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
Good morning and watching r. T. International issues gone 8 oclock in moscow now the trump administrations envoy to the halted talks between the u. S. And the taliban has been summoned to testify before congress that after the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Said he was fed up with the president and accused him of keeping the American People in the dark about the Peace Process in afghanistan meanwhile the taliban has donald trump to return to the negotiating table in exclusive interview with our city. So you do the. Work but you are still committed to the. Policy from this very. Small solution for. Peace on the table. Compared to. Just. After the fact if you were to go. On the taliban does regularly conduct terrorist attacks across afghanistan in the latest incident at least 4 afghan troops were killed and 3 injured when a taliban suicide car bomber hit a military base in southern koppel on thursday donald trump ended almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last
Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle after almost 2 decades of war and occupation American Military involvement in afghanistan appears to be winding down a deal with the taliban the majority of american troops leave while still allowing a sizable contingent to remain just what exactly is washingtons geo political interest to be in afghanistan will americas longest war ever end. Cross talking afghanistan im joined by my guest. He is the director of center for development and peace studies in lake jackson we cross to Daniel Mcadams he is the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for peace and prosperity and am boston we have max abrams he is a professor of Political Science at Northeastern University as well as author of rules for rebels the science of victory in militant history or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate daniel let me go to you theyre talking about a Peace Pr
Hello once again right has been reported in southern pakistan but cloud confirms it is a little bit late in the season and the monsoon should be withdrawing but its techies talking about it how we are going to change the season in europe and beyond europe to the stands this weakness in the sky this line of showers runs from armenia all the way to tajikistan through turkmenistan and thats where youll see rainfall but south of that you will not see it but you will see that northerly breeze which is slowly bringing the temperatures down not everywhere but terence down to 28 back that to 40 and with the same hint of an overly nice to ned by roots down to about 29 not a huge change mostly but the wind is strengthening and that northerly is blowing down the gulf is not particularly dusty at the moment no has it dropped humidity very much is still on the cusp of being unpleasant in bahrain and qatar as examples but images really high and thats where it should be in salalah with the hollies st
Media were to back to 2001 i remember person bush assertion in the senate and he was telling that were going to afghanistan to do 4 fundamental things number one we have to cripple terrorism in the country because that had been have been the sponsor for the day and we have to them 2nd was the Sustainable Economic Development there was the forces improvement in finally the human rights and democracy off to teen years lets judge the whole mission with the result we have right now in haint i think there has been some wrong military started some duty tricks some political or wrong maneuvers both by the afghan go i mean by that is not allies and also the United States i hope that you should have been doing grant just recently you know him and his honesty and its our idea you can go through checking all the boxes you want but nation building for afghanistan is an utter complete failure its cost about a trillion dollars thousands of american troops countless numbers of afghans ok let me go ov