will empower us whether the city can bounce back to its former glory, saving new york on a, just a lot of the stories that we cover highly complex. so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can. as always, is there a correspondence? that's what we strive to do. a more than 50 about can a stand. many $170.00 districts have fallen since the beginning of may. the un envoy to afghanistan warns that the taliban is poised to move in as soon as foreign troops complete their withdrawal. ah, lauren taylor, this is out here in life from london. coming up. spain pardons, 9 casual separatist jailed over failed independence bid in

a risky move by the prime minister as to counted our t t o peers, inaction, port of new fighting a northern te gray region and an angry response from australia as a un panel recommends the great barrier reef be added to its endangered. ah! nations is sounding the alarm after new and sustained show of force by taliban fighters, which has taken the african army by surprise. the un special envoy ref kenneth's don says the arm group has taken more than 50 districts in the past month. it appears to be moving out of its southern strongholds and making gains further north as foreign troops pull out. earlier on tuesday, taliban fighters captured the main border crossing with tajikistan. under there is diplomatic editor james bay's report. the security situation

in afghanistan has been deteriorating for years. but what the security council heard in this virtual session was the most grim briefing. yet. i cannot overstate to the council. my concern regarding the present situation in afghanistan. in recent weeks, taliban activity has been focused on a number of key provinces. these pictures from conduce in northern afghanistan, where the provincial capital conduce city, looks at risk of being surrounded. special representative lions said the un believes this may be a deliberate strategy. more than 50 about the dentist and $370.00 districts have fallen since the beginning of may. most districts have been that have been taken to prevent. so capitals suggesting that the taliban are positioning themselves to try and take these capital one. for since i fully withdrawn the

taliban, deny they were responsible for many of the recent attacks. but african stones, foreign minister and heath at ma, told the council they are behind them. and it's a clear breach of that deal with the u. s. under the international energy. our only the wes fire to sort of the signing especially by the united states troops withdrawal, the massacre will screw with car axles, just senseless violence inflict associates off the president biden announced to pull out of us troops in april. his secretary of state antony blinkin came up with

a plan to build on the talks and doha, with the peace conference in stand bull. so the taliban and african government could work together. that plan now lies in tatters. and most analysts believe the african people who suffered for decades of war and now lightly to face an intensified conflict. un experts preparing for a major humanitarian emergency. james bays al jazeera ah spain's socialist led government, his approved pardons for 9 capital and independence leaders. they were jailed over their roles and failed attempt to secede from the rest of the country. in october 2017, it's a deeply controversial move and a risk of the prime minister petro sanchez. so you're going to go as well. a tentative olive branch loaded with consequences. the spanish prime minister has been pushing hard to revive talks with catalog separatists and hoping that

a pardon for the movement 9 imprison leaders can open the way for dialogue. we are responding to mother to the spanish government has taken this decision because it's the best of catalonia, the best for spain, and correspondence to the spirit of hominy and co existence in the spanish constitution. it's not without opposition. sanchez finds himself in the middle of a story outside of pennsylvania. it is deeply unpopular, more than 60 percent of the country against the move and parties from the center to the hard right have capitalized on that discontent. but the procession is movement . the pardon do not go far enough. the cattle and lita said only an amnesty would be acceptable as he could call to continue the fight for independence. but i shall water the lemony thea. it's time for an amnesty on the right to self determination

. it is time to agree on the referendum is tongue for a solution to achieve more internal consensus. yeah, the illegal independence referendum in 2017 triggered the biggest political crisis of the country had seen in decades. the 9 session of leaders was sentence in 2019 for their roles and the vote, including catalonia, the vice premier, spain supreme court, which oversaw the trial has also rejected the pardons. as it says, those sentence have shown no remorse. while the ruling is non binding, it could be cited a possible future legal challenges in the constitutional court, which could send the 9 back to prison. the difficulty for the procession is argument is that while it is very vocal, it is still in the minority in catalonia, big part of pain is still just about the preferred option that mr. sanchez's dilemma is that he is leading a minority government and can ill afford to squander the support in the parliament

. he also needs the support of capital, a nationalist parties. they're leaders know that this piece offering won't be extended by the prime minister's opponents. it is an enormous gamble, yet those determined to move on say the pardon are the only way to repair the deep divisions that still linger between the 2 sides. so i go out there and you said 11 police officers a dead and 4 missing in book in a faster. they were ambushed by gunman on monday in the town of your group. only 7 officers and known to have survived ambush. early this month and $232.00 people were killed in an attack on a village in the countries i had a region residence in ethiopia as t gray region say new fighting has fed up in recent days, north of the regional capital mckelly. they say fighters loyal to the former regional ruling party and to several towns including the grat,

where people celebrated until if you open and retreated. soldiers arrived here for military has denied report, dismissing them as a fabrication report to a new fighting come a day after nixon's took place and most of the rest of the country. no date has been set. the poles there when the tree has been fighting local forces since november last year. meanwhile, here is prime minister branded monday's election, a success despite many voters in the country's conflict zones, being left out of the process of being man says the pole was easier for his 1st attempt at free and fair elections. but his virtues await provisional results. some opposition groups are crying foul. they say ballot boxes were tampered with and their staff attacked me to do has more from i just have a on it's chances he seems to be on his way to winning his was popular monday t a. and if you up yeah, in 2018 when he came to power, he was selected by his party,

the coalition, both of the country then. and i'll be desperate to get a puppet monday because this country is riddled with so many problems from the conflict integral to ethnic troubles in several whole support. the cause that can treat many of the horses and people in these. but if you leave that with a popular mandate, he will have the legitimacy he need to little decisively with if you have a problem. of course in most of calling sessions across the country, the prosperity patio 5 minutes i be leaving for the position. i'm making headway in i've been areas like the capital and about parts of town and other parts of the country and they seem to be happy with that. but there have been problems with a process and a position, but in the rural areas. how file hundreds of complaints,

including some about company with electro material. actual commission say it is investigation, goes allegations around was next. president says he'll put the needs if people 1st abraham rice, his 1st big speech was light on detail, but set the tone for the next 4 years, including how he plans to interact with foreign powers. dr. barry has more from terror on a warm welcome for iran's 8 president elect in his home town of measured at the embers of shrine, crowd had gathered to hear what their newly elected leader abraham, right. you see have to say on the issues that affect them about all, not a race. he spoke for a little more than 30 minutes and most of it was religious in nature. but he did have a message for the people of her on such a cottage. you have a job shut all met in the mid politics, domestic policy and foreign policy. the focus should be on the dignity of this nation. and the focus should be on the fact that in any negotiations, the dignity of this nation should not be hurt in our domestic policies in foreign

policies, in the kinds of interactions that we're going to have with any countries in the world. the focus is the protection of the dignity and prestige of the iranian nation. can all map this was race is 1st addressed to the nation. although it was short on specifics he had made promises to address the problems facing iran. he said his administration will focus on justice, even respect and dignity to improve life for a rainy. and he also promised to ensure a mass vaccination against covert 19 as soon as he takes off at the home. earlier on tuesday, the current government of president has sandrani responded. comments made by us officials who called fried his presidential election, manufactured and neither free no fare as man. is that a c o c minus on a miss from a political point of view, we consider the statement as an example of interference and iran's internal affairs . and that can be international law. we can dimmitt the u. s. government as not

another system to comment on the electro process in iran or any other country. 48 percent of eligible voters participated in the presidential election, which officials consider a respectable turn out. despite that figure being the lowest ever for presidential vote, abraham racy managed to get nearly 18000000 votes. while president elect will take office in early august, if clear, the challenge of the faces will be many. he's already made large sweeping promises including fighting corruption, improving the country's economy and maintaining your own best interests in negotiations with the wes. but it's not clear yet if you will be able to deliver on his promises. door safari al jazeera, teheran iran says a number of state linked news websites have been seized by the us government. this is the message greeting anyone trying to look at the english language press tv side, or the arabic alarm channel. the yemeni who see rebels,

satellite news channel was also targeted. message says the f b i and department of commerce have taken control. now that neither has acknowledged it, but a u. s. government source has told, has told the risk news roaches news agency that a statement is due later. former us assistance after state p. j. crowley says iran isn't necessarily being singled out. going back here to the 2016 where russian interference and the presidential election really brought this issue to the 4. and the night states has been aggressively pursuing these sites that, that hide their connection to foreign governments. you know, ever since one starts with the assumption that countries will pursue, you know, their own self interest. you know, for example, you know, we have concerns about china and yet china is a major trading part of the state. so we have the ability to do more,

more than one thing at the same time. and with countries like china, russia, or iran, you know, you'll have areas of competition, areas of conflict and areas of potential cooperation. you pursue each independently . still to come this half hour and the killer that drifting across the villages near the rocky city. but who will stop the toxic gas and unesco sources to put venice on its endangered list. if it doesn't make it battle cruise ships permanent . ah ah. hello, the weather is not looking too clever for southern possible straight over the next couple of days. some rather wet and windy weather rattling through the bite hook of cloud here with a nice, nice one, reach logical point of view. if you're underneath that is going to be wet is going

to be windy. it's going to be very sc wally as that wet weather slides across south australia into victoria. and this is how it hooks all the way back right into the heart of australia. i wish things went with it as well as we go on 3 wednesday. the cloud of rain will make its way into new south wales. continuing to push further east with piping up in the process of heavy array. the eastern pass of victoria heavy, arrayed to just heading over to was the great dividing right sidney to see some showers and long spells of rain as well breast, but also seeing a little bit of wet weather but some very wet weather. pushing into the south island of new zealand. had that no thought it's not too bad political side, but law she dry over the next couple of days. make the most of it last dry for read much of japan unless you try to for the cream place of some showers coming through here. but the really way whether that we have for a station is going to be across the southern parts of china. the plum rains really on the live you side of the moment could see some localized starting in hong kong

and more heavy down. pause for good part of taiwan. the who's the was a bag energy and change to every part of our universe. or small to continue the change all around the shape, my technology and human ingenuity, we can make it work for you and your business. ah ah,

her mind at the top stories here and i was 0. the u. n. a founding the alarm when i finished on saying the taliban has taken more than 50 districts in the past month. as foreign troops withdraw earlier it's fighters captured, i've got a song, the main border crossing we've had you. histone feigns and socialist government. socialist government has approve controversial pardons, benign capital and independence leaders. they were jailed over their roles in the final attempt to secede from the rest of the country in 2017 and residence in ethiopia. as t gray region say new fighting is fed up in recent days, north of mckelly. the military has denied reports the to grand forces and to several towns comes a day off to the region was excluded from national elections. the white house admits it's likely to miss president, jo biden's, target of getting 70 percent of adults vaccinated with at least one shot by the 4th

of july. official say it's been a struggle to get younger people to job. there are, there are demographic groups and sometimes populations where it's more difficult to reach. we've seen that. we've talked about that as it related to early onto hesitancy. we were seeing and communities of color or some more conservative communities. and we've seen it's been a great deal more difficult to get, to get young people between the ages of 18 and 26 vaccinated than adults who are older than that. hence, we're redoubling our efforts that can be no free and fair election in nicaragua later this year. if a crackdown on the opposition continues. that's the funding of a new report by human rights watch says the rest. so several potential presidential candidates and rights violations against government. critics, are a strategy to eliminate president done. yellow tag is competition or latin america editor understand human fault. what do you see from the me start to more than a week? these messages have been posted online. one after the other manase or mine,

any kind of correct you and brothers and sisters. if you are watching this video, it is because i have been detained by takers regime. if you're saying this video, it means my house is being rated and i've been here be and seeing this video, it means i've been captured from when you go, if you are seeing this, it means i've been detained by the police. these are only some of the recently imprisoned opponents of nicaragua ruling couple president daniel ortega and his wife from moody you, his vice president, 5 of them are aspiring presidential challenges for november's elections. others are opposition, party journalists, even bankers and prominent members of the business sector. the majority of them are accused of violating national sovereignty and independence in her latest recorded message to nicaraguans, mrs. ortega called the quote, servants to

a foreign god she noah should remish in do else would attempt to submit the people who wishes committed the way the world, the same one who trouble is coming from the afternoon. she's referring to the united states ortega's former enemy during the left descend. denise, the revolution, the top of liquor, robert for most a dictatorship in 1979. now a great many of daniel notate as former comrades in arms accused him of replacing the most of dynasty with his own family. beyond the legendary gorilla commander durham, idea, and general doris rescue don't take from prison during this hand. denise, the insurrection have also just been arrested. i say, pointing to the same time, 46 years ago, i risk my life to get daniel ortega out of jail. i'm 73 years old. i never thought that at this stage of my life, i would be fighting in a peaceful civic way against the new dictatorship. the one of the few critics still

creed is opposition. alliance leader, a list of elements who that a student revolt 3 years ago says, okay, the strategy is to discourage nicaraguans from going to the polls at all in november. and women. it was to generate total credit. there is massive extension that way, danny. a little take it and say, i want 1000 square. i just didn't have any competition with human rights watch is asking the un secretary general to invoke article 99 of the charter to bring the matter before the security council. calling it a threat to regional security. you can do this within your name without any meaning for questions. internationally. a very wrong message to other americans that are going towards the practices if you're a little bit. president daniel ortega, who has not been seen in public for more than a month,

has not responded to requests for comment to see and humans al jazeera. israel has allowed some exports from gaza to resume among talk to the truth that ended it's 11 day offensive on the territory. these really, governments, as the measure is conditional on whether the situation that remain stable agricultural products and clothing were the 1st goods to be met through. but other board restrictions remain in place causing a shortage of raw materials inside gaza. is for the closure of a major stock drinks factory costing more than $250.00 jobs. you'll know siad reports from gaza. every abandoned industrial surrounded by silence with its tangle of metal kids in conveyor belts, all turned off. the soft drinks planting. godsa has the hushed atmosphere of a futuristic graveyard marketing manager. her mom, he as she inspects his factory now quiet production line. the middle must not come

in. our factory has been totally shut down due to the closure of the border crossing. know raw materials have come in for 60 days. we depend on those materials . so we were forced to send 250 employees home. we hope that the crossings will reopen and end this crisis. for years the g group had a captive market of 2000000 palestinians. living in god's is narrow castille strip . israel's long term located keeps them behind a 40 kilometer concrete and barbed wire fence god as to bordering, but most of its goods comes from the one control by israel. many policies we spoke to here say, israel strategy is to struggle garz's economy and cut off all, but a trickle of humanitarian aid. in the hopes of turning people against hamas critic, see the tactics as an unjust collective punishment against the entire population of godsa gods. as economy has deteriorated,

a recent tightening of these rarely located has led to shortages. 90 percent of gods as factories have closed, terminating more than $85000.00 workers. said as lost his job when production was suspended at the soft drinks factory about noiseless had the last. i support my family from a single source, which is the factory. it's now shut down and everyone who relies on it is suffering . there are no other jobs here. all the other workers are at home waiting for god's help. there will be more than 80 percent of people in gaza live on $2.00 a day or less and the majority would starve if the united nations did not provide food aid. and now a 65 percent unemployment rate among young people is making the situation worse. you may see it algae 0, gaza, people in a small town in southern iraq, say pollution from oil production is killing them. they're blaming the process of

gas flaring when oil is extracted and excess natural gas is burned off. releasing c o 2 and me saying industrial name reports from the bazaar region. people living in the village of butler take visitors here. they say gas flaring from oil production decimated their generations old palm trees leaving behind nothing but trunks. when we met the village elders, they said every one, know someone who is diagnosed with or who has died from cancer. so i know i already have cancer and only god helps me. we continue to be worried about families and left off the bus where i helped department in southern iraq says the pollution from oil production is making people and animals in the area sick. the rocky high commission for human right says due to the high rate of cancer in basra, it's demanding the government work with oil companies to combat pollution. that

faculty for 6 or 7 years every 2 years. that is some challenge. political german security, german gas is long term investment. it needs some stability and it needs some cash and come looking at the world bank ranks. iraq, number 2 behind russia when it comes to gas flaring, instead of polluting the air, the gas could be recovered and sold or used to generate electricity for millions of people. the bus for gas company is investing $3000000000.00 to do just that. at the remailer oil field, iraq's largest, anything that the iraqi government can do, or it's neighbors can do to create in a stable environment, is good for capturing more gas and for creating a better environment for the iraqi people. the people of butler say the land, their families have been tied to for 200 years is toxic,

and they wonder how many more of them will get sick before the government can help them. natasha game, l. jazeera basra, iraq and democrats have failed to secure a debate over a voting bill in the senate, leaving the future of elections measures in doubt. get more on this now from mike hannah, who's live in washington dc. so explained just what this was about, what's going on well, it was a vote to begin a debate on a massive reform of the electro system within the country. and as expected, boats came along the partisan lines. 50 democrats voted in favor of proceeding to debate. 50 republicans opposed it. now this was expected, but on this particular bill it requires a majority of 60 boats to actually pass the measure and to begin debate on this crucial bill. in the views of the eyes of democrats,

the motion then is not part. they will be no debate on this bill, but certainly we've just heard from the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, making very clear the fact that that all the democrats supported this. and that all the republican supposed it showed in his view. the fact that republicans are against attempting to liberalize the voting system and provide greater access to the greater amount of people within this country. so at the stage, the bill will not go ahead. there will be no debate, but what's likely to happen in the days ahead is increasing debate among democrats as to the value of the fellow buster. the system by which 60 votes are required on certain issues and strangely enough. the filibuster can be removed by a simple majority. the democrats would have it in their power to do so with a vote of the vice president. but the problem remains that some democrats are completely opposed to changing this particular system,

saying that in the future they may benefit from the for the best. but this is the debate that's going to be happening in the days ahead. my kind of thank you very much indeed us goes considering a proposal to put venice on its endangered list. if the city does not issue a permanent ban on cruise ships docking their if approve the agency could demand urgent action from the italian government by february. cruise ships have been banned from venice since the start of the pandemic. with plans for the construction of a terminal outside the lagoon. so residence was surprised to see a ship sail into the city earlier this month to missouri. katrina is the leader of an activist group called the new big ships committee. he says unesco proposal is an important step towards protecting the fragile lagoon. we are quite very, very happy about this announcements about your next go because it's exactly what our committee is saying seems. 10 years of char goes against these cruise ships in

our lagoon. the ships are too big for our city, they pollute to too much. they cause a lot of damages to the bill to the end, to the natural environment of our precious lagoon. the main problem of venice is that venice has only one economy. venice doesn't live on tourism. venice died on mass tourism. the only economy of my student is actually pushed away from the city all the residents, all the different economies. ah, i talked stories on how to 0. united nations is sounding the alarm after new and sustained to show force by taliban fighters, which is taking the afghan army by surprise, african troops. i've spent the last few days trying to keep the group out of.