it is a joining the global conversation. on out in zero. ripples of the founder of one of afghanistan's most feared armed groups has died we look at how this may affect the insurgency. hello welcome to our jazeera live from doha i'm. also coming up in the program. and in over two decades makes landfall. argentina's president nearly hard for the size of government to save money as the economy is on the edge of disaster.

thousands turn out for an anti-racism concert in a german city that's reeling from far right unrest. but we start in afghanistan where we are getting reports of the death of the founder of a prominent afghan armed group the network his name jalaluddin haqqani the death was announced in the statement by the afghan branch of the taliban reports of his death of been widespread in twenty fifteen the network has been behind many high profile coordinated attacks on afghan and nato forces through the years the group is affiliated with both the taliban and al qaeda. well. carney raised to prominence as an afghan military commander fighting soviet troops who'd occupied afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. the u.s.

at the time described him as a prized asset and directly funded his group's fight against communist forces although not a member of the taliban he pledged his allegiance to the group in one nine hundred ninety five after the taliban had captured the afghan capital how can the network oppose the two thousand and one u.s. led invasion of afghanistan and the presence of nato forces we can now speak to. news director of the afghan institute for strategic studies in kabul and also a former senior policy adviser to the afghan ministry of foreign affairs he's joining us from there now and how significant a development is this first if indeed it is confirmed that the founder of the her car the network has died. and really really you know. particularly has been really.

moving it without any meaningful impact on what's happening in the korean. war and. on in many ways he is a person personified the misfiring of u.s. policy in the region given that he was funded directly by the cia and feted as a hero in the one nine hundred eighty s. as they fought against the soviet troops only for them to be described as terrorist by the united states in twenty twelve. that occurred as spending nearly two dozen remarked it was the current target of the prize at that during the soviet invasion but then we have the core motif of the us military and media live in maryland who describe the afghani newsgroup as a relative arms of the oil acting which shows that you have only.

two minutes on the parking lot but it's only medical establishment and we make that partnership to really. go about we had been there not to visit changes your money was not absolutely justified i'm going to leave the establishment remain partners which have bluntly told one or the group of those that would. please have to change what are the years the main limited to those who have gone it's all a long time for that matter. and interesting timing would you agree the fact that my pump a was arriving in the pakistani capital islamabad tomorrow that's wednesday and it is the alleged continuing support if you like our elise tolerance of groups

like a county that has led to the us suspension of much of its aid to the us. i think again a lot of you had to be careful not to put it in any human being but to answer your question. dunn has shown to be very hospitable people so when they have a reason for that is they turn to for a lot of songs sung of hospitality and in previous cases when there was a bench. and when we evolve and when you're with. a professional to practice we still talk to. kill some of the al qaida members or the artist or some members of the problem on some other because just so i'm against one system that is done in the area or last twenty years or so under suspicious i want this climbing there is no. this and also event the

question that had to be. years where are the call upon who released them if it means something whether he's going to bring them is that there is something so i think there are some a big question that we need to who explore people have a better understanding of the nature of the afghanistan pakistan the little bunny relationship mode r.d.m. thank you very much indeed for joining us live from the afghan capital kabul. now change of lot to being suspended and evacuation warnings have been sent out as japan is hit by a powerful typhoon it's called j.p. and is expected to bring with it heavy rain and winds of more than two hundred kilometers per hour japan's already endured extreme weather the sham with flooding and then it was followed by a heatwave hundreds of people have died for the salami has more from tokyo. this is the strongest typhoon that japan has been with this with i think since this

. we didn't like twenty five years and then so yesterday those sort of things have been advising people to make preparations to faith that sounds by phone it has already made the landfall in the bocce in chico while and. by even when it's going to move on to island the main island of japan and going to ponce over osaka a lot of the way i would say one of the largest cities between. between one and five be aimed at people who have been advised to use proportions the only people living in rule or areas have been asked to evacuate to safer places and many people there too from what we saw on some t.v. reports some people there were putting some kind of wood block on their windows and other people who are living get near to the sea they have been away but the way to to do all that of the public but that is. well our very own meteorologist jeff gold

is here with me on set now to talk about what has been an incredibly ferocious cyclon. monsoon season for both east asia and south asia and japan is particularly borne the heavy brunt that's where it's actually increased the number of typhoons that have hit japan has increased since about two thousand and four they've had four every year and this year this is the fourth one that's given them a direct impact it's the strongest one that's actually hit them for twenty five years when it hit we had gust of wind one hundred seventy two kilometers per hour so really very strong and when it was in the open ocean we had when wave heights there were eight meters high now the highest we've seen near land has been nearly three but even so that's a pretty large influx of water from the sea there and the japanese a whirl no not me for being very well prepared for all sorts of natural disasters but i mean this is just been one thing after another they were relatively well

prepared they do ask for an evacuation but it's not mandatory one of the best countries in the world is cuba they have a mandatory evacuation system and a very low death count as a result of that japan is good. there are ways that they can improve for this one i think the worst is now over because it's going over land the land is really high there so it shredded it and there's barely anything left right so i was going to ask i mean how much longer do you think the japanese are going to have to endure scenes like that we're looking at at the moment basically the worst is now over and now it's going over land is shredding it already the winds have dropped magnificently what it's going to do it is going to drop all the water that it sucked up from the sea so that's the major threat now a lot of rain still to come so of course a thanks very much indeed. people have protested new announced emergency austerity measures in argentina's capital one aside as president. has slashed the size of government in half pretty much and says he'll cut public spending as well as increase export taxes or later on to say the

country's economy minister is due to meet the international monetary fund to speed up payment of a fifty billion dollars loan to raise a bow as our correspondent in one of us. are trying to prevent a major economic crisis precedent. and nouns to emergency measures to stop the weakening of the pace all. but on the streets tensions continues to be on the rice on monday people gathered to protest after almost six hundred workers were laid off from this ministry they're convinced the situation will only get worse if. you know when you see what the government is doing you know the only thing we can expect is more layoffs a deteriorating situation for those who need work. maggie announced he's continuing with an austerity push and he would see the number of ministries dropped to ten from nineteen he also reinstated

a tax on exports reversing the cuts announced soon after he was elected president three years ago. to cover what's lacking during this transition that has become an emergency we are asking those who can contribute i'm referring to export hers that their share will be greater we know that it's a very bad tax which goes against what we want to promote which is more exports to create more jobs across argentina but i have to ask you to understand that this is an emergency and we need your support after signing an agreement with the i.m.f. the government's main priority is to reduce the fiscal deficit but for people on the streets inflation is. remain warry argentines are watching closely the weakening because it has a direct impact on inflation which continues to be one of the highest in the world and that's why exchange houses like this ones are fields with people waiting to

trade their pesos for u.s. dollars i hear konami collapse of two thousand and one is still fresh in people's memory when a run on the currency ended with a run on the banks. millions of middle class workers were pushed into poverty many fear the current austerity measures may end up the same way economy say the crisis this time is financial and political. reasons the negative side of this. two votes. but. for now maggie is focused on putting the current crisis to an end but those affected say they remain on the streets to fight the policies that hurt people like.

an egyptian court has extended the detention of an opposition activists who had called for protests against president. arrested on august twenty fourth he's being held on charges of inciting demonstrations could call for a referendum on c.c.s. rule the egyptian president was returned to office share. a few are students are attending schools in the eastern democratic republic of congo because they're afraid of a return of the ebola virus the health ministry says the death toll has now risen to seventy five since the epidemic was declared in august victoria gave him the reports. in mendocino including key the classrooms were empty on the first day of school the area is considered the epicenter of the latest ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo. the kids here today.

afraid of above i think school could be a great place to contaminate each other worried parents say they're not taking any chances. we want our children to get the vaccine first before they start school. only a fraction of the more than eighty two thousand school age children in the to affected areas have attended lessons so far this week that's despite teaches receiving training on ebola prevention and protection to avoid the spread of the virus what do you. well we wish the kids but can't wait this week will continue with a win as you see at the end of the wake what the future holds for us. since the outbreak was declared five weeks ago it's spread across two provinces including in and around the complex where dozens of armed groups operate health workers need military escorts to get to those in need the world health organization says without

a ceasefire the disease will continue to spread and thousands of children who'd be at risk of losing more than just their education victoria gay to be al-jazeera. still to come here at al-jazeera the u.k. is opposition labor party is split down the middle find out why. we had to hong kong to meet a group that's trying to find new ways to tackle air pollution. hello there we're going to huge swirling mass of cloud over parts of europe that's giving us some very violent thunderstorms you can see them on the satellite picture across this region here and it's possible and hungry where we've got the worst of the weather at the moment plenty more thunderstorms here as we head through the day on tuesday and then gradually on wednesday that will begin to pull away towards the

east and then we'll see the line of thunderstorms stretch all the way down into the northern portions of greece there towards the west generally a bit quieter for many of us here and towards the northwest still cooler with a top temperature in london of around nineteen degrees now for the other side of the mediterranean largely fine and dry for most of us here but still quite hope force in tunis we're about thirty eight degrees there on tuesday and on wednesday still very very high not quite as high for snow is here we're getting to around thirty one towards the east hot forcing cairo as well up around thirty seven is the central belt of africa there where we have the majority of the showers at the moment and that's what you'd expect at this time of year they gradually rumble their way towards the west coast and particularly heavy rain over the west coast of africa here it does look pretty wet at times some of those showers will be banding together to give some more prolonged outbreaks of right and further north we'll have just a handful of showers there are parts of nature and into mali. as

we embrace new technologies rarely do we start to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to become. an investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health conscious we think ok we're ways to china but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera.

time for a reminder of the main stories here and there there are reports that the founder of the prominent afghan armed group the haqqani network has died. created the group in the one nine hundred seventy s. it was then funded by the united states and for invasion of afghanistan. is affiliated with the taliban and al qaida. trains and flights are being suspended and evacuation warning sent out a. powerful typhoon there are warnings that the weather system could trigger floods and landslides in the southwest of the country. argentina is introducing a series of measures currency crisis the country's currency the. half its value against the dollar this year president. a government by half and says he'll cut public spending. now for weeks the main opposition labor party in the u.k.

has been embroiled in a rout anti semitism on to say the party's national executive committee is due to meet to decide on a definition of what exactly anti semitism means now some high profile m.p.'s are calling for their leader the veteran left winger jeremy corbyn to resign currently reports from london. who is jeremy colby is he as his fervent supporters believe the most moral politician in generations a man who spent his entire life campaigning for political justice for palestine or is he as equally fervent opponents allege a closet racist and anti semites who says there's a difference between criticizing israel and criticizing jews but he blows the lines between the two. is always been a split in the labor party on israel with one wing supportive of the palestinian struggle and another wing including many jewish labor party members who actively accept and support the existence of the state of israel but never before has that

split come to the surface like this because never before has there been a labor party leader so obviously pro palestinian. but the heart of it is labour's refusal to accept several examples of anti semitic language and views as defined by the international holocaust remembrance alliance or i h r a it is deemed for example anti semitic to say that jews are more loyal to israel than their own country or that the state of israel is by definition racist or that israeli government policies are like those of nazi germany corbin and his supporters claim this prevents them from properly criticizing israel's actions towards the palestinian people. a whole raft of labor party heavyweights like former prime minister gordon brown have demanded the policy clarify properly its position by falling into line with the i h r a at a time when the ruling conservative party is in a whole life of bricks its labor is tearing itself apart labor almost isn't

functioning as a coherent political entity at the moment within it it's not so much sort of you know moderates versus it's really what you see is a sort of warring fiefdoms so i'm quite smooth as the right wing against coburn there's a centrist against coburn there's even the left against coburn there are divisions within the leader's office there are influences from different parts of youth movements and trade unions things all very chaotic the other question is the effect it has on corbin's reputation the may only be three hundred thousand jewish people in the u.k. but repeat suggestions of the veteran and see racist make himself have a problem carry significant electoral risk liberal leaning voters labor supporting voters who think they're in a party or supporting a party which is anti racist and think they are themselves onto racist and don't want to be supporting a party which appears to be always claim to be anti semitic labor's national executive is under enormous pressure finally to change its policy though so angry

is the mood in the powerful left wing but it isn't a foregone conclusion labor remains a policy has membership of the leader but his politicians are deeply divided on the al-jazeera long. venezuela will start using a new electronic payment scheme at petrol stations located on the border it's an effort to stop the smuggling of fuel president nicolas maduro said last month that gasoline prices currently the lowest in the wode should rise to international levels but critics say there's no way people can afford to pay the same price as drivers in other countries like in the u.s. hyperinflation is expected to reach a million percent by the end of the year. mexico's outgoing president has delivered his last state of the union address and pena nieto defended the achievements made during his six years in office but he made no mention of the corruption scandals that have plagued his presidency john home reports out from mexico city.

it's a good boy suit for one of the most unpopular president since approval polls began admits kirk. hinrich opinion it was last day of the nation address was a chance to defend six years marked by corruption scandals record level violence in his favor modernizing reforms of the education energy and telecommunications to the latter was inevitably what he focused on that a pharmacist to corral is so the reforms are without doubt the biggest achievement of this administration and our biggest contribution to mexico's future. they came during his honeymoon period when time magazine feted him as mitt's crew savior the seemed able to pull the country's parties together to get things done is now in the glossy videos playing out his greatest hits can't hide the sense that for years things have been going wrong but it started on

a rainy night in the are forty three students kidnapped by the police in league with gary they were never found alive the country was traumatized opinion here to address the crisis reluctantly with a food investigation a conflict of interest scandal over this luxury house quickly followed more skeletons began to fall out the closer i think that it was the top of the iceberg i mean unfortunately ministration characterized by several corruption practices and the use. of teachers' payroll in the media use of funds for fighting poverty and several construction projects all of the time. there is impunity and corruption for those who hope. for a modernizing leader it seemed instead like miss kampala ticks as usual in a meeting suddenly nothing could go right some of the reforms got bogged down president trump began sparring with pena nieto over trade deals in his proposed border wall and most importantly boylan's began to soar he finishes his term with

the highest murder rate on record. i'm aware that we didn't manage to bring peace and security for mexicans in every corner of the country. polls show just two out of ten minutes can stink he's done a good job and his once powerful pre-partition screws oldest languishes in place in congress in first is the fledgling party of this man president elect and his mother will look this up at the old takes over december promising to transform mexico just as pena nieto once did john home and now does either city. police in brazil have fired tear gas at protesters outside what's left of the national museum in rio de janeiro. the demonstrators demonstration came after the massive fire destroyed the two hundred year old

building protests as a public institutions have been chronically underfunded there are reports that the building didn't have a sprinkler system and police are investigating the cause of the blaze the brazilian president has promised to rebuild the museum. a prominent opposition figure in the democratic republic of congo will not be allowed to run in the upcoming presidential elections here bender's appeal was thrown out because of a case against him at the international criminal court he is due to be sentenced for bribing witnesses during a war crimes trial that ended two years ago he was released from prison in the hague last month after a separate conviction for crimes against humanity was overturned. messages around the world struggle with air pollution hundreds of campaigners and scientists are gathering in south korea to find new ways to tackle the crisis while the spotlight has been on cities like new delhi in beijing hong kong is also suffering

high levels of pollution mcbride reports a group of activists is trying to find new ways for people to reduce their exposure to pollution. and awareness event by air pollution campaigners in a city that is becoming aware of the growing danger. this hong kong like much of mainland china has been experiencing record levels of ozone a complex mix of pollutants from vehicles and industry that's made worse during heat waves and a problem not helped by climate change. has the highest level. for the last two decades and right now we do not know how to deal with that and it is a problem for hong kong and. polluted air has long been endured as the necessary cost of rapid economic development that's only recently been tackled they just lation

has been passed to control the industrial emissions as well as from vehicles and shipping and there's a drive towards using renewable sources of energy instead of coal. cities like beijing have been enjoying far more so-called blue sky days critics say the chinese and hong kong governments have been forced to act for fear of social discontent if they didn't but the outcome for china's cities has been the same after years of deteriorating air quality finally signs of improvement i think the political climate has changed a lot and there is a lot of talk about how our pollution being not acceptable. leads a university team that has developed a mobile app giving real time pollution readings at street level anywhere in the city. people can then plan their daily routines to be as pollution free as possible . then they have

a set of information they can choose our i think that will give them some help in trying to win their exposure to air pollution scientists and activists helping to empower a generation of city dwellers increasingly concerned about the air they breathe. but bright al-jazeera hong kong. tens of thousands of people have attended an anti racism concert in the german city of chemnitz in response to a week of anti immigration rallies by far right groups under the banner there were more of us the crowd carried anti racism placards and chanted nazis out several rock bands performed. this internationally destructive we are not a far right city the majority of the population is totally normal democratically civilised but not far right for god's sake we don't want that we don't want such people absolutely again this is absolutely fantastic because after people came next

we have to show that our city is open to everyone that we have no sympathy happened in recent days. and so it's clear i think it's cool that so many people will come here to support him and. travis take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera there are reports that the founder of the prominent afghan armed group the haqqani network has died. in her county created the group in the one nine hundred seventy s. it was funded by the us and force against the soviet invasion of afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. gelatine son is now the most senior taliban commander in the group. trains and flights are suspended and evacuation warnings have been sent out as japan is hit by a powerful typhoon it's called j.b.

and it's expected to bring with it heavy rains and winds of more than two hundred kilometers an hour japan's already in judaic stream weather this year with flooding and then a heatwave which killed hundreds of argentina is introducing austerity measures to stem its currency crisis the country's currency the passer has lost more than half its value against the dollar this year president. has slashed the size of government by half and says he'll cut public spending and increase export taxes and egyptian court has extended the detention of an opposition activist who called for protests against president up to fattah el-sisi massoud was arrested on all this a twenty fourth is being held on charges of inciting demonstrations venezuela will start to use new electronic payment schemes at petrol stations located on the border is an attempt to stop the smuggling of fuel president nicolas maduro said last month that gasoline prices currently the lowest in the world should rise to

international levels police in brazil have fired tear gas at protesters outside what's left of the national museum in rio de janeiro the demonstration came after a massive fire destroyed the two hundred year old building protesters say public institutions have been chronically underfunded police are still investigating the cause of the blaze. a prominent opposition figure in the democratic republic of congo will not be allowed to run in the upcoming presidential election. appeal was thrown out because of a case against him at the international criminal court those are the latest headlines i'll be back in half an hour after inside story. getting to the heart of the matter unless we have new generations growing up to understand better our relationship with the natural world then soon there will be nothing left facing reality or our friends and allies played

a positive role in preventing any institution from taking the piss poor their story on talk to al-jazeera. politics of the us is just cutting millions of dollars and for the assistance to pakistan it says islamic god is not doing enough to fight. washington using a as a foreign policy tool and one of the consequences this is inside story. i don't welcome to the program of the parana the united states has pockets father's failing to take action against armed groups including the taleban washington says some of them operate with then pakistani borders and it wants the government of new prime minister imraan khan to do more but also says it will end a planned three home.