take. your word with all of the wonderful one story that we could use some special. role. for the. barn. this is d w news coming up proposing peace while still waging war as the u.s. looks to exit afghanistan human rights watch says cia backed afghan soldiers are killing civilians as part of their fight against the taliban. plus the smog suffocates delhi and for it is official those extreme circumstances demand extreme measures we'll tell you what they're trying out.

i'm melissa chan you're watching d.w. news asia thank you for joining us cia backed afghan paramilitary forces have killed civilians and night raids kidnapped people and bombed villages that's according to the latest human rights watch report these documented incidents took place in mostly taliban controlled areas of afghanistan and have increased significantly over the past 2 years in parallel with u.s. efforts to exit its 19 year war there human rights watch says what is happening are war crimes the cia has responded and says its operations are done quote in accordance with law and under a robust system of oversight but for afghan civilians this rationale offers little in the way of justice for their loved ones killed as collateral damage. or afghan villagers burying their dead. farm workers harvesting pine nuts were

among the victims caught up in a u.s. drone strike in september targeting so-called islamic state militants in the east of the country. rights monitors deplored the mounting civilian casualties even as the warring parties step up efforts to reach a peace deal there seems to be movement toward some kind of a settlement and a possible u.s. troop withdrawal so both sides are ramping up their military activities trying to cause as many casualties as close as much damage to the other side as possible but the problem is that civilians are really the ones most affected human rights watch says it noticed a disturbing trend after talking to locals. one of the people who came to me after we'd interviewed about a dozen people described a very different kind of atrocity and it was the 1st time i was aware that these kind of night raids had become so frequent and that the people affected had really no avenue for redress no one to turn to over the past 2 years the group says it has

documented more than a dozen cases of serious abuses by afghan paramilitary squads operating in secret with cia backing the alleged crimes include indiscriminate air raids extrajudicial killings and disappearances the problem with these particular militia groups these paramilitaries is they operate outside normal chains of command within the ordinary afghan government forces or the u.s. forces and so they're not held accountable and they lack of transparency i mean civilians cannot go to someone and find out what happened get any kind of justice for the crimes committed human rights watch says the secret units should be disbanded the cia disputes the findings saying the claims are quote likely false or exaggerated. we have journalist alley la t.v. in kabul ali you've actually looked at this before the human rights watch report came out what have you seen and reported on. so we've seen

increases in civilians being targeted from all sides this is something that's very important that we have to keep in mind the united nations has documented this in other organizations that are documented where basically u.s. forces and afghan government allied forces are being considered responsible for things like disappearances for. abuses basically like you know shooting people on the spot taking them prisoner interrogation violent interrogation tactics scaring people through the use of night raids which have been controversial throughout the entire 18 years of the u.s. war in afghanistan and so basically what we're seeing is that these questions of how civilians are being treated are now being documented on all sides and the situation seems to be getting much worse and not better for civilians you know dealing with both of our national security forces as well as their u.s.

allies and in terms of the taleban and groups claiming allegiance to diet so again it all comes back to civilians in how their lives are being affected by this war that seems to no no end at this point what's particularly interesting about this human rights report because as you've been saying this is a 19 year old war that the united states has been involved in there's been killing on all sides civilians have died for years and years and so human rights watch comes out with this report what is distinctive and special about information there convey. distinctive and special is that you know as i said the peace these night raids and these air raids have been controversial to throughout the the war and in 2013 the former president hollande cuz i really tried to end the night raids but starting in 2015 the new national unity government sort of put an end to all of those oversights and that limitation on this practice and since then especially

since the taliban talks have started to break down things have gotten much much much worse for the civilians for instance i was asking them because they were done a lot of research in the eastern province and then there are i asked them i said in the year and a half the tree years that they studied her this report how many instances took place in the province of harm he said 3 instances and in those 3 instances i least 30 civilians were killed right now in that entire report which is the 9 provinces they documented 50 civilian casualties and at least 30 are from a single problems now what's really interesting is that the report that this wretch organization did took place in taliban controlled areas and and of course you have people there sympathetic to the taliban who choose to collaborate with them but the then you also have a poor farmer who might not have a lot of sympathy with the taliban but if they show up with guns into the villages kind of have no choice but to collaborate with him and yet you have the c.i.

a backed paramilitary group saying well we have just have occasion to go after the civilians because they helped the taliban it's kind of a conundrum for the people there right. it's a conundrum and it also raises the question of what does help me if one enters your house and you can't tell them to leave does that mean at unicon place if they demand food from you and you have no choice but to give them food if they happen to be related to you what what what what constitutes helping these people and other issues that you're talking about areas where people can't get to so it's very hard to find physical evidence we're not buying photos and videos of these kinds of raids because they happen at night in a hard to reach areas and a lot of these people don't have you know the my applique a simple nokia phone with a video camera that's going to be 1st of all while while the nitrate is going on you can't capture this kind of things. thank you thank you.

every breath we take is killing us that was the message of leading environmentalist's in a letter to indian prime minister narendra modi pollution in delhi reached its worst levels so far this year officials declared a public health emergency shutting schools and rolling out an odd even numbered license plate scheme to take cars off the road pollution levels are so high in the indian capital there are literally off the charts particulate matter per cubic meters maxing out past 999 across the city just for context anything below 25 is considered healthy air and these nasa images show what locals say is the cause red dots that represent thousands of crop fires in northwestern india . it's not fall groups during delis why dava news but

a toxic soup of engine exhaust industrial emissions and smoke from nearby farmland even the sun struggled to pardon through the mark. traffic was lighter than usual on monday as the old even system took effect motor vehicles with number plates ending with odd numbers were banned from the roads on tuesday it'll be vehicles with even numbers that stay part but some residents say it's not enough. i think the government here government akin to the government need to do much more to stop this minute. let me please let's breathe was the chant at the demonstration over the weekend delegates fed up with living in the most polluted capital in the world and they say it's not getting any better. patients are coming with more. at us today this is us like marty afflicted with asthma so now it is not of this

but i think the nation that pollution is increasing more authorities have declared a public health emergency and delhi but with india home to 15 of the top 20 most polluted places in the world this is a national not local crisis. heat up the correspondent mission gys will is in delhi and sent us this update. the air here in new delhi causes a sting in the throat and has a bone smell to it but with temperatures hovering at about 28 degrees it is clear to residents that this is not for this is not small this is smoke the city has been and well of by picking their all of greece more over the past few days the air quality index has repeatedly read as hazardous for use mosques an airport a fire as a flying off the shelves of as residents struggle to combat the toxic air pollution

that has covered the city once again the c.e.o. joining us now from delhi is revealing a rush coley part of the environmental group my right to breathe riviera you guys wrote an open letter to the prime minister what was your message. a message was that this has to become a central government control issue because it involves so many states and so many chief ministers who have shown real reluctance to step in and solve the problem because of their own political motives so we have no choice but to actually pick this up with p.m.'s level and say you know this needs to seems to be a sticky subject and it must become a subject where your concern step in and do something about it i mean this problem in delhi has been going on for years and nothing has been done why has that been the case. you know a health story in an environment story doesn't get you hopes in india this is not

something that the masses have gotten engaged with yet yes it has become prime time news yes people engage with it a lot but you know that the the common man out there on the street who is the most underserved and the most affected by this problem is not yet crying for him that is one of the issues that we are grappling with this at the dozens more moments trying to need more and more citizens and you know we. have jogging up with the shoes we have shoes up act if you like the hood you know people say all i want is good on my family really can't be bothered with something called air it's an elitist problem then we have a narrative that dots about mosques and if you were to fire a builder so that it seems to be a rich person's age you know all these issues of make it something so complicated it's not as simple as but it's what it was in china and i can make that comparison . ravine iraj kohli thank you. with pictures from seoul and a massive kimchi making festival thanks for watching see you next time and divide.

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