because. the taliban sent a clear message to donald trump and inexperience of interview with ati the u.s. president to rethink his decision to pull off peace talks. despite booming u.s. oil exports top democrats unite in calling for a ban on fracking to find selves accused of playing into putin's patterns. and the classic british children's t.v. kite gets fired from his job as a diversity. 247 live from the russian capital this is national with me saskia take

a while come to the program on fast stop the chief u.s. negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before congress amid questions over don't trump the decision to shut down discussions with the terror group meanwhile the taliban has the president to return to the negotiating table in an exclusive interview with auti i do know that there. is a behind that we can still work for but if we are still committed to the negotiations recently that i would start our policy from this time we're going to let us know that there's no solution for one conflict except negotiations and except peace on the table so we don't want to revitalize the whole of the i'm just a. little sneak in here coming back to where i want to be just the side of the after the fact if you're going to go that route. 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 and 1000 people on thursday donald trump and almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted killing a u.s. serviceman to quote strengthen their bargaining position more advanced you have had the opportunity to speak with the 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 doing. 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 cancer this is a. negotiation he mr buffett with his father is that he says he admitted that if you have good $1000.00 well so if big dollars off us why we could not get one of the more blogger so this is what he would have to defend our civic up to different people who look 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. 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 the what is it pulls

on us. american soldiers there and i want to stop it's not i'll admit it or the soldiers are going to be in washington they are never there was a lot 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 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 good times and but obama started it would have broken the peace treaty so the 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 this he also wants the city and the 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 based on the sort. be compared to the front office and 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 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 it's to do. a ceasefire between us and american forces and you get a serious message that we can force of the roof and on. the internet i mean it was just it was sort. of it was of the the ceasefire. and i could perhaps excuse but and also other those 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 in 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 now u.s. politicians have been arguing about the country's role in afghanistan yes and it was a key issue again in 2000 nights that round democratic debates. 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 in 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 this year and the kurds would work together to keep isis from coming from moving in a huge mistake and one of the big differences between you and me i never believe 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

the area if we went into that war. the front runners clashed over several issues but recently that's been one time a topic they've mostly agreed on and not opposition to fracking with some even calling for a complete ban the process involves treading deep into the ground to recover oil and natural gas critics claim it's dangerous and bad for the environment and taught us democrats saddens fans to caleb maupin has the story. the usa is now the world's top the oil exporting country check out these words from the international energy agency blooming 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 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 maria 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 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 and 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 mop and r.t. new york. now u.k. was a classic children's t.v. character has been criticized for failing to keep up with wanton quality standards 5 and sam has been axed from his role as a mascot for a local brigade but softer bosses that said he would discourage women from joining . his friends need him more than ever. some of the rescue team managed to save a fireman sound fussed at in 1987 as an animation about firefighters in a small welsh village since that has been widely used to promote fire safety and substance across the u.k.

but now it seems his time is up in some areas at least all teens party boyko 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 find him and sound is outdated and non-inclusive and he's putting off potential female recruit firefighters nationally and residents locally have raised some concerns that farm and some doesn't reflect the former 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 roasted for it really does a great job for you as a once writing life as a wind a way that's not yours it's not acting that you should do is to follow yourself that 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 sound oh no i think you got it right i think it's just somebody taking it to the fore and stickery really enough and come quite happy with what it is he is the epitome of straight. to my mind. may not be terribly appealing to people who want to be. firemen however if you're to be a farmer you should want to know. why didn't you just stick to the basics and

enjoy and get back to the basics so we might have a nicer place to live. very very happy to have him renamed firefighters and 1st some to then become a non gender specific person over here but why not some sort of gender specific name but street ok so here is the town with samantha yes exactly exactly the could be put in here because no rubbish it could be so just do. it was just a childrens car taking things 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 mummy pig is dressed as a fireman. 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 anthropomorphized fire extinguishes freddy phil bert and penelope. india has made around $4000.00 arrests in its part of kashmir last month look at what's going on law and of course other stories after the break.

to become eternal you have to become. robots mutants. you know we have to become creatures like. iraq or you know all the superhero movies. then i don't see. i don't want to be the reason. we was a cattle republic because we think it would be fear to our people and we want to contribute to the welfare of europe into the european values of democracy of equality of dialogue of peace and we think that we are ready to contribute. to this new europe but it's part of the euro mean the european community and constituency what's the big deal what's the problem why can't we accept that possibility in the 20 percent.

back now the outgoing president of the e.u. commission has enough on in tunis to buy his successor regarding migration with all the details has done of course. dunker might be on his way out as a hughes 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 those 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 a far countries like germany are only pressuring them to handle the situation better. my colleague neil harvey discussed the issue with paris based at all careers and i'm dressed sorenson 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 the diversity but the only issue here is

what do you going to do with all these make grants coming to europe are we as european are able to host them. greatly haase them are not when it comes to the question of migrants. our basic position is that we support. the migrants and we. were international solidarity because they were reading from basically the capitalist system most of these immigrants come for economy color 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. exists because it covers the fact that all all of your emissions are divided into classes. support. for 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 a legitimate fears and concerns about the impact of irregular migration on our economy and our society says she feels that. the economy just 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 in themselves the problem is the reason they are being used the capitalist system as. we exploited various countries economically. people into poverty we weaved wars. other people's countries we. live in the climate catastrophe is all over the world i don't know if you remember a long time ago in france we had the french prime minister card michelle workout

and he said long time ago and he was a socialist and he was a very open mind the socialist and were very pro 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 far right not just to use language in order to try to do some support from the borrowed from going to war or basically all the wrong or representatives this with a lot of. leeway. in their use of language in words of the rhetoric 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 let's 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 freedom of their religion and i can tell you as in me when myself i'm enemy and myself i'm earing in french and i came here but i when you go when you go to a country you have to you have to pledge respect to that to their culture. this country keeping and shipping your are your own culture i consider myself friends as iranian friends only speak my country i speak the difference called sir but i think as a french i should respect the culture of france. and finally nearly $4000.00 people have been arrested in india administered kashmir since new delhi revoked its special status last month but 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 though hundreds of local politicians and processed protest 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 fully applicable to our citizens in jammu and kashmir and no doubt these are some good decisions entirely internal to india no country can accept interference in it's been done in the philippines certainly not india pakistan needs to stop interfering in india's affairs it needs to stop exporting terror to india the minute that stops normalcy the problem today has been created because of pakistan's for the seas of a 1000 cuts to be pakistan as

a knowledge of the world or the global terrorism pakistan needs to back off all indian states are normal the only issue that happens is and push me because pakistan is the immediate me word that creates trouble that the minute pakistan is out of that we should probably stop. r.t. sat down with the pakistani prime minister imran khan about the situation and 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 oppression unprecedented already as i said 370200000 kashmiris have been killed but what they're going to do now we faired 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 imran khan in full head on international late today that's how our news round up looks for now i'll be back with more in 30 minutes time hope you'll join me then coming away there now it's crosstalk. well you know the cars they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in the smaller boats next to the hard pool of ships and

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hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle 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 the important question remains can moscow trust the west anymore. cross talking a thaw in relations i'm joined by my guest in a new well you point in paris he is the president of the institute for european perspective and security in our condo we have lucre of a he is an independent journalist and in brussels we cross to john laughlin he's a political scientist and historian all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect

that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it many well let me go to you in paris i will make the the obvious admission i have very rarely had good things to say about the french president emanuel mccrone however however i'll make important. his vision for security in europe is it's time has come i have to say it's time has finally come it's taken a lot of courage it's a bold statement to make and i think it. really makes people reassess the. because the relationship between the between europe and russia and the united states and russia is is not where it should be it doesn't necessarily have to be that way the europeans are taking an initiative here through the french president what does he want to achieve is that just for his own political gain at home does he want to take the mantle of the western world is he wary of the united states

does he see a paradigm shift going on here what it's the root of this here go ahead emanuel.