make gains in northern afghanistan for the south. taliban captured a strategic districts in kandahar province. the number of people missing after a landslide in japan has risen to more than 80 rescue crews. in autonomy or taking advantage of a creek in the rain 2 days after the last. well, i was here today to skip it here on al jazeera part of witnesses. next. the news news news, news with me. ah. ah oh i i don't usually when i see stop what i good i know from another group on group of you know, hoping that i need to do to go up keeper. there wasn't enough of it just given it a lot of qualities suited to it to a to why just saw denise going to the edge. okay. don't on buffer quoted, but it gives you more detail about concerns on the go back home community. if, if i'm feeling a little feel competitive, you can move that also. but he just knew what i meant to call somebody, you know, get yankee. miller may ask them what they knew who was defeated, what do you mean? smoke? no good. will know what the, what the, what am i supposed to get it to give you the been in minus on was on just on the boar

northern if going to stone for the south, the telephone camp to the extra teaching district in kandahar province. the number of people missing after a landslide in japan has risen to more than 80 rescue crews in autonomy, taking advantage of a break in the rain. 2 days after the disaster, the japanese prime minister says the focus is still on finding people alive. because the headlines they'll be one you see here on algebra, right off the inside story. i'll see you next time. now, news, news. news. it'll be one of the largest dams in the world when complete, providing water for millions of opium, but downstream egypt into dan say they'll suffer. and despite talks, the 3 countries can't agree on a deal. so what next? a military confrontation, this is inside story. ah, ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm how many rooms room? the african union has 4 months trying to mediate between ethiopia, egypt, and sudan. but despite its efforts, the dispute about addis ababa construction of a giant hydro electric dam on the blue nile remains unresolved downstream cairo. and for to say the issue could thre

in kandahar province — the former taliban stronghold — residents have been voicing their fears of whatturn to power might mean. translation: the taliban don't want peace, the taliban want - the whole government. the taliban are only killing. and there's another concern. 0sama bin laden may be dead, but his organisation, al-qaeda, lives on. many fear a return of the taliban means a return of al-qaeda. a nightmare scenario not just for afghanistan, but for much of the world. frank gardner, bbc news. the british prime minister borisjohnson has confirmed that he intends to lift all coronavirus restrictions in england in two weeks time, with a final decision taken next week. that would mean workers going back to the office and an end to social distancing. but it comes as cases across the country continue to rise. there's been an average of more than 25,000 daily cases this week. the uk government says this is manageable because hospitalisations are under control and deaths are comparitively low. with the delta variant, it is growing rapidly but this graph shows another story, that current h

certainly fresh fighting going on and it should worry the african government that's taking place in kandahar province. but in kansas city on the outskirts of kandahar city, the 2nd city of afghanistan there we've had overnight fighting we told by medical sources, there were 17 civilians injured, including women and children, full members of africa. police killed the government saying they've killed 10 taliban in canada. ha, problems. if you go from ken dollars, city and canada, how province you go down to spin bolduc, which in the border one of the borders for a country is very bad news. talk about have taken and spent bolduc now is we believe fully operational with trucks coming in. and that money now is going to the taliban and not to the afghan government when you want to take it back to cobble and not meeting that we saw with president gaudy earlier on today. also speaking with the un representative, deborah lyons, she said in her speech that the board of points taken by the taliban actually amounted last year to a 3rd of all the revenue for the african government. now the african government gets

developments a pulitzer prize winning indian photo journalist has been killed in afghanistan. kandahar province, finish dicky, work for the reuters, news agency, and was embedded with afghan special forces. he was caught in the crossfire between the taliban and african troops in the spin bolduc sham on board. the area now were searches in canada. i fear that many more unmarked graves of indigenous children are going to be found over the past 3 months. hundreds of shallow graves have been uncovered at former residential schools, and as alexia bryan reports, the search has barely begun. each flag marks a grave, a child, a story, and members of canada's indigenous groups want those stories heard. you are bearing witness to a very important truth about indigenous people and canada. it has been referred to as a historic dark chapter from the 19th century, more than 150000 indigenous children attended, state funded christian boarding schools and an effort to assimilate them into mainstream canadian society. the children was separated from their families, languages and traditions. the last school clos

we've seen in recent weeks that particularly concerned about kandahar province. i've heard from some officials that concerned that the the taliban might try and bounce an operation to actually try and take kandahar city, which would be a huge symbolic boost for this. how about if they were able to claim a victory over? i've got a son seconds if he that's the nightmare scenario for the african government. what they're hoping to do now now eat is over, is to stop pushing back on some of those taliban games. the money that's going to the african military is, is showing that the u. s. is supporting the ongoing war effort of the afghans which the afghan government says, but basically defensive efforts to try to stop a taliban offensive. and of course, all of these things matter because there's no c spot in place. once you have a ceasefire in place and a conflict, it locks in the 2 sides positions the negotiating table right now though, it's a fluid situation and whoever has more territory has more leverage in the negotiations and the taliban feel that they are moving

i've been bothered with the district of kandahar province. this is a key area because there's dr. jones, the main highway from the city of quite di and budget on to granddaughter. it's a major logistical route. that dollar bond has sent out a major ritual that they've been hosting debt like that the board, the board, their soldiers or vice president at that particular location. which is not surprising, given the fact that they have all taken over to the board. the board radiator on a day off, they've taken a board the board tech door one day, which is the border red minutes dawn. and earlier i had taken a border board on the tajir, bordeaux 14, many georgia to play a garage. so it is indeed an important development because it appears that dollar bonds are trying to control the main entry point from the neighboring country. like also going for the district and surrounding major city, august on, on the other hand of god, bracing for more by day and one on it had warned that a political solution is important and absolutely necessary because it feared that refugees may start bordering

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we understand they hit targets in a number of provinces including kandahar province. another bit of news for you pizza, the african govern government heralding the fact they've taken back one district in herat province in the west of afghanistan. they're saying that's an important sign of that fight back. but it is worth telling you that is one district out of we believe, $213212.00 that the taliban control out of a total of $419.00 districts across the process of chemist on james. thank you very much. james bayes are diplomatic, added to the in column one person's been shot dead, 2 others were injured during process against water shortages in southern iran, heart dry conditions and the province of couldn't son made this. he has water supply problems, even worse than usual security forces, say, quotes unknown gunman, open fire people who said they wanted to protest about the su israel high court has asked the government to clarify its position on the bedouin village of con i'ma by september. it's one of dozens threatened with demolition across israel and the occupied w

those saying that in kandahar province, in the last 24 hours, they have killed 10 taliban also was telling you outside canada city about 45 minutes drive to the border with pakistan. spin bolduc. well, let me just one of the border points for probably the most important. that's the time that i've taken in recent weeks around. i've got some very worrying for land country to be losing its borders and we now here that's been bullied at border, is now fully open to trucks focused on fully reopened it. and that's important for the taliban because they get all the revenue for those trucks that are coming in. we hear from africa, ministry of finance, that since they lost all these border points around the country, they've lost $33500000.00 in customs revenue. james bay fat from cobble out thailand. his counted a record number of new current virus infections for the 3rd day running more than 16000 cases were reported over 24 hours. it's the biggest outbreak since the pandemic began being blamed on the delta variance 1st identified in india, which is more contagious. go live now to tony chang in ba

numbers by telephone fighters and further south, the taliban has captured a strategic district in kandahar province. the area is symbolic and important to homeric challenge, re reports, abandoned and empty families have been forced to flee, can to her, off to face fighting between african government forces and the taliban. they say they can't defeat the armed group on their own. that there is no peace if one helicopter came here, it would be enough for all of kandahar. why don't they use helicopters against them? they tagged me. they tried to kill me if they killed me and who will look after my children. asset de la, a local police commander, says there under resolved and struggle in the fight against the armed group. the situation is going to be bad. police and border forces have equipment problems commandos and the national army base to bit far. and we are on the front line. the advances made by the taliban in this key, southern province came on the same day. the city governor was killed by a car bomb in the regional capital pan joyce, the 5th district in can to help hobbins to fall to the armed

make gains in northern afghanistan for the south of taliban captured a strategic district in kandahar province. 3rd seems a trying to find the flight recorders from a philippine military transport plane that crashed, killing 47 soldiers on board. the c 130 over shot the runway while trying to land on hollow island in sooner, province in the philippines, worst military ed is often in decades. the number of people missing after a landslide in japan has risen to more than 80 rescue cruise and atomic, taking advantage of a break in the rain 2 days after the disaster, the japanese 5 minutes. this is the focus is still on finding people that live their fears of more mud slides and the people have been advised to move out of the area they malaysian crews have brought down the remaining part of a collapsed apartment block in florida. it was destroyed for safety reasons as a hurricane approaches. 11 days after the 1st fell, 24 people have been consumed dead. and 121 people i'm missing. those are headlines. hellamano dean will be with you here off the generation change. we'll see next time, bye bye. for

has drawn international condemnation . nathangelo haven't hash was abducted from his home in kandahar province and kills, to stay with this generation. change is next. something was going to change. has anything really changed? this is systemic violent that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against the barrier and know what to say. we are all looking at the world as it is right now, not the world. we like it to be. the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line, when i was just there on friends in the country with a long history of activate them for women's rights organizations, thought the suffragette back asleep and people have a pretty full new right. and again, injustice across the ages. but the struggle social justice is far from over in the 6 biggest economy in the world. the gap between rich and poor is stock and increasing. welcome to generation change a global series attempts to understand and challenge the idea that mobilize use around the world. my name is, am i am ronnie, and i'm a journalist base here in london. this episode we need to young acci

those are mohammed kasha, who was also a police officer, was abducted from his home in kandahar province, and killed the video, showing his treatments at the hands old taliban fighters the spot. i reached high ranking officials and i can send the us have the nines, the killing, and spokesman as important thing says it will investigate where the conflict in afghanistan is driving more people to make the perilous journey to europe. turkey coast guard has intercepted a boots, carrying more than 230 people in the g, and see many of them are africans in recent weeks. a growing number of been reaching turkey through iran, seen him because he met some of them in the city of van. you know, the border of the 76 african boys were caught by turkey soldiers trying to cross the border from yvonne into turkey. they had walked 4 weeks relying go smugglers to take them across the rugged mountain terrain. they would desperate to escape the bombings and fighting in afghanistan. they now face being deported to iran, but they have no regrets. and they said they'd do it all again. if they had a chance of rea

the strategic district in kandahar province search teams and trying to find the flight record is from the philippine military transport plane. the crushed killing $47.00 soldiers on board. the c 130 over shot the runway while trying to land on hollow island and to providence. it's the philippines, worst military ed is also in decades. the number of people missing after a landslide in japan has risen to more than 80 rescue crews and tommy taking advantage of a break in the rain. 2 days after the disaster, japanese prime minister says the focus is still on finding people that live their affairs of more mud slides. thousands have been advised to move out of the area. the malaysian cruise brought down the remaining part of the collapse department lock in florida was destroyed for safety reasons as a hurricane approach of 11 days after the 1st fell. 24 people have been confirmed dead. $121.00 is still missing. was the headlines when you hear on al jazeera of the generation change, see soon talk to al jazeera, we roam, did you want the un to take and who stop to we listen, see the whole inf

in kandahar province — the former taliban stronghold — residents have been voicing their fears of whatrn to power might mean. translation: the taliban don't want peace. _ the taliban want the whole government. the taliban are only killing. and there's another concern. 0sama bin laden may be dead, but his organisation, al-qaeda, lives on. many fear a return of the taliban means a return of al-qaeda. a nightmare scenario not just for afghanistan, but for much of the world. frank gardner, bbc news. lyse doucet is in the afghan capital, kabul. —— the british prime minister borisjohnson has confirmed that he intends to lift all coronavirus restrictions in england in two weeks time, with a final decision next week. that would mean workers returning to the office and an end to social distancing. but it comes as cases across the country continue to rise. the uk government says this is manageable because hospitalisations are under control. with the delta variant, it is growing rapidly but this graph shows current hospitalisations are lagging way behind the second wave. they are still on the up

taliban continues its surge across the country seizing another major border crossing, this time in kandahar provinceo fall in less than a month. the taliban is targeting key infrastructure in an attempt to choke the country and pressure the government. and the taliban's attempts to discredit cnn reporting of the institution of more than two dozen afghan commandos who had surrendered has been rejected. the u.s. state department has weighed in describing the horrific actions as an atrocious act and cnn confirmed with five eyewitnesses that the master took place. and the biden administration has launched operation frsallies ree to relocate thousands of a begans who helped the u.s. military. not known where they will go, but the white house has corn firmed that the flights will begin by the end of the month.cl begin by the end of the month. >>> and here in the states, britney spears says that the con s se con serservatorship was fing cruelty. and saying that i feel gratitude and blessed. stephanie elam is live for us in los angeles. >> reporter: britney spears is one step closer to regaining control of

and they have been making significant grounds in kandahar province over the last week. the air strikes is close to where the prison is. and taliban we know are aiming for that area. but there have only been about six or seven air strikes in the americans in the last month and certainly from the afghan soldiers that we spoke to, they said that it is not enough. of course afghanistan has a very m small air force and they are hoping for reinforcements and air strikes which they ever came. which meant commandos got slaughtered, troops had to surrender. and this is happening over and over again. so they say that they desperately need that u.s. air support. whether it will continue after the 31st of august when all u.s. troops are out, i mean combat troops are basically out, these air strikes are conducted by drones. you know, this is not manned air strikes. it remains to be seen. but certainly the u.s. is saying that it can go after terrorist targets, al qaeda targets. but as i say, afghan forces say they need the support as well. >> and so whether it continues to your point

they have seized the border crossing in kandahar province bordering pakistan. infrastructure, trying to choke the country and pressure the government. well, meantime, the taliban is on a pr offensive to try to discredit cnn's reporting of the execution of afghan commandos surrendering. the state department has weighed in, describing these horrific actions as an atrocious act. well, cnn spoke to five eyewitnesss who confirmed the massacre took place. and the biden administration has launched operation allied refuge, to relocate thousands of afghans who helped work with the military. it's still not known where they will be taken while their visas are processed but the white house says the flights will end by the end of the month. >> anna coren in kabul, afghanistan, stay safe over there. >>> also tonight, we're learning new details, very disturbing new details about a bizarre, and very frightening plot to kidnap an american citizen and extradite her to airan. officials say the plan was attached by the iranian regime. brian todd has more. >> reporter: speaking far

carried out a pair of air strikes in the kandahar province early thursday morning against the taliban afghan forces. the u.s. went after captured equipment, for example, stolen vehicles. that is equipment that was handed over from the u.s. to the afghan military as part of the withdrawal of u.s. forces from the country and then it was then seized by the taliban as it sweeps across the country. the u.s., as you pointed out, carried out about six or seven air strikes against the taliban in support of the afghans over the course of the past 30 days. that's a decreased pace. prior to that, it was a near daily occurrence as the withdrawal of u.s. forces continued towards that august 31st end date when all u.s. troops will be out of afghanistan. crucially, according to a defense official, three of the last four strikes mostly carried out by drones have been against this captured equipment. that's an indication that the u.s. military and commanders there have decided they will not let u.s. equipment be used by the taliban against afghan security forces in strategically important areas. that

other shops in the southern province of kandahar are closing in families, leaving as the front line approaches. and what is now more clearly a war between the afghan government and the taliban. taliban fighters are making inroads in kandahar after taking over abandon outposts the fighters share their spoils. elsewhere in couple province, u. s. armed vehicles and weapons which could potentially be used in the fight against the afghan government forces. taliban are capitalizing over that vacuum which has been created by the withdrawal. now. so that is why we have intensified the, the, the conflict and are having fast battlefield games, particularly in the north of atlantis. done this with these battlefield gains will definitely strengthen the taliban position. in any coming negotiations, if that is to happen and as well as this has thinned, shock waves from the moral perspective within the government, rank and file across the north of us can a stand government troops have to render districts without a fight more than $1000.00 fled to neighboring ticket stand on monday that prompted touching pres

kandahar. in a nearby province, a series of airstrikes have been reported.e west, afghan forces say they have repelled a taliban attack. meanwhile, the evacuation of afghan interpreters and their families to the u.s. has finally begun. it is part of a special immigration program that will see thousands who helped the united states over the last 20 years moved to america. our correspondent reports from kabul. correspondent: for three years, ali was a translator for the u.s. army. in may, he took a bus to kabul for an interview at the u.s. embassy and has waited since then at this guesthouse. last week, he was approved for evacuation, but he has heard nothing more. >> when i wake up in the morning, i checked it again, but there is nothing. so i called to my other friend, but nothing happened. he said, be patient. correspondent: ali is one of about 20,000 afghans who applied for a special immigrant visa. those who worked for at least two years with the u.s. government or military are eligible. the process has been long and advocates say increasingly confusing.

at least 7 people were killed in the southern province of kandahar on wednesday. it happens during shelling between the military and telephone fighters. he is more on what general mark merely had to say a boats the taliban advance. i would tell you that as of today, more or less, i guess it's about $212.00 to $13.00 in that range. 2 hundreds of the district centers are in taliban control. it's about half of the $41900.00 that are out there . you've got 34 provincial capitals in afghanistan. none of them have been seized as of today by the taliban. although the taliban is putting pressure on the outskirts of probably a half of them. 17 of them in fact. and what they're trying to do is isolate the major population centers. they're trying to do the same thing to cobble. and roughly speaking, the order of magnitude. a significant amount of territory has been seized over the course of 6, a 10 month sort of thing by the, by the taliban. so momentum appears to be strategic. momentum appears to be sort of with the tell him the afghan security forces that are consolidating

there's reports now their territory of the southern province of kandahar and the television network inhanistan reported east of kabul, the village is also coming under taliban control. while these reports were coming in, the afghan president made his first visit to what was the biggest us military base in the country at bagram. he conceded that the country was now going through a critical transition, but vowed that his government and his security forces would prevail. that is the message we heard last night, afghans heard last night, from the us presidentjoe biden, who emphasised that american support would not end. and that the afghan political leadership and security forces have the capability to prevent a taliban takeover. but he asked as afghans are asking will they do it. the taliban of course are saying that they are advancing. but in a sign of how they are ever mindful of their international legitimacy, they held a press conference today in the russian capital of moscow. a member of the taliban negotiating team boasted that if they could take 15 districts in a day, they could ta

government forces and the taliban is intensifying at least 7 people were killed in the southern province of kandahar on wednesday. it happened during schilling between the military and taliban fighters in a separate incident for fighters were killed whenever vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the done the district. my county has more now from washington. d . c. is secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who spoke to the media in the course of the day. they say that withdrawal is going on as scheduled. some $8000.00 troops have already be moved out of a gun. he's done. they also made specific reference to locals who were employed by the us military, such as drivers and translators. a number of them have already been removed from the country as well. but the main point that they were making of the gains that kind of bond has made in recent times, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark, milly, saying that as of last month the taliban controlled some 80 of gunny stones, 401900 district, but this number has now doubled. i would tell you that as of today, more or less, i gue

and fighting continues with 20 civilians injured in and around the city of kandahar in neighboring hellman province. a series of air strikes have been reported. and in the west african forces say they've repelled a taliban attack on the key city of hair out. meanwhile, the variation of african interpreters and their families to the u. s. has finally begun the thought of a special immigration program. there were also thousands who help the united states over the last 20 years. moved to america, charlotte bennett reports from couple 3 years. ali was a translator for the us army in his home province at home, and in may, he took a bus to cobble for an interview at the us embassy. and his waited since then at this guest house. last week he was approved for evacuation, but he has heard nothing more. when i wake up in the morning in the morning to check it again, but there was nothing. so i called to my other friends, but nothing happened. and he said, the patient only is one of about $20000.00 africans who replied for a special immigrant visa. those who worked for at least 2 years for the us government o

parts of southern afghanistan. 20 civilians were injured in and around the city of kandahar in neighboring helman province. a series of ass strikes have been reported across. i've got some violence and advances by the taliban. a forcing people to leave their homes, senior un official has told andre 0, this is no sci fi. the situation could become the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. entrepreneur to get it to james bass traveled by man. but just seen an influx of tens of thousands of people traveling with the un to permian. it should take just over 4 hours to drive to this mountainous province, but the route is far too dangerous. now. once seen as the safest place in afghanistan, recent violence has seen the un recording over 47000 internally displaced people in recent weeks. dameion without doubt, has one of the best hospitals in the country funded by the aga con. ah, but the hospital has been overwhelmed by people suffering. after walking for days through the mountains. wonder i left because the taliban had captured more districts. when we came here, all the people were on the run. they were fleei

parts of southern africa. stone with 20 civilians injured in and around the city of kandahar and neighboring helman province. a series of asteroids have been reported under the west african forces say they repelled a taliban attack on the key city of hair out across. i've kind of stone violence and the telephone advance of 14 people to leave their homes. a senior you, an official, has soul down to 0, but it says no sci fi situation could become the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. onto providing it to james bay's trial to buy man, which was seen an influx of tens of thousands of people travelling with the un to pammy. and it should take just over 4 hours to drive to this mountainous province. but the route is far too dangerous. now, once seen as the safest place in afghanistan, recent violence has seen the un recording over 47000 internally displaced people in recent weeks. dameion without doubt, has one of the best hospitals in the country funded by the ogre con ah, but the hospital has been overwhelmed by people suffering. after walking for days through the mountains wondering, i left because the t