is this another potential flash point for conflicts voices from different corner? every house here has someone who has made it to the top of ever. it's not just one, but several time program that has been your i to not punitive you today on algae near me . gaining ever more ground, the taliban captures afghanistan, 3rd largest city as it advances towards the capital. aah and robbery went on come on santa maria. this is the world news from al jazeera boats being counted in zambia, where president edgar longer with a controversial surgeon term also in the news 22 people are arrested

in algeria. they are accused of being behind some of the most devastating wildfires in the country's history. and choosing corndogs, the corona virus, the largest and new gatherings opens in the united states. ah, i hated early friday morning, an afghan stone, where the taliban has made some of its most significant gains since the slightest defensive began. the group has seized control of her ups, the country, the 3rd largest city that makes it the 11th provincial capital to fall in the past week. taliban fighters also captured the city of cows, me earlier on thursday. there was really been an escalation of fighting in the southern cities of kandahar and lush had gone to the point where us officials now fee of a capital cobble could fall in $90.00 days. the 3rd day of emergency talks, meanwhile,

between the afghan government and the taliban. has ended here in doha in stalemate . there are international calls for an urgent piece process. so prompting the u. s . and the u. k. to dispatch 3600 troops to cobble to help pull out their embassy stuff and local interpreters. but washington insist that is not a full evacuation, and the embassy will remain open. more on that with mike hannah. it was just a month ago that the top us general and i've gone is don returned to the united states. his mission, apparently over me since then, the taliban has made huge gains throughout have gone is done. and now be with is read deploying troops to assist in the evacuation of american nationals and afghans who worked with us. this is a temporary mission with a narrow focus, as will all deployments of our troops into harm's way. our commanders have the inherent right of self defense in any attack on them can and will be met with

a forceful and an appropriate response. $3000.00 troops on arrive at couple airport in the next 24 to 48 hours. a support team of another 1000 is being sent a cutter to process a single immigrant visas that are being given to afghan personnel. yet another brigade is being deployed to kuwait to operate as a quick reaction force. should the u. s. embassy and trouble come under threat, but the state department dismisses reports at the embassy make close. my response to that is, that's not true. this is not a full evacuation. un secretary general, the new york has expressed great concern about the situation, but still holds out hope for a diplomatic resolution. we are continuing to engage with the taliban. in doha, i mean we are continuing to believe that there is a political solution that can be had. this doesn't mean that we also blind to what is going on in the, on the ground. we are not blind to the suffering of the civilians. we're calling

cross fire in in urban environments, and the us president insist it's f guns who must deal with a situation saying he does not regret his decision to withdraw us forces. african leaders have to come together. we lost thousands at last death and injury. thousands of american personnel got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation. but i radically, with the latest deployments. the american presence will be back to the same level as it was for the past 2 years. of the u. s is longest running war my kind of audience era washington. that's even david said, ne, former u. s. deputy assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan, pakistan, and central asia. he told us earlier, the talks piece talks that are going on here and joe and provide full

t hope. because really the taliban, any interested in military games. the message that the u. s. of sending that to us does not know what it's doing. 30 days ago, the united states pulled 3000 troops out, its final set of combat troops. now sending more troops back in to help and evacuation of the u. s. claim that it would continue to support afghan that has been proven false over and over again. the united states is engaged gauging and the false and fraudulent so called peace talks in doha, know, stocks were never meant to be serious, talks about peace, but only about surrender. it was about delaying things until the tyler bond to win militarily. and that's what's happening. i am frustrated because i and many others told united states that this is a false hope, the cry and have these thoughts that the only thing that matters to the color bond is the military about united states is made clear. it's not going to give any serious support the sending it of the 3000 us troops. and 600 british troops is

only to get as many people out as they can before they have to leave as well. it's going to be very ironic because after abandoning the afghan forces 30 days ago, they're going to go back in and ask the afghan forces to help them, hold the airport against the taliban. and then they're going to say to the afghan forces, we want to get our people, but we're going to abandon you of the united states as heavy as having a massive failure of its diplomatic military and political strategy. you. so let's look more of that diplomatic and political strategy. the international envoy talks here in jo, which have released a final statement, encouraging the taliban in africa and government to build trust until accelerate the peace process momma jump, james. following that. after the conclusion of 3 days of african talks, here in doha, a final statement was issued by the envoys from the us, copper, china, pakistan, and other countries in attendance. and it said that the peace process in

afghanistan must be accelerated as a matter of great urgency. now, the envoys also reaffirmed that they will not recognize any government in afghanistan that is imposed through the use of military force. over the course of 3 days. the envoys here in doha met separately with both the delegations of the afghan government as well as the taliban delegation. this was difficult and delicate diplomacy. very few concrete details emerged from the meetings that were all held behind closed doors. and many of the diplomats who were present were loath to speak on the record to the press about exactly what had transpired during those meetings. there was a lot of concern that the participants had about trying to formulate some type of path forward for afghanistan at such a critical time for the country. and there was a lot of concern about how exactly the countries might have leverage over the

taliban at a time when the taliban is taking over so much territory throughout the country of afghanistan will move on to other news for now. the votes being counted in zambia as presidential and parliamentary elections. president edgarland who is taking your controversial 3rd term in what is thought to be an extremely tight race. hartaman chance has more from the soccer. the more than 7000000 people were registered to vote in them because presidential and parliamentary elections. there were long keys and the high turn not pulling stations in the capital, lusaka and other parts of the country in an election unless they will be very close . the high cost of living poverty and unemployment. a big concerns for me, voters. 0, one thing that he was reading just son, everything else to come under the houston port 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, it the longer. and this man opposition leader has i in lima, who's challenging longer. i suppose that the majority of registered voters in this election, a young people, the last 5 years or so, the people of them you have seen life get more difficult. jobs are more difficult to be 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 vote to 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 said that is unsustainable. zambia was more than $12000000000.00 takes dental companies and linda, the president. it was council and winning based on the floor plan infrastructure, including road and power station, but its main rival beautiful and how busy is a good track record in finance and its confidence. he can attract investment and better manage the economy, zambia 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 algebra, the southern sedans, former president, could soon be in the hands of the international criminal court. its chief prosecutor is in talks with sudanese officials to hand over those wanted for atrocities committed in the del, for region. in the early 2, thousands omnibus, she had ruled the country for 30 years until he was answered 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 not simply made when decisions are taken that become public in terms of their own statute. i mentioned, i was informed that a meeting of the joint council is scheduled for next week. we'll see what that brings out mclee. the decision to cooperate and how to cooperate is one to be decided by saddam not by me. the vice chairman of samsung has been released from prison in south korea, or after being granted perot j. wylie was serving a 2 and a half year sentence for bribing. a friend of the former president over merger deal

unclear yet if he can return to work. but critics say his release and reflect the culture of lenient. c for corporate balances on influential newspaper in nicaragua has accused the government of president, daniel ortega trying to hide the truth. this is after customs refused to release the prince as paper in ports forcing the suspension of its print edition from friday. it is a publication has been critical of the president has been cracking down on his opponents before seeking a 4th consecutive term in november's election. check the world whether next and then a greek tragedy. athens pledges billions in aid for the people who lost their homes and livelihoods in the fire, and had enough looking at why a record number of migrants were registered in the us mexico border loss. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day of 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle

airways booted world's best airline of 2021. hello, that is more wet weather on the way for china and japan as we look to east asia. you can see the intense cloud cover behind me on that satellite image and that's thanks to the may you front that's pushing pockets of torrential rain from central areas of china along to the eastern coast and on to japan. so we are expecting some really credential down ports for shanghai over the coming days, but not only here for those of central and southern areas of japan, we have got alerts for possible land slides, mud slides because of flash flooding. and it's not only this area, it's also going to be the korean peninsula that sees some of that wet weather. we have seen flooding in north korea, we could see more of that as that rain continues to fall. you can see those yellow peaks showing the really heavy rain to come. now was moved to south asia. it hadn't been as wet across parts of india. the monsoon range have been below average for

a 2nd week in a row now, but that hasn't stopped the flooding. we've got seems like this across those northern states as rivers remain at an orange alert across 35 locations. but the reins of falling heavily in the north east and in their power. but along the west coast, it is looking a lot lighter, but we have got a wind warning in play. the weather sponsored by cattle airways voted world's best airline of 2021. in 2011 out of the reported from tanzania on the sinister trade in the body. parts of l. b knows this is where the pooty right and sub on the spot rewind, revisit the survivor. mutilated to service the rituals of witchcraft when the crash rewind spell of l. b. no, on our 0. ah,

the the top stories this our on al jazeera, the town about captured. sounds 3rd largest city ranch. that is the 11th provincial capital to fall in the past week. the on group gain control of the early on thursday that pushes on towards the capital capital. the u. s. and the u. k. a now sending at least 3600 troops to cobble to help pull out embassy, staff, and local interpreters. washington though, insisting that into full evacuation, and the embassy will remain open. and in other news votes have been counted in dandy as presidential and parliamentary elections by president edgarland seeking a controversial 3rd term. it is supposed to be an extremely tight race. now

22 people have been arrested in algeria. suspected of being behind dozens of the countries devastating while 5 the government from struggling to contain those fires and as appealed for international assistance. this report of some gillian wolf. as a jury continues the battle, these raging 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, using 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 hold on. the hardest hit area is a mountainous region of ca beale, east of the jury and capital as many as 18 provinces and total are affected. and if you guys, 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 a country enters the 3 days of national morning. post disaster relief operations are already underway, the residence, healing of charity organizations to collect necessities for those that are injured,

and the hundreds of families left homeless, getting all those 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 rain, no has brought so much needed relief to fire fighters on the greek island of india . 5, the scorch. the northern half of the island, most of them of now subsided. countries, prime minister is called this destruction the greatest ecological catastrophe, graces seen in decades. they must ravi, with more from athens. it says that there need to be a fundamental shift 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 doubled 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 grease from forest fires. many people are very critical, were firefighting crews for the government, for not being prepared well enough in advance, for not doing enough to try to save, not only their homes but their livelihood. these people have no way through 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. a new wave of floods in landslides. meanwhile, the sweat through turkey's northern black sea region and the 17 people have died while hundreds of others have been forced to leave their homes. and the report from wrestle santa turkey is still bothering natural disasters. if so, was 154 weeks. now the note is on the water to they don't for has taken hold of the black sea region. amount of the flows 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 water 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 that have already called out, you know, be visit because we are fighting another natural disaster. we are in sanofi, which is lost, its connecting road in 5 locations. we have also received bad news from testimony and bartender. we are trying intensely to open the road show as much as the worst here province is custom on where several people were killed. every woman in nearby barton is also reported. missing. rescue helicopter is now tried to succeed where the land vehicles have failed. but the material ages have one region to break for

more rainfall. right now, nature is felt all over turkey and more so by those who have lost everything. you say that i'll just stumble and heavy rains close landslides in southern china, several cars buried under a slope which collapsed near a highway in union county. the drivers did escape on hand to retro ryan, also hit who a province trapping residence in flood buildings. a congo ship is spilling oil into japanese waters. after breaking and half the crimson polaris ran aground while sailing inside hot, you know, had port managed to free itself, but then suffered a crack which then split the whole ship into all $21.00. chinese and filipino crew members have been rescued officials, they're trying to contain the oil spill. now countries around the asia pacific battling searches of new covered cases due to the delta variance daily infection.

numbers reached new heights in south korea this week. and more cities in australia and the philippines have gone to lockdown to scott hydro reports from bangkok, from south korea down to australia, a surge of new cobra. 1900 cases, fueled by the highly infectious delta. very, it has government scrambling to respond, australia's capital camera entered a one week lockdown. the city reported its 1st locally transmitted case and more than a year in the us trillion capital territory, a c t. this decision is as the result of i positive coven, 19 case in the territory. a case has been infectious in the community. we also have positive wastewater detections around the i say terry. 2 of australia's largest city sydney and melbourne are also seeing high infection rates despite weeks of being locked down. for the 1st time in the panoramic south korea posted more than 2000 new daily cases earlier in the week. it led to

a plea from the government for people not to travel this upcoming holiday weekend. we do government journeymen coordinate if we don't stop. corona virus won't stop. i would like to say to the public that we ask you to refrain from traveling to stay at home during this liberation day holiday. as many of the new cases are outside the heavily populated metropolitan soul area, officials are concerned that those returning to the city could bring cobit 19 with them. this week, the 1st of more than 1000000 rank refugees and bangladesh started to receive cove in 1900 vaccine, 20000 infections and 200 deaths have been recorded in the cox bazaar district location of the refugee camps. recruiting we came here with happiness in our heart . we have received a short after coming here. it's good to see that they are treating everyone equally and managing the process lawfully. the usually bustling streets of the philippine capital manila reduced to

a trickle of traffic. only those with authorization can leave their homes. the government impose the heavy 14 day lockdown this week, as like many of the neighboring nations, it work to stem the rapids spread of new cove in 1900 infections and a spike in deaths from the virus. its got either al jazeera, bangkok, canada's prime minister, is expected to call a federal election on sunday voting day will reportedly be september 20th, making it the shortest election campaign committed. justin should are hoping to turn a minority government into a majority riding on the successive candidates. high vaccination rates. opposition leaders, though, criticize the prospect of a snap election during a pandemic. britain's most senior police officer says detectives will be reviewing allegations made against persons. prince andrew was being sued in the united states by the genie fray. who says he sexually assault said to her when she was 17, he knows what he's done in the united states. his agents at the border with mexico

registered a record, 212000 people. in july alone, you a secretary of homeland security out of 100 my yoke. us is about half the migrants are single adults passing the previous record of a $188000.00. it was in june. any of those arriving and from central america thing, crime and poverty worsened by a series of natural disasters. phil laval has more now from macallan, texas, you the figures that we've not seen here for more than 20 years, in fact, the average now every day, some 1800 migrants making that crossing and this goes completely against. well, joe biden said, not so long ago. what he told people, but this was a seasonal issue. the come, the summer. those numbers would dwindle. now the reason he said, thought is because that typically is what happens. you know, it's hot here in texas. it's hot in mexico. there's a huge desert in between the rio grande, it's not the kind of place that people want to get stuck in. but these people are

still making this trip as i say, 1800 a day. and they are making it on the male turning up, and then they are either being arrested by customs of border patrol, or they giving themselves up in the hope that they can claim asylum. what happens then is that they get put onto the buses. they are transported to places like, hey, and mcellen's, where they have nothing more than the clothes on that back that have work to show that they have a case pending. they go into the care of local charities as one where people are given shelter. they give him somewhere to stay, but these places con cope either they say they are running out of manpower. they're running out of money. they absolutely being hampered by cove it and it is getting out of control even for them. this is, this is a situation that is being pushed to the very edge and that it's being pushed even further along. one of the largest annual gatherings in the united states has open, despite concerns about rising cove. in 1900 cases, thousands of people are expected at the iowa state fair. more than a 1000000 attended back in 2019, and people are not required to be vaccinated or to wear masks. cable elizondo

reports. it's an american tradition, the state fair and nowhere do they do it bigger or better in iowa. it's opening day at the iowa state fair and it's full of rides. and who do want a giant turkey leg? this is the place and there are plenty of big midwest. farming trucks are display. cathy grainy has been coming here all her life. i have been coming since i was born, and i have been to this fair for 66 years here. it's all fun and games, but the truth be told i was going through a surgeon corona virus cases. just last week alone. more than 60000 confirmed cases, a 50 percent increase from the week before hospitalizations and deaths also trending sharply upwards. so outside the fairgrounds, it's not about what ride to go on or what food to eat, that concerns are much more serious here at the biggest medical facility in de

moines. they're so concerned about the delta variant and the surgeon corona virus cases that the childrens hospital has decided to cancel all elective surgeries, including biopsies for children that could have cancer. organizers in state elected leaders, refuse to cancel this year. masks are not required. social distancing, and temperature checks aren't happening. fair goers have mixed feelings about safety. i was concerned about it, i vaccinated she's vaccinated, but i still think the mask is a safe thing because we're very close to people doubts about coming. did you kind of talk about her was never any we all but especially where we're going to bring our grandchildren in that. no, it's not. we weren't going to bring the, the young kids because of course they can't be vaccinated. other health experts say that many of the people attending the fair this year are doing so with a false sense of security. it is the perfect mixing pot for people to gather

together bread coven, 19. and especially the delta via various and take it back home and cause even further outbreaks. we actually have one model that came out of polk county public health department that shows that they'll be about $600.00 people who are walking around positive for koby 19 each day. at the fair with affairs spreading the fun, but also possibly the virus. gabriel sancho al jazeera de moines iowa. ah. the are and these are the headlines. the taliban is captured afghan stones, 3rd largest city ranch. that is the 11th provincial capital to fall in the past. week the on group also gain control of cars the earlier on thursdays that pushes towards the capital couple more from charlotte bill us put them on a resident, sir. we talked about half a dozen.