if you look at. the as. i am. this is g.w. news live from buying it donald trump abruptly council's peace talks with the taliban the us president says that the move is in response to a taliban attack in kabul could this be the engdahl to the peace process that seeks to ratchet up the u.s. is the long afghan campaign also coming up the conditions are rapidly deteriorating for fouls and the people displaced by hurricane dorian in the bahamas with their homes and communities destroyed their need of food and water the storm is now lashing canada's nova scotian knocking out power what to hundreds of thousands.

and in tennis yankee andrew yes who wins the u.s. open she beats 23 time a grand slam champion serena williams to clinch the 1st ever slapped. the x. . on helena humphrey glad you could join me it is a potential blow to ending u.s. engagement in afghanistan u.s. president donald trump says that he is calling off peace talks with taliban leaders trump tweeted that he also scrapped a secret meeting planned with the taliban at camp david on sunday after the taliban took credit for an attack in kabul this week the attack killed a dozen people including one american soldier u.s. and the taliban have been meeting since last year in the hope of ending a for. the afghanistan conflict. and for more on this and now i'm

joined by the w.'s on the pages the man who's been covering the afghan conflict for since 2001 so very good to have you with us sandra now president trump says that he has called off this secret meeting with taliban leaders have we heard from the afghan government yet what have they got to say right now there is actually a presser by the presidential spokesman in kabul and basically they are in favor of calling all for whatever was planned in washington whether it's the camp david meeting that trump was talking about in his tweets which seem to be a rather clandestine thing not a whole lot of people was informed about it and also holding talks in general because the afghan government wasn't part of these talks they were very apprehensive of the outcome of these talks and they simply thought it's a bad deal for afghanistan for the afghan people so they are actually having a good day today all right but this is quite

a turnaround nevertheless bearing in mind that we heard for example earlier this week from the u.s. afghanistan envoy saying you know recently that good ministration in fact the trumpet ministration was all the threshold of signing some kind of agreement with taliban i think that begs the question how close were they really i think they were really getting very very close if you listen to the change in words that the u.s. special envoy he basically at some point said we are getting very close then he said we are on the threshold and then he even went as far as saying we have an agreement in principle and now that seems to be off the table for the moment or is this the end of the road that remains to be seen we can only try so much to interpret what trump is tweeting there we know that he has the kind of history of making record policy changes especially when it comes to foreign policy as of now i would say it might also be a tactical maneuver a to regain leverage at the. goshi ating taylor the most

a lot of people including former u.s. ambassadors have been pointing out to him during the last couple of days that this seems to be a rather bad the of giving too much away to the taliban without them bringing in any conditions that they have to fulfill on their side and that certainly is a tactic that we've seen in terms of m.o. from the u.s. president i mean in the past with this though apparently appearing to be a step backwards we also have to bear in mind that president trump has a campaign promise that is with joran american troops from afghanistan do we think that he will deliver on this now he might still try to pull troops out in faces as was obviously one of the key elements of this framework agreement i wouldn't still call it an end in the studio because for that you would need afghans at the negotiating table but hey the f. going back to field is very very crowded and even if we get to a framework agreement with some american troops being pulled out it doesn't mean

that we see you know african peace blossoming the very next day because the afghan government is not in there and also you must keep in mind that we have an afghan government which doesn't seem to be on the same page there are a lot of frictions within that government as well so the road to peace is still long and that will also determine how quickly american troops could be called out on a practical level rise to the devil still very much in the detail the w.'s underpaid his men thank you so very much for your insights. well russians are heading to the polls for regional and unisa poll elections today with some observers saying that the vote is neither free nor fair president that he knew putin cost his vote in moscow way demonstrations erupted in recent weeks this came off to authorities rejected as several allies of opposition leader alexeyevna valley as candidates the protests a police crackdown with around 2000 people to take.

hurricane dorian has been downgraded to a post a tropical cyclone but it is still packing dangerously strong winds off to making landfall along canada's atlantica coast heavy rainfall in nova scotia's knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people in the bahamas the storm left a trail of devastation the death toll is now at $43.00 but with many people still unaccounted for it is expected to rise sharply. it's. a cruise ship full of evacuees from the bahamas people on board have survived an apocalypse and for now they're the lucky ones. desperation is setting in for those left behind who've lost everything. until you know the bridge and the needles nobody calls on the fire the live we don't have no clothes to hum nothing no life no power of flow why don't. i it's 5 everything you say bringing it to me. as the scale of the destruction

becomes clear international aid efforts are ramping up. but it's a complicated task the destruction is so widespread. we have 2 major islands in the bahamas grand bahama and abaco and oftentimes we forget about the many keys around the clothes that particular they themselves. have we have to put them on just focus on those keys because we have residents living on those keys as well in the us dorian made landfall as a category one storm hitting the coast of north carolina with battering waves storm surges and heavy rains caused extensive flooding while powerful winds and a series of tornadoes ripped the roofs off houses and knocked out power to hundreds

of thousands of people. and any respect eugenist bustin heartache he's in the bahamian capital nassau and he told us the conditions on the ground were desperate but we were in march however you have a call to one of the places that were hit hardest by the hurricane and let me tell you that this place and there is absolutely quake there's not one building or that hasn't been that that has been damaged or destroyed by the hurricane or one part of . it was completely leveled and a lot of people out of fear said they're not people that we spoke to were desperate they're desperate for food at this for for water they're going into the supermarkets into the warehouses trying to find these things but they're rapidly running out of supplies and. we've heard stories of people breaking into houses now we can't confirm that but we've also heard people say that if the situation doesn't improve soon and people are getting more hungry and more 3rd and more desperate we're nearing

a breaking point on the ground. bustin hartig very reporting from the bahamas to tennis now where bianca andrea sue has abated serena williams in straight sets to win the u.s. open in new york the 19 year old canadian have the stronger starts the match safe in the 1st set 637 stormed to a 51 that you can 2nd the mix certain digraph to win the food williams who back to tie the set 55 but andrea sue held her nerve to reset and play her 1st ever grand slam title. joining us now for more on the u.s. open final is leaving her tacky from d.w. sports great to see you alina and i think even the most avid tennis fans may not necessarily have heard the name bianca and b.s. q tell us more about her that i don't feel guilty about not as a canadian only found out about a while ago she wasn't even in the top $100.00 at the start of one and i have to say 21000 has been a very kind year to canadian sports fans because 1st we have the trauma raptors win

their 1st n.b.a. basketball championship and now we have a 19 year old making history andre eskew winning canada us 1st grand slam title and of course the reactions in the country have been huge prime minister just being trudeau has congratulated her as well as sidney crosby who is like you know messi they were knocked off ice hockey in the n.h.l. so the sky is the limit for bianca of course was not trying to come to terms with this newfound fame or so she's carrying the hopes of the maple leaf where does it go from here will that glittering career continue to think we have to be really careful when it comes to hyping up young tennis talent because the tennis has a way of creating teenage millionaires and then chewing them up and spitting them out but i have to say and i don't just say this because she is canadian but beyond what makes her stand out what makes us all special is that the mental game cheers an ability to block out all the noise and we saw that as well yesterday in

a very pro serene up. proud so. and of course she's been using visualizations since the age of 13 she's even imagined writing checks u.s. open checks which now has become a reality because she's cashing in 3700000 is a lot of us just imagine you know any things you put so mind to definitely gets done but it certainly of course was a tough day for serena williams of course i mean does she still have it in her to win 2 more slams of course and then you know then she became the all time record for herself right so that window of opportunity is closing she's turning 38 next month time is definitely catching up with her and she had a great chance last night but she's blown the last 4 grand slam finals that she's made since becoming a mother since giving birth and we know that a woman's body changes after giving birth so maybe she needs to adjust her game i don't know really what it is but she is putting a lot of pressure on herself because in the back of her mind she is chasing that record whether she likes to admit to it or not but it's difficult because we see

that now you know there's a rise of young talent coming up and the unstoppable as we saw the last node right at the back you from the w. sports thank you. well the venice film festival is one of the highlights of the year for cinema lovers and this year the award of the coveted golden line marks a step away from more traditional art house when is the best film went to joker a dark take on the batman comic book villain. one of the audiences favorites turned out to be the big winner of this year's venice film festival todd phillips is juka took the golden lion staring collage in phoenix the film's a dramatic take on the origins of batman comic book villain the joker. this is the last time we'll be meeting. you don't assume the here. is just this one question the server. has to try out. or you have really not going to fall off.

of i'm good at. oddball my whole life our audience now is likely to be the it's just. like the odd am. starting a new. era the art critics are celebrating joker as a daring reboot of the d.c. comics and hero and praising hawking phoenix's performance. as well as always been known for bold decisions i think they did that this year with a lot of the movies and we're just happy that we're one of them because we took a really bold swing with the film. roman polanski's military drama and officer in a spy won the silver lion grand jury price his wife accepted the award on his

behalf polanski didn't attend the event in person because he feared extradition to the u.s. for 978 statutory rape conviction festival organizers faced criticism for including to direct his work in the program in the wake of the me too movement but jury members defended the award seeing it was to film not the man being judged. another winner of tonight right anderson the swedish filmmaker took the civil lion for best director for his film about angeles this. well here's a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour u.s. president donald trump has canceled a secret peace talks with afghanistan's taliban leaders at camp david the move came after the insurgent group claimed responsibility for an attack in kabul that killed 12 people including an american soldier on thursday.

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