, and i think pakistan is beginning to understand that pakistan needs a stable is goingan if pakistan to deal with its own terrorist problems. to havethat has begun an impact on pakistani views and resulted in these talks. may be the taliban also deciding that time is not on their side. the afghan security forces did not collapse at the transition, as many people thought. they are stress, but they are holding. the appearance of the islamic state is a problem for the taliban, because it will wean away some supporters. the pakistanisat are putting pressures on them are real. and the belated announcement that mullah omar is dead has raised questions regarding who they were fighting for the last two years. who was issuing the orders? the fact that pakistan is not so upfront in terms of the reconciliation process raises the question -- and that does not bode well if you are recruiting among afghans. have some reason to enter into this reconciliation process. tois certainly uncertain as where things had from here. theinterpretation is that this court that has resulted from the announcement

and aiding pakistan. that does not bode well. the taliban and had some reason to enter in this reconciliation process. now, it's certainly on certain as to where things had from here. one interpretation is the discord with omar if in fact tele-band leadership and pakistanis take some skeletons out of the closet and setting the table for negotiation, let's hope that is the case. there is also a good chance some elements could come under the black flag of the islamic state. there is is a lot of uncertainty as to where this goes, despite a lot of skepticism most afghans say this reconciliation effort is worth pursuing. i very much think that it is. there is another thing we need to focus on diplomacy has done all the things that dan has described, but it is also the case that diplomacy has been backed up by security efforts by the afghan security forces and the united states. it is military pressure that has sparked the tele-band to to the table, the taliban and themselves are using military force to enhance

pakistan.president ghani deserves great credit for courageously opening the opportunity with pakistan particularly in such a deliberate and strategic manner. we similarly appreciate pakistan's efforts to further an afghan-led, afghan own reconciliation process. as the u.s. has long maintained that it's just such a process which we strongly support without preconditions. which is the surest way to end violence and achieve lasting stability in afghanistan and the region. it is clear there can be no long-term stability in afghanistan without pakistan support. and pakistan has taken unprecedented actions this year to facilitate a discussion between the afghan government and the taliban resulting in the meeting on july 7th, the first time that senior taliban representatives openly and with permission from their leadership met with an official and representative afghan government delegation. needless to say the news of omar's death last week has complicated this picture. but i believe it may be an im

saudi arabia, the emirates and pakistan. so in this case we had a bad drought in the north western part of the country and the taliban had cut off aid, no food, shelter or clothing were allowed in and this is a baby from one of the refugees that died due to exposure. this is the father of the baby and this is the entourage to the cemetery. every 50 or 100 feet, another person would come and offer to carry the baby to the grave site. so we're seven months away from 9/11. context is very important here. in may of 2001, the same journalist anthony davis and i managed to get through taliban and al qaeda lines to visit masuud in badak stan and he had the remainder of the country under his control. 90% of the country was controlled by al qaeda and taliban. the fighters mixed in with the taliban were 40 miles away in a precarious geography area that they were barely able to hold them back. in this area of the provence, it is south of taj eck stan, along the oxis river. again geography is very important here. and how the story was h

it was surprisingly comfortable for islamabad pakistan that i -- it was enough to enjoy it. i was sound asleep. i was actually exhausted. i had been up until 3:00 in the morning. i had slept fitfully from maybe three or four hours and then the phone rang. i admit that i may have betrayed a slight hint of irritation when i picked up the receiver and said hello? and i immediately regretted it as there was a pause at the other end of the line and a very familiar voice said, did i wake you up some? zero good god, it's the director so i sat up at attention and the only thing you can do in those circumstances, i lied. i said no mr. director was just getting up. he said look, we are going to be meeting tomorrow at camp david. members of the war cabinet and we are going to be discussing the campaign in afghanistan. he said the pentagon is telling us that there are very few legitimate military targets in all of afghanistan. we can probably hit them in the air and a matter of days. we know where all the terrorist training camps are. but the terrorists have all fled he literally asked

is something that is unacceptable to pakistan. even though pakistan says the dialogue, they are hopeful that indians will come back with modalities and will get things straight underred out at some point. >> thank you kamal. so liddy dutt. >> certainly from the indian government's perspective as we have been hearing for the number of days, one of the situations is the issue of cross border terrorism which the foreign minister has said did raise in her press conference. she did say as the papers are leading with this morning, if there is to be talks that will take place it will only be on terror. keeping in mind that this comes against the backdrop of an attack in punjab in the last month as well as allegations by india that there are fighters continually coming across from pakistan and india-administered kashmir. that is where india stands. the disputed kashmir should they play a part in the talks? if there are talks, certainly the disputed region has to be a part of it. we are still waiting for more analysis and commentary, we'll

it is clear there can be no long-term stability in afghanistan about pakistan's support and pakistaned action to facilitate the passion of the government resulting in the heating on july and. they openly and with permission from their leadership that within official in representative on the allegation. needless to say the news and mullah omar's death last week complicated picture with an important opportunity. taliban think of themselves as a movement that urged when the civil war. now they have to decide whether they continue to fight for to finally end the violence that is sent to afghanistan's development has become instead part of the legitimate political system and a sovereign guided afghanistan. conservative american diplomacy has resulted in sustained engagement of the international community and the key nations of the region. since the beginning of the administration, when import mechanism has been the international contact group we launched with the srap including more than a third for muslim majority countries. i'm especially optimistic regional powers have come to see supp

the issue is whether it's peace process control by pakistan that takes place outside of pakistan and that's been one of the disputes. this goes a long ways to play out but i think it's been encouraging anything to see that many of these leaders have come out publicly in support of the peace process. >> just one other thing on the china one belt one road, i would mention because i've also been involved in the u.s.-china dialogue on afghanistan and pakistan and this important a thing of the want of the things i like to see china do know that they've gone interested in peace between the taliban and afghanistan is also get more interested in afpak. i think for china, sorry indopak, they of course have the own disputes with india but they also have major, major economic interests in seeing i think south asia become more economically integrated and become more vibrant and the market for the goods but also for cheap labor, production. i think $46 billion investment in pakistan to me is that make too much economic sense and north-south china afghanistan corridor. i think this is one of the h

-pakistan relationship and back stan behavior which is that -- pakistan behavior which is that a lot of the pakistani sponsorship or at least not cracking down on the taliban the way we have been demanding r a decade and a half is not from a different understanding of interest but it stems from weakness. pakistan for decades has sponsored many militant groups. -- t the afghan taliban, or using them for interest against india, sponsoring terrorist attacks, holding weapons against india. but they cannot many of them today. at e are pakistani groups the core of the country, the industrial military brain and heart of pakistan and they can't control them. and so a lot of the groups on the border with afghanistan, they are increasingly many militant groups in the biggest business. half of the country, karachi. so part of the reason why pakistan doesn't take the strong stance and stop them, the united states would like to see, is that they don't have the capacity and they are afraid that if they start acting against them it will backfire and many of these militants will now start attacking

i can turn in pakistan it is not.i have spoken with young pakistani military officers looking for signs that they are different from those who came before them and they are not. they are still focused like a laser beam on kashmir. i think kashmir has to be set up and i think it's possible to settle. i don't think that pakistan's and indians can do it on their own. i think they need a quiet outside involvement with the indians are very, very resistant to the idea, always have been, but i think that if we are to peace ultimately, the stability in pakistan but peac peace and e wider south asia to include afghanistan, there has to be a resolution over kashmir. >> thank you. >> just as a postscript to that as well, there's one area in the book were described a situation in the spring, specifically in 2002002 with india and pakistan came very, very close to all-out war yet again. in fact, i was convinced that they were going to go toward the had it not been for the diplomacy of the thin side of state they would've gone towa

pakistan has executed a man who was convicted of killing a seven-year-old boy. the punishment has unleashed a storm of protest from human rights groups and the united nations. they say he was tortured into confessing and was himself too young to face the death penalty. >> in a remote kashmiri village, family mourns. their son hanged in a pakistani jail for murdering his seven-year-old child. his family say he was just 15 at the time, and he confessed only after hours of torture. my son was innocent. he was not guilty. i'm sorry he was found guilty. he was a child, not an adult. he grew up in the jail. police extracted his confession by torturing him. our leaders have done an unjust thing. as the family waited to receive his body, pakistan came under a torrent of protest from the international community and human rights groups. the teenager was working as a watchman in karachi in 2004 when he was accused of child murder. he was due to face the gallows in january, after 12 years on death row. along campaign by lawyers to prove he was under 18 at the time of the of

also coming up, a suicide attack in pakistan kills a home minister of punjab province, and 10 other people. iraq's prime minister orders army commanders face trial for abandoning their positions in ramadi. positions in ramadi hen i.s.i.l. took over >>> protecting our national heritage, we follow the trail of pomps in one of senegal's fast national parks >>> we are getting reports that an indonesian plane with 54 people on board has gone missing. search and rescue say the aircraft lost contact with indonesia's remote eastern papua region, after taking off from jaia pora. we have more from jakarta. >> there's no report of the plane whatsoever. it was on the way to a town, a small town, which is near to the pap awee new guinea border, from the remote eastern part of inton eeshian. it flew from jaia pore two minutes before losing contact in an mountainous area. officials in the region say the weather was very bad. there's no report of the plane landing in any other small airport in that part of indonesia, and the search has been called off, because it's evening in papua. it's dark, and rescue

-pakistan relationship. a lot of the pakistani sponsorship work thinking down on the taliban that we have been demanding for a decade and a half. it stems not from duplicity and scheming but simply stems from weakness. pakistan, for decades, has sponsored many militant groups. there are pakistani groups, in the heartland, core of the country, the industrial military heart of pakistan. they cannot control them. a lot of political groups on the border with afghanistan. there are increasingly many militant groups in the business half of the country, karachi. part of the reason pakistan does not take a strong stand is that they do not have the capacity and they are afraid that it will backfire and many of these militants will now start attacking the pakistani state with much greater violence and energy than what has been happening. brian: do you think the pakistanis knew that osama bin laden was there? vanda: i do not believe so. i do not have any personal information that would make me believe one way or anothe

. >>> now, seven people have been sentenced to death in pakistan over a series of attacks, including an assault on a school killing 150 people, most children. eight persons will spend life in prison. >> reporter: the attack on the army public school in craig berube was not the first time a place of learning had been targeted. the scale of the assault in december, which killed 151 people, most students, shocked pakistan and the world. it led to protests in many cities, and the government reacted by announcing measures aimed at combatting terrorism. these are the seven men that carried out the attack. they died in the sport. now pakistan's army confirmed the death penalty for several other men linked to the attack, tried behind closed doors by a military court after the pakistan parliament amended the constitution to allow the court to try terrorism suspects. the men were charged with collecting or transporting or harbouring suicide bombers. following the assault pakistan's government lifted a 6-year moratorium on constitutions and hung 180 people >>> kamal hyder has this update. >> se

you brought up how can we trust pakistan. and again i had a very good relationship with the general, i tried to talk to him every week. i go over there about once a month, i was there 10 days ago talking to him. most my conversations, how can we bring this to fight a common enemy that doesn't know the border of this between these two countries. so in general we have to leadership teams that understand that it is not business as usual. and they are going to have to work together. years and years of mistrust. if you talk to any afghan security force on the first thing they will say is that pakistan has been harboring these guys. but they also understand that they have to have peace with pakistan before they move on. that is where the president is trying to move forward. this piece is very difficult. it has been the number one threat to the coalition forces and i would say the afghan forces as well and there's no doubt in my mind that pakistan over the years has not done enough to help us in the back. i've had a good discussion

pakistan pulled out. india wants talks between the country's national security advisers to focus on terrorism. but pakistan won't take part without talks on cashmere. both sides of the disputed border have seen increased violence. we have more from pakistan. >> reporter: the headlines across pakistan and india has been this dangerous escalation of cease fire violations. we have seen dozens of families who have had to escape their villages because of incoming mortar and light arms fire. they were terrorized and traumatized by the events unfolding. the fear is that this conflict could escalate into a bigger confrontation if they are not able to control the squirmishes along the border. people on both sides are suffering. the stakes are high. and without talks, cross border incidents are likely to intensify and endanger peace between india and pakistan. so it is a crisis that needs attention, it needs also the attention of the world community to try and resolve this outstanding issue between two nuclear arme

how can we trust pakistan. is pakistan with us or against us in afghanistan. i have a second question related to that. in his recent book, the former director of the cia said that the intelligence missed the boat on calling on the rise of daesh, the islamic state. intelligence agencies missed the death of mullah omar. general, the former head of bia says the intelligence system needs to be reworked. are you satisfied that you're getting the right amount of intelligence? does our intelligence system need to be reworked? >> i'll let you guys divvy them up as you wish. >> if i can remember all four of them. let me start with an easy one on what it's meant to me. i went there in 2002, gree as a colonel, i went back as a general, my son is a sergeant in the army. he's been there twice. i've lost many friends in afghanistan and iraq as well. what's impressed me the most is working with the afghan security forces, the men and women that continue to understand how important their role is to bring about change in afghanistan and they have no qualms about putting their

seem to be rebuilding in pakistan's cities. that is part -- we pull out of afghanistan that will impact al qaeda in pakistan. >> host: if the drone strategy isn't working, some prescriptions from mark moyar how to correct the direction. my last question i will get to in a broader sense but for now looking at the drone strategy what is the alternative for the united states? >> guest: certainly a lot of the good alternatives we have lost out now. we made some decisions where we put ourselves in a hole. yemeni year ago we could have been talking about how to build up the government counterinsurgency capabilities. we don't have a government to work with. it will be a lot harder. we do at some point try to build up larger military forces in the case of yemen, trying to get that arab countries to do that. i don't think they are doing a good job. pakistan, our relationship now is in sorry shape because in recent years we can to some extent ease the pakistani government concerns about afghanistan by maintaining a u.s. presence. we need

now pakistan's army has confirmed the death penalty for seven other men linked to the attack they wereehind closed doors by a military court after pakistan's parliament amended the constitution to allow them to try terrorism suspects and the men were found guilty of tasks of collecting funds and transporting suicide bombers for the attack and following the peshawar attack they lifted a six-year moratorium on executions and since hanged about 180 people, and barbara al jazeera. >>> correspondent kamal has this update tor update for us. >> reporter: the dead include the perpetrators of the attack on army public school in 2014 and also one of the people dead would involve in the attack on the minority's botched in karachi, one of the attackers who was in the attack was given a lighter sentence of life in prison and up to the pakistan sport and the supreme court ruled that military courts were indeed legal and they were seen as crimes that were committed by the perpetrator and therefore the military courts now had the jurisdiction to try these people and the military still said they would

pakistan's biggest rival. so we have a three dimensional game going on for control of the last 10% of the country. in this building on september 9th, amasooud agreed to be interviewed by two arabs who had come into the region as journalists carrying moroccan and belgium journalists. but just as he was mic'd up, one of them had been packed full of c-4 explosives and it killed him. september 9th. so 100% control of afghanistan goes to al qaeda and the taliban. everything folded in the last 10%. he was a very charismatic leader. spoke fluent french. he was educated in a french -- in downtown kabul and the son of a military officer. very interesting fellow. great chess player, could quote poetry all night long and had a lot of respect in the area. he was not favored by the united states nor the saudis. for two days they had 100% control of afghanistan. if the world trade center and this is a theory that i enjoy speaking about, would -- if the world trade center and the pentagon attacks had been foiled, which i thi

and drives pakistan's policies so in a way, he is the architect and the early inventor of pakistan'solicy. of course, it has undergon many changes and the army, itself has undergone changes. today, the army chief is keen to undo the jihad industry which he built because he is not only very active with the jihad groups but was also active in setting up the jihad movement, you know, directing it towards the kashmir, a connell tested area between india and pakistan around 1990s. there was a lot of unrest, and pakistan has paid a price for that, you know, with all of the mushrooming of jihadist groups, responsive syrians being killed, the army, kids, you know, the army soldiers being killed. so pakistan is undergoing an introspective movement, you know, in recent months and perhaps a departure as well. a metaphor that particular age is over. >> it is a very interesting legacy that he has. very good to get your thoughts on it editor of "the friday times"? grata grataans will go to the polls to elect a new president on the 6th of september. a series of schedules by a u.n.-backed commission

he has been charged under pakistan's 18th terrorism law. he says some of the child abusers are well-known. >> translator: they are influential people. they work for courts and are drug inspectors. because of the threats everyone was afraid of them. they harass people every day. >> some people in the village say police were paid bribes not to investigate. the police deny it. >> translator: when we heard about the allegations i sent out an officer to the village and we announced on the loudspeaker if there are any knowledge of abuse they should tell us but no one came forward. >> he said he received injuries when the police beat him for publicly protesting against the abuse. >> translator: because of dig it this and honor, some people are not coming forward. they worry they'll lose the respect of society. >> reporter: he says after what has happened he has nothing more to lose. nicole johnston, al jazeera, pakistan. >>> a car bomb has exploded outside the airport in kabul. at least five people were killed and another 20 wounded. taliban says

to them, how can we trust pakistan's? or against with us us in afghanistan? i have a second restaurant related to that. in his recent book, mike morale, for me -- former deputy's director -- deputies director of the cia said we missed the boat on calling the islamic state. our intelligence agency pretty clearly missed the death of omar. diaral, the former head of set our intelligence system needs to be reworked. are you satisfied you are getting the right kind of intelligence echo does the intelligent systems need to be reworked to stop missing these big things? general campbell: i have to remember all of those. let me start with an easy one. as mike said, i went there in 2002 and 2003 as the kernel. i went back as a major general and now the general. my son is a sergeant in the army and has in there twice. i have lost any friends in afghanistan. iraq as well. what i think has impressed me the most is really working with afghan security versus, the men and women that continue to understand how important the role is to bri

you brought up how can we trust pakistan. and again i had a very good relationship with the general, i tried to talk to him every week. i go over there about once a month, i was there 10 days ago talking to him. most my conversations, how can we bring this to fight a common enemy that doesn't know the border of this between these two countries. so in general we have to leadership teams that understand that it is not business as usual. and they are going to have to work together. years and years of mistrust. if you talk to any afghan security force on the first thing they will say is that pakistan has been harboring these guys. but they also understand that they have to have peace with pakistan before they move on. that is where the president is trying to move forward. this piece is very difficult. it has been the number one threat to the coalition forces and i would say the afghan forces as well and there's no doubt in my mind that pakistan over the years has not done enough to help us in the back. i've had a good discussion

i think pakistan is failing its children. we have laws. we have a constitution. i brought the constitution with me, which has an entire article which talks about the duties of the state to protect the family, the marriage unit, the mother, the child, and i ask if the state of pakistan is doing that through successi government and the answer is no, it's not. how do we know that? annually, we have state of children's report by the n.g.o. spark. now the problem with g.g.o.'s working in pakistan is successive governments, whether they are military style particular tater ships or democratically elected government are in denial, and whenever an independent n.g.o. brings fort reports of such child sexual abuse, pornography, pedophileia, child area, 25 million children out of school, all these -- >> i want to ask one more question, just how widespread you think this exploitation is, these numbers are 300 children in this case and called the tip of the iceberg. >> yes. it is indeed the tip of the iceberg, because for two reasons, as i said, the stigma and the shame and di

now india and pakistan will be trying to narrow their deferences.but the main crux of the problem will be how they will be able to handle the cease-fire along this line of control. the fear is that this conflict would escalate into a bigger confrontation if they're not able to control the skirmishes along the border. importantly it is the people of kashmir on both sides who are suffering. pakistan wants to talk about kashmir. the indians want that off 9 table. and are only willing to discuss terrorism. the pakistanis come to meet the separatist leaders. india opposes that. while it is not certain whether the talks will go ahead or not, the stakes are high, and without talks cross border independence are likely to intensify, and endanger peace between india and pakistan. so it is a crisis that needs attention, it needs also the attention of the world community to try and resolve this outstanding issue between two nuclear armed nations. >> the recent state of attacks by the al-shabab armed group is having a huge affect on kenya's torism industry. many

pakistan had imposed a moratorium on the death penalty and no executions were carried off. however, the public school attack in december 2014 the government decided to bring back the death penalty. since then his mercy petition has been rejected by the president of pakistan in 2012 and on four counts he was going to be hanged. however, a change of of heart. he was a juvenile back in 2004. therefore, that rule did not apply. now, pakistan has decided to carry out the executions after the deadly attack on army public school in 2014 after which the moratorium on the death penalty was lifted. so he was hanged in the central jail. >>> for the first time in its history, peurto rico has defaulted on its debts. they missed a $58 million payment with creditors. that's a fraction of its $72 billion debt burden. >> peurto rico's economic downfall is a documented decline. the economy has failed to grow. thousands continue to leave for better opportunities elsewhere. but to compound that, peurto rico is in debt to the tune of $72 billion. nigh for the first time in its history it's in d

first off, just how important is this subject for pakistan? there seems to be a lot of shock and outrage. at the same time, we are hearing a lot of the victims are not really getting the support that they need. >> i think it's not only important. it's crucial. and this problem has been there for many years. it has escalated. it has become more. >> we have to attack the root causes of it. >> what are the root causes? >> poverty is one. secondly, we have to educate the parents. thirdly, most importantly, even when parents go out looking for their children who run away from home, the police have not helped them and neither has the media helped them in that regard. earlier, when many years ago, i do recall when we were working for child restrictions, whenever a child was missing, the media would help and put up their photograph, say we could give their photograph. >> they abuse them. >> i want to ask you because it appears child sexual abuse, right around the world is an abhorrent crime, but there is a lot made of it being a taboo subject within t

people across pakistan are in favor of the death penalty. they want the military to be able to have speedy trials because that was the demand of the people there is a support on the ground. however, civil rights organizations would be criticizing the movement saying that the death penalty should be abolished. >> the death toll from the explosion in china city tianjin have risen to 50. these pictures shows the aftermath of the blast. 700 are injured and 37 firemen are still missing. makeshift towns have been set up for those forced out of their homes. we have more from the site of the explosion. >> the heart of one of china's important economic hubs torn apart by blasts. fires burnhroughout the night. there were further explosions on thursday afternoon. as a pool of toxic smoke billowed across the city. with local people concerned, not for the first time, about the air that they're now breathing. >> we're very worried, very worried about what chemicals are in the air. we're worried it might be toxic and harmful in the future. >> close to the

reporter: pakistan ue -- pakistan doesn't allow the death of those that are a juvenile. hussein was hanged at a jail in karachi and it's not just -- and human rights groups protested it. groups said that the trial fell short of international standards. laura: burma is calling for international assistance after heavy flooding caused by this year's monsoon season. at least 46 people have been confirmed dead. emergency services are struggling to reach many remote areas. tens of thousands of people are cut off and officials are warning that swollen rivers are now threatening to inundate low-lying areas south of the country. more than 200,000 people are being affected in what the united nations is calling a major natural disaster. meanwhile, firefighters in california are still battling to contain the wildfires that have destroyed more than 120,000 acres. some 20 fires have been burning across the state for seven days now. brought about by a record drought. 13,000 people are set to spend another night in emergency shelters after they were ordered to ooh evacuate their homes.

pakistan's army says two civilians have died on its side. despite a 2003 ceasefire, the two neighbors regularly exchange fire. kashmir's decided between india and pakistan but claimed in its entirety by both. >>> anti-government protests taking place across brazil. rio and copy cabana beach has been seeing protests. this is the third nationwide anti-government rally this year, and president rousseff is less than a year into her second term. her popularity ratings are at hif rick historic lows. let's go to rio. they saw her popularity ratings are extremely low, and i read that two-thirds of the population of the brazil say they want her impeached. >> reporter: yes, absolutely. this is what we heard here all along during that protest that went down the road a bit. they've been calling for dilma, for pt, meaning out to dilma, out to her workers party. it's the main message of the protest in rio. at the moment there are also demonstrations going on in 44 cities across the country mainly in the southeast and a little bit in the northeast, which i

pakistan has executed a convicted child killer. after a storm of protests from civil rights groups that his confession had been extracted by torture and that he was a minor at the time. shafqat hussain was hanged for killing a child in 2004. protests were coming from the u.n. his sister said, "why did they hang my innocent brother? because we are poor?" >> i say this is cruel unjust. they should have hanged him at the time. instead, he was kept in prison for 12 years. if he had been in prison for two more years, he would have served a life in prison term already. stuart: pakistan has 8000 people on death row, making one of the highest in executions. in the aftermath of an attack in peshawar last year, 150 schoolteachers were killed by the caliban. pro-government yemeni forces have taken control of the key military airbase in the country's south. the defense ministry from saudi arabia, where the yemeni government is in file, -- is in exile, announcing the liberation of the al-anad military base. the rebels are denying the base has b

hello this is al jazeera live from doha and also on the program pakistan hangs shafqat hussain despite he was a child at the time of his crime and forced to confess. the british government says it has a grip on the migrant crisis and we report on the $700 million corruption scandal shaking malaysia's government. ♪ pro-government troops recaptured the largest military base in the southern province has been used by the u.s. to launch drone strikes against al-qaeda targets in yemen and gerald tan reports. >> reporter: a major offensive and victory and pro-government forces recapture the biggest military base in yemen and advance with tanks and military vehicles providing air cover. backed by loyalists hadi faced resistance from houthi rebels with the former president saleh and resulted in multiple casualties on both sides. >> translator: the take over of the base will tightness and cut supply lies to the provinces and control of the base is a great victory for the resistance and a big defeat for the malitia and saleh forces. >> reporter: spread over 40 kilometers it houses a military airp

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pakistan coming to the conclusion that the talks are not productive. the fear is that with the breakdown of talks, tensions along the line of control in the disputed region of kashmir was likely to get worse before things got better >>> india described pakistan's decision to back out of the national security advisor's talks as unfortunate. the stalling boils down to what was going to be on the agenda in terms of what the leaders were going to talk about. india says talks were going firmly on terrorism. terrorism, that the indian government says pakistan is aware of and has the ability to help solve. without it, the indian government says without decisions there can be no viable or sustainable discussions between both countries, islamabad was a more broader pallet. including the issue of disputed kashmir regions. the disputed kashmir region is not on the agenda in the talks. >> anti-abortion protesters staged rallies. at thousands ever sights across the u.s. banners condemning the practices. the rallies were planned following the release of a video from

pakistan pulled out, saying it won't accept india's preconditions.nts to discuss the dispute over cashmere, but india wants the meeting between the national security advisors to focus only on terrorism. we can get the latest now from our correspondent. let's hear from pakistan administered kashmir. >> although the indian prime minister and the iraqi prime minister agreed to resume talks, there was an anticipation that perhaps it would be a step forward, but the pakistani side now said that it has analyzed carefully the indian foreign minister's statement at a press conference yesterday in which india puts two conditions, pakistan says that india cannot put unilaterally conditions for talks, that the talks should be unconditional, they should discuss the kashmir issue. pakistan is not opposed to discussing terrorism but cannot stick to just this alone. the pakistanis are also objecting to the second point the indians have raised that the pakistani's would not be allowed to meet the kashmiri leaders likely to attend those talks and india would not acce

no one was surprised by the fact he was in pakistan. charlie: we had always believed that is where he was. peter: yeah. the senior leadership of the taliban has been living in pakistan. charlie: so what will this mean in terms of the taliban's effort to negotiate or take over afghanistan? matthew. matthew: sorry. it is hard to say. it depends. if they stay together, they have been doing well militarily. if they fall apart, it undermines the rest of the country. it does not help afghanistan. you have a bunch of insurgent factions in different places. no central authority. it is chaotic as ever and dangerous for ordinary people, whomever. on the point of the americans, i spoke to a fair amount of americans and i was told it was not until tuesday he was convinced omar was probably dead. they were not looking very hard. he may have been a wanted man, but when the afghan intelligence looked into this, they quickly found out not many people wanted to put effort into finding him. it was not like bin laden. there was no special cia team hunting

yesterday also pakistan hanged. [ inaudible ] despite the controversy behind testimony the governmentother hand, said it was a major victory. that the world needed to understand that pakistan was in a deep crisis and there was no other way around it. so the court's decision is seen as a major victory by the government for parliament, however the critics say that this is in continue vision of the constitutionality and against the people's civil rights. >> kamal, thank you for that update. kamal hyder reporting from islambad. >>> two passenger train have his derailed after being hit by flash floods in central india killing 27 people. rescuers have been searching through the night for trapped passengers. crossing over to faiz jamil who is join from us new delhi to tell us whether there has been an official statement by the government on what exactly caused that crash. >> reporter: well, no official statements from the government as yet. but local officials, railway officials on the ground are saying that they strongly believe that the tracked were worked away. this is the monsoon season

. >>> police in eastern pakistan have arrested seven men accused of sexually abusing hundreds of children and selling videos of the alleged crimes. nicole johnston has more. >> reporter: he was raped by four men and he was 11 years old at the time. afterwards he said he had to pay the men not to reveal what they had done to him. >> they made a video out of it and started black mailing me and told me to bring them more kids. my family is poor. i had nothing to pay them so i left school and worked in the fields and i gave them everything i made. >> reporter: reports have come out at least 284 children in this small village were sexually abused. 400 videos were made and sold across pakistan and overseas. you wouldn't normally see such a large gathering of people but neighbors are coming out and talking about the case and demanding one thing, they say they want justice and for whoever is behind the abuse to be stoned to death or be hanged. this man agrees. a week ago he started a protest march with victims' families. it was stopped by police firing teargas. he has been charged under the anti-

pakistan executed a man for murder despite appeals. for killing of a child in 2004. has fully say he was 13. the u.k. government has a grip on the migrant crisis against the channel in france. it's announced measures for a hundred additional guards at the tunnel site as well as immigration checks in the u.s. >>> u.s. secretary of state is promoting the trans-pacific partnership agreement. it hit snags in the notions last week. the trade deal is a central part of obama's efforts to increase u.s. influence in asia and counter the economic part of china. the u.s. says it will push the issue of disputed items during the summit in malaysia, the u.s. and china have been invited to the summit, the association of southeast asian nations. china is unhappy with territorial disputes being raised. it wants the summit to focus on cooperation. >>> the country's government is grappling with a $700 million corruption scandal. >> reporter: it's all quite since the government slapped a three month ban. apparently funds from the finance ministry ended up in the bank account of the prim

pakistan wants to talk about kashmir. the indians want that off the table. and are only willing to discuss terrorism. theindia opposes that. while it is not certain whether they will go ahead oar not, the stakes are high, and without talks cross-border incidents are likely to intensify and endanger peace between india and pakistan. it is a crisis that needs attention. it also needs the attention of the world community to try to resolve this outstanding issue between two new nuclear-armed nations. >> the french interior minister said that a man who was shot on a train was known to them. the 26-year-old moroccan, whose name was not made public, was identified to fran's france's anti-terrorism unit last year. >> this man was over powered as he open fired on passengers traveling on a high speed train between amsterdam and paris. two american service men and one of their friends charged the man later identified as a 26-year-old moroccan. >> he ran a good ten meters to get to the guy. we didn't know that his gun wasn't working or anything like that. spencer just r

also ahead, pakistan hangs hussein despite claims he was a child at the time. more guards, the british government has a grip on the migrant crisis. and the corruption scandal that's shaking malaysia's government. fighters loyal to yemen's exiled president have retain the biggest military base from houthi rebels. the base in the southern province had previously been used by the u.s. to launch drone strikes. >> reporter: a major offense and a major victory. pro government forces recapture the biggest military base in yemen. they advanced using tanks and armored vehicles with saudi led coalition claims providing air cover. backed by loyalists, the troops faced stiff resistance from houthi rebels. the operation resulted in multiple casualties. >> translator: the takeover of the base will cut the supply lines to the provinces of aden. the control is a great victory for the resistance and big defeat for the houthi militia forces. >> reporter: they house a military airport. it was previously used by u.s. forces as an intelligence gathering hub and based drone's attack

. >>> i'm nicole johnston in pakistan and coming up, we will be reporting on the biggest case of childual abuse in the country. >>> and on the trail with hunters in south africa who are making the controversial case of killing wild animals. ♪ turkey has been hit by four separate attacks blamed on two different groups and istanbul a squad officer and another were killed in a gun fight after a vehicle packed with explosives was used to attack a police station and elsewhere in the city two women fired shots at a u.s. consulate and one woman wounded was arrested and reports to be a member of a ban left wing party and in the southeast a soldier and four officers were killed in two separate attacks in the province and the warning of the report contains strong images from the start. >> reporter: chased down to a back street near the u.s. consulate in istanbul a woman who earlier opened fire on the building refuses to surrender, i did it for my party she shouts before being shot and wounded by a police officer. her party is the extreme left wing and anti-american revolutionary people's liberat

this is very famous food in summer in pakistan. the shop also sells a curious summer beverage. milk and faluda they add condensed moiks sliced almonds and crushed ice and mix well. the rice noodles are crushed, making a smooth, sweet drink. it sells for about 80 cents a glass. >> translator: it's so nice and cold. it's very soothing, too. it tastes twice as good when you get faluda in it. i'm happy. >> reporter: a three-hour drive from the scorching hot capital islamabad leads to the perfect family getaway. mohammed akbar has come with members of his extended family. they hop into a carriage and set off to explore a tunnel. >> translator: it was hot outside, but it's cold inside. >> reporter: the temperature inside sometimes drops to 18 degrees celsius. it feels chilly when compared with outside. the tunnel used to be part of a salt mine and mining still goes on here. an unusual gallery has been opened to the public. the admission price is about $2. traces the of iron and magnesium in transparent salt rocks give off mysterious red and orange glows.he of iron and magnesium in tr