Executes a champion wrestler despite local and International Appeals to overturn his death sentence. Has been hailed as a historic moment the taliban and the Afghan Government in the same room facing each other for peace talks there in the cattery capital doha to find a political solution to end the early 20 years of war Abdullah Abdullah whos representing the government has called for a humanitarian ceasefire as soon as possible photos of food we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the negatives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and maybe stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can define together. Well the man leading the taliban delegation says they are prepared to negotiate but he has reiterated the groups demands that afghanistan must be run according to islamic law but only king we have acted acc
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Override trumps veto of a resolution that would override the student loan forgiveness rule. Charles hanley is joining us. He is a former peak correspondent out with a new planes, life and death in a hidden war. We thank you for being with us on cspan. Thank you. Host the historical significance of the korean war what is it 70 years later . Guest we can see it simply and the tension that still exists on the peninsula with the. Nuclear crisis. It is sometimes called the forgotten war. It was an indecisive conflict in a faroff place. It came just five years after world war ii. Eventually, it was overshadowed by the vietnam war. But when we look back, we would can see we can see it is a watershed moment in 20thcentury history. It militarized the cold war between the communist and capitalist worlds. It was the first undeclared war by the United States and its history. Conflicts the last between great powers, in this case, american china with soviet with america and china soviet help. It per
Doctors in england say theyve discovered the first drug that dramatically reduces deaths in covid19 patients, and it turns out its already on the market. Reses inges a lowcost steroided trial, it cut deaths among the ird. Est coronavirus patients by a third. Tonight, doctors are cautiously optimistic that if the research pans out, the drug could eventually help save hundreds of thousands of lives. The new study comes as nearly half of the states in the u. S. Are struggling with spikes in cases, including in florida, where tonight, the state has its highest number of new infections since the pandemic began. Oklahoma, texas, and arizona are also reporting record highs in new cases today. And as we come on the air tonight, more than 116,000 people have been killed by the virus in the u. S. , and there are more than 2. 2 million confirmed cases nationwide. Tonight, theres also new research that says Wearing Masks could prevent hundreds of thousands of infections by stopping the spread of v
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