Saying the move doesnt mean the u. S. Is backing away from its commitment to finding a political solution to decades of war a negotiated political settlement among afghans is the best path to achieving this outcome. Until there is accomplished we will continue to pursue an aggressive military campaign against the taliban and terrorist groups that continue to conduct violence against the people of afghanistan also in kabul on monday to meet afghan leaders a u. S. Congressional delegation led by House Speaker nancy pelosi reducing the number of foreign troops in afghanistan was the focal point of the recent talks between the u. S. And the taliban but those talks failed after President Trump playing the taliban for a surge in violence. And there has been an increase in attacks in recent months mainly from the town of on and are still linked groups adding more pressure on local Security Forces afghans are also waiting to find out who. One last months general election the results have been
Parliament which seems to be able to have it in its will to reject every single deal offered to its while the greens were absolutely nothing and it is perilously tight for Boris Johnson the democratic units as we know in Northern Ireland i say its the Crucial Point i think is going to be whether the hard core sitters in the conservative party stay in line with the democrats if you do this and refuse it which is what they usually do or whether they actually back down because they think this could be the very last chance they have or have to get a bracks a deal done because if it doesnt happen this time theres every chance frankly of other general election or even another referendum which could overturn the us i think. I just want to drill down a little bit more into the democratic unionists position and youve talked there about this this compromise around ireland to maintain the integrity of ireland in coming up with this deal with Northern Ireland. It remains part of you but also hes a
A government is accused of manipulating the outcome. And for Drug Companies reach a multimillion Dollar Settlement for their role in fueling a u. S. Opioid epidemic. Protesters in lebanon are standing their ground despite the government approving sweeping Economic Reforms Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in the years against the nations leaders but activists say that they wont go home until the entire cabinet steps down ill just send a ha to reports from beirut all. The people have spoken calls go beyond fighting corruption they want accountability and early elections and they say they arent leaving the streets until that happens protests are growing by the day the lebanese government however is refusing to step aside instead it is. Offering a plan that is supposed to fix the economic crisis without hitting the public with more taxes my thats awful written by democrats here the cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0.
Forward in order to make that arrangement democratic Boris Johnson has said well there will be a vote here at the Northern Irish parliament to make sure that people here want it but that will be based upon a simple majority and the d. P. s just really worried that the nationalists through their locks in a power sharing government with will do Everything Possible to push for more economic integration with the republic of ireland as opposed to allowing for the Current Situation to continue which is a situation that allows 30 members of the Northern Ireland assembly to complain get together and potentially veto anything any legislation they dont like coming out of westminster so in all the d. P. I just would be worried about a 37. 00 from their hands and about what they feel is something of a creeping an exception from the public or violent when it comes to the future here for the Northern Ireland. Lets turn now to the situation with turkey and syria a high level u. S. Delegation is in an
The u. S. Brokered cease fire body in turkey and kurdish led forces in northeastern syria is due to end in less than 10 hours the Syrian Democratic forces have pulled out of some areas of the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the truce hes president and says hell decide the next steps up to speaking with russian leader Vladimir Putin but its threatening to restart the offensive hes expected to meet putin in sochi in the coming hours so im costello has more now from istanbul. Todays meeting in russian cities story is mostly going to be about how to normalize the situation in syria both turkeys present don and russias president Vladimir Putin will be discussing about this one of the items is the constitutional process in syria because they are still material iran turkey and russia have tried hard on to bring a Constitutional Committee for a political solution in syria which is going to be discussed in october 30 in Geneva Russia and turkey are eager to push up this cons