In moscow thanks for tuning in this hour. And fast for you the chief u. S. Negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before Congress Amid questions over Donald Trumps decision to shut down the discussions with a terror group meanwhile the taliban has the president to return to the negotiating table an exclusive interview with r. T. I dont know that there is a behind. Us there were but we are still committed to the ignition is received the i would start our policy from this very minute where the sun is the theres no solution for the conflict except. Except peace on the table so we dont want to revitalize who wants to come. In here come back to where we want to be just stand there with after the fact if youre going to go that route. The taliban is frequently responsible for terrorist attacks across afghanistan in the latest incident at least 4 local troops were killed and 3 injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a military base in southern couple on thursday dont trump ended with a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted killing a u. S. Serviceman to quote strengthen their bargaining position radagast have had the opportunity to speak with the taliban officials and has 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 doing. The taliban refused to attend talks with trump wanting a deal 1st trump killed off negotiations citing an american soldier killed by islamists in of gonna start and i put that 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 when mr tucker canceled this sort of. Negotiation he had mr buffett with his father is that he says he admitted that he had a good 1000. 00 well so if big dollars off us why we could not get one of them or 2 other so with this to go away he would have been different our civic have been different people who are different in north and people of other somewhere over there but really why really what do we have to defend our people the way the taliban see it lead defending themselves in their country fighting against a Foreign Occupation and for every american soldier they kill tens of their fighters and civilians are killed in. The u. S. They said this isnt a war they won they say isnt a war they can win by force but they wont and cant give up the what is it pulls on us. American soldiers there and i want to stop its not ill admit it for the soldiers are going to be in washington they are there and there was a lot 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 which weve reached some sort of finality when it was considered by the american side sense and done a lot of consideration which was which took elizabeth. His or her mr vance are going to some of the characters that have broken such a peace treaty and good times and but obama started it were going to be stupid 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 other side are all slow. With this and he also wants the city and the what is the what is important for us we have a different course of if the if the american side is not really and it was initially and did not want peace on the day it will sort. We compared to the front office it would have to do this for a number of 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 the need for everything to collapse where there was a discussion on the debate is over when you know theyre going to decide that this is. A ceasefire between fast enough that influences and you get a serious message that we can force of the rule over and. Over into the going which is it was so. Good to the vote it was of the the ceasefire. And i think youre going to cease fire and also other donors the donors the issues 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 far and fewer we have been serving as policeman 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 yes and it was a key issue and thursday night that 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 our military we have got to put an end to endless 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 turned the president tournaments to joe when they said we had a plan to get out he turned to the whole security. Joe will organize this get the troops home the big mistake that was made 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 right here is 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 the area if we went into that war. The front runners clashed over several issues but recently theres been one topic theyve all mostly agreed on and thats opposition to fracking with some even calling for a total on the process involves treading into the ground to recover well and not told us critics claim its dangerous environment and top us democrats as to is capable of the story. The usa is now the worlds top Oil Exporting Country check out these words from the International Energy agency moving 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 dominant 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 ban on public and private lands. On my 1st day as president i will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium 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 Us 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 pro putin 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 a lot of your putin wants 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. Archie new york. Now to the u. K. Was a classic childrens t. V. Character has been criticized for failing to keep up with Water Quality standards fineman some has been axed from his role as a mascot for a local brigade itself to both said he could discover which women from joining. His friends need him more than ever. From the phone to the rescue team managed to save the day. And sound foster had a 987 as an animation about this in the village since then hes been widely used to promote fire safety and across the United Kingdom 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 their mascot 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 firemen some doesnt reflect the fire Service Today in terms of both the job itself and our workforce its important to us that our open days and Community Events dont think anyone feel excluded and therefore we took this decision lincolnshire chief fire officer. Fired fireman sam has been getting roasted for it really does a great job for you as a one man lives as a wind away thats not yours he is not acting like you should do is to far yourself that hes a leaf im a sahm alone this isnt the 1st time that fireman 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 sound oh no i think you got it right i think its just somebody taking it to the fore 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 some to then become a non gender specific person. But why not some sort of gender specific name thats true ok sir yes. Yes exactly exactly they could be put in here because no rubbish it could just do. It was just a childrens card taking things too far as that music and 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. Fun day why are you dressed like. Im going to the mummys fire engine practice come on peppa pig weve not been fireman 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 that anthropomorphise sized fire extinguishes freddy phil butt and penelope. Not in wales a small cafes push to drum up business using online ads has backfired off to google bomb them for their supposedly use of a homophobic slur but was in question that also happens to be the name of a traditional dish the cafe owners have expressed surprise at googles decision. I think that faggots and peas and chips and any and gravy is a traditional meal i didnt make the name and at the end of the days a traditional dish you can change it there is nothing meant by what we were doing is just describing the actual menu item i downloaded the list the words of the list was a google band and the word faggot is actually in the list with many others as far as policing words ive think its it where does it stop or what is it and especially for businesses because theres not theres many other words which can be deemed offensive the dish at the center of the scandal is traditional in the u. K. And consists of meatballs mixed with bread and hobbes but google out there algorithms flagged up the cafes as inappropriate and offensive content we also visitors of the cafe what they thought of the ban Facebook User but i think if you look at this because. Of food and if youre going to take it down here you are going to have to take you know all of the country to dish you know see no television no back its. Still there. Its true to see the Good Solutions meatball and hes almost the same thing getting all of the country. I can see any. Tags in Peace Keeping on education. The outgoing president of the e. U. Commission has a lashed out at an initiative by his successor regarding migration with all the details his donna. Dunker might be on his way out as a Hughes 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 is not a threat to europes way of life. To oppose the european way of life to migration you have to respect the. Independence new from the 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 wide 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 road 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 onto the continent while from a far countries like germany are only pressuring them to handle the situation better. My colleague neil harvey discussed the issue with paris based attorney. An address sorenson general secretary of the communist party of sweden. European life evolved during the years it has changed a lot a european life is the unity within that diversity but the only issue here is what do you going to do with all this coming to europe are we as european are able to host them. Greatly haase them or not when it comes to migrants. Our basic position is that we support. The migrants and. We were International Solidarity because reading from basically the capitalist system most of these immigrants come for economy called reasons and as europeans we cannot handle this and we cannot 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. Them all these immigrants as well as the one well the. United. Exists because it covers the whole of europe the missions are divided into classes. Support. For unity between. The exploited and exploited within the european companies. For what youre describing the situation in europe this is a comment directly from this is that. We must address underlay legitimate fears and concerns about the impact of irregular migration on our economy and our society says she feels that. The economy and 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 the reason they are being used the capitalist system as. We exploited. Various companies economically. People into poverty we will be wars. Other peoples countries we we live in the climate of the world i dont know if you remember a long time ago in france we had the french Prime Minister card michelle work out and he said long time ago and he was a socialist and he was a very open mind the socialist and we were very pro him again and he said once we cannot we cannot horse all the means that we afterward in france thats thats the thing it comes across as very negative very defensive that immigrants are a sore at to us shouldnt she have gone for a different title perhaps you know commissioner in charge of improved integration of immigrants from her perspective of course you have to. Listen to the far right not just to use them which in order to try to do some support from the borrowed from going to basically all the wrong or representatives make peace with lot of. Leeway. In their use of language in words of the rhetoric is not surprising because this is the this is the Political Climate exist the protection of the european way of life is more against lets say and lets face the problem is more against the islamic countries and people because most of them they come here they want to they want to keep their way of living their way their way of freedom of their religion and i can tell you as anyone myself im anyone myself im even in france and i came here but when you go when you go to a country you have to you have to pledge respect to that to their culture. If this country keeping and keeping your or your own culture i consider myself french as iranian friends i respect my country i speak the different culture but i feel that as the french i should respect the culture of france. A quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. I know students have clashed with riot police in the colombian capital bogota demonstrators pelted stones offices responded with tear gas and sent in Armored Vehicles the rally was held in response to allegations of Police Brutality at a University Campus a student had reportedly been shot and thousands beaten up. Also and Alpha America thousands have rallied in the outside congress in the argentine capital iras that demanding more food aid with shortages across the country a bill to increase spending on food aid was to be considered by the fighting argentina has been in the grip of the double digit inflation for months. And seen by mental activists has stage of protest around the front foot motor show in germany Extinction Rebellion activists scientists and members of the fridays for future movement joined forces in a march towards the venue the protesters are demanding better public transport and the people cut their use of calls the international which began. Chancellor merkel was in attendance and announced a target of a 40 percent cut in Carbon Emissions by 2030. And finally nearly 4000. 00 people have been arrested in india administered kashmir since new delhi revoked its special status last month according to local authorities the mass detentions come amid on going clashes between the local population and Indian Security forces more than half of those rescues have been released hundreds of local politicians on pro separatist activist remain behind bars india says its committed to establishing full Constitutional Order in kashmir and accuses pakistan of stirring up on rust. My government is taking affirmative actions by adopting progressive policies to promote social economic equality and justice these progressive policies will now be fully applicable to our citizens in general and no doubt these are sudden decisions entirely internal to india no country can accept interference in its been done to the fence certainly not india. Pakistan needs to stop interfering in indias affairs it needs to stop exporting terror to india the minute that stops normalcy can return the problem today has been created because of pakistans for the seas of a 1000 cuts to be focused on as a knowledge of the world or as a Global Factor of terrorism pakistan needs to back off all Indian States are normal the only issue that happens as an issue because pakistan is the immediate need but it creates trouble that the minute pakistan is out of that mission robert stop. R. T. Sat down with the pakistani Prime Minister cameron khan to discuss the situation in kashmir. What weve been. Is that. This is going to be chippy government is now going to use force. We fear that there will be oppression unprecedented already as i said 370200000 kashmiris have been killed but what they are going to do now we faired that this is out of our genocide why are the why have the clampdown on media they dont allow any media to get in there nothing is coming out of what is happening in the time theyve imposed this curfew and these extra. Security personnel that they did not even allow the leaders of the opposition parties to visit because the dinner allowed them there so what are they trying to hide. Sadly i would have expected the world to react much more than it has. You can watch that interview with imran khan on in full at r. T. Dot com and thats your global news update for this hour but dont forget you can always go to r. T. O. Com for the details of all of these stories and many more coming away now though its safe. Lead. This is. A device used by professionals to. Adding more and more. Lies that you need to protect yourself and get informed. There are growing indications the west russias stance may be softening a case in point is the recent visit. And defense minister or take for example the New York Times editorial calling on better relations as a way to block china an important question remains can moscow trust the west and. They call. For his no mercy approach to modern society. Today i. Literally. Director. There its really nice to have you with us todays been a while we wanted to have an interview with you what a chance that youre here in moscow