through probably irregular groups that added the human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated. the news the tales like things in couldn't those out for it becomes the latest down city to fall to the taliban and just the past few days. a come on to maria here in the world news from out of iraq. there is nothing from my home properties, nothing must think. people on the outskirts of athens, frustrated and exhausted of the wildfire burned across the region, all for the tokyo olympics, coming to a close this hour in one of the most unusual games we've ever seen. and an

emotional, messy as he leaves the baltimore at a football club after $21.00. i over in the downtown events captured the northern provincial capital of condos and other significant defeats for the african governments. telephone fight of the pact early on sunday morning and the baffling street by streets during hours of intent fighting officials and residents, including the describing total chaos. the african government has also announced little conduct, but it will clearing operations in the area. have a look at the map, this is what happened in just 3 days. those meet those regions in red. their provincial capital have fallen to the taliban that runs in numerous province condos as well. the government hasn't officially confirmed it, but sources tell us the cities have been lost and then those regions in grey. only

the taliban claims to taken those provincial capitals shove, are gone in john province and thought a pool in the neighboring problems as well. shall a bill of reporting now from candle condos is incredibly significant for it to fall . this morning is, is terrible news for the asking government and a major boost for the telephone. the telephone put out a statement earlier this morning saying they had taken, sorry, paul and conduce provinces. we managed to get through the residence phone lines, had been down for some time and they concern to us that the taliban were on the streets that they had taken over the most government buildings in condos, especially that they were in the police chiefs office. they were in the governor's compound intelligence offices that they took over the prison and released prisoners and right in the center of conduct. they raised the taliban flag to show that the city was now b is now this is incredibly significant because that means that 3 provinces has fallen to the taliban in 3 days. if you take the venture capital,

you take the province with it. the 3 in 3 days and put that into context last time, a provincial capital and province. so was in 2015 now for context as well. it means that a lot of fighting is continuing in all of it's going to sound really most provinces . those flashing going on and they've lost the southern problem like you said, of numerals. and then also in jose, john the capital. sure. the gone that is heavily contested. the telephones howling off that they have it, but the ministry of defense saying no, we still have special forces there, and we are fighting back. we have heard from the international media specs and for the taliban. so hail shaheen, who says the group has always been came to reach a peaceful solution to the conflict in the country. our response is clear. we want a peaceful solution of the issue, the problem that we we waited for for the last

one year. but unfortunately, you may have seen that the, the hate of the company ministration, and he announced the military subsidy for 3 months in 6 months. and after that, they started ban bangor, cities, hospitals, clinics, schools, in that god, they have done all these things and it one bomb the super part of that is not the commitment to peace. in the conciliation, when there are announcing the military is taught to g, we have the capability of taking water city's back to we were waiting for them and our policy is via the for pc, consolation. but of course, when, when they launch the up in the us,

they started bound binding against the weedy after. when really acted, we talk to provincial center, but still lower. finally, caesar negotiated settlement of the issue that's going on to the news. hundreds of trees now battling 4 major wildfires across greece and what the prime minister is calling and nightmarish summer. people have been evacuated from the 2nd largest island via the fires the cut across the island from coast to coast. thousands more have said other regions, just north of athens, the city itself is now under threat. st. savvy is in northern athens. he's been surveying the extent of the damage there. one woman we spoke to described, it is feeling like her country was under attack from every direction. and we're seeing under dramatic circumstances, thousands of people being displaced from their communities, from their homes and seems like this are everywhere. definitely here in the north

of athens, but also repeated in numerous locations darting the country. now, if you look around, you'll see this is the town of very bobby. it is one of the most acutely affected places, if not the most acutely affected town in north of athens, and there's entire areas completely charred and entire destruction by these wildfires. a police are not allowing residents back in there was a reprieve for awhile where people could come and check on their homes and their businesses. but that's all come to a close now because of what you see in front of me. large forested areas completely blackened by the fire. these trees are still standing, but police told us the big problem now is the, the threat from tree fall. a lot of the branches have been coming down, but large trees are still posing a threat to many of the residents in this area. so what the police have been

telling us now is that these forests now pose a threat to residents that might be returning to these areas. the prime minister, greece is prime minister, has promised to replant every tree that's been effected by the wildfire to rehabilitate every forest. that's gone through something like this, but we're talking about rehabilitating vast areas of land all over the country. and environmental groups are now criticizing politicians across the political spectrum for speaking wonderful words now for a lot of political rhetoric now during the height of a crisis. but not doing enough ahead of time, not doing enough when they had the chance to legislate a good environmental policy and try to keep an extreme climate event like this from being so severe and happening in the 1st place. but heavy rain has brought some relief for emergency crews, baffling fires and neighboring turkey burning through the vast areas of forest across the southern region for 10. 12 days now,

tens of thousands of people have fled their homes. and more than 205 have now been brought under control. so chris haven't been battling these 5 alone that they've been getting help from volunteers from abroad. restful soda has more on that from the southwestern problems of either syrians, no tragedy, all to 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 syrian rescue team includes arabs kurtz, turn, men, answer captions. they come from cities across the country. orginally trying to have other refugees and the way the relief work along the turn to sit in board there they have joint wouldn't tears 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 serial wouldn't you say turkey has been a safe haven for them and they wanted to return the just their volunteer the city. they had to come in 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 to our before defies and 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 dana, more untidy, 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 the leader of hezbollah. her son starla has won. the 11th grade will retaliate against any future as strikes by israel. his comments follow an exchange of fire between his below and these rarely ami thursdays and strikes with the 1st targeting lebanese villages in 2006. israel's new prime minister natalie bennett, responded to has villa and its backer iran during a cabinet meeting. hello ilan. it says lucky ron should understand that they cannot continue raging without paying a price. it is less important to us whether it is a palestinian organization shooting or independent rebels. the state of israel will not accept firing into its territory in the lebanese sector. there is

a very important awakening of many citizens in the country against his villa and reigning involvement in the country. which in the severe economic and political crisis there around his blood. also complicate them on the front with israel. in the news, i had a month after the assassination of haiti, the president, german movies still don't know who was behind the killing. mr. tucker games come to a close attention now shifted to the winter olympics, and china february ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored my cattle airways. hello, good to be with you. let's take a look at what tropical storm loop it did. so parts of taiwan after picking up hundreds of millimeters of rain homes just in, in data, it's roads turned into lakes. here, you know,

all of this energy is now heading toward japan on a crash course with it. but i think the bulk of the energy will actually stay out toward the sea of japan. so he was just crazed by a tropical storm. marinated dropped about 90 millimeters of rain. but i think this time around, it's mostly going to be a wind stories, 75 kilometer per hour winds on monday, $72.00 on tuesday, and then they'll die down as we head toward wednesday. and next up we've got to go to southeast asia. unsure we've got our storms coming and go in here, but i think the best chance for the sunshine will be singapore. and actually over the next few days, we've got a pretty nice forecast lining up for singapore. and now through the b a ban. gall and northern areas of bangladesh, so it's almost $200.00 millimeters of rain. and this is really where we see our aggressive rain falling along the foothills of the himalayan. so cap man do 26 degrees will be the high for you on monday through india, rochester. and was much pradesh have just been hammered with this rainfall. and the rain is piling up,

but we're starting to see it pull away on monday. sponsor cut on airways. a secret agent claimed by both israel and egypt. well, any case officer who receives potential or a double agent will always assume the worst truth or like fact, or fiction muscle, the documents or 40 people of either of those under ups out there will tell the story of a man of many secrets. i shut my one death to the super spy on al jazeera. ah, ah. the self stories that were on the earth, the downtown

a band kept with the northern provincial capital of condos and another significant defeat the government. taliban fighters attacked early on sundays, battling st. street during hours of intent fighting. there are 4 major wildfire burning across the grief people have been evacuated from the 2nd largest island of via fountains more has fled other region. heavy rain is brought some relief for emergency cruise passing, while 5 in southern turkey is burning through vault. there is a forest across the region for 12 months now since the assassination of the haitian that president giovano moyes and investigators have arrested several suspects while the new prime minister called for new elections. but still so many answered questions about the killing and it's daniel sharma, reports that is only creating more instability, the killing of president, jovan, and more. you shocked nation already suffering from political instability. rising gang violence and the stream 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 ordered the 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 more use from office . all say killing him was never their intention. miss young to be on that tag, the life of the president in the all country disconnected with this barbaric

practice miss pay for their action. the stone re as cause of fresh election the soon as conditions allow whenever those conditions it was difficult before the president murder remained volatile. up in the moon. he know what was his show. 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 guns mobilized take to the streets. it took me more groups campaigning for peaceful change in haiti. civil store, which is a persecuting them for their views. we don't believe in this investigation. this is a political persecution. those who were 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. when 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 with 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 is behind the killing of president colvin invoice, or the reasons why daniel schriner, how does era of schools begin to reopen in the united states? there's debate again about where the children should be wearing off the rapid spread of the delta variance contradictory guidance as well. politics the leaving many parents confused and angry, and creed out angry, gallagher and gallagher reports. you guys know where you're going. it was hoped this would be the academic year that children returned to schools without masks. rapid spread of the delta variance has changed that with official guidance,

once again, recommending face coverage in person learning. regardless of the vaccination status, we will not have reinstating mask mandates in schools is as controversial as ever as parents, teachers, and politicians face surgeon cases. we know that math will help kids from becoming defense for cobra. and we know that even though kids farewell often end up in the hospital and we don't want that to happen to any. you're interviewing children with having to wear and mask a schools do with conflicting advice. some republican lead states to banning mass mandates, leaving educational leaders facing the choice of losing state funding or breaking government guidelines here in florida, which accounts for one in 5 new cobit cases. the governors find an executive order barring school districts from putting mask mandates in place. that goes against the advice from the centers for disease control and prevention. governor de santis says

it lacks a well grounded scientific justification. the florida education association has criticize the move, but santa says the freedom of parents to choose is more important. i have young kids weren't my wife and i are not going to do the mass with the kids. we never have, we want, i want to see my kids smiling. i want them having fun. in arkansas or another republican run state. the governor wants to overturn a ban on math mandates. he put in place. it comes from an explosion in cases among the young, between april and july of this year. there's been a 517 percent increase in the number of cases under 18 years of age. there is nearly a 690 percent increase in cases in children 12 and under the stakes for children returning to school a high particularly among the under 12 to on eligible to get vaccinated. young children a less likely to get severely ill,

but they're all concerns. they could spread the virus to more vulnerable populations by them. ministration is pushing vaccines, harder than ever. now it's facing yet another wave of upon demick mind and politics, misinformation, and growing frustration. galka al jazeera. let's get this and sport football favor . selena massey is confirmed. he's in talk with paris sent you man. in the last hour while he was saying good bye to the boss, the loan club. he was particularly emotional, the 1st time messy spoken since his departure was announced. and he broke down and he is on stage massey agreed to take a pay cut, that fossil learner was unable to honor the new deal. that means he's leaving as a free agent. so he's talking to p. s g, but says he hasn't made a find up yet. no say, we don't go to college and see if you don't receive what is clear to me is that i did everything possible to stay. the club president said it wasn't possible due to an issue with the spanish league, but i heard many things that was said about me about why i didn't continue. i can

assure you that i did everything possible last year. i didn't want to state, and i also said so this year i did want to state, but it wasn't possible, so and okay. well matthew fell out by barcelona, found thousands of them gathered at the stadium to show their love and support for him. he joined the club when he was just 13 years old since he is $135.00 titles that includes for european champion, the continued has also won a record 6 world player of the year award. ah. so the big games are wrapping up, the closing ceremony is actually begun. we'll take you to the stadium now. the national stadium in tokyo, there was a burst of fireworks a moment ago, but it's all gone quiet inside of course. so little atmosphere because there's no one there. and these games the most unique. they took place right in the middle of

this pandemic, the athlete performing in mostly empty stadiums. the theme of the closing ceremony is, well, we share and it's meant to make everyone think about the future, which we do a lot of done with the 2024 games of course to be held in paris. very pleased to bring in philip carter who is a correspondent, the 1st you had to press in tokyo. we got there philip, when way you got you and everyone else in tokyo got they did it feel like everyday, right. we just got to keep going, keep going, gonna get the thing done and have a little impact of possible. yeah, and in that sense, i think organizers will be considering this a success. the simple fact that these olympic games took place that they are ending with a relatively limited amount of positive cobit 19 cases within the so called olympic bubble, which of course includes athletes, coaches, officials, and ourselves. but the closing ceremony that is happening right now, we would expect to be a reflection of the atmosphere that we have felt here in tokyo during the last 2

weeks. remember that these were, at least in the very thought, very unpopular olympic games. and that hasn't changed all too much during these last 2 weeks. so this clothing certainly is going to be more reflexive, rather than a celebration. i can tell you that the flag barrows are now in the middle of the field of play. and we do expect some fireworks at some point, in which case of course, we'll enjoy them together during our conversation. but as you mentioned, this closing ceremony is taking place and highly behind closed doors. there's not a single spectator in the elliptic stadium you see behind me just a few officials and of course the athletes themselves and journalists were allowed inside. so i think there's a very high chance that these will impact games in tokyo, still calls tokyo 2020 more than taking place in the year 20. $21.00 will go down in history as the pandemic games or the covered 1900 games. there's just no way around it just before we move on from the ceremony to talk about another thing. am i right in saying they would actually be a lot to athlete there as well,

because of the covey limitations people have sort of come through the competition and then leave. yeah, you're absolutely right. so the essential rule here from the organizers from to 2020, was that any athlete who ends his or her competition has 2 days before they have to leave token that have been some exemptions, for example, for the flag barrows, who are in the stadium right now. but otherwise, as soon as you eliminated, or as soon as your competition was over, you have to essentially get to the airport as quickly as possible, which of course led to quite a little bit of scrambling. if somebody made it a little bit further in the competition than expected, than everything had to be re books, essentially. but yet it is a bit of an empty olympic stadium, not just in the stands also on the field of play. yes, we have the flag barrows, and yes, we have representatives of all of the all of the countries taking part in these olympic games. but it's not going to be the big fan fair of big groups of athletes walking in as one the case during the opening ceremony. so did you get to some

events to, to cover any of them or witness in it? and i'm wondering what it was like to be at a sporting event pinnacle sporting event every 4 years. and no one was that well, this is the answer that i have to proceed by the fact that i'm obviously very privileged to be thought going to these sporting events has been somewhat sad, frustrating a little bit depressing of times a times as well. of course, we are very fortunate to see these sporting grades in action, but for all of that to happen in front of completely empty stand, it's very hard to take, to be honest because you do feel sorry for the people have to care for the people of japan who of course, paid for this whole thing in the 1st place and who were then told that they would not be allowed into a single sporting venue. not dealing pick stadium and see behind me not into any venue except some of those sporting events that were taking place outside of tokyo . so it was very frustrating. and obviously anybody who visited tokyo during these

olympic games and who was a member of the so called bubble. but we weren't really allowed to interact with the population here. either. we were only allowed to travel by official bus, by official tax the to, and from venues and hotels. so any conversations were pretty hard to really establish and that of course, as a journalist, as a very, very frustrating thing and a better one. but what 2 weeks it's been, phillip cropper is the associated press correspondence in tokyo phillips, i got the goods i must buy or not thank you so much. so attention shifts now to the winter olympic games, which are the 6 month way february. it will be hosted in beijing which will become the 1st city to host both the summer and winter games. and it means the pressure on chinese athletes to earn more gold medals will be greater than ever. here is this report from adrian brown. it was important for china to excel at the tokyo games

because they coincided with another cause for celebration with 100 anniversary of china's communist party. having to see is f las to excel in these games will validate the ccp leadership as it shows china has the capability to win and to excel in the olympics that will boost the national confidence and strength and unity for chinese leaders olympic go. metals represent an important projection of power, which is why so much money is invested in finding the very best in china. there's so many people that the goal is to, to weed through the many people that are going through the system and find the one that they think will best represent the country. and is that more wind at all costs than another model? it's hard to say but, but then when they know they're not there to come 2nd, that's a show on the eve of the tokyo games, the head of china is olympic committee said he wanted his country to win as many gold medals as possible. that added to the pressure on china's athletes,

and that same pressure will doubtless be there when china host the winter games in just 6 months. some of that pressure was evident when china's table tennis lost to japan, we lost the gold medal in the mixed doubles match. but our 2 teammates, lucia when and she sang, tried their best winning silver was not good enough though. and the g o were attacked on chinese social media with some bloggers accusing them of failing the nation. the human story of somebody trying to do their best to win a match gets caught up in historical or political events that have nothing to do. the athletes like japan, china is tackling a resurgence in cobit 19 along with its variance. winter games organizes also face other challenges, corporate boycotts and protests. presumably there would be athletes protest against the, china's human rights issues in relating to sensitive topics to china like t bed,

sion, jones, hong kong, etc. and also others may politicize of public health issues. during the protest, it's exactly 13 years since paging hosted the summer games a moment seen as a high point in chinese soft power, china's leader sheeting paying will want to ensure that same euphoria can be repeated in 6 months. adrian brown, audi 0, hong kong. the to controversial games in a row, you might say, because as we look at the live shot from tokyo right now, they were still purchase, still purchase against these games which are now coming to an end. it provoked so much feeling amongst the people of japan in the middle of this pandemic, about 8 30 in the evening in tokyo right now at the national stadium inside the flag barriers are in the ceremony, has begun the very different ceremony, obviously. then we would usually have a lot fewer people there. no one in the stands, but this is their dylan picks line,

the hydrogen powered olympics. i'm the cleanest and the pick flame ever we were told and moved back into the stadium for the closing ceremony. tokyo 2020. in 2021. coming to its conclusion. ah . how poppy? i'll be the headline. the gun taliban is captured the northern provincial capital. i couldn't do it in another significant defeat for the government. taliban fighters attacked early on sunday. baffling street by street during hours of intense fighting. charlotte bella has more from cobbled condos, is incredibly significant for it to fall. this morning is is.