The u. S. And the Afghan Taliban a jew to sign a preliminary deal in a few hours time they could eventually end americas longest running war its a result of 18 months of talks but once its a grade there is still a long way to go the 1st stage will be a 135. 00 day period of whats called a meaningful reduction in violence that set to include the exchange of 6000. 00 prisoners that deal is being described as a precursor to a Peace Agreement between the warring sides within afghanistan its hoped this will lead to talks between the taliban and the government in kabul as well as the withdrawal of foreign troops and leading up to the signing there has been an initial weeklong reduction in violence mostly held although the worst still some attacks. There as a summer binge of aid has spoken exclusively to taliban spokesman so hey shahid he asked him what made this deal convincing given the taliban still carried out attacks in the past week. Course it was a deduction in war lintz as we call it or to provide a secure in war in order went before the signing after agreement and that we did and and the other thing is that there was some kind of war you we have not attacked any convoy in the year 2 trees in the 2 trees held by the coverlid ministration did the sum of 4 those convoys were attacked when they came out from the police and inter to our trees so that was a kind of or why nation and our. People on ground they stopped it the allegations from the afghan side is that the pentagon does not accept ground realities this fear is that of understand well go back if the taliban is allowed to rule of going to run on Civil Liberties on Girls Education and basic rights on democracy what will you say it was sure the Afghan People that this is good for afghans it wont reverse them and take them back 10 years from before we have a person of the truth we have our plants that you see it is peace and there is. Commercial activities there is schools so if you go there. In the end and when the security is more in in those areas and there are control rather than in the main cities cities that cover the capital kabul so about womens rights a woman one that they had a right to you cation and their right to work we both accept and give them as per the islamic rules but only that they observe the hey joe. Huldah abdelhamid has been looking at how people in afghanistan feel about the agreement. Its a momentous time for afghanistan many still in this believe that what had been unthinkable is happening the u. S. And the taliban agreeing with each other mohammed as eases a beat this has been the most peaceful week kabal has seen in years we can go out of our homes without any. Fear of anything so its been a good week yeah theyre actually means its between their american and all of us but it will be afaik the truth that will be have lots of effects on Afghan People because the security of afghanistan is in the hands of the americans but outside of kabul example Siraj Shakur Mohammad wonders about his future he has mixed feelings the taliban ruled here before so he knows them well they are something. Tough theyre all southern and its bad if the taliban come back i wont be able to run my business they forbid music i will have to leave the country for the past 40 years foreigners didnt let us live in peace thats why the countrys in a situation its maybe better if they leave but there will be no peace with the taliban it will be worse im scared the war has been devastating for bibi girl her husband a soldier the National Army was killed in a Suicide Attack in their whole province of love them and then another 4 members of her family died in another attack being a widow with 7 children is stuff they help out by polishing shoes on the streets or begging in the market lot now weve never had any help from anyone its a miserable life my sons class charge so we can burn it in the stove the foreigners must stay i havent seen anything good from the government and the taliban destroyed our lives its because of them that we became beggars its humiliating only the foreigners can help us. The taliban controls nearly half of the country mainly rural areas where most of the war against american troops unfolded. People have been told that they will fully withdraw soon and theres a sense of victory in the. People are happy we also want peace and security taliban are committed to their promise the fighters obey whatever orders they get this is a big success for us. Back in the cities it up my year is worried she was born as a refugee in iraq now shes a University Student part of a new generation full of aspiration Everybody Knows that tal advanced your ideals like Culture Limited and close minded they are and if they come to the government like officer the they cannot implement. Officer they can implement and the people there will be hard as the women column one im never good with women. The people writing in the government are off the shelves do not have peace between themselves and i dont think of our going to have is it someone else like polamalu if only goes well do us will pull out its troops the taliban and afghan leaders might find a compromise but many afghans remain cautious about the future theyve seen many full stones before but at the. Couple have a word doc is a National Security analyst and lecturer at a card on university he spoke to us from kabul explaining why internal peace talks will be so complicated. What we are left with is the crucial intra Afghan Dialogue when we talk about ending conflict in afghanistan ending this violence in afghanistan that interim Afghan Dialogue is crucial its very important yet its very very complex because for the past many years we have had statements coming from coming in from kabul government and also the United States of america that we cannot trust the taliban because there are so many groups that are like 22 groups yet the taliban were like no we had one group this reduction in violence since proved that the taliban indeed is one group because their military wing the economy not to a their political wing they were all on the same page but the problem now is the fragmentation and kabul we have just started elections we have fragmentation between political elites ghani and the c. E. O. Of the. They are not on the same page and there is lack of consensus and problem solve what this would mean what is it that they want from the taliban when they meet them and again to Afghan Dialogue the formation of the negotiation teams in kabul is another issue how do you form dot dot Negotiations Team when its going to be the government forming duck what is it whether its going to be based on ethnicity language tribes or Political Parties what is it going to be and once youve formed on what is it that you want out of taliban when you meet them because the taliban they know what they want but lack of consensus and kabul is going to make the inch of going dialogue very chicken and very complicated. There are signs the corona virus is spreading in new ways in the u. S. Comes as the World Health Organization raises the Risk Assessment of the virus to its highest level there are 2 new cases one in california and the other in oregon of no known connections to those who are already affected south korea has reported its the biggest daily increase of corona virus infection since the 1st was confirmed last month the 600. 00 cases take the total to nearly 3000 and in china another 47 people have died and 427 new cases have been reported but only 4 are outside of the epicenter and that is the lowest number beyond his province since china started reporting nationwide information. Has more on the case in california this is a person who is in Northern California described as a woman who had some underlying respiratory disease problems and her doctor sent her to the hospital she was tested there and tested positive for the corona virus she had what the important thing here is that she didnt get it on a cruise ship she didnt meet with someone who just got off a plane from she hasnt been to italy or iran or south korea or any of the other places she got coronavirus here in the United States and now in addition this person lives in a community about a 145 kilometers from the 1st possible Community Transmission case in who was the identified earlier this week so that seems that theres 2 at least 2 separate clusters of transmission in Northern California this is called Community Transmission and what it means is that its circulating in the Community One person gets sick another person will get sick another person will pass that on to others and then this is what happened in italy in south korea etc important to note that no one has been placed under any kind of quarantine in Northern California except for the 2 patients who are receiving care in hospitals. Their affairs coronavirus will tip the worlds economy into recession chinas Manufacturing Activity has fallen to its lowest level on record while Global Stock Markets have ended the week down and york the dow jones is on its worst run for more than a decade kristen salumi reports from new york. The smiles at the New York Stock Exchange couldnt mask what was a disastrous week for world stock markets fridays trading only deepening the losses the dow jones index ended down 13 percent from record highs with u. S. Markets seeing their biggest weekly selloff since the 2008 financial crisis its been a similar story for londons main footsie 100 index in stocks in europe while no fewer than 7 markets in asia have lost more than 10 percent of their value fuelling the plunge the spread of the coronavirus outside of china deserted streets in milan heightening concerns that coded 19 is making an inevitable march across the globe and raising fears about the negative effects that efforts to stop the disease could have on the u. S. Economy fears the white house again trying to tamp down on friday everybody whether youre an investor or whether youre you know ordinary main street person. People should not overreact its proving to be a huge test for larry could lowes boss President Trump who since he took office has championed record high stocks as an endorsement of his presidency but conversely sees a falling market as someone elses fault namely the democrats competing to unseat him in this years election i think the Financial Markets are very upset when they look at the democrat candidates standing on that stage making fools out of themselves and they say if we have a president like this i think that has a huge effective but World Health Experts including in the u. S. Continue to warn about the dangers of the virus and critics like his democratic president ial challengers have slammed trumps downplaying of the threat saying that he cares more about the Market Reaction rather than containing the virus itself experts say uncertainty surrounding the threat is causing jitters its not an economic effect exactly its a virus and its not how its a blind faith you want to have in the central banking structures of the world virus and epidemiology a little bit outside their general mandate and no matter how much you want to ignore Political Risk when countries and industries start to collapse with an epidemic its hard to know how to do this weeks losses put an end to an unprecedented period of growth for u. S. Markets whether or not the panic selloff continues will depend only on the spread of the coronavirus but also messages coming out of the white house christian salumi al jazeera new york. Still ahead on aljazeera pledging to addicks every israeli settlement in the occupied west bank and even netanyahu wraps up his reelection campaign. We got yet another named storm making its way into western parts of europe then this storm jorge the 3rd in the month of february and there we go thats going to bring some more very windy weather across the British Isles as we go on through the next 24 to 48 hours initially its the right and then its the when the waves are really picking up as you go on through saturday and on into sas date damaging winds worst of the rain will have made its way through but still quite a bit of a stray showers a rattling in across oland Northern Ireland starting wintry there across scotland and over possibly into this we go on through the course of a saturday to the southeast is not so bad because some west of weather there 60 moving across the low countries into germany into that eastern side of france will snow over the alps by the end of the weekend but missing a maid to maybe 2 meters of snowfall across the highest pass of the house quite a bit of snow to into a turkey over the next couple days gradually moving away by the end of the way kind of by the end of the weekend still seeing some very strong winds wet windy and its highs wintry weather piling in across Scotland Office in wet weather also pushing across a good part of france for northern parts of africa where its pretty much bone dry and also sunshine coming very temperatures on the rise a high in tripoli with 26. 00. Joined by listening paste as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 Hour Television news channels. Provocative and focus on how they report on the stories that matter. In the states misleads the public the state media reflects the same thing. I want to challenge for americans on your show you take a time to leave they have anything to apologize for their listening post on aljazeera. Youre watching aljazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour after 18 months of talks and of hard almost 2 decades of war the u. S. And the taliban did you to sign a deal in a few hours aimed at bringing peace to afghanistan its hoped it will lead to the withdrawal of foreign troops. 2 more cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the u. S. Both patients have no known connection to others whove been affected and have not traveled to hot spot areas. The deadline given by turkey to the syrian army to retreat from the Northwestern Province of idlib is almost up and a new round of shelling late on friday another turkish soldier was killed along with at least 10 civilians the president s of turkey and russia have spoken by phone in an effort to defuse tension theyre looking at holding an urgent meeting to discuss new measures to normalize the situation and that comes a day after 33. 00 turkish troops were killed in air raids by Syrian Forces backed by russia about a sent us this report from the turkey syria border. Turkish soldiers being evacuated from syria after being attacked by Syrian Government forces images like these have created shock and turkey and growing calls for revenge. Turkish military hit Syrian Army Positions in retaliation for the death of dozens of its soldiers in southern. Turkey blames the Syrian Government for the airstrike that targeted a military outpost officials here also accuse rochelle failing to deter Syrian Government forces who have recently stepped up their attacks against the soldiers. These are tech happened despite the location of troops being coordinated you know at once with russian officials on the ground unfortunately the attack continued after we wont following the 1st strike. Feeling abandoned by its e. U. Our allies turkey warned it wont prevent refugees from crossing into europe European Countries are alarmed this might turn into a mass exodus of refugees fleeing the conflict in syria turkey has been calling on the e. U. To share the burden of the refugee crisis and on nato to deploy pair to it besides on the border with syria but nato doesnt seem to be willing to provide military support offering for the time being the sympathy by call on them to stop their offensive to respect International Law and to back to the un efforts for a peaceful solution to this dangerous situation must be deescalated urge an immediate return to the 28 cease fire. Then simones turkish and russian officials held talks in to defuse tension turkey wants the syrian army to pull our behind the Demilitarized Zone stop its offensive and the loss of billions to return home. Russia is a key ally of president bashar assad who rejects turkeys expanded presence in syria and insists they often serve by his troops is legitimate and they will continue and if russia and turkey fail to overcome their differences they might and. You know why and prolong the original confrontation in syria possible but al jazeera jill very well took its border with syria. Greece and bulgaria have reinforced their borders after turkey said it will no longer hold back refugees we can take a look now at these live pictures which are from the turkish village of kut our arch which is bordering greece and as you can see hundreds of migrants are being blocked there greece is said it will stay vigilant at its border border and it will not allow anyone to cross over illegally you can see there are hundreds of people who are at the border now president richard type one has long threatened to let the syrians and other refugees cross into europe unless the un could have received more International Support that are going to aim with this report. They know the buses final stop but the Syrian Refugees dont know where their journeys might and as they head toward yet another border they kept their loads light we used to do a nuisance not new york on we are leaving from fear is therefore in syria realizing we dont know we are going to heaven is more this man well call mohammed is carrying a burden he says hes worried about family in syria and he hasnt seen in 2 years. Worried about what awaits him as he tries to cross into europe the artist says hes certain of one thing he wont be leaving turkey by sea this is one of 2 places in istanbul we found were Syrian Refugees are coming to hop on one of these free buses or pay about 20. 00 to get into a van and go to the turkey greek border they tell us after watching the news all day and learning that the turkish government told Border Security in the coast guard to stand down and allow refugees to cross they had to seize this opportunity to leave the country from morning to evening Syrian Refugees packed into buses to get to a durned near the greek border mohamed waited with friends who opted to stay behind and watched bus after bus pull up to the curb fill with people and drive away. I dont have a choice i assure you and i can be like just like surrendering stay and doing nothing and being like this we should like hell we should fire actually not fire has gone fine no or mine nor soldiers or muhammad eventually found a ride leaving behind the small refugee family hes made in a country that offered a life but little future natasha going to name aljazeera is stumble. A museum in chile burst into flames of the fighting between protesters and police followed a day of Peaceful Demonstrations in santiago after a critical report from Amnesty International and human rights a latin america editor Lucien Newman has more this is the 2nd time that this museum which is emblematic in santiago has been set on fire by arsonists nobody knows exactly who did it firemen are telling us to get out of here because there could be a gas leak but this is what has turned out to be the end of what had been a very peaceful afternoon of protests here any class i would just just about 200 meters away from here. Earlier in the afternoon people were seeing and dancing it was a very very jovial see in here about now that it is start were seeing barricades and many believe this is just a prelude to the type of disturbances and violence that will also be accompanying peaceful protests the social change in care starting next march of this coming marjorie just just around the corner protesters say theyre going to be coming out onto the streets in bigger numbers than ever because they say that the government has not responded to the peoples demands for real social change. Guinea has delayed a constitutional referendum time for sunday because of concerns about the electoral roll president also qantas says the vote will take place 2 weeks later if passed it would allow the 81 year old to stay in power for another 12 years earlier this week an organization of french speaking governments withdrew its poll Monitoring Mission. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has pledged to annex every israeli settlement in the occupied west bank hes hoping to use this to win voters over the head of a 3rd election in less than a year on monday i foresee reports. In the last week of the Israeli Election Campaign a visual reminder to voters of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has pledged to annex every illegal israeli settlement in the occupied west bank while you go really do you remember. Who was joined by u. S. Ambassador David Friedman and the rest of the joint american Israeli Committee he chairs mapping out exactly where the Trump White House would recognize permanent israeli sovereignty i mean for you to move to the mapping is on its way in order to allow the imposing of the israeli law on these territories and later getting american recognition nonetheless it isnt quite what netanyahu promised in washington a month ago he said hed begin annexation before the election then the white house put the brakes on its complicated his bid for supporters the far right parties in places like efrat illegal settlement near bethlehem the anticipation and excitement and the disappointment suspense they have an influence the polls at the moment into such a level that i can so. This has been the gang since instead netanyahu has been focusing on certain construction around East Jerusalem announcing thousands of new Housing Units in areas that would further undermine the notion of a territorially unified palestinian state this is a dangerous policy and we consider this an act. Of. Destroying the Peace Process there are also plenty of israelis who believe annexation doesnt serve what they consider the jewish state that it could make a binational state eventually a majority palestinian one more likely i think they might have overreached because were talking about annexing all the settlements thats really terrifies the one half of israel that understood the demographic danger to zionism of nonseparation from most of the palestinians so i dont think hes going to vote for the worst this way but after 3 consecutive campaigns most minds are made up the game is more about motivating turnout and persuading voters to shift allegiance even the announcement of netanyahu as corruption trial date it starts just 2 weeks after the election appears not to have harmed him in fact the polls suggest that new whos overtaken his rival benny gantz although not by a margin that would give him a Majority Coalition in parliament in the end the imminent annexation of places like this has become one issue among many in this campaign with netanyahu everywhere all the time talking about everything from security to diplomacy to the coronavirus but should he win or should he be in charge of another Caretaker Administration after another inconclusive election his Campaign Promise on an extension could become very real are a force that aljazeera in the occupied west bank. U. S. Secretary of state my pompei or has been testifying before congress for the 1st time since the killing of irans most powerful general Many Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs committee were angry that he appeared for only 2 hours to discuss developments in iran and iraq alan fischer reports. My computer hasnt made a. The recent appearances on capitol hill and refused to give evidence ahead of Donald Trumps impeachment a point not missed by the Committee Chairman and there are dozens of other issues wed like to ask you about including the lawful subpoena that this committee issued in september that youve ignored so we expect to see you here again the secretary of state was there to talk iraq and the authorization on the use of military force he rejected the idea hed not been accessible since the u. S. Drone strike which killed any general custom cilla manny he claimed congress had been briefed more than 70 times and said the military action in january had made america much safer removing him from the battlefield was at the school tory measure his death reduced the risk to our personnel overseas. Both my diplomats and our military and make clear that were willing and able to impose cost on our adversaries if they threaten or attack us but there was anger on the democratic side one congressman asking if there was a clear Foreign Policy that was being followed the list of actions that are legally and strategically questionable continue to pile up in this administration and yet the administration refuses to provide clear and analyst answers these include pulling out of the j c p a way no strategy abandoning the kurds no strategy then of strategic benefit of assassinating solomon no strategy bumpier was asked about the american response to the coronavirus he said the u. S. Was doing all it can to make people safe and even suggested that it offered to help iran with its response might be spent 2 hours in front of the committee and then left to speak to a conservative conference all the way across the city there are many here see theyd like to see him back again soon they have many more questions and theyre expecting clear answers alan fischer algiers here on capitol hill. The sound is there and these are the top stories after 18 months of talks in doha and almost 2 decades of war the u. S. Of the taliban are going to sign a deal in a few hours aimed at bringing peace to afghanistan its hoped it will lead to the withdrawal of foreign troops. There are 2 more confirmed cases of corona virus in the u. S. Both patients have no known connection to other infections and have not traveled to hot spot areas. Has more from los angeles on the california case. This is a person who is in Northern California described as a woman who had some underlying respiratory disease problems and her doctor sent her to the hospital she was tested there and tested positive for the corona virus she had what the important thing here she didnt get on a cruise ship she didnt meet with someone who just got off a plane from war she hasnt been to italy or iran or south korea or any of the other places she got coronavirus here in the United States the deadline given by turkey to the syrian army to retreat from the Northwestern Province of it lip is almost up and a new round of shelling late on friday another turkish soldier was killed and at least 10 civilians the president s of turkey and russia have spoken by phone in an effort to defuse tensions and looking at holding an urgent meeting to discuss new missions to normalize the situation. Guinea has delayed a constitutional referendum planned for sunday because of concerns about the electoral role president alpha conde says the vote will take place 2 weeks later if passed allow the 81 year old needed to stay in power for another 12 years earlier this week an organization of french speaking governments withdrew its home Monitoring Mission citing 2 and a half 1000000 problematic entries on the electoral register. Oh and a few hours a vote is in the us said if South Carolina will decide which democrat they think should challenge donald trump for the presidency its being seen as a test for front runner betty stand is but could signal the end for his rivals like joe biden President Trump was also in South Carolina rallying supporters on friday the Democratic Candidates of politicizing the coronavirus outbreak. News continues here on aljazeera after the listening post. We understand the differences in similarities of cultures across the wound sentimental value taking out using. The news and current affairs. Down to 0. Showing us in our minds you know what this. Was shot by a cross on the. Top called the joyous august book logic of christian brave actually trying to stop an enemy of the state to office hello im Richard Geres burden youre the listening post among the media stories that were covering this week maximum Security State the case against Julian Assange and by implication modern day journalists in new delhi rioters attack reporters 1st and ask questions later questions like are you hindu or muslim journalism from behind bars in prisons across the United States inmates are reporting on a hidden world and saudi arabia finds another form of expression it cannot tolerate it