0. 00. as the u.s. and the taliban prepare to sign the 1st stage of a peace deal the afghan armed group tells us it will uphold women's rights. a women one or 2 harbored the right to do kitchen and to work we both accept and build a school but it's let me groups but only that we observe the age of. low again on the team vanishing without jazeera live from doha or also coming out. south korea reports its biggest daily increase in corona virus cases since the 1st

infection was confirmed last month. manufacturing in china plunges to the lowest level on record putting more pressure on the already battered stock. is. up for the french off because they've been braman polanski is best director award why does he still provoke such anger more than 40 years after his rape conviction. after a week of what was called a reduction of violence in afghanistan the u.s. and the afghan taliban are expected to sign a provisional peace deal that could put an end to america's longest running war president trump sending his top diplomat to katter for the historic signing and says the afghan people should embrace the childs of a new. bought this in

a way to give the daily scene as a possible 1st phase the next step would be for the taliban to talk to the government in kabul in order to decide the future course of the country has more on this now from washington certainly the taliban would like to see all u.s. forces leaving afghanistan that is something which the u.s. president all tromped has campaigned on but realistically the 12213000 u.s. troops are probably going to be cut by about a 3rd or so the pentagon has said repeatedly that it would feel comfortable having about $858600.00 u.s. troops inside afghanistan for counterterrorism purposes and to provide all going to training and advising support to the afghan military the other issue which still has to be reworked out apparently is what happens to the taliban fighters who were

taken into custody by the afghan military essentially prisoners of war certainly the taliban would like those people to be released but there is concern apparently a kabul for having these people removed from custody and possibly capable of carrying alto security activities against the government or against the afghan people again those things should be spelled out in more detail on saturday after the signing ceremony. there is a sum of inge of aid has been speaking exclusively to taliban spokesman says hail shaheen and he says he hopes the deal will bring stability to afghanistan. it is significant for a our people for our country in the whole region. because for 4 of one people they will have their independence they will. see their creation

ending and also before the. that when stability and peace return to our plan is that there will be a phase of. commercial activities and development and the habitation of our premised on 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 in the attacks have not stopped taliban have attacked convoys of the afghan government there have been skirmishes event 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 a secure in one in water went before the signing after agreement and that we did and and the other thing is that there was some kind of war we have not attacked any

convoy in the year 2 trees in the territories held by the coverlid ministration did the some of for those convoys what are tagged when they came out from there please sister and enter to our tutor treece so that was a kind of or why nation and our. people on ground they stopped it reallocations from the afghan side is that one does not accept our realities this fear is that when assad will go back if the taliban is allowed to live on its own on civil liberties on girls education basic rights on democracy what will you say it was sure the afghan people that this is good for afghans it won't reverse them and take them back 10 years from before. it is not clear when they say these are those people who are we call it a spy lives of the peace. we have the person of the truth we have our plans that

you see there is peace and there is a. commercial activities there is schools so if you go out there. now and when the security is more in in those areas and there are control rather than in the main cities provincial cities that covered the capital kabul so about women's rights women wanted that the right to education and their right to work we both accept and give them as per the islamic rules but only that they observe the hija only that sure did its nor problem with that about freedom of speech i think it is part of the islamic rules there should be constructive criticism of our of the society. of shells and that is not how we can make

a report in the society that is i think part and parcel of they slimmy course. now south korea has reported his biggest daily increase of karena virus cases it's the 1st infection was concerned last month health officials say almost another $600.00 people have been infected and that brings the country's total to almost 3016 people have died in south korea which has the biggest outbreak outside of china and in china itself another 47 people have died and 427 new cases have been reported but only 4 of those new cases are outside the epicenter that's the lowest tally in the mainland outside who province since china started to release nationwide data the world health organization has raised the risk assessment to its highest level possible there are signs a virus is spreading in the united states

a 2nd person in california has been infected with no known travel history nor contact with those already affected and china's manufacturing levels of fall into the lowest on record because of coronavirus let's speak now to correspondent katrina you who is there in beijing no surprises there really that china is posing such poor manufacturing figures given that a vast number of the population not being going to work. exactly we were expecting the chinese economy to be taking a big hit from the krona virus outbreak but we didn't expect it to be this big yet i mean we've just heard this 1st figure in february the 1st economic indicator released the purchasing managers index or p.m.i. which measures manufacturing activity here in china now that figure has come and at

$35.00 points and that's down from 50 in january and even lower than analyst expectations of about 40 and to give you some perspective that's the lowest point since records began keeping p.m.i. records since 2005 and even lower than the figure during the global financial crisis of 2008 in 2009. president xi jinping came out in this week to say that he expected the chinese economy to take a big hit of course this virus has brought the country to a standstill people have been told to stay horan people have been prevented from leaving their cities factories and businesses have not been operating and even now there is a still a shortage of workers of course as you mentioned martine the numbers do seem to be looking positive there does seem to be a downward trend in terms of these new confirmed cases so the outbreak does appear to be easing here in china but the government still has to manage a very very delicate balancing act between restarting the economy and making sure

that they don't exacerbate infections and make this outbreak worse again so it is treading that fine line but people are slowly starting to go back to work. with the release of this p.m.i. figure the government has moved to try and reassure the public that a lot is being done to try to boost the economy and that they're trying to assure people that the figure in march will be much better so we just have to keep on looking at that figure and wait and see right katrina folks for now to mexico where they've identified their 1st case that's here from our correspondent run world who is in mexico city. mexico's deputy health minister has said that the person that was diagnosed with that confirmed case of corona virus is currently in isolation along with members of his family at the national institute of respiratory disease here in mexico city now the deputy health minister also said that this individual is being held for epidemic logical reasons not for medical reasons saying that his

symptoms are mild not severe warning people not to panic or urging people rather not to panic here not to cause a sort of sensationalism around this 1st confirmed case now there are 3 other suspicious cases not confirmed cases one in the state of sinaloa and 2 others here in central mexico in the case of that confirmed case of the virus that individual appears to a contract of the virus while on a visit to italy within the 3rd week of february but the government is saying that there were they as of today they were going to hold daily press conferences to update the population on the progress and on the management of this now global outbreak. a u.s. appeals court has ruled that the trumpet ministration can no longer make asylum seekers wait in mexico while the planes are being dealt with nearly 600000 scuse me 60000 people have already been sent back to wait for hearings since they remain in

mexico policy was put into effect in january last year the government can appeal to the supreme court which has consistently sided with the president on immigration and border security matters. and president trump has called a legal victory a court ruled that form a white house official don't mcgahan can ignore in order to testify in front of congress democrats have been pushing for high ranking officials to give evidence in investigations into the president mcgann was a key source of information for robert mueller when looking into russian interference into the 2016 presidential election democrats have been trying to find out what leg and told the special counsel. well meanwhile president trump has nominated republican house member john ratliff to lead the country's spy agency for the 2nd time he had to withdraw radcliffe's nomination last year after republicans in the senate joined the democratic colleagues to question his record it was

revealed in the ratcliffe had misrepresented his background he has represented a texas district since 2015. taking steps up the pressure on europe allowing refugees to cross into green. am in downtown santiago catches fire a mystery surrounds what may have started to. follow the weather is not looking out across a good part of the middle east but from all the madness around the events that while the wet and windy and at times wintry cloud rain sleet and snow piling out of the turkish mountains northern parts of syria northern areas all of iraq will see

some of that wintry mix as we go through saturday and on into sunday stays just maybe pushing down into lebanon jordan maybe into israel what if she were when she flurries pushing in here the what's the weather the more wintry weather that will push over will in parts of the region war in iraq over towards iran elsewhere is not bad the winds switched around to a southerly direction here in concert temperatures pick up getting up to around 27 celsius on sunday i have dry weather and plenty of sunshine plenty of sunshine around the southern end of the red sea over the ethiopian highlands around the whole of africa we have got the usual shallows just around the ref ali still around like victoria so you want to see showers coming in heavy showers that sue into southern parts of tanzania and more them areas of mozambique seeing some of the cloud and rain that wet weather stretching right across the region then so we are going to see more clouds more rain more weather there into northern parts of

madagascar and showers to the south africa. for. the u.s. president's proposed plan for the middle east is less territory to be honest i. and any other peace plan since 1988. wars of israel have created because over one dinner was over united states thought it was right and how much study and the palestinian prime minister told. to die 1st range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of the next let's journalist's announce his era. the i.

promise have a look at the top stories here and out to syria the u.s. and the afghan taliban are expected to sign a preliminary peace deal that could put an end to almost 2 decades of war secretary of state mike compares due to come today or to sign the agreement later on saturday a 2nd person in california with no travel history no contact with existing cases has been infected with coronavirus the world health organization has raised its risk assessment to the highest level possible across the world. china's manufacturing has planned show an all time low due to the karuna virus outbreak fears that its impact on the country's economy will be harsh health officials have reported $427.00 new cases and that brings brings china's total to more than 79 miles and. that the u.s. is reviewing options to support the turkish army in northwest syria dozens of

turkish troops were killed by syrian government forces on 1st same what the u.n. has described as one of the most alarming moments in the 9 year war the security council met in the measures the session following the attack as gabriel elizondo now reports from the un headquarters in new york. u.n. secretary general antonio gutierrez described the killing of over 30 turkish troops in northwest syria as one of the most alarming moments in the almost decade long conflict the most pressing needs. ceasefire before the situation gets entirely out of control. you know my contacts with those involved i am sad when simple message stepped back from the edge of escalation just hours later gutierrez again delivered that message during an emergency meeting of the security council this is the council's 3rd session in the last 10 days on the syrian conflict a sign of how dire conditions are on the ground the u.s.

along with the e.u. and u.k. asked for the meeting and made it clear it stands by turkey and against what it calls syrian and russian aggression in the days ahead the united states' commitment to our nato ally turkey will not waver turkey has our full support to respond in self-defense to unjustified attacks on turkish observation post that resulted in the deaths of their own forces russia dismissed the notion that turkish forces had been intentionally targeted forgot to give up a bit in the the coordinates conveyed didn't mention areas where ultimately turkish soldiers died as soon as it became clear that it happened the russian side took exhaustive measures to cease hostilities turkey's ambassador had a different account let me on the line that turkish forces that were a thug or a log in that. the logical conclusion of that is that they were deliberately.

we had grown coordination in writing with russian forces at what location. and is slate's going to newt despite already made he had warnings right of the divinity of the clearly the secretary general wants to end the bloodshed but when he was asked if the warring parties are ready for an immediate cease fire he answered simply i don't think we're there yet i hope or there in the near future gabriels andro al-jazeera at the united nations. grease and ball garia have reinforced their borders attack he said it wouldn't prevent refugees from entering europe president ed on had long threatened to let syrians and other refugees cross into the e.u. unless ankara received more international support and sasha. they know the buses final stop but the syrian refugees don't know where their

journeys might and as they head toward yet another border they kept their loads light we used to use it small can you like today or come we are little like from fairs they are for in syria realizes we don't know we are going we don't know if it happens more this man will call mohammad is carrying a burden he says he's worried about family in syria he hasn't seen in 2 years worried about what awaits him as he tries to cross into europe the artist says he's certain of one thing he won't be leaving turkey by sea this is one of 2 places in istanbul we've found were syrian refugees are coming to hop on one of these free buses or pay about $20.00 to get into a van and go to the turkey greek border they tell us after watching the news all day and learning that the turkish government told border security in the coast

guard to stand down and allow refugees to cross they had to seize this opportunity to leave the country from morning to evening syrian refugees packed into buses to get to a durned near the greek border. mohamed waited with friends who opted to stay behind and watched bus after bus pull up to the curb fill with people and drive away. i don't have a choice actually and i can be like just like surrendering stay and doing nothing and being like this we should like hell we should fire actually not 5 years gone or mine or soldiers or mob it eventually found a ride leaving behind the small refugee family he's made in a country that offered a life but little future latasha going to al-jazeera is stumble a major train station in paris was evacuated after protesters started

a fire to try to disrupt the consulate. demonstrators burned screws and cars as they blocked far scientists from pushing out the blaze they accuse the singer folly . of being too closely affiliated to the democratic republic of congo's leader that. was there. well the get out early or train station is one of the main stations in central paris and of the ground level you can really get a sense of the damage you can see these motorbikes have been overturned and if you come over here a whole row of motorbikes completely burnt out just called kisses on the floor we've seen a smashed past we see bus stops also in bits completely burnt out and what happened was it was about 6 o'clock in the evening local time here in paris when protesters say all these vehicles around the train station and the plumes of smoke the rose

into the air were very impressive you could see them all over paris we were some 2 kilometers away and even we could see them we could smell the smoke in the end it reminded me very much of the night the notre dame cathedral was birds a moment where people were looking up to the sky and really wondering what had happened in central paris well before a fire does you can see over there they're just some of the many that came to the scene they managed to put out those blazes pretty quickly but it must mean very frightening for the many people using the train station on a friday evening a very busy time of the evening the train station was evacuated but it has now been reopened. several actresses of after the french film awards after roman polanski won the says our prize for best director he so wanted in the united states for the statutory rape of a 13 year old in 1987 lance himself didn't attend because of the protests taking place outside the 87 year old's latest film an officer in the spy was nominated for

12 awards the awards entire bold step down this month in part because of the backlash over. these. artists and not the police so it's a complicated and moral question but if you want my personal opinion about it it seems that dishonest to separate the man from the artist and listen steed above all the actress who is taking the stand and spoken out very strongly brilliantly in a well thought out intelligent way in a way that was not at all accusatory or vengeful she couldn't have state sitting in a chair appalling it wouldn't have made any scenes she would have been criticized for so of course she was right well i've been speaking to daniel smith rosie is a professor of film history at mary's college in california he says france is yet to experience the change brought about by the me to me and in hollywood. i do think these things are a little bit on a case by case basis and it is difficult unfortunately even

a conversation like ours. you can move the conversation to the perpetrator and not the victims you know we probably don't spend enough time talking about the women and the victims in these cases but i as far as why the industry is lagging behind yeah. i don't think they always do i do think some there are certainly some directors and some other creatives that are not going to be working against certainly in hollywood france has their own issues they i see articles written in them on that aren't necessarily they don't even have polanski's name they're just saying how the meet your movement hasn't really come to france for a lot of reasons or it hasn't been as effective so you know it i mean it's hard to quickly say what's exactly the reason i suppose they can some french can separate the art from the artist is what they would tell you i don't know about

that i think that's that's tough because we have so many great artists right now i mean that if they're not even getting a voice so why you know why not hear from some of them who don't have this kind of track record of abuse. a museum in chile's capital is on fire after fighting broke out between protesters and riot police it followed a day of otherwise peaceful demonstrations in santiago over a critical report from amnesty international on the country's human rights situation a latin america editor lucien newman has more. we're outside the village the part of a museum which is on fire at this hour firemen are trying to put it out this is the 2nd time that this museum which is emblematic in santiago has been set on fire by arsonists nobody knows exactly who did it firemen are telling us to get out of here because there could be a gas leak but this is what it turned out to be the end of what had been a very peaceful afternoon of protests here any last i would just just about 200

meters away from here. earlier in the afternoon people were seeing and dancing it was a very very jovial scene here about now that it is start we're seeing barricades and many believe this is just a prelude to the type of disturbances and violence that will also be accompanying peaceful protests the social change in care starting next march of this coming marjorie just just around the corner protests to say they're going to be coming out onto the streets in bigger numbers than ever because they say that the government has not responded to the people's demands for real social change china's most famous athlete the 3 time olympic swimming champion soon young has been handed the maximum ban for breaking anti doping rules it was welcomed by fellow athletes who protested against his most recent victories paul restrict. in 2012 son was on the path of sporting greatness and the olympics in london he would become the 1st chinese mom ever to win gold in the pool 2 of them and followed by

another at rio 2016. but 2 years on from the olympics in brazil a run in with drugs test has led him here the. sort of arbitration for sport. after vials of son's blood had been smashed with a hammer when testers visited him at his home on friday the court gave its decision a ban from swimming for 80 is effectively ending the career of one of the jewels in the crown of chinese sports ready it was not for the athlete to decide alone that and i don't think tests shall be invalidated and the sample containers destroyed as a consequence when young committed an anti-doping rule violation by tampering with the doping control son's response was immediate telling china's official news agency this is unfair i firmly believe in my innocence i will definitely appeal to let more people know the truth the chinese swimming association says it deeply

regrets the ruling on fully support son although it had itself banned him for 3 months for doping in 2014 but led to a fracture between son and many of his rivals australian swimmer mark houghton had branded sun a drug cheat in rio and in 2019 refused to share the podium with him at the worlds in south korea. while the man who was out shown by some in rio believes the medals should be redistributed this is a pity you know because a lot of people sacrificed their whole lives for some moments you know and it's not just about me who got sober to him or the guy that came forth to me god it's about they got the k. month i should get a gold medal back from from rio and it not for the moment i lost that i don't really care about that just for my record you know it's more questions remain over this case son was originally cleared by swimming's governing body phina over the destroyed samples and it took an appeal from the world anti-doping agency to result in friday's. as things stand for you know have not commented on why they saw things

differently polar al-jazeera. there's a look at the headlines here at al-jazeera the u.s. and afghan taliban are expected to sign a preliminary peace deal that could put an end to almost 2 decades of war secretary of state is judah come to do have to sign an agreement later on saturday a 2nd person in california with no travel history nor contact with existing cases has been infected with corona virus and the world health organization has raised its risk assessment of the outbreak to the highest level possible across the world china's manufacturing has plunged to an all time low because of the virus confirming fears of its impact on the country's economy health officials have

reported 427 new cases and that brings china's total to more than $79000.00 katrina you has more from beijing we've just had this 1st figure in february the 1st economic indicator released the purchasing managers index p.m.i. which measures manufacturing activity here in china now that figure has comment at 35.7 points and that's down from 50 in january and even lower than analysts expectations of about 40 and to give you some perspective that's the lowest point since records began keeping p.m.i. records since 2005 and even lower than the figure during the global financial crisis of 2008 in 2009 a u.s. appeals court has ruled that the trump administration can no longer make asylum seekers way to mexico while their claims are being dealt with nearly 60000 people have been sent to wait for hearings since the remain in mexico policy took effect

in general last year. the u.n. secretary general antonio good terror she's calling for an immediate truth in syria after dozens of turkish soldiers were killed in the syrian government strike meanwhile turkey and russia's presidents have spoken by phone to try to find a way to ease tensions in the northwest of syria several actresses have walked out of the french film awards after roman polanski won this is our prize for best director he's wanted in the united states for the statutory rape of a 13 year old in 1987 polanski didn't attend the event because of the protests taking place outside. talk to ashes there is next frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is that it's really the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on those 2 schools even know what the law

is all 'd about this argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera called. the. mind jane space in munich where world leaders gathered for the $56.00 security culprits among them the palestinian prime minister mohammad shtayyeh u.s. president double trouble describes his middle east plan as the deal of the century the palestinians call the map of territory they've been offered squeeze cheese rather than a solution for a sovereign palestinian state so what now will explore all of this as the palestinian prime minister mohammed style talks to out yourself.