you. hope for peace in afghanistan is the u.s. and the taliban sign a deal to end america's longest war washington expects to pull out all of its troops from the country the next 14 months after almost 2 decades of conflict and thousands of lives lost. the family of u.s. air force veteran former drone operator and whistleblower brandon bryant braunches a fundraising campaign to get him released from jail but he's accused of threatening city officials his mother claims though the charges are politically motivated and researches it mit say a report alleging fraud during the bolivian election fall short on evidence president evo morales left his post amid mass protest over supposed irregularities .

although they're just going to 8 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international the u.s. and the taliban have signed a peace deal which is expected to finally bring washington's longest war twin end and while the negotiations have been a long time in the making they still don't exceed the 18 years of conflict in the country. the united states and the taleban have endured decades of hostility and mistrust. previous talks falter. this separate only became real for the united states when the taleban signaled interest in pursuing peace and ending their relationship with. another foreign terrorist groups. they also recognize that military victory was impossible. under the peace deal the taliban's pledge to prevent terrorists from operating in the areas

it controls and they've also promised to enter into talks with the afghan government in march as for washington it is promising to review sanctions on the taliban and will begin withdrawing their troops in stages if it all goes well in a little over a year no u.s. or nato forces will remain in the country. in the high much america has lost in the wall what it changed in the end. 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 as 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 sinus 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 on or. we have 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 my session is on mistake 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 lesson learnt seems to present

a narrative of the us 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 odor 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 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 nous in the

would ruin the taking through the fundamental gap in distancing of the front and over the stated objectives. 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 u.s. invasion. ok let's get the thoughts now. as he's a research analyst at the center for conflicts and pay studies good evening see mr what do you make of the peace plan do you think it will last. thank you for having me you know this is an historic deal no doubt in in a lot of before she went into it. i am. optimistic but in the same time cautious about it because you know there are. things on all sides that the americans and the taliban need to do in the house to do in if you look at the timeline it really seems some point on realistic for

example releasing up to 5000 taliban detainees from the afghan custody by march which is 10 days from now or preparing. to sit across the across from from the taliban in negotiate and start the interim while we don't even have a proper negotiation team on the other side like if you talk about. going after. elements of jihad is that are seeking safe thing trees in afghanistan that also seems unrealistic because there are elements hard core elements within the group that will not allow that to happen so i think the deal is in the deliverables are really difficult at some point to meet but the fact that the sign is a success and i think the americans and the taliban they they wanted both of them wanted this deal to happen for the americans it's probably one of the way few

foreign policy success for the obama administration for the trumpet him straight sorry for the taliban it brings a lot of legitimacy to strike a deal with the u.s. in be recognized the world stage so i think all sides want this but materializing the promises is a challenging task for all sites and what will happen then if some of those promises don't materialize for example that prisoner exchange that you talked about that is due to take place in the next few days if that doesn't happen let's sort of end this deal will pass i'm still trying to strive to find a way through. but i think. the next few days are very what will be very important. in parties that will fall short to to deliver on those promises won't be the ones blamed i mean you have election crisis that the the afghan government need to 1st solve in then have

a conversation with the taliban so i think delays are expected to happen but one thing that has to be kept in mind that all sides must must stick to the promise if there delays ok but if if someone is break is backtracking from the deal. that will lead to the wide lens once again restart and that will not be something that we have one would like to see is any one concern there mr ramsey an afghan a. stand one night when u.s. troops leave the violence could actually restart. well there are 2 narratives here some people believe that the americans are not here to leave they just commit to this deal to see how things can move forward because at one point if the situation is going is getting worst there were a taliban that demand. when want the americans to leave will be asking the americans and the international forces to stay and support them militarily in

addition to the economic support which is already something discussed but the other saying that the americans are tired of this war the unending war and they want to leave and it will be an experience of iraq in 2000 and love one where they just left and at one point when even if the situation get worse at that point they can come back so. but then the future of stability once the americans in the nato troops leave afghanistan will depend on how the afghan politicians in the taliban come into together and form inclusive government where all afghans will see themselves represent represented in and i think that will be the only way to ensure that lasting peace. and prevail in afghanistan in a stable government is formed ok mr sami thanks for your thoughts tonight we'll leave it there that was the heck i too research analyst at the center for conflicts and peace studies live there for us from afghanistan thank you. well the deal does

follow a week long reduction in violence. reduction in violence agreement between the 2 sides this succeeded in reducing hostilities however many afghans do believe the dream and should have been reached years ago. we hope this peace deal will be permanent it's not like before i wish this peace deal been signed 10 years ago thousands of our people were killed many more wounded disabled and also many. widowed. girl differently we're happy about the u.s. peace agreements but i wish the species deal had been signed when the u.s. came to galveston but now it is also not to wait we're told the tower burned to stop the conflict you want the us to leave our country as soon as possible. push an issue that us whatever she 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 part of their bodies and they were well i myself lost my leg in a bomb explosion. and now we're gone the. conflict so that we. can live in peace we were born in war and we don't want to be futile the war. for the u.s. invasion of afghanistan was launched in response to the $911.00 attacks it was a defeating al qaeda and toppling the taliban which harbored the terrorists but 18 years on and it is the longest war in u.s. history 1st the campaign was victorious with within a month the taliban and al qaeda had mostly been defeated there and the afghan interim administration was established however it took 10 years to track down and kill al qaeda is founder and leader washington still has thousands of troops deployed in afghanistan which do account for a half of all international troops there we spoke to a $911.00 survivor who believes the long lasting war is not the so-called justice

they wanted. well mixed feeling number one because as a survivor of 911 we when they're looking for osama we know. 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 giving me 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 hold us the idea that the the rocky people would walk with that he was doing so out of this scene way of what we're doing right here in afghanistan we won't be here we're main purpose that main purpose was a change of. i won the award to win and not only because of the people that we lost

but of the people that were killed in the process because there were many civilians there were killed in afghanistan do we know our occupation of the contrary. over the u.s. state of montana now where a total of 4 city council officials have now asked the prosecutor's office to drop charges against brandon bryant who lifted the lid on civilian killings in u.s. overseas drone operations the air force veteran had been charged with threatening. a missile at city officials in a you tube video and he's currently in detention over the past few months he's attended multiple city council meetings criticizing the way tax monies being brendan's mother the claims his incarceration is politically motivated she'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 joint program now he's in

jail in the busily count the facility he has no criminal record and yet he is even held on $100000.00 bail under detention he's isolated from this family. friends. please me indeed. am. u.s. air force drone operator from 2006 until 2011 having left the military began exposing cases of what he alleged to be civilian deaths resulting from american drone strikes brian claimed commanders often prioritize the elimination of the target the accuracy resulting in the people being killed in the process if revelations won him a german whistleblower award in 2015 and also intensified the debate over the use of a german base by american. brandon described his experience to us back in 2050 . actually talked with

a weighty 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. 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. that bryant was arrested on a felony charge after he had allegedly exhibited threatening behavior during city council meetings and on top of that he also threatened to eliminate its members in

a video however a former f.b.i. agent whistleblower believes brines 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 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 retaliate ing and persecuting was of lors that

that seems to be the standard demo 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 and he should receive more treatment but i don't think he should be punished the way he's being punished. that research is a america's minutes university have found a report into regularities during the but if you know that she didn't provide sufficient evidence allegations of election fraud did spark mass protests which led to president evo morales is quitting the report was made by the organization of american states and the bolivian general election results of november when there

was a break in voting and it appeared that morale is significantly ahead of his rival the report found regularities and claimed that the election results were not accurate one of the myths researches jack williams explained what made them direct 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 you know having an effect on the world without any methodological or even like even just because 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 in the release of the report some media outlets to speak of election fraud is this 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 american states put out a report saying that. they felt that. the holes he would actually. jack williams again believes that the media and opposition use the 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 the opposition party invented the media is also used to justify those people knew that there was problems with b.o.b.'s research but maybe didn't have

the technical expertise stewart center for economic and policy research had released a report prior but it had not given much traction among especially the media so i think they really wanted someone to evaluate this and take it seriously. that russia is currently celebrating the end of winter the so-called mass and it's a holiday which marks the start of spring often includes the burning of the straw and this year in a town a few hours from moscow is taking things even further this bridge made of wood and straw was the winning creation from an international competition and after months of preparation it will go to the ground in just the space of a few hours the appears to be russia's muscle it's a festival normally lasts a week and sees people across the country enjoying a range of festivities while eating lots of traditional pancakes your folks tradition of lent follows after it's. still to come this hour dozens of former

leaders and this is from across europe have penned a joint letter expressing their concerns over donald trump's middle east peace plan we'll have a look at the details of that just after the break. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is on offer and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. again now does seem the online fund died another death this week. on internet killjoys. range. dear diary what a recall of distressing stories there's new evidence suggesting that back in the

seventy's buddy was a loony right front. a disappointment on his visit to india donald trump managed to . 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 so. that someone somewhere is doing on the shoe joyousness of these people who seem to be holding these bullets. 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 operate there's also 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. 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 yes a school in seattle said easter eggs should be renamed spring spears a spring spare hard to help me in life cost and think it's got a real fun ring to it. but you're going completely out of order. it isn't funny. i'm sure i did read about how now it's not ok to expect people to turn on my 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 had the decency to tell mr robertson enough to walk up such a sweat and. also

slightly telling the bible to walt fashionistas a company down on hoop earrings no longer for white people apparently so gone of those carefree days we saw into the long hair in the gentle worship your. ok not the best news for me argent applauses out bad because oxford university did cancel clapping but why are people making such a big deal about it there are loads of other ways to show your appreciation like. jazz hands super funny but way on the culture appropriation. we've got a problem. peace plan to resolve the palestinian conflict by his administration is the deal of the century has come in for renewed criticism as 50 former leaders ministers from across europe did pen

a joint letter expressing their concerns. peace to prosperity is not a roadmap to a viable 2 state solution nor to any other legitimate solution to the conflict the plan and visitors the formalization of the current reality in the occupied palestinian territory in which 2 people fall even side by side without equal rights such an outcome has characteristics similar to a pathway to a term we don't use lightly it trumps plan was enacted a quote undivided jerusalem would be israel's official capital meanwhile the palestinian state would have to reconcile itself to a capital somewhere in the eastern outskirts of the city and then on top of that they would have to relinquish their own army palestine's territory would consist of parts of the west bank and the girls or enclaves connected by roads and tunnels and in exchange for these concessions they would get investments to the tune me of $50000000000.00 the palestinian leadership there has rejected the deal in no uncertain terms. dear friend we heard

a little while ago from president trump and prime minister netanyahu talking about with a cool deal of the century would we describe it as a slap of the century we will say a 1000 times no to this proposal. one of the signatories to this letter morgan's looked off to the former danish foreign affairs minister and former president of the un general assembly told us that trump's plan does run counter to previous u.n. resolutions on the israeli palestinian conflict. it doesn't deliver a whole lot hits shesh it will deliver namely a peace and a to state solution and what we are very very concerned about is that it will totally change the occupation the army could whites it will change the best of the palestinian territory to something that i with the bench astonished in south africa during the past patriots inch and all out great will the conditions the paramita

has agreed upon and a 1000000 just a number of u.n. resolutions in the years. just kind of ha ha satan even here moscow that have any thinking so far tonight but back again at the top of the. rochon state television propaganda machine propaganda outlet propaganda tools we are in an information war. we can change the world tomorrow. we use an old you tube videos the 1st sleepless much of

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