Will welcome you watching r. T. International with me to. Our top story this hour the u. S. President should rethink his position towards peace talks with the taliban thats the message the groups leaders have sent to washington in an exclusive interview to r. C. I dont know that there is a behind. Us there were but we are still committed to the negotiations with the i would stand and i will only see from this very minute the other side is that theres no solution for the one conflict except. Except peace on the table so we dont want to revitalize the whole day to step down. From back to where we want to be with just the sound of the day after the fact if youre going to go there go. Earlier my colleague neil harvey spoke to r. T. Senior correspondent mike gals d have you had a chance to interview the 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 regards 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 a sign 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 when mr tucker canceled the service. Negotiation here mr barak his father is that he says he admitted that he had good 1000. 00 well so if big kill thousands of us why we cannot kill one of there were 2 other so this will go away he would have to different i would simply have different people here to befriend a lot of people of other somewhere over there but really when were really what we have to different our people the way the taliban sees it is that theyre defending themselves in of ghana 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 that was imposed on us. American soldiers in a one stop its not. Soldiers and worship there never was one of us but still we. Proposed and were keen to bring peace and i want some through the recession but unfortunately i need to retrieve some sort of fidelity when it was cancelled by the american side. Last consideration which was which took. His arm over 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 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. He also wants the city and the word is the what is important to us we have 2 different courses here for the american side is not really because 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 i 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 as he said at the end there and i asked them you know. 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 alone and they understand that negotiated settlement is the only chance either side has of vending this where there was discussion on the debate is over vertical. Its a sign that listed the. Cease fire between as an American Forces and the city by city the American Forces the route go on number into the going was just it was sort. Of only pushes of the cease fire. And to progress excuse me out and also other donors that dont think issues can be discussed. As i said surprise when i met them is 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. Senior u. S. Journalists are once again fighting over russia with one t. V. Network now suing the host of another for describing them as paid russian propaganda in the has 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 hitting back 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 did 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 from the president s republican supporters and congress and the president conservative media supporters and also from the ongoing russian influence operation that is still. All around. What would happen if russia killed the power in fargo today what would happen if all the natural gas lines that that service in falls just poof on the coal to stay 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 win views the consequences do start haunting you 1st the ratings gradually went down and then the actual conclusions of the blood to wet is on air this is what the viewers saw when Rachel Maddow 1st realized the probe wasnt going the 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. The israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and lot of putin have ended that. That meeting went on for 3 hours security in the middle east to iran and syria well among the topics up for debate maria finish never pull from so choose. This is their 3rd these here alone and theyre 13 from 18 in the last 4 years white in the belgian is 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 speech tuesday 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 acceleration 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 all these rail safety this is manifest that of 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 missile of their both politicians also mentioned the upcoming israeli election Benjamin Netanyahu visits russia while fighting a fierce Reelection Campaign and many say meeting widely reported. Maybe help him get more voters russian speaking for russian even. Some opposition figures even blame him for doing that on purpose thats all for the 1st time that we see him visiting russia had all 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 has always said 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 the idea is basically is to aim most of this aggression towards israel not only towards israel towards other posts in the middle east as well and the Prime Minister is concerned about. The growing role of uranium 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 the latest move in democratic outputs to impeach to crack President Trump could backfire as that story is coming up on which. What politicians do. Put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Or somehow want to be. Actually going to be crushed which is what the 43. 00 of them all cant be good. Im interested always in the waters of the house. 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 anymore. A comeback top u. S. Lawmakers have passed a key votes to define the boundaries of a potential impeachment investigation of donald trump it means the committee can designate certain herrings as impeachment hearings and empowers stuff 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 and give testimony afterwards the president can write us or 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 bob muller hearing they saw it that was a flop if the majority wants to exercise the houses power of impeachment all you got to do just 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 i. Suppose is all the proposed it will strengthen that chances of gathering can evidence against the president on allegations of corruption and obstruction of justice but democrats have been sending mixed signals since the special counsel didnt find guilty caleb maupin 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 wrong doing 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. 00 democrats voting to begin an impeachment inquiry but 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 really the mother 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 egypt 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. Ard see new york. Visit by independent american journalists to syria has sparked outrage from parts of the media they travel to government held areas to assess the countrys recovery and only present to neil harvey spoke to both of the journalists. Im staying in the old city of damascus by the eastern gate of bob sharkey and i walked across the street across a 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 fear craddick 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 accidents 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 our life has gone to a reasonable degree back to normal for a lot of people. And rania khalid traveled to the capital damascus with the aim of speaking to locals and observing syrias recovery from terrorists and they say they received no funding from the countrys government among those angered by the visit were journalists from c. N. N. And the intercept to accuse them of white washing and Government Support here are some of their reactions this is some goebbels prancing around Syrian Government luxury tour. Centers and the Syrian Refugees who can never return to their country with their fish can be tortured to death started to read a certain journalists thread from inside damascus this am then found myself getting pell potations which progressed into spasms of rage how can anyone be so blindly credulous on the cossacks involved 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 the 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 a 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 so the headlines for international this hour were back in 30 minutes with the latest. 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