hopes for peace in afghanistan as the u.s. and the taliban sign a deal to end america's longest war washington expects to remove all of its troops from the country in the next 14 months after almost 2 decades of conflict and thousands of lives not just. the family of the u.s. air force veteran former drone operator and whistleblower brandon brined staunch is a fundraising campaign to get him released from jail where he's accused of threatening city officials his mother claims the charges are. from research as it makes a ripple alleging fraud during the bolivian election fall short on evidence president even we're all is that post made mass protests over supposed irregularities.

i don't even just call 9 o'clock here in moscow you with the international the u.s. and the taliban have signed the peace deal which is expected to finally bring washington's longest ever war to a net. the united states and the taliban have endured decades of hostility and mistrust. previous talks to falter. to separate only became real for the united states when the taliban 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 upper. rating in the

areas it controls and they've also promised to you to enter into talks with the afghan government in march as for washington is promising to review sanctions on the taliban and will begin withdrawing their troops in stages and if it all goes well and a little over a year no u.s. to nato forces will remain in the country more pin looks now at how much america has lost in the war and what it is 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 an array of areas that are critical to our combined success with afghanistan but 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 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 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 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 that would ruin the taking the risk of fundamental gap in distancing of the

front end of 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 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 u.s. invasion caleb artsy new york however there are concerns that some of the criteria of the plan won't be met discuss the issue with the research analyst at the center for conflicts and peace studies in afghanistan. i am like other optimistic but in the mean the same time cautious about it because you know they are actionable things on all sides that the americans and the taliban need to do in the afghan government has to do in if you look at the timeline if it really seems some point and realistic for example releasing up to 5000 taliban detainees from the afghan custody by march which is 10 days from now or preparing the afghan

government to sit across from from the taliban in negotiate and start the interim one dialogue while we don't even have a proper negotiation team on the other side like if you talk about taliban going after transnational elements and jihad this 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 deliverable is really difficult at some point to meet but the fact that the sign is a success. well the deal does follow a weeklong reduction in violence agreement between the 2 sides this did succeed in reducing hostilities however many afghans believe the agreement should have been reached years ago. if you still like it was made we hope this peace deal will be permanent 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 we're happy about the u.s. taleban 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 too late we call on 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 healed by the war anymore. well the u.s. invasion of afghanistan was launched in response to the $911.00 attacks it was a defeating al qaida and toppling the taliban which harbored terrorists but 18

years on and it is the longest war in u.s. history at 1st the campaign was victorious within a month the taliban and al qaeda had mostly been defeated there and the afghan interim administration was established however it did take care 10 years to track down and kill al qaida is founder and leader and washington still has thousands of troops deployed in afghanistan which you can't for half of all international troops there we spoke to a 911 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. actually 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 iraqi people would walk with that he was doing so well at this scene way of what we're doing right here in afghanistan we won't be here with 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 there 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 there to drop charges against the whistleblower brandon bryant who did lift the lid on civilian killings in u.s. overseas drone operations well the air force veteran had been charged with

threatening the simplicity fishelson ichi video and is currently in detention over the past few months he's attended multiple city council meetings criticizing the way tax money is being used brandon's mother who claims his incarceration is politically motivated and she has launched a campaign in the hope of raising $100000.00 for his bail. my sandler's the u.s. air force missile over who broke the code of silence on the drone program now he's in jail in the missile account syllabi he has no criminal record and yet he is in hell and one $100000.00 bail under detention he is isolated from this family and its friends in from his medically i mean indeed an emotional support animal and there's a u.s. air force drone operator from 2006 until 2011 having left the military he began

exposing cases aport he alleged to be civilian deaths resulting from american drone strikes brined claim that commanders often prioritize the elimination of a target over accuracy resulting in innocent people being killed in the process is revelations did win him a german whistleblower award in 2015 and it also intensified the debate over the use of a german air base by american drones here's how brandon described his experience to us back in 2050. i actually talked with a lady whose husband. was killed 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 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. bryant was arrested on a. after he had allegedly exhibited threatening behavior. and on top of that he threatened to eliminate. however. believes that brian's current predicament is connected to his pos 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 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 of retaliate ing and persecuting was of lors that that seems to be that 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 and 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 any should receive more treatment but i don't think he should be punished the way he's being punished. i research is that america's university have found reporting to irregularities during the bolivian election wasn't backed up by sufficient evidence allegations of election fraud to spot mass protests which led to president evo morales quitting the report was made by the organization of american states and the the bolivian general election results of november when there was a break in voting and into paid miranda's was significantly ahead of his rival the report found irregularities and claimed that the election results were not accurate one of the searches 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 evidence that the or you did hear results are out there and you know having an effect on the world without any an awful lot of coal 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 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 for in the release of the last report some media outlets did speak of election fraud which is if it was a preventive 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 if you will actually. check williams again police the media and opposition huge the report for their own ends. the statistical claim was the one that was able to be tied to the results and claimed 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 much traction among especially the media so i think that they really wanted someone to evaluate this and take it seriously. russia is currently celebrating the end of winter at the moment in the so-called mass and it's a holiday which marks the start of spring often includes to the burning of the straw and this shit to build in the time a few as from moscow has taken things

a bit further because this bridge made of wood and straw was the winning creation from international competition and after months of preparation and chain by flames in just a matter of hours in this festival last week it seems people across the country. lots of traditional pancakes tradition. still to come dozens of former leaders the ministers from across europe pen a joint letter expressing their concerns over donald trump's middle east peace plan you have a look at the details just off the break. 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 is talking about socialism which again is a. it's a model based on

a comprehensible. non existing theory about money. or your rocky. should we have that i had a much better 17 years could we could have had a much more prosperous iraq a stable iraq yes as their. mistakes happen absolutely could americans have made things better by far they could have done they should have made it better but that does not take away from the flag they have stood up to around the dictator who was full of thirsty and participated in the murder and killing of hundreds of thousands of iraqis and millions and more of the around then the invasion of kuwait and so on .

welcome but noticing that online son died another death this week. thoughts now i want internet killjoys. to each. dear diary what a recall of distressing stories there's new evidence suggesting that back in the seventy's buddy was a loony rate front assess a disappointment on his visit to india donald trump managed to barbecue massacre every single engine watt 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 focused. that someone somewhere is enjoying the shoe joyousness of these people and things to behold these bullets. should be kept as far away from cultural power as parse joylessness

is this a joke this is a classic case of conservative debbie downer is waning on operate there's also literally no evidence to support it so. yes ok the university of arizona is basically begging students to rank each other out effect called being aggressive progressive triggering insensitive well. i know some would say that fosters an environment of power noir censorship but soul sucking depression but i just don't see it and yes a school in seattle said easter egg should be renamed spring spears a spring spare hard to count me in my past i 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 them why because in some cultures time is a fluid concept through you i just hope for the people who signed up for this lesson and witness turned up in time to get the most out of it all so they could have the decency to tell them to rob it soon enough to walk up such a swell and. tell. them they also slightly heading the bible while fashionistas a company down on parings no longer for white people apparently so gone of those have 3 days we sauntered along here in the gentle worship yahoo and the way. ok not the best news for me 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 supraphon but wait on the culturally appropriate. we've got a problem. now was being dubbed a landmark case an appeals court in the us has ruled in favor of you tube and its parent company google and the censorship lawsuit filed by conservative media company praga 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 in the lawsuit praga you claimed you tube violated the 1st amendment on free speech when some of its videos were deleted from the platform praga you suggested youtube was guilty of false advertising for presenting itself as a platform for free speech the company believed these clips were banned because of the conservative nature of the content but the court rejected the claims well after

the court's decision you tube parent company google stress there was no political bias involved praga use claims were merit this prog he maintains the tech company has become dangerously powerful. sadly it appears as if even the 9th circuit is afraid of the line of 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 the state being that 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 we ducked reach there's not been an equivalent in imposition 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. i don't. plan to resolve the israeli palestinian conflict filled by his administration as the deal of the century has come in through a need criticism as 50 formally does and ministers from across europe and a joint letter expressing their concern. peace to prosperity is not a road map to a viable 2 state solution nor to any other rigid with solution to the conflict the plan and visitors of 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 on top of that they would have to relinquish their own army stein's territory would consist of parts of the west bank and gaza or enclave connected by roads and tunnels and in exchange for these concessions they would get investments to the tune of $50000000000.00 the palestinian leadership has rejected the deal though in no uncertain terms. dear friend we heard a little while ago from president trump and prime minister netanyahu talking about a cool deal of the century which we described as the slap of the century we will say a 1000 times no to this proposal the signatories to this letter morgan's like a former danish foreign affairs minister and former president of the un general

assembly did tell us that trumps plan runs counter to previous u.n. resolutions on the israeli palestinian conflict. the service it will deliver them late. in the to st solution and what we are very very concerned about is that it will. reoccupation an equal rights it will change the mission of the palestinian territory something that. we care during the year past 3. and all of. the conditions the paramita. agreed upon and in a. number of. years. now when it comes to dealing with the threat of coronavirus you would think this scientific literacy would not just be a plus but also a must yet that hasn't stopped us vice president mike pence from being put in

charge of america's response to the crisis. i think this is where mike pence has a lot of experience in this area he's been quarantined himself from women his whole life i was in charge what does this plan to stop the virus abstinence. by the hysteria from the political class and the media smoking doesn't kill. it. 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. 117 sure why not put the guy no one wants working on anything in charge there is another person who doesn't have anything else to do press secretary can you imagine . we're all going to. be with us international company tonight we're back again with more as usual and. join me every thursday on the elec so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure i'll see you then.

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