tambra has gone into last town. ah, let's get more now on our top story. the conflict in afghanistan and the seemingly relentless events of the taliban. afghanistan's interior minister has told al jazeera security forces and trying to secure main highways, large cities and border crossing to slow the taliban lightning advance shall a balance. has this exclusive proportion? the 5 weeks ago general abdul sat mercer 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 a province west of cobble. much of the province is controlled by the taliban. for government personnel travelling by road is rear and requires an escort official forces. in the last 3 months to taliban has more than doubled its territory. and in

the last week started to take provincial capital. what's going through your head at the moment about those provinces? how. how worried you and how do you put the room? look, you got to cool. 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 posts. the 3rd is to begin offensive operation at the moment on these trips or 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 minutes to move. the 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 pre as jobs as the governor of tuna 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 and he says a lot of the government's losses are as a result of them losing control of roads and highways. many areas must be resupplied by air. and after the us withdrew, they lost a lot of that type ability. but that's fun. it's 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 force, and so they are delegating to local leaders, empowering them to recruit within the 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. 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 whip institute suits 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 . ward at 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 off taliban assaults. thousands of police officers have abandoned their posts in recent months. the interior ministry says they are returning and will be retrained. been 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. hire the telephone at what? what would you say 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 destroy buildings or are chief minutes and let'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. ergo, media in afghanistan, facing an uncertain future as the conflict intensive eyes,

a radio station manager and a journalist, were killed by suspected taliban fighters this week. now there are plans to evacuate. others to save countries and diplomatic editor james spades reports. ah, this is going to storms top rated tv network. tolo media was one of the successes of the country in the last 2 decades. or over 200 tv outlet over 400 radio stations . and over a 1000 newspapers and magazines. but work is getting harder every day is the conflict intensifies talos needs director. the full measure of his order holds his morning meeting to decide on the channels coverage. he tells me the safety of his team must come 1st. our number one priority is to make sure our colleagues are safe and then you know, they're able to go out and do their job. it's

all of the journalists. they are showing the most level of bravery and commitment of the network that runs tall. i was now a thriving business, but it started as a single radio station. we spoke to the morning d. j. masoud san jose. 15 years ago, he'd previously had a very different life. the young news reader on state radio when the taliban were in control. i've never wanted to go out of afghanistan, the only place i've been was to buy, and that was the 1st step of mine out of hopkinson fee. if i go out, if other young people go out, if the other educated people go out who's building this country. so we have to work hard to get this country like dubai. that's my dream, really. when we spoke you 15 years ago, you seemed optimistic about the future of afghanistan. are you optimistic now? unfortunately, i would say no. because the 200675.

i would say we were seeing kind of stand differently. there were no tele bond. there were no fighting's, there were a lot of money in the market. there were a lot of, i think energy in the country for the progress, which is not anymore. when the taliban ran the country in the 1900000000 tis watching television or holding a musical performance like this was strictly banned. stop here are understandably why not just about the future, but about this safety right now. i've got a son is without doubt, one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist or media worker. this network tolo. last in one year in 201611 saw the series of attacks, africa photographer fatima has seine has been working to document the lives of when in the country. she told me of her daily concerns. i got so many like messages on my tutor, instagram,

and someone else like the talk about members started following me and send me messages. what are you doing and why you are showing them? and like did african women are 9 like this? and especially like my gender and my city, make me a double target the media sector in afghanistan once a success story, now faces an uncertain and dangerous feature. james base al jazeera cobble. as us forces withdraw from iraq and afghanistan, the bought an administration is retaining its military presence. in ne syria, just under a 1000 troops remain to prevent the resurgence of its own. they're fighting alongside them. i mean cody's syrian deborah deborah, democratic forces rather as sama been jervey has nor from northern iraq. the inbound helicopter is returning from syria, as soldiers are ordered to come home from the front. their mission in the us led

coalition will continue in syria. the biden administration is committed to retaining us military presence in northeast syria on the ground, every few weeks us all just very equipment and supplies from iraq to naughty syria itself is the most important mission for us because that keeps a barrier to help. so that way, if ice is, does come back into another region, we're able to keep them back. just under a 1000 troops are left in syria to see if god or facilities and continue effort against what's left devices. that you are finding down obligations in iraq and apply this on. but inside syria, us troops continue just later. all of trying to secure the area that i supply does are not referred to the current surrender than being of gone forces. and the debacle of us to withdraw from iraq in 2011. as again, put the capabilities of us back forces under the spotlight. you spotless in ne,

syria and mainly could as city and democratic forces are s t f. in addition to agreements with us forces the f d f made a deal with russia in december to deploy russian troops to towns near the turkish border. most as the f i t as are from the kurdish people's protection group are right. the g linked with the kurdistan workers party, also known as p k. k. it's a complicated composition to be considered the by p g, a terrace group, and the p. k. k is designated as the terrorist by the united states and the european union. the 50th also controls jails for isolate detainees. last year, a you and commission of inquiry unfair. you fed the long term internment of allegedly ice and associated individuals in the northeast by b. s. t. f, amounts to unlawful deprivation of liberty in humane conditions. in 2019 human rights watch found women locked up without charge in the open air. a whole camp. testimonies spoke of and mouth guards from the kurdish forces. resting boys older

than 12. things have reportedly improved and then use force to say they have faith in f d f but have no oversight. now as far as for all those, you know, those types of issues. i have no disability have that right? so because i don't partner with them, and again, this is just observing from a distance what, what? because i own that battlespace right? of ne, syria. and it tells me that they do have the capabilities, conduct complex operations. on the invitation of the coalition elevator tried to enter the area under s d f control, but the us military was stopped by the group. a senior member of the coalition told al jazeera, the s t f said no to your visit to syria, into their country, so oil are, will comply. we will cancel the theory, a portion. kenneth scott 1st came to the middle east 33 years ago. he now leads 2000 troops spread across 4 countries. the s d f decision to block access game as a surprise to him as well. now if you're asking me if a area continuously,

you know, locks down on all its media and preventable, of course, is always concerned about that. i mean, that's, you know, the american concept is freedom of the press. you know, i mean we, we support that and understand it as a type of brigade gets ready to wind down its deployment question. still remain about detainee abuse, media, freedom and human rights. in areas under the control of partners they've trained armed and will eventually leave in charge. some of a job without their or big military base. graces government has pledged billions of dollars in aid from people. and forrest hit by the devastating wall 5. those who have lost homes will get cash payouts and tax exemptions. but as, as, and as robbie reports from every island, it might not be enough to dispel public discontent. the nikoto because you can let me know that i've been at the ball. there is anger and regret in 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 give us what the laugh is to say, to keep adding secret. 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 for 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 every 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, 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 to speed them to my house, called fi. everything was turned detractors, agricultural equipment, animals warehouses in food was. that's what we lived off. we asked to help and

nobody offered it. my husband who could talk to you in the other villages to help fight fires and now house burned down. and what can i say? what else can i say 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 if, 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 greases area island, panama and columbia have struck a deal aimed at managing the growing migrant crisis and they shared border thousands of people and making the dangerous journey through the daren gap, hoping to eventually reach the us to raise

a bow. has this report that they have been living in this reception center in panama for 2 days. but this group of cuban says what they experienced over the past week was like a nightmare. they ventured into the dairying gap, a jungle that separates columbia and panama, and managed to survive on the journey through the jungle. and you could, amanda 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 100 dollars each month. many of us didn't have the money. we escaped that 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 are 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 an everyday show. this video, so that team of panamanian border patrol agents rescuing co 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 to quota to attend to crisis. we 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 face along the way. they will, i'll just see their daddy and panama. how's that work is across the us have found themselves at the center of a national debate on the 19 vaccines. they are called to make jobs mandatory for all health employees, many a refusing to get the vaccine while continuing to care for sick patients. john hendrick reports 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 for religious or medical reasons, but in general, health care workers are now required to practice what they preach about. 70 percent of us adults are 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 is 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 got vaccinated and since plans begin requiring a similar health, fast food and 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 there's 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. 7 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 still ahead on al jazeera, a field love dreamers. if you build it, they will come, major league baseball is said to take over the field of dreams. ah ah

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capacity. no, absolutely not. but we are ready to play football matches on a, on a certain level to time champion simona how it has been knocked out. in the 2nd round of the montreal opened by danielle collins, the former. well, number one was making her come back from a 3 month injury layoff, but then didn't go as planned. how it last and teresa couldn't to 3 hours, american collins now extended her winning street to 12 mattress collins will be joined by her copatrick coco golf. and the 3rd round golf was leading qualifier. anastasia pose of 5 love in the 1st, before the russian retired with an ankle injury by game carrying high jumpstart, which i isa bar. she says the cho, he gains will go down in history, is one of the best to lympics for many reasons. a 3 year old was involved in one of the most talked about moments of the games are sham and his old friends young marco time very of italy agreed to share the gold metal rather than compete and jump off

for the title. it was the ultimate act of sportsmanship and for the tare with finally a chance to add of the olympic title to his world championship crown. i'll just there was some movie cut off with the athlete as he discussed his incredible experience in tokyo, brother, genuine moments. me and my friends, and martha decided to share the gold and the we did the competition. first of all, we are really good friends about those that would be competing since junior years. and then we went to senior at a professional level together. we did a remarkable competition that was the strongest hodge on campus in the history. and we did a great job both from starting high all the way up to 37. and the circumstances that we've been through. he was almost a dream come through. and i just hated for him to be on silver and of course for myself as well. so when we end up the 237 before to the 9 and the jobs come to us, i'm trying to explain. guys, do you need to jump off or?

and i just looked at him as a coming up to gold. any like yes, there is history because of the fan demick, you know, it was really special moments there. the restriction was you can literally feel it . the, it's not the same. i would say in the limbic spirit, if you have 4 people that persevere the 1st time, the lympics, they don't know what the real feel was when it was with audience. and you can go out and explore. so it wasn't a bit different. but actually for us, we need before we come there, we expect it was going to happen. so we know it's not going to be normal, but we just don't know what's going to be. i just have to give it to the japan 2020 . they did a very good job on terms of organizing the games. they did the maximum to make sure the school and safe and the when we actually get into the village and start to see the atlas coming in. i really start to feel the experience, of course, in the tract is not the same with the audience. but we've been waiting for 5 years . we've been around for 5 years and we didn't want. we didn't need actually

audience to us. we were happy ourself. you can see all the adults really wanted this to happen. it's history really like if you look at old, 820-162-0121 previous games, where we come, always stand and ambition. we just get hired on high on winning 2 goals. in 24 hours or less. so that was saying was amazing. everyone was so happy goal definitely achieved. and now we just saw that possible and majorly baseball history is about to be made in the small rural american town of dyer's bill, iowa, field of dreamers, i become the organic. i will pay the chicago white sox next to a cornfield, made famous in the late eighty's, where the classic movie the, the field of dreams with films, fans, and players will walk through that same cornfield to get for the baseball diamond. it's the 1st time majorly game will be held in the state. ok, and that is all your for, for now. i'm only back to you. thank you very much. fire i'm. that's it for me to

hear the new them. i'm emily angland etching. someone use with rain in just a few moments time. ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, showing the debate, you know, back scenes reaching those who are most of the needs and amplify your voice in allowed a diverse community and how in array of different stories. no topic is off the table. it's such a tough ethical debate where there is obvious discrimination and systematic discrimination of the play. people are thursdays for new boys. the stream where

a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera. my name's a place where they can truly call it their home groups. thing, you know, wanted me to ones you know, you'll enjoy money. my name is just for surprises. my name area where we know my niger on i'll just use for ramirez and lima, lima families. the pain is unbearable. 4 of their relatives were killed last week, doing a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government. security forces accused him of being part of a colombian rebel group and said they died and come, but the neighbors and family members in states, they were innocent,

taken from their homes and executed under pressure venezuela's, defense minister by the me to pipe dream said the forces were obliged to the friends that come through from irregular groups that added the human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated. ah, the taliban sees yet another provincial capital, and i'm going to stop this one just 3 hours. so couple, ah, watching all just there are like from i headquarters and hi, daddy navigate also had the latest fighting takes place as a 3rd day of talks on i've got a son is underway here and they cut her re capital poles open in john b.