the power minute trip dictated that all the zones they took areas the state could never reach under pressure from the da, the criminal to came off the pablo escobar, $100.00 down there, show companies under arrest increase. oh, i guess 3 provincial capital full in a day to the taliban in afghanistan with the group saying it's not in control of couldn't do telecom and sony poll. we have an exclusive report from part of helman province. that's now under taliban control. and here the reaction with people living there. ah, hello, i'm how am i have been? this is out to see about life and go home. also coming up

the battle continues against phones in greece. you buy one of the worst heat waves in decades, forcing sizes from their homes. and so in cases of the corona virus in the united states, petite division remains of a mosque wearing in schools. and a lifelong affair accident. leno massey leave the bone saloon or the club he joined as a boy, as it counts afford to keep him ah . a relentless and rapid offensive mind. the taliban is overwhelming afghan forces with the owners groups now claiming control of a 5th provincial capital in just 3 days. there advancing across northern provinces and say they've taken telecom and sorry pole, but by far the most significant gain as the northern city of conduce charlotte

bellis reports. now from couple another rising will become a store day in africa. stone. first the telephone into condos. one of the country's biggest cities and a gateway to the north beyond group took it briefly in 20152016 . before us special forces pushed in spite is out. now america cannot stand in the way 3 by street. the taliban took that and when the said he fell, so did the entire province. we have captured the main square. it's 2 pm on sunday and the whole area is in our hands. the government is doing false propaganda, saying it hasn't fallen, but you can see our flag. the afghan air force responded with is strikes which lead to fires in the central market. special forces announced they lodged in operation

to reclaim the city. been the taliban took sorrowful, also in the ease telephone fight whose entering the city's police headquarters. a few hours later attention turned to telecom the provincial capital of to ha. in the northeast afghan security forces had repelled veritax. we finally, the taliban broke the front. my residency, the fighters were in government buildings, they freed detainees from a prison, the, to the telephone fighters. this is a moment of celebration with each provincial capital they captured. they also got the wider province after 5 years of trying to take control of the province. they have now taken 5 in 3 days. the afghan security forces. this is not being played, encounter offences using special forces and africa and us it strikes. 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. the telephone spokesman told al jazeera beyond group never wanted a war. our response is clear. we want a peaceful solution of the issue that we are. we waited for for the last one year. but now the taliban has moved into cities . a new stage of urban warfare is on the horizon. if the government wants to take them back, hundreds of thousands of civilians. risk being caught in the crossfire. charlotte bellis. ouch. is era cobble to southern afghanistan and helman proven swear al jazeera has gained access to areas under taliban control. or correspondence units, idea seen was the scores at by taliban representative in gresh brings us this

exclusive reports while there has been fight in lasker god in the recent days, or the parts of the hillman province are firmly under totally been controlled. only 20 kilometers. separate the city of kandahar from the strongholds of the taliban, which will bus times of recent battle. i arrive in, in the town of garish. the 20 bon fighter asks us to get out of our car. i can know the at 1st sight things here do not look different from the government control areas. but then you see the tiny ben fighters, the only ones allowed to use radio handsets. or of course, tell us there is no telephone service or internet for security reasons. in the town

you see tiny bone flags everywhere. shopkeepers seats, a sign of their legions to the movement. so that we noticed a clear change before the villagers could not come to the market. now they can and the markets crowded with them and can shop and there's nothing to both of them. we spoke to one of the shop customers as well. what was that on the 1st before the taliban it was difficult for us to live under the authority of the government. now we are free. our children feed us and we are safe families throughout our visit were quoted by tiny ben preventatives. the older people we spoke to tend to praise a tiny band and its role in providing security. there will come implementation of a stomach close in the very conservative southern a funny time. but away from the camera, some young men did not hide the resentment absence of telephone and internet

services and their fear of a lack of a freedom in the future. at the district hospital, it is business. as usual. in this war, $600.00 babies were born during last month. the period that the taliban has been in control. eventually, since the arrival of the taliban there has been no change in our plans. we were received by the health officials and they told me not to change anything. there was a unified health law and we were asked to abide by as of this year. i don't see that a district point and the points like it, the tiny band controls things on the ground of why little their african government rules the skies and why the tiny ben sees it wants, and even 16 it's fighters said they are ready for all possibility of doing a pick up with him at, at for now they are conducting police and duties. but do you know,

and your battle could below me, was this the, the phone of the applicant, we prefer that they'd be a peaceful solution to the conflict and the current crisis and have gone to some if the government side insists on fighting and does not commit to reconciliation, the next step will be to attack the state capitals. electricity in the area is provided by this nearby, done. built by the soviets and restored by the americans. like everything else in this town of 70000 people. for now, it's run by the taliban city of c h a 0. gosh kilman, province of connie son. well, david rush is a professor at the us national defense university who also served in afghanistan. he says the taliban is not a united force and thinks the divisions within the group will make it hard to sustain its battlefield gains. so i, surgeon afghans sent 2000 to 2003 on the civil affairs task force. and quite

frankly, what i saw was a, a military effort that was focused on cobble was very little done in the provinces . and basically the warlords retained a lot of power even while the central government sought to move out there. i think part of the reason why the situation looks so bad is that the warlords, who really have a lot of the fighting power in these provinces, are stepping back, waiting for the central government to reach a point of crisis, where they empower the individual warlords and then they'll move in, the taliban is overwhelmingly a pash tune movement. and so areas that have large passion populations like conduce province. you know, you can see them active there, but it's also important to bear in mind the taliban is not as unitary as we think it is. everybody who has a thief with the central government and afghan of stan, calls himself taliban to get attention and to quite frankly, frightened, demoralize their opponents. so i think that a lot of this success we're seeing here for the taliban will be leading,

will be very hard to sustain. basically what they're doing right now is disrupting and attacking an over extended central government force. and i think that once there's a little bit of a consolidation in counter attacks, we'll see the taliban sort of move into its heart lands on the pakistan border areas. and in the past 2 and heartlands, i think what we're going to see, my worst case scenario is not. this is not the north vietnamese army marching in the south vietnam in the seventy's. this is we're going to see civil war and i think it will roughly be patched to areas versus other areas. that's the worst case scenario. at least 4 huge, far as are burning out of control in greece. the worst at the moment is on the 2nd largest islands of via elsewhere. thousands of people had been rescued from the villages north of the greek capital, famous from the reports from athens. the island of area has been burning for 6 days . while the fires around athens have subsided,

areas inferno is cutting across greece's 2nd largest island, and dividing it into the sky in places is stained, dark and red would be saviors. come from the air with planes and helicopters to douse the flames. and from the ground were fireplaces, get as close as they can with the hoses. but people have been fleeing their homes by early sunday, 350. more people were moved from the islands, northern beaches joining more than a 1000, who've already been ferried away. i know i left my home the, my my, my place my best. nothing will be the same. the next. i am very angry.

most people hear this elderly woman walking to safety did what she could to stop her home from meeting a similar fate. it's not clear though what will be there when she returns you close all the windows. were those at the at the foot the what then? ok, i don't, it's on the outskirts of athens where the flames have recently died down bone dry forest have been left chart and covered in ash, authorities, or warning of the possibility of further flareups. while temperatures continue to sol. everyone has been affected by these fires in some way. those living in the fire zone or near it are feeling the direct impacts, but those living elsewhere are feeling. the indirect impact of these wildfires

smoke and pollution warnings have been in effect for days. and ash clouds from ongoing fires across the country are hanging over the capital is in basra, b o g 0 athens. me filters in the us say the delta variance is spreading with alarming speeds and states with low vaccination rates with florida seen record infections this week. the schools begin to reopen in the us to be has to be ignited about where the children should wear masks, contradictory guidance, and partisan politics over the pandemic are leaving many parents confused and angry . and the galaxy reports 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 covering in person learning regardless of vaccination status,

we will not work of 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 keep you 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 to santa 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. and in arkansas or another republican run state. the governor wants to overturn a ban on mass mandates. he put in place. it comes for 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's nearly 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 the 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 still ahead. here are now to see. are the world's leading sciences worn about the main thing? climate crisis, and how time is running. and as the took you games, wrap up, displace children in theory as the last rebel held enclave of the staging their own version of fill in pix. ah. okay, here's the situation in south america. we've got a cold front punch across right around the river plate region. watch what it's going to do to temperatures here. first winds part of the story, months of the day of 70 kilometers per hour. and i'm thinking we're going to be

into single digit territory on tuesday at 9 degrees is front will slide further toward the north. so look at real 30 degrees and sunshine on monday. and you know, right, the cold front going to make it here. so we track it out. ok, by thursday we see the showers, the winds pick up and your temperatures tumble down to 21 degrees. central america . we've got some rain, confined to western and southern shores of mexico. very likely to see our pop up thunder storms across the caribbean. usual for the sum of the year. part of spain. 30 degrees will be the high for you on monday. as we check in on the situation for the western us, we have air quality alerts in play for california and nevada. just because of all of that wildfire smoke drifting around. now for the rest of north america, we are tracking some storms moving from the midwest into the great lakes, the potential to be violent at times and still some heavy rain along the panhandle of florida. on monday, that's your weather up the see us in the

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this is al jazeera, quick reminder, all the top stories. the guns halliburton has claims control of 3 provincial capitals on sunday. they say they've taken a telecon, sorry pole, and couldn't do at least 4 huge foreigners, they're burning of control in greece. sizes of people for villages north of athens was devastating. wildfires burned across the world. a new un report is expected to show the trouble with rain because of climate change. it's warning that extreme weather events will continue to worse and displacing millions of people with huge destruction and cost or environment. ester nick clark reports note from man abouts, in sudden turkey, the scene of recent rampant walls bars. it is an apocalyptic scene. skeletal trees with their fruit shod as they hang. no one has ever seen fires like

these before. they came with little warning, leaving people stunned with everything last. even the dead went sped from the flames. home and half fit now, only for demolition. these are the consequences of an overheated world. a children's playground melted by the intense heat. those who played here may well wonder what the future holds in this changing world. this will be the future, say the scientists, unless something is done. and this, they say is just a hint of what could be to come humanity, his lit the fuse and humanity was put it out before it's too late. i talked to 65 year old pharma below, couldn't. he tells me the only clothes he has left are the ones he standing in has we lost everything there is nothing left of our house. if the same folly neighbors

0, the tractor, the whole, the chavo, every tool we had is gone. everything we built up in 70 to 80 years is gone high, all of it disappeared in 20 minutes. it came and went like a c wave from turkey to grease its been a furious fight against the fires. extraordinary temperatures sparking the tragedy . in all these regions. wildfires happen every year, but never on this scale. it's the same in northern california where fires blazing over hundreds of square kilometers, destroying communities. across the world, extreme weather is building and ferocity. just last month, unprecedented floods in germany in belgium, devastated towns and swept away roads. more than 200 were killed, with many, still missing. and the science shows its fossil fuel emissions that have made these events worse. manmade climate change. the truth is, this is a story that people that really want to hear the reality perhaps too much for

people to deal with to take in. but what's becoming increasingly clear is that the consequences of doing nothing at all is infinitely worse for everybody. was john jogan has been helping with the rescue effort here in southern turkey. he says the fires were sparked after months of drought followed by an intense heat wave. on tale is famous for its long lasting rain. and the last you, there's noise in this year in mos in opera on the may . there was clearly no sign of rain and this is the result. and then just like that, as we're heading back from filming this happened and the sky opens. a deluge of rain cascades down, dancing apart, land the rain just as unpredictable as the 5 and 2 weeks too late. nick

clark al jazeera sudden turkey. an emotional lino massey broke down in tears as he sent his final good bye to bar saloon at a press conference on sunday. the arch insane store widely seen as one of the all time greats. the football said he didn't want to leave the club, which he joins as a boy where he'll play next. it is not yet clear, strong speculation that could be parry furniture. man, david stokes reports you know, messy, started crying before he even started speaking at his farewell ceremony. 3 days after barcelona said they can no longer afford to keep him. he confirmed, he was leaving and was given a standing ovation by the media and several of his teammates, past and present do up and so on these last few days i was thinking about what i would say to day. but to be honest, i couldn't come up with anything. i was blocked like i am right now. i was convinced i would stay thousands of fans gathered at barcelona stadium to say good

bye to the hero who joined them 21 years ago. at the age of 13, since then, each $135.00 titles, go to club record $682.00 goals and has been crowned the world's best player. an unprecedented 6 times the messy had agreed to take a pay cut to stay, but barcelona still can't make it work. they say, because of salary cat rules in the spanish league. no say we don't read okay. sure . see, don't. i cannot talk for the club. the president says they cannot renew my contract due to legal. i can only say that i did everything possible to stay here. now without a club or a contract, messy is currently the most sorts after free agent in history. paris centureman, one of the few clubs you can afford him, and our favorites to sign him for reported $35000000.00 a season. one french newspapers saying he's in paris for a medical within 48 hours. when i, when i was really asking settlement the p. s g is

a possibility. there's not have anything arranged with anybody though. i'd call some several clubs, but nothings confirmed. it's certainly the end of an era, but not the end of message career. the 34 year old argentinian said he's going to carry on competing for as long as he can. david stokes al jazeera will i speak not? it's gavin hamilton. these men to national football journalists enjoys us vice skype from london. get to have you with us here. barcelona clearly wants it's keep them and messy. clearly wanted to stay. but just explains is why these numbers just didn't add up. why even offering a 50 percent pay cards was missing still unable to stay at barcelona because part of his finances are in a match. they instruct him for quite a few years now to to stem the losses. it goes back to the sale of name all paris actually man. a few years ago they sold name, offering huge amounts of money to 100000000 pounds. and they spent the money very

badly on players who weren't up to the same standard name ball. and they've been struggling to cope with the losses in recent years. and the last is of mounted the time demick has contributed to the financial situation in a way they have to register a budget with the spanish leeker. and that budget would have been reduced this year because of their lawsuit and because of their financial situation. so we've messy out the contract. they had a message new contract to their budget. and they were not able to do that within the rules that spanish league set down. so messy, agreed to take on the players, apparently hills that i can pay cuts, but they most assigned new players. socio aguiro messes. ours, you've seen the teammate is one and they have added to the budget as well. so it's a huge financial mess. the boss are in the room and it's and they simply could not afford to offer a legal missy,

a new contract. it's an from for 2 to 3 here though for barcelona though, because they are in a financial pickle they've had to let one of the best footballers of old time leave because of that. but doesn't this a low new or slightly cheaper talent to flourish? doesn't this force them to bring on a football as he perhaps wouldn't normally get a chance to play for a club like that? yeah, but the problem is, i've been mismanaged the quite a few years now. and they all the club. so many players wants to join and other clubs prepared to so that place to boss learners. but out of try some boss loaner have to pay that top dollar for players. so they don't take advantage of the young players coming through who is paying too much. and they've over paid supplies in recent years, and that's, that's led them to this mess. so it's a, it's a very difficult situation for boss. learn to get out very difficult situation for their fans as well. well, might imagine favor at a time given hamilton

a great to get your thoughts and the slow thank you so much for joining us on our to 0. well, let's stay with the sport. no, and would be summer olympics and i finished in the paralympics nor starting until the 24th of august, the children of the rebel held it la province of syria minas, facing their own competition. inspired by the games full brennan points, the competitors in the so called tense olympics are 120 boys representing 12 refugee camps. most have been displaced by more than 10 years of war, relying on humanitarian aid to survive. quite like the real thing. there are no girls taking pot for the disconnect. his sporting event says unimportant purpose, but i have not had to be lim, dixby search for a waiver. the full answer to remind the nation community of the bite of the children and other camp resident. the games began to loud chairs and there are plenty of events to excite the crowd, ranging from

a crappy bout complete with child referee. 2 along jump and a high jump, a javelin competitor to go through his paces in the open arena. another young to discuss, you know, should be and i came with 10 other players. we had a lot of fun. i'm 12 years old and i one second place in the long jump. we won. a lack of equipment and apparatus was overcome with imagination. none more so than in this horse racing events. oh, the boys are age between 8 and 14, and many were competing in sports. they never previously participated in the london time, so that i played badminton and came in 1st place. we feel happy and these are the most after the judges and the winners. it was time for the medal ceremony and more cheering and then like it took you equivalent fireworks for the close to the

proceedings. a very different games to tokyo, but where the taking part was just as important as winning a metal pool. brennan, i'll jazeera, ah, this is to viagra, and these all the headlines, the afghans halliburton has claimed control of 3 provincial capitals on sunday. they say they are taken to the con, sorry, pole and condos. so hell shaheen this the taliban international media spokesman. he says they want peace, but government aggression has forced them to fight. our response is clear. we want a peaceful solution of the issue that we are we rated.