After decades of fighting, Afghanistan is awash in weapons, contributing to ongoing instability. Disarming Afghanistan is a key priority for coalition forces and the Afghan government, and a plan has been in place to do that for some three years. But it is having little success. Imran Khan reports.

For the second day, controlling inflation has been the focus at China's annual legislature congress. Despite inflation levels at record highs, skilled professionals appear unconcerned about the situation. Melissa Chan reports.

Mwai Kibaki, the Kenyan president, gets much of his support from the Kikuyu tribe - centred around the Nairobi, the capital. Raila Odinga, the opposition leader, draws his strength from western Kenya - particularly the town of Kisumu. Al Jazeera's John Cookson went to Kisumu to gauge reaction to the power-sharing deal made to end the country's political crisis.

A report released this week by the American magazine Vanity Fair disclosed a plan by the US administration to overthrow the democratically-elected Hamas by arming rival Fatah forces through millions of dollars worth of weapons. This as Israel waged its deadliest round of attacks on Gaza since 2000. Al Jazeera's Hashim Ahlbarra meets with Hamas' Khaled Meshaal, head of the group's political bureau, and asks him about the report. In this episode of Talk to Jazeera, Mishaal ,talks about the leaked US plan of arming Fatah and instigating a civil war in Gaza. He also talks about rocket fire from the coastal strip and answers questions about a possible truce with Israel.

A report released this week by the American magazine Vanity Fair disclosed a plan by the US administration to overthrow the democratically-elected Hamas by arming rival Fatah forces through millions of dollars worth of weapons. This as Israel waged its deadliest round of attacks on Gaza since 2000. Al Jazeera's Hashim Ahlbarra meets with Hamas's Khaled Meshaal, head of the group's political bureau, and asks him about the report. In this episode of Talk to Jazeera, Meshaal, talks about the leaked US plan of arming Fatah and instigating a civil war in Gaza. He also talks about rocket fire from the coastal strip and answers questions about a possible truce with Israel.

It has emerged that the Bush administration caught off-guard by the rise of Hamas, embarked on a secret plan to overthrow its democratically-elected government. The magazine Vanity Fair reports in its April edition that President Bush and Condoleeza Rice, the US secretary of state, signed off on a plan for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to quash the Hamas authorities. The plan involved Washington's allies in the region channeling arms and cash to Fatah fighters, who would rise up against Hamas. But the plan backfired spectacularly, with Hamas apparently anticipating the move and taking over in Gaza. How and why did Washington fail in its aims? What were its true motives, and where will its policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict head now? Sami Zeidan of Inside Story investigates.