u.s. federal aviation agency or f.a.a. requires the company to undertake a software enhanced spend that boeing says will be deployed on the max lead in the coming weeks boeing says the updates of maneuvering flight control and pilot display software would make quote an already safe aircraft even safer president donald trump spoke by phone with boeing c.e.o. dennis mulan berg who has appeared with trump several times at events in recent years the call followed to trump tweets complaining that airplanes said become too complicated there is a precedent for a global ban in two thousand and thirteen u.s. officials ordered boeing to take its massive new dreamliner out of service to resolve a problem with batteries fires. the entire worldwide fleet of all boeing's seven three seven max aircraft would cost the company somewhere between one and five

billion dollars that's according to wall street analysts but that would be a cost that boeing would be well able to absorb the company just posted revenues of over one hundred billion dollars and that includes profits of more than ten billion dollars. al-jazeera yeah. now a priest a mother her daughter and three grandchildren as well as a pilot they were just some a thirty two kenyan victims have been killed in sunday's ethiopian airlines crash there were one hundred fifty seven people on board from thirty five different countries but kenya suffered the highest number of fatalities catherine size our correspondent she's been speaking to some of the families of those who died. it's hard to imagine the pain john cwindows is going through relatives and friends have been coming to his home in the cooler the rift valley to console him is a hard news that his wife. and three grandchildren had died in the few pin airlines

crash on sunday his wife was a retired school teacher who had gone to canada to visit their daughter carol and her children ryan kelly and nine month old ruby were coming back to kenya for a visit. to the village for. two. relatives of those who died are now waiting for information from the government and if you can add lines on when they'll be travelling to ethiopia their d.n.a. may be needed to identify the remains of windows and his family have started burial paper a show but they'll have to wait a little longer for the remains of their loved ones to be brought home if you can airlines officials say the identification process is delegates and will take time the plane went down just minutes after takeoff killing all a hundred fifty seven people on board most of those who died are kenyans.

these mourners are grieving for yet another victim a priest. who was retiring home from rome where he was working and i don't even want to see his sister ruth logical did not even know he was coming he wanted to surprise her my brother was very social and he was a very close friend to me who was not only a brother but the fred we would talk so many things. as they moaned their loved ones a little information they're getting is adding to their ordeal we talked to say their patient also won the whole process over quickly so they can bury their loved ones and then perhaps begin to heal. at the rift valley. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including we'll be live in afghanistan to talk to hum it karzai the former afghan president on the u.s. taliban control. and coming up in sport

a bad day for the tennis world number ones and both of them losing california peter we'll fill you in on the. coalition forces in syria say thousands of eisel fighters have now surrendered in. syria democratic forces have been bombarding the armed groups final claim for the several days now the operation resumed after a pause to allow civilians to get out let's talk to our correspondent there her abdul hamid she. is very close to the turkish syrian border so it seems very much as though the final days the final push if you like into bug is to rid syria of the presence of a soul is seriously underway. well

that's according to the syrian democratic forces but you do have to remember that this battle has been ongoing for several weeks now and it had to be it had to be stopped more than one simply because kurdish forces were taken aback by the amount of civilians that were holed up inside and also because they were backdoor negotiations that led to the surrender of thousands of fighters that said democratic forces are now saying that we are nearing the end of the battle even though on the ground they are advancing very slowly very cautiously simply because of the amount of land mines and booby traps left behind by the fighters so what happens is that night but comes under intense shelling and air strikes and then during the day the kurdish forces. at vance's slowly slowly cornering

cornering furder the fighters inside now the kurds say that over the last twenty four hours of a three thousand five hundred people have emerged from. of which about two thousand where i still fighters you surrendered we probably could expect the same pattern happening over the next twenty four hours because that's what's been going on certainly for the past few weeks so this is a situation that in the northeast of the country what's happening in the other parts of the country we understand that province in particular is the scene of fighting. well certainly tensions are escalating in italy for a province and maybe are long that demarcation line between the demilitarized zone which is the elite province and the regime could show all areas now that the people

in a live say that the regime has been continuously shelling and bombing the villages along that demarcation line which are mostly evacuated by now the white helmet that rescue team that has been at the heart really of saving people in syria said and showed a video yesterday evening about that pretty to be a white phosphorous charge getting the village after my which is actually evacuated there was no one there now we spoke to health authorities in a live and they confirmed to us do use of the white phosphorous but they did say that they were injured or casualties in that attack however three people died and twelve others were injured in another bombing that targeted one of these makeshift camps for displaced people mainly people who had left those villages along that demarcation line and in that attack three as i said three people died now

tensions are rising in the. province despite an agreement between change and russia in two thousand and eighteen to keep that area idea militarized zone it is under the security control of the church some referred to it live as a ticking bomb and do you have actually said they're setting it off who triggered the worst humanitarian crisis of the twenty first century simply because there are three million civilians who live there all these fighters and who had been evacuated from other parts of syria chil north of to the north part to the northern province of idlib. thank you very much indeed talking to us live there from southern turkey and getting into. now the taliban in the u.s. have ended their latest round of talks here in doha both sides saying progress has

been made they say a draft agreement has now been reached on foreign troop withdrawal as well as not allowing fighters to operate inside afghanistan is our diplomatic editor jane spays . the talks here in doha started sixteen days ago they've come to an end but no breakdown and yet no breakthrough both sides are saying there has been some progress in fact rather remarkably both the u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad and the taliban spokesman put out tweets almost civil taney asli making the same point that there are four issues they've been discussing on two of those issues they've reached a draft agreement one of those is the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan potentially most of the u.s. troops leaving the country and what has for the u.s. been its longest war in history also on another key point what the u.s.

calls assurances on counterterrorism we understand that's the taliban making a commitment not to support carder what will happen to those two draft agreements is the leadership will go back to their respective commanders the taliban to afghanistan and pakistan the u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad back to washington d.c. to brief the secretary of state might pompei and quite possibly the president the u.s. secretary of state just happens to be coming to this region in the next week but meanwhile on the ground in afghanistan the violence is continuing ten afghan soldiers were killed in the western province of fattah after the taliban stormed an army checkpoint and elsewhere the u.s. has been conducting a series of air strikes against the taliban american forces there refusing reports of civilian deaths and of called it taliban propaganda salah betis reports now from kabul. from the villages thing into gaza he says he untracked is transporting

bodies wrapped in cloth they say these people were killed only i was prior on tuesday morning and he strikes carried out by us. since. they hit this car and killed everybody in it there was not a single member in the car all of them were three i swear you will find the taliban among them. live in the u.s. forces are defiant that this is a trick staged by the taliban they say they conducted four airstrikes in gaza knee killing seven taliban fighters but no civilians were killed they accuse the taliban of causing and inventing the deaths of innocent afghans and call it dishonest propaganda. three hundred kilometers away in lockman province they also chant death to america u.s. forces confirms they were is strikes here two last week but did not receive any civilian casualty rates these people disagree. with here on the

ten pm and killed many civilians including my children my brothers and sisters and . people here want the airstrikes to stop even if u.s. and afghan forces have a legitimate claim the taliban are hiding among them. if i am sheltering taliban or you find them here take me to court but i cannot tolerate these airstrikes anymore a third incident in neighboring province is under investigation u.s. forces say afghan troops conducted a night raid on saturday when they came under fire and called in air strikes u.s. forces say thirteen taliban were kills tribal elders say thirteen civilians were killed. if strikes are an increasing problem in afghanistan u.s. forces relaxed their rules of engagement here last year removing susan proximity requirements for air strikes the result according to the u.n. was the deaths of three hundred ninety three civilians more than double the year

prior and more than twenty fourteen twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen combined two thirds of the date will women and children the general did yet there is not proper coordination between the government and international forces of the war management is weak if there had been proper coordination i don't think the civilian casualties would be so high rollers difficult to verify individual incidents of civilian casualties even the perception is leading to backlash against international and afghan forces if he does know gauge on these issues and tell international forces to leave i will start a national uprising. with no announcement on any international military with tool the situation remains tense on the ground its military pressure increases from the year ballasts al jazeera couple. right now we can speak to the former afghan president hamid karzai joining us live now from kabul thank you

very much indeed for joining us we've just seen a heartbreaking picture of the current situation in afghanistan today put that against the optimism that seems to be surrounding the talks that have just wound up here in doha where would you would you do you side with the optimists and think that there is an end in sight now to nearly eighteen years of fighting in afghanistan yes ma'am are welcome the talks between the united states and the taliban. and hope for the most who will have lasting peace in afghanistan. and the sooner the better even right now an end to violence and the killing of the afghan people indeed there's a draft agreement on the withdrawal of foreign troops we understand as well as assurances on the part of the taliban that afghanistan in the future will not be used by armed groups to attack the u.s. and its allies but surely what needs to be put in place is

a ceasefire how far away are we from a cease fire in afghanistan. when we we shouldn't be far away from a cease fire of ganesan we should have it right now when that's the demand of the afghan people peace. and sees immediately now that it's taking time is unfortunate but to be. continued to hold a cease fire will be there soon. in the consequence of negotiations. productive talks between the taliban of the united states are also as a result of very soon all of the afghan dialogue in which the first focus will be on a cease fire and an end to violence that causes so much her chore people and does the intra afghan dialogue does that include the afghan government.

absolutely by all means eventually the soonest possible there has to be talks between the afghan government and the taliban so we can have a comprehensive peace agreement and lasting peace will only be there with us when the. ownership of the talks by the afghan people that means the taliban that the afghan government that means all over the afghan so in national dialogue of the afghan people is the biscoe into for a lasting peace when will that happen when will the taliban actually sit down with the afghan government up until now they refuse to talk to the afghan government accusing it of being a a puppet if you like of the united states when will this happen because no deal for afghanistan will be will be verifiable will be implementable without the

participation of the afghan government surely. absolutely right. and that's what exactly what you're trying to reach. when we talk with the taliban. has to be. talks between the taliban the afghan government it has to be an inclusive in traffic and dialogue in which. the afghan government is also very much present and. effectively present. we hope that we will reach that very soon with polity made some some steps in this regard and we are hopeful that sooner rather than later that stage will come now you yourself have been personally involved in the the talks between various afghan parties taking place in moscow you're perceived as being quite close to the russians those talks noticeably excluded ashraf ghani in the afghan government what is your position on that are

you an advocate for pushing for the inclusion of the afghan government in any peace talks of the taking place. yes yes yes yes yes we want to even then the afghan government to be there we want president ready to own these talks and to be to be. ineffective contributor and leader in these negotiations we hope that as we reach the stage of the into afghan talks in doha in qatar that who'd have made a lot of progress in this regard by an arrangement with the brothers the taliban beforehand so we can eventually have all of the afghan stakeholders represented and effectively in gauged in peace talks and when in your discussions with the taliban and talking about the future because it's clear that they are included in future arrangements for the country what kind of afghanistan do you envisage with the

taliban having a major role in the government again. of course they are part of the country they are the afghan people. but we cannot have a government of afghanistan or peace in afghanistan when when the. an important segment of the afghan population isn't there so we want the taliban to be very much part of the afghan political society of part of the afghan polity chain gauges in all the aspects of afghan life and we hope we would reach a comprehensive agreement. in the more dollars than the from of things to come with the taliban with. a perspective for a stand that's progress of the species full that's in line with the rest of the world in that's taking all the assistance steps to educate our our girls our boys

and in which afghanistan and seen as a country not harboring extremism or terrorism it was again a son is a good neighbor and a good participant of the international community and finally. elections are expected this year sometime to in may and july and to stand there's some talk about the possibility of you running again is that really on the agenda are you going to vie for president of afghanistan another time no no no no not all of the candidates for that election of all you've been announced and i'm not there i don't want in any form to go back as the president of afghanistan have done my time but i do want a peaceful afghanistan where i can live with my children and the children of all the afghan people and will we have a good country in which we reach prosperity and happiness all of us together how made karzai former president of afghanistan thank you very much indeed for joining

us live from kabul thank you ma'am thank you ma'am thank you. in just a few moments rob will have the weather also coming up here on this hour just their news hour celebrities are accused of paying bribes to get their kids into elite american universities and then for tiger woods sends out a warning to his rivals ahead of the masses will be with the. head of the southern summer has ended now in these transitional periods is when you get the most stormy weather south africa is no exception and the result of that well hail storms in the western cape and a certain amount of rain fell

a certain flooding these are hail stones collected from montague to hours east of cape town about the size of golf balls but you know we're not going to stay here because you see in the last couple of days of weather from where i'm standing and we're heading up towards in those on the channel where we've had a tropical cyclone revolving here so when the coastal flooding in malawi has been around for days and if anything it is now strengthening is the equivalent of a major hurricane and sort of the cold if it was in the atlantic it's winds up to one hundred eighty five chris robert maybe more interesting or dangerous is the way five already eleven meters and these things when they sweep in towards the land they lift the water effectively so you go to point to me to forecast storm surge so maybe the question is where is it actually going this is where is actually going on to the coast of mozambique within i think the next thirty six hours you start to feel it very soon that strength or winds will be noticeable but of course it's that's storm surge which is effectively flat ground and the amount of rain that may

well fall three or four hundred millimeters i would expect one of one half million people to be affected. the weather sponsored by cats already was. a nation where corruption is endemic embroiled in a battle to hold the power to account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean. to me that he was shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain the people on al-jazeera. is a popular filming location in france when it comes to stories about drugs crime and radicalization tired of negative stereotypes youth worker of its nanny is reclaiming its image by putting its young. behind the camera. the

stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them. in the news this is europe on al-jazeera. the top stories here on the news britain's politicians have rejected prime minister to resign may's withdrawal deal from the e.u. again. wednesday on the possibility of the u.k. leaving the e.u. with. the black boxes

from the plane that crashed on sunday overseas for analysis the announcement comes as a list of countries and their allies suspending the use of the boeing seven three seven knox continues to grow. ten saudi women have appeared in court in riyadh for the first time since said detention a year ago the cases against them have drawn international condemnation and outrage over the state of human rights in the kingdom lou jane al her through one of the live campaigners against the ban on women driving is among those standing trial mohammed val has the story. is a younger activist who's been fighting for saudi women aside to drive among other demands she's a graduate of the university of british columbia in canada and was ranked by arabian business magazine as third on the list of top most powerful arab women in two thousand and fifteen in recognition of her phyllis activism but the rebellion

and other female campaigners paid a hefty price you clued in constant touch us mint and even detention at the hands of saudi authorities. last may she was arrested after releasing a video showing her behind the wheel on a highway between the united arab emirates and saudi arabia in defiance of the ban on women driving. and even though the ban was lifted a month later jane remained in detention without charge or access to a lawyer she only found out the accusations against her via social media she was moved from one jail to another and the times her family couldn't visit her in an article in the new york times her sister alia said jane told her family and rights groups that she was held in solitary confinement and tortured in the presence of saudi the tiny the former adviser to crown prince mohammed bin said. she said bonnie attend the torture sessions in person and threatened to rape her and throw

her body into the sewage system during a you and human rights council session in geneva last week nearly forty countries including member states condemn saudi arabia over the way in which a head lewd and her co activists are being treated not only because their basic rights have been violated but also because of the way in which they are purely humanitarian activism is being construed as terrorism saudi authorities also said had lou and others were active as foreign agents spying on their own country we joined the high commissioner on this question up or turn on the call on this all to authorities to release all individuals including russia in our household the man i love you on our seas are yourself in a similar saga some are about r.v. abdullah says the tone of us it by at the. hobby and children are detained for exercising their fundamental freedoms. the saudi authorities deny the

allegations of torture and sexual harassment against that have you but lives so far failed to agree to demands by the un to release any of the activists mohammed fired . let's go about our top story now that of the news negotiator michel barnier he's been speaking and he told the european parliament that the current deal is the only one available european leaders say the u.k. has got to break the impasse and there must be a legitimate reason to ask for an extension. of commons says' what it doesn't want knol us can only be sold in the u.k. so has to show the majority when his solution why do stands for something if there's no solution in the deal to not in four weeks time as a little extra then if the full possibility of a majority vote for something then we can talk about it. all right let's meet now

to peter klepper who's head of open europe that's an independent think tank he's joining us from brussels and judging from the. words that we have from very bright if european leaders it sounds very much as a the mood is hard against the u.k. surely they can see that britain is struggling it's a no sort of inclination to offer a helping hand to maybe help or to resume a get out of this fix. all the more concessions dash requests from the u.k. to extend its membership of the e.u. of course the more complicated it will be to agree on an extension. the chance of a deal this would be very damaging not just the brits and also very much for ireland's and the rest of europe in union and the chance of that new deal crease a lot so i don't think it's very responsible what what needs to happen is an

extension. extension that could be extended if necessary he needs that stability only interests of both sides that we get to a deal now at the moment the brics there is in the u.k. . ninety five percent greens but this isn't really wants to change a number of first small elements in the deal so it's not impossible that we agree something so therefore i think any attempts to. sow impose very hard conditions now extends are not very responsible ok but in terms of it seems very much that the main bit of contention for most parliamentarians is the perhaps infinite arrangement that could arise after britain leaves the e.u. with regard to this backstop arrangement that's what they wanted they wanted some form of legal conditions attached that would allow britain to withdraw unilaterally

if they so wanted that has not come is this something that the european negotiators could offer because in a negotiation there's always something held back is there something extra the body or you could offer perhaps the reason may at this moment of great crisis for her. well very much so the proposed deal for c.s. that the union countries including ireland's would have ag took over an hour long and united kingdom outsourcers it straight policy to the european union in itself i think it's already quite generous that the u.k. . outsources its three powers but many british record steers or fine with that and the only doing they're really asking is that they are able to decide themselves when they will because for trade power it's not

of course we all know if the relationship. com toxic in the next few years then it is very unrealistic that the u.k. would stay under to treat its regime of the e.u. so then aren't really doesn't have any guarantees so i think it's in irons interests to understand it's do you agree to a time limits and backstop meaning debts to agreed to a defined periods during which you would not be stuck in different donors so you would need any checks then and you know to not respond. then actually did buy us a lot of certainty where us if the very are now then we not only risk a hard border in northern ireland but indications that aren't and the u.k. would not property check the border then there's the risk that aren't is basically getting a little out of both the supermarkets and the customs union because the european

countries woods move the border from aryans to name in europe so i think it's high time that the irish step which means a minority government understands that it's very much also in their interests that there is a deal and be absolutely needs to voids a no deal bricks all right ok peter thank you very much indeed for talking to us hear it out there. now at least three people thought to have died from an outbreak of pneumonic plague on the border between uganda and the democratic republic of congo according to the world health organization which is also saying that it's looking into other deaths india r.c. that are suspected of having been caused by this kind of play now it's all added a lot of pressure on health workers in this part of d.l.c. who are already struggling of course to contain a major outbreak of ebola now there are two types of the plague there's bubonic

a new monic pneumonic is the strain that suspected of being behind these recent deaths in uganda and it's the most fatal and this is treated early it's especially contagious as it can travel from person to person through droplets in the air the plague cause fifty million deaths in europe in the fourteen hundreds of more recently between twenty ten and twenty fifteen it's thought to have killed five hundred eighty four people around the world currently it's mostly present in peru in the d.l.c. as you've just heard and madagascar let's speak now to felix or charm who's an epidemiologist at the world health organization in uganda he's joining us via skype from camp our how worrying it then is is the fact that this form of plague has emerged in this part of the d.l.c. bordering on to uganda which is already struggling from so many problems. it's great concerning here in uganda. because as you can see.

for the amount. that there are see. these additional. suspect the. farmer complicates. the situation i'm somewhat it's what is a double.