breaking news this hour a powerful blast and gunfire are reporters outside a major u.s. outpost in afghanistan the very same background air base donald trump a to surprise visit to less than 2 weeks ago. news comes hot on the heels of a down the report richard flies on top american officials have been routinely distorting facts and figures on the war in afghanistan in an attempt to convince the public the drawn out war is winnable. the us president says he looks forward to more dialogue with russia after meeting his foreign minister at the white house can't visit however triggered more speculation about suppose that secret trump moscow links to something sergey lavrov brushed off as absurd. and might as well as

asians against russian diplomacy the case with the athletes and call for our criminal liability. laws. french government pushes forward with this new pension reform which has already led to days of mass demonstrations that civil unrest and strike action. a very good morning to you watching r.t. international with me nikki erin and we begin with this hour with breaking news a suicide bomber has detonated his car outside one of america's main military outposts in afghanistan the airfield now the attack comes hot on the heels of troops surprise thanksgiving day visit to the very same base local media reports a powerful blast hit a medical facility located in the immediate vicinity of the air base is made. gate

according to local media the attackers came to at least one life with as many as 62 people injured initial reports suggested the suicide bomber had targeted a u.s. military convoy though american officials deny that. the american president flew to afghanistan and visited the airbase in late november for thanksgiving speaking to the military personnel that trump struck an upbeat tone. with the help in the devotion everyone. has given here tonight america is winning again we are winning like we have not won in a long time and you know what we're respected like we haven't been respected in a long time america is winning again and america is respected again and respected at the highest level against this backdrop a scathing report has been released which details the years of deliberate dissent from ation on the part of top u.s.

officials who were transpires have been putting on a brave face despite knowing the unpalatable truth about the afghan war. hundreds of thousands dead trillions of dollars lost generations traumatized but you know what nothing good comes easy nothing in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. and we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. all that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is within reach and we're doing a tremendous job. and as you know a big part of the job is isis certainly the biggest and al qaeda and we. we've got them down very low numbers you didn't need to be nostradamus or clairvoyant to know that someone was telling bull it's just logical fallacy you can't keep fighting the

same guys for 20 years and claim the joule winning but then appearances must be kept up it's important that everyone thinks you're winning right up to the moment you admit you lost why well it's obvious no one has the remotest clue we were trying to do here we didn't have the focus notion of what we were undertaking there is a fundamental gap of understanding of the front end of the stated objectives grew lines in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and we'd never have known if it hadn't been thousands of secret and classified documents on afghanistan and stuff from the white house from the pentagon the un and the various n.g.o.s well we would have known it's pretty damn obvious that the war is going terribly but who says mouth and all that it is worth considering what the president the deficient said and what they actually believed when i called our

troops in action i did so with complete confidence in their courage and skill and tonight thanks to them we are winning the war on terror. and. today we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror are we capturing killing or deterring a dissuading more terrorists every day done them addresses on the radical clerics are recruiting training and deploying against us does the us need to fashion a broad integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists the us is putting relatively little effort into a long range plan but we are putting a great deal of effort into trying to stop terrorists the cost benefit ratio is against us see when you're in your 2nd term and you started a really messy war that you just realized you can't hope to win there only so many ways to save your own but here's a list of words you should use courage democracy kids schools and hospitals

and for the people that don't buy your baloney get a hope in there as well thanks to the courage of these military and civilian personnel a nation that was once a safe haven for al qaeda is now a young democracy where boys and girls are going to school new roads and hospitals are being built and people are looking to the future with new hope also poor in money into huge infrastructure projects to obligate money that was appropriated to so we could spend it through building infrastructure in ways that have again instant could never sustain or even the use in some cases if you're a nato country taxpayer i honestly don't believe you can comprehend how much of your money was poured into this adventure you 1st need to understand the sheer degree of incompetence that these leaked documents show imagine for example

someone's putting together a crew for a bank heist they invite a bunch of people give them a time and place and tell no one what their role is no plan so everyone shows up thinking that everyone outs knows what to do. and things go as you would expect now is the time to save your own heidi let's add a few more words difficult days human rights confidence success we will reward good governance work to reduce corruption and support the rights of all afghans men and women alike. there will be difficult days ahead but i am absolutely confident we will succeed you just cannot put those amounts of money into a very fragile state in society and not have if you corruption you just can't a legacy of mass corruption that's putting it lightly what else the jew expects the

guys on the ground they saw disaster they were ported it back to washington washington with its countless departments didn't have the courage to stand up and say they screwed up so they put up appearances everyone was doing what made them look best rather than what worked best interesting enough many of the documents were published with the name lessons learned perhaps an effort to extract something anything of value from this unmitigated disaster but you know as it has got a star not long ago and after seeing what i saw there i can tell you all asleep i can guarantee you that while they may have learned their lessons they sure as heck are putting them to use and rites of retired u.s. army colonel told us the american leadership was ill informed but went ahead with the war in 2001 regardless. well like so many government officials great to admit

failure and the idea that the united states military and the us foreign policy could possibly fail was something that they personally could not accept and so they kept pouring billions of dollars into afghanistan in the hopes that maybe it would be a success the senior leadership of the united states government did not have a real clue on the history of foreign involvement in afghanistan they all should have known but they felt that for domestic political concerns they had to do something after $911.00 so the easy thing was to go to afghanistan a country that had essentially no real military and which they thought the u.s. forces would be able to overwhelm very quickly. a russian delegation headed by the country's top diplomat visited washington on tuesday much to the irritation of democrats that u.s.

president donald trump though seemed happy about the visit. just had a very good meeting with foreign minister sergey lavrov and representatives of russia discussed many items including trade iran north korea and if treaty nuclear arms control and election meddling look forward to continuing the dialogue in the near future the russian foreign minister also held talks with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o the issue of alleged election meddling was raised but the meeting wasn't all about u.s. russia disagreements as he goes donna explains. from the outset it became clear how much room for improvement there is in the relations between russia and the united states for instance one of the cases election meddling the secretary of state might bump a way has been very adamant that any interference in america's relations is unacceptable by a foreign power to which russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov stressed that all such accusations still exist in the realm of speculation. now as for

meddling or not you suggested simply to read the report we did and in it there is no proof of any collusion. also has repeatedly said that russia is ready to release full transcripts as to what was said by the russians and by the members of the trump team via a special communication channel that had been established back in 2618 but according to the russian foreign minister those attempts to make those transcripts see the light of day have so far been stalled by the trumpet ministration. after the integration of donald trump we suggested to our colleagues that in order to dispel all the bases suspicions let us publish this close channel of correspondence starting from oktober 2016 until november 27th seen so that everything would become very clear to people unfortunately the current administration refused to do so now

the bone of contention between russia and the united states is the i.m.f. or rather the absence of the deal now and both parties of both ministers have kind of clashed as to how they see the moving forward for instance the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has again said that the countries could use the start treaty that had been signed back in 2010 but mike pump a has made it clear what the united states don't like about that deal. that was entered into many years ago when powers were very different on a relative basis around the globe. it was a time. the weapons systems the threats were very different than they are today today so we believe not only do the conversations need to be broadened to include the chinese communist party or so year olds that the russian president spoke again about russia's preparedness right now to agree on its extension to alleviate tensions in the global community given that the last instrument of arms control between the united states and russia will stop operating we are prepared to do that

even today on the other hand circular has reiterated that russia has been making unilateral steps of good faith for instance the russian president had previously said that russia wasn't going to deploy any weapons that had been banned under the i.n.f. treaty in europe unless washington or its allies decide to do that but it wasn't all negative there are some points where russia and the united states do see eye to eye on where they do see each other as valuable partners syria afghanistan north korea all those aspects all those political crises see russia and the united states working together and both countries and seeing did their best both ministers at least did their best to try and move that train forward as much as they could. u.s. democrats the meeting between russia and america's top diplomats was one more reason to suspect secret links between trump and moscow. trump is meeting with

russia's foreign minister in the oval office again on veterans invited in allies knocked out last time they laughed about trump's firing of komi today they can celebrate the success of russian propaganda reagan wouldn't recognize this g.o.p. tromp lavrov and compare our meeting in private this afternoon what conspiracy are they cooking up today congress congress seems to have been captured by a desire to destroy us russian relations used to splurge and shoot adam schiff describes normal by literal contacts between countries in particular the reception of a foreign minister or one country by the president. another country as a triumph of russian diplomacy well he might as well throw doping accusations against russian diplomats following the case with the athletes and for our criminal liability to me position is just absurd. but panic to have a trump links wasn't the only thing that got democrats 6 guys had only a democrat house need is officially called for the u.s. president's removal from office they claim he's ignored and even the interests of

the story more picks up the story. now the meeting focused on nuclear nonproliferation as well as other international issues but it appears that negotiations and moving forward on these vital international matters is being held back by some internal turmoil within the united states of america and it just so happens that this meeting is taking place on the very day that articles of impeachment have been drawn up against donald trump over a phone call he had with the ukrainian leader and allegations that he obstructed the congressional investigation into that phone call the 1st article for abuse of power it is an impeachable offense president should be engaged in an unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry. this gives rise to the 2nd article of impeachment for obstruction of congress i think it's

a disgrace if people could make it be true that if the thing that was a perfect conversation they were perfect cover say here is the thing. and i think it's great this is somewhat of a pattern whenever a high level meeting takes place but it seems that it's followed by a harsh attacks on the president and accusations of some kind of inappropriate relationship between trump and russia or cia director john brennan was among the 1st to float the t word treason officials and pundits even begin speculating whether russia had something on trump that would cause him to so publicly side with you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president donald trump's actions just today were quote appalling and shameful shocking and sad damaging and a threat to american democracy those harsh words related mainly to the investigation conducted by bob muller regarding allegations of collusion now interestingly a new report has just been released regarding how that investigation was carried

out the new report seems to indicate that the f.b.i. made great errors and how they what about investigating donald trump during this this probe into alleged collusion donald trump spoke critically of the f.b.i. and pointed toward the report the report actually in especially when you look into it in the details of the report are far worse than anything i would have even imagine this was an overthrow of a government this was an attempt to overthrow the report shows is that the democrats are not even the democrats but any government official that did not want donald trump that wanted to support hillary clinton but that does not want donald trump in office or donald trump as president the united states will do anything including lie lie to congress lightest senate questions feed stories to the media break protocol violations of confidential investigations in order to feed those. stories of the media to create certain narratives to harm trump the report affects the impeachment process in general and hopefully you know most americans probably

are going to read every single word but i hope that they do it's far more damning and then some of the outlets have made it sound there are lots of facts in there remember the report the i.g. report was never supposed to 5 indict anybody or bring criminal charges that was supposed to show that there was wrongdoing and how these investigations started in the 1st place how the russia trump lie started in the 1st place. so it's calm protest as in france demanded a new pension reform be scrapped but the government is pushing on the regardless of how tough story and plenty will after this short break stay with us. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. yourself want to be rich.

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oh welcome back now the french government is pushing had with its controversial pension reforms of the face of mass protests on strike action over the issue prime minister and what i felipe will present the plans to the economic social and environmental council on wednesday the day before more than 300000 people took part in demonstrations across france according to the interior minister slaby union said the number was almost 3 times higher with more from the french capital k.c.b. . well as you can see we are in the thick of it the country is trying to deliver their message to the government before now says their final plans for pension reform in france although we did hear from the country's prime minister that for them for now there is no intention to change their plans if we don't make serious profound and progressive reform today someone else will make much more

brutal reform tomorrow i hope that we can convince a majority of french people that our reform is fair it is universal it makes the special pension plans gradually disappear and is financially balanced not just for a moment let me give you a clearer picture of who these people are for instance i mean we've already been used to the yellow vests but as you can see these are orange and what it says on them is s.n.c.f. this is the french railway company which is by the way one of the major driving forces of the protest almost 85 percent of the railway staff members white rice said this is really cross the country's transport system. oh you know about iran and world war 3 i can tell you that the professions range from air traffic controllers to actually police officers and lawyers so this is just how

vast it is but i do have to mention though that a last week protests in various cities of these countries did turn ugly and violent . i can tell you that most of the slogans that we are hearing in these protests are aimed directly against the president emanuel macron one you can see right here it says macro don't touch my retirement the idea of for the pension reform is to introduce a universal point system we're told make the pension sums universal for

different layers of the society but some of them in france do fear that they will lose their privileges they want to give us a town to a food system you have everyone who will die you forms but all much. there with brings you a point never knows where now this is just a warning for the government but it's not hard to predict what's going to happen if emanuel macron and his team decides terri will stick to the plan of. science and business done just into sex in a long musk's office moscow state university has has to take a forum for young talent is the thing that house. the 2 spheres interact on course and paid a visit. it's a glance into russia's future for the country's top university moscow state a place where the scientific achievements of young people are put on display for

the world to see this year's innovation in practice congress has a large exhibition on how to improve education and job training is going to be everything from fiar devices to agricultural technology so let's go take a step inside and find out what russia's brightest minds have to offer. live. this is slow solution for little or nothing to the teacher who could afford to be free of the cold cold feet and not let you know what's really and it will lose the flow plus it will go with you know that leaflet you think yeah right no those things are going to go. with this and it will over till it's time for the fool the sun was low and slow.

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a very good robot down the corridor of our t.v. moscow this work thanks for joining us here on our national we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines don't miss that. impeachment mania has dives drawn on both sides of the political divide the i.g. report clearly demonstrates the f.b.i. abused its powers when targeting trump world the judiciary committee is hell bent on impeachment articles ideological obsession name again.

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you is will the new u.s. embassy a actually be a better deal than nafta we're going to break it down in a way that you won't see anywhere else plus as trade tensions and political turmoil have taken their toll on economic growth worries continue to pile up the report which of the british american business association lends its a hand to break down britain's economic woes and what lies in store for the euro zone and banks across the e.u. are laying off employees as other banks are moving to try to keep up with the proliferation of online banking so what does the future look like in the banking sector r g correspondent i'll just read and public citizen bartlett naylor will break it down for us so much to get to on this very busy day so let's get started. and we begin with the u.s. in ca because as we told you monday the new north american trade deal between the u.s. and mexico and canada has been agreed to by democrats in congress and.