they are rendered unemployed and they start the new avenues fight employment that is the story of course then i guess he was betting them no doubt about that but when the pakistan was also allowed in got by them because of their unemployment the stigma is there with the pakistan state productive or dead but they have a low to lessen this is as it is it is a bad minute then as well which is giving the bad is that now but the groups are active today probably you know if you kashmiri actually say they are in the minority. look if there are people as you said earlier that there are people who can be attracted to. of asian that is presented there are some people who might be liking an ideology it's just a portrayal all i want kashmir the struggle to defame it to connect it with terrorism it is not true the issue of armed groups and who supports them is

a phony one in park your son now the pakistani authorities say they are cracking down on these armed groups but it's clear that they are in the spotlight right now what isn't clear is what pockets on intends to do about the groups among current al-jazeera was about. semitic foreigners an author and a conflict management analyst is joining us now live from islamabad thanks very much for being on al-jazeera with this. imran khan the prime minister of pakistan had said is that it was a gesture of peace to hand back the indian pilot why has it stopped that what else can pakistan do to try and reinforce the gestures of peace. well thank you very much for taking me on a. well this is a great and big move just so that the promise from one can and should have been vested procreated from the indian side but it has not mean unfortunately but on the

other hand promise from manhunt has also stated that if there is any actionable evidence that to the indian side is claiming that some of the groups that are emanating from pakistan and by the way these organizations are already banned being banned and defunct organizations so if that evidence is given to us and khan has stated that we are ready to take action against them but we cannot live in and this space and avoid and without any evidence we cannot take actions against anybody so it is the turn of the indian side although it does year has been shared with us from the box on the authorities are looking into it but there seems to be not a doc much tangible information that is required to take action against an individual or an organization as our correspondent in rome was telling us there that there was there is evidence that there are groups armed groups in kashmir who are demonstrating and holding rallies using arms and guns and holding those guns in front of pakistani police who are allowing them to do that would seem to run counter to the level of action that pakistan seems to be taking against these

groups what would you say to that. well there are organizations who are who have been protesting against the occupation of the union forces of kashmir and we all do not forget that kashmir is the unfinished agenda of partition between union pakistan since nine hundred forty seven and both nations have what wars over it and it is the right of the people to protest against it and up since i'm not privy to that information that they have been branding any ructions in the area but maybe one or two persons showing some vitamins there and parks in authority should take action against them but on the whole it is the right it is the peaceful right of the people of kashmir whether they are living on the pakistani side or living on the indian occupied kashmir to protest against these atrocities and to ask for the right of their self-determination which has been envisaged to them which have been promised to them by not only the united nations but also the first prime minister of india mr so if and when the right of the self-determination is given to the people of kashmir i think that is the right fit of

a solution you said before that india really had the ball in its court that it is now down to india to take some action to show its efforts towards peace what do you think those efforts should be. yes there are many ways there have been composite dialogue that was initiated last lee and that has been detail by different events unfortunately and events that is happening on the indian soil video to any concrete proof that is given to the pakistanis say the within moments even after this. the pointing finger of accusation was towards pakistan they did not go into any investigation they did not run an investigation team did just to saw the pictures and said that it was done by pakistan although somebody came on air and sent a video of the gesture muhammad that they are taking responsibility but today's world of the fake news that you can appreciate more than me anybody can take that claim we have to take that claim with a pinch of salt we have to take that claim with

a cogent to an actionable evidence so if there was anything then this should be some actions taken against them and secondly then the process of the commas of dialogue should be initiated people to people contact should be the key the opening of the borders for the kashmiris to cross over pakistan has taken order to get its initiative of opening the park put up quite a door where this community of indian side will be allowed to come over to pakistan to improve the relationship between the people we should not be hostage of the of warmongers from the both sides of the border you should not be going into the hands of the people who are going for the atrocities we should call a horse somebody should cry halt war is not a small thing and with these stockpiles of the buttons that these water nations have these the border are active nuclear states so that would be horrible to think about war at this point in time just calm down take note of the situation exchange initial level of discussions maybe from the lower level and then you can go up to the height of the prime minister level and very have the promise from around

converse trying to contact the prime minister of india prime minister more the but unfortunately that his call has not been a surprise so this is the way to go to talk dialogue a discussion across it is not going to have been any case so better but we appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed. but more ahead on the news hour including. i'm shallow dallas in the symmetry and least in kabul coming up we'll be telling you who's to blame for the record number of civilian casualties in afghanistan last year. and going back home a bittersweet journey for syrians who fled to neighboring lebanon to escape the violence. and in sports david beckham makes his mark on the opening day of the new major league soccer season son is going to be here with that story.

algeria's president as he's beautifully is expected to officially file his candidacy for april's election on sunday so far he's defied calls for him to step down on saturday he sacked and replaced his unpopular campaign chief the eighty two year old has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in twenty thirteen i'm goods of thousands of people have rallied against a beautifully his decision to seek a fifth in the largest protests algeria has seen in decades it's a rare show of dissent which is engulfed thirty cities it came to power in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when a civil war that lasted a decade and it still has the backing of several political parties trade unions business groups and the military many of the protesters are young and they say they want to change what they see as deep rooted corruption among the ruling elite geoff porter is the founder of north africa risk consulting and he does not think the protests will escalate into conflict you know reasoning by analogy is always

a dangerous thing to do. you know algeria is not to use your own theory is not egypt it's not syria it's not this is not an arab spring this is its own. generic systemic algerian movement it's responding to specific conditions and i'm curious and it's not easily comparable to the circumstances that unfolded in the other countries that i just mentioned for example. your books live despite the protests that took place over the last week and especially on friday does have a base and he does remain popular is not similar to. ben ali in tunisia or of the border to egypt if you go to the countryside booklet most popular if you ask the older generation because popular if you ask women. especially secular women who remains popular he's a sympathetic figure he's not

a good fit unlike the other individuals that egypt and tunisia and syria for example or libya even the afghan taliban and the u.s. are continuing bilateral talks in doha u.s. envoys on me. describing unprecedented progress to end the seventeen you know war is making the taliban's co-founder well i built funny but it's the highest level talks between the two sides since the war began let's speak to dawson a body here in doha where the talks are taking place doc said we have an indication first of all what's happening in the rooms where the talks are happening. well rob we've spoken to officials from both sides off the record they've said that the talks are focusing specifically now on the withdrawal of u.s. troops in afghanistan the taliban wants the fourteen thousand american soldiers that are currently in afghanistan to leave as quickly as possible the americans say think that they can do this within

a few years that's something the taliban officials here say is not acceptable to them they want to see the americans leave within months not years so that's where things are at a moment one american official we spoke to as well said that he's not hopeful these talks will wrap up by the end of today so they continue on we'll have to wait and see as to when they can reach an agreement a dose of course there was that significant attack in helmand province on the military base there is that having any bearing do we know on the talks that are happening at the moment you. know we've tried to ask that question to the taliban spokesman and he hasn't responded and they're not acknowledging any of the information that's come out of afghanistan over the past twenty four hours about that attack they are just focusing on the americans and there are departure from their country the only other issue at scuse me at the tail on the table for them is the taliban wants reassurances that their country will not be used by groups like

al-qaeda and i so to grow once the americans leave so these are the only issues that being discussed at the moment doors are things very much indeed. well on the ground in afghanistan civilians are dying and record numbers are un report as documented three thousand eight hundred civilian deaths in twenty eighteen including nearly a thousand children that's the highest number of civilians killed since record keeping began in twenty nine charlotte about us has more from kabul. it's lunchtime when fifty eight year old mohammed hussein and arrives to open a shop he sells drinks out of a container in the symmetry it doesn't get busy until the afternoon but it's busier than it's ever been. so every day we're witnessing burials here there is no space left on this hilltop we are suffering from these attacks. the un

says thirty eight hundred civilians including one thousand children were killed in afghanistan last year it's a record for mohammed to those numbers come to life in the hills around him he's lived at the foot of the symmetry watching it expand for over a decade. it is very painful in a nightmare from now when they bring the bodies sometimes twenty thirty even forty to be buried. the u.n. says one of the reasons for the record number of civilian deaths is i saw suicide attacks they were particularly deadly last year and they often targeted the shia minority over here and western kabul resulting in a lot of people being brought up here to be symmetry which is quickly filling up. the u.n. report found the biggest killer of civilians was the taliban responsible for thirty seven percent of deaths the taliban rejects the un's finding the meeting of tribal elders and former taliban commanders in kabul spoke out against it this week they

laid the blame on afghan and international forces your mom while you were struggling are. a lot older than i. really didn't killing innocent people you cannot read people get killed in your strikes. last year was the first on record that more than five hundred civilians were killed because of airstrikes mostly by international forces who say they do investigation review credible allegations of errors to learn and improve but in the blame game of the afghan war the un hopes they can be some accountability i think it's important that the stark reality of the costs of the conflict is put before the public and therefore does enter the calculations of those who are talking in that in the endeavor to bring this conflict to a close it's

a complex now and it's eighteenth year with everyone that passes the graves edge closer to the ridge line behind the statistics beneath the snow my children and parents sunni and shia not fighters killed by them just the same ballasts al-jazeera. kurdish forces in syria are closing in the last remaining i saw fighters in the village of backhoes and say they expect a quote decisive battle on sunday. u.s. backed syrian democratic forces launched the final push against their own group on friday but last remaining civilians were evacuated just hours earlier thousands of people of left in recent weeks they're being taken to a camp near the iraqi border. now in a few moments we're going to all the other with stuff but still ahead and also. i'm sunny day and all in. a form a monastery is set to become a school for the next generation's far right populist but a titian. on the campaign to save

a reptile in kenya that's facing extinction. and in sport another record breaking effort from this all time great old west indies cricket. hello there for some of us in europe it's looking pretty stormy as we head through the next twenty four hours or so we've got an area of cloud this means swelling to the north of scotland that bore to some wet and windy weather already that's not clearing out the way though instead that huge massive cloud over the northwestern parts of europe within that there are some very heavy outbreaks of rain and there are also some very strong winds as well so this is what we're looking like out on sunday by around lunchtime and the heaviest of the rain making its way up around ireland and to the southwest of the of britain you can see just how strong those

winds are and generally what's going to happen is the heavy rain will hit first and then you'll see the very very strong winds his best first swell limb making its way over the northern parts of scotland that clears away and then you get this huge massive cloud that we're seeing over us now so most of us are having a very gray day and it's going to get wetter and windy is juror in the afternoon will see the worst of the winds for many of us they could be gusting up to one hundred ten kilometers per hour that is easily enough to bring down trees and power lines of course quite a bit as destruction that system will end work its way towards the northeast and then it'll be parts of scandinavia on monday but we see some of the worst of the winds behind it it's still going to stay pretty unsettled lots of wet weather around the strong winds to the south east of europe where it's brought to them for many of us hit pretty. sponsored town. in slave abuse and longing for you. the plight of many.

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watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. and south korea have agreed to end large joint military exercises in order to support future talks with pyongyang on denuclearization drills had been a point of contention with north korean leader kim jong un. funerals have been held for the victims of the recent fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed on saturday in cross border shelling between india and pakistan. algeria as president. is expected to officially file his candidacy for april's election on sunday so far he's defied calls for him to step down on saturday he sacked and replaced his unpopular campaign chief.

but as soon as opposition leader insists he'll return home despite threats of being arrested. in ecuador or he met presidents lenin martin is on the tour of latin america which has taken him to colombia but as part of why and argentina he's drumming up support against venezuelan president nicolas maduro the european union has urged in the digital government not to address why bill for violating a court order not to leave the country saying who escalates the crisis aid workers in brazil say indigenous people fleeing venezuela are among some of the most vulnerable migrants homage jim has met to one indigenous group at a shelter in the city of vista who are doing all they can to hold on to their traditions. delicately weaving their traditional handicrafts the work being done by these women is one part practical and one part personal practical since it helps

them earn a living personally because they feel it guarantees their survival. but i know that we're doing this so that we won't lose our cultures arts and crafts we need to keep doing this so our children will never lose their culture of hania centeno like the others seated next to her is a member of the what out and indigenous community that lives in venezuela is orinoco river delta numbering around twenty thousand eight workers here say the what out were among the first people to be affected by the deepening troubles and it is wailing. she many of them were already living on the streets begging on the streets of venezuela hundreds of what i now live here at this shelter in the northern brazilian city of both east and it's run by brazil's army and in geos and supported by the united nations refugee agency. to pass the time younger members play volleyball. while tribal chiefs reminisce about their beloved orinoco. it will

heal by ease tells me the river seems almost to flow through their blood and that now the river seems to be flowing ever farther away. but the loneliness we're afraid because the children are learning that we are in a shelter what we have here is very different from our customs of fishing and hunting and our traditional arts and crafts unlike other migrants the what our are trying to get to other parts of brazil they prefer to stay close to venezuela hoping to make it back ensuring at least for now that their lives stay very much in limbo that's one of the reasons things have been set up differently here. at the beginning of the new show response that traditional response was to set that then as we didn't know the south but since they didn't like it they would have the hamilton outside to sell their. hammocks because it's what they're used to sleeping

on not. fernando good you know with the u.n. h.c.r. tells me hundreds of them have been placed in this converted gymnasium to help the white house feel more stable their normal very vulnerable position in the it's clear when we receive them at the border when we check their health conditions it's very clear that they have more room than abilities in they need they have more specific needs. but it's not just the sleeping arrangements that are unique camp administrators also set up a communal kitchen. one of the more interesting things we found in this shelter is that the what hour are provided with food and they prepare their own meals it's another way for them to try to preserve cultural traditions many are afraid are disappearing. food that is about much more than eating. products that are about much more than selling essential threads of

a history they'll do anything to keep alive mammoth. at the pinto lundy a shelter in board brazil the us president has lost a furious attack at the miller investigation joining the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the u.s. on trying the speech came after his former lawyer michael cohen labeled him racist a con man and a cheat in his testimony to congress trump says his political opponents are trying to take him out with the investigation into possible russian collusion during the twenty sixteen election we had the greatest of all time now we have people that lost. and unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with ok. and you've got

a has more from the conference in oxon hill maryland the president don't trump might have had a couple of uncomfortable weeks with north korea really foremost pics of michael cohen giving damning testimony before congress but here it's see packed this is he's basically he's been talking to them about all the usual issues his relationship with china the booming economy and also immigration but he did touch briefly on the miller report let's listen to what the president had to say. 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 check his deals we get a check these people is sick this is. i saw a little shifty shift yesterday. it's a first time he went into

a meeting. and he said we're going to look into his finance i said where did that come from he always talked about russia collusion with russia the collusion delusion so what the president was essentially doing he was energizing he's basically talked about the love that was in this room and this theme of this year's c pac really ace trump ism he talked a lot about the forthcoming twenty twenty alexion and he has a theme that will come up again and again he wants people to believe that he's an opposition the democrats are socialists he talked about that in relation to venezuela he will talk about that once again in the future but in this room lots of love of residents from going forward to the twenty twenty large. well u.s. president donald trump's former advisor steve bannon is helping set up an academy for old white leaders in italy bannon's praised italy's populist government but its nationalist agenda and is hoping more countries will follow its example but his son

you're going to go reports from korea pando some residents aren't happy they're in town is going to host the next generation of old white leaders. for more than eight hundred years that resulted charterhouse monastery in college park dar has been a place of quiet contemplation these days the last of the remaining monks is retired and it is no longer solely dedicated to the theory of pursuits the new resident has moved in with more worldly plans in mind benjamin han well the founder of the d.d. tartus humana institute or d.h. i want to transform it into a right wing populist recruiting ground the first project is the cardinal martino academy for human dignity which will promote catholic social teaching with a special emphasis pro-life pro-family issues the second project is the academy for the judeo christian west which will promote the christian foundations of

western civilization one of the main backers is all right ideologues de bannon who played a leading role in president trump's electoral victory and was the author of his nationalist american first dogma his intention here to spread that vision across europe and beyond because then return home use what they learned here for the fight for the judeo christian west once they get back into their home environment the blueprint for this was a talk given by a baton to the d.h.i. at the vatican in twenty fourteen where he preached his conflict ridden worldview but we're in an outright war against shia hardass islam islamic fascism within this form a monastery is where the organizes anstey bet and hope to create a new generation of populist nationalist politicians and thinkers the next donald trump or viktor orban if you will but outside of these walls there is little

appetite for this project. in the town itself there is a sense of discomfort about the plans to sooty was until last year looked after by the state and there were concerns over how the d.h.i. which keeps its funding secret to maintain the monastery. we cannot even begin to consider allowing steve benen to come to our town and sensual there just so he can do whatever he likes by launching this academy to attack the european union its result to become the battleground for europe we will defend it but at the. resulting project may sound a warning for the very future of the european union and increasingly fragile continent that threat is ever present this will be a front line where the forces of populism oyster the new recruits and create an elite in their own image sonny diagonal al-jazeera. historians are heading to the

polls in a parliamentary election that seen as a test for the far right center left prime minister as your own iraq says is the front runner in sunday's poll but he could face difficulties forming a parliamentary majority the nationalist historian conservative people's party has been making gains and since the migration crisis in twenty fifteen protests against serbian president aleksander have been held for the thirteenth week in a row thousands marched in the streets of belgrade demanding media freedom as a precondition for free and fair elections demonstrations began after an opposition politician was beaten up last november. thousands of syrians who fled to neighboring lebanon when the war began are going back home the new minister in charge of lot of those refugees who number in the millions is an outspoken supporter of syria's government has vowed to make the return of refugees a priority human rights groups say those returning face arbitrary detention and

torture by the regime in a court of reports. a new group of syrians is returning home thousands have made this journey in recent months but their numbers are still small lebannon hosts over a million refugees from the war in syria authorities say it is time for them to go home now that much of the country is back under the syrian government's control but there are those who accuse bashar al assad's government of reestablishing we're pressin rule they cite the southern province of daraa as an example there is a. lot of insecurity for the population there for former rebels as well as for civilians people who never engaged in military action but who are have a record. people supporting the opposition of being against the government. the opposition and there are had agreed to a negotiated surrender for an amnesty but some say the so-called reconciliation

agreements are not being respected instead there have been arbitrary arrests. international organizations including the u.n. say the lack of security guarantees is why many refugees are afraid to go back. into the conflict and we haven't seen any form being done by the syrian government towards the security situation especially syrian security services that are responsible for crimes against humanity. torture and death in custody lebanon's politicians are divided on whether it is safe for syrian refugees to return home but the refugee affairs portfolio is now run by a politician allied to the syrian government the newly appointed minister salih first act in office was to visit damascus it further politicize the issue there are some criticize. the government. in.

return for. contacts with damascus happen until an international political solution is reached. many have complained about the refugee populations impact on the country's economy and infrastructure those who hold power say they will push ahead with what they call voluntary and safe returns for many syrians that could mean more difficult conditions to discourage them from staying there beirut new york times is reporting that a physician who holds jewel citizenship in the u.s. and saudi arabia has been tortured while in custody in saudi arabia newspaper alleges that the waleed foot was beaten and electrocuted during his imprisonment at a hotel in riyadh it was one of hundreds of people arrested in twenty seventeen and what the saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone said was

a crackdown on corruption is still believed to be in detention saudi officials have denied any mistreatment of detainees. saudi arabia's public prosecutor says it will put several female activists on trial despite an international outcry they're accused of undermining the kingdom's security stability and national unity in the home and 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.