as. the taliban warns of more american deaths after donald trump cancels afghan peace towards. a russian journalist who is part of a historic prisoner swap with ukraine speaks to us about his detention in kiev. it's stupid to deny that it's a political process and it was my release and it ended like that because there was a change of administration. and we're just hours to go before it suspended the u.k. parliament will get one last chance to try agree to a general election after a disastrous week for boris johnson with the pm losing all of the key bragg's it votes.

great to have your company you're watching our international. the afghan president has declared his country is ready to face off against the taliban after donald trump pulled the plug on peace talks with the group it had been hoped that they would bring america's longest war to an end he blamed the group's recent attack on kabul which an american soldier was killed. there scrapping the talks will result in more u.s. losses. they admitted to an attack in kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers and 11 other people if they cannot agree to a ceasefire during these very important peace talks than they probably don't have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway the us president called off the peace dialogue this will lead to more losses to the u.s. his credibility will be affected his anti peace stance will be exposed to the world

losses to lives in assets will increase the president's handling of talks with the taliban which could have ended america's 18 years of military involvement in afghanistan drew bipartisan criticism the u.s. targeted the group for giving shelter to al-qaeda terrorists but before the invasion u.s. relations with the taliban were somewhat different as the of explains after almost 2 decades of war this could have been the big break but no back to war as luck would have it peace in negotiations weren't on the media's mind when they found out they were outraged that trump should dare talk to the enemy that was murderous villains who their fight against the us occupation. the problem with the council of afghanistan talks was not the timing or recent taliban violence it was the reality that the talks were designed to provide a cover for u.s. troop withdrawal rather than peace and would help the taliban while undermining the

afghan government never should lead is a terrorist organization that hasn't renounced kind of love and continues an evil be allowed in a great country never full stop for the us to meet with the taliban and not have the leader of afghanistan to make meet with the taliban is something that's doomed to failure the whole thing doesn't quite make sense i mean it's just another example of the president truly treating our foreign policy like it's some kind of game show this isn't a game show these are terrorists listening to them you'd never know that by the late ninety's the taliban which was already hosting asama bin laden were invited to the us is on the guests for business by us energy company talks and laying pipelines talks supported by the government it was very you know they have this shadow we image i guess you call it that i found very straightforward and. i think the clinton administration was really committed to helping you know american

business to be successful. we enjoyed. really strong support. for military analyst julie says vote to report for the defense intelligence agency pointing out that there were alternatives to the taliban we didn't go down well with her superiors. the state department didn't want to have anything to do with the afghan resistance war even politically to reveal that there was any viable option to taliban she was apparently forced out soon after i heard that some people at the state department were people among those more sympathetic with the taliban at that time so there might have been some political reasons as well but ultimately i was forced to leave a year later bin laden and al qaida orchestrated 2 attacks on us embassies in africa $224.00 people killed and yet still the us entertained the taliban the same

taliban then governing of got a start and which tolerated al qaida on its soil was invited back to the u.s. in 2001 on the fischel state visit during which jihadism dignitaries explained their virtuous treatment of woman and now when there's the security organ are going busy. over and over working it's right there a woman who doesn't work in the ministry of defense. we don't use them as objects of advertisement. they're not or. for many other things that women shouldn't be for months before $911.00 the u.s. sent $43000000.00 to the taliban a reward for fighting narcotics trafficking who would have known that just months

later america would invade to start a war that would last for almost 2 decades the united states had been cooperated with jibing in afghanistan for a long time they didn't see them as that dangerous they saw them as people who would stay over there and and they thought they could use them this changed on 9111 hand it does seem hypocrite. for the united states to meet with the taliban today after promising to destroy them on the other hand it's the necessity of defeat united states has been fighting for 18 years and if the american public is tired of it. the u.s. wouldn't hear a bad word about the taliban why did the mover guest plan to build pipelines together but peace talks in 2019 that obviously is something america just current and paid. russian journalist to

return to moscow on saturday as part of a historic priest in the swap with ukraine has spoken to reporters he was arrested in kiev in may of 2018 on charges of treason and was released from pretrial detention late last month as well as giving a press conference he also spoke to our correspondent with the details here is. 52 year old russian journalist with ukrainian passport who spent $470.00 days in detention in ukraine more than 15 months that time will confess to us definitely became a task for him not only professionally but as a human being this is how he described the biggest challenges and the hardest moments for him while in detention some of them the hardest thing was the living conditions because it's a short when someone 1st enters prison i had in my hands the boat for toiletries a toothbrush and toothpaste the hardest thing was to get over the shock of

everything that was happening to me because i understood that it had nothing to do with the law but i understood that it's absolutely political and also realized that by law i could not protect myself our interview didn't last more than 15 minutes but i saw tears in kids our eyes so many times during this time it's really hard to understand what he's been through but whatever it was definitely brought so much pain and frustration and deal definitely as far as i understood from what he was telling me was really bad about these caves but there is much more than just that. all the people arriving in moscow in ukraine only military on. and men of military age came out of the airplane the sort of people know what they're going for while it's humiliating to have women and old people in there was a woman who was 6 months pregnant in the detention facility where i was she helped to organize the crimean referendum in 24 team she was put in prison for that just

a few words about his case to remind you he used to be they had of russia's agency and over still in kiev ukraine until one day in may 2013 he was arrested over a treason charges by ukraine's as be you national security agency and if guilty he could face up to 15 years in prison he was never proven guilty and he denied all the way through these promises all the allegations and all the charges this case brought some international attention and repeated condemnation from the lawyers see kitty all told me he has no doubts that his case was and remains a political case it's such a stupid to deny that it's a political process and it's my release and it ended like that because there was a change of up in the street i knew that as long as pershing co was in power i would remain in prison and i thought what profession would protect me work

according to strict standards if i followed all of these journalistic standards there was nothing they could arrest me for but it turned out there was because poroshenko created a big political story together with ministrations. hill added he hopes to hold those responsible who will eventually be brought to justice and he also said he's not a politician but again he has that what happened to him and 34 other people exchanged and released from ukraine in detention would eventually mark the beginning of a new era of the era of better positive relations between ukraine and russia we. more dignity and more respect. so it's a new week but the same old issue of bragg's it is playing out in the u.k. parliament with m.p.'s jew to vote again on a snap election later tonight in just the last hour parliament has agreed to force the government to disclose its no deal plans in

a fresh blow to boris johnson and this comes after a bruising week for the pm having already lost key parliamentary vote r.t. shadi edwards daschle has more on the latest twists and turns of briggs it. is a mammoth week ahead of us today and that comes as parliament is definitely shutting up shop for this parliamentary session that says downing street has confirmed confound that it will provo or suspend parliament until october the 14th at the end of today's session now it all comes as boris johnson faced in mega bruising to his premiership where he suffered key defeats last week in parliament over his do or die no deal come october 31st plus the whole issue of a snap general election now m.p.'s today are yet again expected to reject the government's call for a snap general election it comes as many opposition leaders throughout the day today has been quite vocal and quite public about their rejection of vote later on

this evening having said that despite boris johnson's horrendous week last week he's still defending his stance saying that bracks it needs no delay. is the point . i would have. to do the leaving. we're going to fulfil the repeated promises of parliament to the people and come out of the e.u. on october 31st. box well earlier today for us johnson met his counterpart over in ireland to address the issue of the irish border but yet again to absolutely no avail in fact they've both released a joint statement that's boris johnson and live for about korea for an island and they've both agreed that there was significant gaps that remain between them now

that somewhat cautious any idea that there's room to maneuver and negotiate over in brussels and across the pond we heard from the french foreign minister and he is saying that actually. there could be a veto when it comes to all of this as things stand it's a no the british say they want to propose other solutions alternative arrangements to ensure the withdrawal we have not seen them so it's a no we can't keep we starting this every 3 months let the british tell us what they want well back here in westminster it seems like we are in for a very long evening ahead just earlier today the house of commons speaker john bercow he and now say there will be a standing down there for a general election on october 31st whichever one comes next but as i say aspects like these seeing plenty more motions to be voted on and debated on and will bring as we get it. joined on the line now by fealty who's the editor of the

political website slugger o'toole specializes in our east politics we just heard in the last. piece of voted to force the government to release its plan on a no deal brigs it why would that be necessary. because in a way one of the faults in the whole design of trying to affect cracks at the british government has been highly secretive of all of the arrangements not simply a run of bigger but. the whole way through forest johnson her house sharpened that if you might by. really showing parliament saying give me a general election. without ever really explaining what is threat of the new deal actually means and of course these are parliamentarians new york city hall than for their seats to the referendum result each one of them has to be responsible to their constituency and i think this is a marked victory for them and possibly one of

a series of it to succumb over the next week or 2. it has unless it has been prime minister trees male boris johnson seems westminster just can't find a solution to the backstop the issue what to do about the border why is it proving so difficult. well because in a way it comes back to that famous quote from boris johnson themselves during the referendum campeon that to a certain extent. the backstop is an invention to facilitate mrs maze rather peculiar to you that wanted to stay effectively than the single market wanted to kind of operate through a kind of acquire a customs union and wanted to keep in the whole of the economy on the island of ireland those parts that are integrated in them not all of it is things like electricity market it is certainly runs across the border busy but more

particularly agriculture and farming particularly dairy is completely integrated so the backstop was there to try and facilitate it that the trigger operations to not be this effective the problem is that the criticism that mrs may run into in parliament. was that this wasn't alone breck's it owns many of the extreme wrecks of tears that for her to actually to clear so it's a circle that that both she and subsequently forest johnson struggled to square. if we look at tourism owens who is in power scored a snap election didn't turn out too well the government losing its majority should boris johnson being so confident about wanting to go to a general election. well i think the real issue is volatility here because in the run into the 2017 election. mrs mate was on 45 of 46 percent

that mr korb and the labor leader was on something like 23 or 24 percent not that far away from where he is the moment and boris johnson as a group the further away from where mrs may was voter volatility is getting more and more difficult to anticipate it but i don't think he's guarnteed get a majority i'm not even sure that he's guaranteed that we won't end up exactly where we are and i think the opposition the british opposition anyway is beginning to come to point trying to hedge expect some hard and try and bring forward the u. haul issue brax it and deal with it i mean before even thinking about going to a general election in terms of ireland though they are urged politicians over the next government sounds in the opposition are highly aware that the previously they sided with the british was only able to get through that part of them. are hopeful but at least by the end of october at least the direction or the trajectory of any

future there may be become more obvious. it seems big like boris johnson is almost painted into a corner at this stage we're hearing speculation of what he might day but in reality he said he's not going to ask for an extension to the deadline for breaks in from the e.u. he had the zone parliament to said that there isn't to be a no deal bragg's it on october 31st what could he do in 5 weeks a while parliament suspended i think the only thing you can try to do is to accept where we are. to to try and go upstream and i'm trying to create some kind of conditions where. he pushes the opposition parties in through. a situation where you ask them to be responsible and come up with some kind of. crash compromise and try and try and get up to go through he isn't going to be able

to do it by october when the fisheries bill is gone up means that if we were to crash in october then. britain's fishermen would effectively have no legal structure protect their rights for farming bill is going to see a way it remains to be seen whether. business parliamentary business as wrapped up tonight or whether it kind of creeps on for another few days to try and save europe some of those issues but i think it's almost a given that though he's in no position to. press this crash overseas or snow until simply because government simply hasn't got its business the business that it needs to get done this before the deadline these are terrible excess. of what possible concessions can boris johnson get from the e.u. with the e.u. give any ground any way i mean they must be surely watching him from of a foreign and rubbing their hands with glee at this entire shambles they're witnessing why would they give any further ground isn't going their way i think

it's tempting to look at but look at it that way but i think in many ways one of the issues with bracks it is there are been too many egos getting in the way of developing a properly negotiator deal. and i think that applies to both sides that certainly applies to the lack of bilateral conversations that your normal tween london and dublin in particular i don't think anybody would process as gleeful at this but i also think of brussels as probably typical more stark of the potential damage and figures that it will be damage the last 5 crash i think it's becoming as parliament begins the to control and it not her as you know i mean this is a minority government doesn't hargrove working with charities well short of going forward votes so that the health of your parents the u.p. leave unionist parties and you know i think in a way to. this finally for me i don't speculate should look crass this is glory

john ron ron ron until part of the body rubs it by the scruff of the now actually. tries to deliver something because i really don't think. the situation for parliament will knock that the government has brought us to this pass off scot free and give them a free pass for an election not make it in speedy appreciate your time i guess mick fealty editor of the slow growth tool political website thank you. to the news now palestinians have clashed with the israeli police while protesting against the death of an inmate in an israeli jail the palestinian prime minister himself is accused israel of premeditated murder of the prisoner due to medical negligence on the question of been suffering from cancer israel's prison service has confirmed a man serving a sentence for murder and kidnapping died in hospital. the latest

tensions come as the u.s. special envoy for middle east peace has resigned casting further doubt on israel palestine relations jason greenblatt was a key figure in the trumpet ministrations efforts in the region and it's unclear if his successor will be able to put his proposals into practice than to take over that of its who graduated from law school 3 years ago and according to reports has no middle east experience up until now he's worked as an aide to trump's son in law jared krishna. meanwhile the former and void green blouse had received criticism in the arab world for unpopular decisions such as supporting the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and recognizing israeli sovereignty over the golan heights but his decision to leave the job is now raising questions over what happens next guests debated how the deal of the century idea could work out. 1st of all let's agree that the there and there might be a plan that the us administration is working on but that peace is not part of it

and the palestinians are not part of it then that's why the palestinians have taken the very logical approach in forming the international community that so long as this administration does not recognize trellised to me and writes international law there's really not much to talk about if the palestinians are going to simply boycott mr green blood boycott mr trump boycott the saudis boycott anything before they even seen the play and then there's no opportunity for engagement this is the time for engagement not for boycotts and when you start to boycott the arab world and the united states you're going down a very slippery slide only guns are bad. nobody is well i caught palestinians have with palestine is an integral part of the arab world mr greenblatt is someone who has is not only committed ideologically to the settler movement he is a contributor to the entrancement of the supplement regime which is illegal under

international law in the heart of the occupied west bank so there was never. a moment where this administration even made a slight effort to give the impression that it has any inclination or any interest in being balanced in being objective it's the palestinian authority that have got to get with the program they live in the middle east that they essentially believe they are the center of the middle east and they're really they've really become a footnote and they're about to throw the throw themselves excuse me into the waste basket of history of unless they begin to engage with the greatest superpower on earth which is the troubled ministration who truly wants the best for the palestinian people and is trying yet again after 25 years of failures to help the palestinian people and their israeli neighbors come to a. diplomatic political and economic solution the palestinians throughout the past years with successive american administrations have bent over backwards to try and

reach a solution that would guarantee a real 2 state formula now if you're talking about formulas that were presented that would give the palestinians far less than a state then naturally the palestinian leadership which is accountable to the palestinian people cannot accept something that is not acceptable less than a palestinian state it's time for the palestinian authority to pony up and get with the program so that they can achieve the type of independence that israel can have the type of rights and security that the jewish people so much deserve in this part of the world so it's a win win recognizing israel's illegal annexation of jerusalem has been rejected worldwide recognizing israel's illegal annexation of the syrian golan has been rejected worldwide when when situation in the middle east is quite simple and it starts by putting the occupation in the historic waste bin.

the traditional religious performance in germany has come under fire from the animal rights organization pizza is calling for donkeys to be removed from the show depicting the last days of jesus christ and study suggests a scooter. these days jesus would no longer travel by don't key he would presume. we move in a nice scooter or some other electric vehicle that is kind to animals and the environment. of that demands being criticized by the performers the actor playing

jesus says that the play represents a specific moment in time and a scooter would be totally out of place the event has been held in bavaria since the 17th century with only minor changes and it's not just those on stage angry at peter's intervention jesus is supposed to ride in these couture instead of a donkey it could not be more idiotic. i was in jerusalem and there is a ban on the use of electric vehicles and all chown i understand the criticism itself but seriously jews are on a nice scooter while everything around is historically correct. animal welfare is taking the law in germany you can't be that many have if you are the world's animal were. well taken and what is not taking account of pollution is human well peter harris mission to divert attention away from human

suffering and focus attention on less important issues and peter has probably no knowledge of the german laws the law of the land is very strict and it has its limits but it also has privileges and said privileged organizations can as long as they follow the strict procedures that the law provides use animals in their performances. the mayor of london subway car his voice his opposition to a major arms for being hosted in the city is reported described the event is abhorrent and says he strongly opposed to it defense and security equipment international that's the world's largest arms exhibition it's been mired in controversy before as well like in 2013 torture equipment was found on sale at the critics also point to those who are doing the shopping among them saudi arabia and iraq and while human rights activists say that the u.k. is facilitating atrocities taylor has more. this is a british with

a twist held only every 2 years there's no candyfloss to cops or soft toys no the largest of weapons in the wild is in town. d s e i attracts on companies a minute 2 delegations from the world backed by the ministry of to fads it's the kind of that you'd expect the media to be keen to get involved in who it's not so easy to pass the security checks take it and copay affection war correspondents what's alongside the british military he should fit the bill know each application in the information submitted is assessed on the case by case basis after reviewing europe location we are unable to establish that you are a journalist and editor production team member in

a role in field mr cobain try to convince them with his reports for the likes of the guardian in times newspapers covering everything from northern ireland to bosnia and saudi arabia no luck though and it's a decision that's provoked a strong reaction in cobain is an award winning journalist it is absurd that the security team for the arms for have taken it upon themselves to decide he is on suitable to attend the event it is totally unacceptable for a journalist to be refused access in this way and it is a sinister breach of press freedom the arms fire comes at a time of increased scrutiny over the u.k.'s weapons sales back in june westminster was forced to freeze any deals with saudi arabia after a court ruled the unlawful amid allegations that british arms hoping used in the yemen conflict now the un says senna's could be cooked.