hunted down by bandits and visual until he and people in this village and now enjoying what they say are the best moments of their lives in 2 years a return to normalcy. we were on the run from law enforcement bandits and vigilantes for more than a year and a half as small as this village is at last when people in the raids many have been kidnapped including women and children a 1000 cattle and sheep was stolen from us 2 months ago they returned home and are trying to rebuild their lives for 8 years bandits mainly from the mighty kurtzman terrorized inside entire villages in northwest nigeria local regime lantus to protect communities became the law. the resulting violence killed more than 4000 people and displaced tens of thousands. the state government says it's moving to address what the norm what's called decades of exploitation and

oppression by providing water roads and other services. it's also disbanding the militias that have been accused of killing full unease and denying them access to basic services the truce is holding for now a few months ago driving along this highway would have been extremely dangerous even for the security forces but now a decent number of vehicles used the old killings and abductions used to happen here almost every day so for most people the relative peace they now enjoy seems and feel is almost unreal. and it's not only the displaced who are happy with the turn of events in some of. the police who have been targeted in the mayhem say they realize that the force of arms cannot end the violence along. a military or security actions mistake. as thousands of what does not

a simple official move from. the coveted to their grandest sign it came with an idea of having it will result in this issue that is use in dialogue. and that has started peeling off several assault rifles and rocket launchers are surrounded by the gun and soon the police say and i expected. they say there never was a will to resolve the conflict in some for a state until recently let's call out a full court order to then we are not serious i meant that they have another idea so i have to leave bed. quadrants i mean straight they're fairly and if somebody would 1st want their land their conflict resolution through dialogue. but there are concerns that the troops when told for life and with an amnesty were not involved in other groups to take up arms against citizens and the state. for now.

and the people in this village i enjoying this newly found peace despite their losses some of the. can't even afford to smile. at the crease al-jazeera the northwest nigeria are still ahead on in sports arena williams for short yet again in a grand slam final joe will be here with us. to strengthen the good you have to shoulder court all the more with your calm still fight against corruption. dysphoric new chiro heroes like no who are about to be refused a $50000000.00 bribe the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the international ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight

a dark used to shine a light let's make a rule to better play each nominate your anti corruption mirror. to cost a priceless resource on the threat the amazon rainforest is a blaze in its links to brazil strive for peace and soil production and look at bats plus as he had always global ambitions which have left investors missing some big losses. counting the costs on al-jazeera. and again a major earthquake in the central philippines almost 6 years ago killed many and

caused widespread destruction that included the demolition of churches which is centuries old as jimmy duggan. now the rebuilding effort though is slow going. it was a time of great suffering for the people of the whole. nearly 6 years ago a powerful earthquake struck the province in central philippines. more than 200 people were killed and thousands more lost their homes. at least 10 churches that dated back to spanish colonial times were also destroyed but hall is home to some of the country's historical church landmarks the devastation also signaled a period of longer agony for the feet will more than 80 percent of filipinos are roman catholics catholicism was 1st introduced here by way of the beside this region hundreds of years ago making the philippines the only bastion of catholicism

in asia the church in the town of mareeba hawke was established in the 18th century they said that they had greens the inmates of st vincent is. asking for 33 remains so pre-dates after the earthquake tried to retrieve the emails from there where the national museum says this is one of its biggest projects in recent years for centuries the church has served as a moral and spiritual calm pass for communities here this is why people here tell us it felt as though their own identity was also lost in the rubble and they know that the only way for them to fully recover is for all the churches to be restored . the struggle is not just to rebuild the churches back to their former glory given

the scars resources and limited to knology but also to ensure that the structures are restored properly we have to understand that nature is not just the thing that destroys the zephyrs but it is also human neglect and it would be people start to look at these and take these structures for granted much has been said about the role of the roman catholic church in philippine society for its followers catholicism has long been a symbol of social justice and dissent but for its critics it has also been associated with abuse of power and corruption. but whatever role it has played for centuries people here say these chuck schumer's no longer just serve the faithful for they also represent the soul of the country's history when jim allen duggan al-jazeera bought province central philippines its good old sport now his job

hasn't thank you 1000 year old can carry esko has become canada's 1st tennis grand slam champion she stunned serena williams in straight sets to win the u.s. open david starts reports said. this was surreal williams's 4th chance to equal the grand slam record standing in a white a player hopper age bianca and rescue williams had royal support for this one legged markel sitting alongside her coach bob and sister venus in the players' box but it was the youngster he looked all comfortable in this battle of the generations playing in the main draw flushing meadows for the 1st time and risking showed great skill and power to lead williams hopeless on the other side of the net the 15th seed took the opening set 6 games to 3 and she did relent breaking 2 more times to meet 51 in the 2nd set and out of sorts arena was on the verge of a heavy defeat i addressed him tightened up but failed to convert to championship points and sure enough back to 5 games all.

you in the american crowd were back on their feet but their excitement was short lived and rescue broke once again i managed to wrap things up at the 3rd time of asking. if he's the 1st canadian to wear the tennis slab of prime minister justin trudeau tweeted that she made the country proud address who is also the 1st teenager to win a major title since maria sheriff popa at wimbledon in 2004 at the start of the year she'd only played 6 to level matches but she's won total an indian wells toronto and now. u.s. open a place in the history books is secure but no doubt she'll play a big part of the sports teach it to you or 2019 your choice of the women's champion here i was just a way this year has been a dream come true and now being able to play on this stage against serino

a true legend of the sport is amazing as for williams she's now lost 4 straight major finals and her disappointment was clear to see. more soon and. honestly don't think solution when and if you can. show up when i addressed you is now up to 5 in the world rankings the pocket so with his check of $3500000000.00 not bad for a 19 year old david stokes al-jazeera. jamie murray has want to u.s. open title for the 4th year running he defended the mixed doubles trophy alongside american bethanie matic sands they beat the top seeds chan chain and michael venus in straight sets and it is 2019 so they found time for self. a work in those cases a battling to save the ashes on the final day of the 4th test against australia

they face a mammoth task having been set a target of 393 for a victory then i 134 for 5 and trying to hold on until the close of play australia need to take 5 wickets to win and ultimately retain the ashes trophy another man who's had a good innings is sessile right the 85 year old is retiring after cricketing career that spanned fake decades before a fast bowler played one 1st class game for jamaica against barbados back in 1958 and is said to have taken more than 7000 with kids despite his love of the game wright says his body can no longer take the strain. when i started i just want to keep going and every time and as i know every time i get there we get i want one more of a good one i want another one some time when i walk in back to feel like a bit you know and i think what i think about enough now. i know my comment of has now gone 28 career fights unbeaten off to unify new u.f.c.

lightweight title he stopped interim champion justin pouring a submission in the 3rd round in abu dhabi and then jumped out of the office going to celebrate with us the president dana white much more welcome scenes than last time he jumped into the crowd when he started to brawl after his victory of a coma mcgregor all the talk is about his next for can be he has no idea my next opponent is very good steak with the board getting double cheese even if you're 28 and all veiled and all when you see you're one of the biggest you smash everybody people are going to talk about you have to fight with him you have to fight with team you have to fight with him give me justice make i feel like the way he's he was pulling back it was hard for me to set up much my my combinations and didn't get into a rhythm you know i know i sound like i have a lot of excuses but. i was just so preparing you know for tonight and it just

never hurts. the n.f.l. season has barely started but already it's been a busy few days his 7th time pro bowl receiver antonio brown brown had been with the oakland raiders since march but after a string of off field incidents in which his relationship with the team broke down he was released on saturday just how was later though he announced he'd signed for the new england patriots on a one year 15000000 dollars deal. well after more the 90 events the red bull every series has come to an end with a new well champion australia's matt hall has been competing in the competition for the 10 year is finally clinch the title by a single point in japan poll will be the last ever winner of the competition after the sponsors decided not to continue it beyond 2019 in the winning mentality. and that put you in 3rd place for the cheaper race but congratulations you have won the 29. championship well. all right that is useful for now how will feel 8 to has

been great stuff thanks joe and that is it for this news hour but i'll be back in a couple of minutes with more of the day's news to state. to strengthen the good you have to shore do good all the more with your gum still fight against corruption. destroy news hero which heroes like know who are bad or who refuse to $15000000.00 brian the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the international ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a darker use to shine a light let's make a girl do better plage nominate your anti corruption mirror now. make

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a hard time thinking about wishing that i haven't gone through this experience in an exclusive interview tells his epic tale. witness presents guantanamo's child. president from made the right decision to say that's not going to work. you are 2nd to stay my poem peo says peace talks with the taliban a dead for now donald trump canceled a secret meeting in the us. on housing think of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up another british

senior minister quits boris johnson's cabinet saying he doesn't believe he's trying hard enough to get a break the deal. at a train station in key roads blocked in central hong kong off the march on the u.s. consulate gives way to chaos. and peace returns to nigeria some fall region after decades of violence that killed thousands of people. the u.s. secretary of state says talks with the taliban are dead for the time being in his words and the special envoy is being recalled to decide the way forward mike pumpin made the comments in the past half hour on u.s. television talks between the u.s. and taliban a been going on now in qatar for nearly a year and it was the case that when the taliban tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside of the country

president from made the right decision to say that's not going to work we're going to walk away from a deal if others try to use violence to achieve better ends in the goetia it's not right it's not appropriate killed american and it made no sense for the taliban to be rewarded for that kind of bad behavior. now earlier secret meeting involving a donald trump and taliban officials in the u.s. was called off hours before was meant to take place the u.s. president saying it was all because of the deadly attack in kabul last week now the taliban is warning the u.s. that that move will lead to further loss of american life trying to eat it late saturday unbeknown to almost everyone the major taliban leaders and separately the president afghanistan we're going to secretly meet with me at camp david on sunday unfortunately in order to build false leverage they admitted to an attack in kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers and 11 other people i immediately called off peace negotiations the taliban claimed responsibility for thursday's

suicide bomb attack saying a foreign military convoy was targeted that blast destroyed cars and shops not far from the u.s. embassy and the headquarters of afghanistan's international military force let's talk now to rob reynolds saying no washington for so already rob we've had reaction from u.s. officials at the highest level saying those talks are dead for now not a huge surprise really. well it was certainly very startling for a lot of people here in washington policymakers and politicians and pundits to learn that this high level meeting between the president and leaders of the taliban had been contemplated especially to take place on u.s. soil in the highly symbolic location of camp david the presidential retreat in the maryland mountains just west of washington d.c. which has been the site of many historic peace agreements dating back to the 970 s.

now as we know that meeting of course will not see place and as we heard secretary of state might pompei or a moment ago it's not clear at all when the talks when or if the talks will resume at all. the senior democratic senator on the senate foreign relations committee said that the abrupt cancellation of these talks showed the weakness of president trump's negotiating style insofar as he does not prepare intensively for negotiations of this sort so are the talks really did well maybe maybe not this worth recalling the president trump both as a businessman and as president has used this tactic many times in the past that of walking away from negotiations in hopes of getting a better or stronger they go shading position he's hoping that the taliban will say

they will decide that it needs the agreement more than the united states does and his use of the word leverage in his tweets sort of shows that he's looking at this in terms of a kind of business transaction but there are risks for president trump as well he has made a campaign promise to withdraw all of the remaining 14000 u.s. uniformed troops out of afghanistan failure to do so would be a political bull blow to the president and as we all know the u.s. presidential election is less than 14 months away office wasn't it also the case though rob that there were politicians on both sides of the political spectrum who are quite questioning this whole approach of entering into talks with the taliban in the 1st place. that is very true there are people including senior officials in the white house namely john bolton who is the national security

adviser who who had been widely reported to the did not trust the taliban they did not believe in this negotiation there are other senators who are close to the president such as lindsey graham a senior senator in the republican party who also urged caution in dealing with the taliban so there was not certainly not unanimity within the ranks of policymaking in the republican party or in the white house as to this course of of moving forward but nonetheless zalmay colley is worked extremely hard on this for almost a year as you noted now he's probably wondering whether he's going to be able to pick up the pieces all right thanks for that rob reynolds lifeless there in washington let's to let's cross over now to kabul tony barely is there for so it has been swift reaction then from kabul to president james decision from both the

afghan government and the taliban. yes firstly the afghan government i think officially saying they support the peace process but privately they're welcoming the decision by president trump to cancel this meeting they have always felt left out of this process because the taliban refused to negotiate with them and they will also be very concerned especially president danny the fact that the violence was continuing while the talks were continuing so they'd be very concerned about that the taliban for their part they've been they've released a statement at the same time that statement they're extremely surprised by the cancellation of this according to them they believe that the draft agreement was basically a done deal and their statement released on their website they say that these negotiations concluded on saturday. it that both sides agreed on all points the agreement was finalized regional i mean 2 national powers have agreed to those agreement that agreement and they're also very concerned about where we go from

here but they did say also that they will continue their struggle their jihad and america will suffer more than they will. so remains an open question i mean or the u.s. secretary of state has says has said that these talks are dead for the time being so it looks as if he's he's leaving the door open but it is a big question as to where the peace negotiations go from now. you can look at it 2 ways either it's going to go downwards or it's going to go upwards because there's an opportunity here and i think one of the things in the statement by the taliban was the word compromise they suggested that they were open to compromise all these years and it hasn't been for filled i think if you go back to the maybe there's going to be a different reaction maybe this is a bargaining chip by president trump as mentioned before by rob maybe it's basically internal opposition within the white house because there's been a lot of objection and criticism about the way this whole process has been handled people believe that the american negotiating team was giving away too much for too

little in return and people are asking well how can you have a peace negotiation when the still violence now we president trump referred to the taliban carrying out these bombings and these attacks you also have to remember that the americans are still fighting a campaign from the air and this year in particular more civilian casualties resulted from those air attacks than ever before so it works on both sides and the timing of this is a little bit surprising because president trump said he responded immediately when they claim responsibility that's not quite accurate because after that bombing on thursday the taliban pretty much immediately claim responsibility as far as they're concerned it's all fair in love and war and until there's a cease fire they will carry on fighting the campaign so something's happened in the last 2 days maybe mounting pressure at home maybe pressure from the afghan government that's cause the president to have a rethink lots of questions we can only guess and where do we go from here well maybe that's largely down to the taliban more violence or possibly talking back at

the negotiating to get negotiating table in a different frame of mind we'll have to wait and see we will indeed tony thank you tony burley live for us in kabul. now another british government minister has quit the cabinet of prime minister boris johnson over his briggs's strategy amber radu lairs who was the work and pensions secretary says she low longer believes the government is actually trying to get a deal she had voted to stay in the european union in the referendum 3 years ago told the b.b.c. in an interview she resigned because too much of the government's planning is going into a no deal breaker i have not seen enough work going into actually trying to get a deal when earlier in the week i asked number 10 for a summary of what the planning was for actually getting a deal i was sent a one page summary so it's the combination of the fact that there's not enough work

going into actually getting a deal which is i think is not what the prime minister signed up to try to do and secondly the expulsion of 21 of my colleagues who are good moderate conservatives or paul brennan has more on this from london. this is a significant resignation and one that will bruise boris johnson you would have thought perhaps he couldn't be more bruised after the torrid week that he's had losing votes in parliament and finding himself painted into a corner as far as his breath strategy goes on able to call a snap general election for example but the rudd is a senior and respected member of the conservative party and it's significant for 2 reasons 1st of all the timing of it choosing saturday evening to make her announcement and that meant that she was able to do a tour of the sunday morning political t.v. shows here in the u.k. and 2nd of all because the language of the chief used in her resignation letter and in those subsequent interviews that she's given i mean she said that the expulsion of the 21 conservative m.p.'s who were thrown out of the party by boris johnson for

voting against him she described that as an assault on decency and democracy very strong words and she also flatly contradicted the government's stated position as far as negotiations with the european union boris johnson has said that he is strongly pursuing a deal with the european union or rudd says that's simply not the case from her insiders you know she said that she saw no negotiations only conversations and she said that she no longer believes that leaving with a deal with a deal is the government's main objective 90 percent of the government's time she said was being put into preparing for no deal she said that that seemed to be the main strategy of the government and for those 2 reasons her resignation is deep in significant all right when we come back on the u.s. and turkish troops begin joint patrols in northeastern syria as they prepare to set up a so-called safe zone. aid workers warn conditions are.