been to these and in depth report, if purple is your thing, this is the place. al jazeera has teens on the ground over 900 to bring you more award winning documentaries and live need on air and online. me, the television sciences in afghanistan say they've taken control of a border crossing, posing a new threats to government forces ah, against these it'll be given to you on watching al jazeera, also this half hour protests turning more fiery. by the day, dozens of men died and looting and writing against poverty in south africa,

lockdown and locked out australia hops, the number of citizens allowed to return home to prevent any of the outbreak. cubic 19. also had once an author at hong kong book fair, when critics a free speech has been limited by national security. ah, to begin in afghanistan, the taliban saying it's seized control of a border crossing with pakistan. this footage has now emerged which does appear to show taliban fighters at the border gate. however, the african government is denying the arm groups claims and says his forces have repelled taliban fighters. these spin bolduc crossing connects the city of kandahar directly with pakistan and is a major supply line for whoever controls it from. cobble is charlotte bellis. then

border is a very strategic border crossing because it is afghan astound 2nd busiest border crossing the location of it. it's just south of kandahar and south west f and the son, which is a telephone strong hole. but now with this border crossing, it connects them with puck of psalm, where a lot of the senior leaders have been for many years. and it also allows them to get all that custom revenue that's coming through the border. the afghan 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, minnes, santa 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 who has come through this since they've taken that crossing. and they say yes, we're now paying taxes to the telo bond, thought we got a few kilometers down the road when we had

a government checkpoint within pay taxes to them. also, this all started around april when you were president biden, announce that he would take out american and they so troops by september, the 11th, that's when the taliban really put their foot down. they say they now control 85 percent of districts and that's going to some independent analysts say that back in a pool and bite and maybe announcement they had say 70 or 80 out of about 400 and going to sun. those same analysts now put that number at around 220. so that's 3 times the number of districts and territory. they now hold more people now living on the telephone control and then under government control. now, president ghani is trying to boost morale with the military to try turn this tight around in front of reassure civilians. we travel to the north this week to do that . yes. can government is also senior high level delegation, which involves the dealer of gyla, who has the head of the high council for national reconciliation, as well as the former president harman was i, they going to dark on friday to meet with senior taliban leaders in an attempt to

try to find some type of diplomatic resolution to this, the us will start evacuating afghan interpreters and other staff who helped american forces during the conflict. relocation flights will begin later this month . afghans who apply for the special immigrant visa program, the u. s. white house has been under pressure from republicans and democrats to find a solution for tens of thousands of atkins who helped us and nato forces. while the u. s. a native withdrawal is nearly complete and at this point, the afghan government controls mostly provincial capitals, many of which are surrounded by the taliban, who are capturing the areas around it. and that means supplies can be brought in only by air. the african ministry of defense says kill nearly 200 taliban fighters in the past 24 hours in its efforts to recapture last territory. south africa was biggest crisis in decades to seeing no sign of an end. after days of violence and

looting, politicians are urging the president to deploy more military forces to try to come the streets. i think 72 people have been killed in the unrest. there are shortages of food and fuel with transport, links and supply routes disrupted by the violence. not what began as a protest against the jailing of the former president, jacob's duma has now turned into an uprising against poverty, hunger and inequality. the police in johannesburg, going door to door in some neighborhoods to recover items stolen from stores and shopping malls. community leaders are helping collect information about where televisions and other items being stored. we have the responsibility. it is our power. it would destroy everything and all infrastructure. we've seen that ownership. what else are we going to pull up? but it's not about juma. it's about the poverty that you cannot dodge. people are hungry. there are no jobs of them since i stole

a few things like cold drinks and electrical appliances as well as the paint. i guess the real reason is because we have nothing when i see other people stealing at some point, you realize that shops will close and you will be left with nothing. so you ask yourself, after all of this, how will i survive with the way things are? so i was pushed because of the situation, and i asked myself, after all of this, how will i survive when i only have to random? i pocket off the whole weight, so me that mila now has more from so way to the looting and violent scene at various hotspots in the province of hosting has a deep, calm down. yeah. so we don't see a significant police isn't also being like hospital police remain on the sand by the police in looting and violence. yeah. outside one of the largest,

more in the area to move a small group of residents, community members and small business owners have come out to protest polluting, saying that the economic impact that's been seen in other areas is devastation. and they refuse that to happen. yeah, they will not talk to the thing and they also say things like no more that more that hasn't had any incident so far and also been shut. remember the saying that it's also up to them to protect their communities. me see some of the events in places like was, you know, i do thing and writing does appear to be continuing there being a number of warehouses, city lights, the lights and impacted very badly by the ongoing rioting. the. they are a number of organizations like the durbin chamber of commerce,

who have said that they would want a state of emergency, at least in that proven specifically because police all struggling to get a handle on what's happening. it's struggling to battle these ongoing riots and to approach the largest oil refinery in south africa and southern africa has now been suspended and they are going to that the economy will be greatly impacted . the transportation was much needed to tickle materials, even water, possibly impacted. while road and train services, roads remain closed and trade services potentially impacted. and the concern now is around the economic impacts of wyatt and the system. so that's or to have it. okay, so let's take a closer look at why these protests are actually taking place. the south african

economy has been in crisis. many still suffer from poverty and inequality. post parties, while the pandemic has made things, even worse, unemployment is that an all time high, 32 percent among young people that figure rises with nearly one in every 2 people. without a job, inflation hit a 30 month high and may with consumer prices rising more than 5 percent from last year. the cost of fuel is up nearly 40 percent and the price of food has increased by nearly 7 percent. this is having a huge impact on black communities, which on average $3.00 to $4.00 times less than those that are white. ralph, my ticker is a political analyst and author of the book. when zoom 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 that it's no longer being able to respond to the needs of the people.

i mean, it's 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 appear to one tv where the kid involve this because there's not deeply in what you're seeing in all this, which i give any ones for that. so call me conditions to say that what really happened to people have poverty extra 15 people to the 610. 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 have knowledge 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 not done with it. do you deal with it? that's not a way to go and dealing with this. turning attention to iraq, that countries, prominent shia cleric says the government will be held responsible if it fails to

accept a monday's fire at a hospital that killed at least 60 people. in the last, our protest is broken into that hospital in a sign of anger, walk to the outsider, so that the government must act firmly and seriously punish those who allowed it to happen. protest is a blaming corruption and negligence for the accident. from nasiriyah, his mouth would bill well head people are thin, very angry here. for example, in this isolation. well, this is the face which that is us. they don't trust authority. you don't trust the government. so the come, they come here, local victims, families, relatives, they come on, try to find any remains of their loved ones. as you know that only 39 of the victims have been identified about 21. others have not been identified because it is a lot of if you like, this part, body,

human flesh parts 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 parliament is on the government. in fact, they have issued joint statement demanding, holding edition over and over again with the government over prime minister, most of us cousin. now many people believe that there was no safety measure here in this ice relation work. if you look at the construction, there have been the name of materials used in the construction of the walls of this a solution including food which helped fuel the fire. and now the victim time is still claiming the health officials and the in fact in many other

hospitals, has been taken measures in order not to have the same tragedy. they say that such isolation was, would have built in a haste swiftly, but it turned out that it is, it has caused disaster still to come here on this program. the prime minister boris johnson promises action against online races, abuse after the targeting a 3 black england foot wallace and picking up the pieces 2 months on from israel's war with amass the social and economic impact are still being felt in northern israel. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello there. the south west monsoon is now in full effect across india. it was

a late arrival in the north, but the rains and now there affecting northern areas. we have seen some flash flooding here. we could see more and it's a similar story for northern areas of pakistan. but it's the west coast of india that's continuing to be inundated by those heavy rains and strong winds. we got a red warning out for con can and go and ray will also spread more sensually as we go into friday. we could see flooding in areas here, but in the north east the heavy rain does continue to fall in a pool, has been inundated with those rains and we could see more flooding here. we could see more flooding down in the south, particularly ensure lanka. we've seen flooding across the central province, that could be more of that as the reins continue over the next few days. and it could be flooding as well. in china, we've seen flooding as such. one province, the rains are continuing to foreign cross the south west. you can see those there and those storms in child was rumbling up into the ne, beijing's expecting to see a lot of the wet weather as we go into friday. not only here,

but coastal areas of he bay province and the korean peninsula as likely to see some of that weather weather. over the weekend. vatcher update sponsored power cut on airways. a new generation of young people are more politically engaged than the one that came before. welcome to generation change a global feelings and attempts to challenge and understand the ideas and mobilize youth around the world. in south africa, women who are at the forefront of the walk in a race and never ever gets hired of developing resistance and ignite the passion stand up and fight generation change on al jazeera, me a

welcome back. you're watching out to 0 and peter w top story. so far this half hour, the afghan taliban thing. it's the control that the spin bolduc border crossing with pakistan. but the afghan government is denying young groups claims. it says it forces repelled taliban faces. unrest in south africa is continuing for a 6 day. the precedent civil run, the person says he's looking at sending more troops in to quell the violence. at least to 2 people have been killed in rights in the last few days. respond by the jailing of the former president, jacob's humor that it has since grown into anger against poverty and inequality. iraq's prominent shia cleric says the government will be held responsible if it fails to act. after monday's fine at the hospital, please 60 people were killed inside the cobra. 1900 more than the southern city of nasiriyah. mm.

okay, moving on to our current lawyers update for you this half hour. some countries have had tougher quarantine responses to the pandemic compared to some others. australia is severely restricting entry citizens, residents and their families must do a 14 day quarantine at their own expense, even if they have been vaccinated. nearby and new zealand is equally a strict only residence and citizens are allowed to enter. and those who do must quarantine for 2 weeks. iceland has opened its doors to vaccinated travelers and unvaccinated ones with a negative test. algeria has suspended most flights, but travelers from chin ecier, turkey, france, germany, italy, and spain will need a negative p. c, r test and do a mandatory 5 de quarantine and south korea has largely been praised for swift and nation wide response, but cases are now rising. alto sir was rob mcbride,

has the latest from sol. 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 and 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. has more vaccines become available that was also concerned 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 an increase in demand. 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. well, indonesia also in the grip, so they worsting outbreak with a record of nearly 48000 new infractions being reported on tuesday. people are still having problems getting oxygen and medication is hard to come by. the new cases are also being blamed on the delta variant. after months of declining infections cases on the rise in the united states, the search is also being driven by the delta barrier and slowing vaccination rates . mike hannah has more now from washington. the infection rate has now doubled

within the last 3 weeks. today there was 23000 new cases reported as opposed to roughly 11000 on june the 23rd. there are a few reasons for this. firstly, delta variant 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 at 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 depth even of those who contract the virus. but what is the 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 vectors and rates such as mississippi, which is under 40 percent. so high of 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. the iranian president hassan ronnie says his country can enrich uranium at 90 percent purity if it needs to ronnie mae. the announcement made efforts with 6 other will power to revive the 2015 nuclear deal that the trumpet, ministration abandoned 3 years ago. the representatives wanting time is running out on the deal and the us needs to consider lifting some sanctions on iraq. so i was wondering if there's yeah, to me a more. it's been showing that our atomic energy department with such capability and power can produce 20 percent 60 percent, or if we need it some day for

a reactive, even 90 percent enriched uranium. we can do that. relations between jewish communities and palestinians living in israel are still strained. months after the si, fi with us in garza came into effect during the conflict. several so called mixed cities experienced riots that pitied the 2 sides against each other. part is hotter abdel hamid reports. now, from a car in northern israel, the consequences of the unrest 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

$972.00 and has a solid reputation, half of items. you 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 remain empty. the angry young people took to the streets, carrying out vandalism and ransacking building. one person was moses of food as art gallery was damage. he just reopened a few days ago. but few people are walking through doors. he blames former prime minister benjamin netanyahu because the government didn't give an education. they didn't put a lot of money. the government put money on the for stone. the mic like the big for the fix. everything at the museum and everything building they need to give. you're not supporting to the people that sense of neglect. it's something method member

ruth bus admin lender heard about doing her tour of this ancient coastal city. an effort by the new coalition government to be more inclusive and i wanted 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 crying that are also making the lives of the arab population within the city. very, very difficult that people are, you know, not satisfied by economical the social situation. a want in every opportunity to, to you know, to tell other people, please notice us, we are here. you are not noticing us,

you are not dealing with us. you are ignoring us for many act as being boycotted as punishment for the acts of a few eventually to it will start trickling back. but for co existence to take hold palestinian grievances need to be heard, put up to meet elders, either in northern israel. 3 scientists have been killed following a shootouts with government forces in india and administered cache me at now it's led to protest and violence between indian security forces and residents. the conflict began after troops surrounded the southern town of pul, wilma, the authorities of cut off internet and mobile phone services in the town. and i'm indian soldier has reportedly been killed in a border shootout with as a bizarre forces. i mean, he has ministry of defense as the violence broke out in the province of that. it says there's been, there have been some casualties on the, as a bizarre side, racism from football fans in the united kingdom could soon be punishable by law.

the prime minister boris johnson has told the u. k. parliament, the fans who make racist comments online could be issued match bands while social media companies will be fined. if they don't remove hate, speech should fall as the racist abuse towards 3 england players in the euro. 2020 final the trio had missed penalties in the shoot her defeat to italy after the condemn and of all the race, the start pouring that we saw on sunday night. and so what we do is today taking practical steps to ensure that the football batting order regime is changed so that if you are guilty to speak of racist abuse on line, then you will not be going to the match. know if you say the us vice president has met a group of democrats from the state of texas, they're hoping to stop a republican bank bill that would make it harder for people to vote. the group

which washington to deny the state legislature. the numbers required to vote on the bill. the brazilian president valuables in our own has been at mister hospital in brazil for experiencing abdominal pain. local sources are reporting bolton, otto had been complaining about persistent hiccups. he'll be under medical observation for up to 2 days. today marks the 1st day of the week long hong kong book fair. this is the 1st time is being held under the new national security law. and critics say, this law has narrowed free speech. adrian brown picks up the story from hong kong. a book fair in a city where words now have consequences. it's being held in the shadow of a recently imposed law. the critic say has narrowed this space for free speech here . it's an annual event, but koby 19 forced it's cancellation a year ago. now though hong kong physical and political health is returning says

it's leader. all going to europe one day. i am happy that this year's book fair can be how it again seems to. appetite is contained. the organizes insist books have not been invented or censored, but exhibit is no. they must be careful about what they promote and say, all of our focus on the language learning history and art. we are not worry about it. do you have any books here about recent political events in hong kong, and this is not our publishing term, so we don't have these kind of publish. johnny lau has just written a book about the relationship between china is coming his party and hong kong. but no publisher will touch it the 1st time that's happened to him since the hand over from britain 24 years ago. well, i think it is completely different. the political content almost disappear wall in the book fair this year. and all the

folks talking about politics share the points of views of the government. one author, however, takes the right boxes here. a 3 volume collection of speeches and writings by china's president, teaching ping on prominent display. the self censorship is evident. the titles on display here are safe, and that is a further reminder of the fact that hong kong is increasingly walking in political lockstep with the mainland. exhibit is may be wary of breaking the law. that caution has not dampened public interest with long queues outside the venue. come only, i can get the books i want here and also outside. i've just come here to have a look. we did find one book perhaps that fell into the politically risky category . the author is currently in jail, awaiting trial, accused of violating national security,

otherwise little else to reflect the momentous events of the past few years. that history it seems, is slowly being raised, adrian brown, al jazeera, hong kong people all over france and celebrating a national holiday with fireworks and parades. steel day marks the fall of the best deal. prison in 1789 that led to the uprising that health spark the french revolution. this year's events has been scale down to 10000 attendees because of cobra. 19. ah, recapping your top stories for you so far today the africa and taliban saying it's he's controlled these spin bolduc border crossing with pakistan. but the afghan government is denying the arm groups claims that says his forces repelled taliban fighters. charlotte bell, this is incredible for us with the latest.