A busy part of kabul it came on the 1st day of official campaigning for the president ial vote is a former head of afghanistans Main Intelligence Agency and is regarded as one of the talibans fiercest opponents and president ashraf ghani kicked off his bid for another term by announcing that peace is coming and promising to start talks with the taliban but the group has already rejected his peace ministers claim that direct talks to be held in the next 2 weeks. All have it very dark is a lecture of government and politics at cardon university and he says it is important for the Afghan Government to be seen as focusing on more than just the upcoming election. So this is not the 1st time the government has announced that they will go into direct talks with the taliban and perhaps this is not the last time and every time they have talked about going into direct talks with the taliban the taliban have flatly rejected it and did the statement that came out from the taliban was basically saying that all of those people who were. Who will be from the government and the. Dialogue will be that in their personal capacity it looks like the taliban have live coverage as far as this whole Peace Process is concerned they are talking to the americans directly and the african government feels left out on the other side you have president danny who is focusing on the elections this priority is elections to ensure that he comes to power for another 5 years i dont know if demand to be due to show that they are involved but i think president gandhi wanted to show dad some some level of priority as well as just not the elections hindu podiums looking for enlightenment are flocking to a cape inside indian administered kashmir in growing numbers but environmentalists say the waste they leave behind is threatening then vironment reports. Of a high in the himalayan mountains an indian administered kashmir these 100 who grimms a travelling 15 kilometers of the hostile terrain they hitting one of the fates holy shrines inside ominous kegs in past decades just a few 1000 pilgrims made the journey each year now these hundreds of thousands. I would pray at the cape that peace and tranquility should remain in our country and everyone should live in a brotherhood but the environmental costs are severe the achieve. All this is such a beautiful holy cave but pogroms have turned this into a picnic spot pilgrims should give a contribution towards the environment and prevent pollution there is not much weiss management here rubbish as littered everywhere on this western tip of the himalayas locals have set up small restaurants and kitchens with little government regulation the waste they produce is dumped in glassy is streams in gorges it pollutes the tributaries that flow into the light and sound rivers kashmirs main water so its then this the human waste the impact of their 11 that number of polygamy is undergone looted number of pilgrims in the system is that there are impacts adverse impacts on every aspect of the ecosystem there and we have to keep in mind that this of course assumes very frail but. The poverty here is pervasive and those supporting the programs say they need to make money outweighs the costs amada body etc if the number of pilgrims is restricted and we dont work for these 3 months it will have an impact on our livelihood we earn for only a few months and then must live off that for the rest of the year. The government believes its doing enough to counteract any environmental damage we have up even with the pilgrims we have welcomed them made them o. B. L. We have educated them and every year he said that after the. Good images. The order the groups will to top it was done and what so what garbage is that we disconnected by the sideboard authorities and is disposed of with the shrine is only accessible for 6 weeks this year i made oldest the way the will close in a date environmentalists here say khan come quick enough challenge dallas aljazeera. And so had and theyre out we had to colombia as the country celebrates its 1st Tour De France champion thats coming up in a sport find out. With. Google goog. You want. To go. To work. With. You when. You were. A 16 year old american teenager is 3000000. 00 sweet richer after winning the 1st world cup for the video game fortnight kyle gears off known online as one of the sole events of the competition it was held in the Arthur Ashe Stadium in new york city its the largest prize in the history of sports. And from eastport the others kind of sports here is peter for that thank you very much colombian cyclist no has been crowned the 20192 to france champion. Tradition he was on challenge on the final stage of cyclings most famous race the 22 year old crossed the line that the songs only say in paris wearing the Yellow Jersey that now is the youngest winner of the 2 in 110 years and the 1st from columbia. But no hails from the small city of. Play since falling in love with cycling thanks to a new Tour De France champion. He explains. Well the level of excitement is just extraordinary here and see for the hometown again hundreds of people rode their bicycles from as far as the capital. To here and shared this story they had the 1st time that a colombian the 1st time that a latin american won the Tour De France but theyre now list also the youngest rider to win in more than a 100 years so you can imagine what all this means for a place like cuba and i recall cheryl town members as many here comes from a family of all of this mean and still made it through his humbleness is perseverance he made it to the pinnacle of the sport we spoke to a number of years cycling by these from the pack you know i think its just unbelievable that one of them me that to paris wearing the Yellow Jersey. Police just really says a look were happy so happy its unbelievable hes a 22 year old that rode on our same streets with the same friends and were seeing him now wearing the Yellow Jersey arriving at the shops elisei its astonishing it gives us goosebumps when control was a little tough but we would meet him on the road but it was very difficult to stay behind maybe for one or 2 kilometers hes a real talent impossible to catch up with him its a very special day for everybody here. Next to stop and has won a chaotic formula one grand prix in germany Lewis Hamilton head start of the race strong the front of the grid but as joanna goes are all School Reports the weather upset the World Champion the end of most of the pack. In formula one where it can mean wild and the incident packed german crump recently provided plenty of distraction from the rain a slippery hockenheim track drivers in a spin including red bulls max pushed up and made it to so far. In the pits the teens worked overtime to find the right tires for the changing conditions. But drivers still had problem staying on track for always charlotte clerk was one of them and say these victory hopes unravelled when pole city Lewis Hamilton spun twice finishing 11th before teammate Valtteri Bottas came of completely ending his race in the wall. Out in front much the staff and kept a cool head to win his 2nd race of the season and Ferrari Sebastian vettel drove an incredible race from last place to finish 2nd in front of his home crowd rather than the moment that made a nice 36 years it was nice and showing up but of course to come out on top here it was all about trying not to make too many mistakes and youre really tricky conditions but it was amazing to where it was oh right there in that sound stage felt like they were was a lot of fun its very tough but the conditions are very tough to read whats that the smartest move but. Yeah im just happy to stop and swim leaves him 3rd in the championship standings but despite all the ups and downs of the race hamilton still leads a halfway stage of the season joining us on just. Drama to the suzuka 8 hours race in japan after the race was stopped early it looked like suzuki would win the in durance World Championship but the amount of blue with 6. To go riding in mass on was forced to retire attention then turn to cover sucky jonathan ray of the world superbike champion slipped on the oil left on the track with just 20 seconds to go triggering a race stoppage with cover sucky failing to finish the win was given to suki but hours later following a successful appeal busy sucky france were declared the new champion. South koreas jin young co has clinched a 2nd major title of the golf season she fired a final round 4 under par 67 in the rain to win the evian championship in france by 2 strokes who won the a in a inspiration in april be playing partner kim. And after a long and illustrious career which featured 8 major victories tom watson has played his final round of competitive golf the american hold out for the last time at the senior open in england 6 weeks thrilled of the 70th birthday what and says he no longer has the tools in the tool box to be competitive sri lankas cricketers have removed an unwanted blemish on their one Day International record they recorded their 1st home series winning nearly 4 years they were up against bangladesh in colombo on sunday in the 2nd match of a 3 game series mushfiqur run hims unbeaten 98. 2388. In response or lankan opening batsman the vision of amanda 82 was the home team chased down the target with 7 wickets still in hand former captain Angelo Mathews hitting the winning run as. Gareth bells move from real madrid to chinese club jenks to signing is off the 30 year old had been expected to join the Chinese Super league club where he will sit over 1200000. 00 a week but the transfer has been blocked by real madrid of the board deemed the transfer fee insufficient the viking was made famous by iceland fans at unit 2016 but its been perfected by the malaysians at the f. A. Cup final more than 83000 were there in koala lumpur and before kick off they performed the traditional celebration. Malaysias Football League claims its fate and new National Record for the countrys biggest viking clapp. Most sport coming up from us again later well see you then. And before we go we can take you to gilroy and savages these are live pictures from there where a shooting has taken place and 11 people have been reported injured some seriously to stay with us so head raman will be here with all the latest and more of the days news every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most on aljazeera bogost and i just. Want to want to step back to gauge how in the legal law theres a plundering some of cambodias long stream aiming for is marking 2 years since the start of myanmars military campaign thats close hundreds of thousands of ranger muslims into exile how you look in countries and billions of you supply arms used in the gambit resulting in the worlds worst humanitarian crisis another bid to preserve multilateralism within a group of the 7 most advanced economies will cohesion prevail over challenges that the g 7 face drawing on a decade of aljazeera documentary must be behind the visit to our cause to find out how the story moved on aug. One term begins with but it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of Saddam Hussein and this is a regime that has something to hide they had prepared a significant Propaganda Machine and guess what not one w m d shite was found in iraq so its about 1991 iraq at the destruction on al jazeera. Demain the intersection of reality and comedy and post revolution tennessee our. Mission to entertain educate and provoke debate through satire how weapon of choice theater. And internet look at what inspires one of chinas years most popular comedians to make people laugh. My turn is. On aljazeera. I. Think. Multiple casualties in a shooting at a Food Festival in california. When youre watching live from our headquarters here and also coming up at least 65 people are killed in northeastern nigeria in the tanks carried out by suspected boko haram fighters also. Hong kong city center under siege police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters. The Opposition Leader jailed for calling protest in moscow is rushed to hospital after suffering an acute allergic reaction. But heres the problem we begin with breaking news coming out of the u. S. And reports of multiple casualties at a shooting in california it seems to happen to the Food Festival in the city of gilroy about 120 kilometers south of San Francisco heres the moment that it happened. I. Theres a good. There but i was. Going to. Cross over to particularly the correspondent in washington d. C. The details very sketchy at the moment but the pictures speak volumes as to what seems to have happened. It appears it has happened again in america another mass shooting in a public place heres what ive been able to piece together about the gilroy garlic festival its a huge event it has live music and hundreds of people buy food and wine and beer theres different stages and its run by about 4000 volunteers all of the money raised goes to help. Charities and booster clubs in gilroy california which appears to be a rural Small Community in as you mentioned california just south of San Francisco now as always in these things this is just down breaking and we cannot go with the reports that we have were going to see social media flooded with videos of people running yes you can hear the sounds of the gunshots and people giving their witness statements but what we do know for a fact is coming from the hospital they say they expect 5 victims to be brought to the hospital there have been varying reports whether there was one gunman or 2 we dont know now there are several witnesses who said they saw a man a white man appeared to be in his twentys in fatigues with a long gun shooting at the crowd but again we have not had this officially from police just yet and of course were in the middle of the Summer Holidays in the u. S. The gilroy festival. Excuse me is just off highway one which is a popular route for holiday makers when they travel from los angeles to San Francisco so a small d tall to this festival would be in. All things for many families so a real concern. Of the types of people and groups that would have attended this festival. It does appear that it brings people from all around california theres a train you can take from san jose down to the festival and as you saw in the pictures what we see there are families thats who goes to these festivals they go you go to a festival to eat way too much food to listen to music to be out amongst your family and friends we saw lots of children in those pictures again we dont know i do know that the we believe the shooting happened around 630. 00. Pacific time according to their web site the festival was going to wrap up at 6 its a 3 day festival there is as thousands of dollars for charities in the area and usually in these sorts of thats when theyre so widespread when theyre at a park or a campground there isnt a whole lot of security obviously youll have police on the scene but its not like a sporting event or one of the more organized events in this country known for its gun violence so you have to go through metal detectors or theres any sort of perimeter this appears from the video that were seeing that it was pretty wide open its described as being sort of a campground with grass and dirt roads and some gravel again were seeing that what we see in these situations panic people running the sound of what appears to be semi automatic gunfire in the background and these are guns that can do a tremendous amount of damage and again these are initial reports the only thing we know for sure is that from the hospital they expect to get 5 patients the police are setting up a staging area because obviously theres going to be a lot of confusion in a situation like this families get ripped apart theyre setting up a staging area for people who are missing loved ones to go so that they can try and find the people that were lost during the stampede were also going to hear about injuries not just from gunshots but when people run people get injured when when theres a panic like this so we believe this is still an active shooting situation. We believe 5 people were hurt it appears in looking at the video posted on social media having covered these in the past that when you hear that many gunshots back to back to back to back that there are the injuries level the injury numbers are going to go up and so is the death of the death toll well for the moment we will leave it there but continue to monitor that ongoing situation from south california with you patty thanks very much patty cleaner in washington d. C. Many 65 people have been killed in a suspected boko haram attack on a funeral in nigeria it happened in the northeastern city of might occur in borno state president mohammed who bihari has condemned the attack and ordered a military operation to hunt down those responsible gupta has more. On these shad remains are whats left of what once was someones home this village in northeast nigeria is now the scene of the worst attack on civilians in the region this year. Gunmen attacked mourners gathered for a funeral on saturday in the battle that took them to yet images that you can too on. Wednesday if you will the remaining people and. Then they went after them this is. The villages have gathered again this time to remember this Staggering Number of lives lost in just one day personally kenyatta condom i sincerely sympathize with the palm of this. If. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but the armed group is suspected to be behind saturdays carnage local government Officials Say armed villages fortified boko haram ambush 2 weeks ago 11 fighters were killed. President Mahmoud Abbas hari has ordered the air force and army to hunt down the attackers borno state is the epicenter of the armed rebellion by boko haram tens of thousands of people have been killed millions have been displaced off to 10 years of violence boko haram has been largely driven out of the areas they once held. But the attacks continue and this time. Even funerals have not been spared. Aljazeera. There has been a lot of clashes in hong kong with Police Firing several rounds of tear gas the protesters the really began as peaceful with tens of thousands of people voicing their anger at police and mob violence as well as chinas interference but it ended in violent confrontations with the city center under siege some oclock local. Central hong kong was in chaos as a place moved in to create tens of thousands of people rallying in the district. The demonstration began pace fully the situation quickly unraveled. Despite numerous calls for police to disperse the protesters resisted instead they moved to the west and districts on Hong Kong Island surrounding a major Police Station as well as the chinese governments Representative Office blockades was set up and place lines cordoned off the area protesters blocked some Access Points and targeted police try paint bombs glass and bricks any loose objects they could get their hands on a special place and the Tactical Response units move did firing several rounds of tear gas in a bid to push the groups back. This is the 2nd night in a row where weve seen violent clashes between police and protesters place of blood several rounds of t. V. s and rubber bullets on the demonstrators thats a lot of those demonstrators refusing to let. The tense stand off went on for several hours but after midnight protesters were eventually face to retreat this rally began with tens of thousands marching in opposition to a proposed extradition bill thats now been shelves after months of rallies its become a Broader Movement calling for greater democracy in hong kong some fear the situation will only escalate we wont give up until the last war we wont give up until the child. Trying to attack us in. A massive just in time it is a massive amount as a result of poor government i dont think its going to unfortunately is going voice. Ask alesha violence. Looking at possible tasseled news if the fatalities. On monday chinas top policy advisor is expected to respond to the political crisis thats gripped the flow of british territory for months the Hong Kong Government and protesters refusing to budge this rally is unlikely to be the last sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Well the Hong Kong Government has accused some of the protesters of violent arson and putting Public Safety at risk and in a statement it said we strongly condemn the radical protesters who disregarded the law and order and violently breached the public peace we will continue to give full support to the police to strictly enforce the law to stop all violent behaviors with a view to resuming public order as soon as possible. The u. S. President donald trump is once again being called racist stuff to launching a blistering twitter attack on an africanamerican democratic congressman and the district that he represents the colemans have sparked widespread outrage especially from residents of bolton will also enjoy reports of the din of the United States donald trump is the president of the entire United States but residents of baltimore maryland are angry trump has called their city quote a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess hes a horrible president. And says hes racist and hes fraudulent. Hes an embarrassment to what our country things that we stand for having been overseas and you know it makes me you know a bit embarrassed for the country trumps Lampe Baltimore and economically and socially diversity near washington as part of an attack on its longtime congressman Elijah Cummings cummings leads the Committee Investigating the president s political and financial ties hes also criticized the president S Immigration policy trump called cummings corrupt and people