we are wrong. did you want the un to take and who stopped you? we listen. you see the whole infrastructure being totally destroyed? we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on our sera . ah, 2 more provincial capitals have been taken by the tyler bond in afghanistan, the 2nd largest city kandahar alaska gun. ah, hello, i'm hasn't seeka. this is i just need a live from the also coming up. heavy rain in parts of japan triggers mudslide warnings in the south and west and bangladesh has seen deforestation,

and nearly double the global average will look at the impact of having on villages and animals. the father of sing brittany spears says he will give up control of money and life after a bitter legal pattern. mm. hello. the taliban has made its most significant gains yet in an offensive that is leaving, cobble, dangerously exposed. it's now been confirmed that 2 more provincial capitals have been captured. one of them can haul afghan, a star, 2nd biggest city and the all groups birthplace of the other is laska god, the capital of hellman province in the south. on the diplomatic front, a 3rd day of emergency talks in the hub between the afghan government and the taliban ended in deadlock. and as the taliban presses its advance, the u. s. and u. k. are dispatching more than 3 and a half 1000 troops to cobble to help with the evacuation of embassy staff and

others. there are, let's be now to rub mcbride, who is live in cobble force, a rob, 1st of all, those developments on the battlefield. the taliban taking kandahar and laska go yeah, this is a real big blow for the government. something of a shock. i mean both of these city is very important for the government in the south. both has been under considerable attack, considerable pressure in recent days. in fact, the fighting at the entered laska for a number of days. but kandahar the city itself is pretty much considered a fortress to come under attack from all 4 sides in recent weeks and days had managed to defend itself. and then very quickly, overnight we heard about it simply being over run about fighting very quickly, reaching the center of the city, the fall of the governor's compound, the full of the police headquarters. and then the withdrawal of military viewed it

to a very large military base at the side of canda. ha, we understand that the military are also in charge still in control of the airport, although there are no flights and it remains to be seen what the military will do. now, there is still a very considerable government military resources down there. whether that will be some sort of a counter attack to try to retake the city. but for the moment this is a real big shock overnight. we also heard about other losses had act in the west of the country. that is a very significant strategic city that the government had control, but that fell over night. another city. another provincial capital in the west fell, which means the loss of baghdad. that's another western western province. and in recent hours we've been hearing about other potential gains by the taliban. that is developing throughout this friday. really at a very quick pace. other provinces such as court and province called order. now these are both to the west and the south west of cobble that, that has been considerable fighting that have been claimed by the taliban,

that they have taken those 2 provinces. and we are starting to hear from local sources that, that they may well be the case. we are still waiting to hear, but it gives you an idea of just how fluid the situation is. i will throw one other name at you and that low god, this is a province that actually board is cobble to the south. the provincial capital is only about 70 kilometers away the border with his province 40 kilometers away. and we are hearing that there has been intense fighting around the provincial capital. it's so which means that the fighting, it seems get ever closer to cobbled. and of course, the question a lot of people want to know the answer to is, where is the african government in all of this, rob, do they have a plan to respond here? you would have to say for the moment the government and its military really seems to be really to be there is stunned, almost everybody else on the international community out at the speed at which all

of this have taken place. the government does talk about a counter offensive. it has plans. it has a ways that it is going to meet all this military lee. we hear about a possible counter attack in the north, missouri sharif. it's a very important government, strong called, in fact, the only government stronghold now in the north. but we've been hearing this for days. and the reality is that a lot of the fighting that's been conducted out in the provinces as he's now now resting upon units, which frankly are exhausted some of the more effective units of the african military. it's commandos, special forces, backed up by a diminishing amount of power. they really have been fighting for weeks months. some of the other units less committed, less well trained. they really have been taking a hammering, in fact, in some cases as simply surrendering in other cases. dropping their weapons and walking away, we've heard instances that, that some of the more regular units, these militias that have been raised more recently. we've heard reports that some of those i've actually been changing sides and that supporting the taliban. so as,

as this all happens as the taliban keeps making these gains, of course it keeps gaining, of course, more material bore because police station take it intact, more humvees, which all adds to this growing impetus. and it's meant to adding to a surge, which increasingly from the north, from the west and from the south. it seems to be directed at here. couple. rob, thanks for that. rub, mcbride in cobble of the taliban has detained. the veteran commander of a militia in western afghanistan is my call, known as the line of head out was taken. as taliban fighters seized that city con is one of afghan, astounds most prominent warlords battling soviets occupies the 1980 and working alongside us forces to topple the taliban in 2001. a border crossing between pakistan and afghanistan has reopened, following

a fight between gods and people waiting to cross early hundreds of afghans waiting to re enter. the country threw stones at security forces, who responded with tear gas. people were angry after an afghan traveller died while waiting to return home via the spin bolduc crossing. become all hide is following the situation for us from a slab bad. so come out what more you hearing about this when we heard that because that particular border crossing a crucial board of approaching was close for on march the week there was a backlog on both sides. this is a big border with about a tolerant drug crossing in each direction, thousands of guns company to get on for medical lead, trade sending the gorge garage. so there were ugly things yesterday. i focused on trying to open that border bart again ambiguous day. because both sides,

i've been saying that they did not close the border yet the border was closed for 7 days by august that now freshly reopened that border. their timing up got to have been extended from a to i'm in the morning. del 4 in the evening. and if it's all because there was pressure from their tribes from the local trade or depend on that trade. who requested that government? that border might be opened, but by gifts on that branch, because it fared that pro law, one crisis may lead to an influx of refugees. there is a large one. diaspora about 3000000 refugees. red died in budget. don, throw a big, why did that bart the importer and solve the pin balls? i get the fact that it supplies gun darr at wal mart off a 1000000 people and it a white logistic supply line for southern one is done. come out. thank you. come hi, in islam of a vote to being counted in zambia, falling thursdays,

general elections. the 1st results should be announced in the next few hours, but the final outcome not expected until sunday. there's been a high turn out with pose kept open for several hours longer than planned to allow everyone to vote. it is expected to be a tight race between president edgar longo and his opposition rival kind a huge lemma. 22 people have been arrested in algeria suspected of being behind many of the countries, devastating wildfires. the government's been struggling to contain the fires and of appealed for international assistance. 3 days of national morning taking place to honor the 69 people killed. joining us from the province of valgy as is mad, missouri, he a journalist who has been covering the forest fires there a man despite the devastation, we've seen a real sense of community in the fight against these fires. yeah,

absolutely. there are massive quantities of humanitarian aid streaming in from all over the country into the north eastern part of algeria. yesterday, i went to get with you and i saw firsthand volunteers that hadn't slept for 3 days . there void his records, their eyes were red and had been working non stop in terms of receiving that aid and making sure the distribution goes to the villages i haven't most affected by this person. so there is a real sense of community and a real solid there, and that is hard to see. and the government is cool as had to call on help from the a european union. what more can you tell us about that? yeah, so the government did send out several different helicopters to fight these fires, but these helicopters are only equipped with these baby buckets, which have a capacity around a 1000 leaders to sort of scoop up water and the person over the fire. it's called on the european union european union, i'm sorry to send over some firefighting aircraft called canada. france sent over

to yesterday, and both have a capacity of 6 to 7000 leaders. and they've been much more effective in fighting these fires that are in very difficult places in between mountains and in grow those and so on and so forth. so the european union turned over to already and were expecting 3 more today to from spain and one from switzerland. madam, as i could speak with you. thank you. alright, still ahead on, i just need a sampson's vice chairman walks free critic said it reflects a culture of lenient corporate bosses. we don't have water for example, and i have to make the dishes evidence crisis getting worse. we hear from one mother who can't make ends need ah

hello there, let's look to southeast asia and things are looking rather wet from much of indo china. we've already seen flooding in north east. in areas of thailand, we could see more as those rains affect for heavier in the west. they're also going to affect me and more and for the east of this louse, and can bo dea. now, further south in malaysia and indonesia, we are seeing scattered showers in plenty of sunshine with the heavy falls across sumatra on saturday. and by the time we get into sunday, it'll be borneo that sees some of the heavy showers. now was the head down under to a trailer. it's a pretty fine and dry picture. high pressure is in charge of central and northern areas. keep things rather bright and breezy. but up in the north we are expecting a few showers along the coastal areas of queensland and new south wales. but in sydney and to the west in perth is gonna be plenty of sunshine coming through the temperature sitting in the early twenties for the wet and windy weather we have to

go to tasmania and hop across the tasman sea to new zealand. we've got a weather system bringing the wintery weather to the south island. you can see some of the snow falling heavier in central areas, but by the time we get to sunday, it does tend to clear, with lots of sunshine for the north island. the canadian birds are at risk of extinction in vicious plans to rid the nation of the predators. sides of one of the best guys on out in the u. s. is pulling the law to the troops alphabet gun after a 20 years old war to the conflicts. off the taliban is on the offensive, claiming provinces were housed by the afghan government. this fight international mediation, if it sells the future home, special coverage, or no, you 0,

ah, ah ah, again, you're watching, i just need a reminder that top stories tabano sees control of another 2 provincial capital in the south of afghanistan, logical god kandahar the most significant gains in a ton of bond offensive. it's gradually encircling common. tawan has detained the veteran. come on to the militia in western afghanistan is my have gone known as the lion of head. i was taken a taliban fighters season. the city 22 people have been arrested in algeria suspected of stopping many of the countries devastating while 3 days of national mourning taking place to on us. 69 people killed a torrential

rain in japan has triggered a mudslide that engulfed 2 houses in the city of wounds and in nagasaki. prefecture for people was swept away. one was found dead, and 2 others are still missing. heavy, rain and mudslide. warnings have also been issued for some part of the southern main island of fusion and hiroshima in western japan, people in some areas have been told to prepare for evacuation fatty salami, join us live now from tokyo society. what more can you tell us about when the weather forecast agency had to show the highest driven warning could live at 5 on a scale of 5. it should be more than $10000.00 people and advise them to evacuate immediately to say, face of the heavy rain now in the queue. sure. and also in the south and home show

in the mega saki in hiroshima, how rich the record numbers in mega, thank you. more than $780.00 millimeters during the last 3 days have done poor dear, thus 3 times the average for the whole month for august. so it's a huge number of written data, and there are also warnings that they're going to revert, which is one of the largest rivers in that area that might float also. so this warnings are not extend being extended to other regions, not only in southern japan, usual in hiroshima, to other parts of japan, western japan. it's also going to see heavy rain during the day to during tomorrow . and also they are saying that's the behavior in would be, would stay there until week, at least. so there is a big possibility of slides. and we have already had the confirmation of the day.

so when they d and to other people are missing from the same family in psyche. so there is lots of questions now on the premise to get has met with emergency team with emergency team and off to deploy self defense forces to the area to help evacuate as much as possible people. and that's what i was about, and fatty what, what implications of these efforts to evacuate people having for the potential spread of, of, of covered 19 in japan, which is of course, a big challenge that the country has been having to deal with for several weeks. now when that's very important question because it just today, japan has recorded over 20000 infections with corona virus and the number doubled since a week ago. and not only in your book you, i've seen over 5000 infections and day, but other regions or including where the,

where the heavy rain is now. so all of those people, tens of thousands are going to be evacuated. they have to go to shelters and taking into consideration the higher rate of infection that could happen in the growth places, especially now with the body and body has been expanding so rapidly until it consists not over 90 percent of the infection. there is a huge worry of the implications of that on the infections of cardona and the government is trying to do. as i mentioned, they're trying to be as fast as this rate, which is the record, which is anything record, not numbers that we haven't seen for many for many months. get to speak with you fatty salami in tokyo, thanks. now the cargo ship is spilling into japanese waters. after breaking in half the crimson polaris ran aground while sailing inside had she 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 have been rest rescued officials in japan say they are trying to contain the oil still there. a samsung's vice chairman has been released from prison in south korea after being granted parole. j y lee was 72 and a half years sentence for bribing, a friend of the former president over a merger deal. it is unclear if he can return to work pretty say his release reflects a culture of leniency for corporate bosses. li offered an apology as he left prison . and i have cause too much concern to the people. i'm really sorry. the don't i'm listening carefully to your warriors, criticism, concerns, and high expectations about me. i will do my best. of the latest us census shows

the proportion of the population identifying as white has shrunk for the 1st time in the country's history. fewer than 60 percent of people now identify as white, multi racial, hispanic, and asian populations have grown significantly in the u. s. over the past decade and the number of migrants being detained at the us border with mexico has hit a record high more than 212000 people tried to cross in july alone. that's a 13 percent increase from june fill of l. as in macallan, texas, with more on the crisis, this is the migrant front line in texas. it's called 10 city. they're the lucky ones, if you can call them that, who have not been immediately deported, awaiting a hearing in crowded conditions, but in the us at last. and that's what matters. the smiles say it all come in the way the travel here was very stressful. the city of macallan is a gateway to

a new life of people like elsa. she left guatemala, left at 2 sons, made it through mexico and smuggled herself and her daughter across the border. i went on, but i was hungry. i walked for 18 hours. officials decided she can stay to plead a case, so she's taking a bus to florida. now me or i have a friend and she's going to take me in and help me find a job there. so i can give more to my kids, because there is nothing in guatemala for me. there is no job, there is nothing for them. i want them to have a better life migrates arrivals along the southern board have rocketed lately, managing the bowl increasingly impossible. we've done a great deal and we need to do more promises again from the home secretary who flew in to texas. but the numbers don't lie and the police from the top do not come on working june. so a 180000 apprehensions, july, smashing that number with 212000 the highest for 20 years every day,

around 1800, making it across. now, once the migrants have been processed at the border, they put on the buses and they dropped off the bus station like this one and downtown macallan often with nothing more than the clothes on their back. on an envelope full of papers, i have to keep hold off ahead of their asylum hearing that is where they enter the cur of local charities. there are a lot of these places around that will give them food and shelter and water, but even they are struggling to cope with manpower with resources. and congress is not helping at all. this is a system that is being pushed right to the edge and then a little bit further nearby those free food. these volunteers dropping off meals to the thousands in those temper camps. since the end of march, we've served over 250000 meal to migrants in macallan. we've been supporting. that's just, that's just mccallum for the migrants you've traveled so far. there is another challenge, some conservative voices, claiming them for spreading coven, or bringing new versions in their doctors. disagree. are these false bringing

variance that don't occur here? like the l for of a lambda or the delta? and the answer is no. what we're seeing in our community and those that have been admitted from their committee, which is quite small, is that they're all delta variance for elsa. that was the least of her worries. me, her 1000000 things got i made it and my family and i don't have cobra. as she heads off on a 20 hour bus journey, it'll be the most comfortable trip she's made in weeks one where she finally has some hope from lavelle al jazeera macallan, texas, a bangladesh is seen the destruction of his tropical rain forest increase every year. illegal logging, industrial developments and commercial agriculture of being playing 10 via chandry reports now from mother poor in bangladesh. the mother per forest was once bangladesh and largest range home to indigenous tribal people and habitat for diverse varieties of wild life. but for years now, the forest has been facing destruction. so like, i'm wrong,

who represents one indigenous group, say so much has been lost. i did wanted, they also de gus. we are no longer able to find out traditional medicinal plans, through trees and many other vegetation we used to live off. even the wild animals have lost their food source in the forest. we don't want social afforestation, but prefer preservation of the natural forest. according to the us food and agriculture organization than will deforestation rate in bangladesh. at 2.6 percent is almost doubled. the global average a large number of the indigenous guerrero and coach tribal people live in, clustered villages inside the model for us. but that traditional way of life has been threatened and recently, or by the depletion of the forest. so illegal logging, land grabbing and commercial projects. and there are concerns. deforestation is only adding to climate change problems. they were listening among others increasing

. they did a bitterly and their so they shut on. forrest is laid on every time. land is important and costly then forgotten the people and the maximum people. they try to enter incentives for industrialize on boarding the rope and maintains steam. we try our level ways to protect our forest. the show their bonds is the world's largest mangrove forest unesco. well heritage site in a delta form by 3 major rivers in the bay of bingo. it's under threat. so to the mix evergreen forest in the hills. this fights protest by environmental groups. the government is allowing the building of the coal fired power plant and other industries to set up next to the mangrove for state of next forest in addition to the carrier. and we have a total of 17 percent of our land as far as that. but the farthest cover is only 9 percent. most of the forests are subjected to and coach men. overall,

the situation is actually very sad and video environmental experts, one that overpopulation rapid industrialization, agricultural expansion and illegal logging will continue to degrade forest resources adversely affecting the natural ecosystem. and the climate time v shodmurray al jazeera model, poor lebanon's worsening financial crisis, has thrown more than half of the population into poverty. with the currency value crushed basics have only become more expensive. and now fuel subsidies may be last 2. i just did a spoke to a mother of 3 about the struggles she and her family face. and the man who has, i am human and has the mother of 3. i'm a school teacher in abilene and

a contest and knocked out of philadelphia. i used to feel that my job had meaning to day, and with all due respect, i feel very unworthy. lebanese citizen, my salary is very low. i get paid and up and down. today, it only covers the few basics at the supermarket. cut them down a lot. well the enemy fin since 2019 life had dramatically changed my shit and i our salaries only cover water expenses, gas and fuel benzine. now land, we don't have water for example, and i have to make the dishes one. i have to get water, which my son brought up on my can she can she life has changed dramatically. we cannot even secure the basics for that yet. and i'm not that i'm seeing this is the laundry. it's been in the machine since yesterday. i can't wash because the one our electricity we get does not cover the washing cycle. this is the fridge where we

are putting the food that doesn't go back across the room at the will. of course, i believe the government and the leaders. all of them means all of them and see that i've been and we're all tired, but pick hi, this is how we live. we have nothing to offer them. that's not what we're used to the situation. but my daughter bit my heart no fish jumps, otherwise. i cannot provide for her like before. the legal battle of pop singer brittany spears have taken a new turn. her father says he will step down as her conservator and relinquish control of his daughter's $60000000.00 estate. the thing his case has shed light on conservator ships and how they are arranged. katia lopez, hold on reports the after months of public pressure. jamie spears says he will

step down as conservator of his daughter, britney spears, as a state for more than a decade. course have allowed him and others to control the money career and much of her life after she suffered a series of mental breakdowns, but allegations of abuse. how followed the 39 year old told the judge she's been drugged, forced to perform and prevented from having more children. 1 she also accused her previous legal team of working against her interests. the hands have grown increasingly both like him pain free, britney, for a long time. one of the most problematic aspects of this case has been that she haven't been able to fluctuate attorney. and i don't think the attorney she had previous to this was, i know that he hasn't been advocating for her interest because we know that brittany has asked and multiple times out of this. and apparently he never told her how to do that. once again, want to thank britney spears for her courage. the case has brought attention to

conservative ships in the us critic say the legal guardianship measures are open to abuse and terminating a conservatorship isn't simple. to get out of it. you need to then prove to the court, i've regained my capacity. i've been in therapy, i've been taking medication. i've worked on myself and now i'm able to make these decisions. so it's not just standing up and saying, i want to be out. it's proving to the court that you're ready to be out. there is no time wind for when brittany's father will step down. he denies any wrong doing, and he's calling for another conservator to take his place. the singers fancy, it's a step in the wrong direction, but the battle they argue is far from over castillo. and so the un which is 0. ah, this is edge. get around the top stories, the taliban has sees control.