Its been pretty clear that theyve been making some very Good Progress whats happened since then is that the afghan prison ashraf ghani has been informed about this by phone hes now come here to munich for a much more detailed meeting of whats going to happen next and the afghan president was briefed here by the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o y mark kasper the us secretary of defense what we understand is that at some point very soon theyll start a period of 7 days a reduction of violence now thats not a cease fire theyre not using the cease fire word and certainly Afghan Government had wanted it to be a cease fire after that though after that 7 days then were told within another 10 days or so talks should start then between the taliban and all of the rest of the afghan political system the Afghan Government and other afghan Political Parties Afghan Government has been wary about this process all along because theyve been left out of it this has been very much a deal between the
From European Competitions for 2 years. Now its a deal that lasts only a week to u. S. Officials say if its success it could lead to the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan the taliban and american negotiators have agreed to a proposal for a reduction of violence in the country the announcement is the result of ongoing peace talks in qatar a senior u. S. Official says if this deal holds it could be followed by a more Permanent Peace accord while she had her tansey joins us now live from washington d. C. She had this sounds like a breakthrough of sorts is it talk us through how this might work. Well this is what weve been told through a very broad brush strokes officially the unofficial briefings from u. S. And taliban taliban sources the 7 day period of calm this reduction of violence will stretch across the country all sides Afghan Forces Government Forces taliban and u. S. Forces will observe this and u. S. Sources say it will be very specific as regards tell about activities inclu
And mike emanuel on capitol hill. We begin with john. John . Neil, good afternoon to you. The president tried for 35 days to break the democrats and could not break them. They held together and so the president was the one that had to back down today and say that were going to open government, but he did get a negotiation over the last 24 hours from the democrats a pledge to negotiate on Border Security. But strikes me that nancy pelosi had been offering that for weeks. I dont know if the president got more of a commitment from the democrats to include funding for a border wall. The white house officials told me that there are a number of democrats that do seem inclined to give the president money for a border barrier, much of which off of the rio grande in the state of texas. The president theres threatening that if the democrats dont give him what he wants, he has options to use. Listen here. We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier. If we dont get a fai
Female inmates are sometimes shackled during labour and immediately after birth, and their babies are taken away soon after, the NGO’s new report says.