no matter why you call, i'll just bring you the news and current affairs. ah ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm learn. tell you, this is their news. i lived in london coming up. most of ne, i've got a son now under ton of uncontrolled, a warning that the group couldn't circle the capital cobble within a month. i'm sure that that's gonna stones and carry a minister who tell us how the government plans to fight back against to tell a balance. recently found guilty of buying china sentences. canadian businessmen

michaels travel to 11 years in prison and risking it all thousands of migrants set aside from a dangerous crossing from columbia to panama in the hope of finding a better life. i'm devin ash, with board pirates talking about president says that the most competitive football team in the world, and also finding little messy, not many would argue with that. we'll hear from the late to this hour me i've kind of stones president, ash, rough county, his phone to the northern city of missouri shareef to try to rally battled government troops as a taliban continues its assault on territory and cities. if missouri, sherry falls, the government would effectively lose control of the countries northern region. the us defense officials told the reuters news agency. they believe the taliban could

isolate the capital couple in one month and take full control of the city within 90 days. in the past week, the taliban has taken 9 of the countries 34 provincial capitals. meanwhile, efforts and dough hard to get the taliban and african government around the negotiating table of ended without agreement. the taliban says it's still committed to negotiations despite the rapid escalation and it's offensive. the government negotiated the concern. the group is not interested in a political solution. i've got to stop interior minister has told al jazeera, the government forces pushing to secure a main highways. large cities and border crossings. local groups have been given alms to fight back against the taliban offensive. charlotte bellis has this exclusive report. 5 weeks ago, general abdel sat mirza quelled, stepped into the role of it's going to stones and terry, a minister in all he commands a force of 130000 people. today he is driving toward deck

a province west of cobble, much of the provinces controlled by the taliban. government personnel travelling by road is rear and requires an escort official forsooth. in the last 3 months the taliban has more than doubled its territory. and in the last week started to take provincial capitals. what's going through your head at the moment about those provinces? how? how worried? and how do you put the room? look, you got to go. we are working in 3 phases. the 1st is to stop the defeat. second, the re gather our forces, security rings around the city and all those soldiers that abandoned their posts were bringing them back to their posts. the 3rd is to begin offensive operation with him and on these trips or about boosting morale. he admits that is suffered with the advances the taliban has made the telephone attempt to assassinate the defense minister and promised to target other government leaders. security around

minister murder quote has never been tied to a simple task of visiting checkpoints requires this many special forces. you survived multiple taliban assassination attempts, and his previous jobs as the governor of turner and condos was. i'm a soldier, a soldier never gets frightened. when we wear the uniform, it means we are ready for death. i'm not worried about it. he says most of the governments losses are as a result of them losing control of roads and highways. many areas must be resupplied by ear, and after the us withdrew they lost a lot of that paper ability with our spanish. unfortunately, with their withdrawal, the fighting started in $400.00 areas of the country and we have very limited air support. and helicopters have been busy with moving supplies and evacuating our dead and injured forces. so they are delegating to local leaders, empowering them to recruit within their community to rise against the taliban.

billy car, millions, fellow mother. there are concerns from the international community about these uprising forces at the moment that the all their members will eventually merge into the afghan national security forces. would ex governor says he already has 300 men fighting in one force, but he complained he could only provide weapons for 2 thirds the rest. he said he cannot provide with water, let alone money or arms for the last few months, people are waiting for the weapons. but unfortunately, the promises i made to these people were not fulfilled. but there is no doubt and a loyalty and desire to help get around. outside the room, the minister's men winked. wouldn't police and soldiers joined them? the talk of last nights, gains and losses, where they may be st next, and how the many injuries are healing? some briefly leave to push also taliban assaults. thousands of police officers have

abandoned their posts in recent months. the interior ministry says they are returning and will be retrained and sent back to the provinces. they say 5000 people have signed up for the police force and just the last 3 weeks with another 2000 graduating this weekend. ah, the government strategy is slowly becoming clear, but its implementation is still fraud. and the stakes have never been higher. the tell about what, what would you say to them them to do? i know i'm asking the taliban to stop their brutality. leave killing. sit down with love and we should find solution. i'm asking them not to story buildings or are cheap minutes and let's come and sit together and make a coalition government one that would be acceptable to all side. the sooner we do this, the better yet they need leverage on the battlefield to force the group to make political compromises. and every day,

with every loss that leverage weakens. charlotte bellis al jazeera warder. afghanistan from the bride. isn't covered with more on the taliban advance. this the ever changing map of who controls what in afghanistan 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 bizarre sharif ms. ari sharif is the only the city holding out against the taliban in the north. another city can do which is very important in the north bell 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 of

very heavy fighting around conduce. and that is significant because given it's important that 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, the was detonated, causing a number of casualties. meanwhile, a neighboring kandahar city that city has been under attack from all 4 sides, so that fighting in the north and the fighting and advances made in the south, it really puts a psychological pressure on the center here in cobble the state department

spokesperson says the u s, and tends to forge an international consensus in the push for peace accord enough canister. on what admitting talks in dough hall have been painfully slow. the fact is that we will not hesitate if we think it will be in the interests of the people about canister. and if we think it is an appropriate recourse to you to use any and all tools at our disposal, the one the one tool we have taken off the table, of course is the, the reintroduction of service members. because this president, in the priority attaching that he attaches to the safety security of american citizens, including of course our, our service members. we have concluded that the united states will no longer use our service members as sources of leverage in negotiations. representative soon several countries have met with afghan and taliban negotiators

and cut those capital to try to get them around the negotiating table. after negotiating say the taliban has not shown seriousness about the talks and does not believe in a political solution. but i'm a jump room report. very few concrete details emerging from day 2 of the ap can talk here and do what we do know is that there was a meeting of the extended troika that is comprised of russia. the us, china and park is on the extended troika, is a moscow initiated group that conducts consultations on ways to support inter afghan negotiation to help the parties reach a political settlement in afghanistan and to reach a ceasefire. now all the diplomats that we've spoken with thus far have said that of paramount importance during these talks is to try to come up with a joint solution for the rapidly deteriorating situation in afghanistan. the fact that these talks are being held at all really goes to show just how much urgency there is. how much impetus there is for the international community to try to come

up with some kind of a solution. and to also try to get the inter afghan piece talks and dialogue back on track. of course the inter app can piece process the last time they help talks and how was in mid july, and it's really come to a stalemate. so one of the things that diplomats want to see out of this is they want to see a way for the afghan government and the taller bond to resume their negotiations to try to come up with a cease fire at such a critical juncture. and to really do all they can to improve the situation in afghanistan are joined now by thomas h. johnson research professor, the national security affairs department at the naval postgraduate school and author of taliban narratives. the uses and power of stories in the kind of stone conflict. it joins us by scott, from monterey in california. thank you very much indeed for being with us. so just to pick up on the, on those, those talks what your forecast is there any possibility of a negotiated peace settlement going forward?

well, i, me, 2 days ago gone, he said the negotiations were over. i like to say a little about negotiations. when clowers i had last year in february, february 29, suggested this historic piece agreement. if you really take a look at it more for a phased withdrawal of us troops, he was never a peace treaty. there hasn't been a, there hasn't been a and william malley, a very respect, a diplomatic historian and african watcher has said the initial negotiations. that is the 9 talks that cows are here with taliban were the worst negotiations sense munich in 1937 and the paris peace talks in the early 19 seventy's and you know, it, it's very important to remember that even before the piece talk started which were september 12th of last year. graders assistant came out said there were 2 non

negotiable demands of these talks. one is that they wanted to re establish the islamic emerett and to they wanted to re establish their view of radical d o bonds. sri law either of those to. ready mean to enter the capital regime. i mean, it took 2 months for them to even come up with any procedures and they're still arguing about procedures for the talks. i believe that the talks are your political theater. there's never been has historical peace agreement to negotiations that wasn't accompanied by a ceasefire. and so i have no, yeah. so if a suggested bit by one u. s. defense official telephone or able to in cycle cobble within 30 days. what do you think will happen next? i'm sorry, i didn't hear a question. there's one a suggestion from the u. s. defense official that the taliban are close to circling

. cobble it could be around couple within 30 days and could take it within 90. would you agree with that assessment? and if that does happen, what, what do you think will happen? well, that, that was clearly reported in the u. s. media as coming out of an intelligence report. there's no doubt in my mind that the cat, our band has a vast momentum right now. and they could take cobble much sooner or much later. it really depends on the defense forces of afghanistan. and i don't have a lot of faith. and my sources on the ground are telling me that the afghan national army is withdrawn and, and the zip code in large numbers had an interview with administered the occasional police has always been an extractive organization. and i've been throughout afghanistan, i've heard numerous afghans tell me they have absolutely no faith in the

a. m p. and i think guy, he recognizes all this when he asked for the war lords to come together and arm the people to try to fight the taliban. that's an imp, lucid statement that he does not have faith in the afghan national defense forces. do you think that if those those groups are armed a need, as you say, they're planning to support those uprisings, what will you end up with a civil war? in fact, well, i think there could be a very, very vicious civil war. you've got to remember that, you know, masoud sun is trying to revamp the northern alliance, other warlords. and the thing that a lot of people don't recognize about afghanistan is that these militias and then urban or alliance represent deep clean f know linguistic cleavages in the country. so it's not, it wouldn't be surprising at all to see if these militias are pulled together,

that it doesn't result in a very complex and probably very deadly civil war. thomas johnson, thank you very much indeed for joining us. thank you. coming up there. this news, are you going to be looking back? i want to see the government hanged from that pine tree and burning. that's it. that's what the government did. anger on the scorched greek island of area as people question the government evacuation order. a symbol of turkey's changing climate, the dried out mean scape that was once a lake and a raucous reception. for the you know, messy off he's officially presented as a social my player will hear from him in sport. ah, a city on the italian island of sicily has recorded your hottest ever temperature.

syracuse are registered 48.8 degrees celsius. the world meter logical organization is expected to verify the record shortly. a blistering heat wave is shooting fires in the south of italy, homes, animals, and crops insist cities near mountains have been destroyed by wildfires. in recent days. there also fears, blazes igniting in spain and portugal. low temperatures could reach the low fourties. great government is pledged billions of dollars in aid for people and forests affected by the wildfires. those last homes will get cash payouts and tax exemptions. but his name is robbie reports from ireland. it may not be enough to quote public anger, but no hope you can let me know, my buddy, god, they're going to put the ball there is anger and regret in the i don't, i don't know when wildfires began, greece is prime minister kitty said houses can be rebuilt, now is the time to save your lives where the fires have stopped on the island.

there is a clear picture of the price people paid to heed his words. if you've anything not even get back with me, i want to see the government hanged from that pine tree and burning. that's it. that's what the government did. of a going to give me back the house as it was. what i'm going through now. can they give everything back to me? my happiness, my joy. right now? no amount of money seems like enough compensation. can i speak to the law office to say thank you very interesting. i'm going to tell you what the government's mistake was. they told us to evacuate the villages and towns, so there were no casualties. i remember in the past when there was a fire, the church bells would ring. all the people in the nearby towns and villages would go to the fire and put it out themselves with their own hands. men, young kids, so the fire doesn't spread mommy. now with the evacuation the people left, so there are no victims. and the evacuation was obligatory, whoever's homes were not burned, they saved their homes because they were hiding under their cars. so the police

could not find them and tell them to leave these other people who saved their homes even to wildfires in heavier happened at the same time as the ones in the north of athens. residents blamed the decision to divert rescue teams and water dropping aircraft away from the for the severity of the fires. many who followed evacuation orders lost everything. one woman who was told help is on the way, said her form ended up burning down. and she is still waiting for the firefighters to show up the speed in my household fi. everything detractors, agricultural equipment, animals are warehouses in food. that's what we lived. we asked to help and nobody offered it. my husband and the other villages to help fight fires. why now house burned down and what can i say? what else can i say see at this church or community center and rub?

yes, 8 has been coming in from all over the country, food, water, all kinds of other supplies. and it is available here for whoever needs it, the overwhelming message from the people that we've met here is that now is the time for solidarity. now is the time to help and support each other because of as many of them have said to us, they feel there is no other help coming across greece. communities like this have had hard days and the road to recovery looks long. zane bas robbie. oh, jazeera grove, yes. village on greece's area island. the death toll from fires ravaging algeria. mountains and villages is climb to $65.00. now, dear, in red crescent, says a 1000 people have been injured and more than 600 families left homeless. the president declared a 3 day morning period on a lives lost which into 28 soldiers. officials say austin is suspected in some of the fires in the barbara region of can be that despite the heat wave, there are a bunch money reports. it's

a desperate situation from branches to plastic, containers of water local using whatever hand to small claims court. but you know, we have fighting fire to protect at least the houses we evacuated the elderly and we stayed. as you can see, almost all, i hope mama catch michigan as you see there, a fine everywhere. we've not seen the government here. the people are acting as the government long lived, the civil protection team. okay, what i'll do here is kabir region is known for its lush mountains and forests, but scorching from a temperatures have reduced the trees to kindling it's one of 16 provinces in the north african country that's been hit by wildfire monday. thoughts, many villages are late and it's difficult to reach and saucer from severe water

shortages as homes burn and cause disintegrates. many people have escaped to shelter in hotels and school soldiers center to help reported because they got a lawyer to come to the main others badly. injured with the more we have 3 dates here and for the village. the hospital is full of juries present abdomen she deborah and tweeted can on it says to the soldiers families the interior minister has blamed austin as the fires. but so far haven't provided details. no coffee will know which way i can tell you for beating the fire. we're fighting it with all that we have as a thick blanket of smoke, confused could be as mountains and the skies tint,

amber residents, fire crew and soldiers continue to battle. the destructive force of the fires, nor by the manly out to 0 or 0. if cadet dry is in tv with him, yet any mosier had a go but others had was this is the 2nd major wildfire and now it's area this summer. you know, 1st was in contact with 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 and were displaced by the fire where the residence of tried to help civil defense teams in their efforts to put out fires near their house. i know the states have tried their best and have offered more civil defense and firemen teams to help to them. again, people here are talking a lot about material losses in agriculture and they're all the farm. the efforts of the civil defense teams supported by the jury, an army and a lot of volunteers are ongoing to rescue the citizens and find new shelters for

the south. west struggles with far as the north of the country has been hit by flash flooding, homes and cars have been swept away in the black sea province of c nope. authorities, at least one person has died and another is missing. 13 people were injured when a bridge collapsed in barton, for a dozen villages lack power will take you seen the worst name packed of climate change in recent years, especially in its late van region. like i call, which was one's home to dozens of species of animals, including flamingoes, has dried up. and that's concerning the locals. and of course, new has more from the eastern city of van. 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 slamming goes once made their home . growled has been a major problem here in turkey,

especially in its eastern city is like van zillow's family has lived near like a go for more than 70 years. he's not happy with the change. the wall of each mess . 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 speeches of fleming, like many other la grange 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 year's 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 series, dry up the lake may never be full of water again. professor moran to interact is head of the agriculture effect. ok 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 to characteristically, the temperature is $3.00 to $4.00 degrees higher this year on the lake fan base and 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 years down a lot and all of it became photo we'll ground water in aquifers, is an important resource for crawford, negation and trick. but crop production could be threatened if drought conditions persist. livestock raising will also be effected. some irrigation methods and this part of turkey caused 60 percent of water loss. how do they study them as it will lead to food prices to increase?

this means costs will go up for livestock raising an agriculture and a couple of mom. yes. what we as citizens need to do is 1st of all save on water. the local authorities also should reuse surface water for irrigation damage. lake van is the largest body of water in turkey and the 2nd largest in 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. sina console the al jazeera from turkey. still to come on out is there. this news, as a british man is arrested in berlin, accused of passing on confidential documents to russia. india supreme court ask the government to explain why cove infections are out of reach of the homeless and the los angeles lakers about it. another big names, the line up when i detail ah

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. if 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, we're a storms have really been given us a lot of rain toward 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. the long before the covert crisis broke the world was grappling with another global crisis. the climate breakdown structure of nature can lead to destruction of all hail the locked down examines links between these 2 crises and asks why it took a panoramic to bring on changes that should have been made long ago. all these things, we would tell him a complete, impossible to suddenly become connected. the wake up call that can't be ignored. on

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