they are tackling a cumbersome and your craddick company. richard has more.. a quarter of the workforce means a pretty big headline. richard: there is a lot of stuff going on. it starts with john mcfarlane the new chairman come in. he removed the ceo antony jenkins. now we are getting a feel for what the board is trying to think about in terms of that performance at barclays. he has talked about accelerating the planet. one of the considerations they may have his reducing more staff numbers. the numbers are not clear. apparently there is no formal plan in place. that is according to the people we have been talking to this morning. there could be a reduction to below 1000 -- 100,000 employees. they have about 132,000 at the present. manus: that is a gargantuan change from a human side and a business side and an implementation side. are they going to be able to reduce the headcount that much from investment banking? it sounds like that's going to involve a significant change at the retail level. richard: and is where the bulk of it would be. you would think whe

kansas city about women's issues locally as well as globally and i'm excited -- not excited but craddick and bring back the information to kansas city and recommend the book as well. i have two quick questions. one is in the peace negotiations is the pressure to not include women solely coming from the taliban side or is not also coming from the current government and how can they justify that? and also dr. kitch spoke about women's rights. i was wondering what is the support expensive among just common men and women both in afghanistan or what is the feeling there for that. thank you. >> one that you go ahead. >> thank you aired well currently we are hearing from different sources at the taliban has not shown any rejection to not have women on the table of negotiations. but this recommendation has come from high peace concerned and also from the government because the argument that maybe the taliban shows some irritation. if women are on the table they may show some irritation and and they may start back and they may not negotiate. and the recent talks almost a month ago, there were thr