the taliban sends a clear message to donald trump an exclusive interview with r.t. urging the u.s. president to rethink his decision to pull off afghan page talks. also to come from his praising her american prosperous oil industry but top democrats calling for a fracking ban for many what makes many interpret this call is just playing into russia's hands and a classic british children's t.v. character gets fired from his job over diversity in concert. it was just a children's character you've been in taking things too far why didn't you just stick to the basic thing in july somebody taking your top 2 tickets to the fence to agree really enough income quite happy with one of this.

morning it's 10 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international the chief negotiator for the u.s. in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before congress amid questions over president donald trump's decision to end discussions with the terror group meanwhile the taliban has to return to the negotiating table in exclusive interview with r.t. . i do know that there. is a behind the spirit we're talking but we are still committed to the english edition was recently that i would start our policy from this very minute when this was the most aleutian form of what conflict except. except peace on the table so we don't want to revitalize. come back to what we were just.

well the taliban regularly conducts terrorist attacks across afghanistan in the latest incident at least 4 afghan troops were killed and 3 injured when a taliban suicide car bomber hit a military base in southern couple on thursday on trump ended almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted killing a u.s. serviceman to quote strengthen their bargaining position. now looks at how the talks fell apart. just days ago they stood on the brink of a breakthrough the beginning of the end of the afghan war then it all collapsed and it was too good to be true the talks with the taliban are dead. and the taliban refused to attend talks with trump wanting a deal 1st trump killed off negotiations citing an american soldier killed by

islamists in afghanistan and i put it to the taliban how do you expect trump to talk negotiate with you when you are killing his troops as you speak. the next day when mr tucker cancelled this. negotiation he had mr bucket with his father is that he says he admitted that if you have good $1000.00 well so if big dollars off us why we cannot give you one of the more blather so this is what he would have been different i would simply have to different people who are different in north of people of other somewhere over there but really when what i really want to do we have to defend our people the way the taliban see it lead defending themselves in their country fighting against a foreign occupation and for every american soldier they kill tens of their fighters and civilians are killed in. the us they said this isn't

a war they want they say isn't a war they can win by force but they won't and can't give up the what is it pulls on us. american soldiers don't want to stop it's not in it for the soldiers are going to be in washington they are never there was a lot of us but still we. proposed and we were keen to bring peace and i want some through the system but unfortunately i need to retrieve some sort of finality when it was cancelled by the american side of science and done a lot of consideration which was which took. his or her mr vance are going to some of the characters that have broken such a peace treaty and 2 terms and but obama started it we're going to be stupid so be us rigid we want peace in afghanistan we wanted to give a serious message for the foreign troops is to go from afghanistan so if the other side also who. is this if he also wants the seat do i know what is the what is

imposed on us we have to defend ourselves if the if the american side is not really and it was initially and did not want peace on the day it will sort. be compared to a different person it would have to do this for a number of years what hurt the most the taliban had negotiated told me is how close they were to a deal a ceasefire the details had been worked out in the fine print sorted and approved only for everything to collapse where there was a discussion on the debate is over vertical to decide that it's to do. a ceasefire between us and american forces and get a city by city government or force of the rule and on. the internet under which it was so. devoted which is of the the ceasefire. and i could perhaps excuse but also other notice that it was the issues can be discussed as things

stand talks for now over the war will go on the killing will go on with trump already boasting that he's hitting the taliban with his pavement dead in theory we have been serving as policemen in afghanistan and that was not meant to be the job of our great soldiers the finest on earth over the last 4 days we have been hitting our enemy harder than at any time in the last 10 years until that is common sense prevails and the us goes back to what everyone in washington knows is inevitable talks negotiations with the taliban more and gas and reporting that while u.s. politicians have been arguing about america's role in afghanistan for years and it was a key issue to you in thursday night's the round democratic debate. where doing right now in afghanistan is not helping the safety and security of the united states

because the problems in afghanistan are not problems that can be solved by a military we have got to put an end to and less war one thing we've learned about afghanistan from afghanistan it's the best way not to be caught up in endless wars to avoid starting one in the 1st when we came to you know offers to brock turn the president turned me into joe when they said we had a plan to get out he turned to the whole security joe will organize this get the troops home the big mistake that was may which we predicted was that you would not have a circumstance where this year and the kurds would work together to keep isis from coming from moving in a huge mistake and one of the big differences between you and me i never believed what cheney and bush said. here is the war in iraq. and helped lead the

opposition. and it's been a kind of you know how the feeling that there would be massive destabilization in that area if we went into that war. well the from run is that it clashed over several issues but recently there has been one topic they've mostly agreed on and that's opposition to fracking with some even calling for a complete ban the process involved drilling deep into the ground to recover natural gas but critics say it is dangerous and bad for the environment u.s. top democrats also share these face to kind of balkan as the story of the usa is now the world's top the oil exporting country check out these words from the international energy agency booming shale production has allowed the u.s. to close in on and briefly overtake saudi arabia as the world's top. oil exporter president trump says that this is a huge achievement he's ready to celebrate success becoming more and more energy

dominant i don't want to be energy free we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world but not everyone shares donald trump's energy market enthusiasm in fact most of the people who want to run against him in the 2020 alexion want to outlaw the practice of hydraulic fracking that's the reason the usa has so much oil and gas any proposal to avert the climate crisis must include a full fracking ban on public and private lands. on my 1st day as president i will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on own you fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands and i will ban fracking everywhere it's not just the left progressives you've got the centrist come all the harris there's no question i'm in favor of banning fracking so at this point roughly 59 percent of america's oil is extracted from the shale so if you outlawed the practice of hydraulic fracking you would

knock down the oil sector of the u.s. economy pretty hard the same for natural gas now check out this headline. kremlin kemal or harris and other democrats are embracing vladimir putin's preferred u.s. energy policy the new conspiracy theory even went viral on twitter many in fracking and use of natural gas would do more damage to america and make lead to more prudent heavier than anything donald trump has ever said or done so good job democrats you're being pro russia pro putin and program wind by wanting to ban natural gas of course the senator isn't the only 2020 democrat calling for this from russia with love ban on fracking the most reliable of k.g.b. useful idiots bernie sanders is even clearer that this notion that opposition to hydraulic fracking is all a big plot from moscow is nothing new in fact we've even heard it from the halls of the u.s. congress we have seen evidence of campaigns targeting culture and energy as 2 to.

industries of interest to foreign powers on energy we've seen anti fracking narratives so it seems like nowadays the only way to really play it safe in american politics is to find out what a lot of your putin wants and do the exact opposite so let's hope that the russian president doesn't talk about say fixing up america's crumbling roads and bridges or addressing the opioid epidemic. r.t. new york. now in the u.k. a cartoon fireman is being criticised for failing to keep up with more than equality standards the classic children's t.v. character has been axed from his job as a mascot for a local brigade the bosses that said that he could put women off from joining. his friends more than ever. sam the phone to the rescue team managed to save the day. stead in 1907 as an animation about firefighters in the small welsh village since then he's been widely used to promote

fire safety and services across the u.k. but now it seems his time is up in some parts at least as i. expect. generations of kids may have grown up with him but legendary children's t.v. show character fireman sam needs to get with the times that's according to the lincolnshire fire and rescue service for years he was their mascot helping to recruit new fina fighters bots now lincolnshire fire and rescue service say that fineman sound is outdated and non-inclusive and he's putting off potential female recruit firefighters nationally and residents locally have raised some concerns that farm and sam doesn't reflect the former service today in terms of both the job itself and our workforce it's important to us that our open dates and community events don't think anyone feel excluded and therefore we took

this decision lincolnshire as chief fire officer. fired fireman sam has been getting roasted for it really does a great job for you as a one man live as a wind away that's not yours it's not acting like you should do is to far yourself that it is a leaf i'm a sahm alone this isn't the 1st time that firemen sam has been in hot water many argue that while the show is politically correct and features plenty of female characters it should be renamed to firefighter. no i think you got it right i think it's just somebody taking it to the fore and stickery really enough and come quite happy with what it is he is the epitome of straight. to my mind. may not be terribly appealing to people who want to be. firemen however if you're to be

a farmer you should want to know. why didn't you just stick to the basics and enjoy and get back to the basics so we might have a nicer place to live. very very happy to have him renamed firefighters and 1st to then become a non gender specific person. but why not some sort of gender specific name but street search yes now most amount yes exactly exactly they could be put in because no rubbish it could be so it just knew. it was just a children's cart to take things to fogs that you see under another british cartoon icon peppa pig was recently but rated by none other then the london fire brigade whose head is by the way a woman for featuring an episode where mommy pig pretended to be a fire man and not a fire fighter. big east dressed as a fireman on

a well you dress like. i'm going to the mummy's fire engine practice come on peppa pig we've not been fireman for 30 years you have a huge influence on kids and using out of date stereotypical gender specific wording prevents young girls from becoming firefighters join our fire fighting sexism campaign women make up just 5.2 percent of firefighters in england and with that in mind lincolnshire fire and rescue service have come up with 3 original new characters to help attract more diverse recruits that anthropomorphise sized fire extinguishes freddy filled but and penelope. that was still to come this hour india has made $4000.00 arrests in its part of kashmir since last month we'll have a look at the details on the story just our. when

lawmakers manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes can't protect themselves. when the crime and merry go round lifts only the one percent. who ignore middle of the room signals. the real news is. the world. can become eternal we have to become kharkiv robots mutants you know we have to become creatures like in.

iraq nor are there are the superhero movies. then i don't think i don't think there are i don't want to be alone with them. pain years and started 10 years and i think it's time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the format here is what i've been thinking about next season related episodes filmed on an island 10 experts fight it out for a trophy what do you think ok a more affordable option $25.00 text for. one red rose another suggestion political jeopardy parody no political cookout where we will literally wrote the elites. late night show it's a rare format these days and it's cheap all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner but to leave me with one of my goals i can do this and laughter politics ready gone wild like music. ok crosstalk is not about

hype it's about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. peter if you want to change something why don't we get rid of the gotye you know that is too much. oh again now nearly $4000.00 people have been arrested in indian administered kashmir since new delhi revoked its special status last month that's according to government data the mass detentions come amid ongoing clashes between the local population and indian security forces over half of those arrested they have been

released although hundreds of local politicians and process parties activists still remain in detention india says it is committed to establishing full constitutional order in kashmir and accuses pakistan of stirring up on rest. my government is taking affirmative actions by adopting progressive policies to put a match social economic equality and justice these progressive policies will now be fully applicable to our citizens in general and the dark these are sudden decisions entirely internal to india now country can accept interference in its been done with affairs certainly not india. pakistan needs to stop interfering in india's affairs it needs to stop exporting india the minute that stops normalcy the problem to be has been created because of pakistan's qualities of a 1000 cuts to be able to stand as a knowledge of the world or the globe or that. pakistan needs to back off all the

indian states are not the only issue that happens isn't just me because pakistan is the immediate me but let me it's trouble that the minute pakistan is out of that we should probably stop. by here and r.t. we did talk exclusively to the pakistani prime minister in mankind about the situation in kashmir. it couldn't get any worse. what they have what they're doing what the b.g.p. government is doing in kashmir is not only have they violated the international law the the united nations resolution the other bilateral agreement between pakistan and india the similar agreement that's been violated they've gone against their own constitution the indian constitution get indeed the people in kashmir a special status that status has been taken away they have actually gone against what the founding fathers of india pandit nehru narrowed the 1st prime minister

what they had promised to the people of kashmir they've gone against that what we've. is that. this is governed b.g.p. government is now going to use force. we fear that they will be oppression unprecedented already as i said 370200000 kashmiris have been killed but what they are going to do now we faired that this is out of our genocide why are they why have they clamped down on media they don't allow any media to get in there nothing is coming out of what is happening in the time they've imposed this curfew and these extra. security personnel there they did not even allow the leaders of the opposition parties to visit the dinner allow them there so what are they trying to hide. sadly i would have expected the world to react much more than it has. well you can watch that interview in full at our web site at any time

at r.t. dot com or you can watch it see on r.t. in to have time. now let's have a look at some world news in brief. students have clashed with riot police in the colombian travel bogota demonstrators there pelted stones at officers who responded with tear gas and armored vehicles the rally was held in response to allegations of police brutality at a university campus a student had reportedly been shot there and dozens beaten up. america thousands have rallied in the square outside congress in argentina as well as aires they are demanding more food aid shortages across the country a bill to increase spending on food aid will be read by the upper house later on friday argentina has been in the grip of double digit inflation for months and in baltimore schools demonstrates is that they have gathered outside

a hotel where president donald trump is staying the activists likened him to a rat and demanded he leave the city early the president had described it as a rat and rodent infested mess they also accused of being racist announcing his tough immigration. finally in wales in the u.k. a small cafe's push to drum up business using online advertising has backfired after google banned them for their supposed use of a homophobic slur the word in question though also happens to be the name of a traditional dish cafe owners expressed surprise google's decision. i think that faggots and peas and chips and then you is a traditional meal i didn't make the name and i didn't the days of traditional dish you can't change it there was nothing meant by what we were doing is just describing the actual menu item i downloaded the. list the words of the list was

a google. and the word faggot is actually in the list with many others as far as policing words i've got. it where does it stop or where does it end especially for businesses because there's not there's many other words which can be deemed offensive at the center of the scandal is traditional in the u.k. it consists of meatballs mixed with bread and herbes that used to be popular to still is in wales and in the english midlands google algorithms they flagged it up . as the cafes used in appropriate and offensive content we asked businesses of families rest stop café what they thought of. the 1st producer but i think if you could just because i could saw both of them if you're going to take it down here you have to take you know all of the country to dish you know see no television no

holds back as. it's true to see if i've got solutions meatballs resolves if you. can get them all of the country. i can see any. packets in peace to get our education. and that is how the news is looking so far today here in r.t. we're back again as usual at the top of the hour. a

little bit of the did a little bit of a little bit. today there are good dentist and bad editors the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the looked at those war in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military juntas funding and arming death squads there's no any more because there's always a small income for a really good that's. a profit. business is a stick from a water bottle phone in the stomach of

a fish the brand is spawns of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad what's there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. soon 6 feet so. that seems cool sets their plastic a 60. day when you phones at a special projects funded. on the new best at disney and eventually keep up fun now the mountains of waste only grow heigho.

hello and welcome to sophie and visionaries i'm sophie shevardnadze they call him the. french literature for his no mercy approach to the evils of the modern society and asking them what some are thinking and where and satire today i talked to literally create a t.v. presenter and film director big. foot if i go back there it's really nice to have you with us today's been a while we wanted to have an interview with you what a chance that you're here in moscow so i want to start with back with your collection that's a new project that's going to come out in 6 months it's sort of a compilation of french writers you're not a meat you're a producer an editor of this thing and it's supposed to talk it's supposed to show the french way on eternal matters and i correct exactly what are these matters you know it's a crazy idea is that. right. to ask

me to choose my favorite books of contemporary writers and put my name on the cover instead of theirs but no i would ask that my name be smaller than the name of the author it's just that we present my favorite novels of the last 10 years. so no voters about today about the the world how it's changing so quickly and so we really. we're working on the list we're working on the translation we didn't choose everything but very glad i think it's a beautiful light. here because we need ideas to. put closer our 2 cultures france and russia were very close in the 19th century and now less crazy nations argue that my zacky too crazy.

will get a thinking way in a good way we like to criticize everything relate to complain we are subjective we like parties we like to go out we like seduction yeah you like beautiful woman russian men like beautiful woman it's all about but do i understand correctly that in this new book that's coming out it's going to be only french writers or i cannot tell you definitely because we're working but i hope there will be 2 american novels that i love recently but the problem is really we didn't sign the contracts yes yet so it's possible that the books that i want to translate are already sold to another publishing company so i'm asking because they to me and for many people who who know a little bit french culture you are as french as they get as a character.