understand the differences and similarities of culture across the world. no matter why you call, i'll just bring you the news and current affairs. ah, ah, millions of chinese are in the lockdown to stop the spread of the worst corona val are celebrates this year. i can vanelle this is alger, they're alive from dub. also coming up last called, gone on the threat, the african army struggle to sell. the telephone's advance and the southern provincial capital wildfire continued to place for the 6th day across the turkeys

coast. hosting with government international health and poland, growing so humanitarian visa to the bell, russian sprinter who defied orders to fly out of the olympics. we begin in china where millions are consigned to their homes. drew to sweeping corona vall restrictions to fight the worst outbreak this year. the delta vary and his being blamed for the surge cross 30 cities and 19 provinces. lunging the capital of the east and junk 2 provinces, believe to be ground, 0 of the nation wide flare up. a 3rd round of testing is underway for more than 9000000 people. hospitals and the city has suspended outpatient appointments. so we actually look at how most of the cases were found at lucas airport and nearby areas and were detected from high risk figures that replaced under tight management and control in early stages,

most of the confirmed cases were found among the was placed under centralized quarantine and home, my solution among the hardest hit is the scenic city of june, john j. all attractions. and john ga, has been closed. tourists are being asked to take a covert test before leaving the city. an outbreak of the theater also led to a spike nationwide as travelers returned home. and paging has been put on high alert. testing has been ramped up anyone arriving from a city with confirmed cove in 1900 cases has been banned from entering the capital . flights trains and buses from those areas have also been halted. katrina, you has moved from asian overnight. authorities recorded 61 you cases nationwide. that brings the total to more than $400.00 cases discovered over the past 10 days. now previously this year we had, we had other outbreaks. these were sporadic isolated outbreaks. what's more concerning about this particular outbreak is how widespread it's become very

quickly. it's now reached 16 provinces in the space of 10 days. there are a number of major classes for this outbreak. more severe cases are identified in the city of nudging. now the source is said to be a group of janitors who became infected after cleaning a flight that came in from russia. and this cluster has grown to about $200.00 or so in non ging, another potential super se, better event that they've identified as also in jung, georgia. as you mentioned, one of the most popular tourist hotspots here in china. we had 2000 people gathered in one theater space, and many of those people did test positive to coven 1900. the delta variant. currently in china, it's the peak travel season. it's the some holidays. so authorities have told families, look, you've got to cancel your trips, you've got to stay in your home city's major transport links into major cities, including the aging from affected areas have been canceled. large scale events have also been counseled in crowd capacities have been reduced as well. businesses are concerned that they will be told to shut down in some cities and entertainment then

use and jims have already been closed for an indefinite period of time. and people are concerned that this will further damage china's economic recovery, which has already started to slow down at the end of this year, along down and thailand's capital and more than 2 dozen other provinces has been extend. it has the delta variant pushes up the number of cases there. 29 provinces have been classified as dark red zones. citizens in these problems is a band from traveling to other parts of the country and must adhere to a strict curfew. thailand is also experiencing a major shortage of vaccines. tony chang has more. the government's been quite secretive about where the shortage is coming from. but what we've seen over the course of the last couple of months is that signed by a son to the company, which has been licensed by astrazeneca to produce the vaccine here in thailand. i should've mentioned this, not just for tyna,

but it's for many countries in se asia has been running well below capacity. the astrazeneca in secret papers released have defended themselves, saying that they were initially did the orders that initially came for the tiger will much lower than those that are now needed. but side by side was also a company which was a controversial choices, a vaccine producer. because it had no vaccine production experience. that said anyone here in thailand who criticized the process will tries to investigate it is finding themselves in quite a lot of trouble because it is a company which is ultimately owned by the king. and if you criticize the company, you in effect criticized a king. but i think we're seeing now the problem of putting such a vital vaccine production in the hands of a company that isn't very experienced because lots of people are being told not just here in bank. oh, but around the country that their appointments for vaccines are being postponed indefinitely. we have seen this happen in the last couple of weeks and more

productions come up. we understand that the thai government is seeking vaccines from elsewhere. they've already signed deals with pfizer madana. but we're not expecting major shipments of those to vaccines to come in until the last quarter of this year. and i think at the moment, they're just trying to concentrate their efforts on the urban centers, where the delta veteran is a real problem. officials in the us say the delta variant of covert 19 is spreading like wildfire. and the past 2 weeks cases increased dramatically. hospitalisation, in some states reaching record levels. the binding administration says a lockdown is unlikely, but things will get worse before they get better. and to get like, a report from miami as the number of covered 19 cases surpasses 35000000 in the us. the delta variant continues to be the dominant, more contagious strain of an already deadly virus. hospitals in states like nevada,

mississippi, an arkansas or a surging is mostly unvaccinated patient infected, with a delta variance seek treatment. with the push to get more people vaccinated, increasing and urgency as a renewed effort to treat the vulnerable coven before. no, god go, i swear, i think i've been stayed in this house for the housebound, all those to afraid to go outside programs like this or a potential life saver. forget all the stupidity, all the, all the anti vaccines and all that early where they get their information that is completely wrong. so i knew a lot of nurses and in my family and stuff and everything. so and people died. so it's just the way it works in florida, which so its highest number of daily cases on record. last week testing sites, a once again, seeing long lines. this state now accounts for one in 5 new cobit cases with

hospitalizations hitting a new high according to the department of health and human services. more than 10000 people a currently being treated here. many of the younger than seen before. despite those staggering numbers, the states governor is refusing to mandate mask orders or allow local officials to put restrictions in place to prevent the spread of covered 19. there will be no restrictions and no mandates in the state of florida. meridian have been are, and will remain free to choose what's best for themselves and their families. in stark contrast, officials in san francisco announced a new mask mandate regardless of vaccination status. louisiana 2 is reinstated, it's mask mandate effective from wednesday. but despite the di warnings, large events are still being held across the us. officials say another round of

tight restrictions is unlikely with only around half the adult population fully vaccinated the course to increase that number a growing while vaccinated people can spread the virus if they get a breakthrough infection. the odd of them getting sick in the 1st place are far lower than those who are on vaccinated, and in fact, places with more vaccination generally have less to be. over the past 3 weeks, a piece of vaccination has steadily risen, particularly, and mostly southern states that were lagging the many. this latest 3rd is a tipping point and a realization. the vaccines are the only way to beat the virus. galico al jazeera miami, florida around the next presidential officially take office at a ceremony in the coming all over him. the e. c will be endorsed by the bream leader ahead of his oath of office on thursday. the conservative clara cru previously served as aroma chief justice won the election in june, which saw historic, low voter turnout. they see styles himself as an anti corruption campaigner,

ready to take on around. economic challenges is also express, afford for continuing ongoing talks to revive the iran nuclear deal. the taliban has pushed further into afghanistan, laska golf city, and this concern it will soon fall to the armed group. the capital of the southern helmand province has been seeing heavy fighting and frequent airstrikes and saturday by canada hall and several other cities are also under attack. the government has deployed its elite special forces, just carrying out as strong alongside us. and washington says it will take him thousands more african refugees have been working with the us because of the increased threat from the telephone. the expanded refugee program will include afghans linked to us funded projects, as well as non governmental and media organizations. as a telephone gains more ground,

the refugee say they're getting more worried about their safety. more than 200 african type, it is arrived in the u. s. on friday. a diplomatic editor james space joins us live now from kabul. james, just bring us up to speed on the latest in terms of what's happening on the ground with the taliban advanced. but it's somewhat confused. picture out of laska guard at the moment. certainly as you've said, the taliban had been making significant gains in that regard. getting to the heart of the city, the government now though saying overnight they have made progress and that saying that they have pushed the taliban out of the heart of the city. we have no comment from the taliban on that at this stage. and we don't have any independent comp, mation of that government claim. it's worth telling you there are local journalists who are giving us information from lash ga. gov, but the communications are extremely difficult. getting phone lines and getting the

latest updates from the city. certainly there have been further strikes that have taken place around last. good god, that's confirmed by the government and the taliban saying that many civilians have been marketed and wounded. and the one thing i think we can definitely confirm for shore is the civilian death toll and civilian casualties. and the fact that they are continuing to mount, we have the emergency hospital, which is natalia and geo operating in alaska. they say that they have basic further patients 23 for the patients submitted. now the only admitting people who need surgery and who have life threatening injuries, they also say that 5 others arrived at the hospital, but they were dead on arrival. and we have an important statement from the united nations on civilian casualties in alaska and helmand. they say that figures have tens of millions who have been killed 85 wounded. and the un is issued

a strong statement to the warring parties. it says civilians a bearing, the brunt parties must do more to protect civilians or the impact will be kept. a straw fig civilians also suffering in the neighboring province. second city of kandahar, what questions continue the main hospital? the mayor was hospital reporting, the 10 people have been wounded and among them are 3 children. in the 3rd city of i've got a son in the west harass so the government say it's made gains that stabilizing the situation, but a very different picture from the taliban who say they are still making progress in harass. and the last bit of news i have for you is closer to cobble the north and peace of province close to by graham airport. not that far away from what was the very big us base there. there is a district that the government is saying that he's a read is re taken from the taliban. no taliban comment at the stage. ok,

james. i'm also wondering if you can give us the latest in terms of, if there's been any response and i've gone onto the expanded list of afghans who can get refugee status. now in the us. do we know how many more people that might include what the process is like? we don't know how many people are to include because it depends how many people will qualify. and i think that is the reservation about this new scheme. the us seem to set the ball pretty high. if you look at the details, the paperwork that you're going to need. if you're enough guy who's worked with the americans, with an n g o or a media organization, you're going to need documentation. you can read the letters if you're a journalist from the, the senior editor of the news organization concerned. and so i think they are setting the bar very high. number one, number 2, this new scheme is going to require applicants to go to a u. s embassy outside off kind of some to apply. now that is also a big hurdle,

particularly when the taliban control many of the borders of afghanistan. remember of course, that the 2 main places that guns probably go to in terms of other countries, all pockets on iran, iran does not match the relations with the united states. so you can go there when it comes to, to pockets on. obviously that's quite a difficult track for guns who want to apply for this. so i think some refugee organizations in the u. s. a welcome base bought. they say the bars being set for guns to qualify a very, very high right. thank you for that update that james baseline for us in cobble philly had hair on al jazeera, focused on begins a polio vaccination drilling will tell you why security has been ramped up. and why a poll off the mexicans, the former president should be put on trial for corruption,

has failed. ah ah. back to more or less the seasonal knoll neither throughout the radian peninsula, but event and iran, there are showers in the mountains. the south was saturday and bits of west and german. there are some showers and eastern side of turkey down through us by john and northern iraq. otherwise it's hot, dry not particularly windy, either near 50 degrees, still nice inside of, of iraq and western the around. we've been used to that, the shower that brought the flooding in the sunset off the gas and they're just a few showers. now there's nothing significant coming out the sky. the real heat that we saw in turkey is only just tempering a little bit. i have to say, we're still near record levels and tallies records about 43 degrees in the average 34. so what above rate should be,

this is true for all the southern circuits. truth agrees to and the breeze isn't changing is not particularly strong, but it's very dry one, which will do nothing to help put the 5 pack the might even in courage them. now the heat drops away, as you get towards the tropics because you introduce more humidity's are typically talking about terms in thirty's, for most cases, as above higher. so 19 degrees, but seasonally the shadows are still building regularly stretching back as far west . probably as nigeria ah, the motor sports is big news in libya. but staging car and bike rather here comes with its own particular in our club, couldn't take part in the 2016 rally because we were fighting a war. and i'll just do a world travels to the libyan, just to see how full don't full wheel can be

a unifying pull war to country. lydia. a rally for home on al jazeera o a urologist era, reminder of our top stories this on the delta variant is being blamed for the search across 30 cities and 19 provinces in china. lunging believe to be ground 0 of the nationwide snare. up. among the hardest cases, the phoenix city of june, georgia, where all attractions been closed and locked down in thailand's capital and more than 2000 other provinces has been extended. as the delta vary, causes bike and the number of cases 29 provinces being classified as doc red zone.

i've got a sounds president who blamed his countries to tear ration security crisis on the speed of the withdrawal of us troops. the telephone of pushed into the southern city of national guard advancing with kind of high winds in temperatures about 40 degrees celsius ascending 7 wildfires and turkey along its mediterranean and g and coasts. at least 8 people have now dive in. the region which is a major tourist told was russell soda is in a village and men got and has this report the once peaceful religion of clem. there is no burned out. dream that had looked on says here is his life to save his parents. he succeeded, but the family home was lost. then within minutes, the flames surrounded the village and home while i was trying to rescue my parish, i took my parents out for the speed of the fire, which so far,

places came from all directions. i hesitated for 10 2nd and then i was surrounded by fire house that i lifted my entire life, turned to dust within 10 minutes. the 1st news of the wife fires came from one i've got in the south in the province and stand by the strong beans. they soon spread to surrounding village including clem. last but not everybody made it out alive. a german woman and her turkish husband, who had called this will at home for more than 20 years, were killed. we just fled when the slain is coming over us. but the couple went home to take their things and then we didn't hear from them at all. we kept asking where they are, the phones were off yet, then on sunday we found out that they left home but could not get through the fire surrounding the house. we found their bodies leaning against the wall. they were completely burned and old. and those who survive are now without homes and

livelihoods. nearly 60 or 100 houses in this village have been destroyed or heavily damaged, with little to return to but rubble more than half of the people here had been forced to flee. among them is abraham earth, by whose home of 40 years perished in the flames. my name is to go to the monday mess the legion. when the fire broke out, i immediately tried to rescue my elderly mother. i barely survived. my home was ruined by the flames. our farms also got burned. we lost all of our life stocks. now i don't even want to look at my ruined house because it's giving me an unbearable pain and we don't know what will happen and what to do with them. since when does they more than $100.00? 30 fires. how broken out, acro, south, and turkeys cause the regions, most of them are under control. but the provinces of moolah on taya and his partner, are still trying to put out the names. the government says it will compensate

people for the losses and support is putting in from all over the country and abroad with the fire fighting planes coming in from krisha. so pain, russia, iran, ukraine, and john, but so much work still needs to be done for people to once again. corey will, like i said that i was 0155 who's in sell them euro or also that like a number of deadly wildfires. greece is prime minister says the countries facing the worst heat wave in 3 decades crews of tackle more than $100.00 fires in one day . and in italy, the coastal cities of katana, and for scott, i have also been engulfed in flames. get more on the wildfire situation in italy. now adam rainy has this update from pesca, firefighters have gotten this fire under control and they have passed scada in the region of a boot. so it took them

a better part of 2 days to control this blaze in this pine stand that stand very close to the sea. we're in the heart of a very touristy region resort. they had to evacuate hundreds of people here on sunday, but now monday night, they've got this under control. you can see the fire brigade putting up the final embers here. they've had a break also in the weather and a boot. so it's now under 30, they're going to see temperature like that in the coming days, firefighters say that was going to help them fight the remaining 20 or so fires in this region. but temperatures remain high and poorly in sicily to the south of here . and there's still more than $120.00 fires raging there, and there's no break in the weather predicted in the coming days. so firefighters are concerned that if that weather stays hot and the winds don't cooperate, they're gonna have a big fight on their hands. but for now, here in a boot, so in the city of fest gotta they feel confident that this fire is no longer a big risk in the nearby ones in the city of cathy are also coming under control police officers, guarding polio vaccination teams in pakistan,

have been targeted in 3 separate attacks and the latest assault gunman on a motorcycle shot and killed an officer returning from duty. with vaccination work is in the shower and the northwest focused on. and if going to start the only 2 remaining countries in the world where polio hasn't been eradicated, the european union has imposed sanctions on the wife of nicaragua, with leader who's also the country's vice president. and 7 other graduates. coincides with the deadline to register as a candidate for this year's election incumbent. daniel ortega says he's running for a full time. almost all his challenges have been arrested for weeks and months. most of being held on treason. challenges may not position is named a form of beauty. queen anne from a gorilla fighter as its candidates a referendum in mexico was whether to investigate former presidents for corruption has failed. because not enough people voted john home and reports from mexico city

. the the referendum in mexico and sunday, sunday, groundbreaking, a boat to decide whether to go off the 5 of the countries ex presidents, the corruption in the end, it was a spectacle. only 7 percent of the electric voted 9 out of 10 of those you did. did vote to bring their lead to try to put in the most important that i think that the most important thing here is that the infinity ceases in this country. that 40 percent of the electoral vote for the referendum to be legally binding. it fell for sure most met. i do believe that corruption has been prevalent and passed administration, but many of why should have both be needed for justice to be done just as well. i believe that the people should not be consulted on whether to prosecute a president or not. the government should just apply the law especially is met cruise constitution, already allows for its presidents to be prosecuted. opponents of current president

under, as men will look over the thought that this was just political theater in turn, his party accused electoral authorities but not putting out enough ballot boxes or information the referendum to be a success initial national. so they, but it was, it's not a question of budget, but as well they didn't have enthusiasm for the vote and they don't have these the asthma for democracy. the main question of the referendum was also changed by the country supreme court room. it wasn't legal to direct the folks of the past president tried at the start seem pretty clear, he won't judiciary to investigate these men, but it turn into something quite different. have a listen. all you are all you know, in favor of the pertinent actions to take a process of shedding light on the political decisions made in parties by political actors. it goes on, but you get the idea. it gets pretty hard to see what you're actually voting on. so now it's too low, but what if anything for the referendum main heading food?

my general impression is that the president does not want to start as something similar to a transitional justice process. even thought he promised that drink he's a company and my fear is that if he had not done this during the 1st 3 years of his mandate, that he's not going to change with a referendum, which only 7 percent of the relation here participated. there is some talk of a truth commission to deal with a wide variety of past transgressions. if that's form is affective, will probably have less to do with this vote than the will of the president john home. and i would just say to mexico city and then thanks, officials are waiting to hear from the batteries and sports party on the case of sprint to christina terminal skyler. she's been given a humanitarian visa by the polish embassy in tokyo, of seeking political asylum. terminal sky has accused belushi and officials of

trying to force her to fly home after she complained about her coaches. laura been a man has more christina terminal if sky unlikely expected this kind of media attention while competing in the 200 meters sprint at the olympic games. but instead she found herself seeking asylum at the polish embassy in tokyo. that solved, she criticized her coaches for trying to place her in the 4 by 400 b to relay without her consent. it's an event she hadn't trained for she says she was then forced to go to tokyo, had he to airport and sunday was she all japanese police to help her secret? finally, 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. and the i see did intervene. spoke to the virus athletes. 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. the problem began off to the bell. russian athlete was drafted into the race after her team members were ruled ineligible. the bell ruth national olympic committee hadn't followed protocol in its drug testing, bought her head coach and some of the team members say, timothy guy left the competition because she suffered from mental health issues. we did our school, she stood out for her behavior. we have known her for a long time and there was something wrong with her. she's included herself sometimes and sometimes she didn't want to communicate. we have a young team who are very hard to cheat. we were getting some signal was that something was happening to the go, my number,

your quote that we have seen her anxiety, some chaotic move, something was bothering her in the beginning of the limpid games. she was keeping quiet and calm. but then there was some actions which disappointed all of us, all the supporters and wanted our country. the bella, russian government has not commented on poland decision to help similar skies. but right to say many athletes, bell roost have been detained and excluded from national teams. it follows laws he is mass protest against president alex, not lucas shanker, disputed election victory back in tokyo. tim last guy said she was deprived of her right to compete, but at least for now she is safe in the polish embassy and she hopes they can help to secure her future lore. bad money out to sara. ah.