i'm a dizzying. six hours of gun battles as the afghan city of jalalabad comes under attack for the second time in three days. so there are a col this is our sara live from doha also coming up the results are coming soon for zimbabwe voters but already there is talk of course action. to pre-conditions you know they want to meet only anytime they want anytime they want he now wants to travel to iran donald trump's an offer just nine days after threatening the country . and calling an international help the battle against a wave of wildfires in the u.s.

showing no sign of letting up. gun battles and explosions have echoed around the afghan city of jalalabad for the second time in four days in the past hour security officials have declared the attack over that six people killed. it dragged on for hours off the gunman targeted government offices a government official said a combo mix posted near a hospital at a refugee. department about attack began soon after a roadside bomb killed at least eleven people on a bus in the west and far a province shot about us is keeping across events for us in kabul and shell of the attack finished just in the past hour what are you hearing about. what we know now that this attack that went on for some six hours did to individually so we understand it's. six people were killed in the attack five

civilians and one police officer who also fourteen people who were wounded just spoken to the named provincial government spokesperson who says they can now tell us how this attack took place around eleven am local time a car laden with explosives drove up to the gates of this compound two gunman jumped hours and then they set off the first explosion it was several explosions the gunmen used that and managed to get inside the compound and then afghans special forces arrived and a gun battle ensued for the following six hours inside. this building that they attacked with the department of refugees. inside it was during a conference going on where people meet and discuss funding for afghan refugees some managed to escape halfway through this others clearly did not know the situation in jalalabad couple of negative problems has become increasingly bad three days ago another attack very similar just one hundred meters down the road

and a midwife training facility similar tech explosions then a gun battle there were some sixty seven people trapped inside for the better half of the day and in that attack three people died islamic state claimed responsibility for that attack and then the same day the other attack in western afghanistan which will casualties reported. is that happened earlier in the day just about day right there was a boss hitting from her office in the in the west of afghanistan on the main highway towards kabul in far a province drove over. a roadside bomb and there were many casualties and that of even people who thirty seven people were they being treated in hospital now the government is blaming the taliban for that attack ok so let us bring the latest from kabul into major attacks in the country today thanks very much all of.

maysoon who will be elected the first elected president of the post. they had to commission last year to get announcing results and this is the election commission and harare but still no sign of them. there was no breaking nor cheating and the ballot but some observers have raised concerns about the commission's independence have been lining up outside polling booths to see who's ahead in the area present. opposition leader nelson chamisa say they are confident of winning. is also waiting for these results in the capital harare so what's happened we expected these results election commission them said themselves said they would be released an hour ago but now we're not saying why they. needed another thirty minutes before they can start releasing the results they do have this is. probably released in the back problems by province so it will take

a while then they'll take a break maybe for a couple of days and then come back with received another batch of results to guarantee. results today both. parties and the opposition m.d.c. is. going to win what we hearing and from indications we've seen from some of the polling agents they say that the ruling parties and did very well in the rural areas and the opposition is doing well in the urban areas the key thing to watch now is once we get a final result that will be the person who listens. to meet. the current opposition will be happy about this number of accusations already of one we having on that front. well they're saying a lot they just had a press conference and they stayed be thinking of going to courts they allege that some of the long lines went but they didn't. voters

voting they say they don't believe. that the process wasn't rigged and they said no matter what's the result is. there one except they've been threatening to. say that happens imagine the confusion that is going to cause. for the moment thanks very much. now is threatened iran and vows to isolate it like no other now donald trump is suggesting talks with its president without conditions would be the first with an iranian leader since one nine hundred seventy nine speaker of parliament says it's not the right time and it would be humiliating unofficial reports 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 any time they want. any time they want the u.s. spy lifted 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 dug it 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 u.a.e. i doubt that 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 or south korea pave the way for the meeting with kim jong il in france might be an option president emmanuel mccall had arjen 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. actually has state pump air seemed to contradict the president he says he's on board meeting iran's president says 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 worth while to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevent proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them let's get more reaction now from tehran was saying that same what are you hearing that. well the latest iranian official to add to a chorus of response to president trump. casual invitation has been the interior minister who no surprises here said that trump cannot be trusted and so we're not going to talk to him and this is really been the running theme ever since donald trump pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and we've been seeing the same thing repeated over and over again now this is a country that has said several times iranian officials. of all ranks have said they prefer conversation over escalation they would rather have negotiations then

any sort of verbal or actual conflict but on this one issue when it comes to president trumps white house this american administration the iranians say that they've tried once before he pulled out of the nuclear deal he's proven he cannot be trusted and now they're back to square one in terms of post one thousand nine hundred eighty nine relations between the united states and iran now any time the administration throws iran a curveball especially when it comes to this nuclear deal president hassan rouhani tends to turn to europe and say well it's your turn now to step in and make sure this deal works you have to make sure that you other signatories to the deal abide by the deal make sure that the united states sanctions don't intimidate you and keep you from dealing with us and you're the ones that have to make sure we can continue selling our oil and. the message he sent again to the british ambassador to tehran in a meeting this morning he met with the ambassador and said iran is not interested

in pursuing. any sort of blockage of the persian gulf as he said in terms of oil shipping lanes and he said at the same time even though that may be we intend to fully commit to selling and exporting our oil in an ongoing way despite what president might say and it's really europe that he's turning to to make sure that continues to happen and he also made the point that under such hostile rhetoric from the united states future talks are very unlikely to proceed and what about the iranian people how they that this deal will actually stick. optimism is something that's really hard to find in iran these days many people are very. overall morale here is low we have to look at the currency of the iranian reality it's it's more it's dropped and more more than half the value of that

currency has dropped in in less than a year and a lot of that is down to the sort of economic threats from the trump white house from this sort of psychological economic warfare that's been waged by the united states as as analysts here would put it and iranian people also feel that the trunk white house is making personal attacks against them we saw the travel ban against majority muslim countries iranians felt that that was a very personal attack on them as civilian people of iran not the government as the trumpet ministration would have you believe the economic hardships that the white house is hoping they can place on iran and weaken the government by creating a groundswell of public sentiment against the government that's not really working iranians feel that they're being targeted by the white house and they are really they would much prefer to support their own government even though they may. criticize them in the face of this external threat by the united states and so it's really difficult to see talks happening in this climate the rouhani ministration

has become very unpopular for how toxic his policy has become the iranian people blame his government for not being able to see it coming from not being able to see what trump might do to sabotage this deal and so going forward it's unlikely that there will be any sort of support for more negotiations of any kind with the united states any time soon ok saying that many thanks for the update from tehran. now the u.n. is calling on saudi arabia to release all peaceful activists including women who campaigned to lift the walls longest female driving lifting of the ban in june was held as a major step forward for women's rights in the conservative kingdom but a number of women who had advocated for the change have since been arrested and he writes office genuine reform appears to be taking place but dissent is still not accepted since the fifteenth of may at least fifteen government critics were detained we understand that eight of them were later temporarily released until the

completion of their procedural review. in some cases their whereabouts are unknown and there is a serious lack of transparency in the processing of their cases still ahead on the houses there are thousands left homeless by an indonesian quake and now off to self-respect come a worry. and after capturing most of syria from opposition fighters the government trains his eyes on the next battlefield in the north. hello and welcome back so we look at weather across indochina china and taiwan is really across parts of indochina where things are looking pretty wet at the moment some heavy rain still coming in here particularly me and marcos all areas are seeing a lot of rain at the moment that's likely to continue slightly better in conditions across the vietnam still

a few heavy downpours around meanwhile for eastern parts of china we have showers for hong kong and fuzhou and you can also see the circulation that is tropical storm john dari which is heading towards shanghai in the following few days now as you move across into south asia we've got some very heavy rain across northeastern areas of this region really and we also have wanted to have the rainfall reports down in the parts of carolina for instance but it is these eastern areas where it's been particularly wet and is likely to stay that way certainly for delhi we've got some slightly dry conditions moving in the circulations affecting areas slightly further towards easter so i've been watching katmandu kolkata still seeing some heavy showers but crunchy looking at large she try and find the still that rain coming down through the western ghats here in the arabian peninsula weather conditions little bit on the breezy side but it certainly fine and dry here in qatar where the high of forty three in doha.

it's history and to do a new generation is shaking things up for me is my everything five thousand six hundred years it's all different. all these cultures are now on top of each of the. we're here to see how the. culture and. age. is there as a reminder of our top stories this hour an attack on

a government office in eastern afghanistan is over with six people confirmed dead and fourteen wounded two gunmen set off explosions and stormed the office for refugees in the city of jalalabad security forces fought for six hours to end the siege. skepticism in iran about donald trump's offer of talk for president hassan rouhani u.s. president says they could meet at any time without preconditions iran's interior minister has ruled that out saying it isn't trustworthy. results as a presidential election is expected to start trickling in both president and opposition leader nelson chamisa have said they are confident of winning. the syrian military buildup is continuing around the rebel held province activists are reporting shelling on just south of city and in neighboring hammer province a child has died at libya's the only significant territory still held by the rebels

but president bashar assad has said retaking the province is his top. israeli politicians will meet again to discuss a new law that would officially define israel as a jewish state it comes amid mounting domestic and international criticism of the law that's being called racist fifty two of its one hundred twenty members of parliament called for a special session which will take place next week president ruben rivlin has already said he will sign the law in arabic in protest under the new law arabic was downgraded as an official language alongside hebrew. interim prime minister narendra modi has congratulated him on can be expected to head pakistan's government and discuss peace and development among the two nuclear powered regional rivals it is victory speech iran can said he's willing to resolve the longstanding dispute over kashmir has more from islamabad. the indian prime minister narendra modi had gordimer on kong and congratulated him on his recent three and the

pakistani election. and development in the neighborhood this all happening after emraan kron made it quite clear that. all outstanding issues particularly. including through negotiation and if the indians are one step towards pakistan he would do so dad of course he reading some hope that perhaps maybe draw one cimarron crown government take. expected within the next few weeks also the fact that the president. gradually did game and of georgia and why did him with an open invitation to rid of one and stand with him ron had already accepted on dad ron had said that he wanted open borders where the one is done more in line with what is. making it

in the european union and a message from the me and him back there. in the meantime other than bad. dream that. i have been meeting imran khan raided in just on the outskirts of islamabad u.s. satellites are proposing to tax haven new to activity at one of north korea's main ballistic missile production sites u.s. intelligence officials told the washington post the country appeared to be building new and constant two missiles at the sun facility at the same site where the first missile capable of reaching the u.s. was produced the temperament station isn't commenting on the reports well naturally just from north and south korea have to scribe that talks demilitarized zone as candid and productive the two sides met at the truce footage of panmunjom just. disarming the border and withdrawing troops from the area as the second minute to a level meeting between cell and cognac since the historic enter korean summit in

april bright has the latest from seoul. this latest round of talks has wrapped up but without a joint agreement or even a joint press communique even so both sides have been putting a positive spin on proceedings saying that progress has been made the proceedings were friendly as the leader of the north korean delegation put it they have continued to nurture the seeds of peace and prosperity as sown by their two leaders the two sides have been looking at ways of easing tensions on the demilitarized zone particularly looking at troop numbers in posts that face each other across the no man's land and the weapons that they have including of course the soldiers who face off against each other on a daily basis between the blue huts at panmunjom peace village both sides have committed to continuing the process but it does come against these latest reports

of the restart of work on north korea's intercontinental ballistic missile program we don't know from the satellite pictures that have been produced just what level of completion these missiles are supposedly up to but according to optimistic supporters of the peace process and that would include of course president donald trump they would point out that there hasn't been an actual missile launch or missile testing now for months even so it is certainly casting doubt on president trump's assertion that north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. but i just have to move towards political talks on syria's future has just wrapped up in the russian city of sochi doctor brokered by russia and turkey and more will now take place in geneva in september so the u.n. spoke a short time ago will be. the very first paragraph of the joint communique

reiterates for the tenth time the obligation of all countries including turkey to observe the sovereignty of the syrian republic obviously our friends from iran and russia do respect the commitments with regards to respecting the sovereignty but turkey continues to violate its commitments including in the deescalation zone to be glib. as it was behind a car bomb attack in southern philippines and eleven people were killed when an exploded after it was stopped at a checkpoint and city that's just across from mindanao island where they have been decades of conflict between government forces and fighters for civilians including a mother and her child were killed in the blast. from the philippines capital manila. it happened early choose the morning when a van coming from the hinterlands of basilan drove and stopped at a checkpoint near an army detachment in a sea land upon inspection according to the philippine army that's when the single passenger there to needed the bomb it left several members of the forces of the

military dead and their dependents according to the military the impact was felt as far as fifty meters this is actually one of the rare times when an attack has happened over the last few years there has been relative peace there since the former leader of the abu sayyaf group is the lone happy lone was forcibly pushed out of the sea land and he moved to morrow week to launch a war there against the philippine military however the philippine military now says this attack has been launched and led by another leader of the abu sayyaf group his name is fuji in it remains to be seen how this will change the security landscape in brasil and in other surrounding islands but according to the military they said the pursuit of. other members of the abu sayyaf will be relentless hundreds of hikers trapped on a mountain in indonesia after sunday's earthquake have been rescued the tremors

cause landslides on mount from johnny which broke all of a little escape routes a magnitude six point four earthquake left at least sixteen people dead and injured hundreds of others it also destroyed the homes of thousands of people some reports from long island. the rescue operation wraps up for the last remaining hiking strapped on mount when johnny more than one thousand tourists from twenty six different countries have managed to come down since the powerful earthquake struck on sunday one indonesian man died to remain in hikers are 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 safe around here during the earthquake a group of hikers was staying in this home stay on malaysian woman died the house owner look for 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 bed probably sending a message to a family because she wanted to go home that morning in 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 any and aftershocks are still happening that's why even though the homes are not damaged 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. step class and al-jazeera at a food of mountain johnny in. a 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 outside of the greek parliament in athens the fire ripped through a seaside resort northeast of the capital last monday damaging more than three thousand five hundred homes many people died in the far wall so others drowned at sea trying to flee. as training is expected to send one hundred eighty to the u.s. to help. northern california of have destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands of families 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 grow people will adjust but it's a hard when this blaze ripped through this neighborhood this home was spared but their neighbors not so much the fire totally. 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 that now have nothing else like for this woman angel her home where she lived with her family for fifteen years burned down when you see that your house is gone it's like ok my life my my my kids they grew you know grew up there the only thing keeping are 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 no appreciation people that say hey we got trucks we. can get 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.

with the top stories and the government. over with fifty. two gunmen set off explosions and. security forces for the six hours to end the siege. that's skepticism in iran about donald trump's offer of talks with president rouhani u.s. president says they could meet at any time without preconditions but iran's interior minister has ruled that out is not trust. zimbabweans should soon get a hint about whole be the first elected president of the post mccarthy era electoral commission it was due to begin announcing results over an hour ago but as you can see this election commission in harare that has been delayed it says it's

absolutely sure there was no breaking nor chasing in the ballots but some observers have raised concerns about the commission's independence voters have been lining up outside polling to see who's ahead in the area both present. and opposition leader nelson chamisa say they're both confident of winning. the latest attempt to move towards political talks aimed at ending the syrian conflict has just wrapped up in the syrian city of sochi brokered by russia iran and turkey who are back opposing sides of the conflict now will take place in geneva in september will be. the very first paragraph of the joint communique reiterates but attempt on the obligation of all countries including turkey to observe the sovereignty of the syrian republic obviously our friends from iran and russia do respect the commitments with regards to respecting the sovereignty but turkey continues to violate its commitments including in the deescalation zone to be believed. and the

united nations is calling on saudi arabia to release all peaceful activists including women who campaigned to lift the world's longest female driving a 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 un human rights office says genuine reform does appear to be taking place but dissent is still not accepted. they were obs days with all the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera that's after the stream so just stay with us if you can. for me it is different because there's a maturity about its views and the is really genuine the other also has trouble with that's the risk of a story like your. own. going on in culture zero of these

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