markets and banks it was and shortly after a meeting between turkey's president rage of type two and the emir of qatar coming been home at all funny in ankara the leaders also discuss ways to improve their strategic cooperation so after dropping more than forty five percent against the dollar the turkish lira has risen on wednesday it follows the central bank's announcement of liquidity on choose to turkey's also been ramping up its retail measures against retaliates or measures against the united states increasing tariffs on imports like alcohol cars and tobacco well that's in response to u.s. sanctions which were introduced to pressure turkey to release the american past andrew bronson has had his court appeal rejected on wednesday it was seeking to be freed from house arrest and to have his travel ban lifted brunson standing trial on terror charges over alleged links to the failed coup two years ago a higher court still has to make a final ruling on his appeal will set him to salute has the latest from istanbul.

the government's decision to increase tariffs on the u.s. products is welcomed by the turkish media and welcomed by the turkish citizens when you look at the new science and the and the social media because there is a positive response on the support for the government through television against the us a united states increasing. for the turkish products of course this is mainly a psychological impact where the economists say that healthful finance the psychology and since the government began taking some measures again through the central bank and through the finance ministry and the turkish lira began gaining value against the american dollar and other other currencies as wall and besides the president called for a boy called for american products and today's tariff the station is encourage ford's turkish people in a psychological way they think that they have something in their hand to response against the u.s. threats but of course on the other hand some economists say that would not the mean

that would not mean much because the amount of the tariffs would not be any means to hurt the american economy so they come on the program why the whereabouts of a syrian opposition activist who disappeared five years ago is still unknown. and find out what's killing sea life and hurting tourism along the coastlines of florida and the caribbean all that more when we come back. hello again good to have you back we're here across bunch of the levant we are looking at some dry conditions across the region but we are picking up some northwesterly winds that means drier air coming through of course hazy conditions for most areas baghdad over the next few days you are going to stay into the mid forty's with forty five degrees here on thursday down towards quaid forty one as we go towards friday and we are going to be saying tehran seeing attempted there about

thirty seven degrees here across the middle east doha what we are expecting to see temperatures few reaching up to about forty four degrees across the gulf towards dobby maybe about thirty eight degrees there and over towards riyadh we do expect to see forty two degrees not looking at really much in terms of clouds a lot of haze in the area where the missing some clouds is down toward southern saudi arabia as well as crossing over here towards yemen some cloudy skies there over towards the law about thirty to twenty six degrees in your forecast there and then very quickly down towards the southern part of africa we are going to be seeing a frontal system making its way to the north towards durban that is going to bring some clouds as well cape town will be seeing some clouds in your forecast and we do expect to see a temperature in cape town of fourteen degrees a little further to the north johannesburg at twenty three and as we go towards friday those temperatures stay moderate with more clouds in the forecast for durban maybe a shower or two with a temperature of twenty. a

reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera at least fifty two people have been

killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul any of the victims were students a study said to italy's governments declared a state of emergency and ordered an arjen review into the state of the country's infrastructure it comes after a bridge collapsed in general on chewstick killing at least thirty eight people. says it will invest fifteen billion dollars into its harkey to help boost the country's struggling economy the emir of qatar made the announcement during a meeting with president reagan tayyip erdogan in. israel has reopened the only commercial crossing to gaza after a month long shutdown the carrom abu salem crossing was closed because of heightened tension between the israelis and the palestinians lorries carrying colds fuel and construction material cannot cross israel's also lifted restrictions on the fishing zone off the gaza shoreline for it has more. trucks are started arriving gaza's only commercial crossing with israel the start for example

will fill up with goods across the board off before returning in cigars though we understand around eight hundred shops are expected suppose the bullet today. now we understand that a lot of pressure came on israel as well from israeli businesses that contract out gaza workers inside gaza or in for example the textile industry that kind of pressure being put on the israeli government because those businesses were concerned that those goods were not coming out we understand that the export of goods from gaza could well starts tomorrow but of course this kind of movement at the crossings here this crossing being opened is all dependent on staying open his old dependence on the relative calm between hamas and israel continuing. goods coming in include flight all construction materials petrol gas and vegetables and clothing but i learned sort go out all over europe with where the stores were

closed transport was stopped people have been really suffering thank god things have calmed down now in gaza a bit on the trucks can start moving across the border again when i figure we're kind of. israel has also increased the area in which fishermen can work could see from three to six in a school miles off the northern half of gaza and from three to nine nautical miles in the south. it's not enough we need to see to be completely six and nine or tickle miles is not enough there is just left in the sea we need israel the increases according to international seaboard of. let me of time they have so as you heard there the gaza fisherman saying these easing of restrictions on the area in which they can operate and nowhere near enough they say they literally are the stocks of fish in this area any more bear in mind around fifty thousand families here in gaza rely on the fishing industry in some way the israeli navy have killed

thirteen fishermen since the blockade started almost twelve years ago meanwhile those negotiations in cairo continue the hamas delegation over there along with delegations from the other armed factions from gaza in a desperate bid to try and forge some last truce between hamas and israel. thousands of syrians have disappeared during this seven year war many allegedly detained or killed by the government or opposition finances rights activists rather than to turn a was abducted into n.t. thirteen from her office near damascus her whereabouts is still a mystery xina holder reports now from beirut. mining his residency you are it's from the hospitals i believe is. the hospice. the area has from there. the video was released just a few days before tony one of the most prominent opposition activists disappeared and she along with her husband. and two other colleagues to meet

a hundred and now somehow maddy were taken at gunpoint from their office on december ninth two thousand and thirteen the town was surrounded by government forces but it was under the control of the opposition. the most powerful group at the time denies any involvement or knowledge of the kidnap. was not the only faction in duma at the time there was in the entire region forces from the martyrs of duma forces of the what are rising the stomach union of the levant and even then the store front where president. i. visited today was a very familiar face at the start of the uprising she was wanted by the syrian government for her role in peaceful protests calling for the downfall of the regime . her center kept track of atrocities but not just those committed by the government. her friends say

saw her as a threat she promoted a civil administration and the secular state which weren't in line with the group's ideology. the violations documentation center in syria are sure the army of islam kidnapped them we have proof that rosen was in their jails and under their direct supervision this was until the beginning of two thousand and seventeen as we were able to trace her movements regrettably after the beginning of twenty seven team information was cut off and we have no knowledge about resigned. the group was forced to surrender duma to the government earlier this year before leaving it released detainees from the toby prison witnesses say resident and her colleagues were held there they haven't been found both the government and on a lesser scale the rebels have been accused of cracking down on the opposition more than eighty two thousand people have went disappearing and by the syrian government more than eighty two thousand people and their families are still waiting the same

goes for to hundreds of people who were abducted and went missing on the group there is little hope that prison and her colleagues will still be alive there is a long list of peaceful activists fighting for democracy and human rights whose voices have been silenced by those in power. beirut india's prime ministers and i asked a new government run health care service the largest such scheme in the world now randall modi says it will cover around half a billion poor people but answer thomas reports from go r.t. there are concerns that there might stretch existing facilities. india's prime minister narendra modi doesn't call it modi care but everybody else does his ambitious national health protection scheme will be the centerpiece of his reelection campaign. to make the poor of the country will not have to struggle when they fall sick they will not have to borrow from money lenders families will not be

destroyed. the scheme is due to start in late september and will become the largest publicly funded health service in the world in effect the government will pay the premiums for health insurance for one hundred million indian families each will get a policy that covers their medical costs up to the equivalent of about seven thousand dollars a year. at the moment only the well off have access to insurance to pay for treatment in a private hospital like this part of the divorce i'm lucky i don't have insurance but i can afford this my husband has a good job we own our own house. the new program will cover the paul rieckhoff of india's population the private hospitals the scheme should see a big boost in business but there is concern they'll be overwhelmed by demand india spends just one point five percent of its g.d.p. on health care compared to the global average of six percent facilities and stealthing levels in the health sector of poor but that doctors is changing a lot of guarding the human resources but i think it returned to new york for

people in europe are healthier probably you know we're closer to health sector. some have accused you of caring more for his hindu base than for other ethnic groups or india's poorest with health care for rule he's trying to change that image if it's a success it would be a big achievement and littleness al-jazeera hati more than one hundred migrants rescued in the mediterranean sea are due to arrive in malta whether it be distributed between e.u. nations their arrival ends a five day stand off after the rescue bill was banned from docking in several ports one hundred forty one migrants on board will be taken in by france germany luxembourg portugal and spain for that order says some of the migrants are escaping torture forced labor and sexual violence in libya closing arguments are under way in the fraud trial involving u.s. president donald trump's former campaign manager pomona ford is accused of tax

evasion and lying to obtain bank loans charges unrelated to his time to trump presidential campaign twenty sixteen his defense rested on choose day without calling any witnesses patagonian has the latest from outside the courthouse in alexandria virginia. closing arguments are under way here at this courtroom in alexandria virginia for paul metaphor donald trump's former campaign manager now facing the potential of spending the rest of his life in prison he's being charged with tax evasion and bank fraud prosecutors had what seems to be a pretty strong case they detailed for jurors a very lavish lifestyle with million dollar homes in new york virginia and florida extravagant purchases tens of thousands of dollars for one watch a jacket made of ostrich feathers for fifteen thousand dollars then they put on the stand his former business partner rick cates he's flipped on paul man afore he told the jury that they knew it was wrong to hide money in offshore bank accounts that they knew they were lying to the investigators when it came to their taxes and

basically the defense didn't put on any kind of defense they're hoping that they were able to rip gates's credibility apart on the stand because on the stand he testified that he did steal money from an afford to pay for extramarital affairs so now the jury is going to get the case after the prosecution and the defense make their closing arguments but this isn't the only trial for paul metaphor even if he's found not guilty here well he's going to go on trial again for similar or similar charges next month in washington d.c. . case in london have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder after he drove a car into barriers that say britain's parliament choose state they say the suspect is a twenty nine year old british citizen originally from sudan to hew people suffered non life threatening injuries some bob wasting parties trying to get the opposition's challenge to last month's election result thrown out president emerson man and god. submitted the paperwork on wednesday they want the court to reject the petition filed by the opposition m.d.c.

alliance stage announcement saying accuses manning of rigging the presidential vote . does not sound argument raised by. to challenge the electoral. here is not all legal grounds will need to challenge one is look or played with the typical rules of the court and secondly if the case has no merits and masses of seaweed and toxic algal blooms are choking the coastlines of florida and the caribbean the so-called red tide is the worst seen in more than a decade the alga in seaweed are hurting tourism killing sea life and affecting people's health and agalloch are reports from miami. for weeks foul smelling saw gas and seaweed has been washed ashore across the caribbean in florida's atlantic coast these blooms are naturally occurring but weren't seen in this region before two thousand and eleven since then the problems grow worse while scientists

are unsure what's behind it many belief human activity is a factor to largest rivers feeding into the control of the land of the amazon and the congo and of course there's been a huge bout of deforestation in those two watershed. because again you cut down the forests that's your release a lot more than this nutrient pollution in florida toxic algae is adding to the state's environmental woes this year's red tide is the worst in more than a decade the lean life has been hit hard by the alkie which poisons fish and removes oxygen from the water florida businesses are suffering too the numbers of people reporting respiratory problems has spiked with officials warning the alkie may be around for months yesterday we were giving people little dabs of the vapor rub to put in their nostrils so that the smell wasn't so bad florida is no stranger to these kind of ecological events but scientists believe stricter environmental regulations would help them double it's got to be neutral pollution coming from

land generated by humans primarily i would culture but also from sewage the challenges of dealing with masses of seaweed in toxic algae or extracting a price in this region is now more than just an inconvenience and more of a long term environmental problem that could happen serious consequences scientists say if authorities don't deal with it now it will only get worse in years to come and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida well you can find it much more about the stories we're following head right to our website debbie debbie debbie dot al-jazeera dot com. a quick reminder of our current top stories on al-jazeera at least fifty two people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide bombing at a study center in the afghan capital kabul there's been no an egypt claim of responsibility for the blast in the mainly shia neighborhood of dusty barkha but

previous attacks on other shia targets have been claimed by eisel a group of young high school graduates were inside the building at the time studying for university entrance exams. the student at the training center came out just after four o'clock i heard a huge explosion or bush parts of my class or sold dozens of bodies or wounded people for about thirty minutes there was no police presence i don't know. of people carrying the wounded students to the hospitals italy's prime minister's declared a twelve month state of emergency after a bridge collapse in the city of genoa choose stay at least thirty eight people died in the disaster with the number expected to rise the government is blaming a lack of maintenance as questions are raised about infrastructure throughout the country rescuers are continuing to search for survivors some angst the rubble but as natasha butler explains it's still a dangerous operation what's making it difficult for them not only the very difficult conditions the heavy rubble and the heat but also the fact now that we

are told that there are real concerns over the safety of this bridge it is you can probably see some of the pillar there behind me some of the bridge teetering almost saw it they are concerned that it's possible that parts of that bridge could still collapse and of course that would endanger those underneath and the emergency workers. qatar has invested fifteen billion dollars into turkey's financial markets and banks it was and i'm shortly after a meeting between turkey's president reagan tayyip erdogan and the emir of qatar in homage funny and the leaders discuss ways to improve the strategic cooperation. israel's reopen the only commercial crossing to gaza after a month long shot down the carrier abu salem crossing was closed because of high tension between the israelis and palestinians trucks carrying through and construction material cannot enter israel's also lifted restrictions on the fishing zone off the gaza shoreline those are your current headlines stay with al-jazeera

inside a story is next and in just under half an hour's time they'll have a full news hour hope to see them. can the afghan army defeat the taliban the armed group has made huge gains in the southeastern city of me that's about one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital kabul so how much of a threat is it to the government this is inside story. hello

and welcome to the program i'm a homage i'm drawn the people of afghanistan have not known peace for a long time in the one nine hundred eighty s. it was the conflict when the soviet occupation in the one nine hundred ninety s. they had to contend with the brutal rule of the taliban that ended with the two thousand and one u.s. invasion following the nine eleven attacks but the taliban never really want to weigh and its recent raid on the southeastern city of thousand is a sign of how much of a threat the armed groups still poses at least four hundred people have been killed a quarter of them civilians the afghan military says it's making strategic games with the help of u.s. air strikes we have a lot to discuss with our guests but first this report from charlotte dallas. after six days of the taliban see the afghan city of gosney resistance from their homes they bring brooms and shovels and anger says try to reach out the government has not paid attention to the people here and as you can see most of the markets have

burned down in the city. because nice population of two hundred seventy thousand people found themselves in the middle of the war with the taliban on friday they survived by sheltering in their homes rationing food and water without power all communications and the aftermath we're learning more about the human cost hundreds of people were killed taliban finds its soldiers police and civilians residents say some guys in government. strikes too dangerous to move bodies saluted the streets for days the red cross moved some to a hospital inside space and resources a rush and between hundreds of soldiers and civilians the red cross very few body bags and medicine to its doctors despite a direct threat from the taliban. the armed groups attack was the most aggressive against an afghan city since it briefly took control of condos two years ago the

city's police chief estimated more than one thousand fighters swarmed into gaza knee after midnight on friday equipped with guns and rocket launches their arsenal grew as they overran checkpoints and ceased police vehicles. after four consecutive days of the government prematurely declaring victory over the taliban and seen reinforcements on monday the extra troops swung the battle the afghan military requesting just to us is strikes on tuesday compared to thirty two in the days prior to actually listen. to afghan security forces strongly resisted and fought the taliban with high morale in different parts of the city and defended their people and country due to heavy clashes the enemy suffered a lot of casualties. for want of a thousand ias important lies just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul on the main motorway self take gosney and you save a couple from the southern provinces with the military pushed up the taliban this

time the fight has remained in the surrounding villages and in the middle the people of gosney shallot ballasts al-jazeera. the taliban was pushed out of power in two thousand and one after the us invasion of afghanistan but the armed group hasn't gone away a report by the special inspector general for reconstruction has found that as of january two hundred twenty nine districts were under government control which is about fifty six point three percent of all districts there were fifty nine areas approximately fourteen point five percent under the control of the taliban and other factions the remaining one hundred one thousand districts are contested controlled by neither the afghan government nor armed groups. all right let's bring in our panel joining us in kabul she come dom chairman of the afghan anti-corruption network and a former advisor to nato in washington d.c. ahmed measured yar resident fellow at the middle east institute and also in kabul

rahim a political analyst specializing in regional security welcome to all of you in the stuff i want to start with you what would it mean if it were to fall to the taliban . well i think it's it's a debate big loss for the government actually it's very clear failure of. intelligence because the taliban coming together in such a large number of they certainly have gathered their resources from different provinces and even beyond borders of afghanistan beyond the do it in line and they have been doing all this i mean they have been preparing for this attack for quite a while people the general public knew about it but the fall of those us needs a big loss in a sense that first of all falling off a city that is merely outside kabul i'm one hundred fifty kilometers or even less than that. a city that connects the center of the country to the whole of the

soudan region even the western region and then maintaining get a hold of the city for four days or even right now we have that some of the clearing operation has to be continued because taliban resisting the forces so it's a big loss for the government and i think it's a big setback for the security institution of the afghanistan aside from was me on wednesday there were dozens of afghan soldiers and police that were killed in a taliban attack on a military outpost in northern buckland province what does all this say about the overall strength of the taliban right now. i believe it's not only the polygon it's. its islamic movement of uzbekistan it's pakistani military as well as pakistani militias i would call all these joint attacks as well as complex attacks it's just coming ahead of actually big cease fire that we're expecting to happen in big. ha so these are the

moves by the taliban as well a small fiction of taliban as well as their affiliates such as. in other fictions to interrupt the peace process in negotiations as well as to create fear in security in meanwhile it's coming ahead of most two months ahead of the parliamentary elections so it's more of an truck thing the peace to billet the security as well as negotiation with the taliban especially while it's almost one year from the present trump strategy for afghanistan after a day i think negotiation of america with the taliban and qatar in doha so these are the signs and signals that a fiction of taliban clearly op was in peace and to conciliate ahmed if we're talking specifically about the violence right now in the repr questions the violence is all of this what's happening right now do more to the strength of the

taliban and or other groups or is it due more to the weakness of the government in afghanistan. it's actually a combination of both because taliban certainly has gotten the upper hand on the battlefield and the fall of. even if it was briefly was a major blow to the afghan government because it exposed the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of the afghan security forces it also undermines the confidence of the afghan people in the government because if they cannot secure a provincial center just hundred or one hundred fifty kilometers away from the capital then how they can secure the rest of the country but the taliban also wanted to show project power and also show that they trumped administration strategy aimed at weakening the taliban on the battlefield and to force insurgents to come to negotiating table has not yielded results i'm also by capturing

a provincial capital and also increasing their military activities across the country the taliban also wants to maximize battlefield gains in order to use that as leverage in any potential negotiations with the united states i want to get back to a point you were making about the overall security in the country and ask you specifically about you know if the taliban were to be able to take the does that raise the specter to you and your colleagues that the taliban could potentially even surround kabul i mean husni is very close to kabul right. whether this document might be a bit of exaggeration because even for taking it as me they had to invest so much off resources they had to accumulated from all around and coming to kabul and surrounding it it will be a bit of exit generation but certainly they have challenging government for it and they have challenge the government resources and it's not doing it does anybody

know that or the cool stuff last for four to five days they have attacked one. crossing point in the economy up wind and they have. the security forces in there where they had they have taken hostage a number of security forces they have attacked in battle on and more the out trying to show they have spent all around but coming to the point basically i don't think they have as much resources to continuously challenge and continuously invest in such big attacks but it's more to do with every now and then make a big statement on the conflict scene of honest and to just demonstrate that politics send a message across and also there have they are trying to erode the confidence of general public in the afghan government so this is more to do with the tactical think not indeed dark to taking it actually because they have not able to maintain it even in the more a.d.'s so it's more of

a change of tactic for taliban which has been working for them since the collapse of to us back and then they were able to take over the center of fatah province i would be for a few hours but they did call the city center if you alluded to how complicated the terrain in afghanistan is a few moments ago look let me ask you this i mean how much do local tribal dynamics play into the government struggles in afghanistan to hold on to territory. actually that's a good question because other than you know the dynamic of the local tribes as well as there's also other than. divisions unfortunately especially right now to pakistan and iran and some other elements they would like to create more fictions within the culture and religious society between sunni and shia is and this perfectly or subtly applies and i wasn't because the majority of

people in has the are send me and pashtoon and then you have minority shia and tajik so you would see the support of iranian to the shia sector as well as support of pakistan to the sunni side so we have also heard that in other areas including the north from afghanistan there are some. russian support to the local fighters as well as influential power brokers that they supply arms that provide money and even training in this in the people who came to husni it's it's massive a number of people it's around one thousand people it's not the taliban and they have received training because the the type of attack they cupid it's unprecedented it's very complex they cut the supply route to out capital of afghanistan they cut the power they cut the communication lines like cell phones everything else and

they're burned down brutally the city so it was unprecedented i would say attack in the last seventeen years so this shows that of course besides some power brokers inside the taliban there is strong advise especially from al qaeda affiliates which called indian sub continent they help and they're here to advise them and to support and we have also so far we don't have the name in list but we have heard that there are some senior al qaeda. members from indian subcontinent was part of the operations or attacks and they have died as well ahmed analysts have suggested that the assaults on those near are essentially a show of force by the taliban before getting into peace talks or negotiations with the u.s. what do you say to that yeah that is of course part of their strategy because they're showing to be anigh to say the trump administration strategy if we condemn

militarily has not worked out so if there are any negotiations between the united to say send the taliban their potential which all of us troops are about in a political settlement in afghanistan then it would be to taliban which would sit on the table from the position of strength not the american side or even the afghan government let's remember that the taliban has so far not accept the downfall of the afghan government they have only agreed to negotiate with the united states so it is premature to even talk about the prospect of any political settlement between the warring sides but at this moment both sides want to increase their leverage on the battlefield in order to use that. for any potential negotiations which that from your vantage point what kind of conditions would the taliban accept in any kind of a peace negotiation or peace deal i mean would they want a power sharing deal what would they want. well they would certainly start from the

point of returning back to the throne that they were to pare down from maine two thousand and one by the international forces but that is where they will start the negotiation but of course they're looking for a polish heading at this moment of time and that will be where they will start negotiating. the problem of the taliban till the negotiations really make sure i mean it mature enough to the level of making it public they will continue fighting and they'll continue showing. demonstrate. on the conflict scene so basically what david would be pushing for is sharing that that is something that will be acceptable to all sides given that they. do some of the. none negotiate tums from the international community and from the afghan government i mean what do you think would the afghan government would the

u.s. government be amenable to some sort of power sharing deal. the afghan government and also washington they have indicated that they will accept the participation of the taliban and a political system in afghanistan but i would slightly disagree with mr holmes there and the taliban leaders want a power sharing deal so far the message from the taliban leadership has been consistent that they wanted establishment off they slam a camera they do not break or nies the legitimacy off the current political system in afghanistan and that is the reason that they have only accepted to talk to them are akin but not to the afghan government certainty that our leaders within the taliban that they would be amenable to any power sharing agreement by the hardliners they ideological core of the taleban dated jake the current political system. islam and they wanted establishment of this aslambek republic in the

country were stuck to him i just disagreed with one of your points and you want to reply to anything he said. well this is what i'm saying whenever you into a negotiation process are you sit on the negotiation table you start from your highest demands and you put forth your best human just like his be slimy doing the peace negotiation with the afghan government but the argument being is that even taliban have realize that it's no more afghanistan of the ninety's afghanistan has changed and even taliban have changed and of course there are hardliners and i want to highlight one point that the attack was basically something planned and undertaken by the hardliners because taliban can be classified into three groups as far as decision making is concerned the hardliners the ones who believe in a battlefield success there is a group who believe in negotiation and that is a group which is undecided as of yet and the people who are who believe in

fighting it power to and facing it off with the international community and the afghan government they were not even happy with the truce last time that happened during the eagle fitted and david always tried to really dictate the terms by making some sense it as some sensitive and sophisticated attacks so that the consensus that has been built around the peace process is washed away is is is is is taken away from the from the system and also they will try to dictate the terms in terms of decision making but the reality is that when he did go to the negotiation table even if they're talking to americans on what terms americans have been not only americans but who the whole international community has invested in afghanistan for seventeen years now and nobody will agree to. giving up on all of those achievements that have been made over the course of the last nearly two decades so yes they would start from the heart position but definitely

david negotiate down to power sharing that's my view shift just how concerned must the government of afghanistan be right now. i think it is absolutely concerning and the government is consenting and preparing to respond not only to the incident of what has the but meanwhile there are some threats in some areas like eastern afghanistan so the government is well prepared but meanwhile there is one big hope not only for the government but for the entire afghan population and that is peace and a conciliation so i think it is the last shot specially the big even negotiations and ceasefire and i hope that this will settle through a peace deal otherwise i don't think there will be anyone for this war fare and this is the allies by the afghan government as well as the international allies and the new strategy for afghanistan. by the united states is conditional based so the

united states will stay as long as afghan people need their support and as long as they're needed in afghanistan so this is also realized by taliban that the united states nato will not leave afghanistan until the afghan people ask them so perfectly i think this is a time for the afghan people and for the taliban to come to negotiation table and to make a settlement and end this war and in that case everybody will be the winner and nobody will be the loser mushtaq you just heard talk about the effects on the population look i want to ask pacifically about the humanitarian cost of what's going on i mean i've read reports in the past few days that it was so dangerous in the does need that even dead bodies in the streets couldn't be moved for days so what kind of a toll is this taking on the local population on ordinary afghan citizens. absolutely psychologically did has been devastating let me share another piece of information that the taliban have shown. a sense of unhappiness with the wrecked

car across believing that they did not treat twelve dead dead bodies belonging to them yesterday there was a photo shared on the social media of their coffins were being empty coffins were being captured any center by the ministry of interior that has created a lot of uproar among the general public so it's psychologically devastating and i think this is the taliban tactic where they really want to. impact the psychology of the afghans tried to. get to break the consensus that is built around the peace process because general public over the course of between generally two thousand and eighteen and two thousand and eighteen the general public really supported president on me in his quest for peace process there was one wise from the nation that they wanted peace process they supported the kabul process announcement as well but now looking at the social media and the views that are being poured in by

the general public you can see that the taliban are succeeding in impacting impacting the psychologies impacting the new point that part process in terms of supporting the peace process so not good signs for the afghan mission and afghan government and of course for the potential peace process that was in a stage where a lot of who hope was created a might is the current government up to the task of keeping the country together and perhaps more importantly does the u.s. believe does nato believe that the current government in afghanistan is up to the task of keeping the country together. the afghan security forces have definitely made your mark about progress over the past two years but we see that they still rely on the coalition forces when it comes to support roles like at power they're just sick and outers and without the support of coalition forces they have been struggling. to maintain their hold over population centers in different

parts of the country so right now they're trying to strategy is to continue to train advise and assist afghan security forces so they had to deal with become able to police have get a sense border and fight against the taliban with minimal foreign assistance let's remember that the withdrawal of u.s. troops in their latest years of the obama administration in a very way so they have that created a vacuum for the taliban and other insurgent and terrorist groups to fill the vacuum so i think that the trump administration has learned from that mistake and also the mistake that they use that in iraq however it has become increasingly difficult also far the administration here because it is now close to the first. year of the trumps south asia strategy and it has little to show progress that in afghanistan. the war is becoming increasingly unpopular here in the united states

saw prison tromp may need some of its also keep its commitment to afghanistan and we talked about they had a consolation issue at the time that the taliban is increasing its violence and the government is delivering unilateral concessions that was also deep in divisions within the afghan government. data constellation process that is also part of this strategy to sow divisions within it within the afghan government all right we're going to have to end it there we run out of time thank you to all our guests. measured your and wish. and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me and the entire team here i forgot.

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a study center in the capital kabul. the search for survivors of italy's bridge collapse continues the sorry for what caused the disaster though is just beginning . really for palestinians in gaza israel we opens a vital border crossing that's been closed for a month. and sport real madrid around to prove i can still win trophies without christiane a renowned are getting ready to take on a let's go madrid in a stunning new year for your wife a super cup. of their warm welcome to this hour of news afghanistan's president is condemned a suicide attack on an education center in kabul which has killed over fifty two people many of the victims were young boys and girls studying for their university entrance exams what happened in a mainly shia neighborhood leading some to suspect that i still may have been

responsible even though no group has claimed responsibility so far largely as the story. has been relatively peaceful in recent weeks but this was bad as anything the city has witnessed in months the target was a private building in the town where young men and women were studying for university exams the classroom was destroyed along the way all of it a testament to the ferocity of the attack the suicide bomber is assumed to talk to them because they were in some suspicion immediately fell on. its has done this sort of thing before though not often with such devastating results that it's adults who serious questions. the emergency response. the student at the training center i came out just after four o'clock i had a huge explosion i rushed back to my class i saw dozens of dead bodies and wounded people for about thirty minutes there was no police presence you know ambulance

service and people were carrying the wounded students to the hospitals. the ambulances did arrive to do what they could to by the time they got to hospital the lines of body bags told their own story there are six dead bodies in the morgue and all of them are female their bodies have been burnt and torn into pieces assuming this was the work of it only serves to demonstrate the level of threat civilians continue to face in afghanistan with having come under attack in the taliban in recent days as well country remains paralysed. well until i can johnny is the editor in chief at one t.v. in afghanistan he says the area is no stranger to attacks like this one. are hard work and that are very brutal. brutal attack. that cost the taliban a nicer i said recently and a proud this place this is called. course which is

a perforation course for the high school graduates that wanted to come for a perforated examination prior to going to the university this course was one of the most crowded one of the most famous one on iraq for the for the high school graduates on the area. well as lawyers they mentioned earlier the afghan government is also battling a growing taliban threat in the city of gaza and that's just outside the capital kabul at least four hundred people including around one hundred civilians have been killed since the assault there began on friday shut up alice reports. after six days of a taliban siege on the afghan city of gosney residents emerge from their homes they bring brooms and shovels and anger says cars which are the government has not paid attention to the people here and as you can see most of the markets have burned down in the city. population of two hundred seventy thousand people

found themselves in the middle of the war with the taliban on friday they survived by sheltering in their homes rationing food and water without power or communications and the aftermath we're learning more about the human cost hundreds of people were killed taliban fighters soldiers police and civilians residents say some died in government air strikes too dangerous to move bodies most of the streets for days the red cross moved some to a hospital inside space and resources a rush and between hundreds of soldiers and civilians the red cross very few body bags and medicine to its doctors despite a direct threat from the taliban. the armed groups attack was the most aggressive against an afghan city since it briefly took control of condos two years ago the city's police chief estimated more than one thousand fighters swarmed into gaza me

after midnight on friday equipped with guns and rocket launchers their arsenal group as they overran checkpoints and seized police vehicles. after four consecutive days of the government prematurely declaring victory over the taliban and seen reinforcements on monday the extra troops swung the battle the afghan military record. just to us is strikes on tuesday compared to thirty two in the days prior. to afghan security forces strongly resisted and fought the taliban with high morale in different parts of the city and defended their people and country due to heavy clashes the enemy suffered a lot of casualties. for want of the psni is important lies just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul on the main motorway south take guns and you save a couple from the southern provinces of the military pushed up the taliban this time the fight has remained in the surrounding villages and in the middle the

people have gone psni shelob ellis zero or below is a freelance journalist and could not provinces also wanting for parliament in eastern afghanistan their warm welcome to the program if i can start first of all with the attack in kabul whilst to some degree there are often attacks in the city is there still a sense of shock that this happened today with these young people involved sitting there exams for university. unfortunately kabul another major afghan city will now become. a battlefield a frontline the number of afghans being killed and wounded in major afghan didn't simply shocking what we see is this very dangerous plan this week on the part of the afghan government being in large stylized in terms of failing to protect lives i think what you're also looking at in the long run is the blow to the confidence

of the younger generation in the country life is a very very difficult reality session for young people and then the shares in afghanistan have been targeted quite frequently by the islamic state and other militant groups for that mission in iraq they wonder. who is responsible what is the government doing you know what sort of accountability there is because these attacks are becoming quite frequent. traders unfortunately but these are families being destroyed people losing their loved ones we're talking about destroyed future isn't shattered dreams and younger people if they let them know if you can still hear me but i wonder do people have an expectation that the government can do something about these attacks are they simply convinced this is become the new normal. well i think the expectation from

the ordinary afghans is that the government politicizing the appointment within the afghan national security forces i think people are asking that responsible officials provide. answers to some of these security and intelligence failures which unfortunately is becoming a very dangerous trend now not only in kabul but across the country and what people often wonder where is the government what is the government doing who is the government. what about the situation in gaza now where we've seen a huge level of violence and this past week. i think there are a couple of things that of quite significant number one you know higher than the indian and then the last fighting. along with the taliban something that has happened almost the first time if i can remember after two thousand and one so

that's by the dangerous for number two this is not the first time that a major provincial capital is falling or the rest of a capital falling i think there are a lot of warning henri's from people and i've been. getting closer to the city there are nations all sorts of issues and i think what you often heard residents and lawmakers in the asking that the afghan government percent be failing to protect that important strategic province but it's also quite worrying because they or expectations that there would be a ceasefire in the either lot because we have had a cease fire which was pride and president today in the. small read that this was so the risk of. lebanon on militant attacking a major city less than a hundred miles away from the cost of kabul i think the huge blow to what was a chance for possible peace talks eventually i think that i would say that is

a major blow but one thing i would say is missing is the issue of accountability every time there's a big attack in new civilians in members of the military and in bigger numbers no one is really fired no one is really questioned and i think that's what the people in afghanistan are demanding from the government that actually really. held these people responsible bill so why are there and joining me from kind of province palace thank you. now the italian government has ordered a nationwide program of bridge inspections following tuesday's collapse in genoa which killed at least thirty eight people the private company responsible for the bridge is insisting it carried out all of its responsibilities but the government's claiming a lack of maintenance is questions are raised about infrastructure throughout the country and the smith reports. buried under thousands of tons of reinforced

concrete it's possible there might still be survivors from the general work bridge collapse. we've inspected all the zones that we were able to reach without using bulldozers since last night we started removing bigger concrete parts of the collapsed bridge sorts teams could go in and find more people. that were at least thirty cars on the bridge when it collapsed in driving rain on tuesday according to local authorities the mother saw the i heard an amazing noise i saw the road collapsing and i went down with it i was lucky enough to land i don't even know how because if you saw my car. what caused them around the bridge to fall is unknown early speculation is focused on structural weakness and italian specialist engineering website published an article that highlighted how the fifty year old bridge had always presented what it called structural downs he called the collapse a tragedy waiting to happen. to see if it made amends to the bridge has not been

undertaken as it should have it is extraordinary that this could have led to the blockage of such an important port as general.