correspond to the depths of your consciousness. and. after the show monday will trump picks thanksgiving for his fast ever visit to afghanistan using the occasion to tell us troops face talks with the taliban about god. with libya in the grip of political instability before one local mayor was brutally beaten and publicly humiliated by rivals of ousted president evo morales. the also cut off my hair believe me but they begin to change me and i want people to seek a step back in thing that they believe in people cannot live like this. and

says black friday shoppers around the world we look at the darker side of the buying frenzy. you what you ought to international stay within the next 20 minutes as we go around the world covering the biggest stories of the day starting with this one and donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving paying his 1st ever visit to afghanistan and greeting american troops based and he had a message for them revealing talks with the taliban about gone despite being declared dead just 2 months ago my colleague daniel this with. they call it a surprise visit but the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan the bloody almost 2

decade long conflict that took so many american lives and so many american dollars trump wanted to end it for his own for steve at home and called these global influence in that region and internationally of course and he's been given this promises so many times that thanksgiving feels that short reason to afghanistan was all about that to demonstrate he's in charge and he is taking everything under control and everything is according to his plan and peace is near that's a perfect plan and you know strong promises except we've heard that before and so many times. the taliban wants to make a deal we'll see if they want to make a deal it's going to be a real deal but we'll see talking to the taliban have a very good discussions we'll see what happens talking about a plan i don't know whether or not a plan is going to be accepted or acceptable to me and maybe it's not going to be acceptable to them but we are talking we have good talks going and we'll see what happens in these negotiations have been quite stops thought they have there been

any success is in the past it would be unfair to say that there wasn't any success because for almost a year a trans key negotiator mr heller former ambassador to afghanistan held 9 rounds of talks extensive talks with the taliban very influential on the ground in afghanistan everybody agrees that they say is a player and no one can ignore and the peace cannot be restored without although many countries still view them as a terrorist group some were saying that to merica was closed and these negotiations were success but that it was called off last minute because of the bloody incident to dozens of lives including an american soldier so some say that america is losing this game in afghanistan. because trump is trying to play is solo game there are so many peace initiatives on afghanistan led by most by iran but always rejects all the invitations and never takes part in these talks and

he's trying to kind of settle it all on his own and just before go into afghanistan this thanksgiving he posted a photo shopped picture of himself as rocky balboa and i think this is how he feels maybe and maybe this is what he wants to be for afghanistan a hero but as they say you can tell what they are by what they do not by what they say or what the post on twitter obviously as you mentioned there it's a good photo opportunity good p.r. for the election exeunt in terms of realistic chance of getting a deal how optimistic and it's very hard to say because it's been on and off all the time but what we can say for sure and you made this point already trump is not going to give up he needs it he needs to regain this influence in afghanistan and in that region and globally and of course they say that ending the war in afghanistan he would rise his chances up to be reelected at home so i mean it's not

yet over. dean out the school of international affairs 3 of chaldea believes the taliban has the advantage in these talks trying to simply you know i will you know are trying to show some bravado the reality is that he needs this deal much more than the taliban rule but if you look at the ground situation the taliban going to to make good gains and the violence the degree of control that the taliban has over the water spirit has increased and the u.s. forces are said to draw down the you know they can root them out and eventually win this war for him a victory for a very pure political victory for domestic gains is going to less than 12 months what the reelection and he wants for sure success and i think the taliban know that they're going to extract a lot of concessions pakistan which backs of taliban is going to try and extract more concessions so really the onus is on the countries in the region you know the neighbors are going to standard try and stabilize it because as far as the all rule

of the u.s. being the policeman or bashir a fool may do in order and balance of power all their lives or were and trump is simply saying you know i give up but simply putting a sort of sheen on it. now to a country that's been in the headlines recently quite a lot the mayor of a small town in bolivia who was brutally assaulted by protesters amid the unrest triggered by the country's political crisis is refusing to resign patricia archie has now left hospital images of the attack on her emerged on social media revealing the violent towards politicians of the party of ousted leader. a warning you may find the following scenes upsetting. at the start of november after setting the town hall on fire and until morale is more paraded have put cuts in public and sprayed to read during a 4 hour ordeal she was made to kneel and sign a resignation letter told her she's still being true to damage the stain on the

clothes she received. what happened was disgusting. i'm now recovering from renal damage that i suffered during the assault and i'm still in pain the also cut off my hair. but they can change my views everything was so confusing at that moment many of them covered their faces but we recognize some of them it was sad to see all those people attacking me it's been a difficult time for my children to see their mother in such a condition i don't want this to happen again but if it is now facing political uncertainty the self-appointed right wing government of sanitation in onions has already been accused of abuses even more as resigned after the country's military suggested to step down now it was on the back of a wave of protests following october's elections and allegations of voter fraud his supporters protest what they see as a coup during the country's post election on rest 34 people were killed and more

than 800 injured but again says that the violence must stop. but as you're going to be i can't betray my people those who believe in me i would like to express my gratitude to the staff who have stayed with me and are dedicated to improving the city we will keep working to achieve all our goals it was very difficult to return here after everything they did to me and it was terrible to see this city hall in such a state after all the work that was done to improve it after everything that's happened how can it get any worse people need to reflect and stop harming each other we need to restore unity i've never hurt anybody i've always worked for my city and i want people to take a step back and think the believe in people cannot live like this. now to paris where a meeting between the french president a nato chief has apparently failed to resolve lingering tensions with the money while again costing doubt on the current agenda of the near 70 year old military

alliance more of gaza has been looking at the roots of the tensions. one of the 1st symptoms of irrelevance is when you find yourself having to remind people that your relevant successful and someone's got off in a bit of a verbal self-congratulatory blitzkrieg nato is a strong alliance but more than that we are adopting it we are agile and we are active so we are responding to a changing world and the reason why nato is the most successful launch of these 2 it is that we have been able to change in the world is changing and that's exactly what we have done over the last years that's exactly what we are doing nato is the most successful alliance in history. and alliance that all those strive to join showing the historic suspects of natal and liberal nato and it has been the most

successful alliance in the history there is more much more the star machine amount of a standing valid stake a step back look at it objectively almost 30 years since the cold war ended and nato hasn't changed almost nothing about it just as they were then they're still expanding eastward towards russia just as they were then they're still standing up to russia now also in the cybersphere and gonna start a lot of evolution there 18 years of stagnant stalemate what they've really adapted to is pumping out glamorous videos no argument there stella stuff nato is brain dead and those aren't my words their own from the lips of the french president little if you look any of this with a different school nato is a collective defense alliance against who and what it is organizing who is our

common enemy what are our common issues these are questions that deserve clarification magic or has a vision a united european army a europe protected by europeans not americans no hard feelings i mean how did american feel if the us was protected in the garrison by hundreds of thousands of foreign troops a european military that decides on its own who its enemies are. is our enemy now russia or china is it the goal of nato to designate them as enemies i don't believe so our common enemy today in nato is terrorism which has hit each of our countries. but nato is nothing if not adaptable we heard many times now they're evolving to adapt to the fact that the u.s. is tired of paying for everyone because everyone else's so successful that no one wants to foot the bill we work together and getting some of our allies to pay their

fair share it's called burden sharing and. as you know when i came it wasn't so good the united states plays for a very big share of nato a disproportionate share but in all seriousness there is something that has changed in the last 30 years if your country's abiding russian weapons turkey spending billions on russian s 400 defense systems and refusing to go and march up and down on russia's borders until nato acknowledges that its members have actual problems. if some countries object to another country's security concerns of being a tourist then there will be no unity with the natives are nato the galaxy's greatest military alliance since the big bang it isn't gentleman all since the moment of creation probably arguing about it is well. now

a story for you bargain hunters out the black friday shopping extravaganza gets underway in shops all around the world today unless a americans alone spend around $87000000000.00 this time around chasing the very best deals but there is a darker side to this we tell festival as artie's don't cotton explains. black friday is coming up big box retailers are gearing up for their annual mega sales super profits and consumer stampedes that will probably result in more than a few injuries in a georgia wal-mart to have been fighting over pots and pans one refusing to let god . that wasn't brutal enough for you there is an even darker shade of black friday the kind that takes place on a darker shade of the internet called the dark web it's

a place where black marketeers pursue huge profits with alluringly low prices just as much as the legitimate guys probably more so and there are plenty of consumers looking to buy those contraband goods society has become more digital and own without so his crime despite their activities being on rule from an illegal criminals all returned in surprise in a sense i'm not looking to maximize the opportunities it's no small enterprise either last week the european union published a report about online narcotics sales in the u.k. it said 24000000 pounds sterling worth of the stuff was sold in 20172018 alone and on black friday everything from credit cards fake passports and illegal drugs are for sale at bargain bin prices and marketplaces that are specifically designed to be completely untraceable and while buying illegal items puts you at risk with the law you should also be aware of the very vendors you're buying from

security experts are sounding the alarm and how you can avoid a black friday. as we head into the holiday shopping season notice there is a new online scam that involves fake retail websites that look real but they are not scams come in many forms one popping up more and more is fraudulent websites that look exactly like the real thing no doubt the authority. yes will be hard at work trying to stop these dark web deals but what about the consequences that come with legal black friday consumerism for so long 'd the overproduction and overconsumption that characterizes the holiday have been cordially accepted as the norm no matter the frenzy that overtakes many or the damage it wreaks on the environment the latter has become so bad the french government is debating on banning black friday altogether but for now expect the usual frenzy for anybody who takes part in a black friday so who wants to be part of this when ever there is a chance fraudulent activities especially with what we know about the dark web in

certain facets of the internet and with all of the hacking capabilities firewall breakings and all this other stuff we need to be taking personal responsibility individual responsibility and being sure that we are in charge of what happens to our finances and where we're putting our finances that it really takes advantage of the narrative that people have to shop on black friday that that is the only time you can get presents for your children for your family for your loved ones in your friends and so it really gives the some of these hackers or these dark web or some of these false sites an opportunity really to to prey on these on these shopping sentiments and to try to find people who are going to be likely to give in to any deal that looks too good to be true b. and because we don't take the time to look into that especially on black friday when it went in and so it's not only a frenzy but there's a time constraint we have one hour we have a certain amount of time or it's going to be over and you'll miss it forever and that's what gets people in these modes where they're not going to look it up they're not going to research to see which sites are legitimate which sites aren't

and that's where they might be able to be taken advantage of a palestinian jonathan has been through during clashes in the west bank i'll tell you what about the break.

join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back germany's highest court has ruled that a man convicted of a double murder in the eighty's has the right to have both his name and all the details for moved from website. he was sentenced in 1982 and released 20 years later the case was widely reported in the media on his full name appears and online such as part of archived articles he claims his right to privacy and

ability to develop his personality have been violated the right to be forgotten is a controversial subject and resulted in disputes between google and the e.u. e.u. law states that all european citizens can ask for links containing sensitive information to be raised from such engines in 2014 a court ruled they could force such engines to do this since then google says more than 800000 requests have been made to remove more than 3000000 web addresses however critics say it's dangerous removing information for criminals our guests to be to the issue. well they certainly deserve a 2nd chance but what they don't deserve is to have the historic crimes of they've gone wiped off that no one can find them this is clearly an attack on free speech freedom of information and it's international censorship because the the rights of

those that he killed the families the victims should never be forgotten but what he wants to do he wants his past to be completely wiped clean but once you start to we historically events then you need to rewrite in historic what history was this person should have a slave why clean on the fact that the still showing up is going to be discriminated against or it could push him back into a life of crime if he's not given the right to leave his old life by law behind if you go for a job you still got suits you still got to give your past previous convictions which will discriminate against you anyway but the thing is there's no point releasing the individual from prison if he's still going to die if you still want to live in the past i'm all for giving a 2nd chance and like say the rehabilitation of offenders should should help sometimes it's down to employers having confidence in the judicial system to corrective behavior for people to come out a changed person and sometimes you need confidence in businesses to give them

a chance but the problem is when you start to hide your historic events then that adds another dimension to the people will look into employer if he's trying to hide this what else is he trying to hide this person trying to better themselves the trying not trying to raise the past the trying to be given a fair shot of the way of thinking you know what clean slate start again this is me now not then did you want to raise the posse could change the name always of the internet could just change the name if they want to eventually like let me. write they want to keep repeating yourself but the fact is you can change your name and you can just do exactly that anywhere if. i change my name for example when i drove on is called you can have a go at the opera not with. no if you if you actually go for jobs where they need to do certain disclosures because of the certain criteria you have to say if you change your name or you know by other names so that they can do a proper search yet serve you serve you that society you released as

a new person with it with hopefully with a new mindset you should be given every opportunity so that your past is stricken from the record like of a leader to go in for jobs it will always come up so there's no getting away from it it's just about being a new person produce produce project yourself in a different lie and try to become a productive member of society the criminal may have some of the time they may want to move on the families can't move on is still there and the should never try and wipe it because if this try and hide their past what else are they going to try and hide in the future. for another story for you this hour a palestinian journalist has been shot in the eye reportedly by israeli forces the incident happened whilst i was covering classes in the west bank warning you might find the following video disturbing. i mean. more for our money spoke to r.t.

exactly about what happened to them. we covered a demonstration by people from serif the confiscation of land by israel the rally was suppressed and there was some clashes while we were covering the clashes i was shot in the eye by an israeli sniper i was wearing a reporter's uniform and anyone can identify me as a journalist from far away i got only lost my own not my life when i was shot i thought i was about to die i fell on my head was going to explode i thought i was breathing my last and then my colleagues came to carry me away. while i'm in a has received a wave of support after his story went viral palestinian activist son john lewis held demonstrations in bethlehem in solidarity with the injured colleague just a couple of days after the incident some of them even joined a flash mob on social media posting photos of themselves with one eye carpet meanwhile the palestinian journalist syndicate says 60 john this had been hit by life and you know this year the majority of them and gaza israeli police however

claimed they used only non lethal force which was not directed up the photographer they also say his entry could have been caused by rioters but among a thinks what's happened to him was no accident. really occupiers do not want the rest of the world to see the repression palestinian journalists are showing the world what the occupation is doing to our people the disregard for human rights palestinian journalists are exposing these crimes palestinian journalists are being killed summers have muslims to patients is not 'd respect any of the contrary the suppression of journalism with the collusion of some of the countries is enabling israel to escalate its crimes against the palestinians. and finally some news just in the iraqi prime minister he says he will resign it to allow law makers to form a new government has an outlet followers of violent protests across the country

with people to monitor a change of government they voice that all services unemployment abruption more than $300.00 people have been killed and thousands more injured since the rallies began last month we will of course bring you more details as they watch. well that's how the news is shaping up at the moment for more on these and many many more stories you can always go to r.t. dot com have a good day. this is a story about what happens after a stray bullet kills a young girl in the street. what happens to her family and daughters in florida. no mother daughter is there isn't a cemetery it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the nato military alliance is a relic from the cold war back then it was relevant and even necessary today it is an alliance in search of a mission that search has almost completely entailed eastern expansion towards russia but a lingering question remains is the average american and western european interested in a war over the sovereignty of dystonia and montenegro. cross talking the atlantic alliance i'm joined by my guest luke prevail in brussels he's

an independent journalist in paris we have emmanuelle gave she is a french lawyer and in oxford we cross to mark owen he is the director of the crisis research institute or across the uk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let's go to our guest in paris the many well you have president mccrone just recently said that nato is brain dead how do you reflect upon that because a nato summit is coming up next week and it's been shortened to 2 days because a lot of people worried that. donald trump will start some kind of dumpster fire as he tends to do when it comes to nato so how is the nato alliance stand right now because you have jeremy corbyn and going into election mode doubting the only alliances necessity here so i mean is mccrone right. brain dead go ahead well to be honest i am afraid that this time i find myself on the same page as mr michael which is something it's something unusual for me stopped for me right time

twice a day it's but what we have to look at is that mr michael is saying it is a brand this is true but why because what he wants in bottom line is to make an alliance with germany and to sell our french army to the german that has been agenda since the beginning their big idea is to think europe and to kind of congregate everyone in this type of imperial europe they have as an idea a kind of napoleon type of a. and this is a very big challenge for us french because that would mean obviously losing our me losing our sovereignty so he is using this nato does nato thing which is right to have he has a hidden agenda if i could say which is to bind our army with the german army and this is something us the french have to look after because losing our army means

losing our sovereignty means lose.