the day on algae is near. ah, an international delegation is holding talks and oh, how on the deteriorating situation in afghanistan, while government forces battle taliban fighters across the country? ah, you're watching out there a life from headquarters in del hi. i'm getting obligated also ahead. greek firefighters prepare for more flare ups after wildfires burned for more than a week. we'll have an update from the island of britain's prince. andrew was facing a lawsuit in the us accused of sexually abusing a teenager and the canadian jailed and china loses his appeal against

a death sentence. further straining relations between the 2 countries. ah. hello, thanks for joining us. international pressure is building on the taliban to stop it's offensive across have gone to stop and negotiate a peaceful settlement. urgent talks are underway here. and so how would the us sending its envoy for i've gone on to meet taliban representatives. the r m group is now captured at 6 provincial capital. since friday taliban fighters launched their offensive in may as the u. s. began withdrawing the loss of its forces. bahama jump june, isn't dealt with more. the talks started about 3 hours ago here, indoor how they include envoys and diplomats with the us. of course there's the us special envoy for afghanistan. all my so he was out. he arrived this morning. you also got the envoys and diplomats for the u. k. that you the you in china pockets

on and it was becca st on the diplomats who have not yet shown up here are the diplomats for russia. they are expected to show up at some point today, but it's unclear exactly when that will be. this comes at a critical juncture, the fact that you have all these diplomats gathering here. they have all told us thus far today that they want to find a way to come up with some kind of joint international plan to get things back on track. when it comes to the intra afghan peace process and dialogue. they also want to come up with some type of joint response to the rapidly deteriorating situation in afghanistan. what's less clear at this hour is what role exactly the taliban will play. they have representatives here in door how we've not been able to reach in the last few hours when i last spoke with one of the spokes people for the taliban much earlier this morning, they said it was unclear yet if they were going to be invited to these talks, if they are going to be participating in mr. leo's odd statement before he arrived

. and it did say that he would be pressing the tal of on to try to come up with some type of a cease fire and to cease their violent activities in afghanistan. how exactly that meeting is to take place when exactly mister clears out and other diplomats might be speaking with the taliban. that's all very much an open question at this hour. well, 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 percent of have gone to stan, shaded in gray. that's according to the long war journal. but as us and other foreign troops withdraw, the group has and ramping up its attacks and it's made sweeping gains in the past week. it's taken the provincial capitals of couldn't do is telecon circle shot gun syringe and now a back of fighting to control, harass kandahar and helman continues. it's a critical test for the afghan government says it's all about advances and

surrounds the capital capital. rob mcbride reports from couple of the fighting continues to be widespread across. i've got to stand to give you some idea. classes have been reported in 17 of afghanistan's 34 provinces. so that's half the country . obviously, it varies in 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 that 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. a can do a far more significant, a strategically city and the north of the country that the government seems

determined that it will retake 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. that so called omega omega units, which is the organisation that takes care of civil administration is being telling people that it can be business as usual. and can do is telling people to reopen that businesses come back to their stores, et cetera. and there have been some indications that in parts of the city normalcy has been returning. but of course, everyone's waiting to see what happens next. and many people are not waiting for that. a 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 trying who escaped the fighting beyond the city limits. wildfires are continuing to ravage large part to the greek island of heavier firefighters are now into their 8th day of battling the flames. it's the most severe of hundreds of fires which of score its waves of the country in recent weeks. the prime minister is describing the situation as a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions. zane bas robbie has more from the island of we drove the length of the island from the central part of the island all the way up north criss crossing through different areas, different towns and villages to arrive. here we saw firefighting crews along the way that were putting out fires. we saw the fires that were uncontrolled, and those small fires that we saw along the way overnight, they got bigger, and they spread and they burned all through the night. now that in and of itself is absolutely a tragedy,

the logical disaster at the forest is unprecedented. and really difficult to understand the scale of the devastation so far. but just give you a sense of how bad that is in terms of the pollution and the air quality and the visibility here around the island of every i'm just going to get out of the way and show you the horizon is completely swallowed up by a cloud of smoke, you'll see that those fairies are basically carrying people off the island back to the mainland for safety. those fairies usually run both ways. right now they're only going one way. they're only leaving the island. no one is allowed to come to the island on those fairies and those are the emergency rescue boats. in case there's an evacuation in this area. but if you look across the water on any other day, the coastline from across from us would be absolutely clearly visible. right now because of the smoke from the wildfires, you can't see a thing. and the horizon just ends in a cloud of smoke. so those are the conditions we're seeing. we're seeing as the, the pollution level has soared across the country in the last week. and it is only,

it is simply only getting worse and the predictions are the forecasts are that the heat wave is going to return. and the conditions are going to remain challenging. russia has launched a criminal investigation against 2 allies of the opposition leader like santa volley. russian authorities accused the pair of helping fund organizations, the country deems, extremist. they both face up to 8 years in prison and only is serving 2 and a half years on fraud charges, which she denies. britain's prince. andrew was being sued in the u. s. for a legit, historic sexual abuse. virginia jeffrey says the prince assaulted her when she was 17. she says that she was traffic by the late convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein, herbert mildly report prince andrew is the 2nd son of queen elizabeth, the 2nd and 9th in the line to the british throne. but after kissing him of rape

and sexual abuse, virginia to fray says he should no longer be protected by his power and position. the australian american her father law suit in new york, accusing the royal of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager. in a statement she said, i hope that other victims will see that it is possible not to live in silence and fear, but to reclaim one's life by speaking out and demanding justice to frey says she was traffic for sex by geoffrey epstein. he's a convicted sex offender who took his own life in a new york jail cell in august 2019. a month after he was arrested on child sex trafficking charges to fray says f scene forced her to have sex with its friends, including prince andrew on 3 occasions in 2001 that's in london, new york, and on f seems private islands. flight looks release of the f seems death show that

jeffrey was with prince andrew. the time of the alleged assaults to fray was pictured. but the prince angelina maxwell, who's in jail in the us, awaiting trial on charges of recruiting, grooming and sexually abusing under age girls as young as 14 for app seen. and she went on to have sex with you in a house in bell gravy. belonging to caroline maxwell, didn't him in a 2019 interview. prince andrew firmly denied all allegations. he also couldn't recollect having met to frame a year later, and after a public backlash, andrew resigned from all public rolls. buckingham palace has not responded to your phrase lawsuit, but in the past, it firmly denied the allegations against the prince. as categorically untruth defray has been one of the most outspoken women to accuse prince andrew and f scene

of sexual abuse the f. b. i has been investigating the claims to phrase now suing the prince in the civil case, and she hoped to get justice saying the damage from the abuse was severe and lasting, nor about a manly alger 0. let's get more on the story with paul brown, and he's joining us from london. so paul, can the prince, prince andrew actually be extradited to answer to these allegations? the general legal consensus theory and that he can't. there are lots of legal strands coming together on this. clearly the federal criminal prosecution against jeffrey epstein fell, fell away once he died in prison and prosecuted then turn their attention to maxwell and prince andrew was being sought to give evidence to cooperate with those . prosecutors almost as a witness really, but part of that part of their investigation into jeffrey epstein and his associates. now virginia fray is sitting him in

a civil court. now the understanding from legal opinions is that the criminal court certainly takes precedence. i'm a civil proceeding would have to wait until after criminal proceedings had finished . so that would tend to suggest the prince. andrew is not in any immediate danger of needing to go to america. then the issue of diplomatic immunity. now our understanding is that he doesn't enjoy diplomatic immunity, that is reserved for her majesty the queen, the british queen, and sort of immediate very senior royals and print sandra has clearly fallen below that benchmark now. and then the other real rope could it be even relevant? because expedition really only applies under the extradition law. agreed between america and britain for criminal cases. and this is a civil case. so it would suggest that prince andrew is not in any immediate danger of extradition. but the pressure for him to respond and to give some kind of account for himself is, is the last and enormous. yeah,

sounds like it. and what's been the public's reaction to the well, i mean it's the 2nd top trending story on the social media platform. twitter this morning here in the u. k. it's, it's trending very highly on the social media aggregate to read it as well. another one of the social media platforms. the comments range across all the clouds, whole kaleidoscope of opinions, as of course, a snarky comments that ought to be expected in the digital world. these days. many people are expressing huge amount of sympathy and support for virginia defray, as an, as a victim. others express sympathy for how much the the queen who is in very advanced years now the downfall. busy of what many regardless, have favorite son, prince andrew, will have no doubt been an extreme personal pain to her and other saying, well look, you, prince, andrew has nothing to hide. if. if he stand by his decision then he should surrender himself and give evidence in this in these both the criminal proceedings

and in the. busy in the civil case of wives kaleidoscope or opinions today, but it's definitely dominating the headlines. interesting. thank you so much. paul brennan, reporting from london still ahead on al jazeera, leaving delta in their dust up to a 1000000 motorbike. infuse yes, roll into small us town is covered 1900 cases continue to write me the and also ahead which is today's to go until presidential election candidates try to persuade voters, they can turn around a struggling economy. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. here you're whether headlines for asia pacific can brace for tokyo once again.

you've got what and windy weather moving in right now. it's toward i q shoe and chicago cou, but eventually making its way into hans, you, it will knock down your temperature at 31 degrees. a pretty steady band of wet weather across the korean peninsula can also be expected. and you know, for china pretty much from beginning the river south to the south trying to see we've got bursts of rain here. $50.00 to $100.00 millimeters. can be expected. and rounds of rain for cambodia on wednesday. you know, for the philippines in northern ireland islands have just been getting hammered here, eating 6 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. we see the rain back off toward central and southern areas of the country, but still, saki conditions remain for those northern islands. on wednesday, after the bay had been gall and pretty steady rain falling through bangladesh. but really the bulk of the energy shoving up toward the himalayas. and i do want to get you an update right now on india because you know,

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a hello again, the top stories on al jazeera, this, our international pressure is building on the taliban to stop it's offensive across . i've gone to sun. urgent talks are underway here and so half of the us sending it's envoy for i've gone on to meet taliban representatives. greece the prime minister has apologized for failing to properly tackle devastating fires burning across the country. officials to blame climate change for the record breaking his way, feeling the destruction. britain's prince. andrew was being sued in the u. s. for a legend, sexual abuse. virginia jeffrey has the prince assaulted her when she was 17. she says she was traffic by the late convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein. a chinese court has rejected an appeal by a canadian man sentenced to death on drug smuggling charges. robert schellenberg

was given a 15 year jail turban, 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 has more from beijing. he can appeal one last time to china's highest court. that's the people supreme court. but it's very unlikely that he will be able to reverse this death sentence in china, 99 percent of all criminal cases are found guilty, and beijing has an taurus li, hard stance when it comes to any drug related crime. but there is a very important political dimension to all this as well. china and canada, the bilateral relationship, has reached an all time law. and it was worse. and earlier this year, when the canadian government described the treatment of the muslim league of population and she's young as genocide by the chinese government. now of course,

the main sticking point, the main point of contention between the aging and auto is the rest of chinese. while way executive mung one. joe, she was arrested in december 2018 and she's currently facing court in canada, fighting extradition to the us. now. beijing denies that these cases all linked. but the canadian government has described schellenberg death sentence as arbitrary . and it's really important to look here at the timing as well. schellenberg was arrested 1st in 2014, but in 2018. he was initially sentenced to 15 years in prison, but shortly after among wanders rest, he was hurriedly re trials. and then we saw the subsequent change in his sentence to execution over the us in the final weeks of its withdrawal from afghanistan, russia, and china preparing for any regional security threats. china shares a border with up gone to sun and is increasing co operation with moscow 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 house realty 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 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 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 was president vladimir putin and china's leader sheeting 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 of all 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 in a mass vaccination campaign is getting underway for ro, hanging refugees in bangladesh. surgeon covered $900.00 infections or threatening to add more pressure on the health of those living in refugee camps. more than $65.00, thousands of the 900000 refugees will be vaccinated in the 1st stage of the campaign . a current of iris cases and hospital admissions across the us have now reached

a 6 month high, fueled by the spread of the delta variance. the number of new infections has reached a 100000 for 3 days in a row. that's a 35 percent increase compared to last week. up to a 1000000 people have begun gathering in the us state of south dakota for the annual sturgess motorcycle rally. the 10 day event began on friday and as being held, despite that rise and over 1000 cases across the u. s. last year rally became a super spreader event with around $400000.00 people, attending fears of quarter virus infection on the spread of the delta variance are on the minds of some athens. these, however i did vaccinated. i got a lot of things going on. my life is gonna be taken by go, but i don't want to stay here tonight. i got back dated early. more of my mind, i want to be as cautious as i can by the same time. i think if you're going to attend this, you have to put yourself in this folder position. yeah,

i do care and it is a concern, but i'm here, it's in the back of your mind. you think about it a little bit, but you gotta waive your life and enjoy and have lunch so that i us government scientist who was removed after criticizing the trump administration. corona virus response has reached a settlement with the department of health dvr all adjust. rick bright, resisted the president, pushed to use the anti malarial drug hydroxy corklin as a cure for over 19. he says that's why he was promoted from an important role. one person has died in guinea of the marburg virus in west africa was 1st reported case the world health organization describes the virus as a highly infectious life threatening illness. similar to ebola. it's caused by coming into contact with infected body fluids as well as tissue mozambique. military says it's taking control of a northern port city that's been a strong hold of fighters linked to iso. the group use the town to launch

a series of attacks across the oil and mineral rich province of carbo delgado. katherine sawyer reports. these are soldiers from was in big and wonder in the 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 locally known as also bobs. 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 the enemy. how about was this most? what they put on? as you have seen along the way, most of the enemy, our kids. we have kids along the way, so others have disappeared. any 40. we are now planning to bus 2 doors. you and

me pocket along with them because been struggling to fight against the armed group, which is believed to have ties with. i saw the town of palmer 80 kilometers away is a scene of the most recent major a talk fighters laid siege for days in march, killing several people, and causing many to flee from their homes. it was one of several attacks that was planned for me was seen what the prior, so the town falling back into the hands of government forces in strategic victory. wanda deployed its troops in july to help more than big national army. the enemy was estimated to be between the $28000.00 but he was deployed in modal. busy world yeah, so. busy course on in the 4th over the ground. it is very important because it is hard to go over the terrorist. many people feel afraid

to go home and continue to leave rough income for the displace. no, no, i said i do not. we did not cause the conflict. we are suffering losses without knowing the cause. you bet, and i do. we are just ordinary citizens when i was, am becomes in this region rich in oil, gas and other minerals say they want peace, they want to rebuild their towns and they hope the troops will keep them safe enough to go back home. cathy sorry all to 0. some b as president ed garlan go will seek, defend, often opposition challenger and thursday's elections. with a country facing huge debts on a possible bailout, young voters are likely to play a decisive part in that pull her matessa 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 minis, ambiance, she's had to cut back on luxury for herself and her son. i definitely don't go in

big stops 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 dates, as well as an unknown amount of day to china. and last year became the 1st african states default on a day during the call 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 on deville when projects built by his government and paid for by debt. speaking to his supporters, he condemned the recent election violence that's saw him order the deployment of

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longer, main rival opposition leader. her guy in the he, lima said he's going to tackle them, use 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 al jazeera, the 2nd? ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, international pressure is building on the taliban to stop it's offensive across have gone to san urgent talks, are under way here in the home with the u. s. sending it's envoy for i've got to start to meet taliban representatives. well, how much am june isn't they'll how with morning the fact that these talks are happening right now is.