served would be weighed against that sentence but we'll have to wait and see if that's the case baraka oberg or china analyst thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world american and taliban officials have reportedly agreed on a framework for an afghanistan peace deal the u.s. envoy says the taliban have committed to preventing the country from being used as a base for terror groups america is considering withdrawing all of its troops in return for a cease fire and direct talks between the taliban and the afghan government. the german government has assured drivers it has no plans to introduce an overall maximum speed limit on motorways a poll had shown that just over half of germans favored such a limit after a government proposal suggesting one was leaked. in the us most of the eight hundred thousand workers who were laid off during the record federal government shutdown are now we're turning to work and they will receive back pay on friday president trump and congress agreed to reopen the government after thirty five days but the agreement is tempora