and, says mr ghani, that applies across government.reform of the recruitment process. the civil service commission are being empowered and are being supported. i am not in any part of the process. when they do theirjob, i sign. so, this is blind selection. it's blind selection. we have the entire financial and administrative part of the government subject to blind recruitment, seeking 8,000 people who have applied on line. take the attorney general‘s office. we have an attorney general who is determined and is capable, a three—star general, that i promoted. he is now in prison because it was demonstrated that fuel was being stolen. one of the richest men in the country who people thought was untouchable is now in prison. again, you can ask anybody in thejudicial sector, i provide full political support but i do not get involved in thejudicial process. what is the first principal of tackling corruption in your view? political will. the first principle is you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it. whoever engages in co

and, says mr ghani, that applies across government.e recruitment process. talk to our civil service commission, they're in power and they're being supported. i'm not interfering in a single process selection, when they do the job, i sign. so this is blind selection? it's blind selection. we have the entire financial management, administrative and financial parts of the government, subject to blind recruitment. 8000 people have applied online. the attorney general‘s office... we have an attorney general that is determined, as well as capable, a three star general. we have someone now in prison because it was demonstrated that fuel was being stolen. one of the richest men in this country that people thought was untouchable is now in prison. and again, you can ask anybody in thejudicial sector, i provide full political support but i do not get involved injudicial. what is the first principle of tackling corruption, in your view? the first principle is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it. whoever engages in co

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president ashraf ghani tells the bbc his country has ‘turned the corner‘.tion threatens the planet: calls to curb the eight million tons dumped in the sea every year. and i'm sally bundock. catalan catastrophe looms for spain — as it risks the loss of a 200 billion euro economy — and a quarter of its exports and tourists. plus — it's a giant of the internet — but a minnow in the world of mobile phones. can google‘s new pixel devices change that? we take a closer look. hello and welcome to bbc news. police in las vegas say the man who shot dead 58 concert—goers on sunday, and injured nearly 500, spent decades acquiring weapons and living a secret life. they also believe stephen paddock intended to survive, and perhaps didn't act alone. they hope his girlfriend, just returned from the philippines, will shed some light. the fbi met her as she landed in los angeles. laura bicker reports from las vegas. police believe stephen paddock got help getting hold of his arsenal of weapons. he legally bought some of his guns here in a shopjust weapons. he legally bought

afghanistan after visiting saudi arabia and casler on sunday rice to listen that president musharraf's ghani and the chief executive of the background at base he says the u.s. is committed to keeping its presence in the country until it's more stable let's go live now to patty call hang who is in die hard and i passed it was a quick visit did anything and much from it well not really i think one of the most surprising things was that they were able to pull it off what they had done is told all the reporters who are here in doha off the record you can't say anything but he's going to baghdad then we couldn't find up and the one of their process the price of being a cabinet secretary or president i'd states is pretty much the media a small group of us anyway always know where you are we didn't know where he was from the time he left here around five in the morning to the time he returned just after three he spent about an hour and fifteen hour and twenty minutes with those two leaders for the afghanistan we didn't hear from the afghan leaders but we did hear from rex tillerson afterwards where

but in a bbc interview ashraf ghani has said things are improving and a corner has been turned.be able to withdraw from afghanistan? we have a plan and we are racing through it. look at the ministry of defence. and look at it three years ago. this year, the war has been superbly managed. we were like 12—year—old is taking over the responsibility of a 30—year—old but we learnt in the process and now in terms of management and leadership, things are really falling in place. 0ur security forces would be able to do their constitutional things and cling to the legitimacy of power. 7000 soldiers lost their lives, 12,000 were injured, 10% of your fighting force was lost, including desertion. no army can sustain losses like that and you're telling me the corner has been turned?m brea ks me the corner has been turned?m breaks my heart, but please understand, over 100,000, over 110,000 nato troops were suffering casualties. we are a developing country but i am extraordinarily proud of the sacrifices and the reason it is changing is because of equipment. in 2014, it looked like an impossib

president ashraf ghani tells the bbc his country has turned the corner. life through the lens.e meet the man whose photographs tell the story of hong kong in a bygone era. live from our studios in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 5pm in las vegas, where the girlfriend of the gunman, who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more at a music festival, says she had no idea he was planning an attack. marilou danley flew back from the philippines and is being questioned by the fbi about stephen paddock‘s possible motives. meanwhile, president trump has been in las vegas meeting survivors, victims‘ families and the emergency services who responded to the attack. here's our north america editor, jon sopel. it's just after it'sjust after 10pm it's just after 10pm and the first shots have been fired. police body can images capture the panic that is starting to spread in the concert ground. police are trying to identify the source of the firing. and to shepherd people to safety. today the president and first lady arrived

number one, president ghani has taken a different approach of the taliban.he said he had access in peel and other groups off. the other is the taliban and what their timeline with their horizon was. the taliban have always thought international community would lose the will to fight. they always assume the international coalition would quit and allow them to be successful in the battlefield. the most important thing from the nato and u.s. active, the most important thing said over the past few months as this will be conditioned space. there is no time horizon for this and this will fundamentally change the calculus and taliban. i think what president ghani will continue to do is peel back elements and realize achieving their political object is in the battlefield is fruitless. >> agreed. >> a great change from calendar based a condition base is interesting. a lot of people are advocated. the final question i get is the safe haven argument, isn't that an all-purpose argument? we've got prices the area that iran controlled parts of iraq. north africa come all

in talks with president ashraf ghani mr tillotson reiterated the u.s. commitment to work with kabul to bring peace mr tillotson also visited the iraqi capital baghdad. set to gain a foothold in the world's biggest electric vehicle markets the call maker reportedly reaches a deal to build its first production facility in china. coming up bike sharing. in australia it's already hit a bump in the road we take a look at what happens when things don't go quite so. the sharing economy. cultural cultural exchanges the african fall. down on the farm just outside. is your business update on how it all for thanks for joining me. tesla is looking to get a piece of the pie in the world's biggest electric vehicle market and wall street journal reports that the comic has reached an agreement with chinese authorities to build its first plant in china the city would be in shanghai's free trade zone the details are still being worked out but tesla reckons the factory could help calm production by fact. our financial correspondent yens quarter is on wall street we can ta

the international trade minister mark ghani faces an investigation after admitting asking his then secretaryy him sex toys. the prime minister calls for changes to disciplinary procedures to better protect houses of common stuff from sexual harassment. heathrow airport is investigating how details of its security procedures were found on a memory stick lying in the street. and parents will no longer be able to use a poll to avoid child maintenance payments. chris rogers is limbering up in the dressing room preparing to take over. he will be in the chairfrom preparing to take over. he will be in the chair from seven preparing to take over. he will be in the chairfrom seven p:m.. between now and then, the film review, but before that, sports day. hello and welcome to sportsday, with me jessica creighton. coming up for you this evening... in the battle of the new premier league managers, it's advantage puel, as leiecster beat everton they needed five additional minutes to do it, but gloucester have their first away win, in a thriller at bath. less than half an hour to go until lewis hamilton ge

further develop those afghan forces managing with limited international support to support president ghani effort that this economic centers are secure to provide the in during counter partnership to protect our shared interest in south asia. this entire effort is to put pressure on the taliban they will not have a victory to end the conflict and with jedi ready to take questions >>. >> i basically have one question a former military commander from the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and appeared in the "washington post" the for the first said the strategy in afghanistan who has to been to treat the army through the islamic state and largely to withdraw after 16 years it is not surprising many people think that strategy has failed in fact, there really hasn't been tried and then he goes through a brief history of our efforts or lack of effort of deadlines or not meeting commitments and concludes by saying that much of the rush to the failure has ben washington driven. i would like each of you to comment on the extent of which and the lack of stability of funding with of a ninth consecutive

-- abdu president ghani in the past. rep. moulton: the bar is pretty low, but i appreciate that. gen. dunford: it is a fair question and as part of the strategy the state department is tasked with coming up with a more robust approach. i would emphasize one point and -- when we knew moving forward we were going to have a new strategy, we needed strong leadership in kabul. has incredible background experience in afghanistan and many of us spoke with him and encouraged him to accept this service, which is what he has done. he has upset did this service for three years. i think we have the right diplomat going to kabul. on the advisory front political level been pushed down where it needs to be? not yet, and that has to happen for us to be successful and i know that is secretary tillerson's intent. chairman and mr. gentlemen, we are so glad you are at the helm of this important time in history and in the life of afghanistan. i am so encouraged by a lot of the changes you are instigating. i think it makes so much sense to ha

we saw that expressed from president ghani when he met with the president. >> we had his wife on stage. she was fantastic. >> when they are meeting and when the president is reassuring the afghan people that we will support you, we will combat terrorism in your country, president ghani is saying the difference between the administration is a night and day. one, we have to show them we are willing to combat terrorism. we are taking the gloves off. we are working with the rules of engagement with our forces on the ground in afghanistan where maybe they felt they had their hands tied a little bit previously. now our commanders on the ground can make the decision necessary. they do not have to wait from the white house. we can be further progress. i can envision that going forward once we have a comprehensive strategy. the president has made this clear we are not in this for nation building. we are in this to combat terrorism. that is what our focus need to be. there are many other countries that are engaged in nationbuilding and would like to be part of that. our main focus should be to g

afghanistan's president ashraf ghani has told the bbc that a ‘corner has been turned' and the securityn his country is improving. now it's time for world business report. catalan catastrophe looms for spain — as it risks the loss of a 200 billion euro economy — and a quarter of its exports and tourists. plus — it's a giant of the internet — but a minnow in the world of mobile phones. can google‘s new pixel device change that? we take a closer look.. welcome to world business report. i'm sally bundock. also coming up — business leaders are gathering in delhi for the world economic forum — we'll be going live to our correspondent there. but first. we start in spain where the region of catalonia is threatening to declare independence on monday, after holding its banned referendum at the weekend. behind the push for independence is — among other things — the feeling among many catalans the region doesn't get a fair deal given its huge economic importance to spain. so how important is it? catalonia's economy was worth 212 billion euros in 2016 — the highest gdp out of all the regions in spa

to afghanistan to discuss washington's new strategy for the country in talks with president ashraf ghani mr tillotson reiterated america's commitment to work with kabul to bring peace the meetings take place at bob graham airfield the u.s. is war just base in afghanistan. within touching distance of a deal that is how britain's prime minister to resign may described a bright sit negotiations with the european union today she spoke before parliament her tone was upbeat despite the fact that last week's round of negotiations ended without progress on the deal for britain to leave the e.u. we haven't reached a final agreement but it's going to happen. i have a degree of confidence i have a degree of confidence that we'll be able to get to the point of sufficient progress by december off of the from a speech that is a new momentum the front speech was a step forward and that should be a positive response to the willingness to work on the interim period and that has been established a momentum. there was a british prime minister there theresa may well i'm joined now by our correspondent charl

tillerson has paid a surprise visit to afghanistan to discuss washington's new strategy president ashraf ghani felicity reiterated the u.s. his commitment to working with kabul to bring peace to the country meeting took place and failed the u.s. is the largest base in afghanistan. my fifty year old german man linked to a far right extremist group has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a police officer last year valve gang p opened fire when police raided his home to confiscate dozens of hunting weapons he's believed to be a member of the rice burger a group which rejects the legitimacy of the present german state. the government of the philippines says it has defeated an extremist group allied to a so-called islamic state in the southern city of murali which was seized five months ago more than a thousand people were killed and hundreds of thousands more displaced heavy shelling has left much of merari center in ruins. i was talking about to our top story the plight of the muslims leaving. me in ma for bangladesh dr mohammed mousavi is executive director of the relief agency bracke

calculus of the pakistani intelligence, a daunting proposition, we have to show that the defeat of ghani and the afghan government is not inevitable, but there is a that the chance taliban can be held off, even though nato has downsized dramatically since the peak of when wen that period got up to nearly 100,000 troops and nearly 150,000 nato and nato-led troops. now we are only about 10% of that figure, 15,000. we are probably headed up to 20,000 with the current trumps strategy. it will be dramatically smaller, but we will have enough capability for a decent chance of reversing this momentum. to me, that is the goal we should be hoping for him and i think it would be important psychological effects on the taliban, on the pakistani intelligence services that support the taliban, and certainly on afghans, many of whom had been leaving the who camefter a lot back after 9/11. it has been trickling out in this period of declining morale because there has been a sense of gradual slippage, that that country is gradually being lost. if that can be changed, you could reverse the flow also of th

you've seen parts of it come over, have come over to ghani's side. it's starting and it's not tidy, but it's ongoing now. that's what you'll see continue to move forward as we block the militarily from having a chance for victory on the battlefield. >> thank you, i yield back. >> gentleman, it looks like it's going to be maybe another five minutes or so before other members come back. i could pepper you with questions but maybe i won't. you've been testifying a lot today. so what i think we will do is invite our witnesses to the antante room and the committee will stand in recess for approximately five to six minutes. >>> house members are taking this break in this hearing, maybe about five minutes. while we wait for them to return, we'll take a look at reaction from republican lawmakers to the mass shooting in las vegas on sunday night. >> good morning, everyone. and clearly, we have a familiar face with us again. we're all really happy to have steve scalise back. and steve is proof that miracles happen. and we're blessed, we're also reminded that l

state has met afghan leaders on a brief visit to kabul rex tillerson held talks with president ashraf ghani on the american involvement in the country. the international community's three hundred thirty five million dollars to help ranger refugees during a conference in geneva nearly six hundred thousand refugees have fled my lands in myanmar from bangladesh since august the twenty fifth. in.

met afghan leaders on a brief visit to kabul writes to listen held talks with the president ashraf ghani on how to end american involvement in the country it's his first trip there since becoming secretary of state and is part of a tour that has included riyadh and doha. spain's deputy prime minister says catalan leader karl has pushed him on to could be out of a job as soon as this weekend it comes after mr bush was invited to the national parliament for talks on thursday made threats from madrid to strip catalonia of its autonomy tensions have been high. referendum last month. and japan's prime minister has promised to tackle the threat of north korea's military action and the economic challenge of japan's aging population after a decisive election victory. and more on education and child care even if it means failing to balance the national budget ruling coalition maintained a two thirds hold on the lower house after sunday snap election it means he could become the country's longest serving prime minister. we're counting the cost is coming up next i'll be back with more news after th

met president ghani, who also was supportive of that idea. that was back in july. i think time is of the essence. i'd love to see more of that cross-border cooperation, particularly the alcani network. general nicholson said both on that trip and in public russia's lent overt legitimacy to the taliban by claiming the taliban is fighting isis. so it looks like we have a joint foe there. the question i have is russia, china and pakistan just held a conference in december of 2016 on afghanistan without inviting the afghans or india. advocating for reconciliation with the taliban including the delisting of taliban leaders as terrorists. what is russia's end game in afghanistan today and how do we counter it in the long-term strategy? >> senator, i'm concerned that russia's not operating in its own best interest with what it's doing down in south asia. secretary tillerson is engaged with his counterpart in moscow on this issue. and will try to bring some strategic thought into this situation. but i can tell you that we have concerns about what russia's doing. it may be

those the dead more about forty of them were police i include ing the police chief president ashraf ghani did attend his funeral on wednesday and he said that the taliban must come to the peace table if they do not extend their hand of peace then the clerics the people the people the army the military will stand united against them but of course we had this attack today and then another attack in gaza earlier this week in and or killed twenty and fifteen of those police attack on the district headquarters also by the taliban's or brutal week here in afghanistan the taliban clearly stepping up attacks around the country while the target of those attacks that have been police and the afghan military civilians many civilians have died as well and just brings me to my last and final question and just briefly then why is it that the police and security forces have been the target of these latest attacks. well it's unclear it's you know the united states is putting more pressure on pakistan to try and bring the taliban to the peace table the afghan government keeps saying it's the taliban's las

east and south asia earlier he made an unannounced visit to afghanistan meeting the president ashraf ghani and the country's chief executive at the background base to listen says the u.s. is committed to its presence in the country until the situation is more stable. well the president made it clear that we're we're here to stay until we can secure a process of reconciliation and peace it's not an unlimited commitment he's also made it clear it's not a blank check commitment that's why it is a conditions based commitment but i think if if you consider the current situation in afghanistan and we were talking about this a few minutes ago and you look a few years in the past what circumstances war afghanistan has come quite a distance already in terms of creating a much more vibrant. population a much more vibrant government well tennison is in iraq to me a prime minister a body for a second time in the past few days a body has criticized the secretary of state for comments he made in riyadh saying iranian militias must leave iraq a body says the iranian by popular mobilization forces which h

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on this program we'll meet a young cameroonian of who's been working on our own ghani from outside body for the past year. we'll also show you how farmers in looking at fossil are coping with climate change. and we'll meet a turtle rescue on the cape verde island. would be. in today's program in booking a fossil which is especially vulnerable to climate change so oil erosion in the west african country is a huge problem and the absence of regular rainfall a result of climate change has been impacting cool peels more and more in recent years john it is so bad in the north of the country it's become increasingly difficult full farmers to grow anything at all and that's why they are banding together in small associations to implement new methods of rainwater collection in order to irrigate the co-ops mystical look at how they're doing this. the northern part of bourke you know fastow lines directly in this article about. the fields are terribly dry and can't produce enough. either it doesn't rain at all or it rains too much. then the water rips deep depressions into the earth the topsoil g

the afghan president ashraf ghani has been talking to the bbc.rom this headline — he says he has the worst job on earth. some may quibble with that, but there's doubting the challenges. there are still 14,000 nato troops in afghanistan. and last year afghan security forces lost 10% of their entire fighting force — through death, injury or desertion. it begs a question. justin rowlatt sought answers from the president. when do you think nato troops can be withdrawn? we have a four year plan and we are racing to it. look at the ministry of defence and look at it three years ago. this year the work has been superbly managed. we were like i2—year—olds taking over the responsibility of a 30—year—old but we grew in the process and now in terms of management and leadership things are falling into place. within four years we think our security forces will be able to do the constitutional thing, the monopoly of power. look at the statistics last year, 7000 afghan soldiers lost their lives, 12,000 injured, you had desertions and you lost 10% of your fighti

fun ghani population three hundred is a three hour drive from mumbai and a world apart traditional genderroles are largely maintained but there have been changes since the school opened a nationally hostile who's about his own son now finds the idea of positive one. women who can read and write do not pose a threat to us man. we will see more educated women marrying into our village that would be great for us. the school for grandmothers charges no fees but in return the women sit down with their teacher in the morning to help her make bread. she finds a lot of things have improved for women in recent years. but despite the efforts being made india remains a long way from gender equality. when that choice i would have been born a man many women are still unable to marry the one they want to just go out with someone men have a far easier time. the school is a small scale local project but she tom or his commitment has changed the lives of . and her fellow students something that nobody can now take away from them. ok. that's all for today but do drop us a nine check out our facebook page.

the us is longest war killers and met with afghan president ashraf ghani and other u. s. an afghan officials at the background air base the main. us military facility in the country. wrestlers and is currently in baghdad however where he's meeting with prime minister haidar al abadi the u. s. is seeking to counter. iran's presence in iraq and boost saudi arabia's role there luxury go reports. amid heavy sececurity and wh no warning us secretary of state rex to listen jetted into afghanistan for a surprise visit on his george across south asia.. on the agenda his nation's new strategy in the longest war in its history w. s. has made it clear in terms of our support for afghanistan charting a path to peace prosperity and self relianc. it is imperative at the end that we're. denying safe haven to any terrorist organization drainage stream missed. no to any any part of the show world. the u. s. announced a three thousand strong afgfghan troops urgent l list aftfter yeyears o of touring down f. sosomething that sparkeke a spatee off attacacks from te locacal talibiban in recen

and talks with president ashraf ghani mr tillotson reiterated the u.s. commitment to what with kabul to bring peace message to us and also visited the iraqi capital baghdad. rumors gossip and no agreement yet after five rounds of negotiations there's little progress and plenty of hearsay in the separation of britain from the european union known of course as breck's tonight who's willing to tell the truth about rex i'm brant goff in berlin this is the day. well here we are again after another round of talks i am ambitious and positive about britain's future and these negotiations and we're still no clearer as to when negotiating is on britain's future with our largest trading partner will actually begin but i'm confident that we will be able to negotiate a new deep and special partnership i'm now beginning to have a feel a very worrying sense of groundhog day here right. mr speaker we are going to leave the european union in march two thousand and nine to be yes this is break up into a lot of the most crucial negotiations of our country's recent history

bring in a country or in the family of the president to protect us from the afghan president ashraf ghani says this is attack and others across afghanistan are crimes against humanity and contrary to islamic values terrorist groups will never succeed in their sinister goals for divisiveness he says and will soon be suppressed and destroyed by the legitimate struggle of the afghan security and defense forces at least two hundred fifty afghans have been killed in attacks nationwide since tuesday the taliban targeted security forces in the east south southwest and north of the taliban on one hand and the islamic state on the other hand what they are trying to portray that they have the ability to inflict damage not just to the afghan national security forces and the afghan government but to its international counterparts wherever and whenever they want to on martyrs hill on the outskirts of kabul another victim of the mosque attack an elderly woman is laid to rest dozens have been buried here today as this bureau and another body arrives and the morning goes on jennifer glass al jazeera mart

visit to afghanistan to discuss washington's new strategy for the country it's also president ashraf ghani was to tell us and reiterated america's commitment to working with kabul to bring peace the meeting took place at background airfield the u.s. is largest base in afghanistan. syrian activists are reporting the bodies of at least sixty five civilians have been discovered in a town in central syria this after the government after government forces regained control of cutting out in an homs province from so-called islamic state on saturday most of the dead are believed to have been killed by us. a senior official in spain's catalonia region says its leaders will not follow orders from madrid if the central government moves to reassert control that parliament is set to hold a session of thursday and response to spain's proposing to temporarily impose direct rule. britain's prime minister theresa may has given parliament and b. to assessment of ongoing bret's in negotiations with the european union last week sort round of talks ended without progress on a deal for britain to leave the e.u.

. >> it is a strategic former ability that president ghani has signed the compact with us the past to do with control of money and accountability. they put a three-star general in jail to show this is going to the very top not just the little guys. there is accountability there that will shift the opportunity for the penalty box. in with those offensive actions later with the high-profile ied but they have been unable to sustain these offensives to move in large groups and to understand the roles of change to disaggregate more that the press was full of stories for cleaning what they would do but they have been unfulfilled. but we will but as far as investment goes with that development investments to do more in so far we have had some success. but to address each of these efforts with those benchmarks to quantify the progress so that it is subjective to quantify what we're doing we do not have been the assumption that these will turn out well we have to make it turn out well. >> but touche visit with the ambassador with the largest of the sea in the world they are camped out. they go

prime minister calls for a review of disciplinary procedures of the international trade minister mark ghaniys. heathrow airport says it is confident that it remained safe after details of security procedures we re after details of security procedures were found on a memory stick lying in the street. the sport team are busy, all eyes on lewis hamilton at the moment. how is it going, jess? it's been a very distinct scum grand prix and that is where we will start. good evening, everyone. such drama and the mexican grand prix, lewis hamilton hoping to clinch a fourth word title of course. the race started with sebastian vettel‘s red ferrari colliding with hamilton's silver mercedes and as a result, they both needed to pick on the opening lap, leaving them way down the field. currently max verstappen leads the race and sebastian vettel is in sixth and hamilton is in 11th. 18 laps of the 71 remaining. calculation is all very confusing but we have worked out that sebastian vettel needs to finish second with hamilton tents or lower for the finish second with hamilton tents or lowerfor the german fi

family then we have the president to bring peace and to protect us from the afghan president ashraf ghani says this is attack and others across afghanistan are crimes against humanity and contrary to islamic values terrorist groups will never succeed in their sinister goals for divisiveness he says and will soon be suppressed and destroyed by the legitimate struggle of the afghan mind but as well as to the to its international counterparts wherever and whenever they want to on martyrs hill on the outskirts of kabul another victim of the mosque attack an elderly woman is laid to rest dozens have been buried here today as this spiritual and another body arrives and the morning goes on jennifer glass al jazeera martyrs hill kabul hundreds of kurdish protestors have demonstrated outside the united nations office in erbil the capital of iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region they were protesting against a military operation by the iraqi army in areas disputed by the kurds and by baghdad around one hundred twenty thousand people have been displaced since iraqi forces launched the campaign in co

state has met afghan leaders on a brief visit to kabul rex tillerson held talks with president ashraf ghani on american involvement in the country. the international community has pledged three hundred thirty five million dollars to help arrange refugees during a conference in geneva nearly six hundred thousand refugees have fled violence in myanmar from bangladesh since august the twenty fifth. in south africa the sentencing of two white farmers who forced a black man into a coffin has been delayed until friday the suspects threatened to burn victim alive were found guilty of attempted murder in august army task reports now from the town of middleburg where the case is being heard. supporters of. the man who was shoved into a coffin last year by time white farmers are planning for friday when the judge made to hand down the sentencing of his mother broke in fortunately it was an aside the family had been through an ordeal to examine to see the light one person has to be out of. the maximum think about what they must not be listening to news has been going to. some people inside that's who

state department picture being accurately depicted and president ghani and the presidential office sortf doctoring this photo, which is come pleat completely inappropriate to do. >> they can never announce it in advance for security reasons. all right. we'll continue our analysis of that. >>> president trump is up on capitol hill. he's going to emerge any moment now from his meeting with republican senators, including senator bob corker who is there. the two traded some major insults earlier today. what's that, broheim? i switched to geico and got more. more savings on car insurance? yeah bro-fessor, and more. like renters insurance. more ways to save. nice, bro-tato chip. that's not all, bro-tein shake. geico has motorcycle and rv insurance, too. oh, that's a lot more. oh yeah, i'm all about more, teddy brosevelt. geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. >>> all right. here we go. i'm brooke baldwin. good to be back. thank you for being here with me on this tuesday and watching cnn. to capitol hill where president trump is pitching his tax cut plan. this looked like russian fl

arriving at the airbase this morning, an unannounced visit, there he met with afghan president ashraf ghanitan, the taliban has killed more than 200 innotech stressed over the past week. much of the meetings and discussions were about stabilizing the country in the region. the secretary has pressured afghanistan's neighbor pakistan to address terrorist organizations within its borders. >> pakistan needs to take a clear eyed view of the situation that they are confronted with in the number of terrorist organizations that find safe haven inside of pakistan. we went to work closer with pakistan to create a stable and secure pakistan as well. >> secretary tillerson said he was concerned about the future of stability of pakistan as he is in many respects about the stability and afghanistan. secretary tillerson travels tomorrow to talk with senior afghan he leaders. they have denied safe haven to terrorist groups. he added that there are still moderates are among the taliban, he wants the u.s. to reach out to the moderate elements to be involved in any type of peace process, perhaps a governing p

get away with saying that this meeting between rex tillerson on the left and afghan president ashraf ghani on the right tried to get away with saying this meeting took place in the capital city of kabul. it did not. they did not meet in kabul. they met, rather, inside the perimeter at a u.s. military base at bagram. the afghan government initially tried to say that the meeting took place at kabul, but at least they went through the trouble of covering up in the photo a digital clock that had been visible in other photos that clearly showed u.s. military zulu time on the wall behind them. the afghan picture just photo shopped that out. when they tried to get away with saying this meeting took place in kabul and not at a u.s. military base. that digital clock showing zulu time "the new york times" notes that would be a dead giveaway, that these two actually met at a u.s. military base, not in kabul, but the secretary of state was called out by the two different photos, including one with the bad photo shop job and the misstatement about where they were and the misstated implications about ho

tillerson flew into bagram air base, north of kabul, and met with president ashraf ghani.reaffirmed president trump's commitment but said it's not unlimited. >> he's also made it clear it is not a blank check commitment. that's why it is a conditions based commitment. clearly we have to continue the fight against the taliban and against others in order for them to understand they will never win a military victory. >> woodruff: tillerson also urged moderates in the taliban to move toward reconciliation and full participation in the afghan government. from kabul, tillerson made a second unscheduled flight, to baghdad, in a bid to curb iran's influence in iraq. he had called sunday for iranian-backed paramilitary forces in iraq to go home. iraqi prime minister haider al- abadi insisted today the units are iraqi patriots. tillerson also urged a peaceful solution to baghdad's dispute with its kurdish region. the kurds are pressing for independence. there's word of a new massacre in syria by islamic state militants. damascus says at least 67 civilians were found dead in a centra

government continues to press the taliban to come to the peace table with afghan president ashraf ghani saying only yesterday that if they don't come to the peace table that the security forces afghan religious leaders and the afghan public will stand against them and of course both the americans and the afghans putting pressure on pakistan to stop support of the taliban as well as the taliban fighting back very hard it's been a very very difficult summer fighting season if they're so for there hasn't really been any cold weather it is the snows that usually slow up the fighting over the winter season but the taliban showing no letup in its violent attacks against the afghan military and security forces before that i believe that jennifer thanks very much for the update. south asia let's go to east africa where somalia's president has called for his people to unite against the group al-shabaab is being blamed for saturday's massive bomb attack which killed more than three hundred people the president was addressing thousands of protesters who tried it in a show of defiance and fury poss

the president to bring peace and to protect us from the afghan president ashraf ghani says this is attack and others across afghanistan are crimes against humanity and contrary to islamic values terrorist groups will never succeed in their sinister goals for divisiveness he says and will soon be suppressed and destroyed by the legitimate struggle of the afghan security and defense forces at least two hundred fifty afghans have been killed in attacks nationwide since tuesday the taliban targeted security forces in the east south southwest and north of the taliban on one hand and the islamic state on the other hand what they're trying to portray is that they have the ability to inflict damage not just to the afghan national security forces and the afghan government but also with us to the to its international counterparts wherever and whenever they want to on martyrs hill on the outskirts of kabul another victim of the mosque attack an elderly woman is laid to rest dozens have been buried here today as this spiritual and another body arrives and the morning goes on jennifer glass al jazeera