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. despite booming u.s. oil exports top democrats unite in calling for a ban on fracking but find themselves accused of playing into putin's hands. and a classic british children's t.v. character gets fired from his job over diversity concerns. are watching our to international bring you here live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. the chief u.s.

negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before congress amid questions or 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 we. were talking but we are still committed to the negotiations. i would only see from this very minute the other side is the. most efficient form of conflict. on the table so. to. come back to what we were just. after the fact if. the taliban is frequently responsible for terrorist attacks across

afghanistan and the latest incident at least 4 local troops were killed and 3 injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a military base in southern couple on thursday donald trump and it almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted killing a u.s. servicemen to quote strengthen their bargaining position where augusta 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. 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 canceled this sort of. negotiation he had mr buffett with his father is that he says he admitted that he had a good $1000.00 well so if big dollars off us why we cannot get out of that war to other so this is what he would have been different i would simply have 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 defend our people the way the taliban see it they're 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 u.s. they said this isn't a war they won they say isn't a war they can win by force but they won't and cause and give up the what is it

pulls on us it's american soldiers there and i want to stop it just 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 fidelity when it was considered by the american side of science and done a lot of consideration which was which took. his or her mr dulles are going to some of the characters that have broken such a peace treaty and 2 terms and but obama started it with a broken the peace treaty so b. of a 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 city i don't know what is the what is important for us we have 2 different forces if the if the american side is not

really and it was initially and 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 ceasefire the details had been worked out in the fine print sorted and approved the need 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 has a number of influences and you get a city by city government or force of. their own over the internet i mean which is it was so. good of it was years of that the ceasefire. and i think you're going to see ceasefire and also other donors that don't think 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 and fewer 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 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 a key issue and thursday night's 3rd round of a kind of debate we're 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 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 office to brock turn the president turn him 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 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. ok here's 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 war. the front runners clashed over several issues

but recently there's been one topic they've mostly agreed on and that's 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 house more. the usa is now the world's top the oil exporting country check out these words from the international energy agency winning 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 5 ban on public and private lands on my 1st day as president i will sign an executive order that puts a total merger 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 kemal a 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 putin happier than anything donald trump has ever said or done so good job democrats your being pro russia pro putin and program wind by wanting to ban natural gas of course the senate 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 to 2. industries of interest to foreign powers on energy we have 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 the why do we are putting once 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 they will mop and r.t. new york. in the u.k. a classic children's t.v. character has been criticised for failing to keep up with modern quality standards farman sam has been axed from his role as a mascot for a local brigade that's after bosses there said he could discourage women from joining. his friends need him more than ever. sam the funky pretty risky team managed to save the day. farman sound 1st aired in 1987 as an animation about fire fighters in a 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 at least in some areas as artists point i explained . 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 firemen some 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 dates 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 where you stood for it really 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 wars 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 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. why didn't you just stick to the basics and enjoy and get back to the basics so we might 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 why not some sort of gender specific name but st ok sir yes. yes exactly exactly they could be put in here because no rubbish it couldn't be so just do. it was just a children's cartoon. 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 pig is dressed as a fireman on a well you dressed like. i'm going to the mummy's fire engine practice come on peppa pig we've not been firemen 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 filberts and penelope. still to come in the program india has made around $4000.00 arrests in its part of kashmir since last may. a look at what's going on there and other stories after the break.

max keiser financial survival guide stacey let's learn about fill out let's say i'm not so i guess. i'm greece of the fight well street spot thank you for helping. on the story that's right. that's slavery. 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.

welcome back the outgoing president of the e.u. commission john clarke has last lashed out at an initiative by his successor with all the details here still a quarter. younger 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 why it's 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 road 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 on to the continent while from. for countries like germany or 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 mass detentions come amid ongoing clashes between the local population and indian security forces more than half of those arrested have been released the hundreds of local politicians and pro separatist activist remain behind bars india says it's committed to establishing full constitutional order in kashmir and accuses pakistan of stirring up on the rest. my government is taking affirmative actions by adopting progressive policies to promote social economic equality and

justice these progressive policies will not 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 in the fairest certainly not india. pakistan needs to stop interfering in india as a face it needs to stop exporting to india the minute that stops enormous economic issue a problem today has been created because of pakistan's qualities of a 1000 cuts to be pakistan is acknowledged the world or at the global terrorism pakistan needs to back off all indian states are not the only issue that happens isn't just me because pakistan is the immediate me but it greets trouble that the minute pakistan is out of that nation trouble will stop. r.t. spoke with the pakistani prime minister about the situation in kashmir what we

think. is that. this is going be chippy government is not 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 fair that this is out of our genocide why are the 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 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. you can watch that interview with iran khan in full

here on r.t. later today. a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. students have clashed with riot police and the family and capital demonstrators pelted stones at officers who responded with tear gas and sent in armored vehicles the rally was held in response to allegations of police brutality at a university campus a student had been shot and dozens beaten up. in south america thousands rallied in the square outside congress in the argentine capital they're 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. and then the u.s. city of baltimore scores of demonstrators gathered outside the hotel where donald trump is staying activists like you and him to iraq and demanded he leave the city

after the president had earlier described it as a rat and rodent infested mess also accuse him of being racist announcing his tough immigration policy. and wales a small cafes push to drum up business using online ads has backfired after google banned them for their supposedly use of a homophobic slur the word in question though also happens to be the name of a traditional dish and the cafe owners have expressed surprise at google's decision i think that faggots and. chips and then you is a traditional meal. the name and the days of traditional dish you can change it there is nothing made by what we would do it is just describing the actual menu item i don't know to be. a list of woods or list which of google. would frag it is actually in the list. with many others as far as policing

woods i've think it's it's it where does it stop or what is the end especially for businesses because the result is many of the words which are can be deemed as offensive the dish at the center of the scandal is traditional in the u.k. and consists of meatballs makes with bread and herbs but google algorithms flagged up the cafe as add as inappropriate and offensive content we asked visitors of the cafe what they thought of the ban. 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 have to take you know all of the country to dish you know well see their total known fact is the east coast as a musician it is true it is so far gone so should you need a ball and he's almost in feeds he can get them all over the country. i can see any same moment jakobsen please keep it on the head to customers that's our

global news breakdown for this hour that is for tuning in wherever you may be. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the room in clusters has project themselves. the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent of. the time to ignore middle of the room signals. going around i mean real news is real world.

today there are good terrorists and bad editors the bad terrorists and those in yemen or the united states deems to be a threat the look at those who are in syria the cia and the u.s. 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 an army of death squads there's not any more because there's always a small comfort. really this. prophet. is this is a stick from the water bottle phone in the stomach of the fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea

was that let's tell consumers they're the bad ones they're the litterbugs for throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has promised to reuse the plastic. that's. a special projects funded. on the that is the. fun now the mountains of waste only grow while. this is boom boss broadcasting around the world and covering a 21st century global economy on doing your burrito in washington kristie i is in

singapore an assignment here's a look at what's in store for today's jam so there may be at least a little relief for china's pork problem is tame trade tensions have eased in light of trade talks with the united states fred kaufman author of the farm joins us to give an outlook on board in the people's republic was. a slight wonder oh absolutely that's not what it's about it's about because somebody makes and you know me that's that's nothing that's nothing. produce farming has reached a tentative settlement in the ever growing opioid crisis but residents of the affected areas are skeptical molly barrows contributor to america's voice is standing by to break down the latest moves in this tragic epidemic take you back to singapore where christiane managed to catch up with a way to the c.f.o. of finance finance exchange to give us an industry outlook on the sector. it's good to business mindset here comes boom bust let's go. major economic stimulus

for europe leads our global report today as the european central bank unveils a long anticipated policy package of interest rate cuts relax credit terms for banks and bond purchases and e.c.b. statement indicated that they are key interest rate would be cut by 110th of a percent that is going further into negative territory to negative point 5 percent the e.c.b. also confirm that the policy of so-called quantitative easing which only recently came to an end after many years will resume with purchases of $20000000000.00 of the eurozone debt per month the bank says the new policy will quote run for as long as necessary interestingly outgoing e.c.b. president mario draghi who is preparing to pass his portfolio to current i.m.f. managing director christine lagarde clearly indicated he expects elected policymakers to make the next moves to stimulate the flagging euro zone economy saying now is the time for fiscal policy to take charge mr draghi discuss the cause

and contacts for the new policies because the protracted slowdown in the eurozone economy he's actually more mark day and expected this the 1st element. the 2nd element is that persists and the persistence of downside resells trade nature by the geo political nature in the eurozone. and checking in on virtual currencies on the. growing push for regulation the french finance minister is reinforcing his government's hard line against facebook's plans to launch their own digital currency libra which specialists are eager to point out is not actually a crypto currency joining us now just doesn't tell is cryptocurrency analyst ben swan then it's good to have you here keeping the virtual currency beat hot wall christie is on assignment so 1st of all ben let's just get to the basics here what did the french finance minister bruno lemaire have to say about.