later on, distributed any variation pools communities around this area are concerned that few extraction could complicate or access toward the investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on al jazeera ah, at least 160 dead and hundreds remain missing in germany and belgium, after catastrophic flash floods. ah, so i'm fully back people watching al jazeera live for my headquarters is also coming up taliban in afghan government delegation is need for talk, c doha with both sides saying they want peace. bread and health minister test sponsoring for covered 19 despite being vaccinated,

as cases from the delta variance continue to search worldwide. and cuba president tells the pro government ronnie, that's fake news online helped you last week. and i thank you very much for joining us. emergency workers in western germany and belgium is searching for hundreds of people believe to be missing after devastating floods. more than $160.00, i confirm dead, but that figure is expected to increase. jim and john langley merkle has called the floods a catastrophe, and will visit the region on sunday, boston before some germantown of f stud. it was rush hour when the water quickly inundated highway number 265 near ash stopped catching unexpected drivers and passengers by surprise. soldiers and rescue workers tried to reach dropped cars, finding out everyone made it out in time. we hope that they made it out of their

cars, but we are not sure. and we can guarantee that. perhaps people in the cars, we could not check all cars. and if you see the quality of the water, also the check with diversity of no use looking at how challenging it is to free this one highway. it becomes clear that's recovery will take time. it's hard to imagine the kind of people stuck in traffic when the road probably filled up with walker. reinforcements have now come from all over germany, because not only were residents completely taken by surprise by the flock. they also completely overwhelmed government services. during his visit to ash dot german president, frank wild shine maya told survivors they will get help, but have to be patient when decent his her as active law configured mind. and his health that has been promised should also be for the communities who in the next

days and weeks won't only have to clear up the damage, but will also have to rebuild everything. the roads that are destroyed, the bridges that have been swept away. and that's why it is good that such support has been agreed on to a landslide buried at least 3 houses in our stop and damaged others. this woman lost, her son was swept away by the mot flow his body as yet to be recovered. she and other residents are anxious to the begging authorities to allow them to return to hole in manhattan. alas, yet when we have nothing we would evacuated, i took a few things. i think it will take 4 to 6 weeks before i can go back. there was no electricity, no water, no gas. the whole infrastructure is down. how is flooring in from across germany for those who had to leave their homes in a hurry with only the clothes they were wearing? people were lucky enough not to be effected, a fall and tearing, to help you who are you, that we have clothes, shoes for men, women, and chill everything they need. it's great to see how much support is coming in.

the output of solidarity gives hope to those who have not only lost their loved ones, homes are belongings, but also they believe that their town was a safe place to live, steadfast and al jazeera, after germany. in belgium, at least 27 people have died since flooding began on wednesday over a 100 are still missing. water is now receding, allowing rescuers to access thousands of effects at homes. it's ayesha butler reports from the city of leash. is not much to favor for some residence in this neighborhood of the belgian city of the age. most furniture and appliances are ruined, cause wrecked the flood waters that have caused so much damage have finally subsided with a clean up where it has only just begun all it was just for the water covered the cupboards. pascal is still shaken, rising waters had forced her teenage daughter to climb onto the roof, where they was stranded overnight until

a neighbor helped rescue them. she says it's only once they was safe, the reality drunk per year. one of them is all on the. we have nothing left to no home, no furniture, clothes. it's so hard, but i say to myself, at least i saved my child as a mother, that's the most important. it will be some time before residence a neighbourhood like this one comes to turn with what has happened, but what is lifting spirit is the fact that so many people have come here and rallied around to help hunting out food and water, or lending a hand or nearly every affected st. volunteers off it up so it's about solid derossi's supporting people to show they aren't along with this devastation when they see all these young people coming to help them during their summer holidays. well it's just amazing and heart warming, belgium's prime minister visited the town of a hospital. he's called the floods unprecedented, but this scientist says climate change is to blame. got it is critically,

the rainfall was of course exceptional, but all of our climate data shows that it could happen again. the future emergency workers continue to move people from areas of homes considered unsafe as they reach regions that were cut off by flood waters. they say they may find more bodies of dozens of people are missing. the hope here though, is that they'll find survivors. natasha butler al jazeera. yes, belgium, good young van oldenburg is a senior researcher. the dutch royal major logical institute. he says there are many potential reasons why the fighting was so bad that emitting lots of c o 2 and methane and other greenhouse gases and that race at the global mean temperature. and because the atmospheres warmer it can hold more water and has been shown that's for extreme short duration, rain events like one day. that also means step more water comes down in extreme showers like these. but there are indirect effects. like there is also evidence

that the jet stream is snowing down in the summer and hence depression is done so quickly and can do more rain on the same place basically because they just staying there for longer and their brain the last for longer and you get more water down and there are other effects like in colorado, there's more to chums of high pressure. and as you are blessed chance of rain. and we have to take all of these effects into account before we can say how much this was due to climate change. in other world news delegation from the afghan government and the taliban are meeting for negotiations in the country capital as violence continues to escalate. in afghan is done. both sides have been engaging talks for months in doha. they say the only solution is through dialogue. however, the taliban has taken advantage of the us to withdraw launching several offensive and capturing large parts of the country or some been java. it has more from the toxin, doha,

as they were concluded of the talks between the taliban and representatives from a finest on a number of issues were discussed, including the release of prison as the listing from united nations list talk there was talk about amending the constitution and all inclusive government and political roadmap to words piece the taliban, insisting that before the talk there's a discussion about a ceasefire across the right. it's on the needs to be an inclusive government which represents all segments of the gun society. not specifying how they're going to achieve it, but one thing that as the 1st step, but they've also been saying that because such a high power delegation has come to the company capital, they're willing to discuss everything that they are bringing to the tables. we hope and we won't and we, we expect that to be, should have brought something to get mental. and on our side we are ready to show flexibility. and our aim is clear,

and that is to have an islamist of on a crusade government in place in our nissan and put an end to this phase of piping and into a new piece which will be our piece and good for us. as the taliban discuss, be the situation on the ground in afghanistan has been deteriorating. there are people who have been expressing their concerns about how taliban have been digging, not just district, but provincial capital, as well as coming to word the capital capital as well. we asked the minister for peace about what his hope is from this level of talks, as they're definitely not going to be conclusive in 48 hours. but he thinks that he, what he wants the other side to realize is that there is no, there is no solution by force to atlanta sons problems. and the only way ahead is true negotiation. we have to keep the door off. there is ocean open because the solution to the conflict is not violent. so the solution is

actually meaningful negotiation to be very frank with you, we've been quite flexible and also tolerance since the start of the talk. so what's important is that i call upon the contraband to show the same flexibility and same understanding that they need to understand that to have the intention of taking a kind of some by force is not going to work on saturday. these talks are going to be concluded, they are being closely monitored by the united states, the european union, as well as the host in utter all sides, not directly part of the negotiations, but doing what they can to try and persuade all sides the shorter strain to show flexibility to try and think of the gun people because as this fight is ongoing, as the united states is all set to leave by september, the 11th the people on the ground in

a gun to sign and afraid they're thinking that they might lose all of the hard for the freedom that day which is in the last 20 years. busy and on the taliban side, trying to tell them that there is no forceful solution to a verizon and piece will only come back all side, sit on the negotiation stable. they continue their work by talking to each other and come to a consensus on bringing peace to us. on the progress of the talks have been keenly watched by the people in afghanistan capital from where charlotte bellis reports. this is the front page of the newspaper. this morning, adela travels to go for talk with telephone before the delegation left. yesterday i had a news conference with that same period across the networks here this morning. everyone is watching it very closely. there's a lot of pressure here to see some type of diplomatic progress out of her, and that's because the violence is just increasing since us president biden amounts

and a pull that us and nato troops would be gone by september, the 11th the telephone really dealt with down independent analysts at that time say that they controlled about 70 or 80 districts out of about 400. now 3 months later, they say that crippled to about 220, they're getting a lot of traction around the country and a lot of strategic positions as we speak. now this is offensive, it's around the same tis in the north that telecomm, sorry, pulling the south around kansas city and then also taking border crossing. so they taking these games. they going back to the negotiating table and they going back with more leverage and hearing. cobble that has people watching nervously. and after 40 years of conflict, people just really want a resolution in this recent. why can you in says 270000 people have already to spin display so it's really exacerbating a dire situation for an already vulnerable population. the daughter of god fans, ambassador to pakistan has been abducted and assaulted in islamabad. the gun

foreign ministry says 26 year old c. c. u was severely tortured and suffered blows to her head. she was held for more than 5 hours. nobody's been arrested in the incidents. as have africans in parts of the country have begun cleaning up st. smalls, and shops after a week of the was fine. and since the end of apartheid present serial ro, my pulse says the right way, coordinated and well planned attack on south africa. democracy. when 200 people had been killed, the unrest was parked by the jailing of former president, jacob's luma, and quickly developed into demonstrations against poverty and then equality. bennet smith re for some debit and they just looted and looted and durbin has been quieter . these last couple of days, but it's a calm sometimes and forced at gunpoint redwine jets. i'm managed to protect his business, but so many others looted and burned. it was the, the more themselves that called all the destruction and called home to themselves

because we, we attacked and we had people to open fire on us. and which we basically have to see. you've got ourselves by the hiding behind walls and building the writing was sparked by the jailing a form of present jacob's duma and expanded to include wider grievances. it unleashed racial tensions that always sim up a neat surface here about about one of them. i thought the minister of police toward durban townships on saturday, promising to investigate crimes committed by all communities. kaylee says a team of detectives is investigating the deaths of 20 black people after confrontations with a neighboring indian majority township. but it's clear, there is anger here that is hard to contain them. i know it looks difficult, but we are working together. we're working with the community. we go out to the streets, to speak to other people. we've got a problem with social media. social media is the main cause of this because people are reacting to use why minority rule and it nearly 30 years ago. but most south

africans still live in racially separated townships or suburbs that were created by their party government. these years of the only supermarket in a 4 kilometer radius wasn't ransacked because it was defended by the owners and local businesses. south africa state insurance says its expecting claims to top $700000000.00 at night turbans different communities still closing themselves in behind their own checkpoint. see outside elements that are coming here and get very upset when we have to awesome. what is the purpose? yes, people here are worried, there's more trouble to come. it's not, not lean down. no one's just seen on, and that's the concern. there it is which is the davis teams. i'm still continuing . and one key that's just hours after south africa's president said on friday night that com had been restored. this market was fireball bernard smith,

i'll just sarah durban, south africa syrian present bershana thought has been torn in for a 4th term in office after an election. the opposition dismissed as a force. a thought has been in office for 21 years after taking over from his father half as he's refused to resign from the president. see despite the various decade long civil war and international pressure. meanwhile, 5 people were killed when government forces bombed the north west village of found jobs, according to serious volunteer emergency service, the white helmet. several homes were flattened in the old south of a live government offensive escalate in recent weeks. hence to fetch towards restoring control of the last rebel held enclaves of belgium is repass creating a group of women and children from prison camp for i saw the suspects in ne syria, the 10 children and 6 mothers were being held in kurdish run camp. the women are expected to be charged under belgium's anti terror laws. there among hundreds of

volunteer fighters from europe who travel to syria and iraq to join i sold the united faith is says it's contributing an additional $136000000000.00 to the us program for palestinian refugees. in april the u. s. restored funding for the un relief and works agency after was cut off by president trump in 2018. the funds mostly go towards education, health and services for palestinians. more than 5000000 live in counts in the occupied westbank, jordan, syria, and lebanon. still ahead on al jazeera, thrown into jail, for daring to speak out. we hear from cubans who have been released after i got my protest ah,

the sweltering heat on the eastern seaboard of the us in dc, for example, new york. but the sun storms are coming your way, which means it'll cool down eventually it's usually half. and then sunday, then cooler has been flooding from this from pl system, which is now well broken up. so the bigger shares round the caroline is probably awkward to bring flash floods without us 30 to less human degrees in washington d. c. the heat further west has been tampered a lot by what is effectively a se monsoon in, for example, arizona has been flooding from that still 40 in phoenix, but not seen the reco breakers in las vegas. just recently. we won't see him again either. by the time we get to mandate or a few showers in the plane, stays around these se and states and up to the property as far as d. c, to be honest, but it's nothing out of the ordinary. the same is true, and in the cariboo. once again, i think we'll see the showers flourish and the smaller eastern islands. otherwise, every rule get. davy shouted. it warms up by day, you get a shout. the heaviest ones in costa rica and probably panama. but we won't leave

mexico, they're not extensive, but they're around all the same. for the size, generally speaking, it's seasonally normal. nother lois circulating through the plate, bringing big showers to europe. why? the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. or small to continue the change all around the shape, my technology and human ingenuity, we can make it work for you and your bill. ah

ah, a welcome back. a recap of our top stories on al jazeera, emergency workers in western germany and belgium as searching for hundreds of people believe to be missing after devastating floods. more than 100. 62nd term dead. with that figure, expected to increase delegations from the afghan government and the autonomy brought on meeting in the country capital despite the finance continues to escalate . and i've got it done out of band have launch, have on offensive and captured knowledge part of the country. and south africa police minister says is concerned about growing racial tensions following days of rise, been looting, or than 200 people were killed. some communities have set up vigilant equals to defend their homes and businesses in

the u. k. has recorded almost 55000 cases of corona virus in a day. it's highest number since january. meanwhile, britton's health secretary jerry tested positive for over 19 he says, experiencing miles, symptoms, job eat has received 2 doses of the cobra. 1900 vaccine is warning that the countries daily caseload could double in the coming weeks. so i'm now self i facing a home with my family until i get the result of a p c artist. i'm grateful that i've had to jumps of the vaccine and so far my symptoms are very mild. and i also want to take this opportunity to everyone that's been involved in our national vaccine program program. truly the best of his kind. anyway in the world. if you haven't had your jobs yet, please get out there and get them as soon as you can. in the us, several states are reporting searching, coven, 19 cases with some seeing their highest level since february medical experts say

the vast majority of new cases are unvaccinated people. alan fisher reports, nevada is a new hot spot. the state now has more than 750 people in hospital with covered more than 80 percent of those in intensive care are not back to me and vaccinated people going out with the city reopening and getting sick. and with some of these variance, it's passing much more efficiently, and people are getting much 2nd last year, the only pandemic we have is among and that's another killer jewel by me fighting the pandemic. his number one priority in the white house, after seeing initial success, the numbers i know going in the wrong direction. this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage, because unvaccinated people are at risk. a 3rd of the country is unvaccinated, and the issue has become so highly politicized. there is

a water among medical professionals that might not change in california. the number of new cases has brought back the mask mandate in los angeles county. i don't want to be safe, but we do not want to go backwards. and in san francisco, they're not going to spot is telling people they must mask up their strongly recommending it why i want everyone to be safe. so if they need to wear a master where a mass, but you know, without doors, i think a lot of people want to wear mass. that's the big one, you know, on people gotten back to life without mosques ready to pick them up again. even as the situation puts more people in hospital across the united states, alan fisher, i'll just either washington. the 1st case have grown of eyes has been confirmed inside the athlete village in tokyo just stays out from the side of the olympics. the official who hasn't been identified is in a hotel isolation after being removed from the village. if not being 44 port positive cases linked to the olympics since the start of july and thursday,

the head of the iris, you said the measures taken to deal with those cases. mean the risk for the residents of the village is 0. since you know, not got them all to stop inside of the olympic athletes. village we are doing complete, coven management, the athletes, and taking pci is almost every day. and a supposed to be taking those tests, even if they test positive, they will be immediately isolated. and then we will look out for any close contact that is the procedure, even inside the athletes village, we will try to keep it in the safe and secure environment. and we are taking every single major for that. martine louise, the wife of a t, her fascinated president who was injured in july 7th attack has returned home. she was flown to the us for treatment at a miami hospital after being wounded by gunfire on friday. government officials announced that given i'm louise as funeral would be held on july 23rd, not columbia police. she says an investigation suggests former haitian justice

ministry official, joseph felix banjo, may have been involved in the assassination 20 mercenaries. mostly colombians are accused of shooting of anomalies. the colombian government is only a small group knew of the true nature of the job, and the rest were duped into thinking they were hired to support haitian security forces as the borders of former president john batt, higher received, celebrated his return to the country. i see was in cuba for the past 3 weeks receiving medical treatment, his been president twice before. he's currently being run by intern prime minister to joseph. although he faces going challenges to his power. cuba, the president has denounced what he calls a false narrative about anti government protests and says, footage of launch. ronnie's is false, accompanied by formerly the ro, castro miguel diaz canal held the lodge riley to counter last week sunrise, and go over a shortage of basic goods been carried on civil liberties. led to protest against the islands comedy. as soon as this week,

the canal accused us of provoking protest, fence spreading, have on social media. what i show, no, my, my, we have come together once again to denounce the u. s. blockade, aggression and terror. not we could not put office rally enemy who once again, given everything to destroy the sacred unity and peace of citizen, amnesty international says about 200 people are still in jail. following the demonstrations, al jazeera spoke to 2 cubans who have been released, john, home, and has their story cries of liberty rent the air in cuba this sunday, and the biggest protests in more than 25 years. they blamed the government for chronic shortages of food medicine and the lack of freedom of expression. but it quickly hit back. police and government supports is taking on those cooling for change. human rights organizations say hundreds with door and in jail. ringback now

how does it make contact with 2 of them who have phillips mosque is, was released on wednesday. he told us he wasn't even protesting and was arrested for taking photos of government supporters arriving in laurie's. they took my cell phone and grab it, carried me. they put me in a car, the energy ministry handcuffed me and took me to the police station. he believes that 3 coat cove it. he says the positive when he got out in a cell the size of a room, there were about a 100 people. i was standing up unable to move the shoulder to shoulder with them, but he says on the people fed worse, he broke someone's nose in front of me. and they did it very consciously because the only the way to doing it in front of the camera. the president admitted some state failings, but insist shortages of the full of a long term us embargo. and that the protested with violent model up a sort of like all these people attended or participated in these events armed with

vandalism, shouting for death and lynchings. federal union garcia, a play right? the government and that is simply abandoned the people wonder when fidel castro started the revolution. he said it was with the pole by the pole and for the pole, but now the whole are in jail. this revolution died and pointing to history. and what we have now is that a lead group of people in power who don't want to lose it in any way of the protest is demanded. 15 minutes where time and stay. tv replied to be out. today she gave them, this is them being costs, it opened trucks to jail instead. and then we didn't have access to a lawyer or the charts of a whole. families didn't know where we didn't take any well and we didn't know what happened to us. he was set free a day later. now he says he's effectively under house arrest. it's something the amnesty international says is become common in a country long and tolerant of descent. when talking about

a site that doesn't lesson and doesn't know how to dialogue, and that's a real concern because we saw the president some days ago about st. belonging to missionaries as if the street doesn't belong to other people. of course with the demands of those of furniture, voices, light, unit simple, wow. cargo and i want democracy, liberty and elections and into the u. s. and bog, and the sooner it comes, the better. none of those things like moving any closer present. john homan now does either the remains of can native american children buried under a former residential school in the us have been returned to their tribes. more than $10000.00 native american children i believe, to have attended the school. many died from diseases at these institutions which have been criticized for forcing students to assimilate to american culture. in recent weeks, hundreds of unmarked grades have been uncovered in similar residential schools.

they may bring canada. a huge wildfire has forced hundreds of people from their homes in northern california, 5, i just say they are currently unable to control the place south of lake tahoe. it was sponsored by lightning and has rapidly grown to more than 2600 hector's extremely dry conditions and heat ways tied to climate change. i've been sweeping the region making 5 harder to fight. ah, megan, i'm fully back the ball. with the headlines on al jazeera, emergency workers in western germany and belgium, as searching for hundreds of people believe to be missing after devastating floods . more than $160.00, i confirmed dead with that figure expected to increase delegations from the afghan government and the taliban are meeting in the country capital. despite the talks, violence continues to escalate and afghan, his son, the taliban, has launched several offensive.