washington who could be open to talks with taliban militants in. a commander of the group rejects the possibility of any negotiations. the leadership of the taliban doesn't want to negotiate with the americans and has never wanted this and the leadership will never give permission to any member of. the. professes his love for a north korean leader kim. remains. hostile sanctions also ahead. focus returns on spain's rest of catalonia exactly one year old since an

independence referendum which was met with. just on four am in dallas four pm in bangkok day here in moscow with this monday the first day of october welcome to our to international our top story after seventeen years of war in afghanistan the u.s. has once again hinted it's open to peace talks with the taliban widely considered a terrorist organization however it doesn't seem that the militants are willing to accept the offer especially considering the increasing control the group is exerting on the ground r.t. was granted rare access to a taliban militant commander and raised the subject. the americans never want to cooperate with the taliban and the taliban has never asked the americans again to

cooperate against the islamic state and the americans are bombing us while we fight against isis but that is a well the latest potential suggestion direct talks between the taliban and washington came from the state department on friday. 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 and if the leadership of the taliban doesn't want to negotiate with the americans and has never wanted this and the leadership of the taliban never gave permission to any member to negotiate on their behalf for 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 living a relevance toward the 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 un report covering civilian casualties in battles between the coalition and taliban forces.

on the scene in any dust over the show all these was you'll see so you can no differentiate between dollars and going to soon to do it is not the first time the going to the sebelius. time is still under them. i'm. going to go to mars and i know that. they're going to. america's 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 for the most we can confirm that we will attend the mosco conference we are waiting for the date and agenda then we

will 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. after a roller coaster all of a diplomatic relationship donald trump has openly professed his affection for a north korean leader kim jong. i was really being tough and so wishing i would go back and forth and then we fell in love ok no really he wrote me beautiful letters and they're great letters that was trying talking to supporters over the weekend describing how he and cam have 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 so i've received two letters from jim and kim my personal

correspondence magnificent very strong letter form incredible letters a letter that i gave one i showed one of the letters just. to prime minister b. he said this is actually a groundbreaking letter so against all odds they're in love at least according to trump but the relationship isn't 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 or trust issues to diddle diddle pre-booked the perception that sanctions can bring us to our knees is a pipe dream of people who are ignorant about us but the problem is that they continue sanctions deepening our 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 and

until the point in time where as the president says it 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 summit that is never the us the to put aside their differences and have a magical time in singapore. thank you. and well team trump years for more the north i could be straying kim

has already met with his south korean counterpart three times and to add salt to that one president man with a pair of north korean hunting dogs by p.n. yang as a symbol of the warming relationship could this spell trouble in paradise for trump donald trump so warm words for north korea don't correspond with the reality so say he's the director of the nuclear studies institute in washington d.c. he's american university. this is very bizarre we know that trump is mercurial you know that trump is ration of pulse of you know that trump is not a traditional diplomat in any way. so. better that we'd 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 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 wrong on the path toward peace and did nuclearization. gaza the blockaded palestinian enclave run by islamist militant group hamas is marking six months of weekly protests on its border with israel more than one hundred forty palestinians have been killed in the right to return demonstrations israel says it's acting on its right to defend its border from violent protesters well throughout the day will also be bringing us special report on how a palestinian resistance is channeled not only through demonstrations but art. now

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referendum hundreds of thousands voted to secede from space while madrid branded the whole thing illegal crowds of people have once more been gathering to push for independence. well over five thousand turned up at a rally in general no on sunday some protesters threw projectiles at police though the demonstration went off without major incident activists have also been sharing their experiences of last years. but that is not 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're keeping forces have no place within the catalan republic this is not their home and we want them

out. medina cuts no one looks now at the region's bid to be free of spanish rule. a year after cats alliance 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 police raided that building and forcibly removed people out of there are hundreds of people injured as buddies attacked peaceful voters really write down what he was . a lot of people are now the national.

lead. and i read 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 catalan pro 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. it's cattle on and an offer of 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 independence remains divisive in the region with pool 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 for you and. 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 a wanted to be coming. for me 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 catalan independence is a saga that could yet have another anniversary next october first or spain based journalist martin roberts believes madrid is unlikely to approve an independence referendum any time soon. the new prime minister in spain who placed his predecessor body on a run in june has adopted a more conciliatory tone by arranging for cuts of prisoners who were jailed after last year's failed independence but he's agreed for extra aid to be given to cassava things like this is held direct talks however he said this a referendum is not possible because that would require

a constitutional amendment which would require a two thirds majority in parliament and even then you would have to dissolve parliament and call for. 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 there of legal referendum are particularly slim iran strikes back at militants in syria in response to last month's deadly terror attack on an army parade live reaction on the after the break.

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approaching nineteen minutes into the program welcome back iran has launched a bold missile attack on a location in eastern syria the revolutionary guard claims it targeted a gathering of militants responsible for last month's terrorist attack on a military parade which killed thirty people in the so i thought western european city of files of maria from austin joins me now in the studio with more and you've extensively covered the unrest haven't you in the middle east talk us through this missile attack the implications of it in particular you know we hear now indeed from the iranian islamic revolutionary guard that it has hit but to kill or targets in syria that they claimed are. quotation the headquarters of the terrorist iran claims that the militants concentrated in this particular area in syria east of the youth rate is responsible for last month's deadly attack on the military parade in

iran together with a statement on the lawn several pictures show in surface to surface missiles being launched were also published and it was also mentioned that the launch was a success as quotation again a large number of terrorist was hate dia took on the military parade in last month tell us more about this because this of course stems from the sure it was a very absolutely tragic event for iran it happened more than a week ago september twenty second during a military parade in iran southwestern state was thirty people were killed more than sixty are there is injured and shortly after the attack at least and this is very interesting to terror groups including the so-called islamic state claiming the responsibility for these to tack i want you to take a look at this short piece to remind the viewers that dramatic event.

christian most. people break military outfits were attacking their comrades from behind the stage and then opened fire on women and children they were just a mystery shooting around without a specific target. for terrorists. and giving them several days ago under cover as civilians to watch the parade then they went and picked up their guns and opened fire on people . apart from pouring to the militants in that particular region in syria. that iran targeted to her and is also accusing the u.s. and its allies in the gulf countries for actually for basically pulled they said tag by the militants in syria and to iranian forces with. all

kind of support washington and all these allegations of course but you know the situation there has never been you know it's always been tense and attack will not make it any easier thanks for breaking the tone for the latest information reaffirm the industry sure i want to keep it this story a little bit further be because we have a guest live on the program there professor of history and international relations jamal wakim joins me you're very welcome i suppose one of the issues here is who is a run actually targeted in syria as we just heard from. it's an easel is it some other group do we know. i believe that the target the region controlled by a isis in syria and he sed in syria however. i believe that the strike by itself has another dimension or another significance

because it on how does accused some g.c.c. countries all for financing and providing assistance for the group have launched the attack on the parade in. so i believe that using this ballistic myside of eight hundred kilometers range. it's like an iranian message to the g.c.c. countries that all of the sea cities are within its reach and it's also. like a message to israel that missiles could also do you israel because. the current situation witnesses. raise in the tension from the side of the united states and its allies against iran. was it within this context

that this attack was waged by an anonymous group so the iranians believe that this was a clear american message directed to its security against its security do you think today's developments could upset what is happening in the country right now you know it could be called a delicate balance in many areas of syria. well i believe that the whole region is witnessing. a rise in the tension especially that the united states is trying to neutralize the iranians would block them from having any influence in the region western of the. freighters . this includes all to syria parts of iraq of course to see countries and at the same time the distance the country is mainly so the.

economic blockade against iran specially by complying to the american. buy by raising their supplies of oil and trying to lower the price of oil which would affect the economy of iran and of course venezuela so this is part of a good rant that are. led by the united states in order to do damage iran and lead to implosion from within and this comes. at a time when the iranians were suffering from economic hardship so it complements this american attempt to jeopardize our the security of iran on the economy and on the security levels the thoughts professor of history and international relations live this hour jamal wakim thank you.

the british government is facing a challenge in court for not launching an investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen breaks and felt last call live in direct to london now on r.t.c. alycia churchill has been following developments for. this pushing indeed for this legal action. well you know this campaign group fair vote u.k. they are planning to bring a legal challenge to the british government calling for a public inquiry into the bronx that referendum of twenty sixteen to the likes of the mueller investigation that was conducted in the us following trump selection to see if there was any potential interference in the bronx and vote now this campaign group have cited quote irregular and unlawful conduct and among their concerns are any russian descent from asian or data companies being involved or electoral spending so these are the things they want to look into and their claim there is

significant public concern behind this but we have to be clear that this comes just after theresa may has already said there would be no such public inquiry because her government understands that this would be what has been described as a thinly veiled attempt to overturn drugs now this campaign groups crowd funding page to try to gather how one hundred thousand pounds for a legal fees to be able to bring this challenge forward at the time of our live report right now is just over thirty thousand pounds so they're still on the way to be able to collect that cash and of course it has to be said that all of this comes a quite uncertain time about what is exactly going to happen with bracks it because not only has its own division within the u.k. but also within the tory party government that is in charge of making bricks it a reality scene even more so during the tory party conference that is currently ongoing and has shown quite

a bit of chaos from its party members and being able to work on this moving forward and really with lots of indications quite recently for a potential new deal bracks it to take place so certainly with all of these conundrums going on it seems like a potential blame it on the russians party women on the russians campaign might not necessarily be the solution but we'll wait and see. the british capital alycia churkin thank you. the most senior female politician in the our a borel is the guest on today's sophie and co and it's next it says r t international. please. cooked additional note of what was announced up to look at some of these it's just

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