then they come out the kandahar like how to go on. fortunately, the security situation in kandahar alaska and tara provinces has improved african security for their patrolling the city. the enemy has suffered heavy losses and their plan to capture the cities has been neutralized on those the enemy attacks and condos. shepard again, 7 gun and sorry, 2 provinces are ongoing, corresponded. rob mcbride has worn out from cobble. this is the latest victory being claimed by the taliban. the city of i back now, this is the city that's a capital of salmon gun, a fairly small province in the north of afghanistan. pictures which have been up loaded by the taliban, which had con, independently verify. but they do show fights has been greeted in the streets by towns, people, a streets which we are told him is video inside i back now this, if it's true that this is the 6 provincial a city to be taken in just a few days and it is in this broad sway, the northern afghanistan where we have seen a lot of other fighting and other gains been made by the taliban. like, like back some of those gains are small

, 2nd largest city, the security forces that control just 3 of 17 districts in the province. kandahar, alaska, go and herat on seeing the most intense combat you and says health facilities and struggling to cope with civilian casualties tend to automatic edison james phase. who's my 1st in a couple, james, bring this up today's fighting. well last guy is still seeing very, very heavy fighting in the center of the city. we understand that the fighting right now is focused around the headquarters of african intelligence and also focused around the prison, which just happens to be very close to the main hospital. the emergency hospital, italian n g o that's been treating the war injured. we think it's possible the taliban are trying to break into the prison so that they can break out people who are in the prison, where we believe there are taliban detainees being held. the african government and the army call that is leading the fight in alaska say that they have killed a senior taliban. they say milan view barrak was killed. he is the commander of what the taliban called the red unit. that's th

that in the past week 18 of afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals have fallen, kept capture of kandahar alaska adding to other territory taken including her at in the west and gasoline, which it took control of on thursday. and the taliban has detained the veteran commander of a militia in western afghan. a stone is male con, known as the lion of her raps was taken. as taliban fighters seized the city con is one of afghan austin's most prominent warlords, battling soviet, occupies in the 19 eighties and working with us forces to topple the taliban in 2001. charlotte bellis is joining us. live here on the news from cobble. charlotte, what's the latest on the fight for? i'm gonna stop while we're just head to board provincial capital confirms who have fallen to the taliban. napoleon law which the provincial capital of logo, which is just south of cobb. taliban said earlier today that they claimed that they said that the governor essentially joined to the movements. but as we understand that now the governor was overwhelmed by telephone flashes in his homebound and serene de to them. there was so

more provincial capitals have been taken by the tyler bond in afghanistan, the 2nd largest city kandahar alaska gun. ah, hello, i'm hasn't seeka. this is i just need a live from the also coming up. heavy rain in parts of japan triggers mudslide warnings in the south and west and bangladesh has seen deforestation, and nearly double the global average will look at the impact of having on villages and animals. the father of sing brittany spears says he will give up control of money and life after a bitter legal pattern. mm. hello. the taliban has made its most significant gains yet in an offensive that is leaving, cobble, dangerously exposed. it's now been confirmed that 2 more provincial capitals have been captured. one of them can haul afghan, a star, 2nd biggest city and the all groups birthplace of the other is laska god, the capital of hellman province in the south. on the diplomatic front, a 3rd day of emergency talks in the hub between the afghan government and the taliban ended in deadlock. and as the taliban presses its advance, the u. s. and u. k. are dispatching more than 3 and a half 1

more provincial capitals have been taken by the taliban in afghanistan, the 2nd largest city kandahar, alaska gone. ah, hello, hasn't seek a this is i just live from the house or coming up.

on the outskirts of herat, the group is also targeting the provincial cities of kandahar and alaska got millions of americans are risk of being thrown out of their homes. the temporary ban on evictions expires moratorium was imposed last year to help slay the spread of coven 19 my ease in crowding in homes and sheltered by demonstration, has been criticized for failing to take action. new zealand prime minister has made a formal apology for a race based crackdown on people who overstayed the v this any 50 years ago. they often vine and degrading police raids, talk to pacific islander for deportation. today, i stayed on behalf of the new zealand government to offer a formal an unreserved apology to pacific communities for the discriminatory implementation of the immigration laws of the 19th stephen teeth that lead to be a being of the dawn rights controversial changes to hong kong immigration law came into effect on sunday. critics say they will give authorities unlimited power to stop people leaving the chinese controlled territory for the last years in possession of a wide ranging nati

on the outskirts of herat, the group is also targeting the provincial cities of kandahar and alaska golf. millions of americans are risk of being thrown out of their homes. the temporary band on evictions expires. moratorium was imposed last year to help slay this bit of covert 19 by easing crowding in homes and shelter by demonstration has been criticized for failing to take action.

defensive battles as the taliban pushes to capture regional capital, spices or dancing on her at kandahar and alaska go up. next is inside story. i'll have the news for you in 30 minutes. ah, ah, ah, ah! ah, ah, it's an a limping games like never before. no crowds is supported in tokyo because it's coven 19. but plenty of politics. how's that affected? great sporting events. this is insightful. ah! hello, welcome to the program. i'm has him speaker as a tokyo olympics, come to an end this sunday, a year late because of the coven, 19 pandemic. some athletes and their nations are celebrating their metals while others will be looking at where they can improve in 3 years time. in paris, what is arguably been the world's biggest sporting events has always been a chance for nations big and small to showcase themselves on the grandest of stages . historically, the prestige of the athletes, metal podium has been an opportunity for governments to promote a kind of soft power of culture and influence rather than the hard power of wealth and military might. but have some countries now cross that line and do th

the capture of kandahar and alaska adding to other territory taken including her at in the west and gas. ne, which it took control of on thursday. and the tunnel van has detained the veteran commander of a militia in western half. galveston, ismael con. he's known as the lion of her rats. he was taken as taliban fighters seized, that city con is one of kennesaw ins most prominent was battling sylvia's occupiers in the 19 eighties and working with us forces to topple the taliban in 2001 live now to couple on my colleague charlotte bellis. so charlotte drawing towards the end of another day and clearly the taliban still have the strategic advantage here . another 2 provincial capitals today, poly alone provincial capital of logo is just to the self of, of carbo about an hour drive from cobble, but 65 kilometers. so now they are knocking right on the door of cargo. the taliban say that the governor actually joined them. how we understand it is that they seen hundreds of fighters into the city and this actually, his compound was stormed and he was forced to surrender. it is significant beca

the provincial capitals of kandahar, harass, and alaska, gar, in particular, have come under significant pressure. this is a clear attempt by the taliban to seize urban centers with the force of arms. the human toll of this strategy is extremely distressing, and the political message is even more deeply disturbing regarding the human toe. let me provide you with some evidence. fighting has been especially severe in alaska. gar, the capital of hellman province. since 28th of july, just a mere 10 days ago, at least a 104 civilians were killed. and 403 wandered as registered by the 2 main hospitals. ground engagements the narrow strikes are causing most of the civilian harm. oh, roads leading to and going out of the city are closed by the telephone. hospitals have nearly reached full capacity and can no longer accept patience. the available food supply in the city is vastly diminishing which raises the possibility of an acute food shortage in the coming days. as well as the shortage of medical supplies in kandahar since the started to be offensive there on the 9th of july, a month ago, more

so this us, the battle for alaska and kandahar is intensifying. government forces have been backed by us air strikes against the taliban advance in a moment's will have an exclusive report from southern afghanistan. but 1st, charlotte bellis runs up a day of fast moving developments from the capital couple. we have just been told by the taliban that they have taken this provincial capital of telecom. it is the provincial capital of to ha, in the north we just talked just got off the phone to some resident to confirm that yes, the telephone have taken over the government buildings and they are in control of this city. earlier today, sarah poll and conduce fell to the telephone, they put out a statement. we got hold of residents, phone lines down for a while, but eventually when we got through, they confirmed to us that yes, they were on the streets during control of all the government, buildings and condos. they had raised the flags laying claim to the city of condos . condos, of all of the cities is the most significant. it is a large city, is the gateway to the north. the taliban hav

rob about alaska got or kandahar weather of now multiple reports that the taliban is in control of both of these cities and this is the fast changing dynamic. it has been changing throughout the hours of doc this thursday coming into friday and i've kind of stand is waking up this friday morning to i can completely change dynamic. it's basically down in the south of the country. local officials are being quoted by various wire agencies confirming the kandahar now is in control that the taliban and all of these development started happening late thursday. here with reports of taliban fighters breaching the defenses of kind of driving through to the center of the city. intense fighting that claims from the taliban, that the governor and his staff had left the that compound more claims that they taken over the police compound. and then we started to see uploaded videos, apparently purporting to show almost a walk around of the deserted offices of the governor. so they did being claimed by, by the taliban, that they are now in control. it's a lot of the military units. it seemed have withdr

and fighting continues there in kandahar itself and also a neighboring helman province. in alaska, god, the city is still being heavily contested with fighting in and around the police headquarters. that's where a wednesday that was a, an attempt to car bomb attack, hung be apparently packed full of explosive. that was intercepted destination with a number of casualties. meanwhile, to the west of afghanistan, that has been resumed fighting around head us, that that is the government stronghold to the west of the country. but there is, while reports of by through that the government he had said it's bought off a tax by the taliban using traditional forces, but also the so called uprising forces. these are the militia res, specifically to try to fight off the talent which they said they have done. but now, but increasingly, the map of afghanistan is looking like the afghan archipelago, a series of isolated for to get $4550.00 urban areas still very much in government control, but increasingly isolated from each other. a rob, we see that the gun president has gone to the north of the

kandahar and laska go. that's right. from the government's point of view this friday morning, a quickly deteriorating situation with the apparent loss of both candor and alaska. now these are the 2 most important cities in the south kandahar in particular. being based in kandahar province is really almost like a fortress while much of kandahar province was being taken back by the taliban. the government has been committed to defending at all costs. kandahar had some of the better military units there was able to call and asked support to in fact, including us as strikes as a way of trying to keep the taliban at bay. but it seems that overnight said that they breached the defenses of the city. we got increasing reports about fighting in the center of the city claims by the taliban that they taken the governor's resident's. the police had quoted indeed, backed up by video showing apparent to taliban fighters walking around the residence. we got confirmation that the governor and his officials had had left and also the menu, the military units that had pulled back into what is a very big military base at the side of kandahar. so, but if it's, if the remains to

in 3 cities. kandahar airport has been hit by rockets, government reinforcements have been deployed in alaska, and herat will advocate in 3 provinces. the security situation is critical, especially in nascar guy. the enemy has some movements. security and defensive forces are planning to intercept the enemy's movements 1st, then build defensive lines and later launch offensive operations. charlotte ballad has more from cobble. there's been heavy fighting in and around 3 major cities in afghanistan unless the capital of home and province fighting started on saturday when the telephone into the city resident said they could see the taliban moving street to street, getting closer to the heart of the city until ask in special forces entered and since that time they said they have just heard heavy gunfire. and also if strikes from africa and force and also from the united states peppering around the outskirts of the city via communications have been cut off and less co gossum. critically hard to get information in and out of the city and for residence to feel secure and not knowing what is going o

thousands of civilians fled to the neighboring city of kandahar. diplomatic it is a james based on the slide now from cobble. james, we'll get to alaska in a moment. first i want to ask you, we're hearing that the head of the african government media department has been killed. what more can you tell us? yes, this is an important development. one of 2 very important developments that have occurred just in the last 20 minutes. this is called con men. a poll who is the deputy press. secretary of president gaudy the head of the government media office . he has been shot dead in ca, but we have confirmation of that from multiple sources. in the last few moments, we have confirmation from the taliban that they are claiming that they killed him. he is well known to africa journalists. he is an in a member of the, in a circle of president gunny. and our understanding is that he left his home to go to private friday pres, in the last hour or so and has been killed according to taliban. they killed this very senior figure in the afghan government. that is one of the important developments in the last 20 minutes. potentially it is not the most

kandahar. a diplomatic editor, james bass. has the ladies from cobble. the latest information we have is that heavy battles continue in the center of alaska. we understand the current fighting is around the headquarters of africa. intelligence in laska got and also around the prison and the suggestion is that maybe the taliban are trying to break into the prison so they can break out some of the inmates because we believe that there are telephone detainees there. certainly the government is claiming one victory, which they say is the death of one of the taliban commanders. 15 burning across parts of greece had forced more evacuations. neither capital athens firefighters continued their efforts through the night to stop the flames. from reaching populated areas. the prime minister is urging people to obey evacuation orders and not to try to defend their own home. at least 8 people killed in the wildfire across much of turkey opposition parties have criticized project type one government for lack of paradise. the authorities have contained nearly 200 files over the past 9 days, but several of still out of control and tens of thousands of peo

kandahar is all from james bay, the diplomatic editor in campbell. the latest information we have is that heavy battles continue in the center of alaska guy. we understand the current fighting is around the headquarters of afghan intelligence in laska got and also around the prison. and the suggestion is that maybe the taliban are trying to break into the prison so they can break out some of the inmates because we believe that there are telephone and detainees there. certainly the government is claiming one victory, which they say is the death of one of the taliban. commanders of the headlines in china has attacked us the offer of temporary refuge for people from hong kong president job. i'm says anyone from hong kong residing in the us will be allowed to stay for another 18 months firefighters in california, struggling to contain a 5, it's destroyed, most of a historic tongue. the psycho dixie fire is forcing thousands to flee their homes after burning for nearly 3 weeks. and these are live pictures from greece where wildfires burning across parts of the country a force more evacuations, particularly near athens. 5 fight has continued the

fighting alaska, the besieged capital of his sons helmand province. gascon apples has been blamed for bombing a private hospital in the area killing at least one person. and rockets have struck kandahar airport in the south or flights in and out of the city a cancelled. james phase has the latest from cobble it's fair to say it's a very serious situation for the afghan government. they have got the taliban now within the city limits in the 2nd city of africa, song kandahar in the 3rd city of afghanistan, herat. and if that wasn't serious enough in helmand in the provincial capital, a helmet, laska gar. the towel about an hour right in the heart of the city about a kilometer away from the governor's compound. and i think the situation is most serious in alaska because the tell about the have taken hold of houses that, that in the center of the city making it very hard. i think for the african military, me miles rulings into hers announced the formation of a can take a government. it's lee them and ally will become the prime minister. and as promised, multiparty election, 6 months after seizing power in a coup with ally says the vote will take place by late 2023 turkeys president as pr

alaska city. and as concerns it'll soon fall to the group. the capital of the southern held providence has been seeing heavy fighting and frequent strikes and saturday, may by kandahar and several other cities also under a tank. now the african government is deployed as lead special forces and is carrying out as strikes along side us forces are diplomat together to james bases in cobble. he says, the fighting electrical god is now at its worst. the battle for alaska guy is well on the way at the moment. the situation right now is that overnight the government thought they made games. they certainly told the media that they'd re controls the heart of the city. it's not clear whether they that she pushed the taliban out to was a ton of on the gun to ground in some of the buildings that they controlled. but what is clear now from speaking local jan. this is the heavy fighting. the taliban are in the heart of the city as fighting around the government governor's compound, around the police headquarters around the prison, around the key buildings in the center of the city. and the gunfire we are told is pretty much non stop. as the intense pricing continues, now, this of

fighting alaska god the proceeds capital of god, his sons helmand province gascon apples has been blame for bombing a private hospital in the area killing at least one person. and rockets have struck kandahar airport in the south. offline send an out of the city a canceled james phase has the latest from cobble fair to say it's a very.