Im rebecca races welcome to the program in a potential blow to ending u. S. Img ajman in afghanistan President Donald Trump has canceled peace talks with taliban leaders at camp david which was supposed to take place today in a tweet President Trump said he scrapped the secret meeting up to the taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in kabul the u. S. And the taliban have been meeting since last year in the hopes of ending the 18 year conflict. The body of an american soldier returns home sergeant at least body to ortiz was the 16th u. S. Service member killed in afghanistan this year one of a dozen people who died when a taliban car bomb exploded on thursday near the u. S. Embassy in kabul. That inspired President Trump to tweet and unexpected announcement. The Major Taliban leaders and the president of afghanistan were going to secretly meet with me on sunday unfortunately in order to build false leverage they had mid to an attack in kabul that killed one of our great soldiers i immediately canceled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. It has been 18 years since the u. S. Invaded afghanistan after the september 11th attacks on new york city by its ally al qaida thousands of Coalition Troops have died as well as tens of thousands of afghan troops and civilians. The Afghan Government has been critical of the negotiations between the u. S. And the taliban which have largely sidelined afghan officials but a spokesperson welcomes trumps announcement. There was an important day for the taliban to. To brace a political life theyve had to do so and they. Continue to divide this while they were talking to the city he was in touch with the mission and we didnt see any commitment by the time for any Peace Process except talking and you know. Continuing to have this poppers meanwhile the taliban said the decision will harm the u. S. More than anyone else but seem to leave the door open to more talks. His pledge to withdraw the remaining 14000 u. S. Troops from afghanistan but faces resistance from the Afghan Government. And some u. S. Lawmakers who say its too early to leave the afghans on the road. Under the trees has been following the story for us from all thanks for joining me as we heard the taliban reacted to President Trumps decisions saying that canceling the pace talks would harm the u. S. More than anyone else what i mean by that well i do not think that the decision by the us i think the dollar bill and what theyre actually trying to do is they want to get the maximum out of the deal the negotiations. Are chromed and gradually i believe so what exactly the taliban mean here that you have to agree to terms and obviously all these 3 parties the taliban the u. S. And the of the gun government they all want to get the maximum out of a potential agreement. On trying to show their strength in the battlefield there have been a docking they have launch various attacks in afghanistan just to pressure the u. S. But apparently president grump believes that he should not be surrendering to the taliban here and this is quite a turnaround bearing in mind that the trumpet ministration said it was on the threshold of an agreement with the taliban and u. S. Secretary of state. Underlined that today again lets take a listen we are making Real Progress towards that we had a commitment from the taliban to make a formal public announcement that they would break with al qaeda something that an american demand that it got back as far as president bush we were making progress along the way president proposed supportive of those efforts making Real Progress but how close were they really. Well i was in doha covering the talks last week and we know firsthand that u. S. Negotiators are very close to the kind of agreed on a Draft Agreement and obviously then the u. S. Envoy. To get to kabul and he held talks with have gone off issues so things were pretty smooth but then the taliban attacks continued and you have to understand that it is what trump do you get to the announcement their decision it is a temporary measure in my opinion all these parties desperately want a deal whatever the taliban say whatever president the president not sure when he says at this moment all these parties really von do reach an agreement and i think. Secretary powell is right here so what is next in the Peace Process. Well we have to see what the u. S. Wants at the moment is a nation wide seas fight in afghanistan that they want the taliban to do agree to the taliban on the other hand believe that if they flex their muscle as they show battlefield they could you know pressure the u. S. But they have to understand that the u. S. Although president drum to withdraw troops. Before the elections in the u. S. Next year he wants to show some kind of success. Regarding afghanistan the u. S. Is not in hearty here so the only way out of this crisis is that the taliban agree show some flexibility agree with the u. S. And then hold talks with the of gun government the elected government in kabul and hold indra gone dialogues that is the only way out of this crisis and i believe this is going to happen sooner or later these are just you know bargaining tactics. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me on the show now to some of the other stories making. Turkish and u. S. Troops have conducted their 1st joint ground patrol in northeastern syria and korea has established what it calls a safe zone in the area i mean to keep kurdish fighters away from its border turkey also wants to resettle up to 1000000 Syrian Refugees in the region. 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Russians have been voting today in regional and municipal elections some observers say the elections neither free nor fair more than 7000000 people willing to elect lawmakers to the moscow tallent president Vladimir Putin cast his vote in the capital where demonstrations have erupted in recent weeks oh testers were angry after authorities banned several allies of the Opposition Leader in the bounty from standing a Police Crackdown saw around 2000 people to time. For more on this lets bring our correspondent our until hes in moscow aaron well only have full figures tomorrow but do we have any results i saw. Well were russia is quite a large countries around for tomorrow as we get the official election totals but looking here at moscow which is actually the most closely watched races were seeing that voter turnout is roughly in line with what it was last year and that was only around 21 percent which is quite low and that could be an indication that these weeks of protests would lead up to this polling actually failed to have a large impact on the electoral shape here when these Regional Elections are being seen as a serious test for russian president Vladimir Putin and his United Russia Party why. Well thats because you the united see united russia as a receiving right there is phase seen some rather historically low polling numbers right now only around 30 percent of the russian population says they actually support the party which is formed kind of the backbone of the support for letting a putin for almost the last 20 years now and their brand is especially considered toxic in some of the major cities were talking about moscow and St Petersburg here thats part of the reason why many of the candidates for the state duma here in the city duma rather here in moscow too is run as independent candidates out of fear that association with the brand of you do not see it could actually hurt their chances in todays polling and what outcome is the opposition campaigning for considering that many of its candidates have been barred from running. Well it really depends on what you mean by the opposition its hard to speak from are of a unified opposition when it comes to russia when it comes alexina vali you mentioned who is one of the most prominent members of the russian opposition and one of the most vocal members actually trying to defeat you know how to see hes actually focused on trying to get his supporters to back a list of candidates he says have the best chance of defeating the d. N. A. To see a members basically theyre arguing that by preventing more of their candidates from getting into government it would be a win for the opposition in general you know so far we dont know how many people are going to actually support his list of candidates but if it actually does prove to be successful it could turn into a model for future electoral success on the part of the opposition are until now speaking to us from moscow thank you. Well Health Authorities in the u. S. Are edging people to stop paying after a 5th death linked to the out of an outbreak of a mysterious respiratory disease has been reported hundreds of people have fallen sick across the country and the only common factor is the use of a cigarettes d. W. Reporter has been looking into it is joins me now all of us what we know about is outbreak so we know theres been 5 deaths since july into. Some 450 people have fallen ill across the u. S. Hof of them in the last week alone now symptoms that they all have in common a shortness of breath coughing vomiting in chest pain and well at least one of the people who died are in the fiftys most of the patients who are in hospital young men 920 years old. Often active and healthy all of a sudden within 48 hours their lungs collapse and fail. Like this patient we can see if we can get the clip. Posted a picture of herself on instagram. 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