In an effort to end the 17 year war those talks recently broke down. Harken is an adjunct scholar in the defense and Foreign Policy department at the Cato Institute and she joins us from Arlington Virginia good to get you on the program as we as we outlined there the u. S. Did have a big role in what we know of afghanistan now and what is that stake for washington in these elections particularly given that what weve seen a repeat of the elections 5 almost a repeat of the elections 5 years ago and possibly very low turnout. Well i think for the United States something that. Is a really hard to do a sham and the trumpet ministration especially when president trumpets campaigning here said that one of the main things he wants to do is still the u. S. Troops from the highest and it seemed at the still about the beginning of september that might actually be happening so the fact that the talks 7 hours actively died at least some of us and that the elections that are occurring now in a plan
And outlawed in egypt his family says he was tortured and forced to make a false confession on state television the 22 year old moved to egypt august to study. The trial of sudans former president bashir has been delayed until next saturday following a brief Court Hearing there she is facing charges of corruption including illegal possession of foreign currency and illicit enrichment the trial 7 session was held in khartoum amid heavy security a top Saudi Arabian minister has refused to answer questions about the whereabouts of a man believed to be involved in the matter of journalist jamal khashoggi. Bures the saudi minister of state for Foreign Affairs and he was interviewed by u. S. Public broadcaster p. B. S. But didnt reveal saudi location. Well look this is youre asking all these questions he was a close aide to the crown prince where is he now you should ask the Public Prosecutor probably prosecutor wont talk to us. Then if you call him again. Weather is next but still ahead on
Endorsement of his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah one afghan expert says to the us the process may be more important than the result for the travel ministration they are simply looking for a candidate that wins the election and is free if and fair a possible way as possible they want to have a president that is seeing with credibility and legitimacy by the Afghan People its very unlikely thats going to happen with donald trump insisting he has no intentions of restarting the peace talks in afghanistan and a new initiative will have to come from whoever wins the president ial election there and that means for the time being the war continues and so does the cost in money and lives Alan Fischer Al Jazeera washington. And haiti antigovernment demonstrations bring more chaos to the streets. And zimbabwes founding leader is laid to rest Robert Mugabe is buried in a letter. After a dispute between his family and the government. I once again welcome to another look at the International Ful
The impair oh in the straits of hormuz in july escalated tension in the gulf it came after britain detained Iranian Oil Tanker in gibraltar. U. N. Human rights experts are urging saudi arabias to release a female activist who is in whos been imprisoned for 500. 00 days jane a fool is being detained on National Security grounds she was instrumental in a movement that fought to lift the ban on women driving the un human rights special Procedures Group says its shockingly hypocritical that flew remains behind bars for campaigning against a law that saudi arabia has since since changed. An attack in egypt has killed at least 7 soldiers and one civilian it happened in the northern sinai region the military launched air strikes in response killing a man and his 2 sons eyesores claimed responsibility for the initial attack. Were going to weather update next here on out is iraq then. It came in the Austrian Parliament on sunday voters with elect new members to this chamber who form the next go
Those credit. Balance of these ties and cooperation is western fits grow over in arms deal between the 2 the. So the matter the eastern case, the libyans that youve done up says the number of People Killed off of the weekends. Catastrophic flooding could reach 20000 heavy rain full on sunday code 2 times the bus leading to massive floods. Emergency cruise is still recovering bodies, while local officials are rolling out the possibility of finding survivors on my time i had it to im 34 or how weve confirmed around 5300 death sofa. And that number is likely to roys much more to the lightness of the rescue operations. And we cannot forget that weve now possible and 72 hours of rescue operations in libya as most on policies. The opportunity to risk use of volume has decreases a dot 0 is malik train. That has the latest on the rescue efforts from the libyan capital, helicopters pick bodies from the c testimony to the power of the wave of water that hit the city. Others were simply swallowed