jalalabad under attack again gun battles and explosions hit the eastern afghan city . and sam is a band this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want any time they were. ready to talk to iran on southern africa just nine days after threatening the country. thousands left homeless by an indonesian earthquake now aftershocks become a watery. and counting down to the big results are boy voters could have a hint of the new leader within hours.

a gun battle in the eastern city of jalalabad is still going on as we go to where it started there a few hours ago followed an earlier attack on a bus in far province where eight people died back to that attack in jalalabad targeted shops and government offices there's now a battle ongoing between afghan security forces and the government at least three explosions have been heard. charlotte is live for us in kabul sort of bring us up to speed with this battle. sporadic gunfire is still being heard at this government apartment for refugees in jalalabad you know the afghan special forces are there and engaged in a bear so with these attackers we do understand now that the numbers of wounded

have increased the head of the main hospital in jalalabad has just released that they are treating team people eight lightly wounded two critically this all started around eleven am local time with three large explosions outside government department of refugees in the i was there to follow it there have been a heavy gun battle in that has decreased to more sporadic fire it's in a very sensitive area in jalalabad it's next door to the hospital where these people are being treated and also next door to you in compound we understand at the time of the attack there was actually meetings going on with aid officials and people within this refugee agency in jalalabad it has become increasingly in secure on sunday we were reporting that a midwife training facility was attacks. states took responsibility for that attack three staff members of this midwife training facility were killed there sixty seven

people trapped inside a hospital that day and we just learned in the last twenty four hours the exact statistics for how bears jalalabad and nega province has become in the last three months thirty attacks suicide bombings and attacks on civilians in which one hundred and sixty civilians have died just in the last three months and province taliban's operating from the. states is work as i said took responsibility for sunday's attack no one has claimed today's attack but the taliban has come out on their twitter saying it's not us or thanks so much shall about. life in the afghan capital. down from threatened and vowed to isolate it like no other now he's suggesting talks with iran and president rouhani without conditions it would be the first with an iranian leader since nine hundred seventy nine iran's deputy speaker of parliament says it's not the right time for talks and that negotiations would be humiliating or go live to tehran in

a moment of first alan fischer from washington d.c. . 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 anytime they want any time they want the u.s. spirally to the deal is signed with iran and its international partners when president trump announced in me 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 both to scrap it when he became president his offer to talk with iran's president well threw up many more questions than local 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 we've been here before they will be

met with fire and fury donald trump very 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 so korea paved the way for the meeting with kim jong il in france. might be an option president had. to walk away from the iran deal during your state visit to washington is linked with tehran and that might open up the necessary diplomatic channels there are voices senior people in this white house who've 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 that it could

and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. trumps our own senior staff appear to contradict him u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or says he's on board with meeting iran's president but listed several preconditions before it could go ahead the president wants to meet with folks to solve problems of 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 ha'p'orth while to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them on live to terra now. i should say is there for us so what are we hearing from iranian officials on this. well sammy whenever donald trump and this white house throw iran a curve ball what iran has been doing is turning to the other signatories of the

joint comprehensive plan of action the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and in this case since the u.s. pulled out from the deal iran has placed maximum pressure on its european partners to say to them that it is now up to you to save the deal it is up to you to ignore the american sanctions and it is up to you to continue to deal with us and make sure that we get the economic benefit we were promised for continuing to comply with this deal and that is exactly the play that president hassan rouhani of iran is is running now in a meeting this morning with the new british ambassador to teheran president hasan rouhani made a few very very important points he said that iran does not intend to interfere with any sort of oil shipping in the persian gulf as he said and he said that while that is the case iran still intends to export and sell its own oil no matter what the trumpet ministration says and another point he made was that the trumpet ministration has over and over again been pushing iran away from being able to

hold these talks and really what it does is come down it comes down to oil at the end of the day and the opec governor of iran in response to a report of a slight increase in oil production by opec member nations saudi arabia specifically in july seventy thousand barrels the opium governor said that the american desire to lean on saudi arabia and limit iran from being able to produce more oil from being able to ship any of its oil is mathematically impossible iran produces two point five million barrels a day and experts outside of iran have also said that to really try to stop that completely even a little bit is not realistic all right. in tehran. we're . symbolic wins may get

a hint in the next few hours about who lead them to the post mugabe era the electoral commission will start announcing results thirteen hundred g.m.t. it says it's absolutely sure there was no rigging no cheating of the ballots. is in the capital harare and how they've been hearing from both candidates both of them feeling like they're doing well while do the results so far that we have any hint of where this is going. well the electoral commission is telling people to be patient until they start releasing official results they said so far that the voter turnout was really good more so than in twenty thirty with us a lot of voter apathy with does indicate a lot of people excited to vote in terms what we know so far at individual polling stations results in just one polling station. these for the national assembly and you can see over here the m.d.c.

alliance led by the main opposition leader nelson chamisa got three hundred thirty eight. thirty eight votes by the station and then we have got two hundred and seventy three now depends where you go in some places. that's needed and not be in d.c. people were excited about voting because they're hoping that this could turn around the economy lots of people queued up to vote on monday many of them young unemployed hoping that whoever wins does something to turn around the stagnant economy. it's the first vote without robert mugabe on the ballot in nearly four decades. the man who is now in charge president in a similar promise of the general elections period will be peaceful and hording today is feasible i will no doubt end presence of the. presence of the man presumably. the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says he's confident of winning by more than sixty percent if the polls

a free and fair way that people have spoken the people are speaking and it's clear that the vote is a vote for victory one for freedom and one for democracy and one for a new zimbabwe robert mugabe voted in an opposition stronghold in harare the day before the election he says he would not vote for or the rulings on the pay party because they forced him to reside in avandia. the european union election observer mission says the elections were in some cases very smooth but in others totally disorganized i think something consistencies rich very me but. i have not able to makes a judgment or final judgment that this was the battle of the lead all over all of the baba election officials say most polling stations open on time and that there were a few issues but things went relatively smoothly some people complained they didn't

get to vote. you know they did in many to forge their name and the bill found the vote counting is done manually election officials say the final results will be announced in five days if no candidate wins more than half the votes there will be a runoff as of timber. no no no emotions are high some opposition supporters fear the vote is or has been tampered with and the ruling party will try and manipulate the vote to be of officials an idea allegations some analysts already saying the election results will likely be contested. we will only know who has won when official. final official results but from talking to polling agency people from different parties there's an indication that the readings on a tea party is doing the series a while in rural areas the m.d.c. the opposition is doing well in the urban areas not as well as they used to but we

all know that for certain of course when those final results come out they'll start coming out from three pm local time all right thanks so much. the un is calling on saudi arabia to release all peaceful activists including women who campaigned to lift the world's longest female driving ban the lifting of the ban in june was hailed as a major step forward for women's rights in the deeply conservative kingdom but a number of women who have advocated for the change have since been arrested the un human rights office says genuine reform appears to be taking place but dissent is still not accepted still ahead of al jazeera after recapturing most of syria the government trains its eyes on the next battlefield in the north and building trust north and south korea meet for military talks aimed at easing tensions.

welcome back let's look at the weather across asia in northeastern areas weather conditions the most part looking fine on the satellite imagery this little circulation though this is what is now tropical storm junk dari which is heading toward shanghai in the coming days so the far south of japan seeing further heavy rain at times tokyo should be fine the korean peninsula looking bright beijing no real issues and then heading through into thursday can see that system moving further into wards shanghai bringing heavy rain rather than any particularly strong wind but that could be some flooding as a result of junk dari beijing still looking fine tokyo pretty hot and humid there temperatures back up to thirty six degrees that heat wave back once again further towards the south is not looking as volatile across indochina we've still got some showers of vietnam laos mia marketed because the parts of myanmar still looking very wet here heavy rain across eastern states of india and bangladesh but for more

eastern parts of china weather conditions looking a bit makes the be some showers for hong kong and fuzhou but generally some brighter weather also expected then to southeastern parts of asia looking pretty wet here at the moment all the way from the philippines and down through borneo once you get to bali weather conditions looking fine highs of thirty two injured carter we're looking to see some heavy showers affecting singapore. 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 that made the most notorious booze are involved because they receive kick backs while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry me malady my mother was strangled to cable and brutally come with a pole because as you describe who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow will be n.d.'s on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching out to see a time to recap our headlines this hour the gunman have stormed shops and government offices in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad. a gun battle with security forces is still ongoing several people are reported to be injured and at least three explosions have also been heard. around stepped the speaker of parliament has dismissed in their mounts and by donald trump that it be willing to meet iran's president without preconditions. says it's not the right time for talks with the u.s. that they would be humiliated. zimbabweans may get a hint in the next few hours of who will lead them into

a new post mugabe era the electoral commission says it will start announcing results of thirteen hundred g.m.t. monday's was the first election in nearly forty years without robert mugabe on the ballot. now the syrian military buildup continues around rebel held province activists are reporting shelling on just south of the loop city and in neighboring province where a child has died there live is the only significant territory still held by rebels president bashar assad said retaking the province is his top priority. the u.n. special envoy to syria is planning talks with iran russia and turkey to finalize a body to draft a new constitution stuff under mistura hopes to have the discussions in september the latest round to try and end the conflict is taking place in the russian city of sochi hoda abdel-hamid as 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 fund 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're waiting for a similar list to rip present 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. u.s. satellites of reportedly detected renewed activity at one of north korea's main ballistic missile production sites u.s. intelligence officials tell the washington post the country appeared to be building new intercontinental ballistic missiles at the sun i'm dong facility that's the same side where the first missile capable of reaching the u.s. was produced a trumpet ministration isn't commenting on the reports senior military officials from north and south korea have described their talks in panmunjom as candid and productive the two sides discussed this arming the border and withdrawing troops from the demilitarized zone it's the second military level meeting between solemn pyongyang since the historic into korean summit in april one bride joins us now

from the south korean capital seoul so what came out of these talks. interestingly sami the talks wrapped up they wrapped up a couple of hours ago here without a press communique or a joint agreement it was thought that especially given the current feeling of goodwill there would be some concrete measures agreed upon that wasn't the case i don't know how much we should read into this though both sides have been putting very much a positive spin on their deliberations they have said that progress was made to the talks do seem to have been very friendly with the north korean delegation leaders saying that the seed of peace and prosperity as he put it has been sown by the by the leaders of their two countries has been nurtured by this ongoing negotiation what they've been talking about today sami has been the further deescalation along

the demilitarized zone that separates north and south korea particularly troop levels in these posts that face each other across no man's land how many troops should be there what kind of armaments they should have and this includes of course these soldiers who famously face off against each other on a daily basis in the alleyways between those famous blue huts at panmunjom truce village itself although progress it seems has not been made in the form of an actual agreement both sides do seem to be as they say committed to following through so i mean you got to wonder what sort of shadow is cast over those talks and hopes of any agreement. by the reports that north korea may be starting to build ballistic missiles once again. it is certainly a very interesting according to many people a very depressing backdrop for these negotiations to take place we have as you know very mixed messages coming out from north korea

a few weeks ago we were talking about satellite photographs showing the dismantling as promised by kim jong un of a missile testing facility now these latest reports seem to indicate that work is continuing on the intercontinental ballistic missiles we can't know exactly what progress has been made in these missiles that are featured what the level of completion they are at but you know if you listen to the optimistic observers and this includes of course president donald trump himself they would point out that there hasn't actually been any missile launches or missile testing for months now so you know that is a good thing but it does bring into question the assertion by president trump that north korea is no longer a nuclear threat i think what you have here sammy is things working at two levels when it comes to negotiations between north south korea and the u.s. on the achievable deliverables such as the repatriation of human remains of soldiers killed during the korean war or on the easing of tensions on the d.m.z.

those are continuing we are seeing successes there when it comes to the much bigger question of the denuclearization of north korea what this whole process is meant to be about that it seems remains as elusive as ever thanks so much pride there. the number of people who lost their lives in last week's wildfires in greece has now risen to ninety two hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil for the victims near the greek parliament in athens a fire ripped through a seaside resort northeast of the capital last monday damaging more than three thousand homes many people died in the fall while others drowned trying to flee. stray via is expected to send one hundred eighty five fighters to the u.s. to help tackle wildfires in northern california at least six people have died and seven remain unaccounted for. 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. evacuated 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 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 live 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. try 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. bring a gang of 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 gabriels oddo. redding california now hundreds of hikers trapped on a mountain in indonesia after sunday's earthquake have been rescued the magnitude six point four earthquake killed sixteen people stuff awesome reports. the rescue operation wraps up for the last remaining high construct on monk when johnny what in one thousand tourists from twenty six different countries have managed to come down the ok no since the powerful earthquake struck on sunday when indonesian men died maiming hikers i'm now safe. the guides and porters were amazing they really helped us to find a safe spot huge blocks were falling it was really scary and there was a lot of dust. at the foot of the mountain evidence that there was little so around

here during the earthquake a group of hikers was staying in this home stay on malaysian woman died the house owners look for their gas passports only to find a broken mobile phone and some clothes. the woman who died had just taken a shower and was still in a phone on the bid probably sending a message to a family because she wanted to go home that morning then this very strong earthquake happened this mountain is more than just a tourist destination many people call this place home more than five thousand of them are now homeless the government has promised funds to rebuild more than a thousand homes never before have they felt an earthquake this powerful at the foot of mount and shiny and aftershocks are still happening that's why even though the homes are not that much most people here have decided to spend the night in tents the earthquake happened during the peak of the tourist season but for the time being one of indonesia's main attractions to country second largest active

folk will be close to hikers. steps last an al-jazeera at the foot of mountain johnny in limbo. now the retirement of a supreme court chief justice has given dog from the chance to reshape the highest courts in the u.s. anthony kennedy was a key swing vote who served thirty years on the bench. he has more on his complex legacy. justice anthony kennedy was nominated by ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven the president's third choice candidate for the supreme court reagan presented kennedy as a quote true conservative and despite his reputation as the key swing vote preserving female reproductive rights and legalizing gay marriage more often than not and that proved to be true during his last year kennedy didn't side with liberal justices once displaying particular hostility to labor unions for example you can almost bullshit he held a tax on the right of a woman to trees in fact an analysis by the website five thirty eight dot com found

that kennedy voted with conservatives fifty seven percent of the time almost the same as chief justice john roberts and only slightly less than other conservative justices alito scalia and thomas but his retirement is cause for concern for the bulls not least because of this campaign pledge from donald trump aimed at his christian fundamentalist base to assist in the overturning of roe versus wade than one thousand nine hundred eighty three supreme court case that established the legality of abortion do you want to see the court overturned really what we put another two or perhaps three justices and that's really what's going to be has that's will happen and that will happen automatically in my opinion because i am putting pro-life justices on the court this will be donald trump second supreme court pick neil goal such as already established himself on the right wing of the court democrats have been scathing in their assessment of the latest nominee brett kavanaugh every american who believes that our courts should not be another puppet of the rich and powerful should speak out and every senator who believes in

equal justice under law should say no to judge cabinet now but it will be difficult for democrats to cavanaugh's appointment especially since several democrats may support him she have. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now gunmen of storm shops and government offices in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad the second attack in four days a gun battle with security forces is still ongoing several people are reported to be injured and at least three explosions have been heard charlotte ballasts has more from kabul sporadic gunfire is still being heard at this government apartment for refugees in jalalabad as you know the afghan special forces are there and engaged in a bear so with these attackers we do understand now that the numbers of wounded

have increased the head of the main hospital in jalalabad has just released that they are treating people lightly wounded two critically iran's deputy speaker of parliament has dismissed an announcement by donald trump that he'd be willing to me to rein in president has and rouhani at any time without preconditions ali moore tare says it's not the right time for talks with the u.s. that they be humiliating zimbabweans may get a hint in the next few hours about who lead them into a new post mugabe era the electoral commission says it will start announcing results at thirteen hundred g.m.t. monday's was the first election in nearly forty years without robert mugabe on the ballot the u.n. special envoy to syria is planning talks with iran russia and turkey to finalize a body to draft a new constitution stev under a store one hopes to have the discussions in september the latest round of talks to end the war is taking place in the russian city of sochi. senior military officials

from north and south korea have described their talks at panmunjom as candid and productive two sides discussed this arming the border and withdrawing troops from the demilitarized zone is the second military level meeting between solemn pyongyang since the historic into korean summit in april and attack in southern philippines has killed at least eleven people soldiers and civilians are among the casualties after a van exploded in lima tanned city. the headlines the news continues here to talk to al-jazeera stay with us.

i was imprisoned for twenty one years based on false allegations that just in the last couple of years there's been a number of high profile exonerations of the wrongfully convicted based on police and prosecutorial misconduct you can check me for gun check much rather i don't really buy i don't have any going to do nothing if the prosecutor is going to seek convictions for the sake of seeking convictions prosecutors dangerous exploring the dark side of american justice the system with joburg engine on al-jazeera. you. will. see. the landmark conviction of. crimes and crimes against humanity by the international criminal court in the hague has now been overturned and mr bevan can not feel it helps criminally responsible under article twenty eight for the crimes committed by

and troops during the car operation. the former rebel leader and vice president of the democratic republic of congo has spent nearly a decade behind bars. he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison up to sending his militia to the central african republic to help put down a coup attempt they conducted a reign of terror a rampage of looting and killing of civilians followed including the mass rape of hundreds of with. but a majority of the judges ruled on his appeal he could not be held responsible for the actions of his fighters his lawyers argued successfully the fighters were no longer on the his command after they crossed the international border his militia known as the movement for the liberation of congo has now been transformed into a political.