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sponsored cattle, airways, new deals, unique navy, birds are least of extinction. emissions planned to read the nation, and if the privilege side, the one, any event, the guy on our 0 me this is al jazeera ah logan, i am peter w. you're watching the news out live from coming up in the next 60 minutes, appearing briefly but defiantly. the afghan president, ash rock gone, is about to fight all against the taliban bombs. that's closing in on the capital. that's concerned about the future of women and girls and i'm gonna stop you and she says he's deeply disturbed by reports coming from taliban control. there has also
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ahead. july was the hottest month ever on record. according to us financial agency as wildfires, rage across 3 continents and palestinian and g o r increasingly finding themselves the targets of israel's military. and i'm far as small with afford majesty united are currently in control and their season opener again, leave. the visitors have reduced the goal of the game so far will have the full time score and highlight later new for me as the taliban take city after city and i'm gonna stop. the president asked for ghani, has made his 1st public comment in days he appeared in a brief video filmed in cobble which is being encircled by taliban fighters, defiant ghani, about not to give up on what his country has achieved in the past 20 years. to an
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accident, i am not going to allow this imposed war now, nation to lead, to more bloodshed, and to losing the gains of our last 2 decades and damages to our public goods and infrastructure. because of this, i've carried out widespread comprehensive consultations with representatives of the people and leaders by hand without international partner, in consultation to be carried out in a speedy manner. well shawna south of cobble is one of 2 provincial capitals to fall on saturday, making 20 in all over the past week. taliban video does appear to show inmates being released from a shawn. a prison with the offensive grinding on people is scrambling for safety. the u. n is warning of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe. now here's the map of afghanistan as it stands right now. shaded in red of the problems is where the capitals have been taken over by the taliban in the past day or so. the latest is acid, about in the eastern province of kuna,
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and the heavy fighting and mazata sharif, the african government, last big, strong hold up in the north live now to cobble and correspondent charlotte bellis. so charlotte were getting these reports saying that 2 more provincial capitals are either on the verge of falling to the taliban, or indeed they have been taken by the taliban. here we can confirm that those 2 provincial capitals have fallen a thought about and kona and then also sure on a impact he could. they felt today that takes the taliban to a total of 20 provincial capital just in 8 days for that into context for you to $34.00 in the country. so they are certainly on a role and they're, they do have other provincial capitals in these sites are heavy fighting in bizarre sharif, which is a big city in the north. the biggest actually. and it is government bass. do you know it's kind of been circled by the taliban and the last big government stronghold in the north has been fighting me today. also we understand god is the provincial capture of pac tia is also on the verge of falling through the telephone
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. so they are continuing their role. they are not stopping anytime soon. it would seem. and this is happening as president gandhi has addressed the nation today in a pre recorded statement. and he looked to reassure people. he said, hey, thanks for security forces. he said, our priority is to work on cohesion with the security forces and that consultations continuing with local and international news. he said, we do not want. i do not want to allow more bloodshed to occur. the big question is how he plans to start further bloodshed from occurring and we understand negotiations are continuing behind the scenes with international and local news about predominantly his future. and if he will keep his position as president and what the future kind of political landscape here would look like in order to slow the telephone down and find some type of agreement that would stop the telephone
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from storming, cobble the tele bond have refused to negotiate with god a previously they with him at the home, they say they just not going to have any talks. they have started to undermine him . politically with his own people is male, hon is a very well known figure in the waste. he was a governor. he was very anti taliban. he'd lid the local uprising movement in harass until herat fell. and then the tele bonds say at least that he joined them. how much free will he had and that it's unclear, but they sent him to cobb with a message to try to coerce other people in gandhi's government to join at least in some type of settlement with the taliban. the telephone also pushing incredibly hot as we saying that losing provincial capital, the government every day. so pushing very hard and in, circling, cobble yesterday, they took the province of law, got directly south of kabul,
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about 65 kilometers away today. they pushing wood that directly to the west. i went early this week. it was a 45 minute drive and they have taken government buildings and the provincial capital via we understand that they are in a holding pattern in war dock at the moment, but it just shows you how close they are to cobble at this time with the taliban almost literally being able to knock on the doors of the capital city. how are the inhabitants of cobble viewing all this? there is panic, growing definitely within local residents. also the international community as well . striving to work this morning, i went past a bank. it was a 100 people outside lined up with security guards, basically run on the bags. my colleagues went back stable, so couldn't get money out. today the fuel prices have doubled in the last 3 months, so it's taken food prices with it. ticket prices, it's very hard to get a flight out of cobble at the moment, usually on turkish airlines, which is
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a main route to go to assemble. it's about $350.01 way today it's $2400.00. so it shows you the, the amount of people who are trying to get out the year with, has seems, in the 1st of about 3000 troops, they are bringing in to help with the evacuation of the embassy. they going down to port mission critical stuff and they are starting to fly people from the embassy in the center of cobble in helicopters at night, predominantly to the international airport to start to get them out. charlotte, thanks very much all about us, their report and i the from cobble, well her own or a he, me is assistant professor of law at the american university of afghanistan. he says, after i've gone, it will have a difficult time keeping those promises. he talked about during those televised messages to his people, he's not in control anymore and it's not about prison gunny anymore. it's about making the transition as blood loosely as orderly, and as soon as possible. the fight is at the doors of cobble. i mean,
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you're reporting show that the cobble is being encircled and the time is not undergo under government time. the government, the bridge is shrinking and there is heavy fighting and happen. happening in missouri. if missouri falls and if cobble falls under pressure, then the all hope for a political settlement, all hopes for a publishing agreement would be lost. these are critical moments. these are moments that will turn up on it's done into chaos. the capital, the home of more than 5000000 people. and how's the up until the place people into chaos, lawlessness. and it's going to turn to tuition into an organ urban warfare that cornerstone and cobble in particular experience in the ninety's. or will have orderly transfer a power where people's live at least will be se people's property will be let, will be safe and the future government, you have to think we have to have foresight here. the future government has to have
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some sort of list timothy, otherwise, if mil, if upon get to a military takeover or they can force the government claps without transition a government in place, then we'll have a government that will have come to power by new force. so it will not have international embassy and it would not be seen as the mate in the eyes of athens. so it just going to prolong this, the cycle of violence and destruction. moving on to northern turkey, where dozens of volunteers and emergency workers are rushing to supply aid to people affected by days of heavy flooding. drone 40 chose huge damage in one black sea town. boss caught the death toll across northern turkey has now risen to at least $44.00, many a struggling to cope with the chaotic aftermath of the flooding. with carson, deborah tossed around by torrent torrance of water. dozens of bridges and roads have also been destroyed. while power has been cut 2 hundreds of villages firefighters, in algeria as still battling more than 30 wildfires at least 71 people have died so
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far in the city of tissues whom some of those who had to leave their homes are returning to find them destroyed catch a lopez, her young, has more real thick smoke above these mountains in north central, algeria conceals much of the devastation left by the wildfires. this was one of at least turn in and around the city of t. z who were entire communities were destroyed. this was the lights home. it's still standing, but inside everything is gone. his few belongings are scattered, but now looks like an abandoned building. janos on the kitchen is younger. it was a fire like i've never seen before. the fire wasn't moving slowly. it was gusting and we couldn't be in front of it. it was suffocating to get off the door. family is in a similar situation, trying to salvage whatever was spared by the fire. my home. let's just
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walk when you're given what we've been through. i can't believe or even talking right? no, not we're alive. it's really a tragedy. something i've never experienced before. the law in other parts of the country, the fires are still burning. the army has been deployed to help. but many teams still lack equipment and villagers of hi. c there was a lack of resources, there are only a few firefighters and we are trying to help. my god, help us anger against the government is growing. some emergency measures that were passed in 2004 were never implemented. there are few, sometimes, no hydrants available for firefighters to get water to battle the flames. it's a similar story with fire breaks and better access to roads. many facing problems now turned to the community rather than the government. like a lot though,
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it's our people sell their to try and it is l jury. and so there it is, the citizens that try then the door family is like many in algeria forced to start over with what's left after the fires capielo missile. the young al jazeera, the russian president vladimir putin says the scale of the natural disasters that have hit the country this year. our quotes absolutely unprecedented. rushes expand to the state of emergency in siberia, where more than 100 wildfires are burning. in the 120 forest fires, arranging across 14000 square kilometers, and people have been evacuated from several villages. smoke from the fires is choking. the capital you could see which in winter is often referred to as the coldest city on earth. wildfires in california, the threatening more than a dozen rural communities and forests there being fuel by hot and dry weather conditions. the sickle dixie fire in northern california has burned across a vast area covering more than 2000 square kilometers so far this he has wildfires
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of ravaged more than 15000 square kilometers of land across the united states. haiti has been hit by magnitude 7.2 earthquake, the powerful trema struck 100 town west of the capital. puerto prince significant damage is being reported. people are describing 3 to 4 minutes of severe shaking. no synonymy warning has been su, it'll get you more on that developing story. just as soon as we can alongside these stories still come here on the news, our hopes rise among opposition. supporters in zambia say candidate takes an entity in the presidential election. also had sent back to guatemala. the us is criticized with reporting migrants with no rights to seek asylum and in sport, a dream start for friends in there, primarily debut. i like that there when the also later on the news ah,
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living central bank governor says no one is running the country as he defended his decision to stop fuel subsidies. right. sammy also pushed back against accusations that he had acted alone saying every one knew it was coming. the bank had refused to use reserve funds to continue the subsidy, saying it would be illegal to do so. the currency has lost 90 percent of his value since 2019 and half the population now live in poverty. politicians have failed to agree on a new government. since the prime minister has on the app quit last august after the payroll. port blast is ready foresees. have rated the offices of 5 palestinian organizations since the beginning of the year. 2 of them have been ordered to close down palestinian and geo se there's an intensifying israeli campaign to stop them from operating and the occupied west bank. the abraham reports now from hebron. the
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hello car has been able to farm his land with the help of a dutch funded project, but the aide is drawing up. he's been growing heirloom seeds and selling them to a local organization supporting farmers in the occupied west bank. pastor news have been relying on international aid for developing project that helps a team. they're struggling economy. i mean, we, i said i didn't know the end of all that was that, that income my work would suffer. a limb said that i grow help other pharmacy can buy expensive seats from israel. last year, the dutch government suspended its funds and opened an investigation, accusing the organisation of having links to a palestinian political party. come, let's hear the news that hydrogen normally israeli security services have increasingly showing that there is a deliberate plot on the part of some, palestinian and jose to use money that they've been given for humanitarian aid purposes. and to divert that towards terrorism. lini. jonas miller says,
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his institute has been urging donors to cut off aid to palestinian and jose he says, some are linked to attacks against israelis. these really security services have increasingly shown that there is a deliberate plot on the part of some, palestinian and jose to use money that they've been given for humanitarian a purposes. and they've heard that towards terrorism. many past indians like had it was more to say the main goal of these campaigns is to back them into a corner. the israeli army rated the officers of defense for children international and july and confiscated the files and computers. and i'm of, you know, the addy few, williamson, there's an increasing awareness in international community regarding the israeli violations. that's why israel is trying to silence us. we've been working for 30 years. it's the 1st time we've had our office rated now. they've heard the army ordered the closer up to palestinian organizations, including the health work committees. agency,
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refused to comply every open the door, the defiance later its director was arrested. and it's now the precinct, it's was trial palestinians and civil society say the pressure against them is growing and could effect the humanitarian work here and abroad. neither ever him al jazeera, the occupied westbank to them being where the main opposition leader hi candy he. lemme has taken an early lead and presidential elections incumbent edgarland go, is trailing behind his rival for now, but the outcome could change as more results come in from rural areas live now to soccer and my colleague, harold, my tasa. so harry, has it moving? is it still too close to coal? yes, it isn't. so $530.00. why no one has constituent. these have been a mouth and it seems opposite to do that guy and a dilemma is leading. we are outside his hot water,
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all ready to gather some of them, already celebrating confidence that he of what but it is still too close to call it mainly african. let him, for example, the results from the urban areas come on with that same bobbies have a problem with that more support. in a couple of hours a day later, you get more results coming in from the governing party to be happy that the majority of people usually live. so it is more people wait. what happens in the next couple of hours? the next couple of days? it actually will say that the reason why it's taking so long without that was there was a high high than usual. so more people, both. it wasn't save a 1000000 reg supposed to be also saying that the manual power to get it is taking time to get the results that is from through areas the mood in the country with the
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calm in pain. com or dissolve on friday in the city. then it was a minor incident, a group of people just started running and then people in a panic for a close the shop. and then they started running. when you asked the why you running this, we don't know. we think there's a problem. turns out the problems in mind that it was a call that was passing by it as a result in the past. but it shows how and 2 people are waiting for these about us because they, they post 2 amounts of 5 on sunday. but because it's like monday and tuesday, members to remain calm and find out where we are right now. these people with me, my feel hot out for
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a couple of hours. they even in terms of deployment on behalf of a think they could be problem. it's a result in the future, but right now, things are generally con, capital and across the country. people wait for those many things, send them intensive, they join his life from lusaka. turkey state media says a plain fighting. a wildfire has crashed in a mountainous area and the south official say the aircraft came down as it was battling a firing co remind me, rush, search and rescue teams had been sent to the area with protest is marching across france today against titans. corona virus measures leicestershire, they slide shots coming to us out of france, their denouncing compulsory vaccinations for health care workers and the introduction of civil health policies. now, the policies have been required since the beginning of the week for cafes, restaurants and to travel. more than half the french population is now fully
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vaccinated with confection rates. now, they are beginning to slow down. iran is going back into a 6 day long lockdown as of monday. it includes all bazaars and public offices, as well as movie theaters, gyms and restaurants, the country's recording around $40000.00 new cases every day, and $500.00 deaths. tehran had rejected early recommendations to impose the emergency measures in thailand, protest as angry over the government handling of the cobra 19 outbreak have been fighting with police and the capital bank home offices fired tear gas to stop hundreds of demonstrators from marching to the prime minister's residence they want him to resign. the 3rd protest in bangkok this week thailand is struggling to control his biggest way for cooper. 900. so far, guatemala has declared a new state of emergency and is imposing an overnight curfew from sunday. as corona virus infection, serge,
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the emergency measures will last for 30 days and they've been brought in to try and control and explosion and delta various cases. the country of 17000000 is now reporting 4000 you infections each day. a state of emergency was earlier imposed in march of last year. time for the weather is kara. hello there, we'll have a look at central america and the caribbean with a may new story is in a moment. but let's have a look at south america and we've wildfires that are continuing to burn across eastern areas of bolivia, firefighters have been battling those blazes for more than 2 weeks now. but the high temperature is a strong wind, and the humidity hasn't been helping that cause those conditions are expected to last across santa cruz and into brazil. the amazon has seen fires here as well. we are expecting them to continue to burn. now in the east coast, that's where we are seeing the weather and the windy weather. this rain on schedule for rio in the coming days. it's further south in southern argentina that it is feeling rather chilly. the temperature in when i said was sitting in the early
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teens, it is expected to pick up in the coming days. but for chill, it is going to be wetter and windier come sunday, thanks to the weather systems moving in and the north of south america will continue to see heavy showers and thunderstorms raging from ecuador all the way to the guy anna's. but for the really wet and windy weather we have to head to the caribbean, cuba has seen tropical depression. fred move its way up to the north west. it is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm, as it heads for florida that her update still to come for you here on the news out . the fighting bank, germany's wedding party candidate pulls no punches, spend of a challenge from the left. mexico city marks 500 years since the destruction of the aztec capital and in sport, things gone off to a good start for the changes in tennis plan. find out where and why it all went
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wrong. action from the canadian opened in about 20 minutes. ah, north korea. isolated and heavily sanction yet earning billions around the globe bureau, 39 is involved in everything that makes money for, for you to carry different passwords, say contacts, and the money this year. and it goes straight into the conferences. leadership a to park, people empower investigation, bureau, 39 cache for kim park to on a jazzy into the latest news as it breaks down here in the north and they're doing the best job they can. we've seen one water pay 2 teen as well as far further with detail covering the government for tele bond is relying on human hue and losing people shops and home from around the world. the price tag to the tokyo
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games have officially felt $15000000000.00 that already the most expensive summer games ever stage. oh, a. welcome back. you're watching 0. this is the news. i'm pete adobe. let's just recap your top story so far today, firefighters in algeria is still battling more than 30 wildfires. at least 71 people that died so far in the city of to use some of those who had to leave their homes returning to find them completely destroyed. the taliban has captured to more provincial capitals in afghanistan. they've taken
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a certain of 20 regional centers and just over a week now, sharlena and asked about the east the later cities to fall to taliban forces. and the afghan president nash ref gunny says he won't give up the achievements of the past 20 years in a very brief televised address. at last about 2 minutes was gone. he said he was speaking with local leaders and international partners about how to prevent more instability and violence for years on from sierra leone mudslide disaster, many survivors are still homeless. it was the biggest tragedy to hit the country when more than 1100 people lost their lives. but the response since then, the fil, a broader story of the challenges facing the capital with address reports now from free ton ali mama contest and leaves in the shadow of the sugarloaf mountain is attachment to the area remains strong. despite the much light but killed members
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of his family and neighbors. like many displeased persons, he moves his family from one construction site to another, seeking shelter. they live in, in some of the old finished houses in this community. because they can not afford to read fish more than 1100 people died in the much light the countries worst single day give us to another 3000 remain displeased. after 2 days of torrential rains, this face of the sugarloaf mountain broke free. in the early hours of august, the 14th 2017 huge rug boulders and mud cascaded down the slopes and swept away many homes. while many people were still asleep for his own exploits, say, it's only a matter of time before another disaster strikes. and this is why people continued to building dangerous areas. on mountains, in valleys,
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even water channels. the price i shall see, continued norma. and if nothing happened, i will land any less in these project area. know that she continues to live in a month with a steady migration of people comes an increase in demand for shelter and food and estimated $300.00 tons of refuse is also generated daily by residents of the capital free town. some of it is dumped in drains while government officials assist much has been done since the disaster. they admit that serious challenges remain. we'll walk into a few some of these acts because we definitely got a test to the fact that the weaknesses in the existing legislations experts warn but unless countries like serially on take further steps to stop unrestrained
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development, their population will continue to be exposed to disasters. similar to the much light of 2017. how many degrees i'll do that for you town. well, we brought the news earlier of the wildfires across 3 continents and devastating floods in turkey to weave long, the more that the changing climate will intensify whether disasters and now us government scientists of confirm july was the world hottest month on record. ever the national oceanic and atmospheric administration from the combined land and ocean surface temperature last month was one degrees celsius. above the 20th century average. the data showed july was age as hottest month on record for europe . it was the 2nd hottest, and it will not stop soon last week. a you and climate science report, one temperatures a likely to rise by more than the key threshold 1.5 degrees, making heat waves much more likely and severe. let's talk now to chandra,
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bush and c e o of the international forum for environment sustainability and technology. he joins us from new delhi shandra bush on. is there any doubts, any element of error in this that what we're seeing across 3 continents from california to siberia, as long as a big distance is indeed global warming? no dog at all, none of john b now have a large body of evidence than recent. i bought essentially has simply stablished that kind of extreme by that even guessing across the wire wouldn't have been possible without global warming. so the symbol settings, not no doubt to talk it several years now. since everyone with a lot of pomp and ceremony signed up to the parish climate accords, the united states famously pulled out of them. they've now gone back in again with a new us president at the beginning of the year. but.

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