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and i can on the crisis least thousands of people hungry and homeless. and from the dash tech joint, apple reveals plans to scan american i phone from a chance of child sexual abuse treated and concerns privacy. ah, but 1st speak. you appears to grow in rebels to seize control of the ancient tone of nearly baylor in the north, in recent weeks, t p. fighters have targeted the strategically important for region as well as i'm horror, which is where the tone of lowly bella is low case. it's for the rebels, it's a bullet victory. and also a significance incursion. size will not be built is a unesco world heritage sites and a secret for millions of ethiopian orthodox christians. it's fame for it's 12 century rock hewn churches. the us as colon on that the grow and rebels to protect

the cultural heritage of the tone. malcolm web has been following those developments from my will be in, they bring kenya, resident and others have told us the fighters from the gray region of entered the historic town loudly. bella, there were rumors that they were close local residents over the last week. some of the residents that they've had gunfire at night, but they said normal to to have some gunfire at night. there. then just in the last few hours, resident said they could see the, the gray and people's liberation from finances getting close. busy and then just to show 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 is a 100 years old, full of ancient chatted 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 had taken control of the town as well inside the enemy's 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 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. let's take a look at the timeline of the current conflicts fighting between the national army and the to dry and people's liberation front began in november last year when prime minister abbey,

and had sent troops against the t p. l. s. after he said it attacked the army base is why the end of november i'll be announced. the military operation in t grey was completed and the government had taken over the regions capital mckelly . but the conflict took a turn. 7 months later when to grow in forces, we took mckelly and force government soldiers to withdraw. since then the rebels have pressed into a far region in the east and her in the size forcing were 250000 people to flee. well, david shane was the us ambassador to if you piano, former deputy chief mission at the u. s. embassy and see don johnson, i live by skype from washington, d. c, this town isn't in t grey. so why do you think the t p life has made the move to capture it? that's a very good question. i don't think there is any particular military value to the

capture of la bella by the grand defense forces. the town is not far from the borders, it's not a long distance for them to go to me. the only explanation would be the fact that very early on in the conflict back in november of last year, the haro militia and the sample government forces captured the world heritage site of walk. so which is the. ready location of the, the auction, former oxen kingdom, inside western te gray and they, they still hold that location up to the present day. it is very difficult for the grand forces to know a terra lay recapture ox own. so i think they probably made a decision to take a lot a bela and are using this as a for cat mo that we will leave blah,

blah, blah. if you got lost back. ok, so me so, so how would you say this changes the dynamics of the conflicts because the fact that the t p last of may gains are site their region does rather suggest that the momentum is with the t p. life was your view on this? well, that's certainly true up to, to an extent, but the 2 grand defense forces are very they have to be very careful if they decide to go much outside of the region they are in our far region. they are now in now har, a region that is resulting and more pushback from the international community saying that they should withdraw back to t gray region. and i don't think they have any particular interest in remaining for any length of time outside of t gray. but they are interested and retrieving as much of western te grey as they

can. and i really see this move into the bellows. there's an effort to do that. you mentioned the internationally community may give them some, some push back here, but realistically, i mean, do you see the international community making any efforts at all to engage in this conflicts, or will there just be some harsh words? and they'll continue to remain very much in the sidelines. i think behind the scenes is actually a great deal of engagement by both united states and europe and union. i'm not sure that others are that engaged. perhaps a few of the gulf states are involved quietly behind the scenes also, but i think there may be more going on behind the scenes that we're aware of public life. okay, david shouldn't read of time, unfortunately. be great to get your thoughts. thank you so much for joining us. so motion to dc or july was one of the world's

hottest month ever recorded with unusually high temperatures in regions from finland's to the united states. extreme heat and driving some of the worst wild, far as across southern europe, and indeed elsewhere in greece, there are more than $100.00 fires burning where the temperatures, if at $45.00 degrees on the islands of area this be widespread destruction of buildings and flames are perilously close to the sites of the ancients olympics, neighboring turkey is battling it's worse world far's. in decades, one of them reached the compounds of a call fuel power plants which have to be brought under control. and that's quelled fears of severe air pollution in the region. and in the us, california largest acts of world, far known as the taxi fire, has raised a much of a historic tone that street lights were seen melting in the extreme heat smell.

joan hendrick as that of greenville in northern california, and he joins as ally from that. joe, a scene of destruction over your shoulders, just talk us through what's been happening with your well, this is the center of greenville and most of this town has been wiped out. this happened about 24 hours ago about this time on wednesday when the wind kick jumped over 60 kilometers per hour. that just allowed the fire that was already enormous about the size of new york city to explode. and when it did it over ran this town, you can see the skies have cleared now, but that is because the fire is consumed much of the fuel that was here, all this dry timber. and of course the town itself and just move yawn. so it was

much smoke here as we drove up the road to this chance. this used to be a hotel about a century old behind me. and if you just look back there, those are this year in nevada mountains, you can hardly see them now through the smoke. those are the embers of the fire that swept through there just a day ago. miraculously, in this town of about 800 people, everyone seems to have survived. that's what we've been told so far. they apparently obeyed evacuation orders, but we had one order after another popping up on our phones for all of the neighboring towns. just going to give you a little look around here. this is a fuel station, a gas station, and you can see that the entire place has burned down except for the pumps, which had either been emptied or had been protected somehow by the 1st responders. cuz you can see that the ground hasn't exploded, that's where the fuel tanks are. and if you look back there, but beyond this line of cars coming toward us, you can see pretty much everything is destroyed. and then you get to this indian

valley professional building over here, and that has remained intact. is that a strategic position between a couple of roads? and it may have been protected as well because 1st responders came here to protect what they could. and occasionally you can see a house that has been projected, but if you just look behind me, you can see there is almost nothing left of this town. it burned down once before in 1881. they rebuilt it. we'll see if they do that again. but this is an enormous fire with $5000.00 firefighters working on it, and it's still only about 35 percent contain 24 hours ago. this fire, the dixie fire was considered the 8th largest fire in california history. well, today it's now the 6, and that gives you an indication of how this conflagration expands on a daily basis. okay, john, 100 the live for us from greenville california. thank you john. well, i get an update from greece and i,

a blaze in the northern suburbs of athens has 3 kids. old st survey isn't us need us. we're here just above the national road, a major highway, a corridor that runs north and south along the length of the country and fire rescue teams have been using it as a kind of trench to try to fight the fire to try to keep the fire from crossing this line, to try to hold it back from spreading across the highway and into dry parts of the area here on the other side of the highway and spreading into the greater athens area for rescue team so far have been successful. however, we've seen that these fires seem to have an insatiable appetite, at least on one occasion since we've been up here, we've seen the fire jump across the highway. immediately rescue workers reacted down the flames. a helicopter came in and dropped water over the flames and pushed it back. but we have to say that the temperatures over these fires are so hot that helicopters that had to start flying lower and lower and has have had to start of flying. well, past sun down, even though conditions are dangerous,

and that's because the water that they were dropping simply evaporated before it hit, it would hit the ground. and so we've seen helicopters making lower and lower flights to try to keep these flames from crossing the national highway. however, it has to be said as soon as they put out the flames. on one side of these foothills, the fire seems to spread and grow in another as it comes further and further down the hills. people here are just watching and waiting, worried that their homes might be next. and there's definitely concern that fire rescue teams definitely have another long night ahead of them to try to keep the blaze under some kind of control. and still ahead here and i'll just leave a message of unity and reconciliation from the wrong union. o'geary to president is a major domestic and foreign policy challenges. and hope for home commerce, wanting to escape china's increase in crank time as the us grants these extensions .

ah, hello there, let's not in north america and it's been a very wet start to the month for much of a gulf coast in the us. we've got that band of rain that's been bringing some drenching down ports to the carolinas and to georgia. and while it got pushed out further east, the florida peninsula is going to see some of that very wet weather with the potential for flash flooding is a lot of moisture in the air. things are going to feel very hot and humid, not just here, but also for new york and washington. as those showers push out has been rather wet for new england and folk back. and some of the weather is going to continue over the next few days, across the midwest and into the great lakes is also going to be somewhat weather on the way. some very welcome wet weather for the northwest, not just in seattle,

which hadn't seen rain for about 50 days, but also for british columbia parts of canada. expecting to see some of that wet weather. and as we move over to central america, does continue to be rather wet for the caribbean. we've got some storms and she was coming in, but sunshine too much of the weather is going to be affecting parts of mexico. and we could see flooding here. heavy showers expected across parts of guatemala, as well as costa rica and panama, the weather bag. energy and change to every part of our universe. more small. to continue the change all around the shape, my technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business.

ah, the ah, this is al jazeera quick trying to all the top stories for you know, if you appeals to grow and forces and seize the ancient turn of its rock, cuen churches. are you in a world heritage site and sacred ethiopia as millions of orthodox christians more than $100.00 far as a burning across greece has been widespread destruction of buildings on its islands of via residence to be an evacuation by boat on turkey. a far that reached a cool fuel power plant has been contained in california as large as far has

destroyed large parts, prevent historic gold rush era town greenville withhold the buildings more than a century old resident, say, street lights were seen melting in the extreme heat. re us is offering a temporary, safe haven to thousands of hong kong citizens currently in america. in response to china's crank then on human rights, it will allow their visas to be extend, smiled to 18 months. president joe biden says china has continued. it's a sold from hong kong autonomy including undermining democracy and press freedom. last month, the u. s. supplied sanctions on chinese officials in hong kong. russell and jordan has more from washington, dc from its 1st days in office. the bite administration has been very critical of the way that china treats the residents of hong kong damaging. in the bio administration's view,

hong kong experience with democracy now the administration has decided to allow those hong kong residents who happen to be here or the united states, to live and work here for the next 18 months. the state department spokesperson, net price explained why on thursday p r c. authorities seek to use the tools that they have given themselves. and that includes, of course, the national security law and other legislation to make arbitrary arrests, politically motivated prosecutions, of opposition candidates, and politicians, activists and peaceful protesters with the goal it seems, or certainly the end result of creating an atmosphere of fear of self censorship, of repression. among the general populace and our measures to day are a response to these and other actions by the peer c and other hong kong and hong

kong authorities to undermine again what was promised to the people of hong kong. and that is the high degree of autonomy state department officials awhile that this may not be the only time that this program is put into effect for hong kong residence. and they also say that people who come to the united states after august 5th could possibly be added to the scheme. but they say, what's really important is trying to ensure that beijing does not continue its repression of political opponents and hong kong or crush hong kong experience. with democracy, iran you president has pledged his country's nuclear program, will almost be peaceful and won't produce weapons. abraham race, he said he would take steps to lift the sanctions, which had devastated the economy shortly after he was inaugurated. as iran's 8 presidents are the hash reports from tehran, this was brian wright use his final step to becoming the new president of iran. the

ceremony and early indication of what his foreign policy might look like, there was only one delegation representing to us from the european union, but many leaders and officials from south america and africa, and more significantly, the countries out on the wrong racy says that supply oddity not to be got a much jenny horn interference in the region won't resolved any problems. it's a problem itself. i extend the hand of friendship and brotherhood own regional countries, especially our neighbors. how many lazy criticized us sanctions on his country up to for my us president donald trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear. the what he stressed iran nuclear program is completely peaceful. he saw the policy of threats and sanction can't prevent iranians from seeking their legal rights, including the right to develop nuclear energy sanctions must be nullified and we

support any diplomatic effort that fills that goal. sanctions are adding to iran's hardships. andres, he says rebuilding the economy is a main priority. is appealing for cooperation from all iranians to get the country back on its feet and says, his government will wage a war on corruption. it's not going to be an easy task for, therefore, engaging others. it's difficult to what he aims. cheap is submitting his cabinet and a few days and then the parliament will have to get each minute stuff. a separate company on the i should just, you know, in france, his constitutional court says rule that mandatory call with 19 health passes largely comply with the republic funding, charter and dozens of protest is gathered on its side the court. they say it goes against civil liberties. the parcel of access to public venues like cafes and

restaurants for those who have fully vaccinated, recovered or of tested negative. the court decided the restrictions represented a balanced tradeoff between public health concerns and personal freedom. the health pass will come into force across the country from monday. the number of new infections and talk you shall see about 5000. so the 1st time cases in the olympics for 50 rising faster than ever fueled by the highly contagious delta variance. japan's government has extended emergency measures to 8 more regions. large numbers of indonesians are dying at home, unable to get hospital care or medical oxygen, as the health system buckles under pressure. indonesia is know the epa sensor evasion site break with an official death tool that exceeds 100000. a quarter of a 1000000 infections were recorded last week alone. in bung with us, the pandemic has left thousands of people unemployed and homeless. several

charities are struggling to stay open despite a growing number of families desperate for help. kathy lopez, who reports this is one of the few food charities still operating on the streets of duncan. 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. 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 mom on connor depend on donations from bangladesh for shut down because of the pandemic last year there were hundreds of volunteer groups. but corona virus fatigue has got in. people are now let's willing to donate. not everyone here is

without a job that many have seen their earning slashed to little over a dollar a day for money. i'm a war man 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 lead their jobs 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 corporate 19 has force many sam theresa 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. they got them going on here we can eat without worrying about the next day. before i knew about this place, i spent 2 days lying inside of hawks bus. literally starving. many are left

wandering the streets of the bandwidth as she capital, hoping charities like louis can provide with often the only meal of the day cause a little bit of the young al jazeera. apple says the next day to itself rating system. ios 15 will include new safety measures to protect children from predators . it will enable technology on the device itself to scan and identify images that may contain child abuse and report them to authorities. the announcement south alarms, privacy, advocates and security research due to the broader implications. hi such tech could be used will ensure is editor at large will take his website, seen it c. jones's by skype from washington. dc. goods have with us and al jazeera, these measures will protect children from being sexually assaulted. why is that a bad thing? i mean, the thing is that it is very,

i think we all agree that having these images out in the wild is a bad thing. and that additionally, that there is a lot of technology out there that can help solve this facebook, twitter, youtube, we've guy, google, microsoft, a bunch of these companies have been using technology that they've developed over the years, along with the national center for missing and exploited children which is it has a database of all of the known images of child abuse. they've used it to be able to keep it off of their social networks and they've done a pretty good job of it. but the concern that exists here is that apple is going a step further, right? it's not just now what i upload to the internet, which generally speaking, i lose control of it at that point. now apple wants to actually peer into our photos app on our phones and work. we all agree that child exploitation the bad thing. the question is, we've seen a lot of well mannered tools get abused in the last few weeks and months and years

where suddenly it's turned by a fatality carrying government or some other into us tool surveillance. and that's what's really concerning. a lot of these privacy advocates. absolutely, and there's no question. there is a balance to be struck, but the examples that you cited facebook, twitter, youtube, i mean it's, there's still not ideal, and it's not necessarily up losing pictures of videos of children getting abused rates on. so the website is sharing these images. and this is where this technology is really starting to help because the challenge for government set and police and authorities is that the tech companies certainly won't open up their applications and their technologies. and they find that, but really coming off the gains difficulties in when it comes to fighting terrorism or fights and pizza files. so where's the balance to be struck because some people

think facebook and twitter, they don't automatically think these people are great at protection privacy? no, and i think that's part of why this debate is happening. you know, i don't know whether apple knew it was waving into this debate when it did this, but what makes up one interesting company is that it is sold itself as kind of a bastion of privacy amid a mess of the tech industry. right. and so part of the question that we're all asking is if apple is definition of privacy, includes the ability to peer into my photos app. where does that end? right. and also even though right now, yes, they're using a database from the national center for try for missing exploit children. what if suddenly they're convinced by the chinese government to have the gentleman square tank command to that list? and certainly those people are being reported. oh, that is where it starts becoming a problem and just the final thoughts and very quickly, if you would,

what's the solution then to the stein lemme facing government's it's a huge problem and this is why i think it's a good healthy debate. and frankly, the government has not been able to come up with a good answer for how they're able to protect our privacy while also going after bad guys. and right now the tech industry has taken the position that you are in my privacy, believe not even worth talking. facebook is more important than the government's ability to go after bad guys. ok. a conundrum in deeds are great to speak to you. thank you so much indeed for talking to us here on. i'll just very appreciate it. thanks. as i left him on so speculations, spanish, triple giants, barcelona, have a nice that leon l messy will not be staying with the club. the 34 year old argentine has been a free agent since the 1st of july, when his deal expires. i see his spence 21 years at barker, the managed to agree is a new contract with the club,

barcelona se. financial of school got in the way he got told the capital and giants they have to reduce wages before messy or any other newcomers can be registered. ah, this is al jazeera and these on the headlines, c, c o, p s t growing and rebels, and seize control of the ancient turn of the bella in the north in recent weeks, tpl faces of tang because of these strategically important a foreign region as well. as i'm how to just say the turn of the baylor is located . so let's say unesco, world heritage sites sacred for millions of the fuel p and orthodox christians, the u. s. is calling on the t growing and rebels to protect the cultural heritage over time california as large as far has destroyed launch parts of the storage.