bridge the government seems to tell, yvonne is relying on human shields and losing people shot the phone from around the world, the price tax that he toko james has officially felt $15000000000.00 that already the most expensive some games ever stage. ah, ah. piece, it'll be in the top stories from al jazeera. the taliban says it's close to capturing another city. as afghanistan's military struggles to stop its rapid advance. if confirmed gafney would be the 10th provincial capital claimed by the group within a week, it's about a 150 kilometers south of cobble. earlier us defense official told the reuters news agency. the taliban could surround the african capital within one month. the same source is wanting cobble, could fall to the group within 90 days. polls have opened in zambia as presidential

and parliamentary elections. the president at calhoun go is expected to face a strong challenge from his opposition rival, who's running against him for a 3rd time. and follows a campaign dominated by a struggling economy and a fight against corruption. her matessa is in the socket. people are still struggling, not just for people as well. but middle class is abby and he's saying that, you know, over the past few years is struggling by even the basic price is going up. but salary are not doing the same. so people for it's going to an interesting election . could one, isn't it way more than 7000000 people have registered to vote for lost and literally looking at about 4000000 people. they seem to be a lot of interest in these polls. well, you know, in a few days time, which, which way the jury is beginning. 3 days of morning, off to the number of people killed in wildfires rose to at least 65 in the old jerry and red crescent says more than a 1000 people have been injured and hundreds of families. the homeless authorities

believe many of the fires were started deliberately. forecasters in eastern sicily have reported a temperature of 48.8 degrees as a heat way. fuels fires in the north which have destroyed homes and crops if confirmed to be the highest temperature ever recorded on the european continent. in poland, the parliament there has backed a controversial media reform bill. the opposition says it aims to silence in american news. channels has been critical of the government. washington says it is deeply concerned by the move. israelis re imposing corona virus restrictions to curb a search and infections fuel by the delta variance. the measures include a limit on mass gatherings and the implementation of a digital vaccine passports, the health ministry reported more than $5700.00 cases on wednesday, the highest daily increase since february. those are your headlines now back to once upon a time in punchbowl, the

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ah, 3 months after the riot, a new bond between wider and arab, a stranger is formed on cornell. working with the lifesaving association and chronology shy council, the lebanese is trading community launches and initiative called on the same wave ration. what about? we train some muslims in becoming lifesavers. so not only do they see what being a lot, cyber is about, but they also can give an opportunity for people to understand what they are about me. i guess having witnessed the colonel riots and other forms of racist attacks, i fell into the trap of the victimization mentality. way of poor me, poor muslims,

poor beneath. you know, i'm sitting here thinking, you know, this person needs to do something and this person needs to do something. i thought, why don't i do something? mikayla is 19 years old and about to make history. she's the 1st muslim woman to ever train as a lifesaver, and he's one of the 1st to where the straining designed caney day putting on the very caney was amazing. it gave me the freedom within the water. it was an amazing feeling to, to be back into the ocean swimming comfortably freely the make did the training logs and other 17 and we had many injuries. someone broke the arm, some of my injuries included

a fractured nurse. a wave had carmen had lifted the board and sorry, had smacked me right in the face. i had serv, attendance in my fingers, i sprained both ankles at the same time, even though i had sustained all of those injuries. i just kept going because i wanted to be able to achieve my bronze medallion. so it's a great personal achievement for me. one of my proudest moment in my community life. when zeus kids graduated as a weird i truly as you call knowledge i. when the looking at mecca and that led and yellow bird kitty patrolling the beach as a volunteer. i was proud of what she has done. australia should be proud of what

she has done because what she did was 1st and award in the end, the initiative does not end bigotry on the beach. racial harmony is more and uneasy truth. but make a law and her fellow life favors make their point. i wanted to be able to put out there that muslims and muslim women in particular as well just as easy as anyone else. and i hope that having achieved that, that that message somehow resonated with every one. 0, this 3 years later, make a law joins jamal, had southwest in the labor in pay, jason clare and the future minister of immigration. scott morrison on a journey to the very heart of what it is to be a strain in today. took a code of jason was to bring kids muslim kids

and scott was to bring life savers from shore area code the my cheap trick because it could show the people from different sides can be made. so everything about my chip, everything that was kind of was about stood for that sense of sacrifice, bits into belonging. we want to take that we could coda and go through that experience once your in conditions like that, you know, walking through the mud in a rain forest. you know, it's quite easy to, to look beyond physical appearance for a lot of people didn't say, mean, you know, as they go that way, the scarf and i didn't see that person as just a lifestyle. you couldn't say that one person was more astray

in than the other when we stood at anzac day at the issue of i'm immortal. and let me tell you one thing. all over differences, melted into one. we were old one. we were old, said i, and there is one other breach being built. the police have been working and improving their relationship with the community. that the colonel or riots is the catalyst for even more action. we've ramp up multicultural liaison officer program. these are not police officers, unsworn staff, as we call them, who are embedded in a large number of police stations. around this, the sidney area. we established a consultative committee for the commissioner, which is populated by a really diverse range of representatives of ethnic communities. we also have now

a high tron coordinators position and it's simply somebody who dedicate a working life to monitoring issues of high crime. and i think we're, we're lucky because there was a lot of good people that meant well at that time in the police force and in the community in 2006, there is one police initiative with which some in the lebanese australian community, and not impressed or whatever it sites to get back control the streets who are the biggest nice try force gains wanted later they don't experience and evidence gathered during a crackdown on a murderous term for in south west sydney. the new south wales police expand the charge of task force gain and form the middle east and organized crime squad yourself well, so i made a decision which many other states have refused to actually label the people as the

criminal problem. ah, so it said we're going to have a middle east and organized crimes quote, something which specifically targets middle eastern people that did not help. i middle eastern crime squad. i can understand it if it was in the middle east. i just can't understand detrimental logy. and said that we never be unhappy with such a knology. we're still not happy with such minority because it actually works against old bridge building between us society and the police. i think the middle east organized crime scorned is called that name, because that is actually what it investigates and certainly some within the community that feel that's a good thing. then others also feel that it's a bad thing and that it tarnishes everyone from the least in background. i don't

see it that way. i am of middle east and background myself, and i feel tarnished in any way. in july, 2006, the nation's respectful and loyalty to lebanese straightens, is made clear when israel launch has air attacks on parts of lebanon in its war against his been the howard government evacuate over 5000 straining, fitted him to his credit. john howard and the difficult circumstances evacuated these citizens in a way that was very difficult, very costly. ah, but humanely. and since deeply done, i have no doubt. there was the victor way she was conducted and made us feel that

we are no longer australian of 2nd class citizens. we are rarely as anyone else. and there is another event which is destined to change the fortunes of many and southwick did need lebanese a trailing community. it is now 5 months since you had deep walked through the door, the punch bowl boys high. oh, never forget the dice. out of the punch bowl boys high school, was i taking on something that was just too big? why was i doing it? why would i get myself that hit all of those questions that were running through my head. while my jumping out of a payment into the fire, when i walked in 2006, i felt that the boys, it's up for a long period of time. as a school, i was struggling numbers, numbers were dwindling. there was there were threats of closure. they were, they were the things that just weren't going well as a school and, and every diet seems to just learn from problem to problem to problem in the late

19 ninety's, the school was just 10 minutes away from one of sidney's most notorious drug dealing areas. hello p histories. once again, dozens of police worked on the notorious on poetry to murder drive by shooting residential. i've had enough one of the biggest difficulties you have been running a school is you can't control what's going on outside of the school. the school becomes a melting pot of it's local community and you've got something like to be a straight which keeps coming up in the news when the school has got the title, that's the same name as this other that keeps getting that negative media attention . it does have a massive effect on the school. you got up. why did represent a generation of young professionals who decide they want to give back to the community and build it that emergence not just did but

a whole generation of young people who tertiary educators with a critic vision, which is both lebanese muslim and strive. it means that there is a new agenda that is possible. i thing i noticed was there was a sense of helplessness amongst the students. we had great features and had been try really hard. but there was, but there was, there was like a feeling that they'd been a give up mentality. quite a few principals had come and gone, staff didn't stay long, which is always indicative of a school. it's in a bit of turmoil. it wasn't a place where anybody aspire to go to didn't want to teach a punch. bo boyd, me where they belonged. and i'm talking about not only in the school, but in the water part of sided. they didn't feel like they belonged anyway. but they needed to actually needed someone to love them, that i needed someone to believe in a. and someone who could say, hey,

you can do this by 2008 to had has been appointed principal. and over the next 2 years, student numbers increased by around 17 percent. over the same period, the school records, the nation's highest improvement, right in test results for literacy and numeracy. jad deep is changing, young lebanese australian boys lives like 13 year old nigi who has just started. he knew 7. or if i got to the school, i didn't look anything at all. and i just didn't want to be there. i spent most of my time in the toilet smoking was lacking. digging school. i saw to school my friends used to get a taller things. i sang out of a little bad people. nice, think little drive. and it doesn't take him long before he's in trouble with the principal always used to give it always in schools always gets them the

and i said this whole time out of what i thought the guy for all the teachers or students and parents, parents were getting scared and i fight of the kids safety and got that straight away. scantron one dies didn't live as g suspensions mount. when he turned 15, he's taken aside by jer, had dbhdd. yesterday told me my school might not be cut off. you know, for to a trade in i say future goes us by he is is going to be rest employed now he is now 2 years into a plumbing apprenticeship. and the influence of his old headmaster is still strong . i think that mr. the really helping him set my last together. because now to start up my own instruction from company and i take on for the construction side. i have a lot of students from l areas and i take them or give them the petition in

a get a moving so that on the, on the streets. and it's something back for us, for what people usually ah, you can't describe how good it feels to be able to make someone's life better and to be able to make all help them make the right choices in life. once upon a time, university was an option it's, it's there. once upon a time, you will look down upon because you want it to be a tradesman. let's get you to try them. we save kids and we get kids on the right track and we get kids to become successful. and now what is to make a difference no matter what? at any cost, ah, today, punchbowl boys high continues to record some of the nation highest growth rates in

literacy. and numeracy over many lebanese is trailing families. the school is more of a sort of tried. it's clear and effective praise that their children and less likely to be lost to the straits. it is long before the community finds itself, once again in the negative media. ah, the court heard that the men had mailed weapons, chemicals and bomb making instruction in 2007 after a 3 year investigation. the value of a close relationship between the middle east and community and the police is demonstrated when astray is biggest ever counter terrorism investigation operation pen. dennis comes to court in melbourne and sydney. i sent you to a term of imprisonment of 20 years of friendship and then it's started wednesday

counter terrorism unit and the victorian police received information from was in the community about a small group of australian muslim working to plan a terrorist act. it was members of those communities who felt that some had drawn off the wrath and that it wasn't right. and that they needed to do something about it. unless we've engaged with the community and have the support, they will probably never succeed. the softer was when their confidence to build that credibility with them to build that rapport with them in a time of non crisis. he cannot get to these communities after something very bad has happened and say, look, i haven't bothered to get to you, but trust me. i live

in 2012. the community faces its biggest challenge since the colonel arrives a controversial film about the prophet muhammad box the furious wave of anti american protests across the ground. the in a few days later, it arrives on sydney's doorstep. when 200 people demonstrate outside the u. s. consulate through afternoon c, b meetings. you can simply read the message and say that, you know, this is the freedom of which is quite significant. very, very small proportion of these communities paid any attention to the purchase. and i think one of the reason that the case is because we learn from cornell law, that we can always be so emotional and irrational when when dealing with things

like that, they marched down to hyde park and most families had left. and then that's when it's sort of got out of control. it created an opportunity for the demonstration, which was peaceful, to get hijacked. has been shut down with hundreds of angry muslim protesters. the cd. the yes we do love the process, but that's not the way you defend to profit image and reputations do more damage to the profit and islam than the actual video itself. oh, you know, interestingly, what happened next is that the community itself saw the footage. so the news heard

the coverage and decided for the memo laid is of all of the different organizations quickly got together and said, we don't accept this, this is not what we can dine and we were this christ, others. so that in itself shows how far we've also come seems granola, lebanese australian, muslim leaders break ranks their counterparts around the world. openly criticizing their own community over the past several days. high profile with the leaders have both been out against the actions of a few slimy organizations will not allow for such activity to take place because at the end of the day, the only community will be tarnished while that exercise is the strength. so it's not easy for community leaders to criticize some of the around and it hasn't

happened too often, but certainly on this occasion, they were unequivocal of the condemnation of what happened of the support of the police. so we all have to work together to ensure that we live in this great country. i think it was a really fun moment for the muslim community, and i was very proud of the way over the community handled itself. i was very proud of speed. we mobilized, or where the community effort to diffuse a situation and to send the messages in a different forces, but same message. and the message was, violence will not be tolerated. not now, not ever the deliver needs a straining community has spent the last 30 years under age. no other migrant

community has had to endure the same. but after 3 decades of pain and struggle, the community have emerged stronger than i am really proud to be part of this community. please. so to zillion. that has survived the gold full saddam hussein, the gang rapes, john howard, pauline hanson. and we have proved to art as australian as anyone else. i think we have developed a platform where we've really dealt with pretty much every thing that has been thrown out of cultural issues, identity issues, settlement issues. we've dealt with racial issues with issues in faith and extremism. we've, i don't know what else there is to come, but i'm sure that will be something. but i just think we've developed. 1 a platform and a resilience that is so strong. and like any group of astronomy and living in

a big city, the people of southwest sydney faced challenges. gang activity and gun crime still exist. but it toxic minority is no match for a decent majority. fighting for a positive future, ah, there's a great sense of hope. and out of everything comes great. and the community live in a community the whatever can be in and what a. first of all my story strength. when i have a seat, i put as much a draw and i came into my all the x and i have to do it. i know my parents get back and they know them at the right decision with us. and we never came here for anything out of the to have updates a lot. ah, will continue contributing moscow principal and the commissioner and the community

relations commission. one of my brothers is award boxing champion to my brothers run their own businesses. my sister is a beauty therapist. we are all giving and we're all part of the society. i think my parents to they just sit at sometimes it's a little bit reminds me of the castle at the very end, where mr. kerrigan to the back. you know what he's patio and he just sits back to happy. and that's my parents. back and i got here with somebody. good me. i hello hot sunshine and high temperatures. it's really the name of the came across

the middle east. so come, let me show what we're dealing with on thursday. we've got 50 degrees and barked at to round $38.00 and that is well above average. next, i did want to take you to pakistan where toward the south. it is settled, but further toward the north we're dealing with that much sooner moisture so impacting places like is the warm about with the high of $33.00 degrees. we do have big concern over a disturbance hanging over the black sea. this could intensify to a tropical life cycle and look, it's going to throw rain to turkey's northeastern black sea region. this is an area still recovering from flooding. places like our hobby, hundreds of people have been forced from their home. so 1st the fires. and now we're going to be dealing with some flooding rains. speaking of flooding rains toward the tropics of africa, these storms are really getting going in particular through cameroon. and i g area . we have seen some very heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours further toward the south. we do have a lot of sunshine for places like botswana habit. only 29 degrees,

but toward the eastern cape. it is unsettled, and we've got to deal with gusty winds. to 55 kilometers per hour at sharp the sea soon. ah, the frank assessments, by way it is a lesson again, freedom suppress, informed opinions. what you saw happening is from market. there was 42. there was also petune is the critical debate that we are here. it's not between kula and any other conference here between the 2 years. rather than that, give them people in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on our jazeera, just the right here to report on the people often ignored, but who must be hurt. how many other channels can you say? we'll take the time and put extensive thought into reporting from under reported areas. of course we cover major and global events that are passionate lives and

making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like how was fine libya and her region. and so many other we go to them, you make the effort, we care. ah . edging towards the afghan capital, the taliban are close to taking another provincial capital. this one, just 3 hours south of trouble. i'm sure that this was gonna stones and harry, a minister who tell us how the government plans to fight back against the telephone reach in advance. ah, i'm ready and obligated this is out there. a light from dell for also ahead.