in the beginning we weren't harassed but at a later stage were constantly being monitored so we got scared that they might send us back to me and mar since we didn't want to go there we decided to cross the border through here refugees describe a campaign of fear mongering harassment and intimidation that's terrifying people enough to abandon their lives in india and sneak into bangladesh that has been a campaign against where he is by these hidden google groups to create an impression that there are terrorists and therefore there have been attacks on these . as india's ruling party says the rowing does have no right to demand refugee status and india is not a signatory to the one nine hundred fifty one refugee convention there is a security aspect old school with regard to their linkages with dangerous terrorist groups that are in the middle to india unfoldment and by all based out of pakistan and the last part is that in the end of the day that these citizens are also

leading to problems with the local community it's been three months and become enter family are adjusting to home inside this sprawling refugee camp hush study argue we thought that over there as well as here we are facing many difficulties. despite the hardships of refugee life she and other recent arrivals from india say they're experiencing something new the comfort of being surrounded by other rohingya does and a peace that comes with living in a muslim country natasha going to name el jazeera cox's bazaar bangladesh. yemen is facing a severe water crisis with some estimates suggesting the capital some oil could run dry in less than ten years of the nineteen million people or more than a half of yemen's population have no access to clean water has the story. these children in yemen should be in school but they are here instead of getting

water for their families this is what they do every day. eleven year old mata's used to be in the fourth grade but he was forced to drop out to do this i learned that i am a good though water comes and goes in the morning hours sometimes and i used to be in school so now i come here to get water for my family instead of concentrating on my school and i want to continue my education and tired of this work. this water collection point is helping many families in the capital sanaa but there is another problem here the threat of cholera. and all these people here have been infected. cholera is a waterborne disease that is transmitted through contaminated water and food symptoms include acute diarrhea and vomiting if left untreated death can occur within hours as. outbreak of corn or ice attributed to contaminate the water

unprotected walls outdoor food vendors are not a factor we have vice people to use clean sanitized water. clean water is hard to come by since the war began in two thousand and fifty the u.n. says two thirds of the population does not have access to safe drinking water and i believe. we have been using wanted from a well for a long time we were doing fine then all of a sudden i suffered severe diarrhea and vomiting i was later told i had cholera because of dirty water. while this conflict goes on international aid agencies are asking for more help as well as a long term political solution for millions of struggling yemeni. dorsett apart al-jazeera. taxi drivers are back on the streets of madrid protesting against services like they say rival drivers who ride handing out complete unseriousness they don't space the same regulations and costs protest as

a block to main roads in the capital and the barcelona with their part to cause. that as well as president nicolas maduro has ordered a revision of diplomatic relations with the united states that's in response to u.s. vice president mike pence declaring support to government demonstrators and opposition leaders as more. energized protest is in caracas rally the a movement hoping to push the president from power. out with the usurper as unrest happened last year our armed forces the country soldiers many of them began to demonstrate their own happiness and today there are over four hundred officers in jail who have been tortured simply for raising their voices against the regime has broken the constitutional order. venezuela's opposition has momentum over the weekend twenty seven soldiers rebelled against the government they were later to tank by security forces. and on monday they moved through caracas the streets with

pots and pans a statement that reverberated all the way to the white house by mike pence the vice president of the united states. and on behalf of president donald trump and all the american people let me express the unwavering support of the united states is you the people of venezuela raise your voices in a call for freedom nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power he's never won the presidency in a free and fair election and he's maintained his grip of power by imprisoning anyone who dares to oppose him while protesters and the opposition have a powerful enough vocal ally but countered with a t.v. address of his own he warned vandals who attempt to cultural seem to named off the role of sara the late socialist politician i only remember that they're going to capture them all they all went to prison and that's from

a penalty for the fascists hard hand to hand of steel the jurors vice president then took direct aim at the us always base and that is simply because mr pence doesn't have a job now he wants to come and run venezuela handing out instructions on what should happen in venezuela openly calling for a coup d'etat in venezuela i will say it like the venezuelan people would say to you yankee go home. on wednesday the race or it will be challenged on the streets it's the end of the story of the full of venezuela's military government in one thousand nine hundred fifty eight the opposition marks it with nationwide matches but they say this year it's mature who needs to go. ballasts al-jazeera. teachers in los angeles returned to work on wednesday after walking off the job more than a week ago more than thirty thousand striking teachers reached a deal with the second largest school district in the u.s. on tuesday the agreement will see stuff receive an immediate six percent pay rise

and significant class size reductions as the first time and a teacher's have taken strike action in thirty years. the u.s. senate will vote on thursday on competing bills to end the month long partial government shutdown is the longest in u.s. history with hundreds of thousands of federal workers going without a paycheck the political deadlock began over funding for president trump's proposed border war with mexico mike hanna has more from washington d.c. will read a communication to the senate in this largely partisan battle the faint flicker of a compromise senate leaders agreed to put two competing bills to the vote on thursday on saturday president tropp rolled out a bold comprehensive offer one drawn up by republicans mirrors the suggestion made by president trump this weekend the plan includes five point seven billion dollars providing funding for the beria along with temporary protection for those in the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. and

a three year extension of temporary protected status a proposal. president trump that will consider here in the senate is the only proposal the only one currently before us that can be signed by the president and immediately reopen the government. but the proposal has been rejected by the democratic party leadership the president and his team have tried to spin this proposal as a reasonable compromise with concessions to democrats that defies credulity the second bill is similar to those passed by the democrat controlled house. which provides short term funding for the department's now shut down but excludes any provision for the wall this would require the backing up at least thirteen republican senators to meet the sixty vote threshold ny the bill is likely to pass the senate despite another plea by the leader of the house open government open the government let's talk cannot have the president and the time he has an

objection to say i'll shut down the government until you come to my way of thinking and as the shutdown drags on a public plea by the f.b.i. agents association the f.b.i. needs to be fully funded so that we can do our jobs stop the terrorist attacks prevent criminal activity arrest bad guys that's what we do. we need to do that to keep this country safe we want their paychecks are due at the end of the week but yet again all indications are that more than eight hundred thousand government employees once again not receive them. mike hanna al-jazeera washington . and bush fires are raging across the australian state of tasmania where a heat wave has brought record temperatures firefighters of call them air support to help control at least twenty seven fires burning across

a seven hundred twenty kilometer long stretch of. some people have been told to prepare for evacuation with strong winds and high temperatures expected in the coming days. the headlines here in al-jazeera sudan's president omar bashir held a meeting with to me been hammered out that. his visit to the gulf state comes during the longest anti-government protests of his time in office. says the two leaders discussed regional issues come home to a lot of as it's known qatar at the moment is heading efforts to energize initiatives in darfur after many past successes that resulted in the doha agreement qatar is now once more bringing to the negotiating table those parties in dar for which did not sign the agreement last time will sudan this is one of the key issues

that qatar is looking into achieving peace and stability in sudan as the wife of an activist arrested in sudan is pleading for the government to release a husband so it needs american right one would was detained by security agents a week ago in the sudanese capital khartoum his wife nancy told al-jazeera he was preparing to take part in a demonstration the very next day. thailand's king has issued a royal decree endorsing the first general elections and the twenty fourteen military coup elections will be held on march twenty fourth. the voting has been delayed several times by the military which is clamp down on dissent and free speech. a car bombs exploded in the northern syrian city of a free and it happened near a base for a rebel group that's backed by turkey. is allied with the free syrian army at least three of its fighters were killed. turkish president russia type early ones in

moscow for talks on syria with the russian president vladimir putin trying to find common ground despite backing opposing sides in the conflict syria's opposed to turkey's goal of creating a safe zone the two countries shared border a move which would mean more turkish troops in northern syria. thousands are expected to protest in venezuela for a second day against president nicolas maduro u.s. vice president mike pence says his government supports the demonstrators and responsible juror ordered a revision of diplomatic relations with the u.s. . and the u.s. senate will vote on thursday on bills that if passed could end the month long partial government shutdown is the longest in u.s. history hundreds of thousands of federal workers going without a paycheck. well those are the headlines that is going to be on al-jazeera of the inside story straight from them so much and by the.

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 stories. 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 i did state 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 underway in katara between u.s.

and taliban representatives but hours before those talks began in doha the taliban fighters launched one of their most daring attacks in recent months a gun and bomb raid on an afghan intelligence and military base southwest of kabul that killed dozens of security personnel many are now looking to see if the timing of the attack coming on the eve of those talks could have an impact on negotiations there have been several efforts to bring the taliban to the negotiating table but the armed group has repeatedly refused to hold direct talks with the afghan government and stat its insistent on the go shaded with the u.s. with the primary goal of forcing foreign troops out of the country at the request of the us the taliban opened an office in doha in two thousand and thirteen to facilitate talks the us has shifted its policy last year and said it was ready to hold direct talks with the taliban and discussed the role of international forces around the talks took place in the u.a.e. last month before officially resuming in qatar this week.

let's bring in our guests now in kabul omar zakhilwal he is a former president's special representative to be an afghan ambassador to pakistan in islamabad and school head of the center for research and security studies and in washington david said a former deputy u.s. assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan and pakistan thank you all for joining us i appreciate it very much i'm going to start with you well the timing of this attack what message do you think the taliban is trying to send. it's not a very good message because. talks need to in an environment. that is more conducive in violence reduction would be the right response but unfortunately the attack yesterday was to the contrary. but had the same time it's

important that this does not relieve the ongoing talks and that we focus forward with this ok same question to you empty as well what message do you think the taliban will was trying to send doing this and at the time that they did it i think being a party to the conflict being one of the decoder they just wanted to underline their own strength on the ground they just sent a message to all and sundry. whatever the government think of them they can still penetrate as far as even the intelligence and security facilities of the government and this is basically going to score the strength on ground right now in david m.t.s. brings up a good point not just not just this attack but specifically the target just all of that together what type of message do you think they're trying to send. well i think it is actually quite common when talks are underway for those involved in

a conflict to try to gain advantage in particular the weaker side tries to melt attacks in order to maximize that strength in this case the taliban or are clearly the weaker side and this attack is part of their effort to strengthen their position as they go into talks with other message this texans is that the real target of the taliban is the afghan government and afghan security forces while the taliban rhetoric has been that this is about foreign troops and u.s. presence in fact those who have been killed by the taliban are overwhelmingly afghan and over the last four years since the u.s. basically drew down most of its troops in afghanistan the taliban have increasingly been targeting afghan security forces so this is actually a two pronged message by the taliban first they want to get stronger in case talks go forward but second they're sending a message to afghans that you are the target and we're going after afghans so what's what has been seen as one of the sticking points one of two major sticking

points is what should be the release of taliban prisoners and their insistence that u.s. troops leave you're saying you think that's a bit of a pretense for what they're really after. yes clearly the taliban have not yet made a decision over whether they want victory or whether they want peace through to go shia actions so far their stance in the negotiations has been that they want victory in the negotiations by marginalizing eradicating the existing afghan government in power structure they would be happy to do that by violence which is what their primary tactic is if they can achieve the same result through negotiations they're happy to do that once the taliban decide that their goals are better served by peace talks they will sit down and talk to the other afghans but right now there i would say they're basically afraid to do that because they know if they sit down with other afghans they would have to have real discussions about the real future of their country which i don't think the taliban is prepared to do yet ok m.c.s.

do you agree with that that this is what the taliban is after is really much more targeted towards afghans and afghan government and much less about a u.s. presence there. what i think it's a political struggle or a political fight that the taliban have launched and for them the primary interlocutor is the united states which is footing the bill of the entire government and the security forces and i think just because the american troops are saw in saluted to the security color that the afghans provide. very logically the first victim in the first we basically are the of on security forces that's why increasingly we have seen much bigger casualties among the afghan forces rather than those of the united states the u.s. marines so promote only i think they are going about their mission and the mission is to force the american troops out of afghanistan and this is this has been their

stated demand as well and in fact the yesterday the message from the taliban spokesperson was also that the talks are specifically aimed at extracting a deadline for the american pullout from of understand omar i'm going to get to you in a minute but i want to circle back to david if your despair with me for a moment is david i could see that i think you took a little bit of exception to some of what empty asset. yes i always appreciate being on a panel with just him to as go he and i have spoken on panels before i respect his views but i think in this case the statement that the primary target are security forces is not borne out by the facts the primary target of the taliban over the last four years has been afghan civilians the people that the afghan taliban have killed the most are afghan civilians by far the afghan security forces are sometimes the target and this attack yesterday was clearly an attack at on afghan

security forces but the people who have borne the brunt of this are the afghan civilians many more of them have been killed and wounded and the fact the taliban are killing so many afghan civilians has led most of the afghan people to reject the taleban which puts the taliban in a difficult position when they want to seize power over a nation where over eighty percent of the people oppose them omar which it would you like to weigh in on this. well one. this attack may not have the full approval of the. entire leadership or the entire relevant custody of the taliban. whenever there are peace talks and there will be groups within taliban who oppose such talks in the believe in their military victory and it's not the first time that when there are hopes for talks and then there are some initial steps violence has mounted and therefore yesterday's attack

goes into maligns and therefore is not an exception that's one second. targets of opportunity than targets soft targets and all that if they come their way they have taken advantage of those before in certainly yesterday was again not an exception this was to them. in opportunistic move may be may be timed with peace talks maybe it wasn't we don't really know but they did take advantage of the opportunity in there that sector deadly. attack in on that and i do agree with what david that over the past many years because the u.s. forces. the number has significantly reduced and and therefore because what it is but. no doubt. also at the end there's a pressure on the u.s.

forces in the u.s. government as well. but for them to prove that their military strength and all that that's already been recognized we're talking peace with the taliban not because they're the most love groups but because they're a fighting force that force has been recognizing this precisely we have negotiated with the peace. david what. what of patience as the taliban have to actually negotiate i mean so far they control roughly about half of the country what what reason do they have to negotiate and compromise. well first of all let me clarify that you say they control almost half the country the taliban control a lot of the rural areas they control certain amount of land but while the taliban have maybe increased the amount of land that they control they actually control less people whenever the polygon move in their plan to leave and at the same time

afghanistan is becoming a more urbanized society so the taliban control less of the people in the end a war is about people so the taliban control less people now than they did four years ago but you asked what a change what's changed apparently is the role of pakistan the talks that are going on in doha right now are accompanied by a visit by pakistani premier imran khan to doha at the same time the u.s. special negotiator left pakistan the other day saying he expected more steps from pakistan david actually u.s. central command meeting with general bhagwat today actually we have a depends on pakistan i actually have a quote i was i was going to mention that i'm glad she referenced it and mr hill actually said and after he left pakistan we're heading in the right direction with more steps by pakistan coming that will lead to concrete results i think it is kind of pick up on that point in a minute bring you in on this is well and he has in a moment david how key is pakistan to this i think pakistan is vital. prime

minister imran khan has made discussions in the peace negotiations an important part of his platform from well before he was elected he is committed to this that there's been a lot of resistance to negotiations in the past from pakistani security force.