me morning, allow government al jazeera as a, you know, i major territorial victories of the taliban in afghanistan. group captured the city of the ranch, 1st provincial capital to full. meanwhile, un security council members told the afghan conflict is entered a deadly and more destructive phase. and the time to take action is now by many ah, marianne was in london with al jazeera, also coming up on the program. israel's i and documented that rocket 5 from

southern lebanon group has ball. i said it's carried out with strikes and full cost to say strong winds could west and thousands of wildfire raise, unicorn, grief, but some residence, a refusing to leave me . we've been following the situation in afghanistan where taliban has taken control of that. and this is the capital of the south western province of numerous and marks, an important strategic victory for the group. is it battles on multiple fronts in different parts of the country and a major push for territory? that is important because it borders iran and it's a significant trade route for the government that you released by the taliban earlier shows them on the streets around the city. as it was captured, report suggests about 20000 people have fled across the border from numerous province into iran. this is now the latest flash point is fighting between the

taliban and afghan security forces continue in the south west and northern parts of the country. following all of this sound diplomatic editor james bay's in cobble. this is significance around the 1st provincial capital enough kind of stone 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 african 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 shot 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 a 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 in giles, june, province, there and the provincial capital, the taliban say they taken control of the palace of the veteran commander of the rest. 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. meanwhile, the head of the transmission afghanistan says the situation will descend into catastrophe if the security council members don't do something. now,

the council convened a special session on friday to address the escalating violence. kristen salumi was following that force from new york thing. the country is at a dangerous turning point. the un special representative for afghanistan called on the security council to act and act quickly. first, by demanding an end to taliban attacks against cities to attack urban areas, is to knowingly inflict enormous harm and cause massive civilian casualties. nonetheless, the threatening of large urban areas appears to be a strategic decision by the taliban, who have accepted the likely carnage that will ensue. russia said the emphasis should be on restarting stalled political talks between the afghan government and the taliban. achieved. mister william lewis shaking guns cuz it is clear that there is no military solution to the afghans situation. but in the current situation,

given the absence of progress on the negotiation track, the prospects of afghanistan slipping into full scale and protracted civil war. unfortunately is a stark reality. the united states whose withdrawal of forces precipitated the escalation put the focus on the taliban. 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. in addition to the worsening humanitarian situation, many speakers described grave human rights abuses from summary executions to the flogging of children with women. at particular risk, afghanistan's ambassador told the council that their own report suggests more than 20 foreign terrorist groups, including al qaeda, are operating in afghanistan. let's not forget that. these fighters are there for this reason for reciprocity, they will be demand. they are,

they are helping taliban today. tomorrow they will be demanding a favor from the taliban. so we, our, our concern is that afghanistan, once again, if not prevented, turn into a terrorist hub. with more and more people fleeing afghanistan, the situation there is already affecting its neighbors and could be stabilized the entire region, giving the security council grounds to act. another meeting on the us mission to get a status scheduled for september. but there's growing concern that will be too late . kristen salumi al jazeera, the united nations. when reporting of the taliban and african government forces remain in intense battles of control for the city of laska gone. although still inside that city, running out of supplies, and se, homes on shaking from constant as strikes as also of rising number of civilian casualties. this is in the southern province of helmand. charlotte palace reports

raising the city of lush in a bit to control this telephone flight stones from friday morning in the central market. but the sort of got out of the, this is lexical, got a bizarre, the enemy had bombarded displays and destroyed the lives of innocent people. 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 english, ga, ga, us and ask on air strikes, have pounded the city for nearly a week mill holman's army, command the auth, residents to leave on tuesday to avoid civilian casualties. the government says the telephone is relying on human shields and losing people, shops and homes for food and weapons. on the grounds, these ask in special forces march into battle, chanting, we will punish them and long live scan a star week. 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 is constant fighting on his street after one week stuck inside. they are running low on food and his home is shaking with constant strikes. where worries and now we extremely we're, 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. about all i 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. are you know to you when you said i left my home and won't return until he 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, but for both the government and telephone tried to assert the control of the places . the people who home charlotte bellis our jazeera cobble. oh and are all the top story this are israel's i and i'm defense system is intercepted, 10 rock as fire from southern lebanon. the siren sounds it in northern israel and the occupied

colon heights after they will fight. has paula said it was behind the strikes. israel, they responded with artillery fire in southern lebanon on wednesday, israel conducted as strikes against targets in lebanon, in response to earlier rocket fire algeria, zeno holder has the latest from abilene, i, stuffy 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 below was interested in any major escalation if you read has well, a statement that said that we targeted open areas around israeli military outposts . 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 this border, they used to, you know, shell areas of 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 iran 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 from us as well as the hotel in the m and congratulating hezbollah 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 to 5 or incinerating,

great parts of greece and turkey. the head of the coast guard in the great town of id describe the situation of apocalyptic. because god patrol boats as well as fishing and private vessels have been used to rescue more than 650 people from the island of area. temperatures have dropped below 14 degrees for the 1st time in nearly 10 days in many parts of the country. but high when the full cost firefighters may athens have been going door to door urging people to leave the area. meanwhile, in turkey, the far emergency their's into its 10th day 36000 people were taken to safety across the province of molar. 6 neighborhoods were evacuated near the town of milan, and fire breaks have been created in an effort to prevent the flames from reaching the n o coy power plant. the 2nd facility to be threatened this week will at least $56.00 wildfires of bonding across greece. these images from the town of coronary north of athens, a 38 year old man was killed by

a falling electricity pile on nearby and a public official in the capital, as also died after being found unconscious and a factory, switzerland, romania, and sweden ascending fire fighters and trunks to help battle the flames or some residence in east africa are refusing to leave. they say they want to stay to defend homes. not very much. i have been here since yesterday. i don't know where my husband is. he works the fire safety and has been sent somewhere else. my house is behind here. 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 catastrophe. thought came around the day with swimming wins and trying to burn a lot of animals burned to death shaped dogs. everything. now if you put up that guy, the 5th him leave and go where and let my house. 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 state to help. however they could. and out there is a bas ravi, is following the story for us from canary in greece. when a neighbourhood here in north athens where the sky, 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 fuel. if you're a fire rescue team trying to put out these places because they're simply so many that are darting many parts of north south in 0 fires, burning and hot spots everywhere, all over this part of the city and fire rescue team as well. is there your water drop teams are spread thin, and then tens of thousands of fact as

a forest have been destroyed and what turkeys present time odon, called the countries worst. ever while fires trying foot had showed scorched land and chart homes around the terrace resort town of la morris. 55000 hacked as have been bun. that's more than twice the area destroyed across the whole of turkey. last year we'll across to grooving helicopters are playing a crucial role in fighting these fires out. correspondent and turkeys are still 3rd and he took a closer look from above that some of the work being done. yeah, looking at tele, mom just moved off. oh, oh, we said go, we will have a different we did this one a month, of course, but the bombs of the more rides in the russian. meghan can be of the same type of a, this gravity, georgia. so you had a book to prove. and while you fill the flight engineer up up, up to a point 5,

don't go up water. one of the helicopters will just be doing a field on average. it doesn't make them aware of this in just one hour, which was right now, just a minute or another, 55 up before 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 personal as well as well, and but seeing how, what form data hand with that on that the claim feel region in the region. but with the say just one step closer. look at it as much

more still ahead for you on the programs. we're going to look at the blaze. it just keeps getting bigger. this time in the united states it's california is dixie fire doubling in size that funds its way through the state. and after playing its part in the rio olympics opening ceremony, a 2016 games legacy project is finally blooming. ah oh hello. there were a tracking out tropical storm loop. it has it throws buckets of rain tor fuji ad province in the southeast corner of china. but look at this, it's starting to veer toward the east. it's going to crash into taiwan. and places across the island could see about $500.00 millimeters of rain over the next few days. we are also keeping tabs on tropical storm bear and

a look at this. it's going to just grades by the eastern portion of tokyo. yeah, that says sundays. so just in time for those closing ceremonies at the olympics. you know, for the philippines, the northern islands, there are flood advisories in play for just how much rain has been falling all influenced by the southwest monsoon. but we're starting to see it dial down just a bit. next, i want to take you to australia and se portion. we've got some cloud cover, a few spits of rain for victoria. but a weather front is coming in for western australia and you know, the name of the game, right, per se. your winds are going to pick up each and every day. so by tuesday we could see gusts about 75 kilometers per hour. meantime across the tasman, we do have a disturbance. it's going to envelop both islands snow from 2 to 500 meters. so tricky, travel around those mountain passes and we'll see the winds with up to 88 kilometers per hour. the

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that and the provincial capital for the group since they started targeting urban areas in afghanistan. this is the special envoy for the countries as the conflict is entered, a dangerous new faith that needs to 1000 civilians killed in the past month. speaking of the security council meeting, dep or lines one country will defend and to catastrophe security council members don't take action. and our top story this, our thousands of people continue to see the files that are incineration, right? part of greece and turkey. 5 fight is going door to door north of athens, urging residents to leave their homes. while 36000 people have been evacuated from the region of nuclear or similar scenes across the united states. fire fighters in the west. and you say that there are a long way from defeating a huge blaze that engulfed large areas of california over the past 3 weeks. the dixie fire now covers more than 1700 square kilometers,

making it the 3rd largest in the state history. it's mainly by remote area so far, but it has destroyed more than a 100 times and it's threatening many more. so let's go to john henry and in the northern california town of quincy. tell us what's happening around you, john. the fire is growing at a very rapid re, just a day ago. it was the 2nd largest fire in the u. s. now it is the largest and that's because that fire has been growing in the wilderness areas to the north of where i am right now. it's grown by leaps and bounds, literally in a process where they call crowning, where the fire jumps from tree top to tree top. and it has it consumed a 175 hector's. that's hard to envision. it's 14 times the size of san francisco. it's eating up an area this size of new york, central park every 11 minutes. so this is very fast growth and that's why it's gone

from the in the past 3 days from the 8th largest to the 3rd largest fire in california history. and it's only about 35 percent contain, so firefighters are doing what they can to protect the areas where people live. but as we saw yesterday, you can see them taking off in the background now. so there's obviously some place for them to go. there's plenty of opportunity here was we saw yesterday, the city of greenville, a very small town, in fact of about 800 people was completely wiped out. you know, no one that we know of from that town was injured or killed. but we do know that there about 4 people in this region that are unaccounted for and they're searching for them. right now. the 1st responders who are here and there are 5001st responders here, the largest of any fire response anywhere in the u. s. right now, so the big story about this fire is that it's growing very quickly and there is no

containment inside the fire. it's been going on for 3 weeks already. i ass spokesperson for the fire response effort when the fire might be out. and she said there's really no telling possibly weeks or longer because they have to get the fire under control and they're nowhere near doing that right now. thank you very much, shawn reporting, just from quincy california where the state is still battling some of its worst wildfires. now columbia is facing an increasing migrant crisis with more than $10000.00 people arriving in the border town of nicole kelly, people from countries including cuba, haiti, and then also as far away is gone. and molly and toga descended on the town. the hopes of crossing the gulf of a robber before a jungle track to reach panama from that it's north to the us. but now many a stranded with the only fairy company stretched to capacity with too many passengers. but i spoke to teresa bo about as she is in

a cockney ferry terminal and explains some of the challenges people are facing as they try to embark on the next leg of that. johnny. what went wrong is that there's not enough boats to take them all to the other side. and the government on the other side just announced that they would be only allowing $200.00 people to cross because they declared what they say is a state of calamity. because of the amount of people that are crossing this part of the country, and that's why there's hundreds of people that are being friend. good. we know that only 200 people were allowed to cross, but they sold over a 1000 tickets only for today and more people are expected to arrive. we're seeing lots of children of pregnant women. many of them are telling us to be brought the little savings they had are now running out of money because they have to pay for food. they have to pay for a hotel or a place to sleep because they kind of stay here. we're just talking to a mother, for example, that she explained to her 10 month old baby has

a ria that she's concerned about the situation that they are in right now. because how ready spent all that money that she brought here, the flooring ministers from columbia and kind of my metrics today in order to try to find a solution to their ongoing crisis. they are now back on monday, they'll be having an operational meeting. the objective is to try to implement a safe passage home panama, and later on the rest of central america, mexico and the us. and to establish a one point of entry in kind of provide assistance along the way. what we have seen so far with very little assistance from columbia authority, we have not seen water distribution is extremely hot here, extremely humid. there's no bathrooms, water, and other sanitation items that people here desperately need is quite a bit. what they say is that all this hardship is worth it, that they're willing to risk it all because they're trying to find a new life. one of russia's most prominent farm businessmen will not serve time in

prison despite being found guilty of embezzlement. us investor michael cow, he was given a 5 and a half years suspended sentence. the trial is cause major concern and washes business community. the physical impact foreign investment calvary insisted the legal system is being exploited by one of his business rivals. compared to most cases, receiving a suspended sentence is already almost a victory. but on the other hand, it's simply outrageous to be convicted of a crime that never happened. the specific conviction on the charge of embezzlement, obviously, is deeply offensive to me. as a professional in the investment industry, with an honest reputation built over 25 years now to lead and pick officials from better rooster on their way home off to being thrown out of the tokyo games over accusations they tried to force one of their athletes to return home athletics

coach us with salvage and team official. auto schumacher was stripped in their accreditation spring to christina to sky us as she was forcibly taken to the airport on sunday and feared for safety. she's now in poland. well as the tow carolyn picks and has its final stages, attention turns next week to the legacy of the games and many of the promises of the rio de janeiro 2016 games have still not been kept. this is because of brazilian corruption scandals, political crisis, and recession. there's one account, he reports from rio, wonderland picked legacy is finally blooming. 5 years later, 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 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 real because we have here, right inside of the west, part of the city, 13000 trees inside of a future, a green corridor, the restarting right now to be in for the next 10 years. it took an uphill battle to fulfill the dream, which began as the 2016 olympic opening ceremony with athletes for waiting feebly of $207.00 brazilian native trees. 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 deeds 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 been told to him 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 don't, we'll talk soon. we will have to do much to keep the forest from growing. he says

the trees already producing seeds which are being dispersed with the wind and move ripen in the ground. nature will take care of the rest to maintain this environmental footprint of the real olympics. monica, you know, give all just eros realtor scenarios more. everything right here. algebra dot com. ah, look at the main stories. now. taliban has captured these southern african city of orange, the 1st provincial capital to fall to the group. since they started targeting urban areas surrounded important because it borders iran, this is significant trade route for the government video released by the time and shows them on the streets around the city report suggests about $20000.00 people.