with some really damaging allegations against president trump's campaign and potential material that russia could have on the president basically making him compromise now the democrats say steele is a former spy with good sources in russia and we don't know how much of it has been cooperated with the u.s. intelligence agencies republicans though say steele because he eventually although first contracted by republicans eventually was the democrats were looking for opposition research we're paying for this research so the republicans like to say because there was some democratic money nothing he says is valid although in this ward application it specifically says that steele was not told who exactly he was working for and that in the past he has provided credible information that in the pit in other cases had actually led to convictions that arrests so this is again being seen through as everything is in washington these days a partisan filter all right thank you very much. still ahead for you on the program

iraqi security forces admit to secretly holding prisoners accused of terrorism offenses and leaders of the world's largest economies one trade tensions pose a huge risk to global growth. hello there there's plenty of hot weather across europe at the moment but there's also a few violent thunderstorms in the west and that's where we've seen things gradually dry up so for thirty two degrees will be our maximum in paris just hot here instead the thunderstorms will be drifting their way down towards the southeast corner these have already given us a lot of hail in places and some flooding rains and so here it looks like the wet weather will still be rather active as we head through the day on tuesday as well of course the other side of the mediterranean and in the northwest it's not been

too hot recently thanks to the moisture in the air that's crushingly drifting its way eastwards now there and so fortunate the temperatures will be just taken down a few degrees so thirty three degrees will be our maximum this time towards the east the winds are still feeding off the sea there so along the north coast of egypt it's not too hot further inland it does get hope pretty quickly there kyra up to forty or forty one degrees as we head through the next few days the central belt of africa is where all the showers are at the moment plenty of them searching through parts of sudan all the way across the central african republic and towards the west cameroon and nigeria where we were expecting some of the west effect of the weather during the day there's also plenty of thunderstorms rumbling towards the west on monday to. the only. the former bishop of hong kong says the pope is sending out china's catholics to pieces of things. but on. the beach which

cardinal joseph then talks to al-jazeera. does know one way of telling his story a key thing is to write and to be respectful it's great we have to get to know the person for the text. welcome back a quick look at the top stories now at least fourteen people have been killed in afghanistan in a suicide bomb attack outside kabul zapp or shortly after the return of exiled vice president general until rashid dostum rescue workers known as the white helmets

have been evacuated from syria in response to the threat from advancing government forces. and a counselor from from the iran calls political party in pakistan has been killed in a suicide attack as tension mounts ahead of wednesday's general election. well now in another story we're watching closely g twenty finance ministers and central bank meeting in argentina a warning the heightened trade and geopolitical tensions pose a huge risk to global growth according to a draft communique from the meeting of what is dire as the need is from the world's largest economies according to a more dialogue they also want structural reforms to counter potential shocks to the markets the meeting comes in the wake of escalating trade tensions between the u.s. china and europe following a wave of tariffs introduced by president trump. everybody would suffer from polluted therese and from a trade war is special united states i mean we're living in a world where everybody is connected with every other country so united states is

not a single country there are connections all over the world so. misled god is right when she says that the us americans are suffering the most alter is above is in one desirous where the summit has been taking place and joins us live now to raise that we've known for a little while now that there are these tensions over global trade but did they make any headway in diffusing these tensions. most definitely it's been an intense day of discussions in what is a preview about what will be happening here in one of the scientists during the presidential g. twenty summit that will happen later in november there were lots of the trade war became the central issue of this summit here in one outside especially after the trumpet ministration threatened to impose tariffs of iran five hundred billion dollars on chinese goods and touring the united states we know that the european

union has been pressuring the trumpet ministration in order to reduce or remove the tariffs imposed on stone steel and aluminum for example earlier late on saturday the french finance minister said that the trade war was on and that imposing unilateral tariffs it's like going back to the jungle war to the jungle to the law of the jungle and sorry about that but in spite of all of this it all made it to a final draft that about dialogue about the threats of global trade war so basically and what's important we've been told is that all of the members that were here signed that final draft and that's something that did not happen during the g. seven summit that happened in canada when at that time the united states left the summit without signing the final communique all right for now thank you very much with all the latest on the g. twenty summit that's been taking place and one is are is to raise

a. well now gunman in south africa of open fire on a minibus carrying members of a taxi drivers association killing eleven people and injuring four others police say the victims that attended a colleague's funeral were returning home when the ambush occurred officers are now investigating possible motives previously there had been tension between groups of taxi drivers vying for the same routes. a standoff at the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem is over for now with most of the jewish settlers leaving the compound more than a thousand jews with that long way to holiday which commemorates the destruction of the ancient jewish temples in jerusalem several arrests were made after confrontations with muslim wash up as a lot is considered to be islam's third holiest site jews believe the compound is where its biblical temple once stood jim is outside the compound. behind me you see one of the gates leading into the the mosque compound also behind me you'll

notice that there are jewish settlers who are wearing that's because today is a jewish holiday known as to shop that is a holiday that commemorates disasters throughout jewish history now earlier in the day there was tension here in the old city you had at one point thousand jewish settlers that had gone into the end of some mosque compound they are allowed to do so twice a day and then later in the day you had about three hundred fifty settlers that went in now whenever a jewish settlers go into the end of the mosque compound or gather around it many of the palestinians that are here many of the muslims they see that as a provocation because of that this is one of those days where there were clashes there was tension because there has been so much tension that's been escalating lately because so many different things well there was worry that it could become even worse now it's in the afternoon things have really calmed down things have subsided things are back to normal the way they would be any other day here but the fact of the matter is really goes to show that here at any time something that happens could lead to something much more significant. meanwhile israel's defense

minister suggested that restrictions on gaza could be lifted if the truce holds funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday before a deal was reached i think joe lieberman says israel will reopen the main commercial crossing into gaza and expand the fishing zone on choose day if come home but he stressed it would need to include an end to burn. in kites and balloons being sent over the border fence. the iraqi national security services admitted to holding hundreds of people for months on suspicion of terrorism related crimes despite denying the same allegations in april according to human rights watch the agency has been keeping the mess of facility east of mosul a city that was really taken from my sil just over a year ago thousands of people were arrested during that three hour operation and there are concerns many innocent people were detained in the chaos human rights watch visited one crowded facility where hundreds of men and boys were held some for more than a year

a former detainees described how people being tortured to death while hundreds of protesters have been arrested in southern iraq in a bid to crack down on demonstrations that erupted over employment unemployment and poor public services and one con has more on the day's events from baghdad. tough words directed at the iraqi government the iraqi observatory for human rights says iraq has arrested hundreds of protesters in a bid to crack down on demonstrations in the south. there is a wide scale security campian in search of the activists who took part in the demonstrations in baghdad and the other governorates while human rights watch says it's uncovered evidence iraq's national security service has been holding detainees from the war against eisel something it had previously denied human rights watch discovered four hundred twenty seven detainees in a facility in mosul run by the national security service the security service then issued contradictory statements first saying it didn't hold detainees and then

insisting that they had the rights to do so to which human rights watch said baghdad needs to publicly clarify which will florence's have the right to hold an interrogate detainees human rights organizations here say that abuse is a commonplace and i don't know what all of these detainees are held on evidence from informants and detention centers are on the outskirts of cities aren't allowed to be visited by n.g.o.s and there. or i believe it's not detention it's state sponsored kidnapping with protests ongoing there is concern from human rights groups that more people will be detained illegally and held without charge the government here says that anybody detained is entitled to due process under the law imran khan al-jazeera. thousands of protesters gathered in the german city of munich to rally against proposals to close the country's borders to migrants police say at least fifteen thousand people took part in a demonstration against the country's interior minister or c. hoffa his conservative party have tried to stop employees of two publicly traded

funded theatres from attending the protests the question social union fizz losing votes of the anti migrant alternative for germany party in october state election. now for the first time in its history the united nations is trying to reduce drownings in bangladesh the leading cause of child deaths in the country every day forty six people drown most of them children and the un is hoping to change that by raising awareness as kristen salumi reports in bangladesh a country crisscrossed by nearly twenty five thousand kilometers of rivers and nearly six hundred kilometers of coastline drowning is the leading cause of death among children every year some fifteen thousand die. moe hema big boon was working when she briefly lost track of her two children last year a boy and a girl. i have no choice but to work things like cooking and household chores while we are working it's not easy to remember where our children are most

of the time like it happens to me i lost track where my children were and this is how such accidents take place. she found their bodies in a nearby pond most drowning deaths in bangladesh happen between nine in the morning and one in the afternoon when caregivers are busy doing day to day work experts say perhaps not surprisingly that the proximity to water increases the risk of drowning in bangladesh it's never far away this picture terrifies me this photo exhibit at the united nations headquarters in new york called just one inch of water is meant to highlight the dangers as well as point to ways to reduce the risks the scale of the problem is huge so it's bigger than the number of deaths in childbirth every year but it's never been addressed in the un's history it's never had any political attract attention at the united nations day care centers like this one provide not only an education for children but also

a way to keep them out of trouble the viewer can take care of their families if there are ponds ditches and canals near almost all the village homes and in the monsoon these areas get inundated by flood water this becomes very risky for the children. swimming lessons are also crucial to reduce accidental deaths in countries like bangladesh where water sustains life but also claims the lives of so many christian salumi al-jazeera at least twenty people have died and more than seventeen missing off to a tropical storm hit vietnam it's the third country since the start of the year and has damaged four thousand homes thousands of hectares of land of been affected in central and northern provinces heavy rains of unleashed floods and landslides across vast areas of the country. well now the glasses of greenland produce millions of icebergs every year and most eventually fly harmlessly out to say but a huge eleven million ton recently came aground off the remote and it village of

innocent fronting fears it can break up and cause a tsunami clark has traveled there and sent us this report helicopters in these parts of the lifeline for small inuit communities they provide all services especially in times of crisis. below thousands of icebergs the result of the outflow of nearby glasses draining the greenland ice sheet. then the iceberg in question it is huge one hundred meters by three hundred white high that you can make out the settlement of in our suit spooled up a hillside on the ground a community of around one hundred seventy people there are families there are children there bread is on the water as they fish and hunt and they used to icebergs drifting by but never this close and never this big.

but by me double normally icebergs are not that high they are low wide where this one is very high which made it frightening. this video shows chunks of ice cascading into the water causing life threatening waves to crash into the shoreline several homes had to be evacuated there was concern for the villages power generator and fuel tanks and boats were dragged up the hillside. we measure out towards the ice but it has now shifted away from the harbor entrance not as dangerous as it was but still presenting a threat it could cause at any time fisherman canoed isn't has never seen it but this big so close. you can get on it actually came pretty fast in front of the village they saw the danger and so they evacuated some houses and prepared for what could happen between now and then there was a big wind and it blew it outside here like it's hope the iceberg will now slowly

head out to sea nudged along by wind and current evacuated residents are back in their homes life is beginning to return to normal making the most of the short summer a quiet time for the dogs head of a winter of sledge pulling they think about how dangerous it is to be here when there's a big iceberg in front of them and. and they cannot really sleep because they're kind of expecting that he's going to kill in a minute or an hour so of course they're like they cannot really rest but they won't change their lives for nothing and they want to stay here because of the fishing on which to movies and hunting over the unities. so what to make of all this there's no way that you can attribute this iceberg to climate change specifically there is no doubt that there's a growing incidence of iceberg production here in greenland over the last one hundred years and occurrences and threats like this one may continue as time goes

on. and add to that the changing sea ice conditions these communities are witnessing it is very apparent that things are shifting here in the arctic with global temperature change is more keenly felt than anywhere else although that clock al-jazeera you know suit green. well as much more on everything we're covering right here as the address al jazeera dot com. take a look at the top stories now fourteen people have been killed after a suicide bombing outside kabul airport i sell claims to have carried out the attack it was targeting the exiled vice president abdul rashid dostum who was returned to the country just bite an ongoing criminal investigation ethnic as bachleda left last year after being accused of sexual abuse and torture against a political rival blank is

a former acting special representative for afghanistan and pakistan he says dostum returned isn't surprising is i think that the rehabilitation of gen dostum is a traditional part of the afghan election season it happened prior to the two thousand and nine election of course it famously happened when president gandhi selected him to be first vice president in two thousand and thirteen and it's happening again this year. hundreds of members of the syrian rescue organization known as the white helmets of arrived in jordan after being evacuated from syria four hundred twenty two of the first responders and their families were ferried out of southwestern connector province overnight due to the threat from advancing government forces they were taken by israel through the occupied golan heights after a quest from the united nations and western power as an election candidate from the party of front on a imraan khan has been killed in a suicide attack on the poor was a candidate of the pakistan to weaken south party which is currently pulling ahead

his vehicle was targeted in the northwestern province of kind of a punch as he was leaving the meeting a pakistani taliban says it carried out the attack for which from foreign policy a court of pages denied allegations he worked with the russian government in the twenty sixteen election the f.b.i. believed carter was involved in russian led collusion with the trump campaign and had him placed under surveillance recent court documents show applications place carter page on the watch were approved by several judges trump has condemned the investigation into alleged russian collusion as a witch hunt g twenty finance ministers and central bankers meeting in argentina a warning that heightened trade tensions are putting global growth at risk meeting comes in the wake of escalating trade tensions between the u.s. china and europe following a wave of tariffs introduced by the u.s. president all that's it for now i have news for you in about twenty five minutes time do join me then see a bit later on bye for now. only

. and. you mentioned. when we see. there are all full to be around ten million catholics in china the majority worshipping in government approved churches like this one in beijing. but many others do so in secret in so-called underground churches which means they're often under surveillance and so never totally safe. they see themselves as the true followers of the catholic church in the official church the pope's authority is not

recognized but that may be about to change the reason the vatican and the communist party appear to be close to an historic deal a deal that would give pope francis a say in the appointment of bishops to the official church in exchange the vatican would recognize bishops all day and without the pope's approval in effect a recognition by the pontiff that the two churches should become one. their approach mall between china's communist party and the vatican is highly significant china broke off diplomatic relations with the vatican almost seventy years ago following the communist party revolution led by chairman mao. but now two of the world's most secretive organizations are close to announce a good deal little decide the future of china. as catholics. the agreement though

has many detractors one prominent critic has called it a trail evil and a sellout that critic is the former bishop of hong kong cardinal joseph says he's never recognized the chinese government's efforts to interfere in the church and for that reason travel to the vatican to warn the public face to face against any. today cardinal sin talks to al-jazeera. today how risky is it for people to worship in so-called underground churches in china i think the. decision must be very different at indy in a city when where you have a strong underground community there are mass every sunday many people go but they don't have churches so they say mass in the private home and that these masses

technically illegal obviously either but everybody you know. everybody know the neighbors they know that they are singing and praying and. surely no because they be punished if it's illegal you know when i was teaching in shanghai i have my confidence solutions samos in the end a gram you know what the people around the the public security. in a way dead they told me they say oh father's hand tell your father to be to be more discreet oh what happened tell him to cross the door when they say mass. you know why the too many people go there he's really small so if we disturb case every day kitchen down there and here people. keep coming so they have to leave the

open that's so much the government whose face because that's tolerated that's against the law but no no mo there is instruction now from the first of february to enforce the law now and what is that will that this must. unlawful so people who now prarie in underground churches catholics who pray they risk regretting arrest here so the priest at telling the people priests don't come anymore we are now used dangerous the government told us they are going to enforce the law how many priests and bishops are still detained in china the yo of they are in jail not many not many maybe two bishops and maybe a dozer priests not more because they don't want to have a mantis the mud just create problems they have.

more. improved methods to decide the church like what like. threats like and enticement what sort of threat or threat and enticement always you know to get they come to you they say oh no we know your brother has some problem at least workplace are do you want us to to put a good word there either say yes please they have to collaborate. it was hell no thank you. we can arrange to ok or they go to defect or it is a fire that that guy so is blackmail they use blackmail but my. and it may come over your mother's seat oh do you want us to to send

a car to bring him to the hospital is a sane if we a said yes late even donor said the good husband say don't i said that only they are law they can do anything the companies are not they are know how much contact do you have with the underground catholic church today i never contact them actually because maybe dangerous and i tell them not to contact me from china because everything is controlled but they can come now it seems that is easier to come to hong kong than before and so they come to see me and then they can send message through other people a number of years ago you helped get money to the underground catholic church money that was donated by a wealthy hong kong businessman jimmy lie twenty million hong kong dollars i think

are you still able to send money to the catholic church the only one suffix yes yes i'm having more and your fisher down the underground i would like to have more of the end of round but it's more difficult to do to be in contact with them easy to send money to them. but now i think. i find the more ways. you see the bishop may have a mania occasion where he thins ace is good to do something or to help somebody but he had to use the money of the that isis i suppose i use has enough money but i am. a kind of outsider i'm a religious. i'm not coming from the diocese so i have to be cautious

to use the money of the diocese actually i never used to many of the diocese so the money our jimmy lie help me to do all sorts of things which a bishop may like to do. with that money in the last few years we've seen a growing reproach more between the vatican and the chinese communist party affecting things like the appointment of bishops yeah that's progress isn't it is it a good thing in your view no not necessarily. but not necessarily but what we're seeing at the moment is a case of the of the vatican being able to expand its influence a china that is progress is no no people came to know that the holy see is ready to approve anything to legitimize everybody so they had did the conviction that just to get ordained sooner or later delegitimize does way back so that give

occasion to the opportunists to know that if they work with the government they can force the holy see to recognize them is no good at all and the holy see just in order to please the government they abstain from doing things they should do for him but they don't give bishop so many touches in one window the bishop died didn't give a successor so both church is in ground and of the church we can read about it so it is no good at all do you worry that the the vatican is giving legitimacy now to the chinese communists yeah that's terrible table they must know. that the church approved by the government is objectively schismatic. i may hear.

again a breach of confidentiality but three or four years ago i had a meeting with pope francis for forty five minutes i talked for forty minutes he made only one interruption very short interruption when i said we have to agree that the independent church is church so now is already objectivity smutty and the pope said chattel of course so how can a g.-d. minus a ski smartly church which is the schismatic their company under the guidance of the government. the church doesn't change just because you legitimize all of their bishops eve all those bishops or the majority of those bishops are slaves of the the communist regime there is no improvement and now there are things the and the

talking about what are they going to do with the thirty bishops in and around there calling them to come up and did the beggar say oh now we recognize the seven shops and you government recall nice our thirty bishops but i ask what do you mean that the government recognized the thirty people do they allow them to go on functioning as now the end of ground in the village from the government in no and so they are invited to join d. but you did association you feel so strongly about the vatican and the communist party jointly appointing bishops that you flew to rome to see the pope and to talk

to him face to face just a few months ago what did you say to the pope. as it does that's a fake. ok to say the last word to the pope ok but the last word is not enough. i like to quote a hundred eighty and. he said sometimes formally verbal. seems out the door twenty of the pope is respected but practically you are giving the power into the hands of the government so if it's the government which choses the bishop and then through the bishops continent which is fake the present name to the holy father and the holy father to say the last would a case sounds very good but what kind of last word hanky the

pope can approve easily those names know all know and so he had to be told ok you can beat up but up there we don't know if you see up to the companies to make under the name now how can good dame come from the common is what they know about the qualities required to be a bishop why did you feel compelled to go to rome to see the pope a few months ago why not just send him a letter or deliver a letter to one of his emissaries here in hong kong why did you feel the need to go to the vatican because it was the second time that this desperate bishop in china santo once you send a letter to the holy father because they told him to resign. to make place to the illegitimate esko many take the bishop with this pressure put they wanted to retire had he reached retirement age was he more than seventy five never in force that law

in china don't talk about the age old divisions are eighty or ninety is not a question of age he was asking for a successor for a long time they are not demean now they give the place of the excommunicated that's a problem it's not a question of of retirement it's a people who don't know the reality they may confusion for a long time he adds to retire but now he feels to retire to give it a place to live to excommunicated bishop i stand a priest to bring the letter not to the pope because he may not be able to but to to to to see the pope so today congress or even get a haitian tell him that please make a copy to them to the pope oh but i didn't know whether the letter which the pope because my letters i cannot be sure if they reach the pub because he never answered the pope never answered the last my many letters he didn't answer and he didn't

even then sign a. receipt maybe the pope didn't receive us or maybe. so i want you to know the real situation so i was doubting if my letters reached the holy father so now after christmas the second letter of that bishop came to me now up i thought i must absolutely make sure that the letter which it holy father the only way is that i go there and put into ends the sects so i took to the fly and went to rome is incredible it's incredible what did the pope say to you when you presented him with a lesser. actually you see that's at the end of a public audience so there is a queue of maybe ten bishops and i was the only so i was the first one to kiss the

hand of the holy father is that the pope greet me oh how is your health i didn't even answer his question i only his holy father i am here just to bring you decide that priest one time to read it then i went away but then to my surprise in that up to no it was wednesday i received a call telling me that the pope is receiving you the evening of friday. so in my literature already father had a chance to look into the matter you know yes i told them or not to create under their case one. wonderful answer because. he is so clear what he's about and so i was so so happy and then i made also get a question i should prefer to have you received oh my lettuce you know what was the

answer he didn't say yes he didn't say no said. i don't have a very clear impression. so what do you think about that what what what what do you what are you going to not have a impatient of my lettuce they were so spicy monitors spicy in what way i could only with holy father i'm making so many questions he may be lost on the sleep because of monitors so how can you say a question so probably he did not receive my letters what was a personally painful for you to challenge the pope because cardinals are supposed to be one hundred percent there to make sure so also because imus and easier than. we are priests we are fanatic about the pope but now i'm not blaming the pope because as far as i know there is

a variance between the pope and the people around him until the pope approves those things and make a senior church i don't believe that those things are coming for the pope so i have see some hope that the things may not so i think the pope is being misinformed by his advisors. not completely aware inform. complicating misinform because the pope is so optimistic and now these people. are happy to encourage his optimism and without a penny in order the bad things or the things he may not like to do here. like the negative things which happen in china which gives no foundation to any optimism what do you believe the pope's

strategy is for china because to the vatican the china must surely represent the final frontier u.k. see the pope is going everywhere and bracing everybody. so you can say that many time you don't see much good effect for or that ever would happen in cuba any improvement in cuba well the united states and cuba establish diplomatic relations the catholic church helped to bring about the downfall of communism in poland of value of the influence of the world makes only makes different things because they are sold different so different now i really i'm amazed what could the holy see do to put the united states and cuba together i really can't understand. they can reconcile only if

they have interest if they both gain anything now is easy surely not because of the holy see now he cannot give anything cannot promise anything and the holy father to police two brothers. and i doubt even though they were converted by the pope. he didn't see much against oppression of the dissidents now to captivate the goodwill of china the pope is abstaining from say anything against the chinese. but if the pope and she jingping eventually meet surely that's a good thing isn't it rather than having the pope criticize china isn't it better for the pope and cheating to find some way or working together i don't believe

those things do you fear the pope or selling out underground catholics in china oh sure it's not easy money to to sell. anybody but if now we don't have any any direct information so we are completely in the dark but from the pieces. of things which lead out from those information what we know and we suppose to happen now is really selling out of the church do you feel that you couldn't must be you must believe that me a seventy years in china i mean spending six months a year in china for seven years meeting all kinds of government people all kinds of bishops then you cain had the impression of how east the slavery and the

commies region. the communist party has changed so if they've lifted half a billion people out of poverty there is a growing middle class knowing the people aware what the urban poor who are they have been ever before no no no the important thing for them is the party they just want to control everything they can give you what they like you to give you now just an example of what is allowed by the lord they can refuse you what is denied by the lord they can grant you what do you worry about if the vatican to stop pushes a representative office in beijing which is a possibility to use years years these are the a disaster. we are facing a disaster indeed of which a church those bad elements those who really have no

faith but they are just on the side of the government for their interests those people now are happy because in these last ten years they did all sorts of things defiance to the holy see now they are will be rewarded the good people in the open church they must be very much disappointed because they feel betrayed here because they are waiting for the holy see to give them courage but now the obvious you can do it in these years always encourage surrender everywhere so now they just give up their hope now is to find the wood with no agreement they still can hope for a change but none no change no use legitimization of a wrong situation but but they probably many people

from the inner graham. may come out is this an issue do you think that could divide the church on a on a wider level outside of china i think many people in debt you need less a church may get discussed in eyes. in may who is to faith in the pope and the poor pope has so many critics already read this one i'm a benny saudi. and then he said thank you very much. thank you.

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across all social media platforms this is where the audience lives as well as in front of a t.v. they're on the smartphone and they're on the time that they're on the computer. and that's the way al-jazeera is a fall into a true media network. well i'm maryam namazie in london a quick look at the top stories now at least fourteen people have died in a suicide bombing targeting afghanistan's vice president. a former warlord an ethnic need a return from exile after more than a year following allegations he had tortured and sexually abused arrival at least sixty people are also injured i still claims it carried out the attack charlotte ballasts has. as schools

a vice president abdul rashid dostum supporters gathered to welcome him back at kabul's international airport a suicide bomber detonated his vest at the main entrance among the casualties with security forces and civilians. dostum escaped his convoy had passed minutes earlier the second most powerful man in afghanistan had been living in exile in turkey for the last fourteen months his supporters protested demanding his return but there are many who don't want him back. gen dostum lift off to ahmed ishi and northern accused him and his guards of kidnapping and rape. them dostum ordered his commander to rape me nine other bodyguards he told them to rape me until the ground is covered with blood and take a photograph but dostum refused to come in for questioning president ashraf ghani then persuaded turkey's president richard typo to want to take him in it's not the first time dostum spin exiled in turkey it's

a repeat of ten years ago when he assaulted a political rival which led to this standoff in kabul between police and his bodyguards dostum has a ruthless reputation he has ruled northern afghanistan for thirty years and is renowned for shifting his allegiance. in one thousand nine hundred sixty minute top taliban commanders for talks with the handshake stops the he would fight the taliban in the northern alliance famously saying he could live a vow to a government where there is no whisky and no music after the two thousand and one us invasion dostum transitioned from warlords to politician the. enormous influence of afghanistan's new making him a target. want him gone his allies need him ahead of next year's presidential election. hundreds of members of the syrian rescue organization known as the white helmets of arrived in jordan after being evacuated from syria four hundred twenty

two of the first responders and their families were ferried out of southwestern canadia overnight due to the threat from advancing government forces they were taken by israel through the occupied golan heights off to a request from the un and western powers a pakistani election candidate from the party of iran cohen has been killed in a suicide attack gondor poor was a candidate of the p.t.i. party which is currently polling ahead his vehicle was targeted in the province of kabul as he was leaving a meeting a pakistani taliban claims it carried out the attack. former trump foreign policy aide carter pages denied allegations he worked with the russian government during the twenty sixteen us presidential election the f.b.i. believe page was involved in russian led collusion with the trunk campaign and had him placed under surveillance trump has condemned the investigation into alleged russian collusion as a witch hunt and g twenty finance ministers and central bank is meeting in argentina a warning that heightened trade tensions are pushing global growth risk

a draft communique from the summit one is ayers is calling for greater dialogue a meeting comes in the wake of escalating trade tensions between the u.s. china and europe following a wave of tariffs introduced by president donald trump. everybody would suffer from tariffs and from a trade war is special united states i mean we're living in a world where everybody is connected with every other country so the united states is not a single country there are connections all over the world saw. mr gardner is right when she says that the u.s. americans are suffering the most well you'll find background analysis on all of our top stories right here al jazeera dot com is why you need to go feature stories there as well and of course you can always watch us life i'll see you in about twenty five minutes time with more news.

how many gun charges you have in your history to kill and you selling heroin. have no excuse for being stupid and trying to make money whenever i see something that has happened in the news my first reaction is to say please god don't let this person have been someone. that we released on parole or did you fight with a nine month pregnant ex-girlfriend it was just. like that movie role someone is going to get out they're going to finish their sentence they're going to be on parole and do something heinous it's going to happen we're dealing with human criminals why did you have a gun on december twenty eighth. i thought i was in danger is doing one thing been having the ones that are low risk those are easy it's the ones in the middle that

can go either way where you sit and think of the planets line up just right you know will this guy kill somebody. or listen to. the american criminal justice system and forces our laws and keeps watch over us that person. but who is watching the system. i'm joe berlinger and i've used my camera for twenty years to knock down doors and pursue the truth just now we're going inside the american criminal justice system a comment on the judge from law enforcement to elected officials the court system to corrections to find out if justice is being served. the united states incarcerates two point two million people a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country in the world. but only five percent of prisoners will remain behind bars for life the majority will be

released. back into the community. some of these offenders will serve their full sentences in prison others will be granted parole people who go out on parole and serve the last part of their sentence in the community under supervision of the parole board. delusion of march two thousand and people with post supervision have a much lower recidivism rate than people who ramp up behind the law. in this episode of the system will examine how state parole boards decide which prisoners a threat to public safety in which will become a functioning member of society. we start this episode in connecticut where the parole system has undergone an overhaul to improve its procedures. across the street from this historic waterbury park the parole board is gathering for a hearing. they agreed to give us an inside look at how they operate so tell

me what's going on today ok so the process you're about to observe are going to turn revocation hearings first this is not a live hearing so it means appear to say by video. family members are allowed to attend these hearings and our conference in from another facility in new haven connecticut these inmates and you'll be seeing are asking for early release on discretionary. erica tyndall was appointed as the chair of the connecticut parole board in two thousand and eleven she and her staff oversee an average of forty cases per week we sit in panels of three. and it's by majority vote so you need two people to agree to either release or not. pre-sentence investigation police records letters of support.

the statements. this hearing is being. given to. raise again.

were you drinking. stabbing do you think there's ever an acceptable time to put your hands on someone else oh no no what if they are in your face but if they're saying terrible things about your kids about your fiance is there ever

a time. and put your hands. ok mr crawford and family stand by to liberate about. our cameras were not allowed inside while the board deliberates on its decision. like all parolees if crawford is granted parole he will serve the remaining part of his sentence outside of the prison walls. in massachusetts fifty nine year old donald perry has been stuck in the system for over thirty years. after pleading guilty to multiple armed robberies kerry received a life sentence in one thousand nine hundred three. i remember doing a stent in maximum security segregation almost three years you're locked in

a cell twenty four hours of this. being treated like an animal. i got to the point where i realize that you know doing the total was important to me was on the other side of things and how do i get to the other side of. eventually perry got to the other side of that fence in two thousand and one after serving nearly nineteen years of his life sentence perry was granted parole. once on the outside perry turned his life around. he graduated from college and spent the next eleven years employed as an advocate for the homeless finding them housing and managing a soup kitchen donald was somebody who. was by all accounts doing extraordinarily well who was contributing to his community he was certain sitting on boards with elected officials and he had the support of the american art hampton the chief of police of northampton and countless citizens.