ends the 18 year long war several talks of also taking place where afghans from across the political and social spectrum have met taliban representatives but this all comes against a background of violence in recent weeks an attack on pleas headquarters in kandahar city earlier this month killed 11 people were happy border is a lecture of government and politics at cons and university he explains why the afghan government may have decided to push ahead with the talks so this is not the 1st time the government has announced that they will go into direct talks with the taliban and perhaps this is not the last time and every time they have talked about going into direct talks with the taliban the taliban have flatly rejected it and did the statement that came out from the taliban was basically saying that all of those people who wear the who will be from the government and the europe. dialogue will be that in their personal capacity as it looks like the taliban have live

coverage as far as this whole peace process is concerned they are talking to the americans directly and the african government feels left out on the other side you have president danny who is focusing on the elections as priority is elections to ensure that he comes to power for another 5 years i don't know if demand to be due to show that they are involved but i think president gandhi wanted to show dad peace has some some level of priority as well as just not the elections. says the come on out to c.n.n. we examine what's behind russia's political dissent sounds of a fan isn't people arrested as a demonstration plus. imus all of a god but ron i'll tell you what don upgrade it off impress record 13 rely more on its own production rather than important.

hello again welcome back where cross parts of north asia we are watching the remnants of a tropical system make its way towards the pacific right now there the clouds are pushing over here towards the east we're going to be seeing some often on rain showers still lingering for parts of japan so for tokyo expect to see of rain showers here on monday at $32.00 degrees and then as we go towards tuesday most of that rain start to dissipate we're going to be seeing some better skies that means some more sun in the forecast as well out here towards the west though we do have a system coming across yellow sea and for pyongyang that means more heavy rain in the forecast with a temperature of $27.00 well here across much of china we're going to be seeing some better weather here across much of the central areas we still are picking up some showers down along the coast and that means hong kong you'll see some showers as well but what we're going to be watching is what is happening in the south china sea notices air circulation just to the west of the philippines over the next few

days that is really going to begin to develop we think it is going to be our next tropical system as you can see the circulation right there on tuesday but really developing as we go towards wednesday as well brings a very heavy rain across much of southern china high nan as well up towards the north though it is going to be clear for show except for a few of 34 degrees and for taipei more sun in your forecast with a temperature of 37.

this is al jazeera reminds of the top stories this hour syrian government air strikes have killed at least 13 civilians in northwest of the province many of the victims were children born in war crimes are being committed to. the testers have returned to the streets in sudan expressing their anger at an investigation into last month's military crackdown which paints book soldiers for the violent break up of citizen by demonstrators. and police in hong kong have fired tear gas to disperse protesters gathering near the liaison office where chinese

officials work tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets. iran says it considers the u.k. seizure of an iranian oil tanker a breach of the 2015 nuclear agreements around steppes the foreign minister made the comments in vienna ahead of talks and at saving the deal their main parties to the agreements france germany russia china and the u.k. are attending earlier this month british authorities detained in reining in tanker near gibraltar accusing it of breaching e.u. sanctions on syria meanwhile the head of iran's atomic energy organization says activities will restarts at the arak heavy water nuclear reactor was according to local media heavy water plays a part in the production of plutonium fuel use for both nuclear power and nuclear weapons. the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi has denounced them with trump's twitter

attack on a democratic congressman as racists say it's a sort of logic comments criticize the u.s. president's policies on the mexican border in response trump told him a little billy saying his baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous than the southern border he also called cummings districts which is largely blank discussing rats and foods and infested mess the congressman responded saying mr president so i go home so my district daily each morning i wake up and i go and fights for my neighbors classico hain has more from washington d.c. . another norm broken this is a us president denigrating a major american city that has happens to be mostly african-american and it's african-american congressman but the larger cummings is not an ordinary congressman he is an icon of the civil rights movement he has huge respect not only in his district but in the halls of congress the president has made it clear this is his strategy to get reelected he believes if you fires up his base core supporters of

white supporters that they will come out in droves and they will get him another term there are a lot of analysts who are sending a warning message though about that strategy they look back to 216 and one of the reasons that trump won in this incredibly close election was because the vote was down in african-american communities and hispanic communities polls show that his racist tweets and comments are hurting his support among african-americans and hispanics so what some analysts are warning while the president is firing up his own base is core support hasn't moved he's also fired up the base on the other side . russian activists say that more than a ferguson people were arrested in central more school junior crackdown on a processed they were protesting against the exclusion of opposition candidates from local elections russian police also raided a t.v. station broadcasting video all of the protests and. is a visiting senior research fellow at king's college london and she says the

government should be held responsible for the crackdown and notes the police. i lease does make this kind of decisions they implement all i did all those are the political authority what real force of that should be used and whether people should all be turned out or i just let to their advice to protest peacefully which also can happen every so often so it is a political decision made by the mosque and city authorities. have all over react out to something which was a fairly my cholesterol is still down yes there is a little competition yes there are others who tried i'm challenging the existing it a little when most of it doesn't mean that they will actually be a way of life now. but they will create more of

a kind of political debate so the problem from the point of view how all this was fairly much what created the bigger problem we're talking about is. all those to the security and police. took all to use force. talks in the bangladesh between a myanmar delegation and bring the refugees and broken up without an agreement on repatriation hundreds of thousands of frango have been sheltering in camps saracens 2017 when they fled a crime by myanmar's military temper charging reports from cox's bazaar. security was stepped up for the visit of representatives of the myanmar government to the refugee camp at cox's bizarre there had been a fear of protests and only a select group of rowing was chosen to meet with the delegation in one of the camps offices there when was among those who attended the talks to me and my government

is trying to persuade the refugees to return home. they told us that all arrangements are being made for us to return they also told us that there are camps built for us with the necessary security and facilities outside the camps office several 100 running has gathered to get to meet the delegates and ask questions but they were quickly dispersed by police and nearby another group of refugees try to stage a demonstration but that was also quickly broken up by security officers some of the community leaders at cox's bazaar expressed their concern at what condition will be like if the refugees return to rakhine state we demand before our water going back i want to be done in done how committed you should visit inside africa area about assume that what are perfect and this is the 3rd high level visit by the me and mar government that repatriation of the 1st batch of refugees was to begin

officially last november but it stalled amid protest at the camps and bangladesh many are still traumatized from their experience 2 years ago when they were forced to flee their homes during the me and my own military crackdown so who are accountants 25 year old son and 18 year old grand daughter in law were killed by the security forces. we will seek compensation and justice 1st for the loss of our family members we also want to be recognized as if these demands are met and we get justice then we will think about going back critics said this trip pettish unplanned is just me and maurice latest attempt to divert international criticism from its policies directed at the rowing nearly a 1000000 rowing a refugees are crammed into this densely congested shanty camps in the caucasus bazaar area they're getting increasingly frustrated and angry about their future

but no one is willing to return home to me on market without citizenship papers and security guarantee. with the following parts of the bangladesh. thousands of government supporters in venezuela have held what they call an answer imperialist march for peace in caracas hundreds of soldiers and several politicians joined them and israel's government is preparing to hold state regional conference of left wing parties and organizations opponents of president nicolas maduro say the events is a waste of money and a country grappling with the political and economic crisis. years of war and instability have damaged iraq's gas and oil infrastructure getting it dependent on energy imports despite having huge reserves now it wants to turn that writes with the help from big overseas investments some of binge of aid reports from severe. claims like this one help keep the lights on across iraq electricity is in high

demand specially during the summer and power plants rely on gas most of it comes from fields like the basra gas field in the south and because it's associated gas with oil a single will provide support or oil and gas but iraq doesn't produce enough gas for its power stations a 3rd of what it needs is imported from iran. in the 1980 s. raining jets took out most of iraq's oil and gas infrastructure in the sanctions that followed saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait stalled any redevelopment. now iraq's economy is weak the u.s. is an important ally and both saudi arabia and iran and its neighbors gas is a burden on baghdad stretched budget and a loaded issue for domestic and regional politics prime minister he wants to make iraq energy independent his oil minister has already signed multibillion dollar deals with international companies such as honeywell eggs on and shell unfortunately because although if he were to delay it and that's why really. and he

was lagging behind. we are concentrating on this and the possible use to burn more 50 posts and 2 years to 3 years ago when. 55. $45.00 i want to be realistic or to 5 years there will be i would dare to say there are because. you know ok and this of course will lead to many advantages one of course a whiting gods for power generation that will definitely make. energy independent who don't need to import and of course and instead. you know with. maintaining a gas field under $46.00 degrees is anything but easy but these iraqis are making sure that they continue to pump the gas which helps run their country besides the

gas needed for electricity these gas fields also produce other types for domestic use and export 75 percent of the. l.p.g. . got the facility which is more than 25 years old that. is being renovated it's electric instruments. to do these upgrades requires major investment rocks government says despite obstacles like corruption and an unstable region investors are coming to baghdad. but you know gas is the primary resource in the southern region especially to generate electricity most of the old power plants were motor fired from liquid fuel operations to cast power plants hence there was an urgent need for investment and to upgrade production as tensions escalate between us and iran iraq wants to diffuse so it can attract more companies to help achieve baghdad becoming energy independent majority down to 0

holders of bear buster as some climate climate change experts rather argue a vegetarian diet is kids who protects in the environments she and carries produce me think gas is toxic substance and graze on land that could be a sickroom crops well some scientists in the u.k. and i looking at sustainable ways of raising livestock jessica baldwin has more from devon in western england despite their cheerful disposition and inquisitive nature these animals get a lot of bad press that's because they release huge amounts of me thing gas it's a greenhouse gas that damages the environment cows and sheep are responsible for 14 percent of global greenhouse gases that's the same as all the cars trucks and planes in the world also some of the land they graze could be used to grow cereals and grains for human consumption. scientists at this research institute in western

england are looking for ways to reduce the animal's carbon footprint they vary the animal's diet trying different grasses or even seaweed they selectively breed choosing the ones that emit less gas into the air the air is continually monitored to see what works and what doesn't. the high tech farm includes a brand new shed 1st specific experiments to carefully measure employed and output all designed to see of cows and sheep can exist in an environment at risk grasslands can incorporate kleiber's and the games that concoction not to animals naturally would serve and when yours to fertilize those plants so just to say because i'm the most produce meat is a not sustainable it's too simplistic the institute amasses $9000000.00 datapoints every year it's a unique facility that attracts researchers from around the world even if

researchers are able to find the most efficient way of raising livestock with a growing world population some scientists believe the only solution is to greatly reduce the amount of money we eat we have a very serious climate imagine say on our hands while production side measures will play a part actually we need to address what it is that drives our production and that is our consumption patterns livestock farming that doesn't harm the environment can't exist with a daily diet of steaks and how booker's a healthy planet may mean a return to traditional farms hills and bogs that can't grow cereals are ideal for cows and sheep jessica baldwin al-jazeera devon england.

this is the singer and these are the headlines syrian government airstrikes have killed at least 13 civilians in northwest of the province many of the victims were children the un is warning war crimes are being committed. protesters have returned to the streets in sudan expressing their anger at an investigation into last month's military crackdown in khartoum it blamed for the violent breakup of assistance by protesters police in hong kong for tear gas to disperse protesters gathering near the liaison office for mainland chinese officials work tens of thousands of protesters have returned to the streets sarah clarke has the latest from. the 1st rounds of tear gas have been fired at the western end of hong kong island this is down the child as well as an office which is in a high school so i want others heavily barricaded this whole area there are a number of protesters there probably a smaller group than where we are where we are. up to 10000 people in this area

it's called course why by the busiest great how hot of hong kong the streets are blocked by twice and the stretch i could say would be from caused by by all right through the western end which is where the tear gas being fired iran says it considers the british seizure of an arabian oil tanker earlier this month a breach of the 2050 nuclear agreement iran's deputy foreign minister made the comments in vienna ahead of talks aimed at saving the deal the remaining parties to the agreements france germany russia china and the u.k. are attending meanwhile the head of iran's atomic energy organization says activities will restart the iraq heavy water nuclear reactor that's according to local media heavy water plays a part in the production of plutonium a few used for both nuclear power and nuclear weapons. and donald trump has been accused of racism after his attack on a prominent african-american politician and that's as true as he represents trump's

tweets came after democrats a larger comments criticized his mexican border policies about europe states these continues in all to syria after inside story. thank. you thank you. thank you this is it lives in syria where government attacks have killed more than a 100 people in just the last 10 days the u.n. says this is a war crime and the world is looking away to how we become indifferent to the slaughter of syria's people this is inside story.

thanks. hello and welcome to the program on martine dennis now the syrian government's offensive on the last rebel stronghold has been described as relentless and the united nations says the world is ignoring this bloodshed it late province in northwestern syria is home to 3000000 people nearly half of them were of addition fighters and their families who were relocated from other parts of the country as president bashar assad's forces gained ground government fighters backed by russia began a campaign to take back italy in april at least 450 civilians have been killed since then but despite this mounting death toll the u.n. says the world has become quote numb to the carnage. this is not like it was you know in the 1st few years in the syria crisis people really

were paying attention and was constantly in the news there was a lot of in national political engagement and so on and we're just not seeing that now it's just like a sort of collective frog about what's going on in syria and it's such a vast scale now hundreds of thousands of people killed many hundreds of thousands more you know badly injured or even maimed for life and really the outside world paying very very little attention and certainly not sustained attention and certainly attention and start making any difference or bringing a river present in any closer. or i'd time to introduce our guests now here in doha with me is marwan kabul and he's head of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies in the province joining us on skype we have civil society activists nor hala and in istanbul we have young reedy who served as a spokesman for the syrian negotiations commission welcome to you all but let me go

straight to you nor in it live and tell us give us an idea of what life has been like for you and your family since this campaign started at the end of april. well life in it live is can be described as hell the humanitarian situation in this catastrophe the very beginning of the campaign. starts in the operating member in may i decided to move my family to the north possibly 4 where the government has a mandate there so i walk in it live in my family and that as a people i go on as they pertain to my work. for me now. in their view the video beginning of the camp in the un all child documented at least 200 than being passed on the run away from the saga to the area to the north of the border the 6 pm for this as i do you see is at the same time the pond is the briefing. right no

give us an idea because you've talked about it being we've heard about it and we've heard it being described as come on age and there is i mean we've witnessed just in terms of pictures amazing pictures that we've seen the slaughter of many syrian people give us an idea of what is an old new day can be like innately helicopters and they arrive never stuff on it and almost even to not know whether this. was coming to him or to another city. we always hear on the walkie talkies all the time that. an aircraft from. air force for example on the aircraft or from the talk it's all military airport so the people are and. then left feeling of fear or all the sigh we don't know when they will hit us on the ground. since the beginning of the campaign till now the read impaled mauls more

children than needed in 2008. in every every right we lose at least 10 to 15. people have been our till been in modoc non-man in one area why there was 55 people here today in our houses the 11 people were killed 7 of them are women children killing is every day people do not know what to do most of people are afraid that running to the borders rather is no food no shelter not even the way to kill areas. like getting worse because most of the international organizations the pond or the musical. operations in syria hospitals are being killed and the civil defense also centers are being killed so that's that's why i'm saying it's hell yes absolutely all right however easy in istanbul use being tom.

out of this rather lengthy process of negotiation which ultimately seem to have come to nothing the opposition seem to have failed how does it make you feel when you hear and see those pictures coming from italy province. well 1st of all i have to think about the narrative presented by the energy and russia about why they are doing this a little about the right of the central government to control its territory and to control its territory that's why when one hears such a narrative immediately they would think that this is the right thing and such they would not sympathize with what is happening at the. level of people civilians and people and children being killed another thing they say that they are fighting terrorism and they say that. those terrorists are concentrated

in it live and i'd like really to show you some pictures about those terrorists that mr putin and mr assad are targeting these are the pictures of the children that they are the target terrorists that they are targeting and this is another one if you can see this those are all children actually and this is another one yes yeah it's pretty well documented sorry to say sorry to cut you still these things pretty well documented that we are dealing specifically with the number of civilian casualties in italy province which has been detained by the united nations as well as other n.g.'s as war crimes being committed almost on a daily basis that tell me what is the relationship and this is something that has i can come to know about in a minute but 1st of all yakoub what is the relationship there between the fight is because there are fighters in atlanta what is the relationship between the fighters

and the civilian population well some of those fighters are indigenous but part of the indigenous population there at a certain time felt that they had nobody there and they had to offer it themselves with certain other groups you know the 2 they found themselves this is one and i. the thing. there are some foot foot in us and we ourselves said that those who don't know should go back to their countries and according to associate there was an agreement that should. be removed from that place this is what was agreed upon but it cannot be something that happens and fortnight it needs time and they can easily be used as a pretext as the russians and that is you are doing and as such as you can see that they are just that the results out of this are victims was who are who are civilians and mainly children and the target of all the russian rates are basically

civilian places like hospitals like markets like medical. centers in order to to to make life impossible for those people around and you talk about the flooding of hundreds of thousands of people now this is that basically the relationship and they use it the russians and the regime use it as a pretext to carry out the vicious and criminal acts right anyway writing documentaries as you are saying but in the same time the world should pay attention to what is happening there must be something happening internationally right every day syrians perfect then for me to take that point and put it tomorrow in kabul and he's with me here in doha. part of the un's castigation if you like of the international community is the fact that nothing is being down the world is witnessing some of the most horrendous seen some of which we've seen in this

program already and nothing is being done what's happening when mounting i think you and find it so very much a part of this in this in this conflict but there are 2 points here that we can talk about on the 100 you have there isn't an international plans what actively involved in this conflict and the other. fighting a war by proxy against each other but using syrian blood so they are willing to fight actually until the last drop of syrian blood and this is there this applies actually to russia and the united states to iran and other actors on the other hand you have the wider international community which as i said before find this very much bottomless towards this conflict since these regional and international powers are are involved you have the veto power in the security council they have military power on the ground and as you said they are using civilians as a leverage in order to. achieve political ends and there's some in this conflict but what about the united states we know that there are certain interests particularly with regard to the s.d.f.

forces in this part of syria much more to the east of the country but the united states has a traditional hasn't historic role as being the holder if you like of rules and regulations globally but that clearly is a position that is now being vacated. by trump but also not just trump of course because of course the former administrations well absolutely are right i think the united states has become specially after the invasion of iraq very much. that the lack of interest of the not this is in the region has gone after the dark and the feeling of the invasion of if you have the americans you don't want to get really one unless they are vital interests are. affected and whether in syria or another place and in the region and especially under this administration that from administration we don't see any concern about human rights we don't see any concern about human lives and i believe that the president from has has been very open many times actually and saying that the united states will not be interfering anywhere

in the want and less on vital interests are affected so we can there stand the u.s. position actually from the space back to and no coming back to you what would you like what would you expect outside is particularly the members of the security council the permanent 5 members to be doing to stop this hell in which you and the other people of italy are having to india i'm sorry i. think in 101-4000. and $1.00 and $1.00 comment about the u.s. . if there is one or 2. world of oil and if you. from there we would have liked like the eastern part of. syria so the security customs very if it comes up obviously in the hands of the 5.