focus to human stories with political and economic tension. driving down be a hope to the pope as a company to define the future. august on a just the 3 provincial capital full in a day to the taliban in afghanistan with the good thing. it's in control of conduce tallow, con, sorry, poll. awe about how them are hitting and this is al jazeera life and also coming up with an exclusive report from the parts of hell. my province. this now on the taliban control. and here the reaction people living that

the banks will continue sitting small foods increase fuel by one of the worst heat waves in decades, thousands have been forced from their homes. and for in cases of the corona virus and the united states, the think the vision remains about mosque, where in schools ah, a relentless and rapid offensive by the taliban is overwhelming afghan forces with the arms groups now claiming control of the 5th provincial capital in just 3 days advancing across northern provinces and say they've taken telecom and sorry, poll, but by far the most significant gain is the northern city of condos shown the palace reports now from couple not rising will become

a store day in s gonna stone, 1st the telephone into condos, one of the country's biggest cities and a gateway to the north. i just don't want to beyond group talk briefly in 20152016 before us special forces pushed in spite is out. now america cannot stand in the way. 35, threes, the television to produce 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 gun air force responded with is strikes which lead to fires in the central market. special forces announced they launched an operation to reclaim the city. been the taliban took sorrowful also,

and these the telephone fighters entering the city's police headquarters a few hours later attention turned to telecom. the provincial capital of to haul in the northeast afghan security forces had repelled their attacks. we finally, the taliban broke the front line. 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 the end. they a plan 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 remains completely fluid. the telephone spokesman told to 0 beyond group naval wanted a war. our response is clear. we want a peaceful solution of the issue that we are we rated 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 al jazeera cobble to southern afghanistan now and helen province were all to sera, has gained access to areas under taliban control, or correspondence. eunice seamless escorted by taliban representatives, in garish and princess. 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 taliban control. only 20 kilometers separate the city of kandahar from the strongholds of the taliban withdrawals must signs of recent battle. arriving in the town of british the tardy ben fighter asks us to get out of our car. i can know at 1st sight things here do not look different from the government control areas. but then you see the tiny bit fighters, the only ones allowed to use radio handsets or escort kill us. there is no telephone service or internet for security reasons. in the town you see tiny bit flags everywhere. shopkeepers say it's 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 on the markets, a crowded women can shop and there's nothing to both of them. we spoke to one of the shots 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 banner presented to the older people. we spoke to tend to praise a tiny band and its role in providing security. there will come the implementation of a stomach close in the very conservative southern parties done but away from the camera. some young men did not hide their resentment. absence of telephone and internet services and their fear of a lack of 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. 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 us up this year. i don't see that a district point. i'm just points like it. the tiny band controls things on the ground of why little they are going to government rules the skies and why the tiny been phase it once and even 16 it's fighters said they are ready for all possibility of doing a pick up with an estimate for now they are conducting police and duties, but do you know, and your battle could below me was this the, the fact that 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 capital 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 in a city, teenagers, you know. gosh kellum and province of coney sun. well, there are fears, overhaul returned to taliban rule and parts left canister will mean for residence, particularly women and children. i. the son juice is a women's rights activist who left afghanistan at the age of 15. she says some women have been hiding in basements and taliban fighters and she expects the regime strike. so what was seen in the 1900 ninety's. the korean tall upon or worth than, than the pre 9 a lot, and then the pre 911, tolerable. and as we all know,

the pre 911 talib on had been education, access to the justice for the woman and dana, son, and, and right now, just as it was before, and even worse, every tell of as a police, a prosecutor and a judge himself. and they can arrest, punish, and kill anyone in any place at any time. of course, woman being the main victim. and they have currently we have stories of woman being killed, rapes, and, and forced to marry outside outside her. well, david ross, she's a professor at the u. s. national defense university who also served in afghanistan . pieces taliban is not so united force and thinks the divisions within the group will make it harder to sustain is battlefield gains. so i served in afghanistan, 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 with 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 passion 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, it's not as unitary as we think it is. everybody who has a thief with the central government in afghanistan calls themselves 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 and 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 and 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 for a huge, far as are burning. i have control in greece. the worse than the movements is on the 2nd largest island of via elsewhere. thousands of people have been rescued from the villages north of the great capital. st. louis reports 9 form athens. the island of elvia 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 left my home, the less my my, my place,

my best. nothing will be the same. i am really 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 will loosen at the foot the what then? ok. 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 as clouds from ongoing fires across the country are hanging over, the capital is in basra. b o g 0. athens fill a heads on out to say around the feel you games wrap up, displace children, and serious last rebel held enclave. i mean staging their own version of feel and picks. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to with sponsored by capital airways. hello, a great to see you. here's an update on the south west mon soon, you know, the indian states the projects done. and westmark pradesh, the rain has been piling up because of this disturbance parked over the area. but it's now starting to slide away. so we will see some relief here. heavy, it's rain really relegate it now it's award at the himalayas and through the west

coast of india. now northern areas of bangladesh could it's almost $200.00 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. and again, this is where some of our most intense rain is as while along the bay of been gone, the west coast of myanmar monday next got to go to asia pacific and we're talking about what tropical storm loop it did on the island of taiwan. look at these hundreds of millimeters of rain within a short span of time. roads turned into rivers and holmes just flooded out. so we track where the energy is going rate now headed toward japan, but the bulk of it will actually fit toward the sea of japan. so we thought maybe some heavy rain for tokyo, that's not in the forecast now. but winds will really be the big story. after tropical storm marinate grazed tokyo that dropped about 90 millimeters of rain. so again, this time it's going to be a wind story, 75 kilometer per hour winds on monday. that will persist on tuesday that your weather up, they catch you later. sponsor cut on airways. a

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they've taken telecom, sorry, phone and crimson. at least for huge fars burning out of control increase. thousands of people have fled villages, north of athens. me to the corona virus now in mexico was reposing its highest level of new infections. since the pandemic began, the delta variances soon search which is hitting younger people hard. nearly a quarter of mexico was now on the highest level of alerts which require some known essential businesses to close. just 30 presents of mexican population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. doctors in the us say the delta variance is present with alarming speeds and states with low vaccination rates, florida seen record infections this week. the schools begin to be open in the u. s

. debates has been nice. it's about whether children should wear masks, contradictory guidance, and partisan politics over the pandemic, or leave in many parents, confused and angry, and callous 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 have reinstating mask mandates in schools is as controversial as ever as parents, teachers, and politicians face a surgeon cases we know that math will help kids from becoming a distance 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 of 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 district 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. in arkansas or another republican run state. the governor wants to overturn a ban on mosque mandates. he put in place. it comes after 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 who aren't 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, divide the ministration is pushing vaccines harder than ever. now it's facing yet another wave of upon demick might and politics, misinformation, and growing frustration. galka al jazeera well as they with this they can talk no to james warren. he's the executive editor of news gore than a former washington bureau chief of the chicago tribune. joins us. my boss came from charlotte in michigan. great. have you with us. just thought of how you divine it is america right now when it comes to public health protection measures. well,

i think that report from florida was the curb and sort of caught the increasing tension between the vaccinated and the hun vaccinated even as something is not mentioned there. we've got a growing number of republican officials and not the governor of florida around the country who are urging constituents to get facts a native. and this comes is nearly, i think, a 3rd one 3rd of american adults and not on one shot would be really interesting to see how in force when mechanisms may change, that you've got a growing number of companies and government agencies, state county around the country who are now making a mandatory for workers coming back to have been vaccinated. but you mentioned charlotte, which i man, i live in chicago. i went to my supermarket yesterday in chicago, a 3rd to a half of the folks there had mass with the democratic city. i come up here to what

essentially as trump country, i'm in a county which donald trump won both against hillary clinton and joe biden. and i went to the supermarket about an hour and a half ago. maybe there were 20 shoppers, maybe 10 or so employees, not a single person, other than yours truly or a math at the end for years this because sort of suddenly for years from outside the united states, it really is quite difficult to understand why people are resisting measures which are designed to protect, then i'm quite openly resisting it. i mean, what's the logic behind it? well, me, historians are probably be writing about this for years and how this somehow inexplicably in probably became an ideological issue. and it is by and large along the lines were certainly groups of republican males, more than republican females, up against vaccination, not believing in the science. and now prom joe biden has,

is they don't believe anything. he says, so it's bite and comes close to making vaccination mandatory doesn't really go. why when it comes to federal workers that we strict rules, they don't believe a word. he said, so where the rubber will meet the road obviously is even if you weren't dead set against vaccination, what happens when your employer, whether the state of government or whether a private industry tells you that as of the middle of september, you must have a vaccination or you're not going to have your job. it's a giant political issue for jo bye and it's a, there's a huge political issue and it, it, again is astonishing to people outside the u. s. to see this is such a huge political issue that the, the us presidents won't even take these measures mandatory vaccination or incur strongly encouraging. i died a covert health path would make kid in the united states. why is the

politics of the so difficult? i was a go to the stage where people just will not believe the facts and evidence in front of them to the extent that almost willing to die for it. i wish i was smart enough to simply summarize that for you. it has something to do with decrease and lack, lack of commonality along americans and inability to agree on a certain set of facts. i work for a startup, call new guard, and we rate the credibility of news information on 6200 in the us and europe. if i showed you the sides, which pedal virus and general health misinformation and take a look at their audiences each and every day compared to those of trustworthy sites like famous male clinic in the us. ok, you'd be stop. there's just a huge market for lies. and miss information. okay,

and since then it's very sad to hear that unfortunately we're out of time, but james lauren, great. so get your thoughts. thank you for joining us here. and sarah, we appreciate it. now it's devastating world far as burn across the world's a new un reports is expected to show the trouble. we're written because of climate change. it's warning that extreme weather events will continue to worsen displacing millions of people with huge destruction and cost. our environments had to nick clark reports now from monica in southern turkey, the scene of recent rampant wildfires. it is an apocalyptic scene. skeletal trees with fruit, charred as they hang. no one has ever seen fires like these before. they came with little warning, leaving people stunned with everything lost. 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 have. we lost everything there is nothing left of our house. if the same for our neighbors, 0, the tractor, the whole, the shovel, every tool we had is gone. everything we built up in 70 to 80 years is gone. high of 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 and belgian 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 it the consequences of doing nothing at all? is infinitely worse for everybody who's john dugan has been helping with the rescue effort. here in southern turkey, he says the fires response after months of drought followed by an intense heat wave

on tale is famous for its long lasting rain. and the last few there is no, is 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. and the sky opens a deluge of rain cascades down dowsing apart. learn the rain just as unpredictable as the 5 and 2 weeks too late. nick clark al jazeera southern turkey with the summerland pig, snow finished and the paralympics most dancing until the 24th of august. the children of federal held it live, providence, syria, bon staging, their own competition in sports by the games for brennan reports 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 part for the disconnect. his sporting event says unimportant purpose, but i have not had to be let me search for a waiver, for the answer to remind the national 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, long jump, and a high jump, a javelin, competitive go through his paces in the open arena. another youngster discus united i should be i came with 10 other players. we had lots 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'd never previously participated in as i've done and said that, i played badminton came in 1st place. we feel happy and these are the most after the judges announce the winners. it was time for the middle ceramic and more cheering. and then like it took you equivalent fireworks for close to the proceedings. a very different games to tokyo. but where the taking part was just as important as winning a metal poll brennan, i'll jazeera, ah.