therefore the final announcement we are thinking about will happen as early as sunday let's bring in michael semple he's an expert on afghanistan and professor at the institute for global peace security and justice at queen's in belfast michael great to have you here on the news hour again what does this mean. this means that president ghani will be able to go back to his u.s. counterpart and tell him that i may be able to get these prisoners released but he's going to have to decide whether he does it conditionally or unconditionally so the conditions or the main condition is we will release them but they mustn't return to being taliban fighters. yes and quite how and how that gets implemented is a is a major issue it has supposedly that condition apply 8 to 30 here out will last for a half 1000 prisoners who've already been released but in reality most of them have gone back to being fighters is this a win for the afghan government. well i think the only real win for the afghan government and the afghan people will be if they make concrete progress towards peace i'm sure that the president will b

to the president ashraf ghani to make the final decision which could come as early as sunday michael semple is a professor at the institute for global peace security and justice at queen's in belfast he says the decision could be an important step towards the end of the war well i think the only real way for the government of the afghan people well if they make concrete progress.

now up to president ashraf ghani to make the final decision which could come as early as sunday michael semple is a professor at institute for global peace security and justice at crean's university belfast he says the decision could be an important step in the peace process well i think the only real win for the afghan government and the afghan people will be if we make concrete progress towards peace i'm sure that the president will be confident that this straight from his heart and as he tries to set the conditions for the negotiations with revenge and they start to each afghanistan towards the east so yes it will strengthen the president's up there were some people of course you thought that they could get you know unconditional release of these prisoners and that there would be negotiations starting next week for anybody who thought up that this may be a disappointment but you have to have a show and see how they ask on people through at least eating it safer and it goes ations at a peace process and the outcome president empowered to try to take for us maybe it's maybe it's inched us it'

to the president and for afghani to make the final decision that could come as early as sunday michael semple is a professor at the institute for global peace security and justice at queen's in belfast he says the decision could be a significant step in the peace process well i think the only real win for the afghan government and the afghan people will be if we make concrete progress towards peace i'm sure that the president will be confident that this strength of his hand as he tries to set the conditions for the negotiations with revenge and they start to each afghanistan towards peace so yes it will strengthen the president's heart there were some people of course who thought that they could get unconditional release of these prisoners and that there would be negotiations starting next week for anybody who thought that this may be a disappointment but our oath we have to have a show of the of the afghan people ruled least eking it in favor of negotiations and peace process and the afghan president empowered to try to take out for us maybe it's maybe it's inched us it's just towards the ta

to the president ashraf ghani to make the final decision which could come as early as sunday michael semple is a professor at the institute for global peace security and justice at queen's in belfast he says the decision could be an important step towards the end of the war . well i think the very real win for the afghan government and the afghan people will be if we make concrete progress towards peace i'm sure that the president will be confident that this strength of his hand as he tries to set the conditions for the negotiations will draw a fence in a start to each afghanistan towards peace so yes it will strengthen the president's art there were some people of course who thought that they could get unconditional release of these prisoners and that there would be negotiations starting next week for anybody who thought that this may be a disappointment but we have to have a show of the of the afghan people broadly speaking at the in favor of negotiations and peace process and the afghan president empowered to try to take that for us maybe it's maybe it's inched us it's just towards the t