A warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with many care and 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. T. But we are still committed to the. Policy from this very. Solution for. Peace on the table. Compared to what we were just. After the fact if you were to go. My colleague mia harvey spoke to our Senior Correspondent right gas d. F. You want to 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 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 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 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 do you expect trump to negotiate with you when youre actively killing his troops as you speak to him the next day with mr tucker canceled this is a. Negotiation he mr bucket with his followers that he says he admitted that he. Doesnt other will so if big kill thousands of us why we cannot kill one of there were 2 other so this would go away he would have to defend our civic different people to different a lot of people of modest. But margaret with the 2 different own 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 has invaded their country so they say that they want to 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 to what is imposed on us. American soldiers you know its not our image it. Should be our there was one of us but still we. Propose keen to bring peace and i want some political solution but unfortunately i need to retrieve some sort of finality for 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. Almost started it were brokered the peace treaty so be 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 others are also oh. Well. This and he also wants the saved it i know is there was a and was we have to defend or sit there for the if the american side is not willing to push it and did not want peace on the table so all that we would be compared to defend ourselves it would never produce 500. 00 he is. 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. As he said at the end and i asked them you know are. You 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 a 100 years more that theyll continue defending their country theyll continue the insurgency but they understand that that would end the war that the United States leave afghanistan just just by military force alone and they understand that a negotiated settlement is the unique chance either side has vending this where there was a discussion on the debate is. Going to. Decide their lives the. Ceasefire between us in american forces. On. The internet when we should start. Of the cease fire. And. Also other. Issues. 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 the platform for them to talk to each other and hopefully bring about an end to this terrible war thats taken so many lives. U. S. Journalists are once again fighting out of russia with one t. V. Network now suing the host of another describing them as paid by sion propaganda trying to 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 bit 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. Are 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 and what would happen to all the natural gas lines that surface and falls just to fill in the cold 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 one 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 one down 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. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu putin have ended that talks in sochi meeting went off to 3 hours security in the middle east iran and syria were among the topics up for debate but were finished now. This is their 3rd tete a tete these here alone and they are 13th in the last 4 years. Bolton is in the International Leader Benjamin 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 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 missiles theyre both politicians also mentioned the upcoming israeli elections Benjamin Netanyahu visits russia while fighting a fierce Reelection Campaign and many say meeting widely reported may help him get more voters russian speaking pro russian even. Israel and 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 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 netanyahu as visit Prime Minister its 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 in iraq causing a lot of instability the idea 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 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. Top u. S. Lawmakers have passed a key vote to define the boundaries of a potential impeachment investigation of donald trump and leaves the committee can designate certain herrings as impeachment hearings and empower stuff to question witnesses republican members of the house furiously denounced 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 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 is ask house to do so and 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 pro pope it will strengthen their chances of gathering key evidence against the president on occasions of corruption and obstruction of justice but democrats have been sending mixed signals since the special counsel robin didnt find trying guilty catapulting 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 a 10 page been in korea 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 use the mother 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 that 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 and 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 mop and r. T. New york. Visit by independent american journalists to syria has sparked outrage from pastas of media they traveled to government held areas to assess the countrys recovery early on presented 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 explain the phone and rania conic travel 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 into set to accuse them of white washing and Government Support here are some of the reactions this is some goebbels prancing around Syrian Government luxury tour posi tourist photos near torture centers and look 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 conflicts 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 them out. 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 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. The mystery of what happened to a group of soviet hikers in the Ural Mountains back in 959 is still puzzling lines today and now you too can explore the various theories surrounding the past incidents thanks to a special project launched by arties video agency. Usually. You work for you. 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Famously have a son of the moment who is. Down but since that political baggage assouan no yeah exactly. The moment that people whose story isnt new makes him called in Henry Kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated that in latin america no part of the economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make. The chilean economy scream so wants to make the economy of venezuela. John bolton is out trumps Approval Rating is down and Elizabeth Warren is now tied with joe biden for the democratic nomination in a newly released poll the Political Panel weighs in on this edition of. Going to politicking on matthew cook in for larry king on tuesday President Trump announced via twitter that he was firing the National Security adviser john bolton for his part mr bolton claims he quest this plays out as a newly released poll shows Donald Trumps Approval Ratings down since midsummer what path might mr trump take in the coming months to try to improve those numbers and another poll shows senator Elizabeth Warren climbing into a virtual tie with former Vice President joe biden for 1st place in the battle for the 2020 democratic nomination can she maintain her momentum lets turn to the Political Panel for analysis they are amy holmes Political Columnist and Michael Tobin democratic strategist and former senior aide to senator Chuck Schumer theyre both in new york city welcome to the program. That pleasure to be with you so lets jump right in and talk about this economist hugo poll released wednesday senator Elizabeth Warren is tied with joe biden at 26 percent among registered voters your reaction lets start with you amy well we are still such a long way out before iowa New Hampshire South Carolina but it shows how effective Elizabeth Warren has been in being able to court the you know democratic primary voters of the Democratic Base i think the person who should probably be the most worried about those numbers however is our friend Bernie Sanders who was supposed to be the progressive choice the progressive alternative to joe biden but Elizabeth Warren has cut into his foundation of voters and been able to you know make a really good go of it michael. Elizabeth warren and joe biden are very different candidates offering very different visions for america but most importantly very different versions of candidacies joe biden is talking about a return to civility and some sort of reboot or control to lead on the computer that is america so that we get to return to a period before President Trump and senator warren is suggesting that she has and has laid out very convincingly that she has a detailed plan for everything those are very different visions of what democratic primary and caucus voters are looking for and to amy as well considered point these are base and primary and Democratic Caucus voters these are not the voters that you need to be convincing in general election so be interesting to see whoever wins a spat on whether its senator sanders or senator harris whether or not they can reset their themselves and appeal to those important moderate voters come november amy do you agree with with michaels definition of what each candidate stands for in do you think that the Democratic Party is split into these 2 camps well