levels enters the world of footballing legend press drag push. each 2 went from coaching boys, football to teaching young men life. frederick push each of the seizure sarajevo on al jazeera. ah ah, rebels in northern ethiopia take control of the ancient ton of la baylor. the conflict spreads into neighboring regions. ah, hello and welcome peter w. watching al jazeera alive from headquarters here is also coming up every him, right. you see is sworn in the wrongs you president. the former judge appeals for unity and reconciliation perilously close to a power plant,

a turkish wildfires brought under control preventing what could have been catastrophic damage plus on the richardson at the tokyo olympics, where covered 19 cases in the host city of new high helping 5000 for the 1st time, ah, to grind rebels, any c o p sleeping sucks and they've taken control of the ancient ton of la beta, the unesco will heritage site represents a symbolic victory, but it's also the furthest the rebels of reached. after the conflict widened into neighboring regions, rebels made significant gains at the end of june, forcing government troops to withdraw. malcolm web has moved out from my ruby resident and others have told us that fighters from the gray region of entered the historic town lolly, better. there were rumors that they were closed and local residents over the last

week. some of the residents that they've had gunfire. at night, but they say it's normal to to have some gunfire at night there. but then just in the last few hours, resident said they could see the, the gray and people liberation from fighters getting close. busy and then just to show a while ago, they've taken control of the town to town with a population of 20000 people. but it couldn't be of great religious and cultural and historical significance. a 100 years old, full of ancient church. and in a holy site for years, millions of orthodox christine. but it is also, as will appears to be a significant incursion on the part of the grand people's liberation funds from the north, coming into the territory of the enemy. they've been fighting with a mar of militia to the south, and now it seems they have taken control of the town as well inside the enemy

territory. but it, careful to remember that in this conflict, the wrong contingent front lines to speak of people control the town here and other, other control the town that we can't, we can't get it how much surgery is taken. but certainly this is as far as we've known, they've take taking the town into the enemy's territory so far that conflict could have been spreading into the m r afar regions in the last few weeks. well, the bodies to be c o. p ends of washing up in neighboring sudan is believe the victims of the war in the to great region where it writes group say, atrocities are being committed. it morgan reports now from what l. hulu in sedans, casala region for almost a week. now. deborah, tim, say deborah castillo's 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 whom at our intake i wear

a conflict has been waiting for nearly a year. now. the latter dining with an audible telephone had that we're going to, we were called in about 5 days back when the 1st bodies started appearing. since then, we've been burying 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 4, 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 and i need the border with sudan is one of the few areas still under the control of the few pink government and her emily, shes but the 2 grand defense forces took over the capitol, 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 and some shot in the chest. some of the hint we knew there were 2 grains, from whom error. most of the graves were dug just neat from the river. there are several burial sites like this one along the city river, each with different numbers of bodies. but people here in, within 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 thoughts 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 city, raising concerns of ethnic cleansing and genocide. at least 2000000 people have been displaced and 60000 have fled to sedan. a communications blackout continues and humanitarian organization same more than 5000000 people are in need of aid. 7 if you pm here, including the right hand side,

they'd be hope their 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, iran's new president, has pushed a message of national unity and reconciliation during his inauguration, speaking just after he was sworn in abraham. racy also said his country's nuclear program was peaceful and the pressure and sanctions wouldn't deter the iranian people. right? you see facing several challenges as he enters office, including regional tensions and economic downturn, and course the global pandemic. the iranian this nuclear program is phase full based, full peaceful nuclear weapon has nothing to do with the policy, the strategy of iran, the bread shows and sanctions will never let down the iranian people we will defend our right in scientific development

sanctions on the iranian should come to an end, i'll just here with aaliyah shames in say around. he was listening to what mr. racy had to say. the main take away from brain rice is features that is going to concentrate more in front of foreign policy on regional neighbors. he said he's going to extend his government extended the hand of friendship to the regional neighborhoods at the same time with respect to the west is going to listen to initiatives to solve the nuclear problem. busy problem, however, with respect to the nuclear program, it's not going to be at any time other than a peaceful program. this is what this is what he said 3 times. and then he repeated that his country would always prohibits producing. you can reference. this is on

the foreign policy side from the other side, the side internal side. it was all for trying to say this is going to be the conciliation governments that extend to hand to other people to other lines of thought in the country. moderate reform is, this is, this is a way on another attempt in order to spot and you phase, as you said, the country is facing, you're trying to make prices the, the country is also in the middle of real foreign threats, as he said. and there are a lot of challenges on this, on this front. so this is what you see was trying to present himself to the people off it on and also put out to the foreign, maybe attendees. i spoke to the film of white house national security official, hillary man leverett, she says mr. ac face is

a huge challenge. i think the elevation of now president, right, you see into his position is enormously important. he may be one of the most important presidents in iran, modern history because he is likely to be the person next in line to become supreme leader. so he has an enormously difficult and enormously consequential challenge in front of him, which is to bring the country together, essentially to steady the ship internally domestically within the region and even on the international stage, to usher iran into a new era. i have, i wish the current supreme leader i told a i wish him good health and a long life, but in an age of coded and with the supreme leader is increasing age. the country in iran and in the world has to really prepare for the next supreme leader and that it's very likely to be abraham. right. easy. so he has an enormous challenge in

terms of the mundane kept a running any kind of country. but he also has these enormous aspirational tasks for an entire people to bring them into a new era. israel defense minister, any gun says one, they're ready to strike iran in response to a drone attack on an oil tanker off the coast of amount a week ago. warning comes as israel urges the un to take action. 2 people were killed in the attack, the us, the u. k. and others back israel's assertion that iran was responsible, but h leaders deny being involved or the adult, i mean, as mono from west jerusalem. well, certainly it's been a tense week and i think that the political military and intelligence leadership would have been actually listening very carefully to what do you new iranian president had to say? there has been a lot of rhetoric coming out of israel ever since that tanker, which is really managed, was attacked about a week ago in the gulf of

a man. israel immediately immediately pointed the finger at iran and then you had that pension. the board has been ongoing for the past few days. rockets being fired from southern lebanon into israel, and israel retaliated a lot of posturing. a lot of tough words. we heard all to the same tough words from prime minister enough. the better to said the same thing along what began said israel, israel would be ready to go ahead and attack iran on his own. however, there is also a lot of diplomatic effort going on yesterday. the foreign minister has met with the passengers of the security council members. he put forward to prove that iran was behind the attack on the oil tankers are certainly next to the very house where the harsh with rhetoric you also have

a sort of diplomatic initiative to get everybody on board israel knowing very well that despite all these words going alone eventually in the attack on iran could cost it a lot. still to come here on this program, the afghan government to switch his strategy as the taliban steps up its campaign to take majors. this is also trying to make ends meets my charities, and bending the dash are struggling to help communities, effective by cobit linking. ah them to the back of a bit. and saudi arabia, from the reco breaking 50 drama of a couple of days ago. so when the high forty's is too high and it should be for a q h and iraq on the western side of iran, the winds on particularly strong,

which means it's usually quite human around the gulf states. so that's a continuing story. and he really is the, the main story anyway at this time, the, the particularly bad as you know up in turkey. so we're focused briefly on turkey where you might, if you look closely, see a change no longer the forty's. now, the 30, the onshore breeze later on 1st into friday means it'll be cooler, at least around the coast. but the change in the wind direction means the fire has be blown back upon themselves if we're lucky, which means of nothing more to burn. this is generally good news and the addition to the wind changing direction, the greater chance of developing showers in the sky. not many may be on friday, but by the time you get to saturday is a much good shot, and they all throughout western and southern turkey, a good dampening feel. now the monsoon rains in somali on a mold, not just catching the edge, but there's a big increase in the sharp potential in ethiopia and further west as far west as

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welcome back. you're watching out with your reminder about top stories this our fighters from ethiopia to cry region had taken control the b u, and will heritage site of land baylor, in the neighboring region of i'm hora, the runs, the president says his country's nuclear program is peaceful and the pressure and sanctions were to turn in the iranian people. abraham bracy made the comments just after he was one in israel, defense municipal against this one. they're ready to strike the iran in response to a drone attack on an oil tanker off the coast of amount a week ago. when it comes as israel urges the united nations to take action. a while time that reached the compound of a coal fuel power plant in the southwest of turkey has finally been contained up to raging for more than 11 hours. strong winds drove the fire towards the chemical power plant in the province of mood for navy landing craft deployed to health evacuated residents by sea. at least 8 people have been killed in thousands of

wildfires across turkey. vessel setup is near that power plant in that area. it's called mill us. and since the authorities are doing everything they can to stop the core from catching fire. we are in, in, in the village of cameras. and mill us where the power plant is and you can see that behind me, that is the maximum distance that we can approach. because the security p at the security forces are 100 people from getting closer to the power plant. but as it is still too risky, there has been reports of the wildfires in the surrounding areas of the power plants through the last couple of days. but yesterday that was at the blame. the blazes came to a very critical distance early in the morning, and then it has been taken under the control. but at afternoon the flames returned back and the fire fighters managed to put them also out. but at the nighttime, the, the 3rd wave came and it was the most critical one, because for the 1st time,

the fires got into the terminal power plant. so it has been through the or that the heart a force and work it has been managed to be put out, but there are still many fires nearby. and given the current, these, the weather conditions, the strong winds, it can be carried out into the power the power plants court. and if that happens, it will not only trigger an explosion, but probably, and white a mantle disaster as well. well, at a 100 wild size, raging across greece, the major lie on the island of every r has 40 evacuation of hundreds of people. 165 fights is a battling that plays more being flown in from france in other areas. firefights is managed to save archaeological sites, from approaching claims and a major blaze, and the athens is also now been put out zane bus. robbie's in athens,

he says the wildfires a spreading and they show no sign of slowing down. indeed, the fires in the north of athens had been put out. but let me show you where we're at. now. we've come back to the north of athens and just earlier today, fires re ignited and from of, from the high ground up here. you can get a sense of how serious and how bad the situation is. right now. what we're looking at down in that valley, just at the base of the party for mountains. that is the area of very bobby, the town there. korea naughty, there are 3 active wildfires there that we know of. we actually saw another one bubbling up along the base of the mountain on the way up. another fire that was emerging and starting, those are 3 very active and the government says very dangerous forest fires. they have re ignited on the same day that it was announced that the fires that had been going on for 48 hours had actually been put out. if you look at how high the smoke is rising and how quickly the flames are spreading, the smoke is so high up in the air, someone commented that it looked more like a mushroom cloud from a massive explosion than an ash cloud from a fire. and if you look ahead,

you can see how close the flames are spreading to major populated areas. we knew the 2 areas had been ordered to be evacuated immediately. but if you look down there, those white houses with the roof that you're seeing in front of you, those are all an area known as korea, natty and a resident who has joined us up here on the high ground has just said he's come from there. and they've ordered that area evacuated as well. so the circumstances here in the north of athens, very serious, no less serious around the rest of the country area. major evacuations ordered there, as well as in southern greece and the palate. one is and in multiple areas, new climate data has revealed that july was the 3rd hottest month ever on record. you scientists say they, they were unusually high temperatures in regions stretching from finland to the united states. they say there's an underlying warming trend around the world. the for hottest julys have now been taking place in the past 5 years. oh, i enough gan installed the

security forces fighting defensive battles as the taliban pushed to capture regional capitals. grand forces have been repelling attacks on multiple fronts as taliban fighters advance on her at kandahar and laska gar. they've been backed up by strikes from the afghan air force. more special forces have arrived in helmand where the taliban has been fighting in the heart of the provincial capital. the un says afghan histones health system is struggling to cope with civilian casualties. i can tell you that we're deeply concerned about the safety and protection of people in law, chicago, in the south, where tens of thousands of people could be trapped by the fighting or humanitarian colleagues also tell us that in helman, in kandahar they are reported, increased civilian casualties, destruction or damage to civilian houses, as well as to critical infrastructure, including hospitals, hospitals and health workers are becoming overwhelmed by the number of wounded

people. diplomatic as a james space has more now on the facing from cobble the lot happening in the south and in the west of afghanistan. and as has been the focus for some days, 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 go where the 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 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 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 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 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. chin as he is and other party has signaled the shift in its view. on the recent political crisis, their leader, russia gucci, led opposition to president. case blades freezing

a parliament last month, repeatedly calling it a coon. but a statement from his party on wednesday labelled intervention now as an open unity to reform. while mr. sage is expected to announce a new premier. as soon there's been no timeframe on how and when they get to that point, whether you know, we could have had a different alternative to the decisions the president made. he dealt with the situation badly. dating this time as an opportunity to unify ourselves. then you to find that you knew the people behind us and open dialogue with everybody starting with the president. since he is the elected president and has legitimacy the bell, a russian olympic sprinter, christina seminar, sky, us as she fears for her life, if she's forced to return home me 24 year old has spoken publicly. after taking refuge in poland saying she's quite happy to be in safety. the athlete claim she was taken to tokyo's hernida airport against her will on sunday, after she publicly criticized her coaches. i feel myself. my brothers are

here. i feel the same and 50 and a lot of people support me here. and my husband, he's already enrolled by car to the poll and so i will read him today and he will be here maybe with me. so i just read the number of new daily corona virus infections in tokyo has gone about 5000 the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic. the search is fuel by the more contagious delta barons, japanese government has extended emergency measures to 8 more regions. and richardson is in tokyo, he says pandemic fatigue is setting in among locals 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 and the state of emergency here in so care has already been extended until the end of the month. that's significant from a supporting perspective, at least because they were hoping to allow fans and spectators in after the start

of that event. it's still possible, or they could get them in the final few days because apparently picks runs until september, but it's looking increasingly unlikely. and the reason covet 19 figures have been relatively low until 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 1990, 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, it's not a law or an old us i with it with a bit of panoramic 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. so this line that the organism, it's happening that there's no provable link between what's happening within that's

quote unquote, by a secure bubble of the lympics in the wider community. it is increasingly difficult to maintain and an easier to seeing a spike in case is there and it's health system is struggling. jessica washington with more now 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 endeavor to 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 the current death, tall, 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. now the constitutional court in france has today ruled that mandatory cobit 19 health policies, quotes largely comply with the republic funding charter. the pos allows access to

public venues for those who have vaccinated, recovered, or who have tested negative opponent, say it goes against civil liberties. thousands have been protesting over the last 2 weekends. cobit 19 has left thousands of people unemployed and homeless in bangladesh. several charities are struggling to stay open, despite extended restrictions, cassia lopez for young reports. this is one of the few food charities still operating on the streets of dunker. in a day it will feed more than 2000 people, many unemployed because of covered 19 they include security guard drivers and domestic workers. and among the group, there's also more homeless children because of our money, i can tell to the adults that there's no for me. but how can you tell that the little children over the last year and a half kids who come here? they've become our family charities,

like men cannot depend on donations when bangladesh for shut down because of the pandemic last year there were hundreds of volunteer groups. but corona virus fatigue has got in and people are now let's willing to donate. not everyone here is without a job, but many have seen their earning slashed a little over a dollar a day for money. i'm a poor man on for months. i've been suffering the effects of locked down. there is barely any income. that's why i come here to eat without guilt. as the delta vary and fuels assertion inception, some people have had to leave their job and take care of their sick relatives. many businesses, schools and government offices have shut down and hundreds of thousands of people are now unemployed. around 4 and a half 1000000 people in bangladesh work in the textile industry. but cobit 19 has force many factories to close. while the government has allowed some to reopen a full recovery, seems a long way off. for workers, there are some hope,

but they don't know how long it will last them. here we can eat without worrying about the next day. before i knew about this place, i spent 2 days lying inside a pox bus. literally starving. many are left wandering the streets of the bandwidth she, capital charities like the can provide with often the only meal of the day. a little bit of the young al jazeera ah, recapping your top stories here on al jazeera to grind rebels in northern ethiopia, have taken control of the ancient town of labella. that's the unesco world heritage site. the conflict has widened into neighboring regions over recent weeks. malcolm web has more now from nairobi. o residence and others have told us that fighters from the.