hopes for peace in afghanistan is the u.s. and the taliban signed a deal to end america's longest war washington expects for moved all of its troops from the country in the next 14 months after almost 2 decades of conflict and thousands of lives drugs also this. week police only country's border with turkey that after anchor announced it would no longer prevent refugees from heading to europe and researches it knits universalise a reporter for or through in the bolivian election does fulfills on evidence present even more or less left his post amid mass protest over supposed irregularities.

oh there you are watching r.t. international now the u.s. and the taliban have signed a peace deal which is expected to finally bring washington's longest ever war to an end but the agreement is already finding itself on shaky ground president trump has even said he won't hesitate to send u.s. troops right back if necessary. if bad things happen we'll go back. let the people know we'll go back you'll go back so fast it will go back with a force like nobody's ever seen. under the peace deal the taliban's pledge to prevent terrorists from operating in the areas it controls and they've also promised to to enter into talks with the afghan government in march for washington is promising to review sanctions on the taliban and will begin withdrawing their troops in stages if it all goes to plan in a little over a year no u.s. or nato forces will remain in the country well it is kind of more pain looks now at

how much america has lost in the war and what it has achieved 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 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 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 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 who would ruin the taking the risk of 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 u.s. invasion caleb artsy new york. however there are concerns that some of the try to rethink the plan will actually be very difficult to meet i discuss the she with

a research analyst at the center for conflict and peace studies in afghanistan. i am like other optimistic but in the me 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 it just 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 search across from from the taliban in negotiate and start the interim one dialogue while we don't even have a proper legal situation team on the other side like if you talk about taliban going after transnational elements in 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 really difficult at some point to meet but the fact that the sign is a success the deal does follow a weeklong reduction in violence that was agreed between the 2 sides however many afghans believe pace should have been reached years ago. we hope this peace deal will be permanent 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. killed for the we're happy about the us dollar bill and peace agreements but i wish the species deal had been signed when the us came to ghana stern but now it is also not to wait we called the tower burn to stop the conflict you want the us to leave our country as soon as possible. push out into the 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 parts of their bodies and they were well i myself lost my leg in a bomb explosion. and now we're gone the and the conflict so that we. can live in peace we were born in war and we don't want to be here the war. well the u.s. invasion of afghanistan was launched in response to the $911.00 attacks and it was saying that 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 though the campaign was seen as victorious because within a month the taliban and al qaeda had been mostly defeated there and the afghan interim administration was established to however it did take 10 years to track down and kill al qaeda is founder and leader washington still has thousands of

troops to deployed in afghanistan which account for a half of all international troops there we spoke to a $911.00 survivor who believes though that 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. and 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 $911.00 and they tried to solve the idea that the the rocky people would walk with that 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 there were killed in afghanistan do we know our occupation of the concrete. almost 37000 migrants have crossed turkey's border with the u.s. the turkish interior minister has confirmed greece and bulgaria which border turkey have sent reinforcements to their borders spray vent people from crossing greek police have been deteriorating attempts to deterring to thames to to cross with take gas refugees have been seen throwing stones at offices at the boundary between the 2 countries and greek authorities declaring that i have blocked 4000 people from entering illegally it will come shortly after turkey's president announced his country would no longer keep its doors closed today you. know after

a couple what we did is we opened our borders because you promised us assistance but you did nothing and we will not close these doors because the e.u. must keep its word. we're strengthening our forces on land and sea the distant tsunami forces are being transferred the government is determined to do whatever is necessary to save guard our borders it was what i was referring to there is the 26 thing deal with the need to stop the refugee flow to europe in exchange for financial aid he says repeatedly accuse the bloc of failing to on its part of the deal but it's only now that he's gone from words to action the turkish president took action no following a spike in tension in syria's last remaining terrorist stronghold in the province and kerr claimed that 33 to his soldiers were killed in an air raid this week by the syrian army and that as the region is engulfed with intense fighting between

the turkish backed militants there and the syrian army supported by russia moscow claims that turkey failed to separate the terrorist from the moderate opposition and furthermore it says too that turkey initially confirmed its forces were not in the area something that turkey later denied journalist and writer to meet this call from ted koppel us believes that greece has become the victim of turkey's blackmail campaign against your. hugo chavez is not only start to. be there to go to greece. to show how cheery pushing to ground this is all the information with. sound. over efficiency me guys how do you mr pedagog to put pressure on the european union you know on their own for the european union to give it. to them to stop or to me. do you find it is who is shooting here on the other hand. the european union british and not

think. it is not. anybody should be going to our door for the opportunity to guide us and hard. being that it is going to solve the problem but are you accepting or was there ever a huge issue to me guess simply this shows a lot of the capacity to do it greece has already received an enormous number of refugees and it is a very bad seed because all of the big problems which were important needed by its european partners the i.m.f. . paris dozens of protesters have gathered in front of the french national assembly condemning the prime minister's recent announcement on pension reform police forces were quick to react to discussions great catches they did try to disperse the crowd earlier in the day the government had announced its intention to carry out the pension reform without a vote in the national assembly that decision was labeled by members of the

opposition as shameful while others applauded. call from all in accordance with article 49 paragraph 3 of the 958 constitution and after having obtained the authorization of the council of ministers on february the 29th i decided to engage the responsibility of the government on a billet stablish in a universal pension plan system but that article does give the government the right to pass such legislation on its own previously was applied in 2016 to push through a new labor law in france now employees have 24 hours to present a motion of censure which must be debated within 48 hours if the motion is adopted a proposed law will be rejected and the government must resign otherwise the law passes without. the.

ok let's get the thoughts and have made it more veiled he's a french publisher and journalist new joins us good evening t.v. and let's just start with the opposition here they say they're going to try and stop this bill from going through but in all honesty they've got little chance of doing that haven't. or yes or this article has a deals with the commitments of responsibility which are allows the executive branch to to to force a passage of of of a text message the opposition introduces a motion of no confidence which has little chance of passing since it's also entails the dissolution of the legislature pending new elections so it's a part of the game but it is true that we have recently seen

a many resign nations of a french or members of the french assembly from across party it is not inconceivable that the government will one day lose its a majority. how do you think the public will react to all of this too because we've seen in recent months many have been striking protesting against these protests reforms and the opposition is very angry at had the government has decided to push it free how do you think the public will react. of course to the government shows that the best time to pass its law and force that is a very long strike knowing that workers may not have the economic resources to to to go on strike again and the government is even taking advantage of the the outbreak of the virus that is coming to france to confine gatherings of more than $5000.00 people 'd but the french are one of the most to rebel is people in the word and the bitterness are just power source turned up in this this country that

unfortunately i do not rule out recourse to disparate or strong laws such as extreme less threatening terrorism as we have seen mainly in italy but also in france in this case or all or many places. the power are allowed and we must do everything we can to prevent these nail istic despairs the country rebuilt a bulldog a nice and fighting left in my opinion and do you think this is actually strengthen position here because he's for something 3 that he's always pledged he would do obviously plays in his supporters but do you think that i mean you could look at a different way couldn't you think his grip on power if you want to phrase it like that is actually we can because he's been forced to do something like this. yes. we know today that the make room you know claim to to represent both the left and right is going to to run up against a wall and in will end up representing and either one or not the other at the next elections. especially at the presidential election we were sort of see

a rise of the extreme left and they'll do extreme right and the most likely scenario is a motorola band 2nd rounds where the left will massively at this time refuse to try to make ross risk but look ben has already shown every possible sign of incompetence and it's all able to run dividing the french against themselves she will have. a left wing cross a guess that keeps says we have seen a very strong a capacity for mobilization. ok and there it will leave it there really nice to talk to you tonight as merrick mondial a french publisher and journalist thank you thank you now i still to come american researchers say last year's report on election fraud in bolivia that led to the president's resignation was not backed by sufficient evidence we'll have a look at that story plus others take to start.

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again now some good news because russia is currently celebrating the end of winter the so-called massillon it's a holiday which marks the start of spring often includes the burning of straw refuge of the straw at the g. and this year one festival in a town a few hours from moscow has taken things a bit further too because this bridge made of wooden straw was the winning creation from an international competition and after months of preparation it was consumed by flames in just a matter of hours rushes festival normally lasts

a week and sees people across the country enjoying a range of festivities while eating a lot of pancakes the orthodox celebration of lent will fall. by research is that america's miti university do say that a report that claimed that bolivia's elections were full of irregularities wasn't backed up by sufficient evidence the allegations of election fraud sparked mass protests which forced president evo morales to quit the report was made by the organization of american states and looked at the bolivian general election of november and claimed that the results were not accurate one of the myth researches though jack williams explained why it was wrong in his opinion to jump to that conclusion. 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 colleague were unable to find the evidence that the created fear 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 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 report some media outlets did speak of election fraud as if 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

whole city was actually. jack williams again believes that the media and the opposition needs the oas report for their own that it's. 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 do it 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. finally saying the wrong thing on social media these days always seems to trigger a backlash well i'll tell you that takes a look now at some of the bloke on the at rage that has been happening this week. diary what

a wreak of distressing stories there's new evidence suggesting that back in the seventy's buddy was a loony rate front assist a disappointment on his visit to india donald trump managed to vote but he must take up 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 said. that someone somewhere is enjoying the shoe joyousness of these people and saying 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 raining on our parade there's also literally no evidence to support it. yes ok the university of arizona is basically begging students to run each other out effect 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 school in seattle said easter eggs should be renamed spring spears a spring spare hunt count me in i possibly think it's got a real fun ring to it. but you 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 on time because in some cultures time is a fluid concept who knew 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 a decent. to tell mr rabbit soon enough to walk up such a swipe at. them they also

slightly telling the bible will be wild fashionistas a company down on hoop earrings no longer for white people apparently so gone of those carefree days we saw into the lone hearing the gentle push of yahoo and the way. ok not the best news for any of argent approaches out there 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 culture appropriation. we've got a problem. it's either there or you don't get plenty of stories on our website as usual you can find that out if.

you become a battleground in the u.s. government people are demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous prayer powerplant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of the traditional to just. power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways a struggle. for

your rocky's now they move should we have a much better 17 years could we could have a much more prosperous iraq a stable iraq yes as their. mistakes happen absolutely could americans have made things better have by far they could've should've have made it better but that does not take away from the flag i was stood up to run the dictator who was bloodthirsty participated in the murder and killing of hundreds of thousands of iraqis are millions and more of them iran than the invasion of kuwait and saudi.

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 in kashmir but this week the violence flared in the capital delhi after don't 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 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 repeating

themselves we asked greg to last successful in his landmark legal case to reveal massive vote pushing with a 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 has plunked him it'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 and use message in support of a songe was read out by pink floyd founder roger waters in pomona square this week thanks so much for coming on before we get to that multimillion multi $1000000000.00 arms deals in india with donald trump your reaction to the trial here in london you know the fact is that journalists like you and i. all the destruction of countries or an immense do.