A good one thanks for joining us this is. The chief u. S. Negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before congress and questions over Donald Trumps decision to shut down discussions with the terror group meanwhile the taliban deserves the president to return to the negotiating table in an exclusive interview with r. T. I do the. Work hard but we are still committed to the. Policy from this very. Solution for one conflict. Because its the peace on the table. Compared to what we were just. After the fact that if youre going to go over. The talibans frequently responsible for terrorist attacks across afghanistan and the latest instant release for local troops who killed 3 injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a military base in southern carbo on thursday donald trump ended almost a year of negotiations and the taliban with the taliban last sunday when they admitted to killing a u. S. Serviceman to quote strengthen their bargaining position i guess do you have had the opportunity to speak to taliban officials and its 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 then it all collapsed and it was too good to be true the talks with the taliban are dead. 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 afghanistan 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 bucket with his father is that he says he admitted that he had a good 1000. 00 well so if big get dollars off us why did we could not get one of them or 2 other so with this to go away he may have to defend our civic to different people who look different in north of people of other somebody when theyre not really but why really what do we have to different or people the way the taliban see it there defending themselves in their country fighting against a Foreign Occupation and for every american soldier they kill tens of their fighters and civilians killed in. The us they said this isnt a war they want this isnt a war they can win by force but they wont and cause and give up the what is it was fun us. American soldiers dont want to stop its not ill admit it the soldiers are going to be in washington they are never there was one 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 even if it was cancelled 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 2 terms in the but obama started it would have broken the beastie 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 others are also. With this he also wants the city and the what is the what is important to us we have to defend ourselves if the if the american side is not willing to push it and did not want peace on the day it will sort. Be compared to a different person ever to do this 100 years what hurt the most the taliban had negotiated told me is how close they were to a deal a cease fire the details had been worked out in the fine print sorted and approved only for everything to collapse where there was a discussion on the debate is over when you know where to go to decide that this is. A ceasefire between us and American Forces and we get a serious message that we can force of the root and one over into the negotiation was so. Out of it was of the the ceasefire. And i perhaps excuse but also other donors that dont think it can be discussed as things stand talks for now over the war will go on the killing will go on with trump already boasting that hes hitting the taliban with his pavement dead in fewer we have been serving as policemen 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 common sense prevails and the u. S. Goes back to what everyone in washington knows is inevitable talks negotiations with the taliban. U. S. Politicians have been arguing about the countrys role in afghanistan for years said it was a key issue in thursday nights 3rd round democratic debate were 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 a military we have got to put an end to and less war one thing weve learned about afghanistan. From afghanistan its 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 turn him into joe when they said we had a plan to get out he turned to the whole Security Team joe will organize this get the troops home the big mistake that was may 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 believed what cheney and bush said about iraq you know what heres the war in iraq. And helped lead the opposition. And its been a kind of you know how the feeling that they would be massive destabilization in that area if we went into that war. On the front runners clashed over several issues but recently theres been one topic that theyve mostly agreed on and that is opposition to fracking with some even calling for a complete ban on this process involves drilling deep into the ground so you recover oil and natural gas critics claim that its dangerous for the environment democrats share these fizz to kill it more pain as a story. The usa is now the worlds 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 worlds top oil exporter President Trump says that this is a huge achievement hes ready to celebrate success becoming more and more energy dominates i dont want to be energy free we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world but not everyone shares Donald TrumpsEnergy 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 thats 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 moreau tarm on own you fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands and i will ban fracking everywhere its not just the left progressives youve got the centrist come all the harris theres no question im in favor of banning fracking so at this point roughly 59 percent of americas 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 Putins 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 lead to more prudent heavier than anything donald trump has ever said or done so good job democrats youre being pro russia and program wind by wanting to ban natural gas of course the senator isnt 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 now this notion that opposition to hydraulic fracking is all a big plot from moscow is nothing new in fact weve even heard it from the halls of the u. S. Congress we have seen evidence of campaigns targeting. An energy as 2 to. Industries of interest to foreign powers on energy weve 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 were putting once and do the exact opposite so lets hope that the russian president doesnt talk about say fixing up americas crumbling roads and bridges or addressing the opioid epidemic. R. T. New york. In the u. K. A classic childrens t. V. Character is being criticized for failing to keep up with modern equality standards. For his role as a mascot for a local brigade and stuff the boss is the he could discourage women from joining. His friends more than an. Hour. On the phone to the rescue team managed to save the day. Farm and some 1st 987 as an animation about firefighters in a small village since then hes been widely used to promote safety and services 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 childrens t. V. Show character fireman sam needs to get with the times thats according to the lincolnshire fire and rescue service for years he was there mascots helping to recruit new fina fighters bots now lincolnshire fire and rescue service say that fineman sound is outdated and noninclusive and hes putting off potential female recruit firefighters nationally and residents locally have raised some concerns that farm and some doesnt reflect the former Service Today in terms of both the job itself and our workforce its important to us that our open space and Community Events dont think anyone feel excluded and therefore we took this decision lincolnshire chief fire officer. Fired fireman sam has been getting where you stood for it really does a great job for you as a one writing life as a one to write this new years eve live i think you should do is to far yourself that it is a leaf im a sahm alone this isnt the 1st time that firemen 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 its just somebody taking it she took it so that and stickery really and i think come 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 youre to be a farmer you should want to know. Why didnt 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 to then become a non gender specific person. But why not some sort of gender specific name thats true yes. Yes exactly exactly they could be put in here because no rubbish it couldnt be so just do. It was just a childrens current taking things too far that hes under 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 fireman on a. Dress like. Im going to the mummys fire engine practice come on peppa pig weve 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 Bert and penelope. Going president of the e. U. Commission has launched now to an initiative by his successor regarding migration with the full details his dont quarter. Younger might be on his way out as Commission President but that hasnt stopped him from giving his 0. 02 on issues of migration one of his latest statements assured the continent that migration. It is not a threat to europes way of life. To oppose the european way of life to migration you have to respect the others independently from their color 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 whats the big deal and the why its 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 were 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 row is only one part of europes larger migration situation especially because 1st arrival countries like italy and greece are finding it increasingly difficult to stem the tide of illegal migration on to the continent while from a far countries like germany are only pressuring them to handle the situation better. Ok lets discuss this story now with could rush sharon lose a paris based attorney and under this sort uncertain whos the chairman of the communist party of sweden you both gentlemen. The new role of this European Commission of protecting our way of european life what is european life in your opinion. That is the big question we do european live at my opinion that there is no way of european life its european live evolved during the years it has changed a lot a european life is the unity within the diversity but the only issue here is what theyre going to do with all busy these meet grants coming to europe are we as european are able to horse them as. Greatly haase them or not because most of these immigrants come for economy called reasons and as europeans we cannot handle this and we can not give them the better their situation or a better life because we have a lot of we have a lot of unemployment here so its going to be its going to be very difficult for us european to horse them all these immigrants as well as a 1. 100 s. What do you think of this new role some people say you know its just a new name for an old position that was the old Vice President of the European Commission in charge of migration and Skilled Labor if youve got a problem with this or not. Well the more similar you are being way of life i can see you know it really exists because it covers the whole of the european nations are divided into classes. Support. For unity between press around the exploited and exploited within the European Companies and i think this is a good. If only way of describing the situation in europe. When it comes to the question of migrants. Our basic position is that we support. The migrants in and we. Are International Solidarity because they are fleeing from basically the capitalist system. But what about this is a comment directly from this is that. We must address on the legitimate phases and concerns about the impact of irregular migration on our economy and our society says she feels that. The economy just every day peoples lives are being threatened by by gratian are you in favor of them come again even if theyre causing problems in that sense. The problems of migrants in themselves the problem is that the reason they are being is the capitalist system of. Various countries. Which wars. Other peoples countries we. Live to climate with the world the same time when people are being. Forced to resources in a. Very rich coming years. Problem. Humane welcome the problem is the resources are in the wrong hands because that is the basic problem. There is concern within the you know not just this is on the layer that migration is creating problems for many countries isnt this a positive thing then to create a position that is. In theory to tackle the problem. Its a very good idea to to hear that position as it has to have a European Commissioner to take care to take care of all the media and the name is unfortunately unfortunately did not do a very good because they protect protection of the european way of like i dont think the name is very very good its not for that but we have a lot of problem in that i dont know if you remember a long time ago in france we had a french Prime Minister pardon me still work out and he said long time ago and he was a socialist and he was a very open minded socialist and very pro immigrant and he said once we cannot we cannot horse all the means that we afterward in france thats thats the thing im going to tell you once just. A big. Fast story about the immigration i had once you know im a lawyer so i had once a client claiming that he was he wanted asylum in europe because he was gay in zimbabwe so he came to he came to france and he sustained that as again he wanted to have asylum in europe and when the commission went through the questioning about him to know if its true or not they found out that its not true so that the problem here is that more stuff the meek events come to europe because they want to have a better life which is which is understandable from their point of view but as a european here in france we have like 6000000 unemployed so what are we going to do what were going to do with all these measurements coming to europe and all these unemployment people that we have here we have a Social Security here in france that everyone has the right toward to the hospital and get treated which is perfect which is understandable but for the meat when. The french people treat 1800. 00 each for each person and for the french people it cost 3000. 00 busy euros for for a french citizen so thats going to thats going to make the french people nervous because the they see that they see that as they feel and their french nationalist they gonna 3 they gonna surf on that and they gonna say this meager income here and that they create problems and its gonna its gonna grow populism in europe and the sport especially in france. Is talking about the not being enough jobs for immigrants which suggests to me that its an integration problem the European Commission by choosing this title protecting our way of european life it comes across as very negative very defensive that immigrants are a threat to us shouldnt she have gone for a different title perhaps you know commissioner in charge of improved integration of immigrants was this just a very 2 poor choice of words for a title. Well from knowing im from her perspective of course you have to do to keep are certain relation to the far right now as yes the use the certain lab in which in order to try builders nonsupport from the bar right and giving that from go into the parra with to be all the order rock artist her representatives but this with that are of that are allowed a certain leeway in their in their luna line which n word so the ret the rich did not very surprising because it a bit this is the Political Climate that x. Is am i think it is very wrong to be pointed out them my it man the the reds to or european way of life because of our youre being and where global some pics is and if very very are pays a very dangerous to point them out of the breath to Social Security because they are not the one who are attack and Social SecuritySocial Security is meaning unpack in all of around to sing france in sweden the in the russia as well by the boer trial where the capital it because they need to rate their mark you know profits they do not want to pay for the well for of the workers at all that is of me issue it unemployment you know force me of on a bomb it because unemployments this and them ng to capitalist and it always dixies march true these clay bush ruling the new it reserve army of labor it in there with this certain an amount of the working says meets to be unemployed it in order for the capitalist for better pack little try this and lacerations in a sling the economy this is the basically consonant of catalytically and the this kind of the solve of with that it with or without my grandma ive been for not the issue for it the if you must be capital its an of all times kurdish this if is this yes it no to so i know let that yet are sorry go had it respond no i was just i dont think its capitalism because it kept them you know its it brings people to come here because they want to want to have a better life and as the europeans we want to have people we want to integrate people if they have a problem in their country which is war which is hunger as you said which is now its the new fashion is Climate Change but you know me when they come to europe they should they european the protection of the european way of life is more against lets say and lets face the problem is more against islamic countries and people because most of them they come here they want to they want to keep their way of living their way the way of the freedom of their religion and i can tell you as anyone myself im anyone myself im iranian french and i came here but i when you go when you go to a country you have to you have to pledge respect to the culture of this country and keeping and keeping your your own culture i consider myself as french as an iranian french i would speak my country a different culture but i feel as as the french i should be spared the culture of france and not just be my own culture here and try to impose my culture here so thats thats the Biggest Issue is now because most of the refugees are most of the militants when they come here they want to keep their their way of living here which is not which is not good with the for you can people in france you know we have we have the lazy we have the you say that the government of the country and the religion should be different you can that you can not expose the way your religion is in the public and most of the media and here in france dont agree with that they say we are muslim which is good theres no problem with that but they want to express that if they express this in in every way in the administration in. In the laser everywhere they go and the french people they say no we are a lake countries this need to be separated so i dont think its capitalism i think its more culture of. Name is unfortunate i think the name should be changed but we need to protect ourselves from from all this we grant that come here economically and as i told you i met many meaning myself i came here to france and i try to be as french as i am i can be and as iranian as i can be. Is this just another indication the words used by mrs van de lay and about fear over migration is it another indication that the top e. U. Officials are changing their mind now about migrants before it was Anglo American saying you know come to us we will take care of you and now youve got germany pressuring the likes of greece to deport migrants off to turkey how they change direction. Of course change the reactions because the needs of the respective capitalist have changed previously. Reviewed you will be serious there was a certain need for a low wage Labor Movement the borders when we need to close the borders this is the basic basic. Dealing with the refugee need to know which is an increase and more to. Come at a certain time for them to leave it another time. But the problem. Is not the muslims so what we need to understand is the material basis of. These people because you do so i do apologize and the rest of we are about to run out of times of them after just interrupt you there many thanks for your time thanks for taking part Cross Shanley with tourney lore in paris and this is the chairman of the communist party sweden thank you very much gentlemen. We just got one more story to squeeze in for you nearly 4000. 00 people have been arrested in india the minister of kashmir since new delhi revoked his special status last month supporting to local authorities mass detentions have come amid ongoing clashes between the local population and Indian Security forces more than half of those arrested have been released hundreds of local politicians and pro separatists activists though remain behind bars india says its committed to establishing full Constitutional Order in kashmir and accuses pakistan of stirring unrest my government is taking affirmative not