taken from their homes and executed under pressure venezuela's defense minister by the me to the said the armed forces were obliged to defend that country from irregular groups that added the human rights needed to be respected. and that the events at the border would be investigated. the. ready news, a plea for help from lebanon. his care take a prime minister, who says his country is days from a social explosion. ah, i'm no retaining this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up i've got a stones, it's launching a counter offensive to take back the district seized by the taliban. parents pray as they wait for news after the latest school kidnapping. nigeria is a growing of

a last generation of students. and after a career of ours, enforced in commission, a cousin finally rises on the can film festival. ah 11. in his pleading for international help with a catch a prime minister warning the country is just days away from a social explosion. as sandy ab says, global help is urgently needed to prevent outright economic ruin. lebanon's currency has fallen through the floor. it's now lost about 90 percent of what it was worth in late 2019 blackouts, a common because of a dilapidated power grid. some areas only get to as well interesting day while drastic fuel shortages mean mean even private generations. a failing hospitals have dropped elective procedures and rationing medical supplies and lack of fuel has led

to fight, so petrol stations. dia warned the lebanese people are running out of patience. and i will ask you, though, i would come by play today to all the king's princesses, presidents, leaders and ally, and friendly nations. and i call on the united nations and all international agencies in public opinion to help save to live in a people from death and prevent the destruction of the country. leaping on is it a short distance from a social explosion and the liberties are facing the stock site on their own? so honda has more from bay ridge the country is in crisis, it has been in crisis for more than a year. the state is near nearly bankrupt and it's just a daily struggle for every lebanese. we're outside one of the gas stations here and you see the long lines, people wait for hours just to fill up one 3rd of their fuel tank. there is a fuel crisis just there is

a lack of medicine after people fill up their cars with gas, they go to pharmacies to start looking for medicines, which more often than not, they do not find. and then there's a hyper inflation, the price of food. it has more than tripled in recent months, yet the minimum wage remains the same. and the majority of 11 people turn in the local currency, which is now worth less than $50.00. and the reason is if i were to destroy god without throwing up, we have money, we're going to buy anything. we have money, really. we have money that's going to buy anything that's not there. those are those people who fill earnest salaries, but unemployment is on the rise. it's now 35 percent and research institute say it is going to increase to 40 percent of the this is a country which is starving for dollars for hard currency. the central bank

mandatory research is drying out and the central bank was giving importers dollars in order to buy fuel medicine at an affordable price to subsidize these goods. and like i mentioned, it's running out fuel prices have increased by, by 50, by 50 percent. so has the price of bread, so people are struggling and you just heard. a that man, there are those who have money or able to buy something just can't because they cannot find it in the country which imports to almost everything that it needs on. the government says areas recently captured by the taliban will soon be retaken in a counter offensive. its national security adviser says hundreds of security personnel who fled into tajikistan will be brought back to rejoin the fight. this is the pentagon says the withdrawal of us forces is 90 percent complete. the

taliban have taken control of another 36 districts or 10 percent of the country in just the past 6 days. they've doubled a number of districts they control since may the 1st. when u. s. a naval forces started their final withdraw ot in the last 24 hours. the african air force says it's killed. $261.00 taliban fighters and injured hundreds more under ship. our force was on the ground. taliban fighters have been taking one district after another. they now control afghanistan's northern border, which has he could stand the african governments as a counter offensive is on the way and will include soldiers who fled from the border this week. at the way mother may have one son. even the african people expected that after the withdrawal of american forces in other countries, there will be no excuse for the taliban to continue the war. and they should cease and resolve their problem through negotiations in peace. but unfortunately, you see that instead they started an undeclared war and intensified it in the skies

. the african air force is hitting back carrying out air strikes until a bon gatherings. it may not have the latest equipment, but the afghan air force is trained and capable. it's attack helicopters and planes are equipped with laser guided bombs. you know, if we compared our cell with the american, this is a big difference. the new afghan commander, bathroom air base knows they may not have as much firepower, but he says they're ready for what comes. everybody knows we are living in a candidate for the kid for to continue. so in this case, in some sometime we go for some sometime we fit back. this is war in combat, everything is possible and nothing is stable for the internationally backed government to retake northern areas and keep its capital secure. it must hold on to barbara. the americans left the base last week, but there's a prison at the site holding 5000 taliban fighters, raphael,

or private in the afghan national army believes an attack is coming to freedom. what model has it is? you know, we haven't come here to sleep. everybody here is prepared to secure a bad gram. a morale is high bomber, but morale may not be high for long with the taliban. intensifying its attack. it's really the taliban having leverage having the upper hand. and i think there's a snowball effect. once you start seeing that in various provinces throughout the country, can become very hard to reverse, particularly with now let's not forget without robust u. s. military backing and support. you know, it's in the interest of the united states in the interests of countries in the region to ensure that the afghan government does not collapse. but we're heading to a pretty dark place at the moment. the pentagon says the us withdrawal is more than 90 percent complete. a lot can happen on the battlefield between now and then enter chappelle al jazeera sculpture was in jordan in washington, d. c. well, this tell us what the state department is saying about homeless. while the state

department is saying that really the success of this change from nearly 20 years of war led by the us and a western based coalition to afghans being and in control of their government really does nail come to how the tall a bond behaves. this is ned price, the state department spokesperson. it is not just the government afghans then it is not just the united states. it's not just a broad swath of the international community that recognizes that there is no military solution to this conflict. the fact that the taliban continues to engage in doha to engage in inter ask and dialogue is itself most likely a reflection of the fact that the tall onto understands that only through diplomacy, can they garner any sort of legitimacy. now are you getting any sense from

any of the u. s. officials that this isn't going according to plan? no, we're not getting that sense. and in fact the pentagon spokes person, john kirby was pressed on this point during his regular briefing on tuesday afternoon. and he essentially said this, look, the afghans knew when we were going to be leaving. they knew that we would eventually turn control of bog room error base over to them. they knew this was coming. in fact, we gave them multiple tours to basically show them how to run the base once us forces leave. so there is a bit of defensiveness on the part of the biden administration. but there's also a lot of this resolved that the u. s. military is leaving afghanistan in large part because trying to prosecute a war after nearly 20 years is not making a difference. and that it's time for the afghan government and the afghan people to

chart their own course rather than jordan. thank you very much. indeed. a drone who's attacked abil airport in northern iraq with explosives. kurdish security forces sources said it was targeting a u. s. based on the airport grounds, no casualties have been reported. mentor in agencies, a warning arise in school kidnappings. in north western nigeria is disrupting the education of hundreds of thousands of children around a 1000 students and staff have been abducted since december. the latest attack took place on monday at a boarding school in kaduna state, nearly a 150 students, a missing fidelis bar reports from a boucher district print. gotta disco compound, consulting one another. i think we to hear news of the missing children received fund of an empty beds. our older remained after the pack of rated the baton baptist

boarding school in not with my dear, where students slept this morning about 6 maybe have inside of school given up in our truck including my police cb, fealand, overpowered, security guard and to be victims into a nearby forest, more than 2 dozen students have been rescued earlier in a separate company health center not of cut, you know, city about a dozen people where the doctor, including children, younger 3. this is it turns my kids not being in nigeria, northern region. since december, for those abductions hop on the same page. if i sponsored the state government to order the closure of schools in rural areas that are born rebel 2 attacks, many 11,

my dear, leaving poverty and don't have jobs. the region have been the rise of kidnapping for ransom in recent years, which is having a different impact on indication. 2014 the world watch the outreach book of her for kidnapped 276 school children. from the book secondary school. president more comfortable hurry has faced mounting criticism about his government struggle to tackle the crisis with families calling on international community for health. we stand in one voice. we don't want, you know, to allow you guys but for the community here who spread that new school anywhere in the city, anything or just a boucher come this off our hopes a criminal investigation. we'll find out why

a plane crashed into a russian mountain. killing 28 people. fix, secondary school students are among 9 people arrested in hong kong for that should be plotting that off her made bones. ah hello, it's lossy try for much of a straight it. but it's a little the cool side certainly over night temperatures on tuesday morning fell to minus 3 celsius in camber, courtesy of our area of high pressure. so light winds and clear skies over the next couple of days. we'll see those temperatures pink below freezing into one or 2 spots into the southeast corner. we have got some wet weather pushing into western parts, some cloud and rain running across some parts of w way, just skipping across the far south of south straight as we go on through thursday,

but to the east of that. it is generally going to stay dry, fine, and saddle. that's not the case in 2 central labs. the queensland could see a few showers just cropping up here over the next couple of days. still, it's also want to shout into these eland. but the worst of the weather now in the process of pulling out of the way temperature is just about getting up into double figures, but it should be largely dry as you make away towards the weekend. not to try across japan at present though, we have got this large area cloud and right as seasonal down pools continue to push the way out of central china rolling across the korean peninsula, south korean peninsula, in particular, seeing some very heavy right. and that weather continues to drive its way across southern parts of japan, gradually making its way towards tokyo. hi, here 29. the the the story of them bob weigh in her words. she is always told from the perspective

of the great man, whether it's even moving all robot from my responsibility to tell this story in a way that it hasn't really been told before the ordinary, everyday life. or, if the people i'm writing about patina got out of darkness, mice and bob way on algebra. oh, i got a reminder, the top stories under 0, lebanon is pleading for international help with a can take a prime minister and the warning that the country is days away from a social explosion. the currency is lost about 90 percent of what it was worth in

late 2019. the afghan government has districts recently captured by the taliban will soon be retaken in a counter offensive around 10 percent of the country's hall and interest the past 6 days. this is the pentagon says the withdrawal of us forces is 90 percent complete and humanitarian agencies a warning arise in school can nothing's in northwest nigeria is disrupting the education of hundreds of thousands of children. 150 students are missing. after the latest attack on a boarding school on monday, indonesia government says is bracing for another surge in current of ours cases. its hospitals are already struggling with a weight of infections. emergency oxygen supplies are being flown in from singapore to treat patients in a way that government expects could reach at least 50000 new cases a day. hospitals ensure a buyer having to turn away patients. under carter's health care system is at 90 percent capacity. indonesian airline air asia. suspending all flights for

a month to support efforts to contain the spread the virus. after months of criticism that coven 19 vaccines weren't reaching, developing nations indoctrination drives around the world of picking up the rollouts. come as experts worry about the impact of a delta variant. charlotte bennett report. vaccine drives the gathering pace and countries around the world. this is 1500000 doses of the medulla vaccine flowing into el salvador as a donation from the united states. i'll salvador has administered just under 3000000 doses, enough to fully inoculate 22 percent of its population. it's a name also called for me, so we have a special commitment to the entire region and we are not going to stop until all countries have vaccines. they require to protect older citizens in ivory coast. housework is a visiting market to get as many people vaccinated as possible. they'll visit 130

in the capitol abbey, shawn in the next 2 weeks. in some countries in africa covered 900 case numbers, a doubling every 3 weeks. i have just received my covered vaccine and we were leased because i had been waiting to do it for a long time and i came to the market. i saw the people in the campaign, so i took advantage of it. in russia, the government has opened its largest vaccination center in moscow. russia reported a record high 737 corona virus dates on tuesday. and the last week showed a slight decrease an incidence of cove at moscow. but nevertheless, the level of hospitalization and morbidity itself is at a very high level. but how will the delta or other mutations behaves or expecting other mutations? it's a question. health authorities are asking around the world. israel's health ministry released asset that the 5 by on take vaccine is just 64 percent effective

against infections by the delta variance. it had been 94 percent effective against previous strains of the virus. although they reported it is still more than 90 percent effective to keeping people out of the hospital. the delta vary and his accelerating the spread of outbreaks and places that had previously escaped the pandemic. fiji went an entire year without recording any community corona virus, cases until the new strain arrived in april. on tuesday it reported a record 636 cases and 6 deaths. it does hurt you in some way, and it does also let you know that, you know, we're not far from over the, i see you the main hospital and the capitol sousa is full. so as the cities morgue, 10 percent of the genes are fully vaccinated. officials are hoping to increase that number to stop the spread charlotte bellis out jazeera. the biden administration is launching a more targeted approach to encourage communities with low vaccine uptake to get

that job. of the u. s. fail to reach its go of giving at least one dose of a vaccine to 70 percent of its adult population by the july 4th holiday. but it is set to reach that deadline. by the end of the week, president, dr. barton is urging millions of unvaccinated americans to stop putting those around the at risk right now. as i speak you, millions of americans are still unvaccinated and unprotected and because of that, their communities are at risk. their friends are at risk that people they care about are at risk. this is an even bigger concern because of the delta variant. seems to me it should cause everybody to think twice. and it should cause reconsideration, especially young people who may have thought that they didn't have to be that actually didn't worry about it didn't have to do anything about up to now. canada has named its 1st indigenous governor general prime minister just intruder pointed

. diplomat, mary simon, to the post and into it from northern quebec. simon said her appointment was a sign of progress towards a more inclusive society. coincides with a new spotlight on historical abuses, against indigenous people in canada. after the discovery of more than a 1000 unmarked graves of children who were forced into residential schools, i can confidently say that my appointment is the historic. and if informational moment for canada and an important step forward on the long path towards reconciliation. 28 people, a fear dead after a plane crash in rushes far east. the crash site has been found, but none of the 22 passengers and 6 crew believed to survived the twin engine and 26 aircraft disappeared from radar. as it was about to land in heavy fog on the remote come chuck competency,

let fenton monahan as well. the wreckage is being recovered far and wide. as russian asian officials tried to piece together what happened, some debris from the crash was found on the mountain side in the far eastern region of cum shatka. more pieces were fish out of the sea. other parts of the plane were found about 5 kilometers in the airport runway in the town of pallana. but it just like to throw today a plane following the read from petro pub last come, chat sky to plan across. the tragedy said to have occurred during the landing, presumably the plane was making a 2nd approach and visibility was poor. air traffic control last contact is the plane near this destination. heavy fall may have caused the plane to go off course . a criminal investigation is underway. but the planes owner says everything was technically sound before take off. local officials have partially back this up. confirming no problems were detected if the russian made and not aircraft before. it departed into digital recording was in the aircraft was made in 1982. it has

a valid certificate of air worthiness. the crew passed a pre flight inspection. currently search and rescue activities are underway. all 28 people on board are believe dead, but so far no bodies have been recovered. a local leader and 2 children were among the passengers. the rugged terrain around pallana is making search a slow and arduous process. the area where the wreckage was found is difficult to access, especially as night falls didn't mountain al jazeera, a former presidential hopeful in bella. ruth has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on corruption charges. victor bubba rica was convicted of money laundering, bribery, and tax evasion. he was arrested last june when he tried to register his candidacy against president alexander lucas shanker, who went on to claim a landslide victory in the august election. opposition and western governments say the election was rigged. the results in months of protest against lucas shanker

with around $35000.00 russians, attained out defendant is deprived of the possibility to appeal against the verdict. the sentence will be appealed in the order of supervision as soon as possible. also, we will raise the question of the violation of the rights of victor about rica to the committee for human rights of the united nations. the un atomic watchdog says iran has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal moves that could help develop a nuclear weapon. teran says it's aimed at developing fuel for a research reactor. but the movers drawn criticism from the u. k. france and germany, as well as the united states, which says the decision is, quote, an unfortunate step backwards. official say it threatens talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deal. police in hong kong have arrested 9 people, suspected of involvement in a bomb plot. they're accused of making explosives to plant at multiple sites across

the city. fix, secondary school students are among the suspects. and as adrian brown reports, it's just the latest incident. in a turbulent year of protests, hong kong police presented the media with evidence of what they say was a plot to make and plant bombs across the city, helmet, shields, their guns walkie talkies and chemicals. and a list of targets. cooling thee across about tunnel where ways caught rooms and even they wanted to lay the bomb in the, in the rubbish been on the streets with a failed to, to maximize the damage caused you to do society. 6 of those arrested all secondary school students. it is attends time in hong kong. it's almost a week since a man died after stopping a police officer and then him so security officials classified it as a lone wolf terrorist attack messages on social media. later,

up at condolences to the assailants family, the events of the past few days demonstrate that the anti government protest movement may not have been entirely extinguished. and that se analysts may lead to a new and wide campaign against percent. it's a years since a sweeping national security law was imposed on hong kong. now the government is proposing legislation to amend the privacy law or a thumbs to the protest in 2019, when private details of police judges and journalists were disclosed online. a practice known as duck thing, but tech companies like google, twitter, and facebook. a worried the proposed changes could lead to local employees being fined or jailed. if they refuse to hand over the data to the hong kong government. as a consequence, they warned they might quit the territory one of the world's leading financial

centers. hong kong chief executive says that only illegal behavior is being targeted. her law at the old chalice. i feel know many people in hong kong have been traumatized by dosing on the internet for a long time. this support in society and to solve the problem at this time, the amendment to the legislation is to solve this problem. experts say the proposed changes add to the mood of uncertainty among foreign investors. this could have a very negative impact on the business climate, on its reputation for the free flow of information. now for some, the territories, reputation for safety, is also being questioned. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong. because the film festival is back after taking an enforced break last year for the pandemic, international stars and film lovers. once again in the south of france for one of the world's most glamorous events, as is all correspondence, natasha butler. this sweeping bay shimmering mediterranean sea,

red carpet and of course, movie dolls. the cannes film festival is back after one year break because of the convent pandemic american director. spike lee is the head to the jury this year at the arrived just before the cost of the opening film and that the excitement was palpable. the annette is one of $24.00 films in competition for the prestigious palm dual prize. the musical comedy by french american director, los correct mario court. yeah. and adam driver is my favorite festival can. i've always before i came here or we looked at it as a marker of great films. the festivals director says its return is cause for celebration, which are due in january and even february we have no idea if the festival would be possible because last year we have to concentrate owing to the demick. so it's

usually satisfying to be buying such a pleasure under relief. it's not any the movie industry, i'm fine for the delighted by the return of the festival attract tens of thousands of visitors and after a very difficult year for the tourism sector, there are many in the city that are very happy to be back in business for lack of tourists for this luxury hotel to close the 6 months last year. the manager says the festival will help the local economy were present actually approximately 15 percent of our yearly rooms revenue. so we do that in less than 2 weeks. so it's big. and also it brings a lot of positive energy for the travel restrictions mean some film stalls and visitors has stayed away for those attending special measures to replace, including on flight cooper, testing. nevertheless, in such unusual and unpredictable times, a generous dose of glamour and some captivating films,

certainly offer some welcome escape, isn't natasha butler al jazeera can. and a quick one to catch up anytime with all the stories recovering on our website. the address for us it out is there a dot com and you can also watches live by clicking on the orange line icon details of the iran uranium metal decision. ah, stories on how to do it. lebanon is treating for international help with a catch, a prime minister, a warning. the country is just days away from a social explosion. the currency, his last about 90 percent of what it was worth in late 2019 medical supplies are being rationed and fights of breaking out of petrol stations. as pumps run dr. how sandy up says global health.