hi, to jo castro, washington. i with a number of covert cases linked to the toko olympics has risen to 127 after 17 new infections were posted on saturday. the 1st full day of sports, the action ended with china top of the metals table. but female athletes already breaking requisite su games. tokyo has the highest ever number of women taking part as an richardson our ports. the people might be quite different if the only thing the olympic holderness friday's opening ceremony, japanese tennis or soccer, is fast becoming the face of the tokyo olympics. and these games will set a new height. the female athletes, 49 percent of all competitors, all women compare that to the tokyo games in $964.00. when the figure stood it just 13 percent. it's a huge shop window and just promoting capabilities of women and gowns, which often of course get get hidden terribly balanced representation of men and women and media generally on high school sense media coverage is, is wondering girls when they, more than elin picks began in $1

behind feed time is running out to avoid retaliation from rapidly advancing taliban forces. heidi jo. castro reports from fort lee virginia. the buses carrying former afghan interpreters and their families, including 57 children and 15 babies, arrived at the fort lee military base in virginia on friday morning. this is the 1st place they lay their heads in the us safely away from the taliban, possible retribution for having worked with americans now leaving the war in afghanistan is completely like, i mean, starting new life here. mohammed knobby mohammed, he is preparing to welcome his cousin, who was on board the flight and we'll likely spend a week at the base for final immigration processing. both served as u. s. military translators, enough can, is stand. in fact, 5 brothers from the mohammed, the family all signed up for the job. now 3 are in the us while the 2 youngest remain in hiding in cobble. we love to work with the us government and government, we low over countries, so we wanted to serve or the people janice and worry says he feels the same. he worked for 9 years as a translato

i did, jo, castro has u. s. reaction from washington d. c. lincoln told side that he should adhere to the principles of democracy and human rights. and said that open dialogue was needed between all political actors and the technician people. lincoln follow that up with a tweet, saying that this was a good phone call and that he was able to express his support for to easy as democracy. now the u. s. has been hesitant to call this a qu, why, how spokeswoman said that a thorough legal analysis would 1st be required, but that if this is determined to be a coo, then u. s. a to, to new 0 could be on the line. lebanon's parliament has chosen a billionaire as the new prime minister, designated veteran politician nigi mccarty is promising to save lebanon from its crippling financial crisis. but critics of previous, the accused him of cronyism and getting rich by questionable means a charge. he denies the united nations that says at least $57.00 people have died after the migrant boat capsized off libya. it happened near the city of comes on monday

and hardy jo castro has moved from washington dc. those developments are under close watched by the us and today and a phone call between us state departments. secretary antony blinkin and the president of tunisia, lincoln told side that he should adhere to the principles of democracy and human rights. and said that open dialogue was needed between all political actors and the technician people. lincoln follow that up with a tweet, saying that this was a good phone call and that he was able to express his support for to easy as democracy. now the us has been hesitant to call this a coo, why, how spokeswoman said that a thorough legal analysis would 1st be required, but that if this is determined to be a qu, then you as a to, to need, you could be on the line that totaled $1400000000.00 since the countries revolution in 2011 much of that money going toward the military and security expenses. let's bringing david mack also in washington dc. he served as a former u. s. deputy chief of mission and schunover uneasily. and then buffer for

hardy, jo, castro reports the deadly gang violence has again taken hold in ecuador, it's over crowded prison system at 2 of the country's largest penitentiaries. it's taken $450.00 members of the special police unit to bring this latest round of riots under control. as well as what are the la montana. we weren't able to reach all the prisoners in a different sales until 4 am local time. the contingency officers managed the bring this situation under control. also with the help of the armed forces. then you can see along the perimeter at the prison in leather, coon gus police recaptured about 80 and made to try to sleep. with the death toll still in flux, their family members gathered outside the prison gate on thursday, fearing the worst but healing his kimmy. my son got in touch with me instead inmates in medium security are going up to murder the once in maximum security. they have rifle from guns. yesterday they went up there. my son is hurt in there, so they have not taken him to the hospital yesterday. anyway, he's been to hospitals moves and the movie and not giving us the list

continue to carry out as strikes to support african forces that are facing attack from the taliban. jo castro's life for us in washington, and we've seen african police and african army force is really coming under pressure. and that confrontations with the taliban any more detail on how much support the u. s. is willing to provide marion the u. s. general. kenneth mckenzie, speaking in cobble on sunday, would not provide much details about this air cover. he confirmed that it has been happening and will continue to happen. he says, as long as the taliban is making these advances. now there has been great concern in the united states over these taliban advances that we've seen since the troop withdrawal was announced for president joe biden is very much politically committed to see this troop withdrawal completed by august 31st and his general on the ground their general mackenzie would not say though, whether the increase airstrike support from the u. s. would continue after that deadline. the united states has increased air strikes in the support of afghan forces over the last several days an

i jo castro has more from washington dc. if you just look at the numbers alone in the state of california, last year was the most severe wildfire season on record. and this year we are already on pace to surpass that record by more than $1000.00 fires in california alone. why is this happening now? well, we are seeing severe drought and severe heat waves across the united states that is due to climate change, mostly in part. and we are seeing these severe fires being lit by lightning by more natural causes. this is not something like in the past where a down power line, for instance, might spark a blaze. now there's, if there's one saving grace is that so far of the 5 and a half 1000 square kilometers of land that have been burned this fires season. most of it have been in forest land, and so there has been fewer than 100 homes that have been lost thus far. this fire season, and there are those 5 firefighters hospitalized now. but as far as loss of life, there have been 2 firefighters who died in a plane crash earlier this s

behind fear time is running out to avoid retaliation from rapidly advancing taliban forces. heidi jo, castro reports now from fort lee virginia.

temperatures, thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes as many more expected to follow. jo castro has more from washington d. c. smoke gusting from the other side of the country, turn the full moon over washington. d. c. orange on friday. wildfires to the west have now chewed through 5 and a half 1000 square kilometers of land. more than 70 homes have burned in thousands of people have been told to prepare to flee. i've got everything backed up by the door and i'm ready to go. as soon as the word comes until then i'm going to stay here and keep watering on 5 fire fighters were injured in montana after a thunderstorm blue flames toward them. in oregon, weaker winds allowed firefighters to slow ablaze that has expanded by 6 kilometers a day. right now we're kind of securing the fire and they're pretty much upfront as or you get the live action bigger flames more more, he more general. and so far the fires have been limited mostly remote areas, but this blaze at the california nevada border now threatens a community of about $1200.00. we saw that you smoke over the mountain. smoke ha

illness and death and deny the virus a breeding ground to develop even more dangerous strain. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington, cuba government is lifting import duties on food medicines and other products as it faces unprecedented protests against its worsening economic crisis. people are angry at the lack of thank the good and the handling of the pandemic presidents. miguel diaz canal acknowledged shortcomings during a rational tv. but the government is blamed us sanctions and accused washington of trying to destabilize the country. france has top criminal court of appeal is expected to decide whether one of the country's largest companies can be investigated for its role in the syrian war, cement, to make it the foreign continued to operation area is controlled by iso. and it's accused of being complicit and crimes against humanity and talks about the has more from paris. the factory and ne, serial once run by french cement, giant lafarge, 2017. the french judges have been investigating whether the false paid armed groups, including i saw $50000000.00 in protection money to keep the

and hi, jo castro was outside the military base in fort lee virginia. heidi that's right. kim and those 220 was afghan families have now arrived here at lee the rest, the afternoon. arduous journey of lights and cobble than processing of the dulles airport. and finally, a bus ride to this military base. so be here for some 7 days. were told as they go through the final health training before receiving their permanent residence cards in the u. s. and settling across the country. and i spoke with a man already living in the us, whose husband came aboard this flight and back both of them served as translators and ask dana san for us troops. and one of them comes from a family of 5 brothers who all stepped up to perform that job. now 3 of those brothers are living in the united states as a special emigrant to others applied a year ago and are still waiting for that visa to be process. and they are in hiding in a cobble. the man who was aboard this flight came with his wife and 3 children and he was lucky that he was still working as a translator. as the u. s. truth, we're with

hi to jo castro's good more from washington dc on us support for afghan forces. 95 percent of the u. s. u. s. troop withdrawal has already happened and president biden remains very much politically committed to meeting that august 31st deadline of getting all us boots out of the ground there. but there is concern, of course, that the vacuum that the u. s. leads behind is fueling some of this taliban insurgency and the top us general in cobble spoke with reporters on sunday saying that the u. s. has been supporting afghan troops with air strikes. so he would not say how long that support will remain. the united states has increased airstrikes in the support of afghan forces over the last several days. and were prepared to continue this high level support in the coming weeks. if the taliban continue their attacks. we continue to provide contract maintenance and logistics support here in cobble to maintain afghan defense capabilities, including our ation capability. and general kenneth, mackenzie said that it was not inevitable that the taliban would claim victory. he said that it would

illness and death and deny the virus a breeding ground to develop even more dangerous res heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington. so let's bring in doctor alley mocked at his chief strategy officer, population health at the university of washington to join us from seattle in washington. dr. marks out thanks your time. so listen, young people in the us. i clearly still reluctant to get the vaccine. what do you think is causing this hesitancy within this age group? and how bad is it? it's bad because there are so many, almost out of there and by empty back to people and there are all the social media . and i like the efforts that you listed before getting out on social media. and for me, they younger generation to go and get the vaccine. that's what the 2nd one young generation by nature they delayed the wing preventative measures when it comes to health and we need that as well. yeah, and experts say the delta variant is most active within the 18 to 25 year old age group. so what impact is this hesitancy likely to have them on the broader pandemic in the us? so that naked, so it's more like

castro al jazeera washington. the vaccination rollers in the u. s. has been seen as the success of jo biden's term in office, but it's slowing down and targets are now being missed and that's causing a greater concern. as the delta various spreads across the country, gabrielle is on the has more from washington here in washington, dc. the nation's capital, about 53 percent of the residents here are fully vaccinated. that's pretty good compared to the rest of the united states. it's about 48 percent throughout the entire country. but the delta variant is spreading throughout the united states everywhere. increasing the number of people that are coming down with krona virus to pandemic. that is now being fueled primarily in 3 states. texas, missouri, and florida. just in the state of florida. it's accounting for about 20 percent of all new corona virus cases here in the us. they're troubling signs as well. and for example, in the state of alabama, only about 33 percent of the entire state population has been vaccinated. that has led the governor of alabama to say that basically they're