harmony's response is i think somewhat predictable the iranians are not going to go to negotiating table or from a position of weakness so they're either going to ride this out and see if perhaps the trumpet mr asian going to be significantly weakened after november the november midterm elections or to going to start building up their own leverage as your package mentioned the yuron has actually usually do come to the table even with the united states but only when they feel comfortable and they feel that they're not in a position of weakness yeah on the supreme leader even tweeted a long list of reasons why iran won't negotiate primarily because they don't trust americans they say america sees talks just a business deal and at the americans are depressed us what do you make of those assertions well i think what he's pointing out and what he wants to international community to take note of is that the iranians lived up to the nuclear agreement and trump did not trump is so good in the unit that the u.s. itself negotiated that the p five plus one negotiated with the united states and

that was embodied in the u.n. security council resolution that was adopted fifteen to zero the iranians that lit up that agreement the europeans have the chinese have the russians have the u.s. on the trump has not so he wants to make clear that it is not the iranians that have been in breach of any agreement it's the united states and as a result iran has reasons to believe that this cannot be trusted on that is that mr asian treaty but despite all the angry rhetoric between both sides iran does have a history of secret talks with the u.s. and now i mean is saying even if i do negotiate it just won't be with donald trump's administration so is he leaving the door open just a little bit do you think. i think it's a little bit more than a little bit and ultimately it would be very wrong if the iranians completely reject that negotiations what the region is suffering from is a deficit of diplomacy and we need more of that in order to be able to stabilize the region i do suspect that there are things taking place behind the scenes and i

do suspect that ultimately both sides will realize that it is to their benefit to increase of diplomacy but at the same time in order for diplomacy to be worthwhile parties need to live up to their obligations and there are good reasons not just for the iranians but for the europeans and everyone else to be very wary of the trumpet ministration mindful of that large number of agreements that the trumpet ministration is in breach of right now trita parsi thank you for talking to al jazeera thank you for having. afghanistan's military is sending reinforcements to help defend the city of ghastly from a taliban attack more than three hundred people have died in the four days of fighting the president called an emergency meeting with the police and military chiefs while the u.s. has carried out air strikes on taliban positions just a hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul on the main highway connecting the capital and southern afghanistan reports. the taliban has

turned the ancient city of gosney into an urban battle field the assault is now in its fourth day with two hundred seventy thousand residents locked inside their homes casualties of the offensive lissa the streets. those that reach the hospital find it overwhelms space and medicine rationed between soldiers and civilians there's so many from our cases and too little capacity. with into order international humanitarian partners and the u.n. we'll try to bring in try markets and sample drugs and medical supplies as soon as possible. and he became the front line of the war between the taliban and the afghan military on friday morning the taliban launch rockets at the police headquarters into chick points publishing tweets and videos declaring victory afghan special forces responded with u.s. support but the taliban bunker down and residents homes of p.r. war his followers the government is defiant gosney is under their control. child

was younger the storm one hundred ninety four taliban fighters including pakistani and foreign fighters were killed i hold the taliban responsible for what has happened in the city all the destruction and torching of buildings. with foreign mines cut only residents who have escaped can reveal the reality is face is undecided. they were burning buildings and there were dead bodies everywhere in gaza new city the fight was ongoing the situation. it was very bad and all the shops were closed. the taliban badly want to go they briefly held parts of the western city of far in may and two years ago but neither are a significant is this gosney is a large provincial capital just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul it lies on the motorway that connects kabul with southern afghanistan if gosney falls kabul is cut off the government is trying to keep the road open despite frequent taliban

ambushes. we have launched checkpoints for the safety of our people using the highway we're here to serve them day or night afghans are watching nervously they won't guarantees of safety demonstrators gathered outside the ministry of defense headquarters in kabul questioning what security their tax dollars provide. with upcoming elections president danny is looking to come concerns on sunday he had an emergency meeting with military and police chiefs and tweeted he would seem green folks mints the red cross is sending reinforcements to dropping forty body bags bandages and medicine at the main hospital shallot ballasts. what omar samad is the former senior advisor to the chief executive of afghanistan abdullah abdullah he says the taliban's assault on gaza is a worrying development but not a surprising one. this flare up in guy's knee was not unexpected unfortunately this

is collation that took place has been in the works for many months in people who know what the situation is like with or in government or outside of government have been talking about the cause for a long time and pointing to the fact that there are some very serious cracks within the security of the city and that the taliban are taking advantage of it so this could have probably been prevented if the government in the international presence in afghanistan military presence in afghanistan could have done more to defend hasn't he but now that it's done it shows that there is an escalation that the taliban are trying to show that at least if they can't keep it forever for too long at least they are able to capture yet another afghan city and cause mayhem and chaos for everyone including the government and pop put the government in a very defensive politically difficult position at this point we have to learn the

lessons from what has any 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 u.s. and the taliban there are a lot of other stakeholders that want to see a peace process including the afghan government in the 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. yes president donald trump has called a former white house aide a wacky under low life accused him of racism amuro said money go newman was fired in december and secretly recorded conversations she had while she was working in the what else she's also written a book about the time that can really help get reports there sometimes strange

relationship goes back years fired omarosa manigault newman was a contestant on donald trump's reality t.v. show the apprentice when trump became president he brought her with him to the white house she was one of the only african-americans among trump's west wing staff was but months after general john kelly was made chief of staff omarosa was fired in a new book she details how she was pushed out without being aware of the decision something she recorded without his knowledge. to leave what happened in general kelly general kelly came to me and said you guys wanted me to leave. nobody even though i had a blind spot working to donald trump i wanted to see the best in him but she says she failed miserably in her tell all book about her experience she charges the president is a racist donald trump is a con and has been masquerading as someone who is actually open to engaging with

diverse communities trump lashed out on twitter on monday calling her wacky describing her as not smart. many of us argue trump has done much to aggravate racial tensions in the united states and what we see most polls show a large majority of black americans still disapprove of trump but the strong u.s. economy and declining black unemployment has led to support from some african-americans notably the musical artist kanye west however it's unlikely. will change. anyone's perception of president trump no matter what happens no matter the outcome of anything like this that low forty percent high thirty percent of support that he gets that's baked in and that's not going anywhere at any time still the perception that this white house is not sensitive to the needs of african-americans persists almost eight months after omarosa was fired the trumpet

ministrations still has almost no senior african-american staff can really help get al jazeera the white house a former astronomy an archbishop convicted of covering up child sex abuse has avoided jail time instead for the wilson with his twelve month sentence in home detention off of the court was told he suffers from the early stages of alzheimer's is the highest ranking official in the roman catholic church to be sentenced for covering up a systemic child abuse. joins us now live now from sydney young or so how do the victims react to this ruling by the court. of course they wanted to say a tougher penalty for this they wanted wilson to serve out a custody or jail sentence as opposed to home detention at his sister's house one of the survivors even chased bishop wilson as he was leaving the court seeking an

apology which he didn't get the line from this particular survivor was that he can just imagine that bishop wilson is going to be drinking wine and eating the best food at his sister's house during the duration of his sentence the siblings of another survivor said that she's going to mount a campaign for tougher penalties for crimes like this at the moment the maximum penalty here in australia is is two years bishop wilson was given one year one you jail sentence or home detention as we now know. for his part in failing to report the child sex abuse of two altar boys in the one nine hundred seventy s. but daryn he may not even have to serve out of food here he's eligible eligible for parole in six months so could be free as of february and he's also planning to mount an appeal what sort of implications could this have on the catholic church.

well the obviously huge moral implications on the church but i think the major impact he is on accountability no longer can the church hide behind canon hide behind the confessional seal in order to escape reporting crimes like this and the ramifications could be worldwide we see specially in countries that have similar laws as these ones in a stray half of the states in the u.s. for instance have a. well laurin in france a cardinal is being charged under similar under similar crimes so obviously the moral authority of the church is a major is taking a battering at this new strain or at least it's in tatters as a case after case of child sex abuse is coming forth thank you.

a lot also to come here an al-jazeera including zimbabwe's president makes the first public address since winning a disputed election again blaming opposition for inciting violence. five years on from one of the worst massacres in modern egyptian history the country still reeling from the effects. and in sports one of world cricket's biggest names awaits the outcome of his trial for a friday and he is here with that story more on that stay with us. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis allan there's been a tropical depression wandering round holly now and for about six or seven days is finally being given a name not that's particularly relevant but it's still there as a tropical depression so winds on the big issue but the amount of rain that could

come from it is quite low anywhere from probably western ground or right up through hong kong but it's southern china was in shanghai remains the last child go storm well that's gone by this time but it's hot and humid and this is wet and the rain extends into the philippines and there's been something like six hundred millimeters the baguio in lieu song it's still raining so flooding is inevitable consequence has already happened and it will continue but that's it if you come to the side of that you have to spot the showers and they're rather difficult to support on the full cost frying the little bit more about amorphous is a lot more clout to run the case to a shower in borneo maybe sort of ways in maybe even kuala lumpur but not a lot and even some osher it's not a dry picture the showers are very much a scottish phenomenon not so in india has been savory heavy rain recently up in the far north downs or to pradesh and further south not some washing carol you'll notice but crap to say it could occur anyway. the weather

sponsored by cats are and always. full of struggles with one on one with not only the bombing all along all the time walking up on a moment to full of pleasure they go on and on the getting it out on you but i'm not going to have an intimate look at life in cuba today as it was the annual warning. that i had done or done all i got about as it were my cuba on al-jazeera. national fullerton's the debate on migration is polarized to include too strident positions for harkless and the headless how do you define an indigenous person who they benefit isn't this more about living with difference and you in pieces that are and who do they contain. the right to live anywhere in the world without the

right to leave their country maybe his son goes head to head with a pool county and on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera turkey's central bank has stepped in to try and put a halt to the country's currency crisis restrictions on how much lira and foreign currency banks need to hold have been eased in turkey as president has accused the u.s. of the trial often imposed sanctions. huge crowds have gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of people killed in a saudi and erotic coalition air strike last week more than fifty people died in the attack forty of them were children on

a school bus. and iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has rejected president donald trumps of a direct talks the band iranian leaders are meeting with trump saying the u.s. never follows through on promises that makes during talks. now the f.b.i. agent who criticize the u.s. president in text messages during his twenty sixteen presidential campaign has been fired peter struck took to twitter calling donald trump a russian asset and an unhinged madman who is threatening the sovereignty of the united states struck as the third high ranking official to be let go by the agency under this administration classical hand reports. peter struck was one of the f.b.i.'s top investigators in charge of looking into whether hillary clinton broke the law by using private e-mails and also whether the trump campaign colluded with the russian government he was on special counsel robert mueller steamed in till last year when it emerged that he was having an affair with a fellow f.b.i. employee lisa page. they texted from their work phones and they were very critical

of candidate trump in one she wrote trump won't be president right he responds no will stop him last month in a sometimes heated testimony before congress how many times did you don't look so innocent and do your wife's and a lot to her about this is fair miss the raging ability of his shame. struck tried to explain that in terms of the tax that. we will stop it you need to understand that that was written late at night off the cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then candida trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero and my presumption based on that horrible disgusting behavior that the american population would not elect somebody demonstrating that behavior to be president the united states president trump and his allies in congress have used

these text repeatedly to discredit the moeller investigation even though muller removed struck immediately trump responded to his firing on twitter writing agent peter struck was just fired from the f.b.i. finally the list of bad players in the f.b.i. and d.o.j. gets longer and longer based on the fact that struck was in charge of the witch hunt will it be dropped it is a total hoax no collusion no obstruction i just fight back lawyer says he was improperly fired the f.b.i. isn't commenting president trump's attacks on the f.b.i. and its agents is unprecedented but he obviously feels he needs to discredit the investigation into his campaign and now he can point to the firing of one of its top agents as proof he is right. in al-jazeera washington hundreds of people are still missing one year off the devastating mudslides on the outskirts of sierra leone's capital more than a thousand people died off the torrential rains sent mud and rocks hurtling down

a mountain on the outskirts of freetown crushing the surrounding villages three thousand people lost their homes the government's been criticized for not doing enough to really house them. and interest has more from freetown right over there is the sugarloaf mountain and you can see exactly what happened on the fourteenth of august two thousand and seventeen and not a chunk of that mountain came cust kidding down right where those. debris are in fact from the top down there and then the mud and the and the other debris just just created right down and 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 pods have been recovered so far so right down there there are a lot of bodies trub to kenya now

a seventeen senior government officials and businessmen involved in a multi-billion dollar rare projects have been arrested for corruption the railway which was funded by china connects the capital nairobi with the port city of mombasa kenya as government is acting on its pledge to stand down on corruption and so it 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 really 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 really about three million dollars paid to people off a land that did not exist well that was already owned by the release corp this year the government has intensified its crackdown on corruption in a way kenyans have not seen in a 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 have large will not save you corruption has been a major concern malty million dollars candles 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 of broad 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 . the owners have already started bringing down the path for demolition. this is president last time in office and he's promised more jobs through the manufacturing industry he vassal 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. to have friends in high places and 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 convictions and the assets of those found guilty to be confiscated catherine sorry al jazeera. argentina's former president cristina kirchner has appeared in court to answer questions in

a corruption case the allegations are related to notes some of. which claim millions of dollars in bribes were given by businessman soup kitchens government reports from. a limited number she was once argentina's most popular president but things have changed cristina fernandez the kershner since leaving office she's faced a series of allegations over corruption the latest in which her name is reportedly mentioned in the notebooks of a driver in the public works ministry in which he details how millions of dollars in cash were moved in his vehicle and delivered to the presidential palace when neto and then christina were in office in the past week a businessman and politicians came to this. courthouse to testify in this enormous corruption investigation several businessmen admittedly they paid millions of dollars in bribes to members of the previous administration in exchange for contracts the lot was the first one to see their notebooks as it was. a

neighbor had a friend who was a driver who gave them a series of notebooks which described how corruption operated in the previous administration and he was supposed to reveal them only if something happened to his friend. carried out the investigation but did not publish the findings instead he took the notebooks to a state prosecutor so he could initiate an official investigation silence was crucial now tony for the case to move forward but also for his own safety. i held back publishing because i believed much more needed to happen i only published it when the investigation was on and those involved were being questioned what it shows is that the history of corruption in public works is not unique to the previous administration but it did happen and it is this that brought christie again to court. on monday she tweeted that this is a regional strategy to prescribe leaders of movements political forces that have

increased people rights and allowed thousands to leave poverty behind for many their corruption investigation is the biggest in a country that has failed to prosecute white collar crime over the years you know. the reality is bigger than what we imagined we all knew that there was corruption but not that it was systemic like the notebook's revealed it is a difficult case to put on trial because it involves so many things it forces us to rethink the whole judical process the former president her aides and important business men for the prosecutors say all part of the same plot that shows for the first time the vicious cycle of corruption between private companies and the state . now one of the fires scorching california is threatening a retirement community prompting evacuation orders for thousands of senior citizens the so-called holy fire has already destroyed sixteen structures near lake elsinore

in southern california police say a fifty one year old man is under arrest on multiple arson related charges the fire has forced more than twenty thousand people from their homes this is one of nearly twenty wildfires burning across the state we're joining us now from pasadena in southern california is the journalist chris san carlos chris so we understand you're in the middle of the blaze when fire retardant was being dropped from the air just describe for us what it was like. yes there are and i was at the end of the day on friday and the place just really picked up a big head wall of fire coming down over the edge of a reserve of the house where i'm standing in front of and you know we had an air tanker fly right over the return call. the gooey stuff and laid it all over me laugh all over the house there and then right after that a helicopter went flying overhead and helicopters the water drops and they dropped it we really like being in a severe thunderstorm are. kind and just quick as the water came the water was

done but it was a relief because it was just you know months smoke so much fire right there you'll see this thing as it was continuing to burn down toward a lot of these homes that firefighters were trying to protect and of course firefighters say they have forty percent containment what does that actually mean then will they can find it in weeks or months they will likely contain it within a matter of a couple of weeks if not sooner that depends of course on the conditions you know pick up for example or if we see a fire jump over a fire line that could present some problems there's a lot of acreage in the cleveland national forest which is where this is yet to burn if are what that means in terms of. think about it like the clock right and they have if you're looking at the clock probably controlled all the way from twelve o'clock on down to just before six o'clock so that's what they have under control the rest of it they're still working to build

a containment line around and be sure that the fire is not going to jump over there into more port and perhaps not yet chris sudden the only fire is just one of about twenty major fires burning across california was the general picture across the state of things that seem pretty bad. it could be the worst wildfire season on record and we're on pace to sun a lot of records here we are already have now the largest wildfire in california history be set with the mendocino complex fire there up in iraq two hundred ninety two thousand acres what's amazing about that is we just broke the record for the largest wildfire with the thomas fire which was finally extinguished back in february and that that had broken the record that we didn't think was going to be broken again for like another decade you also have another couple of big fires up around you seventy even further up north of that car fire around friday the one round gets nobody is largely under control of matter of fact they believe somebody national parks going to reopen it who are to morrow chris a final thought from you

with so many fire as burning across the state california must be facing a major problem of pollution eight states stifling in some parts of the state especially here in southern california for a couple of days as the holy fire was burning in the cleveland national forest all orange county and los angeles county was under an error by three and you know you couldn't go out by law on anybody who you don't with any for medical issue there were five doors thankfully that went that kind of clear that out with the from the northern california chris some color thanks for talking to us if you think you know molly's opposition candidates some ala cease a plan is to reject the results of the presidential election which has been mobbed with violence and accusations of fraud vote counting is under way after a tense presidential runoff observers declared the second round fairly peaceful despite a polling station official being killed in timbuktu more than one hundred stations are being closed for security reasons president abraham says the frontrunner in the

vote. zimbabwe's president elect is urging the conference move on from last month's disputed election he made the remarks as the country celebrates thirty eight years of independence emerson was supposed to be sworn in on sunday but the ceremony could only go ahead with the approval from the constitutional court. in the capital 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 are already going. viral as post of. let's. see result. here is you know since it is. made. where did all these.

commission of. first grade. it is not. the lives. we are. hero's day is one of the 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 opposition supporters blame the ruling party for the violence the main opposition. there is nothing to celebrate. his supporters are being systematically targeted by the ruling party. last month 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 it is a provision that. the only other implications of the decision. is final so politically it will be the end of the election and. judges could declare 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. is there. reporting that the queen of soul aretha franklin is gravely ill the seventy six year old american music legend is known for her distinctive voice and powerful live performances franklin's one eighteen grammy awards and a career spanning.