Within the alliance with a man you all might call still cost and doubt and its pompous we look at why the nato can go on as it is. Its just gone 3 pm here in moscow for myself on the whole team at r. T. C. H. Q. A very well welcome to the program and our 1st story for you this hour u. S. President donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving taking part in the puff that photo opportunity and paying his fast evidence that. American troops base and he had a message for them he told them that talks with the taliban declared dead just 2 months ago on my colleague daniel whole constituents this with maria phone off. They call it a surprise visit but the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan the bloody almost 2 decades long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars trump wanted to end it for his own kristis at home until hes global influence in that region and internationally of co
Says black friday shoppers around the world we look at the darker side of the buying frenzy. You what you ought to International Stay within the next 20 minutes as we go around the world covering the biggest stories of the day starting with this one and donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving paying his 1st ever visit to afghanistan and greeting american troops based and he had a message for them revealing talks with the taliban about gone despite being declared dead just 2 months ago my colleague daniel this with. They call it a surprise visit but the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan the bloody almost 2 decade long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars trump wanted to end it for his own for steve at home and called these global influence in that region and internationally of course and hes been given this promises so many times that thanksgiving feels that shor
5 pm here in moscow having a good day what if you are in the wild thanks to choosing a National Lots of stories for you this hour starting with this one donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving paying his fost of a visit to afghanistan and greasing american troops based on he had a message for them revealing talks with the taliban are back on despite being declared dead just 2 months ago my colleague daniel holkins discussed this with me. They call it a surprise visit but the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan the bloody almost 2 decades long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars trump wanted to end it for his own for steve at home and for his global influence in that region and internationally of course and hes been given this promises so many times that thanksgiving feels that short reason to afghanistan was all about that to demonstrate hes in charge and he is t
For myself. And welcome and thanks for joining us this friday evening. And we start with some developing news coming out of the british capital where its been reported a knife attack near London Bridge has left a number of people injured we can show you eyewitness videos taken from London Bridge which has a busy hour in the city police have confirmed they were cooled off to reports of a stopping one person has so far been detained. And our correspondent shot at woodstock she is at the scene for us so obviously this developing bring us up to speed on whats going on. In the world London Bridge is in the lockdown at the moment as you can see the vicinity is also being evacuated as we speak them to drive the city is now. A standstill now comes after an incident was reported shortly after 2 pm this afternoon now there are unclear messages coming out of this incident initially there were reports of emmanuel ting a knife running towards the public was then shot down by armed officers now that
Youre watching r. T. International. Breaking news story this hour unconfirmed reports say that at least 2 members of the public of being killed in a terrorist attack in central london. Eye witness videos taken in the area which is a busy thoroughfare in the city as we can see here people seem to be wrestling with the suspect trying to pin him to the ground just to get the knife off of the attacker an armed officer seen with his weapon drawn short time later the shot is heard Police Confirm that the attacker was shot dead at the scene our correspondent shadi Edwards Dashti has more details from the. London bridge is still completely on lockdown that follows the incident that broke out earlier this afternoon at 158 local time as you can still see there are still Mass Evacuations happening from the Office Building surrounding the London Bridge vicinity it was indeed a Major Incident and earlier this afternoon the assistant Police Commission and theyll pursue confirmed it was terrorist rel