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strikes to flush them out 55 years continue to battle legs on the outskirts of the greek capital and to better vision coaches who tried to force printed christina criminal home from tokyo district develop the responses and i'm far as well. have all the latest porters. leno massey walks away from barcelona while in tokyo, the men's race walker say the iowa made a terrible mistake by scrapping their event for paris. all the actions, something like that, coming up later this power. ah, israel's, i don't defense system has intercepted 10 rockets, fired from southern lebanon. the siren founded in northern israel and the occupy golden heights south. they were

fired. as below, has came to responsibility. israel has responded with strikes in southern lebanon, san jose is on the phone for us from the t, as in southern lebanon. just bring us up to speed. if you can watch the lakers, what more do we know? well, there is a cautious call along the border following the flare up earlier. today. the cross border fires, the 2nd incident of its kind and the in the past 48 hours. this time around has the law has claimed responsibility for firing rockets from southern living on towards the shabani. farms now has been in a statement said that they targeted quote, open areas around israeli military posts. so this is being translated as a warning. a warning from has fallen, in fact, sources close to the movement have been saying that this is

a message we are telling the israelis that they cannot change the rules of engagement that have been in place since their last war in 2006. because the early thursday is well carried out air strikes against target in southern limit on the 1st time it's used plains and retaliate in retaliatory attacks in the past that used to retaliate against rocket fire by, by using you know, artillery shelling. so has the law saying that the ball is now in israel's court, they can decide to escalate the situation or call the situation down for the time being there is a cautious call, but this is a bullet border. these are long time enemies who have exchanged messages in the past along along the border. ok, they know. so targeting open areas. i'm wondering though,

why is this all happening now? yes. targeting open areas, which means that both sides really tip toeing, trying to avoid and all our confrontation. this has happened the number of times over the past few years. neither side clearly wants full all out for neither the israelis or husband especially has lots of time with love on the economy has all but collapse that has lost a lot of friends in this country. in fact, many blame it for implementing the agenda of iran in lebanon. but this escalation, many will tell you, is somehow linked to what is going on in the region. the regional escalation, as a whole, many of observers are saying that, you know, this is also, and a message in one way or another from, from iran. israel we heard is radio official say yesterday we are ready to target the about the messages of iran has allies across the region even come up,

your call cannot be completed as dialed. my apologies. we seem to have lost zayna there. that was correspondent then, obviously on the phone in southern lebanon. let's bring in our guest semi nother, who is the director of the levant institute for strategic affairs. he joined us on scott from bay route. so obviously you would have heard us talking with that correspondent to get a little bit of context around this. how serious is this escalation? no connection in a few years because this is not a problem or a confrontation between the factions and it had to be the contact of patients with iraq, which what's happening in terms of targeting bull

and it has to be put in the context of what's happening in iraq or targeting military base american military base in iraq and what was happening in terms of these, i mean in positions. so this is a far off from from station with utah and it looks like. busy i did, the confrontation is getting by the day. it's not the grossest. and again, yesterday or that 1. 1 week ago, the crime guide off. it's 10 o'clock the public off it on has did it a lovely dad that he does not us. the american, the american doesn't want only to leave the nuclear. sure. they want to talk like me like that. you're on activity in the

gym and it's happening in our at precisely so now in august picture we are, we are present off any greasing escalation. sure. i think we will have what we can we, i think we need to connect adults a little bit because we are talking as if you're talking there about israel, iran for international audience who may not be aware, you know, talking about hezbollah and lebanon. but the reason we're talking about around is because his bullet is backed by ron. i just feel that we should make that clear for our international audience. but i want to ask you, how do you imagine that israel will be wanting to play the situation at the border? because then again, has been very strong with his woods against iran and recent days. yeah, i mean it's monitoring what's happening and also what i think if they do know the

situation is no more what it was in 2006 when i waged it feed award and then offer a big journey. now the situation is it's different because it's in the financial crisis. this is putting off pressure on will not today and from time to eat with economy execution, that's putting pressure on contingency. he had the upper government today and in the bottom. and today's so that one of the main responsibility of the prices is right. you know that very much. and this is why they don't have any money government. and he knows who have

a new government. they will respond to a shop that has been docketed. not, i mean, and so there are leveraging any live on or to data for uber in order to put more pressure on that is already under pressure because of the economic situation. and because of being bloss, we shouldn't keep in mind what happened and 11 or one year ago, this big a blog or one of the team. and i had a moment, it's not that bryan responsible because there was a different tool and he's more of the political establishment that had you at these and let's do it fast. and in that,

if you are protecting it was going to book with huge marco x blue where fine. yeah, i think it's fair to say living on living on isn't crisis on sample france, we will have to leave it there for time. thank you very much for your time. send me their, their director of the institute for strategic affairs. we appreciate it to my head on the news. all will tell you why china is accusing us of violent interference and paternal floods. the threatening to make a hungry crisis in north korea even was in port $52.00 comes out on top. foster crash filled 1st of all women's and then pick medicine finally ah,

i was more fighting in the center of laska gall, one of the guns cities. the taliban is trying to capture. i've got to stones governance as special forces and u. s. s. strong for helping troops on the streets. thousands of civilians fled to the neighboring city of kandahar. diplomatic it is a james based on the slide now from cobble. james, we'll get to alaska in a moment. first i want to ask you, we're hearing that the head of the african government media department has been killed. what more can you tell us? yes, this is an important development. one of 2 very important developments that have occurred just in the last 20 minutes. this is called con men. a poll who is the deputy press. secretary of president gaudy the head of the government media office . he has been shot dead in ca, but we have confirmation of that from multiple sources. in the last few moments, we have confirmation from the taliban that they are claiming that they killed him. he is well known to africa journalists. he is an in a member of the, in

a circle of president gunny. and our understanding is that he left his home to go to private friday pres, in the last hour or so and has been killed according to taliban. they killed this very senior figure in the afghan government. that is one of the important developments in the last 20 minutes. potentially it is not the most important because we have other news that has come in from the north of africa, from john john province in the north and from the provincial capital that shepherd gunn. not shepherd again. is the long held stronghold of one of the veteran commanders in afghanistan, the rashid, dost him, he is been around for many years. at one time he joined the taliban in the 1990 s most of the time he's been fighting very strongly against them. he is the, the leader of the community in afghanistan in the provincial capital shepherd again,

according to a taliban spokesman, they say they have taken control of his palace. they take say they've taken control of the police headquarters were trying to get hold of anyone in the other key building and shoved a gun, which is the governance compound and no one is answering the phone right now. we've all been looking at the south, alaska. god, but if this news is true, it may well be that the taliban and out stream be close to taking their 1st provincial capital in afghanistan in the north of afghan stone. and the place that has been the stronghold of a come on that who has fought for many years fought the taliban general. dr. moore, in fact, as he is now marshalled awesome. he was promoted in the last couple of years by president john and i thank you for that out there. james phase live for us in cobble turkey has ramped up efforts to protect its eastern border with iran. you to a possible refugee in fox from afghanistan, a 295 kilometer long war will be constructed to prevent illegal crossings. fit him

concealed reports now from the city of vom by the turkey iran border. another sleepless night for the turkish border security and the migrants, thousands of personnel have been deployed to the mountain of border with iran already to put an end in the cat and mouse with the smugglers. who cross mostly africa, migrants into turkey's distant city. vance. but the southern us withdrawal from afghanistan and tele bonds expending influence in the country, pushed turkey into extra measures. 500000 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 tale one second us and we had to leave. i'm going to stand. we followed ross family to the repair creation center in van city. his wife city car 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 after 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 they weren't and physical barriers. earlier official figures suggest the number of illegal migrants this year isn't bigger than the last 2 years, but the measures are tighter. good need the walls built in the south and north of off city increase the pressure on the border. and all former commodity smugglers in this area became migrant traffic was on my olive depletion, ties hands with punishment. following the syrian civil war, uncle started to seal its border with syria and iraq in 2016. this is the border between turkey and iran. once this wall is completed with razor wires on top,

security officials hope 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 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, as 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. at least 8 people have been killed and while vas raging

across much of turkey opposition parties have criticised renter type. other ones. government for lack of preparedness, already have contained nearly 200 size of the past 9 days and several is still out of control. tens of thousands of people including terrorists have had to move to safe areas where so sir, joins isn't alive from dollar. mon russell, just bring us up to speed with the latest fair. well, there have been roughly around 200 y as far as the report that sees the y fi starts more than a week ago. so now in 6 provinces, there are still 13 active zones that are burning. and the local authorities here says that they now have a hope because by today, the wind has lost its momentum, and the heat is lower. and by tomorrow,

they're expecting the humidity also to a little bit or rise, which they hope that this will help the fight against the wildfires. now we are in dilemma a port which has been one of the most crucial coordination center through the last 9 days here. and here and there on the russian plains, the ukrainian, there be johnny and the run in cost as well here. and they get the water from the mediterranean sea and drop them on the active zone here, right behind me. there are 2 iranian and one are there be jenny? $17515.00. how they cope? there's this fight fight and how to cope that have proven to be very much crucial in this battle. they are able to make around $123.00, if in just one an hour in total. in one drop,

they drop roughly around $2.00 tones on the active zones in total. so they are able to carry around with the 1230 if they are able to phone load around 13 tones of the water on the active zones. and they have been 55 more. how do you cope? there is also deployed to fight the battle and they are also, there are 9 more how to cope those now, coming from russia, they're be john and ukraine. they're also joined by hundreds of the fire trucks, thousands of the personnel as well as wall and peers as well. but the 5 cruise feel how a work on their hands. because the in 13, actually the zone the, the fires are still ravages to the kids. so i thank you for that, resulted in donavon

ah, to bell origin that coaches have been stripped of their accreditation at the tokyo olympics after playing they tried to force one of the teams sprint is to return home. christina tim and sky says she was taken to the airport against her well on sunday. she's now in poland terminal sky. i had publicly criticize her coaches and says she feared for her safety if she returned to the roof. and richard finn is in tokyo and has more on why the coaches will booted from the game as part of an ongoing investigation which began with an official request to the beller as limpid committee to give their version of events as to exactly what had happened. comments for him, so many skies earlier today saying that the officials had told her they had no choice about what they were doing that the orders to try and get it back to valerie had come from quotes high up the i see president thomas black has been talking to

that a press conference he described the, the situation is deplorable saying that the safety of athletes was, was obviously the top concern. but i think you've got to see this in, in the wider context of, of what is happening to support and valerie under president, alexander lucas shanker. the has been long term concerns about the level of government intervention in, for example, the olympic committee day or about discrimination. against athletes is criticized lucas shank. early this year, they refused to recognize the results of the elections within the limited commit to the r c, saying the election hadn't been held in irregular way and as a consequence. and not surprisingly, perhaps, the son of the president was elected is the, is the head of the new valerie selected committee. that meant a lot of officials were banned from even coming to tokyo. and it's not just a lympics, it's been effected in delray. they're meant to host the ice hockey world cup early this year it got taken away from bella race with the world governing body, saying that it was currently impossible to guarantee the welfare of team's fans and

officials going about a race. so you just kinda think within that sort of context was enough really done to guarantee the welfare of dollar recently in tokyo, a surge of covered 19 cases fueled by the delta vary and leading to more loc downs and more frustration in malaysia infections have reached a new record of more than 20000 cases this week. and then straightly and new restrictions are causing an uproar. florence, though it has more from quantity for hundreds of people, marched on the streets of melbourne on thursday night as victorious jacob strayer entered lockdown. since the pandemic began, police arrested more than a dozen people. more than 60 percent of a straight lines are locked down on friday, including in 3 of its largest cities, melvin sidney and prison officials tried to stamp out an outbreak of the delta vary and i know the all of us victorians are set up. we're tired. we've all had enough

of these of these locked downs and the, and the restrictions that we're placing on our day to day life. but we know that it works. we've seen with a previous outbreak that we can forget this to, we can get to grips of this very quickly if we continue to work together. in malaysia health official say the delta variant, which is much more transmissible, is now the dominant strain in the country. it's like ramping up it's vaccination campaign and walking down the country for more than 2 months. malaysia has seen a record high in the number of new infections and death this week. the government's failure to prevent the spread of the virus has led to colds for the prime minister and lead in yes into resign. china 2 is trying to contain an outbreak of the delta very. and on wednesday it tightened overseas travel restrictions where citizens, local governments have tested entire cities and locked down millions of people this week. that's real good. as long as all like holidays strictly implement prevention and control measures. this round of outbreaks can be basically controlled within

$2.00 to $3.00 incubation period. many asian countries which had been successful in containing the corona virus last year, announcing an increase in new infection. driven mainly by the delta vary and florence louis out just for quality sampling. philippine helpful authorities are still trying to reassure and vaccinations people they can leave their homes. of the false news reports called panic. huge numbers of people jammed vaccinations and his in manila ahead of you locked down that started on friday. rumors spread that on vaccination residents would be deprived of 8 payments and kept from leaving home. critics also blamed president rodrigo to test a cause and confusion. on below is in manila, he says people are allowed out on the special circumstances. of course, this is already the 2nd time that the philippine capital is going through this enhance 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 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 floods and people were worried that. 6 they would not be able to go out,

would not be able to go to work, and they would not be able to get the financial aid the government promised damage . so that's what happened on 1st. on thursday, still ahead on al jazeera, every drop count, help workers and pockets on face numerous threats and polio within a year to brian 5 to take control of the unesco wealth heritage side, sacred to millions of ethiopia as orthodox christians. and of course, a messy situation. spanish giants pulse alone confirm best i'll play leave ah ah hallo there. it's a story of extremes when it comes to the weather across europe we've got a very wet weather in the north. but down in the south,

it's all about that severe heat, thanks to the historic heat wave that's affecting the south east. and we've seen scenes like this wild fires burning and not just in greece and turkey, but in the balkan countries and across southern areas of italy. and as you go into friday, there are going to be hot and dry conditions persisting and temperatures are going to remain high. but there's a change on the way as we move into saturdays, we take a closer look, a change in wind direction, bring the temperatures down, not just in grease, but also in turkey, and is going to be some welcome, wet weather, on the way out, where things are looking rather wet across the northwest. if we take a closer look, we've got a swelling weather system bringing fun the storms to the british miles, we have got some amber alerts out here. and for eastern areas of france and switzerland and northern areas of city, we could see some flooding as those for renshaw reins and funder storms. move in, poland loses the rather than for rain on saturday. that's going to move up into

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to the world's longest hell, the throw prisoner and his sisters, 47 year long battle to save him from execution. witness. how come adam, japan's death row on a jazzy data? all o a era reminder about top stories this israel's, i and don't defense system has interested to 10 rocket fired from the webinar are and founded in northern israel and occupied golden heights of the several were 5. his will all have claimed responsibility. at least 8 people have been killed and

wildfires raging across the launch of turkey. authorities have contains nearly $205.00 of the false non de several also out of control. the telephone says it's fight has killed the african government, top media officer and cobbled dollar comment upon was also president sharp gone to use deputies focus. the group has threatened to target to officials as it continues its country wide offensive. the un security council, if you meet in the coming out to discuss the increasing violence enough on the stone as the telephone makes further gains, pressure is mounting on the united nations to do more. to help resolve the conflict . kristen salumi have more with hundreds of thousands of afghans being displaced by the taliban. recent offensive against government forces un aid workers are sounding the alarm on human rights abuses in afghanistan as civilians. not to mention more than.