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it's. the security crisis in afghanistan where since a suicide bomb attack in the capital claimed the lives of at least forty eight civilians it comes off to a taliban attack on the security base on the same day reportedly killing fields by . also a headstone will trump provokes the security clearance of former cia director john brennan the white house says the president is looking into also revoking security clearances of several other high profile figures linked with the intelligence community. two russian cosmonauts are currently in all bits wrapping up repair work
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for the international space station we'll be showing you pictures from the body count right carried by one of the cosmonauts. that i was just tend to i am here in moscow this is our national welcome to the program our top story the death toll from a suicide bomb attack in the afghan capital has risen to forty eight and is likely to rise according to local health officials a warning you might find the following images distressing sixty seven others were injured to me attack on the private education center and the shiites neighborhood of couple it's not clear yet if it was any students or whether teachers were in so hung the victims the taliban has since to. no i didn't have any involvement in the
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assault instead the attacks being play until after mix states although no one has yet claimed responsibility. this comes after reports of at least forty five security personnel being killed after the taliban attack on a military town north of kabul local journalist a full time fez reports it has been 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. that location were still. 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
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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 there what have been they doing so basically following you know post twenty fourteen. they have only involved the forces on only involved in training assist and advice mission and basically they are not on the ground but they have been conducting air strikes that have been causing sometimes civilian casualties. this is the latest in a string of taliban attacks heavy clashes between the militant group pam the country's security forces erupted last week.
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i saw my friend who was among thirteen people including children and women who were killed during an air strike last night there's no attention from the government no facilities present dead bodies are still on the ground i've also been injured. professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut jamal wakim believes the u.s. is exhausting its ability to provide stability in the country the united states is being involved in too many crisis resources are being drained and at the same time it's antagonizing trying. iran even pakistan india and other countries and its attempt to maintain its hegemony over global affairs but this is exhausting the united states and i believe that it's leading it
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to overextension the way that they think by 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 a big crisis within this country and of course its role worldwide. living tree you k. now at play say the man detained after tuesday's west missed a car bombing incident is being held on suspicion of attempted murder and performing an act of terror has been identified as a british citizen a sudanese origin islands of the correspondent and asked to see a check in a house that details. 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
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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 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 and other 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
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that the metropolitan police commissioner here in london has said that it might be the worst idea to consider just realizing westminster because of what she's described this vehicle attacks being weapons of choice so we'll see if that happens and we've also heard from the london mayor can see that it also might not be about idea to have security not just in westminster but in london. the white house has just announced still no trump has revoked the security clearance of the for mr director john brennan the president's also said to be evaluating the situation of a number of other officials. i'm a value waiting action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice and german cave peter sure lisa page and bruce or security clearances for those who still have them may be revoked it is for the foregoing reasons that i have exercised my constitutional
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authority to deny mr brennan access to classified information sara sander spoke to press and she said that the decision to revoke brennan's clearance was based on his erratic conduct and behavior defending the move as an effort to secure classified info from someone who has helped foment division in the past and clearly has very partisan leanings and john brennan himself has already chimed in blasting the move as part of a bid to suppress free speech and punish critics but for some context john brennan left his position as director of the cia back in january twenty seventeen and he now serves as m s n b c's senior national security and intelligence analyst but this whole debacle began last month when senator rand paul called brennan's motives into question asking if he had been profiting off of his clearance by divulging secrets to the mainstream media his exact words he even met with trump asking him to revoke the clearances of not only brennan but
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a few other prominent political figures now after that sarah huckabee sanders read out a list of names of who else was and can disagree and it included former f.b.i. director james comey a former director of national intelligence james clapper and a few others for apparently spreading rumors about russian collusion now trump also tweeted some indirect references to it later on but today sarah huckabee sanders a lab aerated on that a bit saying that the administration could also revoke clearances of other acts officials including james comey and peter struck who was just fired from the f.b.i. at least at least so a media reaction so far have been pretty predictable so it was have to see. if that affects trucks future decisions. cross live to william binney for me u.s. national security agency technical director and n.s.a. whistleblower william welcome to the program festival what does this move by trump
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mean for brandon and others he's considering revoking clarence from how will it affect them. well it simply means that he can't go in or talk to people who are involved in intelligence operations currently i mean he can't hear he can't be exposed to a classified material anymore i mean that's pretty standard i mean if the only reason you have a clear example you leave government our. work is to have if you were involved in contracts or other making other contributions to government efforts in the case of brennan then all those people you just listed they're not making you know your credit card positive contribution anything pres they're making a negative contribution to everything and so they have no business having a good clearance well what do you make of the timing of this why did president trump make this decision now actually should have gone a long time ago but you know sometimes you just a little slow to act well do you think in fact that there will be others his
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security clearance will be revoked and if so could be death well certainly a lot of them were higher ups in the f.b.i. and also dennis and cia certainly i mean i believe these people are all involved in this rush to get in the fabrication of it and manipulating information and data for the public consumption to confuse the. you know create all kinds of uncertainty in a government the government business that's that's what they that's why they should never have a clearance. well let's talk about the media now as well so the u.s. media is now criticizing trump for this decision saying he's trying to shut down his critics do you believe that they have a point. no they shut down anybody who has a different opinion so their voice is discredited totally i mean they're basically
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really their first amendment duty to find out what the guy who's doing the questioning and also looking at all kinds of options and investigate him oh they're not doing that you're only be one sided it's the truth and that's the case and that's all they're doing so they they have no credibility at all sometimes and what till past no opinion on the matter may or early the president is doing the right thing rebooking the clearances the people who aren't contributing anything. thank you very much thank you for your time appreciate your thoughts william binney fulminate u.s. national security agency technical director and s. a whistleblower thank you. to russian cosmonauts carrying out an extended seven hour spacewalk of the international space station both are equipped with cameras and you can see some of the pictures there captured behind me. those images you're seeing are from sig a copy if it's his first mission up there and every now and again we get
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a glimpse of the of the cosmonaut next to him. photo leggett's his third time in space they started a space walk more than seven hours ok that makes it one of the longest space walks in history and this represents a new generation of space where they're equipped with climate control and body cameras three hundred sixty degree that is. have also been replaced with poly you thing which is hoped it would give the suit a longer life span. as part of current space walk cosmonauts will say release full nano satellites built as part of the special projects with russian universities and schools serious sasol serious some as it's nicknames will provide data about space weather two of them were built by sixty only around a month while launching satellites is normally hugely expensive so students it was free and ran in the should have with the russian space agency roskam off the other
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two units called part of an experiment to see whether it's possible for satellites to organize themselves in terms of their orbits. well. who's doing today's walk is also known for his space blog which has detailed his trips to the i s s since two thousand and fourteen. was the you know the it was. told the los. oatmeal the legislature slipped letourneau was it legal it was. closely
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the tech spokesman slamming washington we've got the details of the offer short break. lucky. on saturday irresponsible lobbyist accessing unlimited credit from an irresponsible federal reserve bank the infinite regress that you saw with money starting in the one nine hundred seventy s. and now insurance companies selling insurance on insurance contracts i'm sure as contracts on insurance contracts with another bureaucrat another bureaucrat is infinite regress. seems wrong. just don't hold. any. yet to shape
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out these days comes out to. and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and. welcome back to the program the turkish president's spokesperson says washington has almost completely halted relations it comes amid rising standoff over terrorists take a has hiked rates on key american products including cars and alcohol. truth here in. the u.s. has brought relations with turkey to an almost complete hoax or disappointment is
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profound. the raw with aggravated when encouraged to taint an american past alleged links to terrorism among other measures washington slapped additional tariffs on take a shower the minium of steel that found the tech plummeting to record lows against the u.s. dollar tech stocks have tumbled to. release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences. who 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. i can send those who are waging an economic war against turkey for this reason i've changed all my u.s. . routes. i think we should always use locally made products
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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 as directly but it uses the dollar to wage a hidden war. the u.s. state department spokesperson was pressed by journalists on the global effects of the tech issue merican dispy. bilateral issue between the united states has now ruled emerging markets we've heard everything from mexico to india currencies or more over the developing world of being affected by this at what stage does one stop this and so that you know the the rest of the world doesn't sink to the bottom of the economic pile 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
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happening in turkey goes far beyond the united states and united states recent policies. now let's discuss this live with jim draft trust for me u.s. diplomats jim welcome to the program and now that take a day is hitting back do you think washington where gretz imposing these tariffs on ankara. i don't think so i think the real question is to understand what is going on here underlying the question of a pastor brunson this this does not this does not in my opinion hang solely on the fate of this american pastor let's be honest nobody here in official circles in washington cares that much about him if the saudis for example were to do this to an american pastor if they were to fry him an oil nobody in washington would ever do anything like this the saudi arabia says something else is going on here with respect to turkey it seems almost like we're we are. deliberately trying to push
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turkey out of the american camp into the arms of russia and iran well want to make of the trump administration alienating ever more its international partners. but that's the question and there's some people who think this is deliberate gilbert doctorow for example whom i respect for and much think that this is a deliberate ploy by president trying to destroy some of the structures that have undergirded the whole transatlantic relationship for decades and they're designed ultimately to break up nato in the you i have trouble believing that but it is all good to look at how this bull of a china shop policy goes first from about enemies like north korea and iran and of course russia which as we know is our main adversary even though president trump says he wants to improve ties with russia but now turkey that's supposedly one of
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our closest allies well like we said before that trade for the standoff with the detention of a u.s. puffed up but do you think that could be fair that pensacola as well as economic were prizes by either side oh i think so i think this has become a real tit for tat thing and i do not for a new york minute think that the pastor is really what is going on here now of course our washington's ties with anchor have been strained. for some time ever since the coup attempt against ariel on his demand that fertility then be turned over to him and of course the administration is not going to do that let's remember too that turkey took up her side during the dispute with saudi arabia when the truck administration initially came down with both feet on the saudi arabia side but senses moderated stance a little bit i suspect there's something going on with regional politics maybe with regard to syria that is really the reason behind this well how do you think this political dispute can be resolved in your opinion. i am not sure there's any easy
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way to do it i don't think mr everyone can afford to lose face by by releasing the pastor not unless it's in exchange for something but i don't think for example washington is you're going to give him good and in exchange for releasing the pastor so i don't and now that we're sanctioning individual turkish officials much in the same way that we've sanctioned almost everybody out in the russian government it's. really digging the hole ever deeper and say x. thank you. for u.s. diplomats. c.n.n. presents chris cuomo his spokes control the safe a saying on air that violence coming from the left wing and may have meant to the us is more justified than violence which comes from the far right the comments were made a day off to and to for headline it clashes with police and in this well countering a white nationalist rally in washington on chiz are not equal drawing
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a moral equivalency between those espousing hate and those fighting it because they both resort to violence emboldens hate legitimizes hateful belief and elevates what should be stamped out. well and my colleague andre fama got reaction both for and against chris cuomo skull mints. every time i see them on television they seem to be getting some kind of fight some kind of altercation it always seems to come from them it is a matter of their fighting hey or whatever they claim you can't put your hands on somebody in behind some kind of moral high ground don't tell people if you don't want to be really just as simple as day it doesn't matter what political affiliation the other person is violence even if it's the most justified and righteous violence that you can have it still creates negative karma it is still
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a very problematic thing to use so it's something that should be diverted to only when it's absolutely necessary these are people who really are what they purport an associate be against they're talking about being anti fascist but a lot of their action mirrors that of what was on the mussolini's time with the whole black church situation it seems like they're doing the same thing i'm not saying it directly to same as what was going on back then in italy but a lot of their tactics seem to mirror what they were doing just because i mean what is i believe it is an ideal or a long i'll hold on wait wait wait wait just because somebody is hateful in your eyes does not mean that it's ok or somehow justified at all to hurt then you can't say violence or maybe justify it no it's not if somebody does not put their hands on you you cannot put your hands on them is very simple if you put your hands on somebody then that person has a right to defend themselves you know you talk about don't put your hands on somebody will you know somebody that has yes there's somebody that wears
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a mask attacks dangerous people without personal provocation puts their hands on them you know who it is it's batman this type of behavior is justified in our society violence can be used to prevent greater violence. or no it doesn't it is against the law to commit violence against another individual yeah of course but the law does not dictate more ality the law is just the law many people talking about it's morally acceptable to hurt. those who are talking about hate but what about the innocent people actually members of the media get attacked by and used to use schoolteachers do you know i mean he is also here attacked by diane he's complaining wait wait well wait hold on hold on i'm not the initial you see people a day are people of color as the left likes to call them being made by these individuals because if their political opinion so i don't really understand this whole thing about whoa it's ok if somehow justify sort of value because most of the time when i see to me gauge a news values use against those who just have different points of view you know i'd
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have to see it see the statistics on that. you know we have seen a outbreak in street fighting between fascists and anti fascist said absolutely has happened these people are just afraid they're cowards and they're acting in a way that is totally irrational because of their fear. for the file be back in just over five minutes time. different. up of it. and the. nancy will you give you the scoop because you are talking to.
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particularly pipeline news we'll talk about that and we'll look at pipeline filled with the director of public citizen's energy program place and slogan and the trade war has got fish in a tangle arky correspond to ashley's bank fills us in on the latest details and while the effort to denuclearize the korean peninsula may seem levy's stalled south korea is making moves related to carmen izing the north and south korean economies r.t.l. it's behala which joins us from toronto with the latest plus there's some to some that's a bit coin boom is over kristie i have counterpart actions back in studio to talk about the turbulent and price drops in crypto this week all that ahead this first we get to a few headlines. the affordable housing deficit the united states continues to grow and some developers now say rising interest rates are draining resources from efforts to build new housing stock a wall street journal cites figures which show construction of new affordable housing units will rise to.
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