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history. the crisis turns political and the olympic spirit takes root in rio 5 years on from the games. we visit the legacy project as if flying, expectation. me and the united nations security council has met to discuss the escalating violence in afghanistan as the tyler bond continued there offensive and sees territory. the head of the u. s. assistance mission in afghanistan. war members to take urgent action and prevent the country from descending into a catastrophe. again, a stand is now at a dangerous turning point. ahead lies either a genuine piece, negotiation or a tragically intertwined set of crises. and increasingly brutal conflict.

combined with an acute humanitarian situation and multiplying human rights abuses, i do believe that the security council and the broader international community can help prevent the most dire scenarios. but it will require acting in unity and acting quickly, are the top on my major gains on friday pictures released by the arm group show it's fighters near the airport inside. and after the capture of the southern city, it is the 1st provincial capital to fall in the month long taliban offensive. there's also been more fighting in another southern city, laska gar, which the taliban is trying to capture. on top of territorial against the taliban says they killed the afghans, the african governments talk media officer, though han minipaul in kabul that follows the groups threat to start targeting afghan government officials on the situation on the ground in

a moment of the 1st christmas. salumi has more on that security council meeting from the un headquarters we heard from the special representative for afghanistan to the united nations. deborah lyons and she painted a very bleak picture and said urgent action was needed on the part of the security council to avoid a very, very bad situation. getting even worse, she questioned the taliban commitment to a negotiated settlement, given the ongoing attacks on urban areas and the impact that that is having she talked about a 50 percent increase in civilian casualties, are increasingly worse humanitarian situation with almost with more than half of the country in need of some sort of aid hospitals in some of these areas that are being attacked or at full capacity. roads are being blocked, food can get in and human rights violations are also increasing exponentially,

particularly an area is held by the taliban. we're hearing things like the summary executions, the flogging of children, child marriages, and so on. and the special representative laid out some very clear steps that the international community could take, that she said would help the situation, including a statement, an unimed big us statement, in her words, calling for an end to attacks on cities. she also said that countries who were in contact with the taliban political commission should tell the taliban that there should be a cease fire immediately. are diplomatic. it's james base is in cobble with more on the taller bonds gates. this is significance around the 1st provincial capital enough to start to fall into taliban control. these pictures released by the taliban ship fighters driving humvees and other vehicles paid for by the us and

nato and taken from africa and forces the airport the only one in the desert province, as well as key government offices were captured, were told by eye witnesses with barely a short being fired. earlier the taliban fighters had broken into the prison breaking out detainees which included some of their own fighters. they urged the governor abdul karim brown who to surrender. he released this video saying he would not. but just hours later, taliban fighters were filming themselves in his office. one of them shouting, you are a law, you said on facebook. the taliban would be unable to fight you. where are you? we've entered your office the where abouts now of the governor and other key provincial officials is not known. there been other important developments to cobble the deputy press secretary to president gaudy, and the head of the government media office dot com monopoly was shot dead. the

taliban say they carried out that attack and in the north of the country and jo, june, province, there and the provincial capital, the taliban say they taken control of the palace of the veteran commander of the rescue. dost him in the provincial capital of helmand, laska gar battles continue. so the taliban now have taken one provincial capital and to a teetering on the edge. was james mentioned the afghan government says the situation is critical and laska god is a rising number of civilian casualties. and those stuck in the city are running out of supplies. charlotte bellis reports from call. raising the city of lush in a bit to control this telephone fight still from friday morning in the central market . but the sort of god out of the this is less got a bizarre, the enemy have bombarded this place and destroyed the lives of innocent people. and i think that the telephone says this was the result of heavy air strikes in the

night. and that it's not the civilian area to be targeted inland. chicago, us and ask on air strikes, have pounded the city for nearly a week mill, holman's army commander asked residence to leave on tuesday to avoid civilian casualties. the government says the tele bond is relying on human shields and losing people, shocks and homes for food and weapons. on the ground, these escapades spatial forces march into battle chanting. we will punish them and long live afghans star week they have arrived the way it is. even move fear fighting. the tele bond street by street for the man who still these videos told us to family cannot leave their home because there is constant fighting on his street. after one week stuck in size,

they are running low on food and his home shaking with constant s strikes. where worries and now we extremely were. we know that's the big, big chunk of the relation has moved out of town. but we don't know exactly where they are and we don't have right now. capacity to wish them for those who can escape, they travel on dangerous roads, taking with them all they can pack. they look the places free of fighting that every day those areas shrink. about all i left my home. i'm going to for crease here. there is always war. i'm leaving because there was nothing else. you know. see if says 360000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the last week. half of them are children. are you know to you when you said i left my home and won't return until it gets more secure, or until there's may there be an end to the conflict?

as they hit towards kendall ha susie, the sounds of war chased them. the highway littered with reminders. there is no safe passage for both the government and telephone tried to assert their control of the places. the people who home charlotte bellis, our jazeera, cobble israel on. don't defense system hasn't inserted. 10 rockets, fire from southern lebanon. the siren sounded in northern israel and the occupying golden heights after they were fired. as bala has claimed responsibilities. israel is responded with artillery strikes in southern lebanon. hold up, the media is in kitty at ramona in northern is ron has more on how that country is handling the escalation. what we're hearing really from the israeli leadership

is the usual rational reg is reserved. it's right to respond whenever he's fit. but we also do know that defense minister benny gas did have a phone conversation with prime minister enough tele bennett. he then also had a meeting with his chief of staff and other top people from the military. now you do get read an impression that there is no desire to escalate this situation. make no mistake. israel is obviously making its preparation militarily here in the north of the country. but there is a realization that this border needs to stay calm, because whenever this border ignites well, you do also have another border in the south of the country to border with god that it also sometimes ignites at the same time. israel has just come out of a war. the fire talks are still ongoing, so certainly maybe not

a desire to go any further than that. but that said, this is a very volatile area. i think whatever happens, whatever will be incoming from lab, i don't was certainly have a reaction. immediate reaction just yesterday is rate israel use its air force for the 1st time in 7 years striking yes, of what it called rocket launcher sites inside lebanon. but probably it was empty field, they're not causing major damage, but certainly escalation, militarily and here. the commanders on edge. as i heard a has the latest from able, soppy in southern lebanon. there is a cautious calm after a brief flare up of violence along the wall. the border between long time enemies has below and israel, the area behind me was a battle ground cross border shelling. but it was clear that neither israel nor has will, i was interested in any major escalation if you read has well,

a statement that said that we targeted open areas around israeli military outpost, basically saying that we could have hit the military outpost. we could have caused casualties. what as well as trying to do is to tell the israelis do not change the rules of engagement, which have been in place since 2006, because on early thursday, israel retaliated to rocket fire with air strikes in the past at any retaliation along this border, they used to, you know, shell areas of, it's not air strikes, but i think there was also another message today. and the message was from iran via has a lot to israel, a day or 2 after the israeli saying that we are able to directly, militarily engage with iran. so you run is saying that, well, we have allies in the region. we are able to open a number of front. one of those fronts is here in southern lebanon, especially since we had statements also from the palestinian group, hamas, as well as the whole t's in yemen, congratulating hezbollah for what they have done. so really a message,

2 messages here has a lot to israel do not change the rules of engagement and iran to israel to not start war unless you want or on multiple fronts. alright, still ahead on, i just need a surgeon, you infections leads to lock downs and protests. why some communities in australia, malaysia. a say that fed up and in a class of their own, we meet the palestinian students who've injured conflict, pow cuts and the pandemic. a still sit there, exams. ah, the hello there. we've seen intense heat across parts of europe and northern areas of africa, and that's edged into much of an event. bringing temperature is above average in syria, in iraq as well as iran and q wait. and as we go into the next few days,

we are going to see temperatures at pick up across the gulf states. it's further south of that. things are looking cooler. we've got a southerly wind kicking in across yemen, anime on, and that is keeping temperatures down. we're also seeing if you showers across western areas of yemen, edging up into southern areas of saudi arabia. and these join up with the biggest storms that are brewing across that central band across africa. you can see that the p e. c. o pin rift valley. see some of those heavy showers and storms, we could see, flooding across parts of the central african republic. and cameroon is likely to see some of those really heavy falls come sunday. but further south it is looking a lot hotter and dry. a temperature is in namibia and botswana, or above average for this time of year. and for much in phil africa. it's a similar story with lots of sunshine coming through with johannesburg. the cape town, though, it does turn cold as we go into sunday, with the arrival of wet weather that your update

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hello again, you're watching. i just reminder of our top stories this out. the un special envoy, when i scan is done, is warning the conflict has entered and you in dangerous phase. speaking at a security council meeting, she called for an urgent truce walk, condemning the taller bonds decision targets to un meeting. far as a ton of bonds capture of the ranch, the 1st provincial capital, the group has taken in years to other cities, moscow, gar, and chevron are at risk of falling. israel's eye and defense system as intercepted can rock it's far from southern lebanon. cyrus sounded in northern israel and the occupied golden heights off the several were fired, has full left, has claimed responsibility. now emergency crews are continuing to battle. several wildfires that remain out of control in turkey. opposition parties have criticized

the president, richard type, otherwise, government for lack of preparedness. authorities of contain nearly 205 over the past 9 days. at least 8 people have been killed. tens of thousands of people, including tourists, have had to move to say for areas are corresponding. russell said don takes a closer look from above at the work being done we are looking to sell a month. oh oh. 2 0, oh, we will have a little bit from where i see this one a month for both of them, all right, in the russian making the same type of a this gravity, georgia. so you had a proven, well, you fill the flight engineer up up, up to a point 5 total water. one of the helicopters will

be doing a field on average. it doesn't make the world of this is just one the most on look up to 30 as i know it all. another 55 had happened before the put in with 9 more joining them. but i'm, you brain of russia. i'm john. i'm joined by bob as well, but a tom the buyer for our 1st one as well and but seeing how work one day to hand out on the double play me feel region in the region. but with the day just one step closer. look at a firefighter has become the 1st confirmed victim of the wildfires in greece,

which continuing across the country. the intense blazes. of course, more evacuations, near the camp for athens, firefighters tried to stop the flames from reaching populated areas. the prime minister is urging people to obey evacuation orders and not try to defend their own homes thing, but probably has more from korean area. when a neighborhood here in north happens where the sky is, it's with dark black smoke. every direction you look in there seems to be black, smoke rising over neighborhood high into the sky and that's because of situation like the houses have been burning for more than 24 hours. now. much of these areas are still very much on fire and there are fewer and fewer helicopters dropping water from the air. you feel if you're a fire rescue teams trying to put out these places because they're simply so many that are done in many parts of their fires, burning and hotspots everywhere,

all over this part of the city and fire rescue team, as well as area water drop teams are spread thin. a flooding has damage towns and farms and washed away roads in north korea. ruin crops are threatening to make hunger crisis the even worse, the sanctions will cut the country off from aid and imports. robert bride is following the story from sol in 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. mm. or delta driven infections are causing more restrictions and frustrations across asia. malaysia are seeing record numbers while seemingly endless on an off locked downs in australia, a causing uproar among critics, florence louis reports. hundreds of people marched on the streets of melbourne on thursday night at victoria steak and strayer entered,

locked down. since the pandemic began. police arrested more than a dozen people. more than 60 percent of australians 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 her varian. i know the all of us victorians are fed up, we're tired. we've all had enough of these of these locked downs and the end of 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 get 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. like wrapping up its vaccination campaign and locking 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. we didn't. yes, in to resign. china to is trying to contain an outbreak of the delta variant. on wednesday it tightened overseas travel restrictions, what citizens, local governments have tested entire cities and locked down millions of people this week. that's 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 variant, florence louis al jazeera kuala lumpur, or to bell russian coaches have been stripped of their accreditation at the tokyo olympics after a claim they tried to force one of the team sprinters to return home. christina, it's him. a nice guy says she was taken to the airport against her will on sunday.

she's now in poland. the terminals guy has publicly criticized, had publicly criticized her coaches and says she feared for her safety if she would turn to bell. ruth, a corruption, scant corruption scandals, political crises, and recession kept brazil from fulfilling many of the promises he had made for the olympic games in rio de janeiro. but 5 years on one pledge has been realized, a forest dedicated to athletes, monica yanna, kiev reports 5 years ago this was barren land, and many thought it would remain. so another broken promise from rio de janeiro summer olympic games. 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 trees inside of a future green corridor, the restarting right now to be for the next 10 years. it took an uphill battle to fulfill the dream, which began at the 2016 olympic opening ceremony with athletes per 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 got in the way. the seeds of hope would have been buried in the past had 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 food. not 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 plant. each country that participated in the 2016, the limpid games have the totem in the forest indicating the species that represents and its 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 occupies 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 respond to it soon. we won't 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 not give all just zeros. rear diginero of studying for exams is difficult at the best at times, but it's been especially tough this year for palestinian students in garza who faced the conflict power carts and coded 19 outbreak. so when results arrived, there was much jubilation. una said reports from goth. law that now was teens. students are celebrating what they call told she he, their high school exam results. pictures were quickly posted as social media, with the twin sisters may and munna among the 1st. hello, i am the father high and i was the other as best i can describe to you, my joy sign god. when results are released, everyone started screaming and chanting,

be all quiet of happiness if the city of pride for parents and sons what the had before was little from. now, despite the challenges and difficulties we've been through, we can god that we've 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 single. 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 probably had some random hollow po, my we accept 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 indescribable. better than a wedding, there's no joy, like the joy of success. that of she exams are so important for palestinians students. results can determine where they can study in the future may in when shared their experiences. if passion for learning and education, and a determination to gain their diplomas and make a contribution to a better future for all godson, that's not as i'm donna mitchell. what? 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 garza 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 no shame for tennessee said, gaza universities is elsewhere. there is no doubting enthusiasm, and we'll have to do to improve their career prospects and their lives. you may see al jazeera got down. ah, this is, let's get around up at the top stories. the afghan carla bon, has captured zat on the 1st provincial capital. the group has taken in years to other cities, lucko gar, and shared by van are at risk of falling. the us special envoy for afghan histone is wanting, the conflict has entered, and you dana.