try and flush out armed groups so how raman has more from new delhi tension in the kashmir region has increased over the past three weeks since the deaths of over forty india the paramilitaries and on february the fourteenth and of course the tension has been not just on the ground but also in the air we saw military aircraft in a dogfight earlier this week which led to the capture of an indian pilot released only on friday back to india for a bucket start yet the shelling continues across the line of control the civilians have been evacuated from booge and several other areas along the line of control while libyan officials say the situation is tense and they're monitoring events in the region the army's chief did did but will be visiting the line of control to assess the situation for himself with a brief government officials in new delhi as far as new delhi is concerned the

relationship with pakistan is tense will not develop for the positive in the near future and while it pakistan perhaps was hoping that the tension could be ratcheted down it seems very likely when shelling from pakistan administered kashmir continues into indian administered kashmir of that front india says they will remain on high alert meanwhile funerals are being held for some of the victims of the recent fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed on saturday and cross border shelling between india and pakistan tensions remain high after both sides said they shot down each other's jets on wednesday the relief well is an author and conflict management analyst who says pakistan and india need to put their differences aside to stamp out terrorism in the disputed kashmir region. we should not be hostage of the warmongers from the both sides of the border we should not be going into the hands of the people who are going for

the atrocities we should call a halt somebody should cry a halt vor is not a small thing and the stockpile of the buttons that these nations have these the ball to our active nuclear states the back to 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 we can go up to the high end of the prime minister level i'm very happy with the promise from around congress trying to contact the prime minister of india from mr modi but unfortunately that his call has not been reciprocated so this is the way to go out talk dialogue and discussion atrocities is not going to help and it's any case lead to more ahead in the news hour including. the ballast and the symmetry in waste in kabul coming up and we telling you who's to blame for the record number of civilian casualties in afghanistan last year. and the on the certain future facing syrians who took refuge

in lebanon. and in sports david beckham makes his mark on the opening day of the new major league soccer susan father is going to be here with that story. the afghan taliban and the u.s. are holding talks in doha u.s. envoy. is describing unprecedented progress to end the seventeen year war he's met the taliban's co-founder more the door funny but a duck it's the highest level of talks between the two sides and since the war began well let's speak to dos about it here in doha with the talks are taking taking place dorsett give us an indication do we know yet how successful these talks are being. no robyn they've actually wrapped up for the day early today we've spoken to some officials off camera and they tell us from the american side that the talks will continue in the coming days the taliban are also saying

that they haven't been able to reach an agreement on the details of the specifics that they want which is the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan that is a major point that is being discussed here it's one of the only points the taliban are telling us that they're discussing with the americans at this stage and that is the future of fourteen thousand u.s. troops currently in afghanistan the americans are proposing that they withdraw their troops in the coming years but the taliban want the u.s. troops to leave in the coming months so as the day five wraps up here it looks like they still have some work to do dr thanks very much indeed. on the ground in afghanistan people are dying in record numbers a u.n. report documented three thousand eight hundred civilian deaths in twenty eighteen including nearly one thousand children that's the highest number of killed since record keeping began in two thousand and nine charlotte bellus has more from kabul . it's lunchtime when fifty eight year old mohammed who say arrives to open

a shop he sells drinks out of a container and the symmetry 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 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 that 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 somebody or struck on our last 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. who reads and killing innocent people people reads people get killed in is strikes. last year was the first on record that more than five hundred civilians were killed because of air strikes 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 here with everyone that passes the graves each 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 challenge ballasts al-jazeera kabul floods in southern afghanistan have killed at least twenty people every rain hit kandahar city and six districts on friday the un says two thousand homes were engulfed in water some families have been taken to secure areas but up to five hundred people are thought to be stranded meanwhile across the border in pakistan the death toll from heavy rain and flooding has exceeded thirty in the

last ten days. kurdish forces in syria are closing in on the last remaining i saw fighters in the village of backhoes are expecting what they're calling a decisive battle on sunday. u.s. backed syrian democratic forces launched the final push against their own group on friday the last remaining civilians were evacuated just hours earlier thousands of people of left in recent weeks they're being taken to a county near the iraqi border and thousands of syrians who fled to neighboring lebanon when the war began are going back home and you minister in charge of lebanon's millions of refugees is an outspoken supporter of syria's government has vowed to make the return of refugees a priority and human rights groups say those returning face arbitrary detention and torture by the regime is in the heart of reports from beirut 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 assad's government of establishing presaged rule they cite the southern province of donna as an example there is a. in security for the population. for former rebels as well as for civilians people who never engaged in military action but who would have a record. people supporting the opposition. being against the government. the opposition 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 reform being done by the syrian government towards the security situation especially syrian security services that are responsible for crimes against humanity and for arbitrary detention torture and death and 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 politicized the issue there are some politicians who criticize. the government policy of intervening in the legs they believe refuge return as well as normalize direct contacts with damascus should not happen until an internationally backed political solution is reached in

syria. many in lebanon complain 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 stay in. beirut venezuela's opposition leader insists he will return home despite threats of being arrested one quiet though is in ecuador where he met with president lenin modern europe is on a tour of latin america which took him to colombia brazil and argentina is drumming up support against venezuelan president nicolas maduro the european union has urged the middle government not to arrest quiet though for violating a court order not to leave the country saying that could escalate the crisis international aid continues to sit on the colombia venezuela border that's after president maduro cut off relations with bogota but in the colombian border town of

cocoa to as al-jazeera is manuel lit up all over ports people are finding alternative ways to move freely. for thousands of venezuelans who live near the colombian border crossing the touchy to river is becoming a daily routine the water is shallow but it still requires a bit of skill to make it across. most of the people we encountered here are venezuelan citizens carrying heavy bags of used goods they hope to sell in colombia . this is scrap metal people take this and sell it and use the money to buy food and then take the food back to the other side. of it miss says he makes several of these trips every day and is lucky to make twelve thousand vessels for the effort that's the equivalent of about four u.s. dollars. and the people cross over to sell scrap metal because there are no jobs no security this keeps them going there's a heavy military presence along the colombian side of the border but officers tell

us they're only here to keep the peace not prevent people from moving freely between the two countries and if it's challenging crossing the border through the river it's challenging this bridge serves as the official border crossing and is usually bustling with pedestrian traffic but a week ago venezuelan officials set up barricades to prevent international aid from entering the country through colombia since then people have had to find other ways to get across the border. as many as twenty thousand people are estimated to be crossing to and from minnesota every single day this river is what separates minutes from colombia some people tell us they've been traveling for four hours or more in search of food others say what they're seeking is medical attention. this woman was rushed across the river on a stretcher after suffering a miscarriage her mother tells us they didn't know where else to go you know her mouth is purple she's vomiting and vomiting there was no went to treat her if i

didn't bring her here she would die. the local economies on both sides of this border rely heavily on commerce and it's clear that people are anxious for it to reopen even though there's no clear sign of when that might be but ended up with. who. aid workers in brazil say indigenous people fleeing venezuela are among some of the most vulnerable migrants homage i'm jim has met one indigenous group at a shelter in the city of boy 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 and i don't know that they were doing all 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 our hania

sent to know like the others seated next to her is a member of the what an indigenous community that lives in venezuela's 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 well it. could also be made as a city she many of them were already living on the streets begging on the streets of venezuela. hundreds of what out now live here at this shelter in the northern brazilian city a bold beast 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 no no 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 and unlike other migrants the what are 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 looked at the hammocks outside the shelter. hammocks because it's what they're used to sleeping on not. fernanda good you know with you in h.c.r. tells me hundreds of them have been placed in this converted gymnasium to help the white house feel more stable they are normally already 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 news. 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 mohammed atta at the pinta lundy a shelter in both of east in brazil. ok so for a look at the weather it's pretty cold in north america here stuff cold to tell us

more yes i heard you complaining it was cold in doha cortines agree with what coal really is let's have a look at north america then this is what it currently is temperature wise here calgary minus twenty four and grateful for that minus thirty three but at least in these two locations the winds aren't too strong head a bit further towards the east and the winds pick up a bit so for winnipeg mind it's twenty six as we go in north dakota but here the winds are actually a little bit stronger so they're around eighteen or nineteen kilometers per hour and that really has an effect on how it feels outside because you get a wind chill this time of minus thirty eight that's how cold it feels and it is bitter there at the moment now this cold air is pushing further south or behind this area of cloud here that's just sinking down into the southeast actually bringing us a fair amount of rain and a fair amount of snow on its back edge as well as you might expect because it's just so cold here this whole system is going to sweep its way eastwards taking the rain with it we'll probably see around fifty millimeters of wet weather in some of

the worst spots here and that it will work its way up the east coast some places could see around twenty centimeters of snow and then it will move away but behind it it's not going to be warm look at the maximum air in atlanta just eight degrees in washington d.c. getting to four now it looks like the winds over the northwestern part of our map again to get even worse as we head through the night so that will give us a wind chill as low as minus fifty now that is cold. and still ahead on al-jazeera . i'm sunday i go. where a former monastery is set to become a school for the next generation's far right populist politicians and their efforts in kenya to save turtles from extinction. in sports another record breaking effort from this all time great old west indies cricket.

counting the cost this week the secretive money working to influence the u.k.'s exit from the european union good morning vietnam will get to grips with one of southeast asia's tiger cup economies plus who really benefits in the five g. telecom. counting the cost. in slave abuse i'm longing for you. the plight of too many of these. after a lifetime of service a remarkable young woman breaks free. to lead an abolitionist movement of electrifying force. driven by her favorite book collection of something to gauge. my memory is my power a witness documentary on a. reminder

of our top stories this hour. ends of thousands of algeria and so protesting against plans by the president to seek a fifth term in office otherwise he's both a free high is expected to formally submit his candidate papers for april's election by the end of sunday demonstrations have also taken place in paris. the u.s. and south korea have agreed to end large joint military exercises they say it's to support future talks with pyongyang on denuclearization. venezuela's opposition leader insists he will return home despite threats or being arrested quite dole is

in ecuador or the next president and then in what i knew quite oh isn't a tour of latin america drumming up support against president nicolas maduro. the us president has launched a furious attack at the molar investigation joining the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the us donald trump speech came after his former lawyer michael cohen labeled him a racist a conman and a cheat in his testimony to congress says his political opponents are trying to take him out with the investigation into possible russian collusion during the twenty six 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. i'm gallagher has more from the conference in oxon hill maryland the president

donald trump might have had a couple of uncomfortable weeks with north korea and he's foremost pics of michael cohen giving damning testimony before congress but here it see part of 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. and it's a first time he went into

a meeting and he shared 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 it is a theme that will come up again and again he wants people to believe that he's an opposition that 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 a resident don't trump going forward the twenty twenty large. donald trump may have told the conference he's confident a victorian twenty twenty but independent senator bernie sanders is determined to beat him he launched his second bid for the u.s. presidency in brooklyn seventy seven year old son has told supporters he expected

to win the democratic candidate nomination it is cried tom as the most dangerous president in modern american history. the new york times is reporting that an american physician born in saudi arabia has been tortured while in custody in the arab kingdom the newspaper alleges that walid foote a hate was beaten and electrocuted to jaring his imprisonment at a hotel in riyadh it was one of hundreds of people arrested in twenty seventeen in what the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon said was a crackdown on corruption fatah is still believed to be in detention saudi officials have denied any mistreatment of detainees kolbe rockenfield is director of advocacy at the project on middle east a mocker say he says the case is unlikely to affect the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia. but i think what this does is continue to add criticism to the relationship right i mean as we see in the case has not gone away and now this is

just the latest case again now with the u.s. citizen and vald it will just increase pressure i think on the saudis it's very difficult to see them being active on this one in any way publicly if and if this gets in resolved in any way it's going to be very private very behind closed doors you're not going to see any kind of public criticism i think from the administration but that said you know they have they have shown this willingness to get involved with u.s. citizens before and so we may see some behind the doors progress this saudi arabia's public prosecutors says it will put several female activists on trial despite an international outcry detainees who include activists in their twenty's as well as mothers grandmothers and we talk professors face charges of fighting for women's right to drive their cues of undermining the kingdom's security stability and national unity here in the home 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 who 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 flaws family accuse south qatar any the former advisor 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 an anon 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. u.s. president donald trump's former advisor steve bannon is helping set up an academy for old right leaders in italy bannan has praised it in his populist government for its nationalist agenda and he's hoping more countries will follow its example but a song a giggle reports from korea pago some residents aren't happy their town will 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 forum on astri is where the organizers and steve battle 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. up inside it we cannot even begin to consider allowing steve benen to come to our town essential they are 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 that got a. good result to 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 with the forces of populism poised to the new recruits and create an elite in their own image something i egle al-jazeera. protests against serbian president telling sound of continue for the thirteenth week year in

a row thousands of march through 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 serbian opposition accuse president looters as government of violent intimidation. croatian journalists have rallied in the capitals are going to have demanding more press freedom in recent months more than a thousand lawsuits have been filed against journalists who say the cases are being used to censor them gracious public broadcaster has filed complaints against its own or other reporters critics said the broadcaster only serves the ruling party's interests a story and they're heading to the polls in a parliamentary election that scene is a test for the far right center left prime minister and your rights as is the frontrunner in sunday's poll but he could face difficulties forming a parliamentary majority the nationalist estonian conservative people's party has been making gains since the migration process in two hundred fifteen. elected

congolese president phoenix's. says he wants to free political prisoners within ten days security was pronounced winner of december's vote but that's being contested by the opposition is named easing tensions as a key goal of this first one hundred days. within ten days i will take a measure of granting a presidential pardon to political prisoners who have been sentenced by decisions that have been overturned i will actively work to create the conditions for the early return of compact yet who are currently outside the country for political reasons to carry out their activities in accordance with the law and the republican institutions. space x.'s first passenger council has successfully docked at the international space station the only passenger on the mission is a dummy named ripley carrying four hundred hp.