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$200000000.00 cobra 19 infections, the health crisis gets worse in se asia plus i'm the richardson at the tokyo olympics were covered 19 cases in the host city of new high talking 5000 for the 1st time. also this half of all new cars must be electric by 2030, but are americans ready for job by the promise of a revolution on american roads? some town homes not have all the access from tokyo, where there's been a massive upset in the mens. 110 meter heard the final well tempered is beaten. ah. our top story here on the news to grow and rebels in northern europe. you have taken control of the ancient ton of la bailer, the unesco world heritage site represents a symbolic victory, but it's also

a significant incursion to the suff. after the conflict widened into neighboring regions, rebels made gains at the end of june, forcing government troops to withdraw. malcolm web has worn out from nairobi, resident and others have told us that fighters from the degree region of entered the historic town lot better. there were rumors that they were closed from 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's liberation from finances getting close. 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 greater religious and cultural and historical significance a 100 years old, full of ancient church and in a holy site, 4 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 could taken control of the town as well inside the enemy, parents. even careful to remember that in this conflict there on contingent front lines to speak of the people control town here and other other control the town that we can't we can't guess it how much surgery is taken. but certainly this is as far as we've known, they've take, they've taken 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, violence broke out in november when the c a p, and prime minister of the med sent troops to fight the to grow people's liberation front or t p l f. the rib dominated national politics before matt came to power by the end

of november of asked me that i'm the military operation. integrate was complete and the government had taken over the regional capital. medically, the conflict took a stunning turn in june when the to grind forces retook medically and government soldiers withdrew. now since then, the rebels suppressed into afar region in the east and am hora in the north. displacing more than 250000 people. the bodies of the 3 opens, killed in the violence of washing up in neighboring sudan is believed that the victims of the war in the tick roy region where human rights group, se atrocities are being committed, al jazeera, hipaa, morgan reports now from what l. hulu. in sedans, casela region for almost a week now get with him, say, give it a quarter of stores. and if you can, farmer incidence eastern castle estate 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 air intake i wear

a conflict has been reaching for nearly a year. now. the latter dining with an audible hunter, had our runa, 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 for 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 in the near the border with sudan 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 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. some shot in the chest, somebody 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 trying to escape to great buried here, there are reports of similar graves in the region where the death toll is unknown. since this part 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. if you pants here, including deborah attempts,

i said the 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. okay, let's try and put what's going on in labella into some sort of context for you. joining us can hear the news. is the local journalist out of this avalon samuel get a choice, samuel, great to have you back on the news lately, baylor is strategically important or is this all about the symbolism really? but for us, a gets a historical site that was recognized by unit schools. it was visited by the head of states including the french president, mac on, and the president of ireland. and the last few years at a touch, i talked to the talk to thousands of tourists and the last few years. so. busy it's important to get this in the heart of the region and maybe 300 meters away from the

capital, which is large. and it's us. i mean it's very important to be for a field. so who controls largely, baylor, they controlling the conflict. well, to begin with, you know, nothing is can be verified in your bed of a difficult state, especially for the media. there has been occupations back and forth claims counterclaims. there was us, even in the last week they were saying it was taken over by the pdf but was proven to be wrong. but this seems to be, you know, likely to be right, that the p d. f, as in libra law and has taken over the city, according to credible reports from even international media. it is a town of several 1000 people. it's a decent size, clearly is any word getting out as to what's going on inside the city.

for us, we know, you know, there's communications. we've been calling sources. they're telling us it's very come. the conflict was happening outside of labor law. in the suburbs, there has been lots of fighting killings and but then lottie, but everything seems to be calm. i've been calling friends and colleagues and sources. they're telling us it's very come. but they will. they're also saying that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of soldiers that are moonlighting the city and, and, you know, going around the city and making sure that it is indeed under their control. if they've taken it, can they keep it? i mean, can they hold onto it? well, like everything and everything is unpredictable. if you had said a month ago, the t d t d f would get even close to nearly bella. i would have no doubt to you.

but now here they are in the heart of the hum our region. so everything is, i mean, we can predict what's happening in the field there. this is a developing story that conflicts begun in november and it's still going on. and no one have would have predicted that t d f would have even taken over mccully. but, you know, here we are within the field. everything seems to be unpredictable at the moment, but this conflict is continuing to talk. so many people, thousands of people live in those heading for the sudan. if this gives them a bigger footprint, literally across the geography of the region, a bigger footprint than they've had to date. what's your sense as to the possible direction of travel, of this conflict? but you have to know nearly bella is as close to get to border, which is the governing city of morrow region. so. busy this gives them the confidence, you know,

i've been watching the social media pages of the prime minister, even the spokesperson of pdf. get out. so read up to see any kind of reaction. but again, we're watching or from a distance, but i mean lolly, but i mean that's getting, i mean they're getting close and this company said move on. it's facing thousands of people. but the fact is, this conflict doesn't seem to have an end, because if molly, well, i could be claimed by them. i don't think there's an end in sight. ok, we must leave it there. samuel, really good to get your thoughts again here on the news. many thanks for joining us, samuel gets to the dentist and add up about last more still to come for you here on the news. including trying to make me quite charities in bangladesh, the struggling to help communities affected by cobra. 19 june, as he has biggest political policy signals, a change and approached the sacking of the government and in sports garage. he

makes it so limited in the spiritual home of japanese marshal ah, ah, runs and president has appealed to national unity and reconciliation during his inauguration speaking just after being sworn in apprehend. racy also said his country's nuclear program was peaceful and the pressure and sanctions wouldn't deter the people of iran, racy face. he several challenges as he and his office, including regional tensions and economic downturn, and the global pandemic. the iranian, this nuclear program is peaceful. these 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 to the heroes alley hush ems into iran. he was listening to racy. the main take away from brain rice is features that is going to concentrate more in follow the foreign policy on regional neighbors. the said he's going to extend to government has 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 problem 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 weapons. this is on the foreign

policy side. from the other side, the side, the internal side, it was also 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, a spacing economy prices. the country is also in the middle of really foreign stress 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 up to the foreign maybe i've been lately i spoke to the former white house national security official, hillary man leverett, she told me mr. racy is not facing

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, ayatollah common 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 ever humor 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's defense minister, if any gun says one, they are ready to strike iran in response to a drone attack on an oil tanker off the coast of amount. a week ago, the warning came, as israel urged, the united nation is to take action. 2 people were killed in the attack, the u. s. u k, and other countries backing the israeli assertion that iran was responsible, but its leaders deny being involved for the abil. hamid has more now 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 borders been ongoing for the past few days. rockets being fired from southern lebanon into israel, and israel retail getting a lot of posturing. a lot of tough words. we've heard alter the say tough words from prime minister enough. the better to said the same thing along what began said, that 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 in yellow bead has met with the messengers of the security council members. he put forward to prove that iran was behind the attack on the oil tankers was certainly next to the very harsh word, 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 a lot. soon as he is in either party has signaled a shift in its view on the political crisis, their leader, russia galucci, let the opposition to president case aid's freezing of parliament last month, repeatedly calling it a qu. but a statement from his party on wednesday, as labelled intervention as an opportunity to reform, while mr. saeed is expected to announce any premie. as soon as we know timeframe on getting to that point where 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 and you decide 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. sam kimball has more now from genius. it seems, some of them were dissatisfied with the course of the discussion on the parties. politics, as some members of the party left, the meeting midway through. and some have said that the the party has not taken a hard enough stance against the president's actions. this comes just days after the parties youth committee has put out statements urging for the creation of a newer, younger leadership, as well as a serious review of the parties politics this morning. the sac to prime minister. he's embassies, you with seen in video at the national anti corruption authority declaring officially declaring his assets and properties. and this is after an absence since an absence from public view,

just since just before the president's declarations on july 25th. and this has this wage, some worries about his whereabouts. by civil society. at least 20 chatty in troops had been killed and attacked by a suspected bucko, her arm fighters. it happened in an island in the lake chad region. booker rom, and a rival splinter group, had been using the area to launch attacks in china and its neighboring countries format, shandey and president it re, debbie, died in april, during fighting against rebels in northern chat with the number of new daily corona, virus infections in tokyo, has gone above 5000 for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic cases in the olympics host city arising faster than ever. fueled by the more contagious delta variant, more widely japan's government has extended emergency measures to 8 more regions.

altos hills and richardson is there. he says, pandemic fatigue is not setting in among local people. 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 sporting perspective, at least because they were hoping to, to allow fans and spectators in after the start of that event. 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 reason carpet 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 emergencies 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 balls to close early. it's not a law or an order. so with, with a bit of pandemic, 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 bicycle bubble of the lympics in the wider community is increasingly difficult to maintain. big numbers of indonesians are dying at home, unable to get hospital care or medical oxygen, as the health system buckles their indonesia is now the epicenter of asia's outbreak with an official death tow that exceeds 100000. a quarter of a 1000000 infections have been recorded in the last week alone. jessica washington has moved out 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 the 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, as 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 epidemiologist 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 affects the nation with low rates of testing and with health care facilities that struggle under normal circumstances could 19, has left thousands of people unemployed and homeless in bangladesh. several charities are struggling to stay open despite extended restrictions. catcher, lopez has gone 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. we just put our money and i can tell to the adults that there is no for me. but how can you tell that little children over the last year and a half kids who come here? they've become our family charities like mim on connor depend on donations when bangladesh for shut down because of the pandemic last year, there were hundreds of volunteer groups. but corona virus fatigue tested in people are now less willing to donate. not everyone here is without a job, but many have seen their earning slashed to little over a dollar a day. i took my money. i'm a poor man for months. i've been suffering the effects of locked down. there is barely any income why i come here to eat without guilt. as the delta vary and fuels assertion inception, some people have had to leave their jobs and take care of their 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 covert 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 pock bus. literally starving, many are left wandering the streets of the bangladesh, a capital looking charities like the can provide with often the only meal of the day. a little bit of the young al jazeera, a russian court has found a prominent us investor, michael calvary guilty of embezzlement calvin, one of russia's best known for on business. and he's the founder of

a private equity group bearing vall, stock he, along with some associates were detained in 2019. and the fraud charges linked to high profile investments. calbee who denies any wrongdoing, was under house arrest in moscow for 19 months. still to come here on the news. a mega fire wipes out of town in northern california would be live on the ground with the latest. also ahead expressing were more to bitter enemies from columbia as long running conflicts appear in front of the victims. and in sport will tell you why the people have reason to celebrate ah them to the back of a bit in 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 optically strong, which means it's usually quite humans around the gulf states. so that's a continuing story. and he really is the, the main story anyway, this time the, the particularly bad as you know up in turkey. so focus briefly on turkey where you might, if you look closely, see a change no longer the forty's. now the 30, the on shore 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 there's nothing more to burn. this is generally good news. and in addition to the wind changing direction, there's a greater chance of developing showers in the sky. not many may be on friday, but by the time you get to saturday, there's a much good chunk and they all throughout western and southern turkey, a good dampening feel. now the monsoon rains in some ali on the mould not just catch on the edge, but as

a big increase in the shower potential in ethiopia and further west as far west as nigeria. mr. ourselves kinshasa ah, with more than 200000000 cases because of 19 worldwide governments about going to fight fresh wave of the virus and newberry. and there has been a 3rd in the number of people working vaccination appointment from human cost to the political and economic pool out. i'll just bring you the latest on the pen demik. this'll have vaccinated more than 1100 people here. all of them migrant farm workers, people on home testing because they think that there is a risk to democracy. special coverage on i'll just, there were ah, in 2011 al jazeera gains rare access to the piano gang film academy. and some of north korea's brightest young stars. ah, what did it take to serve

a national propaganda machine? ah, a compelling portrait of the privileged lives of the countries elite. rewind north korea. cinema of dreams. analogy 0. ah the ah. welcome back. let's just recap your top story so far. this to grow and rebels in northern ethiopia. i've taken control of the ancient ton of bloody baylor unesco will heritage site. the complex has widened into neighboring regions across recent weeks. around the president abraham racy has been sworn into office in his speech his inaugural speech.