air force veteran a former drone operator and whistleblower brennan bryant is jailed on charges of threatening city officials certainly started a fund raising campaign to get him released. and researchers at mit say reports alleging fraud during the bolivian election short on evidence president evo morales left his post in mass protest over the supposed that vote violations. good morning and welcome to the program this is art international coming to you live from the russian capital bring you your live news update. us on the taliban are poised to sign a peace deal which may bring washington's longest war to an end the deal is expected to be negotiated on saturday or in the coming days what the u.s. initially portrayed as a major success has now outstripped 4 presidential terms are just up and looks back at the years of war. back in 2003 u.s. officials were telling a story of success when it came to afghanistan listen to donald rumsfeld we're at a point where we clearly. major combat ready to a period of stability and stabilization and reconstruction. activities but 17 years and 4 presidential

council officials have now asked the prosecutor's office to drop charges against whistleblower brennan bryant who lifted the lid on civilian killings in u.s. overseas drone operations the air force veteran had been charged with threatening city officials and you tube video and is currently in detention over the past few months he's attended multiple city council meetings criticizing the way tax money is being used brennan's mother though claims his incarceration is politically motivated she's launching a campaign and the hope of raising $100000.00 for his bail. my son is the u.s. air force this little over who broke the code of silence on the drone program now he's in jail in the county detention facility he has no criminal record and yet he is the held on $100000.00. under detention he's isolated from this family and his friends in from his medically i mean indeed an emotional support animal brandon bryant served as a u.s. air force drone operator from 2006 and till 2011 having left the military he began exposing cases of what he alleged to be civilian deaths resulting from american drone st

air force veteran former drone operator and whistleblower brennan bryant starts a fund raising campaign to get him released from jail as he faces charges of threatening city officials they claim the charges are politically motivated. and researchers at mit say a report alleging fraud during the bolivian election fall short on evidence president evo morales left his post amid mass protests over the suppose a boat violation.

a source close to the family says that kobe bryant's widow vanessa will attend the memorial today. christine brennan joins us now, columnist for "usa today." you were on with us, of course, the tragic news, we found out that sunday morning what had happened. what do you think about today as his life is -- his daughter's life, the seven other lives honored in this way? >> it is almost hard to believe this has been four weeks and a day. so many people still so surreal that they're gone and this happen and these families, the girls going to a game and kobe coaching his daughter. that surreal aspect lives on for so many people. today, in the arena that kobe built in many ways, staples center, he'll be honored one final time. you think of both jerseys, 24 and 8, they're in the rafters, the five nba titles that kobe helped the lakers win in the rafters hanging from the ceiling and this is the place, appropriately enough, where kobe and his beloved daughter gigi, a rising basketball star herself, this is the perfectly appropriate place for them to be memorialized and remembered by the sport and by the city