smaller and smaller, we don't want to be realistic in the world. we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al jazeera. oh, be the hero, the world needs, ah washer. in the news, a major territorial victory for the taliban in afghanistan. the group captures the city of the ranch, 5 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 the hello, i'm mary. i'm new jersey in london watching al jazeera,

also coming up from the program, israel's i, and don't intercept rocket slide from southern lebanon. the group has bought, i said it carried out the strikes. for cost to the bank, strong winds could wash and dozens of wildfires raging across greece, but some residents are refusing to move me. so we begin the hour in afghanistan where taliban has taken control of serrano which lies in the south western province of numerous. this marks us through a major strategic victory for the group is that battles for control of other cities as well, and a major push to make territorial advances right across the country. now it's around your board is iran, and it's a very significant trade route for the government. video released by the taliban earlier shows them on the street around the city as it was captured. report

suggests about 20000 people have fled across the board of from new marine province into iran. it's the latest flash point as fighting between the taliban and the afghan security forces intensifies diplomatic added sir. james bass is in the capital combo. but the latest 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 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 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. that was shot dead. the taliban say they carried out that attack and in the north of the country and giles 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 helmet, laska, ga battles continue. so the taliban now have taken one provincial capital and to a teetering on the edge. meanwhile,

the head of the ones mission and afghan is on the same. the country will descend into catastrophe. if the security council members don't take action, united nations carriage council has met on friday to discuss this escalation and violence. according to deborah lyons, the wars entered a new, deadlier and more destructive phase with at least a 1000 civilians killed in the past, month alone. there had been an expertise expectation when the us taliban deal was signed in february of 2020. you will remember that we would see a reduction of violence. we did not. there had been an expert to expectation when the talks between the african republic and the taliban began in september of last year. that we would see a reduction of violence. we have not. there had been an expectation that when international troops left, we would see

a reduction of violence. we did not. instead, despite significant concessions for peace, we have seen a 50 percent, 50 percent increase in civilian casualties. with the certainty of many more as the cities are attacked. and in terms of the other developments inside afghanistan, the taliban and afghan government fighters are remaining in an intense battle for control of the city of laska gar in the southern province of helmand. those still in the city of running out of supplies and say, the huns shaking from constant as strikes, there's also a wising number of civilian casualties. charlotte balice reports from campbell, raising the city of flesh in a bit to control the telephone bills from friday morning in the central market. regard. out of the, this is less got a bizarre,

the enemy have bombarded this place and destroyed the lives of innocent people. that telephone says this was the result of heavy s strikes in the night and that it's not the civilian area to be targeted inland. chicago, us and ask an air strikes, have pounded the city for nearly a week mill holman's army command the auth, residence to leave on tuesday to avoid civilian casualties. the government says the tele bond is relying on human shields and losing people, shops and homes for food and weapons. on the ground, these escapades spatial forces march into battle, chanting. we will punish them and long live scan a star. the week they have arrived the way it is even moved the fighting. the tele bond street by street for the men who still these videos told us to family cannot leave their home because

there is constant fighting on his street after one week stuck inside. they are running low on food and his home shaking with constant strikes or worries. and now we extremely were. we know 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. with several left my home, i'm going to increase. 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. i do not a year when you said i left my home and won't return until it gets more secure, or until there is peace. may there be an end to the conflict? as they hit towards kendall ha susie, the sounds of war chased them, the highway lifted with reminders. there is no safe passage. for both the government and telephone tried to assert the control of the places. the people who home charlotte bellis o jazeera cobble are now moving on. her. some of the other stories were following this hour and israel's eye and defense system is intercepted 10 rockets, 5 from southern lebanon, the dyer and founded in northern israel and the occupied colon height after they were fired. has bala has claimed responsibility for it. israel responded with artillery strikes in southern lebanon on wednesday. israel conducted as

strikes against targets in lebanon, in response to rocket fire earlier on. susanna hunter has latest now, from abilene, the 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 been, 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 as well retaliated to rocket fire with air strikes in the past to any retaliation along the 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 statement also from the palestinian group from us, as well as the hotel in the m and congratulating has bella for what they have done . so really a message, 2 messages here has of israel do not change the rules of engagement and iran to israel do not start war unless you are on multiple fronts. ah, now thousands of people continue to flee. the files that are incinerator in great ways of greece and turkey, that of the coast guard and the great town of i did south described a situation to the state board koster as were talking about the apocalypse,

not quote, coast guard patrol boats as well as fishing and private vessels have been used to rescue more than 650 people from the island of via temperatures have dropped below 40 degrees for the 1st time and nearly 10 days in many parts of the country. there are still high winds to come, and 5 fighters, me options have been going door to door urging people to leave the area where the fire emergency in turkey is now into it's tense day. on friday, 6 neighborhoods were evacuated near the town of midland. 36000 people were taken to safety across the province of nuclear. and fire breaks also being created in an effort to prevent the flames from reaching the coin power plant. this is the 2nd facility to be threatened this week. will at least $56.00 wall, 5 binding across greece. these images from the town of care nori, north of athens, a 38 year old man was killed by a falling electricity pile on just nearby. and

a public official in the capital has also died after being found unconscious in a factory, switzerland, romania, and sweden are all sending firefighters and trucks to help battle the flames. people from 2 towns in east africa, toll described how they refused to leave, so they could defend their hands. that's what i have been here since yesterday. i don't know where my husband is. he works for fire safety and has been sent somewhere else. my house is behind here. you know? i'm not leaving. i've sent my kids away. this is a life work. you can't leave it. right. you know, it's a catastrophe. thought came around the day with swirling wind, burns. a lot of animals burned to death with shaped dogs. everything. now if you look up on that guy, the 5th him leave and go where and let my happy. if we had left, this place would have burned. we told the women and the elderly and kids go,

and whoever was able to help stay to help. however they caught them. bas ravi is reporting to us now and he has more from korean airy in greece. 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 where 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 aerial water drop teams are spread thin. that's what's happening and grease meanwhile, tens of thousands of heck as

a forest have been destroyed in what turkey's present regime time odon, called the countries west of wildfires. drunk office had showed scorch land in charred homes around the terrace resort town of mar maurice, 55000 hector's, have been there more than twice the area destroyed across the whole of turkey last year. and croft including helicopters, panel crucial role in fighting the fires. of course one at russell start to take a closer look at some of the work that's being done in turkey. yeah, looking up thought i'm on the moon. oh. 2 we said, go, we will have a different will be this one of the month crashes course, but the bombs of the more right in the russian making the same type of a, this gravity, georgia. so in depth had

a book to prove. and while you go to flight, engineer it up up, up to a point 1st, don't go up what one of the helicopters will be doing a field on average. it doesn't make, well, this is just one of our most on look what i know. is it all another $55.00. before all the work. 9 more joining them. but i'm, you brain of russia. i'm john, i'm joined by barbara. but a tom, the buyers that are older person as well as well. and but seeing how i work with ad on the double play, me feel region in the region. but with the say,

just one step closer. look at watching algebra live from london to live for you on the program. left in limbo on colombia as border tens of thousands of people stranded as they search for a back to life. rolling out why a carpet is wine years president wants people against using his country as a back door to europe. ah, the, who's the hello. good to see you. we have wildfires exploding around athens degree prime minister has warned that the situation is going to get worse, people doing whatever they can to protect their properties. a bit of a glimmer of hope here as temperatures have come down in athens at 34 degrees, but it's going to take much more than this mean time for turkey. we do have some

scattered showers in fire ravaged parts of antalya providence. but again, it's going to take much more than just a few spits of rain. we really need that concentrated rain. next, i want to take you to the bulk in temperatures have lowered here as well. but the situation still dire, in fact, for north macedonia, the country has declared a crisis for the next 30 days. elsewhere across europe, we are watching energy bubble across the alps, particularly for eastern portions of france into switzerland. and you know, for the british house, we've got a weather maker swirling around. it's giving us what wendy and stormy conditions. and that is also slamming into portions of the low countries and southern scandinavia. off to africa, the southwest corner of molly has scooped up more than a months worth of rain in the past 24 hours. we have our storms along the gulf of guinea, but they are really dialing back as we head toward saturday. that sure weather update catch you later the

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says he on the ranch, this is the 1st provincial capital to fall. since the group started on an offensive targeting major urban areas in the country to offset flash car and share about on also the risk of falling and fighting continues in those areas. meanwhile, the un special envoy for afghan astonished saying the conflict has entered a dangerous new phase with at least a 1000 civilians killed in the past. mom he had a security council meeting. she warned the country will descend into catastrophe. f security council members don't take action and are all the top story this, our thousands of people continuing to flee. the files that are incineration. great waves of greece and turkey. 5 fighters going door to door north of the capital and urging residents to leave the homes while 36000 people have been evacuated from the turkish region. and it's a really similar scenes that we're seeing in the us fighters in the western part of

the country saying that there are a long way from defeating a huge blaze. it's devastated large areas of california over the past 3 weeks. the dixie fiat now covers more than 1700 square kilometers, making it the 3rd largest in the state history. it's mainly burned remote areas so far, but it has now destroyed more than $100.00 homes and it's threatening many more. so let's speak to john henry. he's in the northern california town of quincy. and so john, tell us what is happening around you. we understand that the fire has grown in size of the night. it has indeed, and it's grown dramatically. it was in fact, the single largest day of growth that the dixie fire has seen, and that makes it about 14 times this size of the city of san francisco. there have been other towns that have been taken over, including the town of canyon dam. but

a lot of it is agriculture of well is wildlife area and in the last, in national forest is growing north and west. so this fire is become just enormous . it is the biggest one in california, the biggest one in the united states right now. it has just eclipse of fire in oregon, the bootleg fire and is now the largest fire going and it seems largely out of control. it's about 35 percent contained. we watch firefighters try to battle this . and one of the things they were doing was strategic lead dropping fire retardant, and water in order to limit where the fire went. they were also setting brake fires . that would send the fire in the direction they wanted to. in certain places they would do that to protect homes and, and other structures in human life, of course. and they were very lucky that in one of the towns that burned just a day ago, at 800 people in that town. but they all apparently obeyed the mandatory evacuation

order and got out. and that's the biggest thing that we're the people we talk to here. the public information officers in control of this fire. tell us that the number one thing you're trying to do is evacuate people and our phones have been going off, minute by minute, over the past 24 hours. just telling people to evacuate various places because this fire isn't getting smaller, it's getting bigger. thank you. so much showing from quincy, california, john henry, with all the latest we go to columbia. now the country is facing a migrant crisis with more than $10000.00 people arriving in the board of one of nicole clee, people from countries including cuba, haiti, and as far away as gone up molly and togo, descended on the town with the hopes of crossing the gulf of robert before a jungle track to eventually reach panama from that it's northwards towards the united states. but now many of them a stranded with only one ferry companies stretch to capacity i to many passengers.

her teresa jones is live now from nick oakley in columbia. so we talking about thousands of people that are effectively stock not able to continue with that journey. mean what, how, what provisions are being made to, to try and see that the need of being met? well, that's correct. we're hearing nick oakley, and there's thousands of people that have been arriving here for the past month to cross towards panama. cross the very dangerous journey of the dairy and gap, the jungle area between columbia on time i've been, had towards central america, mexico. and then the united states people continue to arrive here and although many have been able to let others, our friends here. and if you can see right behind me, they're coming here with very little belong and they have and they put them in the plastic bag in order to be able to get on those votes that are going to take them.

so the other side, that's the problem is still in columbia, but then they're gonna have to walk towards canada and it's a very dangerous area, fills with traffickers, drug traffickers, people, stuff, and all sorts of dangers that people say in order to improve their lives. we've been talking to several of them right here, and what they say is that many come from countries in south america, most of them, the ones we have spoken to are from haiti. they've been living in countries like brazil and, and they say that the crisis that both countries are suffering right now has made them search for a different return, different options. we have also spoken to people from haiti, or death for, for the ongoing situation and their own country. and of course, people from cuba and gone out and out of countries as well. that has part to prices in the small town. it's a town of 22000 people, so it's still trying to cope with the amount of people that arrive in here just a few minutes ago. there was a protest because the province up in front of the gulf,

which is what we right now still in columbia, they're only limiting the amount of people allow their $200.00 people a day. and some of those for state saying here they're saying that they do not have resources, they do not have money. they do not have food or a place to live and they want to get on that boat and embark on that very difficult journey. what's happening here as far as the crisis between columbia and other countries in the region, the foreign minister of finance and from columbia met today as discussing options in order to improve the trip under people's lives. i'm talking about too many, terry and corridor and other other ways to solve what's happening here, which i said before was told to lot of people here recognize women carrying children entire families, trying to make a desperate journey in search of a better life. i will thank you so much for explaining what's happening that for us terry's, about the colombian border town of nuclear wet thousands of immigrants,

a strong that they try to match white to the us. now president luther wayner is accused batteries of state sanctioned people trafficking by allegedly encouraging migrants from iraq, syria, libya, and other countries to travel to about a roof so they can enter the e u illegally through lithuania, in an interview with our generic, aton us now say to said his country was struggling to accommodate new arrivals and urged people not to believe the promises being made by the traffickers. the banker reports 500 kilometers of razor wire line. the eastern edge is of the e. u. this is lithuanian border with bella. ruth and the new defense is a response to the so called hybrid was waste by minced against this e neighbor, a conflict where migrants from iraq, syria and other countries are being used as political weapons. philip, you, indian government says men's is deliberately flying in people from abroad to send

illegally into the european union in retaliation for e u 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 festival the european union from bella was lying. people are being simply deceived and let into a trap to the bay files and some dollars for nothing more. but the europe in you and in mid rush, we 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 resources, the cannot just to guarantee sufficient favorable living conditions

for every bomb. 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 bella, 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. and i can be, while, if you ideas hit back with the social media campaign of its own discouraging people from the journey. the countries also approve the attention of migrant specific curb relatives healed. and at the border itself, people are now being turned away, sparking outcry from humanitarian groups, including the red cross push bags 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 finding flights between baghdad and minns can . meanwhile, president lucas shanker ordered his defense agencies to stop people from returning . permit you to bella 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 came out jazeera. now to limpid coaches from batteries have been stripped of their accreditation at the tokyo games of the claims they try to force one of their athletes to return home sprinter. christina kim and sky says that she was taken to the airport against her will on sunday. she's now in poland. she's publicly criticized the people who coached her sang, she fears for her safety. she if she has to return to better louis.

now one of the stories of bring you on the crone of ours actually health officials in england and set the level of corona virus found in people infected with the new infectious delta various levels as similar, regardless of whether they've been vaccinated or not. and they warn that it's might have implications for people's infectiousness. they added the more such as needed data from hospital admissions with the delta very, it showed 35 percent of patients were fully vaccinated and 55 percent were not ah, to quit looking main stories. now. taliban has captured the southern afghan city of zuraw change. first provincial capital to fall to the group since they started an offensive focusing on urban areas in the country as around g.