as soon as possible or not from us a bank in tehran where they have been some tough words coming from the foreign ministry spokesman a bus most obvious essentially issuing a warning to the united states but that should be seen in the context not only for an international audience for a domestic audience here in iran because there are many that see the release of the . victory for diplomacy for iran's diplomacy but they also some that see it as a victory for iran's military strength because they believe if iran had not seized the british they would not be in a position to negotiate for their own but there is concern that the united states could act unilaterally and try to seize. in international waters and there would be an expectation here from inside iran for iran to respond and that could increase the likelihood of a confrontation but the foreign office spokesperson has also been talking about the british tank and he said that the matter was with the courts and it should be dealt . with in fact he said hopefully it will be released as soon as possible so

although iran has maintained that the seizure of the british tanker was not a retaliatory act we are seeing now that the iranian tank has been released iran is talking about the british and the release of that in the sense of the it allows both countries iran and the united kingdom to save face because the u.k. can say the issue has gone through the gibraltar course and iran will say it's gone through their judiciary and we could very well see the release of the release of the stone in peril in the coming days or weeks still had on al-jazeera. be on this rock is the entrance to a german oh here in southern chile where for nearly half a century residential enslavement and abuse now 117 of the survivors are suing the chilean state sponsored. also the u.n. delivers an urgent humanitarian appeal for the millions of people who have fled. the story.

hello there the rain is back i'm afraid across much of japan the cloud is beings jamiat of the law and it really will bring with that crisis a lot of rain reeling saying much of the country you can see here rain all the way from right the way down across into you sure meanwhile the korean peninsula not a bad day choose day fairly warm certainly 33 degrees there in seoul but by wednesday the cloud tends to really blanket the entire region still very unsettled across much of japan of the neonate is here up to the north we have got more rain pushing down so valuable stocks that expect on wednesday the charles is michelle and those temperatures in the low twenty's celsius the rain is very extensive across much of the south across into southern areas of china but in particular this rain is heavy pushing on into much of taiwan say for the next couple of days we will just continue to see more rain falling on already very saturated ground we

could well see some landslides mudslides in this region and certainly pick up about 200 millimeters of rain meanwhile further to the south in the west again we've got another rainy day in you for cost in hanoi that and then further to the southeast again we've got born you saying most of the show goes to choose day not a bad day further to the west and then by wednesday that rain pushing much for the south across much the my peninsula was. in quote of them. hard.

watching al-jazeera these are the top stories right now sudan's former president omar al bashir has gone on trial on corruption charges the military removed him from power and april after months of anti-government protests. a syrian government air strike has hit an area close to a turkish military convoy advancing in northwest syria a convoy with supporting rebels in an area near concha comune one rebel commander was killed. iran is warning the u.s. not to seize its oil tanker and open seas after it set off from her overnight and the bustle was held there for 6 weeks on accusations of violating sanctions.

afghanistan is marking its 100th and the pendants day celebrations have been postponed after saturday's suicide bombing at a wedding reception eisel has claimed responsibility for the attack in kabul which killed at least $63.00 people and injured nearly 200 charleville us has our report but a warning some of us may find the pictures disturbing. awaiting that a suicide bomber turned into a massacre these people are waiting to hear with that their relatives and friends survived stephen we're going to go i want to sit at the back i'm here to find out about my son to find out if he's ok some people say that his neck is injured some people say his hand is injured he's not answering his phone i don't know what to do . more than 1000 people at the waiting for a young couple from afghan shia muslim minority to his zahra the marriage certificate had just been signed when i saw a suicide attacker wearing a vest packed with explosives dition

a ship them near the stage. muslim office so they were done with. i was at the back of the waiting hole when suddenly a big explosion happened i fell down and when i stood up i saw titles and people scattered on the ground the scene was awful my brother was injured and most of my friends were killed i didn't know at that time what to do who should i help 1st in shock saki hasn't moved from the spot all night. at another hospital we found cerise 14 hours after the explosion he worked from his karma as we filmed he was the lead singer in keyboard player in the wedding band with us i mean the most wonderful nobody was being opened up when he was being when we leave our home in the morning we don't know if we'll come back to life if we send our children to school we do not know their fate we don't trust any security even at a wedding this can happen i do not know if we'll be alive in an hour or not. so respond was made up of 7 family members his brothers and cousins they were on stage

preparing to play during the waiting dinner when the ball went off so race is the only survivor. and this is what he would have plagues. at the wedding hall staff cleaned up the mop the ground not the spilled drink but the spilled blood they lost colleagues to with dozens killed in nearly $200.00 injured this was the deadliest explosion in kabul in more than 18 months. series family brought us to hill overlooking the city here is where the band's drummer mohamed haneef was buried just hours earlier on the obama vs and juggling walls why should we be killed it's for nothing what is our sin what have we done wrong we feed our children and killing those without committing a crime we ask the government why they aren't stopping them. i still has claimed responsibility for the attack it often target shia minority in this neighborhood

with elections just 6 weeks away president danny is under pressure and has called an emergency security meeting for the taliban also commented calling the attack barbaric to veteran and unjustifiable. leaders in the taliban lay blame children lay on their relatives graves too young to understand the forces that turned a day of joy into one of tragedy. kabul. and the u.s. president says he wants to reduce the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan to less than 13000 also praise progress in talks between the taliban and the afghan government. we're talking to afghanistan or both the government and also talking to the taliban have a very good discussions we'll see what happens we've really got it down to probably 13000 people and we'll be bringing it down a little bit more and there will decide whether or not we'll be staying longer and

we have been very good discussions with the taliban who have a very good discussions with the afghan government i think it's very important that we continue intelligence there in all cases because it is somewhat of a nest for her to get us and we have things under control very well with a small force we could probably make it a little bit smaller and then we'll decide it will depend on the taliban it will depend on the afghan government but there is a case to be made and the case also is that we're going to be leaving very significant intelligence behind for just the reasons i stated. pakistan says indian security forces have fired across the line of control in the disputed kashmir region several civilians are reported to have been killed on the pakistan administered side both countries are blaming each other for the violence and some of them have aid has more. a number of civilians have been killed in the latest escalation in hearing from the pakistani military confirming that this cross border

shelling started around 13 g.m.t. on just yesterday on sunday and the thing that is going to be a an ongoing situation that people have been caught up in this. is not soldiers but the civilian population has come under attack and they call this indiscriminate indiscriminate firing that has continued and this is right since august the 5th when indian government decided that it was going to change the status off indian administered kashmir and by claiming this here has been. unrest there's been a lot of tension on the border we've been visiting these villages and people have been telling us that it is they're living under constant fear during the day and at night their children cannot go to school and they are just waiting for when the next bomb is going to drop these both sides continue to blame each other it is the people in their thousands in small villages who are stuck here authorities in the

indian administered kashmir say some primary schools have reopened on monday that's happening sadly 2 weeks after new delhi for both the region semi autonomy status there has been a lockdown sense that on sunday hundreds of people marched through the capital of the breach and to protest against the restrictions on their movement and use of telephones and the internet over the weekend and relax some of those restrictions despite the lifting of those restrictions and in the administered kashmir there are some concerns about human rights abuses a number of civilians are saying they have been targeted by indian forces during the lockdown al-jazeera spoke to 2 people who suffered life changing injuries has more from new delhi. mohammad saw they never regained his vision in one of his eyes he says he was hit by bullets fired by an indian soldier right after he stepped out of his local mosque. everything was normal there were no protests security forces chased us away and fired pellets at us one more person older than me was also

injured he was discharged from hospital yesterday. mom of the queues a security forces an indian administered kashmir of targeting. he shows us his back with scars of what he says a pellet injury. earlier this month thousands here defied restrictions imposed by the authorities and protested against the indian government's decision to revoke autonomy. this 17 year old was one of them i mean. we had no intentions to bury stormed but the police were attacked and several boys were injured including me i was hit on the right side of my body by pellet. even though indian administered kashmir has been under lockdown for nearly 2 weeks. people have come out in protest in some cases the government has responded with force even admitting that

a few people have been injured in the recent crisis. they shot the nigger is a member of the biggest hindu group in india that supports the governing party he says the government has used minimal force during the last 2 weeks if you have an option to fire real bullets and if you have to fire guns then obviously. the supreme court of india was very clear that in order to control law and order situation you must use minimum force in the force instance and then use the you know extreme forces analyst. disagrees the question is that does use of guns blending of children blaming the men is it a justifiable self-defense by the armed forces against in 2016 the new government said it would replace pellet guns with a less lethal weapon or on the ground any given this means security forces are still using them against those protesting over new delhi's decision to revoke

autonomy but the fear is that if the protests continue in the. days or months so will the pellet injuries on al-jazeera new delhi the u.n. says more needs to be done to tackle venezuela's migration crisis or than $4000000.00 venezuelans have fled economic and political turmoil since 2015 most of ended up in neighboring peru colombia chile and brazil that the u.s. refugee agency has been in brazil lobbying for better treatment of the migrants we discussed with the government how best to ensure that the most vulnerable venezuelans be included in this operation women alone with children people for whom it is difficult to find a job people from. minorities from the community or from indigenous communities the son of britain's queen elizabeth has

denied any involvement in the sex crimes scandal surrounding the late us financer geoffrey epstein in a statement released by buckingham palace prince andrew strongly denied any wrongdoing as comes after british media published pictures they say show the prince inside epstein's home in 2010 waving to a young woman who appears to be under age every abstain killed himself while waiting trial earlier this month. for nearly 4 decades until a members of a german sect that became a haven for nazi fugitives were enslaved and abused by their pedophile leader more than 100 victims of the so-called dignity colony are now set to sue the state for damages cinammon reports. on the foothills of this mountain range in central chile lies on a large rural estate the size of liston stein. shafique was 3 years old when his parents and 300 other german emigrants came here in 1962 to establish upon me and

their leader was self-proclaimed pastor paul schaeffer a former nazi who turned the so-called dignity colony into a prison for 40 years unimaginable things happened. from the age of 8 i was beaten and abused we lived in a nightmare in purgatory in a hell that's why today i want it understood that we still live in an unjust. horst and his wife helga who was born here had no formal education and worked 7 days a week with no pay. from infancy children were separated from their parents and the boys sexually abused by schaeffer young and old were beaten and drugged to keep them docile. to govern and. almost every day someone had to be beaten for 20 minutes and everyone had to take turns hitting the victim with a pole the community was under permanent surveillance and kept within electrified

fences but some of the colonists did manage to escape through this the forest to neighboring farms or to the nearby town of and when that happened paul shaeffer would call the local police which was in his pay there are documented cases to prove it and when that happened the police would bring the escapees right back here . lawyer winfred him for was also born in the commune i met him 6 years ago when he was preparing a lawsuit against a german and chilean states for their alleged negligence and complicity in the suffering of the colonists in may germany agreed to pay up to $11000.00 to victims as a token gesture but since chile has not agreed to settle out of court the lawsuit will now go ahead in. the chilean state and where the colony began by a perverted sadistic pedophile who collaborated with the pinochet dictatorship and

corrupted all the institutions in the area in the 21st century there was a slave camp before the eyes of the chilean state. horses among the 80 or so colonists who remain on the property now called villa. like almost all the men he suffers from acute back pain from years of forced labor and with no pension or savings the couple is struggling to overcome economic hardship and psychological trauma. we want the government to help us receive justice because authorities knew what was happening here and did nothing. lawsuit is for a $1000000.00 for each of the $117.00 plaintiffs it may help compensate they say but never erase the horrors that they still live with you see in human al-jazeera chile a. quick

look at the headlines now on al-jazeera the corruption trial of sudan's former president omar al bashir has begun and the capital khartoum faces accusations of possessing foreign currency and accepting bribes the military removed bashir from power in april after months of anti-government protests morgan has more from khartoum witnesses who were inside the hall described him as being very composed very confident but they're saying that members of his family who were inside were very emotional and were saying that he should not be tried because as former president or rather when he was president he had immunity that therefore exclude him from having to be face of from having to face trials however one thing we will not see in these hearings is that he will be charged with internationally with what the international criminal court is presenting against him a syrian government airstrike has had an area close to a turkish military convoy advancing in northwest syria the government says the convoy was heading towards an area near concha coom one rebel commander was killed

in that strike nearly 30 vehicles including 7 tanks were and the convoy turkey says it was traveling to protect one of its observation posts in the syria iran is warning the u.s. not to seize its oil tanker and open seas after it set off from gibraltar overnight the battle was held there for 6 weeks on accusations of violating sanctions. postponed celebrations marking 100 years of independence following an attack on a wedding hall on saturday i saw has claimed responsibility for the bombing that killed 63 people in kabul. authorities in india to minister kashmir say some primary schools have reopened on monday on sunday hundreds of people marched to the capital of the region to protest against the restrictions on their movements and use of telephones on the internet and over the weekend india did relax some of those restrictions. ebola appears to have spread to more areas in the democratic republic of congo a 3rd case has now been confirmed in south kebo after

a 1st was discovered last week or so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news throughout the day in the meantime inside story is that next. is donald trump in a rush to withdraw from afghanistan the u.s. president hints that a deal with the taliban it could in washington's longest military engagement abroad but what in-depth ghana stands troubles this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. the u.s. and the taliban appear to be inching closer to an agreement that could end afghanistan's 18 year war american officials say negotiators have made significant progress president donald trump his peace envoy to afghanistan zalmay khalilzad and top security advisers held discussions on friday trump tweeted that meeting was very good and said many sides are looking to make a deal if possible the taliban and the u.s. have held several rounds of talks in qatar but the group has refused to sit with the afghan government which it considers a puppet of the u.s. charlotte bellus has been following those talks she reports from kabul. the talks between the u.s. and the taliban are very nearly agree when the 2 groups the u.s. negotiators and the taliban negotiators in doha broke 2 o'clock in the morning last monday they were stuck on just a single issue and it's hard that that issue can be resolved which would lead to

a signing of some type of agreement within the next week the americans are under a lot of pressure the taliban has told me that if the elections presidential elections go ahead here in afghanistan on september the 28th then any peace deal that has been negotiated with the americans over the last year is off the table the americans must try to get to some type of agreement over troop withdrawal and counterterrorism surance says which would allow them to move forward to what's on the stage 3 and talks the americans feel that it needs to happen as soon as possible because they are aware that and they are only about 6 weeks away now. talks would involve getting the taliban and afghan leaders all in the same word to try to come up with what a future afghanistan would look like with the taliban politically involved it's unclear what that would mean for the elections but it's understood that the taliban want to make some changes to the afghan constitution so that could mean some serious discussions with afghan leaders about how to structure

a future political system within afghanistan ghani is being briefed along the way he was briefed before and after u.s. president trump had his meeting with mike on friday he has been very tight lipped about what has been discussed and what the u.s. negotiators have told him and what might be expected of him going forward with in traffic and talks and speaking directly with the taliban afghans themselves are very frustrated that they remain in the dark and they very unclear of what is being negotiated on behalf of them for their future with a lid sions on the 6 weeks away the war in afghanistan was launched in 2001 by president george w. bush in response to the september 11th attacks the u.s. led campaign. put an end to the rule of the taliban which had been in power since 1906 but the group remained active and u.s. and nato forces were deployed on the ground after nearly 8 years of fighting president barack obama increased u.s. troop numbers to about 100000 and pledged to begin withdrawing american forces in

2011 but that withdrawal was slowed as the taliban increased its attacks 1800 soldiers were supposed to stay in afghanistan until the end of 2016 that figure is now around $14000.00 president donald trump 1st announced he intended to deploy more troops but during talks with taliban leaders trump hinted he would withdraw his troops from afghanistan. all right let's bring in our guests joining us from kabul enters our kadhim is director of the center for development and peace studies an independent think tank and former advisor to the afghan high peace council in belfast michael semple is professor at the institute for global peace security and justice at queen's university belfast and a former official in afghanistan and from washington barrett gopalaswami is director of the south asia center at the atlantic council welcome to the program and is our let me start with you what exactly does the taleban want to achieve with

these negotiations and how close do you think we are to seeing a deal finalized between the u.s. and the taliban. well thank you very much i think we're so close to the deal with the taliban and i'm sure that it's a completely different thing we have to do the peace between taliban and american and the international community also the the peace deal between the taliban and afghan government. absolutely you think is an hour by the same time we have to ensure that what we have leaving behind a peace deal are we going to make a deep peace deal or are making to make ensure stability in long term stability and make an inclusive peace in afghanistan this one of the fundamental question right now arises in the afghan societies the technocrats in the youngsters and sometime we are about the future so definitely we're just moving on the right direction i'm very optimistic from any other time in the past but it doesn't mean that our war in

is in our our concern has been ended up we have to ensure and we're just appealing to the united states for the 1st time as the this is meeting with the taliban face to face in they would like to iron out their differences they would like to agree on 4 things that's fine where we are thankful for that because the next stage will be the afghan government in the taliban negotiation a peace deal but the same time we should not be doing a peace deal for the sake of peace deal we have to be learning from experiences because the peace deal is also an academy discipline plus practical experiences afghanistan is not the only country on the face of or that suffering war for the last 300 years diffidently if you look back to the history the afghan what is more complex interim of nature scope size and style we accept that but that doesn't mean that we cannot solve it so for that reason we have to be assuring to follow some practical experience in cad to make base principles plus

consider the sensitivity of the situation we should also ensure that what the afghan people. in this peace deal in that have to be considered a consider sure we ensure stability to that than a so-called peace all right barrett enters our there was talking about how complicated the situation is in afghanistan so let me ask you president trump definitely wants to see the u.s. out of afghanistan before the 2020 elections or how difficult or easy does that make things for some a team of negotiators. speech a few months ago at the united institute of peace he had a very sore throat and he said this is what happens when you speak to the taliban nonstop for 48 hours so you know where we began on these negotiations it's been an 18 year old war there's a lot of blood and treasure spilled there's a war fatigue in the united states there's an overwhelming sentiment in the united states as well as the international community community as well as the afghan

people that the there must be some kind of settlement but the fundamental stumbling block of the settlement is the taliban not recognizing the presence of the the afghan government so i think those were the those were the starting points in this overall ease deal negotiation but the where we've come somewhere along this week that. meeting that we might have a deer deal i think we made that much progress so i called the sentiments of my colleague that there are there are there are signs of some kind of a deal reaching but at the same time i also express the concerns of the worries that the deal should not be for the sake of a deal any deal that's not sustainable that compromises on the sacrifices that we have made in the last 8 years and also the progress made in the afghan society preserve at the women schools with some kind of an economy there. deal that compromises all that there's a deal that's not worth making now what the parameters and the conditions of the

deal will have to see what the outcome of that deal exactly looks like and. others worked extremely hard in the last ever since he's taken the position taken this appointment he's traveled numerous trips to the he's made numerous trips to that region is made numerous internal consultations and it's not easy and as he tweeted i think it's rhetoric but yet. nothing is finalized until everything is finalized somewhere along those lines i think i'll leave it there in broad strokes but we can go into the specific as we get into the discussion michael from your vantage point how much pressure both sides under to try to get this deal done and furthermore how would taliban fighters react if a deal is not finalised. both sides are under tremendous pressure to achieve a deal and to do it now as they have very deliberately and frankly professionally managed to hide. the details of the negotiations those are just shared to

the the people directly involved but both sides have been telling their own people that we are on the brink of success they would have to close a deal now or the process rapidly loses credibility now it's a very good question what will they the taliban fighters make of this deal i think a lot of people have worried that taliban fighters really haven't been involved they have been kept informed dealings inside the taliban have really been kept restricted to no more than 6 people only 6 people in the taliban movement understand what is going on there's been an assumption that many of the taliban fighters want to continue the war regardless because they reckon that with departure of u.s. troops they can achieve complete victory so there's a you know there are some worries that they might actually not fall into line behind the deal of late i've been hearing some other picture that actually there's been so much talk of peace and frankly such heavy casualties on both sides that

many of the taliban fighters no longer even really care about the details of a deal they want to see something which actually stops the fighting ironically we could be in a situation where the taliban fighters now have more expectations of the deal than their leaders are able to produce in the coming days and times are on saturday there was a brutal reminder that violence continues even with these talks going on as a backdrop you had a horrific attack on a wedding party in kabul dozens of people died as a result and eisel claimed responsibility for this attack in light of this attack and other recent attacks can the taliban credibly a guarantee that afghanistan would not be a sanctuary for violent groups to expand to plot new attacks if u.s. troops were to fully withdraw. let me tell you that the recent attack in kabul just daymond optimism for hope it was really

attacking you personally so on a different afghanistan no one in afghanistan remain untouched but such casualties it has been one of the horrendous attack but it's not the 1st it's not the last the afghan casualties in the afghan daily water is it's not a miracle it's not a very absolute complexity but some more about the modern day docs in the the international community negligences in the war for the last so many years you may have witness that we have been launch of iran war started gee we were just showing mixed messages far enemy and friend infos and the same time we're just changing or start you from war to peace and from peace to war you just remembered the obama time and he was just telling that we would leave afghanistan in 2014 in the taliban become golden and they just fart fun of the 23 years and finally the day entire mission just sinks in.