the afghan army is fending off relentless taliban attacks the leadership in kabul is getting ready for sentiment. repeating cools for direct talks over and over again in the war ended by negotiating with a bitter enemy. foreign backers yielding to support for the extremists a live the war before for many more years until one side. acts intelligence chief of afghanistan. welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us mr sell at the latest international conference on afghanistan has been held in neighboring was back to stand with more than twenty countries taken part time i wasn't there that make any sense to hold meetings like that without one side of the conflict present. i think it does make a lot of sense and i'm very glad the taliban were not there they should be treated like a terrorist group and a terrorist group should not be invited to an international event the aim of the tascam conference was to endorse support the position of the afghan government in regards to the peace process it was not. aimed to be quit the democratic process with a terrorist group so absence o

and is another suicide bomber strikes in kabul german lawmakers decide whether to send three hundred more troops to afghanistan. i'm sumi so much donna thank you for joining us we made mistakes that's what facebook boss mark zuckerberg has said in response to the data scandal involving his company and the data mining firm cambridge analytical in a statement on his facebook profiles eichelberger apologized and promised users a new feature to turn off third party apps apps which cambridge analytical allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an endless and passion allergy quiz and ended up with the data of fifty million facebook profiles being used to sway elections now the question is why did facebook allow academic research to end up in the hands of political consultants paid to when the knife edge us election the scientists behind the craze says he is a scapegoat. you know what their interest was no i mean that's the thing i was pretty heavily siloed as far as anything as far as funder or clients i found out about donald trump just like everybody else or to give pe

. —— compound for commandos on the outskirts of kabul. the plan is to double the number of these elite troops to 211,000 in total. they call these guys ‘the tip of the spear‘. it is theirjob to take the fight to the taliban. commandos like these and special forces make up just 10% of afghan troops, but they carry out 80% of offensive operations. the plans for the afghan air force are even more ambitious. the aim is that it will triple in size. afghan aircraft are already starting to take over from the us, targeting taliban positions and providing air support for operations by afghan troops. why the army and the air force, what can they bring? they bring offensive capability, so offensive capability is what is needed to break the stalemate that existed before this time, and this enables them to move into those areas where they have either been contested or that 12% of the area that is being controlled by the taliban, and take those areas back under control of the government. 0ffensive capability. the combat here in afghanistan sits in

as the afghan army spends your relentless taliban attacks the leadership in kabul is getting ready for sentiment these llamas repeating schools for direct talks over and over again in the decades long war ended by negotiating with a bitter enemy will taliban's foreign backers yield income to support for the extremists or will the war before for many more years until one side is split into submission. acts intelligence chief of afghanistan rule s.l.'s welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us mr cell at the latest international conference on afghanistan has been held in neighboring was back east on with more than twenty countries taken part time i wasn't there that make any sense to hold meetings like that without one side of the conflict present. i think it does make a lot of sense and i'm very glad the taliban were not there they should be treated like a terrorist group the terrorist group should not be invited to an international event the aim of the tascam conference was to endorse support the position of the afghan government in regards to the peace process it was n

seven people have died in a suicide bombing in afghanistan's capital kabul seven others were wounded in the blast at a police checkpoint near a gathering of the shia minority there's no immediate claim of responsibility of kabul has seen a spate of deadly attacks carried out by both the taliban and i saw in recent months we will have a live update from kabul on that situation a bit later in the show of the trumpet ministration as impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports despite warnings of a global trade war mexico and canada will be temporarily exempt from the new levies while negotiations continue on a regional trade agreement john hendren reports from washington. a defiant donald trump fulfilled a promise that helped make him president the american still loman image astri has been ravaged by aggressive foreign trade practices it's really an assault on our country. accusing china and other countries of dumping cheap steel on the u.s. market in an attack on american industry he said punitive tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum many of the countries that treat it as the worst o

you -- every day practically now there's a bombing, one way or another in kabul, near kabul and there's clearly evidence that the taliban grabbed a lot of territory or control and can test that territory today, 40% of the country in fact is controlled or contested by the taliban. how did we get here? that's the big question that we often look so much at the violence. we focus so much on the violence itself, the battlefield and the number of troops and whether we're up or down. but we forget the political piece. and that's where this redefinition of winning needs to come in, right? the political integration of the strategy the electoral process, to look at the institution building and look at the social change that has been wrout over the last 17 years is a really critical part of redefining our definition of winning in afghanistan. so that brings us to the tactical issues that i see and probably redefine the future of afghanistan for the next five years maybe longer possibly. the first question of course is negotiations with the taliban. and lately there's been sort of a lot of discussi

to the geishas to kabul process will come the tascam conference president donnie offered peace talks with the taliban last month but the taliban called for direct talks with washington instead of kabul if this to go take place to trust americans with afghanistan's future. well we understand why the. taliban want to negotiate directly with foreign countries because they want to lead to to my eyes their claim that they are not a terrorist group they own afghanistan and i'm very glad. foreign friends are refusing to give them that access and that chance because if they ever i get it to speak to the taliban directly that will downgrade the position of afghan government as a legitimate state the sole representative of afghanistan and the world stage and it will also set of a very bad preset and for for other conflicts cases. mentioned earlier the world has already the has. black holes and it has a structure and their family county negotiates with them on a state actor involved in terror activities directly. the unintended consequences will be that damaging the relative the relative peace

of this war but their image will haunt afghanistan for many years to come tony berkeley al jazeera kabul. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now the syrian observatory for human rights says more than ten thousand civilians left east in the halter on saturday thousands have left the rebel held as well as the northern region of africa when it comes after dozens of people were killed in intense airstrikes in both areas of syria more than seventy people were killed at a market in the eastern of alter activists say fifteen others died in a turkish airstrike on the three and only working hospital. and russia's foreign ministry is expelling twenty three british diplomats in response to a similar action taken by the u.k. over the poisoning of a former russian spy surrogate school pollan his daughter were found on conscious in the english city of souls for almost two weeks ago the u.k. blames russia for the attack has demanded moscow admit its involvement the deputy director of the f.b.i. has been fired just over twenty four hours before he was eligible to retire u

is the are going or abuse phones in your relentless taliban attacks the leadership in kabul really for sentiment. repeating ghoul's for director. over and over again in the decades our war ended by negotiating with a bitter enemy the taliban's foreign backers then cut the support for the extremists a little while before for many more years until one side bled into submission. acts intelligence chief of afghanistan. welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us mr so at the latest international conference on afghanistan has been held in neighboring was back to stand with more than twenty countries taken part time i wasn't there that make any sense to hold meetings like that without one side of the conflict present i think it doesn't make a lot of sense and the taliban were not there they should be treated like a terrorist group the terrorist group should not be invited to an international event the. conference was to endorse support the position of the afghan government in regards to the peace process it was not. to equate the democratic process with a terrorist group so the

of last trips through new year celebrations in the afghan capital kabul at least twenty six people have been killed. as the robin you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up in the next thirty minutes some of the one hundred ten schoolgirls abducted in nigeria have been returned home. also near mars president a close confidant and political ally of allison suchi abruptly steps down. and we have live pictures coming out of austin texas where the suspect in the spate of bombings is dead. welcome to the program we begin with breaking news coming out of the afghan capital kabul twenty six people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the capital now the attack a blew himself up close to a shrine in the west of kabul near the university some afghans are marking the no rules holiday or celebration of the start of spring the blast wounded as many as eight. people let's join have wadekar he's a national security analyst joins me on the telephone line from kabul this was supposed to be a time of celebration so the timing of this attack is certainly no coin

we saw terrible attacks here in kabul. what does that tell us about the state of the war? theyjust have to make it in. they only have to be good once, to get in. and the death of any civilian is something we want to avoid. so this is exposing the hypocrisy of the taliban. statements, they are trying to protect? is that what you are saying? no, i am not. i'm saying, it shows a lowering of ambition. with heavy losses. and then the afghans would come in and retake the district. and again, we ended up at about the same place. and they discussed their strategy going forward. to maintain their relevance and to show that they were still present. and controlling population to conducting terrorist attacks. and as the commander of forces here, how do you interpret that? well, we have to adjust to that, to protect the population. which means that our pressure is working. to go after specific leaders. and closer to terrorism as an organization. as an organisation. a peace offer to the taliban — a very generous peace offer. we will let you set up a party... as it is on most other iss

we saw terrible attacks here in kabul. what does that tell us about the state of the war? of course, the suicide bombers are on a one—way trip, theyjust have to make it in. they only have to be good once, to get in. these are horrendous attacks, and the death of any civilian is something we want to avoid. so this is exposing the hypocrisy of the taliban. i mean, if they theoretically are here for the good of the afghan people, to replace a government, then why are they killing the citizens that they have said in their annual statements, they are trying to protect? so you're saying these bombs in kabul and elsewhere in the country — these are a measure of success, is that what you are saying? no, i am not. i'm saying, it shows a lowering of ambition. in 2016, for example, they tried eight times to take cities and each time they were defeated, with heavy losses. in 2017, they then focused more on districts, and this is where you saw modest gains at sometime and then the afghans would come in and retake the district. and again, we ended up at about the same place. in sept

is targeting their drug cultivation sites tony betty reports from kabul where record numbers of people are turning to drugs in desperation. in afghanistan there is a level below rock bottom it's where these lifeless expressionist drug addicts exist men who lost dignity a long time ago they've been rounded up and herded into one of the country's biggest drug rehabilitation units in kabul these are the other victims of this never ending war collateral damage if you like people who've lost loved ones lost jobs lost hope and their numbers are growing in afghanistan every day the forty five day program of this former military warehouse complex is basic and caters for nine hundred patients the treatment consists mainly of keeping the addicts away from drugs but it can't keep them away from the desire most relapse when they leave . not there not that we need international hill we are struggling drug addiction is everywhere in the world but unfortunately it's affecting us more we have double impact one is the war and the other is that people are double impact one is the war and the other is th

improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community in the sector such as improving water management and for increasing capacity we also need support for exit cueing technical issues you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the tap tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. still ahead on the program for you rights groups call for any once again the role of armed groups in the war in yemen. it's sure to fifty years since the founding of the molten circus would be gone through the city of birmingham ticcing would say. hello there we've got plenty of cloud across the middle east at the moment it shares a very clearly on the satellite picture plenty of it or gradually extending its way up towards the northeast and for som

military joseph dunford visited kabul. and facebook shares have bounced back after a volatile few days which wiped off fifty billion dollars in market value. as a result of the fallout of the revelations the personal data from the social media site was misused by a u.k. analytics company c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is reportedly preparing to deliver a statement within the next twenty four hours so we'll bring you more on all those stories at the top of the next hour in about twenty five minutes time i'll have a full bulletin for you coming up next.

at least four people have died in a car bombing in the afghan capital kabul police say the bomb went off as a convoy of foreign vehicles was passing by but all those killed appeared to be local bystanders there was no immediate claim of responsibility it's the latest in a series of attacks to hit the afghan capital and afghanistan is facing a growing drugs problem with around nine thousand tons of opium produced that last year heroin is an important source of revenue for the taliban and the u.s. is targeting their drug cultivation sites tell you better reports from kabul by record numbers of people are turning to drugs in desperation. in afghanistan there is a level below rock bottom it's where these lifeless expressionist drug addicts exist men who lost dignity a long time ago they've been rounded up and herded into one of the country's biggest drug rehabilitation units in kabul these are the other victims of this never ending war collateral damage if you like people who've lost loved ones lost jobs lost hope and their numbers are growing in afghanistan every day the forty five day

jordan al-jazeera washington at least four people have died in a car bombing in the afghan capital kabul police say the bomb went off as a convoy of foreign vehicles was passing by but all those killed appeared to be local bystanders there was no immediate claim of responsibility it's the latest in a series of attacks to hit the afghan capital. afghanistan is facing a growing drugs problem with around nine thousand tons of opium produced there last year heroin is an important source of revenue for the taliban and the us is targeting their drug cultivation sites tell you about the reports from kabul by record numbers of people are turning to drugs in desperation. in afghanistan there is a level below rock bottom it's where these lifeless expressionist drug addicts exist men who lost dignity a long time ago they've been rounded up and herded into one of the country's biggest drug rehabilitation units in kabul. these are the other victims of this never ending war collateral damage if you like people who've lost loved ones lost jobs lost hope and their numbers are growing in afghanistan ever

and pumping stations means just thirty percent of water is retained improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community and the sectors such as improving water management and for greasing capacity we also need support for exit queuing technical issues. you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the tap tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul now a career in professional sport is seen by young people in south sudan as a way to a better life but would be stars still have a number of hurdles to overcome a civil morgan reports from juba. david is aiming high he's not part of south sudan's national basketball team but would love to be which is why he's practicing three times a week with dozens of other young players. my dream

we saw terrible attacks here in kabul. what does that tell us about the state of the war? of course, the suicide bombers are on a one—way trip, theyjust have to make it in. they only have to be good once, to get in. these are horrendous attacks, and the death of any civilian is something we want to avoid. so this is exposing the hypocrisy of the taliban. i mean, if they theoretically are here for the good of the afghan people, to replace a government, why are they killing the citizens that they have said in their annual statements, they are trying to protect? so you're saying these bombs in kabul and elsewhere in the country — these are a measure of success, is that what you are saying? no, i am not. i'm saying, it shows a lowering of ambition. in 2016, for example, they tried eight times to take cities and each time they were defeated, with heavy losses. in 2017, they then focused more on districts, and this is where you saw modest gains at sometime and then the afghans would come in and retake the district. and again, we ended up at about the same place. in september

self up close to a shrine in the west of kabul near the university reports. chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a bird see crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghan celebration no ruse the persian new year and. even a suicide bomb went off just stood behind the so nothing about the terror. because you know if i was a group of thirty young men celebrating and dancing when suddenly this suicide bomber detonated the explosive there is security here how was the suicide bomber able to get access to this area this suicide attacker detonated his device around two hundred meters from the car to shockey shrine where many afghans gather to mark the start of the new year holiday kabul university is nearby and most of the dead are understood to be teenagers were taking part in street celebrations the blast is the deadliest. hit the capital after weeks of repeated attacks on the number of employees unfortunately once again our enemies are spilled the blood of our innocent countrymen the young men were holding celebrations for

improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community and the sectors such as improving water management and for greasing capacity we also need support for exit queuing technical issues you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the tap tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. more than thirty people have been arrested and bella rusa head of a band march opposition groups are marking the one hundred hundreds anniversary of freedom day and an official holiday celebrating the creation of the bill of russian people's republic which existed between one thousand and eighteen and one nine hundred ninety supporters want to return to an independent well abuse they accuse president alexander lukashenko of russified the former sov

local media report the blast took place very close to kabul university in the garters char area these are live pictures coming out of afghanistan and that is in the west of the city will bring you more on that as we get it let's also bring you news now that we're hearing as many as one hundred ten schoolgirls were abducted in northeastern nigeria last month have been returned to witnesses say the girls were returned by people they thought were members of the armed group boko haram our correspondent evan dress is live for us on the phone from the eastern city of yala in the area. please tell us what you think has happened because we've always heard of reports of girls being returned how much trust can we place in this statement from the all for a tease. well basically he tried contacting the authorities to speak on this matter all they can say is i can i will call you back and which hasn't happened yet however i spoke to a father whose child was abducted when this incident happened that he confirmed to me that yes he spoke to us this morning and that people was calling from his well th

a suicide car bombing has killed at least four people in the afghan capital kabul that happened when many people were going to work in the morning there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack comes as pressure increases on the taliban to take up the afghan government's offer of peace talks to end the sixteen year conflict. drug production in afghanistan has been on the rise since the us led invasion in two thousand and one now last year there was an increase of eighty seven percent of the amount of opium produced about one thousand tonnes he is tony from kabul. in afghanistan there is a level below rock bottom it's where these lifeless expressionist drug addicts exist men who lost dignity a long time ago they've been rounded up and herded into one of the country's biggest drug rehabilitation units in kabul. these are the other victims of this never ending war collateral damage if you like people who have lost loved ones lost jobs lost hope and then numbers are growing in afghanistan every day the forty five day program of this former military warehouse complex is bas

out to kabul. and the top stories on al jazeera the deputy director of the f.b.i. has been fired a little over a day before he was due to retire and mccabe had been the subject of an internal investigation into leaks to the news media he says his dismissal is part of the trump administration's war on the f.b.i. resident jordan has more from washington d.c. the attorney general jeff sessions put out a statement saying that this is because he released information that should not have been released inside the f.b.i. to a reporter and that when he was questioned about it by investigators within the f.b.i. suskind said that mccabe miss led those investigators those are two big offenses inside the f.b.i. and so such and said that he has made the decision to dismiss him immediately well obviously this is something that andrew mccabe strongly disagrees with the chinese president's closest political ally wang qishan has been voted as vice president xi jinping is also being confirmed for a second term with unanimous support the national people's congress approved the governm

improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community in the sector such as improving water management and for greasing capacity we also need support for exit queuing technical issues you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the tap tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. peru's former president paid the republic has been barred from leaving the country while under investigation for corruption prosecutors have searched his home in the capital lima kaczynski resigned on wednesday rather than face an impeachment vote he's accused of money laundering linked to a bribery scandal involving the brazilian construction giant auto brecht. denies any wrongdoing thousands of people have protested in tel aviv against israel's pla

send an eighteen year old kid off to war and you're asking him to patrol the streets of baghdad or kabul or wherever else and then they get engaged in a. bit of combat or whether it's roadside bombs or or just day to day interactions was with afghans or iraqis that they failed to recognize that this young this young kid who is serving there has abyan asked to rebuild the country from people that mean a silly want their country to be rebuilt that may not necessarily want to be connected to the government in kabul or baghdad and you talk to them about their about the miss connect the disconnect between their local village and valley or their local precinct in in baghdad and the that disconnect with the corrupt abusive government inside of kabul or baghdad so that usually registers very well yeah you're humanizing it beyond numbers and the number that always stops me in my tracks is twenty two the department of veterans affairs tells us that twenty two veterans commit suicide every day that's one every sixty five minutes what happened there in iraq and afghanistan that haunts them when they

chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a bird see crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghan celebrating no ruse the persian new year. even a suicide bomb went off just stood behind me so nothing but terror. you know if i was a group of thirty young men celebrating and dancing when suddenly this suicide bomber detonated the explosive there is security here how was the suicide bomber able to get access to this area but this suicide attacker detonated his device around two hundred meters from the car to the shrine where many afghans gather to mark the start of the new year holiday kabul university is nearby and most of the dead are understood to be teenagers who were taking part in street celebrations the blast is the deadliest to hit the capital after weeks of repeated attacks. unfortunately once again our enemies are spilled the blood of our innocent countrymen the young men were holding celebrations for their ruse but attack them here far away from their chosen targets which is an important trying. on saturday a car bomb explosion claimed by

of this war but their image will haunt afghanistan for many years to come tony berkeley al jazeera kabul. has been mounting anger in brazil at the death of a popular politician it's been the second night of protester rio de janeiro city councillor mariella franco was shot on wednesday in what's being called an assassination brazil's top prosecutor says federal authorities will investigate her death if city police don't pursue the case of rest of the thirty eight year old franco repeatedly criticized police violence. peru's president has faced a dows of questioning on his ties to a brazilian construction giant comes a day after congress voted to begin impeachment proceedings against pablo had the republicans in ski but on a sanchez reports now from lima. they waited seven months before the president agreed to meet them so politicians of the door so called carwash corruption investigation took their time questioning president. he's accused of corruption over his links to brazilian construction giant all they would each and the role he played in contracts for a series of government infrastr

at least one person is killed in an explosion in the afghan capital we'll be live in kabul. but first the united states and russia are squaring off over their military capabilities the trumpet ministrations says it plans to sell ukraine hundreds of anti-tank missiles to help it defend its territory from russia this vladimir putin unveiled plans to develop his country's nuclear weapons also which included a video depicting an attack on the u.s. . certainly did not enjoy watching we don't regard that as the behavior of a responsible international player president putin has confirmed what the united states government has known for a long time that russia has denied prior to this that russia has developed been developing destabilizing weapon systems for more than a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations president trump understands the threats facing america and our allies in this in this century and is determined to protect our homeland and preserve peace through strength u.s. defense capabilities are and will remain second to none. well president his speech came i

improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community in the sector such as improving water management and for greasing capacity we also need support for exit queuing technical issues you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the tap tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul violence is casting a shadow over preparations for monday's presidential election in egypt the interior ministry says police have killed six people who they accuse of being involved in a deadly bombing in alexandria to policemen were killed and at least four others wounded in saturday's assault in the coastal city authorities have blamed the armed wing of the muslim brotherhood for the attack. the united nations is calling for an end to what it terms

you -- every day practically now there's a bombing, one way or another in kabul, near kabul and there's clearly evidence that the taliban grabbed a lot of territory or control and can test that territory today, 40% of the country in fact is controlled or contested by the taliban. how did we get here? that's the big question that we often look so much at the violence. we focus so much on the violence itself, the battlefield and the number of troops and whether we're up or down. but we forget the political piece. and that's where this redefinition of winning needs to come in, right? the political integration of the strategy the electoral process, to look at the institution building and look at the social change that has been wrout over the last 17 years is a really critical part of redefining our definition of winning in afghanistan. so that brings us to the tactical issues that i see and probably redefine the future of afghanistan for the next five years maybe longer possibly. the first question of course is negotiations with the taliban. and lately there's been sort of a lot of discussi

or imports of four people being wounded there was no immediate claim of responsibility but kabul as seen the spate of deadly attacks carried out by both the taliban and deisel in recent months france is enjoying its strongest economic growth in six years many companies are struggling to find qualified staff though some economists are worried the shortage could slow down growth tasha potter reports in the french city of canard it's another busy day at this building material supplier business is booming for the sam c. group that has outlets across france to keep growing the company needs more staff but it's struggling to find skilled workers. this fall says we have five thousand three hundred staff but two hundred and sixteen job vacancies we may need sales people forklift drivers and tireless it's really hard to find people who are specialized in areas such as woodwork so it's difficult for us to recruit staff with the skills we need. the boss says that twenty years ago people joined young trained on the job and worked their way out but today that's rare because you are people are at

every day practically now there's a bombing in one way or another in kabul, near kabul and there's clearly evidence that the taliban have grabbed a lot of territory in control or can test a lot of that territory today, about 40% of the country, in fact, is controlled or contested by the taliban. how do we get here? that's the big question. we often look so much at the violence, we focus so much on the violence itself, the battlefield and the number of troops and whether, you know, we're up or down, but we forget the political piece and that's where this redefinition of winning needs to come in, right? the political integration of the strategy to look at the electoral process, to look at the institution building, to look at the social change that has been wrought over the last 17 years is a really critical part of redefining our definition of winning in afghanistan. that brings us to the three tactical issues that i see that will probably redefine to some degree the future of afghanistan for the next, at least, five years maybe longer possibly. the first question, of course, is around negot

improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community in the sector such as improving water management and for greasing capacity we also need support for exit queuing technical issues you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the tap tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul and that is there still to come on the program write scripts call for classification into the role of armed groups in the war in yemen. and rallying against australia's hardline refugee policies hundred stay past said much as across the country. hello there spring has definitely sprung across parts of china now we're seeing the flowers in full bloom here in the province beautiful troops there and there's plenty more fine weather to be found there's al

military joseph dunford visited kabul. and facebook shares have bounce back after a volatile few days which wiped off fifty billion dollars in market value the stock plunged as a result of the fallout of the revelations the personal data from the social media site was misused by a u.k. analytics company c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is reportedly preparing to deliver a statement within the next twenty four hours so we'll bring you more on all those stories at the top of the next hour in about twenty five minutes time i'll have a full bulletin for you coming up next it's with us. up. of so. self all of us. you want to take another head wanted to get done and i'm only there for a month it has a billion overhead but wanted to give then give then give. of it. of it and how money can be a good done. i'm sick. and how much b.s. . sig. all of. them. have on with i don't think that the army could. go with. a man fee. i don't know. what the wrong. i don't know what you mentioned i think i'm not going to comment on this as you can i'm pret

so, let me start with you, fawzia, there in kabul. this has been known, your country, as the worst place in the world for women. what is it like today, for you, and your fellow women and young girls? >> well, i guess things have changed a lot, comparing to before 2001, for woman in afghanistan. you know, in terms of education, in terms of political participation, et cetera. but still, the problem of violence against women and, of course, the trends of losing the gains we have still remain a challenge for woman here. >> so you are a pioneer, you're a member of parliament. you just talked about violence. 87% of afghan women have experienced physical, sexual, or psychological violence during their lifetime. and you are trying to sponsor and enact, you know, a bill, a law to prevent this kind of thing. it isn't formally in law yet. do you think it will be? >> you know, christiane, it's always challenging all over the world, i guess, if you want to work for equality. if you want to work for women on human rights, and afghanistan is much mo

president ghani, welcome to the program from kabul. >> it is a pleasure to be with you. >> you have put everything on the table. why are you doing it and why now? it is because our society is a consensus now. our women, all ethnic groups and political parties converged on the need to seek peace, equally. we have an international consensus that is supporting us plus a very president event has happened in the muslim world, the scholar, the islamic scholars are beginning to speak clearly on condemning suicide bombings and it is not rooted in our islamic culture and civilization. so we need to move forward and the other side is the opportunities. >> you talk about consensus and yes, of course, the afghan people in the region and your international partners want peace, but they are very divided on whether you should be offering everything including re-examining the constitution to a group that seems to have the upper hand on the ground right now controlling a lot and active in the majority of the land and also for women especially who have historically been not considered equal by the taliba

improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community and the sectors such as improving water management and for greasing capacity we also need support for exit queuing technical issues you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the tap tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. thanks very much australia's cricket captain steve smith has been suspended and fined by the sport's international governing body the penalty comes amid a cheating scandal after the aussie team invaded to ball tampering only so many reports for this is the tiny piece of sticky tape that sent shock waves through australia's national sport it seemed completely beyond belief that the u.s. role in cricket. had been involved injury during saturday's pla

improvements are being made in kabul this pumping station is part of an eighty million dollars german project to increase the number of connected homes from. ten thousand to one hundred thousand more but we still need technical and financial support from the international community in the sector such as improving water management and for greasing capacity we also need support for exit cueing technical issues you can only supply water if you have it and because of the melting glaciers afghanistan has just over thirty years to come up with a solution to his predicted water loss before nature turns off the top tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. still to come on the al-jazeera news what's next for australia's cricket captain after he admits to cheating in a test match for the thousand the sport with. a story of black man. his parents. and. you'll have to kill i have strangled we have a story of current which allowed him to feel his real. passion. was and it's very serious just. al-jazeera. you read every you want. now whether watching acrobats fly through the sky or animals forming nature be

he was station chief in kabul a couple of times. i think the lesson here is that he rotated out 2011 visiting congressmen and other officials that came out would going and see him and talk about the war and he was referred to as his hour of power. he told everybody, we either just the sanctuary that the taliban injured in pakistan and we win the war. or we do not and we lose. is that simple. and it seems that simple to a lot of analysts before him. elizabeth the 2006 when the taliban started to revive. and yet, another administration, the bush administration for the obama administration could find a way to adjust this. so once we escalate the war after 2006? and yet, fail to achieve our goals, and while we still there? that is on the subject of the book. it is a narrative about how we got from the eve of 9/11 to where we are today. it has a lot of episodes in it, a lot of characters. one of the sources that i was talking to sort of late in the project and the fact checking faith.kind of had a sense of what it would be. we will proba

chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a burgeoning sea crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghans celebrating no ruse the persian new year and was playing footy with them to include vivir nearby when a suicide bomb went off just said behind us the so nothing of a terror and bloodshed on the do it because you know if i was a group of thirty young men celebrating and dancing when suddenly this sue said bomber detonated the explosive there is security here how was this who said able to get access to this area that the suicide attacker detonated his device around two hundred meters from the car to shockey shrine where many afghans gather to mark the start of the new year holiday kabul university is nearby and most of the dead are understood to be teenagers who were taking part in street celebrations a blast is the deadliest to hit the capital after weeks of repeated attacks going up up up the level in fear unfortunately once again our enemies are spilled the blood of our innocent countrymen the young men were holding celebrations from their ruse

the top stories on suicide bombers killed at least twenty six people in afghanistan's capital kabul it happened close to a shrine west of the city where people were celebrating new year reports. chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a bird see crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghans celebrating no ruse the persian new year. but about the phone number again unfortunately once again our enemies are spilled the blood of our innocent countrymen the young men were holding celebrations for nauru's but he's attacked them here far away from their chosen targets which is an important shrine but the suicide attacker detonated his device around two hundred meters from the car to shockey shrine where many afghans gather to mark the start of the new year holiday kabul university is nearby and most of the dead are understood to be teenagers who were taking part in street celebrations a blast is the deadliest to hit the capital after weeks of repeated attacks. on saturday a car bomb explosion claimed by the taliban killed at least two civilians several

we can see the taliban can project into the heart of kabul because it did so with the awful bombs and other attacks in late december and january. we sought terrible attacks. what does that tell us? suicide bombers are on a 1—way trip, they just have to make it in. they only have to be good ones. these are horrendous attacks and the death of any civilian is something we want to avoid. this is exposing the hypocrisy of the taliban. if they are theoretically here for the good of the afghan people, to replace a government, why are they killing the citizens they are trying to protect? these bombs are measure of success, is that what you are saying? no, i am not. it shows a lowering of ambition. they tried a times to take cities and each time they were defeated. in 2017 they focused more on districts and this is where you sort mode is gains. we ended up at about the same place. in september of 2017, following the announcement by it president trump of the asia strategy, they made a deliberate decision to no longer try to seize cities or districts or other resort to suicide attacks as a way

every day, practically now, there is a bombing in one way or another, in kabul, near kabul, and there is clearly evidence that the taliban have grabbed loot of territory and control or contest a lot of that territory today, about 40% of the country, in fact, is controlled or contested by the taliban. how did we get here, right? and that's the big question. we often look so much at the violence we focus so much on the violence itself, the battlefield and the number of troops and whether or not, you know, we're up, we're down, but we forget the political piece, and that's where this redefinition of winning needs to come in, right? the political integration of kind of the strategy, to look at the electoral process, to look at the institution building, to look at the social change that's been wrought over the last 17 years, is a critical part of redefining our definition of winning in afghanistan. that brings us to the three tactical issues that i see that will probably redefine to some degree the future of afghanistan for the next at least five years, maybe longer, possibly. the first qu

chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a bird see crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghan celebrating no ruse the persian new year with the money but that the. unfortunately once again our enemies are spilled the blood of our innocent countrymen the young men were holding celebrations for nauru's but he's attacked them here far away from their chosen targets which is an important shrine but the suicide attacker detonated his device around two hundred meters from the car to shockey shrine where many afghans gather to mark the start of the new year holiday kabul university is nearby and most of the dead are understood to be teenagers who were taking part in street celebrations a blast is the deadliest to hit the capital after weeks of repeated attacks on saturday a car bomb explosion claimed by the taliban killed at least two civilians several others were wounded in the morn.

tony burke al-jazeera kabul. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in algeria now rebels in syria's eastern alter have rejected a russian offer of safe passage accusing moscow of force displacement russia's backing a syrian government offensive in the rebel held district which saw at least eighty people killed on monday it was the deadliest day since the u.n. adopted a cease fire resolution and russia ordered a daily pause in fighting you see. if you do not wish to let the civilians leave the held areas we are ready to guarantee safe passage from eastern for you and your families will be enough transport provided and security will be guaranteed along the whole route sort of vision of the call upon the leaders of all illegal armed groups to make everything possible to release the civilians from suffering as soon as possible and secure unobstructed delivery of humanitarian aid to east including those. a high level south korean delegation has returned from pyongyang where they met north korean leader

who's a national security analyst based in kabul. it's the new year's celebration for us for your new year for our kids. a lot of people are gathering. across various points in this weekend this is certainly one of them where people are strongly agreed to combine them all together we have had dinners of hope about any reconfiguration process that might be called blood again this is not a good sign but the real question is can ministry of. intelligence. department. security department overall how did the press conference yesterday were distant enough security measures across the longer son to allow people to some of this. but this is the heart of the heart of compliments is just about it's just a one hundred to two hundred me just on top of university central university. despite the measures how could you have people used. to various checkpoints and make it all delivered to the heart of security and inflict damage to people. said west african i one cheeriest government says seventy six of the one hundred ton schoolgirls abducted by bo

this in the capital kabul most of the dead were reportedly young people celebrating the new year into. chaos and confusion on the streets of kabul as a bird see crews rushed to the scene of the latest bomb blast the apparent target afghans celebrating no ruse the persian new year. even a suicide bomb went off just stood behind us nothing about the terror. because you know if i was a group of thirty young men celebrating and dancing when suddenly this suicide bomber detonated the explosive there is security here how was this who said able to get access to this area that this suicide attacker detonated his device around two hundred meters from the car to shockey shrine where many afghans gather to mark the start of the new year holiday kabul university is nearby and most of the dead are understood to be teenagers who were taking part in street celebrations the blast is the deadliest to hit the capital after weeks of repeated attacks. unfortunately once again our enemies are spilled the blood of our innocent countrymen the young men were holding celebrations for nauru's. attack them here

and he's four people have died in a car bombing in the afghan capital kabul police say the bomb went off as a convoy of foreign vehicles was passing by but all those killed appeared to be local bystanders it was no immediate claim of responsibility. when afghanistan is facing a growing drug problem with around nine thousand tons of opium produced there last year heroin is an important source of revenue for the taliban and the u.s. is targeting their drug cultivation sites to anybody reports from kabul a record numbers of people are turning to drugs in desperation. in afghanistan there is a level below rock bottom it's where these lifeless expressionist drug addicts exist men who lost dignity a long time ago they've been rounded up and herded into one of the country's biggest drug rehabilitation units in kabul. these are the other victims of this never ending war collateral damage if you like people who have lost loved ones lost jobs lost hope and their numbers are growing in afghanistan every day the forty five day program of this former military warehouse complex is basic and caters

a suicide car bombing has killed at least four people in the afghan capital kabul it happened when many people were going to work in the morning there was no immediate claim of responsibility the attack comes as pressure increases on the taliban to take up the afghan government's offer of peace talks to end a sixteen year long conflict drug production in afghanistan has been on the rise since the us led invasion in two thousand and one last year there was an increase of eighty seven percent in the amount of opium produced about one thousand times tony but he reports now from kabul where record numbers of people are turning to drugs in desperation. in afghanistan there is a level below rock bottom it's where these lifeless expressionist drug addicts exist men who lost dignity a long time ago they've been rounded up and herded into one of the country's biggest drug rehabilitation units in kabul. these are the other victims of this never ending war collateral damage if you like people who have lost loved ones lost jobs lost hope and their numbers are growing in afghanistan every day the fo