1st day on friday he said we're at a crossroads we you know we've been given an ultimatum by the talabani where we free these $400.00 prisoners and within a few days to 3 days we begin in on talks or we don't free them and the war gets much worse so now the ball is really in the court of the government to actually release these prisoners the president said he will sign the order today so within the next day or 2 they should be freed and then if the tall of on the stand to their word and by the next 2 or 3 days the talks should begin of course after this is a long wrote because then the talks will break down into issues of cease fires or how the government will look into what talabani role of the government will be in any number of issues but this is probably the most important step and actually is the most important step because it's the 1st time that the government and the taliban. from each other in an official capacity i'll leave the couple thanks so much thank you. in lebanon a government minister has resigned following protests against the political establishment that left one police

crossroads we either release these prisoners and move ahead with the peace process or we see if the talabani live up to their threat that they would make the war war worse if we don't do this from the way you're describing it appear that all the cards are stacked against the of gone government and in favor of the fall of iran bearing in mind that the taliban has called the of gone government a us puppet i mean does the of con government really have an e-card is the video hoarding for any future peace talks. this is you know that this has been the tarnal question since this peace process began i think some of the cards that they held were you know this prisoner release has been delayed for months at a time you know this was supposed to happen and in mid march and now we're in mid august. and you know i would assume that the government felt that they had some cards in their hands by by delaying the release and staggering it and saying that you know they had conditions to it but what's happened since then is that violence has surged all over the country the big cities are relatively safe from t