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international troops withdrawing for worsening violence. israel supreme court is expected to begin a hearing on for palestinian families facing force expulsions in the neighborhood. i'm joining, we'll go with the latest from the tokyo olympics. us saw jim that the mon files confirmed she'll compete in the balance being final of the pulling out all the other events, the focus on her mental health. ah, welcome to the news our one of the worst heat waves for a decade has left parts of southern turkey in flames. at least 8 people have died in the wildfires that have burned for days. emergency crew say most of the more than 100 fires are under control, but hot and dry weather is fanning them near coastal port towns. many villages

surrounding the area had been evacuated as well. let's speak to restore sardar. he's in my now got us in antalya province, so the fire fighting continues. rest school. tell us what you've been seeing where you are. well during we are in the will a job cut him there in the town of mine. i got one of the worst to districts by the wildfires in turkey right in the will as in column that will it just 3 days ago. a married couple had been killed by the fires of german women, married to a turkish man who have leave here for 20 years. and just 3 days ago, the fires took their live. they were just behind me and you can see the houses, how they had been grounded by the blazes and left the room and the files also left 6 people in the village seriously injured the will just total the total houses in

the villages, $158.00 of them had been completely destroyed or partly done as in this village. the 1st report of the forest fire came out only when this date in. as soon after that has been several similar reports in several provinces. so far that has been the wildfires reported in 35 provinces across the country at 127 locations. the government says $117.00 of them. how either being completely extinguished or partly under the control, but a active zones or steam continuing. on the other hand, that being 8 people killed so far home. but as of how this completely destroyed or partly damaged, hundreds of people that hospitalized power of the fire fighters are involved in a force extinguish the 5 to 2 to bring the fight under the control. but it is still

going on at 8 active zones. and the international for also to bring, bring the fight under the control is continued so far of russia, ukraine, you run and there be john has sent the cars and how to cope there's to join the force to, to, to fight the fires. and just to de also has done more than 200 more 5 fighters and they are on the way to join the force the european union, higher representative of the european union for an affair. joseph voter also has just released a statement of the solidarity with turkey. it says that the, the to a cut off from subpoena crecia are being sent to turkey. also to join this a 4th that in we can say that turkey is going through the worst forest fires of it more than history. and the rest of the government had promised an investigation into the cause of these fires where things stand with the investigation right now.

while the investigation is still going to improve one just yesterday that he says that they are considering the possibility of a sub touch the the, the, the number seen some of can he was for an a sort of fire across $35.00 proven says is pushing the public to believe that that could be a sub latasha behind it. and so far the government didn't provide any proof for that, but the pres one says that the john, them, are you the, the, uh, the security apparatus, intelligence service, and the ministry of interior. they are in a coordination and conducting this investigation, but many took to, to experts on the global warming and the, the climate change that to say that it's very possible that bits for forest fires across the country might be 3 good by the global warming and be climate change.

ok, so thank you so much for that update from antonio. well, the heat driving turkeys fires is causing similar emergencies over in italy and greece. take a look coastal italian areas around catania and pest gotta have been engulfed in flames. crew say they face more than 800 flare ups during the past few days alone. and wildfires have destroyed homes and farms in southern greece after breaking out near pack us on saturday. let's get more of the fires. speak to al jazeera meteorologist, jeff harrington. jeff. so what's the outlook like over the next few days or so? right, well, it's not looking good. so right off the bat i wanted to show you what's going on right now. and truth be told not a whole lot. we have some clouds, but plenty of hot sunshine, so i want to show you the temperatures. that's one part of this story here. we do actually have read weather alerts in play for just how high these temperatures are

. and you won't be surprised to find out this includes italy, grease and bulgaria, and we focus on greece, for example. where we know of course, wildfires are burning, athens could set a record temperature. we're locking in to 40 degrees and the record is $42.00, so we'll watch that in the days to come. ok now to that wildfire burning in turkey, east of on talia city in on talia province. look at the temperatures here. we've got forty's as walls, so there's a few different factors we look at with the firefight in terms of weather conditions. the 1st is temperature, so we know these temperatures are well above average. and in fact, the heat started early in the season and really hasn't light up since combined out with below average a precipitation through the winter. ok, the next factor is winds. and you know, we've been seen them gust up to about 40 kilometers per hour, so that is complicating the firefight as well. and then we got to talk about this is well humidity, look at this 10 percent. so that is to say that the air is very dry and so for that

reason vegetation drives up like that, and that adds fuel to the fire. so that is part of what firefighters are up against . ok, look, let's look for right now at the next 5 days to look at. there's plenty of hot sunshine, but there is one glimmer of hope here and our temperatures are coming down. so we look by friday, we're at 34 degrees. so that is actually below average, but we're going to be hanging onto these gusty winds, really for the bulk of the week. so things are bad right now, but firefighters have a lot working against them. in all 3 neighborhoods in china's capital have been locked down and transport in and out of aging is now suspended. it's the latest response to china's largest current of iris outbreak in months. overall, only a handful of new infections were reported on monday,

but officials are worried about the fast spreading. delta vary and driving the new cases, crossing over to katrina, you joining us from beijing. so how's the government responding to the outbreak of the delta? very katrina. well this represents a huge challenge of the chinese government. this is the worst outbreak that the country has seen and months, and it's taking place during the peak travel period of the summer holidays. now the authorities have said that there have been more than 370 positive cases identified over the last 2 weeks. 7 of the cases are critical. now the priority at the mormon seems to be preventing the outbreak from growing in the capital of beijing. there been only 6 cases identified here so far, but thirties have acted very quickly. thousands of people are already under locked down. in 3 different neighborhoods. authorities have also clamped down on any transport coming in from hardly affected areas,

so they've cancelled trains buses and flights coming in from those areas. and if people want to travel to aging from those there is the going to have to do called the tests. and also quarantine for at least 2 weeks. now overall, most of these cases have been identified in the city of non g mail. that's a southern city. it's quite a big city, close to shanghai, 9000000 people the so they've identified more than 200 cases. and they've conducted mass testing of these 9000000 residents. now all of this, this whole brick is linked to non genes international airport with a group of cleaners. also to have been the 1st who have been infected, they were cleaning a flight, which state media says came in from russia. and after that we've seen this outbreak grow. but alarmingly, authorities have also identified another possible super spread cluster. and that's in the southern province of hu, not one of china's most popular tourist destinations. john georgia, which was the place for hollywood movie avatar was filmed now,

2000 people were attending a theater performance. and they have been several cases linked to that, that performance. so traces are working very hard to identify and track all those people who attend attended that performance. yeah. and katrina, the governments has really picked up the pace of vaccine rollout in recent months at least. so how many have received a job so far? what are the figures? that's right, so the government says more than 1650000000 doses have been vaccinated. so roughly, that would mean more than half of the population has been vaccinated with chinese vaccines. but authorities have been very clear. they've been telling people, although you have been, may, have been vaccinated, it doesn't mean that you're protected from this highly infectious delta. very. and now the chinese vaccines themselves, there are 2 main, one sign back and sign, or both of them have been shown to have lower protection rates than other vaccines . so the government is concerned and it is really

a test of chinese vaccines. this new delta very and outbreak, and it's also a test of the chinese playbook when it comes to controlling corbin, china has responded by very, i guess kosh measures for one. the international borders have remained closed since march last year. and it's resulted to when it identifies any cases immediately putting areas into locked down and also very quickly rolling out this mass testing of millions of millions of people. so it will be really interesting to see whether this, these measures are able to contain this delta variant. also president, she did pay, gave a speech last september, declaring the war over corbett. 1900 had been one. so it's very clear that that victory speech was quite premature. ok, thank you so much. katrina for that update from basing. the gun president ghani has told parliament the country is facing a state of aggression by taliban forces which are attacking several cities. he also

repeated how his government has been surprised by how quickly us forces are withdrawing. saying much of the current situation is a result of this. this isn't gone. he said his government has a plan to bring things under control within 6 months, but he didn't go into detail. and in the past 24 hours the our group has moved in from the outskirts to the heart of major cities last car guy in kandahar. the situation in last cargo is particularly fragile will be on group moving in closer to major government buildings. they've also, there's also been airstrikes and fighting and harass and in non, gar har in the east lives to live to james bass in capital. we'll talk about the situation on the ground at a moment. james, at 1st on what the president has been saying, he's spoken for the 3rd time in a week. did we hear anything new from him? well actually the 3rd speech we've had for shotgun in a week and all of them shown on african television and follow very closely,

i think by the african people. he says he's got to turn around the situation, but it's still absolutely no detail of how he's going to do it. members of the international community, diplomats, i've spoken to say he really does need to come up with a detailed military plan to change things on the battlefield, but also to persuade the african people. but he has a plan and so that they don't lose hope and morale. he spoke on this occasion for more than 40 minutes to the gotten parliament we were listening very, very closely for any details of what the afghan government is planning. this is what you have to say. data quoted by don maclam kicked to clear plan has been prepared for the next 6 months and its implementation has begun to reach the state of establishment and reach the desired state again. with your co operation, we will reach the desired situation again. hi, james. just tell us what's going on on the ground and bring us up to speed with the development overnight into the morning. well,

i think the main focus right now. there's lots of places that we need to look at, but the main focus is on helman, province. and last guy, which is the provincial capital of helmand because they're the taliban in the heart of the city, right. in the heart of government in the city there around the governors compound and the police chiefs headquarters in alaska. we've seen recent pictures of the taliban in that area. we understand that there in buildings there in houses. this creates a big problem for the african government when that right there in the center of the city, because it's an urban environment. there are civilians living to they don't want to have any civilian casualties. so it's going to mean house to house been fighting the most difficult type of warfare. we do understand that happiness strikes elsewhere in laska and we understand that some of those strikes being carried out by the us. who again, even though the us troops of left are carrying out some strikes enough kind of

stone in support of the afghan security forces next door in canada, clashes continue in kandahar city. remember that's the 2nd biggest city in afghanistan and beyond canada, city and canada, our province spent bolduc that the board of towns taliban took one of the main border crossings, bringing supplies into afghanistan from pakistan. there's fresh fighting there in herat in the west. the 3rd city of afghanistan still some fighting there, perhaps a little quiet and it was 24 hours ago. but another attack on the airport road we understand about boats to vehicles. busy and other fight elsewhere in the city and elsewhere in the province. and she and john should dine even, which isn't a field that was a major nato. and us field that's been fighting reported in that area. moving to these to 9 get province east has been reasonably caught in recent weeks, but has been attacked by the taliban. they claim they killed 10 african police and

soldiers. the african military. those only 2 people died. busy saying that they killed 14 taliban as ever very disputed accounts. we try to get the information the best we can from across the country were often relying on local journalist working for us, doing very, very bright reporting on the ground. thank you so much, jane. for that reporting from couple let's picture of i don't know about here who's a lecturer, transitional justice at the american university, and i've got his time. he's joining via skype from the capital couple. thanks so much for speaking to us. so you heard the president earlier today, not really giving any detail on how he plans to take the country or put the country back under control within 6 months, as he said, what would you have liked to hear? there are a lot of popular rhetoric and the president's speech today. again, your correspondent already highlighted the absence of any tangible strategy with

regards to what would happen on the ground, even if the president is promising it. there's very little team on the ground. it's generally a positive step. i mean, the president reaching out to the lead, send a little bit about bodies to generate capital for his strategy. but there has to be a clear vision. we still have any shooting team and, and that channel is open and then the president giving war speeches at such a time. generally sort of gives out a paradoxical a message and creed and give those words that lack earnestness. but there is also the idea of the blame which the president highlighted and the withdrawal law foreign troops and how that had put one government in a position. i mean the withdrawal. busy wasn't anything new which was being built up for years. president himself had claimed that the upon forces were willing and capable of holding territory against the product bonds. so it 100 like he was

eating the on stability for the current failures. which is problematic. right? said how serious are the taliban gains? how series of challenges this for the after government and the outcome security forces? i mean there are important questions that need to be asked. why hasn't been both been taken back in one of the most important more great areas. it generates a lot of revenue for the government. what is our strategy towards that? these are questions that the common people off. also the move on the negotiating people reflects what is happening on the battle field and the pilot bond with their game. however, they got to the control of the territory that they currently hold have had this attitude will change towards negotiation and the one government keeps on blaming the father bond for the failure of the negotiating process. but they need to look at their weaken sponsored position as well. president santos,

of columbia had said one that he knew that in order to actually get to a p t needed to be winning the war. right now the government isn't winning the war . there is to see it. so what the taliban have an have any appetite for any potential negotiations going forward with the gains they're making on the grounds. this is directly linked to the question of agency, as well as to how much agency the pilot bond have over their movement. how disconnected the political elite are from the actual fighters on the ground. we've seen him say that the stand for women's rights and they want women to be educated. but when passed on he said, well, the local commanders were in subordinating and they will be punished for it. so there seems to be a disconnect here, but i guess there is some sort of political leverage or push that the international community has on the up on the pilot bond shooting team. so they would come to the

negotiating table as to whether any agreement with them could be enforced on the actual fighting on the ground. that's another question, but we have to wait for him. okay, thank you so much for speaking to us from capital plenty more. head on the, on the run is our, including about the russian actually think political asylum after refusing to be forced onto a flight home focused on begin to pull your vaccination drive will tell you why security has been ramped up and limping bosses investigate after an athlete breaks the rules with a protest on the podium. ah, but 1st, israel supreme court is due to here appeals from for palestinian families against their forced expulsion from the sheriff, started off neighbourhood and occupied in jerusalem for their families. this is

their last legal chance to prevent their force displacement after living there for decades, dozens of other palestinians in the neighbourhood are also under the threat of force expulsion to make way for is really settlers has been seen a frequent crushed down by is really forces against protesters live to her that honey, joining us from western usa. so tell us what to expect in that court case and what's going on right now? well, the hearing should be starting momentarily. we just so the families and the lawyers go into the court room, which is over there behind me. there's also a group of western diplomats who are here to assist you that here we were told that we have representatives from the e u process germany the u. s. and other countries. now i spoke to the lawyer earlier and he told me that what they're expecting at best is what is to re court

to say that the families have the right to appeal again, that is what they're hoping for. they have submitted new documents that go back to april $960.00 that shows that at the time there jordanians who were in charge really occupied jerusalem had already started the procedure to transfer that lad to those palestinian families which remember all refugees. there had been displaced in 1948 at the time of the creation of state of israel. so they're hoping that the supreme court will allow them to appeal again, which means that they will open up a new legal avenue. that is really the last resort they have here in israel. ok, we'll cross back to the later. thank you so much for the time being. let's just look at the detail of this case and the court hearing on the 4th expulsion of the

palestinian families from off follows decades of similar cases in 1956, dozens of palestinian families, settled in the neighborhood. but a decade later, the families agreed to a deal with the jordanian government that would make them the legal tenants of their homes. but that agreement was cut short when jordan lost control of the land after israel annex east jerusalem. in the 1967 war and there been a series of court cases sense that have ruled in favor off settler organizations that seek to expel palestinians and make way for a jewish citizens. turning into a focal points of protests. sammy was harder as the leader of the ballad party. he says, he's not expecting a final decision from the court anytime soon. the lot of things that can happen for the follow up expecting a clear decision today regarding the issue of jobs because of the new document that you have mentioned. and because of what the lawyer to they are applying for is

that to see if the high court is going to deal with the case or they are going to bring it back to the state. or they want to bring it back to another court in his russell, 1st of all, we should do the decision if the i got would like to deal. want to deal with the issue of the lawyers have done a good work here because we have 2 sources of documents. joking, shut them and document the work them the 30 shark of them. we have also the genuine document. both of them are important. jordanians of papers, bruce that these people are taking the land and the house from the government and doing there was an agreement. the other very important papers come from them and our got that through the jews had no lab property in this area at all. we have a new government in this world, but you have them all in your government,

you patient and want to continue according to the national move on to go out aloud. this is an occupying, we're not allowed to do any demographic changes in the you by reading them up. you're buying for. ah, bella, russian sprinter is now inside the polish embassy and tokyo, after seeking political asylum, christina to sky i had accused bella ruth of trying to force her home on a plane. and that's after she publicly complained about her coaches. the i o c says she's faith. sure. until kill the bell. the russian embassy has requested more information from japanese authorities live to and richardson. he's joining us from tokyo. the story seems to continue to develop and see what's the latest?

well that's right, christina. seminar, skyler should have been spending monday at these olympics competing and it's 200 meters, a dies and folded rather differently. now she says on sunday night seem officials from bachelor's forcibly took it from the athletes. village. took it to the airport and tried to get her on a flight back to bella ruth soon she got to the airport. she immediately saw how the help of japanese police also issued a video play on social media, asking the international olympic committee to intervene. now in the build up to that happening, she been very critical of team officials saying, but she'd been put in a very difficult position. was being asked to compete in a 4 by 4. and your me to realize she not prepared for the reason for that was that the full ethics federation, backing valerie, hadn't put other athletes through the required and doping tests of tokyo and therefore they hadn't been able to travel here. now the i see said they were able to speak to her last nights and again today and said in her words that she told

them she did feel safe and secure. once the authorities intervened and she'd spent a night and an apple hotel as a post on a flight back to batteries. not surprisingly, the international olympic committee now launching their own investigation about starting with a request to the bell. aris olympic committee for their official version of events . ok, thank you so much. and richardson reporting from tell you still had on the i'll just renew our the asia pacific region. titans restrictions, once again with 1000 cases there continue just by ro. meanwhile, the u. k. reluctant rules for travelers from several countries will have the latest from london and the athlete who fell over with a lunch to go, but still found the ways to win more action from the socio lympics coming up with joe. ah

hello, good to see. you know, that storm system that was plugging the parent nice rate through to the else. well, it's now raised to the northwest and this has become a story for the baltic states. so we go in for a closer look. and we see particularly toward the eastern portion of these countries, some intense rain spilling into st. petersburg, russia, and then eventually, this will be on its way to finland. ok further south, we still got those red weather alerts in play for just how high temperatures are here. so look at this bucharest, 40, sophia bulgaria wouldn't be surprised if you hit 40 degrees as well. now we are keeping tabs on the wildfire situation, both in greece and turkey. so, you know, for greece over the past 24 hours, 56 wildfires have erupt. it now if we look at the situation in turkey, this is one of gods, and this is what crews are up against. and unfortunately,

the weather conditions are not cooperating. here, we're gonna lock our temperature in, said the low fourties. we'll have some breezy winds at times as wall and low humidity. so that's complicating the firefight there. across the tropics of africa, we've got storms moving from the east to the west, but we find some heavier pulses of brain as we check towards santa gold, the gambia and sierra, the own free town. a high of 27 degrees on monday. the who's a secret agent claimed by both israel and egypt. well, any case officer who receives potential or double edged will always assume the worst truth or lied. fact or fiction was all the documents or 40 people . if i did those under laps out there will tell the story of the month of many secrets. i shut my one.