Attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do know it does seem as though a large number of civilians once again have been caught up in a battle between taliban and Coalition Forces and a number include colluding many women and children this comes of course as afghanistan is preparing for its president ial election in the coming saturday the last couple of days have been generally quiet here in afghanistan but we have seen generally a surge in the number of attacks taking place both by the taliban who have threatened to disrupt t
A Building Collapse that killed 8 children. And the yuki u. K. Supremes cool prepares to rule on whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson i have to do legally when he shut down parliament. The 1st the deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding adding to Major Concerns about security days out from the president ial election no one has yet certain exactly what happened in the most a collar region of Helmand Province on sunday night the government says the army was targeting a taliban Training Base when they killed fighters and arrested others the question is why so many civilians died time and c. Is a former afghan Deputy Defense minister he says high sufficient villian casualty numbers are mainly caused by the taliban using people as human shields as well as poor government intelligence methods. This civilly and casualties who has been going on you know sense to us as been documented since 2006. Often what happens is because both sides would like to intensify the war and pressure each other.
The context of this visit is that theres been an increase of u. S. Sanctions against iran as an increase of tensions in the region and theres a military buildup but also side uribe has accused iran of being behind the attack on the Oil Facilities for president rouhani said this morning that the United States has cheerier motives. Are massively. Regarding the issues in the region they are exaggerating what has happened to iran cause what is the reason for that the reason is that americans want to keep control of the whole region now they say they want to bring Patriot Defense systems into the region its clear they want to keep control of saudi arabias oil that comes from the eastern part this conflict is not about us it is about the american competition with chinese and others they are taking advantage of this opportunity president rouhani is also expected to present an alternative peace plan thats in the face of the u. S. Naval coalition that theyve put together what the u. S. Says is
Fighting in northwest of the country and indeed theres a great deal of disagreement as to the status of the northeast of the country. Yes well i think what theyre trying to do is deal with one narrow post of this which is the future constitutional arrangements for syria and that takes you away from the issues on the ground but clearly the issues on the ground are so serious when you have the province of idlib which very much now is the last battleground of this long war when you have 3000000 people there when you have persistent claims that the Syrian Government and its russian allies are bombing those people but in particular bombing medical centers and hospitals there and no one really knows how this is going to conclude and everyone fears that they could be a very big death toll there is nowhere really for these people to flee not possible in most cases for them to cross the border into. Turkey and they obviously many of them fearful to cross the line from where they are indeed live
A theme like lives matter is here all sorts of groups from different parts of the community are protesting the drivers obviously around d. C. Are pretty angry but as the presses point out there is a Climate Emergency under way so you might have to have a bit of a slow commutes at least today lets turn to other news now and at least 40 people have been killed in afghanistan in whats believed to have been an air strike that happens in the muscle collar region of Helmand Province people have gone that arent sign to locals facility wounded are being treated authorities are investigating reports that the airstrike hit a wedding celebration a mistake correspondent robin wright has more from kabul. This seems to have been a Major Military operation in the mussa color district of Helmand Province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems Ground Forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military o