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wildfire rage across 3 continents as climate scientists say july was the hottest month ever recorded. and i'm leo harding and doe. how with sports? manchester, united chelsea and liverpool start their premier li campaigns with impressive wins and messy mania. continue at p. s g sergeant time superstar received a huge welcome from fans inside their home stadium. ah oh, our top story, the conflict in afghanistan and the resolve of afghan forces continues to crumble in the face of the taliban insurgency. one of the key government stronghold, falling, missouri shareef. was taken in the past few hours, giving the arm group most of the power in the north of the country. it now means

the taliban claims 2234 provincial capitals and the territory marked here in grey. meanwhile, their forces are closing in on combo sounds. of this, if you the provincial capital of particular province, sharon fell on saturday, was followed by a santa bar and guard as both nearer to the capital. but the present remains defined. i should have gone, he spoke publicly for the 1st time and date of loss is for the government pledging not to give up 2 decades of games. or were you more than actually 1st, rob mcbride updates us from campbell on the significance of the full mazata sheriff . the biggest shock is this loss. apparently, all research has been developing this saturday evening. it's now nearly midnight's local time. cobble does come as a big blow to the government. do you remember when the taliban 1st emerged in the

1990? that's what the other 25 years ago. now within the door that you had the most resistance to the taliban that eventually became what was done the northern alliance. and really it's shocked. many people here and i've got this done. i think the international community, the way that as the taliban has spread throughout africa and it's done, is taking all these provincial capitals, the way that the north seemingly capitulated just lost. all of these provincial capitals accept form. adobe suite 9 bizarre we should, we was still the one big hold out. it was almost like a full to city of it. the government in the north, just 2 days ago, prejudice destro johnny. i visited that try to stand around, strengthen the leadership, try to get them to put up more resistance than we've seen from other provincial capital. there was also, it was also home to marshall where she dusted now. he was the vice president of any influential political and military leader in afghanistan, his power bases in the north of africa. this done,

he also based himself in the diary she read, promising to have this longer way to come to come to attack. there's been much talk about this come through offensive that, that eventually we would see the forces of the african governments take back at the advancing, tell about many people. and we didn't believe that in fact, in the past week or so, we've heard reports about the bad being thronged by people trying to get out. it was obviously trying to get down to the top of the other places of refuge and then all of a sudden we see after days of resistance a very quickly resistance collapsing. there are reports of multiple sources. there are the taliban claims which tend to be quite exaggerated, but they are backed up by local officials and also one or 2 security sources to talk about a number of the military unit to defend the city heading toward the ports. a presumably that to make

a last down there and to give them the next. it was other 4 seats heading towards the border with becky done, but certainly leaving the city itself now apparently in the hands of the taliban. so this is another big blow for the government of afghanistan. you know, in recent days and weeks we've been talking about what gains they ask the taliban of making. now you've really got to look about. what does the afghan government have left to days beyond cobble itself? and some cities and provinces close to have a lawyer. so the government really isn't very much. or charlotte balice is also in the african capital campbell. and has this report now on president i should have gone a speech and events earlier in the day. when the taliban celebrating its steam rolling of his canister. 7 this is

a prison break in the provinces petticoat. the telephone took control of the capital shiranda on saturday. it was the 19th provincial capital to fall to the group in 8 days. in places it holds fighters of flaunting their control from touring, a helicopter hanger and western herat province to hosting their flag in kandahar city. i top a gauge that leads to the governors compound in cobble. the us started the evacuation of its embassy on the mission. critical staff will remain 3000 us troops flying in to support the draw down one kilometer away in the presidential palace and shift ghani, addressed the nation that holly can meet the castle. why? i know you are worried, i assure you as your president, my focus is to prevent further instability, violence, and displacement. as my responsibility, i will try to prevent this war from killing more innocent people. he says he's

consulting with local and international partners who avoid the blood shoed. we understand those negotiations involve his future and whether he will stay on his president. the taliban has always refused to negotiate with the government. as long as ghani is at the helm, and the taliban is circling with every provincial capital, it takes the government's leverage lessons. charlotte bellis al jazeera cobble. so i've won the situation and i've on a so we can speak to obey de la by here. electra of transitional justice at the american university level one it's tony joins us live from the capital campbell via skype. first of all, can i ask you what is happening inside cobble right now and how close the fighting is to the capital. thank you for having me, marianne. we're just exhausted. we are distraught and it's just the unknown that is so haunting people. don't know what is to come next. there's

a saying that says that the leader of great caravans have to adjust their speed to the slowest in the caravan. the saddest bit was that we were expecting the president to give the country some sort of assurance. and it came in the shape of hollow words. there is talk about transitional government, there is talk about his resignation. but then there's also a talk off the top upon marching in. there are even rumors calls coming in that they've even reached for that each had a he which is the entrance gate of cobble. it's just, it's just this, this overwhelming amount of information without knowing fact from fiction. that is trading the population and forcing them to try and feed a country. and now that's important. if the because paula shadlee very close to

cobble this is also the location of a very large prison. what are you hearing about developments there? well, i got a call from a few people saying that the polar bond had entered that area there were freeing prisoners. and that's something that they've been doing around. but then that means that they're at the gates of couple, and the hope that people are clinging onto is that in the meeting of the president with the us ambassador, some sort of guarantee was offered that the thought of one would not attack cobble if actually moves for a transitional government are taken so. busy the population is, is, is trying to hold onto that hope, but everyone who can get out there is a huge brain dream happening in the country. and these people aren't going to come back. whether it's a transitional government, whether it's a towel upon they're going to try and seek better life elsewhere. and i don't understand where that would leave the leave the country. that's right,

in terms of state building and development and the gains of, of past years. if the best and brightest are are leaving that will that will affect everyone. how critical a moment is this for the afghan government government? when is a chef on the expect to resign? the idea is it seemed like from his tone that he had accepted the defeat, but you never know these people were claiming that they could wind the war even a day before yesterday. the 1st vice president said that they were going to take a stand. they were going to resist the president today hinted at consolidating the military forces again, and we were hoping that they don't try to make their final stand in kabul, the city is not designed for an urban war, nor city is designed for urban warfare, but the concentration of population within the city is it would be lead to

a devastating war. there are saying that a delegation is going to go and meet the parlor bond supposedly to discuss what transitional government would look like. i don't know how long that would take because apparently there are advances every hour and as to whether it's tyler bond, central leadership can control their fighters urge to attain portal victory will remain to be seen on the cost of of i can i ask you is it likely then that combo will be handed over to the taliban and it sort of transfer of power roughly the same time. and some sort of transitional government comes into place. while the ideas, the international community has been reiterating that they want an inclusive government within a fund on. and i would reckon that even the sponsors off the title one would want an inclusive system as to keep the pallet bond movement in check when required. and

for that to happen, the international community would really have to provide incentives and leverage the offer relief of sanctions of providing aid off international recognition. all of those things would appeal to the taliban leadership because these are things that they did not have when they were in power 25 years ago. they try to seek it by reaching out to the u. n. by reaching out to the united states. and it did not work for them. so if anything, the leadership which is old enough to remember the last time they ruled, they would understand the utility of those things and would be willing to exchange that for a total victory instead. thank you very much. i appreciate you taking the time. joining us live there from cobble a bay de la by here. thank you for having me met him. with a total of $5000.00 us troops will now be sent off honest on to help evacuate american past now. and the volunteer hours president biden says he will support

a political settlement in the country, but insist that any assault by the taliban only u. s. military will be met with what he called a swift and strong response. mike hunter is following all this now from washington . d, c, so the u. s. defense department can funding the additional troops will be sent. i've gone on like, what more do we know about about the sort of numbers we're talking about? well, the numbers are registering now. that's what we do know, just to recap, what happened during the week is that it was announced that another 3000 troops would be sent to couple to assist in the evacuation of american nationals and africans, a work for the american forces. in addition to that, a quick reaction force of 1000 was going to be sent to awake and not the unit of some 1000 to process pieces in cut. but the depend department of defense is now clarify the situation somewhat. it says that an additional $1000.00 men are going

to be sent to couple. they are from the 2nd airborne unit. they will not join the 1000 to have been in theater for a period of time. the $3000.00 to on the process of being deployed. so that means they will be $5000.00 troops and couple. but the d o. d also says that another 282nd point battalions are being sent to kuwait to join the marines who are already being deployed there. that's a quick reaction for so some 3000 troops. so altogether what you have now gotten the last few days is some, some of the us troops being deployed in response to the gun crisis. so this is a massive deployment. remembering that the standing number of us troops for the last couple of years in a gun is done, has been in the region of 2000. and we're just speaking to a dealer by here that and cobble and there is this fear about and warfare and what can be done to prevent the sort of bloodshed that people fear in the capital. so

what else is the us doing to, to resolve this diplomatically? well, president biden as hell to conferences with his national security leaders in the course of the day he's at camp david, but held virtual discussions with them. in addition, his secretary of state phone, the president, spreading us support, but also asking him to seek or continue to seek some diplomatic resolution to this crisis. in addition, you've got that threat from president biden directly to the taliban, that should any u. s. property or personnel be attacked, the u. s. would respond very strongly, but perhaps the bottom line in terms of what the us a position is, is what president binded himself said in the course of the week. he said he does not regret his decision to withdraw all the troops. he said as well, that it's the gang problem. now it's up to the afghan generals and the african leadership to repulse the taliban advance. so diplomatic career solutions very

difficult to find at this particular stage. thank you. my camera, washington. well, all the top stories is our major search and rescue operation is under wayne haiti, off the country was struck by 7.2 magnitude of quake at least 227 people have been killed and officials expect there will be many more casualties. haiti's prime minister is declared a state of emergency and says there's enormous damage in the bunker reports was alive and clearly exhausted. the young woman and the child a pool from the rubble. moments of the massive earthquake homes and businesses lie flat and the 7 point to magnitude quake strike at 8 30 in the morning. think people out into the streets in panic. it was followed 20 minutes

later by 5.2, magnitude aftershock. the tremors felt across the caribbean, and as far away the southern florida, the center of the country's western tip around a 160 kilometers from a densely populated capital porter print. the poor, the brunt of the last major earthquake in 2010. the left hundreds of thousands of people, dead, one and a half 1000000 people homeless. this latest quake is more powerful. but we don't know how deadly larger than the 7 point. oh, in 2010 killed over 200000 people. my mother doesn't sound like a huge difference in the size of the earthquake us about 2 times the energy release . right in our impact estimates are catastrophic, devastating earthquake with potential of 10 to hundreds of thousands of people. fatalities pay t is one of the poor countries of the world to play by worsting instability and

violence of the assassination of the countries president last month. he's also struggle to control the surging cobra. 90 cases in a country where a quarter of the population live in abject poverty. and now the al jazeera, jeremy dupont is a freelance producer and filmmaker on ports the prince spoke to us on the phone a while ago and he describes what it was like at the moment the tremors hit. well, it was a really frightening moment this morning. around 8 30 am when, when we we felt the quick and, and photo pan i was and i was in industry. i mean, when, when i felt that it was a very, very strong and very scary like people was screaming,

oh god, oh god. i mean, the traffic was, was what was a mess you know, like right away because, i mean, you know, i mean, put a plan in like the worst quick ever, 11 years ago. and it, it, you know, like that. it's very, very difficult to, to really we, we, we recover. so when people felt it was a very good bonus. so myself very quickly, i tried to be like to put myself up and split there. yeah. i mean the response is very, very slow. the problem is just now, i mean the government, which is not a really functioning government yet. i mean,

just a few weeks says he via office trying to put together the emergency call center. meanwhile, and the state hospital and left it of the low of the capacity silicon omen. he is out from london all eyes on the rural vote in zambia. as early results from the fifty's give the opposition candidates and lead by the fighting back japanese ruling party. candice is battling defend off a rising challenge from the last and the european champions, make an impressive start to the premier league. will have their goals turns for. the

people evacuated from algeria as wildfire zone had been returning to find the homes destroyed. blazes of killed at least 71 people. nearly half of them soldiers sent to help. katya lopez had diane has more the real thick smoke above these mountains in north central julia concealed much of the devastation left by the wildfires. this was one of at least turn in and around the city of t 0 who were entire communities were destroyed. the delights home. it's still standing, but inside everything is gone. his few belongings are scattered and what 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. let's just work 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 flyers are still burning. the army has been deployed to help, but many team still lack equipment and villagers have joined the fight. c but there was a lack of resources, there are only a few why fi and then we are trying to help. may god help us anger against the government is growing some emergency measures that were passed in 2004. we're 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 turn to the community rather than the government. what do you think you have to? it's our people cell dirty that try and it is all jury. and so there it is. the citizens that try then the door family is like many and l jerry force to start over with what's left after the fires capielo missile. again, i'll just 0, a circle magnifiers flared up again in northern california. the dixie fire is devastated several towns near sacramento since breaking out to the middle of last month. only around 30 percent contained residents have been warned to leave their homes. california is on track record its worst ever fire season. just days after wildfires are contained in turkey is now more devastation their flashlights. this time in the north of the country of destroyed entire villages, killing dozens of people with more on accounted for light. the fires geologist say

this is a man may disaster julian wolf has this report. first fires then flood, hopes are dwindling in this town. that missing loved ones will still be alive. those who survive the floods and balls curt on the black sea wait anxiously for news. with a population of fewer than 9000, most people will know someone affected by this tragedy. for alias, the devastation is difficult to comprehend. holloman, my aunt is missing her husband is missing her twin grandchildren, a missing the wife of el building managers missing along with their 2 children. his relative and local business owner to ron describes the moment floodwaters rushed in . at the very moment they were paying tribute to his uncle at a funeral films in a bit of a much people was shouting and screaming and asking others to run away. we looked and saw the flood waters coming our way from the direction of the post office. we

flayed up hill running past the bridge to bring ourselves to safety to the flood described. one of turkey's worst was the 2nd natural disaster to strike the country this month. chaos in the north, just as authorities had declared wildfires in the south had been brought under control on friday, president ur, one visited the region, declaring 3 disaster zones. he promised to defer a taxes and offered relief for all those affected. the nation's disaster agency has deployed nearly $6000.00 personnel to the hardest hit areas. the almost half a meter of rain has fallen in less than 3 days, causing rivers to overflow. torrents of water have been tossing cars, filling streets of debris, and wiping entire houses from their foundation. more than 2000 people have been evacuated from their homes, many with the help of helicopters and boats. som,

having fled to their rooftops as a last resort of hundreds of villages are without electricity. and people say they can't reach their loved ones by phone volunteers or doing what they can to the liver. aid as rescue team continue to try to save more lives in this town were buildings line, the waterfront and rivers con. expand further. this disaster experts say is down to humans and climate change. and scientists warn the worst is yet to come. gillian wolf, al jazeera or less than a week after a panel of global experts called this moment of climate change. a code red warning for humanity has been more evidence of how the planet is changing us. government scientists have confirmed that july was the hottest single month ever recorded nearly one full degrees celsius above the 20th century. average national oceanic and atmospheric administration day to show that last month was asia hosted on

record. and the 2nd warmest for europe. and it's like be, this won't be the last record breaking month with the you and the climate panel earlier in the week, predicting that the key threshold of keeping temperature rises below one and a half degrees celsius is set to be passed. chandra bershana is chief executive of the international forum for environment sustainability and technology and says policymakers and not realizing the urgency of taking climate action. the general kinking in the policy cervical is that we have done. unfortunately that is not true . we don't have time. if you look at the recent debate in the united nation, the united states is about reducing the gasoline. if you really want to face out fossil fuel, which is essential to dr. global warming, then you shouldn't be talking about reducing gasoline prices. you should be talking about increasing gasoline prices and anything and as you process. so that debate is

not even in the us right now. whereas you'll live in became president in the u. s. as a claim that we will be the most climate friendly president in that he said history, the fact is, be a hit $1.00 degrees celsius temperature increase on interest by early next decade. and which will mean more extreme brain, fun events, more widely, fire, sight, blown. in fact, things that we thing in greece. and you might look like if you walk in a b 2, but the germans be facing is, is system level system level challenge means that be if you want to really solve climate change, we have to think about and to fossil fuel. and in next 2 to 3 weeks, now that kind of systematic change will be required to keep the temperature within 1.5. see if they are not able to do that. unfortunately, this was last zamiah's opposition. either he kind a, lamer is taken

a lead in the 6 attempts now to become the countries president and comely to go longer is trailing off to voting finished on friday. we have final results are expected until sunday at the earliest results from rural areas will take longer to arrive longer is running for a 2nd time off the narrative meeting. it's your lane. the in 2016 president's opponent has criticizes monuments of the economy, which is badly hit by the pandemic. armored tasa has more from the soccer. we hearing that it could be a while before the final results released probably a day or 2, but the results we so if i indicate that opposition the that a lot is leading for now. but that could change in africa. normally when adults are being least election results, they use the start with the urban areas, could this but just to clear just bit at the handle they come in for the urban is, is we have you off with this and usually has a lot of support them in, in a few hours or

a day or so the rural vote coming in and that's the governing party. normally have support. that's where in many african countries like zambia more people seem to live. and that's way president lou who is hoping to get all the loss of his votes from the commission say that the reason why it's taking so long to announce all the results is because it's a manual counting process. so it's going to take time in some areas are remote, they're hoping they say to relieve all the results by sunday, but with the delays we been seeing it could be wrong that a day or 2, the general moods in the country is that of anxiety. people wait would be the final result. if a 10th. com here in stock. i mean, for example, on friday and even sometimes a day, whenever people feed soldiers a dry past, you see some people looking a bit worried. with the news, our life from london still have it's tough because you have no chance and you suffer to get their central american migrant to risk everything to get to the us

border sent back across mexico. we have a.