this is it even churches looking for over stairs to deport the sense of injustice is still felt today. the leaders in new zealand, polynesian communities, welcome the apology, and they hope it will help people of the pacific islands move on. the news the us sent it off gun envoy to don't have to press the taliban to stop. it's offensive. it's hundreds of families. leave the fighting. ah, this is al jazeera life from headquarters in delphi and jenny navigator also coming up. the canadian jailed in china loses his appeal against a death sentence, further straightening relations between the 2 countries. i'm interested in the

north tip of abbey island increase. we're wildfires that have been raging for a week are still burning me and with just 2 days to go until the general election presidential candidates and zombies try to persuade voters they can turn around a struggling economy. ah . so international pressure is building on the taliban to stop it's offensive across. i've gone to stop and negotiate a peaceful settlement. urgent talks are underway here. and so how would the u. s. sending it to envoy for i've gone to sons on the side to meet with taliban representatives. the group has captured at 6 provincial capital since friday. taliban fighters began their offensive in may that says the u. s. began withdrawing the last of its forces. we have rob mcbride standing by in couple with the latest on the further taliban gaines 1st over time. how much am june covering the talks

for us here in cats are. what can we expect to see? come out of these talks, how much? well, the rain is expected, these will be 3 days of talks, the us special envoy for afghans. all my bills out has arrived. he got here about an hour and a half ago at the venue meetings have started. and so far we've been told that, aside from the us delegation, there are also envoys from the u. k. you in the you, china passed on. and it was beck, as we were told earlier, that russia had arrived as well. but it seems that that delegation has not yet made it to these talks, which are all happening so far behind closed doors is of course is a country hosted event. this is an attempt to try to formulate some saw some type of international response for the rapidly deteriorating situation in afghanistan. and of course, it really comes at a critical time. now. there was a statement issued by vassar office before he arrived here in doha. let me read you

from part of that statement, which the vassar said in several plans. rounds of meetings over 3 days. representatives from countries in the region and beyond as well as for multilateral organizations, will press for a reduction of violence and cease fire and a commitment not to recognize a government imposed by force. now it's expected that mister wheels and other members of different delegations will be meeting or speaking with representatives from the taliban here in high in order to press them to cease their violent activities in afghanistan. but it's not yet clear what role the tall bond will play in these talk. so when i last spoke with a tele on spokesperson, he said it was unclear if they were going to be invited in which capacity they would be involved in these talks. what we do know thus far is that when it comes to the afghan government delegation, the doctor on the lot, the luck is here, indoor, how? he's the head of afghanistan's high council for national reconciliation. there are

also other diplomats alongside him. they have not yet arrived here at the venue they are in puts or they are expected to be here for these talks at some point later today. all right, we'll cross back to later on. thank you so much for how much am june reporting from dell hall? so as we've been reporting to 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 percent from dana stun shaded right there in gr. but as us and other foreign troops withdraw, the group has been ramping up its attacks. and it's made sweeping gains just in the past week. it's taken, they provincial capitals of, couldn't do is totally con sarah poll chevy guns around. and now a bach will fighting to control harass kandahar and helman continues. this is a critical test for the afghan government as the taliban advances and surrounds the capital. couple run mcbride will give us an update from cobble itself. so how significant are all these gains for the taliban?

rob, while the fighting continues to be widespread across, i've got to stand to give you some idea. classes have been reported in 17. can it's dance. 34 provinces, so that's half the country. obviously it varies intensity from place to place. we've seen some of the heavier fighting down in the south of the country around the taliban strongholds of helmand in kandahar overnight, government forces have been calling in as strikes as they take out the taliban in the south of the country also continued fighting in the north of the country, the provincial city of back that was the 6 provincial capital to be claimed by the taliban. that was the latest victory. but all eyes are on its neighboring provincial capital. i couldn't do the far more significant a strategically city and the north of the country that the government seems determined that it will re take that have been continuing classes on the outskirts

of that city. we know that the african special forces are poised. it seems planning some sort of counter attack which seems as though it will come at some point in the future. for that part, the taliban seem to be asserting that control in the city itself. the taliban, the so called met. oh, murray. unit which is the organization that takes care of civil administration. it's being telling people that it can be business as usual and can do is telling people to reopen that business is come back to their stores. busy et cetera. and that happens some indications that in parts of the city normalcy has been returning . but of course, everyone's waiting to see what happens next. the many people are not waiting for that. the tool that has been a steady stream of internally displaced people from conduce and other parts of the north of the country. heading south many of them coming here to the capital cobble which for the moment remains tense, but relatively quiet. but we know he's dealing with an increasing population of

people to escape the fighting beyond the city limits. yeah. and a rob as we keep an eye out on the political talks that are taking place in the heart about to get underway today. how serious a challenge is this for the government in afghanistan and the government will tell you that it hopes there will be a breakthrough. it blames the taliban for the increasing or continuing violence and still talks about to go see a to set them of the go see 80 piece being the only way forward that can be no military solution. the taliban for that part says it's the government that continues to fight, that they, they want to have some sort of peace agreement, blame the government. and court in the middle of course, are ordinary africans who really don't place much hope. it seems in this continuing piece process peace jobs, i would welcome peace. but for that moment to just hunkering down to see what phase

of conflict we got into next. thank you so much, rob mcbride, for that update from couple. well, will the us in the final weeks, if it's withdrawal from afghanistan, russia and china are preparing for any regional security threats. china shares a border with a gun is done and is increasing cooperation with russia in a series of military drills. but there is 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, worsening relations with the united states. if you say it's a marriage of convenience, that underestimates the, the depth of their shared interest. and of course, the biggest one is opposing america,

and i'm the mining america and the west. and that's extremely important. and 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 was 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 is foreign minister, when he met taliban officials last month, he urged the delegation to distance themselves from what he called terrorist groups . analysts say it's signaled concerns that 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 back yard. it's in yours, russia, china. so she goes down all the rest of the sounds. more ball games also involving russia. but this time with a force from who's beckett's done a joint special forces drill close to the afghan board up preparing for whatever scenario that may unfold from the taliban rising gains in the battlefield. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong, a chinese cor. it has rejected an appeal by canadian mound, 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, after

a top chinese tech executive, mangling 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, katrina, you is impatient with more. 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. now, schellenberg is not the only canadian who is expected to receive his verdict this week. another canadian michael sparkle, who was try, was trial in a separate case on the 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 lauren was worse than the earlier this

year. when the canadian government described the treatment of the weekend was and population and shinji young as genocide. and of course, the 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 monk 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. he was actually originally sentenced to 15 years in prison, but after among 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 on the espionage now doors to 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 court room. they were provided with very little access to the lawyers ahead of time . and if they are found guilty, they could face very lengthy prison sentences themselves. reese's prime minister has apologized for not doing enough to tackle devastating fire as across the country. some of the worst on the island of that's where hundreds of homes have been lost and thousands of people evacuated. greek officials, a blame climate change for the record breaking heat wave, fueling the fires the critic say the government should have been better prepared. same bas ravi is on the island of area where 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 at 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 of love 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 this very quickly. under current conditions here in the hill country of the

island, emergency crews in northern california have warned to growing wildfire a could take weeks to contain the so called dixie fire has been active for more than 3 weeks and covers an area larger than new york city. several people are missing and 1000 have fled their homes. a lack of rain in parts of brazil is raising fears if another devastating fire season in the state of matter versus flames of torch 10 square kilometers of the world's largest wetlands in just 2 days . still ahead on al jazeera, we have more on a member of the british royal family who's being sued in the us for a legit sexual abuse. the striking a chord with voters, politicians in germany begin campaigning ahead of next month election. ah,

ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored my cattle airways. hello, good to see you. we are talking about potentially historic temperatures for northern africa. so let's get right to look at this on to stay tunis, 50 degrees. your all time. temperature record is 47.4. so yeah, we could smash that on tuesday. also keeping tabs on the potential for record breaking heat in spain. so we're narrowing in on cordoba starting to see it hot up on tuesday. but i show you the next 3 days, we could tie the august temperature record on friday and tie or exceed the all time temperature record on saturday at 47 degrees. here's an update now on greece and turkey, and we've got rainfall in all the wrong places toward the black sea region over a 100 millimeters of rain. that's more than a month's worth of rain in 24 hours. we see it persist on tuesday for the black sea

region, if only it could fund further to the south to help fire ravaged parts of the country at temperatures popping up in athens at 37. next, we're off to northwestern europe and look at there's some sunny spells for london $23.00 degrees. that's right. where you should be the sound of the year unsettled, low countries into scandinavia, and ball and back in africa. again, we've got our storms moving east to west along the gulf of guinea, that sure weather update. see you soon. sponsored car cut on airways. joined the debate. you do not have back scenes reaching those who are most of the needs and amplify your voice in allowed a diverse community and how in array of different story know topic is off the table . it's such a tough ethical debate where there is obvious discrimination and systematic discrimination of the play. people are thursdays for new, wasted, the stream where a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera. ah

the me. so we're going to top stories on al jazeera, this, our international pressure is building on the taliban. just pop it's offensive across left honest on urgent talks are underway here in delphi with the u. s. sending it's envoy for those odd to meet with taliban representatives. a court in china has rejected an appeal by canadian man sentence to death on drug smuggling charges. robert schellenberg was given a 15 year jail term and 2018, but he was re center software. a chinese tech executive was arrested in canada. greece as prime minister has apologized for failing to properly tackle. devastating

fires burning across the country. officials have lain climate change for the record breaking heat wave, fueling the destruction britain's prime minister, britons prince andrew, excuse me, is being sued in the us for a legit, 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. the lawsuit filed in a new york court says the abuse happened between 190-909-2002. 1 of those occasions was in london at the home of gillen maxwell, who is also facing charges relating to the abuse of under age girls, prince andrew denies the accusations. well, the file payout have been made from a fun crated for jeffrey epstein, victims more than a $120000000.00 in compensation was awarded to nearly $140.00 claimants tuesday, march 2 years since epstein killed himself in new york, new york jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges,

us government scientist who was removed after criticizing the trump administrations . corona virus response has reached a settlements with the department of health. the verola just rick bright, resisted the president, pushed to use the anti malarial drug hydroxy corklin as a cure for cope with 19. he says that's why he was demoted from an important role. a 2nd complaint is still being investigated by the office of special council, which protects federal whistleblowers or video showing cove in 1900 patients lying on hospital floors and even hospital gardens is raising alarm and re lanka. it's highlighted serious medical shortages during a huge rise and infections and deaths. we know fernandez reports from colombo, the queues are going to be made to long case cool with 19 victim. materials are busy and not really holding 2 to 3 time. they're supposed to be more than 90.

people have died every day since friday. the government posed state employees back to work last week and some restriction, the association of medical specialist disagreed with that position and says the was, is coming in a statement. it said, as medical specialist, we strongly believe that economists and others have to be alive in the 1st place to develop the economy. and no tourists will come to our country unless and until we are a reasonably safe place. this mobile phone footage of hospitals overflowing with over 900 patient has gone viral. it shows patient and hospital garden wall and corridors, and i see you flows waiting for treatment. the government has denied hospital overcrowded, but state minister the health doctor john jasmine says the over crowding in one of the hospital from the video as the knees where there is visible control is the

vaccine blades launched by the government interested week. dr. show me, say mcgee, had the army medical team supporting the health ministry, trying to vaccinate as many sure lanterns as possible. guys, on a very ambitious fan for vaccine it bo waiting everybody by end of september. so we are on the track so far. so what we are looking for the military to search. the vaccine campaign is making record progress with more than 500000 people receiving their jobs in a single day. and the 11200000 people, half of the population have now received at least one dose of the cool, with 1900 vaccine, almost 3000000 of fully vaccinated. so everyone who has got one doors should not be complacent. they are still alive, but ours vulnerable to us. so peter,

the immunize may be 80 to 90 percent of the numbers. we are not the head of the court with 1902 has announced people may be required to carry the vaccination cards with them in the future. because right now that i think is here the procedures done very well. so yeah, i believe it's really important to specialists here are watching closely as the number of infections rise with more restriction and even curfews to be recommended . if things get worse, the numbers are not looking good for she lanka, an expert warning the next few weeks are critical. people are being urged to follow restriction. in order to minimize the number of deaths here. fernandez, i'll just the ra, colombo. one person has died in guinea of the marburg virus in west africa is 1st ever reported case. the world health organization describes a virus is

a highly infectious life threatening illness similar to ebola. it's caused by coming into contact with infected body fluids and tissue. there have been 12 outbreaks of that disease and 1967, mostly in southern and eastern africa. zombie as president at garland who will seek, defend, often opposition, challenger and elections on thursday, or the country facing huge debts and a possible bailout. young voters are likely to play a decisive part in that, pull her with assa reports from the sucker. elaine mcknight says, shopping for bass goods has become frustrating. prices keep going up, but people salaries stay the same. like mini van bins, she's had to cut back on luxury for herself and her fun. 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 what not 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 data, as well as an unknown amount of debt to china. and last year became the 1st african states to default on a day during the cold with 1910 damage. the presidential candidates are trying to convince voters they have what it takes to turn around the economy. the incumbent president at the local is campaigning and 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 diploma of the military. one of 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 soft like the politically motivated murders we have seen recently must be condemned to the stronger extant. and all culprits must be booked and punished. legal is promising more development if he is re elected. but some economists warn against adding to that debt 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 has been where the shortcoming has been long as main rival opposition leader huck i in the he, lima said he's going to tackle them. you used it. his campaign promises include jobs for the unemployed youth by attracting foreign investors with voting just days

away. and they say this election is too close to call. how do mcarthur algebra? the 2nd a judge has been chosen to lead the investigation into the assassination of haiti's . president of anomalies match a lot has been promised extra security. while he was shot dead after a hit team burst into the presidential residence last month, former colombian soldiers and haitian americans are among those arrested. germany's 2 leading parties have launched their campaigns ahead of next month's general election. the vote will decide who succeeds anglo merkel as chancellor. dominic cane reports from berlin. the election season has come around again. soon. it will be time to replace and go to medical and her government. anna lena bell book believes she should be germany's 1st green chancellor at the launch of her party's campaign. on monday she explained why

voters should choose her posture by these or via gauges. this election is really about something. it's about l. future. the future doesn't just happen, the future gets made. and that's what we're running for. on september the 26 cats making done, but these are testing times for that book. just a few months ago, she and her party were riding high in the polls. now those numbers are down and she is being scrutinized as never before. she's being accused of committing plagiarism in parts of this book that she wrote earlier this year. she has admitted making mistakes. when compiling this work, kristian democrat, counterpart i'm in russia, has also had to admit and apologize for doing something similar in this book that he wrote more than 10 years ago. his poll ratings to have suffered as a consequence, as have those of his policy. a glance at the latest poll shows how the c, d,

u. c. s you are in the lead on 26 percent, some way below their performance with angle imaculi's leader 4 years ago vying with each other for 2nd place of the social democrats and the greens on 18 percent. the center, right, free democrats have 12 percent. with the far right, a f d. one point behind for them to monday was campaign launched day in 2017 and anti islam mt. migration message one, the more than 90 seats in parliament. this time around that campaigning against the current covey rules before them through the infill an absolute 5 in the sky. this is, i'm individual and child, we demand the vaccination be absolutely voluntary. it's an individual choice. no vaccination pressures should be exerted on citizens, especially not our children. the epidemic situation must be lifted immediately and we never want another lockdown. and finding the fight against coded and combating

climate change or 2 of the dominant issues in this election. although more than half the population has now been double vaccinated against the corona virus, there are still many millions who have not. while in the aftermath of the recent floods in western germany, many people say they support tougher climate change policies in a close election. however, the parties can appeal to these 2 different groups of people may hold the key to success or failure in september dominant cane al jazeera berlin. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, international pressure is building on the taliban to stop it's offensive across. i've gone to san urgent talks are underway here, and so how would the us sending it to envoy for i've done astounds. i'll make some deals odd to meet with taliban ref.