to be logistically difficult it's going to. be a hard sell timing wise in terms of t.v. deals but by no means is any reason why you shouldn't try this c.e.o. world rugby brett gosper tweeted this response that world rugby has pushed for relegation promotion which is not universally supported the two extra tier two teams funded to enter the rugby championship will be selected on merit so no pacific shot at roger federer is just one win away from clinching the one hundredth title of his career the thirty seven year old before in a corridor in the semifinals of the divide championships the twenty time grand slam champion won the match in straight sad spreader is aiming to become just the second man after american jimmy connors to win a century of titles hoping to have set the pace and saturday's finals. and that's all you sport for now sammy back to lang so far now space eggs has launched its

astronaut capsule into space for the first time the unmanned test flies is a major step forward for the company owned by billionaire musk nasser suspended its manned flight program in two thousand and eleven due to rising costs one hundred but the sea has more. it's said that. nasa describes it as a historic moment that could pave the way for a new era of space exploration you down here at kennedy space center in florida billionaire elon musk's company space x. successfully launched an unmanned test flight bound for the international space station. what to what today really represents is a new era in space flight and an era where we are looking forward to being one customer as an agency and as a country we're looking forward to being one customer of many customers in our in a robust commercial marketplace in low earth orbit so that we can drive down costs

and increase access in ways that historically have not been possible. the crew dragon capsule atop the falcon nine rocket is the first space shuttle intended for commercial use the only passenger on this demo one mission is a dummy named ripley carrying with him four hundred pounds of supplies for the space station it's expected to arrive on sunday and if all goes well the next mission could put two astronauts in space as early as this july nasa wardy contract to space x. and boeing to develop cheaper methods of going to space since retiring it shuttles in two thousand and eleven thus ending its reliance on russia so use spacecraft which cost more than eighty million dollars a seat what it means for the space program is it's really opening up much more regular access to the space station redundancy right now we're relying on just one system the russian soyuz system we also have boeing starliner vehicle coming

later this year so so we really will see a lot more capability in terms of our ability to launch humans into space space x. and boeing own and operate the spacecraft and will be leasing them out to nasa and other clients one struggles and regular fraîche and i think we will. we will. seek commercial customers. yes mr and that nasa in general has been very supportive of that of that idea so but we've been very focused on just making sure that the vehicle worked and maximizing secure liability. elon musk's ambitions go far beyond shuttling astronauts he says it won't be long before the dragon starts taking commercial customers to space some of the d.c. al-jazeera. and that's it from me for this news out we're back in a moment with more of the day's news so stay with us.

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high level talks between the u.s. and taliban have resumed and u.s. envoys. around ended with president to progress to end this a senior war. 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. day four of talks going on between the americans and the taft dan taliban right at this hotel behind me here in doha now of course we've seen the u.s. special peace envoy to afghanistan and the head one of the founders and political chief of the taliban here in doha the meetings are continuing and one of the main points up for discussion at the moment between the two sides is the withdrawal of

fourteen thousand u.s. troops that are currently in afghanistan the taliban of course want them to leave as quickly as possible the americans say they want a slow withdrawal over the next three to five years the other main issue is of course the non existent relationship between the taliban and the current government in afghanistan the taliban don't recognize ashraf ghani and his government as legitimate in the country and they refuse to hold any discussions with them so these negotiations with the americans are taking place without any representation from kabul and the government there the taliban spokesman has said here that they are making progress with the americans they are working out on the specifics and the details of when you cream and and they are hopeful that some kind of a green meant it will be reached in the coming days. but in afghanistan the violence continues the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on army base which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers shot about base in helmand

province is shared by afghan and american troops the afghan defense ministry says twenty years her accusing clued in a suicide bombers who were killed. has more from kabul. this is tech began 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 is we are taking casualties but we can't tell you how many your sources were saying we do not have any casualties but like the afghans to speak for themselves but then as the day wore on we started to see that this actually was quite a large attack on those fags eventually the u.s. after saying this isn't a big deal they did say we are supporting afghan troops there on the ground and also through airstrikes not great optics providing us taliban talks in doha 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 now on the taliban side this attack in helmand was not a coincidence timing wise because they do the support on the negotiations to say this is what we can do if you do not play ball 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 in doha then and they take to india space and wardak province complex attack truck bomb and they khost forty afghan military people would be an injured another forty. 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 alternatif i had to house an 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 in new delhi said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday. so how raman is live from new delhi so exchanges of fire house the situation like now in kashmir. the situation for those living in the kashmir region remain the same whether your own the pakistan side of the line of control on the indian administered side the line of control certainly as far as the indian minister part of kashmir is concerned the tension is very high the military has not let up in defending its own civilians there despite the fact there are curfews in many of the towns the main principle city of sugar as well as you mentioned a woman and her two children had been killed in shelling that happened late on friday night in an area called the inch punch has been

a focal point for pretty intense shelling for the last forty eight hours but it starts to get late on friday and for one man his whole life was turned around with the loss of his family this is how he's reacted. northstar now got them first i don't know about them 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. this is not an isolated incident these sorts of stories continue to repeat themselves while the tension continues between these two nuclear neighbors however what did happen also on friday and into saturday was that the indian authorities had to travel at least fifty kilometers further north of poonch to a small village called is much closer to the line of control between pakistan and

india on the kashmir region and they had to evacuate civilians from much safer locations could because of the safety situation because of the shelling and that's a story it's repeated a crossed several areas of. indian administered kashmir and it seems that that is going to continue for the forseeable future because while the focus may have been on an indian pilot big captured by pakistan and released by them on friday night and now back in the care of the indian air force the tension between the two countries remains the same and the violence certainly in the kashmir kashmir region continues. so raman there thanks so much. the syrian democratic forces have begun the operation to clear the last remaining pockets of myself isis from those while the group may soon suffer a territorial defeat analysts say is still premature is the claim victory. forts. exhausted hungry and sick thousands of women and children have fled there is

a war in southeastern syria in the last week ahead of a u.s. backed assault on the last piece of eisel so-called caliphate the town of. the mainly kurdish fighters of the syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. say only those they call terrorists remain there now as fifteen thousand troops advance on the town and incendiary munitions rained down from the sky. we do not know what the clashes will lead to but the military operation will continue to eliminate terrorists inside if we notice any civilians we will try to avoid them and evacuate them during the ongoing military operation as the s.d.f. advance on five fronts they face more than a thousand hardened fighters difficult terrain suicide bombers mines and a large tunnel network but even once bugaboos falls and i still suffer what some are calling a final territorial defeat the group and its members will remain a serious threat this is not and of isis at all and we have seen how.

this kind of similar terrorist group autumn now thriving in africa and i won't be surprised if these same groups when taught to get. the video they would have managed to operate. inside you would order the united states of america because all the grudges and. political crisis that open that led to the emergence of this. the group are still there. or the battle for is expected to end soon and commanders will declare the group defeated no one really knows for sure what happens after that and al-jazeera. the defeat of vice all in the northern iraqi town of sin jar in two thousand and fifteen has left a power vacuum the area is rife with competing armed groups vying for control lack

of agreement among them is preventing thousands of people from the minority is the the community you fled i saw from returning home. food reports from more. there's a piece of fears eisel either killed his wife or 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 community they tried to flee the eisel offensive on sin job i saw was defeated in sin jar in nov twenty fifth dean now marry his children and sick father are among a few years e.d.'s who have returned. with some of their wise advice a ruled over everything they sabotaged the lads and killed our relatives and neighbors when i still was kicked out they left nothing behind we still don't have much left to eat or to drink. it's estimated around seventy percent of sin job was

destroyed in the battle against isis but it's not just a 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 the. what remains of the town of sin jar 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 armed groups known as hash of 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. the various forces in and outside cin jar aren't reaching consensus to better administer the town's political and security situation they've been not returning to their homes because there's 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 region and all iraq who of them want this situation 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 let the people of the town decide their fate the use edis 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 stuff that al-jazeera must more northern iraq well still ahead on al-jazeera how the french president is going to an unlikely source as he tries to quell the protest movement against him. and signs of a foreign relations for the u.s. china trade standoff could a deal on terrorists be imminent.