south asia is a part of that. i think the question is -- what are we doing to protect those interests going forward? and i think that is where the focus of the statecraft and policy debate ought to be. host: adam weinstein, an afghan bet of 2012, your feelings as an afghan bet, your legacy of the war and some of the things jim carafano talked about and what the united states is facing now that it is out of afghanistan. guest 2: i think the legacy of the intervention of the war has been one of failure. as time goes on, i think we will see support for withdrawal on the increase. we already see it hovers around 58% in support of president biden's decision to withdrawal, which i will point out was a decision that president trump made. here we have two presidents who disagree with each other on most issues, but what they understood was that it was in the strategic interest to remove this conflict, and it is also what the american people wanted. i think they both have default on the nation in that respect. i agree with

we are talking about the south asia region. what should the u.s. do in the region, because this is not something that stays in afghanistan. what should we be doing? h.r.: our ability to help others take the lead against jihadist terrorist organizations is what we are doing. the narrative has been wrong about this. we had a defeatist narrative about afghanistan, we have been there for 20 years in an endless war -- first of all, it is an endless jihad waged against us. we had won. we were in an advisory and support sustainable effort. the narrative was wrong. the first thing we have to do is inform the american people better. it should be no surprise we inflicted defeat on ourselves after three presidents in a romaine no effort to explain to the american people -- or episodic efforts. president trump's speech in 2017 is worth going back to. that was the sensible strategy, i think. it was abandoned sadly, and president biden doubled down on the self-delusion of the trump administration. american presidents over the american people -- owe the american

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earlier i spoke to our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan — he said it's a very disturbing situation must be worried at this point because the change in situation is fast. the first provincial capital was captured by the taliban in recent years yesterday. within 2a hours they have reached out to a different part of afghanistan, also the stronghold of former vice president abdul rashid dostum. this will be the second major provincial capital to be captured by insurgents. they are also stretching the afghan forces. look at what is happening in lashkar gah in the south, and in the north, as we speak heavy clashes are going on there. 0fficials there see at least 11 civilians have been killed in the fighting so far. they are also making a big push in the biggest city in north—east afghanistan. it is fair to say that abdul rashid dostum is one of the strongmen of afghan politics, he has been fighting the taliban for years and years. he has effectively his own military forces, as is true in all parts of afghanistan, is this now turning into a regionalfight rather than monitors directed from

enry and i were both in south asia and watching this henry and i were both in south asia and watchingakistan, of course, has always had a very, very close relationship and ties with the taliban, using pakistani areas as sort of rear bases, that has always been a big part of the calculation. india is a big player in this, as well. china, with its border with afghanistan, obviously that's the region of xinjiang, where china has that huge, at the minute, that policy, the very repressive policy in xinjiang. so you have many players looking at this, western countries, too. it's very difficult, actually, to call how this will play out because afghanistan has always had this very sort of grinding, complex patchwork of conflicts and relationships. and no government that has ever truly controlled the country? so many regional power players. it's difficult. i went there when you saw the taliban, their resurgence coming back after we'd had september 11, 2001, sort of later, 2006, 2007, 2008, the taliban came back, foreign forces went in, there in the south near kandahar, the canadians, they had

and this isn't the story for shanghai now was moved to south asia for india. we've got some very heavy rains continuing. those one soon range and we've seen flood waters up in the north. these are likely to continue to remain as those rains fall down. and on sunday it's going to be in the south, but we see the heavy rains. we have got an amber warning out for strong winds as well, around carola and con attacker. they also move to central areas and of course, of course, those eastern coastal areas. but it's also gonna be bungler dash and nepal that see some of the heavy rains. we could see flooding here, sponsored call cut on airways. i'm like of us in the south of india and find out call me back in this cave brought an extensive mining operation to a grand corona virus wept across the world with devastating effects. and it's widely believed to be connected to the legal wildlife trade. here in vietnam, we visit a rescue center for some of the world's most threatened to animals and joined the call for an end to the global wildlife earth arrived on al jazeera. ah

we will need something beyond symbolic trips to south asia. we will need something of substance.have been waiting for a decade now for some kind of time, energy, resources into this region, and we have yet to see something of substance. and there will be questions on how this plays into china's hands. this narrative doesn't speak to what jane has been talking about, whether the u.s. commitment is something you can truly put money behind right now. rishaad: all right, and she will also be warning of threats in the asia pacific. we are expecting, the harris. meanwhile, we will look at covid-19 and how it has been disrupting private equity. our next guest believes it does not alter this sector's positive growth prospects. one of the world's largest avid equity firms, vikram lokur joins us from singapore. what has it been like? has it thrown up a lot of opportunities, given that a crisis always or nearly always presents an opportunity? vikram: thank you. i hope you and your viewers are keeping well and staying safe. in answer to your question, we see significant opportunity for priva

the fact that an unstable janice then leads to tremendous instability throughout central asia, south asia, a lot of american commentators are saying, well, you know, the u. s. is getting out president biden's ending a war. but the conflicts going to continue the ramifications for pakistan in its radical population elements and western china and throughout the former soviet states of central asia are huge. and somebody's got to fill the leadership vacuum left by the united states to figure out in a strategic way how to restore a sense of stability. and it's gonna have to be somehow taking the tall about, into account. good to speak with you. matthew bryce, thanks will be with honor. thank you aplenty. more ahead on this news out including the hurricane i the back during the u. s. fated. louisiana. were live in new orleans with tens of thousands of people without power . also ahead, new zealand, extend code 19 locked down and its largest city while relaxing restriction for the rest of the country. i'd like to find out who came out on top after an epic final round that the b m. w championshi

and we'll move to south asia. it is also very wet across parts of india as well as bangladesh. me and my and the poll as those monsoon rains continue to fall. they're not falling as heavily as we have seen across central areas. but east madhya pradesh is going to see some of that heavy rain over the coming days. for the stronger storms we have to look to for lanka, we're going to see some pretty heavy downfalls over the next few days. sponsor cut on airways. something was going to change. anything really change? this is the demick violin that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against the barriers, know what to say. so we are also 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, i'm from the for villas of correct. so the battlefields around most of our job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. ah, ah ah, the top story, our on al jazeera, those purchase in thailand, people out on the streets, fighting with police, responded with

let's speak to our south—asia editor anbarasan ethirajan. what is the latest?o. — what is the latest? in the last hour or so, the _ what is the latest? in the last hour or so, the taliban - what is the latest? in the last hour or so, the taliban say . hour or so, the taliban say that they have captured the eastern city of jalalabad and they have captured the whole province and one resident said the local official, the local governor made a deal, and basically surrendered the entire city to the taliban without a fight. this is another significant blow for the government because this came just about ten hours after the taliban walked into the northern city of mazar—i—sharif. kabul is the only major city under government control now. after capturing several provincial capitals, and i believe 25 are under taliban control, they are getting closer and closer to kabul. yesterday they were fighting in one of the small towns outside of kabul, just an hour or aokm from kabul. this was the capital of kabul at big risk and no—one is clear what is going to happen in the nex

now as we move to south asia for india, we've got some very heavy rains. continuing those monsoon range and we've seen flood waters up in the north. these are likely to continue to remain as those rains fall down. and on sunday it's going to be in the south, but we see the heavy rains. we have got an amber warning out for strong winds as well, around carola and con attacker. they also moved to central areas and of course, of course, those eastern coastal areas. but it's also gonna be bungler dash, an appalled that she saw the heavy rains. we could see flooding here, sponsored pay cut on airways. the how many nukes is too many new america had in many ways driven the arms race parties are much more like the british parties down to the there are fewer regulations to own a tiger than their our own. a dog. how can this be happening? your weekly take on us politics and, and that's the bottom line. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so now you take, it will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. oh, the me. on the top stories on us

let's speak to our south asia correspondent, anbarasan ethirajan.ws we're getting here via the reuters news agency and the afp that the taliban have begun entering afghan capital, kabul. just how significant is this? at the moment what we know is this? at the moment what we know is there is attention in kabul city and we have not had confirmation about taliban militants entering the city as of now but we note the presidential palace has just tweeted a few minutes ago and i will give you a rough translation seeing there have been some gunfire heard but security forces with international partners are securing the security situation. the second one is the taliban spoken who has tweeted saying they have asked taliban fighters to refrain from violence in kabul city which some interpret as not to enter ourfight kabul city which some interpret as not to enter our fight inside the city. laterwe not to enter our fight inside the city. later we should be able to confirm about other reports but a bbc colleague in kabul was at a government office a few minutes

now for south east asia, we are seeing scattered showers and thunderstorms, so much of indonesia and malaysia. but singapore is like, you see those heavy rains continue through to choose day. on monday however, it'll be northern parts of the philippines that see those heavier thunderstorms. and as we move to south asia for india, it's up in the north that once again sees those heavy rains as we go into monday, we've got an amber alert out for con province where the rain is going to fall heaviest the weather sponsored by cattle airways boated world's best airline of 2021. bill guerria, the poorest nation, the european union rock by allegations of corruption, seemingly linked to the upper echelons of the countries political in the aim of our ruling class was to get the money to you can find people empower investigation where the country goes from the hill guerria at the cross. on a dizzy oh the a. so what channel does our reminder of our top story is this all that are reports about the 4 people crushed to death? because there was africans, desperately trying to leave the country. you s

bbc's south asia correspondent has more. >> in this hospital now guarded by the taliban lies an 18 monthlnourished, his mother cannot afford to feed him. he was sent these pictures by a doctor in the northeast region of one of the country's poorest. there and across against him, we are told food and gas prices have risen since the taliban have taken charge. millions were already on the brink of starvation. now, the u.n. says it urgently needs more money to avert a crisis. >> of guinness 10 stands -- afghanistan stands on the brink of another humanitarian disaster. without that money coming in, we will not be able to supply food to those 20 million people who are already poor. >> so there could be a famine? >> absolutely. that is what we will see if we cannot get our food bundles to them. but because of the drop, because of the conflict, people cannot save themselves. >> they just want to go. >> this week in the northern city, dozens have been boarding buses to get to kabul. the u.n. says the conflict has forced more than half a million afghans to flee their homes this year alone. >> the

that is why they need to be prospects for integration in africa, asia and south america. we need to share responsibility and that. -- response ability in that. >> he is a pragmatist, stoic in times of crisis, traits that have served him well in his campaign to become angela merkel's successor. his main challenges to translate good personal ratings into support for the centerleft central democrats at the ballot box. anthony: furthermore, we asked our chief political correspondent what sets him apart? >> first of all, he is a social democrat and the overarching question is, are they that far away from the policies of angela merkel? they converge to a large degree and i think also anchored -- echoed in what olaf scholz told us today, he wants to draw a line in the sand quite clearly towards russia when he says it once pressure to follow osce principles. that is the rule of law, not shifting borders like russia has done in crimea and is attempting to do in ukraine partly. the question would be how that translates into policy where there is something like nordstrom to pop, the

and also the far east of russia now was moved to south east asia. we have seen flooding in malaysia. that's off the waterfall serge, thanks to heavy rain while the rain has eased as we go into saturday, it does pick up though, for the philippines we are expecting some shock. thunderstorms in manila, by the time we get into next week and for south asia, the wet weather has shifted west. it's new delhi that continues to see those really heavy down port and funder storm. not only here though, to be central and western areas, see the wet weather to the weather. sponsored by cattle airways, boated world's best airline of 2021. more than 10 years after the global financial crisis, you've taken home more than $480000000.00. your companies now bankrupt our economies in the state of crisis. i have a very casey question, a 1000000 lost at home the us held responsible. i will be fabulously wealthy and i will not take any price for it. thank. the man who still worked on al jazeera ah, ah, the me again, you're watching. i just need a reminder about health storie

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president kamala harris continues a diplomatic charm offensive by the biden administration in south east asia the presidential nomination of a major party, and he accepts exactly 45 years ago to the day that martin luther king declared, "i have a dream." as darkness falls tonight, and unfamiliar light will appear in the southeastern sky — an orange glowing disc that's brighter than anything save the moon — our neighbouring planet, mars. there is no doubt that this connection is an important milestone there is no doubt that this election is an important milestone in the birth of east timor as the world's newest nation. it'll take months and billions i of dollars to repair what katrina achieved injust hours. three weeks is the longest the great clock has been off—duty in 117 years, so it was with great satisfaction that clockmakerjohn vernon swung the pendulum to set the clock going again. big ben chimes this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. 0ur headlines: evacuations continue, but huge crowds remain at the airport in kabul. with next week's deadline looming, the race t

administration, where president trump focused mostly on china, paid very little attention to south east asiase that. vice president harris�*s visit is an important part of that re—shifting again back to this region. and vietnam actually did very well on covid last year. it was almost a poster child for controlling it. all the countries in this region have been hit very hard by the delta variant and very few of them have been able to vaccinate large parts of their population, they're very short of vaccines. vietnam interestingly shorter than most. and this is one area where the us can do very well because china started vaccine diplomacy earlier in the year. in vietnam, the population is actually quite anti—chinese and the government was quite reluctant, didn't take any vaccines from china, but all the countries that took large amounts from china are now very concerned about the effectiveness of those vaccines. so this push by the us to offer vaccines is an open goal for them. and indeed vice president harris has offered partnerships in medical technology, pandemic preparedness, she opened the

and as we move to south asia for india, it's up in the north that once again sees those heavy rains as we go into monday, we've got an amber alert out for tata con province, where the rain is going to fall heaviest. sponsor cut on airways. how many nukes has too many new america has in many ways driven the arms rate parties are much more like the british parties down to the there are fewer regulation to own a tiger than their, our own a dog. how can this be happening? your weekly take on us politics and society and that's the bottom line. what's most important to me is talking to people, understanding what they're going through here. it just either we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. ah, ah, the me there are monitor about top stories this all the reports about before people cross to death, cobbles, and port africans, desperately trying to leave. the country says it's mathematically impossible to evacuate the guns monday august 31st deadline fit by us president joe biden. the telephone's political chief mala don't gone. they bought a dog, has returned to the country to begin

meanwhile, the afghan taliban says it has executed and imprison former of the islamic state in south asia shortly after it took control of afghanistan. the killing bolsters the taliban's claims the group will not cooperate with islamic state and it views the group as an adversary. afghanistan's sports federation has identified one of at least two people who fell to their deaths from a u.s. military plane as it hastily evacuated kabul airport on monday. 17-year-old zaki anwari was a member of afghanistan's national youth soccer team. he was among dozens of people filmed running alongside a u.s. air force c-17 plane, some of them clinging to the plane's sides and landing gear. in greece, hundreds of afghan immigrants protested outside of athens thursday, demanding support from the international community and the european union. their protest came after greece's migration minister warned greece would not be a gateway for afghan refugees. >> do not want refugees. why? they had to stand with the refugees and the afghan people and help them in the situation. amy: in geneva, the u.n. high commis

parts of south asia, iran, parts of china, pakistan, pakistan's intel service, the isi has been heavily involved with the taliban. do you worry about broader regional instability? >> absolutely. and i worry most about how this will impact india-pakistan relations. we are talking about two nuclear arm countries that have already fought three wars in the past 70 years. and have had major crises in just the last few years. and so, terrorist groups that attack india will now be emboldened. they'll be able to train and -- and regroup inside afghanistan. these are groups which have brought india and pakistan to the brink of war in the past. so there are very wide repercussions for the terror safe haven that we will see in afghanistan. >> yeah. blowback for pakistan which has had -- well, through its intelligence service, the isi, has had its fingers in the taliban for some time. it's clear the u.s. had intelligence forewarning of this attack. how much harder will it be to get that kind of intelligence once the u.s. military leaves kabul? and what's the path forward for u.s. in dealing with te

but the dash is one of the lowest in the vaccine rollouts in south asia. argentina's relaxing current of us restrictions on reopening schools, even as it passes 5000000 cases. the government says infection and mortality rates have dropped for more than 8 consecutive weeks. nicaragua is electoral tribunal has disqualified the main opposition party from taking post in november's presidential election. it's the latest move in a crackdown on the opposition by president daniel ortega's government. the columbia panama have agreed to work together to stem the flow of migrants stranded at the border around $10000.00 cuba. haiti, and west africa stuck in the columbia bought a town near coakley. as the headlines. let's go back. i know all you know, katy social join the whole more towards shushing social all john shows a social voting. you know you one day or 2 more you know? sure. you will not want to have to miss bonnie turney. i think she missed one on the night just so you know, for sure when you were in such can bring one in kind of counting. stephanie, go to do a night and then on the day,

on the dash has one of the slowest vaccine rollouts in south asia. thailand has reported another daily record for new cove in 1900 cases and death registered 21000 new infections and more than 200 fatalities, straight lockdown measures in bangkok and dozens of provinces have failed to slow the spread. nicaragua, as electra tribunal has disqualified the main opposition policy from taking part in november. the presidential election is the latest move in a crackdown on the opposition by president done. you will take us government and several countries ascending aircraft in 5 i to greece to help battle. dozens of uncontrolled wildfire still burning across the country. major blaze, just north of athens, has 4000 to flee. the columbia in panama have agreed to work together to stem the flow of migrants stranded at the border around $10000.00 from cuba, haiti, and west africa stuck in the columbia border town. nicole clay, as your headlines witness is next. ah, me. me. oh, the me. i mean i know, i mean he's only sending sen system on how do you i don't want them we can come in. they meet with

speaker released the group's expansion into the lands of horazon, which encompasses afghanistan, south asiad parts of china. how much of a threat does isil pose to other countries? >> i would clarify, originally when the islamic state horazon province was announced, i'm pretty sure the idea was not only afghanistan, but a wider region, including pakistan and even the islamic state khorasan defeated leader talks about attacks in afghanistan. what you actually see now with the islamic state is they designated several so-called provinces, actually both pakistan and india, and they claim attacks and put out media propaganda under those labels. the khorasan province label only seems to apply to the islamic state operating in the borders of afghanistan as we recognize them. there has always been attack capacity for the islamic state in the region beyond the borders of afghanistan and it was formalized through the creation of separate provinces of pakistan and india. >> how is pakistan going to deal with this threat? >> currently it does not pose a serious threat to pakistan. future, if the khoras

here is our south asia regional editor. >> that is a major city.at falls, that will be a significant blow for the afghan government. usually, the northern part of afghanistan is seen as the traditional anti-taliban region where they can form an alliance to drive the taliban away, but now the taliban seems to be focusing on that region and one of the cities they captured overnight is about 200 kilometers out of kabul. anchor: it was overshadowed by events in a nearby city. let's look at these pictures, set to show government pictures -- government officials leaving. heavy fighting is now underway in a major southern city. the taliban's advance is shocking, militants emboldened by the u.s. withdrawal have taken more territory in the past two months then at any time -- than at any time since they were ousted from power in 2001. militants now control 65% of afghanistan. our correspondent in the country has been given rare access to new the captured taliban territory and sent us this report. >> new territory. new weapons. all captured in this unpreceden

our south asia correspondent starts our coverage. >> running for their lives, frantically trying to escapenistan on this u.s. military plane. this is how desperate some afghans are to leave the country. a handful, tragically clinging on, even after takeoff. before falling to their deaths. foreign nationals and some afghans are being evacuated. huge crowds gathered after rumors that even those without visas could travel. outside the airport, even more chaos. followed by memberfiring in the air -- taliban members firing in the air to assert their authority and keep control . responding to dangers, some residents still risking their lives to try to get inside. e group has promised amnesty for those with links to the government, but many still fear they will be targeted by the militants. inside the airport, american forces fired into the air. u.s. officials claimed two armed afghans were killed. an eyewitness told the bbc that the victims were ordinary people. >> i sought with my eyes, three people. there are more people here. this is a very bad situation. it's chaos. >> no one is quite sure w

but that has sort of deepened the security problem in south asia, as you know, it has more than i think in a long time. gore, i'm curious, what are, what is your take then on what the international communities response has been? i think i will add to what mr. dick said, i think in the last 2 years that have been scathing reports by the united nations back to back reports in fact. and then i've also been if you look closely at the v dom institute report and also the freedom house report. yes, i agree with a doctor's a deal that it's not enough or it's not you know, as the people have them with me would have wanted. but there are other concerns, and as you rightly pointed out that now this, what was done internally, hill is sort of, you know, it was said that it's an internal matter. but it had geopolitical consequences as the pointed out earlier. and now there are in the an analyst, defense analysts saying that there's a possibility of a to do and a half french law, one with pakistan and china and then in the hinterland. so this has actually gone too far, you know, maybe they had done a

south asia is a part of that.he question is -- what are we doing to protect those interests going forward? and i think that is where the focus of the statecraft and policy debate ought to be. host: adam weinstein, an afghan bet of 2012, your feelings as an afghan bet, your legacy of the war and some of the things jim carafano talked about and what the united states is facing now that it is out of afghanistan. guest 2: i think the legacy of the intervention of the war has been one of failure. as time goes on, i think we will see support for withdrawal on the increase. we already see it hovers around 58% in support of president biden's decision to withdrawal, which i will point out was a decision that president trump made. here we have two presidents who disagree with each other on most issues, but what they understood was that it was in the strategic interest to remove this conflict, and it is also what the american people wanted. i think they both have default on the nation in that respect. i agree with jim that i

now we moved to south asia. it's in the northeast that we're seeing those monsoon rains for heaviest dishes, likely to see some flooding as those rains kick in. and they're fueled by a tropical low in the bay of bengal. it's kicking a lot of rain up into bangladesh and pole. and bu, time, we could see flooding here, but for the hotter, dry weather, we have to move to the north west with plenty of heat coming through for new delhi sponsor cut on airways. ah, you can a 3rd risk of extinction in vicious plan to rid the nation. and if the president sites one at any events, the guy on out in the me morning allow government al jazeera as a you know, i a you're watching out as a reminder, thought, help stories. this alex, the taliban has taken over the presidential palace and the gun capital couple comes at the end of a surprisingly quick offensive during which the fire just took the most of the country. taliban says once a peaceful transfer of power, president, awestruck on a hot sled, the country were chaotic scenes

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and it could be a very wet end to the olympics this weekend and was moved to south asia. it's very wet as well for india across those central areas. we've seen flooding in east rochester as well as madhya pradesh. and we are expecting more of that as those intense rains continue to fall here. that weather update sponsored call cut on airways, a crime that shook japan, or people get killed on one occasion in as bloody a massacre as this was, attracts a lot of report. there was just a current drum. who did it? who did it? who did it? have the conviction that led to the world's longest hell that's ro, frizzy. and his sister's 47 year long battle to save him from execution. witness. how come adam? japan's death row on a jazzy data. ah, ah, the me this is just a quick reminder of the top stories for, you know, what temperatures enjoy winds are finding one far as across the northern hemisphere . historic town in california has been decimated from in europe. greece and turkey continued to baffle flames, driven by the heat wave in decades. if you appears to brian forces scene, st

on her tour of asia, vice president kamala harris has offered reassurance of washington's commitment to the region. she's currently in singapore and will also be visiting vietnam. 0ur south this trip by the us vice president must�*ve been planned several weeks ago as part of a salvo of visits by senior us officials to this region to demonstrate the biden administration's renewed interest in southeast asia. but it is hard to imagine they would have gone ahead with it had they known it was going to come right after the disastrous scenes that we have all witnessed in afghanistan. i mean come on one of the countries on her itinerary is vietnam, which inevitably invites unflattering comparisons with the last time the us was so humiliatingly defeated. kamala harris is relatively inexperienced in foreign policy and she is having come on this trip, to fend off questions not with the last time the us was so humiliatingly defeated. kamala harris is relatively inexperienced in foreign policy and she is having come on this trip, to fend off questions not just about the dreadful events in afghanistan, but also about the overall reliability of the united states as an ally. now, of cou

and it could be a very wet and to the olympics this weekend now was a move to south asia. it's very wet as well for india across those central areas. we've seen flooding in east rochester as well as madhya pradesh. and we are expecting more of that as those intense rains continue to for here that you whether update sponsored cut on airways yugoslavia disintegrated. war descended on its inhabitants amidst the death and destruction. one man created a peaceful microcosm for boys whose fathers faced each other in battle. episode 3 of football rebels enters the world of footballing legend press drag hush. each 2 went from coaching boys, football to teaching young men life. frederick push each of the seizure sarajevo on al jazeera. ah, ah, ah, this is l just a quick reminder, all the stories, this are more than 100 far as a burning across greece, research far is burning. who's in north athens and turkey that reached cool for field power plant has been it contains california as large as far has destroyed launch punch, historic gold rush era times things over food buildings, a cen

our south asia regional editor anbarasan ethirajan says the fall of mazar—i—sharif signals a major setbackis was the last major city held by the government in the northern part of afghanistan so it's the fourth biggest city, trading and commercial hub close to the border with uzbekistan so it's a huge military prize for the taliban. on the other hand, for the government in kabul, now the government in kabul, now the entire northern region is being dominated by the taliban so they are now taking territory is very close to kabul city itself, in fact in the morning they were targeting a town which is about a0 kilometres south—west of kabul. a few hours earlier they also targeted a province, that is under attack. the government now has only two cities, one of the big cities in kabul. there are expectations that even jalalabad might come under attack in the coming days which means the government is in charge of kabul. with these provinces and coming from the north, now the taliban are tightening their stranglehold on the city itself and many people think the taliban might start this siege in th

what i was finding out mayor is a south asia security analyst. he says the after the transactions on the battlefield, the fallen show the goblin rhetoric. one of the provincial capitals to fall couldn't do it was one of the 10 cities that the have gone government identified as cities that had wanted to defend. and so, losing condos to the taliban since, you know, an adverse political signal due to supported up the republic, it suggests that the public is on a weaker political and military 14 than it has been cleaning the last few weeks. i think the government is going to try a major offensive then certainly, you know, put up a major effort, but the taliban had experience of gaining and losing condos twice they. they began at once in 2015 and lost it and then began it again in 2016. so my sense is that the taliban have come prepared. they are, they're likely to put up a strong defense. we're going to see a lot more fighting, which will obviously affect a disabled population, which is, which is caught in this in this fighting. they have been report

let's speak to our south asia correspondent danjohnson in delhi.back because of jobs and families. to give you some perspective, there have been 22,000 covid deaths since the start of the pandemic, a quarter of those have happened sincejuly. this is why the authorities have taken the step to ramp up the vaccination programme. about a million people in bangladesh are already fully vaccinated. the population in total is over 160 million. even if they reach their target within one week there is a long way to go for bangladesh to be protected and get out of the pandemic. how is the infrastructure bailing app? pretty badly. to some extent bangladesh had been coping, the delta variant has had an effect. intensive care beds are running out. emergency services are overstretched. 30 ambulances, the first of 100 donated from india have arrived. they are trying to vaccinate as many people as they can over the next week, offering the vaccination to everyone over the age of 25. and there are teams going into refugee camps as well. but their health service in so

let us cross live to our south asia regional editor anbarasan ethirajan, who's watching the developmentstan from delhi. this capture of mazar—e—sharif, the northern stronghold, how much of a difference does that make to the taliban advance on the capital, kabul? , . , ., , ., ., taliban advance on the capital, kabul? , ., ., . , kabul? this was the last ma'or city held by the — kabul? this was the last ma'or city held by the government _ kabul? this was the last ma'or city held by the government in h kabul? this was the last major city held by the government in the - held by the government in the northern region of afghanistan. it was a commercial hub and the border city with uzbekistan, so it is a huge military prize for the taliban. the government in kabul, the north is being dominated by the taliban, so they are now taking territories close to kabul city itself and in the morning they were targeting a town a0 kilometres south—west of kabul and they also targeted other provinces nearby, meaning the government now only has two cities, the big cities in kabul and one other, so there are

and that's a term that encompasses not just have done is done, but areas as well or south asia as well as reportedly parts of china. so how much of a threat does i sold opposed to other countries? i would clarify i. li, yes. so originally when is planning, state court on proven was announced. i'm pretty sure the idea of that was not only is dan, but why the reason for example, including pakistan and even the diamond for son. he talked about attacks and by done in interview with dominic in 2016, but what you actually have seen now with these, let me say, is they designated that for so goal provinces, for i see bo package done and india and they claim attacks and without media propaganda under those tables, so the whole assign the probably lives the currently now only seems to apply to these dynamics they operating in the borders that i've got to stand as we recognize there. so i g, a way, there has always been this attack capacity for 9. they be your, in the region beyond the all or the get it done. and it would then, it was been formalized through the creation of these separate separat

we've known about delta plus for a while now and it just hasn't exploded even where we first found south asia, the county of santa clara is already tracking it on their website, though they say it exists statewide and nationwide. >> and that there's not enough information right now to indicate that that should be more concerning than the original delta variant as of last week, 298 people in santa clara county have the delta variant in 47 tested positive for its sub strain that delta plus alameda county reports fewer than 10 cases as of last tuesday. >> and contra costa county health officials say less than 7% of their detected delta cases have been dealt a plus covid is 3 although rules out the window and the reason why is that? >> there's so much transmission all around the world that you're just getting more and more chances for mischief tucker. from the perspective of the virus. the cdc is recommending fully vaccinated. people return to wearing masks indoors because of the delta search and 8 bay area counties are requiring this because of the delta is high transmission vaccinated. people c

now when you move to south asia has been very wet in the north east. we have seen some severe flooding across the sam state and in northern parts of bangladesh. the rain needs a slightly here on tuesday, but it does pick up across at western coast. we have got some amber warnings out for heavy rain here. down in the south though, it is looking a lot. dwyer, some sunshine breaking through. for up in the north though, we have got thunderstorms for delhi and those expected to last well into the weekend that weather update. sponsor cut on airways. that light emitted from history kept alive only in the family tales of those justifying, had to release for people who didn't seem to these damaging story. as the polish women and children who endured the siberian refuge in africa, never to return again an epic or to see a 1000000000 memory is our homeland. and now she's era. oh the the me you're watching out 0 mind the top stories this out of had to get has confirmed the last american troops have left couple marking the end of 20 years of war and i've got a lot

you have africa to the south, asia to the north and europe to the west, they literally imagine jerusalemo be the naval of the world. >> for muslims is the size of the prophet. >> from the dome of the rock. the prophet ascended on a horse with wings to heaven where he builds several prophets. he received the commandments of how muslims should pray. that's very symbolic and it showcases how important jerusalem is to muslim worship but also muslim identity. muslim leaders ruled jewrusalem from 638 until the first crusade. >> juthe aim is to recover the crisis city from the hands of the muslims. >> they were able to control of the huge part of palestine. essentially, they banned the muslims. >> the muslims of the city wants the throw out the werner werner. solodun is famous for his generosity. his administrator says we got to hide money from him because if he got it, he'll give it away. in order to conquer jerusalem, he's first got to unite all of the desperate era of armies into one. meaning, he spent a lot of his career fighting against other muslims. >> he would say i don't want to fight

refugees by early next week, vaccination campaign in bangladesh has been one of the slowest in south asia. still struggling to contain a delta outbreak. and banquet has has extended a lockdown until next week here in town via chandry with more from dr. let me give you some description where i'm at. i'm in doc i city in the morning i was in for mitchell hospital. this is just the labor hospital. the line has been like since morning it's been organized like the other place. people been complaining, they've been waiting after getting stamped in their registration. each person are waiting like over an hour sometime in cases the people are a little bit and not now since february about 14000000 people got vaccinated, some of them still didn't get the 2nd job. now that's about 3 percent of the population of a $165000000.00. then over the government grants shot up india and supply chart because of the crisis there by the novak companies since then bangers as you're saying vaccine from china us and others both says and not a planted to go at least 3200000 people within next one week the idea was t