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clear what hezbollah is trying to do it is trying to create some sort of a the terrorists because israel in many ways has been acting with impunity in neighboring syria targeting what it says are iranian and iranian backed bases in syria for the past few years so what hezbollah wants to do is draw a line and say no you cannot target hezbollah groups or back to groups iranian backed groups e'squus me in lebanon hezbollah of course being an ally of iran we also understand there's been an airstrike come for a rainy and forces inside syria will more do we know about. well there have been reports overnight about the airstrikes targeting what is believed to be a base being built constructed by iran and iranian backed groups in east syria the camel area which is very close to the iraqi border there has been no confirmation from syrian state media the reports we're getting are from opposition sources in syria war monitors in fact the syrian observatory for human rights is
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reporting that at least 18 fighters iranian backed fighters were killed in those strikes it wouldn't be the 1st time we did mention that israel has been targeting iranian backed fighters in syria for years but what has been happening as of late sami is that we're seeing israel expanding the scope of its military operations targeting iran and iranian backed fighters wherever it can syria 2 weeks ago lebannon and then we have these mysterious strikes targeting iraqi groups groups that are backed by iran targeting their arms depots targeting their leaders very close to the syrian border what israel is trying to do is we can iran across the region prevent it from gaining more influence and that area of this book camel area there is really a heavy presence of iranian backed fighters because this is the land corridor or it lies along the land corridor that links their front to damascus damascus to beirut . thanks so much. still ahead on al-jazeera the
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families who say their lifestyles in the amazon are under threat because of the destruction of rain forests. this duffy means everything to me today. words of joy rafael nadal hold series now of in an epic final to win his 4th u.s. open title. hello good or welcome back to your international weather forecast for the next couple of days are going to be quite stormy here and wet and cloudy across parts of central europe we do have a couple areas of low pressure to talk about one right here across central europe that is going to be heading towards the north it's going to be a lot of rain from parts of germany down here across parts of austria as well so for berlin expect to see
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a wet day here on monday with 15 degrees out here towards the west we do have a system that's going to bring some rain across parts of the u.k. so for london expect to see some winds and some rain at 15 degrees paris not looking too bad but once we put this into motion from monday to tuesday that rain makes its way towards the south parts of self into the western mediterranean brings a lot of rain across parts of spain as well as into southern france london you are looking better here on tuesday at 18 degrees and also a nice day in paris at about 22 degrees there well that same weather system that does park itself is going to cause a lot of problems here across parts of northern africa over the next few days we are going to see rain anywhere from morocco over here towards algeria over here towards tunis as well so that is going to continue we could be seeing some localized flooding as we go not only for monday but also for tuesday as well temps of tunis at $27.00 degrees algiers at $29.00 but the sun is coming up with a temperature of $24.00.
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rewind to 10 days with a new scenery and brand new updates on the past about using documentaries. it's fun. to rewind continues with saving sweat and seeing the light years led to a lot of you every person community in south africa is no better this is a great motivator for us to keep giving back to these communities on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching i'll just time to recap headlines the u.k.
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prime minister barak's johnson is heading to dublin ahead of what could be a day of new drama in his quest to pull burthen out of the e.u. top of the agenda will be the irish backstop it's seen as the largest hurdle in securing and he breaks that deal. off the hurrican darrien the u.s. says it's delivered enough emergency supplies to 44000 people in the bahamas tens of thousands more haven't received aid yet the u.n. says 70000 need food and shelter. 11 need some group has says it shot down an israeli drone outside the border town of its fighters say they now have the drone israel and hezbollah exchanged fire along the lebanese border just over a week ago. now the taliban say the u.s. has the most to lose after president cancel the meeting with a group in the united states u.s. special envoy that has also been recalled he'd been negotiating with the taliban in
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qatar for nearly a year the afghan government says peace will only be possible if the taliban stops killing people and holds talks with the country's leaders tony burke the reports from kabul president trump's early morning tweet cancelling the meeting with the taliban surprised many including the afghan government but it has actually welcomed the decision the main goal of our piece is is a ceasefire and indicted negotiation with the taliban so these 2 components are very important. the taliban refuses to talk directly with the afghan government who she regards as illegitimate and corrupt but it did agree to negotiate with the u.s. these forces invaded afghanistan 18 years ago after the 911 attacks on america there have been 9 rounds of talks october last year but during that time taliban fighters have carried out numerous attacks and suicide bombings and america has also continued its air campaign which is hit the taliban but this year has also
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caused the biggest number of civilian casualties the latest taliban bombing was in kabul last thursday in which 12 people were killed including an american soldier 2 days later the u.s. president in a tweet ditched what he said was going to be a secret meeting at camp david. even as the taliban was claiming responsibility for thursday's attack zalmay khalilzad the u.s. chief negotiator was only way to katter for further talks that were later described as positive but the afghan government said the talks gave the taliban recognition the taliban has responded angrily to trump canceling the talks in a statement released on its website they said the agreement was finalized on saturday both sides agreed to all points they talked about intra afghan talks to begin on september the 23rd but warned that their struggle will continue and the u.s. would suffer more the u.s. has been criticized for offering the taliban too much for raising fears that the
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country could descend into civil war once the bulk of american forces withdraw if there is a new agreement between the problem in the united states government about the role of the party fighting forces. that will be devoid of worth and not only part of pakistan that will be there for the world situation part of that region and the international community and that is something that troubles many afghans. we know the taliban is not trustworthy and they do whatever they want and they misuse islamic laws in a terrifying way this country won't be better with them in the government. we are free of the taliban come out not only will women's rights be violated but also all human rights. all sides appear to agree that militarily they can be no winner in this conflict but also achieving a lasting peace is not going to be easy either where this leaves the peace process is anyone's guess it depends largely on what the taliban chooses to do next either
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escalate the violence or return to the negotiating table in a different frame of mind afghanistan waits to see which one it will be tony berkeley al jazeera kabul. least 29 people have been killed and 10 others injured in trouble attacks and booking a fast so the government says 14 people were killed when a convoy carrying humanitarian supplies was attacked in the double ok elbow area shortly after that 15 people lost their lives and 6 others were wounded when a truck hit a mine in. another 4 people were injured during an attack in the city the state of emergency is in place and 7 of the book in a fire so as 13 regions more than 500 people have been killed by armed groups and look you know fast so in the last 4 years thousands of school students are forming human chains around hong kong in solidarity with anti-government protesters authorities are condemning what they call the illegal behavior of radicals and
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warning demonstrators to stop trying the patience of the government but after sunday's protests and the violence of these fired tear gas to disperse crowds of the some demonstrators blocked roads barricades on fire and vandalized a metro station large crowds also rallied without incident the u.s. consulate some held signs calling on president trying to liberate the chinese territory. protest leader joshua warner has been released after being held for breaching bail conditions he faces charges for allegedly being involved in violence in august he says police had picked him up again accusing him of being involved in more unrest on sunday. for the support of the legal team so unfortunately with the political prosecution no longer love it would happen but the chaos happened yesterday i've been behaving for 24 hours and i urge international
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community school realise the political persecution just result in white care and become a common norm. iran says the oil from its tanker that was released by gibraltar 3 and a half weeks ago has been sold iranian state television says the $130000000.00 worth of crude has gone to its destination the u.s. says satellite images show that destination was syria iran had promised the adrian dolly a one super tanker formerly known as grace one wouldn't sail to the country. the syrian government has condemned joint us and turkish patrols in the northwest is a flagrant violation of its sovereignty armed vehicles return to turkey on sunday after entering an area that used to be controlled by u.s. backed his forces the u.s. and turkey want to establish so-called safe zone in the area america's support of
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the kurdish why p.g. has been a source of tension with its nato ally which is which sees the group as terrorists 4 and a half years of war in yemen have forced millions of people to leave their homes the robots camp in the province of aden houses more than 600 internally displaced families they're becoming increasingly desperate story gates and the force. that. passes through. it has no chance and just a handful of. a 1000 school age children live in the camp but most don't turn up to class. we need to build a school we need cheers about a year and a gate for students because most of the students run away they want to work because of the living conditions here. out of about camp in the province of aden opened
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last year since then more than 3000 yemenis from the cities of data and tires have arrived they were forced to leave their homes because of fighting between who think rebels and forces loyal to yemen's internationally recognized government backed by the saudi am iraqi coalition in recent weeks fighting around the port city of aden has caused a further 60000 people to leave their homes camps like this one a struggling to cope and people are feeling increasingly desperate. i am glad and please stop the wall after years of fighting we are starving the water has been cut off the temperature inside our tents is so high we have to sit under the trees we've had enough. the camp provides basic health care but it doesn't have the resources to help yemenis with complex medical conditions. i have a hole in my heart so i want to sign up to get medical help but unfortunately i couldn't
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afford it it is too expensive i've been sick for the last 2 days i want to the hospital and they gave me temporary medicine i felt ok for a while and then i relapsed again no one here can help me hunger thirst discomfort and distress a part of every day life in this camp for some it's all they've ever known victoria gates and be al jazeera. spanish rescue crews have saved more than 30 refugees and migrants were found in 3 d. floating off the coast of the canary islands near morocco they include a pregnant woman and children and been taken to gran canaria. in chile an event commemorating the victims of the former dictator of turned violent thousands took part in the march in santiago ahead of the anniversary of augusta pinochet's rise to power in 1973 more than 3000 people were killed or abducted during been the chaise 17 year old brain. loggers and cattle farmers in brazil are being accused of
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destroying rain forests in the amazon and prosecutors say they aren't enough there aren't enough officials to stop them our latin america at its new when it's been visiting a community where people's lifestyles are under threat. francisco. as he's called lives in the heart of brazil's amazon rain forest. he's $61.00 but can still climb up in a tree in the blink of an eye the fruit is too green he says so he slides down without. he also grows coa used to making chocolate many beans and resist chickens. we're living in an era in which we don't need to think about wealth but about survival if you have enough to buy shoes you can produce food which are the essentials along with health you can live well. chico is one of
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the founders of a sustainable development settlement hearing on a pool there are $160.00 families who live off the forest without destroying it but this oasis is being increasingly ravaged this is what the untouched amazon rain forest looks like almost impenetrable and just across the road here is the perfect example of what brazil's president calls opening up the amazon for economic development and progress protecting the forests trim illegal loggers and cattle farmers is dangerous she could takes us to see the charred remains of what was the settlements community center. the land grabbers wanted to take our land and thought if they burned down our community area we wouldn't be able to rebuild again and leave. 1000 people have been murdered here in an apple and killings related to land disputes she quiz shows us where he was stabbed a few years ago the knife pierced his lung. with only 3 environmental agency
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officers assigned to an area larger than all of england it's almost impossible to protect the community or the forest has passed a prosecutor said that. the legal activities that impact the environment such as mining and logging are done in the most. areas where the local power structure is linked to criminals and now we have severe budget cuts for policing along with the government discourse that encourages illegal activities. most of the members of the community were too afraid to appear on camera but she caught remains defiant even so you don't have to look far to see that at least for now he's losing the battle to preserve his rain forest you see in human and just cedar and apple brazil. now in tennis rafaela dollars won the u.s. open for the 4th time the spaniard had to dig deep to overcome russian daniel my
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very have in epic 5 set match victory in new york raises nadal's grand slam tally to 19 just one behind his great rival watch ephedra. all the things that they had shifted my career. much more than what they were thought of. i would love to be the one who had more yes but i will i really believe that i will not be happy at all less happy if that happens or not happen if you happiness is the presence of this faction that you get with your best i'm in no way very calm and very pleased with myself. and let's take you through some of the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.k. prime minister barak's johnson is heading to dublin the head of what could be a day of new drama in his drive to pull britain out of the e.u.
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top of his agenda will be the irish backstop. it's seen as the biggest hurdle to securing any new brands that deal. british airways pilots of started unprecedented strike action that will ground most of the carrier's planes for 2 days it's likely to disrupt the travel plans of up to 300000 people the company and its 4300 pilots have been locked in the increasingly bitter dispute over pay the lebanese armed group has valar says it shot down an israeli drone outside the border town of its fighters say they now have the aircraft israel and hezbollah exchanged fire along the lebanese border just over a week ago the taliban is warning that the u.s. has the most to lose after the cancelled the secret meeting with them president blame that this isn't on recent attacks by the group and the u.s. secretary of state might prompt negotiations are there that least for now
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a spokesman for afghanistan's president says he understands the decision we expected an outcome that could lead us to a ceasefire that could lead us to a direct negotiation with the afghan government and the taliban so unfortunately so that's that's we didn't see. our own commentary we saw and we are observed that there could be risks to any prices that the afghan government is not the main stakeholder in that and any process that cannot guarantee a cease fire a halt to the violence could be harmful for all of that humans that we have gained thousands of school students are forming human chains around hong kong in solidarity with anti-government protesters of forest these are condemning what they call the illegal behavior of violence calls they're warning demonstrators to stop
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trying the government's patience it's inside story now. jr zia. the spark that ignited the arab spring elects a new president what does the political scene look like after the arrest of one of the main candidates in the presidential race join us for special coverage. on al-jazeera. has the peace process in afghanistan collapsed in a tweet the u.s. president calls off talks with taliban leaders did donald trump take twitter diplomacy to far. deeper reasons behind the decision this is inside story. how and welcome to the program i am hashem. talks to the war in afghanistan appear
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to be making progress the taliban and the u.s. came up with a draft deal after nearly a year of discussions in qatar and about his chief negotiator sounded optimistic when he revealed the details of the afghan president last week but now a breakdown in a suite the u.s. president canceled a secret meeting with taliban leaders and the afghan president at camp david donald trump blamed the taliban car bombing that killed an american soldier and 11 other people in kabul on thursday it doubt of the group wanted to negotiate a meaningful agreement by the taliban warned the u.s. that americans will suffer more than anyone else for canceling the talks tony berkeley is in kabul for us. privately i think the afghan government is pleased that these talks are being canceled but officially they are thanking the americans for their efforts in these peace negotiations and they have stressed that the only
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way to getting and meaningful peace in afghanistan is through nonviolence they want the taliban to stop fighting they want to ceasefire something that has never been agreed between the americans and the taliban and they want to hold direct talks with the taliban this is something the taliban has always refused they call the afghan government a puppet of the americans and they refused to talk to them of course with this draft peace agreement if it was signed it would then lead to direct talks in some form with the afghan government but there are concerns now the afghan government wants an end to the what the fighting it wants then meaningful talks to go ahead and the big question is where does this now leave us the taliban we understand are having high level meetings of their own they can go 2 ways they can either say yes hang on the americans are serious let's go back to the negotiating table with something more to offer because so far they could see did very little or it can lead to an escalation of the conflict everyone here has been concerned at the pace
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of these peace negotiations it had 9 meetings in a year quite an achievement getting them around the table in the 1st place but the americans have being expecting too little from the taliban that's the overriding opinion so they want more from the taliban before we will get a meaningful peace but there is still here now an edge to this city people are concerned that the attacks which have increased in the recent days and weeks may increase even further. it's unclear whether the u.s. taliban talks are permanently over or just this poland but here's a look at how they began the group beautifully refused to hold direct negotiations with the afghan government its views are soften his administration as illegitimate taliban leaders insist to the negotiating with the u.s. instead those talks began in qatar last october after 9 round of meetings the 2 sides struck a draft peace deal that could lead to the withdrawal of 5000 u.s. troops in return the taliban must go on t.
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it won't use afghanistan as a base for attacks on other countries. let's bring in our guests moshtarak are haim is a founding member of the afghan think tank afghanistan affairs unit and worked on the afghan peace process in london hamid hacky me a research associate at chatham house and former international policy advisor to the afghan ministry of foreign affairs and in alexandria virginia in the u.s. john you watch syria expert in afghanistan of the united states institute of peace welcome to your wish how significant was that tweet about trump who was willing to meet with more love brother and with us the opportunity at camp david. significant given because apparently everything was seemingly sorted out between the polygon and. when he came to kabul he even
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showed a copy of the peace agreement that was about to be signed between the sides and then president of money was all prepared to fly out to the united states so this these the seabees of the tweets that came last night i think it tests busy court absolute heart at least for the time being the ongoing peace process and there has been significant level of mistrust now created between the palestine and the americans which was garnered generated by. the course of the last 12 months in 9 rounds of peace negotiations with the parliament. hakimi i mean we knew that the taliban and the americans what about to finalize a breakthrough deal but i mean to see trump shaking hands with more love rather talking to us in a funny and then announcing that deal this must have been
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a bombshell revelation that could send shock waves across the political establishment in afghanistan absolutely the optics would have been entirely something out of a movie you could say but but but yeah absolutely that there is significantly you know significant elements within afghanistan who disagree with the way the talks with the taliban are going not necessarily with the fact that there is a process of negotiations of the taliban but the fact that the taliban have remained consistent in their messaging that this is a negotiation to end what they call the foreign occupation so they have been on message where us. partita there speaking to i.e. the not to state seems to have come round to the idea of talking to the taliban so that the optics have always played in the last sort of 11 months 12 months in the favor of the taliban per se especially to their constituency and absolutely having
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a summit in camp david which is a venue reserved for what leaders for global. significant globally significant events this sort of legitimize the taliban i think also to the extent that some people in afghanistan particularly the political elite who don't like the taliban what does not like to see. johnny is this an official american recognition of the taliban as the ones who call the final shots in afghanistan and therefore the americans recognize the need to do business with them from now or worse no i think there is absolutely not an official recognition of the taliban by any means and i don't think anyone within the u.s. government would support i think there is a strong belief that the only positive outcome to this war in afghanistan is a peace process and that the way to get one started is an agreement with the taliban that involves drawing down troops conditionally and over the last year
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there's been an enormous amount of effort put into broadly support across the american government. that's crucial this obviously is a major major moment probably setback to the effort but regardless of where it goes and who is willing to talk to the tower and i don't perceive any sense that they recognize the taliban as a legitimate government or anything else that's how they view the afghan government we're stuck what's next do you think that this is something that was going to be permanently disposed or do you see the potential for there americans and the taliban to sit together a do go she ate a way out. well. frankly speaking all sides engaged in the afghan conflict have been facing the brunt of the ongoing conflict which is faced with an absolute stalemate since 2014 and that was the sole reason that all parties the
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garda so your position were prepared to engage in negotiation process. i don't see this series of tweets detailing the whole process are putting a full stop to it definitely this there is mistrust created between the 2 sides. 3 the taleban have lost a bit of ground in regard to trusting the american government as they also say this in the statement that came out today but definitely i'm seeing that they're going back to the negotiation table but it's going to be another gruesome and long way before the can reach an agreement because trust is often essence in any peace process and i think that was built by zell my follies after mactech keyless engagement with the taleban in 9 rounds of negotiations in
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the meantime he had conceded the avalon government as far as the taleban were concerned in the peace process and he went to the extent where he did not even handle the copy of the peace agreement and rather merely be sure to have one president we saw that there were statements from the avalon national security advisor in the united states argued in the course of these 9 rounds where he said that they don't trust them my colleagues that then he was strong which was that which is a living and we want it i don't know we'll why the op sucked because we have been completely fine blind during the 9 months of negotiations how meade let's talk a little bit about that draft agreement when you're. the continent is gives you the impression that the americans in exchange for a sense of guarantee of security and stability in afghanistan from the taliban they were willing to give them an absolutely huge political sway in the country.
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i mean. depends how you look at the draft and who you are when you look at the draft certainly from any angle that you look at that particular document it can look at it can look as a as a document been put together to give the taliban the legitimacy of they've always wanted they have always a well argued since 2000 only to thousands when they started to fight against the us presence in afghanistan that they wanted a negotiation directly with the united states that they did not recognise the afghan government as a legitimate entity that it was one that was put in place by the by the united states so that draft agreement there were there were tacit. sort of confirmations of those assumptions the taliban have had and have been promoting to their constituency for all these years and this is why exactly there was such a huge amount of reservation what then certain afghan. political elite circles not
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not least within the afghan government itself under president arnie. that they did not like the document they were dead immediately explain that they had reservations about certain elements of it and i think also for the for the broader public we should not forget that afghanistan has been urbanized since 2001 to a greater extent there's a huge number of people that live in the cities and that cities have been broadly facing the brunt of the taliban attacks where in the rural areas the taliban have been attacked consistently by the nato led and then you know the last few years by the afghan security services so in the cities the perception of a peace deal with the taliban and how it's received is entirely different to how it might be viewed and ok perceived in the rural areas although afghans as a total they do want an end to violence but i think that particular draft looked like it was giving the taliban upper hand and the taliban could actually sell it as a as a product that shows that they have actually succeeded that they've beaten the world's heaviest superpower and all those kinds of things you can create
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a narrative in your favor from johnny b. some american diplomats cautioned against the deal particular when it comes to the we draw prior to any comprehensive settlement with the taliban saying that it could be catastrophic leading to further an arche in afghanistan isn't this a realization that the. pleas from those exposed that the americans are giving too much to the taliban in exchange for a permanent deal well i think the most important part of that the deal as it's been structured has often been missed in the public discussion and there's a perception that in this deal the u.s. troops would leave no matter what the taliban does and that perhaps what some taliban hope is true and certainly what many in afghanistan fear is true i really don't think it is true this is that has been fairly clear many times his phrase is nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and the concept is that this deal lays out
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a conditional drawdown the potential drop down and the timetable on which would happen but there's a huge difference between agreeing on that timetable and actually removing troops and so i would strongly agree with those diplomats who wrote the letter you're referring to that the actual departure of u.s. troops needs to be pinned to milestones in the peace process because what's important is to actually get to a cease fire and political settlement that brings peace to the country without that a drawdown could be a disaster but i really think this deal has been mischaracterized as leaving regardless of what happened. well anyway we do understand was that part of the provisions of the deal are kept secret for the time being because it's not set in stone but however let's try and read into the possibilities and scenarios once there is a deal what becomes of the taliban what kind of role do you think they would accept to play in the afghanistan in the future if it is not the lead role in the country
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well because it has been a hide and seek sort of game between the palace and be americans not been have been coming blair in terms of that position i can remind you some of the palace. previously off grounds of talks talked about. it's all being the avalon aadmi overhauling the hope of doing the constitution but then they ran back and said well we don't mean that and we will continue with the current system so there was no clear stance from there and that was something that was that put the avalon people in a state of bother about their future right now the taliban have been looking forward to taking hold of the pie as earlier was said that they wanted to claim a victory against the american establishment of the busy regime of the late ninety's back however the also understand the ground ground realities that afghanistan has progress toward the last 2 decades significantly and it might be
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difficult to go back to that hardcore taliban system but of course they were looking forward to picking goal of the whole government and coming as. at the ied. as a group leading the country whereas the other one government has been pushing for elections and and offering that participation and integration in the national particular system so not that i see a point let me go to mr hakimi now if you look at the latest developments on the ground i mean the taliban control something like 50 percent of the terrorists are enough gotta stand they can launch attacks at the very heart of kabul i mean it's clear indications that the americans do understand that for them to move forward in the future they need to have the taliban on board as likely as a key player to ensure stability i think i would caution as
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a reset about those statistics i just read they want to run my longest look at then they will have by and not me i don't i don't i don't you know lose the on the on out of the sense i don't doubt. i don't doubt that what you just said the authenticity of it but the way to interpret that perhaps is important to look at whether the taliban really control do they disrupt and i'm not in any way in favor of my status or in favor of the government or the taliban i'm just giving you an analytical view on this afghanistan has population centers they have urban centers of districts and terms of clear cut districts you have one i think you have about under a 60 degree districts that are clearly under the control of the taliban over $200.00 of those districts are under the control of the government and the remainder is a contested area but also there is a population center argument so when you look at these districts on the part that the geography of the country there is
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a distribution of population so the majority of the country's population live in areas which are claimed by the afghan government to be under their rule but it's absolutely true in security it's extremely extremely disheartening i mean even for all of us when we go to kabul for afghans themselves when they travel out of the capital city certain times of the day in the evening is difficult to go out of the presence of the city is just a lot of insecurity so there is of course this this disruption this kind of stalemate which was mentioned by much talk earlier but i think it certainly doesn't mean that the taliban have demonstrated that they can hold cities and they can hold territory that's a completely different debate that we haven't experienced you point the big cities the big service provision and all of these things are still done with the direct support of the international donors and delivered you know either back well or badly by the afghan government so they are of the taliban as far as they're concerned have not demonstrated a record of governing and the last. several years except for being an extremely
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effective and surgeon see group that they can disrupt they can mobilize attacks in the heart of the cities across afghanistan including in kabul at absolutely miraculous amounts of time that they could have done it was what is the most. likely scenario so the deal a power sharing agreement between the government of us a little on the along with the leadership well that's not about or do you see the taliban having of having you know way or another the upper hand well i think that the problem is that no side is likely to win a military victory really at any point and so the whole premise of why a peace agreement is so important is that you could plausibly get to a scenario where no party gets all of the pie but all of them get enough of the pie to feel like it's a reasonable deal and a better alternative than just fighting indefinitely and it has been fighting indefinitely so far so i think i worked on this diplomat for many years i've
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experienced some other very difficult moments where there was a near mess and then something like this happened and the talks the next days are really really crucial and there's a limited window to save what what in the big picture is a huge moment of opportunity that i don't think has come before where the whole world is focused on this peace process all of the relevant countries i think are supportive of this peace process working out the parties were ready to talk to each other and to at least explore some kind of reasonable way forward that i don't think would have to overhaul the current system so the next few days are truly precise you're going to keep this i mean a larger breakdown what happens next if the talks collapse. ok 1st of all i would like to just see that i recall mr hockey reis position on the percentages that you mentioned secondly on the future course of action there is no way out but negotiation settlement the military carcass does almost impossible for
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all sides and the talks should not and i believe would not collapse the only thing is that timeframe back was in the side lot of sealing a deal will lapse further we will have more rounds of negotiations but definitely a new position have to continue i don't waste the while and still reached a level which might not be a more side will be able to contain and be in our control ferial the only really out is the negotiator said i'll have to go to mr hakimi mr hakimi we sometimes we just tend to think about the americans with used leverage in afghanistan but there are other countries with huge interest the iranians the russians the pakistanis the indians regional players in this part of the well the qataris the south is the emirate is how does the or geo political dynamic play out. i mean it has. it has obviously a very important and significant role because of the geographical location of
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honest on because of how the afghan government at least in the last decade or so has been reconnected to some extent to the new realities and in the region. those players all of these countries they have a lot of leverage in the country they have their particular clientele relationship with segments of the elites in afghanistan and certain segments of the territory could be more vulnerable to their influence as directly as well so there are parts of the country that has border with pakistan huge significant parts of the country that also parts of it with with iran and all of those realities are important but in no way i would say that any of those relationships with afghanistan or with the war in afghanistan is as significant as the role of the united states because the united states of let's not forget is the biggest donor of the afghan government it has been its remained so it has been the biggest donor to
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the military expenditure and it has been at the forefront of supporting the afghan security forces fighting the taliban with the drone operations and all of this so of course all of these regional equiv rims are important but the americans central remains and i just it is a very big point area. going to if i can make a quick look quick version we flee please her very refute go ahead yeah i just wanted to say i just wanted to say that what the regards to what happens the day after the peace deal what with all due respect i think nobody really knows even the taliban have not had had the opportunity to to i think think about this in the of than elite certain in don't know what happens the following day and because we don't know what happens after the deal is signed this deal where the united states and the between the are sits and their taliban or even the the final agreement you know were there is not a lot of anticipation of out the clarity off the how i want to from would look like the day after a peace deal and hence you have all this hesitation and all kinds of uncertainties
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on the ground johnny less than a minute these if you don't mind until before the tweets the those torch we're not really topping the agenda in the news media now let's assume that trump burn as just a bring them back together the taliban and us love ernie and find allies is a deal house significant for him this is going to be i mean that would be very significant of big part of president trumps political argument it's he's good at making deals deals in afghanistan and elsewhere are up and very difficult and so if you were 10 help accomplish of breakthrough like that it would be hugely significant i'd also just set quickly it to mr the key meese points that right now all of those conflicted regional states are quite a lined behind wanting this process to work and that is rare given the diversity of interest if this process breaks down more largely at don't think that unity will continue i suspect author of us would agree on that annie international actors
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russia china pact that us will all have incentives to back different factions to vac different parts of the afghan war and that can't lead any were good so it it further illustrates the need to make this diplomatic push work because right now out all the political incentives are a line behind it and toulouse this moment of really be a tragic won't well it's very interesting to see how this is going to further unsold bots until of then a really appreciate your time and contribution joni watched how meet hakimi and wished and thank you to for washing you can see of a program again and it's on by visiting a website both cold for further discussion go to our facebook page thus facebook dot com fo what's lash a.j. in size story you can also join the conversation on twitter i'll 100 is a.j. incise slow to phone me house image of out on the whole team here in doha for by fun a when
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a nuclear bomb aid agencies describe the dire state of the bahamas the hurrican dorrian. taliban warns the u.s. stands to lose most of president calls off talks aimed at ending the conflict in afghanistan a setback for president in his party's majority is slashed by nearly hoth moscow's local elections. the u.k. prime minister barak is johnson has just arrived in the irish capital ahead of what's. set to be a day of major drags it drama at the top of the agenda will be how any irish border and customs system would operate after the u.k. pulls out of the european union well johnson will then fly back to london he's expected to call again for an early election lawrence lee joins us live now from london so long as there's a look like he's going to be able to untie the gordian knot that is the backstop.
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no i don't i don't think so that there are the podiums are actually out in dublin johnson and his counterpart live regular meeting at the moment and we're expecting both of them to come out and say something in a in a minute or 2 but the irish sides and by extension the entire european side is quite insistence that whatever the johnson ministrations says about having some alternative scheme up their sleeve to replace the backstop with something else they don't know what it is and then they keep saying we haven't been given anything zilch in fact was the word of the irish side used the other day anything in the way of detail at all the johnson side is making some sort of noises about an all islands agri business plan to ensure that the the free movement of food across the border at least from from south to north because the u.k.
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so reliance on irish foods but the irish say well no in these be much bigger than that in these to be an all in the economy. to to ensure that the customs union on some level is still operational but that's no good for the british side because effectively that puts the customs union in the middle of the irish sea which they say they don't want because it would be a step towards northern ireland becoming much more integrated itself in the island of ireland of the european union and they won't have it so so no plan and i think based on the recent performances of boris johnson when he's had to speak in public and try and explain what's what his plans are it's probably going to end up being quite embarrassing for him because he seems not to be able to put it bluntly to string the sentence together very coherently in terms of what he intends to do. that we understand he's going to try and get parliament to prove an early election again why is he trying again now just only a few days after the 1st attempt failed. well
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because his entire strategy still rests on leaving the european union at the end of october and we're having election and get his way that his election is in the middle of october before the european council on the 17th where he to win that election presumably and in concert with the brics a policy which also wants no deal then he would be able to overturn the legislation demanding the delay and go to the european council and saying we're off and that's the entire reason why i'll do all the opposition parties and those rebels inside the conservative party quite insistent that they won't accept that and they were integrated election until after the delays put in place so so so that it doesn't happen at least until until the end of january and they would much prefer an election in november but boris johnson is in a hole now because he's lost so much support inside his own party and he's demanding the suspension of parliament which could easily take place from from the end of play today full and until october the 14th he doesn't have any more
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negotiating room inside parliaments of this and so he's kind of stuck in self really into a corner and the question really that everybody's asking is what is he going to do assuming he loses the votes again later on today he can either resign or he can say i'm going to break the law anyway which would which would risk him going to prison or the new room of the scope of this emanating from downing street is that he could go to the european council say that i've been asked to come here and seek a delay but here's a letter saying actually i don't want to delay anyway and in the hope that at least one european country would say was so fed up of you that we're not going to allow the delay to happen but that apparently is going to legal experts is illegal too so it's very difficult to see that he has any particular options at all of the moments . if one again thanks so much crossly that. major travel disruption for tens of thousands of travelers as british airways pilots
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carry on with an unprecedented strike most of its 850 flights home specter to be grounded for 2 days the company and its 4000 $300.00 pilots have been locked in an increasingly bitter pay dispute the pilots union wants the airline to share more of its profit but managers say staff get world class salaries and benefits the lebanese armed group hezbollah says it shot down an israeli drone outside the border town of its fighters say they now have the aircraft israel and hezbollah exchanged fire along the lebanese border just over a week ago so holder has more from beirut. this is the 1st time since 2006 that hezbollah says it's down to an israeli drone over lebanese territory in 2006 israel and hezbollah went to war it was a month long war that ended with a cease fire but according to hezbollah secretary general has on the stroller we are now in
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a new phase this followed what hezbollah says is an israeli attempt to target a babe ruth southern suburbs a stronghold of hezbollah last 2 armed drones approximately 2 weeks ago one crashed one exploded in the middle of the night so hezbollah really imposing new red lines creating some sort of a deterrent because even the secretary general himself said we do not want israel to feel that it can do whatever it wants and act with impunity in lebanon because in neighboring syria what israel has been doing over the past few years is a targeting what it says are iranian bases and bases belonging to iranian backed groups and this has been happening for years now because israel wants to contain iran's growing influence in the region and just overnight there have been reports of airstrikes close to the iraqi border in the syrian town of book come out of an area which has really a heavy presence of iranian backed fighters according to reports a base being built by the iranians was hit and some more monitors are reporting at
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least 18 iranian backed fighters were killed there's been no confirmation as of yet from syrian state media but clearly israel expanding its scope of operations against iran and its allies in the region like we mentioned syria over the past 2 weeks there have been attacks mysterious attacks which nobody has claimed targeting iraqi backed iranian groups in iraq and of course there's a recent drone strike as though the drone incident in beirut so tensions lebanon in the eye of the storm as tensions rise between iran and the united. states and iran and israel. now the syrian government has condemned joint us and turkish patrols in the northwest as a flagrant violation of its sovereignty vehicles returned to turkey on sunday after entering an area that used to be controlled by u.s. backed kurdish forces the u.s. and turkey want to establish a so-called safe zone in the area america's support of the kurdish why p.g.
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has been a source of tension with its nato ally which sees the group as terrorists the u.s. says it's delivered enough emergency supplies for 44000 people after hurricane dorian hit the bahamas but the u.n. says 70000 need food and shelter as conditions on the worst affected islands are rapidly deteriorating the hurrican flattened neighborhoods and destroyed piers roads and runways making it difficult to distribute aid i had a chance earlier today to tour the damage from near an article and what i was struck by was. the the focus nature of the devastation so there are parts of our baco in the bahamas that don't show a great deal of damage and then there are clusters in communities that were devastated almost as though nuclear bombs were dropped on them that the suffering is of the devastation is. many survivors are being relocated to shelters in the
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bahamian soul not from their. faults. but at this community center in nassau dozens of volunteers are sorting through donations for support from the international community for survivors of hurricane dorian has been immense. despite relief efforts however many continue to suffer the psychological effects of the devastation we have a lot of people often lost their loved ones. we have people who don't know where their loved ones are son feeling with the cube stress disorder people have a lot of. i most likely will be exercising post-traumatic stress disorder as well. behaving in government says that as many as 3500 evacuees have arrived in nassau most of the displaced are from the islands of abaco and grand bahama the areas
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worst affected by hurricane dorian. in all it's estimated that more than 70000 people have been left without food and shelter that's nearly one 5th of the bahamian population darrien was a trainer i know the people of new orleans were totally on i'm prepared for. we didn't expect it. but pedants some ways but not for the magnitude and so when these people come they have been traumatized i do is make life for them it's normal as possible. nassau has become a final stop for many hurricane survivors with no place else to go some here seem dazed and unsure of what they'll do next is my house destroyed i don't see everything no clothes and i get to sleep and from here you know and they bring some clothes for us and you know what i need some stuff for a little. you know. and you know. no matter what i did this
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shelter is caring for more than 200 people the building is active passive but donations have been forthcoming guaranteeing everyone a safe place to rest a decent meal and medical attention for those who need it we're at the fox hill community center in nassau where volunteers in some cases are up to their waists in donations but the need here in the bahamas is so great that any donations of food water medicine hygiene kits like these donated by the red cross are all very much welcome. shelters for the displaced can be found all around nassau which is home to 70 percent of the country's total population but as more evacuees arrive space becomes limited relief workers have begun setting up tents ahead of the arrival of even more evacuees the concern now is that nassau may not be prepared for the long term care of the thousands whose communities have been destroyed many will rob lowe al jazeera nassau bahamas. now add.

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