the taliban says it's behind an attack on a military training base in afghanistan that has reportedly killed one hundred twenty six military personnel. planning monday the prime minister how is home the message that the best way to avoid a break is it no deal to vote for her deal asterism a looks to rally m.p.'s in parliament instead of offering an alternative plan. and the u.s. led coalition acknowledges a suicide car bomb on an american kurdish convoy it follows an assault on wednesday which killed four u.s. troops.

it's nine o'clock am in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from a studio with meaning to welcome to the program. to the latest from afghanistan now where one hundred twenty six security force members have reportedly been killed in an attack by the taliban according to reports the taliban struck a military training center in maidan water province and area just southwest of kabul we heard from a local resident. a large explosion here this area of the window panes in my house ambulances transferred the injured and dead from the seam to the hospital. i am from joel rose district and word look it was around six o'clock there was a very big explosion i thought there was an earthquake it was very strong. local reporter. says it's been difficult to get accurate information on the attack. there have been some conflicting reports about the casualty figure because early in the morning local officials announced that the casualty figure was twelve and around

thirty others have been wounded but later the government office shows actually were not providing access to journalists to know more about the figure because it was quite a huge blast as we spoke to the locals there the building that was directly attacked by a humvee type of military vehicle packed of explosives partly part of that was collapsed and many of the intelligence officers and personally who are joining for breakfast actually left on the. remnants of the building and lost lives it was two vehicles and five attackers involved into the attack and the second vehicle was diffused by the security forces but also it took four and a half hours to encounter all the insurgents there then later prevent

shell council member claim that more than fifty people have been killed that all of them were the member of the afghan intelligence security forces a source from the ministry of defense told us in a condition of anonymously that the casualty rate is beyond one hundred which is really shocking because it could be the deadliest type of on the n.d.s. or afghan national security services members who have been political analyst abdel bari atwan who believe this attack shows the taliban's power in the region and it marks a huge setback and its allies. i believe this is a clear message from taleban to a meeting or a little strange chill taking place today and. are saying this message that we have. on the ground and you have to listen to us and accept our conditions

otherwise we are going to leave all the talks it is really really you will sit back while the american people their allies. president. is actually he doesn't know what to do with afghanistan i wouldn't be surprised if the american actually to submit to the taliban pressure to. reach an agreement for their forces to be actually pulled out safely from this track. as prime minister looks to garner support for her divorce deal saying she will not betray the twenty six hundred bags at referendum but as trisomy focuses on negotiating the plan heavily defeated in parliament last week the opposition leader has said she is in denial from the ins and outs of the debate happening right now in westminster we have our london correspondent polyploid co. bulling last week's vote it is clear that the government's approach had to change this into colleagues

across parliament from different parties and with different views the government has approached these meetings in a constructive spirit without preconditions and i'm pleased that everyone we met. i'm pleased that everyone we met with the same approach every your position prior to politician. meetings were the same response contrary to what the prime minister has just search there was no flexibility there were no negotiations nothing. but doesn't look as though to resume a's plan b. is simply insisting on her plan a claim that she'd held across party talks where she went in with an open mind and without any preconditions but she has refused to rule out no deal she's also refused to delay britain's departure from the e.u. which is scheduled for the twenty ninth of march and she reiterated her opposition

to the idea of a second referendum saying that it would be a betrayal of the twenty sixteen votes so to reason may is still trying to tweak her original deal which she negotiated with brussels and which crashed and burned in parliament last week it was a historic and unprecedented defeat that she suffered in the house of commons but she's still trying to tweak it just enough to push it through parliament and just enough to really win over the doubters on her own side in the conservative party and in the d. p. the democratic in unionist party of northern ireland which of course is propping up series amazing minority government now the main change that to reason may wants to secure a deal is to the thorny issue of the irish backstop she says she's going to be talking to polish. titian's in order to understand what it is they want in regards

to securing some sort of assurances on the irish issue to reason may's plan is to do more work on her deal and to come back to the house which is a little bit more of the say we heard that in december when she originally postponed the vote knowing that it would fail in parliament she failed to secure any concessions from brussels then and jeremy corbyn the leader of the opposition labor party was rather critical about this not so new plan to resume a he said is flogging a more or less a dead horse that the house is dead set against deal and that if she is prepared to shift her so-called red lines well then it's got no chance of being approved what makes her think that what you tried to agree to go should you december will

succeed in january this is pretty good this really does feel a bit like ground hold. so rather than there being any sort of coming together of the house to decide a way forward we have further stratification further division and as we hurtle towards bragg's that day which is the twenty ninth of march which to reason may refuses to move so we're going to be leaving either way it seems on the twenty ninth of march deal or no deal. political commentator and journalist john why thanks john for coming on the program now no to no deal no two amending belfast agreement no to revoking article fifteen where are the red lines that reportedly wanted to move on. well what was a crisis is no officially a shambles because tourism is plan b. which she unveiled to the parliament today is merely tiny in a different shirt and tie just

a treat here in there no meaningful change whatsoever and she's been entirely disingenuous when she says that the good friday agreement is safe it's in tact because until the heart breaks is taken off the table the good fraidy agreement by definition is in peril because it heartbreaks it means a complete rupture from the e.u. which needs an entirely different regulatory framework and that would mean a hard order on the island of ireland and what's happening here an idiot or you just carry that item on the taliban in afghanistan will any you kiwi have a hard break said taliban consistent consisting predominantly of members of our own party the right wing of the tory party but also ten members of the m.p. should topping up our government and this is a party of all testament crackpots and i could you not these other forces are holding this country to ransom right now over the specter of a heart break she needs their support in parliament she needs to secure her flank from any possible future vote of no confidence she only won the last one by name

jingles when it was t. will by jeremy corbin and i have to enter here the words of tolerant part of phasing has weathering indictment of the organs in france when he said that she has learned nothing and forgot everything she has then nothing from that humiliating defeat when her withdrawal agreement was first to to parliament last week and it went down to defeat of historic magnitude these people are playing with fire and they are suing the wind we've just seen a car bomb attack in the area now as a harbinger of what will come down the tragedy in the event of a hard border on an island a violent yeah i mean she she thought she must have thought that she could get away with as you put it tweaking plan a and and presenting plan b. why on earth would she have done. just claimed she's playing politics now with this issue and that's criminal given how seismic the issue is and the stakes involved she's clearly trying to run down to cork to march twenty ninth saying it's either my deal or no deal what clearly has to happen no result tickle her feet has to be

extended to release some of the pressure that's built up not only in westminster but in the country at large there are over two million jobs in the u.k. that can lead to pain of britain's existing membership of the single market and for any politician to play fast and loose with those jobs is utterly reprehensible. now if we look at what the opposition leaders said demick organised crime that tries a man makes still hasn't accepted that her deal has failed completely and judging by what she is presented do you think there's any truth in what he said or used is absolutely correct in every particular as i said she has learned nothing and forgotten everything about last week it's as if last week didn't happen and her eyes i really don't know what needs to resign me take i think it's she was trying to keep her disunity party you know eighteen and she wants to salvage something of a legacy that will go down as one of the washed and british political history and

given a peter says to david cameron and has paid assessor bar one tony blair not really seeing something so she's utterly delusional in thinking that she can salvage something from this the parliament has no appetite for a deal the country i don't think has much appetite for a deal and heartbreaks it would impair of the good friday agreement which is underpinned peace in the north of ireland since the late one nine hundred ninety s. something has to change something called teeters has to change and suggest that would be eternal actually ok political commentator and jenna's john white thanks very much for coming on the program and sharing a fourth with us thanks. the u.s. led coalition in syria has confirmed a convoy carrying both its troops and kurdish militia members has been targeted in a suicide car bomb attack in the northwest of syria information on casualties are difficult to verify but no u.s. troops were injured according to coalition officials artie's policy or has more details. it certainly seems as if islands is on the rise what we know is that

a car bomb exploded near a militia checkpoint as a kurdish led force was accompanying american soldiers close by now we are hearing that five kurdish fighters have been killed this happened in the northwestern syrian town of data and so far we have heard from a spokesperson for the u.s. led coalition who has said that there are no americans among the casualties we can confirm a combined u.s. and syrian partner force convoy was involved in an apparent vehicle borne improvised explosive device attack today in syria there were no u.s. casualties we will continue to review the situation and provide updates as appropriate now last week a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest outside a restaurant in the northern syrian town of man british and in that explosion there were four american troops who were killed.

now this is just yet another attack on kurdish and coalition forces since the american president donald trump made the surprise announcement that he was withdrawing all two thousand american troops from syria in december there was a phone conversation on sunday between trump and the turkish president and the one in which everyone said that the turks were ready to take over security in man bridge how this is fighting the kurds who are the majority in that area and they've been appealing to both the syrian government and russia for support. security and political analyst says the u.s. withdrawal is a huge risk that could benefit the terrorists the attack today by isis comes two days after mr. himself attended the ceremony for the burial of the other four

american soldiers and two civilians that were killed on january sixteenth the criticism doesn't only come from from the congress it also comes from his military political staff within the administration a loss on my mind mistake and grave error it's caught everybody off guard and will of the actually pay for it here would dramatically. this is an obama like move i'm speechless today. that's not only going to hamper our current operations it's going to double or triple the ranks of isis because when we leave they're going to say look we just defeated the united states when the americans decided to declare that they're going to withdraw from syria there is that is clear thing a vacuum and this is a big risk and this is a very dangerous situation and it's going to give more momentum for the isis and for the terrorists this is the confusion in the american administration for so many years they paid a lot of money and they put a lot of effort to support the kurdish forces in the northern part of syria and now

they want to abandon these kurds and they want to find a balance between the two and it's a very difficult balance to find and i think the kurds have to learn their lesson once and for all like many people all around the world that if you work for the americans. at any time without any guarantees for your safety and that's what they have done so many times before in so many heated areas around the world the european union is to sanction a handful of russian individuals in connection with the. case last year in the u.k. more on that right after this break. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s.

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welcome back to new site buzz feed is standing by and sending report which claims that donald trump instructed his former lawyer to lie to congress about a proposed business did in russia they are told details an alleged confession by michael cohen to special counsel robert morris investigation into election meddling though it was dismissed and the story broke in the media as a bombshell moment that a whole breaks it all down for us it's been a while since we've seen another leak story all right he's ation linking president trump to the kremlin just about a week or so i would fact one of the. is that a geisha is coming from democratic representative eric swalwell telling one of us and we see to add to the mounting collusion evidence do you believe the president right now has been an agent of the russians yes i think there is more evidence that he has yes and i think all the arrows point that direction i haven't seen a single piece of evidence that he's not sound like a double negative or logical fallacy to be confused so ending the burden of proof upside down being lenient with evidence required to prove guilt or innocence in

this case is the latest trend is there even a need to show evidence anymore take the recent buzz feed reports alleging trump ordered his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress the evidence being source is news travels fast on the story was jumped on by the media president trump is facing new scrutiny today over a report that he told his personal attorney to lie to congress about his business dealings with russia we have breaking news tonight on the russia investigation here's what buzz feed news is reporting tonight bombshell report coming from buzz feed news president directed his attorney to lie to congress about the moscow tower project congressional democrats calling for an immediate investigation declaring the trial must be impeached at the story is true the special counsel moves office has a reputation for stonewalling questions no comment the most common response sources or not but even they took the highly unusual step of denying the story when pressed

buzz feed we're less than clear exactly what evidence there was or even if it had been seen by the report's authors have you seen any of that other corroborating evidence no i don't see that personally i don't think that we've said that we haven't and your colleagues said on c.n.n. this morning that you were briefed on these documents we say that we we've seen documents we've been briefed and we're very confident in our reporting sen lindsey graham is the latest victim of wildfire news seem to have all begun with a questionable jokey allegation from comedian chelsea handler. the graham was the victim of blackmail based on his sexuality it was then taken up by the chairman of the democratic coalition citing you guessed it an unnamed republican source before going even more mainstream in both media and politics before donald trump got elected lindsey graham called donald trump a racist xenophobe bigot or it could be the donald trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about lindsey graham they got him

a triumphant tweet from representative no more on the latest kremlin compromise i am pretty sure there is something happening with him based on what evidence what facts that's a remarkable comment to make about a sitting u.s. senator. the the the evidence really is. present to us it's being presented to us in the way that he is behaving as the whirlwind of smoking gun stories leaks from unnamed sources and allegations on collusion intensifies impeachment remains at the forefront of the agenda evidence. that's a secondary issue political analyst charles hotel thinks it's alarming how quickly media spreads such serious uncorroborated accusations. here is become a one johnny one note operation they are out to get trump in the me they didn't like the election results they wanted hillary clinton in there they just appear to

be grumpy dissatisfied nonobjective. on a witch hunt here this is not a light accusation came out of buzz feed this is a very serious accusation it's like crying shouting fire in a crowded theater theater when there's no fire it is amazing to me how much the mainstream press jumped on this story in the last twenty four hours and it's also frankly quite amazing that the special counsel's team has come out to say it was the stories is totally bogus. he has imposed sanctions on russian individuals who police are connected to the script case the former russian double agents had a case compiling his daughter of a poisoned in march last year in the english town of salisbury london and other western capitals directly accused russia of orchestrating the incident something that moscow has strenuously denied. russia has can damned this new wave first thing sions coming from the e.u. with the country's foreign ministry saying that moscow reserves the right to

respond our position remains firm it is illegal to introduce unilateral restrictive measures by bypassing the un security council brussels once again demonstrates it is disregard for the collectively developed mechanisms for international cooperation the unilateral placement of punitive illegitimate tools is fraught with increased high handedness in international relations and the erosion of international law the e.u. has introducing sions against the had of russia's military intelligence agency the g r un and his deputy and this comes as part of a new wave of think sions the regarding chemical weapons now the e.u. council has recently adopted this new regime under which the e.u. will now be able to impose sanctions on persons and and it is involved in the development or use of chemical weapons regardless of their nationality or location and apart from the top g.r.u. officials the e.u.

sanctions it to individuals whom the u.k. earlier called the g.r.u. agents allegedly responsible for the poisoning of sergei script and the u.k. or welcome to this movement also called these thank sions tough action against irresponsible activities of the g r u today's new sanctions the live on of to take tough action against the reckless and irresponsible activities of the russian military intelligence organization the g.r.u. which puts innocent british citizens in serious danger own souls bru last year back in march last year a former double agent said he is cripple and his daughter yulia wore a poisoned and soles very england's with a nerve agent russia denied british accusations of its involvement and offered to help in the investigation however of these offer of. was declined instead to london expelled twenty three russian diplomats as a punitive measure and a mania e.u. states afford to move and moscow expelled an equal number of european diplomats in

response to this whole incident agreed the fact it's russia u.k. relations. news for now i'll be back around thirty minutes with more updates for the first it's sophie and co. manufacture came sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round certainly the one percent. going all middle of the room signals.

buckle up and brace for impact trump introduces star wars two point zero and calls for impeachment russia gate morphs into treason. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution here to crush the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer i mean your list book video a clue in the new bill is that i do is following you to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took the lead invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. what

politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go right to be cross with what about forty three of them or can't be good. interested always in the water out. there should be.

welcome to sophia also if you share the outlook for the global economy is turning darker as what places breck's it and blowback from us china tensions as it all gloom and doom i ask dr jake a prank on the chairman of j.p. morgan chase international. as the world economy recovers from the shock of two thousand and eight but needs to surface the picture isn't so bright and go through i'm certainty and instability is pushing people into radical politics and the backlash against the system is already being felt across the planet with trade barriers and conflicts returning will the stress on the global financial system cause it to crash again this boom and bust cycle finally be broken or is

catastrophe just around the corner. jacob frenkel it's really great to have in our show today my president all right so lots to talk about after last year's that you have actually cited the growing global doubt level as. concern but this year we have a china u.s. standoff there you things are big problem typical obligatorily do you think we're looking at a recession to come willing potence indies to recognize so the world is a very global entity countries in the world are interconnected and therefore it is in a way against the nature of the integrated world to have barriers and to create trade tensions so as an introduction i would like to say that in my judgment the chinese us standoff as far as the trade skill mischa's is the

major issue but you are perfectly right that. we arrived to this year which is the tenth anniversary of the large financial crisis crisis that started from large debt levels we arrived to this year from the legacy of large debt levels and now we see the debt continuing to grow so to gether the rising debt which is fragility of the financial system and the rising trade tension which is for djibouti of the trading system can translate itself into for g.t.t. of the world international and that's something to watch for do you think the same as your colleagues from j.p. morgan the twenty twenty stare when the big recession is going to hit the world and we're going to see a social unrest in st since one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and.