to teaching young men life, frederick push each of the siege of sarajevo on al jazeera, the revealing eco friendly solution to combat the threat to our planet on al jazeera. ah, the taliban says it's taken a 2nd. prevention kept within 24 hours. afghan government forces regroup to fight the advance, ah, and i on money. this is al jazeera in life from doha, also coming up home towns and cities on the threats. grief baffled wildfires on a number of different from counting down to the closing ceremony. for the pandemic

olympics we look at whether been a success and another form of protest. how about ration political prisoners a being remembered a yale defeated election? ah, we're getting reports of heavy fighting between the taliban and government forces in the city of condos in northern afghanistan. officials told al jazeera fighters are talking from several directions. it's one of a number of provincial capitals being targeted by the armed group. on saturday, the taliban set had captured a 2nd provincial capital released video showing fighters in shove began seizing buildings, including the police headquarters on a prison a day earlier the group over around the city of the ranch, the government is launching a counter offensive doing that,

but the enemies of f galveston can not arise, the history of a gun is done and they cannot take our owners away from us. and clearly my promises that we will find the killers and god willing we will punish them. poor. everyone 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. a 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 offensive. 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. if sure, the gone back, not if it is confirmed to be fallen, it would be the 2nd provincial capital to fool and f gonna 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 rochelle for an emergency meeting with the defense minister. and then later president ghani prison also met with marshall dawson leader from jose, john 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 gunfire in the cities of kansas city, herat, and also lash cargo in helmand. house on a boss is

a professor of international security studies at the national defense university. he says the security crisis has exposed failures of government leadership by the bomb had the momentum on their side. there is no denying this fact and are related factors that are not a small rag dag insurgent group. they're pretty big. and this was very clear to us for, for quite some time now. however, a readily important fact is that this is a different diploma spawn and forces out there in carbon and best shattered you, you still hold on to 10 or 12 top most are very important or proven should capital m w so so baby have also strategize to how could defend the whole state capacity building project or the nation building project? so to say was, as it's on flaws and weaknesses just by investing in military, it doesn't solve the problem. there is no police institution there,

no criminal justice system strong enough to hold the funds together. so the mr. priorities of the need to priority also have raised many question and we're going to find the double government has feared because of the incompetence because of the corruption, because of those or, or board lords try beliefs. there's no indigenous of not local revenue system. so one new and double, almost 60, to 70 percent of the funding or financing is coming from on site. and despite that there was no investment in local economic or creed, which would have enabled to find a spot to stand on it on its own feet. so it's a western field here, it's a regional failure. it is a feeling of the log in as well. this is all happening in parallel. i forgot you limit your ability to run who again and again are being the price for all this tragedy that that is thrown at them has fallen. leader huff on the rolla has worn

b, lebanese group were tele, a, against any future israeli strikes. his comments follow in exchange of rocket 5 between hezbollah and the israeli army. those days as tribes were the 1st targeting lebanese villages, since 2006. how does men have a hill? 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 as strike to be quick, or elsie would have lost its value. i was one of the nigerian school girls kid now it's fine armed group 7 years ago has been reunited with her family off there being freed. last week, ruth and glad the whole group was among more than 200 students,

abducted by boca harassed from a school in the northeastern town of she bulk. over the years, many of the girls have been released or found by the military, but more than a 100 are still missing. 3 large wall fires a burning across greece, threatening several towns and cities. people on the 2nd largest island of e, v. a have been joining firefighters to bathroom the flames. hundreds of others have been evacuated by boat 1000, have fled all the areas burning, just north of athens and the city itself. sane, bizarre avi sent us this report. the to know where the fires are and where they are going. greet slip 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 and uphill fight. one that has already taken its 1st life. a firefight anthony tucker in 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, i 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 it. for 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 seem to have become a permanent fixture in the skies over the attic. and it's because of seems like this homes all over the area have been burning for days. several areas along the base of the pardon, if the mountains are still on fire. hello, 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 one in 2nd to very 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 one question i'm here with my daughter were just trying to help animals that are in need from the fire gave us we found so many so far better yet the area, but 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 jazz era, the attic, a basin in the north of athens. heavy rain house brought some relief for emergency crews battling wildfires in southern turkey. 11 days of blazes across the region have less scorched vast areas. the forest heads of thousands of people have had to flee their homes. more than 200 fires have been brought under control. and fire

crews have been getting help from volunteers from turkey and abroad. resource, other reports from the south west and province divided syrians, no tragedy, all too well. more than 3000000 people have flat war and destruction. find the shelter here in turkey. and now, as turkey faces some of the worst white wires in its history, some of those refugees have warrant here to help fight the blazes. the ceiling and rescue team includes arabs, kurtz, turk, men, answer captions. they come from cities across the country. origin littering to have other refugees and the way the relief work along the turret to sit in board there they have joined a wouldn't tears from all over the world to support more than 6000 personnel fight in the fires that have the course sell to turkey. for the past 11 days, the steering wouldn't here say turkey has been

a safe haven for them and they wanted to return the jester volunteer of the city that he can 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 could open 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, defies in several provinces since more than a week. we're now here to stop the blazes again. we're here to support our turkish 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 more on time, which has been the worst hit, fires across south and turkey. how so far killed people and post houses of others 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 euro item and he said people are missing in the u. s. state of california as the dixie, while fi, it continues to burn, largely out of control. 5 of them are from greenville the historic gold mining town that was devastated early in the week. these are some of the homes and other buildings destroyed by the fire. smoke has blanketed parts in northern california and nevada and triggered air quality warnings as far away as colorado. new government data is raising fears of another devastating forest fire season. in brazil, space agency that monitors 5 says last month was the most destructive july recorded since 2016 nice virus or blamed on people illegally clearing land to grow crops or

graze cattle. to be a drought is worsening. the situation in some regions fil a head on out of their stranded and running out of supplies will have the latest from applied to thousands of microns dock in columbia. and a month after haiti's president was assassinated. we'll look at what happened mckee ah hello, hot sunshine and high temperature, it's really the flavor across the middle east. we've got re add in for 40 for some sand and dust, southern saudi, and o bob. but i want to take you around the gulf right now. we know for the golf around dough. this is the highest temperature of the year at $34.00 degrees. imagine it's like a fan rate out there in the gulf blowing toward doe has so we deal with that high

humidity next 3 days shows a 75 percent humidity on sunday will feel about $55.00, but we crank it up to 80 on monday. so the heat index will be $56.00 southern areas of pakistan, the wind starting to back off a bit. so we reduce the risk of sounding dust storms. there's some instability of the hordes through to as well. the bod, on sunday, know, for turkey disturbance over the black sea is diving down what, whether it's a parched areas of the country, but of course, we know it will take much more than this to battle back against those wildfires. flooding has been a concern through sudan, and if we look at the forecast on sunday, see those heavier storms from sudan into south sudan. and if we wrap this one up a bit further toward the south, we do have what and windy weather pulling into the western cape. keep time we've got you in for a high of 17 degrees on sunday. that sure weather forecasts we'll catch up later. the

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fighting between the taliban and government for the city of condos in northern afghanistan. on saturday, the tell me about that capture the 2nd provincial capital in as many days, government says it's launching a counter offensive as follow lead a house on the throne has won the lebanese group, were telling 8 against any future is really as follows, an exchange of rocking 5 between has been on the radio, me thursday that strikes with the targeting lebanese villages since 2003 large wall fires burning across greece, threatening several town locals on the 2nd largest island joining just about the flames. hundreds of others have been evacuated. ah, the closing ceremony for one of the most controversial answer g to lympics in

modern history will take place in the next few hours. the flame will go out on the took your games hell. despite a global pandemic, mostly without spectators, just over 400 cave in 1900 cases happened, connected with the games. this while the rest of the country is recording thousands of cases every day. even though these guys are slightly different to any other and worth i just the way that athletes are more sports supported each other. my dish olympics and memorable experience, every member of our strive to became you represented your country with distinction and gave great joy to so many more spain, a very difficult time. i'm sorry. let's go. despite opposition. i think we have reached the closing ceremony because there are people who have thought of and

supported the athletes who have worked hard for years for the olympics. i got the despite the fees of not being able to hold the games in the end for us to see the athletes perform and compete on television was very moving and i think it was very good. jill is boy cough played for the us national soccer team at $4.00 on the politics of the olympic game piece and took a 2020 you 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, they're 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 i o. 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 arriving 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 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. it's going to, everyone in japan is going to have to live with colombian. officials are allowing

stranded migrants to leave the coastal town of nicole cli around 10000 people have been stuck there for weeks, waiting for both to take them to the border with panama. the townhouse traditionally been a transit points migrant headed to north america. while only a few 1000 were able to trans at last year because of code 900 border restrictions 25000 this year have already passed through. now that be restrictions have eas, theresa both had this report. 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 the gulf 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 darion gap with because jungle that's filled with traffickers and criminals. it's extremely, extremely dangerous. so we just being 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 for 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 t live from brazil, and they want to make it to the united states. we've also spoken to cuba and we're

also escaping be able go nomi crisis in many south american nations. so that's why the foreign ministers of fund, i'm 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 they're 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, paris president and the castillo is facing sustain protest calling for him to step down the form. a teacher is still assembling his cabinet, but some of his choices have are alarmed critics. among them is guido believe he's been nominated for prime minister and he's on the criminal investigation for defending terrorism. i see your has trying to reassure citizens investors that is

marxist campaign platform will not take the country in the wrong direction. one month after the assassination of the haitian president investigators have arrested several suspects while the new prime minister has called for fresh elections. there still many unanswered questions surrounding the killing of his don. you're swimming to reports, that's creating further instability. the killing of president, jovan and marie shocked a nation already suffering from political instability. rising gang violence, extreme poverty, police immediately detained. more than 20 mercenaries, mostly colombians, who they accused of carrying out the attack 3 were killed. while a few of those remain on the run, but the most important question remains unanswered. who ordered the assassination? next shall justice, let, shall justice, let, shall justice be. do not want vengeance nor violence. the head of the 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. all say killing him was never their intention. lemmy young su will not take the life of the present in all country that's connected with this barbaric practice miss paper. they're actually shown stone, re as cause of fresh election the soon as conditions allow wherever those conditions it's difficult before the presidents murder, remain volatile. moon cannot show. many people from the opposition and the stinking bourgeois z joined together to betray the president. it's the national and

international conspiracy against the haitian people. i ask that all guns mobilized take to the streets. it took me more groups campaigning for peaceful change in haiti. severe store 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 is 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 most haitians 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 coven invoice

. or the reasons why daniel schriner out to 0 vibrations around europe have been met marking the anniversary of a dispute presidential election that led to a term in the office for alexander lucas shanker. in the netherlands, people have expressed their continued opposition with an arctic suspicion. the fastened report from their faces young and determined girls locked up in these entrance enter and bella was painted by a fellow detainee was since like the country each day, i guess a new girl was coming in or moving to another place. and you can see that they are professions like software test, my su, photographer, or sales assistant lawyer or yes, it shows me the strength of human spirit, the serious of sadness, these. but looking at the faces of the girls,

i feel hope the but the hope for change route by hundreds of thousands of bella roshan, one year ago, seems far away. now. alexander lucas shanker was accused of rigging his re election as the assembly and power mass demonstrations against this rule has died down. no matter we both have here, but messages of resistance case in a different form. while many evaluation voices might be silence one year often disputed presidential election. these office yesterday, despite their fear, the spirit has not been broken. this is another artist who went to the jail. he. afterwards he scratched the gold from his bill irrational 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 about russian activists suspected to have been murdered was found dead last week in the ukrainian capital, kia and she feels unsafe new york, 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 have all this goes all of us, of course. yeah, still go today. 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, which is the owner for the gallery, where i worked for 10 years and he's the reason already for one year. the future

and lucas younger is actually in prison. screams of the silence have become a little less silenced by expressing their feelings to art steadfast and al jazeera in the hey. honey can find much more on our website. the address is al jazeera dot com to check it out. aah! this is al jazeera and these are your top stories. we're getting reports of heavy fighting between the taliban and government forces in the city of condos in northern afghanistan on saturday, the taliban that captured a 2nd provincial city in as many days. government is launching a counter offensive duty, but the enemies of f. gaston can not arise, the history of s gonna stone and they can not take our owners away from us. and clearly my promises that we will find the killers and.