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hello everyone. soon as he is president, is going to crack down on corruption and is demanding the return of billions of dollars. he says was stolen from the public purse crisis site is also dismissed. the chief have been national television station just days after he for his parliament, like the prime minister, and assumed executive palace, mo, gets more on all of that. surely would sam kimball, he's reporting from june as we starting with this report from julian books, the streets of tenicia capital are mostly com, but on wednesday, the present and again moved to tightened his control of the government speaker in a televised interview president chi saeed. accused politicians of corruption, costing the country billions of dollars. the money stolen from the tin is young people must be restored. a decision will be made to take measures against the perpetrators who have taken these public funds. we will deal with these people in a proportionate manner. that accusation is disputed by a nafta,

the largest party in the government coalition, the dental negation. these have been raised by rival policy many years ago and repeatedly talking to quite the strict funding and, and not that we comply with the rule. never been any evidence of such for funding to me. she is young democracy faces it's worse. crisis in a decade offered, the president ousted the government and froze parliament for 30 days. the president says he has acted constitutionally, but opposition leaders accused him of staging a crew. one analyst says, fades moves are popular at least for now. the question though is whether this is the core of today a recent ball showing that 87 percent of donations they agreed with decisions of by size and 76 percent. they totally agree with him. so as we can see

here, the decisions are really very popular. of these feasible. well, let's wait and see further afield. foreign leaders have been calling for cabinet changes to be swift. the take over comes a mid crisis. the grown of iris pandemic is ravaging the nation, and the economy isn't steep decline with the international monetary fond recently promised to help to nicea cope with. it's growing financial pressure. the president has been calling on traders to cut the cost of goods, but even that these local shop owners say won't do, has been a little bit since the revolution life has become very difficult. the people can't make due. although we still meet with low process. this market is cheap and even in the market, people can't manage and so residents wait to see whether the streets which witness the jasmine revolution a decade ago will remain silent. gillian wolf, al jazeera,

as promised more with sam kimball, now in tune. as in sam, tell us more about these latest people to lose their jobs and the sort of stand off at the national tv station. well, over the past several days since the tunisian president assume the executive powers prime minister, his m a c. c, as well as for parliament, removed parliamentary immunity. there have been numerous dismissals, various ministries, various ministers, sorry, as well as most recently a statement coming out from the presidency office last night that made it known that the head of 2 needs is national television television station had been dismissed. this come just hours after 2 people were invited onto the

national television station for on air interviews, however, were prevented from entering the building. and so it's being said, the head of the, or rather the spokesperson of the national television station claimed that an order had come from the military to prevent the entry of these 2 people who had been invited for an interview. however, the military has denied that they give such an order. likewise, the presidency office has denied that they gave in order to prevent them from entering. and these 2 people were the deputy head of the national journalist's syndicate, as well as the head of the national league for the, for human rights defense they, they were prevented from entering. and so there's a lot of questions around why we spoke to one of those people prevented from entering earlier. here's what he had to say. senate, i'm a mighty,

how do we will deal with this exceptional situation with caution was yesterday we issued a statement that we won't accept any infringement on our liberties. the ones we gained in 2011, whatever the explanation of what happened at the state television. civil society is aware of any attempts to affect our freedoms, the liberties acquired through the struggle, that unity and people when we are watching where all of this is going carefully. so sound, there is a clearly a massive political struggle going on at multiple levels. but i feel it's worth reinforcing that life in, in tennessee is certainly intuitive. i think where you are, it's people have just had to get back to normal. that's right. if you walked down most streets in the capital of tunisia, tunis, you'll find that life seems back to normal, at least on the, on the surface. shops are open, people are about shopping, walking down the street gathering at cafes with the exception of a newly imposed curfew. since monday that runs from 7 pm to 6 am and an official

ban on gatherings. and this was, this is since, since monday by presidential decree unofficial ban on gatherings of 3 people or more. whether that band is enforced or not regularly is another question. however, the country may look like it's business back to usual on the surface. however, the country has been in a prolonged economic crisis, which is embittered. many ordinary tunisians, as well as a health crisis related to the current of iris pandemic. which tunisia used to be a regional model for back in the beginning of the pandemic, but has now become the country in africa with the highest death rate per capita because of the pandemic. so there are these overlapping crises in the country. in addition to that, there's a lot of unclear t or lack of clarity around what will happen politically. who the next steps are. what the next steps are, pardon,

and who will be named as the next prime minister to fill, to fill the spot of the sac prime minister. so lots of and clarity and some anxiety among people who don't know what's coming up if there is all right. sam kimball, reporting from 2 to thank you for bats. now we've been hearing from the us interstate antony blinking today. he's been in kuwait part of a tour around the region, but he spoke to al jazeera after his news briefing, spoke about the rights of journalists said they need to be held by attorneys. he has governments. my comment is that we stand resolutely for freedom of the press and for the ability of journalists to, to do their jobs, including denisia. and we look to the, the government of senior, to uphold and respect the rights of journalists. and that's one of the things that we expect to them. more on this with robbie plant side who is the head of global outreach for the international press institute on scott from vienna say, robbie, thanks for your time. whether this is what i would say people,

there are some people calling this a qu, or a qu like situation. even if it isn't, it is that type of behavior trying to shut down the media control the media. alger the are, itself was targeted. it's very reminiscent of someone trying to to take power and that's way to come all 1st freedom and independence media facing us here stretching tunisia, there's no doubt the situation dies, alarming. and the government is trying to strike food prior to critical voices and independent media groups. it appears not different arms of the government are not aware of what the other one is doing. because if the armed forces had ordered the direction of the televisions and to allow the human rights activist the journalist to go in daily dom horses are playing an important role in the ministration after the places in the prime minister. and this is a very dangerous trend. what we've seen in the pastors and countries where armed

forces have taken control of play, a major role in ministering the country. that is, can regard for oppressed freedom or independence of the media. come on. what was press freedom like all ready in to see particularly, i mean, we always look at these last 10 years, these very tumultuous, almost 10 years, where it went from dictatorship to democracy, to change and constitution. all of these things, how is the press managed to function after the revolution, what the witness was done to me. she had great freedom. they enjoyed a lot of freedom and could report on all issues including politics but, and that was much better than elsewhere in the region. and in the middle east, north africa region where like in egypt ex, media has been completely stifled. but now this hard talk to the media, god is that risk because of the changes that are taking place and the for the president really wants to change. he should allow the media to function. he should

allow independent washes to be heard. otherwise, he'll be denying to nations their right to information. and at this stage, it's very crucial for them when the country is going through a turmoil to get reliable, unbiased, and independent information from the media. germany, i don't know how many times i've said this in other countries, but i think it applies here. again. it's so blatant isn't it? in the case of out of the, or, for example, only just after the president took power and suddenly they were playing code security people taking over our office and throwing a journalist about it so as a safe place. and they what those empower, are doing, trying to shut down, shut down the, the media april, hopefully shocking. we were all disturbed by that news and be sure statement about it. and we do welcome. what secretary lincoln said to your journalist inquiry, we do need independent media indonesia at this moment,

and we need the support of the international community and pressure of the government to stop harassing the media. allow me to organizations like others, you know, which are highly refuted. and i've done wonderful studies from different parts of the world, including to me, to function and get the news to the people. because people sometimes do not rely on information that comes from the national media because they feel it's biased. therefore, they look for and by source was like and also who is the most prominent channel in that a big in the region. it should be allowed to function. they should immediately lift the blockade against al jazeera and allow the general list function and resume to accreditation. here here, thank you for that. robbie brought that is from the international press institute. for now the battle is intensifying for a rebel controlled neighborhood in southern syria. government forces have surrounded an area and that which has been besieged for more than

a month. it's home 240000. people have been cut off from food and medicine. rushing back to government troops want opposition fighters to surrender their weapons and to allow military checkpoints to be set up. here's an update from russell soda is stumble in neighboring techie. now just early in the morning, we have seen that the student government have initiated a massive military operation on the toner of that which is a part of the greater district. and so far, the reports of the casualties are just coming where we have the one civilian atlas that his dad, by the more showings for the region was confirmed and 9 of the region 14 number was being killed by the rebel forces. on the other hand, the rebel forces claims that they have to the control of several checkpoints, in the eastern and western side of, of dera, and also at pan belong to. the regime has been fears. and beside that

25 members of the region forces also, how being kept captive by the by the rebel forces. so far, also the rebel forces and the people of there are trying to block the roads and burling, the car wheels to stop regime add one scene into the city. so the how the clashes are still going on. but so far, it seems that the massive attack from the regime has been repelled for now. 14 minutes, almost 15 minutes past the new down. here's what's coming up. doctors in me and mar, accuse the military to of making a severe covert. nice enough break. even worse, i'm andy richardson at the tokyo olympics. find out why we decided to turn a shoe that looks like this into issue. looks like this. ah, well, heavy fighting is continuing and southern parts of a dentist on this se,

taking place around kandahar city with 20 people have been injured. while the strikes have been reported in neighboring hellman province as well. also, us secretary of state antony blink and we saw him before. he was also discussing canister on his trip to kuwait. he says they're negotiating with the gulf states and other countries could host afghans who supported the american war effort. as international troops completes their withdrawal, the binding ministration is under pressure to evacuate interpreters and others who at risk of taliban retribution. alan fisher at the white house for this thursday. hi ellen. any update on what's happening with those interpretive? well, the understanding is that the 1st flights of actually left from off campus time, one on its way to london. the other one heading here to washington. it should arrive and dulles in about 10 hours or so at the fast bunch of interpreters and their families is about $4000.00 interpreters helpers and their families in total

that will come in and applying for special immigrant visa. no, normally they would stay in afghanistan, but clearly the government, the, the by been ministration realizes the risk that they face if they continue to stay there, particularly as the u. s. will withdraw all its troops by the end of next month. so they've been processing some of the visas, but they're bringing a lot of them here to an army base in southern virginia where they will fit until the application has been process 20 blinking says it's an important part of the operation of the us. finally, leaving afghanistan earlier this month, president biden announced what we call operation allies, refuge to support the relocation for african nationals and their families who are eligible for special immigrant visas. and that process is actively underway and indeed we expect the 1st beneficiaries of the program to begin arriving very,

very soon. and alan, what else did the secretary state in the kuwaitis have to discuss? well, obviously they want to talk about iran is right in that neighborhood. and there's concern, particularly among countries about what iran is doing and where the talks about the run nuclear deal are 20 blinking it coaching the language of betty carefully saying it's really up to iran to come back into compliance. that's a bit cheeky because he's well aware that it's because the united states pulled out of the deal that they're back. renegotiating in vienna. 20 of lincoln says that the process can keep going on. know if you believe report side of iran. the difficulty is that the us wants to in set a sentence into a new deal that says other matters will be discussed. not something that the readings are very keen on his part is they were content. they had to deal over their nuclear program that was working well international observers what there they

were seeing all that was going on. and that changed when donald trump decided he was pulling the united states out. now joe biden said that he would go back into the iran nuclear deal, but clearly there are still some discussions going on. there have been a lot of talks in vienna at there still hope among those in the, by the ministration that a new deal can be reached. but certainly just by coaching it in terms of this is randy fall. they need to come back into compliance. you can see where the u. s. is going to point the finger. if these talks do not succeed. alan fischer at the white house. thank you for that. let's pretend to have dennis down were violence and the territorial advances made by the taliban. forcing people to leave their homes, a senior un officials told al jazeera that if there is no thief, fire situation could become the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. diplomatic it is at james bay's travel to balmy end. with 47000 people have been displaced in weeks travelling with the un took by me and it should take just over

4 hours to drive to this mountainous province. but the route is far too dangerous. now. once seen as the safest place in afghanistan, recent violence is seen the un recording over 47000 internally displaced people in recent weeks. dameion without doubt, has one of the best hospitals in the country funded by the aga con. ah, but the hospital has been overwhelmed by people suffering. after walking for days through the mountains. wonder i left because the taliban had captured more districts. when we came here, all the people were on the run. they were fleeing. my husband works for the police and wasn't able to come with us. i took all 3 of my children to get some help, but i received no help. these are among 300000 people displaced across. i've got to stand since may, the un humanitarian coordinator. there is, if there's no c spot,

things could get much worse. my fear you unfortunately something which gives them trouble to sleep. i think we will be looking at some of the war stresses which we have seen in the recent history. we traveled in the us, convoy out of town, towards the mountain to school, built by the u. n. refugee agency, you and hcr. it was constructed to educate children returning from outside afghan austin. instead, these kids all recently fled their homes inside the country. news of opposite quickly spread. the government coming here. these women desperate for help. after abandoning their villages. one of the fear that more than they told us of the taliban coming. so we fled from our homes. what could we do? we were in the barbara mountains and walked all the way. it was freezing there,

there was no food. so we were obliged to come here. there's a reason people here are so fearful. there's a long history of persecution, of the hazard, of the larger the sheer ethnic group that make up most of the ends population. they remember the taliban harsh rules in the 19 ninety's when they blew up the giant buddhist statues that had stood for centuries in the sandstone cliffs. the united nations can only provide food and shelter when people 1st flee. we met this group of families who left their homes 3 months ago and now struggling all living into small rooms. one of the problems is un, humanitarian appeal is desperately undefended. they've received just 37 percent of the $1100000000.00 they need this year. what we've seen here in bobby, and it's just a snapshot of what's going on in many places in afghanistan, people on the move fleeing conflict, human misery, that the u. n. is warning,

could soon turn into humanitarian catastrophe. james bay's ouch is era. bobby, and province. i've got i alright, let's talk a lympics. now. a strategy as entire track and field team went into isolation after an american athlete tested positive for cove at 19 us pole. vaulter fam kendricks has been ruled out of the competition without them found today. he had been training with the strategy and pulled both of us marshall's all members in the training team were tested and number infected. the number of positive cases, though, still reaching record levels in the host, said he tokyo's report and more than 3800 new infections on thursday. this was the same story across the whole country as well. with the highest number of data cases . since the pandemic began, so she interested are still going good or not because the number of newly infected people is increasing not only in the tokyo metropolitan areas,

but also in the cons. i area, and many other areas of the country and the number of newly infected people is increasing. we have never experienced a spread of infection like this. movement of people is limited but is not prevented . the spread of infection of the delta variant is spreading rapidly like never seen before. the evaluation analysis is being conducted on the pakistan is about to introduce sweeping current of iris restrictions which will ban unvaccinated people from venues across the country. from august 1, they'll be bought from government offices, schools, restaurants, air, travel, shopping malls. it comes as pocket stones. these a surgeon case is dominated by that more infectious delta variance. in fact, nearly 4 and a half 1000 new cases on thursday. more with come all hider and some about those numbers come all of a going up substantially. they are indeed because this is for the 2nd day running that we have seen over 4000 reported

in a single day. that didn't hire claims. the 1st of may also not to forget that bug is done has just come out of a holiday season because of age. and those are government advice people to day and door to restrict their movement. people have been moving across the country. the larger number of infections, of course, are there for days, from budget on the largest city that there's got raji. and i'll store $4000.00 plus minus over $2500.00 just in that city, a loan that up got a golf for the concern because the government shades that it does not have the luxury of exercising the option of floating down in diet days. and therefore, it is something that is a measure of concern, and we've also heard that back in june. they were less than 2020 later that renewed. but right now that are well worth, 3000 patients on rental ha. so come,

all the blocking people will be blocking people from going until those public places, which we mentioned earlier. if you're on vaccinated, that makes me wonder about how the vaccination rate is going there and the government response. but just to give you a clear idea and a few days that figure was over 750000 jobs per day, which went into a record of 850000 jobs. and now the government is saying that there is $1000000.00 jobs per day. now, earlier there were the larger reservation as far as many people were concerned, but because now the government has and now in strict restrictions after august, the 31st people, anybody way dean will not be able to apply on the national carrier or any airline. also, hotel stuff, the law enforcement agencies, it will be mandatory for everybody to obtain

a certificate and to have that back to the nation. and that, of course now leading to large numbers of people and i having a direct connection centered even in the city of god. we've seen the largest number per day. people are turning up and taking this seriously. so d, m vision plans are in place. the government of god had bought large consignment from china. it has got also under the coal wakes program, also ahead from other countries in the direct connection program. going ahead, but still the ford wave that government had warned about their still norco. it is just the beginning of that and it will be important to see how far the standard able to go, where there's fresh, new wave, k come all hide with the latest from is some about thank you. massive forest fire in turkeys, coastal city of antonia is killed, 3 people and injured 50. 8 authorities have told people to leave 20 neighborhoods

and villages turkeys enjoyed several extreme weather events recently including flash flood last week that killed 6 people in the black sea region. until striving states could set new temperature records for july over the next few days. remember the winter down there with those details his jeff with you will with hello hope you're doing well. western australia has severe weather warnings in play for this weather maker we've got sweeping across the fierce winds. it's going to move across the bite as well in spread some what, whether it's at adelaide, melbourne, and hobart, as we head towards saturday, north of this, we're talking about the heat. so look at this, alice springs and birds fil a. you could break your all time july temperature records on friday. now as we head toward new zealand, we've got a disturbance in the tasman. see, it's going to give us some rain for the southern alps into the foothills, but the major cities center shouldn't be impacted. saturday. christ church wallington, auckland, all an abundance of sunshine. next for go into southeast asia, and we've been dealing with flooding, rains towards southern and northern parts of vietnam. more than

a 100 homes destroyed, which had been cities still heavy rain in the forecast on friday. and that south west monsoon, steering heavy rain for lose on island in the philippines. manila, we know what the marchina river is reaching dangerous levels here. just because of how much rain we have seen. asia pacific, what's left of what was typhoon info continuing to search further toward the north and scattering of showers for central and eastern parts of honju. tokyo locked into the high humidity 30 but its feeling about 36 on friday. jeff, thank you for that. still more for you on this news. now we're taking a look at the online investment platform that's hoping to shake up wall street again. also being called south africa tax, the war, the army called into protect drivers and their customers who fear their lives. and in sport, china puts on a world and record performance in deal and pick a

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