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school business i'm show business i'll see you then. crisis in afghanistan worsens a suicide bomb attack in the capital claims the lives of at least forty eight civilians it comes after a taliban attack on a security base on the same day reportedly killing forty five. also to come on r.t. this hour the right wing group of proud boys becomes the latest victim of twist his crusade against hate speech i guess debate whether it's modern day censorship. how come one thing could be hate speech here but it's not hate speech over here it doesn't mean we've had to fight eight speech every boy is a right right i got it i'm privileged to get a fight racism here the only one of you. un peacekeepers are set to return to the disputed golan heights after militants were repelled from the region syria and
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israel have been fighting over the resource rich area for decades. two russian cosmonauts are currently in orbit at the moment conducting repairs at the international space station will be showing you live pictures from your sporting. fellow there is ten pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international our top story this hour 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 well this comes after reports of at least forty five security personnel being killed after the taliban did attack
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a military camp north of kabul local journalists. reports. it has been a very deadly day for afghanistan it's a very bloody day for afghanistan not only in north than afghanistan but also in eastern afghanistan some twelve at least twelve in a soldiers have been killed and three are missing but in babylon province specifically in. in the 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 any 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 they doing so
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basically falling you know post twenty four teams. they have only involved the forces on only 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 but it 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 she 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
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but i've also been injured. while professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut jamal wakim believes that the u.s. is exhausting its ability to provide stability in the country the united states 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 that the united states is being overstretched it might lead to
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a big crisis within this country and of course it's wrong worldwide. in other news tonight police in the u.k. say the man detained after tuesday's westminster car ramming incident is being held on suspicion of attempted murder and performing an act of terror he has been identified as a british citizen of sudanese origin with more his and. 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 is being 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 sudanese visa to be able to visit his family
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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 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's 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 we just mentioned 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
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we've also heard from the london mayor said it can see that it also might not be about idea to have security not just in westminster but in london. russian cosmonauts carrying out a record long seven hour space walk at the international space station both are equipped to with cameras i'm right behind me you can see pictures coming live from them as i speak these pics of. parole. it's his first mission up there and every now and again we do get a glimpse two of the other cosmonaut next him chimney of and they did start this space walk about three hours ago or so and will be busy carrying out repairs for about another four hours we understand and that will make it one of the longest space walks in history there were also released by hand for nano satellites to them were developed by russian schoolchildren to monitor the square and those spaces they're wearing a new generation of space where two we're told apparently equipped with climate
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control and also those on board cameras that can shoot three sixty degree videos it's quite hard to tell what we're looking at but looks like a pair of feet there at the moment a robot elements have also been replaced with polyurethane which is hoped will give the suits a much longer life but these are live pictures from the international space station where that spaceport is currently taking place it's almost half way and it will last for about seven hours which will be a record. well as part of the current space walk cosmonauts would also release four nano satellites built as part of a special project with russia universities and schools serious sat or serious sam as it's nicknamed will provide data about space where the two of them were built by sixty units in only around a month or launching satellites is normally hugely expensive for the students it was free under an initiative with the russian space corporation ross cosmos that same program saw two of the thirty two launched last year built by university
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students those units called. were part of an experiment to see whether it is possible for satellites to organize themselves in terms of their positions in orbit today two additional satellites of this type will also be released well i got to me ev who is doing today spoiler space walk is also named his space blog to which i has detailed his trips to me i says since twenty forty. because there is because dogs and you know the look of the. thank you. thank you thank you thank. her was i carried her out of work which if the
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about another day and yet another banning on social media twitter is the latest blocking measure does target the accounts of libertarian commentator government guinness and also his organization called the proud boys boys is a group that operates in the u.s. u.k. canada and also astray and it does promote itself as a collective of western chauvinists some of its members took part in the notorious old fright rally in charlottesville in august last year but since. and it has tried to distance itself from the old right the prior boys. head of a similar rally to the one held in charlottesville cooled unite the right to it is said the organization has violated its policy of violent extremist groups. and the debate to the sheep without 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 psychopaths and i'm
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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 for you our boys disagree spouses and you can have it do whatever you want to target or as far as i'm concerned that 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 head wants man but there's any hate. if it oh do you now now if there's any they all hate a choice 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 twits this decision somewhat
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surprising given that it calls violent extremists great that they themselves have denied for years connections to the right group so any extremist may have meant so 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 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 speech here but it's not hate speech over here it does your
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privilege and only thing to add to fight hate speech evolution why is it right right i got it i'm privileged they fight racism yeah the only way and what are you ok only fit to for you're the most privileged person in this conversation right now i guarantee it the only thing to fiery hate speech is more speech and better speech . but we had another news today the president's spokesperson said that washington is almost completely whole to grill ations it comes amid a rising standoff over tariffs to his high to right some key american products including cars and alcohol through. the u.s. has brought relations with turkey to an almost complete coat of disappointment is profound. there i was aggravated when i encourage detained in american past were alleged links to terrorism among other measures washington slapped additional tariffs on to. a mouse in the turkish lira plummeting to record lows against the us
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dollar to the stocks tumbled. release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences. we 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. . routes they're looting the whole community i think we should always use locally made products and after the spike in the u.s. dollar the prices for foreign products increased dramatically and people can no longer afford them. you know the whole world is watching america cannot confront as directly but it uses the dollar to wage a hidden war the u.s.
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state department spokesperson was pressed by journalists on the global effect of the turkish american dispute financial issue that we in the united states has now ruled emerging markets we've had everything from mexico to india currencies morro the developing world. affected by this and what stage has once. that you know the the rest of the world doesn't think she devoted much of the economic package 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 united states recent policies as well the former turkish foreign minister yes a yak is told that the u.s. presence quote undiplomatic is losing him friends across the globe. it is more the political goal rather than economic and because if turkey's economy deterred
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reduced thirty we can more one ruble and we want to use this leverage for political purposes this is something we're all doing on for simply doing putin. in an anthropomorphic way from growth this view. of eliminating almost everyone including the nato allies if the scores are. not sever. so it is to listen entirely with united states but it will be since more . un peacekeepers are set to return to the golan heights after the area was liberated from jihadists however the region is still hotly contested with syria and israel fighting over it for decades with more is you got it done. this city in the golan heights is one of the latest sites where the syrian
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army has brought terrorist rule to an end. we were among the first international news crews inside after its liberation just 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 has. 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 is theirs as far as the un is concerned it's
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definitely syrian but that's food to stop the exchange of fire. when the jihadi advance the u.n. peacekeepers flee into any fourteen they'd been the only fools 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 saw 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 a friend i saw holding some territory and israel. doesn't need terrorists on its border and its jet points begin right over those mountains now at least the un
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patrols can begin again with the help of some russian backup. but it together with a u.n. representative we conducted an initial patrol during which we checked the safety of the roads are still there but every time a new problem is that there are lots of explosives. 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 with terrorists are finally been repelled and the un peacekeepers can get on with the job. of reporting from the golan heights in syria for r.t. but we did ask the un mission to comment on the situation and it has confirmed it is implementing a gradual return to the golan heights. pays
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a warning they are sickened by u.s. high street fashion giant gap showing a young muslim girl wearing a headscarf thousands of people have now signed a petition to him demanding that gap and the ad campaign with a back to school campaign was shot in new york but when gap kids published the photos and videos on its french ocean media sites it did spark a massive outcry that's because muslim clothing is a divisive issue in france with his jab style head coverings banned in schools the country secularity or separation of state and church isn't signed in the constitution where the us first amendment does guarantee freedom of religion and expression we went onto the streets of paris to gauge opinion on gaps make. seen in . an acceptable to boycott get just because they show a girl with a super classes which is no big deal very little girl and there's the way she sees things yes now the concern. on the back three it's not something we are used to see
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women wearing veils but rarely children well these are four separate dogs i'm against showing a little girl learning a whale i think it's a shame to get says young children in a world tomorrow to stick to issues concerning winners. and we have asked for comment here but we haven't had a reply so far in the meantime french politicians are already calling to boycott the bragg gap shelves a little veiled girl market in promotes submission to islam is where are the need to outdo pig movements gap continues that submission to islam is with its posters a 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 but you culturalism experts are still the roosters the french tradition is to embrace not to shut down provocative appetizing. but as
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far as the government is concerned their question should be ok is it legal or illegal in france putting the mail on in school is illegal so if the texture were something that were happening in school then to get france would have to ask us to make it different the picture because they can't. put a schoolgirl in a veil tranced should embrace its diversity so in my opinion. these type of pictures should be welcome in trance and i used to work in the perfume industry and trance was always very very free about showing a lot of the female body and christina maverick ties meant. if we had clients in other countries who didn't agree with it or who had a lot where you couldn't expose a lady's difficulty or body too much and we simply provided them with another picture. you know based on the legality if france has a problem with that you know they can always ask that. the leader of germany's left
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party is launching a new political movement called stand up one of its goals is to defend the interests of those who do feel ignored by the current government. backed me up here that's at lancaster. and i sense an adolescent. because our boats going in the. yard i'm good you have them and move all comes over from your annoyance and for us all to me i'm going on far right now. while the group will be looking to rally left when voters in pressure german politicians to create a left wing government stand up is also looking to win over so-called protest photos who oppose the direction the country is heading in its leader is against the current administration's open borders policy and says that the unlimited access migrants have to germany's labor market should end. there have to be open borders
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for the persecuted but we certainly can say that anyone who wants to you may come to germany claim social benefits and look or work it's detached from reality well according to a new poll as many as thirty four percent of german voters could support the new movement if elections were held we heard from a german m.p. who's pledged to support the new group. as will happen we have of course exchanging operations specially with bernie sanders people in the united states who are against hillary clinton they missed out on getting the democratic nomination because of clinton intrigues and we are also in close contact with the supporters of jeremy corbin the momentum movement in the united kingdom clean and also with the campaign of france's john that's munch on who got almost twenty percent in the last century action whilst ultimately.
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the left are split and weakened not just in germany and the whole of europe but 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 a better paid better pension and a non-confrontational foreign policy regarding russia and are also against nato expansion or consider through on top for them a political direction and policy of. the us after. we have to present something different from the alternative for germany party in the last two or three years s.p.d. the greens or dulling 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. also shot at by flu shot. integration policy has pretty much rendered the minimum
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wage defunct what was once a one euro job nobody brings eighty cents obviously if you take people in you need to ask them somewhere that there are a lot of people under the stress created by the social situation those people need to be able to earn a wage that lets them live in dignity if this is not happening it's understandable that people become angry and lean towards right wing party it is those people that we will be reaching out to for the sake of our democracy. meanwhile in america democrats still seem to be falling out of love with capitalism with recent polls showing they are now more positive about socialism with some saying the party is out of touch with its traditional base. went to see what's driving the new trend polls show that among democratic voters socialism is becoming more popular than capitalism according to the latest poll less than half of democrats have a favorable view of the economic system long considered to be the american way
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meanwhile fifty seven percent of democrats have a positive view of socialism which until recently was a forbidden word in american discourse this is what leftist intellectual slob access about the trend not only some lower working class. but the system but also many meters delish they need intellect trust and someone with someone. over. there why do a warm this dead american he. doesn't function the way people expected to find now this shift in views is manifesting itself with the rise in popularity of figures like veteran senator bernie sanders and progressive candidate for congress alexandria kazuo cortez now many voices are speaking up and saying that the new trend could be disastrous for the democratic party but the show
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. if the among the liberal rank and file continues to go k.k.k. . if you think you know how she is now among those who favor socialism the top priority concerns seem to be affordable health care and education however trumps embrace of all things capitalist seems to have an influence on those who are now changing their understanding of the word socialism today seems to embody sets of programs by which the government helps regulate and in some instances run and pay for social programs focused on basic population needs in health education housing
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and employment it's very interesting to note the shell of the american state. but i hear that even more of the democratic establishment that i threw off a lot of the boys in the nation got a better grade yes they should look at the debt of own they look at it by the it don't they just now they don't ignore the clear more or less the m d because you seeking out pro but the same just and his movement until one of them still won't and so now they are paying the price so whether it's trump or just overall dissatisfaction resentment against what has long been considered to be core american values is growing up and r.t. new york and that's news right for this hour but he gained in about thirty minutes .
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