on al-jazeera. more death and devastation in kashmir after indian and pakistani troops exchanged fire. in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the final push us back to forces say i sell is on its way out of syria. a push for peace in afghanistan as attacks by the taliban continue. and how the french president is going to an unlikely source as he tries to quell the protest movement against him.

at least seven 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 indian administered kashmir pakistan's military says indian fire has killed two civilians and two soldiers along the line of control tensions remain high after islamabad and new delhi said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday and the indian pilots captured by pakistan during those airstrikes has had a medical check up after being released wing commander of beyond out of us among was welcomed at the border on friday but as far as jamil reports despite the scene of cheering crowds serious issues remain unresolved the reports from new delhi. at the waca border crossing. in punjab wing commander of the london barkman is released

from pakistani custody back to india two days after his aircraft was shot down i'm not going to. ask you to do it was the last one is going to receive your all day and then everyone you can always take are not going to get bearded men and i think i'm going to take up the credit card if you know me because the officer has hacked. from an arab in ridgewood have orders and i added already on ok it's true this. is happy to have i mean i got it back to 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 this lingering mistrust of mistrust that have been generated by this pakistan for men 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 india and mr kashmir accuse the indian government of not doing enough for them not just now but over many years just before the pilot's release there was a funeral in indian 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 india fight and there is renewed concerns about the indian government's policies in the administered kashmir a new crop of young educated people they have taken to. this is something which is unprecedented that this former kashmiri civil servant made news for resigning from his post to protest against the government new delhi's policies policies he says

are far more militaristic leaving no room for peaceful negotiation. institutions of dialogue negotiation those being kind of becoming relevant and nor 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 jamil al jazeera new delhi. so tell us a little more about the shelling on the border of an ice. yes it's not just been overnight it's been like the last seventy two hours not been a real problem for residents on both sides of the line of control is the constant shelling by the military's perspective militaries of course a great deal of eggs nightmare scenarios in one particular incident we're seeing

a we're hearing about the area of food chits around about sixty kilometers from the line of control but it's still within spitting distance so to speak of the military and heavy shelling that overnight has become hellacious for many and love for one father a living nightmare has actually become reality. no more so i know got them first i don't know what it was around nine o'clock at night when the heavy shelling started we were sleeping inside our room my kids got scared so i picked them up and ran to the other room i opened the door and as i was about to enter the room the shell landed destroying the house and killed the girl the boy and their mother. i mean his story is one that is reflected by many individuals that have lost loved ones not just in the last seventy two hours but over the past seventy years that these

two countries both india and pakistan have been fighting over the region of kashmir what we also know is that because of the heavy shelling on friday around about fifty kilometers north of boone geneva to the lie the control is a small village of and civilians to be evacuated to safer areas because the shelling was so bad maybe most of the focus for the last few days has been on this missing indian women whose as far as the idiots are concerned being safely returned by the pakistani military but the reality for many indians living in indian administered kashmir is that their nightmare continues not just nighttime but through the day as well. our desire is to help run them they're watching developments from new delhi for us thank you so. well kurdish forces in syria say they expect the battle to retake eisel the last held area to be over soon u.s. backed syrian democratic forces launched a final push against i felt in the village of agrees on friday the last remaining

group of civilians was about to waited just hours earlier thousands of people have left in recent weeks and they're being taken to a camp near the iraqi border. 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 duma was the final target of the syrian government's campaign to regain control of the eastern suburbs of damascus from opposition fighters. 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 the us president also pointed out that he didn't impose twenty five percent tariffs on friday as he had originally planned china and the u.s. are trying to negotiate a way out of

a trade war that seen tit for tat hikes in tariffs since last year and huawei is chief financial officer will appear in court next week after canada allowed an extradition request to proceed in one show was arrested at vancouver airport in december at the request of the us government it accuses manning 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 very closely well north korean leader kim jong un is on his way back home after four days in vietnam kim took in on the train from the china vietnam border he stayed on and one way for an official visit after denuclearization talks broke down with u.s. president donald trump vietnam's relationship with the us was supposed to be an example of it too was once considered an enemy of washington our diplomatic editor james bays has more from hanoi. 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 the port and 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 the cochairmen to the most elite 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 real reflection that from the north korean leader did he overplay his hand but asking for so many sanctions to be lifted something that the americans thought was a step too far under step 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 that takes place i think is now going to have to try and rescue the process. high level talks between the united states and the taliban have resumed and doha u.s. envoy is out there 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. meanwhile the taliban has also claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base in afghanistan which killed at least twenty three

afghan soldiers the shore about base in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops the afghan defense ministry says twenty attackers in tooting so a side bombers were killed shot at betis has more from kabul this is attacked again at two o'clock on friday morning and lasted some sixteen hours information was incredibly difficult to get out of home and about what exactly was going on afghan military sources were saying yes we are taking casualties but we can't tell you how many your sources are saying we do not have any casualties would like to get games to speak for themselves but then as the day wore on we started to see that this actually was quite a large attack. eventually the u.s. after saying this isn't a big deal they did say we are supporting afghan troops on the ground and also through air strikes not great optics providing us taliban talks on. top u.s. commander general miller has been meeting with the taliban command. in doha shaking

hands trying to figure out how to come to some kind of consensus about a withdraw on the taliban side this attack in helmand was not a coincidence timing wise because they do the support for the negotiations this is what we can do if you do not play. and. talk with us and and actually get serious about us about pulling out of afghanistan they did this in january on the very first day of talks. and they take to india space and province complex attack truck bomb and they coast forty afghan military people would be. another. where the next but still ahead on al jazeera we look at why it's taking so long to clean up one of the wilds most polluted residents plus. three you right here it is a landmark left off a successful test launch that will pave the way towards a slight. i

would still minus forty by day in siberia nothing like as cold if you just go a bit further south there's plenty of cloud around suggesting other rain or snow it's rain and the temperatures up in the teens from the korean peninsula to beijing seventeen that's pretty warm when i say it a big exaggeration in the warmth of the last week or so we're not quite as good in sapporo plus seven but given how much snow fell in our crowded that means the thaw is well on the way this is looking rather more spring like we were just getting there in the south is only nine degrees in tokyo on a wet looking and probably miserable feeling monday as a result now that rain comes out of a band that developed over the yanks it is moving science now through fujian just

about good to hong kong i think by the end of sunday's on its way south so it will take its cloud and humidity with it and you get a fresh a feeling day or monday fifteen in shanghai to mr hong kong not much change in temperature different feel that the sky of course is light to be blue which is also the case most to cambodia via thailand and the philippines increasingly either for the science you look but still the heavy showers a large be around western java sudden born year and sulawesi. it does look more and more like bangladesh is becoming a one party state give me one good reason why the opposition should have been able to do to paul some of the problems of human rights watch describes how opposition members have been arrested or killed and even disappear maybe how soon he goes head to head with a gal who is free but. we won't do it develop we don't want is distributing the

economic revolution will this is a brother who development is not the same as democracy. on al-jazeera. hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour 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 tensions remain high after islamabad new delhi said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday. kurdish forces in syria say they expect the battle to retake the last held area to be over soon u.s. backed syrian democratic forces launched their final push in the village of on

friday. high level talks between the united states and the taliban are expected to resume within a few hours and doha u.s. envoy. says an earlier round ended with unprecedented progress to end the seventeen year war but the taliban is refusing to directly negotiate with the afghan government. the defeat of eisel in the northern iraqi town of single and twenty fifteen has left a power vacuum the area is rife with competing groups all vying for control the lack of agreement among them is preventing thousands of people from the minority community who fled from returning home had reports from the. mayor is a piece of fears icily the killed his wife like many young women sold into slavery she disappeared in two thousand and fourteen when along with tens of thousands of other families from iraq's minority easy to community they tried to flee the ice so

offensive. also was defeated in seeing giora nov twenty fifth dean now his children and six are among a few years e.d.'s who have returned. with some of the us advice to rule over everything they sabotage the lads and killed our relatives and neighbors what i saw was kick tell they left nothing behind we still don't have much left to eat or to drink. it's estimated around seventy percent of city job was destroyed in the battle against isis but it's not just the delay in reconstruction that's preventing people from returning to their homes. there are various military forces and armed groups in the area but according to commanders little cooperation between. what remains of the town of sin jaw is in that direction behind the tile and you have a p.k. k. forces in control of that area to my left over those mountains there is the iraqi

army and pro iran all groups known as hotshot a shabby i'm standing on a peshmerga position one of the main reasons why thousands of people cannot go back to singe are to try and restart their lives because of the lack of coordination between the various armed forces operating in this area. the us either you in turkey consider the kurdish p k k to be a terrorist organization it's been fighting for an independent kurdish state for more than thirty years and there's been tension between the iraqi federal government and the semi autonomous kurdish regional government of northern iraq over disputed territories for decades. but i thought about the various forces in and outside sin jar aren't reaching consensus to better administer the town's political and security situation people are not returning to their homes because there is no long term solution being implemented by the authorities around two

hundred thousand you c.d.'s have little choice but to live in poli equipped camps in the kurdish regional iraq who of them want this issue ation since it is critical that the political bickering and security tension among the various forces is overshadowing on the town's future the only solution to move forward is to pull all these forces out and live the people of the town decide their fate. these e.d.'s are often called iraq's forgotten people after suffering some of the worst atrocities on the eisel political violence and distrust means they are now also struggling to rebuild their lives.