a powerful blast and gunfire are reported outside a major u.s. outpost in afghanistan with the very same back room air base that donald trump paid a surprise visit less than 2 weeks ago. and the news comes as a damning report is released shedding light on how top american officials have been routinely distorting facts and figures on the war in afghanistan and an attempt to convince the public the drawn out war is winnable. also this hour the french government reveals more details on controversial pension reforms that have sparked mass strikes. and the u.s. president says he looks forward to more dialogue with russia after meeting foreign minister sergey lavrov at the white house that visit however triggered more

speculation about supposedly secret trouble. something will be brushed off. you might as well throw don't use a sions against russian diplomats holding the keys with the athletes and gold for our criminal liability. here watching our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. a suicide attacker has detonated a car bomb outside the back room airbase one of the main u.s. military outpost in afghanistan they talk comes not long after trump surprise thanksgiving visit to that same base local media reports say the powerful blast hit a medical facility close to the bases main gate at least 2 people have been killed and more than 70 injured according to local local sources i should out quickly follow the blast and it's being reported 3 of the attackers remain at large and 3 others. killed and one more captured a local t.v.

channel says the taliban has claimed responsibility the american president visited the airbase in late november for the skimming speaking to the military personnel their tribe struck an up beat tone. with the lotion 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 donald trump was saying that he was winning that most american president since the american invaded afghanistan says that they are winning but they are not winning in fact because the taliban is controlling half of afghanistan and after 18 years of war with afghanistan trying to force the taliban from afghanistan the united states has come to the conclusion that they have to

negotiate and we negotiate with the taliban the same force that 18 years ago the invaded afghanistan was the taliban from the country because they were harboring terrorism and they were harboring some of below them what the american government says it says because the taliban are weak that's why they keep sending the terrorists every day but the real the real truth is that the taliban are the real forces unfortunately in afghanistan and you have to count on them in order to secure afghanistan. against all this in articles been published in the us press detailing years of deliberate disinter mation by top american officials have been putting on a brave face despite knowing the 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. over i set to defeat al qaeda and tonight 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. 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 all have got to start 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. 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 the jew expects the guys on the ground they saw disaster they were ported it back to washington washington with its countless departments that now 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 putting them to use. the french government is pushing ahead with its controversial pension reforms despite huge public hostility resulting in mass protests and strikes earlier today the prime minister formally presented his plans challenge even to reports from paris. perhaps one of the most controversial elements that was announced today is the fact that the retirement age will increase by 2 years it will go up to 64 while the legal age will remain at 62 if french workers won't to

receive a full pension they will have to work those extra 2 years now let's break down some of the detail of how this is going to work the government said today this was added phillipe the prime minister that those who were born before 1975 will not be impacted by these changes are told if you were born often 175 in your mid career at the moment they what you'll find is around 70 percent of your pension will be based on the system and 30 percent on the new system and for those who turn 18 in 2022 they will be integrated for the 1st time fully into the new system this is a system whereby the 42 current pensions in france will be amalgamated into one universal payment the prime minister said some of the big winners as a result of this would be women who for the 1st time would receive 100 percent compensation for the time that their own maternity leave would also have points towards their pension from their very 1st child while the 3rd child and he said

there would be a guarantee of a 1000 euros a month in pension in retirement for those who had worked a full career let's have a listen to what else it would fully patched to say that we may disagree on some points but the government's ambition for universal amity is now bishan for social justice there is no hidden agenda we're not looking to penny pinch we don't want to hurt anyone on the contrary we want to protect the poached power of workers and the purchasing power of pension already we're getting some reactions from the unions who seem to be very unhappy with what's been announced by the french prime minister one union seed you know this is the union that is the major union for the s.n.c. . the railway workers here in france say that they are now calling for a reinforcement of the strike which is now in its 7th day here in france we've also heard from police unions who a mover lising before that speech by the prime minister this morning saying that

they want to halt and not mobilization as a result the suggestion is the unions don't feel that the government has listened to them and hasn't gone far enough they're all human to all of this is that people will have to work longer and they may receive less pension in the future people all viewers about this so furious in fact last week when there was a national strike some 806000 people took to the streets to let the government know that they didn't will let pensions mess on choose they still stood at 339000 they already knew calls strikes on tuesday of this week and of tuesday or next week it seems that this announcement by the detail of these pension reforms will mean hasn't quelled the anger the anger that we've seen spilling out into the streets particularly in the protests last week where there were tensions in clashes between the police and the protesters it looks like this strike is fall from. still to come the u.n. says so far it's found no ties between iran and september's drone attacks on saudi

oil plants that story and more after the break. 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 with a game. you know world of big partisan group. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to

stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. come back a russian delegation headed by foreign minister sergey lavrov visited washington d.c. on tuesday much so that your taishan of us democrats the president those same tapi 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 i know 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 at the meeting wasn't all about us russia disagreements as it goes down and explains. from the outset it became clear how much room for improvement there is in the relations between russia and the united states one of the cases is election meddling the secretary of state my campaign has been very adamant that any interference 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 but we put it you suggested simply to read the model 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. we suggested to our colleagues that in order to dispel all the basis suspicions let us publish this close channel of correspondence starting from october 26th in 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 under guillaume 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 it was at a time when 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 but the russian president spoke again about russia's preparedness right now to agree on its extension to alleviate tensions in the global community we are prepared to do that even today but it wasn't all negative

on syria afghanistan north korea all those political crises see russia and the united states working together and both countries and seen did their best both ministers at least did their best to try and move that train forward as much as they could. for 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 i'm very serious invited in allies knocked out last time they laughed about troops firing of komi today they can celebrate the success of russian propaganda reagan wouldn't recognize this g.o.p. trample over often compare our meeting in private this afternoon what conspiracy are they can have today congress of congress seems to have been captured by a desire to destroy u.s. russia relations to disoblige and adam schiff describes normal bilateral contacts

between countries in particular the reception of a 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. panic over trump russia ling's wasn't the only thing that got democrats excited yesterday earlier democratic house leaders rolled out articles of impeachment against the president they claim he's ignored and even damage the interests of the country. and 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 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 that 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 lightest senate questions feed stories to the media break protocol violations of confidential investigations in order to feed those. stories to 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 it was supposed to show that there was wrongdoing and how these investigations started in the 1st place how the russia trump law i started in the 1st place. the un says it's found nothing to link iran to the september drone attacks which targeted to

oil plants and saudi arabia the facilities belong to a saudi aramco a company run by the saudi government the un is still investigating the case. this time it is unable to independently cooperate the cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles used in these attacks were raining in origin after the attack washington and its allies were quick to point the finger at iran imposing sanctions on the country which included iran central bank donald trump called the measures the highest ever imposed on any country however iran denied any involvement and shortly after yemen's who the rebels claimed responsibility but that didn't seem to convince the u.s. or its allies. not the attorney did not originate from yemen the attack was launched from the move and was unquestioned be sponsored by a wrong we know precisely who conducted these attacks was iran i didn't hear anybody in the region who doubted that for

a single mom there is no evidence that the attacks came from yemen emerging information indicates that responsibility lies with iran we need to deter iran from its malign behavior. alive comment we're joined by siad mohammad marandi who's a professor of politics at the university of tehran now the un has failed to find any evidence of iran's direct involvement does that undermine the credibility of those who immediately pointed the finger of blame. or those who point to the finger of blame never had any credibility in the 1st place we knew from day one that they were making up these stories about iran they had absolutely no evidence whatsoever and that is also quite interesting that the united states despite the fact that they. establish bases all over the region this fight the fact that they have tens of military bases and they've given the saudis

or they've sold so these the saudis hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons that they could not detect this attack and they still don't know where that came from and i also think that that shows how vulnerable the saudi regime is and if they don't end the war in yemen the future may hold much more severe attacks against armco another sense of the saudi and so they should so i don't think by any means this is going to be the final attack i think it's going to get a lot worse for saudi arabia and to try. mohamed behaves more reason. so here we are a few months later and a u.n. investigation has so far found nothing do you think washington and its allies were ever interested in finding actual proof or did they just want to go ahead and move forward with those sanctions. i think there are a couple of things one is 1st of all these are not new sanctions the americans have

already sanctioned everything in iran so any new sanctions are repetitions of previous sanctions it doesn't change and. second of all i think what they're trying to do is cover up their own competence and the fact that their weapons systems are so ineffective i think it's a huge scandal that the united states despite its huge military presence and the europeans and the saudis and or with american military hardware all the money spent we're not able to detect anything let alone stop the attack so the americans are trying to really push the debate elsewhere instead of focusing on the uselessness of their weapons systems they want to create a diversion and accuse iran and of course as you rightly pointed out the u.n. despite being under some american influence has not been able to provide any evidence to help the american argument here so but ultimately the real issue is

that saudi arabia if it does not end the war in yemen the yemeni government and the resistance against the saudi western supported brutality against the people of yemen this the yemeni the yemenis are going to respond and they will have to carry out even more devastating effects in future said mohammad marandi professor of politics at the university of tehran thank you for your time and your comments as a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our web site r.t. dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more. if

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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 is the name of the game. cross talking impeachment i'm joined by my guest graham elwood in los angeles he's a regular on the jimmy doris show as well as host of the political lanty on you tube in palm beach we have current turk's she is a t.v. and radio host and in chattanooga we crossed to brian joyce he is the host of the brian joyce show aren't cross-like rose in fact that. you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate card let me go to you 1st in palm beach i'm going to date myself with my 1st question to everyone here i remember very clearly the watergate hearings i played hooky from school pretended i was sick and i would watch it on a little tiny black and white t.v. watching the hearings p. .