helmand coin you know they they should offer it's worth a trillion dollars they'll take five hundred billion you come in come extract it and that they can immediately access that that the global fire. anshul crypto markets are desperate for investment opportunity if we push this virus far fokus yes it was banking finance minister of greece and we told him go to bitcoin make bitcoin we've talked about this you know say exactly but greece only had debt these guys have no debt zero debt from afghanistan and they've got thousands and trillions of dollars of resort as well as going to offer the petro which was going to be a crypto coin backed by matter as you saw it with our guest speaking of imperial member i said these imperial nations you know we see a shrinking of the wealth at home and expand as the footprint has to expand overseas and more and more is dedicated to keeping the edge of empire alive and people like erik prince very wealthy so prince briefed top trump administration official directly talked up his plan publicly on the d.c. circuit and published op eds about it he patter

helmand coin you know they should offer it's worth a trillion dollars they'll take five hundred billion you come in come extract it. if they can immediately access that that the global financial crypto markets are desperate for investment opportunity if we push this virus far fokus yes it was banking finance minister of greece and we told them to go to bitcoin make bitcoin we talked about this you know say you actually but greece only had debt these guys have no debt zero debt from afghanistan and they've got thousands and trillions of dollars of resort as well as going to offer the petro which was going to be a crypto coin backed by naturally as you talked about in the previous episode with our guest from cuba but now i want to talk about this like what he's modeling this on this is quick. speaking of imperial member i said these imperial nations you always see a shrinking of the wealth at home and x. as the footprint has to expand overseas and more and more is dedicated to keeping the edge of empire alive and people like. erik prince very wealthy so prince briefed the top trump admini

we're told here the british troops served your country and this country valuably by by liberating helmand province. well at that time they did help and we are grateful for what britain has done for canister it was a must see much much softer version of what the united states did but him and is not with the afghan government today it is back with the taliban therefore. it is now their all weather term most most most of that therefore we must come to a conclusion. that bombs and military action especially by foreign forces will not bring us peace or an inch to extremism. that has to be tooting see one within afghanistan afghans must evolve a mechanism of our own we the afghan people to reach out to everybody specially specially the taliban who are from our country who are the sons of foresight to seek a settlement second this afghan effort must be helped by everybody the united states must become because our proactive partner with the region and with the bigger region with the big countries in the region that is. china russia including our neighbors parks and iran and india to bring us to b

afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the armed group has a strong and growing presence in helmand. meanwhile in neighboring kandahar province a car bomber has attacked a nato convoy an afghan woman was killed and four other civilian bystanders were also wounded a spokesman for the nato mission said there had been no injuries amongst the troops in that convoy. so they come here on al-jazeera to contend is hoping to succeed jacob zuma as the a.n.c. decides the new leader plus. time wayne hay in the vietnamese capital hanoi where we'll tell you why motorbikes could soon be disappearing from the city's streets. welcome back as we look at the weather across europe there remains pretty cold in many areas you can see this circulation of low pressure giving some heavy snowfall across ukraine and into western parts of russia further south of course the belief flows attempt it's not too bad for athens but we've got more snow over the alpine region and as we move on through into choose a still snow sign of it warming up across germany or poland those are my some time which of course and they

four thousand british soldiers arrived suddenly no one was safe what was the british involvement in helmand and did it improve things or it initially improved things but in a way as to turn and subsequently things went bad and i mean i i look i have i have studied britain very well i know this country very well it is a tragic arguably clone your history in your air colonial history of the three wars that we had all of that but that does not blind me to the fact that that many aspects of their presence in afghanistan were also very good at least the british government was on a source when mistakes happened in they came and told us maybe five hundred likes a really really five hundred civilians were killed just by british soldiers a little of that is that really got to swing to the u.s. military and that is to be condemned intrade sized very strongly which i did at the time but i must be fair they were also. they also told us when something went wrong they came to us and said well this when truong in our troops did this or that so that aspect was also that the us didn't accept general mcchrys

eleven afghan police officers have been killed off to taliban fighters attacked that checkpoints in helmand province in southern afghanistan isolde's on the cheap in the provincial capital lashkar gah just the latest in a series of deadly attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the group has a strong and growing presence in helmand. now south africa's ruling party the african national congress is holding a closed door meeting on who will succeed president jacob zuma as leader a decision is expected to be reached by monday after disputes delayed the start of voting the leadership battle has sparked fierce infighting that threatens to split the party ahead of the twenty one thousand elections the a.n.c. says four thousand seven hundred seventy six delegates will vote in a secret ballot in the past vote buying and intimidation are acknowledged to have swayed leadership contest after years of zuma is rule soaring unemployment and government corruption of left millions of poor black south africans frustrated with the a.n.c. there are two main front line is now to replace him dep

have an afghan peace officers have been killed after taliban fights this attack their checkpoints in helmand province in southern afghanistan is also in the two police force in the provincial capital lashkar gah the latest in a series of deadly attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban has a strong and growing presence in helmand. and in neighboring kandahar province an afghan woman was killed after a car bomber attacked a nato convoy for other civilian bystanders included a spokesman for the nato mission said none of the troops in the convoy were jurist . eleven women have reportedly been killed after air strikes hit a wedding procession east of the yemeni capital the strikes thought to be launched by the saudi led coalition killed the women as they walked to the village in merritt province there are reports the bride was among the victims it's a tradition and rule yemen of the bride's friends and relatives to this court her to the wedding ceremony typically is waiting to libya with sons of people have taken part in rallies across the country in support of renegade general hu

at least eleven afghan police officers have been killed by the taliban in helmand province the assaultsn the two police post happened in alaska go they are the latest in a series of attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the group has a strong and growing presence in helmand in neighboring provinces. a nato convoy a woman was killed and for all those wounded a spokesman for the nato mission says none of the troops in the convoy. still to come here. to succeed. as the indian prime minister's home state gets ready to decline to clear election results. in rural areas. by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. welcome back as we look at the weather across central southern parts of china and taiwan it's all looking pretty good here at the moment further towards the south we've got a circulation a low pressure tropical depression which gives some heavy rain across the philippines and i think that circulation is close enough to manila to give the risk of further showers but also across this whole part of the world it's looking fine hanoi the nine

stroll it's not the latest fashion and mobility aids this is an art project in the dutch town of helmand it's most popular with the young people in the city the project is the brainchild of roco third told a self described social designer do is the goal is to offer young people free wi-fi in the city center to make helmand more appealing to them it's also meant to motivate seniors to use their walkers and to go for a stroll through the center of the city. to decay in a sign street one of the seniors shows us her secret marley's mother months as immobile router in a plastic box. she hides the box away in her basket so no one notices. the project is called walking wife i and that's also what the y. find network is called. a hurricane relief in sight around here you can only get free wi-fi in the mall. we always have to use a mobile connection it's really expensive why flies way cooler. but once the kids are online the senior citizens are often left out of the conversation chatting with friends online is much more appealing than a real life discussion with the older generation it's no wonde

afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the armed group is a strong and growing presence in helmand and in neighboring kandahar province a car bomb has attacked a nato convoy a woman was killed and four others wounded a spokesman for the nato mission says none of the troops in the convoy were injured so africa's ruling party the african national congress has begun voting for a new leader to replace president jacob zuma the two frontrunners the current deputy president cyril ramaphosa and zuma as ex-wife and courses on a gloomy zuma have been formally nominated as candidates and the vote whoever wins could become the country's next president after elections in twenty nineteen but the battle for power has exposed deep divisions within a party that's lost public support in recent times. well the a.n.c. says four thousand seven hundred seventy six delegates will vote in the secret ballot vote buying and intimidation have swayed leadership contest the fall after years of zoomers rule soaring unemployment and corruption have left millions of poor black south africans frustrated the deputy

least nine people a gunman was also killed police shot at him when he tried to storm the church in helmand province there are reports a second taka was arrested. on out of here. thank god they locked the door and there were hundreds in sight if getting close a door on time it could have been worse than did attack and the road the mosque in china. now liberia's vice president joseph a car has congratulated former football star george wear on winning the presidential election they paved the way towards the first democratic transition of power in the west african nation of seventy three yeahs mohammed our reports now from the capital monrovia was celebration on the streets of the liberian capital neutral was the support for my international football adored with greeted news of his victory in tuesday's runoff election with song times you was broke down in tears as soon as the results won just he's seen he have been called filtered by his running mate if you will take that who is an ex-wife or former liberian president charles taylor who is currently serving a fifty year sentence in the u.k. fo

heard that you know because he i mean you did say that the girls used to be able to go to school in helmand you know around with fourteen u.s. soldiers when four thousand british soldiers arrived suddenly no one was safe what was the british involvement in helmeted did it improve things will get it you know should improve things was it a waste of turn subsequently things went bad and i mean i you know look i have i have studied britain very well i know this country free will it is a tragic arguably colonial history and you are it can be a true wars that we had all of that but that does not blind me to the facts the many aspects of their presence in afghanistan were also very good it. keast the british government was on a source when mistakes happened in they came and told us there were five hundred like civilian the five hundred civilians were killed just by british soldiers a little of that doesn't is that a lot of going to the us military and that is to be condemned to intrude size very strongly which i did at the time but i must be fair there were also. they also told us with something w

we're told here that british troops served your country and this country valuably by by liberating helmand province well at that time they did help and we are grateful for what britain has done for afghanistan it was a must see much much softer version of what the united states did but him and is not with the afghan government today it is back with the taliban they're for. most of it is now they're all weathered almost most most of that therefore we must come to a conclusion that bombs and military action especially by foreign forces will not bring us peace or an inch to extremism. there has to be two things here one. within afghanistan afghans must evolve a mechanism of our own we the afghan people to reach out to everybody specially specially the taliban who are from our country who are the sons of foresight to seek a settlement second this afghan effort must be helped by everybody the united states must become because our pursuit of partner with the region and with the bigger region with the big countries in the region that is. china russia including our neighbors parks and iran and ind

eleven afghan police officers have been killed off to taliban fighters attacked at checkpoints and helmand province in southern afghanistan the assault on the two police posts in the provincial capital just the latest in a series of deadly attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the group has a strong and growing presence in helmand meanwhile in neighboring kandahar province a car bombers attacked a nato convoy an afghan woman was killed and four other civilian bystanders wounded a spokesman for the nato mission said that the no injuries among troops in the convoy. eleven women have reportedly been killed off to as strikes hit a wedding procession east of the yemeni capital the strikes thought to be launched by the saudi led coalition killed the woman as they walked to the village and margaret province there are reports that the bride was among the victims. come in says information from the cia's help the russian security services for the terror plot in st petersburg president has phone donald trump to thank him members of an eye silver cell were planning a suicide attack

eleven afghan police officers have been killed after taliban fighters attacked their checkpoints in helmand province that's in southern afghanistan this also the two preschools in the provincial capital lashkar gah are just the latest in the series of deadly attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the army has a strong and growing presence in helmand. meanwhile in neighboring kandahar province a car bomber has attacked a nato convoy an afghan woman was killed and four of a civilian bystanders wouldn't it a spokesman for the nato mission said there had been no injuries amongst the troops in the convoy. south africa's ruling party the african national congress has begun the process to choose who will succeed president jacob zuma as leader two front runner runners a businessman and current deputy president several polls and soon as ex-wife. have been formally nominated as can. d.n.c. party decisions expected to be reached by monday but the battle for power has exposed deep divisions within a party that sharp public support over time. well the a.n.c. says four thousand seven hu

at least eleven afghan police officers have been killed by the taliban in helmand province the assaults on the two police posts happened in alaska go off they all the latest in a series of attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban group as a strong and growing presence in helmand in neighboring kandahar province a car bomb a science a nato convoy a woman was killed and four of those wounded a spokesman for the nascent mission says none of the troops in the convoy. supporters of the former georgian president mikheil saakashvili have tried to storm a public building in the ukrainian capital kiev they turned out for psychosis release latest anti-government rallies calling for the impeachment of the ukrainian president petro poroshenko psycho's really was governor of ukraine's odessa region but resigned after accusing pushing code of blocking his anti corruption efforts he holds both ukrainian and georgian citizenship he was detained earlier this month and accused of trying to stage a russian sponsored coup to topple mr partition coat he denies the allegations and was release

we're told here the british troops served your country and this country valuably by by liberating helmand province. well at that time they did help and we are grateful for what britain has done for canister it was a must see much much softer version of what the united states did but him and is not with the afghan government today it is back with the taliban therefore. it is now their all weather term most most most of that therefore we must come to a conclusion. that bombs and military action specially by foreign forces will not bring us peace or an inch to extremism. that has to be tooting c. one. within afghanistan afghans must evolve a mechanism of our own we the afghan people to reach out to everybody specially specially the taliban who are from our country who are the sons of foresight to seek a settlement second this afghan effort must be helped by everybody the united states must become because our primitive partner with the region and with the bigger region with the big countries in the region that is. china russia including our neighbors parks and iran and india to bring us to br

have been killed after taliban fighters attacked their checkpoints in lashkar gah the capital of helmand province the assault on the two pre-schools of the latest in a series of deadly attacks on security forces claimed by the time about. eleven women have reportedly been killed after airstrikes hit a wedding perception east of the yemeni capital summer the strikes thought to be launched by the saudi led coalition killed the women as they walked to a village in provides like a car and headlines talked to al jazeera speaks to russian activists about her upbringing in the nuclear age we'll see you later. only. you can form a move. to move. the my act plant in the southern your roles birthplace of the soviet union's nuclear weapons program. today it reprocess the spent nuclear fuel but fifty years ago my ex suffered what's thought to be the world's third worst nuclear accident that was covered up until the one nine hundred eighty s. vast areas of land were contaminated including. a city built from i.x. workers and so secret it was left off maps activist nadezhda his father and grandmother d

have been killed after gunmen stormed a church in egypt five others were wounded in the attack in helmand province just south of the capital cairo when gunmen carrying an explosive vest was killed by police egyptian state television is reporting a second attacker has been arrested. thank god to lock the door there were hundreds in sight if didn't close the door on time it could have been worse than did track down mask in china. south africa's top court has ruled the country's parliament failed to hold president jacob zuma to account in a scandal over a multi-million dollar upgrades to his private home last year the court found that zuma violated the constitution when he benefited in appropriately from state funding for his and countless home it's one of a series of presidential scandals that have tarnished the reputation of the ruling african national congress. liberia's vice president joseph has congratulated his rival george weah on winning the west african nations president where is a football player of the year who easily once you say is from the buckeye says he wouldn't subject the c

their popularity across bucket on the car bomb has injured fourteen soldiers in afghanistan southern helmand province the explosion targeted a military base in lashkar gah city it happened as soldiers were leaving the outpost south korea says a deal with japan to settle a decades long comfort women dispute fails to meet the victims needs dozens of protesters gathered outside the foreign ministry to denounce the twenty fifteen agreement two years ago japan agreed to set up and then nine million dollars funds to help korean women who were forced to work in japanese military brothels during the second world war but survivors say they want direct compensation australian grandmother a scapes the death penalty in malaysia off to being cleared of drug trafficking charges the course accepted but here as opposed to the argument that she was tricked into carrying the drugs by an online boyfriend who claimed to be from the us special forces she was arrested in kuala lumpur international airport three years ago carrying one point one kilos of methamphetamine death by hanging is mandatory for drug traffi

at least eleven police officers have been killed by the taliban in helmand province the assaults on the two police posts happened. in the latest in a series of attacks and down security forces claimed by the taliban group as a strong and growing presence in helmer. well the counting of votes is on the way in the home state of the indian prime minister narendra modi the ruling party the b j p has controlled the western region of iraq for twenty two years but it's facing a tough challenge from the opposition congress party with allegations of corruption against local b j p leaders the congress also campaigned on economic issues such as the new goods and services tax but exit polls just to win the modem's party let's get more from difficult pollen she joins us live from good droughts largest city amid about the divot what's the mood like ahead of the results and what people are expecting. there in the atmosphere here is charged people watching this so closely primarily for the main reason that people are either on team congress or team b. j.p. the one thing about this state is that it's ve

eleven afghan police officers have been killed off to taliban fighters attacked at checkpoints in helmand province southern afghanistan insults on the two police posts in the provincial capital lashkar gah are just the latest in a series of deadly attacks on afghan arabs and the center left candidate. the economy is expected to weigh heavily on voters' minds with g.d.p. for costs to expand just one point four percent at the slowest pace in eighty is. american additively see in yemen in santiago how tight is this presidential runoff likely to be. it's very very tight the interesting thing is that we really don't have polls because in the first round the polls were so wrong so often that they're simply not publishing their results but both campaigns have made their own their gauge have made their own polls and have determined that this will be decided by perhaps as little as thirty thousand votes now we're there is a very large turnout most people have already in fact cast their ballots i'm at the nationals stadium this is the largest voting center in all of chile and people are very excite

use some high tech from defense electronics one slide estimates the value of mineral deposits and helmand province alone one trillion dollars he doesn't mention actually even though he's doing it through he's proposing this anyway through his chinese register company. is that the chinese may feel a the rare earth elements market so that giving out is right the u.s. as well i mean there's a lot of rare earths on asteroids one up but eric present a rocket strapped to their rocket and blast off and outer space you know see i think it would be ok we've got to get out of the break don't go away much more coming your way. when you all know is coming through and spoke to if somebody would have been told me that i'm going to spend my life for two point computers are out to destroy a person with so it was clear to. every night we were attacked by the arabs we will attacking them and we will extremely short. saying that's not possible oh make those moves into such scenes and then the soldiers and myself from the. host with all the pools of over to go over they all. believe much sick and close citiz

newsnight understands that back in the 2000s, when ukl forces were active in helmand province in afghanistanave been helpful to make drone strikes in pakistan at the time, but the advice was that that was not lawful. so let's get a legal take now from the human rights lawyer, fahad ansari. good evening. what is the difference between a drone strike aiming to kill somebody that is legal and one that is illegal? we live in a democracy with a rule of law and we do not have the death penalty in this country. everybody, no matter what the allegation against them, is entitled to a fair trial. now that context, for any action to take place, whether it is by ed drone, an air strike, what ever it is, it is unlawful because you was a merrily executing someone. —— summarily executing someone. yes, but we know not every drone strike out in syria is unlawful. it all depends on whether the uk is involved in armed conflict in syria. let's assume that de facto we are. we are allowed to drone strike people in syria because it is a theatre of war? n ot exa ctly. the threat has to be imminent. even if you are

have been killed after taliban fighters attacked their checkpoints in lashkar gah the capital of helmand province is thoughts on the two police force of the latest in a series of deadly attacks on security forces claimed by the taliban. the polls close in an hour's time in chile and the presidential election runoff voters in the american nation are choosing between conservative billionaire and former president sebastian pinera and center left candidate alexandra gurley air so that for ca's ruling party the african national congress has formally nominated two candidates for election as their president their a.n.c. veteran own goes on a ballot meaning so must the former wife of the current president of the leader jacob zuma and deputy president say rolled from a pollster. eleven women have reportedly been killed after airstrikes hit a wedding procession east of the yemeni capital sana the strikes thought to be launched by the society led coalition killed the women as they walked to a village in marin province. the testers are taken to the streets again and told to demonstrate against presi

official says 15 people were wounded when a car bomb detonated near a military base near the capital of helmandan is claiming responsibility saying the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber. a tourist ship struck a bridge on the river today injuring 25 people and closing the bridge for several hours. the swiss crystal had 129 people aboard when it hit the pillar of the bridge. police say four people with the most serious injuries have already been released from the hospital. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> without social media, i'm not sure that i would be here talking. >> this is extremism, fake news, major social issues. >> all of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet. >> tweeting is like a typewriter. when i put it out, you put it immediately on your show. >> people can have entirely different realities. they can be just cacooned. >> when somebody says something about me i'm able to go go bing bing you bing and take care of it? >> it's harder to be as obnoxious and cruel in pers

eleven afghan police officers have been killed off to taliban fighters attacked the checkpoints in helmand province in southern afghanistan isolde's on the to police posts in the provincial capital lashkar gah just the latest in a series of deadly attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the militant group has a strong and growing presence and helmer. police in australia have charged a man with acting as an agent of the north korea by trying to sell missile components and cole on the global black market fifty nine year old chan hand choi was arrested in sydney after allegedly trying to make sales on behalf of pyongyang worth millions of dollars north korea's cash flows been severely restricted by un sanctions aimed at pressuring the government to stop its missile program australia's prime minister says north korea is trying to support itself by selling illegal goods politicians in catalonia are holding final rallies before thursday's regional election it was called off the spanish government imposed a right rule in october in response to the catalan secession referendum but

the helmand province was the center of fighting in afghanistan in 2007. a british newspaper called it the deadliest area in afghanistan. on the night of may 30, 2007, chris flew another night operation, transporting approximately 30 service members from the 82nd airborne division in the upper singh valley. shortly after dropping the soldiers off for their important mission, insurgents shot down his chinook. the crash killed crash and four other service members. chief warrant officers allgaier's memorial service was held on june 6 at a catholic church in omaha. hundreds of people including over 100 patriot riders turned out to pay their final respects. chris was laid to rest on june 18, 2007 in arlington national cemetery. fellow chief warrant officer wetsel said that losing chris will leave a void that can't be filled by anybody else. there will be other pilots in the future, but none will equal chris allgaier. chris is survived by his wife jenny and three daughters, natalie, gina, and joanna. chris was honored by the unveiling of christopher allgaier str