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
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For myself and everyone here in the Office Newsroom welcome and thanks for joining us this friday evening. And we start with our developing news coming out of the british capital where a number of people have been left injured following a knife attack near London Bridge we can show you eyewitness videos taken in the area which is a busy thoroughfare in the city as you can see people were wrestling with the suspect trying to pin him to the ground an armed officer is seen with his weapon drawn a short time later a shot is hot one person has been detained. Now in life our correspondent ed wood stash the she is at the scene for us. Quickly developing situation what else. Can you tell us. Well this is an Ongoing Investigation and indeed London Bridge is still on lockdown we understand this is being treated as a terrorism related incident though still unconfirmed whether or not the incident was terrorism related at this point in time we know there has been one fatal it seems one fatality of
Good evening thanks for joining us here on r. T. And. Breaking news to start this hour from the netherlands where dutch police say 3 people have been injured in a stabbing on the main shopping street in the hague the incident sparked panic among the shoppers. I. I. I. Start off scurrying this covering this story for us so what details do we know at this point. Well 1st and foremost we do know that the police are still looking for the suspect we have seen a video of dutch police a pretty handing some man but we have not had any confirmation yet whether or not that person is indeed the suspect wanted in connection with this attack on the main street now 3 people have been injured and yes indeed it is the main street the main shopping street in the hague now this is a friday night so it was bound to be packed with the shoppers but at the same time remember that it is the black friday night as well which. The scale of the whole thing which has led even more people out in the streets seekin
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