actually going to be for us to see what before 3 of them or can't be good. interested in the water's edge. hopes for peace in afghanistan where the u.s. and the taliban are expected to sign a deal to america's longest war. the family of u.s. . drone operator and whistleblower under brian started 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 report alleging fraud steering the bolivian election fall short on evidence. left his post amid mass protest over the supposed vote phylicia .

good afternoon thanks for joining us this is r.t. and tonight. 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 days to come what the u.s. initially betrayed is a major success out step for presidential terms and he's killing more than looks back at 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 have moved from major combat to a period of stability and to blues asian and reconstruction activities the bulk of this country today is permissive and secure it is clear that that is the case by virtue of the fact that we see people returning to their country from all across the globe in large numbers 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 without tremendous additional resources all sides are tired of fighting for the past years you've heard nothing but reports of progress u.s. officials we're seeing 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 mistake and it's very substantial 2016 has been 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 lesson weren't 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 to almost require or for people to law there is an old. her of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and 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 at 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 they would ruin the taking there is a fundamental gap in distancing of the front end of the stated objectives and 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 announce 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. given 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 a cheap this is 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 into space a deal follows a weeklong reduction in violence agreement between the 2 sides the succeeded in

reducing hostilities afghans view the expected peace deal both with skepticism and . if it was me we hope this peace deal will be permanent it's not like before the 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. girl decided we're happy about the u.s. peace agreements but i wish the species deal had been signed when the u.s. came to ghana stern but now it is also not to wait we called the taliban to stop the conflict they 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 us and the

conflict so that we. can live in peace we were born in war and we don't want to be here to the war anymore. the u.s. invasion of afghanistan was launched in response to the tragic $911.00 events was aimed at defeating al qaeda and toppling the taliban which had harbored the terrorists but 18 years on it's the longest war in u.s. history 1st a campaign was victorious within a month the taliban and al qaida they've been mostly defeated in the country the afghan interim administration was established but 10 years to kill al qaeda is founder and leader washington still has thousands of troops deployed in afghanistan they account for a half of all international troops tasked with preventing terror we spoke to a non 11 survivor who says that 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. and.

the taliban was basically they were supporting al-qaeda boy the same time you. 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 weren't you know gary stern and then we went to iraq and iraq didn't have anything to do with 911 and they tried to hobble the idea that the the rocky people would walk without he was in so all of this scene way over what we're doing right here in afghanistan we were in the year when your main purpose that main purpose was a change of viber i won the award to win and not only because of the people that we lost one of the people that were killed in the process because there were many civilians that were killed in afghanistan during our occupation of back on tree.

and said now to the u.s. state of montana where a total of 4 city council officials have now us the prosecutor's office to drop charges against whistleblower brandon bryant they lifted the lid on civilian killings in u.s. overseas drone operations for turner been charged with threatening city officials in a youtube video and this currently in detention for the past few months he's attended multiple city council meetings criticizing the way tax monies being used runs and smother the claims that his incarceration is politically motivated he's launched a campaign in the hope of raising $100000.00 for his bail. my sandler's the us your 1st this little over who broke the code of silence on the john program now he's in jail in the. facility he has no criminal record and yet he held a $100000.00 bail under detention he's isolated from this family. friends. we needed emotional support animal.

run the brunt served as a u.s. air force drone operator from 2006 until 2011 having left the military he began exposing cases of what he alleged to be civilian deaths resulting from american drone strikes ryan claim commanders often prioritize the elimination of a target over accuracy resulting in in this and people being killed in the process as revelations when he made german whistleblower award in 2015 and also intensified debate over the use of a german air base by american drones brandon described his experience to back in 2015. i actually talked with a lady whose husband. was killed whose has been in brother was killed in a drone strike or talked to or 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 prevent further mistakes from happening. authorities say bryant was arrested on a felony charge after he diligently exhibited threatening behavior during city council meetings on top of that they threaten to eliminate its members in a video over former f.b.i. agent a whistleblower coleen rowley believes that 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 file 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 you know make a small error or a mistake and the draw was so low or 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 of retaliating 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 if specially 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. such as a device because i'm going to university have found that a reporting to irregularities during the bolivian election didn't provide sufficient evidence allegations of election fraud smaug mass protests which led to president obama all as quitting the report was made by the organization of american states that look to the bolivian general election results in november when there was a break in voting it appears more all those who are significantly in front of his rival about the report found regularity so and claimed the election results weren't accurate one of the mit researchers john williams explode. what made them doubt the findings. we. wanted to specifically look at the portion where they claim that there is 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 colleague were unable to find the evidence that the oas had created here results are out there and. 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 then 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 the election fraud as 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 of americans put out a report saying that. they felt that. the

whole city was actually. jack williams again believes the media around the opposition used 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 that the results that were being presented were illegitimate and that's what 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 gain much traction among especially the media so i think that they really wanted someone to evaluate this and take it seriously. she's like online die did know the death this week. on the internet kill julie said the bouts of rage. dear diary what a wreak of distressing stories there's new evidence suggesting that back in the

seventy's buddy was a loony rate front. of disappointment on his visit to india donald trump managed to vote but he must pick up every single engine that came his way and alexandra because there cortez were $500.00 sequined dress during the day but the thing that really got my anxiety levels peaking was this tweet to be said. that someone somewhere is doing the shoe joyousness of these people is insane to behold 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 waning 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 effect being aggressive progress

of triggering insensitive well. i know some would say that fosters an environment of power noir censorship and soul sucking depression but i just don't see it and yet a school in seattle said easter eggs should be renamed spring spears a spring spare hard to count me in my past you think it's got a real fun ring to it. but you're going completely out of. it isn't funny. 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 new i just hope for the people who signed up for this lesson and witness in time to get the most out of it also they could have the days. to tell mr rabbit to me not to walk up such a swagger and. also

slightly telling the bible while fashionistas a company down on hoop earrings no longer for white people apparently so gone of those carefree days we sauntered along hearing the gentle worship yahoo and the way . ok not the best news for any of argent approaches out bad because oxford university did cancel clapping but why are people making such a big deal about it there are notes of other ways to show your appreciation like. jazz hands super fun but wait on the culture appropriation. we've got a problem. these studies found that minorities are twice as visible on youtube t.v. screens that on britain streets you've got a story and more if you vote. the

republicans have a reputation as knowing more about money than the democrats but the democrats are always very confusing and so bernie sanders is just out of a tradition he's talking about socialism which again is a it's a it's a model based on a in comprehensible. non existent theory about money. the world is driven by shaped by. the day or thinks. we are here to ask.

you to put in the united kingdom is found the minority groups are being overrepresented in the media black asian and other ethnic minorities have twice the presence on t.v. that they actually have on the state support the same also applies to the l g b t community channel full c main goal is to reflect diversity and its output the b.b.c. says that they are pleased to represent minorities on screen i think more needs to be done offscreen the critics say that it's gone too far. various characters to reflect demographics or won't provide. you know what else is overrepresented 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 cent no whites and a quarter. ok we put the issue up for debate with new york observer columnist a walker and human rights activist peter tatchell. 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 then 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 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 talked about all of this let's get a gay person cause that gay or black person has a black it's just a loaded 970 s. rock i'm certain that all those black and gay actors are chosen not because of their race or sexuality but because they happen 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 this person whoever they are just in order to fill a quota is not doesn't so good you know everybody's doing the right. they choose good after you get a piece of pizza i love you to pieces if you're out of date. it would be seen by some as a landmark free speech case an appeals court in america has ruled in favor of you

tube and its parent company google and the censorship lawsuit filed by conservative media company university. addressing the 1st amendment claims the panel held that despite you tube'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 when the lawsuit praiser you claimed you tube violated the 1st amendment by barring the company of its right to free speech to some of its videos were deleted from the platform page you suggested youtube should be viewed as a public forum and blame them for false ties it is a platform that supports free speech company believes that their clips were banned because of the conservative nature of content the court rejected the claims after the court's decision googled the parent company of each ible so stressed that there were no there was no political bias involved in that claims were meritless

maintains the tech company has become dangerously powerful. so it appears as if even the 9th circuit is afraid of caroline's google we're 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 is stating they had social media companies such as google and facebook have arrived to make a decision. what people are going to be exposed to the reach of those companies is unprecedented but without reach there's not been an equivalent. in position of responsibility the risk of course is that those companies will be able to control the political agenda so in order for this to change the rules 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. when it comes to dealing with the threat of coronavirus you think scientific literacy would be not just a plus but actually a must that hasn't stopped us vice president mike pence you know a little time for an evidence based approach to health issues from being put in charge of america's response to the crisis. i think is a very good mike pence has a lot of experience in this area he's been quarantining himself from women his whole life. why is my players in charge what is his plan a son the virus abstinence.

despite this theory from the political class and the media smoking doesn't kill. to condoms are very very poor protection against sexually transmitted disease. i'm going to go home and prey on. the greatest threat to public health since spanish flu 917 sure why not put the guy known once working on anything in charge there is another person who doesn't have anything else to do press secretary can imagine. we're all going to die i. hope that wraps it up for this news hour you watching i'll take me for updates and

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. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race based on off and spearing dramatic development only mostly. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. i mention are times are we 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 and this week the violence flared in the capital delhi after all trump addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters of prime minister narendra modi in good 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 $21.00 and putin is president assad's supporters to have 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 repeating themselves we asked greg to last successful in his landmark legal case massive vote with the democracy is dead in the usa also more coming up in today's going underground but 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 julian assange just fight for freedom in a london court has made headlines including in india where journalists found time

to cover the wiki leaks founder his plight amidst all try.