WEST COAST OF UNITED STATE IS ON WILDFIRE TODAYS NEWS
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if 2020 wasn't strange enough. Already the san Francisco golden gate bridge
remains shrouded in smoke. in pale comparison to what the morning commute
looked like this week smoke and ash from wildfires mixed with the cool pacific
ocean air to produce another worldly effect 11: 15crazy.11: 15 in the morning
and it’s like the middle of the night almost historic fires are ripping through
three western states in California. Almost 5000 square kilometers have burned.
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Firefighters don't expect to bring the blazes under control until the middle of
October .some villages have already been incinerated .the Governor toured one
scorched forest making a point about climate change. As he surveyed the damage
this is a climate damn emergency this is real and it's happening this is the perfect
storm. It is happening unprecedented ways year in year out
The debate is over around climate change just come to the state of California. a driver in Oregon filmed the dramatic scenes as an inferno engulfed the forests, while this footage reveals the total obliteration the fires left in. their wake the governor told residents to brace for a huge loss of life and property and said that many residents were missing in Washington state too fires have wreaked havoc and heartbreak everything gone clothes beds. Everything though weather conditions are gradually improving meteorologists are warning that it is not yet even peaks wildfire season
Face-to-face peace talks between the Government and the Taliban
To Start The Event Many Afghans Have Been Waiting For Decades
United States secretary of state Mike Pompeo flew to the opening ceremony in Doha Qatar and urged the warring sides to seize the opportunity. look the choice of your political system is of course yours to make in the united states. we found that democracy notably the principle of peaceful resolution and rotation of political power works best.
Democratic systems reflect the choices of the majority.
while protecting the human rights of everyone . Everyone that includes women and minorities, their rights have been largely neglected by the Taliban. it's just one of the several points the two sides disagree on the use of violence is another .the chair of the high council for national reconciliation called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
we have come here with goodwill and good intention to stop the fourth years of bloodshed and achieve a countrywide and lasting peace. but the Taliban have long worried that reducing violence could give them less leverage at the negotiation table in their opening statement. they instead focused on their desire to include tenants of Islam and any future Afghan government in this ceremony. I request and I hope that both sides pay attention to the provisions of the holy relation of Islam.
The warring sites offer two dramatically different versions of a post-war Afghanistan. but the leaders meeting today stressed that violence is no path towards a harmonious Afghanistan.
well for more on this historical peace talks
let's cross now to journalist Ali Latifi in Kabul. Ali thanks for joining us .what are negotiators on both sides hoping to achieve and where do you think? we might see the biggest sticking points, the biggest sticking points will obviously, be around a ceasefire. because you know the Taliban is hesitant to declare a nationwide long-term ceasefire. they have declared two ceasefires in the past year or so.
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Previously the government also initiated a ceasefire .but this will be a major sticking point and then for the government. a major issue for them is sort of retaining. this idea of the republic and making sure that their seats are secure .because you know there are a lot of people within the government that the Taliban and other groups and even people within Afghanistan you know might find the suspect.
we're talking about former communists about warlords about people who as young people put it
parachuted in, from foreign countries and don't necessarily understand the cultural and religious the country or the languages.so these types of people are very afraid for their jobs. so maintaining the republic is also very important for them.
So these are the kinds of things that will really that could really sort of hold up the talks. Right now the Taliban has said it wants an Islamic government that is also inclusive one of the interesting things that are going to come out of these talks. the Taliban is going to have to clearly lay out their political vision for the country.
What are we expecting to hear .well this is the thing is what we hear is up to them because this has been the question that has been asked of them of their supporters of other groups within the government or within Avalon society, who have a sort of similar views is that .what does it mean that you want an Islamic society because all aspects of Avalon society are based on Islam. whether you're talking about the laws or the constitution or the education system. everything has to fall within the parameters of sharia and Islam and Islamic jurisprudence and all of these things.
So the government the Taliban finally has to be upfront and say when we mean an Islamic system this is what we mean? because you know for instance they're in Doha.
In Doha, women work, they drive, they go out to shopping centers. you know they have shisha they go to cafes, whatever. so if they're trying to sort of implement .what they did in 1996 it'll kind of fall flat because they'll be like you're just in this country. for all these years where women had these sorts of rights .all right and now after almost two decades in Afghanistan US has agreed to a timeline for
withdrawing foreign troops in February deal with the Taliban.TALIBAN are these negotiations expected to produce the kind of results that we and its nato allies are hoping for that's exactly what the U.S wants.
you know the way when it was announced that Mike Pompeo would be becoming that he replying from Washington for these talks. that's how people envisioned his role is that. he would be the enforcer right .almost like the principal in a school full of unruly children ensuring that they come to an agreement and ensuring that they lay out the steps on both sides necessary for the US to withdraw THEIR FORCES FROM THE AFGHANISTAN.
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