we are you we were dry junior. blind you love going to get room. we will not go away you will not die quiet. real the heart of what we do is the truth. after seventeen years and billions of dollars spent a new study finds that america's war on terror has put dreadful the number of islamic extremists around the world. give up your google brain champions are told to ditch their use of the web join for the local turn in to buy the new year as president one chron pushes for more independence from the united states.

vinci code and its lead backtracks on an art swap deal was front preventing that renesas masterworks from taking a trip to paris. and that raises morale forces the italian fashion house dolce and gabbana to pull out of a lucrative show in china and the company cleans the social media was half. coming to life from the russian capital this is our two international welcome to the program. afghanistan now feels like a more dangerous place than i did four years ago according to the leader of the u.s. congressional delegation which visited the country this week spasso find the rise of the. isis brain that we known as isis kate jim banks and six others had to leave

on tuesday just as they'd learned of a suicide bombing and the afghan capital the attack on the religious celebration in kabul is one of the dantley us this year killing fifty five if an interim close to one hundred others islamic state is suspected of carrying out the bombing there has been a wave of bloody violence and risk in weeks and weeks hundreds of died with militants stepped up their a sold summit a flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the seventeen year war on terror yet and all that time more recently unveiled research shows it's had a severely limited effect on tackling extremists or. 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 us the 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 now 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 after. and security forces will be able to fend

for themselves now the costs are not simply financial but also common 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 disrupting those networks the current administration just like the obama administration believes that it does not need any additional authorization to use force against al qaida the taliban. were 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. r.t. new york. u.s. secretary of state microphone peo is threatening grave consequences to anyone shipping oil to say riyadh and trying to quote prop up a song that the u.s. treasury department slapped sanctions on to zing on three oil companies and several people involved in selling iranian 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 g.c. could force that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezbollah and hamas then you sanctions focus on one iranian company and two russia based oil

companies while the six individuals targeted are from various countries including iran and russia has condemned washington's latest move claiming it will only strengthen the terrorists' position. the effort to charge others with providing oil to syria which has battled terrorist aggression for seven years looks like a statement of support for terrorists and similar taney asli an effort to hamper the reconstruction of the war torn country much of its population is deprived of electricity and heating does the us really want this. beirut based political analyst omar bass says the u.s. is a fact of lee giving aid to the remnants of aslan next 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 eastern syria. isis is not completely dismantled yet there is more

war effort 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. organizations that are affiliated with that are threatening the whole world these sanctions are illegitimate they are illegitimate against syria they are illegitimate against iran they are illegitimate against hezbollah because they are baseless they are not based on a 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. they are the vinci has been dragged into a route between the french president and italy's deputy prime minister who has been trading insults online now rome is reconsidering loaning their master is priceless works for a major x. obsession in paris we need to renegotiate everything the french cannot have

a talk there not is a talent humidor did france to give the louvre all these paintings would put italy on the margins of a major cultural event paris's famed louvre museum was hoping to borrow some of their venture he's a notable work for a big show in twenty nineteen marking five hundred years since his death ronan also stressed that france should ban in return alone something equally important like the mona lisa under the arctic rayment of the louvers you'd. loan works well and other italian renesas master raphael for twenty twenty exhibition marking the anniversary of his das although most of his march to pieces are already in a silly we talked to people in both countries about where they think the paintings should be shown. that he had a lot of interest to take this job full of holes on the move.

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of the mean. you can. get a sort of you know we'll. leave a mark cuban bloody you know movie to the on on. google as francis a latest target and as push to be a last dependent on non european and is he's following on from present micron's call for an e.u. army france now once to wean itself off the. giant and use its own alternative here is our paris correspondent charlotte. much corn and trumps friendship is down in the dumps right now but it seems that the fish in 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'll 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. where they're located both the french national assembly and the french army ministry and now setting quote as they default saying to digital colonisation. if we don't regulate the internet we risk upset in the fundamentals of democracy if we don't regulate companies relationships to data and the rights of our citizens have to their own data 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 will to moves increasingly towards. digital warfare front is looking to make sure it slips out from under the u.s. it's net 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 other 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. religious and their west bank are still unsure of the fate of their homes and decision was taking in may by israel to remove their residence and bulldoze their properties some though aren't losing hope and are continuing to fight for their village. only.

if we know that israel wants to destroy. anyone but to happen. and do a good team. and look at it we're afraid for our families for our children how we're living is very hard psychologically along. with a lot of what did we feel much stronger than netanyahu stronger than anyone in the world because we're fighting for the right thing we're strong thanks to our belief and i'll. stay on our. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says no exact outline aside for

relocating the villages but that it is plan to soon as he also says the projects being coordinated alongside the palestinian authority. and major italian fashion brand is found it can't and try now after being embroiled in a cost steve races around well we'll take a look at that among other stories right after the break.

what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president. or some want to be rich. that's why. this is like the full story of the people. interested always in the why. they should. welcome back it's me is struggling to get as contentious budget bad past e.u. finance chiefs and could face sanctions the country wants to give tax breaks and

provide basic income for people in poverty but brussels as it's and he can afford it says rome is already burdened with so much debt european union has already moved to launch disciplinary procedures but that would be a last resort if it's he fails to fall in line with that of the right so today we confirm our assessment is that the police don't watch the. spin but if you can let me see this noncompliance was a culture that accommodation should be so good we say what they tell them government does that they. we see the country sleepwalking into instability. will discuss this with european commission president. as you know on saturday night i'm invited to dinner 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 ness of our political economic plan and so i'll be happy to evaluate the next steps. that decision to warn ansley comes after the blogs decision making prange european commission rejected the budget in october. the country was taking a risk and backtracking on create this reforms. while relations were already strained between the e.u. and the over the migrant crisis which has seen at least shoulder some of the biggest influx of refugees from north africa and the middle east 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 marking a tally ans. i talian nor certainly party members to fund. me stay the course as e.u. policy us aren't helping to fix the economy.

all these offices. bob rubin are forces politicians. for us is that. difficult to change in exchange and she can't be able to change it is the. policies of. govt and don't. stoop from that assertion of the last yes. when politician is the. apologist for prizes for workers. who are. of the bottom of the. italian luxury fashion brand dollar abana has been forced to postpone a major fashion show in shanghai after a racially insensitive promo was posted online yet but we are sure those are trying

to and she's you. are. going to shoulder was with us all of the time. let's not require the threshold we don't need those who drop jocks you can see and you are on that particular promise spragg the rapidly online as dead furious comment is that i was mocking chinese culture it got worse when racist massa just appeared on the instagram account of the brands founder so fine a guy by now well as you might imagine the angry reaction to that came thick and fast mr gabon eleanor put up this post ancestor that the promo had been a hoax and that he had not true. the essence of massachusetts but that not me masses itself was seized upon by models due to take part in the show distancing themselves from the brand the company denies behind insulting messages or

instagram account has been hacked so has the accounts of stuff on the go beyond our legal office is urgently investigating we are very sorry for in distress caused by these unauthorized posts comments and direct messages we have nothing but respect for china and the people of china well this case is proving to be a costly blunder of for d. and g. those close have been pulled off line by several retailers and china one chinese businessman who's based in italy told us that the as war in a proper it but doesn't believe they were intended to offend personally i was enough. for the thought it was not i'm not surprised you know only where you come in all your. child's preschool and it's fine and i think personally that chopsticks are the best so you know better than forks maybe it was a bit too much like the music was a bit you know the traditional chinese sounding music. sure somebody thought behind

this like the production of it wasn't local cos there either you know i would understand people being offended especially in china where like sarcasm isn't. goes the route of work it doesn't translate very well i'm in charge now but so i'm sure there were i'm trying to offload anybody but just want to make something i mean for the younger generation which i made but it just didn't work thank you. when it comes to taking a sound time to change fast and what might have once been seen as pushing the boundaries sent popular culture can rapidly drop out of favor falling victim this time as the famed famine a stage show the vagina monologues which won us college sayings now oversteps the mark for one particular reason. i was worried what we think about vaginas and i

was even more worried that we don't think about them i was worried about my own the china. and west jet they call it a boutique they use tele d.d. to me she did need aid. to. egypt . were able to carry the trip probably the exterior you'll do

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join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. 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 with all of the intentions or more confident of the intentions of the other so that we're not worried it's not that we shouldn't. but it we should make sure that our counterparts understand why we have it and when and where we would use that.

nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in the spot place the fourth of march if you had any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i were to. say i stayed there i would be home by that time next. there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty

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