andrew simmons, al jazeera, bucharest. >> let's bring in our guest.ey, edward, environmental entrepreneur and managing director of next tech, a recycling consultancy. in brussels, the policy analyst at the institute for european environmental policy. joining us in beirut, the founder of cedar environmental, and engineering organization. a warm welcome to all of you. just give us a sense of the scale of this problem and how bad has it gotten in the last few years? >> in recent years, this problem has gotten much worse partially because of the increase in volume of waste that is available. also because there's been changes in many countries which have decided not to accept waste shipments like they used to and that has highlighted the degree to which many countries have been relying on simply shipping their waste abroad. i think many people are not aware of the degree to which that is happening. many people think that there is a very good recycling policy in place but in fact a lot of waste has been shipped abroad. >> what is the environmental and healt

andrew simmons, his life for us in london. hello there, andrew. the president certainly struck a defiant note. what else did he say? well, you're right. he did strike a define. this whole thing is called the big conversation, but very much one way traffic in the majority of the vast majority of people inside that whole are sympathetic with this government, i wouldn't dream of speaking against it. there's only a very small amount of foreign journalists, yet remains to be seen how much they're able to ask. now he did stress the point, but one year ago in his 27 years of autocratic rule, that election took place and it was a free and fair election. he said, despite attempts at a coup to tar by opposition, politicians, we've seen the results of that election. they are widespread hardship for those opponents to his regime. so many of them have escaped the country and have been a series of soviet style attempts to bring back the leaders of, of the opposition to face what the authority is in men's might regard as democracy. but others would say far from

andrew simmons is live for us in a landa. hello the andrew. what more could you tell us about these sanctions? it's hardly a coincidence they've been made on the anniversary of his controversial election. is it? no coincidence whatsoever. very political. the u. k. was the 1st to impose sanctions back in may, and it's now revised that and also increased the pressure on the better roost announcing that it will sanction all states complete products such as potash and petroleum products. furthermore, the variation industry of better reduce will be boycotted effectively and the know will be no over flying. the u. k. the president fleets of luxury jets will be service. now this all of course is set by the british to be because of the fraudulent election. exactly. a year ago, when 35000 opposition protest as were arrested, and 600 activists remain in jail. so many went overseas at the bordering states, around bella, luce, and have been victimized. it said by the whole western leadership feel that the victimization of these activists is completely wro

we'll put that to our guests shortly, but 1st a report from andrew simmons on how romania is dealing with this issue. this site was registered as a recycling center. yet it became a mountain of waste mixed with building rubble ignored by local authorities for more than 10 years until now. take a lot of plastic. domestic waste may be induced to other ways in that part. the new head of romania is national environment agency, octavian. but chombo knew nothing about it until sewage pipes beneath the tip collapsed a few weeks ago, flooding a suburb of bucharest, aside from the acrid stench and the colossal scale of its tip and others like it. romania now has an even bigger problem with illegal waste. go east to the black sea port of cause time to and rubbish is a criminal commodity with millions of dollars. and a determined prosecutor here is taking on the car, sells the model for problem of illegal waste trafficking is compatible with the drug trafficking to you don't. it's a faces and overwhelming challenge, but he did smash one or daisha plan to import a shipment of toxic waste from it

andrew simmons, al jazeera london, veronica sep carlo is a political activist. and later of the bella rose opposition movement. she says, opposition activists fear for their safety. although as people understand and realize that we cannot be safe, even inside of those all type of beliefs, especially in the countries like russia or your queen. because for example, if we talk about russia, there is no border between russia and bella, luce, greece, border between russia or between dollars in ukraine. but it's quite easy for the people, especially including the key g people or special forces to cross the border because there is no need to have these are and the procedure itself is quite simple. that's why i think, especially people who, who had to feed the country, either russia or your queen in danger, to my opinion. it would try not to think about our own safety because we're, i'm in the european union and the reason physical border between european union and della was and we want to, we want to make sure that she can she redeem the people who came here on secure

andrew simmons, al jazeera, bucharest, ah, let's bring our guests now. in sydney we have edward cozier environmental entrepreneur and managing director of next tech, recycling consultancy in brussels. we have phone fin stained forth policy analyst at the institute for european environmental policy. and joining us in beirut, the ad founder of cedar environmental and environmental, industrial and engineering, organization, a warm welcome to all of you, thought fin, staying for the fact to start with. you just give us a sense of the scale of a problem. and now how bad is it gone in the last few years young in the, in recent years, this problem has gotten much worse. partially because of the increasing volume of waste that's available. and so, because there's been changes in, in many countries have decided not to accept waste shipments like they used to. and that is really highlighted the degree to which many countries have been relying on simply shipping their waste abroad. i think many people are not aware of the degree to which that is happening. many peo

andrew simmons al jazeera, bucharest. well, it is now time to sport, and his peter, thank you so much. the head of wool football fee for president johnny infant has written 2 u. k prime minister bus johnson urging him to lift quarantine restrictions for football to allow them to play world cup qualifying matches. in 15 also says that clubs have responsibility to lead players travel. the english premier league is refusing to release nearly 60 players. they need to go to countries on the you k read list. that's because they need a quarantine for 10 days on their return. the primitive play is affected include some of the biggest stars, like egypt, mom, a fellow who plays for liverpool, his clubs, the major business, mena, and allison, cannot play for brazil, which like egypt is also in the u. k. read list and others include manchester cities, gabrielle jesse and edison, who will also be unable to represent parasol if the restrictions stay in place. the spanish link is also supporting any clubs that don't one place to go to s

andrew simmons reports not from our minister in the copy and mountain. it's a wilderness, like few others in europe. the copy of mountains, primeval forests, absorbing the poisons of modern life greenhouse gases. but there endangered, just like the wildlife with romania as rangers. are aware that illegal logging isn't the only threat. here we have 2 or 3 conflicts, laureen hollis one's mind is firmly set on animal welfare. and are we welding project he's working on? but he can't ignore a new issue. there are 2, it's a small one. he finds footprints of 2 brown bears wild animal. and he already feel us. if it's around here, he run a long time ago. more than 300 kilometers to the east. the bad population is higher and there has been 137 attacks on people in the past 2 years. some of them fatal fear has spread with social media posts of attacks. here a bare has been disturbed by a wild boar hunt. the hunter, assuming this survived the attack in 2016, the brown bear became a protected species in romania. but because of the attacks, the government planning a p

andrew simmons al jazeera in the copy, the mountains of romania ah . type a quick check of the headline 0 now to 0. the us is warning of a specific credible threatened the accomplish airport. earlier president joe biden said another attack within the next 24 to 36 hours is highly likely. biden has also promised for the strikes again, iso gabriel is under has more now from washington dc. what we're hearing is, is that from the white house and from the pentagon, is that they're keeping all options open on a potential. another strike against iso k.

andrew simmons has this report from london, italy she shoves life ended here. his body hanging from a tree. he set off for a run near his home in kiev, but didn't return. police believe it could be murder disguised, a suicide. that may have been a struggle in this office that says there were marks on his face, left knee, head and chest chauffeur dedicated to political opposition to autocratic rule in his home country of better cuz he was working with an organization helping to get housing, food, and work, so people fleeing persecution there. he knew he was under surveillance so that his friends for the card board lamb. this was an execution vile, nasty execution of a person who deserves more than any of those people who served the regime of alexander lucas shank, sending to the rest of the exiles in ukraine and elsewhere to sit low if they're miles shot. because this is what's gonna happen to you, lucas shank, a dub, by his enemies. the last of europe's dictators has ruled the 27 years. but since a disputed election a year ago, he's been cracking down on a phys

andrew simmons al jazeera, bucharest, now a wildfire that started a week ago in the u. s. state of california and destroyed hundreds of homes is now moving closer towards lake tahoe in the sierra nevada mountains. only 9 percent of the so called called of fire has so far been contained. 5 sizes are still boxing that as well as many other wildfires in california and nevada, thousands of people have been told to leave their homes. while brazil holds the world's largest water reserves, and they're even said to be drying out. a study found that in the past 30 years, 15 percent of water has been lost from rivers, lakes, and wetlands. and that works out to around $3000000.00 hectares, which is about the same size as the country of belgium expense, say the dams climate change in deforestation all the main causes on brazil. supreme court meanwhile, is choose to make a decision about allowing indigenous communities to reclaim some of their last ancestors lands. thousands of people have set up a protest counts in the capital brazilian head is that the ruling rights group appealed

andrew simmons al jazeera . now las vegas military. a saying has taken control, the northern port cities, it's been a strong all the fighters linked to i. so the group used the town to launch a series of attacks across the oil and mineral rich couple of delgado province. thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the past 4 years. catherine sawyer reports. these are soldiers from was in beak and wander into port city of may seem what da, prior the region in north and muslim bix cobbled l god province was the last stronghold of an armed group. luckily known as all about the fighters had used it to launch attacks across the province. since 201712000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. the soldiers, he r updates, the commander said will now take less than a month to complete the offensive, and then tie a province of the enemy. how about was this most? what they put on? as you have seen along the way, most of the enemy are killed were killed along the way. so as i have this up yet a

andrew simmons al jazeera in germany, political jostling, has begun in earnest. 2 of the leading parties of louis that campaigns had next month general election. now the vote will decide who succeeds anglo merkel as chancellor, the greens on the right wing a f. d party of a promising change with the pandemic and the environment top of the agenda, double cane has moved from berlin. the election season has come around again soon, it will be time to replace and go to medical and government. an alina bell book believes she should be germany's 1st green chancellor at the launch of her party's campaign. on monday, she explained why voters should choose her posture by these or via gauges. this selection is really about something. it's about our future. the future doesn't just happen, the future gets made. and that's what we're running for. on september the 26 cats making done, but these are testing times for that book. just a few months ago, she and her party were riding high in the polls. now those numbers are down and she is being scrutinized as never before. she's been accused of committing

andrew simmons al jazeera ah again, the headlines on al jazeera, international pressure is building on the taliban to stop it's offensive across the gun on. urgent talks are underway here. and so how would the u. s. sending it's envoy for i've done it's done. so i'll make a little dodge to meet taliban representatives. the group is captured at 6 provincial capital since friday. well, how much of june isn't they'll? how with more the fact that these talks are happening right now is really a sign of the huge amount of concern by the international community. really what's at stake here is for these diplomats that are at these company hosted talks to try to formulate some type of international joint plan to attempt to get the inter afghan piece process back on track. and to also come up with a response to the rapidly deteriorating situation in afghanistan. a chinese court has rejected an appeal by a canadian man sentence to death on drug smuggling charges. robert schellenberg was given a 15 year jail term and 2018, but he was sentenced to death. 2 months later, after the top chinese tech e

andrew simmons al jazeera london. ah, they're with me, said robin. and reminder of old hope stories. india's health ministry says the current of ours pandemic is still raging. and it's far from over. on tuesday cases rose by more than 42000 a 40 percent increase on the previous day. almost half of all new infections are in the southern state of carola bobby without more from the capital knew deli, the numbers have been under control. if you see the picture, pan, india, the positivity rate is chill under 5 percent. that is a benchmark set by the was, has organisation saying that about 5 percent is when you're supposed to be really worried. but there are some worrying trends. you know carol law is one stage where unlike the other states in india, where you saw a steep rise in a peak of cases during the 2nd wave, canada has had a plot to that plateau has to continued, which is why more than half the cases that india recorded overnight have been coming from kara last. the telephone is wanting a war tax again, top africa and government officials filmed gr

andrew simmons al jazeera in the copy of mountains of romania. one of switzerland leading ski destinations has taken extreme action to protect it slopes from melting through the summer. glass in an angle bug has been covered by a giant fleece blanket around a 100000 square meters in size resort. manages era been using blankets for several years, but this is the biggest yet, despite that, the glass years continue to shrink on it's expected to disappear. completely by 2060 ah, our look at our main stories united states has killed what it describes as to high profile ice ok targets and try and strike and afghan asked on. the pentagon says one of the on groups planners and a facilitator were killed in the strikes in the eastern province of manga hom, another iso k member was injured strike comes 2 days after i so claim responsibility for the suicide bombing at cobbles, airport, that killed at least a $175.00 people including 13 us service personnel. well, the taliban is saying that cobble apple will be under their complete control very soon as it bol

andrew simmons, al jazeera. >> still to come this half-hour -- >> i never touched anyone inappropriately>> the new york governor's denial as he is accused of sexual harassment and urge to resign. helping with cleanup efforts after last month's floods. ♪ >> thanks for tuning in, here is your weather story for australia. we had that disturbance pushed across southern areas. a cold front, you can tell it knockdown temperatures. adelaide, melbourne, all below average. look below the interior of the outback just a few days ago, we were at 32 degrees. some fierce winds across the north highway of new zealand. when gusset 87 kilometers per hour. we have a south facing window on wednesday. single-digit temperatures, you see this coming your way on thursday. as we head towards asia-pacific, tropical trouble in the south china sea. not only for hong kong, also fuji out as well. and taiwan. will keep an eye on this disturbance east of taiwan to see if that develops a tropical activity. as we had further north, unsettled across the korean peninsula. we end this weather report in india, where system

andrew simmons al jazeera, bucharest, ah, the top stories on al jazeera western countries are racing to evacuate people from afghanistan with less than a week to go until all foreign troops leave thousands of afghan si fi a taliban rule. have been trying to enter a couple airport us president joe biden has ordered all forces out by the end of august. the telephone urge afghans to stay while saying those with permission to leave will be allowed to depart once commercial flights regime. for many afghans remain skeptical. charlotte bellis has morphin cobble. the countdown is on as the us and foreign forces. now, you have until tuesday to get out and what that means. the end of evacuation like from here outside the airport there is people rush. see if they can get on a flight. we understand the you with and the telephone have a deal that the taliban are only allowed to make people who have torn past pieces and you have paid thousands of indigenous protest. this is gathered in brazil's capital, the supreme court prepared to rule in a case that could put the ancestor lands at risk. the cou

andrew simmons al jazeera in the copy, the mountains of romania. ah, hello there. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. the pentagon says to high profile, i saw k planners were killed in a drone strike in eastern afghanistan. the attack followed thursday's explosion. that couple airport that was claimed by the group and killed at least $175.00 people, including 13 american servicemen. i am not going to talk about specific capabilities isis may have lost, and in the strike they lost a planner and they lost a facilitator and they've got one wanted and the fact that 2 of these individuals are no longer won't longer walk in on the face of the earth, that's a good thing. a good thing for the people who can stand. it's a good thing for our troops and our forces at that airfield and i think i'm just gonna leave it there all the while. the u. s. embassy and cobble as warning americans against traveling to the airport because of security concerns. the pentagon says specific incredible threats against the facility remain. the united arab emirates, vice president sa

andrew simmons al jazeera, bucharest, ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera western countries are racing to evacuate. people from going to start with less than a week to go until all foreign troops leave. the taliban have urged shotguns to stay while saying those with permission to leave will be allowed to depart once commercial flights. resume. your sector state anthony blinking says about 1500 americans are awaiting evacuation from of gone on. lincoln insist efforts will continue beyond the august 31st and says the u. s. remains engage with the taliban, but does not recognize it as the legitimate government. allen fisher has more from washington d. c. 114 countries across the world have said to the taliban, you have made given assurances both publicly and privately about this evacuation effort. and you have to continue to do that. certainly we know that the taliban are keen to have more international recognition than they did the last time. they were a power in afghanistan 20 years ago. remember then only 3 governments in the wor

andrew simmons al jazeera in the copy. the mountains of romania, one of switzerland leading sky destinations, has taken extreme action to protect it. slopes from melting through the summer glass in an angle bug has been covered by a giant fleece blanket around 100000 square meters. in size result managers are been using blankets for several years, but this is the biggest yet, despite that the glass years continue to shrink on it's expected to disappear completely by 2060. ah. our look at our main stories. united states has killed what it describes as to high profile ice ok targets and try and strike in afghanistan. pentagon says one of the on groups planners and a facilitator were killed in the strikes in the east and.

andrew simmons, which is 0 constant in remaining well, the german chancellor, anglo merkel has sought to reassure ukraine. and it won't be affected by the construction of rushes, nor stream to pipeline on a visit to kia. she told the ukrainian president that germany will not allow russia to use the pipeline as a weapon under a new deal between the western europe. the pipeline will carry gas from russia to the e. u. without passing through the ukraine. present regime, as lensky says, the agreement is a threat to his country and the region will illegal battle over ancestral lands is brewing. in brazil, the supreme court will decide whether additional land should be given to native tribes. this is that the indigenous groups on a collision course with residents, farmers, mining companies, and foreign investors on a can give reports now from part she, the time seems to have stood still in the colonial city of butter cheat. 250 kilometers south of rio de janeiro. but upon the hills, a conflict is brewing. indigenous leader near the back of his fighting to reclaim what she says or what any u

andrew simmons spend a day with the british royal air force pilot stationed in the remaining coastal city of constant. ah, they call them q r a's quick reaction alerts from the physical sprint to the thrust of take all within minutes. these nato fighter jets can intercept or track russian warplanes is the latest incident, the top left of this cockpit russian fighter jet, intercepted of the romanian coastline. it's close with no room for mistakes. pens of meters would seem quite close to $21.00 on initiated. since a relative procedures, it's totally normal. it's been set to in that range. but raffles, commanders, there's nothing normal about what's happening probably in my senior since then we've had, i think anytime you fly inside a flight, information region of another country, not following the norms without flight plan, then i think it's not the sort of behavior we'd like to see in the special community in the, at their own stand by 247. and when the alert comes fast moving is an understatement. when this plane gets airborne, it could fly up to 20 kilometers a minute. the nearest

andrew simmons al jazeera in the copy of mountains of remaining. ah, this is al jazeera and these, all the headlines for us is warning of another possible attack on campbell airports . president joe biden has urged americans to stay away, but desperate afghans are still trying to get home to.

andrew simmons al jazeera. ah hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, international pressure is building on the taliban to stop at the defensive. across . i've gone to stun urgent talks. are underway, hearing cats are with the u. s. ending it's envoy for i've gone to stanz. i'm a little dad to meet taliban representatives. the arm group was captured at 6 provincial capital since friday. how much am june was in del, how with more us special envoy all makes lose out has arrived here and do how he is here at the venue for the start of these talks. this is an attempt to formulate an international response plan for the rapidly deteriorating situation in afghanistan and so far, arrivals have included envoys for the u. k. up or russia, china pakistan also who's beckett's done. this is expected to be 3 days worth of meetings and really goes to show just how much concern there is about what is going on currently in afghanistan and to try to get a piece process back on track. a chinese court has rejected an appeal by a canadian man se

andrew simmons al jazeera, bucharest. i remember you can find much more in all of our stories. the address is al jazeera dot com. more news in 30 minutes time per 1st. the stream ah. top stories on our western countries are racing to evacuate. people from afghanistan with less than a week to go until all foreign troops leave thousands of afghan. sophia taliban rule have been trying to enter cobble airport years. president joe biden has ordered all forces out by the end of august. the taliban of urged afghans to stay was saying those with permission to leave will be allowed to depart with commercial flights. regime for many africans remain skeptical. charlotte, ballast has morphin cobble. the count on is on as the us and foreign forces. now you have until tuesday to get out. and with that means the end of evacuation like from here outside the airport, there are 2 people rush, see if they can get on a flight. we understand the you with and the telephone have a deal that the telephone are only about to let people who have torn past baez's and you have paid thousands of indigenous

andrew simmons has more on this now from london. all western powers, not least of all the u. k. government have been taken aback by the speed of the tunnel advance. u. k. prime minister boris johnson has ordered a detachment of 600 soldiers from a rapid reaction force into gobble, to help the evacuation of u. k. nationals, embassy, staff, africans who had worked for the british forces. he's trying to put a gloss or what is a grim picture? i don't believe it was in vain because i do think when you look back at what has happened over the last 20 years, there was a massive effort to deal with a particular problem that everybody will remember after 911. and that was successful. and to very large extent, the threat from our car on the streets of, of our capital was around the u. k. around the whole, the west was greatly, greatly reduced now far as johnson saying that he will support the afghan government. but it will be diplomatic support, not military. there is no military option. going to stop. he insists. now again, start on berkeley. secretary general of nato had a similar mes

andrew simmons, al jazeera cont stem to remind you of a brief port a, the strategy officer at rasmussen, global. he says these provocations armed out of the blue i think there are 2 things . the a one these days, a general pattern of, of escalation, especially coming from russian forces. and this since 2014, since the, when russia indigo. next crimea. however, it's true that over the last few months and especially this very summer, you see a particularly hot summer. and i think this is because there are some political events looming ahead which russia does not like. on monday, the crimea platform, which is a summit called vein by the ukranian president with western heads of states to assert ukraine's right on on the crummy on a peninsula. the next day ukraine would also be celebrating its independence day. and then finally, in default, you will have elections, general elections in russia. and if you look at the past 20 years of, of putting rule every time you have somebody makes sense looming ahead, he likes to do a bit of saber rattling. he likes to increase the pressure to, to wave th

andrew simmons, al jazeera, bucharest, the brazil hall's world's largest water reserves, and they said to be drying out a study found that in the past that he has 15 percent of water had been lost from rivers, lakes and wetlands nuts, around $3000000.00 hectares, which is about the same size as belgium experts, a dams climate change on deforestation of the main cause as well as part of sport. not his peter, but you saw 23 time grand slam champion. serena williams will miss the last tennis major of the season in new york next week because of her torn hamstring. the former will. number one pulled out of the us open because the injury has not healed completely in time for flushing. meadows. 3, no, 1040. next month is just one grand slam single title, short of record, hold up margaret court, but time is running out for williams to reach the mark hand. she has one of major titles and the australian opened back in 2017. since then, she struggled with her health and fitness, suffering a pulmonary embolism after the birth of her daughter, as well as injuries to her ankle, shoulder, and achille

andrew simmons al jazeera, got i still ahead on. i will show you how this italian teenager one, the biggest title of his career so far ah, brought to you by accenture. let there be change the news with me duties by extension that there'll be change. oh i again time enough to support his gemma fangs has him still no sign of leno massey in the french capital with the full boss, atlanta thought reportedly you just lie there for a medical with paris, sasha. my niece, kate newspaper, keep it says the judge and sign is close to signing a deal with the legal side. but several report suggested hasn't left yet and that his lawyers and father is also his agent to continue to work on the contracts that come the day off the, his tier, full of farewell news conference that vasa messy, has a private jack on standby, ready to fly him to france and find out eagerly awaiting his arrival. hundreds turned out that passes and the portia port was removed, the plane would land, but it seems that going to have to wait a little bit longer to see him. the b

andrew simmons al jazeera in the copy, the mountains of romania ah, could check at the top stories here on the or the us is warning of a specific credible threat. nick campbell airport earlier president joe biden said another attack within the next 24 to 36 hours is highly likely. biden has also promised further strikes against iso giblin is on. know, has more now from washington dc. you know, what we're hearing is, is that from the white house and from the pentagon, is that they're keeping all options open on a potential another strike against iso k in terms of the threat to the airport, to the people either outside the airport or to us service members guarding inside the airport, where the evacuation the white house is not saying exactly what the threats are, but they clearly are very clear and very credible threats. and joe biden says that he met with his top military commanders and intelligence officials that say, it's very likely that attack could happen. come within the next 24 to 36 hours on the last, british military flight has left cobb county. the u. k is remaining diplomats a

andrew simmons al jazeera in the copy of mountains of romania. ah tough a quick check at the top stories here on out to 0, the us is warning of a specific credible threat. nick campbell airport earlier president joe biden said another attack within the next 24 to 36 hours is highly likely. biden has also promised for the strikes against iso deborah is under has more now from washington d. c.

andrew simmons al jazeera in kind of ours cases on the hospital admissions, across the us have reached a 6 month high fuel by the spread of the delta variance. now the number of the infections reported has reached 800-0043 days narrow than say 35 percent spike compared to last week was comes as the pentagon is set to make the vaccinations mandatory for all us military personnel by september the 15th whitehouse. corresponding kimberly how get has more from washington d. c. what we know is that the u. s. president put in place a direction that the defense secretary should really look at figuring out how to ensure that the military can continue to operate during the pandemic. the national security would in no baby be at risk. and so as a result, he directed the defense secretary to look at implementing this type of a mandate. and now that memo going out to all members of the military in order to prepare them for what appears to be an imminent decision and implementation of that . and that is to see math, vaccinations of the us military. now, the date is september 15th, but if infections c

andrew simmons with more from london. look at the airports and since 3 am, monday morning. a flights have been coming in and some emotional scenes in apple concourses with relatives reunited many of them of the 2 years separation friends also. but it isn't all elation because as a lot of concern about the u. k. is health status with the delta vary and having peach a very high level and has dramatically reduced since mid july, but still concerns about the relaxation off the so called traffic light system in the u. k. the amber warning applying to the united states and also the europe in union in switzerland. that's been lifted now it's gone green. it means what has to be a coven test before the flights. and then a further covert test on arrival. but apart from that wide open, then to a vast number of people, the hope being that the tourist industry will be revived. the ation industry will also get a shot in the excuse the pun. but also, a business will be given a big boost because of this, but there's been warnings because it isn't too. a traffic for starters, between the u.

andrew simmons al jazeera, bucharest, a rapidly expanding bush. far as threatening homes and businesses in san bernardino in the u. s. state of california. 55 to say, windsor, making it difficult to contain people living in the area have been advised to leave russia. central regions are battling extreme wildfires that are fueled by an unusual heat wave. dozens of firefighters and more davia were trapped after being surrounded by flames. they managed to escape off to bulldozers, cut down trees and stopped ablaze from spreading. heavy rains of left several communities in columbia under water rivers swelled inundating towns and destroying plantations. the reigning seasons already killed dozens of people and damaged thousands of homes. got the thing where you the houses flooded and water up to your neck. my mother in law also lost everything her chickens also drown. we need the government to help us. we're like a ghost town together with them for every time there's a wet season. we have this problem, year after year until the national government makes a final decision on a dime. we will alw

andrew simmons al jazeera ah hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, international pressure is building on the taliban and to stop it's offensive across a gun. it's done. urgent talks are underway. here in katara with the u. s. cindy, it's envoy for i've gone to sons, i'll make a little to meet taliban representatives. the arm group is captured at 6 per.

andrew simmons al jazeera, bucharest wildfire that started a week ago in the us state of california and destroyed hundreds of homes is now moving closer towards lake tahoe. in the sierra, nevada mountains, only 9 percent of the so called, called a fire has actually been contained, firefighters are still busing. that as well as many other wildfires and california and nevada, thousands of people have been told to leave their homes. brazil holds the world's largest water reserves, and they said to be drying out a study found that in the past 30 is 15 percent of water has been lost from rivers, lakes, and wetland. that's around $3000000.00 hectic, which is about the same size as belgium expense. a dams, climate change and deforestation the main causes well, meanwhile brazil supreme court is expected to deliver a landmark ruling on tribal lands. later on wednesday, thousands of indigenous people have set out the protest camp in the capital, brazil. yeah. the ruling could reopen past cases that have allowed commercial farming and mining and the amazon rain forest and eventually lead to the re

andrew simmons al jazeera london time for a check on the weather has rob the weather in china. the moment is all focused around the south. in this clump of cloud here is circulation and i've been named as tropical storm new fit. it's heading towards the coast of properly for jan. might just catch grand on and it may were high onto that coast for another day. so how dangerous is it? it's not going to categorize as a tie food winds about $85.00 can be spread. so be some wind damage that stops severe. it's moving roughly speaking northwards at the point of makes contact. the lamp shall be during thursday, so it will bring the a storm surge on a big 1. 5 me 2 ways. yeah. they're quite big. but this is probably not that unusual. on the coast. 27000000 people have a will be impacted by this wind. and more especially i think by the amount of rain that will fall in glendora and fujitsu, he's already quite soaking on the ground that is going to be widespread flooding. the edge effects may well cause more funding in tie one as well, more likely during friday that on thursday. now beyond

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andrew simmons, al jazeera, bucharest, ah, feel children's there with me said rom, the reminder volatile stories, the case as it lead every remaining hour until the end of the month, to complete evacuations from i've got this on the us says, i lived on trying to meet the august 31st deadline, while france says its mission could end as early as thursday, germany as pledge to help us guns who worked with its forces to leave beyond the deadline at the end of this month, shows language closer to the international community to maintain dialogue with the taliban earlier present, joe biden refused requests from us allies to delay troop withdrawal. they asked him to keep american forces at cobble apple to allow more time for those evacuations. but biden is concerned and extension could put soldiers at risk of attacks. charles stratford once more from the capital, the northern gates to the port, evidence of the time of on sticking to what they said they were going to do yesterday. that press conference by trying at least to keep people the way they've set up a checkpoint, about 5 kilometers back