this is d w news life from donald trump abruptly councils peace talks with the taliban and the us president says the move is in response to a taliban attack in kabul so is this the end of the peace process that's been looking to wrap up america's long campaign in afghanistan and also coming up russia votes in regional and local elections around the country but concerns that be off position as being shots out are threatening to overshadow the balance will be live in moscow athens was planning to go

a. little dark drama takes the golden lion award for best movie at the venice film festival we'll find out more about the title role performance that has all the critics who are very it's like. i'm an eclipse mackinnon thanks so much for joining us. it is a potential blow to ending u.s. engagement in afghanistan president donald trump says he has canceled peace talks with taliban leaders at camp david which we were supposed to be taking place today and a tweet the president said that he had scrapped the secret me saying after the taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb in kabul that killed a dozen people including an american soldier the u.s. and the taliban have been missing since last year in the hopes of ending the afghanistan conflict the body of an american soldier returns home sergeant

ileus but authorities age 34 was the 16th u.s. service member killed in afghanistan this year and one of a dozen people who died when a taliban car bomb exploded on thursday near the u.s. embassy in kabul. on saturday evening president trump took to twitter to announce that he'd canceled a secret meeting at camp david with taliban leaders after the insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack twitter users were angry when they heard of his plan to host members of the taliban on american soil so close to the anniversary of the september 11th attacks by al qaida it was those attacks 18 years ago that prompted the u.s. to invade afghanistan to go after the taliban who were harboring al qaeda leaders more than 2400 u.s. troops have been killed since the invasion. afghan leaders including president ashraf ghani have been increasingly critical of a draft deal reached between u.s.

special envoy. and taliban representatives in doha this week while those talks were going on taliban fighters have launched a fresh offensive a stance of lead to strengthen their negotiating position. trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but the president has been under pressure from the afghan government and some u.s. lawmakers who mistrust the taliban and think it's too early to withdraw american forces. and for more on this i'm joined by the us man has been covering the afghan conflict for us since 2001. and president trump says he's called off the secret meeting with taliban leaders have we heard from the afghan government yet what's their reaction. they totally support this move they were very apprehensive of these emerging framework agreement between the united

states and the taliban and they have even go as far as saying look at can only be us the electic ethic and government that needs to own it and delete these negotiations with the taliban and they also made it very clear that they would push forward with elections presidential elections scheduled for september 28th because they say you know we need leverage at the conference table once we get back there so this is obviously quite a turnaround bearing in mind that the u.s. afghanistan envoy said recently that the trump administration was on the threshold of an agreement with the taliban how close were they really i think the fact that we might have seen this whole camp david meeting is indicating that we were actually very close of course rather sickly to a lot of allies who are completely kept in the dark it's that's a creative and now we see it's being called off and done my holiday that the u.s. special envoy is very quiet at the moment usually like the president he's tweeting

quite a bit on how negotiations are going but he's eerily silent we still you know need to hear from him what he has to say but it looks like this is going to be you know even the road that was taken and now we need to see what is going to be the new road which is there is a complete stop off negotiations is it off the table or will we see a new round of negotiations at some point in an attempt by you know to regain strength at the negotiating table from his site as a negotiating tactic whatever it is it's clearly a step backwards and yet the president did make a campaign promise didn't he to withdraw american troops from afghanistan as soon as possible so can he still deliver on that given what's happening now i think he still wants to be seen as the godfather who made a possible deal with the taliban possible. but maybe he also realized that he was rushing too much that negotiating peace and fact just take time because what we have seen is framework agreement talks we still needed to see at some point the

afghan government joining the talks and that's maybe why we would have seen this camp david initiative which is now completely off the table and i think now he needs to sit with his advisers and try to figure out where do we go from here in his tweet he peculiarly us the taliban how long do you intend to fight and my answer to that would be probably longer than you are prepared to fight right many questions still to be answered dolly is underpaid usman thanks so much. turkish and u.s. troops have conducted their 1st joint patrol in northeastern syria it's part of the planned so-called safe so that neighboring turkey has been pressing for in the war torn region and hopes the buffer zone will keep syrian kurdish fighters which it considers a threat away from turkey's border but the u.s. sees the kurds as allies in the fight against islamic state turkey also says some

syrian refugees could be resettled in the. ok let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world police have begun to disperse crowds in hong kong after thousands of protesters marched to be u.s. consulate and urged president donald trump to quote liberate the city demonstrators all calling for help from foreign governments as they press for more democratic freedoms beijing meanwhile has alleged that hostile foreign groups have been fermenting the unrest. china's trade has shrunk in august as the tariff wall between beijing and washington worsens beijing's global exports fell by one percent from last year all imports what will slow down chinese trade with the u.s. was badly affected exports to washington sank 16 percent while imports of u.s. goods also took a severe hit. iran says european 40 policies have failed to fulfill their

commitments under terror nuclear deal with world powers the country's nuclear chief made the remark during a visit by the acting head of the international atomic energy agency this comes just a day off to terror on announced it would begin using centrifuges for him by the 2015 deal. and hundreds of thousands of turned up and not a gas goes capital antananarivo to hear pope francis say mass previously on his visit the pontiff encourage the country's youth not to lose hope. spikes financial difficulties francis visited mozambique earlier in the week he's due to visit nourishes before ending his africa and. now russians are heading to the polls for regional and municipal elections today with some observers saying that the vote is neither free nor a fair president of the blood and may have cost his votes in moscow led demonstrations erupted in recent weeks and this came after authorities rejected

several allies of opposition leader and involve me as candidates the protest spots a police crackdown with around 2000 people detained. ok let's bring in our correspondent our until today who's in moscow are in of these regional elections of being seen as a serious test for the russian president vladimir putin and his united russia policy tell us why this is. well it really has to do with some simmering popular anger that we saw and manifest itself in the demonstrations we've seen in recent weeks and it really comes at a very inopportune time for you know you to see a which is the party that backs president putin it's facing historically low polling numbers with only around 30 percent of the population seen the support the ruling party and similar regional elections last year actually shown that unlike in the past where just being on the go to see a ticket was

a guarantee of election electoral success many candidates lost in surprise last opposition candidates now when it comes to that brand you deny it as see in the major cities we're talking about moscow and st petersburg it's become so toxic that many of the candidates running on meet the municipal ballot here have distanced themselves from the party or actually running as independents for fear that association with the party could actually cause open them up to a net an attack from the opposition candidates now that's not to say that in the big picture that vladimir putin is maybe in danger of losing power here in russia but it seems that the apparatus that he's built up over the last 20 years that guarantees his support is starting to lose some of its support among the electorate ok now what outcome is the opposition campaigning for considering that many of its candidates have actually been barred from running. well the electorate are inside the opposition rather isn't expecting a surprise win here instead some of the opposition members who support alexina

volumnia who is the most prominent opposition representative here and moscow are pulling forth they're calling smart voting they're attempting to get people that who support them to back a list of candidates that they feel have the best chance of defeating candidates who are backed by eugene assia basically what they're saying is even if members of their own party aren't getting elected to the minutes at the municipal level or at the the regional level if they can prevent candidates from the united see it getting elected it's still a victory long term and could. provide a model for future electoral success in upcoming elections but many of the experts i'm talking to here actually say you know that the smart voting scheme is an interesting one but actually not really what the opposition be focusing on and said they're saying that the opposition has already had extreme success because they've managed to mobilize their base in a way that we haven't seen here in russia in the last 6 or 7 years all right aren't children in moscow thanks so much thank you. the venice film festival is

one of the highlights of the year for cinema love is now this year the award of the coveted golden lion marked a step away from the more traditional art house when as the best film went to joka a dark take on the batman comic book villain. one of the audience's favorites turned out to be the big winner of this year's fanny's film festival todd phillips is juka took the golden lion staring kwaku phoenix the film this address to take on the origins of batman comic book than the joker. this is the last time we'll be meeting. in the studio here. it is just this one question server. has to try out. do you have really going to. get it.

i really would seriously. do the. guardian new to. carry our critics are celebrating joker as a daring reboot of the d.c. comics antihero and pricing whacking phoenix's performance. this bus was 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. roman polanski's military drama and officer in a spy won the civil law and grunge jerry price his wife accepted the award on his behalf polanski didn't attend the event in person because he fears extradition to the u.s. for $978.00 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 roy anderson the swedish filmmaker took to super volume for best director for his stew about angeles this. all right just enough time for some tennis news now on bianca under a ask who has beaten serina williams in straight sets to win the u.s. open in new york a 19 year old canadian had a stronger start to the match taking the 1st set 63 she then stormed to a 51 lead in the 2nd and looked certain to win but williams fought back to tie the set at 5 under-estimate held her there and she won the set claiming her 1st ever grand slam title. you're watching

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