control, one man publicly refused to accept the dictatorship episode for football rebels explores the life of carlos castelli, the football whose personal stories swayed a vote, but altered the history of his country. carlos casserly and the demise of a n day on al jazeera. ah, the us and african envoy. you don't have to press the taliban to stop. it's offensive as hundreds of families. flea the fighting. ah! you're watching. i'll do 0. like for my headquarters in delphi and jedi and obligate the also coming up. i'm seeing bas robbie on the north tip of abbey island increase were wildfires that have been raging for a week are still burning. a canadian jailed in china loses his appeal against the

death sentence, further straining relations between the 2 countries. me with just 2 days ago until the general election, presidential candidates and zombie tried to persuade voters, they can turn around a struggling economy. ah, thanks for joining us. international pressure is building on the taliban to stop it's offensive across have gone to sun and negotiate a peaceful settlement. urgent talks are about to get underway right here in del how would the u. s. sending it's envoy for i've gone to sun dummy to meet taliban representatives. the arm group has captured its 6 provincial capital since friday. i back is in the northern province of someone gun. the taliban also claims to be closing in on mazar e sharif. that's the largest city in the new north taliban fighters began there,

offensive in may as the us began withdrawing the last stuff its forces. we have robert brian stanley buying capital with the latest on the taliban. gaines 1st though, over to hammer jim jim here in doha, covering to talk for us bahama. what more can you tell us about these meetings and what is expected to happen while they're in the us special envoys automatically. those have arrived here and how he is here at the venue for the start of these talks. this is an attempt to formulate an international response plan for the rapidly deteriorating situation in afghanistan is so far. arrivals have included envoys for the u. k. upper russia. china pakistan also whose beckett's done this is expected to be 3 days worth of meetings and really goes to show just how much concern there is about what is going on currently in afghanistan. and to try to get a piece process back on track. let me read you

a little bit more of the statement that was issued by all make leels before his arrival here endure. the statement says in several planned rounds of meetings over 3 days, representatives from countries in the region and beyond, as well as from multi multi lateral organizations will press for a reduction of violence and cease fire and a commitment not to recognize a government imposed by force now the meetings have yet to start today, but this really is a critical juncture. what is clear right now is that there is great impetus to try to achieve some kind of goal from these meetings to try to get that. inter ap can piece process back on track. what is less clear is who exactly from afghanistan will be represented. i have been told just in the past 20 minutes that doctor de la da lows the head of the canister high council for national reconciliation is in door and that he will be attending the meetings today. what's less clear at this stage is who from the taliban will be here if they will be participating in these

meetings? the laugh i spoke with one of the spokes people for the taliban. they said it was unclear yet if they would be invited and what their level of participation would be . that it's so much momentum to me for that update from home. so as we been saying, the taliban has taken more territory in recent weeks than it did at any time since it fell from power 20 years ago in may controlled about 20 of the dentist on. but as us and other foreign troops withdrew, the group has been ramping up its attacks and has made sweeping gains in the past week. it's taken, the provincial capitals of couldn't do is totally con, sorry, poll chevrolet gun is a raj, a now a back. while fighting to control, harass kandahar and hell, man continues. it's a real critical test for the afghan government as the taliban advances and surrounds the capital capital. live to rob mcbride, joining us from capital. so rob, what more can you tell us about the taliban gains and the, the situation on the ground right now,

as these talks are about to get underway and cats are fighting continues to be widespread across afghanistan to give you some idea of fighting has been reported in 17, vasquez stands 34 provinces. so really half the country now the fighting batteries and intensity of cause. but some of the heavy a conflict is down in the taliban strongholds in the south of the country. in helmand, in kandahar the government has called in and strikes over nights in kind to hop calling in the afghan air force. there's also being continuing heavy fighting in this way, the territory in the north all that kind of stuff. and that's of course, where the taliban is taken at 6 provincial capital of i back now. that's a relatively small city, but a lot of the focus is back on. couldn't do the far more important strategic, ne, but that, that was one of the taliban. the biggest victories of late,

but the determination it seems on the part of the government to retake this strategically important city as it has done in the past. we know that there been questions on the outskirts of the city. we know that there are afghan special forces, mainly in the airport area, waiting to see just what they are planning in terms of a counselor tact. but for that that the taliban seem to be asserting that control inside can. it's so cold. oh, mary unit, this is the group that's responsible for civil administration. it's been telling that people have conduce, go back to businesses. we open your shops, we're in charge now. it's safe to do so. to a certain degree that has been returned to normal. c 2 to a certain extent, but an awful lot of people have not been waiting around to see what's going have to happen next in that area in other areas from the north. and we are seeing increasingly a stream of internally displaced people heading south many of the men ending up here in cobble where the situation remains tense, but relatively quiet at the moment. but it is having to deal with an increasing

number of people escaping violence beyond the cities limits. thank you so much. rob mcbride reporting from capital well, with the us in the final weeks, if it's withdrawal from the dentist on russia and china are now preparing for any regional security threats. china shares a border with have gone on and is increasing cooperation with russia in a series of military drills. but there's more to their strengthening relationship as adrian brown reports from hong kong, nearly half a century ago. these 2 neighbors fought a brief, portable, but the latest china, russia, military drills showed that hostility is now in the past. in this mock battle, the enemy is unnamed. it's a military partnership that's strengthening, thanks in part to both countries worsting relations with the united states. if you say it's a marriage of convenience that underestimates the,

the depth of their shared interests. and of course the biggest one is opposing america. and i'm the mining america and the west. and that's extremely importantly in explaining the strength of the current chinese russia relationship. $10000.00 soldiers are taking part in the exercise, which will last for 5 days. the 30th such wargames since 2003 russia's president vladimir putin and china's leader shooting paying recently boasted that that countries relationship was now unbreakable. and moscow in beijing appear to be an agreement on afghanistan. both were highly critical of the decision to withdraw all us troops. my september, with concerns that have canister on which board is china, could again become a haven for armed groups like al qaeda. when china's foreign minister, when ye met taliban officials last month, he urged the delegation to distance themselves from what he called terrorist groups

. analysts say it's signaled concerns. the china and other countries will be left to deal with the fall out of the rapid us withdrawal. why did biden push this so suddenly and so severely and within chinese circle is also russian and some other places. they believe that this was, you know, basically saying, okay, we broke it, but it's not in our backyard, it's in yours, russia, china, chic or stan, all the rest of the sounds. more war games also involving russia, but this time with a force from whose pakistan a joined special forces drill close to the afghan border. preparing for whatever scenario that may unfold from the taliban rising gains in the battlefield. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong. a chinese court has rejected an appeal by canadian man sentenced to death on drug smuggling charges. robert schellenberg was given

a 15 year jail term in 2018, but he was re sentence to death. 2 months later, that's after top chinese tech executive, mainland, who was arrested in canada in relation to charges in the us. canada and bassett or to china says it's no coincidence this verdict is out. while men's extradition trial is ongoing, let's go live to katrina. you joining us from beijing, so any chances that schellenberg can appeal this verdict, katrina well, technically he can, he can appeal to the highest court in china, which is the people's court. but it's very unlikely that he'll be able to change his sentence. here in china and 99 percent of all criminal cases are found guilty and big as a tourist lee hard on any drug smuggling crimes. no schellenberg is not the only canadian who is expected to receive his verdict this week. another canadian michael babble who was try was trying in

a separate case under espionage charges is also expected to receive his verdict. now there's a very strong political element to both of the cases right now. the relationship between china and canada is that an old time lower and it was worse. and the earlier this year, when the canadian government described the treatment of the week muslim population, and she's young as genocide. and of course, a major point of contention is the rest of quality executive, mon wander, was detained in canada and december 2018. and she's currently facing court in canada, fighting expedition to the us. now, beijing denies that there's any link between monks case and the case of these canadians, but does seem to be appear to be an impact on the cases. for example, schellenberg in 2018 who was actually originally sentenced to 15 years in prison. but after long the arrest this he was retried and his sentence was changed to execution. and shortly after long was detained in december 2018. 2 other canadians,

michael stubble and michael, covered with then arrested and subsequently charged under espionage. now those 2, they were trial earlier this year. and their case has really been shrouded in a lower secrecy. when they were trial. canadian diplomats were not able to enter the courtroom. they were provided with very little access to the lawyers ahead of time. and if there found guilty, they could face very lengthy prison sentences themselves. ok, thank you so much. katrina, you reporting from beijing. grease is prime minister has apologized for not doing enough to tackle devastating fires across the country. somebody worse or on the island if that's where hundreds of homes have been lost and thousands of people evacuated. greek officials of blame, climate change for the record breaking heat wave, fueling the fires. but critics say the government should have been better prepared than bas reviews on the islands if every were firefighters are struggling to contain the flames. 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 all of, 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. blazes very quickly. under current conditions here in the hill country of the island, emergency crews and northern california have worn to growing wildfire could take weeks to contain the so called dixie fire has been active for more than 3 weeks. and it covers an area larger than new york city. several people are missing and thousands have fled their homes. a lack of rain and parts of brazil is racing fear as if another devastating fire season in the state of muscle gross. so a blaze of sports, 10 square kilometers of the world's largest wetlands in just 2 days. still ahead on al jazeera, a global wake up call. world leaders react with alarm to you and report miss gale

of the climate emergency and find out what the bella russian president set to the u . k. after the british government imposed sanctions on his government. ah hello, there is the risk free. could see more wildfires erupt through northern africa and iberia and the dates. the com. let me explain why. first i take you to northwestern africa, look at this tune is 48 degrees on tuesday. the all time temperature ever recorded in tune, it was 47.4. so this could be record breaking stuff next to iberia. this is a few days out now. so here we are on saturday look list been 36 cordova 47. i point out cordova because much like tune as high temperature ever recorded 46.9. so once again, we could set a new record there onto the weather of tuesday as promise. we'll get him to some

sunny spells across the british charles including for london. but still disturbed weather across the low countries, scandinavia and a pretty good run of rain in and around. war thought. next to an update on the wildfires in greece and turkey. sure, temperatures have come down. 36 in athens, but low humidity. so the air is very dry for turkey, rain falling in all the wrong places toward the black sea region and areas still trying to recover after devastating flooding off to africa then. and we've got our storms moving across the gulf of guinea, east to west, but particularly heavy as we check towards the leone and liberia, free town, a hive. 27. that's it, that's all for me. ah frank assessments, by way it is again, freedom. suppression informed opinions. what you saw happening is market they want to come. they want to put is the critical debate. they're real costly here. it's

not between kula and any other great companies here for years, rather than to give them people in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera. oh, the teller, again, the top stories on al jazeera, international pressure is building on the taliban to stop it's offensive across have gone to san urgent talks. are underway. here in the u. s. sending it's envoy for janice don's all makes a real job to meet with taliban representative. a chinese court has rejected an

appeal by canadian man sentenced to death on drug smuggling charges. robert schellenberg was given a 15 year jail term in 2018, but he was re sentence to death. 2 months later, research prime minister has apologized for failing to properly tackle devastating fires burning across the country. officials have blamed climate change for the record breaking heat waves, fueling the destruction world leader as and environmentalists have reacted with alarm to a un scientific report on the scale of the climate emergency. it says there is no longer any doubt that human activity is warming. the planets and warns that some of that impact is irreversible. the un secretary general is calling to study a code read for humanity, or environment editor and clark has more on the report from now got in turkey, where wildfires have 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 woman, the oceans, land and not miss fair. 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 but 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 in greece on the devastating wafaa that swept across southern europe. now these well 5 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 on nearly every measurement or climate is more extreme. and it's set to get was 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 kind of demick 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 less as a dramatic change in human behavior. the world should expect and unsettled an uncertain future. nick clark al jazeera, southern turkey. britain's prince. andrew is being sued in the us for a legend, sexual abuse of a woman who says she was traffic by the late convicted sex offender. jeffrey epstein, virginia jeffrey says, the prince assaulted her when she was 17 years old. the lawsuit filed in a new york court says the abuse happened between 19992002. 1 of those occasions was in london at the home of gala maxwell, who's also facing charges relating to the abuse of under age girls. prince andrew

denies the accusation and the final payouts have been made from a fund created for a jeffrey epstein, victims more than $120000000.00 in compensation was awarded to nearly a $140.00 claimants tuesday, march 2 years since epstein killed himself in new york jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in the current of ours cases and hospital admissions across the us have reached a 6 month high fueled by the spread of the delta variant. the number of new infections has reached 100-0043 days in a row that say 35 percent increase compared to last week. canada is now allowing vaccinated us citizens to cross its border. the rules which had bound non essential travel across the land border were lifted on monday. american travellers need to be fully vaccinated against co, with 19, and presents a recent negative test before entering canada. a u. s. government scientist who was

removed after criticizing the trump administration. corona virus response has reached a settlements with the department of health. the verola just rick bryan resisted the president's push to use the anti malarial drug hydroxy corklin as a cure for cope with 19. he says, that's why he was promoted from an important role. a 2nd complaint is still being investigated by the office of special council, which protects federal whistleblowers. and meanwhile, the pentagon is set to make vaccinations mandatory for all its military personnel by september 15th. here is our white house correspondent, kimberly hawk it with more from washington d. c. what we know is that the u. s. president put in place a direction that the defense secretary should really look at figuring out how to ensure that the military can continue to operate during the pandemic. the national security would in no baby be at risk. and so as a result,

he directed the defense secretary to look at implementing this type of a mandate. and now that memo going out to all members of the military in order to prepare them for what appears to be an imminent decision and implementation of that . and that is to see math vaccinations of the us military. now, the date is september 15th, but if infections continue to arrive, there is the possibility we understand of moving that date up even sooner. but one of the problems will be given the fact that this is one of the world's largest employers, there are millions of people that will be effected. and as a result, it will take time. one purse, one person has died. and jimmy of the marble virus in west africa, the 1st ever reported case the world health organization describes the virus is a highly infectious life threatening illness. similar to ebola. it's caused by coming into contact with infected body fluid john tissue. there had been 12

outbreaks of the disease in 1967, mostly in southern and eastern africa. sandy, as president at garland go, will seek to fend off an opposition challenger in elections on thursday with a country facing huge debts and a possible bailout, young voters are likely to play a decisive part in the poll. herman also reports from the socket. elaine mcknight says, shopping for bass goods has become frustrating. prices keep going up with people salaries stay the same. like many zambian she's had to cut back on luxuries for herself and her son. i definitely don't go in big ups and buy expensive rents anymore because you definitely have to look at the price difference on what you can afford me going up and him going up. we had more activities when i was like, really expensive. plan out like the weekends and where to take him and whatnot was

what was cheaper for me when i was younger is expensive for him. now. unemployment, his tenure, high last year, the local currency, the quarter keeps losing its value. zambia has more than $12000000.00 of external debt, while as an unknown amount is dead to china and last year became the 1st african states default on a day during the cold with 1910 demick, the presidential candidate trying to convince voters they have what it takes to turn around the economy, the be incumbent president edgarland, who is campaigning on development projects, built by his government and paid for by debt. speaking to his supporters, he condemned the recent election violence that saw him order the deployment of the military. what we have seen happening in the last few days of killing people hacking them like animals cannot be allowed to continue on. countries which are broken into felt state, stuff like that. the politically motivated murders we have seen recently must be

condemned to the stronger extent. and all culprits must be booked and punished. lingle is promising more development if he is re elected. but some economists warn against adding to the death load that the infrastructure development that you actually put must also be spread between social and productive. so that the productive one is able to give you a return, even though the social one is not giving you the immediate return. and this we didn't do, or the infrastructure that we have done does not seem to be generating revenue that is required to meet the repayment. and that is been where the shortcoming has been long as main rival opposition. little guy in the he to lima said he's going to tackle them. you've used it. his campaign promises include jobs for the unemployed youth by attracting foreign investors with voting just days away. and they say the selection is too close to call. how do mcarthur algebra the 2nd the president,

belarus has told western powers they can show on their sanctions after another round, as opposed on his government by the u. s. canada and the u. k. so the moves coincide would be 1st anniversary of alexander the cushion because disputed election when and or simmons has form williams, 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 on our them, his reaction, the put that is just right. you can choke on those sanctions in the u. k. we haven't had even the faintest idea for 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 protests. as an attempt 235000 protest is were arrested. 600 opposition supporters are in

jail. now the crackdown even reach the olympics in tokyo athlete christina semi new sky. i 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. when last week 26 year old activists vitale shelf was found dead, the ukrainian capital kiev. please say it may have been murder disguised as suicide . lucas shenker denies any involvement to talk with. who was he from me and for bella luce in general. ok, 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 will no one to us. what madman 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 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 a weapon to the better route of position. now it's a movement living in fear and dependence on foreign support. andrew simmons al jazeera ah hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, international pressure is building on the taliban and to stop it's offensive across a gun. it's done. urgent talks are underway. here in katara with the u. s. cindy, it's envoy for i've gone to sons, i'll make a little to meet taliban representatives. the arm group is captured at 6 per.