[000:00:00;00] ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, reinforcements are rushed in as afghan forces struggle to stop a taliban advance on provincial capital. ah, laura kyle, this is al jazeera alive from dough. also coming up mexican vote in a referendum on whether to investigate,

formulated standoff picks about. a russian sprinter refuses to leave take care after being taken to the airport. we'll have a live update. and leading over 900 vaccine, make his 5. i'm down a high count. the price of jobs for you countries. ah, the afghan government is rushing and reinforcements as the military struggles to stop a rapid advance of the taliban. the armed group is targeting several provincial capitals . taliban forces have already seen large tracks of world territory and keyboard across things on the amount of foreign troops withdrawing. afghanistan by september . one major focus of the taliban offensive is kandahar that's. i've got some 2nd largest city. they have been a series of rocket attacks on the main airport flights in and out all suspended. 5

people were killed in a mortar attack. and hundreds of government forces have been deployed and harassed . the economically important city in the west, the u. n. compound was attacked on friday, and these one security guard was killed by using residential houses and by wearing normal clothes, they crossed the frontline to enter areas. and when faced with resistance, they leave. the taliban are not a great power. they're just fighting in a scattered way. they make people worry and lower their spirit. the sake of discretion is war inheritance and everything has become more expensive. people are very war yet. and the security situation is also very fragile in lash gall, that's a capital helmand province. the taliban, all inside fonts of the city, the military lines are launch a counter offensive hospitals. i've been targeted in the fighting to do what i

advocate in 3 provinces. the security situation is critical, especially a nascar guy. the enemy has some movements. security and defensive forces are planning to intercept the enemy's movements 1st, then build defensive lines and later launch offensive operations. well, it's all about has taken more territory in recent weeks than at any point during the last 20 years in may controlled around 20 percent of afghanistan. but of us and the troops have been withdrawing. it sees the opportunity to ramp up it's offensive within 2 months. half of the country has fallen under the taliban rule. they have gone, government is now facing a critical task as the fight is advance and surround the capital. cobble can goslin is an expert on afghanistan and the gulf, the u. s. library of congress. he says the advancing taliban have no reason to negotiate. peace talks in good faith. the united states has articulated, perfect is started to articulate. a policy of providing air strikes support to the

african government, the afghan air force. the afghan air force has been the subject of a lot of us investment and training, spare parts, equipment aircraft. they are somewhat effective, but they need a lot of logistical support aircraft need a lot of maintenance. the united states has very, very precise capabilities. precision bombing, and so i think the united states is going to probably step up the use of air power to keep the taliban out of the major cities and push them back space. encroached on the major cities. we're not very far along with peace talks because the taliban feel they can win a battlefield victory and so on. kill the afghan forces are able to push the taliban back,

or at least hold them. not making any more advances the taliban and not likely to negotiate in good faith. so the negotiations are going to be a function of how the battle field is flowing. mexicans had voted in a referendum which if pass could lead to investigations of 5 former presidents. i think corruption has been a promise of president under his manual lopez overdue. he encouraged and supported to take part, but criticized selection officials for 2 few few polling stations. well, them 40 percent of registered voters must take part for the result to be binding to confirm the most important that the important thing is ending impunity in this country. it's been going on for far too long. there has to be justice. there has to be democracy. what about that? we are in disagreement with presidents. they leave and leave us with nothing. another president comes in and they leave him with all the responsibility. ahead of the vote election officials said the process would itself be free from corruption. which is, as it gets incorporated on,

the pop in our consultation will be carried out within the technical specifications of quality, professionalism, and personality and legality. it's expected that the results would be obtained of a maximum of 24 hours after the close of receiving the ballot. tabulations. i spoke to vanessa noise in the former us diplomat and present latin american consultancy a symmetric. i began by asking if the referendum will have enough votes to be valid . there are really new indications that it will make it. it will make it to the 40 percent that will make it valid husband sharp decline and all of these referenda impair. besides that know, keep seeking and people are just exhausted. i think also there is, there's just a lack of faith in am those plans that you keep that this referendum is seen as a political ploy? it's because the laws are there for prosecution of corruption. so this prep aside is unnecessary and it comes in the middle of

a pandemic that has been devastating for mexico. so i think people are tired. and if you look at the social media, the 40 percent is not anticipated to be that. okay, and of course being how many people refer to present owner's manual lopez over door? why is it if there is service, will appetite for this vote, but he's holding it while he's holding it because he's actually quite a brilliant populous lead us. so he's holding it because it be great. his face and mexicans are exhausted of corruption, right? you know, what he's saying is he's trying to speak these corruption prosecutions. it goes his predecessors who are from a very well established political qualities. and he is for more than now which is a newer political party, and it's basically sort of a leftist boy against the right. but actually it's unnecessary because you can just

prosecute people mcgraw option ones, they are out of the presidency. so he's holding it really to distract from his mishandling of the pandemic. and from the fact that the economic development has not been there, even despite his sort of changing major infrastructure projects like the airport and, and that he keep centralizing power around, sort of a certain lease. there are his lead and centralizing power around the oil company. so he is not actually deliver what he said he would do, which is anti corruption and improvement in the living standards of the pool, an increase of delivery of services to the pool, and actually murder rate. despite the pandemic is as high as it ever was under the drug cartels from the presidency seeking the so called prosecutions against already, their statute limitations have already renown. and in fact, the wording is very vague. it's like,

do you want reparations for victims by people who have, you know, from people who have roamed the people of mexico from before. and of course anybody would answer yes to that. but there is no set mechanism because i'm the one hand, the wording is so big that it's meaningless because there's no mechanism shut up. start. it's unnecessary because the laws are real, they are to do that. and 2nd and then 3rd, it actually sets up a precedent, but then for this to be done against him. so it's, i agree, it's a very strange political ploy. i don't think that it will actually lead for any benefits for the mexican people. supporters of brazil's president jambo tomorrow took the streets across the country on sunday, with a show of support for his proposal to replace the electronic voting system. with paper ballots for next year's election was again, a key of reports from red as narrow. the thousands of

brazilians rallied in support of brazil's president jadem ball, some out of their backing. his planes that brazil current electronic voting system is not to be trusted. they'll don't see the new i believe both scenario was elected president in the 1st round of the 2018 elections and not in the 2nd round. like the official results say, low make isn't judge, just must respect the will of the people who want paper ballots, not just digital one, washington going also follow the president has offered no evidence of problems with the current system that has been used since 1996 but his supporters believe him, they want to paper print out of every digital ballad cast, and they're putting pressure on congress and the supreme court to change the system . but 11 political party in many brazilians question both. so natalie intention was getting the people want to change the electronic voting was their site to

support the majority of brazilians wanted it wasn't, this is just the government's way of distracting the people from what is really going on. like the more than 500000 did by covered 1900 recent polls. shobel so now faces defeat by former president with the national ruler, the silver. if the contest next year's election in both scenario has repeatedly said he will not step down. if he thinks there is fraud, had any idea that this happening after the opposition has stage 4 nationwide project calling. 7 for president right above but not as well. so not as popularity has waned in the face of increasing inflation, unemployment and poverty rates. analysts believe he is following in the footsteps of former us president donald trump most and i was trying to do the same thing that trump has gone on in the election united states. he wants to have the adam,

it's necessary to claim that to actually read and try to validate them. resilience still have to wait more than a year to cast their vote. both on out of supporters and opponents, already testing each other on the streets monitor and i give, i'll just 0. rio de janeiro international olympic committee says the better washington and peon who says she was taken to take his honey to port against her will, is safe in the hands of japanese all thirties, sprinter, christina timothy sca alleged her limping team, tried to remove her from japan, to she criticized her coaches was due to compete on monday and a truck event. she haven't trained for that. she says she was ordered to pack up bags on sunday, after publicly complaining i'm asking the international olympic committee for help . there's pressure against me and they're trying to get me out of the country without my permission. so i'm asking the i o. c to get involved in this volume. so for us to plan to contact the foreign ministry,

national police agency and immigration department that they can confirm directly with mrs. who many sky her wishes. japan as part of the convention relating to the status of refugees. and i'm so i hope to call them to firmly adhere to the principle of non resume and handling this case. and richardson joins us now live from a take a to and what do we know about us? because whereabouts we just had a briefing from the international olympic committee right now. so you should have been competing in the 200 meters at these top care games. instead, we have whole, she's at a hotel near the airports here in tokyo, olympic officials saying guys i spoke to her last night, said that you speak to her again this morning and they showed her, she does feel safe and secure. what appears to have happened is that a, a group of other, other risk athletes were leaving the athletes village last night have

a complaint to havens hope care. and she was amongst grade. and the 1st of the she became aware that she was leaving against a will. i was when she arrived at the airport and immediately went out to see can help from took care police. let's say now for the odyssey spokesmen, marketers spoke to the mattress athlete. christina simon simon, new sky, directly last night. she was with the apple store. it is a to airport and was time accompanied by a staff member of tokyo 2020. she assured us and has assured us that she feels safe and secure. she spent the night at an airport hotel in a safe and secure environment. the i see in tokyo, 2020 will continue the conversations with her. and the japanese will thought is to determine the next step in the upcoming days. and he just finished a little bit on how his drama all unfolded and wide to us complained about her

coaches. yeah, i mean she was so she had to injure me to sprint. she was upset and criticize officials within the team because she was also been asked to take part in the 4 by 4 and your mates rely and she said, that's an event she hadn't practiced for or trained for me because of the incompetence of officials back in valery, she failed to put other athletes through the required anti doping tests prior to these games. that for those athletes hadn't been able to compete. and she'd been forced into a position that she didn't feel happy with the why. the context is problems, the heart would be better risk olympic committee. for example, they refused to be refused to accept the results of the election to the galleries limit committee elections of a new president's. you happens to be the son of the president's alexander lucas shanker. number of leading officials from the battery. so let me committee were

banned from even attending these games. but one thing more, congress did say that this story is moving very fast and the moment is the limits what the r c can do. but there is somebody from care 20 with them all with her, also representative from the un refugee agency. and they are in constant contact with that. but the main point is she's not left. she's still in this country. it is not on her way back to the other. it's ok for the moment and the thanks very much for keeping upstate with all the details and taken still ahead here on out of there on the scale of devastation in turkey is emerging off to the most intense walls in recent years. and why holiday cruises through the historic canals of venice could soon be a thing if i choose

oh, hello. here's your weather headlines for the americas were beginning in the canadian province of british columbia. smoky hazy skies all caused by wildfires. there, there are more than $250.00 wildfires burning across british columbia. no rain insight. yeah, just along the rockies pushing into alberta. you know, the u. s. is also battling wildfire is about $85.00 across the country there. this is one of them. the pacific northwest in oregon and give you an idea of what crews are up against. but as we had further to the south, were getting some intense pockets of rain pull through here influenced by the north american monsoon. so flash flood warnings widespread here, and we have seen it deliver in states like arizona elsewhere across north america. we're watching, it's called french, it's race across toward the south. and it could trigger some very big a thunderstorms, as we head toward those gulf states on monday. central america, we're going to dial back the rain as we head toward honduras in nicaragua,

on monday, but still non stop brain, a for costa rica and panama next south america. you know, we've been talking a lot about this cold snack. the punched across, but temperatures are now on their way back up. rio de janeiro. we've got to have $26.00 degrees and we've got our range continuous rain falling across the amazon facing ah, he added to the fashion, the success and the popularity. and then he gave it all up for the love of his homeland football rebels. delves into the realm of footballing legend. rashid mac, luthey for the jury and national liberation front with his feet. rashid mackenzie,

and the f. l. n. team on al jazeera o. the me there again, you're watching. i was is there a his reminder of our top story this our afghan forces are fighting st battles against the taliban. and 3 says he's kinda how airport has been hit by rocket a security situation. it's fragile unless the gulf and government forces have been deployed in harass mexicans, voted in a referendum which as pass could lead to investigations of 5 former president. well, them 40 percent of registered voters must take part for the result to be binding. and in special olympic committee says veneration elim peon. christina simmons, god is safe in the hands of japanese authorities 24 year olds as her limping team

tried to remove her from japan. speak lead to a stand off at tech. kids may not need to of the biggest crib 19 vaccine manufacturers fully the and madonna are reportedly increasing the prices of jobs for the you market. the vodka has more details, is perhaps an unwanted reminder of all the cash flows in the business dealings that underpin the global vaccine rollout. but it is a reminder cause that this is essentially a business that needs to be kept afloat and pharmaceutical companies all out to make a profit, whether it's a large profit or small small profit. and of course, that raises a whole raft of different ethical questions as well. but according to the latest contract between pfizer medina and the european union, they will be a price hike for the shots in the imminent future, according to figure seen by financial times, the new price for 5,

the shot will be $23.00 up from 18. but turn, i will go up to $25.50 up to up from $22.00. 60 this of course the countries are very keen and anxious to stamp out the spread of the delta vary. it also comes with a time in which countries in the e u and beyond the e. u. a mulling the possibility of administering a 3rd dose of bruce, the job to improve efficacy so far. only israel has approved use of a 3rd dose, a booster job in the over sixty's when other research is happening here in the u. k . in britain and other countries may well follow suit. and all of this, of course, means a potential windfall for both. and pfizer as well off to phase 3 trials. both of these vaccines have been proven to be more effective than

the rivals than the astrazeneca job and the johnson and johnson jobs. so essentially, both of these companies have a captive audience in the european union. european commission, just to remind you, of course, was accused early on of not acting quickly enough when it came to the vaccine rollout. and what it's doing now is proving that it's willing to throw an awful lot of money buying a premium product that is proven to work across the board. according to one figure, he was close to negotiations, said he says of the company to capitalize on them. market power and deployed the usual farm rhetoric. essentially, the vaccines work time to ramp up the price more than 600 people have been arrested in berlin, arthur and he looked down, protest her violent. please say some protests harassed and attacked them. both ortiz did not approve the demonstration site in rising cove at 19 cases, but thousands still defies the band. the band. the speaker of unity has frozen

parliament rashid guns. she has been transferred to a military hospital. i've been new details released as to why the 8 year old is head of the parliament's largest party and all of them. he spent a week and also last month on contracting covered 19. because a week after president case, i had froze parliament and see the government power washington has vowed to make what it says will be an appropriate response to the attack on is ready operated tank off the case of m on the us and u. k. of joined israel and blaming around for a strike to run has denied any involvement to people were killed on the n v method street. when it was hit by what appears to have been a drain strike your sexual st. anthony lincoln's that it follows a pattern of belligerents from iran. 2 people had been killed by gunman at his val are funeral south of lebanon's capital bay route. immediately claire who is behind the attack in canada. they open fire on a service for a commander of the ship group who have killed

a day earlier. and what lebanese media say was a personal vendetta. 15 soldiers have been killed in an ambush in southwest asia. the country's defense ministry says 6 soldiers are also missing following the attack in the 30 region near the border. the kena faso is just military, says ground forces such in the area for perpetrators. the area suffers frequent attacks by islamic state and al qaeda affiliated groups. at least 8 people have now died in the fire that have raised across turkey for the past 5 days. because healthy has more from a stumble. the one squint hills of murderous have turned into this hector's, a scorched land and smoke everywhere, as 5 fighting helicopters down the flames. the fires here are mostly contained now, but the damage they left behind is immense. in unsolved man, i've got this strict,

this farmer found a newborn baby goat. his named it medical. didn't pick them. john. i'm really worried about these animals. if i died, it wouldn't matter what i was really just being evacuated. i couldn't leave. and i asked my parents if i die, he shall we die together with these animals. and they said, yes. so we stayed. i wish those animals survived, and i was dead and he stayed on the innocent, kicked out of the volunteer. so i joined the firefighters working across the southern region like college student re honda and natalie has accepted district. great, thank you. all seniors in our village survive the fire except for my 82 year old grandfather got poisoned by the smoke trying to put out the fire. i don't want other senior di tories set to be moved from some of the hotels and more less popular district of boardroom as the fires spread down the hill towards the sea

shore, the government suspects arson, but experts believe excessive heat and strong winds are likely to cause climate change is also crucial factor turkey, so devastating floods in its northern black sea region earlier in july, who could finish the many years. the mediterranean has never seen such dry weather as it has in the last 20 days. meteorologists have actually worn fires, unavoidable in the next 15 days, and may continue until september. the fire was started and maurice has mouse french, other locations. the government has been criticized for his for to fire fighting aircraft other by john iran. russia and ukraine have sent equipment in personnel, but turkey's forester minister warns the humidity level is going down in the coming days, which means more attention and measures are needed to put out the fires in turkey,

southern greenhouse, and ease the pain of those who have lost everything seen, i'm co solo al jazeera sambal. large cruise ships are now banned from entering the center of venice. environmentalists have been pushing for the move for years. i don't want any reports from venice. the picture postcard perfection. tourists are back in venice, but they won't be arriving anytime soon on large cruise ships. it follows years of debate about banning mega cruise ships to protect venus's lagoon ecosystem that the bait became much more heated with the arrival in june of a towering 90000 tons ship. the government finally announced the ban in july. after threats from unesco to place venice a world heritage site on its in danger to lift the italy is promising to cover last wages for thousands of workers who rely on the cruise industry to keep them afloat. nobody moving about it. we hope the government comes up with

a way for us to continue as subsidy might last a year or 2, but this decrease has ships won't pass through any more. we need certainty for our future decker now, which cuts right through the heart of venice, passing by saint mark square. and it's this very artery to which the huge ships will no longer be able to pass. but that doesn't mean they'll be completely blocked from the venetian lagoon. the plan is to have large cruise ships into the lagoon through a back channel and dock at the mainland industrial port of ma together. the problem is the port isn't ready to receive crews. passengers like city council medical gas by the net, they grew up along dennis's canals. he welcomes the band but sees it as a distraction. because the visible part of the iceberg visible deeper is the big ships, about many other programs and the big ships are not the only one. and what are the problems like that the city is dying them in terms of being

a living place with 2 kids are living in side and not having to come here to get the job which cannot give it a chance to leave them to see why we are just taking me at the main control as part of an organization that lobbied for the band. she sees it as part of a larger push to focus on long term sustainability. all of that would be done not to, to ship, to focus away from accommodating tourism to really fulfilling the needs of the local residents who flip and also on the value of the versity of the lagoon. and on the well being of the whole environment. here. the business rose is a commercial power how centuries ago to the great benefit of its people, finding a balance that keeps coffers full and residents from fleeing will take more than banning cruise ships from its waters. adarine algebra, venice 15 syrian crew members on board. a thinking congo vessel near karachi, have been rescued. 3 remain missing. amazons, navy,

and maritime security agency coordinated the rescue efforts. high tides and strong winds pushed the ship towards the coast on thursday. the vessel which belongs to syria was carrying congo from india to somalia when it sank. and search for the 3 missing crew members is underway. ah. you're with out there. these are all top stories. i've gone for the fighting st battles against the taliban and 3 says he can afford have been hit by rockets on the security situation is fragile and lash. got a ton above the are inside parts of the city to do what i advocate in 3 provinces. the security situation is critical, especially a nascar guy. the enemy has some movements. security and defense of forces are planning to intercept the enemy's move and then build defense of lines and later launch offensive operations voted in a referendum,