flashpoint for conflict voices from different corner. every house here has someone who has made it to the top of ever. it's not just one of the several time program that is in your i to turn it to you today on algae. ah, the taliban says it's taken a 2nd provincial capsule within 24 hours. can government forces regroup to find, to be found on on money side of it, out there, alive from so coming up, holmes, towns and cities on the threads. greece battles, while 5 on a number of different from counting down to the end of the pandemic olympics,

we look at whether total care has been a success or down with none the form of protest. how bad the ration political presidents are being remembered a year off the disputed election. ah, the taliban says its captured a 2nd provincial capital enough. ganawe's dawn as fighting escalades across the country. video released by the armed group shows fighters in chabad gun seizing buildings, including the police headquarters on a prison. it comes just a day off to the group over around the city of the ranch. the government is launching a counter offensive doing that, but the enemies of afghanistan can not arise. the history of his gun is done and they can not take our honors away from us. and clearly my promises that we will

find the killers and god willing, we will punish them. every one should know that we are standing in our place like a mountain. their waists will be broken because they have no message other than evil. they fill coffins with young people and send them like savages. this is not humanity. we stand for the humanity, life and dignity of afghanistan. and this is our volition. charlotte bennett has more from the afghan capital couple. a government affiliated source has told us that sure. the gun has fallen, although it is quite nuanced and fluid. the taliban say that they took control of the city on saturday afternoon. they took control of the police office, the intelligence offices, the governors compound. they even broke into the prison and released a number of prisoners. now the government says that they don't have full control of the city, that security forces remain at the port and that they are planning a counter, a fame to. they have started,

it strikes and that they are sending in special forces and reinforcements for this counter offensive to try to take the city of the gun back. now, if it is confirmed to be fallen, it would be the 2nd provincial capital to fool and f going to start in just 2 days . and to put that into context for you, the last time a provincial capital fell was in 2015, and that was condos. and that was very briefly the very concerning for the afghan government. we were with the interior minister earlier. you had to rush off for an emergency meeting with the defense minister. and then later president ghani prison also met with marshall dawson leader from jos jan province. as the government here looks to see what they can do to push the telephone back out of the city. now that is not the only place where there is heavy fighting. there is strikes and a lot of gun fi in the cities of kansas city, herat, and also lash cargo in home. and adam was seen as a research fellow quincy, and she has served as

a us marine in afghanistan. he says the loss of 2 cities to the taliban is a significant blow to the afghan government. these cities aren't very large cities . they are conventional capitals, but the populations aren't very big. but they do represent 100 a hundreds of millions of dollars in potential revenue to the off on government, you know, in a landlocked country where trade accounts, trade revenue accounts for the majority of revenue, or perhaps at least half of revenue coming in to the state. so it's essentially cutting off the african government from one of its primary revenue sources. and it also has the secondary effect of forcing afghanistan's neighbors to engage directly with the taliban at these border crossings. which of course, gives the talib on a certain amount of legitimacy. i think the afghan government can turn the tide, but it needs to alter its, its military strategy. it's over reliant on the commandos which they've been flying

over around the country from city to city. they need to reorganize their military strategy and try to take the fight to the tall bottom through summer and fall and hopefully both sides will see that there is no military victory. that's possible and they'll go back to the negotiating table or funerals, been held for a top media official killed by the taliban in couple on friday. so i will con, menopause lead the government's press operations. he was shot dead during an ambush . the u. s. has cooled the assassination on a front to free speech as well. a leader. how fun not. rolla has warned that the lebanese group were tallies against any future israeli as strikes his comments. follow an exchange of rock at 5 between his bala and the israeli army . thursdays asteroids were the 1st targeting lebanese villages since 2006

us men having hit yesterday's operation was not in response to the killing about 2 members. we are not seeking a war, but we are ready for it and we do not fear it. yesterday's operation was aimed at consolidating the equation of deterrents. chose to carry out the operation during the day in order not to scare the lebanese residence. and our response yesterday was directly linked to the israeli as strikes and its objective was clear. it was necessary for the response to be israeli. strike to be quick. or else i would have lost its value. i was one of the nigerian school girls kidnapped by an armed group 7 years ago has been reunited with her family off to being freed last week. ruth glad. pogue, who was among more than 200 students, abducted by boca her arm from a school in the northeast, in town of bulk. in 2014. over the years, many of the girls have been released all found by the military. more than a 100, all still missing. 3 large wildfires, a burning across greece,

threatening several towns and cities. people in the 2nd largest island of even happen joining 5 just to battle the flames. hundreds of others have been evacuated by boat. thousands have fled. all the areas burning, just north of athens on the city itself is also on the threat saying, buzz robbie sent us this report from near the greek hopital the to know where the fires are and where they are going. greeks look to the sky in a worrying sign, helicopters have been getting closer to major towns and cities on the ground. this is what the business of fighting fires looks like. holding back, the inevitability of mother nature's fury is dangerous and exhausting work. right now. it's an endless an appeal, but one that has already taken its 1st life. a firefight. anthony tucker

on us was there when the 38 year old volunteer suffered a head injury. he says they tried but could not save him. struggling to recall, the incident would try to give me whatever it is that is a difficult thought. if it runs out of fuel the fuel in the woods, the house is everything around. can you describe how you're feeling right now? i know it's emotional and i'm so sorry what you see, so much distraction if that's something to help you by you trying to work with me in say, i'm sort of there are too many fires and to few firefighters spontaneous uncoordinated efforts like this one are trying to make sure rescue cruise as well

as civilian volunteers on the front line, have plenty of food, water, and 1st aid when they need it. despite these efforts, though, smoke clouds seemed to have become a permanent fixture in the skies over the attic. and it's because of scenes like this homes all over the area, have been burning for days. several areas along the base of the pardon, the mountains are still on fire. fire. if you can hear me north of athens, they're doing the best job they can. we've seen one water tater team as well as far fighters, put out a bush fire and a house fire just over in that direction. but the seconds of that far been put out . this one has just a rapid and become much bigger. and if you can see by the train trucks, the fires climbing up the hill just behind us, the hope is the fire will stop when it runs out of fuel. but for the moment, the fuel is everything inside. the fire moves fast and fills the air with smoke quickly. many forced to run for their lives. had to leave friends behind on the

gotten going to feel there's not patients. i'm here with my daughter were just trying to help animals that are in need from the fire. we found so many so far better. i came here after watching what was happening on television, and i couldn't just sit back and do nothing. in the face of the fires greeks we spoke to said right now. every life is precious zane basra, the old 0, the attic, a basin in the north of athens. heavy rain has brought some relief emergency crews . baffling wildfires in southern turkey. 11 days of blazes across the region have less scorched vast areas of forest. tens of thousands of people have fled that homes. more than 200 fires have been brought now on the control. we'll find crews have been getting help from volunteers from turkey on abroad were suicide reports from the south west province of aden. syrians,

no tragedy, all too well more than 3000000 people. how full of war and destruction find this shelter here in turkey. and now as turkey faces some of the worst. busy white wires in its history, some of those refugees have warrant here to help fight the belief that the syrian rescue team includes arabs kurtz, turn, men, answer captions. they come from cities across the country, origin littering to have other refugees. and the way the relief work along the turtles sit in board there. they have joined the woodland tiers from all over the world to support more than 6000 personnel fighting the fires that have the course sell to turkey for the past 11 days. the steering wouldn't you say turkey has been a safe haven for them and they wanted to return the jester volunteer the city, the head cook, and syria. when they were helicopters above us we would be very frightened because

they were dropped bombs on us. but here, these helicopters are to save the nature and people. we are very happy that we have the chance now to hear people's wounds who have opened the door for us when we needed. the syrian rescue team are joined by villagers from a job where the flames are approaching dangerously close. you know, i'll let you know before 25, and several provinces since more than a week. we're now here to stop the places again. we're here to support our target colleagues and i believe that we'll get through this and everything will be all right soon. the other members of the team are spread across the provinces of dana, more on time, which has been the worst hit, fires across south and turkey. how so far killed people and forced houses of others out of their home menu of which are no longer standing. and the searing wouldn't tiers are doing what they can do to help survivors knowing how it feels to have nowhere to go. christmas out of that,

i'll just the ra item and he said people are missing in the us. things have california be dixie, while fi continues to burn, largely out of control. 5 of them from greenville b historic gold mining town that was devastated early in the week. there were some of the homes and all the building destroyed by the fire. smoke has blanketed part of northern california on nevada and target air quality. warnings is far away as colorado you government data is raising fees of another devastating forest fire season. in brazil, the space agency that monitors fires says july was the most destructive since 2016 . as far as a blamed on people illegally clearing the land to grow crops or graze cattle, to be a drought is worsening. the situation in some regions fella head on out there, the stranded running out of supplies will happen later on. the applies of fountains

of migrants duck in a columbia boarded town. on a month after haiti's president was assassinated, we look at what happened with the investigation. ah hello, nice to see you. i want to start with an update on the wildfire. this is the dixie fire, the largest wildfire in the u. s. right now, and there are nearly $100.00 wildfires, the 3rd largest in the state's history. it has decimated the town of greenville and you know, the forecasts shows not much relief coming. the tinder dry conditions continue pull out, give you a wider look of north america. some of the storms were following toward the great lakes, the midwest, and we've got a firehose of moisture, but the bulk of it will stay out toward the atlantic of washington dc was impacted

by it just a few days ago for central america pretty much anywhere from mexico through to honduras, we scooped up anywhere from $80.00 to $100.00 millimeters of rain. and we've got daytime heating storms across the caribbean. and you know, for trinidad and tobago. northern portions of the island have been dealing with flash flooding. you know, speaking of flooding, venezuela, we've seen intense rain over the last little while. so river levels there are reaching dangerous levels. wanted to also talk to you about a cold front sliding across. it's going to knock down temperatures big time in a sophie on. so we look at the next treaties. look at your temperature drop going from 35 on sunday, down to 16 on tuesday. that sure weather up, they catch you later. the on counting the codes from june to south africa, the pandemic has reopened preexisting economic con, political challenges. but the gap between rich and poor nations continues to widen

with a lack of china's crime down on capitalism. counting the cost on al jazeera in a diverse range of stories from across the globe. from the perspective of our networks, journalists on al jazeera. ah ah, and i watching l 0 mind of our top stories this our taliban says it's a 2nd provincial capital enough. gone a stone as fighting escalates across the country that comes just a day or 2. the group over around the city of the ranch,

the government is sending reinforcements to retake control of shotgun. as a leader on the wrong has wound the lebanese group were telling against any future israeli asteroid on an exchange of probably 5 between has the israeli army asteroids with a targeting lebanese villages since 2003 large wildfires burning across greece, threatening several towns and cities on the 2nd largest of have been joining firefighters to baffled flames. hundreds of others have been evacuated by columbia, and officials are allowing stranded migrants to leave. the coastal town of nicole clee around 10000 people have been stuck there for weeks waiting for boats to take them to the border with panama. the town has traditionally been in transit point for migrant headed to north america, where only

a few 1000 were able to transit last year because of the 19 border restrictions. $25000.00 have already passed through this year. now that restrictions have been east and a series of by reports, local officials and now scrambling to manage the number of arrivals. in the past week, what we have seen is authorities here getting extremely concerned about people arriving here, not being able to cope with the amount of people that it's actually staying in many of this small towns. and that's why they started decreasing the amount of people that are gonna get on the boat that can take them and help them cross the gulf of wood about it goes off, which is what divides the province of taco and where we are right now. that's where people have to go in order to be able to make it to panama and cross the dangerous darien gap with the jungle that's filled with traffickers and criminals. it's extremely, extremely dangerous. so we've just been told that there authorizing many of the people that have been stranded here to start moving out to start leaving. in fact,

they're going to have some help from local authorities to be able to make it to panama. but this is just the smaller picture, this is how to solve the ongoing situation on the ground right now with thousands of people stranded here with very little money, almost no food, no resources. so they want to keep them out of the city and get them going, which is actually what people want. they want to make it to north america. they want to actually cross this gulf and then head towards you and everything. but the bigger picture is, what's been happening in the region. the pandemic, economic crisis, thousands of migrants trying to go north. many haitians that are here right now are coming from from brazil and they want to make it to the united states. we've also spoken to cuba, and we're also escaping the economy crisis in many south american nations. so that's why the foreign ministers of find them out of columbia trying to guarantee a safe passage in a way create the humanitarian condition for many of his people to continue with

travel or planning a series of meetings that are going to be happening next week. in, in this part of the world, so they can find a solution to what's happening right now. most of the people we have spoken to here say that there's desperate that they're convinced that they want to continue with their journeys because they want to find a new way of life. less than 2 weeks after he took office, peruse president petro castillo, is facing sustaining protest. calling for him to step down the form. a teacher is still assembling his cabinet, but some of his choices have alarmed critics. among them is guido benito nominated for prime minister who's on the criminal investigation for defending terrorism. castillo has tried to reassure citizens and investigate that. his marks his campaign platform will not take the country in the wrong direction. the us says nicaragua, the upcoming presidential election has lost all credibility. so the electoral

tribunal disqualified the main opposition party from november's vote. citizens for freedom is a keys violating election laws. it's vice presidential contender has been under house arrest since wednesday. the us secretary of state says president daniel ortega is trying to cling on the power at all costs. one month after the assassination of the haitian president, driven out moist a. investigators have arrested several suspects while the new prime minister has called for fresh elections. but they're still many on, on some questions surrounding the killing. and as daniel wanted to report this, creating further instability. the killing of president jovan and marie shocked a nation already suffering from political instability. rising gang violence and the screen poverty. police immediately detained more than 20 mercenaries,

mostly colombians, who they accused of carrying out the attack. 3 were killed while a few others remain on the run. but the most important question remains unanswered . who were to be assassination? next shall justice, let, shall justice, let, shall justice be, do not want vengeance nor violence. the head of palace security has been questioned over the apparent absence of the president's protection. for on the night of the attack, while families of the detained colombians say they were hired by agencies in florida to protect not kill him. investigations of focus on the number of figures portraying themselves as well connected, well, finance, power brokers. they have admitted plotting to remove president ways from office full say killing him was never their intention that miss young soup will not take the life of the present in all country. those connected with this barbaric practice miss bay for their auction. the stone re as cause of fresh election the soon as

conditions allow whenever those conditions which are difficult before the presidents murder, remain volatile up in the moon. keen, no hope was this, you know, many people from the opposition and the stinking bourgeois z joined together to betray the president. it's a national and international conspiracy against the haitian people. i ask that all gangs mobilized, take to the street. it took me more groups campaigning for peaceful change in haiti, civil star, which is a persecuting them for their views. we don't believe in this investigation. this is a political persecution. those who are directly involved in killing the president should be prosecuted when others say haiti's problems are more deep rooted and blame the small elite that the long run, the poorest country in the region. it's true, we have poverty, it's true or not organized. it's true, nothing works as it should,

but look for the reasons why nothing works now because that search certain people who want to keep my stations where they are. it's really time to change. haiti as requested, united nations help with the investigation along with what they already receiving from the united states. because one month on there, not much closer to confirming who was behind the killing of president colvin invoice, or the reasons why daniel shrine la out to 0. the closing ceremony for one of the most controversial and subdued olympics in modern history will take place in the next few hours. the flame will go out on the take your games held during a global pandemic, mostly without spec tases. and of course, a record number corona, virus infections in japan and restrictions on its people just over 419 cases happened, connected with the games. while the rest of the country is recording thousands of cases every day will joules boy cough play for the u. s. national soccer team and

worked for books on the politics of the limbic games. he says, took year 2020 will have a mixed legacy. well, it's very much been a split screen olympics on one screen we've seen remarkable athletes overcoming extraordinary odds. i mean, this has been a very difficult olympics to participate at. you don't have your family there. you don't have your spouse there. you don't have your friends there cheering your on. there's nobody cheering you on. on the other side of the split stream, the world has really gotten a straight ahead look at the people that organize the olympics. that is the international olympic committee. and many scales have fallen from many eyes because they have seen that the io. c, as they're known, have rammed ahead with an olympics pretty much for the sake of money, because they are perfectly happy to have a made for tv event because the broadcast fees and corporate fees come in. there is no question that the athletes have managed to thrive under tremendously difficult conditions. but if you talk to people inside of japan,

a lot of them are wondering why didn't we just postpone this for one more year? yes, thank goodness that there weren't more cases of corona virus inside of the olympic bubble. no question about it. but could things have been done better? yes. could things have been done worse? yes, but here we are with now we're looking at japan with a rising cases of corona virus across the country. the olympics have definitely structured permission for people in japan to flout the state of emergency rules. this is veronica just in japan talking, not me here about this. they've said out loud that the olympics have actually harmed the corona virus situation in japan, if not directly, then certainly indirectly. and that is something that is going to be one of the legacies of these olympic games is going to everyone in japan is going to have to live with saudi arabia vaccinated. foreign pilgrims will soon be allowed to visit islam holy, a city of mecca. when comes 18 months out to the kingdom imposed cove in 19 border restrictions for monday, authorities will begin assessing overseas request to undertake the o'mara

pilgrimage. tens of thousands of people in france have joint protest against a new cobit 19 health pos. from monday they will needed to get into the cinemas, restaurants, bars, and other public places opponent say it infringes only civil liberties. frances constitutional court rule, the past largely complies with the countries founding charter allegations around europe have been marking the anniversary of a disputed presidential election that led to a 6 term in the office for alexander lucas shank in the netherlands. people have expressed that continued opposition with an art exhibition that fastened reports to their faces young and determined girls locked up in the tension center and bella rooms painted by your fellow detainees. less since the country each day. i guess

a new girl was coming in or moving to another place and you can see that they are profession like software test, my su, photographer, or sales assistant lawyer or yes, it shows me the strength of human spirit to serious a sad of these. but looking at the faces of the girl, so i feel hope a but the hopeful change route by hundreds of thousands of bella roshan, one year ago, seems far away now. alexander lucas. shank, i was accused of rigging his reelection as the assembly and power mass demonstrations against this rule has died down. no matter we both have here but messages from case in a different form. while many valuation voices might be silence, one year after the fuse unprecedentedly lectured these office here say that despite their fear, the spirit has not been broken. this is another artist who went through the jail.

he. afterwards he scratched the gold from his bill or rational passport. so this is his passport and with all the gold with removed, this young artist does not want her identity to be revealed out of fear for reprisals. bella rush, an activist, suspected to have been murdered, was found dead last week in the ukrainian capital, kia and she feels unsafe. new york here this past year feels like one very long tiring day. but people like me who is still outside prison, have a responsibility to show gratefulness to those who have risked their lives and their freedom and human rights. i believe we can change things by doing little steps every day. estimated 600 people are still being detained since last year's protest. the names and faith has shown during this march in the

hague. almost all of us, of course still goes. yes, because my friend, i am the reason and that's all what can i do now? to be here and to talk and say the names like 600 age. he's the owner of for the gallery, where i worked for 10 years and he's in the prison already for one year. this is the future, and location is actually in prison, screams of the silence to become a little less silent by expressing their feeling to art steadfast and al jazeera in the hate. ah, ah, this is al jazeera, these, you top stories. the taliban says it sees a 2nd provincial capital and i've got his don, it's fighting escalades across the country. it comes just a day off the group over around the city of.