the taliban sends a clear message to donald trump in an exclusive interview given to watch teen urging the u.s. president to rethink his decision to call off afghan peace talks. despite booming u.s. all exports top democrats unites in calling for a ban on fracking but find themselves accused of playing into putin's hands. the classic british children's t.v. character gets fired from his job her diversity concerns. thanks for joining us it's r.t. and. the chief u.s.

negotiator in peace talks with the taliban this to testify before congress amid questions over donald trump's decision to shut down discussions with a terror group when the taliban has urged the president to return to the negotiating table this was said in an exclusive interview with r.t. i do the reason behind it. but if you are still committed to the negotiations recently the i would only see from this very. smooth solution for the one conflict except. peace on the table so we don't want to. come back to what we were just. after the fact it could be attributed to the. the taliban is frequently responsible for terrorist

attacks across afghanistan in the latest incident at least 4 local troops were killed 3 injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a military base in southern carboy on thursday bended almost a year of negotiations with the taliban on sunday when they admitted killing a u.s. serviceman to quote strengthen their bargaining position and is my guess the ever had the opportunity to speak to those 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 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 counts of this. 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 one of them or 2 other so this is what he would have been different our civic to different people who are different in north and 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 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 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 can't give up what is imposed on

us. american soldiers there they 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 when it was cancelled by the american side of science and done a lot of consideration which was which took elizabeth. his or her mr dallas are going to some of the characters that have broken such a peace treaty and good times 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 are all slow. with this he also wants the saved and the what is the what is

important for us we have a different course of if 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 different parts of 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 sees far 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 it's to do. a ceasefire between as an american forces and you get a city by city government or force of the rule and one. for the internet i only wish it was so. it was years of the the ceasefire. and appearance of cease fire and 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 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 us goes back to what everyone in washington knows is inevitable talks negotiations with the taliban. the u.s. politicians have been knocking about the country's role in afghanistan for years since was a key issue in 39 stirred 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 but one thing we've learned about afghanistan from afghanistan it's 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 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 you know what 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 firm runs clashed over several issues but recently there's been just too on topic that they mostly agree dog opposition to fracking with some even calling for a complete this process involves drilling deep into the ground to recover oil and natural gas the critics claim it's dangerous for the environment to us democrats share their fears killam open explains. the usa is now the world's top the oil exporting country check out these words from the international energy agency. 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 murder tarm on own you fossil fuel leases for drilling off shore and on public lands and i would 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 them or putin happier than anything donald trump has ever said or done so good job democrats you're being pro russia and program and 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 agriculture 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 mop and r.t. new york. in the u.k. a classic children's t.v. character has been criticized for failing to keep up with modern equality standards and some has been axed from his role as a musket for a local brigade after bosses said that he could discourage women from joining us. more than ever. the rescue team managed to save the day farmer sam 1st aired in 1907 as an allegation about firefighters in a small welsh village since then it's been widely used to promote fire safety and services across the u.k. but now it seems this time might be up in some areas at least 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 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 days 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 for yourself . and leave farmer sam 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 to the fore and stickery really enough income 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

some to then become a non gender specific person. but why not some sort of gender specific name that's true yes. yes exactly exactly they could be put in here because no rubbish it couldn't be so it just knew. it was just a children's car taking things too far as that music and another british cartoon icon peppa pig was recently been 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 why you dislike. 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 there anthropomorphise sized fire extinguishes freddy filberts and penelope. going president of the commission has slashed out as an initiative from his successor regarding migration with the details on the court. younker 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 the others independently from their color independently 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 lns 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 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 onto the continent while. far countries like germany are only pressuring them to handle the situation better. only $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 1st attention scum amid growing clashes between the local population and indian security forces more than half of those arrested have been released hundreds of local politicians and process of us remain behind bars india says is committed to establishing full constitutional order in kashmir and accuses pakistan of stirring busy 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 sudden decisions entirely internal to india no country can accept interference in its internal affairs certainly not india. pakistan needs to stop interfering in india's affairs it needs to stop exporting to india the minute that stops normalcy can return the problem to be has been created because of the stance qualities of

a 1000 cuts to be honest and is acknowledged the world or the globe or that. pakistan needs to back off all the indian state are not the only issue that happens isn't just me to this but certainly the immediate me were the trouble that the minute pakistan is out of that problem of stock. of the son down with the pakistani prime minister in run can to discuss the situation in kashmir. what we've is that this is governed be gippi government is now going to use force we fared that they will be or pression unprecedented already as i said 370200000 kashmiris a been killed but what they are going to do now we fared that this is outed our genocide why are the why have the clam down on media dare don't allow any media to get in there nothing is coming out

a what is happening it in the tie him they've impose this curfew and these extra security personnel there they did don't even allow the leaders of the opposition parties to visit kashmir the dinner allow them there so water they're trying to hide sadly i would have expected the world to react much more that it has and you can watch that interview with kant in for here on r.t. international data today. a quick look now at other stories making headlines around the world. students have clashed with riot police in the capital of colombia budgets are demonstrators coated stones at officers who responded with tear gas and sent in armored vehicles rally was held in response to allegations of police brutality of a university campus student or today was shot dozens were beaten up. also in south america thousands rallied in the square outside congress in the

argentine capital point as there is now they're demanding more food aid we shortages seen across the country a bill to increase spending on food aid will be read by the upper house later friday argentina's been in the grip of double digit inflation for months. so environmental activists have staged a protest around the frankfurt motor show in germany extinction rebellion activists scientists and members of the fridays for future movement join forces in a march towards the venue the protesters are demanding better public transport and the people cut the use of cars and the motor show began on thursday busy chancellor merkel was in attendance and announced the target of a 40 percent cut in carbon emissions are the year 2030. in wales a small cafes push to drum up business using online ads has backfired have to google banned for the supposed use of

a homophobic slur the word in question no also happens to be the name of a traditional dish cafe zone is 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 is just describing the actual menu item i don't know did the. list of words or list would have google and would flag it is actually in the list with many others as far as policing woods. gets. it where does it stop or where does it end especially for businesses because the result was many other words which are can be deemed offensive or the dish at the center of the scandal is traditional in the u.k. it consists of meatballs mixed with breads and herbs google's algorithms flagged up

the cafes are just inappropriate and offensive content we asked visitors at the cafe what they thought of the bot. i think it's ridiculous because. if you're going to take it down here you have to take you know all of the countries to. see the terms you know pakistan. through. these almost if you. can get them all of the country. i can see any. tags. you get on education. french president among my chronos faced a backlash after he backed his close ally the speaker of the parliament richard fair on after he was charged with corruption denies saudi actions against him he's accused of arranging an improper property deal with his partner in 2011 after the

allegations surfaced 2 years ago he resigned as minister for regional development but the case was dropped after just 3 months and he was appointed speaker now though it's been reopened after an anti corruption group refiled the original complaint in a different jurisdiction despite that this time around is staying put. president. george exhibited president retains his confidence in tehran because he is a loyal man who has had i believe an exemplary political career. let me say that he wants to leave to run the real friendship i have for him the support i have for him is total along with the confidence in his ability to prove his innocence. some 1st time micron's face the flak for backing allies when they fall afoul of the law previously his chief of staff and bodyguard alexander bill maher was caught on camera beating a protester while he was off duty by micro support an investigation found him

guilty he was dismissed also this summer france's environment minister francois. resigned after photos expose his extravagant spending and love of lobsters. while a petition demanding for on his resignation has attracted almost 30000 signatures on sister t.v. channel r.t. france spoke to lawmakers in the french parliament who were also angry recent decision. i just think accompany me on these that i think that when you are charged you need to leave your high position and give it to another person plus he will defend himself and if he is acquitted he will return to his position as other ministers have there has been such a situation with many ministers this is absolutely normal this is a good compromise once again but should be no early conviction no impunity said to create a it's a matter of trust that speed loss and again the head of the national assembly is not the last character of the country this is the head of the national assembly and

we are not obliged in any case to clarify what we're talking about france because only we have the national assembly which bears this nader this is one of the oldest revolutionary inspirational gatherings and the head of this meeting is being detained because his negative feelings. ok appreciate you staying with our tail but with updates for you in half an hour's time see them. well you know the fires they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in this small ball it's next to the hard pool of ships and it's. not on. the level of

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