not only were residents completely taken by surprise by the clubs, they also overwhelmed government surfaces from around the world. this, the nation will help the side for like asians from the global cell, the wealthy nations were holding too many of the vaccines for themselves. ah, this is al jazeera ah hello, lauren taylor, this is down there. news i live from london coming up as powerful blas shake central campbell and the african army orders residence to leave laska go the u. s. as it fears, i've kind of sound good spiral into civil war reports. a ship has potentially been hydrant off the coast to the united arab emirates with several others signaling

their troubles. i can disappear to moment, understand that exhaustion russians left feeling even less safe after activists to help people feel better. rouge is found hanged in ukraine and thousands through their homes. as a large wildfire rages just outside athens, fueled by a severe heat wave. i'm john asked with the best of the action from the take your lympics off the victory in the 100 meters earlier at the games. making sprint to elaine inherit wind guard and the 200 as well to become the 1st woman to retain the sprint. double me will begin enough kennestone whether have been too large explosions in the capital campbell. the 1st happened near the defense ministers house and a busy market square. it was also close to the cities heavily fortified green zone,

which is home to government buildings and embassies. gunfire followed the explosion . the defense minister treated do not worry, everything is fine. but there are reports that 4 people have been killed and 20 wounded. talk afghan army commander has ordered residents to leave the southern african city of laska got ahead of a major offensive against the taliban. official say more parts of the city fell on tuesday with government forces launching ass strikes. at least 40 civilians were killed in the city of 200000 people. charlotte bellis has more on the situation in africa. lash ca garza capitol, of home and province, and in the cross hairs of the telephone. after fighting government forces the weeks on its outskirts, the armed group could be on the brink of taking its 1st city. since the us began its military draw down. the taliban published videos of themselves in the center of flesh, cargo, and at the main market, asserting they had control of most of the city who the enemy is stuck in some

places of the city, like their intelligence, offices, police and governors. compound, by our tele bond, or at every corner of the city. now the afghan military is trying a new strategy. after 4 days of fighting with its most elite special forces and pounding the city with it strikes. it is asking all people to evacuate the city to learn some of my just summer. i'm leaving here. all the people have left. there's bombing from the air and the tell banner on the ground, the army commander for home and made the request in a voice lowered. it was quickly spread among those still in less cargo than no arms and was colored. it will be very hard fighting. we will not leave the taliban a life at any cause. i know it will very hard for you and it was very hard decision for me to. i don't want to hurt my people. please forgive us if you will get this place and please evacuate as soon as possible. analysts and can say the strategy is flawed, telling the population to go, not giving them an exact timeframe,

and then bumping the hell out of the place and, and leaving the place as, as a, as a terrible battle ground. in the same way that we saw pictures of cab all back in the 1900 ninety's, it's tens of thousands of people and less car guy. he generals warning many will have 3 hours a to can to ha city, closer city and still held by the government. $150000.00 people have already been displaced off to fighting last month. but it too is contested by the telephone. so many people fleeing the villages confined to place to sleep. not even intent on the situation is so that we want both the taliban and the government to stop fighting. for god's sake stop the fighting. in the western city herat, the situation is equally fluid. special forces arrived to both to the military and allied vices after the taliban cut off the cities airport last week. even then for

a brief period the taliban got within 3 kilometers of the city center. does not know the enemy is close to the city and we are very serious and defending the city. we hope we will push them back. it's i want to sponsibility and we need to step on the telephone pressure on provincial capital just growing every day. the move to evacuate less target is unprecedented. resource questions about the sol? maybe the best the best god is? charlotte felice 0. the us state department has warned that the conflict may develop into a civil war if the taliban continues to use force. we are going to be looking to their actions. they have said that they see the utility of a negotiated solution. they are engaged in doha. but the simple point remains that if they attempt and seek to do otherwise,

if they seek to contravene what they have said, then they will be in and out. prior. they won't have the support of their people. they won't have the support of the international community. and the concern on the part of all of us, one of the main, one of many concerns, is that the result will be civil war. will be a civil war in which the afghan people do not have and won't be in a position to achieve the safety and security in which they deserve. well joined by an address make by the head of communications and spokesperson for the international committee of the red cross. in afghanistan, he joined his foss, skype from geneva. thanks very much. indeed for being with us. can you tell us what you're hearing from your colleagues on the ground about that the impact is or having on ordinary afghans? thank you, lauren. but the situation is very, very some of course, what we are seeing on the ground and of course hearing from different reports, particularly for the civilians. know that the fighting is moving closer to the

urban centers to more than more civilians and sweden. infrastructure is at risk, particularly we have seen in last few weeks and months. hospital is being bombed bridges being bombed the electricity infrastructure of the water infrastructure. we all have been attack the civilian homes have been attacked. so this is all, of course, a of quite concerned not only for us, but of course, the 1st and foremost will be when people who are actually, as of europe just shown that are displaced in numbers. not on in number of indifferent regions of the country. for the safety and for the security. so yeah, this, this all overall with all these things combined and then combined with quite dwindling . of course the health care structure for those who are being wounded or injured because of fighting. it's quite what some overall, how difficult is it to provide humanitarian assistance in those circumstances?

of course, it is very challenging, particularly because of the recent escalation and the hostilities the, the movement of the humanity in organizations in particular, to be able to see if we deliver humanity assistance to those in need. have been, yeah, i've been quite challenging. for example, for the people, the international committee of the red cross, although we have been able to still move around. but, but for the he effector that we cannot move closer to the battlefield. because of the insecurity and because of the obvious risks it offers is also limiting or ability to to, to deliver the weight of urgently needed humanitarian assistance to the people in need of the it otherwise yeah, we like any other off guns the same challenges that also faced by humanity, need workers, tell me about the priorities as if people are trying to help what, what are they, what are the areas i focusing on?

you mentioned that hospitals have been destroyed and so on. but what about ordinary things? i, water and so on. is that easily accessible and i'm not, not really, not really. because as you know, that during the fighting, even the electricity infrastructure has been attacked. that the water supply distribution networks have been decked. for example, in urban centers, if you take example affordable centers over there, because the water distribution operates to electricity and electricity is not dead in many areas. they are trying to run it through generators, but then they need fuel and because of the situation, even the fuel is not over there. we are trying from, from on behalf of the a, c, r c trying to deliver fuel where we can. but of course, if it's nothing it's, it's been neglected. so yes, many years are still without electricity. people are still struggling to get water . so the situation is actually quite, quite some and in terms of other needs to people. first and foremost remains the

health care because the increasing number of civilians are being targeted and among civilians. so women and children, we have seen quite an increasing number of women and children, and they need emerge. or you want emergency medical gear as well as of course the hospitals are, as you know, most of just gone is done because of the decades of conflict. hospitals are underfunded, overstretch, so this is also an immediate news, particularly in the health sector as well as your make, but thank you very much indeed for taking intentional trust. thank you. thank you. an oil tankers thought to be hijacked off the coast of the united arab emirates, with several other ships sickening. they're in trouble. britain's march on trade agency says a potential hijack is unfolding of food genera. it appears to involve a bit human tanker called the asphalt princess for other ships in the area reporter that they were not under command, suggesting they've lost power and can loan no longer steer the watches,

news agency reports, iran's revolution regard is denied that iranian forces, or its allies are involved saying it's a pretext for hostile action against terror on now suite 2 crew members were killed in an attack on an israeli managed vessel off the coast of oman. very northward is a british navy veteran or former captain. he says iran history and the area is what makes it a suspect they do have pass history quite a considerable past history in this area. whether it's planting mines on the side of ships by the anchor and also underway over the years. shooting it ships that are passing through the straits homeowners. and then of course has been the arbitrary arrest of u. k. flag vessels quite recently. going through the straits of whole needs. some of its very denial. some of the, like the, the, the arresting of those that you have like vessels was not an i was all the radians, did it quite plainly. if this is something connected with the wrong, then there's going to be some kind of so state intervention there in,

in dealing with the iranians. if it's some sort of private hijacking along the lines we've had previously with a similarity hijackers, that it will be a massive for the ship owner and the insurance companies to sort out and a footnote on that story at britain that romanian liberia have told her the national security council on tuesday that it was highly likely that iran used one or more drones to carry out a deadly tanker tech last week. off the coast of mine. that was the one we mentioned earlier. this attack, they say in the letter, disrupted, imposed a risk to the safety and security of international shipping and was a clear violation of international law. this is a letter to the un security council saying that the act must be condemned by the international community. coming up on the news are from london. 2 days before he becomes hiram's new president abraham rice. he takes aim at the us, moscow testing in china after the delta variance spreads to half the countries

provinces in just 10 days and bronze 1st, mon biles on the beam. as the u. s. domestic solver tends to competition following her mental health break. ah, a murder investigation has been launched after a vocal better. russian activist was found dead in ukraine, italy, she, she fled a group that helped people fleeing persecution from president alexander lucas shank has government paying tribute to him in london. the exiled opposition lead it said she knows she could also be targeted anytime. anderson and support from london, italy show of life ended here, his body hanging from a tree. he set off for a run near his home in kiev, but didn't return. police believe it could be murder disguise to suicide. that may have been a struggle in this office that says there were marks on his face left me head and chest. he's got chauffeur dedicated to political opposition to autocratic rule in

his home country of better was he was working with an organization helping to get housing, food, and work for people fleeing persecution there. he knew he was under surveillance so that his friends for the board lamb. this was an execution vile, nasty execution of a person who deserves more than any of those people who served the regime of alexander lucca shank. sending to the rest of the exiles in ukraine and elsewhere to sit low, keep their mouths shot. because this is what's gonna happen to you, lucas shank, a dub, by his enemies. the last of europe's dictators has ruled the 27 years. but since a disputed election a year ago, he's been cracking down on a physician support. in may a protest lead a roman protest, a which was detained after a passenger plane, heading to vilnius in this way, nia was forced to land the capital of beller, whose security agents had effectively hijacked the plane. the leader of the

opposition's fet, lana, taken off. gaia has been on a world tour, trying to read night. the western outrage that followed that arrest the u. k. prime minister barak johnson said he was the 1st to impose sanctions and vowed moral support for the opposition. diplomatic niceties. aside though, the opposition leaders said none of her people was safe, least of all her. i can disappear the moment i understand that. but i should do what time do i cancelled because i'm you know, i feel this responsibility for future with the same as all those the sense for fighting the moment field. they were supposed to be able to settle on taking the sky was in washington before arriving here in downing street messaging in both capital with the same that more action was needed. but there was no concrete response either by the president of the united states,

or indeed the u. k. prime minister. as far as the president of better ruse is concerned, it appears from events in ukraine that he seems intent on continuing his deadly messaging. if security agents from bella, ruth did kill 26 year old vigilance shove, it is indeed a warning to opposition activists. andrew simmons al jazeera london, i've been russian athlete at the olympic says, the authorities made it clear she would be punished if she returned home. christina simonelli is due to leave japan to poland after being grown to the humanitarian visa. she accused her teams officials of trying to force her to leave the tokyo games early after she criticized her coaches. international olympic committee says it's launched an investigation. beyond the store. 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 mates race,

i would be fired and kicked out of the national team. there were also thinly disguised hints that more would await to me. the key phrase is 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 miss, your new has ordered its border guards to turn away migrants trying to enter the country from deliveries using force. if necessary, more than $4000.00 migrants crossed from valerie central, if you any of this year. most of them from iraq. if you're in your says it's retaliation by bell. russian president, alexander lucas shanker, for the increased european union sanctions after diverted a plane to arrest a journalist. i talked more about to all of us with veronica tip.

callo is one of the leaders of the batteries opposition movement along signed cert, lana to sky. she joins us via skype for reger in latvia. thanks very much indeed for being with us. i want you to go back to vitaly. she show of there's still an investigation going on, but i understand that he had expressed concerns for his safety. well, actually will understand, i mean, although his people understand and realize that we cannot be safe, even the inside of all type of beliefs, especially in the countries like russia or your queen. because for example, if we talk about russia, there is no border between russian. bella luce, greece border between russia or between dollars in the queen bodies, quite easy for the people, especially including the key g, b, people or special forces across the border. because there is no need to have these are and the procedure itself, it's quite simple. that's why i think, especially people who, who had to feed the country, either russia or your queen in danger, to my opinion. and have you been concerned about your safety?

well actually we're try not to think about our own safety because we're, i'm in the european union and the reason the physical border between european union and diana was. and we want to, we want to make sure that she can she redeem the people who came here on secure because we are going to we are, we are going after him when we do everything possible to open and she initiate criminal case against shamika hawk. i'm in the talk are committed many, many crimes against people. for example, to give you an example only within 8 months, 12 people were killed. not a single criminal case was initiated. 35000 people went through the presence and you know, there is no justice and so we need to act and we need to do everything possible being outside of billups. so we like, i like i want people who are in the presence today, we had to excelled up as you need us with the ticket sky saying she'd been assured by the u. k. that it would create multiple points of pressure on looking coz,

government. but what's your views so far, the international efforts, i mean, the only make any difference? well, actually we do ask you look in union countries in the united united kingdom as a member of the state to the state of their own state to to help us to initiate the criminal case against the question in the international criminal court in the heat . we collected enough testimony from the most women who went through the increased amount, beatings, tortures, rapes in bellows prisons under the direct what of lucca. shank, b a for these customers could be a great base. can you see the criminal case under the article, criminal crimes against humanity? that's why we ask these come through the countries of the working unions to help us and the wouldn't the u. k. to help us to show the criminal case and to have this affair international, international court, before you mentioned,

the people who are in prison have been trying to protest against lucre. shanker in belarus. what effect is the, all these presents and, and the, perhaps the fresh against people who outside boundaries having on on the momentum for that movement. well actually we do realize older people realize the dictation dictatorship cannot last longer because the question does have doesn't have any support inside of billers, especially after what happened since almost 2020. and we as a position leaders, we do everything possible to make caution isolated from the international community . therefore, once again, we ask you to call us to initiate the criminal case because we understand without this international pressure, it will, it will last longer. i mean, it will for the dictatorship, the last one and we want, we want to start the suffering before as soon as possible. fairly coats of color. thank you very much. need to take the time to talk to 0. thank you. villages have

been evacuated as a large wildfire creeps closer to the outskirts of the great capital or the 305 fighters trying to contain the blaze which is currently near an industrial area. in a suburb of athens, at temperatures of moon, 40 degrees celsius and dry winds of fanned the flames, of more than $100.00 separate fires, prime minister says it's the worst heat where the country is seen in more than 30 years. let's get more from the vein bas robbery. who's on the edge of athens saying, are they getting close to that, bringing that blaze under control? well, it's just gone past midnight here in athens, and while the day is done, the fact is that the fires are still going. we've seen just just to the east of us, the blaze has spread. there are new fires there and the fire that we've been reporting on behind me now is still going. and the fact is that the firefighting crews are also still active and still pushing in. we've seen more and more heavy vehicles

passing this line going in towards the fire zone, pressing further and further towards the base of the forested area where the wildfires started earlier today. now it's been a very long and busy day here in athens, i've got a few figures i can give you. there have been a total of $81.00 fires in the past 24 hours. and many of them like the one behind me and the one to the east of us are those of the 40 that are still going. the crews are still trying to put out. no officials had said that they were hoping to get more of this area under control before nightfall, but the ground crews have been going in for the past several hours and are still pressing through, trying to suppress the blaze. a total of $315.00 rescue missions nationwide by police and firefighters, according to the government to rescue people trapped in the fire zones, still no reports of casualties. thankfully, the prime minister has said that the priority now is to preserve life as much as

possible and people who've lost their homes are, will be housed in hotels at the government's expense. but the fact is that the fires had been blazing all day. are still going on in many areas. it's dark now. we can't see it, but where we're standing at the moment, we are under an ash cloud, we are seeing ashville starting to cover the roads and the cars all around us. so the fact is that especially with the heat wave expected to get worse and coming weeks, the wildfires here are also expected to continue to get worse. and as we saw from your footage, close to residential areas what, what's been done about moving people out to safety? well, we've, we've been speaking the people that have been stuck outside the fire zone not being allowed to go back to their houses. really a lot of people just don't know what's happening there. we've had one witness tell us that he spoke to a friend who lost his house just earlier in the day and he has no idea what state his own home is in. he just walked past us, we asked him if you knew anything more and he still doesn't know. people are trying

to get closer and closer into their homes, hoping that is the firefighters push the blaze back. they can return to see what their homes are like. but rescue workers are trying to get people out. we've seen ambulances rushing people to get out and to try to get help. but many people don't want to leave their homes. understandably, others are leaving it to the last minute we had one person we spoke to who, who did make it out with said that he was likely lucky to have made it out at all. by the time he left his home, they were surrounded by the fire on all sides. so the rescue workers are definitely prioritizing, trying to pull people out as quickly as possible. but there are some volunteer groups that have said that they are worried that there are some people trapped by the blades in what is essentially a mixed commercial residential space behind me saying this for me. thank you very much. indeed. in italy, the coastal cities of catania and bas gara have also been hit by wildfire with residents and tourists told to leave off to hundreds of fair ups in the past few

days for the fight as a starting to get some of the fires under control from the scar on italy's eastern coast. adam rainy reports, fire brigades, and pest scott on italy, central adria to coast. struggle to control ablaze in a pine forest. their fate stretched well into monday nights. still smoldering tuesday morning, firefighters assessed the damage and the risk. it took firefighters to day to bring the blades here and scott, under control. and you can still see the fire isn't completely extinguished. by mid day, the worst was over in prescott and the surrounding towns. only a few small fires still needed attention. they don't know if y'all move to the fishy last. they were very high flames. they were tough to put out. we had lots of teams out, have tackling them, it's been difficult because we've had 3 months with no rain. education is dried up and the terrain is so dry. we haven't seen such weather in a very long time. you'd like to and again on feel that if you go with that bundle

them with the danger past lot i re chatelle lee returned home where 3 generations of her family have tended olive trees in the hills above the sea. they aren't sure if the scorch trees will still produce olives from which they have made oil for decades. this is what she filmed from a safe distance on sunday. as flames blazed through her family's grove, there movie saw the little sham. we saw it all catch on fire. it was a horrible scene. my grandfather grew up here. my father grew up here and i did 2. most of these trees are more than a 100 years old, and i say godaddy on tuesday the we g v to return to the beach in north dona 48 hours earlier. he had been relaxing here with his family. as temperatures rose and fires approached, he raced holmes for each a tooth fell on all this noise. all afternoon and all night. it was just with our garden hose and buckets. we found it up to flames all night to keep them from

growing into a bigger fire. while the situation was largely controlled in central italy farther south and poorly in sicily, firefighters tackled more than a half dozen fires on tuesday, and mid 40 degree temperatures. for those like lottery, she tele, once the fires pass, the true extent of the damage will come into full view. adarine al jazeera prescott in italy in southwest turkey, or far as far as getting closer to power stations. winds and temperatures about 40 degrees celsius. the funding several 5 in the area fighting plains from spain and croatia have flown into help with criticism of the government's response growing as, as more still to come this out including i never touched anyone inappropriately. your governor's denial, as he's accused of sexual harassment and urged to resign, offering hope in hardship, syrian refugees,

dr. cleanup efforts in germany after devastating floods. and one of the best selling pick performance is you'll ever see will show you an incredible well record atoka games with general sport a hello, a great to see we have a familiar pattern setting up across europe, some storms through northern spain, the parent nice right through to the else, you know, elsewhere we do have scattered showers, cloud cover and because of that that is limiting our temperature. so for example, london $22.00 degrees going for a closer look now at these storms and they're taking aim at northern italy, which is an area that is still recovering from devastating flooding dare. we also have a batch of what weather running through. so vacuum but i want to talk temperatures right now. the heat starting to let go. our red weather alerts for those high

temperatures across the balkans have now been lifted. sophia bulk area $34.00 degrees on wednesday, but the heat wave increase. you know, the great prime minister has said it is the worst heat wave in 30 years. athens, a high, a 40 degrees on wednesday. now to that wildfire burning and bind, i've got searcy on talia profits crews still trying to battle back, but there is a glimmer of hope here. temperature is falling off as we get toward the weekend, but still brisk winds out of the southeast. so that's a breeze off the mediterranean. it has been particularly white for western africa, banjo the gambia, scooped up 72 millimeters of rain and will see those storms move east to west along the gulf of guinea on wednesday. that's your weather update. the august on the united states is ending its 20 year military present enough kind of done but what it meant for the.