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the americans here they want the taliban to first acquire cease fire with the current government in kabul and then bring the two sides to the table so they can have a discussion about what the future of over thirty five million people will look like in their country or a dosage of things for them but in afghanistan the violence continues the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers you sure about base in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops the afghan defense ministry says twenty attackers including eight suicide bombers were killed sharla ballasts has more from kabul. this is attacked again at two o'clock on friday morning and lasted some sixteen hours information was incredibly difficult to get out of home and about what exactly was going on afghan military sources were saying yes we are taking casualties but we can't tell you how many your sources were saying we do not have any casualties but like the afghans to speak for themselves but then as the day wore on we started to see that this actu

a gathering of the nic minority group and politicians in western kabul charlotte dallas has this report. from a sushi to a battlefield kabul becoming the front line of a battle between i saw an afghan forces so much an attack on senior politicians a more than one thousand dollars gathering to commemorate his our leader abdul alim azhari. it began peacefully broadcast on national t.v. with c.e.o. of dollar bill or the former president hamid karzai listening to speeches. rockets were heard in the distance to make it go to baghdad don't stay in your places the incidents are far from here you're running creates a lot of risk but the rockets go closer some politicians flared others tried to calm the crowds though sure everybody telling them to leave quietly but. then the first explosion in the elder followed witnesses reported rockets mortars landing in and around the gathering explosions and heavy gunfire. but it was

there in kabul. now despite the stories making news around the world today former nissan boss carlos ghosn has been released from prison after putting up nearly nine million dollars in bail goen is charged in japan with under reporting his salary for years and passing on personal losses to new song tycoon was detained for more than one hundred days but maintains that he is innocent. north korea is reported to be rebuilding its long range rocket launch site following the collapse of last week's summit with u.s. president all. satellite images from several u.s. think tanks and south korean intelligence services show evidence of reconstruction u.s. has warned the north that it faces fresh sanctions if fails to take steps to denuclearize . at least sixteen people are now known to have died after a collapse of a gold mine in indonesia officials say hopes of finding any more survivors are fading it's not clear how many workers were inside the legal mine on super ways the island when it caved in last week.

there in kabul. now moving on to some other stories making headlines around the world today venezuela's president nicolas maduro has vowed to crush what he's condemned as a crazed minority seeking to remove him from power he's pressing his supporters to join so-called anti imperialist marchers the weekend opposition leader says he'll step up pressure on the u.s. is considering new sanctions against. clashes between riot police and revelers have broken out at the rio de janeiro carnival officers dispersed thousands of fans who gathered for a performance by singer. there are conflicting reports over why police intervened with some local media reporting they were trying to stop a brawl among concert go. counterterrorism police in the u.k. are investigating a series of small improvised explosive devices sent to staff buildings three london transport. it's emerged that they were sent through the post with irish stamps on them the devices were discovered at heathrow at london city airports in the country's

is the highest number killed since record keeping began ten years ago china ballasts has more from kabul. it's lunchtime when fifty eight year old mohammed hussein arrives to open a shop he sells drinks out of a container and the symmetry doesn't get busy until the afternoon but it's busier than it's ever been. every day we're witnessing burials here there is no space left on this hilltop we are suffering from these attacks the u.n. says thirty eight hundred civilians including one thousand children were killed in afghanistan last year it's a record for mohammed those numbers come to life in the hills around him he's lived at the foot of the symmetry watching it expand for over a decade. it is very painful in a nightmare from now when they bring the bodies sometimes twenty thirty even forty to be buried. the u.n. says one of the reasons for the record number of civilian deaths is i saw suicide attacks that were particularly deadly last year and they often targeted the shia minority over here and western kabul resulting in a lot of people being brought up here to be symmetry which is quic

the ballast and the symmetry in waste in kabul coming up and we telling you who's to blame for the record number of civilian casualties in afghanistan last year. and the on the certain future facing syrians who took refuge in lebanon. and in sports david beckham makes his mark on the opening day of the new major league soccer susan father is going to be here with that story. the afghan taliban and the u.s. are holding talks in doha u.s. envoy. is describing unprecedented progress to end the seventeen year war he's met the taliban's co-founder more the door funny but a duck it's the highest level of talks between the two sides and since the war began well let's speak to dos about it here in doha with the talks are taking taking place dorsett give us an indication do we know yet how successful these talks are being. no robyn they've actually wrapped up for the day early today we've spoken to some officials off camera and they tell us from the american side that the talks will continue in the coming days the taliban are also saying that they haven't been able to reach an agreement on the det

kabul force. thailand's constitutional court has dissolved a prominent opposition party and banned its leaders from politics for ten years the time roxio charge was found guilty of violating election laws for nominating princess one raht as their candidate for prime minister the king said it was inappropriate for royals to get involved in politics thailand will hold elections on march twenty fourth. well this is the latest chapter in a long running power struggle between the time military and the powerful shinawatra family. roxas chart party is considered loyal to the former prime minister thaksin shinawatra tax and his supporters of one every election since two thousand and one even after he was ousted in a military coup in two thousand and six his sister yingluck became prime minister in two thousand and eleven but she too was removed from power in another military takeover in twenty fourteen both live abroad and self-imposed exile after being convicted on a range of charges they say are politic

was nothing gone and all the asli the kind of data mocks like he used that the the us and best of kabul there is a prime minister is doing your body temp and doc was inappropriate it was undiplomatic and obviously the action from a from bucks on in the state had to come and obviously pakistan's a regional power it's. you know affected and got involved with with the conflict in afghanistan do you think of the sort of diplomatic raul has effectively sidelined them from the whole peace process. well the peace process is going much good. in principle i think they have already. agreed on the basics of the peace deal and this doing to your many countries you sticking in gone through all of their lives of all those allies actually basically as a matter of fact let me belittled learned they want to share their defeat with the york realized letting them that they are americans are not alone in sharing their defeat because it is not what i'm saying this is a lot of americans from what i'm best at that he has already said that it is the slender deal that the americans under bush were going to. hav

if you look at kabul the capital when i arrived there in january two thousand and two there was a huge pile of rubble it was almost completely destroyed then you could see the city slowly being rebuilt you know there were flower shops bakery people roaming the streets children going back to school with women coming out of the house but then in the last couple of years what you saw is i can buy and suicide attacks bomb last protection wards up the wire going up so now kabul seems to be like a fortress and yet people are dying in kabul almost on a daily basis because the violence hits the capital and if you look at the rest of the country the sections is that we have almost half of the country being either controlled or contested by taliban forces have that uptick in violence is because of a resurgent taliban and now we're seeing washington holding direct talks with the taliban is that the way forward to peace. i'm afraid it is we might not like it but i think if we want to get a peace process going in what we are seeing right now is framework talks for a possible road to peace we all ne

peace studies organization which works to improve women's inclusion in the security sector and in kabul afghanistan the g.n. the seam executor. rect out with the group when for afghan women it's good to have him hey ladies now it may be difficult to get your voices heard in politics but definitely not on social media many indeed so i want to start with a member of our community who use the hash tag i mentioned just a little earlier this is kabul soofi using that hash tag afghan women will not go back she writes women are an integral part of the entire society and country and they should have equal say at the table in order to share partnership for peace and ensure that their rights are not sidelined ambassadorship area is this something that you see is happening already this being an equal say the table. i would love to see it at that unfortunately said it's the there is no women around the table to talk. not only about women's rights but it's about afghanistan about human rights that are too human being we women are more than out of the population enough to establish and this is our ri

there in kabul. now to china where fears are growing about human rights after it's emerged that the government there has begun penalizing citizens who engage in anti social behavior some twenty three million people have been blocked from buying plane or train tickets for offenses such as not paying taxes or walking a dog without a leash the report shine a light on how china is using personal data not only to boost prosperity but also to tighten control. china a vast nation with a booming economy that produces masses of data. more than eight hundred million people here use the internet and they've embraced digital life like almost no other society payments orders bookings it's all done by smartphone. china's population is a gigantic bubbling source of data that veritable boon to chinese companies like the successful voice recognition firm i fly take the company says they take data protection seriously but they need to use the data to improve their software in a world all that data is used to create a

the symmetry in western kabul coming up and we telling you who's to blame for record number of civilian casualties in afghanistan last year. we report them first line of defense against the latest outbreak. hello which is stopped raining and snowing in afghanistan and pakistan and there's no more in the immediate future pretty look further west there is another system developing i think instead a lot from the north because immediately it's affecting turkey and probably syrians far south as lebanon this is the picture on monday breaks of lightish rain the wind not overly strong it keeps marching slowly eastward the cloud is still on the coast and further south into egypt it's cheese day with a few showers on it but it hasn't come to much in iran just a little bit of rain every now and again across the heart of the country it has not made it for the temperatures don't change very much the wind doesn't change very much in the clouds cape doesn't change very much so a largish window on the gulf the temperatures recovering encounter about twenty four but hard in riyadh and obviously high sti

meeting of tribal elders former taliban commanders in kabul spoke out against it this week they laid the blame on afghan and international forces. raids and killing innocent people people who reads people get killed in strikes. last year was the first on record that more than five hundred civilians were killed because of airstrikes mostly by international forces who say they do investigation review credible allegations of errors to learn and improve but in the blame game of the afghan war the un hopes they can be some accountability i think it's important that the stark reality of the costs of the conflict is put before the public and therefore does enter the calculations of those who are talking in that. endeavor to bring this conflict to a close it's a complex now and it's eighteenth year with everyone that passes the graves edge closer to the ridge line behind the statistics beneath the snow my children and parents sunni and shia not fighters killed by them just the same ballasts al-jazeera kabul floods in southern pakistan and afghanistan are known to have killed at least fifty p

americans here they want the taliban to first declare a cease fire with the current government in kabul and then bring the two sides to the table so they can have a discussion about what the future of over thirty five million people will look like in their country or a dose of thanks for the. but in afghanistan the violence continues the taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers you sure about base in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops the afghan defense ministry says twenty attackers including eight suicide bombers were killed sharla ballasts has more from kabul this is tech began at two o'clock on friday morning and lasted some sixteen hours if mission was incredibly difficult to get out of home and about what exactly was going on afghan military sources were saying is we are taking casualties that we can't tell you how many u.s. sources say.

influence from the country in one thousand nine hundred ninety six the taliban seized the capital kabul and began to enforce strict laws women were forced to wear burkas girls' schools were closed television and music was banned. after having been largely ignored by the west for years the country became the center of attention in two thousand and one in the aftermath of the nine eleven terror attacks. at the time the taliban kept close ties to al qaida the terrorist network behind the attack of the taliban also sheltered its mastermind osama bin laden. i gave taliban leaders a series of clear and specific demands close terrorist training camps hand over leaders of the al qaeda network and return all foreign nationals including american citizens unjustly detained in your country. none of these demands were met and now the taliban will pay a price. only weeks after nine eleven the united states led an invasion of afghanistan and drove out the taliban regime. the u.s. that alliance brought a new president to power and funneled billions of dollars of aid into the country. the taliban fighte

breaking news from afghanistan where there have been several explosions and kabul and it appears the attack is still going on let's go live to or charlotte ballasts who's in afghanistan for us in the capital charlotte oh i believe we'll be coming back to charlotte shortly and we'll be bringing you updates on that as and when it happens. still ahead on al jazeera. accused of a cover up a catholic cardinal francis case is a vatican a major abuse scandal and racing is suspended as a top u.s. track after the deaths of more than twenty horses. well we're back to normal back to average at least in the western half of the of the huge amount of cloud has come in recently it's dropped a lot of rain particularly portugal is also drawing some much colder and now given that we broke records only a week or so ago it's interesting to see temps are back down to average eleven in london eleven in paris even madrid with ten to twelve now this cold air really shows itself actually just north of your charges northern part of scandinavia even stockers and imagine about five whereas central and eastern e

kabul to places offshore?apt. hoh: i had this in iraq. it is very similar. when i was in iraq running my reconstruction programs, one program i had was $50 million. it was all done in cash. the most money i ever had was $26 million in my possession. i get that in safes in my bedroom, and we paid that money out in cash. it came right from the federal reserve, was shrink wrapped in hundred dollar bills. you can get $6 million in your standard duffel bag. that standard green duffel bag, that holds $6 million. that money arrives in pallets in iraq, afghanistan, syria, libya, or wherever these wars are taking place. it is then moved under control of the u.s. government and military and it gets paid out to various mechanisms, various projects, various programs, building schools, paying teachers. brian: you take some of that for yourself? capt. hoh: i never did. brian: i mean, could you? capt. hoh: absolutely. brian: did you know anybody that did? capt. hoh: yes, i did. my predecessor in iraq left the day that i arri

several explosions go off during a ceremony in afghanistan's capital kabul. and i missed and this is. al jazeera live from doha also coming up a thai opposition party is dissolved ahead of upcoming elections trying to make the case it's candid it. chinese tech giant ways through the u.s. government for banning its products plus. the. attacks in yemen disobedience a new push from politicians in washington to end america's involvement in the yemen . multiple explosions have been heard in afghanistan's capital kabul where dorothy's believe the attackers targeted a large gathering of shia muslims attending a commemoration ceremony on the tenth anniversary of his death let's go live now to our correspondent charlotte best who is in the capital for us walk us through what we know. so we started to get information about this about ninety minutes ago around twelve o'clock local time we do have confirmation that military vehicles are hitting to the same in the ambulances leaving but we do not have confirmation that the attack is ongoing. at a protest kind of a gatheri

were particularly deadly last year and they often targeted the shia minority over here and western kabul resulting in a lot of people being brought up here to be symmetry which is quickly filling up. the u.n. report found the biggest killer of civilians was the taliban responsible for thirty seven percent of deaths the taliban rejects the un's finding somebody or struck on our last meeting of tribal elders and former taliban commanders in kabul spoke out against it this week they laid the blame on afghan and international forces. raids and killing innocent people people who reads people get killed in the strikes . last year was the first on record that more than five hundred civilians were killed because of airstrikes mostly by international forces who say they do investigation review credible allegations of errors to learn and improve but in the blame game of the afghan war the un hopes they can be some accountability i think it's important that the stark reality of the costs of the conflict is put before the public and therefore does enter the calculations of those who are talking in t

i'm shallow dallas in the symmetry and least in kabul coming up we'll be telling you who's to blame for the record number of civilian casualties in afghanistan last year. and going back home a bittersweet journey for syrians who fled to neighboring lebanon to escape the violence. and in sports david beckham makes his mark on the opening day of the new major league soccer season son is going to be here with that story. algeria's president as he's beautifully is expected to officially file his candidacy for april's election on sunday so far he's defied calls for him to step down on saturday he sacked and replaced his unpopular campaign chief the eighty two year old has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in twenty thirteen i'm goods of thousands of people have rallied against a beautifully his decision to seek a fifth in the largest protests algeria has seen in decades it's a rare show of dissent which is engulfed thirty cities it came to power in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when a civil war that lasted a decade and it still has the backing of several political p

eisel has claimed responsibility for this attack in western kabul unfortunately it is not a surprise because they have targeted this community the shia minority the czar's they have targeted the many times in this area especially over the last year dozens have been killed in this this gathering today of more than a thousand people was commemorating the death of his our leader who died twenty four years ago there was a large gathering but also a lot of politicians with a senior politicians we're talking former president hamid karzai the c.e.o. of diller a dollar acting foreign minister rabbani the presidential candidate. when as they were talking rockets were heard in the distance and these politicians continued to speak trying to come the crowd as these rockets were heard in the distance and then it started to escalate the politicians got out. as bodyguards eight of them were injured in this and then there were rockets there were mortars they were in a multiple explosions witnesses telling us this carried on for up to an hour and heavy gunfire as people tried to escape this a lot of

were particularly deadly last year and they often targeted the shia minority over here and western kabul resulting in a lot of people being brought up here to be symmetry which is quickly filling up. the u.n. report found the biggest killer of civilians was the taliban responsible for thirty seven percent of deaths the taliban rejects the un's finding somebody or struck on our last meeting of tribal elders and former taliban commanders in kabul spoke out against it this week they laid the blame on afghan and international forces. doing reads and killing innocent people people who reads people get killed in the strikes. last year was the first on record that more than five hundred civilians were killed because of airstrikes mostly by international forces who say they do investigation review credible allegations of errors to learn and improve but in the blame game of the afghan war the un hopes they can be some accountability i think it's important that the stark reality of the costs of the conflict is put before the public and therefore does enter the calculations of those who are talking

there is charlotte ballasts with that update from kabul thank you charlotte well chinese telecoms giant huawei is taking the united states to court for restricting government agencies from using flyway technology the u.s. considers well as products a security threat and says china can use its equipment for spying adrian brown has more from. from beer one way success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in this special economic zone of. while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to confirm that while away has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we have there is no us. challenge to all. these men only. but also owes me and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the u

islamic state has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed three people in the afghan capital kabul the blasts targeted a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of a prominent house our leader afghan chief executive abdulla dula and former president hamid karzai attended the event but they were not harked. to lawmakers

or i shall a better life in kabul thanks very much. now thailand's constitutional court has dissolved a prominent opposition party and banned its leaders from politics for ten years time rocks charge was found guilty of violating election laws for nominating princess who won rod as their candidate for prime minister the king said it was inappropriate for royals to get involved in politics thailand will hold elections on march twenty fourth and this is the latest chapter in a long running power struggle between the time military and the powerful shinawatra family the thai roxette chart party is considered loyal to former prime minister attacks in shinawatra attacks in and his supporters have won every election since two thousand and one even after he was ousted in a military coup in two thousand and six he says the young law became prime minister in two thousand and eleven but she too was removed from power in another military takeover in two thousand and fourteen both now live abroad in self-imposed exile after they were convicted on r

shot at best reports from kabul i. from a city to a battlefield kabul becoming the frontline of a battle between i saw an afghan forces i saluted attack on senior politicians a more than one thousand whose hours gathering to commemorate his our leader abdul alim azhari. it began peacefully broadcast on national t.v. the c.e.o. of dollar bill or the former president hamid karzai listening to speeches been rockets were heard in the.

let's go back to journalist ali latif in kabul eliot the u.s. is negotiating with the taliban even though secretary of state my own peo this week called the taliban terrorists how to ordinary people in afghanistan feel about negotiating with the taliban. i mean a thing is the ordinary person wants peace there's a very small majority minority of people who may be anti peace at this moment but everyone wants this war to end because everyone has seen that the very real human cost of this war the biggest problem with these negotiations is that there is not on present other than that all of what the negotiations are between the taliban in the united states which is exactly what the taliban has one stars and once you know do trump administration has sent. as their representative to doha but he's not down as an hour on he is there as a u.s. representative you know you have to remember that under the bush administration he was u.s. ambassador to afghanistan also later to iraq so there's really no indication that he is there to represent anything having

is the highest number since record keeping began in two thousand and nine charlotte has more from kabul. it's lunchtime when fifty eight year old mohammed who say arrives to open a shop he saw string sort of a container and the symmetry doesn't get busy until the afternoon but it's busier than it's of a big. every day we're witnessing burials here there is no serious left on this hill top we are suffering from these attacks. the u.n. says thirty eight hundred civilians including one thousand children were killed in afghanistan last year it's a record for mohammed to those numbers come to life in the hills around him he's lived at the foot of the symmetry watching it expand for over a decade. it is very painful and a nightmare from now when they bring the bodies sometimes twenty thirty even forty to be buried. the u.n. says one of the reasons for the record number of civilian deaths is i saw suicide attacks that were particularly deadly last year and they often targeted the shia minority over here and western kabul resulting in a lot of people being brought up here to be symmetry which i

speaking to us from kabul thank you so much for your insight. well let's talk more about the transformation of afghan society over the last two decades and what the current talks in qatar mean for the country we have a filmmaker and human rights activist. with us tonight thank you so much for joining us what do you make of what we just heard there those concerns that much of the progress that's been made could be lost especially with these talks happening direct talks between washington and the taliban. i agree completely with with what he just said and it's the fact that we have no clarity makes it very difficult to make any kind of assumptions and because they are assumptions what we're making right now the negotiation team has to include exactly the use to minority groups the ethnic groups and women of course because i always say that women's rights sitting down here and talking about the film that is about women inspiring women of afghan afghanistan living in afghanistan. you have to you have to you have to realize that just because you want