Demanding the president step down. And a road map for a return to democracy malis military and the opposition agree on a transition after last months coup. A make over for one of istanbuls famous landmarks but thats causing concern for many turks and its for Lewis Hamilton a secure position for the groom for the reigning World Champion inside the leader of the front of the grid for the 7th time in braces. Welcome to the news hour the Afghan Government and the taliban officials have come face to face for the 1st time to negotiate a return to peace after decades of fighting there in the qatari capital to find a political solution to end nearly 20 years of violence. Thats killed over 40000 people from doha heres a song. After decades of war and conflict of understand finally has a shot at peace. This is a former of the minister whose governments been fighting the taliban and here is the cofounder of the taliban still a potent fighting force once on enemies they sit in the same room facing each other for the 1st time since the start of the nearly 2 decades long afghan war follows a fruit we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the negatives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and where we stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can define together it took months to initiate the interest of gun dialogue the taliban insisted on the release of 5000 prisoners before talks could begin and in turn released 1000 Afghan Government detainees. Their protests we have acted accordingly to all the points outlined in the previous agreement and we are requesting the other side to act accordingly to those things that have been agreed to so we can have this process without any problems ahead we want of understand to be an independent developed country and it should have a form of islamic system where all its citizens see themselves reflected. In february the Us Government agreed to pull out its troops from afghanistan provided the taliban guarantee to halt attacks against the u. S. And its allies as the end of the longest running u. S. Warning is leaders want to remind allies they will not be left behind each of you i hope you will look inside your heart. Each of you carry a great responsibility. But no no that youre not. The entire world wants you to succeed and if counting on you succeeding since the us agreement was signed in february thousands of people have been killed in fighting between Taliban Forces and the Afghan Government major issues such as the talibans insistence on an Islamic Emirate and position on the rights of women and the constitution need to be resolved if the road to achieve intra of gone dialogue was hard getting results out of it is going to be even harder both the Afghan Government delegation as well as the delegation being led by the taliban need to make compromises both sides agree that they are willing to make those compromises the weeks and days ahead are going to determine whether its going to be successful some of. The. Well as we mentioned qatar is hosting the talks and its foreign minister says this is an opportunity for both sides to rise above divisions. Not have it and these negotiations represent a keen sensitive face to the Afghan People to find solutions to all controversial matters i hope you agree with me that today we must overcome the past and its pains and focus on the future and the hope it brings us well surely drawing lessons from the past all of this requires everyone to embrace the future within which he was the last experience and a firm belief in the right of the Afghan People to enjoy Peace Security and unity and to follow in the path of progress and never be left behind the u. N. Secretary general as well as Foreign Ministers of several countries attended the talks virtually on terrorism as its critical that afghan women and their voices are represented in the peace talks an inclusive Peace Process in which women use and victims of coffee that meaningfully presented offers the best hope of a sustainable solution all parties must of their parts to ensure that women rights of law and that the Peace Process reflects the experiences and the expertise and the afghan women in all their diversity nato says the Alliance Remains committed to afghanistans long term security nato has stood with the Afghan People for the last 19 years we are now adjusting our troop presence in afghanistan to support the peace efforts at the same time we remain committed to changing and funding Afghan Security forces to help safeguard the Afghan People. So lets take more closely a look at the deal that was signed between the taliban and the u. S. Back in february which paved the way for saturdays talks part of the agreement gave 12000. 00 u. S. Troops and other nato forces 14 months to leave afghanistan the pentagon plans to have fewer than 5000 remaining by the end of november in return the taliban committed to preventing other groups including al qaida from using afghanistan as a base to threaten the u. S. And its allies the Afghan Government has already released nearly 5000 taliban prisoners and agreed in august to release 400 another condition in the deal was the launch of interim afghan negotiations by march the 10th that meeting was delayed because of disagreements over februarys president ial Election Results as well as the corona Virus Outbreak lets talk to scott smith from the u. S. Institute of peace hes been involved in attempts to bring peace to afghanistan for many years hes joining us from new york thanks very much for your time with us on aljazeera and well get into the u. S. A stake in all of this in a moment but 1st in your opinion how willing are both sides to compromise the Afghan Government as well as the taliban. Well from what i heard. Speaking to people in doha who are part of this Opening Ceremony to the mood it has been very positive and i think its one of the risks that both parties took which they did not want any sort of mediation in one 3rd party in the room which could have been risky if things began to break down but in fact the meeting was very cordial both in the meeting itself and afterwards and that is a good sign that there is a willingness to compromise what we dont know very much of what the actual taliban positions are on a lot of issues and we also know that the Afghan Government is very determined to maintain the sort of system of government that it has so that confrontation over the political system is yet to come but so far the signs are positive that there is a willingness to meet to talk and then hopefully that will mean to make the difficult compromises that will be for sure ahead well but are the taliban really willing to compromise to that extent when they actually have leverage on the ground at the moment and and critics of the taliban will say well they cant be trusted from previous experiences. Yes all of us have asked this question even before the Peace Agreement in february even before the u. S. Directly engaging with the taliban in july of 2018 weve all asked the question are the taliban willing to compromise why they have the momentum and the answer is we wont know until they what happens this week actually happens until they actually sit down to begin to talk with the government one of the things that ive heard from some. Form of the taliban is that they may have the momentum but they also understand they will not will win this war and the worst painful for them is cause a lot of deaths and what they really want if they can get it on terms that are acceptable to them is a chance to return to their country and sort of lives of more or less in a land that they that they recognize so you know that question remains to be seen but a lot of us who have been working on this issue for a long time have thought that that let the supposition that they dont want to compromise not be a reason for not sitting down and actually meeting and then you have such a chorus invested in this process for the trumpet ministration and for trump personally how important is it for him to secure a deal before the november election i mean hes campaigned on getting the u. S. Out of what he calls and less wars. You know i think the chance of getting a deal before the election is remote but i think there was a real intent to at least get these negotiations started before the election you would have noticed there is a narrative around that from campaign about sort of peace initiatives in the middle east between serbia and kosovo. The afghanistan process he dated all of this and i think the trauma surgeon would have liked to have some sort of results much earlier but i think they at least wanted to see these negotiations begin before the election and that contributes to that narrative and more fundamentally i think for the for the trumpet ministration it contributes to the possibility of getting troops out. In the way that theyve been you know quite significantly reduced in the last year and a half or so out of all of the issues then what do you think is the most challenging one what do you going to be cooling the looking out to come out of these talks the 1st issue is whether or not there can be if not a cease fire at least the significant reduction of violence greater freedom of movement if that can create an atmosphere while the talks are going on because we know there will be difficult. But at least to show something to the Afghan People that you know this is the beginning of the end of that conflict then the tricky issues will be over the nature of the government whether there will be an interim government while negotiation is go on and on this there are obviously some very very significant differences between the 2 sides all right scott smith thank you for joining us from new york thank you very much. The news are all just 0 there is plenty more ahead including voicing their anger against raines recognition of israel we speak to a top palestinian leader. Not everybody living in the street everybody living in the. Frustration and anger boils over on the greek island of los posed as refugees find themselves on the streets for another day. And sport arsenal make a winning start as the new English Premier League season begins that story is coming up a little later. Police about the roof of detained dozens of women attempting to join the latest weekend protest against president Alexander Lukashenko but over 10000 women have defied the latest government crackdown to march down the streets of the capital minsk demanding the question because resignation since he was declared the winner of last months election critics say was rigged suffer without a protest site and something reports. Every saturday for the last couple of weeks women have been marching here in the center of minsk. Women smart to release the Political Prisoners and also. To step down in recent weeks why did spark release has inflamed so many has particular lead been detained in the last couple of days so women are still. And theyre still gathering here. Looking. For women. But not screaming. What kind of power is this does it see people doesnt listen to people is this our power how does this relate to a constitution onto a Law Enforcement system these a peaceful women without weapons. A group of women is now being locked up for by the master policeman their own remake and shouting to be released would be tensions are completely random here right now some women manage to escape by just simply jumping the fence but a lot of policemen here right now and people are screaming women are screaming why are we being detained greek police have fired tear gas at refugees during clashes on the island of less pows while ns broke out after police tried to arrest 3 people theres been protests on the island with refugees demanding to be taken to the mainland after the camera they were in and burnt down earlier this week. Reports. The arrest of an elderly man sparks violence after news pelts the arresting officers with rocks was. And they respond with tear gas women and children who were sitting there by panic and seek shelter in the islands municipal refugee camp stuff here terrified that Asylum Seekers displaced by the burning of the main camp at moria may try to set fire to this one as well and the crush this afghan boy is separated from his parents and after inhaling tear gas an infant is rushed to hospital unconscious days have passed since greeces largest refugee camp morea down on the island of last bus bottled up on a stretch of highway these refugees have slept rough and are hungry angry and impatient because of daily protests the army has not distributed food and water spraying even more and that weve got no place to stay for 45. 00 days now will place to stay no food no. Laura. We decided to go to this show so they bring us to the mainland but the police the military the blog the road since we are staying here. Not everybody living in the street everybody live in india we need freedom we dont want to maria we dont want we dont want agrees to have a quit the comp thats one wont. Down the road the government is rushing to set up temporary shelters to get people off the street and out of the mountain olive groves this is moria to tell rearranged by the sea now being landscape and fitted with tents where a few 1000 people will be able to stay at least temporarily a few Asylum Seekers are struggling in but theres been no Mass Transportation of them yet off the streets here however that is what they also rotis intend as soon as possible because here they can be fed and watered and the Public Safety can be assured some refugees arrive to take a look at their immediate future. And install themselves but some of this afghan children have had 2 birthdays in. School we will not always get our money good moment you know i mean we are ready to die here we dont want to go and live in a tent in another camp we want freedom all the refugees but for these People Freedom for now is brewing tea on the asphalt and camping on the driveway of a car dealership jumps are hopeless aljazeera lesbos. Their hands have responded angrily to a decision by behaving to normalize ties with israel at a protest people burns portraits of the behind me king u. S. President on the israeli Prime Minister hamas officials have called the agreement shameful disgraceful and reprehensible it comes one month after the United Arab Emirates also agreed to normalize relations with israel. I have the hope that the get behind it this is a political sin that behind is committing and Must Withdraw from it because this agreement seriously harms the palestinian cause and serves only the electorial interests of trump and netanyahu so about a card says the secretary general of the p. 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He says the deal between the horizon and israel goes against a 2 state solution if youre trying to export to us by having behind anonymity as a maybe others sign peace treaties with israel so they cant tell us youre alone come and then a day and elation ship any relationships must be based on that theyre in the one ward if they are fair and the only way to peace is justice and justice means live and let live and the option is to stay its 1967 borders the state of palestine with its gambit will be live side by side the state of israel peace and security on the 67. 00 borders this concept is whats being destroyed and eliminated by questionnaire the emirates and bahrain and these steps have added one thing only their strength and extremism at the expense of palestinian and arab moderates and people who want democracy human rights womens rights and the rule of law and thats the main achievement of President Trump by doing these deals there are more protests in lebanon demanding justice over the beirut airport explosion a few 100 demonstrators were met with a heavy security presence as they tried to reach the president ial palace theyre calling for accountability following last months explosion which killed nearly 200 people. Malis military and political groups have agreed on a plan for the countrys future after last months screw it comes after 3 days of talks in the capital bamako the former president ever hey move a car kato was ousted by the army in august after months of protests. Is it the locals is it better than what we have achieved here gives me hope for a new mali a democratic secular prosperous founded on work social justice and equality its on this note of hope that i close these talks for take a closer look at whats been agreed to this is that under the plan the military will retain a firm grip on the Transitional Government malis interim president will be chosen by a college set up of these. The interim president will act as head of states and oversee the transition to civilian rule the parties have also agreed to hold new general elections within 18 months live to buy the duties following developments from the nigerian capital abuja what kind of reaction has been coming through now that this plan has been announced. From mali its of been discordant voices from within the Discussion Forum members some members are not happy and legend that the input to the resolutions of this 3 day talks have been largely ignored by organizers and on the other hand course has al