kabul president just off guard he says the taliban were behind the attack but the armed group says eisel is to blame for the account of 40 has more from kabul let me give you a warning this report contains some graphic images. children screaming for their mothers scattered notebooks and casualties strong across the ground in western kabul. girls' school had been a place of safety education and hope for the future now the scene of an attack intended to create maximum casualties 3 explosions at about 5 30 pm local time the same time young women and girls were finishing school and streaming out of the gates dozens of wounded civilians were rushed to mohammad ali jinnah hospital many in a critical condition and. unfortunately during the time when students were coming out of the school a powerful explosion happened and the number of children will wind it up and you can say that all the hospitals are full of victims. those who lost their lives lined up in the corridors a family members checked to see they'd lost their loved ones. concerned people to donate blood. were a lot of casualties there

you see the people along with forensic evidence collected from mass graves show advisor karim conses eisel documents identified the perpetrators based upon independent and impartial investigations complying with international standards the un best practice there is clear and convincing evidence of the crimes against the easy to people. constituted genocide or particularly we have identified specific perpetrators that clearly have responsibility for the crime of genocide against these evil military. meanwhile and activists and nobel peace prize lawyers is maintaining pressure on the un saying it's broken its promises to be using the community not their mourad urge the security council to act immediately on the evidence collected by investigators and added that justice cannot be done until guilty eisel members are held to account at the international criminal court. life in the us is beginning to return to normal as the effects of the pandemic gradually subside and that means crime is returning to its usual level and perhaps even getting worse a spate of mass shootings over the past few days

officials and fighter groups the taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility blaming eisel but president blame the armed groups saying the taliban have once again shown their unwillingness to resolve the crisis peacefully and fundamentally by escalating their legitimate war and violence in a country already torn apart by decades of war his attack will no doubt lead to more fear more anger and parents scared to send their children to school. the new supreme court force to ensure the delivery of medical oxygen across the country criticism is mounting over the government's response to the spiraling coronavirus outbreak reports from new delhi. rajkumar patiently waits for his next ride his passenger as a family member of a covert patient admitted to a new delhi hospital and there waiting to be taken home. is one of many drivers in india capital who are using the auto rickshaws as ambulances and ferrying patients and their families for free that the library obviously one is scared but it's everyone's children will stay inside their homes then who will go out and fight at the bor

and it's truly an man suspected of being a recruiter for eisel has been arrested in melbourne federal police detained the 30 year old who'd been deported from turkey usual there for 18 months is expected to be charged in strayer over a fence is allegedly committed during his time in syria and turkey. rescue crews in guinea are searching for survivors after a mudslide at a gold mine at least 16 people have been killed after the collapse in sea guly in the northeast well comedia say as many as 40 more people may still be trapped inside china says remnants of one of its biggest rockets have landed in the indian ocean after an uncontrolled way entry into arts atmosphere coordinates released by the chinese space agency but the land area here just west of the maldives is not yet clear whether any debris landed on the islands though china says most burned up on reentry. well the vote can't scald long march 5 laws 10 days ago kind parts of china's 1st prominent space station nasa has criticized beijing failing to control the debt free saying it isn't missing responsible standards. is a senior

groups the taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility blaming eisel but president blame the armed groups saying the taliban have once again shown their unwillingness to resolve the crisis peacefully and. by as collating their legitimate war and violence in a country already torn apart by decades of war this attack will no doubt lead to more fear more anger and parents scared to send their children to school. try to virus deaths in india could reach 1000000 by the beginning of august that's the stark warning from the british medical journal the lancet the government is facing mounting criticism over its response to the country's accelerating outbreak and as part of the mittal reports from new delhi people are increasingly desperate to get their hands on life saving medical supplies. rajkumar patiently waits for his next ride his passengers are family members of a covert patient admitted to a new delhi hospital and there waiting to be taken home. is one of many drivers in india's capital who are using the auto rickshaws as ambulances and ferrying patients and their familie

condemned the attack and it has blamed eisel for it and we have to remember that this attack happened in western kabul in dust which is an area that is predominantly has predominantly shia and in recent years there have been many attacks in that area that schools have been targeted gyms have been targeted and most of the times it has been i saw that has claimed an attack this story is still developing but i can tell you is that was driving through kabul the entire city tonight is numb after this attack as it comes only days after a massive truck bomb exploded in. right next to a guest house where dozens of high school students doreen were staying waiting to take their university entrance exams back to you just one more for you feel you all have you with us what has the government said about this attack if anything at all . i haven't really seen anything from the government but for sure they will condemn it. probably they will somehow blame the taliban because in that taliban statement that was issued a little while ago the taliban's most spokesman not only blamed i so but also said an

capital kabul president bashar vanny says the taliban was behind the attack but the armed group says eisel is to blame the british medical journal the lancet is warned coronavirus deaths in india could reach 1000000 by the beginning of august the government has been facing mounting criticism over its response to the country's excel orating outbreak spain has lifted a 6 month state of emergency imposed to control the country's growing virus outbreak thousands celebrated in the streets of barcelona as the restrictions ended at midnight on saturday the central government is handing control of restrictions to spain's 19 regions. beijing says residents of an out of control section of china's biggest rocket have landed in the indian ocean brokamp on re entry into the atmosphere a long march 5 rocket was launched 10 days ago carrying part of the country's 1st permanent space station coordinates put the point of impact west of the mall the eaves it ends days of speculation know where the debris would land. those are your headlines the news continues here in al-jazeera after the stream. we. were ta

people along with forensic evidence collected from the mass graves special advisor karim khan says eisel documents identified specific traces. some work taken sides where they were mowed down with machine guns but was that really if you got a shock others who. were killed and people who flee. and sought refuge in mount sinjar also died because died. and were turned on destroying them in whole or in part. but a activist nobel peace prize laureate set the united nations a broken promise as it may to the as the days. of the security council to act now on evidence collected by investigators she says justice for the is edis has been deferred an ice perpetrators must be held to account at the international criminal court the u.s. special envoy for the horn of africa is in ethiopia to discuss the conflict and to gray amongst other issues fighting in the region is now in its 6th month and aid organizations are saying they are still struggling to reach those affected more than 63002 grand refugees have fled to neighboring sudan morgan met some of the refugees and gondor a state and the border wit

ministry it happened near a school in western kabul the taliban has condemned the attack and blames eisel failure contre for it has more from the afghan capital the incident happened at 530 local kabul time that's the time when the afternoon shift of thought schools is ending the students are finishing their classes and that was a girls' school and there is no school buses here to take them home so at that time the streets outside of school are packed with students going home that's when i witnesses say 3 explosions happened almost back to back and after that point according to eyewitnesses there were there was paddick there were students who were trying to run away crying and calling for their mothers. palestinian groups are calling for protests after israeli forces stormed the mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem more than 200 palestinian worshippers were injured thousands of muslims had gathered for the last friday prayers of ramadan several states in india are going into lockdown as officials try to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control india is the 3rd country after the

capital kabul president ashraf ghani says the taliban were behind the attack but they on group says eisel is to blame. india's supreme court has has set up a task force to ensure the delivery of medical oxygen across the country as criticism months over the government's response to the covert 900 surge several states in india are now going into lockdown as officials try to bring the spiraling outbreak under control scotland's pro independence parties have won a majority in parliamentary elections scottish national party leader nicolas sturgeon wants to see a 2nd referendum on independence and u.k. prime minister blair is johnson says a 2nd vote would be irresponsible and reckless and london mayor said he can and has been re-elected for a 2nd time giving a boost to the opposition labor party after a disappointing run in local u.k. elections con 155 percent of the vote defeating prime minister barak is johnson's conservative candidate became the 1st muslim man of the western capital when he was 1st elected in 2016 and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after insid

single week since october the afghan government said the taliban were responsible the taliban blamed eisel and afghan intelligence services these are not. killing innocent people and won't these are against our border because our bullets practic are for the common people. national project best we have announced the rise in casualties has coincided with the final pullout of foreign troops may 1 was the former deadline for the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan u.s. president joe biden push that back to september 11th the nato allies will leave then also e.u. foreign ministers met on monday the withdrawal from afghanistan at the forefront of discussions not in shrek. after the terrible attacks in the recent days it's all the more important for the e.u. to make very clear that afghanistan and the afghan government can continue to count on europe support we'll do everything we can to ensure the ongoing peace negotiations reach a conclusion of a key goal in u.s. and nato negotiations with afghan intel a ban representatives has always been a reduction in violence and after and horrif

officials and fighter groups the taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility blaming eisel but president blame the armed groups saying the taliban have once again show. and their unwillingness to resolve the crisis peacefully and fundamentally by escalating their legitimate war and violence in a country already torn apart by decades of war this attack will no doubt lead to more clear more anger and parents scared to send their children to school. or country for al jazeera kabul chris turney amanda is the afghanistan country director for save the children he says children are too often the victims of attacks in the region i think this is an outrageous attack that is happening again targeting mostly us this is not you know this is the reality of life in afghanistan we see time and again that children are being targeted in this moment that we live in. and. we are panicking it's appalling that this is happening schools should be safe havens for children not zones of war i think we call all the all the perpetrators and parties to this conflict that they should do everything to p

groups the afghan government that it might not come at the expense that they want to come by denouncing eisel and other groups might come in denouncing al qaida it might just be that the taliban win everything that they want they become a regional power in afghanistan and the americans just have to deal with it do they do you think they realize that i think that's one scenario that's being discussed and from folks that i speak to in washington there seems to be confidence within the administration that they can manage the threat they think it's a threat that can be managed by an offshore counterterrorism strategy but only time will tell i want to thank all our guests colin clarke victoria function and so on but i've got and thank you too for watching you can see this and all our previous programs again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook pages facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a j inside story for me among current and a whole team here. from the north of afr

condemned the attack and it has blamed eisel for it and we have to remember that this attack happened in western kabul in dust which is an area that is predominantly has predominantly shia and in recent years there have been many attacks in that area schools have been targeted gyms have been targeted and most of the times it has been i sold that has claimed an attack this story is still developing but i can tell you is that was driving through kabul the entire city tonight is numb after this attack. christopher nam and he is the afghanistan country director for save the children joins us by skype now from kabul of his sleeve spent a great deal of time in the country you know about what's just happened and west in kabul why do you think this specific school in this particular neighborhood was was targeted in this attack. thanks a lot miriam for having me on your program i think this is an outrageous attack that is happening again targeting children mostly cures this is not your miriam this is the religion of life in afghanistan we see time in a being that are being targeted in this mor

officials and fighter groups the taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility blaming eisel but president blame the armed groups saying the taliban have once again shown their own willingness to resolve the crisis peacefully and fundamentally by escalating their legitimate war and violence. in a country already torn apart by decades of war his attack will no doubt lead to more clear more anger and parents scared to send their children to school my life now is he feel contra free in philly oh as zol about are trying to distance themselves from this attack but has anyone claimed responsibility for the murder of schoolgirls. well actually no no one has claimed responsibility so far and like we've heard the taliban denied responsibility they blamed iceland directly blamed the afghan government for supporting that group the afghan government openly blamed the taliban so there's this blame game that we keep seeing when such attacks happen as to could have done it now the government says they have been investigating the incident but we have to know that there is this culture of imp

not as a people as a whole but talking about hamas the radical jihadi ideology that he compares to eisele or al qaeda he didn't use al-qaeda in this case but appealing to people on that level of fear or from terrorism which everyone can relate to but the palestinians on their side when we heard from that foreign minister riad malki talking about what opportunity do we have what tools do we have at our disposal and pointing out that they have very little you know he talked about the tools of the international community whether it be sending troops to. having sanctions on one party or another that doesn't in this case and with with israel they're referring to even extends and so on and you know there's sanctions you could and relations with them but of course the united states certainly has not shown any willingness to do that and because of that the security council has not been even even able to make a unified statement so where does that leave the palestinians that leaves them very much an underdog and in a power struggle very they. there though they have nothing to bring to the table ag

western kabul presidents or afghani says the taliban were behind the attack but the armed group says eisel is to blame failure contre for it has more from the afghan capital. the incident happened at 530 local kabul time that's the time when the afternoon shift of thought schools is ending the students are finishing their classes and that was a girls' school and there is no school buses here to take them home so at that time the streets outside of school are packed with students going home that's when i witnesses say 3 explosions happened almost back to back and after that point according to eyewitnesses there were there was there were students who were trying to run away crying and calling for their mothers palestinian groups are calling for protests after israeli forces stormed the mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem more than 200 palestinian worshippers were injured. the scottish national party's has won a majority in the country's parliamentary elections the party leader nicolas sturgeon wants to seek a 2nd referendum on scottish independence u.k. prime minister boris johnson sa

capital kabul president ashraf ghani says the taliban were behind the attack but the armed group says eisel is to blame. india's supreme court has set up a task force to ensure the delivery of medical oxygen across the country as criticism mounts over the government's response to the covert 900 surge several states in india are now going into lockdown as officials try to bring the spiraling outbreak under control. a feud over succession plans in the zulu royal family seems to have ended prince misses or losing who will succeed his mother queen months she was named regent following the death of her husband as well as theming in march when she died unexpectedly last week there was chaos when the prince was named successor and his mother as well and police had to misquote him to safety but family opposition has since been withdrawn and he's been returned to the palace top u.s. fuel pipeline operator colonial says it's shut its entire network after a cyber attack the company's network transports to a half 1000000 barrels of fuel a day through almost 9000 kilometers of pipes across the u.s. colo

officials and fighter groups the taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility blaming eisel but president blame the armed groups saying the taliban have once again shown their own willingness to resolve the crisis peacefully and fundamentally by escalating their legitimate war and violence. in a country already torn apart by decades of war there's attack will no doubt lead to more fear more anger and parents scared to send their children to school. country for the al-jazeera kabul. fighting has resumed in ethiopia's 10 grey region preventing international aid from reaching civilians caught up in the conflict between 2 grey and rebels and the ethiopian government sporadic shelling could be heard north of the town of a girl or as ethiopia's military blocks the road to aid convoys including the un world food program doctors without borders and world vision the military says it had safety concerns and it comes as one of the country's top religious leaders has spoken out against what he described as genocide same bus driver he has more now. the government has been fighting the pe

now the head of a un investigation into crimes committed by eisel in iraq says there's overwhelming evidence the group committed genocide against the years eating people along with forensic evidence collected from mass graves special advisor karen card says i saw documents identified specific perpetrators based upon independent and impartial investigations complying with international standards the un best practice there is clear and convincing evidence of the crimes against the easy to people. constituted genocide or particularly we have identified specific perpetrators that clearly have responsibility for the crime of genocide against these easy really. u.c.d. activist and nobel peace prize laureate says the united nations has broken promises it made to the use e.d. community nadia mirada urged the security council to act now on evidence collected by investigators she says justice for the years has been deferred and i saw the perpetrators must be held to account at the international criminal court iran has confirmed publicly for the 1st time on monday that it's in talks with its rival saud

popular mobilisation forces surrounded the ministry of finance they fought during the war against eisel between 20142019 now they are demanding to be rehired a deteriorating economic situation has contributed to tensions between iraq's various political and sectarian groups so mona fulton is in baghdad. these kind of protests have been taking place in the capital baghdad for a few days now and the crowds mostly consist of members of the popular mobilization forces which is this umbrella group of paramilitaries that was formed to fight i saw in 2014 and these people are demanding to be hired or rehired by the pm math and this request comes just a few weeks after the iraqi parliament passed its 2021 budget in which to increase the budget chair of the p.m.s. by over 20 percent so now there is a discussion going on within the ranks of the pm of how that money should be used advocates that the salaries of existing fire should be increased what other say that notice should be new people hired and included in the organization now what is particularly interesting is that this is a budget increa

capital kabul president bush afghani says the taliban were behind the attack but the armed group says eisel is to blame india's supreme court has set up a task force to ensure the delivery of medical oxygen across the country as criticism months over the government's response to the covert 900 search several states in india are now going into lockdown. the u.s. envoy for the horn of africa is trying to resolve the long running dispute over ethiopia's grandma nestles down among the river nile both sudan and egypt object to ethiopia filling the reservoir created by the dam they say it will disrupt their water supplies further downstream scotland's pro independence parties have won a majority in parliamentary elections scottish national party leader nicolas sturgeon wants to seek a 2nd referendum on independence but u.k. prime minister but as johnson says a 2nd vote would be irresponsible and reckless london mayor has said it can has been reelected for a 2nd time giving a boost to the opposition labor party after a disappointing run in local u.k. elections became the 1st muslim mayor of a west

western kabul presidents are afghani says the taliban were behind the attack but the armed group says eisel is to blame failure contre for her.

fire 12 people were killed after a bomb exploded inside a mosque outside the capital kabul on friday eisel claimed responsibility for their stock foh francis has held a special mass for myanmar's catholics urging them not to give in to despair has been one of the most vocal critics of the country's giunta after seize power in a coup in february protests have been met by a violent military crackdown in a local monitoring group says almost 800 people have been killed and tensions have been rising in the north west when armed resistance is growing. dear brothers and sisters in these days when your beloved country of myanmar is experiencing violence conflict and repression let us ask ourselves what we are being called to keep in the 1st place to keep the faith we need to keep the faith list we yield to grief or plunge into the despair of those who no longer see a way out. which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world one out of every $100.00 pregnant women is expected to die during labor or from related complications morgan reports from the capital one of the biggest chall

mobilization forces stormed the ministry of finance earlier on sunday they fought during the war against eisel between 2014 and 19 and are now demanding maybe re hyatt's simona 14 is monitoring developments from back. these kind of protests have been taking place in the capital baghdad for a few days now and the crowd to mostly composed of members of the popular mobilization forces which is this umbrella group of paramilitaries that was formed to fight i was called in 2014 and these people are demanding to be hired or rehired by b.p.m.'s and this request comes just a few weeks after the iraqi parliament passed its 2021 budget in which to increase the budget chair of the pm aest by over 20 percent so now there is a discussion going on within the ranks of the pm of how that money should be used some advocates that the salaries of existing fighters should be increased while others say that in order should be new people hired and included in the organization now what is particularly interesting is that this a budget increase 4 to p.m.s. happened despite the country going through a prolonging finan

condemned the attack and it has blamed eisel for it and we have to remember that this attack happened in western kabul in dust about which is an area that is predominantly has predominantly shia and in recent years there have been many attacks in that area schools have been targeted gyms have been targeted and most of the times it has been i so that has claimed an attack this story is still developing but i can tell you is that was driving through kabul the entire city tonight is numb after this attack india's supreme. force to ensure the delivery of medical all across the country is criticism months over the government's response to the covert learn to surge several states are going into lockdown. fighting has resumed in ethiopia's tikrit region preventing international aid from reaching civilians caught up in the conflict between rebels and the ethiopian government sporadic shelling to be heard north of the town of a gulag as the military blocks the roads to aid convoys scotland's pro independence parties have won the majority in parliamentary elections leader nicolas sturgeon wants

afghan capital president a shotgun he says the taliban was behind the attack and the armed groups says eisel is to blame. the british medical journal the lancet is warned coronavirus deaths in india could reach 1000000 by the beginning of august the health ministry has announced another 400000 new cases and more than 4000 deaths in the past 24 hours activists in chad are calling for more protests on sunday against what they are calling a military coup and saturday hundreds confronted police as they rallied against the transitional military council it took control after president of the died last month while fighting rebels. says remnants of china's biggest rocket have landed in the indian ocean in broke on reentry into the atmosphere the long march 5 rocket was launched 10 days ago the u.s. space agency nasa is criticizing the uncontrolled reentry it says china is failing to meet responsible standards of space debris as the headline says sites become lines now. ready. between november 915 and main 1916 britain and france agreed a secret deal for dividing the ottoman empire to the european al

single week since october the afghan government said the taliban were responsible the taliban blamed eisel and afghan intelligence services these are not. killing innocent people and won't these are against our border because our bullets. are for the common people. national project best we have announced the rise in casualties has coincided with the final pullout of foreign troops may 1 was the form a deadline for the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan u.s. president joe biden push that back to september 11th the nato allies will leave then also e.u. foreign ministers met on monday the withdrawal from afghanistan at the forefront of discussions not in. the lead some time after the terrible attacks in the recent days it's all the more important for the e.u. to make very clear that afghanistan and the afghan government can continue to count on europe support we'll do everything we can to ensure the ongoing peace negotiations reach a conclusion of a key goal and u.s. and nato negotiations with afghan and television representatives has always been a reduction in violence and after

single week since october the afghan government said the taliban were responsible the taliban blamed eisel and afghan intelligence services these are not. killing innocent people and won't these are against our border because our bullets practic are for the common people. national project best we have announced the rise in casualties has coincided with the final pullout of foreign troops may 1 was the former deadline for the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan u.s. president joe biden push that back to september 11th the nato allies will leave then also e.u. foreign ministers met on monday the withdrawal from afghanistan at the forefront of discussions not in shrek. after the terrible attacks in the recent days it's all the more important for the e.u. to make very clear that afghanistan and the afghan government can continue to count on europe support we'll do everything we can to ensure the ongoing peace negotiations reach a conclusion of a key goal in u.s. and nato negotiations with afghan intel a ban representatives has always been a reduction in violence and after and horrif

ministry it happened near a school in western kabul the taliban has condemned the attack and blames eisel. e.u. leaders are urging the u.s. to lift restrictions on covert $1000.00 vaccine exports the global vaccine shortage was one of the main items on the agenda during their 1st in person summit of the year they also had a virtual meeting with india's prime minister narendra modi. palestinian groups are calling for protests after israeli forces stormed the mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem more than 200 palestinian worshippers were injured of thousands of muslims had gathered there for the last friday prayers of ramadan. well social media platforms have been criticized for its own leading post about what's happening in israel and other stories from around the world sarah hire us explains . anyone posting content this week on social media on what's been happening not quite is true some shift iraq neighborhood may have found some story highlights deleted and been replaced with this message this is what's been happening is the story is no longer available on instagram is accused of

condemned the attack and it has blamed eisel for it and we have to remember that this attack happened in western kabul in dust which is an area that is predominantly has predominantly shia and in recent years there have been many attacks in that area schools have been targeted gyms have been targeted and most of the times it has been i so that has claimed an attack this story is still developing but i can tell you is that was driving through kabul the entire city tonight is numb after this attack. well there has been widespread condemnation after israeli forces stormed the compound and occupied east jerusalem more than 200 palestinian worshippers were injured palestinian groups are calling for protests later on saturday and here are looking at the live pictures from tonight's let's bring in harry foss and he's joining us from damascus gate that's in the vicinity of the mosque in occupied east jerusalem harry tell us what's what's going on behind you and what you've been seeing. yes so far things are relatively quiet here at damascus gates on this saturday night but it's not just any s

percent of its population inoculated by august and australia man suspected of being a recruiter for eisel has been arrested in melbourne federal police detained a 30 year old had been deported from turkey he was jailed for 18 months years expected to be charged in australia over offenses allegedly committed during his time in syria and in turkey. emergency crews have been working to put out a fire at an oil refinery in the syrian city of homs pictures broadcast by local media showed flames engulfing parts of the facility smoke billowing into the sky as well officials say it was caused by a leak in a pumping station says 5 months after a large fire and explosion at a nearby crude oil loading station thousands of people are marching in several cities across france demanding the government bring in its ambitious measures to tackle climate change. from paris where people say a proposed climate law just doesn't go far enough campaigners want any public funds used to support french industry to come with strict ecological conditions and they're pushing for the creation of thousands of jobs in th

condemned the attack and it has blamed eisel for it and we have to remember that this attack happened in western kabul in dust which is an area that is predominantly has predominantly shia and in recent years there have been many attacks in that area schools have been targeted gyms have been targeted and most of the times it has been i so that has claimed an attack this story is still developing but i can tell you is that was driving through kabul the entire city tonight is numb after this attack well earlier i spoke to chris affinia monday the afghanistan country director for save the children he says that children are often the victims of attacks in the region. i think this is an outrageous attack that is happening again targeting juden mostly us this is not new this is the reality of life in afghanistan we see time in a building that children are being targeted in this morning they live in a school. and. we panic it's appalling that this is happening schools should be safe havens for children not zones of war i think we will be all the perpetrators and parties to this conflict that

mobilization forces stormed the ministry of finance earlier today they fought during the war against eisel between 2014 and 19 now they're demanding they be rehired so wonderful team has more from baghdad. these kind of protests have been taking place in the capital baghdad for a few days now and the crowd mostly composed of members of the popular mobilization forces which is this umbrella group of paramilitaries that was formed to fight isis call in 2014 and these people are demanding to be hired or rehired by b.p.m.'s and this request comes just a few weeks after the iraqi parliament passed its 2021 budget in which to increase the budget chair of the p.m.s. by over 20 percent for now there is a discussion going on within the ranks of the p.m.s. how that money should be used some advocates that the salaries of existing fighters should be increased while others say that in order should be new people hired and included in the organization now what is particularly interesting is that this a budget increase 4 to p.m.s. happened despite the country going through a prolonging financial crisis t

journalist of her a national rally party to eisele was absurd the charges carried a sentence of up to3 years in jail or 875000 euro fine the pens defense lawyers a said freedom of expression has been safeguarded chad's military rulers have appointed 2 members of the opposition to the new transitional government bringing the hope of a national dialogue but the country's new justice minister opposition figure mohamed on the allowable has the announced violence after the military takeover and asked how the government can justify oppressing the sent after they'd receive reports now from the capital and to mena. the crack in charge of the united opposition is widening there are no more into government demonstrations on the streets in un to belittle rhetoric has been torn down and opposition candidate in the last presidential election has been appointed as transitional prime minister and this currently selling the idea of dialogue and unity to others who are opposed to military takeover. we need to come together for the nation's interest everyone is a role to play for the peace of the count

officials and fighter groups the taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility blaming eisel but president blame the armed groups saying the taliban have once again shown their own willingness to resolve the crisis peacefully and fundamentally by escalating their legitimate war and violence. in a country already torn apart by decades of war there's attack will no doubt lead to more fear more anger and parents scared to send their children to school. here kabul. joining us on the news hour from kabul is mohammed stanek zein who is a senior advisor to afghanistan's interior minister mohammed thank you for your time. let's just deal with the why 1st of all why would anyone attack a school because after looking at those pictures that's all i can say when you've got young girls who've been killed what is achieved by attacking a school. thank you well it's very unfortunate that we're kids are slaughtered like that and the nation this morning we are in pain and sorrow but what is more unfortunate to have. like pakistan what og son does is they are harboring totalist they are giving