days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites are underway. the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertising. researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close. extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than any one thought. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm mighty. you're watching the news, our life from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. the stark reality of climate change un signed to say it's no longer

a future threat. it's already here and causing cale also. i'm seeing on the north of every island increase wildfires. goodman raging for a week are still burning. afghanistan citizens displaced from their homes as the taliban claims. yet another provincial capital and shank show of defiance the batteries president says, countries can choke on their sanction. i'm devin ash, with board. no sign of legal massey in the french capital, the form up offline. the stories and talk to respond to my report project is still how i united nations is unequivocal. there is now no doubt that human activity is having an unprecedented and sometimes irreversible impact on the climate of our planet.

the intergovernmental panel on climate change reports, which was released on monday, is described as a code read for humanity. it says the effects of climate change a no longer a problem for tomorrow at being experienced today, the i p. c. c report found that global surface temperature between 20112020 was 1.09 degrees higher than between 85900100. and the past 5 years with a hotel since records began in 1850. the report also found the recent rate of sea level rise as nearly tripled compared with between 19 a $1.19. and the human influence was the main driver behind the retreat of glass is an arctic sea ice since the 9900 ninety's. but the planet has one last chance to minimize the damage if it acts. now, our environment editor nick clark reports from man. i've got in turkey where the

fires of caused widespread destruction. it is a bleak picture. this year alone has seen storms, floods, and wildfires. now, according to sciences, it is unequivocal. the humans are largely to blame for warming, the oceans, land, an atmosphere, drop any of coal, oil, and gas. you've been telling us over 3 decades of the dangers of allowing the kind of warm the world listen, didn't hear the wellness and but it didn't, us act strongly enough. and as a result, climate change is a problem that is here. now, nobody is safe and it's getting worse. foster about his being repeatedly demonstrated by the reporting that we've been doing here in turkey and engraved on the devastating wafaa that have swept across southern europe. now these wildfire do happen every year, but it is the scale of them and the intensity of them that has taken everybody by

surprise this year and that looks set to continue. the 1st you in report issued in 1990, had predicted human cause, climate change would become evident at the time. it couldn't prove with evidence that it was happening. that's now changed or nearly every measurement or climate is more extreme. and it's set to get worse, causing climate change and making extreme weather events more frequent and severe. second, it shows that climate changes affecting every region on our planet. and lastly, explained that strong, rapid sustain reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions would be required to limit global warming. right now, it's some of the world's poor countries that feeling the effects that they contribute less to greenhouse gases. there is hope that if the biggest emitters are

able to commit to deliver sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we may see some positive changes. but it would have to happen within the next 20 years. ok, with 1900 pound demik, briefly reduced air pollution. but it did not hold climate change damage, it seems already done. some issues like greenland, glassy is melting and sea levels rising, irreversible, and unless, as a dramatic change in human behavior, the world should expect an unsettled an uncertain future. nick log al jazeera southern turkey. meanwhile, greece, his prime minister, is apologized for failing to properly tackle devastating wildfires that have burned homes and forests across the country. firefighters of battling more than $500.00 blazes, which are forth thousands of people to flee. the worst is on the island of elvia from where zane basra v now reports. now as you can see,

the fire behind me like so many we've seen in the last week. these things move very quickly. they go from this relatively small size to a much larger size, very, very fast. the ground around me is covered in dry vegetation, which is perfect fuel for these fires to grow and spread very, very rapidly. we've been on this location of the north tip of area island for just about 5 or 10 minutes. and we've seen this go from a very, very small group of flames to a much larger fire. and if we look to the right of me, there are more fires burning in that direction. well, along this hiking trail, as it goes deeper into the forest, these fires are burning fast. they are burning hot, and they don't seem to be stopping any time soon. a fire rescue crews that we've encountered driving up and down this part of the island for the last day. for the

last several hours, they're trying to do the best they can. they're putting out all the fires that come across. but we've been here for a little while now, and there are no fire rescue crews anywhere in sight, which is a worrying concern since relatively speaking, smaller fires like this can become very large, blaze is very quickly under current conditions. here in the hill country of the island of float from fires, burning in rushes, largest and coldest province of reached the north pole. for the 1st time in recorded history, thousands of blazes have been burning in the vast siberian region as your critique people and at least 2 villages have been told to leave in several other areas are at risk. more than 30 houses but destroyed over the weekend. a team of 3 and a half 1000 emergency work is trying to push out more than 150 places across the region. all similar scenes in the united states were arranging wildfire in northern california continues to expand. it's the 2nd largest in state history. emergency

crews say the dixie fire burning northeast of san francisco could take weeks to contain. blaze has been active for 26 days and spawns in area larger than the size of new york city. several people are missing, thousands have been forced to flee the hon. sources of concern because more extreme weather conditions are expected. john henderson is in the historic gold rush town of greenville, which has been destroyed by the taxi file. this was downtown greenville, it burned to the ground on wednesday and days later remains wreathed in smoke. that gives it an erie post apocalyptic feel. the heat was so intense, it melted, this lamb post, and the rest of downtown was pretty much leveled. this is the worst wildfire in the united states right now, and the 2nd largest in california history. but it's one of more than a 100 fires. in 15 states being battled 526000 firefighters,

and they've got their job cut out for them. you can see here this with a century old hotel, and now only the facade remains what's happened is that global warming, his exacerbated the dry and hot conditions that make it easier for a spark to set off a fire. so 2020 was the worst fire season yet in 2021 is expected to be worse still . climate scientists say catastrophic floods such as those in europe just last month could become much more frequent because of global heating. researches have been shocked at the intensity and the scale of flooding so far this year. that last reports now from one of the many german towns still cleaning up flats, came as a complete applies to many on highway 265 in germany. people were returning home from work, but need a town of f stop in north rain or failure. it was suddenly confronted with a wall of water 12 meters high. remarkably,

everyone survived. they'd been 3 days of the ranch rain in some places up to $150.00 millimeters and just 48 hours. germany normally gets about half of that in the whole of july and nearby towns and villages along the river. there was also shocked at the sudden rise in water levels and they were tragic consequences in since the 12 residents in the home foot, it is able, died when they weren't evacuated in time. what remains of these horrifying moments are the thick layers of mud sweeping to houses, restaurants and shops. people's lives have been changed forever. we may, i please have the markets in the historic wine town of our wild, with dozens of people died. he tells us of a man who lost both his parents told me the image of the woman been swept away, waving her hand crying for help. you know,

i have to it and it didn't. it didn't make it. and i'm not sure if they were found . now the 1st shock has faded, and much of the mob has been cleared by thousands of fallen ts. questions remain. why were these people not want any sooner and will be slots that will make that happen only once? and essentially no happened more frequently across the board or in belgium, where at least 40 people died. a criminal investigation has begun to find out who's responsible for failure in the warning system. a prettier one after them is all on the. we have nothing left, no home, no furniture, clothes. it's so hard, but i say to myself, at least i saved my child as a mother, that's the most important the river most birth, it's banks and flooded positively, ash province, including hundreds of municipalities. there was also damage on the dutch side of the board, and the town of falcon would estimate the cost, could reach billions of dollars while the water has receded. the images of the

sudden, deathly flats will remain with people forever, some expert, se building better production measures won't be enough in the future. and more steps need to be taken to prevent temperatures rising. only then can people feel safe, again, steadfast and al jazeera from but knowing in germany. so for more on the climate change emergency, and of course this report we can speak to david wallace weld over the uninhabitable us and editor at launch of new york magazine. so a start report warning about there being a code read for humanity. so all very disturbing. but is there anything here that you didn't already know? is there anything new contained within this report? no, the i p. c. c synthesizes existing research. it doesn't introduce new research, so a better way of understanding what different court is doing is giving us the news again that we've been ignoring for

a decade or 2. there are bits of modifications from previous reports especially and what kinds of temperature rise we're likely to see in the very near term future. perhaps most eyeopening is the fact that even the emission scenario that was designed to allow us to stay below 1.5 degrees celsius of warming, which has long been considered the goal of the nations of the world. even the emission. ringback scenario designed to allow us to stay below that level. actually now scientists expect would take us above $1.00 degrees, at least temporarily. and as soon as early next decade. so the speed at which these change your get, these changes are coming or accelerating in some cases faster than we anticipated. but big picture, the story is the same as we've known. it's been for, depending on how you want to count decade, perhaps things are getting worse as we put more carbon into the air. and those impacts are going to dramatically accelerate in the decades ahead. and what does that mean and rail times they've just been seeing scenes of utter devastation. it's actually not new. it's been happening for years. but certainly in the past couple

of months, we've seen flooding land slides and then also wildfires in asia. europe, the us. what, how, how much more extreme could this become? what does that mean for people? well, one is, there are 2 things i would mention about the fires in particular. i think the last mediterranean based and i've always been fires to some degree, but they haven't been nearly as dramatic or threatening to human settlements as the one that we've seen. the ones we've seen this summer, that's really new. i think we're going to see more of that going forward, which is to say more parts of the world that had minor fire issues become major fire sites. and then those parts of the world like siberia, like australia and like how fornia, where we are familiar with wildfire, those are going to get dramatically worse in california. it's expected that almost no matter what we do. we're going to see fires burning 6 times the amount of land that they burn today. that is really quite dramatic in

a state that is already burning quite a lot. right, so just to be care the climate effects that we see now. and these extreme weather passions, it's the accumulation of 20 to 30 years of pollution and combine emissions. anything that we do now would baths come into effect in, in years from now, perhaps 2030 years from now? it sort of depends on which current impact you're talking about. certain impacts are affected more quickly and more immediately. others take longer to unfold. but in general, we are already in the danger zone. we are already looking at a world that has been utterly transformed the planet is already warmer than it has ever been in the entire history of human civilization. which means that everything we've built on this of that old climate. now we need to reconsider or rebuild or replace in order to live in this new one, which may be getting hotter still in the decades ahead. likely will be getting hotter still in the decades ahead, which is going to be in more and more intense impacts. almost everywhere you look, we will endure. but it's going to take an enormous amount of us from us to surprise

. politicians and governments have been accused of complacency and climate inaction, in some cases because of the short term nature of political and economic cycles. would you say that we have decisively moved beyond any kind of doubt about human influence on the climate? well, one of the landmark declarations of this report is that there, you know, this is unequivocally human cause, but i don't think we needed to report to tell us that. and in fact, i don't think governmental leaders or even corporate leaders around the world have been living and much doubt, i think that the age of climate denial has really ended over the past few years. in part because of the weather that we're seeing all around the world. and in part because of some of the kind of activism we've seen over the same amount of time, in addition to some of the more assertive claims being made by scientists beginning especially with the 20181.5 degree report from the i p c. c. but what we need now

is people not just to recognize that this is a crisis, but to do something about it and where are the stage now we're almost everywhere. you look in positions of power, people are knowledge in the problem. and indeed rhetorically expressing urgency. but not yet delivering the kinds of policy changes or social changes that are necessary in order to avoid the kinds of catastrophe we know are coming up. we don't move. so almost all around the world, which in a huge wave of next year, a pledges over the last year, countries are declaring ever more ambitious plans to do carbonized. but we're still very, very early on in that process. we need to see those plans be made real so that they're not just paper pledges, but really do ship the course of emissions quite dramatically. because as previous iterations of the i p c. c have suggested we do need to cut our mission in half by 2030 in order to avoid what a long been called catastrophic warming. eileen nations of the world have called that level 2 degrees, genocide and african climate diplomats have said that it would be death for their

continent. this is we need to cut our emissions roughly speaking in half over the next 9 years in order to avoid that. and how did they hercules and undertaking, which will require much more, not just of our government, not just of our corporations, but of all of us to really make real. and that is the state that we're at right now . thank you very much for joining us on the news. our tonight david wallace wyles. thank you. you with the news, our knife from london much more still ahead on the program recapturing and i feel strong holding mozambique latest on the battle to take control of that area. we speak to illegal migrants being left and one of the most dangerous fifties in mexico by us authorities. also i'm b. richardson in focus. shame at finding out if the tow carolyn fixed lived up to its aim of being the recovery games pool this region. ah.

now 6 provincial capitals and i've got his dawn of fallen to the taliban as it continues its major offensive across the country. the regions locked in red to confirm to be in control of the group. the latest is by the capital of some, i'm gone in the north. while 3 hours on the cost of falling to taliban control and heavy fighting is on the way into other major cities will be afghan interior ministry saying that government forces pushing the taliban back in some areas. then they come out the come, the ha, like how to go on. fortunately, the security situation in kandahar nascar guy and tara provinces has improved by african security for their petroleum. the enemy has suffered heavy last month and the plan to capture the city has been neutralized on those enemy attacks. and condos. shepard, again, semen gun and sorry, 2 provinces are ongoing on the bride has more from the afghan capital combo. this

is the latest victory being claimed by the taliban. the city of i back now, this is the city that's a capital of salmon gun, a fairly small province in the north of afghanistan. pictures which have been up loaded by the taliban, which had con, independently verify, but they do show fights has been greeted in the streets by towns, people, a streets which we are told him is video inside i back now this, if it's true that this is the 6 provincial a city to be taken in just a few days and it is in this broad sway, the northern afghanistan where we have seen a lot of other fighting and other gains been made by the taliban. like, like back some of those gains are small cities, but it does include, for example, conduce, which is a very big city strategically very important. it is a very significant victory for the taliban that previously they have taken can do about 5 or 6 years ago on 2 separate occasions it's peices occupied can do more as a symbolic gesture of zone, a very temporary and then day where are the 4000 withdrew and we'll retake them by

the government forces. now the government forces base time have pledge to retake maybe of these areas. it is confirmed that special forces are engaged with taliban inside. couldn't dues, but we are seeing, fighting, continuing in other areas across africa. understand, was the taliban advance continues? thousands of people are being driven from their homes. many of those in the north have had its south to the capitol, combo, a 10 hour drive from the worst of the fighting. there are growing humanitarian concerns with united nation saying that 20 children have been killed in the past 3 days in kandahar province, alon. joining us now by skype from the us is our champagne. he is a research with the institute of world politics and fled afghanistan during the civil war for returning town with rebuilding efforts and joins us now. so always the media coverage focus is

a great deal on provincial capital that are coming under the ton of bands control and that they are quite efficient at issuing statements and posting these videos on social media. how would you describe taliban strategy? think of ma'am. the sullivan strategy in terms of media is mostly external gains. if you see the mostly present and social network like twitter and speaking with liz. so liz, interpreter lee, your focus is also it's a term kind of strategy to, to create the nation international mention and lobbying to, to present that. so why? well, i've been, government really focuses on the internal issue and kind of trying to control

everything internally inside of the other one is really focused, very focused on external. and so what effect does that have within the country as well? because they seem to be, they seem to be targeting afghan forces and the way they sort of invite them to desert the afghan army, they give them that choice that going for those big population centers and border crossings that use is coming across. and then at the same time, when they not should take control of an area, we hear about them going door to door, searching houses and killing military and government officials. now what impact does that have on, on morale and sentiment inside the country way, emotional fair. that's one of the targets

tolerable. have to transfer you from one side. you're saying that you are really nice to believe that they are capturing the lives in to go back home and from others. you do this activities in order to to get a fear and then you see in some places it's worked before the tall on coming to that the area you see that the government are already playing or return thing. it is we heard all different stories and i know personally from couple people who are family members working with forces one with the government, they have been killed and numerous problems. do you worry about this creating a self fulfilling prophecy? the obviously oversee there,

there is this news and this sort of taliban advances in the country has to be reported. this has a psychological impacts on many people who are a fleeing violence. people that fear for their lives. and then also the afghan military at the same time. but when we speak about the, the government in combo disintegrating or possible to send into civil war, do you, could that become a self fulfilling prophecy in a way? i mean, we just had a conversation with your colleague. the government is confusing terrific lives. i meant my analyst searches is 25 years ago. said that all was based on deception sometimes for program and the kind of formation by the government. different during the war is, is as a normal, it's not should be more than normal,

but it's unfortunately part of it. however, and sometimes like in case government is becoming ineffective and to some extent become a deception because people around the country country international media can see that the things going well are and i've got this done. you don't for money, i've been government the 6 probably this is already fallen her only what we heard that everything is every days so much taller on it and and so much that it happened unfortunately have kind of nigga and my opinion including for people who like me and with the most support the african government or at least the system is not the 2 paul who are working for

their make it make social for us difficult because you're not expecting from an government to, to come within propaganda or read live that you can kind of what if i ask actually been a few seconds or minutes the this information? yes. or thank you very much. are shopping for joining us there. thank you much man . now the u. s. canada and the u. k. have imposed new sanctions on better ruse. say include the country's national olympic committee, which washington accuses of money laundering move coincides with the 1st anniversary of battle. russia president, alexander lucas shank, is disputed election when andrew simmons, household goods, alexander lucas. shank, because the conversation event was still going on when the consequences of his actions in the past year started to play out on the world stage. new sanctions, the u. k. first are now them his reaction. the part that is just where you can

choke on those sanctions. in the u. k, we haven't had even the faintest idea for a millennia about this great britain. your america's lap dogs. later came new sanctions from the united states and canada as well. because shanker said the election was free and fair describing the opposition process. as it was 123-5000 protesters were arrested 600 opposition. supporters are in jail now. the crack down even reached the olympics in tokyo athlete, christina, similar news gaia had shown descent to her coaches. she was being sent back to bella ruth, but escaped her minders. she's now fled to poland. lucas shanker says she was manipulated by outside forces. then last week, 26 year old activists vitale, sheesh off was found dead in the ukrainian capital, kia, please say it may have been murder disguised as suicide because shanker denies. any

involvement to talk to was he for me in for bella luce, in general? okay. only me a president, and i could not know him, but i'm sure that only 3 or 4 people in this room, you him. he was no one to us. what madmen could hang him in bella. ruth, the opposition leader exiled and living in lithuania, says lucas shank. must be pressured by the west to stand down. know dealing with this regime. it's impossible to talk to elisha, to make the president who keeps power only thanks to violence and torture. and that repressions just if you need to talk to somebody there. representatives in barrows who you can deal with, but not to be the criminal a year ago. self expression was the weapon of the better route. opposition. now it's a movement living in fear and dependence on foreign support. andrew simmons al jazeera

. now las vegas military. a saying has taken control, the northern port cities, it's been a strong all the fighters linked to i. so the group used the town to launch a series of attacks across the oil and mineral rich couple of delgado province. thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the past 4 years. catherine sawyer reports. these are soldiers from was in beak and wander into port city of may seem what da, prior the region in north and muslim bix cobbled l god province was the last stronghold of an armed group. luckily known as all about the fighters had used it to launch attacks across the province. since 201712000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. the soldiers, he r updates, the commander said will now take less than a month to complete the offensive, and then tie a province of the enemy. how about was this most? what they put on? as you have seen along the way,

most of the enemy are killed were killed along the way. so as i have this up yet any 40.