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alternative. president for more independence from the united states. deal with preventing the renewal. taking a trip to. racism forces the italian fashion. show in china the company social media. one minute day here in moscow this wednesday afternoon thanks for choosing our. me for your news update this hour my name's o'neill our top story this hour afghanistan feels like a more dangerous place than it did four years ago according to the leader of a u.s.

congressional delegation which visited the country this week specifying the rise of the isis branch in the region known as isis ok jim banks how to leave choose they just learned of a suicide bombing in the afghan capital well the attack on a religious celebration in kabul is one of the deadliest this year killing fifty. injuring close to one hundred all their islamic state is suspected of carrying out the bombing there has been a wave of bloody violence in recent weeks in which hundreds have died as militants stepped up their assaults amid a flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the seventeen year war on terror yet in all the time more recently unveiled research shows it's how the severely limited effect on tackling extremism. the horrendous attacks that took place on september eleventh two thousand and one in which nearly three thousand people lost their lives were

followed up by the launch of the u.s. war on terror that was seventeen years ago and the war on terror is still taking place it certainly produced results but not the kind of results that many were expecting a new study shows that at this point there are roughly four times as many just hottest in the world as there were at the time of the nine eleven attacks at this point there's two hundred thirty thousand militants spread across seventeen different countries while the united states and allied governments have weakened some groups many of the underlying causes of terrorism have not been adequately addressed sunni arab disenfranchisement has been among the most important causes of instability and an important source of recruits but how can this be by twenty nineteen the usa will have spent five point nine trillion dollars on counterterrorism operations and activities and at this point researchers are saying that the us military brass lacks a coherent roadmap there is no strategy to end the wars other than more of the same

in the hope that one day iraqi and afghan security forces will be able to fend for themselves now the costs are not simply financial but also come in terms of human lives the latest study indicates that roughly half a million people have died as a result of america's post nine eleven wars now that only includes iraq pakistan and afghanistan with the authors of the study saying that with other countries included the numbers would be much higher. now there's no sign that america's drones missiles and tax dollars will stop rolling anytime soon the or it is to have sufficient forces engaged in sufficient political engagement sufficient economic resources to make sure that we're putting pressure in destructing those networks the current administration just lie. the obama administration believes that it does not need any additional authorization to use force against al qaida

the taliban or i suspect we're not leaving based on a timetable terrorism is something that all civilized people oppose working to eradicate it is certainly an honorable goal however with such a dismal results at such a high human cost perhaps the overall strategy of the war on terror should be reconsidered kaleb r.t. new york. another story we're closely following this hour u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is threatening grave consequences to anyone shipping oil to syria and trying to quote prop up assad the u.s. treasury department slap sanctions on tuesday on three oil companies on several people involved in selling in reading oil to syria. united states today sanctions and international network that the iranian regime and russia are using to provide millions of barrels of oil to the assad regime this is in exchange for the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars to the i.r.g.c.

could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas well this is what we know the new sanctions focus on want to remain company into russia based oil companies while the six individuals targeted are from various countries including iran and russia moscow is condemned washington's latest move saying it will only strengthen the terrorist position. the effort to charge others with providing oil to syria which is back to terrorist aggression for seven years looks like a statement of support for terrorists and similar changes lee an effort to hamper the reconstruction of the war torn country much of its population is deprived of electricity and heating does the u.s. really want this. based political allies to. the us is effectively giving aid to the remnants of islamic state. how ironic that the united states that claims claims to be fighting terrorism and is imposing sanctions on those who

defeated isis to those who participated and the war is still ongoing in syria. isis is not completely dismantled the. more rewarding efforts by the syrian army with the help of the russian army with the help of the iranian forces in order to completely destroy these terrorist organizations. that are affiliated with that i think the world these sanctions are illegitimate they are illegitimate against syria they are illegitimate against illegitimate against hezbollah because they are baseless they are not based on the decision made by the united nations or by some actions that are proven to be illegal actions or by direct support for any terrorist organizations. leonardo da vinci as being dragged into a riot between the french president and italy's deputy prime minister who have been

trading insults online no room is reconsidering loaning the masters priceless works for a major exhibition in paris we need to renegotiate everything the french cannot have it all there now is a talent he only died in france to give the louvre all these paintings would put italy on the margins of a major cultural event while part of his real live museum was hoping to borrow some of the vinci's notable works for a big show in twenty nineteen marking five hundred years since his death room also stressed that france should then in return loan something equally important like the mona lisa. well under the agreement to lose his jew to loan works by another italian renaissance master raphael for a twenty twenty exhibition marking the anniversary of his death although most of his masterpieces are already in it they've the mona lisa was the one they really wanted well we talked to people in both countries about where they think the

painting should be show. i've never. been close to the. point of. any day since good to see the saudi osten was his little evidence that he thought you know. some of the made up again will be years of us enough that i found. a few dents in your feet. and we're now up to date being passed on. to the new fantasy any time but many see me in a video that you. don't

really mean. because some of you know. well but. you know me to the on the. car i sitting france in the focus now google is the country's latest target and its push to be less dependent on non european and to these following on from president call for an e.u. army france wants to wean itself off the web giant and use its own off turn it's going through all the correspondent charlotta penske. much corn and trumps friendship is down in the dumps right now but it seems that the fission between

them has spread to a much wider now it seems that france is even turning its back on us tech giant google so what do you do if you want something on the internet hit you couldn't it it will catch on i'm sure we have to set an example security and digital sovereignty are at stake here which is not merely an issue for geeks only quantz is partly french and so far it's been free of major data breach scandals and it claims that it doesn't track uses which is perhaps one of the worries of government officials given that u.s. intelligence can access data on companies clouds south where they're located both the french national assembly and the french army ministry and now sitting court as they default saying to digital colonisation. if we don't regulate the internet we risk up setting the fundamentals of democracy

if we don't regulate companies relationships to data and the rights of our citizens have to their own data that access and sharing what is the point of a democratically elected government is this another major step away from america and towards a european defense force if so it won't be music to is in washington. already faced the wrath of trump after suggesting that europe needed an army to defend itself from countries including the good ole us of a what came next was a twitter rant from trump telling the french that they would be speaking german if not for america's help as the rule to moves increasingly towards digital warfare front is looking to make sure it slips out from under. the u.s. is now at the french have shown that they are very concerned about data privacy

issues but also about the domination of u.s. technology giants it will be interesting to see how this is followed in other countries and by all the moves in france do the french equally discriminate against global cloud service providers in the way that they're discriminating here against a global search engine a lot of this is going to play out and there's a lot of pressure on some of the countries in europe to keep data on shore for data sovereignty reasons to focus on supporting local technology companies especially ones that are going to pay tax in the countries that they serve which is a criticism that has been bought against some global technology jones. ok heading to the middle east now where villagers in the west bank region are still unsure of the fate of their homes a decision was taken in may by israel to remove the residents of those their

properties something you are not losing hope and are continuing to fight for their village. that was. if we know that israel wants to destroy our home i knew and that to happen. and to good people. and look at it we're afraid for our families for our children how we're living is very hard psychologically it's often a little. when the laws were did we feel much stronger than netanyahu stronger than anyone in the

won't because we're fighting for the right thing to do we strong thanks to our belief and i'll. stay on our land as. well here's the few from israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu say's no exact deadline is set for relocating the polluters but thought it is planned to occur in israel also say the projects being coordinated alongside the palestinian authorities. a major italian fashion brands find it can't cut it in china after being employed in a costly racism we'll take a look at some other stories after this.

the russian military deteriorated terribly at the end of the soviet union and russia was always going to rebuild its military the question is how can we the united states and russia construct a relationship where we are both confident of the intention for more confident of the intentions of the other so that we're not worried it's not that we shouldn't. but we should make sure that our counterparts understand why we have it and when and where we would use. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us a little bit publicly. business i'm show business i'll see that.

you're back with our international asli is struggling to get its contentious budget passed e.u. finance chiefs and could face sanctions because of it the country wants to give tax breaks and provide a basic income for people in poverty but brussels says no you can't be doing not as rome is already burdened with so much debt the european union has already moved to launch disciplinary procedures but that would be a last resort if italy fails to fall in line. daily confirms our assessment is that the lease. in particularly serious noncompliance was a consulate accommodation these are doing. what they tell them government does stable we see. a country sleepwalking into instability. we discussed this with the

european commission president. as you know on saturday night i'm invited to dinner for what will be a constructive confrontation we have always been convinced about our draft is a draft that we thoroughly thought through and prepared we are convinced about the concrete most of our political economic plan and so i'll be happy to evaluate the next steps. on the tensions have been building the european union to warn and comes after the blocks the situation making the european commission rejected the budget in october the e.c. said the country was taking a risk and backtracking on previous reform us. relations were already strained between the unity of course over the migrant crisis which has seen at least shoulder some of the biggest influx is of refugees from north africa and the mideast. we have shown that we know how to defend our borders and we will show that we can also block european budgets and actions as long as europe and some countries

keep mocking a tally and. yet on these all alone in the opinion italian northern league party member stefano bargee says at least should stay the course policies aren't helping to fix the economy. entirely. follow these offices. european for his policies. for us is that too difficult to change in exchange the situation in who comes to these periods and to change it is the obvious there is policies of who. don't wish to escape from going to share the last yes. when the. bonus is unknown them. apologies for prizes for who are cast. and who are. we must go on the relation of

a lot of them and. all is not well in the fashion world at talian luxury brown. being forced to postpone a major function show in shanghai after a racially insensitive promo was posted online. sure those who are trying. to enjoy are. those are all of. those who grow up. and you are seen as that was released it's spread rapidly online stuff like this furious comments that it was mocking chinese culture it then got worse when racist messages appeared on the instagram account of the browns founder stuff on that one as you might have been a i'm reaction to that when it came thick and it came fast mr gubb on it later put

up this post pretty clear what he's talking about here insisting that the promo had been a hoax and not a he had not really written the offensiveness just out all but then this came up not me message itself seized upon by models of the agency to take part in the show distancing themselves from the brown well the company denies it is behind the insulting messages are instagram account has been hacked so who's the account of stuff on the go by our legal office is urgently investigating we are very sorry for any distress caused by these unauthorized posts comments and direct messages we have nothing but respect for china and the people of china. is costing quite a bit of money as well for dean g. who's close have been pulled off line by several retailers in china must have market of course one chinese entrepreneur who's based in italy told us that the islands were inappropriate but doesn't believe they were intended to offend. i

personally i wasn't offended because i thought it was kind of casting you know. gnarly with chopsticks and it's fine i think personally the chopsticks are the best times as you know better than or maybe it was a bit too much like the music was a bit you know the traditional chinese sounding music but i'm sure somebody who thought behind the rock the production of it wasn't low cost or anything you know but i would understand people being offended especially in china where like sarcasm isn't doesn't really work it doesn't translate very well in china i would say i'm sure they weren't trying to offend anybody they just want to make something funny for the younger generation in china maybe but i just didn't work. on a related note when it comes to taking offense times change fast and what might

have once been seen as pushing the boundaries in popular culture can rapidly well drop out of favor falling victim this time around is the real non-family a stage show the vagina monologues which won us college things not overstepped the mark for one particular reason. i was worried what we think about the jainas and i was even more worried that we don't think about them i was worried about my own china. after they call it a paki. d.d. mishi dignity.

you cannot that's a problem war. you don't do it you will. invent sexual the son just say they're kidding themselves. well that is how thursday afternoons news all day it looks for knowledge but do stay with us here in our to international as we thought the ukrainian conflict next

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. among the many different says russia and the west. is what it signified relations for many in the west was a sudden unprovoked. grateful and violent partner for many. a day kid and mistreatment and the sides agree on the definition of the problem can they ever find their way out. joined by william hill global fellow at the wilson center and the author of no place for russia mr hill it's good to talk to you thank you very much for coming on thank you for having me now you recently published

a book no place for russia and what's striking to me about the book is that fundamentally you. you agree with the russians that it was a chronic problem that accumulated over time rather than the a sudden rupture provoked by russia's me his behavior i'm sure running a risk of being labeled as a is not a crime and sympathizer done at least the crime than the paula just. by hope not my aim in writing the book was to answer the question we all americans and russians began the post cold war era in one thousand nine hundred nine one thousand nine hundred ninety one with very high hopes that russia would become part of a larger euro atlantic european community europe whole and free from vancouver to vladivostok yet twenty five years later after the war in ukraine started we're again divided in europe and the relationship is very hostile

suspicious neither side no one wanted this and the book is an attempt to answer how this happened now correct me if i'm wrong but the main argument of this book is that what happened in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen and what transpired since was essentially the result of russia not having a meaningful place within the european security institutions i wonder if it's a bit larger not just russia's place within the security institutions but them generally russia's place in the world and the disagreements that both sides have with regards to that question of what place should russia take in the world when i think i focused on europe and there may be issues and complaints having to do with other regions the world but europe i think has been and the near abroad vision is a little bit or has been most important to russia since one thousand nine hundred ninety and remains one of russia's key interests if i read the foreign policy concept correctly. the point is that structurally indeed it would to

a large part as a.