as washington inside could be open to talks with taliban militants in afghanistan are to track down 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 negotiate on their behalf. and says it's launched missiles against militants in syria it believes are responsible for last month's deadly terror attack on a military parade in iraq. plus donald trump professes his love for north korea's leader kim jong il and while pyongyang remains coryell for america's hostile sanctions.

could even his art international live from moscow my name's kevin o. in thanks ever so much with the team for watching when this half hour news update first in the news feed this after seventeen years of war in afghanistan the u.s. has once again hinted it's open to peace talks with the islamist militant group the taliban however the flipside of this is it doesn't seem that the militants are willing to accept the offer especially considering the increasing control the groups exerting on the ground r.t. managed to get access to a taliban militant command and we raised that very subject direct. 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 of direct talks between the taliban and washington came from the u.s. 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 under 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 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. you 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. on. the scene in any dust over the shall we all these was just so you can no differentiate between dollars and going to soon see you in disk is not the first time the longer the sibelius. time.

to go to. the. americas two thousand 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 if we can confirm that we will attend the moscow 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. . other news today iran says it's launched a ballistic missile attack on a location in eastern syria the revolutionary guard claims it targeted a militant group responsible for last month's terrorist attack which hit the

military parade and killed twenty five in the south west in the arabian city. maria fanaa next explains the story behind iran's revenge strike today in syria under the cover of night fall iran fired several ballistic missiles at what it has described as terrorist had orders in eastern syria it says successfully with a large number of militants killed and infrastructure destroyed are in fierce to prepared to deliver a decisive from crushing response to any wickedness and misty from our enemies the attack is believed to have hit north of at the syrian iraqi border not far from the city of hygiene considered the last islamic state stronghold in the region three weeks ago the u.s. led coalition valves to clear the air we're. of an estimated two thousand militants so no reports suggest that has materialized as yet iran claims the stream is from

that area behind last month's deadly attack on a military parade in iran's the deadliest in eighty years saying the missile launch was a revenge strike. procession must we suddenly realized armed people wearing fake 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. for terrorists who had brought their guns to the area and hidden them several days ago on the cover as civilians to watch the parade then they went and picked up their guns and opened fire on people there was attack has once again flared up tensions

between the u.s. and iran as teheran blames washington for facilitating the attack. terrorists recruited trained armed and paid by informing regime have attacked our children enjoy news among casualties iran holds regional terrorist sponsors and their masters in countable for such attacks. needs to deal with the need to look at his own home base he can blame us all i want the thing he's got to do is look at the mare a u.s. official who has recently said terrible things about the r.v. as terrorist attack and held the iranian government responsible for the attack what would americans think if we were to say such a thing about the nine eleven terrorist attacks as players in the syria conflict look to limit those role this latest strike is gripping the conflict in great attentions and apprehension of where this could go next. history and international relations professor gemma overcame think the situation is intensifying right now

because of moves to limit rain influence in the region the strike by itself has another dimension or a another significance using this ballistic missile of eight hundred kilometers. it's like an iranian message to the country's all of the sea cities are within its reach the whole region is witnessing that aizen that then sion specially that the united states is trying to neutralize the iranians block them from having any influence in the region western of the. freighters. after a roller coaster on off to play matic relationship donald trump hopefully professes affection for the north korean leader kim jong un. i was really being tough and so was she 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 kim 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 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 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 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 man with such 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 . well it does seem right now the u.s. leaders warm words for north korea don't correspond quite with reality according at least the director of the nuclear studies institute to washington d.c. is american university this is very bizarre we know that trump is mercurial we know that trump is ration of pulse and we know that trump is not

a traditional diplomat in any way. so. but better that we be talking better that trump is sending love letters to kim rather than hate tweets like you are doing for a while so the right has given terry very mixed signals what are the things that trump has said it obviously ministration 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 it adopted the same attitudes that south korea had adopted and that we'd be well on the path toward peace and denuclearization. has been rewarded by british companies who are pushing for an independent probe into russian meddling in the brics that referendum but the latest call for an investigation into the twenty sixty vote as

well plenty of criticism is genesis it from london with the details. well now these campaigners a fair vote u.k. are planning on bringing legal a legal challenge to the british government demanding a public inquiry in the end to into any potential meddling in the bronx that referendum of twenty sixteen to the likes of the miller investigation in the us that was looking into any potential interference following trump's election there and this campaign group in a pretty accepting letter to the u.k. government has quoted irregular and unlawful conduct and among their concerns have been named russian dissin from asian data companies involvement as well as electoral spending now this comes following theresa may having already said that such a public inquiry will not be taking place because the government understands that this is quote a thinly veiled attempt to overturn bracks it but to this we also have to add to

that we've seen here in the u.k. the chief of secret intelligence service from one thousand nine hundred ninety two thousand and four basically say he sees no russian meddling in bragg's it i'm pretty skeptical about whether they really intervened in the referendum in the case of the american elections i really think the impact was such as to change the result in the electoral college i don't think i've not seen anything like convinces me at all that the russians intervene significantly in the brics or friend well love this of course comes on the heels of bracks it on certainty not only has bracks a divided the u.k. on this matter but also create a division within the tory party government which of course has to be in charge of leading the way to brag that unlike the prime minister on fought for this i believe in it i think it's the right thing for our country i think that what is happening now is alas not what people were promised in twenty sixteen. when the seventeen

point four million people voted in that referendum they wanted to get control of our loss borders and money and open the opportunities of free trade deals around the world i'm afraid the checkers deal just simply does not deliver that so i pledge to do everything that i can to make sure that we have a proper breck's it with all of these conundrums that the u.k. is now faced a way of in terms of bracks said it really remains to be seen whether campaign along the lines of blame the russians could really be the solution to all these problems yeah and somebody else a party to worry about too coming up for the break with ice in the arctic melting is a refocus on strategy for the region is becoming more accessible and the u.k. says one country poses the biggest threat under that is we'll tell you after the break.

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hello again palestinians are going on general strike today on the anniversary of a riot back in the a two thousand that saw thirteen israeli arabs killed in clashes with police the actions also against israel's controversial nation state law which palestinians say makes them second class citizens plus the donald trump's u.s. embassy moved to jerusalem first in arabs make up approximately a fifth of the whole country's population schools universities government offices and shops all closed in solidarity with them throughout the day we're going to be bringing you special reports on how palestinian resistance is channeled not only through the demonstrations that you hear about so often everywhere but also another part of everyone's life art is a look at this struggle

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friends williamson has a fair. the new strategy for the arctic calling russia the biggest threat to the region eight hundred u.k. troops are due to be deployed to norway next year there's been dispute for decades now of a territorial claims in the planet's most northern point to the current untapped natural resources under the sea now that all that ice is melting the british defense ministry says the arctic and high north are now crucial to the country's security envy arctic and high north russia is increasing their military presence to deal with this we will be launching our new defense arctic strategy beyond behind your finances we must be ready ready to deal with the threats as they emerge the new defense arctic strategy will put the arctic in high nor central to the security of the united kingdom has got nor will we're just a mcqueen no whatsoever so what we're doing putting eight hundred troops at some

considerable expense in norway and all of the cheapest countries in the world so i don't quite get what is going on because it hundred troops is a drop in the ocean this is not a serious force if you're talking about a conventional grown war goodness sake but you know that the atmosphere is weird that the commander of the new british super aircraft carrier came out in the media yesterday and said that britain would win a naval war with russia firstly what at all if there is no possibility of a naval war with russia secondly if there was a war with russia it wouldn't just be an evil war it would be a disaster so i've no idea what is going war attitude is that really you know this we should be stepping up the ante by talking all the time about this military threat from russia the idea that russia is about to launch a conventional war in the arctic which is all these commanders could be there for a hundred of them not enough to stop any serious operation is a bit mind boggling so i think firstly this is playing to the gallery of the conservative party conference secondly it's a boat the continued expansion of nato forces i rode on the borders of the former

sign and into the former soviet union. in trouble getting spain today pro dependants campaign has been blocking motorways and railway lines across the rest of spanish region of catalonia today marks exactly a year since independence referendum that was granted illegal by madrid hundreds clashed with local police in the capital and city jerome the two testers were making their way to the train station to barricade the trucks there and on top of that they put up roadblocks in the region's capital barcelona additionally these approaches that. all year on from the bid to succeed from spain the region a car loan you're still remains in stalemate that are to do the conscionable reports a year after cattle line has 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. and it lead to seize on the biggest constitutional crisis and the country for decades and its top were twenty seventeen imagery took 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 from the. had hoped for and stats kathlyn 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 dop to a softer tone towards 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 independence remains divisive in the region with pool suggesting kept loans are almost evenly split on whether to stay part of spain. this is 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 will do d. by date. and 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 catalan independence is a saga that could yet have another anniversary next october first the protest movement would appear to be more or less as strong as it was last year however polls show that less than half of constanza supports independence and they are very divided indeed on how to achieve it because last year when push came to shove the international community did not recognize the logical declaration so at the moment there's a lot of uncertainty there so apart from

a loss of demonstrations the situation is pretty much as. was it was this seems so if it. had twenty six minutes past the hour here in moscow anyway that's where these look and so far they said monday late afternoon from moscow this with the first given though in his hand thanks watching coming brazier from the coming hours and always so much more for you as it happens on a site called. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day become active. and engaged equals betrayal.

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of you out to do the bulk of the. this is gaza's current status it's one of the most overpopulated places on earth and on the brink of collapse. forces in two thousand and five but still keep some news on that with air ground and sea blockades it's also under economic sanctions is often described as an open air prison. locals elected hamas as their leaders here they don't believe that israel should

exist so naturally both saw its regularly bomb each other israel tends to send a warning leaflets before stroy. mostly state puts many countries classify hamas as a terrorist organization and the queues them of putting people at risk. schools and mosques by encouraging them to join protests. around the clock march don't. know if. you can. do. on saturdays there's often a funeral here the whole village comes out to pay their respects another kid has died at the protest so that apple has some arts or. some of the event done in the lower. level among muslim of montana yes and this.

is all just not for war and not the bottom of the. net and not fulfilling never been done before so i knew clodhopper my must you know new column. you wouldn't believe your post. was that. compliment how many. muslims to me it was foul play was one of. the loveliest. of saudi of all self because they just live in love also for. a good many years the bad luck the boat made for also was little. israel has launched its biggest offensive against gaza in years the united nations is urgent.