it. was. a suicide bombing in afghanistan kills 2 people outside the u.s. airbase that donald trump visited 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 facts and figures on the war in afghanistan. after former f.b.i. chiefs held a horror which is reported to trump brush of collusion as vindication inspector general forwards himself the punk's their interpretation saying it's quite the opposite so many basic and fundamental errors were made by these separate human picked investigative teams in one of the most sensitive f.b.i. investigations. and the french government reveals more details on controversial

pension reforms that has sparked a mass trikes. life from moscow where it's just a minute past 4 in the morning you're watching r.t. international welcome to the program. a suicide attacker has detonated a car bomb outside the background airbase one of the main u.s. military outposts and afghanistan the attack comes not long after trunk surprise thanksgiving visit to the same base local media reports say the powerful blast hit a medical facility khost the base is main gate at least 2 people were killed and more than 70 injured according to local sources a shootout then quickly followed and it's being reported 3 of the attackers remain at large and 3 others have been killed and another captured a local t.v. channel says the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack the american president 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 then out front was saying that he was winning that most american presidents 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 and 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 they invaded afghanistan took was the taliban from the country because they

were harboring terrorism and they were harboring some of bin laden what the american government says it says because they're taliban are weak that's why they keep sending 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. well alongside all of this an article has been published in the u.s. press didn't detailing years of deliberate this information by top american officials mud casti of hands more on the story 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 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're 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 or 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 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 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 the more crecy 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 and waste that have vanished and 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 a 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 and 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 sought disaster they were reported back to washington washington with its countless the partment 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 asli i can guarantee you that while they may have learned their lessons they sure as heck are 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 the prime minister formally presented his plans on wednesday in charlotte depends he covered it in paris for us. perhaps one of the most controversial elements that was in a day 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 work is wont 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 after 975 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 of the new system and that 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 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 pacha say so 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 post seem 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. . that's the way we're working to say that they are now calling for reinforcement of the strike which is now in its 7th day here in france we've also heard from police unions who a move 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 the government has listened to them and hasn't gone far enough they're all given to all of this is that people will have to work longer and they may receive less pension in the future jobs

people all of us about this so if you assume fact that last week when there was a national strike some 806000 people took to the streets to let the government know that they didn't want the pensions messed. up think it was still stood at 339000 they're all already cold with strikes on thursday of this week and of tuesday on next week it seems that this announcement by the government detail of what 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 protest is it looks like this strike is fall from. an economics professor steve keen told us the rules make france's problem a systemic crisis. thing because it's actually a fiscal process at the state caused by the rules that the magistrate trudi to present the government running this kind of deficit it needs to do for a well functioning economy this is a little crazy notion built into the ministry that government should act like

a household and try to save money from running dies but when you try that at the national level it's simply files all it does is reduce income because there is the end of the individual little you can spend less than you earn and therefore save money but the you have a good level your spending is somebody else's income so the example of the entire society to save money which is built into the ministry actually reduces g.d.p. and leads to this sort of so i would guess this is a manifestation of the founder of the scripps trucker of the year opinion. capitol hill has erupted into basic arguments as democrats and republicans pick over the findings of a report into the justification of the russia collusion probe the so-called horowitz report was released on monday and while the democrats the much of the media claiming vindication republicans have been quick to seize on the irregularities off the f.b.i.'s investigation what happened here is the system failed people at the highest level of our government took the law in their own

hands the report from the inspector general that looked into the investigations of the trump campaign in 2016 has been received on capitol hill differently by different parties democrats seem to see the report as disproving the allegations pressure put forward by donald trump the allegations claiming that there was a politically motivated spying effort against him this is democrats the i g.'s report conclusively refutes these claims this was not a politically motivated investigation there is no deep state republicans however have a very different interpretation of the report would you like trump hate trump don't care about trump you look at this is more than a few irregularities. because if this becomes

a few irregularities in america then god help us all. a point of contention has been how the f.b.i. handled the salacious steel dossier now this is a da ca that made allegations against u.s. president donald trump regarding russia and the f.b.i. deemed it not to be credible they looked into the source who gave this information to christopher steele and determined that it was not really a credible allegation but that didn't stop them for applying for pfizer warrants in order to wiretap members of the trump campaign on the basis of this down cia the f.b.i. even described the source as being truthful and cooperative when trying to obtain the warrants this is what inspector general horowitz had to say about the errors of the f.b.i. we found and as we outlined here are deeply concerned that so many basic and fundamental errors were made by 3 separate hand-picked investigative teams on one of the most sensitive f.b.i. investigations and after the matter had been briefed to the highest levels within

the f.b.i. and other reports seems to also indicate that former cia director john brennan may have misled the public when he testified about the role of the steel dossier in obtaining warrants and carrying out the investigation furthermore mccabe and combing f.b.i. officials have argued that they somehow are vindicated by this report they say it shows that the f.b.i. did nothing wrong and that trump's allegations are simply not correct this is the response from fired f.b.i. director james comey and andrew mccabe do you feel vindicated tonight that this report concludes that you did the right thing. you know as i said i've known all 'd along that we did the right thing not just me but the group of people that i worked with at the f.b.i. the f.b.i. fulfilled his mission protecting the american people and the pulled in the u.s. constitution however what they seem to be saying about how they've been vindicated and how the f.b.i. did nothing wrong doesn't seem to match what's being said by inspector general

horowitz james comey said this we. the your report vindicates him is that a fair assessment of your report. you know i think the activities we found here don't and indicate anybody who touched this all the horowitz are for it seems to join many recent reports in washington d.c. that were expected to clarify points of disagreement between trump and his opponents and just like many of these other reports while it was expected to shed some light and bring some clarity to the issue it's simply up for interpretation with trump's supporters seeing their report one way and trump's critics and the democratic party seeing it very differently the u.s. has announced he has another round of sanctions against iran we'll have that story and more after this short break.

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simulated ones rather than simulated ones conditional on our good we should think we are probably one of the simulated ones. the united states has unveiled a new round of sanctions against iran for its alleged all being of militant groups in syria and yemen secretary of state my pump made the announcement on wednesday i'd like to turn to the summit republic of iran as long as it's aligned behavior continues so will our campaign of maximum pressure today i'm announcing designation of 3 iranian transportation companies that helped iran import items for its weapons of mass destruction programs the firms targeted by the sanctions include iran's biggest shipping company along with a subsidiary based in china the nation's flagship carrier mahanta is also on the list and washington has already imposed numerous rounds of sanctions on iran

accusing it of pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program but members of congress have questioned the entire strategy. the goal is to limit their nuclear weapons capability and iran is now advancing their nuclear weapons capability their much farther they're much closer to having a nuclear bomb than they were under the deal it ministration want to talk about the mashing pressure campaign and all the ways it's hurting their economy and everything but i'm just holding you to your stated strategy to your state is strategy and on all 3 points the administration strategy is failing the administration is worse off we are worse off we are less safe than we were under the day c.p.o. way and we've spoken to joshua landis he's a professor of middle eastern studies and he says iran is being punished for challenging u.s. dominance in the region. the united states uses a number of rationales for its actions in the middle east which are largely driven by balance of power desire for to preserve its position and gemini in the middle east one of those is human rights democracy promotion it's restricting weapons of

mass destruction upholding international norms these are the standard accusations for intervention in places like syria iraq sanctions on iran whether it's sudan and other places i think it's about iranian power in the middle east which challenges america's allies it's about america's position in the middle east and its dominance over the persian gulf and that's what the united states is doing it's trying to pin back iran weaken it force it out of places like yemen syria iraq so it's going to escalate and that's why the united states is sending more troops the gulf and taking more measures to try to put pressure on iran but the death strategy is only going to make iran strike that iran has very little choice unfortunately because diplomacy does not seem to be america's strong suit today and it isn't offering really any kind of diplomatic solution for iran so you know i forsee an escalation

on iran's part. now in other news this hour science and business don't just intersect in a lawn mosques office moscow state university has hosted a key forum for young talents looking at how the 2 spheres interact don't quarter 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 v.r. devices to agricultural technology so let's go take a step inside and find out what russia's brightest minds have to offer.

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found the missing inflation. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get. well the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately there was also a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results deiced on what they think you should be see

if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist for the more growth we give them the sooner we're all. readings and salutation there is nothing worse than a bad neighbor or quaters living next door to someone who was too noisy nosy and full of themselves driven more than one tenant from apartments and neighborhoods across the country whether you ever thought about what it's like to be neighbors with the united states of america well apparently the answer is not good according

to recent figures out of pew research mexico the united states southern neighbor is definitely not a fan in fact in mexico 56 percent say that you the united states is the. it is threat to their country while 27 percent cite the u.s. as their most dependable ally not surprisingly according to some of their most recent surveys numbers mexicans have almost no confidence in your host president donald trump and there is widespread opposition to his proposed border wall so i wonder you know it makes you wonder why why the mexican people would consider the united states to be such a threat to tell that the pew research. i bet it probably has something to do with headlines like this one doctor's a restaurant while off were arrested while offering flu vaccines for immigrants in border patrol custody yes it appears that our good friends in the customs and border patrol who are running the immigrant concentration camps along our beautiful southern border are not a fan of flu vaccines despite the fact that at least 3 children ages $26.16

died of influenza while in federal custody this last fiscal year this includes the tragic case of carlos gregorio hernandez moscow's a 16 year old who just last may died from influenza on the concrete floor of his detention center after border patrol agents chose to lock him up instead of giving him care it's stories like those that remind us why we always 'd have to be watching the hawks. it's. like you know that i got.