battlefield, claimed responsibility for the bombing. in the last month alone, the taliban and isis have struck shiite mosques, and an army training facility. all of this 16 years after u.s. troops first arrived. most u.s. and nato troops departed in 2014, and left behind an afghan army that's suffered huge causalities from fierce taliban attacks under- prepared and overpowered. the government holds little more than half of the country, the rest is in the grip of the taliban, or contested by the insurgents. in august, president trump announced a new strategy: sending several thousand u.s. troops back to help train afghan soldiers, and to fight the taliban, but with a caveat. >> our commitment is not unlimited and our support is not a blank check. >> reporter: as part of the plan, hundreds of u.s. marines have returned to helmand province, a hotbed of taliban activity. mr. trump is the third successive u.s. president to press pakistan to stop harboring taliban fighters, and he's appealed to pakistan's traditional enemy, india, for more help. secretary of state rex tillerson drove home tha

taliban that can be negotiated with and the taliban they can't be negotiated with and he says he's been sitting down and having dialogue with those taliban he believes are fed up with the war who feels that they were forced to come to the battlefield in the first place and he feels that they could take a place at the negotiating table but he also is at pains to say there are taliban who are in the fighting it has been their whole life they would they stand to lose a lot if the fighting were to end and those taliban really should be fought on the battlefield he also went on to say that. no one can win this on the battlefield that there's going to have to be a political solution and he really is the government's took a big risk in bringing him back to afghanistan but the president ashraf ghani i believe hopes he will be an example to those fighting on the battlefield that former fighters can come in and become part of the political process talking to a political solution he's been very critical of the current set up shall we say the parliament is we the president is not popular and s

the courts into the hands of the taliban. i'm going to get your oscar in doha with all your sports news including the new world series champions the houston masteries paraded in front of thousands in their home city of when he met first. the championship title. of their very warm welcome to the news hour an international search and arrest warrants been issued for the as to kaplan need to put small along with several of his aides the former leader of catalonia remains in belgium where he fled after the declaration of catalan independence mr bush spoke earlier on belgian t.v. and criticised for what he described as politicizing the justice system. well david tate is following the first from brussels hi there david so we've now got to arrest warrants issued. yes at last they have been issued the european arrest warrant actually appeared at this office behind me which is the federal prosecutor's office it was fax or e-mail to then they said there were studying it and i'll tell you about the implications of that later but also on top of that. they also issued an arrest warrant internati

captured by the taliban it will not serve a prison sentence army sergeant bowe bergdahl faced up to fourteen years in a military prison for desertion and putting his fellow troops in harm's way but a military judge has ruled that a lesser punishment was appropriate rosalind jordan has more. the u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl on trial for desertion and putting his fellow soldiers in harm's way through myself at the mercy of the court it paid off he faced up to fourteen years in prison but a military judge ruled instead bergdahl will be demoted kicked out of the army and forced to pay a fine and the soldier's lawyer saying all that and his guilt is punishment enough sergeant bergdahl is deeply grateful to everyone who searched for him in two thousand and nine and thereafter. especially those who heroically sustained injuries military lawyers and some of the bergdahl fellow troops had wanted him in prison for abandoning his post in afghanistan in two thousand and nine the taliban captured bergdahl almost immediately during the military search for him to soldiers were so badly injured

taliban members who could help end the fighting we're going to put i want to get this. done there are those in the taliban who are top of war want peace they were forced to enter the war is possible to convince these groups and we could focus on these people he says negotiations are the only solution and afghanistan must take the lead and. neither the taliban nor the americans can win this war is not winnable both sides have tested the strength nato has used maximum power here but couldn't win. for afghan president ashraf ghani bringing him in from the cold is a risk he's a divisive figure still mistrusted even hated by many afghans but gandhi hopes his amnesty and return can serve as an example to the taliban and other opposition groups that if they lay down their arms they too could have a place in politics jennifer glass al jazeera kabul or at all schools coming up here. going to tell you about hungary and all that determined not to go off the rails. again times that i just poured out his phone. felicity thank you so much the philadelphia phillies have described roy halladay as

three and fall the taliban its ally the haqqani network and the afghan national security forces are also included in the plan divest occasion the us is not a member of the state of the court but afghanistan is american citizens can be charged for crimes committed in countries that are then there's now the u.s. state department as an investigation into possible u.s. war crimes would be wholly unwarranted and justified. surely that is michael semple a visiting research professor at queen's university in belfast northern ireland the former deputy e.u. special representative to afghanistan and joins me from belfast good have you with us service to several on al-jazeera it seems that everyone in afghanistan is within the realms of investigation but how will such an investigation be carried out in the country where the ground realities are owed certain just from that aspect of the investigation. yes absolutely i think we should be clear on this that the the prosecutor's office has said that they have reason to suspect war crimes carried out by armed opposition groups principally the talib

stronghold. the u.s. army sergeant held hostage by the taliban for. gets a dishonorable discharge because skate's prison time. thousands protests around catalonia over the jailing of eight of their government ministers. and the novelty are a warning sign couldn't robot take over. and i'm joined again with oil sports news of the day is patrice evra suspended for kicking a fine in the head for your bro police match i'll have that story and more later in the program. iraq and syria have dealt a major new blow to the slum extent of iraq on the bones the iraqi prime minister has just announced the recapture of chi him on the syrian border earliest syria's army said it now controls a city of darrow's all which has been. divided rather for three years just five months ago i still still control vast swathes of territory marked in brown here including major cities on both sides of the border since then it's been driven out of mosul itself declared capital rocka and now dare as all the capital of an oil rich region which was crucial for the group's finances the syrian army is now in a race

in two thousand and one this state of taliban which at least to a degree resemble the caliphate that was it was a surplus body slamming state clubs in the matter of a few weeks when the americans invaded afghanistan since then the americans have spent at least two dollars in order to support the central government in afghanistan nonetheless over the last sixteen years taliban managed to maintain a parallel power structures shadow government shut to a state in afghanistan despite the fact that they don't control a great deal of territory but they manage to maintain their influence and i think we'll be talking about people as we need to wait and see what happens when the conflict compliant i think defeat to quiet is not going to be decided by these conflicts the fate of quiet is going to be decided why did reconstruction process is going to be decided why did we reach these kind of course always his administration is going to come and deliver social services and provide security and if they fail to deliver an effective reconstruction program if they feel to deliver and have picked

opportunity abroad kimberly held at al-jazeera washington. afghan officials say the taliban attacked at least a dozen checkpoints overnight in southern cal the her province killing more than twenty policeman the violence comes as a new survey shows nearly forty percent of afghans would leave the country of they had the chance citing fears of a personal safety and high unemployment jennifer glass is more now from kabul. in one of kabul's busiest neighborhoods men gather every morning looking for work not hussein he says he'll do anything carry bricks make cement help want to building site any general labor that will earn him up to five dollars a day he has nine family members to feed and often can't find work. i'm not the only unemployed man here there are three to four hundred of us in the area on the best day only fifty to one hundred get work the rest of us are hopeless or should we do. saki says he's sixty six and by law should be retired with the government pension instead he's here hoping for a job but. i only work two or three days a week and even when i do get work sometimes they don't

prison terms. bergdahl was captured by the taliban in 2009 after he walked away from a military outpost in eastern afghanistan; he was held in captivity for five years. the obama administration engineered a controversial prisoner swap with the taliban in 2014 for his release. for more on bergdahl and the searing testimony at his sentencing hearing, we turn to "new york times" reporter richard oppel at fort bragg. so, the defense has made their case. what was it? >> reporter: well, that's right, hari. the case has a couple of prongz for the defense. one is bergdahl has already paid a huge price for what happened-- five years of horrific torture, being beat bien copper cables constantly, constant disintery and diarrhea, locked in a cage for four years. they also are presenting mental health testimony that he's had a severe mental disorder for some time, including, in their view, when he boaftion briefly in the coast guard at boot camp and then when he enlisted in the army. they've also put on testimony that when he returned after the prisoner swap in 2014, even though he did not have any

qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial they had to pay for that they were missed. or screamed would be beaten again a quest for a better life but ended in a concentration. of one tunnel no twenty two this time on al jazeera. tens of thousands were left homeless after a devastating earthquake strikes in iran.

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by the pakistani army to the americans and we got held in guantanamo a number about qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial they had a paper that said they were going to. talk or screamed would be beaten again a quest for a better life that ended in incarceration. the one ton of no twenty two at this time on al jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up the u.s. and france warn against foreign interference in lebanon as the fallout continues from a minister saad hariri his resignation. new images reveal the squalid conditions on modest island where refugees are now living without fresh water food power. we are not going to let the united states speak a kid advantage of any more. tough talk from u.s. president donald trump to the apec leaders' meeting in vietnam. and pressure on britain's bret's at negotiators is the u.k.'s given two weeks to make concessions on the e.u. financial settlement. and i'm far as small have all the day sporting clearing senegal are

of manipulation between politicians held in guantanamo a number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial do you know that your own government for six years has been telling every country in the world are innocent please take a quest for a better life that ended in incarceration the guantanamo twenty two at this time on al jazeera. troops on the streets as in bob was military takes power confining president mugabe to.

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blame. it on also blame the indians for supporting the very good taliban pakistan inside of one it stand and also helping the surgeon progress on it also saying that it has a high level india and also. under custody of the budget on the military and it already admitted to india involvement in. south africa supreme court has more than doubled the sentence for oscar pistorius the paralympian convicted of killing his girlfriend back in twenty thirteen the original six year sentence was shockingly lenient tony page has more from pretoria . it only took a moment for the supreme court of appeal to deliver its ruling that respondent sentenced imprisonment for a period of fifteen years and five months. and going. oscar pistorius shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp on valentine's day two thousand and thirteen as she cowered behind a bathroom door he said he thought she was an intruder last year prosecutors successfully argued his original conviction should be upgraded from culpable homicide to murder which carries a fifteen year minimum sentence but the judge was lenient and only gave him s

israel's hard line education minister enough taliban it also says it's time for international unity in the war on terror and the british prime minister of tourism a says she is appalled by the sickening attack and sends condolences to all of those affected for more on this let's speak to omar sure he's a visiting professor of security studies at the arab center for research and policy studies in doha thanks for joining us here on al-jazeera first of all your reaction to this attack which as we've seen is nothing new as such in the sinai peninsula but it is quite shocking simply by a by the size of the number of fatalities. yeah as you mentioned it's there are a few bits here first. egypt's worst terrorist attack in its modern history even worse than the. metro jet airliner bombing. in october in two thousand and fifteen the fatalities then what about two hundred twenty four this time it exceeds two hundred thirty and the. more than one hundred people of more than one hundred nine people injured as well. the other new thing there is that the this is the first time they attack a mosqu

in guantanamo the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial do you know that your own government for six years has been telling every country in the world are innocent please take a quest for a better life that ended in incarceration the guantanamo twenty two at this time on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. oh i'm so tiresome this is the news hour live from london coming up. involve ways president robert mugabe makes his first public appearance since being put under house arrest the pressure mounts on him to step aside. listen can hear deny firing on opposition supporters as a rival or a dick gets returned to nairobi descends into chaos the grim aftermath of the battle for morale when i saw linked fighters and the philippine government are accused of war crimes and as outraged as the u.s. lives restrictions on importing elephant trophies from zimbabwe and zambia conservationists say the deficient puts the animals at risk. in sports a reason for brazil and club shop a koan say to celebrate a year on

dealing with the taliban and so next week the. american defense secretary or at least the chief of staff general dunford is scheduled to be in pakistan and to be followed later by defense minister defense secretary rather james mattis and we can see that this is just part of the toughening up preparations for those visits to pakistan so indeed and the administration is saying in that statement today that repercussions could well happen between pakistan on the u.s. it could really affect their relationship what sort of things to think they're looking at. well it's not only the fact that has been more critical of pakistan's position and performance in cracking down on extremists it's also has decided to leaning towards india the fact that he's called for india to be more engaged in afghanistan that was a red line or rather a red light for pakistan and so what we're seeing here is. toughening position on the on the american the american side and clearly a much more definitive attitude towards the india pakistan divide many thanks tom a kind of a nagging him giving us what will flash on that

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the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial they had a paper that said they were innocent oh ever talked or screamed would be beaten again a quest for a better life that ended in incarceration. the one ton of no twenty two at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and welcome to the al-jazeera news hour on live from our headquarters in doha with me and as the product coming up in the next sixty minutes more than three hundred people are killed after a strong earthquake leaves a trail of death and destruction across iran and iraq. saudi arabia says it will reopen some of yemen's ports and airports to allow much needed aid for millions of people facing famine. donald trump meets philippine president of the head hit in the manila but there are contradictory statements about what was discussed. on a sanchez that all the. switzerland to crush northern islands dreams of reaching a fast car in thirty two years that and more later this hour. three hundred people have died in iran and a powerful mag

day to get taliban bogged down in part of one it stand and also helping the surge and progress on it also saying that it has a high level india and also. under custody of the budget on the military and it already admitted to india involvement and. to terri the saudi led coalition has given permission for eighty eight ships and planes to yemen following international pressure the us to demand agree and fully implemented just to ease the blockade on again and including steps to ensure food fuel and medicine reach civilians humanitarian workers are already being allowed back into the country. turkey and the u.s. have agreed to work together to fight against armed groups including i saw the kurdistan workers party and the network of the exiled religious leader to the golan in a phone call with his turkish counterpart ratchet tie purdah one u.s. president donald trump also promised to stop supplying arms to syrian kurdish fighters also known as the y p j. the main issue that negatively affects bilateral relations between turkey and the us in addition to the issue of for to the good in

guantanamo a number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial they had a paper that said they were innocent. talked or screamed would be beaten again a quest for a better life but ended in incarceration. of one tata motors at this time on al jazeera. now been his prime minister saad hariri gives his first interview from saudi arabia since his shock resignation and says he will return to his country soon. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also come.

americans and we got held in guantanamo a number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial they had a paper that said they were innocent ever talk or scream would be beaten again a quest for a better life but ended in incarceration. of one town m o two thousand and two at this time on al jazeera. the gunman behind the mass shooting in texas police say it resulted from a domestic dispute his posse is hailed a hero i pursued and i just did what i thought was the right thing.

pakistani army to the americans and we got held in guantanamo the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial they had a paper that said they were innocent. or talked or screamed would be beaten again a quest for a better life but ended in incarceration. for guantanamo twenty two at this time on al jazeera. saudi t.v. shows new pictures of lebanese prime minister in riyadh as opposed to saad hariri on the streets of lebanon.

thousand and four for two been sudha also wants to charge the taliban its ally the haqqani network and the afghan national security forces for war crimes and crimes against humanity united states is not a member state of the court but afghanistan is american citizens can be charged for crimes committed in countries that are members of the state department says any i.c.c. investigation into possible u.s. war crimes would be quote wholly unwarranted and unjustified michael semple is a visiting research professor at queen's university belfast and the former deputy special representative to afghanistan he says it's difficult to get a clear picture of what's happened in afghanistan. the reality is that in all the long lead up to this announcement the i.c.c. has not even been able to deploy a team on the ground in afghanistan to conduct a survey and country assessment and i think that it's very unlikely that we're going to see. finalising of investigations or things going to trial because there is a long list of obstacles that they would have to clear all along the way so they yes they have they

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held in guantanamo a number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial and had a paper that said they were innocent ever talked or screamed would be beaten again a quest for a better life but ended in incarceration. for guantanamo twenty two at this time on al jazeera. and under put it well on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war. the country waits to hear from eighty eight days.

qaeda and taliban detainees transferred. u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial do you know that your own government for six years has been telling every country in the world they're innocent and please take a quest for a better life that ended in incarceration the guantanamo twenty two at this time on al jazeera. the to have you with us on the al jazeera new sound these are our top stories zimbabwe's president robert mugabe has resigned as the country's leader after thirty seven years in power with a new spark scenes of jubilation around the country with thousands calling into the streets. resignation letter to parliament but in the whole. proceedings by his. lebanon's prime minister he has arrived in beirut two weeks after announcing his shock resignation from saudi arabia and at least fifty people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in nigeria the attack took place during morning prayers in the town of movie in the northeastern part of the state. the u.n. command says north korea has violated the armistice agreement after one of

guantanamo a number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial do you know that your own government for six years has been telling every country in the world are innocent please take a quest for a better life that ended in incarceration the guantanamo twenty two at this time on al jazeera. when the news breaks it was an announcement if you were expecting to hear by announce my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about it the bull is my life when people need to behead a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of. ethnic cleansing imeem are for bangladesh al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on and on line. welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news out of mind of our top stories the deadline given for zimbabwe's president robert mugabe to resign has passed he's already been voted out as leader of the really exotic party parliament is expected to start impeachment proceedings if he doe

allowing pakistani soil to be host for the haqqani network and taliban just as he launches what he describes as a. pronounced a new strategy for winning winning in afghanistan a winning strategy that the president hasn't quite spelled out but certainly regards pakistan is not a cooperative partner in that venture the pakistani interior minister just a couple of days ago said that he was pledging that that the government was committed to not allowing its soil to be used for violence against any other country and that is something that the american administration simply does not believe and as a result the. in keeping with that position the troubled ministration has been making their references and their overtures to india asking the indians to be more engaged in the afghan fight even more irritating for the pakistanis prosecutors in egypt say a gunman who stormed a mosque in sinai were carrying an eyesore flag officially there is still no claim of responsibility but egypt's military has already started bombing targets part of a pledge by president of the c.c. but those behind the at

manipulation between politicians held in guantanamo the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial do you know that your own government for six years has been telling every country in the world are innocent please take a quest for a better life that ended in incarceration the guantanamo twenty two at this time on al jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks the last time senegal call the fight for the world cup was in two thousand to fifteen years on and hope to do even better in russia next year with detailed coverage try to imagine that only seven years ago people were living right here framed now the city has taken over their land from around the world donald trump is promising a major policy announcement on trade a potential chance to correct a missed opportunity ross. captaining a leading used team at sixteen years old takes determination. to that staying on top of your game at school. the whole family bands together and shares the sacrifices necessary for a son to have a shot at becoming a

on the air taliban have said they had not behind this attack do we know who is. we're not exactly sure there are reports that the islamic state has claimed responsibility through its media agency but has provided no proof a lot of times we'll see videos of the suicide attackers are of the attackers. as some sort of proof so islamic state claiming responsibility but offering no evidence of that attack they of course have claimed responsibilities for other attacks here in kabul but sami you know it's dangerous to afghan journalists is nothing new here last year thirteen journalists at least thirteen journalists died here in afghanistan making it the second most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist behind syria last year this year at least two journalists have died i know that a number of t.v. stations have been under threat but the head of this t.v. station said they hadn't received any threats before this attack happened all right jennifer glass thanks for that. trump says the u.s. and its allies are prepared to use military action against north korea but he's open to ne

got held in guantanamo the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial they had to pay for that they were going to. talk or scream would be beaten again a quest for a better life but ended in incarceration. with one ton of mode twenty two at this time on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. carry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. the u.s. calls on the united nations to act against iran after accusing it of firing missiles into saudi arabia from yemen plus. this actually sending a message that this is not how we want our country to be run a test of president trumps approval as americans vote in local elections plus. i. catalonia is ousted leadership puts the emphasis back on autonomy rather than independence from spain plus. six scientists of just being locked inside this tin can behind me and they weren't becoming out for seventy days on reach out and in moscow russia keep watching to find out what all this has to do with deep space travel. the united states is c

misbehavior before the enemy. he left his post in 2009, and was held by the taliban for five years, before the obama administration engineered a prisoner swap in 2014. president trump had denounced bergdahl as a traitor, and he tweeted today, "the decision is a complete and total disgrace to our country and to our military." hari sreenivasan spoke a short time ago with bergdahl's attorney, eugene fidell, who describes surprise at the sentence. >> we didn't know what to expect because military justice sentencing is so open-ended. so virtually anything would have surprised us. >> sreenivasan: i mean, your client was facing life behind bars. what do you think made the difference? >> well, on one level, i think the judge was quite alert to the very powerful evidence of contrition on the part of sergeant bergdahl as well as undisputed evidence about the horrible conditions that he survived when he was in the hands of the hakani network. his numerous efforts at escape, which is what is expected of g.i.s who fall into enemy hands and, really, the grit and courage he showed once he was a c