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across south east asia. moved record infections reported, and more athletes test positive corporate 191 day before the talk you will lympics opening ceremony. ah, the pentagon is expressing alarm about the rapidly deteriorating security situation in afghanistan, the most senior us general says the taliban now controls nearly half of the countries $400.00 plus districts. it coincides with the continued pullouts of us troops fighting between african government forces and the taliban is intensifying. at least 7 people were killed in the southern province of kandahar on wednesday. it happened during shalon between the military and taliban forces is more on what general mark merely had to say, a boats the telephone advance. i would tell you that as of today, more or less,

i guess it's about $212.00 to $13.00 in that range. 2 hundreds of the district centers are in taliban control. it's about half of the $419.00 that are out there. you've got 34 provincial capitols in afghanistan. none of them have been seized as of today by the taliban. although the taliban is putting pressure on the outskirts of probably about half of them. 17 of them in fact. and what they're trying to do is isolate the major population centers. they're trying to do the same thing to cobble. and roughly speaking order of magnitude. a significant amount of territory has been seized over the course of 6, a 10 months sort of thing by the, by the taliban. so momentum appears to be strategic. momentum appears to be sort of with the tell him the afghan security forces that are consolidating their forces. well, i did from, i guess sir james bass is live for his in kabul. or, james, why do you think we're seeing this intervention from general? mark, milly. now,

because it was always anticipated that if the us troops left afghan to stand, the taliban would be bolden. certainly he's telling us things that we already knew . but i do think it's significant afghans officials have been worried in recent weeks about the narrative that the taliban are winning. they've been concerned about media reports including on i, which is 0. what you've been describing, what's going on on the ground? well, it's not the media saying at this time is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the top member of the u. s. military saying that the taliban taking over is not a foregone conclusion. but it's certainly one of the possibilities. a total taliban takeover. there's also the possibility of a negotiated settlement. there's also, he says, the possibility of warlords returning to afghanistan, all sorts of breakdowns across the country. so very worrying projections coming from of the chairman of the joint chiefs,

the heal food said that the game enough canister on is on clear. so given this situation, what do you think we should be looking out for in the days and weeks ahead? well the taliban have, as he said, had a great deal of momentum in recent weeks. we think the military fighting has come down just a little now because we're in the holiday of eat. what are the taliban going to do after eat all they for example, going to try and take some of those urban areas where they just poised outside. we saw them just before eat taking key strategic border crossings, which is very worrying for an afghan nation. that is land logs, but what is the afghan government going to do at this stage? is there going to be a new approach, a new offensive coming from the african government side? remember, the african military actually has many more fighters than the taliban. and there are a lot very large people,

number of people in population centers like cobble like canada, hall, and like harass. and there's a lot going on diplomatically as well. we expect talks in bo hottest start again. soon fresh talks, but possibly between the taliban and the turks on what to do about cobble airport. that's vital if the international community are going to stay in this capital city, doing humanitarian work, the united nations and all the diplomatic missions. i think it's fair to say that the coming weeks for afghanistan are going to be absolutely crucial, possibly decisive for the future. this country, ok, james base, there was a lie for couple. thank you. james. thousands of people have rallied in december gone to show their support for a few p and federal troops who are fighting in the northern region to gray seekers . cold on the field pins to be unified against rebels into great, accused them of using child soldiers. it comes as a conflict, has widens to include fighters from neighboring. i'm horror and are far regions to

grow and groups claim thousands of people have been killed in the conflict. katherine saw joins as no life form at the sub a. but catherine tell us more about the rally that took place this morning. well yes, this is riley, that is pretty much a government organized wiley organized by the mayor's office and you know, but then there were thousands of people who turned up and the speakers there really castigating, you know, to gray and fighters saying that they've been using child soldiers, they've been using children as chills as well. they say that they support the government and the national army in the ongoing conflict into drive. they accuse particularly the international media of bias smith and you know, q him the coverage, 2 words in favor of the 2 grand leadership. so they have been

saying that they do support the government, the national army, the government forges have withdrawn from the drive. but they have been accused alongside every trend. troops deployed to that region and fighters from the neighboring. i'm higher region. i've been accused by numerous human rights organizations of atrocities committed in t drive in the last 8 months or so. thousands of people have been killed, many have been displaced. the government has been accused by some of using hunger as a weapon. the u. n says up to 400000 people, a suffering form and like conditions 1800000 are in the and ring a 5 minute aid workers are really struggling to get to many of them. because the infrastructure has been destroyed in some parts. and there is still fighting going on in other pass. i will, the conference in tea gray really is the roots of all of this. what would have been know about what's happening there?

what we've been hearing in the last few days of fighting going on along the border between afar region and p grey was hard for me to grand a lead issue saying that what the forces of being doing is pushing back fighters from another region called or me out, been trying to, we've been advancing into the ground. we had from the administration in a fiery zone saying that they had deployed the ortho, who do for this to protect their borders. and this is what highlight wiring very many people the ethnic direction. this constantly taking missing more and more regions and regions here in if you really are based along ethnic lines, we're seeing more regional governance thing that they're going to send that one security forces to fight the 2 grand defense forces. we've also had from the un saying that on sunday, an aide convoy was attacked in an area about 115 kilometers from tamara, that the capitol of far so the w p thing that they have temporarily suspended the

ground, a movement until the situation is water this is devastating because it's actually tamara t grad, which is the only ground corridor left into the t drive. because in other routes, infrastructure has been destroyed, including that bridge over the river tech has it that connect weston to dry. and the rest of the region to the situation is still very di and indeed, and people quite worried, especially by the ethnic town. this is taking ok, catherine. so reporting live for his form of a book. catherine, thank you. beliefs in south africa are investigation. 160 cases of murder in relation to last week's rights in halting and causal. natal provinces, 276. people were killed during the days of an rife, the violence was initially sponsored by the jailing of former president jacob's

humour spiraled into wider anger about the economy and inequality, the process, so police numbers, shops were looses, and factories set on fire. the u. s. and south korea have colds for renewed diplomacy until i log with north korea on its nuclear program. the statement came as the us p. c. secretary of state that south korean leaders including president moon j in pyongyang, has so far refused to resume talks in process again, swore it calls us hostility. south korea has reported a record 1800 new covered 1900 cases in one day. the more contagious delta variances feeling. the surge latest numbers include 270 sailors who were phone home from an anti piracy mission abroad. authorities are now considering expanding

restrictions in sol and its neighboring regions. rob mcbride has more on the corporate 1900 break in south korea. that crew has now had to be flown back at 2 south career out of 301 crew members. 271 have now tested positive. that's a staggering 90 percent, but even if you strip out that number, this is still a very significant rise. we've been seeing for the best part of 2 weeks more than 1000 new cases per day as this 4th wave has really taken a hold. here with some predictions that will soon be thing well over 2000 new cases the day before the authorities get on top of it. we're already in the capital area around sol, the highest level of the social distancing restrictions. there are some indications that these same level of restrictions will have to be extended to other parts of south korea and with some predictions that the authorities here of just underestimated the virulence of this delta variant. this slightly better news is

that of course, because of the vaccinations have been rolled out aimed at the more vulnerable groups such as the elderly care homes that we are seeing significantly. few deaths and also hospitalizations where rammed a 3rd of the population has now had at least one job. but that has focused attention on the 2 thirds of the population who remain unvaccinated. again, fueling an ongoing debate here in south korea about what we've seen as a relatively slow pace of the vaccination roll at the delta variance is driving up cases in thailand's, which just reported another record day of new cases. more than 13600 people and tested positive in the past day, thailand's national vaccine institute has apologize for not buying enough vaccines . it says it's now looking to join the global kofax vaccine sharing scheme. tony chain has more from bangkok, we saw

a government minister coming out overnight saying that we're asking celebrities not to criticize the government on social media. he said that their voice is amplified on platforms like twitter and facebook. and they should be very aware of what the public, the information the public is receiving. in fact, the thai government want to introduced new anti cove measures. a couple of weeks ago, i slipped in a bill that gave it new powers to limit, so called miss information. in fact, the wording is actually any information which might cause the public to panic regardless of were actually true or false. and we've seen them acting on that today . overnight. a young tie wrapper, criticize the government on social media. today, she's being called into the police. but i think it illustrates how sensitive the government is about its coven response. there is a growing criticism here of the government of the vaccination problem program about

about the number of infections we're seeing, which have risen very quickly in the last couple of months. we even so protested back on the st. last. we can now at the moment, people are very concerned about going out in public. although than all being banned during the daytime, there is a strict curfew at night. most people are trying to stay at home as much as possible. this time last year, tyler was doing remarkably well. daily infections were in double digits for the whole of 2020, the whole total number of covert fatalities was just $61.00. while now. we've blown, well past those figures where we saw anti government protests on the street last year. i think the gun was rather saved by the fact that it had responded or was seen to respond very well to the pandemic this year. if those protests start again, i think the government is very nervous. indeed. fill a heads on al jazeera chinese rescue workers scramble to get people for safety of floods cause widespread. the strong in hon. i'm providence and huge world, far as

a burning across the western united states. but their impact is reaching the east now to ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello there. it's all about the record breaking heat across parts of europe, in particular for the south east and the north west. we are expecting those hot and dry conditions to continue over the next few days in particular for the british io . we've got a heat wave here, and northern ireland has had an all time high temperature record for the 2nd time in 5 days. as temperatures touched up to 31.3 degrees celsius in county high road. now we've got an amber alert for extreme heat that continues fall than island and

wales and central and southern parts of england through to friday. but as we go into saturday, the wet weather kicks in and we've got a yellow alert out for rain. you can see that weather system sweeping into western areas of france. it's going to affect northern areas of spain, but down in the south it is still rather hot and dry. well century we've got quite a lot of cloud cover and wet weather for more than parts of italy and parts of the balkans. but much of the wet and windy weather can be found in southwest in areas of russia. up in the north, the temperatures have picked up but not as high as we've seen recently. and down in the south, the heat continues to build for turkey and for grease, with plenty of sunshine coming through. and it's a similar story for north africa, with temperatures climbing in morocco. sponsored cattle airways. becoming a living legend to the young age with simply not enough. he transformed his influence on the pitch into political clown, the brought peace to the ivory coast. posted by eric comes to the

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their support for e t o. p, and federal troops fighting in c dry. it comes as the conflict has widened to include fighters from the neighboring. i'm horror of our regions. and countries right across the station are struggling to contain the latest wave of corona virus . thailand and south korea have both reported a record number of new infections. the highly contagious delta variance is driving the search in cases china has deployed its military to her non province. the central region is struggling with the worst funding in recent history. thousands of expected to help with the search and rescue efforts. at least 33 people have been killed. adrian bryan reports, an image of normality turned upside down. like a giant scrap yard,

abandoned cars block of tunnel in central jungle roads transformed into rapidly flowing rivers. where in some areas, boat is the only way to get around. the cities inhabitants are used to typhoons, but they're still coming to terms with the scale of this week's deluge. it was the heaviest rainfall in 60 years. on tuesday, more than 200 millimeters fell in just one hour on state tv, the images have been more uplifting rescue as bringing young and old to safety. some of the estimated 800000 residents who've been displaced. the emphasis is on the positive work being done, not on those who died. doubtful can our teams of rust in many places. we are carrying out towns like blasting and flood, diversion, flood, fighting and rescue, as well as mass evacuations. the underlying message,

the party will protect you. on social media though, there's anger at why local weather forecasters fail to warn residents properly. the city lies in a flood prone area. the provincial government reportedly spent more than $8000000000.00 building defenses that were supposed to prevent disasters like this happening. now more extreme weather is threatening the area. a tie. food is bearing down of china's eastern coast and could make landfall this weekend. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong and has been more wild weather in china or tornado ripped through a village near balding city in northern heard a province killing. at least 2 people, homes were torn apart, and deborah was scattered through local roads. relief workers are trying to restore power to the area. hong kong court says joe 7 then for their role in

a 2019 attack on democracy, protest is more than 100 people dressed and point attacked civilians and reporters with sticks and poles. at the train station iraqis, ations, the police conspired with the attackers. and in another, hong kong court hearing for employees from pro democracy newspaper, apple daily have been charged after the arrest under the cities year olds, national security long, the former as a suzanne blighters, were charged with conspiring to collude with a foreign country or in danger. national security, apple daily clothes, last month's ends in the papers 26 year run. media outlets have been under pressure from a new national security law. that restricts criticism off the government's cove of 19 cases in australia or on the rise in many regions. despite weeks long locked downs you south wales reported another 124 cases. it's the highest number

in 16 months. the government is strong, the urging people to get vaccinated. as the delta variance continues to spread its crow, why these fires is contagious. any human contact means you can pick up the bars or give the var spivey spreading luck. we've never seen before. and i especially want to thank our contact traces because if it was not for their, if it's the 124 case numbers today would literally have been in the thousands. and i don't say that lightly. is one day to go until the start of the summer, elim, pigs in tokyo, and organize the say to more athletes at the olympic village have tested positive for coven 19. they are among 12 cases linked to the games. and then stone thursday, bringing the total to $87.00 talk you itself is seeing its highest number of cases in 6 months. the city remains under

a state of emergency with competitors facing unprecedented restrictions on their movements. and the richardson has more from tokyo. i think what the organizes would say is that it's a sign that their systems are working, that athletes all testing positive, that close contacts of being charged. and that is because of the systems they have in place. and that the idea that that could be a 0 case olympics was, was somewhat fanciful. but they're all concerns. there are concerns from some of the athletes representatives. we spoken about the type of tests that lead to taking on a daily basis that taking rapid results, antigen tests, which own, quite as reliable as the sort of gold standard p c r test. so they're all concerned that some of the cases might be slipping through within the athletes village, although the national associations, pretty much sleeping in their own sort of bubble around sort of isolated area actually are expected to share rooms. there are concerns also about the levels of ventilation in some of those rooms from some of the epidemiology of waste spoken to

. and the devil often in life is in the details. before the athletes came to the dylan fix, they had to sign a legal wave and nothing entirely unusual about that. but it was a special clause included this time around. so basically the i see was for going any responsibility from any fall out involving cobit 19 and that it was the athletes they would have to take ultimate legal responsibility for anything that happened to them while they're really selling pick. so that runs from a counter to the idea that the c repeatedly says that they are hosting a safe and secure against cuba is racing to vaccinated populations that faces its 1st major wave of corona, virus infections. an average of 6000 cases are now being reported every day. john holeman is in mexico city and has this update on cuba and the wiser latin american region, this late stage, and upon them in cuba, is experiencing its 1st real wave of coven infections. the country managed to

hold out quite a long time against viruses. as a result, strict quarantine procedures, remember this is an island nation and also largely shutting down is tourism industry, even though that had a big economic impact on the country. but now it seems that the relaxation of their own, the restrictions and also new strains of the virus meant more and more people started to get infected in cuba. the numbers have been creeping up. and now the health authorities say that transmission is elevated. now, cuba has one hope in all of this, and that's the home grown vaccines. the island has been developing, the health authorities say that they're very efficient that they are very effective . and the moment they go about 30 percent of the country population with at least one days now hoping to really roll those out false. so the by the end of august about 80 percent who have themselves back today to they can try and control the

spread. so cube, or at the moment, struggling with that. and it was actually one of the causes of the protests on the 11th of july in the country now across latin america as a whole thing. just sort of in the balance. she got countries like this will mexico know? so the countries like chilly, we've had a vaccination drive, it's been relatively successful, but you've also got country like haiti, and home do us that have one percent or less of people being vaccinated. most drives are already just starting now, the regional arm for the world health organization says that latin america and the caribbean as a whole, only about 15 percent of people are fully vaccinated. there's a long way to go here, as covey continues to strike. parts of iran, or into the 3rd day of a short lock down the restrictions were brought in a hands of the muslim holiday of her,

which usually sees millions of people traveling around is battling a surgeon cases fueled by the delta variance. it reported a record daily high of more than 27000 infections on tuesday. the government has been criticized for slow vaccine voids which it blames on us sanctions. while the vaccine shortage has led to many iranians to travel to neighboring armenia for jobs, tourists fare are being offered free vaccines. it's not a big boost in visitor numbers with around 8500 radians heading to armenia in june, up from 5000 a month earlier. less than 3 percent of their own population has been fully vaccinated. smoke for more than 80 wildfires in the western united states has no blankets in the east coast. it's prompted the pollution alert and washington d. c. while new york's air quality ranks among the worst in the world on tuesday,

the biggest fires in the state of oregon, the forest for fighters to retreat, just practical have reports band in your mission. and this is the western united states. and according to scientists, this is the result of climate change. wildfires have been a part of life in this part of the country, but scientists say not like this, not this early, not this intense, not this many fires. we're seeing more fire days across not only the us, but other parts of the world as well. and certainly the conditions are becoming worked. do serve for wildfires, you know, we're seeing increased cheap waves. ah, in oregon, the bootleg fire scorching more than 1500 square kilometers of land. roughly the size of los angeles happening in the state that is already seated share of weather challenge. in february we saw devastating ice storms over a half

a 1000000 people lost power. last fall as you are well aware. we had unprecedented wildfires. we had over 4000 homes last and that fire and it is literally climate change playing out before eyes the fires in oregon are so intense, so they are creating their own weather system. producing massive drives under storm with lightning and strong wind that can start more fire. this is just one of the governors of fires burning throughout the american west. and there is a major shortage of firefighters. prison inmates are often used to flight fires, but hundreds have been released to prevent the spread of co good. and with this many fires burning and controlled, it is creating smoke that can be seen from satellite. it's drifting eastwards, producing hazardous air across the entire country. smoke is being transported by the wind, lost in the atmosphere, to placed as it normally doesn't end up at least in most years. i'm making it all

the way to the east coast of the u. s. this is the american west new reality, uncontrolled fires, hazardous air homes and lives already lost, and many more believed likely to come in the months ahead. patty colleen al jazeera washington. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines, the pentagon, this expressing alarm about the rapidly deteriorating security situation. in afghanistan, the most senior us general says the taliban, though, controls nearly half of the countries, $400.00 plus districts. it coincides with the continued pullouts of american troops . thousands of people have rallied and at a sample boat to show their support for the e. c. o. p, and government troops fighting in t grey. it comes as the conflict has widened to.