a critical look at the global news media found on audi 0. government shut off access to social media, holding the powerful to account as we examined the us, his role in the world on al jazeera. ah, kennedy, as the president has billions of dollars have been stolen from the country of the fax, the president of the national television station, ah, hello again on come out santa maria here in ha, with the world news from al jazeera. there is a battle getting more intense by the day in syria, a rebel region being bombarded by government for though there was

taking a more lethal turn, attacks the rivalry the schools and kills for commuters in a south african city and the richardson at the tokyo olympics. went to time will champion poultry. sam kendrick is tested positive because 19, he is out of the games. ah, well, trinity is president his bowing to crack down on corruption and is demanding the return of billions of dollars. he says was stolen from the public. chi sites also dismissed the chief at the national tv station. just days after he froze parliament, prime minister, and assumed executive powers. this report from julian wolfe, the streets of denise's, capital are mostly com. but on wednesday, the president again moved to tightened his control of the government. speaking in a televised interview, president k say he'd accuse politician 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 another. the largest party in the government coalition, donaldson, united nations. these have been raised by rival policies many years ago and repeatedly, to talk to quite the strict inside the funding and, and not always comply with the rule. never been any evidence of such florence on the tennessee as young democracy faces at the worst 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 accuse him of staging. a qu,

one analyst says phase moves are popular, at least for now. the question is not the whether this is the core of today or recent ball. as shown that 87 percent of canadians, they agree 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 while let's wait and see farther afield. foreign leaders have been calling for cabinet changes to be swift. the takeover comes amid crisis. the grown of iris pandemic is ravaging the nation, and the economy is in steep decline with the international monetary fond recently promised to help to niecy a cope with its 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. i have been here since the river and life has become very difficult,

the people can't make due. although we still meet with low process. this market is cheaper 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. and we've got sam kimball following developments for us from tunis over the past several days since the chinese and president of him, the secular powers prime minister, his embassy, 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. 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 the 2 people who had been invited for an interview. however, the military had 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 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, son at the time of my he. how does this 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 what we are watching, where all of this is going carefully. the country may look like it's business back to usual on the surface. however, the current 3 has been in a prolonged economic crisis, which is embittered. many ordinary conditions as well as a health crisis related to the current of iris pandemic, which to neither used to be a regional model for back in the beginning of the pandemic. but it 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 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

a next prime minister to fill, to fill the spot of the prime minister. so a lot of concerns about the press freedom in tennessee or at the moment in speaking to al jazeera and his visits to kuwait, the us secretary state antony, blinking said the rights of journalist need to be up hill by tennessee 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 tenicia. and we look to the, the government of seizure, to uphold and respect the rights of journalists. and that's one of the things that we expect to them. on to other news in the battle is intensifying for a rebel controlled neighborhood. in southern syria, government forces surrounded an area and that are, which has been besieged for more than a month. it is home to 40000 people as well. have been cut off from food, med, food and medicine. rushing back government troops went opposition fighters to surrender their weapons. and to allow military checkpoints to be set up for an

update now from russell. so dian stumble in neighboring turkey. 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 want to be in a place that is that way, the more selling from the regime is confirmed. and 9 of the region, 14 members also 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 dera, and also at pan belong to. the regime has been fears. and beside that 25 members of the regime forces also had been 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 advancing 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 re power for now. i while a double well champion has begun the highest profile corona virus casualty a week into the tokyo olympics, us pole. vaulter, sam kendrick has been ruled out of the game in poverty has the curve at 19, also threatened to disrupt the prize track and field competition a day before you restart. australia entire team went into isolation after one of their po volts is trained with kendricks. but all have been tested negative or from an richardson and took you. let's just take you through what happened some kendricks, and not just another athletes. he's making up the numbers here. he's

a 2 time world champion in the polls. you want to bronze at the rio games that he would have been a gold medal contender here in tokyo, he was training, obviously with other poles, isn't because of close contact with one of the australian team. it meant the entire australian track and field team briefly went into oscillation in the rooms. now the 3 athletes in the close, his contact with kendricks have had to follow up p. c. arthur, today they have come back as negative. so while the rest of the truck and sales team have now been released from isolation in their rooms, those 3 they will be out to train. but in between time, they will be isolating in their rooms. and really, it just shows you how difficult it is for all the participants at these games that they know within a 2nd, a finding out that they're negative or a close contact of 5 years of build it to these games can go up in smoke. and for kendricks, unfortunately, his olympics is over. the number of positive cases of coven 19 are, again,

at record levels into. it's reported more than 3800 new infections on thursday. and it's the same story across the country with the highest number of data cases. in fact, since the pandemic began to seem to still get the good, it will not be 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 to south africa where more people are being killed in attack see turf for in cape town. rival companies are fighting for control of a busy route, the violence spock fear among but commuted and dr. it's robin smith spoke to some of them with millions of south africans dependent on public

transport. the government is not taking any chances. rival taxi associations have been fighting for ownership of a busy route. confrontation have raged for years and it's got worse with more than 80 people killed so far this year. 24 of them in july alone. among those injured a 5 month old baby. and he and his drivers and bystanders say they are living in fear. we can't exactly dive like the way we use this is because you go to, we go to the go to shoot where 2 guys, 3 guys came out on the corner. and then with just enjoying that side, upside the container where we might operate and those guys came towards

ending with guns. and then they came shoots. one of our colleagues piece talks have so far, failed prompting authorities to close the notorious route for the next 2 months. and to make buses available to commuters as an alternative, emissions taken by government have helped to qualify for now, at least, but commuters are still being severely affected every evening, thousands q 4 hours people making the journey home by bus. for many, it doesn't stop their failed and for to walk long distances in doc in order to get home name and the last 4. no, i have to take the next. how was it then? i said, oh no, no, no. but i'm thinking a week with lives and livelihood at stake,

commuters. effectively how hostage by the tax people are desperate for inclusion to the violence robinson and i'll just 0. have to check on the world whether it's next and then millions of deaths and many more dealing with the after effects. we're looking into the diagnosis for people battling what's known as long covert i'm james phase, and sammy, normally seen as the faith is province in afghanistan in recent weeks. it's the 10s of thousands of people. lea, a the hello good to see you are a danger zone with the southwest monsoon has now shifted toward the north and the east impacting states like b har and west bank gall,

pushing into bangladesh. and you know, for example, in bangladesh, the refugee camps have been hit particularly hard in the south a by the south west spon soon, just buckets of rain here. look how fast that water is moving. very dangerous situation playing out there. and this is where the heaviest rains from the southwest monsoon will be falling on friday. ok, i want to get you up to speed on the forecasts towards se asia we've had flooding raines for southern and northern parts of vietnam who cham and city heavy rain in the forecast on friday. but we've got sunshine for java jakarta, a height of 32 degrees, heavy rain, still impacting lose on island in the philippines. that includes manila, where we know the marchina rivers reaching dangerous levels, their asia pacific. what's left over of what was typhoon info searching further to the north and spreading some heavy rain there. and as we looked toward tokyo, 33 degrees, but still locked into that humidity. well, and this one off in the middle east where we're running the risk of sand and dust

storms for a huge portion of oman on friday. that sure weather update. see you soon. the welcome to death from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes so you can relax, enjoy a break in your journey. ah, and when you leave with a smile, we know our day's work is done. katara always welcome to our home. ah, ah

ah, top stories with our own al jazeera, tennessee, as president, is accusing politicians of corruption and is demanding the return of millions of dollars he says was stolen from the public purse site, also to smith, the head of the national state television company covered 900 cases and the limpid game posts, if you toko, are continuing to serge. it's reported more than 3800 new infections on thursday. another record high. so that's kind of some heavy fighting. continuing in southern parts of the country this thursday. taking place around kandahar 5020 people injured their while as strikes have been reported in a neighboring helmand province. also us secretary state antony blinking has been discussing. i've got a son during his trip to kuwait. she says they're negotiating whether the gulf states and indeed other countries could host afghans who supported the american war

effort. with international troops complete their withdrawal, the by and ministrations under pressure to evacuate interpreters and other on the staff who are at risk of taliban retribution. alan fisher at the white house for us . what's the latest on those interpretive ellen? well, those 1st flights in the year one left a couple around lunchtime, in cabal on its way here to dulles international airport. just said washington, d. c. should take about 1012 hours, 2nd flight lack one hour later heading towards london, they will alive sooner. the intention is to take these and temperatures and their families to fort lee, which is a base in the south of virginia. there they will be processed for what's called special immigrant visa. now in total there's about $4000.00 afghans and their families who need to go through this process. that is because the american government 20 blink in the bite administration, they believe that these people will be at risk if the taliban where to seize

control. they want to do this in an orderly fashion. they don't want memories. if you think back to vietnam of helicopters, taking off the roof of the embassy, that is why this is a much more managed process. once they get here to virginia, they will go through vetting, which will decide whether or not they can stay in the united states. congress is already approved additional funds for that process. 20 blinking says it is an important thing for the buy been ministration. take care of earlier this month, president biden announced what we call operation allies, refuse to support the relocation for africa, nationals in 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. allen,

when an american official traveled to the middle east, they inevitably end up talking about iran. i assume that was the case here as well . exactly. that came up in the conversations in kuwait 20, blinking, saying that the negotiations are ongoing with iran, but they can't go on forever. what is interesting is the language you use, the said the ran must come back into compliance. now of course, there any, i would point out that they were in compliance. it was the united states that went through the deal was with donald trump that did that at the end of last year, he decided that he was getting out of the deal. we know that job, i want to get back into the deal, but our negotiations on going in vienna know, were told from vienna, one of the big talking points. one of the big snags is that the americans want to that one line into the agreement saying that the iranians will agree to future talks and other issues. part of the really is concerned, they had

a nuclear deal. they were following it. international observers were there, everything was a compliance, it was the u. s. they blew up and they don't see the need to go and start talking about other things, like ballistic missiles and iran's influence in the region. so that could be a big problem, but you can see just from the language that 20 blinking is using that if these talks westerfield, there's no doubt where the us will be pointing the finger even though they were the country that pulled out a deal in the 1st place and q alan fisher, for that report from the white house or back enough canister on violence. and the territorial advances made by the town about forcing people to leave their homes. the senior united nations official is told out with 0 if there is no things fire in the situation could become the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. diplomatic editor james bass traveled to balmy on. we're 47000 people have been displaced in just the last few weeks. we're traveling 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 has 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 khan. 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 is if there's no c spar, things could get much, was my fear you unfortunately something which gives him trouble to sleep.

i think we will be looking at some of the war stretching this, which we have seen in the recent history. we traveled in the u. n. 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 africa stun. instead these kids all recently flu, their homes inside the country. news of opposite quickly spread the government coming here. these women desperate to help. after abandoning their villages. one of them with them. they told us 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 by me and population. they remember the taliban harsh rules in the 900 ninety's when they blew up the giant buddhist statues that 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 then now struggling all living into small rooms. one of the problems is un humanitarian appeal is desperately undefended. they receive just 37 percent of the $1100000000.00 they need this year . what we've seen here, and by me, 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 un is warning, could soon turn into humanitarian catastrophe. james bass. ouch is era, bobby,

and province. i've got a forest fire in turkey's co, still city of and tally or has killed 3 people and injured 58 authorities of told people to leave 20 neighborhoods and villages turkeys enjoyed several extreme weather events recently including flash flooding last week that killed 6 people in the black sea region demonstrated in haiti rallied in front of the u. s. embassy, accusing washington of involvement in the assassination. this month of haiti's president clear link has been made. it is new. prime minister is pledged to hold elections as soon as possible. after for president jovan and we were killed in his home in israel will be the world's 1st country to begin offering a 3rd shot of the curve in 19 vaccine. israeli media says the finds a booster shot will be for those over the age of 60 who got the 2nd dose more than 5 months ago. it's an attempt to curb infections filled by the contagious delta

variance in pakistan, they're about to introduce sweeping corona virus restrictions which would ban unvaccinated people from venues across the country from the 1st of august, if you're on vaccinated, then there's no getting into government offices or schools, restaurants, air, travel, and shopping malls. it comes as the country sees a search in cases dominated by again that delta variant pockets on reporting 84 and a half 1000 new cases on thursday. cambodia is imposing locked downs in provinces bordering thailand. as it tries to limit the spread of the delta variance, thailand's had another daily record counting $17000.00 more infections. half of the new cases are in bangkok and regions surrounding the capital. an airport cargo warehouse is being converted into a field hospital to manage the search. and he's trained instead of new south wales of calling in the army to help enforce lockdown restrictions. big city sidney posted a record rise and infections on thursday. stay at home orders. now extended until

the end of august, but the fail to reduce new cases. compliance has been patchy. we can only assume that things are likely to get worse before they get better given the quantum of people infectious in the community. if you are living in a local govern area of concern and at the moment they're each of them. you need to make sure you wear a mosque now at all times. so if you step foot outside your household, you need to wear a mosque at all times. it doesn't matter where it is. now on top of all of this, there are millions of people living with long covert which can affect their ability to live in normal life. the symptoms are so wide ranging that an actual diagnosis has proved difficult until now. during the holiday. in the u. k alone, almost a 130000 people have lost their lives to cobit 19. many more have lost their quality of life. they've been awful. while i've described this as hell on the best day, i probably feel 30 percent of my pre cove itself on,

on the worst face. it can be, you know, 5 percent or less things like brain folk would feel like i have a constant concussion eyesight. difficulties float is in my eyes all the time. constant tinnitus, i get all sorts of rushes, bleeding problems, and purple coves. shanie, right? is one of those living with long cove? it, 16 months after catching the virus? i've had a number of scans. i've seen a number of specialists. none of them can give me any answers when it comes to doctors. i'd say at worst, you know, you get doctors that simply don't levy, they don't believe that long period exists. and at best doctors they kinda shrugged shoulders and they say, well, case a new, a new illness. we don't know what to do. studies are under way to understand the damage to the lungs, heart and brain that lead to long cove. it with researches in katara reporting a breakthrough away of diagnosing the condition by looking for nerve damage in the

i know piper loss is as a consequence of multiple newer degenerative diseases. but there is a peculiar pattern in here, which is that we are seeing this immune cells, which we don't see in a lot of other new degenerative conditions. so if there is something additional that we're finding here, which is nerve loss and activation, they mean cells which may be more specific to long coded. as the pandemic goes on, this memorial wall on the banks of the river thames in london, will continue to fill up with the names of those who lost their lives to cove at 19 . what isn't remembered here? of course, other more than 3000000 people in the u. k, who say they're living with the symptoms of long cove it for which there currently is no cure. but for which there may now be the important 1st step of diagnosis or anything that can be used as some kind of bio marker for long cove. it is massively helpful because not only does it give some insight into what is going on and

potentially down the line, the, the treatment because that's what we want if effective treatment, the in this nightmare. but also it says to those doctors that deny the existence of non code that the thing of course it, we'll look at the science a glimmer of hope in an ordeal so far without end jona whole al jazeera, london and more on line of coal sounds as a result. com for all the latest headlines in video on demand the, ah, these are the headlines that have the art soon as he is president and accusing politicians of corruption and is demanding the return of billions of dollars. he says was stolen from the public purse christ.