and around the country all right thank you for that jennifer glass live in kabul. at least fifty five people including seven children drowned when two boats carrying migrants and refugees capsized in the mediterranean sea dozens more may be missing a speed boat sank while crossing from turkey to the greek islands on sunday and another boat capsized off tune is in charge of bilis reports. on the safety of land and back where they began after the nine metre boat sank leaving tuna zia bound for europe she knew a lizard a citizen a boat had a capacity for seventy five to ninety people maximum but we were between one hundred eighty and one hundred ninety on board. nearly seventy people were rescued by the two new zealand coast guard and brought to the city is farkas it's unclear exactly how many people are missing is the most deadly ship break in the mediterranean since people are. illiterate a good goalie had a better water was coming into the boat those who could escape or fled others drowned we stayed there until almost five am then fisherman came to help us and the

refugees, people desperate for work, and terrorists have flooded kabul.eral nicholson showed us how vulnerable the city has become. >> nicholson: a suicide bomber is going to go in here, he's going to kill himself. he doesn't care about his future. vastly easier than what the afghan security forces have to do. >> logan: because he doesn't have to have an exit strategy. >> nicholson: exactly. >> logan: how easy is it to infiltrate the city, especially one this big? >> nicholson: yeah, right now, it's easier than we would like. >> logan: general nicholson took command in 2016, shortly after the u.s. cut troop levels to fewer than 10,000. the enemy filled the vacuum. suicide bombers have terrorized kabul ever since, shattering police stations, mosques, and foreign embassies. this truck bomb last year killed 150 people. it was the deadliest attack in the capital since the start of the war. >> ashraf ghani: the level of brutality, the level of heartlessness, is unbelievable, and we have to muster all of our resources to be able to deal with this. >> logan: afg

a journalist in kabul thank you so much for your insights. your german chancellor angela merkel is standing firm as a dispute over migration with one of her top ministers threatens to bring down her coalition government in a video message merkel reiterated her intention to seek a common european solution to illegal migration escalating standoff with her interior minister horst hoffa he wants stricter border controls including turning back refugees who have already registered in other european countries or who have been turned down for asylum if no agreement is reached the german government could fall the chancellor faces an uphill battle here a brand new poll finds that fifty seven percent of germans oppose merkel's immigration policy did you ask people on the streets of berlin what they thought. i think it's very difficult i just apart i'll be very unfriend but i also must say i'm leaning more and march who are setting an upper limit we can't just keep on taking people in they're still saying that goes if a boat holds thirty people and there

afghanistan taliban fighters celebrate and take pictures with security forces and residents in the capital kabul as the government extends a ceasefire until after the holidays. also coming up. the migrant rescue ship that's become a flashpoint in europe's migration debates first italy denied it permission to dock and then malta now the aquarius nears the end of its long voyage as it prepares to dock in spain. another world cup argentina locked horns with iceland tiny iceland made it to the quarter finals of the euros two years ago could they match up to high flying argentina. i'm irish waiter thanks for joining us people have been flooding onto the streets of the afghan capital kabul to celebrate a day after the taliban announced a surprise three day cease fire it was a rare sight as taliban fighters hugs and even took selfies with the soldiers and civilians they have been fighting afghan president from gandhi said he would extend a parallel cease fire that his government announced on tuesday but did not say when it would start or for how long it would be in place. the a journalist in kabul has

of that bomb and we're hearing that there were casualties from that another bomb went off here in kabul it was hidden in a truckload of watermelons it was a magnetic bomb and that injured three civilians it seems like jane we hear these reports over and over again different kinds of attacks here in and around kabul despite tightened and heightened security and the best efforts of the afghan government or the basij jennifer thank you. at least twenty five people have been killed in guatemala in one of the most violent eruptions of the volcano in decades thousands more have been forced to leave their homes as the volcano spews rock hot ash and smoke several kilometers into the david mess from guatemala i scenes of devastation in guatemala after sunday's volcanic blast houses near the base of the volcano were buried by a mixture of mud and lava dozens were killed and many have been injured survivors expect the death toll to rise. you know not everyone escaped i think they were buried we saw the lava pouring through the cornfields and we ran towards a hill more than three thousand people fr

the contrast to kabul could not be greater. every summer when they return to germany for one or two months they realize what they've been missing. one thing for g'slinn we have grandchildren here to run for. you know there's a lot to cherish here and. there's the rule of law and of the police things like that we can be happy that we have all that here this one go forward us one just so it was. an immensely and pay test for tech try to relax and enjoy themselves when they're here but especially in view of current developments in germany they can't understand why their main sponsor museum is unwilling to continue funding their school project. to the fluting screes are doing through the migration crisis has brought so many afghans to your simply because they have no opportunities back home so people say we have to do something and that country to give them opportunities create hope and so for self and so. but that's exactly what we do and if they turn off the lights now it will achieve the opposite one dollar three it all started

kabul, they have turned to something new. making coffins.here is also greater demand for prosthetic limbs. this orthopaedic clinic is run by the international. >> to watch the full report. go to cbsnews.com and click on >> dr. stanley: remember this: cannot change the laws of god. when he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he has increased the strength of the foundation of your life and your faith in him. [music] heen in the news recently, cdc study shows the number of suicide are up in many states. this morning, we end with the story of hope. it is about a teen who wants th thought aboutening his life but not unexpected backup when heap needed it the most. steve hartman on the road. >> reporter: a lot of police offser go above and beyond. few have gone further than monique and elisia. last year they got a call to check on the welfare of a verbablely impaired 15-year-old boy, victor. victor was used to being bullied. but when somebody poured hot glue on his arm he decided that was the final

of people twelve died when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the ministry of rule development in kabul in the eastern city of jalalabad security forces shot three attackers before they detonated explosives in an education department building and fifteen afghan soldiers died fighting the taliban including. some afghans are going to extreme lengths to devolve peace thousands of people are marching from the southern province of helmand to kabul shell about us for forts. oh these are afghans who not be deterred by hate hunger distance or danger. they are walking seven hundred kilometers to the afghan capital kabul without food or water from dawn to dusk during the holy month of ramadan good you know if all afghans raise the same voice for peace and say no more war i'm sure we will reach a sustainable peace very soon. nine men started in the taliban stronghold of helmand province a month ago as temperatures climbed above forty degrees so did the numbers through town after town the group swelled with afghans strangers sensing a moment to be heard oh it's just an away afghan army and security

absolutely, i was in kabul at that time. and you were supportive, were you?the idea was this is the call by the ulemas of afghanistan... with respect, the ulemas of afghanistan are not running the security strategy of the afghan government. some generals and respected commentators in afghanistan have already said this is a mistake, it will just allow the taliban to regroup, restrengthen their forces on the ground and will do nothing to help the struggle that we see every day in your country. when that call was made, the idea was to hold the national security council meeting and to see different aspects of it. and while my initial response was positive, at the same time i suggested it has to be made clear that it's not daesh or al-qaeda or other terrorist groups, only the taliban. i understand that. it's obviously about your relationship with the taliban. also, if our forces come under attack, they will respond. they will. absolutely. i'm glad we've straightened that out. so as you say, it is targeted at that taliban. it seems indicative of a strategy that ash

as a freelance journalist who joins us live from kabul now so what do you make of the timing of this increase and violence is it about the late up to this attempted cease fire. i think what afghanistan is experiencing are very painful and difficult times afghan cities of become the new front lines the announcement really created some drawing hope among afghans who have been really waking up to these deadly explosions losing their family members at this stage i think what is clear that afghan cities including kabul or infested with what counterterrorism officials would describe them as sleeper cells . afghan officials close to the president and chief executive officer of the law of the law have been very adamant that now it's up to the taliban to really show some good well in in. some action in terms of the cease fire but what i think is the reality on the ground that this will be a very long and difficult process and the hope here among ordinary afghans is that they will finally be able to have some sort of peace that's missing now for generations of afghans what incentive does the t

the taliban to mark the festival of need but will the taliban accept we'll bring you the latest from kabul. somalia suspends search and rescue efforts in the wake of sometimes photonic eruption official site climate conditions and. making it impossible for survivors. welcome to the program one point four million turkish citizens living in germany have begun early voting in the country's presidential and parliamentary elections turkey itself goes to the polls on june twenty fourth and with five presidential candidates. to one's position is far from so. one supporters and opponents stand side by side in front of the turkish general consulate in berlin up to sixty thousand turkish citizens are expected to vote at this polling station alone votes from turks living abroad could swing the election it's likely to be a close one. as you can see members of the turkish community are eager to cast their votes here in berlin they want to decide in which direction the country is heading but where too many different opinions. six candidates have entered the presidential election. and a party's hope to w

large explosion at a polytechnic university in afghanistan we know that it happened in the capital kabul women of the country's top clerics gathering that's fine up more from jennifer glass joins us now from kabul what happened jennifer. it was a gathering of the top clerics and bullets from around the country about two thousand they predict. that the things that make their gathering minister when that suicide bomber went off actually they had just come to an agreement saying that suicide bombings were they issued a fatwa against suicide bombings of an islamic really against suicide bombing saying that bombing of of muslims was an islamic and then that's when this a suicide bomber set himself off at the gate this explosion happened at the gate the police chief confirms at least four people have been killed we do know that some of the injured were taken to a nearby police hospital not far from that area but it was a very very large gathering really intend to shore up support for the peace process they called on the taliban to accept the government's under the government's deal for peace i

however the relationship between kabul and islamabad has become. several rounds of talks between the civil and military leadership. as far as dealing with the fund refugees is concerned the country is also due to hold an election on the ground the fifth of july. new government will be in place in islamabad to take decisions on the future relationship with afghanistan and the plight of the afghan refugees residing in this country the united nations high commission for refugees is optimistic that despite the fact that it was indeed the deadline the government of pakistan was likely to increase that deadline. and to ease the suffering of the of one refugees across this country. mumbai's distinctive art deco buildings have been other to the unesco world heritage list deco enthusiastic estimate indian city has around two hundred art deco buildings second only to miami in the u.s. the majority were built between the early one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred fifty s. they were commissioned by wealthy indians who sent architects to europe to com

the festival of which marks the end of ramadan and will not donavon except to get the latest from kabul coming up. as one of them on the morn's it's day time is running out to find survivors of sunday's massive volcanic eruption and their warnings have been kiddo rate is dropped again in the days ahead. and campaigning in berlin for and against the turkish president texture citizens and living in germany have begun to come to the bonnets in the country snap election what impact of their votes have on the alex cup. player. hello and welcome i'm. the government in afghanistan has announced a recall on ceasefire to coincide with the festival of eve which marks the end. of the ceasefire has been offered to the president of gandhi made a surprise announcement after a meeting of islamic clerics this week who declared a fatwa or a ruling against suicide bombings on the. unconditional offer to the taliban for a cessation of hostilities so far there's been no comment from the group. let me now join general france marty he joins me from the afghan capital kabul francis how significant is this dec

journalist in kabul thank you so much for your insights. and now to a migrant rescue ship that's become a flashpoint in the european debate over migration the aquarius is said to be carrying more than six hundred people is due to dock in spain in the coming hours after being denied permission by italy and the spanish and french authorities have announced they will work together to process the people on board that as our next report shows it's just the latest step in a long ordeal. on board the aquarius hundreds of weary migrants await the end of an arduous journey. the mood is celebre tree they've been saved twice first from the sea and then from scorn. it's almost a week since they were pulled from the mediterranean at night after the vessel sank . now they're counting down the minutes and miles until they reach land. and this is the view that awaits them the port of valencia where almost a thousand volunteers are preparing for their arrival they'll be told not just welcome but welcome home. that's the migrants who have high levels of stre

it was a woman being shot that afghan is said you in kabul is that you let's liberate afghan women how liberated afghan woman has became unfortunately not really much in fact afghan women were a tool to justify the war and yet and this was also to justify door and to support it on citizens because there wasn't any effort of habit i mind international community to go into another war and sickened like when we look at the peace negotiation unfortunately in the past few years women are simply being. a kind of cycling from the peace negotiations what for example in monte speace process taliban is strictly forbidden a presence of woman in the city will not sit on the table we had woman of prison sikka none of these women are really at the decision making level at the high peace council often these peace deals are done with a bunch of a kind of a big guys with bushy beard. to get here so i think that's not the case when mr karzai initiated the peace process mr cuz i what do you think is different this time president bunny has announced a cease fire he offered unconditional talks he even offe

so how will the taliban respond to the latest from kabul. and with russia and the spotlight ahead of the football world cup moscow's critics called attention to the price of alleged political prisoners one of them is ukrainian filmmaker. sentenced to twenty years in prison after criticizing russia's annexation of crimea. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. one point four million turkish citizens living in germany have begun early voting in the country's presidential and parliamentary elections turkey itself goes to the polls on the twenty fourth of june and with six presidential candidates who wants future is far from certain. aerator one supporters and opponents stand side by side in front of the turkish general consulate in berlin up to sixty thousand turkish citizens are expected to vote at this polling station alone votes from turks living abroad could swing the election it's likely to be a close one as you can see members of the turkish community are eager to cast their votes here in berlin they want to decide in which direction the

we had a major development at the end of february, beginning of march, after the so—called kabul processhe president came out and talked about recognising the taliban as legitimate political movement in the country, saying he wanted to see talks begin with them. you have a lwa ys talks begin with them. you have always seemed more sceptical. where do you stand today? rather than being sceptical, i want to be realistic. at the same time, i am a supporter of the calls for talks. forgive me for interrupting but it is important to get this straight. you said not long ago that you see no alternative to fighting the taliban and you don't believe that their interest or discussion about negotiation is serious. have you changed your mind? the taliban have not shown seriousness. so you still see no alternative to fighting?” believe that at the moment when the taliban have rejected the calls for peace talks, serious negotiations, we have no choice but to defend our own country and to protect our people. at the same time, the door should always remain open for talks and negotiations. but your telling

been coming together this group that has walked seven hundred kilometers from helmand province to kabul all of this coming together there's a lot of soft pressure being created or the taliban and this gives us a sense that there has to be some sort of action stick and resolve the peace process otherwise the taliban may lose the public support and in the meantime xian economy to show he holding out for his followers in the country. what basically they have been they have had a number of the mines which most of them were responded back by the afghan government being twenty eight february's kabul process meeting and afterwards meetings and public appearances that the president had now the only bone of contention between dissolute two sides is the drought of the international forces from afghanistan where the taliban warns that they want to speak to the americans or up on the schedule while i have one government has been saying that well once we start the negotiation that can be on the top of the agenda as part of the discussion so this is the only part that needs to be ironed out. before t

dozens of an armed taliban fighters had also entered kabul.s briefly and emost most un—thinkable in counter a few days ago. but, the taliban says, this is only temporary. —— encounter. we don't have a problem with afghan forces. we fight because there are foreigners in our country, there are foreigners in our country, there are foreigners in our country, there are americans in our country goes we fight americans if we see them now we will fight them after them now we will fight them after the ceasefire has finished. the truth has been widely observed in most parts of afg ha nista n truth has been widely observed in most parts of afghanistan but the ceasefire was marred by an attack in kandahar province. despite this, the afg ha n kandahar province. despite this, the afghan president wants the ceasefire to continue. i have ordered afghan mission security and defence. extend the ceasefire from monday, the fourth day of eid. more details of the ceasefire will be shared with the ceasefire will be shared with the nation soon. i also urge the taliba

in afghanistan is targeted by a suicide bomber in kabul. first to jordan where king abdullah has appointed a former world bank economist as prime minister of the house resigned following huge protests they've been demonstrations in amman and other parts of the country since last week against i.m.f. backed austerity measures jordanians are grappling with high unemployment and new tax hikes coupled with the abolition of bread subsidies simply became too much to report. he was the man behind jordan's recent proposed tax hike and a stare to measures that led to six days of protests now prime minister hani muki is out. of the past week nightly rallies the largest in five years have intensified protesters marched by his residence on sunday chanting we are coming animal to live the government must step down the tax law must be withdrawn these demands and we don't want the next government to implement the same policies either . jordanians are furious that his plan raising employees taxes by as much as five percent would squeeze them financially to

the collapse of the taliban regime, kabul residents today saw an unprecedented scene on the streetsn were running here and there on the streets of kabul and stopping and hanging it up on soldiers as part of meet and greet of the ceasefire celebrations. not only that, and the very man, the commander of the police forces, the afghan interior minister, was out on the street taking selfies with the taliban soldiers as a gesture of showing support and also building trust between a group that they have been fighting for the past 17 years. a murder investigation is under way after the death of a man in warrington. officers were called to wilderspool causeway in latchford just before 3.00am, where they found a 21—year—old man with serious injuries. he later died in hospital. a 31—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. the un's special envoy to yemen has arrived in the capital sana'a in a bid to persuade rebels to give up control of a key seaport. pro—government forces backed by saudi arabia have been fighting to take hodeidah from iran—backed militias. most of yemen's aid pa

the streets of kabul, when taliban militants on motorbikes carrying the white flag of taliban. kabul, and stopping and hugging afghan soldiers as part of meet and greet of the cease—fire celebrations. not only that, and the very man, the commander of the afghan forces, the police forces, the interior minister, was out on the street taking selfies with taliban soldiers, as a gesture of showing support and also building trust between a group that they have been fighting, as a government, for the past 17 years. shoaib sharifi reporting there. the un's special envoy to yemen has arrived in the capital sana'a in a bid to persuade rebels to give up control of a key seaport. pro—government forces backed by saudi arabia have been fighting to take hodeidah from iran—backed militias. most of yemen's aid passes through the port, and aid agencies have warned that a prolonged battle could worsen an already critical situation. spain's government says it has accepted an offer from france to take in some of the migrants from the aquarius rescue ship. the vessel is currently en route to spain,

jennifer many thanks indeed jennifer glass the reporting live from afghanistan's capital kabul at least twenty five people have been killed in guatemala in one of the most violent eruptions of the volcano in decades thousands more forced to leave their homes as the volcano spews rock hot ash and smoke several kilometers into the david nasr reports now from guatemala. scenes of devastation in guatemala after sunday's volcanic blast the flag of volcanoes eruption sent lava streaming down the highway houses near the base of the volcano were buried by a mixture of mud and lava dozens were killed and many have been injured survivors expect the death toll to rise has been the know not everyone escaped i think they were buried we saw the lava pouring through the cornfields and we ran towards a hill more than three thousand people from several farming villages near the volcano have been evacuated from their homes rescuers say their operations will continue through the night and they hope to be able to reach areas that have been cut off from help what amal is president has put the country on red

at least seven people have been killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan's capital kabul it happened to thousands of religious scholars who are leaving a gathering helicity splits happening in of a city they announced a decree against the war in afghanistan the taliban to accept the government's face off jennifer glass is in kabul. the bomb went off as hundreds of thousands of islamic scholars and clerics were finishing their meeting in what we call the jirga tent the loya jirga tent to really a a conference hall in kabul as they were exit a after a meeting where they condemned of the ongoing war as an islamic and condemn suicide bombers a bomber went off at the gate the entrance to that gathering where more than two thousand five hundred religious leaders had gotten together to try and persuade the taliban to come to the peace table to accept what the president calls an unconditional offer for peace talks now and just as we heard news of that bombing another bombing in town a smaller bomb went off in a truckload of watermelon that injured three civilians it seems that over and over

when those two provinces fall, kabul has always fallen. in the 1980s, those were the places the moou jaone a very successfully fought off the soviets. we come to 2010, very similar situation. every three and four-letter insurgent or terrorist group was up there from al qaeda, local taliban, capital "t" taliban. all of it was up there. all of it wants to take kunar. you had sanctuary. you had the terrain. you had the capabilities. we came in with lessons learned in afghanistan previously, in iraq previously. we had a bunch of people in the unit that had learned this is a whole of government problem. this is not a militaryroblem. it's not for an infantry battalion and a task force to solve. there are things we can do to enable. but in the month we were there -- the case study you read about in the book that happened at the end of june of 2010, i lost nine soldiers. the conditions with that are bad. there's a giant red arrow -- if i could show you a map, there was a giant red arrow pressing. we broke up six suicide bombers by luck that month.

coming into towns and cities centers and reaching the afghan military and afghan civilians here in kabul they turned over their weapons as they came into the city one taliban fighter said that his heart was exploding with joy that this had happened and he wants to see what is decided next about the fighting president ghani has extended the government cease fire he says they'll be more details about that and also released forty six afghan taliban prisoners as well signs of goodwill that he would like this progress toward peace to continue the question will be what will the taleban do about all of this will they go back to the battlefield or will they try to continue with this step towards peace below are some of is a former senior adviser to the chief executive of the style of. speaking to us from washington d.c. he explained why the ceasefire is so significant. they have been very localized small scale ceasefires for tactical reasons here and there but this was nationwide it's unfortunate what happened today in eastern afghanistan and this is a reminder that to afghans as well as to all

they are walking seven hundred kilometers to the afghan capital kabul without food or water from dawn to dusk during the holy month of ramadan good to have if all afghans raise the same voice for peace and say no more war i'm sure we will reach a sustainable peace very soon. nine men started in the taliban stronghold of helmand province a month ago as temperatures climbed above forty degrees so did the numbers through town after town the group swelled with afghans strangers sensing a moment to be heard oh it's just an away afghan army and security forces met us they kept their weapons down to welcome us and told us to take our message and taliban also came on the roads welcoming us and told us to find a solution for this war and afghanistan has been at war since the taliban was overthrown seventeen years ago but it was march the twenty third and how men's capital of lashkar gah that these afghans decided that had enough a suicide bomb explosion at a sports stadium killed sixteen people and injured forty. men women and children staged decision a real hunger strike they called for a pea

there have been extraordinary scenes in the afghan capital kabul where taliban militants have joinedid celebrations — embracing security forces.

of that bomb and we're hearing that there were casualties from that another bomb went off here in kabul it was hidden in a truckload of watermelons it was a magnetic bomb and that injured three civilians at least twenty five people have been killed in guatemala in one of the most volatile options of the volcano in decades. forced to leave homes as the volcano spews rock and smoke several kilometers into the david muscle reports from guatemala. the scenes of devastation in guatemala after sunday's volcanic blast houses near the base of the volcano were buried by a mixture of mud and lava dozens were killed and many have been injured survivors expect the death toll to rise. you know not everyone escaped i think they were buried we saw the lava pouring through the cornfield and we ran towards a hill more than three thousand people from several farming villages near the volcano have been evacuated from their homes rescuers say their operations will continue through the night and they hope to be able to reach areas that have been cut off from help what a mollusc president has put the country

of that bomb and we're hearing that there were casualties from that another bomb went off here in kabul it was hidden in a truckload of watermelons it was a magnetic bomb and that injured three civilians in least twenty five people have been killed in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in decades thousands more have been forced to leave their homes as you go spewed rock hot ash and smoke several kilometers into the sky lava flows have buried at least one village the president of spain's catalonia region has met the jailed leaders of october's failed bid for secession comptroller visited the night leaders a few days after his government was sworn in he was handpicked by former president carter's push to mount tora is pushing for talks with spain's new prime minister petro sanchez on catalonia is future the u.s. is urging china to release a full account of those killed or jail during the tiananmen square massacre twenty nine years ago the chinese government has never given an official number of how many people were killed during the student led protests in one nine hundred eighty

forward for this piece we have seen remarkable scenes around the country here on the outskirts of kabul the interior minister actually shook the hands with taliban fighters had his photo taken and we've seen that scene repeated around the country in conducing does name in the south. as taliban fighters came into cities one taliban fighter said his heart was bursting with happiness when he learned that he could come into kabul without any harm and that's what we saw on the outskirts of the city afghan security forces searched them they took their weapons off they came into the city people came and gathered and it was that kind of gathering that sadly was attacked in eastern afghanistan but it was really the only report of violence around the country to date so that in itself also a remarkable feat. jennifer in the meantime president gone the continuing to reach out to the town of offering to renew. extend this cease fire amongst other concessions being offered how deep potentially last thing is this reconciliation. well that is the big question president ghani speaking to the nation toni

a blow to an otherwise happy day which saw dozens of unarmed taliban fighters entering the capital kabul and other cities to celebrate the holiday images emerged on social media of afghan soldiers and taliban members together exchanging hugs and even taking selfies jennifer glass has the latest now from kabul. terrible punctuation to what had been a very happy holiday here in afghanistan the gathering that was targeted there was taliban fighters and the afghan military and afghan civilians who all gathered to wish each other holiday greetings it's a scene has been repeated around the country but in jalalabad a terribly sad ending with attacking the gathering trying to perhaps interrupt the best hopes for peace that afghanistan has seen in a long time of the ceasefire by the tell of on lasting for the three days coinciding with a cease fire by the government and successful by all accounts not just the fighting stopping but the fact that taliban fighters coming into towns and cities centers and reaching the afghan military and afghan civilians here in kabul they turned over their weapons a

country remains plagued by war poverty and corruption but the report does determined that the capital kabul is relatively secure and that there is no active attack by the government on its own people all of that is seen by the government as a basis for saying the situation there is safe enough to resume deportations of people in germany who do not have the right to remain in germany and are from afghanistan now just to give you a sense of the numbers two hundred fifty five thousand people from afghanistan are currently in germany of those fifteen thousand are eligible for or required to be deported last year deportations have been suspended in no small degree because there had been a bomb attack in kabul right in front of the german embassy now this represents a resumption of deportations and it's very much a political decision a decision that is being pushed hard by the chancellors but very in conservative sister party they are insisting that to deportations now should resume they say afghanistan needs its people to rebuild and therefore it's justified to deport but there are a lot of obje

officials in kabul when there is cases with evidence we have taken it seriously four months ago human rights watch called on you to investigate reports that your special forces some really executed civilians in kandahar province during the period of january thirty first to february the first this year during operations against the taliban they allegedly dragged some men from their homes and shot them is this something that you consider worth investigating anything there such as there have been one of those from a credible human yes or is it anything your search you or your previous reports all of them are worth looking at but to draw a picture that that's the overall situation in our country that's what i'm what i'm challenging there have been other cases also by our police or by our national army or the special forces but i can assure you that have been investigated people on imprisoned as a result of that people are being prosecuted as a result of that and that's so that's the that's the reality so why does the committee against torture talk about a climate of impunity in afghanista

and minds but further alienating the afghan people from the cause for glass joins us now live from kabul to jennifer a bit of a surprise announcement can you tell us how it might have come about. well you know on monday we had a gathering of religious leaders here in kabul they condemned the violence against muslims saying that it was an islamic and they had called for a cease fire this seems to be in response to that but it did come as a very much a surprise that announcement on facebook by president ghani a cease fire that will last for a week ending at the end of it only though applies to the taleban not to i saw and other fighting groups here in the afghan sorry here in afghanistan but the cease fire of being called by the president seems like a move and the next step in his strategy to engage the taliban of course laura and february he invited the taliban to peace talks without conditions he offered them political capital to be recognized as a political group the afghan government very much trying to engage the taliban the real question is what part of the taliban is up for peace ta

from the group itself let me now join journalist france marty he joins me from the afghan capital kabul francis how significant is this declaration of a unilateral ceasefire by the government. thanks for having me at the moment it is hard to tell how significant that is as you said this fire unilaterally is limited to one week getting on the twelfth of july to nineteen. it is also limited in certain other parts president when he said that it only affects offensive operations against a problem and that operations offensive operation against islamic state groups or other what he calls for the terrorists will continue so there is a bit the problem how this will be solved what will be continuing what. this plus you also say that troops will nonetheless you're ready to defend and the hostilities from insurgents site so one question is how much it will affect if they decrease violence and all the question of course is if the taliban will also react to this as you said there is no official reaction so far and putting on spokesman's couldn't contact it now when i tried a few minutes ago by tele

their meeting in what we call the jirga tent the loya jirga tent to really a a conference hall in kabul as they were exit a after a meeting where they condemned of the ongoing war as an islamic and condemn suicide bombers a bomber went off at the gate the entrance to that gathering where more than two thousand five hundred religious leaders had gotten together to try and persuade the taliban to come to the peace table to accept what the president calls an unconditional offer for peace talks now and just as we heard news of that bombing another bombing in town a smaller bomb went off in a truckload of watermelon that injured three civilians it seems that over and over again we hear these stories we're reporting the stories that either the taliban or i saw are setting off bombs or attacks here in the afghan capital and around the country really a sign of how difficult it is for the afghan government to maintain security of the taliban growing influence around the country despite fifteen thousand u.s. and nato troops as well as a large force of afghan security forces fighting very hard and

they are walking seven hundred kilometers to the afghan capital kabul without food or water from dawn to dusk during the holy month of ramadan. if all afghans raise the same voice for peace and say no more war i'm sure we will reach a sustainable peace very soon. nine men started in the taliban stronghold of helmand province a month ago as temperatures climbed above forty degrees so did the numbers through town after town the group swelled with afghans strangers sensing a moment to be heard. i know a afghan army and security forces met us they kept their weapons down to welcome us and told us to take our message and the taliban also came on the road welcoming us and told us to find a solution for this war in afghanistan has been at war since the taliban was overthrown seventeen years ago but it was march the twenty third and how men's capital of lashkar gah that these afghans decided that had enough a suicide bomb explosion at a sports stadium killed sixteen people and injured forty. men women and children staged decision a real hunger strike they called for a peace deal between the t

committee against torture at the un committee against torture in their representatives in kabul you now maher we have when you good level of cooperation that's what i can assure you talking very complacent about not these things and these are serious problems i think you before you accuse somebody in front of you. listen to him. i'm listening to you in our audience will will will make it me will make their judgment. all my life i have fought for the rights of people in human rights in i have made sacrifices personally a sacrifice is in millions of people have made sacrifices in these are not the things that we will take it simply as such in january last year your attorney general ordered nine guards employed by first vice president of the rushed us to to answer questions about the abduction illegal imprisonment and sexual assault on a rival politician achmet ishi dustin refused to allow his guards to be called in instead they had to be interviewed in his compound seven of them were later convicted in absentia and sentenced to five years by the end of last year not a single one of them w

at least seven people have been killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan's capital kabul it happened thousands of religious scholars when the big a gathering at the city's polytechnic university earlier then as the to create as the war in afghanistan the taliban to accept the government's peace offer no group has yet said it was behind the attack dead for glasses in kabul and has more. the bomb went off as hundreds of thousands of islamic scholars and clerics were finishing their meeting in what we call the jirga tent the loya jirga tent to really a a conference hall in kabul as they were accident after a meeting where they condemned of the ongoing war as an islamic and condemn suicide bombers a bomber went off at the gate the entrance to that gathering where more than two thousand five hundred religious leaders had gotten together to try and persuade the taliban to come to the peace table to accept what the president calls an unconditional offer for peace talks now and just as we heard news of that bombing another bombing in town a smaller bomb went off in an age truckload of waterm