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Also coming up Box Office Battle odeon zone enters urgent talks with water brothers over its decision to make all of its films available to stream instantly next year. And our welcome to the program saudi arabias foreign minister says he is hopeful a deal could soon be reached to end the bass a dispute with qatar its been 3 years since saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt imposed a land sea an Arab Blockade on cata for ministers of Catherine Quaid also say theres been progress towards resolving the crisis. Now reports. Crucial days ahead for gulf nations talks aimed at and in the 3 and a half year blockade of qatar seem to have achieved significant progress kuwaits foreign minister whose country has been be generally mediate again and to the crisis says hes confident. A constructive and fruitful talks have taken place recently where all the parties have stressed their desire to reach a final agreement and resolutions to preserve the region stability and harmony maintain the inte
Another spike in the frontlines wackos facing the odds on a daily basis. 5 british welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. The u. S. Decision to rapidly reduce the number of troops in afghanistan has set off alarm bells amongst those following events in the country. Some of trumps own military leadership, including the u. S. Commander responsible for the middle east, marine general frank mackenzie, have warned against too hasty a pullout from a country that is yet to see a stabilization of levels of violence in a deal agreed with the taliban. Earlier this year, the u. S. Committed to a complete troop withdrawal by me next year. But the fear is the latest move to end americas longest running war could strengthen the hand of militant groups, including the taleban in the country. The sun could be setting on the u. S. Presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting his since 2001 to help stabilize the country off to overthrowing the taliban. A mission thats cost more th
Im christine one guy. Its good to have your company. Fighting has erupted between moroccos on me and the polish sario front, along a buffer zone, patrolled by the united nations. And this brings an end to a cease fire that was nearly 3 decades old in the disputed territory. Ownership off whiston sorry, but the palace already of front is demanding independence. Tensions have simmered for you is and on the whole fairing up. The newest flashpoint in an old conflict crossing is a border point in the south of western sahara. It controls a highway that runs all the way from morocco to mauritania, a vital route to the rest of africa. In recent weeks, theres been reports that protesting separatists blocked off the road. Last week, the Moroccan Army posted these images to its facebook page. It says they show burning tents belonging to the police, sorry, of front police arias says those targeted were not fighters, but civilian protesters. Now that conflict seems to be spreading along the buffer
Lockdown, which goes into effect three hours from now. Good evening. We begin in the french city of nice, where a man armed with a knife killed three people. The first victim was an elderly woman. Another was a mother in her 40s. The third was a father of two, also in his 40s. The assailant was shot and wounded by police and is now in the hospital. Todays brut killingcome less than two weeks after a frenchman was beheaded in front of his school in the paris suburbs after showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed to his pupils in a teaching of freedom of speech. Mac hasron president macron has called this a terrorist attack and has called for the people to stand united. I wanted to pass on a message of solitude. It is also a message of unity. In france, the resulting one community, the National Community there is only one community, the National Community. I want to say to my citizens, whatever their religion, whether they believe or not, we must, in these moments, unite and not given to