oh. the taliban found him methinks to donald trump in an exclusive interview with r t the us president to rethink his decision to pull off. quite a booming u.s. oil exports top democrats unite in calling for a ban on fracking find themselves accused of paying into putin's time. and classic which is children's t.v. character gets fired from his job over time plus take the sat. it's 3 am here in the russian capital i'm saskatoon with the latest international news or by welcome and off a story for you the chief u.s.

negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before congress amid questions of the 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 that there. is a behind. us there were but we are still committed to the leadership issues we see that i would start our policy from this very minute where the sun is that there's no solution for the conflict except negotiations except peace on the table so we don't want to revitalize the whole day to step down the. street come back to where we want to be we're just sort of there. after the fact if you're going to go there 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 coble on thursday and almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they were admitted to killing a u.s. servicemen to quote strengthen the bargaining position there are gods to 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 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 consider this a. negotiation mr buffett with his followers that he says he admitted that he. doesn't other world so if big donors office we cannot kill one of the other so this is going to be have to defend our civic different people to different do some people of others. when we're really with the. different or 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 the what is it cause

mass. american soldiers want to stop it's not. the soldiers. there was one of us but still we. propose. to be set up with some through the system but unfortunately i need to retrieve some sort of. it was considered by the americans. last consideration which was which took. his arm over mr vance are all of this for the purpose they were going to such a peace treaty and it turns into a bar 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 too good for the star so if the others are also who. is this he wants he wants the city and the is the what is important

to us we have the different forces there if the american side is not really and it was use of him did not want peace on the day it will. be compared to defend our civil liberties or to do this 500 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 only for everything to collapse what it was a discussion on the debate is over what do the vertica think when there is a sign that listed. a cease fire between us and american forces and you get a city by city government or forces they would go out and run pretty desolate over the internet i would wish it would start with our neighborhood of only pushers of the the ceasefire can spew cease fire and i could perhaps excuse might and also other those that don't think the 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 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 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 have been arguing about the country's role in afghanistan for years and it was a key issue and 1000 night that round democratic 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've

got to put an end to enlist war one thing we've learned about afghanistan from afghanistan is that the best way not to be caught up in endless war is to avoid starting one in the 1st when we came to you know office to brock turned the president turned me 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 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 believed what cheney and bush said about iraq. 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 there's been one topic they mostly agreed on and that's opposition to fracking with some even calling for a complete ban on the process involves drilling into the ground to recover oil and natural gas critics claim it's dangerous and bad environment on top us democrats share these fears 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 give you free 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 murder 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 let him or 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 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 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. if you k. now where a classic children's t.v. character has been criticized for failing to keep up with what inequality standards 5 and has been axed from his role as a mascot for the new brigade softball says that he could discourage women from joining. his friends need him more than it. would send him the funky pretty risky team managed to save the day. fireman sam foster out in 1987 as an animation about firefighters 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 in some areas at least artie's 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 chief fire officer. fired fireman sam has been

getting where you stood for it really does a great job for you as a one writing life as a wind a way that's not yours it's not acting like you should do is to far yourself and it is a leaf i'm a stand alone this isn't the 1st time that firemen sam has been in hot water many argue that while the show is politically correct and features plenty of female characters it should be renamed to firefighter. no i think you got it right i think it's just somebody taking it to 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 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 search here sound with samantha yes exactly exactly the could be put in because no rubbish it could be so just do. it was just a children's card to take meetings to fogs that he's under 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 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 filberts and penelope. india has made around $4000.00 arrests in its part of kashmir since last month a look at what's going on in the region and other stories of course after the break .

this is our last show in paris and then we go on the other country's coolness so excited you know that you've heard about it we're going to talk about it we're going to talk about the french economy yup they have one. we was a catalan republic because we think it would be feared 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 meet the european community and constituency what's the big deal what's the problem why can't we accept the possibility of the 20 percent.

welcome back and the outgoing president of the e.u. commission has a lashed out at an initiative by his successor regarding migration bring us all the details his daughter. dunker might be on his way out as he used commission president but that hasn't stopped him from giving his $0.02 on issues of migration one of his latest statements assured the continent that migration is not a threat to europe's way of life. to oppose the european way of life to migration you have to respect. independently from the independent

from the. younger was responding to his successor ursule of on their lay and her initiative to make several government titles of positions more creative and a bit less formal now the most controversial of which was the vice president for the protection of the european way of life and this this position was intended to address how migration affected life on the continent the european way of life is built around solidarity peace of mind and security we must address and they legitimate fears and concerns about the impact of irregular migration on our economy and society younger might have come out publicly in opposition to their lands initiative to rename these government positions but in the e.u. parliament there are larger divisions at play some are saying that this is helping the right wing might even amount to fascism while others are saying what's the big deal and the 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. far countries like germany are only pressuring them to handle the situation better. and my colleague neil harvey discussed the issue with paris based at. new 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 their diversity but the only issue here is

what they're going to do with all these make grants coming to europe are we as europeans are able to host them as. 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 reading from basically become part of this system most of these immigrants come for economy color reasons and as europeans we cannot handle this and we cannot give them the better better 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 one well the. united. states because it covers the fact that all all of the european nations are

divided into classes. support. for unity between. the exporter and exploited within the european companies and. 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 gration 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 weave wars. other people's countries we we live in the climate the world i don't know if you remember

a long time ago in france we had their 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 busy very poor immigrant and he said once we cannot we cannot cause all the misery afterward in france that's that's the thing it comes across as very negative very defensive that immigrants are a sweat 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 borrowed from going to basically all the wrong or representatives make peace with the law. 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 anyone myself i'm anyone myself i'm earing in france and i came here but when you go when you go to a country you have to you have to pledge respect to that to the culture of this country and keeping and keeping your your own culture i consider myself as french as iranian french i respect my country i speak the french culture but i think as a as a french i should respect the culture of france. and finally in many 4000 people have been arrested and. administered kashmir since new delhi revoked its special status last month that's according to local authorities the master tensions

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 unprocessed protest activists remain behind bars india says it's committed to establishing full constitutional order in kashmir and he says pakistan 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 some good decisions entirely internal to india no country can accept interference in it's been done to the fence 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 can return the problem to be 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. pakistan needs to back off all indian states are normal the only issue that happens isn't just me because pakistan is the immediate me would agree it's trouble that the minute pakistan is out of that mission. r.t. sat down with the pakistani prime minister imran khan about the situation and kashmir what we've know is the. this is going to be chippy government is now going to use force. we fear that there will be oppression unprecedented already as i said 370200000 kashmiris have been killed but what they'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 hay on international nate today but the news i'll be back in around 30 minutes time with more playful updates take a father because up next it's been a bust. 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 it's a. lot tougher than. the little self to make

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all middle of the room sick. leave room for the real news room. this is the one box broadcast from around the world and covering our 21st century global economy i'm doing your very own washington christiane is on assignment in singapore today we have a very special show on deck for you as i'm going in on asia for the whole show the change up on kong where we go behind the headlines of the protests to break down the rising cost of housing and car r t correspondent michelle greenstein fresh off her visit joins the show to break down what she managed to find then we had over to india where the world was just a mock prison has seen its auto sales fall but due to recent months lauren fix the

car coach is standing by to give a turtle watch as to why this is the celebrated and we talked for just a christian singapore where she intends to catch up with song saying one i'll see i am going to be hard at trying things to think through what could be in store for asian economies in the near future the only way to get from china to india and back in 27 minutes if you watch the show let's go. a rejection by the london stock exchange of a takeover bid from their counterparts at the hong kong exchange leads our global report today as the board of the l.s.e. unanimously rejects a 30. $6600000000.00 offer from hong kong exchanges and clearing ltd the l.s.e. cited what they termed a fundamental concerns about the deal and specifically rejected the condition on h.p.a. axis offer that would have required london to back out of the previously announced deal to acquire financial information firm or affinity for 14500000000 dollars the l.s.e. by.