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a fascinated the african governments talk. media officer in cobb, lebanon has butler and israel trade 5 or 3rd day, sparking pensions in the region and wildfire. lead parts of greece and ruins for things thousands to abandon their homes. found how much not have all the candidates women, when the limpid football title with the panel tissues out victory in the final ah. hello, we begin this news out in the united nations headquarters where the security council disgust the escalating violence in afghanistan, the head of the u. s. assistance mission. there has appealed to members to take urgent action and prevent a catastrophe. a piano stand is now at a dangerous turning point. ahead, like either a genuine,

teach 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. the title bar made major gains on friday pictures released by the on group show its fighters near the airport in san jose to they captured the southern city. it is the 1st provincial capital, the full in the months long, collarbone offensive. there's also been more fighting alaska got another major city the taliban is trying to catch up on top of territorial games. the tyler bond says they killed the can government top media offset,

dollar con minipaul in cobble that follows the ongoing threat to start targeting african government officials or in a moment will get more on the situation on the ground. their 1st let's go live to christmas. salumi who is standing by at the un headquarters, so christian strong words we heard there from, from the un reflection of just how worrying the situation in afghanistan has become indeed the speakers described a very dire situation on the ground and afghan, a stan and the un special representative had particularly harsh words for the taliban. questioning the groups commitment to a negotiated piece when they are attacking city, saying to do so knowingly put civilians at risk and undermines any desire to build political support. and will she and other speakers also described

very worrying situation for civilians. casualties have increased by more than 50 percent. in recent weeks, a 100 civilians killed and lost our gar alone, worsening humanitarian situation. more than half the country now need some form of assistance and human rights abuse is also a grave concern, expressed by many speakers in the security council chambers today. whether it's summary executions, flogging of children, child marriages, and women in particular being at risk and taliban control. the areas is of grave concern. the united states whose troop withdrawal from afghanistan precipitated this increase in violence, also called the international community to do more. the alarming rise and violence and civilian casualties caused by the ongoing taliban

military offences further roads. the advances the afghan people made in democracy and the rule of law over the last 20 years. the taliban must hear from the international community that we will not accept military take over that began a stan or return of the taliban islamic emerett. the taliban will be isolated in an international pariah if they choose that pass. and while we heard international concern from members of the unanimous concern from the members of the security council about the situation there, some members do seem less inclined to single out the taliban stressing more the need for a afghan lead process and a negotiated solution. but deborah lyons was very clear on what she felt the international community should do moving forward. may lead demand. a halt is an end

to the attacks on cities and ghana, stan and also for countries that are meeting with the taliban political committee to demand a ceasefire. on behalf of the country and the increasingly worried international community. christian, thank you. christmas salumi life verse of the united nations are diplomatic get? it's a james bays is in cobble with more on the taller bonds gains. this is significance around the 1st provincial capital, enough kind of stuff 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 eyewitnesses 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 brough 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 is 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 whereabouts 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 se they carried out that attack. and in the north of the country. and jose june province, there and the provincial capital, the taliban say they taken control of the palace of the veteran commander of the

receipt. dost him in the provincial capital of helmand, laska god battles continue. so the taliban now have taken one provincial capital to a teetering on the edge. well, let's take a closer look at the battle for laska god, it is the capital of hell man, f kennestone largest province, and also among the most fertile because a wide range of crops including opium. and it's an important junction in the supply room for the opium trade, with kandahar to the east and iran to the west. it also borders pockets on the contraband. money is a big source of the taller bonds funds. laska gar houses the afghan national army training center and the police headquarters. and it was the centerpiece of the nato campaign against the taliban shot of bellis. as moore from cobbler raising the city of nash called in a bit to control this telephone fight. still from friday morning in the central market. but the sort of got out of the, this is less, got

a bizarre. the enemy had bombarded the space and destroyed the lives innocent people. and i think that the telephone says this was the result of heavy s strikes in the night and that it's not the civilian area to be targeted. inlaw, chicago, us, and ask on air strikes, have pounded the city for nearly a week. now, holman's army commander asked residence to leave on tuesday to avoid civilian casualties. the government says the television is relying on human shields and losing people shocks and homes to food and weapons. on the grounds, these escapades vishal forces march into battle chanting. we will punish them and long live as canister when they have arrived the way it is, even movie a fighting the tele bond street by street for the man who still these

videos told us to family cannot leave their home because there was constant fighting on his street after one week stuck in size, they are running low on food and his home is shaking with constant 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. get faceted 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 are all health and i left my home. i'm going to increase here. there is always was, 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 learning when you, when i left my home and won't return until he 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, but for both the government and telephone tried to assert the control of the places . the people who home charlotte bellis our jazeera cobble are joining us now is a bon at reuben. he's a non resident senior fellow at new york university center on international corporation at the new deli based tilla, toma foundation to join us now from new york. thanks very much for being with us. so just give us your 1st, 1st of all on, on the developing situation, very fast moving situation. it seems. and i can install right now with that with

the taliban. continuing to make these gains across the country. does it call into question the decision by the united states and other countries to, to, to pull our troops out of the country? maybe that is some of the details about how it was done, but the fact is they have been there for 20 years. now. shane, they're trying to build up the armed forces in the security forces of f garrison and if after 20 years, this is the best that they can do, then it doesn't seem like there would be much of a point in staying longer because the united states doesn't have the capability, the wish, or the right to maintain a permanent monetary patient of f. gaston and its neighbors don't want it there. so it's either decided to do this now or make them more difficult decision later. what about the african government's role in all of the all of this they appeared to have

really struggled in trying to, to fight off the taller bond at this point. should they, should they? what is it that then they're not doing right? what mistakes are they made? of course they've made mistakes, but i think it just shows is that there is relatively little institutional or political connection between the armed forces and the political leaders of the country. because the, our forces are sustained by foreign aid and were until recently sustained by foreign advisors. and that while the president is not only the commander in chief, he didn't control their budget. you know, it was. so, addition to which you are the forces of the security forces reflect the society and the government and being extremely factional eyes. so there is no really any

effective unified leadership over the various over the various security forces. and you can see that in many of the provinces that are, are now soon to be on the verge of collapse, were the government itself, those provinces is quite divided among different forces and unable to coordinate. you talk about about this factional zation. just just expand on that if you can. i mean, because there is this perception that a lot of people there are not or more they owe their loyalty more to, to, to, to on, on sort of ethnic lines rather than, rather than national and that, and that there is enough of a sense of understanding what it means to be african, rather than anything else. i don't think that's quite the right way to put it. i think it's more of the point of what people say, what the sentiments or beliefs of the majority of people may be, doesn't really matter. because they're not incorporated into any functioning system

or any functioning security system is true that the existing are groups are often sometimes held together by ethnic solidarity. i don't think that means that the people as a whole are more motivated by ethnic solidarity than other political sentiments, such as either psalm on the one hand or nationalism or the other. but it means that so for that national sentiment, which is very real and i guess and sense of belonging to a nation, you can say to a degree and how it should be organized and does not have an institutional form that people really are confident and could to get your thoughts on this bond. reuben, thanks for being with us. thank you. plenty more ahead on the news hour, including the migrants flooding. a colombian watertown in the hope of finding a safe place to live. a surgeon,

you infections lead to lock downs and protests. quite some communities in australia, malaysia say that fed up and in sport find out who comes out on top off to crash build 1st ever. women olympic madison finding ah, now to another major escalation between has buller and israel. the iran back group says it 519 rockets from southern lebanon. so was he is ready positions in the occupied ship. our farms bought a district most were intercepted or fell in open land. these really military fine back with artillery and says while it doesn't once a war, it is prepared for one if necessary. has bala says fridays bowers was retaliation for israeli air strikes, which targeted southern lebanon a day earlier. so what has the latest now from able can saki in southern lem?

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 well, i was interested in any major escalation if you read has well, a statement that said that we targeted open areas around is really 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 the border, they used to, you know, shell areas of the not air strikes. but i think there was also another message today. and the message was from iran via has but love 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. come us as well as the 40s in yemen, congratulating has bella for what they have done. so really a message, 2 messages here has developed. israel do not change the rules of engagement and iran to israel to not start war unless you are on multiple fronts. well, hold on honey. it isn't kitty at mona in northern israel and has more on how that country is handling the escalation. what we're hearing really from the israeli leadership, as usual rational reg is reserved. it's right to respond whenever he's fit. but we also do know that defense minister ben again did have

a phone conversation with prime minister enough tally 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 level, i don't was certainly have a reaction. immediate reaction just yesterday is re,

israel uses air force for the 1st time in 7 years striking yes, of what is 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 or army hoary is director of the global engagement. and professor of journalism at the american university of bay routine explains the underlying message behind israel and has bullied latest military actions. what you're seeing is a perpetuation of a situation that's been an effect since 2006, which is a deterrence between the forces of his milan and the israeli on forces. quite an extraordinary situation when you think about it, that a army millison group like this could reach the parents with an incredible power

like israel, with its nuclear weapons in american support. but that's the situation that exists . and they have rules of engagement that are very clear, which is you can do reciprocal acts against one another. if you shoot a soldier, we shoot a soldier. if you should a cow, we should a cow. and if you shouldn't, to empty fields, we shouldn't empty fields. and this is exactly what they're doing. they're sending messages with these attacks into empty fields that we can help you if we want. but we don't want to war and have the impact, essentially are really militarized. emails sending a message saying, look, we don't like you were going to fight you if you want to. war will make a war, but we'd rather not. but the most significant thing in my view, as the incident that happened earlier today, was the group of villagers in south lebanon who stopped there, has been a unit that was either going to fire rockets or coming back from fire rockets and had a truck full of these rockets and stopped them and there was discussions and it wasn't

clear from the reports. some of the villagers were trying to stop has been from doing this. and others were saying, no, we support you. but it shows you the tensions that arise in south lab. and then of course, this has been there for the last 3030 years or so. are you in secretary general? antonio good cherish has appointed hans greenberg. as his new special envoy for yemen, group book succeeds the you case, martin griffith, who is moving to lead to humans, humanitarian affairs department. you and back talk stalled, in april as fighting intensified for the province of mad. the president of lithuania has accused bella ruth of state sanctioned people trafficking and enabling my goods to enter the e u illegally. in an interview with edges, eda guitar, us know, send us, says his country is struggling to accommodate new arrivals. the u has accused bella luce, of orchestrating the crisis in retaliation for sanctions. near barker reports 500

kilometers of razor wire line, the eastern edges of the e. u. this is lithuanian border with bella ruse. and the new defense is a response to the so called hybrid war ways by minsk against this e neighbor, a conflict where migrants from iraq, syria and other countries are being used as political weapons. to let you in, the government says minsk is deliberately flying in people from abroad to send illegally into the european union in retaliation for sanctions against president. look a shank of leadership this year. more than 4000 people have entered lithuania from belarus, a 1000 in july alone. those who promise people and ease at that still the european union from bella was, ah, lying. people are being simply deceived and let into the trap to the bay falls on some dollars for nothing more but the european you and then me rush.

you tried to do our best in order to assure to guarantee sufficient living standard living conditions, especially for them and for children for elderly people. but unfortunately, due to limited sources, the can not have to guarantee sufficient favorable living conditions for every one. the bell. irrational authorities are accused of state sanctioned people trafficking of using social media to lose people into traveling to bella ruth. in the hope of reaching the you. there are dozens of facebook forums in arabic, allegedly created by bell russian internet trolls offering detailed instructions on how to make the journey and who to pay some talk of roots into lithuania, others into poland. meanwhile, if you need to hit back with the social media campaign of its own discouraging

people from making the journey. the countries also approve the mass detention of migrants for 6 months and curb right of appeal. and at the border itself, people are now being turned away, sparking outcry from humanitarian groups, including the red cross pushback of people seeking asylum, said the committee and not compatible with the geneva convention or refugee status . the you charter fundamental rights and other human rights instruments. with you and he has held high level talks with several countries to find a solution with iraq. now considering bonding flights between baghdad and minsky. meanwhile, president lucas shanker ordered his defense agencies to stop people from returning from lithuania to bela ruth. as the diplomatic crisis deepens, vulnerable, people are being jostled between countries that do not want them. their hopes and miseries exploited for political means. the far cam i'll just 0. columbia is

facing a new migrant crisis. more than 10000 people have arrived in the border town of nicole clee. they come from places like cuba, haiti, and as far away as africa they are trying to cross into neighboring panama to eventually reach the united states. that is, a boy is lifeless. now from nickel clee in columbia. so theresa just gives a sense of what's happening there behind you and, and why it's happening now. while i'm here in town up totally understand completely overwhelmed by the amount of migrant, mostly from haiti that are arriving here. this town you go okay to the right time because we have all the people that you can see right behind me. i've been waiting very many of the week trying to cross to the other side to the problem. comfortable from there embark on a very dangerous journey towards the dairy and gap. that's the way to panama later

on, central america, mexico, time, hopefully for them. many of the united states people have been waiting for. they've been right now. we're seeing some tension on the ground because they're angry. the government just now the local government of fuel announced that they won't be able to get on vote. mostly because they're declaring the emergency on the other side of the goal saying that they cannot cope with the amount of migrant that are located here, that they will only allow 200 people per day. and this is something that's going to last for at least 6 months, and that's why people are here getting ready to figure out what they're going to do next. not far away from where you can see. that's the government office here of where we are. there's people surrounding there waiting for an extremely concerned because they do not have money to survive here. some of them come from haiti, but many of them are haitian, were working in countries like g less brazil, argentina. so they arrived here. they're trying to embark on this journey for the united states, this town in nickel, please, a very small play the holy 22,

the people it's become increasingly dependent on the migrant. and what many of the people we have spoken to are saying is that they're being charged in dollars. norma price's the big canada for, so they're growing desperate by the minute. why being here, the crisis that's happening on this place right now. it's become a major issue and that's why the foreign minister of foreign minister fund i'm, i are trying to find out turn active weights on how to cope with a situation here, trying to think of a humanitarian corridor that will help people embark on their trips towards the united states, most of the people we have spoken to say that they're convinced of what they're doing, but nothing will stop them because they're desperate to find a better life. all right, teresa, thanks for that teresa life 1st day in nick oakley columbia. a fill ahead on just data every drop, county health workers in parks, bonds face off threats. they hope to eradicate polio within a year in

a class of their own. we meet the palestinian students who have endured conflict power cups and the pandemic. still sit there exec and in support a special day for you again to track action from tokyo. 2020. coming up a 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 weight. 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, an oman, 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, 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 for the south, it is looking a lot hotter and dry. a temperature is in namibia and what swanner are above average for this time of year. and for much fell 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 the crime that should japan or people get killed on one.