grama there you go it's all about their. primary job join me to meet the germans on t.w. post. this is d w news live from berlin donald trump abruptly counsels peace tools 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 a long campaign in afghanistan also coming up the rush of votes in regional and local elections around the country but concerns that the opposition is being shut out as threatening to overshadow the ballot. pope francis celebrates mouse with

hundreds of thousands of believers in madagascar and he has a message of hope for the younger generation and the poverty stricken african nation. among the cubans mckinnon thanks so much for joining us. it's a potential blow to ending u.s. engagement in afghanistan president trump says he's canceled peace talks with taliban leaders at camp david which was supposed to be taking place today in a tweet president trump said that he had scrapped the secret meeting after the taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in kabul 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 at least body doherty's 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 unfortunately in order to build false leverage they admitted 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 day for the taliban to. to brace a political life they did to do so and the. continued violence while they were talking to the city he was in touch with the mission and we didn't see any commitment by the. before and peace process except the talking and you know. continuing to go about this now of course 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. his pledge 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 for more on

this i'm joined by the. man who's been covering the afghan conflict for us since 2001. president says he's cooled off a secret meeting with taliban 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 electic afghan government that needs to own indeed these negotiations with the taliban and they also made it very clear that they will 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 trumpet ministration 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 need this 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 he go she ations are going but t's ear really side and wish to you know need to hear from him what he has to say but it looks like this is going to be you know leaving the road that was taken and now we need to see what is going to be the new road which is there's a complete stop of negotiations is it off the table or will we see a new round of negotiations at some point in an attempt by trump you know to regain strength at the negotiating table from his sight right as a negotiating tactic whatever it is it's clearly a step backwards and yet 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 in 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 asked 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 they don't is underpaid usman thanks so much. now some of the other stories making news around the world today turkish and u.s.

troops have conducted their 1st joint ground patrol in northeastern syria and korea has established what it calls a safe zone in the area aiming to keep kurdish fighters away from its border turkey also wants to resettle up to 1000000 syrian refugees in the region. hundreds of residents of great abaco island have arrived in the bahamas capital nassau survivors of hurricane dorian's assaults on their homes many will match by family and friends the united nations says some 70000 people are in need of food and shelter. hong kong riot police have again fired tear gas and rubber bullets that anti-government protesters this after activists set up barricades smashed windows and started street fires in one of hong kong's central districts earlier tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in front of the u.s. consulate urging president donald trump to quote liberate hong kong.

and 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 were also 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. now russians are heading to the polls for regional and municipal elections today with some of the saying that the vote is neither free nor fair president vladimir putin cost his votes in moscow where demonstrations erupted in recent weeks this came after authorities rejected several allies of the opposition leader alexina valmy as candidates the protest sparked 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 party

tell us why that is. well it really has to do with some simmering popular anger that we saw in 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 you know which is the party that backs president putin it's facing historically low polling numbers with only around 30 percent of the population saying they 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 to deny it is 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 but 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 to some of the opposition members who support election of ali 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 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 regional level if they can prevent candidates from india to see it getting

elected it's still a victory long term and could provide a model force. 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. hundreds of thousands of people turned out in madagascar's capital antananarivo to hear pope francis say mass it was the climax of his visit to the island nation the 1st by a head of the catholic church for 3 decades and his son francis told the country's youth not to lose hope despite the widespread poverty in their country. cheering crowds of the faithful near madagascar's capital antananarivo it's the 1st

time in 30 years that a pope has celebrated mass here expectations were running high i watch it yeah i got here at 3 yesterday afternoon and i stayed here overnight yet in the middle east this visit is to people hope that we can improve our situation. before . the situation is bleak especially in the capital around 2 thirds of the country's 26000000 people live below the poverty line. after here right on saturday pope francis criticized excessive deforestation saying it benefits only a few people while misusing one of the country's most important natural resources. francis had a similar message at sunday's mass the high point of his visit to the island speaking to the hundreds of thousands in the congregation the pope condemned cultures of privilege in which as he put it

a few live in well from the expense of the vast majority. of villages. on monday pope francis travels to marriages the 3rd stop on his 3 nation african tour. to tennis now and bianca undress who has beaten serena williams in straight sets to win the u.s. open in new york the 19 year old canadian had the strongest starts in the match taking the 1st set 63 and she then storms to a 511 lead in the 2nd. to win but williams fought back to tie the sets of 5 old andrea held there and won the set claiming her 1st at the ground slam title. in formula one shot 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 miss a p s l terry boss ass and his teammates lewis hamilton the

englishman still has a commanding lead in the driver's championship. now it's one of the most important awards in international cinema the golden lion from the venice film festival and this year's prize goes to a movie directed by the american told phillips the film is adult origin story of the batman villain starring $100.00 scenics in the title role it's the 1st golden lion for director told phillips and might put him and his lead actor on the path to glory. and finally residents raise their heads and held that breath on the weekend when a dead devil walks on a tightrope between the 2 between 2 of the city's tallest skyscraper the fearless some might say foolhardy crossing was pods of a festival marking moscow's founding 872 years ago.

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