bridge, the government seems to tell a bond is relying on human shield and losing people shot the phone from around the world. the price tag to the tokyo games have officially felt $15000000000.00 that already the most expensive summit games ever stage. ah, gaining ever more ground the taliban captures? i've got the stones 3rd largest city as they advance towards the capital. ah, hello. hello robin, you're watching. i was, they were like my headquarters here in doha. also coming up to being counted in zambia were present at killing who is seeking a controversial term 22 people are arrested in algeria accused of being behind

some of the most devastating wildfires in the country's history and with 3 months ago before the comp $26.00 climate conference in glasgow on jonah whole here in edinburgh with the creative arts just emerging from the pandemic for turning their attention towards the next big crisis of our time. ah, welcome to the target we begin and i've got to start with the taliban has made some of its most significant gains since the fence. it began in the last couple of hours, the armed groups, these control of harass the countries, 3rd largest city. it's the 11 provincial capital to fall in the past week. taliban site has captured the city of garden the earlier on thursday. and there's been an escalation in the fighting in southern cities of kandahar and logical gar, us officials from the capital cobble could fall in just 90 days. now the 3rd day of emergency talks between the african government and the taliban has ended in doha,

in a stalemate. there are into national calls for urgent peace process, and the u. s. and the u. k. law dispatching the 3600 troops to cobble to help pull out embassy, staff, and local interpreters. charlotte bellis begins all coverage from the capital cobble. we can confirmed here that herat has fallen this evening residence there. we took about half a dozen people who said the same thing that they would tell yvonne in all the streets in the center of town that they had come into town this afternoon. pushed through, they had been trying to get into the city for about a month, but they made a breakthrough cross through the front line this afternoon and they broke into the prison. they got into the police compound. they got into the governor's compound, they released all the prisoners residents telling us that that they had prison is one man said my relatives when the prison another in my house. and they could hear gunfire. but they said us driving through town. that gunfire is not coming from clashes from security force. it is, is it is celebration,

reagan fire coming from the taliban. they said from what they could say that security forces seem to just give up without a fight. now it is a huge price. as you said, for the taliban, the 3rd biggest city in afghanistan and a huge loss for the government is the biggest city in the west. and. and they had tried very, very hard to hold onto it. they had empowered the former governor of harass his name is male hon. to create a local uprising movement who had worked with the special forces using it strikes also to keep the telephone out. but the taliban breaking through this evening. it is not the only place that the taliban claiming this evening. they have also claimed a province near that. in the west school bag geese was took to local journalists there. that said, heavy fighting has been ongoing in that province. that they are a police and intelligence compounds have been captured, but there is some heavy fighting. and the governors compound there is not entirely captured by the taliban, but certainly on the cost of going there is also heavy fighting in kansas city. now

that is incredibly important. because it is the 2nd biggest city in afghanistan, it is the birthplace of the taliban. they have been fighting incredibly hard to get and the government has seen a lot of the most elite special forces to keep the telephone us. it strikes have been ongoing there to, to try and, and push the taliban out for at least a month. but they, they managed to get into the heart of the city today. we saw the videos of it thought communications are very poor, so it's incredibly hard to stand up exactly where they're at. now i talked to someone at the short time ago who said he'd be fighting is ongoing. but it's hard to tell exactly what the telephone now controlled in kandahar city was communications down. now earlier today, the province of gods and he fell gods, nice city. it's just 150 kilometers from cobble with the closest city to cobble that they had captured his report on the professor taliban fi. she's overlooking land that would soon be there's the group. tried to take gus ne, 3 years ago,

but failed this time. it had control in a matter of hours. you can see our fighters with tanks from the city were doing an operation heading towards the police headquarters. there was a prison break and the prisoners were released. the taliban are here and we're moving forward to capture more places. keep watching. the governor governor don't lead money is accused of doing a deal with the telephone to safe passage to escape to cobbles. about the telephone yell. the governor has run away, flaunting trucks and equipment claimed in recent conquests. the tele bomb was seen scalding the governor through its new territory as can police arrested him shortly after 4 surrendering without a fight. gaffney is the team to prevent you capital to fall in 7 days. prior to

this week, the last time the taliban had held a provincial capital was 5 years ago, and that was only for a matter of days. its location is also significant as a gateway to the south of the provincial capital that have fallen golf news the closest to cobble just 150 kilometers away. the telephone now hold about 2 thirds of the country, including much of northern afghanistan provinces in the west and rural areas in the self. all now leverage they taking into negotiations with the afghan government. they've got what they wanted from the dual process. they've got us to withdraw me the nature of truth with ro. i can't see why they would, at this stage compromise. they think they can take africa stand by force, and that's what they're going to try and do over the next few months. here in the capital, concern is growing about the possibility of a telephone takeover about,

i mean, we worry a lot when we see the taliban capturing the provinces. it's natural for us to worry about. it was the most other ways gave shuttle. i don't know, we are asking the taliban not to destroy cities. they should do a peace agreement. they should agree to a government. they can be in power and we can be a power together. that is, the government is bringing some special forces back to cobble to bokes to security . it means risking the loss of more provinces to the telephone. there is heavy fighting on going in for other provinces. so this is not stopping the telephone and not stopping yet. they are turning their attention now that they've claims these other provinces. they're turning their attention to others. tonight, i'm told that heavy fighting has ruptured in logan, sorry, absorbed, packed in home. and they say that they think they are making inroads in the provincial capital of flesh, which is essentially been on the siege for about 2 weeks. but of all of these places they are fighting,

the most attention will be on can to ha city. the 2nd biggest city, hundreds of thousands of people bear the birthplace of the taliban. it would be a huge morale, boots for the taliban to get it. and the government of fighting very hard to keep it with us as confirmed sending military into afghanistan to help them the staff to leave. but says a full evacuation is not taking place. the embassy remains open. we will continue to have a diplomatic presence on the ground to fulfill these important functions. now, of course, the safety, the security, the welfare, the well being of american citizens serving overseas is of the utmost priority to this president. so of course we are undertaking prudent contingency planning. that's precisely what we did to lead us here today. well, my kind of correspond joseph now from washington d. c. and mike, it does seem that the us is really not taking any chances and evacuating some of

its citizens with the help of the us military. well indeed, yes, the thought running perhaps so that you now have some $3000.00 us forces will be in theater incoming days. that's the same level that the true presence has been over the past 2 years of the u. s. as longest running war, there are 3 brigades going into secure the couples international airport to marine brigades and an army brigade. in addition to that, the 1000 troops, the strike force is going to be stationed in kuwait. they will operate as a quick reaction force, should the u. s. embassy and couple ever come on the threat. and in addition to this, another $1000.00 support personnel of being drafted off to comp, time to process the single immigrant visas of africa. nationals who worked with the us forces. so it is a very huge deployment indeed. and showing that the bite and administration has been in a way, been taken back by the speed of the telephone advance. it had been confidence

previously that us support could help the afghan forces keep back. the taliban retained their positions. but clearly this is not the case. would you agree, mike? that has been sort of mixed messaging because on one hand, state department spokesman net pricing, we saw in that class sort of said that the move shouldn't be seen as encouraging and already emboldened taliban. and he went on to say that we are committed to supporting afghanistan and it's people that commitment remains that one does what sort of commitment to tease. because the us seems to want out on many levels one and tedious and one must point out as well though that state department has made very clear that this deployment is what it calls a very narrow focus. it is there to protect the last remaining american civilians. and locked american american forces as they are decorated from the country. they

will not be saying that that is very clear indeed. so you do have that also. you have president biden saying within the past 24 hours, that he does not regret his decision to withdraw. that it is now up to the guns, the to fight against the taliban, up to the generals and the afghan government. in the course of the day though, the secretary of defense and the secretary of state, made a phone call to president connie as they once again reiterated the u. s. a support for africa national interest. also saying that they still believe that a diplomatic solution. what's the way to go and reiterating though, that the withdrawal of us forces does not mean an end of support for cutting on the way the secretary of state put it according to his reach out from his department, is that the u. s. is shrinking it's footprints, but will remain committed to achieving a lasting peace within a gun is done. but there is, as you say, mixed messages coming out. and above all, it's very clear that the biden administration and the military leaders have been

completely taken back by the speed of the taliban at bonds. and this is why you've now got the southern new jersey deployment of thousands of us troops back into a theater that us troops had just decorated from a few weeks ago. because we'll check in with you as we get more developments out of the u. s. on that's going to stand issue for the moment. my kind of thank you, but it's all being counted in san b as presidential and parliamentary elections present at dillinger is seeking a controversial term. it was thought to be an extremely tight race, which also has more from the capital, the soccer. more than 7000000 people were registered to vote in them as presidential and parliamentary elections. there were long keys and a high turn out pulling stations in the capital, lusaka, and other parts of the country in an election unless they will be very close to the high cost of living poverty and unemployment. a big concern for many voters. 0 one

ready thing to do with breathing this son. everything else to come on sunday the tuesday so that we should be head if you are not working it's quite difficult to cope with the standard of life now. yes, everything is become very expensive. so it's quite challenging. there are 16 presidential candidates, but the main content is, are the incumbent president in colonial and this plan. opposition leader has i in lima who's challenging and i'm glad to pose the majority of registered voters in this election. a young people in the last 5 years, also the people of them have seen life get more difficult. jobs are more difficult to obtain. business is more difficult to do. that's been a contraction of economic activity and the contraction of opportunities for young people. so this, it appears that the youth have been putting a lot more time and energy to coming, registering as voted them coming to vote,

because they want to be able to vote for the future that they think will be driven by the candidates that they choose. the president is accused of borrowing from international creditors to find the various building projects and critic say that is unsustainable. zambia was more than $12000000000.00 to extend all companies and limited president. it was council winning based on the floor plan infrastructure projects, including road and power station, but its main wible beautiful. and he says he has a good track record and violence, and his confidence he can attract investment and better manage the economy. zambian electoral commission, people official results are expected by sunday if there are no delays, but it's what happens after that. that as many people worried how to my daughter out there, the soccer will still had hail and al jazeera, a greek tragedy. athens pledges billions and aid the people who lost their homes

and livelihoods in recent 5. also, no one is above the law says the u. k. police are being allegations against prince andrew. excuse me, sexually abusing a teenage girl stories after the break. ah, ah. hello, they're dangerous. he is once again building across north america, not just in the west coast, but also in the east coast. we've had a heat warnings and advisories issued, and this was the scene in portland, oregon, where they've opened cooling centers to try to cope with those conditions. so we are expecting temperatures to rise well above 40 degrees celsius, not just in the west, but also on that east coast. you can see new york city and washington

d. c. edging up into the high thirty's. and we are expecting a lot of heat and humidity with that. we are expecting some thunderstorms to roll into the ne, not just here, but up into eastern areas of canada. and the weather continues in the south west of the us. we seen flash flooding across arizona, we could see that happening in new mexico. as those monsoon rains continue to fall and the deep south is also looking rather wet. we could see some heavy rains trigger floods here as well. things are also looking west for much of the florida peninsula. that's thanks to tropical depression. fred, it's moving its way across cuba and by the time we get into saturday, it's likely to bring the wet and windy weather to the florida keys. the frank assessments, by way it is a lesson freedom,

surprising informed opinions. what you saw happening is come on to it was $42.00. there was also petune is the critical debate that we are here. it's not between kula and any other group that we have corporate here, that 4 years re running that even people in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on our jazeera oh, the me look back, you're watching on that with me. the whole run the reminder of our top stories, the taliban is captured, have got his phones, 3rd largest city of iraq. it's the 11 provincial capital to fall over the past week

. bill group game controller got the early on thursday as it pushes towards the capital tolerable. the u. s. and the united kingdom is sending at least 3600 trips to cobble to help pull out empathy staff and local interpreters. washington insists it's not a full evacuation of the embassy will remain open. also dates have been counted in zombie as presidential and parliamentary elections. president edgarland who is seeking a controversial 3rd term, it was thought to be an extremely tight grace. so dollars for the president could soon be in the hands of the international criminal court. its chief prosecutor is in talks with sydney's officials to hand over those wanted for atrocities committed in da, full in the early 2, thousands. well, the sheer rule, the country for 30 years until he was asked it in 2019 regarding an individual, the former president, omar bashir, i have not discussed dates. i had discussions with the various part of the

government, which they are aware of. they know their responsibilities and they will, you know, nonsense made when decisions are taken that become public. in terms of the room statute i mentioned. i was informed that a meeting of the joint council is scheduled for next week. we'll see what that brings. automatically the decision to cooperate and how to cooperate is one to be decided by saddam not by me. a cargo ship is spilling oil into japanese waters after breaking in half the crimson palarez from the ground while sailing inside had no port. it managed to free itself, but then suffered a crack which split the ship into all $21.00 chinese and filipino crew members of the rescued official se. then i'll try to contain the oil spill. and the way the floods and landslides swept through turkey's northern black sea region,

at least 17 people have died, while hundreds of others have been forced to leave their homes. so said the reports turkey is still bothering natural disasters is so i was on 54 weeks now. the note is on the water at 2 they don't for has taken hold of the black, the region. amount of the floats and lance lice killed 6 people in the area. almost a dozen people have now been forced from their homes, actually running as if we couldn't understand what was happening. came in a rush, took everything and went away. now we don't have any belongings or anything. below the waters swept away vehicles and records. many homes and businesses. search and rescue crews were immediately sent to help the standard. but some of them were hampered by roads and police have already called out, you know, be visit cause we are fighting another natural disaster. we are in sanofi,

which is lost, is connecting roads in 5 locations. we have also received bad news from testimonial and bartender. we are trying intensely to open the road, shows. the worst hid province is custom on where several people were killed. everyman in nearby barton is also reported. missing. rescue helicopter is now tried to succeed, whereas land vehicles have failed. but the material ages have warned the region to brace for more rainfall. right now, nature's wrath is felt all over turkey. and more so by those who have lost everything, you said that i'll just stumble. now 22 people have been arrested in algeria suspected of being behind dozens of the countries, devastating wildfires. the government has been struggling to contain the blazes and have appealed for international assistance. gillian wolf has more as a jury, a continues to battle. these region wildfires and a lot of ration is underway on the ground and from the skies.

we are watching the fire to try to prevent it from spreading further, but it seems to be impossible and now reached al zone. emergency crews and villagers are doing everything they can with what little they have to use in buckets of water, hoses and branches. the desperation is clear as people raise to save more homes from burning to the ground and prevent further loss of life. people have died, schools and houses down the villages of lift their homes and take refuge in communal who missed. the hardest hit area is a mountainous region of ca beale, east of the syrian capital, as many as 18 provinces and total are affected. and if you go there is a lot of damage. some of lost their homes, lots of things. nature will not recover soon. given that the people here live off their olive groves, this is only the beginning of the disaster. the government has deployed the army,

but dozens of soldiers were among those who died during the rescue operation. and the government is now calling for international help. the european union is lending its plains that were used to battle the wildfires in greece. algeria prime minister has visited to the issue one of the effected regions announcing the president's plans to compensate those who have been affected as the country enters the 3 days of national morning. post disaster relief operations are already underway, the president, healing of charity organizations to collect necessities for those that are injured and the hundreds of families left homeless. we responded to an announcement asking to collect donations and medicines, and that's what we did. but i make here in another urgent announcement to all pharmacies and algeria we need medicine here. new algeria is just one of several nations battling wildfires as record breaking temperatures spark widespread devastation. but authorities here believe many of the flames were deliberately lift

julian wolf, al jazeera. the italian health ministry has also issued warnings for 8 cities as the heat. waves sweeps across the country, the temperature hit, the 40 degrees celsius, the capital rome in the sicilian capital, a set of kuza, a local meter, logical service, registered $48.00 degrees on wednesday, which would be a european record. rain is also brought her some much needed relief to fire fighters on the greek island of f. you fives, have scorched the northern half of the island, and most of the blazes have now subsided. countries prime minister, call the destruction the greatest ecological catastrophe. greece had seen in decades named the throb has more from the capital things. he says that there needs to be a fundamental and how not only the government, but individuals carry on with the day to day life of living under these new climate

circumstances. he said also warning his countrymen, that the danger is not done yet. he also crucially double down and defended himself where, where it comes to a controversial policy of mass evacuations, of mandatory evacuation of communities that have been affected by the fire to government. come under serious criticism for using evacuations as, as simply a blanket solution and for not doing enough to save homes and properties. he said in this press conference, there was nothing for it, but for the government to prioritize human life over everything else. now we've gone all across the fire zone in the north of athens on the island, one of the worst hit areas, the worst hit area of grief from forest fires. many people are very critical, were firefighting crews for the government, for not being prepared well enough in advance, and for not doing enough to try to save, not only their homes but their livelihood. these people have no way they're living now. many of them in those communities live and work locally in those areas and now

they say they have to leave. and there's been a math displacement of community all over the country. and a lot of the people we spoke to said, all these promises are fine. when a catastrophe of this magnitude is fresh, but a lot of politicians simply don't keep to their promises in the long term. so a trust deficit there as well, that greek politicians will have to contend with. and the crisis isn't even over yet. kennedy's prime minister is expected to call a federal election on sunday. those day will report it will be on september, the 20th make it the shortest election campaign committed just in today is hoping to turn his minority government into a majority writing all the success of canada. as high vaccination rates, britons my senior police officer says detectives will be reviewing allegations made against britain, prince andrew. he's been sued in the us by virginia fray, who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17. the parker,

his following 2 elements from london were christ of the day. my senior, a police officer in the country head of london metropolitan police service said that given the civil case that had been brought against prince andrew, the united states of force with now review the evidence against prince andrew. it's important to clarify that this is not the same as an investigation and that there have been 2 reviews of the evidence in the past. and the conclusion is always being here in the united kingdom, not to take the case any further questions. i did also stress that nobody is above the law. the suggestion being if new evidence services of the outcome could well be very different. prince andrew faces accounts of, of rape of. busy virginia jeffrey in 3 different locations here in the united kingdom in new york, and also on

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