doesn't matter where you are, you have to be able to relate to the human condition you're away. no country is a life and it's my job to shed light on how and why me . ready taliban fighters capture their 1st provincial capital, enough canister on withdraw with foreign truth pumps and warnings over catastrophe from the un gonna stand is now at a dangerous turning point. a head like either a genuine teeth negotiation or a tragically intertwined set of crises. ah,

hello, i'm how am i here? and this is al jazeera life and also coming out of control while far as ravaged parts of southern europe and america's west coast, forcing thousands of people to abandon their homes. the corolla was president, daniel ortega may run virtually unopposed after the main opposition party is disqualified from the members election. plus, i'm very subtle in the town of nick oakley in columbia worth. thousands of people are stranded in the red temple. migrate to north america. me afghan, a son is heading for a catastrophe, so serious that it would have few if any parallels this century as the morning from the un special ed voice have canister to the security council for the 1st time

since withdrawal of us and nato troops. the taliban have captured a provincial capital, their fighters shirts, images of themselves at the airport on the entrance to the city of iran, the capital of minerals province in the so they're, they're also making gains elsewhere. afghan officials say the group know controls, most of lush car got. that's the capital of hell. mans province. that nature, 60 to boot, lead commandos have been deployed to defendants with supports from the africa and us air forces, a diploma gets their james base begins our coverage form. cobble. this is significance around the 1st provincial capital enough to start to fall into taliban control. these pictures released by the taliban ship fighters driving humvees and other vehicles paid for by the us and nato and taken from africa and forces the airport the only one in the desert province, as well as key government offices were captured,

were told by eye witnesses with barely a 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 where about 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 ghani, and the head of the government media office doward. com monopoly that was shot dead . the taliban say they carried out that attack and in the north of the country in june, province there and the provincial capital, the taliban say they've taken control of the palace of the veteran commander of the

rescue. dawson, 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. well, as we mentioned in the past few hours, the un security council convened a special session to address the escalating violence which is killed $1000.00 civilians in the past month. here's kristen salumi reporting 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 1st 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 this to william lewis shane. yes. 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 with 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 flooring 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 a 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 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. on the grand enough ghana, son,

people in the city of laska, are running out of supplies and say their homes are shaking from the constant air strikes. uniform says fighting across afghan austin has pushed 360000 people from their homes in the last week alone. charlotte bellis report. some couple. raising the city of lush in a bit to control this telephone. fine. 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 of innocent people. and i think that the telephone says this was the result of heavy air strikes in the night . and that it's not the civilian area to be targeted. inlaw, chicago, us, and ask on air strikes, have pounded the city for nearly a week mill holman's army commander, ask residents to leave on tuesday to avoid civilian casualties. the government says the television is relying on human shields and losing people,

shops and homes for food and weapons. on the grounds, these asking 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 moved the fighting. the tele bond street by street for the man who still these videos told us to family cannot leave their home because there is constant fighting on his street after one week stuck in size. they are running low on food, and his home is shaking with constant strikes. where 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. get faceted to wish to then 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 on those are all, how can i left my home? i'm going to increase here. there is always was i'm leaving because it 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's peace? may there be an end to the conflict? as they hit towards kendall ha, susie, the sounds of war chased them. the highway listed with reminders, there is no safe passage, but for both the government and telephone try to assert the control of the places

the sky, and people who hold charlotte bellis out jazeera cobble at least 56 wild, far as a burning across greece. major, blaze, just north of athens is forced thousands to flee. the fire is moving towards lake marathon. the capitals main water reservoir. houses have been destroyed and a man has been killed by a falling tricity pile on several countries ascending foreign fighters. i'm trunks to help. when the throng has more from crow, nettie 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 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. he swayed the forest, had been destroyed. and what turkeys presidents as cold as worst ever while florence, efforts to put out the blazes 76 and 11, stay their craft, playing crucial role whistle. surgery takes a look from above almost a decade ago when spaniel martine was an exchange student in turkey versa, provence, she had no idea, she will be flying planes over turkey, age, and coastline to have combat when i was here for days living, we are family. so i have many friends for all the size. i chose very food because they are now testing me for fables.

a thing for the war that we are going here, that is one of a dozen tie fighters who arrived from spain to come to fires. that how eaten off for us and passers along turkeys a gym and mediterranean coast for the spaniards have been joined by specialists from ukraine, russia and john, who have flown into them on international airport. no harbor for relations to countered the flames. around 200 wives, buyers have struck turkey in recent weeks and also support has helped to bring them under control. they've crap like this. as their b, johnny owned russian made and 17 chopper had become essential tools. why things like this? today?

it was have to up the tone was by the legal in the distance helicopters refilled the empty bucket and other go at the fires. so many are now contained, others have stubbornly spread due to changes when it crafts. how play a way to role in these patients because they can cover long distances in a matter of minutes, especially in mountainous terrain along turkey, southern causes, no matter what the distance and the cost below martine there seems student turns fight in pilot said, she's willing to go to distance for turkey in it's our need wrestles out of that, i'll just 0 dot on,

firefighters in the us are also trying to stop or region won't far from reaching the time of quincy in northern california. the phil called dixie far has already destroyed much. the tiny greenville far started mid july. the biggest acts of fire in the states. and the 3rd biggest in its history find to say drugs and climate change have made for explosive conditions. john hunter and half more from quincy in northern california. the dixie fire has grown tremendously. it's now the largest wildfire in the united states, and it's gotten there fast on wednesday with the 8th largest wildfire in california . history on thursday, it was the 6 and by friday it was the 3rd and it's only about 35 percent contains. so after it burns up trees like this, it just moves on firefighters say it covers an area of a $175000.00 hector's. it's about 14 times the size of the city of san francisco. and they tried to save property. that house behind me had the deck burned off,

but firefighters managed to keep the fire away from the structure itself. but they say their top priority is preserving human life. we will switch to helping law enforcement evacuate in rescue some of those people. if that fire gets to that point, so we may be able to save your life, but that may be at the cost, saving your home. the air quality has changed dramatically. it's gone from an identifiable plume above the fire to a kind of hazy london fog. that's because the smoke has descended to the ground and that has caused dangerous air quality. as far as 3 hours drive away in sacramento. sell heads on al jazeera, un peacekeepers patrol areas near the lebanese border has law and israel exchange far for a 3rd day. an alleged port to attack me in madison bassinger to the united states, united nations who speak here against the atrocities within the country.

ah, ah, it's time for the journey with sponsored my cattle airways. hello, good to see you. here's the pain. non stop rain has piled up in the indian state. that matter pradesh, it's all has to do with this batch of wet weather here. as a result, more than 1200 villages flooded out 6000 people had to be rescued in. it's also been impacting rochester, done as well. you know, people also waiting to be rescued in the indian state of what spain, goal, water logged roads. the capital kind of picks up more than a 100 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours and it has been aggressive rain through the baseband goal, the west coast of myanmar. over the past 24 hours, we've seen about a $160.00 millimeters of rank. next we're going to southeast asia. we've got dry spells for malaysia and indonesia,

but also storms coming and go in as well. so i gotta keep this storm risk in there for bank. are coachman city called them poor singapore and jakarta. on saturday we are tracking a tropical storm loop. it has it throws buckets of rain to se china, but it's steering toward the east and it's going to blanket taiwan in very intense rain over the next few days, some areas could see about $500.00 millimeters. and also tropical storm marinate could just graze the eastern portion of tokyo just in time for the closing of the olympics. what and when the conditions on sunday sponsor cut on airways in the wake of the criminal race, right. how much can someone take before the class? the fight recognition is crucial. we needed corner heads to prevail for others. in the end table that was said about religion and the thing that was a community one was to be disrespect to al jazeera, explores the history and struggled of the lebanese community in australia. once

upon a time in punchbowl on al jazeera, ah, ah, the me. this is just a quick reminder of the top stories for you know, the un has been warns that have canister is heading for catastrophe, so serious that it would have few if any parallels the century. it comes with the taliban captured its 1st city. the provincial capital surrounds us and the 2 troops withdrew at least $56.00 world, far as our burning across greece. a major believe just north of athens was forced

to flee a neighbouring turkey tens of size and texas. forrest in the stores present wretched piper to one cold as worse ever long times before in the us to try. and so california is the biggest world, far reaching the china quincy, the so called the dixie fires already destroyed much of the historic gold rush time of greenville nicaragua was electoral tribunal has disqualified the main opposition party from taking part in the members presidential election. citizens for freedom, the last remaining opposition party has been barred for allegedly violating election laws to other policies were previously benz leaving presidents. daniel ortega virtually unopposed, as he runs for a 4th consecutive term. for months. the government has been detained in political adversary's, including presidential hopefuls. well, that's good morning, mary farnsworth. he's the vice president for the council of the americas,

and also serves as a senior advisor to the white house, a special invoice for the americas, and joins as i skype from washington straits have you were this year and i was just 0. still ship, not so much when election is it? yeah, you can say that again. i'm not sure what kind of an election you could even call it other than just a coronation of a president, who frankly has now created conditions where he can't lose it will be a vote that will be taken, but it won't be an actual election. he learned the lesson the hard way though you remember he contested elections in 1990 and lost those. and once he got back into power at the beginning of the century, he decided that would never happen again. so yeah, he's, he's changed the rules of the game. so now only he will. why is he doing that? i mean, you mentioned that he had lost selections before. is he really worried that there's a chance he could lose this for an as this? why?

the house be this increase crack day in on any and all or position? i think so the elections were held in a free and fair way. there's a great chance that he would lose because the people are frankly sick and tired of his role. it's been dropped as a capricious protesters have been thrown in jail in some cases killed. and so people have taken to the straits and when they did, their protests were crushed and the president of the social no real desire to compromise or to negotiate. so yeah, if there was a free and fair election, i think he would, he would not be the favorite candidate. but i think there's also another element here too, and that's his life rosario maria, who is the vice president of nicaragua and run in and of course on the same ticket . and there's a lot of speculation that she is really pulling a lot of strings here. and really wants to make sure that in fact he wins because it's also her take it to continued power and you know,

as of age does its thing and takes its course. there is no guarantee that the prevalence ortega will be around for eternity. and so she would presumably be the successor, so she wants to continue her own will as well. we. you mentioned that rosario marie oh. i mean, she's on already on to sanctions from the use the us since imposing pressure as well to ensure that these elections are free and fair. but none of this appears to be working. does it? what does the next steps? it really doesn't appear to be working. in fact, every time the us or europe analysis sanctions, the government, the mix. so we don't care and takes the next step. and in fact, just today, the united states announced another visa restriction on 50 more, nicaragua, and officials and family members of nicaragua and officials. but that's been the problem because to this point, the action for the been taken has primarily been designed to punish. but they've

been relatively limited diesel restrictions travel restrictions working with the organization of american states to condemn these actions. but at the end of the day, or tega and maria don't want to travel to the united states to europe anyway. what good does a visa restriction do? and they don't want to travel to the u. s. a. europe, so it's, it's a lot of symbolism there. i really think the next steps are going to have to be much more significant. it's clear that the regime and the corolla has now set a path toward full dictatorship and it really is going to take a lot more serious steps to dislodge them, or to at least have free and fair elections of such as possible. i really think united states, for example, have to begin to look at some of the trade preferences that have been granted to nicaragua, about unilaterally and also under the central america free trade agreement with the united states. will be fascinating to see how this plays. i'd, but for now eric farnsworth from the council of the americas. great to have you on

the show. thank you very much. indeed for joining us on al jazeera and tell, tell her to join in columbia and panama say they will work together to stem the flow of thousands of migrant stranded at the border or in 10 thousands people from cuba, haiti, and countries. as farley as gone, molly until go stuck in the small border time of the coakley. today's a ball was near the ferry terminal there and explains the challenges facing people who are trying to reach the next leg of their journey. 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 now. so they will 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 restricted 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 explained to her 10 month old baby has their ria that she's concerned about the situation that they're in right now. because how ready spent all the 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 the 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 whole words, panama, and later on the rest of central america, mexico and the us. and to establish a one point of entry in panama. provide assistance along the way, where 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 bathroom water and other sanitation items that people here desperately need. it's 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. israel says it's ready for an escalation on the lebanese border arrest or an exchange of far with has below the israel's on zone defense system interception. several rockets for from southern lebanon, sirens, sanded, and northern israel and the occupied colon heights after they were fired. or any of that has been lost as the baron just in vitale ation for his really air strikes was targeted southern lebanon a day earlier. he's really military, far back with artillery. santa holder has the latest from april of saki in southern lebanon. there is a cautious calm after

a brief flare up of violence along the wall tile 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 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 the early thursday, israel retaliated to rocket fire with air strikes in the past to any retaliation along this border. they used to, you know, shell areas of, it's not air strikes, but i think there was also another message today. and the message was from iran via has beloved to israel a day or 2 after the israeli saying that we are able to directly, militarily engage with iran. so you ryan is saying that,

well we have allies. c in the region, we are able to open a number of front. one of those fronts is here in southern lebanon, especially since we had statements also from the palestinian group, hamas, as well as the whole t's in yemen, congratulating hezbollah for what they have done. so really a message, 2 messages here has valesa. israel do not change the rules of engagement, and iran to israel do not start war unless you are on multiple fronts. what the hell need is in korea more now with the view from the israeli side of the border. what we're hearing really from the israeli leadership is the usual rational reg is reserved. it's right to respond whenever he's fit. but we also do know that defense minister, but again, they 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 cease fire dogs are still ongoing. so certainly maybe not a desire to go any further than that. but that said, this is a valley very volatile area. i think whatever happens, whatever will be incoming from level, i don't was certainly have a reaction, immediate reaction, just yes to the israel. israel uses air force for the 1st time in 7 years striking

. yes. what it called rocket launcher sites inside lebanon, but probably it was empty fields, not causing major damage, but certainly escalation, militarily. and here, the commanders on edge authorities in the us of arrested to me and more citizens for allegedly porting to kill or injure mars, and basses, or to the united nations. so more to and had spoken i it's against the military jones or the atrocities they've committed. mark, ah, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. the urine has been warned. then of ghana found his heading for a catastrophe. so serious that it would have few if any parallels the century. this sense of the taliban captured speak provincial capital ranch, the 1st city.