and let's take you straight to afghanistan in the capital kabul where the afghan prison of garny has approved freeing 400 taliban fighters. loyal jirga it's the largest consultative body of tribal leaders and politicians which allows the government to start talks with the taliban it was a precondition by the taliban they want to these $400.00 fighters released and everybody was waiting for a shift garny to approve what the lawyer loya jirgah had already decided. just 24 hours ago so that seems to be the scenario and of course guardian are saying it's up to the taliban to move forward and that they should move forward with and not be afraid of a cease fire we'll get more on this as the day progresses. still ahead of all jews are defying the kremlin protesters in the far east of russia protests for the 5th consecutive weekend over the arrest of a popular government. hello there planes he will halt and dry weather across much of europe the heat wave is still very much in place across most areas one of the thunderstorms again across the southeast in the last begin to weaken of the next c

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tank he says the prisoner release was the only roadblock remaining in the peace process and president garny was under significant pressure to approve it. from one side he was fees to a legal hurdles for that he's a full 100 prisoners it was serious issues around those 400 and he's from a legal perspective but from the other site holy sites we're putting pressure on the government that i'm less and until it actually happens that in taiwan talks were not going to start so that's why everybody was due money to ease of this business so he was caught between iraq and hartley's and that's why one can say that he was under pressure but now that pressure has been released and thanks to the ledger to the taliban at least for the dying being cannot compromise a military position and cannot go into ceasefire and more just because they want to maintain your hold on the conflict context and until they're sure off any misunderstanding of progress don't expect them to engage in a ceasefire so well the time being one can see at that instead of considering who are the ball the basic thing is that we are all