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US May Send More Troops to Afghanistan
Senior aides to Donald Trump are requesting 3,000 extra troops to fight the Taliban.
Senior aides to Donald Trump are requesting 3,000 extra troops to fight the Taliban. He hasn't approved the plans and is expected to make a decision before a NATO summit later this month.
Also in the programme, we go to Germany where authorities have arrested a second soldier suspected of planning a right-wing extremist attack on a senior public figure that could be blamed on refugees.
And who should or shouldn't be allowed climb Mount Everest, after a man attempted to climb it without a permit.
(Image: US Marines and Afghan National Army during a handover ceremony at a camp in Helmand in April 2017 Credit: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images)
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