to. us tonight is the taliban statement that it brought down a pentagon plane in afghanistan the incident is complicating hopes for a peace deal after 19 years of war. also this hour france bans a notorious police grenade responsible for numerous civilian injuries but critics say it's a political move ahead of the election. and hillary clinton lashes out at facebook's mark zuckerberg for quote intending to reelect donald trump keeping everyone but herself accountable for her $26000.00 u.s. presidential want to feet. i always thought and many people i know a lot but that he was part of the deep state that he was on her side ease against

her. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the u.s. has confirmed it's investigating a pentagon plane crash in the eastern afghan pronk province of guns the on monday everyone on board the surveillance aircraft which was carrying military personnel and high ranking cia officers was killed the plane burst into flames and came down and a mountainous area the pentagon says it can't confirm whether it was brought down by enemy fire seemingly contradicting the taliban statement. a u.s. bombardier 11 a crash today in gaza the province afghanistan while the cause of crash is under investigation there are no indications the crash was caused by enemy fire a special way graft of the. route for the purpose of an intelligence mission in

this. district. a mujahideen have taken down the aircraft tactically. the incident comes as washington bids for a peace deal with the taliban after numerous failed talks the us has been at war in afghanistan for 19 years marred by hundreds of thousands of deaths and a trillion dollars spent apparently no benefit. has more what did they die for these men this is a war that has no hope of winning there are no illusions in the pentagon yet the 19 years they have said the lives of their own into the afghan grind.

trumps afghan strategy is simple and senseless ballman to hell literally in 2019 the pentagon dropped more bombs on afghans than in almost any given year in the last decade it's a tactic he wants peace so he does the all present we are bringing some of our troops back but we have to have a presence yes we're now going to be there for close to 19 years it's time to bring the great nations do not fight endless wars before the next presidential election in the united states would you expect we were do so reduce their troops in afghanistan. that's my directive from the press the united states has been unambiguous and the endless wars are we looking for a total robot and you want to. see the afghan war is a blight that it is an embarrassment all they have to show for 2 decades of

war is alone least of dead americans dead civilians and the trillion dollars down the drain. the only way to save face is to bury the truth the problem is there is a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost require or for people to a lot there's an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and who bruce as i said there are no illusions washington knows full well that it is so screwed that have got to stand is a lost cause that they messed up as revealed by the afghan war papers in which officials in these who so rare moment in which their honest would trying to do here we didn't have the focus newson the would ruin the taking the risk of

fundamental gap of understanding of the front end of the stated objectives and overreliance in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and that in the hubris the arab good to take steps all the more and more american troops to go fight in a war that you know is a lost cause these hopeless donald trump has been saying for years he wants to get us out of afghanistan it doesn't seem to be doing that even though in principle he's the commander in chief he can give the order for them to leave and they will leave but i don't expect that to happen so i think unfortunately we're stuck there still were the foreseeable future there isn't a whole lot of way of a coherent mission that's stated for our being in afghanistan of the 1st place except i would say that the mission or being an up in assam is essentially to stay in afghanistan a footprint and a very strategic piece of ground in the middle of eurasia that comment is over our chinese and russian interests and that's the real purpose of being there the

taleban perhaps respect that we're simply not about annoyance. france's interior minister has announced the withdrawal from police forces of the new tourist gly f. 4 a grenade i've just been responsible for seriously injuring numerous protesters. j.p. said this decision because they don't have any specific description of what happened months ago it was the police to use them to remove the threats. voluntarily pick them up and was seriously injured and that's why i think we must remove the. authorities proposed to replace the controversal grenade with a new supposedly less dangerous one but there are many similarities both can cause injuries are equally it loud and spray tear gas officials though point out the banned grenade also disperses fragments the new version does not and has a reduced shockwave. a journalist was badly injured in the face while covering a yellow vests protest last year a grenade explosion broken julian's gas mask and his nose he warns the withdrawal

from service of the glee f 4 in a smoke screen. for grenades will apparently be removed but i think that is because of the depleted stocks because its production was stopped in 2014 and so clear for is ending but they will be replaced with g.m. 2 l. which i fell victim to which appears to be just as strong as the. i have an example of a g.m. 2 well this is not the exact ones on that i picked up this grenade after i was hit this g.m. 2 l. grenade might be much more dangerous than the 4 because i was hit by debris even though i was more than 5 metres away from where it exploded this grenade produces the same detonation the same effect as the poor and i think it is equally dangerous critics are also skeptical of the motivations for the government's move policing in

chiefs no it's simply a bid for votes ahead of elections with the government under public pressure due to accusations of police brutality and excessive use of force. at the national assembly and people were trying to force their way in the police arrived and threw grenades one hit the guy's leg to try to push it away with his hands as a reflex reaction to. something. they don't want anyone but my mother said she had been targeted and we went in as a triss and did her justice. in my opinion they are pretending they want to stop using this type of well replacing it with the other type of i am not sure but i see this as the only reason to just

replace them because the others are depleted and because for grenades are classified as a weapon of war i think. i think the cost and yet he is trying to say that it will be less dangerous to protests because he is removing the clia for what he forgot to say that rubber bullets will still be used at that price control forces or violent as well and moreover that there are other grenades replacing the old one there is also tier gas which is very bad for health. just. defeated 2016 us presidential candidate hillary clinton has accused facebook of intending to re-elect trump this year that's after the pop form which she dubbed trumpy and refused to delete political adverts democrats claim the ads are misinformation and lies and although clinton's not even running for president she seems reluctant to cede control of the party a quarter explains. she lost the primaries in 2008 she lost the election in

2016 despite having nearly every advantage now hillary clinton's making excuses for the next presidential democratic ticket ahead of the game preemptively pinning the blame on facebook facebook is not just gary to be electro but intends to be electronic this is a global company that has huge influence in a way that we're only beginning to understand trumpy and conspiracies might be a big external threat to the democrats and clinton's world but she's got more shade to throw at forces from within her own party like the socialist sensation from vermont he was in congress well yes he had one senate to support him nobody likes him nobody wants to work with him he got nothing done then there's the new democratic presidential candidate on the block gabbert clinton thinks she could be in bed with washington's favorite bogeyman the russians they've got their eye on somebody who's currently in the democratic primary and they're grooming her to be

the 3rd party candidate she's the favorite of the russians they have a bunch of sites and bought and other ways of supporting or so far the sure is a lot of blaming going on surrounding an election that hasn't even happened yet but it's no secret clinton's got an axe to grind she's been blaming anyone but herself ever since she lost the election in 2016 i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim commies letter on october 28th and russian wiki leaks i inherited nothing from the democratic party would mean nothing i mean it was bankrupt it was on the verge of insolvency the voter suppression that we now know had been in the works and really put into effect and then let's not forget sexism and a sob but if you think she's the past think again the d.n.c. just released it. 2020 committee nominees those responsible for the party's

ideological future and the vast majority are connected in one way or another to the defeated clinton carol browner appointed to the d.n.c. in 2016 by clinton but carr reseller's a surrogate for hillary clinton in 2016 craig smith senior advisor to clinton's campaign and let's not forget john podesta the controversial chairman of the clinton campaign itself who's a legit emails back in 2016 shed light on the enter workings of the clinton clan it's clear the clinton agenda lives on she doesn't even need to run for president again although would you be really surprised if she did why can't she lead goal of her losing there you go again thinking that she is hanging on to the fact that she lost a rigged election there you go again thinking that she cannot understand that she

was simply voted out or that america said no don't you want your stand that it's natural for somebody who is. elevated to the self exalted role of the obvious candidate to believe that there was a conspiracy russian acting russian involvement facebook. or birth now i always thought and many people i know blah thought that he was part of the deep state that he was on her side he's against her what's happening right now is you're seeing the old school dnd see that you nancy pelosi has been trying to control fighting against this new left move there's a lot of progressives and young people who won this season who have no interest in joe biden but if you say who are the d.n.c. who who are democrats to there i'm telling you right now democrats are really

2 hours republican lights i know what i'm saying is absolutely heretical i know what i'm saying nobody believes this because you think most people think that there is this that america is against trump and pro impeachment most americans have no idea what's going on they worry about schools and crime and their children they have no interest in this they're just regular folks the 1st offered to challenge trumps 2016 victory was from a report called the steel das a claim the us president conspired with the kremlin however after its publication the report was repeatedly proven to contain multiple falsehoods now british intelligence expert and former m.p. nigel west has examined the document and no still person it claims the material was propagated. i was commissioned by a lawyer in washington d.c. c. to examine the original circle steel dossier and to conduct

a forensic examination of the content which means going through it line by line looking at the attributions working out the value of each individual source and then coming to a conclusion the. habitation had been much greater than i had suspected nigel west said he was hired by a republican law firm back in 2017 to look into the dossier it was written by former british intelligence agent christopher steele in 2016 his company was hired by the n.c.a.a. to look into allegations of collusion between donald trump and moscow and thus a claims that russia has compromising material on trump from when he was in the country 7 years ago west again says many of the report sources haven't been validated this so-called primaries sub source a russian emigre real estate broker in the united states and he in effect distance and self from the sourcing of the information and the really salacious material in

relation to president trump he claims he received in a 10 to 15 minute telephone call from somebody who he didn't know an anonymous source and run him and gratuitously volunteered this information so none of this kind of material should appear. unless it's been validated that is the basis of intelligence reporting. still to come in our team guest apparently falls victim to the us social media purge i mean rainy and boisterous on that after the break.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back a professor at the university of tehran and a frequent guest on this channel has had his facebook and instagram account suspended and what seems to be a continuation of the platforms campaign to silence pro iranian voices professor siad mohammad marandi told us facebook's claims that he violated its community standards were just a pretext. i can't think of anything that i have published that would be. unacceptable the images the statements the the links that i put on no there's no everything everything is on twitter actually i'm more active on twitter than i am on facebook and my twitter account is there for anyone to see if anyone who wants to see what i've read they can look at twitter and see if what i've written is dangerous or not the suspension coincides with the taking down of

the international website of independent iranian news agency farce after it apparently fell foul of u.s. sanctions bars added it had received a message from its server company which said the site had been blocked on u.s. orders and another case this month press t.v. in english language t.v. network based in iran had its you tube account removed staff at the tehran funded channel say it was taken down without any warning or explanation you tube though did later restore the page said mohammad marandi again told us it's far from the 1st time he's faced such treatment from social media. while they were suspended on the number of occasions for photos including a photo of myself during the iran iraq war it was a it was the spend it for a couple of months and then again for a photo that i put up for one of my commanders during the war who was seriously ill because of the chemical weapons ironically the chemical weapons that the united

states and the europeans gave to saddam hussein i was also again my account was suspended for that and on the couple of other occasions for similar reasons and then just suddenly the whole account was disabled without any explanation all together and i'm not even very active on facebook i mean the what i put on my twitter account i put the same on facebook and. on the intolerance is on the rise in the united states and in the west towards any alternative use. and other news from around the world is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on the visit to washington d.c. the israeli leader arrived on sunday ahead of the white house unveiling what it calls the deal of the century to end israeli palestinian hostilities a plan will be laid out on tuesday with netanyahu already bringing trump's initiative historic over the new peace plan hasn't gone down well with palestinians who warn it contradicts international law and threatens their rights. mass

protesters have fired projectiles at riot police trying to clear rallies in the center of baghdad demonstrators are demanding an end to iranian backed rule in the country people have died and hundreds more wounded and 3 days of escalating violence. and russia is marking the 76th anniversary of the complete lifting of the siege of leningrad st petersburg as it's now called witness a 30 volley salute in commemoration a decades old tradition is dedicated to the heroes who defended the city people also gathered for the annual candle of memory campaign lighting candles reading poems and singing songs from that era the world war 2 blockade of one of the longest in modern history a loss of 872 days more than a 1000000 people died mostly due to starvation. the deadly coronavirus continues to spread across china with the number of victims now

more than 100 thousands have been infected and almost 50000 people are now being monitored the virus has moved worldwide with cases uncovered in countries including the u.s. and canada the new strain of the virus has symptoms such as cough fever and ammonia work on a vaccine has already started and the genetic code was identified last month millions of dollars have been invested in its research and scientists say that should allow production of a vaccine to start within months much faster than the usual timeframe russia's taking part in the development though no cases have yet been reported in the country we discussed the issue with possible head of the laboratory of genomic engineering in moscow. in case of a vaccine generation it's just a matter of time actually very. process the band sounds a hollow but the situation we can release folks in 3 months contra so why united states countries of european union and russian situation actually decided to

develop the scene and zach shalit started to do this. i'm sure is that we already have down the coast so most of the cheapest so basically it's way overdue xining it goes in palo parlow to get a bizarre actually detection developing or detection system most of the contras in china and specifically. trying to do best with they can do in order to prevent spreading the virus spreading virus inside of the country between different provinces and spread in virus. out of the country authorities and medical staff worldwide have moved to take urgent provided it measures.

probable again says at the start of the outbreak mistakes were made by beijing. how would you assess china's reaction to the very beginning of the outbreak because do you think that maybe if they were more quick if they weave their response i do i do i do think that war quite slow is the beginning and even the actions 1st stage that actually brought infected people in

a regular hospital in course but still got infected by everybody so it's actually was a bit unprofessional i would say but they learned a. lesson. from what a she in china training you doing really great job and under 2. borders between provinces and. thrown into. the theaters it was a border and it's really difficult to buy the border i would say that if wireless is the walked in china always the countries from now would be. safe and now because chinese doing really great job and i hope they're not panicking by this cure it. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always tied to our website r.t. dot com the details on all the stories and many more.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from tahsin let it be an arms race in this hearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. during the great depression which are almost remember there was most of my family were working. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shape by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy

attack solo duo engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no on. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of wilf which will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. i actually don't think monopolies per se are the problem it's monopolistic access to credit or to politicians and probably both the crony financial ism crony capitalism that's the big problem.

because of this is the kaiser report you for that expression poop floats. reminds me in davos. at the top of the world are a bunch of billionaires floating stating. fact there are 2153 billionaires and they hold more than 4600000000 people combined that came out right when 119 of those billionaires close to 10 percent were meeting up and down last week and not much happened there to warrant their getting so much attention but we're going to pay some attention to that the founder of world's largest hedge fund says cash is trash as the dow soars to

records ray dally who says world economic forum 2020 investor should be buying this market rather than seeking safety in cash that's it right dahlia says yes ok should be pointed out that rebel yell almost lost money last year he was referring to one quarter of one percent of generating a losing year his expertise as a money manager is in question so i'm not sure why anyone would listen to raid elio for the 1st point i'd like to make 2nd of all if he thinks cash is trash. then why's warren buffett got 120000000000 in cash coming form buffett putting the money to work so but warren buffett has a track record is vastly superior to ray ballio so i i don't understand why he thinks we're interested in this thoughts he's obviously trying to justify his low returns last year the nasdaq was up 40 percent the stock markets were up in general about 25 percent he himself his is investors only received 0.25 percent i don't

know if that even covers all the fees they have to pay him and his crew but he lost money but maybe. now he's capitulating that could be a sign of his capitulating is like i'm going to jump into this market maybe he didn't believe in it because a lot of people are intellectualising this and the fed can't control everything the fed can't do this the fed can't do that what he was trying to do perhaps was fight the fed a lot of people try to fight the fed peter schiff tries to fight the fed everybody tries to bite the fed and the fed loses or the fed wins until it will suddenly lose i just don't understand why how can so migrate deleo in a market that's between 25 and 40 percent not even make one half of one percent it takes all genuine amount of skill to underperform on the level you know it's a money market fund even at the worst money market offering rates in any bank in the country did better than rate deleo last year this is he almost underperformed negative yielding bones.