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a set bank for president julia bolton, r o, brazil's congress votes against his drive to end electronic voting ahead of next year's election. the best way i can help now is if i step aside, new york's governor resigns andrew cuomo quit allegations of sexual harassment. ah, the televisions advance in afghan astonishes no sign of slowing the groups captured its 9th provincial capital. on tuesday it took 5 the bad and polychrome re both in the north and foreign city in the south west. the group has also may gains in traditionally anti taliban provinces. emergency talks are being held in doe har, but in the afghan government and the taliban. the u. s. enjoy to have kennesaw 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 town of an offensive began in may. as the us troops withdrew charlotte bellis is incapable. the taliban have certainly picked up a lot of terror trade. most people say that they have more than half of the country territorially. this will started in around april when you, as president biden announced that all american and foreign troops would be out by september that when the taliban started trying to take territory at that time they head about a year or so, districts of f. dennison's, approximately 400. within about 2 months, they had more than $200.00. so that kind of shows you the speed. the lot of that was rule areas, low density. kind of not many people living in these places and they're not a lot of commerce in those places either. it's only been within the last months that they've really sort of pushing for provincial capital and circling them tightening the news around some of the cities. and then in the last week,

had they actually started being able to take these prevention capitals. and now they had a lot of more means to put it into context for you. they hadn't taken a provincial capital since condos, which was in 2016. and that was only very briefly now that managed to take 9 in less than a week. massage sharif is now on the see to support a city in afghanistan because they've taken a lot of these provinces. and then last week and the north that city in the north is now just an island of government territory to get in the now to resupply and hope that city they have to seemed, in plain, seemed in helicopters, they flew in hundreds of special forces last night we understand president gone, he also flew there this morning to kind of both to the morale and try to hold that city, but incredibly difficult if you can't take an ammunition and personnel by roads. well, earlier the us president defend is his decision to pull us forces out of afghanistan . joe biden saying he didn't regret the move from the african leaders need to come

together. his comments came, as he mentioned, she talks are underway in the cancer a capital aimed at stopping the violence. mommy jump room has the latest from those talks into her a long 1st. they have 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 dr. 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 colleagues or 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 symbol 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 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 control of international airports, is vital to africa, government survival. it's from airport, the air strikes a launch stand remote army bases are supplied. diplomat say, if a deal isn't reached to protect airport soon, the humanitarian groups will have to consider pulling out diplomatic at the james bays. reports from cobble where you're driving in cobble by air is always breathtaking. the scenery is spectacular. 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 african military. and for the un,

another agencies, 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 you mean turkish president, reza tae bo dawn is offering to supply troops. so the airport remains secure. and in a worst case scenario can be used for an evacuation of international diplomats. it's 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 is 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 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, canadian prime minister just intruder has condemned what he called the unacceptable and unjust jailing of a canadian business man. michael sperber, by a court in china. it sentenced him to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty of spying. space was detained. alongside another canadian in 2018,

the government in also sees their cases as beijing's retribution over the rest of the top. chinese tech executive, mung one joe. that same year. now on tuesday, chinese course also upheld another canadians death sentence on drug smuggling charges. katrina, you has this update from beijing. he has technically 10 days to appeal the sentence, but that appeal process is very long, very uncertain. and it's unlikely that he'll be able to overturn this guilty. but the verdict here in china and 99 percent of all criminal cases that face court are found guilty. now we're getting some more details from this verdict, but was handed down from a court in don don city, which is on the chinese north korea border west. pavel lived and operated his travel and cultural exchange of business for many years. now it says that he was found guilty of providing state secrets and thus sentenced to 11 years in prison, the confiscation of the personal property and deportation. now it didn't play when

he would be deported. the canadian government says that this is most likely that he will be deported after serving his 11 years of sentence. but we do know that in the past, china has deported foreigners before serving the entire prison sentences. so this could be potentially a bargaining chip for aging in the future. now this the comes and it's handed down at a time when chinese executive from kuala mung juan jose facing quote in canada. she's in the middle of a final push to avoid extradition to the us, but she faces charges of breaking sanctions on iran and possibly a lengthy prison sentence herself. now, beijing denies that there is any link between these cases at all, but the timing is undeniable. the congress in brazil has voted against a return to paper ballads that next year's presidential election. it is a major blow for the president, jaya bolton, arrow. he's been pushing to end electronic voting, claiming it's open to fraud without providing any evidence. monica key offense,

this update from rio de janeiro for them both. so nato have been paging 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 silva. 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 electro 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 sonata change his speech after this setback are most 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 congressmen. so he will always find something to justify what he thinks still ahead on al jazeera. these are people that need our support. they know, nobody chooses to be on my grand panama host the summit to try to address that growing migration crisis is people cross from columbia and head into a dangerous stretch of jungle. and i'm going to home and edinburgh with a famous festival is a shadow. some say it's pretty pandemic help, but a testament to the endurance of the

a hello. no major changes to reports in the weather across the middle east. we do have some readings of 50 degrees. so let me show you where we can find that it's award back that as we head toward wednesday. now if we look at the next 3 days at times the winds will be a bit breezy here, but we're really locking our temperature in to that 50 degrees threshold off the pockets done, and we've got mon sooner. moister, still playing in northern areas, anywhere from the hor to islam, a bad rate up against the border with afghanistan, i want to take you to turkey now and show you some before and after pictures. look at the lush vegetation here, and that is the aftermath. we also know, unfortunately, some homes had burned down here. so we can really see in the aftermath, and there is rain falling across the turkey. but it's exactly where we don't need

it toward the black sea region where folks are recovering from devastating flooding . they're off to africa and we are keeping our eye on those big storms through the e t o p in highlands because it feeds into the blue and white river niles in the heart tomb where residence on high alert as those water levels rise toward the south. in abundance of sunshine johannesburg 23 degrees. but prepare for jo. your temperature sar on the way down. only 17 degrees on saturday. that sure update. we'll see you soon. the news, the crime that should japan or people get killed on one occasion in as bloody a massacre as this was, attracts a lot of report. there was just a current drum. who did it, who did it? we did it, have the conviction that led to the world's longest hell. that's roper's. and his

sister's 47 year long battle to save him from execution. witness come out. japan's death row on a jazzy data. oh, a welcome back. you're watching. i'll just hear a life from the top stories to taliban has taken another 3 provincial capital in afghanistan. that's 9 in less than a week. the human human rights chief says the violent offensive has left a climate of fear and dread across the country. a chinese quarter sentence, the canadian man to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty of spying, business man, michael spacesaver, was detained alongside another canadian in 2018,

also sees their cases as being politically motivated, brazil's congress is voted against the return to paper ballots that next year's presidential election, the president able to nato has been pushing to end electronic voting, claiming it's open to fraud without providing any evidence. panama hosting leaders from costa rica, colombia, the us, and several other countries in the region. in a 1st high level ministerial summit to discuss an ongoing migration crisis on it's border with colombia, there are thousands of people stuck on the columbia inside of the border. now they're planning to take a dangerous route through the darian gap. theresa both spoke to panama, foreign minister about plans to contain this movement of migrants. their vulnerable 100, trying to cross one of the most dangerous jungles in the world. the daring gaps. thousands of people from haiti, cuba, and other countries across from columbia to panama, to make it to north america,

panama. following minister eddie gum, we never met without da 0 to talk about how to guarantee people safety on the journey. you have been very active in trying to talk to other countries involved in this migration. what would you'd like to happen? i humanitarian corridor, or that's something i've heard you say. i mean, how would you implement something like that? the 1st thing is it has to be a humanitarian approach. these are people that need our support. they know nobody chooses to be a migrant a day. those are external causes. it is very difficult. they are hard breaking stories that you hear about the families, the children don't go through this process. and a lot of people that are taking advantage of their situation. going through their routes that they go. it can happen without somebody orchestrating where they go and profiting from from, from this route. so what do we want?

we want 1st, with the humanitarian approach to make sure that everybody is following the same standards that we have in terms of care for the migrants. the 2nd one in, nor to support migration, it has to be control. he can get out of control and this is not just to this continent you see at another continent. it is the same situation where if it goes uncontrolled and unchecked, it becomes a problem. so we are trying to raise this awareness to get other countries to understand and to cooperate pressure from countries likely us or canada to try to control the flow. no, we have not been pressured. and i think right now the main focus of attention has been the northern triangle migration. i think that there is been which we think is positive at the end. every type of migration should be dealt with, ideally, from the root causes so that you are helping what, what is creating the,

the concern, or they need to migrate rather than just control or try to block it. they do benefit as mexico and even as all the other countries, because if you think about it, i don't know on dora or micro or all the countries where they have their own migrants going towards the us. they're also receiving this type of migration. so this is an added consideration are problem and top of the one that they're already facing. so i think it benefit from multiple friends to try to confront the situation and to come up with a more holistic approach in terms of solution are governments in the region struggle to find solutions on how to cope with a crisis. the migrants continue to arrive, need is greater than fear of the dangers they will face along the way. there is, i will, i'll just eat up by now. my city. well sized up burning in algeria where at least

42 people have been killed. the prime minister iman been abdur rahman, 25 soldiers died during a rescue operation in the mountains of b, j and t z. also. the government says it believes arsonists are responsible. residents have been using tree branches and hurling water from plastic containers on to the fires is really forces have demolished a block of apartments belonging to palestinian families and sil, one in occupied east jerusalem. it was home to at least 12 people. these really, authorities say it was built without a permits, several demolitions taken place in the area in recent months, the demolitions of spot protest against what residency is discriminating enforcement of building permit regulations. the new governor and requote has resigned. we come to an inquiry found he sexually harish. several women investigate to say he grouped, kissed, or made suggestive comments to current and former government workers. kristin salumi reports from new york, motivate in a hastily arranged address 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 apologize, but to this day denies whose 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 comas accusers. she said, my clients steal both vindicated and relieved that court 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 aide stepped down amid accusations her team retaliated against at least one of his accusers and state lawmakers, including democrats, once in his allies, launched impeachment proceedings against him, adding to the already growing cause for chrome of resignation. are you calling on him to resign? yes, it's a dramatic father grace for a man who last year was being talked about as a possible presidential candidate. while as a response to coven was widely praised by democrats, the f. b. i is now investigating claims homo's administration covered up the number of coven deaths in nursing homes. i don't see how 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. andrew cuomo, his 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. kristen salumi al jazeera new york in more than 2000 people have tested positive for curve at 19, in south korea in one day for the 1st time. this 4th wave is its biggest so far, 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 tycer restrictions to be imposed in the capital. thailand's recorded more than 200 deaths

in the past day and more than 21000 new cases as it fights its worst outbreak. yet people have been protesting in bangkok, the government's handling of the outbreak. they also calling for other reforms to police by gas, water cannon and rubber bullets. to disperse the crowds on tuesday. children being effects, it's at a higher rates in another search of the virus infections across the us is being called a pandemic of the unvaccinated, even though there are plenty of vaccines available is particle when it's bad and it's getting worse. the us now seen 124000 new covey cases every day. the highest rates in february. and once again, hospitals are filling up in mississippi monday not a single available intensive care, but dozens of hospitals in texas ran out of space and in the entire state of arkansas, just 8 bed loft as cobra cases for a. stephanie lopez,

it's 11 month old daughter and texas had to be airlifted to find about 241 kilometers away. there was a very, very overwhelming, heartbreaking more and more the cases are involving kits nearly 94000 cases just last week. about 15 percent of the people getting sick are children. first of all, we're sort of doing more stuff and having more contacts and that includes kids. unfortunately, kids under the age of 12 can't be vaccinated yet. and that means that they are more likely to get that we're seeing larger numbers of infections and children and those larger numbers. and it's actually been a greater number of individuals going to be hospitalized. the worst outbreaks are and states with low vaccination rate, like texas and florida, and their governors have decided right now. the biggest issue is masks ordering that people cannot be told to wears up. and here's what we can get into the efficacy of this me, it's an error. slides virus is

a piece of cloth. going to start we can get into all that from an engineering perspective, but i can tell ya, kindergarteners. everyone admits that whatever efficacy a mask that you have to wear it, fit it properly and tight. do you honestly think these young kids are doing that? so i don't think it's really doing much. and so as a parent, i think parents should love to say, you know, it's doing more harm than good faith math are in fact no harmful an expert say they are needed. dr. spread of a virus that spread in the air and a school begin to reopen. the leading infectious disease expert says they need to be in the classroom. you should have everyone be wearing a mass. we know how that can be uncomfortable, but you'd rather have in a somewhat uncomfortable situation with a will child, then temporarily comfortable in a child in an see you. that's why we want to avoid an ongoing political fight. but now more and more children are paying the price with more than a 3rd of eligible americans, still refusing to get

a shot. another surge in this pandemic a be vaccinated. petty call, hain al jazeera washington and club in berlin, was turned into a vaccination center to encourage young people to get the job clubs to close because of the corona virus restrictions in germany. but this one off of the next best thing vaccines under disco lights to the santa tech. no. because the long night vaccination the future of poland. right. when coalition government is uncertain, after the prime minister fired his deputy, the united right coalition has been at odds for a while now. most recently over tax reform, the deputy prime ministers party has been arguing. the reforms will punish poland, middle classes and sto, conflation. the government's future still lives and no confidence votes in the parliament. the world's biggest arts festival, the edinburgh international festival returns this coming weekend. the scaled back

and hybrid program of nearly $800.00 in person and online shows follows its cancellation last year because of the pandemic. john hall reports from edinburgh. did everyone have a good point? them it? yeah, good. yeah. so make it difficult. nice isabel far as one woman show ellipses is a journey through grief via stand up comedy. what happens when also panic or excited that you kind of high depending on what i did for clinic, all song in a musical like many of the acts that this he has edinburgh festival behind. it is a story of endurance. i didn't know who i was anymore. last year and exhilaration. amazing, honestly, absolutely amazing. and for me, so everything opened up again for like 4 months from may and it just completely changed how i feel like feel completely alive again. hello. hello. i am in my company show dormant for 18 months. there are signs of life in the ops. the

streets are filling up the stages on lit, again. the pandemic has left its mark, but the edinburgh festival is back on the car. been at this over 40 years. this game and the festival i think is the most important vessel in the world. and i think if you like anything, if you don't do it, things tend to wither and die. and i think that the festival had to happen in some form in order to create life and spirit, and actually make sure that there is some teacher for it. and i think would be a lot worse off if we'd done nothing this year than we them than by doing something . so achieving this and then looking towards recreating it properly from next year is kind of crucial and reward the world's biggest festival of the ox drawing crowds in the past. second only to the elliptic games. 2 years ago, more than 3000000 people came here to see nearly 4000 acts crammed into every available performance space. and then it was canceled, returning now, some say,

a shadow of its former self. but it's rebirth cautious. inevitably, still cobit conscious. there is a real sense of childish excitement. there's the audience. and it's giving them a lovely piece to the future. hopefully they'll not call anybody and make base when they go, but it's giving them an insight as to how to where entities to the future that the festival it's performed. most companies, sponsors and supporters can now turn the show must always go on. and so it is jona whole al jazeera, edinburgh, ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories so far. the taliban has taken another 3 provincial capitals in afghanistan that 9 in, under.