the un peacekeepers can get on with the job done of reporting from the golan heights in syria for r.t. but we did ask the un mission to comment on the situation there and it has confirmed it is implementing a gradual return to the golan heights without a company to saving we're going to take a quick break we'll be back until. on
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fellow again the turkish president spokes person says that washington is almost completely halted relations comes amid a rising standoff over tariffs. rights some key american products including cars and alcohol. the u.s. has brought relations with turkey to an almost complete hoax disappointment is profound. there i was aggravated when i encourage detained in american passed over alleged links to terrorism among other measures washington slapped additional tariffs on turkish aluminum and also steel and that sent the turkish lira plummeting to record lows against the us dollar stocks have tumbled. release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences. who
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will respond to the u.s. declaring the trade on the whole world by answering new markets and finding allies at the president's direction the department of treasury is sanctioning turkey's minister of justice and minister of interior. we will boycott u.s. electronic goods. waging an economic war against turkey for this reason i've changed all my u.s. . roots there littering the whole i think we should always use locally made products after the spike in the u.s. dollar the prices for foreign products increased dramatically people can no longer afford them. the whole world is watching america cannot confront us directly but it uses the dollar to wage a hidden war while the u.s. state department spokesperson most pressed by journalists on the global effects of
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the turkish american dispute and financial issue that we in the united states has now ruled emerging markets we've had everything from mexico to currencies morro the developing world. affected by this and what stage does one stuff that you know the the rest of the world doesn't think she devoted much of the economic pearl well i think what we're seeing overall and i'm not a an economist of course but economists would certainly tell you that what is happening in turkey goes far beyond the united states and the united states recent policies will form a turkish foreign ministry yes aeacus told us that the u.s. presence quote undiplomatic behavior is losing him friends across across the globe . it is more the political goal rather than economic. because if. you can more wonder who want
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to use the brute force political. will you do you will simply. from growth you. can go almost everyone including be. sober. but it will be more. lebanese tonight french champagne of war and they are sickened by us high street fashion giant gap showing a young muslim woman wearing a headscarf thousands of people have now signed a petition demanding that gap and the ad campaign well the back to school campaign was shot in new york but when gap kids published the photos and videos on its french social media sites it did spark a massive outcry muslim clothing is
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a divisive issue in france with the jab style head coverings banned in schools the country's secularity or separation of state and church is enshrined in the constitution whereas the us first amendment guarantees freedom of religion and expression we went onto the streets of paris to gauge opinion on gaps make. the message in. an acceptable to boycott gab just because they show a girl with a veil. which is no big deal very old girl there's there way she sees things i miss now the concern. on the back three it's not something we are used to we see women wearing wales but rarely children. these are four separate dogs although i'm against showing a little girl running a whale i think it's a shame to get says young children in a wallet in a hurry to stick to each use consanguinity. but we have a gap to comment on this story and will let you know when we get
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a reply to you but french politicians are already calling to boycott the brand gap shelves the little veiled girl markets in promotes submission to islam ism where are the need to outdo pig movements gap continues its submission to islam is with its posters of veiled little girls i have denounced several times this rise in power over the veil imposed on little girls which is an abuse and trampling on our values of equality freedom and secularism or to culture as an expert to see all of root told is that in this case law makers are just jumping on the islamophobia bandwagon. it shows in my opinion more tolerance than anything else and there's nothing illegal about it so as far as the politicians are concerned that's really the only thing that they should be pronouncing themselves on yet instead they're starting to let mr annan use fifteen of islam very frankly
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to try and make it look bad but as far as the government is concerned there question should be ok is it legal or illegal in france putting the mail on in school is illegal so if that picture were something that were happening in school then get france would have to ask us to make a different picture because they can't. put a schoolgirl in a veil. now the leader of germany's left party is launching a new political movement called stand up one of its self-proclaimed goals is to the friend the interests of those who feel ignored by the current government. that make up yeah that's that lancaster was a copy and i sent an adolescent. because of it's been in the if you know ya them good to have them and move all comes over from some young boys who took her that's all for me i'm right.
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on the group will be looking to rally leftwing voters and pressure german politicians to create a left wing government stand up is also looking to win over so-called protest voters who oppose the direction the country is heading its leader is against the current administration's open borders policy and says the unlimited access migrants have to germany's labor market should end. there have to be open borders for the persecuted but we certainly can say that anyone who wants to you may come to germany claim social benefits and look will work it's detached from reality well according to a new poll as many as thirty four percent of german vote his could support the new movement if elections were held we heard from a german m.p. who's pledged support to the new group. yeah what happened we have a exchanging cooperation especially with bernie sanders people in the united states
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who are against hillary clinton they missed out on getting the democratic nomination because of clinton intrigues we are also in close contact with the supporters of jeremy corbyn at the moment to movement in the united kingdom and also with the complain of france or john the commanche who got almost twenty percent in the last financial action. the left are split and weak not just in germany and the whole of europe we do have a trend towards the right we would like to combine forces to make a progressive breakthrough when you look at polling there's always a majority that want better paid better pension and non-confrontational foreign policy regarding russia and are also against nato expansion grant offered them a political direction and policy of. the us after. we have to present something different from the alternative or
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germany party in the last two or three years s.p.d. the greens or done didn't show a successful strategy for doing that and competent rather the opposite a video is getting stronger and there is a chance for them becoming the people's party which is absurd the left should return to its core ideals and goals social questions should be the keystone us i applaud. and that's how the news is looking so far the save me here in r.t. we're back with more in just over half. little . this is boom bust broadcasting around the world i'm bart chilton thanks for
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joining us coming up we take a look at not only some of the wars and business but how the world's most popular food could or perhaps should be able to help feed the planet fred kaufman author of bet the farm how he would stop being food joins me in studio plus economist and author steve keen joins us from amsterdam to look at stocks and markets in australia and we drill into oil prices that the saudis have reversed positions from only a month ago what does it mean and what are other oil related news should we take his attention to drug corner of since we're trading joins us from florida to consider it all but first we had a few headlines president erda one of turkey today responded to u.s. sanctions and bluster by threatening to boycott u.s. electronics in favor of products made in turkey or south korea in a speech in ankara mr atta once said if they have the i phones there is samsung elsewhere we have the still and vessel was the first company to design
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a smartphone in turkey shares were up by roughly eight percent after president or want plug for the company the president offered no details on how i boycott would be implemented you may recall that he famously use face time function on the i phone to rally his supporters against a twenty sixteen coup attempt some market watchers think the real takeaway from mr one speeches is defiant tone signaling that he will not yield to global investor pressure to raise turkish interest rates currently at seventeen point seven five percent to both both are the current the turkish lira that's their currency if the fight wasn't personal up to this point between the u.s. and and mr atwan it surely is now with the two leaders who like to be seen as strong an unyielding have stumbled or rather jumped into an economic dorrance contest. and domino's pizza second quarter earnings have topped forecast with seven hundred eighty seven million dollars domino's c.e.o. rich allison said in a statement quote global. retail sales remain strong as we see our franchisees
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building new stores or growing same store sales and bringing customers back again and again the company touted the q two earnings and the introduction of domino's delivery hot spots which are locations where consumers can get pizza delivered without an actual street address there are only two hundred thousand such locations across the u.s. and papa john's pizza took a hit to their q two earnings with a drop in sales of six point one percent in december of two thousand and sixteen the company had a stock all time high of north of ninety dollars per share but since it has lost fifty percent of its value related to store sales growth while q two ended on june thirtieth since then there's been a public feud after the founder of the major shareholder john gaddar the papa john himself resigned as chairman of the board on july eleventh and admitted to using racial slurs during a conference call papa john still sits on the board and remains the largest shareholder in the company and it seems that the negative sales must be impacting the company as we'll see the third quarter.
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