hopes for peace in afghanistan where the u.s. and the taliban are expected to sign a deal to end america's longest war. also this hour the family of u.s. air force veteran former drone operator and whistleblower brennan bryant starts a fundraising campaign to get him released from jail as he faces charges of threatening city officials they claim the charges are politically motivated. and researchers at mit say a report alleging fraud during the bolivian election fall short on evidence president evo morales left his post amid mass protests over the suppose a vote violation.

a very warm welcome to the program on this saturday morning it's 10 am here in the russian capital let's get started with your live news update. the u.s. and the taliban are poised to sign a peace deal which may bring washington's longest war to an end the deal is expected to be negotiated on saturday or in the coming days but the u.s. initially portrayed as a major success has outstripped now for presidential terms. but looks back over the years of war back in 2003 u.s. officials were telling a story of success when it came to afghanistan listen to donald rumsfeld we're at a point where we clearly. major combat ready to a period of stability of stabilization and reconstruction. activities but 17 years and 4 presidential terms later one of the great powers of

military history is about to sign a peace deal with the taliban warlords they've been fighting all this time and the peace treaty looks an awful lot like outright surrender so 1st we have to be realistic and proud of our gains but our generals have determined that this war is unlikely to be won militarily with tremendous additional resources all sides are tired of fighting for the past years you've heard nothing but reports of progress u.s. officials were singing a happy song and also replacing one another we're making progress right now an array of areas that are critical to our combined success with afghanistan the progress is real and importantly that progress is sustainable make no mistake the progress there i think is very roles myself. and it's very substantial 2016 has been a significant year for afghanistan and progress has been made but this was all just hype documents reveal interviews with people that were actually on the ground and

the material ironically labeled less than warrant seems to present a narrative of the u.s. defeat in afghanistan the operation is described as a self looking ice cream cone u.s. officials giving reports of progress we're telling bold faced lie the problem is there is a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive so almost to require or for people to la there is an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity in who bruce the original plan was to defeat al qaeda in afghanistan and overthrow the taliban that was sheltering al qaeda all of that was arguably achieved but then washington moved on to the nation building phase. is that a cost of billions of dollars and at that point it starts to look like no one had a clue what they were doing would trying to do here we didn't have the full goose

newsham that would ruin the taking 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 then the drone started flying many instances of success were recorded on that front but in many instances things also went terribly wrong. somewhere along the way it seems like some folks have just had enough in the coming months all announced the next phase of our drawdown and by the end of next year america's war in afghanistan will be over needless to say it was not over a trillion dollars spent and over $4000.00 u.s.

military personnel and contractors killed and at this point the taliban still controls a little less than half of the country and under the new peace deal the taliban will be part of the new government they'll be in the government just like they were you know before the us invasion back in the eighty's i was in charge of. military affairs for the middle east back then i could have gone over i could have i could have rented a motor scooter and i could have driven all over the middle east in relative safety you don't do that today i don't think you can identify any particular thing that we have done where we can say this is a real way cheap meant this has really brought about a change for the better in some way and they talk about you know it's so difficult to get out and all of that the best way to get out is to leave. the anticipated deal falls a weeklong reduction in violence agreement between the 2 sides and this succeeded

in reducing hostilities however afghans view the expected peace deal both with skepticism and hope if it was me this peace deal would be permanents not like before i wish this peace deal of been signed 10 years ago thousands of our people were killed many more wounded disabled and also many women were widowed. killed 30 of. the us dollar bill and peace agreements but i wish the species deal had been signed when the us came to get an instant but now it is also not too late we told the taliban to stop the conflict you want the us to leave our country as soon as possible. push out into the us we will be happy if the deal brings peace but i wish this peace deal had been signed 10 years ago because back then most of our brothers and sisters hadn't lost parts of their bodies and they were well i myself lost my leg in a bomb explosion so. we're gone both the state and the

conflict so that we. can live in peace we were born in war and we don't want to be healed by the war anymore. the u.s. invasion in afghanistan began in response to the tragic events of $911.00 it was aimed at defeating al qaeda and toppling the taliban which harbored the terrorists okayed us founder and leader was killed in a u.s. operation in pakistan in 2011 that washington still has thousands of troops deployed in afghanistan tasked with preventing terror we spoke to a 911 survivor who says the war could and should have ended years ago. well mixed feeling number one because as a survivor of 911 we when they're looking for osama bin. laden with the taliban was basically they were supporting al qaeda both at the same time you know we killed osama bin laden many years ago we should have been having

this occupation for so long as a survivor i didn't need these actually we didn't have remember when we were going to war we went to places we were in you know gary stern and then we went to iraq and iraq didn't have anything to do with 911 and they tried to hold us the idea that the the rocky people would walk with that he was in so this scene way over what we're doing right here in afghanistan we were in the year with no main purpose that main purpose was a change of a survivor i won the award to win not only because of the people that we lost but of the people that were killed in the process because there were many civilians that were killed in afghanistan do we know our occupation of that contrie. over to the u.s. state of montana where a total of 4 city council officials have now asked the prosecutor's office to drop charges against whistleblower brennan bryant he lifted the lid on civilian killings

and u.s. oversees drone operations air force veteran had been charged with threatening city officials and a you tube video and is currently in detention for the past few months he's attended multiple city council meetings criticizing the way tax money is being used britain's mother though claims his incarceration is politically motivated she's launched a campaign in the hope of raising $100000.00 for his bail. my son is the us your 1st missile over who broke the code of silence on the german program now he's in jail in the facility he has no criminal record and yet he is the elderly 100000 dollars bail under detention he's isolated from this family. friends. mean indeed emotional support. bryant served as a u.s. air force drone operator from 2006 to 2011 having left the military he began exposing cases of what he alleged to be civilian deaths resulting from american

drone strikes right claims commanders often prioritize the elimination of a target over accuracy resulting in innocent people being killed in the process his revelations won him a german whistleblower award in 2015 and also intensified debate over the use of a german air base by american drones here's how brennan described his experience to us back in 2015. i actually talked with a lady whose husband. was killed he has been in brother was killed in a drone strike i talked to her face to face and she asked me why her husband and brother had to die and they weren't bad guys and i just looked at her and i said i don't know and that's not really the best thing that i can tell someone who is asking questions about why someone that they cared about was killed and they need to know the answers and the really true hard answer to say is that i'm sorry

that. the mistake happened and i'm doing everything that i can to prevent further mistakes from happening. authorities say bryant was arrested on a felony charge after he had allegedly exhibited threatening behavior during city council meetings and on top of that he threatened to eliminate its members and a you tube video however a former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower coleen rowley believes bryant's current predicament is connected to his past revelations. this does seem to be more retaliation for his having spoken out about the drone operations and the fact that they were killing innocent civilians more so than what he's now done typically with the whistleblower they look back in your personnel files 1st to see if there's anything bad that they can use to discredit the messenger and if they can't find anything bad bad in someone's background or personnel file then they wait for the whistleblower to make

a small error or mistake and i guess the draw was so low or so are in a fragile emotional state already as you can see with all the veterans they suffer from p.t.s.d. and we know from many other cases retaliate ing and persecuting was of lors that that seems to be the standard ammo the government is in perpetual war and so the war goes on for ever that means that even if you speak out even years ago and it's especially if you continue to speak out about the wrongful actions in the war crimes it's going to continue this is not to negate the fact that brandon certainly he erred if he made any threatening remarks or comments he certainly should be corrected in the should receive more treatment but i don't think he should be punished the way he's being punished. researchers at america's mit

university have found that a report into irregularities during the bolivian election didn't provide sufficient evidence allegations of election fraud sparked mass protests which led to present evo morales quitting the report was made by the organization of american states and it looked at the believe in general election results of november when there was a break in voting and it appeared majlis was significantly in front of his rival the report found irregularities and claimed the election results were not accurate one of the mit researchers jack williams explained what made them doubt the findings. we wanted to specifically look at the portion where they claim that there is a significant difference in the results following the interruption and then also in the last 5 percent of results of the unofficial vote count. during this process me and my colleagues were unable to find the evidence that the oas had created here results are out there and you know having an effect on the world without any

methodological or even like even just the code that they used to produce the results that they created we find it extremely difficult to naturally find the breaks that they found and used for their results so really we would really appreciate if the oas would share their. both their methodology and then also if they could share what they used to produce this report that had such a large effect following the release of the oas report some media outlets spoke of election fraud like it was a proven fact. and audit indicated there was a clear manipulation in the country's elections last month accusations of irregularities in last month's presidential election was raised americans. are also going. to hold you election. jack williams again believes the media and opposition use the oas report for their own ends. the

statistical claim was the one that was able to be tied to the results and to claim the results that were being presented were illegitimate and the opposition party and that the media is also used to justify those people knew that there was problems with the oas research but maybe didn't have the technical expertise to would center for economic and policy research had released a report prior but it had not gained much traction among especially the media so i think they really wanted someone to evaluate this and take it seriously. it seems online fund died another death this week. shares her thoughts on internet killjoys and their latest bout of woke outrage. dear diary what a reek of distressing stories there's new evidence suggesting that back in the seventy's buddy was a loony rate from to service such a disappointment on his visit to india donald trump managed to vadim us to cut

every single engine that came his way and alexandra because there cortez were $580.00 sequined dress during the day but the thing that really got my anxiety levels peaking was this tweet to be so. that someone somewhere is joining the shoe joyousness of these people who seem to hold these pilots. should be kept as far away from cultural power as possible joylessness is this a joke this is a classic case of conservative debbie downer is raining on our parade there's so literally no evidence to support it. yes ok the university of arizona is basically begging students to run each other out if being aggressive triggering insensitive well you get it i know some would say that fosters an environment of paranoia censorship and soul sucking depression but i just don't see it and yes

a school in seattle said easter eggs should be renamed spring spears a spring spare hard to count me in my past think it's got a real fun ring to it. but you're going completely out of. it isn't fun. i'm sure i did read about how now it's not ok to expect people to turn up some time because in some cultures time is a fluid concept food and you are just hope for the people who signed up for this lesson and witness in time to get the most out of it all so they could have the days. to tell mr rabbit so much not to walk up such a sweat and. also slightly telling the bible while it's fresh and he says a comping down on a hoop earrings no longer for white people apparently so gone of those carefree

days when you saw into the long hair in the gentle worship and the way. ok not the best news for me it wasn't a pill it is out bad because oxford university did can't focus on paying but why are people making such a big deal about it there are notes of all the ways to show your appreciation like . jazz hatton's super fun but wait on the culture appropriation. we've got a problem. still to come in the program a new study has found that minorities are twice as visible on the u.k. television screens as on britain's streets that story and more than a few ticks. the world is driven by

a dream shaped by one person of those. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. what holds you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so. you want to be president which. was something i wanted. to do right. that's what the 3 of the people are. interested in the war.

welcome back and the report in the u.k. has found that minority groups are being over represented in the media black asian and other ethnic minorities have twice the presence on t.v. than they actually have on the streets of britain the same also applies to the l.g.b. community tele for c.e.o. claims its main goal is to reflect modern diversity and its output all the b.b.c. it says they are pleased to represent minorities on screen adding that more needs to be done off screen however critics say it's gone too far grow barring diverse characters to reflect demographics or world propaganda you know what else is over represented on t.v.

for hate for white people that's even worse there are 4 characters here well to have to be known by whites and one must be gary the country isn't 50 percent nonwhite and of course again. we put the issue up for debate with new york observer columnist under walker and human rights activist peter tatchell. this highlights the ludicrous idea of having quotas for everything i genuinely believe that in television like in all the rest of life you should have the best people for the job but you know what if you can have quotas that when the white middle class heterosexual man represents it then you've got to throw somebody else out but we don't have a quota system in british t.v. there are attempts and have been successful attempts according to these statistics to redress the marginalization exclusion and collect the past decades and i think that's a great thing to celebrate because it does show that we are a more accepting understanding inclusive society this is about normalizing the fact

that we live in a diverse society this is not about diversity it ought not to be about diversity what it should be about is the best person for the job television is bad to tell humans so you pick the best guy for the job or the best woman for the job who acts in the best way all the social change that peter tatchell is talking about all of this let's get a gay person has a gallery or a black person has a black it's just a load of 970 s. i'm certain that all those black and gay actors are chosen not because of their race or sexuality but because they have to be good actors we need to fight discrimination we need to ensure that people who are disabled or gay or black and not discriminate against but the idea of just let's just pick the person whoever they are just in order to fill a quota is that all doesn't so pretty and everybody's doing the right are pretty good after you get a piece of pizza i love you to pieces you're out of date. in what is seen by some as a landmark free speech case an appeals court in the us has ruled in favor of you tube

and its parent company google and a censorship lawsuit filed by conservative media company university addressing the 1st amendment claims the panel held that despite youtube's ubiquity and its rule as a public facing platform it remains a private form not a public forum subject to judicial scrutiny under the 1st amendment. in the lawsuit praeger you claimed you tube violated the 1st amendment by barring the company of its right to free speech after some of its videos were deleted from the platform praeger you suggested that youtube should be viewed as a public forum and blame them for false advertising as a platform that supports free speech the company believes their clips were banned because of the conservative nature of the content but the court rejected the claims after the court's decision google the parent company of youtube also stressed that there was no political bias and volved and that praeger use claims or merit lists but prior you maintains that the tech company has become dangerously powerful.

sadly it appears as if even the 9th circuit is afraid of google when not done fighting for free speech and we will keep pushing forward this is a significant decision because the effect of it is that the court of appeal he's stating they had social media companies such as google and facebook have a ride to make a decision. walt people are going to be exposed to the reach of those companies is unprecedented but we ducked reach day it's not been an equivalent in imposition of responsibility the response of course is that those companies will be able to control the political agenda so in order for this to change the rule would be a need for additional laws to be to be brought in in order to ensure

that social media companies are not placed in a position where there are effectively controlling the entire political system. at the wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter or facebook apps and reports. a lot. of indians later still must execute. them the.

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only closely. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. we're going underground after a week in which the whole world watched an alleged travesty of justice in a london courtroom the extradition trial of julian assange of wiki leaks coming up on the show it was wiki leaks that revealed secret u.s.

cables detailing red cross allegations of indian torture in kashmir but this week the violence flared in the capital delhi after the trump addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters of prime minister narendra modi and to draft will investigate with a multi-billion dollar weapons deal trump announced means for global stability with professor b.j. parishad and his peace in syria on the road to damascus we go to aleppo ahead of thursday's summit between the 21 and putin is president assad supporters defend victories against what they claim a british backed al qaeda troops plus one south carolina primary day a conspiracies like the one against bernie sanders revealed by wiki leaks beaching themselves we. ask greg the last successful in his landmark legal case drew real massive voter purging with a democracy is dead in the usa also more coming up in today's going underground at 1st there have been allegations of a deliberate lack of coverage in the u.k. of arguably the journalism trial of the century around the world though julius on his fight for freedom in a london court has made headlines including in india where journalists found time

to cover the wiki leaks founder is playing to mit's donald trump state visit joining me now from northampton massachusetts is professor the jaipur who has been following signs of sectarian violence in the world's largest democracy andrews message in support of a songe was read out by pink floyd founder roger waters in pomona square this week thanks so much for jay for coming on before we get to the multimillion multi $1000000000.00 arms deals in india with the donald trump your reaction to the trial here in london you know the fact is that journalists like you and i who cover wall the destruction of countries or an immense debt to people like julian a science nobody believes you until you have hard evidence and they give it to us and i think you need that's the reason why us sure look you know determined to get assad to humiliate him to destroy him it's to sort of what the story of walk crimes and thought you heard back.