the difficulties of the police reports for the way. the taliban sends a clear message to donald trump and an exclusive interview with r.t. urging the u.s. president to rethink his decision to call off afghan peace talks. also this hour despite booming u.s. oil exports top democrats unite in calling for a ban on fracking to find themselves accused of playing in the plane's hands. and a classic british children's t.v. character gets fired from his job over diversity concerns. for watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital where

it's just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. the chief u.s. negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before congress amid questions over donald trump's decision to shut down discussions with the terror group meanwhile the taliban has urged the president to return to the negotiating table and an exclusive interview with r.t. i don't know the reason behind it we. were talking but if you are still committed to the negotiations. i would want to see from this study going to the other side is the most efficient for what conflict except. except peace on the table so we don't want to revitalize the i'm just. going to come back to where i want to be just. after the fact if you're going to go. now the taliban is frequently responsible for terrorist

attacks across afghanistan and the latest incident at least for a local troops were killed and 3 injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a military base in southern couple on thursday donald trump and in almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted killing a u.s. servicemen to quote strengthen their bargaining position garcia have had the opportunity to speak to taliban officials and has been assessing 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 and it all collapsed and it was too good to be true the talks with the taliban are dead. 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 that 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 with mr tucker cancer this is a. negotiation he mr buffett with his father is that he says he admitted that he had a good $1000.00 well so if big get dollars off us why we could not get one of them or 2 other so with this to go away he would have to defend our civic to different people who look different in north of people of other somebody when they're not really but why really what do we have to different 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 imposed on

us. american soldiers don't want to stop it's not i'll admit it or 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 and i want some through the system but unfortunately i need to which we've reached some sort of finality even if it was cancelled by the american side of science and done a lot of consideration which was which took the lives of. 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 committed 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 are also. with us this is it he also wants the city and the way the what is

important to us we have to defend ourselves if the if the american side is not willing to bush's of them did not want peace on the day it will sort. we compared to defend our civil liberties 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 cease fire 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 when you know they're going to decide that this is. a ceasefire between us and american forces and you get a serious message that if your forces the root go on over the internet i mean it was just it was so. good of it was of the the ceasefire can be. an appearance excuse but also other donors that don't think 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 pavement dead and fewer we have been serving as policeman 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 u.s. goes back to what everyone in washington knows is inevitable talks negotiations with the taliban u.s. politicians have been arguing about the country's role in afghanistan for years now and it was again a key issue in thursday night's 3rd 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 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 office to brock turned the president tournaments ajo 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 made which we predicted was that you would not have a circumstance where the shia 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 they would be massive destabilization in

that area if we went into that was. the front runners clashed over several issues but recently there's been one topic they were mostly agreed on and off opposition to fracking with some even calling for a complete ban the process involves drilling deep into the ground to recover oil and natural gas critics claim it's dangerous and bad for the environment and top us democrats share those fears and has a story. the usa is now the world's top 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 if you 3 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 maria tarm 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 kemal 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 harus and other democrats are embracing vladimir putin's push should u.s.

energy policy the new conspiracy theory even went viral on twitter benny in fracking and use of natural gas would do more damage to america and make ledum or putin heavier than anything don't know trump has ever said or done so good job democrats you were being pro russia bro putin and program lynn by want to to band natural gas of cool so the senate it isn't the only 2020 democrat cooling for this from russia with love baron on fracking the most reliable of k.g.b. useful idiots bernie son does is even clearer now this notion that opposition to hydraulic fracking as all a big plot for mosque out 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 an energy as to 2 industries of interest to foreign powers an energy we have seen anti fracking narratives so seems like nowadays the only way to really play it save an american politics is defined out what the why do we are putin the once and do the exact

opposite sell let's hope of the russian president doesn't talk about say fixing up america's crumbling roads and bridges were dressing the opioid epidemic halal mop and art see new york in the u.k. a classic children's t.v. character has been criticize for failing to keep up with modern equality standards far men sam has been acts from his role as a mascot frome a local brigade that's after boss this there said he could discourage women from joining his friend. sam the rescue team managed to save the farm and sam 1st aired in 1987 as an animation about firefighters in a small 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 areas at least his polly boycott explains.

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 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 sam has been

getting roasted for it really does a great job for you as a want to 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 consider and stickery really and i think 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. have

a nice place to live very very happy to have been renamed firefighters and 1st to then become a non gender specific person but we did not know why not some sort of gender specific name but it'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 card to you if you didn't take meetings to fogs that used 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 is dressed as a. fun day 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 butt and penelope. telecom in india has made $4000.00 arrests in its part of kashmir since last month a look at what's going on there and other stories after this short break.

there are growing indications the west's anti russia's stance may be softening a case in point is the recent visit of francis top diplomat 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 anymore. welcome back the outgoing president of the commission john paul has lashed out at an initiative by his successor regarding migration with all the details he has done a quarter. dunker might be on his way out as he used commission president but that hasn't stopped him from giving his $0.02 on issues of migration one of his latest statements assured the continent that migration is not a threat to europe's way of life. to oppose the european way of life to migration you have to respect. independently from the independent from the. younger was responding to his successor ursule of on their

lay and her initiative to make several government titles of positions more creative and a bit less formal now the most controversial of which was the vice president for the protection of the european way of life and this this position was intended to address how migration affected life on the continent the european way of life is built around solidarity peace of mind and security we must address and they legitimate fears and concerns about the impact of irregular migration on our economy and society younger might have come out publicly in opposition to their lands initiative to rename these government positions but in the e.u. parliament there are larger divisions at play some are saying that this is helping the right wing might even amount to fascism while others are saying what's the big deal and the wide european commission claiming to protect our european way of life is a far cry from the idea of unity in diversity on which this union is built when we

talk about the european way of life what we're talking about is asylum and integration the european way of life is about those coming from war from hunger from climate change and integrating all those who want to come and live with us now this row is only one part of europe's larger migration situation especially because 1st arrival countries like italy and greece are finding it increasingly difficult to stem the tide of illegal migration onto the continent while from. far countries like germany are only pressuring them to handle the situation better. nearly $4000.00 people have been arrested in indian administered kashmir since new delhi revoked its special status last month that's according to local authorities the massive tensions come amid ongoing clashes between the local population and indian security forces well than half of those arrested have been released hundreds of local politicians and pro separatist activists remain behind bars india says

it's committed to establishing full constitutional order in kashmir and accuses pakistan of stirring up unrest my government is taking affirmative actions by adopting progressive policies to promote social economic equality and justice these progressive policies will now be free applicable to all citizens in general and the doc these are some good decisions entirely internal to india no country can accept interference in it's been done to the fence certainly not to india. pakistan needs to stop interfering in india as a face it needs to stop exporting to india the minute that stops normalcy can restore the fishing a problem today has been created because a boss wants qualities of a 1000 cuts before the sun is acknowledged the world or the globe or that you there is a pakistani to back off all immune states are normal the only issue that happens isn't

needed to spot the sun is the immediately but it creates trouble that the minute boston is out of that nation. r.t. sat down with the pakistani prime minister imran khan about the situation in kashmir. what we've. is that. this current b.g.p. government is now going to use force. we fear that there 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 the clampdown 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 that 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. you can watch that interview with imran khan in full here on our to international in just under 10 minutes time. a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. didn't have clashed with right in the colombian capital demonstrators pelting stones at officers who responded with tear gas and sent in a. rally was held in response to allegations of police brutality and a university campus shooting have a fairly been shot and dozens. in south america thousands have rallied in the square outside of congress in the argentine capital there demanding more food aid with 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 now. and in the u.s. city of baltimore scores of demonstrators have gathered outside the hotel where donald trump is staying the activist likened him to a rock and demanded he leave the city after the president had earlier described the city as a rock and infested mess also accuse him of being racist announcing his tough immigration policy but now. in wales a small cafes push to drum up business using online and has backfired after google banned them for their supposed to use of a homophobic slur the word in question now also happens to be the name of a traditional dish cafe owners have expressed surprise at ghouls decision. i think that faggots and peas and chips and then you is

a traditional meal i didn't meet. and i didn't the days of traditional dish you can change it there was nothing meant by what we were doing is just describing the actual menu item i downloaded the. list of 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 i think it's it where does it stop or what does it end especially for businesses because there's not this many other words which can be deemed offensive the dish at the center of the scandal is traditional in the u.k. i'm consists of meatballs mix of bread and herbs but google algorithms flagged up the cafe as ad as inappropriate and offensive content we asked visitors of the cafe what they thought of the ban on the facebook user but i think it's ridiculous because. if you're going to take it down here you are going to have to take you

know all of the country to. see no television no back and. it's true to see the girls who should you need paul and he's almost the same thing get them all of the country. i can see any. talk of peace keeping on education. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but do stay with us for that exclusive interview with the pakistani prime minister which is coming up next here on r.t. international. just a news. warning more. ok

oh. this is dismissed. there are growing indications the west's anti russia's stance may be softening a case in point is the recent visit of france's top diplomat 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 anymore. i'm as kaiser one for my guide to financial survival this is a head on its way to my issues by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these has flaws are simply not accountable and we're just adding more and more to them. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get informed as guys are going. to become. you have to become. robots tense you know we have to become creatures like. the superhero movies. then i don't think i'll go i don't want to be al gore even.

with me i have the prime minister of pakistan mr in one car and it's a pleasure to be here in islamabad and thank you very much for hosting me my pleasure my pleasure for years if you're has accused pakistan of being lenient on terror what is your response to this firstly. pakistan since my i have been the prime minister. anyone any foreign observer. even when i spoke to prime minister. i told him i said you can use your intelligence agencies to check that any militant groups in pakistan we have taken action against we had legacy of the 1980s when pakistan was a front plate still fighting. against the soviet union in afghanistan when

we when all these militant groups with groups were trained in pakistan and unfortunately after the soviets left afghanistan we were left with these groups. you know maybe they should have been disarmed much earlier but my government certainly i can as i said you can ask any foreign observers we are willing to ask them foreign media we are the 1st government that has taken these steps to remove these groups please don't be offended by the question but there are some critics who say that pakistan keeps al-qaeda alive because doing so. if he is able to continue getting money from the united states why why has pakistan not been able to defeat al qaeda and the taliban after all these years number one guy there does not exist anymore. you know this idea that we would go there to make money i mean what. in the war on terror when we participated in the

u.s. war on terror. targets the last $70000.00 people we had $78000.00 casualties in the war secondly this country lost over $100000000000.00. gone and we lost over $100000000000.00 the aid which we got was $20.00 to $30000000000.00 at most to fight this war the country lost far far more than any money we've got in terms of human lives i don't think any country lost over the human beings as we did in this war on terror so this is just you know this nonsense that we would keep. and then the other thing about dollar bond you know. at the moment pakistan is playing it's it's it's rule in water trade always have played its role and.