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extensive network people would come to us and actually share the information with. them. this is zero. this is the news. coming up in the next sixty minutes hugging the american flag donald trump is conservative base warmly embraces him after failed talks in vietnam . a push for peace in afghanistan as attacks by the taliban continue. the final effort u.s. backed forces say i saw is on its way out of syria.

but here is. the historic mission space x. and nasa launch a successful spacecraft into orbit. and spore roger federer has won his one hundredth career title the thirty seven year old rising stars. and the final thing to champion. polo it's been a week the saw failed summit with north korea an explosive testimony by his former lawyer branding him a criminal the u.s. president has now returned home to a far more friendly setting trump is seeing some of his core supporters at the largest annual gathering of conservatives in america at the conservative political action conference otherwise known as he is using the platform to among others.

things flash democrats are going after his personal finances in congressional inquiries and he gallagher joins us live now from oxon hill in a maryland so andy what else to the president have to say. well nothing unexpected he's mentioned several times how much love there is in this room for him and that is definitely true this is an event that's really shaped by trump ism and the certainly plenty of support here he's talked about china has talked about the economy has talked about building the wall we spent about ten minutes talking about the number of people that turned up for his inauguration a kind of odd sideline but the president likes to go off script the crowd here likes it when he does that that's why they think he got elected and he did mention the model report let's listen to some of what the president said. they fight so hard on this witch hunt this phony deal that they put together this phony thing that now looks like it's dying so they don't have anything with russia there's no

collusion so now they go and morph into let's inspect every deal he's ever done we're going to go into his finances we're going to cherokees deals we get a check these people are saying. this. i saw a little shifty shift yesterday. it's a first time he went into a meeting and he shared we're go to look into his finance i said where did that come from he always talked about russia collusion with russia the collusion delusion. this is a fairly light hearted event lots of laughter in the room as i said the president knows this is an audience that supports him but there is a serious message here wedding into the twenty twenty campaign we haven't heard president yet labeling democrats as socialist because become a theme is something that the vice president mike pence talked about on friday but what really the president is doing here is energizing a base that he knows he has been securely in his pocket there are plenty of young

conservatives here apparently lots of people under the age of twenty five something that will be vital in the twenty twenty alexion you can in the laughter in the audience now that's how they're responding to a man who's reshaped his own party the theme of this year's sea-tac is definitely trump ism right now he's just asking people to get out there to make sure they vote in the upcoming election and that is an ongoing theme and certainly something that no doubt everyone here will do in twenty twenty all right andy thank you andy gallagher in oxon hill maryland. how high level talks between the u.s. and the taliban have been held in doha u.s. envoys says an earlier round ended with unprecedented progress in his words the taliban is refusing to directly negotiate with the afghan government and it wants foreign forces to withdraw its delegation is led by the founder of the group hani but. also jim bari has more from doha. same for has wrapped up here in doha without

any specific agreement being reached between the taliban and the u.s. but the taliban spokesperson is optimistic that they're on the right path he said that the have made progress but they haven't finalized any kind of agreements and of course at stake here is the future of over thirty five million people in afghanistan something the taliban wants to make sure that they are involved in their future and their government that is now the issue here is the idea of u.s. withdrawals there is a u.s. troop withdrawal that is there's a lot of fourteen thousand u.s. troops in afghanistan and the taliban wants them to leave their country the other main issue is this help on does not recognize the current government in office of ashraf ghani as legitimate they are not negotiating with them they're not being represented here and that is something the americans hope they can work on to bring the two sides together to have a dialogue that will discuss the future of their country with all parties involved . thousands of women have met in provinces across afghanistan to ensure their

rights are protected during peace negotiations in the shadow of the taliban u.s. talks they listed their concerns should any deal be successful shala bellus reports . 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 ground they spoke after the largest ever 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 my good everyone came to see 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 lined 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 there were a lot of government. they were all women who believed in who have analyzed their involvement from different social economic political and 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 jurga highly guarded circus and most people are not among the taliban but they are like taliban just suited 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 jurga 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 shiela ballasts. rights activist for afghan women she says the taliban could reverse gains made to

women's rights in afghanistan. first of all the guess that we have had for the last fifteen years are very fragile that we still need a very long way to go and secondly the taliban have continued to attack woman issues for the past fifteen years when they were and power but also and their mascot meeting we saw their statement that the they were the statement itself short that they are they will be limiting that i it's of limited once again they have their own definition of what woman can do look based that under finnish and of slotnick values and not make rights of lament so this is very concerning and it's also very concerning because they're not talking to women about their rights they're talking to men to add their men we are not a part of this discussion as we are not a part of these negotiations so far. as it's all that escape advice and

during that time of the moment i'm not able to get an education one of the women are not even able to leave their homes without me company all of these things have changed tremendously for women women are more active in politics they're more present in the social life they have more access to education that the situation is not ideal we still have a long way to go but we are in a place where we can hope for better begin to continue working for better and if the taliban are an integrated and they come back we are worried that there is this opportunity that is given to us to build on it will also be taken away and we will go back to see it on any platform any opportunity that is available for movement it too late is their voices and to make themselves heard to be included in this peace process is a good thing it can and it can create a positive impact it can raise our voices it's a it can make our voices heard more than fifty people are missing after an oil pipeline exploded in southern nigeria the blast caused the stampede and it left

a huge spill in the niger delta it's not clear if the pipeline was shut down. at least seven people have died in cross border shelling in between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region the indian pirate captured by pakistan has now returned home to a hero's welcome so here raman reports from new delhi. the libya is missing military pilot is back home and people are celebrating on the streets. i've been on the boat the man's fighter jet crashed in pakistan administered kashmir on wednesday after being shot at by pakistan's force pakistan's prime minister brunt current ordered his release as a goodwill gesture which was welcomed by new delhi it's the only story in turn yet the government's message is clear pakistan is not off the hook. in the past twenty four hours there's been ongoing shelling in the kashmir region indian administers kashmir officials claim three members of one family were reported to have been

killed in the area. at six in the evening pakistan started firing and shelling the shelling was going on for about three hours one of the shell fired by pakistan hit a house in which three members of a family were killed including two innocent children. fifty kilometers away in civilian to a blue to temporary accommodation after coming out to heavy shelling from pakistan's forces the suicide bombing that killed more than forty paramilitaries last month prompted the latest escalation of violence in the disputed kashmir territory it's one of the worst attacks a decades and group operating from inside pakistan claimed responsibility india's foreign minister speaking at the organization of islamic conference in abu dhabi as its guest of honor was clear about her country's approach to terror groups they have to go. national newspaper editors says the government is keen to play a bigger role of the international stage they want to be of the process of

decision making in the muslim world because if you are there on the idea well then you go and influence things and also there. will be. somehow sidelined by. somehow as you are going to a leading role in the muslim world india is heading towards a general election in twenty fourteen the issue of relations with pakistan was not high on the election campaign agenda with weeks to go just before that date is announced politicians are trying to work out how to internationally isolate pakistan while domestically build consensus that helped them win the election so hold raman al-jazeera delhi. a prime minister narendra modi is calling for indians to me tonight he's challenging those questioning his leadership over the current crisis. these are those people who listen to statements from pakistani

generals' pakistan radio and they are saying there is evidence against india they are against me against modi and now they are damaging the country india and tuning against the country i want to ask the people who do you believe us or not or do you believe those people who are sending to arrests and to country plenty more ahead on this news now. and for worshipers after a long battle at the mosque compound but more problems inside. a hard slog why it's taking so long to clean up one of the world's most polluted rivers. and the n.b.a. sees its highest scoring game in nearly three decades more details later in sports .

still ahead but first the u.s. back syrian democratic forces are clearing the last pocket of i saw fighters from but whose mother group may soon lose all their territory it is likely too soon to declare total victory and to ship out reports. exhausted hungry and sick thousands of women and children have fled their resort in southeastern syria in the last week ahead of a u.s. back to salt on the last piece of ice will 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 bug 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. this and this kind of similar terrorist groups are now thriving in africa and i won't be surprised if these same groups when taught to get. the video they would have military operation 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 group. there are. all 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 you should tell al-jazeera. of the defeat of i saw in the northern iraqi town of sanjoy twenty fifteen left a power vacuum competing armed groups of vying for control there a lack of agreement among them is preventing thousands of people from the minority is e.b. community who fled i saw going back chas traffic reports from a whole. 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 the community they try to flee the eisel offensive on sin jobs i saw was defeated in sin jar in november twenty fifth dean now measure 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 sabotage 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 them. 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 u.s. 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 sin jaw 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 will bomb want this situation 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 often called iraq's forgotten people of the suffering some of the worst atrocities on the eisel political violence and distrust means they are now also struggling to rebuild their lives struck at al-jazeera more normally roque or worshipers at a mosque compound are back in control of a meeting 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 then release of the cleric who helps administer the compound burn a smith reports from occupied east jerusalem.

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 mercy 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 the mercy gate is an integral part of aqsa and we sacrifice everything we have including ourselves including our children to the mosque oh the trust or walk says locking the gate is another example of israel trying to assert itself inside the axa compound at the roots of this discrete is who controls the holy sites beyond that gates now israel claims sovereignty over all of east jerusalem but includes here in the old city on the l.x. a compound but in nineteen sixty seven jordan and israel agreed that the jordanian

managed 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. muslims are allowed to visit but not pray the ultranationalist want that 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 the birth of every muslim has the right to enter and pray in the most agape home for many years the occupations unjust measures have stopped us praying year thank god today we prayed and held the friday prayers in it. untouched for sixteen years the mercy gate hole now needs extensive renovation but will 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 a bushfires in the australian state of victoria have led them to issue an emergency warning for the area people living around the state park east of melbourne have been told to leave their homes as more than three hundred firefighters tried to control the fast moving blaze it's thought the fires were started by multiple lightning strikes on friday season is already the hottest autumn the region has seen in thirty years a clean up of one of the world's most polluted rivers is taking longer than expected every day about twenty thousand tons of waste dumped in the chatterjee in indonesia floods louis reports from bandung in west java on why it's such a tough job. cleaning up indonesia's most polluted river is

a huge undertaking even the military's involved machines have been brought in to bury the tons of rubbish fished out from the cheetah it's been a year since the government launched a program to clean up the river. but one military commander tells us progress has been slow with an action plan only put in place recently but they were number of the school we were supposed to have four thousand six hundred military personnel working on this last year but we only had one thousand six hundred this year because of a lack of funds four hundred of us involved thankfully the villages see the benefits of this program so they have been helping us so. the cheeto river flows through northwest java and provides eighty percent of the water supply for the capital jakarta this photo taken in january by a local environmental group shows untreated waste from a textile factory dumped directly into the river runoff from farms upstream also

contribute to the contamination a government agency that routinely tests the quality of water in the cheeto room says it went from bad to worse last year. the slow progress is even more apparent in other areas this looks like a landfill but it's really part of the river the surface is completely covered with all kinds of rubbish plastic bags bottles but here you get a sense of the scale of the problem and just how massive the cleanup effort is the plan to rehabilitate the river isn't only about improving water quality floating garbage clogs up drainage the river frequently overflows during the rainy season. people in the village of cheap have had to endure floods year after year and sound . any young man with a gun with a minute by minute look at this this happens every time it floods our streets and

homes get covered in mud and trash i worry not for myself but for my children and grandchildren. the newly appointed governor of west java indonesia's most populous province has been tossed to the cleanup we're making much progress more than the perception. of five years stefania given from the degree we will show the world from the dirtiest of the further we can become one of the most livable. the for in the world was. to make good on his word he'll have to ensure that the river is cleaned up but that the laws that punish those who pollute the river on forced florence louis al-jazeera by indonesia are still ahead on al-jazeera venezuela's opposition leader trying to shore up support to oust president nicolas maduro. would less than a month before breaks it it's possible impact has the science community worried will tell you why. and in sport pacific island players set to vote on whether to

boycott this year's rugby world cup. hello today's the day for heavy rain in pakistan afghanistan afghanistan is underneath this cloud here but that's the fishes has to if it is on its way out that is a big gap back through iran towards the coastal event which looks fine the moment but increasingly i think as the day progresses we go into sunday in the freezing wind cloud and rain you'll see it again not to quite the same degree that brought the flash floods the west bank to be further north running through syria and northern iraq and by this time it looks fine weather campbells in the sunshine and about seven degrees that sunday come monday and it's still west that we look more

rain and cloud march eastwards to the iranian border to be replaced by showers frequent showers in the lebanon and probably is fast south sinai beyond that where the breeze has been blowing quite steadily and that's going to slowly lighten on sunday and indeed monday along the temperatures this side of saudi arabian around the gulf nations to rise slowly a sunny picture not a particular dusty picture the rains been moving out to southern africa recently but it is going to be a brief pause i think for big showers to reappear on the eastern side of south africa in sudden mozambique and particularly concentrating in southern tanzania. the wells pollinate says are in decline. in this episode of arthritis we meet entomologists on opposite sides of the planet protecting insects of all sizes crucial to preserving food chains. i've come to the u.k.

to see how old industrial sites are being turned into bug reserves in an attempt to reverse this worrying trend. fighting insect to get on on al-jazeera. the globe in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being a freedom the challenge is going to be. men and women to the resources that are available but it's an al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want to apologize for what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth.

hello again you're watching i just there are a mind of our top stories this hour. we're going to jackies deals with. these people as. u.s. president donald trump appeared on the final day of a major conference of american conservatives his first speech since his former lawyer testified against him in congress on the failed summit with north korea's leader kim jong il. i level talks between the u.s. and taliban a presumed in dog the taliban refusing to directly negotiate with the afghan government and it wants foreign forces to withdraw. at least seven people have died in cross border shelling between india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region indian officials say pakistani artillery fire killed a woman and her two children up a sponsor's indian troops killed two civilians and two soldiers. a saudi arabia's

public prosecutor says it will put several female activists on trial despite an international outcry they face charges of fighting for women's right to drive mohammed reports. it was last june that women in saudi arabia were given the legal right to drive a car up until then it was the only country in the world that banned women from getting behind the wheel but about the same time security forces were also cracking down on the women activists who had been calling for these reforms mothers grandmothers were tied professes they were all accused of undermining the kingdom security civility and national unity demonized on state media and branded as traitors a number of them were arrested and saudi prosecutors are putting four women and five men on trial there's been an international outcry and a campaign for their release rights groups say some of the women have been tortured

in secret prisons some were allegedly caned or electrocuted others sexually assaulted though jane and her family accuse southall qahtani the former adviser to the crown prince of supervising her torture the saudi government rejects the allegations and says the detainees enjoy all rights preserved by the laws of the kingdom but the spotlight is again being focused on saudi arabia's human rights record i could impress on on the saudi government and frankly royal court it is simply not worth it to keep these women in prison and they certainly do not deserve to be there those women are innocent and they've done nothing but try to highlight . annan and an unnecessary and frankly medieval interpretation of the law dozens of other human rights defenders academics and religious clerics remain in saudi prisons where the saudi kingdom continues to promote what it sees as its reform

agenda its attempts to modernize saudi arabia for him home it al-jazeera always chief financial officer will appear in court next week after canada allowed an extradition request to proceed when one joe was arrested vancouver airport in december at the request of the us government it accuses hmong and the chinese tech giant of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran.