what is life life in maximum security prison in this to pot, special report. one 0, one east goes behind bars. it's sing opposed, chunky prison. on out to 0. 0 oh, morning the dead crowds attend funerals. the some of the 41 victims of the fire, the church in egypt. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up finding strength and diversity. india's prime minister lead celebrations to mock 75 years of

independence. one year after the taliban is take over in afghanistan, we look at what lies ahead for our country in crisis and waiting for a reunion. but my never come families search for those still missing because of the war in ukraine. ah, funerals are being held for some of the 41 people killed in a fight had a cup to christian church in egyptian city of gazer. the place started during the sunday mass service. thousands of people were in the building of the time. the church entrance was blocked by flames, causing a stampede. many of those killed with children, investigator suspect an electrical fault may have started the fire samples robbie, asthma does ins, dead and dozens injured after a fire cause to stampede. m. m worshippers had a cop to christian church in the egyptian city of jesus. oh,

the incident happened as thousands gathered from morning mass at the abusive theme . church were not very, i saw people jumping from the upper floor, suffocation suffocation. all of them did so many did, and there are children, we didn't know how to get to them. we didn't know who some this is or whose daughter that is as possible. jesus sits at the southern edge of the greater cairo area. one of the most densely populated places in the world. dilapidated infrastructure means accidental fires are common, made more likely due to the record high temperatures across the region. some of the fire and others to feed church thought to have been caused by a faulty air conditioner. but we started to see from the outside that the smoke was getting bigger and people were wanting to jump from the upper floor of the building of the church to the next one. then we went inside and found the children, and we started to take the bodies out. in the aftermath of the incident,

the president of the sutter cc announced the mobilization of quote, all states services to ensure that all measures are taken. the prosecutor's office has also opened an investigation. where can i conveyed the president's condolences and my condolences to the religious leaders of the church, the families of the dead and injured people? we need them to know that we're standing with them and standing by them. some of the injured were firefighters, the blaze blocked in exit trapping churchgoers and causing the stamp. he'd, according to eye witnesses, most of those killed were children. zane basra v algebra explosions have been reported in the syrian port, city of tattoos, state media, se israeli war planes attack targets in the area. and these are intercepted by syrian air defense. there are also reports that israeli fighter jets launch missiles towards syria, from lebanese aerospace series, military says 3 soldiers were killed. tattoos is where a cargo ship carrying grain exports from ukraine is soon due to arrive. sonata has

more on this from beirut. well area state television is reporting attacks on targets in the coastal city of talk to us and the damascus countryside. it didn't say what the targets were, but it is saying that 3 soldiers were killed. them 2 were injured and blaming as well for those strikes. now this will not be the 1st time they blame israel for such an attack. it's not the 1st time syria reports such an attack. and the way the response has been no comment is waiting. military usually doesn't comment on these individual operations, but it's really politicians have acknowledge time. and again, over recent years, really that they've been targeting bases of iranian allied groups, groups like the 11 it has been which, which operates in syria. and in recent months,

they have even targeted the point in the coastal city of latha kia and damascus airport. in fact, the runway said damascus airport, we're deemed unusual, unusable for weeks. now as well does not hide the fact that it's goal in syria is to prevent, from entrenching itself apparently. and it won't tolerate any iranian presence on the border. and it also wants to stop and weapons transfer sophisticated weapons to has been neighboring 11 on this. all comes and it's heightening tensions in the region between iran and israel. such attacks usually are confined but the risk of further escalation is there for israel is really that the biggest goal is to prevent iran from creating a base on its bordering syria. the way that it's living on has the law now has a very strong position. celebrations being held across india to mark 75 years of

independence, prime minister and remote. he has addressed the nation from the historic red ford in new delhi. large crowds are also expected at a flag ceremony. at the top was a border with pakistan. the end of british rule in 1947 resulted in the partition of pakistan from india, widespread violence. more than 15000000 people displaced in baton as more now from new delhi. this is a landmark anniversary and celebrations have been on for quite some time. in his speech. prime minister movie paid tribute to feed him fighters who made today possible. he also asked people to shed every bit of colonial legacy and said that he will work towards making india a developed nation in 25 years. now, over the last few weeks, we've seen a lot of celebration around the 75th anniversary. there have been many government

programs, for example, a booster dozes against cooper 19 have been made free for 75 days. there is one big campaign by the government, and that is to encourage people is to hoist the national flag the try carlo. and that has been received very was of people have been a buying flag displaying it at home in their offices on storefronts in their cars, on social media. even celebrities will sing over the flags to be named today is to really get a sense of, of the pride of what has been achieved and also hope of what the country hopes to achieve going forward. now it's one, yes and for taliban reach up control of afghanistan, the economy has collapsed to women have been stripped of their rights and millions of people don't know where their next meal is coming from. somebody in ga report some cobble on the telephones you in power and what lies ahead raise sound in

a blend is done. ah, a musician and driver. after has lived in a few camps since his childhood. he's among the more than 3000000 people displaced in atlanta, stone market. the among care of the hope before it was good. but now life just passes us by before we could find some food for our children. but the change in government means there is no work now a year to go tens of thousands of people headed for the voters. as provinces fell to the taliban, many uncovered rushed to the airport. as requested by the government collapsed. after taking refuge abroad, sharp gone, he denied that he escaped the suitcases full of cash. more than 100000 people left during the abrupt withdrawal of foreign forces. the economy collapsed and the us for billions of dollars of foreign reserves. the u. s. nitro alliance spent an estimated $300000000.00 a day every day for 2 decades. but basic such as road schools,

hospitals are either non existent or in poor shape. since the taliban took over, that money has stopped coming in. and thousands of professionals have less human rights watch has accused the taliban of a long list of abuses, restricting the rights of women and girls, suppressing media feed him and detaining, torturing, and executing critics, and perceived opponents all allegations the taliban denies. didn't motivate them. covenant activities in some other areas, things a good were trying to improve. but we should also take into account the problems of the corona virus, the suspension of foreign aid, the freezing of money, the problems in banking drought. all of these together had increased the problems for the people of afghanistan. for those who left life not easy, more than half the 20000 enough, gone to reach the u. k. are still in temporary accommodation, the lack of prospects abroad, and many 5th harris meant and the threat of detention cut over home for support. true. i lost everything including my restaurant, atlanta go to europe,

so i went to turkey. unfortunately, they captured us and deported us to iran. thank god. now we are in her home and i will never go anywhere else. in a year, security is improved, but poverty and desperation have increased. in my little upon 6 international recognition, there are some concessions. it seems unwilling to make and some of the j joins us now live from cobble as a. how are the taliban going to deal with his very difficult challenges facing the afghan people? well it is a layer cake of challenges they're starting from that they are not that recognized in legitimate god, but they're seen by the outside world. they do not have enough money to feed everyone in a van nissan. you have to remember for the last 20 years, the economy of this country was billed on money that was pouring in from foreign countries. they also have to resurrect some sort of a system where people can find jobs. although officials that we've been speaking to

would drill painted rosie picture, they'll tell you that they're expecting billions of dollars to be collected in revenues from customers, from access, from exports that they said they have doubled. but that is, it's still not seen in the streets or we've been talking about is that we've been to places in the north places in the east where there is just so much desperation. there is so much frustration, especially from a secondary school going girls who amongst our colleagues have been telling us that they just do not have the prospect. they don't have anything to look forward to because they have not been able to go to school for a year. and then there is the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan because of a lack of not just funding, but lack of professionals as well that we've been visiting hospitals, where on one bed there have been multiple babies. the cases of malnutrition have doubled in the last one year. and we went to a market where it says used to food, a stale bread, and that is in high demand. so just gives you

a picture that amanda son was already poor of where the sun was already desperate. and in this abrupt a debacle of, of withdrawal, thousands and thousands of people have been left with no options. and no way to look forward to the taliban, i will tell you that they have brought security to this country for the 1st time in diaz. are people going about it even late at night? they're seeing that they are resurrecting in economy which collapse and they are going to a need time and, and do national cooperation to help rebuild this country. but whatever the world has been asking off of them, much of that, they're not willing to consider a summer job aid life or stay in the afghan capital cobble a summer. thank you. china central bank has trimmed interest rates in an effort to boost economic growth. new figures show industrial output grew just 3.8 percent in july and much lower than expected retail sales of also slowed an investment in the property sector has dropped. the interest rate can't suggest the government now

recognizes it cannot achieve its growth target a 5.5 percent for the year. so to come here and just hear including mixed religion with politics. why the present in community is more persecution. the head of the presidential election, uninsurable in a landscape scarred by the tragedy. 5 years on survivors. remember those who died must have mudslide on the outskirts frita. lauren: ah ah, you know the name of the game, this is your update for the middle east and africa will begin this one in the middle east and still seen some more downpours around humans, capital santa. we did have a deadly deluge there, so that is not good news to see some more rain in the forecast. lot of sand and dust in the empty quarter of saudi but i want to take you to pockets down where the

rain is still falling for sin province baluchistan. same goes for punjab is while getting into a pretty good down port there for the hor, and we're going to track out this moisture this next coming in for western portions of india. so more rain on the way for buckets on sundry downpours are moving into, it's stumbled. it's going to knock back your temperature a bit to $27.00 degrees on monday and off to africa, we go some storms bubbling up around lake victoria. and look at all of this rain we have for nigeria that's moving further toward the west, out toward the gulf of guinea. and as we slide towards the south right now, we had disturbed weather in the western cape. it moved to the eastern cape was soon a tall, but it's stained off shore, but still those waves will probably exceed 5 meters and it's flung a lot of cool air into southern moves and big some i put 23 degrees. cool for now, but give it a few days in your temperature. well, klein again. that's your update by for now. ah,

let's get to the bottom line. what does the new forever proxy war mean for america and nato? it's very hard to say we're the escalations stopped. is it a mistake to open up? is that a pandora's box? if you want to be ready for the next pandemic, you figure out this, the bottom line, your weekly take on the u. s. politics in society. we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. if the human suffering that we report i, we brave bullet bomb and we always include the views from our sites. ah ah ah, welcome back to provide about top stories here. this,

our funerals are being held for some of the 41 people were killed in a church fi and the gyptian city of visa, thousands of people who are in the building at the time investigator suspect an electrical fault started. the blaze celebrations are being held across india to mock 75 years of independence, prime minister in or, and remote. he has been addressing the nation from the historic red fort in new delhi. he said he would work to make india a developed nation in 25 years on china. central bank as trimmed interest rates in an effort to boost economic growth. new figures show industrial output grew just 3.8 percent in july, much lower than the expected a u. s. congressional delegation is holding talks with taiwan is president as military tensions between the island and china remain high. the today visit is focusing on trade climate change and regional security. china has stage several military drills to express its anger at this month's visit to ty, pay by us, how speak and nancy pelosi, the u. s. as china overreacted to the visit and called the military drills

destabilizing the journalist, patrick falk, has more from beijing. well, the chinese embassy in washington said that congressional leaders should act in consistence with the u. s. government one china policy and also said that this visit proved once again that the u. s. did not want to promote peace and stability in the taiwan straits. and that it was making every effort to stir up confrontation between the 2 sides, the global times called it a sneaky visit, suggesting possibly that beijing really had no idea that this was taken place and had also want of counter measures. quoting analysts, the state run out, lead said that the 5 member delegation would be sanctioned. they are expected to be meet with tom and his leaders. and they expect to be discussing things, including you as taiwan relations, regional security, as well as trade and investment among other things. and that is expected to include a meeting with president saying one as well. china hasn't talked about any military

response, but the military activities or drills have toned down and recent days, although they haven't ceased altogether. taiwan defense ministry said on sunday that 11 chinese aircraft had crossed over into its air defense zone. north korean state media says russian president vladimir putin planning to expand ties between moscow and pyongyang. hootin reportedly wrote to north korea's kim junglin that a closer relationship would be in both countries, interests. the 2 leaders exchange letters on the 77th anniversary of the korean peninsula. liberation from japanese rule were both north and south korea are marking back anniversary japan ruled all of korea from 1910 until the end of world war 2. in 1945, it was followed 5 years later by the korean war that's left the country divided. ever since rob mcbride and sole has more on president putin's proposals. that is an interesting letter coming at an interesting time. russian president vladimir putin talking about expanding bilateral relations about areas of common interest about

north korea and russia. it seems working together to improve the security situation . he said in northeast asia, you know it's, it's interesting that both of these leaders of faith, relative isolation in the international community, kim john guns of course, has been long standing, comply them a poot in it's been far more recent, but no less consequential. so there does seem almost an inevitability about the to lead as being drawn in closer relationship. and it does come at this interesting time in, on the korean peninsula. this liberation day. it is being celebrated in that the 2 careers were waiting to see from north korea. just walk sort of events, they will be staging to mark this day. the north korean state run television is carrying special programming. we are waiting to see whether it's going to be marked by any mass event or march or military had display. of course north korea would seem to have a not to celebrate this year having just overcome the common enemy of koby 19. i

didn't report his 1st cases of what you for mystic recalls fever until mid may. since then there's been a rapid expansion of the thickness through the population. millions of people it seems becoming infected, but very recently announcing that it has been defeated. and also using that opportunity to blame south korea for the initial outbreak for introducing cove it into the north, which has done nothing to help frosty relations across the dmc. malaysia's former prime minister, na zebra. zach has returned to court making his final bid to avoid criminal charges . he's appealing against a 2020 conviction from money laundering and corruption, and a 12 year prison sentence. u. s. and malaysian authorities say 4 and a half $1000000000.00 were stolen from the one malaysia investment fund, which he co founded has been on bales since 2018 pending bill. the president of ecuador has declared a state of emergency in the country's largest city. why are key laughter?

obama t at blamed on drug guns. 5 people were killed and 26 wounded. when men on motor bikes open fire and through a bag of explosives into a restaurant. the attack came in the early hours of sunday. the minister of the interior called it a declaration of war against the state. i organized criminal greeks. let us, i think the only flat thing it felt very strong. i thought it was an earthquake. the bed was shaking. i grabbed my son was going to run out like crazy. but then they said it was a dynamite explosion on 8th street to learn to be out. people were crying for help . there was no electricity because the power cables were brought down by the blast . she said, well, let no religious intolerance in brazil has been a growing problem in recent years as october's presidential election approaches. some are concerned. the campaign has become a fight over beliefs. monica, your market reports. ah, this is the condom blair. ritual or religion brought to brazil by african slaves.

it survived centuries of persecution in discrimination before gaining acceptance. that is october's presidential election approaches. many of its followers feel like if we come targets in a holy war. how foolish greasy hostilities increase when you mix politics with religion. our temples have been attacked by the growing number of radical evangelical christians. it's a battle for souls for power and for votes or protestant christian evangelicals are brazil's fastest growing religious group. they have become a strong force and politics and the media. the of angelica's include president valuable sonatas, wife, shadley, and say they're defending the bible and traditional family values. any our pulse sanara was chosen by god, the followers of actual brazilian faiths save. even jellicoe are also driving a culture of intolerance as the election approaches. the 1st lady shared this video on social media. it shows bull sonatas, main adversary,

former present whizzing last lula silva, being blessed by a priestess and compares him toward devil worshipper. non on last year, brazilian authorities receive $586.00 complaints of religious intolerance. 141 percent more than in 2020. in 9 out of 10 cases, the targets were followers of affal brazilian religions. this woman was forced at gunpoint to destroy her temple. he wanted to just add, so is a condom black practitioner. he makes his living as a noble driver, catering specially to people who feel oppressed because of their faith. no gracelle them, but i, i know how my passengers feel because i've been there. i've had override, there's cancelled the ride when they saw me trust in my ceremonial clothes in the bus. you people make you uncomfortable by entering away from you. he drives fellow candle bluff faithful to their ceremonies and shows them sanctuaries,

like this park where they can feel safe until recently was common to find offerings to spiritual entities of the apple. brazilian religions like this one on the cross roads run beaches of rio de janeiro and other urban cities. this one has food and it has perfumed and candles. but every time more, the followers of these religions are going to secluded places like this forest, because they're afraid they'll be persecuted or that their offerings will be destroyed. meanwhile, full words of after brazilian religions continued to beat their drums and call on their st. asking for protection and peace, monica inactive. all jazeera, rio de janeiro, kenya's deputy president william brutal has overtaken his rival opposition leader, reino, dingo must vote counting in the presidential election continues. canyon media says router has 51 percent of the vote. while a reuters tally has him at 52 percent. the electoral commission as tallied votes

were about 70 percent of constituency sofa. tensions remain high as the nation waits for the final result, which must be made known by tuesday. the survivors of a devastating mudslide in sierra leone 5 years ago on gathering to remember those who lost their lives in the disaster. more than 1100 people were killed when a pot of sugarloaf mountain broke away, sending rocks and daybreak downhill. but an ottoman dress reports on the community of pentagon, not many lessons have been learned from the tragedy. i attribute to the dead as emotions flow freely. a small group of families and survivors gather to remember as a yest pause their numbers dwindle, honey, but not their problems. on august 14th, 2017, more than 1100 people died. as this phase of sugarloaf mountain broke free wasn't

a huge boulders and tons of debris cascaded down hill, sweeping away homes, and people, it was said alliance worst single day, disaster. all moments or i lost his entire family 20 people lizzy, a thankful to alton. go until i miss the counsel of my family that died on that day . i'm so scared of what may have happened to them. moses was only 6 weeks old at the time that miraculously survived the disaster. but his father did not. 5 years of town, much slight people are still building on the slopes of mountains and hills around free town despite the government band. and ex was se, it's only a matter of time before there is a similar disaster. 8 year old, my been to kamara fight back tears. she survived that terrible day because she had gone out for dawn prayer 5 years after the much light. she now faces homelessness.

again, i'm not heal. becky, i, i've been asked to leave the construction site where i live with my grandchildren. i don't know where else to go or what to do in foster, the law here is week. some are saying we are, did i go over that any provision for may look as young if you government want to take me out from this place, hasn't provide me any ah, bliss. oh man, want me to go look, it's sarah leon is one of the world's top disaster prone countries. environmentally say, unless official corruption is stucco, such disasters will reoccur, and people will continue to be killed. i am at the address al jazeera pentagon, sierra leone. thousands of ukrainians remain missing after the russian occupation of the town of boucher. the streets were left littered with bodies and what

ukrainian president vladimir zalinski called a war crime. many families are still looking for their relatives. john hand reports from boucher oaks on a present co has been searching for her father since the battle of boucher ended in march. sir. hyper cinco left their home to check on a friend you put on notice of me. the family fled to poland during the russian occupation of the town and returned to ukraine to see his car riddled with bullet holes. but most recently, but you see returning here to see his car. oh, shut up. they're out. it's his truck, me. over melissa. job. one neighbor told her he had been shot by russian troops. other said he died in shelling, but exxon believes he might be in russian custody. you couldn't move it to, but i can't forgive this people. law i would

beg them to return my father cuz i would do anything to get him back. was ips is it? i'm going to ship clickable. i would like them to give back my dad. i would do anything to have him back a life ukrainian authorities, social media sites in the red cross have been flooded with inquiries about missing people. we're talking about several thousands of families who are still searching for their loved ones. we want to hear about their loved ones, no their whereabouts know their faith. since march, the red cross has central tracing bureau, his fielding calls from 24000 people looking for friends or relatives lost in ukraine. some were buried in numbered graves in boucher oxen, his home town, some might be in russian captivity. others are simply missing with a russian troops gone in a sense of normality returning. sometimes asana says she just wants to forget

it was not the plus. i don't want to believe that all of this happened. i just want to fall asleep and wake up and realize that none of this never happened. it's not real. nothing will feel normal asana says, until her father is returned to her or found and buried. john henderson, al jazeera boucher ukraine. ah, not a christian at the headlines they are on al jazeera funerals are being held to some of the 41 people killed in a church fire in the gyptian city of visa. thousands of people were in the building at the time with many children among the victims and electrical fort ills is suspected as being the cause. explosions have been reported in the syrian port, city of tattoos, state media says ready warplanes attacked targets in the area.