f. seventeen and you know the bombs and more we want to introduce it to be resolved peacefully but little war is imposed on us obviously than we know how to fight wars so the united states has long been an ally of pakistan but recent american presidents are growing cold towards islamabad or they alleged support of terrorism and washington's reaction to this most recent crisis was more supportive and sympathetic of india actually so should pakistan not count on american help anymore is that door closing for islamabad. well frankly we want good relations with the u.s. it we also want good relations with the u.s.s.r. there's a historic you know you can say i die lemme off walking sunday lucian share with us. and. it keeps changing you know when you are saying the perception is there when us and inspire to stand it becomes friend in me is that we can strangers so this is a kind of relationship we always have and will bring us here but now we want a strong relationship based on economy and that is the same kind of relationship we want to have with the militia also there and as you know in the

jet in partnership with cal a group of turkey the two companies announced plans for the t f x jet in twenty seventeen saying they would design the world's first turkish fighter jet in a deal worth one hundred million pounds the partnership seems to have frayed over intellectual property issues and related distribution of profits rolls royce c.e.o. warren east told the financial times quote it's up to the turkish government if they don't want to work with rolls royce on another front turkey is having more success in erecting defense measures with the reported purchase of these so-called s. four hundred air defense technology from russia for a price of two point five billion dollars the filling plans first announced in september of two thousand and seventeen nato officials have expressed concerns about member turkey's purchase of equipment that is not in iraq or ball with other nato members and built by a current atmosphere. and there's good news for labor on two sides of our world today in germany public sector workers have won significant pay raises after a days of low level work action the d. b. b.

f. is only one of seventeen x. paratroopers who were investigated over the bloody sunday killings the sixteen other british military veterans and two fishel ira members implicated in the shooting will not face action according to the prosecutor because of a lack of evidence the injustice felt by the relatives and friends of the victims that what took place here that day in january one thousand nine hundred seventy two was once again reignited why the prosecutor's decision while many were left shell shocked others saying that their fight goes on while some of the victims' families are looking to challenge the decision in the high court the u.k.'s defense minister vowed the british government would provide full support to the former soldier facing the murder charges as the decision reverberates throughout the city many here are mindful of the delicate peace which has held up here could be at risk of erupting into angry reactions some will complain of a whitewash others will continue to be haunted by one of the darkes

month activists not to use if it was jail for three years and twenty seventeen after criticizing the grand prix on social media in a letter f one says the bahamian government assured them her imprisonment had nothing to do with criticizing the sport human rights watch says that's just not good enough. rely on baseless assurances by the bahamian government that the charges have nothing to do with who says peaceful opposition to the grand prix races is false and they have seen the evidence claiming otherwise for me no one should publicly call on the bahamian government to drop the charges against me that are related to her exercising her right to free speech and they should also use their leverage with the whole new government to pressure them to conduct an investigation into her allegations of torture and the treatment and hope of the officers who subjected her to that the treatment to account there's an ongoing investigation in california to find out why twenty one horses have died in the last two months at one of the world's top horseracing facilities rob reynolds has more from arcadia. california's santa anita racetrack r

house of commomons which of f ce wewe will carry throughout the y and in the late afternoon is [inaudible] to take off the it would be that on the twenty ninth of march in seventeen d ds time the uninited kingdom wouldr would not. crash outut without a deal. and what is significant is that the prime is a said that often much reflection she had decided to give a free vote anyway to hop onto the conservative. policy then if -- that then -- is the case of the mps vote of four no deal to be taken off the table she confirmed that there would be a vote on thursday -- about an extension so the mps. would be voting on whether -- to delay that exit should yield exits all the united kingdom from the european union -- whatat she again and for sized - was that she was against no deal be taken off the table t that se was against an extension. this was not a solution and again. cool fool and peas to really think hard about the votes -- because she said they would have to also if they vototed i in far an extension to be very clear -- about what that extension was full so she mentions -- would it be a full for example a second referendum -- would i it be for a long walk te lengt

being made for the f afghans and the fate of afghanistan and its people are basically in the hands of you know many people women's rights and what we have achieved in the last seventeen years is something that has to be safeguarded and women's rights is only one pillar of the human rights the basic human rights that we need to fight for ethnic rights religious rights in every. that is happening in afghanistan in the last seventeen years instead of getting better it's getting worse i mean we have progress but yet politically and security wise it's extremely difficult to be moving as a woman saying peace and security can't come really at the sake of the democratic progress that's been made for women what do you think of these talks that we're seeing taking place right now in qatar washington and launched direct talks as we said with the taliban is this possibly a way out of the violence the one thing that i can say for sure that everybody agrees upon is that we want peace however. are we going to go for this peace at the cost of such basic rights and we're talking about we're talking about democracy in general so that is what is at stake now the talks these are not sup

thousand and seventeen when the armed group began to lose major cities in both countries in separate offensives by different players in the latest battle against eisele was launched by the us backed s d fin september and the target was a stronghold in the euphrates valley many i still fighters have surrendered many of them foreigners an unknown number are still inside but whose the us led coalition says many are hiding in tunnels losing booze would be a symbolic blow to the armed groups but it will continue to be a security threat many fighters have slipped into iraq and others are in the desert in eastern syria. well like i mentioned a blow to the armed group but at the end of the day they do have sleeper cells that are able to mount attacks behind enemy lines so this threat does not go away but losing both what was really would mean an end to their self the clarity caliph it zina thanks very much as they know how to live first in beirut not just sure landis is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he joins us now from there good to speak you again joshua now these reports that we're getting that around one hundred fifty i saw fighters from the t