Virtual reunion how a mother and her dead daughter have been brought back together. Im joined again. By african football play from one of the countrys major titles away from home soil to find out with. U. S. Officials say that theyve reached an agreement with the taliban which could soon lead to with the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan a senior official at a security conference in munich has told reporters that if the weeklong agreement is successful it could be followed by the signing more pub and peace deal lets go live to our diplomatic editor james bays whos in munich at that security conference james what more do we know about this proposal. Well adrian this is something thats been in the works for a long time over a year you remember back in september though they came very close to a signing ceremony at camp david and then President Trump pulled a hole to wall of the talks of an attack that killed 12 people one of them a u. S. Serviceman but since then the talks have started again and in recent days its been pretty clear that theyd be making some very Good Progress whats happened since then is that the afghan president bush afghanis been informed about this by phone hes now come here to munich for a much more detailed meeting of whats going to happen next and the afghan president was briefed here by the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or. The u. S. Secretary of defense also by the commander of u. S. And nato troops in afghanistan scott miller and by zalmay how is that who is the u. S. Special envoy the man whos been doing the talks with the taliban what we understand is that at some point very soon theyll start a period of 7 days a reduction of violence now thats not a cease fire theyre not using the cease fire word and certainly Afghan Government had wanted it to be a ceasefire after that though after that 7 days then were told within another 10 days or so top should start then between the taliban and all of the rest of the afghan political system the Afghan Government and other afghan Political Parties are and so the afghan president has been briefed on this how might the afghans respond. Well i think theyre going to be somewhat cautious about this because the Afghan Government has been wary about this process all along because theyve been left out of it this has been very much a deal between the u. S. And the taliban and there are lots of Unanswered Questions certainly its not going to be a cease fire and that was something the Afghan Government wanted we also dont know how many u. S. Troop troops are going to withdraw and when we know in the original deal that was stopped in september it was 5400. 00 troops that were going to be withdrawn in a matter of months its worth telling you since september theyve actually gone ahead and withdrawn 2000 troops so if theyre sticking to the original plan will perhaps see 3400. 00 or so troops withdrawn some time soon the Afghan Governments going to be very very wary no official response on this although president ghani tweeted when he was 1st phoned by secretary of state pump that he was he would look forward to see positively if there was any ensuring reduction of violence ways words suggest how significant a development is this. In the that the prospects of ending violence in afghanistan completely. Well it could be nothing this could all fall of the 1st hurdle but if this is the start of the withdrawal of u. S. Troops after 19 years of war remember the u. S. Went into afghanistan to chase down al qaida after 911 then this could be very very significant to remember in that period more than 2300 u. S. Servicemen have died and weve seen the last 19 years a continuation of the conflict thats gone on in afghanistan for some 40 years we dont know the exact number of afghans that have died president johnny said about a year ago 45000 had died in his 1st 4 years of office thats afghan servicemen on the un only started counting civilians in 2009 and it says since 2009 until the end of last year 100000 afghan civilians have died this could be important but its very very early days for this deal out as there is diplomatic editor james pace reporting live there from munich james many thanks one other development to tell you about from the meeting security conference serbia and kosovo have signed a deal to restore rail and road links off to more than 2 decades the agreement brokered by the u. S. Was scient at that security conference in munich on friday it comes off of the 2 agreed in january to launch direct commercial flights serbia still doesnt recognize kosovos independence and considers it part of its territory talks to normalize relations between the 2 ended in november 28th or i can say on behalf of the. Republic of sort of youre the former force of will feel. Much better in the future and well be able to. Stabilize the region and secure the peace for the next decades which is a phenomenal significance for all the inhabitants of the us about. What we are signing today gives another positive message that there will be more peace more stability more development and board jobs exactly what corsa vote serbia and the whole region need now to the coronavirus china is stepping up its war on the outbreak as the number of deaths rises to nearly 1400 the government says the people returning to beijing must quarantine themselves for 14 days or face punishment president xi jinping is vowing to boost virus prevention measures and fix problems exposed by the crisis which it was in whom the National Health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control of corona virus infections within medical institutions and weve given a special notice on virus control for key areas and the fever departments of the hospitals through these documents we have imposed special requirements on hearts in the personal protection of medical workers hundreds more military medics of started to work at hospitals in will handle the epicenter of the epidemic but theres growing concern about the availability of medical supplies as the number of infections rises almost all of the 65000 cases worldwide are in a province in china egypts Health Ministry has just confirmed the 1st case of corona virus there making it the 1st in africa well on friday officials in china confirmed that 6 Health Care Workers have died from the illness the World Health Organization says that its taking a closer look at those cases. Understanding is that the cases are most Health Workers peaked in the 3rd and 4th week of january and theres been a rapid falloff in the number of cases that were occurred in and Health Workers in the last 2 weeks this may reflect increased levels of training increased levels of protection and also increased levels of awareness remember this outbreak has come expanded very quickly in an unsuspecting Health System so we also need to look at how many of those Health Workers were exposed on knowingly within a clinical environment millions of people have been ordered to stay at home in her bed province the epicenter of the outbreak as the government tries to stop the spread of the virus journalists are restricted from traveling there but al jazeera obtained exclusive pictures from a resident who is trapped as a trader you report stuff beijing. Empty streets and an increasingly empty fridge there are plenty of vegetables but not much meat for the one familys next meal during the coronavirus lockdown speaking via video call from who pay one should tell us his family was doing its best not to panic. When we go home with this infection liquid all over our bodies well we go out we wear masks we dont know if we go out we come back with a virus stuck our clothes so we do see in fact every day he lives in judgment a city neighborhood the epicenter of the Virus Outbreak for 3 weeks the familys been ordered to stay indoors movement is increasingly restricted once every 3 days one Family Member is allowed to leave the house to pick up groceries supplies and a limited shop a stand in lines one meter apart waiting to enter. Its been almost a month since wanks saw his daughters who are staying with relatives in southeast china is it true that there are few relief that my wife and daughters are not there who are now we chat online every day theyre doing ok just worry about me the vast majority of confirmed coronavirus cases more than 50000 are in a province patients have been sharing videos and social media of life inside makeshift hospitals and quarantine sentence at least 1700 medical staff are among the infected. Elsewhere in china people taking any chances. Wanks in hopes leaders will learn their lesson from the outbreak. At the beginning nobody paid enough attention everyone thought it was under control until it was too late. And looks forward to life under lockdown coming to an end. Aljazeera beijing the to go as Vice President at the center for china and globalization he george starr live from london good to have you with us victor china has been widely criticized at least over its initial handling of the Virus Outbreak are those criticisms valid. No i would say that china is now faced with his very Massive PublicHealth Crisis and we need to do whatever we can to fight against the coronavirus and put the whole crisis behind us of course in the 1st phase leading all the way to generate the 20th lots of mistakes were made by Different Levels in the cover and a hierarchy and. Precious time was lost and this added to the magnitude of this crisis to start with but i think ever since jan there is a trend is china is on the right track and the whole country is being mobilized to do whatever it needs to be done to fight against the coronavirus and we are doing whatever we can to put this crisis behind us and also please allow me to express my condolences for more than 1000 chinese nationals or have passed away because of the. Time nation with these coronavirus and also please allow me to express my solid territory and full support to all those heroes why are now fighting in the frontline against the current of our as they include not only nurses doctors etc but also a lot of other people or take a low risk in fighting against this corona virus china cannot afford to lose this battle we have to win this battle against the coronavirus you talk about them the mishandling of the situation by local officials at least in the early days of the crisis while people further up the power chain in china taking responsibility why have there only been sackings a local level. I think eventually there will be a day when there will be a very detail the core knowledge of being written out and responsibilities be checked out for example we can do that another day rather than in the middle of this fight against the girl in a virus i think the local government officials wasted a lot of time. They were very dangerous ground because this coronavirus or something new even today we do not have all the scientific knowledge about the corona virus so they probably thought that they should move forward more cautiously they need to really wait until for the instructions from beijing for example however now we know that in face it with this kind of curled up virus not a single minute should be wasted and every minute should be seamless to a fight in this virus Victor Victor how do you answer the criticism the Chinese Government is. As far as some people are concerned more concerned about restricting the spread of information about the virus than it is about tackling the virus itself. Thats untrue i think if anyone with the decency of the mind with the objectivity of his mind looking at what china is doing for example imposing quarantined not only the city with a population of 12000000 people but more or less on the whole province of problems which has a population of 60000000000 people and then if you look at many other cities or voluntarily impose quarantined and restrict the movement of the people you are see that we are really leaving no stalls on turned in the fight against this coral now virus i think this demonstrates that china has really put a premium on human lives we cannot afford to lose this by the current of ours all the others are secondary fighting against the growth of ours and winning this war is the most important enough and finally the drawn 1st that we saw that revision excuse me of infection rates and death rates due to. A different way of. Confirming whether someone actually has the virus a child has claims to being completely open and honest about the infection and death rates credible. I think ever since the 2nd phase started on january the 20th i think. Government agencies throughout china at Different Levels of the government hierarchy are doing their best to come up with disclosure full disclosure and this is very important in fighting against the grown up virus now the way how the contraction is defined is a very much of a medical and scientific away and i think the day before yesterday the huge boost in the number of contract it cases is a reflection of using a more pragmatic way to define contract in the raid and i think this will actually put more people who may have suspicious symptoms be included in the contraction this is actually good for all of us because we were nor how many people are being contracted and this will have the medical personnel on the ground any other parts of china to do a better job in fighting against this core of our virus on to win this war many thanks indeed for to going there as you were having me thank you. This is the news from al jazeera still to come on the program making the job impossible a rare rebuke of Donald Trumps tweets by the u. S. Attorney general. A show of strength by female supporters of the iraqi cleric but. Others to fight his call to stop protesting alongside men. And one of englands oldest football clubs heads for liquidation thats coming up along with the rest of the sport the job a little later. The Syrian Government helicopter has been shot down in the northwest of the country state media reports that all crew were killed its not yet clear who is responsible but rebels say that they shot it down Government Forces are trying to retake the remaining rebel held areas of the country al jazeera. Is at the turkey syria border and says the downing of the helicopter comes at a time when turkish and Syrian Forces are risking further direct confrontation. The helicopter was taking part in a major government offensive to take over areas on the west of. The government managed to retake some villages from the rebels and crucial military bases when the helicopter was shot down the rubble say that they were the ones who opened fire on the helicopter however government sources say that the Syrian Government sources people obviously with them their supporters all insist that this is the work of Turkish Military outposts operating in this terms as these Turkish Military is sending more reinforcement into living different parts of the province to try to hold the advance of the Syrian Government which says its just a matter of time before it takes over the whole territory including in libya which is the rebels last stronghold in syria about 140000 syrians fled their homes over the last 4 days and they are now on the border with turkey joining the almost 1000000 people stranded on the border area were talking about a huge number of people and the International Aid agencies are grappling with how to deal with this situation were talking about areas with near military operations where the government is on the move to take over rebel territories as a very delicate situation weve been talking to activists and basically they say its already a tragic humanitarian situation. In a rare repeat of donald trump u. S. Attorney general william barres criticized the president s use of twitter a series of tweets by trump called for reduced prison sentence for his close i want to stone stone is trumps former Campaign Adviser whos been convicted of lying to congress witness tampering and obstruction of justice all for federal prosecutors quit on tuesday after the Justice Department said that it would reduce their recommended sentence of up to 9 years. You have public statements and tweets made about the department about. People in the department our men and women here about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases. Make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors in the in the department that were doing our work with integrity a White House Correspondent kimberly heloc and says the boss unusual critique of trump has raised many questions its enormously surprising its very rare public criticism from one of the president s biggest defenders and so thats what makes it so on usual because donald trump is a president that while he doesnt offer it he demands loyalty weve seen others in his cabinet who have sort of broken ranks eventually quietly being dismissed sometimes not so quietly the former attorney general Jeff Sessions also the former chief of staff john kelly so theres a lot of speculation in washington right now about why william barr might be doing this is it to protect his own reputation were simply left to speculate but there is some thinking that perhaps this was coordinated and calculated given the fact that william barr has seen the departure of 4 attorneys from the department of justice that he oversees as a res