how many nukes this to many new america had in many ways driven the arms race for parties are much more like the british parties down to the, there are, you will regulation to own a tiger than there are a tone, a dog. how can this be happening? your weekly take on us politics and i see and that's the bottom line. ah, the television takes charge of a 9 provincial capital in a gun. it's done while emergency talks continue to try to end the fighting. the warning that the group couldn't circle the capital cobble by the middle of september. and i'm sure that this with it's gonna stones. and terry administer who tell us how the government plans to fight back against the town of bonds recently? ah rahman, you know what? they were like my headquarters here in dev also coming up,

battling fires with no end in sight. we follow the fight to save land homes and lives and isolated parts about jerry and also accusations and recriminations in poland. critic say the government is trying to silence his opponent after it back to controversial media bill. ah, welcome to the program we begin in afghanistan. way it's president, nash of connie has slain to the government's last stronghold in the north. as the taliban continues its rapid and violent assault on territory across the country, connie arrived in the city of missouri sharif and a bit to rally government troops in the escalating battle with taliban fighters. and if the city falls, the government would lose control of the northern region. the u. s. defense official has told the reuters news agency. they believe the taliban could isolate the capital level in one month. in the past week,

the taliban is taken 9 of the countries 34 provincial capitals. meanwhile, efforts to get the taliban african government back to the negotiating table in doha, have failed. the armed group insists that committed to further talks, but the government say that the taliban is interested in a political solution in exclusive into with al jazeera of guns. interior minister told us local groups are being given weapons to fight back against the taliban offensive. and he says, government forces pushing to secure main highways. large cities and border crossings. charlotte bellis. how's this exclusive report with the minister? 5 weeks ago general abdul sat, a mercer quote, stepped into the role of s ganna stones and terry, a minister in all he commands a force of 130000 people. today he is driving toward a province west of cobble, much of the provinces, controlled by the taliban. for government personnel travelling by road is rear and

requires an escort official forsooth. in the last 3 months a 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 you and how do you stop the room? look, you got to go. we are working in 3 phases. the 1st is to stop the defeat. the 2nd, the re gather our forces, security rings around the city with all those soldiers that abandon their posts were bringing them back to their post. the 3rd is to begin offensive operation with him, and these trips are about boosting morale. he admits that is suffered with the advances the taliban has made. also the telephone attempt to assassinate the defense minister and promised to target other government leaders. security around minister murder quo 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. 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, a lot 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 military. but that's fun. unfortunately, with their withdrawal, the fighting started in $400.00 areas of the country and we have very limited air support. the 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. really. com millions for lemme that there are concerns from the international

community about these uprising forces at the moment. 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 outside the room. the minister's men, wink ward at police and soldiers joined them. the talk of last nights, gains and losses, where they may be seen next, and how the many injuries are healing. some briefly leave to push off the taliban assaults. thousands of police officers have abandoned their posts some 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 and 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 telephone at watching. what would you say to them them to do? i know i'm asking the taliban to stop their brutality. leave killing. they sit down with love and we should find solution. i'm asking them not to destroy buildings or are chief minutes and that's come and sit together and make a coalition. government is one that would be acceptable to all sides of the sooner we do this, the better yet they need leverage on the battlefield to force a group to make political compromises. and every day, with every loss that leverage weakens. charlotte bellis,

osha 0 water. afghanistan. while the bride has the latest from campbell, 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 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've seen with this latest resurgence that resistance simply being swept away with the gains of these territories and provincial cities really leaving only bizarre e sharif. ms. ari sharif is the only the city holding out against the taliban in the north. another city conduce which is very important in the north, 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 of 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 guy which is heavily contested. there has been a massive car bomb. this was a humvee packed with explosives that were trying to get to the main police headquarters. it was intercepted as he 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. it really puts a psychological pressure on the center here in cobble now wildfires and l. jerry and victor call sits mountains,

regions killing at least 65 people military but present says more than 1000 people have been injured. and these 600 families have been left homeless. the president had a 3 day period of morning to honor those laws for last including 28 soldiers officials . they also suspected in some of the fires in the beverly region bio, despite the ongoing heat wave. laura berg, manley reports it's a desperate situation from branches to plastic containers of water locals using whatever hand to smother the flames. your call, but you to we are fighting fire to protect at least the houses we evacuated the elderly and we stayed. as you can see, all of the state of all i took a moment catch mission 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 was 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 shows just as home burn and cause disintegrate. many people of escape to shelter in hotels and schools. some soldiers sent into help were reportedly cut off from safety by the fires. and for comes to the flames. others badly injured with burns. for more? well, we have 3 deaths here and 4 in the village. the hospital is full of jury's prison abdomen she. deb boone tweeted, condolences to the soldiers, families the interior minister has blamed arsonists for the fires. but so far

haven't provided details of the people 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 of mountains and the skies tint amber. residents by a crew and soldiers continue to battle the destructive force of the fires, nor by the manly out to 0. the graces government has has billions dollars and aid for people and forrest, affected by the devastating wildfires. those who have lost homes will get cash pads and tax exemptions. but as a massage report from your island, it may not quell the public anger. but i hope you can let me know, my buddy, god, they're going to put another ball. there is anger and regret. and when wildfires

began greece's prime minister kitty customer to talk to us 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 i did, okay, so basically 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. most can i spoke 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 said 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 the mama 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 are the people who saved their homes and the wildfires in heavier happened at the same time as the ones in the north of athens residence blamed the decision to divert rescue teams and water dropping aircraft away from 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 it will be to my house called fi. everything was burned, detractors, agricultural equipment, animals warehouses in food. that's what we lived off. we asked to help and nobody offered it. my husband could talk to in 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 in 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 that the overwhelming message from the people that we've met here is it now is a 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 bus robbie: oh jazeera grove, yes. village on greece's area island will still head on out there to job or not to job what health work is in the us. but at the center of a debate, vaccine mandate living in limbo, we talked to migrate some between panama club, with little more the clothes on their backs. they story after the break.

ah, ah, it's time for the journey to with the sponsored by kettle airways. hello. good to see you. here's the thing, the southwest monsoon for the west coast of india, we're going to lose some of that intensity. so in fact, for places like new delhi, a mix of sun in cloud on wednesday. but where the monsoon rains are picking up is toward the northeast. so indian states like the har westbank all into disha. this is really where we're going to have to watch for the potential of some flash flooding in the mon soon. range. really shopping up against the foothills of the himalayas. so paul and booth tan will also see that rain pick up on thursday. meantime, asia pacific, we've got our plum rains. they're really getting go. and let me put this into motion right now, and you see really not

a whole lot of change. these are training storms, so that's when the rain is parked over an area and just bringing out it's moisture through the yang. see the east china sea into southern sections of japan, speaking of the yang sea, pretty much from the yang sea to the south trying to see we've got birth of rain here. anywhere from about 50 to 100 millimeters of rain has been falling over the past 24 hours in time. subdued rain across the philippines, but locked into high humidity here. so manila 30 feeling about 40 and we've got some big storms over borneo on thursday. that sure weather update season sponsor cut on airways joined the debate. you do not have back seen reaching those who are most of the needs and amplify your voice. it allows a diverse community and how an array of different story, no topic, it's off the table. it's such a tough ethical debate where there is an obvious discrimination in systematic

discrimination of the play people or thursday for new wasted. the stream where a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera. ah ah, look about what you all just bear with me. so robin's a reminder of all top stories that can present. i should have gone. he has visited the government's last stronghold in an all in a bit to rally troops against the escalating battle with the taliban. if the city of missouri showing full, the government would lose control of the country's north and efforts to get a ton of unmask and government back to the negotiating table and failed with insist that committed to talk. but government representative trade the taliban is didn't

sit in a political solution. the one that jerry have ripped across your sponsors, regents killing at least 5 people, driven with print says more than 1000 people have been in just the present to decline 3 days a morning. poland parliament has bank they controversially media reform bill, the legislation would strengthen the ban on non european sense, controlling polish broadcasters. now the opposition says it's aimed as to silence and american news channel that's been critical of the government pull brendan explains, oh yeah, free media is a chance. and thousands of demonstrators in dozens of polish towns and cities have taken up the call. to convince that the right wing government a prime minister, much more of the sky is trying to silence the channel t the n 24, whose flagship news program is watch daily by millions that's exhibit. gotcha. so

if that happened, we would have possible began to from the possible bosses. no, that would be no democracy, no freedom of speech and nothing you said full. the new law would stop non european own us from having a controlling stay can polish broadcasters. tv in is owned by the american group discovery. the prime minister says it will protect poland from foreign interference and disinformation, but many see it as late and censorship of a critical media outlets. a move reminiscence of poems communist past bags of what was going to be that the source is imposing us. what we have to watch on there has to be in principle, a diverse agenda for every one of the issues of interest. and i'm scared that they will be seen to ship that it will be followed by a lack of democracy, basically at hotel a terry and state democracy itself seems in crisis. there was outrage on wednesday after the opposition won a vote to postpone the matter until next week and for the speaker to set aside that result and order the vote to be run. now you made intense political arm twisting

and horse trading. the government won the re run and then push the media ownership the through by 12 that's the cost of victory is the prime ministers just as a law party has been left without a stable parliamentary majority the form of pm donald tusk. the seen by some as a potential leader of a rival coalition near the engine it. oh boy. yes, we will not be indifferent. we are not resigned, we will shout, we will fight and we will win. the justice and law party has been accused of repeatedly defined democratic principles during its 6 years of power. there are ongoing with brussels on the p and course and but on issues, including judicial independence and l g b t. right. and the white house says president vital is taking a keen interest in the fate of tv in for now, the prime minister is pressing on. but a snap election looks increasingly likely. the whole brennan al jazeera for any

therapy. an armed group says it struck alliances to gray forces to overthrow the government and addis ababa. the early liberation. army says it's joined hands with the guy in people's liberation. frontal the t p l. s. s. know which has been fighting with government for 9 months. not both rebel groups have been added to the government. terror left earlier this year in the hospital, workers across the us have found themselves at the center of the national debate on covey. 900. next, since now there are calls to make jobs mandatory for all health employees when he refusing to get the vaccine well continued to catholic patients, as john 100 reports now from chicago to work at rush university medical center, there's a new rule, get the jab, or get another job, i think it's the right thing to do. we are in health care, we should be maintaining how and we shouldn't be putting our patients at risk. and

even though the risk of transmitting covert from health care worker to a patient is low, it's not 0. there are strict exemptions or religious or medical reasons, but in general, health care workers are now required to practice what they preach about 70 percent of us adults, or at least partly vaccinated recovered 19. it's 60 percent if you include the children under 12 who are not eligible for health care workers. the numbers are similar though at rush they've now reached 85 percent. were trying to decrease transmission of the delta variance. so you come here and everybody's vaccinated. done. you're less likely to leave with the virus rushed and the vanguard of a growing movement. nearly 15000 hospitals, about one in 4 across the us, now require staffers to get the coven vaccine, according to the american hospital association, and states like new york,

california and washington have issued vaccine mandates for health care workers like it or not. vaccine mandates work since chicago began requiring a vaccination or a negative test to attend most concert, more people who've gotten vaccinated. and since france begin requiring a similar how fast food in bars, restaurants and most indoor venues, millions more people signed up to get the shot. and that's crucial to reach the kind of heard immunity that those new variance from popping up. still some are saying, no, we're not elation. and there have been protests across the country by thousands of vaccine wary health care workers. you have every right not to get vaccinated, we're not gonna force you to get vaccinated, but you may have to find another place to work. that's exactly what happened to workers. it r w j born of his health in new jersey, which recently fired half a dozen senior employees for refusing to get vaccinated with more companies in and

out of health care requiring the vaccine to enter the office doors each day. that leaves anti vaccines with increasingly few options. john henry and al jazeera chicago. israel is imposing new chrome virus restrictions. they include elemental mass gatherings and implementing digital vaccine passports. the new measures were approved due to a recent, spanking new infection sealed by the more infectious delta variant. the health ministry reported more than 5700 new cases in the past 24 hours the highest since february. the mexico has reported close 223000 new current virus case. the wednesday it's pushed the total number of cases past 3000000. since the pandemic began, panama and columbia has struck a deal aimed at managing the growing migrant crisis at the shad border. thousands of people mostly from hazy and cuba, hoping to meet the dangerous journey through the darian gap and eventually reached

the u. s. trees of bo. how's this report? they have been living in this reception center in panama for 2 days. but this group of cubans says, what they experienced over the past week was like a nightmare. they ventured into the daring gap, a jungle that separates columbia in panama, and managed to survive on the journey through the jungle. and you can remember says they were robbed and shorter by criminal organizations. and i'm a little guy. we were on 60 people when a man was mosse and weapons, asked us to give them a 100 dollars each month. many of us didn't have the money. we escape the situation because on the other side of the river, somebody started shooting and we were in the middle with pregnant women and lots of children. and then they says, the group lost all their belongings and still bear the scars of the jungle. they tell you one thing, but you see another imagine you walk through

a trail and you start seeing bodies. there are thousands of people daring to make the crossing. they come from cuba, haiti, and other countries around the world. there's over 300 people in this reception. center, most of them call themselves survivors of the area and gap in this place, people are giving some shelter, some food they're treated for their injuries. and this is a place where they get ready to continue with our journey video center 0 by migrant show. people trying to cross the mountains and cliff in the jungle. nobody knows how many people have died this year. there are only the tales of those who saw them go missing. rescue operations have become and every day show this video so that team of panamanian border patrol agents rescuing ca, migrant. course bolt was destroyed by current countries in the region. i trying to address the ongoing crisis by now my fast. it would like to help the migrants,

but insists needs to organize the flow by now my, my husband receiving 1000 migrants a day which surpasses our capacity and the capacity of our neighbors. so we and now the quota to attend to crisis will start at $650.00 and then go down to $500.00 us . controlling the entrance to panama is a major challenge. people here don't know how or when they will arrive, but they're determined to reach north america despite the dangers they faced along the way. they said, well, i'll just see their daddy in panama. nas ambien said the poles with a couple of hours at the fight against corruption and the economy. top of the agenda, one of africa's most indebted nations is facing an economic turmoil. under pending, bailout, herman tulsa has more from the capital lusaka o candidate. her guy in the lemma is promising to great job suzanne b as jobless youth unemployment, his tenure,

high last year. there's been anger and frustration about the economy. that's why support will be kill him. as a position united party for national development are confident he can beat incumbent president. it's so he's scared that they're going to do because sanity is going to lead to just kind of gave you have committed some benefits. it's been too much for the cases. so they're scared to 100 power, but there's been people who are, they're both pipper will make sure that they handle the power the president lose batches, say they are not worried. the candidates plan to increase their control of the minds as well as development projects built by the government and paid for by debt . zambia had 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 the people in the position is to accuse us

of what we do actually that's of dealing because of the things that they can not even 25. so they're losing us, but there's much and 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 age to zambia, saying they are concerned about financial mismanagement. if we do not tackle corruption, then you find that we've got 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 to want to make. the country is relatively calm, but endless. predict this is going to be a hotly contested election after they vote if no candidates 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, ah, you want challenges there with me. so run the reminder of our top stories african present us. dani has visited the government's last stronghold in the north and a bit to rally troops again, escalating battle with the taliban. if the city of missouri falls, the government would lose control of the country's north. well i've got sons, interior minister told out as they were, the government forces the pushing to secure main highways.