English premier league holders month to cities say they will appeal after being banned from the Champions League for 2 seasons for breaching new wafers financial rules. Story this hour the u. S. Is saying its reached a reduction of violence agreement with the taliban which could lead to the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan a Senior Administration official told reporters the week long pact is very specific covers all Afghan Forces and if successful could lead to a more permanent deal it follows a protracted negotiations in doha that and the meeting between the u. S. Secretary of state might pay 0 and the afghan president carney at the Munich Security Conference where al jazeera is jonah hall is also in munich and explains what more we know about the meant. We dont have a formal announcement date or indeed a time when this 7 day period would come into effect we understand the details are very specific it is to apply nationwide across afghanistan to. Roadside bombs suicide bombs rocket attacks on Afghan Forces if this period of 7 days passes with a significant reduction of violence within within 10 days talks would be said you ought to start between the Afghan Government and the taliban directly and other parties on the ground other Political Parties and so on to wardes a comprehensive Peace Agreement including the withdrawal of u. S. Forces whove been on the ground in afghanistan to get 19 years now having gone in just after 911 so a hugely significant potentially significant moment this no official response yet from the Afghan Government they and others would likely be treating this with some caution they havent had direct contact with the taliban as yet and frankly the taliban dont have to if it form in this department well the war in afghanistan is the longest the United States has ever been involved in it began on october 7th 2001 almost a month after the september 11th attacks on the United States are still around 30000. 00 u. S. Troops in afghanistan as well as thousands of other nato personnel during the more than 18 years of war its thought at least 43000 afghan civilians have been killed early on friday at least 8 people were killed in an ass strikes of violence of course continues the u. S. After general spokesman has welcomed this initial agreement saying that its most important for civilians. If this were to succeed it would obviously be a notable step in bringing peace to the country. And the dialogues are vital pay is of is vital to paving forward the constructive intra afghan negotiations on peace i think its very important. To find ways to reduce the levels of violence in afghanistan is specially the violence that is harming civilians well William Patey is a former British Ambassador to afghanistan joins me now via skype from tooken in london is this a credible agreement in your view well we went to see oversee the credibility read to test it fairly quickly if the if the taliban do reduce the violence as the agreement says the should and that will be a good 1st step but its only a 1st step. And they can only be seen as positive if it then leads to comprehensive talks with the Afghan Government because thats the key finding a settlement a political settlement in afghanistan and which the taliban take part but they dont take power the immediate purpose of this initial agreement i suppose is as were hearing in the clip that from the United Nations about reducing violence on the ground for civilians and earlier there was an air strike in which 8 people were killed do you expect to see. Violence rise and fall depending on how the negotiations go it is a reduction in violence by any means guaranteed. Well know because there are so many actors and bolts so many things could go wrong in a country the size of afghanistan with so many players and i dont think the taliban have a very tight command and control structure there are other players around but it certainly is important if it does lead to reduction in violence its obviously been seen as a confidence Building Measure to do it to as part of a wider settlement so. You know i dont think some violence would be a problem in a 7 day period but if there is a significant reduction in terms of taliban attacks roadside bombs rocket attacks then that would set the scene for more substantive talks about a comprehensive Peace Agreement which eventually could oversleep to withdrawal of u. S. Troops but the key thing is that just to pick up on a point you are making that just how difficult is it going to be to get to that stage in the negotiations if as you say the taliban is in take him organized centralized group that can fully implementing an agreement like this well i think the americans will understand this the Afghan Government will understand that if the taleban in the main stick to the agreement and there is a serious reduction in violence they will want to go to the next days they will be key no i mean even when i was there in 20102012 we we were trying to get the taleban to to enter talks about political settlement they were they were never interested so that the key the key element of this is that this is a precursor to the taliban beginning to talk seriously about a political settlement that is something that must be welcomed thank you very much for my ambassador to afghanistan William Patey. Well im now joined by shavar chancy he is following the story from washington and i suppose from the president as might be the moment where many people ask whether he can deliver on his pledge to end wars in the middle east what could the impact be for the president it would be a pleasure he actually kept to that would be it would be a major achievement whether you like donald trump or not president obama campaigned on bringing the troops home completely failed by the end of his tenure there 8400. 00 troops remain he said obama said it would all be over 2014 remember all the Democratic Candidates running for the president ial nomination are running a message they will also bring all the troops back this is a popular issue americans go to the polls are tired of the endless seeming war in afghanistan that doesnt think you are going to have a military solution with and you mentioned 43. In afghanistan that doesnt include all the p. T. S. D. And Everything Else that happens over here not thousands of injured people 2 trillion dollars have been spent we also now know from the extensive caches published by the Washington Post at the end of last year that throughout this period both the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration were pretty much lying through their teeth about the afghan war and the supposed progress being made people are tired of this have trumped pulls us all for days can say look troops are beginning to come back it will be it will be something that he can really say to his constituency and others i actually pull this off because theres always a suspicion with the democrats too that in the end they rather like war and they often have the same sort of bonus in the military Industrial Complex as those neo columns in the Republican Party having said that theyre looking at the vague timetable weve got so far very briefly at the end in september right there was there was a framework deal and we started getting dribs and drabs about what that kind of look like if the framework is similar to what was agreed upon almost signed in september. That 1st tranche of troops coming home would be about 5400. 00 perhaps that was the deal in september and if thats the case then in november. Trouble only be apt if those 5400 troops are coming back he let me be out at the level that the troops are out when he came into office because he also served the troops a bit to about 13014000 which im sure the democrats will make make the most of hes basically. For the 16 month period say he might only go back to where the troops were when he 1st got into office before he is well went through the pattern that weve seen on u. S. President s who promise a withdrawal of surge in the troops a little bit in afghanistan thank you very much from washington chaplain chancy any bring you more on nats on that tonight and stan washington and its nice out. I think its time to stop the tweeting a. Criticism from one of President Trumps most loyal left tenants but is it a risky rebuke or part of a damage limitation exercise a Syrian Military helicopter is shot down as fighting displaces thousands more people and it led in that in sports you giants of african football play for one of the continents major titles find out who these cats are with the cap its become. China is stepping off its war against a new coronavirus imposing a 14 day self quarantine on anyone returning to beijing and punishment for those who refuse its also revealed the toll the outbreak has taken on health confirming that so far 31716 have been infected and 6 have died but the World Health Organization says theres been a rapid fall off and diagnoses in the past 2 weeks there are now more than 48000 or treat confirmed coronavirus cases in china around 16000 and italy confirmed cases and who by province specifically 1381 people have died across china including one in hong kong meanwhile outside of china 505 people have been positively diagnosed with the virus 2 people have died one in the philippines one in japan while Health Organization is sending more experts into who by province to add to the stuff already there they also say they are taking a closer look at cases of Health Care Workers contracting the illness. Our understanding is that the cases among workers peaked in the 3rd and 4th week of january and theres been a rapid falloff in the number of cases that were occurred and Health Workers in the last 2 weeks this may reflect increased levels of training increased levels of protection and also increased levels of awareness remember this outbreak has com expanded very quickly in an unsuspecting Health System so we also need to look at how many of those home workers were exposed or knowingly within a clinical environment. Adrian brown has more from hong kong on the growing concerns over the shortage of protective equipment for health as. A number of doctors and nurses have been putting messages on social media complaining about the fact that they dont have adequate protective clothing so i think its fair to assume that those who have become infected those who have died have so because they havent had the correct protective gear now chinas government concedes there is a shortage of this protective clothing and of course it underscores just how vulnerable frontline medical workers are in china right now when president xi jinping urged transparency in mid january suddenly it was gangbusters with the state controlled media they were all over this story covering all the angles that has now changed because theyre not touching on the negative they are accentuating very much the positive showing pictures of people who have recovered leaving hospital and also in the last 24 hours showing more pictures of soldiers and volunteers arriving in will hand there has been a Mass Mobilization of people and it has in many ways echoes of the maoi era this is what president xi jinping has called a peoples war against you know the devils virus and chinese city of one is entering its 4th week on a not down since it was identified as being the source of the outbreak journalists are restricted from traveling to the city but aljazeera has obtained pitches from a resident trapped by katrina he reports now from beijing. Empty streets and an increasingly empty fridge there are plenty of vegetables but not much meat for the one familys next meal during the coronavirus lockdown speaking via video call from who day one should told us his family was doing its best not to panic when we go home with this infection liquid all over our bodies and we go out we wear masks we dont know if we go out we come back with a virus stuck in our clothes so with this in fact every day he lives in ching mn a city neighboring will hunt the epicenter of the Virus Outbreak for 3 weeks the familys been ordered to stay indoors movement is increasingly restricted once every 3 days one Family Member is allowed to leave the house to pick up groceries supplies and twenties are limited shoppers stand in lines one meter apart waiting to enter its been almost a month since one saw his daughters who are staying with relatives in southeast china is that i feel relieved that my wife and daughters are not me who by now we chat online every day theyre doing ok just worry about me the vast majority of confirmed coronavirus cases more than 50000 are in a province patients have been sharing videos and social media of life inside makeshift hospitals and quarantine sentence at least 1700 medical staff are among the infected. Elsewhere in china people taking any chances wanks in hopes leaders will learn their lesson from the outbreak. At the beginning nobody paid enough attention everyone thought it was under control until it was too late. And looks forward to life under lockdown coming to an end. Aljazeera. Now to syria the army says it has completely secured the last part of a strategic highway that runs through the last rebel held region the highway connects the capital damascus with aleppo and is the may trade route running through that from the north all the way to the southern border with jordan early a Syrian Government helicopter was shot down in the countrys northwest state media is reporting the whole crew members were killed but its not clear who carried out the attack rebels are claiming to have shot it down the Government Forces a carny trying to take the last rebel held parts of the north the fighting has for some 30000 more civilians to flee the makeshift camps near turkeys border over the last 24 hours United Nations says more than 830000 people have now fled in just the past 2 months they are living in desperate conditions with temperatures dropping below 0 in recent days and there are few supplies to help them cope with the cold. At the turkey syria border and says the Syrian Government is blaming turkey for the shooting down of that aircraft. The helicopter was taking part in a major government offensive to take over areas on the west of. The government managed to retake some villages from the rebels and crucial military bases when the helicopter was shot down the rubble so that they were the ones who opened fire on the helicopter however government sources say that the Syrian Government sources people are fearful with their supporters all insist that this is the work of Turkish Military asked post operating in terms these Turkish Military is sending more reinforcement into living different parts of the province to try to hold the advance of the Syrian Government which says its just a matter of time before it takes over the whole territory including in libya which is the rebels last stronghold in syria about 140000 syrians fled their homes over the last 4 days and they are now on the border with turkey joining the almost 1000000 people stranded on the border area were talking about a huge number of people and the International Aid agencies are grappling with how to deal with this situation were talking about areas with near military operations where the government is on the move to take over rebel territories as a very delicate situation weve been talking to activists and basically they say its already a tragic humanitarian situation or u. N. Security council has been meeting to discuss the escalating violence in syria e. U. Members of the council asked for a closed door meeting they are calling for an end to the military offensive by all parties especially syria and its allies mike hanna is that. Theres a sense of mounting frustration and even anger among some members of the Security Council at the bodys apparent inability to deal with the mounting humanitarian crisis in syria there are more than 800000 people displaced in lib and the outskirts of aleppo over 60 percent of them believed to be children this is the last enclave held by Opposition Forces in the face of a mounting campaign by Government Troops backed by russia the 4 European Union members of the Council Called a closed door meeting in the course of the morning and afterwards the is stone an ambassador read a statement on their behalf we are deeply alarmed by the ongoing military escalation in not with syria that has displaced more than 800000 people since december 1st this is one of the worst manmade displacements that we have seen anywhere in the world in the years. And it has been and continues to be entirely avoidable the Security Council has been unable to get an agreement on how to deal with the crisis mainly because of russias ongoing support for the Syrian Government a meeting on syria is due again in coming days b