cross 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 if your 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 dryer temperatures in namibia and botswana, or above average for this time of year. and for much in phil africa, it's a similar story. 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's your update. the news of the crime that shook japan or people get killed on one occasion in as bloody

a massacre as this was, attracts a lot of report. there was just a current drum. who did it, who did it? we did it. a hasty conviction that led to the world's longest hell throw prisoner and his sisters 47 year long battle to save him from execution. witness come out. japan's death row on a jazzy beneath the height of english football lies in elicit market for the rich and powerful one of the leading specialist work undercover. just yours investigative unit exposes the inner workings of key players in the murky underbelly of football finance. for me to tell some people going, in addition has been said that you can make an elephant disappeared. i have many of the exciting brazen example i've seen the men who sell football just oh

a again, you're watching. i just get a reminder of our top story. this out of the un, special envoy for afghan is done is warning the conflict as entered a dangerous new faith. speaking security council meeting, she called for urgent truce, was condemning the taller bonds decision to target cities about you and meeting follows the hala bonds capture on the 1st provincial capital. the group is taking years to other cities, laska. gov and share on at risk of falling. israel's i and don't defense system has intercepted tang rock is spot for southern lebanon. siren sounded in northern israel and the occupied golden heights off the several were 5,

as well as claimed responsible. how delta driven infections are causing more restrictions and frustration across asia, malaysia's seeing record numbers while seemingly endless on and off locked downs in australia, a causing up rule among people. 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 very. and i know the all of us is victorians all set 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 all 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 officials say the delta variant, which is much more transmissible, is now the dominant strain in the country. it's like wrapping up its vaccination campaign and locking down the country for more than 2 months. malaysia has seen a record high. 1 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, lead in yes into 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 vary and florence louis al jazeera kuala lumpur. like hello fornia, firefighters are battling the so called a dixie fire, which has been burning for nearly 3 weeks. the space largest active fire has destroyed well over a 100 homes and it's on its way to damage more hot windy conditions have for thousands to flee as the possibility of more fires growth. john henry is live 1st in quincy in northern california. so john took us through what's happening there. well, the dixie fire grew dramatically overnight. in fact, more than over any single night. it is now eclipse. the bootleg fire in oregon is the largest fire in the united states. they're 5000 firefighters battling it. that is the most of any single fire, as,

as i understand it. and to give you an idea of the size of its about 875000 hector's. if you can envision that, don't worry neither can i. it's about 14 times the size of the city of san francisco. it's an enormous area of fire, but i can give you a little more information about that with someone who knows much more about it. serena baker is a public information officer for the east division of the dixie fire. and let me just ask you if you could just encapsulate for us what's happened over the past 24 hours. sure. so john, the fire has grown 571000 acres overnight. that's the largest overnight growth that we have been on this fire. yet. we're at close 243-3000 acres. so this is california top priority as far as wildland fire and definitely a top priority for resources. and i'm noticing a huge difference in air quality. we drove 2 hours away from reno, nevada,

and it was very smoky there and i'm told the same is true in sacrament. about 3 hours away where there's dangerous air quality. what's happened that we've dropped out of that red flag warning, which is grateful because that does really fan the flames of wild land fire. he will see a much different smoke pattern today because we are in an inversion if it's pushing that smoke closer to the ground, that's kind of a catch 22. on one hand, it will help moderate the temperature and also help reduce the fire growth. but on the other hand, it really hampers our ability to get aircraft in the year. got it. so used to be an identifiable plume. now it's sort of looks like a london fog and you can certainly feel it here on the ground. what, what do you have as priorities starting today? sure. you know, obviously while then firefighter and public safety is always our top priority. but

today we're really focusing on structure protection. and that means that crews will be coming through. they may be cutting hand line around homes, also taking chainsaws and lemon trees, removing brush lane whole lines. even checking to see is there a path that fire engines could get into your home and then get out as well. another priority for us is critical infrastructure. we're actually wrapping in fire retardant, kind of looks like aluminum foil on the outside, but communication sites, repeater sites, you know, those are areas that we, we really are trying to protect. very good will. serena baker? thank you for talking to us. that's our update for the day. it should be noted that the fire remains about 35 percent contain, even as it grows. so what that suggest is that firefighters are actually gaining more control day by day, but the fire is growing larger as well. john henry ly,

for us there in quincy, california. thanks john. emergency crews are also battling several wildfires that remain out of control in turkey. opposition parties criticize president wretched type anyone's government for lack of preparedness. authorities have can say nearly 205 over the past 9 days, at least 8 people have been killed. tens of thousands including tourists, have had to move to say for areas. efforts to put out the wildfires on now into their 10 day across the playing a crucial row. a corresponding restful set of dollars takes a closer look for above at the work being done. yeah, looking at tele, mom just moved off. oh. 2 we said go, we will have a different we did this one a month for both of them. all right? been done. russian. megan can be of the same type of a, the gravity,

georgia. so, i mean that's, they've had a proven, well, you go to flight engineer up up, up to a point 5 total water. one of the helicopters will just be doing a field on average. it doesn't make well, this is just one of our most of what i know. is it all another $55.00. happy to 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 honda book 5 for our 1st one as well and sir, but failed to see how work one day to hand out on the double play me feel region in

the region. but would you say just one step closer? look at a $55.00 has become the 1st confirmed victim of the wild flies in greece, which are continuing across the country. the intense blazes for seeing more evacuations near the capital athens firefighters are trying to stop the flames. from reaching populated areas, prime minister is urging people to obey evacuation orders and not try to defend their own homes. same, but suavely has more from korean ary. when a neighborhood here in north athens where the sky is, it's thick 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 situations 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 darting many parts of north off in fires, burning and hot spots everywhere. all over this part of the city and fire rescue team as well as aerial water drop teams are spread thin. medical workers across pakistan are wrapping up a 5 day campaign to vaccinate 23000000 children against polio. it's been a mammoth task, made more difficult by ongoing attacks against health workers and the police protecting them. andrew chappelle report when he spoke, walks through the hospital cor doors. he sent a message even before having the chance to speak. he didn't receive a polio vaccination when he was a kid. so he's making sure that other children get it even go to work as a month edition. unfortunately, i was personally affected by polio,

since my parents didn't know how serious it was. and the polio campaigns weren't very aggressive. that's why my right leg is paralyzed and my choose to be a polio worker. so i can convince all those parents who are refusing the vaccination for different reasons. nowadays, all it takes is a few drops over and done in seconds. this week, thousands of health workers fanned out across pakistan in hopes of eradicating the disease by next year. when we started the campaigns in 1994, we had about $2635.00 polio cases this year. so far we have one case. and in the last 6 months, we don't have any case at all. so that is a lot of this program that we have the 99 percent reduction in the polio cases, pockets on and gone. this time the only countries were polio continues to threaten the lives and future of children. an army of volunteers is going door to door, delivering the drops to more than 23000000 of them. thousands of police are with

them. protection against violent conspiracy theorists falsely believe vaccines are part of a western plot. people remember how the ca used a fake vaccination campaign for hepatitis to hunt down osama bin lot. the losses have been tremendous according to pish hours. police chief during the last 16 years of foreign tedder, k, p. police has sacrificed 1700100 for snap, for different reasons, providing security to pull you in the pull you've explanation. you see it's an international event. it has been monitored by unicef. it is being highlighted around the world. and it becomes a news not just nationally, but internationally that during polio of explanation of police officers awful, your health workers have been targeted and they won't be the last one's going door to door. eventually, vaccines against cove in 1900 will need to reach the st communities. the concern is

health workers may face the same challenges and are chappelle out 0 of studying for exams is difficult at the best of times, but it's been especially tough this year for palestinian students in garza who have faced the conflict of conflict pow cuts and a co with 19 outbreak. so our results arrive, there was much jubilation. usaid reports from gulf 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 pallana fun. hi and i see other civic icon describe to you, my joy, sign god. when 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've passed them all the entire though 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 sing 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 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 since the peace and quiet they needed the thank god they were able to succeed despite at all a joyous, indescribable, better than

a wedding. there's no joy, like the joy of success that if she exams are so important for policies, students, results can determine where they can study in the future may in when shared their experiences as passion for learning any occasion and determination to gain their diplomas and make a contribution to a better future for all god since last night as a banner 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 garza strip the every year. hundreds if 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 tennessee garza universities is elsewhere, but there is no doubting enthusiasm and will have to do to improve their career prospects and their lives. you may see al jazeera god still ahead on edge is it? the lympics spirit takes root in rio 5 years on from the games. we visit the legacy project that's defying expectations. and as for leo, mfc has been keeping himself pretty busy following the use of his barcelona exit level of detail from just a month. a brought to you by accenture. let there be change the

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a corruption scandals, political crises, and recession kept brazil from living up to many of the promises it made for the olympic games in rio de janeiro. but 5 years on one pledge has been realized, a forest dedicated to athlete monica. you can y'all's reports 5 years ago. this is 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 b. but as the world is watching the olympics in tokyo, the athletes forest and rio de janeiro, it's 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, a green corridor, the reciting 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 parading 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 fun hook and lodge feet,

and ostrich combs you 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 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 don't, we'll just talk to him soon. we won't have to do much to keep the forest from growing up. 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 care. i'll just hear us. we're diginero. ah. alright, let's get for now. his center. thank you very my, to has him on the women's football torment. ad tokyo, 2020 has come to a thrilling and canada to gold with the penalty shoots out when over sweden, off the finishing one all at the end of extra time, canadians held their nerve in the shoes out. it was a sudden death and they came up $32.00, windows. they form the title. usa women are now just one way away from a 7th limpid basketball title, and they beat serbia in the seventies and will face host japan. in the final great

britain have completely dominated the 1st ever women's madsen final, which was marked by a number of big crashes. but the british jewel kept clear winning 10 of the 12 sprints to claim the gold. and i said it's skinny as a faith to keep you. gone, has defended her 1500 me to title, winning and limping record time. she made her attack on the back straight and never gave up the leave dutch runner fun. her son came said she had been looking for an unprecedented travel in the $1500.00, the 510000 metre event tunnel. i knew it was going to be faster to go. so i knew we were all strong and i know it to be. our technical race, always distributor, is granted, but i didn't expect it to us. going to speak shauna. mila we will of the bahamas

has successfully defended her title in the women's 400 meters. marie de paulina of the dominican republic at one silva, while american addison, felix became the most decorated female, a track and field ashley with her bronze. because her tense elim pick metal, i'm very grateful for just everyone who's come before me just so much respect and admiration. i know i wouldn't be here, you know, without those who paved the way and just grateful for my own journey. i love this floor and it's been so good to me and i've grown up in it. and so yes, it's very, very special to be $35.00 him to still be doing what i love is under joshua chip to guy has won the 5000 meters, the world record holder, adding to his silver from last week and the 10000 meters category high jumping saw mark as a, a bedroom that says that he's phone hasn't stopped ringing since his trump in talk

you. e. 30 old that was involved in arguably the most magical moment of the games, in which he and his old friend, john marco time of italy decided to share the gold medal rather than compete in a jump off for the title. it's being unreal, to be honest, it's really it's the biggest thing. you know it's, it's been huge. i've been, you know, my phone cannot function, got mess, tons of messages, tons of call. people really appreciate it. people are so happy and so much positive feedback. i wouldn't want to see him on that server position because i know he deserve goals and i, i know that i don't want to be at the silver because i feel like i just have gold. so when, when, when, when we both in the dark 27 and the referee came to explain to us, and i just turn that asking, can i have to gold? and he's like, yes, i'm the, he, he's trying to actually continue. i explain about mom and we didn't really care. i

look at it in his eyes to look at my eyes and we start celebrating already way from the lympics. python is all mine talks to sign argent time football style in l. messy. according to reports, sports network, the athletic say that messy himself has already contacted p. s g manager. laurie, she'll put daniel while the 54 year old has been a free agent since the 1st of july. barcelona saying financial fair play rules meant a deal could not be completed. well, despite the report to linking p s g push senior didn't give away much when speaking to the media earlier. no, go. michelle, who we are focused on concentrated on the start of the season, what are the same time the club is working hard and quietly to improve the team and achieve the goals we have set for this year? yes, we know what happened yesterday, but we are very focused on the beginning of the season. and that's always fun for me. i hand you back to has him. thanks so much. that's it for me, have

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the pandemic has reopened preexisting economic political challenges. but the gap between rich and poor nations continues to widen, with a lack of brassy in china. is cranked down on capitalism. counting the cost on al jazeera, the u. s. has withdrawn the majority of its troops from america longest war, leaving the battle for control. the african military be able to hold its ground against the common and the afghans to help the american war effort relocated to the us. the future hold for that special coverage for not going to song on al jazeera. if you are looking at this from the outside, you would really wonder what was going on, what, what is this is a religion that they have an in depth exploration of global capitalism on our obsession with economic growth. this is still the center of capitalism. there is no limits. i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to bake as well as smaller and smaller. we don't

want to be realistic in the well, we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al jazeera. oh, be the hero. the world needs right? ah, washer. in, oh, i am a major territorial victory for the taliban in afghanistan. the group captures the city of the ranch 1st provincial capital to fall to the group. un security council members at told the conflict to entered deadlier and more destructive phase here. and the time to take action is now ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm live in london watching.