to leave in the 2016 referendum heavily labor area the conservatives clearly hoping to woo those voters over particularly the light of labor's sort of wavering policy ahead of an election whenever it comes particular on the idea of a 2nd referendum boris johnson though confronted by a voter before his big speech in doncaster market on his promises of big public spending rises in the north people have died from austerity she said to him you've got a cheek telling us that austerity is over and that everything will be fine after we've left the e.u. it's just a fairytale she said and then he was heckled of course in that speech taken all over the suspension of parliament why wasn't he in parliament with the m.p.'s trying to sort out this mess with boris johnson doing his best to come back from that sticking to the timeline as he expects to see it now a queen's speech or domestic agenda set out on october the 14th nothing will deter him from that then a deal hopefully he hopes on the 17th and 18th of october at that summit in

brussels he's cautiously optimistic of one m.p.c. say he said we'll have plenty of time to talk about think about and vote on all of these matters and then we'll be out on october the 31st he said the one big issue he doesn't engage on of course is that new law passed by parliament by backbench m.p.'s last week requiring him to seek an extension if he can't get a deal he's adamant he won't be doing that and that of course just one of a number of showdowns to look forward to in the latter half of the obama. coming up after the weather south african women marching chants reaganite demanding action against sexual violence the street fights. as hunger takes hold in argentina thousands of protesters demanding help from the government.

head of the. south coast of china but notice as widespread as we have seen over the last several days in fact here's skies as well across much of northern vietnam across into thailand but the rain showers heading to reeling south today really anywhere from union through into fusion but to shanghai it's a dry couple of days ahead 31 celsius on saturday quite crowded conditions across into taiwan we could see if you want showers there as we head into sunday and still that rain really lingering on the south coast so a wet couple of days in hong kong with. that we had for the tools the west monsoon rains really are very widespread still and very active too in some areas you can see in the last hour a lot of activity down the west coast that had really spitting westwards across the arabian sea but the rains the ticket only heavy into majia pradesh as we head through saturday this is where the india met department of got they warnings in

place for those very active and heavy rains but they are very extensive up into the northeast again through much nepal and again across into bangladesh and really no changes he had gone into sunday those ways it's a very heavy across the central regions it's been dry into new delhi for the last couple of days and it should stay dry through the weekend with a high there of 33 on sunday. with a sponsor down. in the heart of the amazon the libyan families put their lives in peril to harvest brazil nuts. in the congo to the capital is an even more dangerous challenge. a risky new tool. on al jazeera.

hello again you're watching edges in a reminder of our top stories this hour pakistan's prime minister imran khan has warned that new delhi's crackdown in indian administered kashmir will push more of the world's muslims into extremism made the comments at a rally in. the capital of pakistan administered kashmir. a massive strike has brought much of paris as public transport to a halt as unions protest pension reforms most of the metro lines are closed while buses and trains have also been affected. british prime minister boris johnson addressed local leaders in the probe reg's a town of don't cost in northern england before a meeting with the e.u. leaders next week johnson focused on domestic issues and regaining control from the

european union. least 3 people have been killed in flooding brought on by record rainfall in southeastern spain power's out airports are closed and roads destroyed in and around the towns of. m.m.a. would report. spain's mediterranean coast this is a seaside town popular with tourists in a region being battered by storms and heavy rain the impact of the deluge the inland can be seen. with buildings and the landscapes warmed by the down. overnight emergency teams work to evacuate people properties in the flooded town of . don't want to go there and we've been incommunicado since this morning the storm came in flooded all the streets it seemed like

a river i've never seen anything like that the water almost. in the morning. light rescue is managed to reach a man who's trapped on a motorway to look more like a than a wrote in to much and have put up with a lot of fears that what he was holding onto a traffic signal since we were talking to him and he wasn't responding to the officer and i jumped in to get him out. the army has been called in to help people in the worst affected towns and villages and work is underway to clear the daybreak they should still be holiday season for this part of spain but the have been record breaking levels of rain and more is expected. oh indonesia and malaysia are blaming each other for the smoky haze blanketing southeast asian cities fires have been burning in parts of indonesia's sumatra and borneo islands for more than a month elations government says its cities are choking on the smoke from

indonesian fires but president djoko daughter has hit back saying fires are also burning in malaysia and on malaysian owned plantations in indonesia. pro-democracy activists have joined the altar and festival celebrations in hong kong victoria park unlike the often violent pro-democracy rallies of the past 50 weeks this one has been peaceful the annual harvest festival is one of the most important dates in the chinese calendar and traditionally a time for thanksgiving and praying for good fortune sarah clarke has more from hong kong. thousands of people are joining the weekend of the middle of festival celebrations here in victoria park as well as a number of different other celebration points across hong kong the pro-democracy protesters have said they'll join these rallies but very much in a peaceful way now this week we've seen a diversification of the way these protesters have been demonstrating they've been singing songs in and assembling in on mass in shopping said seeing glory to hong

kong which has become the anthem. of the protests this week can we expect to see a number of more mass rallies we've got one on sunday which is expected to go ahead despite the fact the police denied them permission on saturday they'll be another one in the new territories of the government force these protesters will be worn out by now they're wrong we started these protests and that was what was called the summer of dissent it's now and these protesters have said they will not pull back and i won't stop demonstrating until all their demands are met. at least 10 people have died in a foreign side a hospital in rio de janiero the flames quickly spread through buddy in hospital staff try to wheel patients into the streets on beds in wheelchairs. it is believed the fire started in a faulty generator. hundreds of people have been protesting through the night to demand more is done to tackle sexual violence in south africa it's estimated a woman is raped there every 36 seconds prison cyril ramaphosa has promised tougher

laws for me to miller has more from johannesburg. organizers of the protest have handed over a memorandum to the janice book stock exchange they are demanding that corporate south africa that businesses listed on the stock exchange contribute at least 2 percent of their profits to a fund dealing with gender based violence they say it's time for businesses in this country along with the government to do its part do their part to fight gender based violence they say not enough has been done and this protest where hundreds of people have come to demonstrate is taking place in the economic hub of south africa sandton which is the richest square mile in africa they say this is where the decisions are made and if government's going to take notice it should be now and it's because they're targeting businesses in this country we've spoken to survivors of the sexual assault of rape who say that they've been raped

a number of times and that there's been very little assistance and support only one in 8 south african women report instances of a sexual assault that they say the problem is in a system that does not support them women here and men as well are pleading for help to deal with what they are calling a national crisis and egyptian businessman is causing a storm by posting videos on social media detailing alleged corruption by president abdul fatah has sisi an army general mohammad ali who worked as a military contractor for 15 years says they wasted millions of dollars on venice hotels in a seaside palace for sisi he's putting his videos online from spain where he lives in self-imposed. i want to know why spend a huge amount of money building these houses i never understood his decision was he staying in a one bedroom apartment of course not the problem was that these wife didn't want to sleep in the same home when mubarak's wife stayed taken. to

a new level i built 5 villas for. palace for the president and a military camp in cairo i built a home in alexandria for the c.c. family despite it being an official residence in the same compound the modifications demanded by cc's wife cost more than one point $5000000.00 the army also ordered me to build $125000000.00 hotel in cairo is 5th siegelman. is the chair of media and journalism at the doha institute for graduate studies he says the absence of evidence here doesn't matter to many egyptians. egyptians largely know that the government is corrupt i mean egypt egyptians aren't dumb. egypt score is very low on all of the corruption indexes right the more we know about the corruption during the mubarak presidency for example so i do know that the military controls the gyptian economy some estimates suggest that the egyptian

military controls up to 50 percent of the economy they manufacture bottled water they manufacture furniture they own construction companies and i can go that's a very long laundry list so when he says these things it resonates because people sort of already believe it they're saying now that you know he's a muslim brotherhood sympathizer they're saying that he's got an ax to grind that we shouldn't believe anything anything that he's saying but the reality on the ground is that many egyptians are watching these videos they're starting to have doubts even sisi supporters are starting to have doubts about his integrity as a leader and about the military's integrity so i think it's significant thousands of protesters have been outside argentina's parliament demanding action to fix the hunger crisis there growing numbers of the country's poor and eating properly that i said boy explains why. food today's event might have been as has been living on the streets of one of sightings he and other family members set up

a camp right in front of the congress to demand a food emergency plan to help the poor. 100 by the situation is dire for all of us i'm a construction worker but there is no work it's difficult to feed my children that's why i come here because the president's policies are slowly killing us. thousands of people took over the center of one aside is on thursday when the chambre met the food emergency plan to cope with the ongoing economic crisis in the country. the law was 1st passed in 2002 right after the economic collapse in argentina now it's been extended once again that government. these protesters are manipulated by the opposition to head of october's presidential election but this people say that they come here to request government help to help them cope with a double digit inflation rate i didn t. know that makes it difficult for them to eat every day is. very kind of this is

a congressman for the ruling coalition he says the government has been trying to help those in recently when there was believe that we have lifted taxes from basic food items increase to minimum wage increased cash handouts and lots of other things to help those who need it i don't understand why people continue to protest because we are giving them what they need. i didn't tina has been in a recession since last year and has one of the highest inflation rates in the world running at more than 54 percent. this month in an attempt to prevent a lot of foreign reserves the government implemented new restrictions on currency transactions so now that you have government controls i think you see that some degree of stability or at least of calm tense calm one could say has come to the to the markets and things will be stabilize it remains to be seen at the end of the day today how many reserves the central bank actually sold

to maintain the exchange rates but i think with the with the controls in place demand for dollars should somewhat. go down or should you should see some calm and. at least for the time being. argentina's economy is unlikely to reactivate anytime soon the crisis is having a deep impact among those who need help the most. when a site is of raping advocacy groups are disappointed with the u.s. government's plan to get rid of flavored east cigarettes saying prohibition doesn't work hundreds of people have developed the spirit tree ailments of some of them fatal john hendren reports from chicago. at 18 doctors say adam her generator has the lungs of a 70 year old i was devastated because i didn't think that that little pod could do

some wants to come my body he arrived in a hospital emergency room vomiting uncontrollably his infected lungs nearly collapsed his doctors and his mother blame daily vaporing he's living proof of what us does that the pictures of his line the living proof of what they bang does to your life it's cases like his that have president donald trump considering banning flavored vaporing tobacco which critics say is designed to appeal to teens the state of michigan has already banned the products not only is it a problem overall but it's really specifically with respect to children we're getting some stories that we don't want to hear and we may very well have to do something very very strong about it according to the u.s. centers for disease control more than 450 people across the u.s. have developed ailments linked to tobacco when cannabis vaporing at least 6 have

done by some estimates one in 14 is vague doctors say what's alarming is they're only seeing the 1st few cases it could be decades before they understand the scope of the problem one doctor told me the only thing that safe to put in your lungs is air we really don't know what's in these products that make them acutely ill i think there's a big fear behind what is not know and whether we're entering these sort of the early phase of this epidemic critics say the trump administration has contributed to a growing epidemic by refusing to regulate the industry as it regulates cigarettes until health advocates successfully sued to force the administration to act the temp administration's federal drug administration unlawfully refused to regulate the sedes for in the years allowing these product. to be on the market without any indication of what chemicals these liquids contained and that is directly

contributing to the public health crisis that we're seeing today the american vaporing association says it is disappointed the administration is considering a crackdown saying in a statement a ban will remove life changing options from the market that have been used by several 1000000 american adults to quit smoking in the history of the united states prohibition has never worked it didn't work with alcohol it hasn't worked with marijuana it won't work with east cigarettes at him her generators says for users like him my longsword says it's just like a baby bear was on the damage is already done john hendren al-jazeera chicago. this is al-jazeera is going to round up of our top stories pakistan's prime minister has warned that new delhi's crackdown on indian administered kashmir will push more of the world's muslims into extremism iran khan made the comments at

a rally in the capital of pakistan administered kashmir. a massive strike has brought much of paris as public transport to a halt as unions protest against pension reforms most of the metro lines are closed while buses and trams have also been affected. we can't take away our social benefits like that i've been working almost 25 years for this company soon all the 50 i don't want to work in time 70 getting up at 4 in the morning it's very hard so today we speak for all our 80 p. network workers china one exam to us poor soybeans and other agricultural products from new tariffs it is the latest in several recent concessions between the world's 2 biggest economies before a new round of talks on a trade war on wednesday u.s. president donald trump announced he delayed more tariffs on chinese goods. british prime minister boris johnson addressed local leaders in the probe reg's a town of don't cost in northern england before a meeting with the e.u.

leaders next week johnson focused on domestic issues and regaining control from the european union pro-democracy activists have joined it made alternate festival celebrations in hong kong's victoria park unlike the often violent pro-democracy rallies of the past 15 weeks this one has been peaceful the annual harvest festival is one of most important dates in the chinese calendar and traditionally a time for thanksgiving and praying for good fortune. and egyptian businessmen is causing a storm by posting videos on social media media detailing alleged corruption by president add the fact that i.c.c. and army generals. who worked as a military contractor for 15 years says they wasted millions of dollars on villas hotels in the seaside palace for sisi is putting the videos online from spain where he's living in self-imposed exile the videos of attracted more than a 1000000 of use those are the headlines we're back with more after the string.

world leaders from un member states a pairing to take their seats for this year's general assembly rowhani and president trump will attend. growing tensions between the u.s. and iran the east will multilateral efforts provide solutions to a global refugee crisis escalating laws and climate change before it's too late join us for extensive coverage of the un general assembly on. high as for me ok i'm willing to be here in the stream today how will fail us taliban taught in parts afghanistan's future where look at the prospects for a diplomatic solution to war and hear how afghans want the peace process to me for it what are your thoughts on how the war in afghanistan could be resolved share

them with us via twitter or in our live chat. i'm not excited getting bounced or not. you are. hearing other event honoring the victims of the 911 attacks u.s. press than donald trump or wednesday threaten the taliban with even more military action am claiming the group for the sudden end to peace talks between the u.s. government and afghan taliban leaders. we had peace talks scheduled a few days ago i called them off when i learned that they had killed a great american soldier from puerto rico and 11 other innocent people they thought they would use this attack to show strength but actually what they showed is unrelenting weak deaths the last 4 days we have hit our enemy harder than

they have ever been hit before and that will continue. trauma called off peace talks in a series of tweets on saturday he's tweets also revealed at cancel secret meeting with taliban leaders that was to be held at the presidential compound in cape david maryland just days before the 911 anniversary a taliban spokesman criticised the us president for calling off the dialogue and said the move would result in even more casualties and what has become the longest for an american history so today we'll look at how the shift in diplomacy could impact security for the afghan people and joining us to talk about this in kabul also deeks of the spokesperson to the president of afghanistan and london hotel she's the executive director of the conflict and malice this network and a human rights campaigner with the afghan group time for real peace and in doha al

jazeera correspondent charlotte ballasts welcome everyone to this story and want to start online where there are so much conversation over the past few days about these peace talks of what's much for secretive and about the calling off of them so start here with danny is an afghan journalist who writes unexpectedly calling off the peace talks with the taliban which were in its final stages president trump raises doubts about his determination to responsibly in the war of the u.s. in afghanistan so the i'll give this one to you because after 18 years of war is this how the government of afghanistan views it as well. 1st of all let me say hi to you and your colleagues and war and no i think we should put the blame on the taliban because. imagine the united states opened up. a new of negotiation with a group which is a minority it's

a small group to work the afghan government. to our allies are. they committed themselves to a peace in which all our sin the u.s. and western allies who wanted to. fortunately for a political settlement in which we can end this war but it's very sad after 10 minutes or one year of negotiation with the united states. and then surprised. and then the reduce the level of violence so at the end we can only blame them because there is we did not see any sign of a commitment toward peace we are committed to peace the us is committed to peace but it's committed to peace so it's sad that we have to really corner of this and look into other opportunities in which we can. end this war.

you've been covering these peace talks for some time now i'm just looking here on my laptop the u.s. special representative zalmay causing that he said on august 31st we are at the fresh out of an agreement that we justify that's open the door for afghans to sit together to negotiate an honorable sustainable peace and a unified suffer in afghanistan that does not fight in the united states its allies or any other country now all during this time of course there has been violence with the taliban they have been attacked they haven't stopped attacking but still escuela an optimism coming off from the u.s. special representative so what happened. so there was an optimism from both sides the entire time no matter what was going on behind closed doors and i mean cus they were happening and i would go down to the diplomatic club and we'd sit in this cafeteria and watch both sides and you could tell the body language was tense but

the end of the day that always put out a tweet saying you know positive steps excellent steps to go to a joke where the americans and the taliban were looking up at the saurus as to say like what kind of positive would come today to convince everybody that things things are moving in the right direction so when that we're not from him. they were right on the cost they seem to deal in principle the taliban told me this week that they had actually an issue a deal and given a deal to the qatari negotiators and the emir to take food they thought that it was you know sign it into live it and that have a signing ceremony with in the wake and they were very surprised when the when the tweets went up i'm just wondering because to decrease saying that the taliban blew it but you're saying that things were continuing. is it possible that the idea of the strategy to keep fighting in afghanistan by the

taliban did did they see. the peace talks all could it i could i think all 22 are seen as the tweets by somebody who is very well known for being quite mischievous on twitter could that be whale thing entire process. well yes is the short i think that essentially the taliban and that was what i got from i was in the talks on tuesday when wheels that in general miller snuck out of kabul 2 days before this was all called off they showed up at the diplomatic club things were very tense because the taliban the kind of the game if you will in the battlefield last week why nobody knows i mean they had a deal right and essentially that was a play they hand looking for more leverage they launched attacks in provincial capitals they did too big a texan who they killed an american soldier i mean how can you go forward as an

american and trump with those kind of optics and say ok finally signed the deal in just get about what happened in the last week it doesn't show that the taliban were negotiating in the right spirit of the agreement and your take is interesting they're especially given some of the skepticism to people online who you're saying that the taliban overplayed their hand and i think many people would agree with you but i want to share this from a non you tube who says the taliban was and is ready to negotiate they have only one demand leave afghanistan it's their country they are the majority they will govern themselves and someone else wrote back to snow wells who says this is something that we wish to do speaking as an american trust me a lot of americans oppose staying in afghanistan but leaving now would be a risk to our national security again speaking about the united states who what has this meant for the afghan people and people in afghanistan. well. he

she will say the piece. is a marriage to the. day it opened quite a little time because honestly for the company that's going to force the kids off with their witness so many throw city's human rights violations this was a life like opportunity but unfortunately you want to see all of parties to the conflict including. ringback the. installer using civilian life. as a 12 p. for getting movie leverage sucks that's a little easier than that it's for the whole issue. of the same time i do believe because you know the piece often will it sucks sometimes again but one has really because. many want to be twice it's the hope for the best at the

same time but i mean i know what is ringback why all this stuff happening in secrecy why do stuff. we always. we are the ones who have suffered in the last pink heart the war that stuff has a subject we'll see years ago and this is going on since it is the right of people to know what is on the table. a lot of being created of the piece but unfortunately you is full of this one of these. 3 details and this is the moon. i would say for reasons that's come from any gun that if this piece is about why it happened behind the closed why it's happening in greece i think it's a question to him go ahead. yes. so 1st the

point when we look at to call them and you need to realize what kind of are we should not forget what are their agents why they continue to kill. in a very vicious way in a very violently what is the end game so the end game is to conclude that we're a gentle gravity which is that they don't care about people. it's very obvious because they have continued killing people for all time now so they want this geography to turn this into a safe haven to many other radical groups in the region so there was a friend who said you know us should go and let the taliban come because their majority are gone they are a minority group and too late it's strongly with many of the terrorist groups not only in the region but also internationally you know the number 2 kind of whining

is that they can use getting that let's just let us do this today if i may because we are also very direct questions she wanted to know why are the people in afghanistan not being told how the peace talks are going at she would agree to anything because you don't want to talk to the taliban you don't want to deal with em. no she was right because we were also lived in the dark as a government so so most of the details of that long process were not shared with the government so we were never committed in that. league oshea should that was happening so i would say the same thing as mrs will say that's when we then raised our concern about that probable peace peace deal that was about to come out so we mainly live just to live the concerns we had an understanding of this deep and and its consequences so that's why we openly and

publicly came out and actually showed that over a position to this. deal that was about to come. to the agreements between the taliban and the so and i have to jump into the process yes. hi sorry mr sake it's a challenge here i know you say you know and the dark you are the spokesman for the president why it's your country your your the legitimate posse that controls it why not say to the americans when they come to you with the peace deal i'm sorry it's our country and wait aren't accept it or we do accept it or we want these changes made i mean i really think that sometimes they don't and that scene sort of mission there. so we say that just basically saying that you know the way things are now moving in the bus with many women. that's not going to bring

a sustainable peace. to the peace process or any peace peace process from one of the might be led by the arab government must be owned by the afghan people so the loya jirga or the consensus of this peace comes so that got there in the call on may see 1000 of them from across the country. for peace to the present gives the president so we ask. many occasions. and that's why it makes a big. key to this conflict going to be to the afghan people would be to the afghan government any legitimate government that was coming in a couple of weeks so i want this to be over but this to me should not be. the issue with the qatada slogan or somewhere else so then they should not change that we have. never been a. nation which is what know what to do and the nation wants to

lead its way i'm probably we made a lot of concern even the president. on many occasions talked with criticize the way he was doing and the outcome that we were predicting was not something that could lead to sustainable peace so i think you mentioned your political destiny and afghanistan's political destiny need to be decided in afghanistan i want to go to kabul i want to bring in the voice of ali let t.v. journalist a former al jazeera journalist as well hears all these take on that. so i know for a fact that the cancellation of the peace talks will change anything on the ground in afghanistan because the fact is that the average person never understand or know what was being discussed and also because the taleban in the us who are the main parties to this agreement or the suppose that agreement never stopped their attack

but the more dangerous thing is that no one not the president and his team not the presidential candidate not the united states seem to have any kind of a real plan of how they hope to reach a negotiated settlement because the fact is that you know these military ways aren't succeeding in afghanistan so far but i wonder if you can speak to that especially given the fact that you were reporting in afghanistan during the length of these talks and so you got to witness firsthand the aftermath of what people are going through the attacks that are not committed just by the taliban but also by i saw and other armed groups what were people telling you about what their lives are like and whether or not they recognize the importance or significance of these talks. why i think people were just dealing with the aftermath of essentially both sides looking for leverage i mean the taliban up their attacks the u.s.

may have fought off the gas over the last year and they were kind of record numbers of civilian casualties this year so so they were feeling it a lot i'm a city can show can attest to that as well and i think with these peace talks falling i think. it's only going to mean more really because you know people will just look for more leverage try to get the other sides back to the table however long it takes guess i'm just going to show this guy jump in here yes he said. yes 1st of all the security forces. with the support of the us forces were trying to. deny any. advantage to the taliban that was more defensive operations because the taliban were launching attacks so we could not do anything to leverage any position as the taliban were doing this at some point given. the level of violence spiked but we were given

that actually by the taliban we were almost in defensive and we pushed back on to talk about that was the push back was not for the negotiation because the negotiation was taking place with the taliban and the us but the taliban and the dup is that the taliban you know look at the level of violence that went up so well what else can the taliban to free today you know are worried about the consequences of this. right now and we are concerned of the future violence to what extent they can go their way would be gone through to the highest level of violence so they could have done anything that they wanted to do so if i might can we will be better to the status quo is there let me just. this is that is who is there. my limbs or increase in violence or acts and the energy standing of that.

is absolutely wrong as it is not good let me just emphasize that with a statement from a taliban spokesman. we're just going to freud up on the screen so audience can also read it at the same time. so that gives you an idea of what the issue is that so if we push forward. and we're looking at you know what is possible this war has not been an inclusive peace process does this opportunity of the talks. being on pause right now does that mean an opportunity for it to be more inclusive can you reset. well i think the other is of the opportunity. the speech stops more inclusive because you know. part of 40 years in the country. you know.

from the right to be giving also. seem to. be used by just how they go i'm vulnerable and the same biomedical. allies which unfortunately a lot of. people this is what needs to be. really really that peace could be unsuspended in a country like a. house to be inclusive it has to come from within society and we have to deal. with dealing with. dealing with. perpetrators were. not but if you want the table ringback and you. can i give you stuff happens back in my. family i guess because it also makes the show how do you do that because you haven't had access to these talks so far today

talking about how the actual country is being talked about that is out war is being pushed out of the peacemaking process so how do you get a seat at the table it is your country. i was fortunately in the whole peace process. that we have more of peace peace making. peace exclude the boys say is gone from the peace why don't. they use. you how you use counting the can teach to peace. including themselves and on this is a very basic question 2nd if you use laws to predict how they will why do you want. in 1st place in 2000 why because so much more. so much more suffering today so this is why i think keep calling on

a little true dissident campaign to dissidents platforms both at the national and international level calling for inclusion of the peace. for. peace talks because they are not sure these 2 you have shown that you know back in 1990 when if you have any and you talk which will talk which was between the government it doesn't but even feel peaceful but also is a little. over somebody this place and many other human rights violations. so it's a bleak picture you're painting there but i think that our community would agree i want to play a video comment from romania and his assistant professor at red brown university on what this means going forward published in. if the talks between the us administration and the taliban are indeed off and we can't be actually certain that your. potential scenarios the most likely want to start the us and destruction

warming tain forces in afghanistan and then that's essential business as usual probably with higher levels of violence both in terms of counterterrorist operations and civilian casualties and in terms of terrorist attacks yeah there's an oil you know is that the us dollars withdrawing forces relievedly quickly between now and the us presidential election of november 2020 if that's the case then we can expect a very harsh taliban regime combined with a return to full blown civil war including the taliban of course and former entitlement factions but also actors such as these are big state and that would be catastrophic for afghanistan so just as bleak as that of a picture that he's painting as well charlotte do you think there's any way to restart these peace talks i think they are still talking behind closed doors and trying to see if they can find some common ground again but i think that it probably comes down to trumpet the end that day and who knows what he will do or

what he will tweet. can i just jump in on the what he mentioned about the a because that is one thing that has really kind of scimitar under the talks this entire year that it's gone on because the americans are really concerned that they've got currently about 2 and a half to 4000 fighters in afghanistan they're really concerned that the hard line taliban if they don't want paix may jump across to isis and it gets a real problem because if the americans leaving and then the ones currently keeping a lid on isis then if they leave and the taliban fracture in the hardliners go to isis you've got a mess of problem of counterterrorism there. i'll end with the job it on twitter who says advice i would give to u.s. officials working on peace negotiations include the afghan government in the process as they represent afghans meet concrete evenly spaced out deadlines to be met by the taliban and do not rush a deal that lacks substance or is still around or think it would be

a worse so yeah we do we're literally out so right. thank you so much what is your what stake yeah right now there won't be any current grew out of this peace process to restore this election government do you have the final i'm a little chilly today if you will there was a minus for us back to watching you find us always on line take out. a new political sitcom after 27 years of dictatorship that going to this problem that we have can we overcome it can be challenges here in looks at the new democracy in ethiopia is fast changing political landscape through the stories of food diverse ethiopians know the city this is my studio where i shoot the sitcom. my ethiopia on al-jazeera.

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a lot more conference in corporate america than i do 5 year. divisions on full display as white house hopefuls from the us democratic party face off in another televised debate. transit strike over pensions leads to gridlock in the french capital. and with all your schools and spain back from behind to beat a straight double overtime and book their place in. cup final. pakistan's prime minister is warning new delhi's crank down in indian administered kashmir will push more of the world's muslims into extremism in non-coms been holding a rally in. the capital of pakistan administered kashmir it's been more than a month since new delhi revokes indian administrate kashmir is all ptolemy almost $4000.00 people have been arrested since then more now from come on hyder.

and the 30. minute me around. the people of. florida. a on the other side of the line of. the budget on a prime minister. address in the united nations. where the next. time the prime minister speaking to argentina. on record or any. project. and. the signal from.

pakistan really you know you. don't like. well i'm joined now live in our studio by correspondent mohammed jam jim good to have you with us you recently sat down with the prime minister i think less than 24 about 24 hours or else it seems quite still quite concerned obviously about what's happened in kashmir how important is this issue for him as a statesman and for him domestically it's very important sami that was really the 1st thing he sort of talking about when it came to our interview and he is concerned about the efforts played by the international community to try to deescalate this conflict and i i really felt that he was frustrated about the fact that maybe the international community could be doing more to try to to try to get things a little less heated at the moment i asked him specifically about the nuclear threat there is so much fear about this you know there have been remarks by imran khan

just last week that were interpreted as him saying that pakistan would never utilize nuclear weapons 1st but then there was a statement from the defense ministry in pakistan that seemed to indicate that if it's their defensive posture that maybe they could use nuclear weapons 1st so take a listen to more of what he told me when i asked him specifically about that when do nuclear armed countries fight if they fight a conventional war there's every possibility that it's going to end up and do nuclear war the unthinkable i mean you know if if sit by just on for god forbid we do conventional war we're losing and if a country is stuck between the choice there you surrender or you fight till death for your freedom. i know pakistanis will fight to death for their freedom so that when a nuclear armed country fights to the end to the death. it has gone sequences so

that's why. we have approached the united nations we have we are we are approaching every international forum that them must know because this is a potential. a disaster which would go way beyond the indian subcontinent strong words and we mentioned the phrase when a country feels stuck in a sense did you get a feeling he feels stuck stuck when it comes to perhaps the lack of success in internationalizing the conflict stuck when it comes to the new pakistan agenda you know something i asked prime minister can specifically about the fact that his critics are saying that prime minister can promise a new pakistan and that he has not delivered and one of the signs that they point to is the economy the faltering economy in pakistan and there is a phrase that's been going around amongst his critics in pakistan calling prime minister kan the prime minister of u. turns a by that they mean that the prime minister has

a tendency in their eyes to make promises and then go back on those promises and one of those promises if he's gone back on is his pledge when he was running for the premiership to not seek money from the international monetary foundation since then he has asked to try for get a bailout and so i asked him about that and how he feels being called the prime minister of u. turns and he said that it's not a problem for him in fact he brought an analogy to his cricket playing days in which he said that when he was on the field playing cricket that if a strategy wasn't working much like the strategy these days in pakistan that you'd have to try to reassess and come up with another strategy he certainly wanted to promise a new pakistan he seemed eager to say that they are going to turn the page but a lot of his critics say the indications in pakistan is that things really are getting better anytime soon and of course unlike in a cricket game the winners and losers are facing very different states and their nuclear weapons on the field absolutely thanks so much for who don't notice them. and you can watch more of that interview and talk to al jazeera on saturday at 430

g.m.t. right here on out is iraq now the latest televised debate between the men and women who hope to take on donald trump in next year's u.s. election is thrown up some stark ideological differences from joe biden fought off attacks from more liberal democratic party rivals one point calling bernie sanders a socialist rob reynolds reports from houston texas. there were sharp exchanges as the candidates debated health care criminal justice race relations and war former vice president joe biden came out strongly attacking his rival's plans for government run universal health care nobody has yet said how much it's going to cost biden clashed with senator bernie sanders 1st so sure if you've got a lot more confidence in corporate america than i do but i don't speak clearly. in the united states of america we are spending twice as much per capita on health

care it's the canadians or any other major country on earth. former cabinet secretary who leon castro produced gas from the audience when he seemed to question the 76 year old biden's memory by hand and holler fire you know you forgetting what you said it matters who paid for. already what you said just 2 minutes ago amid the bickering senator cory booker appealed for unity we've got one shot to make donald trump a one term president and we cannot lose it by the way we talk about each other or demonize and degrade each other we can walk and chew gum at the same time the candidates were united in denouncing president trump for inflaming racial tensions that we have a white supremacist in the white house and he poses a mortal threat to people of color all across this country climate change was another area of general agreement with candidates promising to rejoin the paris

climate agreement is the axis dental crisis of our time it's you know that movie the day after tomorrow it's today we have seen a warming and our world like never before we're seeing flooding in the midwest flooding in houston fires in the west the candidates also discussed a slew of gun control measures former congressman beta or roark whose home town of el paso is still grieving following a mass shooting last month was cheered loudly out of ban assault rifles hell yes we're going to take your a r 15 great k 47. sen kummel harris said trump for some responsibility for the el paso shooting him pull the trigger but he's certainly been tweeting out the ammunition. foreign policy got very little attention in the debate sanders had a smack down on trump's china trade war trump thinks the trade policy is

a tweet. 3 o'clock in the morning. there did not seem to be any standout winners or losers senator cory booker may have revived his flagging campaign with an eloquent performance biden seemed more energetic than he had in past debates although he did seem to ramble at times sanders repeated well worn themes of democratic socialism while warren seemed to disappear from sight for long stretches of time during the debate the next democratic debate will be held on the 15th of october in ohio robert oulds al jazeera houston. well steve clemons is editor at large at the american political website the hill joins us from washington d.c. now good to have you with us so for you want we did this debate reveal about how ideologically polarized the different wings of the democratic party are right now.

well we saw 2 deep divisions one over health care and how big the government's role would be who would be insured and not insured and you had these wings with joe biden amy clover char and others in wings of that argument saying the government can't do it all can't afford it all and they want to see something realistic where others with medicare for all which is one of the big proposals that bernie sanders and elizabeth warren have proposed one a much bigger government role and tie into the tax dollars for that and i think the same is true on the gun debate that was another big current in the conversation and in that it's interesting that while people were applauding baiter work and he was saying he would take these assault rifles away from people. you know amy club which are said she would not necessarily fund a a mandatory program that they would nestle do a mandatory buyback so again we're seeing a divide in the democratic party between the pragmatic wing that looks i think

a bit more realistically about costs and dollars and what they can do versus the idealistic wing on many of these questions was there a winner or busy last night's debate in a way that changes who's ahead right now i think the loser was julio castro because his attempt to shine a light on biden's age backfired i agree with rob reynolds i didn't see any great winners but in this case you know many of us had expectations that with elizabeth warren and joe biden on stage that that would be the defining clash in collision because they are the 2 front runners right now that didn't happen so everyone came out a little bit deflated i think that that that that didn't occur i think joe biden is a bit of a winner he came out a bit strong even though he did fumble and he did fade a bit into the forum i think that on the emotional front there are a lot of americans.