Talking therapy services. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport withjohn watson. Thank you, everton manager at marco silva is facing the sack this afternoon after another defeat, this time in the Merseyside Derby to liverpool. Thanksjohn, and ben rich has all the weather. As the saying goes, red sky in the morning, shepherds warning, we had some beautiful red sun rises this morning but the warning is for a lot of rain in places. It is turning milder but i will have full details just before half past. Thanks, ben. Also coming up. The christmas advert getting tens of thousands of views, and it only cost a hundred pounds to make. Hello, this is afternoon live. With one week to polling day, the Political Parties are beginning theirfinal push for votes. Boris johnson is promising to pass his brexit deal and bring a tax cutting budget within 100 days, if the conservatives win the election. Labour have outlined plans to recruit almost 20,000 extra teachers in england overfive years. Mean
Youre watching r t its a National Armories on the lower court thank you for joining us we start with this prosecutors in sweden say they have dropped a 9 year long rape case against wiki leaks cofounder julian a song as the evidence has weakened over time this is more likely clear the way for the whistle blows extradition from the u. K. To the u. S. Where he faces espionage charges earlier neil harvey was too involved by donald quarter with the latest. You know this whole saga started out in it with the rape allegations against us and youve been through a whole mill since then but now were back to those initial charges thats right neal exactly it was in 2010 that the swedish government filed in International Arrest warrant against a songe for 2 charges one of molestation and another of rape but assad has always denied these charges hes even cooperated with the International Investigation from abroad and it was the threat of extradition to the United States if you were to have been arre
Today to discuss our latest record breaking numbers in afghanistan is former secretary former Senior Security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense the one and only mr Michael Maloof michael always a pleasure having you on thanks for having me so why are we seeing this dramatic uptick in airstrikes in afghanistan over the last few years especially since Donald Trump Took Office 2017 why why are we putting now more bombs and more strikes and breaking these records well in the midst of peace negotiations that are going on between the United States and taliban and costs are. Often on i might add i think each side is trying to establish leverage. Strength and no matter what what will be how afghanistan will be divided them and how the Afghan Government if it survives will have its portion taliban will have its portion but taliban is just waiting this out they know they know were not going to hang or. Around forever and that and that trump has already announced were movin
Because somehow the rule of law doesnt uphold to him we believe this News Conference to go live to the Us State Department for a joint News Conference mike pompeo and the Russian Foreign minister, surrogate laptop. Live coverage on cspan2. Good afternoon, welcome. Welcome surrogate. Before i recap the meeting that i had with foreign minister laptop and his team, i want to note that recently the trumpet ministration has taken action for human rights violators, i mentioned in my International Human rights speech which we celebrate today and these actions extend from the ministration commitment old individuals accountable for gross human rights is abuses. Ill speak more about that tomorrow area now turning to our meeting. Last may at President Trumps request i made a trip to russia to meet with president putin. The reason was pretty straightforward. We should have a better relationship. The United States andrussia than we had the last few years and weve been working on that. Our bilateral
Representatives from the housing companies. Earlier today secretary of state mike pompeo and Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov held a News Conference with reporters at the state department. They talked about current u. S. Relations with russia. This is 45 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome. Welcome, sergey. Before i recap the meeting that i had with foreign minister lavrov and his team, i want to note that recently the Trump Administrations taken action looking to its only appropriate i mention them on International Human rights day which we celebrate today. These actions extend the Trump Administrations commitment to hold individuals accountable for gross human rights abuses all around the world. Ill speak more about that tomorrow. Now turning to our meeting. Last may at President Trumps request, i made a trip to russia to meet with president putin and foreign minister lauvrov. We should have a better relationship, the United States and russia than we have the last few ye