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for the latest accusations from a right group that the death of a bell russian activist in ukraine was upset and operation and coming home the historic treasures that were stolen from iraq after the us invasion. ah ok. first there's been a large explosion in the african capital couple. the blast happened. you know, the defense ministers house in the center of couple. there's been gunfire following the explosion. well, let's go to a couple now for that large explosion has taken place. our diplomatic editor james base is joining us now. james, i understand that you were very close to it when it happened. took us through what's been going on. yeah, i happened to be leaving our office here and driving along the road and we were

with, with some of my colleagues and they said heavy traffic. i think we'll go past is miller cons house, that's the defense ministers house. we're about to turn towards his house. we're about 3 to 400 meters away. when we heard a very, very loud explosion, i looked up and i could see sparks in the sky, and then and then smoke in the air blowing in the air. it's not entirely clear at this stage what happened and exactly what the explosion was. certainly to those of us that were there, it sounded very loud, but we thought perhaps because we were so close that that meant it was not necessarily a massive ball massive explosion. and not a car bomb, but probably something that was detonated from a suicide vest. i have to say now some of the latest reports in the last few minutes from africa and government forces are saying that they do believe that it was a car bomb. that was used in this particular attack,

which raises all sorts of questions because the center of causal has what's known as the ring of steel. there are all sorts of checkpoints that was a checkpoint, that was very, very close. we were actually right beside it at the time that the bomb went off very close to the scene of the explosion. so at this stage, we were waiting for more details from africa and security forces. and we have no details at this stage whether anyone was killed or injured. i can tell you from colleagues who are in the car with me going in that direction. they're not like there were a lot of military vehicles outside the defense ministers house at the time of the explosion. so a lot of people in the area and a lot security staff that what is obviously a key time, critical time for us going to storm and the african me as violence continues around the country. this was the home of the defense minister, this mil connie was only given that job recently, but he is a veteran commander. he's the full army chief of staff, but his time as

a come on to goes way back before the last 20 years. international forces. first arrived in afghanistan, he was a commander with homage shot masoud fighting the taliban in the 1990 s. and before that, he was a major dean commander fighting the soviet union. and james, as you say, this is happening at an important time because there is increasing violence around the country, particularly with the african military stand starting, it's the process of building up towards an operation in las car got in common province. what more do we know about that? yeah, the african military are now telling people in alaska, god the provincial capital of helmand that they should evacuate. they should leave our homes if there are a taliban in their neighborhoods. and we know there are taliban in the center of city, right in the heart of the city, close to the governors compound, close to the police chief space. so this i think is, is an important development that they are now telling people to leave. i think

they're trying to avoid civilian casualties by telling people to leave because if they were to carry out bombardment in that area, that would be a lot of civilian casualties. but there was a downside, i think the civilians in asking them to leave because they're asking people to leave their homes in what is currently an active was what has been fighting in the streets. so there's a great danger for those civilians. it's also going to create, i think, a mass displacement of people potentially, which is going to create a humanitarian problem. let me just tell you what the u. n is saying, because in the last few minutes, jazeera has spoken to the un humanitarian coordinator for afghanistan. he was here in couple last week he's actually just arrived in new york and my colleagues spoke to him. he says at this particular time, we call on everyone to cease the military hostility. the cease fire is the only option to prevent casualties among the civilians. the situation in laska is very difficult. the population is trapped and probably doesn't have

a means of escaping from the city that that's the latest comment from rummy's. i like bought off who is the humanitarian coordinator of the united nations in the u . n's deputy special representative in afghanistan as i say, he's currently trying to brief other members of the d u. n. leadership on the trip to new york. yeah, it sounds like the next few hours, particularly are going to be crucial enough dynasty james, for now. thank you very much indeed. meantime we've got some breaking news out of the u. s. the pentagon is in lockdown after multiple gunshots were fired outside. the reports from the fire department of multiple patients, but the extent of their injuries is not yet known stuff in the defense department. headquarters of been ordered to stay where the arm okay. near reco temperatures are driving large fires in the outskirts of the greek capital. these are pictures from near athens, with a large fire is threatening homes. the prime minister says the countries facing the

worst heat wave in 3 decades. 5 crews who tackled more than a 100 fires in one day. the same bus stop is joining us now from the greek capital, athens and zane, the speed and the strength of the fires that we've been seeing throughout the mediterranean. and g and area have been extraordinary. what's happening, where you are. well, that's exactly right, and it doesn't seem like it's going to get better anytime soon. we're here in the north of the greater athens area in an area called very bobby, that the name of the neighborhood, one of the neighborhoods, one of several that have been ordered to officially evacuate due to the fire spreading around the base of the park and meet the mountains, now that's about 43 kilometers north of the capital athens. what we're seeing here is that the flames have been golf large areas of what is a mixed residential and industrial space behind me. you can see there are large

plumes of smoke emanating from that area. the fire there was in full flames just a few moments ago. and then further down and towards the west of that flame, you can see smoke just blocking out the sun overhead. there have been aerial flood helicopters and airplanes have been dropping water on these fires for several hours . the fire began at around a little after noon local time, and it's been going on ever since there was some hope that it was under control. the witnesses day, it certainly is not under control. the flames are spreading and the helicopters and planes seem to be following the flames to try to put them out. we've seen bottlenecks and roads all over this area and neighborhoods leading up to it. and on the main highway, we're also seeing a number of civilian civilians leaving a lot of civilian traffic trying to get out of the area as emergency vehicles are going in. we've seen military vehicles, we've seen fire and police emergency 1st responders going in. but just to give you

a sense of how serious the fire is, we keep getting pushed back and emergency vehicles and crews are now pulling back and pulling out. you can see just behind me, flames that seem to have been doused or picking up momentum once again. police here have been pushing news, cruise and civilians further and further back and people are worried about what's going to happen to their homes. now this area has several important industries just behind me as a production facility for one of the country's largest pharmaceutical companies. there are, there are stables, that house courses. there's also various carpenter carpentry facilities in this area. but primarily this is a residential space. people living here. it is their homes and the fire is just cutting closer and closer to those populated areas. we're talking about thousands of people affected in a built up urban environment, just north of the capital, athens and one can only imagine just how terrifying it must be for the people who

are in that region at the moment. james, for now. thank you very much, deeds in bus raphi in athens, 8 actually the coastal cities of care, tanya and scott, i have also been hit by wildfires. residents and tourists have been told to leave, but the fire continue to burn. cruise say they faced hundreds of fire ups and populated areas in the past few days, and firefighters in turkey working around the clock as wildfire. they continue to spread and the coastal resort tons, lens and temperatures above 40 degrees celsius. finding 7 fires along the coast of the mediterranean and via gmc, at least 8 people have died there in the past week. holiday makers had to leave the hotels and thousands have been evacuated from their homes vessel south. i was following developments in turkey and tell you province. now we are in the, the village of cellar in tone of windows and untidy province. and it is also one of the worst hit districts in turkey. as of yesterday, this is dee how support,

because at different locations in this town, the fire fighters are fighting against the flames and the blazes. this will edge and this was did the fire started yesterday at 4 a yam after midnight. and since down the house of the willis had been turned into the ruins, so the soldiers are keeping the take him to the villagers out of the will. it's because it's quite risky, but the emotions are very high. people are suffering because they see that the houses that they had the tie of life in as just burdening down the soldiers. the security forces are blocking the route to the main town of the game. so far there have been 156 different locations that reported the wildfires. the forest fires and the ministry afforded. it says that $147.00 of them are under the control. but as

of now, 9 active zones are still suffering from the, from the fires by the russian activist who was reported missing has been found dead in ukraine's capital. kiev, italy, she saw, fled a nonprofit organization based in give that helps by the russians freeing persecution. it was reported missing by his partner after failing to return home from a run. please have launched a murder investigation. and banners, how position leaders atlanta to kind of sky, us as she's waiting for the results of the investigation. but she believes she could be in danger of suffering the same fate. i understand that you know, i can, i can disappear. you moment, i understand that. but i should do what i'm doing. i can't store because i'm you know, i feel this risk will be with the whole future of my fans with the same as all those the fight and the woman feel the responsibility. i know that even if i

disappear one day, this movement will continue without andrew simmons has more for london. well, here in downing street settling to pick another guy, the opposition leader from bell ruth, who lives in exile and in the country next door. this way near has arrived here only. alas, off the news broke off this deaf of an activist. the tale she showed. no information was coming through and and she heard before she met the u. k. prime minister barak johnson. the police were launching a murder investigation. they suspected that she shelf was hanged and it was dressed up to look like a suicide. now his supporters say that there appears to have been some bruising, and he could have been beaten up before being hanged. he was the leader of an

organization in ukraine, which organized for activists coming out of better ruse for accommodation, for jobs, for support. he was known to the authorities quite outspoken man. i have moved to ukraine a year ago and had joked about being followed and surveillance. and he pretty been stoic about the threats against him, but no suggestions that he was ever in the mood to take his life off. it's christina, it's amount of sky, i will leave japan for poland later after being granted a humanitarian visa. the runners turning to seek refuge in europe after accusing her teams officials of trying to force her to leave the tokyo games early for criticizing her coaches. the international olympic committee says it's launched an investigation beyond the door when you are still, they made it clear that upon my return home,

i would definitely say some form of punishment. and that if i refused and ran in the $200.00 mates race, i would be fired and kicked out of the national t. there were also thinly disguised hints that more would await me with the key phrases when they said that the decision to return home was not taken by us. it was taken by other people and we were ordered to follow through. at the moment, i just want to safely get to europe. i would really like to continue my sporting career because i'm only 24 and i had plans to participate and at least 2 more olympic games still had an iran view. president, people that i see pledges action and what he calls to radical sanctions imposed by the us plus on the richardson at the tokyo olympics, west among biles has returned to competition. and when a bronze medal after a final event and these games, ah,

ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by cattle airways. the season range the stay should have had their time, but they broke it up again. and most of the heavy rain, the next 2 days is sugars. so for these was circulations, are tied in the south china sea. this one has turned into a tropical depression. it might even strength. another one appears to be trying to force the ne of tie one of the re, you q chain of japanese islands wrapped around them. it's not so much the strength of the wind is the slow moving nature and this persistent rain, the orange cause the heavy straight to paste, be mostly over the water, but it won't stay that way. east in glendora including hong kong and food generate risk from further studying from further rain they will be heavy, right. and tyra, not as bad as it was, but breton, tyrone at least is still at risk for further landslide or flash flooding. now, coincidentally,

the rest of the station isn't quite in that seasonal rain grip. we seen a few big showers in south korea recently. they've got a band of rain coming through beijing and then hanging around, there were a few showers in the still humid japan, but his area to focus on. and he does extend, i think, to the northern philippines. but beyond that is just a few sunshine sherry outbreak for malaysia and indonesia. for the monsoon rain still look to east rochester on and western monte pradesh. sponsored cut on airways. 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 gorging, i'll just have to remind about help stories this so it's been a large explosion in the africa and capital. it happened in the defense ministers house and couple has been gunfire following the bloss in the us. the time to guns in lock on how to gun shots were fired outside the reports from the fire department of multiple patients, but the extent of their injuries is known and residential areas on the outskirts of the great capital are coming under threat from wildfires. thousands of people live in the area. the fires are being driven by near reco temperatures. iran's new

president is promising to lift oppressive us sanctions, but not at the expense of giving into foreign demands. abraham r u c has been officially endorsed by supreme leader on the harmony at the ceremony in to run. a conservative planning takes power with the run and the grip of a severe economic crisis. the 60 year old is also a place to revive the 2015 nuclear. do not have to man, we don't we are going to make sure the sanction lifted, but we are not going to connect our economy to lifting the sanctions. there are a few issues that the government is facing right now. the budget deficits investment and the stock market and also controlling the inflation corrode of virus, and many other basic needs. so i appreciate what the 12th government has done, but we need a short term immediate program to resolve the issues we are facing today. guy hush, him has more details from her on. it's clear from several codes

from, from easy or even from the supreme either before the the ceremony. today, it's clear that the nuclear talks aren't a priority for them. they're looking more inside. the looking more for the regional talks may be regional security and then comes the nuclear talks. now as we know that from, from different sources, maybe about actually the head of the nuclear team is going to continue his, his task as a nuclear negotiator thinks for sure. are going to change in the foreign ministry. mama, georgia is not going to be the foreign minister anymore. there are several names right now into ron speculations over a former deputy foreign minister and someone who was in the national security council. what doesn't want to do? we don't have clear or at least confirmations regarding the names in some people are saying that this might be the government that's going to face the most difficult challenges since the government of hashem fin jenny,

that came after the iran iraq war after $989.00 almost a year after the explosion rocked 11 is capital families of victims is still demanding answers. the blast at the bay report killed more than $200.00 people and injured thousands. every 300000 were last homeless as a result of the devastation. the explosion was triggered by a large stockpile of improperly stored ammonium nitrate. i am a tube is 11 on the bahrain researcher at human rights watch. she says government officials trying to cover up their knowledge about the explosive material weeks before the blast. every official has tried to muddy the water of what actually happened in the lead up to august for. so we decided to collect all of the documentation, hundreds of pages of documents, some of which has not been published before to really piece together what happened . and we supplemented those documents with interviews with he judicial government

and security sources as well. and what we found was incredibly timing. we found that various ministries, including the ministry of public transports, which he provides of sports, as well as the ministry of finance, which supervisor of the customs, administration, and lebanon. not only had knowledge of the dangers posed by the ammonium nitrate, but miscommunicated those dangers and hit those dangers from the judiciary. we also found that the lebanese armed forces brushed off responsibility for this ammonium nitrate even after they found out that the nitrogen grade in the ammonium nitrate man, that this was material used to make explosives, and therefore, should have been under the supervision of the lebanese army we found the president and the prime minister, both of whom were aware of the stockpile of ammonium nitrate aware of the dangers of the ammonium nitrate posed while before at least 2 or 3 weeks before the blast

still failed to take any action. all of this evidence together, really pains an incredibly disturbing and very damning picture of the kind of mismanagement corruption and incompetence in lebanese state institutions that allowed something like the baby. last one of the largest non nuclear explosions in the world to take place loc responded in a hall. there's been looking into how the explosion happened. her program barrels search for answers as on wednesday at $2330.00 g empty. the u. s. has returned more than 17000 looted treasures to iraq, dating back 4000 years. most of the ancient artifacts were stolen off to the us led invasion of iraq in 2003. the return follows the iraqi prime minister's visit to washington last week. my phone reports from baghdad, the be covering memory and identity. this is how he likes for the minister describes the return of these antiquities from the united states,

thus leim. some posh. we have received 17321 pieces from the united states. 9 from japan, 7 from the netherlands, and one from italy. therefore, the total number is $17338.00 returned pieces. this year, dated between 3704000 years ago. some of these artifacts were looted from the national museum in baghdad. others were excavated from archaeological sites across the country. and i will now fill up we have on our side local law of international conventions. and the laws of the countries which our antiquities with smuggle to so smugglers are condemned by such laws and will eventually be forced to return the pieces. according to the cultural ministry in bagdad, most of the pieces relate to trade deals during this medium period. one of the earliest known civilizations in the super tamia. now southern iraq,

one in particular though, was the gilgamesh dream tablet, with text from one of the world's oldest works of literature. during the use of conflict in iraq, thousands of antiquities have been looted, not a killer camp sites, destroyed. officials here say many precious artifacts on a still unaccounted for. thousands of priceless items went missing from the national museum embedded dad. after the 2003 us led invasion, an ancient statues and monuments were either destroyed by isolate or under consecutive iraqi governments suffer damage and neglect the thousands of return and artifacts are now back in baghdad. for iraqis, who feared they'd lost a huge part of that heritage to enjoy without doing it al jazeera, but that chinese authorities are trying to contain. and i break of the delta

various of covered 19 which is spread to half the provinces in 10 days. at least 6 regions are completed, mass testing and people are being told not to leave their home city. it's any you reports from beijing. changing the highly infectious delta variance has broken through china's strict curve. 19 defenses, closed borders. strict locked downs and mass testing have not been enough to prevent the countries worse outbreak in months. hundreds of cases had been found in more than 30 cities. in 16 provinces, china's leaders say the capital waging must be protected at all costs. several neighborhoods aren't locked down after and sections were discovered last week. flights trains and buses from the affected areas have been suspended. residents have been warned not to leave the city to. we quarantines have been imposed. large scale events has been cancelled, and public venues ordered to limit capacity. contact tracing teams have been mobilized where id find deliver confirmed clothes or secondary contacts will be

current in those who leave and work with them will be banned from joining any gatherings. and also subject to close loop management by their, what places or local community, etc. and then the outbreak originated early last month in the southern city of non ging airport janice's tested positive after cleaning a flight which arrived from russia. the cities, more than 9000000 residents underwent 3 rounds of testing in 2 weeks. authorities have identified a possible supers better event in the tourist hotspot of jungle jet was several cases were linked to a theater performance attended by 2000 people. the attraction has been shut down, and tourists told to stay away. up until july, much of china had reported the record of our cases. the apparent success had been a school of national pride. but this latest flare up of the delta vary interest thrown into question, making corbett, 900 strategy, and put more pressure on the nation's attack. steam roll last sean is current

strategy of 0 tolerance, shooting prove, we must learn to co exist with the corona virus. we need to accept that possible to be completely free of the verizon for a long period of time. health officials say more than 1600000000 vaccines have been administered so far, but they won't be vaccinated, may not be enough to avoid catching the delta strain. the government has begun vaccinating children and is considering offering booster shots to vulnerable groups . the outbreak titans, china's economic recovery, and its ability to horse spectators during the 2022 winter olympic games last year . president, she didn't pain declared victory over carve at 19 a declaration. it seems that was premature. katrina, you al jazeera, updating. ah,

after taking a break to focus on mental health us gymnastics dawson own biles has returned to action that the tokyo olympics to when a bronze medal, the 24 year old finishing behind 2 chinese competitors and the balance been final after pulling out of 5 earlier events she leaves with the silver and bronze to go with for gold medals from the 2016 rio games. and richardson has more from tokyo. not quite the, the golden finish. we might have dreamt silver written about if we were making it into a hollywood movie. but nonetheless, she put in a close to flawless performance in that balance being final worth remembering. it's not one of her strongest disciplines. she want to bronze medal in that discipline in radio, in 2016 when she was at the absolute peak of her powers worth remembering what, what she's been through. i mean, to pull out of that said all around teen final, to be brave enough and candid enough in that press conference right afterwards to not say i had a slight injury, but to say,

i'm going to go and focus on my mental health. it's something that sent us a really positive message to lots of other athletes that these are lympics. and subsequently she, she has been active in talking to fans on social media about her classes to get her mind and body back in sync cache. she's also been very visible around the athletes village of the competition venue, supporting her other teammates. and now hey, she's back doing what she did, what she does best winning that bronze medal in what could well be the final olympic performance of her, of her amazing korea. ah, this is all just really, these are the top stories. there's been a large explosion in the africa and capital. the boss happened to be of the defense ministers house in trouble. it wasn't at home when that happened, as being gunfire following the explosion. james base has been following developments from the capital. some of the latest reports in the last few minutes from africa and government forces are saying that they do believe that it was

a cobble that was used in this particular attack, which raises all sorts of crap.