eventually power it is nothing more than a political move by the president to punish those who disagree with him they also believe it is a dangerous precedent the white house says it is also considering revoking the security clearances of nine other former government officials who have criticized donald trump publicly including the former f.b.i. director james comey the former director of national intelligence james clapper and even former obama administration national security advisor susan rice one current justice department official bruce or is also on the list trumpet after him on social media this week alleging he's part of a conspiracy within the department to bring his administration down. the latest move comes a day after trump tweeted he was pushing to enforce a gag order silencing former white house staffer omarosa manigault newman making the media rounds promoting a new book alleging trump is unfit to be president kimberly helped at al-jazeera

the white house. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back my name is doesn't say you are as i think the front of us this disappeared without a trace the search for the truth by missing syrian activists plus. andris on a single hottie in the northeast of india this country's prime minister has just announced what will be the world's largest publicly funded health service but i'll be looking at whether this country's health infrastructure will be able to come. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis and other places in china now as bush has been reading persistently certainly in the south have been some nasty weather flooding weather in united in this nation which actually is over the water has been throwing rain from hong kong back towards laos and just on the screen here another one

circulation of both tropical circulation is heading north into was shanghai again to stop the wind the rain and it's repeating the process of what ten days ago so now that this thing still circulating suggests very heavy rain for those in vietnam and laos and the southwest corner of china that you'd think that would take most of the energy out of the atmosphere and you'd be right to some degree they have been if you shop showers to the south to the sort of y.c. but nothing much to the west of that low streaks of cloud though over the south of thailand and sumatra may well turn into something rather wetter to singapore kuala lumpur of the next day or so in the showers might show themselves in borneo northern borneo but i think they're rare event and frequent event the monsoon rain itself has been really pepping up recently in kerala and you see circulation in addition the chances are with the slowly retreating monsoon you get rain anywhere in the central or south in parts of india of the circulation obvious just here. the

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back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour turkey's foreign minister says he's a bad end to talks with the united states as long as there are no threats to nato allies and to tout sanctions last week it began when ankara detained american passed under brunson prompting washington to impose sanctions will soon stand turkey's currency has plummeted qatar has as promised to invest fifteen billion dollars in the country. a suicide attack on an education center in afghanistan's capital kabul has killed more than fifty people most of them students it happened in a mainly shia neighborhood no group has yet claimed responsibility. and the party of brazil's imprisoned former president luis an a.c.l. lula da silva is registered to him as a candidate for the upcoming presidential election thousands rallied in the capital brasilia to show their support for his candidacy blueness counter serving a prison term after he was convicted of corruption during his time in office. israel has reopened the only commercial crossing into gaza after a month long shutdown the qur'an abu salim crossing was closed because of the

heightened tensions between the israelis and the palestinians lorries carrying clothes few in construction material can now enter gaza israel as olds and lifted restrictions on the fishing zone of gaza shore for nothing chance transferred. trucks have started arriving here at gaza's only commercial crossing with israel they stop for example will fill up with goods across the border before returning in cigars and we understand around eight hundred trucks are expected to pass the border 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 exports 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 it's staying open is all dependent on the relative calm between hamas and israel continuing. goods coming in including vital 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 going to. israel has also increased the area in which fishermen can work at sea 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 to increases according to international seaboard. let me of time they are 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 thing truce between hamas and israel. hundreds of people have disappeared during syria's ongoing conflict the rights activists resins attain a is one of them she was abducted in twenty thirteen from an office near damascus whereabouts remain a mystery to reports from beirut my name is resonate from your arse i think it's

from the us this. is the hospice. the area has from. the video was released just a few days before one of the most prominent opposition activists disappeared horse and she along with her husband. and two other colleagues to me 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 the time there was in the entire region forces from the martyrs of the forces of the what are rising the stomach union of the levant and even down the street from 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 a 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 rozen 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 two thousand and seventeen information was cut off and we have no knowledge about resigned. the group was forced to surrender do much to the government earlier this year before leaving it released detainees from the 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. eighty two thousand people have disappeared by the syrian government more than a thousand people and their families are still waiting. for to hundreds of people who were abducted and. there is little hope that resign 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 at least twenty two schoolchildren have died in sudan after their boat sank while crossing the nile river it happened in a small town around seven hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital khartoum the state news agency said the vessel was carrying more than forty people the engine apparently failed and strong currents zimbabwe's ruling zanu p.f. party is trying to get the opposition's challenge to last month's election results

for an out president. wants the court to reject the petition filed by the opposition m.d.c. last week its leader nelson chamisa accuses him of rigging the presidential vote as more from iraq's. president was legal team say they have a strong case they believe the evidence filed by the main opposition leader nelson chamisa doesn't prove last month's election was rigged there's no sound argument raised by. to challenge the electoral victory of president. years no legal grounds to challenge one is not complied with the rules of the court and secondly the case is nominates the president is telling zimbabweans and the international community the elections were free and he won fifty point eight percent of the vote he's calling for unity only when the. people this isn't.

the right not to throw. some in the international community are concerned about human rights violations and post-election violence the american ambassador paid a courtesy call to the president on wednesday the deaths of six people in the streets here the intimidation of opposition polling agents. violence in the a densely populated suburbs around harare all been issues of concern for the country is in limbo a new cabinet can't be formed parliament can't convene that means decisions that affect the economy can't be implemented the quartermaster rule within forty days of an election challenge being lodged the constitutional court decision is final there is no room for an appeal of judge's order election that has to happen within sixty days the opposition m.d.c. alliance has three days to respond to when i was application before the matter is

set down for hearing the nine judges will determine what happens next for. the worst flooding in south india as careless state in the last century has killed sixty seven people more than fifty thousand are seeking shelter and relief camps international airport in the city of culture which serves as a major gateway to the state popular with tourists will be closed until saturday due to the flooding heavy rains forecast for carola into the weekend. now india's prime minister has revealed what's being billed as the world's biggest government funded health scheme he says it will cover around half a billion people many who struggle with high health care costs but as andrew thomas reports from the northwestern city of goa hearty there are concerns that existing facilities won't be able to handle the rise in demand. 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. 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. this 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. i'm lucky i don't have insurance but i can afford it my husband has a good job we own our own house. the new program will cover the poor half of india's population for 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 staffing levels in the health sector of poor but that doctors is changing on target guarding the human resources but i think we continue our for people in europe our health you know our personal health sector. some have accused of caring more for his hindu base than the 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 will be a big achievement and littleness al-jazeera. the fraud case against us president donald trump's former campaign manager is now headed to the jury pool metaphors accused of tax evasion and lying to obtain bank loans the charges aren't related to his time with the trump presidential campaign and twenty sixteen jurors will begin deliberations on thursday new york has become the latest city to reassess its

relationship with ride sharing apps it's placing a cap on the number of ride sharing cars on its streets for years traditional taxi drivers have complained they can't enter a living as the likes of lift have grown in size gabler's under reports. there are so many years on the streets of new york the city is now putting on the brakes the city's mayor bill de blasio signed into law a first of its kind cap on ride sharing cars like in its main competitor lift halting the issuing of new licenses for ride sharing cars for at least a year it's welcome news for yellow taxi drivers right share cars now outnumber them a new york city streets by nearly ten to one and last year for the first time ever overtook yellow cabs in daily ridership new york's yellow taxi drivers have been pushing the city hard for the limit saying the increase in numbers have left them hurting financially five the city did not pay any attention and to

give a free hand tool bars to make money. just in the past eight months six new york city taxi driver says limited suicide advocates and activists say it's because of increased fire then feel pressure on long time yellow cab drivers like this pressure that's being accumulated because of increased competition from services such as over and lift sometimes feeling a taxi is easy. and sometimes it's not a fight against this measure arguing it would adversely affect blacks and latinos living in poor neighborhoods who have long complained of often being refused service by yellow cab drivers. the ride sharing firms had the support of the city's civil rights groups and an industry that have discriminated against community the color famed inception now. foremost the harder it is it's now crying

foul because they don't have a monopoly anymore the city hoping however to cap and ride sharing cars will level the playing field a profit sharing for all drivers and maybe even save the iconic taxi industry. new york. a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera turkey's foreign minister says he's prepared to enter talks with the united states as long as there are no threats the two nato allies imposed tit for tat sanctions last week it began when ankara detained the american pastor prompting washington to impose sanctions but since then turkey's currency has plummeted is what turkey's foreign minister. told ambassadors in ankara. promised to invest fifteen billion dollars in the country

ever shared around here despite everything we already talk about everything to solve the existing problems there is equal partners i speak openly but only on one condition. no dictator. says invest fifteen billion dollars in turkey's troubled financial sector they announced shortly after a meeting between turkey's president russia type thirty one and the emir of qatar. turkey was one of the first countries to offer support to office neighbors imposed a blockade last year a suicide attack on an education center in afghanistan's capital kabul that's killed more than fifty two people most of them students it happened in the mainly shia neighborhood no group has yet claimed responsibility. the party of brazil's imprisoned former president luis and i saluted his silver has registered to him as that candidate for the upcoming presidential elections thousands rallied in the capital brasilia to show their support for his candidacy looters currently serving

a prison term after he was convicted of corruption during his time in office. u.s. president donald trump has revoked the security clearance of the former cia director john brennan he was a top intelligence official during the obama administration and has been openly critical of trump and his policies in a statement from question brennan's objectivity and credibility but in claims the move is politically motivated and says all american should be worried about trump sanctions. italy's prime minister has declared a state of emergency following the collapse of a bridge in the city of jenin on tuesday at least thirty nine people died and the number is expected to rise the deputy prime minister is blaming a lack of maintenance as questions are raised about infrastructure throughout the country. or are those with the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera

after inside story statement that's awesome. china is keen to win friends and influence the need oil rich middle east business spark the long term plan of china to secure its resources for the future the i.m.f. said sub-saharan region as a whole now is expected to grow we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. 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. 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 went away and its recent raid on the southeastern city of thousand is a sign of how much of a threat the armed group 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. off to six days of the taliban see. any resistance from their homes. they bring

brooms and shovels and anger says all of the rich and the government has not paid attention to the people here and as you can see most of the markets have burned down and 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 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 launches their arsenal group 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 two u.s. airstrikes 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. in kabul on the main motorway south take gosney and you see the kabul from the southern provinces where the military pushed up the taliban this time the fight is remain in the surrounding villages and in the middle the people have gone psni dallas which is era the taliban was pushed out of power in two thousand and one after the us invasion of afghanistan but the armed groups 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 the 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 miss 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 we western region and then maintaining that who are out of the city for four days or even right now we have that some of the clearing operation has to be continued because taliban are 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 taliban it's. its islamist 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 fraction of taliban as well as their affiliates such as. in other fictions to entrap 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 up was in peace and become. a motive for talking

specifically about the violence right now in the rep or 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 tessie 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 this ration

strategy aimed at weakening the taliban on the battlefield and to force insurgents to come to negotiating table has not yielded results and 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 odd 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 heart of the economy up wind that they have. the security forces in there where they had they have taken hostage a number of security forces they have attacked in battle and and the out trying to show they have spent all around but coming to the point of 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 conflicts enough 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

pink not in the dark to taking. it actually because they are not able to maintain it even in the more a.d.'s so it's more of 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 beat for a few hours but they did in 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 others there's also other than. divisions unfortunately especially right now to pakistan iran and some other elements they would like to

create more frictions 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 certain me and pashtoon and then you have minority shia in tajik so you would see the support of iranian to be 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 powerbrokers 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 on 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 south and 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 affiliates which called indian sub continent they help and they're here to advise him 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. strategy if we condemn militarily has not worked out so if there are any negotiations between the united to say send the taliban but then show it to all of us troops or about any political settlement in afghanistan then it would be did taliban which with said 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 do 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 david 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. not negotiate or 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 have indicated that they will accept the participation of the taliban in the political system in afghanistan but i would slightly disagree with mr and that the taliban leaders want a power sharing deal so far to message from the taliban leadership has been consistent that they want the establishment of the islamic emirate do not recognize the legitimacy off the current political system in afghanistan and that is the reason that they have only accepted to talk to us but not to the afghan government certainly that our leaders would into taliban that they would be amenable to any

power sharing agreement by the hardliners the ideological core of the taliban reject the current political system. islam and they wanted establishment of the islam republic in the country which disagreed with one of your points if 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 decisionmaking is concerned the hardliners the ones who believe in the

battlefield succès 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 it did go to the negotiation table even if they're talking to americans on what terms americans have been not only americans but who do 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 the goshi asians in 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 cross 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 child general public so it's psychologically devastating and i think this is the taliban tactic where they really want to empower 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 viewpoints the think 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 remembered 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 tramp's 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 president trump may need some of his 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.

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tomato would disappear i would post documentary on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks the syrian government with the backing of iran and russia now controls sixty percent of syria after steadily recapturing territory with detailed coverage what was supposed to be a summit between the two most powerful leaders in the world is taking things to a new level from around the world the backdrop of course all of this is a gigantic powell vacuum in northern irish politics with no functioning local government for eighteen months. al-jazeera it's swear every day.

as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises in b.c. someone says i'm staying in power no matter what the have to crash into is all of reality that usually gets the endless blood. sent here america's ortega's from a vice president talks to al jazeera. hello i'm down joan and mind of the top stories here on the al-jazeera turkey's foreign minister says he's prepared to enter talks with the u.s. as long as there are no threats the two. nato allies imposed tit for tat sanctions last week it began when ankara detained the american pastor andrew brunson prompting washington to impose sanctions well since then turkey's currency has plummeted is what turkey's foreign minister medlock of a suit told ambassadors in ankara hair shared around here despite everything we are

ready to talk about everything to solve the existing problems there is equal partners i speak openly but only on one condition. no dictator. mike hanna has more from washington d.c. the white house has described the turkish decision to impose these tariffs as regrettable but the white house press spokesman making very clear that there's two different issues here the one is the issue of tariffs introduced by the trumpet ministration last week the she said we were introduced to this unspecified national security reasons the issue of sanctions which were imposed against two turkish government ministers are directly related to the ongoing trial of the american past within turkey this is something that the trumpet ministration has been attempting to end it has imposed these sanctions with the specific intention of getting an end

to this particular trial and the vice president mike pence also weighed in the course of the day he issued a tweet saying that turkey mess not to press president trump president trample continue to do whatever is necessary to get the return of that american preacher so certainly this trade war the issue of ongoing sanctions appears far from over the vice president's tweet indicates that these issues remain very much on the table for the trumpet ministration. qatar says it will invest fifteen billion dollars in turkey's troubled financial sector the announcement came shortly after a meeting between turkey's president richard tire heard of one and the emir of qatar shut and been hammered out fannie and ankara. a suicide attack on an education center in afghanistan's capital kabul has killed more than fifty two people most of them students happened in a mainly shin neighborhood no group has yet claimed responsibility. the party of

brazil's imprisoned former president nescio desilva has registered to him as a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections thousands rallied in the capital brasilia to show their support for his candidacy luna's counter serving a prison sentence after he was convicted of corruption during his time in office for nothing done. all thirteen of the parties wanting to stand in october presidential elections have now registered this was the final day wednesday here in brasilia to do that most of the policies including the right wing counted the votes are now at all and the former environment minister in lula's previous government body in a silver are among those candidates most of them registered online the only ones to come here in numbers from all across brazil are members of the who will work with policy they're absolutely convinced is innocent of the charges against him of money laundering and corruption which he's serving twelve years in prison they believe it

was a political set up by his enemies that if he were allowed to stand he would almost certainly win the elections the opinion polls latest opinion polls seem to bear them out and he is certainly leading in those polls campaigning starts tomorrow thursday right across brazil ahead of the first round of those elections or not table the seventh with or without lula that we're going to have to wait and see u.s. president donald trump has revoked the security clearance of former cia director john brennan he was a top intelligence official during the obama administration has been openly critical of trump and his policies in a statement trump questioned brennan's objectivity and credibility but in claims the move is politically motivated. and if ms prime minister has declared a state of emergency following the collapse of a bridge in the city of general on tuesday at least thirty nine people died and that number is expected to rise the deputy prime minister is blaming a lack of maintenance. well those were the headlines the news continues here on

al-jazeera after al-jazeera world structure that's watching. a good deal here in southern morocco on the atlantic coast near the foot of the atlas mountains population around seven hundred thousand. industries tourism agriculture and fishing and major ports for exporting goods to europe and

for imports into africa. camels no longer distribute produce the only effective network in this part of the world is the roads to places like dakar the capital of senegal. because that is the first thing. roads and trucks hundreds if not thousands of them. drivers have to deal with the mechanics of huge engines and maneuver great monsters with eighteen tons mt over fourteen foot would need ten.

thousand nine hundred. seventy four this film to try to drive very under three thousand kilometer journey from a good dealer to dakar. to be a dying man needed help to make last minute repairs to his vehicle to get it's ready for the outward trip which might take as longest. to me fix. drive in sketch in the sky turns off time. our minds. and dogs can be sets off in the dark and heads off towards the coast road that will take you first to the southwestern border of morocco.

but to have this could be it is not. easy getting the other truck by impact. and the two go follow one another for the full three thousand kilometers to dakar for the mall all morning and then the on off part is our last. and only she didn't need an overnight then it's the last chance in the women a lot of them say for it. it will look. a number. of those that she. and women are going to. look for that she. did.

she do was. talk to us. a hopkins cabbie to make their first stop before dawn to grab some fresh food from oslo all of them in a lot of cologne. over me you. see. me and if i'm having a. little bit. of his guts but i have just got to know. there will be times in the next few days when they will miss not only their families but also the simple comforts of even this modest roadside cafe.

in the fifty's. if you know if you are a kid you live with your luck. or sets off. but. when it brahim and hope that it could be your set off they can't always tell their families how long they'll be away such is the unpredictability of the journey ahead . for them to save. not even if. she. didn't mean it is that.

this is not like truck driving across the united states for long distances are common. but where ours are controlled by federal law. it's not like driving in europe with its titrate condition and vehicle monitoring systems measuring driver time activity. this is driving it so hard i think. there are no motorway service stations no twenty four hour s.o.'s vehicle recovery no spare parts at the end of a mobile phone. call. well

to get up early. there should be a multiple soulmates pistol to be. slovak and surely have been a hostile order that's. called on didn't make any sense of that but it's all that i know we're. telling them no we are department. driving hours don't seem to be regulated and there are no rest areas. painted on this trip is mineral material but whatever they're carrying they can't really leave the vehicle for security reasons. they also have to refuel when they pass a service station as there be huge distances to head with nothing but deserts hour after hour.