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one year after the explosion that killed more than $200.00 people from a struggling economy to global isolation. we're looking at the challenges facing iran's new president, is he takes office ah, well, the number of new daily corona virus infections in tokyo has gone about 5000 for the 1st time ever. cases in the lympics host city are rising faster than ever fueled by the more contagious delta variance. widely japan's government has extended emergency measures to 8 more region. here is the data from johns hopkins university. this is the last 30 days in tokyo alone. so 30 days ago, we were looking at approximately $500.00 new cases the day when the games started around $900.00. bringing us now 2 weeks later to the point where there are $5000.00 plus cases a day. and then more widely, this is japan, not just turkey,

the whole country since the start of the year. and just as a point of reference, the olympic games began at this point. and i think the graph kind of tells the story pass, pass, anti richardson correspondent in tokyo. it was not long ago, andy that olympics organizes was saying that the games had nothing to do with the rise in cases across japan. it would be hard to argue that now they all going to try and i'll give you though i can, i can assure you, come on, i mean, you are putting nice figures into some sort of concepts. i was standing here last week saying figures and type of hit 3000 for the 1st time that was a new record. then in the front we've hit 5000. that shows just how quickly the situation is escalating the state of emergency just a few days ago was extended here in hope care. and so at least the end of the month, from a, from a sporting perspective, thought really matters not was going to have an impact on the paralympic games.

because the had been hope the spectators and fans could be allowed in for the starts off the paralympics. there's still a chance that that could be the situation for the last few days of that event, but it all looks increasingly unlikely. now, i think there is a growing sense of frustration amongst many people have we spoken to the vaccination roll out with slopes the back story. there was it in the 1990. the japanese government was hit with a number of libel cases and was found liable facade effects from other inoculations . it was a very cautious roll out of the vaccine. and that's now having an impact with this new depths variance searching all over the country. it's not just an issue, it's how it is all over the country. and i think the state of emergency itself is, is a bit of an oxymoron because it's, it's not a law or an order. it is a request the people, so perhaps they home what from home, if they can, it's a request the restaurants to close early. perhaps not surprisingly, people are maybe not daring to those requests. when that same government is also

carrying on with the olympics. and the can you give us any indication of what things are like actually in the olympic village, which is really supposed to be the heart of the bubble, which is supposed to keep the virus contained? that's right. i mean, every day you will hit the high number screening test, they've done the low number of positive cases. and they will repeat that there is no link approvable link between the athletes village. what is happening there and the wider searches in tokyo and around the rest of the country. there were 30, we'll new cases today. what's interesting about the breakdown of that number is that 23 residents of tokyo residents. if japan either working as constructors or volunteers, they're not staying in the athletes village. so this idea that there's no chance of being a link between a positive case in the village and in the white communities increasingly difficult to maintain. they say that it's a big tv event, the olympics,

and it's actually encouraging people to follow the state of emergency because of the high tv ratings. and it's encouraging people to stay at home rather than go out because obviously no funds are allowed to the venues. but there is a frustration. there's a frustration amongst epidemiologists, not just amongst the public that at a time when the delta very is surging. the effect the games going on is sending out the wrong message is sending out a message of optimism that you can relax. and people aren't aware because of the fact the lympics are going on just how serious the situation is becoming in tokyo and in the water country as well. and the richardson with that affects and the limpid gains host city took care. thank you. stay in asia, look at indonesia where large numbers of people are dying at home and able to get hospital care or medical oxygen as the health system. buchholz indonesia is now the epi center of ages and break. the official death told exceeds

a 100000 down. bear have been a quarter of a 1000000 infections recorded in just the last week alone. jessica washington as the latest from jakarta, as alarming as that figure of surpassing 100000 sounds. it's only a partial picture of the situation on the ground. some months ago, the indonesian government pledged that it would seek to scale up p c r, testing and, and devotee test around $400000.00 people each day. and that still has not happened . so the reality is, is that at this point, we cannot be certain how many people died as a result of the virus. in particular, as more deaths have happened at home, what we do know is that 40 percent of that, but the current death toll 40 percent of those people died in july and august alone . we also know that as jess at home has increased, as people were turned away from hospitals, we've seen more cases of multiple deaths within the same family. now,

some local groups, some independent data groups, are trying to get a more accurate picture of the scale of the crisis on the ground. and according to some estimates, they put the confirmed dest hole in recent weeks, at around 3 to 5 times higher than the official numbers indicate. now the government is keen to stress that they are seeing signs that the crisis is easing in some cities, in particular in the capital. but happy to me all just say it is too soon to be optimistic. and in fact, they are concerned that fall from the situation easing. they are seeing signs that the crisis is spreading into provinces into remote areas with even lower rates of vaccination, with low rates of testing and with health care facilities that struggle under normal circumstances. in australia, the city of melvin's now into it's 6th locked down, will 4. he's trying to trace the thoughts of parent mystery cove. in 1900 case. also, sidney's reported it's highest number of new infections. all told us really a struggle to bring

a feel for outbreak under control despite snap locked downs and border closures. these latest measures mean more than half strategies. population is being ordered to stay at home and chaos and confusion of vaccine centers in the philippines that have tough new restrictions. a 2 week lockdown in the capital manila has taken effect before that both thousands of people crowded centers hoping for their jobs, fearing they won't be allowed to leave home. if not fully vaccinated. officials have since clarified that is not the case. money, i know, but if it ends up being the president said, we cannot go out and we cannot go to our jobs if we don't get vaccinated. so what happens now, they should add more doses, so everyone here can get vaccinated. i don't know, like what our president has said, if we are not vaccinated, we cannot go out. of course, we are afraid because of the upcoming enhanced community warranty. and if they keep extending the lockdown, who would provide our meals if we can go out. meanwhile, the global cancer confirmed infections is now past 200000000. and while it took

a year to reach the 1st 100000000, the 2nd 100000000 for the 2nd half that time fleeting. the world health organization to urge rich nations to pulls their plans for booster shots. rosalyn jordan reports from washington d. c. one of the major problems of the cobit pandemic. some countries have more vaccine than they can use. others have none. that's why as covert cases reached 200000000 on wednesday the u. s. and the world health organization, we're arguing whether already vaccinated americans and europeans should get booster shots or the w h o wants a moratorium on booster shots through september 30th that so poor countries can vaccinate 10 percent of their citizens. i understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the delta von and but we can not, and we should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply

of vaccines using even more of it. while the world's most vulnerable people remain unprotected white house officials rejected the w h o 's call. we also in this country have enough supply to ensure that every american has access to a vaccine, we will have enough supply to ensure if they get the decides that boosters are recommended for a portion of the population to provide those as well. we believe we can do both and we don't need to make that choice. that's one of the reasons why it ministration has really worked hard to not only donate supplies of joseph to the rest of the world, but more importantly to work with other countries to increase and build up manufacturing capacity. so they can produce an effect seen to ensure that the rest of the world is protected. but other health officials say the biden administration is missing the point. the best way to use it if the price is donating. now these are not so loud, they counted it to pro good,

asking the vaccination to protect their population, to save life as for building capacity, it was the chinese firm since vac biotech. that announced on wednesday, it's building a vaccine factory and chile that could be online by early next year. so what it was, the factory starts producing vaccines, they'll be able to export them to latin america. these countries have had difficulty obtaining vaccines. and obviously, we want to help them trying to and a global pandemic in the face of local, but understandable priorities. russell and jordan al jazeera washington ah well, and that's kind of on the security forces of fighting defensive battles. as the taliban pushes to capture regional capitals, ground troops of and repelling attacks on multiple from the taliban fighters involved on her up to come to her and laska go. they've been backed up by strikes from the afghan air force and more special forces of arrived in helmand with

a ton of bands. been fighting in the heart of the provincial capital diplomatic, at a james base has the latest from couple the lot happening in the south and in the west of afghanistan. and as has been the focus for some days at the province of helmand, where so many so much of the fighting involving international forces took place over 20 years. now they have gone, the fighting is continuing and is continuing in the provincial capital, laska gar. whether taliban have been in the heart of the city where we have an important new bit of information. and this is source to the army brigade of the african army that are leading the operation in laska god. and they tell us that there they have carried out their strike the african air force and they say they've targeted senior taliban leadership in last. good guy. i have to say we only have that from the coal saying that they have done that. certainly the local genesis providing us with

a lot of our information says heavy fighting is continuing in the center of laska gar. moving from helmand to the neighboring province of kandahar and there's still fighting inside the 2nd city. we understand in the last 24 hours as strikes to have been carried out by the african air force. we've got news of casualties from near weiss hospital, which is the main hospital in canada. they say that 22 people have been admitted over night and this morning moving to the west of afghanistan and herat. that is where the african military felt that they made some progress pushing the taliban back. but i can tell you that has been fresh fighting in herat in recent hours. the taliban seemed to be over night. we're told pushing in for multiple directions towards the center of the city. the weather is next and then an update on several fire emergencies. we'll look at grief, turkey and california in the united states for an entire town has been destroyed

ah, from an easier levy. this is officially just about the dry season, which means daily showers are possible, but they're not widespread. they shouldn't cause flooding sil away, see parts west, papua southern philippines. we'll see the most of them. otherwise it's usually fairly dry, obviously, humid. the wintry weather is so stormy and australia sees much the store where they go off the tap and see heading towards new zealand. it's still fairly windy through the bath, straight, and tasmania. but in western australia it's much quieter now. july wasn't but august, turning into quite a nice month, twice to degrees in the sunshine in perth. impact cool down a little bit. it's just the edge here of victoria still through the breezy and last,

but it's cloudy and often sherry, whether it looks actually quite warm and calling up in cans as well. and the constant is mostly in the groups of sunshine. so what, sneezing those winter looking like, once again there's a warning of heavy rain for this part of sire 5 and, and that's a significant circulation. which means the winds picking up in oakland or can have damaging winds last week. and guess what those winds could be strong once again. i don't think damaging, but all the same strong to get to softly though, if you're in christ church, you're enjoying the shelter. if you fed the south west wash the snow, the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. or small to continue the change all around the shape by technology and human ingenuity.

we can make it work for you. and your bill ah, ah, ah, ah, top stories this hour on, i'll just 0. the number of new daily corona virus infections in tokyo is going to be 5000 to the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic. japan's government is now extended emergency meds, emergency measures to more regional the number of record, a cases around the world is now about 200000000. took a year to register the 1st 100000000 infections, but that number has doubled in just 6 months. and government ground troops have

been repelling, attacked on multiple from the taliban fighters on her, up to canada and lush gone. they have been backed up by strikes from the african air force. more special forces that arrived in helmand at the taliban is fighting in the hospital capital. there. now wildfires in turkey burning near a coal fired power plant on the south eastern coast. the facility and nearby villages have been evacuated. the governments of hydrogen and other explosive materials stored at the plant have been removed. they said people have been killed in the dozens of wildfires across turkey. president reject time, photo describes them as the worst in his country's history. wrestle sir, isn't me last with this update from close to the power plot? only in the morning. no authority is reported that the fire is under the control, but afternoon is found by the strong winds. the flames raised over the they did the

power plant and the fires just returned back then the water born been planes and the helicopters there on the water to the wooden piece and the residential area surrounding their public plan. but at night the day the, the strong wind triggered the flames again. and it came to the law of this, this, this of this power plant here, for now, the authorities say that the flames are under the control. but it doesn't mean that the danger is now away because we can, you can hear that the helicopters and the but the water warm being planes are still carrying the water from mediterranean sea and dropping over the wooden periods and the residential area surrounding this problem. public, but i thought it said that the hydrogen tanks that were used to cool the plant had

been removed. all of the stuff are created and the tanks are filled with the water as a precaution. but the authorities are afraid, the people here sort of frayed that in case of any explosion because if it's working both on it's wrong, both on the oil and the cool. if in case of an explosion, it wouldn't only cause i a and then what a mental disaster, but also humanitarian. once thousands of people have been evacuated from the greek island of via where a wildfire is burning in the forest. private boats help to get evacuated up to the mainland. the 5 destroyed at least $150.00 homes on the islands. local politicians have complained about a lack of resources that fire on the one of more than $100.00 burning across greece, one on the outskirts of the capital. athens has now receded but not before destroying homes and businesses. st massage,

revolts from athens. one of the most dangerous wildfires of the season so far it took 501st responders working around the clock and countless aerial sort age to bring this blaze just north of the greek capital under control volunteers working alongside police and fire rescue teams managed to keep the flames from spreading to more populated areas of athens outside the police, coord anxious residents waited, unable to go home. me, let me get that sort of thing. it's a total catastrophe. my neighbor's house burned down and i caught him and he was distraught. we're talking about complete destruction. maybe my house has been down also. i don't know. i'm assuming this because my neighbor's house burned down. we have been destroyed as a family financially. we finished. we finished. as night fell helicopters and planes stopped, their water drops and ground crews took over the task of keeping the flames. at daybreak roads reopened to reveal the scale of devastation. dozens of homes and

businesses completely destroyed. 24 hours after this fire started. the ground here is still smoldering here in this tree line with fire rescue teams are worried about now. is that the record high temperatures, the ongoing heat wave as well as the wind picking up again will begin to rekindle the flames and restart the fires that they've already put out. as remaining small fires were extinguished, people were allowed to return to see what was life. for 35 years, monsieur, these mckayla lived in a house he built with his own hands. next to his workshop where he restored classic cars. the collection was priceless. the fire took everything heavily, but the name for the annex lisa there. i 1st saw the fire around noon. at that point. the fire was high up on the mountain left for a little while to do some jewels and i came back and the police wouldn't let me get through. i was waiting for 4 hours and i kind of had police let him back sooner. he

says he may have been able to save something of value to help him rebuild. asked to put a price on the damage. he says he has absolutely no idea how the weather is forecasting to come. seems like this are likely to play up again. even as the situation north of act and improve record high, he sparked dozens more wildfires across greece that are still out of control. st. basra b o 0 and then we cross the border where homes have been damaged by fire in north macedonia. the blazes have been threatening the city of cor johnny, but were extinguished in recent hours several 100 heck. as far as i was burned with some animal killed. and 2 4th street workers have been killed and fighting fights in bulgaria. as many as 240 new fires have been starting in bulk area every day. a heat way over the past week has kept daytime temperatures up around 40 degrees celsius. and then the united states were a fast moving wildfires rolled through

a town in northern california, the calling at the dixie fire. its been burning for 3 weeks now. whipped up by strong wind that hit the town of greenville evacuation. most of the downtown area had been destroyed. the heat was so intense street lights melted and bent to the ground. extraordinary pictures there. let's go to lebanon. the grief, the anger, the demands for justice, which have triggered st. battles in beirut, one year after the catastrophic port explosion in lebanon's capital, no senior official has been held to account for the tragedy, which gives more than 200 people saying has report. but they mark the minute their city exploded. they read the names of the victims of one of the largest non nuclear blasts in history. a year on a route remembered the port explosion that destroyed so many lives outside the

blast site, where thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate blew up families of the victims. the survivors gathered to demand justice and accountability in the justice isn't just the demand of the families of the victims. but of all of the lebanese people, we want to know who brought in the explosives to the port. we want to know who allowed for their unloading, who withdrew quantities of these explosives from the port and where it was sent. we are here to launch an appeal to the countries of the world. we urged the international community to come and save lebanon, because the world cares not our own officials. the world is beginning to listen to the pain and suffering of the lebanese people, not our own officials. its been difficult making sense of their loss more than 200 people were killed among them children. so far, no one has been held responsible for unsafely storing ammonium nitrate with flay mobile materials at the port warehouse in the heart of the city for years. at the

fire department, a kilometer from the port, the families of the 1st responders believe their loved ones were sent to their almost certain deaths. they weren't told of the dangerous when called to put out the fire rather than to fight them to the floor. a had no fear, had nothing but they wanted to say they wanted to help everyone. and this is what you're trying to do to move all these positions, criminal, killed our brothers attempts by the lead judge in the case topic baton. to start the process of prosecuting some of those believe responsible has been delayed by political interference. but some have hope that change is coming. i think today isn't the new start. start for a new 11 on we believe strongly that this is what we have been waiting for. our

next step is the elections in may 2022. we feel that for the 1st time this is showing the, the, our, the political class that people are no longer following. following the ceremony, protestors headed to parliament to demand parliamentary and other official. immunities are lifted to allow formal questioning to happen. this is not just about justice and accountability. many lebanese have this and you would say they believe the political class has not just destroyed the city, but the soy, the economy, and failed to build a state. there is anger. the port explosion was one of the most traumatic experiences for a country with already a dark past. it may have exposed the decades of corruption in this management, but lebanon will not wake up to a new country. the battle for justice hasn't been won the battle against the accountability has at least for the time being. then they're also bailed. and that

is produced a special program one year on from the port disaster part of the full report series called bay roots search for answers. you can see it today, thursday at 1430 g m t get you out to 0, dot com and search for the full report. you'll find it there or youtube dot com, forward slash out of your english. you can search for there as well. funny to iran where the new president, abraham racy will be sworn in later on thursday, he comes into office facing multiple challenges, not least, of which the regional tensions and a filtering economy aside bank has report i during the election campaign, the state of the economy dominated the debates, it's been effected by a combination of us sanctions and mismanagement in the past. yes. despite the promises that have been made, the problems won't be easy to fix. my man, we don't we are going to make sure the sanctions 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 a virus, and many other basic needs. so i appreciate what the 12 government has done, but we need a short term immediate program to resolve the issues we are facing today. has not been much detail on policies or how they will be implemented. and the continued mistrust of some western governments could be an issue in future talks. they bream race, they want with anxious listed that the only way they're going to be lifted. and i assume that means the oil and banking factor sanctions, as if the talks in vienna continue. and right now they've been installed since june 20 as and if they really want to see things change, they're going to have to sit down with the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal and make some hard compromises. because right now the iranian economy is in shambles. sensation and national debt,

or at all time highs. recent protests of a water shortages in the sun. i've seen solidarity protests in the capitals thereon . and as i mean, what the actual, which the presidential mandate that was given by the supreme leader teresee had 2 major points support for domestic production and increasing the value of the national currency that depreciated over recent years. both of these issues are related to government, revenues, and economic prosperity. economic policies should be relevant with methods used to resolve economic problems. that in return would lead to increasing prosperity, family income, employment, and enlarging families, food baskets. pensions in the region are still high as iran and israel engaging shad a war. several tankers have been attacked most recently, one of the coast of oman that killed 2 crew members. israel, the u. s. and the u. k. blamed iran thereon denied it was involved was the last year has senior ron's nuclear facilities attacked the country's top scientist

assassinated and a conservative leg parliament responding by restricting international inspections on the roads nuclear facilities. braimer is seen as a chosen candidate of the political establishment. oh, but if he cannot address the immediate and pressing issues of the economy and sanctions, he's picked up, future and ascendancy could be effected. i said big i just 0 ah, up they are, and these are the top stories. the number of new daily corona virus infections in tokyo is going to be 5000 the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic. authorizing infections have been driven by the more contagious delta variant. the japanese government extended emergency measures now to 8 more regions in the front . we've hit 5000 said i shows just how quickly the situation is escalating the state of emergency. just a.