well a big story this morning the taliban has launched a series of missile attacks or diplomatic district of the afghan capital as the country's president was delivering a holiday speech earlier the afghan leader had proposed a cease fire during the holiday. the syrian army gears up to retake the militant held on played it live western media outlets are warning of a civilian massacre massacre potentially coming up but the same outlets have failing to mention the area is under the control of jihadist groups accused of war crime. the figure in the me to campaign against sexual harassment is a form of fellow actor who alleges that she raped him when he was seventeen.

by the very good morning says r.t. international with me kevin owen live in moscow it's just eleven am in the headlines first though a developing story to tell you about several missiles have hit the center of the afghan capital of kabul this morning local police say the taliban is behind the attack no injuries reported that the missiles landed in the diplomatic district of kabul where government buildings are situated some of them hit the presidential palace and one reportedly struck the u.s. embassy is sold how members the country's president ironically was giving a holiday speech the taliban has been increasing its military activity there lately with another assault carried out by the group only yesterday monday taliban fighters ambushed three buses then taking almost two hundred people hostage later afghan security forces reportedly freed nearly a hundred fifty of them the bus raid came shortly after the afghan president had offered a cease fire during the muslim holiday ied started today daniel hawkins has more.

the three month ceasefire proposed by president garny is not the first such motion in afghanistan it probably won't be the last that has the blessing of the us time for peace has a better ring to it than war on terror regardless the taliban are firmly rejected it instead continuing a countrywide military offensive. moment no no no no no. no no i mean nothing you know. i saw my friend dying who was among thirteen people including children even women who were killed during an arab street last night and there is no attention from the government no facilities for the residents of the dead bodies are still on the road signs that i've also been injured. military commanders say the truce will only

benefit the u.s. led forces they've also been clear no peace will be possible in afghanistan as long as the foreign occupation carries on and as coalition forces approach their seventeenth year of operations in the country how simple things seemed all those years ago we acted and the taliban no longer is in power in afghanistan which is not only good for the security of the free world it is incredibly good for the people who suffered in afghanistan under barbaric rule a decade and a half later the taliban control large swathes of territory and are able to strike at security forces and civilians almost that will afghanistan has been a battleground for various militant groups something the u.s. views pragmatically the taliban are fighting isis and we encourage that because isis needs to be destroyed the afghan question has forced the u.s. to sway between a military solution and negotiations with the taliban was such

a hot cold rhetoric from the white house so it's hardly surprising. the possibility of mediation as taking years to arise it's been quite a balancing act for washington to have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish and i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trembles as a hero of the first you know of him society the boy before the call of the taliban when their choices are to reconcile live in irrelevance or die in september taliban representatives have been invited for talks in moscow alongside to government officials bypassing the united states if successful these could become a step towards the long list ceasefire of them all a permanent solution to a decades long cycle of violence something that today looks as this isn't as ever.

will we discuss the prospects of the talks between the taliban and the afghan government with investigative journalist nicholas davis and also political analysts into the. the afghan government just recently understood the crucial rule by the us other superpowers in that region in russia of course is one of the strongest country for a shock and a pivotal role in in mediating between the taliban and the afghan government and everybody in afghanistan is hoping that something good will happen after the conference in moscow in russia mediating. will be also invited the afghan government could be also a participant of the conference so there could be some more progress in afghanistan because the different the negotiation in the introduction between the afghan government and taliban is just under very fast speed the taliban have obvious on

their side have concluded that you know they need to apply more pressure to force the u.s. to talk to them in a sense it's ironic because you know the u.s. have always talked about applying enough military pressure to bring the taliban to negotiations to the peace table that has always been the official u.s. policy that in fact it's the taliban who are doing that and. probably have more chance of success. the syrian army is gearing up for offensive on the last major rebel stronghold the battle for the enclave marks the final stage of the syrian war if forces manage to retake it it will bring almost the entire country back under government control however ahead of the campaign the western media has been doubling down on its narrative against a mascot with some saying that assad forces a certain to inflict heavy civilian casualties the same outlets though failed to

mention the enclave was under control of jihadi groups accused of war crimes. it takes a closer look. these yagur a few of the syrian civil war has strong it's now pretty much about this part of the country the northwest basically here in and around it is where you'll find all the armed rebel groups the ones still putting up a real fight no wonder getting hold of this area would be the ultimate success for damascus five days after multiple airstrikes hit this once quiet neighborhood province killing dozens of people shattering whatever illusion of safety to me it existed you listen to the c.n.n. piece and get the impression it looked province had been a peaceful oasis still showered by those bombs how about telling the viewers about the dicey melting pot it actually is the syrian army has been on a mission to win back land those rebels or even internationally recognized

terrorists who stood in their way were given two options take out the white flag or get a one way ticket to it no kidding some were moved there on buses and that's when the real mess began instead of teaming up various groups and went to war with each other and let's not forget some of the mightiest organizations running the show their moderates. h. t. s. or to. arguably the most powerful and hair raising the very same people who used to be known as moose row or syria's al qaida branch and if that name doesn't ring a bell just picture nine eleven or any other bloody carnage that took responsibility for.

this is quite a trio to those who've heard of nor aldin. will likely associate them with the beheading of a palestinian boy on camera they've also been blamed for torturing journalists and aid workers jaish al islam paraded kates hostages through the damascus suburbs they once controlled only to use them as human shields later this group along with was firmly on john kerry's terrorist list when he was in charge of the state department we've seen pictures we've heard testimony of shocking crimes committed by our by book by joshua. by al-shabaab it seems even in london a staunch ally of some rebel groups has lost patients britain won't send any more cash to fighters an adlib as it says in the times newspaper u.k. diplomats have admitted the remaining rebel areas are falling into the grip of the

hottest t.v. giant sky news came up with a teaser for their exclusive report from edward province on twitter but online many warned by and the media's attempts to portray that place as just a rebel held clave so the question is if live is mainly ruled by al qaida who gave sky news the exclusive access they are not rebels there. which rebels did you get access to perhaps they've seen this reporting tactic once before during the siege of syria's economic hub aleppo activists say close to one hundred children have been killed in that beeston rebel held area of aleppo. battled districts of rebel held unable to convince moscow to stop bombing civilians all they talked about was how civilians and moderate opposition fighters were being slaughtered by assad and. the russians there was no mention of the harvest though

and they're since something our reporter saw with their own eyes. and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. beyond that you're into the rebel held parts of aleppo that is the black flag of job nusra. brainchild in the syrian civil war. though. a year ago we had. our duma always black and white evil regime again. that enjoyed killing.

a child which is the ocean accompli reality. one of most prominent figures in the me too movement against harassment has now been accused of sexual assault herself a talent actress say a gentle as being sued by a former colleague who claims that she abused him when he was seventeen goes down of picks up the story. a star in dozens of movies director author and music contributor to bands like placebo or gentle jerk of all trades charged headlong to accuse the now it is graced hollywood producer harvey weinstein of sexually abusing him pioneering the me too movement blundell it when women have the same power as men i'm sure this type of violence will no longer happen the cases of women and buz in their parents i hope and i believe there because of need to

everyone has a voice everyone has a chance to speak out and inspiring called by all means yet let me replay you one quick bit for you. the cases of women imbues in their parents' well according to a report by the new york times are gentle herself falls into that category the investigation claims the activist paid nearly four hundred thousand dollars in hush money to a guy called jimmy bennett who accused argento of sexually assaulting him in two thousand and thirteen now even a brief glimpse around social media shows the two have quite a history in two thousand and four bennett played a son of a character in one of the movies and since then a very cordial relationship was maintained waiting for my long lost son miss you mama this borderline flirting between the two has left questions hanging over the grave of the trauma or gentle dealt out why did she agreed to foot the certain bill

then well bernard at the time of the incident was a teenager seventeen one year short of the age of consent in california so technically our gentil faced a statutory rape case this is the latest but not the first time champions of me to a noble and valiant movement have cost shared on their own cause in another case a feminist professor at new york university was actually found guilty of sexually harassing a gay student of hers in response her defenders appealed to a democrat cheve mint and wit. apart from those in the me two ranks undermining its own cause there's another problem innocent victims last year one traffic hungry swedish tabloid published anonymous accusations against a stockholm theater director again the article gave no names no one revealed

themselves after the publication either stilled benny frederick zones career was ruined after sixteen years at the helm of his theater here is a mind after several months he took his own life after his death and investigation revealed he did nothing wrong just a week later he must have felt like falling into a bottomless abyss and then he hadn't been planning for a long time to take his life he just didn't make it that day it was too bad for many me too helped overcome the terror of public shame and potential vengeance it showed that no one is immune to justice but as of now hypocrisy and exploitation for personal gain could bring about its demise. we spoke to jennifer braden a legal analyst she told us the positive aspects of the me to campaign to bring out weighed by people exploiting it for their own ends she thought. unfortunately the entire impact of the meta campaign it's hasn't been as positive as it should have

been theoretically had a good thought to come out in the first place there was a good motivation behind it which is that victims deserve to have a voice they deserve to have their stories be heard but unfortunately especially in the united states there are so many politics behind this and because the need to movement had so much press and publicity it's now being used for all these different motivations whether it's to shift blame away from somebody else or to try to pretend that you're a hero or in some cases we're finding now that people who weren't getting a lot of publicity as actors or actresses or in other avenues are now getting much more publicity as the inner voice of the me too movement because of how popular became. the day's news coming up hopefully we're going to get developments of from the afghan capital earlier on president show of going he was speaking live on television to celebrate eat there were explosions were heard near the presidential palace there's been quite a bit of an instant going on that

a small and it's believed the taliban militants were attacking the palace how did it live in former coming up here one of the international after the break. and when else so it seems wrong. why don't we all just don't. get to see it just didn't come out to. and indeed it was betrayed. when so many find themselves worlds apart we just of the common ground. good politicians do something to. put themselves on the lawn they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to be. it's a right to be for us this is what before us three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of our. question. hi again you're watching out international live from moscow this morning it's eleven eighteen here now we're going back to afghanistan as promised a massive explosion there amongst others reported in the country's capital kabul earlier the taliban launched a missile attack it appears on the diplomatic district of the city just as the country's president was delivering a holiday speech on t.v.

could be heard behind him apparently no casualties reported get a live update go to kabul looking to listen to fires he's going on in this morning can you wrap up what's been happening as you're understanding it there on the saying. what it has been more than three hours that we still have been hearing some r.p.g. and gunfire from this side which is not more than six kilometers from our location and here. police believes that there have been two up to three assailants involved into this attack and the source for some up to ten rockets have been fired into different locations of kabul including p.t. one p.t. two nine ten and sixteen kabul police says that two policemen have been slightly injured into these attacks. look asian have been evacuated the firefighters arrived and tried trying to douse and we have to wait and

see what will be the latest about because we still do not have any clue about the civilian casualties and you know it has been one of the one of the major attacks i mean a lot of rocket attacks that have been launched in kabul since back in you know several months however taliban. you know i haven't claimed responsibility for this but it's believed to be that there are the taliban assailants. the afghan president had proposed a cease fire on this muslim holiday hadn't they on this first of all what came of. exactly people here now are questioning this process or the announcement of the government because the afghan government declares a conditional cease fire the taliban hasn't responded yet and if the taliban are behind this specific attack so it has

a quite obvious answer that the answer would be no but they haven't declared anything about this they haven't taken any position or they haven't said anything but yesterday they have carried out an ambush in north and afghanistan and taken some twelve hostages out of over one hundred over one hundred passengers while traveling by bus in northern afghanistan but also they have released some hundreds of afghan forces that were in their captive back in the south in afghanistan in northern afghanistan and they have been publishing their videos but they have not said anything about this ceasefire or haven't any taken to haven't taken any reaction analysts believe that it's directly dependent to regional consensus because taliban have not recognized the afghan government does a legitimate government that's why they have been trying to speak to the americans and however you know the u.s.

china pakistan have declared their support from the afghan government's decision but we have to wait and see what will be you know taliban's reaction about this just really really briefly twenty seconds or so as you say this happened this morning this latest violence it could be heard on television as. he was giving a speech about this holiday festival live on telling. i suppose the timing of that should be taken into account that we give maximum publicising and is it over now does it look like the authorities have got a handle on it is it quiet or is it still ongoing the situation that. it's still ongoing we have been hearing some gunfire from the area which is not more than six kilometers from our location here they have been placed in a location behind a mosque we had a terrible explosion back some months ago there and you know they have been using police believes that they have used

a couple of vehicles and mounted their mortar launcher and still they are not sure police forces are not sure and saying that the clearance operation is going on but we believe that up to three assailants are involved into this they are still not sure because the you know the location has caught fire the government forces have launched both air and ground operation against them and evacuated their location from the civilians and still they are fighting actually the assailants are a soldier will stay safe self keep us posted throughout the afternoon if you will having your own way with trying to be with us and explain what's happening there behind you there could be an assault and pfizer. the u.s. has found a new culprit when it comes to election meddling china mainstream media those still obsessed with russia's alleged involvement in american votes and now it's raised the alarm over the upcoming midterms to wrapping all this up caleb maupin. as america prepares for the mid-term november elections the mainstream media is

beating that same dead horse from twenty sixteen if there is a problem you know who we can blame us and hackers ahead of them in ten i was arrogant and security of our next election the russians are targeting members of congress the us midterm elections are just around the corner and russia's attack continues to haunt the united states russian election interference in the twenty thousand midterms the russians have not reduced their hacking but it looks like russia is not the only country capable of assembling an army of keyboard crunchers to maniacally dismantled democracy trump says that another global adversary of the united states is getting in on the action one of the foods that are so focused on looking only at russia she also looking in another direction china but in the end if we are smart tough and well prepared we will get along with everyone so why does trump want everyone to focus on china so badly well trump is waging

a trade war against china a trade war that's quite unpopular with lots of american farmers right now we're doing a fair distance there that we have no control over anything or are they based in washington between the united states and the chinese we have no control over there but the markets are going to know that this continues for me like the time they're going to be certain people are not going to farm and i would say no matter what you think of trump's tariffs nobody likes the idea of china coming into the country and messing up our election process trump wants us to rally around the flag and protect our ballot boxes come to think of it this could be used against any country they don't want you to like seems like john bolton has figured that out i can say definitively that it's a sufficient national security concern about cheney's meddling iranian meddling in north korea meddling that we're taking steps to try and prevent it so all four of those countries really. our intelligence shows that there are a number of others that are looking at and considering particularly in two thousand

and eighteen of course no actual evidence is being provided but who needs evidence anymore these days anyhow now iran russia china and north korea all plotting to meddle in the upcoming elections we shouldn't be surprised that the congress is now working on the election security bill but it's interesting to note that despite this four way pending an attack it seems like this bill will not actually include a hand counted audit but don't worry those easily hacked computer voting systems they can handle anything trump is obviously using china as sort of this target to make it the new big bad guy the big justification he has had for at least the steel tariffs is that because the chinese government gives such a huge a subsidy to its own domestic steel production that we need to fight back of course he's going to want secondary justifications you know suggesting that china trying to influence elections or whatever else the united states has a horrific record in foreign policy the u.s.

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