the majority of its troops from america, the longest war, leaving the battle for control, the african military be able to hold its ground against the taliban, and the afghans to help the american war effort relocated to the u. s. the future hold for that special coverage for not got a song on al jazeera. ah mo fi thing in central areas of laska go in as kind of some government forces relying on us ad power to help combat the taliban. ah, i want to know when i'm come out. santa maria, this is the world news from al jazeera. china was accusing the united states of court violent interference. this was for granting temporary refuge to people from hong kong. also historic us the gold mining town and all that was taught by one of

the biggest 15 ever recorded in california. and apple is to check i phones for images of child sexual abuse, but it's raising concerns among privacy advocates. ah, so more fun, i think, going on in the middle of laska, one of the afghan cities, the taliban is trying to capture. i've got tons, governments as special forces and us as strikes are helping troops in the streets. thousands of civilians have already fled to neighboring kandahar the latest without diplomatic. get it to james base who's in cobble. so let's start with the latest on laska james. while the latest information we have is that heavy battles continue in the center of alaska, we understand the current fighting is around the headquarters of africa. intelligence in nashika got and also around the prison. and the suggestion is that

maybe the taliban are trying to break into the prison so they can break out some of the inmates because we believe that there are telephone detainees there. certainly the government is timing one victory, which they say is the death of one of the taliban commanders. the taliban have something called that red unit, which is our equivalent of special forces. we told lobby mo, barrak. according to the government, the commander of that has been killed the taliban saying that they are seeing the afghan forces, though burning the bizarre, causing fall to the shops there. and they say the puppets of america carrying out war crimes. i think there's a big problem for both sides as this battle continues in last for the government. clearly they could lose the city and that would be a huge psychological blow because it would be the 1st state provincial capital to

fall to the taliban. and for that reason that bree and more troops, but i'm told that every time that they take back an area, they're not able to hold it in the taliban. come back again. but for the taliban side, i think there's a problem too. there is now such attention on nash. good god, there's so much air power available to be deployed and there are so many come on those coming in that the taliban fighters who are there and holding parts of the center of lush. good god. how are they going to get re supplied? how are they going to sustain themselves going forward? ok, james, put this into the bigger picture for me if you would, i believe is also a un security council meeting on i'm going to sound later today. yes. and i think they'll be a deep concern because you have now, according to the government and government source fighting it will clash is going on in 17 of afghanistan's 34 provinces. let me give you a couple of examples across the board from helen's in kandahar. there's been fresh

clashes that a dispute actually between the taliban and the pakistani at the board of spin bolduc, which the taliban control over letting pedestrians cross freely the taliban. it seems of clothes that border moved to the other side of the other neighboring province to the western side. nimrod was, and then you've got people who are trying to flee the situation worried about the taliban attack. tried to get across the iranian border and were told they weren't allowed to cross and in fact, there was heavy handed, according to locals. heavy handed activity from the new bowler, gods stopping them from crossing. also, we understand the taliban issued an ultimatum to the governor of nym rose, saying that he should surrender to the taliban. he has defied that order which the ultimate was for half an hour ago. and he says that he is going to stay in his position, but certainly nimrod, which is to the west of helmand. that also looks like it is now

a target for the taliban. this is going to concern the international community that security council meeting of a. so much activity in so many parts of afghanistan. i think the international community was surprised by the timeline announced by president by law biden. they're even more surprised by the gains the taliban have made what they want his piece towards endeavor, hard to continue, but clearly the taliban have increased leverage at those peace talks. i think the other thing they're going to be deeply concerned about is the effect on civilians, the displacement of people when an afghan on beyond that kind of stuff, the civilian death toll that we're seeing right now and a new development we seen in the last few days in addition to the battles going on around that kind of stuff here in cobble that attacked, that was we think the target was the gun defense minister. he was not killed, but 8 others were. and the taliban saying it's a new campaign to target officials in cobble, a new campaign of bombings all of this, i think, makes this a very,

very important issue for the un security council. they only normally discuss, i've got us on every 3 months, but they bought for the meeting that dealing with it in a matter of hours, james base with the latest from across that kind of stuff. thank you. james. onto the news and china has attacked us all for a temporary refuge for people from hong kong. president, jo buttons is anyone from hong kong residing in the u. s. will be allowed to stay for another 18 months in response to what he said is. badging is ongoing crackdown on freedoms. we will hear more details about that us announcement shortly with rosamond jordan 1st. adrian brown in hong kong with more on china's reaction. while this decision by president biden will effect tens of thousands of hong kong people now living in the united states. so now be allowed to remain there for 18 more months. what's not clear is what will happen at the end of that period. now many of those people fled hong kong fall over the imposition of the draconian national

security law. more than 13 months ago. and president biden said that law was limiting academic and media freedoms hate and hong kong. and of course, has led to the arrest of more than a 100 individuals, including leading figures of the pro democracy movements. now, in the past few weeks, president biden has also been warning us businesses about the dangers of operating in hong kong. and of course, the united states has been flapping sanctions, not just on chinese individuals, but also chinese entities and china has been doing the same thing to the united states. it is a reminder that hong kong finds itself in the middle of a proxy war, being full between the world's 2 leading superpower on both an economic and diplomatic front. 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 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, i 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 p. r. 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. it's repression of political opponents and hong kong or crush hong kong experience with democracy firefighters in the u. s. a pricing for another destructive day with hot windy weather forecast with up to 5 in california. john hendern reports from a town that has been all but wiped out. the california largest active wildfire exploded, engulfing the gold rush. you are a town of greenville and threatening several others. a sheriff's office stores

b strows, saloons, gas stations, homes, all left and embers. it's 800 residence appear to have escaped following a mandatory evacuation order. over the last 24 hours, we've had explosive fire growth, driven by winds out of the west and southwest media and ologist have given a red flag warning where we have historically dry conditions, low humidity, low fuel moisture, combine those winds that drove the fire. as we drove through mountain passage to reach greenville came another evacuation order for taylorsville, then one after the other for clear creek time town walker lake and the list goes on . the dixie fires been burning for 3 weeks, fueled by dry conditions and high winds, taking out an area of this size of new york city. even with $5000.00 people battling the blaze, it's only 35 percent contained on wednesday. it was the 8th largest fire in

california history by thursday. it was 6 across the country, it's shaping up to be a record breaking fire season out. pacing 2020, the worst year ever recorded. 26000 firefighters are battling 100 blazes. in 14 states, we still have to keep our head in the game because we saw the peak months ahead of us with no indian site firefighters said they're battling the dixie blaze one day at a time. the priorities today are to aggressively attack fire perimeter. north of greenville, greenville still has active fire and a structure assessment going on at the same time. we're still continuing to fight to fire our firefighters and our aerial resources are working in concert. drop, retarded, and water. well, our ground crews and dozers and heavy equipment and engines are working to provide structure protection. some fires were sparked by lightning strikes,

a local utility, pacific gas and electric says its equipment might have sparked the dixie fire, which shows no signs of abating john henry and al jazeera greenville california and wildfire burning across parts of grief, forced more evacuations near athens firefighters. continued their effort through the night to stop the flames from reaching populated areas, prime minister, urging people to obey the evacuation order than not to try to defend their own home . san posada results now from athens. only hours after an announcement that fires north of athens had been put out, the blaze was back and bigger than before, the order to evacuate. the small town below came suddenly, when the church bells began ringing people panic. and all the storekeeper could do was head up hill and watch the fire closing in. today's fire is overwhelming, isn't it? because it's impossible that after yesterday's fire that everything is burning again, burning whatever's left. we came to the high ground to try to get

a sense of how bad this fire really is. and for the last several hours, we've watched it get bigger and bigger. spreading wider and faster the water dropping planes and helicopters seemingly have little to no effect on the blaze. as the fire spreads closer and closer to build up populated areas. and now we can see that the town of korean ary is burning on the ground. the fire didn't stop there. the aircraft that have been dropping water over the fires, i've only about another hour to go to be able to operate safely to try to put out those claims. but the heat is so high over the fires that the water has been evaporating before it's been hitting. the ground to the helicopters have been flying lower and lower to try to get to the fires to try to get as close as possible to put out the flames. all people can do it seems, is watch the hills burn and wondered perhaps if their homes might be next of the bus in vinny thought of the what is happening now is crazy. there were

a 10800 fires in all of greece yesterday. if it crosses the national road, it will spread to the other force there. the severity of the situation was brought into sharp focus on thursday night. international address, prime minister to jago smith's talkies warned the worst was not over that people in greece must brace for dry, difficult, and extremely dangerous days ahead. by nightfall reports confirmed the worst. the fire had jumped the highway spreading to both sides of the national road. the wildfire seemed to be everywhere. everything at the moment seems uncertain. one person said it feels like her country is under attack, was in basra, v o to 0 north athens. the weather is coming next and then take rebels. take control of a world heritage site sacred for millions of orthodox christian and her is new president has been in the job just over a week can already he's face time, clash valley. why?

the me hello there. it's all about the brutal heat that's been plaguing the south east of europe. in particular, we've seen record breaking temperatures for greece and for turkey. and this was seen in athens. it was engulfed in smoke from wildfires that are continuing to burn in those hot and dry conditions continue on friday, not just here, but for turkey, for north macedonia, albania, and southern areas of italy where we are seeing those wildfires continue to burn, but things do change on saturday, with a change of wind was seen to temperatures, it dipped down slightly. and when we looked at the 3 day for athens will be nearing the average. by the time we get into saturday, there's also some wet weather on the way for parts of turkey. and there's weather

in the west. if we take a look, we can see some pretty heavy thunderstorms and downpours, affecting eastern areas of france moving into switzerland. we could see some flooding where those rains are heaviest. we've got unsettled weather for the british mild thanks to a swirling weather system. and scandinavia, seeing temperatures dipped down and remain rather cool thanks to a weather system, bringing the wet and windy weather with it. but further down south, it does remain rather hot and dry and it's a similar story in egypt with a temperature at 42 in cairo. the frank assessments, by way, it is a lesson against freedom, surprising informed opinions what you saw happening get from market. there was 42. there was also petune is the critical debate. here. it's not between kula and any other. great, then we have concrete here between the 2 years. rather than to keep people in depth

analysis of the days global headlines inside story on our jazeera oh, a couple 1000 here. and these are the top stories this alamo fighting going on in the middle of lush, got got one of the african cities. the taliban is trying to capture dennis thumbs. government special forces and us as strikes are helping us country from the streets . china's attack to us the offer of temporary refuge for people from hong kong. president jo vibes of anyone from non congress siding in the us will be la date, another 18 months. and 5 fighters in california struggling to contain

a fight. it's destroyed, most of a star town cruise, bracing for more destruction, forecast and temperatures and strong. when turkey is wrapped off efforts to protect its eastern border with iran, as it prepares for a possible influx of refugees from afghanistan attuned, 95 kilometer long wall will be constructed to prevent illegal crossings and sent him consumer reports from the city of van. near the turkey iran border. another sleepless night for the turkish border security and the migrants. thousands of personnel have been deployed to the mountainous border with iran already. to put an end in the cat and mouse with the smugglers, who cross mostly africa, migrants into turkey's eastern city vance. but the southern us withdrawal from afghanistan and tele bonds expending influence in the country, pushed turkey into extra measures. 500 to

a 1000 migrants are smuggled through this border. every day. the mohammed family failed this time as they had to slow down because of their baby fall of blood, the valley one second us and we had to leave our gun. this time, we followed ross family to the repair creation center in van city. his wife said acre worked in a bank in afghan stone. she says, the war to get this one person from every single family. women couldn't even go shopping. she wanted to go to europe, she's saving some money in turkey. the african government doesn't respect women, and the taliban wants us to wear the book and isolate us. they will kill the women who worked for the government, and the government is too weak to control the country. the city of one has a 295 kilometer border with iran, where there weren't any physical barriers. earlier official figures suggest the number of illegal migrants this year isn't bigger than last years, but the measures are tighter. good. need the holes built in the south and nor the

city increase the pressure on van vada and all former commodity smugglers in this area became migrant. traffickers on my ologist lation ties hands with punishment. following the syrian civil war on car started to seal its border with syria and iraq in 2016. this is the border between turkey and iran once the smallest completed with razor wires on top security official. so it will prevent illegal crossings. but criminal groups may still find a way to smuggle migrants and refugees across the border. experts say any migration away anywhere near turkey turns it in term migrant. 3 both will not be chosen. the we need to classify whether irregular migration is due to economic reasons or asylum seeking. we must find a similar migration deal with iran, as we signed with the e. you around must be supported to as a, has a border with afghanistan. and it's all about success is expected to trigger a new way of, of migration from afghanistan by the end of august butcher. during such sudden

migrations, we expect people to flee to neighboring countries. we hear from the newcomers that iran is not willing to host such a migrant group, and they do not stop afghans from crossing to turkey, but encouraged them. this stud lock may create more human trafficking and more human misery. sienna console, the al jazeera van turkey. if you appear to guy in rebels, have seized control of the ancient town of labella. in recent weeks, t p. fighters of targeted the strategically imported afar region, as well as them horror where labella is located for the rebels. this is a symbolic victory. the towns, the unesco world heritage science, and the sacred for millions of ethiopian orthodox christians, known for its 12th century churches, carved dotted rock. the u. s. is calling on the rebels to protect that cultural heritage. is malcolm web, he's following developments from nairobi. can you,

resident and others have told us the fighters and the gray region of entered the historic town loudly better. 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 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 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. a 100 years old, full of ancient church, and in a holy site, 4 years, millions of orthodox, kristian. 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's careful to remember that in this conflict there on contingent front lines to speak of the 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 their enemies territory so far that conflict could have been spreading into the m r and afar regions. in the last few weeks in the philippines, health authorities are still trying to reassure unvaccinated people. they can leave their homes. after full news reports caused panic. hundreds people jamming the vaccination thing to the manila ahead of a new lockdown that started on friday. rumors spread that on vaccinated residents

would be deprived of a payments and kept from leaving home. critics also blame president rodrigo, to church for court in confusion. barnaby, lowe's and miller, and it says people are allowed out under special circumstances. of course, this is already the 2nd time that the philippine capital is going through this enhanced community quarantine. what this means is that only essential workers will be allowed to go out. only essential businesses will be allowed to remain open. only one member of each family will be allowed to go out to buy essential goods. now what you saw there, what happened on thursday here in metro manila, it's a little bit of a situation where people where misinformed president deterred to in his last speech had said that he wanted and vaccinated people to not be able to go out. and

if their go out, they would be escorted back home. but a lot of people, especially essential workers, they have to go out, they have to go to work. and so yesterday, thursday people were scrambling to get back. so you needed. the problem is there is a supply shortage of vaccines here in the philippines. so there were limited slots and people were worried that. 6 they would not be able to go out and would not be able to go to work and they would not be able to get the financial aid the government promised them. and so that's what happened on 1st. on thursday, malaysia's daily infection count as top 20000 for the 1st time cases have doubled in the past 3 weeks. despite the national lockdown. the worsening outbreak sparking growing public anger over the prime minister handling of the pandemic. and more than half the people in australia, the whole country on our subjects, various lockdown rules, but the most popular state yourself wales,

i've seen another wrinkled rise in covet infections, almost 300 to the south. people defied restrictions to protest against the 6th lockdown in melbourne. that is trying to track the origins of what it calls mystery cases. will strike the government as quietly changed its border rules which could prevent ex pats from leaving. currently, a striking citizens and residents have permission to leave the country. australians living abroad and come for a visit will no longer be exempt from this rule. apple has unveiled plans to stand us. i phones for images of child sexual abuse, stone applause from child protection groups, but concern among security and privacy. advocates who worry the new measures could be misused. the change will come in the next life and software update a to will be used to review images before they're uploaded to apple's icon storage . if images of child abuse a confirmed or his will be notified, it's a different ensure he is editor at large of the nets. online news outlet,

focusing on technology. who told us apple has legitimate questions to answer about how it plans to protect privacy. i don't know whether apple knew it was waving into this debate when it did this, but what makes apple an 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's 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 may for missing explain children. what if suddenly they're convinced by the chinese government had the gentleman square 10 command to that list. and suddenly those people are being reported. that is where it starts becoming a problem. settings damage homes and farms and washed away roads in north korea. ruined crops are threatening to make the hunger crisis. they are even worse

assumptions of cut the country off from 8 and in ports of green leader kim jong wounded. previously warned of a court tense food situation on the peru and a little over a week after the president sworn in protests building, demanding that he go hetero. castillo has drawn particular criticism for his choice of public officials. brianna sanchez explains now from lena the 80 notice and these protesters won't proceed into your out the march towards congress demanding nothing less and impeachment. now i'm here because i want him vacated. i don't want communism in my country. i lived through terrorism here. and now what their governing, how could that have happened? yes, there's a angry efficacy of toys with some high ranking officials, critic, see some have no experience. others are under investigation for corruption.

violence against women is a former gorilla fighter convicted for murder in the 16th and the prime minister investigated for corruption and sympathizing with terrorist groups. give me percent, i'm not getting you know, mean, i categorically say that neither i or any of my ministers are linked to any terrorist group from east fact widespread criticism led the ombudsman, appointed by parliament to defend people's demands to ask the president got your reconsider his appointments, both must be based on constitutional principles and public office parameters. we think it's imperative, the president, reevaluate his ministerial appointments. he's been put in charge to overcome the crisis and to prevent for the division of society. however, many people who voted forgot to say, he has time to men mistake, he's only been one week in office and they say they want to give him the benefit of the doubt. they would assume putting his among millions of peruvians who voted for

he says he'll be patient, but it's the 1st time he's going to govern many leadership of taking bribes before . but this is a new guy. so let's see what he does. the protestors also marched central lima in favor of the precedent. some say it's time to turn the page focused on the country's problems while there is growing discontent among some precedent, se, you know of the presidential palace working and remain silent. i deanna sanchez, i just see that you might be to ah, hop off the hour and these are the top stories. more fighting in the middle of laska one of the african cities, the taliban is trying to capture. i've got to stand governments as special forces and u. s. s. strikes are helping troops in the streets. thousands of civilians fled to neighboring.