al jazeera. where every. gunmen storm a government building in eastern afghanistan taking dozens of hostages at least fifteen people are killed. hello i'm in london you know with al jazeera also coming up president trying to offer of talks with iran is met with deep skepticism one iranian official says any talks would be humiliating. u.s. officials face tough questions over the policy that so migrant children separated

at the border with mexico. and the waiting game in zimbabwe after monday's elections the opposition accuses officials of delaying the release of results. we begin in eastern afghanistan where an attack on a government building has killed at least fifteen people and injured fourteen of us two gunmen special fix potions and storm the department's office for refugees in the city of jalalabad security forces fought for six hours to end the siege shot at palace reports from kabul. jalalabad one of afghanistan's biggest cities and it opens on. the department of refugee your fears for a conference on how to help displaced afghans they we're talking shit. explosions hit the compounds exterior flowing to government to get past the. will this of

others have a hold of him again of i was sitting in my medical store when a gunman entered the refugee department right after that they started shooting and one of them blew himself up at the gate i saw two injured people come out of the building for several hours sporadic gunfire was heard across the neighborhood smoke billowing from the building as afghan special forces hunted the remaining gunman the building is next door to the city's main hospital ten people were treated to with critical injuries. it's also just one hundred meters from a midwife training center that was attacked in the same way on saturday three staff members were killed and sixty seven trapped inside for hours. in the last three months they have been thirty attacks against civilians in this province that have killed one hundred sixty people and wounded nearly five hundred attacks in afghanistan extend to every border one at daybreak in western farah province killed a live in passengers of a bus and wounded dozens drove over

a roadside bomb on the main highway towards kabul. you know. i was taking one of my relatives daughters to the treatment of me our bus was hit by a roadside bomb or highway i don't know what happened to the girl all wish is now the government is blaming the taliban for the bus bombing but in the province the taliban has denied any involvement leaving as the primary suspects the area is a stronghold for both groups they're becoming more active with more complex attacks and increasingly it's civilians who are being killed or injured. is there a couple. a bomb attack in the southern philippines has killed at least eleven people i sill is claiming to have carried out the attack soldiers and four civilians are among the dead after a van exploded at a military checkpoint in lima town city in bassline province the area is just south of mindanao island where there's been decades of conflict between government forces

and armed fighters jimmy the island ogun has more from the philippine capital manila. it happened early choose the morning when a van coming from the hinterlands of basilan drove and stopped a checkpoint near an army detachment in basilan upon inspection according to the philippine army that's when the single passenger there to needed the bomb it left several members of the living 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 in basilan 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 them it remains to be seen how this will change the security landscape in brazil and in other surrounding islands but according to the military they said the pursuit of food and other members of the abu sayyaf will be relentless. iranian politicians have reacted with skepticism off the u.s. president donald trump offered to me with the president without preconditions trump made the remark it's a white house news conference on monday but iran's deputy speaker of parliament says it's not the right time and negotiations would be humiliating and the interior minister says the u.s. can't be trusted with drew from a landmark nuclear accord with iran in may saying it was too generous he also vowed to ramp up sanctions which come into effect next week but the u.s. secretary of state has already walked back some of trump's comments my own post

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 worth 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. they must be as a reaction from to run. there's been a chorus of reaction from iranian leaders to donald trump's invitation for talks with iran and all of them are in agreement donald trump is the man who pulled the united states out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal and has proven that he cannot be trusted so any future talks are simply a nonstarter now any time the trumpet ministration has thrown a curve ball like this to iran especially with regards to the nuclear deal president hassan rouhani iran's president has pretty much done the same thing over

and over again he's turned to european partners other signatories to the deal and he said to them that it is now your turn to step in and make sure the deal survives we're doing our part and now you must do yours you must resist american economic threats you must exert resist american sanctions you must resist the you know unilateral sanctions against iran and help us to continue to try to realize any sort of economic merits that can still be gained from the nuclear deal and that's what he did today at a meeting with rob macare the british ambassador to teheran from the united kingdom and he said that there was a few points that had to be reiterated that iran has no intention of disrupting any sort of shipping lanes and oil shipping lanes in the persian gulf as he said he also said that iran has no intention of refraining from the sale and export of its own oil and so that was a very clear message being sent to the european union that it's time for you guys to step in and help us out now rob macare is

a former oil executive himself and for his part he said that he is glad to be into iran at such an important time and that he would do whatever he could in his power as ambassador to help iran at this time with very clear signal to iran that the fight is not over that we support the nuclear agreement as long as you stand by it and a clear message to the united states and the trumpet ministration that you do not have a global support for unilateral sanctions against iran and that europe will continue to deal with iran as it sees fit. when u.s. satellites have reported they detected lineage back to. 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 intercontinental ballistic missiles at the saddam don't facility it's the same site where the first missile capable of reaching the united states was produced. the news comes despite a celebrated thaw in relations between washington and pyongyang and the drug administration is not commenting on the reports meanwhile talks between the

militaries of north and south korea have ended with no agreement the two sides met in the truce village of panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone to discuss disarming the order and withdrawing troops from the area despite the lack of agreement top delegates from both sides said the discussions were meaningful senators in the u.s. are grilling officials on the treatment of migrant children who have been detained and separated from their parents has been outcry since the trumpet ministration ordered young children including infants to be held in detention facilities after crossing the mexico border in may but some older children are being put in similar places long before the new policy came into force the senate judiciary committee is also looking into allegations of sexual and physical abuse going back to at least two thousand and fourteen. why did joe castro is following the hearing forests in washington first of all heidi one of the details of these abuse allegations.

maryam just yesterday a judge ordered that children being held at a texas facility be mediately removed except for emergency circumstances this was after attorneys for those children argued that they had been forcibly given powerful psychotropic drugs by pills or by injection and that this was done without a parental consent and without the child's consent and left these children depressed and also feeling woozy the judge hearing those claims so this was absolutely unacceptable and took immediate action and in unrelated cases there was four boys held in a facility for juveniles in virginia who in their court case claimed had been abused physically by the staff they listed those abuses including being beaten while handcuffed being kept in solitary confinement and being kept nudity in cold concrete cells the bipartisan leaders of the senate judicial committee who are now

grilling the leaders of the agencies who are charged with protecting these children they sent a letter to the inspector general yesterday saying these allegations of abuse are extremely disturbing and must be addressed. in the meantime the government is on the court order to continue reunifying migrant children with that parent how is that effort coming along. that's right there appears to be few answers to the very many questions that the senators are pressing the agency leaders on there are more than seven hundred children still being held in government custody who have not been reunited with their parents contrary to the court order whose deadline was last thursday of these children the majority have parents who were deported from the country and now comes the difficult task for the government to track down parents who are often flown back to different cities from where they

used to reside people who may have been fleeing prosecution in the us have disappeared back into the woodwork in their home countries the government is claiming that everyone who had been deported did so knowingly giving up their children to u.s. custody but lawyers say that is not the case miriam thank you very much for the latest on that senate hearing from washington heidi jocasta. meanwhile the u.s. president's former campaign manager pullman a ford has arrived in court in virginia where he's being tried for allegedly. and tax evasion charges came about due to the investigation into collusion between russia and the trump campaign during the twenty sixteen election i am looks at what to expect. this is not how the world is used to seeing paul man a fort looking somewhat haggard as he was booked into jail to await trial for decades man of court was a well known lobbyist in washington he traveled among the ultra rich shopping at

the most expensive stores on the planet only million dollar homes across the country in brooklyn the hamptons virginia and trump tower in manhattan. when f.b.i. agents searched his homes they took inventory of these luxury items thousand dollar suits a twenty one thousand dollars watch and now according to documents filed by the special counsel's office they plan to use this as evidence in his trial arguing in order to pay for them he used secret overseas bank accounts and filed false tax returns the government also says that it will call five yet to be named people to testify and granted immunity in court to force them to talk a somewhat unusual move you could draw that conclusion saying that their evidence without the immunity was so weak and fragile they needed to have something more so they had to give immunity that otherwise. without it wouldn't provide it with there would not be enough evidence on their own to convict because remember the standard

in a criminal case is proved beyond a reasonable doubt this will be the first time the special counsel presents evidence in a courtroom in a case related to a trim confidant which means many will be watching for information not just about what metaphor might have done but his former boss as well petty called al-jazeera washington. now facebook has reportedly told media outlets in the u.s. that it's found evidence of attempts to influence upcoming elections that a social media giant says it's discovered and removed thirty two false facebook accounts which it believes were to be used for coordinated political influence campaign the intention is to influence the outcome of the u.s. midterm elections which are taking place in november. still ahead for you on the program australia sends hundreds of firefighters to help california deal with blazes spreading throughout the state. and abusing charity

a british report finds aid agencies were almost complicit in sexual abuse in disaster zones. hello and welcome back let's look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia a largely fine picture tashkent their community thirty four degrees again tehran very close to forty fairly old fairly stiff wind blowing down through iraq condones through the gulf and so it has chance of some lifted dust around around the eastern side of the mediterranean sea looking fine still some showers across the caucasus and those expenses are continues to head on into service day but a bright day in beirut highs of thirty degrees then in theory. breeze is certainly working its way down through the gulf so the humidity remains fairly low which is unusual for this time of the year here forty three degrees is the forecast high forward other side the printer not quite as warm forty there from edina forty two

from i can you see the cloud across more southern areas and. little bit cooler with low cloud at times down into southern portions of africa it's a fine picture. for cape town the highs of sixteen degrees fine conditions continue to head on through into thursday for central parts of africa seen some big showers across parts of kenya ethiopia and highlands we've had some flooding in sudan so sudan seeing some showers some showers towards the gulf of guinea region also for parts of west africa and it could be a wet one in bamako. controversial liberal i am not an idealogue let me be absolutely clear to democracy and international development doesn't cut it equality and fight to increase i was from a bestselling author and distinguished economist you don't know the kids agreed to do laundry i sure do many terms of form having read my blog just how much you might

know everything is ok because maybe his son goes head to head we've done visa morio i've been a cuba been crazy i'm not in fact crazy on al-jazeera. welcome back just a quick reminder of the top stories at least fifteen people have died in afghanistan after gunmen session off explosions and stormed a government building in the eastern city of jalalabad iranian politicians say the u.s. can't be trusted to donald trump offered to meet iran's president without preconditions and the u.s. president's former campaign manager paul monofilament is in court facing charges of fraud and tax evasion.

now zimbabwe and civil society groups is seeking a court order that would force the electoral commission to publish election results from all polling stations results have been trickling in after monday's historic vote the first since robert mugabe was ousted and there is intense interest in how the race is panning out with queues forming outside the polling stations as votes were counted both the current president amisom and i got what i mean opposition leader nelson chamisa both say that confident of victory but many people fear the vote could be compromised so let's ask. to harness answers outside the opposition m.d.c. headquarters in harare karl what's the mood like where you are. who people here are celebrating they say they're confident that they've made up the main opposition even the house that nelson general flow has was leaks in and there are some of them

there the opposition leaders had a press conference earlier today with they said they have their own set of results and they say they will release those results if present in most of that that will win selection they are not going to accept these they say they're going to go to the us and then they say some of the might even go to protest on the street if their preferred candidate nelson chamisa doesn't win the home affairs minister gave a press conference about an hour ago and you want the job when that amy wyler who released the results of that official who will be a recess a lot of things up in the air right now people wondering if the opposition will release those results because if they do they could be arrested. so how or when then can we expect the final results to be announced clearly a lot of excitement and anticipation already building. while the terms of the presidential result of the decision said that's they have more than ten thousand

polling stations so it's going to take some time they say basically they have to wait for all of those results to counted and sent to the national results sent out and off to all of them have commented them down asa presidential results it could be a few days i think a final result is announce it towards a parliamentary a few have been coming in the ticket has been leading in some constituencies in the some areas that leaves the in by a huge margin and out of the seven and so far civil positions these are the m.d.c. has only won one so far. thank you so much amateur so with all the latest from harare. australia is expected to send a hundred eighty five fighters to the united states have. tackle the 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 displace thousands of families. now from reading one of the worst hit hit cities where some residents are now returning home 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 this area 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. baccy 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 were 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 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 that 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 see that your house is gone it's like ok my life my my my kids they are the group 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 is no appreciation

you can give people that say hey we got trucks we. will 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 well now to developments in syria where the army along with its allies has reportedly taken full control of the basin in southwestern syria after driving out i still elsewhere in the country forces loyal to the president have continued that onslaught on province activists of reports of shelling on the. area south of lives and in neighboring hama they say the nearby town of was hit by phosphorus bombs is the only significant territory still held by rebel fighters meanwhile the u.n. special envoy to syria says he wants agreement from iran russia and turkey on the formation of a body for drafting

a new constitution to find the mysterious says he hopes to finalize the plan in september he made the comments as the latest round of peace talks wrapped up in the russian city of sochi all parties vowed to work towards the resettlement of syrian refugees as well as a pilot project for prisoner swaps between the government and the opposition. the un has called on saudi arabia to release all peaceful activists including women who campaigned to lift the world's longest female driving ban the lifting of that ban in june was held is a major step forward for women's rights in the deeply conservative kingdom was a number of women who'd been advocating for the change of since been arrested the u.n. human rights office said genuine reform appeared to be taking place but dissent was still an acceptable 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. which is humanitarian groups are being accused of ignoring years of sexual abuse allegations against the staff this is the conclusion of a parliamentary report into the sector recently the u.k. based aid group oxfam saw several resignations after a scandal involving its stuff in haiti and explains. earlier this year the charity oxfam was rocked by an abuse scandal its deputy chief executive in britain resigned that was off the rocks 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 eight 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 woman for victims and survivors if established channels have failed them and screening including a global register of aid workers to prevent known abusers 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 un body driving 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 in pound 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 that people in britain are starting to realize and the people around the world a 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. charity commission is currently invest. gauging 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 to the barber al-jazeera the. hundreds of hikers trapped on a mountain in indonesia have been rescued following sunday's earthquake the tremors caused landslides and mountain johnny which blocked all escape routes magnitude six point four quake killed at least sixteen people and injured hundreds more that lost

reports now from long island. the rescue operation wraps up for the last remaining hikers trapped on monday when johnny what in one thousand tourists from twenty six different countries have managed to come down to vocational since the powerful earthquake struck on sunday one indonesian man died during maining 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 so around here during the earthquake a group of hikers was staying and does 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 final bid probably sending a message to a family because she wanted to go home that morning been 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 johnny 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's second largest active folk will be close to hikers. step class and al-jazeera at the foot of mountain johnny. police in the usa to texas a questioning a woman and two men off to a small shock was filmed being whisked away in a pram. well so c.c.t.v. footage from the san antonio aquarium shows this man taking the shark out of the

interactive touch tank wrapped in a blanket he then puts the shark in a bucket which he places in the bottom of the pram the forty centimeters long gray horn shark was recovered unharmed off to two days but he's have yet to find a motive but say the thieves appeared to of planned it. just a quick look at top stories now an attack on a government building in eastern afghanistan has killed at least fifteen people and injured fourteen others two gunman set off explosions and stormed the department office for refugees in the city of jalalabad security forces fought for six hours to end the siege. i still says it carried out a bomb attack in the southern philippines killing at least eleven people soldiers

and four civilians are among the dead after a van exploded is a military checkpoint in lima town city and bustle on province. or on your politicians have reacted with skepticism after u.s. president donald trump offered to meet with president hassan rouhani iran's deputy speaker of parliament says negotiations would be humiliating for the interior minister says the us copy trusted the u.s. secretary of state is also clarified there would be preconditions to any meeting the. 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 a conversation with them. u.s. satellites have reportedly detected renewed activity at one of north korea's main ballistic missile production sites intelligence officials told the washington post the country appeared to be building new intercontinental ballistic missiles at the

sun and dull facility that's where the first missile capable of reaching the u.s. was produced by the u.s. president's former campaign manager paul mana forces in court facing trial for tax evasion and bank fraud charges were bought by special counsel robert miller is investigating alleged collusion between russia and the trump campaign in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election. and zimbabwean civil society groups is seeking a court order to force the electoral commission to publish results from all polling stations results have been trickling in up to monday's historic vote since robert mugabe was ousted by the current president and the opposition leader nelson chamisa say they are confident of victory we're going to bring you the latest from zimbabwe and the news hour i'll have that for you in about twenty five minutes time do join me then but coming up now it's inside story.

reaching out to teheran donald trump says he's ready to meet iran's president any time and with no preconditions so what's behind this sudden off and how will trump and gauge iran when he's trying to build a regional alliance against this isn't side story. hello and welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump has extended an olive branch to iran just a week after he threatened the country now says he's ready to meet iranian president hassan rouhani any time and without preconditions but his secretary of

state quickly backtracked from statement adding a few caveats to any potential meeting my palm pail wants to see what he calls a change in behavior.