Great to have you with us 1 am here in the russian capital. And. The u. S. President should rethink his position towards peace talks with the taliban that is the message the groups leaders sent to washington in an exclusive interview they gave to r. T. But we are still committed to the. Only see from this very. Small solution for. Peace on the table. He compared to what we were just. After the fact if you go. Earlier i spoke with r. T. Senior correspondent i guess the if you had the chance to interview those taliban representatives youve got to look at this from their perspective just a few days ago they stood on the brink of a breakthrough with regard to the after more than 19 years of bloodshed they were talking they almost had a deal and then trump decides to call off the negotiations to kill off the negotiations citing an american soldier apparently killed in a taliban released it related incident the taliban themselves are blameless either because. They also refused to attend the talks. Meeting with trump and in america unless they had side deal in place with the charges of that was slim to none going in but now weve come to a situation where its all broken down and things things are looking awful i put it to the taliban. Why how would you expect trump to negotiate with you when youre actively killing his troops as you speak to him the next day with mr tucker consider this a. Negotiation he mr barak his father is that he says he admitted that he. Doesnt other will so if big kill thousands of us why we cannot kill one of them were to other so this would go away he would have to defend our civic to different people to different a lot of people of other somewhere over there that really really want the different or people the way the taliban sees it is that theyre defending themselves in of gallus stand in their country against Foreign Occupation forces against the United States which is which is invaded their country so they say that they wont end the insurgency yet they still understand that there is no military solution to this conflict that ultimately theyre going to have to sit down and negotiate a peace settlement what is imposed on us is american soldiers there you know its not our immediate soldiers and worship they are there there was one of us but still we. Propose keen to bring peace and i want some political solution but unfortunately i need to which weve reached some sort of finality of it it was cancelled by the american side. The last consideration which was which took. His or her mr vance are out of this for the purpose they have broken such a peace treaty and. One was started there were brokered the peace treaty so the us rigid 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. He also wants the soup to the is the what is important to us we have 2 different courses if the american side is not really and it was usually did not want peace on the day it will. Be compared to a different person it would have to do this 100 years if the decades of fighting would have guessed they must have had enough of it by now they say they want peace and it must have been difficult to have that taken away when it seemed they were close what do they do next well its as if he said at the end there and i asked them you know a tad too weary of the death and the killing in the bloodshed in the war 2 decades almost and they said no they said. Theyre ready to fight for 100 years more that theyll continue defending their country theyll continue the insurgency but they understand that that wont end the war that the United States one can leave afghanistan just just by military force and load and they understand that and negotiated settlement is the unique chance either side has vending this where there was discussion on the debate is over vertical. Its a sign that listed the. Ceasefire between ask an American Forces and give a serious message the American Forces the route go on. The internet when we wish it was so. Totally pushers of the ceasefire. And i could perhaps excuse but also other donors that dont think issues can be discussed. As i said surprise when i met them not what i expected nevertheless theyre still looking for different avenues to. Follow through with negotiations russia has been playing host to a number of meetings there are also other venues. Around the world that are ready to bring the Afghan Government the United States and the taliban together to provide a platform for them to talk to each other and hopefully bring about an end to this terrible war thats taken so many lives. See us journalists once again fighting over russia with one t. V. Network now suing the host of another for describing them as paid russian propaganda illiterate trenka picks up the story. Here comes a familiar voice which becomes even more familiar if we hear words like russia or russian the most obsequiously approach trump right wing news outlet in america really it literally is page correction propaganda for those who still didnt recognize that that was really literally Rachel Maddow speaking about the one American News network on her and this n. B. C. Show ill get to the point of reminding you how she keeps seeing russia everywhere in a moment but dont you think there must be someone out there who wont just swallow what the m s n b c star anchor says without having a bag with a decent jab well oh a ed is filing a defamation lawsuit they want 10000000 bucks one america is wholly operated and financed by the herring family in san diego they are as american as apple pie they are not paid by russia and have nothing to do with the russian government this is a false and malicious libel and theyre going to answer for it in a court of law to tell you about the reason for when Rachel Maddow said really literally which is supposed to mean definitely no doubt shares staff with the kremlin thats another thing she said its just that a one america journalist freelance work for a russian based News Agency Sputnik she got him busted so bad but as ive said earlier the number of times Rachel Maddow turned her show into a grand russian paranoia episode is just difficult to carry out. Or about to find out if the new president of our country is going to do what russia wants. Is under attack from the president in the president s republican supporters in congress and the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still. Around. What would happen if russia killed the power in fargo today what would happen if all the natural gas lines that surface and falls just to fit on the coldest day in recent memory and it wasnt in our power whether or not to turn them back on no wonder that when some folks decided to put the m s n b c hosts russia gate obsession into a mathematical perspective they found she spent more time talking about russia than all other topics combined over a certain period. Now you know what it takes to become the most watched hosts in all of cable news she got to that milestone last year but when step by step it gets revealed that a lot of what you were saying was just a flow of blah blah you make up to when views the consequences do start haunting you 1st the ratings gradually one down then the actual conclusions of the blood to wet days on air this is what the viewers saw when Rachel Maddow 1st realized the probe wasnt going to russia gaiters way and so we know the logistics of how we got the notification that it did and obviously right now we have mostly just a ton of questions as to what millers report says how complete it is who gets to see it who gets to decide who gets to see it and when. Now here comes the lawsuit the one i mentioned nothings decided yet but probably even more people will think twice next on the here really literally in that familiar voice. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and. Then did the same so cheap the meeting went on for 3 hours security in the middle east the round in syria were among the topics up for debate Financial Reports from sochi. This is their 3rd tete a tete this year alone and they are thirsting for mixson in the last. Minute. In the International LeaderBenjamin Netanyahu has met more than any other leader during this time we were invited to film the beginning of their meeting both politicians were smiling while they entered the room and in their welcome speeches steve both were very positive about profound deep and good in fact relations between russia and israel. But when you look at it im not afraid to say that thanks to your efforts to a large extent our relations have reached new levels on Security Issues and military cooperation and we know how important that is especially taking into account the continuing threat from international terrorism. Because there are 2 additional factors that play in the celebration of ties between our countries the carefully weighed policies of both of us and a strong connection between us we had a chance to talk to the israeli Prime Minister as International Media adviser and he told us security concerns and discussions about that is the major reason behind this recent visit. To russia especially given he stressed irans recent activity in syria and in the middle Eastern Region as a whole and we heard Benjamin Netanyahu talking about that as well lets take a listen. I really appreciate what you are saying only israel safety this is manifested at the meetings weve had and with the recent meeting with the defense minister coordination with our military is always very important especially this time when we see the growing in terms of iran to use the territory of syria to attack us or to place their missiles there both politicians also mentioned the upcoming israeli elections Benjamin Netanyahu visits russia while fighting a fierce Reelection Campaign at home and many say meeting widely reported may help him get more voters russians for a russian even. Position figures even blame him for doing that on purpose thats all for the 1st time that we see him visiting russia had all of the elections in israel but we talked about that with the israeli Prime Minister is International Media adviser and he told us there is no connection between need and yet Prime Minister is always that the security of israel is not something which we time according to elections its something thats ongoing all the time the iranian prisons throughout the middle east is growing they have presence in lebanon and in syria and iraq causing a lot of instability. Basically is to aim most of this aggression towards israel not only towards israel towards other parts of the middle east as well and the Prime Minister is concerned about. The growing role of ukrainian and their. Proxies their terrorist proxies throughout the middle east and so the Prime Minister would like to discuss this with president putin. Also because the president and russia have interests in syria and in the middle east and we would like to coordinated in the clashes between israel and and russia democratic efforts to impeach President Donald Trump could be picking up momentum bring you that story when we return. There are growing indications the wests anti russias stance may be softening a case in point is the recent visit of frances 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 an important question remains can moscow trust the west and. Welcome back top u. S. Lawmakers a plastic a vote to define the boundaries of a potentially pietschmann divest a geisha if donald trump means the committee can designate certain hearings says impeachment hearings and empower staff to question witnesses republican members of the house furiously denounce the move. Not even that but when inquiry some in the media is saying its hard to know what were doing here and thats exactly what i want to now so hearing about whether or not we have people come give testimony afterwards the president can write us a letter in response this is more about defining our pen pal strategy for all of those covering this this is not anything special investigation thats already been completed moment of hearing they saw it that was a flop if the majority wants to exercise the houses power of impeachment all youve got to do is ask house to do so impeachment resolution could not pass the full house so this committee is trying to have its cake and eat it too you want to give the illusion of impeachment without the reality of it i want to go a long time to be able to say this welcome to fantasy were. Supporters of the probe it will strengthen the chances of gathering key evidence against the president on allegations of corruption and obstruction of justice but democrats have been sending mixed signals since the special counsel robot did find trump guilty kellam open explains democrats seem to be rolling ahead with their efforts to remove donald trump from office the House Judiciary Committee called for procedures related to its investigation of the president s wrongdoing now for a lot of people that seems to put the smell of impeachment into the air their records on the House Judiciary Committee are expected to vote on expanding the impeachment inquiry into President Trump democrats taking formal steps towards impeachment this is an impeachment inquiry in search of something to impeach President Trump over so weve got 134 democrats voting to begin an impeachment inquiry what do they really mean it at this point the democrats cant even seem to agree on whats going on with the house judiciary investigation who have been in the midst of an impeachment investigation no were not in an impeachment investigation. The house is investigating to determine whether or not there should be an impeachment investigation so why might the democrats seem to be a little bit reluctant well in 2020 its not just the president ial race but theres also some local elections and it seems like impeaching trump isnt the best vote getter polls show that 72 percent of democrats favor impeaching donald trump but for the country overall 59 percent oppose now that seems like bad news for the new progressive socialist wing of the democrats that seem to have that their entire house on it remember this were going to go in there were going to be some of them from would love it if the different democrats tried to impeach him its the kind of battle he loves the public is totally turned off its not following this ready controversy at all so i think it would definitely play into trumps hands it will do the democrats very little good in the 2020 alexion and probably will actually wind up backfiring virtually impossible if he could be convicted in the senate and removed from office so its just a its a lot of hot air over nothing now the problem for the democrats in removing donald trump is that according to the u. S. Constitution once the proceedings begin it would be the u. S. Senate that would then vote to convict and remove the president the constitution requires a 2 thirds vote among the senators and the democrats dont come anywhere near that so what would the charges be and all the most common answer youll get is obstruction of justice but theres a little bit of a problem with that we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime so obstructing an investigation into something that you did not do now you could certainly lock up an average joe for that but its a pretty weak case for driving a president from office some democrats even think that it would be bad for the country to impeach donald trump its important for us to think about what is in the best interest of the country and the american people. And continuing to pursue impeachment is something that i think will only further tear our country apart speaker of the house nancy pelosi seems to be pouring cold water on the idea as well but she chooses her words very carefully take a listen when you go down a path like impeachment which is there if i said they could divide the country whatever decision we made in that regard would have to be done with our strongest possible hand the democrats have accused donald trump of being a criminal a traitor and a fascist theyve got their supporters out for his blood but it looks like if they actually go for it this might backfire in the long term. Are to new york. A visit by an independent american journalist to syria has sparked outrage from parts of the media as they travel to government held areas to assess the countrys recovery i spoke to the journalists im staying in the old city of damascus by the eastern gate sharky and i walked across the street across the highway into a neighborhood about a few 100 meters away that had been controlled for 4 months by Jaish Al Islam the wahhabi militia backed by saudi arabia and met residents who had actually lived under their theocratic rule who described kidnappings rape of women people being executed in the street for violating the theocratic rule and how happy they were to be finally freed from this gang what i was observing was a city and outside of the city that is much much safer since i last was there last and i was in syria was 2 years ago there were still fighting it was still on save there were checkpoints everywhere now that the government has taken back many areas especially around to back the baskets outside of damascus you can travel to the suburbs and beyond the suburbs without going through a 1000000 checkpoints not being worried about being kidnapped or being sniped moreover life has gone to a reasonable degree back to normal for a lot of people. Mikes blumenthal and run your car travel to the capital damascus with the aim of speaking to locals and observing serious recovery from terrorists and they say they received no funding from the countrys government when those angered by the visit were journalists from c. N. N. And the intercept who accused them of white washing and Government Support it was some of their reactions this is some goebbels prancing around Syrian Government luxury tour posting tourist photos near torture centers and maki Syrian Refugees who can never return to their country with their frisking being tortured to death started to read a certain journalists thread from inside damascus this am then found myself getting palpitations which progressed into spasms of rage how can anyone be so blindly credulous on a cosmic scene volved it is such a disgrace. L m a o ron and mocks are in damascus neither of them speak arabic yet they claim to be talking to many syrians there why arent they disclosing whos translating for them and helping them mount. This is to be expected and so theyre trying to intimidate americans or europeans and people from the west from coming here theyre trying to break off Cultural Exchange between us and average people who just happen to live in the area controlled by the Syrian Government where most syrians live and what weve been able to see and report already has threatened the narrative thats been conveyed by western Corporate Media and a pack of kind of dime a dozen correspondents acting as state department i mean i think the people attacking us have an agenda theyre either convinced that theyre right or theyre working on behalf of somebody else or both this isnt something were were thats new to us were used to it i think its why we can recognize an operation when we see one and this is if its very coordinated you know these people are talking in some d. M. Group and coordinating against us and its quite obvious and its not surprising we expected it and i you know i think its something that happens particularly any time anybody visits a government or the Syrian Government side. Of syria and offers a realistic perspective they can expect to be attacked but more importantly i think the reason there are so outraged by me and max is because me and max tend to be quite effective in offering a different perspective and offering a reality on the ground kind of perspective well that weve offered you a different perspective ive been here on the ground for you throughout the evening do stick around the top stories coming at the top of the hour. When were talking about Sustainable Growth this is the bulk of Sustainable Development its not only. The number of tourists the sustainability itself in the world war which is the mounting balance between they were meant to be a war between culture and. Conservation of nature and. 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Welcome to the alex salmon show where we continue our series on the Economic Conditions against which the brics a Political Drama is being played out last week alex interviewed one of the worlds leading kingston economists professor David Blanchflower on his prediction of another International Recession i dont think you could have picked a worse time to pick out do prick see it its unclear exactly what the short and the near and long term consequence of breaks it are and separate them from the fact that theres a global trade war going on its the end of a 10 year long recovery and all of those things happening together breaks it itself for the Global Economy says the i. M. F. Is a Downside Risk entirely to the world and this week show we asked he commentators north and south of the border about the political economy of brics it from scotland economist and former m. P. George kevan spells i to alternative economic agenda to the prevailing wisdom across the liberal democracies what we need to do is to is to fundamentally change the economy scotland is creating a state Investment Bank and rather than rely on the ups and downs of of the free market finance were going to use that state Investment Bank to invest against the cycle so if theres a downturn then its true that bank will be to pump investment cash into the economy my prescription to rely on the on the on the ups and downs of of the free market invest long term to do that need the state Investment Bank from england leading taxation expert professor Richard Murphy detail some of the unintended fiscal consequences of pricks it. Cashflow is actually the biggest potential implication of bricks it but i can see no one including the government in its yellow have a document has talked about who is going to pay the cost of lorries sitting for 2 and a half days waiting to get through dover the point is thats going to impose substantial cost if its the Truck Company thats paying they cant afford it if its the customers paying the price is going up but it means that not just their own trucks in operation trucks are being paid to do nothing that could drive literally every hoarded company who goes across the channel out of business in weeks because they wont be able to afford a new Prime MinisterBoris Johnsons for 6 weeks in power have been nothing if not event for his controversial decision to parole parliament has set off a Chain Reaction which has turned a bare majority of just one into what is in effect a minority of 40 United Kingdom or so heading for its 3rd general election in the last 4 years i Boris Johnson runs the risk of being the shortest term Prime Minister in british history however in addition to understanding the political twists and turns of westminster begs it should also be seen as a reaction to underlying Economic Conditions in todays show we asked 2 of the countrys leading political economists an extent to which the economics a dictator in the politics of the brics it alex speaks 1st to former member of Parliament George kevin who advocates a new economic agenda to place the economics of a steady which has prevailed fits the Great Recession of more than a decade ago just kind of im looking at the trends in the International Economy at the present moment how concerned are you that were heading into a fury as far as a recession is concerned well alex amerikana so are meant to be person