as washington could be open to talks with taliban militants in afghanistan are to track down the commander of the group who rejects the possibility of any negotiation. over 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. iran says it's launched missiles against militants in syria it believes were responsible for last month's deadly terror attack on a military parade in iran. from professes his love for north korean leader kim jong un while pyongyang remains coyer over america's hostile sanctions.

with news and analysis twenty four seven this is our. news and analysis twenty four seven this is r.t. and rationalizing on second hinted that it's open to peace talks with the islamic fundamentalist group the taliban however it doesn't seem that the militants are willing to accept the offer especially considering the increasing control of the groups exerting on the ground r.t. managed to get access to a taliban militant commander and raise the subject over 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 goshi asians with both the taliban

and the afghan government and 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 or do 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 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 going to soon see when disk is not the first time the dog or the sibelius. time is. going to live.

for the good of. 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 if one of us 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 that its conducted 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 a military parade and killed twenty five people in the southwestern iranian city of refinery explains the story behind iran's revenge strike in syria. under the cover of night fall iran fired several ballistic missiles at what it has described as terrorist had quarters in eastern syria and says successfully with a large number of militants killed and infrastructure destroyed are in fierce to sprint to deliver a decisive from crushing response to any wickedness and mystery 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 area of an estimated two thousand militants though 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. resolution most 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. to do that. says the four terrorists who had brought their guns to the area and hidden them several days ago undercover as civilians to watch the parade then they went and picked up their guns and opened fire on people their first 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 prayed for a regime have attacked children in journeys. among casualties iran holds the regional terrorist sponsors and their us masters in countable for such a tax 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 that 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 which others roll this latest strike is gripping the conflict in great attentions and apprehension of where this could go next history and international relations professor jamal wakim thinks the situation is intensifying due to move to limit iranian influence in the region. the strike by itself has

another dimension or a 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 that aizen that then sion specially that the united states is trying to neutralize the iranians would block them from having any influence in the region western of the. freighters. after a roller coaster on off diplomatic relationship donald trump has openly professed his affection for north korean leader kim jong un. 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 general 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 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 year 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 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 knew this off the donald trump ripped up the decades old north american free trade deal leading to a month of uncertainty the u.s. canada and mexico have agreed to a new pact which trump describes as the biggest trade deal in united states history well let's go live to washington colors but now some miracle. superlatives trumps modus operandi but it does sound like he's got his own way this time to. yes well

it was trump's big day as he unveiled this new deal with canada and mexico that's a pro-style replaced nafta and if you remember he once called nafta the worst deal ever replacement deal is apparently historic transaction check out how he described it truly historic good news this will be a new dawn fish landmark agreement an incredible new this new deal will be the most modern up to date and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country. and now the deal which took over a year to negotiate is called the united states mexico canada agreement and it will apparently solve all the problems with nafta and it will open markets to farmers and manufacturers and reduce trade barriers but during his campaign trump had promised to either renew renegotiate nafta or break it so this new deal fulfills that promise now all throughout the day trump has been bragging about the deal even

announcing a press conference to further brag about it but check out what happened at the press conference itself it didn't seem like the journalists there were really concerned about the deal. brett kavanaugh fools is there a plan b. i have two questions about judge kevin off this weekend mr president you said that it's incorrect to say you're limiting the scope of the f.b.i. investigation what does that have to do is try to i don't mind answering the question but you know what i'd like to do the trade has to do with the other headline in the news which is the candidate and i know but how about talking about trade and then we'll get to that you have a question a trade will you want or two more questions later and several question if you don't do that that's not mr president so just somebody is before you excuse me don't do that you have a question on trade you answered several question you have a question on trade my question is on judge at least you have. now some of you even said that a moment was stolen from him so it appears that an important development in economic policy was once again overshadowed by the latest liberal scandal of the

moment and it doesn't look like it'll stop anytime soon you. seem happy with the press back at all ok so america and washington thanks for the. next british campaigners are again ramping up claims of russian meddling in the brics it referendum and demanding an independent probe but the latest call for an investigation into the twenty sixteen strong plenty of criticism to here's an associate with the details in london. well love 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 mill 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 for mission 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 brought 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 drugs 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 referendum well love this of course comes on the heels of bragg's that uncertainty not only has bracks of

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 brax it. with all of these conundrums that the u.k. is now faced 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 well this is a grievous insult this be levelled at the british voting public the fact that

seventeen million people in war who voted for break set out a century been accused of being nothing more than pawns in more schools game this ticks evokes unfortunately of the around russophobia. has reached a level of a religious belief within the hearts of the delicious douglas meant that russia can no be blamed for everything that school wrong in the west with it comes to the eyes of this liberal establishment the rise of donald trump and his ocean in the us and twenty sixteen and drinks in twenty sixty and this should shoot the extent to which the establishment the liberal establishment will have media and political is an utter and utter and absolute crisis. one hundred eighty thousand pro independent protesters have marched through the catalan capital barcelona on the first anniversary of the independence referendum that it was branded illegal by

madrid earlier on monday row blocks were set up in the city a busy traffic areas campaigners also blocked major motorways and railway lines across the rest of the spanish region hundreds of clashed with local police in the city of drona to protesters who are making their way to the train station to barricade the tracks. artie's medina cotton of all reports next on the stalemate over catalonia one iran from the independent vote the rocked spain. a year after cattle line has failed at tam to break away from spain the situation in the region remains deadlocked back then 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 read to seize on the biggest constitutional crisis and the country for decades and if told were 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 minds engineers 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 towards cattle on air 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 kaplan's are almost evenly split on whether to stay part of spain. the truth is that many people feel disappointed because they thought everything was had. it was 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 b d u s three i'm very much against it now is not the time for cattle on it to

become and for me it would be better to leave things as they are moving spinning we are spanish me now fear that failure to find common ground in catalonia would likely spill into any nother political crisis triggering another snap election sometime in early twenty nineteen catalan independence is a saga that could not 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 council and 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 lateral declaration so at the moment there's a lot of uncertainty there so apart from a lot of demonstrations the situation is pretty much as it was it was. thirty seven palestinians have been wounded by israeli gunfire during clashes in

the west bank and gaza according to the palestinian health ministry a general strike took place on monday across the region on the anniversary of a riot back in two thousand that's all thirteen israeli arabs killed by police the protests were also against israel's controversial nation state law which palestinians say makes them second class citizens and also donald trump's u.s. embassy move to jerusalem and we've got a special report on the how palestinian resistance is being channeled not only through demonstrations but also art and you can watch it in full online right now at r.t. dot com here's a look at their struggle. you know one. of. them. yeah that's my little. exact. has the. look of the year. we were able to quote fifteen hundred. days well.

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i was one hundred you. know he said look if. you can watch that now and dot com israel defends its actions on the gaza border saying it's defending itself from protesters on the militant group hamas. the british defense secretary william new strategy for the arctic cold in 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 over territorial claims to the planet's most northern point and also to the current untapped natural resources lying under the sea bed the british defense ministry says the arctic and high north are now crucial to the country's security. nv antic

in high north russia is increasing their military presence to deal with this we will be launching our new defense arctic strategy beyond the high your financial we must be ready ready to deal with the threats as they emerge the new defense arctic strategy will put the arctic in high north 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 new 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 it all is 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 are on the borders of the former sign and into the former soviet union. efforts by the french president emanuel mccrone to patrol himself as a man of the people have long been ridiculed by his critics and a recent photo from a trip to the caribbean fired them up once again the president seen posing with someone making an obscene hand gesture.

we can't even find words to express our indignation we can tolerate it's unforgivable there's almost nothing left those shreds of dignity that got lost in the night of the book courage. but let me. remember it was a vision i think of a good little. smoove fool for the fifteen year old boy who was told off and humiliated by micron because he didn't respect the presidency by calling him money on the one hand don't call maneuver on the other the presidency is implicitly undermined.

this is showing that he does not the two faced and this is the same across you just has a difficulties making a difference between the way he was six years ago what he really is and what he's supposed to be because he doesn't really know what i mean he's got no training for this and he just thinks he could continue being having the attitude of rochelle baker and to go out and have tried and then some 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 ok that's it for now thanks for watching next the regional ramifications of yemen's drawn out crisis ready for. because in so few in co only on r.t. .

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