Thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. In just the last hour the u. S. And the taliban have signed a peace deal which is expected to finally bring washingtons longest ever water and earlier in the day both parties issued a joint statement saying if all goes well the complete withdrawal of u. S. And nato troops in the country will happen in 14 months but the main question still remains will it work more but look at how much america has lost in this war and what it is chieftain yet. Back in 2003 u. S. Officials were telling a story of success when it came to afghanistan listen to Donald Rumsfeld were at a point where we clearly have moved from major combat activity to a period of stability has to be his asian and reconstruction activities the bulk of this. Country today is permissive and secure it is clear that that is the case by virtue of the fact that we see people returning to their country from all across the globe in large numbers but 17 years and 4 president ial terms later one of the great powers of military history sinus peace deal with the taliban warlords theyve been fighting all this time and the peace treaty looks an awful lot like outright surrender so 1st we have to be realistic and proud of our gains but our generals have determined that this war is unlikely to be won militarily with tremendous Additional Resources all sides are tired of fighting for the past years youve heard nothing but reports of progress u. S. Officials were singing a happy song and also replacing one another were making progress right now an array of areas that are critical to our combined success with afghanistan but progress is real and importantly that progress is sustainable make no mistake the progress there i think is very rolls my cessna. And its very substantial 2016 has been a significant year for afghanistan and progress has been made but this was all just hype documents reveal interviews with people that were actually on the ground and the material ironically labeled lesson warrant seems to present a narrative of the u. S. Defeat in afghanistan the operation is described as a self looking Ice Cream Cone u. S. Officials giving reports of progress were telling bold faced lie the problem is there is a disincentive really to tell the truth we have created an incentive so almost to require or for people to la there is an odor of mendacity throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity and who bruce the original plan was to defeat al qaeda in afghanistan and overthrow the taliban that was sheltering. All of that was arguably achieved but then washington moved on to the nation building phase at a cost of billions of dollars and at that point it starts to look like no one had a clue what they were doing would trying to do here we didnt have the full goose newsham that would ruin the taking there is a fundamental gap in distancing of the front end of the stated objectives and grew lines in the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and then the drone started flying many instances of success were recorded on that front but in many instances things also went terribly wrong. Somewhere along the way it seems like some folks have just had enough in the coming months all announced the next phase of our drawdown and by the end of next year americas war in afghanistan will be over needless to say it was not over a trillion dollars spent and over 4000. 00 u. S. Military personnel and contractors killed and at this point the taliban still controls a little less than half of the country and under the new peace deal the taliban will be part of the new government theyll be in the government just like they were you know before the us invasion back in the eightys i was in charge of. Military affairs for the middle east back then i could have gone over i could have i could have rented a motor scooter and i could have driven all over the middle east in relative safety you dont do that today i dont think you can identify any particular thing that we have done where we can say this is a real way cheap meant this has really brought about a change for the better in some way and they talk about you know its so difficult to get out and all of the. Best way to get out is to leave. The deal follows a weeklong reduction in violence agreements between the 2 sides which succeeded in reducing hostilities however many afghans believe the agreement should have been reached years ago. We hope this peace deal will be permanent its not like before i wish this peace deal of been signed 10 years ago thousands of our people were killed many more wounded disabled and also many women were widowed. Girls afraid of or were happy about the u. S. Peace agreements but i wish the species deal had been signed when the u. S. Came to ghana stern but now it is also not to wait we called the taliban to stop the conflict they want the us to leave our country as soon as possible. Push out into the us without us we will be happy if the deal brings peace but i wish this peace deal had been signed 10 years ago because back then most of our brothers and sisters hadnt lost parts of their bodies and they were well i myself lost my leg in a bomb explosion. And now were gone the and the conflict so that we. Can live in peace we were born in war and were drawn want to be fused by the war in. The us invasion of afghanistan was launched in response to the 911. 00 attacks was aimed at defeating al qaeda and toppling the taliban which harbored the terrorists but 18 years on and it is the longest war in u. S. History 1st a campaign was victorious within a month of the taliban and al qaeda theyve been mostly defeated the Afghan Interim Administration was established but it took 10 years to track down and kill al qaeda founder and leader washington still has thousands of troops deployed in afghanistan accounting for a half of all the International Troops that we spoke to a 911 survivor who believes that the long lasting war is not the socalled justice they want it. Well makes feeling number one because as a survivor of 911. We went there for some of you know. Actually with the taliban was basically that they were supporting alqaeda both at the same time you know we killed Osama Bin Laden many years ago we should have been having this occupation for so long as a survivor i didnt need these actually we didnt have remember when we were going to war we went to places we were in you know gary stern and then we went to iraq and iraq didnt have anything to do with 911 and they tried to hold us the idea that the the rocky people would walk with that he was doing so out of this scene way of what were doing right here in afghanistan we wont be here with their main purpose that main purpose was to change us or to bribe or i won the award to win and not only because of the people that we lost but of the people that were killed in the process because there were many civilians that were killed in afghanistan do we know our occupation of that contrie. Sort of to the u. S. State of montana now where a total of 4 City Council Officials have asked the Prosecutors Office to drop charges against whistleblower Brandon Bryant he lifted the lid on civilian killings in u. S. Overseas Drone Operations their full spectrum have been charged with threatening mazola city officials in a you tube video hes currently in detention of the past few months sees attended multiple City Council Meetings and is criticised the way tax money was being used brennans mother though claims that his incarceration is politically motivated and shes always the campaign in the hope of raising 100000. 00 for his bail my sandlers the us your 1st this little over who broke the code of silence on the joint program now hes in jail in the. Facility he has no criminal record and yet hes been held in 100000. 00 bail under detention hes isolated from this family. In the media. And on. Under bryant is a u. S. Air force drone operator from 2006 until 2011 and he left the military he began exposing cases of what he alleged to be civilian deaths resulting from american drone strikes bryants claim commanders often prioritize the elimination of a target over accuracy resulting in innocent people being killed is revelations one of a german whistleblower award in 2015 and also intensified debate over the use of a German Air Base by American Drones is our brandon described his experience 2 hours back in 2050. I actually talked with a lady whose husband. Was killed he has been in brother was killed in a drone strike or talked to or face to face and she asked me why her husband and brother had to die and they werent bad guys and i just looked at her and i said i i dont know and thats not really the best thing that i can tell someone who is asking questions about why someone that they cared about was killed and they need to know the answers and the really true hard answer to say is that im sorry that. The mistake happened and im doing everything that i can to prevent further mistakes from happening. Authorities say broncos of us theres only a felony charge after he had allegedly exhibited threatening behavior during City Council Meetings talk about he threatened to eliminate its members in the Youtube Video but former f. B. I. Agent a whistleblower Coleen Rowley believes the bronze current predicament is connected to his past revelations. This does seem to be more retaliation for his having spoken out about the Drone Operations and the fact that they were killing innocent civilians more so then what hes now done typically with the whistleblower they look back in your personnel files 1st to see if theres anything bad that they can use to discredit the messenger and if they cant find anything bad bad in someones background or personnel file then they wait for the was a blower to make a small error or mistake and the draw was a blow or are in a fragile emotional state already as you can see with all the veterans they suffer from p. T. S. D. And we know from many other cases retaliate ing and persecuting was of lors that that seems to be the standard. Oh the government is in perpetual war and so the war goes on forever that means that even if you speak out even years ago and have stashed away if you continue to speak out about the wrongful actions and the war crimes its going to continue this is not to negate the fact that brandon certainly he erred heard if he made any threatening remarks or comments he certainly should be corrected in the should receive more treatment but i dont think he should be punished the way hes been punished. Trumps middle east peace plan billed by his administration as the deal of the century hers come in for we knew the criticism was 50 former leaders and ministers from across europe in a joint letter expressing their concerns. Peace to prosperity is not a road map to a viable 2 state solution nor to any other legitimate solution to the conflict the plan and visitors a formalization of the current reality in the occupied palestinian territory in which 2 people who live in side by side without equal rights such an outcome has characteristics similar to apartheid a term we dont use lightly. If trumps peace plan wasnt acted a quote undivided jerusalem would be israels official capital while the palestinian state would have to reconcile itself to a capital somewhere in the eastern outskirts of the city on top of that they have to relinquish their own army. Consists of parts of the west bank and gaza enclave connected by roads and tunnels in exchange for these concessions they get investments to the chain of 50000000000. 00 palestinian leadership as we check to deal in the uncertain terms. Dear friend last we heard a little while ago from President Trump and Prime Minister netanyahu talking about with a cool deal of the century which we described as the slap of the century we will say a 1000 times no to this proposal. Or one of the signatures to that letter moment look it off to say former Danish ForeignAffairs Minister and former president of the Un General Assembly told us trumps plan runs counter to previous u. N. Resolutions on the israel palestine conflict. Says it will deliver the only. Solution and what we are very very concerned about is that it will. Be occupation. Of the british. During. An all out. Will we condition the pair of mutually. Agreed upon in. Number of. The years. Researchers as americas Mit University have found a report into irregularities during the bolivian election didnt provide sufficient evidence allegations of Election Fraud sparked mass protests which led to president obama all this quitting the book was made by the organization of american states which looked at the bolivian general Election Results of november when there was a break in voting and it appeared that mahlers was significantly ahead of his rival but the report found irregularities and claimed the Election Results were accurate one of the mit research as John Williams explained what made them doubt those findings. We. Wanted to specifically look at the portion where they claim that there is a significant difference in the results following the interruption and then also in the last 5 percent of results of the unofficial vote count. During this process me and my colleagues were unable to find the evidence that the oas had created here results are out there and you know having an effect on the World Without any methodological or even like even just the code that they used to produce the results that they created we find it extremely difficult to naturally find the breaks that they found and then used for their results so really we would really appreciate if the oas would share their. Both their methodology and then also if they could share what they used to produce this report that had such a large effect. Following the release of the oas report some Media Outlets spoke of Election Fraud as if it was a preferred fact and audit indicated there was a clear manipulation in the countrys elections last month accusations of irregularities in last months president ial election was raised of americans put out a report saying that. They felt that. The whole she would actually. Check williams again believes the media and opposition used the oas report so the. The statistical claim was the one that was able to be tied to the results and claim the results that were being presented were a legitimate Opposition Party and the media is also used to justify those people knew that there was problems with us research but maybe didnt have the Technical Expertise to a center for economic and policy research had released a report prior but it had not gained much traction among especially the media so i think that they really wanted someone to evaluate this and take it seriously. More than 10000 people have gathered in central moscow for a march in commemoration of a key opposition politician in the country but its themself was gunned down 5 years ago on reports from the much. Worse one of the largest political opposition rallies that the russian capital has seen in well months it is the socalled nemtsov march and it was organized to commemorate the slain russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov he was gunned down back in february in 2015 in central moscow in fact just a few dozen meters from the kremlin wall is in a nasty drive by shooting since then those who carried out the murder they have been convicted and sent to jail but the organizers those who ordered the hits they still 5 years on they remain at large and so the people here at this rally is an annual event designed to call on the authorities to find out who did that hit but right now as a few 1000 people have gathered here behind and in fact in front of me throughout these 5 years of this event it has largely become not even so much about Boris Nemtsov but about other political things as well for instance this year it is heavily dominated by the amendments in the russian constitution proposed by the russian president Vladimir Putin a lot of people here in fact all people here everyone whos been chanting theyre saying that they are. Using these changes and this is along with other with along with other issues on the political agenda of the russian opposition and there have been both supporters and well critics of such approach supporters have been saying that well this name to rally it is a Good Opportunity to put back into the me just spotlight some of these things that the russian opposition cares about critics on the other hand are saying that well theres no point in calling this a number of march anymore if we dont even hear any chance yet to hear a single chant calling on the russian authorities on the Russian Police to do a better job at catching those who organized the assassination of Boris Nemtsov. Still to come for here in aussie an Appeals Court in the us wills in favor of you cheap in case that centers around free speech details after the break. The republicans have a reputation as knowing more about money than the democrats but the democrats are always very confusing and so Bernie Sanders is just out of a tradition hes talking about socialism which again is a its a its a model based on a in comprehensible. Non existent theory about money. Should we have had a much better 17 years could we could have had a much more prosperous iraq a stable iraq yes as their. Mistakes happen absolutely. Made things about time by far they Couldve Shouldve have made it better but that does not take away from the flag they have stood up to rummy dictator who was blood thirsty and he participated in the murder and killing of hundreds of thousands of iraqis and millions of more of the around the invasion of kuwait. To the death this week. Thoughts on into the killjoy. Of rage. Dear diary what a relief of distressing stories theres new evidence suggesting that back in the seventys buddy was a loony very front. Of disappointment on his visit to India Donald Trump managed to be massacred every single engine word that came his way and alexandra because there cortez were 500. 00 sequined dress during the day but the thing that really got my anxiety levels peaking was this tweet to be focused. That someone somewhere is doing on the shoe joyousness of these people who seem to hold these bullets so smisek should be kept as far away from cultural power as possible joylessness is this a joke this is a classic case of conservative Debbie Downer is waning on operate theres also literally no evidence to support it so. Yes ok the university of arizona is basically begging students to rock each other out if that call being aggressive progress of triggering insensitive well. I know some would say that fosters an environment of power noir censorship and soul sucking depression but i just dont see it and yet a school in seattle said easter eggs should be renamed spring spears a spring spare hard to count me in life because you think its got a real fun bring to it. But youre going completely out of order. It isnt funny. Im sure i did. Read about how now its not ok to expect people to lie because in some cultures time is a fluid concept to you i just hope the people who signed up for this last that. Turned up in time to get the most out of it all so they could have the decency to tell mr rabbit to walk up such a sweat and. Also flight killing the bible while fashionistas clamping down on hearings no longer for white people so gone as they have 3 days we. Hear in the gentle bush. Ok not the bad news the argent lot is out that because Oxford University did cancel class so why are people making such a big deal about it there are loads of other ways to show your appreciation like. Jazz hands super fun but wait on the culture appropriation. Or tiree. Weve got a problem. And whats being dubbed a landmark case that Appeals Court in the us has rules in favor of you tube and its Parent Company google and the censorship lawsuit filed by the conservative Media Company university addressing the 1st amendment claims the panel held that despite you tubes ubiquity and its role as a public facing platform it remains a private form not a public forum subject to judicial scrutiny under the 1st amendment in the lawsuit crazy you claimed you violated the 1st amendment on free speech and some of the videos were deleted from the platform as you suggested you tube was guilty of the ties of presenting itself as a platform for free speech complete believe this clips were banned because of the conservative nature of the content of the court rejected the climes. After the co decision you tubes Parent Company google stars there was no political bias involved and the praise a use claims were meritless pretty maintains the tech company has become dangerously powerful sadly it appears as if even the 9th circuit is afraid if the line of google when not done fighting for free speech and we will keep pushing forward this is a significant decision because the effect of it is that the court of appeal is stating they had social Media Companies such as google and facebook have a ride to make a decision. Walt people are going to be exposed to the reach of those companies is unprecedented but we ducked reach day its not been an equivalent in in position of responsibility the response of course is that those companies will be able to control the political agenda so in order for this to change the rules be a need for additional laws to be to be brought in in order to ensure that social Media Companies are not placed in a position where theyre affected really controlling the entire political system. And stay with Us International and dont forget you can check out more of our stories by heading to our website. The world is driven by dreamers shaped by those great. Snow dares thinks. We dare to ask. Me another dollar for it do 50 noise simply number 2 number one when you move kids of the kids into completing the moment to moment dont going to. See you did all the good that you did done episode of all through singapore the almost impossible. 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