question. the taliban sends a clear message to donald trump in an exclusive interview with. the u.s. president to rethink his decision to call off afghan peace talks. start booming u.s. oil exports top democrats unite in calling for a ban on fracking to fund 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. this is our team. the chief u.s.

negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before congress 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 in an exclusive interview with r.t. i don't know the reason behind. what happened but we are still committed to the leadership. to. only see from this very minute the other side of the. solution for the one conflict except. it's the peace on the table so we don't want. to. come back to where we were what we were just. after the fact it could be attributable to go. the taliban is frequently responsible for terrorist attacks across afghanistan in the latest incident at least 4 local troops were

killed and 3 injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a military base in southern kabul on thursday on trombone did almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted to killing a u.s. serviceman to quote strengthen their bargaining position of had the opportunity to speak to those taliban officials he's 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 with mr tucker cancelled this. negotiation mr barak his followers that he says he admitted that he. doesn't other will so if big dollars off us why we cannot go to one of the other so this is going to be have 3 different our civic different people who do different group of people of modest. when we're really with. 2 different 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. the u.s. they said this isn't a war they want this isn't a war they can win by force but they won't and can't give up what is it was. american soldiers you know it's not. soldiers should be up there there

was one of us but still we. propose. to be set up with some political solution but unfortunately i need to retrieve some sort of. it was considered by the americans. douglas. consistent which was which took. his arm over mr vance are all of this for the purpose that we're going to such a peace treaty and it turns into a but obama started it we're going to be stupid so be us rigid we want a piece of the other side we wanted to give a serious message to other foreign troops as to goof off on the star so if the others are also who. is this he also wants the city and the world is the what is important to us we have the different forces there if the american side is not really needed was use of it and did not want peace on the day it will. be compared

to a different person it would never do this for everybody is what hurt the most the taliban's had negotiated told me is how close they were to a deal i seized 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 particularly when there is a sign that listed. a cease fire between us and american forces and you get a city by city government or force of they will go out and run pretty desolate over the internet i only wish it would start with i find a good job of it was years of the the ceasefire can dispute cease fire and i could hear his excuse about it and also other those 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 but 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 called one sense prevails and the us goes back to what everyone in washington knows is in evitable talks negotiations with the taliban. u.s. politicians been arguing about the country's role in afghanistan for years and it was 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 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 offers to brock turn the president turned me into joe when they said we had a plan to get out he turned the whole security joel 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 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 war. the feminist clashed over several issues

but recently there's been one topic they mostly agree on that's opposition to fracking some even calling for a complete ban process involves drilling deep into the ground to recover oil and natural gas critics claim it's dangerous and bad for the environment top us democrats share the fear is that i'm open as the 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 energy 3 we want to be an engine dominant in terms of the world but not everyone shares donald trump's energy market enthusiasm in fact most of the people who want to run against him in the 2020 alexion want to outlaw

the practice of hydraulic fracking that's the reason the usa has so much oil and gas any proposal to avert the climate crisis must include a full fracking ban on public and private lands. on my 1st day as president i will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on own you fossil fuel leases for drilling off shore and on public lands and i will ban fracking everywhere it's not just the left progressives you've got the centrist come all the harris there's no question i'm in favor of banning fracking so at this point roughly 59 percent of america's oil is extracted from the shale so if you outlawed the practice of hydraulic fracking you would knock down the oil sector of the u.s. economy pretty hard the same for natural gas now check out this headline. kremlin kemal or harris and other democrats are embracing vladimir putin's preferred u.s. energy policy the new conspiracy theory even went viral on twitter many in fracking

and use of natural gas would do more damage to america and make lead to more putin happier than anything donald trump has ever said or done so good job democrats your being pro russia 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 us congress we have seen evidence of campaigns targeting. an 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 criticized for failing to keep up with my. quality standards farm and sam has been axed from his role as a mascot for a local brigade after bosses said that he could discourage women from joining. the risky team they. first heard in 1907 as an animation about fire fighters in a small world since then has been widely used to promote fire safety and services across the now though it seems this time might be up experience. 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 chief fire officer. fired fireman sam has been getting roasted for it really does a great job for you as a once writing life as a one to write this new year's eve live i think you should do is to follow yourself . and lead 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 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. a fireman 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 couldn't be so just do. it was just a children's current. 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 mummy pig is dressed as a fireman on a player 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 phil bert and penelope. now going president of the commission careers lashed out at initiative from his successor regarding migration with the details his donald quarter. might be on his way out as you use 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 why. of life. to oppose the european way of life to migration you have to respect the others independently from their color

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 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 on to the continent while from a far countries like germany are only pressuring them to handle the situation better their lives because the issue with paris based attorney at law and under a severance and general secretary of the communist party of sweden. european life evolved during the years it has changed a lot a european life is the unity within that diversity but the only issue here is

what do you going to do with all these make grants coming to europe are we as europeans are able to force them. greatly haase them are not when it comes to the big question of migrants. our basic position is that we support. the migrants and we. are international solidarity because they're fleeing from basically the capitalist system and most of these immigrants come for economy called reasons and as europeans we cannot handle this and we cannot give them the better their situation or a better life because we have a lot of we have a lot of unemployment here so it's going to be it's going to be very difficult for us european to force them all these immigrants as well as the ones well the. united. states because it covers the fact that all all of your emissions are

divided into classes. support you know the unity between. the exploited and exploited within the european companies. to form the way of describing the situation in europe this is a comment directly from mrs van de lay and. we must address underlay legitimate fears and concerns about the impact of irregular migration on our economy and our society says she feels that. the economy every day people's lives are being threatened by by gratian are you in favor of them come again even if they're causing problems in that sense the problems of migrants and the problem is the reason they are being used to come to this is the members. of congress. people. we we need more. countries we. we live in the climate of the world i don't know if you remember

a long time ago in france we had the french prime minister card michelle work out and he said long time ago and he was a socialist and he was a very open mind the socialist and we're very proud of him again and he said once we cannot we cannot force all the means that we afterward in france that's that's the thing it comes across as very negative very defensive that immigrants are a sore at to us shouldn't she have gone for a different title perhaps you know commissioner in charge of improved integration of immigrants from her perspective of course you have to. listen to the bar right now just to use which in order to try to do some support from the boardroom. or basically all the wrong or representatives make peace with the law of the torah . in their use of language and words of the road is not surprising because this is the this is the political climate that exist the protection of the

european way of life is more against let's say and let's face the problem is more against islamic countries and people because most of them they come here they want to they want to keep their way of living their way their way of the freedom of their religion and i can tell you as a me when myself i'm enemy and myself i'm in a wing in france and i came from there but when you go when you go to a country you have to you have to pledge respect to that to their culture of this country and keeping and keeping your your own culture i consider myself as their friends as iranian friends i respect my country their french culture but i think as a as the french i should respect the culture of france. 24000 people have been arrested in indian administered cash. since new delhi revoked its special status last month that's according to local authorities the must attentions come amid ongoing clashes between the local population and indian security forces

more than half of those arrested of have been released though hundreds of local politicians and pro separatist activists remain behind bars in d. says it is 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 fully applicable to our citizens in general and no doubt these are sovereign 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 the problem today has been created because of pakistan's qualities of a 1000 cuts to be honest and is acknowledged the world or the global. pakistan

needs to back off all in one state are not the only issue that happens isn't needed to pakistan is the immediate me were the trouble that the minute pakistan is out of that problem and stop. sat down with the pakistani prime minister emerging can about the situation in kashmir what we've. is that. this is going to be chippy government is not going to use force. we fear that there will be operation unprecedented already as i said 370200000 kashmiris have been killed but what they are going to do now we fear that this is out of our genocide why are the why have the glendale. 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. and you can watch that interview with him in full right here on r.t. international later today. steak a quick look now at other stories making headlines around the world. students have clashed with riot police in london. demonstrators pelted stones at officers who responded with tear gas and sent in armored vehicles though it was held in response to allegations of police brutality at a youth university campus a student had reportedly been shot and dozens beaten up. thing in south america thousands of rallied in the square outside congress in the argentine capital when

a serious they're demanding more food aid shortages across the country the bill to increase spending on food aid will be read by the about house later on friday watching t.v. has been in the grip of double digit inflation for months. and environmental activists staged the protests around the frankfurt motor show in germany extinction rebellion activists scientists and members of the friday's for future movement joined forces in a march towards the venue the protesters are demanding better public transport and that people cut their use of cars interest the motor show began thursday chancellor merkel's in attendance and announce they target of 40 percent cuts in carbon emissions by 20. 2 whales now where a small cafes push to drum up business using online ads has backfired after google bound them for their supposed use of a homophobic slur the word in question also happens to be the name of a traditional dish cafe's owners expressed surprise at google's decision. i think

that faggots and peas and chips and any is a traditional meal. and i didn't know dish you can change it there was nothing meant by what we were doing is just described. when the actual menu item i downloaded the. list the words of the list were google and the word faggot is actually in the list with many others as far as policing words i've got. it where does it stop or where does it end especially for businesses because 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. it consists of meatballs mixed with bread and herb. google's algorithms flagged up the cafes out as inappropriate and offensive content we asked visitors to the cafe

what they thought of the bad. user but i think if you look at this because. if you're going to take it down here you have to take you know all the countries. you know well see now tell me you know back in. through to see if you need bald views almost if you. can get them all of the country. i can see any. packets. you get on education. french president of the new micron is faced a backlash after he backed his close ally the speaker of parliament richard feral that's after he was charged with corruption for long denies all allegations seize accused of arranging an improper pot property deal with his partner in 2011 after allegations surfaced 2 years ago he resigned as minister for regional development but the case was dropped after just 3 months and then he was appointed speaker now

it's been reopened after an anti corruption group refiled its original complaint in a different jurisdiction despite that this time for on this staying put. president . clinton to president retains his confidence in toronto because he's a loyal man who has had i believe an exemplary political career. let me say that what phillipe to reshow for iran 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. so 1st time occurrence faced flak for backing allies when they fall foul of the law previously his chief of staff and bodyguard alexander bernardo was caught on camera saying to the protester while off duty by macro support an investigation found him guilty was dismissed also this summer france's environment minister francois do again resigned after photos expose his extravagant spending

a love of lobsters. meanwhile a petition demanding fair on his resignation attracted almost 30000 signatures our sister channel r.t. friends spoke to lawmakers in the french parliament who were also angered by mark ronson recent decision. but he seemed to 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 bush should be no early conviction low impunity said to create it's a matter of trust that speed last 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 need this is one of the oldest revolutionary inspirational gatherings and the head of this meeting is being

detained because his negative feelings. are rather today join me for more in half an hour's time. resists is a sticker from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a 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 litter box they're trying to sway industry should be blamed for all of this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. as it sits tickle kassam 6 feet demand that seems lost says.