on a jazzy era, we understand the differences and similarities of culture across the world. so no matter when you call home will be used in current affairs. that matter to you, i egypt. a nation of over 100000000 souls is facing an existing show threat view and security council needs to hear regional concerns of the parent, his grand renee on them. i mean a dispute, so if its downstream impact ah, hello there, i'm sorry. hey, this is al 0 life and also coming up, hey tease police say they've identified 28 suspect most of them columbia and me

assassination of president driven all morning. just wouldn't worry. your funding if can stand is not a solution, but a recipe for being there. indefinitely, us president joe biden defend his decision to withdraw trips from afghanistan, even as taliban fighters capture more territory. and fans on our bod from the and then picks in tokyo after a corona virus emergency is declared for japan capital. aah! now the un security council has discussed the controversial mega down project that ethiopia is building on the nile river, egypt. and you don't say the ground if you're doing renee on them limits their access to fresh water. but here it says the un isn't the place to address such concerns. different now to get it. james page reports now from the un. the outside

un headquarters, e. c o, p in protest, is gathered. they didn't want this meeting to take place to demonstrate that point . unlike egypt and sudan, ethiopia didn't send its foreign minister to this meeting. instead, it was represented by its water and irrigation minister. of the con, union is seized of the matter and is abilene facilitating our negotiation. that is why it's easy to get a pebble or she steadily countries of the 2 brings a matter to the security council. it was to dawn and egypt that had demanded this meeting, saying the fact that the peer is again filling the dam amounts to a threat to international peace and security. does not an overstatement to affirm that for egypt the girl is an existing show threat. this is a situation that egypt cannot and will not tolerate. later,

i press the foreign minister on what action his country was prepared to take. so all their circumstances where you would consider military action. the matter of egypt, the protection of the rights of it citizen, is inherent and is a matter that necessarily any responsible government would apply itself to clearly growing tension between 3 countries. 2 of them with a population of more than 100000000 people and another with a population of 40000000 is very concerning. but the security council is unlikely to take any direct action. diplomats tell me they hope this meeting will force the 3 countries back into african union, lead mediation, james bay's ouch is era that the united nations work on that. john began 10 years ago now and it's been the subject of an international diplomatic stand off ever since. but 145 nice of them on the now rivers, main tributary,

the blue nile will be africa, the largest hydro electric project when it's complete and will hold 74000000000 cubic meters of water. now, egypt depends on allow for nearly all of its irrigation and drinking water and describes a dam as an existential threat. orthodontia is its own dams could be harm saying, filling the renee zones down, threatens its national security. both of those countries, mountain binding deal on the filling and the operation of them. meanwhile, the european says the project is essential to the country's development and could generate $580000000.00 a year by selling excess energy to neighboring countries. on earlier i spoke to william lawrence, he is a professor of international relations at american university. and also for my u. s. diplomat. he says a new mechanisms negotiations is needed. need to sit in what sort of a certain type of external binding arbitration, not unlike a sort of bindings or calling it a dealer agreement. but it's a binding instruction from the us to start feeling just really

a deal or an agreement at all. they want that ability sort of impose there will be and if you want technical discussions wants agreement. one things the other change from month to month and i'd like to add there's the great disingenuousness about the condition proposal because everybody knows you can only fill in july and august . and the technicians are saying, well, how about a pause for 6 months to negotiate? when we've had negotiations for year? what that basically says is you can't touch that damn per year, that you can't continue instruction to delay construction for a year. so it's a bit of a bad faith proposed by the technician. there's bad faith rhetoric on all sides. and what really needs to happen is a positive negotiation. now the un, a framework was failing. so we probably need another mechanism. there's a deal to be made here, but right now the negotiations aren't moving forward and we need to find a way to get the moving forward in a positive manner. and it seems like the a, you just doesn't have the chops to do that. with each drop of water that goes into

the reservoir in ethiopia, egypt and sudan loses leverage over the long term go stations. that's why they're pressuring critical stations now because they want a better long term outcome. and so they're raising the stakes now to get what they want for the long term when they have the most leverage at each summer, that if you start filling over the next 6 to 10 years, the downstream countries will. ready lose leverage. i'm moving on and police and hazy say they've identified dozens of foreigners involved in the assassination of president driven on louise. he was shot dead during array that his home on wednesday, the motive for the killing a still unknown, but physical inviting is leading to concerns about the nation security and gallagher reports. the authorities believe these 2 men being loaded into a police truck in port prince may be part of the arm gang that allegedly assassinated president job now movies on wednesday. the outside a police station where several other suspects are reportedly being held. there have

been angry scenes as a nation reels from the death of it's 53 year old president. those guys killed the president. we are going to make them suffer now that the police have found them and taken them to jail. we want them to burn today. my sister's house is now the scene of an ongoing investigation. his body said to have been riddled with, gunshots has been taken to a more job. now. marie says wife martine, who was badly injured in the attack, is here in miami, receiving medical treatment. a couple of 3 children are said to be in a secure location. the biden administration who call the assassination horrific a monitoring the situation in haiti, closely white house press secretary gen saki. this is the us will support an investigation. it's a presence. death is calling for stability and the beleaguered nation. well, 1st i would say that it is still, it is our view and we continue to call 4 elections to happen this year. and we believe they should proceed. we know that free and fair elections will facilitate

a peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected president. and we certainly continue to support haiti's democratic institutions. given the haiti's last plan, the elections in 2019 were delayed over in fighting. that may be easier said than done. but we had been ruling by decree after the majority of parliament was dissolved in january last year. now both chloe, joseph and ariel, on re both senior politicians claim they're in charge. through the us special envoy to haiti says joseph is the new leader. as does hate his ambassador to the u. s. bullshit, edmond, where you can say the primary job if they want to come in. when the others however disagree, she jumped in and seemed to avoid of power. but if you felt to politicians and human rights organizations, 80, they will tell you that he don't have any legal authority, no more authority, whatsoever to conduct anything in the name of the government. he is now at

a precarious tipping point. this is a nation already dealing with object poverty, political instability, and a potentially worsening security situation. for the people, the stakes couldn't be higher and to gather curl, g 0, miami, florida. well patty calhane is across all of this forest from washington, d. c. patty, it does sound like this investigation is moving fairly quickly. what more do we know now? incredibly quickly, we are hearing from the haitian police chief and he is saying that there are total . they've identified 28 attackers. 26 of them are colombians. they said to our haitians and 8 are still on the run. as you know, everything's pretty much been shut down in haiti. as the investigation continues, there have been reports. there were at least 2 americans of haitian defense that were arrested. the state department said that they were aware of those media reports but could not comment on that. obviously this, the destination is going very, very quickly. they're going to be questions about exactly how for how they are. busy they'll track down these suspects just so fast, but again, the latest numbers,

they say 28 attackers identified 26 colombians to haitian they're. the haitian officials are not confirming the 2 of those or in fact cation, haitian american americans of haitian descent. but those are the latest numbers that we're getting from haiti as the investigation continued. very interesting developments that had he call handle the nations from washington d. c. thank you, patty. while you, as president joe biden has defended his decision to pull american troops out of afghanistan, saying that the military operation will end on august 30. first. he insists the u. s. has achieved its objectives after nearly 20 years of war. but this withdrawal comes as the taliban continues to seize more territory in afghanistan. white house correspondent, kimberly how good before one week after us forces withdrew quietly from bog room air force base. the taliban is making games from the security vacuum left behind us

. president joe biden is adamant us forces will leave afghanistan by the end of august. nearly 20 years of experience has shown us that the current security situation only confirms that just one more year of fighting f canister is not a solution. but a recipe for being there indefinitely. as the taliban gave power, biden is now on the defensive. this afghan, the stance future is tied to a political solution, not a military. one piece must be negotiated between the afghan government and the taliban. but when he was asked if he had any faith in the group, the president had this to say, no, i do not trust the tell him the us will keep a small security and diplomatic presence in the country to support afghan forces. he cobbled airport open and protect the u. s. embassy. now we're left with a strategy that less than coherent and bided in ministration is going to have to

scramble to realize what their priorities in the region are. the taliban rapid advance process. ganna stan has put key cities at risk of being overtaken. still by didn't insist the united states won't be at fault if that happens. no, no, no. it's up to the people that are going to stay and decide on what government they want. not us to impose the government on them as part of its humanitarian effort. the white house announced on thursday. it will also ship $1400000.00 doses of the johnson and johnson cove it vaccine to afghanistan. but critics argue, afghanistan needs much more, especially afghan interpreters that served and supported us troops and are now in danger. whitehouse and says 30 vacuuming, thousands of african nationals and their families to

a 3rd party country while their visas are being processed was complete. those who supported the u. s. mission in afghanistan could be offered asylum in the united states. kimberly held kit al jazeera. the white house was still ahead here on out there a quarter of a 1000000 cases and just 7 days, africa experiences. it's west week of this pandemic us. we look at why continuing attaching armed groups and the 9 area offering millions at risk of starvation. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello. we got more heavy rain across central parts of china and wet weather getting pushed across towards japan. yet again, we have seen flooding here,

courtesy of the may you front, bo, seasonal dam, pause, and just to the west, over soccer in here or smell, we saw 198 millimeters afraid in 24 hours could see the same again over the next 24 to 48 hours, very heavy downpours coming through. that's around a month's worth. so we have seen flash flooding as a result of that. and that wet weather across a similar area as we go on through the we can destroy it to the south. but it is some, a wetter across the good part of the korean peninsula. we've got some wet weather to particularly wet weather across the endo china and presently could see of the south west the monsoon that's driving big down palsy and across much of thailand into cambodia. into a good part of vietnam. elsewhere across the region, the philippines, malaysia, indonesia, the usual seasonal range coming in over the next day or so. another seasonal rate of saves no downpours to southwest the monsoon. driving very heavy, right across the piping going to me on mar, pushing up into bangladesh, a final taste of india, much of india. now starting to see that southwesterly rains now pushing all the way

because much of the country actually, but even it's more than parts of pakistan. 20 cooler and twitter full of whole this weekend. i google the sponsored cut on airways departed from the u. k. indoctrinated by somali as how can a young man disillusion by violence? we build as light or them and he's going to make a mistake and re unite. it's time for me also. my kids last warrior witness documentary on a me ah, the me

watching al jazeera, let's remind you about top stories here. the salad, the un security council has been discussing the controversial mega them that if you're building on the river nile, egypt, and you don't have res, economic and security concerns about the project. while european says the mass, i should rather be discussed at the asking union pay fees. police chief says 28th attackers have been identified following the fascination of president jovan all morning, most of them were colombians. officials also looking for at least 8 of the attackers were believed to be on the run. us president biden says american troops will leave afghanistan by august 31st. to see us has achieved its objectives of nearly 20 of the war. but this withdrawal comes for taliban continues to seize more territory. now the continuing tension between iran and the u. s. as being felt in iraq with attacks and counter attacks. iranian backed armed groups of intensify the

operations against u. s. military and diplomatic facilities out there again, access to one such a military base and, and the province in western iraq from their muslim otherwise reports. iraqi forces in anal asset base are on high alert. on wednesday, a missile attack injury to people, the base houses iraqi army units along site coalition forces, including us personnel. we traveled with iraqi army to the district, about 14 kilometers away. this is where missiles have targeted the bays during the past few months were fired from we found a missile launcher that had excluded, leaving several houses, damages including a mosque. ham's, amazon was among a number of civilians injured in the last bog. official. bog shall be otherwise shall buck on it. i was looking from the window when the explosion starts at the

head. why is this happening in our area? we are not part of the conflict. iraq's joint operations command, which protect the base, is investigating how you, how you started them. but the terrorists have been using various ways theresa base . this time missiles were hidden under flour sacks, where now collecting evidence identified to perpetrators security sources say the missile launcher was blown off by the ammunition it was carrying the detonation brought on by scorching some more temperatures. but local, still a different story. i guess hurdle her. why do me sales came from the base direction one key to the messiah truck, the other, to the got it in the advice of the u. s. a. to strike on the city iraq border. 2 weeks ago, iranian back to groups declared to open war against the u. s. forces still in iraq . washington says iraq, the government wants the u. s. to provide military training for its troops and help

in the fight against isolate iran. but this continuing conflict between iran and the u. s. goes further in direct talks aimed at salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the previous u. s. administration under donald trump. again under threat, and that's not helping iraq. danial asset base has been under most well drawn and rocket attacks since the killing of iranian commander. some slay many in the u. s. a. to strike in january last year. of all my them hondas and iraqi commander of the popular mobilization forces was also killed. violence between us forces and iranian affiliated with groups is likely to continue as long as the nuclear issue remains unresolved and would otherwise have a number province, western iraq. as many as 11 people die due to hunger and malnutrition

every minute, according to the charity from it says hunger is killing more people than covered 19 that's currently around 7 every minutes. the charity estimates 155000000 people are now living in crisis, uncertain about where their next meal will come from. that's 20000000 more than just last year, claimed mostly on war or conflict. but the pandemic is also a factor mass unemployment and severe disruptions to food production have seen prices such 40 percent, not the highest rise in more than a decade or the rise in prices and a reduction in form output as leaving many families in nigeria and new jazz hungry and continuing attacks by armed groups are also a major part of that problem. farmers are being targeted by kid, not this, forcing them to abandon their crops and interest reports not from the northwestern state of casino running out of options. tom was in northern nigeria, i increasingly turning to urban spaces to cultivate crops or murder to them totally

. and others like him. i know planting crops and residential areas in the city. the land may not be particularly suitable for agriculture, but he or his family will at least get something out of it that will kind of remind me when you can see how the land is. but when you are start from farming, being the only occupation you know and has a family to feed them, sees any opportunity that comes away. that's what we are trying to do here. before fleeing his village because of attacks by gunman, he was harvesting 50 to 60 bags annually. not enough to feed the family, but he says enough to just survive this year. there was struggle to get 5 percent of that much of farming activity as nigeria is in the hands of small farmers trying to feed their families. and those are the hardest hit by violence from boat or bandits and kidnappers agriculture production across the north nigeria, greens, a serial production belt. if it's steep decline in some states,

access to fata land a trunk by almost 60 percent because of attacks by groups. but we're, the reduced output comes for shortages and higher prices, and it's also heating those selling local produce at the local market, lack of supplies and poor demand. i put in many traders out of business with them. but we're not happy that the price of food is so expensive, much of the grains we sell here come from the state. when you factor in transportation and the risk prices should normally go up. we have 2 extra se desperate times lie ahead and the government is running out of time and options lose that, you know, leave on their farms. this assistance promise. i won't be absolutely without food. and the are the greater number of pharma over 80 percent. which means that

at least at least about 60 percent of conditions, i like to go without food without anything in the store for tomorrow. and that is definitely an assessment. humanitarian agencies agree with aid worker say, the continued violence has put the lives of millions in my area and other countries of the region at risk since 2019 and i didn't buy the tree has been targeting the gross yet attacks and kidnapping of villages continue. and many of those who depend on agriculture to feed their families cannot now access their phones. degrees, algebra, kevin. now now half of all us states are seeing arise encoded 900 cases among unvaccinated people . the centers for disease control recorded 11 percent increase in cases last week,

most of them in areas with low vaccination rates. experts this week announced the belt the delta variance has now become the dominant covered 1900 strain in the country. meanwhile though, from july 19th, people returning to england from most european countries on the u. s. will no longer have to corn jean if they are fully vaccination against the current of virus . the british government says travellers muskogee tested 72 hours before departure . and again, upon their return, children who are not currently being an okay listed under the u. k. is vaccine rolled out, will also be exempt from quarantine. the scottish and well, governments are considering whether to follow that rule change or the entire african continent has been experiencing. it's west week since the beginning of this pandemic. there's been concern of several countries. the past, the 2nd wave peak and now appear to be entering a 3rd wave. nicholas hack reports from senegal, capital dachelle. a public awareness campaign in the car nurse indicate job knows

it will take more than a catchy, to convince people to get back to needed. instead, the goal is running short on vaccines anyway, as infection rates rise. in the next 72 hours, we are going to be making a lot of noise. we will be doing topic campaigns, knocking on people's doors, going in factories and offices, and warning everyone to be prepared. synagogue is among 23 african countries experiencing a 3rd wave of infections with 250000 new cases in the last week. the world health organization warns the continent is ill prepared to deal with the increase for africa, the worst is yet to come. as the fast moving 3rd wave continues to gain, speed and new ground in countries logged downs are being imposed in sierra leone than bob way in south africa, where half of the new infections are from the delta various has spread from india to 16 african countries. it is in rural areas away from cities where there are less

people vaccinated, that the search of new cases is taking place. only 2 percent of africans have been vaccinated. most don't have access to the health centers, some fear unfounded side effects then while others view it as pointless with the you. failing to recognize the validity of the vaccines delivered in africa for travel to europe. some governments see this as further discouraging people from getting inoculated. senegal is bounding public gatherings in an attempt to slow this 3rd wave, but in order to limit transmission, it needs rich countries to deliver on their promise. in providing to the 1900 vaccines as supplies are running out, given the rate of transmission. scientists fear the already virulent delta various could mutate into a more deadly and contagious virus. if we left countries behind on the vaccination and public health response with just give my chance to the fighters to have fall

and new variance to emerge with or without the vaccine for senegal in other african countries. it's a race against time to prepare the population ahead of what appears to be a new and more dangerous wave of infection. nicholas park al jazeera the cart. i mean, while trinity of public health care system is on the verge of collapse because of the surgeon infections there, the health ministry is appealing to the population to help combat what it's calling a sinking ship. it says hospitals are running out of oxygen supplies and beds to admit incoming patients. nearly 10000 more people tested positive on wednesday. that's a record fortunate since the start of this pandemic. now the elliptic torch has arrived in the home, said he, toko, 2 weeks out loud from the start of the games, but there will be no spec cases at olympic events in the japanese capital. the organizers have made that decision as the cities struggles to deal with private 19

. david stokes reports just hours after japan announced a fresh state of emergency in tokyo. the knock on effect on the olympics was confirmed to come back. the surgeon covered 19 cases. there will be no fence at all allowed to attend venues in tokyo, seeing that i called in that you will consent with you without the pandemic, dylan games would be an amazing opportunity to unite people. but unfortunately, the panorama could not allow us to hold events with full spectators. we are very sorry for the locals living near dell and fick venue at that. the decision to ban foreign fans was made months ago, but organizes had still hoped to allow 50 percent capacity to domestic crowds. although a small number of people may be allowed to attend venues outside tokyo, there's no doubt 1st, a decision has inflicted a significant blow. this was supposed to be a huge moment for, for tokyo, for japan. so much effort has gone into preparing the capital to host these games.

and now it's going to be a lot of them t stadium, the head of the international olympic committee. thomas bar arrived in tokyo just as a new rules were announced. and he himself will now spend 3 days isolating and his hotel will support any measure which is necessary to have safe and secure will begin paralympic games. the games have now effectively been reduced to a major tv event, which means b. c will still collect around $4000000000.00 from broadcast. is that the last ticket revenue around $800000000.00 will be felt by japan's taxpayers who've already been hit hard by the most expensive games in history. with some reports, putting the overall cost close to 30000000000 still around 11000 athletes from all over the world and making their way to tokyo, ready to compete in an lympics like no other minority sport this oppertunity,

the only comes once before years where they can actually compete in arenas which are compatible to oper, mason bought very out as he is when they get to tokyo and get to the arena and see how unusually quiet it is. i think it could affect some performances. there will be no fans in tokyo, but the delayed games are still going ahead with the opening ceremony just 2 weeks away. david stokes al jazeera. ah hello there. this is al jazeera. these are the headlines. the un security council has discussed the controversial mega that each year is building on the nile. egypt into don, have raised economic and security concerns about the project involved. if you're a piece, as the master should rather be discussed at the african union, egypt is foreign minister had a rather blunt assessment the situation a nation of over $100.00.