soldier bowe bergdahl who walked from his base and off 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

soldier who deserted his post in afghanistan back in two thousand and nine and was captured by the taliban will not serve a prison sentence. doll faced up to fourteen years in a military prison for desertion and putting his fellow troops in harm's way but a military judge is ruled unless a punishment was appropriate also in jordan reports. the u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl and one 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

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

investigation seery when it's perpetrated by groups like taliban or the al qaeda but how. how difficult will it be from your assessment having beat in afghanistan you know we just talked about how unstable the country is how governable parts of it are i mean the realities are really hard at the moment for anyone trying to get justice even for the smallest of crimes within its own country. yes we should be clear that they afghan authorities have also been trying to. meet their obligations under the i.c.c. and to show that they are serious about justice they've been working on revising their own criminal code so as to incorporate war crimes into their criminal code they say that they have been investigating some of these crimes although frankly on a much. lower lower in the pecking order less senior figures so. they they afghan government asked for more time before the i.c.c. could go ahead with investigations they said that they're not you know they're not against justice but also it's a delicate delicate balancing act for example over the past year they've been trying to r

absolutely not the same thing remember what happened in afghanistan 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 reconstructi

yes i am a victim of 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. cambodia supreme court dissolves the main opposition party in what's being described as the.

by the pakistani army to the americans and we get held in guantanamo bay 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 th

said i am a victim of 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. 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 bra

accusing them of failing or in fact 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

it on also blame the indians for supporting the day to get taliban bogged down inside of one it down 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 in. south africa's supreme court has more than double the sentence for oscar pistorius the paralympian convicted of killing his girlfriend back in twenty thirteen twenty pages the full story now from pretoria. it only took a moment for the supreme court of appeal to deliver its ruling that respondent sentenced imprisonment for appeal. and five. 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 six years shockingly lenient according to prosecutors who said pistorius hasn't sh

by the pakistani army to the americans and we got held in guantanamo bay 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 that ended in incarceration. the one ton of no twenty two at this time on al jazeera. new video images of lebanese prime minister saad heidi the saudi arabia.

by the pakistani army to the americans and we've 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 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.

held in guantanamo bay the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial for the people of the. talk or scream would be beaten again the quest for a better life but ended in incarceration. for one town of most twenty two at this time zero. when the news breaks isn't so great. and the story building. much better marketing. when people need to be heard they thought they were american until they broke the law now they're deported to cambodia al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and online. now every month hundreds of decommissioned school buses from the u.s. and german south to guatemala where they've given a new lease of life every pad repainted and made road where they sell millions of people across guatemala can get to work every day they've been must move from antigua and guatemala. inside this workshop in guatemala a radical transformation is under way these old school buses were taken off the roads in the united states but

told by the pakistani army to the americans i would get 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. 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.

countries and although india may blame a boggart on also blame the indians for supporting the 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 rela

between two thousand and three and two 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 alo

i am a victim of manipulation between politicians held in guantanamo the number of al 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. t

criticizing pakistan once more saying that they've seen no improvement in their position in 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

yes i am a victim 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. 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 parliamen

told by the pakistani army to the 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 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.

and cowardly terrorist attack on defenseless worshippers 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

told 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

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