President of the country his priority to end the deadlock crippling south africa. On december 13th 1989 mandela left the victor vaster prison for a few hours he was secretly taken to the center of cape town to detain heis the president s office for the 1st time the black leader and white president found themselves face to face. I did not have High Expectations of a 1st meeting with mr mandela and when i did have my 1st meeting i did not try to achieve much for both the him and me that 1st meeting was to get an understanding of each other. To get a feel for the person sitting across the table to start with mandela was much taller than he expected and he was also very impressed by president of this demand others aristocratic bearing because we must remember that that mandela was actually raised to be the Prime Minister of the paramount chief of the 10 booze so you have natural a natural sense of authority very dignified a very charming after that 1st meeting there was the feeling that yes we can do business with each other so i did expect that he would be positive about the concept of negotiators but we both of voided talking about the real challenges and the real issues at that time it was a sizing up for us and so that was the beginning of of a long and sometimes very very rocky relationship. On february the 2nd 1990 the eyes of 37000000. 00 South Africans were turned towards cape town for the opening of parliament didnt declare was about to pronounce his 1st general policy speech many were hoping he would commit the country to a new direction. It is time for us to break out of the cycle of violence and to break through to peace and reconciliation the steps that have been decided on the following the prohibition of the African National congress the pan african as congress the south African Communist Party in a number of subsidiary organizations is being nice and. People serving prison sentences merely because they were members of one of these organizations will be identified and released i think the clark when he took over as president in 1009 was faced with a choice he knew that the countrys economy was in really deep trouble he knew we were almost facing a civil war inside the country and here suddenly the thing landed on his lap was he going to do more about it more oppression more police more military and destroy the economy get into a civil war or was he going to be the sturrock a figure that ended the war and i think the berlin wall helped him a lot because it was a strong argument to use to say we had to fight against the a. N. C. Because they were communists but no communism is dead so now we can talk to them which made their message easier to accept by the white people however what is very crucial to make the point that this change. The clear speech was not simply the result of a free condom nationalism of his party and of the clear suddenly becoming good guys and through the good heart the siding there must be a change it was the pressure from the struggle i wish to put it plainly that the government has taken a Firm Decision to release mr mandela unconditionally im serious im serious about being this matter to finality without dealing the speech i made on the 2nd of february 9090 contained a package of measures. Of which the release not only of Nelson Mandela but also of all Political Prisoners was just a part i listed the state of emergency i tried in that speech to address each and every excuse the a. N. C. Could offer not to come to the negotiation table and during that period we were the only communicate to some town and they had all of the t. V. Cameras they needed to use. How and when to release the iconic mandela this was the subject of the 2nd confrontation between the 2 men one week later at the president s office. I announced to him that he would be released on the 11th of february. And the 1st reaction was its too soon and i said why is it too soon he said we need more time to prepare insisted that this process cannot work without me i am the key to this thing so when you want to release me you release me at a time that suits me and my family because i have to manage the a. N. C. And it was one of the things of you will your my prisoner you will do as i say and i said to him mr mandela you and i will negotiate about many things but you been in jail long enough you will be released on the 11th of february let us discuss what time of the day and from where you will be in east. On february 11th 1990 at 5 oclock in the oftener there was great excitement at the victor fest a prison everyone had been waiting for several hours to see Nelson Mandela released arm in arm with his wife when. After 27 years in jail a free 71 year old man returned to his home in so wet oh determined to win freedom for his people. After 4 decades of conflict the adversaries met over 3 days and put ischia an official building in cape town in may 990 the jailer and his former prisoner walked side by side presenting a court image there are bound to be difficulties but there is cautious optimism as well as faith and conviction that problems will be solved by negotiation. And i trust that these discussions will be another milestone on the road to a new and just self that i think it was. Overwhelmingly for and. It was like people who came to gather for the 1st time we didnt know each other but who wanted to meet the challenge. That was a that was a wonderful experience and was about the fact that. We suddenly realized on both sides that we had to work out jointly and collectively. A way forward and a doctor sponsible of the rest of us nobody else could take that is false and you can imagine. With the background of the participants. 2 sides that has been fighting each other. Here were. Suddenly being. Of course theres a measure of mistrust. We do know al qaida stick through us when. We didnt know. But the point is we had to agree theres only one way to discover that is to me. Striking feature. Of the discussions. Which will have head. During the last 3 days. Has been the at cordiality. We have had. At discussions on sensitive not. In a spirit of conciliation and understanding. Despite the signature of a Peace Agreement 4 months later the relationship between de klerk and 1. 00 was tainted by violence around the often lethal conflict had broken out in various regions of south africa particularly in causing confrontations erupted to between a. N. C. Supporters from the closer ethnic group and supporters of the i f p the in qatar Freedom Party made up of zulus and led by monks who to buthelezi. Not just that is the places they are. Not in the lead us the people who cannot ensure that the beginning of a real law is going. More people got killed in south africa between 10091904 than were killed by a potted forces in the entire history of about it. There was a natural competition between the i of p n a and c u d f but it was aided and abetted by the former military and Police People called it the force. The 2 big black grouping fighting and a 3rd force egging them on and fomenting more violence leading Police Chiefs and intelligence chiefs including military intelligence were working with elements of the put to lazy party and the soft course was how mundane the came to use that label and to and to accuse the clerk of the statistics. Were i to a the National Party has got that dub agenda for the negotiations process on the one hand. A talk about reform and change. That they still want to hold on to economic and political power he said you see you dont care about the life lives of blacks thats why you are you have allowed that situation to develop and this is why these things have happened even of that we have given you our commitment even when we have a new a committee had to discipline our people you behaved in this way because you dont care about black life i think the accusation that i didnt do enough was unfair and that was not based in fact from the moment that i started to have a suspicion and also in conjunction with all the allegations they were making i appointed judith to judicial commissions of inquiry. The one commission of inquiry came up and opened up a can of worms to show that yes they were elements in the Security Forces against my orders against the policy ive laid down who continued with political leaders have talked of underground activities that resulted in the dismissal or early retirement of a big number of very Senior Officers the credit card the difficulty he had to walk a tightrope he couldnt just walk into the military camp and say well go give up your arms and see is taken over he had to take yet to move very carefully with the police and with the military. And he did it slowly and and Nelson Mandela has indicated that he understood that so there was a game that mandela would put pressure on him. To disband and to end this that for violence and that that would defend. As the 2 leaders exchanged accusations about the causes of the violence talks continues and a conference was soon organized could desa the convention for a democratic south africa to discuss the countrys future institutions 300 delegates took part the a. N. C. And their allies demanded a majority electoral system where blacks would be dominant in the government declared his party wanted various measures to protect the white minority but on the very 1st day december 20th 1991 the talks almost collapsed when dick clark took the floor. The only one that is sure this is the. Schedule. And that the. Only other. Do not have a jewelers. Because one cannot be. Lifted. To be sure solution if your leaders years closer and. Closer to the us with the schedule make and the force until the year and yes to the concept of. Action. I spoke last and i made a strong attack on the a. N. C. What went on only i sent a warning to president mandela that i would be making those statements the mission which i believe did not get to him so Nelson Mandela set there and watched the clerk attack him in this way. And i have never before or since seen mandela so angry at the result was then that mandela to the stuff that youre going so i think back to the microphone and started to my going to doc is that. I. Have concerns. About the behavior. Needs to decay. And for. Every day. And age it has. Discredited. My good genes as he. Has. Very few. What i did with saturn it. Michael. Scholar and lawyer thinker. And politician. Radical and prisoner in a 2 part series aljazeera world tells the story of one of the most enigmatic figures in sudans turbulent history. Whose influence is still felt and events in the country today sit down ill to robbies life and politics on aljazeera coming. Up. Next. Im sammys a down in dar with a look at the headlines here on aljazeera the Iranian Oil Tanker held for 6 weeks off the coast of gibraltar has set sail formally the grace one its been renamed the adrian dowdy i one earlier gibraltar rejected a request from the u. S. Department of justice to seize the vessel. The suicide bombing of a wedding reception in afghanistan has caused the perspiring mint of celebrations marking the countrys 100th anniversary of independence eisel has claimed responsibility for killing 63 people in saturdays attack in kabul organizers in hong kong say more than 1700000 antigovernment protesters rallied through the night it was one of the biggest demonstrations the territory has seen in recent weeks. The other way it was a success is the way that it ended not with bytes and nowadays in hong kong thats the exception rather than the rule your going to be civil human rights front of one point that proves that it isnt a radical element but its calling for these democratic reforms in hong kong for the resignation of the chief executive kerry lam and all the legal withdrawal of this contradiction controversial extradition law is made through hong kong but still want that so thats where were at well see where we go from here but if they do keep the numbers on the streets keep the violence down then this debate could continue in a civil way rather than the same to the way weve seen recently. Migrants have attempted to swim ashore from a rescue ship anchored off the coast of italy 4 men in life jackets were stopped by crewmembers the open arms vessel dark and the captain has rejected an offer from spain saying hes dealing with an emergency situation on board the ship is carrying 107 people rescued from the mediterranean mainly from africa. And more than 350. 00 people are still stranded on a humanitarian rescue boat off the coast of malta the ocean viking vessel is operated by 2 aid groups including Doctors Without Borders its been refused entry to ports in both 3 and malta. Donald trump confirmed reports whos interested in the u. S. Buying greenland for strategic reasons the island between the north atlantic an arctic ocean is a semi autonomous danish territory denmarks Prime Minister called the idea absurd. That was i had lines its back to face to face now. The back. Its december 1991 talks to an decades of apartheid in south africa off faltering president f. W. De klerk has just blames Nelson Mandelas a. N. C. For a surge in Political Violence mandela responds. I. Consent. To behave. Often used to the cat here have been less and less. Given to have. Egypt to. Discredit. My team as he. Has certainly modest and its. Very few. What i had to deal with such as. When he responded. To the clock was the closest we came to not having a negotiated solution i also think what he said that is what mandela really thought about the clock he never said it publicly because he knew the kind of money is he knew he had to say i accept his bona fides hes a man of integrity otherwise his followers wouldnt do it but there he was and he was provoked and he was angry because he didnt he wasnt warned and and that was a scary moment and i think that told me everything i wanted to know about the relationship between the truck and and mandela it was a terrible one he was not only assured that he was fighting for that id for his people and what they believed in and what should one expect more from any man he could have been very rude. And very brutal if need be and all of this left a mark it left a scar. Across it on their person little unsure but also on the process and a need to course some damage unavoidably so. The negotiations would last for months under the pressure of white extremists declared called a referendum in march 992. 00 asking almost 3000000. 00 white voters if they approved of the path he was taking more than 2 thirds of them voted yes. On june 17th 1992 zulus from the in cutter Freedom Party left their hostile accommodation and headed for the boy petang time ship near johannesburg where the attacked a. N. C. Supporters 45 people were brutally killed in the massacre the repercussions were dramatic exasperated mandela was very ill and in his response. And that point in time the administration of the it was the only body that had the capacity and the power and the command was there was there to do those people and therefore to prevent that from happening even when that was was going to be intelligence would have reported that there theres. A pileup of stocks of arms there and then there were people that are they members who went through that i can no longer at a. Point in your. Talk at work of no return. Which is ready to go up if. We are not. Right why do we are provoked. We can fight back here lived a dead stage on behove the again see that this was an example of Government Forces that were utilized and that point has never been proved but even through the consideration commission it was a vet that saw mandela break off the negotiation it became frozen. We launched in that period almost immediately a call for roading mass action to revive and get to a very high level the activity of the the masses in marchers demonstrations protest. In early august 9092. 00 a campaign of strikes and demonstrations was launched the power struggle culminated on august the 5th with the march on pretoria the countrys Political Capital was. In front of tens of thousands of supporters mandela came to openly defied declare beneath the windows of the Union Building was the official seat of government and in our finance. They in big debt is the nation of unintended output. And their freedom and fame lash it back and say journalists and. They created the mess. On stage and. After demise we have sucked that out of the continent. Then i less than that. Satisfactory. By the government. Negara ca says cant cannot and the way theyre not a result. The. Way. The a. N. C. Maintained the pressure he and dick clark were no longer speaking but in secret their lieutenants continued the discussions on the future of south africa. Another massacre of blights the 2 men to officially renew the negotiations on september the 7th 1992 and a small town in the homeland of cisco by 70000 a. N. C. Supporters demonstrated against a local military leader supported by the government Security Forces opened fire killing 29 people and wounding hundreds of others. Out of the big issues issues came a meeting. Between our officials and the clerks and the decision to carry on and resume with the negotiations desperately seeking an agreement to cloak capitulated and ceded to mandelas demands in september 992 the principles behind the future constitution were determined it would be a majority system the white minority would have no veto or particular protection the date for the 1st multiracial and democratic elections was set april 27th 1994. It was there for 2 electoral rivals who went to also in december 1993 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in norway the 2 men attempted to put on a good show but de klerk could barely conceal his frustration. I think the decision of the nobel peace Laureate Committee was a very courageous decision the award to more mr mandela was a popular one the award to me was a controversial award because people said but i have practiced a part in the past i had no problem with this the mandela receiving me at times it appear as if he and in see did not like very much the fact that it was also ordered to me i know there were 2 that felt. Nelson should not have shared with him i think that would have been a terrible mistake their contribution through the Nobel Peace Prize was their contribution to say. We congratulate you the people of south africa you forward amongst each other but in the course of that fight you learn to appreciate each others humanity. And mandela was irritated by this man from the Apartheid Regime the people who put him in jail the people who oppressed these own people for so long trying to say i ended up by fate praise me the clerk felt that he did not get enough credit for ending up after it and he wanted to be on the International Stage he wanted to be. The big the biggest oracle figure but he was mandela he was the biggest icon in the world so the 2 perspectives and the 2 egos really clashed and it was also difficult because there was a very strong and he apartheid lobby in norway didnt want him to get the you the prize atoll and at one stage she and mandela went out on to a balcony or. Of a group the hotel and the main road of oslo and the norwegians who were supposed to be having a torchlight parade who declare committee chaired mandela so it was of a 2000000 adding for order. Back in south africa the president ial Election Campaign proved to be extremely tense. Encounters who threatened to take part in the vote and violent confrontations were frequent even in the center of johannesburg. As the world focus is also a few days before the vote the 2 candidates faced off in a historic televised debate. Where have. The period at that time i was i think it had a better life millions of jobs free card attention cation Hospital Services we believe that that is he had neither the n cs policy is riddled with that which has failed it is riddled still with clinging to nationalize ation you want Good Investments as long as that is the case this is the replied. Off and then or is not used to address the basic needs of the charter to the population or is government is committed. By noted he is not alarmed at that will have to devote so much of his oscars. Or his concerns that. They just in general thank you thank you for. That as well to god forbid consternation and nation beauty i am proud to hold your hand. Fausta profile. On election day no one doubted that mandelas a. N. C. Would imagine is the fix and the question was whether the party would gain 2 thirds of the vote. The final score was indisputable 62 percent for the end seen im just 20 percent for the National Party. I hold out my hand to mr mondello in friendship and cooperation as far as my own post position is gone sun i should like to make it clear. That i believe that my political tusk is just beginning everything that we have done so far the 4 years of difficult and often frustrating negotiations. The problem and the crises have been simply a blip in a ration for the work that lies in. On may 10th 1994 after 4 years of negotiations and several 1000 People Killed in Political ViolenceNelson Mandela became president of south africa he was 75 years old. I think also the future i think its a good idea for self africa finally there that meets we have set out to achieve as biggest. Truck thought it was a glorious moment. Because it was peaceful it was accepted by the war the leaders of the world with their defeat on that day he saw it as the. Cruzan of these projects that started in 1809. According to the terms of an agreement signed in 1903 monday led a government of National Unity assisted by 2 Vice President s tabone becky one of his right hand men and frederick declare. So you have made it big enough for father and i live in. Madison. Growing up my son. If a for the better public are full of it. So. I knew it was a snow day apartheid was overcome the last white president attending the swearing in of south africas 1st black president. My overwhelming sense was a feeling of accomplishment yes i have questions and i still have it in my mind. Whether we will be able to stay on the right path there are threats and there are always dangers that even if you reach a good agreement that in the implementation of the agreement things can go wrong but my general sense was one of this is a good day for south. All the parties with more than 20 deputies were represented in the government of National Unity intended to last 5 years a coalition unique in the world took office a cabinet when a former president officiated under the orders of his successor both at the head of opposing parties. Facing them and alan never chaired the cabinet in their key the other Deputy President and i chaired the cabinet on meditational basis. It was a good experience i realized and in serialize that they needed to gain experience in governance theyve been a Liberation Movement theyve been agitating theyve been fighting theyve been fighters in the field they didnt know how to deal with the Civil Service he possibly thought that his presence in the government of National Unity. Will give him the authority to teach then youll come ice. To do things. Whereas the odds favor invested that he was also a new comer into a situation that was new on twitter but there were moments when the. I could see mr mandela getting frustrated. Patients between mandela and dick clark hit the headlines. In january 995. 00 i hate to dispute during a Cabinet Meeting which forced dick clarke and mandela to stage a public reconciliation for the media. The main focus of our discussion. Was our past not working relationship. Our discussion was frank. And to a character in some detail. With all of the issues which caused the recent confrontation between us. We did not ask for an apology we are asked for the recognition of al good faith. Honesty and our integrity. In the process of the confrontation also my confidence in the president was shaken. And our talk this morning achieved also the race to relation of that confidence. Im shaking you know you Love Movement on the t. V. Often about 18 months the a. N. C. Started to feel theyve had enough of a learning experience. And then they started to try and silence me because i was not only an executive Deputy President i was also the political leader of the main political opposition part and they were trying to say i cannot in public criticize the solutions with which i disagreed in the cabinet because im an executive Deputy President that was part of the problem which 6 months later after 2 years but rolled me to the decision with my party who was there all from the government of National Unity i think that the clear and his group where feeling that they were losing too much support from the white constituency and that if they remained in government with the a. N. C. They would continue to lose all that support again i think the correct ego came in the way that and hes personal circumstances and we sometimes talk about politicians and forget that they are ordinary human beings to clear cut then fall in love and married a new young woman a beautiful woman that he was very much in love with he lost his appetite for dirty politics for hard politics. And instead of leaving his party inside and going to die with lovely elite he took them all out declared can this party left the government in june 1086 shortly after the adoption of the countrys new constitution and mandela himself left politics in 1909 handing over to top of baccy. In just 6 years of a hard for to do the 2 men had to learn to clean change the course of their countrys history and forever bound their own destinies they continued to see each other far from the political turmoil like in 2006 at a hotel in cape town at frederick to clerics 70th birthday. I mean. Once they had retired they knew that they the 2 of them played a special role. In history. And they never became friends but on the one or 2 occasions public occasions they said nice things about it all we dish. And i asked if i disagreed in a moment that all were. All off. Why not l o o. O o. O o o o o this way well. I have a cousin in the us i will say that i 100 does not suffer from a normal. Occurrence follow. Up ever get your get your. Lady ringback away with the. President mandela made. A wonderful short speech. At a function for our friends and family. I was deeply touched. By the nicholl mission he gave to my contribution to. Help to bring peace to south africa i was deeply touched by the personal warmth. Which he extended to me. I even cried a little but if i can remember well. 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And slightly less in the forecast over the next couple of days we have those see some pretty strong storms across northern sections of turkey that continuing to clear out of the picture but this is how it looks in turkey across into istanbul in literally 24 hours ago the streets were absolutely flooded inundated with these rain water is about 6 or 7 millimeters came down in a very short space of time so the ground was flooded and the streets as you can see fairly deserted as that rain continue to come down it is clear and dry for now hot elsewhere 45 degrees in baghdad 44 in kuwait city on monday and have a very nice actually an anchor for the next couple of days 25 degrees celsius as we head on into choose day then for the south the conditions are dry as you would expect and a bit of cloud into the southwest of yemen but elsewhere it has holes but touches not holes as we have seen lately so 39 in doha and a very nice 26 celsius and with a bit of an all natural flow there as well further to the south Southern Africa good couple days across into maybe we had 3 monday durban staying dry for the next couple of days a mix of cloud and sunshine and maybe just an almost sure shower the into the south coast of mozambique. Societies progress is dependent on the quality of its exports more and find professionals a top priority is to model a new generation to study new teaching methods are infusing tony students to become the agents of change taking them out to the classroom problems in their local communities. Education inspiring science timeline at this time. Room 100 points this is now in its 2nd year more than 700000 and displaced and stateless after fleeing military led massacres in me and my and they still dont think its safe to go home to their plight with special coverage and reports on aljazeera. Iran warns the u. S. Against seizing its oil tanker thats just been released from after being detained for 6 weeks. Im Richelle Carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. President says hes optimistic about talks the afghanistans government and the taliban as the country mourns those killed at a wedding attack. At the latest from any administered kashmir rules schools and Government Services are opening after a 2 week clamp down. On this rock is the entrance to a german on cave here in southern chile where for nearly half a century residents were enslaved and abused now a 117 of the survivors are suing the chilean state puts a lead responsibility. Iran is warning the United States not to seize an oil tanker and open seas after it set sail from gibraltar overnight the vessel was held for 6 weeks on suspicion it was taking crude oil to syria and violation of a used sanctions a long recall the grace want it left under its new name adrian darya one but its unclear whether where the tanker is heading after summons reports. Yes. Lifted and underway at last in the darkness heading east into the mediterranean. A few hours before the departure supplies had been loaded on the adrian daria warm in the choppy waters a specialist engineer had been winched up along with at least 5 new crew members the engineer was brought on board to attend to a technical issue planning to return to shore later nightfall on the swell of the sea is getting worse yet the technician has yet to return to the supertanker the ai asked systems that Automatic Identification Systems are now showing the adrian real war they to the technician had finished his work and returned to shore but who will end up with 140000000. 00 worth of crude oil this is obviously going to be one of those tracks vessels over the next few days and therefore we have a very clear idea of where it goes and we have a very clear idea of any vessels that come alongside in order to try and ship the cargo. Last thursday gibraltars Supremes Court lifted the detention order on the ship after assurances from iran that it would not deliver its cargo of crude oil to syria complying with the European Union sanctions on that country an attempt by the United States to reimpose the detention under its own sanctions was dismissed by the court on sunday as the reflagged rename ship prepared to leave your proto announced it couldnt follow up on a subsequent u. S. District Court Warrant the detention of the ship and the full faith of her cargo. It was 6 weeks ago the super tanker was captured off the coast of this tiny british territory at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula its overlooking the african coastline and its the gateway to the mediterranean a british frigate docking here but destined for the strait of hormuz to take over escort duties serves as a reminder of the tension that it has escalated with the ongoing detention of a british flag tanker stand in peril this is the closing of one chapter of a crisis and the start of a new on thats now charging. Calls Andrew Symonds aljazeera off the coast of japan. At urana still in possession of a british flag tanker that sees the ship in the strait of hormuz 2 weeks after the u. K. Territory of gibraltar detained her aunts vessel Irans Foreign Ministry says its up to the courts to decide if and when the british tanker will be released but through the eyes for the release of the violating british tanker we need to wait for the court order there have been several maritime violations made by that ship so the court is looking into it hopefully as soon as possible the process will be complete and the courts verdict will be out whatever that may be it could be a release order hopefully to be released as soon as possible afghanistan has postponed Independence Day celebrations after a bomb attack at a wedding reception killed 63 people claimed responsibility for saturdays attack and call a warning some of the u. S. I find the pictures in this report from charlotte disturbing. Awaiting that a suicide bomber turned into a massacre these people are waiting to hear with their relatives and friends survived steve were going to go what is it thats the big im here to find out about my son to find out if hes ok some people say that his neck is injured some people say his hand is injured hes not answering his phone i dont know what to do. More than 1000 people at the waiting for a young couple for. Afghan shia Muslim Minority to his aura the marriage certificate had just been signed when i saw suicide attacker wearing a vest packed with explosives detonated them near the stage. Muslim office so they were done with. The figure i was at the back of the waiting hole when suddenly a big explosion happened i fell down and when i stood up i saw titles and people scattered on the ground the same was awful my brother was injured and most of my friends were killed i didnt know at that time what to do who should i help 1st in shock saki hasnt moved from the spot all night. At another hospital we found cerise 14 hours after the explosion he worked from his karma as we filmed he was the lead singer and keyboard player in the wedding band with us i mean the most wonderful nobody was being opened up when he was being when we leave our home in the morning we dont know if well come back to life if we send our children to school we do not know their fate we dont trust any security even at a wedding this can happen i do not know if ill be alive in an hour or not. So respond was made up of 7 family members his brothers and cousins they were on stage preparing to play during the waiting dinner when the bomb went off so race is the only survivor. And this is what he would have place. At the wedding hall staff cleaned up the mop the ground not the spilled drink but the spilled blood they lost colleagues too with dozens killed in nearly 200. 00 injured this was the deadliest explosion in kabul in more than 18 months. Series family brought us to hill overlooking the city here is where the bands drummer Mohamed Haneef was buried just hours earlier on a mobile moccasins and juggling walls why should we be killed its for nothing what is our sin what have we done wrong we feed our children and killing those without committing a crime we ask the government why they arent stopping them. I still has claimed responsibility for the attack it often target shia minority in this neighborhood with elections just 6 weeks away president danny is under pressure and has called an Emergency Security meeting for the taliban also commented calling the attack barbaric to veteran and unjustifiable. Well afghan leaders in the taliban lay blame children lay on their relatives graves too young to understand the forces that turned a day of joy into one of tragedy. Charlotte ballasts joins us live now from kabul so charlotte what is the day like there it was supposed to be a celebration for Independence Day obviously its a completely different tone now so how is Independence Day being marked. It is said that a change to a free thing people quite excited about today it is a National Holiday president gandhi had planned big celebrations that darla palace which is in southwest kabul a building that was heavily damaged in the civil war he was going to one or greater does a sign of how afghanistan has come it was going to be fireworks a concert on National Television that is now postponed he went to the palace this morning and gave a small speech mentioning the blast and the 100 years that afghanistan has the way that if you will and then he went to the ministry of defense and made some flowers so quite. Celebrations now there are people on the streets and they are in the cars with flags and they honking their horns and even over the weekend we saw people getting stick isnt putting them on the cars of king. Who is the man who signed the treaty on the stay in 1900 with the british that meant that afghanistan got its independence and the british lift people are concerned those so whilst theyre on the streets not as many as you would expect and even this morning weve seen explosions in a city just a stiff kabul jalalabad with 5 small explosions 13 people were injured a lot of people saying that they keeping their families home today in light of saturday and just general fear if you will and anxiety in the community the taleban has put out a statement this morning politicizing Independence Day saying left kansas celebrating it they happy that the british left 100 years ago but saying that they hope that the americans leave soon ok starla bell us with the latest from kabul charlotte thank you know all the u. S. President fact says he does want to reduce the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan to less than 13000 also help progress in talks between the taliban and the Afghan Government. Were talking to afghanistan of both the government and also talking to the taliban having very good discussions well see what happens weve really got it down to probably 13000 people and well be bringing it down a little bit more and there will decide whether or not well be staying longer and well have in very good discussions with the taliban who have a very good discussions with the Afghan Government i think its very important that we continue intelligence there in all cases because it is somewhat of a nest. For hitting us and we have things under control very well with this ball force we can probably make it a little bit smaller and then well decide it will depend on the taliban it will depend on the Afghan Government but there is a case to be made and the case also is that were going to be leaving very significant intelligence behind for just the reasons i stated protest organizers in hong kong say more than a 1000000 antigovernment demonstrators rallied into the night on sunday they set up a spite heavy rain and one of the largest gathering since june Andrew Thomas was that on the streets of hong kong on monday morning and has more from there. I spoke to one of the organizers lights on sunday and she told me that the rally was a huge success for one primary reason to turn out now the organizers said in advance that they were hoping about half a 1000000 people would type they say 1700000 people at some point were either in Victoria Park where the official rally was or was part of the strong in the streets around and that number doesnt even include those who came subsequently in march to where i am in Central Hong Kong to the i think the overall number could be in excess of 2000000 putting it at a call with one of the big rallies that they held back in june and thats despite a lot of violence that we have seen but smaller rallies are often smaller rallies since the beginning of july so they would say well they all say that that proves they still have ordinary mainstream hong kong Public Opinion on their side now i should say that the place but a much lower number on the turnout by say that the Victoria Park itself about 130000 people in it but i dont include those in the streets around nevertheless it was a huge number and that despite to great to try to right the other way was a success is the way that it ended not with bodies and now it is in hong kong thats the exception rather than the rule the organizes the civil human rights from a phone call