if you compare the afghanistan i arrived in early 2002 to the afghanistan today there's obviously been immense economic development. there's been immense social development. you can't make a plausible case that our intervention over the past two decades has really moved us in an appreciatable direction. and so the core reason for this peace process is simply choosing the most plausible of a variety of exceptionally difficult all quite possible to fail policy options. but because i was asked to speak for five to ten minutes i won't stop there. i'll very, very briefly identify what i think a plausible or potentially successful peace process from the current moment could look like, and i'm not going to get into the level of detail, i'm not going to talk about sort of what the afghan settlement might look like in detail but rather the process. i really think that the -- a settlement in afghanistan is actually the end state of three separate somewhat linked peace processes. somewhat linked in the sense they all have to end together in order to be sustainable, but they don't really need to s

afghanistan. remind people about your job specifically. guest: i am the inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction. spenthat means, we have $132 billion over the last 18 years trying to rebuild that country, to make it self-sufficient so we could keep the taliban and terrorists out and never be a launching point. i don't do the reconstruction, i have a staff of about 200 auditors, criminal investigators, accountants, et cetera afghanistan,e in the rest are in the united states and we try to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. host: are we closer to that goal? guest: are we -- we are getting there. not as close as we would like it to be. we have accomplished a lot over those 18 years. agencycy is a temporary that will eventually go out of existence. job.uld have done a better andve been here before cited some examples of the horror stories but at least we have an inspector general who works full-time in our staff does a pretty good job of trying to prevent fraud. host: party your job is to put ou

if you compare the afghanistan i 2002 to then afghanistan today, there has been immense social development. you cannot make a plausible case that our intervention over the last of the last two decades has in appreciable, positive direction in terms of the political resolution of the underlying conflicts which let us there to begin with. the core reason for this peace process is simply choosing the most plausible of a variety of exceptionally difficult, all quite possible to fail policy options. me toe you only asked talk from five different -- five to 10 minutes i will identify what a plausible, potentially successful peace process from the current moment could look like. i am not getting into the level of detail, i will not talk about the afghan settlement but the process. a settlement in afghanistan is the end state of three separate, somewhat linked peace processes. somewhat linked in the sense they have to end together in order to be sustainable, but they do not need to start together and they do not necessarily need to move in parallel. the first of the three processes is the u.s.-tal

not justin afghanistan -- just in afghanistan. how we design programs is broken. how we reward people is broken. we just do it again in afghanistan. it is like on steroids, all these problems. host: 130 billion we have slated for reconstruction. guest: we spent $700 billion on the war. host: how much goes to the government or how does it get to the government? is it cash? guest: that's another good point. cashof the money we spend we do the contracting. money that we call on budget where we cut a check to the afghan ministry of finance and they do the budgeting. if you think we are bad in our contracting, if you think our incentives are bad, go to afghan government contracting and holy mackerel. you have never seen anything like afghan contracting. the government is improving. but still, we lose visibility. i, because we have law enforcement authority -- i think the viewers should know this. , fbi and irse agents who can make arrests. but i lose my legal authority to do that if the money goes on budget. one of the risks because of the afghans committing crimes wit

if you compare the afghanistan i arrived in in 2002 to the afghanistan today, there has been immense social development. you cannot make a plausible case that our intervention over the last of the last two decades has moved us in appreciable, positive direction in terms of the political resolution of the underlying conflicts which let us there to begin with. the core reason for this peace process is simply choosing the most plausible of a variety of exceptionally difficult, all quite possible to fail policy options. because you only asked me to talk from five to 10 minutes i will identify what a plausible, potentially successful peace process from the current moment could look like. i am not getting into the level of detail, i will not talk about the afghan settlement but the process. i think a settlement in afghanistan is the end state of three separate, somewhat linked peace processes. somewhat linked in the sense they have to end together in order to be sustainable, but they do not need to start together and they do not necessarily need to move in parallel. the first of the three

army and also served in afghanistan. so he comes at it from a very personal point of view and brings the tools needed to tell this story. we're very excited to have him with us. let's give a big welcome to matt farwell. [applause] >> thanks. >> thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. so let's dive in. there's a lot to talk about here, and we only have five hours. so -- [laughter] >> make it last. >> let's make it last. we'll make it worth it. as i mentioned, a lot has been written about, stories have been told. there's been no lack of kind of media saturation for this story -- >> right. >> but this kind of brings everything together. what made you want the tackle this project specifically? >> well, when i started on the story, there was no media saturation. it had been suppressed, effectively, by the pentagon, the white house, the intelligence community and, ultimately, by a complicit press itself. and so i worked with a guy named michael hastings who wrote for rolling stone. he wrote an article

>> josh had an interest in afghanistan for a while prior. josh proposed the central asia trip to me, and i agreed to it. he said we won't go to afghanistan, okay maybe we'll just dip in for one day, but about a week after we had landed in kyrgyzstan, josh started talking about his plan was that we essentially going to make our way down to the border of afghanistan and that that was his intention with the trip. he believed that the taliban in afghanistan were misrepresented in the west, so he saw this as he's going to get in and sort o no good guys in the war against the taliban and that he wanted to document their perspective. why didn't you say, are you crazy? what are you thinking? >> i did say that. and he just said essentially you're dumb, to be quiet. >> reporter: so why didn't you say, i'm pregnant, no. you're dumb, i'm out of here. >> i westeish i had the strengt do that. he made it difficult for me. he kept the passport. he didn't give me access to money. i think i recognized that things were so bad that i didn't want to deal with it

there is no shortage of trouble in afghanistan. just bailout, justly, the pakistanis can take care of it, and the indians can take care of it. the afghans himself, they are pretty well capable of taking care of themselves, they haven't been successfully invaded by a foreign power ever. they have driven everyone off. so i think they can do okay if we leave. >> do you think americans think we are in a worry now? >> or do you consider us being in the work right now, you consider the wear-and-tear which has no end or beginning, you feel like, are we a country at war currently? >> i think regular civilians in afghanistan, iraq, syria, yemen, sudan, ethiopia, and tanzania, rwanda, they all sure feel like were at work. in the philippines, yes. they should feel like were at work. i think we do and they get warm and fuzzy the national guard in the beginning of a movie or with a $3.5 million contract or whatever the dollar figures. i just threw that off at the top of my head to do nfl promotions. we generally shy away from what were means go

., afghanistan general on his latest report on u.s. reconstruction efforts effn afghanistan. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [video clip] >> if we had had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. ♪ host: that was special counsel robert mueller, part of his former closing of his two year probe into russia involvement in -- 2016 election . highlighting concerns about rush up influence -- russia? influence -- concerns about 2016.'s influence in your comments on mr. mueller's presentation and what congress should do now. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. and independents, 202-748-8002. you can tweet us at @cspanwj and you can also go to our facebook page, facebook.com/cspan. minute presentation yesterday, you can see the whole thing at c-span.org. as part of his events, it was special counsel robert mueller talking about why he filed no formal charges again

a hospital in herat in western afghanistan. many of the girls and young women being treated here are maimed or burned beyond recognition. they say they had an accident at home, or fell. sahib-jan is just 13 years old. sahib jan: there was a pot of boiling water on the stove. it tipped over and it burnt my lelegs. reporter: the girls are afraid to tell the truth, says dr. asem haidari. dr. haidari: they've self-harmed. and why? because of their domomestic situation. they've been forced into marriages and their husbands are violent. reporter: sahib-jan's husband bought her for the equivalent of 1000 euros. he used her r as cheap labor, o milk cows and feed sheep. she lived in a cramped and filthy room and was given leftovers to eat. sahib jan: i didn't know what it would be like to be married. i'm just a child. reporter: many young girls end up pouring petrol l on themsels and setting themselves on fire. an actct of sheer desperation. their families forbid d them o tell anyone. back in the hospital in kabul, zarifa has brought al

but there is a lot of skepticism, because of the experience of iraq and afghanistan, from critics of the president that this is warmongering. and there's a lot fear that this kind of rhetoric mimics the kind of rheric that the american public heard in the escalation towards e iraq war. >> i think there's some grounds for that, but i wouldn't overdo th. iran wants to establish paramilitaries that it controls -- hezbollah in lebanon -- that also get power in the respect of parliament. and so they literallhave hezbollah and his coalition have a blocking vetoeb in theese parliament. they'd love to have a similar situation in iraq. not something, by th the iraqis want to embrace, by any means. in fact, they realiz they have to have a relationship with the country to their east the is, again, double its s and is very important to them, economically, and in a variety of other ways. and they do not want to end up having a war between the united states and iran on their soil, and i fully derstand that. but the dynamics are very, very difficult and very tricky. >> but i think what you just sai

but there is a lot of spticism, because of the experience of iraq and afghanistan, from critics of e president that this is warmongering.e' and tha lot fear that this kind of rhetoric mimics the kind of rhetoric that the american public heard in the escalation towards the iraq war. >> i thi there's me grounds for that, but i wouldn't overdo that. iran wants toh establramilitaries that it controls -- hezbollah in lebanon --th also get power in the respect of parliament. and so they literally have hezbollah and his coalition have a blocking veto .in the lebanese parliame they'd love to have a similar situation in iraq. not somethin by the way, the iraqis want to embrace, by any means. in fact, they realize they have to have a relationship with the country to their east that is, again, double its size and is very importantno to them, ecally, and in a variety of other ways. and they do not want to end up having a war between the united states and iran on their soil, and i fully understand that. but the dynamics are very, very difficult and very tricky.i >> bhink what you just said is, in

. >> when i went overseas -- when i was packing my bags for afghanistan. >> reporter: the 37-year-old mayor of south bend, indiana, deploys his military service as both a sword and a shield, whether taking questions about his experience or quieting anti-gay protesters, afghanistan is also his answer. >> it's one more reason why it might not be a bad idea to have somebody in the white house who actually served. >> reporter: his time as an intelligence officer in the naval reserves and a six-month deployment to afghanistan makes his already gold-plated resume shine even brighter. yet buttigieg rarely talks about why he joined the service after graduating from harvard and studying as a rhodes scholar. turns out it was 2008 and he was volunteering for the barack obama campaign in iowa, where he said he saw many young people signing up for the army or national guard. >> i might have dragged my feet on that forever if i hadn't that experience in iowa and saw that some communities were almost emptying out their youth into the military and some were barely serving at all. >> reporter: now he'

talked about afghanistan. my question is as you know that are going eace talks afghanistan. he taliban doesn't accept government presence in the talk these talks succeeded, one main demand is the withdrawal of forces from afghanistan. nd u.s. forces, u.s. officials and afghan officials say they tolerant with fghanistan 20 terrorism organizations, how do we deal with others in afghanistan? >> look, no one has suggested hat the united states is going to leave afghanistan without our beingrterrorism interests addressed. i think we're very helpful to the afghan people and those of have served there are proud of that, our fundamental and counterterrorism interests in south asia in a south asia strategy. that's not negotiable in our counterterrorism interests. quickly identified the position of the taliban which is a complete withdrawal of all u.s. forces. interests are to make sure that our counterterrorism nterests are addressed as well as some other principals that i'm sure that the state department will insist upon in the dialogue. in a very important principal that we have in

citizens who have fought in syria account for a great part of these militants and afghanistan is far from the only hot spot on the islamic terrorism he for instance according to the information in possession of the f.s.b. such regions as north africa and asia have become places where islamic terrorists have been steadily gaining foothold and now the following piece of information revealed by board nick of makes things even more concerning apparently terrorists have developed and obtained all means necessary to produce chemical weapons and to carry out chemical attacks. we have obtained reliable data providing that bandits are testing new means and methods of conducting subversive activities criminals have materials to colleges and infrastructure for creating chemical weapons and biotoxins the use of unmanned aircraft in order to deliver projectiles and world terrorism are not limited to the well physical warfare if i may say so for instance according to board think of islamic state has been bolstering its so-called cyber departments they have been expanding their ability to bring dow

government does not want people to know what is really happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sums of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well know that people a space to have exactly this kind of information. may day rallies in major cities around the world were marred by violence as protesters of all stripes clashed with the police. it's. going to and europe anti-capitalists were prominent in the may day violence our correspondent and her style of witness the unrest in paris and berlin. well may day started with violence can fool the protests the official protests even began those protests

government does not want people to know what's happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advise of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disaster is failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sense of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well know that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. the football champions league now which has just seen the first leg of a thumb a final losing to i.x. and liverpool thrashed by barcelona does a merino get his reaction to the game's past makes his predictions for the second leg and his are to show on the touchline later on r.t. . liverpool's rave in the approach i've been seeing in the past twenty years and many teams

government does not want people to know what is happening in afghanistan. united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sons of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that the law that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. the u.k. prime minister has sacked her defense secretary gavin williamson accusing him of leaking secret plans involving the chinese tech giant while way williamson though strongly denies it was him. frankly russia should go away it should churchill brad lied to pay tribute to the help said this feds are going to answer my you know no one you regret using that kind of casual lang

difficult to prove it from the time i spent in afghanistan-a -- afghanistan, i have been a commander there and i am confident. if you want to think about this in terms of term insurance once you stop paying the premium, you no longer have insurance and what we are doing in afghanistan to date in my judgment is a commensurate level to the threat. >> thank you for your apparent. we also know that i along with others are going to submit additional written questions for you and i hope you will respond to them within 30 days. the subcommittee will reconvene in a closed session next wednesday, may 15 at 10:00 a.m. to receive testimony from u.s. intelligence community. the committee is recessed. thank you. which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you can watch all of this hearing on our website, sees and.org. on the home page, type "defense budget" in the video library window. we also have house and senate floor speec

when cricket was by the taliban in afghanistan being one of the elite 10 teams to contest a world cup. it have been unthinkable but there rise over the past decade has been extraordinary 2 years ago afghanistan was awarded test match status one of only 12 teams to play the most prestigious and respected form of cricket but it's in the shorter forms of the gang they're most dangerous and this team has a genuine chance of upsetting bigots aims in the 50 over to side world cup. several of these players have lucrative indian premier league and australia big bash contracts and play county cricket in england but the star is the man considered the world's best one day spin of rashid khalidi you must be so excited about this world cup you're one of the superstars of the game now exactly definitely very excited to be in the world cup squad in the biz and doing my country especially in my 1st 50 or you have the you have the skill you just need to utilize that and hopefully the guys are good one of them is working hard and definitively it won't be too far that one is i will be in top ranks. thei

both in afghanistan and iraq. their primary mission is to inspect materials that are being shipped back to the united states from a war zone. also for hazardous materials or pieces or items that should not be coming back into the united states. she deployed twice, once to afghanistan and iraq. she is now an officer in the united states coast guard. our second woman, retired navy commander tammy jo schultz. we know her as a southwest pilot who a few months ago successfully landed a southwest airliner that had taken off from laguardia. the engine blew leaving a hole in the fuselage. she successfully landed that. she was one of the first women in the navy to fly high performance aircraft. quite a story for this woman. >> center spot is a marine sergeant. she is one of 36 women marines who were permitted to serve in vietnam. she was a clerk. you can see from her picture, she did a lot of other things. volunteering at orphanages and things of that sort. she was able to travel around vietnam emily was a flight nurse dur

after five years of reserve duty he deployed to afghanistan in 2014. military records reviewed by cnn show buttigieg was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks. it was largely a desk job, but he also worked as a driver and armed escort. >> look, it's not like i killed bin laden, i don't want to overstate what my role was, but it certainly was something that was dangerous, you know, people that i knew unfortunately were attacked. >> reporter: do you think you would be able to make this run as credibly without this military service? >> well, i think at a moment when obviously people are looking for contrasts it helps me demonstrate the difference between how i'm oriented and how the current president is. >> reporter: jason mccray still remembers the day he met buttigieg at their training in south carolina. he didn't know the man assigned to be his battle buddy was also an indiana mayor. >> one of my early memories is he had an ear bud in and he was learning a language, i think it was dari. i don't remember other folks

within afghanistan actually is very low. i think the conditions are set, you know, i've met president gani when he came before joint session of congress, i've heard him speak. i appreciate the leadership that he brings to bare, this is such a history of corruption in that government that not only do they have a local outlook or tribal regional outlook but part of the reason is they have low expectation of national government is it doesn't perform, it doesn't deliver. gani is trying to whoirnt that, you know, part of what we have seen is that the fact of the matter is there are people who live inside afghanistan that are sympathetic to the taliban or that needs to be ultimately settled by the people of afghanistan and i think that's one to have reasons we can play a constructive role in qatar is bringing the forces together so that they cease two things, end of fighting and the second is that they understand that the united states will not tolerate any kind of entity, any kind of entity that plans coordinates or conducts atta

soldiers, including two green berets, died in afghanistan on the night of june 9, 2014. the pentagon concluded the deaths were an "avoidable" accident, known by the contradictory phrase "friendly fire." it was the deadliest such incident involving u.s. fatalities in 18 long years of on-going war in afghanistan. it wasn't gunfire that killed the u.s. soldiers. it was a pair of 500-pound bombs dropped right on top of them by a u.s. warplane. you're about to hear what happened that day from three of the soldiers who were there, including the green beret commander. they dispute the official version of events, and warn it's going to happen again. it started just after sundown on a sweltering night, with a fierce firefight. >> brandon branch: bullets whizzing by, kicking up all around you. >> henry "hank" montalbano: at certain points, it would die down, but it was unrelenting at other points. >> derrick anderson: it looked almost like a fireworks show, where they were shooting down at our positions. >> whitaker: were you scared? >> branch: absolutely. i think you would have t

government does not want people to know what is happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advise of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disaster is failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to create these extraordinary sounds of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well not that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. within the semifinals of the u.s. for champions league at the halfway stage our star pundit football coach just say marino gives his thoughts on the first and second legs he also tells us how children nowadays that dream of being a football manager not just a player you can watch the full episode of on the touchline here on r t a later this is a quick preview for you

to whether afghanistan cricket say. opening world cup match against defending champions. it's working with the french government to arrange the return of. stolen during the colonial era but one of the challenges is being able to look after the items once they arrive in reports from. this is what remains of the palace of what was once the most powerful kingdom in french speaking africa we were given rare access to the album a palace of 48 hector maze of compounds rich in history and culture dating back hundreds of years. ago it is himself a prince mature who is explaining how the apple makings conquered their enemies sold their people to slavery and took hundreds of wives. is asking france to return thousands of artifacts looted from the country during the colonial wars many of them thought to be from the kingdom of apple me these stars represent the spirits of the oval making and they date back to the 1600s the obama people considered these and other stolen artifacts to be at the heart of their culture and that's why they want them back. the current king holds a position

government doesn't want the public to know the whole truth about what's happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well not that people a space to have exactly this kind of information. to go back to a story we brought just a little a hearing is underway at a london court where wiki leaks founder julian assange legal team is expected to challenge a u.s. extradition request with editor in chief christine have some had this to say the head of the ruling. the image of faith leaders just to feel that i have faith in the people. in the people who are here for. we

it's exhibits are a reminder of afghanistan's conflicts from the soviet invasion to the civil war the brutal reign of the taliban and the u.s. led intervention that followed. its organizers have worked on the project for eight years they say a place for remember and such as this is long overdue in a country that has been ravaged by war for four decades. unfortunately in afghanistan as i you know there was not a policy of remember this for you know dollars of war victims that we have in this country so this is a small center it is of course a tribe it to the war victims and as for them you know to come here and to share their stories and of course at the same time get acknowledged which is very very important and in a context like afghanistan. the contents of memory boxes put together by relatives tell the story of individual victims like little same killed by a car bomb four years ago. outside on the streets the conflict rages on and civilian deaths have spiked making a place like this memory center all the more vital. we move on to a radically different kind of preservation of cultur

troops to leave afghanistan? guest: absolutely, american troops should start withdrawing and we hope the peace process continues and we are pleased the donald trump administration is pursuing that but we do not need to have a massive military presence in afghanistan for the peace process to continue. guest: the problem in afghanistan was ever scope was too broad. when we use it as a platform to kill osama bin laden, if the military had played a better role in the conversation, that would have been the decisive point for withdrawal under the boundaries of the 2001 bill said. host: john in tempo, florida -- tampa, florida. >> as a civilian i have the highest respect for our veterans and it breaks my heart that the same bad actors that got us into the unnecessary invasion in iraq 16 years ago are the same bad actors pushing us to go to war unnecessarily with a much larger country of iran, which probably four years has sent sleeper cells across the porous mexican border. there will be buses blowing up in the states i

he deployed to afghanistan in 2014 just as president obama was announcing a troop withdrawal. military records reviewed by cnn so buttigieg was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks. it was largely a desk job at the bagram air base but he was also a driver and armed escort. >> it's not like i killed bin laden. i don't want to understate what my role was, but it certainly was something that was dangerous. people that i knew, unfortunately, were attacked. >> do you think you'd be able to make this run as credibly without this military service? >> well, i think at a moment when, obviously, people are looking for contrasts, it helps me demonstrate the difference between how i'm oriented and how the current president is. >> reporter: jason mccray still remembers the day he met buttigieg at their training in south carolina. he didn't know the man assigned to be his battle body was also an indiana mayor. >> he had an ear bud in and was learning a language. i think it was dari. i don't remember other folks picking up a language. >> he was intereste

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i want to become a champion and win trophies for afghanistan. i had a man show all his help bridge divides in war torn afghanistan the sport was once banned by the taliban but attitudes have now changed afghanistan has emerged as a hotbed of cricket talent but poor facilities and a lack of affordability still hampered progress. vons out that it was a lot of afghan players have financial problems because the financial situation of most afghan families is not good. also we don't have good cricket pitches or the family doesn't have much money i come here so i have to go yes that's the saw the more you know how. those goals are undoubtedly driven by the success of the afghan team on the international stage a team whose future rests in the hands of players like capital. good luck to the afghan team in the world cup that's a thought i'll be sure to check out other stories on did. on facebook and twitter as well. with images from. they destroyed the. next time. some time in the 26. point move the world. around half a century. your world would be a roun

>>ace it for promise of afghanistan we were always to broad for a focus. but the military had played a role in the conversation on the boundaries beyond the 2001 au m mf. >> good morning go ahead. >> as an ordinary us citizen i have the highest respect for our veterans and it breaks my heart that the same bad actors that god us into the unnecessary invasion of iraq , 16 years ago are the same bad actors pushing us to go to war unnecessarily with a much larger country of iran which probably for years has been housing the sleeper cells across the border we go to war with iran it will be a much biggerer disaster and the invasion of iraq these bad actors are corporate, they control the republicanol party which controls our politicians. so sadly we do not need to go to war withh iran it is a disaster it is not in our interest as the iraq invasion was not in our interest. please keep our veterans to do the service they are intended to do to protect americact. >>host: your assessment on iran quick. >> it is a dog and pony show right now. we are still blocked from

forces from afghanistan. in australia newly reelected prime minister scott morrison has been sworn into office a week after his conservative coalition won a surprise victory is cabinet includes ken wyatt the 1st aboriginal person to become minister for indigenous affairs and in argentina activists are renewing efforts to legalize abortion lawmakers have said that they would introduce a bill to legalize determination of pregnancies up to 14 weeks a similar motion passed the lower house of congress last year but was defeated in the senate due to opposition from malicious groups. to european politics next and a clash over who should take the e.u. stop job german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel mccollum stand divided on the issue backs a process by which the biggest parties so-called lead candidate takes the post in this case the head of the european people's party who also happens to be a fellow german but no crime is calling for the selection process to be changed when it comes as governm

government doesn't want people to know what is happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advise of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disaster is failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to create these extraordinary sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well not that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. now with the semifinals of the champion's league at the halfway stage stop on the football questions in reno gives his thoughts on the first and up to the second legs and he also tells us how in his opinion children these days dream of being a football manager not just the player you can watch the full version of on the touchline coming up later here in r.t. for now

and iran and with the end patience in afghanistan paying a high price of war and poverty. hello there there's a big swirling mass of cloud over europe at the moment the satellite picture shows that center of circulation and all of this cloud marching up through the southeastern parts of europe at the moment that's giving some of us some very heavy rain and actually i invest some parts of southeastern europe and across as we're likely to see around 100 millimeters of rain in the next couple of days and that could give a problem with flooding there once the north and the things are turning cool off a some of us here the as well flowing down from the north and so the temperatures are dropping london and paris when you get to around 16 degrees by the time we get to wednesday it is warmer for saving spain in portugal say madrid will be getting to 27 degrees and the southeastern parts of europe will be very warm because the i hear it. feeding up from the south a 27 as a maximum in kiev and force in moscow to across the other side of the mediterranean and we have been some of the

citizens who have fought in syria account for a great part of these militants afghanistan is far from the only hot spot on the islamic terrorism he'd planned for instance according to the information in possession of the f.s.b. such regions as the north africa and asia have become places where islamic terrorists have been steadily gaining a foothold and now the following piece of information revealed by board nick of makes things even more concerning apparently terrorists have developed and obtained all means necessary to produce chemical weapons and to carry out chemical attacks. we have obtained reliable data providing that bandits are testing new means and methods of conducting subversive activities criminals have materials to knowledge is an infrastructure for creating chemical weapons and biotoxins they use unmanned aircraft in order to deliver projectiles. terrorism to footies they're not limited to the well physical war if i may say so for instance according to board think of islamic state has been bolstering its so-called cyber departments they have been expanding their abilit

government doesn't want people to know what's happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that but not that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. ok finally let's talk sport and had to football's champions league which has just seen the first legs of the semifinals the last liverpool thrashed by barcelona as a marina gives his reaction to those games and makes predictions for the second legs in a show on the touchline and coming up later today on r.t. . liverpool's rave in the approach i've been seeing in the past t

government doesn't want people to know what is happening in afghanistan. united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advise of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sounds of money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well know that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. the u.k. prime minister is sacked her defense secretary gavin williamson accusing him of leaking secret plans involving the chinese tech giant while away williams in those strongly denies it was him. frankly russia should go away it should sure took brad like to pay tribute to the help said his prayers are the answer to my you know no one who are great using that kind of ca

government does not want people to know what is happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states populace it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that the law that people a space to have exactly this kind of information. on the football now this week saw the first leg of the semifinals in the champions league just say marino gives his reaction to the games and his predictions for the second leg in his show on the touchline and watching the full episode later on r.t. but here's a quick preview. liverpool's rave in the approach i've been seeing in the past twenty years and many themes in the chimp in

troops to leave afghanistan. they write this in an opinion piece. "soon we will reach a watershed moment in afghanistan as american soldiers again fighting in a war that began before they were born. we must re-examine our approach to the longest war in the history of the letter they consider whether keeping tens of thousands of troops on a sprawling mission in afghanistan will make americans any safer going forward. we must listen to the american people who overwhelmingly oppose .ndless war in the middle east that is why we recently entered a bipartisan joint resolution in to returnan versus combat forces home in an order comfortable way while setting a framework or political reconciliation in afghanistan without a permanent u.s. ."esence part of an opinion piece by tom udall and rand paul. mike, retiredm military, stamford, north carolina. good morning, mike. i don't think we should ever be sending troops to different countries unless we were attacked by someone. world war ii is the last war that actually mattered. we were attacked then and they go

government doesn't want people to know the truth about what's happening in afghanistan. united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advise of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people are truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well not that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. the preparations for victory day are in full swing in russia this yr high and russian a car manufacturer are a small debut its latest model the senate cabaret at the military parade in red square is expected to carry the defense minister in front of the troops he's morag as the of the car for a test drive. soon a lot of pretty things i could just start those. everywhere. bu

this young man from afghanistan apparently gave an incorrect age when he arrived at the reception center now lena pepper rocky explains he will have to be examined by a doctor. often the miners here have been marked by their experiences they are lost and traumatized. economy almost but of course we've had suicidal children and lots of kids self harm by cutting themselves for instance these are. they seek attention by these walls they want someone to come to them and careful and. not they exist for that for obviously if you see this what can we do to ensure that a miner who self harms doesn't seriously injure himself or even put his life at risk. to not even if that wasn't his intention and yes one of the bottom of the hospital. several of the boys want to get to central or northern europe some even have fully formed plans and are well informed regarding their rights as unaccompanied minors. because again miles. this should be dispositive i should make some. of this for i experience how many times they tell you there are no free spaces right now in the mainland there are a lot of kids a l

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government doesn't want the public to know the full truth about what's happening in afghanistan. the united states pentagon certainly doesn't want the advice of the united states popular as it doesn't really care about consent or assent to the war what they want is the money and if you are just people who truly understand what a disastrous failure and catastrophe is now going on eighteen year war in october to be the eighteenth year what this has represented in terms of failure and destruction i think people wouldn't choose to pay these extraordinary sounds and money that people need the information and here in the united states isn't that well not that people are supposed to have exactly this kind of information. operations for victory day are in full swing in russia this year high on the russian car manufacturer are a swell debut in its latest model the senate coverage that will take place at the military parade in red square it's expected to carry the defense minister himself in front of the troops party's morag as the a ticket for a test drive. i've seen a lot of pretty thing

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most specifically the war in afghanistan you remember the war in afghanistan the start of back in 2001 and brings up an estimated cost of around $45000000000.00 a year on u.s. taxpayers i can understand it's easy to forget these things you know it's been a while since afghanistan made the headlines but hold on to your buds because there was a new wrinkle in the war and it involves the united states giving money to the taliban yes the taliban according to roll call the trump administration asked congress to leave this year for funds to reimburse afghanistan's taliban for expenses the insurgent group incurs attending peace talks. you cannot make this up folks roll call goes on report that the expenses include things like transportation lodging along with food and other supplies when i asked about the funding request pentagon spokeswoman commander rebecca told reuters that the pentagon was seeking to lay the groundwork in anticipation of opportunities to priscilla take talks with the afghan government to find a way to end the war while most of us are all about the are about the idea of pe