ah al jazeera, as a use all i the taliban says its captured and other african provincial capital, but government in full force is in 5th. they are in control. prevent afghan from descending into a situation of catastrophe. early in the united nations security council was warned . of a dangerous turning point in the conflict. ah, uncle santa maria here and how they see the world news from al jazeera. 2 people

have been arrested in new york accused of plotting to injure or indeed kill me in mars, and basses to the united nations. and still opposes the military gentle. and we'll take you on board one of the aircraft trying to bring turkeys wildfire emergency under control. me. so ask anniston festival where the taliban says it has captured a 2nd city in and intensifying campaign against the government. in a statement beyond groups of it took control of chabot gun, capital of the northern province of giles john. this video suggests taliban fight has seized several government buildings, including the police headquarters and a prison that the african government denies. the area has been captured on saturday that the taliban did take another provincial capital. this is that owns at the same

time as the un security council was being warned, the conflict is entered a more destructive phase, even reminiscence. a theory, a set on the 1st city to fall to the taliban since the us and its partners began pulling out the last of their forces. let's bring it all together with james base diplomatic editor who is in cobble james statements from both sides. take us through the yes. what if the taliban claim is true then it is the 2nd provincial capital to fallen in 2 days. this is in john john. it's in the north of afghanistan. the provincial capital is sharper gun. that the taliban are saying they have control of all the main government buildings. they have control of the governors compound. they have control please headquarters. the intelligence headquarters, which the pictures to tell about a posted of the prison, and very much as they did 24 hours ago in the garage. if those pictures are genuine, they shows to tell about breaking into the prison in order to break out the

prisoners, which of course included taliban fighters who then joined the battle in the ship regarding the government is being a little bit quiet and what they're saying. they confirm that the police headquarters is in taliban hands. that's a ministry of interior spokes person and they say otherwise, the heavy fighting continues in chapter gun. certainly the taliban seemed confident in the claims because in the last few minutes they put out a statement, a message to government employees in both numerous province and jose john province . so there's the province's where these 2 provincial capitals are based. they say they've got control of those 2 in tar provinces. and the message to government workers is we are your brothers and you should return, you should not run away. they say some government employees of runaway in name rose across the border to iraq. they said they should come back to taliban areas and

they say the islamic emerett, that's what the taliban called themselves. that was the name of the country when it was run by the time of the $990.00 the islamic emerett of afghanistan. since 2001, if we called these republic, i'm going to say because these lovek amorous ones, neither the country to be ruined, nor the government facilities to be destroyed. chance. i hate to state the obvious here, but this is happening fast. i mean the speed with which the taliban had been moving even up until now and now possibly to prevent your capitals in 2 days. it's moving very fast and i think this is very significant. it was significant. the surrounds in the south west fell is a desert province though john john in some ways is potentially more important. it's in the north of the country. ship regard is the is the stronghold of the receipt

sheet. dawson, who is a veteran commander. he was made by president johnny marshall john austin 2 years ago. he's the leader of the spec community in afghanistan. so this is very important, i think, and very concerning for the afghan government and the international community because fighting continues and other parts of afghanistan, we hear that there's been heavy fighting in helmand on going in kandahar also in the south and in herat. and another important development in the last hour also has come from the u. s embassy. they have on twitter, put out a statement. they say the u. s. embassy urges us citizens to leave. i've got to stop immediately using available commercial flight options. statement goes on, given the security conditions and reduce stuffing. the embassy is ability to assist us citizens, enough kind of stuff is extremely limited, even within carnival strawberry stuff. thank you. james bay, that diplomatic added to the in cobble. james, of course,

usually reporting from the united nations in new york, that is where the security council has heard that it cannot stand by. as i've kind of stand things further towards. catastrophe, kristen salumi has this report 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 the still william lewis shaking guns. 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 takeover of 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 to other news and to people from me and my have been arrested accused of talking to attack the countries united nations ambassador kill me to know who was appointed by the deposed civilian government is openly criticize the military to since it pete seized power in february, the you and does still consider him to be me and mas official. and boy, even though the generals fired him, prosecutors,

i 2 men who live in new york plans to either injure or killian, best of them. we spoke to debbie still hot about this, it was the founder of the burner, a network of assy on organizations supporting human rights and democracy in mean, marcia says quite simply, yancey on isn't doing enough to address the whole situation when april ivy and adopted a $55.00 consensus and claimed that this would be the blueprint for trying to achieve a peaceful resolution. and the rest of the world has been waiting for this plan to deliver. and it hasn't been actually hasn't been effective at all. and i think it's time for the security un security council. it's time for the rest of the world to actively turn around. this horrendous situation is in 6 months the military has launched 3000 attacks on many civilians and killed yet over a 1000 people, including children. i think it's time to stop this before it gets out of control.

there's been too many compromises amongst individual states, but actually at the end is suffering a crisis of leadership as well as a region, especially after it hit the region last year. so i think it's time we actually stopped wasting around 5 years to act and started acting now at un level. and i think we also need to understand that it's time for the credentials to commit to committee when it meets in september next month to recognize the government that represents 76 percent of elected members of parliament. and the security council will sort of scuff. last week's attack on an oil tanker in the gulf. the u. k says the evidence is clear cut that iran was responsible to deny that 2 crew members were killed in the apparent drone attack on an israeli managed vessel off the coast of mon, the u. s. and g 7. foreign ministers also back israel's assertions that tara was

responsible. on thursdays rose defense minister threatened to use force against iran. u. k. knows that your role was responsible for this attack. we know it was deliberate and targeted. there is no justification for what happened. a state sanctioned attack on a civilian vessel, passing peacefully through international waters, tragically to civilians, a romanian and british citizen died as a result of a wrong disregard for international law. the category creed reject the found that accusation of israel on the mercy of vessel incidents as we have written in our recent letter to the county president. that is really gene cannot whitewash if the stabilizing practices and vicious policies by blaming and accusing others.

this regime has been the main source of threat in establish an insecurity in the region for over 7. the case, me well, a 6 day mass vaccination drive is underway in bangladesh. the government set a goal of inoculating 3200000 people above the age of 25 in mainly rural and regional areas. it also plans to start offering jobs to range refugees by early next week, vaccination campaign in bangladesh has been one of the slowest in south asia. still struggling to contain a delta outbreak. and banquet has has extended a lockdown until next week here in town via chandry with more from dr. let me give you some description where i'm at. i'm in doc i city in the morning i was in for mitchell hospital. this is just the labor hospital. the line has been like since

morning it's been organized like the other place. people been complaining, they've been waiting after getting stamped in their registration. each person are waiting like over an hour sometime in cases the people are a little bit and not now since february about 14000000 people got vaccinated, some of them still didn't get the 2nd job. now that's about 3 percent of the population of a $165000000.00. then over the government grants shot up india and supply chart because of the crisis there by the novak companies since then bangers as you're saying vaccine from china us and others both says and not a planted to go at least 3200000 people within next one week the idea was to vaccinate 10000000 people, but the federation of logistic in the rural area was challenging because many people don't have access to internet or compared to register online in order to

able to go to the hospital. so the government setting up in mobile clinic on going door to door and the lady has in order to get this paper vaccinated and the people are doing it online and they come with the form in here and then they wait in line to get vaccinated. i'll check the weather next. and then as the 20th anniversary of the $911.00 attacks approaches, we talk to families who are still demanding and the tokyo game coming to a close to what the next host parents learn from the pandemic year games. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello, there remains a tale of 2 extremes across europe. weatherwise,

we've got those cooler weather conditions up in the north, but down in the south, it's all about the heat now that he's not as intense as we have seen recently in the south. east temperatures have come down, but we still have those wild fi as raging across parts of the mediterranean. and the western balcony got a 30 day stative emergency declared in north macedonia where they continue to battle those fires. now as we go to saturday, there's going to be some welcome, wet weather, arriving in turkey as it moves across the black sea. but temperatures are going to pick up as we get into next week, and we'll be touching 40 degrees in ontario. by the time we get into monday, now it's looking rather wet across the northwest and got some via font, thunderstorms rolling across east, the east of france and into switzerland and northern areas of italy. we could see more flooding here. and it's assumed a story for the british isles. we've seen flooding in the streets of belfast as funder storms hit. northern island. now that unsettled weather is expected to last

the weekend. not just here, but in poland. we've got really heavy rain coming and that's going to sweep up into west and russia and into scandinavia. sponsored pay cut on airways. in 2011 al jazeera gains rare access to the young gang film academy. and some of north korea's brightest young stars. what did it take to serve a national propaganda machine? a compelling portraits of the privileged lives of the countries elite, rewind, north korea. cinema of dreams. analogy 0. ah, ah.

ah. so the top stories this our on al jazeera, the taliban says it's captured a 2nd city in an intensifying campaign against the african government beyond groups as it took control of sugar gun in the cap, which is the capital of the northern province to jealous john that the government is denying, they've done that to people from me and not been arrested, accused of pausing to attack the country un ambassador to and who was appointed by the deposed civilian government. they criticized them as a present to since it's the power and 6 de mass vaccination drive is underway in bangladesh. the government has set a goal of no kidding, 3200000 people above the age of 25. many group and regional areas. these ready military is bond mass, tockets and garza including a slice, reportedly used to launch rockets and says the operation was in response to

balloons being sent from garza into israel to start 5 or no immediate reports of casualties or damage. now a huge wildfire in northern california has become the 3rd largest in state history emergency cruise, trying to stop it from reaching more forest towns. it's called the dixie fire and is already destroyed. much of the historic town of greenville is john hendrick, now reporting 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 in by friday. it was the 3rd and it's only about 35 percent contain. so after it burns up trees like this, it just moves on, firefighter se covers an area of 875000 hector's, at 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, greece, several countries sending aircraft and firefighter there to help battle dozens of uncontrolled wild, 5 thousands of people have been forced to flee an area just north of athens, as the fire moves towards lake marathon. the capitals main warfare rent of well, house has been destroyed,

and one mans been killed by falling electricity pylon. his aim bus raphi with more from the outskirts of athens. when a neighbourhood here in north 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 like the causes 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 teams trying to put out these places because they're simply so many that are darting many parts of north in 0 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 and neighboring turkey tens of thousands of act as

a forest have been destroyed again and wildfires there being described as the worst in decades. at least 36000 people have been displaced from their homes in the southern province of moga, where there are tourist resorts. have a look at this report now from wrestle said i. he managed to look at the fire from above on board one of the fire fighting aircraft. almost a decade ago, went spaniel. martine was an exchange student in turkey, province. she had no idea. she will be flying planes over to the age of coastline to have combat last buyers. i was here for days living with our family. so i have many fruit for all these fine. i toe very food because they are now testing me for fables. a notice saying for the war that we are doing here is one of the doesn't tie fighters who arrived from spain to counter fires. that how eaten off for us and pastors along turkeys,

a gym, and mediterranean coast protocol. the spaniards have been joined by specialists from ukraine, russia and john, who have flown into dilemma international airport. no hobble formations to counter the flames. around 200 wise, buyers have struck turkey in recent weeks and i'll say, support has how to bring them on the control they have crap like these are their be johnny owned, russian made and 17 chopper had become essential tools. one thing i'll be closed book book like this. today. it was have well the tone was so little

in the distance helicopters refilled the empty bucket and other go at the fires. though many are now contained, others have stubbornly spread due to change and craft how played a wait a role in these patients because they can cover long distances in a matter of minutes. especially in mountainous terrain along turkey often caused no matter what the distance and the cost below my team there seems student turns fighting pilot said she's willing to go to distance for turkey in it's out of need wrestles out of that i'll just not on while preparations are under way in the united states for memorial events, smoking 20 years since the september 11th attacks. relatives of the victims continued to demand answers as to whether or not the government was involved. a one president provided to release documents long held from the public. rob reynolds

reports from washington, dc. some family members of the nearly 3000 people killed in the september 11th 2001 attacks on new york. the pentagon and pennsylvania say president joe biden should stay away from the 20th anniversary memorial observances unless he agrees to declassify documents, they believe may show links between the attackers and the saudi arabian government, brett ego, since father bruce was killed in the world trade center attack 20 years is far too long for anybody to wait for information on murder of loved ones. the united states government has documents. they admit that they have documents, which show complicity on behalf of the kingdom of saudi arabia. the united states government has gone to great lengths and great extent to keep this information buried from public. the classified materials they are demanding include an

unrestricted version of the f. b i's report on weather saudi nationals living in the u. s. provided help to the 911 hijackers under orders from the government in re on the 1800 member families group released this public message saying that as a candidate biden promised greater transparency and pledge to release more documents, but has failed to do so. the bush, obama and trump administrations all declined to declassify the material, citing national security interests. the families have no way of keeping biden from attending memorial ceremonies, but hope to bring moral pressure to bear so far. the white house has not responded publicly to the families groups letter. this is an outcry for help from, from the administration. he has a storage oppertunity to do what previous administrations before him failed to do. a bipartisan group of senators has proposed new legislation to force the government

to release classified 911 investigation documents, or given explanation on why it cannot. the american people should be outrage that their government continues to conceal this evidence and information without any explanation or justification to them. this cause is bigger than these family, even though it is justice for them that is immediately at state. the saudi government ought to be held accountable in court and in the court of public opinion . 15 of the 19 hijackers on 911 were saudi nationals, the 911 commission concluded in 2004. if there was no evidence to support claims of a high level saudi roll in the attack, the commission revisited the issue in 2015 upon discovery of new evidence,

but did not change any of its conclusions about official saudi involvement. rob reynolds al jazeera, washington, columbia, and panama, so they will work together to reduce the number of refugees and migrant stranded at the border. about 10000 people, mostly from cuba, and haiti are stuck in the town of nicole. nicole lee. they cannot be in a panamanian foreign ministers said they'll make sure transport and traveled. routes are improved. i took it up again, finish up tomorrow sunday. which means japan pass the torch to paris which will host in 2024. and as anti richardson reports, the friendship had much to learn from these pender pandemic era games. the tokyo games are still to finish, but already paris is stepping up its preparations to welcome the world in 2024. the

olympics will soon be back in the city. the 3rd time simone says, do the whites as our campaign to win the games began the moment to receive the live, to clog has been in our heads. and in our hearts that would mean that after a weight of 100 years, the games are returning to paris. paris 2024 compared to paris. 1924 will be on a very different sporting and financial scale. tokyo's budget has just set an unwanted new record. the price fact that he took care of games has officially topped $15000000000.00 and is expected to go even higher than already the most expensive summer games ever staged. and more than half the bill is being picked up by the japanese taxpayer. olympic critics. they took care was onto a loser even before the extra costs of holding the gangs during a panoramic. and without the presence of spectators were taken into accounts. we can not get down our profit and maybe just, we know to hold olympic games makes the only so the basis for the new

infrastructure for new national stadium or will be good. but at the big problem is it's putting nothing for the people, games in the very heart of the city. the french capital is aiming to start a new era of cost effective olympics with most events being held at preexisting venue organizes claim private money will account for 97 percent of the budget. the head of the parish organizing scene told me any new facilities designed to have a lasting impact. we have in san antonio territory, which is very young, but very poor. so, and we will build quite a lot of facilities that will offer you port unity for people to do sports to the games. we build also houses for this territory because there is the big need and 10 for houses. so the legacy will be when they get the useful for the population.

harris games are hoping to prove it is possible to light the olympic flame without burning a hole in the public's pockets. and the richardson al jazeera tokyo and the messaging platform. what fat her criticise apples plan to scan us. my phones for images of child sexual abuse. apple says unlawful material will be reported to authorities with the help of new software and strong applause. of course from child protection campaign is but criticism from privacy advocates. whatsapp, which is owned by facebook, so it will not be adopting a similar approach. ah, this is algebra, these are the top stories. the taliban says it's captured a 2nd city in an intensifying campaign against the african government. the groups that took control of chabot gun, the capital of the northern province of gels john that the government denies that.