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when you go from the secret to. the. hopes for peace in afghanistan as the u.s. and the taliban sign a deal to end america's longest war push to 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 lost. migrants clash with greek police on the country's border with turkey and that's after anchor and nonstick would no longer prevent refugees from heading to europe. and the french government announces it will push through a controversial pension reform by decree bypassing parliament and move its products in a new wave of protests across the country. a
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very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me in the carriage our top story the u.s. on 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 while president trump has even said he won't hesitate to send u.s. troops right back if necessary. bad things happen will go back that people will go back to will 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 enter into talks with the afghan government in march for washington it's promising to review sanctions on the taliban and will begin withdrawing their troops in stages if all goes well in little over a year no u.s. or nato forces will remain in the country artist
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a lot more people looked at how much america has lost in the war and what it's 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.
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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 rules myself. and it's very substantial 2016 has been a significant year for afghanistan and progress has been made but this was all just hype documents reveal interviews with people that were actually on the ground and the material ironically labeled less than warrant seems to present a narrative of the u.s. defeat in afghanistan the operation is described as a self looking ice cream cone u.s. officials giving reports of progress we're telling bold faced lie the problem is there is a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive to almost require or for people to law there is an odor of mendacity.
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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 there is a fundamental gap of understanding of the front and of the stated objectives grew lines in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and then the drone started flying many instances of success were recorded on that front but in many instances things also went terribly wrong.
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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 caleb artsy new york however there are genuine concerns that some of the criteria for the plan will be difficult to mainz we discussed the issue with
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a research analyst at the center for conflicts and pay studies in afghanistan. i am like other than optimistic but in the me 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 afghan government has to do. if you look at the timeline it really seems some point and realistic for example releasing up to $5000.00 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 interest on dialogue while we don't even have a proper negotiation team on the other side like if you talk about taliban going after. elements jihad is that are seeking safe centers in afghanistan that also seems unrealistic because the elements hard core elements within the group that
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will not allow that to happen so i think the deal is. deliverables really difficult at some point to meet but the fact that the sign is a success. follows a week long reduction in violence that was agreed between the 2 sides however they afghans believe peace should have been reached 2 years ago. we hope this peace deal will be permanent not like before and 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. 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 but now it is also not too late we go on the taliban to stop the conflict you want the us to leave our country as soon as possible. we will be happy if the deal brings peace but i wish this peace deal had been signed
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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. so. we're gone both the intel of the conflict so that we. can live in peace we were born in war and we don't want to be healed by the war anymore. the u.s. invasion of afghanistan was launched in response to the $911.00 attacks it was aimed at defeating al qaeda and toppling the taliban which hard at the terrorists but 18 years on that is the longest war in u.s. history and 1st the campaign was victorious within a month the taliban and al qaeda had been mostly defeated there and the afghan interim administration was a stop place however it took 10 years to track down and kill al qaeda style and leader washington still has thousands of troops deployed in afghanistan which accounts for a half of all international troops there we spoke to
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a $911.00 survivor who believes the long lasting war is not the so-called justice they want it. well makes feeling number one because as a survivor of 911 when they're looking for some of you 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 i didn't need these actually we didn't have remember when we were in 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 try to follow the idea that the the rakli people were involved with that he was in charge 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 it changes as
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a survivor i won the award to win and not only because of the people that we lost but of the people. they were killed in the process because there were many civilians that were killed in afghanistan during our occupation of our country. about 47000 migrants have crossed turkey's border with the e.u. the turkish interior minister has confirmed greece and bulgaria which border turkey have sent reinforcements to their borders to prevent people crossing greek police have been deterring attempts to cross with tear gas refugees have been seen throwing stones at officers at the boundary between the 2 countries greek authorities claim they have blocked 4000 people from entering illegally from shortly after the turkish president announced his country would no longer keep its doors to the e.u. close. to. 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 are strengthening. additional
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forces are being transferred government is determined to do whatever is necessary to safeguard. the waters around was referring to is the 26th india with the e.u. to stop the refugee flow to europe in exchange for financial aid here since repeatedly accuse the bloc of failing to water its part of the deal but it's only now that he's gone from words to action. the turkish president took action following a spike in tension in syria's last remaining terrorist stronghold italy a province and where claims 33 turkish soldiers were killed in an air raid this week by the syrian army that says the region is an gulf with intense fighting between the turkish backed militants there and the syrian army supported by russia claims turkey felt to separate the terrorists from the moderate opposition furthermore it says turkey initially concerned its forces were not in the area but that turkey later denied journalist and writer demetrius constantinople both
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believe reason has become. the victim of turkey's blackmail campaign against europe . if you go and he's not it was not only stalin to. impeding them to come to greece. into shock churi pushing them into the ground this is all the information was very easy sound unsure or oafish and even guards are used by mr advisor to put pressure on the european union in order for the european union to get to doing to stop or humiliate me he is. due for his wish to syria and russia on the other hand. the european union british and nothing. it is not. anybody should because it out of the opportunity to guide us and hoping that it is going to solve the problem but i have shown again or was there
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anything to shoot him against but simply this shows another the passion to do it greece has already issued an enormous number of refugees at immigrants and it is a very bad shape because all of the big problems which were important needed by its european partners at the i.m.f. . the french prime minister has announced a controversial pension reform will be adopted without a vote in the national assembly and this caused outrage in paris where dozens of gathered in front of the parliament condemning the government's decision place morse's were quick to react in scuffles broke out as they tried to disperse the crowd that message has led to the opposition presenting a motion of censor and parliament the nation's adopted the proposal will fail and the government must resign the motion must be debated within 48 hours the pension reform a sponsor massive protests. oh. yes
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. the old. thank. goodness and gentle as a marriage mondale thinks the french system isn't adaptable enough to resolve the country's problems the government chose the best time to pass it slower and force that is a very long strike knowing that workers may not have the economic resources to choose to go on strike again we have a very we can see that we have a very. very authoritarian institution and that was designed to prevent the division of the french as a result of the general war because in addition to this article 49 dr 3 we have article 16 which gives more powers to the presidency in the event of
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a crisis or the constitution we saw authoritarian that it makes the power to too rigid and unable to adapt itself and today i think the leads explodes and we find the old divisions of the french we are longer a country of civil wars of the religious war was in the in a sense of trust revolution is not over and we are about to uncertain very complicated types. so to come an appeals court in the us will is in favor of you to put it important free speech case. and more after this short break. nuclear power become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people love demanding the shutdown of
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a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no claire power plant 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 a traditional participatory democracy is or powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways though a struggle palmiotti. imax kaiser with more of my guide to financial survival this is a hedge fund and a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for
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a while because we've put. the world is driven by shaped by. the day there's thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back rush hour is currently celebrating the end of the winter the so-called
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muslim it's a holiday which marks the start of spring often includes the burning of a straw effigy and this year one festival in a town a few hours from moscow has taken things even further this bridge made of wood and straw was the winning creation from an international competition and after months of preparation it was consumed by flames interest in matter of hours russia's muslim is 1st of all the very last so we can see as people across the country are enjoying a range of those differences while eating lots of traditional pancakes the orthodox the liberation of lent follows after. 9 what's been dubbed a landmark case a court has ruled that you choop is allowed to censor content on its platform it won a legal fight against the media company praga university which argued it should be able to post what it wants on the basis of free speech on the 1st amendment addressing the 1st amendment claims the panel held that despite you tube ubiquity
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and its role 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 your chip violated the 1st amendment when some of its videos were deleted from the platform and suggested you tube was guilty of false advertising for presenting itself as a platform for free speech the company believes clips were banned because of the conservative nature of the content but the court rejected the claims where you said it had restricted access to some of the group's videos because they were inappropriate for younger audiences after the court's decision you chips parent company google stresses there was no political bias involved and praga use claims were meritless but progress he maintains the tech company has become dangerously powerful. so it appears as if even the 9th circuit is afraid of goliath google we're not done fighting for free speech and we will keep pushing
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forward this is a significant decision because the effect of it is that the court of appeal he's stating that social media companies such as google and facebook have a ride to make a decision. walt people are going to be exposed to the reach of those companies is unprecedented but we ducked reach 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.
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saying the wrong thing on social media these days always seems to trigger a backlash. takes a look at some of the woke and outrage that's been happening this week. dear diary what a reek of distressing stories there's new evidence suggesting that back in the seventy's buddy was a loony rate from to service a disappointment on his visit to india donald trump managed to vote but he must cut every single engine word 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 and seems to hold these bullets. should be kept as far away from cultural power as possible joylessness is
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this a joke this is a classic case of conservative debbie downer is waning 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 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 egg should be renamed spring spheres 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 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
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some cultures time is a fluid concept through you 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 d.c. . see to tell this drop it seems not to walk up such a sweat. trying to settle. down they also slightly chilling the bible while fashionistas a company down on earrings no longer for white people apparently so gone as those have 3 days we saw into the long hair in the gentle push and it was. ok not the best news for me argent approaches out about because oxford university did cancel clapping but why are people making such a big deal about it there are no notes of all the ways to show your appreciation like. john's hatton's supraphon but wait on the culture appropriation. we've got
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a problem. i would love to hear your thoughts on this and everything else i do get in touch by following us on social media we're back at the top of the hour with the headlines see the. yes.
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the point is should we actually be charging for it because this is when we charge things has because it's been a benefit to the person buying it and that's the audiology education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit to society in general i wouldn't want to live in a society without doctors or engine is happening without economists. saying it of being a profit benefit ignoring the public means that we're ignoring that the skill bias we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that skilled bice's on the individuals and what we've turned it into is just now the china institution. has become a form of a version of a real estate scam that is not the basis for a functional society on. the route
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the air. travelers get the con they feel we're americans in america covering american news a call for an agent. bernie sanders one that ivana caucuses in 538 dot com is now saying he has almost a 40 percent chance of winning the nomination before the convention in july which would mean the superdelegates wouldn't be able to draw. a load in his proverbial punch bowl and our stupendous ethically exceptional corporate media has dealt with bernie served with professionalism and grace that we've all come to know and love. reading about the 4 france in the summer of 1940 and the general reno calls of churchill and says it's over and sure is how can it be you've got the greatest army in europe how could it be over he said it's over so i had to uproot
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suppressed feeling i can't be as wild as carville but he is damn smart and i think he's damn right on this one yes bernie sanders winning the primaries which would make him the 1st jewish nominee for president is just like the nazis taking france . when a handler was massacring those 11000000 people including 6000000 jews i bet he himself was thinking i feel just like a guy who wants to give health care to everyone. and when hitler bombed the london he actually said this feels. kinda to getting corporate money out of politics. let's not exaggerate go chris matthews is one solitary lunatic with work with ways to live off her brains no one else at m s n b c has lost their mind on that level we've all been on the receiving end of the of the bertie brigade and here's what he says he says no other candidate has anything
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like this sort of digital brownshirts for a game i mean except for donald trump the question no one is asking is this what if you can't win the presidency without an online model ok so barney sanders supporters are like the brown shirts i mean it makes sense if bernie sanders is hitler as emma somebody has made clear then his followers are the nazi soldiers i don't understand why people are upset about this it's just. pure logic. so of all our crap pass to corporate media is furious bernie sanders is winning. i think we all know what happens next i think we all know what time it is we're joined by this incredible new york times story breaking tomorrow morning we got to which is the russians are coming again the russians are in there during this election we're right now yeah. they're already in their dog sleds
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bearing down on us right now whatever it is they used to commute i don't know i don't know maybe maybe they reanimated those woolly mammoth to keep frozen in siberia and now they're riding on their back we don't know we got out whatever it is horrifying. you probably recall last week every outlet was running around trying to get sanders elected but also trying to get trouble like that they're trying to get everyone to lack a. show of democracy. what 10. days later what did we find out the u.s. doesn't yet have the evidence actually concludes that russia is interfering in the election was you know you're so quick in the long run what could you speak of the us doesn't yet have the evidence actually conclude that russia is interfering in the election doesn't yet have the evidence that even and now they're going to find
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the evidence but in the meantime we'll keep spraying toxic sludge out of our face holes so c.n.n. and the other outlets basically came out and said they've been logging for 2 straight days but have no fear no one expects anything less. and that video we just saw was embedded in an article what did the headline of that article say u.s. intelligence really for ok years have overstated assessments of 2020 russian interference. up here is to have overstated yes when you spend 2 days claiming that russia is trying to get sanders and trouble like dead and then you spend 6 seconds saying nevermind we have no evidence of that so that does appear to be overstating things. well i'll say right now that everyone working at c.n.n. is actually.

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