herat even has its own museum dedicated to war.old, mostly russian weapons and ammunitions and they are from 40, 50 years ago, and it just really shows how long war has been going on in this country. i mean, we hearfour decades, but seeing these really makes it more tangible. the soviets‘ withdrawal in 1989 was the start of a ten year—long civil war. this led to the rise of the taliban, who continue their bloody insurgency to this day, funded by a booming opium trade. 2017 saw a bumper opium poppy crop in afghanistan. perhaps as a form of self medication for the trauma of war, many afghans use opium. an estimated 10% of the population is now addicted to the opium poppy derivative, heroin. some of these addicts end up here, at the country's only secure psychiatric unit. it's home to about 250 men and 50 women, many of whom are suffering from drug induced schizophrenia and psychosis. mohammed essar is a former member of the taliban. mohammed davood is a former member of the mujahideen. both men were drug addicts and suffer from ptsd

they sist that geographical heart of afghanistan right between herat in the west and kabul in the east everything seems peaceful here in the province of bomb the un . its main claim to fame is an unparalleled natural attraction this lake. more than one hundred thousand told arrests come here every year most of them are from afghanistan during the winter season it's possible to skate on the lake which sits at an altitude of two thousand meters during the summer months it's used for bathing and boating. the people here live off tourism bomb neons considered liberal and women work as tour guides to. i'm happy that more and more tourists are coming here it would be nice to see a few more foreign visitors. but the problem is that this place is hard to get to this road goes through territory where this fighting that scares off people who can't afford to fly john good though. is. the only other attractions more famous than the lake out ones that don't technically exist anymore all that's left are the mother rocky caves where they were blown up by the taliban fifteen years ago the world famous

natural gas each year it's expected to be completed by january two thousand and twenty security in herat was tight for the ceremony but the taliban has given its support for the pipeline reversing an earlier stand observers say this is probably because of its close ties with pakistan which will take forty percent of the gas and make a profit of twenty five percent on the sale with the security fears soften the main focus now is attracting the investors to raise the capital to complete the project but for now everyone seems to be happy in al-jazeera. chabris to recap the top stories here at al-jazeera hundreds of thousands of people trapped in a rebel held wrong near syria's capital of being bombed for a seventh consecutive day after a suicide mission have been delayed at the u.n. three more people have been killed in recent hours activists on the ground say government helicopters are dropping barrel bombs on residential neighborhoods although four hundred forty people have been killed in eastern since sunday having four separate attacks in afghanistan with at least twenty soldiers killed

fish market just outside mica dairy the capital of borno state the city is the birthplace of the boko herat extremist insurgency. a military helicopter crashed and so in mexico as they prepared to land killing at least thirteen people including three children and injuring fifteen others it was carrying officials surveying damage from a powerful seven point two magnitude earthquake in the hawkeye state including the country's interior minister and the region's governor who were both survived. kosovo has been marking ten years of independence from serbia prime minister. so the country's break from serbia two thousand it meant a new beginning for its ethnic albanian majority one hundred seventeen nations have recognized kosovo but serbia continues to dispute kosovo statehood. pope francis has renewed the mandate of a vatican panel established to protect children from sexual abuse by priests francis has faced criticism for his handling of scandals involving pedophile priests he named nine new members to the panel which includes abuse survivors its initial three year term ended in december. and

from layla herat great to have you long everyone here when rights monitors say the syrian government has stepped up its bombardment of a rebel held area close to the syrian capital damascus killing scores of people and syrian observatory for human rights says the government's air reads on the eastern ghouta have killed seventy one people over the past twenty four hours and injured three hundred twenty five a suburb has been under siege by regime forces for more than four years the united nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis in the area which is home to four hundred thousand people. i'll swear in the syrian conflict the syrian state news agency. he says pearl regime forces are going to help kurdish militias expel turkish troops from the border region that turkey invaded last month turkey's foreign minister responded by saying that if the syrian regime moved to protect the kurds a turkish offensive would continue present era to oncet the syrian government would have to face the consequences. all right well to help explain the potential ramifications of a possible deal between th

meters of natural gas each year it is expected to be completed by january twenty twenty security in herat was tight for the ceremony but the taliban has given its support for the pipeline reversing an earlier stand observer say this is probably because of its close ties with pakistan which will take forty percent of the gas and make a profit of twenty five percent on the sale. with the security fears softened the main focus now is attracting the investors to raise the capital to complete the project but for now everyone seems to be happy this project takes many boxes money jobs prestige and importantly regional cooperation and that's the kind of good news event that doesn't happen all too often in this part of the world tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. rush hour is marking its annual holiday dedicated to honoring military veterans it's been one hundred years since the red army was founded and despite undergoing a decline following the collapse of the soviet union it's once more become a force to be reckoned with as john holl reports from moscow. it's a hundred years since the first volunte

natural gas each year it's expected to be completed by january two thousand and twenty security in herat was tight for the ceremony but the taliban has given its support for the pipeline reversing an earlier stand observers say this is probably because of its close ties with pakistan which will take forty percent of the gas and make a profit of twenty five percent on the sale with the security fears soften the main focus now is attracting the investors to raise the capital to complete the project but for now everyone seems to be happy. i'll just hear. a lebanese man has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the death of a filipino maid and kuwait joana de matha of his body was found in a freezer more than a year after she was reported missing police arrested her former employer. in lebanon his wife was suspect as missing the muffler says death prompted the philippine government to ban new deployments of workers to kuwait and to repatriate hundreds of its nationals from there. to the u.k. now where knife crime by more than a fifth last year with a third of recorded offenses taki

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crashed in the south are dead the passenger plane disappeared from radar after leaving the capital to herat it was traveling to us in the southwest to palestinians have been found dead of the shelling by israeli forces in gaza followed an explosion that injured four israeli soldiers along the border have a force that has the latest from west jerusalem the most recent development is the discovery of those two bodies what the medical sources in gaza the health ministry in gaza is saying is that they were two seventeen year olds who were discovered east of russia down in the south of the gaza strip near the gyptian border also presumably close to the israeli border if it was east of the town of rougher the medical sources yesterday the night was saying that the israeli tank had attacked a gathering of people in that area russia has dismissed u.s. allegations that thirteen of its nationals ran a secret operation to sway the twenty sixteen presidential election in donald trump's favor u.s. national security adviser mcmaster says the evidence of espionage is quote undeniable. thirty five refugees

first link of pipe crossing the border between turkmenistan and afghanistan's gar a district near herat. ten billion dollar project will bring jobs and income equal but this project brings electricity gas work and life it brings like to the dark homes in afghanistan pakistan and india and also brings energy to each of our investors had their share. of the ceremony was watched by took many stands president the prime minister of pakistan and india's minister for external affairs who joined by video link the project known as tappy the initials of the four countries is being described as a new page in regional cooperation and hopes for a better future. now you have and then after a long time afghanistan is taking part in a regional project which will provide jobs for our people i'm hoping that this regional cooperation will result in closer relations between the countries and that it will help afghanistan become more stable and one that russia will the turkey project brings a message of peace so it will help bring peace in our country and also in the wider region the tension between the cou

off now he said was the time to bring everyone back on the train to do so in basra vael jazeera to herat. when all the developments of prominent iranian canadian professor has died in prison in teheran sixty three year old environmental activists covered say had a mommy was arrested last month over allegations he was part of aspiring police say he committed suicide in custody but his family say they don't believe that human rights groups say detainees in iran are routinely tortured and killed. human rights activists known as the iron lady of pakistan has died at the age of sixty six asma jahangir has suffered a heart attack in the eastern city of lahore late on saturday and died a few hours later she was a fierce defender of women and minorities and openly criticize the pakistani military intelligence and right wing religious parties the former un special rapporteur was also chair of pakistan's human rights commission and had also served as president of the supreme court's bar association as well while moving to try and come out where the opposition says the coalition government must res

meters of natural gas each year it is expected to be completed by january twenty twenty security in herat was tight for the ceremony but the taliban has given its support for the pipeline reversing an earlier stand observer say this is probably because of its close ties with pakistan which will take forty percent of the gas and make a profit of twenty five percent on the sale. with the security fears softened the main focus now is attracting the investors to raise the capital to complete the project but for now everyone seems to be happy this project takes many boxes money jobs prestige and importantly regional cooperation and that's the kind of good news event that doesn't happen all too often in this part of the world tony berkeley al jazeera kabul from syria to me on the plight of refugees has dominated the news agenda and inspired countless creative works about in film festival filmmakers have focused on telling a different side of the story as done when it came reports. in recent years this has become a recurring image the human cost of the refugee crisis. in the film eldorado we see

good to see you again you're watching it every news on leyla herat our top stories this hour north korea has been showcasing its military might just one day before south korea opens the winter olympics the parade marks the seventieth anniversary of its armed forces meanwhile america's vice president has arrived in the south promising to impose tougher sanctions on pyongyang and europe has really welcomed the deal between germany's biggest political parties to form a new coalition government but party leaders faced a criticism domestically for the concessions made to finalize the negotiations. russia has registered the eight candidates who will face off against vladimir putin in march's presidential election while this might sound like the premise for a hotly contested vote but with putin's approval rating at around eighty percent and one of his biggest rivals alexina volley barred from running he's expected to stroll to victory. an ice cold start to election year for vladimir putin this russian orthodox ritual symbolizes rebirth a reinvigorated putin is vying for his fourth term as russi

list revolution and that will lead this people to destroy the whole business of herat those of the country. that unemployment did go down equality increased per capita g.d.p. of course you could say that's because of the oil wealth are at the same time or are that only wealth could have been distributed completely different there and i would say it was distributed much more equitably. and it was a very backward country before birth of one of the poorest of latin america. life expectancy was in your early thirties and about three quarters of the country was a mature. it's very difficult to speak of a national policy much less of a national culture. then we have an extraordinary developments in one thousand nine hundred scene when venezuela sings it's those wells begins pumping oil for the first time. in this way that enters the era of commercial heavy oil production and not only is the british and the dutch involved but now the us also comes to venezuela to partake in oils production. foreign oil giants such as royal dutch shell and the american standard oil company were granted concessions

first link of pipe crossing the border between turkmenistan and afghanistan's goes are a district near herat. a ten billion dollars project will bring jobs and income. but this project brings electricity gas work and life it brings like to the dark homes in afghanistan pakistan and india and also brings energy to each of our investors had with. the ceremony was watched by took many stands president the prime minister of pakistan and india's minister for external affairs who joined by video link the project known as tappy the initials of the four countries is being described as a new page in regional cooperation and hopes for a better future. than you have and then after a long time afghanistan is taking part in a regional project which will provide jobs for our people i'm hoping that this regional cooperation will result in closer relations between the countries and that it will help afghanistan become more stable and one that russia the turkey project brings a message of peace so it will help bring peace in our country and also in the wider region the tension between the countries in the re

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about inflation fears of two years ago and now we migrate over to a great global reflation may be heratingamid this market turmoil. how much fun has the week been? james: it has been a lot of fun. i think what is happening is the distribution of risks is shifting towards some people are starting to take inflation seriously and others are starting to take new monetary policy possibilities seriously. i think we need to remember last week, too. the euro strength-dollar weakness and increasing yields, people were thinking differently about monetary policy and i think ultimately that was the trigger for this very u.s. equity market centric move. tom: even though mr. sweeney is with credit suisse, he is not in the division or the area of the vix uproar and we will not ask questions about that this morning. i am going to ask questions about how j paul does it. -- how was the first day, the chairman have to react to this, doesn't he? james: yeah, but he has experience with the fed and he has -- will have testimony soon. we are looking for any 10 of -- any kind of signals about terminal rate, long-

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