you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. the taliban launches coordinated attacks in jalalabad in eastern afghanistan. i'm sammy's a down this is down to zero live from doha also coming up first kim then put in now dog trump wants to meet iran's leader just how realistic is this. calling in international help for battle against the wave of wildfires in the u.s. the showing no sign of a laptop. i was born too late at home the great things have already been done

an adventurous ambition powered travel is going to every country in the world without ever boarding a plane. that's bring you some details just coming in first of all the taliban coordinating several attacks in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad and officials saying gunman targeted shops and government offices in one go ha province at least three explosions were heard earlier a roadside bomb killed at least eleven people on a bus in far province in the west thirty one people were injured we'll bring you more as soon as we get it. it's been another shift in tone and rhetoric from the u.s. president this time on iran don trump now says he's willing to meet iran's president has and ronny at any time without preconditions the two men have been locked in an

escalating war of words and strength withdrew the u.s. from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal alan fisher has the story. the u.s. president's surprise offer came during a news conference at the white house with italy's prime minister no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want. any time they want the u.s. piloted the deal is signed with iran and its international partners when president trump announced in may the u.s. was pulling out even though there was no indication iran was in breach this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made he don't get for months it was a terrible deal and vote to scrap it when he became president his offer to talk with iran's president well threw up many more questions and moakley conditions means that he's ready to sign on the dotted line so to speak with the iranians so will that be acceptable to the region to the powers in the region to the g.c.c.

specifically saudi arabia and the us. i doubt that we've been here before they will be met with fire and fury donald trump verbal attack north korea and its leader before agreeing to a meeting and earlier this month he met russian president vladimir putin in all sinking at a top level summit it'll be interesting to watch the reaction to donald trump's offer when barack obama was in the white house and said he'd be willing to meet the iranian president he was heavily criticized by republicans democrats and by many right wing commentators who know largely support donald trump. one additional problem might be who would broker a summit with iran south korea pave the way for the meeting with kim jong il in france might be an option president emanuel mccraw had arjun donald trump not to walk away from the iran deal during a state visit to washington is links with tehran and that might open up the necessary diplomatic channels there are voices senior people in this white house have been very critical of the iranian government and called for its removal but

this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. for the u.s. secretary of state has already walked back some of trump's comments might pompei or says he's on board with meeting iran's president but he listed several requirements before it could go ahead. president wants to meet with folks to solve problems if the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce their malign behavior can agree that it's worthwhile to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have the conversation with them on the same bus ravi joins us now live from tehran so what kind of reaction are we getting from iranian officials on this wednesday. well while a summit between the united states and iran would be an incredible news story i

dare i say we should not get our hopes up the iranians are maintaining the position that they do not trust the trumpet ministration and they do not take the overtures from the trumpet ministration very seriously now last night shortly after trump made these comments a political deputy from the president's office put out a statement saying that if trump truly believes that talks are the way forward then he should respect the process and the outcome of negotiations and halt us hostilities against iran halt unilateral sanctions and rejoin the joint comprehensive plan of action or two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal and earlier today this morning we've heard from the head of the parliamentary commission on national security and foreign policy and he made some really interesting points he said the taboo of talks between iran and the united states that if have effectively been in place since the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution were were removed

by the signing of the twenty fifty nuclear deal three years ago and that the trumpet ministration has in effect artificially remanufactured that taboo to come and try to create hostility against iran what he also said with it was very interesting was that the way that the trumpet ministration has approached dealing with iran has effectively created a stalemate because of the pullout by the united states from the deal and because of the harsh rhetoric because of these sort of psychological economic warfare that has resulted in the value of iran's currency the real the dropping by more than half in less than a year that's all created a kind of stalemate so neither party can move forward in terms of creating more conflict or actual war he said and neither party can really see how to move forward in terms of talks because the environment is so poisoned by the rhetoric that's been coming out of the trumpet ministration he also said the united states and iran are two big countries. there should be red lines when it comes to rhetoric like

this so that tensions don't escalate now moving forward there is a clock on this august sixth as when american sanctions go into effect again and the iranians from the iranian perspective if they are considering that unconditional talks might actually turn into something there's definitely a clock on this in august sixth is that date. now that the u.s. president is trying to open the door for talks how is that impacting the domestic standing of iran's president that's exactly what's going to be on the minds of senior leaders here that is really the primary concern they're going to have because negotiations in the first place with the president with president barack obama and the obama administration was not necessarily viewed as with a great deal of hope by senior leaders in iran by the opposition to president hadi and his government and by many iranians themselves and the deal when it was struck was painted as the cure all for iran's economic problems and now as it's falling

apart it's become a very unpopular policy the economic struggle that iranians are facing because of the threat of sanctions and now looming sanctions has made not just the policy but the rouhani administration very unpopular so you could say that this might not hurt any more than it already has but i really don't see how the rouhani government could create more public support for talking to this administration after it's shown time and again that it has taken a very harsh stance against iran's government and with the visa ban that was instituted against majority muslim countries by the trumpet ministration iranians feel that donald trump has tried to target them directly and so there is unlikely to be a great deal of public support for sitting down with president trump the same bus driver that the iranian capital. let's go back to our top story now and those coordinated attacks in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad charlotte ballasts is

watching developments from kabul and joins us now live so what does it look like from there. the still sporadic gunfire ongoing between afghan special forces is an unknown number of a surgeon's and this is all happening at the government's ministry for refugees in jalalabad which is the capital of mega hard province it's a sensitive area samick stores of this ministry is a u.n. compound on the other side we've got a major hospital so everybody is on alert there it started at around ten am local time which is roughly three hours ago with three large explosions since that time afghan special forces have arrived we understand that several staff members from this ministry for refugees have managed to get out of the building although we don't know the fate of or even how many people are still inside this building we actually just got information this morning about how dangerous and how much security has deteriorated in this area so in the last three months they have been

thirty attacks by insurgents we're talking suicide bombings gun battles and a lot of civilians have been killed one hundred sixty have died in the last three months in the province nearly fifty five hundred wounded so security is deteriorating in this area it's actually also only one hundred meters from where we saw it attack on a midwife training facility in jalalabad on sunday in that attack three people were killed three staff members and sixty seven people were trapped inside for the better half of the day all right thanks so much charlotte. least eleven people have been killed when a van exploded at a checkpoint in southern philippines soldiers and civilians are among the casualties in lumberton city on brazil an island that's just across the aisle from mindanao island where there's been decades of conflict between government forces and muslim separatists troops who are trying to search the vehicle when they

detonated the un special envoy to syria is planning talks with iran russia and turkey to finalize a body to draft a new constitution stuff on the mistura hopes to have the discussions in september this round to try and the conflict is taking place in the russian city of sochi what are their meetings behind closed doors continue throughout the first part of the day now according to one source within the opposition a deal on prisoners is about to be reached yesterday there was a session of the working group on that issue that group will meet again today now that is considered a confidence building measure which to guarantor countries meaning russia iran and turkey as well as the u.n. consider necessary to try to find some sort of common ground between the two parties now also according to the u.n. envoy to find them is to or there will be

a focus on the formation of the constitutional committee both the government delegation and the opposition that is here in sochi have put forward a list of twenty five names each now they are waiting for a similar list to represent civil society once there is an agreement of that then they could be within the coming months talk about amending the constitution of two thousand and twelve or maybe changing that even that is even though that is a very complicated issue and both sides don't see eye to eye on it at this stage. but even as those talks appear to be making some headway the syrian military buildup continues around rebel held province activists reporting shelling on just south of it live city and in neighboring hama province it live is the only significant territory still held by the rebels president bashar assad has said retaking the province is his top priority australia is expected to send one hundred

eighty five faces to the u.s. to help tackle wildfires in northern california at least six people have died and seven remain unaccounted for the fires have destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands of families. has more from rising and entire neighborhood turned to ash and debris people no longer coming and going nobody checking their mailbox kids no longer playing in the front yard for the first time since a deadly fire ripped through syria the people of the city of reading gathered for a community meeting the question they all were asking what next eighty two year old joseph breezy back to read his house last week and hasn't been home since my home is still standing i'm in a motel i'm safe and that's what counts in shasta county where reading is

located the fire destroyed over five hundred homes and wiped out entire communities it's still not contained the county going to come back oh yeah eventually mother nature will take care of things things will be grow people will adjust but it's it's a hard lesson when this blaze ripped through this neighborhood this home was spared but their neighbors not so much the fire totally engulfed this house all that's left are the charred remains. but this is not a story about buildings that are lost it's about human suffering the people that once lived here and now have nothing else like for this woman ruth angel her home where she lived with her family for fifteen years burned down when you lose you see that your house is gone it's like ok my life my my my

kids they are they grew you know grew up they're the only thing keeping her going hugs of support from strangers we had so many people come to our. church trying to support us and love us and we love them back and there's no appreciation that you can give people that say hey we got trucks we've got. people up and we'll help you whatever you need to do in a city chart where lingering smoke from fires still blocks the sunset but not the hope of people to one day rebuild gabriel's oddo. redding california. still to come an al-jazeera. winning resoundingly zimbabwe's opposition leader is confident the vote counts brolin. exploiting the vulnerable more allegations british charities have ignored years of sexual abuse by staff.

hello again the weather across southeastern parts of asia is showing some pretty heavy rain across parts of thailand through cambodia southern parts of vietnam and also across borneo at the moment and central and northern parts of the philippines in particular. looking draw and fine at the moment and those who move up through the night we've got showers to singapore kuala lumpur to i suspect and then once you get through towards thailand it's looking pretty wet droid i think for kuala lumpur and singapore come thursday heading down into a straight here we've got frontal system working its way across the southeast and there is another one coming in from the west the squire like to feature heading in towards perth that's going to be giving some quite heavy rain and blustery

conditions during the course of wednesday as it moves on through sydney looking at highs of nineteen fact sydney just coming off the warmest july on record so temperatures there nineteen degrees on wednesday on thursday this front you can see pushing in through south australia and given some pretty stormy weather with it melbourne there stroking it is fourteen degrees celsius across in new zealand we've got sherri weather across both islands but i think the risk of showers will increase ahead on through into thursday crisis there you're looking at highs of thirteen. full of struggles the literal quarrels of the not very more than with the and with time this is yet in one piece you see dylan with. full of pleasure me. a person i am going to our bomb field or an intimate look at life in cuba today. the thought of course i'm going to pass on me when i hear the sort of longing for

why i'm hanging my cube on al-jazeera. watching out to zero time to recap our headlines now gunmen are carrying out coordinated attacks in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad a government official says a car bomb exploded near a hospital in the refugee and repatriation department. security forces are confronting the attackers. the u.n. special envoy to syria is planning talks with iran russia and turkey to finalize

a body to draft a new constitution stephon them a store and hopes to have discussions in september alexis round of talks when the war is taking place in the russian city of sochi. u.s. president donald trump has surprised everyone by saying he'd be willing to meet iran's president hassan rouhani at any time and without preconditions the two men have been locked in a war of words and strop withdrew the u.s. from two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal. zimbabwe's main opposition leader says he's ready to form the next government nelson chamisa says the movement for democratic change has done exceedingly well and results from more than ten thousand polling booths but his main rival president emerson is also making positive statements in what's being described as a tight race the electoral commission says it's absolutely sure there was no rigging or cheating in the ballot balcombe webb has more from zimbabwe's second biggest city pull away. polling station staff have been counting votes throughout

the night from the nearly eleven thousand polling stations and the results displayed on posters. in each polling station as they are here at the city hall in the wire later those results will be forwarded to provincial centers in the provincial telling sense of the blue wire problem here in this building turnout where it's been reported is seventy to eighty percent and eighty percent the highest turnout in any election in zimbabwe since the independence elections in one nine hundred eighty nelson chamisa the main opposition candidate really tweeted that he has results from ten thousand polling stations he has a safe lead it's ready to form a government president where the ruling party's candidate said he's going to win that hasn't given any numbers yet he says he's going to wait for the results to be announced in accordance with the constitution the opposition of complained and regularities in the counting process before they said this point they can still win

on sheer numbers. india's prime minister narendra modi is congratulated him on his party's victory in pakistan's general election it was their first course since pakistan tehreek e insaf one last week. is in the capital islamabad so relations usually tense between the two neighbors how significant is this phone call conversation. well right now everybody is wondering where did it didn't judge call or diplomatic niceties at the moment what did happen day dead all three of them around caught on . the election head in august on the issue. if the indians go one step toward that we would do that or territorial disputes including kashmir can only be

a dog through negotiations between the two country mr. crown was that he. had region for peace and development in the neighborhood so it would be important he did indeed a tall where that relations are on demand and what steps iran contra government great day and how dad will be gated by india when it does happen. related to the foreign policy issue i mean imran khan had received a call from maestro. here from the name badge made the horn or door and said that iran should be looking forward to further cooperation with the indian prime minister called board of course raise some hope that they may be drawn into few. dollars issued including

between india and pakistan thanks so much come on high that. the chief of malaysia's civil aviation authority has resigned after an investigation showed lapses by air traffic controllers during the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy an independent report on monday said the controllers failed to initiate emergency procedures when the flight vanished from radar this place the boeing triple seven disappeared in two thousand and fourteen while flying to beijing with two hundred thirty nine thousand people on board investigators say someone may have deliberately taken it off because they were unable to determine who. british humanitarian groups are being accused of ignoring years of sexual abuse allegations against their staff that's the conclusion of a parliamentary report into the sector recently the u.k. based aid group oxfam source several resignations after

a scandal involving its staff in haiti that in barber has more. earlier this year the charity oxfam was rocked by an abuse scandal its deputy chief executive in britain resigned that was after all found was accused of covering up allegations that staff used sex workers while delivering aid to haiti in twenty eleven now a report by the u.k. parliament says lessons a still not being learned by the sector we did reach the conclusion that it would appear that often reputation of the organization has been put it at the protection of the vulnerable that cannot be right that must stop. the report highlights four key areas where there's a clear need for improvement empowerment meaning everyone who receives a should know how to seek help if their rights are violated reporting with donor organizations actively seeking and responding to reports of abuse accountability including an independent women for victims and survivors if established channels have failed them and screening including

a global register of aid workers to prevent known abuses from getting new jobs. the report also looks at reported abuse and exploitation by united nations peacekeepers including in the central african republic it says there's no single u.n. body trying to investigations and quote victims appear to be essentially forgotten campaigners say there needs to be a global push to prosecute and jail abuses wherever they work when i work for the red cross and balls in your i heard of rumors of the sexual exploitation of children in the bosnian war and we've now seen in the whistleblower movie that in fact many people impound you in the nine hundred ninety s. that this was a problem early to thousands we've seen the food for six scandals and we saw this is a problem the difference is finally the people in britain are starting to realize and the people around the world are starting to realize this is not just a betrayal of the children and the women that are being raped this is a betrayal of taxpayer funds and this is

a betrayal of the dinah's. the u.k.'s charity commission is currently investigating how save the children handled sexual harassment allegations against senior staff the charities suspended bidding for u.k. government funding so has oxfam and its also set up an independent whistleblowing hotline positive steps but real global change could take many many years. al-jazeera. the pope has been criticized for taking ten days to accept the resignation of an a strangely and catholic bishop convicted of concealing child abuse adelaide archbishop for that was and was sentenced to twelve months in jail in early july it failed to report the abuse of two altar boys by a paedophile priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. . i think francis having come from argentina has been slow to pick up the guy name particularly in terms of the developments in countries like the united states and australia i think there have been developments there i think it's very welcome

whether we can read anything into him taking ten days to accept this resignation i don't know enough about the internal vatican workings but i think definitely had the cardinal mccarrick kies on his desk there from the united states and now this i would hope that this is a sign of ongoing improvement. these days it's very easy to fly anywhere in the world at a moment's notice but one man's taking his travel to the extreme by not going anywhere near an airport explains. by car bus train and container ship. peterson from denmark he goes by the name fuller and has one of the best passports in the world his go visit every country without getting on a plane but i was born too late that all the great things have already been done which is not quite true but it does feel like that sometimes so to hear that no one's going to have a country or world without flying i sort of felt like i could take that challenge

upon myself and do it not knowing exactly how hard it was going to be. the passport and x. rinks the danish passport third in the world only behind singapore and germany if gore were from afghanistan or iraq or pakistan his journey would be nearly impossible after four years on the road he has one hundred fifty two countries down fifty one to go now it looks like i'll be completing twenty twenty which means it's turned out to be a six year project just to put things in context if you spend a month in every country in the world then it's not four years of your life then it's sixteen years of your life so you have to be really careful with time in each country when you're working on such a large scale navigating around wars political disputes and visa regulations can be a headache. on his last leg thor travelled from the u.a.e. to oman then into yemen and then back into oman he then got on a container ship and sailed into the gulf to qatar there would have been

a much easier way for thor to get tickets are by land the only problem is of course there's only one land border here at abousamra and saudi arabia closed it in june twenty seventh teen when the blockade of qatar began and now the next step is how am i going to get away. thor's next hurdle is getting into saudi arabia to make that happen he has to board another container ship he's hoping to get off at a port in the u.a.e. but if not he will have to sail to india and then head back towards bombing that is if he can get a visa it's a political and logistical nightmare but he says being an explorer and meeting people is what makes the journey worth it is really a mindset in relation to how we're going to meet people around the world and the other side of the border on the other side of the planet different skin color a different ideology how are you going to approach those people and i truly do believe that a stranger is a friend you've never met before but it's really up to you instead of souvenirs

thora collects selfies now he has one from qatar to add to his list with only fifty one more countries to go leo hardy in al-jazeera doha. britain's new foreign minister is in beijing seeking a post free trade deal with china but talks didn't go smoothly as jeremy hunt tripped up on his own wife's nationality. it's huns first big trip outside britain since taking over from forrest johnson. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now the government carrying out coordinated attacks in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad a government official says a car bomb exploded near a hospital and a refugee and repatriation center security forces are confronting the attackers

shiela ballasts has more from kabul. there's still sporadic gunfire ongoing between afghan special forces is an unknown number of a surgeon and this is all happening at the government's ministry for refugees in jalalabad which is the capital of mega hard province it's a sensitive area cynic stores of this ministry is a u.n. compound on the other side we've got a major hospital so everybody is on alert here it started around ten am local time which is roughly three hours ago with three large explosions u.s. president donald trump has surprised everyone by saying he'd be willing to meet iran's president has done rouhani at any time and without preconditions the two men have been locked in a war of words with through the u.s. from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal the u.n. special envoy to syria is planning talks with iran russia and turkey to finalize

a body to draft a new constitution so fond of us tour hopes to have the discussion in september the latest round of talks to end the war is taking place in the russian city of sochi. at least eleven people have been killed when a valley exploded at a checkpoint in the. philippines that's across from. decades of conflict between government forces and muslim separatists troops who are trying to search the vehicle when it detonated. the chief of malaysia's civil aviation authority has resigned after an investigation showed lapses by air traffic controllers during the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy the boeing triple seven disappeared in two thousand and fourteen on its way to. supply cuba now the coca plant has long been a pillar of bolivia's traditions but its use in illegal drugs today is threatening

the nation's culture. because the regime. has made many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry my mother was trying over to. do with. who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade. al-jazeera. i. i.

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