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you want to help save the world, needs into your own, ah, o. a. and again, you want to remind about top stories is and the taliban is trying to ease fears in afghanistan. 2 days after took control of the capital. young group is declared, an honesty across the country deserted women to join its company. after monday scenes of desperation, the situation at cooler ford is stabilizing with military evacuation right now. resuming hundreds of guns,

had earlier one of the thomas to escape caliber survivors of a powerful earthquake in haiti, and now facing probably storm and heavy rain lashes. the makeshift shelters in the south west of the country. 1400 people note of dies in saturdays. so more at our top story and the taliban, promising to form and inclusive government, jo. stratford now looks at some of the most powerful members who may have an important political military role in any future administration. in 2015, the afghan government announced the tale bonds. former leader mueller, oma, was dead. the senior taliban commander confirmed the man who supported and gave shelter enough gun. it's done to a samo. ben ludden had died 2 years earlier in a secret location. will oma had been in hiding since soon after the 911 attacks? the son molar mohammed? yes. who is believed to oversee the tale bones military operations and has been

repeatedly proposed as an overall leader of the armed group. during numerous leadership tussles, you coup reportedly turned down the offer and proposed this man instead high, but toler, oakland zada isn't islamic scholar, often described as the movements supreme leader. he took over the groups leadership when his predecessor act on one sword was killed in a us drone strike. the afghan pakistan border in 2016. he has a sovereignty over the tale, bonds, political, religious, and military affairs. and he's from one of the most powerful costume plans. another prominent telephone leader is mueller of gold gone. he bought a doll. i had a minute, i think this is a great victory for the whole african nation. and especially the people of kibble and on which i had dean's the way we've come through was unexpected. there is nothing like this victory in the history of the world. so we should thank god we should not be arrogant. right now we will serve our nation. we will give serenity

to the nation. we will go as far as possible to improve people's lives. he's played a leading role in negotiations in doha that have tried to reach a political settlement and lasting peace enough canister on 3rd off is one of the co founders of taliban and his head of its political office is believed to have been one of molar omar's most trusted commanders, florida was captured in 2010 by security forces in the southern pockets on the city of karachi, was released in 2018. another important figure in the doe hall negotiations and someone expected to play a major role in the tale bonds leadership share mohammed abbas sonic i. he's a former deputy minister in itala bonds government before its removal during the us led invasion in 2001. and this is sarah. she didn't, connie, he leads the powerful connie network, a group that has overseen this holly bonds,

financial and military assets across the border in pakistan. the her connie network has been blamed for various attacks and i've gone histone, including this one on the sorento hotel and campbell in 2008. it was also blamed for at least one of the reported 6 assassination attempts. the former president of afghanistan from it, cause i shall stratford to 0. and let's move on to northern mason big now, where the fighting is expected to be a top priority at a security meeting. malory leaders from the southern african development community gathering in the grey as soldiers from wonder and mozambique of recaptured. some areas, as more troops are expected to arrive from other countries in the region. mila has more. after months of fighting, hundreds of people in north eastern wasn't big, have begun. returning home fighters had captured the port city of most and border prior more than 2 years ago. dozens of people were killed and tens of thousands displaced during that attack. it's one of several areas recovered by muslim beacon

and wondering government forces as part of a regional stand by for you on a he is not present. we came here with the muslim beacon police for a confidence building patrol. we want to show our presence, the population is coming back, but they are still very scared and they are not feeling safe without telling them that the war is over. but some of those returning say they don't feel safe under the protection of them, wasn't beacon police after the end, this is not all i and they are not protecting us. they are killing us. if they were protecting us, then we would be living in peace. but that is not the case. we are tired of fleeing and we are tired of our children being killed. with guy in march fighters linked to ice will attack the northern town of palmer forcing people to sleep. the attack of left a trail of destruction and the muslim b konami struggle to push them back. in the last 4 years,

the fighters of extended their influence in the area. the conflict has killed more than 3000 people and displaced at least 800000. and according to the united nations, nearly 1000000 people now need urgent food aid. for me to miller, al jazeera firefighters in spain, a scrambling to extinguish dozens of forest fires, triggered by reco, breaking heat wave, the central province of via so some of the worst was strong winds of hampered rescue recovery associates in the earth. officials say more than 5000 types of land may have burned, and firefighters have been struggling to contain to new wildfires near the greek capital. several villages have been evacuated to the southeast. the northwest of athens. hundreds of wildfires have devastated vast areas of land this month and what the government has called it was ecological disaster. in decades, hundreds of thousands of students central anchor have had their schooling disrupted

by teachers who are on strike. the teachers are demanding better pay and refusing to do even online teaching or exam preparations. and l fernandez as more i shawnee and trying to stay on top of their schoolwork. this is says, who attend the government school in colombo as public exams in a few months. but their teachers have stopped conducting online classes as part of a trade union action, demanding better pay, longer enabled adler dang up b. it's difficult to study the syllabus by ourselves. there's a lot to cover, especially with the final exam coming to barton good martini the girl. mother, sita walks as a maid, 3 days a week. their father is a builder. they say they cannot afford to pay private fusion for any of their 4 children up again in the go. it's families like us day wage earners that are the worst effected in my. we only have school or online classes to rely on. that's why we're worried. she lanka, salon teacher's union is on an indefinite strike,

which keeps them away from online teaching exam preparation, paper correction and the duties it says 25 years of waiting for better pay is more than enough dock off yadda. i do the lowest for teachers, and se, obviously, like this is truly an embarrassing situation and just salaries, animals, and double the speed here. we say, increase our salaries mediately, the government won't do anything about it. we will continue our struggle till they do success. if you have agreed that the salary disparity between teachers and other government employees must be address that the government says he just didn't have to wait for the proper procedure to get the wage hike. probably, maybe i going to the procedure is the budget. we've already begun to make plans present the necessary documents as part of the budget. this issue has to result through the budget and be presented in that framework. but the teachers are not

buying it. the see, the government is spending millions of dollars on unnecessary projects and can easily sort out the teacher salary issue. if there is a way to do so. recent, we have seen some of the not just instructions by the 250000 strong union heavy hand to release action during the corona via the span demik tourist and quarantine for testers. has drawn criticism from the teachers and affiliated trade union onto a mary log model going to again, the government is trying to suppress us. we will not be coward, and we will take our struggled forwards. while the government fights teachers on salary differences that have lasted for decades, students in over 10000 government schools like the one behind me, bear the brunt of the work stoppage. students like shawnee and the notary will be hoping the strike will be over soon. so they can carry on with their studies.

fernandez i'll just iga colombo will new zealand is going to lockdown off, transferred me over 900 infection in 6 months follows trailer has put more police on the street to enforce its weeks long locked down there. elsewhere in the region, thailand continues to battle increasing numbers of new cases and deaths in japan is extending its state of emergency. scott hydro has this report now from bangkok, additional security forces are deployed across the street. is biggest city sidney to enforce a cove at 1900 locked down. it's 8 weak. the city registered its largest one day increases infections on monday. the officials are telling people to prepare for the surge to continue and in new zealand. the announcement that an area where the country's 1st cove at 1900 case in 6 months with found faces a snap locked down for a week. we have made decisions on the basis. it has be said to start high and go

down levels rather than start to load not contain the virus and see it move quickly . we've seen the die consequences of taking too long to act. and other countries, not least, our neighbors thailand just had its record number of single day deaths on tuesday with 239. this is the number of infections. and the 3rd and strongest wave inches toward 1000000. that's just, it's april and it's fueled by the delta variance. the nation is struggling to increase its vaccination rates that now stand it just more than 7 percent for those fully vaccinated. 25 percent of the 70000000 population have received their 1st dose. vaccine supply has been an issue from the start to tie government play, catch up, just order 10000000 doses, the pfizer and 12000000 athena vac japan is extending its state of emergency a tokyo and 7 more regions until september 12. there are also be whitening restrictions in 7 more prefix years. the nation has seen a rise in new infections setting a new daily record last week,

but locked down fatigue is prompting some to feel skeptical about the extended measures. for the kid. honestly this no impact if the state of emergency is similar to the previous ones. everyone is numb to it. and it's more like not again. so it's content needs to be different from before, or it will have little effect. and i cool in indonesia, one of the worst hit nations in asia rights group, animal defender is stepping in to help pet owners who have coven 19. they take care of pets, left alone when their owners are in hospital or are put into isolation. when the, when the, what about when i get off is why can we just the forms of assistance according to the needs of the pet owners, either to evacuate and take care of it completely. or we take care of it temporarily like lead is. we helped to feed the animals and clean the cage or base but dogs. he says the biggest challenge of the work is when they get notified that a pet owner has died. scott, i live al jazeera bangkok. well,

india reported nearly 33000 new cove in 1900 infections and 417 deaths on monday for the half are in the southern state of carola, probably middle reports now from the capital. usually the major shopping sheet in caroline. i love what our district is unusually deserted for the time of the state is in the middle of own um, its biggest festival and shopping season. been nutritional is leaving america garland used for own decoration. after months of closure, vendors like whole will finally allowed to set up shop. but celebrations have been muted, and demand has been slow because of rising covered 90 infections across got it in the monitor, let them know what kaufman should decide sometimes allows to open. sometimes they want us to close to poor people like us to, if they ask us to shop shop off to own him, will be in great trouble. once praised, we're controlling the pandemic,

carola has now become the coban 1900 hotspot in india. the local government has east restrictions with the festival and state police have been deployed to enforcement mandates and prevent crowding. there are rules requiring shop us to either get a negative p. c r test or show proof of vaccination. but shopkeepers say, these are hard to implement an effective business during peak season. the business is becoming really difficult. since the band to make started, we have been forced to shut our shop. and even when the markets open, the police comes in and we have to request them to let us run our shop. so we can make some money with a high number of infections, experts say carola and india as ne austin in 2nd wave of the pandemic, which could lead to a surge in other states. roughly 9 percent of all indians have been vaccinated across the country list. we see about 60 percent of the population vaccinated and

80 percent em blue red. we cannot really say that india is safe because of a large focus. right. and the population in different parts of india independently would actually be there are variance with their despite a high vaccination rate care loss, positivity rate is above 15 percent prompting the central government to give more than 30000000 dollars to strengthen its health services. pardon him at the al jazeera new deli, wasn't in his president is under pressure off to photograph showed him celebrating his wife's birthday jury and current of ours restrictions. in the picture, alberta fernandez is seen with a dozen guests at their presidential residence last year when locked down with the fort in response. hundreds of people have placed stones with the names of cove at 900 victims on the steps of government house important areas. while in chile,

more than 2000 children have lost one or both parents to curb at 19 congress to propose your law to allow family members or others to take charge of the youngsters . latin america editor, listen, human reports now from about punish. this modest been home and back, but i was once happy when that was before the entire fabric that theodore family port coven 19 last year. first the grandparents have put into intensive care. then the ambulance came for 40 year old karen. theodore, a paramedic mother of 3 and the main caretaker, a young, the hooky. yes you, i'm really that's what she told me. she was going to die that she knew it because she worked in the hospital as an many gillian households. there's no father in this story. helen was 20 for 23 days. she cared for her 5 year old brother,

15 year old sister. and then one night they called to say that my mother wasn't doing well. and at 545, she fainted and she died last minute. they were left on their own. all 3 children have been suffering from depression and severe anxiety. the sand is income has disappeared. the worst of all says helen is the absence of professional emotional support to deal with the trauma, trait of summer love. we are isolated. there are thousands of us out there, but no one knows for sure how many because for the government are invisible. it wasn't until a few weeks ago that an investigation revealed that there are at least 2029 youngsters who've lost one or both parents. most of them from low income families, i get a course latin america. $30000.00 or more has an orphaned but have fallen under the radar. like few countries, chile is moving full speed ahead to deliver

a 3rd dose of the call with vaccines. starting with these senior citizens, the focus now is to boost people's immunity and the economy. yet the faith of thousands of young people who have lost one or both parents does not seem to be the government's priority right now. congress is to be giving to discuss in orphans pension, but experts say an all inclusive program on a case by case basis is necessary that include psychological care for the children and relatives who can hopefully care for them. and guarantees that children won't be separated. coma seen how is it possible that one and a half years into the panoramic we hadn't seen this crude reality before. thousands of children have lost their loved ones, not just in chile, but in the entire world. the fabric children are lucky to at least have their elderly grandparents still recovering from the virus. but until now,

no government agency has knocked on their door to offer help. to see a newman al jazeera by brace. still ahead here not 0. we'll hear from africa, suns, paralympic team, g fun. what the future of sports might be like in the country on the television. that's what just the the news news news

with me. ah ah, ah, ah ah . again, his jer, nick, thank you very much. africana sounds to parallel pants will not compete in tokyo late this month because of the unfolding turmoil in that country. 23 year old ty

condo fighter suck. yeah. could daddy would have been the 1st woman to represent afghanistan at the games, but she and track it has said resolutely have not managed to get out in time. they've been due to flight the japanese capsule monday before international flights shot down of kenneth hans shift the mission for the paralympics area and city he is in london and joins us now. live on skype. i mean, 1st of all, what do you know about the whereabouts and the welfare of the 2 athletes moment? so until this morning i wasn't aware of the one for the athletes, particularly cleaners, certainly, and also vecchio. i tried the number of times to call to get in contact her via what's up and i couldn't get through because of the network failure and the power kept in the country. and but i left her a message and she finally responded. she's bleeding for help happening to all woman there on the globe for how she said that, you know,

she moved from city of iraq where she's originally from to cobble and she's, she's in the state of shock and they don't fear other, any discussions taking place with the international paralympic committee or any other organizations to help them get out of cobble now that the airport has opened to some flights i wasn't aware of the airport is opened today. i don't know how many commercial flights so going in and out of again, it's done today. but we haven't had any contact from any agencies to our help to get him out of the country to allow them to compete. because this is the wish of that. she left the media message this morning. i'm waiting to translate it and hopefully share on social media as to for people to hear because everybody was waiting to hear from her side. yes,

certainly waiting to hear that message to when we spoke earlier, you had a very specific message for the international community. would you like to share that with us now? yes, absolutely. i mean, we are, you know, reporting the new different news agency, the new that. but unfortunately we haven't had any agency to come forward to offer help. i wasn't aware that they're interested. then she came to participate. she took off and lost hope. i'm still hopeful, please help me add to compete. this is my dream. don't lead the telephone to take my basic right away from me. i'm a pyre, limpy in woman in afghanistan. work so hard struggled in my life to get where i am . and i just want to compete, she's feeling for help and as a shift emotional part, limbic up, up, down the sun. now that i know that she's still hopeful, i would like to request the me, the me, you know, the whoever,

whoever he in the country that's coming forward to help maybe to get the athletes. and the coaches, allow them to compete in tokyo. 2020. i know it's early days, but what do you think will the future of sport and paris for look like under the taliban? i mean, i can only tell you from the past experience that we had, the future was bleak, especially for female, for the pyre, limpy. and then again, a song, the paralympics for it wasn't had during the talent era as far as i'm aware. and but they're looking forward in the future. i don't think he will look any better because we have a struggle to the 20, the 2 decades to get where we are. but now we're back in the square one. i don't think the top one will have the me, they should capacity and to, to you know, to run the country to govern the country, especially for those forms because we don't know which male sport will be allowed, which few minutes will be whether we will be allowed a tour,

so the futures looking believe at the band around city. he kind of fans chef the mission for the paralympics. thank you very much for joining. thank you, john. thank you. well, the other big story dominating news headlines is the earthquake in haiti, and it's cool that's close to the heart of the world's tennis number to nearby soccer soccer, who's of haitian and japanese descent will donate her prize money this week from the cincinnati open to raise awareness of the situation in the country for haiti, i feel like i'm not really doing that much like i could do more and i'm trying to figure out, you know, what i can do and what exactly or where exactly to put my energy into both say like the prize money thing, it's sort of like the 1st like thing that i thought of that i could do. and that would raise the most awareness. but if his soccer seemed upset, so she answered the question, it's because moments before she broke down in tears and walked out following

a question about the control the see over her, refusing to speak to the media at the french open earlier this year. this is her 1st news conference is pulling out of that tournament over concerns for mental health. i can't really help that there are some things that i tweak or some things that i say that kind of create a lot of news articles or things like that. and i know that it's because i've won a couple grand slams and i've got in to do a lot of press conferences, these things happen. but i would also say like i, i'm not really sure how to balance or to like, i'm figuring it out at the same time as you are. i would say okay, i think we're just going to take a quick break just. we'll be back in one moment. all right, that's your thought for now. i have more for you. great,

thanks very much. thank you. or that's it for this news. i will, i will tell you will be back with more than use in just a news. news. news news. when i think of my niger, i think of potential when i think of potential i think of what would be, what is not. i think of young people literally take them to the end. i'm do something that they can be part of. tell me the possible. i think it other challenges, i believe isn't a child in the country? alex, my name is ben. gotcha. so and this is my my,

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