18 years of war in afghanistan could end in a little more than a week a deal that calls for a 7 day reduction of violence is now in effect and after that the taliban says it will sign a peace deal with america u. S. Involvement in afghanistan began in 20011 month after the 911. 00 attacks washington launched air strikes and a Ground Invasion to remove the taliban from power within 12000. 00 american soldiers are still in afghanistan thousands more from nato allies and partners countries are also there some 2400 american troops have been killed since the operation began and the u. S. Is estimated to spent more than one trillion dollars during its mission. Joins us live from washington d. C. So a lot is resting on this reduction of violence do we know what will be judged to be enough of reduction we dont know lauren and that is perhaps the biggest obstacle to getting to a signing ceremony in doha on february 29th both sides the United States and the taliban have agreed that there needs t
Conservatives back to to hold on to power after moderate and reformist candidates were excluded. Welcome to the program an agreement thats supposed to usher in peace the afghanistan has come into effect the taliban and the u. S. Will begin what theyre calling a reduction of violence is the 7 day deal as a success both sides will sign in accord at the end of the month paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups the u. S. Says it wants to pull its troops out of afghanistan well john 100 is following the story for us from washington d. C. What wonders really what except a bill level of violence really is for this agreement to work. Hell that is the biggest unanswered question about this whole process this is after all not technically a cease fire its a pause in hostilities but none of the parties involved in these discussions the United States the government of. Afghanistan or the taliban has publicly defined exactly what a violation of this pause in hostilities i
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Would they have a disagreement amongst themselves in the e. U. If they were clear if that were a question of the further delay. I can only tell you that this evening there was very pointedly no conversation or discussion about a delay there is very much a sense that if you dont talk about the delay then youre not going to be sending a message to british parliamentarians that they can feel free not to vote for this deal and they will have a comfortable extension period in which to come up with alternative options that that idea of no deal or no deal breaker has been taken off the table there is a sense here and Boris Johnson pushed the leaders on it today saying look its got to be this deal or no deal i dont want to delay im going to ask for a delay there is a sense here that youve got to stop to talk about a delay for the moment. But yes there might be constituencies among the leaders who have a different view about that emmanuel macro on the french would very much like this to be over
Also on the programme President Trump was directly involved in talks that led to the illegal payments to Stormy Daniels according to unsealed court documents. And burger that. The patty without any meat at all. Could you tell the difference . Hello, i am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. We are leaving the eu on october 31st do or die says the man many expect to be the Prime Minister this time next week. Borisjohnson is not wholly in favour of suspending parliament to force through a no deal brexit but neither has he ruled it out. And so today parliament moved to stop him, before he even takes office. The mps voted on an amendment to the Northern Ireland bill. The change they forced through, requires parliament to sit and debate progress on restoring devolved government to Northern Ireland. In theory it prevents parliament from being suspended through october. I7 tory rebels backed the amendment. A further 30 six of them cabinet ministers including philip hammond,