be peace because the situation on the ground seems to be pointing otherwise we listened. we were never on her. 3 whatever road to off migration we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i am, sam, is i them? this is the news our live from tao ha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. at least 13 people are killed in a bomb attack outside of mosque and afghanistan's capital. no group claims responsibility. $500.00 refugees and migrants are intercepted off libya's coast. it follows raids in which thousands were detained. algeria closes its air space to french military plains in a worsening diplomatic dispute. and

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this attack sending through the country. while it is going to be a big dent in the taliban se claim that this country is seeing an unprecedented piece in security. obviously it has been the case for the last 6 weeks. but this attack in the heart of cobble at an area which was secured by all of the taliban factions here is going to send shock with definitely across have gone to stand where people are going to be asking questions about how secure it really is. and just to tell you about this area, as you mentioned, this is the place where hundreds of people were gathering. not just taliban fighters and supporters, but others as well. we'll try to get a glimpse off the taliban spokesman who's been avoiding, appearing in public basis for a very long time. this was a time to go and meet him in person and give your condolences and out. the senior team went there. we saw that there were multiple tears of, of security. their initial report say, suggested it could have been a suicide bomb,

but it hasn't been confirmed by sources on the ground. but it does goes to show that how difficult the situation in afghanistan is for the taliban to control. because by and large, they have taken over control of security. but they also released hundreds and hundreds of prisoners as well, which they were criticized for. it is going to be difficult for them to curtail this sort of activity where according to taliban fight does, it's not i sal or other groups which control and arch area in of when the sun but are operating in smaller sleeper cells. how much of a sat bank is this to the tale? bonds, security credentials, something they were promising people when you've heard sammy taliban, seeing it repeatedly that they have now come to power? there is no more corruption. there is unprecedented peace and security and everything else is going to be built upon that all the demands by the international

community, about rights, education, etc, without the bouncy, they're going to build it because of the peace and security that this country enjoys and is going to be translated into other things, but obviously it is not the case. this is what been seeing is smarter attacks happening in the eastern part of, of linus on in under har province, in particular, where it's like state of iraq in the levant, in horrifying province. i. so k r, iceland of line is done, has been claiming these attack repeatedly and just minutes before the spokesman for the fall of on the view la di, than the deputy information minister left for that venue. i was with him. i asked him this question about how, how secure is of learned is done. are you really sure that you'd be able to control all of the cells of i sal and you'd get, you're going to be able to prevent attacks. and here is some of what he told us, they should move carpet that i cell is not a visible thing here. they are in hiding. some disturbances have been seen in kabul

and dj a bed, but they are not present and other places. we are paying close attention and we will not let them create an wrist. and our suggestion to them is that they don't instigate fighting inside afghanistan. this, this is an islamic country, there is an islamic government here. foreign forces have withdrawn from the country . there has been a major jihad done against foreign occupation. so every one must respect us. and if they don't respect us, they will face a very powerful reaction from afghan citizens and also our forces. we will filter them out and will destroy the hot outs. and we must underscore here that there has so far be no claim of responsibility. this is what w a luggage i had was talking about about the wider security in of guns on especially the capital cobble and eastern of got a son in the city of gyla but, but again, the heart of the capital gobble has been had no uh, claim of responsibility so far and the thought yvonne's image that they are trying to build of, of going to son is a place where there's almost no checkpoints. this could be freedom to move around.

and there is security which we have been seeing to be fair. the last 6 weeks seems to have been dented and they're now going to have to answer to not just the i've got people, but all the agencies as well will be they've been trying to invite and tell them that it is safe and secure to come in and help the upgraded people. all right, thanks so much for sound ben j there. most speak to astrid slaton also in cobble. she's the afghanistan country director for the norwegian refugee count. so good to have you with us. so the latest attack just comes on top of what was already a very challenging humanitarian situation, right? rattle enter, c is increasingly worried. about predominantly, we are worried about their impact of the upcoming winter. and it is very cold in afghanistan, and their needs are mounting with the challenge as we see where lack of physical

cash and banks being closed. we don't have access to our bank. he comes and they have reason to be concerned. in addition that don't nurse don't seem to be able to translate their pledges into actual grounds. so n r c is extremely worried about their escalating and situation. if security deteriorates, just give us an idea of what that means for people to be able to go out, do their jobs, earn their living and survive. well, there are about 18000000 people who are at the brink of starvation. i think people are more worried about the economic collapse than about their security. and africans are used to insecurity from decades a war. and what is now worrying is the main things, food, water, health care. how are they going to earn an income?

how are they going to survive the winter? in example, w. p needs at least $400000000.00. if they're going to be able to ship in the food that they can easily get from neighboring countries. a lot of countries have taken a sort of watch and weight and put pressure on the taliban to, to stick to their promises. what is your assessment of that policy? how is it, is it impacting the humanitarian situation? it is impacting, it must there, there shouldn't be conditionality onto monetary and life saving 8. the banks are collapsing the economy in free fall and the world bank and i, a mess and international monetary funds should unfreeze the funding and channel it through. for example, of trust fund managed by the u. m. all right, thank you so much. good to get your thoughts and analysis on that.

libby as coast guard has intercepted about carrying around $500.00 refugees and migrants to europe. if in return to libby ensures it comes one day off, the security forces, detain 1000 in raids, the un says one person was killed and at least 15 others injured in the crack. down . officials described it as a security campaign against the legal migration and drug trafficking. well, thomas garofalo is the libya country director for the international rescue committee. he joins us from tunis. good to have you ever. so what happens to some of these refugees and migrants once they're apprehended by libyan authorities? well, they are entirely and they are brought back to libya and they are put into detention . unfortunately, there are no very rare cases when people are released in the vast majority are put

into very harsh conditions inside detention centers in libya. ok. but i mean, detention for want, what is the process of the detain because they have entered libya without documentation? are they being repatriated back to their countries? if they came from elsewhere, i mean, what happens in this detention? what is the system? well it's, it's quite opaque actually. unfortunately we, we are, the, is very difficult to track these migrants and asylum seekers. once they go into detention, often they are able to secure their release. but the fact is that 25000 people have been returned this year already in a vast increase from the previous year. and many of them are lost. we don't really know what happens to them because when we have the numbers of people who can be

tracked into detention, it's a far, far lower number. so there are many who somehow are able to get out. but the fact is that it's not really clear. and the process is not working currently, and these people are in desperate need of safety. above all there's been some international show we say in gauging with the libyan coast guard to try and apprehend people are trying to get europe. has there been enough focus, listening to what you're saying now? has that been enough of a focus on what to do with people once they're apprehended by the libyan coast gone? well, i think there are 2 issues to be concerned about in the 1st is actually touched on the libyan coast guard. the living coast guard is not really capable of monitoring the the, the crossing. and so we have international rescue committee have have called on the european union to do more to start their own search and rescue operations. that's

one thing. on the other side, in libya, as i've said, there really isn't any visibility into what happens inside the detention centers. we are we the, the i r c along with you and hcr and, and some other humanitarian agencies have some access into the detention regime. but it's quite incomplete. we're able to provide some assistance of a life saving nature through our medical teams. but by and large the, the situation is failing the not only the asylum seekers, but also many law abiding peaceful people who have been swept up in this, in this, in this effort by the libyan authorities to, to stop migration more than 4000 people among them so let me, let me jump on the said something very interesting that sure law abiding people to being swipe top, how and why? well, what i mean by that is they are people who main interest is in and earning

a living. and so they are working in libya, many of them do not have the documentation of a legal entry, but that is largely because there are the legal framework is quite incomplete. and so it's difficult. many people have lost documents while, while fleeing their own countries. many of them come from countries in conflict, or they have lost them in the process of coming to libya or they didn't have them to begin with. so mainly what they've come to libya for many of them have come to libya, to, to earn a living. many have also come to, to try and find safety in another location. all right, thank you so much for sharing some of your expertise on this matter. thank you. plenty more still ahead on the news hour, including find out why millions of people in lebanon may not have access to drinking water and supporters of tennessee as present pie. it rally in the capital

. while too prominent critics reportedly been arrested, alex brought for the 2nd straight year them on the nation has a home in october. more details coming up shortly. ah. now lebanon's long troubled public water system is close to collapse, made agencies say taps could run dry for 3 quarters of the population sat. a hierarchy has more from beirut. john dark lives in bay. wilson is one of 1000000 suffering during lebanon's water crisis. if she didn't pay for supplies from private companies, her taps would run dry. water has been in short supply for decades, but the situation is now critical. not enough is being purified and pumped due to electricity blackouts caused by fuel shortages. the state is nearly bankrupt. so as

much of the population in the man i've been nearly the same error that used to cost $90000.00 lire. now it costs 700000 lire to have water delivered twice a week. some of our neighbors can afford it. so we covered the hudson, asked the government what it's doing and if the situation has become unbearable, we don't even have electricity anymore. i follow, i shall done it. private supplies are too expensive for mice. at least 70 percent of the population could run out of water in the coming weeks. with long, ruthless ray admire that of them like hospitals and businesses we are unable to get hold of you will easily maintain as costa also hi. so we are forced to increase our water praises. we get about 90 calls a day from those needing water, but we can only respond to about 10. are providing a service that the government is in should be doing for. unicef warns the sanitation system could seize altogether if millions of dollars aren't invested, the cast draft government can't afford to impose chemicals needed to keep water

clean. we have been supporting toward establishment for the amine finance for the past year. but it has come to the point that they are our support each built even now. so therefore we started 30 our lobby international community to really get going more direct support. the water is the life of people. if we don't act now, this could i try people, nampa can right even up to for media. the natural cold water infrastructure is widely blamed on decades is corruption and mismanagement to funds and increasing land development and water pollution is making it much worse. lebanon porter is so pop thick, he can't even drink it and the infrastructure to deliver that is that breaking point? i absolutely smelled here. not because natural sources of water like this one on so polluted. but water born disease is a common,

especially among children. agencies warned that vulnerable communities, including hundreds of thousands of syrian and palestinian refugees in lebanon on most at risk water is already being rationed in the west effected areas. once that runs out most people and likely to go thirsty. so to hide it, al jazeera needle, moving to tennessee an hour, thousands of people have been demonstrating in support of the president. on wednesday i say it named the jew physics professor with little political experience of the country's 1st female prime minister and as verbal then is sir, now working to form a government the opposition is acute, say it of carrying out a qu off the suspending parliament in july and announcing plans to rule by decree. bernard smith is why for us in tune. so we've had bernard,

demonstrations pro and against the present orders, or this add up to in terms of trying to read the popularity of k, say it on the street right now. there were a few 1000 people on the streets of tunis to days over now and in other towns and cities in this country. they were protesting in support of case society. it's 2 months now since he seized power a sup, suspended parliament, and is now ruling by decree. this with many though supporters don't believe the president has gone far enough, wanted to start arresting and peas, dissolving parliament. so it was quite vociferous. support for him, but one of the problems, one of the main criticisms of what opponents call a qu is the president is still not talking to anyone. he's still not listening or willing to speak to other politicians outside group, civil society groups. all of them saying we want the president to listen to the

only discourse you have at the moment, june this year, is people shouting on the streets. and there are concerns that the presidents doesn't start speaking engaging with the population more widely than that is on. again, i get worse in 2 months in there is still no plan from the president. the way out of this really severe economic crisis. tunisia is facing now. emmanuel, my crohn, spoke to him on the saturday in the early, they released a statement saying that the president promised there'll be a national dialogue soon as soon as a government is formed. and we're also getting reports. now, bernard, that members of parliament and even journalists are being arrested simply for criticizing the president on tv. yeah, this seems to be from the comments made by a politician on a discussion program where he accused the president of treason. and this is why he says, and the journalist who's present to the program was arrested,

or there's no official statement from the presidential palace. all the authorities about this arrest. it has to be said that generally in june is years so far, journalists have been accredited, journalists have been free to go about news gathering and a critical press still exists. there hasn't been a wide spread crack down on that. the president's office says that there are other politicians who face travel bands and some businesses who faced travel bands. these are only for people who faced judicial sanctions or are facing a summons some or will live with that. thanks so much bernard smith. algeria has closed its ad space to all french military flights, heading to the sal region in a deepening diplomatic stand off on saturday. president dub dillman g 2 in a group called his ambassador from france. it was in response to french president emanuel micron saying algeria is ruled by a political military system,

which is tired. the french military says it doesn't anticipate the space closure will have any impact on its operations against armed groups in the saddle, or new. so us now sedan is being warned that failure, progress towards civilian leadership, could put us economic and political support at risk and attempted coup. 2 weeks ago is caused more mistrust between the military and civilian groups that share power in a transitional government. the still no date for the military to hand control to the civilian side. and this tension is piling pressure on a p steel sign between the transitional government and rival groups. a year ago, the so called juba agreement was meant to resolve a conflict that killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions, especially in the western region of dar 4. and in the southern states of south quarter, the font and blue nile sedans, revolutionary front or sr f,

signed the deal. but 2 other powerful rebel groups, the sudan liberation movement, and the sudan people's liberation movement. north did not. in recent months, there's been a resurgence of violence among rival tribes and groups. here morgan has more from cartoon. when this agreement was negotiated, it was split into tracks, which means every region where there was a conflict, had its own track and there was virtually conflict. all around the country. so there was the western track that represented dar for, there was the eastern track that represented the eastern states of castilla godaddy and red sea state. and then there was the 2 regions or 2 areas track, and that was for blue nile. and south core define, then there was a center track and the northern track. and that was because each and every regent had its own demands when coming, when it came to negotiating a peace agreement. now a year on some of the people have expressed this content. we still have to arm groups to sedans, liberation front, led by abdougla, had him home at noon yet to sign an agreement with the transitional government. and

then you also have the sedans liberation, sedan people's liberation movement, led by adolescent hello, who's in southward of honeymoon. i also yet to sign a deal with the transitional government. so lots of issues going on there. then you have the refugees who are the displaced people in the camps in dar for who say that they were not consulted when disdain was it was signed. therefore, they believed that the peace agreement is not going to result in them coming out of their camps and going back to their villages. there's also the issue of security arrangements, and that is the arm groups are supposed to be merging into the national army by the end of the 3 a transitional period. now some of the armed groups have arrived with the forces here in the capitol cartoon. others have started the, the, the integration process in other areas, but it's still a process that has already started way behind schedule. in georgia, the governing party has taken the lead in local elections and over shallow by the sudden return and arrest

a former president mikhail soccer. sh. really. the rose is seen as a critical test too and months of political style night. but election observers have race concerns. robin forestry, walker reports from tbilisi juices governing party the georgia dream wasted no time in claiming victory with results overrule giving it a 47 percent share of votes. cost cutting much, as i know about georgian society, has once again given a proper response to the political forces thirsting for revenge, which threatened our state with violence and unrest. but the leader of those political forces was emphatic that they are on cause for at least a few upsets drug or towers will gotcha. rudely outward to day, we can freely say that the georgia dream has completely lost the capital. the political scene tbilisi is lost and we can already say the city council will be staffed by opposition parties. that's not the case yet. a run off is expected the

chance for the united national movement, george's largest opposition party to win an important prize for other big cities will also go to a 2nd round yoga to wicker, the sudden return to georgia of exile to former president mccall sucker sch, villi and subsequent to rest may have energized the opposition convicted in absentia of abuse of power, while in office. suckers really has said his charges are politically motivated and is now on hunger strike. he and the rest of the opposition wanted these elections to be a referendum on the georgia dream government. they did not get the decisive result . they were hoping for. although election observers have noted many instances of frauds and intimidation, government misuse of resources may also have tilted results in its favor. george's western allies have grown increasingly concerned that the political parties here

must start settling their differences in the interests of their country. the outcome of the selection suggests voters want the same robin 1st year. walker al jazeera tbilisi, still out on al jazeera rags it the pandemic and of fuel shortage dominate. the you taken, serv. deposit conference will be live. manchester and sport turmoil in the us national women's soccer leave to hear from the president of the federation. ah hello there. let's start in the middle east and we've had a historic, a weather moment for oh man, that's after the 1st tropical cyclone made landfall since record keeping began. and

this was the scene as flash flooding kicked in in northern areas submerging vehicles. as that system made its way in line, it will take a closer look. it has weakened once it touches the land, these systems do, but it is still bringing. it's a very wet and windy weather with it. we're talking wind gusts of up to a 139 kilometers per hour and we've got it's a desert area. so we are going to see some of that sound kicked up possible sandstorms coming into play for the u. a and southern areas of saudi arabia as that system works its way to the west. now elsewhere, it is looking rather hot and dry temperatures have come down slightly in iraq to 8 and for her time it is the looking rather wet around those coastal areas of iran, as it is for western areas of yemen. and as we move to that central part of africa, we've seen some flooding come into play. this was sent in by a viewer in lubin bashing. and we are going to see those thunderstorms intensify, particularly in the se, in the days to come. as we move to south africa is looking west her in the west.

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world and in the lab. now, more than ever, the world needs w h l. making a healthy a world for you. for everyone. lou . ah, welcome back here watching al jazeera time to recap our headlines now. at least 13 people have been killed in an explosion in afghanistan's capital. it happened at the mosque where a memorial service was being held for the mother of taliban spokesman. it's every holland, the jag, thousands of tennesseans are holding a rally in support of their president on wednesday. i say it named the new prime

minister is now working to form a government your position as a que side of conducting a qu. algeria has closed its air space, 2 french mercury flights on saturday. the government recalled at some battered paris sizing critical remarks by president my call. it's got more in our top story now that attack in cobble i had no bill is a security analyst and a researcher on militancy. he says the taliban face is a significant challenge from groups link to i saw one cannot pull up the possibility dead slam experience did horizontal, whence might possibly be beyond the survey colors so far they haven't not officially came to a day, but there's a strong likelihood that there might be behind this a deck, ever since the belmont people were we had seen a surge of activity by langston or central whence howard, this is the 1st high profanity since the goblin. what reg westland street were suntrust. so these are dates the continue.