the afghan taliban tells al jazeera it will uphold women's rights hours before it's set to sign a preliminary peace deal with the u.s. . a woman one. that. to you keisha and to work we. accept. a support of the islamic groups but only that they observe. watch al-jazeera live from a headquarters and. also had a 2nd person with no travel history or contact with existing cases is found to have

coronavirus in california. u.s. stocks have their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis as investor concern mounts about the economic impact of the virus. roman polanski wins best director prize of the france's awards amid protests over rape accusations against. fellow after a week of what was labeled a reduction in violence in afghanistan the u.s. and afghan taliban are expected to sign a preliminary peace deal that could put an end to america's longest running war president donald trump is sending his top diplomat to cats are for the historic signing and says the afghan people should embrace the chance for a new future but there's a long way to go. the deal is seen as

a possible 1st phase for the taliban to hold talks with the government in kabul to decide the future course of the country some a binge of aid spoke exclusively to the taliban spokesman. who is hopeful this will start bringing stability to the country. it is significant for a lot of people for our country in the whole region. because for 4 on one people they will have their independence they will. see the completion ending and also for the original that when stability and peace return 12 months than there will be a phase of. commercial activities and development and the habitation of up from his son so that's really really important and significant for us it has and of reduction of violence the plan is to expand it further but there the attacks

have not stopped taliban have attacked convoys 'd off the afghan government there have been skirmishes there's been out what makes you think that peace in the venison is going to come about by this agreement in a force it was a deduction in war lintz as we call it to provide disk you're in war in order went before the signing after agreement and that we did it and and the other thing is that there was some kind of war you we have not attacked in any convoy in the year 2 victories in the 2 trees held by the coverlid ministration did the some of those convoys what are tagged when they came out from the police and inter to what to treece so there was a kind of for a while a shut and our people on the ground they stopped it you don't accept cobbles government as the legitimate government you call it

a line that ministration how are you going to be talking to them because that is the biggest sticking point that the taliban would not agree to talk to the afghan government how have you come to terms with that as a god meant we did not recruit adequate nice it. because we think it. protector of for and that is the creation which has been installed in impose on the people above punish them back to as a party to the conflict it is that a year and we accept that they are a party to the conflict and in that sense we will have doing neither in trouble and we will talk to them besides that i have on sites so this is the 1st phase where the taliban and the americans of agreed to some terms about the gradual withdrawal of u.s. forces as deliberate action violence what are the terms of that agreement and what happens next yeah after the us after the signing of the agreement

of course we will have a kind of had the confidence building measure and during that 5000 prisoners of war they slim committed to about monies than in 1000 prisoners of the couple of ministration will be released and when we finished our complex to complete this phase then we enter another phase which is in trial of our negotiation during that phase we will discussion among all of on sides and they will discuss the future islam a good mentor the ford sim abilities in other i gin those that they may bring to the table let's bring in roland jordan she's joining us from washington so from where you are rosalind what more you're learning about the contents of the deal and the states of the american soldiers currently in afghanistan. well

daryn certainly the future of u.s. military troops in afghanistan is part of this deal there's and question about how many will be allowed to stay in afghanistan under the terms of this deal certainly the u.s. president donald trump campaigned back in 2016 on bringing all u.s. forces home from the wars in iraq and afghanistan and while he might be inclined to move that number to 0 in afghanistan the pentagon has said it wants to see a cut of about a 3rd from about 12013002 about 8500 and that's because of the pentagon's view the afghan military isn't strong enough to protect the country from external threats or to maintain the peace within its borders and so the u.s. has an interest in staying in afghanistan before he left to go to doha for saturday's signing ceremony the secretary of state mike pompei o told reporters earlier this week that the u.s.

also has a counterterrorism a concern in afghanistan and so there is still going to be some sort of u.s. military presence that may not sit well with the taliban but that's certainly one of the issues on the table the other issue getting back some 5000 taliban fighters out of the custody of the afghan military certainly the taliban wants its people back there are those in the afghan government who say no this could create a new internal security threat but that is something that is also being considered as part of this agreement all right rosen thank you for that update from washington . well the world health organization has raised the risk assessments of the coronavirus to what's highest level across the world but officials stopped short of calling the outbreak a pandemic saying they believe containment efforts could still work. on reports the 1st sickness has now been confirmed in sub-saharan africa. in the biggest city of

africa's most populous country the 1st case of coronavirus is worrying news and italian men flew into lagos nigeria from the mom earlier this week we have started working to identify all the contacts of the. nigeria and even those who were with him on the aircraft nigeria's large population and high rates of poverty make it vulnerable to outbreaks like these when the world health organization declared the virus a global health emergency last month it was because of concern it could hit countries with we can't systems on friday the w.h.o. upgraded the risk of the virus is global for it to very high and i think this is a reality check for every government on the planet wake up get ready this wire is maybe on its way and you need to be ready you know with judy to your citizens you have a duty to the world to be ready. he pointed to the increase in cases and affected

countries some struggling to contain the virus the 1st cases have been announced in de marcus stony a little way via the netherlands and makes a go all linked to the outbreak in italy. it's reported hundreds of cases and is the a.p. center of the virus outside asia its famous squares are 5 empty of the new show and trains are being disinfected in a bid to slow the viruses spread. and got out of the city still seems to be a little asleep in a negative way i don't see many people around and i'm sorry to see that people have been so long on it. in switzerland geneva international moshe shows being canceled after the government banned all events involving more than a 1000 people and in iran and state of crowds of worshippers they were workers in hazmat suits in this holy shrine in mashad friday prayers but canceled across much

of iran where the virus has killed dozens of people and infected hundreds more china though where the virus began recorded the lowest number of new cases and more than a month more than 36000 people have already been discharged from hospital after recovering from the disease. like the recent success in controlling the epidemic is hard earned the situation is still grim and complex and with an increase of people going back to work in school we are facing the risk of the epidemic rebounding we cannot afford to take chances are that warning is now being echoed worldwide alexia brian al jazeera well there are signs that the corona virus is spreading in the us a 2nd person in california has been infected with no known travel history or contact with those already affected. will give us an update on lots of ways and out of l.a. rob what more are you hearing. well this is

a person who is in northern california described as a woman who had some underlying respiratory disease problems and her doctor sent her to the hospital she was tested there and tested positive for the corona virus she has now what the important thing here daryn is that she didn't get it on a cruise ship she didn't meet with someone who just got off a plane from will hon she hasn't been to italy or iran or south korea or any of the other places she got coronavirus here in the united states and now in addition this person lives in a community about 145 kilometers from the 1st possible community transmission case in who was identified earlier this week so that seems that there's 2 at least 2 separate clusters of transmission in northern california

this is called community transmission and what it means is that it's circulating in the community one person gets sick another person will get sick another person will pass that on to others and then this is what happened in italy in south korea etc. the other thing is that there are people who are asymptomatic that means that they carry the virus they can transmit the virus to other people but they don't appear to be sick and that makes it more difficult to do the kind of detective work that epidemiologists have to do to put a stop to or at least contain the spread of a disease for an important to note that no one has been placed under any kind of quarantine in northern california except for the 2 patients who are receiving care in hospitals now this comes amid the worst stock fall 'd on wall street since the great recession and those are those losses being attributed to

concern. about the economic effect of a pandemic and it comes as president trump is putting a remarkably optimistic spin on the possibility of the corona virus outbreak in the united states saying that they're everything everyone is prepared that they're handling it very well and that people are at very very low risk here in the u.s. of getting the corona virus in just a short time after those comments the president's own the government's own top officials health public health officials came out and said essentially the opposite people here should be preparing and that the widespread transmission is very likely so just to recap there remain there are now 2 people known to have contracted the corona virus through means of the community transmission route in northern california they're being treated and people in public health confirm

that they are now very very concerned even alarmed and are trying to identify any contacts that these 2 patients may have had in an effort to curtail the spread of rhona virus in the u.s. all right rob thank you for that update from los angeles and as rob was mentioning a moments ago the stock markets and the corona virus has really continued to hit those markets right around the globe london's footsie followed asian markets ending friday down more than 3 percent over new york the dow jones is on its worst run for more than a decade here's christine salumi with more on the markets. the smiles at the new york stock exchange couldn't masked what was a disastrous week for world stock markets friday's trading only deepening the losses the dow jones index and a down 13 percent from record highs with u.s. markets seeing their biggest weekly selloff since the 2008 financial crisis it's

been a similar story for london's main footsie 100 index in stocks in europe while no fewer than 7 markets in asia have lost more than 10 percent of their value fuelling the plunge the spread of the coronavirus outside of china deserted streets in milan heightening concerns that coded 19 is making an inevitable march across the globe and raising fears about the negative effects that efforts to stop the disease could have on the u.s. economy fears the white house again trying to tamp down on friday everybody whether you're an investor or whether you're you know ordinary main street person if you will should not overreact it's proving to be a huge test for larry could loz boss president trump who since he took office has championed record high stocks as an endorsement of his presidency. but conversely sees a falling market as someone else's fault namely the democrats competing to unseat

him in this year's election i think the financial markets are very upset when they look at the democrat candidates standing on that stage making fools out of themselves and they say if we have a president like this i think it has a huge effect yet but world health experts including in the u.s. continue to warn about the dangers of the virus and critics like his democratic presidential challengers have slammed trump's downplaying of the threat saying that he cares more about the market reaction rather than containing the virus itself experts say uncertainty surrounding the threat is causing jitters it's not an economic effect exactly yeah it's a virus and it's not how it's blind faith you want to have in the central banking structures of the world virus and epidemiology little bit outside their general mandate and no matter how much you want to ignore political risk when countries and industries start to collapse with an epidemic it's hard to know how to do that this week's losses put an end to an unprecedented period of growth for u.s.

markets whether or not the panic selloff continues will depend only on the spread of the coronavirus but also messages coming out of the white house christian salumi al-jazeera new york still ahead on al-jazeera turkey steps up the pressure on europe allowing refugees to cross into grids. the sort of strengths donald trump is expected to be welcomed with enthusiasm at a conservative conference on. how low we've got more cloud and rain into central parts of china running right back towards the southwest and that's pushing across the east china sea the odyssey through the korean peninsula in. pos off japan so there will be more wet weather in

store here over the next a day or so saying all right 12 degrees celsius it sinks a little further south which as we go on through sunday hong kong just clinging on for the time being to the dry by the 2nd half of the weekend i suspect the rain will grassy saturday why disguise dry weather does push back in behind it you can see that in japan by the time we come to sunday afternoon a lot about across the philippines dry his'n showers longer spells of rain pushing into the south of the country the wettest weather is through borneo indonesia still seeing those 8 to the day showers of course. plenty of showers rolling through here as well and this is similar picture repeat performance as we go on into sunday want to say showers table to south asia but not too much to speak of the wetter weather has been towards the northern plains we see some cloud of rain moving across those north america sinking further south was a little colder in new delhi around 25 celsius that west and westerly disturbance continues to make its way further race was through saturday and sunday.

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hello again the top stories on all his are all u.s. and afghan taliban are expected to sign a preliminary peace deal that could put an end to the nearly 2 decade long war president donald trump the sons in the secretary of state might compare to delphi would be agreements expected to be signed on saturday a 2nd person in california with no travel history or contact with existing cases has been infected with corona virus the world health organization has raised its risk assessments of the outbreak to the highest level across the world and the outbreak has continued to hit stock markets around the globe london's footsie followed asian markets ending friday down more than 3 percent and in the u.s. the dow jones saw its worst losses for more than a decade. the u.s. is reviewing options to support the turkish army in northwestern syria dozens of turkish troops were killed by syrian government forces on thursday but the u.n.

chief has described as one of the most alarming moments in the 9 year war has had about the reports of a turkey syria border. turkish soldiers being evacuated from syria after being attacked by syrian government forces images like these have created shock and. awe and growing calls for revenge. turkish military hit syrian army positions in retaliation for the death of dozens of its soldiers in southern. turkey blames the syrian government for the airstrike that targeted a military outpost officials here also accuse rochelle failing to deter syrian government forces who have recently stepped up their attacks against the soldiers. these are tech happened despite the location of troops being coordinated you know at once with russian officials on the ground unfortunately the attack continued after we want following the 1st strike. feeling abandoned by its e.u.

our allies turkey warned it won't prevent refugees from crossing into europe european countries are alarmed this might turn into a mass exodus of refugees fleeing the conflict in syria turkey has been calling on the e.u. to share the burden of the refugee crisis and or nato to deploy pair to it besides on the border with syria but nato doesn't seem to be willing to provide military support offering for the time being the sympathy by call on them to stop their offensive to respect international law and to back you in efforts for a peaceful solution. this dangerous situation must be deescalated urge an immediate return to the 28 cease fire as tension mounts

turkish and russian officials held talks in to defuse tension turkey wants the syrian army to pull our behind the demilitarized zone stop its offensive and allow civilians to return home. russia is a key ally of president bashar assad who had jets turkey's expanded presence in syria and insists they will find saved by his troops. is legitimate that will continue and if russia and turkey fail to overcome their differences they might and . you know why and prolonged original confrontation in syria possible but i'll just leave jill veg as well turkey's border with syria well turkey is seeking broader support for its operation in northwestern syria and is putting pressure on the new by allowing refugees to leave for europe the nearby greek island the post just 15 kilometers off the coast of turkey is

a ready struggling with the effects of overwhelming migration johnson awful us has more. many times the turkish government has threatened to open its borders and release refugees into europe in large numbers once again this was the scene on the shores of the greek island of lesbos already a nightmarish place for the 10s of thousands of men women and children who crossed over from turkey and are now trapped here in itself doing a riving isn't any different from what happens on any other day but the implication was that the turkish authorities didn't try to stop it the greek government is asking for increased european support. for your daughter your but needs to help not just with money but personnel and equipment you need to help protect mali time borders that are great and european i have asked frontex to reinforce the coast guard with personnel boats and technical names greece already operates about 40 coastal patrol vessels and boats along its 1000 kilometer long maritime border with

turkey and it's adding 19 new boats over the next couple of years but it's going to need help now if turkey makes good on its threat to send refugees into europe on mass. the route was being cleared for refugees much further north on the land border with turkey there were reports of people being bussed from istanbul to the border town of a didn't a haven for people traffickers and unlike in recent months the turkish military did absolutely nothing to stop people then making their way on foot towards the wide everest river the border with greece is their stumbled again we're coming from istanbul our aim is to get to germany there are syrians with us algerians palestinians there are people from every country this want to take a 100 times you know they've arrived here at the turkish greece border police are on the other side and they're not letting migrants in we've got lots of problems here we want to work in europe to open the borders because of these problems the

immediate response from the greek side was to tear gas the several 100 people who had gathered right on the border with the prime minister. warning loudly that greece was closed to this new wave athens also sent more special forces to the land border to try to prevent people coming across the general supposition is that turkey is threatening to manipulate the refugee flows as a direct threat to the european union to reengage in the situation in syria and the humanitarian crisis that has engulfed people in italy if the e.u. turns a blind eye greece could end up as a buffer zone for asylum seekers jumpstart ople us al-jazeera lesbos guinea has delayed a constitutional referendum planned for sunday because of concerns over the electoral roll president says the vote will now take place 2 weeks later if passed that would allow the 81 year old leader to stay in power for another 12 years earlier this week an organization of french speaking governments withdrew its poll monitoring

mission citing problematic entries on the electoral register. well the annual conservative political action conference or a safe back is happening outside washington d.c. president donald trump will address his supporters there on saturday is expected to be welcomed with enthusiasm a sign of his solid control of the republican party. castro has warned. this is not the republican party of 5 years ago. this is the party of donald trump i'm here for one reason and one reason only and that is that our management our party and america need. years of president john f. i want the program for this year's meeting of american conservative is an echo chamber of trump's grievances toward his political enemies and yet another victory

lap following his impeachment acquittal in early february as the lone republican who had voted to convict trump in the impeachment trial senator mitt romney saw his invitation to see pap withdrawn but his name still came up to be jeered. correct answer by the way correct every time his name is mentioned you should respond that way it was a dramatic turnaround for romney who had previously won the c pac unofficial poll for president who are times we now are existing in a world of parties as teams and they look at presidents as quarterbacks and what we see is that political parties are not allowing broad or diverse coalitions the republican party has its roots more than a century and a half ago in the presidency of abraham lincoln the president who abolished slavery and stood for equal rights modern republicans still proudly call themselves the party of lincoln but some say trump's republican party is the antithesis of

lincoln's ideals we know that many of you millions of you struggle with what you are she every day wondering what this party has become and like you we know that what we are witnessing is not normal it is not ok. it is. this is not a see pack a vent but the people on this stage in new york call themselves the true republicans their leaders of the lincoln project a group focused on promoting conservatism while ending the trump presidency but the renegades they don't like the i don't like them or the other one trump calls any republican who who says him a never trump are off in the end of their political career and at c pac disloyalty will not be tolerated. how do you castro al-jazeera washington. several actresses have walked out of the french film awards after roman polanski won the says our

prize for best director he's wanted in the united states for the statutory rape of a 13 year old girl in 1977. did not attend the event because of protests against him taking place outside the 87 year old's latest film an officer and a spy is nominated for 12 of the words on the awards entire board stepped down this month in part because of the backlash over polanski's nominations. the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. and afghan taliban are expected to sign a preliminary peace deal that could put an end to the nearly 2 decades long war president donald trump is sending the secretary of state michael peo to doha with the agreement expected to be signs on saturday a 2nd person in california with no travel history or contact with existing cases

has been infected with corona virus the world health organization has raised its risk assessments of the outbreak to the highest level across the world's brunell's has the latest from los angeles. this is a person who is in northern california described as a woman who had some underlying respiratory disease problems and her doctor sent her to the hospital she was tested there and tested positive for the corona virus she had what the important thing here she didn't get it on a cruise ship she didn't meet with someone who just got off a plane from will she hasn't been to italy or iran or south korea or any of the other places she got coronavirus here in the united states and the outbreak has continued to hit stock markets around the globe london's footsie followed asian markets and then friday down more than 3 percent and in the u.s. the dow jones saw its worst losses for more than a decade the u.n.

secretary general antonio the terrorist is calling for an immediate truce in syria after dozens of turkish soldiers were killed in a syrian government strike meanwhile turkey and russia's presidents have spoken by phone to try to find ways of easing tensions in syria's northwest's. several actresses have walked out of the french film awards after roman polanski won the says our award for best director he's wanted in the united states for the statutory rape of a 13 year old girl in 1977 polanski did not attend the event because of these protests against him taking place outside those are the headlines more news after inside story.

retaliates not the syrian as strikes killed dozens all of its soldiers syrian government positions have been attacked but there's also a threat from ankara to renege on a deal with the e.u. brand let refugees cross into europe this trigger another humanitarian crisis this is inside story. however and i'm come all santamaria it is the biggest single day loss of turkish soldiers in syria's civil war 33 of them killed on thursday by government airstrikes in which of course we know is the last rebel held province in the country and turkey's retaliate.