jennifer glasse reporting from kabul then. caroline malone has the effect there. >> structural damage including to the city's historic fort. the quake hit rawalpindi as the shaking ahead. many brought to the hospital and in the capital, islamabad, people gathered fearing after shocks. >> it was a severe earthquake. we told the students to all go out and they all started to file out. it lasted for a min o minute or. there were extreme shocks. the building had suffered severe damages. there are cracks in the walls. >> reporter: people also felt the effects in indian-controlled kashmir where 500-year-old structures were badly damaged. >> translator: the wall has been totally damaged. >> reporter: parts of the metro train line were temporarily halted in the capital, delhi, it is a seismically active region. ten years ago, a similar earthquake hit pakistan. 75,000 people died then. this time the quake was deeper, 200 kilometers down. but the damage, even then, is clear offground. carolina maloneclearly above gr. caroline malone. al

jennifer glasse reports. >> reporter: the streets of kunduz city are full of cars again. but it will be a long time before life gets back to normal. shop keepers are still working out their losses. many stores were destroyed in the fighting. >> translator: we've lost about $20,000 in this shop without counting the cost of destruction of the building. we want the government to guarantee investment so people can come back and invest and live their lives. >> reporter: but the people of kunduz don't have a lot of faith in the government led by ashraf ghani and abdalla abdalla. two rulers ruling together. >> the situation is good now. but we don't trust these two presidents or the chief executive. we're afraid if we borrow money and invest, we don't trust that the fighting won't happen again. >> reporter: and that means some shops remain closed. many were looted in the fighting. they are struggling to open again without enough supplies. >> we could borrow up to $5,000 in stock. now they won't give you even $200 all because of fighting. >> reporter: the city's biggest hotel say

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. >>> as jennifer glasse reports many afghanistan say it's time for all foreign troops to go home. >> reporter: funeral prayers in kunduz for a man wounded in taliban fighting but killed in the doctors without borders hospital. president obama's decision is unwelcome. >> we don't need foreign force he to protect us, we demand that the united states and other foreign countries stop top supportinsupporting taliban fig. >> afghan forces needed u.s. air and ground support to battle. >> instead of leaving thousands of forces here the americans should support an equip our own forces and they should be equipped with modern weapons. >> reporter: the united states is helping build an afghan affairs. buair force, but it takes years to train pilots and technicians. afghan president ashraf ghani welcomed the american decision to keep troops here and said it came after months of consultation. the afghan war will be expensive and calling step up of attacks on targets. in this mosque in kabul there is not much hope a continuing u.s. presence, the deteriorating economy and security situation. >> peop

jennifer glasse, what have you been hearing about this explosion? >> darren, it happened just about a half hour ago near the center of the city. the target of foreign convoy, we see pictures of a very large armored vehicle smoking. the interior ministry confirms it was a suicide car bomber. they say there were civilian cacialghts. casualties. very busy time of the morning. no one has claimed responsibility yet. >> all right, jennifer glasse, in the afghan capital, thank you. >>> more safety talks are planned over the increasingly crowded air space above syria. both sides say they made progress in talks on saturday. the defense ministry says its planes hit 55 i.s.i.l. in the last day. second day of support of president bashar al-assad's government. peter sharp has more from moscow. >> this is the 11th day of russian air strikes, against claimed i.s.i.l. position he. they flew 64 combat sorties and struck at 55 i.s.i.l. targets. this is what the defense ministry is claiming. as usual they are giving very little detail in the location of the strikes. b

the biggest needs here right now. >> that is jennifer glasse in kabul. the taliban saying it will accept any outside help from governments as well. >>> the general assembly expected to vote to call for the end of the embargo against cuba. the vote would be largely symbolic. asking the fbi to open an investigation into an incident at a local high school. the sheriff is on administrative leave following a violent run in with a student all caught on cell phone video. >> witnesses say deputy benefields went to the classroom at spring valley high school in south carolina when a teacher complained that a student would not get off her cell phone. >> the student was asked to leave the class several times by the instructor at the school. the assistant principal was there as well. then the officer was called on scene to have the student removed from that location. the student refused. and the officer acted as you see on the video. >> on one version of the video fields is heard ordering the girl to stand. when she refuses. he grabs her. flipping the girl over and t

. >> back to an earlier story, nato suicide attack, jennifer glasse, tell us more. >> that's right, martine, this happened just after 9:00 in the morning local time on one of the main roads here in kabul. the target of that taliban attack, two heavily armed nato vehicles. three afghan people were injured. we saw noou a number of civilias damaged, two armed vehicles was smoking. again nato saying there were actually no casualties in that attack. this martine is the second taliban attack in kabul in less than a week. on thursday taliban attackers, on an intelligence figure. cs stepping up their campaign of violence in the afghan capital and in kunduz in the north. >> jennifer glasse live in kabul, thank you. >>> now the oven refugee chief is due to visit temporary shelters in greece. some have escaped war in syria while others are looking for better economic opportunities. the european union has already agreed to relocate them to other european countries. john siropolous has more. >> because we don't have security, we don't have security and you cannot look for a job. in this case we need the

the earthquake felt in pakistan and india, and in kabul, jennifer glasse. >> reporter: the injured and dead here in afghanistan are in 11 provinces. almost a third of the country really a sign of how strong and powerful this earthquake was. and its reach across the country, we felt it here in kabul, 150 miles south of the epicenter, deep underneath the hindu kush mountain range. that is a real concern because villages closer to that epicenter which may have been affected are very remote and could be very difficult to get to. and so we may not see the true extent of the damage, the casualties in afghanistan, for some time. as officials try oget to those villages. afghanistan's chief executive, abdalla abdalla has called on medical officials to head to anywhere they can in hospitals and clinics to help those who are injured and called on nongovernmental organization he and businessmen here to donate what they can to help. it comes at a very difficult time. we've just started to have a cold snap in kabul as winter descends. it's snowing in some parts of the country. for the thousands that

. >> jennifer glasse is live in kabul. how much of a defeat is this for the taliban? >> well, the taliban says they close to leave kunduz, bus they wanted to protect civilians, and wanted to preserve their fighters and ammunition for the success of future operations. even though the taliban was in kunduz a few days, in total control for a few days, the impact was felt. civilians, thousands of civilians fled the city, and the taliban targeted government workers, women's activists and journalists. >> reporter: this woman became a journalist to show there were opportunities for the women. she loved her job, until the taliban came and forced her to leave. of she fled, leaving most of her family behind. after she left, her father was killed. >> i couldn't go to his funeral, the road was unsafe and i'm too recognisable. my mother was freezing. i was the only breadwinner for the family. because of all this, i could not see my family for the last time >>> he had been threatened. fighters raided the station, stealing the equipment, record and video files. a few files is all th

al jazeera april jennifer glasse was in kabul when the earthquake hit and sent us this update a short time ago. >> reporter: the dead and wounded here in afghanistan are in 11 of the country's 34 provinces really an indicator of how widespread this earthquake was felt. we felt it here in kabul. we are 260 kilometers away from the epicenter which was northeast in the northeast of the country deep opportunity hindu kush mountain range. north and east afghanistan nearly a third of the country a very tragic story of 12 school girls who died because of a stampede at their school in northern afghanistan, in tahar prorchtion. tahar province. the girls panicked and were trampled to death in that very tragic event. it is the biggest earthquake that has been felt in decades here, here in the capital certainly many people went out onto the streets trying to get out of buildings worried that they might be hurt and we do know that the casualty level is quite high here. casualties are around the country. even worse in neighboring pakistan, one of the big concerns is some of the villages that might

jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >>> china has summoned the u.s.r to explain why an american warship sails close to man made islands in the disputed south china sea. the u.s. say the missile destroyer was in international waters, but beijing has warned it will respond to deliberate provocations. rob mcbride reports. >> reporter: the united states has been signalling for months that it would make this symbolic sail past, china has warned it would respond appropriately, and both sides have been good to their word. the patrol came within 12 nautical miles of the dispolluted islands in the south china sea, normally the internationally accepted limit of a nation east territorial claim. but the u.s. says these are international waters open to anybody. china says it shadowed the u.s. vessel accusing it of harming regional peace and stability. >> translator: we want to urge the u.s. to respect our position and correct its mistake immediately. it should not conduct any dangerous provocative actions that threaten china's sovereignty and security interests, a

jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >>> now there's news of another potential scandal at fifa.ng german newspaper is reporting that germany bought the right to most the 2006 world cup with brides. the german football association admits making a $7.5 million payment to fifa, but says it was for a cultural program. fifa is investigating. >>> hungary will soon largely close its border with croatia. thousands of refugees have crossed in recent weeks. >> reporter: a violent end to a brutal journey. an afghan man traveling with 50 others, spot by bulgarian border police. some 30 kilometers from turkey. officials said the men had been resisting arrest when the shooting occurred and that the victim was caught by the ricochet of a bullet that was fired only as a warning shot. he later died on the way to hospital. the rest of the men have since been detained by police. it's the first incident of its kind since refugees began crossing through the balkan country two years ago. many who find themselves here found little in the way of a welcome. anti-immigrant politicians, such as hungary's

. >>> let's speak now to jennifer glasse who is live in kabul with the latest and jennifer how much ofllenge has this been for the rescue services particularly in getting to those remote, hard to reach areas? >> it's a huge challenge and we are just 24 hours after this earthquake and one of the big problems is it's just across such a large area of afghanistan, 11 provinces, that is almost a third of the country have been effected by this and 83 are dead that we know of and 373 injured and some of the remote villages rescue workers have not gotten to and president ghani convened the national security council in kabul to try to coordinate aid and called on local emergency councils to do the same and get aid out to a vast number of people in some very remote areas and the epicenter 260 kilometers north of here is in the hindu mountains, a difficult range and the coordination made more difficult because some of the most effective provinces and kunar for example have areas controlled by the taliban, the tall band have issued its own statements calling on afghans and its fighters to deal wit

jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >> the escs of the earquake wer felt across the region.ine malone has been assessing the damage. >> reporter: buildings in peshawara were health hit with the force of a strong quake. their structural damage, including to the city's historic 40. video caught the moment the skw quake hit. people watched anxiously as a road shook overhead. many injured were brought to this hospital. in the capital, islamabad, people ran from buildings fearing effect did of aftershocks? >> it was a severe earthquake. we told the students to rush out. they started going out. we rushed down amid the shouting and screaming. it lasted for around a minute or more. there were extremely severe shocks after five minutes when we went up, the building had suffered severe damage. there were cracks in the walls. >> people also felt the effects in indian-controlled kashmir where 500-year-old structures were badly damaged. >> the. >> parts of the metro train line were temporarily halted in the capitol, deli. it's a seismically active region. a similar skwait hit northern pa

it was the group's biggest military victory in four queen years, jennifer glasse is live for us in kabuler, why have they decided to pull out? >> reporter: they released a statement saying for two reason to prevents any civilian casualties and also to conserve their energy for what they called the success of future operations. this has been as much a propaganda war as a military war. the surprise of taking kunduz city by the taliban on september 28th. they only held the city for 10 days or so, it made afghans concerned about the taliban's ability to get in to a city. the biggest victory they have had since they were toppled from power in 2001, they have retreated to the areas around the city. some of the roads in to kunduz still remain unsafe. thousands of afghans fled when the taliban came in to the city. including most of the journalists in the city. the taliban targeted many of those journalists and many activists in those connected to the government. >> jennifer, i understand there has been another incidents. this time in helmand province. >> reporter: that's right. the taliban are o

jennifer glasse reports from kabul. >> reporter: the attack came in the middle of the night on octoberduced the hospital to ruins. about 180 staff and patients were inside the hospital when a u.s. gun ship launched an overhead assault that lasted for more than an hour. >> the level of destruction is terrible. all the main parts of hospital have been attacked and destroyed. the part we are in now caught prior. >> reporter: some patients were burned to death in their beds. staff and relatives of patients had to hide in the basement through the night. then work to treat the counseled wound the u.s. issued conflicting statements about the attack, first it said it was to protect u.s. and said the has was collateral damage. before admitted that u.s. forces were responsible and it was a mick that. doctors without borders said it had informed all parties several times of eights exact location. >> in the hours before the attack, the hospital was calm, the whole area was calm. there was no fighting around the hospital at that moment when the attack took place. so we still have not got any explan

jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >>> opposition leaders in ta tanzania are accusing the ruling partylast sunday's presidential election. catherine soi has the latest on the most fiercely contested election in more than 50 years. >> reporter: the victory was no surprise to his supporters. john has been leading since counting began on monday. in the streets of tanzania's commercial capital, his supporters danced to a favoritee party tune. they say the former minister iss the change the party and country needs. >> i believe he is like a tractor, [ inaudible ] life will be better with him as president. >> translator: the elects were free and fair. even the international observers have said this. >> reporter: he has won the election with 8.8 million votes again his closest opponent, edward, who had roughly 6 million. earlier members of the main opposition coalition filed a formal complaint to the national election commission. they say there was massive rigging and the result do not tally with some of the figures from polling stations. they also say they are disappointed with international

jennifer glasse in kabul. we'll move to islamabad now, the pakistani capital for the latest from there. >> the powerful earthquake was felt over a large area of pakistan all the way up to the provincial capital of lahore, as well as the provincial capital of the province of peshawar. also in islamabad, people vacated the buildings and homes when the earthquake struck. according to the latest report, the death toll has been mounting, hundreds injured. the reports are still coming in from the remote locations. we have reports of major landslides which has blocked access to many cities. the expectation that the death toll likely to mount even further. emergency situation in the hospitals, and of course emergency services also trying to put an accurate number on the number of people killed and wounded. >> finally, too new delhi, it seems india the least affected of the three countries there, but definitely, you still felt it. >> yes, absolutely we felt it. about 40 seconds worth of tremors here in the indian capit

have caused in pakistan because the telephone lines are badly disrupted as you also heard from jennifer glasset is very difficult to get an accurate assessment but reports are coming in and pakistani military chief issued this that the military should not be waiting for any instructions but to respond immediately to the area which has been hard hit. we do not know at this moment what kind of damage it would have caused in northern pakistan because that is also a very mountainous area prone to landslides and waiting to see. however, the earthquake was very powerful. we had to vacate our offices here in islamabad. most of the people left their homes and the buildings and it lasted what seems like almost a minute. >> kamal pakistan has been hit by earthquakes in the past so how equipped and prepared would you say authorities as well as people would have been for this one? >> well, there is no doubt that pakistan has seen devastating earthquakes, particularly the one in 2005 which killed over 75,000 people, that was in kashmir and it was also in the month of october, ten years ago. so everybody wi

as jennifer glasse reports, many afghans are also skeptical of america's plans to stay. >> killed inhe u.s. air strikes on the doctors without borders hospital. his brother's feeling is that the u.s. troops are unwelcome. >> we demand that the united states and other foreign countries stop supporting the taliban and others who fight us. >> reporter: at the funeral realreel, the sentiment is the . taliban fighters held their city for three days. afghan forces needed u.s. air and ground support to support them. >> the americans should support and qui equip our own weapons ad they should be equipped with modern weapons. >> reporter: the united states is helping train an afghan force. the afghans still rely on u.s. air support. ashraf ghani welcomed america's decision to retain force he here. the taliban says it will be an expensive war in terms of finances and casualties and called on the force to step up attacks. in this mosque in kabul there's not much hope that a continued american presence the deteriorating economy and security situation. >> translator: people are fleeing the countr

jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >> still ahead, college protests. some students are voting to whether to ban the state flag from the college campus. >>> zombies running for their lives, now a hunt is on for the shooter. >>> decades in the making and separateby politics. one korean man hoping to reconnect with his family in the north. i just had a horrible nightmare. my company's entire network went down, and i was home in bed, unaware. but that would never happen. comcast business monitors my company's network 24 hours a day and calls and e-mails me if something, like this scary storm, takes it offline. so i can rest easy. what. you don't have a desk bed? don't be left in the dark. get proactive alerts 24/7. comcast business. built for business. >> the university of mississippi will vote this week on whether to remove the state flag from campus. the mississippi flag has a confederate symbol on it and hundreds rallied on friday to call on administers to tak admit down. at least three other state universities do not fly that flag. >>> police are looki

but first to jennifer glasse in the capital of afghanistan, kabul. quite a few kilometers away epicenter, but you still felt it, jennifer? >> we did, kamal. we felt it here in kabul. it was 250 kilometers northeast of here. but here buildings shook, cars rocked back and forth. it was quite frightening. it had to be more frightening close to the epicenter deep within the hindu kush mountains. one of the most tragic really parts of the day, 12 school children in northern afghanistan actually were killed when they panicked, when the earthquake started, and the stampede broke out at their school as the girls tried to get out. 12 killed and 20 injured. horrible stories that we're hearing in afghanistan around this powerful earthquake. >> that's jennifer glasse with a live update from kabul. as we're hearing most of the casualties have been in pakistan. kamal hyder has more with the latest from afghanistan. >> the earthquake was felt over afghanistan and up through punjab as well as the provincial capital of the province also in islamabad people panicked an

al jazeera's jennifer glasse is in kabul. nnifer talk to us about some of the challenges in this search and rescue effort there. >> reporter: stephanie really one of the biggest challenges is the scope of the operation here, the earthquake effected people in 11 of afghanistans 34 provinces, nearly a third of the country and terribly remote and villages you can get to on dirt trashi tracks or foot or donky and people trying to help each other and hearing horrible stories coming out in eastern afghanistan there was a wedding going on when 24 hours ago this earthquake hit and a wall collapsed on many of the children playing at that wedding, 23 injured there and kunar province the hardest hit where 42 died, 11 people died in one instance when a rock fell down on their home. rock slides are going to be a problem. we know some highways have been blocked, logisticings very difficult across afghanistan and the government doing what it can to help those injured. >> jennifer you also mentioned that taliban control some of these areas, t

jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >> buildings destroyed, many others damaged. al jazeera am caroline malone on how the quake affected pakistan and india. >> buildings in peshawar, structure damage including to the city's historic fort. individuavideo caught the momene quake hit rawalpindi. many were brought to this rawalpindi hospital and in the capital, islamabad, people evacuated from buildings fearing after-shocks. >> it was a severe earthquake. we told the students to rush out and they all started going out. we rushed down amidst the shouting and screaming. it lasted for around a minute or more. there were extremely severe shocks. the building had suffered severe damage. there were contraction in the walls. >> people also felt the effects in indian controlled kashmir where 500-year-old structures were badly damaged. >> translator: the wall in the famous fort has been totally damaged in the earthquake. >> reporter: parts of the metro train line were temporarily halted in the capital, delhi, it is a seismically active region. ten years ago, a similar earthqua

. >> jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >> now to south africa where we've had. >> work is in south korea's biggessouth africa. the union leader said it was sabotaged by allies of the congress. >> this is an on slot against our agenda. >> government corruption is estimated to cost south africa billions of dollars a year. but people still vote for the anc. some analysts believe that some forces may be used to test the government. >> they're testing the government and increasingly the private sector. you can see a desire to find an alternative. >> for many south africas it was a $5 billion arms deal in the 1990s that set the stage for government corruption. one man in prison for taking a bribe was president zum,'s recently a company linked to the anc accepted $5 million in what were described as improper payments from the japanese company hitachi, they were credited to build a new power station. >> pressure from the street in order to seven as recorders for taking it would be strengthen th the party. >> few people here believe that the party of nelson mandela is capable of beating cor

. >> jennifer glasse joys us on the phone from afghanistan. tell us more about the plan, and how big of a change in strategy is this for the obama administration. >> this is a big about face. president barack obama hoped to have all the troops out by it end of his presidency at the end of next year. that changed. 9,800 troops now will start much of 2016, and a draw dawn will begin in 2017. that will be welcome news to the afghan security to rely on forces for intelligence, and logistical support, and has been battling hard against the taliban. >> how much of this decision is a reaction to kunduz and other attacks by the taliban? >> well, we know that general campbell. the commander of the u.s. forces was in washington over a week ago talking to congress about what is going on. we have been seen an fnsive in the north of kunduz, the taliban taking over to be the first time to get back to the stronghold in 14 years. they are active in the south. they control the highway between kabul and kandahar. they tried to attack another city. that attack w

let's go to jennifer glasse now who's live for us in kabul. so jennifer you've been there all day and you felt the earthquake when it happened. give us a sense of where we are now with trying to help people or to rescue people if that's still what's happening. >> reporter: that's right, the earthquake happened this afternoon, some eight hours ago now. and it shook not only here in kabul but around the country. the dead and wounded span 11 provinces of afghanistan's 32 -- 34 provinces. so really, a sense of how widely it was felt the death toll here in afghanistan now at 82, with 373 injured. more than 4500 buildings damaged. the chief executive officer of afghanistan has appealed to businesses to nongovernmental organizations to offer what help they can. told health workers doctors nurses to go to health facilities. we do know the military has been told to just where it can help to help. one of the big problems is the area where this quake, where the epicenter was, is in a very remote part of the hindu kush mountains, there are areas that will

jennifer glass, al-jazeera, kabul. >> jensen button will still be playing next year. no mention was made of button's teammate alonso. >>> the toronto blue jays are celebrating their first divisional title in more than 20 years. canada's only mlb franchise getting the win they needed in the american league east. the blue jays did it in style, beating the baltimore orioles here 15-2. the pennant is toronto's first since 1993. that was the year the blue jays won the second of back-to-back world series titles. this title assures the blue jays a spot in the five-game american league division series. okay, plenty more sports on our website, of course. check that out. al-jazeera.com/sports. serena williams calling an early end for her season. our top story there. more from me later on, but that's it for now. >> andy, thank you so much indeed. we'll see you for a bit more sports in the program. that's it for this news hour. we will have all the day's development straight after this break. do stay with us. >> russia denies causing civilian casualties during its air strikes ins

jennifer glasse is in kabul, and patty culhane in is washington. let's first go to jennifer.s this going to work. >> reporter: we'll see the 9,800 forces that are here remain here through 2016, and then they'll make the decision on how and when to draw down to 5,500 for 2017. but the big difference is that the forces will remain in bases around afghanistan not only here but in ja jalalabad, in the east and south. so it's not only in terms of numbers, but the fact that forces will remain a presence around afghanistan through 2017. >> and obviously the take overof the taliban spooked them slightly, but what does this say about the overall security situation right now? >> reporter: an u.n. official told al jazeera that the taliban probably control more areas now since they were driven from power in 2001. the taliban has had a presence around kunduz city for quite a long time, in gozny, the governor said the taliban had been harassing his city. and they controlled the main highway between kabul and kandahar stranding thousands of people along that road. the taliban fighting resur

jennifer glass spoke to one family that's worried about being deported. >> for a month, hamyda shagriidn't know whether her 16-year-old son was dead or alive. in june, he left his home in kunduz until northern afghanistan hoping to get to germany. it was a dangerous trip. >> translator: he almost drowned. he told me the boat was sinking. the water was up to his neck. after difficulties, he reached land. they stayed in grease for a couple of days and went to serbia. a smuggler locked them in a room with only a small hole in the ceiling. he said they only if he had them once a dayfed them once a day. he reached berlin where his aunt lives. the name says they miss him. but they were forced today send him after a man who say say might have been the talibor isi worked with them. >> we sentence our son because we had no choice. we didn't send our son because we wanted to. far zed's father, a shopkeeper had to borrow neil $70,000 for the trip. he promised to pay the money back when his son got to germany. l last month, the taliban captured the city. that i have are home and shop have destroy

we'll hear from jennifer glasse in a moment.amel heidler is in this province. >> brick by brick, locals pick up the pieces. rescue and recovery teams are also in the area to assess the damage. for most it was a narrow escape as they saw their homes come down. this man built his house over 30 years ago from savings he and his deceased brother made working in saudi arabia. he remembers the moment when the strong earthquake struck. >> translator: we were all in our rooms when the earthquake struck. it was shocking for everyone. the kids and the women were crying. it was like doom's day. we are lucky that god has saved all of us. >> reporter: as we walked through the narrow alley ways. there was still the persistent threat of after shocks. >> [ inaudible ] remaining patient they are being given [ inaudible ] and we have no shortage of [ inaudible ] or medicines, the provinceal government and federal government has given us a clean to provide everything they need. >> reporter: with the death toll mounting, it is estimated that thousa

jennifer glasse, kabul. >> demonstrations today in the occupied west bank.alestinians fought with israelis on what some of the local political parties called a day of rage. they threw rocks at israeli soldiers who responded by firing live rounds. several hundred jewish settlers live in the city of hebron. 18 people have been killed there since the beginning of october. >>> still ahead, coming together to take on gun violence. how a group of chicago mothers is trying to keep their streets safe. >>> plus, voting rights in alabama. why critics say that a new move from the state will make it even harder for minorities to cast their ballots. >> president obama made anotherly for gun control today. the president addressed the international police chiefs convention in chicago. he spoke about the recent spike in violence in his hometown. especially with the guns used in the crime come out of the state. and how easy it was for criminals to access them. >> it is easier for young people in this city, and in some of your communities, to buy a gun than buy a book. it is

jennifer glasse. >> they focused on the countries that border afghanistan. at the summit the former soviet leaders agreed to create a task force to protect the bloc borders. we have the report. >> reporter: two relevant documents are signed on friday in kazakhstan. one has to do with greater military cooperation between the cis member states. the second one is more specific, and if i can read from announcement, it is this allows for the grouping of border forces and other institutions from cis member states designed to resolve crisis situations on the external borders. what this would allow the country to do is react faster to any threats that come from outside. plenty of questions remain about this. would it be a standing body of arms and troops ready and waiting to repel any attack, or would it be more a framework and agreement by which the countries contribute to some kind of collective pool that is grouped together when the need arises. we don't know the answers to these yet, but we know that russia is considering at the moment sending its troops back in

kamal hyder, and jennifer glasse in kabul. take us back to when you felt the earthquake in kabul, which admittedly is a long way from the epicenter. >> it is. we're 260 kilometers from the epicenter. when the quake hit this afternoon we all ran out in the street as did thousands of other people. it went on for quite a long time. about a minute the earthquake shook, cars back and forth, buildings shook. i'm hearing from folks that cracks appeared in some buildings. the damage here in kabul not so extensive, but we're hearing reports from around the region, more than 1700 homes and buildings have been damaged, destroyed by the earthquake, and here in kabul the death toll continues to rise. 34 dead in afghanistan with 223 injured across afghan provinces. just really a sense of how widely this earthquake was felt. that would effect people any made homeless by the quake. anyonanyone effected in the rural areas? >> it will. we can feel it here. it's just in the last couple of days there has been a cold snap. it will be even worse in

it was felt in pakistan, india and kabul where al jazeera's jennifer glasse is live. what is the latest on damage there? >> the death toll here in kabul continue to rise. there is a real sense of destruction. now the epicenter was deep under the hindu cukh mountain range, and it may take time to determine the exact death toll. >> everybody went running out in the street. it was not just us. everybody basically in the capital, tens of thousands of people left and got out of whatever building they could. it was quite scary. it went on for a minute. not only were buildings shaking, but cars were rocking back and forth. it went on for quite a long time. a powerful earthquake. the epicenter is 150 miles north of here. the injuries and dead spread across ten provinces in afghanistan. the death toll in afghanistan is higher. they felt it in islamabad and parts in pakistan and in new delhi in india. >> this region does frequently get earthquakes, but this was usually strong. >> this was an earthquake stone. i've lived here four and a half years and we've had a half dozen trem

and the taliban take over of kunduz, jennifer glasse reports from kabul. >> the streets of kunduz will be live again, shopkeepers are still working out their losses. many shopkeepers were destroyed in the fighting. >> we've lost about $20,000 in this shop without counting cost of the destruction of the building. we want the government to guarantee security for people's lives and their investment so people can come back and invest and live their lives. >> reporter: but the people of kunduz don't have a lot of faith in the so-called national unity government ever president ashraf ghani and his chief executive, abdalla abdalla, two rivals now ruling together. >> translator: the situation is good now, but we don't trust these two presidents or the chief executive. we are afraid if we borrow money and invest we don't trust that the fighting won't happen again. >> reporter: and that means some shops remain closed. many were looted in the fighting. they're struggling to open without enough supplies. >> investment is totally gone from kunduz. before we could borrow up to $5,000 of stock. now t

jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >>> the u.s. has blocked the leases for oil drilling in the act. it will make difficult for companies to search for oil in one of the world's largest wildernesses. >> it's great news for shareholders of any company that was thinking about drilling in the arctic because the risks are simply too great and it will be a waste of money on a potentially catastrophic exercise. i think shell was seen as a canary in the mine for the other companies. the fact that these lease sales have been cancelled would indicate the other companies, far too great, that's why they didn't want to bid and the u.s. government decided there's no point in trying to sell these blocks now. i think the u.s. government has decided it can no longer deny the problems around climate change or ignore it or hope it will get away. whether they're part of a solution these are the same companies that have blockedfully action on climate changes, the same companies that business plan will assume the changes, the fact that they have a probl

jennifer glasse is in kabul. how is this going to work, jennifer?reporter: well, jane, the 9,800 u.s. forces that are here now are going to stay through most of 2016 and then as the -- at the end o next year, they'll make a decision on the pace of how to draw those down to 5,200 u.s. forces. the extension of forces here a reflection of the growing taliban insurgency -- or the fight against the taliban here. but also there is the fact that u.s. forces will remain in bases around the country. the original plan was to draw down to a small force of a thousand by 2016. but instead those forces will remain in bases around the country. here north of kabul in the east of the country, and in kandahar to the south. so not just the numbers, but also a presence of u.s. forces around the country. >> what does this suggest about the security situation at the moment? >> reporter: well, the security situation is really very difficult right now. just last month the taliban took kunduz city and held it for about two weeks. that was their biggest military advance sinc

to europe and warning they may be sent back to change the minds of those determined to leave, jennifer glasseeera, kabul. >>> chinese communist party announced the end of its controversial one child policy with all couples now allowed to have two children and it was introduced 30 years ago to slow population growth but china is now facing an shrinking workforce and reversing the trend and rob mcbride reports from beijing. >> reporter: announcement at the end of the communist four day gathering of leadership mapping out the next five-year plan. the strategy sets broad economic goals for china's development but the change in the country's one child policy that has been the most eagerly anticipated by many families here. already had been partially relaxed allowing families where at least one parents is from a one-child family themselves to have two children. now that is being extended to all couples. >> the importance of this measure is not so much demographic in terms of encouraging vast new numbers of children to be born but it is the listing of a highly restrictive and at times extremely coer

. >> jennifer glass reports there from kabul. retired major says keeping more forces in afghanistan is the right move, because the afghan forces are simply overwhelmed. >> i am worried about the returning back to the future of the taliban reinforces along the border with pakistan, we have to fix that relationship as well. that's a major incident to making sure there's peace going forward. and then the second aspect is isis. they continue to infill strait places and disrupt and be someone that and a party that is not going to go away any time soon. you take those two forces and the afghan security forces have their hands full. at least for the next 14 to 15 months now commanders can plan on getting the afghan security forces through that, evaluate them, measure their effectiveness against that the military will wait for the next administration. so now that at least the military knows what it is dealing with, knows will it be there, and they can plan accordingly. >> well lion says he thinks it was a mistake to originally announce a

let's begin with jennifer glasse in kabul. >> the powerful earthquake was felt across much of afghanistan. brought down walls. >> i was sitting at home when the earthquake happened, and i came outside with the children. one of my grandsons started running. i asked him not to run. he conditioned, and the wall collapsed on him, and he was wounded. >> 700 buildings were damaged or destroyed. >> so far we've received 155 people including women and children wounded from the earthquake. five people were killed. >> there are casualties in ten of afghanistan's 34 provinces spanning hundreds of kilometers which shows the power and reach of the earthquake. >> let's go to neighboring pakistan now, caroline malone reports on the impact there. >> there were extremely severe shocks after five minutes when we went up the building had stopped it's severe damage. there were cracks in the walls. >> people also felt the effects in indian controlled kashmir where 500-year-old structures were badly damaged. >> starts oparts of the trainline were halted in new delhi. it's a seismically active ridge. ten years

. >>> we're going to go to jennifer glasse now in kabul.the afghan government consulted, and is there any hope afghans will be able to control their country any time soon without a foreign military? >> reporter: stephanie, not only was the afghan government consulted, the chief executive officer in new york just a couple of weeks ago at the u.n. general assembly in side bar meetings with the u.s. requested this extension. when kunduz city fell last month, the afghan government said it did not really show the strength of the taliban, but the shortcomings of their military. they needed international help. we saw it in kunduz city. with air strikes to fight back taliban advances. and the tragic air strike on the doctors without borders hospital as well. in the south, earlier this year, when it looked like an area would fall to the taliban, u.s. special forces went down there as well. when you heard jamie mcinty mcintyre -- talk about their anti-terrorism plan, that is going to continue through 2017. and one other big change, stephanie. it's no

jennifer glasse was in the capital when it hit. >> the powerful earthquake was felt across afghanistan. brought down across kabul. >> i was at home when the quake happened and i came outside with the children. one of my grandsons started running. i asked him not to run, he continued. the wall collapsed on him, he was wounded. >> reporter: more than 1700 buildings were damaged or destroyed. in jalalabad the bad and injured arrived after the earth stopped moving. >> we received 155 people, including women and children wounded from the earthquake. five killed. >> there are casualties in 10 of the 34 provinces, spanning hundreds of kilometres, showing the power and reach of the earthquake. >> the epicentre of the earthquake was below the mountains, getting to them will not be easy. it may take time to know the full extent of the damage in afghanistan. >> china has warned the u.s. to act cautiously in the south china sea. earlier a u.s. war shop sailed close to two man made islands in. beijing reclaimed the spratly islands in one of the busiest sea lanes. the u.s. says it's acting in accord

al jazeera's jennifer glasse has the latest. >> the rockets fell at the end of the day into ghazni city. they may not be able to get into the capital, but they can still make their presence known. they have been on the outskirts of the city for several weeks and on monday concerns came to a head. residents shutting down their businesses. the streets very empty as they might all the the city. now afghan reinforcements were brought in to ghazni city and they repelled the taliban attack. they control stretches of highway one. they control parts of the highway between kabul and kandahar. africa's second largest city shutting down traffic. now that a highway has been closed for two days. thousands stranded look the highway. many having to spend a cold night on the highway and expected to happen again tuesday night even though they say they'll drive them off the highway. taliban has blown you have sections of highway one in ghazni province, this is a very major transit route. a big blow to afghan travelers who can't forward to fly between the two cities. thousands of them are stranded on high

jennifer glass is in kabul. >> reporter: the taliban says it left kunduz city to avoid civilian casualtiesnd to preserve the strength of its fighter for what it says will be future operations. their presence will have long-lasting implications, because they targeted government officials, women activists and journalists, causing many to flee. this woman says she became a journalist to show other women there are opportunities in afghanistan. she loved her job as a reporter in kunduz until the taliban came and forced her to leave. she fled to kabul, leaving most of her family behind. after she left her father was killed in the fighting. >> translator: i couldn't go to his funeral, the road was unsafe, and also i'm too recognizable. my mother was grieving. i was the only breadwinner for the family. i could not go and see my father for the last time. >> reporter: she had been threatened even before the taliban entered kunduz city. the fighters raided the station and stole all of the equipment, records and video files. a few photos are all that remains. now her fiance in kabul is worried. >> tra

jennifer glass has more. >> reporter: the afghan government requested this troop extension.fghan ceo had a meeting with american officials while he was in new york a couple of weeks ago, requesting that the u.s. forces remain at their current levels because of the resurgent taliban fighting happening arrange the country. that happened before kunduz fell to the taliban on september 28th. but the after security forces saying they needed international help. they said the fall wasn't so much about the strength of the taliban, but about the shortcoming of afghan security forces. those forces in the country right now will remain through part of 2016 and then generals here will decide how they will be drawn down to 5500 troops in 2017. it's a big shift for the obama administration, not just in numbers, but also in terms of where those forces will be stationed. they were initially suppo suppose -- onlying a thousand forces were supposed to stay after 2017 based at the u.s. embassy just behind me. instead they will stay here in kabul, north of kabul, in eastern afghanistan, and kanda

jennifer glasse has more. >> reporter: they can still make their presence known.overnment says the taliban have been on the outskirts of the city for several weeks, and on monday concerns came to a head. residents are shutting down their businesses. afghan reinforcements, police and army reinforcements were brought in to the city, and repelled a taliban attack. but the taliban do still control stretches of highway 1. that's the major highway, and they control parts of the highway between kabul and kandahar. that highway has been closed for two days. thousands of afghan travelers stranded on the highway. many having to spend a cold night on the highway monday night. taliban apparently have blown up sections of highway 1 in the province and mined part of the road. this is a major transit route, a big blow for afghanistan travelers who can't afford to fly between the two cities, and as i said thousands of them stranded on highway 1. >>> aid agency unicef theys the number of children suffering from malnutrition in yemen has tripled since the beginning of the war. >> r

. >> jennifer glass, thank you. stay safe. >>> kamal hyder in pakistan where 50 people have been confirmed dead. >> the powerful earthquake was knelt over a large area of pakistan all the way up to the provincial capitals will in islamabad people panicked and vacated buildings and homes when the earthquake struck. according to the latest the death toll has been mounting. hundreds are injured, and the reports still coming in from the remote locations. we also have reports of major landslides which has blocked access to many cities in that area. the expectation that the death toll likely to mount even further emergency situations in the hospitals and of course emergency services also trying to put an accurate number on the number of people killed and wounded. >> jamal hyder for us. thank you very much. >>> now to the flood refugees on the european continent. a new plan to deal with the problem. it is a 17-point plan that includes more humanitarian help and more guards at the border. more migrants are making their way

jennifer glasse, kabul. >> the european parliament has voted in new telecom rules that could save consumers billions of dollars. the changes include roaming costs--the fee phone companies charge when you go into other countries--will be scrapped in 2017. some say that the measures contain loopholes that will make it far harder for tech start ups to get off the ground. >> this vote is a blow for net neutrality. that's the principle that all internet data must be equal in terms of the speed it's delivered. that's why starts up website can quickly over take established brands. just imagine the internet interest highway. a neutral internet doesn't discriminate between the traffic. but the new rules could allow internet service providers to create online fast lanes for what they call specialized services. this could be a beneficial service like streaming and medical procedures. but that means companies that can forward to could pay to access the fast lane. if they rebrand their content as a specialized service. leaving start ups and smaller companies behind, and their content would take longer t

jennifer glass has more from kabul. >> reporter: the taliban say it's not just about protecting civiliansit's also about reserving their fighters. they say they have withdrawn from kunduz city to they can save their strength for what they say will be future operations. but their presence in kunduz is going to have lasting effects. they have targeted a number of people, namely women activists, people from the government and journalists, and many have fled the city and don't feel it is safe to go back. the taliban had supporters in the city who pointed out those activists, so a lot of concern about whether those people who reported what was progress in kunduz city, schools, and open media, whether and when they will go back. it's not the largest city in afghanistan, not by a long shot, but it is on a very strategic trade route between the capitol and the north. it's on the border, and it had had a lot of progress over the last 14 years. it took a while for it to tap. the taliban have been in the surrounding areas, but kunduz city has been making progress. and it is a very, very key supply r