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diagnosed with breast cancer. hello and thanks forjoining us. the afghan resistance leader ahmad massoud says he is ready for peace talks to end fighting in the panjshir valley. the northern province of panjshir is two hours from the capital kabul, and is now the only region not controlled by the taliban. they claim they have reached panjshir s provincial capital, after securing the surrounding districts. but massoud s national resistance front disputes this. posting on facebook, mr massoud said that to reach a lasting peace, the nrf is ready to stop fighting on condition that the taliban also stop their attacks and military movements on panjshir and andarab a district in a neighbouring province. it s not clear if the taliban are likely to agree to the truce proposal. ali nazary is the head of foreign relations for the national resistance front of afghanistan. speaking to me from an undisclosed location outside of the country, he gave his assessment of the taliban s a ....
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and thanks forjoining us. the afghan resistance leader ahmad massoud says he is ready for peace talks to end fighting in the panjshir valley. the northern province of panjshir is two hours from the capital, kabul, and is now the only region not controlled by the taliban. they claim they have reached panjshir s provincial capital after securing the surrounding districts, but massoud s national resistance front disputes this. posting on facebook, mr massoud said that to reach a lasting peace, the nrf is ready to stop fighting on condition that the taliban also stop their attacks and military movements on panjshir and andarab, a district in a neighbouring province. it s not clear if the taliban are likely to agree to the truce proposal. ali nazary is the head of foreign relations for the national resistance front of afghanistan. speaking to us from an undisclosed location outside of the country, he ga ....
high level support. we ll hear from our correspondent in kabul. also ahead: the terrifying force of nature in india as a landslide unleashes boulders which destroy a bridge. and with his time in office nearing its end, we ll look back on the controversial presidency of the philippine s rodrigo duterte. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. it s eight in the morning in singapore, and nine in the morning in tokyo where day three of the olympics is underway. and we already have our first result. norway s kristian blummenfelt has taken gold in the men s triathlon. he finished well ahead of great britain s alex yee who takes silver. and that is just the beginning another twenty medals are up for grabs. let s go live now to tokyo and sarah mulkerrins has the latest. sarah, fill us in on the men s triathlon. it has certainly been an entertaining mor ....
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government. so we ll get into all that coming up here. dana: president biden pulling the plug on the state department inquiry while calling for an independent investigation where the virus came from. the contractor who was leading the state department probe telling fox news he doesn t know why the administration would doubt his team s efforts. we re getting reaction from senator marco rubio. the world health organization is not capable of undertaking this investigation. the chinese won t allow it. i think it s possible that the chinese government, communist party itself doesn t exactly know what happened. they don t have a system you are at the wuhan lab and had an accident and you would self-report it. people like that disappear or get fired. dana: rich edson is reporting live from washington bill: the former state department officials involved in this investigation tell us then secretary of state mike pompeo set it up over the objections of some at state who o ....