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
Hane reports from washington. A few subpoenas landed at the u. S. State Department Late friday evening Congress Demanding documents and testimony from 5 of their officials in the coming days including the u. S. Special envoy to Ukraine Ambassador kurt volker soon after volcker quit his state Department Job this comes just after he and other Top Administration officials were named by a whistleblower in the complaint he alleges the president cut off foreign aid to ukraine and days later in a phone call asked the ukrainian president for a favor a promise to investigate trumps potential rival former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter who once had a seat on the Ukrainian Company board now the u. S. President is trying to turn the tables releasing this ad accusing biden of being in the wrong brush clearing out fire. Trump is accusing biden of getting a ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating his son when in fact the prosecutor was fired for not going after Corruption Cases look
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
Towards the west through much of the house cambodia also thailand it really is fine and john weve got more rain showers across into dhaka in bangladesh and then you see those rain showers into taipei and then look at this we have a Tropical Storm right now my tag and by monday it is expected to become a typhoon with winds sustained at about 120 kilometers an hour and it is heading very close up towards taiwan it will produce some very heavy flooding rains across that region and talking of flooding rains still no real easing of the monsoon across into n. D. I can see again some very active areas in the last few hours now there are some warnings in place as we go through sunday into monday this is from the India Met Department and actually its going to be across into go drought raja stan and again the north and the northeast the house state has really had some very heavy amounts of rain again of the last few days but the rains easing off across most central and Western Areas as we head i
Used his address to the Un General Assembly to demand the immediate withdrawal of all Foreign Forces Walid Muallem says the u. S. And turkish presence in syria violates International Law. Over accounting is under way in afghanistans 4th president ial election where voters have had to pray violence just to cast their ballots at least 5 explosions were reported at Polling Centers across the country and on top of that many stations didnt even open at all 20 berkeley has a report from kabul. A city in lockdown the streets of kabul almost deserted on election day because polling stations open the biggest and tightest security operation ever in the capital was under way the taliban had warned people not to vote and it didnt take long before the Group Carried out its threats. Encounters there were attacks around the city aimed at disrupting voting roads were blocked and lines of communication cut a mortar round was fired into the grounds of a school use. Polling hospital confirms civilians ha