often a nuisance but for a select few. as the building blocks of a better life. 'd and a stepping stone to owning a family. america is in bolivia and delves into the wild. form. face to face the afghan government and taliban leadership meet in doha to work on finding a lasting peace after decades of conflict. i'm on the inside this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up dozens of women rounded up and as security forces continue to crackdown on protesters.

not everybody living in this truett everybody living in the. frustration boils over on the greek island of last boss as refugees with nowhere to go find themselves on the streets for another day. piling on the pressure the white house says campaign to ban the u.s. public health agencies in president donald trump's favor. afghanistan's government negotiators and the taliban have started historic talks to try and end decades of war the unprecedented meeting in the qatari capital follows months of delays at stake jaring these talks a permanent cease fire the rights of women and minorities and how taliban fighters will be disarmed osama bin reports from doha. after decades of war and

conflict of learn to stand finally has a shot at peace this is a former of the minister whose government's been fighting the taliban. here 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 fruit 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. their protests

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. war nears 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 wants you to succeed and if counting on you 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 the u.n. secretary general attended the talks virtually untenured to test says it's critical that afghan women and their voices are represented in these peace talks an inclusive peace process in which women use and the cubes of coffee that meaningfully presented offers the best hope of a sustainable solution. all parties must of their part to ensure that women.

and that the peace process reflects the experiences and the expertise of afghan women in all their by versity the role of women in afghanistan has changed markedly since the overthrow of the taliban in 2001 women now make up 21 percent of the labor force and nearly one 3rd of the afghan legislative body that's greater than the global average well out of every is the executive director of the georgetown university institute for women peace and security she says women need to participate in these need talks. it is important to say to the negotiators that the rights of afghan citizens including women that are guaranteed in the constitution need to be part of any agreement that is achieved and that any future for international assistance which is going to be absolutely critical needs to be conditioned on those rights being protected for men and women as well as

having some sort of mechanism monitoring mechanism that will ensure that going forward should there be an agreement that these rights indeed will be protected because so much about the future of afghanistan is dependent on that occurring the women have borne so much of that violence over the last many many years but they have also enjoyed considerable gains there are so many of them today in the parliament and in the government and civil society doing yeoman's work they are in school they are university graduates in the rural areas they are overseeing resolution of disputes their work is essential and yes there has been a great deal of violence but but their rights are still there and they are working

in that way to the extent that it's been possible and so so much depends on that being preserved and protected police and by the race have violently detained dozens of women attempting to join the latest weekend protest against president alexander lukashenko more than 10000 women to hide the government crackdown to march down the streets of the capital minsk have been demanding the resignation since he was declared the winner of last month's election which critics say was raked. steph ason was at the protests and witnessed the violence against him women . every saturday for the last couple of weeks women have been marching here in the center of minsk women smart to release the political prisoners and also asking look at shankar to step down and listen while inspired police have in france a man who has particular live been detained in the last couple of days so women are

still defiant and they're still gathering here. was the women now. the women of. the. was doing the that was something she did not know what kind of power is this does it 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 a master policeman their own grieving and shouting to be released will be transient are completely random here right now some women manage to escape by just simply

jumping the fence but they are not a policeman here right now and people are screaming women are screaming why are we being detained. greek police have fired tear gas at protesting refugees and less us that demanding humanitarian assistance and are resisting attempts to relocate them on tuesday far as destroying the morea camp europe's largest leaving $12000.00 people without shelter johnson rochlitz reports. the arrest of an elderly man sparks violence after news pulse the arresting officers with rocks. and they respond with tear gas women and children sitting nearby 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 and the crush this

afghan boy is 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 morea down on the island of lesbos 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 and that we've got no place to stay for 4 or 5 days now will place to stay no food no water around the toilet would decide to go to mitt lead to this show so they bring us to the mainland but the police the military the block the road since we are staying here. is not everybody living in the street everybody living in the bush we need freedom we don't want somalia we don't want scum we don't want agrees one don't have a quit the comp that's one 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 all of. this is morea mark 2 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 are struggling in but there's been no mass transportation of them yet off the streets here however that is what we also rotis intend as soon as possible because here they can be furred and watered and their public safety can be assured some refugees arrive to take a look at their immediate future. and install themselves but some of this afghan children have had 2 birthdays and no school we will nominees get our money his moment you know 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 all the refugees but for these people

freedom for now is brewing tea on the asphalt and camping on the driveway of a car dealership jump. lesbos. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or has flown to cyprus for talks on tensions in the eastern mediterranean he says the united states remains deeply concerned about turkey's actions in the region and us pushing for a diplomatic solution to this speech centers on maritime areas thought to be rich in natural gas turkey greece and cyprus have overlapping claims to the area. nato and the e.u. are becoming increasingly involved turkish president has warned his french counterpart quote not to mess with turkey on friday manual and other e.u. leaders threatened new sanctions against ancora smaller than most 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 loan mr

you will continue to have a lot more problems with me. that been more protests in lebanon demanding justice over the beirut port explosion hundreds of demonstrators were met with heavy security presence as they tried to march on the presidential palace the calling for accountability following last month's devastating blast which killed nearly 200 people. protesters in israel again rallying outside prime minister benjamin netanyahu is resident in west jerusalem they're calling for him to resign because he's on trial for corruption charges they also angry about his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as frail has been reporting record levels of new cases for days now. still ahead on al-jazeera hundreds of thousands of people in sudan according for help off of the worst flood zone right forward we'll have the latest on the ground. and time is running out for

survivors trapped in a gold mine in the democratic republic of congo more than 50 people a known to been killed. hello they've had some very wet weather across japan for the last few days and it's not done just yet you can see quite a massive cloud across the northeast we have a system of low pressure in the sea of japan another system just to the east of honshu that tends to move away to the east on the north as we go through sunday and then this is tim is rather slow to move on is still trails back across into central and northern home she says heavy downpours there at times also plenty of rain out across central and west of the china eventually working its way east as you head off through monday so sunday taking the rain across into beijing further to the

south but it should stay dry in shanghai 27 there but very wet down along the south coast 30 celsius your high in hong kong then across into south asia we've had a bit a break with the rains we see across into bangladesh but that is set to change elsewhere you can see plenty of cloud with a very have examples again across into mome and no reports of any flooding just yet but the rain will continue throughout sunday it will also extend across into go draft still down the western ghats and some very heavy downpours sunday again into these coastal areas of andhra pradesh still tend to stay the as we go through monday and once again these winds really feeding the rains up into northern sections the bay of bengal so a very unsettled day across into bangladesh. because land some money in a. home to extraordinary funds. dealing with the health issues of their loved ones in some of the toughest living

conditions in the world. i'll just follows the lives of the remarkable people who work. on friday. this month on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera reminder for our top stories this hour the 1st direct peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban began in qatar in the epping remarks the government called for an immediate cease fire while the taliban insisted it will protect minorities in

a slavic system. police in belarus have violently detained dozens of women attempting to join the latest weekend protest against president alexander lukashenko they say last month's election was rigged and are calling for him to resign. police have fired tear gas refugees and. they're demanding humanitarian assistance and are refusing relocation after their camp burned down on tuesday. mali's military rulers have announced an 18 month transition period to restore civil war where the decision was agreed with political parties and civil society groups it follows a coup last month that forced the president from power admit it is monitoring developments from a budget for many here it's mission accomplished after 3 days of talks a resolution is agreed the mood is a bit different from scenes of political protests forced organize this to suspend

discussions while this military rulers are relieved they're desperate to avoid international isolation is it the locals is it better than what we have achieved here gives me hope for a new mali a democratic secular prosperous founded on work social justice and equality it's on this note of hope that i close these talks. it's a view shared by many who feel the resolutions reflect their wishes. right now but those who don't like it will have to accept reality we can't spend our entire lives in protest the resolution was discussed by everyone present. but not everyone is happy or feels they're presented by the terms of their agreement. to secure their work i am very sad work was assigned to 5 working groups we did our jobs but the work of the groups was not taken into consideration it was rejected the resolutions we arrived at were different from what was announced that's why we are protesting.

and that could be a sign of trouble ahead but organizers say most malia's are willing to leave with such imperfections last month. deposed former president to britain but what can. an action widely supported by most money. but the leaders are under intense international pressure to quickly hand over power to civilians. the economic community of west african states has imposed sanctions and is threatening more punitive measures on this poor london country and its leaders. on tuesday while these rulers will travel to garner to present their resolutions to president and. the current chairman of course the bloc will then decide if what's presented is acceptable and warrants the lifting of sanctions. scouring the rubble of a collapsed mine in the democratic republic of congo hoping to find some survivors

more than 50 minus a feared dead after a gold mine near the eastern town of coming caved in off to heavy rain hundreds of people have been trying to remove rocks and hands the military aid groups have recently joined the rescue effort dozens of people die each year from accidents in a largely unregulated mines in the. katherine sawyer has been following developments from nairobi when it happened. there or went to this mine with all anything they could get their hands on to just try and rescue those who are trapped inside now we're being told that the military is there the red cross is helping with the operations as well as u.n. peacekeepers but it's a logistical nightmare right now it's not raining but because of the rains that have been pounding that area accessing this mining area has been quite difficult because it's quite far away from the main town accessing the area from the road or

even from the air because visibility has been very poor did but we're being told that these operations are going on even you know you've also had from the governor of south kivu province where this town of coming to that isn't and he said that most of the people most of those who died are young people it is likely that this death toll could rise in the coming hours because on a normal day there would be many many minus in those walls sometimes even in the hundreds minus just trying to make a living. hundreds of thousands of people in sudan who were displaced by heavy flooding a calling for more help their homes were destroyed by the worst flooding in a century and they are desperate in need of shelter and basic supplies and sent this report. we're here in a camp for displaced people north of the sudanese capital khartoum 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 so 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 there 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 rainy 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 due to what are borne diseases than there are concerns that there will be more loss of lives as this crisis continues. palestinians have responded angrily to a decision by bahrain to normalize ties with israel at a protest in gaza people portraits of the bahraini king u.s. president donald trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and us officials have called the agreement shameful united arab emirates agreed to normalize relations with israel last month. that the good behind it this is a political symbol here it is committing and it must withdraw from it because this agreement seriously harms the palestinian cause and serves only the electorial interests of trump in new york. u.s. president donald trump is being accused of pressuring health officials to rush approval of unproven coronavirus treatments and all to reports on the outbreak the

new york times is reporting that trump wanted government scientists to sign off on blood plasma therapy before they were ready to do so another news outlet politico says trump aides demanded the right to review and make changes to weekly reports by the centers for disease control they want to make them more optimistic in line with political messaging and with joseph is a senior fellow at johns hopkins university he says trump is trying to manipulate perceptions of his handling of the pandemic. it can bring a lot of pressure we see that the president is already putting pressure here obviously on the c.d.c. trying to spin their reports make sure that they the reports are positive and optimistic rather than allowing the scientists of the center for disease control to do what they're supposed to do which is to tell the american people the truth and to provide accurate scientific guidelines and they are trying to pressure them the

c.d.c. it's absolutely clear and those who are in the public health field are quite concerned about it with respect to vaccines the same is true the president has already made it clear that he expects the vaccine if he's already mentioned that he wants a vaccine by election day he has pressured for the approval of this controversy of blood plasma therapy even though it hasn't been fully approved and tested and he's also pressured other aspects of the f.d.a. and the c.d.c. overall continuing to try to spin the news about covert 19 and tried to present a false case for optimism on the control of the pandemic. clinical trials for coronavirus vaccine in the u.k. have drug company astra zeneca and oxford university had to stop work on the

project off to participant develop severe neurological symptoms of how threat is in the u.k. confirmed on saturday that it's now safe for the trials to continue the u.s. state of oregon says a it's preparing for a mass fete ties the incident as wildfires rage across the west coast dozens of people have been reported as missing and half a 1000000 have been ordered to leave their homes the death toll from the 5 stands at 27 in california 3 of the 5 largest wildfires in the state's history are currently pending. now me a soccer has won the u.s. open for the 2nd time in her career a japanese player beats victoria as a ranker a fellow roosts in the final was a loss the 1st set 61 but hit back to win the match in 3 sets it's of soccer's 3rd grand slam title success latin america's most important financial institution is now being led by a us citizen for the 1st time

a nomination for president of the inter american development bank was pushed by the trumpet ministration the organization is the leading source of development finance in the region and its head has traditionally been from latin america to see a new man reports. with the election of president donald trump's nominee to run the id be latin america's most important financing institution has divided the region and angered many countries who say that the white house has violated 60 years of tradition when it was founded in 1959 u.s. president like the eisenhower promised it would always be led by and that no american and it always has until now president trump wants a trusted adviser. tony to help offset chinese economic influence in the region just as latin america is projected to suffer the worst economic impact from the pandemic of any region in the world that people know about me is that they can

knock on my door with agreement or disagreement on very honest i'm very straightforward not shocked. but many countries including u.s. allies like chile called for the vote to be perspire and until after the pandemic a euphemism for after the us election yet in the end the white house one albeit without the usual consensus former chilean foreign minister and ambassador to the u.s. this calls it a great defeat for the id be it has been very explicit that this decision is a decision forged in order to confront china and to create and to use the bank in the confrontation between the united states and china and secondly. the bank has not been able to debate and discuss among its governors what it will the rule of the bank be in the middle of the worst graces

that god in america has. expedients. for decades the bank has played a key role in a region that has little access to international capital markets its finances infrastructure and social development projects which will now be more vital than ever unlike his predecessors clabbered got on is better known as a politician and a lawyer than as an economist as the top latin american advisor on the u.s. national security council the cuban american has been one of the architects of the white house's anti venezuela and cuba policies yet his election is being seen list as a victory for the white house that is a defeat for the latin american consensus you see in human al-jazeera sunday out or .

this is there are these are your top stories the 1st stark peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban have begun in qatar in the opening remarks the government called for an immediate cease fire while the taliban insisted it will protect minorities and islamic system. 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 all the negatives might differ we all know what happened to us throughout these years and maybe stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can define together but. 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 we want of understand to be an independent country and it should have

a form of islamic system where all its citizens see themselves reflected. place in bellerose have violently detained dozens of women calling for the resignation of president. more than $10000.00 women defy the government crackdown to march down the streets of the capital minsk great place have fired tear gas at refugees in less demanding humanitarian assistance refusing relocation off the camp and down on tuesday. molly's military and political groups have agreed on a plan for the country's future after last month's have agreed to an 18 month transitional government followed by elections. the u.s. state of oregon says it's preparing for a mass fatality incident as wildfires rage across the west coast thousands of people have been reported as missing and half a 1000000 have been ordered to leave their homes those are your headlines up next inside story.

this chapter is one of reconciliation progress not another chronicle of tears and bloodshed. hailed as a historical point china to that cannot be wasted afghanistan's government meets the taliban for the 1st time to negotiate and until 1000 years of war they overcompensate. and contesting ideology is to offer any hope of peace.

welcome to the program. in doha what a diplomat.