most powerful spiritual gurus on al-jazeera. rockets fired afghanistan's presidential palace as the president delivers an even message. welcome to al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up making its anger official turkey complains to the world trade organization about u.s. tariffs as president one labels them an attack on his country also struggling to celebrate inside the camp where hundreds of thousands of syrians are marking unsure when they'll return home and taiwan no longer exists for another country el salvador drops its diplomatic recognition that it signed the deal with china.

welcome to the program but afghanistan's presidential palace has come under attack just a day after president garvey pushed for a new cease fire he was delivering an aide message of choose stay morning when rockets were fired towards the building in kabul they did not hit the palace but several shells cell in the surrounding diplomatic quarter they've been no reports of any injuries as yet and afghan military helicopters did fire at a house where they suspect the rockets may have come from. she come down joins us now live from kabul he's on the phone with us a former advisor to nato we were speaking just what less than twenty four hours ago we were talking about whether the taliban were willing to also meet the government

halfway on a ceasefire if this is an attack by the taliban what sort of message are they sending to kabul. unfortunately there is something expected in afghanistan. to do to try and our college a disaster because halliburton has managed to come to. try to recruit groups who are online the government has offered to. so i don't know if it's huge also showed. how you can choose sides to keep up close and targeted. to when president garvey took office he promised that he would secure all the country yet again we see as you say we see another attack within what is a very sensitive area of the capital near the presidential palace near the

diplomatic zone and it really highlights how insecure kabul can be. certainly kabul is not a problem two years ago because the war. surrounded like for example the. other part of the. provinces of the kabul. expected. inspired by. the big hope for the afghan people. unfortunately should be a. national security force regardless of where these apparent rockets missiles landed what action do you think the president and his military generals will take next.

the helicopters. looking for the insurgent targets. power. conventional. logs. to fly taliban back to this. position. longer. mr hamdan while our viewers see these images that we're showing here on al-jazeera of plumes of black and white smoke in the vicinity of the presidential palace one wonders how the president or even the government can begin to work with

groups such as the taliban and its various factions and derivatives you might say in bringing them to talk to bring them to the peace table starting a dialogue it seems still a task that is very difficult for anybody in charge in kabul to undertake. i tend. to come to peace offer. protection. part of. time of on try to block the. solution i have heard show and hope. comes from. russia then sure.

enough. so i do in the moment i find. becomes a continuation of the. future for the afghan government to keep up with promises to keep up with because the pressure from the public. one sided. by the taliban so little is. because of all the huge question about afghan people under the firmament ok we'll leave it there for the moment. to nato those of you who just joined us here on al-jazeera these are live pictures from the afghan capital kabul where missiles or rockets have actually landed in the vicinity of the presidential palace as the president was greeting and sending a message to the afghan people joining the celebrations we'll come back to that

story as we get more news on that. our other top story in turkey is taking its complaints against u.s. terrorists to another level it's lodged a case with the world trade organization wanting to rule now donald trump doubled the tariffs on steel alimony and earlier this month to turkey refused to release an american pastor who's been detained for nearly two years the turkish government retaliated with levees on some u.s. products. there's no difference between the direct attacks on our call to prayer in our flag and the attack on our economy the goal is the same the goal is to bring to heel turkey and the turkish nation to hold a captive we are nation that prefers to be shot in the nick rather than to be chained at the knee. he is a professor of political science at the university of waterloo in canada she says it was the right move for turkey to take the dispute to the w t o. the united

states is claiming that there is some sort of national security imperative and putting on these tariffs and it's up live in too many countries as you said including canada which really finds its absurd so that's probably the right to move to take but of course that's going to be very painful for turkey and i would also point out this hits turkey specifically america won and his political base because they're very much dependent on economic growth in the building sector in the construction sector so this is of course a very important but good having steel in construction is very important so it's going to hurt definitely many of those very close to early one himself we can't really blame the united states for all of economic troubles of turkey because certainly it's been in high debt situation increasingly of manning allowing interest rates to rise enough to sort of combat some of these dilemmas a lot of dollar denominated debt i mean it's very much i think a home grown crop some of which it wants or making by certainly the announcements

of tariffs on turkey and just the overall sort of you know instability brought into the currency market is definitely enough to rattle a lot of people and this is going to cause turkey more headache and grief economically for sure. taiwan says it will not bow to pressure from china after another country cut diplomatic ties president signing when criticized el salvador's decision to establish relations with beijing in stead the third nation to do so this year china has been pressuring countries and companies to recognize taiwan as part of its territory which i called china's behavior of control only seventeen countries have deflated ties with taiwan most of them are impoverished nations of the pacific region or latin america such as haiti honduras and nicaragua taiwan's only diplomatic ally left in africa is swaziland both taiwan and beijing have engaged in years of diplomatic tugs of war in developing countries china has

offered economic support from the world's second largest economy to smaller nations as a bargaining chip but taiwan is not recognized as independent country by much of the world nor the united nations if you broadcast more from beijing. well this is another important symbolic diplomatic victory for china as it seeks to pick off one by one those countries that still have diplomatic relations with taiwan since zion when became president of taiwan in january two thousand and sixteen five countries have severed ties with taiwan el salvador now joining that lengthening list on shoes day taiwan's foreign ministry reacted angrily taiwan's foreign minister joseph who said that china was luring away taiwan's allies with promises of vast financial aid he said this was a game that taiwan was not prepared to play well of course this all comes just as

zion when has been on a stopover in the united states she'd been visiting believes and paragliding two of the seventeen countries that still recognize taiwan she made a speech in the united states the first time a taiwanese leader has done that in ten years that upset the chinese and then lo and behold literally just a day later we learned that el salvador has decided to sever ties with taiwan now taiwan said that it knew what el salvador was planning to do in fact it had an idea this was going to happen back in june it a try to persuade el salvador not to do this but of course in the end it simply lost out in the inevitable bidding war with china there is now just one country in africa that has ties with taiwan that is swaziland and i think china would very much like swaziland to come into its orbit before early september because that's when president xi jinping will be hosting an africa china summit here in beijing.

emergency workers in the indian state of carroll have been handing out medicine and disinfectants to prevent water borne diseases more than one point two million people are now living in temporary camps after the worst flooding in a century and thomas reports but i'm in kerala. and still it rains the downpours all less heavy less frequent and shorter than they were but in kara they are still coming to people here fresh rain lengthens the time they'll have to stay in a camp. for more than five thousand frost carola although really camp is too grand the word there simply community halls and schools which have opened their doors and quickly filled with people and each of acuity has a similarly harrowing story. that not the water has destroyed everything we had it was up to my neck it even took my cows.

everything at home is lost and here there is nothing to do what can we do. it's hot in this hole there's no privacy or dignity some here were evacuated on thursday and i've now spent four days living this public school in life others were rescued only on sunday having spent four days and nights on the roofs of floors of their flooded homes both parents are equally exhausted. the exhaustion shows. but there is enough food here enough drinking water and medicines. volunteer doctors at the center so they haven't yet seen outbreaks of disease i also know that around the world thankfully and thanks to that are not many communicable diseases or something like that we've just. been spreading because we're also

getting prophylactic medicines acids so that they let us know if we can make it something like that of that sort so we are really working hard for that. but people's mental health is suffering everybody is simply sat. in his effort. on monday distributed dramatic video of a total this rescue but most imagines evacuations are over and after the drama reality hits and littleness al jazeera. carol. well still ahead here all al-jazeera south africa begins to inquiry into missing state funds corruption the former president. hello get a welcome back to your international weather forecast we're seeing quite

a bit of weather associate with the remnants of what was a straw pickle storm making its way across parts of the baltics and this storm is still going to bring quite a bit of activity over the next few days especially with a cold front it's going to be meeting up with combining with a lot of winds to parts of western sections of russia moscow you can be six thunderstorms pushing through you can see that line right there and those winds can be very destructive at times possibility of even seeing a tornado or two across that region as we go towards wednesday that system makes its way more towards the east but we are looking at some more wet weather coming into parts of the u.k. that's going to start to make its way towards london on wednesday evening and storms anywhere from circle over here towards vienna with still some very warm temperatures here and rome at thirty three degrees we have seen some clouds rolling across parts of algeria over the next couple of days and that is going to continue for tonight as well twenty nine degrees for most locations along the coast will be seeing benghazi twenty nine cairo a little further inland at about thirty seven degrees there really staying the same

as we go towards wednesday but clear skies across much of the coastal regions and over here towards much of the northwest ribot and morocco's coast is going to be seeing a nice day with a temperature there of about twenty nine degrees. look

like you're watching under their arms the whole rubber reminder of our top stories afghanistan's presidential palace has come under attack after president danny pushed for a new ceasefire with the taliban he was delivering a message when rockets were fired towards the building where they landed in the surrounding streets and as yet no injuries have been reported is also turkey has filed a complaint with the world trade organization over u.s. tariffs on steel an element of imports donald trump doubled levies earlier this month after turkey refused to release an american pastor accused of links to the failed coup in twenty sixteen and taiwan says it will not bow to pressure from china after another country cut diplomatic ties person signing when criticized el salvador's decision to establish relations with beijing stand the nation to do so

this year. a new bank those have vented circulation in venezuela as part of attempts by president nicolas maduro to curb hyper inflation the changes include devaluing the boulevard by ninety five percent and linking the new money into a government backed cryptocurrency venezuelans reacted cautiously to the changes with no shops remaining closed on monday is assuming it's a trick to make over the government is doing to the national economy it's a terrible deception removing five zero doesn't improve the economy at all but it will improve the theft people are going to be confused there's no posters explain how to convert the old currency to the new one people have to take money out of their accounts and divide everything by ten thousand to this they tell you look at this it costs five bolivars the people are going to have to take out a calculator how many are five ball of art are they five hundred thousand or five million the government has to better explain to the public. latin america to lucy a

new but has more from caracas confusion concern and especially uncertainty of the only way to describe how most winners wayland's are receiving their new currency these are ten new until friday they were worth a million of the old body that is there the maximum amount that you can take out of a cash machine at one time but they are not worth more they just have five less heroes than the old bills faced with the world's highest hyperinflation the government has not just shade and zeroes off the bills but is raising corporate and sales taxes and increasing the minimum wage several thousand percent of venezuelans the largest private business association says that this is not the way to save the economy. although it's necessary to raise salaries raising the minimum wage by thirty five hundred percent makes it impossible for businesses to meet these new increases in an economy that is underwater because of

a severe depression if hyperinflation is not the impact of this increase will be totally counterproductive. president nicolas maduro says he'll subsidize small and medium sized companies for ninety days here in caracas almost everything was closed on the first day of the new currency the government had declared monday a public holiday. letting is open complained this man not even the many supermarkets were waiting to see what happened. indeed people are confused and with very good reason they don't know how to calculate what they're spending especially since the new salaries don't go into effect until next month in the meantime at least part of the opposition is calling for a general strike on tuesday to protest against the reforms which many economists say do not address the real issues the real causes of the crisis that is sending millions of venezuelans fleeing to other countries. survivors of sex abuse by roman catholic clergy say the apology letter from pope francis doesn't go far enough the

head of the roman catholic church has vowed to spend no effort to root out sex abuse and attempts to cover it up pull to teddy and possible tim was just twelve when he says he was raped by his catholic parish priest he believes the pope's letter of apology is not enough words words words thoughts and prayers does not make a child safer. he could with the stroke of a pen demand that every diocese in the world release the records no more secret files to him another survivors also want the pope to punish bishops who have covered up abuse the pope's letter comes days after a u.s. state of pennsylvania report estimated that three hundred roman catholic priests in their state alone molested at least one thousand children over the past eight decades what are prayers in penance going to do for folks who

are now abusing alcohol and drugs to self medicate because a priest rape down. at three. what are prayers and penance going to do. the pope is dealing with similar cases of abuse and cover up around the world in south america chilean authorities raided catholic church headquarters as part of their investigation of sex abuse by members of the marist brothers order and ahead of the pope's visit to ireland this weekend bishop accountability dot org has added a new database of names of irish priests and church employees accused of child abuse if the vatican was approaching this issue with integrity a pope would have come here and not just kissed the ground when he landed but got moneys nice and acknowledge the truth of what's happened in this country in the vatican's role in us fifteen years ago and people need to the top of this is nathan and far. any acknowledgement of the abuse issue to be a mere afterthought i think it's reprehensible. but this isn't the first time the

pope has acknowledged sex abuse and asked for forgiveness and. before god and his people i express my sorry if it seems in a grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you and i have asked for forgiveness the vatican says the pope's new letter is another wake up call and a plea for catholics to help through prayer and penitence in what it calls an attempt to fight evil this is about ireland this is about the united states and this is about chile but not only pope francis has written to the people of god and that means everyone. and as the pennsylvania grand jury concluded the real number of victimized shilled and abusive priests might be higher around the world since some secret church records have been lost and some victims have never come forward paul chowder john al-jazeera. it's the type of celebrations of muslims worldwide but tens of thousands of these in northern syria about it in terms of waiting and

hoping that one day they may be allowed home city because a live report from the province. is one of the camps in northern syria at these eight hundred fifty thousand displaced syrians have taken refuge here since the civil war began more than seventy years ago by. early left the town of the north in hama five years ago ahmed opened the small wholesale business in the camp and ali sells a good sci fi's from his tent. when we ask how he and his family prepared for the biggest feast in the muslim world words failed him. it is not much different for allie who used to be a former back home he was hit by a rocket two years ago while driving his motorbike. he lost a leg and i see hasn't felt like celebrating heat for the last seven years.

he thinks there is no joy for peace but only death pain and war which makes it impossible to be happy. others surface him opinion fabric at night it doesn't feel like a feast we are away from home and family we hope it is over soon there are thousands of people here but loneliness is the one thing they share a refugee camp resembles a giant city just meters from the turkish border or crowding is a major problem and there's a distinct lack basic facilities and services most of the people here do not have an a job spot despite all the centers they try to maintain as normal a life as possible mainly for the sake of their children and i bought you clothes i will play with my friends this feast requires muslims to share the meat of us have professed animal with the poor have over the camel manager tells us no we're going to say shin has promised them any meat and he doesn't know if they will receive any . al-jazeera refugee camp northern syria. police in the russian

republic of chechnya have shot and killed five men who targeted them the attackers tried to run over two police officers attempted to stab another and failed to set off a suicide bomb i saw has claimed responsibility for their souls but church an authority you say of the group doesn't have any support in the region. but with their criminals tried to destabilize the situation but they failed thanks to the accurate and orchestrated efforts of law enforcement and security agencies their plan was foretold the situation in the territory of our republic is under control there are no reasons to worry there have been no losses among police personnel. cambodian land rights activist has been freed from prison after receiving a royal pardon families spent two years in jail she was arrested in twenty sixteen for protesting against the forced removal of thousands of people from the capital phnom penh point hague has more from neighboring bangkok. danny was released from

prison along with three other protests dissolved or they received royal pardons that were requested by cambodia's prime minister who in sindh vanny was originally sentenced to just six days in prison back in two thousand and sixteen but after she had served that was then given two and a half years for an offense that had taken place more than three years earlier the jailing and harassment of land rights workers human rights defenders and political figures is common in cambodia where the prime minister hun sen is been in power for thirty three years and in july general election his party won all one hundred twenty five seats in the national assembly and on wednesday in the capital phnom penh the case of former opposition leader kim is back before the courts he is appealing for bail after he was arrested in september last year on treason charges and he's still awaiting trial. south africa has opened a judicial inquiry into alleged corruption at the highest levels of government is

looking into claims of fraud in the disappearance of billions of dollars in funding during former president jacob zuma time in office it was established in march to investigate allegations that a powerful family influence over to give the government contracts for me to miller has the latest from johannesburg. at the start of the commission of inquiry into state capture of the chairperson of the commission chief deputy chief justice raman sondra indicated that they it hasn't been as much cooperation from state departments as the commissioner would have liked at least. there. that we have had to deal with and that ministerial level of those that we have dealt with have been very supportive of been very cooperative but sometimes there are challenges with regard to what. we have had delays. in. the dealings of the commission with the national treasury.

over the past few months. so much so that. on two occasions i've had to. ask the minister of finance to intervene this for many it could raise questions possibly around how effective the inquiry could be and if prosecutions could come out of the recommendations that would be given to presidents in the run up or second later stage but that could take more than two years at this stage the legal team for the commission of inquiry is so far outlined some of the areas of allegations it be looking into which include the possible involvement of state owned enterprises in these allegations if former president jacob zuma had any influence in this regard and his relationship with the gupta family who's alleged to have used their political connections to benefit politically and financially from state owned enterprises which range from the national electricity provider to

public transport and even the use of their political connections for their citizenship here in south africa. you're watching out of there i'm so robin a reminder of our top stories afghanistan's presidential palace has come under fire after president garvey pushed for a new cease fire with the taliban but he was delivering an even better when rockets were fired towards the building they landed in the surrounding streets no one has been reported injured at the moment afghan military helicopters fired at a house where they suspect the rockets have come from. turkey has filed a complaint with the world trade organization over u.s. tariffs on steel in alameda been ports donald trump doubled levees earlier this month after taking it refused to release an american pastor accused of links to the failed coup in twenty sixteen if. there is no difference between the direct

attacks on our call to prayer in our flag and the attack on our economy the goal is the same the goal is to bring to heel turkey and the turkish nation to hold a captive we are nation that prefers to be shot in the nick rather than to be chained at the neck. taiwan says that a lot of pressure from china after another country cut diplomatic ties president signing when criticized el salvador's decision to establish relations with beijing the nation to do so this year only seventeen countries there recognize taiwan as a sovereign nation. a new bank so vented circulation in venezuela as part of a terms by president nicolas maduro to curb hyper inflation the changes include devaluing the boulevard by ninety five percent and linking the new money to a government backed cryptocurrency that is wayland's reacted cautiously to the changes with most shops remaining closed on monday. emergency workers in the indian state of carola are handing out medicine and disinfectants to prevent water borne

diseases more than one point two billion people are living in temporary camps after the worst flooding in a century rescuers are finding more bodies as the water recedes around four hundred people have been killed police said the russian republic of chechnya shot and killed five men who targeted them the attackers tried to run over two police officers attempted to stab another and failed to set of a suicide bomb i saw has claimed responsibility for the assaults but chechen police say the group doesn't have any support in the reach of those with the headlines you can catch all those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com about with more news in a half an hour next its inside story to stay with us. well there are three big challenges facing humankind in the twenty first century look real war climate change and technological disruption especially the rise of intelligence in bioengineering this will change the world more than anything else professor you

know harare to al-jazeera. it's called the state capture inquiry a judicial investigation into alleged government corruption in south africa involving billions of dollars of public money some say the ruling african national congress is on trial but how far can the investigation go this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program that hamid south africa's president cyril ramaphosa has vowed to crack down on government corruption and he could end up implicating members of his own party a judicial inquiry into.