as washington could be open to talks with taliban militants in afghanistan tracks down the commander of the group who 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 of the taliban never gave permission to any member to negotiate on their behalf. says it's launched missiles against militants in syria it police were responsible for last month's deadly terror attack on a military parade in iraq. plus donald trump professes his love for north korean leader kim jong un. remains america's hostile sanction.

they were at the shooting and welcome to r.t. international on call in brave new world news this hour from moscow. after seventeen years of war in afghanistan the us has once again 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 existing on the ground 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 in 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 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. 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 show all these was ruled. just so you can know that for and sure you could wind down isn't going to since lewinsky is not the first time the targeted civilian to serve their time is still going to. go to. mars and. that.

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 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. . iran says it's conducted a ballistic missile attack on a location in eastern syria the revolutionary guard complains that it targeted a militant group responsible for last month's terrorist attack which hit a military parade and killed twenty five people in the southwest and iranian city

of. rif and 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 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 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. unless 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 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 each other's role this latest strike is gripping the conflict in great attentions and apprehension of where this could go next or history and international relations professor jamal wakim thinks the situation is intensifying juta moves to limited radian 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 countries all of the city 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.

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 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 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 earrings for more the north i could be stray 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 . frustrations continuing to build in spain's rest of catalonia region yet to the day after a referendum on independence from spain it's a model story still ahead when we come back.

welcome back under one hundred thousand pro independence protesters have marched through the catalan capital barcelona on the first anniversary of the independence referendum that which was branded illegal by madrid monday roadblocks were set up in the city in busy traffic areas campaigners also blocked major motorways and railway lines across the rest of spanish region hundreds clashed with local police in the city of jarana protesters were making their way to the train station in order to barricade the tracks. in a culture of a report on the stalemate over catalonia wrong from the independent vote that rocked spain. 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. and it read to seize on the biggest constitutional crisis and the country for decades and it told were twenty seventeen imagery 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 a legally binding referendum on independence the issue of independence remains divisive in the region. with poole suggesting capped 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 be a date. and i am 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 spain and we are spanish many 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 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 support 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 saw 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 the u.s. embassy move to jerusalem and we've got a special report on how palestinian resistance is being channeled not only through demonstrations but also through off you can watch it in full online at r.t. dot com here's a look at their struggle. no one. that could.

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hundred u.k. troops are due. to be deployed to norway next year there's been dispute for decades of a territorial claims to the planet's most northern point and also to the current untapped natural resources lying underneath the seabed 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 north an art 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 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 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 on or 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 it's got the fired up once again the president seen posing with someone who's making an obscene hundred. we can't even find words to express our nation we can't tolerate it's unforgivable there's almost nothing left those shreds of dignity that got lost in the night of the book carriage. but you don't. remember it was a vision i see because you believe what i'm. going to. get.

a smooth tool 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 me i'm a new on the other the presidency is implicitly undermined. this is showing that he does not the two faced this is the same a quote you just has a difficulties baking the 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 russia 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 tuning out see this our sean thomas has your next world news in just over thirty five minute. as a zombie bank plague that spilled over to zombie corporations what is a zombie bank is i mean bank is a bank best technically insolvent it's kept alive by bailouts continuing rolling balance from the central banks because of their friends in the other the banks the commercial banks the lawyers the a just b c b m p citibank they're technically insolvent they're going to live in the most obvious to the perpetual rolling of bailout they call quantitative easing or some other name and they come up with every two months.

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nation on it with air ground and sea blockades it's also under economic sanctions is often described as an open air prison. the locals elected hamas as their leaders here they don't believe that israel should exist so naturally saw its regularly bomb each other israel tends to send a warning leaflets before strong. 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. downtown la

mar. no you cannot. do that. on saturdays there's often a funeral here the whole village comes out to pay their respects to another kid has died at the protest so that up with yasser as some martyr you know you look at the you know the north the little. miss my mom and my mom yes and this. is one to war and not the bottom of the. next and the full can never been done before so i knew clodhopper my must you know new clothes. doing it again the first. lady must of been made a big fluffy and that gets i'll be a. little tough on the lamb.

cutlets i'm on the female of the muslims to me and i guess i'll. be a fundie of. the saudi of almost all the pages of a city at the end of the feet. of a good many years the battle of the man i love for also. larry is that the let me name so israel has launched its biggest offensive against gaza in years the united nations is urging israel to hold successive force and the students are national accused of violating international law but this isn't the first time which tried to talk to the i.d.f. and they refused our requests for comics mr stance hasn't changed over the years but here's what their spokesperson told me in twenty fourteen. i would quote is the alternative to just let us terrorists continue their power on

sugar gresham every two years they're carrying out to barrel an attack against israeli civilians and they cannot expect that this will go on they have a mist of about ten thousand rockets they're all poised and pointed to israel and all civilians are unable to their children today. could not be allowed to go to kindergarten children could not go to summer camp they had to stay in the safe room that's unacceptable we're not willing to let this go and that's why the military has been challenged to protect the state of israel our mission is to safeguard the civilians let's not forget that there are palestinian civilians also being killed in the process. absolutely and i would actually point that finger and say hamas what are you doing to prevent the escalation they are doing everything in their power to escalate the situation.