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hangs in a park in kids. police are investigating if he was mergers and lebanon is still looking for on, says one year on from a huge explosion rocked the capital. ah, the u. s. as condemned and the tax had killed at least 4 people in the african capital. cobble saying that there's the hallmarks of the taliban. the a car bombing was followed by a gun attack near the home of the defense minister. it's close to the city is heavily fortified. green zone, the government buildings and embassies allocated with the new claim of responsibility. sharma, ambrose, a suicide attack carried out by wild terrace. targeted my house by the grace of god . neither me nor my family members were hurt. but unfortunately,

a number of my body guards were wounded. i issued my beloved countryman, the such attacks cannot, has any impact on my willingness to defend my countrymen and my country as fighting intensifies elsewhere between the taliban and the military. un security council says it's deeply concerned about human rights abuses and escalating violence in a statement that condemned to liberate a tax on african civilians. and on a un compounds inherits provence last week, one member of the african security forces was killed in the attack. it's also colon for progress towards a seas far and a political settlements. a diplomatic had sir. james bass isn't campbell with more only attack and the international response to the escalation conflicts. we will happen to be in a car and happen to be quite close to the defense ministers house driving in the direction of the defenseless, this house about well, less than 300 meters away. when there was this very loud explosion that seemed to

lift the front of the car very briefly and, and then we saw the sparks in the air and massive plume of smoke. and we now know that that was a car bombing, the start of what is known by experts is a complex attack. so the bomb goes off 1st and then the gunman take, hold, go in and carry out more of the attack. we believe the official figures come out yet. the for taxes have been killed. we believe also for other people killed. i don't think anyone watching the situation expected the us to pull out quite as quickly as they did. i think it took the rest of the international community, and many of us as close as allies don't feel they were very well consulted to them all by surprise. the biden announcement to pull out of afghanistan. i think surprised number 2 was that the taliban so quickly filled some of the vacuum international community all concerned. they want everyone back at the negotiating table. they want

a ceasefire. but the leverage on the taliban isn't there anymore because of course the leverage was the international forces and that was the bargaining chip, whether the international forces with withdraw not well the international forces effectively. there are a handful here effectively that out. and so i think that changes the dynamics on the talks, and i think the taliban must feel with the military gains they've made in recent weeks that they now have the upper hand at the negotiating table. those talks have been stalled until now. we understand that the hard talk a likely to try and resume in the next couple of weeks. people have been ordered to get out of afghanistan, southern city of laska gun, the security forces fight back against the taliban. government troops sought alone should be held for ation on the arms group in the capital of helman province. at least 200000 people live there. charlotte bellis has more on the situation that lash car got the capital of home in provence and in the cross years of the tele bomb. after fighting government forces the weeks on its outskirts,

the armed group could be on the brink of taking its 1st city. since the u. s. 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 for the ones who the enemy stuck in some places of the city like their intelligence offices, police and governors compound by our taliban are 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 old people to evacuate the city to learn some of my just summer. i'm leaving here. all the people have left. there is bombing from the air and the tell banner on the ground. the army commander for home and made the request in a voice nose that was quickly spread among those still in less cargo than no arms. and it will be very hard fighting, but we will not leave the taliban life at any cause. i know it will very hard for

you and it was very hard decision for me to see. 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 in cargo 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 each to can to ha city the closest 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 a 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 stuck the fighting. in the western city of herat, the situation is equally fluid. special forces arrived both to the military and allied flashes after the taliban cut off the city's 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 moved to evacuate last got some personal questions about the solvers. maybe the best, the best shot i was 0, an oil tanker is thought to have been hijacked off the coast of the united arab emirates with several other ships signaling to her in trouble. brittany maritime

agency says a potential hijack is unfolding of genera. it appears to involve a bitch human tanker call be our full princess for other ships in area reported that they were not under commands. the reuters news agency is reporting runs. revolutionary guards has been either radian forces or its allies are involved. last week 2 crew members were killed in a drone attack on this really managed vessel, the coast of oman, britain, the us and israel accused iran, which is denied, and bolton's was very northward as a british navy veteran and former captain. he says he runs history in the area. what makes it a suspects that they do have past history on quite a considerable past history in this area. whether it's planting mines on the side of ships, both anchor and also underway. over the years, shooting ships 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 hormones. some of its very novel, some of the like the, the, the arresting of those. you have like vessels was not denial, is all the radians, did it quite plainly. if this is something connected with the wrong, then there's going to be some kind of 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 the somali hijackers, that it will be a massive for the ship owner and the insurance companies to sort out thousands of people on the outskirts of athens had been forced to flee their homes as a large won't farmers closer with them, 500 firefighters are trying to contain the blaze in an industrial area in a suburb of the greek capital. temperatures of more than 40 degrees celsius and dry winds have found the flames of more than a 100 separate fars,

same. basra ivy has more from northern athens. 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 lost their homes will be housed in hotels at the government's expense. 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. the weather is also driving far as in italy, tourists and residents have been told to leave the coastal cities of kasanya and for scott, a firefighters say they faced hundreds of slayer ups and populated areas in the past few days. but they're starting to get some under control from prescott, and it's these eastern coast. adam rainy reports, fire brigades, and pest scott on italy central. a direct 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 blaze here and scott, under control. and you can still see the fire isn't completely extinguished. by mid day, the worst was over, and prescott and the surrounding towns. only

a few small fires still needed attention. they don't know if y'all them all to out of it or the fish. 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. fletcher taishan is dried up and the terrain is so dry. we haven't seen such weather in a very long time if you'd like to get on fever. if you got that bundle them with the danger passed ladder re she tele 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 that it sham that we saw it all catch on fire. it was affordable seen. 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 think what id on tuesday would be to return to the beach in or toner. 48

hours earlier, he had been relaxing here with his family. as temperatures rose and fires approached, he raced holmes committee to to fell on all this. i do know you all afternoon and all night he was just without garden hose and buckets. we fended up the flames all night to keep him 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, italy, in sofa as turkey are, for as far as getting closer to to power stations. winds and high temperatures are founding several fars in the area for fighting planes from spain and croatia flying in to help with criticism of the government's response. scrolling still had here

and i was just there a protest on capitol hill of millions across for us space eviction from their homes . cloth. i'm, i'm the rich is gonna be carolyn picks. west baseball is back for the 1st time since 2008 i i, it's time for the journey with the sponsored by counsel, airways hello, locked into the heat across the middle east. here's the peak at some of your temperatures on wednesday, re add 43 degrees teran. we've got you in for $35.00, but you can really see that sand and dust swirling around as we head towards southern areas is saudi arabia, also for huge swats of yemen. and oman also seen that sand in dust kicked up

through into buckets. done so we'll pick up the weather story there for southern areas of the country. you know, winds in karachi, will gus to 50 kilometers per hour on wednesday. and that's a west when a coming in, and that's when we see that sand and dust kicked up. okay, off to the mediterranean and we're still keeping tabs on that wildfire burning in one i've got. so that's east of antalya city in antalya profits. and this is what crews are still battling, trying to get that upper hand. and there is a glimmer of hope we look at our forecast. temperatures are starting to drop as we head toward the weekend. we're getting that so south, east wind. so that's a wind off the mediterranean, through central africa, the tropics, are storms, will move east to west getting some pretty good pulses and cells pop up in ethiopia . further to the south, it's all about the sunshine. look at some of these temperatures, johannesburg, 20 degrees. you've got a stellar forecast for the next 3 days. enjoy sponsor,

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the u. s. has condemned an attack that kills at least 4 people in the africa capital compo, saying if there's a whole lot of salt the taliban, a car bombing was followed by a gun attack in the home of the defense minister with the new claim of responsibility. an oil tanker is thoughts have been hijacked, of course of the united arab emirates with several other ships moving to or in trouble. business. maritime agency says a potential hijack is unfolding for gender. wildfires or vision in parts of greece and italy. thousands of people on the outskirts of athens before to flee their homes far cruise, half a dozen in the forest in sicily and puleo in italy. we're more than 90 wild, far as i burning in the western united states. one lisa slaves is a vehicle far spread to forest, just north of los angeles sans in northern california, the state's largest. wal, far it's going again forcing the evacuation evacuation of 1000 people.

a murder investigation has been launched. after a vocal bella, russian activist was found dead ukraine. we tell the show lead a group helps people fleeing persecution from president, alexander lucas, shank of governments. paying tribute to him in london, the exiled physician says she knows that she too could be next to fall foul of the regime. and descendants reports from london. italy she showed 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 disguised as suicide. would. 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 shanker, dubbed 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 more 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 any moment. i understand that. but i should do what time do i cancelled because i'm you know, i feel this risk supposed to be listed for future. my fans with the same as all those the fight and the moment feel the responsibility said long taking those sco walls 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 ruth, is concerned, it appears from events in ukraine, said he seems intent on continuing his deadly messaging. if security agents from

bella, ruth did kill 26 year old vigilance, she shut off. it is indeed adult warning to opposition activists. andrew simmons al jazeera london, mr. india has opened his border guard, ordered. it's for the guards to turn away migrants trying to enter the country from bella. ruth, using force if necessary. when a 4000 people cross from bella was into the c any of this year. most of them from iraq miscellaneous says it's retaliation by belushi president. for example, look shanker for the increased european union sanctions after diverted a plane to arrest a journalist. it's been one years since a huge explosion, devastated lebanon's capital killing more than 200 people and injuring many more. you know, the 300000 were left homeless. families of victims are still demanding answers. st

hotter reports from parents, the got to silos at bay roots port still stand as a symbol of a tragedy. i feel what i know the building behind us collapse and 4 people were killed. i was strong to the ground unconscious. we will never forget that explosion . it began with a fire at warehouse 12. it's believe to have blown up the ammonium nitrate that was unsafely stored with favorable materials. the neighborhoods were destroyed. more than 200 people were killed on august 4, 2020. we saw her thinkers there, her running shoes. we didn't expect or imagined that he will be. at the point, we wrote wolf saw her that her sister, jessica worked at one of the roots hospitals. many were badly damaged in the explosion. all the hospital teens ran to the patient and had to move them to the

secured area which turned into a battlefield. we had a few minutes and then because after a few minutes came the came, came the patience which were wounded and that no one has yet been held to account. families of the victims are up against the political and security establishment, accused of hiding behind immunity. that defeats the very purpose of the very sense of the ruling flow, and that does not reflect on debt, dish, or ability judiciary ability to conduct effective investigation and to insure accounts our ability for the abuses that committed. it's still not known what caused the initial fire. what is also not known as if the ammonium nitrate was intended for bay root? the ship that carried 2750 tons of the chemical made an unscheduled stop here in late 2013. the cargo was offloaded after a death dispute,

but it's also not clear if most of the stockpile was in the warehouse, when the explosion happened throughout the years, top officials, military and security officers knew about the dangerous chemicals and did nothing about it. human rights watch says they also mischaracterized the danger posed in communications with the judiciary. we found that the emissions and actions of lebanese government and security officials constituted a violation of the right to life under international law. and there appears to have been an attempt to disguise the true identity of the owners of the ammonium nitrate . i'm the ship and why the ship came to lebanon in the 1st place. a year on a route is still a broken city. yet to recover from one of the largest non nuclear explosions in history that there else is eda beta. and you can see a special program by xena on the disaster favorite search for answers here on al

jazeera. on wednesday, the 2013 gmc in the face of rise and cool with cases across the us and political pressure the bike. the administration has decided to extend the moratorium on housing evictions for 60 days. muslim georgia reports from washington 11 months ago. the us imposed an eviction moratorium for 15000000 renters to slow the spread of cobit 19 and to not put sick people out of their homes. the moratorium expired on saturday, even though cobit cases are rising again. by monday morning landlords had flooded housing courts with petitions to evict their tenants. $3000000.00 could become homeless this month. louise dantes is among them. he was in the hospital and unable to work. he now owes his landlord $5000.00. they gave me 3 weeks because i begged for it, and in 3 weeks i have no idea where i'm going to go. what i'm going to do. us

president joe bite and under pressure to extend the moratorium told reporters on tuesday. this situation was not supposed to happen. we'll probably give some additional time while we're getting at $45000000000.00 out to people who are in fact behind in the written don't have the money. that's why it was passed in, in the act that we passed in the beginning, my ministration, and it went to the states. we were under the impression that the states for moving this money out relatively rapidly. that $45000000000.00 and back rent assistance was part of biden's. first. major pandemic emergency spending law as president. but housing advocates say there are too many roadblock getting the money to landlords, leaving tenants in a bond. and there is the problem of whether moratoriums declared by the administration or legal, the supreme court recently ruled there not. and that only congress can authorize

them. well, congress didn't do that before going on summer holiday, leading some congress women to sleep on the steps of the capitol and protest, and to call on bite and to act. i do understand it. i do know what is why i do know what is like to have baby sleeping in a car. trash bag my belongings, everything i own in because i know what there's like. there is no way that i was back into life. and then now abrasion, you guys as roger was late on tuesday, the cdc announced it will give renters in areas with high coven caseload, another 60 days of release. but what's needed is a long term financial solution to help americans through another search. one that is not easily found in a time of deep political partisanship. rosalyn jordan al jazeera washington, limbic holes nation, japan are about to take on arch rival south korea for place and the final is the

elim pick baseball competition. the sport is a national obsession in japan and hope so high for a home. a gold medal as richardson reports from talk you when elim pick organizes asked japan if there were any sports they'd like to add for the tokyo games. facebook was an immediate and obvious answer. it's the most played and watched game here. and it's back in the olympics for the 1st time since 2008, told them about my kids can watch the olympics and then dream about becoming a pro player 10 years on from these games. i think there will be more kids. you want to compete in the olympics off. major events like this is so important for boosting the number of children playing baseball. well, it's been difficult to keep playing because the pandemic, but i'm very happy to, to fix went ahead. i can go and watch the baseball, but least i can see it on t. v. an american teacher 1st introduce baseball to students in tokyo in the late 19th century. japan's own professional teams and lead soon followed

a morning trip to the batting cage. it's a way of life for many in japan, the country now would you see some of the world's best pictures and haters with many playing north america's majorly baseball competition. but the m o bay has refused to release any players for these. let's take, including japan's biggest star show, hey o tarney o tony's absence is one of the reasons baseball won't be returning for the paris games in 2024 elliptic bosses want top players to make themselves available and more global participation. if that happens, the sport could be back to the 2028th in picks in los angeles. in the 19 ninety's take o suki became the 1st japanese to play in the top us women's league. she says it's the perfect sport for any boy or girl to take up nugget that put betty was steady as she study you need to. so catch back run. there's so many elements and so

much you need to practice. it's a complex sport. it isn't as popular in europe and not many teams subbing pardon diesel and i hope it will be back to the games. if baseball does catch any more countries, the still a chance these young players will one day get their own shot at an olympic metal. and the richardson al jazeera, tokyo, ah, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. us was condemned and attack that killed at least 4 people in the african capital kabul. saying that there's the hallmarks of the taliban. a car bombing was followed by a gun attack near the home with the defense minister. there's been no claim of responsibility or tip of nights ago, sir james bass is driving very close to the blast. we've got to the.