all a born or trying to show that at least if they can't keep it forever for too long at least they were able to capture yet another afghan city and cause mayhem and chaos for everyone including the government in put the government in a very defensive politically difficult position in mention the possibility they might not be able to hold on to it for a very very long the government said it's sending reinforcements and we've seen that they've been u.s. airstrikes what how long do you think this it'll take to get back under control well at the beginning they thought that it would take a few hours now it's we're in the fourth entering the fifth and i think that we haven't seen a very major us change in the lay of the land as far as the taliban presence is concerned but eventually i think that the afghan forces backed by international helpers or is going to dislodge the taliban or the taliban will themselves move back out having made a point. you know again at this point we have to learn the lessons from bosnia we

have to make sure that we need to find out whether this is happening as part of a larger military escalation by the on the part of the taliban is it purely military military in essence or is there a political objective that has to be met because as you know there are talks going on between the us and the taliban there are a lot of other stakeholders that want to see a peace process between the afghan government in there or even asking for another ceasefire i'm not sure if any of this is going to happen and how it's going to help the the peace and political process that is underway right now you mentioned that the peace process there. does does that any of you suggesting that it's perhaps. position taken before that is that what you're suggesting. well there are going to be some new questions asked have to be asked or we seeing the taliban do

this purely to gain military ascendancy and have capture more territory in afghanistan is it a military tactic aiming for maybe more territory. and in a more powerful position or is it tied to politics in the process that is underway right now to see if all sides consider down and discuss a political settlement of afghanistan is this to bolster the taliban position is this to strengthen their hand if it should be when and if they go to the negotiating table and i thank you very much indeed. still to come on the understeer news hour zimbabwe's president makes his first public address since winning the disputed election again blaming the opposition for inciting violence. from argentinian president cristina fernandez to

kish nair is questioned in court about alleged bribery when she was in office. and after hitting the heights in toronto rafael nadal decides to skip his next tournament a story later in sport. huge crowds gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of people killed in a sound led coalition air strike last week more than fifty people died forty of them children many of whom were killed on board a school bus monitor reports from neighboring djibouti files on sultan that the film draws a convoy of vehicles for the bodies from the mall just looking through the streets of the city stronghold. the coffins draped in green were laid out at the square in the city portraits of the victims lined up on the ground head of

a special prayer for the dead had got them out early and i mean as well as yes as the mourners shelter logans again so that every year and who they say is its biggest ally and supply the united states these people have come from various parts of the country to give a proper sendoff to those who died in the latest sodium but are to coalition air strike but security was tight at the ceremony which was up tended by several high ranking officials the funerals were supposed to take place on saturday but while postponed due to security fears the children want to tunning from a school summer camp but when their boss talked of the busy market it was targeted by airstrikes unicef has called the carnage the single biggest attack on children since the war in yemen escalated in two thousand and fifteen images of the children covered in blood and reeling from shock provoked into national commission. request

all parties to the conflict to end the attacks against civilians against children in particular against the infrastructure and we plea for them to enter into a cessation of hostilities to put an end to these war the sort of their morality holy should be initially denied aiming at civilians and defend the incident as a legitimate military operation a response it's a top ballistic missile fired into so that if you're the previous. hours later the coalition promised to investigate i don't think it will be accepted that the side that has committed this crime. is allowed to investigate it because we know that it's old the idea that coalition has investigated many. crimes like the great funeral hold of a strike they did on that is not a sole task come from this investigation the united nations security council has called for credible and transparent investigation into the talk the war in yemen

has left a list of them. to what the u.n. describes as the world's last humanitarian crisis the u.n. special envoy to yemen might think that if it has invited parties in the conflict or talks in geneva from the sixth of september. to get a cease fire deal before them so far for. the world is it or djibouti iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif speaking exclusively to al-jazeera about his country's relationship with the united states trump's decision to pull out of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal has further strange ties between washington and tehran as ari says the u.s. has proved itself not trustworthy. we have no problem with dialogue but if mr trump really serious about talks if he is serious about talks without preconditions well the secretary of state put some conditions for talks two hours

after trump's comments impossible conditions the first question is if they themselves have reached an agreement inside the u.s. about talks with or without preconditions our policies in the region are totally clear it's the us who needs to be accountable for policies in the region as arias comments come as iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many refused u.s. president donald trump's offer for direct talks how many says he's banned iranian leaders from meeting president trump saying the u.s. never forest through on promises it makes during talks how many also ruled out the possibility of war with the u.s. so we must have a has more from tehran it has to be said there's nothing necessarily new in what the supreme leader of iran has said today but every time he speaks on any given issue with lends a certain amount of religious weight to the issue that he is discussing and so if you follow the arc of that logic now it is the islam law of the land of to not negotiate with the united states but as is the case with most of what officials in

iran say there are it's the supreme leader later in that address said that if iran is in a position to resist economic pressure and if iran is strong enough to negotiate with the united states on more equal footing and if the united states becomes more human towards iran then then iran may enter back into negotiations with the united states so there is a subtle nuance there but he said as far as the trumpet ministration is concerned there is no way that iran will ever negotiate with the current white house. iran has unveiled a new generation of short range ballistic missiles and fatima cells also known as or the divine conquest were unveiled by defense minister amir had tommy he said it was capable of hitting both ground and see targets around the center of conducting more than twenty missile tests since twenty fifteen former white house staff and t.v. celebrity money go newman has released a recording of what she says is

a private conversation with u.s. president donald trump brief recording is said to reveal a discussion between the pair about her being fired from her position as white house aide with trump saying he didn't know trump has lashed out at the leak while critics say it shows the white house is in disarray can be how could has more from the white house. well certainly a. man ago newman is selling a book so this is certainly been a reaction to some of the revelations from her book that she's using to promote the sales that will go out on tuesday among them that she has secret recordings of her being fired by the chief of staff john kelly and also the president's reaction to the news that she was being fired in the second recording this is obviously raising alarm bells given the fact that these recordings were done in an area that should be secure and has broad national security issues but as well this is sort of adding to the already low public discourse and inflaming tensions particularly when it

comes to race given the fact that. she have a longstanding relationship with the president but is also was one of the few african-americans being employed in the west wing of the white house so certainly this is concerning to many americans as well though the white house saying that this is perhaps add and missed opportunity for a woman they say was given the opportunity to influence or to perhaps try and use her status to heal relations in the united states particularly when it comes to race but instead they argue is doubling down on division in order to promote her upcoming tell all book samoa's president elect is urging the country to move on from last month's disputed election as it marks thirty eight years of independence i'm assuming i was supposed to be sworn in on sunday but the ceremony could only go ahead with approval from the constitutional court which also has more from harare.

president elect innocent and i got asked political leaders to remain calm it's his first public appearance since his inauguration was postponed after the main opposition alliance filed court papers on friday preventing it from going ahead zimbabwe is even more divided since last month's disputed election and post election violence we aren't going to. end this. violence post of me there for our let you see result. there is also what you know us and citizens made their souls where did all these. armies do a commission of inquiry. first gate. it is not. the literature. we are. hero's day is one of them bob is most important national holidays is to remember those who fought

in the civil war to end white minority rule in one nine hundred eighty some of those veterans are still in the government and army opposition supporters blame the ruling party for the violence the main opposition in the genocide released the statement they say there is nothing to celebrate today he says his supporters are being systematically targeted by the ruling party and says he won last month's election. earlier this month six people were shot and killed when the army dispersed opposition supporters protesting against election results the international community has called for the military to use restraint zimbabwe isn't limbaugh all people can do is wait the swearing in ceremony will only happen after constitutional judges give the ruling. because. of the kind of. courts the only other implications of the decision. is final so politically it will

be the end of the election. judges could declare managua the winner and he sworn into office within forty eight hours or they could order a recount or a fresh election within sixty days if political leaders refuse to accept the court's decision that could create more political and economic instability. hundreds of people are still missing one year on from a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of capital well than a thousand people died after to eventually rain sent rocks hurtling down a mountain on the outskirts of freetown crushing the surrounding villages a further three thousand people lost their homes and the government has been criticized for not doing enough to rehabs them. has been a vigil marking the anniversary of the mudslide a lot of a lot of sadness still people a lot of people still remember what happened almost one year ago and this place

right behind me is where this vigil is going to take place it looks like it's running behind shuttle but the venue is not far from where this disaster happened on fourteenth of august two thousand and seventeen if i move from here we'll go straight to the sugarloaf mountain which is just some four hundred meters four to five hundred meters from where the vigil is taking place right over there is the sugarloaf mountain and you can see exactly what happened on the fourteenth of august two thousand and seventeen a large chunk of that mountain came down right where those debris are in fact homes from the top down there and then the mud and the and the other debris just cascaded right down into the ocean which is not far from where we standing right now so a lot of people are still missing it's estimated that one thousand two hundred

people have been killed only five hundred people or body parts have been recovered so far so right down there there are a lot of bodies trapped. still to come on as their news hour indonesians on the earthquake hit island of lombok prepare for a long rebuilding process more than four hundred thirty people confirmed dead. senior government figures and businessmen in kenya are arrested as part of a nationwide crackdown on corruption. and christian or nanda makes the perfect start for his new club and he's here with that story and elections for. al of the concern of flash floods is back with us now the next cold front sweeping

through western europe tails off in the alps but it's used a lot of white cloud here so the sun isn't toll showers thunderstorms in there's a potential now ahead of it the air is about eight degrees warmer than that behind that's where you can get rid of the swarms we pushed out the way of the time being as it will be from those and spain and northern portugal and a good part of france so overnight and during the first hours of the morning that green newsies was is still the heavy potential just moves down the domination coast stretches out through austria to the head of it all which is denmark and then sudden sweden so it's cooler than it was a thames back down to where they should be but wet and windy of the two most obvious was a whole lot keeps moving eastward so wednesday takes it almost to moscow leaving sunshine behind telling off the shasta as singer rise in temperature of the paris and london back up to the high twenty's so there's action in the west in the central mediterranean south of that a shower or two possibly in algeria we see him just around algerian tunisia but not

much to it however we still do have showers along way north lists on the in the sahara in those in chad and northern nisha. there's that they set sail for gold. but discovered a resource worth more than its wants him and be. driven by commerce enabled through politics and religion executed with brutality. in episode one slavery roots charts the birth of the rise of the african slave trade mapping the history that the streets of humanity. for all the gold in the world want to just go. to see the troubles to the fun of this reaches of thailand to follow young local doctors who are providing saving care to the real community that solving

problems for others is very fulfilling you don't get this in any other profession. we charge the dramas and delights of their inspiring efforts to successfully deliver the people's house. on al-jazeera. from one of the top stories here. turkey's president has accused the united states of betrayal as the country's currency crisis deepens the central bank is trying to stop an era from falling any further easing rules on how the currency is managed and offering bank loans. as military is sending special forces to help defend the

embattled city of gosney from a taliban attack on three hundred people have died in four days of fighting. and funerals are being held in northern yemen for some of those who died in a saudi u.a.e. led coalition air strike which killed fifty three people forty of them were children many of whom were killed on board a school bus. more now on our top story the feeling turkish lira has had over to you your quick a rose on dough has been monitoring reaction in the stock markets on wall street so how much impact is the crisis the lire crisis had on the markets there. well investors are worried no doubt about that at all we saw on monday that the dow closed down more than one hundred points and it's not just the dow it's the dow and it's also the s. and p. five hundred they've both closed down and slipped the last four days in a row now and it's primarily because of what is going on with this currency crisis

right now in turkey and it's economic problems that are going on over there right now in the markets are quite frankly worried about it and as one investor says as well this turkey story is still out there investors are going to be very cautious now what is that turkish story so to speak that investors on here on wall street are worried about that are causing these slippage is here in the u.s. market it's quite frankly the fact that at one point on monday the turkish lira dropped more than twenty percent very briefly before recouping some of that you know of course over sixteen percent well above the central bank's five percent target so investors are looking at that and they're quite frankly very worried and as one said what happens in turkey will not only stay in turkey it will go elsewhere and we're starting to see that as well with markets being affected negatively in europe and in asia as well as one analyst was saying it was the real worry here is that we could see a repeat in turkey of this what we've seen in other countries

a heavily indebted country in crisis which turkey is very indebted a currency that plunges which we're now starting to see in turkey happening it becomes an economic infection that letter leads to an expensive global bailout now is that we're turkey's at no not even close to that yet but people here on wall street are saying this potentially is the path that turkey could be going down and that's why you see so much apprehension and worry quite frankly on all of the global markets what do you hearing about they the white house national security adviser john bolton's meeting with his ambassador to the u.s. that we were pushed on not before the top of the program. yeah we're just getting information about this this was a meeting that was apparently requested by the turkish ambassador they met he met with john bolton the trumps national security adviser at the white house today all we're hearing from the white house is that the two discussed turkey's detention of the u.s. pastor andrew brunson this is

a pastor that's being held in turkey that the u.s. wants turkey to release so far turkey has not and that they discussed the state of u.s. turkey relations right now and those relations are quite frankly not very good because a lot of economists are saying that this economic crisis in turkey is being exacerbated by u.s. president donald trump's recent announcement to potentially level more tariffs against turkey while it detains this u.s. pastor in a lot of people are saying that's a kind of kicking turkey while it's down but listen no make no mistake about it though that this meeting between the two ambassadors at the white house comes at a very critical time in the relationship between these two countries while turkey is going through this economic difficulties right now everyone is on to thank you very much. well take he says it's stepping up military and diplomatic efforts to avoid what it calls a catastrophe in syria's province it's working with russia to prevent humanitarian

fallout from a possible syrian government offensive to retake the rebel held province reports. the syrian government says it is going to take the lead army helicopters dropped leaflets telling rebels and civilians that the opposition controlled northwestern province that it is better to join reconciliation agreements as others in syria have done that rebels have agreed to such deals when on the verge of military defeat so far those in it looks like they are not ready to surrender instead they arrested dozens of people they accuse of promoting a return to state rule know a lot of our security track down people who are promoting reconciliation with the regime they're trying to help the regime into some areas so we arrested them they're waging psychological warfare to weaken the morale of the fighters and people they collaborating with the regime. like in previous assaults the syrian government backs up calls for reconciliation with military action state media

showed reinforcements being brought to the outskirts of months of cars were temporarily shattered in recent days dozens of civilians were killed in airstrikes that targeted towns and villages on the fringes of the province but despite this many believe a wide scale assault is not looming. the regime wants to control not just about that turks will play a role in it live the brawlers is under turkey's protection and turkey will reach an agreement with russia it will force a show. called joins the rebel brigade. the group formerly known as al nasra and al qaida syria affiliate harasser dina have not shown any intention to disband turkey was under pressure from its political allies russia and iran to eliminate them possible. using syrian rebels. the pressure may now ease turkey had warned russia and iran that a government offensive in adlib would threaten their political alliance the three

countries the main stakeholders in the syrian conflict have been cooperating through the so-called asked in a process their partnership has recently taken a whole new meaning the united states has declared economic war against them. cooperation between these main players could stave off a battle that could affect the lives of billions in it live limited military operations are expected around the edges of the province the government wants to secure the highways and prevent it little be used to attack it strongholds. beirut . the former president of argentina has appeared in court for questioning over bribery allegations christine occasional denies alleged payments from business executives to officials in her government all that of her late husband esther kishner who also served as president has the latest from desires. cristina kirchner came early in the morning to this court house that you can see behind me

she presented a manuscript and she also denying that being. of any decent organization that accepted millions of dollars in bribes towards different about this whole investigation is that it's mostly based on eight notable that were written by the driver of the planning ministry where he wrote during a period of ten years how millions of dollars in bribes were paid to members of kirshner's cabinet members and in case some details even explained how big bags of cash were taken to the presidential palace and to kirshner's residency cristina kirchner says that she's being politically persecuted by the administration of a precedent. but this a note book investigation is just in argentina's history and many compare it to the carwash investigation corruption investigation that happened in brazil because it also involves not only politicians but also some of this country's most important

business. who is the cousin of the president. right now cannot be detained she's a senator and she has immunity but right now the senate is debating on whether to allow the judge to search her. references not only in one outsiders but also in southern argentina cristina kirchner quentin used to have support among argentinean society around thirty percent of the people say that they would vote for her and some say that she could be a candidate for the presidency in two thousand one hundred. indonesia's government says it will take a long time for people to rebuild their lives after this month's earthquake on the island of long book at least four hundred thirty six people are now known to have died and the damage bill has risen to more than three hundred forty million dollars have a moment report. rescued alive from the rubble this boy is one of the lucky ones he's at least being treated for his injuries but his mother says even that was

a struggle because the earthquake destroyed thousands of buildings including hospitals and medical centers at mabille and that abacha had we didn't know if my son had fractures or not and there was no facility and i was told to stay away from home remedies that's why i came to the military hospital where there are volunteers . more than a week after the six point nine quake struck the search for survivors is drawing to a close more than four hundred thirty bodies have been recovered but many more remain missing treating the injured has also been a major challenge as many parts of the island are almost impossible to access now. volunteers have been doing their best to find out and it's a route through the destruction of the little bit of the reason that patients with fractures come to us because we have five operation rooms and i doctors of volunteers who join the military team we have five operations day here. but that's not enough for the thousands of people affected they're still discovering people

who haven't been reached with assistance and at the same time they're delivering very basic emergency assistance food water medical care shelter the damage hasn't been assessed so there's a lot of uncertainty about the future thousands of people remain displace and afraid to go home because of the fear of more earthquakes and aftershocks the already lost family friends in many cases their homes and most of their belongings they don't know how much more of a can lose people morgan are just their own china is denying un allegations that it's holding a million muslims internment camps you know his nation's committee says it has credible reports of people being held in secret jails in northwest province the government says it's clamping down on what it calls terrorists in the semi autonomous region but denies targeting ethnic minorities rights groups say many we has have been held without charge seventeen senior government officials and

businessmen involved in a multi-billion dollar railway project in kenya have been arrested for corruption the railway which was funded by china connects the capital nairobi with the port city of mumbai kenya's government is acting on its pledge to stamp out corruption catherine sori has the details. this is the latest corruption case involving the construction of our really line in kenya the biggest and most expensive infrastructure project in the country at the moment the heads of the national land commission the state trade we and other business people have pleaded not guilty to one thousand charges including fraud corruption and abuse of office they're accused of authorizing payments for compensation of land used in the construction of a section of the rain about three million dollars paid to people and that did not exist or that was already owned by there was cooperation this year the government has intensified its crackdown on corruption in

a way kenyans have not seen in the long time no matter how powerful you think you are. no matter how much you think you know people in high position no matter how much money you. will not save you corruption has been a major concern. i have been an artist in several public offices government officials politicians and powerful business people have been implicated have been brought to court i report by the auditor general's office shows that a bad of the country's budget is lost to corruption and mismanagement every part of where i'm optimistic is that for the first time it's not just the job of the director of public prosecutions or the and the corruption commission it's a multi agency so we're going at this with everything that we have. and in the spirit of the crackdown demolitions of buildings abroad reserves and retired inland say to have been acquired for me is ongoing so this is one of the

buildings what millions of dollars that have been brought down by the government in the last few weeks if it's right next to an important stream the next one to go is that the owners have already started bringing down the path for demolition. this is president at his last time in office and he's promised more jobs through the manufacturing industry the health care affordable housing and food security for that to happen he needs to deal decisively with corruption i think he understands that this is the only shows that he has. to basically break away from the past which is basically. what i have friends in high places that make a phone call and this is going to go away many kenyans say they're happy with what they see there however also calling for speedy trials fictions and the assets of those found guilty to be confiscated catherine saudi al jazeera arabic. mollies

opposition candidates. reject the results so. sunday's presidential runoff calling on the population to rise up she said and other opposition leaders alleged ballot box stuffing and other regular irregularities president abraham who cater is the front runner in the vote which has been dominated by security issues one hundred polling stations were closed because of the threat posed by armed groups and four election officials were also killed while about as more from bamako. as the counting of ballots continued on monday we also continue to receive more information about what happened on sunday during the run of vote and that includes allegations of fraud and other violations leveled by the opposition side against the ruling party they mentioned the finding of stocks of bottle to papers that have been signed and stamped with the name of presidency by him but also mention the missing ballot papers inside falling stations.