Warm welcome to you youre watching r C International with me nicky air and our top story the u. S. On the taliban has signed a peace deal which is expected to finally bring washingtons longest ever war to an end but the agreement is already finding itself on shaky ground while President Trump has even said he wont hesitate to send u. S. Troops right back if necessary. Bad things happen well go back that people will go back and go back so fast it will go back with a force like nobodys ever seen under the peace deal the talibans pledge to prevent terrorists from operating in the areas it controls and theyve also promised to enter into talks with the Afghan Government in march as the washington is promising to review sanctions on the talibans will begin withdrawing their troops in stages if all goes well in a little over a year no us or nato forces will remain in the country artists care the more pain looks at how much america has lost in the war and what it is that what it has achieved in the end. 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 to a period of stability as to blues 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 without 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 the progress is real and importantly that progress is sustainable make no mistake the progress there i think is very roles myself. 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 to almost require or for people to law there is an odor of mendacity. Throughout the afghanistan issue and i know congressman connelly has heard me talk about this years ago mendacity in who bruce the original plan was to defeat alqaeda in afghanistan and overthrow the taliban that was sheltering al qaeda 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 who would ruin the taking through the fundamental gap in distancing of the front and over 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 caleb oppen r. T. New york. However there are genuine concerns that some of the criteria for the plan will be difficult to meet we discuss the issue with a Research Analyst at the center for conflict in peace studies in afghanistan i am like other optimistic but in the same time cautious about it because you know there are. Things on all sides that the americans and the taliban need to do in the Afghan Government has to do in if you look at the timeline it just really seems some point and realistic for example releasing up to 5000. 00 taliban detainees from the afghan custody by march which is 10 days from now or preparing the Afghan Government to search across from from the taliban in negotiate and start the interim one dialogue while we dont even have a proper Negotiation Team on the other side like if you talk about taliban going after transnational elements and jihad is that are seeking safe sentrys in afghanistan that also seems unrealistic because there are elements hard core elements within the group that will not allow that to happen so i think the deal is in the deliverable is really difficult at some point to meet but the fact that the sign is a success. The deal follows a week long reduction in violence that was agreed between the 2 sides however many Afghans Police peace should have been reached years ago. We hope this peace deal will be permanent 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. Killed variable were happy about the u. S. Style of the 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 tower burn to stop the conflict you want the us to leave our country as soon as possible. Push out into that sort of issue 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 part of their bodies and they were well i myself lost my leg in a bomb explosion. And the conflict so that we. Can live in peace we were born in war and we dont want to be healed by the war anymore. The u. S. Invasion of afghanistan was launched in response to the 911. 00 attacks it was aimed at defeating al qaeda and toppling the taliban which harbored terrorists 18 years on and its the longest war in u. S. History 1st of a campaign was victorious within a month the taliban and al qaeda had been mostly defeated there and the Afghan Interim Administration was established however it took 10 years to track down and kill al qaeda founder and leader washington still has thousands of troops deployed in afghanistan which accounts for half of all International Troops there always spoke to a 911. 00 survivor who believes the long lasting war is not the socalled justice they wanted. Well mixed feeling number one because as a survivor of 911 we when theyre looking for Osama Bin Laden and. With the taliban was basically they were supporting al qaeda 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 try to hold us the idea that the the rocky people we walked with that he wasnt so our of this scene way over what were doing right here you know in afghanistan we were in the year with the main purpose that main purpose was a change as a survivor 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 during our occupation of their country. About 47000 migrants have crossed turkeys border with the e. U. The text interior minister has confirmed greece and bulgaria which border turkey have sent reinforcements to their borders to prevent people crossing greek police have been deterring attempts to cross with tear gas refugees have been seen throwing stones at officers at the boundary between the 2 countries we call thought he claimed they clocked 4000 people from entering illegally they can surely after the turkish president announced his country would no longer keep its towards the e. U. Close enough to couple what we did is we opened our borders because you promised us assistance but you did nothing and we will not close these doors because the e. U. Must keep its word. We are strengthening our forces on land and at sea. Additional forces are being transferred the government is determined to do whatever is necessary to save god. What i was referring to is the 2016 deal with the e. U. To stop the refugee flow in to Europe Exchange for Financial Aid he has since repeatedly accused the bloc of failing to honor its part of the deal but its only now that hes gone from words to action. For president took action following a spike in tension in syrias last remaining terrorist stronghold province ankara claimed 33 turkish soldiers were killed in an air raid this week by the syrian army as the region is in gold within tense fighting between the Turkish Backed militants there on the syrian army supported by russia moscow claims turkey failed to separate the terrorists from the moderate opposition furthermore it says turkey and italy confirmed its forces were not in the area something that turkey later denied journalist and writer demetrius constant accomplice believes greece has become the victim of turkeys blackmail campaign against europe. Hugo raiment is not is not the only star. In beating them to come to greece. It is actually pushing them to ground this is all the information we. Sow to ensure over efficiency in the guides how you mr ago i had to put pressure on the European Union in order for the European Union to get to doing to stop for human being he. Devoted his wish to syria and right here on the other hand. The European Union pretends that nothing is happening. It is not taking any position because they are out of opportunities to guide us and hoping that it is going to solve the problem but i have checking or was there any condition to me the answer but simply this shows and i was like i said to do it greece has already received an enormous number of refugees sent to me goods and it is a very bad shape because of the big problems which were important needed by its European Partners at the i. M. F. In paris dozens of protesters gathered in front of the French National assembly condemning the prime ministers intention to carry out the pension reform without a vote in the National Assembly place forces were quick to react and scuffles broke out as they tried to disperse the crowds but the session was labeled by members of the opposition as saying full while the others. Who form a more in accordance with the law school 49 paragraph 3 of the 958 constitution and after having obtained the authorization of the council of ministers on february the 29th i decided doing gauge the responsibility of the government on a bill establishing a universal pension plan system. The article gives the government the right to pass such legist legislation on its own or previously it was applied in 2016 to push through a new labor law in france and now m. P. s have 24 hours to present a motion of censor which must be debated within 48 hours if the motion is adopted the proposed law will fail and the government must resign otherwise the law passes without a vote france has been rocked by protests for more than a d. N. R. I. Think the so how so he will publish on journalist a marriage among veal thinks the french system isnt adaptable enough to resolve the countrys problems. So articles are deals with the commitments of responsibility which are allows the executive branch to to to force a passage of of of a text message the opposition introduces a motion of no confidence which has little chance of passing we can see that we have a very. Very authoritarian constitution that was designed to prevent the divisions of the french as a result of the general in the war because in addition to this article 49 dr 3 we have the article 16 which gives powers to the president s in events of a crisis or the cost constitution you saw authoritarian that it makes the power to too rigid and unable to adapt itself and today the i think the leaves of explodes and we find the old editions of the french will only a country of civil wars of a religious war was in in a sense the french revolution is not over and we are about to enter into really complicated times i think. The Common Appeals Court in the us was in favor of huge change in a case centering around free speech this story and more after this. The republicans have a reputation as knowing hell of a 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. For iraq he is now the only if better you 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 could have made things better by far they could have done they should have made it better but that does not take away from the fact that they have stood up to around the dictator who was bloodthirsty and participated in the murder and killing of hundreds of thousands of iraqis are millions and more of the around then the invasion of kuwait and so on. Welcome back now saying the wrong thing on social media these days always seems to trigger a backlash mossies head takes a look at some of the awoke and outrage this means happening this week. Diary what a wreak of distressing stories theres new evidence suggesting that back in the seventys buddy was a loony rate front assist of disappointment on his visit to India Donald Trump managed to vote but he must every single engine walk that came his way and alexandra because there cortez were 580. 00 sequined dress during the day but the thing that really got my anxiety levels peaking was this tweet to be so. That someone somewhere is joining the shoe joyousness of these people is a saying to behold these pilots. 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 our parade theres also literally no evidence to support it. Yes ok the university of arizona is basically begging students to run each other out effect being aggressive triggering insensitive well you get it i know some would say that fosters an environment of paranoia censorship and soul sucking depression but i just dont see it and yes school in seattle said you strike should be renamed spring sphere is a spring sphere hont count me in i possibly think its got a real fun ring to it. But youre going completely out of. It isnt fun. Im sure i did read about how now its not ok to expect people to turn up on time because in some cultures time is a fluid concept who knew i just hope for the people who signed up for this lesson and witness in time to get the most out of it also they could have a decent. Tell mr robertson enough to walk up such a sweat and. 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Most things up to a landmark case a course has roadstead you chair was allowed to censor content on his platform and won a legal fight against the Media Company private praga university which argued it should be able to post what it wants on the basis of free speech and the 1st amendment addressing the 1st amendment claims the panel held that despite youtubes 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. And the law say its our product claims are you to violate the 1st amendment when some of his videos were deleted from the platform and suggested you tube was guilty of false advertising for presenting itself as a platform for free speech the Company Believes its clips were banned because of the conservative nature of the contents but the court rejected their claims you tube said it had restricted access to some of the groups videos because they were inappropriate for younger audiences after the courts decision here chips Parent Company google stressed there was no political bias involved and claims were right less maintains they tech company has become dangerously powerful. So badly it appears as if even the 9th circuit is afraid of goliath google were 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 that social Media Companies such as google and facebook have arrived to make a decision. Walt people are going to be exposed to the reach of those companies is unprecedented but we ducked reach theres not been an equivalent in imposition of responsibility the risk 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 there are effectively controlling the entire political system. Russia is currently celebrating the end of winter the socalled muslin its a holiday which marks the start of spring. Often includes the burning of a store yesterday and this year wants us to follow the town a few hours from moscow has taken things even saga this bridge made of good to install was the winning creation from an International Competition off the months of preparation it was consumed by flames in just a matter of hours as muslim its a festival normally lost so we can see these people across the country and joining the range of festivities while eating lots of traditional kind takes the orthodox celebration of lent follows after. Wednesdays iatse and so national were back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks particularly catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to put these attacks was a p. R. 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