because i think. the taliban sends a clear message to donald trump in an exclusive interview with. the u.s. president to rethink his decision to pull off a stall. despite booming u.s. oil exports top democrats unite in calling for a ban on fracking fine selves accused of paying into pitch an attack. on classic british children's t.v. character gets fired from his job over divest sounds. you're watching international your life news update from austin jail here in moscow welcome to the program. and fast for you this hour the chief u.s.

negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before congress amid questions of a donald trump's decision to shut down discussions with a terror group meanwhile the taliban has 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 negotiations we see that i would start our policy from this very minute the other side is that there's no solution for the conflict except. except peace on the table so we don't want to revitalize who. stood on the. street coming back to where we want to be with just the sound of the. after the fact if you're going to go that route. the taliban is frequently responsible for

terrorist to try attacks across afghanistan and the latest incident at least 4 local troops were killed and 3 injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a military base in southern couple on thursday donald trump ended almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted killing a u.s. serviceman to quote strengthen that bargaining position radagast have had the opportunity to speak with the taliban officials and it'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 when it all collapsed and it was too good to be true the talks with the taliban 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 of ghana stan 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 cannot give you one of the more blather so this will go away and he may have to defend our civic to different people we have to definitively north of people of either somebody when they're really bombarded with we have 2 different our people the way the taliban see it they're defending themselves in their country fighting against a foreign occupation and for every american soldier they kill tens of their fighters and civilians are killed in. 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 imposed on

us. american soldiers 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 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 retrieve some sort of fidelity when it was canceled by the american side of science and done a lot of consideration which was which took. his or her mr vance are going to some of the characters that have broken such a peace treaty and good terms and but obama started it we're going to be stupid so be 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 also who. is this if he also wants the seat do i know what is the what is

important for us we have a different course of if the if the american side is not really and it was initially and did not want peace on the day it will sort. be compared to the front office 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 ceasefire the details had been worked out in the fine print sorted and approved the need for everything to collapse where there was a discussion on the debate is over very difficult to decide that this is. a ceasefire between us an american forces and get a city by city government in force and they will go on pretty desolate over the internet and we wish it was so. out of it which is of the the ceasefire. and i think you're going to see ceasefire and also other donors 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 with trump already boasting that he's hitting the taliban with his pavement that far and few are 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 inevitable talks negotiations with the taliban u.s. politicians have been arguing about the country's one afghanistan yes and it was a key issue and 1000 a night thought 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 have got to put

an end to endless war one thing we've learned about afghanistan. from afghanistan it's the best way not to be caught up in endless wars to avoid starting one in the 1st when we came to you know office to brock turn the president 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. 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 topic they mostly equate on and not opposition to fracking with some even when a complete bond the process involves treading deep into the ground to recover well and natural gas critics claim it's dangerous for the environment on top us democrats to authorize caleb maupin brings you 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 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 5 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 offshore and on public lands and i will ban fracking everywhere it's not just the left progressives you've got the centrist kemal 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 broke 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 that 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 it 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 what equality started it's 5 and sam has been axed from his role as a mascot for a local brigade that softball says that said he could discourage women from joining us. his friends need him more than ever. the rescue team managed to save the farm and sound fast add a $907.00 is an animation about firefighters in a small welsh village since then he's 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. 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 roasted for it duration does a great job for you as a wife 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 sahm 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 and become 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 but street yes. yes exactly exactly they could be put in because no rubbish it could just do. it was just a children's card. 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. funny well you dress 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 there anthropomorphise sized fire extinguishes freddy phil butt and penelope. staying in the u.k. and wales a small cafe's push to drum up business using online arts has backfired off to google bomb them for their supposedly use of a homophobic slur the word in question also happens to be the name of a traditional dish the cafe owners have expressed surprise at google's decision. i

think that faggots and peas and chips and i mean gravy is a traditional meal i didn't make the name and at the end of the days a traditional dish you can't change it there is nothing meant by what we were doing is just describing the actual menu item i downloaded the list the words of the list was a google brand and the word faggot is actually in the list with many others as far as policing words i think it's it where does it stop or where does it end especially for businesses because there's not this many other words which can be deemed offensive. of the scandal is traditional in the u.k. and consists of nipples mixed with brad and hobbes but google algorithms flagged up the cafes as inappropriate and offensive content we asked visitors of the cafe what

they thought of the. facebook user but i think if you could just because i could see. both of them if you're going to take it down here you are going to have to take you know all of the country to dish you know well see they're told you know back in the east. it's true to see if we should meet paul and he's over to the sea you can get all of the country. i can see any. tactics and peace to get our education. the outgoing project president of the e.u. commission. has a lashed out at the mission of by his successor regarding migration bringing us all the details his john mcwhorter. 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 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 from a far countries like germany are only pressuring them to handle the situation better. earlier my colleague neil harvey discussed the issue with paris based.

shall know. general section 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 they're going to do with all busy these make grants coming to europe are we as european are able to host them. greatly haase them or not when it comes to migrants. our basic position is that we support. the migrants and. we were international solidarity because reading from basically become part of the 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 one well the. exists because it covers the whole of the european nations are divided into classes . support. for unity between. the exploited and exploited within the european companies. for what you're describing the situation in europe this is a comment directly from mrs lay and. we must address a legitimate fears and concerns about the impact of irregular migration on our economy and our society so 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. we will be wars. other peoples countries we 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 cardinal walk out and he said long time ago and he was a socialist and he was a very open mind the socialist and busy 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 them which in order to try to do some support from the

borrowed from going to basically all the wrong or his representatives make peace with the mother and serve. in their use of language and words of the road is not really surprising because this is the this is the political climate exist the protection of the european way of life is more against let's say let and let's face the problem is more against the 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 in a wing 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 because their culture. of this country and keeping and keeping your or your own culture i consider myself as a french as an iranian french i respect my country a different culture but i feel as

a as the french i should be spared the culture of french. a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. riot police in the colombian capital bogota demonstrators pelted stones at officers who responded with take us and sent in their calls the rally was held in response to allegations of police brutality bust campus a student had reportedly been shot and dozens. also in south america thousands have rallied outside congress in the capital one of the iris that demanding more food aid with shortages across the country a bill to increase spending on food aid will be. made and. argentina has been in the grip of double digit inflation for months. and environmental activists have

staged a protest around the front moved to show in germany extension rebellion activists scientists and members of friday's for future movement join forces in a march towards the venue the protesters are demanding better public transport and the people cut their use of calls the international. chancellor merkel was also in attendance and announced a large target of 40 percent cut in carbon emissions by 2030. 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 came amid ongoing clashes between the local population on indian security forces more than hoth of those arrested have been released hundreds of local politicians on process protests activists remain behind bars in decides it's committed to establishing full constitutional order in kashmir

and accuses pakistan of stirring up on rust. 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 fenced 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 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 as a global factor of terrorism pakistan needs to back off all indian states are normal the only issue that happens isn't push me because pakistan is the immediate need but it creates trouble that the minute pakistan is out of that nation trouble

will stop. us he sat down with the pakistani prime minister and one can about the situation in kashmir. what we've. is that. 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 between 70200000 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 did order low 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 right here on r.t. international after the break that's all from me this hour as always for more stories head on over to. for now they stay with us for that exclusive interview with the pakistani prime minister. this is our last show in paris and then we go on the other country's pulmo so excited you know that you've heard about it we're going to talk about it in real time on the french economy the uk they have one here. 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 and sniffs it hard poor ships and

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of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. with me i have the prime minister of pakistan mr in mankind it's a pleasure to be here in islamabad and thank you very much for hosting me no pleasure no pleasure for years if your has accused pakistan of being lenient on terror groups what is your response to this firstly. since i have been the prime minister. i don't why would anyone any foreign observer. even when i spoke to prime minister i do realize that you can use your intelligence is ready the.