this is the w. news live from donald trump abruptly council's 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 the americans in a long campaign in afghanistan and also coming up for russia votes in regional and local elections around the country but concerns that the opposition is being shot sound all threatening to overshadow the ballots and.

lived on the drama takes the golden lion award for best movie at the venice film festival to find out more about the title role performance that has all the critics very excited. i'm on you tube as mckinnon a very warm welcome to the show. it's a potential blow to ending u.s. engagement in afghanistan president donald trump says he has counseled peace talks with taliban leaders at camp david that was supposed to be taking place today in a tweet trump for president trump said that he had scrapped a secret meeting after the taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in kabul the u.s. and the taliban have been meeting since last year in the hopes of ending the afghanistan conflict. the body of an american soldier returns home

sergeant at least body to ortiz was the 16th u.s. service member killed in afghanistan this year one of a dozen people who died when a taliban car bomb exploded on thursday near the u.s. embassy in kabul. died inspired president trump to tweet an unexpected announcement . the major taliban leaders and the president of afghanistan were going to secretly meet with me on sunday on fortunately in order to build false leverage they had made it to an attack in kabul that killed one of our great soldiers i immediately canceled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. it has been 18 years since the u.s. invaded afghanistan after the september 11th attacks on new york city by its ally al qaida thousands of coalition troops have died as well as tens of thousands of afghan troops and civilians. the afghan government has been critical of the

negotiations between the u.s. and the taliban which have largely sidelined afghan officials but a spokesperson welcomes trump's announcement. there was an important people to talk to. to brace a political life they did to do so and they. continued violence while they were talking to the city he was in in touch with the mission and we didn't see any commitment by the time before any peace process except talking and you know. continue to go have never popper's meanwhile the taliban said the decision will harm the u.s. more than anyone else but seem to leave the door open to more talks. trump has pledged to withdraw the remaining 14000 u.s. troops from afghanistan but faces resistance from the afghan government. some u.s. lawmakers who say it's too early to leave the afghans on the road. and some more on

this we're joined by his journalist in kabul hi ali president trump says he has cooled off a secret meeting with taliban leaders what are we hearing there from the afghan government what's their reaction so that one government is saying that basically you know they would only accept a reasonable piece of an appropriate peace that would include a cease fire that would see the taleban teaching any attacks that would harm 1000000000 and that would require face to face talks with the one government have been left out of the process in the 9 rounds that have been held in doha they're also saying that this is further proof that the september 20th presidential elections lead to go ahead because to them only a democratically elected government government turn speak directly with the telephone and negotiate what they call an appropriate or reasonable peace now this is quite a turnaround given that the u.s.

afghanistan on boy said that recently the trumpet ministration was on the threshold of an agreement with the taliban how close was they ran into an agreement so a quote according to my colleagues thought when he last came to kabul he said that they are essentially in principle ready for a peace deal and that they were waiting for trump signature now obviously with trump going back on the word now just called many things into question but we have to remember is that trump has gone back on his word in the past it was in late 2017 or early 2018 when trying to essentially set that i refused to negotiate with them their chilling people it was after a series of attacks in kabul and other cities and then we saw only a couple months later he sent on my colleagues and the 9 rounds of talks began so again this is a question of is this achievement definitive no coming from the u.s. president. and this is clearly a step backwards but of course president trump still has a campaign promise to withdraw american troops from afghanistan as soon as possible

so is that something that he can still deliver on given that given what's happened there this is exactly the question right so so the question is what led trump to do this because up at so only a day ago you know there were all there was all kinds of talks in kabul about you know there were even rumors that he was in make this announcement on the anniversary of 911 i'm sort of like his way of showing you his triumphant success in doing what neither bush nor obama could do and again we've seen that the trumpet ministration you know the president will say one thing is cabinet members will say another his generals will be another so it's very difficult to gauge what exactly you know trumpet thank you and how he able to coordinate this with his government all right sally t.-c. in kabul thanks so much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world turkish and u.s. troops have conducted the 1st joint ground patrol in northeastern syria and purr

has established what it calls a safe zone in the area aiming to keep kurdish fighters away from its buddha turkey also wants to resettle up to 1000000 syrian refugees in the region. police have begun to disperse crowds in hong kong off to thousands of protesters marched to the u.s. consulate an urge president to quote liberate the city demonstrations the calling for help from foreign governments as they press for more democratic freedoms beijing meanwhile has alleged that hostile foreign groups have been. asked. china's trade has shrunk in august as the tariff war between beijing and washington worsens beijing's global exports fell by one percent from last year while 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. hundreds of thousands have turned up in madagascar capital

antananarivo to hear pope francis say mass on his visit the pontiff encouraged the country's use not to lose hope despite widespread poverty front says this is mozambique earlier in the week and he's due to visit nourishes before ending his african. now russians are heading to the polls for regional and municipal elections today with some observers saying that the vote is neither free nor fat president vladimir putin caused his in moscow where demonstrations erupted in recent weeks this came after authorities rejected several allies of opposition leader election of alamy as candidates the protest sponsored police crackdown there around 2000 people detained. ok let's bring in our correspondent our until today who's in moscow ira know these regional elections of being seen as

a serious test for the russian president vladimir putin and his united russia party 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 it as c.e.o. 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 region 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 a surprise loss to opposition candidates now when it comes to that brand you deny to 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 me in the midst of a ballot here have distanced themselves from the party are 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 pull of 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 i'm sorry 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 and they're attempting to get people that will 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 you know to see it getting elected it's still a victory long term and could provide a model on. for future electoral of success in upcoming elections but many of the experts i'm talking to here actually say that this 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 now until 10 and most i think say much. now the venice film festival is one of the highlights of the year for cinema lovers and this year the award of the coveted golden lion marks a step away from the more traditional art house what is the best film went to a dark take on the batman comic book that and. one of the audiences favorites turned out to be the big winner at this year's venice film festival torn phillips joke took the golden lion starring joaquin phoenix the film is

a dramatic take on the origins of batman comic book villain the joker. this is the last time we'll be meeting. you how the city here. is the same questions over. his future. are you having a good or fast. look at it. like really it's just. starting a new. pair of critics celebrating joker is a daring reboot of the d.c. comics and a hero and praising him phoenix's performance. this

festival has 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 of really bold swing with. roman polanski's military drama and office and despite one misses the lion the grand jury prize his wife accepted the award on his behalf polanski didn't attend the event in the person because he fears extradition to the u.s. for a 900. 78 statutory rape conviction in. the system organizes face criticism for including the director's work in the program in the wake of the me too movement but jury members defended the award saying it was the film not the man being judged. another winner of the night the swedish film about endlessness won for best director producer accepted on behalf of director rory anderson.

to tennis now on. who has beaten serena williams in straight sets to win the u.s. open in new york the 19 year old canadian had the stronger start in the match taking the 1st set 63 then stormed to a 51 lead in the 2nd and looked certain to win but williams fought back to tie the set at 5 and various who held her nerves though and she won the set claiming her 1st ever grand slam title. and in formula one charlotte clack has sent local fans into raptures by winning the italian brawn prix in a ferrari it was the 2nd victory in a row for the 21 year old driver who beat home a pair of must say to terry bought us and his team mate lewis hamilton hamilton the english man still has a c'mon ding lead in the drive is championship. you're watching the news

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