One of the most sensitive f. B. I. Investigation. On french government reveals more details on controversial Pension Reforms that a spot right. There thanks for joining us this is. A suicide attacker has detonated a car bomb outside. One of the main u. S. Military outpost in afghanistan comes not long after donald trump surprise thanksgiving visit to the same base local media reports say the powerful blast hit a medical facility close to the main gate at least 2 people were killed more than 70 injured according to local sources the shootout quickly followed its being reported 3 attackers remain at large and 3 others have been killed and another captured a local t. V. Channel says the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. The american president visited particular base in length. November for thanksgiving and speaking to the military personnel there donald trump struck a somewhat upbeat tone. With the help in the devotion everyone. Has given here tonight america is winning again we are winning like we have not won in a long time and you know what were respected like we havent been respected in a long time america is winning again and america is respected again and respected at the highest level donald trump was saying that he was winning that most american president s since the american invaded afghanistan says that they are winning but they are not winning in fact because the taliban is controlling half of afghanistan and after 18 years of war with afghanistan and trying to force the taliban from afghanistan the United States has come to the conclusion that they have to negotiate and we negotiate with the taliban the same force that 18 years ago the invaded afghanistan was the taliban from the country because they were harboring terrorism and they were harboring some of below them what the American Government says it says because theyre taliban are weak thats why they keep sending the terrorists every day but the real the real truth is that the taliban are the real forces unfortunately in afghanistan and you have to count on them in order to secure afghanistan. Or side all this an article has been published in the u. S. Press detailing years of deliberate decision for motion by top american officials whove been putting on a brave face despite knowing the truth about the afghan war. Hundreds of thousands dead trillions of dollars lost generations traumatized but you know what nothing good comes easy nothing in afghanistan we helped liberate an oppressed people. And we will continue helping them secure their country rebuild their society and educate all their children boys and girls. All that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is within reach and were doing a tremendous job. And as you know a big part of the job is isis certainly the biggest and al qaeda and we. Weve got them down very low numbers you didnt need to be nostradamus or clairvoyant to know that someone was telling bull its just logical fallacy you cant keep fighting the same guys for 20 years and claim the joule winning but then appearances must be kept up its important that everyone thinks youre winning right up to the moment you admit you lost why well its obvious no one has the remotest clue we were trying to do here we didnt have the focus notion of what we were undertaking there is a fundamental gap in distancing of the front and over stated objectives. In the military and the lack of understanding of the resources necessary and wed never have known if it hadnt been thousands of secret and classified documents all have got to start stuff from the white house from the pentagon the un and the various n. G. O. S well we would have known its pretty damn obvious that the war is going terribly but who says mouth and all that it is worth considering what the president the deficient said and what they actually believed when i called our troops in action i did so with complete confidence in their courage and skill and tonight. Thanks to them. We are winning the war on terror. And. Today we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror are we capturing killing or deterring a dissuading more terrorists every day than the mage asses on the radical clerics are recruiting training and deploying against us does the us need to fashion a broad integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists the us is putting relatively little effort into a long range plan but we are putting a great deal of effort into trying to stop terrorists the cost benefit ratio is against us see when youre in your 2nd term and you started a really messy war that you just realized you cant hope to win there only so many ways to save your own but heres a list of words you should use courage democracy kids schools and hospitals and for the people that dont buy your baloney get a hope in there as well thanks to the courage of these military and civilian personnel a nation that was once a safe haven for al qaeda is now a young democracy where boys and girls are going to school new roads and hospitals are being built and people are looking to the future with new hope also poor in money into huge Infrastructure Projects to obligate money that was appropriated to so we could spend it through Building Infrastructure in ways that have again instant could never sustain or even the use in some cases if youre a nato country taxpayer i honestly dont believe you can comprehend how much of your money was poured into this adventure you 1st need to understand the sheer degree of incompetence that these leaked documents show imagine for example someones putting together a crew for a bank heist they invite a bunch of people give them a time and place and tell no one what their role is no plan so everyone shows up thinking that everyone outs knows what to do. And things go as you would expect now is the time to save your own heinie lets add a few more words difficult days human rights confidence success we will reward Good Governance work to reduce corruption and support the rights of all afghans men and women alike. There will be difficult days ahead but i am absolutely confident we will succeed. You just cannot put those amounts of money into a very fragile state and society and not have if you corruption you just cant a legacy of mass corruption thats putting it lightly what else the jew expects the guys on the ground they saw disaster they reported it back to washington washington with its countless partment now the courage to stand up and say they screwed up so they put up appearances everyone was doing what made them look best rather than what worked best interesting enough many of the documents were published with the name Lessons Learned perhaps an effort to extract something anything of value from this unmitigated disaster but you know as it have got a star not long ago and after seeing what i saw there i can tell you honestly i can guarantee you that while they may have learned their lessons they sure as heck are putting them to use. The french government is pushing ahead with its controversial Pension Reforms despite huge public hostility resulting in mass protests and strikes earlier today the Prime Minister formally presented his plans to reports from paris perhaps one of the most controversial elements that was announced today is the fact that the retirement age will increase by 2 years it will go up to 64 while the legal age will remain at 62 if french workers want to receive a full pension they will have to work those extra 2 years lets break down some of the detail of how this is going to work the government said today this is a good phillipe the Prime Minister that those who were born before 1975 will not be impacted by these changes at all if you were born after 975 in your mid career at the moment in what youll find is around 70 percent of your pension will be based on the system. 30 percent for you system and that those who turn 18 in 2022 they will be integrated for the 1st time fully into the new system this is a system whereby the 42. 00 current pensions in france will be amalgamated into one universal payment the Prime Minister said some of the big winners as a result of this would be women who for the 1st time would receive 100 percent compensation for the time that their own Maternity Leave would also have points towards their pension from their very 1st child while the 3rd child and he said there would be a guarantee of a 1000 euros a month in pension in retirement for those who had worked a full career lets have a listen to what else it would fully packed to say. We may disagree on some points but the governments ambition for university is now bishan for social justice there is no hidden agenda were not looking to penny pinch we dont want any one man the country we want to protect the poached power of workers and the purchasing power of pension already were getting some reactions from the unions who seem to be very unhappy with whats been announced by the french Prime Minister one union seed you know this is the union that is the major union for the s. N. C. F. Thats the Railway Workers here in france say that they are now calling for reinforcement of the strike which is now in its 7th day here in france weve also heard from Police Unions who move allies in before that speech by the Prime Minister this morning saying that they want to harden not mobilization as a result the suggestion is the unions dont feel that the government is listening to them and hasnt gone far enough theyre all going to know all of this is that people will have to work longer and they may receive less pension in the future i mean people all view reus about this so furious in fact last week when there was a National Strike some 806000 people took to the streets to let the government know that they didnt want their pensions may. On tuesday dont think oh were still students 339000 theyre all already calls on thursday of this week and of tuesday or next week it seems that this announcement by the government detail of what these Pension Reforms will mean hasnt quelled the anger the anger that weve seen spilling out into the streets particularly in that protest last week where there were tensions in clashes between the police and the protest is it looks like this strike is fall from. Steve king crowd funded professor of economics on paid. Rules make frances problem a systemic crisis i think because its actually a fiscal process at the state caused by the rules that the master treaty to prevent the government running this kind of deficit next for a well functioning economy this is a little crazy notion built into the mastery that government should act like a household and try to save money for running dies when you try that it is at the National Level its simply files all it does is reduce income because there is the act that the individual little you can spend less than you earn and therefore save money if you have a good level your spending is somebody elses eco should be a temple of the entire society to save money which is bills of the ministry actually reduces g. D. P. And leads to this sort of thing i would guess this is a manifestation of the saudi wrote the script of the European Union particularly the u. S. Capitol hill has erupted into bitter arguments as democrats and republicans pick over the findings of reports into the justification of the russia collusion probe the socalled horowitz report was released on monday and while the democrats and much of the media are claiming vindication the republicans have been quick to seize on irregularities of the f. B. I. Investigation what happened here is the system failed people at the highest level of our government took the law in their own hands. The report from the Inspector General that looked into the investigations of the Trump Campaign in 2016 has been received on capitol hill differently by different parties democrats seem to see the report as disproving the allegations put forward by donald trump the allegations claiming that there was a politically motivated spying effort against him this is democrats the i. G. S. Report conclusively refutes these claims this was not a politically motivated investigation there is no deep state republicans however have a very different interpretation of the report would you like trump hate trump dont care about trump you look at this is more than a few irregularities because if this becomes a few irregularities in america then god help us all. A point of contention has been how the f. B. I. Handled the salacious steel dossier now this is a da ca that made allegations against u. S. President donald trump regarding russia and the f. B. I. Deemed it not to be credible they looked into the source who gave this information to Christopher Steele and determined that it was not really a credible allegation but that didnt stop them for applying for pfizer warrants in order to wiretap members of the Trump Campaign on the basis of this down cia the f. B. I. Even described the source as being truthful and cooperative when trying to obtain the warrants this is what Inspector General horowitz had to say about the errors of the f. B. I. We found and as we outlined here are deeply concerned that so many basic and fundamental errors were made by 3 separate handpicked investigative teams and one of the most sensitive f. B. I. Investigations and after the matter had been briefed to the highest levels within the f. B. I. And other reports seems to also indicate that former cia director john brennan may have misled the public when he testified about the role of the steel dossier in obtaining warrants and carrying out the investigation furthermore mccabe and combing f. B. I. Officials have argued that they somehow are vindicated by this report they say it shows that the f. B. I. Did nothing wrong and that trumps allegations are simply not correct this is the response from fired f. B. I. Director james comey and Andrew Mccabe do you feel vindicated tonight that this report concludes that you did the right thing. You know as i said ive known all along that we did the right thing not just me but the group of people that i worked with at the f. B. I. The f. B. I. Fulfilled its mission protecting the American People and uphold in the u. S. Constitution however what they seem to be saying about how theyve been vindicated and how the f. B. I. Did nothing wrong doesnt seem to match whats being said by Inspector General horowitz james comey said this week the your report vindicates him is a fair system interview. You know i think the activities we found here are done and vindicate anybody who touched this although horowitz report seems to join many recent reports in washington d. C. That were expected to clarify points of disagreement between trump and his opponents and just like many of these other reports while it was expected to shed some light and bring some clarity to the issue its simply up for interpretation with trumps supporters seeing the report one way and trumps critics and the Democratic Party seeing it very differently. A controversial Chinese Restaurant in new york opened by a white woman is shut down after just 8 months some of the backlash over Cultural Appropriation xenophobe become merican lady weve all been there having chinese food on sundays but dont you hate how its so unhealthy me raced for 20 years my asian metrics keeping healthy balanced meal 7 days a week now. Talks about how chinese food is usually dollars dobro and sauces and makes your eyes puffy lady what a lucky liza started by a white woman ignorantly use an asian stereotypes to pitch a clean american chinese food promotional material by real hospitals lucky lisa restaurant repeated stereotypes about supposedly unhealthy chinese food claiming only its offerings dont leave you feeling blue t. And the establishment essence deleted the post. We have been listening and learning and we have been making changes and will continue shame on us for not being smarter about cultural sensitivities. The latest in a long line of Cultural Appropriation claims in the Food Industry a top chef and leading Indian Restaurant joined condemnation of the new vegan busy on the ramp by british supermarket marks and spencer noting that price is always part of a real biryani the most up to chef Gordon Ramsays new asian restaurant in Central London was panned for not having a single asian chef discuss this now with Human Rights Campaign a peta tonsil and journalist and political commentator chadwick in a welcome gentlemen. Chant wake you can understand people being offended by the the stereotypes. To try to supposedly unhealthy someones identity chinese food well well this is a white liberal thing right and 5 first of all chinese you do feel icky and disgusting after youve eaten it have these people never eaten chinese food at least she didnt bring up the fact that Chinese Restaurants in new york have been caught cooking up pigeons and stray cats that would really upset people but this is a white liberal preoccupation its astounding to see them shut down a female owned business i thought that they were really champions of those things but to understand the mind of a white liberal their obsession with diversity is they like diversity in the people who serve them and they like diversity the things they can purchase and consume but they need to feel that those things are authentic so it makes them feel global and worldly and sophisticated so you can imagine how upset they get when they realize 5 that when they thought they were consuming ethnic cuisine it turns out to be a fellow white who was m