that highlights the human triumph against the odds. i could afford four hundred people it was you know he had to be on time to save young compared aco keep it up because everybody wants out is there a selects. one of the worst taliban attacks in seventeen years of war in afghanistan raises questions over peace talks with the united states. maria and this is the world news from reports of beatings against activists in sudan as protests against president omar bashir gained momentum as hundreds of

thousands of refugees waits to be moved to their new home the u.n. gets the green light to visit the place that's been likened to a prison and the race is officially on we will find out who is in the running for this year's academy. so details are emerging of one of the worst taliban attacks in seventeen years of the war in which at least sixty five afghan intelligence and security personnel were killed it is feared the final death toll could actually be much higher the suicide bomb and gun attack happened at night in shah the capital of wardak province on monday just a day before peace talks began between taliban representatives and u.s. officials here into more from. it's one of the worst attacks by the taliban says the group was pushed from power by u.s.

forces in late two thousand and one a suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into a military compound what followed was condit's officials and witnesses say several dozens of people have been killed me. it was a very dangerous incident and the sound of the explosion was very loud the windows of our house and other houses close to the area were broken and the wounded ones were taken to different hospitals here and leak out of. the facility is a brand by an elite intelligence unit in charge of training tribesman to fight the taliban. the attack is another indication of the armed groups growing influence last year taliban fighters launched a series of attacks across the country including a suicide bomb attack in the capital kabul in january at least one hundred people

were killed mostly civilians analysts believe the taliban is increasing its attacks to gain more leverage in crucial talks with u.s. diplomats in qatar what we had today in my down shot was a tit for tat forward the united states in the afghan government is doing to the taliban so the taliban are i think they're coming out of that hibernation pretty year they're trying to carry on the same policy where do going to inflict damage to the african government and its international counterpart and talks are underway in doha where the taliban has a political office u.s. special representative for afghan peace zalmai is meeting senior taliban members here the talks underway to find an and to the war in afghanistan and establish a unity government the u.s. envoy recently toured the region seeking help from allies including pakistan and in

many ways the role of pakistan is key the u.s. a negotiator ambassador zalmay hollows was just in pakistan for several days before he went to doha and the pakistani prime minister imran khan is visiting doha as well it's not. clear exactly what role pakistan is playing but they may be playing a newly positive role what's peace won't be easy the taliban does not recognize the government in kabul and insists peace talks will only start when foreign troops leave afghanistan. a little earlier i spoke to a security analyst. who is in kabul he told us both sides are trying to increase their leverage the problem with negotiation is. when we have a negotiation it's not only limited to afghanistan it's a bit we should not expect reduction in violence it is possibility for

increase in awhile and even if we have. to try to increase the leverage there do su by increasing while and i believe that the regional countries. also have a role to play in negotiating in negotiation. about the stand but finally it comes to people and it should be the afghan people and it is people who has the potential to resolve the problems international community u.s. and other states. can play it rolled up mediation but they are not the actual people to resolve the problem so it should be that good people taliban and i'm going to go to mention should come together and they should talk to each other to resolve the problem to other news in a car bombs exploded in the syrian city of latakia and there are reports of casualties there is this footage of bullets from state t.v.

there showing the extent of the damage an attack just a few days after another explosion hit damascus apparently targeting security officials in a hotel with more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. two bomb attacks in the past three days the bombings in government controlled territories tuesday's bombing in sunday's bombing in damascus south of the syrian capital that attack was believed to have been a targeted assassination a security personality it is still not clear whether or not he was injured or killed it is very hard to get information out of government controlled territories but the bombings are really an indication that the situation is still not stable but the question is how is this happening after the government managed to push the opposition push away from areas under their control last year they've they managed to regain a lot of territory pushing the rebels up to the north so how can the opposition

operate behind rebel lines so it calls really into question the ability of the government to maintain security in sixty percent of the territories it controls but if you watch the area and state television analysts immediately predicted that this there's a new phase in the conflict they're talking about the possibility of more bombings and and that the situation is going to destabilize further now many in the opposition will say this is the government's way of keeping people on their side to scare them and to tell them that your best option is to continue to support us because public discontent discontent really is growing inside government controlled territories because the government has been unable to provide them with fuel prices are rising and there are no jobs so it's a really a very very difficult situation for the government and yes they control sixty percent of the country but they still do not have the legitimacy from the outside world and clearly from these attacks not all is well. protesters a bank on the streets of sudan. a result of

a government's crackdown on dissent student activists in the council khartoum a demanding the resignation of president bashir your position. seven people have been killed since these protests began last. a month in the government raise the price of bread and demand government activist in sudan's gone missing sources have told our. world that was arrested by security agents he was last seen on wednesday when he went shopping in the capital more and all of this with him or morgan. what happened is of students from the university of what they are here and for the two of them came out early this morning and protested against the president on one of the shia who as he said is not currently in the country but they were very keen and very determined to continue protesting if not for the response to by the probe by the security forces tear gas was once again fired at the students inside the university campus and they were complaining about difficulty breathing something we've heard from protesters who have been demonstrating over the past four weeks people have been thing that secreted forces were responding using excessive brutal

forest road streaming live an emission and tear gas being fired at protesters to try to disperse them people have been injured opposition groups say forty seven have been killed but activists who've been tracking this say at least fifty people have been killed since the protests started now the government is this beating that figure they say only twenty seven have been killed and that the figures that the activists are giving is not true but there are also people who have been arrested and the government said there were a state eight hundred sixteen sixteen people but activists again want to get to say that at least one thousand people have been arrested including an american asad needs american activist who was arrested went to nothing as he said on wednesday and we spoke to his family al-jazeera spoke to his family and they say people who were arrested with him and later released have reported that he has been severely beaten and desperate need of medical attention zimbabwe's human rights commission is accusing security forces of systematic torture after recent protests that turned violent president. is calling for a national dialogue to address the protests over rising living costs condemned the

demonstrations which he said were not peaceful but he did also criticize the police response he said zimbabwe's president. he said let's just check what he said violence or misconduct by a security forces is unacceptable and a betrayal of the new zimbabwe chaos and insubordination will not be tolerated misconduct will be investigated if required heads will roll. when i got my those comments just hours after cutting short his trip abroad where he'd been seeking foreign investment in the time he was away there activists say twelve people have been killed and more that was shot at us. zimbabwe's president emerson men and descended the steps of his least seven eight seven day james this is one of the world's most luxurious private planes he had used it for a fundraising mission to russia and kazakhstan.

meninga took off ten days ago just hours after stunning zimbabwe ends with the news he was doubling fuel prices due to an economic crisis on the tarmac the man he had left in charge vice president general constantino chewing. people demonstrated against the fuel hike to ingo oversaw a government crackdown on protesters were killed many more were shot by security forces more than six hundred people have been arrested the latest high profile arist was jeff at morio the head of the main trade union confederation he organized a general strike last week as proteus whip the country the government also shut down the internet only people with something to hide shut down the internet only people who are up to no good sat down people's rights to express in to sharing information to shedding light on a situation on monday the high court ruled the internet blackout illegal and

demanded it be restored nationwide the director was issued by the minister we have no power in terms of enabling x. to issue such a directive the power to issue a directive in terms of the interceptions of communications was it is there through the president himself nor are the president's men in power from up mugabi just over a year ago he promised to revive the shattered economy but it still struggling the decision to double fuel prices was his. to months of shortages that's what drivers queue for hours to fill up essential like brayden medicine have also been hard to find. this in barbarian economy has collapsed and even with the president back it won't help the situation won't change years although he has the people and you must also realize that is a. manager of fifteen sixteen million people as many. from what's known as the dream get some bob owens watch to see if he can deliver

and aims to the economic and now security concerns shalah ballasts al jazeera the thoughts now of mccann. who is the executive director at the zimbabwe human rights commission she told us the government must provide compensation for the victims of police brutality police in the military way in a lot of. the citizens in particular they raided people night dragging people out mostly young men who were found in those houses beating them up and also admitting some of those. we arrived at these conclusions mainly through our investigations and interacting interaction with members of the public if the commission we've got to mandates to investigate. men rights violations in the country and it was through the implementation of this mandate that we managed to going to the various areas where they did step in this

took place is well it's in their various courts my state schools in the country where the alleged perpetrator of this violence we're actually being tried. in the news ahead we will tell you why a treaty between france and germany is actually sponsoring opposition from the far right. welcome to another look at the international full costs the weather's gen reset there across the middle east no great surprises there but some places a plow pulling away from the region he said there was of afghanistan to understand have got to stop pushing up all the way actually into was back in style at class is moving away so dry weather coming back in behind top a decentralized on single biggest two degrees outs the full couple subzero and

pushed further west where we do have a lot of fun and dry weather just around the events by route eighty degrees of rain will not it's way towards cyprus as we go on through a day but generally speaking it does stay settled and sunny as is the case you can see through much of iraq iran pushing back over towards afghanistan karate getting up to twenty three celsius so it's happened so we can expect here in qatar high of twenty three celsius on wednesday so those temperatures well up on the sort about as we saw last week get a nine ten degrees up on was actually twenty five celsius there in riyadh we could get a very pleasant twenty four here in pleasant from mozambique we have still got the well the remnants of the troubles to find desmond now pushing its way up towards malawi there's more cloud following behind.

if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this race is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no limit i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pave the roads. we don't want to be realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing on al jazeera. stories for you here on al-jazeera and a car bomb has exploded in here in syria just days after another explosion apte in

damascus targeting apparently security officials protesters back on the streets to sit down as anger grows over the government's crackdown on dissent the opposition says forty seven people have now been killed since demonstrations began last month when the government raised the price of bread. and zimbabwe's human rights commissions accusing security forces of systematic torture after recent protests that turned violent prison amazon and used twitter to condemn the demonstrations which he said were not peaceful but he did also criticize the place for its. well hundreds of thousands of americans haven't been paid for a month now as this partial government shutdown hits the thirty one day mark that is the largest government shutdown in history with airport workers and coast guard agents among many others going without a paycheck even still president and the democrats appear no closer to ending the political deadlock over the funding for a proposed wall along the border with mexico. are there any developments kimberly

how could in washington i'm hearing news concerning the supreme court can you take us through that. yeah how does the supreme court and the government shutdown relate well here's how over the weekend donald trump had offered his part have negotiations with the democrats to try and reopen the government that he might extend what sort of doc and that is that obama era program to allow essentially those that were brought to the united states illegally as children they've grown up and worked here all their lives the protections that were put in place by the obama administration but the trumpet ministration has tried to end while he was doing this we also know the justice department had requested that the supreme court hear this case about sort of the effort by the trumpet ministration to end this program will the news coming out of the supreme court in just the last couple of hours or so is that the supreme court said look we're not going to hear this case we're not

going to fast track it what this means is the administration essentially had asked if this could be heard in april and then have a ruling by june the court said no we're going to hear it in the fall at the earliest and then you could have a ruling sometime in the spring of twenty twenty as late as june this is something the administration had not been looking for so this is certainly good news for those seven hundred thousand that are protected by this obamacare program what this means is that protects them indefinitely at least until the court hears this case from deportation and also allows them to continue to work kimberly with regards to the actual shutdown the acute issue of the government being partially shut down. a couple of them about the service but it's almost starting to feel like brags that in that both sides is so firmly entrenched and don't want to move and it's like this the standoff can you can you see is there any new potential way through here.

you know i don't think the two sides are close but if we watched over the weekend and we're looking for subtle nuances there has been a little bit of movement certainly on the republican side they are still pushing for the funding for the wall but the fact that donald trump even suggested over the weekend extending the obama era program for daca recipients that i was just talking about that certainly is an incremental movement and on the democratic side nancy pelosi has said that she's not going to give any money for the border wall as donald trump has been requesting but in this latest proposal that they are playing to introduce there is money additional money for border security so what we're seeing here is both sides moving ever so incrementally this is not going to resolve it we're seeing the republicans also taking up legislation in the senate but this certainly is a hopeful sign but there's still a long way to go. to find the nuances because they are very hard to detect my

goodness can't believe how could so white house correspondent. there is a notable face missing from the world economic forum in davos switzerland this year and we've just been talking about him donald trump who canceled his visit to focus on issues that unlike the government shutdown james bays with us look now at what and what a big difference a year can make. one year ago when president trump arrived in davos the business world was already aware of the unpredictable nature of the u.s. is most unusual more than president most of the well read intellectually focused and strategically minded business leaders who attend this annual gathering could not be more different from donald trump a man who once ran casinos and arguably sometimes ran his empire as if he was in a casino yet when he came here he walked around the halls on a victory lap he was proud of a strong economy united states is doing fantastically well and he stated here as he

did many times elsewhere that he was most happy to be judged by one metric the stock market is smashing one record after another and has added more than seven trillion dollars in new wealth since my election. it didn't stay that way increased volatility at the end of the year meant two thousand and eighteen ended up the worst year on the u.s. stock market for a decade so would trump receive a similar reception if he was coming to davos this year i asked a leading economist i know it's quite different from last year he had just passed the big tax cut and they were about to increase spending now think for the economy in the short run was very positive and so there was a sort of a legitimate optimism about the u.s. economy a year ago what's become clear is that that was a short term boost not a long term boost and i think one has to look at the way financial markets have

behaved over the last several months as at least creating circumstances where a recession is probably more likely. than it would have been otherwise it's not just president trump the entire u.s. delegation stayed away from davos but the u.s. case was still made by video u.s. secretary of state mike pump a zero address delegates here he acknowledged that a downturn may be coming but he said the way to beat that downturn was rule capitalism he was invoking ronald reagan as say animal instincts when needed james pays out his era davus u.s. secretary of state might pompei i didn't get it but he did address the forum fire a video link using it as a platform to defend the policies of president trump no international body can stand up for a people as well as their own leaders can strong borders are key to strong nations

the so we keep our people safe and protect our sovereignty sturdy alliances built on key principles are key to shared security we need all nations to contribute to security imperatives president also knows that economic security is national security robust defenses aren't possible without healthy economies to undergird them. still with us media freedom has been a topic to discuss there as well and we've heard from marty baron who is the executive editor of the washington post who was speaking about the murder of his colleague jamal khashoggi one of the panels and says the world is simply not putting enough pressure on saudi arabia. we're disappointed with what the saudi government did first of all this was. walk into a diplomatic mission to obtain documents for his. imminent and marriage and he was brutally murdered murdered he was dismembered his body still hasn't been found the saudi government said from the beginning that he walked out freely that they did

nothing and we learned later that in fact he was he was murdered and and today we feel that there hasn't been full accountability for that for that murder and we don't feel that the u.s. government has brought enough pressure on the saudis we don't feel that other governments of brought enough pressure on the saudis because of this and i think that you know we have to take a look at well why was he murdered he was murdered for expressing an opinion and opinion that at times was contrary to the official opinion of the of the saudi government and we also have to look at well how do we know what actually happened there because the saudi government are richer than mislead the light about what happened what occurred there and the reason that we know about that is because of a free press a press that investigated this that which which was persistent that tried one earth the facts and did on earth the facts and then ultimately the saudi government needed to acknowledge that in fact

a team of individuals went from saudi arabia to turkey to istanbul with the express purpose of murdering murdering them and that's why we need a free press is to is to dig deeply and to hold people accountable and so we're dissatisfied along the way obviously dissatisfied with a brutal murder and horrified by beautiful brutal murder of one of our colleagues dissatisfied that the world. is not bringing enough pressure on a government that engages the those kinds of activities. the un special rapporteur on human rights and me and mon has been given permission to visit an island where rank of refugees will soon be how young he will visit. our island in bangladesh on thursday in uninhabited area that will be home to more than one hundred thousand remaining refugees who fled the right script comparing conditions on the island to a prison and the name has more now from the long refugee camp in bangladesh then

the. host. of the largest refugee in the world and the government. streaming over the border. at a rate of about forty thousand a year. on an elephant migration route and in less than two years the jungle has been heavily forested one of the solutions the government has to move about one hundred thousand. to a remote island. are about four hour boat ride from the mainland uninhabited. that is quite controversial you want. prices. for access. he is now

going to be allowed to take a cure and that will happen on thursday. too of course ended more than seven decades ago but on paper some countries like japan and russia still at war but a few hours ago. met in moscow to conclude the details of a fine life peace treaty most of the dispute revolves around sovereignty over the four of the could feel islands north of japan which the soviet union occupied at the end of the war and russia retains control over today or a challenge as more from moscow. this is shins are brought to me putin's twenty fifth meeting and talk about the korea lions the peace treaty has made up a good chunk of all of that we're still waiting for a breakthrough and the key to why there hasn't been one yet to be found and something that led to me putin said yes trade etc has been increasing between russia and japan but it hasn't increased enough hasn't increased qualitatively he said he basically points to the fact that there could be fifty percent more trade

after thirty billion so effectively what the russian president is saying is i am not seeing enough on the table from japan to make this worth my while it's more. concerned he would like to domestically be able to see the say that he was the one that won some of the kuril islands back from russia and signed a peace treaty for russia these islands are strategically important they effectively seal off the sea of our hearts which he would like to keep that way he doesn't want any of these islands falling into the western sphere of orbit it doesn't want them to become bases for for the american military so russia is much more happy with the status quo than japan is and to make it worth russia's while vladimir putin would like to see a lot more cash on the table a lot more trade being offered from japan funny nominees for the ninety first stand your cademy awards have been announced the ceremony which honors the best in the

film industry will be held next month and it is the film's roma and the favorite actually the nominations with ten nods each spoke to us earlier a professor of media and communications it's mary's college in california and says roma could actually be the first foreign language film to take best picture. it's an inclusive year it continues the chatter mees relative outreach to you know groups that it often ignored in the past. for example you know you have best picture nominee nominations for wiping out their black plantsman roma you know that this is a relatively close of academy to some degree you know and then there's also their usual kind of mean it's fair like rebooking bias which probably appeal to some of the older voters in their roma. family it seems and i think it has a great chance it's what's worked and it gets it is that it's a netflix film and it's you know a foreign language and no foreign language film has ever won best picture but this

could be the year they make history on it seems like roman is kind of well positioned. the director has been winning best director you know where it's everywhere he's predicted to win this one so i can it's almost a question of whether they're going to pair director with picture they split that a lot in this decade but maybe you know that they didn't split last last year. the headlines for you on al-jazeera a car bomb has exploded in lattakia in syria the blast is just days after another explosion have hit damascus apparently targeting security officials protesters back on the streets of sudan as anger grows over the government's crackdown on dissent the opposition says forty seven people have now been killed since demonstrations began last month when the government raised the price of bread and an anti-government activists in sudan's gone missing sources have told al-jazeera that

route one board was arrested by security agents it was all seen on wednesday when he went shopping in the capital hit morgan with more from cotton. protests and part of them will have already started some of the university students and what it's only the first of what's ennia came out to protest against president i'm going to be here and demand that he and his rule and step down now this has been going on for more than a month the biggest challenge to president obama to share since he came into power nearly thirty years ago and there doesn't seem to be any end to it but people have been very concerned about how security forces have been responding to the wave of protesters they've the people who are demonstrating say they're very peaceful there are armed and all they're trying to do is to get their message across to across the government that it should step down and hand over power to the interim independent council and to elections are held some bubblies human rights commission is accusing security forces of systematic torture after recent protests that turned violent president emerson used twitter to condemn the demonstrators and police that's a look at your headlines news our is after inside story.

a taliban attack in afghanistan killed dozens of security personnel on monday at the same time members of the armed through for holding talks to u.s. diplomat from qatar so is the taliban using a strategy of attacks and talks this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey afghanistan has been at war for much

of the past forty years and late two thousand one hundred states sent troops in response to the nine eleven attacks and the withdrawal of those troops has been one of the sticking points as talks going on.