Problem to be fixed. This is the weekly here on r t welcome to round up of the headlines that shape the last 7 days. In the biggest news from this week theres been a sense of triumph among us democrats after an official impeachment inquiry was launched into President Trump on tuesday this latest chapter has been brought about by his alleged attempts to undermine a key democratic rival in the 2020 president ial race and it claims trump leaned on ukraines president to investigate joe biden sons activities in the country and exchange for u. S. Support for key parties a guest on of takes a look at the democrats obsession with impeachment. Democrats have always seen impeachment as Donald Trumps kryptonite a swift and effective way of ending his political life and theyve been promising to pull that switch since he got in office the walls feel like theyre closing in on the truth of this racial right now and im not sure they could hold them off for much longer than the walls are closing in and
President council socalled secret peace talks with the afghan leader and the taliban after the militant group admitted to a recent terrorist attack. A warm welcome he watching the weekly here on r. T. International with the latest world news and a roundup of the stories that shape the week the 1st millions of weapons made in serbia have reportedly fallen into the hands of Islamic State fighters in yemen and syria after they were bought by the United States and its allies as according to documents seen by a bulgarian journalist. This isnt anonymous inner city blog document about. The klan not serbia not actively crusade and the u. S. Soccer mom tracking all the way to war or so on those contrasts i will say able to identify one particular out a lot of left in the sand the language they hear is there to stop again the video e. M. F. If those documents prove to be genuine then weapons seen on the Islamic State video in yemen could well be serbian made off to being sold to u. S. Military c
A result of. These talks actually approaching even if it wasnt widely known that i would be approaching in this form theres concern of course that if the u. S. Does indeed strike a deal with the taliban and the u. S. Leaves that actually that will return afghanistan to taliban control it seems quite likely that would be the case but thats going to be the case whether america leaves today after 8 if theyd left 91015 years ago and so really i mean trump has got an election remember a manifest a commitment to end the u. S. War in afghanistan its lets think back to a summary of that its cost upwards of 1. 00 trillion dollars over the last 18 years actually i mean even the pentagon puts it at 760000000000. 00 its cost 2. 00 and a half 1000 u. S. Lives another 1000 Coalition Lives not with and of course not to mention of course we will mention but so many wont mention 150000. 00 afghans that have died since the u. S. Became involved and its led to a situation that at this current time the ta
I mean trump has got an election remember a manifesto commitment to end the u. S. War in afghanistan its lets think about some of that its cost upwards of one trillion dollars over the last 18 years actually i mean even the pentagon puts it at 760000000000. 00 its cost 2. 00 and a half 1000 u. S. Lives another 1000 Coalition Lives not with and of course not to mention of course we will mention but somebody wont mention 150000. 00 afghans that have died since the u. S. Became involved and its led to a situation that at this current time the taliban is pretty much more in control of afghanistan that its been any time since 2001 and so really i mean trumps instincts i think as we often see and we often say that trumps instincts are right here but i think that possibly he has seen this attack as an opportunity to exactly often perhaps clarify what the american position is going to be you know. This is just delaying the inevitable ok you know we should. I think intelligently. In in 2001 go
The story of the last 18 years ok was of the story of the last few days here my supposition is trump got cold feet because he doesnt know where its going to go and its not a political winner for him with this Foreign Policy blog not necessarily with the American People we can get into that go ahead charles whats your take. I think theres something in what you say here i dont think its as it appears certainly i think trump has had misgivings as indeed as a lot of the us we can say Foreign Policy establishment of course trump is sometimes in not sometimes outside of that circle but i think he would share some of the views that hes been strongly pressured particular of the last few days and weeks even in the media a lot especially in the media as a result of. These talks actually approaching even if it wasnt widely known that they would be approaching in this form theres concern of course that if the u. S. Does indeed strike a deal with the taliban and the u. S. Leaves that actually that