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in johannesburg, dozens killed and hundreds arrested in south africa and had riots with a dire state to be economy. grief and anger in iraq, funerals take place for 92 victims of the fire at a cold with 19 isolation hospital u. k. prime minister polish johnson promises action against online racist abuse. after the targeting of 3 black england foot phones and it's 4 and a big knife for baseball japanese sensation show, hey, tiny as major leagues, all star game returns after being cancelled in 2020 because of the pan down. i want to 1st ah, well we begin enough ghana, stun. that's taliban says it's seized control of

a border crossing with pakistan. this footage has emerged which appears to show taliban fighters at the border gates. however, the afghan government is denying the armed groups claims. it says its forces have repelled telephone finances. the spin bolden crossing connects the city of kandahar directly with pakistan, and is a major supply line for whoever controls it in a moment's will get more from the pakistani side of the border with come all hider . but 1st, let's go to charlotte bellis in kabul. charlotte, tell us more about this border crossing. why is it considered strategic then border is a very strategic crossing because it is afghan, a stand 2nd busiest border crossing. also you mentioned the location of it. it's just south of kandahar and south west left and the son which is the telephone

strong hole. but now with this border crossing, it connects them with talk of some where a lot of the senior leaders have been to many years. and it also allows them to get all that custom revenue that's coming through the border. yes. can government say something like 900 trucks across through the every day that the taliban and not taking customs duties from now this isn't the 1st border crossing they have taken. it is the largest, but it isn't the 1st they have taken in the last few weeks. they've taken some smaller ones up on the northern border of afghanistan, minnesota to g custom. and also on the iranian border, they took quite a large border crossing called islam color. now we've talked to truck drivers have come through this since they've taken the crossing. and they say yes, we're now paying taxes to the television bought. we got a few kilometers down the road, only had a government checkpoint within pay taxes to the charlotte. it does seem that the taliban have been gaining momentum in recent days, but more districts falling to them every day. well,

can we read into this well, this all started around a crew. when u. s. president biden announced that he would take out american troops by september . the 11th, that's when the tell about really put their foot down. they say they now control 85 . the thing to districts and that's going to independent analysts say that back in april and bite and maybe announcement they had to say 70 or 80 out of about 400 and i've got a son. those same analysts now put that number around 220. so that's 3 times the number of districts and cherry tree, they now hold more people now living on the telephone control and ask and then on the government control. now, president ghani is trying to boost morale with the military to try to turn this tight around the front reassure civilians you travel to the north this week to do that. yes. can government is also senior high level delegation, which involves the dealer who is the head of the high council for national reconciliation, as well as former president holman, cause i,

they are going to do on friday to meet with senior taliban leaders in an attempt to try to find some type of diplomatic resolution to this. ok, charlotte balance there lie for as in cobble? charlotte? thank you. come all hider has more from is lama, but on the taliban assaults on the border crossing. red bugger thong. had an elaborate board of fence. they said they have already completed 90 percent of freight restricted on the in dire 2600 kilometer long border biased on of course a concern because they fear that the civil war and of understand were to have a blow black effect on pockets on not only really for refugees to come into pocket on the country already having $3000000.00 refugees within the country. and so the country of god is watching nervously, but also asking the wrong that the negotiating table in charge are politically. it

also must be understood that despite the nations and counter aggregation between cobblins law me about the fact remains that the taliban have captured a large arsenal of weapons. a cross of one is done in their district, red dev. overwrite him. the national army where the national army under so they have no then of talk 5. when it comes to weapons and munitions to carry on their offensive of god. there will be tension between of one has gone and budget on given the fact that the dollar bond will be trying now to go foretold. richard, the only remaining board across major border crossing with budgets, they've already secured a mom, bunder richard. the border gets on, they've taken over the border for a minute on where did on a read. so indeed, this will be a big morale boost. and also the fact that this is also a revenue generating area because of the large number of logistics applied crossing

at the point the us withdrawal is nearly complete. and at this point, the afghan government controls a constellation of provincial capitals, which must be resupplied from the air. the taliban effectively control the rest. the africa ministry of defense says it's killed nearly $200.00 taliban fighters in the past 24 hours in its efforts to retake captured territory. of him said that to the heads of international relations at cardon university and joined us by skype. from coppel just started off with what you think the taliban is trying to achieve here with this latest takeover of the border crossing. how big a victory is this for them? thank you. ha. i think that's this. the battle field games particularly would be

economic choke points. we'll have 2 important messages, one for the government and the other for our neighbors, for the government. the bonds are i thing trying to control the economic point. so to pressure the government and as well as the population that is in the domain of the government because we're controlling the border crossings, there will be difficulties in the resupply and supply of a lot of things to do. people with that with the external dimension, i think now they are managing or controlling because the, the crossing in this with a rod in far i'm in the not with with condos or humbug better. and now if can fund the into south, off of one is done and kinda hot. so this sends

a message to the neighboring concrete that taliban is not a forced to be washed out now. and this sort of make the neighboring countries to reconsider their approach as well as the relationship. how long does it concern the taliban? well you say they're trying to send a message to the message be that the taliban will be back in control of the entire country. very soon it stopped their ends. cool. i think we can somehow predict military take over off of couple but looking at the limitations that it started by hub, i believe they would of why such a such a complete take over because they would risk dad or rico commission by the

international community as well. as the legitimacy that they would need, and most importantly, the international assistance which will be required for the for governance and as well as for the development. these things will somehow not come. if the taliban tries to take over a while and then compete me on the domestic front, they might be able to somehow defeat the government. but looking at the previous situation, there were stiff resistance from some of the people even there was in the option of a government. and we can project that such a thing will happen either within the structure of the government or out of destructors, of the government. so that will also somehow take the country into a sort of civil war. so looking at these limitations,

i think they win fit to political negotiation that they will seek a political settlement. but largely they will try to have the negotiations going on based on the terms and conditions that be draft ok for him. so that's great to get your thoughts. thank you very much for joining us on al jazeera concerns are growing in south africa. the days of looting and riots will have a major impact on its supply chains. at least 72 people have been killed in the protests, which have grown into a wider show of anger against poverty and inequality. they were initially triggered by the imprisonments of j consumer. his foundation says they'll be no peace until he is released from jail life. now it's for me to miller who joins those from so where, so for me to what's the situation like right now?

so we've been at number of the hot spots that have occurred in the last few days in quoting. we've been a couple of all, was that some of them wait appears that things have come down significantly, especially compared to the writing and loosing. we've seen the last few and now in so we're, we're outside one of the largest more not the largest one or more way through the night. we heard from residents. yeah. and community members saying that they would station themselves outside the small, protected, saying that they would not part of the looting. and they would not let that happen . and that's some of what we're seeing just behind us. a small group of demonstrators, community members, small business owners, coming up to say we refused to join the team and saying that there was left upon you're more specific. he hasn't experienced any of that looting. also because of,

of the kind of the protection that's been offered by community members. and i think what is interesting is how community members have come out themselves to protect a more like this, where others have experience significant looting also because they've lost faith in the police. there's been a lot of criticism around police and the government and that they've acted too slowly. they've allowed to do anything in writing to take place and, and it's really up to them to protect something like this more and protect the community. we've also seen similar in places like, you know, natal, we community, the community policing for him. he's a community based organizations come out and say that they were prepared to protect their neighborhoods, protect areas where they were, the retail stores that could potentially be looted. so there is significant calm, but people also think people remain vigilant. they won't allow the living thing that's been seen in other areas. now, for me that we have seen why you're seeing and loosing it in 2 states,

at least in the safe africa, has that violence spreads elsewhere in the country. much of the writing a new thing we've seen, i've been in poaching and was going to tell halting the commercial have of south africa and proceeded to tell of course the home of former president jacob's duma. and that's where we saw that the initial protests against his arrest last week that have now escalated to riots and losing linked to the worst. and the economic situation in south africa, joblessness and unemployment. we haven't seen that spread to any of the 7 provinces. we have heard police call confirmation of very small instances. incidence in import mulanda and the northern cape, which police appear to have had to handle on pretty quickly as opposed to places

like was going to tell them how thing with battled to cope with the extent of the looting. so they haven't been in significant violent protest. so lou to get any others of the, any other of those protests, but perhaps because of the high density of people in halting specifically they can make up. this is where many people come to seek work and you know, if can, if connected to this economic situation, we have many in how things, specifically them traveling from other provinces to seek employment, perhaps not getting that employment. people losing their jobs because of an ongoing, ongoing, proven 19 locked down. but for now, other provinces in south africa remained calm. they appears the government has said that they have while possibly overstretch they've deployed as many police everywhere they can. but specifically the military in these 2 provinces, hard hit by these riots. ok for me to load the law for as in the work. so thank you

for me to let's take a closer look at why these process. so taking place. south africa economy has been in crisis. many so suffer from poverty and inequality. post apartheid. well, the pandemic makes things worse. unemployment, suzanne, and all time high. a 32 percent among young people that figure rises with nearly one in every 2 people. with a job, inflation hits a 30 months high in may with consumer prices rising more than 5 percent from last year. the cost of fuel is up to nearly 40 percent and the price of food has increased by nearly 7 percent. this is having a huge impact on black communities, which are on average, $3.00 to $4.00 times less than those that are white. or ralph material is

a political analyst and also of the book. when zoom a goes, he says the riots are driven by more than just political issues. it is an economy problem that also talks to poorly aligned politics. the politics not, it's no longer being able to respond to the needs of the people. i mean, it start from within the agency. but the reality is that you will have to ask yourself why such a number of people were able to participate in these? what exactly happened to a point where people do not have a problem? appeared in one tv, where the kid in all this. there's not deeply in what you are seeing in all this, which i give any ones for that since economy conditions to say that what really happened to people have poverty, extra people to this extent, of course, there's always going to be the element of couldn't be knowledge to eat, but the essence of it is also they'd be humanizing effect of poverty,

which we refuse to acknowledge because it seems as if it is more dignified to deal with this thing as a security issue. you know, you just label people criminal, you're done with it. do you deal with it? that's not a way to go. and dealing with this thought has reported its highest fairly infection rates. since the pandemic began pumping you restrictions in the capital, nightclubs and churches have been close and gatherings of more than 3 people will not be fans more than 1600 people tested positive for covered 19 in the past day. i'll just ears, rodman. bryce has the latest we've been under the most stringent measures since the start of this week, but this is where most of the new cases are occurring. but there is increasing

concern about what's going on out in the provinces with reports of new daily infections. more than doubling recently and the vaccination program, the government has been accused of being overly cautious if not planning to get enough people vaccinated quickly enough. and it was always known that because of the supplies of vaccines coming in different batches, that july actually would be a lead time. and that's what we are seeing now. there is a shortage of vaccines around the government believes that from august onwards, the increased number of shipments are going to alleviate that is more vaccines become available. there was also a concern at the start of the program. there was some reticence about side effects that seems to have been replaced now by the more widespread concern about this 4th wave and about the ad delta very. and so we are seeing it increasing demands. and just as an example of that, this week, the vaccines are being rolled down to the latest target group. it's the 55 to 59

year old. as soon as the website we became active and people could apply to get the job, that is several 1000000 people who can apply around about 800000 of them. at one stage, we're all online trying to register for their 1st injection. indonesia is also in the grid of a worsening outbreak for the records of nearly 48000 new infections reported on tuesday. people are still having problems getting oxygen and medication is hard to come by. that you cases are also being blamed on the delta variance. after months of declining infections, cases are on the rise in the united states. the search is also being driven by the delta variance and fluid vaccination rates. mike hannah has more from washington dc . the infection rate has now doubled within the last 3 weeks today, there was some 23000 new cases reported as opposed to roughly 11000 on june the

23rd. there are a few reasons for this. firstly, delta barian has created a massive problem within the united states as it has in other countries. but what you've also had in between 2 is the july, the full holiday weekend, where they were large numbers of gatherings. so these are coming together to create this as flare up in infection rates within the united states. on the brighter side, perhaps, deaths are running at about $250.00 a day. to put this into a context they were running around 3 and a half 1000 a day earlier in the winter. so clearly the vaccination has a massive impact in terms of restricting the number of this, even of those who contract the virus. but what is be problematic? to is the discrepancy, the geographical discrepancy within the united states, nationally, some 55 percent of americans have had at least one shot to the vaccine. but then

there are a number of states that are very low, x and rates, such as mississippi, which is under 40 percent higher nevada. these are all states where the vaccine rates are incredibly low. and it is no coincidence that the rate of infection is much higher in those states than in others. well, some countries have a tougher quarantine responses to the pandemic than others astray. leah is severely restricted entry citizens, residents, and their families must have 14 day quarantine at their own expense, even if they've been vaccinated. nearby new zealand is equally as strict only residents and citizens are allowed to enter. and those who do must currency for 2 weeks. iceland has opened that stores to vaccinated travelers and unvaccinated ones . with a negative test, algeria has suspended most flights. travelers from she knew zia, searcy, france,

germany, italy, and spain will lead a negative p. c, r test and do a mandatory 5 de quarantine and south korea has been largely praised for swift and national response. the cases are now rising. brazilian president joe, your ball scenario has reportedly been admitted to hospital after experiencing abdominal pain earlier in the day. local sources say both scenarios have been complaining about persistent hiccups. taken don't spill to investigate the cause. he will be under medical observation for 24 to 48 hours. iraqis are burying their relatives small. the death told from the far, the rip through a call with 19 isolation mode in the city of nasiriyah has risen to 90 to the prime minister is promising accountability that people are blaming government corruption for the accident. 13 officials had been arrested in connection with the blaze. 82

people were killed in bagdad in a similar hospital fire. in april, mahmud at the law had joined the slide for the 3 year ma, mood that investigation is ongoing. how is it progressing and through the families have faith in that investigation? i will the government of the prime minister most of the company has announced the fact finding mission that it's been a couple of days ago for the, for yes. going to conclude in a week, but we understand that this could be a way to contain people's anger, especially families, victims, families. and really, as you know, that the people, especially victims, families and relatives have been reacting by seamlessly. thing in the main is quit

and have movies and downtown not for the in fact here in front of this i solution ward and that's what it is. so happened. they set up a 10th and they have been chanting all day and they, they say that they are going to continue demonstrating until justice, the justice, demanding justice is sort of demanding that those responsible specially help the official responsible for this tragedy to be brought to justice. as you know, that the government of most of us tells me, has issued a risk warrant against that a teen health officials on the part of a province on top of them, the health data. but people are still very angry here. for example, in this isolation, what this is the place which is that is that they don't trust authority. they don't trust the government. so they come, they come, he's a local victims,

families rid of his they come on, try to find any remains of their loved ones. as you know, that only 30 of the victims have been identified about 21. others have not been identified because there is a lot of if you like this part, body, human flesh park that cannot be identified. and many people have been coming here trying to find any remains of the loved ones. now the responsibility, according to about 50 members of the party is the government. in fact, they have issued joint statement demanding, holding decision of integration with the government of prime minister. most of our customers now, many people believe that there was no safety measure here in this ice relation work. if you look at the construction and there have been claim over the materials

used in the construction of the walls of this solution or including the phone which helped fuel the fire. and now the victim time is still claiming the health officials and in fact many other hospitals have been taken measures and other not to have the same treasure did. they say that such isolation was would've built in a haste swiftly. but it turned out that it is, it has caused disaster. ok, my moods abdullah had lives from the 3 year mark. thank you. and armenian soldier has reportedly been killed in a border shootout with answered by johnny forces armenian ministry of defense. says the violence broke out in our province. it says there's been some casualties on the

answer by johnny sighed. tension has been high since the conflict broke ice over the disputed region of nagondo cut over last year. relations between jewish communities and palestinians living and israel are still strains. months after the seas far with hummus in garza came into effect during the conflict. several so called mixed cities experienced riots that pitted the 2 sides against each other. but as the other have need reports from occur in northern israel, the consequences all the rest are having an economic and social impact. i know it's supposed to be a model of coexistence deport city of aka in the north of israel, a place where jews and palestinians usually live together. this should be the high season. the put should be buzzing with tourists, especially now most go with 19 restrictions. have been lifted in israel,

but my mood old is restaurant is empty. his family has owned the business since 972 and has a solid reputation happen. somebody's will know the clients don't return because the image of the city is tarnished. a regular clients didn't come back and it will take several months for them to return. it's longer than we expected. but since their rights in may at the start of the 11 days garza war, i can this market remained empty. the angry young people took to the streets, carrying out vandalism, and ransacking one person with moses of food as art gallery was damage. he just reopened a few days ago, but few people are walking through the doors. he blames former prime minister benjamin netanyahu because the government didn't give him cation, they didn't put a lot of money. the government put money on the 4 stone. the mic like the big for

the fix, everything at the museum and everything building. they need to give, you know, supporting to the people. that sense of neglect is something method member with bassett men lender heard about doing her tour of this ancient coastal city. an effort by the new coalition government to be more inclusive. i don't want to see with my own eyes, what is the feeling of the people, both arabs and jews, and, and what can be done to help and a lot of the perpetrators, what actually underground people of crime that are also making the lives of the arab population within the city very, very difficult crime and by listen in communities has risen during the past decade without much government intervention where people are, you know, are not satisfied by the economical, the social situation. and.