headline stories. talks with taliban militants in the. r t. the group who rejects the possibility of such negotiations. the americans. with. the americans against islamic state. donald trump says his love for a north korean leader kim jong.

il referendum which was met with a. run the clock across the world this is r.t. international from the team and myself you know a little welcome to our top story after seventeen years of war in afghanistan the united states has hinted it's open to negotiations with the taliban widely considered a terrorist organization however it doesn't seem the militants would be willing to accept the offer especially considering that control of the group continues to hold ground was granted rare access to a militant commander who rejected the possibility of such talks. with the americans never to cooperate with the taliban and the taliban. has never see

americans again to cooperate against islamic states and the americans are bombing us but we fight against isis this is ministration has made it clear that it is prepared to engage with and participate in the go with both the taliban and the afghan government the leadership of the town about doesn't want to negotiate with the americans and has never want to do is go to the us defense secretary james mattis just had a meet and greet with the afghan president in kabul they finally decided to play nice in a bid to get the taliban down to talks but just one day before their words of peace washington dropped a big f. thirty five b. bomb on the taliban looks like the peace process is getting off on the right foot especially when the u.s. has for years led up to this moment promising both talk and terror i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement to the taliban when their choices are to reconcile live in

a relevance. to have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish so it's no surprise the taliban is reluctant to trust promises of peace and why would they seek it anyway in the past several months the taliban has made substantial territorial gains their spring offensive took coalition forces completely off guard seizing regions all over afghanistan over one hundred soldiers and police officers were killed in just one week of the offensive and that's not even counting last week's u.n. report covering civilian casualties in battles between the coalition and taliban forces. in the city in any dust over the show with all these was you cannot differentiate between going to since this is not the first time the. it is going to disability so good time is still going to.

have to go to. the. americas two thousand and one invasion of afghanistan hoped to oust the taliban from power but what materialized it was a seventeen year long war the longest conflict in u.s. history and now fast approaching are monumental peace talks to be held in moscow between the taliban and the afghan government but this is the most problem we can confirm that we will attend the moscow conference we are waiting for the date and agenda then we would decide what can be achieved from the conference. if successful these talks could mark a step forward in a conflict that currently has no end in sight donald quarter r.t.

. now after a roller coaster all off diplomatic relationship don't trump has openly professed his affection for a north korean leader kim jong. i was really being tough and so was she and we loved back and forth and then we fell in love. so really he wrote me beautiful letters and the great letters that i was trying talking to supporters over the weekend describing how in time had gone from it's complicated to in a relationship a tale as old as time isn't it too volatile world leaders separated by thousands of kilometers first of each other's throats then over time and numerous heartfelt letters magic happens to have received two letters from. much personal cars it was magnificent very strong letter form incredible letters. one i showed one of the

letters just. to prime minister and he said this is actually a groundbreaking letter so against all odds there and lo at least according to trump the relationship is not without its problems now is not the time to ease pressure verify denuclearization of north korean until such time as that occurs the economic sanctions the sanctions been put in place by the united nations security council will remain in place leaving one side of the trust issues. the perception that sanctions can bring us to our knees is a pipe dream of people who are ignorant about this but the problem is that they continue sanctions deepening on mistrust. but all hope may not be lost a second summit between the pair is still on the table but make no mistake about it there is real progress being made and we're going to continue to work at it but until the point in time where as the president says that we could be wrong it may not happen but until such time as we conclude we can't get this done we're going to

continue to drive to achieve the progress continue the progress which we've already made but let's not forget how difficult getting that first date was some of that is never the us to put aside their differences and have a magical time in finger. thank you for that. and while team trump here for more the north i could be straight kim has already met with his south korean counterpart three times and to add salt to that one president and a pair of north korean hunting dogs by can yank as

a symbol of the warming relationship to the spell trouble in paradise or trouble. well the director of the nuclear studies institute of washington d.c. these american university thinks trump seemingly warm words for north korea doesn't correspond with reality. this is very bizarre we know that trump is mercurial we know that trump is ration of poll so we know that trump is not a traditional diplomat in any way. so. the better that we be talking better that trump is sending love letters to kim rather than hate tweets like you were doing for a while so you know it's as giving very very mixed signals one of the things that trump has said it all does the administration have said is that they want to maintain the sanctions they want to keep the pressure on north korea the north korean foreign minister has said that the u.s.

sanctions are a hostile policy so if you look at what the north korean foreign minister said it wasn't all love letters best friends he was saying that if the united states had adopted the same attitudes that south korea had adopted and that we'd be. well on the path toward peace and denuclearization. to another every headline stories this hour it's a year today since the rest of the spanish region of catalonia held an independence referendum hundreds of thousands voted to secede from spain while madrid branded the whole thing illegal crowds of people have once more been gathering to push for independent. over five fellows in turn. on sunday some protesters threw projectiles out police at the demonstration largely went off without major incident activists

have also been sharing their experience of last year's book with us. i think we all lost something that day and the feeling of helplessness that i had i think it does not go away easily you know we voted that we wanted the republic and the year has gone by and we haven't achieved any result we come to ask the government to comply with the popular mandate and on the other hand we come to say that they are keeping forces have no place within the catalan republic this is not their home and we want the. medina of another brick style in the regions bid to be free of spain's rule. a year after cats linus failed attempt to break away from spain the situation in the region remains deadlocked back than madrid called the referendum on independence illegal and refused to acknowledge it as a result of police crackdown on demonstrators left hundreds of people injured on

the anniversary there are similar violent scenes on the streets of catalan as capital. we do know is that just two blocks away from here there was another polling station at least raided that building and forcibly removed people out of there are hundreds of people injured as bodies attacked peaceful voters that's really the price down the street a lot of people are shouting at national police forces to leave the region a lot of money out and it be to seize on the biggest constitutional crisis and the country for decades and if we're twenty seventeen madrid to control of catalan government and put eight of the deposed members in jail and the oust catalan leader of fled the country to belcher with an international arrest warrant on his hat the

spanish government dissolved the catalan parliament to control of local police forces and called for snap elections this measure we go to implement has a lot to do with the goal of holding an election in catalonia the region will have to hold an election within six months the minds engineers to hold it as soon as we recover but that didn't bring the relief madrid had hoped for and stats kathlyn poor independence party has held their absolute majority in the vote and put in power a hardline separatist leader bringing an end to seven months of direct rule from a treat and june this year spain welcomed its own new prime minister who adopted a softer tone to. as cattle anya and offered the fresh start to negotiations on its status the catalan leader wasn't so flexible and insisted only on holding it legally binding referendum on independence the issue of the independence remains divisive in the region with paul suggesting capped loans are almost evenly split on

whether to stay part of spain. the truth is that many people feel disappointed because they thought everything was heading towards the final goal of independence yet despite some people feeling tired many of us are determined to continue forward . we will continue to fight for independence despite all the many difficulties we'll do day by day i'm very much against it now is not the time for cattle on it to become independent for me it would be better to leave things as they are moving spain and we are spanish me now fear that failure to find common ground in catalonia would likely spill into and no other political crisis triggering another snap election sometime in early twenty nineteen independence is a saga that could yet have another anniversary next october first. medina customer breaking down in the story while journalist martin roberts believes madrid is

unlikely to approve an independence referendum any time soon. the new prime minister in spain who really placed his predecessor money on a run in june has adopted a more conciliatory tone by arranging for cuts elaan prisoners who were jailed after last year's failed independence but he's agreed for extra aid to be given to custom india things like this is held direct talks however he said this a referendum is not possible because that would require a constitutional amendment which in turn would require two thirds majority in parliament and even then you would have to dissolve parliament and call fresh elections pederast sentient is not going to want to do with us because he only has a quarter of the seats in parliament he's governing did a very small minority so the chances that of legal referendum are particularly slim

a lock luster turnout leaves one southern european country with an identity crisis we get into that in a row in ninety seconds time touch plenty more besides. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other that it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. will

make this manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. in the middle of the room sick. really low. nine sixteen am this monday morning here in moscow welcome back a deadline is looming for residents of a tiny palestinian better when village in the disputed west bank territory it's true to be demolished by israeli bulldozers on monday after a near a decade long battle to save it home to really two hundred people it lies near

a highway between two israeli settlements villagers have rejected two location alternatives offered by israel european countries human rights organizations have condemned the move while the united nations said the demolition of the village made even a month to a war crime with thousands of palestinians are expected to rise up the village to protest the demolition while the general strike is planned across the west. definitely you know she who are stressed when we heard about the demolishing order placed in the school and we trust more when we heard that they will demolish the community every night when we see it together we say it's our last night here in the community because it any moment the soldiers might come to demolish they don't camp this is just a bedouin house they don't think the bedouins are human beings they don't care that but it was the citizens of this country they don't care that bedouins live on this land not the country's land. where israel sees the bedouin villages

a legal unsafe and built without planning consent the palestinians respond to that charge by saying their applications are almost never approved well later in the day we have a special report on the palestinian resistance as child of not only through demonstrations but also art. now one. of. them. he is. a disaster he. has the. look of the year. we were able to quote fifteen hundred. shots in one day well he says my thoughts are speech oh most of the.

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when i. lost my cool oh and you know they said at the hold on i'm. a referendum on whether to change a southern european countries name appears to have fallen for a lot of people in muscle donia were asked if they want to job the word north to the name but only thirty six percent of voters turned out on sunday way below the fifty percent needed to make any change all that well despite the country's prime minister is pledging to postpone with a vote in parliament. i think the school parliament must be bored with the size of response from. the pro to school boards i know sanction to the european union me and for a better life for all with you and almost a going to citizens. well the pm also promised to call early parliamentary

elections if the deal feels while at nato as a general secretary has welcomed the apparent yes vote here's a look now at the possible changes is afoot for macedonia. the republic of macedonia a balkan state in southern europe that could be about to go through a small name change it's a vote that's grabbed the attention of europe's powerhouse and even u.s. officials and it's all down to one word north the change would bring an end to a twenty seven year long to speak with greece it's concerned about historical and territorial claims as it has a province called macedonia previously the territory of the macedonian state until the beginning of the twentieth century simple on paper but is it really. referendum ballots pose just one albeit double barreled question whether the macedonian people want to join nato and the e.u. and in turn support an agreement with greece to change the country's name to north

macedonia. so it comes down to some in the country's desire to join the alliances after previous attempts have been blocked by greece this time its neighbor seems to have found a bargaining chip for macedonia as a session to nato but there are still hurdles to overcome the first sticking point is that the referendums outcome lacks any legal clout and is subject to approval by the states parliament the country's incumbent president and off is not on board either and has been urging the public to boycott the referendum. it is violence against our historical memory the aim is to limit the use of the name to macedonians to the smallest possible space and there is the space between the two is all while keeping on miles close to the republican macedonia is now asked to commit legal and historical suicide so the legal abolishment of the macedonian people can be interpreted as its own will. even if all this doesn't get in the way

there's still one final step joining nato it won't be possible until the next alliance summit set for twenty twenty north macedonia has a long way to go before it's even been. yes hundreds have also rallied in the greek city of thessaloniki in the country's macedonia province that region we just there saw their protesters there vehemently reject any type of compromise on a change we heard from politicians on both sides of the divide. and others are there to take a look at them for the most macedonians do not want to join nato or the essentially with this referendum with protecting macedonia centuries old name and the identity history and traditions of the macedonian people our party is against nato membership in this referendum is simply a question of the highest national interest western influence is huge here in the last ten to fifteen days we've been visited by brussels and washington's highest political and diplomatic representatives who we can people now will is unbreakable

macedonians they want to change the name of the state and they don't want to join nato. has very. little that lumps you made by the european union and the u.s. . they settle on the main u.s. but they european union. in order to shake you all the western. like we've seen. maybe of. they want. bullsh. in a european union. with montenegro they're pushing it forward with. the former yugoslav republic. of the balkans. a lot lot for not but always more stories for you to get stuck into

on our twitter page updates quite literally by the minute live from moscow this is r.t. international. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

i'm action or time saying this is going on the ground on the one year anniversary of a referendum in the european union which ended in arrest warrants detention of a democratically elected politicians and violence in catalonia coming up with a shot our goal should be regime change in iran how close is the world to a u.s. war in iran as moscow and london oppose washington policy on the nuclear deal we speak to the day of benjamin of code pink and on nato nation intelligence agencies withholding evidence that could save lives plus tory westminster council censorship but the twenty eighteen raindance film festival but first as iran's oil tankers start disappearing from global satellite tracking systems ahead of a u.s. sanctions deadline on the middle east and the g. superpower what is washington planning to do to test last month we began reimposing hard hitting nuclear sanctions that have been lifted under the iran deal additional

sanctions will resume november fifth and more will follow and we are working with countries that importer radian crude oil to. cut their purchases substantially we cannot allow the world's leading sponsor of terrorism to possess the planet's most dangerous weapons. we cannot allow a regime that chance death to america and that threatens israel with annihilation to possess the means to deliver a nuclear warhead to any city on earth. just can't do it while london and moscow oppose donald trump their own policy some taking to civil disobedience to revenge yet another war to follow nato interventions in yugoslavia iraq libya and syria i want to ask do you think. the regime are they reading the iranian people have. made. for with the run.

out well joining me now via skype from washington d.c. is madame benjamin co-founder of the ngo code pink with a thanks for coming back on the show as a why demonstrate against this man brian oak from the state department or the policies of brian look he's the head of trump's iran action group. well i couldn't stand listening to the guy and what he was saying it was a deja vu of here we go again lies distortions manipulations to get the american public ready for some other in crazy military intervention so i felt i had to get up there and say something some people might not even know about this war that you seem to be accusing the president of starting what influence does that hudson institute because in the video you see this hudson institute zero is a go go canada weinstein who regulates v.o.a. radio for your radio liberty what is this small grouping where they announce things about u.s.

foreign policy well it's one of the many right wing neo cons think tanks that exist in washington d.c. the same ones that did the propaganda that iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was a great threat to the united states and got people ready for that intervention its role is now demonizing iran as the greatest threat to u.s. security and really it just is a voice piece for. john bolton mike pompei oh and brian hook the nation of the middle east but trump one places like michigan because some people believe the rustbelt didn't want more wars why does trump appear to be hawkish suddenly. i think the majority of people in the united states don't want more war but trump has chosen iran as the men he did from the time he was campaigning saying that the iran nuclear deal was that we're still ever of course he's even closer than other

administrations have been to both the israeli government and the saudi government and he prefers to listen to them over u.s. allies like germany france england and russia and china that also signed the run nuclear deal so he seems to need a demon he's made friends with north korea it's quite ironic that the north korean government i'm glad he's doing the diplomacy with north korea but let's face it it's a much more authoritarian government than the iranian government is and yet he is putting all the blame on the run for the spread of terrorism around the world when we should really be looking at our ally saudi arabia well i want to get inside the rayburn a second but then what do you make of trump speech at the u.n. calling on the world to isolate iran. well he is pretending that the world community is actually happy with him withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal which is ridiculous he was followed by macro and who was very clear in saying.