zero. three. three civilians are killed off the indian and pakistani troops exchanged in the disputed kashmir region. hello i must tell you and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. hundreds of thousands of algerians take to the streets demanding their president should not run for a fifth. a push for peace in afghanistan as attacks by the taliban continue.

and a win for worshipers after a long battle at the al aqsa mosque compound but there are more problems inside. at least three people have died in cross border shelling between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region indian officials say a mother and her two children were killed when pakistani artillery fire hit a house in did administered kashmir near the line of control several others have been taken to hospital with injuries tensions remain high. new delhi said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday. well the indian pilot captured by pakistan during those strikes has had a medical check up to being released. was welcomed at the border on friday two days off to his plane was shot down and pakistan administered kashmir reports from new

delhi. at the walk a border crossing in punjab wing commander. on his release from pakistani custody back to india two days after his aircraft was shot down. as if the word was the last one. year old. you know music you know. this. particularly because the officer of the anzac. from an arab. village would have already i don't know. is happy to have gotten back a former colonel in the indian army says at best the decision to hand him over so quickly has been begrudgingly welcomed by india but that doesn't do enough to overcome the lingering mistrust of mistrust that have been generated by this

pakistan to terrorism and support to the insurgency in kashmir these are the real key issues kashmir terrorism. the celebrations at the border are unlikely to last long as the roots of the kashmir dispute remain deep seated as attempts are made to deescalate tensions between india and pakistan continue to complain they're the ones caught in the middle and those from indeed in mr kashmir accuse the indian government of not doing enough for them not just now but over many years. before the pilots release there was a funeral in india administered kashmir it was for woman killed by shelling between india and pakistan that began on wednesday across the line of control that divides mere people here complain they always suffer when pakistan and. the fight and there's renewed concerns about the indian government's policies in the administered kashmir a new crop of young educated people they have taken to the stones but this is something which is unprecedented this former kashmiri civil servant made news for

resigning from his post to protest against the government in new delhi's policies policies he says are far more militaristic leaving no room for peaceful negotiation but we have seen the old institutions of dialogue negotiation those being kind of becoming very eleventh and no important and no significant political initiative from delhi has been there for the last few years. the indian government has long complained that pakistan supports groups who promote violence in kashmir whoever is to blame for the under arrest in the disputed region all these indians want to do for now celebrate the release of their pilot as jamil al jazeera you delhi. from new delhi so there's been more violence on the border i have a nice. yes in terms of overnight shelling that the tension is than it has been for several

weeks now and certainly overnight on friday what we've been able to ascertain is that shelling in the punch area again hit villages and one house in particular where a mother and her two young children were killed instantly and the father is critically ill now he's in hospital in a round about fifty kilometers further north of pooches a small area of. is very close to the line of control and there the shelling was so heavy that people have been evacuated and are very concerned about their own safety as are the authorities in the region so while the focus has been on the release of the indian pilot the tension continues the shelling across the border continues in the kashmir region and so what happens now that the pilot's been released tensions are dissipating and well potentially diplomatically.

yes it depends on who you ask actually as to about the tension in terms of the initial relief that the pilot was released yes the indian media media were awash with coverage both on the television and in fact let's look at today's papers because here in india he is the only story. there in civilian clothes at the border being released main story there but also here in the by lines is the talk about the indian foreign minister speaking about terror groups in neighboring countries i.e. pakistan and how she addressed the organization of islamic conference in abu dhabi and that is still reverberating across the islamic world because pakistan did not attend that conference and many think that they shot themselves in the foot by not being able to address exactly india's complaints there of course india had a captive audience of over fifty five islamic countries willing to listen to what

the guest of honor had to say the economic times of course pilot back in delhi delhi plots fresh and of course the pressure continues to be pushed on pakistan india wants to internationally isolate. deem it a pariah state to a certainly to a certain extent as a sponsor of state terror and that sort of dialogue that narrative is having more traction as the ongoing tension continues in kashmir and of course the times of india talks about india boycotting the oh i see to india's benefit and of course how the pakistani foreign minister has apparently admitted that the leader of jaish e mohammed those apparently behind the attack at paul were in mid february that killed forty indian paramilitaries is in pakistan so those are the main headlines and that story continues to be analyzed what will happen in the next few days is

the ongoing diplomatic maneuvering. by india they have kept silent in terms of the defense ministry and the foreign ministry as to how they will now act against pakistan now they got a pilot back we wait to see and hear what the prime minister has to say as to how raman what's in those developments for us from new delhi thank you. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across algeria demanding that the eighty one year old president pulls out of next month's elections and this as he is but a flicker has been in the twenty s and he's planning to run for a fifth town that protesters say he's unfit for the job reports. they are the biggest demonstrations in algeria in decades this is the country's capital out cheers to cut a similar scenes in several other cities that demanded the country's ailing president up to lizzie's bouteflika withdrawals from the country's forthcoming

presidential election. the student led protests have been growing in recent days ever since the eighty one year old leader issued a statement announcing his intention to run for a fifth term algerian journalists have also joined the growing demonstrations calling for greater press freedom and political reform. flicka was elected president in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine. but after suffering a debilitating stroke six years ago he's rarely seen in public and hasn't given a speech in years here he is in twenty seven t. too frail to comfort his file it without help. demonstrators say he's too weak to lead. it's widely believed the country's really run by a group of military and civilian advisors who failed to find a successor to ensure the continuity of the country's leading party but national liberation front the parties repeatedly said the elections will be free and transparent while he's not on the stand it is not him who really is the. it's the

group behind the group in the presidency backed up by the cynical economic burns the leading business. and the army and the security. who are trying to force their own choice to guarantee their continuity in power and that's a large areas really object to beautifully kept presided over the end of the bloody algerian civil war in two thousand and two and a return to international affairs following decades of isolation. but demonstrators say it's time for algeria's longest serving head of state to retire from politics leave. the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base in afghanistan which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers the shura back base in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops the afghan defense ministry says twenty attackers including eight suicide bombers were killed

meanwhile high level talks between the u.s. and the taliban are expected to resume on saturday in doha u.s. envoy zalmay khalilzad says an earlier round ended with unprecedented progress to end the seventeen year war the taliban is refusing to directly negotiate with the afghan government and it wants foreign forces to withdraw its delegation is led by the co-founder of the group abdul ghani baradar well let's cross over to the afghan capital of kabul where charlotte bellus is live for us now charlotte walk us through what happened in this attack in helmand. this attack started at two o'clock yesterday morning that lasted sixteen hours a fairly significant use today we were trying to get information from various military sources and everyone was incredibly tight lipped afghan side there was saying yes we are under attack we do have casualties but we can't tell you how many the way sources were saying look this really isn't a big deal we don't have any casualties none of our guys are hurt we share this

space with them but only the afghans speak for themselves i mean the taliban was saying we've killed seventy americans everyone with vastly different stories finally the pictures started to come play at night last night with the u.a.e. saying well they had been kind of playing it down to me in the day we were involved we did support the afghans on the ground and with some of course terrible optics really when you've got the taliban you waste talks in doha going on at the same time earlier this week the top afghan. general miller has been shaking hands with taliban commanders trying to come to some type of deal about a with rule and then back here in afghanistan you've got the taliban attacking and you expect optics on great on that the taliban this isn't a coincidence the timing they do this to try to put pressure on to these negotiations in january on the first day of the talks they launched a complex attack with

a truck bomb on an intelligent space in provence they have multiple casualties so they use this to try to put pressure on the negotiations and say this is what we can do if you don't play ball and that so as these talks do continue and it does appear the taliban are trying to use the afghan military as pawns in the negotiations. and these kinds of attacks the taliban kind of attacking afghan military installations to put pressure on the americans but then you know at this point the afghans are kind of stuck in the middle because they're not involved in the negotiations and yet they're taking casualties there's a lot of talk about what is. going on and are hard how they're being represented if the rights of being protected particularly women are concerned because they remember back during taliban days the rights were very restrictive and so three and a half thousand women came to kabul this way and the first two were going to war means loya jirga in afghanistan to make sure that their voices are being heard in this process. afghan woman

a refusing to be left behind in political negotiations they say they want to present a unified front as the taliban in the united states hold talks to end seventeen years of who today there are four women behind them a fifteen thousand other they spoke after the largest national women's jirga council as the taliban met with the u.s. and doha this was a parallel meeting except men were replaced by woman whom i did everyone came to say their perspective it was a proud moment for me among these women we cannot travel to other provinces because of security but this allowed us to be united the national women's jirga was the result of a grassroots movement that began in kabul in august and spirit to all of afghanistan's thirty four provinces influential women from each province late the meetings the format included a question and answer session where they discussed women's legal and constitutional

rights their role in islam and afghan culture then each province wrote a statement of their demands for peace these declarations blind what they want and will fight for should the u.s. and taliban agree to a deal a scene a sufi is the acting minister of information and culture the government backs the woman's jirga but she denied they were all president danny supporters they were not all government. they were all women who believed in who have analyzed their involvement from different social economic political nonpolitical government non-government civil society addresses where they would. see that we have federal there is concern the taliban could roll back hard for women's rights but many women say it's conservative afghan values that they're rallying against and need protection from

the provincial meetings were held in secret to protect women from any backlash the woman's jirga highly guarded a circus and most people are not among the taliban but they are like taliban just suit and ties we can understand from their words that we are in danger they have the old conservative mentality that it's a threat for us and we feel they may try to kill us president danny is organizing a lawyer jirga in mid march with four thousand people men and women it's a national council to discuss their priorities in future negotiations these women will be there to determine that their voices are not forgotten shalah ballasts. the weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera the north korean leader is all smiles as he departs vietnam after a failed summit and the push for new friends when live and huddling. and fears over the impact of brecht said on science we visit the historic university of cambridge .

howlers the weather type in northern europe that at the end of february was warm sunshine record breaking news and is clearly different the clouds moving at some speed now being driven by strengthening wind that being the main difference it's windy in much of north and central europe the clouds increase and some rain coming in still not cold in of fourteen to fifteen degrees the early march is pretty good twenty in madrid we're single figures still in germany in poland and subzero in kiev even that is going to change as this wind does drive everything eastwards including generally speaking a rise in temperature where it's being cold recently but this cold wet heavy snow still going to fall in scandinavia sweden in particular differing dian through the baltic states and of course into moscow now all this is taking place in northern europe in the sas with the exception the eastern med it's not quite quite as

interesting breeze which isn't allowing the sun to warm things up very much yes we got twenty knowledge is by the same in most america but middle teens otherwise in the eastern med is increasingly windy and likely to wet once again now if you come further south you're picking up up coming showers of the sun's moving quickly north and that when the showers of over he reached nigeria and cameroon you know we're there for a few days yet fairly heavy. right .

hello again i missed and a reminder of the news this hour at least three people have died in a cross border shelling between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region indian officials say a mother and her two children were killed and tensions remain high after islamabad and new delhi said they chopped down each other's jets on wednesday. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across algeria over president these beautifully because planned to run for a fifth term next month police five tear gas that some protesters analogy is but

the demonstrations peaceful. the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base in afghanistan which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers high level talks between the u.s. and taliban are expected to resume in qatar they say. well north korean leader kim jong un is on his way back home after four days in vietnam kim took an all mage train from the china vietnam border that he stayed on and how noise for an official visit to denuclearization talks broke down with u.s. president donald trump vietnam's relationship with the us was supposed to be an example for pyongyang it too was once considered an enemy of washington well let's talk about it get a james in hanoi james given that the summit with trump ended with no agreement what do you think's at the forefront of kim's mind as he returns home. well he stayed on here in vietnam for an extra two days because he has to take

advantage of the fact he is here he runs an isolated country there are the most comprehensive sanctions on north korea of any country ever in the world so being here in an important asian country one that's an economic powerhouse has seen growth well in the double figures for more than twenty years he needs to make relationships in places like this he has having gone to the to move. to the more the liam paid his respects to a man who was a contemporary of his own grandfather headed back to china and back on that train a very long journey all the way across china i think time for a real reflection from the north korean leader did he overplay his hand by asking for so many sanctions to be lifted something that the americans thought was a step too far and a step key early this likely diplomatic process has been going now for a year since the winter olympics in that time there's always been

a next step right now because of the collapse of these talks there really isn't a next step but i think it now falls to the south koreans and president moon he's talked about another summit with kim and they've talked about having that summit in seoul to build on their own. relationship between the two countries that summit if it takes place i think is now going to have to try and rescue the process diplomatic editor james bone is there live for us and henry thank you james u.s. president donald trump has asked china to lift all tariffs on american agricultural products he says it's because trade talks between the world's two largest economies are progressing well trump also pointed out that he didn't impose twenty five percent tariffs on friday as he'd originally planned china and the u.s. are trying to negotiate a way out of the trade war that seem to terrorists hikes since last year.

ways chief financial officer will appear in court next week after canada allowed an extradition request to proceed when longo was arrested at vancouver airport in december at the request of the us government is accuses mung and the chinese tech giant of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran the case triggered and diplomatic route between canada and china beijing says it will be watching the case closely to do. justice will prevail in the end now in fact not only the chinese and canadian citizens but the whole world is extremely interested to hear how the canadian government answers this question chlorine was used as a weapon in the syrian town of duma but an investigation into last year's attack doesn't lay any blame the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says it found reasonable grounds the toxic chemical was used but can't say who was responsible as the final target of the syrian government's campaign to regain control of the eastern kuta suburbs of damascus from opposition fighters so the

activists who were arrested on that use ations of undermining security and harming national unity last year will be put on trial prosecutors say they've completed investigations and preparing court referrals rights groups say the cases include mostly detained women activists who campaigned for the right to drive. venezuela's opposition leader is now in argentina he's on a diplomatic mission to shore up last american support for the removal of president nicolas maduro will meet argentinian president merits your mockery of to visiting paraguayan on friday seeking international backing for a transition of power in venezuela the us is also imposing new sanctions and revoking visas of senior venezuelan officials over the jury's crackdown on western aid. well britain's looming exit from the e.u. is worrying the u.k. science community who say it's scaring off students and academics who normally come

to study and teach and the hayward reports from the university city of cambridge which voted overwhelmingly to stay in the union. this is a team effort to because it's it works well with two people mattie islam gratitudes originally from germany is teaching the next generation of the scientifically he's lived in the u.k. since nine hundred eighty nine and want to cambridge university for more than twenty years the prospect of bricks it has left him feeling depressed about what the future may hold for the scientific community and society as a whole important people have left other people who normally would have come to take up jobs here are not coming students are worried some students are worried about coming we get increasingly questions about what you know what does it mean for us. yeah you know this the greatness of british signs comes from english as an international language and therefore inviting in people from all

over the interface of different ways of thinking come together that's where your creative seventy three percent of people in cambridge voted to remain in the e.u. in twenty sixteen many people from all over the world live here it is affluent and has one of the fastest growing local economies in the u.k. this part of cambridge the highest percentage of remain voters in the u.k. that's in part down to the largest student population really poor many thought i think inside the. cambridge of course is steeped in history but it's developed a multi-billion dollar science and technology sector it's springboard for designing life saving medical equipment the sold globally but the company has a large customer base in europe keeping trade as open as possible in the post breaks it world is vital to the sector value of customers they can trust because we're the best what we do and we can solve their problems very quickly and

effectively if that becomes slightly. less good. more hassle. a lot of choices many here in this remain stronghold hope the brits that can still somehow be avoided with just a month to go though they know that time is running out and the heywood al-jazeera in cambridge. recipes at the al aqsa mosque compound are back in control of a missing hole that's been closed for sixteen years by an israeli court order days of tension over who controls the area led to the arrest and then release and the character helps administer the compound then it's myth reports from occupied east jerusalem. was five this was a rare success for muslim worshippers who'd faced down israeli police over access to a hole in the x. a compound the most a gate was sealed by the police sixteen years ago because a court had banned

a hamas affiliated group that met here the group was long ago despondent says alexis custodians but the police have consistently refused to unlock the chains so the worshippers did but at the mercy gates is an integra part of a and we sacrifice everything we have including ourselves including our children to the mosque the patrol still walk says locking the gate is another example of israel trying to assert itself inside the axa compound at the roots of this discreet he's who controls the holy sites beyond but gates now israel claims sovereignty over all of east jerusalem but includes here in the old city on the alex a compound but in nineteen sixty seven jordan and israel agree that the jordanian money islamic trust would look after affairs inside the compound while israel would manage security outside. groups of jewish ultranationalists escorted by police regularly visit the site and in increasing numbers to them this is the temple mount

non muslims are allowed to visit but not pray the ultranationalists won't rule changed. and earlier this week the israeli agriculture minister paid one of his regular visits to the mercy gate. told israeli radio he'd like a synagogue built here i was to me and see all this as provocative from their benefit. every muslim has the right to intervene pray in the midst of gates who for many years the occupations unjust measures have stopped us praying year thank god today we prayed and held the friday prisoner. untouched for sixteen years the mercy gate hole now needs extensive renovation but also need approval from the israeli police were inspected the site this week only they can grant permission for building materials to be allowed in bernard smith al-jazeera in occupied east jerusalem well brazil's well the famous qana has officially kicks off in rio de

janeiro. despite initial concerns over the safety of the main parade size or thought that the go ahead this week and as with every year hundreds of parties and parades will fill the city's streets and the celebrations will run until tuesday. hello i'm the star in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera at least three people have died in cross border shelling between india and pakistan and the disputed kashmir region indian officials say a mother and her two children were killed tensions remain high after osama bad new delhi said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday so hell raman has more from new delhi the tension is that it has been for several weeks now and certainly overnight on friday what we've been able to ascertain is that shelling in the area

again. bill it is one house in particular where a mother and her two young children were killed instantly and the father is critically ill that he's in hospital in a round about fifty kilometers further north of pooches a small area of. very close to the line of control of their the shelling was so heavy that people have been evacuated hundreds of thousands of people have rallied across algeria over president other lousy british. figures planned to run for a fifth term next month police fired tear gas at some protesters in algiers but the demonstrations were mostly peaceful. the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base in afghanistan which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers high level talks between the u.s. and taliban are expected to resume in qatar later on saturday qual ways chief financial officer will appear in court next week after canada allowed an

extradition request to proceed then one joe was arrested at vancouver airport in december at the request of the us government is accuses lang and the chinese tech giant of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran the case triggered a diplomatic route between canada and china beijing says it will be watching the case closely. to. justice will prevail in the end now in fact not only the chinese and canadian citizens but the whole world is extremely interested to hear how the canadian government answers this question u.s. president donald trump china to lift all tariffs on american agricultural products he says it's because trade talks between the biggest economies are progressing well he also said he didn't impose twenty five percent tariffs on friday as a originally planned china has welcomed the move those are the headlines next up inside story. counting the cost this week the secretive money.

exit from the european union good morning we'll get to grips with one of southeast asia economies who really benefits in the five zero counting the cost. is facing corruption charges it's a witch hunt ahead of the. prosecution and what does it mean for his political career this is inside story. this is inside story welcome to the program he's the first sitting israeli prime ministers who put on fishel notices of planned prosecution on charges of bribery fraud and.