same as democracy head to head on al-jazeera. india more planes strike targets along the border of pakistan administered kashmir as tensions over the disputed territory escalate. and confrontations between soldiers and protesters inside indian administered kashmir after raids on people suspected of being separatist leader. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martine dennis also coming out

north korean leader kim jong il and arrives in vietnam for his highly anticipated second summit with u.s. president donald trump. and iran's foreign minister a shock to the diplomatic world with a sudden resignation but there's no sign yet his boss will accept it. but first the narrated by indian fighter jets has further heightened tensions with pakistan which have been simmering since a suicide bombing in the disputed kashmir region pakistan's military tweeted these pictures showing what they said was deborah from the air strikes close to the border between pakistan and pakistan administered kashmir they say there were no casualties and there was no damage now this is all disputed by the indian foreign ministry which says it was targeting the armed group responsible for the february

fourteenth bombing which left more than forty indian paramilitary soldiers dead a ministry spokesman said many fighters from the group called a mohammed have been killed in the minutes danger a preemptive strike became absolutely necessary. in an intelligence led operation in the early hours of today india struck the biggest training camp of the gesture moment in balakot in this operation a very large number of gesture mama terrorists trainers senior commanders and groups of jihad these who being trained for free they in action were eliminated the government of india is firmly and resolutely committed to taking all necessary measures to fight the minutes of terrorism hence this nonmilitary preemptive action was specifically targeted at the junction mom of camp meanwhile inside indian

administered kashmir itself there's been a violent response to raids on the homes of people suspected of being separatist leaders let's go live out a fair shemale our correspondent in the indian capital new delhi so far as the indian government of no renderer may be fighting on two fronts both the foreign enemy as they would see it in terms of pakistan and indeed those that they describe as separatists within indian administered kashmir itself. that's true martine in indian administered kashmir the scenes we're seeing is clashes there were early morning raids by the national investigation agency against the so-called separatist leaders and there's a curfew was imposed on the region as well as the internet was shut off now a large group of protesters actually defied the curfew and went to the separatists homes where they clashed with security forces al-jazeera has spoken to people on

the streets there and they're feeling frustrated they're saying they don't want this fight between india and pakistan because they're simply caught in the middle they actually say that anytime anything happens it's not the governments of india or box on that suffer it's the people in kashmir as well as india and pakistan so they're really feeling upset from that they take the fallout from whatever action is taken from either side now interestingly though what we're hearing from governments baucus on is denying that there is any damage taking place india saying that there was but we're hearing from the indian side two different narratives as we heard from india's foreign secretary they call this preemptive that they had intelligence there was another suicide bombing coming and they also use the word nonmilitary using language directly meant to deescalate the situation and baucus time some analysts say that's why india hasn't provided its own proof to counter pockets don showing destruction on the jaish e mohammad camps operating on pakistan's territory but the other big reason is the

other narrative coming through is from the run the remove the india's prime minister at a televised pre-election rally just on tuesday itself he says that i fulfilled my promise and you are all in safe hands with me fez jamail that live in the indian capital new delhi thank you. well in the statement the pakistani foreign minister mehmood could actually warned india not to challenge his country he said pakistan reserves the reasonable right to respond and the right to self defense. his correspondent with more reaction now from islamabad. on a military spokesman major general. is going to be organizing a press conference within the next few hours on the foreign minister had already said that the nation should not be a. method. did

intrude. and. get on with. them. on the ground this particular. court ordered. august on is going to be showing that within the next twenty four hours to prove its point that there was indeed nor . did military. training on the ground it is going to be important to see how they are to react given the fact that. they very seriously. but also in his i'm a bad tyrant. is a strategic political columnist thank you very much indeed for joining us is that

still the case our correspondent there just pointing out that pakistani armed forces are. that is correct bargnani armed forces are pissed on their force pakistan's lended army and pakistan navy they're all on high alert in a high state of alert and that's number one number two as the world one of your correspondent. was that it was reporting that pakistan has said very clearly and this is what before minister of pakistan also reiterated that pakistan building spawn it by. time and place of its choosing said so i think it was the sorry to sorry to interrupt you but the indians are saying that they were responding to an intelligence led investigation that told them that they were preemptively striking at this group before they undertook

another attack against indian asset well this is very clear but as the pictures have clearly shown do d. is where the payload was released by the indian is a craft that had no housing project or there there was no you know company compound indicating the presence of any terrorists or other kind of but even ordinary residents so as we can see the picture right now coming on your television that there was no residential area and that your area or a camp of any kind so no difference claim stands if you could all right said no damage done no people hurt and no damage to infrastructure down shouldn't pakistan therefore just take the higher ground and resist the calls to respond. well here is the pakistani position and this is what i would also see that india

have euler good aka songs airspace august on being a sovereign country as declared by deep brown this profile of august on the screen bomb on just three days ago that if you india attacks august on the lark think we were deadly in it i think this has been made clear by the tone of struck by august on the situation is going to escalate in the next already four hours and it is a very dangerous situation no question and there is another news now that i have that the government the government of pakistan have someone from the meeting of national command authority that deals with the employment and the use of nuclear weapons and so so this is going to happen tomorrow right there in addition to many many steps including the design the shooting in place at the present time tatic visitors sorry to interrupt you thank you very much indeed.

the north korean leader kim jong il now has arrived in vietnam ahead of a second summit with the u.s. president donald trump the biggest priority is to reach an agreement on how to implement kim's promise to get rid of nuclear weapons and diplomatic editor jane spays reports from the vietnamese capital hanoi. kim jong il arriving in hanoi after a long journey by train from north korea all the way across china he's here for the latest stage of one of the most unusual diplomatic process has ever in two years it's ranged from the threat of imminent war made in the u.n. general assembly we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea to ten months later a face to face summit the first time the leaders of these two countries technically still at war had ever met and there was an instant bond. and then we fell in love

ok no really he wrote me beautiful letters and they're great let us. we fell in love even a former state department official from the obama administration was impressed i have a dozen criticisms of the trumpet ministration foreign policy from presidential impulsiveness to disrespect and misuse of dedicated public servants in the u.s. government on this particular issue i am willing to give president trump credit for trying something new he's not correct when he says that the plumber c. has never worked with north korea in fact it has produce positive results in the past but he is correct when he says it's never gotten us to the solution that we really want in the seven months since the singapore summit things have stalled

president trump on his way here on air force one tends to view events on how they'll be seen at home domestically from now north korea is one of his few wins a situation of imminent war has been turned to one of peace if not last thing peace he's unlikely to want to press the north koreans at this summit too hard in case he puts that at risk james zira noise. coming out next then find out why the u.k.'s main opposition leader looks like he's changing his mind about a second referendum. the vatican responds to the child sex conviction of one of the pope's closest advisers.

hello there the crowd is gathering in the northern parts of asia at the moment for take a. look at the satellite picture we can see the clouds making its way across north and south korea and working its way towards us in japan there's also a row of a lot to area of wet weather that's just to the south of our map that is still going to be there as we head through the day on thursday clowns working its way eastwards and it's popping up so the eastern parts of japan then a lightly to see some heavy rain but elsewhere is likely to be dry for many other positive pattern though and for south korea there's likely to be a good deal of cloud around for the west where they should be more in the way of bright weather temperatures will be rising beijing up to around fourteen degrees now that area of wet weather that we saw just sneaking into a child there is here over the southeastern parts of asia and it's still with us as we head through wednesday into thursday at times this will be giving us a pretty heavy downpours and it's fairly unusual at this time of year to see quite so much rain here from very should be draw our temperatures topping at around twenty five degrees a bit further south plenty of sunshine here for many of us in the philippines it

should be dry they could just be one or two showers in the northern parts of thailand but even here most of us will get away with a dry day the showers really for the south so for some of us in so much as through java and into borneo that's where the wet weather is now and for this day. everything we do is being analyzed it's being weighed and it's being measured i'm going to call a sponsor. and it's not just i phones that are slanted i mean most not fans of these days we are in a state of the universe that started something that was growing that i would rather take the risks to. the risks of digital dissidents on al-jazeera.

a reminder of two main stories here at al-jazeera india says its military has carried out air strikes close to the border between pakistan and pakistani administered kashmir the target they say was an armed group responsible for a suicide attack in the indian administers kashmir earlier this month. the north korean leader kim jong il has arrived in vietnam's capital ahead of a second summit with the u.s. president donald trump kim was greeted by a guard of honor after crossing into the country by train. that iran's foreign minister mohammed zarif has quit and it's being suggested that perhaps it was infighting between policies and political factions that may have been behind his

decision a majority of iranian m.p.'s meanwhile of sent a letter to president hassan rouhani urging zarif stay in the job he played a central role in brokering the twenty fifty nuclear deal between iran and a number of world powers mike hanna reports now from the united nations. this was a moderate face of a nation apparently seeking reconciliation with western powers mohamed was educated in the us and served as ambassador to the united nations before becoming foreign minister in two thousand and thirteen. he was the driving force in the intense negotiations with the west in nuclear powers that led to what became known as the joint comprehensive plan of action an agreement in which iran agreed to a limited sensitive nuclear activities and give access to international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. the deal now threatened

by the unilateral decision of president trump to no longer abide by it it's a bad deal it's a bad structure it's falling down should have never ever been made i blame congress i blame a lot of people for it but it should have never been made. in the months since the u.s. announcement there's been increasing criticism of the foreign minister by some elements in iran who had argued that it proved the foreign minister had been misled in negotiating the deal. a long time user of social media mohammed zarif was well aware that twitter is restricted in iran and announced his resignation on instagram which is widely available i think the generosity of the dia and courageous people of iran and respect to the fish also over the last sixty seven months he says i apologize sincerely for my inability to continue serving and

for all the shortcomings and flaws during the term of my service be happy and proud . the announcement came on the same day that syrian president bashar assad made a surprise visit to iran his first since the civil war broke out in syria eight years ago among those he met was a rainy and president hassan rouhani who's yet to confirm that you'll accept his foreign minister's resignation mike hanna al-jazeera well the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was one of the first to react he said good riddance to zary through as we mentioned was iran's leader. in those nuclear talks the israeli prime minister tweeted as long as i'm here iran will never acquire nuclear weapons . then there's a u.s. secretary of state might pump a if he had this to say we know does aris resignation wolfy if it sticks by the way he. adjusts front men for

a corrupt religious man here we know how my may makes all final decisions our policy is unchanged the regime must behave like a normal country and respect its people but here with me is correspondent also jabari who's reported extensively from iran. makes a point doesn't he it really does come down to the supremely hum an aide to decide as to what that reese fate will be but give us more of an idea of what response has been like to this news inside iran well there's been a mix reaction to this resignation first of all we have heard from one of the prover formis lawmakers in parliament harry saying that this is not a resignation the president should accept and also that there is no clear candidate to replace or if no moderate voice to take on this position and there is a sense that from within the foreign ministry right now that this resignation was

seen as pressure from the hardliners on serif and the entire got current government of the rouhani government and their failure to see through this nuclear agreement and any of the benefits it may have had for the economy so it's really a final push for them to get him out and see what they can do next within this current government so should we see nation if indeed it is confirmed as part of the u.s. trumpet ministrations campaign of maximum pressure against the iranian regime could he be a casualty of that no i think this is a casualty of power dynamics within the islamic republic as much as i'm sure the united states would love to think that they had a hand in this is really not the case had tried in the past to resign. privately and he didn't and i think he was under a tremendous amount of pressure given the failures of this administration the rouhani administration with the nuclear deal saying that their hardliners were

saying see we didn't get anything we wanted we didn't get what the americans promise so they cannot be trusted therefore carrying on this kind of foreign policy is no longer beneficial to the islamic republic so we need to move zarif aside and see what we can do in that so first of all we have the u.s. pulling out of this nuclear deal now we have the reef supposedly leaving it's falling apart is absolutely and many people in iran if you speak to them the general public believe this deal no longer exists for them it's something that's just a formality now they haven't seen any of the benefits that they've been promised things not only didn't get better they got so much worse inflation is over two hundred percent in the country their real has lost so much of its value over thirty percent of its value in the past two years so they really don't see any of the benefits and plus that things that iran has given up according to the iranians to be part of this nuclear agreement is something that they no longer accepts they also jabari thank you the high level negotiations to end afghanistan's seventeen

year war now in the second day senior taliban leaders are holding talks with the u.s. special envoy zalmay hard to hear and afghan taliban co-founder and political chief . is leading the discussions stephanie decker is a correspondent she has more from. the talks are expected to kick off in earnest on tuesday monday we saw a series of introductory meetings in a working lunch between the americans and the taliban delegation difficult issues on the table but certainly everyone we've spoken to when it comes to afghan watchers and analysts an ngo workers most of the people. in afghanistan are watching this closely and there is a feeling that perhaps this time something may be achieved however they remain difficult and complicated topics a nationwide ceasefire needs to be addressed and implement a timetable for the withdrawal of american troops around fourteen thousand remain

in afghanistan the americans are trying to get the taliban to speak to the afghan government this is something they have refused to do so far and also they want to get assurances that groups like isis which have been gaining ground in afghanistan and al qaida don't use it as a staging ground for future attacks so timetables need to be looked at logistics need to be looked at so i think we have to take a step back wait and see what can be achieved here over the next coming days and then whether that can be implemented and sustained in the ground in afghanistan. now in the u.k. speculation is mounting that the prime minister to resign may well move towards still laying bricks it which was due to happen in just over a month that she's due to give an update to follow a month later on tuesday meanwhile the main opposition labor party says it could support a second referendum on whether britain should leave the european union now that would be a significant u. turn for its leader jeremy corbin who's always resisted calls to put this hugely

divisive rex it is easy to another public event lawrence lee has the latest from london. for all these months the british prime minister to resign may has been stonewalling absolutely insisting that the u.k. will leave the european union on march twenty ninth either with her deal even though it's been not acceptable to parliament or with no deal at all but it now looks almost inevitable that she will basically fold on that and announce that there is going to be a delay of some time it's not clear exactly how long but the fear inside downing street is based on this that there are so many politicians even senior members of trees amaze own governments who are absolutely terrified of the u.k. leaving with no deal at all they're basically saying to resume a if you don't rule it out then we're all going to resign and so faced with that she's basically got no choice but to accept that there will be some sort of delay now the length of that delays unclear it may be that she only wants it to be a couple of months with

a view still to trying to get her deal through that might not be acceptable to the european union which is talking about twenty one months and it might not be acceptable to the majority of parliament either because they simply can't see the deal getting anywhere but it is a capitulation at the same time the labor party and jeremy corbyn is also shifting towards the r. but the idea of backing a second referendum and potentially an option not to leave the european union at all and that is just as big concession by jeremy called in because he wants to leave the european union as well but it all suggests the different solutions really to the same central issue this overwhelming fear inside parliament that the u.k. simply not ready to leave the e.u. without any trade arrangements and infrastructure any way of organizing its own economy with no deal and so a delay is looking more or less now inevitable and the idea of no deal is vanishing slowly over the horizon. the vatican has expressed its out most respect for

australia's judicial system after the conviction of a top cleric of child sex crimes it also says cardinal george pell has the right to defend himself to the last level he was found guilty of molesting two quiet boys at a cathedral in the city of melbourne in one nine hundred ninety six andrew thomas reports. he is the highest ranking member of the catholic church ever to be convicted of child sexual abuse cardinal george pell a former archbishop of sydney and of melbourne was most recently at the vatican in charge of the church's worldwide finances he was close to the pope now he's been found guilty of sexually abusing two choir boys in a cathedral in melbourne in the one nine hundred ninety s. having somebody of such high status in the church having been convicted it. gives a sense the district is moving in the right direction and no one's above the law

pell's personal disgrace comes on top of criticism of his handling of sexual abuse by others that he was in charge of investigating into the fourteen he gave evidence to a national inquiry into institutional sexual abuse in australia i was accused of helping to cover up the sexual abuse of priests pell gave his evidence by video link claiming he was too frail to travel from the vatican to australia but when multiple accusations were made against him personally he was compelled to come to australia to defend himself i am innocent of these charges. whole idea of sexual abuse is apparent to me pal spent much of last year in court a first trial was abandoned after a jury failed to reach a decision but after a second trial a new jury found him guilty but conviction came last december but a legal suppression order banned it from being reported that was because pal was

due to face another trial relating to different accusations dating from the one nine hundred seventy s. a judge ordered a legal suppression order banning any reporting of the trials to date in case jurors in the future trial were employments by what they saw or heard of the previous once journalists editors even people on twitter were threatened with up to five years in jail if they broke the order but don't choose the prosecutors dropped the future trial so december's verdict can now be reported and people here are demanding tough justice lord help is a monster a freak he has to be giles not go home detention none of this but they're equal justice we want to seem angel we want to see him for all i even help for ever powell has already started an appeal against his conviction of the four that's heard he is very likely to go to jail and to thomas al-jazeera sydney nigeria's

main opposition party the p.d.p. has rejected any polling results which show you the incumbent president mohamed in the lead the results of saturday's election are trickling in but biharis supporters are already celebrating as you can see so far the president is ahead in seven states to five four article abu bakar and there are thirty six states in all linked and there's also the capital territory now the opposition says his party is colluding with the electoral commission to manipulate the results. algeria's prime minister insists the country's future leadership lies in the hands of voters after days of protests against a fifth term for the ailing president abdul as ease beautifully demonstrations began during the weekend and spread to cities abroad including paris london and montreal arion president's been in power for more than twenty years. the u.n.

security council is due to hold no for a meeting on venezuela later on tuesday at the request of the united states all monday venezuela denounce a regional bloc known as the lima group accusing it of waging a campaign to oust president when during the forty member bloc had been holding talks in colombia with the us vice president mike pence he announced a new round of sanctions on president my daughter's allies. here without is there and these are the top stories india says its military has carried out air strikes close to the border of pakistan and pakistani administered kashmir it says the target was an armed group behind a suicide attack in indian administered kashmir earlier this month about islam a bad denies there were any casualties or damage done by the airstrikes meanwhile

china is aging the two nuclear powers nations to exercise restraint in the face of danger a preemptive strike became absolutely necessary in an intelligence little operation in the early hours of today. india struck the biggest training camp of the gesture moment in balakot in this operation a very large number of gentian mamak terrorists trainers senior commanders and groups of jihad these who being trained for free then actually were eliminated the government of india is firmly and resolutely committed to taking all necessary measures to fight the minutes of terrorism hence this nonmilitary preemptive action was specifically targeted at the jaish among the camp and they've been violent confrontations between soldiers and protesters inside indian administered kashmir.

this was a scene in the provincial capital srinagar indian troops firing tear gas at demonstrators violence broke out after the government carried out raids on the houses of people it calls separatist leaders a curfew has been imposed in cities across the region north korean leader kim jong il has arrived in vietnam capital ahead of a second summit with the u.s. president donald trump kim was greeted by a guard of honor after crossing into the country by train iran's foreign minister mohammed jeffords aretha's analyses stepping down his sudden departure throws further doubt on the future of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal president hassan rouhani has so far refused to accept the resignation or i'd have to say there is the very latest headlines for us here at al-jazeera inside stories next.

it's america's longest war and last year there was a wreck called death toll in afghanistan's attempts to. face the taliban and the u.s. are in talks and it's. a possibility this is inside story. welcome to the program. almost four thousand civilians dead and seven thousand wounded and that was just last year the war in afghanistan is now.