joining me for more from kabul is a. researcher with the organization of promise and i miss that must hold so for me from afghan department. i like to come to you first how do young people do not gonna stand feel about a possible deal between the taliban and the united states thank you so much for giving this opportunity as our young afghan. and as grow up and leave. in war i believe every at no matter from we are they are our blogs to which political or economic groups they are the lives that they're. asking for a peaceful afghanistan. even it's a small one that support after its chill achieved its goals is it highly welcomed by afghans including afghan young generation. so far what happened to the taliban and to you as that i saw that going to what's likely still get so i. do i get to believe that these wars that and prop meant iraq speaking to us and all that talk about it is that to achieve that unfortunately the afghans weist was not on the table. and there are any and i thought i'd voice that as on let me just brin

it has been pretty clear in his latest reserve to kabul that he will only.

the best there to us yes this money belongs to india it was not in kabul it was outside of kabul and was twenty five kilometers away from kabul city. the best was not a permanent base it was acting for the best and it was a complex attic. as i said adding yet. the government and the taliban will try to have offensive offenses and defenses so in a situation like that ri can expect any sort of attack right just one final question for you learned comes from one of our viewers watching on facebook get issue is asked who else could play a critical role to bring permanent peace in the country you've got the taliban talking to the united states who else is important here. i believe that afghan government is a strong party too should be a strategy to any sort of negotiation. resolving that kind conflict besides that. i believe that regional countries. also have a role to play in negotiating in negotiation. about the issue of afghanistan but finally it comes to afghan people and it should be the afghan people and it is people who has the potential to resolve the problems international communi

an area just south west of kabul we heard from a local resident. i am from gel or is district of mind and word took it was around six o'clock there was a very big explosion i thought there was an earthquake it was very strong. local reporter saw it on faith he is in the afghan capital joins us live good to have you with us. a deadly day in your country what are we hearing about what's happened. exactly and there have been some conflicting reports about the casualty figure because early in the morning local officials announced that the casualty figure was twelve and around thirty others have been wounded but later. you know the government office shows actually were not providing access to journalists to know more about the figure because it was quite a huge blast as we spoke to the locals there the building that was directly attacked by. a humvee type of military vehicle packed of explosives partly part of that was collapsed and many of the intelligence officers and personally who are. attending who are joining for breakfast actually left on the. re

that has been pretty clear in his latest reserve to kabul that he will only. dialogue with the taliban in the presence of the afghan government so this has added an amount of comfort in the in the feelings of the afghan government the second thing is that the my analysis is that the taliban will continue to push sideline in the afghan government and in for sizing to talk to the americans mainly because they believe that the broader agenda issues as far as david dreier less concern withdrawal of the international forces for that they need to reach an agreement with the americans because that has been the basic objective of the basic motivation behind the fighting of the taliban for the last seventeen years so they want to make sure that the goal is address as far as the peace negotiation is concerned but i'm pretty sure they will come back and talk to the afghan government and i would like to differ with mr simple slightly on the issue of return of the taliban believing that they want to establish the government of nine hundred ninety six and beyond i don't thi

silt and phasey reporting from kabul thank you. moving on the u.s. and turkish presidents of held a phone call discussing the creation of a buffer zone in northern syria in a region mainly populated by kurds this is after donald trump infuriated ankara by threatening to devastate turkey's economy for the tech the region fired off his tweet after turkey agree. threat to launch a military offensive against the kurdish y.p. in northern syria the group received support from the us and it's played a role in fighting islamic state of the y.p. g.'s viewed by ankara to be a terrorist organization dispute has put a strain on the u.s. and turkey alliance within nato for turkish minister for e.u. affairs a given bias doesn't believe the situation will escalate. i don't see that as. crisis because once present drunk understands that he actually embrace of the kurds and is widely against all terrorists it will realize that he made a mistake i think president trump is using apples and oranges and he has a lot of issues back but this will report coming out and he's

analyst of those worked on conflict resolution issues in afghanistan joins me now from the capital kabul good to have you with us live on al-jazeera sir i mean what was the purpose of the taliban statement. well basically the taliban have been engaged in the process with. and that process has mainly been negotiation for negotiations where they have been agreeing on the mainly they have been discussing the agenda for the upcoming peace talks however what we can see that after engagement of so many countries in the region. that has been engaged in shuttle diplomacy in the region for the last three months and most recently he has visited many countries last night he lived in kabul so because of the engagement of so many countries i think they have the americans actually have slightly away from the agenda that was agreed upon earlier and that has annoyed the taliban because the taliban want to discuss first and foremost with the americans the diva drama all of the international forces particularly the americans from of i understand the schedule and the arrangements around that but i think no

to right now but i'm curious how does the afghan government feel about that as a government in kabul comfortable with the current level of u.s. involvement in this process they are reports that they have been concerned about perhaps being sidelined the afghan government has not been happy as far as the taliban stance is concerned that they're not prepared to talk to the afghan government but let me remind you something that there has been fluctuation in the stances and contacts here in afghanistan over the past three months and my family's out has been pretty clear in his latest resort to kabul that he will only dialogue with the taliban in the presence of the government should this has added an amount of comfort in the in the feelings of the afghan government the second thing is that the my analysis is that the taliban will continue to push sideline in the afghan government and in for sizing to talk to the americans mainly because they believe that the broader agenda issues as far as of a draw is concerned with travel of the international forces for that they need to reach an agreem

peace but that doesn't mean that we're going to stop fighting and he and the thief a journalist in kabul thank you very much for that update you. sad news from the football and was now a plane carrying if you cardiff city signing emily onil saga is missing according to media reports in britain and france the twenty eight year old argentinian became the premier league sides record transplant last week when he left french club known to police also say that there is an ongoing search for a private plane which disappeared from the radar over the in this channel last night or route from no want to contest sana didn't show up for tuesday's training session at condit and the club finesse he was on board. joining me now from the deadliest fourth desk is chris having to guess what can you tell us about this developing story any new details well just tracing his last known steps. he sayd his record contract with cardiff city in cardiff was saturday we know he definitely returned to france because around twenty four hours ago he posted a picture with his former teammates from not and we have the ph

kabul tower. the power of the explosion basically the target was you know according to the minister of interior i was the green village campus which is heavily secured and guarded by afghans and foreigners or where is a house for some dozens of expired swore staying there or working and also it's around for about four acres how's that is to some offices. non-governmental organizations and nor one has so far claimed responsibility but this compound was attacked back in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and twelve as well. reports are now coming that one thousand people have been injured twenty three of them children. but in terms taken to twitter as usual this time threatening to devastate turkey's economy if anchor attacks kurds in syria foreign minister in turn is head back saying strategic ally should not be negotiating over social media. office tweet have to turkey had renewed its threat to launch a military offensive against the kurdish white b.g. in northern syria the group received

recovery center for workers in the east of the city local reports as he has latest details from kabul ministry of. apart from four killed. ninety others that includes twenty three children and twelve one. for have been killed three are military personnel and one civilian so the neighborhood was quite affected of the blast wave as the kabul police confirmed that it was a truck bomb in the afghan presidential palace issued a statement for. condemning the attack and ordering for a comprehensive investigation about it because the. image of the victims have been civilians in the neighborhood and that have been affected seriously coming back to devolve ability of this compound back in two thousand and fourteen taliban launch a complex attack that no casualty was reported but back in two thousand and twelve when obama made his visit to afghanistan there was another attack that left eight dead so this compound has been all for some dozens or for those that are working for the united nations as well as for some other nongovernmental organizations so this compound has been quite vulnerable in t

at least four people have been killed and injured after a large explosion rocked the afghan capital kabul the blast is said to have happened near a rest and recovery center for foreign workers in the east of the city local reporter tom phasey has details from kabul. surfin to announce. our part from ford that have been killed ninety others that includes twenty three children and twelve one and four dead have been killed three are military personnel and one civilian so the neighborhood was quite early affected of the blast wave as the kabul police confirmed it was a truck bomb and the afghan presidential palace issued a statement for. condemning the attack and ordering for a comprehensive investigation about it because the damage already of the victims have been civilians in the neighborhood and that have been affected seriously coming back to deval near ability of this compound back in two thousand and fourteen taliban launch a complex attack that no casualty was reported but back in two thousand and twelve when obama made his visit to afghanistan there was another attack that left eight

joining me now from kabul is gentleness ali and left the fee early what is the latest on this attack and why did the taliban dog this particular intelligence base. well the intelligence agency just put out a statement on the east where you say. members of their forces were killed in this attack. and again that's going against all of the other numbers what we've been hearing so for instance last night when i was asking people i have heard from different sources to her numbers fifty i've heard eighty i had heard more than one hundred twenty i had heard all within a few hours span so we're still not entirely certain looked exactly as tall as obviously we know what the government is saying but there are other sources saying that it's higher as to why the intelligence unit would be the most likely to be targeted it's because the intelligence agency has a very bad reputation amongst the top of on there have been numerous reports by my rights organization saying that you know in intelligence prisons people are. taken in imprisoned without proper evidence that they are that they are tortured

military estimates there almost forty thousand active taliban fighters today mushtaq regime in kabul michael said just a moment ago that the taliban are happy to be talking to the u.s. to right now but i'm curious how does the afghan government feel about that as a government in kabul comfortable with the current level of u.s. involvement in this process there are reports that they have been concerned about perhaps being sidelined the afghan government has not been happy as far as the taliban stance is concerned that they're not prepared to talk to the of one government but let me remind you something that there has been fluctuation in the stances and contacts here in afghanistan over the past three months and. it has been pretty clear in his latest reserve to kabul that he will only dialogue with the taliban in the presence of the government should this has added an amount of comfort in the in the feelings of the afghan government the second thing is that the my analysis is that the taliban will continue to push sideline in the oven government been in for sizing to talk to the ameri

people heard and they've in central you know in a kabul town people actually felt the wave and the. power of the explosion basically so it's not clear what is you know. let's say what is the casualty rate inside the compass because as i said before there are you know many foreigners living there especially some who are working with the u.n. some work or working with other international organizations so this camp. it was quite important taliban targeted back in twenty fourteen and what obama made his visit to afghanistan back in two thousand and twelve it was also targeted so it was quite. a potential target for the insurgents specially for the taliban that analysts believe that taliban are trying to show their power in order to score more on the talks and to have some more scores or achievements for the ceasefire at least to gain ground however the ministry of defense of afghanistan has increased and intensive farida its operations against the taliban killing their senior commanders and all for shows so it's now quite tense and the country is actually also living another experience

over ireland seized the public radio station that it also appears that communication has been cut in kabul and so it certainly would appear over the cations out that this could lead to mention that the president. two thousand and nine family running the country for fifty years now falling ill in october last year with a. covering in morocco for all these months is of course still a lot of speculation and concern on exactly what is happening with the government given that the president's been gone for so long they've also been moved in recent months to try and change the constitution to protect the bungled release of the bungles family home government bond that was also met with some resistance speaking to people in kabul and towards the end of last year they had said that they were concerned about what might happen next week or not the president would come back but certainly tension at concern now is it the military seems to want to bring some sort of certainty exactly to what's happening but perhaps too many people in kabul on this this brings a lot of uncertainty given that the military

that need effectively to to to indeed to or to be taken in charge without talking about the wall in kabul it's a kind of it's problematic because this is the main challenge of course that it is going to face how he will how willie and the war in kabul because the war still there is a low intensity war but it is you know that we have been report we have missed a. lot of tries was forgotten about what was happening in the cold war the raids of the home and the children that will break it won't yield and all these new rules that that rock from all countries and we not the influence that meddling like the ground in particular really very bad rule in that region let know that and let me bring into banksias conversation. about the this will be i think one of the main challenges of musicians that getting power willie and the war in the congo because when you come talk about it going on because that will only talk about social problems. you fenech to solve problems and you will end the conflict today a lot of the response to the war ok i think that there's a lot of things to to say and know about

earlier i spoke with all the latif he's a journalist in kabul about the attack he told me that despite a severity this attack is on likely to derail the u.s. initiative peace talks with the taliban the one thing is this peace process still led by the united states in the united states has made it very clear that they want out of this war at any cost at that point the other thing we have to remember is that this is not unfortunately uncommon in this war we have seen you know the government three years has been talking about trying to get peace and talk peace with the taliban and they continue their talks on the call on targets and at the same time in two thousand and thirteen when the taleban briefly opened their office in doha they made a very clear statement they said you know we will consider peace talks at that time i mean didn't go anywhere but they said we will consider peace talks and we will keep fighting so that in essentially what we're seeing is a continuation of that war where both sides say that they want peace is going to become much more official at this point from the ta

zalmay khalilzad, the us envoy who's been in kabul in the last few days, has delivered the news that after 17 years of fighting, peace for the taliban might be in sight. you must be delighted. well, you are right. the demand for peace is in the veins of every afghan, but it is the modality of how we negotiate and also what sort of peace we achieve is controversial. do you agree with president ashraf ghani that the taliban could enter mainstream politics? absolutely. we have never opposed any group to become mainstream politics, regardless of what type of politics they pursue, as long as they don't resort to violence and intimidation. of course they are most welcome to become a mainstream political entity. it must be frustrating, though, for you, as a former directorate of the security agency, a former director—general of the national directorate of security, you were there for six years, i think, to know that last year, just hours before its leading members sat down for another day of talks with the us envoy, the taliban attacked one of the nds bases, killing at least 43 people, an

with the latest from kabul for that have been killed three are military personnel and one civilian so the neighborhood was quite affected of the blast wave as the kabul police confirmed it was a truck bomb gascon presidential palace issued a statement for. condemning the attack and ordering for a comprehensive investigation about it because the. majority of the victims have been civilians in the neighborhoods that have been affected seriously is coming back to devolve or ability of this compound. i was standing on my praying mat and it was around six fifty five pm when i stood for praying while i was praying all of a sudden a huge explosion occurred at first i didn't realize it was only after that i saw the whole roof had fallen on top of us back in twenty fourteen taliban launched a complex attack and no casualty was reported but back in two thousand and twelve when obama made his visit to afghanistan there was another attack that left eight dead so you know this compound has been for some dozens of foreigners working for the united nations as well as for some other nongovernmental o

had a similar attack in kabul that many people were killed but still we also had a lack of access to the information again the similar case but what is very visual and obvious that is the taliban has carried out two deadly attacks in the past two weeks however how wadekar witnessed another major attack back in late november and twenty eighteen which was the police recruitment center many people were killed there so this is still not very clear no official accepted or confirmed that that's . the exact figure but there are many concerns that people are actually already talking about which is did rate of the casualty because it sounds like it has been a very deadly attack on many actually an essay for afghan security forces have been killed yeah exactly one thing we do know for sure that it is another deadly day in afghanistan thank you very much sue town phasey live in kabul for us this hour. well that is your news for now but stay close has some great programs begin in moments live from moscow every hour of the day this is your r.t. international. when gold make good manufacture conse

a blanket of smog can often be seen over kabul skyline. it's being emitted by old cars poor quality fuel and people burning trash and it's everywhere in the city's busy streets it is a lot of traffic jam especially in the morning time and also in the evening time you. only only have the capacity of five hundred million. or more than eight hundred thousand when he calls movement in twenty four hours in kabul city. the government has been trying to get a handle on the growing problem its environmental protection agency has installed these devices around the city to monitor the amount of toxic particles in the air the government says if air quality reaches dangerous levels there are other measures that can be implemented we can prevent the activity saw factories or we will shut down the movement of the public transportation and some other measures we can take. back at the hospital doctors are warning their patients especially the young to stay indoors in avoid going into the smog along with bombs and bullets these mothers must now worry about

where we've got a few showers around and some of them are looking for all the heavy day in parts of kabul. the reminder of the top stories the. high court has rejected an appeal by two reuters journalists jailed for illegal possession of official documents it's held up the seven year prison terms handed down to one lone chance to maintain their innocence. iran's foreign minister has dismissed my pump a speech on american policy in the middle east saying u.s. interference only leads to chaos repression or resentment speaking car the u.s. secretary of state rally to deter terror groups reaching. u.s. president donald trump has traveled to the u.s. trying to drum up support for his proposed pull between the u.s. and his demands for five point seven billion dollars for projects have led to a pasta gulf which. friday marks the twenty first day of that shutdown it's also the day federal workers jute to receive their paychecks but without a last minute resolution about one hundred eight hundred thousand of them won't be getting paid and many are now facing tough choices and you've got a small fr

isn't the sole player in the region the russians invited the taliban and the members of the kabul based afghan peace council for talks last year saudi arabia and the u.a.e. took part in the last round of talks in december. iran has also been active over the last few years building bridges with the taliban and the government iran says it's called used to ensure an afghan led peace deal. the talks gained momentum last year but it's unclear if all the parties are willing to make concessions and agree on a unity government. or there are other another set of talks underway this time between representatives of the afghan and pakistani governments in islam about we're going to speak to do joins us live from there come up before we get into that tell us how much of a problem this cancellation of the talks in cutter's. the message. very clear do not want to draw the government didn't call but which they can operate regime installed by the us government. the president. finding a consensus. on both the americans and the government in trying to encourage pakistan to open the. allow the afghan gover

who is in kabul he told us both sides are trying to increase their leverage the problem with negotiation is. when we have a negotiation it's not only limited to afghanistan it's a bit we should not expect reduction in violence it is possibility for increase in awhile and even if we have. to try to increase the leverage there do su by increasing while and i believe that the regional countries. also have a role to play in negotiating in negotiation. about the stand but finally it comes to people and it should be the afghan people and it is people who has the potential to resolve the problems international community u.s. and other states. can play it rolled up mediation but they are not the actual people to resolve the problem so it should be that good people taliban and i'm going to go to mention should come together and they should talk to each other to resolve the problem to other news in a car bombs exploded in the syrian city of latakia and there are reports of casualties there is this footage of bullets from state t.v. there showing the extent of the damage an attack just a few days a

isn't the sole player in the region the russians invited the taliban and members of the kabul based afghan peace council for talks last year saudi arabia and the u.a.e. took part in the last round of talks in december. iran has also been active over the last two years building bridges with the taliban and the government iran says its goal is to ensure an afghan led peace deal. the talks gained momentum last year but it's unclear if all the parties are willing to make concessions and they agree on a unity government has made about al-jazeera well there are more talks underway this time between representatives of the afghan and pakistani governments in islamabad they're focusing on getting the taliban to the negotiating table with pakistan to help them or more. one delegation. tried. to convince the afghan taliban to accept the government and face to face negotiations however both the united states and the afghan government have been asking pakistan to do that that dollar bond not listening to anybody saying that their regime and. regime and stored by the united states and that david. to the

playing a newly positive role but peace won't be easy the taliban does not recognize the government in kabul and insists peace talks will only start when foreign troops leave afghanistan or. when bangladesh has given permission to the un special rapporteur on human rights and me and mine to visit an island where a hinge refugees will soon be relocated young healy will visit passion char island in bangladesh on thursday the uninhabited area will become home to more than one hundred thousand ranger refugees who fled myanmar rights groups have criticized the move saying the island is prone to flooding and will be similar to a prison many of the refugees are living at the moment and go to a long camp in bangladesh that tasha going to aim is their. then the dash is facing the enormous challenge of how best to host almost a million row him directly genes cox's bizarre is now home to the largest refugee settlement in the world and the government says people keep streaming over the border from me and mar at a rate of about forty thousand a year this mega can't is congested it sits on an elephant mig

with us in the studio in kabul on director of policy analysis at the doha institute for graduate studies and it's nice to have you with us as always more i would think it's worth actually explain to our viewers how israel fits into the syria picture because we know all about the other major players turkey iran even if you want to include hezbollah is how does israel fit in and why is it if this report is true attacking an airport in damascus. there was an agreement between russia and. on how is it i could actually protect its own security since the russian intervention in syria in two thousand and fifteen. according to that agreement the russians would allow the air force to target iranian and has been law targets inside syria when the ball is serious threat to its security. but the are not allowed to to strike against targets that belong to the syrian regime. there isn't for that is the russians actually would want a certain. occasions to put pressure on the iranians to make them fall in line with their policy in syria but sometimes there is an ease. a little bit far as would allow them

let's bring in our guests now in kabul omar zakhilwal he is a former president's special representative to be an afghan ambassador to pakistan in islamabad and school head of the center for research and security studies and in washington david said a former deputy u.s. assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan and pakistan thank you all for joining us i appreciate it very much i'm going to start with you well the timing of this attack what message do you think the taliban is trying to send. it's not a very good message because. talks need to in an environment. that is more conducive in violence reduction would be the right response but unfortunately the attack yesterday was to the contrary. but had the same time it's important that this does not relieve the ongoing talks and that we focus forward with this ok same question to you empty as well what message do you think the taliban will was trying to send doing this and at the time that they did it i think being a party to the conflict being one of the decoder they just wanted to underline their own strength on the ground they just

there's a political analyst and let's read more a university joins us now from kabul mr dean welcome to the program what's your sense of this report and the impact it might have on the trumpet ministration and their plans to withdraw troops. well thank you very much it's not only one point three per saying that the taliban or maybe that are in opposition in torreon but some more certainly for me that why we're not winning this war while you were just checking them out for the last fifteen years after eighteen years why the united states the international community and all stuff in government are still claiming that they can fight but still we see that decrease in the control of the afghan government i think it's not me it's international and eyes ation including deal with the cigar they say that they're wrong military strategy they erotic what it takes and also politically tante minute jobs that of the afghan government just cause the problem and that's why they cannot defeat they mean they cannot defeat down opposition a general sense that afghanistan they're not happy about it in t

and it's a hell of a way treat a partner in the government in kabul. >> admiral, always good to get your insight, thank you. >>> still ahead, it can make or break a political career. the state of the union rebuttal. take a lock at some of the more infamous moments and the advice coming in for stacey abrams. still fresh... ♪ unstopables in-wash scent booster ♪ downy unstopables when did you see the sign? when i needed to jumpstart sales. build attendance for an event. help people find their way. fastsigns designed new directional signage. and got them back on track. get started at fastsigns.com. and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. and got them back on track. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. >>> terrorists pouring across the border, drug cartels, women kidnapped, these are just some of president trump's frightening claims about what's happening at the southern border. if it sounds like something that maybe you'd see on the big screen, it turns out i

playing a newly positive role but peace won't be easy the taliban does not recognize the government in kabul and insists peace talks will only start when foreign troops leave afghanistan how does iraq. still ahead here a non-zero mexico's president announces help for the poor after dozens of people died trying to steal fuel from and leaking top pipelines. and the race is on find out who's in the running for the cia is cut i mean words. from long flowing on in winds to an enchanting desert breeze. and either the weather is oh quite quiet for the southeastern parts of china at the moment it looks like it should be fine and dry first again for wednesday and thursday am for shanghai it should be fairly mild the temperatures around thirteen degrees and they should be near at seven or eight at this time of the. further south should be all goes well for us in hong kong with all macs and overing at around twenty one a bit further towards the south and we've been watching a system that's been disintegrating over the philippines that's given us a lot of heavy rain you can still see some cloud on the s

a security analyst based in kabul he explained why peace talks negotiations haven't been successful so far. the problem with negotiation is. when we have a negotiation it's not only limited to afghanistan it's very rare we should not expect a reduction in violence there is a possibility of increase in violence even if we have. to try to increase the leverage there do sue by increasing while and i believe that original countries. also have a role to play in negotiating in negotiation. about the issue of afghanistan but finally it comes to afghan people it should be the afghan people and it is people who has the potential to resolve the problems international community u.s. and other states. can play a role of mediation but they are not the actual people to resolve the problem so it should be that people taliban and government should should come together and they should talk to each other to resolve the problem a car bomb detonated in the syrian city of latakia killing one person an injury fourteen that's according to state media footage on state t.v. showed a large group of people in th

buy 17 airline tickets to kabul. they did it, quote, on unclassified systems. her travel will be no secret and her arrival easy to predict. democrats said disclosing the initial frip was reckless. >> the president's decision to disclose a trip a speaker was making to a war zone was completely and utterly responsibility. >> reporter: white house officials said what is responsible is that the speaker of the house would go out of the cun tri for a week in the midst of a government shutdown z this trip would all but guarantee those 800,000 employees were not going to receive a paycheck for the second pay period. that is unacceptable. >> reporter: the white house and president trump's legal team were also pushing back against a report in buzz feed that president trump had told michael cohen to lie to congress about negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow. >> that's absolutely ridiculous. the president's outside counsel said it is categorically false. >> reporter: the article yet to be corroborated quotes others in s

playing a newly positive role but peace won't be easy the taliban does not recognize the government in kabul and insists peace talks will only start when foreign troops leave afghanistan or. whether is next but still ahead on al jazeera mexico's president announces help for the port after dozens of people died trying to steal fuel from taps pipelines. i there we've got another storm system that's marching its way across north america we look at the satellite picture we can see the cloud herro edging its way eastward as is that system begins to pull itself together in the north we'll see a fair amount of snow from it in the south a fair amount of rain and actually ahead of it it's going to be dragging winds up from the south so it will feel a little bit milder than it has been recently behind it though it's going to be cold at once more as the air digs down from canada so the top temperature in winnipeg will be shooting down minus twenty one will just be on much of a temperature that system still with us along that far eastern coast as we head through thursday but for the other coast along th

and they would take over take over kabul and issue under city for they and the afghan government now that has not been agreed probably will never happen. other people in the taliban understand precisely that this is important but they also have to play ball on the reaching a political solution with their fellow afghans if they are going to take advantage of that which has been agreed so they see this is an important step during the process where some of the more excitable taliban think that everything's over which i say is not and how do you think us or afghani is going to react so we were just reading out the tweet that tweeted saying that he is heading to the afghan capital but earlier this week at davos the president afghanistan had indicated that the afghan government may not accept any possible outcome that comes from. i mean we know that many times president danny has made it clear that he wants to see peace in this country of course and yes the right from his inaugural speech he said this is what i want to achieve however he has an obligation to his constituency as well they a

was course as it makes its way towards that western side of the himalayas two degrees celsius high in kabul celsius in tashkent to four massey.

promise of further discussions washington's on boys now heading to afghanistan to meet the government in kabul. the un's human rights investigator looking into the murder of sol the journalist jamal khashoggi has sought access to the crime scene and the saudi consulate in istanbul agnus kalamata has also asked to visit the kingdom hasn't had a reply from saudi authorities kalamata who's the un special rapporteur on executions is set to arrive in turkey on monday she says the inquiry is a crucial step towards formal accountability for the murder of. the executive director at the arab sent to washington d.c. and he says there was a growing pressure on the united nations to pursue its own investigation of. there has been a lot of international pressure directed at the particularly office of the secretary general at the u.n. to initiate some response if you will some initiate some investigation on behalf of the international community with regards to the murders so recently the secretary general has appointed a group of three representatives to kind of represent him and the united nations are show

government leaders in kabul are not commenting they have complained about not being involved in the latest round of talks in qatar's capital . afghans we spoke to hope the talks in doha will help and the war while others are skeptical. made what has been that we are very hopeful all the afghans are tired of for explosion in suicide attack in this country they are hoping for a brighter future and i am very hopeful that these talks will bring a bright future for us and for the future of afghanistan. we afghans don't trust groups affiliated with foreign intelligence agencies the u.s. must talk with the afghan people because we are the ones who suffer this is not peace what kind of peace is this the us own boy to afghanistan is in kabul to brief president assad funny when his meeting with the taliban. and reported that there had been significant progress the taliban though we're being cautious saying talks with continue to overcome obstacles one of them is agreeing on a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops initially the taliban dismissed any overtures towards the u.s. as long as ameri

taliban attack has killed at least sixty five afghan intelligence and security personnel southwest of kabul the suicide and gun attack happened in the maiden shah the capital of wardak province the attackers drove a truck packed with explosives into a training center run by the afghan intelligence agency well after the explosion other taliban fighters dressed in police uniforms stormed the base and the taliban has resume talks with american officials the group released a statement saying its representatives met u.s. diplomats in qatar where the group has a political office the u.s. appointed special envoy zalmay khalilzad to lead the negotiations in september the taliban insists the u.s. must leave afghanistan seventeen years after its invasion in response to the september eleventh attacks in a sticking point in the talks is the inclusion of the afghan government itself in the peace process the taliban regards it as illegitimate and says it will only negotiate directly with washington so terry a con is a political analyst an expert on taliban affairs he says the latest talks in doha seem di

the target was a military base and police training center in my darling child which is just outside kabul monday's attack is the latest in a series of assaults by the taliban hours after the attack the taliban said its representatives held a talk with the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan. in cap. the u.k.'s prime minister of tourism a says she will try to break the bad luck over her breakfast deal by seeking further concessions from the european union at the heart of the talks will be possible changes on a backup plan to avoid a hard border between the republic of ireland the northern ireland maze initial plan on how the u.k. would exit the e.u. was the featured by a historic majority last week the country a shed told to leave the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march and stargazers have been treated to a rare lunar eclipse known as a super blood wall for moon the phenomenon was visible visible all over europe asia and the americas and only lasted for a few hours if you missed it don't worry it will happen again in twenty thirty seven there's a headlines coming up it's the screen which is l

negotiated settlement and joint action against eisel the afghan taliban has attacked a military base near kabul the government says twelve security force members were killed in war that province a car bomb went off at the base before gunman entered the compound so the president omar al bashir remains defiant in the face of continued anti-government protests and blamed for infiltrators for violence that has killed dozens of people protest began a month ago of a rising living costs and i've since widened to call for the end of the shias thirty year rule. the u.s. military said it. was. part of a deal between the government. the world. trade war with the us. but. yes i mean you would have with one good thing i'm in there with choice so joe i have it and put it right on it because he is. a lifetime children so you know you have. a good start and i did is that i respect. you another. one that's near me sort of but i want to maybe set myself up that i mean i. mean this guy didn't go to the point that i saw. him a set is funny as. it was. on the what were. these face all the things they say you know.

all led me actually to this opinion piece that al jazeera dot com from a regular contributor mo in kabul on what will the middle east look like in twenty nineteen he asked in the he went through the issues he looked at syria he looked at well you've got to think about yemen as well the gulf crisis in iran in the united states israel palestine his overall view is that old conflicts will persist and new ones might erupt to read for yourself it is in the opinion section down to zero dot com. thank you for some of those questions that have been coming through already always good that we can put them directly to our guests and correspondents hashtag a j news group on twitter if you want to replies who are threat at a.j. english please do that with the hashtag looking out for your responses there also facebook dot com slash al-jazeera for the live stream which is up and running as always and plus one seven four five or one triple one four nine save the number on your mobile use it on whatsapp or telegram to contact us directly now for anyone flying into israel the gateway while we're in the re

taliban struck a military training center in made in water province and in an area just southwest of kabul we heard from a local resident. district in wardak it was around six o'clock there was a very big explosion i thought there was an earthquake it was very strong. local reporter assault on pfizer he says it's been difficult to get accurate information on the attack. there have been some conflicting reports about the casualty figure because early in the morning local officials announced that the casualty figure was twelve and around thirty others have been wounded but later the government office shows actually were not providing access to journalists to know more about the figure because it was quite a huge blast as we spoke to the locals there the building that was directly attacked by a humvee type of military vehicle packed of explosives partly part of that was collapsed and many of the intelligence officers and personally who are joining for breakfast actually left on the. remnants of the building and lost lives it was two vehicles and five attackers involved into the attack and the