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plus... >> i'm nick clark in cuba. on the challenge of resisting endless development - as the country opens its doors. there's has been a suicide car bomb explosion outside of afghanistan's parliament, injure injuring 21 people. taliban fighters opened fire on the building while politicians were in session. six gunmen have been killed including the bomber. let's get more from jennifer glasse, live from kabul. when we spoke last hour there was a gun fight continuing. what is the situation now? >> that gun fight is over as you said all six attackers have been killed according to the police chief. there's a bit of crackling and popping of gunfire outside the building. it's an ammunition depot by the parliament security police that is burning and some of that is burning off.

it was a dramatics morning in kabul. we watched it live on television the parliament speak are was speaking when the camera and building shook. parliamentarians ran from the building. as you said 21 people were injured in the taliban attack, the taliban fighters taking a position in a building across the street preventing police getting to the area for a little whileful special forces came in in large numbers, and police forces afive people have been killed in a bold attack. >> it is bold. one wonders how a car bomb gets that close to parliament from the afghan government. >> it is that will be under investigation. as we move forward security has been tight, and today was an important session of parliament. often parliamentary sessions are

lightly attended. today there was many because we expected the defence ministry to be nominated. security would have been tighter today than before. this is very much in the heart of the city a very very heavily fortified building the fact that a large explosion could make an impression. of course the attackers did not get in the building as is often the case here most of the injured are civilians walking along the road trying to get on with their regular lies. >> if we look north we see victories in konduz province what is happening there. >> that's right. in two districts. 40km outside of the provincial head center and in other areas, outside of the provincial capital, the taliban in control of two districts there. very very heavy fighting and

thousands of taliban fighters is what security forces tell us and the government sent reinforcement. 4,000 afghan army, 2,000 police and 1400 local police to reinforce those up there. forces battling the taliban there. the front line just outside of kunduz city. a stalemate as we understand with the taliban, capturing a second distribute in kunduz. fighting in kun dues has been going on since the taliban spring offensive in late april. they made that a point. we have not seen that fighting up north in recent years. the afghan security forces struggling a bit. they don't have the n.a.t.o. support that they had. notably air power. that used to keep the taliban at bay. now we see established front lines in kunduz. >> thank you for the update from kabul. >> now the state attorney in berlin is reviewing the detention papers of mansour.

and he is spending a third day in custody after being detained at berlin airport on saturday. egypt asked germany to extradite hi.. 20,000 signed a petition demanding his release. paul brennan has more. >> reporter: mansour was detained at the airport on saturday, as he was about to board a flight to qatar. the arrest was made by the federal police who handed him over to state police. mansour issued a video message crit icing actions. >> unfortunately the german authorities are handling this case in a suspicious matter. and that race raises a lot of questions about their involvement. and how they are collaborating with the egyptian regime. >> reporter: mansour was sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia in cairo last year on suspicion of terrorizing a

lawyer in tahrir square in 2011. egypt asked interpol to issue a warrant, and they refused. >> it's inconceivable to have an innocent man. all he did was he was doing his all he did was his job, two programs on al jazeera. >> al jazeera said in a statement: this case is fast becoming an international diplomatic incident. mr mansour holds joint british, egyptian citizenship. so the u.k. consule in berlin is involved. and the german authorities have a headache of explaining why their police executed an arrest warrant which interpol rejected.

>> an online petition has been signed by thousands of people. german politicians came out in support of mansour. the leader of the green party defeated: the international federation of journalists, arab organization of human rights and dozens of others have condemned mr mansour's arrest. protesters gathered to show solidarity in berlin. there'll be no further progress until the case goes to court on monday paul joins us live from berlin. what is happening today? >> the wheels of justice are grinding slowly. we spoke to patrick toytner.

he is mr mansour's solicitor. he is at his office consulting with a specialist in international and arrest warrants. they are getting their representation - getting that together. mean the state's attorney-general is now in his office going through the documentation which he would have only received at 9am local time this morning. documentation prepared over the weekend during mr mansour's detention. at some point - we hope it's this morning. that those two parties will get together. the defense and attorney-general. one slight area of concern is that the defense and the attorney-general should be getting together. they may not have a formal hearing with mr mansour in attendance. it might have to be deuce before

it takes place. that is unfortunate. we are in the third day of mr mansour's detention for charges that he entirely denies. causing deep disquiet in germany as relating to whether this arrest warrant should have been executed in the first police. >> absolutely. it is a worrying development for a number of staff that have been convicted by egypt in absentia. >> well of course we had the three main members of staff spending 400 days in egyptian prisons as a result of convictions in cairo. but there were such other members of staff convicted in absentia. now, what is their status at the moment? we don't know. egypt has not said. the fear is that perhaps if they try to travel to other european countries, that they may find they are detained at airports in

germany or passing through other countries, it's not clear. we need to get to the bottom of this and establish the validity of the what the documents are, and whether or not - what exactly germany will do in relation to the arrest warrant. >> paul brennan live there in berlin. thank you, paul. >> the greek prime minister alexis tsipras made a last minute offer to creditors. european leaders are in brussels on monday for talks aimed at securing a debt deal. thousands in athens urged the government not to back down under pressure. live on set here in doha is abid. what do we know about the proposal. there's noises around it. >> yes, there's a proposal out there. the basis is the biggest problem has been the pension. the i.m.f. the e.u. and they have been saying you paid too

much money. 16% of your g.d.p. goes to paying pensions. they want to deal on this. the greek prime minister is saying limit, so from next year we reduce early requirement. the age is set at 67. lots of people in greece are retiring at 63. that's one part of the proposal. the second part is companies earning half a million euro will pay an increased levy and people earning 30,000 will pay an increased solidarity tax. we have been hearing from other members, the base to make progress on. if a deal is not reached. who has nor lose. greece or the us open. a lot of people have been

toughening this out. and how greece and possibly the e.u. will fall part. what we know is angela merkel will go into the meeting say listen we stand to lose 1 billion euros a year and that's about it. that's not the true story. they have loaned with france 160 billion euros to greece they could potentially stand to lose all that money. but the consequences for both sides are really unknown. we can't say though, this is the occasion, this is the effect. we can't assess that. we can say whatever it is it's not going to look pretty at the end of the day. a lot of tough talk going on. thank you for the details. >> still to come on al jazeera. dozens die. temperatures reached 45 degrees celsius. thousands of people in the poor

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hello again, good to have you with us. the top stories on al jazeera. there has been a suicide car bomb explosion outside afghanistan's parliament. 21 people have been wounded. afghan police say they have killed another six armed men involved in the attack. politicians were inside the building in the capital kabul at the time.

protests have been held in berlin as mansour spends a third day in custody. egypt asked germany and interpol to quickly extradite him greek prime minister alexis tsipras made a last-minute offer to last-minute creditors. european leaders are headed to brussels for emergency talks for security to secure a deal. the government has been urged not to back down under pressure more than 120 people have died in an immense heat weave in pakistan's sindh province. most were in karachi, where temperatures soared up to 25 degrees celsius. we have more from islamabad. >>al high temperature at this

time of the year the heatwave sweeping through the province of s irk ndh broke a 10-year record, leading to many deaths putting a strain on the hospitals and the morgues that have been receiving dozens of bodies on a daily basis. according to the pakistani meteorological department. the south-west monsoon is likely to enter in the next few days reducing the problems of karachi. they are also exacerbated by the fact that the city is suffering power outages, that is a cause for the heat stroke and the cases reported from the southern port city two more people infected with the middle eastern respiratory syndrome died in

south korea, taking the death toll there to 27. the health ministry says 172 people have been infected with the virus. thousands of people in nepal are at risk of landslides after the devastating quake weakened the mountains. we visit a village drying to this village is not easy at the best of times. along the way small land slides and flattened villages looked like wounds on the mountainside. this is a little market where the dirt road ends. four villages can we reached, only by foot. the full court states five days to reach. people walked for days to receive aid here. we are the first media team to

arrive two months after the quake. since the quake locals are nervous. on april 25th as villages scramble. they found the land shifting. i ran with my grand-daughter and the house crumbled and the land split. i was afraid i would be buried here. >> along the village a crevice has occurred. >> as you can see the mountainside has gone crumb gling. it used to be a level land. the government has instructed the villages. this village and the villages around are too dangerous. >> an estimated 43 villages have to be permanently relocated. a key 17 village.

the government's geological team has not been completed. across the river, visitors from higher up mountainside set up camps. this woman had no time to mourn her 4-year-old daughter. her village is uplivable, landsleeps blocked the trail. they joined. they too lost a daughter. everywhere has left the village the the ones left are going further up the mountain where there are trees. they don't know where to go. we thought about building here. the lapped slides. loud bangs and rocks woke them up. when a land slide blocked the river and took with it a part of the village. continuous land slides and monsoons around the corner.

they fear for their lives. hundreds of police officers search an area on the border after two fugitives were spotted there. the two men used power tools to escape from prison. they had been convicted from murder. investigators challenged a prison officer for helping them to escape charleston's emanuel african methodist church honoured the dead. crowds gathered outside to pay respects. at 10:00a.m. the church bells rang out in unison across the city. nine minutes in all. one for each of the victims of the shooting. silence withheld.

>> reporter: the murder scope for the past several days reopened as a powerful house of worship. the historical emanuel over 150 years old has seen a lot. the service as sombre at times, largely uplifting. a congregation that doesn't want to be defined. including the churches and the senior paster. and most of the leadership. >> the doors of mother emanual is open this sunday. it sends a message to every demon in hell and on earth. no weapons shall prosper. the emotion inside harkened back to the true is history of the black church in america. long placed in the difficult moments going back to slifry. outside the church the pain of

the event is row, several hundred people who could not get a seat inside listened to the service over loud speakers. >> my family grew up in the church. i'm here to let everyone know that this is the holy city. and we are not going to let any evil take this city down. >> elsewhere in charleston there was a moment of silence, and several dozen churches tolled their bells at the same time in solidarity. black, white, young and old. strangers consoled each other. after what has been a painful week, one of the worst crimes ever. this brought to the forefront deep divisions. whether it be how to deal with the confederate flag gun control or inherent racism. they are things that will be discussed, just not today. people here said today was about honouring those that lost their lives. >> i'm here because i couldn't thing of any other place to be.

>> why? >> to pay homage. to the congregation. it surprised nobody here that a large number of white people came out to support the church. >> i think that the rallies, when our neighbours made us. >> so many as a community were trying to do the right thing. >> as the servicened, they hug. hoping to spread the spirit of resilience the reverend of a church in charleston, four blocks from where the shooting took place and said emanuel church reopening is significant for the community. >> any time through threats and violence that the doors of the church closed it takes the way the hope of a lot of people. a lot of people are inspired and

come knowing that the church doors will e open. creating a super charge atmosphere. the churches have been under attack. the church was burnt down. in the 1800s. yes, if you look at the structure of the church it is tremendous. the church is always defined, not how it falls down but how it gets up. and we have always been getting up. whether it was black church, whether it was the love of god through other churches and faith-based community. we are defined by how we respond to chris sees 37 central american migrants travelling through mex doe reach the united states have been detained. they were found abandoned after two weeks on the road. migrants are held at the migration center.

elsewhere in the city 42 undocumented people were found in the back of a truck after the driver deserted them. >> advocates for migrants say a plan by the dominican republic is discriminatory. tens of thousands of haitians were told to apply for legal residency or leave the country. we have more. this is the friendship bridge that connect the dominican republic and haiti. both countries say they'll build sent wrists to deal with numbers of deportees, and the dominicans building a deportation center and the haitians a reception center. the hatians are asking the dominican republic to deport suspected haitian migrants to two points here and another further south near the capital. we are not seeing massive deportations by the dominican republic.

it would create economic havoc, because it relies on the workforce of haitian migrants. 200,000 people are at risk of deportation, people unable to file work by wednesday. we see individual cases, but nothing on the sale that is possible at this time. cuba enters a new era in relations with the united states there are concerns that its unique heritage will disappear. it's a fine balance as millions look to benefit from the changing times. >> reporter: it has the faded grandeur, the architecture is stunning. there's a picture wherever you turn. it's still chasing the modern world. not havana but a town more than 200km to the south. this is another gem in cuba's rich diverse heritage.

not surprisingly, it draws the tourists. thousands of them. then you have this the can can of cuba a strip of resorts growing by the day. many fear the country will be swallowed by this the wrong kind of development. >> ironically the united states could be more of a threat to cuba as a friend than it was as an enemy. millions want to come down and enjoy the place. that creates pressure on the cubans to build hotels. to build accommodations tourist resorts and all that. >> here, a new marina waiting for the american yachts that will come. all this presents a problem for cuba how to maximise a tourist dollar and preserve the cultural and environmental heritage. there's good economics here

good business. doing well and doing a different form of tourism than what we see in other parts of the region. the art is cuba's integral unique innocence, it makes good sense to protect the winning qualities. we have the privilege of being an island and others can only offer some we offer museums, theatres, high quality opera. we can offer many things that the rest of the islands in cannot offer. >> one thing is clear. the country does not have an infrastructure to cope with the numbers. of tourists that arrive. the way forward has to be slowly and carefully associated. cuba has to observe the benefit

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