in making the economy of venezuela. the taliban sends a clear message donald trump an exclusive interview with r.t. urging the u.s. president to rethink his decision to call off the afghan peace talks. despite booming u.s. oil exports top democrat unite in calling for a ban on fracking but are accused of playing into putin's hands and the classic british children's t.v. character gets fired from his job over diversity and so. it was just a children's character you have written it takes things too far mightn't he just stick to the basic thing in july somebody taking it off to fix it with degree really american come quite happy with what it is.

the welcome you're watching r.t. international now the chief negotiator for the u.s. in page 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. to return to the negotiating table in an exclusive interview with r.t. . i do the. work hard but we are still committed to the. policy of this very. smooth solution for. peace on the table. compared to what we were just. after the.

war the taliban regularly conduct terrorist attacks across afghanistan in the latest incident at least 4 afghan troops were killed and 3 injured when a taliban suicide car bomb hit a military base in southern couple on thursday trump ended almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted killing u.s. servicemen to quote strengthen their bargaining position but again looks now at how the talks are falling 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 dogood consider this a. negotiation he is mr buffett with his father is that he says he admitted that he had a good 1000 other well so if big dollars off us why did we could not get one of them or 2 other so this will go away he would have been different i was a bit of a different people to different a lot of people of us a bit earlier but really when why or when or what do we have to defend our people the way the taliban see it their 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 by 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 because

most. american soldiers there you know want to stop it is not i will admit the soldiers are going to be in washington they are never there was one of us but still we. proposed and we were keen to bring peace it was some through the good solution but unfortunately i need to which we've reached some sort of finality when it was considered by the american side sense and the last consideration which was which to elicit by. his power over mr dallas are going to some of the characters that are going to such a peace treaty and dems in the obama started it we're going to be stupid so be us rigid we want peace in the other side we wanted to give a serious message for the foreign troops is to goof off in the snow so if the others are also who. is this he also wants the seed of the what is the what is imposed on us we have the different forces if the if the american side is not

willing to bush's of them did not want peace on the day it will soon. be compared to different ocilla it would leave it to do this for every viewers what hurt the most the taliban's head negotiate to told me is how close they were to a deal a sees far the details it been all but worked out the fine print sorted and approved only for everything to collapse were there was this tension on the do but it is forward well you know vertical think within the decide then this do do to cease fire between a fast a number who can forces and lou give a city bus it is that when it can force of the rue oak and one for for the into that we're going to do is yours of was so without her and a good to the voted wishers of the the seas for can reduce few sooth and i took your good succes by out and also other don't miss the dollars figure issues can be discussed there 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 paid been dead fire in fewer a we have been serving is policeman and 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 in a me harder than at any time in the last 10 years until that is common sense prevails and the u.s. goes back to what everyone and washington knows is in evitable talks negotiations where the taliban well u.s. politicians have been arguing about america's role in afghanistan for years and it was a key hugh to you in thursday nights the drowned democratic to bait 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 our military we have got to put an end to endless war one thing we've learned about

afghanistan from afghanistan is that the best way not to be caught up in endless war is 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 about iraq you know right 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. where the program is the clash over 70 issues but recently the has been one topic they've mostly don't and that's the opposition to fracking the some even calling for a complete ban the process involves trading deep into ground to recover oil and natural gas with critics saying it is dangerous and bad for the environment top us democrats. a kind of mopping his mill. 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 3 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 moreau tarm on own you fossil fuel leases for drilling off shore and on public lands and i will ban fracking everywhere it's not just the left progressives you've got the centrist but 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 are 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 now 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. in the u.k. a fine man has been 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 the brigade bosses there said he could discourage women from joining us. his friends need him more than ever. on the phone to the rescue team managed to save the day for him and some here 1st said in 1907 his nomination about firefighters in the small welsh village since then though he's been widely used to promote fire safety says across the. 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 but not 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 fireman sam doesn't reflect the fire service today in terms of both the job itself and our workforce it's important to us that our open days and community events don't think anyone feel excluded and therefore we took this decision lincolnshire chief fire officer. fired fireman has been getting roasted for it does a great job for you as a wife writing life as a wind

a way that's not yours it's not acting that you should do is to for yourself that is a leaf i'm a sahm alone this isn't the 1st time that fireman 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 up seats. 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 been renamed firefighters and 1st to then become a non gender specific person. but why not some sort of gender specific name that's true ok so yes now most of yes exactly exactly they could be put in because no rubbish it could be so just do it it was just a children's current taking things too far as that music and 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 mummy piggies dressed as a fireman on a. 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 extinguishers. freddy fail but and penelope still ahead india has made for fine is in the rest in the it's part of cash me since last month will have look at the story in more detail in the cup

join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm sure i'll see you then. become. we have to become. robots. you know we have to become creatures like. iraq. you know all the superhero movies. i don't want to be algorithm. there are growing indications the west's anti russia's stance may be softening a case in point is the recent visit of francis. and defense minister or take for example the new york times editorial calling on trump to better relations with the kremlin as a way to block china an important question remains can moscow trust the west and me

. 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 in indian security forces over half of those arrested have been released although hundreds of local politicians and process party sect is still remain in detention india says it is committed to establishing full constitutional order in kashmir and accuses pakistan of steering unrest. my government is taking affirmative actions by adopting progressive policies to promote social economic equality and justice

these progressive policies will now be fully applicable to our citizens in general and no doubt these are some good decisions entirely internal to india their country can accept interference in it's been done benefits certainly not india. pakistan needs to stop interfering in india as a face it needs to stop exporting terror to india the minute that stops normalcy kishan a problem today has been created because of pakistan's qualities of a 1000 cuts to be pakistan is acknowledged the world or the global areas of pakistan needs to back off all indian state are normal the only issue that happens is interest me because pakistan is the immediate neighbor that greets trouble which the minute pakistan is out of that nation probably stop. he would speak exclusively to the pakistani prime minister iran can 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 the 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 guaranteed to the people in a special status that status has been taken away they have actually gone against what the founding fathers of india. you know who the 1st prime minister what they had promised to the people of kashmir they've gone against what we think. is that. this is governed b.g.p. government is not going to use force. we fear that there will be oppression and press. wouldn't it already as i said to be 30200000 been killed but what

they're going to do now we fear that this is. genocide why why have the clampdown on media the law of the 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 the door you want allow the leaders of the opposition parties to visit the do not allow them so what are they trying to hide. i would have expected the world to react much more than it has but you can watch that interview for with imran khan here an r.t. international in just over 3 hours from. ok now it's time for some world news break. students have clashed with riot police in the colombian capital bogota demonstrators there threw stones at officers who responded with take acid armored

vehicles the rally was held in response to allegations of police brutality at a university campus a student has reportedly been shot there and dozens beaten up of things that america thousands rallied in the square outside congress in argentine's by his aires they are demanding more food aid with short years across the country a bill to increase spending on food aid be read by the upper house later on on friday argentina has been in the grip of double digit inflation for months and involving more schools to demonstrate is there have gathered outside the hotel where president donald trump is staying at the activists though have likened him to a rat and demanded that he leaves the city because the president today really describe it as a rat and rodent infested mess they also accuse him of being racist announcing his tough immigration policy. finally in wales in the u.k. a small cafe supposed to drum up business using her online it advertising has backfired

after google banned them for their supposed use of a homophobic slur the word in question there were also happens to be the name of a traditional dish coffee and it expressed surprise that google's decision. i think that faggots and peas and chips and any and levy 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 was just describing the actual menu item i don't know did the list of words or list was a google. and the word faggot was actually in the list with many others as far as policing words i've been good. but where does it stop or where does it end especially for businesses because the result there's many other words which are can be deemed offensive or the dish at the center of the scandal is traditional

in the u.k. consists of meatballs mixed with bread and herbs but google's algorithms did flag up the cafes advertisement is inappropriate and offensive content we asked visitors to the cafe what they thought of the back. i'm a fish producer but i think it's ridiculous because if i could saw. a food and if you're going to take it down here you are going to have to take you know all of the country to dish you know see no television no pakistan east coast as a musician so it's true to say the fog of social media paul and he's almost impedance he can get all of the country. a concierge needs to tell me back at some piece he gets on the head to custom made. it without say thanks for watching us today we're back again with headlines and more stories at the top yeah.

ok but now that you know. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to

stand losing business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers. question. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was raped. you know told a shot to kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he raped me with his birthing if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from

women who are veterans who suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and the offender and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an hour in violence male sexual predators for the large part of charge of whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. this is this is a stick of water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is pond 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 was 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. so. that soon. their plastic

a 60. day session could object to funding me. on the. phone now the mountains of waste only grow heigho. there are growing indications the west's anti russia stance may be. a case in point is the recent visit. and defense minister or take for example the new york times editorial calling on trump to better relations with the kremlin as a way to block china an important question remains trust the west and.

still. we are at war. i'm responsible for the deployment of thousands of young americans to battle in a distant land. some will kill. you some will be killed. and so i come here with an cute sense of the costs of armed conflict. filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace and our effort to replace one with the other. like. thomas the term. you know i need to make. it come sit through thanks tony.

i stand before you tonight in my red taj chiffon evening ga. before. my face off limit often my family had gen a way. of know with. the might this extraordinary deal between the united kingdom and saudi arabia in which. ronald reagan wanted to sell the saudis billions and billions dollars worth of equipment but these radio be stopped it and congress wouldn't approve it because they feared arming saudi would threaten israel serrano

reagan handed the deal is there effectively to his political soulmate margaret sacha un seen nothing yet. the narrative very tough act to follow and. when we stumbled on the saudi arms. deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years harness french has been up the heart of many of the great world events of the past 30 years. i was always pleased to see him when i was prime minister because he brought me extraordinary insight and bold proposal.