the money this year and it goes straight into the conferences leadership a to park, people empower investigation, bureau, $39.00 cache for kim park. one on a, jesse ah, ah. the taliban sweep through big parts of afghan as stone and caps as its 9th provincial capital. in another setback for the african government. ah, hello and welcome. i'm peter w, watching out the ally from our headquarters here, and also coming up another canadian, a sentence by course in china to 11 years in prison for spying will have the latest

from beijing in a significant blow to president valuables in r o, brazil's congress, much against his drive to end electronic voting ahead of next year's elections. the best way i can help now is if i step aside. and neil's governor resigns andrew cuomo facing the number of sexual harassment allegations. ah. top story, the televisions advance enough canister on showing no signs of slowing down. the group has captured its 9th provincial capital. on tuesday, it took 5. the bad and poly comrey, both in the north and federal city and the south west. the roof is also my gains in traditionally anti taliban, province's emergency talks are being held into har between the afghan government and the taliban. the us envoy canister has warned the group. any government that

comes to power through force will be isolated from the rest of the world. the un says more than 240000 people have been internally displaced since the taliban offensive began in may as us forces with dru. let's talk now to charlotte bellis. our correspondent tracking that ongoing story for us out of cargo. charlotte. good morning. and now another day, another provincial capital for the taliban. is this different though? shall i mean, the taliban seem organized in a way that they haven't been organized before. they seem resourced in a way they haven't been resource before. well, the strategy is certainly working for them. i mean, they took 3 provincial capitals and matter of 6 hours last night. that's not taking 9 within one week to put that into context for you the last time they how the provincial capital was 5 years ago. so they are certainly on a roll last night around 6 pm. we got confirmation that for a city in the south western fall, and then a few hours later,

fully comrey the provincial capital of which is only about 200 kilometers north of cobble. and around midnight, the provincial capital of public sean and the north east 5, the bad. we got confirmation that they had taken that also or not baghlan, which is just north of cobble is particularly significant because the highway, if you're going to go north from cobble, you have to go through battle. and so now that they've taken that strategically, it's very helpful for them because of essentially cut off the north from cobble a lot of these provinces that picked up in the last week or northern strip across the country. it means now that the city is missouri sharif, which is the biggest city in the north, that is essentially under siege. they were clashes there last night. we understand special forces. hundreds of special forces were sent me last night to try to keep that in government hands. and in this morning we understand president and gone in a high ranking delegation. have also flow in the try to boost morale and see how

they can hold that city. not these are the only places of focus, the tele bon, took those 3 and then quickly turned their attention to another 3 provinces. and we understand heavy fighting last night, and gaffney, and packed here, which is just south of cobble. and then also in the north western province of ferry, up cuz the taliban always saying charlotte, could the taliban take cobble sometime soon or at least completely encircled the capital city. if they choose to the nurse is certainly tightening around cobble. but when you talk to people here and the perception within the government and even talking to the taliban, is that cobble is not their immediate focus, the strategy, the saw has been to take rule areas, go back to the negotiating table, see if they can get more when they don't get more, they push for provincial capitals, then they go back to negotiating table again. as you especially representatives, all my meals and saying just last week, they're really looking for the lion's share of power in any political settlement.

and it seems that this is the strategy, take provincial capitals and saying and see what they can get. is there a sense that where you are charlotte in the can capital that perhaps people like us, we need to change the language of afghanistan. the narrative seems to be shifting from ash ref gone. he is playing catch up. it seems to be moving from oh, there's a power vacuum to perhaps a situation where we have to be saying the afghan government is losing here. well, they are trying my best to boost morale. i was with the interior ministry minister just yesterday the day before i went with him to ward up provence, just west of cobb, who and he's meeting with elise command is the defense minister also meeting with a lot of police. come on the same. what can we do to turn this around and say, please come on in the provinces were low and m are, we're not paying our stuff, we really need help. we're under siege and i think one of the biggest problems that

we are facing and turning this around is that the last the roads so trying to resupply that check, post their bases and all these provinces they have to do by ear, which is a huge challenge and where it seems to be there are links here at this point. ok, charlotte, thank you so much sound that bell is not correspond report in life or from the afghan capital cobble. earlier the us president defended his decision to pull us forces out of afghanistan. joe biden says he doesn't regret the move, and african leaders need to come together. his comments came as emergency talks, are underway in the country capital. do are aimed at stopping the violence. mohammed jam june has the latest from those discussions here in bo, a long 1st day of talk here in doha about the situation and 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. the, you, the you,

when china pakistan was becca stan and copper all assembled here. first, they met with a delegation from the afghanistan government led by doctor on the lab dela, 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 colleagues are 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 fees, 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, itala bon, 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 afghan piece process and dialogue back on track. there was a huge push here to respond in a joint fashion, to what is happening and i can attend 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 bahama jim, jim reports well controls of the international airports is vital to the afghan government survival. it's from the airports that air strikes are launched, and remotes, army bases are supplied. diplomat say, if a deal isn't reached to protect the airport soon, humanitarian groups will have to consider pulling out diplomat together to james

base is in cobble with you for your arriving in cobble by air is always breathtaking. the scenery is tac killer. the african capital is surrounded by mountains. it can be a difficult landing, even for the most experienced pilot regularly, the airport is large, it's been completely renovated by the international community. in the last 20 years, it was one of nato, and the u. s. his main air bases before they pulled out their forces in recent months. it's now used by civilian airlines and the afghan military. and for the un, another agent says it's a vital lifeline. as roads have become more dangerous supplies need to be delivered by air from cobble but now control of the airport has become one of the most pressing diplomatic issues. the u. s. and other western embassies still have large numbers of staff in the country. working in heavily fortified compounds,

other like human turkish president, reza tai bo tuan is offering to supply troops. so the airport remains secure. and in a worst case scenario can be used for evacuation of international diplomats. really important because the airport is obviously the only way out of the country. and if the diplomatic missions are to stay in an afghan, this then that is going to be administered at some level, maybe in a power sharing agreement by the taliban. then they need to be able to have a way out if either a civil war starts, or if the taliban decide to gain more power. and so the, the diplomatic activity of the country and also the humanitarian aid of the country is going to be decided by, you know, whether the airport stays open or not. so far the taliban has flatly rejected the idea of a turkish presence. and i'm told by diplomats that if

a deal isn't done soon, the u. s. is contemplating taking control of the airport itself. that would be a breach of the deal. it did with the taliban last year and would complicate things in this country still further. james bays al jazeera. cobble. now let's get a live update on that developing story for you that's been happening, taking place in the last hour or so. a canadian man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after court in china found him guilty of spying. the court says business man, michael space hall will be deported, but didn't specify when he was detained alongside another canadian in 2018 also sees their cases as paging retribution to the arrest of a top chinese tech executive mang one joe the same year. now on monday, a chinese court also up held another canadians death sentence on drug smuggling charges. katrina you is following that story for us out of bay jane. katrina just get us up to speed. what else do we know?

so called in don dong has actually delivered this verdict from michael special. now don dong as the on the chinese bullet with north korea. this is, i'm businessman michael spun, lived in operations, his travel and exchange business. he faced call there and they found him guilty of espionage of sharing states secrets with other countries, and they've sentenced him to 11 years in prison. now this is a huge blow for spa boy's family, the canadian community. he has 10 days to appeal that sentence, but it's extremely unlikely that he'll be able to change that verdict here in china and 99 percent of all criminal cases all found guilty. and there was a huge political element to this. this that it comes just one day after robert schellenberg, another canadian, had his verdict, his sentence upheld for the death penalty, and also comes as a chinese executive from qual way the technology company. month. one joe faces

court in canada in a final push to avoid extradition. to the us where she faces charges of breaking sanctions on a rod and possibly a lengthy prison sentence herself. now the chinese government denies that these cases are in any way linked, but the timing here is undeniable when one joe was detained in canada and december 2018 michael spofworth. in addition to another canadian, michael covered with detained here in china and subsequently charged with espionage . now the canadian government has called their cases arbitrary detention for political leverage. they say that both of these trials, which took place earlier this year in march, that there was a lack of transparency, that canadian diplomats were not allowed to access the court. that both men were given very little access to lawyers ahead of time. so this of course is a huge blow for canada at the moment, the canadian ambassador dominic, but dominic barton is currently in dan, don't to be with michael spell during this very difficult moment. and he said that

spa has shown remarkable resilience throughout this whole process. katrina, thank you very much. katrina, you joining us live from the bureau in beijing. lots more still to come for you here on out to 0, including a reco day of cases in south korea. we'll get the latest on the delta varian driven search across asia. and we'll go to south dakota where there are a health concerns as hundreds of thousands of bikers gather the biggest motorcycle rally in the united states. ah, the who's, here's her weather report for the americas and we're going to start and south america. we're in the popular tourist region, crisco. we've got wildfire, bernie, more than 500 firefighters trying to tame the flames. and this is not threatening

much to peach you at this time. now the other story across south america is it's called friends, south punch across southern areas of brazil. so we go in for a closer look. look at these temperatures, rio de janeiro, 24, just the other day. you were in the low thirties, we got to talk about this disturbance we have in the caribbean. see, moving through puerto rico now his spend your long. it's been fuel by warm sea surface temperatures. not a major rainmaker we'll expect about a 100 millimeters, maybe a 150 toward the topic. you know, for mexico, we've got subdued rain across the country, but still keeping it toward that pacific coast unsettled for the yucatan peninsula . and we've got persistent rang costa rica into panama on wednesday for the u. s. heat alert says we head toward the west and also the east now for new jersey, pennsylvania and delaware. but let's talk about that active weather, rolling through the great lakes the midwest emitted by and take the rate down to

texas. houston a high of 34 degrees on wednesday. see you soon. ah, the story that need to be told find away and demand to be heard, the opening the window into another light and challenging perception. from personal endeavors in epic struggle with the colossal sacrifices in individual journey with new showcases, inspiring documentary, the change the word on al jazeera. oh a.

welcome back here watching else, is there a reminder of our top story? so thought today the taliban have taken another 3 provincial capital in afghanistan, that 9 in under one week un human rights cheap says the violent offensive has left a climate of fear and dread across the country. emergency afghans walks in underway in the top us diplomat to afghanistan in the country capital to press the taliban to stop it's offensive afghan government associates as a demanding a mediator to assess the seriousness of all parties involved in the discussion. and to trainees court has sentence a canadian to 11 years in prison of funding and guilty of spying. businessman michael stevens was detained alongside another canadian and 2018 also sees their cases. as being politically motivated, brazil's congress has voted against the return to paper ballots. thanks to us presidential election, it's a major blow for the president valuables in our he's been pushing to end electronic

voting, claiming it's open to fraud without providing any evidence monitor key f. as this update from rio de janeiro, president wilson, i have been staging already the scenario for what will be next year's presidential election. polls show. he would be defeated by left wing, former president lucy nasa lula silver. so he has been crying out that there will be fraud much ahead of the vote. both. so nato has always been a fan of former us president donald trump. he's pretty much following from play book by saying already making people doubt that the these elections will be fair. so he's creating a lot of confusion. and in this confusion, he's been confronted not only with congress, but also with judiciary power. he's been accusing the supreme electoral court

of trying to interfere with, with how congress and voted today. and so he's putting one power against the other congress basically buried this attempt of trying to change the voting system. now will both now to change his speech after this said fact, most them, it's not likely he will. he has already been saying that that as i said that the judges from the electoral court have been trying to sway congressman. so he will always find something to justify what he thinks in more than 2000 people have tested positive for covered 19 in south korea in one day for the 1st time. this 4th wave is the biggest. so father fueled by the more infectious delta variant. but the number of deaths isn't rising with the number of

new cases with the fatality rate declining to below one percent. there are growing calls for title restrictions to be imposed in the capital. thailand has recorded more than 200 deaths in the past day and more than 21000 new cases it fights its worst outbreak. yet people have been protesting in bangkok of the government's handling of the outbreak. they're also calling for other reforms. police fight against water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds on tuesday. scott hyler joyce live now from bangkok, scott, as far as the people are concerned, these numbers going in exactly the wrong direction. absolutely. here in thailand, you know, that protest yesterday has been part of the last several weeks we've seen, and people coming back out to the streets. no, there's been protests going on to the last year here in thailand. kind of anti establishment and reform protests calling for reform within the monarchy and the government here. but it is shifted over the last couple of weeks because the criticism now is focused right on the administration and how they had handled the

cobra. 1900 situation here in thailand, the vaccine rollout was slow and anemic and the supply chain was not what was it was promised to be. so that's why the people of thailand, a lot of the people here in thailand are out on the back out on the streets, protesting peter and his, you mentioned, you know, over 21000 new cases reported just the last hour or so here. now that's what we've seen the steady uptick, mainly because fueled by the more contagious delta variant. but what is a little bit disappointing if you will, over the last couple of days, we saw the numbers go down slightly, just about 900000, but then now back up to over 21000. today on wednesday, peter. so obviously it look like we might have been getting into a better situation, but now not so much here in thailand, scott, many things got high. they joined his life from bangkok to the united states. the new governor, andrew cuomo has resigned the week after an inquiry found his sexual harris several

women investigate to say he grouped, kissed, or made suggestive comments to current and former government workers. kristin salumi has more now from new york, in a hastily arranged a dress after a combative defense of his behavior. a surprise announcement from new york's governor. i think that given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. and therefore that's what i'll do. allegations against andrew cuomo 1st came in march from this woman, a former aid named lindsey boylen, who accused cuomo of making unwelcome advances. that led to more accusations from 11 women and toto. the governor has apologized, but to this day denies his signs of affection or harassment. in my mind, i've never crossed the line with anyone. reaction has been swift,

including from mariann wang, an attorney for 2 of commerce accusers. she said, my clients steal both vindicated and relieved that cuomo will no longer be in a position of power over any one. a 5 month investigation concluded last week, found he created a hostile working environment for women. governor cuomo, sexually arrest multiple women, many of whom were young women by engaging and unwanted groping kisses, hugging and by making inappropriate comments. a top aid stepped down amid accusations her team retaliated against at least one of his accusers and state lawmakers, including democrats, once seen as allies launched impeachment proceedings against him, adding to the already growing cause for chrome of resignation. are you now calling on him to resign? yes, it's a dramatic fall from grace for a man who last year was being talked about as

a possible presidential candidate. while his response to covey was widely praised by democrats, the f b i is now investigating claims. homeless administration covered up the number of coven deaths in nursing homes. i don't see how injury formal, fully recovers politically. from this, the report is long. it includes very damaging details. there is a potential criminal investigation on top of that. and your call this resignation goes into effect in 2 weeks time with the threat of criminal misdemeanor charges still hanging over his head. it will make his 2nd in command, kathy hoko, the 1st woman in history to serve as the state governor christian salumi al jazeera, new york, will staying in the states up to 1000000 bikers have begun gathering in the us state of south dakota for the annual sturgess motorcycle rally the 10 day event kicked off on friday despite a search of delta various cases. last year's rally became

a super spreader event with around 500000 people in attendance. gabriel elizondo is in south dakota. welcome to the biggest motorcycle rally anywhere in the world called the sturges motorcycle rally. and it's held here in the town of sturgess in south dakota. any imaginable motorcycle that you can think of? it's here because right now during this rally estimated 700000 motorcycle enthusiast. are here for this 10 day event? biggest party ever asked? i love it, the bike to hill. it's beautiful up in the middle of the delta, the variance 3rd, that is sitting throughout the united states repeating south dakota here, particularly hard health officials, are worried that this could be a super spreader event. in fact, it was last year, last year, more than $600.00 corona virus cases were linked to this rally. that was harold

here, a year ago. and that time it was only about $450000.00 writers that were here this year. it's even much more. nevertheless, people we've spoken to here say they're not worried. there are absolutely no math requirements here at all. there's no sort of social justice think. pretty much any of the restrictions that have been waiting. so prevent the code. the spread of iris don't exist here vaccinated. a lot of people don't get vast name, but i don't know. i don't care. i spoke to the mayor of sturgess. he said, holding this event was never any doubt. he said by the time that they realized this is very was hitting hard here. those have to cancel is really forces have demolished a block of apartments belonging to palestinian families in phil one in occupied east jerusalem. it was home to at least 12 people. the israeli authorities say it was built without a permit, several demolitions are taking place in the area. in recent months,

the demolition suspend protests against what residency is discriminatory. enforcement of building permit regulations. the fires have continued to burn on the greek island of area throughout the nights and smoke has made the air in some parts of the region and breathable. zane bas robbie reports now from every on the a g and coast. the pesky was a quiet seaside town at the northern most point of area now of vital part of the fire fighting operations on the island. helicopters, fly in low refill their water base 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 as to unsafe for aircraft to go and ground crews find themselves in

a seemingly endless race against time and my social will. because we're trying to save what can be saying that was that's what we're doing. nothing more a month. 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 of the 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 inside. the fear for a lot of fire rescue teams is that fire is likely the ones they're not able to spot quickly enough. are the ones that continue to burn just as this one is burning mouth, 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. the villagers in agree or vote on a live off the forest harvest increase up growing all those selling firewood of diego. 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 they're going to go with. they've been completely destroyed. they have their homes, ok, but do they have food? we have work, but they have nothing. ferryboat 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. in basra, the old 0 area island increase. wildfires are also burning in algeria where at least 42 people have been killed. the prime minister iman better abdur rahman said . 25 soldiers died during a rescue operation of the mountains of but jaya and to the usual, the government says it believes arsonists were responsible. residents been using the tree branches and hurling water from plastic containers to try to contain the flames. ah, essentially 330 gmc, these are your top stores to taliban. i've taken another 3 provincial capitals, enough canister on the 9 in under a week. you and human rights chief says the violent offensive has left a climate of fear and dread across the country in.