are assuring the great people of good news that the taliban are kind of a thing here on the ministry of defense said special forces killed several taliban and destroyed weapons in one of the group's headquarters but the taliban full back through the night forcing a major highway to close and taking police checkpoints inside the city. this police officer tells us that the taliban were firing on them from this tree line into police and soldiers filled wards includes hospital most hurt when the taliban attacks the checkpoints and. a mortar came in exploded and it affected my eyes i couldn't see anything i shouted a lot and no one answered me or came to help the. people living here reported heavier strikes before dawn broke on saturday many close the shops and started to flee the city. got a mortar hit that area until no no one could move forward from here security forces or civilians the situation is very bad here in a statement the taliban's. says its spring offensive will target foreign occupying forces and it will fight until afghanistan is cleared of american occupation it also called on afgha

for one second and i don't think any of your viewers relieved or further let's not forget the ministry of defense actually only changed one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming known that they were bombing people day after day after day and have been for years in an area of the world where there's very little infrastructure but it's very little support on the ground we haven't even got any boots on the ground so we just have no idea of how many innocent civilians we've killed through the bombing raids now the same time the ministry of defense has verified that over four thousand i still fighters have been killed in the airstrikes at a claims there are not enough boots on the ground to verify civilian casualties why the discrepancy exactly completely mad isn't it's just bonkers the idea that you can know whether someone is an arsenal fighter or a civilian after a bomb has been dropped on them the idea that you don't have enough boots on the ground for it is just absolutely stinks of propaganda from our government so we will continue to support these ongoing wars which the b

let's not forget the ministry of defense actually only claimed one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming numb the idea that you can know whether someone is an arsenal fighter or a civilian after a bomb has been dropped on them the idea that you don't have enough boots on the ground for one category of people to be identified but you do for another one i'm afraid this just absolutely stinks of propaganda from our government i don't think the figures would change i don't think anything that we've been given about our involvement in syria or afghanistan iraq libya have been accurate because we just don't know we keep rushing into these interventions with no idea about who retired getting the best thing to do would be to leave the people of syria to have their own destiny in their own hands and for british troops and british planes to come back to britain. the number of people killed in a flash floods in the southwest of iran has risen to sixty eighty a deluge which started two weeks ago has swept away key infrastructure local aid organizations say that sanctions are p

of good. unless you change the whole system. defense ministry is heavily criticized after claiming it has evidence of only one civilian death from seventeen hundred of its middle eastern bombing raids or and that after a short break. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to. let you go right to the press this is like the three of them all the people. i'm interested always in the lawyers in the. city. you know world of big partisan movies. and conspiracy 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. 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. come back britain's armed forces minister is facing a backlash after some thought he implied that only a single civilian death was caused by seventeen hund

ministry of defense as a. security other security or. we will have to see if the opposition is prepared. to compromise. for. the most. outcome. of this situation is likely to be a compromise the hype. formation could still be so many thanks indeed mohamed osman . in khartoum also in comp to. al-jazeera have a more than we'll talk to her in just a moment but first let me just remind you if you joined us within the last few minutes saddam's new leader abdel fattah behind has just been speaking on sudanese television he called for the curfew which was put into place by his predecessor it only of been appointed what twenty four hours before for all those detained during the protest to be released and to anyone who engages in corruption to be held to account on the sudanese law earlier we saw a group of leaders from different political parties giving their own press conference they reiterated the call for a civilian run government so hibbs. courtroom what are we to make of what we just heard. we've heard from the leader of the military council

assuring the great people of could induce that the taliban are kind of a thing here on the ministry of defense said special forces killed several taliban and destroyed weapons in one of the group's headquarters but the taliban full back through the night forcing a major highway to close and taking police checkpoints inside the city and. this police officer tells us that the taliban were firing on them from this tree line injured police and soldiers filled wards and hospital most hurt when the taliban attacks the checkpoints and. a mortar came in exploded and it affected my eyes i couldn't see anything i shouted a lot and no one answered me or came to help. the people living here reported heavier strikes before dawn broke on saturday many close their shops and started to flee the city. got a mortar hit that area until no no one could move forward from here security forces or civilians the situation is very bad here in a statement the taliban says it's spring offensive will target foreign occupying forces and it will fight until afghanistan is cleared of the american occupation it also called on

yet the ministry of defense actually only twenty one civilian not been killed after months and months of claiming you know the idea that you can you know whether some. one is an arsenal fighter or a civilian after a bomb has been dropped on them the idea that you don't have enough boots on the ground for one category of people to be identified that you do for another one i'm afraid is just absolutely stinks of propaganda from our government i do think the figures would change i do think anything that we've been given about our involvement in syria or afghanistan iraq libya have been accurate because we just don't know we keep rushing into these interventions with no idea about who we're targeting the best thing to do would be to leave the people of syria to have their own destiny in their own hands and to british troops and british planes to come back to britain. the u.s. is developing a rescue plan for that as well as economy designed to pump cash into the country through banks smartphones and apps but even though the trumpet ministration isn't rushing to reveal the details the plan

ministry of defense is investigating but who now all the targets of nato and today across the world new challenges are confronting us rushing to grant aggression mass migration vulnerabilities inherent to new technologies along with older persistent ones they've created geo political environment is increasingly unstable and even more competitive yes competition refugees from nato was and russia challenges but on that competition mike pence vice president of the country that spends more on killing machines than china russia saudi arabia india france japan and the u.k. combined told nato that for peace you must prepare for war president trump has taken decisive action to make the strongest military in the history of the world strong.

clear role that the they in the administration i mean they're in charge of not only of the ministry of defense but they're in charge of the ministry of economy of interior to other members of the military close to governors in several states of venezuela so there's a very very close to be interested become the government of me going to my daughter to go eat and this is a thing that child of former president will travel you say it's a civilian military alliance and that's why it's very difficult a very same time very important to know how big the situation ongoing right now like i don't know that we're building in crack that is and how many people are actually supporting quite why go and that's something that we're going to probably find out in the next few hours today thank you for that today's about correspondent reporting live from neighboring argentina now we can speak to demetrius bantul is a political analyst he specializes. on venezuela and he's in the capital caracas thank you for talking to this what do you know about the current situation in the venezuelan capital. good morning if it

ministry of defense is investigating but who now all the targets of nato and today across the world new challenges are confronting us rushing to grant aggression mass migration vulnerabilities inherent to new technologies along with older persistent once they've created a geo political environment is increasingly towards and russia challenges but on that competition mike pence vice president of the country that spends more on killing machines than china russia saudi arabia india france japan and the u.k. combined told nato that for peace you must prepare for war president trump has taken decisive action to make the strongest military in the history of the world stronger still we've been after the largest investment in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan we released a national security strategy advancing peace through strength now and that's those who want to remain a critical partner the most successful military alliance in the history of the world doesn't want to risk the security of our partnership. by making reckless decisions that undermine our allies now think clai

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now let's just go back to our breaking news this hour because frank is ministry of defense says the easter sunday bombings in the country were in retaliation for last month's mosque shootings in the official however didn't explain where the information come from weekends atrocity claimed the lives of three hundred twenty one people including thirty eight foreign nationals and left up to five hundred more injured the government has blamed the local isn't this creep for orchestrating the attacks. that's how the news is looking so i thought stay here nasima back again with another update in just a huff. when the old maid just manufacture consent to step into the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the flame and larry go around live as only the one percent so. we can all middle of the room signals. the real news is really. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark side. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating you

soldiers on the ground as for the ministry of defense they apparently don't comment on the special forces but with a little sign of an answer to the conflicts we asked people here in london what they think about the crisis in yemen i'm very surprised that the troops are getting involved and didn't know that hypocritical of them to be saying. you know that they're. trying to be many call for a few and in many conflicts. personally no i don't think they should be doing that they should be. but i also understand yemen is a you know a nominee complicated situation some people we asked well i'm sure about the u.k. success mission in yemen but then on the air you want to ask the secretary of state for defense what recent assessment he's made of the effectiveness of operations involving british forces in the yemen in the last six months. with civilians bearing the brunt of the crisis and millions on the brink of famine doubts is again being cast on the u.k.'s fell and whether it's his party to the conflicts commission setting that the. writer and commentator abdel bari atwan says they persist pu

for precision in all our operations and we reserve the right of self defense of our forces as well as the afghan security forces the ministry of defense spokesperson on the afghan government side is not the tapas for an all day president gandhi spokes person deflected to the ministry of interior who defected to the national security adviser who said that he might issue a statement later this afternoon the afghan government hasn't commented as yet on what is essentially shocking findings that the afghan government and its supporting forces killed more civilians in the first three months of this year than taliban and i saw combined and it is not a small difference it's three hundred five civilians killed by pro-government forces compared to two hundred twenty seven by the taliban and i sold the biggest chunk of that is coming from airstrikes that is the leading cause of civilian deaths one hundred forty five civilians killed the majority of the a strikes carried out by u.s. forces and a third of those were children and that is the highest number on record for civilians killed by is strikes on top of that you've got search ope

ministry of defense is investigating but who now all the targets of nato and today across the world new challenges are confronting us russian and grant's aggression mass migration vulnerabilities inherent to new technologies along with older persistent once they've created a geo political environment is increasingly unstable and even more competitive yes competition refugees from nato was and russia challenges but on that competition mike pence vice president of the country that spends more on killing machines than china russia saudi arabia india france japan and the u.k. combined told nato that for peace you must prepare for war president trump has taken decisive action to make the strongest military in the history of the world stronger still we've been after the largest investment in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan we released a national security strategy advancing peace through strength now and that strength can be used against members of the nato alliance itself turkey must choose those who want to remain a critical partner the most successful military alliance

american occupation it also called on afghan police and soldiers to defect to taliban writes the ministry of defense responded by saying the taliban is using propaganda to boost morale after a series of recent defeats. the united states is in a difficult position as it's in gauged in talks with the taliban in qatar the u.s. envoy in charge of the talks zalmay khalilzad tweeted this spring offensive is reckless and will not advance peace if its. people in condos are often called between a taliban offensive and the military's response. briefly to the taliban in twenty fifteen the only city to do so since two thousand and one. in recent months u.s. and afghan special forces have for hard to hold the taliban off here a night raid ended with two american and four afghan soldiers killed in march the government is bracing for further taliban pressure now that fighting season has begun at dallas' al-jazeera kabul. members of the minority has are a community in pakistan are in mourning after at least twenty of them were killed in a bomb attack on friday it happened in the southwestern city of quarter dozens

soldiers on the ground as for the ministry of defense they pound me don't comment on the special forcesbut with a little sign of an answer to the conflicts we asked people here in london what they think about the crisis in yemen i'm very surprise. is that the point to getting in holland and that hypocritical of them to be saying. you know that they're kind of. trying to evade the many conflict if you and me in any conflict with others or have been involved personally no i don't think they should be doing that it should be to with you know internally but i also understand yemen is a you know a nominee complicated situation some people we asked well i'm sure about the new case except mission in yemen but then on the air he wants to ask the secretary of state for defense what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of operations involving with civilians bearing the brunt of the crisis and millions on the brink of famine doubts is again being cost on the u.k. still and whether it is party to the conflicts commission saturday that the. writer and commentator abdel bari says the br