i'm afraid to try to get. snow to suffer due to. a powerful blast and gunfire are reported outside a major u.s. outpost in afghanistan the very same air base donald trump paid a surprise visit to a less than 2 weeks ago the news comes as a damning report is released shedding light on how top american officials have been routinely distorting the facts and figures on the war in afghanistan and an attempt to convince the public the drawn out war is winnable. u.s. president says he looks forward to more dialogue with russia after meeting its foreign minister at the white house and that visit harbor more speculation about supplies and secret trouble. some things are brushed off as absurd. he might as

well. as against russian diplomats the case with the athletes and cold for our criminal liability goes on. and the french government pushes forward with its new pension reform which has already led to days of mass demonstrations civil unrest and strike action. if you're watching our 2 international bringing your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. a suicide bomber has detonated his car outside one of america's main military outpost in afghanistan the barren airfield attack comes not long after trump surprised thanksgiving visit to the same base local media report a powerful blast hit a medical facility located in the immediate vicinity of the air base his main gate

according to local media the attack has claimed at least one life with as many as 62 people injured and initial reports suggest the suicide bomber had targeted a u.s. military convoy that american officials deny that the american president flew to afghanistan and visited the airbase in late november for the giving speaking to the military personnel there tom struck a rather upbeat tone. with the help of 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. we now bring and live afghan activist joy for more on this now donald trump was at this base 2 weeks ago assuring

everybody that america was winning this attack not go against what he was saying. tang's food into hello to our listeners it is another big lie of wrong politician. unfortunately in fact in the past 18 years they raised. a ministry of media telling lies. and even some. of us government publicly couldn't fare so. recently in washington forced to seek our sources that in fact they failed war in afghanistan disk longest war in the history of the us administration knives. after 911 tragedy day occupied afghanistan and placed about equation after taliban what kind of mentalist warlords and root causes of all

problem in afghanistan is dark and and these fundamentalist and base just like. now attacked or sometimes. you know in the past. in the safest areas and couple also get attacked by do you start if to these different brand of terrorists they do not have links with each other that each of these terrorist groups they are getting fan didn't and project off to foreign countries the u.s. now to a neighbor can do support them in power didn't find them for their own interests and their government somehow have a link with them that it is possible to do to stare us acts but it is easy for terrorist like taliban or eyes is to sure themselves that we are post-war take that responsibility is offset chip attacks and there's a lot of current to addiction in afghanistan fought in the stands and that going to addiction according telling lies for example the politician they politicians say is

that they must not go to afghanistan the parliamentarian and they tell them that is not security for them bad for the afghan people these refugees because. insecurity joblessness polity corruption different kind of human rights women a violation because of this disgusting water and occupation they live their country about deport them back they have telling to slide that they had a safe in fact they changed afghanistan in the past 18 the as to the save haven for terrorism and in fact just so little get off the so-called war on terror itself have been proved that it is the biggest lie of the century they did not only waged discriminative what they did in afghanistan they waged it in syria and libya and yemen in no crime in many other countries that millions of people were killed and pushed these countries toward destruction and response i believe that only that we have off asylum seeker is strong evidence of the social economy political situation of afghanistan and. they are for dead on the strategy could you now economy

political interest and they now in the name of the so-called peace process they and why the terrorists taleban to join this non-democratic or after mafia issue these terrorists and the name of the peace camp that is out of this kind of so-called peace will be more dangerous that is that it will be more bloodshed more woman dies while asian because to do war not a terrorist taleban itself proves that the slogan of the war on terror was the biggest lie and fact it was put there to change just today so we're going off to war on innocent afghan people peace without justice is meaningless impossible to bring peace and i can treat that by sworn enemies off to peace democracy justice like taller bond i was lost and now the eye is this. trans fighting and a nod i'm bored out of afghanistan from syria and iraq to make them unsafe or dead on a strategy economy can trust the u.s. government has the godfather of all the starwars says the u.s.

government and matter who follow their strong policy and of course the teen years and the about ninety's as of old day most jews from this situation have their own puppets. joy afghan activist thank you for your time and your comments. now against this backdrop the u.s. media has published a revealing article which details the years of deliberate disinform ation on the part of top american officials who it 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 all 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 jewel 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 that if it hadn't been thousands of secret and classified documents on afghanistan stuff from the white house from the pentagon the un and 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 than the mid russ's 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 did you expect the guys on the ground they saw disaster they were put 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 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 putting them to use and write a retired u.s. army colonel told us the american leadership was ill informed but when i had with the war in 2001 regardless. well like so many government officials they hate 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 d.c. on tuesday and much to the irritation of democrats there yes 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 u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o they issue of alleged lection meddling was raised but the meeting wasn't all about us russia disagreements 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 come pay was being 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 accuse a chanst 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 stopped 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 october 26th until november 27th 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 that 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 might bump a.o.l. has made it clear what the united states don't like about that deal that's agreement that was entered into many years ago when powers were very different on a relative basis around the globe. it was at

a time that the weapon systems the threats were very different than they are today too so we believe not only do the conversations need to be broadened to include the chinese communist party it's year that the russian president spoke again about russia's preparedness right now to agree on its extension to leave the 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 labrat 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 found under the i.n.f. treaty in europe unless washington or its allies decide to do that 1st 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 for us 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 i'm visser he's invited in 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. trump lead rope and compare our meeting in bing this afternoon what conspiracy are they cooking up today congress or congress seems to have been captured by a desire to destroy us russian relations used to splurge and sue adam schiff describes normal by literal contacts between countries in particular the reception of the foreign minister or one country by the president of 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 call for our criminal liability to me position is just absurd. but panic over trump russia links wasn't the only thing getting democrats excited earlier on tuesday democratic house leaders officially calling for the u.s. presence removal from office introducing articles of impeachment they claim he has ignored and even injure in the interest of the country artist and picks up a story at 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 is 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 action 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 and especially when you look into it and 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 attempted 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 united states will do anything including lie lie to congress light a senate questions feed stories to the media break protocol violations of confidential investigations in order to feed those. story said the media to create certain narratives to harm trump the report effects 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 damaging than 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. the french government is pushing ahead with its controversial pension reforms in the face of

mass protest and strike action over the issue prime minister edward philippe it 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 a labor union say the number was almost 3 times higher with more from the french capital peers and have trenka. well as you can see we are in the thick of it the country is trying to deliver their message to the government before it is now says their final plans for the 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 the majority of french people that our reform is fair it is universal it makes the

special pension plans gradually disappear and is financially balanced now 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 main driving forces of the protest almost 85 percent of the railway staff members white rice said this is really causing chaos in the country's transport system. but it's not only have about iran world war i can tell you that the professions range from air traffic controllers to actually police officers and warriors so this is just how vast it is but i do have to mention though that. 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 some of the tone to food

systems you have every yahoo dot you forms but all much. so with brings you an opponent 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 to stick to the plan. that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all the stories and many more. each simulating civilization will be able to run using a tiny fraction of its resources. hundreds of thousands millions of runs through all of human history almost all. beings with our kinds of experiences with them to

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