Saying the move doesnt mean the u. S. Is backing away from its commitment to finding a political solution to decades of war a negotiated political settlement among afghans is the best path to achieving this outcome. Until there is accomplished we will continue to pursue an aggressive military campaign against the taliban and terrorist groups that continue to conduct violence against the people of afghanistan also in kabul on monday to meet afghan leaders a u. S. Congressional delegation led by House Speaker nancy pelosi reducing the number of foreign troops in afghanistan was the focal point of the recent talks between the u. S. And the taliban but those talks failed after President Trump playing the taliban for a surge in violence. And there has been an increase in attacks in recent months mainly from the town of on and are still linked groups adding more pressure on local Security Forces afghans are also waiting to find out who. One last months general election the results have been delayed because of technical problems both parties to the conflict programs american and Government Force be equally responsible for the killing of civilians and people are really tired with the violence and they want Something Different and they know that both the United States and the taliban has failed already and thats why theyre looking for another party to come in and actually only be as the feature of afghanistan remains uncertain theres no official indication of talks resuming with the taliban or what the departure of u. S. Troops will mean for security in the region here mohammed al jazeera. Apple farmers in indian administered kashmir say restrictions on communications and movement are having a devastating impact on their businesses the Indian Government revoked the regions autonomy and sentence soldiers 9 weeks ago but also shut down internet and phone lines is victoria. Its harvest time in indian administered kashmir where apple production contributes 10 percent to the states 20000000000. 00 incumbents but this year apples are being left to rot because farmers confines people to pick them up to Prime Minister and render a major abolish the state to thomas status and imposed a security lockdown as. The situation is bad we can harvest the apples on time and most of them fell down from the trees now were collecting the rotten apples and throwing them away. Internet im able phone Services Remain cutoff for this farm and that means his business is in jeopardy then the basic communication is dollars we have no neighbors dogs dont build up people. Who are sitting in delhi westin in bangalore were staying in genoa and other big markets and were not able to communicate with them its really difficult. This wholesale fruit market in srinagar would normally be packed with trade is business is down by 95 percent this year compared to last was as big as the last on each year export about 200000. 00 boxes of apples in the domestic markets across india this year because of the situation farmers arent able to send their projects to market they dont know where to send it because communication lines arent working. In response to the crisis the Indian Government has set up a National Cooperative through which. Bought it imposes strict Quality Control measures which many farmers find hard to meet that. We can only select the produce if the color of the apple is goods so far we have rejected 80 percent of the pharmacy of come here to sell their produce the apple industry in kashmir involves 3500000 people around half the population of the state they look down has devastated the economy and farm is a cooling on the Indian Government to remove the security restriction was. Still to come on the news out. A way from the steps of the Tokyo Olympics that. Makes history hung in the details with a whole. Time for sports news mr hope peter thank you very much representatives of the Colombian Football Federation a file to turn out for mediation talks aimed at averting a play a strike where last saturday some teams protested jaring games by sitting on the ground all slightly kicking the ball between them the process but just for a few minutes before the games work completed tensions have been simmering for years between the players and their federation are the issues including a demand for a few matches and the lack of a collective health plans to play the union side have been threats that contracts will be ripped up if a full strike carries a have a sign that im p. F. C. Has more from bogota. What theyre saying is that they dont directly employees the colombian footballers so they dont understand why they should participate in dates mediation of course that he said that the union saying there are systemic problems with the way the Football League is that minister in colombia so they should be involved in this is also why the ministry of labor here thinks about being as it is as it is both the president colonial Football Federation and i was that your which is the organization that runs the professional leagues in colombia decided not to show up even to answer this Central Government here in colombia and ask them to please part piece of paper and its negotiation and theres also been pressure on parts of the International Union of footballers requesting that for you to take a Colombian Federation to participate but this is not happening so whats whats happening now is that the. Pattern of the president of the union. Colombia football is that represents for 1400. 00 colombia and me also its dollars and also a big number of female players that is in talks right now only with the vice minister of labor to try and avoid this strike that instead that its clearly inching closer its probably the most likely outcome at this point is the players are saying that their clubs and their federation is now willing to listen to their demands these are demands that have been going on for years and while there are colombian footballers that make pretty good pay here in colombia most of the players here make around 11500. 00 a month they say thats way below what most other clubs play pay also a. In other countries in the region that they dont have a functional Health System that they play to many games they have a long list. And that none of the clubs is willing to listen to the demands and that theyre trapped in and were breaking their contract now bangladeshs cricket is a going on strike in a move that throws next months tour of india into serious doubts they said they werent play until the 11 point list of demands is met snow amongst the amongst their mouths even are improving pay for domestic matches reversing the decision to abandon the bangladesh primally will bangladesh. To go ahead on november the 3rd with the 1st of 320 internationals. Confident that everyone will stick with their demands we dont want to be involved with anything cricket related until our demands are met well return to our usual jobs when the demands a minute because we all want progress for cricket some players might play for 2 to 4 years some of us have been here for 10 years we want to leave a bit of an environment for the future cricketers which will improve cricket in bangladesh. While in england some of crickets biggest names have been signed up for the sports newest 401 names surprisingly ignored in the players draft was west indies batsman chris gayle the t 20 specialist was in the contract the bracket of 160000. 00 for the 100. 00 innings tournament which begins next year the number one pick was afghanistan Legspinner Rashid carney 21 year old hes the worlds number one ranked 20 bowler joins the trent rockets or some of the other big names that were picked include australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc the 29 year old play for the welsh far out franchise west indies all round old very russell goes to the southern whilst the england test match captain will join russia at the trent rockets. 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Tour event and its his 1st appearance in japan since 2006 and hes also to talk of targeting a return to the country for next years tokyo lympics over the years of having friends ive competed lympics seeing golf being part of the olympics i just what it would be an honor to represent my country and let the games right now 9th in the World Rankings and. Hopefully you know make sure i can have a good year and qualify and represent my country. Well japans rugby team say their incredible run at the world cup would have happened without the support of their fans the house very title was ended by found africa in the quarterfinals but youve been forgiven for thinking that theyd won the whole tournament japan did win all 4 of their pull that included wins over ireland and scotland to make it into the last night for the 1st. And use it on the were really happy about the reception we had from the fans i remember when we returned to the world cup in 2011 in new zealand we had 2 or 3 journalists greeting us and now we have this many in front of us i believe this is what we have to keep doing carry on with this level shown in the past few weeks in Major League Soccer the l. A. Galaxy beat Minnesota United in the 1st round of the playoffs no goals in the 1st half l. A. Galaxy captains last and even him a bit unusually wasteful in front of goals however things got better for his side in the 2nd half sebastien le jay and jonathan dos santos scoring within minutes of each other and despite a late goal by minnesota galaxy held on for a 21. 00 win the now face local rivals and top seed l. A. Ellis l. A. F. C. Is hard to say in the senate for. Now the sport of speak climbing is set to make its debut at the Terry Carolyn picks next year now if youve never seen it before have a look at this. 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China is calling on top i want to reunify with the mind if i see the consequences one a 150 gates taiwans determination to remain independent on aljazeera. Where ever you. Can deal with poverty unless you deal with the gap you decide to i just agree with that toy this sounds like blaming the public become a treat for the problem not literally mean everybody these people are well trained thing is much a part of the Islamic State machinery and have been very. Popular little jersey to join me in the hot sun as i put it up for questions to my special guest and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here aljazeera. Lebanons government seeks to ease nationwide protests passing a raft of reforms but demonstrators say they will not give up until the cabinet resigns. Hello im barbara sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up what about the. Angry residents were all fruits and vegetables at the parting american troops as they drive through a kurdish dominated city of Northern Syria. 11 dead and hundreds of arrested after days of protests in chile the president extends the state of emergency saying we are at war and for Big Drug Companies reach a 260000000. 00 settlement over their role in the u. S. Opioid epidemic to a 1st a landmark trial. Thank you for joining us we begin in lebanon where protesters are still out in force despite the government approving sweeping new. Make reforms the Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures on monday and the effort to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in years against the ruling elite but activists say that will not go home until the entire cabinet steps down they also want new electoral laws to stop the same sectarian leaders holding on to power there is more now from the lebanese capital beirut. Often the people have spoken calls go beyond fighting corruption they want accountability and early elections and they say they arent leaving the streets until that happens protests are growing by the day the lebanese government however is refusing to step aside instead it is offering a plan that is supposed to fix the economic crisis without hitting the public with more taxes my thats awful with fear the cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0. 6 percent with no new taxes the salaries of top officials including legislators and members of parliament will be cut in half as part of the economic reform package the central bank and the Banking Sector will help in reducing the deficit by i have dealt 3400000000 are the decisions that we have taken might not fulfill your demands but they fulfill what i have been calling for i will not allow anyone to scare you and its the governments duty to protect your peaceful demands. For too little too late the proposed reforms are not enough to calm the anger people have no faith. They are right they have no faith and no one the government. Prime minister the president and the fundamental people have not made them over the even if they tell them that they were going to do to force the positive for the city i would begin to believe that the way forward according to the protesters involves the government resigning a Transitional Council made up of judges who dont have political affiliations taking over until elections and those elections will be held under a new law whereby lebanon will become one single constituency and sects will no longer just elect their own sectarian leaders. Demands the governing alliance has already rejected the protesters are up against those in power who wont hesitate to use it but there is hope. For many here its a new beginning. Those who are taking part in this protest movement say it is a rejection of the political elite who have been in power for decades exploiting the sectarian system of government at the expense of building a strong state. The states resources to support in their communities some of their supporters. At the 1st serious. The path for political change in lebanon has now been drawn but the road ahead wont be easy so. Is the sense of. Insecurity visit. From the field believed to be going to. Be mobilized within the lebanese the want to live together. Beyond the. Crowds this size protesting for this long young old rich poor Muslim Christian and without backing from Political Parties has not happened in lebanon some recent history a revolution seems to have already happened but the crisis is far from over. Beirut lets go live to Stephanie Decker she is in beirut for us now we just heard at the end. There the crisis over even though these measures have been offered have been announced it doesnt seem like its having much of an impact with the protesters tell us what the mood is like in beirut now. People remain defiant certainly everyone who has been here the crowd has thinned out somewhat now but there were thousands of people here say. They dont want this. Government to solve the issues that they create the old guard of the political elite in this country so were going to have to wait and see these unpredictable times extraordinary but unpredictable times here in lebanon people to find that they will continue to come out and protest we had an incident with that with that with a gang of bikers the supporters of the abbot and hezbollah movements arm movements of movements moving towards the center here in beirut they were stopped by the army but it gives you a sense of just the sense of intimidation or how things can change you have Many Political groups here they do have armed men that they could bring to the streets if they wanted to so its a very complex we have to situation when it comes to the politics they are but certainly the Prime Minister called the head of the army before we had this news of the speicher gag urging him to to protest to protect the protesters in these peaceful protests but also to open the roads because remember this country is remains at a standstill the balance remain closed schools remain closed so theres still a real issue to deal with there how much pressure are these protests going to continue putting on this government also is the momentum going to continue not just in beirut but in other countries i think that were just going to have to monitor the next couple of days in the weekend to see how things are going to unfold because some