the afghan government welcomes that assistance and the afghan government will come and seeks the partnership with india. when it comes to pakistan's tensions and concerns over encirclement-- >> let me interrupt you. afghanistan was a strategic partnership with india? >> s. >> afghanistan claims a huge chunk of pakistani territory and we are surprised although you wanted minute and they won't admit it is working against our interests for a strong united afghanistan which longs to be an effective strategic part of india. >> we welcome the recent afghan pakistan discussions to deal with these issues that you raised including management of the border and there's been an agreement recently to establish liaison officers and be able to collaborate more effectively on the border. >> i'm sure there's collaboration. there's also substantial support for spec is-- pakistan-- bad elements in packs-- pakistan. you have a tough job. the only tougher job would be to come to our districts and explain why we have not destroyed the poppy fields because afghanistan is a battlefield, but so are the towns and cit

and afghan forces have turned the corner. general miller, we supposedly turned the corner so many times, it seems we are going in circles. so, let me just ask you. do you envision turning another corner during your tenure as commander? after 17 years of war, what are you going to do differently to bring this conflict to an end? miller: senator, first of all, i acknowledge the 17 years. that's a generation, and i have experience from 2001 until very young guy- this sitting behind me, i never anticipated his cohort would be in a position to deploy as i sat there in 2001. so, i acknowledge that. i also can't guarantee you a timeline or in end dates. i know going into this position does not offer a turning point is one.here something to report back that something has changed. that is where i anticipate being. the vital national interest of the united states of america and i do know today, from personal forces there, i know that is having an effect on theents that would affect united states of america. the other piece is, can we h

still ahead on al-jazeera a brief reprieve for afghan refugees in pakistan but they're still facing an uncertain future a plus among taken yeah i have to be strong but my stock kept al to being among his anxious wait as the search goes on for her thirteen year old son and his friends believed trapped in a flooded cave. and . the weather sponsored by. hello there will start by looking at weather conditions across central southern china and taiwan and here across eastern areas is certainly got some heavy rain at times we hand towards shanghai and down towards hong kong seeing some heavy showers i think for taiwan also the risk of showers is there jerry though across much of indochina through laos and towards me him are the weather's not looking at all bad yangon's should be relatively dry and after the weather we've had here in recent weeks certainly is welcome news the bulk of the rain seems to be further north towards parts of bangladesh the eastern states of india and through towards nepal so there's moving the forecast on twenty four hours still looking largely fine for vietnam hanoi

twenty years ago he came from southern germany to the afghan capital kabul and started up a small aid organization called. in diary one of the official languages of afghanistan often means well done. although he did a great deal. throughout the years his project is now threatened with closure. was it really really hurts to see what's been lost or already has been lost or. dollars but maybe one day we can bring it back to life has taught us. all through the city. that so no wonder. schmidt it his wife and the mathy and their local coworkers have taught tens of thousands of afghan girls how to read write and do arithmetic it's an incredible success story in a country where more than sixty percent of the people are illiterate. swallowed up water to understand what their organization does we visit the celica time mosque in a poverty stricken neighborhood on the outskirts of kabul. nan wet. big. bracelet. will leave it there. like these young pupils follows the. first learn the alphabet and over again today as she stands for the many successes that she tech and his afghan partners can poin

the afghan national army. guardians of a country ravaged by decades of war and occupation abandoned by its liberate his. young men who know that each day could be the last it to continue to fight for a future free from cale's. of qana stans own battle a witness documentary on al-jazeera. no just zero tolerance that's the message from tens of thousands of protesters in the u.s. to donald trump. and sam is a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. russian and government and strikes killed dozens of civilians in southwest syria including twenty three children plus. election day in mexico the number one issue for millions of voters is crime. all over. and hidden from view high in the mountains the mountain man astri's that have now been added to the world heritage list. from new york to los angeles and even donald trump's new jersey golf course large crowds turned out to protest against the u.s. president's so-called zero tolerance immigration policy huge crowds demonstrated outside city hall in san

many only a lot of fun as they hold there will be afghan refugees now face being kicked out sent back to a country still a. can of. this story. hello and welcome to the program piron i'm more than two million afghan refugees in pakistan now living in uncertainty as the deadline for them to leave the country expired on saturday the government in islamabad announced last year that all afghan refugees must return to their homeland their proof of registration cards have been extended a number of times but the government says eventually they will all have to leave for many of these refugees pakistan is and always has been home afghan families first began seeking asylum in pakistan in one nine hundred seventy nine when so many of them were born and raised there they also say conditions are not safe enough for them to return but the pakistani government says its economy cannot afford what it calls the burden of the refugees any longer the has more from the capital islamabad. ever since the russian and region of honest on nineteen seventies the van refugees have corp august on their home the

afghanistan's current troubles well to discuss that i'm now joined by fazio koofi a member of the afghan parliament and prominent women's rights activist madame ku feed so great to talk to you think you very much for your time thank you both of you now first of all let me start by getting your reactions to this latest visit by the u.s. secretary of state. not only indorsed president gunnies intention to hold talks with the taliban but actually repeated an offer for the united states to engage directly in those talks do you think that's a good idea. or. would like to stay. in afghanistan the boat in war but also in peace i think could there is a lot of confusion about the peace process in afghanistan definitely people of afghanistan who have suffered for more than forty years of war and conflict would like to see a country of peace because the country is now at the peak of so many conflict security stability also the upcoming elections two people want to see peace and security and. mediation of international community as a good and toured a will ensure a further sustainability for peace b

right now are in part to rooted in that effort to preserve and women's rights as alley and to the afghan society you absolutely need to i mean a lot of these groups are very fragile. international community. will see this sort of how they can ensure community was to keep these changes i'm sure that if the international community try to exit from afghanistan for instance with . an assurance. that to some of these changes will be safeguarded this to history will be to telephone and then we will perhaps face some of those. same. situation that we face after the soviet. withdrawal from afghanistan but in the meantime let me also make it clear that after the soviets withdrawn from afghanistan there was a gap a gap of civil war and a gap of tell about that basically undermined all the groups that were people of afghanistan in general and particular woman of afghanistan. everything basically kind of started from scratch while the woman movement in afghanistan has a very long history of the women participation in social and political life has a very long history of doing this with also we had a

against the wall yet so pakistan you know has taken in a great number of afghan refugees obviously more than anyone else and you're saying that it has not received the international support that it needed to do so this to say that let me come back to you because you were actually an afghan refugee in pakistan so what was your experience of that but also of returning to afghanistan and did you have the support you needed when you returned. thank you well i lived in pakistan as a refugee camp for about fourteen years and i grew up there i had my primary and secondary schooling there. we lived in a mad house and in a difficult situation but we thought that how life was we didn't know how difficult life our situation was that now we knew we were in difficult but at the time we thought that was the normal life for everyone the time we were returning after the fall of taliban in two thousand and three. we fought in pakistan but we are taking a very difficult decision and we are going to a place specially for me but i had never been before to kabul so when we came in the beginning it was a bit

some details just coming in first of all the taliban coordinating several attacks in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad and officials saying gunman targeted shops and government offices in one go ha province at least three explosions were heard earlier a roadside bomb killed at least eleven people on a bus in far province in the west thirty one people were injured we'll bring you more as soon as we get it. it's been another shift in tone and rhetoric from the u.s. president this time on iran don trump now says he's willing to meet iran's president has and ronny at any time without preconditions the two men have been locked in an escalating war of words and strength withdrew the u.s. from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal alan fisher has the story. the u.s. president's surprise offer came during a news conference at the white house with italy's prime minister no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want. any time they want the u.s. piloted the deal is signed with iran and its international partners when president trump announced in may the u.s. was pulling out

forces because we strongly believe that the best way to stabilize afghanistan is to enable the afghans themselves to stabilize their own country and to fight terrorism themselves and therefore we continue to provide support training and also of funding for the afghan national security forces and the message to the taliban is that they will not to win on the battlefield we will continue to support the afghan security forces they have to sit down at the negotiating table and the message is that. they will not we're not about to fill therefore that they will obtain more sitting down and negotiating with the guy on the goldman and we welcome the initiative they've got they've all meant to unconditioned. peace talks are welcome also the ceasefire we saw some weeks ago. you know. we have increased our military presence in the baltic countries on poland already we have four battle groups in each of the baltic countries and one in poland that is also some by luck to all presence of the u.s. so this shows that nato is adopting that nato is responding we have for about the groups but we also hav

afghan forces getting smaller. nato, step by step, increasing the size of its mission. at what point do you say, this plan isn't working? we need a new plan? >> i will say that the plan is working, meaning that we have been able to hand over responsibility for security in afghanistan to the afghans themselves. and that's a huge difference between what we did before. because then we were in afghanistan with a big combat mission, with more than 100,000 troops. i'm not saying that the situation in afghanistan is easy. there is violence, there is terrorism, there is uncertainty. there are many challenges. and sometimes, also, a lot -- disappointments. but at least we have seen and that we have together with afghans have been able to build a professional, dedicated force of afghan police and soldiers who are able to respond when taliban or terrorist groups conduct attacks. so that's a big achievement. we will continue to provide support to them, train their special operation forces, we're helping them to build their air forces. we'll have president afghani here tomorrow and

the afghan society's all those fathers and has burns who have been sending their daughters to school ho ho ho saw that wives going to work why do you think they all turned their back on that was what was the sub part of it the sad part of his life during taleban was that. the leader of afghanistan always guard their wifes their sisters as a value it. kind of human being can get from it is that's historically like that that's why women and men in afghanistan are so protective towards it though the women of the family but unfortunately due to the title but not only that you know physically of other structures were kind of broken and the government was physically you know not a strong government but brutal government but also so shitty our social values were damaged item number for instance going in the streets of kabul when a woman was beaten up by taliban her husband denied that it just to be said to save himself so that not only this one conflict actually damaged our structures and infrastructures but it unfortunately damaged our values too well madam koofi we have to take a very sho

life in the afghan capital. down from threatened and vowed to isolate it like no other now he's suggesting talks with iran and president rouhani without conditions it would be the first with an iranian leader since nine hundred seventy nine iran's deputy speaker of parliament says it's not the right time for talks and that negotiations would be humiliating or go live to tehran in a moment of first alan fischer from washington d.c. . the u.s. president's surprise offer came during a news conference at the white house with italy's prime minister no preconditions no they want to meet only anytime they want any time they want the u.s. spirally to the deal is signed with iran and its international partners when president trump announced in me the u.s. was pulling out even though there was no indication iran was in breach this was a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made he don't get for months it was a terrible deal and both to scrap it when he became president his offer to talk with iran's pre

will not be able to reverse it's interesting to me that both the americans and to some extent the afghan leadership refer to what is happening in afghanistan right now as the forty year crisis which would cover not only the american intervention there but obviously this obviously one as well from your perspective do you those great power for ac into your country have anything in common. i think. as somebody who lived in afghanistan all my life there is one difference the difference right now with the. when the soviet invaded afghanistan. and supported the force the government against them which i had in a lot of people ended a little afghanistan were supporting whatever he did they were welcoming and supporting and they were giving the space for mujahideen and their children were fighting against the government then supported by soviet union but when it comes to the taliban because people of afghanistan have experienced the taliban regime and kind of have the decent smell of what they want in this country they don't have a lot of local and popular support at the local community and so th

afghan forces getting smaller. nato increasing the size of its mission. at what point do you say this plan isn't working? we need a new plan? the plan is working. been able to hand over responsibility for security in afghanistan to the afghans themselves. difference between what we did before. we were in afghanistan with a big combat mission. more than 100,000 troops. i'm not saying the situation is similar, there is violence, -- is easy. there is violence, terrorism, uncertainty. there are many challenges. sometimes, also a lot of disappointments. that we we have seen have been able to build a offessional dedicated force afghan police and soldiers who are able to respond when taliban or terrorist groups conduct attacks. that is a big achievement. we will continue to provide support, we are helping them build their forces. mandate -- then we will discuss how they can adopt the way we provide support to them. there will be a main plan -- instead of us conducting big combat operations, we are instead helping them to fight terrorism. our position is conditio

brief reprieve for afghan refugees in pakistan but they're still facing an uncertain future. in the sport world number two caroline wozniacki wins or second title at the international. ceasefire has reportedly been violated just hours after coming into effect government forces and rebels in the north west are blaming each other for breaking the truce the agreement was signed by president salva kiir and rebel little red much are in neighboring sudan at least fifty thousand people have been killed and four million forced from their homes since the civil war began in two thousand and thirteen let's speak to the borg and she's been covering the conflict in south sudan extend extensively just give us an idea of context what's behind the latest violence well both sides are accusing each other. less than six hours after it came into effect yesterday or early hours of this morning the president issued an order to his forces saying that as of the early hours of saturday the would come into effect and that they should hold back unless attacked the opposition all said the same thing tha

you know they have been doing in the past like bombing you know over though the permission of the afghan government via been grading houses at night they have been killing and torturing people without permission of the afghan government he said that they will have the technical solution of a taliban undermining afghan civilians he once you know there was a lot of criticism about this incident and changed the a tone and they said what we didn't say and we will talk to the yeah to the taliban but facilitate and we would talk about the you know the stand of the united states on golf the united states and our troops and stuff this is not the first time to have done it in the past so they would do it again and again that's a global update for this hour thanks for tuning in. oh la la la la. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to fi

government and the afghan people towards last in peace was mischaracterized. america's war in afghanistan is seventeen years old now and appears to be in stalemate the taliban control roughly forty percent of the country and there are currently fifteen thousand u.s. troops stationed there even though donald trump promised during his two thousand and sixteen campaign to declare the war a lost cause and pull american forces out last month a three day cease fire but civilian casualties are at a record high one thousand six hundred ninety two people were killed in the first half of this year according to the u.n. that's more than any how fear appeared in the decade before and it seems that the u.s. doesn't have a clear strategy when it comes to the taliban. we have a taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the t

meant to be a military operation against the taliban it is not yet clear if it was carried out by afghan or u.s. or craft spoke to witnesses at the scene and warning you may find the following images. no mine is not on the p.c. when he's on the car no one near one of them because no one with you tomorrow night is ready but you're going to want to look it over that you were here don't see what you did so we're not going to afghan officials have said most of the dead are women and children the u.s. claims it did conduct airstrikes in the area insisting however there were no civilian casualties here starting. after seventeen years the nile is propaganda by the enemy foreign troops are our friends and we don't target civilians u.s. forces did conduct strikes and on the ground assessments of those strikes reveals no indications they caused civilian casualties. taliban propaganda they claimed with an on the ground assessment to prove it who can argue with that almost sounds like the results of a scientific experiment would have helped of course of that actually visited the place. the americans

summit more than a million afghan refugees living in pakistan will find out on saturday whether they're allowed to stay for more than a year pakistan's government to set an extended deadlines requiring all registered afghan refugees to cross back over the border some have lived in pakistan for decades with many having fled afghanistan when the soviet union invaded in one nine hundred seventy nine in recent months the government has taken a less sympathetic stance with ministers describing refugees as a burden the economy can no longer maintain kamel high there has more from islamabad. ever says the russian and reagan of honest on nineteen seventy's. refugees have corp august on their home their country has become host to millions of refugees and even today she and a half decades on august on is said to host over two point five million afghan refugees of which one point five million afghan refugees are registered and the others do not have adequate documents the government of pakistan has been exerting pressure on these refugees to go back because they. say you sang cities by militant ou

process that isn't afghan led and managed. pretty of the same. >> thank you. >>> ahead the board of cbs is meeting as the company's ceo is accused of sexual misconduct. we will have all the details ahead. -we're in a small room. what?! -welcome. -[ gasps ] a bigger room?! -how many of you use car insurance? -oh. -well, what if i showed you this? -[ laughing ] ho-ho-ho! -wow. -it's a computer. -we compare rates to help you get the price and coverage that's right for you. -that's amazing! the only thing that would make this better is if my mom were here. what?! an unexpected ending! is if my mom were here. ♪ ♪ our new, hot, fresh breakfast will get you the readiest. (buzzer sound) holiday inn express. be the readiest. >>> this morning, the board of cbs will meet and consider the fate of the ceo after allegations of sexual misconduct by six different women. these allegations come in an explosive report by "the new yorker." walk me through what the women are saying and what the board of cbs has to weigh in minutes. >> the accusati

both from the taliban and the afghan army or less even if they were women or people who were injured and just everybody. for a moment in mid june the unthinkable seemed possible first the afghan government proclaimed a unilateral ceasefire to honor the end of the month of muslim fasting the taliban match their troops it came to touching scenes of taliban fighters and afghan government soldiers who otherwise fought bitterly shook hands the president seized the opportunity to call on the taliban to work towards lasting peace. what is possible. has surprised the world in want peace. we should solve our problems together. i say together i mean what government the taliban and the people must say we should stop fighting for religion and political differences because there is no justification for that. but while some celebrated others continued to bomb the terrorist militia the so-called islamic state stepped up its suicide attacks in june there were dozens of victims like here in jalalabad the hopes of the war torn country lasted a mere three short days after ied marking the end of the mon

most of the dead are women and children afghan officials say the u.s. said it conducted as strikes in the area that had caused no civilian casualties my galaxy ever ports after seventeen years the nile is propaganda by the enemy foreign troops are our friends and we don't target civilians u.s. forces did conduct strikes and on the ground assessments of those strikes reveals no indications they caused civilian casualties. taliban propaganda they claimed with an on the ground assessment to prove it who can argue with that almost sounds like the results of a scientific experiment would have helped of course of that actually visited the place. the americans never visited this area and i'm witness to this national defense forces visited the area to check in first they wouldn't let a stink out the dead and injured. foreigners didn't visit this area. they are lying a delegation came here from the local governments and security officials ok so if you think that locals all of them at their word it's the afghan army that lied to the american troops it wasn't unti

led will be amongst the afghan people we have been very encouraged following the ceasefire to see how the afghan people have responded that we think that bodes well for the peace process nato leaders are preparing for a tense summit in brussels this week as president donald trump steps up his campaign to get member nations to spend more on defense but that's not an issue for poland in fact they're willing to pay the u.s. two billion dollars to set up a permanent military base within their borders they have a change of reports from warsaw. the thought of their russian neighbor looms large in polish minds fence ministry has proposed setting up a joint armored division which would have fifteen thousand u.s. troops and a total of two hundred fifty tanks and armored vehicles. they say establishing such a force would present an unequivocal challenge and the terence to what they described as russia's increasing the bold and dangerous posture towards europe. the pentagon is reported to be actively engaged on costing the plan but moscow has warned it will retaliate against any nato expansion o

well i retired all started when a young swedish student called our son heard that an afghan was going to be deported so she bought a plane ticket for the flight that she believed that this afghan was going to be on she got on the plane and then she began her own form of protest and she filmed the whole thing and streamed it live on facebook we can show you parts of that video but what i'm most saying is that i'm not going to sit down until this person is the player. because he would most likely get killed if he gets on this mean that you. know and the pilot has to right to say that he is not allowed to be on the plane and as long as he's not on the page then i will comply. so she's saying she is not sitting down she doesn't want to the plane to take off until the afghan has been allowed to get off the plane later we see a cabin crew asking her to please sit down she's not doing that we hear some passengers were saying that she's delaying the flight still she goes on with her protests and then later they even other passengers who are joining her also standing up and then after a few mi

official being quoted as saying we agree to meet again soon the result of the afghan conflict through dialogue i mean one wants to say well good luck with that one because it's been going on for so long it didn't work before why should it. i think that the trump administration is attempting to position itself as you know bigger and better than the obama administration and would very much like to claim a win their point when that the obama administration was unable to achieve and say that the trump administration was able to do it and there is a different dynamic now between the afghan government and the talabani government as you stated earlier in the program hamid karzai was very upset with it with the taleban you know. having their flag thrown flown in doha and that dynamic isn't why it is present except at the same time it's very important to understand that the afghan government is likely not going to be very happy that the united states is meeting with the taliban without them at the table at the same time i think it's unlikely that we would be able to bring both of the parties t

still had an al-jazeera washington promises to support peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban as the u.s. secretary of state visits afghanistan. and israel seals a key role in crossing into gaza blocking a major access point for vital supplies. and it's. the weather sponsored by cattle. once again welcome to the look at the international forecast the sloshy troyer across southern parts of china at the moment a few bits and pieces of cloud down towards the far south but this is as we go on into the second half of the week that we really are concerned mid week we're going to see this tropical system soon for time food maria making its way across northern parts of taiwan towards the province damaging winds and flooding rains coming in here it will weaken but lots of very heavy rain and we are likely to see quite a bit of chaos as we go on through the second half of this week because further south the showers continue through the philippines southern parts of india china malaysia seeing some showers some longer spells of rain in some wet weather still very much in evid

something that once you once you try them you start taking them for granted why do you think the afghan society is all those fathers and has burns who have been sending their daughters to school or who saw that wives going to work why do you think they all turned their back on that well that was the sub part of it the sad part of it is after life during taliban was that. the leader of afghanistan always guard their wives their sisters as a value able. to human being in their families that's historically like that that's why women and men in afghanistan are so protective towards the woman of the family but unfortunately due to the taleban not only that we had a physical structures were kind of broken and the government was physically you know not a strong government but brutal government but also socially our social values were damaged i remember for instance going in the streets of kabul when a woman was beaten up by taliban her husband denied the relationship just to be said to save himself not only this war and conflict actually damaged our structures and infrastructures but it unfort

be deported so she decided to get a plane ticket and get on the very same plane that this afghan was supposed to be on and when she got on board she staged her own kind of protest and she even filmed the whole thing and broadcast it live on facebook you can take a look at some of those clips. but imo saying is that i'm not going to sit down until this person is the player. because he would most likely get killed if he explained. that he and the pilot first right say that he is not allowed to be on the plane and as long as he is not on the base then i will comply with. so she says she'll continue sending out for meaning that the plane cannot take off and there were some passengers were asking how to stop the laying of the flight there were others who are joining her in the protests that are also standing up and saying ok we're going to stand with you and then after like ten minutes ago something happened and she looked like she was getting successful. everybody. we're taking your bags out and i. just remember to thank the u.s. and i mean let me think that it's ok for you to go back to

. >> this morning, i spoke to afghan sikh community leaders in my constituency following the horrificerrorist attack in the afghan city of jalalabad on sunday, which was a deliberate attack with devastating consequences. the 19 killed included the trustees of the gurdwara and the only sikh candidate in the forthcoming elections, mr avtar singh khalsa. the gurdwara had been a safe haven for many persecuted families and they were on their way to visit the president. at the moment, the afghan sikhs in west london are meeting in prayer and remembrance for those killed, many of whom they knew. will the prime minister update the house on what she is doing to ensure the safety of minorities in afghanistan, including meeting the afghan diaspora to discuss their concerns? >> the honorable lady raises a very serious issue. the terrorist attack that she refers to was indeed appalling. as she said, too many victims lost their lives as a result of that attack that took place in afghanistan. it is important that we ensure that we are providing support, as we do through our contribution in afghanist

six hours of gun battles as the afghan city of jalalabad comes under attack for the second time in three days. so there are a col this is our sara live from doha also coming up the results are coming soon for zimbabwe voters but already there is talk of course action. to pre-conditions you know they want to meet only anytime they want anytime they want he now wants to travel to iran donald trump's an offer just nine days after threatening the country . and calling an international help the battle against a wave of wildfires in the u.s. showing no sign of letting up. gun battles and explosions have echoed around the afghan city of jalalabad for the second time in four days in the past hour security officials have declared the attack over that six people killed. it dragged on for hours off the gunman targeted government offices a government official said a combo mix posted near a hospital at a refugee. department about attack began soon after a roadside bomb killed at least eleven people on a bus in the west and far a province shot about us is keeping across events for us in kabul and shel

government and the afghan people towards lost in peace was mischaracterized. america's war in afghanistan a seventeen years old and appears to be in stalemate the taliban control roughly forty percent of the country there are currently fifteen thousand u.s. troops stationed there even though donald trump promised during his twenty six thousand campaign to declare the war a lost cause and pull american forces out last months or a three day cease fire but a civilian casualties are at a record high on thousand six hundred ninety two people were killed in the first half of this year according to the u.n. that's more than in any half year period in the decade before and it seems that the u.s. doesn't have a clear strategy when it comes to the taliban. we have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliba

speaker, at the moment now, the afghan sikhs in west london are meeting in prayer and remembrance forhose killed, many of whom they knew. will the prime minister update the house on what she is doing to ensure the safety of minorities in afghanistan, including meeting with the afghan diaspora to discuss their concerns? pm may: can i say to the honorable lady, she raises a very serious issue. the terrorist attack that she refers to was indeed an appalling attack. as she said, too many victims lost their lives as a result of that attack that took place in afghanistan. and it is important that we ensure that we are providing support, as we do through our contribution to -- in afghanistan, which is about contribution to security in the, in the kabul area specifically from our forces, but it is also about working with others to ensure that the afghan security forces are able to provide the security and safety for all communities who are living in afghanistan. there has been tremendous achievements, have been made in terms of afghanistan today, compared with the situation before these effor

eyes that you know that's doing a total just shows me it was important to me is on the other side afghans in how i get to the other side f.f.s. . eventually perry got to the other side of that fence in two thousand and one after serving nearly nineteen years of his life sentence perry was granted parole. once on the outside perry turned his life around. he graduated from college and spent the next eleven years employed as an advocate for the homeless finding them housing and managing a soup kitchen. it was somebody who. was by all accounts doing extraordinarily well and was contributing to his community he was searched sitting on boards with elected officials and he had the support of the mayor of course hampton the chief of police of northampton and countless citizens who had just seen him extend themselves to the least fortunate and most vulnerable members of the community a letter of recommendation from the mayor of north hampton said mr perry used the circumstances of his imprisonment and parole to forge a new life for himself and better the community he works in. and then on august t

these the top stories on al-jazeera gunmen have stormed shops and government offices in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad the second attack in four days a gun battle with security forces is still going on several people are reported to be injured and at least three explosions have also been heard about us has more from kabul. sporadic gunfire is still going at this government department for refugees in jalalabad as you know the afghan special forces are there and engaged in a basso with these attackers we do understand now that the numbers of wounded have increased the head of the main hospital in jalalabad has just released that they are treating ten people lightly wounded two critically iran's deputy speaker of parliament has dismissed an announcement by donald trump that he'd be willing to meet iranian president hassan rouhani at any time without preconditions mata hari says it's not the right time for talks with the u.s. and that they'd be humiliating and thompson senior staff appear to contradict him and u.s. secretary of state might prompt says he's on board with me to advance pre

the afghan red crescent society and federation supplies medicines. we set this up in the communities, the a sessi assessment done in those areas. through those strategies we were able to reach a significant number of children. some of them are the start of project, for five years, that i have not been vaccinated. some of them with zero dose. areas that were under the protection of the militants and the anti-government elements. now, for the program, we need to have a paradigm shift from what we've been doing, if we must finish the job. the situation has changed. the factors have changed. and so many many things have changed in the program. so we need to bring the program closer to the community by involving them in the planning of our interventions in those areas. local actors need to be involved in our planning. right now, we need to look at more resources to the community. this is the only way we can be able to get more results because if you look at the mobile population, each round of exercise, each campaign, we have significant number we missed