for those who are managed across the border, say it's not because they have improved back home. they say it's a good continue to be targeted because many of these are being reported and all they come to taking refuge conditions. here are some idea ah, the flooding crisis in western europe wesson's as germany as chancellor visit one of the west regions. ah, hello there, i'm still here. hey, this is al jazeera life and also coming up the taliban supreme leader says he wants a political settlement to the convict enough kind of stone as piece talk. continuing to athletes now test positive for the current of ours inside the olympic

village. the fast to do so with the games now, just days away go bunch. the philippines president takes a job that a famous box attend politician who says corruption is ramping. ah, well, a flooding crisis in western europe is getting was it spread further as heavy rains now hit parts of eastern germany, austria, and the czech republic, at least $183.00 people have been confirmed dead, but that number is still expected to rise. people in the austrian alpine town of holland were warned not even to go to best sellers as flash floods swept through that area. there are no reports yet of casualties either. and just in the past few minutes, german chancellor anglo market has been visiting one of the west effected areas,

the village of shoals from that atom. reiney joins us now. adam, obviously a tragedy in a disaster that's being felt by so many, but also a political issue with elections. not too far away. what we've been hearing from michael today. well, she's promising people that she has their back, that she can do everything. they need a dig out of the math, as you can see behind me, the destruction here is just incredible. this of course is a neighborhood in the small village. every way you look, you see destruction apply and been destroyed home. and if you just follow me, you get a sense, a bit more homes and auto shop, totally loan out from flooding that went down through the village at the bottom of the valley, people's homes and total disarray. we've been seeing people dig out this morning here. we've been seeing them take bucket after bucket of mud, debris from their home. they female grief. we ask them what they want from the

chancellor. they sent their problems are too big right now to talk about doing political things when they really said. but the truth is they're hurting, they're hurting a lot, and they're seeing their whole life. i've been here in this village show me, adam rainy and souls in germany for us. thank you so much, adam. well, let's now cross over to the netherlands. step johnson is in well step. we've been seeing the weather improve it. that doesn't mean the challenges are over when it comes to the vast volumes of water that doesn't no, absolutely not. because this location here is actually one of the locations where the weather, where the water i have to say that's coming from germany view because of this heavy rainfall is only now passing by. so the dikes here are still under a lot of pressure. and overnight people hear people out from the army of war throughout the night to make sure that these sites can hold this huge amount of water that they never seen before. this is

a historical slots also for this region that is known for itself. flooding is very much an expert and building dikes, but even against this amount of force, they're not prepared because as much where you just have sat, we don't have any, any form for this. we don't have any models for this kind of rain water and they don't know how to predict how much water and how strong the dikes will be. so hold it actually, just as a detail, this is a street right behind me. these are all streets and they completely disappeared. it's like 20 meters high here that pass and they're on the ground for us and well in the netherlands. thank you. step. well, meanwhile, the belgian health minister has visited one of the west to areas there. the city of the edge, he says more than 12000 people now have been affected by the floods that pure look at what it means for people who are affected in this city. it's awful. it's really

the mayor tells me that we need gas. he does say 5000 houses has been impacted in differing degree. more than 10000 people are estimated to have been impacted just in the town of liaison, which means that we're talking about 8 percent of the population. we felt the impact at the level of the people. it's really horror. waters have also begun receding in belgium, allowing rescue is to now access thousands of affected homes and talks about that has more now also from the edge is not much to saver 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 the clean up, it has only just begun all it was just for the water cupboard the cupboards. pascal is still shaken, rising waters had fought her teenage daughter to climb onto the roof,

where they were stranded overnight until a neighbor helped rescue them. she says it's only once they were safe, the reality drug and one of them is all on the. we have nothing left to know 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 in 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 effective st volunteers off it up, as i said, it's about solar 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, to go to the critic of 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. moving on now. and the leader of the taliban says the group have as a political settlement for the conflict, and i kind of stone even as it makes military advances, which will, arkansas de says, it wants to establish political and economic relations with the international community, including the united states representatives of the taliban and currently meeting an african government delegation here in capital capital. doha. some debate has moved from those talks indo we've been speaking to people from taliban as well as the

afghan government thing that they recognize that the only way forward is dialogue. the only way they can achieve peace of going to son is through the negotiations that have resumed. now that there is an 11, there is a 7 member delegation headed by a bill in the country capital that they do. we'll talk one on one talks with these individuals who've been locked into these rooms for many hours of the day, trying to talk out a plan for the future where old sites can agree on and try and bring an end to the fighting. now that is easier said than done. we've been here before, and you've heard these messages of hope from all sides before as these talk started in september last year. but now what is different is that there is mediation. there is facilitation on the ground from the factory holes trying to bring them together, trying to work out something which is more concrete than the talks that they've been having for months and try and move to words. concrete steps such as the release of prisoners at the olive on one political road that the government wants.

so those are kind of the areas which have been sticking points in the, in, in these last few months. and they are both sides are hopeful that they'll be able to ireland outwardly. some of those differences now to athletes have tested positive for the current of ours inside. the tokyo olympic village on saturday and international olympic committee member was also in the village, was confirmed to have the virus as well. the pan down and played games are now due to officially open on friday. dozens of cases have been linked to the olympics. since the start of july, the event has been facing opposition in japan because it is, it was in the country's outbreak of private 19 as it continues to battle, a surge and infection. the money bonds in june, due to stimuli, even with all meshes fully taken, there will still be some positive cases. the corona virus situation is encompassing the entire world. so it is inevitable that there will be cases what is important is that when such cases arise,

we properly and systematically isolate them so that there will be no further transmissions. when i spoke to jess kingston, he's the director of asian studies at temple university in japan. he says it's growing concerned that the games will become a super spreader event. and they're trying to put a brave face on this of the io see chairman box on television, reassuring the japanese people there is 0 risk. but clearly there's a law skepticism here and just add about these reassurances. and this is exactly what public health authorities have a warning against and why a prime minister su guys, chief adviser on cobra 19 was opposed to holding the olympics and insisted on no spectators. so hopefully they manage to contain this. but this is a bad sign as thousands of athletes are arriving this week, and they'll be more than 50000, a limping, related guest,

also arriving. and just as the delta variant is swirling around the globe, the vaccination here is just 20 percent of a lot of things cannot be anticipated. we don't really know of and the that's the real problem. big question mark over at these olympic cents. why about 80 percent of the japanese people did not think it was a good idea to go forward. and so the big worry here is that this might become a super spreader event. and hopefully it's not going to start the athletes village . and it would be a shame for all these athletes, but working so hard over the years to prepare themselves are now going to be, you know, living in the bubble and not even certain if the bubble is safe. i'll tell ahead who here announces era and long and dangerous the current of ours, where it is in the us as people get back to

a more than normal life. the drumming up support how cuban presidents is reacting days after the biggest anti government protests in decades. the ah, ah, it's time for the perfect journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways while yesterday struck her depression at over the open water has finally been named . that means the wind is come up to strength, it's cold in fall, that's not particularly strong. a tropical storm with winds about 75 can be sprout, and it's moving fairly quickly. but it's where it moves to we should have to watch probably towards taiwan. now the immediate future is just about moving towards the re acute chain of islands, the southern part of japan. you might just feel that during monday night,

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a story of brinkman ship and bartering, a captive israeli soldier for palestinian prisoners as recalled by mediators and players from both sides. anatomy of a prisoner exchange on out here. ah, the hello again, i'm associate, hey, and let's remind you about top stories. this allen, western europe flooding crisis is escalating and spreading further with heavy rainfall now and parts of eastern germany and austria and beast, $183.00 people have been confronted so far that that total is expected to rise

water level from meanwhile, germany chancellor is visiting one of the ones that they could areas of the flooding. as you can see there, anglo merkel is in the village of shores warehouses were swept away by the water and with the taliban says it favors a political settlement to the contract. and that's kind of on as it meets an ask on government delegation and capital capital. the groups needed says at ones to establish political and economic ties with the global community. now south africa, presidents who rama person has visited the city of sylvester to meet people affected by rioting and losing their more than 200 people have been killed during the unrest that flipped through parts of the country over the past week. some communities have set up vigilance groups to defend their homes and businesses well and speak to me, the miller. she joins us now from dallas back to me, the fest durban now. so when we run the poses clearly out to try to reassure the country, after all this chaos, what did we hear from him today?

well, one of the key things we heard from the president was in relation to the address he had given about a week ago. around why this unrest was taking place. and a week ago he had said that he was ethnically based. and in today he used to have address to say that there was no link between as mr. t and the riots. and that, that notion was out the window hit the face of a criticism in the last few days around some of what had said in the last week. but he continues also to face criticism around the slow response of the state of police and the slow deployment of the military. and the last few days, we've also had, it seems a lot of finger pointing between the various organs of departments of state between military defense, the police as well as intelligence. there has been criticism that they've simply wasn't enough. intelligence passed on to police in particular to respond adequately

to the riots and the unrest that we've seen. police have said they were overwhelmed . they were out that they just didn't have the capacity to deal adequately with what had happened. now, both cities of johannesburg and been significantly calmer than they've been in the last few days. and certainly the president, using these short was in the butt and janice book to reiterate the importance of rebuilding the economy, cleaning up fixing the stores that that were destroyed or looted in these last few days. and really about this being united, south africa, people being capable of repairing the damage that's been done to meet a miller there with all the latest for us on that trip to the west from johannesburg. thanks so much for me to i'm leaving on and facebook says it shouldn't be blamed for the u. s. failing to me if it's vaccine goals. on saturday president joe biden accuse the social media joins of killing people by allowing

misinformation about the current of iris vaccines to circulate on a platform. several states are currently dealing with another such in cases, mostly amongst unvaccinated people. allan fisher reports now from washington, d. c. divide is a new hot sport. 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 variances passing much more efficiently and people are getting much 2nd, the last year, the only pandemic we have is among the and that's in there, as are killed. joe biden made 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 to have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at rest. a

3rd of the country is unvaccinated, and the issues 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 a big one. you know, are people gotten back to life without mosque 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. well, meanwhile, 3 texas state democrats who travel to washington to hope the passing of a republican sponsored version bill have not tested positive records at 19. they are part of a delegation of nearly 60 politicians who headed to the capital and had already

been vaccinated against the current virus. one of them has been experiencing mild symptoms, according to local reports. british prime minister bars johnson and his finance minister will self isolate. after having contact with health. secretary said you defeat who's just tested positive for the current of virus downing street now says they won't take part in a pilot screen scheme that allows people to work in their offices and only isolate when not at their jobs. that exemption spoke criticism from other m. p. 's, who accuse johnson of taking rules and restrictions for granted or thought these days is westcove in 1900 outbreak, meanwhile, shows no sign of flowing with more than $50000.00 new cases reported each day in indonesia. more than 72000 people have died from the virus test so far. and as jessica washington reports from jakarta, the funeral industry is now looking to volunteers to help bury the dead. on the outskirts of the indonesian capital, yet another family has lost

a relative to cope. it won't wake up, she cried. please don't sleep. it's the last time she will ever see her father. as indonesia struggled through the surgeon covert 900 deaths, there were too many grieving families and not enough workers to help bury the dead . some communities are now relying on volunteers. we just give them one that we don't receive any payment. we do our job from the heart. he cleans the bodies and also drives coffins to the symmetry and got the number of this is so high here . so this is what we can do to help the families. they work from morning to night. every day they see more families in anguish. seeing the conditions of these families, i feel in my heart and need to help them. i think about them even after i get home

. ah, this is just one of many covert 19 burial sites in indonesia. at all, hours, hearses and ambulances, queue up with more bodies to be buried. as dr. caught away sick people, more people are dying alone in their homes, and most never had the chance retreated in the hospital. as the death toll rises over 900 variable size, overwhelmed, engraved figures have to work well into the night to keep up with demand. indonesia cove, at 19 fatality rate is the highest in se asia. but experts warn the government's data doesn't reveal the extent of the crisis. we pray take that the real number of those who died from coffee 9 teens should be 3 to

5 time higher than the officials. number each day, indonesia cases and deaths rise to record levels and more families come here to more those they've lost jessica washington, audi 0, chicago. several houses have collapsed killing at least 25 people after land slides coolest by heavy rain in india is financial capital. rescue is fair that more people could also be trumped in the debris and mom buy in one neighborhood, half a dozen shacks collapsed on top of each other. that rental rain has also disrupted trains services. now, anti government protesters had been injured in thailand. they were stopped by police as they tried to march to government house in bangkok, defying cove at 1900 restrictions demonstrations of calling for the prime minister and the cabinet to resign. they also want the budget reduced for the royal family and the military and more money to be spent. instead on fighting the pandemic on the growing number of politicians and the philippines are accusing. president

rodrigo detached a of corruption with one year left. and this time it's raised questions about future lawsuits, but his daughter currently needs supposed to replace them and to test a said to be considering running for the vice president. jamil allen dugan has worn out from manila. it must up when the gun, when do 3 good there to want the presidential election in 2016. he promised to bring an president to change to the philippines by ending corruption within his 1st 6 months in office as he are. but as he enters the final year of his term, detectives administration is being bombarded by allegations of plunder and abuse of power. then the government contracts amounting to billions of basis opposition leaders, sonic trillion. this is revealed government documents that show how a long time that the aides family has acquired hundreds of $1000000.00 worth of contracts. in the southern region of dev,

derek g was they said to me or for more than 20 years, will not present and even send it through money for the world renowned boxer who has long been one of the strongest supporters says corruption in the government is rampant to tear to says the allegations are untrue and politically motivated, the yo use bunch. the rung, his punch drunk one, but galle spiked drunk. does he think my own cabinet will allow you in balloons twice may fall. but since 2017, there have been corruption scandals involving the appointed officials and even members of his own family president. the $31.00 said that just a width of corruption will be enough for him to fire government officials. but many of those who have been removed from office have yet to face charges. and over the last 2 years, the therapy has also refused to reveal his well to the public by not releasing his

latest statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth. the 1st president to ever do so in decades, analysts say do, terry, to track records in fighting corruption lacks conviction. look at the ruling correlation of the president. it's a big 10 coalition that effectively, you know, takes into its embrace, all sorts of people, including warlords, including, you know, traditional politicians, all this political dynasty is dominating the country. but despite all of this, to turn to popularity among filipinos remain high and many wonder whether that means he still has time and support to implement reforms that will form part of his legacy. jim l, as in dog and 0 manila, the widow of hate, he is assassinated, president has returned home after being wounded by gunfire,

and the july 7th attack. martine moiz arrived in puerto prince wearing body armor following treatment as a hospital in the u. s. she was greeted by interim prime minister for joseph. a group of colombian mercenaries has been blamed for shooting dead president, governor moiz, and arrayed on his home. his funeral will be held on friday. while the cuban president has denounced what he called a false narrative about anti government protest and says, footage of large rallies is false. miguel diaz can alex use the us of provoking protests and then spreading hates on social media. this off to keep us. so it's biggest anti government demonstrations and decades, nor about in many reports. this celebratory rally in havana is a far cry from angry protest to the grit this caribbean nation. performing cuban sofa and waving flags, thousands of people shaped support for president miguel diaz can. key says,

protest against cuba, economic decline, what based on source narrative 50 morning, or if you need to, can be morally, they are encouraging and glorifying disrespect and destruction of property threats and harassments of citizens and families. white. now what the was the sink from is a lie. ro, castro joined the president who he had handed power to in 20. 19, he and his brother, the late fidel castro, had led the cuban revolution more than 6 decades ago. okay. damn, yeah, condo mc november make. we have to defend the solution. we have to defend what is ours? penalty total. good enough. in the words of miguel diaz canal, he made it clear to the whole world that this revolution will not be overthrown. i have a week ago,

a wave of protest hit 40 cuban cities, the biggest in decades, people calling the liberty freedom and down with the dictatorship they galvanized and their thousands of the shortages of goods and the government's handling of a surgeon cope with 19 infections. schools of people were arrested almost 2000 kilometers notes in washington, d. c. protest showed solid charity outside the cuban embassy. my grandmother left and the patient had not been afforded that opportunity among the most cuban american population in florida. u. s. president joe biden called key the state and showed no sign of lifting economic sanctions. the country now seems divided between 2

count, those who blame the government of widespread shortages of food and medicine, and those who don't want to lose a socialist revolution. they blamed 60 years of crippling functions, but their economic was lower, but among the 20. ok . hello. this is alan rivera. these are the headlines. western europe flooding crisis is escalating and spreading further with heavy rain and parts of eastern germany and austria. at least $183.00 people have been confirmed dead, but that total is expected to increase as water level drop. while japanese chancellor has been visiting one of the was effected areas of the flooding angle. michael is currently in the village of shoals. warehouses were swept away by the fallen river out of my.