this is a lot of this it's here as you months and again also a lot of principles and values. of the article you sent to pm your moscow now as washington could be open to talks with taliban militants in afghanistan r t truxton a commander of the group who rejects the possibility of any negotiations. with 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 give permission to any member to negotiate on their behalf also making headlines today turan says it's launched missiles against militants in syria it believes were responsible for last month's deadly terror attack on military parade in iran. donald trump professes his love for north korean leader kim jong un while pyongyang remains coley over america's hostile sanction.

hello good afternoon my name is kevin owen you're watching r.t. international live from moscow so our top story today then 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 themselves are willing to accept the offer especially considering the increasing control the groups now exerting on the ground he was granted rare access to a taliban militant commander and raised the subject of the americans never want to cooperate with the taliban and the taliban has never asked the americans again to cooperate against the islamic state the americans are bombing us while we fight against isis the latest suggestion a direct talks between the taliban and washington came from the state department on friday. this is the ministration has made it clear that it is prepared to engage

with and participate in the gauche ations 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. u.s. 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 chela been 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 them

live in a relevance toward the have the taleban 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 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. and as you can. see in any just go to show you all these was you'll see so you can no differentiate between gun isn't going to soon see you in disc is not the first time that has been going to the subdual in soviet times. we're.

going to get over. that. that we'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 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. . iran says it's launched a ballistic missile a turk on

a location in eastern syria the revolutionary guard claims it targeted the government of militants responsible for last month's terrorist attack or military parade which killed thirty people in the southwestern arabian city of. roof. in the studio perspective on this talk us through this slow dismissal of what's actually happened to you as far as we know well basically what happened we hear from the iranian islamic revolutionary guard which is the country's elite military force that has hit certain targets in syria that they claim are quote headquarters of the terrorists iran claims that the militants operating in this particular area in syria east of the euphrates are responsible for last month's deadly attack on a military parade in iran we do not know. exactly how many missiles were actually fired together with a statement on the launch several pictures showing surface to surface missiles

being launched were published that again no information on how many of them reach the targets and the exact locations of the targets are not known what we hear from the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights known as a voice of forces fighting against the official syrian government in the rear that they have received reports about violent explosions at dawn not far from the city of. it's not far from the iraqi border and also not far from the town of has seen known as the latest strong of the recent like. scene of recent violence and also the latest stronghold of the islamic state militants in the region we also heard from the u.s. led coalition around three weeks ago that they were preparing a massive offensive on these areas to finish it up actually and according to u.s. . military estimates it could be between fifteen hundred to two thousand milton's

operate in that area so it wasn't. like so the catalyst for this today we think was the. it was it was published around the world it was graphic you were in for a long time. shooting people. that's what was behind it today can you remind our viewers a little bit about him or they think was responsible for it it was a very tragic event in iraq and happened. one week ago september twenty second during a military parade in iran southwest and. it was part of the nationwide celebrations to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the iran iraq e eighty a long war. they were a military of course marching on parade and of course ordinary people gathered towards the march and at least four gunmen opened fire they were dressed as military so they pretended to be part of the parade and it was very

unexpected for people gathered there and they opened fire and thirty people were killed including a four year old boy and more than sixty were injured including four civilians very dramatic pictures from the scene and shortly after that at least two terror groups claimed responsibility for the tech including the so-called islamic state let's take a look at this shot we do to remember that original moment. we suddenly realized people wearing freak military outfits were attacking their comrades from behind the stage and then opened fire on women and children they were just aimlessly shooting around without a specific target. interesting. that one

says no to four terrorists who had brought their guns to the area and hidden them several days ago undercover civilians to watch the parade then they went and picked up their guns and opened fire on people. well obviously terror and was very angry and to kill us and they are our allies and arab countries of providing the attackers with finances with weapons and they promised every bank and this is what i think we witnessed today washington denied all the allegations so it's worth a mention that it was the deadliest attack in iran in the last eight years and of course the situation in that part of the globe has pretty much always been very tense but these recent developments are not making it any easier real emotional things can expel him from mortars but was probably going on here thank you. professor history news national relationship i'm working with told us that he thinks the tension in syria too is increasing. the strike by itself was

another dimension or another significance using this ballistic missile of eight hundred kilometers range it's like an iranian message to the g.c.c. countries all of the sea cities are within its reach the whole region is witnessing a rise in the tension especially that the united states is trying to neutralize the iranians block them from having any influence in the region western of the. freighters. of the roller coaster on off diplomatic relationship. prefers it is affection for the north korean leader kim jong il on how it's really being tough and shall we say i will 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 to have 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 there and 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. 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 while summit that is nevertheless the to put aside their differences and have a magical time in singapore.

thank you. and well team trump years for more the norse i could be straying kim has already met with his south korean counterpart three times and to add salt to that one president moon was sent a pair of north korean hunting dogs by p.n. yang as a symbol of their warming relationship could this spell trouble in paradise for trump well further this don't trust board words from north korea don't correspond with reality however says the director of the nuclear studies institute of washington d.c. he's american university. this is very bizarre we know that trump is mercurial we know that trump is ration of poll since we 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 the right says 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 up 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 it adopted the same attitudes that south korea had adopted and that we'd be well on the path toward peace and denuclearization. latest on a developing story happening right now frustration really building in spain's restive count lonia region again today it's a year to the day so that's the count list of a referendum on independence from spain we'll bring you more when we come back.

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the only numbers you need to remember one one shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. again palestinians in the west bank gaza strip in east jerusalem are on general strike today in solidarity with arab israelis they are protesting against israel's controversial nation state law which they say makes them second class citizens and states that only jews have the rights of self-determination and israel for the day we're also going to bring you a special report we put together on how palestinian resistance is channeled not only through demonstrations but also through ott.

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as the militant group hamas. now so they're not the one who want to brief the pro dependents campaign as a bloc a major motorways and roadway lines across the rest of the spanish region of. catalonia today it's gone on for a long time this but crucially today it's a year to the day since there was that independence referendum the hundreds of thousands voted to secede from spain while madrid branded the whole thing illegal not much has changed here's what's happening in the regional capital barcelona at the moment these pictures are just very recently as check it out. of north a couple in the city jeroen are hundreds have been clashing with police as they stormed the train station and that's which see now barcelona's also braced for unrest was some roads have already been blocked to. within a culture of annex looks at the region's bid to be free of spanish rule. a year after catalunya as field 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 fear hundreds of people injured as bodies attacked peaceful voters really write down what he was. a lot of people are shouting at national police forces to leave the region the cats are lining up 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 belgium 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 mines engine is to hold it as soon as we recover but that didn't bring the relief madrid had hoped for and stats catalan 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. words 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 difficult us 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 many 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 supposed journalist modern roberts believes madrid's unlikely to prove an independence referendum anytime soon anyway. the new prime minister in spain who really placed his predecessor body on a run in june has adopted a more conciliatory tone by arranging for catalan prisoners who were jailed after last year's failed independence bit he's agreed for extra aid to be given to class ahluwalia 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 a two thirds majority in parliament and even then you would have to dissolve parliament and call fresh elections pederast sensient is not going to want to do with us because he only has a quarter of the seats in parliament he's governing that

a very small minority so the chances of legal referendum are particularly slim. final thought for this bullet in efforts by the french president mario mccrum to portray himself as a man of the people may have long been ridiculed by critics and now a recent photo from a trip to the caribbean is fire them all up again the president seemed posing with someone making an obscene hand gesture apparently. we can't even find words to express our indignation we can't tolerate a space on forgivable there's almost nothing left those shreds of dignity that got lost in the night with the guards.

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and to go out and have tried and so he's going to take over his shoulder said don't forget that you're president of the french republic and his results after your half are not true at all he's got bad results concerning unemployment bad results concerning criminality immigration i mean all the indicators are read practically at the same time he's going out doing selfies as if he was some sort of rock star. the perils of living your life as a politician it's the way that you. know when he is saying things about you and i was so much more i made saw it.

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in the most farms of all these clear when the. hello and welcome across not where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of the program we discussed russia's relationship with the west ukraine and a lot of history. knocking the gordian knot i'm joined by my kids here moscow jeffrey roberts he's an historian senior fellow at the helsinki for advanced studies and

a member of the royal irish academy and we have nick like petro he is a professor of political science at the university of rhode island all right gentlemen let's talk about cutting the gordian knot where we all know the poor state of relations between the west and russia we both know that very well. how do we get out of this cold isaak or we just have to accept the status quo for a very long time to come. i'm afraid it's the latter. i don't see any political figure all on the horizon in the west who could take the lead and show that kind of innovative thinking that would lead to an era of mutual benefit and potential reconciliation between the east and west because i do think in the long run it will happen. because there's a lot of general frustration among men.