Frustration over thailands electoral system. We start in afghanistan tens of thousands of people have been displaced following days of heavy fighting between Government Troops and taliban fighters in the south of the country it began on saturday at 8 agencies now say that hospitals are becoming overwhelmed. The fighting is in Helmand Province and centered around the regional capital lashkar gah the u. S. Has been carrying out air strikes to defend Afghan Security forces its the 1st Major Taliban offensive since peace talks with the Afghan Government began last month and it could complicate the United States plans to bring home remaining forces by christmas lets go live to work kabul contre foolery joins us from there whats happening right now in Helmand Province. Well adrian it seems that the fighting that began just a few days ago doesnt seem to be winding down in the last few hours weve been getting reports from local sources that several Afghan Security outposts around the last car got area where the fighting has been most of the fighting has been happening have been all the run by the taliban and if its any indication about how serious the situation is down there is that the afghan acting defense minister arrived in. Earlier where he wanted to personally assess the situation and he also met with senior locals in order to come up with new security rules at the same time we had another incidence with 2 Afghan Military helicopters last night i killing all 9 aboard as they were trying to evacuate some of the injured out and Security Forces from the area but it looks like the most pressing situation thats been going on there right now its like you mentioned that tens of thousands of displaced afghans the u. N. And local sources say there are about 35000 afghans that have been displaced them just for 5 days in the area and about 200 have been killed its of the biggest challenge right now is that telecommunications and and phone lines have been disrupted in the area so this. By the fact that theyre arguing assessment teams in the area its very hard for them to get the information out but from what theyre telling me the situation is very dire so far theyve only been able to identify 500. 00 displaced afghans thats about 70 families so as you can imagine there is much more much more work to be done there and some of them are liking even some of the most of basics like water food and shelter which is also very basic hospitals are overwhelmed some of them have been forced to scale down their operations and treat only those who have been injured through the fighting so its an uphill battle of how to try and bring monetary and assistance in the area which we shouldnt forget it has been one of the most volatile regions in afghanistan since since this whole war has started infrastructure has been damaged highways have been damaged and getting any humanitarian aid down in the area is difficult to begin with Adrian Grenier contraflow reporting live from kabul for you many thanks indeed more now from 0 sum up in java here in doha where the peace talks have been ongoing since last month there have been some headway in the talks and to discuss that further we have it as a Senior Advisor to president musharraf going to miss another another he was also a member of the Peace Negotiation Team thank you very much for taking the time i 1st heard you describe this as this ongoing violence as an impediment to peace in afghanistan is the afghan Negotiation Team willing to leave the table if the violence doesnt. Well our brave for National Defense and Security Forces are doing their job of protecting our people and our constitution. That this level of violence that we have seen in the past 3 weeks is a clear indicator of less care about peace by the side more about the violence that is acceptable to our people to see civilians dying to see Public Properties and Public Infrastructure be destroyed and thats not injecting a good sense of confidence in a Peace Process that we are so willingly genuinely and faithfully gauged and the other side doesnt inject that with the same level of general in this to stop the violence we need to get this violence level down or stop it completely or people demand seats so that they can build a level of trust and confidence that a Peace Process will lead to a shared future for all of our friends thats what we are. Engaged and looking forward to to work with the taleban and to get to that you. Israel has approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settle homes in the occupied west bank its the 1st time that israel has approved the building of subtle homes since the normalization deal with the United Arab Emirates and bahrain the settlements are considered illegal under International Law by. Aljazeera as leader abraham is in the occupied west bank tell us more about. This approval to build these homes and how palestinians of reacted. Well citizens of long that is building illegal israeli settlements on land that palestinians want to be their futures state is a crime under International Law and they were actually trying to get the International Criminal court to prosecute israel because this is considered an end a war crime under International Law and for palestinians they see the current Israeli Government is a bold and stronger lesions between the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and the current u. S. President bill and will trump the issue of supplements house been the reason why there has been a rift between the previous u. S. Administrator and under obama and the Israeli Government and that then yeah and weve even seen a u. S. Administration abstained from vetoing. Draft resolution in the United NationsSecurity Council in which settlements were condemned breach of International Law but ever since Trump Took Office many here is saying that netanyahu wasnt bold and by that move and has been advancing more and more illegal settlement units this year at this advancement of these units will make this year the largest advancement of. Units specifically of compared with. The past decade and what does this announcement mean for the u. A. E. Normalization deal. When the u. A. E. Viva was is signed with israel and was announced lets say the u. A. E. Has said that it was able to stop the israelis from their plans to on next parts of the occupied west bank but for palestinians even if official declare recent of an exception was not made the situation and the reality on the ground is as same as an exception and many of them will tell you that if it does not consider the next station what if many palestinians or hoping. This 2nd that trump would not get the 2nd serve in the u. S. Presidency they hope without if the democratic candidate wins elections that they would be able to curb israeli Settlement Expansion are serious no abraham reporting live from ramallah breaking news the sa from greece where a member of the far right Golden Dawn Party has been out of a life sentence for the 2013 murder of a wrap up senior members of the group of also been given jail terms that includes the head of golden dawn hes been sentenced to 13 years in prison the group is now considered to be a criminal organization under the restaurants or off list joins us now live from athens john whats the significance of these sentences. Well we do have a life sentence for the murder of the rapper plus an additional 10 years for his membership in what has now been deemed a criminal organization that is the policy and called him gone. Which ensures that he will spend a very long time in jail even on Good Behavior because a life sentence is 10 years 25 years plus those 10 a total of 35. 00. Who are the accessories to that murder the sentences were between 6 and 7 years plus one of the 5 for the end of the ship and bill of indoor on a criminal organization for the directors of golden dawn which means the party leader and another 5 senior and peace that group of 6 men received sentences of 13 years in prison for directing the organization they also trace some minor sentences for illegal weapons possession lasting several months. And for all the other. Members of parliament including the wife of golden dorms leader there are sentences of between 5 and 7 years for membership of that organization these are the final decisions of the court they are roughly at the. Recommendations of the prosecutor which came yesterday and they are i heard at the maximum all very near the maximum of the penalties for scene in the law. Now the discussion that follows is of course whether these sentences will be enforced immediately or whether they will be suspended for what we presume will be an appeals process on behalf of all of these defendants. The court may decide that even if they appeal they do have to start serving these terms we shall know that in the next 24 hours tell many thanks de downstairs john sorell from the live from athens weather update next here on how sarah then lebanon and israel hold indirect talks for the 1st time to discuss a maritime border dispute. And heavy rain triggers flash floods and landslides with the latest from vietnam and cambodia. I was still seeing some very heavy right into the fosse out west of china courtesy of Tropical Storm one care which is running what its run through high and that is pushing towards moving parts of it out of the moment but it is in the process of weakening elsewhere across china some places of cloud through central areas some wet weather coming in here lots of dry for the Korean Peninsula tony somewhat dry there into japan a low eastern parts will see some right tokyo a sucky 19 celsius then on thursday friday does look a little drier a little cooler as well as 17 degrees but too bad sherry right will make its way across the Korean Peninsula central parts of china also seeing some wet weather down towards the southwest where the rains will at last start to ease for what was that tropical depression Tropical Storm thats going to still face some showers over towards me and ma will see some heavy rain still in place across eastern parts of india then i wrote tropical depression that still brings some very heavy rain into western india will see some heavy rain there pushing up towards mumbai heavy showers along the west and get some big downpours say we do have red warnings in force and that wet weather will continue for Western Areas as we go on through friday making its way it was a fosse out a good shot. 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Of fighting between Taliban Forces and Government Troops in afghanistan has displaced tens of thousands of people it began with the taliban most coordinated attacks in Helmand Province on saturday. Russia is calling on the armed forces of armenia and azerbaijan to abide by the cease fire in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh intense fighting overnight has followed repeated violations since the cease fire which was brokered by russia. Came into force on saturday the region is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but controlled by Ethnic Armenians aljazeera is Bernard Smith reports now from goddess in armenia where the Prime Minister has just addressed the nation. Nicole partin yons given quite say frank assessment really of the Current Situation of this fighting as armenia sees it he acknowledged 1st of all the number of soldiers that are being killed he specifically said weve had many losses and i mourn these and i take all these victims personally and i bow in front of them he said and standing up he we know theres at least 532 soldiers have been killed on from the armenian side azerbaijan doesnt release the numbers of killed on the armenian side released their list of names they also release their dates of birth and most of them on the list. In 20012002 just 18 or 19 years old so very young. And also says that during the last 18 days he says theres been explicitly some retreats in the north and south those were his words and we know that azerbaijan says its taken some territory and some villages in the land that is no nagornokarabakh another land occupied by armenia doesnt say that these are strategically significant. Victories if you like all repossessions of law. As areas but he admits that that land has gone and he says that now the situation is quite difficult for us israel and lebanon 2 nations who are still technically at war have met for the 1st time in decades to discuss their maritime borders delegations in southern lebanon for what is being called indirect talks being hosted by the United Nations and mediated by the us lebanon and israel along contested the 860 square kilometers of water known as block 9 its believed to have large reserves of oil and gas waiting to be explored aljazeera sent a halt to reports now from a cooler in southern lebanon where those talks were happening. Its not going to be an easy road in the words of the lebanese one of the members of the lebanese delegation we have taken one step in a 1000 mile march so everyone is expecting this to be complicated negotiations but yes lebanon does need some sort of a breakthrough in the words of the speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri who announced the deal less than 2 weeks ago he said that the exploration and the exploitation of possible gas reserves will undoubtedly help lebanon pay its massive debt this country is and deep economic crisis so one of the reasons why they accepted to sit down and talk a definitely because of economic reasons but politics was also at play simply because of the timing the united United States really has been trying it has been engaging in diplomacy for years now and these 2 parties finally decided to sit on the table lebanon softening its position many are linking it to the pressure to the sanctions that the u. S. Is imposed on 2 particular groups hezbollah the iranian backed group which the United States considers a terrorist organization as well as its ally speaker bertie his closest aide was sanctioned on corruption charges as well as for financially enabling has a lot so there was some sort of pressure many believe thats why lebanon softened its position but at the end of the day this commercial interests are at stake and both countries will benefit if and when a deal is reached. So the protests against government corruption are expected in cyprus over the coming hours it follows an aljazeera investigation showing senior politicians were willing to sell supreme passports to convicted criminals cypruss since abolished lucrative program wanting citizenship in return for investment of entry spica seen in the undercover video says that he will abstain from duty and to an investigation is complete of serious David Harrison reports from the casea. People now had a bit of time to think about that announce. About the opposition of this possible Investment Scheme and the signs of a division over what should happen next now ive been speaking to opposition politicians and various other interested groups and theyre saying that theyve got serious doubts of this street this state that this passport scheme could be reborn reinvented under a different guys on the country could slip back into its old ways now they are very concerned about this because in the past the government has said it will tweak this scheme itll tighten the rules and each time the abuse and the weaknesses of the government describes them have continued so there is concern there on that side on the other hand weve got the Property Developers the chamber of commerce who argue that the system if its cleaned up properly is efficient under great way to bring money into the country since 2030 when the scheme was launched its brought in an estimated 8000000000. 00 us dollars which is an enormous amount of money huge percentage of the g. D. P. Of this mediterranean island now we dont know how much of that was devious money from devious sources we dont know our investigation suggested it could be quite a lot the secondary of concern is that this scheme is not going to be abolished and that end of the 1st again people are concerned that this leaves a gap a time gap for that backlog there is a huge backlog of these up occasions to be pushed through which could again allow potentially criminals a money launderer to obtain European Union passports which gives them access to the entire e. U. And up to 170 visa free countries. Kurdistans president has confirmed such a jump off as the new Prime Minister chopping off supporters in the capital bishkek you cant crowd of pushing for his appointment just enough was freed from prison last week during protests against the disputed Election Results 9 days ago from the cool region of northern kurdistan child strafford explains how the jump of emerged as the front line of. Support among his officially indorsed souther was a part of as this countrys new Prime Minister an incredible couple of weeks for this man who was serving an 11 year jail term for kidnapping before he was freed by protesters supporters of his jury in those post election protests we saw hes described by many as having strong nationally sympathies a great deal of support amongst the rural population of kyrgyzstan many of whom see that he was say that he was wrongly jailed they see him as somewhat of a hero to many other opposition groups though he is considered to be a bit of a straight he has already made public statements about potentially changing the constitution to give the president more president ial powers and there are analysts that are already saying that they believe this may be a move by him setting himself up to potentially be a president of this country in the future hes also accused of having links with criminal networks certainly amongst some of the other opposition groups that weve seen protesting after this rigged election he historically denied those accusations and actually said that hes going to go off to some of the big criminals in this country that were widely believed to be involved in election rigging. Meanwhile as i say other opposition groups in this country that do not support japan are off still feel very betrayed they are still waiting for an announcement of another election a rerun of those parliamentary polls and it remains to be seen if and when they all held they will be clean and fair. In thailand thousands of protesters are out on the streets of the capital demanding political reform. They want the Prime Minister to resign a complete overhaul of the electoral system and also calling for reforms to the monarchy and laws that protect the king from public scrutiny aljazeera scott hyde reports from bangkok. As promised in the thousands the antigovernment protesters are marching now down from democracy monument and will head toward Government House as they promised and again as weve been seeing throughout the day the Police Presence has been building up we know that there are 14000 Police Officers out for crowd control and there are Certain Court on on the way to Government House there are buses there are fences and there are lines of police. This is the 1st Police Barricade that the protesters met with on their way to the Government House now this is a bridge here now they stopped the protesters just before they reached this line of police and they pulled up here and even more are coming down from democracy monument so they negotiated their way through the Police Blockade they have marched in and now they met with the police they cross this bridge now and theyre on their way to the government. Today is very important because if we dont come out to help the students we wont get a true democracy we want to change and we have been fighting for a long time for it playing in the middle about what i dont know much about history the will play an Important Role for our future where equal nobody higher or lower. So this march in protest for the solidifies the common goals that spans generations here in thailand and that is the cabinet resigns that theres a new constitution and that theres a reform in the monarchy. Last ditch talks are taking place between the u. K. And european negotiators in an effort to avoid a no deal break says the main Sticking Point is fishing rights frances leading resistance to any move that would reduce access to british waters by its fisherman series anderson and reports now from peterhead in scotland the u. K. s most productive fishing port. Fishermen in scotland say they found the going to tough for too long on shore the scots may have voted to remain in the e. U. But out at sea theyre looking at bricks it is their savior in peterhead the port was once filled with fishing boats its different now 60 percent of the fleet was lost after the u. K. Joined what was then known as the European Community in 1973 skipper Brian Bachman whos fished the north sea for 4 decades remembers the bad times vividly after europes common fishing policy gave fishing rights to other countries now he believes its all about to change its good to be an. Element touch what we did say and when it should be a free for all fisherman in the u. K. Government look across the north sea to a new agreement with norway which is not an e. U. Member as a model on how they think it should be with the e. U. Negotiations every year with the u. K. As an independent coastal states a mutually agreed exchange of quotas and access to each others waters we have some of the best fisheries in the world in u. K. Waters and for 40 years weve been giving those fish away the majority of those special caught by other nations we shouldnt be doing that. But like most wrecks it related issues the fishing sector is complicated Seafood Processing Companies could lose access to e. U. Markets and heart of all u. K. Fish production is exported to the e. U. Does the people in the and the e. U. Wanted of course they do its where the boy in the 1st place a people of the market politicians can make all the body of the work but what its about is the people wanting the fish to pay up to be the right place for it theres a mood of Great Expectations here although within it i realize ation that some concessions are likely to be made but there are red lines and if theyre broken or blurred theyll be uproar and shouts of betrayal and at the u. K. Government planning i think this is the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson here at peterhead fish market a year ago making one of many promises to regain full control of fishing in british waters and his brics it negotiators still seem to be abiding by that pledge if the e. U. Doesnt do a u. Turn that could be a no deal brechts it and all the uncertainty that could bring Andrew Simmons aljazeera peterhead scotland at least 36 people have died in flooding in vietnam a strong storm lanka makes landfall the coast has been hit by a series of weather fronts in recent days and more rain is expected and sources here as Andrew Chapelle reports. Entire villages submerged but even before Tropical Storm long cost trucked this region hundreds of thousands of families in Central Vietnam are struggling to cope 2 weeks of rain have left communities isolated many can only be reached by boat. Close to a 1000000 people in the. Line and they are. And. None cause expected to drop up to 400 millimeters of rain on north and Central Vietnam by friday 200000 homes have already been flooded along with rice fields that people depend on to earn a living thats on top of hardships brought by the coronavirus these. Continue to work. Because these. Already. So so. Many. Like me who. Also. Rescue workers are delivering food and other supplies in the worst affected provinces in twat been hey province search and rescue teams are looking for survivors following a series of landslides a landslide at a hydro power dam left some workers dead and others missing a 2nd landslide trapped rescuers trying to reach them like with more bad weather to come many are concerned about what will happen in the days ahead and should help al jazeera. Its good to have you with us hello adrian fitting in here in doha the headlines on aljazeera israel has approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settle homes in the occupied west bank its the 1st time that israel has approved the building of settle homes since the normalization deal with the United Arab Emirates and bahrain made abraham reports from ramallah and the occupied west bank all citizens of long