350000 people in the region are facing famine, according to the united nation, which says that starvation is being used as a weapon for those who managed across the border say it's not because conditions have improved back home. they say to grants, continue to be targeted because many of these are being reported and when they come taking refuge conditions. here are some idea of the. ready news and taliban sweep through large parts of afghanistan to provincial capital fall under the groups control within a few hours while various a last ditch attempt at reviving talks and initiating a ceasefire. taliban is one that military takeover would result in total isolation . the

me i'm mariam de la z and on and you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. a call to arms from ethiopia as prime minister, a just civilians to join the fight against rebels in the north. and around the battle against wildfire still burning on the greek island of via ah a taliban and violent campaign to seize territory and afghan astonish, resulted in 2 more provincial capital falling under that control. far a city in the south west and put it home, re in the north capital and the large city of babylon province. which means that they've made significant roads in the south east, a north of the country, including areas that were traditionally and historically influenced by warlords who

a whole style to the taliban. well now a european union official told the reuters news agency and taliban forces controlled about 65 percent of afghan territory in the international communities woman taliban against a full blown military takeover. emergency talks in the country, capital, doha, us envoys all my lows on warm autonomy, the any government which came to power through force would be isolated from the rest of the world. the taliban advance has led to a large rise in the number of people fleeing their homes. fearing for their lives, un figures show more than 240000 people have been entirely displaced since the beginning of may. with these latest gains, the arm group is inching closer to the capital capital as wrong bride explains. this has been a significant development the fall of this 8th provincial capital in the province of baghlan and the capital poly couldn't re. now there have been reports of

fighting around the city for the past couple of days with claims by the taliban that they had dislodged government bosses. well, that's now being confirmed 2 sources to us. and in fact, the video from the taliban purportedly showing its spices celebrating in the center of that city. now this is part of the northern sway, the kind of stuff that has seen this uptake in fighting over the past week or so with the full, a very important senses from, from the government. but significantly, this actually brings the fighting a lot closer to cobble itself. and that is a concern for the government is one of the small, the provincial capital is but it does bring the fighting a lot closer to home. in fact, a statement from the taliban. and says that with the capture of the city, it now cuts off cobble completely. it says from the north of the country. and in fact, ominously, it said that it now paved the way for the,

the balance of its forces south onto cobble itself. this all coincides with an up tuesday in fighting across the country. we are hearing reports of increased activity, increased fighting around by the, by the again, a very important sensor in the north of the country. and then interestingly, also, i increased in fighting in ga, the, now this is a province just to the south of cobbled has been an awful lot of fighting in the south of the country. but fighting in guns. they also now brings fighting closer to cobble from the southern direction as well. all is happening just hours after emergency talk started in dough high enough. it to stop the violence with us representative for afghanistan joining the negotiation zalman levels ad has is trying to persuade taliban to return to the negotiating table. indo, with the afghan government despite little progress and basically the collapse of

these talks. mama jam, jim has more from joe a long 1st day of talk here in doha about the situation in afghan sanders ended without any statement being issued and with a lot of uncertainty as to what exactly is supposed to happen next. now, throughout the day, you had the us special envoy for afghanistan's. i'll make a little of that as well as envoys from the u. k. e u, the u when china pakistan was becca stan and copper all assembled here. first, they met with a delegation from the afghanistan government led by doctor de la de la. he's the head of the national reconciliation council for afghanistan. those meetings lasted for about 2 hours. not too long. after that, you had a separate meeting between the envoys who are assembled here and a delegation from the taliban. it's not clear what was discussed in those meetings, but if you look at a statement that was issued by all my lives out before he arrived here and don't

have which stated in several planned 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 the commitment not to recognize a government imposed by force. that statement seems to indicate that all the assembled parties here were trying to convey a message to the taliban that it will be no international recognition of any government that is seized by force by the taliban in afghanistan. as i said, it's unclear what exactly is going to play out over the next 2 days. there was a huge impetus here to try to get something done to get the interest african piece process and dialogue back on track. there was a huge push here to respond in a joint fashion, to what is happening in afghanistan to a very rapidly deteriorating situation. many of the diplomats here they are not yet speaking on the record. they are not yet speaking on camera. they're not yet sure how exactly this is all going to play out. but there is a huge push to try to get something done so that the situation on the ground in

afghanistan can improve. well, humanitarian crisis is deteriorating in the country. thousands of internally displaced, people have fled to the capital combo, but they've arrived to find little or no support. charlotte, bella has more on that. now. thousands of people have arrived at this cowboy hall. the majority had come from northern afghanistan, predominantly the provinces of 2. and can do both of which the provincial capital fell to the telephone over the weekend. people here tell us that they were bothered with strikes with some fire and they rug old to find a way out they were fighting one bullet, but the government forces were fighting hundreds of them what i had. and then i said to my wife and just leave everything and just run out here. yeah. destroyed people who are running fast, dead bodies and not stopping. people have told us that was a real challenge even just to reach because they really struggled to try and transfer to get them from the more they had to take the seats out of boxes to pack

more people and they said it took them about 10 to 12 hours to reach cobble and they had to cost your bad living where there is a big battle between the governments and tell me, like i said, when i, when i was leaving the city, i noticed the families were gone from their homes. they look their doors there will women on the streets running and there were lots of the strikes. i saw one woman who was hurt and injured maybe with a motor. when i saw that i cried for hours to commit to to tap all. sure. sure. when the taliban came and they looted everything, they burned our house and we just ran, we left our clothes and left the front door open and just run. now we live in this tens. please help us. the government is offering some handout. people in cars are offering donations also, but as you can see, there is very little support, shelter, food or for the people arriving here. are you in this situation is not surely. they say that in the 1st week of august, they have counted 70000 people who have led to harness use

a conflict and are in need of their support. they also say 2000 people fleeing the country every week. charlotte bellis. just sarah cobb. i ah, ethiopians prime minister om it is urging all capable civilians to join the fight against rebels into gray. government launched and offensive in the northern region last year. but the rebel group is continue to make gains pushing into the surrounding areas, fighting in the region as forced more than 2000000 people from their homes. and more than $50000.00 to fled to neighboring sudan. samuel get to choose an independent journalist and if you're pure and says, appointment is to be a, is under pressure to do more. it's a to pick just statement here released on his social media page, including twitter. choosing the t p level, once again being

a terrorist group that's colliding with enemies. he called them internal and external. without being specific. he said this fight has nothing to do with the people up to great, but has everything to do as t p i left. and the children government was really under pressure to you know, the fighting started in november. busy 1000, so people have been up, they said no, the conflict says no, it's just within the great region. it's in them. the flyers but the conflict again, it's becoming and the national conflict. no longer a conflict that was just within the great region when, when it's begun. on stories of following the governor of new york, andrew cuomo has resigned a week after inquiry found he sexually harassed several women. cuomo is faced increasing pressure to resign in recent days, including from the president joe biden. the investigation found he groped kissed, or made suggestive comments to women,

including current and former government workers. cromwell has denied any wrong doing. his resignation will take effect in 14 days. i think that given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let the government get back to governing and therefore that's what i'll do. because i work for you and doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you. because as we say, it's not about me. it's about way questions for me, james's life from new york. and obviously these allegations, they 1st surfaced a few months ago christ and what led to his decision to step down now? yeah, well the governor was defiance right up through this weekend. and even in announcing that he would step down. but the pressure had really been building in the last week

. as you mentioned, the allegations 1st service months ago in march. when a former aid came out and said that the governor had tried to kiss her and harassed her. that led to other women coming out, making similar claims in an investigation that was launched by the states attorney general. and that was just released over a week ago, a little over a week ago. and that found that there was some evidence of this harassment. it was very strong report said that he had harassed these women, made unwanted sexual comments, touched them inappropriately. and that members of his team had even tried to retaliate a against one of the women who came out against him. also adding to the pressure in recent days, calls not only from joe biden for him to step down, but members of his own party and allies in state government here in new york who had launched impeachment proceedings against him. it looked all but certain that an

impeachment was on the horizon for him. the governor, again has denied that he crossed the line, but he did apologize to the women saying that his actions could have been misconstrued. that in his mind, he had never crossed the line, but he never intended to harass anyone or cross the line, attempting to walk this line between apologizing, but not admitting that he had done anything wrong. so he did say that his instinct was to fight, but in the end of the day, he acknowledged that he was not going to be able to govern with all of the accusations and the pressure mounting. and then on link the legal proceeding and state government to remove him happening. yeah, so what happens with that now? what is the, what is the view on the likelihood of criminal prosecution? there is at least one criminal investigation that has been launched with the most

recent accuser who's come forward saying that the governor had groped her on 2 occasions against her. well, this is a current employee of the governor, the law enforcement authority in that case says that they are looking into it. and if what she says there is evidence to back it up, he could be criminally charged with a misdemeanor of harassment. so that is ongoing. in the meantime, the governor is given 2 weeks notice he'll stepped out in 2 weeks in his lieutenant governor, a woman by the name of kathy hoko will take his place and become the 1st woman ever to serve in that role of governor. here in new york, thank you very much. christian slim. you with the latest on that story from york watching al jazeera life from london much more to the had including this story born to be wild. biggest crowds in years ignore rising current cases to join us motorcycle riley.

ah hello, thank you for turning in. we could very well be dealing with some historic heats across spain in the days to come cordova, the 43 on wednesday. but i want to show you the 3 day forecast. we could match or break our august all time temperature record in cordova. and then our overall high temperature ever recorded on saturday with a high of 47 degrees. we do have red weather alerts in play for the high temperatures across southern areas of italy. and we are seen it hot up again across the bulkheads. you know, for turkey, we have rain falling where we really don't need it toward the black sea region more than a 100 millimeters. that's more than a months worth of rain in 24 hours and it is persisting on wednesday as this area tries to recover from devastating floods now to northwest europe. and okay,

if this may look worse than it is across the british chiles, we will have a spell of sunshine for london at $23.00 and still unsettled as we hit toward the baltic states and scandinavia on wednesday. before we end this weather reports, we're going to take you to africa and it's really those storms that were watching across the gulf of guinea, heavy pockets for southern sections of nigeria on wednesday. that's a snapshot of your weather forecast. see you soon. the who's joined the debate, do not have vaccines 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 it 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. oh, the me. luck back. our main story. now. 2 more provincial capitals in afghan. astonished fall into the taliban in the space of a few hours for a comb ri, north of the capital combo. and far as city in the south west on now onto the group control, the government forces struggle to stop narrowed. von. meanwhile, emergency talks are being held in dough hard and effort to stop the violence with the us envoy for afghanistan joining an association and warning the taliban. of

total isolation if they press on with a military to cover the country. and the prime minister is urging all capable civilians to join the government, fight against rebels and take right the conflict. it's fighting beyond the northern region, the radical pushing into the surrounding areas. well now fire fighters and residents are battling to extinguish 5 the array jane for an 8th day on the greek island of via another village has been ordered to evacuate on tuesday. the greek prime minister says the countries in cheering a natural disaster of unprecedented dimensions. same bas ravi reports from area thought pesky was a quiet seaside town at the northernmost point of area now of vital part of the fire fighting operations on the island. helicopters fly in low refill their water bays and head back to the fires any other year. these beaches would be packed with

tourists. now the boardwalk is deserted because the hills are on fire. the terrain on area is uneven. the forest dense roads wind through valleys between towns and villages where smoke has made visibility so poor. much of it is to unsafe for aircraft to go and ground crews find themselves in a seemingly endless race against time. and my social disposal were trying to save what can be said. that's what we're doing, nothing more 3 months. this is our life, this is our home. we're trying to save it. unfortunately, we're losing, we're losing every day. unfortunately, we cannot win because we're fighting alone. it's very difficult. the government left us alone in the beginning. now that brought us food. it's best that they take it back. there are not enough people for the task at hand. the few crew there are, can't be everywhere. at the same time, we drove the length of the island and came across several fires with no

firefighters insight. fear for a lot of our rescue teams is that the fires light views, the ones they're not able to spot quickly enough, are the ones that continue to burn just as this one is burning now, and they will lead to larger, far as re igniting all over the island creating the similar scenes that we've been seeing over the last week. many of the fires we saw would continue to burn and spread throughout the night. villagers and agree vote on a live off the forest harvest increase up growing. all those selling firewood of the go. this will be a bit is the whole deal. this disaster affects our village. first of all, economically these people will not only be unemployed. they have to leave this place. where are they going to go with? they've been completely destroyed. they have their homes. ok, but do they have food have work? well, they have nothing. ferry boats have been a lifeline for people on every. if evacuations happen again,

ships along the western coast will be the last resort to get people to safety. climate skeptics may be hard to find in greece these days. environmental devastation once troubles in far off places. now on greece as doorstep to deny or do nothing, no longer seems like an option, but it may not matter. the climate has already changed and there is no going back. is in basra, b o g 0, every island in greece. meanwhile in the us, this seasons wildfires have already on pace to become the worst ever, and it's only just started. the dixie fire in northern california has been burning for almost a month, destroying thousands of homes. algebra is john henry and spoke to emergency workers in the town of quincy. after a record breaking 2020 wildfire season american firefighters are battling more and

bigger places this year, and it's taking a toll. a lot of times we're on the lines we're, we're very stressed there, but we don't realize when we're back home, we haven't had a chance to really process about 26000 firefighters are battling more than a 100 blazes. in 14 states, many of those fighting northern california dixie fire, the largest active blaze in the us live and sleep in its dense smoke often intense, but this isn't a typical you get to go home, sleep in your own bed kind of deal the very challenging and rewarding career, but it is also a very strenuous and tough job. and it is not something that everybody can do. and the people that do it really commit themselves and their families to do it with smoke, sometimes grounding the planes and helicopters that drop water and flame retardant . the men and women on the ground often have to go it alone, driving through fire and battling the flames. it does take a special kind of person who, who runs to the fire, you know,

been away. and, you know, those are the types of heroes that we meet. they can't save every town. fires fueled by high winds, turn greenville into a chart ghost town over night. there are 5000 people battling the dixie fire. they come from federal, state and local fire departments near and far. some were 24 hour shift and they live in this parking lot. it's a rugged lifestyle, but the ones we've talked to say they have no complaints. you're away from your family for quite a few days. and it's a lot of hard work. we love doing this, so really it's something we love doing. the dixie fire his burn for 4 weeks and is now only about one 3rd contained 1st responders say they expect to have it fully contained by august 20th when they can let it burn out in battle. the next blaze in a fire season that can last through november, john hindering al jazeera quincy california. hundreds of thousands visitors are

expected in the us day of south dakota for the annual motorcycle rally, despite of rise in cases of corona virus. the 10 day event started on fight an official say the 1st few days have been among the busiest they've seen. last year gathering became a super sprite event with about $500000.00 people attending, even though the rally was officially cancelled. gabriel elizondo is in study south dakota incentives this updates well, welcome to main street in the town of sturgis, south dakota, and welcome to the sturgeon motorcycle rally. as you can see behind me, there are motorcycles, for as far as the i can see if there's any sort of motorcycle that was ever made. it's year in sturges. over the next 10 days, they're expecting $700000.00 participants this year. that's a record. and they come from all over the united states and even

a couple other countries as well. it's a huge event that goes on for several blocks in the small town, a small town that is only has a population of about $8000.00 people. but for 10 days, every august, since 1940. this rally has been held here. it's a little after noon right now. you can see how busy it is already. and this goes on through the evening. there's people that are writing through town, there's rock concerts at night. people go out to eat. there's all sorts of different venues, but it's made basically a place for modal motorcycle enthusiast from around the united states to come and gather. but of course, gathering now certainly is difficult. now because of the spread of grown up virus, there are no sort of social distance being or any restrictions in place whatsoever . here is you can probably tell a lot of people here say that they're not so worried because at least now it's outdoor events. a lot of them that reduces the risk. however, at night there's

a lot of indoor events with a lot of people, thousands of people shoulder to shoulder. now and all the stories are following in guinea, one person has died after contracting the mob virus. this is the 1st reported case of this fires in west africa, while the health organization describes it as a highly infectious and life threatening illness. similar to ebola, it's fried by contact with infected body fluids and tissue. the patient was treated at a clinic and guineas, wacked out districts here the orders with liberia and ivory coast, more than 150 people are being monitored in connection with the case. canada has condemned the decision of a chinese court to reject an appeal of a man sentenced to death for drunk smuggling. canadian robert schellenberg was given a 15 year jail time in 2018, but he was re sentence to death. 2 months later, off the top chinese tech executive men, one joe, was arrested in canada in relation to charges in the united states. canada as

ambassador to china believes the cases are lings and his court for clemency to be granted to shalon bugs. or now thailand you fled pro democracy movement has faced many challenges since it started a year ago. it's top leaders have been arrested and the pandemic is keeping most protest is off the streets. but as scott highland, our ports from the capital, bangkok, the movement appears to be regaining momentum. jamming the streets of bangkok pro democracy protestors out in strength to show their support of the growing call for the resignation of prime minister. pray of general char. this is rooted in their deep criticism of how the government has managed the cobra. 1900 crisis. the nation is now facing its worst wave of infections in depth. of the pandemic. bonds on the whole, government has to ask if so when they looks at the people who does the c. i would the same countryman,

your job is to sell the people. you see the value of the people. one year ago, a youth lead movement kicked off calling for changes in the long established power structures here in thailand. centered on the monarchy, the military and the lead connected to them. the prime minister is an ex army chief who 1st came to power in a coup with a list of 10 demands. they called for deep reforms in the monarchy. a taboo subject here and thailand were harsh. laws aim to protect and preserve the crowns powerful position. but discussion of what was once taboo changed with the protest. i think the discussion on the tie monarchy movement is moving in a better direction. the issue is deep rooted in our society and we should be able to discuss it in public. earlier this year, there were arrests of the top protests organizers and a crackdown by the police. the protest became less frequent, and fewer people came out to regain momentum law over the last several months. mainly because of coven protest leadership have had to become creative with their

gatherings, like this car mob here in central bank. but they have also had to re focus their messaging to appeal, to a broader audience, as some don't fully support reforming the monarchy right now, organizes have focused on their call for the prime minister's resignation, not abandoning crown reform, just tapping people's frustration with the government. with the move men as seeing an opportunity to try to give a, a new flame into that struck go by using the government's failure to provide efficient vaccine to provide efficient health care. and the flame appears to be growing with the steady increase of cove in 1900 instructions each day, and no indication that the shortage of vaccines will be corrected soon. people will likely have more reason to come out and call for change. got either al jazeera, bangkok, now football sally, and l messy as touched down in france. after agreeing

a deal with paris sandra, man form of barcelona player, waive to his fans. it gathered to greet him not a airport. he made the journey from spain with his wife and 3 children being reported, he agreed to, to deal with an option to extend until 2020, for some warrant. everything right here out there dot com, the latest on our top stories breaking news. and of course, the option of watching us on live streaming, if you prefer that ah, main story to salad taliban violent campaigns. these tart trina galveston has resulted in 2 more provincial capitals falling under the groups control within hours. a captured far as 15 the southwest and police gomery in the north, which is

a capital and launch a city of babylon, province, africa, and government forces fighting to keep hold of herat held.