close to the zip this is the central park so for dying at the moment i don't call them right now so stop. the suicide bombing in afghanistan kills 2 people outside the us air base that 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 the facts and make it as more and afghanistan. after former f.b.i. chief hailed the whole with reporters trying russia collusion has been the case inspector general forwards himself the punk's their interpretation saying it's quite the opposite so many basic fundamental errors were made by the separate here and picked investigative teams and one of the most sensitive f.b.i. investigation. and the french government reveals more details on controversial

pension reforms that sparked massive strikes. hello you're watching all 3 international i'm words on a lot could thank you for joining us. 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 trump surprise thanksgiving visit to the same base local media reports say the powerful blast hit a medical facility close to the bases main gate and at least 2 people were killed and more than 70 injured according to local sources a shootout quickly followed and it's being reported the 3 of the attackers remain at large 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 thanksgiving speaking to military

personnel trump struck an upbeat tone. open 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 donald trump 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 detailing years of deliberate this information by top american officials auntie's more and guess the it has 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 that your 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 and over 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 hiding 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 pardons 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 have 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. capitol hill has erupted into base their 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 and much of the media are claiming vindication the republicans have been quick to seize on irregularities of 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

prank 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 us 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 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 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 its mission protecting the american people and i 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 week to your report vindicates him is a fair system interviewer. you know i think the activities we found here are going to indicate anybody who touched this all the horowitz report 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 the report one way and trumps critics and the democratic party seeing it very differently. let's get a bit of info on this because we can now cross live to old rasmussen he's executive director of the eurasia center the o.l. thanks for joining us on this as we just heard in the hearing we heard inspector general mike horowitz saying that basic and fundamental errors were made by the f.b.i. jury in the trunk russia investigation so do you think there's going to be some repercussions from this. i would hope so there are numerous errors in just the handling of the entire thing both in the by the court application.

i understand all through the manual correction were made. additional information no one notified the 5 court. that these were unsubstantiated claims made in the dossier in the sealed off nor who paid for the seal dossier we also have got some very unusual relationship going on and we've got actors. finally the bruce or his wife nellie nellie or happened to be working for fusion g.p.s. which originated the dossier we've got our text messages going back and forth between senior officials as well which were clearly. politically and in nature hand an anti president no matter how you how you feel towards mr trump president crimpers the relationship but there obviously was i would happen to disagree with the with the overall finding it not politically motivated i mean there's numerous

things in very very questionable. issues revolving around there on this and and somebody probably takes will need to take some type of action to repair the reputation of the f.b.i. in the agency well let's talk a 2nd about that that reputation of the f.b.i. because present donald trump himself a seize on the findings has cooled f.b.i. agents come during a rally in pennsylvania do you expect him to take action against the agency i think i think you probably need that up to. now to to e.g. the bar since the f.b.i. would kind of come underneath the justice purview on that he'll probably be involved but i would think. you know most i would say 99 percent of the people i've known some former f.b.i. agents as well they're amazing people they've dedicated their lives they've do amazing work unfortunately we had some very senior people. that

were heavily involved with this both from hand-picking who were on between these different variation of investigative committees as well as those not really overseeing it accurately and and overlooking and misleading the court to basically allow for the trump a trump campaign to be spied on that's essentially what happened here and and and it just ballooned into this whole. investigation we had over the last couple of years of the waste of money in perfectly look at a rush again hoax let's look at it and that light complex that al because with all these investigations reports testimonies resulting from what you call that the rush to get hyped someone called the trump russia private keys think the american public is actually very well i what's going on. i think that the american public is split in there and that's another problem with this whole situation is i think and that

leads into the impeachment as well i think we're a divided country right now and i think the hearings the investigations the most recent actions going on in contrast growth are doing nothing but further furthering that divisiveness and. so you know. i just don't i think there's a lot of unprofessionalism that that took place. for personal or political reasons and. the i'm a month fortunately also the press is is divided as well you've got one station that you that you continue and a lot of the alternative media that are very critical of what went on with. with this investigation or the and these investigations and then you've got many of the mainstream media that are touting and supporting this so vindication but i think as. mr norwood said i see no been the case here at all. should

there do i can you know like i said i do not agree with the overall finding but but but i think look he's just looking at when turnley within the f.b.i. . a.g. barr is looking much broader and i think you're going to see a lot of interesting relationships and we'll see what what comes out of the the a.g.'s investigation going on as well with those nice at their elbows sides of the on the by surprise on the government seem to be very divided on this rasmussen executive director of the eurasian center thanks your time thank you. french government is pushing ahead with its controversial pension reforms despite huge public cost and achievers all to mass protests and strikes the prime minister fully presented his plans on wednesday and shown that you penske would live in 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 or tool if you're born after 975 in your mid career at the moment the more you'll find is around 70 percent of your pension will be based on the system and 30 percent on 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 here or there we don't want to hurt anyone on the contrary we want to protect the poaching power of workers and the purchasing power of pension well 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 attention in the future people off viewers about this so furious in 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 that pensions mess on chuse they still stood at 339000 they already knew calls for strikes on thursday of this week and of tuesday or next week it seems that this announcement by the government detail of what these pension reforms will mean housings quell the anger the anger that we've seen spilling out into the street particularly in the protests last week where there were tensions and clashes between the police and the protesters it looks like

this strike is fall from. well economics professor steve keen told us e.u. rules make france's problem a systemic crisis. i think because of that it's actually a physical process of the state caused by the rules of the master treaty that prevent the government running this kind of deficit it needs to do for a well functioning economy this is all a crazy notion built into the ministry that government should act like a household and try to save money for ronnie dies but when you try that at the national level it's simply files all it does is reduce income because there is the aggregate individual little you can see if you spend less than you earn and therefore save money but the aggregate level of your spending is somebody else's income so the attempt by the entire society to save money which is built into mastery actually reduces the end leads to this sort of this is a manifestation of the failure of the script structure of the european union particularly the euro. that's on the news this hour the united states has unveiled

a new round of sanctions against iran for its alleged all made of militant groups in syria and yemen secretary of state mike pump made that announcement on wednesday . i'd like to turn to the summit republic of iran as long as it's malign 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 all the firms targeted by the sanctions included rons biggest shipping company along with the subsidiary based in china the nation's flagship carry mohan is also on the latest from washington has already imposed new his 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 there much farther they're much closer to having a nuclear bomb than they were under the deal you 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 stated strategy and on all 3 points the administration's strategy is failing the administration is worse off we are worse off we are less safe than we were under the. well we've spoken to joshua landis he's a professor of middle eastern studies and he says iran is being punished but 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 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 to do it

challenges americans allies it's about america's position in the middle east and its dominance over the persian gulf 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 to go and taking more measures to try to put pressure on iran but that strategy is only going to make iran strike back 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. and of unease in south science and business don't just intersect in in all mosques office moscow state university has hosted a key forum think young talents look at how the 2 space interact and don't course

pay to 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. this low solution for little or nothing to the teacher who could afford to be free of the cold cold feet. when you know what's really there and it will lose oh it

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a humanitarian feel that the next to me is not respected and treated in a dignified way then i have to also stand up in this regard so yes we have to do it despite that it is maybe a very long term 5 and we are not necessarily winning that is. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express an injury. or something i want to be honest i . have to try to be cross as it wasn't before 3 in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters in the hollow. for sydney.

this is going on the ground from london ahead of what is billed as the most important u.k. general election since the 2nd world war it's also the 1st christmas election since 923 in all the head of u.n. security council discussions on the birthplace of jesus palestine occupied with anglo-american military support coming up in the show is israel trying to destroy the birthplace of jesus we asked the 1st female mayor of bethlehem via a boon about israeli occupation and accusations of the ethnic cleansing of christians from palestine. to fight.