0. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. on al-jazeera. i am. the afghan government and taliban leaders begin historic face to face talks with the a move ending decades of violence. hello i maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program dozens of women protesters are detained in the better russian capital as mass anti-government demonstrations continue. protests descend into violence on the greek island of less force tear gas is fired as desperate refugees demand passage

to the mainland. and one month after the coup in mali military and political leaders find common ground agreed to the formation of a transitional government. hello welcome to the program our top story this hour afghanistan government and the taliban have started his story talks in an attempt to end decades of war the unprecedented meeting taking place in the qatari capital follows months of delays and obstacles though the have also been gestures of goodwill with prisoner releases on both sides at stake during these talks a permanent cease fire the rights of women and minorities and how the taliban will be disarmed. reports now from. after decades of

war and conflict of learn to stand finally has a shot of peace this is a former minister whose government's been fighting the taliban. is the co-founder of the taliban still a potent fighting force. once on enemies they sit in the same room facing each other for the 1st time since the start of the nearly 2 decades long afghan war follows a futile we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance although narratives might differ we all know what happened to us throughout these years and where we stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can define together it took months to initiate the interest of gun dialogue the taliban insisted on the release of $5000.00 prisoners before talks could begin and in turn released 1000 afghan government detainees. air patrol

really king we have acted accordingly to all the points outlined in the previous agreement and we are requesting the other side to act accordingly to those things that have been agreed to so we can have this process without any problems ahead we want of understand to be an independent developed country and it should have a form of islamic system where all its citizens see themselves reflected. in february the us government agreed to pull out its troops from afghanistan provided the taliban guarantee to halt attacks against the u.s. and its allies as the end of the longest running u.s. warning is leaders want to remind allies they will not be left behind each of you i hope you will look inside your heart. each of you carry a great responsibility. but no no that you're not. the entire world want you to succeed and if counting our new succeeding since the us agreement was signed

in february thousands of people have been killed in fighting between taliban forces and the afghan government major issues such as the taliban's insistence on an islamic emirate and position on the rights of women and the constitution need to be resolved if the road to achieve intra of gone dialogue was hard getting results out of it is going to be even harder both the afghan government delegation as well as the delegation being led by the taliban need to make compromises both sides agree that they are willing to make those compromises the weeks and days ahead are going to determine whether it's going to be successful some of. the. so let's take a closer look at the state of the taliban then the armed group emerged out of a civil war following the defeat of what was then the soviet union in afghanistan it ruled much of the country between 19062001 promising to fight corruption and improve security while imposing its version of strict islamic law and then came the september 11th attacks followed by the u.s.

led invasion of afghanistan the taliban or accused of sheltering al qaeda fighters who were behind the attacks on american soil the taliban was removed from power and it began targeting foreign troops and the u.s. backed government since then it's regained strength and some analysts believe it controls all contests about 2 thirds of afghan territory well scott smith from the u.s. institute of peace has been involved in attempts to bring peace to afghanistan for many years now and he believes the taliban might be more ready to compromise than many people might think. we've all asked the question are the taliban going to compromise why they have the momentum and the answer is we will know and so they what happens this week actually happens until they actually sit down and begin to talk with the government one of the things that i've heard from some. formerly taliban is that they may have the momentum but they also understand they will not

will win this war and the worse painful for them is cause a lot of deaths and what they really want if they can get it on terms that are acceptable to them is a chance to return to their country and sort of live more or less in a land that they recognize so you know that question remains to be seen but a lot of us who have been working on this issue for a long time have thought that but let the supposition that they don't want to compromise not be a reason for not sitting down and actually and to go should the 1st issue is whether or not there can be if not a cease fire at least a significant reduction of violence greater freedom of movement if that can create an atmosphere while the talks are going on because we know there will be difficult . but at least to show something to the afghan people that you know this is the beginning of the end of that conflict then the tricky issues will be over the nature of the government whether there will be an interim government while negotiations go on and on this there obviously is and very very significant

differences between the 2 sides well i think russian sector in general as well as foreign ministers from several countries attended the talks that cherry on top of the terrorists as it's critical that afghan women represented and whose east peace process in which we men use and victims of conflict and meaningfully presented offers the best hope of a sustainable solution all parties must of that box to ensure that women put the sea facing a variety of roles and that the peace process reflects the expediencies and the expertise and the afghan women you know that my vicinity. now dozens of women have been arrested in the better russian capital minsk. thousands of people had turned out for demonstrations on saturday activists are demanding the release of detained opposition figures say president alexander

lukashenko should step down after weeks of sustained protests against his rule demonstrators say the presidential election in august was rigged to handle a landslide when opposition leaders felt on a ticking off skier has since fled to lithuania safety well i'll just step voss and was at the protest and spoke to some of the women who were attacked by security forces. every saturday for the last couple of weeks women have been marching here in the center of minsk and it's the women smart to release the political prisoners and also offering got to step down in recent weeks while inspired police in france and many have particular leave being detained in the last couple of days so women are still the fire and they're still gathering here. in the book was.

written a lot of. the women out. there might have read my. story i thought that was i mean what kind of power is this doesn't see people doesn't listen to people is this our power how does this relate to a constitution and to a law enforcement system these are peaceful women without weapons. a group of women is now being locked up for. by you must the policeman they're all i'm shouting to be relieved to be tensions are completely random here right now some women manage to escape by just simply jumping the fence but there are a lot of police man here right now and people are screaming women are screaming why are we being detained well now greek police have fired tear gas at protesters refugees who are protesting unless boss writes for

a cow on saturday when police try to arrest 3 people more than 12000 refugees remain stranded after a fire has destroyed europe's largest refugee camp and as john psaropoulos now reports they're demanding that they be allowed to go to the mainland. the arrest of an elderly man sparks violence ask a news pulse the arresting officers with rocks. and they respond with tear gas women and children who are sitting there by panic and seek shelter in the island's municipal refugee camp stuff terrified that asylum seekers displaced by the burning of the main camp at moria may try to set fire to this one as well in the crush this afghan boy separated from his parents and after inhaling tear gas an infant is rushed to hospital unconscious days have passed since greece's largest refugee camp moria burns down on the island of last bus bottled up

on a stretch of highway these refugees have slept rough and are hungry angry and impatient because of daily protests the army has not distributed food and water spraying even more on that we've got no place to stay for 4 or 5 days now no place to stay no food no water around the toilet would decide to go to met lead to this show so they bring boston to the mainland but the police the military the block the road since we are staying here. is not and everybody living in the street everybody living in the bush we need freedom we don't want to maria we don't want to come we don't want to graze wanting to fuck with the comp that's won't look. down the road the government is rushing to set up temporary shelter to get people off the street and out of the mountain olive groves this is morea muck to an artillery

range by the sea now being landscaped and fitted with tents where a few 1000 people will be able to stay at least temporarily a few asylum seekers a straggling in but there's been no mass transportation of them yet off the street . however that is what we also routines interned as soon as possible because here they can be furred and watered and the public safety can be assured some refugees arrive to take a look at their immediate future. and install themselves but some around this afghan children have had 2 birthdays in korea no school we will not always get them one i'm a good mom i didn't i mean we are ready to die here we don't want to go and live in a tent in another camp we want freedom and all the refugees but for these people freedom for now is brewing on the asphalt and camping on the driveway of a car dealership. lesbos. well in all the developments the takesh

president. has warned his french counterpart quote not to mess with turkey the nato allies are at loggerheads over turkey search for oil and gas in disputed parts of the eastern mediterranean part of the region also claims like greece and cyprus on friday emmanuel micron and other southern new leaders threatened new sanctions against ankara. is smaller than large them you're a woman are do not want to mention him by name but i have to because he's messing with me he's seeing our problem is not with the turkish people but with the one mr mccollum you will continue to have a lot more problems with me. now molly's military and political groups have agreed on a plan for the country's future after last month's ko an interim president will be chosen by a college set up by the gentle eaters the leader will act as head of state and oversee the transition to civilian rule over the next 18 months at that time new general elections will be held former president. who was ousted in

a coup in august after months of protests well i'm going to address is following developments from the nigerian capital abuja. from mali it's of the been discordant voices from within the discussion forum members some members are not happy and legin that their input to the resolutions of this 3 day talks have been largely ignored by organizers and on the other hand course has already made its time clear they want a civilian president and a civilian prime minister to lead the charge to handle the transition program to organize election and return money to a democratic governance a civilian a suitable civilian cannot be found they wanted at least some way i retired military of someone has no links whatsoever to the current military leadership to head that transition program now if the military in mali right now won ted a military person to lead the transition that will raise some red flags with

economic community of west african states of course they don't agree to any leadership by the military but the military is keen on extending its rule for the next 18 months on tuesday the leadership of the of the mali military will lead a delegation to meet the president of ghana who is the who is also the chairman of the economic community of west african states to present the resolution to him and they will discuss they would then discuss the resolutions with the rest of the other 13 heads of states to see whether they can agree to what was resolved by this council and it's also interesting to see how the reactions of the opposition in mali will be because already some members of the employee movement that led the protest against for president because kids are at the forefront of rejecting some of the proposals being presented by the organizers of this conference. in

al-jazeera live from london i had on the program an iranian wrestler is executed for mudda after an appeal from u.s. president on trying to commute his death sentence. and video of restoration work on an iconic tower in istanbul causes an outcry ignites debate between modernity and preserving heritage. hello there plenty more clear sunny skies across much of central europe and in fact for the next few days a time which is all set to rise that was little pain to cloud across the north not just cloud the some rain in there as well and a very stubborn area of low pressure as they really sitting across the central mediterranean but lines sunshine across into paris the locals enjoying it and also

trying to stay cool in fact how much is all set to rise here as they will across into germany some fairly gray skies there but it is all clearing out quite nicely not so just yet across the north some very heavy rain working its way towards scotland some strong winds as well but also warnings in place for that rain and finally on sunday we should see the end of the heaviest showers and those the thunderstorms across the central med and then on into monday it's looking fairly similar still those rain showers to the far north of the u.k. and of course on monday beginning to push further east on north so really impacting those coastal areas of norway but look at these temperatures for the next few days my goodness london 28 celsius 8 degrees above the average very woman dede in that sunshine paris even warmer monday and tuesday up to the mid thirty's celsius cooling down a little bit of one says that more clouds around and then ballin it takes a little longer it's reached there but even so look at these temperatures and 11 degrees above the average.

johnnie's of danger. and hope i'm working tools to move to get to protrusion al-jazeera world follows for refugees facing the challenge of building a life in europe while staying close to their roots i still have this moral can block or so i'm very proud of it and all the time cause i'm not going to ensure a place of refuge growth and dams to jam on al-jazeera. the old. welcome back our main story this hour afghan government and the taliban have

started historic talks in an attempt to end decades of war key issues in the negotiations are going to be establishing a permanent cease fire the rights of women and minorities and how taliban fighters will be disarmed. dozens of women have been arrested in the better russian capital minsk thousands of people are turned out for demonstrations on saturday activists demanding the release of detained opposition figures. and tamales military and political groups of agreed on a plan for the country's future after last month's coup an interim president will be chosen by a college set up by the gentle readers will oversee that transition to civilian rule. now palestinians have responded with anger to friday's decision by bahrain to normalize ties with israel a small protests in gaza people burn portraits of the king of bahrain u.s. president donald trump and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu officials

from gaza's ruling party how massive condemn the agreement it comes a month after the united arab emirates also agreed to normalize relations with israel p.l.o. sartre general side barack out says the deal between behind israel goes against a 2 state solution. they're trying to export to us by having behind anonymity as a maybe others sign peace treaties with israel so they can tell us you're alone come and then a day and a delicious ship any relationships must be based on the tear in the one word if they are our fear and the only way to peace is justice and justice means living little and the option is to stay it's 1967 borders the state of palestine with the brittle to live side by side is that of residual peace and security on the 67 border this concept is what's being destroyed and eliminated by trump questionnaire the emirates and bahrain and these steps have added one thing only their strength

and extremism at the expense of palestinian and arab moderates and people who want democracy human rights women's rights and the rule of law and that's the main achievement of president trump by doing these deals. just a bit of news from the d r c rescuers are searching for survivors after a coal mine collapse in the democrats or public of congo at least 50 miners a 5th to have died mourners gathered at the entrance to the minute the town of commie touga the collapse followed heavy rain and landslides dozens of deaths are reported annually in small often unregulated mines in the country now much needed aid is being flown into sudan following the worst flooding in its history the homes of half a 1000000 sudanese were submerged at least 100 people have died have a morgan reports on this now from khartoum. we're here in a camp for displaced people north of the sudanese capital how to people who have been displaced by the heavy floods which hit the country

a little over 3 weeks ago and led to the displacement of more than half a 1000000 now the people in these camps say that their village was just about 2 and a half kilometers away from the river nile and that about 60 percent of the 180 homes that were there was 3rd in the build and should have been able to withstand the force of the nile but they say that the force was stronger than their expectations breaking the sand barriers that they had put there as a precaution should the water levels rise and eventually flooding the homes and destroying them now they say that while they've moved to this camps here their needs are still many many of them say they yet to receive the basics to be able to survive the displacement. and the looks of it we have a shortage of tents and medical aid organizations come for a day and the next day they go away even though the area has been hit by river waters there are snakes and scorpions we need antivenom serums and other things the other main issue is the one of 10 there are not enough of them and those we have

are few compared to those displaced now sudan's government says it's trying to respond to the needs of the people on a day to day basis it says that it cannot focus on reconstruction at the moment because the needs are huge hundreds of thousands of people affected more than 100000 homes partially or completely destroyed more than 100 people killed and they say that they are trying to focus on the basics which is making sure that people get shelter food and clean water and now people who have been affected by those floods say that the government response has been far from enough they say that they are concerned about what's a point diseases which is currently rising amongst those displaced and in areas that have been affected by the floods they're also concerned about the long term planning they're saying that moving on from the rainy season there's going to be winter season and they're worried that with the winter coming following the heavy floods then be forced to spend them in camps and they're urging. the government to react. saying that the situation is likely to go on for a while the remains season is set to last until the end of the month and there are

concerns that more and more people will be affected due to the heavy rains and due to the floods from them and due to what are borne diseases than their concerns that there will be more loss of lives as this crisis continues now to france the countries reported a record daily increase in new virus infections more than 10500 cases of the coronavirus confirmed on saturday that's up from a previous record of around 9800 new infections on thursday french government is under renewed pressure now to curb the spread of the disease off to easing most restrictions in may and then here british clinical trials for the astra zeneca and oxford university corona virus vaccine have now resumed the company says it's been given regulatory approval to continue the study after a brief suspension late stage trials of the treatment or the most advanced in development were paused earlier this week after a participant reported an illness experts say such interruptions are

a normal part of the process now an iranian restless sentenced to death for murder has been executed despite international appeals 27 year old naveed of curry was convicted of killing a man during anti-government protests 2 years ago but his family say he was tortured into a confession u.s. president donald trump. wrestling stars and activists had all appealed to the iranian government over the case as a bank has more on this now from town. there was all this international support including from the footballing body fifo but inside iran some iranians had taken to instagram and other social media sites to ask for him to be spared and taking up his case of corrie have been arrested for murder they say that he had murdered a water company employee 52 year old 52 year old hassan took a month now that to face of the 23rd of july 2018 they said that he was stabbed in

the neck and police identified cari from c.c.t.v. footage they said when he was arrested he had confessed and said that the motivation was a personal grudge but later on of course they had said that of course he had been tortured but on the day that he was supposed to see medical examiners of corridor refused to go and i did you do you have admitted that of corey and his brother had attended protests but have denied that that was the motivation behind the address the arrest and the charges but also state media. interviews with the parents of house and took among the murdered man and he's parents had said that they one had the right of retribution and that their son had left behind 3 children and they have actually criticize foreign media and human rights organizations for not hearing this side of the story now restoration work on one of istanbul's most famous landmarks is causing an outcry in turkey conservationists are concerned down on the 14th century talla wants the city's tallest building and it's ignited

a debate on the balance between modality and preserving istanbul's heritage stephanie decker has the story. the latter tower has watched over this city for centuries and unmistakable part of istanbul skyline it has inspired legends and romance. which is why when this video emerged just a few weeks ago many couldn't believe it i suppose we can sum it up as outrage. by many people experts non experts because it was so obviously they're wrong type of intervention it was like a bull in a china shop this is not how you treat such an important monument especially the ministry of culture is fine the companies are using such heavy machinery and for the methods used. emery run issue has been living and working in this area around the tower for the past 15 years he says this kind of carelessness is part of

a wider trend i see a lot of changes in istanbul but these were like the wars of course russia ever after all this is one of the by the fact of organization actually because if they destroyed all historical stuff on earth of their own they love the sky. new buildings that are 3rd of course they changed the fuel off the top it's not the same love love love is there more it would not be the same i got part of the urban character of historic istanbul a gilded him is an urban planner who specializes in heritage conservation she shows us around the city it's not all bad news. the facade details the architecture is very well kept at the moment. because authenticity is also important to the one mistake that's often made is to clean we don't want to clean all the facade of we like that layer of history. but changes are happening just across the way on

popular is to close street an example of how the layers of history have been completely lost this transformation also caused public outcry sometimes with a very important historic building which needs do you attend to treatment of its historical fabric these may increase costs and time and short sighted developers don't have that patience so we lose. excellence while we are trying to profit the things that give the spirit of this building or that history of istanbul for the public life of a stumble we don't really feel it anymore. is stamboul called stanton noble a capital of empires past it's visited by millions of tourists every year it's a city of breathtaking beauty the challenge now how to balance growth and financial gain with ensuring that stumbles history its character doesn't completely disappear

stephanie decker al-jazeera is stumble more in everything right here al jazeera dot com has a comment and analysis there that takes you behind the headlines of course life streaming as well. quick check on the headlines now afghan government is in the taliban have started historic talks in an attempt to end decades of war unprecedented meeting in the country capital follows months of delays and obstacles but i have been prisoner releases on both sides as well key issues will be establishing a permanent ceasefire up the rights of women and minorities and how taliban fighters will be disarmed. for those we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof a game after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all

the negatives quite difficult we all know what happened to us throughout these years and maybe it's time today we no need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can define together. we have acted accordingly to all the points outlined in the previous agreement and we are requesting the order site to act accordingly to those things that have been agreed to so we can have this process without any problems we want of all understand to be an independent developed country and it should have a form of islamic system where all its citizens see themselves reflected. well in our other top stories dozens of women have been arrested in the battle russian capital minsk thousands of people attend alpha demonstrations on saturday activists are demanding the release of detained opposition figures say president alexander lukashenko should step down after weeks of sustained protests against his rule demonstrators say the presidential election in august was rigged to hand his

landslide when mommy's military and political groups have agreed on a plan for the country's future after last month's coup an interim president will be chosen by a college set up by the gentilly does and will oversee the transition to civilian rule at that time new general elections will then be held and palestinians have responded with anger to friday's decision by bahrain to normalize ties with israel at a small protest in gaza people bond portraits of the king of bahrain u.s. president donald trump and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu officials from gaza's ruling party hamas have condemned the agreement. listening post is coming up next looking at how activists are using telegram to support the protests in better or worse.

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