did you was by yes united states to watch this right now how much time and the palestinian prime minister told challenges era. the taliban and the u.s. are expected to sign a deal in qatar in the coming hours and ending the war in afghanistan. i'm kevin l this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up authorities in the usa 2 more coronavirus cases have been detected with no no knowledge of. syrian forces continue shelling adlib province as they face a deadline to hold their offensive and pull away from turkish outposts. and joe biden's presidential campaign hangs in the balance is voters prepared to go to the polls in south carolina to pick a democratic candidate. in

a few hours' time the u.s. and afghan taliban are due to sign a preliminary deal that could eventually end america's longest running war it's the result of 18 months of talks but once it's there is still a long way to go and the 1st stage will be a $135.00 day period of what's called a meaningful reduction in violence that said to include the exchange of some $6000.00 prisoners the deal is being described as a precursor to a peace agreement between the warring sides within afghanistan it's hope this will lead to talks between the taliban and the government in kabul as well as the withdrawal of foreign troops leading up to the signing there's been an initial weeklong reduction in violence mostly held will though there were still some attacks al-jazeera as some have been devalued has spoken exclusively to taliban

spokesman soho shahid he asked him what made this deal convincing given the taliban still carried out attacks in the past week. percy it was a deduction in war lintz as we call it to provide a secure in war in order went before the signing after agreement and that we did and and the other thing is that there was some kind of war you we have not attacked any convoy in the a few trees in the 2 trees held by the coverlid ministration did the sum of 4 those convoys were attacked when they came out from a police officer and inter to our 2 trees so that was a kind of or why nation and our. people on ground they stopped it the allegations from the afghan side is that the pentagon does not accept ground realities this

fear is that of understand will go back if the taliban is allowed to rule it going to run on civil liberties on girls' education on 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 we have 70 percent of the treaty of our plants that you see it is peace and there is. commercial activities there is schools so if you go out there. in the end and when the security is more in in those areas and there are control rather than in the main cities cities that cover the capital kabul so about women's rights a woman won that they had a right to you cation and their right to work we both accept and give them as per the islamic rules but only that they observe the hey joe. what i've done has

made has been looking at how people in afghanistan feel about the deal. it's a momentous time for afghanistan many still in this believe that what had been unthinkable is happening the u.s. and the taliban agreeing with each other mohammed as eases a beat this has been the most peaceful week kabal has seen in years we can go out of our homes without. fear of anything from the village with me yeah there. is between their american and dollars but it will be a fake. that will be have lots of effects on afghan people because the security of afghanistan is in the hands of the americans but outside of kabul example siraj shakur mohammad wonders about his future he has mixed feelings the

taliban ruled here before so he knows them well they are something. after all southern and it's bad if the taliban come back i won't be able to run my business they forbid music i will have to leave the country for the past 40 years foreigners didn't let us live in peace that's why the country's in a situation it's maybe better if they leave but there will be no peace with the taliban it will be worse i'm scared the war has been devastating for bibi girl her husband a soldier the national army was killed in a suicide attack in her whole province of lahman then another 4 members of her family died in another attack being a widow with 7 children is stuff they help out by polishing shoes on the streets or begging in the market lot now we've never had any help from anyone it's a miserable life my sons collect charge so we can burn it in the stove the foreigners must stay i haven't seen anything good from the government and the

taliban destroyed our lives it's because of them that we became beggars it's humiliating only the foreigners can help us. the taliban controls nearly half of the country mainly rural areas where most of the war against american troops unfolded. people have been told that they will fully withdraw soon and there's a sense of victory in the bush people are happy we also want peace and security taliban are committed to their promise the fighters obey whatever orders they get this is a big success for us. back in the cities it up my year is worried she was born as a refugee in iraq now she's a university student part of a new generation full of aspiration everybody knows that tal advanced your ideas like color limited and close minded they are and if they come to the government like officer the they cannot implement them an officer they can implement and the

people there will be hard as the women just follow one and never good with women. the people working in the government. did not have peace between themselves and i don't think as we said someone else like polamalu if only goes well do us will pull out its troops the taliban and afghan leaders might find a compromise but many afghans remain cautious about the future they've seen many false dawns before but at the. couple. have a word doc is a national security analyst and neck track card on the university joins us now live from kabul good to have you on the program you believe that it's the fact that this deal has been based on commitment rather than deliverable which has gotten us to this point can you explain that for us. the americans and the taliban who have been negotiating for almost 2 years now and they were just about to agree and

reach conclusions of. 18 months long negotiations back in september. and finally we have had those 2 tweets coming in from president bush started and stopped the process and the idea was we can we cannot. because. and yet we can when it comes to peace process you cannot ask for deliverables before commitments and we keep saying that all it's going to take another 2 to resume. process because there is no military out of military way out of honest on the hof to engage in this process yes it did not take 2 tweets again 2 to zoom the process it took a lot of backdoor diplomacy and a lot of confidence but having measures to resume the process and that is. doubt confidence but thing measured it was basically the r i if you get

a doctrine in violence. and basically agreeing to a commitment which would give sort of but 2 results and deliverables somewhere deleter down delight you cannot have an agreement without commitments but only sort of be based on deliverables finally after 2 years. the taliban the international community led by the united states have agreed on some commitments and the form often agreement which is going to be signed today. in just a few coming hours i believe this is of course not the end to the conflict one of the talons is after this signing today. so when the americans and the taliban signed a spade put today this agreement today then agree on 2 things the taliban cite a good ng that they would not provide see if have heavens and harbor to terrorist

organizations such as al qaida and afghanistan and the united states of america agreeing on the good i do a timetable base would draw from of august on so these are sort of taken cattles what is left out with what we are left with is the crucial interim afghan dialogue when we talk about ending the conflict in afghanistan ending this violence in afghanistan that interim afghan dialogue is crucial and it's very important yet it's very very complex because for the past many years we have had statements coming in from coming in from kabul government and also the united states of america that we cannot trust the taliban because there are so many groups that are like 22 groups yet the taliban were like no we had one group this reduction in violence it is proved that the taliban indeed is one group because their military wing cunning that to a their political wing they were all on the same page but the problem is the

fragmentation and kabul we have just started elections we have fragmentation between political elites ghani and c.e.o. of the. they are not on the same page and it is lot of consensus and call will not solve this piece would mean what is it that they want from the taliban when they meet them and going dialogue. negotiation teams and called them is another issue how do you. negotiations team when it's going to be at the government forming duck what is it whether it's going to be based on ethnicity language tribes or political parties what is it going to be and once you've formed what is it the. you want out of dollars when you meet them because the taliban don't know what they want. is going to make. a lot of. a lot of challenges ahead we'll have to leave it there thank you for your time

that's a national security analyst and electra thank you and there are signs the corona virus is spreading in new ways in the u.s. it comes as the world health organization raises the risk assessment of the virus to its highest level there are 2 new cases one in california and the other in oregon no known connections to those already affected south korea has reported its biggest daily increase of corona virus infections since the 1st was confirmed last month another $600.00 cases takes the total to nearly $3000.00 in china another $47.00 people have died and 427 new cases have been reported but only 4 are outside the a.p. center and that is the lowest number beyond who they province since china started reporting nationwide information rob reynolds has more now on the case in california. 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 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 a 145 kilometers from the 1st possible community transmission case in who was the 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 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. weeks of strict quarantine measures are taking their toll on tens of millions of people in china many are struggling with anxiety and fears for the future katrina you spoke with one resident from the epicenter who hahn which went into lockdown more than a month ago. these days 100 and life is simple he water the plants makes the bed and watches news about the virus outbreak which has turned his life upside down we spoke to him by video call from beijing. the virus spread so quickly i was so i thought i could die if i was effective. it's a far cry from his life before the locked out running

a popular noodle store where we filmed him working in 2016 today he's healthy but the mental strain of being forced to stay indoors when he's on him it's stressful imagine you won't allow to leave this room for more than 2 months and can only what we've been this apartment how would you feel it's very difficult. almost 80000 chinese have been infected by the virus but it's affected the mental health of millions of others says shanghai based psychologist bodhran who people are reacting lots of fear a lot of anxiety and lots of uncertainty so there is a fear well i contract those wires and i do that in my health when i die will this how all of this impact my family. way how counseling telephone hotlines have been set up around the country for those struggling to court many have called in reporting anxiety i did some fearing not just the virus but its impact on their

future there's uncertainty about where will we go back to normal when i go back to my job situation when i see my friends. those and a lockdown of fighting feelings of isolation by posting on social media experts say connecting to others and maintaining a routine can help prevent any long term negative impact though he struggles with feeling trapped at harm. says he's following mental health advice and doing his best to stay strong between e.u. al-jazeera beijing. still ahead on al-jazeera a destructive blaze outside a major train station in the french capital knighted by protest against a 2nd. we

got yet another named storm making its way into western parts of europe then this storm jorge the 3rd in the month of february and there we go that's going to bring some more very windy weather across the british isles as we go on through the next 24 to 48 hours initially it's the right and then it's the when the waves are really picking up as you go on through saturday and on into sas date damaging winds worst of the rain will have made its way through but still quite a stray showers rocking in across ireland northern ireland starting wintry there across scotland and northern parts of into this we go on through the course of a saturday to the southeast is not so bad because some west of whether they're 60 moving across the low countries into germany into that eastern side of france will snow over the alps by the end of the weekend but missing a made to maybe 2 meters of snowfall across the highest parts of the square quite a bit of snow to into a turkey over the next couple days gradually moving away by the end of the way kind of by the end of the weekend still seeing some very strong winds wet windy and its

highs wintry weather piling in across scotland over some wet weather also pushing across a good part of france for northern parts of africa where it's pretty much bone dry and also sunshine coming very temperatures on the rise a high in tripoli with $26.00. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is it really working out 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 pantomimes an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of the new conscious and aware use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera. the. the

earth. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour after 18 months of talks and daryn almost 2 decades of war the u.s. and the taliban are due to sign a deal in a few hours and bringing peace to afghanistan a top that will lead to the withdrawal of foreign troops. the way corona virus is spreading through the u.s. it's creating concern to more infections have been confirmed in patients with no known connection to the cases that hadn't traveled to hot spot areas. by the deadline given by turkey to the syrian army to retreat from the north western province of idlib is almost up and a new round of shelling on friday another turkish soldier was killed her along with at least 10 civilians the presidents of turkey and russia have spoken by phone in

an effort to defuse tension they're looking at holding an urgent meeting to discuss new measures to normalize the situation. or the u.n. secretary general antonio tennis is calling for an immediate cease fire in syria following an emergency meeting of the security council gabriel and is on the reports from 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 is in the media at ceasefire before the situation gets entirely out of control. you know my contacts with those involved i am sad when simple message step 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 do not the 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 about location. and is slate's going to newt despite all immediate warnings right of the the very close 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 on doe al-jazeera at the united nations. the greek island of les voss is struggling with the effects of overwhelming migration people have been fighting back against camps on the island and the government is demanding greater support from here of 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 a dinghy arriving 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 personnel and equipment you need to help protect mali time borders that are great and european i have asked from tex 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 u. 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 evidence river the border with greece is their stumbled again you know 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 it live if the e.u. turns a blind eye greece could end up as a buffer zone for asylum seekers. lesbos. a major train station in the french capital has been evacuated after protesters started a fire to disrupt a concert by accompli singha demonstrators burned scooters and cars as they block firefighters from putting up the place they accuse the singer folly of being too close to the democratic republic of congo's leaders of other reports the plumes of smoke could be seen across central paris. or the galbally 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 caucus is 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 not true time cathedral it was birds a moment where people were looking up to the sky and really wondering what had happened in central paris well before if i 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. u.s. appeals court has ruled the trunk administration can no longer make asylum seekers wait in mexico while their claims are processed nearly 60000 people have been sent back to await herring since the remain in mexico policy took effect in january last year the government can. peale to the supreme court which has consistently sided with the president. on a few hours a vote is in the u.s. state of south carolina will decide which democrat they think should challenge donald trump for the presidency it's seen as an important primary for former vice president joe biden he's enjoyed strong support among the state's african-american vote his but some of his rivals are closing the gap and a gallica reports from charleston. some are calling it joe biden's last stand and there's no doubting the importance of south carolina's democratic primary to the former vice president biden has

a history here and a good relationship with african-americans who make up 60 percent of democratic voters where 9 worshippers were killed by a white supremacist 5 years ago in charleston biden stood alongside president obama to lend his support it's that kind of connection that biden is touting and bought by that by the scientists because all the old spot where the rivals though are making inroads billionaire tom steyer has spent a fortune running political ads and gaining traction tongues by truck get a ticket biden's hopes of winning here are high but south carolina's black voters don't speak with one voice african-american democratic voters are united in their desire to see president trump out of office making them potentially more pragmatic than loyal to just one candidate's vice president's been falling in the polls is

campaigns tonight referring to the black vote as their fire was then there's the generation gap bernie sanders is doing well with young black millennial further eating into biden's wants commandingly warm. because the his me and what views the 56 year old loretta maxwell is a barton loyalist daughter in law is looking for an alternative and bernie could be the candidate there were a lot of young black people a lot of young millennial gravitate towards these days are the progressive candidates not the regular stablish main candidates so i think that's what bernie brings to the table and that's what makes him so different as well on wednesday biden was endorsed by congressman james clyburn long considered the godfather of democratic politics in the state he could be a crucial seal of approval among black voters i know that you we know joe. joe. us after

early losses saturday's primary is a vital test for biden he can't just win here he needs to win big we need real watching the white house know more lines and you go across 0 charleston south carolina. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories after 18 months of talks in doha and almost 2 decades of war the u.s. and the taliban and you to sign a deal in a few hours aimed at bringing peace to afghanistan it's hoped it will lead to the withdrawal of foreign troops. or 2 more confirmed cases of coronavirus in the u.s. both patients have no known connection to other infections have have not traveled to hotspot areas has more from los angeles on a california case. 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 war 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 the deadline given by turkey to the syrian army to retreat from the northwestern province of it lip is almost up and a new round of shelling late on friday another turkish soldier was killed and at least 10 civilians the presidents of turkey and russia have spoken by phone in an effort to defuse tension they're looking at holding an urgent meeting to discuss new measures to normalize the situation. a major train station in the french capital has been evacuated after protesters started a fire to disrupt a concert by

a congolese singing demonstrators burned in cars as they block firefighters from putting up the blaze they accuse signifier of being too close to the democratic republic of congo's lead its. u.s. appeals court has ruled the trump administration can no longer make asylum seekers wait in mexico while their claims dealt with at least 60000 people have been sent back to await hearings since the remain in mexico policy to 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 policy. the headlines and news continues on al jazeera off the inside story. on counting the cost coronavirus could the economic impact be on a par with the 2008 financial crisis as the factory the world is crippled by the virus cambodia faces up to the prospect of job losses tina begins its talks to

avoid a debt default. counting the cost on al-jazeera. retaliates out the syrian as strikes killed dozens 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 with 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 $33.00 of them killed on the.