can healthy a world for you everyone. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, hello raman. you're watching the, i'll just renew the headquarters here in the coming up in the next 60 minutes. searching for peace negotiations between the taliban and ask and government resume here in germany calls and it's military to help with the clean up at the once in a lifetime. floods kill more than 150 people across europe. also memories of a massacre. where in northern ethiopia, where one of the 1st mass killings happened at the start of the conflict in take an

eye witness is palace through a hacked with mushroom. he's beaten short at the hospital back to the ground. also muslim pilgrims outside of saudi arabia denied the chance to perform the hodge for the 2nd the end because of the pandemic. and he did send it to the sports news just 6 days before the olympics of the 1st positive cove. at 900 case has been reported inside the athletes that origin, tokyo ah hello, welcome to the news. the african governments chief negotiator says there is no military solution to the conflict with the taliban, and dialogue is the only way forward. a senior delegation is indo hard to meet representatives of the armed group as violence escalate enough gone. his phone taliban fighters have been taking advantage of the us withdrawal. launching

offensive and capturing large parts of the country. the 2 sides have been meeting on and on for months, but the talks of last bent and as the fighting rages old bank homes want to do the sort of the delegation of afghanistan, heated by the chairman of the reconciliation committee has arrived in the category capital doha, and as meeting with the delegation of negotiations affiliated with the government. during his visit at the lab dollar, who discuss important and crucial issues with taliban representatives, the solution to the conflict in afghanistan lies in negotiations, and peace can be reached through dialogue. if these talks lead to satisfactory results for both positive and the taliban says, it's unfortunate no tangible progress has been made. so far. we started doing on the telephone movement has repeatedly confirmed its readiness for dialogue and negotiations. and the problems can only be solved by dialogue. but the afghan government needs to also show the same commitment. they need to show the right and

sincere determination when it comes to negotiations in order to end these problems . or shortly we'll cross to shall a balance in the us getting capital cobble. but 1st, that's bringing us out of in july, he's monitoring events, 4th here in dough harness on the really they've been several rounds of tools who just mentioned and will wonder whether anything concrete is likely to come out of these particular discussions in doha. but it is significant that there is a high level delegation here in the 3 capital after months of back and forth between a government lead team and the taliban. there is again an effort to try and bring hope back to that he goes to the table. we just spoke to the taliban spokesman, who told us that they've been waiting for this delegation, which comprising of a wide spectrum of political views from time because they don't think that the government is the only representative of the african people. they think that the

afghan government is one of the many players in kabul, and that is something that you've seen in cobblers, whether there's a lot of wrangling internally which is happening. we heard earlier that former president time had caused by and others will be joining this delegation, but they haven't. so there is a multiple problem in the ground is divided one being with the government and the other one. but also within cobble, the power structure which is being pulled that at the themes, it seems so that people can have beer version and there's faith in whatever is going to be the future shape of politics and have gone thanks very much on the console, dependent to us and when we get more developments from those tools, let's cross over to charlotte, balance our corresponding to the african capital cobble. charlotte, it would be foolish for anyone to think that people have done it's done. i don't monitoring what's going on in doha, hoping that they'll be a positive result. it's

a little across the media. this is the front page of the newspaper this morning until it travels to talk with taliban before the delegation left. yesterday, they had a new conference in that same period across the networks here this morning. everyone is watching it very closely. there's a lot of pressure here to see some type of diplomatic progress out of don't. and that's because the violence, as you say, is just increasing since us president biden amounts a pull that all us and nato troops would be gone by september. the 11th to telephone, really double down. independent analysts at that time said that they controlled about 70 or 80 districts out of about $400.00. now 3 months later, they say that tripled to about 220 to getting a lot of traction around the country and a lot of strategic positions as we speak. now this is offensive around the same tis in the north of telecomm, sorry, pulled in the south around kandahar city and then also taking border crossing. so

they taking these games, they going back to the negotiating table and they going back with more leverage and hearing. cobble that has people watching nervously 23 year old refuse has one job. make sure no weapons bombs, all the telephone into cobble. this is just one of the series of checkpoints that encircled a capital diplomatic quarter. these police officers have one eye on the road and one eye on the politics that put them here. i think that often the delegations in the hard to do a 2 piece which is what all of the guns won't know just a minute. i am optimistic about it. they should said, don't disclose their shoes. and so all the problems, challenges and kills in our country. security is a huge aspect of life and cobble telephone flight who's had military momentum and rule of thumb. and incredible. they wonder what that means for the telecom worth and control 20 percent back in the district. i know it's more than 50 percent and

the group scrawls is getting ever closer. the capital appliances control the district, 65 kilometers away and apply thing to get others just outside the show ponies, like mohammed for read, this fighting has brought new challenges. his business bounce back from a long coated 19 lockdown last year. but now he's worried about supply because been by your land, if you could also promote. at the moment we're not optimistic because the roads are closed. and when borders are close, there is no business because there are no imports or exports. as we were filming the palla cut twice before the generator kicked him. generators are increasingly popular as regular power outages, flake the city, the fuel needed to run them, as also increased by nearly 70 percent in 3 months. with the power restored, there's a new customer. at 24 frish decide dickie just graduated from university. her 1st

job was working at the ministry of foreign affairs on the scanner stones, chronic router issues. she says her dream is to become a diplomat. we are very concerned because especially as a girl, my future seems very dark to me, especially if taller bonds get in feet into couple city. then they're not going to allow us to pursue our dreams and to go for the goals that we have drawn for our own self like frish to city key. many people in cobb will cautiously marching forward, but unsure of what lies ahead. they likely wonder will we have to move? will our economy survive when our right to be retained and will our people live to see a brighter future. answers that the most and cobble are in the hands of other people . and after 40 years of conflict, the people just really want

a resolution in the recent fly can be un says 270000 people have already been displaced. it's really exacerbating a dire situation for an already vulnerable population. charlotte, thanks very much for the charlotte. melissa force in cobble. well let's take a look at the human cost of the latest war in afghanistan, which began with the us led invasion in 2001. at least 44000 civilians have been killed according to the un and brown universities. cost of war project, the conflict taken an increasing toll on the african military and police, the 64000 killed. in the past 19 years 42000 and taliban fighters and their allies also died. $2400.00 us troops have been killed, plus $1500.00, nato and other coalition forces. and the fighting has displaced nearly 3000000 africans making them the world's 2nd largest group of refugees. sultan barricades is the director at the center for conflict and humanitarian studies. he joins us

now on sky per from moulton, in north yorkshire, in the united kingdom sultan, always nice to have you on the programming. we know why we're having these tools, but what's in it now for either side, presumably, success or failure is on the line. good morning. absolutely. i think what is different at this time is the full size have had the opportunity to focus their minds on the talks on, on the track. and if you recall a few weeks ago, the way it talks about going to is missing elsewhere. the very same met, senior dedication was associated with the possibility of holding under stumble conference. and there was some confusion as to whether this is good to be parallel process or not. i think by coming to don't signal to the rest of the world that there are serious and the process in the highest, the making process. and the other one is invested in this one. of course, on the government side or the public side,

the added complication is that as in europe, it was reported earlier. my colleague is that there are many, many views coming from campbell. and they not all necessarily saying from the same that she's in terms of where they want to to go, or even in the way they perceive a future or for the taliban. and they range from the very extreme view that she's upsetting to note or for the pilot, but in the future, kennestone to the ones that had at some time port alongside the have stepped out like with jobs and join the governments. ok. so one would assume that at the moment that the taliban themselves wouldn't be perhaps in de la talking if they thought they weren't completely in the driving seat. considering the facts on the ground as they are. but the taliban as well as all the of the other groups know that a protected civil war is not really in the interest militarily,

economically or politically. i'm sure i think the advances that they've made recently. it's very important to keep in mind that those dances were not necessarily won by, by the gun on the they are a lot of it is based on alliances and agreements with local communities, local tribes leaders and so on. and to maintain those alliances on their side. they have to give in on a lot of issues. and one of the real threats, i think, for the tiny bind as they continue at this speed, is that they spread themselves to within the, across the country. and if they fail to control their soldiers, as has happened in some incidents, they went out on the wrong version of new chain. or there was some accusations of executing prisoners and so on. then it will backfire on, on the movement, on, on his political future in the country. literally,

they cannot control the nature of against. you cannot control it unless the communities are on your side. okay, so so think i just get your, your thoughts briefly on this next scenario because in recent days we have seen local militia civilians taking up arms along with the african forces to repel the initiative taken by the taliban. this is a move many full wouldn't happen. what do you make of the fact that atkins themselves are saying we perhaps we don't want the taliban in charge in our areas? this is a new factor, isn't it? to a certain extent, the you might say the bravery of the civilians themselves in the local villages is now an issue to be considered for the taliban. it's actually a long tradition guns done for the civilians to take up arms to protect their data . relatively isolated villages in areas and in fact, during the american invasion and after the invasion, there were some attempts to strengthen this sort of civil defense culture. but what

has happened recently that based on ethnic city and other individuals within society, people have started to arm themselves again and maybe also connect to regional powers in the region around the sun because they fear the future and maybe right? so because, so for the poly bag has not really clarified disposition on many, many issues that they have, they were to take a share and power. what would it look like? what kind of concessions they're going to give to, for example, women and shoes and so on. and these aspects of the talks have not really been clarified. and of course you can really blame people for wanting to defend themselves in all the corners. all kinds done, i'm sure we'll get more insight from you once we get to have a clear idea of the outcome of these talks into her fulton barracka is the director

of trying to for conference and human studies in doha for joining us from north yorkshire. thanks for your time against america. thank you very much. well, plenty more had here on the out there in these are including south africa. the president admits his government wasn't prepared to deal with the days of unrest, which he says were planned and coordinated. bundled into jail for daring to speak out. we hear from cubans who been released, antique government protest, ah, emergency workers in belgium and western germany. searching for hundreds of people still missing after the devastating floods. more than a 150 a confirm that with that figure expected to increase rescue if it's also being hampered by collapsed roads and damaged communication lines. well,

we've got correspondence covering the floods across europe in a moment to go to touch butler in the ash in belgium, the 1st step bus and joins us now from extent in germany and step. obviously it seems that the picture no matter where you are, is no better for those involved in the rescue or sort of the recovery operation. exactly, i can just show you how challenging this rescue operation is and you all ready talking about unexceptional roads. like let's, let's have a look here at the 265 or so it's a highway between 2 cities. and this is the situation now the what was here up to 12 meters, lots of cars and even huge trucks caught up here in this slot. and rescue workers have come in here from the army with tangs and have been trying to find out if people still being trapped. probably

a grim site in their car so far. they haven't found any bodies in these cars, luckily, but they're still checking. they can't guarantee anything yet. so they're taking these out one by one. and it's a very complicated and of course difficult operation. and this is just one example of a place where landslide has been happening because of these very large flash floods that have been happening here. in this whole region, in the last couple of days, the water it's receding. but as you see in our report, people really, really caught by surprise. they were trapped in the rooms on the 1st floor when the water rose up to 4 meters in no time, at least 12 residence of this home for disabled people died before they could be moved to safety. across the street gabriella wild watched the neighbourhood swiftly turn into a swirling river and feared the worst. you haven't got 100000 miles from the people on the alert was had not made at all. i don't know exactly what happened,

but the next morning lucy survived. were evacuated from the balconies, was absolutely horrible, and living in this region, his whole life harmon angled still, can't comprehend what he saw when the water came to panic. will pass. i wasn't just shocked. i panic, i quickly took out the car as well as my dog and the 2 kept blowing to my daughter that we were taking care of this sort of destruction i've never seen before. floating yes, but not tree branches floating away when he was lucky enough to be moved to safety and to find his house still standing upon return, otter saw the homes washed away by water, was destroyed by lance lights. many remained missing. nobody expected that a few days of torrential rain could have such a widespread catastrophic impact. confronted with the sheer power of water, people here, a wandering, what happened and where all this water came from raising questions about the effects of climate change. and if what was called this once in a century,

flock would know happen more frequently, people are saying that this might happen like for now every 510 years or something like that. i'm not sure. and i mean like we try to learn from this to gather with relatives and friends. louisa who young is trying to clean up the mess at the family house. not knowing where to start. they try to return on thursday, but had to leave once again. the water was still here, we tried to get in the house and get everything up on the like highest point in the house. so and then we just grabbed also some stuff that we could see about. we knew ok, this is important and now we just left the extent of the damage won't be known for days or perhaps weeks, but the memories and trauma of this twist of nature will likely remain with the people here for much longer. well,

this scene here obviously shows how surprised people where when the water came, they could not really get their cars out in time. hopefully they managed to get out themselves. and evacuations have actually been happening again last night. there was a dam bursting near cologne. so 700 people were evacuated there. they're now been brought to safety. lots of people also from elderly home hospitals had to be evacuated still. so the water has been receiving. but some places, it's still at a very dangerous level. it's especially against the border with belgium, and then madeline, se, so it's been a dire situation. rescue workers are still trying to recover bodies. and of course, in the meantime, people really desperately from this area as well. want to go back to their houses. they want to know how their house is, is it still standing? they want to get their belongings. so there's a lot of emotional anger, frustration also in this area and that we found earlier this morning that best and

in time. thanks so much for the update in germany. let's cross over to natasha butler, who's in the belgium city. very close by to the asian natasha, we sort of, we knew the death toll would rise as the days progress. and the recovery operation continues. mean, was the authority saying about those figures now? those that have died and the displaced what belgian authorities all saying that they could firm the 27 people have died in these floods . in fact, some victims were found overnight. a one of the latest victims found right here in this neighborhood of angler in the city of the edge, this is in the hearts of really the worst affected region in belgium. now, what belgians, emergency services have been saying is that what they expect over the next few days is that could be the victims because as the waters have receded, emergency work is now able to access areas that were previously completed castle

because the water they can now access some of those roads, they will be going from house to house to find perhaps survivors, people who are unable to communicate before and attract them at home still, or they may of course find bodies. well, for neighborhoods like here it is been, you can imagine they're very traumatic. a not only of people died here, but people are looking around that. their homes are that possessions, things that just covered with mud. many people, the house up to the 1st floor was under water until 24 hours ago. it will take them a long time to come to terms with what has happened to them. it will take a long time to clean up this area. it has many with displays, many were forced to leave homes. where are they gone to now? the tax for and how will the authorities looking after the survivors? yes, many to spaces you say because of course the homes are either parts and partially destroyed or still not in

a state in which they can live because they're still moved. so they're, they're so much. so they've been moved to gymnasiums of various schools within the city. also, hotels, the state is trying to look up to them, the city of the edge. but it's not easy. you know, we spoke to a family to parents with very young children. they were being put up in a hotel by the city and they were incredibly upset because today they wanted to go back to their home in that small town. and unfortunately they've been told now that sort of thing is not safe to go back because the houses next door could crumble. those houses are going to have to be pulled down. so the father of the family has his and his eyes. he just really felt as if he doesn't know what is going to happen next. they're going to be offered an apartment for the next month, but then was, you know, and what sort of fate will that have been? and what will it feel like going back to a place where, you know, the neighbors aside? you know, there's been so much stress and they themselves, of course, live through such traumatic thing saying this water rising,

not knowing if they were going to survive this. i'm sure thanks very much for the update to natasha butler, who is english and belgium will be checking in with, with that bus and throughout the day as that recovery and rescue operation continues across europe. now south africa, the president says a week of violence and losing was planned and coordinated. so around the pose that says security forces have identified 12 ringleaders and he's deployed $25000.00 soldiers onto the streets. at least 212 people were killed as a friday. we'll meet the benefit shortly. he's in durban, the scene of some of the worst writing. but 1st his, his report. in south africa, the army is protecting its citizens from each other and forcing an easy, comp, shops, malls, factories in warehouses, accounting, the cost after an outbreak of looting and writing, but swept through parts of the country. after the jailing of former president jacob zuba on friday, his successor, several ram, a poser visited causal in a tower,

the worst effected province. it is clear now that the events of the past week were nothing less than a deliberate, a co ordinated, and a well planned attack on our democracy. supermarkets were stripped back within shore is now facing multi $1000000.00 claims for repairs. one banking group says the economy will contract by 3 percent. the butcher, him fresh, produce section of a supermarket. big played out like everywhere else. now, what spot writing the jailing for the check, but what drove it off? the poverty inequality that south africa now almost 30 in the n y minority room, half of south africans live below the official poverty line. unemployment is that a record high of close to 33 percent looting has created shortages of food, staples, and fuel causing long lines at the few places. still open the sol,

surprising. you know, it was like it's communicated some way because you see something here. the very same thing is happening somewhere else. so it was like there's the, there's a spirit that is going around. did that mean or mislead that is going i don't know what the people that jobless and also logged out because off dom on the that's funny. yeah. after sunday, yeah. when the president, for the people when like you'd really crazy and that was coming down like a crowd, a lot of crowd coming down and there was an injury that he is ex tangent south africa consumer council. he's warning of a humanitarian crisis, and the security is provided for people working in factories, distribution centers, and shops, and benefits choice me now from devon in factor burnett. i mean, how has it been over night? because tension does remain in many areas, doesn't it? it does so, and it was relatively calm overnight and the authorities of course,

wanted to stay that way. that's why behind me we have the national police minister baker kaylee. now he's been doing the tours of townships trying to calm tensions because what happened during the rioting and in the last week in south africa, the racial tensions that are always falling on the surface. i'm enough for dominantly black township. it neighbors predominantly south africa, india town, ensuring the right thing to the south. african indians in that town themselves, county jail. and they say that 20 block residents from this town would kill back is why racially flat up again. and that is why the national police minister is doing the rounds, trying to calm people down, telling them to complain to the police if they have complaints. generally trying to just keep it laid on the tensions that exploded over the last week. so of course,

you know, we were waiting for that minutes to, to speak, and i'm sure we'll get more from what he said in the coming minutes. i'm sure, but it, but what people been saying to you about the way that the feeling about the situation where you are and what you might say, hopes are for the future, considering the countries in such dire straits the while as well as unleashing those racial tensions in south africa, the writing, although provoked by the jailing a form, jacob zoom was also provoked because of the endemic poverty and frustration and inequality that exists in south africa almost 30 years now. since the end of white minority rule, these places remain very poor as far as they were 27 years ago when the 1st democratic elected government came to power in south africa. and people are frustrated and angry, particularly with the ruling party, the a and c. and people here say that what they want, what government to really pay attention to the poverty created the circumstances

which people have gone out rioting and loosing. there is an enormous amount of the government to do the president spoke to the nation on friday evening. he said that this is a pre planned attack. he said the places that were targeted places that were looted, including warehouses, distribution centers, as well as supermarket malls were deliberately chosen because of that. awesome. so the infrastructure on the functioning of the country, but he didn't have a lot to say about the fight against the root causes of all of this the fight against poverty. it was mainly a speech about enforcing security. but people went on to the remedies for the poverty that a courtesy indeed believe that fanatical. so checking with you later, the defendant smith fords in durban or phil had here on the auto renews more antibiotic. he protested, that's what teeny for the king defies calls. but democratic change, the points, a new prime minister angle function from the open one form

a champion is trying to win the trophy per 2nd time. that story coming up in court with peter said you say with a pin on the else, is there a new a what? it stopped raining in north i was failure. in fact, that part of europe is now under a let's see what happened phase. but the heavy rains still around and he's gone for the south around this low pressure, which is sitting of the g. i is pretty reluctant to move, to be honest. so the next 3 days will be rain circulating around it. and i think the concentration and he won't be as bad as it was in.