government from the, from kabul to reinforce the local uprising movement, if you will, by my name is mel han, he's a former governor and he has kind of rallied his support, his and st. hundreds of them to the front line. try to keep the telephone out of the city. so a heap of pressure coming in 3 major city, major cities in afghanistan. we understand that this is kind of the taliban strategy, if you will look and circling the cities because the picked up a huge amount of room territory and the last month now they're putting these cities under a heap of pressure and then they can take that leverage back to the negotiating table, and some of the pressure not only from fighting, so from severe fluffing around parts of the country, what's been the response? they're particularly bad in a problem called numerous, which is only about 200 kilometers from cobble but incredibly remote. the flooding of the heavy rain happen late wednesday night and then it's only just come out in the last day that was started to get tickets because it is so remote, the number of people this is affected. more than 100 p

he's a former governor, his name is mel han. he rallied an uprising in harass he armed them, the government supported him and he was, he was really seen as a big hate of keeping the telephone out of harass and we've been hearing re just in the last hour that he has actually flayed harass or the government, a big loss if they have lost harass this evening, tend to ha, the 2nd biggest city is also under pressure and communications bill has been intumescent all day. it's very hard to find out what is going on. there's been a few videos come out showing the taliban in the heart of kandahar. they have that they are in the center in what's known as masses, square. we understand flights a cancelled in and out of harass. we talked to one resident who said that they are still hearing heavy gun fire. we know official courses have been deployed in kandahar for the last month. the whole the telephone out whether or not they're still be and fighting heavily or whether it's local pulses. it is unclear now if harass, has fallen, it would be th