demonstrations now the unrest was triggered by the sentencing of 9 council on separatist leaders on monday i would have their role in the region's push for independence in 2017 they tried to hold a referendum on whether to secede from spite of that was declared illegal by spanish courts so they diego has the latest now from boston. this is just one of the 5 marches that's going. on right. thousands of people have. been testifying against sentencing 100 activists seclusion over the role of the uptake 2017 and legal resident independent however that is iowa to hold a referendum on independence has not died down in fact that sentences talk in plain that they're also calling for their release this well now while that has been taking place well they will be joining other marches in the city across a lot of i have also been other protests throughout the region as well anything's

to go by that sentencing has not calmed down the mass of a spanish government would have it anything that close emotions to become even more empowered over this issue. well still ahead on al jazeera in a critical state wide medics in a pakistani province so ugly doing it birgitte cia operations and houston we had history it's one small step for women as the 1st all female spy school is carried out international spy stuff. hello again it's a fairly quiet picture across much of central asia we have got some cloud is mainstreaming east was in the last few hours the coastal areas saying fine and dry a pole that is from coastal areas all the vietnam a fairly strong on shore flow so more of those shells but they're not as heavy as

we have seen it this past week that final south a day by sunday we do see more rain into central china particular cross into with sichuan and also doing a special push on into gives you province as well but 24 celsius in shanghai some good sunshine and also a dry weekend really in prospect for hong kong with a high of 29 degrees celsius now the showers a back in the forecast across the west of indus i'm i'm bias in some shots of the last couple of days on the mall in the full cost of course the southwest monsoon it has been withdrawing a steadily if a month of course for the stars of that but as we go through saturday those rains once again a fairly extensive course much of maharashtra down through carola across into sri lanka a little bit dry across the east as you can see but if you wash as back into west bengal and then on sunday those rains becoming a little bit more widespread in fact pushing across into odisha and we could see some heavy rains him oh by keeping the time to down just 27 degrees.

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and you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder about top stories this hour turkish president richard little one says the offensive in northeast syria will resume within minutes if kurdish rebels died abide by the terms of the cease fire the 5 day truce is largely hoping to have been solved on their 5 ports of sporadic fighting across. the government demonstrations are underway in lebanon for the 2nd straight day protesters are angry at new tax proposals which they say they cannot afford because they were already struggling to make basic needs thousands of protests of boxing towards boss alone from all over the catalonia region as part of their campaign for independence unions have called for a general strike of the giant wing of 9 separatists. britain's prime minister is facing a break that showdown in parliament on saturday off to clinching a last minute agreement with the european union but boris johnson doesn't know if

he has enough votes to get the d. . or passed by parliament many m.p.'s his deal is worse than the one they've already rejected 3 times the latest agreement avoids the need for a hard border in ireland that allows all of the u.k. to leave the e.u. is customs union or britain's foreign secretary says he's confident of winning the vote with a message that the u.p.a. is grandstanding concerns but they should we argue that dealt with the u.k. no one stays within the u.k. customs territory they also get seamless frictionless access to the single market in the new great deal the northern irish business there's no any interest no infrastructure at the border and there is a command consent mechanism which allows by majority in the northern ireland assembly for the people right across one of the communities to consent to staying in a limited number of rules and regulations on agra foods industrialized products that are required for that seamless access to the market well the white house has

acknowledged that president trump held up military aid to ukraine partly to push to hold investigations in connection with the 2016 presidential election but acting chief of staff mick mulvaney then backtracked on the statement that donald trump's lawyer distanced the president from bowser box democrats say this is further evidence of wrongdoing bolstering the case for impeachment castro has more from washington d.c. . the white house has a message for anyone who criticizes using american aid as leverage over a foreign nation get over it there's going to be a political influence in foreign policy the white house chief of staff offered no apologies for the july phone call between president trump and the leader of ukraine in which trump pressed for ukrainian investigation into claims that a hacked computer server that played a role in russia's 2016 election meddling campaign had been moved to ukraine trump was withholding u.s.

military assistance to ukraine when he made the request that he also mentioned to me in the past that the corruption related to the d.n.c. server absolutely no question about that but that's it that's why we held up the money now there was a report of the man for an investigation into the democrats which is part of the reason that he was on that to withhold funding to for a look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation and that is absolutely appropriate for the justice department has been examining the origins of the russian vest a geisha which the president calls a hoax but in the july phone call with ukraine trump also asked for an investigation into his political rival joe biden the white house claims that part of the call had nothing to do with withholding aid he while gordon sunlit the us ambassador to the e.u. gate closed door testimony before congress on thursday sunland was central in

trump's efforts to pressure ukraine to open the investigations but said he was unaware the president was after dirt on biden in his prepared remarks sun testifies inviting a foreign government to undertake investigations for the purpose of influencing an upcoming u.s. election would be wrong with holding foreign aid in order to pressure a foreign government to take such steps would be wrong i did not and would not ever participate. in such undertakings still more witnesses are scheduled to speak with congressional investigators in the coming days as democrats charge forward with their quest to kill back this onion of the trump administration's dealings with ukraine the house will likely vote on impeachment before the end of november with the senate preparing to put the president on trial i do joe castro al-jazeera washington well later on thursday mulvaney did try to backtrack on his comments in a written statement to journalists he said there was absolutely no quid pro quo

between ukrainian military i and any investigation into the 2016 election where the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff has responded to my by these comments things have just gone from very very bad to much much worse . the idea that vital military assistance would be withheld for such a patently political reason for the reason of serving the president's re-election campaign. is. a phenomenal breach of the president's duty to defend our national security and i hope that every member democrat and republican will speak out and condemn this illicit action by the president and his chief of staff u.s. energy secretary rick perry has announced his resignation just as he faces questions from the impeachment inquiry into president trump he's been ordered to

provide documents related to a ukrainian state energy company as well as explaining his potty in that cold between trump and ukraine's president the former texas governor has been in the role since march 27th seen trump said perry quote has done a fantastic job but it was time for him to leave. in mexico the son of the tour is cocaine trafficking result in the run off for a shootout with police and security forces over there guzman escaped a wrist off the drug cartel gunmen brought city streets to a standstill. reports. fierce gun battles in the city of khan in northwest mexico. the security forces and drug cartel gunmen fight it out after the short lived arrest of oviedo was money. he's the son of the notorious drug cartel boss joaquin guzman also known as el chapo who is serving a life sentence after extradition to the united states. the gun battles went on for

hours as army and police forces came under increasing attack vehicles were set ablaze for terrified residents panic set in bodies could be seen in the streets the capital of siena low a state brought to a standstill later in the day mexico's security minister laid out the sequence of events. 'd today at 1530 hours a patrol composed of 30 elements of the national guard and sedan or were conducting a routine patrol in the tress rios neighborhood of the city of coolie accounts and they were attacked from a home patrol personnel repelled the assault and took control of the house looking for occupants inside during this action one of them was identified as oviedo guzman lopez this led to several organized criminal groups surrounding the house with a force greater than that of the patrols likewise other related groups carried out violent actions against citizens in different parts of the city generating a situation out of. what was. said

a decision was ultimately made to release in order to protect lives the state government said it's working to restore calm and called on everyone to stay off the streets while guzman is on the run the latest fugitive in mexico seemingly never ending war on cocaine traffickers. and does either. well on friday mexican president on drugs manuel lopez obrador defended the decisions of his security officials your. right there i backed the decision because considering protection of people is the most important thing the most important thing is to protect against loss of life the most important thing is peace argentinians have been marking a day of loyalty to their former leader one peron and his wife eva this year's celebrations had a special meaning the puranas party is my new strong bid to return to power led by a bit of fernandez and former president cristina cares enough to raise

a bug reports from. the anthem of the peronist party base tribute to the founder of the political movement in argentina one played on. on thursday thousands chanted loud and clear in the province of. excited by what they see as the big chance of fairness and making it back to power because. he came to this ready to show his support to the party over him or her to her own ism represents us the workers the ones who are discriminated against the poor the ones who many would like to see dead but that purana ism has always represented. in 1905 a massive labor demonstration demanding the liberation of the labor minister one numbing operate on who had been jailed at the time and who had advocated with his wife for workers' rights. their struggle continues to define argentinean politics

today presidential elections are a few days away i wanted to find a man this time former pressing cristina fernandez the kershner will be representing the peronist party far from memphis loyalty day was another chance to attack the policies of current precedent. that. has been lying all the time he made to power lying in the debates he lies and he says he took more debt to pay the debt we left behind president you have no shame. peronist party was divided in 2015 that's when president. became argentina from the situation is completely different now and the party is united behind one leader and that combined with an enormous economic crisis is what has increased. chances of becoming this country's next president in an attempt to get more support the reapers denting a center right party apparent east as his running mate but polls show his chances

to win are slim and social justice economic independence and political sovereignty where the 3 emblems of parent ism but opponents say it was authoritarian and blame the policies implemented by its leaders for the country's endemic economic troubles . was a congressman with one but on he says parent has changed over the years. as a memory that brings votes real parent is amended with peron but it's a movement which politicians from many ideological backgrounds used to gain force it's a political conscience and that's why has so many activists. peyronie's them has adapted and evolved and it is that flexibility that has allowed it to stand a chance to return to power once again. argentina. a strike by doctors in northwest pakistan shows no sign of ending the emergency

patients being treated in public hospitals in khyber pass province government leaders deny a change in the war is a backdoor way to privatized sarah clarke reports. doc says nurses outside their hospital they've been on strike for nearly a month protesting against a new health law called m.t.r. the provincial government says it will reform hospitals in the way they managed protesters accuse the government of using the reforms as disguise to privatized the health care system in hyper buttonholer of what the pakistan it's not acceptable to us we know it's the poor patients suffering because of the strike but we don't have an option our future is at stake government run hospitals in the province are to stand still woods are empty staff are staying at home only emergency services are operating but staff a severely overstretched the striking doctors and nurses fear the changes will mean redundancies and patients will be charged for their treatment yet again prime

minister imran khan promised he'll provide more jobs in the new pakistan but we're now worried the new law means no job security. last month protesters and police fought outside a hospital and they now say they'll stay on strike until their demands are met but . the government no insists the law will modernize hospitals hold medical staff accountable and provide affordable public health care i've introduced a law that is ultimately going to. benefit the common man and just because a certain group of people they retaliate for their own personal interests for their western interests i am not going to back off. the largest teaching hospital in the province is ready child the reforms one doctor says the new system convinced him to return home to pakistan from the u.k. it has given us institutional autonomy we can do recruitment budgeting equipment.

we have established new specialties so i think the patient care has significantly improved while they just speak goes on thousands of patients in the province on able to get the treatment. it's not a height at al-jazeera. 2 women have just made history in space christina carson just to have gone on a space walk together at the international space station it is the 1st time an all female peer have done this the 2 had been said to make the walk in march but nasa didn't have enough functioning medium sized space suits on board the space station . this is after 0 and these are the top stories turkish president or one says the offensive in northeast syria will resume within minutes of kurdish rebels don't

abide by the terms of the cease fire under the deal announced by the u.s. on thursday kurdish fighters were given 5 days to be drawn from the region where turkey says it wants to enforce what it calls a safe zone the 5 day truce is largely holding but they have been summoned verified reports of sporadic fighting smoke was seen in the border town of russell i'm on friday morning. a delegation proposed a 5 day deadline we have valuated it and reached an agreement according to your green meant the united states will make sure that the kurdish rebels will leave outside of the safe zone within 120 hours which is 5 days. we have passed our operations for 120 hours the rebel groups will have to destroy arms leave defensive positions and go outside of the 30 kilometer zone within this timeframe after these terms are met the turkish operation will end u.n.

officials believe there is still some fighting along the border in northeastern syria despite the announcement of the cease fire it's called different things pauses by others. shelling and intermittent clashes continue to be reported around russia and i'm as of this morning although the situation is reportedly calm elsewhere a mortar attack on a mosque in eastern afghanistan has killed at least 60 worshippers and injured 50 others the roof collapsed during friday prayers in a house district the governor of the province is warning to expect a rise in the number of dead that a government demonstrations are underway in lebanon for the 2nd straight day protesters are angry at new tax proposals which they say they can't afford because they're already struggling to meet basic needs. thousands of protesters are marching towards barcelona from all over catalonia region is part of their campaign

for independence unions have called for a general strike those are the headlines and news continues on al-jazeera. differences. in the similarities of cultures of. al-jazeera. welcome to the stream which she is famous for capturing the sound and the spirit of a $27.00 to museum revolution now singer songwriter newfie is looking to the future with a brand new album i mean ok i'm really going to i mean joins us live in the studio to talk about her music and poetry and perform 2 of her latest songs and we want to hear from you as you're watching some mr questions in your comments for

a minute through twitter or you tube. and all my free feeds musical journey has seen has saying to fans around the world one of her biggest gigs was at the nobel peace prize concert in 2015 a performance that was watched by millions now living in new york the experimental singer songwriter is on the road touring her 1st album recorded largely in english but songs on everywhere we looked was burning combine the sound of north african instruments with electronica but it's her voice and lyrics that are the focal point of her art have a listen. and. he told.

analyst so good to have you in the stream. i am going to take you back to when you were young and you were growing up in tunisia the idea of being a singer songwriter writing your music writing your lyrics how much support did you get for that much. a little bit. well of course i wouldn't be here if i wasn't supported i was really supported by my friends and my classmates throughout my. years in school. but it's true i mean i didn't i wasn't really encouraged by my parents to like just become

a singer so that wasn't like what would they say what they suggest of the profession it's just forget it oh ok. there's no way you're going to become a singer why. well just like because i mean like many other parents it's the probably the financial part of it and the uncertainty part of it when they might be they might actually. find it but what if it financial a study. but also like for a woman you know my mom was really concerned for a woman it's not the right place to be. in shows and you know it's a mask masculine you know universe and yeah so so yeah i was. encouraged to follow that path but there was nothing to do because it

was in me i think since i was born or something so i think your fans many of them are very happy that you stuck with it didn't listen to that advice this is why this is hard on twitter who writes. music really gets me high and her musical development is fascinating starting from arabic acoustic and simple covers to electronic music and then mixing all. although john rose in the last step which is clear in her latest album her lyrics are liberal anti dictatorship and social suffering i'm guessing he means that they reference all of those topics talk to us about your early music especially this part about being anti dictatorship liberal. again social suffering. i like entire dictatorship because besides the political side of it i really wanted to fight against any kind of dictatorship the social dictatorship the traditions the the way that i'm supposed to behave as

a young arab woman. so i really try to fight against all of this you know not have rules push all the boundaries and just don't have any limit but the sky. so i think i also was lucky because my father likes music and he plays a lot of vinyls at home since i was a child and he wakes up every sunday morning with 4 seasons from vivaldi's so my ear is what i am so my ears have had a very good education and also encouraged us a lot to read so i came out to be like somebody with. a good mind you know i want you to your honest reaction king if i say to westy you can t. . what do you think will be honest well your word is free. so that's the new translation yes. that's so it's

a magical song i was just talking about it in another interview this morning the way just came to the world the way i compose the music for the lyrics of my friend i mean. and honestly every time i sing that song i just feel the same emotions in the seam you know even when i watch to that to this day when i watch the video at the nobel. but at the same time i feel like what if that song didn't come and what if that moment didn't happen what if i wasn't i haven't been known for that wouldn't my path maybe my artistic path to be easier maybe i would've you know be the person i am today but easier because i feel now there's a lot of rejection for what i'm trying to bring. music industry's side of the

things because the public silliness a very specific way let me take them back to that moment which they have reminisced about often and so this was back in 2011 this was during the jasmine revolution in tunisia and m.l. found herself in the crowds she was there as the revolution was happening and her contribution well she went and sang and then that song took to the nobel peace prize concert from the streets to the concert and it's huge have a look. was 7. 7 was. was. was.

so. it's extraordinary and now you try to get away from that and move on and the album brought that back oh that was yes and now bring us out to the present. so in a moment it will perform better which is one of the songs in the present from her new album but 1st i want you to have a listen to a video comment from fake he is a super fan. my name is carlos from cushman i believe that there's always been a melancholy dawn to the males music singing continues to give it as a stones on your diction a new domain knowledge easy for me personally 'd i have become a huge fan of ever since a heard of for the 1st time in hospital before and for the 2015 will be space so

many the songs that she sang that have a meaning extra memory. because the because there was an exact impression of political and social solutions back home in kashmir.

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. mum . do not adjust your screens this is out as they are this is the stream that was. on keyboards we have just stand and we have the m.l. come and join us back a on the sex. people love that in our youtube chat a lot of symbols of fire there and this is a tweet we got from salvador who says what i love about this new album is how it beautifully merges lyrically sonically and vocally it's a trifecta feels like it travels to the core and invokes the spirit it's personal yet outwardly great and aware that music was that new there from salvador but i want to pivot just a little bit to this and talking about your latest album this is tasso twitter who

says i'm still curious about the red designed for her to er and the overall aesthetic shift to the color red that i've noticed from her recently does it is there a symbol behind it and of course while you're performing the studio we're surrounded by flames here playing off of your album color talk to us about the inspiration for that all thank you for that. well the red is definitely a color that was. very symbolic for me throughout my career and it's a color that has always been present in my. repertoire or in my wardrobe. i just feel like my if i would give a color to my music in general i would give the red color you know for its you know depth for. the crew sheltie we can say that for the. the the warmth. the feelings the milan coolly i feel like all

of that is connected in this specially this album because of course there's a hint to revolution you know there has been a revolution but this isn't like a feelings revolution where i'm trying to revive. our humanity our empathy and revive our attention in our sensitivity to our values and our senses i'm going to carry on with the theme of read i'm looking at your instagram account which is very striking and there's a picture of you in a red dress and the commentary from you says that quote i used to play guitar and sing better with a red rose in my head but you'll need to call jenny from then until now how would you describe it well you might now. i think i am where i'm trying to catch up with myself with my true self i think we're not a when we're born we're not exactly ourselves and we try to reach to the most

honest expression of ourselves and i've been trying to find that throughout my musical experimentations and i feel with this album i'm really i'm really there i mean i'm probably still going to search deeper and deeper but. i of course like that was back when i used to live in tunisia there was a different environment political and social except and after that i lived a few years and friends i travelled i toured and i composed made different albums so i feel a little bit less of. a rebel but now i feel like i matured into a warrior and. i think part of coming into the person you're supposed to be for you based on what people are telling us online is the languages that you use for your songs of course you're at least trilingual right arabic and english

friends who wore the 5555 we're going to so our audience picked up on that i want to play a video comment from someone who talks about that this is a lecturer in the air but program at stanford university here in the u.s. and here's what he asked i would like to congratulate. chasse tracks both. arabic my question is does it feel different toward your record your own target arabic that it does what you recorded or french if so. so when i started seeing in my 1st. passion started by covering other artists and it was mostly in english so english actually is my musical mother to mother mother language and then i found like my persona with writing about

tunisia in tunisian lyrics except her and i have always been a little bit nostalgic to the period where i was in the middle bin i feel like rock music and metal has always been a little bit present and i've been looking forward to make an album in english but i didn't want to do it until i really feel like it's me in that i'm not copying anybody else and that i'm creating a new sound just not not just sing in english like sing in english but with the same passion and the same depth that i do the arabic exactly so when you compose the lyrics composing is it when you write the lyrics are you writing them in our bit. what language comes out when you put a poem put a lyric down so it used to be i used to write in arabic for the last many years and

for this album i really felt like i was ready to write in english so i actually started by writing 2 songs in arabic and then i switched to writing in english so this time around i really did myself with my favorite. poets i had 3 different poets i got inspiration from. and at the same time i started writing my own but i started writing in english not not like translate yet because i really didn't want to sound like somebody who doesn't speak english or somebody who's going to just use english easiness you know yes some very easy vocabulary i wanted to be also different intellectual. so i met you tweet at this not too long ago and i'll share it with our audience of course you know what you tweeted it's hard to be . it's singular and a musician from an arab country who transcends genres in the west because most of the times we're forced to choose between stereotypes this representation or utter invisibility that is why your support is crucial for me to be keep being who i am

so keeping that in mind we've got a lot of responses underneath that tweet or someone on you to cross the question that's slightly related this is a lizabeth raney who's watching live right now elizabeth says what advice do you have for other people who want to push their passion despite others warning them not to and i'll add to that despite others wanting to put them in a box and categorize them. i think the most important thing is to truly believe in yourself because that's the 1st step to impose your your aren't in your passion and yourself to the world because especially for us arabs or even arabs but anybody who is not born in europe or north america the path is necessarily harder because we're always expected to be carrying the flag of our country of our ethnicity or of our politics in. were always offering this very exotic you know politic very boiling so as sight from that we're

not expected to be carrying. guard to be pioneers to be innovating and i find it like super frustrating in super unfair so the. 2 fight that you just have to be yourself and keep pushing and keep breaking in the definitions that are there for you i try to not be discouraged even though like every time especially since i moved to the u.s. and i'm getting bookings and i go and perform and i'm very happy to go perform anywhere any time except that most of the time is like the theme of this year is muslim women voices theme of this year islamic arts which is i'm very proud of and it's part of my cultural identity but sometimes i just want to be invited because i have a beautiful voice for example. you are. probably one of the most

famous musical artists in tunisia how comfortable. knowing that. so comfortable and not comfortable because well comfortable of course because to new jersey where i was born and raised in it's the country that i love that made me who i am but. i'm comfortable is because also i am somebody who is because i am an artist and a humanist i feel like i don't want to belong to one place and one place only i will at all want to be defined by one single identity and i mean i love communities but at the same time i want to break away you know i want to be friends from people who have nothing to do with tunisia or with you know sometimes it's just like humans to humans you know and especially that's why i do music because i want to

speak to anybody. i think you're doing just that here thank you so much that's all the time we have for this part of the interview if you're in washington d.c. you can see i mean live in concert tonight she then played several dates in europe over the next 3 weeks now as she gets ready to play footsteps from her new album here's a video comment from. a fan from yemen in new york. and it was about the band and i'm a political consultant to new york city. i organize the evan you haven't evolved. do not watch a season and the 1st time that i was introduced to a man. was doing her performance in 2015 at the nobel peace prize ceremony and i was just blown away she performed committee her up and for someone that has been organizing an 'd try to you know advocate for the every muslim community in the united states ever since i could

remember that song really hit home she's brilliant she's amazing. i. was. so.

i he. see. every week a new cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media when the intelligence services control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most getting an accurate informative story out of there is not easy they pose it too late we already have the information they're listening post on al-jazeera. an act of youthful defiance and we've read your turn

next of the us out in the school they arrested me at home at 4 in the morning was electric shock treatment was the worse that triggered a revolution in. the arrest of those children sparked all of which became a battle without and that was the beginning of the armed struggle in syria. the boy who started the syrian war on al jazeera. it is impossible to overstate the mental scarring of the survivors sure peter lived in the home until the age of 4 when the nuns sold them all to fun and family by the time he'd lost his sister she like nearly 800 others had the name recorded in a desperate just don't go to catholic organization put bodies in here there were baptized you have to put them into our own consecration ground savages

for them become painters and the government is so frightened of the damage to the church that the full excavation would do that it is resisting it's so they're threatening court action i think the only way in which this will result is just through an order of the spirit courts of this country i can't see any other way because there is no will there's no wish there is no appetite church and state in this country are still wedded in a poisonous pact. oh oh oh this is al-jazeera. who was in the news our life from the head quarters and i'm dating navigator coming up in the next 60 minutes to boston inside an afghan mosque during friday prayers

kill more than 60 people. turkey's president warns the offensive in syria will resume and intensify if all the terms of the truce still aren't met. lebanon's prime minister due to address a nation gripped by violence and protest against the government and its handling of a surveyor economic crisis. while hundreds of thousands converge on barcelona right now in another soft mass dissent over the jailing of cattle and separatist leaders and i'm peter stamets with. those protests in the council and region have faced organizes to cool off real madrid's match at barcelona we'll hear from real coach city's adem later in the program. hello we begin with explosions inside a mosque in eastern afghanistan and they've killed at least 60 worshippers and injured many more the roof collapsed during friday prayers and has to maina

districts and the governor of our hard provinces warning the number of dead will rise it's still not known who was behind the attack just one day ago the u.n. revealed that the past 3 months have been the deadliest for a decade its report says more than $4000.00 civilians were killed or injured between july and september and that's up more than 40 percent from the same time last year it brings the total casualties for the 1st 9 months of $21000.00 to more than a 1000 let's speak to have a board he's a national security analyst he's joining us from kabul thanks very much for your time no claim of responsibility who do you think was behind this blas and what's the message that they're sending by targeting the small scale. so the message that has come from the government is that it's the taliban and its taliban seen this partners who are responsible for the attack on the other side we have had

a statement coming from the taliban condemning the attack and saying it's basically d. government order guys she was responsible for the attack so the government has blamed the taliban detail of on has condemned the attack and rejected the responsibility we know that jalalabad and specifically areas near to house coming out as well we have dice present and i want to sign over the past few leah's. has been silent about it could be done my assumption is it would be die we will wait to hear who claims responsibility but seeing as you're saying the dinosaur eisel is active in that area then from a security standpoint how difficult does that make. the situation to maintain security. so has come in is away from the been sent it's it's part of route afghanistan as part of ruler jalalabad and we have had.

presidents it's very difficult for the government at times to gain access into these rulers i'm going to some because if not die i should be under the control of the taliban and it's basically dead areas and this is not the 1st time we have had such a such a phenomenon in jalalabad we have had attacks in the mosque the last 2 years as well where we had to die a show the beginning of the dice surge but for now the government has been the taliban the taliban has rejected it we have rumors that we might start negotiating with the taliban again the united states of america now you have this attack on civilians i don't know how it's going to affect the peace. process again on the other side do you do you nama report which talked about the deadliest era for civilian casualties are concerned this is harsh reality of honest on every every time you have attack. of the government and ruler of honest on it

we'll have civilian casualties yes they will say it's the taliban but we know you were the civilians but we know you have taliban attack mr adams and does we know that the reality is as well as that since a couple of years ago since 2015 both the united states and of donna stan have really poured a lot of money and resources into fighting these groups and particularly eisel with the airstrikes as well as with military operations on the ground so why is it then that eisel remains to be so active in the east of afghanistan and also has sleeper cells in the capital kabul. well the thing is that yes the government has even gone to an extent where day claimed victory last year as far as this fight against the dice is concerned one of the reasons that are still functioning goes to that in these kind of understand is that you do have these small pockets of salafi islam while obviously eastern parts of this country

that includes areas such as house coming in are shooting wadih and other ruler areas adjoining the jalalabad. could be one of its reason and the other reason is that you have a government in kabul dot was busy and elections that is most of the time indulgent got up to corruption and the propagation of the way they are fighting the articles in fundamentalists such as is most of the time was of a propaganda which blacks ground realities and today we saw how active these militants are and i want to stand all right so i will leave it there have we thank you very much for joining us from kabul now the turkish president words of taber 2 on says the offensive in northeast syria will resume within minutes if kurdish rebels don't abide by the terms of the cease fire the 5 day truce is largely holding so far but there's been some unverified reports of sporadic fighting smoke

has also been seen in the border town of the us aligned throughout friday. is it we don't talk down to the budget to music t.v. a delegation proposed to us a 5 day deadline we evaluated it and reached an agreement according to you agreement the united states will make sure that the kurdish rebels will leave outside of the safe zone within 120 hours which is 5 days we have paused our operations for 120 hours the rebel groups will have to destroy arms leave defensive positions and go outside of the 30 kilometer zone within this timeframe after these terms are met the turkish operation will end the e.u. though is questioning the very nature of the truths. so quote she's fired this is not what we expected. in fact it's not a she said the month of capitalisation of the coach. i think that we have to be very consistent here. and we have to do to raise the

rate i would call for turkey to to put a permanent and to its military action immediately and to is a virtual assistant and respect internationally die on the low and this is for sure not. the result of the vice president for the agreement or the since fire announced by the us is supposed to allow kurdish led as the fighters to leave areas controlled by turkish forces turkey says this is a victory in its campaign to control a strip of border territory hundreds of kilometers long and more than 30 kilometers deep it wants to establish what it calls a safe zone where 2000000 syrian refugees living in turkey can be resettled a kurdish commanders as the s.d.f. will accept the ceasefire but only between also lying in the town of town where most of the fighting has been going on let's bring in charles stratford who's

joining us live from jail on aparna border with syria a lot of questions surrounding this ceasefire charles but just bring us right up to speed with what you're hearing about whether there have been any more violations. well certainly this since this morning when we arrived this morning there was the sound of gunfire what we understood as being sort of light artillery being used in the town behind us here russell and since then it has been very quiet i'd say for the last sort of 66 hours also certainly here in this area the cease fire seems to have held we're also hearing reports from some of those syrian rebel fighters that have been participating in turkey's operation they saying that it's very quiet around the town of tel aviv out which the turkish forces took control of a few days ago in the last couple of hours as well interestingly. turkish sources with the turkish forces are telling us that kurdish forces have started to withdraw

from the area between russell line and tel aviv bearing in mind that kurdish forces have control according to the ministry of defense maps right up against the border so that certainly in terms of president or the lawns plan is is positive that there seems to be some movement there the big question though that you made reference to in the intro is the fact that this safety zone that president obama's to set up in order to house some of these 4000000 refugees currently in turkey stretches for 440 or so kilometers right the way along the border basically from the town of qubani to the iraqi border 30 kilometers deep there are huge areas along there that yes the if are still in control of and they said last night that they would only withdrawal from the area of russell i across down to tel aviv which comparatively is very small so it's going to be very interesting to see how that pans out in the

coming hours and days there's been a statement from the white house just a lurching seemingly trying to alert people to the kind of difficulties in establishing these cease fires the white house saying that it did. it does take some time for them to settle into it but the president on saying any reports of any violations today are all fabrications certainly where we have been for the majority of the day it has been quiet ok of charles trafford thank you for the process 11 on have grown into massive numbers and spiraled into violence at times as people demand the resignation of the government. they accuse their leaders of looting and bankrupting the country which is in a severe economic crisis the latest protests were triggered by new taxes including a fee to use whatsapp that was scrapped but people are still out on the streets the prime minister saga heidi has canceled friday's cabinet meeting and is due to

address the nation shortly let's speak to how the boats are he's an investigative journalist and blogger beirut reporter is joining us from beirut itself thanks so much for speaking to us as we wait to see what the prime minister has to say perhaps in a couple of minutes time hubby just i know that you've been out and about on the streets of beirut you've been seeing what's going on just give us a sense of what you've seen and heard today i mean it's an extraordinary scene on the streets of beirut i just to get to the studio today i had to go around maybe 20 fires small fires really big fires tire burning people just taking over the streets i've never seen anything like that usually protests in lebanon are in downtown in certain places there organize these are completely. people that it seems there's no police around there's no party flags they're just blocking roads all over the country and people are just walking in the streets holding flags.