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a canadian business men to 11 years in prison. and what's being condemned as hostage diplomacy was actions talk more dunwar m big military recapture k no than port from an armed group linked to i told i'm join real sco with sports lee and he says he's hungry to intro fees at paris. benjamin, the argentine a superstar was officially presented by his new club to finding a good deal a wildfire now g area had ripped across its mountainous regions, killing at least 65 people, 28 of those were soldiers who died during rescue operations. you can see from this map orange dots show away, individual fives, have affected at least 16 provinces since monday. mm. the majority are in the

forest, slightly inland from the coastline, but the largest 5, any of the cds of tv was do in that could be region. and also the jaya, where fives have started spreading. laura bed and manly reports. it's a desperate situation from branches to plastic containers of water locals using whatever hand to smother the claims your call. but you to we are fighting fired to protect at least the houses we evacuated the elderly and we stayed. as you can see on the hook, mama catch michigan as you see there, a fire everywhere. we've not seen the government here. the people are acting as the government long lived, the civil protection team. algeria, kabir region is known for its lush mountains and forests, but scorching summer temperatures have reduced the trees to kindling if

one of 16 provinces in the north african country that's been hit by wildfire since monday. but many villages are isolated, difficult to reach and suffer from severe water source just as home burn and cause disintegrate. many people of a scape to shelter in hotels and schools. some soldiers sent into help were reportedly cut off from safety by the fires. answer comes to the flames. others badly injured with burns. we are the more. we have 3 dates here and 4 in the village. the hospital is full of jury's prison, abdomen, she tear. boone tweeted, condolences to the soldiers, families. the interior minister has blamed austin as for the fires, but so far haven't provided details on the field on the fuel and in which i can

tell you for beating the fire. we're fighting it with all that we have as a thick blanket of smoke consumes. could be as mountains and the skies tint, amber residents via crew and soldiers continue to battle. the destructive force of the fires, nor budget manly out to 0 and out. his ear is a test. cadet dra is into the resume where some of the most severe firearm. yes. any mosier how to go. but i think this is the 2nd major wildfire now it's area this summer. i 1st was in country i'll state a few weeks ago or 10000 hector is a foreign land burned down. more than 42 wildfires were witness in the vicinity of foreign villages in the state of tis use you were last night. people watched in horror were displaced by the fire, where the residence of tried to help civil defense teams and their efforts to put

out fires near their house. i know the states have tried their best and offered more civil defense and firemen teams to help them again, new people here are talking a lot about material losses in agriculture. and they're all foreign. the efforts of the civil defense teams supported by the algerian army and a lot of volunteers are ongoing to rescue the citizens and find new shelters for them. and more on the story were joined by a chrome reef. so freelance journalist and chief editor of mina defense hello the chrome, we're seeing images of people putting out the flames with tray branches and laura's report. we heard about soldiers dying during rescue operations. is the government ill prepared for 5 like phase? unfortunately we've just lost our acro journalists there, so we'll try and cross back to him in just a moment. all right,

i and taliban is making new gains across afghans. done as diplomats from several countries attempt to get into the afghan talks back on track here. and in the past week, the tele bonds taken 9 provincial capitals. the light is being fully cory and 5 back in the knolls and ferocity in the south. or i will go to mohammed, jump to shortly. who's in, jo. ha, but 1st let's cross to live to rob mcbride in cobble. hello there, rob. but what more do we know about these light of taliban games? that's right. this the ever changing map of who controls what in afghan has done really not looking good for the government after. what's been another very heavy day of fighting? you know, more than 25 years ago when the taliban 1st emerged largely from the south of the country, it found resistance to it in the north. what eventually became known as the northern

alliance? well, you know, we seem with this latest resurgence that resistance simply being swept away with the gains of these territories and provincial cities really leaving only but e sharif that ms. ari sharif was the only the city holding out against the taliban in the north. the another city conduce, which is very important that all fell to the taliban at the weekend. and now we know that the airport, which had been holding out to conduce that is also full. and there are reports, a very heavy fighting around conduce. and that is significant because given its importance, the government has promised a will. we take this city and we have been expecting a counter attack. so that's a real test because if it fails that test, if it doesn't, we take that safety. that's going to be very telling on which direction this whole conflict is moving. so you have all of these gains in the north. and then of course that's the continuing violence in the south in helmand and kandahar the strongholds of the taliban in the city of laska, which is heavily contested. there has been

a massive car bomb. this was a humvee packed with explosives that was trying to get to the main police headquarters. it was intercepted at the was detonated, causing a number of casualties. meanwhile, a neighboring kandahar city that city has been under attack from all 4 sides. so the fighting in the north and the fighting and advance is made in the south that really puts a psychological pressure on the center here in cobble and other areas that are still on the government control with the message. it seems that everywhere in afghanistan now seems to be vulnerable. that's exactly what i was gonna say. everywhere there seems to be many, many provinces at the moment, 9 in the past week that have been taken over. how is the government planning to respond? the government is hoping that now some of these areas that have fallen, yes to have been these small, the provincial cities, but a large swathes of rural afghanistan are full and we're getting to the larger urban areas where the government feels fairly comfortable. does still have control that

has strong military strong defenses, but also possibly most significantly urban populations that are more resilient that don't want anything to do largely with the taliban. they don't want to live under taliban flag, so the companies will be playing on that. and we've seen that today with ship gunny, the president, flying tuesday to bizarre re sharif to meet with civic leaders. the military command is really trying to boost morale, tried to stiffen resistance. so that's what the government will be hoping. having said that would be another indication that things are not going well. suddenly change in the military leadership with the military chief of staff, the resigning being replaced by another senior military leader. so the taliban is hoping that all of this pressure, its advance is, is now creating this momentum whereby other factions, warlords, and militias, of which there are many in afghanistan which may well have been aligned loosely or

supporting the government will. now, believe this a taliban narrative that they are in the ascendancy, it is tied to back them putting more pressure on these big cities and eventually to take the fighting into some of the very big cities that currently the government feels safe to rob. thank you for that update. rob mcbride live for us in cobble. all right, let's go to jo hun now where mohammed jump june is live for us with more on these tools. it's day a day to hear and it's 4 o'clock in the afternoon. how are these talks progressing well, emily officially, today there's been very little clarity as to what exactly the agenda is on this day 2 of these international talks about the situation and i've dennis them that are taking place here. and we have been hearing from some of the diplomats who are participating. it is expected that a meeting may be taking place here at this venue a little bit later this afternoon. but very little certainty about exactly what

time i spoke not too long ago with a member of the african government delegation. who told me that it was, they had been told that they would be coming to this venue and that they would be meeting with some of the envoys. it was expected today that there would be meetings on the sidelines of this main event. and that one of those meetings, maybe a meeting of the extended troika countries. those are countries that include the us, russia, china, and pockets on the extend detroit that is a moscow initiated group that conduct consultations on ways to support the intra afghan peace process. and one of the hopes by all the assembled diplomats here is that through these talks and not only can they come up with some type of consensus as to a way forward when it comes to the rapidly deteriorating situation on the ground. and i can send, but also they can try to put back on track the inter african piece talks, which began here in the last september. the last session was in mid july. and

really it all ended at a still meet. there just has not been much momentum when it comes to those talk all the diplomats that have assembled here. and i would like to see a path for those talks to continue, as well as formulating some type of joint response as to the situation in afghanistan, which is really spiraling out of control right now. and well, keep us posted. thank you for the update mohammed john, july, for us in doha. plenty more head on this news. allan, including, we look at how these turkish alike has gone from being home to dozens of species of animals to the interest month plus the promising jobs for the jobless towns amby, is opposition, candidate aims to win info, things election. and in for messy has he's medical and complaints, he's moved to p. s. j. joe will have all those details shortly. ah,

a joint force of troops from mozambique and rwanda, who gained control of a strategic northern port from an armed group. so they still pursuing the fight in the neighboring areas. more than 3000 people from mozambique has been killed and hundreds of thousands displays since the rebellion started in 20. 17. catherine sewing has the story, the destruction in carbondale goggles. we'll see what our prior is staggering. was in beak and run and short 3 took this important port town on sunday. it was being used by the arm to group, locally known as all show, bob, which has ties to isolate as a base to launch attacks across the province. the fighters foster talk the town in 2017 mocking the beginning of the conflict in this ruby and natural gas reach nothin most region of muslim. be they to control of mercy board the prior in

2020 but people who fled their homes and i'll be asked by local officials to return frequent patrols around the town on making that easier for some money that was be that the not can be. so come on, but we for the so just came, we were being chased around like goods by our shop. children were suffering in the forest where we whining our short on the la. now we are coming back to civilization . taking this pottstown is a major victory for the troops they a, they want to remove all show bob from the entire province within a month, action talk more done. what i can see today we are free wherever most the, the prior footage from terrorist but this is different speech. the next stage

is to move forward. to go today a big strong hole. some honestly say the rebellion in cupboard l god is largely wanted aided by inequality and grievances against the state. it's also believed fighters from other parts of the continent are involved and more than big historically weak security forces. why unable to deal with a situation. so what are deployed about a 1000 soldiers in july to help other southern african nation have also promised to send a stop by force destroying those. the stronghold is the initial part. but the, somebody knows this on the phase is also another phase that we believe we were to play a part. as we progress was the call, his full area of cover that the soldiers are strategizing. the next move, they say they want to make sure all sure bob fighters don't returned the people

they're here to protect. they just want to get on with their life. catherine saw all the 0. brutal acts of sexual violence have been used systemically as a weapon of war into grime. that's the verdict of a report by amnesty international. it says mainly a pin and error trained soldiers, right? hundreds of women and girls subjecting some to sexual slavery and mutilation. others reporter being gang raped in front of their families. i miss the secretary general says they could amount to crimes against humanity. donna tallow, rivera is the author of the report, and the senior crisis adviser at amnesty international. she says the victims getting very little help the support as being regrettably very limited for a number of reasons. the survivors of these atrocities are either into t gray region of if the o p r, and some of them are in the refugee camps in sudan in both those places. the

humanitarian situation is dire. in t gray, there are additional problems at d, u many terry and agencies and organizations that are able to operate into t re region have complained. day and day out that they face restrictions to, to derek, to their work, to the delivery of humanitarian aid and communication. is very restricted, so they, you know, a lot of the survivors aren't, you've been able to communicate with their family members who are lost somewhere with. and they don't even know if they're dead or alive. they should be receiving medical care psycho social support because the atrocities they have been subject to to have been so great that they have left very long lasting and some time rep for both physical and psychological damage

and the survivors. so the fires are mostly not table to to get the treatment and the assistance that they require. zambian had to the polls on thursday with the fight against corruption and the economy. among the top campaign issues, one of africa is most indebted nations is facing and economic turmoil and pending bailout. how route tasa has more from lusaka, the candidate again the he to lemme is promising to great job suzanne b as jobless youth, unemployment, his a 10 year high last year. anger and frustration about the economy. that's why supporters of each limb is opposition. united party for national development are confident he can beat incumbent president. it's along. so he's scared that they're going to do because sanity is going to the dentist kind of gave. you have committed

some benefits. it's been too much for the cases. so they're scared to handle the power, but there's been people who, they're both pipper will make sure that they handle the power the president lose batches, say they are not worried. they candidates plan to increase their control of the minds as well as the development projects built by the government and paid for by debt. zambia has more than $12000000000.00 of external debt, as well as an unknown amount of debt to china. but little governing party supported believe the new roads, bridges, power stations, hospitals and airports are with it. all that people do in the position is to accuse us of what up to actually us of stealing black is the thing that they cannot even 25. so that losing us is much enough because you know, because we've tested the ground, we've read what people i think corruption is another issue for voters waste and donors have suspended aids to zambia, saying they are concerned about financial mismanagement. if we do not tackle

corruption, then you find that we would a distortion within the economy. and we have seen this in the last years that the people that seem to have the resources in the country are not the private sector who run businesses. but people who fill the aged to political parties, and this is speaking to corruption, which is really negative. when i make the country is relatively calm, but endless. predict this is going to be a hotly contested election after they vote if no candidate to kill is an outright majority in the 1st round in iran has to take place. 5 years ago, president edgarland narrowly defeated his rival, had he lemme resolve the opposition. it was rig, but they failed to overturn it in court. there has been some incidents of violence by governing party and opposition support of the cross the country in the run up to the vote. that's why president lincoln said he deployed the military to maintain peace. but minis, ambien sphere that could be more political violence if the election results are

disputed. hardaman casa algebra. the 2nd china has sent in the canadian businessman to 11 years in prison after being found guilty of spying, he was arrested in 2018. the canadian government has described the case against michael's father as hostage politics. katrina, you reports from badging. the verdict sentencing canadian, michael spafford to 11 years in prison was delivered behind closed doors in a courtroom in the northeast in chinese city of dun don't. the city had been home to the businessman, who organized tools to north korea until he was detained in december 2018 and charged with sharing state secrets. from the canadian diplomat, michael harvard was also arrested and charged the spying. both men were tried in march after more than 2 years in detention. savage sentence was condemned by canada's ambassador to china. we've maintained from the beginning that michael

stabber and michael covert are being detained arbitrarily. and we will continue to call for their immediate relief. denouncement came, is chinese executive, one job faces caught in vancouver in a final push to fight expedition to the united states. the former hallway chief financial officer is accused of violating sanctions on iran. relations between china and canada. have soured considerably more junior. should she get money when jose case is purely politically motivated? these 2 canadians are suspected of engender in china, date security, and special and covered were detained just weeks after months arrest ottawa has accused paging of hostage diplomacy. canadian prime minister just intruder issued a statement saying the ruling was unjust, and lacked transparency. representatives from 25 countries, including the u. s. u. k and japan appeared at the canadian embassy in beijing and

supporters babble. the chinese court says it's mike to 11 years in prison and ordered his people cation, but it's unclear when that would happen. canadian officials say it's more likely after the jail tend to search, but some say it could be an option used as a bargaining chip with canada. it all hangs on what happens to miss mung and tube or perhaps later if she is extradited in washington. the verdict follows the upholding of the death sentence of another canadian robot schellenberg. on tuesday, he was jailed in china and 2014 for drug smuggling. it's unclear when the court will give its decision on michael coverage, michael spafford has 10 days to appeal his sentence. but in the country, when 99 percent of criminal cases are felt guilty, the chances of overturning the ruling are unlikely. katrina, you out a 0 baking turkey has been seeing the growing effects of climate change in recent

years like echo, which used to be home to dozens of species of animals, including flamingoes, has dried up. the situation is rising concern among people who live in the area. seen him cause c o lou has more from the eastern city event. if you came to this area 2 months ago, you would have found a 407 hex tear like a good. instead, there is now a giant, dried up land were dozens of spacious fish, and fleming goes, once made their home. growled, has been a major problem here in turkey, especially in its eastern city is like van. as is yellows. family has lived near like a go for more than 70 years. he's not happy with the change of all of us. we don't have drinking water. we have access to the city water. but even before we topic, they cut off. you see the animals, you see the grass, we have no barley, no grass. if it continues like this, we will all die. our animals will die. we may need to leave this village,

but go where we are waiting for god's mercy lake. i was on the migration path of various types of birds and featured several suspicious flamingoes, like many other le guin and lakes in the space, and watching them used to be a visual feast, aka lake has a mind kilometer called slide, but after this years, lego frayne the lake has shrunk and dried up. here is a closed basin, meaning there isn't any other water source to feed the lake. experts sworn after the sears dry up, the lake may never be full of water again. professor moran to direct is head of the agriculture faculty at the university of van. he says less and irregular precipitation and higher temperatures are the reasons for the drought in the basin . we'll alicia mother takes longer. i'm characteristically, the temperature is 3 to 4 degrees higher. this year on the lake van basin, generally wheat and barley, a dry farm tier,

plans that are supposed to be 60 centimeters long, came out as only 20 centimeters this year. we used to have big harvest, but this year it's down a lot and all of it became photo we'll ground water in aquifers is an important resource for crop irrigation and turkey. but crop production could be threatened if drought conditions persist. livestock raising will also be effected some irrigation methods in this part of turkey caused 60 percent of water loss with a steady them as it will lead the food prices to increase. this means costs will go up for livestock raising and agriculture and a couple of months. what we as citizens need to do is 1st of all, save on water. the local authorities also should reuse, surface borders for irrigation damage. lake van is the largest body of water in turkey and the 2nd largest, and the middle east is switch, and sodium carbonate and other salts. according to nathan earth, observatory,

lake van is evaporating because it has no outlet to release water c. now, because all the al jazeera from turkey, from one extreme to another, there is now a new threat learning for turkey. jeff has the details in our world, whether updating, hello, thank you for joining in the rain is starting to pile up in turkey's northeastern black sea region over the past 24 hours, 84 millimeters of rain scooped up, and i think it will get worse before it gets better and it's because of this disturbance in the black sea, almost like a tropical cyclone, just throwing buckets of rain to an area and turkey that is already still trying to recover from devastating flooding. ok, i want to take you to i b area where temperatures are really starting to dial up a cordova 41 degrees on thursday. but if i show you the 3 day forecast, again, this saturday, 47 degrees, you could break your all time temperature record in cordova next step or go into northwestern europe. and we've got a disturbance sweeping across northern areas of the british charles. but don't

worry, london, we've got sunshine here, forecast for you with the high 24 degrees. look at paris, 30 degrees, and we do have unsettled weather. continuing for areas of the baltic states on thursday. well, in this weather, broadcast in africa were storms have really been given us a lot of rain to ward cameroon and southern sections of nigeria. but really we see those storms move east to west along the gulf of guinea. and the senegalese capital of that car picked up more than a months worth of rain in 24 hours. still ahead on al jazeera, the, the role of the motorcycle drowns out fees of co good at the biggest bike rally in the us. and a force to be reckoned with, los angeles like is add yet another start to the line up for the new season. that's coming up with joe in sport. ah,

the u. s. is pulling the law of its troops, alphabet gun after a 20 year old war to the conflicts. off the taliban is only offensive claiming proven to the house by the government. despite international mediation, if it's the future holds special coverage or no 0 in 2011 out. they were reported from townsend on the senate to trade in the body parts of l. b. this is where i'm seeing that they put it right here and on the spot rewind, revisit the survivor. mutilated to service, the rituals of witchcraft. when you go to rewind, spell of l. b, no, on our 0. we in the different cultures, the cost of what moves we've been using. kind of that master to you.

oh, a hello. you're watching al jazeera, i'm emily anglin, a reminder of our top stories this wildfire have killed, at least 65 people lean algeria 28 of those with soldiers who died during a rescue operation. 5, have ravaged, far as in at least 16 provinces in monday. and taliban has taken another 3 provincial capitals in afghanistan. that's 9 and under a week the light is very poorly co, murray and 5, the bad in the north and ferocity in south. meanwhile, talks continue in, jo ha, for a 2nd day a.