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a double bombing kills at least twenty five people in the afghan capital of them journalists while an attack on a foreign military convoy in the south kills eleven civilians including children. so this is algis they're a long way from london also coming up iran denies reports that iranians died in sunday's missile strikes in miniature bases in syria nigeria's president mohamed juba hari jewett the white house any time now for talks expected to focus on security and as russia's protest against the blocking of the messaging out telegram iran announces a similar balance. we begin in afghanistan where dozens of people have been killed in

a series of attacks by eisel and the taliban it was also the deadliest day for the media since the fall of the taliban at least twenty five people were killed in a double suicide bombing in kabul claimed by eisold nine journalists who rushed to the scene were among those killed by the second blast and al-jazeera cameraman was among the forty five injured b.b.c. afghan service reporter was killed in a separate incident in the eastern province of cost and the taliban suicide car bomb apparently targeting a nato convoy in kandahar killed eleven civilians including children from a nearby religious school jennifer glass reports from kabul on the almost zero zero zero the first suicide bomber was on a motorbike i saw says the target was intelligence headquarters but the explosion killed civilians and policeman in the street edward led to do well for policemen from district nine who were at the front line but were among those martyrs and

three policemen who would as well get emergency workers rushed to the scene. to aid the wounded. afghan cameramen reporters and photographers who come to cover the news became part of the story when a second suicide bomber disguised as a journalist blew himself up among such attacks could create existential threats against press freedom and freedom of expression in afghanistan which is considered one of the biggest achievements of the country in the past seventeen years of going to start has got the most vibrant media in the region this is supposed to be a secure part of kabul home to not only intelligence headquarters but nato the u.s. embassy and various aid organizations in the capital these days nothing feels safe . another are so bombing last week killed at least sixty people and injured one hundred ten afghans lined up to register to vote where the target not only in kabul but elsewhere too in kandahar in southern afghanistan a suicide car bomb attack on

a nato convoy killed at least eleven civilians including children several nato soldiers and afghan policeman were injured the afghan president has described these attacks as were crimes terrorist acts in conflict with islamic values and human rights and the afghans blame the government for not doing enough to prevent them jennifer glass al jazeera kabul one of the journalists killed in kabul was his chief in afghanistan. he had rushed to the scene of the first blast to cover the story the french news agency has said a selection of his best work were a was a father of five and wrote in twenty sixteen about how his family have been scared to leave the house he said he had never felt life to have so few prospects and cold as a time of anxiety. so

isn't going to train has launched a heavy bombardment of a rebel held town of rustan's the homeless meanwhile the government is denouncing new aggression from this and a miss without specifying who after its military bases came under attack at least eight people were killed in the overnight strikes in hama province on the aleppo conscious side iranian state media denies any of its own military bases or people will head despondently posts they were among the targets i mean is a retired jordanian f. force general he says it's likely that israel carried out the strikes i think israel is keeping the balance between striking can't carry and being limited strike like this at the same time promoting gets the terence but that means that he would like to expand the scale of florida so that we keep this limited because we believe to you of the opinion. that once war houses. shortridge.

were part of the which the militia on the bases in syria. an evacuation deal has been reached between the syrian government and some some groups rebels in southern damascus pro-government forces have surrounded kill rebel eisel concho neighborhoods after a nearly two week and ground offensive to deal includes the evacuation of the young . refugee camp. might pump aoe has wrapped up his first overseas trip as u.s. secretary of state. and palestine to restart the peace process and pay or met the king of jordan and the foreign minister in amman on the first final leg of his three day middle east which was dominated by the issue of iran nuclear deal and the abdel-hamid reports from amman. if you have to strip israeli palestinian conflict didn't seem a priority in our mended newly appointed u.s.

secretary of state was reminded it remains the main stumbling block to was achieving regional peace the two state solution remains the only path to the pieces we believe in jordan it is the solution that would allow for the emergence of an independent palestine state jordanian leaders are also worried about the even in move of the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem but maintained that final boundaries within jerusalem are up for negotiation with respect to the two state solution the parties will ultimately make the decision about what the right resolution is certainly open to a two two party solution that's a likely outcome we certainly believe that the israelis and palestinians need to need to have political engagement there was no combination however of the recent demonstrations along the gaza border fence with israeli snipers shot on protesters killing dozens and injuring hundreds limited himself to saying that israel had the

right to defend itself the u.s. secretary of state didn't seem to share the jordanian view that this really palestinian conflict is the main source of instability in the middle east instead he pointed to other conflicts in the region but throughout his trip it was clear that iran and the uncertain future of the nuclear deal where the immediate priority for the u.s. administration in riyadh and tel aviv mike compare ramped up the rhetoric on iran threat to middle east ability to the delight of his hosts iran destabilize this entire region that supports proxy militias and terrorist groups. it is an arms dealer to the who the rebels. and iran conducts cyber hacking campaigns. well iranian missiles are also a concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of

being fired from iranian bases in syria. from lebanon. need to now apparently couldn't be more pleased with the appointment grinning and warmly congratulating him their language at times interchangeable we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east remains if people thought the iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing to do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to go one country after the other has flown back to washington but if tough talk on iran please some they lack of significant commitment. middle eastern conflict would worry others but at the. now for the first time in twenty two years the palestinian national council is officially meeting in the west bank city of ramallah to discuss several critical issues these are pictures of their actual for

a meeting there live pictures coming to us from ramallah topping the list is whether or not to suspend the recognition of israel the meeting which began in the last hour to last three days beginning with a speech by palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas shortly my stint in the national council serves as a parliament and representing palestinians in the occupied territory on the dance it's been meeting since nine hundred sixty four but last held a full session in one thousand nine hundred six it was around six hundred members including representatives of various factions independents military personnel and other associations but many of them are boycotting the convention including hamas which governs gaza the popular front for the liberation of palestine and islamic jihad and force it now joins us live from ramallah so it's been twenty two years harry why are they now deciding to meet. well as far as my part of us says and

presumably he will elaborate on this some length in his speech which we're expecting to get underway at some stage in the next maybe hour or so things are running a little bit behind time he says it's important to do this now to confront both israel and the united states at a time when those two nations are incredibly closely aligned at a time when the trump peace plan may well be published in the next few weeks he wants to make sure that there is a level of unity and cohesion behind him as he as he makes potentially consequence and consequential decisions in the coming days but away from the policy it's also very much about the process it's about restocking the p. and c. with members many of them will be handpicked members by mahmoud abbas and as well as that electing new members of the executive committee of the p.l.o. which is the most senior body of palestinian leaders and so there are some who are saying that this is something of cementing of power by mahmoud abbas there's also

indications that there is an attempt to give some of the powers of the p. and c. this very large body which as you say has met for so long to a smaller body called the central council again which could give him more decision making capability in the coming days this is what the secretary general of the p. and c. said this is all about how they got that the how do you learn how to get we need a unified front these council is meant to maintain legitimacy we're almost losing the quorum in the p.l.o. executive committee and we don't want that and we want a healthy legitimate and a popular framework we might disagree how much says there needs to be unity we agree we are all for reconciliation if that's achieved we can hold another p. and c. session in three months. well there you heard him talking about the lack of reconciliation between fatah which dominates the p.a. here and indeed the p.l.o. and hamas in gaza as well as hamas there is no islamic jihad being represented here

neither of those are actually currently members of the p.l.o. although there is some discussion about that about in the future trying to bring them in and there is no representation here either by the p.f. lp the popular front for the liberation of palestine so some of the constituent parts are boycotting here is what hamas says leader ismail haniya had to say a little earlier today. hamas confirms that any council that doesn't carry the unification idea of the palestinian ranks is a council that never expresses the whole of the palestinians it is a council hits the unity of our people and it's the organization and its legitimacy and its representation over all palestinians kerry and president abbas is a sincere sprightly eighty three i suppose we could say but oh is there a sense of people our thoughts on turning to who may well be his successor. well you have there been thoughts about that for a long time and indeed there have been

a couple of reports of of health concerns in recent months as well if anyone knows looking for him to anoint somebody during the next three days they're likely to be disappointed analysts that you speak to here say that what is more important as far as he and many concerned is that there is a system a process in place of governance that is robust enough to survive the passing of mahmoud abbas if that were to happen in any sort of short term or medium term future that there is a process in place by which the that that there will be enough people that he approves of and that he may well wish to see take her take on the role in the future in positions of power to do so and to manage that process what he doesn't want to see is a free for all many people many stakeholders don't want to see that and so as far as any kind of name coming out in the next few days that's unlikely but this can be

seen in the context of what happens after he dies certainly that he will have the sorts of people in positions of power that he would wish to see that we're keeping an eye on exactly when he gave that speech at the forum and we'll be taking that hopefully night but for now carry forth it live in ramallah thank you very much. iran has bound the popular messaging app telegram to protect a national security the news came as crowds gathered in moscow to protest against a court decision earlier this month to block telegram in russia is popular in the country because of its encryption but russian bandis after the company refused to hand over encryption keys that couldn't scramble messages. i mean as opposition leader has been formally nominated for the post of prime minister nicole passion young towards central square a day ahead of a parliament she votes on the country's new leader is the culmination of two weeks of protests that saw so former prime minister i guess in alstad. says he's the only

man who can get rid of on niña of corruption and poverty and conduct free and fair elections. still to come this half hour a u.n. security council iran's a member and meets with the country's leaders as part of an investigation into the ranger crisis under presumably and sets a new world record in portugal riding the biggest wave ever surfed. hello there we're seeing a fair amount of rain over parts of china at the moment this weather system is stretching from chengdu all the way across towards the east coast and it's gradually slipping its way southward so on wednesday it's head just about in the province and stretching again up towards the days young province and so plenty of

what weather across this stretch but to the north fine and settled and to the south and north to baddy the save the hong kong bit of cloud coming and going at times but generally fine warm thirty degrees out towards the west of course it's far warm of a matter for some of us in india the pretty one soon heat is really on the rise now and people are doing anything they can in order to escape the burning sunshine there'll be plenty more of it over the next few days though the exception really is in the northeast where the hot air is setting off quite a few thundery downpours that are working their way eastwards they're working their way across parts of bangladesh and nepal very heavy downpours here but still over the highest ground we're still seeing a little bit of snow towards the west though of course that's where the heat is not poor about forty three degrees and force in new delhi will be up around forty could even get a little bit higher than that as we head into wednesday this time up of forty one to the north oh in through pakistan still the chance of

a shower. on counting the cost why iran's nuclear deal and all those factors are at play in a new game of oil it could mean people prices at the pump. and into korean summit what would a pool in relations mean for their economy. counting the cost. because we have such an expensive for people with problems and actually sharing information with.

welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera dozens of people have been killed in bombings in afghanistan i still says it curried out a double attack in kabul that killed at least twenty five people nine of them journalists the taliban suicide bombing in kandahar killed eleven civilians including children syria has denounced an overnight attack on its military bases in hama province on the aleppo countryside and eight people were killed on my own peo has wrapped up his first overseas trip as u.s. secretary of state israel and palestine to restart the peace process. lunch area president mohamed bihari has just arrived at the white house for a meeting with the u.s. president donald trump security corruption china's financial presence in africa are all expected to be on the agenda at the meeting between the leaders bihari who his seeking reelection next year is the first sub-saharan african leader to meet trump

this year the u.s. president was roundly criticized after making offensive remarks about migration from african countries like nigeria well in a moment we'll find out how biharis visit is being viewed in nigeria but first let's talk to a white house correspondent kimberly how it can be as i mentioned he was quite disparaging about the whole of the african kong a continent but also said some pretty bad things about nigerians living in huts how do you think the reception is going to go with that kind of hiding or. it's you know there's no question it's a friction point suso certainly the two leaders are going to get have to move past that before they can talk and some of the more substantial issues that they want to discuss like security and the economy but you're right this is certainly something that made up be addressed in the joint press conference but certainly we expect that it will likely come in the oval office once the cameras of the reporters have been shooed away you have to remember that the white house never denied that donald

trump made these comments that he used salty language when describing african nations so certainly there is expected to be some friction among the two leaders but we are also told that both are eager to put the issue behind them and move forward on more substantive issues. standing by for the press conference the white house well let's cross to general and we're going who's in the capital of nigeria. nigerians with i'm a christian power they seeing this visit. well it's seen differently for his supporters they see this as a basically a boost to president biharis popularity those who are skeptical say that this is a projection that he's fit to run for another term in office following months of speculations over his health that the arms deal about almost five hundred million u.s. dollars of arms deal that the u.s.

government decided to go ahead with the government has been widely criticized here especially from members of the national assembly will all say that they simply this is appropriation did not this is why get this deal did not go through proper appropriation however his supporters say basically that there are provisions in the constitution that allows for contingencies now we've had travels over the past few weeks that is supposed to be in for in pertaining to issues of security but his critics say basically that that is in fact a premature campaigning they say that the focus right now of the president is in the upcoming february elections but whatever it is that results today what they are going to see basically is an image of a president who is now ready basically for another term in office he will come back possibly with another arms deal but what they know basically is that by the end of his or before the end of this year he will not be able most likely to pull till three promises which he did when he started his presidency and that is to fight

corruption improve the economy and in fact to defeat the boko haram group which nigeria now is in conflict with in combat with for over nine years to go to tow it as a militia and dog and that's because as long as some. government forces fired at protesters in kashmir killing a young man and wounding at least fourteen others the returns to his had been trying to help rebels who were trapped after government soldiers cordoned off southern drug village the rebels exchanged fire with troops for several hours two were killed including the top commander of kashmir's largest armed group a delegation from the un security council is a mammal to investigate the range of crisis the fifteen delegates met with defacto leader. in the capital before traveling to rock and state some seven hundred thousand muslim or being forced to flee from there after a military operation was launched last august has faced intense criticism for her

failure to speak up for the revenger and condemn the army the un is putting pressure on me amar to allow refugees to return safely. monitored i see it on the good television came yesterday they have seen also as we want less a port so that we can get justice for the crimes committed by the burmese military if we get back our property and our land then we will go that we want justice otherwise we will not go back such a huge job it has been appointed as the new british home secretary following a rod's resignation job it is the first muslim politician to hold one of britain's top four government jobs his predecessor stepped down over her handling of the windrush immigration scandal right denied the government had targets for the deportation of illegal migrants but documents in her office show they existed the most urgent task i have is to help those british citizens that came from the

caribbean. generation and make sure that they all treated with the decency and fairness that they deserve i think that's what people want most urgent task. the chief of brics it negotiates or has called for an agreement on the irish border have a summit in june michel barnier is visiting the border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland he repeated warnings that britain leaving the single market customs union could result in a harder border laurence leamer ports. if anyone even proof of how the european union's chief rex in the gosia is viewed in ireland and the welcome from the irish prime minister said it's all done dork's technology college was occupied by the leadership of the entire political class and everyone else with an interest in making bricks it worked on and done by extension the european union i have the honor of introducing someone who has become

a household name in our mr bania they all said he will have no closer friend in us and he in turn promised to defend ireland to the end. there is no added value brecht the consequences of bricks he could not a miss not lead to the return of our border naser and maps or in mines dundalk itself is only a few kilometers over the border with the u.k. and virtually everyone here crosses as a matter of daily routine the man from the city's chamber of trade is raging at what he sees as the u.k.'s planned betrayal of people here by the proposal to leave the customs union with europe i have somebody that works for me that lives in monaghan tone which is thirty miles away about fifty kilometers so she crossed the border twice on the way to walk across the border twice in the way home and she said to me i don't mind being left in the morning but i do have

a worry over picking the kids up before six o'clock in the evening the hills around the border have in the past seen fighting between irish republicans and the british army they were also smugglers routes for contraband the peace dividend open the border and encourage trade so what next. so we're just crossing the border from the republic of ireland into the north and therefore the u.k. more or less the only reason why you have no is because the road signs changed color and that's true in dozens and dozens of other border crossings between the two countries and communities in all of those places are desperately worried that the u.k.'s lack of clarity about what bricks it really means will end up with physical roadblocks all over the border. mr bunny then went to new the british city just over the border in the north where he offered his support to people who fear exactly the same things as the people he met in dundalk the business community in

northern ireland wants to remain in the customs union the customs union and also wants to retain access to the single market so if those are to your comes from the end of this process just for northern ireland it's a very positive thing that would make northern ireland one of the most attractive investment cations in the world but there is one party here which doesn't like mr barnier sticking his nose into northern ireland at all and it props up the british government keeping to reason may's conservatives in power he is here to represent the views of the european union twenty seven so he's not an honest broker he's here to represent their views and the u.k. government will represent the views for the people of northern ireland given that the british government is in disarray anyway and split in half over a spreadsheet strategy press it isn't difficult for mr carney to look like he knows what he's doing he and his supporters must hope they can use this tour of the u.k.'s weakness to press home the result each closely al-jazeera on the island hugh cable. the leader of italy's anti establishment five star movement has called for

early election the sun's attempts to form a government flounder luigi demaio said centrist parties were refusing to negotiate with the movement which emerged as the single biggest party after the election in march he also appealed to the link party to back his call a right wing coalition led by the link to the most seats at the election. in thailand a journalist has been released from jail after serving seven years of an eleven year sentence for insulting the king saw me out some so we walked free after his sentence was caught by the supreme court the magazine editor was jailed in twenty eleven for publishing articles calling for changes to the law which protect the monarchy he says he will continue his campaign for democracy. you have talked or you've got those who are not discovered by various i will continue imprisonment is just part of the suffering i've had to go through but it's also part of my struggle for justice and my struggle for what is right. now imagine riding

a wall of water over eight stories high is the incredible achievement of brazilian rigo kosha the tiny figure on this giant wave and it's just been confirmed as a new world record it's raw and november off the portuguese coast has been ratified as the highest ever annual big wave awards away from measured up to twenty four point three eight meters the previous biggest. i just sixty one cents and. the same event in portugal on the same day also produced another award this one for the biggest wipeouts of the year british surfer andrew cotton received. as he disappeared into the surf in spectacular style don't forget you can find much more on our website video news just click on al-jazeera dot com.

the top stories here on al-jazeera eisel says it was behind a double suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul which killed at least twenty five people nine of the dead journalists and then on to their a cameraman is among fifty five injured and b.b.c. afghan service some reporter was also killed in a separate assault in the eastern province of haast hours after the kabul attacks at least eleven civilians including children were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his car near a religious school in kandahar was apparently targeting a nato convoy reporters without borders say the bombing in kabul is the most lethal attack on the media since the taliban was ousted in two thousand and one jennifer gloss how small it is a very dangerous business being

a journalist here in afghanistan a number of journalists have been killed over the years in targeted assassinations in bombings a number of journalists have been beat up but this is really the deadliest day for the afghan media since two thousand and one in the afghan media is vibrant and thriving and it's considered one of the big success stories of the last seventeen years here tonight they are in mourning as they lay their dead to rest of the funerals have many of the funerals have already taken place as the sun sets here in kabul syria's military has launched a heavy bombardments of the rebel held town of ruston their homes meanwhile the government is denouncing new aggression from its enemies without specifying who offer its military bases come under attack and people were killed in the overnight strikes in hama province on the left are consciously iranian state media denies any of its own military bases were hit despite reports they were among the targets. an

evacuation deal has been reached between the syrian government and some rebels and southern damascus pro-government forces have surrounded a rebel on eisel controlled neighborhoods in the chair and ground offensive. nigerian president bihari has arrived at the white house for a meeting with the u.s. president donald trump security corruption and china's financial presence in africa are on the agenda those are the hot headlines stay with us how next up it's counting the cost.