ah, risking it all i've got is john on al jazeera me? oh, be the hero world. ah, marsha, in the world surpasses 200000000 recorded cove at 19 infections. as wealthy countries are urged, 2 holes vaccine booster shot. i'm on the richardson at the tokyo olympics wet covered 900 cases in the host city of new high talking 5000 for the 1st time. ah, how they were gonna come all santa maria here and don't hardly see the world news from al jazeera. perilously close to a power plant,

rushed to get people out of the latest danger zone in turkey's wild fire and the mystery surrounding body that a washing up in a river in eastern sedan. so 200000000 infections and climbing. that's where we are right now in this curve at 19 pandemic. and when it took a year to reach the 1st 100000000, this 2nd 100000000 came in just half bad time. the surge, of course, driven in part by the delta very. but what it is doing is highlighting the gap in vaccination rates between wealthy and poor nations that is leading the world health organization to urge those richer nations. hold off on your plans for booster shots . i understand the concern of all government 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 upload

vaccines using even more of it, while the world's most vulnerable people, remain unprotected now sir, places were watching in asia this thursday 15 denisia, which is now the api center of the continents outbreak. the death told us over 800250000 infections were recorded in just the past week. and of course japan where there is anger now as an, as infections rise, faster than ever. the host city of the lympics tokyo is not recorded 5030 cases for the 1st time, but still the prime minister says the games are not to blame. ok and richardson reporting from tokyo not to take us through this s. you sort of wonder how the prime minister and indeed any olympic visuals can claim that any more the numbers don't lie and the numbers are escalating very quickly. i was standing hit a few days ago talking about the fact that daily tases wedding 3000 for the 1st

time. now we're up to 5000 state of emergency here. and so care has already been extended until the end of the month. that's significant from a sporting perspective, at least because they were hoping to allow fans and spectators in this thought about events. it's still possible they could get them in the final few days because apparently picks runs until september, but it's looking increasingly unlikely. and as you mentioned, there is growing frustration, that's the reason covet. 19 figures have been relatively low. and so this point, a lot of people think is because of their personal sacrifices and nots government policy. the vaccine rollout was slow. the back story there was that in the 990, the japanese government was found liable for the side effects to 2 other inoculations. so there was a very slow process of approving the vaccine. and then you have the state of emergency as we've discussed. although it sounds extremely dramatic, it's a request for people to stay at home and not go to the office. it's a request for restaurants and bars to close early, if not a law or an old us. i with it with

a bit of condemning fatigue setting and it's perhaps not surprising that some people are following those rules quite as closely as they might once have done, particularly when that same government is also allowing the olympics to continue 2 weeks. now, almost into these games, and he, what's your take, has the pandemic actually overshadowed the event in the sport in the end, or did the quote unquote olympics spirit and some of the great performance as we've seen, did they shine through look at i think it's possible to have both positions, if you're a member of the japanese public, best supporting thereafter rates loving the fact that they winning a lot of gold medals. but at the same time, they are still questioning the wisdom of pushing on with these games in the middle of a pandemic. the 31 cases within the athletes village people connected to the games today that also a new high and 23 of those cases on athletes that people who live outside of the athletes village could be volunteers. a contract work has for example. so this line

that the organism attaining that there's no provable link between what's happening within that's quote unquote, by a secure bubble of the lympics in the water communities is increasingly difficult to maintain. they will cite things like the tv writings show. it's a good thing to have these games going on during the pandemic because the tv right things are heading new highs and that's shows that people are staying at home perhaps level. so i made a point to saying that within people directly connected to the games and one person with carpet 19 has actually been hospitalized. so they're not seeing that they've put under pressure on the health services. but time and time again, we spoke with rapid amy ologist, see say the lympics are a problem. even if there isn't not provable link, it's making people feel relaxed, optimistic, and the underestimating. just how serious the situation is. now in japan and richardson, what's in perspective for us there from tokyo? thank you, andy. there has been chaos and confusion at vaccination centers in the philippines that have tough new restrictions to lockdown. and the capital manila has begun

following a search in cases, but earlier thousands of people lined up for their jobs, fearing they wouldn't be allowed to leave home for work. for example, if they weren't fully vaccinated, officials that have since clarified that, that is not the case. i know that 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 enhance community warranty. and if they keep extending the lockdown, who would provide our meals, if we can go out and see it from gabriel's scholarly visiting professor of public health at the university of bristol, in the united kingdom, who says there is a rush to beat the buyers in case it develops immunity to vaccine. the world health organization has got a point here. we've got a real in equity in terms of the distribution,

the availability of vaccines to populations around the world. and on the face of it, it goes in completely wrong. the country should be starting to use up their faxing manufacturing capacity to produce booster shots for they already vaccinated when there's such a need for vaccine. i think the other thing that needs to happen is we really do need to make progress on the discussions that have gone on for some months now, but not made enough progress about getting the waiver for the the peyton, for the intellectual property rights and the vaccine so we have enough vaccine making capacity wrong the world to produce a lot more vaccines. but as long as the companies that control the intellectual property rights don't allow other companies to start making the vaccine, we are missing out on a major opportunity to provide many, many more vaccines for the world. the more the virus spreads in the world, the more cases there are, the more opportunities there are for the virus to mutate and the virus mutates all

the time. now, most of those mutations don't amount to anything and they don't give the virus any, any advantage. so they don't to merge of of dominant variant. but there is the big risk of the risk that scientists across the world extraordinarily worried. but is that we will get a new generation of various that will combine the increased infectiousness of the delta variant with also an increased ability to dodge some of the immunity that has been granted by vaccination. couple of other places to tell you about melbourne, australia 1st, which has been put into 6th lockdown authorities, a trying to trace the source of mystery cove. in 19 cases, not everyone in the city. they are happy about the new restrictions that have been protests. also, sidney is reported, its highest number of new infections, australia as a whole, really struggling to bring. it's still the outbreak under control. despite these snap locked downs and border closures, the latest measures mean more than half of australian population has been ordered

to stay at home and his anger in france after the government made it mandatory for health workers to get back to native hospital staff have held a demonstration in the sudden city of my se, frances health minutes to face those not vaccinated by next month. the risk not being paid. we're on to other news in a wildfire that reached the compound of the coal field. power plant and south with turkey has finally been contained, after raging for more than 11 hours, strong winds drove the fire toward the chemical pot power plant in moonlight province. navy landing crofts were deployed to help evacuate residence by sea. at least 8 people have been killed and dozens of want 5 across turkey. here is russell started in mila. close to that power plant has been managed to be put out, but the boundary is still far from over because the window are quite thrown here. and they may yet carry the fires into the plan's court. and if that happened,

that will not just 3 good as an exposure, but also a, probably a about a mental crisis as well. do authorities, how am feed the hydrogen tanks that were used to cool down the, the plant and it has been filled with the water as precaution. all the stuff have been created and the power plant was on the or you and the fire as well. it's very much close to the residential areas. then you can hear that the helicopter and the water bonding planes are carrying the water and putting that into the wooden piece and the residential areas around there's. there's this plan, as i said, the vendor is still far from over because there are many fire steel nearby. dozens of people have been evacuated from the greek island of via where a wildfire is burning in the forest. private boats helped get evacuation to the

mainland. this fire has destroyed at least a 150 homes on the island. local politicians have complained about a lack of resources. then over the border homes have been damaged by 5 in north macedonia. they've been threatening the city of china, but were extinguished in recent dollars. several 100 hacked as a forest were burned in some animals were killed. 2 4th street workers have been killed fighting fires in bulgaria. this happened in the region of sundance gay but wildfire the raging across the country up to 240 new ones are cropping up every day . care he's been going through a heat wave in the past street with temperatures hovering around 40 degrees. and in the united states, a false moving wildfire rode through a town in northern california. the dixie fires at school has been burning for 3 weeks. it was wicked, up by strong wind that hit the town of greenville evacuation. most of the downtown area has been destroyed. the heat was so intense of street lights melted and bent to the grounds. now the new climate data shows last month was the 3rd hot of

july ever recorded. if you want to draw a line between all of this, the observation made by scientists, the european union's copernicus, surface. unusually high temperatures were noted in regions from finland to the united states. i said, despite the swings from year to year, there is an underlying warming trend across the globe. it means the for hottest julys on record. have been in the last 5 years. in the news, the head from a struggling economy to global isolation. we're looking at the challenges facing iran's new president of the take office later today and a cup coffee a day could get cancer away. the details coming up of a landmark study. ah, ah, it's time for the journey with sponsored by cattle airways.

all of a sudden the western pacific is full little tropical circulation. one active one's really the sas, jonathan loop. it. but these 3 are also tropical depressions loop. it's the one to watch. so that's just about now making landfills that the interest of the land of the fund or the grand dog for gen and this storm dies don't particularly strong with winds or 65 kilometers per hour is slow. moving and is hanging on the coast was gathering moisture all the time is potential for flooding is really caught extreme and it'll keep the coastal waters full of highways and pretty rough. so that part of china in particular, not looking a good prospect. the next 2 or 3 days for the rest of eastern. sure, well this is circulation is one significant, one will mean it increasing b, b wet. and certainly schubert read all the limbic, then using a good part of southern han shoot. whereas the korean peninsula eps apart. from a few showers and most the rest of china proper fusion is much dry. as a comparison, the model soon made i thought they were easing ryan,

mature pradesh and the strongest on. they are in the structure job, but this circulation is persistent. there is flooding here that will continue, is more noble whether we're way down the western gaps to canada or e wet sponsor, cut on airways, a crime that shook japan, or people get killed on one occasion in as bloody a massacre as this was, attracts a lot of report, there was just a current drum. who did it? who did it? who did it? have the conviction that led to the world's longest help, destro prisoner, and his sister's 47 year long battle to save him from execution. witness. how come madame japan's death row on a josie? ah, ah,

the ah. top story, our own algae, the are the number of new daily corona virus infections of tokyo is going to about 5000. but the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic, japan government now extended emergency measures to a more region. and the number of recorded cases around the world is now past 200000000. took a year to reach the 1st 100000000 infections, but that number has doubled in just 6 months. and a 15 to reach the compound of a cold fuel power plant in southwest turkey has finally been contained after reggie for more than 11 out at least 80 people have been killed in the dozens of wild pies across to now the bodies of ethiopian a washing up in neighboring c 9 and believe they are the victims of the war and

ethiopian ticker, i region where i write scripts i atrocities have been committed. heber morgan reports now from what he lou incidents casala region for almost a week. now deborah, him say, give us those and if you can, farmer incidence eastern casela state has been playing the role of grave digger, the banks of the city river that flows between the 2 countries has been carrying the bodies of europeans. he says are from home era in take i where a conflict has been reaching for nearly a year. now. they're not dining with an audible parent that were runner. we were called in about 5 days back when the 1st bodies started appearing. since then, we've been burning people nearly daily, most come with their hands tied behind their backs. some had gunshot wounds in the head, others in the back, we buried more than 40, so for my god, now you. the bodies were found at the end of last week, a few days after dozens of new refugees from take. i arrived at the reception center income home at i need the border with dan is one of the few areas still

under the control of the fuel government and her militia. but the 2 grand defense forces took over the capital, mickely, and other major cities weeks ago. some of the new arrivals they witnessed hundreds trying to escape home era and were killed and thrown into the river. legacy says he was part of the group that found some of the bodies and buried them whirlwind and in a hurry, we were told by refugees that people were being killed and thrown in the river. then we found the bodies hands tied behind their back. some shot in the chest, something on the head. we knew there were 2 grains from whom error. most of the graves were dug, just meet us from the river. there are several burial sites like this one along the city river, each with different numbers of bodies. but people here and would then hello say not all those found in the river were pulled out. and while the bodies of those who die plank to escape to great buried here, there are reports of similar graves in the region where the death toll is unknown. since the thought of the conflict in november last year,

there has been accusations by rights, groups of atrocities, by the wearing parts of the motor. many to grant have reported being targeted for the committee, raising concerns of ethnic cleansing and genocide. at least 2000000 people have been displeased and 60000 have fled to sedan communications. black out continues and humanitarian organizations say more than 5000000 people are in need of aid. 7 if you pm here, including deborah attempts, i said the hope they work would now be over. but he knows as long as the conflict continues into gray, they'll be more bodies to bury on both sides of the border. he but morgan august era, would that helio cause i don't? oh, in, in afghanistan, security forces are fighting defensive battles. of the taliban pushes to recapture . to capture regional capitals. ground troops of repelling attacks on multiple fronts of taliban find his advance on head up to come to ha and lush. go. we've

been backed up by strikes from the ask an air force and more special forces of arrived in helmand as well. where the taliban is been fighting in the heart of the provincial capital. more for me to manage it. a james space. he's in cobble 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 it's continuing in the provincial capital laska got where the taliban had been in the heart of the city. well, 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 alaska. 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 journalists 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 they're 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 mere whites 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'd made some progress pushing the taliban back. but i can tell you that has been fresh fighting in herat in recent hours. the taliban seem to be overnight told, pushing in for multiple directions towards the center of the city, grief anger and demands for justice of triggered st. battles in bay route. one year

after a catastrophic port explosion in the lebanese capital, as yet no senior official has been held to account for the tragedy which killed more than 200 people. that has report any of us. 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 the bay 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 flame 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, the handle fight is going to the port a had no fear, had nothing but they wanted. they wanted to help everyone. and this is what you're

trying to do to move all these politicians 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 over start for a new level and 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, protesters 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 say they believe the political class has not just destroyed the city but destroyed 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 and mismanagement, 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 there, osha bailed. and then is produced a special program one year on from the port disaster that next screening. the full report by roots search for answers is today, thursday 1430 g m t. so that's about 3 hours from now. and of course, had set out a 0 dot com and on youtube channel, now runs new president abraham racy will be sworn in later on thursday, he comes into office facing multiple challenges regional tensions of filtering

economy. a resurgent corona virus outbreak of bang look that all of that i hearing the election campaign, the state of the economy dominated 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. more at mann middle, that 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 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. 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 mayberry,

me raise the once with anxious, listed that the only way they're going to be listed. 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 . that i mean what the age of 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 senior ron's nuclear facilities attacked. the country's top scientist assassinated and a conservative leg parliament responding by restricting international inspections on the wrong nuclear facilities. braimer is seen as the chosen candidate of the political establishment. oh, but if he cannot address immediate and pressing issues of the economy and sanctions, he's picked a future and ascendancy could be effected. i said big i just 0. now brazil, top court has decided the president should be investigated for making unproven

claims of electrical fraud. gyal scenario has been stepping up as attacks on the electronic voting system and what type of balance that next year of election, he says the investigation is unconstitutional. critic phase just trying to cast doubt on the system in case he loses. the mexican government is suing us, gun makers for negligence. after saying at least $17000.00 homicides can be traced back to american weapons. some of the biggest names in guns are being sued, including colds, and smith and wesson. government says the gun makers are directly affecting the lives of mexicans. know much of the world enjoys the beer or glass of wine, but a new studies found that alcohol is linked to more cancers than previously thought . research as an imperial college london, found drinking is connected to a number of kansas including goes in the head and neck. the bow, breast, and liver. alcohol can cause mutations in dna and can increase levels of hormones linked to breast cancer. on the other hand, at least one cup of coffee,

it was found to protect against liver cancer. but a me through is the director of research and innovation at the world cancer research funded. and she told us, besides the missing alcohol consumption, a healthy diet really is the best way to prevent cancer. what day we have seen and we start the also saw that the, even a we say increasing one capital coffee decreases your k over continental believer and based on cell carcinoma of this game. more side, this will need to happening in order to make an involved. but there are some mechanisms implement the properties and the all to them. they may be linked. why didn't you make coffee? may so that protection. so what is important? remember that, you know, the to be everything we can see. we're not here to blame anyone. and we have analyzed, but i will come to find all the evidence on,

on different types of force and the body as well. and what we have seen is that we have at least the cancer prevention recommendations. so if you follow a healthy diet that trying to register policies and whole grains. if you leave your alcohol consumption coverage, healthy ways and they be physically active, the more benefits you may have when it comes to comes to prevention. ah, half of the out here and out of the are, these are the headlines. the number of new daily corona virus infections in tokyo is gone past 5000. for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic, the search is filled by the more contagious delta variant. japan government now extended emergency measures to 8.