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stanley and al mfc, 5 back cheers. small confirming he's leaving barcelona where he's played his entire career. i'm trying to get your thoughts off the more than 2 weeks of competition that tokyo olympics comes to a close. i'll have the best of the final days action from japan, me a ton of on offensive coinciding with the withdrawal of foreign forces has captured another african regional capital. its fight is attacked conduce in the north, early on sunday morning, taking the city street by streets and battle that witnesses described as total calles afghans, defense ministry says government forces will fight to get it back. if we bring up the map, we can see how conduce builds on rapid telephone gains in recent days. the ranch, a regional capital in the south, is also intel,

upon control and to other provinces that was highlighted in grave to combine claims to have seen their capitals shepherd gone and his salary pool. while in the southern provinces of hellman and canada, how government forces, having bankrupt by u. s. s. strikes against the taliban advance. let's speak to charlotte balance, who live for us now in cobble, charlotte, can you just walk us through what's happening? both in condos, but we're also hearing in telecom, telecom is moving now that the provincial capital of to ha province also in the north. the telephone say that they are right on the cost of now taking that also a residence, telling us that the taliban has indeed taken control of most government buildings in the city. they have taken control of the prison. they are seen in the streets, the africans, social forces say that they are launching a clearing operation now in telecom, trying to get the telephone out. but that city very much in flux flux,

and if you get a prevention capital, the province often falls with it. and that's what we saw this morning when the taliban took sara pool and also conduce provinces. they put out a statement saying they had it. we tried to get through to people in those cities, phone lines with them. we finally talked to them. they did confirm that the telephone was in the streets and that they had taken over most of the government, buildings and condos, especially the telephone, had raised its flag and the center of the city laying claim to condos. now condos is especially significant. it was how by the telephone, briefly in 20152016, they wanted condos for a long time. at that time us special forces had to be pulled in to, to get them out and put it back in government control. but it's also significant because of its location. it's the gateway to the north. if you take condos, you essentially cut off movie stuff going on because it's not a big highway there. it's a big city and it's the bread basket. all that's gonna stone. now the ministry of

defense is it is more in clearing operations and some of these provinces trying to get people out. we were actually may have a meeting earlier with the interior minister. we went to meet him and he had run out just before we arrived for an emergency meeting with the defense minister. he said they apologized and said, i'm sorry, this is an emergency situation and we're, we're trying to come up with a strategy now that these problems as a falling, it seems the, the african government forces are really struggling to keep up. i'm wondering if you can give us a sort of broad, a picture of the rest of the country because obviously there's a lot of claims and counterclaims and things are moving very fast. so not only do we have these problems as falling, but there's many other provinces where there is heavy, heavy fighting, ongoing, and has been for some weeks now. so kind of how city is the 2nd biggest city in sub? and it's in southern afghanistan, there's heavy fighting inside the city limits beer and they have been in strikes there for some time from the africans and also the americans in helmand, lush, god,

the provincial capital we're that is heavy fighting with it strikes and they are a street to street battles there and then we're hearing this afternoon. he'll be fighting starting now and the northern province of buck sean, so worst case scenario, the civilians. because the government is stricter than now trying to baffle the taliban on so many different fronts. but it's now entering a stage of the warfare where you have civilians stuck in their homes and lashed golf. for example, they have been stuck in their homes for a week, listening to the sounds of bullets every hour. it strikes constantly. they say we are absolutely terrified. we are starting to run out of supplies, houses shaking with the constant bombardment. i thank you for that update there. shawn bellis. launch for us and combo. well, i'm a shooter. jamal is head of international affairs and i've gone to the don's office of the national security council. he says tele, on 5 is all making gains, at least in part, thanks to support from pocket stone. the truth is that the taliban have received

men, weapons and explosives, but also direction from across our southern frontier, which is that is why they're able to put a resistance across the country. if you focus on a given sliver of time at any given moment, a problem may have fallen under the telephone control. but i think the situation are completely fluid, which means that as we are speaking ask a national defense and security forces are actually rallying and pushing on out of the problems. similar actually happening the shipper on a similar action is also happening inside of the other provinces. you listed as having fallen in and we also interviewed the house shaheen, the tunnel bonds, international media spokesman. he says they won't piece the government aggression has forced them to 5. our responses clear. we want a peaceful solution of the issue. the problem that we

are, we waited for for the last one year. but unfortunately you may have seen that the, the head of the college ministration and the fee that he announced a military strategy for 3 months and 6 months. and after that, they started ban bangor, cities, hospitals, clinics, the schools were joining us here in doha is happy, but said i'll be a member of the government piece, negotiating team. thank you for joining us here on the news. all we've just been documenting all of these tele bond gains on the ground with all of those gains. what position does this put your negotiating team in? thank you very much. of course, hello. situation will be worse because than a, you know, from the other side, the cleaning that the only 4 piece will be ready from the other

hand, every day, every and maybe every hour, attaching to the city to even to the bridge run out all day with us so they have them in 3 months we do is to reduce the violence and also not attaching to that they see, but you have data attaching to the big cities like to ship out on of course and need to help. oh no, it shows that the order picking to them basically not hearing about no hearing about women and children are all of you and, and, and, and make sure that i can show you that how we are cool and how be disobedient . and women and children, exactly the piece that they want to be given. all of that,

my question is apart from international condemnation of alleged atrocities committed by the taliban. apart from that one leverage does your team have when it enters into these talks? so honestly, it is a shame for you is a and the only been to mission, to move to watching on the black sheet, all of the crime one time and on sunday. and just watching why there shouldn't be a function for ton of on tolerable giving a kind of seizure protocol to every country that they are going to every live and to promote themselves and claiming that they are and person coffee, which is not just the wrong day and for one month, they will not hear, you're going from one country to the other country and getting caught protocol. this is, this is really a shame for dental nation community. and you said that putting multiple

people and then just end up in that ship and just watching ok, but what is your strategy then going into these negotiations this suppose a negotiated way out of this crisis. and of course we were, we were sincerely for negotiation and within 1012 months we were present here. but from the other side, when the negotiation between 2 parties is not working very well, we want maybe can, can or can facilitate the location. it would be, it would be much better. so, but i hope that a mediator should, should be engage in the, and the modem and at least to proceed. negotiation and why have africa and forces in your opinion,

being so far unable to stop. what seems like a very rapid advance by the telephone. i am telling you this question. i can give you another question. why the, all of the us soldiers and all the new need to so don't want a war phase and up on the front end was not able to defeat time on and they. ringback become, i mean, of polar. it's because of the on getting support we are getting support from day and you're not getting support from day our neighborhood company and also some other countries. other words, of course, with the all the need to country with the more than 40 countries with day us, melissa city also gave us, they were not able to, to defeat all of on with then 20 years. or we have to leave it there. thank you for your time. from the ha ha, be said, i'll be there. a member of the peace negotiating team of the islamic republic of

afghanistan. the rest of the days use it, including the netherlands rethink decades of flood defense planning and the face of rising tides. and a changing climate. a month off the president was assassinated, we look at where the investigation stands and why there are so many unanswered questions. and joe will have the best reaction from the final bank, metals at the tokyo olympics, that's coming up with a cruise numbering in the hundreds of fighting for answers controlled wildfires across greece. and what the prime minister is calling a nightmarish summer. the worst at the moment is on the 2nd largest island of via the flames, have cut right across from coast to coast, isolating a section of its north elsewhere. thousands of people have been evacuated from

villages. north of athens, with crews have managed to control fires, but worry about the weather once again. whipping up the same. same bus ravi is in northern athens where he's been surveying the extent of the damage. 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 good environmental policy and try to keep an extreme climate event like this from being so severe and happening in the 1st place. heavy rain has brought some relief for emergency crews battling wildfires and neighboring turkey. but the most past has been falling in the wrong places. fires have been burning through vast areas of forest across the southern region for 12 days. tens of thousands of people have fled their homes. more than 200 fires have now been brought under control. turkish crews haven't been battling the fires. alondo has also been getting help from volunteers abroad. results their dog has more on that from the southwest. and province of iden, 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, turn, men, answer captions. they come from cities across the country. orginally trying to have other refugees, emperor way the relief work along deter, to sit in border. they have joined a 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 steering wouldn't you say turkey has been a safe haven for them and they wanted to return the jester. volunteer the sooty, the head cook can and syria when they were helicopters above us we would be very frightened because they would drop 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 ours. before defies in several provinces since more than a week. we're now here to stop the places again. we're here to support a 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, dana, 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 at least 8 people are missing of the us state of california as

the so called dixie wildfires been largely out of control. 5 of them are from greenville star gold mining town. that was devastated last week. there was some of the homes and other buildings destroyed by the fire. smoke has blanketed parts of northern california and nevada and target air quality warnings as far away as colorado. more than $200.00 people were killed in germany and belgium last month and some of their worst footing across the board in the netherlands, the river defense system kept towns mostly safe and dry. bosses to boston reports from one from the changing climate has force and rethink about these thought. defensive the river most once again, flows calmly through the dutch landscape, only mud colored land and debris. we main after dangerously high water levels breton thrown being towns and villages just 2 weeks ago, those flat waters to the village of outback into an island. once again,

the head of our children asked, mom does you really want to stay? you really want to do that? yes, you're saying we're not going anywhere. beat bon. yay! state. because he feel safe behind a new dike that was constructed following the last major flap 25 years ago. as a volunteer. he patrol throughout the night to make sure the high water did not cause any cracks. it was a close call for people in the south of the netherlands, while hundreds died in germany and belgium. these dikes did what they had to do. they kept the water out, but the question is, can the dodge keep up with the pace at which the climate is changing? climate scientists say the average temperature in the netherlands has risen by one and a half degrees in the past 50 years, causing at least 10 percent more rainfall and more extreme weather patterns will reverse me. is that the speed of climate change is large now, and of course we're on a course is, is, is we article so that's not over with the speed. so, yeah. one and we don't know the future temperature. exactly. it depends much of our

behavior across the border in germany and belgium, and equivalent of 18 buckets of water fell in one square meter in 3 days, causing destruction on a scale not seen in years. the southern part of the netherlands avoid that fate. thanks to this flat prevention project, what we did was to create space for the river. so we removed hesitation and revived a 1000 year old river arm of the most villages we protected by building dikes around to this all lowered water level. so it's $35.00 centimeters, which is a lot if you know that a difference of a few centimeters can cause large damage to achieve this, essentially old city hall was demolished and it's our turn into a monument designed to show future generations the interventions made to keep the town dry, but the extreme rainfall also expose problems in the dutch defenses, which were modeled on flat predictions made for years ago. that led to flooding in the tourist town of falcon birth, which could not be protracted when

a small stream turned into a swirling river. little crowds oscar still big so even so predictions might have changed. we should finish 1st what we have promised to make adjustments along the way. even though the river has retreated and the dangerous subsided, he hopes the flats will be a wake up call for the government to take action against a false change in climate steadfast and al jazeera once um, in the south of the netherlands, the toko, and the big games have wrapped up with a short fireworks display over the main stadium. the games, of course, took place right in the middle of a pandemic, and the athletes performed mostly empty stadiums. the theme of the closing ceremony was well, re share meant to make everyone think about the future. 2024 games will be held and parents go live now to associated press correspondent, philip crosser, who is in tokyo. philip, good to see you run through these clothing ceremonials and libby games like no

other yeah, absolutely. and probably a closing ceremony, unlike any other as well. very subdued, much like the opening ceremony was as well. we just had a very, very short fireworks display, as was to be expected from a closing ceremony. that wasn't really a celebration of what has gone before is a little bit more reflective and was very respectful actually towards the athletes . because after all, the athletes were pretty much the only people inside of this lympics stadium alongside some officials and journalists of course, the athletes who were remaining here in tokyo. and there weren't that many because most of them had to leave tokyo after 2 days off of that competition. well, they got together on the field of play here in the lympics stadium. and they were essentially feeling the gratitude from organizers for turning up and performing in front of completely empty stands because you're absolutely right. these olympic games in token will always be marked by the corona virus pandemic. first of all,

simply because we had an olympic games here called toko 2020 taking place in the year 2021. they will respond, of course, by a whole year. and that still didn't really do it because held a single person. not a single spectator was allowed to enter a vessel and pick stadium or any other sporting venue here in japan, in the n that a limping bubble, as it is called, that a group of athletes, coaches, officials, and journalists who are not supposed to have any contact really with the local population that the limbic bubble appears to remains intact. there was no major outbreak new outbreak, i should say of positive cove in 1900 cases though they have been going up steadily here in tokyo with that very much the backdrop. if not the centerpiece of these olympic games here in tokyo. so how do you think that affected the feeling there among journalists, the athletes themselves, the fact that there was so many measures in place,

the fact but it was so scale back. do you think that affected the excitement at all for people? i'll tell you why. i think all of those different categories. we all had different impressions of these olympic games. we had a very different one to the people of toko, who presumably felt frustration and sadness as well as seeing an olympic games taking place on the doorstep that they had help finance. and we're not allowed to even see for a single 2nd. for us, it was, of course, the privilege to be as it was for the athletes, the coaches and the officials. but it was still a hugely frustrating and sometimes a very sad experience to answer. these sport stadia, see some of the world's best sports men and women perform beat world records and do so in front of absolutely no body, that sadness, that tinge of sadness will always accompany these limpid game here in tokyo for the athletes. interestingly enough, they were able to perform largely, despite also

a lot of respect has to be due to them, despite not having been able to train properly for 16 months, despite not having been able to compete worldwide as they tend to do. and i think that's partly why we saw so we're solid verity among athletes. actually during these olympic games, a lot of images that we will remember hogs and handshakes among competitors in the skateboarding competition, for example, in the high jump as well. there are many, many examples of an elliptic games that did give us a lot of reasons to hope shown by the athlete. they, of course being the only ones who we saw. again, all of this happening completely behind closed doors tend to be a little bit about the legacy of these games, the japan, as you say, very, very expensive to put on the olympic games and the tokyo, japan taxpayer hasn't been able to enjoy them in person. yeah, i think one of the legacy is,

is simply that we now know very clearly that the i o c, the international olympic committee will have its way when it wants to organize an olympic games, despite opposition from people here in tokyo. and generally in japan and for medical x, but well, those olympic games still will happen, even if it is entirely without spectators. the legacy also will be one of sporting pro s, let's not forget that big world records were broken here. for example, in the long jump, but usually my little house of venezuela just one of those cases we saw quite a few weld records beaten in the 4. busy 100 meter hurdles, for example. that was a spectacular race considered possibly one of the best races of all time in athletics. so we've had some really memorable moments here. experienced, i think, very differently at home compared to how people here experience them. because at home you can still have that illusion of there being people in the stadium. and of this being a relatively normal sporting events for us here. it was, of course,

a very, very different indeed. but again, enormous respect is due to those athletes for performing. so well in, after all, very, very difficult circumstances. all right, thank you for that. philip cross there, in token and thousands of people have gathered in paris, says the focused turns to the next summer games in 3 years time. the pick flag was passed on to the city mer, is part of a hand. the ceremony near the eiffel tower football superstar, the now messy was in tears. he confirmed his departure from barcelona up to 21 years with the camp. he agreed to take a pay coff. barcelona were unable to honor the new deal. i say also said that he's in talk with party sanction. no say we don't go to because he's who don't know. 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

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