Consistent with our established plans and strategic objectives. Supported by the American People and does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. When our White House Correspondent can really help it. This was anticipated and already in advance of this announcement, there was pushback because Top Republicans, including mitch mcconnell, the Top Republican in the u. S. Senate saying that this is really going to affect not only the ongoing peace efforts in negotiations in afghanistan with regard to the taliban of course, those negotiations taking place in doha, but also the fact that there is concern this could affect u. S. National security in terms of its counterterrorism efforts. But we should also point out that this is some of the same advice that was given to the u. S. President from top officials in the pentagon. But whats notable about this is the fact that the president just last week in fact, put in place a number of loyalists at the pentagon in order to push this
To get jones and berlin. Good to have you with us. And were starting with news from china, which says it has given 2100000000 dollars worth of debt relief to developing countries as part of its trillion dollar belt and road initiative. China has financed Large Infrastructure Projects throughout africa. That critics say have left many poor countries overloaded with debt. Its been called the railway to nowhere. Kenya celebrated the opening of this train connecting its capital nairobi, and the port city, mombasa, in 2017, built in finance for a china. It has now become a symbol of the controversy over chinas presence across the continent. China has loaned over 100000000000. 00 to african countries as part of its transcontinental infrastructure program, known as the bolton road initiative. Many african countries were already crippled under the weight of the money they owe china for projects like the money losing kenyan railway. Now the coronavirus pandemic has made it nearly impossible for
Again. And spencer shares his story with r. T. All the time. It was necessary to move the New York Times vacancy for a moscow correspondent, really like something straight out of a spike revealing the predetermined normative to the world. This is r t international. A very warm welcome to the program. My names union, and the transition process for the us presidency is still in limbo with donald trump refusing to concede defeat. But joe biden is already lining up candidates for his proposed administration, and theyre all familiar faces from the obama era scale up and told me weve heard from the Biden Harris Administration that they have named 6 individuals that will be in their cabinet. One of those, the nominee and the person they will select for their secretary of state is Anthony Blinken. Now Anthony Blinken is certainly not a newcomer to the washington d. C. Foreign policy establishment. He served as a Deputy Assistant to president barack obama as a National Security advisor to joe b
Of alleged unlawful killing of 39 people by 25 a strategy and special forces personnel predominantly from the special air service regiment, gauges in canberra with more. This already has been a 4 year investigation, but this is really the beginning because this process has been administrative only within the defense force. It is not a criminal investigation. So all of these matters are still just allegations, but this report will no doubt be shocking. And extremely confronting to many people, it details dozens of allegations against at least 9 tain, special forces soldiers, who were in afghanistan between 2005 and 26, dana and some of the stories are quite confronting, including allegations of unlawful killing of civilians thats outside of the heat of battle, and also what was known as bloody. The report contains allegations that some younger soldiers were asked by them or say new soldiers to kill unlawfully kill people in afghanistan as a 1st kill. And some of those did do that in the
Nation is preoccupied with covid and the economic recovery and Foreign Policy tends to be an inside the beltway issue and not to figure prominently in the choices, the results of that will have a decisive impact on how america acts in the world and how the world evaluates the consequences of those actions but i think that its clear we are in a crossroads. Donald trump has played the role of disruptors in this postcold war predecessor and grazing authoritarians and rejectin rejg alliances and multilateral diplomacy and embarking on what could only be described as a wholesale withdraw from so many enterprises. The paris climate, jc poa, the iran nuclear agreement, unesco and who. Its not that the disruption is by admonition always bad. Theres nothing to replace it. Its bad if its followed by policies that dont serve the national interest. And its bad if its done tethered to political interests. Biden on the other hand offers a different approach, or we would suspect. I would turn to the