Stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the government of afghanistan confirmed today it has opened direct talks with the taliban. Its their first, formal face toface encounter since a u. S. Coalition ousted the taliban from power in 2001. Afghan president ashraf ghani said the goal is to change this meeting into a process of continuing talks. Officials said the talks are taking place in pakistans capital city, islamabad. Ifill u. S. Strategy to defeat the Islamic State came in for heavy criticism today from senate republicans. John mccain, chairing the Armed Services committee, challenged the president s policies on isis at a hearing. There is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are doing currently
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the government of afghanistan confirmed today it has opened direct talks with the taliban. Its their first, formal face toface encounter since a u. S. Coalition ousted the taliban from power in 2001. Afghan president ashraf ghani said the goal is to change this meeting into a process of continuing talks. Officials said the talks are taking place in pakistans capital city, islamabad. Ifill u. S. Strategy to defeat the Islamic State came in for heavy criticism today from senate republicans. John mccain, chairing the Armed Services committee, challenged the president s policies on isis at a hearing. There is no compelling reason to believe that anything we are doing currently will be sufficient to achieve the president s l
Inspired the foundation of the National Trust. And ben has the weekend weather. Good morning. The weather does not particularly look inspiring this weekend. There will be some rain at times and it will be blustery as well. All the details in 15 minutes. All the details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Motorists should think long and hard before buying a diesel car, thats the message from the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling. Hes Urging Drivers to consider a less polluting vehicle instead. Four in ten cars on britains roads are diesel. Under labour they had been billed as the clean alternative to petrol with reduced fuel taxes. Now theyre said to be one of the reasons for increasing levels of Air Pollution. Lets get more on this with our correspondent Nick Quraishi whos in central london. Chris grayling is using these comments in the daily mail to distance himself from what labour did when it was in power. In 2001, gordon brown as chancellor cut the tax on low sulp
Inspired the foundation of the National Trust. And ben has the weekend weather. Good morning. The weather does not particularly look inspiring this weekend. There will be some rain at times and it will be blustery as well. All the details in 15 minutes. All the details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Motorists should think long and hard before buying a diesel car, thats the message from the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling. Hes Urging Drivers to consider a less polluting vehicle instead. Four in ten cars on britains roads are diesel. Under labour they had been billed as the clean alternative to petrol with reduced fuel taxes. Now theyre said to be one of the reasons for increasing levels of Air Pollution. Lets get more on this with our correspondent Nick Quraishi whos in central london. Chris grayling is using these comments in the daily mail to distance himself from what labour did when it was in power. In 2001, gordon brown as chancellor cut the tax on low sulp
Inspired the foundation of the National Trust. And ben has the weekend weather. Good morning. The weather does not particularly look inspiring this weekend. There will be some rain at times and it will be blustery as well. All the details in 15 minutes. All the details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Motorists should think long and hard before buying a diesel car, thats the message from the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling. Hes Urging Drivers to consider a less polluting vehicle instead. Four in ten cars on britains roads are diesel. Under labour they had been billed as the clean alternative to petrol with reduced fuel taxes. Now theyre said to be one of the reasons for increasing levels of Air Pollution. Lets get more on this with our correspondent Nick Quraishi whos in central london. Chris grayling is using these comments in the daily mail to distance himself from what labour did when it was in power. In 2001, gordon brown as chancellor cut the tax on low sulp