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injured. taliban fighters was their 1st sultan a provincial capital in their ongoing advance across the new york hope to take her to parade the owner, the frontline workers who got the city through the corona virus pandemic. and in sports, roger federer is unsure if he'll play wimbledon again after losing his course final in straight sets. the 2020, semi final between england and denmark has gone into extra time with italy awaiting the winter. ah, a container on a ship anchored at the middle east's largest port has exploded, sparking a fire official say the blazing de bye has now been brought on the control, but not the but the black shook buildings across the immorality city. the civil

defense guard rushed to the jail, the port to port out the blaze. residence of neighborhoods as far as 25 kilometers away felt the explosion, which happened just before midnight. local time. the authorities say that no deaths or injuries have been reported. hey, he has declared the state of siege and closed this international airport after the assassination of president driven and maurice at his home. in the early hours of wednesday, the 1st lady was wounded in the attack and has been flown to florida for treatment . well, the interim prime minister called the shooting by an identified gunman or barbaric act. and his asked the un security council for an urgent meeting. he has seen arise and anti government protest and gang violence in recent months. will neighboring dominican republic has already shot its borders, fearing a developing human humanitarian crisis that could spread across the region. nearly

60 percent of patients live in poverty and there are crippling food shortages or leaders have expressed outrage. president joe biden says the u. s. is ready to help and columbia, the president has asked the organization of american states to send an urgent mission to haiti. let's speak to andy gallagher now who joins us live now from little haiti in miami. it does seem that obviously people certainly around the haiti and probably within it too worried about what might happen next, the instability. so what do we know about the situation on the ground? well when i speak to my contacts and porter print, say say it's pretty quiet. the people are kind of hunkering down in the homes listening to the radio and really bracing themselves was my next? remember, this is a very young democracy. only about 35 years old. job now, maurice has been accused of trying to solidify his powers staying in office long

after he should have left according to his critics. but this political vacuum right now is potentially very dangerous for the nation of haiti. let's see how the last 2 hours have unfolded the the home of the haitian president job. now luis is now sealed off the scene. fascination that shocked the international community. the nation's deputy prime minister says, armed men speaking english and spanish storm the house in the early hours of wednesday, killing the 53 year old and badly injuring his wife. violent street protests calling from always to step down have been a regular occurrence in haiti. their affairs, his death and the political vacuum leaves were plunged this nation into crisis. i called for the respect of the democratic principles, i urged all the nation stakeholders to help us in the battle for the continuity of the states. this country is hurt. this nation is hurst. the perpetrators will be

taken to justice. let's keep our, can, the situation is under control. now, luis has been ruling by decree of the parliamentary elections were delayed in 2019 . that led to accusations he was trying to cling to power, but those living close to his home. horrified, always he's yeah, he's got with somebody. imagine the live in this area, close to the precedent, even when we have problem through the pressed and we can't imagine they will kill him like this. you know, i heard something go, boom, like an earthquake. i thought something under the soil had been turning the world. leaders were quick to condemn the killing, offering their support for the people of haiti. columbia president, yvonne to k, says it is a cowardly act full of barbarity against the entire haitian people who the alleged killers are and what their motivation is, remain unknown. the u. s. president says he's monitoring the situation a lot more information, but it's been very worried about

a state of emergency. it's been declared with a newly appointed prime minister yet to be sworn in. there's uncertainty about the path forward here in miami, home to around 50000 haitians. the reaction is muted. those with family and haiti, a listening to reports closely and bracing themselves for the worst recent history of seeing who is to go. instability and widespread gang violence. all haitians can do here is watch and hope for the best officials in the neighboring dominican republic afforded the immediate closure of the border with haiti. un troops stationed in haiti left in 2017, leaving an already fragile democracy exposed. and it's people afraid of what may happen next is go back to andy who is live for us in miami. as you mentioned, there are worries about what might happen next. you're speaking to us from miami, obviously the us tell us a little bit about the relationship between haiti and it's most powerful neighbor.

we know that the widow now of a movie is, has been to florida. i mean, it's an important relationship. there's no doubt haiti's about a 1000 kilometers from miami. obviously during things like the earthquake and past problems in a tv us have sent in help sent in money. i think perhaps more importantly, the relationship between 18 the united nations is more of a key one because the united nations troops were in that nation for years to try and help it stabilize. and they of course, pulled out in 2017. so that century leaves what is a very fraud gel democracy at the best of times, even more expose. what we're looking at here is a political vacuum left by a president who may or may not have been popular. but i don't think people are necessarily concerned about the assassination of jeff. now luis, i don't say that as a flip in common. i think they just want to make sure they,

their families and everyone around them remain safe and with no leadership in haiti at the moment. that status quo is very, very fragile. indeed. and the gallagher with a laser certain little haiti in miami and the thank you, we'll have them back to the u. s. as the attack was carried out by foreign mercenaries pretending to be agents of the us, the drug enforcement administration. video footage is show that it is well stated at that because there will come in those professional skills. those are the want to enter that residence and what everybody's thinking about. the city presented themselves on the agent and but just to carry out the dirty mission. now we're talking about my series. fine. i said i was probably there would be some antennas hence and complexes,

but we live that that in this edition. ok, so my 2nd is director of the atlantic council of latin america center. he joins them from washington, dc. so thank you so much for joining us. here on al jazeera, for everything that you know about what happened, who do you think might be behind it? well, we can speculate this point who is behind is right. can say this is an incredibly heinous attack. the haiti of the haitian people. and i believe as well, this is a wake up call of the need to reinvest and haiti we. what has happened overnight in haiti has is a worst case scenario for a country that is still reeling from the effects of an earthquake. the current 11 years ago and one in which the, your acid community continues to pour assistance into one in which the patient people continue to real from violence kidnappings. and i'm concerned about how the

situation by transpire falling phosphate attack. i suppose, as you mentioned, there is a real worry that the situation might spiral. how much control you think that the interim prime minister can actually a search right now? well, the interim prime minister has already declared a state of siege and haiti. the haitian airport has been closed as well on the other side of the island, the dominican republic has reinforced is border with haiti, troops or in the industries to patrol within haiti. there is of course, some questions about the exact order of constitutional changes and power. but at this point, the acting prime minister has assumed responsibility and making statements and decorations to move forward and then trying to address the attack on last night. and the interim from minutes to one of the things he's done is also asking the the un security council for an urgent meeting on the situation. what kind of action do

using the security council push lead at the, the neighboring countries to haiti? the crucial partners couldn't should take right now why i think one is, is critical for neighboring countries to work with the haitian authorities. and again, helping to lend the resources to identify who is attacker as work to help to capture these attackers, as well as to re focus on helping haiti to rebuild, frankly, from the, from the turn state which is in. i'm also very concerned about hurricane season settling in her. her katie is currently in a very precarious situation and we need the international community to not only redouble our efforts, but also to rethink how it can act in and even more coordinate fashion. to address the challenges behavior faces. i mean you mentioned these challenges and we've talked about them before. 2 before the assassination,

how would you have rated the current challenges faced by hazy and i guess maybe the either inability or the fact that a lot of them just really haven't been dealt with in the past few years? well, there are a number of challenges and one of the challenges in haiti as well as intense political pores ation that we've seen over the last couple of years, including with questions from the opposition and haiti with regard to the ending of the mandate of the now former president. so this is intense polarization. other questions on corruption that have surfaced in the end haiti, and again, over the last couple years, almost be dealt with as well as the question of how do we actually bring about investment into haiti? how do we help to generate economic growth? how can the russia community helped to work with the haitian authorities to provide stability, provide governance that will welcome in the investment it's critical for the country. so it's no longer in its perpetual cycle of relying on for assistance

dollars. jason mark the director of the atlantic councils at latin america center. sir, thank you for sharing of use with us. thank you for having me. coming up on this news hour from london, lithuania accuses bella. russo flying in migrants from abroad to send to the you and says it will build a barrier on their join to border. a prominent dutch crime reporter is left fighting for his life. have to be shot multiple times in a central amsterdam street and is this is what it means to reach your 1st grand slam. final moron. that's the story coming up and support. ah, taliban fighters have launched their 1st assault on a provincial capital in northern afghanistan since the us and natal withdraw began

the taliban says they briefly took control of cala. no. and by the keys for the 1st time since 2001 i've canister, the defense ministry says it's forces of killed more than 2000 taliban fighters this week. but it's centered monahan, reports government troops are still losing territory. the taliban fighters rolling through the capital about the province in northwestern kenneth they claimed to briefly taken control of the town, the 1st provincial capital they've attempt to overrun the u. s. a. nato withdraw again. my bad cases, governor says government forces pushed the fighters out of the city, although not before they broke into the regions central prison and rescued the youth taliban fighters over the sounds of heavy gunfire. the armed

governor had this message for afghan looking for a woman who i am. i want to assure our people that all the security forces, including the special forces a here and defending the city of color in on the enemy who is engaged with us in some parts of the city, is facing resistance and also facing a lot of casualties. and to fate. the afghan government has lost significant territory in the last 2 months. it's rely on air strikes to retake control. the ministry of defense says its troops of killed were the 2000 taliban fighters in the past week. wind, luna, brothers and sisters, there is no deal and no will to surrender. there are 2 choices either to live with dignity or to live with insult. today's the day of honor, dignity and support. but at the taliban thinks that we are surrendering to them. that will never happen, not in 100 years. local militias have joined forces with the down military to bolster their ranks. this district in northern tac, our province felt the taliban last week. since may 1st,

the taliban has more than doubled. the number of districts controls to approximately 200 or half the country. what do you do? i know that the most afghan security forces deployed on the front line. but we militia forces also stand with them and defend in tech how most of the areas and districts have fallen to the taliban. now we have created several lines to stop the taliban, reaching the city. the town offensive has regional allies concerned. turkey and russia have closed their calls, bullets in the region while iran has restricted its counselor activities. although tara did host a meeting between telephone leaders and some senior can politicians back in bad geese, taliban fighters pushed out of cal in order to wait at the city gate until security forces surrendered. day after day, the pressure builds with less than 20 percent of f. kennedy, now controlled by the afghan government in benton mountain, al jazeera kidnappers,

who abducted more than 120 school children in northern nigeria have demanded food for their hostages. this the security forces step up efforts to free the students that were taken by a packers on monday from a boarding school in northern could do no state. local official says he spoken with the students who confirmed they were ok. it's the latest in a string of last abductions for ransom in the region around the 1000 pupils and staff have been kidnapped since the former south african president, jacob zoom or has remained that his home as the midnight deadline for police to arrest him. approaches fast. he was sentenced by the constitutional court to 15 months in jail last week for failing to show up at a corruption inquiry. but zoom has launched to last that legal challenges attempting to block the move. police now have less than 45 minutes to arrest them.

in southeast asia, the most populous country is battling a devastating corona. virus surge needs its hospitals are beyond the capacity and desperate people are hunting for hunting, for oxygen, for 6 family members as supplies and medical facilities run out, wednesday was the country's deadliest. say of the pandemic. with 1040 beth covert 19 reported this bright new lockdown measures and sledges from the government to provide more hospitable beds and supplies. there's no indication of the outbreak actually slowing down just as a washington has more enough from the cassi, which is east of jakarta, to come to hospitals. and java's hospitals in general are under unprecedented pressure. and this is why you can see the results of thought. this is one of the new coven 19 burial sites in because see on the outskirts of chicago. and as

hospitals are on the increasing pressure during the 2nd wave infections here in indonesia. many patients, many sick people have been turned away from hospitals and forced to isolate at home no matter how sick they are and does hospitals are forced to turn away patients because they are already at 90 percent or 100 percent capacity. people have to stay home and it's up to their families to do whatever they can to keep them alive. and in many instances, they're unsuccessful at doing that. some are trying to buy oxygen tanks or medication to keep their loved ones alive, but the death toll is increasing because of this crisis. these great because have been working non stop, we've been observing the situation here for the past few hours and the bodies never stop coming. these men never stop working. such is the situation. the scale of the crisis here in indonesia. the indonesian government says it is working to try to

rectify the crisis in some ways including trying to solve more oxygen for those in critical need that it includes trying to source oxygen from neighboring singapore. the health ministry also says it is attempting to add more beds to hospitals, as well as increase the number of isolation facilities. but health care workers say that they are overwhelmed and overrun, and that no matter how many beds they're all in these hospitals. simple reality is, is that there is not enough health care soft to cater for the demand right now, the refund, too many people falling critically ill in indonesia for doctors to take care of all of them. and this is the result and elsewhere in asia, south korea has reported its highest daily colo corona virus count since late december. more than 1200 infections were recorded on wednesday, forcing

a delay in plans to ease restrictions. but governments may introduce tougher measures instead. so, so far around 30 percent of the population has received one vaccine dose. a small city on china's border with me and mar has been locked down as the authorities. restful with a 4th outbreak of the corona, virus. schools and businesses are shots and residents of riley in the united province have been told to quarantine at home. food stores, hospitals and pharmacies have remained open. the outbreak marks the 2nd cluster of infections and china involving the delta very well. india prime minister has replaced 12 members of his cabinet and appointed dozens more as he tries the same criticism of his government's response to the pandemic. health minister hush, vita dunn, who was the face of the government fight against covert 19, is among those who have announced their resignation. prime minister in the render

modi now has 77 ministers. nearly half of them knew more than half of india's reported 400000 corona virus that have occurred over the past 2 months as the bill to very and poor through the nation. while the delta variant is also driving infections in australia's biggest city, which has extend that it's locked down by a week, stay at home order is introduced in sydney last month. we're supposed to end on friday, but it's reported more than 350 cases in the past 3 weeks, a significant jump in a city where there were barely any infections for months. of the reason for this is, as we've been saying, this still to strain is a game changer, extremely transmissible, and more contagious than any other foreign form of the vars that we've seen. the reason why the new south wales government has taken this position is because we don't want to be in a situation where we are constantly having to move between locked down now lockdown,

locked down, lockdown. new york has held the victory parade for its essential workers. the city is enjoying a low infection rate of the corona virus and a high vaccination rate amongst the residents. it's a remarkable turnaround for the city that last year was the epicenter of the u. s. cobit crisis, gabrielle and his own bo, has been watching the celebrations. there was a parade through downtown to honor heroes. but instead of celebrating a championship victory, it was essential workers being honored for bringing new york city out from a panoramic for the nurses and doctors and everybody got this got them and. 2 kron, i got a guy the me

hearing unique, $250.00 types of essential workers. anyone who helped the city get through, it's dark these days. and dark days they were in march and april, last year. new york city was the global epicenter, the new needs of residents fled in a matter of days in all over 33000 new york city residents died from cold. now, how times have changed. the city is now one of the safest places in the world when it comes to avoiding the irish on most days. not a single person dies from cove. it thanks to a massive vaccination effort that to date has administered 4600000 jabs to residence and not everyone is pleased with the timing of this celebration. the union represents new york city firefighters, emergency medical technician,

ambulance drivers, hold on their members to boycott, just to bring attention to lower wages and what has been no salary increases for over 3 years. the 15 is also committed time. most of the rest of the world is still in the depth of the pandemic. that was something that was not lost on spectators. i feel probably suffering right now. but in that same sense, we had mentioned that i have to celebrate for the live i in the city that suffered badly. but through this now saying, thank you to all those who made it happen. gabriel sandow disease your the confirmed the death toll from a high rise apartment building that collapsed and florida last month has not risen to 46. that's it has 10 more bodies were found on wednesday, 94 people that were still missing and search and rescue workers have been sifting

through the rubble in the town of surf site in florida for 14 days. now, no one has been rescued alive from the site since the 1st few hours after the building fell on june 24th. former us president donald trump has filed a class action lawsuit against facebook, twitter and google. the tag giant suspended him from their platforms after his followers, storm the capital building in january. the company's site had concerns that he would inside further violence with his claims that the democrats stole the election . but tom says he was wrongfully sensor. the m is even suing the companies see yields. there is no better evidence that big tech is out of control than the fact that they banned the sitting president of the united states. earlier this year . a band that continues to this day were demanding and to the shadow banning a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting,

banishing and canceling that you know, so well our case will prove this sense as yet is unlawful. it's unconstitutional and it's completely american. ok, let's think you now to our top story and that is that a container on a ship, a devise. main port has exploded. official say the blaze has now been brought on the control, but not before. the blast actually shook buildings right across the city. the civil defense guard rushed to the jail lead port to put out the blaze of 40 so far, say that no casualties have been report he was trying get more on this story. now, by speaking to see good new bower, a former nonresident fellow at the arab gulf states institute in washington, he joins us now on the phone. welcome to al jazeera, 1st of all, what do you make of this story? thank you very much for being a part of our gmc on this very grave situation. and of course,

so far we don't know who the co prince behind this explosion are. but it's not inconceivable that there's any tax to try to capitalize on the unfolding salvage muradi tensions and also iranian frustrations with the american administration over the inability to enter into the cpr or the iran agreement of 2015. so let me just clarify what you're saying. so you're saying that you don't think that this is likely to be an accident of some kind, which could be you think this might have been deliberate? yes, the reason why it could be deliberate this, that we have seen similar incidents in the past. we have seen the claim responsibility for an attack in 2019 on saudi arabia,

oil infrastructure. and we know that the, who, the yeah many group side is now in charge of all of us don does not have the capability to carry out these sophisticated attacks. and we have also seen that israeli ships i've been attacked in the mediterranean and elsewhere. so it is very possible that this could be a state sponsored attack and the authorities are obviously going to be very careful and how they're going to investigate this situation. it will probably be through to you on security council and getting support from, from the american slide. it is a scenario that your thoughts should not be rolled out the wrong this behind it. and if it isn't attached to talk us through the significance of attacking the job and leave poor, so why would that be a key asset to attack all the juggle, all the port is the largest port. and so he is one of the most important

economic training centers between the gulf region, yvonne and east africa. so it essentially be an attack on the u. e. e can nomic nurse center, which in itself is a very strong message. well, that story breaking in the past hours, so we will of course, be following it here and al jazeera for all its developments for the moment. see good new bower form or non resident fellow at the gulf states institute in washington. thank you so much for sharing your views with us. thank you. and there is lots more still to come in this news hour, including, i will tell you why filipinos evacuated from the towel. k, no has more to worry about than any russian expected at any moment. india mourns of bollywood legend. the lip cool mar has died at the age of 9 p.