al-jazeera. every. sunday truce between the u.s. and the taliban goes into effect in afghanistan paving the way for a peace deal to be signed next week. so robin you want your elders there are a lot of my headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next 30 minutes italy reports its 1st coronavirus death as the world health organization wald's that the window for containing the disease is narrowing rapidly. also a warning that russia may be battling in the u.s. presidential election campaign donald trump denounces the claims as a misinformation. and voting ends in iran's parliamentary election with

conservatives back to to hold on to power after moderate and reformist candidates were excluded. welcome to the program an agreement that's supposed to usher in peace the afghanistan has come into effect the taliban and the u.s. will begin what they're calling a reduction of violence is the 7 day deal as a success both sides will sign in accord at the end of the month paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups the u.s. says it wants to pull its troops out of afghanistan well john 100 is following the story for us from washington d.c. what wonders really what except a bill level of violence really is for this agreement to work. hell that is the biggest unanswered question about this whole process this is after all not technically a cease fire it's a pause in hostilities but none of the parties involved in these discussions the

united states the government of. afghanistan or the taliban has publicly defined exactly what a violation of this pause in hostilities is is it one attack is it 10 is it 100 and so technically anything that happens could give any of these parties an opportunity to withdraw from this agreement but i think the general sense is that with about a 1000 afghan individuals being killed every month that a dramatic reduction in that violence is something that all those parties would be willing to live with and as long as none of those parties are obviously involved in a major attack that might allow this to stand but the problem is we really really don't know and i don't think any of the parties really knows it's the kind of thing

that they are likely to play by ear as this goes along and of course the hill that makes this a very dangerous game of course even if that agreement decided 7 days time is going to be very tense 7 days i think full of the stakeholders joell dire is this issue of who will sit around the negotiating table what does that agreement decide because the taliban then will go forward and say very to speak to other factions including of coles the afghan government. that's right and as you as you know well the taliban does not recognize the afghan government they believe that their period of rule was interrupted when the united states retaliated for the $911.00 attacks at a time when osama bin laden had been allowed to operate by the taliban in afghanistan and you know make that attack on the united states or they don't recognize the government of afghanistan it is not clear who will be sitting at the table or whether the afghan government will be

a party to the united states portion in that agreement but ultimately the goal is for all of those sides to come to some agreement of the united states by coming to an agreement with the taliban if that is what happens at the end of this 7 day period would have some leverage on the taliban as they could always make the argument look we have we are withdrawing at least some of the $12000.00 american troops that are in that country but we can always ramp it up if you start launching attacks on what the united states considers the legitimate government of afghanistan those are talks that would have to go on moving forward after a full cease fire was declared and then a proper peace agreement was negotiated at that table exactly the form that that will take as you rightly point out is unclear indeed we'll keep monitoring events over this that story interesting 7 days thanks joe. now america's longest war began

in 2001 the u.s. presence in afghanistan came a month after the $911.00 attacks as john mentioned it launched the air strikes and a ground invasion to remove the taliban from power more than 12000 american soldiers are still in the country thousands more from nato allies and partners countries are also present some 2400 american troops have been killed since the operation began the u.s. is estimated to have spent more than one trillion dollars in its mission soldier no ours is a distinguished fellow at the south asia center at the atlantic council he says both sides appear willing to draw a line into the conflict. it's impossible to predict anything that could happen but it's one thing is clear that both sides the united states as well as the taliban are now tired of this war saroj athena counties piece in the new york times in which he he talks about. the yearning for peace is a very good indication of that and that would not have appeared if they hadn't

already talked about all the possible things that could derail this process over the next 7 days this is going to be a testing period but i think the important things are going to happen after the 29th of february when the decisions will have to be made as to who will be speaking for the afghan government who will speak for the other sections of afghan society whether the opposition parties will be involved and whether the taliban will be the sole party on the other side this is really going to be a test of the process and it may also test the ability of the united states to remain engaged in the region. has confirmed it says death from the coronavirus after the number of cases were called drupal in just one day 15 new infections have been reported in the wealthy lombardy region many of them represent its least 1st cases of secondary infection meaning that none of them have traveled to china where

the outbreak began. even to me we are working to identify all the people that entered into wreck contact with the confirmed cases the swabs that we tested in the last hours are sadly shown 3 further cases so we reach 6 cases of positive tests for the corona virus as the number of deaths outside china continues to rise the world health organization chief has issued this warning about the crowd of virus outbreak. although the window of opportunity is not only to contain the outbreak we still have a chance to contain it but while doing that we have to people at the same time pull any eventualities because this outbreak could go any direction it could even be messy. but what i'm saying is it's know if we when it was in the not only we knew who put it you needed we can reverse any old we

can i'm very it's any. serious crisis. i spoke to dr hotez he's dean for the national school of tropical medicine that baylor college in texas he says the. kids moving towards a pandemic the worrisome news is the south after noon that we're now seeing clusters of cases in iran clusters of cases in korea we're not quite calling it a pandemic yet but we're inching closer to it by definition a pandemic would be where we have multiple areas of transmission globally and we're awfully close so i'm very concerned about where we're heading right now remember this situations as a moving target so it started out saying it was only animals to humans and then there was under standing that there was limited human to human transmission and now the new numbers coming out of china suggest it's got a very high what we call reproductive number what that means is of

a single individual gets it we now up to 4 other others get it so it's that's a pretty transmissible virus and we don't exactly know how we know it's likely that it's a respiratory droplets contact but there's concern that it may get access to the airborne route actually not many viruses do that we know measles does the chicken pox but given the significant level of transmissibility it would not surprise me if that turns out to be the case. in the us democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders has warned russia's leaders to stay out of the 2020 presidential election and he was responding to reports that intelligence officials intelligence officials partly warned him that the kremlin was meddling to boost his campaign well and denied any interference after u.s. media said the congress had been briefed about efforts to boost president trump chances the president has dismissed the report as a mis information our correspondent rob reynolds is in las vegas where the next

round of democratic caucuses are scheduled to start in just about 24 hours time rob so the intelligence services brief the senior politicians and the president even tonight the rates them what seems to be going on. well the president of course is you know following in his long standing tradition or position if you will of denying that there was any russian interference in the 2016 election he's always called that a hoax but senator sanders confirmed that teligent officials u.s. intelligence officials had spoken to him about a month ago telling him of a russian intelligence agencies efforts to assist his candidacy and his race for the democratic nomination in a sense statement issued earlier today the centers campaign said that the russians want to undermine american democracy by dividing us he said my message to putin is

clear stay out of american elections and he said that if you were elected president he would make sure that there was no further such interference here is the response senator speaking to reporters earlier today. it was not clear what role they're going to play we were told that russia may be other countries are going to get involved in this campaign. and look here's the message to russia stay out of american elections and what they are doing by the way the ugly thing that they are doing. and i've seen some of the you know tweets and stuff is they try to divide us up that's what they did in 2016 and that is the ugliest thing they're doing is they are trying to cause chaos the trying to cause a truth in america it's an ugly business and all of us have got to say sorry you're not going to do this in this election and again is present in the united states but you will not interfere in our lives this time. and what sander seems to be referring to there is something that he mentioned in the recent democratic debate

here in las vegas earlier this week when he was attacked by some of his opponents for the tone of his supposed supporters online stander suggested that those harsh attacks online against his opponents by some people who ostensibly were sandor supporters could in fact be russian trolls trying to hype up the raise the temperature of the debate and and so. further ill will and bad feelings and again this is on the eve of literally the eve of the next stage in the u.s. democratic nominating process the caucuses here in the state of nevada which will begin on saturday so hail well for the moment leave it there rob look forward to your coverage that. of the caucuses thank you. well still ahead here on al-jazeera

police deployed to germany's bolsters the government walls of the threat to the far right continues and thailand dissolves an opposition party led by a billionaire who challenged the military backed government those stories after the break. hello again it's good to have you back we're watching one storm system here coming in and out of china across the sea of japan you can see on the satellite image pushing across the russian maritimes and with that we are going to be seeing a lot of rain as well as snow now for the parts of the russian maritimes we could be seeing over for about 50 centimeters of snow just in the next 72 hours but down towards the south into tokyo it is going to be rain on sunday things get a little bit colder that means the rain will be turning to snow particular here across the western part of japan for tokyo though it's going to remain

a nice day for you with the temps are there of about 16 degrees where across vietnam it is going to be some coastal rain will watch over the next few days now this is most of that rain that develops in the afternoon and it's going to develop all the way across much of the northern areas down here towards the south thought you meant it is going to be a warm day at 35 and for bangkok plenty of sun in the forecast with a temperature of 35 degrees as well and across india well we have been seeing some rain up to the north that is going to continue over the next few days really lingering anywhere from kolkata up here towards new delhi with plenty of clouds in the forecast same down here towards the south into sri lanka it is going to be a rainy day as well with a tempter of 32 in new delhi about 27 degrees for you there as well as kolkata at 31. banks love to make loans to suffering because behind the suffering are millions of taxpayers because those tax payers never go away there's

a new one born every single day and 90 it is an urgent national necessity that we have officially requested the accusation of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i am a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. bookmark you're watching al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of our top stories an agreement aimed at bringing peace to afghanistan has come into effect the taliban and the u.s. will begin what they're calling a reduction of violence if the 7 day deal proves

a success both sides will sign into court next week. italy has confirmed the 1st death from the credit virus after the number of cases they're called reported just one day 50 new infections have been reported in the wealthy la body region. and democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders herz ward russia's president to stay out of the us elections it follows reports that american intelligence briefed congress that the kremlin was battling to boost both sanders and trump's campaigns . votes are being counted in iran's parliamentary elections the result is expected to change the face of the country's largest acho thousands of moderate and reformist candidates were barred running as a bag reports from to head out. he said it's a religious jew to vote and iran's supreme you didn't lead by example casting the 1st ballot and servant roderick conservatives have much of their support base they followed suit. by the hour show that. this is the 1st time i'm voting my reason to

vote is to have a share in the future of my country and help it right. voting doesn't solve any problems and conditions could deteriorate if we don't vote we should vote for the way it is so the new lawmakers can fix some problems. this 88 year old says he has been voting for 70 years has been adding value in trouble i have voted from the very 1st election in the islamic republic 81 parliamentarian suffering disqualified from standing of the reformist hopefuls also told they cannot stand ins elections it means conservatives could benefit from a lower turnout and black caucus nation this will have also referred cautions for you when a foreign policy and i think this will bring more support from the parliament side for ukraine and regional policies but more importantly it will decrease the chances for the life the hood of any direct negotiations between iran and the united states

there are those who have stayed away upset at a lack of change and an economy reeling under us sanctions are solomon right. i voted every year but i saw no effect to convince me to vote this time i finished my studies i have a bachelor's and finished ministry service but there's no job for me for what i see no reason to want. now to ban it i know i'm not voting because previous lawmakers did nothing they had no effect in the country so i didn't vote told it's not me alone many to vote. results are expected later in the week at this polling station where we have permission to film it's been relatively busy but there are others across the city that was quiet but we weren't allowed to film a lower turnout will leave whoever wins this election. the task of rebuilding confidence and trust in the system i said big al jazeera to her on so who should understand emirs alectryon modern middle eastern history at the university of sometimes in scotland she says i'll be more uniformity now in decision making i

think that the reformists have been on. on the decline for for quite some time now they haven't been able to put forward a coherent platform with regard to nader's on rest between state and society we've seen a lot of people on the margins of cities workers in the pendant trade unions rise and reform it's really haven't been able to to provide. an answer to these challenges so they were seen in a way as being expendable by the guardian council i think that is also why the board or no prominent reformers boycotted the election we saw former president carter i mean going and voting and everybody else went and voted despite lambaste in the way the guardian council excluding them can there will be uniformity now in the system making the previous parliament for example approved the f.a. p.f. bills against money laundering but these were of course blocked by higher bodies i

think we will see more uniformity between these bodies but parliaments in iran still are quite fickle despite the fact that this one is going to be conservative dominated but by a large we are seeing a. sort of alignment behind the supreme leader i see and all these conservative figures who now clearly have the opera and. to africa now where in south sudan president salva kiir has dissolved his cabinet in preparation for a new unity government opposition leader rife with shar has been appointed as the vice president and 2 former rivals will lead the new government from saturday in the term to end years of conflict which has left more than 400000 people dead here morgan is in juber where she says the south sudanese are hopeful they'll finally see change on the ground. ahead of forming what has been termed as the revitalized transitional government of national unity on saturday south sudan's president on friday issued several decrees relieving the ministers of the government from their

positions as well as relieving the 1st vice president and vice president one eager from their host now the president also issued more decrees the most prominent being appointing the head of the opposition leader rick machar as for his vice president according to a peace deal that was signed in 20082 between the worrying side story and 5 years of conflict he also issued decrees that saw the return of the taliban doing as vice president and one eager also as vice president now this all comes as part of a deal that was signed between the various opposition parties and the government in 2018 and a conflict that started in 2013 which has led to at least 4 100000 people being killed and more than 2000000 displaced within the country and some in neighboring countries but just because the 2 sides and or all the sides have said that they are trying to meet a deadline that doesn't mean all the issues are resolved the most outstanding issue between the sides had been the number of states that has been resolved by the

president last saturday when he announced that the country will be returning to the former number of 10 states along with 3 administrative areas but then the issues of security arrangements still remain to be outstanding between the various sides that will in just a matter of hours be partners in the government they have said that they are going to agree to try to resolve this issues after the formation of the government to make sure that they do not miss another deadline let's not forget that february 22nd is already deferred deadline the 1st initial deadline had been in maine 2019 and then that was postponed to november 29th team but due to several outstanding issues that had not been resolved between the warring sides they had to push it to february 28th seems so people on the streets of south sudan are saying that they're looking forward to a government formation so that they can. see the impacts of the peace that has been found in 2018 but is yet to be reflected on the ground this thing that the economy has suffered a lot since the conflict started and they want to make sure that peace comes

through their country so that they can try to go back to their normal lives only 13 when the war started the un's violence and begin a 1st is forcing more than 4000 people to flee their homes every day it says raids by armed groups are getting more and more frequent and any of those who've escaped the conflict have reported murders rapes and attacks on villagers 700000 people have been displaced in the last 12 months nearly a quarter of whom left in just the past 3 weeks while staying on the continent the prime minister has left the country skipping a court appearance where he was due to be charged with his a strange wife's murder thomas than secretary says he hasn't fled but has just gone to south africa for a doctor's appointment and by his wife leo paulo was shot dead near a home in 2017 his current wife lisa has already been charged with ordering the home murder both deny any involvement to europe now where germany's interior minister has warned that the far right poses the biggest threat to the country's

security and that's after 9 people were killed there on wednesday after a gunman opened fire at 2 she should bars in the city of her no extra police patrolling mosques train stations and airports dominic kane has more from him. for many these friday prayers have a particular resonance wednesday night murders have taken their toll on the congregation several were killed others wounded those who were not are fearful irma di maria says he worries for his children's safety rules that are killed. my son said to me daddy i feel afraid if i go outside will someone try to hurt me. that sentiment is widely shared among han ours muslim community and across this country if i get is. the question that we are all asking especially the affected people of the muslim faith in our land is what has to happen next in order for

something like this to happen that many among the wider community also feel revulsion at the attacks carried out on wednesday the floral tributes here in the main market square a clear sign of the rejection of the violence of the far right. but there's no doubt this atrocity has shocked the political classes and forced the government to act. since we will increase the police presence across germany and we will increase the protection of sensitive institutions especially in mosques. meanwhile the investigation into the murder is concentrating on his social media postings and what was on his computer his office is admit he contacted them several months ago as an attention seeker but no action was taken as his comments were not openly racist they are clear his motivation for wednesday's murders was from the far right separately the f.t. party has caused its own controversy by including

a link to the murder his manifesto in a tweet while saying it deplored the shootings the far right party has itself now been condemned for its link to the site the current christian democrat leader says the f.t. is to blame for creating a basis for exactly the kind of thinking that led to the shootings but back in high now such thoughts pale in comparison with the suffering of the victims and their relatives many of whom had come to germany with the hope of a new life and instead found themselves targeted by a racist murderer dominic cain al-jazeera hanau. the european union leaders have failed to agree on the block's next budget or to a 2nd day of talks french president says he's deeply regrets that he could not reach a deal while german chancellor angela merkel says the differences between the 27 nations were too big denmark austria sweden and the netherlands dug their heels in becoming known as the frugal 4 nations insisting that spending mustn't top one

percent of europe's economic output. canada's prime minister justin trudeau says blockades by indigenous protesters which of powers parts of the country's rail network must be removed activists have set up barriers and ontario quebec and are in opposition to a new pipeline project which could cross areas of native land in british columbia some rail lines have been blocked for more than 2 weeks. now a popular opposition party in thailand has been dissolved by the country's constitutional court ruled that future forward had violated electoral law by accepting a loan of $6000000.00 from its leader it's the 4th major opposition party to be dissolved in less than 15 years when he reports now from bangkok. there was anger and sadness his supporters gathered at the headquarters of the future forward party to watch the verdict the constitutional court judges ruled that the opposition party be dissolved and that 16 leaders banned from politics for 10 years

. the case surrounded the more than $6000000.00 given to the party by its leader tom anton john room ruling kid the party said it was a loan which was being paid back and therefore exempt from laws in thailand that restrict the amount of money that can be given to a political party by an individual the judges disagreed and ruled that it was a donation while in excess of the legal limit future forward says it will now become a political movement and fight on. the implied they wanted to destroy us this is the time to prove them wrong we have to become stronger they want to stone person to the ground therefore this is the time to stand firm it's not the time to be said to cry we don't have time for that. this party delved into areas that others have and like going to reform one of the most powerful political forces in thailand the military but their ideas proved popular with many thais perhaps too popular and the military and the courts moved against them. the election last year the 1st. since

a 2014 coup was also future forwards 1st and it won more than 6000000 votes. it was an outcome that perhaps surprised the military that had spent the preceding years devising a new political system that many believe was designed to maintain its grip on power it now seems inevitable that thailand's fight for democracy will once again be taken to the streets you're no women we can't live like this thailand is going backward we have no choice but to stand together please come out people we cannot only rely on tanna torne anymore this was the 4th major opposition party to be dissolved by the court in 13 years most if you forwards m.p.'s will be able to continue in parliament under a different party name but the ban on the leaders will increase the majority of the government which perhaps coincidentally faces a vote of no confidence next week wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. jurors in the trial

of disclosed hollywood mogul harvey weinstein appeared deadlocked after a 4th day of deliberations they've been unable to reach a verdict on the 2 most serious charges of predatory sexual assault which carry a possible life sentence they continue their deliberations on monday weinstein faces 5 charges including rape but his defense team says the encounters were consensual. if you're watching al-jazeera with me so rob a reminder of our top stories an agreement aimed at bringing peace to afghanistan has come into effect the taliban and the u.s. will begin what they're calling a reduction of violence if the 7 day deal proves success both sides will sign in a court of next week. italy has confirmed his 1st death from the corona virus after the number of cases were quadrupled in just one day 15 new infections have been reported in the wealthy lombardy region many of them represent italy's 1st cases of

secondary infection meaning none of them had traveled to china where the outbreak began. democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders has warned russia's president to stay out of the us elections it follows reports that american intelligence briefed congress the kremlin was meddling to boost both sanders and trump's campaigns the ugly thing that they are doing and i've seen some of the you know stuff is they try to divide us up that's what they did in 2016 is that is the ugliest little it is they are trying to cause chaos trying to cause the truth in america it's an ugly business and all of us are have got to say sorry you're not going to do this in the selection iranians have been electing a new parliament that set to become more conservative the result is expected to change the face of the country's legislature as thousands of moderate and reformist candidates were barred from running voting hours were extended several times because of long lines at polling stations and in south sudan presents other keer

has dissolved his cabinet in preparation for a new unity government has also appointed the rebel leader right and shot his 1st vice president the 2 former rivals will lead the new government from saturday and attempt to end years of conflict which has left more than 400000 people down at. the un says violence in bikini 1st so is forcing more than 4000 people to flee their homes every day it says raids by armed groups are becoming more frequent 700000 people have been displaced in the last 12 months nearly a quarter of whom left in just the past 3 weeks those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera and next on our viewers there it's inside story.

9 people are killed in germany in the latest racially motivated attack the interior minister is adding a fight against what he calls the poison of extremism so how will the government tackle this growing problem bases inside story. however and welcome to the program i'm the stasi attain germany's leaders are promising a strong response to these latest racially motivated attacks a gunman killed 9 people the 2 sheesha cafés on wednesday night in the city of hama and he chose places that are popular with turkish and kurdish communities the 43 year old suspect who was later found dead.