Virtual reunion how a mother and her dead daughter have been brought back together. Im joined again. By african football play from one of the countrys major titles away from home soil to find out with. U. S. Officials say that theyve reached an agreement with the taliban which could soon lead to with the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan a senior official at a security conference in munich has told reporters that if the weeklong agreement is successful it could be followed by the signing more pub and peace deal lets go live to our diplomatic editor james bays whos in munich at that security conference james what more do we know about this proposal. Well adrian this is something thats been in the works for a long time over a year you remember back in september though they came very close to a signing ceremony at camp david and then President Trump pulled a hole to wall of the talks of an attack that killed 12 people one of them a u. S. Serviceman but since then the talks ha
Ago they called in senator mitchell and ken dubestein to investigate where they had gone wrong with the ioc and make recommendations. External respected, nonpartisan investigation. This committee to help u. S. Soccer set up a similar independent committee to find out what on earth has gone so badly wrong and it being covered up. Also u. S. Soccer could do what your government does, which is put everything online. The forms are inadequate. And then renew, reorganize and reinvigorated soccer could say to the world this is how it does. We are not in america pushing around but we can do it. It is all wide open. Join with us and the 209 National Associations would come with you finishing. Next monday, the absent mr. Gillaspie, who i think is treating you with contempt and the u. S. People of soblger, the men and women and the whole sport with context when he cant come here and defend the u. S. Soccer activities in concocaf and fifa. So hes going over to zurich next week with a private meeti
Categorize it that way. If and when we reached out to talk to other National Associations, other federations, once again, we were one of 41 and one of 35 voting members and there really werent anybody else there wasnt anybody else that had the same maybe the same feeling that i did on a personal level or that we did as an organize. So we operated as best we could within the framework. Once again, were in concacaf by virtue of being a member of fifa and we felt we had to find a way to participate, work our way through and fortunate enough by a close vote, 1817, mr. Gillatty was elected in april of 13 and we think that was a step in the right direction, a step towards reform and that is the model that we felt was in the best interest of moving our sport forward in a very difficult and tricky environment sometimes. I have one final question and then ill wrap up here. Back on womens soccer here on a happier note, the most watched soccer match in u. S. History, as Many Television viewers as
Power. Also coming up. Im in portauprince, haiti. The highlight of one Radio Program that aims to tackle the conscription of children. Right now, arsenal taking on man chest city. Mancheflmanchester city. I will fight for me and i will fight for fifa. The words of sepp blatter. As he and high ranking official Michel Platinni vow to appeal. Both men continue to deny wrongdoing but many believe 79yearold blatters career is almost certainly over and platinis hopes of taking over fifa are all but finished. Paul reese was following the story as it unfolded in zurich. Sepp blatter once again the center of attention, the 79yearold swiss fighting to get into a press conference as he fights for his very future in football. On monday, the suspended fifa president and the uefa chief Michel Plantini were given eightyearold bangs over a multimillion dollar payment made to the uefa chief. The swiss isnt going quietly. I will fight for me, ill fight for fifa. Suspended eight years for what . For year
Inked a deal. Analysts say it could be worth billions of dollars annually. Red card for fifa for blatter and platini after an ethics probe into past payments. All right. And mentioning whats taking place from within fifa, seth blatter now expected to kick off a News Conference any minute now. Weve got some live pictures coming through from there. The conference arena. Thats taking place in zurich. Well bring you that live when it begins. Just glancing at the u. S. Futures, still a couple of hours away, but were being called a little bit higher on the open this morning following on for a pretty sharp selloff on friday. The dow suffering significantly on fridays trade with a bit of unwinding from some previous gains that otherwise had been made. Here in europe, of course, this morning were looking at just some slight gains on the stoxx europe 600. Our main European Equity markets also, indeed, reflecting this as we head into the shortened holiday week with christmas upon us. Ftse up by.