Sense of a 380 to pick up tourists stranded by the bankruptcy of trouble for thomas cook. The deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding are 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 color region of Helmand Province on sunday night the government says the army was targeting a taliban Training Base where they killed fighters and arrested others the question is why so many civilians died lets go to our correspondent rob mcbride who joins us live from kabul rob there seems as i mentioned that to be a tremendous amount of confusion about the death toll and what exactly the intended target was what more do we know. Thats right i mean all sides it seems are still trying to ascertain exactly what happened on sunday night what everybody is agreed on of course is that there has been a substantial loss of life part of the problem here is mr color district is a taliban stronghold deep in Helmand Province it is very remote area but the ministry of defense says it is trying to launch an investigation to find out exactly what happened but it is sticking with what he was saying yesterday monday that this was a targeted action against what he calls foreign al qaeda operatives it says that around 22. 00 foreign fighters were killed a further 40 or so were captured in what seems to have taken place is a ground offensive but also an air strike so a possibly a double attack now everybody seems to accept that a number of foreign fighters were targeted and work killed but there is no obvious the dispute about exactly the number of civilians who were caught up in this we do know it does seem as though a Wedding Party or was caught up the number of civilians at this Wedding Party were killed and injured pictures have been picked up by one of the main agencies that are now reaching kabul which do seem to show women and children being amongst the victims there are some very some very harrowing scenes of bodies but also injured injured children now we dont know the original source of these pictures so its difficult to vouch for their veracity but if they are authentic then it would seem to indicate that there has been an attack there has been a number of civilians caught in this Wedding Party who are now casualties in the rubble all of this appears to be happening during an upsurge in violence in the run to elections there next weekend. Thats right things go in cycles here the last couple of days have been relatively quiet but of course there are incidents all the time most of them dont tend to make the news because these incidents happen all across afghanistan but generally there has been a not pick up tick in violent activity the taliban has said its committed to trying to disrupt these elections to step up its Violent Attacks the authorities here say theyre just as determined to try to fight back and to try to maintain the security to keep open as many polling stations as possible but it does come with some sobering figures that are being released just yesterday monday by afghanistans ministry of health showing that in the past year some 3300 civilians were killed in fighting between the taliban groups of fighters here and the Security Forces and a further 14 and a half 1000 civilians were injured and we know of course that already in 2019 according to the United Nations this year has the dubious reputation of having more civilians killed by Coalition Actions than by the taliban and as you mentioned there we still got several days to go before this election tomorrow wednesday is the last major day of campaigning and then afghanistan goes into what they call this period of silence where the political scene tries to cool itself down people contemplate how theyre going to vote on saturday there is no such equivalence in the military sphere neither side it seems are committing themselves to any kind of ceasefire or even reducing the amount of activity ahead of saturday neve rob a bride in kabul thank you very much. The u. K. France and germany have joined the u. S. And blaming iran for the drone attack on Saudi Oil Facilities earlier this month european leaders met on the sidelines of the Un General Assembly in new york french president emanuel also spoke with irans house and rouhani who insists his country had nothing to do with the oil strikes. Separately u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson has been putting out mixed signals about the Iran Nuclear Deal as our diplomatic editor james base. Is the u. K. About to bricks it from the Iran Nuclear Deal there is great confusion after comments made in interviews by Prime MinisterBoris Johnson in which he said it was a bad deal that needs renegotiating and that President Trump was the man to do so as president from right is in there was a bad deal it wasnt a great deal iran was was and is behaving disruptively in the region and i think this one guy who can do a better deal trump was quick to seize on what appeared to be a change in u. K. Policy oh i respect boris a lot and i am not at all surprised that he was the 1st one to come out and say that later though this statement is clarification the Prime Minister supports the jay c. P. O. Way thats the Iran Nuclear Deal the iranians arent currently in compliance and we need to bring them back into compliance. It all comes at a time of growing tension the u. K. France and germany have now joined the u. S. In declaring that iran was responsible for the drone attacks on saudi arabias Oil Installations meanwhile irans foreign minister mohammed job and zarif says a meeting between President Trump and president rouhani will certainly not take place this week but he says iran will propose a new peace mechanism its calling the Hormuz Initiative which will consist of all the countries in the gulf under a u. N. Umbrella he believe it should be the countries in the region but the u. N. Umbrella addresses a number of concerns versus the u. N. Umbrella dresses the disparities assize how. Hes a bird. Hes just about it before always do even if we do the g. C. C. As you know developments regarding iran are moving extremely fast and President Trump is likely to devote a significant part of his speech to the General Assembly on choose day to the ongoing crisis james 0 at the United Nations well leaders have come together at the u. N. For a Climate Change summit to try to prevent a global irreversible catastrophe the summit part of the General Assembly countries to make faster reforms a new u. N. Report has found commitments to cut Greenhouse Gases must be at least tripled to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement at least 66. 00 countries say they intend to achieve net 0 Carbon Dioxide emissions by 2050 but 14 nations representing a quarter of global emissions have refused to improve their current climate plans by next years deadline set by u. N. Chief antonio terrorists while their inaction drew a scolding from teenage activists gretta totenberg as jonah hole reports from the un im announcing that earlier this morning we have filed an official complaint under the convention on the rights of the child. Weld leaders dont like being told what to do much less by a group of School Children including a certain swedish teenager who decided to take them to court my name is to get the tune that i am 16 years old and im doing this because well it is off failing to protect the rights of the child by continue to ignore the Climate Crisis a summit on Climate Change is the centerpiece of this years General Assembly and grettir totenberg it stand strong. Its a shift in emphasis 1st secretary general antonio tennis who came to office focusing on conflict resolution but instead has watched peace escaped the likes of syria yemen and libya with a new cold flick looming in the gulf it is that sense of urgency but i have to say the secretary general didnt do it alone i think all you had to do is watch the millions of people especially young people that were in the streets on friday and the secretary generals fully aware that he may have been speaking but in the back there were millions of young people screaming and pushing and demanding action that it takes children to call World Leaders to account on Something LikeClimate Change says a lot about the state of global diplomacy as it does about the ever more elusive search for consensus that the u. N. And this vast gathering are supposed to be about 193 countries represented more than 500 side events a blizzard of activity but how much can actually be achieved for the diplomat and u. N. Weapons inspector Richard Butler anyone who walks into an Assembly Like this and thinks that i can get what i want from it selfishly and take it away put it in my pocket. Is not living on the same planet that im living on interdependence is the name of the game finding solutions that suit a larger rather than a smaller number of people is what this place is about and. The moral imperative to do so is the case. That an assembly of this magnitude mobilize the imperative to act on Climate Change is not shared by President Trump who attended a parallel meeting on religious freedoms instead a deliberate attempt to divert attention from a cause he doesnt believe in critics said an attempt that doesnt appear to have worked jonah aljazeera at the u. N. In new york well as he attends the u. N. General assembly. Shaikh mounting questions and pressure about his dealings with ukraine hes accused of pressuring the ukrainian president to investigate the family of political rival joe biden congressional committees want to obtain documents relating to the phone call in question Many Democrats believe it could be grounds for impeachment. Explains from washington d. C. The chairman of 3 congressional committees have signed a joint letter sent to the secretary of state my pompei are demanding that the transcript of President Trumps conversation with the ukrainian president be presented to congress in another move as well the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the acting director of National Intelligence to appear before it on thursday to explain why hes been withholding the complaint made by a whistleblower from Congress Something that congress contends hes legally obliged to do the whole issue has galvanized the debate about impeachment a number of democrats were reluctant to go down that route including the House Speaker nancy pelosi arguing that it could be politically explosive however the latest incident concerning that phone call with the ukraine has led to more democrats beginning to insist that the impeachment process is the only way to go the key day though is thursday when the acting director of National Intelligence is quizzed by members of the House Intelligence Committee. 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Youre watching out is there a reminder of our top stories this hour the u. K. France and germany have by the u. S. Im blaming iran for a drone strike on Saudi Oil Facilities earlier this month iranian Prime Minister haasan who denies the accusations. World leaders have been attending a Climate Change summit at the u. N. To try to prevent a global irreversible catastrophe teenage activist groups at sumburgh delivered a scathing speech accusing World Leaders of betraying young people by failing to do enough. On the deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding adding to Major Concerns about security days out from the president ial election the government says the army was targeting a taliban Training Base. Well tom in c. Is former Deputy Defense minister in afghanistan he joins us now live from kabul close to this isnt meant to have been an intelligence led operation how is it possible then for guest of the wedding to have been mixed up in this incident. Well sadly what happens is that the taliban often uses civilians and civilian homes as shields and also as safe havens and but also on the other side of the Afghan Government intelligence apparent this is not very strong and often times it leads to sad civilian casualties this doesnt appear to have been a one off incident there have been reports that there be more civilian casualties blamed on afghan and coalition Security Forces than on the taliban in 2019 whats going on. Well this civilian 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. On the battlefield they end up targeting areas where theres a lot of Collateral Damage even though the Afghan Government and the Coalition Forces have very stringent Standard Operating Procedures or is so easy as it is called where they where as if they see and if they have intelligence both through the eyes are a human intelligence that there are you know possibilities of human civilians basically around a particular target they wouldnt target that area but often case what happens is that recently they have increased air operations in afghanistan and you are now as you know airstrikes often lead to a lot of tragic civilian casualties so the rise in the hike in civilian casualties it has mostly to do with air strikes and also special ops with faulty intelligence the president gunny has repeatedly called for the Armed Services in the country and for Coalition Support to be much more cautious when it comes to. Rolling rolling out operations there exactly like this with only days away from the election of course an incident like this clearly doesnt look good for the president doesnt. The president recently fired his chief of intelligence the National Director of security mr starr precisely over civilian casualties because some of the. Special forces conducted some operations in eastern afghanistan which is the main base of president irony and this particular incident in helmand would also in a major way affect his political standing in southern afghanistan so politically it will cost him and also it will also affect. The professionalism of the Afghan Forces but the president and other Security Forces has been calling Security Forces leaders as we calling for reform of the targeting practices and also on protection of civilians there has been policies and mechani