what is being described to us as a mob by herat police try to burn down this police checkpoint because they're quite angry asking why the police couldn't provide security for the mosque so it is a tense situation one local resident that i was able to speak to earlier on was telling me that is ice could see did bodies all around him i wasn't quite sure whether that was a very accurate description or he was simply very emotional understandably because he must of lost his loved ones his friends but this is a mosque that usually can house almost a thousand worship or at any time this is a shia neighborhood to the south of the city of herat have lived in full harmony with the sunni population in the province of herat in the west of afghanistan on the border with iran. u. two thousand shia muslims and of course they've been a major target for islamic state do you think that we will see the terrorist group claiming responsibility for this attack. i simply don't know that's the honest answer but in the past we have heard couple of attacks targeting shia mosques in the city of herat and at that

and and herat. herat deserve relatively peaceful and prosperous compared to the rest of afghanistan we've also seen. a lines of young iraqis outside of fat many hospitals in the city of herat donating blood one doctor that i spoke to told me dad dad the victims. that he was three doing. war from various ages and what we're being told by herat police at this stage that leads to attackers first opened fire on these worshipers. who are present in the mosque in big numbers there some sort of religiou? gathering after the evening prayers and. i'll after the. shark many of these worshipers dead and almost an execution style a one or two attackers could have detonated. at their suicide vests. some hand grenades are also tossed so we're still trying to. get a full picture but the it has been described as a massacre by those who survived. this attack it's a bloody attack and. now us some iraqi officials are telling us that this was a very deliberate attack. on the shia community in afghanistan. but across th

another attacker threw a grenade at worshippers during evening prayers in the city of herat.rafi joins me live from kabul. just bring us up—to—date with the latest on the casualties and the situation as it now stands. that's right. so far the government spokesperson told us in iraq that 65 people are injured and ten people are critical, and 29 have died. this number may rise. and do we have an update on the condition of those injured? (inaudible). the death toll may still rise. at the moment we expect demonstrations to happen in iraq because the city is in to happen in iraq because the city isina to happen in iraq because the city is in a state of shock and this was a place of worship and herat is a peaceful city. (inaudible). some have died, accompanied by screaming relatives. 0k, thank you very much indeed, and a sorry about the poor sound quality on the line, but i think we sort of got the sense of the situation. it's been criticised as the symbol of a council which prioritised the needs of its richer residents over their poorer neighbours. but last night an opera company,

in the past have targeted the shia and as our communities board here in kabul the western city of herat in those where the taliban and then the islamic state which is proving quite effective in brutal specifically going for sick tyrian attacks a problem that afghanistan does not have among many of its other issues and everyone is very concerned about these attacks pacifically targeting afghanistan's shia and as our communities. that's the news so far this hour i'll be back to update you again in about thirty five minutes or so don't forget you can get news alerts as they happen by downloading the aussie apps to your smartphone or device back and all that. oh there are already. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into pigs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situational for even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline most a decade how good are the results. of the. choice. she. i mean to. sound lik

in the past the islamic stared hard at tact mosques board here in kabul in the western province of herat we saw a joint attack by the taliban in the northern province of sorry paul at least that was confirmed by the united nations here so we'll have to wait and see in the past days have attacked afghanistan's shia. communities it does have the hallmarks of but so far i can just confirmed i'm still waiting to hear more on that because you said it's an ongoing situation when we come back to you for now though bill also aryan couple in afghanistan thanks for updating us. next to the influx of migrants to europe has been blamed for the increased threat of terrorism on the continent so now we have politicians have come up with a plan to deal with it the president of the european parliament says he wants to establish a unified across border intelligence service similar to america's f.b.i. within the block to fight against terror he emphasized that member states must cooperate much more we spoke to who work for british intelligence and she believes the rhetorics just another vanity project whic

in the past have targeted this year and as our communities board here in kabul the western city of herat in elsewhere saw for the people of afghanistan for the government of afghanistan for nato and western countries there will be finding this is a huge headache to fight the taliban and then the islamic state which is proving quite effective and brutal specifically going for sick tyrian attacks a problem that afghanistan does not have among many of its other issues and everyone is very concerned about these attacks pacifically targeting afghanistan's shia communities wolf wait to see whether those international militaries will up their numbers as has been requested by a number of people not least of all in washington for now the afghanistan based journalist but also worry thanks for your time. of the u.s. media is busy trying to find out who's inspiring the divided sides in american society these days now a new article in the washington post suggests that the far right is being guided by russian influence jacqueline who has the story. russia is used to being blamed for all things siniste

also this hour — a suicide attack at a shia mosque in the afghan city of herat has killed twenty nine attacker opened fire and then detonated explosives as hundreds of worshippers were taking part in evening prayers in the city, close to the border with iran. the us senate has voted to confirm christopher wray as the new director of the fbi. the post had been vacant since james comey was sacked by president trump in may over the investigation into alleged russian interference in last year's presidential election. at least three suspected gang members have been killed during a shoot out at a court in moscow, where they were standing trial for a spree of drive—by killings. reports say the men tried to overpower security guards in a lift and grab their guns, despite being handcuffed at the time. several police officers were injured. china has formally opened its first overseas military base in djibouti in east africa. the event was timed to coincide with the ninetieth anniversary of china's people's liberation army. authorities have dismissed concerns about china's expanding military pro

explosions at a mosque in the western afghan city of herat have killed at least 29 people and injured. police said the attack, during evening prayers, was carried out by a suicide bomber. another attacker threw a grenade at worshippers. the mosque is in a mainly shia area. russian authorities say three suspected gang members have been shot dead at the moscow regional court, after they managed to overpower guards and take their weapons. police say two others were wounded in a shootout in the courthouse lift. 56 retired american generals, admirals and other senior officers have signed an open letter denouncing president trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military. they say it will deprive the military of talent or force people to live a lie. it's estimated there may be nearly 7,000 transgender people on active service. a federaljudge in brazil has confirmed new corruption charges against former president lula. prosecutors claim two construction companies paid for extensive work at a country house in exchange for contracts with the state oil company. luiz inacio lula da sil

in the past have targeted the shia and has our communities both here in kabul and western city of herat in those where the taliban and then there's loving state which is proving quite effective and brutal specifically going for sick tyrian attacks a problem that afghanistan does not have among many of its other issues and everyone is very concerned about these attacks pacifically targeting afghanistan's shia and as our communities. coming up later on r.t. both senate intelligence committee goes after waking me we'll have that story for you in just a moment stay with us. i think the average viewer just after watching. understands that we're telling stories in our critics you know why. because their advertisers more or less. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american what's happening when it's what peroration makes of pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes can

was among those killed in the bomb attack in the city of herat. officials say he was wounded in the attack on the mosque on tuesday and died later. the afghan team made headlines participating in the international robot olympics in washington last month. the us government is considering plans to allow more oil exploration in the arctic ocean overturning abound put in place by president obama. the inupiat whale hunters of northern alaska could feel the greatest impact of any drilling and our environment correspondent claire marshall. traveled more than three hundred miles north of the arctic circle to send this report. the climate is changing and the ice that covers the arctic is disappearing. hey the conflict between the natural world and the business of oil is it it's my stop. this town is the furthest north in the united states so remote is cut off by road from the rest of the countr. if epa at school the ocean that got it. and this is where they stole the harvest of whale meat. zac give me. units can you put on top of the heart. i don't know wh

in a recent robotics competition in the us was among those killed in a bomb attack in the city of heratn the attack on a mosque on tuesday and died later. the afghan team made headlines participating in the international robot 0lympics in washington last month. an air france plane carrying more than 330 passengers may have come as close as 100 kilometres to an intercontinental ballistic missile — launched by north korea last week. air france is extending its no—fly zone around north korea as a precaution. fire has engulfed shops just outside the world's largest fish market in tokyo. dozens of fire fighters worked to extinguish the blaze at tsukiji's outer market, which is crowded with small shops and restaurants. there were no reports of injuries. during the eu referendum, many of scotland's whisky producers supported the remain campaign, worried that brexit might affect exports. but now it seems some are having a change of heart, buoyed by the prospect of one—off trade deals with countries such as india, where they currently face tariffs of 150%. 0ur scotland editor sarah smith has the

afghanistan, at least 29 people have been killed in explosions at a mosque in the western city of heratevening prayers and was carried out by a suicide bomber and another assailant, who threw a grenade at worshippers. south africa's ruling party, the anc, is facing one of its worst ever crises. with the country in recession, its president, jacob zuma, has been accused of rampant corruption. it's a charge that's divided his party and he's facing a vote of no confidence next week. today, party members were told if they don't back him, they should leave the anc. 0ne mp who has openly called for the president to resign has been receiving death threats. andrew harding went to meet her. she looks nervous, and with good reason. all sorts of strange... makhosi khoza, a member of parliament here in south africa, has been receiving death threats. you have 1a days to live, says one text. then, ten days. now she travels with an armed guard. her crime — to speak out in public against south africa's president jacob zuma. yeah... the stress is showing. dr khoza is an mp for the governing anc but she's

a mosque in western afg ha nista n of an explosion in a mosque in western afghanistan city called heratattack took place, coinciding with evening prayers at around 8pm local time. officials say there were two attackers, a suicide bomber and another man but no group has claimed responsibility yesterday. yesterday we talked about islamic state attacking the iraqi embassy in kabul. i will have more in a couple of minutes with the main stories from around the world. we have more talk about typhoons and floods coming up in the next couple of minutes and some of the biggest weather stories but we start with those floods that have been effecting the indian western state of gujarat. a colossal amount of rain fell of gujarat. a colossal amount of rainfell in of gujarat. a colossal amount of rain fell in a week towards the end ofjuly. the floodwaters continued to move away, the monsoon is a break at the moment meaning many western areas are dry but in the north—west of india and pakistan, very humid conditions with big thunderstorms on wednesday. looking at the satellite picture and yesterday we

bush i recall looking into the faces of senior military people that i was dealing with in kandahar herat kabul and elsewhere and i can tell you this this is the hardest environment in the world to run a mechanized war and there is none that's worse there is none that is harder and that's a fact and that's what we're stepping into again now i see some head shaking over here from our former pentagon man michael maloof my point if you want to say about that i agree with was most of what mr rice said however. the president did make mention of the possibility of pushing for reform within the government not not to take not to create a new government but to push for reforms because it is corrupt and people people know it and i think that that's what's going to have to be done ultimately and that can be done along with the the military political and economic efforts that he pointed out jack i want to jump in here because trump has been a long outspoken against the afghan war saying that it's not in america's national interest but then he said that it's the security threats in the country are imm

a lot of things have been projected in that article you you one of you mentioned in herat just two or three days ago. it was written by by people who and quoting michael oren who had been the previous embassador from israel to the us. he had written a book as well as a.j. crystal both of them are filled with lies and deceit that were planted at johnson's order fifty years ago. and i really need to go here i'm not understanding the practice i can i please ask are you are you suggesting are you suggesting that israel was simply manipulated by lyndon johnson and that israel wasn't very much having a huge interest in getting america into a fight with egypt are you concluding that lyndon johnson manipulated israel or am i mistaken here forgive me if i am. i believe that that part of it was or was primarily advanced by johnson and johnson himself for his own personal reasons the by the way you have you have to remember that it was the fourth day of a six day war the war was essentially over that already beaten egypt they were they were having peace negotiations at the un well i mean phil yo

came just two days after airstrikes killed more than a dozen civilians in the western province of heratn monday. meanwhile, the pentagon said wednesday the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan has increased to more than 11,000 -- thousands more thahan previously known. in yemen, u.s.-backed saudi coalition warplanes attacked a checkpoint outside the capital sanaa on wednesday, killing at least five civiliansns. witnesses said the attack came out of the blue. >> we e were surprised by the missile falling on the checkpoint, which injured innocent people. amy: the latest civilian deaths came as human rights groups asked the u.n. to establish an independent inquiry into war crimes and human rights abuses in the yem c conflict, which the u.n. says has killed more than 5,000 civilians since march of 2015. the u.s.-backed saudi-led war and naval blockade has decimated yemen's health and sanitation infrastructure and has left seven million yemenis on the brink of starvation, whilele a cholera epidemic has killed more than 2000 people and sickened more than 500,000 others. havethan 18,000 refuge

attack killed at least 29 people during evening prayers at a shiite mosque in the western city of herat. the e taliban has deninied ininvolvement inin the attack. in turkey, a a mass trial has bebegun for nearly 500 people wo are accused of orchestrating last year's failed military coup. the defendants include army generals, pilots, and fethullah gulen, a turkish dissident who is living in the poconos, in pennsylvania, and is being tried in absentia. if convicted, the suspects face life in prison. turkish president recep tayyip erdogan has used the failed military coup as a pretext to launch a widescale crackdown against dissidents, human rights activists, journalists, oppoposition lawmakers, and kurs in turkey. back in the united states, in the cousin of philando castile, who was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop last year, is fighting trumped up charges after he protested his cousin's death. 38-year-old louis hunter is facing two felony riot charges stemming from his participation in a demonstration on interstate 94 in the days after officer jeronimo yanez fatally shot

on monday millions confirmed killed and over a dozen wounded in at a strike on the west in herat the government says it was targeting taliban fighters but locals again say the militants had left the area before the. two incidents demonstrate the huge risk of civilian casualties from the intensified raids on the country. russia's federal security service the f.s.b. says it has arrested two islamic state members over a planned terror attack in most go on september the first obviously dina koch never has more on the story russia's federal security services have detained two people who allegedly were planning terrorist attacks they were detained in moscow on the moscow region one of the detainees before he was captured to manage to post a video online where he pushed himself to the islam and state terrorist and after that it was reported that he planned to conduct random assaults on people in the streets and asked for the second detainee who was also allegedly one of the i saw a terrorist a homemade explosive device was found in his home along with other components and allemands. accordi

in aghanistan, airstrikes have killed more than a dozen civilians in the western province of herat ononday. the u.s.-backed afghan military carried out the strike, and initially claimed the victims were taliban members. but residents say all of the victims were civiliansns, mostly women and d children. inin washingtoton, d.c. a grandy has indicted 15 members of turkish president recep tayyip erdogan's security detail on felony charges for attacking a group of peaceful protesters in washington, d.c. in may. video from the scene shows turkish presidident recep tayyip erdogan looking on during the assault, which came just after erdogan was welcomed to the white house by president trump. it's not clear if erdogan gave the order for the attack. it left nine anti-erdogan protesters hospitalized. "the washington post" reports special counsel robert mueller's lawyers have issued several subpoenas to washington lobbying firms, demanding information about their interactions with the consulting firms of former national security adviser michael flynn and former trump campaign chairman paul manafo

it happened in the western city of herat, during evening prayers. a local lawmaker said he was told one attacker fired on worshippers before blowing himself up, but it wasn't clear whether there was a second attacker. back in this country, president trump's comments on policing have come under fire from the head of the drug enforcement administration. last week, mr. trump suggested that officers do away with practices like protecting suspects' heads as they're put into police cars. but in a weekend email to his agency, the acting d.e.a. director chuck rosenberg said the remarks "condoned police misconduct." on wall street, banks and technology companies pushed stocks higher today. the dow jones industrial gained 72 points to close at 21,963. the nasdaq rose 14 points to close at 6362, and the s&p 500 gained six points. still to come on the newshour: president trump's role in how his son's meeting with russians was explained to the public. a lawsuit surrounding a debunked fox news story. arizona senator jeff flake's new book faulting the president an

explosions at a mosque in the western afghan city of herat have killed about twenty people and injuredber and another assailant who threw a grenade at worshippers. the mosque is in an area mainly inhabited by shia muslims. pakistan's parliament has elected a new prime minister to replace nawaz sharif, who was forced to resign last week in the wake of corruption allegations. he's shahid khaqan abbasi. 0ur south asia correspondent justin rowlatt has the latest from islamabad. it's exactly what we expected. a guy called shahid khaqan abbasi has been elected prime minister of pakistan. when i say elected, this is elected by the members of parliament, by the national assembly of pakistan, not by the people of pakistan. so he's been elected prime minister. he's the new prime minister of pakistan, but he is only in place, we think, for about two months before the longer term successor, so the man appointed by nawaz sharif, the former prime minister, disgraced and kicked out of office by the supreme court on friday. he nominated wait for it, his brother to succeed him. his brother isn't actual

day after at least 33 worshippers died when suicide bombers attacked a shiite mosque in the city of heratad i included the father f an afghan teenage girl who made international headlines recently when she took part in a robotics competition in the united states. the self-proclaimed islamic state claimed responsibility for the attack. meanwhile, the u.s. is intensifying its air war in afghanistan. during the month of june, the u.s. carriried out 389 airstriks -- the highest monthly total in five years. meananile the pentntagon iss , seeking to send anotother 4,00 u.s. troopops to join the 8,7000 currently in the country. as the wall street jojournal is reporting the top administration may have found a way to extend the u.s. war. the times reports -- meanwhile the e new york times recently reported that trump is being pressured by a billionaire financier and a chemical executive to escalate the u.s. war in afghanistan in a bid to exploit the country's mineral wealth. the times reports trump discussed afghanistan's vast deposisits of metals and rarare earth elements with afghan president as

we're all here, obviously, because of bridget bishop and herat

monday thirteen civilians were confirmed killed and over a dozen wounded in an airstrike on the western herat province the government says it was targeting taliban fighters that locals again say the militants have left the area hours before the strike the two incidents demonstrate the huge risk of civilian casualties from the intensified raids on the country. two explosions have rocked a chemical plants near the city of houston in the u.s. state of texas the mirror called reports on the situation there the incident has been confirmed by the company and they also warn that there may be a risk of further blasts the company issued a statement in response to the incident saying that the plant followed its hurricane preparation and had emergency plans in place however unprecedented flooding overwhelmed their primary and secondary sources of backup power the first warned about the explosion on wednesday we have lost primary power and two sources of emergency backup power as a result we have lost critical refrigeration of the materials on. right there could now explode and cause a subsequent intense

this may have the victims or civilians whether it's the terrorists or the military as it was shown in herat and in the past civilian casualties well being what are your longing in a minute. there on to the why is the taliban able to do it so frequently. they have already infiltrated in the city they have cells in the city this is a more fair it's impossible to guard against that kind of warfare completely but having said that naturally our security forces are not doing the job adequately the screening and the systems that are in place are not adequate. the houses of the ministers and warlords and strong men and embassies are well protected but poor people of kabul and other cities of the country are the victims whether it's from an army or a terrorist life that a civilian loses it doesn't matter who kills them there are barely able to live as it is that because of poverty and lack of. security and joblessness and then to. top it off this is a tragic situation just to emphasize a point you are making is there a link do you think between trump's announcement of his new anti taliban strategy o