bring you more award winning documentaries and live on air and online play an important role checking human. ringback face in the has the law fire, the rockets from lebanon into israel, 2 days out of a traded fire over the border. ah, hello again, i'm kim, i'll santa maria here and joe, how this is the world news from al jazeera. the taliban says it's fight as of kill the afghan government top media officer in cobble also to better written coaches.

try to force a sprint to christina to want us going home from tokyo, have been stripped of their olympic credentials and will make the palestinian students have enjoyed conflict and power cup pandemic. i didn't fill out their exam . ah. so he's where i was, i am don't defense system has intercepted 10 rockets which were fighting from southern lebanon. the siren sounded in northern israel, and the occupied golden heights are to those rockets of fide has been, has claimed responsibility. israel responded in term with strikes into southern lebanon. let's check with zana honda. she's in the law suck in southern lebanon. and tell us what you've been able to see from there. they know well, the cross border shilling has since stopped. there is

a cautious call prevailing along this volatile border. the area behind me was a baffled ground. has been law claiming responsibility for launching rockets towards ship the ship off farm. because you can see it's really outposts are on, on top of those hills hezbollah saying that the rocket fire was in retaliation to israeli air strikes, which were carried out early thursday morning shows the air thrice came in response to rocket fire from sutherland towards israel on wednesday, as well as saying, and it's in its statement, is that we targeted open areas. so this can be translated as a warning has about the source as close as well. i have said that the ball is now in israel's court. they either decide whether they want to escalate the situation or calm the situation down. so far israel responded with artillery shelling. there

have been no casualties. so most of the shelling has targeted open space. tesla and israel are long time enemies. but since they're a major war in 2006, they have been tip toeing a port trying to prevent an all out confrontation, any wrong move any wrong calculation can lead to an all out confrontation. so, so far, what happened this morning is being seen as, as a message that has well as telling that israelis, you cannot change the rules of engagement. you cannot carry out air strikes and targets southern lebanon. but many of servers will tell you that this is, this is in one way or another linked to the escalation in the region as a whole. ok, there are correct me if i'm wrong. zayna you in 4th is in the region in the area, the unit fill. yes. the united nations peacekeeping to they've been deployed here for decades, but they really don't. their mandate is very limited. so they are supposed to

ensure that there is no fighters or weapons in an area from the border to the latania river, but it's an open secret in lebanon. hezbollah is able to operate within unit feels its own of operations. when we talk about lebanon, being entangled into regional, regional situation has, below is an ally of iran and many field that is implementing a bronze agenda and the region and the timing of what happened in the past 3 days. within this tension between israel and iran, israeli official saying that we can target the iran. so really the, the response from iran is that we have allies across the region even how much the palestinian movement, how mass issue. the statement appraising has the law for the retaliatory strike this morning, what they call the retaliatory strikes. so all these messages as well that if you open the front with iran, iran has allies, and it can open fronts around a long israel's along israel's borders. then what is in southern lebanon?

we'll talk to you again soon. i thank you. now know from f canister with the taliban says it's fight, have killed the african governments top media officer in cobble double. hon. monopoly was also president national. danny's deputy spokesman early this week. the group had threatened to target officials as it continues its country wide offensive james space. now with more on that killing, he's in campbell. he is well known to african journalists. he is an inner member of the inner 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 relevance 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 afghanistan, from joe, with john province in the north and from the provincial capital that shepherd gun.

now shepherd again, is the long held stronghold of one of the veteran commanders in afghanistan, abdur, 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 back community in afghanistan. what in the provincial capital shepherd again, according to a tell about 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 governor's compound and no one is answering the phone right now. we've all been looking at the south, laska gob, but if this news is true, it may well be that the taliban and out stream be close to taking their 1st provincial capital enough. got us don to turkey. we're at least 8 people have been killed in the wildfire across the country. opposition parties have criticized

project type ones, government for lack of preparedness. now they have managed to contain nearly 205 over the past 9 days, but several of still out of control. and tens of thousands of people, including tourists, have had to move to safe areas, wrestle served with more now from dallas. there had been roughly around 200 y as far as the report since the y fi started more than a week ago. so now in 6 provinces, there are still 13 active zones that are burning. and the, the local authorities here says that they now have a home. because by today, the wind has lost its momentum, and the heat is lower by tomorrow. they're expecting the humidity also to a little bit rise, which they hope that this will help the fight against the wildfires. now we are in

dilemma. april which has been one of the most crucial coordination center through the last 9 days here. and here that on the russian plains, the ukrainian or their b johnny and the run in aircraft as well here. and they get the water from the mediterranean sea and drop down on the active zones here, right behind me. there are 2 iranian and one other b johnny, 17515. how the court there's, there's a fire fighting, how to cook to have proven to be very much crucial in this battle. they are able to make around $123.00, if in just one an hour and in total in one drop they, they, they drop roughly around $2.00 tones on the active on each total. so they are able to carry around with it while they are able to load

around 30 tones of the water on the active zone. and one finds burning across parts of greece are forced more evacuations. near the capital athens firefighters continued their efforts through the night trying to stop the flames. from reaching populated areas, the prime minister urging people to obey the evacuation orders and not tried to defend their own home. his report and st. srp, he's in 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 watched 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 creo neri 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 these claims. all people can do it seems, is watch the hillsburg 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. so 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 zane bus robbie. oh, to 0 north athens got an update on the world whether next to and then looking like china is accusing the united states of violent interference with its internal affairs. i mean, a big spirit takes her in rio 5 years on from the games that we visit the legacy project as defying expectations. ah,

ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello there. let's look to east asia, and there's a number of tropical systems that we are keeping an eye on in the western pacific. there's 2 in particular that we are watching. the 1st one is tropical storm loop at the other one is tropical storm. mir renee, we take a closer look at loop it. we can see it working its way across the south, east coast of china. now that's bringing power for winds. rough seas and flooding rains to few john province. as well as to tie one, we are seeing up to 202300 millimeters of rain, the potential for 500 millimeters in areas. and that does often mean flash floods and landslides. now the other system tropical storm. mir renee will take a closer look. this has got an unpredictable path, but it is working its way to the east of japan. we are likely to see some really

wet and windy weather, 2 eastern areas of horseshoe, and it's likely to be a wet end to the olympics in tokyo this weekend. as we move to south asian. now the central and northern areas of india are continuing to be inundated by those monsoon rains. east raja san and merger pradesh seen some of those heavy falls and we could see flash flooding here. but there's going to be fun. the storms for new delhi throughout the weekend sponsored cut on airways in the wake of the criminal race, right. how much can someone take before the class? the fight recognition is crucial. we needed corner heads to prevail, brothers in every fable. and that was the religion and the thing that was community one was to be just respected. al jazeera explores the history and struggles of the lebanese community in australia. once upon a time in punchbowl on al jazeera,

oh a tough stories this hour on al jazeera, israel's ions. i'm defense system is intercepted. 10 rocket, 5 from southern lebanon, sirens sounded in northern israel on the occupy golden heights after several were fired. has belong, it's claimed responsibility. these 8 people have been killed in the wildfire across much of turkey with our he to contain nearly 200 fires in the past 9 days, but several us still out of control. and the taliban says it's fine. as of kilby africa government's top media of the in cobbled dot com, the novel. it was also present enough. danny's deputy spokesman,

the town about had threatened to target official as it continues a country wide offensive. what we've got the un security council due to meeting the coming hours as well to discuss the increased violence and if kind of done with the town about makes further gains, the pressure is mounting on the you and to do more to help resolve the conflicts that support from kristen salumi 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 1000 un employees get caught in the crossfire . unicef today is outraged by report that a 12 year old boy from sheer into gob district in far province, suffered a brutal flogging by a member of an anti government group. women in particular are at risk from violence and the loss of basic write

a letter signed by prominent feminist and rights activists calls on the security council to authorize a peacekeeping force. under resolution 1325 which demands the protection of women in armed conflict. women are at risk, we're being women. and we know many of the things that are happening. i will not repeat the litany of what has happened to women during the advance. so the primary thing is to get a ceasefire. betty riordan, who work to get the resolution passed in 2000 says it also promises women a seat at the negotiating table. the protection of women, an armed conflict is not just some lofty un ideal. it was enshrined in international law right here by the un security council, which is under increasing pressure to help stabilize the situation and afghan, a stan. but the council is unlikely to authorize and peace keeping force, given that any mission would have to be approved by the 5 permanent members who all

have veto power. there is no real danger, a spread of extremism and terrorism in countries surrounding of his phone. there's no doubt about that. chi ida is a former un envoy for the region. he says with the withdrawal of us forces, the taliban needs extra incentive to negotiate. he's calling on the secretary general to appoint and the security council to get behind a single un appointed mediator for peace talks has been said for a long time that you should be gone, live on own negotiations a way that doesn't work. you know, you have to put somebody else in charge here. council meeting on friday to discuss the situation. but civil society group say it's action not dialog afghans need the most christian salumi al jazeera, the united nations flooding is damaged homes and farms and washed away roads. in

north korea, reuben crops, the threatening to make a hunger crisis even worse. their sanctions have already cut the country off from aid and imports north korean leader kim jong and previously wanted a tense food situation. more from robin bride who's following that story from salt and south korea. pictures released by north korea state run media show widespread destruction from these floods impacting an area along the country's east coast towards the northern end of the korean peninsula. it said that some areas received up to $500.00 millimeters of rain during the 1st part of this week. and this really adds to north korea's ongoing miseries last year, a series of typhoons called havoc with the country's food production racking its harvest. and that's on top of ongoing problems such as years of international sanctions and also of course, cutting itself off from the outside world during this pandemic in recent months,

state run media has shown a lot of work being done on the countries infrastructure, trying to improve for example drainage ditches to try to make the country more resilience to extreme weather. but in june the countries leader came junglin did give a warning that the country was facing a very tense food situation. these floods it seems, will make that situation worse. and china has attacked us the offer of temporary refuge for people from hong kong president joe biden, to anyone from hong kong residing in the us will be allowed to stay for another 18 months in response to what he said is aging ongoing crackdown on freedom. his edge and brown with more on china's reaction to that us decision. the response from china has been fairly blunt. there was a term statement issued early on fridays from the ministry of foreign affairs here in hong kong. they accuse the united states of shameless apocryphal saying that the biden administration was intervening violently in china's internal affairs. the

hong kong government for its part not wanting to be left out. also criticize the bite administration, saying that the u. s. was once more smearing hong kong the memorandum the joe biden is issued affects many people from hong kong. now in the united states, since 2009, it's estimated that more than 180000 hong kong citizens have gone to the united states. and what bite is now saying is that they can remain there for another 18 months. what is not clear though, is what happens after that period. will they be allowed to remain for another 18 months now? bite and said they were compelling reasons for allowing these people to stay. he said, since the imposition of the national security law, more than 13 months ago, more than 100 people had been arrested including many leading figures in the pro democracy movement. he said that media and academic freedoms were being limited.

and also there were threats to the judiciary. now, just a few weeks of course ago, the, the bite administration also announced warning american companies here of the dangers of the continuing to operate in hong kong. it said that american companies could be forced to hand over data from their servers. the biden ministrations also being slapping sanctions on chinese entities and individuals. china has retaliated in the same way the prime minister, st. vincent and the grenadines and sustained a head injury after a projectile was thrown to him during a protest. ralph consultants has been taken to hospital. the attacker was part of a group of $200.00 protesters angry about plans to make corona virus vaccines mandatory for some frontline workers. but as layla is going to flash the zeros from its hyper inflated currency, it's new $100.00 bill will be equal to $100000000.00 of what's currently in

circulation. the central bank says the change will come into effect on the 1st of october, venezuela. now in its 6th year of recession with millions of people living in poverty. studying for exams is difficult at the best of times, but it's been especially tough to see if a palestinians in garza think about it. they've had conflicts, power cuts, not to mention a coven 19 outbreak. so when the results arrived, a lot of celebration, you've not cited reports from government. law, law, malice, teens, students are celebrating, what they call till she, he, their high school exam results. pictures were quickly posted as social media, with the twin sisters may and were now among the 1st hall. i am the father high and i was the other as best i can describe to you, my joy, sign god. when a results are released, everyone started screaming and chanting, we all quite of happiness is the city of pride for parents and sons. i want the had to for all was little from now despite the challenges and difficulties we've been

through, we can god that we passed them all the entire g. he's on one hand and the results are on another the, the month before the exams in the middle of the corona, virus pandemic, and having to cope with constant power outages. everything suddenly stopped for a student seen godsa. when israel launched air strikes against palestinian armed groups in the strip, more than 240 people were killed and almost 2000 wounded homes and schools were destroyed. but a month later in june, this year, students sat for their final exams. it pub, bolona had some random, hollow, po, matter. we accepted this year with all its weakness and bitterness. i was afraid i wasn't able to provide my friends with the peace and quiet they needed the thank god they were able to succeed despite it all. a joy is indescribable. better than

a wedding. there is no joy, like the joy of success. it is. exams are so important for palestinians students. results can determine where they can study in the future, may and wanna share their experiences as passion for learning and education, and a determination to gain their diplomas and make a contribution to a better future for all god. since that's not as i'm donna mitchell was nope along we could bring out to creative generation from within. there are lots of examples in gaza to consider as role models. and we can definitely lift gaza strip the every year. hundreds of palestinians students are offered scholarships at universities in europe, the middle east and asia, but they faced many obstacles. chief among them is getting travel permits from israel to be able to leave. what many describe as the open air prison that is garza?

they often have to wait a long time for the approval, the delay jeopardizing their chance to study abroad. there may be not shame for any reason, gussy university is elsewhere. there is no doubting enthusiasm and will of the students improve their career prospects and their lives. you may see elses iraq, god ah, to bel everything coaches have been stripped of their accreditation that the turkey olympic games after reclaimed. they tried to force one of the spring tunes to return home, christine the team on the sky and says she was taken to the, the airport against her will on sunday. now in poland, when this guy had publicly criticized the coaches and says she feared for her safety if she returned to the other room at richmond has been talking and has more on why the coaches were booted out of the games 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 sky 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 quote, 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. shank has been long term concerns about the level of government intervention in, for example, the olympic committee today are about discrimination against athletes. you've criticized lucas shanker. 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 as 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 the 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 the dollar. recently in tokyo will re won 5 years to the last olympics and corruption scandals, political crises, recession. they kept brazil from the feeling many of the promises that night for those games and breo about 5 years on one pledge has been realized. a forest dedicated to the athletes, monica, you know, give us more 5 years ago this is barren land and many thought it would remain. so another broken promise from rio de janeiro

summer olympic game, like cleaning up the beautiful and still very polluted. when i bought a bait, but as the world is watching the olympics and tokyo, the athletes forest and rio de janeiro, its finally blooming and even expanding this forest. it's an important legacy from the olympic games the rio because we have here, right inside of the west, part of the city, $13000.00 trees inside of a future green corridor, the restarting right now to be up for the next 10 years. it took an uphill battle to fulfill the dream which began at the 2016 olympic opening ceremony with athletes for waiting feebly of $207.00 brazilian native tree. each one representing a different country. they were taken to a private farm until the necessary preparations could be made to plant them in 2017

. but the economic crisis, corruption, scandal, and politics, god and the way the seeds of hope would have been buried in the past. had it not been for the insistent group of forest engineers who had continued to nurture them despite the lack of public funds and of the large fruit. and that's because i eat it, took us 3 years from 2016 to 2019 to turn the athletes forest into a reality and find a home for the plot. each country that participated in the 2016, the limpid games have been told to him in the forest indicating the species that represents. and it's part in this global environmental project. or you and a half ago all plants here were this size. now many of them are more than 3 meters high athletes. forest occupied 80000 square meters,

a space equivalent to 8 football stadium. and another 20000 square meters are being cleared to plant more threatened need to be, she will talk to soon. we will have to do much to keep the forest from growing. he says the trees already producing seeds which are being dispersed with the wind and will ripen in the ground. nature will take care of the rest to maintain this environmental footprint of the real olympics. monica, and i'll give, i'll just 0. we're diginero. ah, how fast they are on al jazeera. these are the headlines israel, the i don't defense system is interceptor. 10 rocket fired in from southern lebanon . i'm sorry. the sirens sounded in northern israel and the occupied golan heights.