House democrats along with nancy pelosi begin drafting articles of impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee meets live 9 00 a. M. Eastern with democratic and republican counsel. Watch live on cspan, online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Remarks from general john nickel son. He spoke about military and. This is 45 minutes. There is a reward for your patience. Welcome the retired fourstar germ who commanded u. S. Forces in afghanistan and 41nation contingent there. From march 20162018. Longest span that anyone commanded those forces and he has been described as one of the leading experts in the battlefield situation in that country. We are going to have a conversation as informal as we can sitting here under bright lights and microphones where we will go through issues that came up this morning with regard to the diplomatic domain and then the military domain and open the floor to questions. In order to keep this organized and not distract from your meal, you wi
House democrats along with nancy pelosi begin drafting articles of impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee meets live 9 00 a. M. Eastern with democratic and republican counsel. Watch live on cspan, online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. Remarks from general john nickel son. He spoke about military and. This is 45 minutes. There is a reward for your patience. Welcome the retired fourstar germ who commanded u. S. Forces in afghanistan and 41nation contingent there. From march 20162018. Longest span that anyone commanded those forces and he has been described as one of the leading experts in the battlefield situation in that country. We are going to have a conversation as informal as we can sitting here under bright lights and microphones where we will go through issues that came up this morning with regard to the diplomatic domain and then the military domain and open the floor to questions. In order to keep this organized and not distract from your meal, you wi
Sporting history a former police chief was found not guilty of the deaths of 95. 00 football. Donald trump has announced peace talks have resumed with the Afghan Taliban the news came as the u. S. President made a surprise visit to afghanistans background airbase where he met president ashraf ghani and u. S. Soldiers stationed in september declared top of the taliban dead after a deal was reached in principle to pull u. S. Troops in afghanistan. The taliban wants to make a deal well see if they want to make a deal is going to be a real deal but well see but they want to make a deal and then they want to make you feel his youre doing a great job thats the only news that i want to make of you so i want to thank you and i want to thank the Afghan Soldiers. And jordan joins us live now from washington d. C. Ross so this is President Trumps 1st trip to afghanistan how significant is it and what more they have to say them well donald trump also says that the talks have been ongoing really fo
Government has approved a law to dismantle the regime of former president Omar Al Bashir the countrys Prime Minister says the decision was not a matter of of the news but aimed at preserving the dignity of the sudanese people bashir was removed from office in april after months of antigovernment protests. Iraqi Security Forces have opened fire on crowds in a Southern City as antigovernment protests worsen at least 33 people are reported dead after the protest in nasiriyah and another 11 deaths in the jeff. On wednesday the iranian consulate in the job was set on fire. Death. In at uk a dramatic escalation hundreds of antigovernment protesters storming the compound of the iranian consulate Late Wednesday in the Southern City of najaf setting parts of the Diplomatic Mission on fire replacing an iranian flag with people instead of how to go when the consulate was set on file all the broad police in the job and the Security Forces started firing and as if we were burning a rock as a whole
Also in the programme. Shame and suicide in south korea. Claims the law is failing victims of spy camera crime. The footage from this can be updated from your phone in seconds, then can be on the internet. And a race against time in the philippines. Delays and corruption claims overshadow saturdays opening of the Southeast Asian games. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, one oclock in london and 5. 30 in the morning in afghanistan where President Trump has made an unannounced trip to visit american troops. In his first trip to afghanistan since taking office, he said washington was substantially reducing troop numbers in the country although he did not provide specific numbers. The visit comes a week after a prisoner swap with the taliban aimed at restarting talks with the group. Chris buckler reports from washington. Donald trump arrived in afghanistan on a trip surrounded by secrecy and a huge amount o