Militants after a bombing in Kabul which killed 12 people including an American soldier from Washington here's Chris Buckley while officials insisted the trip was not connected to peace talks with the Taliban President Trump did confirm that the u.s. Had restarted negotiations the Us president also met Afghanistan's leader President Ashraf Ghani during what was his 2nd visit to an active conflict zone since taking office Mr Trump again emphasized his desire to remove troops from the Middle East he said that the u.s. Would be substantially reducing its presence in Afghanistan although he didn't give numbers or details around has broken out between 2 key NATO allies France and Turkey have a policy on Syria and a news conference in Paris president Emmanuel micro accused Turkey of in day during NATO actions against the Islamic state group with its military operation against Kurdish fighters in Syria in response Turkey accused him of sponsoring terrorism Mike Sanders reports President macro has already called NATO brain dead he's taking aim at the country with the alliance is 2nd biggest army acknowledges that Turkey had suffered from terrorism but he said Ankara couldn't expect solidarity from its NATO allies if it presented them with a military operation as a fed accompli to his foreign minister move the chair was sure to hit back he highlighted president macro's meetings in Paris with Kurdish militia Representatives saying if he considered terrorists as allies there was nothing more to add he said President macro did not have what it took to fill a leadership void in Europe the conservative Euro Grand Sen Luis like only a poll has won the presidential election putting an end to 15 years of Left wing government in the country Mr likely oppose has criticized excessive spending on social programs and that promised to observe fiscal discipline in order to revive your acquired sluggish economy will grant has more there are still some votes to be counted and an official declaration to be made by Europe wise electoral commission but after several days the very tight race for the presidency finally has a result the conservative candidates. Luis like a year has claimed victory after his opponent Daniel Martinez from the ruling left wing coalition accepted defeat Mr Martinez said the outstanding vote wouldn't change the result I greet the president elect with whom I have a meeting tomorrow he said before thanking those who voted for him researchers in Brazil say smoke from burning forests in the Amazon can intensify the melting of glasses threatening water supplies to millions but scientists started the movement of smoke particles and their effect on Andy and last years they found evidence that snow and ice has been darkened accelerating the rate of melting b.b.c. News the police commander in charge of that on the day of Britain's Worst sporting disaster at the Hillsborough football stadium 30 years ago has been cleared of the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans our correspondent Judith Moritz was in court David Duncan filled his Noel stood trial 3 times now with the 3rd time of asking a jury has found he was not responsible and was unfairly singled out for prosecution and seduction Phil did not dispute that he ordered the opening of a gate at Hillsborough to let fans in all that he failed to close the tunnel to the terraces which were already full but his defense argued that he didn't breach is duty and had been a target of blame for the disaster prosecutors in the Netherlands say they're investigating a father who kept his family in religious seclusion over the alleged sexual abuse of 2 of his 9 children the family's situation came to light when the man's 25 year old son appealed for help at a local bar last month he said he and 5 siblings were being held in a secret room at the family's farm. 2 weeks before the British general election a router has broken out between the governing Conservative Party and the television network Channel 4 after it held a party leaders debate on climate change without any conservative representation the party leader and current Prime Minister Barak's Johnson had earlier said he would not take part but instead sent a cabinet minister Michael Gove but Channel 4 refused to seat Mr Gove saying the party the debate was for party leaders only. A small Canadian town has decided to change its identity because its current aim is putting off investors the town of asbestos was named in the late 19th century after the mineral that was mined there before its disastrous health effects were known the mine which operated until 2011 was once the largest source of asbestos in the world now the town in Quebec province is to consult its $7000.00 residents as to what its new name should be b.b.c. News. I'm Marco Werman this is the world good to have you with us today this Thanksgiving the holiday spirit moved President Trump to pay a surprise visit to u.s. Troops in Afghanistan there's nowhere I'd rather celebrate this Thanksgiving that right here with the toughest strongest best and bravest warriors on the face of the earth you are indeed that the president arrived in a darkened airplane and carried out a presidential tradition feeding turkey and mashed potatoes to American troops it was Trump's 1st visit to Afghanistan as president he said he'd restart peace negotiations with the Taliban but scones 3 months after he canceled talks with them the Taliban wants to make a deal we'll see if they want to make a deal is going to be a real deal but we'll see but they want to make a deal and they only want to make a deal because you're doing a great job at Chili's they want to make a deal so I want to thank you and I want to thank the Afghan soldiers for really broke into a lot of you today and you say they're really fighting hard I was very impressed with that actually so I want to thank you Trev said the u.s. Would stay until there is a deal or total victory he also said he'd like to reduce the number of American troops Trump also met with Afghanistan's president Gunny today in an unusual move Gunny joint Trump onstage with u.s. Troops at Bagram Air Base Gunny praised Trump as the architect of a strategy for wiping out al Qaeda in Afghanistan there are people also full of thanks in a Hong Kong today although it looks more like the 4th of July through. Protesters waving American flags others singing The Star-Spangled Banner. The demonstrators are offering thanks to President Trump for signing a bill that backs Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters Nathan was a key figure in that democracy movement and 2016 he was elected to Hong Kong's legislature but was later expelled from the parliament under pressure from Beijing he's now studying at Yale University we talked about the videos posted online of the celebrations in the streets of Hong Kong last night people were gathering in the How to Hong Kong. People holding up cellphone lights and cheering for victory I'm also seeing a lot of flags there are British flags of course a lot of American flags and there's somebody with a statue of liberty hat with like little lady like it's pretty amazing what does it tell us about the connections between Hong Kong and the United States do you think this is a leaderless movement so people express their opinion freely inside. Some a hole like American flags on the whole u.k. People feel like they need to thank the countries that have been helping. Them so helpful and looking at one flag that has a picture of a tank that says Trump on it and trump a standing with an assault rifle on top of the tank very proudly and the whole assembly is not meant to like make into the hero of Hong Kong but a way that people expressed their gratitude to President troubles of signed a bill banning the export of tear gas rubber bullets and stun guns to the police in Hong Kong do you think that's significant or mostly symbolic. The police now they have been firing tear gas made in China which is more dangerous to themselves and more uncertain about what it contains So I think the ban actually release a message that according to international standards does not agree on how the government or the police have been using this crowd control weapons and I hope that even in Europe the other countries who are selling weapons to the police force could follow that path at the same time Washington is trying to negotiate this trade deal with China and I'm wondering if you're concerned that a successful trade deal could reframe Hong Kong for Washington as a secondary concern to good economic ties with the Chinese mainland the trade deal is just out of the picture that the most important thing is how we could restrain expansion of the off the terrorism and how we could stop China abusing the power they have in order to suppress people so I think regardless of how the trade deal has been doing I think we need to uphold these principles. Does the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong think it can trust Washington because President Trump has been pretty non-committal to your movement in the past he's also called China's leadership in paying an incredible guy so is Trump a reliable ally Well I think the Hong Kong issue in the us is having strong bipartisan support regardless of the personal character of the President Trump we're not lying our work trust or of faith on one single person but we are relying on a share community that with the saying that he was and what the same pursuit of democracy to hold hands together and we are light in trust bipartisan support in the u.s. Of course the fight in Hong Kong is also a global fight way in the forefront of the clashes of values where are the forefront of stopping the expansion of altar terrorism and we got mutual benefits Nathan law is a key figure in Hong Kong's democracy movement he's now studying at Yale thanks for being with us happy holiday you very much. There's another growing source of tension between the u.s. And China tech talk and case you don't know tech talk is a wildly popular to post short videos it's owned by a Chinese company and critics say it's being censored not just things posted in China content posted anywhere critics point to one recent post here in the u.s. I got taken down it's a video that begins with some beauty tips but you also get something extra Here's the world's Lydia mentally do this video starts out like any other beauty to Tauriel you'd find on line I also want to show you guys how to go long lashes the 17 year old who made this take talk her name is frozen and she recorded it where she lives in New Jersey she sits close to the camera facing it she has long dark hair draped over one of her shoulders she's wearing a black shirt sporting a baby blue scrunchy around her right wrist and she's holding a pink eyelash curler up her face so the 1st thing you need to do is grab your last killer curl your lashes obviously and then for Rose's tone changes and the video takes a turn she tells people watching to put down their eyelash curlers and use their phone they're using right now to search of what's happening in China what's happening in China is a brutal government crackdown on Muslims in the country mainly ethnic weekers the Chinese government is accused of rounding up as many as 1000000 people over the past 3 years locking them up in internment camps and prisons across the remote province of Shane Jiang in northwest China separating their families from each other kidnapping them murdering them raping them forcing them to eat pork forcing them to drink the Chinese government denies all of this for ose who's a high school junior told me over the phone that she found out about what's going on in Shin Jiang through social media and I thought this cannot be true this this kind of can't be doing this for their own people and I searched up and sure enough they are it's been confirmed by the un and it broke my heart and I was. A Muslim growing up in America as an Afghan I think it's it's my duty it's my job to speak about this into spread awareness So last weekend she took to take talk now she didn't have a huge following she wasn't well known but she thought maybe if she made the video look like a beauty to Tauriel it get more views it was bait and switch basically and it worked on Sunday I woke up to a 1000000 views on there and I was like well I should create 2 more videos on this issue because there's a lot of questions regarding what's happening so I created it and then on Monday I woke up to see the message that my account suspended so here's what happened to talk made it so that for Rosie couldn't access the app from her phone and took down the video many are saying this is because of tick tocks connections to China remember it's owned by the Chinese company by dance for us I knew about those connections when she got on take talk she also knew that the Chinese government has a tight grip on what people there can say online but she never expected that those rules would impact her 18 thousands of miles away in New Jersey there have been other accusations in the past that to talk censors videos that criticize the Chinese government accusations the company strongly denies they say that the way they moderate content here in the u.s. Is not at all influenced by Beijing but that's not what Silver employees of Tick-Tock say this is Senator Joshua Holly a Republican from Missouri at a congressional hearing earlier this month to talk was invited to the hearing but didn't show up and so Senator Hawley facing the empty chair that had been set up for tech talk brought up news reports that said that executives based in Beijing have the final say on what gets to go on take talk even if it's for users here in the u.s. That's sure a different story than the one tech talk as told this committee and that's a plan. A problem because tick tock is super popular here in the u.s. Especially among teens and young adults and it's becoming a place where they learn about current events so for example for Rosa told me that when she posted that now viral video that many teens replied saying it was the 1st time they'd ever heard about Shin Jong as for that video it is now back up a tick tock spokesperson who didn't want to be recorded told me that the takedown was basically an accident they've since apologized and given for access to her account I don't think I really want to post on to talk anymore but same time I don't want this to silence me I will still spread awareness about these issues and she says there are plenty of other social media apps she could do that on for the world mainly due. On yesterday's show we heard from members of the u.s. Military sharing stories about Thanksgiving spent overseas today it's a turn of a career foreign service officer they're the public servants who spend much of their working lives away from the u.s. Often separated from family and who up until the impeachment hearings this month were not really on the minds of the public happy Thanksgiving this is Laura Kennedy I'm Our was a career foreign service officer spent almost 40 years with the Department of State Kennedy served as ambassador to Turkmenistan along with other posts in the foreign service but when it comes to Thanksgiving memory she goes straight back to her 1st posting overseas I'll never forget that 1st assignment in Moscow 1977 it was my 1st overseas assignment 3 weeks after I got there brand new foreign service are still trying to sort of find my way the embassy burned it was a devastating fire knocked out our communications all of our Clare classified working area now after this terrible fire we were just engulfed with the effort to trying to repair the damages so the whole priority went to getting back on our feet after the fire and I had received my what we call household effects every all shipments that were not essential that were not geared to repairing the fire it had been held at our staging point up in hell thinking so here was the winter coming on and there was a period that when or where the temperature stayed in the minus 30 days for 3 weeks it was a really brutal winter and we were already getting snow at the beginning of September and this was with a burnt roof on the of the embassy itself I had no where close so not a fun time so the embassy very kindly gave me a break over Thanksgiving to go up to retrieve some of my goods including winter coats and boots and things so it was a treat actually to be up in. I'm the other hand on your own 1st Thanksgiving away from family and so on and the American ambassador there who is the quite legendary Ross Ridgway heard that I was in town invited me sight unseen to her Thanksgiving dinner so I sat down at her residence with her other gas which included the embassy Marines other folks like me who might not have family at post and what it was a lovely dinner but the real value of that was that the ambassador reaches out to people who don't have their own Thanksgiving but people just make do all over the world there are increasingly around the world many people who are at a company post so they don't have the family to help them peel the potatoes and stuff the turkey is there really on their own and I'm talking about the fact that we've had huge numbers of foreign service people assigned in Iraq in Afghanistan in war zones places where we have civil unrest all over the world foreign service people face all sorts of different situations the main thing is that whether they have a full scale Turkey or just frozen turkey burger is the fact that they are overseas they're delighted to be serving their country but it reminds them of what you give up and that is being away from your own friends and family and your country and that's why Foreign Service folks support each other to look after your colleagues whether their kids there can they are family former ambassador Laura Kennedy remembering her 1st Thanksgiving abroad as a foreign service officer in the Soviet Union You're listening to the world. 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I'm Marco Werman And you're with the world for the rest of this Thanksgiving Day We're going to rebroadcast one of our favorite stories from earlier this year and take you on a journey down the Mississippi River. All right right. Back or if you want to take a canoe trip from Helena Arkansas down the Mississippi and normal times you just put your boat in the river and go forwards but these are not normal times not only not in water here but a willow 'd tree but. Right now the. Thing. That's canoe guide Tanner alge it's with a Quapaw river company and I'm Jason Margolis reporter with the world this spring and summer cities farms homes and businesses near the river have been besieged by flooding it was the wettest 12 month period ever recorded in the continental United States driven by record precipitation throughout parts of the Midwest much of that rain why. Snow melt made its way into the Mississippi drainage system and headed south so finding a canoe path to the Mississippi River in Arkansas p