A very warm welcome you watching r. T. International with meaning. The u. S. President should rethink his position towards peace talks with the taliban is the message the groups leaders have sent to washington in an exclusive interview to ossie. I dont know that there is a behind. Us there were but we are still committed to the negotiations recently that i would start our policy from this very minute the other side is the most elusive form of what 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 were just sort of there were after the fact to give it to me to go there go. Early and my colleague neil harvey spoke to r. T. Senior correspondent mark gasnier who 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 regard to the after more than 19 years of bloodshed they were talking they alm
Is reinforcing his governments hard line against facebooks plans to launch their own Digital Currency libra which specialists are eager to point out is not actually a crypto currency joining us now just doesnt tell is cryptocurrency analyst ben swan then its good to have you here keeping the Virtual Currency be hot while christie is on assignment so 1st of all ben lets just get to the basics here what did the french finance minister Bruno Lemaire have to say about libor he seemed to make a really sweeping statement of opposition to it. Yeah hes very opposed to it whats interesting about his statement is it was really focused specifically on libra and not Digital Currencies or even the broader spectrum of crypto currencies that are out there and i think the reason for that is because it gets into a statement is really focused on facebook as an entity saying that all the asli you know france needs to have solver and monetary policies and protect their sovereign monetary supply we can tal
Negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before Congress Amid questions or Donald Trumps decision to shut down discussions with the terror group meanwhile the taliban has urged the president to return to the negotiating table and an exclusive interview with r. T. I dont know the. Reason behind we. Were talking but we are still committed to the negotiations. I would only see from this very minute the other side is the. Most efficient form of conflict. On the table so. To. Come back to what we were just. After the fact if. The taliban is frequently responsible for terrorist attacks across afghanistan and 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 donald trump and it almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted killing a u. S. Servicemen to quote strengthen their bargaining position where augusta had the opportunity to speak to talib
Whats interesting about his statement is it was really focused specifically on libra and not on Digital Currencies or even the broader spectrum of crypto currencies that are out there and i think the reason for that is because as he gets into his statement hes really focused on facebook as an entity saying that all the asli you know france needs to have solver and monetary policies and protect their sovereign monetary supply we can talk about that a minute but he also specifically talked about facebook as an entity saying that the European Union in france specifically has not been able to trust facebook in the past for the things that it says it would do versus what its actually doing and so why would we trust facebook when it comes to currency i think there is you know obviously im going to disagree with him in terms of trying to outright ban crypto currencies but i think theres a valid point to be made there about the way things because conducted itself as a tech company if they were
7 whether intentional or not including 1st prospective bilateral deals with japan and the European Union as well as of the ongoing trade war with china our producer brant warr has a story. Very very close to the peoples. Business they would be able to give you this very important. Even when it was really a lot of these are happened during meetings that the group of 7 summit in france u. S. President donald trump continued his positive tone about the state of u. S. China trade talks with the exception of a moment on sunday when he appeared to admit he was having 2nd thoughts about the ongoing trade war with beijing. Sure one. Might as well have. Second thoughts about everything the comment by mr trump was quickly clarified by the administration with White House Press secretaries. Stephanie grisham releasing a statement saying his answer had been greatly misinterpreted adding President Trump responded in the affirmative because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher meanwhile. A spoke