exchange of these prisoners that includes professors from the american university of understand and the taliban prisoners that includes a nasir conny brother of the taliban icon the son said on his brother is a good confidence building measure to what really who fought is that this would be we've is is glad a part for an interim african dialogue where the african government the africans are large and the taliban could sit now i don't dictate but it and sort of talk about if you chirpy sort of understand indications that we might have these into african dialogue happen in china things are still not very pled but it's just like you said it was a difficult decision for the african government because there were a lot of people who would have demanding the execution of an us economy but like i always say. this war in conflict would not get us anywhere and you think god has and getting us for that in negotiations is a is a positive step and should be a positive sign for the future of afghanistan what do you say then to those people who are not happy about about the release of the taliban pris

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passed overwhelmingly and then blocked in the house every foreigner who got a phd in stem at american university got a green card stapled to their diploma imagine how that would help us as we seek to take the lead. and along similar lines with the stem education to recruit a top-notch ready workforce at the moment with ten years of experience in the field. and then to expand this advantage. so we need to invest heavily in ai. and those other technologies whether content - - quantum computing or cybersecurity or robotics or biotechnology. in the old days companies could do research. we had bell labs not too far from where we lived they were monopolies to put billions of dollars into research even the head of bell could not even see a way where that could create profit for co- we are not in that role anymore armor companies don't have that kind of ability. so what we need to do is to have a dramatically increased investment in ai basic research we are great of taking that basic research turning that into practical things that we will lag behind on that basic research. so here is the proposal, and

both of them worked at the american university of afghanistan.he lieff and government release three prisoners in cutter. one of the men is the son of the leader of the how connie terror network. the afghan government hopes this will toward brokering peace with the taliban and. we will keep you updated as we get more information. rob: new documents show the extent of iran's power over iraq. the unprecedented insight reveals that iran paid iraqi agents working for the united states to switch sides. infiltrating every aspect of political, economic and religious life. senior fellow from the foundation for defense of democracy says the united states needs to stay active in the region. >> approves iraq is worth fighting for but that battle is going to be more challenging than many americans in the public thought. rob: tensions have escalated as donald trump announced he would pull out of the nuclear deal last year. jillian: a look at the college where hundreds of hong kong protesters have hunkered down for days. they are unsure what to do next as their

passed overwhelmingly and then blocked in the house every foreigner who got a phd in stem at american university got a green card stapled to their diploma imagine how that would help us as we seek to take the lead. and along similar lines with the stem education to recruit a top-notch ready workforce at the moment with ten years of experience in the field. and then to expand this advantage. so we need to invest heavily in ai. and those other technologies whether content - - quantum computing or cybersecurity or robotics or biotechnology. in the old days companies could do research. we had bell labs not too far from where we lived they were monopolies to put billions of dollars into research even the head of bell could not even see a way where that could create profit for co- we are not in that role anymore armor companies don't have that kind of ability. so what we need to do is to have a dramatically increased investment in ai basic research we are great of taking that basic research turning that into practical things that we will lag behind on that basic research. so here is the proposal, and

in an american university got a green card stapled to their diploma. can you imagine how that would change the country and help us as we seek to take the lead on ai? and along similar lines, we must bolster america's s.t.e.m. education from grade school through grad school, and recruit a top notch ai ready workforce. at the moment, data scientists on average have ten years of experience in the field and china has had five. we need to maintain and expand this advantage. but finally, and this is what i want to focus on a little bit or have you focus on what i've said today, we need to invest heavily in ai, and in other related technologies, whether it's quantum computing, g5 or anything like that, cyber security, robotics, biotechnology. in the old days, companies could afford to do much more of the pure research. we had a bell labs, not too far from where i lived. i was in new york. there were monopoly so they could afford to put billions of dollars into pure research even if the head of whatever it was, bell -- bell, can't even remember what it was cal

professor of political science at the american university of beirut thank you. and much more ahead on this news hour including these leaders came to thailand hoping to create the world's largest trading brod but it's been delayed we'll find out why and in sports a near miss in qualifying for lewis hamilton accies looks for his speed with a one world to a. first several people have been injured in hong kong after protesters fought with police in iran shopping malls anti-government demonstrators gathered in the new town plaza after damaging a train station somewhere wrestled to the ground by police and taken away for questioning. india's government has released a new map depicting the entire kashmir region as part of its territory last thursday new delhi formally divided indian administered kashmir into 2 new federal territories 3 months after revoking the region's autonomy of these are the internationally recognized boundaries saying clude parts of administered kashmir in pakistan by pakistan and china india's new map shows the whole area as part of 2 new central

foreign professes american kevin king an australian timothy weeks were kidnapped outside the american university in kabul 3 years ago the taliban prisoners include the older brother of the group's deputy leader seized in 2014 those are the headlines we're back in half an hour. ringback is based. upon hours a week but i don't think. i can. touch. the. can't. sleep with my. who's who cornish. katie here here at the east passing to those so same people that you want them to xena are you taking old style even if your by the sound of a peach implement but it's not because of you. thanks boy to me you. have me as i mean. other than me. i don't i. sang it's. so bill that's you know. there's a bit. like the banks of the wild. boy. your. dad's. bad. phase of us a. grown harmony and both. not. come when told by those whose job was. up is looked out builtin on song think think you will die you don't stop then bang. like it. was a mute point don't sound dish to the time by young. and only is called la much persuasion stopping devious. people who bears the. kind of a cliff similar to disco fully believing th

in the case of the cuban-americans, you can see the difference. 1991, only 14% support. this is according to the national university, not cuba. in 2016, 53%. i will tell you about all the generations of the cuban-americans. if you go to the last generation, 1996-2016, it is more than 80% support for relations between cuba and the united states. why? miami is supported. we have cubans in over 50 states. we have cuban-americans in alaska. i do not know what they do there because the weather is so different. we have cuban-americans everywhere. but the majority of the cuban americans are in miami. we are talking about probably more than one million. for that reason, this is very important. and the international university made the poll here. again, i have a poll i will show. this is more recent, 2018 this is the last poll. this question, has embargo worked? 57%, not at all. 26%, not very well. only 12%, works well. only 5%, works very well. you can see that 80%, more than 80% believe the embargo does not work. we are talking about cuban-americans in 2018 so it is not the last century. but this is also very important. y

studying at american university.> bret: one out of three. >> tucker: by the way, i didn't have the card so i didn't know the answer to that and i 1r-8d guessed ferrari as well. [buzzer] >> tucker: another multiple choice dog that helped capture al-baghdadi leader of isis. dog has newly declassified his name what is it a gizmo, b, slater, c, conan? david that if you arery? >> conan. actually i'm happy about this conan the dog got more publicity than me. and i'm very happy about that. conan is incredible. conan is coming to the white house in a few weeks. >> bret: also depose by good dog. >> tucker: yes he does and standing on the lawn of that white house tonight reporting live. just kidding. question three, another multiple choice photo going viral unusual animal writing the bart train bay area rapid transit train. a a mini horse? b, a baby llama, or, c, a potbellied pig? david? >> a mini horse. >> tucker: you said you have been preparing for this show by watching "fox & friends." is it true a mini horse? >> and a min

they were kidnapped at gunpoint from in front of the american university in kabul where they worked. the taliban said king had been seriously ill. they were exchanged for several members of an armed wing of the taliban known as the haqqani network who had been in afghan custody. it's the same network that held american sergeant bowe bergdahl for five years after he walked off his post and was captured bergdahl was exchanged for five prisoners and later dishonorably discharged from the military there had been an attempt to rescue the professors with an american special ops raid it missed them that was three long years ago. lester >> richard engel, thank you. >>> growing outrage at syracuse university. the campus stepping up security after a series of racist incidents, at least six in less than two weeks. last night a white supremacist manifesto was allegedly sent to students' cell phones in a library after several other incidents, including slurs graffitied on campus the fbi is now investigating. >>> a manhunt is under way outside houston for a suspect on the loose after an armored tr

these young iranians are exposed not just to the wonders of the american university but the dissidents of the 1960sstudent movement. this radicalized some iranians. it made them think about their own voices and their own set of concerns. this is a complication for america's relationship with iran. the shad of iran did not expect his young people to come home with the political consciousness. he wanted them to come home with a technocratic consciousness, oil engineers, doctors, not threats to his regime. the iranian revolution, like almost any revolution, is a messy affair. it's not clear to those who were revolting what's going to happen. they are living to chaos and violence and turmoil. they are all vying for legitimacy. the iranian revolution starts to break out right at the cost of 1978, 1979. it's not clear who's going to take control. there's all kinds of factions. there's a communist faction. there's a democratic liberal faction. there is a parliamentary republic faction. there's an islamist faction who wants democracy. all minds are controlled. it's not clear who's going to win

because nick he is a professor of history and director of the nuclear studies institute at american university as well as co-author with all of her stone of the untold history of the united states and in washington we cross to camp he is the host and head writer of the comedy new show redacted tonight on our t.v. america all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can. but anytime you want to always appreciate let's go to protests to peter i think that all of us would agree and our audience that it's unlikely that we would ever compared to donald trump ok they're very very different but they do have one commonality and it's an attitude towards foreign adventures now donald trump has not been able to do much about his rhetoric of the campaign while he's been in office but keeps going both of them are.

way let's discuss this further now chris ellison is an assistant professor of government in american university'sschool of public affairs and he joins us from washington d.c. it's nice to have you with us there's so much we could talk about here but here's what immediately jumps out politically this is a partisan process we saw the members of congress voting along party lines donald trump calls it a witch hunt does this fundamentally go to something that is broken or failing in the political system in the u.s. . yes it shouldn't be a partisan process in a functioning system republicans would be standing with democrats and they would say we have evidence that the president is using his office to pressure a foreign government more than one really but most central ukraine to help him win reelection this goes beyond party this is 6 undermine our democratic system the fact the republicans are not doing so is evidence i'm sad to say that our constitutional system has failed but donald trump won one office by making this about division and once again he's looking at the democrats are saying this is a co

. >> f-is visas allow foreign students to study at american universities and work at three years at american companies to gain technical experience but we found the top employers may be providing false employment records so foreign students could stay in the country after graduation. mixed in with the legitimate silicon valley tech giants that employee hundreds of f-1 visa holders we found a dozen other suspicious companies and some only exist on paper. 99% of the workers on each of those companies were chinese nationals. >> could this be a security risk to national security? >> any time you have people in the united states that are doing something other than what they've told us what they are doing there is a risk and that is why we look at the companies very carefully and do data analytics and do investigations. >> we found a local company that claimed to employee hundreds of foreign students at a home in mountain view so we decided to check it out. we'll show you what we found and hear from the foremost experts on national security in high-tech tonight at sec. i'll see you then. >> we'll

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f1 visas allow foreign students to study at american universities and work up to three years at americane but we found some of the top employers of those f1 visa holders may be providing false employment records so foreign students can stay in the country after graduation. mixed in with legitimate silicon valley tech giants that employ hundreds of f1 visa holders, we found more than a dozen other suspicious companies, some apparently only exist on paper. 99% of the workers of each of those companies were chinese nationals. could this be a security risk to national security. >> any time you have people in the united states that are doing old us they're in an what analytics and why we do investigations. company that claims to employ hundreds of foreign students at a home in mountain view, so we decided to check it out. we'll show you what we found and hear from one of the foremost experts on national security in high tech tonight at 121:00. see you then. >>> here we are the day before thanksgiving, a lot of people are starting to shop. i'm looking online trying to find some gifts. for you.

the american university of afghanistan released a statement this morning saying in part. >> this thety is encouraged to hear reports of the possible release of our two colleagues. we continue to urge the immediate and safe return of our faculty members who have been held in captivity, away from their friends and their families, for more than three years. >>> and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are pushing president trump to disinvite turkish president erdogan for a scheduled white house visit scheduled for tomorrow. in the light of the 15 democrats and two republicans, led by house foreign affairs chair says turkey's invasion of syria last month has quote had disastrous consequences for u.s. national security. has led to deep divisions in the nato alliance. and caused a humanitarian crisis on the ground. given this situation, we believe that now is a particularly inappropriate time for president erdogan to visit the united states, and we urge you to rescind this invitation. and erdogan is expected to hold a joint press conference with president trump tomorrow, the same day as the fir

because nick he is a professor of history and director of the nuclear studies institute at american university as well as co-author with all of her stone of the untold history of the united states and in washington we cross to camp he is the host and head writer of the comedy new show redacted tonight on our t.v. america all right so i mean crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate let's go to bethesda peter i think that all of us would agree and our audience that it's why. unlikely that we would ever compared to donald trump ok they're very very different but they do have one commonality and it's an attitude towards foreign adventures now donald trump has not been able to do much about his rhetoric of the campaign while he's been in office but telsey gabbert keeps going both of them are slammed every time they go outside the the borders or the perimeters of the bipartisan commitment to these wars why is it why do they get slammed down so hard so fast even with people within their own party go ahead peter. well as you indicate there is a bipartis

because nick he is a professor of history and director of the nuclear studies institute at american university as well as co-author with all of her stone of the untold history of the united states and in washington we cross to camp he is the host and head writer of the comedy new show redacted tonight on our t.v. america all right coming cross talk rules in fact that means he.

ruling elite began last month that speak to rami khouri now's a journalism professor at the american university of beirut and senior fellow at harvard's kennedy school his live from boston thank you so much rami for being with us the nationwide protests in lebanon have been knowledge of the peaceful since they began unlike in iraq for instance but for the past few days we've seen lebanon's military finding itself in the middle between anti-government protesters and hezbollah supporters just how dangerous a situation are we looking at. this is a potentially important turning point and it could be a turn to the positives to resolve the tensions in the stalemate and come up with a new government and start to dress the really serious problems that the country is facing or could be returned to the negative to have continued political stalemate deterioration of the economy collapse of the lebanese liras value. increase in poverty and continued incidents of our which we don't know which way it's going to go but it's been 5 weeks now none of the dynamics are sustainable or the right the mass protests t

castro al-jazeera washington resettles and is an assistant professor of government as american university's school of public affairs he criticized trump and some republicans for calling the impeachment process a coup. this is not a coup this is a constitutional process coups are violent this is legal this is legitimate this is what are our system is supposed to do when a man like donald trump seeks to undermine it he's attacking u.s. elections it's ludicrous but it may work and the reason it may work is because republicans have shown they are with this president no matter what i'm sorry to say i see no evidence that anything will ever move republicans ever donald trump said during the 2016 campaign he could shoot somebody if new and it wouldn't affect his support i think that's right it's very sad to say that doesn't mean all hope is lost james madison who was one of the founders of our constitution said that people are the primary check on the government and i think we'll have to see whether the people whether we can stand up for ourselves are our representatives in congress republican rep

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heard so far today chris adelson is an assistant professor in the department of government at american university joins us from washington d.c. so i'm sure you've been listening in this morning and just to let our viewers know the adam schiff the chairman has returned to the room and once this all gets going again it's actually going to be the republicans who have the floor but i just wanted one to let our viewers know that so if we can get back to our guests now mr adelson so what have you heard this morning that you think. might potentially have the biggest impact. i think it's mostly a continuation of what we've heard i was struck dr told me the point which is an important one that. we have to make sure that russia doesn't advance its narrative one of the things that we've heard from testimony is that president trump and is associates were pressuring ukraine to show that russia didn't actually attack the u.s. election to 16 dr who was making clear that's a mistake that's that's counter to u.s. national interest for a minute mr holmes those are at least of all the gravity of that for a moment t

with the exchange of these prisoners that includes professors from the american university of understand and the taliban prisoners that includes anasta conny the brother of the taliban d.p.t. icon the son said argentine hug on his brother is a good confidence but it didn't measure up to what we really hold for is that this would it be we've is glad upon for an intra african dialogue where the african government the africans are large and the taliban could sit now i don't dictate but it and sort of talk about if you chair peace with afghanistan there and occasions that we might have these into african dialogue happen in china things are still not very glad but it's it was a difficult decision for the afghan government because there were a lot of people who would be minding the execution of an us economy but like i always say. this war and conflict would not get us anywhere and he think god has a good and getting thus far that in negotiations is a is a positive step and should be a positive sign for the future of afghanistan. doctors in the democratic republic of congo have told urges it a

is an assistant professor of government as american university's school of public affairs no he's criticized and some republicans for calling the impeachment process a coup. this is not a coup this is a constitutional process coups are violent this is illegal this is legitimate this is what are our system is supposed to do when a man like donald trump seeks to undermine it he's attacking u.s. elections it's ludicrous but it may work and the reason it may work is because republicans have shown they are with this president no matter what i'm sorry to say i see no evidence that anything will ever move republicans ever donald trump said during the 2016 campaign he could shoot somebody 5th avenue and it wouldn't affect his support i think that's right it's very sad to say that doesn't mean all hope is lost james madison who was one of the founders of our constitution said that people are the primary check on the government and i think we'll have to see whether the people whether we can stand up for ourselves are our representatives in congress republican representatives in the house and in the se

. >>> also tonight, the death of a student at an american university the major crackdown, over a dozen fraternities suspended. the mystery, what cause kaed that student to be rushed to the hospital? >>> the disturbing classroom video, the substitute teacher charged with punching a 16-year-old student and throwing her to the ground what we have now learned about the student's condition. >>> apple under fire, the new investigation after some say the tech giant's new credit card discriminates against women. apple's co-founder and his wife speaking out tonight. >>> our one on one with elizabeth warren, the rising democratic presidential candidate defending her controversial wealth tax plan and what she says about a problem plaguing america's schools. >>> and those who serve, in honor of veterans day, our week-long salute to the men and women in uniform. >> announcer: this is nbc nlts wi"nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening dangerous cold weather is charging in from canada tonight, plunging temperatures to record-low territory over a huge region of the kupts, bringing snow an

he heads up the brazil—us legal and judicial studies program at the american university. chase, maryland. thank you for being with us. a slightly complicated legal situation. we should be clear from the beginning that he hasn't been exonerated. that is clear. all that has been received at this point is to be liberated from prison. the key holding here is that as long as you have not exhausted all your appeals all the way to the supreme, you are not guilty. the presumption of innocence trumps everything. so they have decided that means he should walk free. why wasn't he free before? he wasn't free before because the supreme federal tribunal said ifa because the supreme federal tribunal said if a second appeals court confirms what the trial court said, and that decision was to send you to prison, then you go to prison even if you still have an appeal. now the decision is, no, you cannot do that anymore. if you have an appeal, until they can beat you, you are a free person, presumed innocent and thatis free person, presumed innocent and that is the rationale of the ministers

the personnel files can be very dull i've seen my personnel file at american university there is a lot of stuff about paperwork. i was not betting the farm. it turned out to be a very large file and a very interesting file first of all because they head with -- written some autobiographical things in it and secondly, because he had been investigated by the state department. so they look for people in the past and some of them have good things to say and some of them didn't. that is all the better for the historian. that was the first really big break it was at that point that i said i know might actually be able to do a book and a sense of him as a person. i will give you a bare bones version of what appears with detail. he was born in cleveland to parents and grandparents. they were german immigrants on both sides. his family was very poor. his father was an alcoholic has a mother was seriously ill with diabetes they had three sisters. one of them died relatively young. he dropped it up high out of high school to support his family when things stabilize that he have earned some money

king and weeks were teaching at american university in kabul when they were seized at gunpoint, in august of 2016. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this tuesday. the new storm threat. heavy snow, rain and flash flood alerts across several states as it moves across the country. rob will time it out. >>> also ahead. smoke in the cockpit. the passenger plane forced to evacuate before takeoff today. >>> the deadly fall onboard ui sh fles,in themginwon, bears. a lot more news ahead tonight. ((cat 2) fwhoa- so many choices! (cat 1) look- extra gravy! (cat 2) and lil' soups! (cat 1) there's the shreds! (cat 2) yeah friskies has it all. (cat 1) i want it all- can i have it all? (vo) feed their fantasy. friskies. >>> now to that new storm threat tonight. two storms combining, stretching across nine states from california to montana, and then it moves across the country. heavy snow and possible flash flooding, so, that means we get right to meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all for us. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. very impressive storm digging into the southwest.

taliban they were least one american kevin king 63 and australia 20 weeks were teachers at the american university in kabul they were abducted back in 2016 then we exchanged thing for you guys back to ben is there any realist i mean you said they're waiting this out is there any realistic idea that we are going to find like some kind of peace deal between or are they just going to kind of wait out one of the provisions we give you know one of the u.s. conditions is that taliban talks to the existing government then they refuse and as i said they've already begun developing their own. government and waiting just waiting for the u.s. just to pull out and that's basically what's going to happen they'll just come on back and they occupy most of the more and more than half of the provinces now when in fact we had them all cleared out and we are in a spot. the areas but but we've also seen that the afghan security people are still able to this day to hold their own and that was the purpose were were trained in the system and that's the problem with any time you fight i think a war overseas against an en

international campaign to abolish nuclear nuclear weapons and titled schools of mass destruction american universities and the u.s. nuclear weapons complex nearly 50 u.s. universities are involved in the research and design of u.s. nuclear weapons largely in secret and in contradiction of their schools mission statements. my friends the tunnels of the beast run deep which is why we must always be watching us. like that. we. want them around watching the hawks i am tyrrel them for joining us back to back panel discussions our investigative journalist r t america correspondent and the tag team of our team america sports coverage regina ham and steve thank you all for joining us today later we'll be getting into a fascinating discussion of the status of collin capping but i want to start today with the impeachment circus taking place in the house you have democratic presidential primary heating up and going insane and social media playing such a vital and wonderful beautiful role in our national dialogue in washington washington d.c. i have to ask do you feel is this the best of times for us politics or

protests against the ruling elites began last month rami khouri is a journalism professor at the american university of beirut and senior fellow at harvard's kennedy school i asked him earlier what message has been and its allies are trying to send by sending their supporters out onto the streets so one theory is that this or this show of force just before the negotiations begin to create a new government to maintain a certain role for examine the new government that's created another serious that no this is not linked to any kind of political resolution this is the hizbullah an animal and some other people allied with them saying we're fed up with this kind of citizen protest. and the issues that is causing and we're going to send these people back home as happened in the past or a little bit of rough handling by the. the young men of hezbollah and other mothers has sent protesters back home so we'll see which way it goes yeah and the lebanese army meanwhile finds itself in the middle of this kenneth stay neutral if the situation where to degenerate if you know things were to get worse is the risk

committee joining us via skype from zadok does i mean why was these a political lecturer at the american university of beirut and jamil specializes in divided societies within a state and back again in beirut is happy because he's an independent journalist and founder of news website beirut's report that showcases investigative journalism in beirut thanks very much for joining us on inside story have a over to you 1st so the reports out of lebanon on seem to suggest that the consensus on mohamed to suffer the the former finance minister emerged in a meeting that took place after 80 met with representatives of hezbollah as well as . if news of his appointment is confirmed why is the scene as provocative as we're seeing out on the streets. well this is exactly what protesters have said they don't want they've been very clear that they want to government that is independent of the current ruling parties of lebannon the parties have ruled lebanon for the last 30 years plus that have basically been former militia parties some of them are led by billionaires and you know again this candidate is one of th

host: our guest is a graduate of american university earning his graduate from the university of chicago and worked in the george w. bush ministration. he is part of the domestic policy staff. this headline from bloomberg news in a quote we had earlier from carl smith saying a trillion dollar deficit may be what the economy needs. this past week, the fed chair, jerome powell, responding to the interest rate reduction by a quarter percent. he also talked about the debt and deficit. >> the overall -- [video clip] >> the overall economy is growing at a moderate rate, supported by a healthy job market and solid consumer confidence. business investment and exports remain weak. manufacturing output has declined. and traderowth abroad developments have been weighing on those sectors. we continue to expect the economy to expand at a moderate rate, reflecting solid household spending. strong market remains and the employment rate has been near half-century lows for a year and a half. the pace of job gains has eased but remained solid. we have expected some slowing. participation in the labor forc

commentator on skype in cambridge massachusetts we have rami khouri who is a professor at the american university of beirut and also a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school and also in beirut we have half an eunice who's an author of trends of business and is also a professor of international business management a warm welcome to you all now i do want to start with this announcement by saudi arabia that he doesn't want to form a government he doesn't want to be the new prime minister rami did this come as a surprise was his who are really thinking here nobody knows what her is thinking except her really and whatever his thinking changes every once in a while because he's a politician in a very violent her country goes through a very tumultuous period a lot of the actions and statements that we're getting from either individuals or political groups where there are sections underground or media statements is all political jockeying essentially because you've got 2 big camps in lebanon one of them is trying to radically change the governance system of the national values of lebanon as manifest

2 hostages american kevin king and australian timothy weeks were kidnapped from outside the american university in kabul in 2016 the taliban prisoners include a kani who was seized in 2014 and whose older brother is the deputy taliban leader the afghan president ashraf ghani said the release of the taliban fighters was a hard decision made in quotes the interests of the afghan people a prominent cambodian opposition politician has met the german ambassador a day after his release from house arrest camps welcomed christian berger to his home in norman pan he still faces treason charges and is banned from politics for leaving the country become body and government's been facing increasing international pressure over its crackdown on the opposition and another opposition figure cambodian national rescue party acting leader sam rangy says he'll stay in malaysia where he's in exile no we did find another way to go back to cambodia i will be staying in the region because the situation can change very quickly and i will go back in cambodia. when days say much yearly physical possibility to do so with