and the afghan government refused to do by the behavior of the afghan soldiers in the afghan national army and the taliban that that in fact there isn't a deep animosity that will lead to a prolonged civil war once the foreign troops withdrew. and. and really these various talks about cease fires and truce is ended kate. that there is a way forward for the afghans on both sides and and all the civilians caught in the middle if the u.s. would simply withdraw. or states not international will have more news and updates coming your way after this short break. you know world of big partisan movies. and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. with this manufactured consensus the public will. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final merry go round be the one percent. we

by the the havior of the afghan soldiers in the afghan national army and the taliban that in fact there isn't the deep animosity that would lead to a prolonged civil war once the foreign troops withdrew. and. and really these various talks about cease fires and truces indicate. that there is a way forward for that afghans on both sides and and all the civilians caught in the middle if the u.s. would simply withdraw. in the u.s. state of louisiana the first arrests have been made and a new law aimed at fourteen anti pipeline protests three activists and journalists now face felony charges protesters say the police approach is turning increasingly rough here's a quick look at what's causing controversy. the new law came into effect at the start of the month ons lists pipelines as critical infrastructure which makes trespassing on the grounds that build a felony those disobeying at risk a hefty fine or lengthy prison sentences activist ted whole thinks the adoption of similar laws and that the states should be contained. really think of the right word data city as well as the desperation b

by the the havior of the afghan soldier in the afghan national army and the taliban that in fact there isn't the deep animosity that would lead to a prolonged civil war once the foreign troops withdrew. and. and really these various talks about cease fires and truces indicate. that there is a way forward for afghans on both sides and and all the civilians caught in the middle if the u.s. would simply withdraw migrants trapped on a boat in a sicilian port have finally been allowed by italy to leave the ship local churches agreed to take in some of the refugees as did albania and ireland the italian interior minister is now being investigated by cicely's chief prosecutor on suspicion of illegal arrest and abuse of power the case that cause divisions within the e.u. with italy now threatening to hold to its payments to the bloc rome is demanding that the e.u. share more of the migrant burden because the e.u. does not respect agreements and does not meet its commitments we as a political force are no longer ready to give them twenty billion a year. let's not engage in finger pointing we al

by the the havior of the afghan soldiers in the afghan national army and the taliban that in fact there isn't the deep animosity that would lead to a prolonged civil war once the foreign troops withdrew. and. and really these various talks about cease fires and truces indicate. that there is a way forward for that afghans on both sides and and all the civilians caught in the middle if the u.s. would simply withdraw. also on sunday russia's defense ministry has warned of an imminent provocation being prepared in syria when all see terrorists stage a chemical attack and lay the blame on the assad government. a strike on. using poison laid missiles is planned within the next forty eight hours there's some play is outside the region preparing yet more provocations on syrian soil involving chemical weapons with the aim of destabilizing the situation there and undermining the positive dynamics of the ongoing peace process. to get more details on this now from dawn chorus and he joins me in the studio don thanks for coming in while it did what other details have the russians given about this a

by the the havior of the afghan soldier in the afghan national army and the taliban that that in fact there isn't a deep animosity that would lead to a prolonged civil war once the foreign troops withdrew. and. and really these various talks about cease fires and truce is indicate. that there is a way forward for the afghans on both sides and and all the civilians caught in the middle if the us would simply withdraw. french police have described the southeastern city of grenoble which shews near the alps the french chicago due to its rocketing crime rates and are calling for radical action to restore law and order. look. weird too many things happened when up till now we are afraid you're afraid to go out and be why we can steal your jewelry you can grab your bag we have never seen anything like that the police used to be more tough but now even they are afraid outloud. her. salary to the crime rate is significant in grenada compared to cities of the same size the city is plagued with drug trafficking there's not a single week without a knife attack or a criminal settling their school

with these various cease fire offers and and by the the havior of the afghan soldiers in the afghan national army and the taliban that that in fact there isn't a deep animosity that would lead to a prolonged civil war once the foreign troops withdrew. and. and really these various talks about cease fires and truces indicate. that there is a way forward for afghans on both sides and and all the civilians caught in the middle if the u.s. would simply withdraw nicholas chance davey's author of blood on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq thank you for your time. you know that's our breakdown of the day's top stories for now thanks for tuning in. we have no idea what safe is doing on a vacation but she will be back on air in september. i've been saying the numbers mean something that they matter to us is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global will you loan to the old rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent minus minus two years some with four hundred to five hundred three per cent at t

decides to do is said i'm not going to arbitrarily withdraw, i will stay the course, strengthen afghan national armyst i with advisers, what is not stated we'll try to convince taliban they can't win, and we'll be able to maybe win at the negotiating table. and end this politically. that is kind of what the strategy is that unfolded, the problem is that, taliban has initiative, freedom of movement, at times they can go out, attack where they want and undermine the government. lou: small outpost, did fall to the taliban. ghazni is still under government control. afghan government control. how important is it this ghazni be preserved under government control? and the taliban defeated in their so-called surprise ofengive? >> -- offensive. >> no doubt we have to take it back, and we will, we have a political and more call victory here, a prominent city not far from kabul, they have got what they want out of this. they have demonstrated they are still powerful. they want to stake in afghanistan for the future, and carve that stake out as much as they can militarily, so when they sit down at negotiating t

have been more air rates today and i can add rates in support of the afghan national security forces on the ground essentially army and afghan national police there are quite a few casualties what we hear from families that managed to leave town or corpses lining the streets the regional hospital is overwhelmed with corpses and wounded as well we have no clear indication of how many are dead and how many are wounded at this stage but obviously government is saying we're managing to drive them out but we have to be careful because we want to avoid to cause civilian casualties so it's so it seems to be road to road house to house clearance operations going on plus asterix so while that major battle is going on there's other violence in the country as well we're hearing of another taliban attack on an army base in the north of the country fighting across the country appears to be increasing what's behind the upsurge well it has been a very potent insurgency for many years now and what we're seeing here is the taliban basically telling everyone look if you want to have us at the negotiating table number one we don't w

in the long term, i do think that the afghan national army should and will be able to defend afghanistan, but still e have a very, very determined domestic insurgency, and we have this terrorist group which is obviously not domestic but is very active and has been doing huge amounts of damage particularly against the afghan shiite community. but not only. and of course they don't have any of the local ties or any of the sort of religious ties and ethnic and social ties that ind afghans together as was so amazingly evident during that three-day ceasefire in june where you actually saw taliban fighters hugging army officers and civilians in the street. when they were all of a sudden sort of rediscovering each undermined y much some of the taliban propaganda and may even have jolted the taliban leadership to see their own fighters suddenly being und some of the taliban bombarded by lf and peace, which was really quite something to witness. host: we would like to thank pamela constable, the "washington post" afghanistan and pakistan bureau chief, for calling in to us today and giving us an u

overrunning the afghan city of ghazni even after the taliban killed more than a dozen soldiers and afghan army base during intense fifth day of intense fighting in northern afghanistan. nationalennifer griffin as a closer look tonight the pentagon. >> 17 afghan soldiers were killed, 19 wounded in northern afghanistan when the taliban overran a small isolated afghan military base. a day earlier, afghan defense officials described a five day multipronged assault by the taliban in ghazni, a key city in eastern afghanistan just 75 miles from the capital. >> possibly around 100 casualties among the security and defense forces. i cannot say the exact toll but it's around this amount. >> 1,000 afghan troops were sent to help. the u.s. military swiftly pushed back on what it said were false reports that ghazni, city of 270,000, had fallen to the taliban. "ghazni city remains under afghan government control and the isolated and desperate taliban forces remaining in the city do not pose a threat to its collapse as some have claimed." the u.s. military provided photos to rebut claims that the ghazni prisons had been emptied and also released an aerial photo of highway 1 which leads to t