a witness documentary on our to 0, me lose lose. the cities continue to fall as a taliban consolidates its control over more and more of this dawn i hello on money side. this is al jazeera life from joe. how? so coming up and he's 300 people are killed off to magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes, haiti, pace, rise among opposition. supporters in zambia as their captains,

it takes them the lead in the presidential election and lebanon, the thing fuel crisis triggers. widespread blackouts and red chills. central bank head says no one is running the country. ah, taliban fighters have seized a key northern city enough gone a stone in yet another blow to the government's efforts to blunt the armed groups onslaught. the telephone now controls muslim sharif, which is the capital of the pollock province. that means its fight is now control all of northern afghanistan. the government has been reduced to the capital couple and parts of the east of the tell about said this now moving toward july bod, which is i've got a stance, 5th, largest city and south of kabul shiranda. the capital of particular province fell

earlier on saturday, followed by the cities a thought about god as both of them near couple. the president though remains defiance. i struck gaudy as pledge not to give up what he calls 2 decades of gains and the u. s. sex your face is pushing for diplomatic efforts to reduce any farther violence under chappelle has the support as the telephone claims, another city afghan forces are seen getting out of their way. in this case, out of the country to pakistan. a fortress of a city, missouri is sharif as a major price, taking it consolidate the tolerance control of the north. talk to you and other provinces. closer to the capital were added to the list on saturday, 322 provincial capital following to the group interest 8 days about the telephone, celebrating its lightening advance and places that controls fighters. florence had recently captured hardware, touring, a helicopter hanger and western herat province and hoisted their flag in kandahar city. a top a gate that leads to the governor's compound. us,

president biden has warned the taliban of a swift and strong response if us personnel or put it risk in cobbled. the americans began evacuating the embassy. only mission critical staff will remain. 5000 troops are flying in to assist one kilometer away in the presidential palace sharp. gonna address the nation. the taliban have always refused to negotiate with the government. as long as connie is at the helm, that holly can meet the castle. 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 from that. and the taliban is circling with every provincial capital. it takes the government's leverage lessons and are chappelle elders here. well, that one's of yes sir, will soon be in afghanistan to help evacuate american diplomatic per se. now, let's go to my county, his law for us in washington, d. c. mike, it sounds like

a massive deployment of troops. what does it tell us? well, it's a me, is a massive ramp up deployment. early in the week, we were told that an additional $3000.00 troops would be going to couple to help god the port joining $1000.00 troops who have remained in station in recent month. but now in the course of the day that depends department confirms that a 1000 troops from 82nd and will be going to couple and not the 2000. and we'll be going to join a 1000 marines already station in kuwait. as a quick reaction force, add to this another 1000 us personnel who on their way to contact to help process these is for afghans who work full us forces. so this is a massive deployment to looking at some $8.00 to $9000.00 troops being deployed in recent days. and the question is, why is this being done on such a knee jerk reaction, the bite and administration clearly,

according to most observers and estimating exactly how rapid the taliban advance could be. and mike, how is what is going on in afghanistan being viewed domestically? well, it's been a lot of criticism of the, by an administration and not only from the republicans there, a number of biden's, fellow democrats who been very critical. first of all, with his decision to press ahead with the total withdrawal of us forces from a gun is done. now the president, finding himself as address this in the course of the day in a statement, he said that he was in fact blocked into the withdraw by his predecessor, who had reached an agreement with the taliban. as he extended that to allow for a more orderly withdrawals his bite and extending the deadline until the end of this particular month by and also sit in that particular statement that for the past us presidents have presided over that ongoing war and

a son. and he was intent on being the last, so bite and insisting that there's going to be no real thing of his decision to withdraw or us forces. he said as well recently that this is not something he regrets, but politically, it could prove very damaging. as i said, not just from republicans, but also from a number of his fellow democrats who continued to criticize his administration's decision to pull the troops out of east on, particularly as no one is seeing that the bite and administration did not probably calculate for the speed of the taliban withdrawal and the speed at which the situation would grow, so disastrous as the withdrawal ends. okay, thanks for that mike hannah in washington dc. david does. raj is a professor at national defense, univer, feasel, the former nato operations director at the joint chief of staff. he explains really

how a conflict in the counsel couple could play out. it is a critical moment. i mean this, the collapse, the african government has been on expected, unexpectedly rapid. and it's also been an areas that you don't expect it normally that the taliban is passion, moving as hearts. but what they've been able to do is form alliances with leaders from other ethnic groups of blokes in numerous province. the respects ensure begun province and they've been able to in effect, isolate the government of afghan garrison's. and for the most part, been able to just get them to surrender and conquer these capitals without shots being fired. what we're seeing is remote garrisons in isolated areas that are ethnically different from them for the most part. and that, you know, are unwilling to risk their lives for, you know, regime that, you know, are leaders that have proven unable to support them. but as the, the movement goes into cobble. what you're getting is the hard core of well trained

people, the special forces, the african forces. and you're also going to people who know that their, their livelihood is not going to be very long under a taliban leaderships. we've really overlooked just how brutal the taliban government could be. so i think we're likely to see more orchestrated military activity from cobbled up till now. this is mostly been about forces retreating or changing sides. more than 300 people have been killed in haiti all to the country was struck by a magnitude 7.2 quake survivors being pulled out of the rubble at least 1800 people have been injured. many of the still message, the epi center was about 160 kilometers west of the capital. a prime minister was declared a state of emergency has said this enormous damage. i will make an evaluation we were told to is a lot of damage. people were dead and houses, hospitals and infrastructures collapsed. i will check to see what can be done to organize assistance. on monday, i'm assuming i did miss. we are calling for

a lot of solidarity, but highly structured solidarity. we are setting up a task force to coordinate the aid so that what happens after the 2010 earthquake is not repeated again. more now from neath barker was alive and clearly exhausted. a young woman and a child uphold from the rubble. moments after the massive earthquake homes and businesses lie flattened, the 7.2 magnitude quake struck at 8 30 in the morning, sending people out into the streets in panic. it was followed 20 minutes later by 5.2 magnitude. after short, the tremors felt across the caribbean, and as far away the southern florida, the epa centers in 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, and one and a half 1000000 people homeless. this latest quake is more powerful, but we don't know how deadly that's larger than the 7.0 and 2010 killed over 200000 people. mother doesn't sound like a huge difference in the size of the earthquake us about 2 times the energy release . right now, our impact estimates are catastrophic, devastating earthquake potential of tend to hundreds of thousands of people. fatalities. the one of the poor countries in the world. the plague, by worsting instability and violence of the assassination of the countries president last month. haiti's also struggle to control the surgeon cove in 19 cases in a country where a quarter of the population live in abject poverty. and now,

this package, i'll just san b as a position leader. how k in day he dilemma has taken a lead. and his 6, the 10 to become the countries president, the incumbent leader aguilar who is trailing after voting, finished on friday with final results not expected until sunday at the earliest results from rural areas will take longer to arrive. luka is running for a 2nd time. the president's opponent has criticized his management of the economy, which was probably hit by the pandemic. how remote tulsa has the laces from the sucker we're 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 be that a lot is leading for now, but that could change in africa. normally when adults are being least election results, they usually start with the urban areas because this but just to clear just bit at

the handle, they come in. the urban areas is where the opposition usually has a lot of support them in, in a few hours or a day or so. the rural votes coming in and that's the governing party. normally have support. that's way in many african countries like zambia more people seem to live. and that's way president lou who is hoping to get a lot of his votes from the commission say that the reason why it's taking so long to announce or the result 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 be seeing it could be wrong in that a day or 2. the general moods in the country is that of anxiety of people wait with the final results. if the com pin is a 10th. com here in the sock, i mean, for example, on friday and even sometimes a day, whenever people feed soldiers a dry past i, you see some people looking

a bit worried still ahead on al jazeera. why palace didn't n g o z are increasingly finding themselves targets of israel's military? the fighting back germany is ruling party candidate is aiming to found on the challenge from the left. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored my cattle airways. hello there. we seen incredible record breaking amounts of rain falling east asia, and there's more torrential downpours on the way for china and japan. now we seems to be flooding across central hu bay province. we are likely to see more of this as those rain fall, particularly intensely across eastern areas for young province and when don't problems like you to see some of those intense rains fall over the next few days.

now it's not only in china, it's also japan that set to see more wet weather. we have seen mud slides in key. oh, sure. island we could see more. their highest alert has been issued and that's covering more than a 1000000 people. they've been urged to leave their homes as those heavy rains kick in. now on sunday it's going to be eastern areas of hon shoe that see the really heavy rains. but by the time we get into monday, southern areas will see those intense rains once again. as we move to south asia for india, the monsoon rains are concentrated around that eastern coast edition is going to see some really heavy falls in the days to come. we got a tropical low around the bay of bengal, and that's intensifying the monsoon range. not just one or east in areas of india, but for bangladesh and me and my we could see more flooding in the days to come and match a weather update. sponsor cut on airways. how

many nukes has too many new america has in many ways driven the arms parties are much more like the british parties. there are fewer regulations to own a tiger than their our own a dog. how can this be happening? your weekly take on us politics and society, and that's the bottom line. you deal. unique native birds are risk of extinction. emissions plan to read the nation if the president said them one of the best guys on out to the labor the me watching. i'll just remind the help stories this hour said he's close to the gun capital couple had fallen to the taliban, which now controlled 20 to 34 provincial capitals after taking

a sharif in the north of the country. president awestruck guarding his pledge not to give up on gaze made over the past with the us of sending thousands of troops south got us down to support the ongoing pullouts and help evacuation americans. market personnel as a tell about advance contains all the 300 people are dead in haiti, off the country was struck by the chief 7 point to earthquake, and the more entered or missing the prime ministers declared a state of emergency. now, lebanon central bank governor says no one is running the country, the defended his decision to hold fuel subsidies. the bank had refused to use reserve funds to continue the subsidy, saying that would be illegal, or the governor rehab salami says politicians have been acting responsibly. the world bank describes lebanon's economic crisis as the west anywhere for 150 years.

while that half of its population is now living in poverty. the currency, the pound has lost about 90 percent of its value since the end of 2019 and tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs pushing the unemployment rate to 40 percent. on food prices have soared. basic items like milk and cooking oil are no longer affordable for most people. patrick madina is president of the lebanese institute for market studies in beirut. he explains why he thinks removing fuel subsidies may bring prices to have now people 11 on have been something wrong. outages because the venue government is subsidizing fewer and subsidies lead to out to just people are doing and get. busy loans hours every day hoping to to fill their thank. and if the when you are

having a lot of the outages because on fuel and fuel is unavailable because it is subsidized, right? people are getting well, isn't it? because no activity, you cannot have rich. people are closed, companies are closed, they come up with all of that is due to subsidy. so the wise thing to do is to actually repute subsidies as long as the government maintains them. and today the government continues to maintain those subsidies. we will suffer from outages and people who are on gas station and they were suffering from when you cut these we expect prices fuel and inflation increase. however, in level one, we have been suffering from inflation or the year because of the chart evaluation of the cutting. so the only way to can throw in information is to actually random

delivery is to stop that evaluation. that's how you can contain the impact subsidies, and we can stop that evaluation of that. even if we put in place a currency board, meaning if we don't really know what other men use us to do the work, we will have a higher inflation going on 3, palestinian and g. o say there is a growing campaign to stop them from operating in the occupied west bank. israeli forces have rated the offices of 5 palestinian organisations since the beginning of the year. 2 of them have been ordered to shut down. neither abraham reports from hebron. the 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 organisation 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 knew who said i didn't know the book 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 me about the campaign against us is not new. they targeted because we focus our work in areas under is really controlled where most palestinian agricultural lands or farmers are trying to develop the land. but the israelis are trying to take it over and push them out. you know, just miller says his institute has been urging donors to cut off aid to palestinian and joe's. 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 entered. 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. these ready 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 read the army, ordered the closer up to palestinian organizations, including the health work committee, but agency refused to comply and re open the doors and defiance. later its director was arrested and is now preaching. invalid 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 floods in northern turkey, have killed at least 44 people. laulan tis non emergency workers, a rushing to supply aid to people effected the damage has been reported in the black sea town of both kit gillian wolf has his 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 bulls 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 manager is missing along with their 2 children. his relative and local business owner to ron describes the moment flood waters rushed in. at the

very moment they were paying tribute to his uncle at a funeral. as films in a better than little cover, 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 irwin 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 and personnel to the hardest hit areas. 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 foundations. 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 where buildings line the waterfront and rivers con, expand further this disaster experts they is down to humans and climate change. and scientists warn the worst is yet to come. gillian wolf, al jazeera u. s. government scientists have confirmed that july was the world's hottest month ever recorded. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration

found the combined land an ocean surface temperature last month was one degrees celsius above the 20th century average. the data show july was asia's hottest month on record for europe. it was the 2nd warmest, and it will stop seeing last week. you are climate science report. one temperatures are likely to rise by more than the key threshold of 1.5 degrees, making heat waves much more likely severe tundra bu sean is ceo of the international form environment. the state ability and technology says action isn't being taken quickly enough. the general thinking in the policy circle is that we have dying. unfortunately, that is not true. we don't have time. if you look at the recent debate in the united nation, united states, it is about reducing the gasoline. if you really want to face our fossil fuel, which is essentially go back to global warming, then you shouldn't be talking about reducing gasoline. you should be talking about

increasing gasoline prices and anything renewable energy prices, so that the bank is not even in the u. s. right now, whereas utilizing became president in the u. s. as a claim that he will be the most climate friendly president. in that he said history, the fact is the hit 1.5 degrees celsius temperature in please visit the on the just by early next to kate and digital mean more extreme brain, fun events more. why fi, sy clones, in fact, things that we thing in greece, and you might look like a deep walk in a b 2. but the challenge, the thing is if 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 to predicts. now that kind of systematic change will be required to keep the temperature within $1.00. see if we are not able to do that. unfortunately,

the water demons are preparing to choose a new government in september the chancellor and michael was stepping down to 16 years. but a very public blunder by the man tip to replace has dented her parties, prospects and lush. it was caught laughing during a visit to a flood, had area his popularity since his nose dived. dominic cane house support from ballad implies the political shadow boxing of the summer is over. now it's time for the main event for arm and lashes. that means trying to land a few punches on his electoral rivals, both from the social democrats and from the greens, which is why he's been visiting eco friendly projects like this, the new tesla factory outside berlin. this is the future rocher of energy, the future of sustainability. and we thank you for this investment in

germany as well. it's a, it's a pleasure to be here. the problem for lashley it is that many people seem unsure about him. images like these of him laughing on the sidelines of a visit to a flood hit area last month have damaged his reputation. when he stands alongside angle immaculate, such events, some believe he struggles by comparison. some in his home state, blame him for their problems. this level of dissatisfaction is mirrored at the national level. when in early spring he emerged as the lead candidate for his party and their bavarian allies, the csu. they were pulling it around 30 percent. now they're struggling to stay above 20 percent. with strong challenges from the greens and social democrats, one, emily says lash. it has been trying to stress his environmental credentials in order to stem the flow of votes to the greens seems to that to russia has to go a bit more towards the issues of the greens and talk to issues and the public and

social justice thing. over these elections are about choosing who works in parliament for the next 4 years. they'll also have a direct impact on who ends up as the chancellor for the past 16 years, that role has belonged to the kristi and democrats angular makeover, but with her soon to be gone. and now with aman lashes in charge of the c d u. that grip on power seems looser, and the threats from the other main parts. he's much stronger. and all the while the bavarian prime minister, mock hazard looks on, he wanted to be the lead candidate for the cdcs you in september. but last out to lash it in the spring. now the polls suggest most germans would prefer verda as chancellor, and that the cd u. c. s u vote would be higher if he was, but such a change, of course, seems highly unlikely with just a few weeks to go. dominant cane al jazeera berlin, mexico's president is asking indigenous people for forgiveness for the abuses

inflicted by spanish colonialists. as part of mexico's plans to mark the 500 anniversary the fall of the empire, hundreds of people watched a light show eliminating a replica off the deck temples. millions of indigenous mexicans died off the spanish invasion in the $1500.00. the conquest is still being debated. president lopez over door has called it, and on mitigated failure, ah money inside into all the headlines on al jazeera crit, cities close to the afghan capital kabul have fallen to the taliban, which now controls 20 to 34 provincial capitals. of to taking a sharif in the north, the country the government has been reduced to the capital couple.