perhaps also of a legacy of his own making. sony diagonal. i'll just now the hunters on an away the remains of what's been called an unusually large meteor. parts of southern norway were lit up in the early hours of sunday by a fireball streaking across the nighttime sky. these are pictures captured by security cameras. new oslo scientists are tracking the pass it, but he's part of it might have landed in a large wooded area west of the 50 a an update of our main stories now in a powerful storm set to land in east, in china again in the coming hours after already doing widespread damage, typhoon in fact caused heavy flooding in the coastal province of judge young after it made landfall a little over 12 hours ago. now causing disruption to vital shipping. as it crosses hung jo bay, south of the busy commercial of shanghai. it comes days after

a reckless flood, killed $63.00 people in central china. now a group of 28 can not lie during school. children have been, we united with their parents 2 weeks after they were taken on the parents told out there that ransom was paid for their freedom. in total, a $121.00 students were taken while another group was released after 2 days, $87.00 of them are still being held. hundreds of kidnapped students is still missing off to several abductions for rent. i'm in northern nigeria in recent months, bringing the the joy too much. i can't quantify the joy. god has done it. we said that if we gone, we will see our children and we have seen them as he has this child. he will bring the rest. now into nisha protested of throwing stones and police of fine, tig,

demonstrations against the government's handling with a pandemic has taken place in several cities. hundreds of people gathered in the capital tunic, calling for the prime minister to resign. and dissolve. parliament are angry after a surgeon corona vars. cases while the pandemic is also hit, the country's economy badly. demonstrations were also held in the cities of gaster wanna steer and new bul economy has been struggling since the revolution a decade ago. and it's now dealing with a rise and unemployment, and there are not enough vaccines to try and alleviate the panoramic and an afghan military source is told out there that taliban has taken her, i district and cannot pearlman's close to the border with pakistan. now, if that's confirmed, it will be the latest advance in a 2 month period that seen the group capture at least half the countries districts lowes of the headlines. this our talk to al jazeera, if coming out next news,

news, news. news . the the people who run is done have seen turmoil in conflict for much of the past. 40 years given by internal divisions and foreign interests. the soviet invaded in the late 1970 s. the taliban rose to power in the 1990 s and then there was the u. s. envision in 2120 years on the american. still their friends and by the has promised to mission will finally end on august the 31st. they've been elections and initiatives aimed at bringing peace and stability to understand, but without success. after years of trying to facilitate political reconciliation

between the taliban government, united states and other countries, the us i'm in agreement with the dollar 1 dollar to withdraw its troops. in exchange, the taliban agreed not to support any of the groups or attacking the forces or the allies, but after years of conflict with civilians. but often the victims are the different sides within have gone to stand ready to move forward. we've been quite flexible. carnes, also hollering to the top of the pool. we have a new generation of actor who has experience the language. so we need to be adaptable to, to this new young generation of half a day for the sooner we stop fighting the sooner we concentrate. the focus in reaching a deal where international community e g and the way to for us to act together and to reach

a compromise with us troops gone by the end of august of understand defense we have to be solved internally can be overcome the wounds left by years of disagreement and security and division. after month of in truck on talks, have they built trust about the taking of $193.00 districts that we have taken during the past 2 months. and it's not by military port. here, forties, the coven indecision courses have joined us because they are fed up with the fighting and also the slow progress in the process. but we are in training. i would have to not taking, once again, both sides met at the negotiation table in dover. and that's where we caught up with the chief of the high council for national reconciliation of the lab dollar talks to out there. ah, doctor of the, the la gibbon,

how council for national reconciliation. thank you very much for talking to us there. you're welcome. it's been 48 hours since you've been in doha. we last met 10 months ago, described to us what has happened in the last 10 months, and how closer are africans to finding peace. i can say that to begin with, that it was really 48 hours and yes, from a finest on the delegation. from senior leadership of upon the span. we're here together with us. and to the idea behind us was that be we came here and but his entire unified view and support base because the choice is not between one side overtaking militarily and then there will be peace. but it is between that scenario which will not lead to peace,

which will lead to the front innovation of the war for many, many, many years to come and further complication of the situation and the potential civil war and all of that involvement of other countries. and between it and inclusive peaceful settlement. so we came here to present us unified to be that to get it. this is that booked unity to seize it and to capitalize on it. and of course, pete piece will not materialize overnight, but to, to, to give them not assurance that we are serious. we're sincere. meanwhile, to assure them that there will be no military solution. and insisting on a military solution will lead to 2 different innovation of the setting. i thought people, it was an opportunity to know one another better. because in the live situations,

with the beginning in the position of the talks, we had on the species from both sides. and then later on there was an opportunity for me in moscow. but that was a short oppurtunities. and in between the delegations have met in different nuts. so it was important for us. now i have much, much more clarity in my mind. and also data that they should be very clear about our positions. and suddenly she did a lot of common points which need to which need to work on it. speaking to you, you are always an optimist about the success of dialogue and negotiations. but 10 minutes have passed in trying to know each other. the positions that both sides had for each other remain almost the same. what gives you hope that there is

going to be peace because the situation on the ground seems to be pointing otherwise. all the, the reason for us coming here was not to present our position and say the take it to leave it at the i'm not commenting on their to, to the fur. i didn't deadlock or dish, but this was not odd. had to do b, c, we came here to tell them that pieces difficult more difficult in war. and we are here with flexibility to, to find the common grounds and then in move on towards a peaceful settlement. and also, if there is any illusion such as that one side can win militarily, be argued that this was not going to happen. yes, of course, personally, as a person would share it, now i have this responsibility. but apart from that,

which has been drawn there in beauty, the was in, at least in the past 36 years of my life i've been involved in the politics of are fighting f, harness on one another. so you were the defense minister in 1996. i was the spokesperson for the defense ministry. and later on i was, i was the chief of staff for the minister of defense and also the spokesperson for the ministry of defense. and later on, the minister of foreign affairs in earlier indeed is a sense in your heart that gives the soviets. so they took a shadow of provision. if i find that to see the continuation of suffering of our people to see the counties which we help to achieve. peace like tajikistan upon the sun was instrumental. and in achieving that settlement between, between 2 sides in touch and to see them develop,

developed and to see the opportunities which are that for the people of afghanistan and for the region. and we cannot utilize it because of the continuation of the what it is. this appointed one, the more as one missed, one more mr. port unity. but it takes what sites it cannot happen with the goodwill in intention of one site. that's what i was going to come towards because it takes 2 parties to reach. so you say that you have presented the options military, the military solution is not viable, it would not be in peace. but the situation on the ground is that the taliban are making advances. they've taken no more than $200.00 out of the $400.00 districts and have gotten this done. their surrounding population centers and prevention capitals. and this seemed to have not moved from the demands whether it was the release of prisoners, whether it was the listing from the us list. so many people are left wondering than

what is the point in talking and including people from your side and who have been asking this question that, you know, we've been at the same place for the last 10 months. unfortunately, the negotiations was the start of it was, it was a good point that the fact that we were head and we started negotiations after many, many years of fighting with one another. that was, that was good. that is the good buck in the fact that the door for the negotiations is not is not shut at the moment. that's also important. in spite of the differences, as in spite of white gaps which exist between the views of both sides sales, we think that the pieces a peaceful settlement is much, much better option than different deviation of the was be continued. we will continue to make these efforts. we will say, okay, now, no negotiations, the reality is that the water is intensified as intensified the level of violence

as is intensively high in the people are suffering on daily basis, days in and out. so in this sort of situation to say, okay, because there is no significant progress to stop, we stop talking to one another that will not be date, that adoption as well. what about your arrest and partners and expectations from because of the afghan government has achieved what it has with the help of its western allies. first, i would like you to touch upon the role of the united states because the sentiment from amongst your team members is that they feel abandoned by the united states. it hasn't given the gone government, the kind of support that it needed to establish peace and they feel betrayed that there are different feelings about that. the fact of life is that they decided, but they wanted to, to decide about tindy. previous had ministration, had made that decision. the calendar administration continued on that basis and the

withdrawal will be completed in a few days to complete withdrawal of the troops. so that's a fact of life, but to it's not like abandon and get this done. that's it. that's also a butcher need. an opportunity and that's also about unity. not just just what as for the time about if you want to be part of assess them and work to get as new for a peaceful settlement. that's to be forward. the support unity will be there for them. idea of the lifting, the minute did a peaceful settlement. the listing will take place. that's how much they think that it has to happen before as conditions because they think that this was promised to them. and according to the high event between the taliban in the united states and united states is also saying that the taliban have not wholesale promises. and i

mentioned that this is between noon tonight in the states and we respected to high agreement and be supported. this hagney meant and cooperated with it, but we're not here to clarify. the united states has very valid points saying that taliban has not implemented what dare promise to do. so. nissan disorder, the type of discussions that we have we were having. but the good thing was that we decided to continue at this level as well. why did meanwhile affecting negotiation negotiating teams to expedite the 1st to find ways, innovative ways that if our tough for many, many agendas, we have only addressed 4 of them if out of navy, pretty agenda items. when the food is being addressed in the world continues,

that's not the piece that will, that will get us there because the war will create its own momentums. obviously it requires both sides to come together, trucks, but the talks that can be a one way street. i'm coming back to expectations from the west, speaking to diplomats, who have been closely monitoring and not involved in the process that is taking place in the venison. there was a sense that they felt that there needs to be a sobering, of the reality on the ground on part of the african government, which hasn't happened. there is still talk about, you know, within 3 months we're going to retake all the areas that have been taken by the taliban. we will teach them a lesson and we will take them back to where they were. and that seems to be the rhetoric coming from cobble as well. so as long as there is no real sense of realization that they have the momentum of the fighting behind them, they've taken that many areas. then they might be time to concede, to concede, to what to concede to what the thing is that is that

a viable option? no, absolutely not. that will never happen. the in the war in the fighting you will have upsets said back to have back in fort which jason the because of the, the way that the, the withdrawal of the international troops took place. dr. taliban took advantage of that. today's not just the army is the people which are assisting that. yes, of course they saw the vacuum this gap and then date of advantage of it now that people are resisting convent group in afghanistan. polls is, it's what was upon the whole nation by force through fighting. it will never happen . that's why i said that to weekend yet to say that, look from one side, get an opportunity to a peaceful settlement from the other side. if the thinking is that we will, we will capture areas district offered after district and that will lead to as

imposing a military solution in that military solution. we want to get it through the talks that will not happen. we need to have inclusive baseball set them back. so the topics one vote, i know that i'm not that much in favor of the strip topics. but to the fact that to the army in the army said mission is not to is not to to, to say that, ok, let's come and take us and they will, they will, they will, they will talk to about according to, to their, to their mission. now let me quote present joshua and just a few weeks ago saying that the us decision to leave of going on is a decision moment for the taliban. the region. and i've gone themselves. the choice ahead is clear cor less around and acceptable and state and have gone to stan, or continue the dangerous power grabbing alternative who is continuing on the path of the power grabbing alternative. because if you speak to the other side,

usually have gone government. if you look at it from the human share, the live that they have captured, they have captured so many districts in the past, in the past few weeks or months. what does that mean? what does that mean? when that is, when there is an opportunity for talks, why not to get seriously into the issues which us which are that and find, find a way for solving it. so it's, it's very clear what is being said. and also the situation is very clear. on the ground and understand if you've, you've been seeing all of the concerns which have been raised by the international community. the articles being put forth in the research by think tanks, talking about timelines of the collapse of cobble once again. and the government is going to fall, do you think that it is a realistic assessment and how hopeful are you that the african government in its current shape and form will be able to protect all of the hartford freedoms that

the people have achieved in the last 2 decades, so indeed years which are and as a college and control at the moment and fraternity, those freedom to the those right. people were enjoying in that you've been, which were made that has been reverse. that's also a fact of life. and the point is that the, in our side, the what we presented in the past 40 to 40 and 48 hours was that we have different opinions about the way of life, of the governance and all of that. can we get together while maintaining our views about human rights, women's rights, freedom of speech. they should be here. they should have learned from a jersey to dizzy to being here. it's. it's meant that quote,

as being here and that's what was going on when we knew talk about freedom of speech. so we have different opinions about these things. can we find ways to not to fight for imposing god. we have life upon the people. but to, to compete for it to contest it, to civilian it's true. peaceful means. that's the whole thing. pilot one cannot convert the whole population of upon the son into taliban taliban. a zation of her finest. son is not acceptable. yes, of course. they feel at this moment that they have that hand militarily on the ground too. and that will not last that way. i'm sure i'm not talking about days and weeks that we're talking about the course of time because that see this and from out his state. so the sooner we get to the other fact in

reality of life, the death to you cannot, you cannot impose, you are well upon the whole nation through military might. even if you have that opportunity that should compel them. and also, as i mentioned, we're ready to, to talk about but my question was, how confident are you that the african government is going to be able to prevail, to protect those freedoms and assure the african people that it is here in the long run. and it will continue to be there as, as i mentioned, if there is no, there is no peaceful settlement. unfortunately the world will continue. and as a result of the war, tinge will change and it will go and to hand at that part. if you're talking about the survival of the state, i should say that yes when,

when the slot makes it public, that is opposition. there are different roofs which are not happy with our conduct, but they criticize as the unhappy, but they're the same time a dagger with the principles in the principle of a public one person one vote. and so to another principles. and if you're talking about the survival of the state, yes. but how, how cohesive is that? it is, is that a coalition, so to speak, of people in cobble because as you were coming here, we saw those differences. once again you, you weren't able to convince the president cars that will be hit, but the are to come and join you in these talks with the taliban to convince the taliban that there is no military solution. and the principle of i have no doubt, and you can ask it under that one principle the did is no military solution. they

have given the message, yes, you referred to form a prison cache, a will refer to a miss bidick my to deal that said this the are that stated that and in the discussions which were going on dead in cobble as well as a deal with these these, these issues, but meanwhile it was expected. i'm not saying that it, it was a clear promise. it was expected that some other senior leaders of taliban also come from from pakistan. those were based impacts them. and that was one of the main reasons that those leaders didn't participate. but talking about former prison cars, he accompanied me up to the airport and to his support. and he spoke before us before departure. so that on the issue of peaceful set on that, i don't think that those who have not participated. that's because they done didn't

believe in it, or the believe that did as a military solution. very, very clef, a very quickly we need to discuss about what is happening in the region as well. the taliban have not just taken areas inside of the sun. they've taken at least 4 major border crossings into the sun. again, we're seeing a lot of rhetoric unit, a man who supports rhetoric from cobble about how they are being supported from outside powers and how they're getting support. what is the role that the region is playing? and are you hopeful that there is a positive role that can be played by regional i was in a benefit. i will be very brief. it is randolf that did, did he did region can play in it will be in the legitimate interest that support for a peaceful settlement. the inclusive peaceful set. okay. different i did 2 different different contacts and at no time to comment on them. but

to there's only one way forward to support inclusive peaceful settlement. this will be in the intercept, the region treaties back as a conference, there was a conference in tashkent. how the ideas of those conferences like that that conference was unconnected. the railway between from central asia to, to, to pakistan from from, from, was becky done to pakistan through us on a sunday. and i, that's going to be 2 projects which it was an important event. how do say those ideas will materialize without piece and you have been riding on a lot of hope from the african peoples ever since these talk started. this was a unique opportunity in 2 decades that i've gone finally are sitting across the table video cards. this is going to be looked back by people in history. they're going to say, this is

a pivotal moment where peace could have been achieved. and i've got a son. how hopeful are you that those expectations are going to be met? and you are going to be able to convince the other side that piece is the only solution. and without it, there is going to be for the suffering of the african people. one thing they can, i can say in this respect, that this is the wish of the absolute majority of the people. and this is the only way forward which is in the interest of deaf, honest, and african people in high interest of our country. in to run one thing which i can assure can to men men and women that not to spare any moment to make it 1st. it is a small port unity. we need to, we need to, we need to capitalize on it. and to as guarantee that all these efforts will produce the same result that the people are expecting,

even in the past 10 months. part of our population are disappointed. why these things happen that have not happened. one thing which i can say is that they will spend no effort in trying to consensus around it and, and move forward in and make sure that no opportunity is messed. dr. de la de la chip and how council for national reconciliation. thank you very much for talking to out there. take a me ah

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