Very warm welcome to you watching r. T. International with minichiello and our top story the u. S. And the taliban have signed a peace deal which is expected to 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 and let the people know well go back and go back so fast it will go back with a force like nobodys ever seen and 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 for washington its promising to review sanctions on the taliban the us will begin withdrawing their troops in stages if all goes well in a little over a year no u. S. Or nato forces will remain in the country artist caleb orpen looks at how much america has lost in the war and what its 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 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 seeing 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 less than 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 al qaeda 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 that would ruin the taking there is a fundamental gap of understanding of the front end of the stated objectives 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 u. S. Invasion caleb oppen artsy new york however there are genuine concerns that some of the criteria for the plan will be difficult to meet we discussed previously where there were such on a list of a sense of full conflict and pain studies in afghanistan. I am like other optimistic but in the mean the same time cautious about it because you know they are actionable 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 taliban detainees from the afghan custody by march which is 10 days from now or preparing the Afghan Government to sit 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 the elements and jihad this that are seeking safe thing trees 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. There follows a week longer duction in violence that was agreed between the 2 sides however many afghans believe place it should have been reached years ago. We hope this peace deal will be permanent not like before and 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 were happy about the u. S. Dollar 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 taliban 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 parts 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 here 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 hard at the terrorists but 18 years on and its the longest war in u. S. History the 1st campaign was victorious within a month its how about and uncle al qaeda had mostly been defeated there and the Afghan Interim Administration had been established however it took 10 years to track down and kill al qaeda is founder and leader washington still has thousands of troops deployed in afghanistan which accounts for half of all International Troops there we spoke to a 911. 00 survivor who believes the long lasting war is not the socalled just as they want it. Well mixed feeling number one because as a survivor of 911 when theyre looking for some of you know. The taliban was basically 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 it wasnt so of the same way of 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 do we know our occupation of that contrie. About 47000 migrants have crossed turkeys border with the e. U. The turkish interior minister has concerned greece has bulgaria which border turkey has sent reinforcements to their borders to prevent people crossing 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 break or thorazine claim theyve lost 4000 people from entering illegally a time shortly after turkeys turkish president announced his country would no longer exist on was to the e. U. 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. Were strengthening our forces on land and at sea Additional Forces are being transferred the government does determined to do whatever is necessary to save god all borders you want to do on was referring to was the 2016 deal with the e. U. To stop the refugee flow to europe in exchange for Financial Aid he has since repeatedly accused the bloc of failing to want to its part of the deal but its only now that hes gone from words to action the turkish president took action following a spike in tension in syrias last remaining terrorist stronghold in a province and career claimed 33 turkish soldiers were killed in an air raid this week by the syrian army as the region is and girls with intense fighting between the Turkish Backed militants there and the syrian army supported by russia moscow claims turkey fell to separate the terrorists from the moderate opposition furthermore it says turkey initially confirmed its forces were not in the area something that turkey later denied journalist dan vita dimitrius constant accomplice believes greece has become the victim of turkeys blackmail campaign against iraq. Is not only a shock to. Them to come to grief. Churi. This is all the information with. Sound. Of fish and even got to know you mr and your. Pressure on the European Union in order for you or your union to get it. To stop all of whom. Do finish with. One the other hand. The European Union british and not think. It is not. Anybody should because it out of. You. Being sent it is going to solve the problem but you. Should again all of those. Should be made yes but simply this shows a lot of the passion to do it greece has already issued to an enormous number of refugees said to me against it is a very bad shape because all of the baby callers which were important needed by its European Partners at the i. M. F. The french Prime Minister has announced a controversial pension reform will be adopted without a vote in the National Assembly the move has caused outrage in paris where dozens of gathered in front of the parliament condemning the governments decision Police Forces were quick to react and scuffles broke out as they tried to disperse the crowd the government decisions led to the opposition presenting a motion of censure in parliament if the motion is adopted the proposal will sail and the government must resign the motion must be debated within 48 hours the pension reform has sparked massive protests. I. Am so so how overwhelming thank you he published an journalist a marriage mona vale thinks the french system isnt adaptable enough to resolve the countrys problems. The government chose the best time to pass it slow and force that is a very long strike knowing that workers may not have their Economic Resources to to to go on strike again we have a very we can see that we have a very. Very authoritarian institution and that was designed to prevent the divisions of the french as a result of the jury in the war because in addition to this article or 49 dr 3 we have the article 16 which gives the powers to the presidency in the event of a crisis or the constitution we saw authoritarian that it makes the power to too rigid and unable to adapt itself and today the i think the lives of explodes and we find the old divisions of the french we are only a country of civil wars of a religious war was in the in a sense the french revolution is not over and we are the 2 until in very complicated types i think. Theres an Appeals Court review as well as in favor of youd say pretty that important free speech case based on that and more on the subway. Join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. The point is should we actually be charging for it because this is when we charge for things is because its been a benefit to the person whos buying it and thats the audiology to education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit for society in general i wouldnt want to live in a Society Without doctors or engineers all saw it as what happened without economists. Saying it of being a profit benefit ignoring the public means that ignoring that the skill bias we need for a Sophisticated Society and putting the burden of that school biases on the individuals and what weve turned it into is just now the trying institution of Higher Education become a form of a version of a real estate scam that is not the bisons for a functional saudi. Is youll be a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. High salacious community. Are you going the right way or are you being led so. What is true. Is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. Welcome back well russia is currently celebrating the end of winter the socalled muslim its a holiday which marks the start of spring often includes the burning of a straw effigy and this year one festival in a town a few hours from moscow has taken things even further this bridge made of wood and straw was the winning creation from an International Competition and after months of preparation it was consumed by flames in just a matter of hours russias muslim its a festival normally lost so we can see as people across the country and doing a range of festivities on eating lots of traditional pancakes the orthodox celebration of lent follows after. Whats been dubbed a landmark case a court has ruled that you choop is allowed to censor content on its platform and want to legal fight against the Media Company praga university which argued is to be able to post what it wants on the basis of free speech on the 1st amendment. 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 forum not a public forum subject to judicial scrutiny under the 1st amendment. If then the law say probably you claims you violated the 1st amendment when some of his videos were deleted from the platform and suggested youtube 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 content but the court rejected the claims well your chipset it had would restricted access to some of the groups videos because they were inappropriate for younger audiences after the courts decision you chips Parent Company google stressed there was no political bias involved and probably use claims were meritless thats progress he maintains the 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 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 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. Extremely controlling the entire political system. And saying the wrong thing on social media these days always seems to trigger a backlash r. T. Saskia taylor takes a look at some of the woke and outrage thats been happening this week. Dear diary what a wreak of distressing stories theres new evidence suggesting that back in the seventys buddy was a loony rate front. Of disappointment on his visit to India Donald Trump managed to vote but he must cut every single engine 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 so. That someone somewhere is doing the shoe joyousness of these people is insane to behold these bullets. 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 raining on our parade theres also no evidence to support it. Yes ok the university of arizona is basically begging students to run each other out effect being aggressive progress of triggering insensitive well youve gotten i know some would say that fosters an environment of power noir censorship and soul sucking depression but i just dont see it and yes a school in seattle said easter egg should be renamed spring spears a spring spirit hunt count me in my past and think its got a real fun ring 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 turn up sometime because in some cultures time is a fluid concept food new 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 the diesel. See to tell mr robertson enough to walk up such a swell and. Tell. Them they also slightly killing the bible while fashionistas a company down on a hoop earrings no longer for white people apparently so gone of those have 3 days we saw into the lawn here in the gentle bush your hoop and the wind. Ok not the best news for you all didnt appear what is out about because Oxford University did cancel clapping so why are people making such a big deal about it there are no notes of all the ways to show your appreciation like. Them. Jazz hands the super fun but wait on the culture appropriation. Weve got a. Ways to sing Aussie International were back at the top of the hour with all the latest. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race. Spearing Dramatic Development only. Exist i dont see how will be successful very. Time to sit down and talk. In the United States president ial candidates debate the future of the u. S. And the world. Stacy herbert dig into the burning questions of this election cycle. Every week. Student debt trade wars money universal basic. And more catch up with whats front running this sunday exclusively on r. T. 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. Things. Couldve shouldve. Taken away from the flag. A dictator who was blood thirsty participated in the murder of hundreds of thousands of iraqis and millions of more of them around. I understand that he of vermont doesnt know how to lead the world in getting off production joy and moving toward Global Energy as fast as possible the planet will be unlivable for organisms like. I used to say lets shut down Vermont Yankee in 2012 the promise that we may be sure that actually scheana cleans up the mast and much of our governor whos going to move us to removal energy and move to his shane Energy Future lets vote for change on november 2nd thank you so much. Peter shumlin. Do solemnly swear that i will be true and faithful to the state of vermont. Where there will be true and faithful to the state of vermont. Federal regulators now say that her mind yankee is fit to be open for another 20 years or gina bowler joins us now with the latest on this gina kristen late this afternoon in a Conference Call the n. R. C. Clear Regulatory Commission and now said they voted to extend for model employees license the n. R. C. Says it will formally issue resume to use a new license and a matter of if but under vermont law the Public Service board and the Legislature Must also approve a license extension. Are you going. To go on. Tonight on nightline a Nuclear Emergency a massive new exposure rocks a crippled reactor plant in japan prompting the greatest fears yet radiation catastrophe and a new wave of the back to a should. Fall out for this reactor up in smoke how dangerous radiation leaks can be a plant located on a seismic fault the smoldering disaster zone the latest challenge at the Fukushima Daiichi site a fire in the number 4 reactor thats right down here in the area just near the rules were highly radioactive spent fuel rods are stored in this turn for the worse in reactor 4 after a day in which there was some evidence japan might finally be making some small progress as it struggles with the worst Nuclear Crisis since trolled. Lets assess the risk with Arnie Gundersen hes a Nuclear Safety advocate who consults with them on State Government about the month Yankee Nuclear plant mr gundersen is joining us on the telephone sir based on what you have heard this is reactor number 4 there was a fire there the other day what does that tell you mr gundersen ive learned from my sources that the radiation levels in the 4th reactor are so high that theyve had to evacuate the personnel from there. That indicates is that the fuel pool is running out of order and if the personnel are not there to keep it refilled it doesnt surprise me that radiation levels are increasing dramatically if the wind turns and goes the other way. I would suspect contamination not just in japan but potentially korea and china as well how much time do they have before this is catastrophic it can boil dry in a day so they have you know on the order of 24 hours to straighten it out Arnie Gundersen is a very sober assessment we appreciate your expertise you have experience building these spent fuel rods chad