change the perception of the people because people are thinking now that if this is not taliban taliban was involved in i mean some kind of fundamentalist sister provide assistance to this group they're brought speirs they provide other kind of support to these groups who would carry these attacks kate al-jazeera we understand that abdullah abdullah national afghani of extremely close to agreeing a 50 percent 50 percent split of government portfolios both of course claimed victory in the september elections without dolabella being given the head of the peace process committee will help things do you think a bill is said before that releasing prisoners would be beneficial to the process. well of course it was how to have some sort of unified voice a car that's been an absolute disaster it happened a contest it was messy election allegations of fraud to manage the presidency whole thing carol integrations this messy dispute over who gets just. what it is that is it's difficult when again it's not in such a place. of work but also the grounds by arrest and also this possible peace talks fo

thank you very much for joining us afghanistan's president is blaming the taliban for an increase in violence after 34 people including newborn babies were killed in 2 separate attacks the taliban has denied any responsibility or president ashraf ghani has ordered the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban and other armed groups. all but. they will inspire our repeated and from the international community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in order to provide security for public places and to tax and frets from the taliban and other terrorist groups ordering afghan security forces to switch from an active defense mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemy all the taliban is accusing the government of creating obstacles to peace denying responsibility for the attacks on tuesday they say their strong neighbor had against attacks and will defend their people and strongholds alexia ryan has a details on tuesday's attacks. on the maternity hospitals are supposed to be a place of sanctuary fo

and the taliban do you think this is an excuse for them to scupper this deal as the taliban are claiming well i'm not sure that he's going to scuttle it but certainly he's. tell you this is not to need to try and place some type of military pressure on the taliban to get some kind of negotiating advantage in a future there's also the immediate domestic political requirement there him to be seen to be doing something so he has to apportion blame and then have the security forces act against those blown so i think you say both. parents working at the moment but surely this is going to be a setback for efforts to get the taliban in the afghan government to talk. so. i think the only way that you could say this is not going to be so is if yet again government. owns in the next few days that this is purely islamic so it was no to missions to any taliban or taliban affiliates and that may allow the negotiations to continue unabated we've already saved their own in dire straits prior to this so this action certainly has done nothing to the cause of those in afghanistan in the past as we've hear

afghanistan's president is blaming the taliban for an increase in violence after 34 people were killed in 2 separate attacks president has ordered a 1000000 the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban and other armed groups. all but. part. repeated and from the international community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in order to provide security for public places and to tax and french from the taliban and other terrorist groups i'm ordering afghan security forces to switch from an active defense might to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemy. and one of those attacks was i have a maternity hospital in kabul and the other targeted mourners are a funeral in eastern afghanistan and. the maternity hospitals are supposed to be a place of sanctuary for a new life but instead this was the same of what the f.b.i. and governments calling a war crime and an act against humanity. i brought my newborn grandchild for a vaccination and suddenly the explosion happened i don't remember anything after that

afghanistan's president orders an offensive against the taliban after $34.00 people including newborns killed in separate attacks. so rahman you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the u.s. president's pushing for a return to business as usual while his top scientists warn about rushing to lift restrictions there is a real risk you will trigger and help break it you may not be able to control. also governors in brazil refuse to reopen businesses defying the orders of a president accused of mishandling the coronavirus crisis. and fears of a 2nd wave of infections in lebannon prompts a 4 day nationwide lockdown. welcome to the program of garda stands president is blaming the taliban for an increase in violence ashraf ghani has ordered a military offensive against the taliban and other groups after $34.00 people including newborn babies were killed in 2 separate attacks. all but. part of the will inspire. and from the international community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in ord

on the offensive afghanistan's president orders his military to again target the taliban after attacks on a maternity hospital and a funeral. but on mccloud visit 0 live from doha also coming up travel restrictions are back in place in a northern chinese province amid fears over a new wave of corona virus infections. back to business england starts its return to work after 7 weeks. there is a real risk that you will trigger an alfred you may not be able to control the earth scientists leading the coronavirus response warns against 50 restrictions too soon despite president trump's push to restart the economy. so that a deal hope to pave the way for peace in afghanistan is under threat after 45 people were killed in 2 attacks on tuesday the president has ordered the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban and other armed groups the taliban denies carrying out the attacks and it's your prime as this report. in the eastern province of manga survivors of a suspected suicide bombing. a funeral struggled to contain a grief. and anger. was when i think there was a problem

yet taken place, taliban, which have not yet ta ken place, it's taliban, which have not yet taken place, it's been delayed because of the escalation in violence. it also demands on both sides, such as prisoner exchanges with the taliban, saying that we have a selected number of people, 5000, the quantity afghan government to release. there are still talks under way to see if they can make the peace talks happen between the taliban and government. is still a long way to go unfortunately. thank you. now to some of the latest developments on the coronavirus outbreak in the uk, and around the world. more than five million people are now known to have contracted the coronavirus globally and there have been more than 340,000 reported deaths. more than 97,000 of those are in the us, according to data from johns hopkins university. the new york times has been reflecting on the devastating toll of the coronavirus with this front page, which bears the names of 1,000 people who have died — that's only 1% of the total number of deaths recorded in america so far. a report from the mexican governme

afghanistan's president orders an offensive against the taliban after $34.00 people including newborn babies are killed in separate attacks. on the romany watching al-jazeera lines one headquarters here in doha are also coming up the u.s. president's pushing for a return to business as usual while his top scientist warns about rushing to lift restrictions there is a real risk that you will trigger and help break you may not be able to control also governors of brazil refused to reopen businesses to find the orders of a president accused of mishandling the coronavirus crisis and thousands of people have died in care homes in the united kingdom and there are fears of further outbreaks. welcome to the program afghanistan's president is blaming the taliban for an increase in violence ashraf ghani has ordered a military offensive against the taliban and other armed groups after $34.00 people including newborn babies were killed in 2 separate attacks or the back. part of the will inspire our repeated call and from the international community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead

on the taliban to keep that reduction in violence or go further to a complete peace but the taliban ramped up acts across all of that through the last week even saw from city. so and that has resulted in a very strong economy on backward. and of course this is all happening as i said before the time to open it is ravaging it here and perhaps even the leadership ranks of the taliban and david we know that the us has welcomed a 3 day cease fire as a momentous opportunity i mean clearly washington sees this as a positive move that reinforces their peace deal with the taliban washington was very worried that the withdrawal with reman that it was not a peace agreement that us on the call about it was with grow agreement they're worried that that withdrawal agreement. is a call about ramped up violence from pitman's patient base a lot of criticism for a binding agreement that did not bring about peace u.s. special envoy is on my house side but recently went to doha a few days ago and currently core lot of pressure on the colophon to announce something like that and it appears to have work

there's plenty of background on the taliban and the hopes for a longer—term peace plan. that's all at bbc.com/news, or you can download the bbc news app. now to some of the latest developments on the coronavirus outbreak in the uk and around the world. more than five million people are now known to have contracted the coronavirus globally, and there have been more than 340,000 reported deaths. more than 97,000 of those are in the us, according to data from johns hopkins university. the new york times has been reflecting on the devastating toll of the coronavirus with this front page, which bears the names of 1,000 people who have died — that's only 1% of the total number of deaths recorded in america so far. a report from the mexican government has found a 25% reduction in drug cartel activity since the start of the coronavirus crisis. however, there has been an increase in the number of murders, mostly gang—related — this is thought to be because cartel members, with more time on their hands, have been settling scores. and one of the world's major pilgrimage sites

under the agreement the taliban promised not to target forces from the u.s. coalition in return for their withdrawal from afghanistan however the deal didn't include afghan troops and the taliban stepped up attacks against them the taliban was also supposed to prevent afghan soil from being used for attacks by other armed groups like isis and its affiliates well as any state so is less of an issue there probably was 4 to 6 months ago or even or even less both suffered some better feel . they need patience and the americans and now is that. danes a quarter of the attacks against or putting naughty pressure on islamic state and chorus and province that was part of the agreement with the united states. but the group has proven it can still launch attacks on soft targets i still says its fighters were behind 4 bomb blasts in kabul on monday which wounded 4 people. the un has expressed shock and revulsion at the attack on a maternity hospital which saw nurses mothers and newborn babies killed. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is urging the afghan government a

and other groups about the taliban denies any responsibility for the violence. has this report. outside the hospital in nanga how the grief is palpable and so is the anger over the seemingly endless violence and loss. and i think you are fathers of although i know. my brother is michael was standing next to me when i heard the bomb blast i saw several dead bodies on the ground and i was trying to call my brother but his fine was off after a few minutes of searching i found my brother among the dead. it was this attack on crowds of mourners at a funeral by a suspected suicide bomber and another on a maternity hospital that pushed afghanistan's president to go on the offensive order. a new military operation against the taliban and other groups all but falling apart despite our repeated call and from the international community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in order to provide security for public places and the 4th attacks and fruits from the taliban and other terrorist groups are ordering afghan security forces

those are going to 30 seconds what about the danger there from the taliban once the u.s. is gone there is a danger of the taliban there's also a danger of the of the afghan government which isn't a whole lot better than the taliban and all of the issues that the us claims to care about the u.s. has claimed that were only theory to protect the posset to prevent the possibility of another $911.00 style attack on the united states that isn't going to happen regardless of whether the u.s. troops are there or not that's not what's going to protect from from this kind of terrorism military force does not prevent terrorism ok so as a virgin we're out of time phyllis bennis with the institute for policy studies in washington those we appreciate your insights and your time tonight thank you thank you thanks very much. well the day is almost done the government sanction continues online join us on twitter either in need of the news you can follow me of bird dog t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see the. selling sexism. pink is for

fighters what's the reaction from the taliban. the taleban you know so they they seem to be very they're they're very encouraged by it they put out a fairly positive statement from their representative and that said it's a positive that they refer to the couple governments as the other side you know there wasn't any sort of in in years in fiji every language which is usually attached to solve on descriptions of the kabul government and they also said that they will reiterate retaliate in terms of you know releasing government held prisoners as soon as possible as well and they said are of the significant number so it really seems as if you know they're very pleased by it and that maybe this will have an effect on their really really thank you very much that was correspondent latif in kabul. international donors have pledged over 3000000000 euros just for refugees and migrants from bennett's as the coronavirus demick worsens their plight the pledging conference was hosted by the european union and spain and involved around 30 u.n.

the attacks on a maternity hospital and funeral which stretched into one rival of the deal with the taliban. the thank you for joining us the european union is urging member states to start reopening their borders to help revive the continent's summer tourist season and battered economy france austria and switzerland say that they'll start relaxing their coronavirus closures as early as this weekend germany and some other e.u. states will open their borders by june the 50 s. others though are not convinced spain which has the world's 5th highest death toll plans to keep its borders shop until at least july thousands of people in england meanwhile have gone back to work for the 1st time in 7 weeks but leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland say it's too early to relax restrictions and china has placed a 2nd city under lockdown this week after a cluster of more than 20 cases were discovered in jean well the european union's a summer holiday season is worth $160000000000.00 with tourism providing 15000000 jobs and the e.u. says the industry is at risk of collapse unless urgent measures

the taliban now accusing the government of creating obstacles to peace. milestonearks a toward the disintegration of this agreement unless drastic measures are taken immediately by all sides and specifically by the taliban. >> under the agreement, the taliban was to prevent afghanistan from being used as a tax from other groups such as isil and its affiliates. >> there's been indications, and the americans have acknowledged it, that taliban have been supporter of attacks against or putting military pressure on islamic state. >> isil says it's fighters were on mondayomb blasts which wounded four people. the united nations has expressed shock and revulsion at tuesday's maternity hospital attack which killed newborn babies, mothers, and nurses. state mikeary of pompeo is urging the afghan government and taliban to cooperate to bring the perpetrators to justice. the united nations food and agricultural organization says pakistan has seen its lowest wheat yield in decades. and locustsin exacerbated problems caused by coronavirus. farmers are anxious they will

tress measures are taken immediately by all sides and specifically by the taliban. under the agreement the taliban was to prevent afghanistan from being used as a launching pad for attacks by other armed groups such as i sell and its affiliates well as any state both suffered some battlefield. they need haitians and the americans and north. danes a quarter of attacks against. the knotty question on islamic state and correspond province i still says its fighters were behind 4 bomb blasts in kabul on monday which wounded 4 people the result was the un has expressed shock and revulsion at tuesday's maternity hospital attack which killed you born babies mothers and nurses . u.s. secretary of state is urging the afghan government and the taliban to cooperate to bring the perpetrators to justice alexia brian al jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera a push to reopen europe to tourism but can the opponents he does rescue the summer season. brazil's president grows increasingly isolated and with his look damages his governance defining his old it's. we have another day a v

we'll hear from a member of hong kong's legislative council also on the show a 3 day ceasefire with the taliban and has afghanistan's government freeze hundreds of fighters from prison it urges the militants to extend the troops. here in germany another month of social distancing while some coronavirus restrictions are being eased in time for the summer tourism season people will still have to keep their distance. was this the moment the bundesliga title slipped through the door guns thinkers just were to meet and find munich are celebrating after notching what could be a decisive victory. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program in hong kong police have fired pepper pellets to disperse crowds of protesters in the city center hundreds of riot police have surrounded the legislature building in anticipation of protests territories pro-democracy protesters want to boyce their opposition to a bill criminalizing disrespect for china's national anthem which lawmakers are currently to bait. more now let's go straight over to alvin young he's a member of hong kong's legislative council and leader

after the taliban were ousted during a u.s. led military intervention in late 2001 women hoped their lives would change for the better but the western military alliance has gradually pulled out of afghanistan and many now fee a return of the tarot and i say sion according to a survey by a us research consultancy gallup almost half of all afghan women would leave the country if they could however some are determined to fight for their rights at home . working out as. guys yardies wife beating stress attacks occur on an almost daily basis in kabul where she lives it's a city in a constant state of emergency. go see ari works for afghanistan's government in the muslim countries male dominated society she's a woman in a position of leadership. and she's surrounded by a lot of toxicology she says. she comes to the gym to one wind. living in their conflict zone in a country that is struggling so much in different layers i think if a strong woman who men who are leading do not take care of themselves men tell lies at the center of phy

and taliban says the afghan government has made a declaration of war by resuming military operations against the armed group that follows separate attacks on a funeral on maternity clinic on tuesday which killed at least 56 people the taliban denies being involved alexei o'brien reports that was. in the eastern province of manga survivors of a suspected suicide bombing at a funeral struggled to contain a grief. and anger. 7 then i think you are to a problem although one of. my brother is maya was standing next to me when i heard the bomb blast i saw several dead bodies on the ground and i was trying to call my brother but his phone was off after a few minutes of searching i found my brother among the dead. this attack on mourners. and another as a. maternity hospital in the capital kabul later afghanistan's president going on the offensive all but. despite our repeated and from the international community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in order to provide security for public places and the 4th attacks and fruits from the taliban and

and other on the groups but the taliban denies responsibility for either attack blaming them both all i saw and says it's ready to fight back alexey o'brien reports. in the eastern province of manga survivors of a suspected suicide bombing at a funeral struggled to contain a grief. and anger. my brother is my i was standing next to me when i heard the bomb blast i saw several dead bodies on the ground and i was trying to call my brother but his phone was off after a few minutes of searching i found my brother among the dead. this attack. and another at a maternity hospital in the capital come. later afghanistan's president going on the offensive all but. despite our repeated call and from the international community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in order to provide security for public places and the 4th attacks and fruits from the taliban and other terrorist groups ordering afghan security forces to switch from an active defense mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemy. the taliban denies involvement

but meant to be brought forward by the government and the taliban. well whether it's the united states of america or other governments that have helped the peace process or the government of afghanistan so i mean the main thing is this all reinforces why human rights need to be part of the discussion when the need to bring people to justice is clear to any afghan who suffered human rights abuses and yet it's one thing that rarely gets discussed in the kind of take it can i just set it to forgive me for interrupting you it's just that we have we were running out of time i mean you mentioned human rights and of course the spore has gone on for so long in the instability and we all know the effort is certainly the lip service that was paid in the west to human rights women's rights for example do you find it quite depressing to see afghanistan in the situation that it is now with basically a lot of western countries seeming to turn their backs on never mind human rights even just the basic stability and security of the country yes and ultimately i mean

part of the will inspire our repeated and from the international community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in order to provide security for public places and to free what attacks and threats from the taliban and other terrorist groups or doing afghan security forces to switch from an active defense mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemy so we hear what the top infectious disease experts in the u.s. have issued a stark warning on coronavirus dot underneath out she says rushing to relax restrictions could result in needless deaths new research from the university of washington is predicting that 147000 deaths by august 10000 more than previously forecast like hanna has more. case it was a meeting of the senate health committee like none before 3 of the witnesses and the committee chairman were not present because they were self isolating yourself quarantining to some degree one of them dr anthony party came and attacked from a republican senator for his advocacy of a cautious approach to the easing of re

a 3 day cease fire with the taliban and as afghanistan's government frees hundreds of fighters prison it urges the militants to extend the troops. what is this the moment the bundesliga title slips through i don't think you're strong schwartzman and 5 minutes are celebrating after notching up what could be a decisive victory. well i'm terry marsh and welcome to the program in hong kong police have fired pepper pellets at crowds of pro-democracy protesters and made dozens of arrests in the city center riot police surrounded the legislature building in anticipation of protests the territory's pro-democracy demonstrators want to voice their opposition to a bill criminalizing disrespect for china's national anthem which lawmakers are currently debating. of more now let's go straight over to alvin young he's a member of hong kong's legislative council and leader of the pro-democracy civic party thanks for being with us mr young where do you stand on the proposed national anthem law. hello terry thank you for having me simply speaking the democratic camp is united in opposition to this cont

this is the news live from berlin a step towards peace in afghanistan as a 3 day ceasefire with the taliban comes to an end the government three's around $900.00 fighters from the present kabul hopes the move will persuade the insurgents to extend the troops. in germany another month of social distancing while some restrictions remain others are being eased in time for the some on tourism season. and a job nobody wants to do how one desperate venezuelan migrants turned to the buso business of picking up the bodies of the coal that 19 dead in terror rule. i'm told me a lot of bull welcome to the program we begin in afghanistan where the government has released 900 taliban fighters from prison their release comes as a day a 3 day ceasefire to mark the end of ramadan draws to an end freeing the prisoners as part of a u.s. deal with the taliban and the afghan government hopes it will lead to a reduction in violence and possibly an extension of the truce. that these men are among hundreds of prisoners the afghan government has released as part of a 3 day cease fire deal with the taliban and move

well listen 3 there are a lot of players beyond the taliban i don't know to what extent taliban are unified on their political stance or on the military stance and there are different theories about that at the same time we have a bloody nose or a piece around 20 other. terrorist groups in and around afghanistan and operate some of them are. we saw yesterday we need to know exactly who was behind this or who was you others who are used in these attacks or have little cause or strategic purpose a lot of question and answer and i think it's very important that we have transparency that we have accountability and that we're given decision and think in order to get in the best interest of the country to its people again it's a question of whether you want more who are who are meant more and less of a chance of coming to a peaceful agreement or do you take a different route and you he's a chance by doing responsibly in do it in a manner that obviously the tax afghan civilians especially and of all the interests of those who are so-called stakeholders now and we're going to give you your giving u

-taliban deal, the taliban continued to attack the government. the month of march was the most bloodied month where there were 50 attacks on government forces by the taliban. >> do stay with us here on france 24. >> welcome to the france 24 interview. our guest is a special advisor and spokesperson for turkey's president erdogan. he joins us from ankara. thank you for being with us today. >> glad to be here. 150 6000s over confirmed cases of covid-19. some 4340 deaths. do you believe the epidemic is under control in your country? we went to add the authorities have declared a nationwide curfew during the celelebration. >> the numbers are going down. we have the e situation under control mostly but we arare beig careful becacause they don't knw the exact pattern of behavior for this virus. you have to be ready for a second wave. that is why we are emphasisizing measures to be of limited carefully. compared to other countries i think we have done extxtremely wewell in n terms of taking thoe memeasures early on, implementig them. our people have app

after weeks of increasing attacks — taliban and afghan government forces agree a three—day ceasefire, to mark the eid holiday. funerals take place in pakistan after the plane crash in a residential area of karachi that killed 97 people. spain continues to ease its lockdown. tourists can travel to the country again from july and top—flight football will resume next month. hello. welcome to bbc news. there are new claims about the movements of the british prime minister's advisor, dominic cummings, during lockdown. he's faced calls to resign — for driving more than 400 kilometres from london to the north—east of england after his wife developed coronavirus symptoms. downing street has defended mr cummings's trip to be nearfamily, saying it had been "essential" for him to ensure he had childcare. here's our political correspondent iain watson. you're supposed to be more than two metres apart. borisjohnson's senior advisor, dominic cummings, lecturing reporters on social—distancing, but his opponents accuse him of breaking the lockdown rules himself. when his wife became ill at th

the ceasefire was announced on twitter by the taliban spokesperson. it was surprising but also came at very last moment given sunday is eid and they want the afghan people to celebrate in peace and security which is why they have called for this ceasefire and the other things they have said in this statement is that during these three days of ceasefire they are going to not attack afg ha n they are going to not attack afghan government forces and their insurgents won't be crossing into the territory thatis crossing into the territory that is controlled by the afg ha n that is controlled by the afghan government. the ceasefire has been welcomed by the afghan government and the president of afghanistan has told the government forces to comply with the ceasefire and also to only defend if they are being attacked. for more on this, let's take a look at this report. three days of peace in a country marred by 19 years of violence. sudden and last—minute, but welcomed nevertheless. with the afghan president instructing government forces to defend only if a

if you cast your mind back to the end of february, the us and the taliban signed an agreement setting out the time frame for the withdrawal of foreign forces from afghanistan since then, once the taliban have stopped attacks on international people, they have continued to inflict attacks on afghan security forces and in recent weeks the valves had increased. the next stage of the process, which was supposed to be direct negotiations for the first time between the afghan government and the taliban had been delayed in part because of a dispute over plans for a prisoner exchange, the taliban wanted up to 5000 of their prisoners released. the government wanted some sort of concession in exchange for that. but with this three—day ceasefire, and with this three—day ceasefire, and with president ashraf ghani promise ofa with president ashraf ghani promise of a prisoner exchange programme being sped up, there will be hopes being sped up, there will be hopes being boosted that those talks can now finally begin. i have to carry—out this by saying that this is likely, still unfortunately,