i've gotten forces us of rendering out, post st, escaping in their hundreds to neighboring tajikistan. those that do phase the taliban put up little or no resistance. the heart of us operations in afghanistan for almost 2 decades. the background base is empty of american troops and the taliban is pressing on with its territorial campaign, making significant gains. the armed group now controls almost a 3rd of the countries, $400.00 districts, mainly in the north. it took over 13 areas on saturday alone, the biggest single day advance in the 20 year war. and it's more than doubled the number of areas it controls. since the u. s. accelerated, it's pull out in may the afghan government says it's sending reinforcement to retake the territory. it's lost. now many families have fled to fighting and now fear for their safety. i've gotten soldiers surrendered multiple posts in the northern province of barrack sean at the weekend. and the taliban also captured a strategic district in con, behalf or the south. the area has been a hotline for the group and its where its leader was born home. our

taliban has quickly taken many border districts and now has control of 2 thirds of the border with tajikistan, a russian military base in tajikistan is equipped with everything necessary to help the public in controlling the border situation. if needed, additional measures will be undertaken in the spirit of the russian public alliance to prevent aggression or territorial provocation. last week, the afghan government told al jazeera it won't collapse as a result. but the tyler bond says it wants to lead an inclusive government that respects minorities women and men in education, unemployment. the tal about have demonstrated no appetite whatsoever for any concessions they and they have consistently told their own membership. the men who are fighting on the ground is that they have one on the ultimate goal, which is complete military victory and re establishment of a taliban dominated government without any form of coalition with any other party africans. yet to see a peaceful solution to decades of violence. so to hide, i'll just 0. in other news, a factory fire has killed more than 50 people

a russian military basin tajikistan is equipped with everything necessary to help the republic in control in the border situation. if needed, additional measures will be undertaken in the spirit of the russian public alliance to prevent aggression or territorial provocation or new the factory fire has killed more than 50 people in bangladesh should feared many more still trapped inside the building. in an industrial town 25 kilometers east of the capital baca. several people were injured when they jumped from the 2nd and 3rd 4th to try to escape. fast food on the president has held a ceremony mocking a decade since independence. civil war broke out soon after the country splits from sudan, killing about 400000 people, and displacing more than a 1000000 others. on my part, i assure you that i will not return you back to work again later on, wet together to recover the last decade and put our country back to the path of development in these new south africa. hi, cortez dismissed an application by former president jacob zoom. i to suspend his prison sentence resume. i began serving a 15 mans

some have already fled to neighboring tajikistan and iran, but that might not be an option for long. the ton of fine controls 2 thirds of the border with tajikistan and recently captured the crossing to iran, meaning of the on many escape routes left. an especially dangerous prospect for those who worked with foreign armies, fearing for their lives there, now cooling on washington to get them out. the monday gave us a recommendation. they have not only my life, my family, and i've also done with really when we don't have an issue we have now we want to take any decisions or united nation, or you call yourself humanitarians. but what kind of humanitarian saw you left me here after? i worked 10 years for you. russia is also worried that the fighting will spill over into its territory. so it's arched restraint promised to g cuz tom, back up on the board and maintains dialogue with the taliban and the country that created this whole mess. just opt in left. oh, i the i up to left in the dead of night without what apparently the washington claims that local officials knew that withdrawal w

and now has control of about 2 thirds of the board with tajikistan, a russian military base and tajikistan is equipped with everything necessary to help the public in control in the border situation. if needed, additional measures will be undertaken in the spirit of the russian public alliance to prevent aggression or territorial provocation. the un security council has approved a deliveries from turkey into syria for another year. russia had threatened to block the operation, but a compromise has now been breach or diplomatic editor james base has more from the united nations. for months now, people have been concerned that russia might actually decide to use its veto and stop this. only one humanitarian crossing into syria. some had wanted that again to be more than one crossing potentially 3 crossings. the u. s. wanted, in the end, no way at all, and put forward to russia, objected to that it went down to one for one year. russia then propose one for only 6 months. the compromise is one for 6 months, then a report from the secretary general, and then another 6 months authorization. pret

they were forced across the border into tajikistan. there's already a knock on effect in tajikistan. theytaliban. this is used for trade and they are taking care of afghan national army troops. for pakistan, the situation is a lot more complex. there are many more polish tisch s -- politicians and they believe they are behind the taliban's strategy, behind a lot of their planning and aiding them in training. this is something that pakistan absolutely and categorically denies. they have been putting up a wire fence across the border crossings, between afghanistan and pakistan they clearly fear what would be a potential large scale civil war in afghanistan spilling over to them in terms of refugees. it's widely believed one of the taliban's objectives is to cut the main highway between kabul and pakistan. it's a trade situation. every bordering country stands to be effected. >> so many knock-on effects as you say. always appreciate your analysis. cnn's nic robertson from london. thank you so much. >>> so now the question, what will happe

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he's even fleeing over the border to tajikistan, which of course is a long rushes southern border. where does russia now stand with america? vacating afghan nest on? i think russia has a very big problem. because if the tell about when rapidly like it looks they're going to do this will empower not to moderate elemental tell about who are engaged in negotiations about, you know, a, a co governance with the current african government. but the more radical elementary the tell about who believe in the re establishment of the, the emory. and if they, if they empower themselves to this rapid victory, they will start looking towards their neighbors. remember, it's not just a border the former soviet republics who's making stan g a n t against and minister and shared with the dentist, and it's a common population base. and if cad jiggs are radicalized in afghanistan, they can carry this radicalization over into dad, jacob stand in that can carry over into russia proper. that's the true security risk for russia. so russia has invested interest in seeing some sort of stability arise out of

it's national security adviser says hundreds of security personnel who fled to tajikistan will be brought back to rejoined the fight. taliban have taken control of another 36 districts or 10 percent of the country in just the past 6 days. this is the pentagon says the withdrawal of us forces is 90 percent complete. lebanon is pleading for international help with the can take a promise, a warning. the country is just days away from a social explosion. sandia says global help is urged urgently needed to prevent outright economic ruin. the currency loss about 90 percent of what it was worth in late 2019 medical supplies being rationed and fights breaking out of petrol stations as pumps run dry. and i will ask you, though, i would come my plate today to all the king's princesses, presidents, leaders and ally, and friendly nations. and i call on the united nations and all international agencies and public opinion to help save to live in a people from teeth and prevent the destruction of the country. leaping on is it a short distance from a social explosion, and the liberties are facing the sto

more than 1,000 afghan government soldiers have fled across the border into tajikistan, according tohe government there. the bbc�*s security correspondent, frank gardner reports. gunfire. on their own now, but still fighting the taliban. afghan security forces are in action this week without the us military support they've relied on, for the past 20 years. the strategic bagram air base just north of kabul is an afghan government hands now. the americans pulled out last week, leaving behind a deeply unstable country. the former president, hamid karzai, blames the west. the entire mission with regard to the stated objective of the united states and its nato allies in defeating terrorism and extremism has failed. the military compartment that was intended to fight extremism and terrorism, that, rather than doing the job correctly and where it was needed, began to hurt and harass and bomb and imprison afghans. that's where it failed. and that's where our failure today is. 0thers blame endemic corruption, inefficiency and massive waste. the conflict has costed an estimated $1 trillion and

its national security advisor says hundreds of security personnel who fled into tajikistan will be brought back to rejoined the fight. this is the pentagon says the withdrawal of us forces is 90 percent complete. the taliban have taken control of another 36 districts or 10 percent of the country in just the past 6 days. this was the picture on monday and more areas have been captured in the past day. the taliban have doubled the number of districts they control since may. the 1st, when us and nato forces started their final withdraw. but in the last 24 hours, the african air force says it's killed. $261.00 taliban fighters, an injured hundreds more. under chappelle report. on the ground taliban fighters have been taking one district after another. they now control canister the northern border, which has he could stand the african governments as a counter offensive is on the way and will include soldiers who fled from the border this week. at the way mother may have one son. even the african people expected that after the withdrawal of american forces in other countries, there would be no e

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and now has control of about 2 thirds of the border with tajikistan. a russian military basin tajikistan is equipped with everything necessary to help the republic in control in the border situation. if needed, additional measures will be undertaken in the spirit of the russian public alliance . to prevent aggression or territorial provocation, factory fire has killed more than 50 people in bangladesh had feared many more still trapped inside the building outside the capitol. darker doesn't suffered injuries, trying to escape from upper floors police in haiti go for foreign less. mary's was behind the fascination of president juvenile marie of detained to haitian americans in more than 20 colombians columbia government. so some may have been former members of the military. the french president has reassured leaders of africa, whole nations that france is committed to the struggle against armed groups. and many of my call who said the leaders of the g 5 countries after announcing france would withdraw 5000 soldiers destroyed to the region. south africa

and tajikistan is equipped with everything necessary to help the public in controlling the border situation. if needed, additional measures will be undertaken in the spirit of the russian public alliance to prevent aggression or territorial provocation. of 5 per fire have killed more than 50 people in bangladesh. if they had many more still trapped inside the building and an industrial town, some 25 kilometers east of the capital, darker several people were injured when they jumped from the 2nd and 3rd floor to escape the place. south africa high court has dismissed an application by former president jacob boomer to suspend his prison sentence. soon began serving a 15 month turn to contempt of court on thursday. sounds suit owns president has promised not to return his country to war. during a ceremony mocking a decade since independence. the well youngest country has struggled with conflict and famine since it's quit from saddam un security council has discussed the controversial make a damn that ethiopia is building on the nile. egypt into don. have raised economic and security concerns a

they mentioned kazakhstan, tajikistan, uzbekistan. the fact that the person leading this effort at the state department is a former chief of mission in tajikistan suggests that may in fact be the plan maybe. a pentagon spokesman said today at the press conference that the u.s. is also looking at -- that the u.s. is looking at using locations abroad. but when asked for clarification later, by a reporter who asked specifically whether the u.s. is considering any locations within the continental united states to bring the translators, the pentagon spokesman kirby said this. >> the possibility of u.s. military installations being used, is that being considered? >> i would say we're looking at all options, bob. all options are being considered. and that would include the potential for short-term use of bonus base installations. but no final decision is made right now. >> all options are being considered, bob. so they may be headed to another country. they may be headed to military installations in the continental united states. some combin

over a thousand afghan soldiers have been forced to flee across the border into tajikistan.udents have been seized for ransom since december. nine have been killed and more than 200 are still missing. england's covid lockdown will end in two weeks' time despite scientists urging caution as the number of cases is still rising. the british prime minister says it's possible because 86 per cent of adults have been vaccinated. now on bbc news, the media show.

generally without fighting in some cases as you mentioned fleeing across the border, going into tajikistanthe afghan government is trying to negotiate their safety return or some sort of terms which they can stay in tajikistan. since the afghan army which was also trained by the u.s. military is falling to pieces, is crumbling, is handing over its weapons to the taliban, and this is only a cycle that reinforces itself, because the more afghan posts that collapse, the more weapons the taliban seize, the more the taliban are able to use those incidents for propaganda, then the more posts collapse and it snowballs. so stepping into this breach are the afghan commandos and they are carrying out about 90% of the offensive operations, and we went out with them last night and we saw a mission, it was a very targeted operation, it was very professional, and they were able to kill six taliban fighters. they were hoping to get more, but it was the kind of raid you would expect to see special forces doing. the tip of the spear. but the rest of the spear is broken, so it is now the tip of the spear, t

it's national security adviser says hundreds of security personnel who fled into tajikistan will be brought back to rejoined the fight. around 10 percent of the country is foreign, and just the past 6 days. this is the pentagon says the withdrawal of us forces is 90 percent complete ownership. our reports on the ground taliban fighters have been taking one district after another. they now control afghanistan's northern border with tense. she could stand the african governments as a counter offensive is on the way and will include soldiers who fled from the border this week. at the way mother may have one son eat with the african people expected that after the withdrawal of american forces in other countries, there would be no excuse for the tele bond to continue the war. and they should cease and resolve their problem through negotiations in peace. but unfortunately, you see that instead they started an undeclared war and intensified it in the skies . the african air force is hitting back carrying out air strikes until a bond gatherings. it may not have the latest equipment, but the afghan

districts and from there we've heard of defections of afghan soldiers, crossing over the border into tajikistantry to escape. while it seems as if thealiban are rapidly advancing, there is more complex truth behind the numbers. some districts they are taking over are not very populated or not very important, but it still allows them to say that they have taken control of one more district. there are some areas that the afghan government is not pushing very hard on, to focuon other areas that are more strategically important,ut it is also true that we are hearing there are --hat they are overrunning and taking control. anchor: we report on the taliban's advances and the talks with the government, but help us understand what the taliban wants when it is sitting down to negotiate, what does it want from the afghan government? reporter: it's not being very clear, especially on the main points at the afghan government is raising, that they want the taliban to allow elections to take placen the country. all of the leaders have repeatedly said as far as the peace talks between them, they wanted defini

confirmed dead and 121 people are still missing. hundreds of afghan troops of fled into neighboring tajikistan as the taliban continues to 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

my hundreds of afghan trips have gone into neighboring tajikistan fleeing telephone advances in the north. they crossed over from us kind of stand back, sean province, where local officials say soldiers and police were numbers one of the taliban. 11 days after an apartment building and florida partially collapsed, what was left of the structure have now been demolished. the plans to destroy what remained of the search site apartments near miami were brought forwards. just the region, braces for tropical storm elsa, which is expected to reach the florida coast on tuesday. authority say the demolition will help search and recovery efforts. the number of people missing are unaccounted for after a landslide in japan has risen to more than ac rescue crews. they tell me or taking advantage of a break in the rain 2 days after the disaster, japanese prime minister says the focus is still on finding people alive. 15 hundreds, emergency workers and soldiers are on the sites and both processes recovering from scheduled call on surgery. the vatican says he's alerts. i'm breathing without assistance.

more than 1000 afghan soldiers fled across the border into neighboring tajikistan, the biggest desertionn a single day. a taliban terror group had been making significant advances since international troops started pulling out last month. a maritime rescue charity says it witnessed libyan coast guard setting fire to boats used by migrant trying to cross the mediterranean to reach europe. charity sos mediterranee says the coast guard burned the boats after intercepting them last weekend. tonight more than 100 children have gone missing aft man attack a school in northwest nigeria. police say that gunmen shot wildly and overpowered security guards at a baptist high school. the missing children are thought to have been kidnapped. 1000 students have been abducted in nigeria since december. for more on this story, let's go to our west africa correspondent, fred janssens from lagos. what more do we know about this latest kidnapping? fred: this latest kidnapping, as you mentioned, they kidnapped more than 140 students at a protestant school, and they overpowered the police -- the police say the

and now has control of about 2 thirds of the border with tucker, a russian military basin. tajikistan is equipped with everything necessary to help the republic in control in the border situation. if needed, additional measures will be undertaken in the spirit of the russian public alliance . to prevent aggression or territorial provocation apply through fire has killed more than 50 people in bangladesh with fear and many more still trapped inside the building doesn't suffered injuries, trying to escape from upper floors protest have taken place, demanding justice for the victim. the un security council has approved a deliveries from turkey into syria for another year. russia had threatened to block the operation, but a compromise has not been reached. is really forces have injured more than 120 palestinians protesting against illegal settlements. they were rallying near the village of bass l. soldier as far as live gunfire, rubbing, rubber coated steel, bullets unsung grenades, released in hasty, se group of 4 and mercenaries is behind the assassination of president of anomalies . th

its national security adviser says, hundreds of security personnel who fled into tajikistan will be brought back to rejoin the fight. taliban have taken control of another 36 districts or 10 percent of the country in just the past 6 days. well, this is the pentagon said the withdrew of us forces is 90 percent complete your military and agencies. a warning arise in school kidnappings. in northwestern nigeria is disrupting 100. hundreds of thousands of children's education around a 1000 students have been abducted since december. the latest attack took place on monday at a boarding school, with nearly a $150.00 students still missing. indonesia government says it's bracing for another surgeon current of ours cases. one, it's hospitals, a crumbling under the weight of infections. emergency oxygen supplies are being flown in from singapore to treat patients. in a way the government expects could reach at least 50000 new cases. a day. ospital is in sewer by having to turn away. patients under conscious health care system is at 90 percent capacity, indonesian airlines. as you're spending all flig

the ton upon controls 2 thirds of the border with tajikistan on and recently captured the crossing to iran, meaning of the on many escape routes left. an especially dangerous prospect for those who worked with foreign armies favoring for their lives than now cooling on washington to get them out of the monday, gave us a recommendation. the save, not only my life, my family, and i did all up with really when we don't have an issue we have on now we want to take, i need to sit on the did you call yourself humanitarian? what kind of humanitarian saw you left me here after i was 10 years for russia's also worried that the fighting will spill over into its territory. so it's arched restraint promised cuz tom, back up on the board and maintains dialogue with the taliban. and the country that created this whole mess just up and left. oh, i the i up to left in the dead of night without what apparently the washington claims that local officials knew that withdrawal was imminent. the very next day looters was seen plundering background based, funny american souvenirs left behind. with this hast

over a thousand afghan soldiers have been forced to flee across the border into tajikistan.land's covid lockdown will end in two weeks�* time despite scientists urging caution as the number of cases is still rising. the british prime minister says it's possible because 86% of adults have been vaccinated. from the 19th ofjuly, face masks will be voluntary and social distancing scrapped. a cybercrime gang thought to be behind a huge global ransomware attack, is demanding $70 million in cryptocurrency. the russia—linked revil group says it will unlock all the computer systems it's blocking in exchange for the payment. now it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. in our culture of 24/7 news and trending social media reactions, it sometimes takes a novelist�*s eye to chart the deeper currents swirling beneath society's surface. my guest today relishes entering choppy waters and swimming against the cultural tide. lionel shriver is a british—based american writer whose fiction has addressed school shootings, obesity, economic crisis and, in her latest book,

the united states is army and training and funding the military dictatorships, in cosmic standard tajikistan and turkmenistan and was becca, stan is claiming to have a responsibility to spread democracy and human rights and women's rights in afghanistan. wow, army and funding and training. the military's of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, some bahrain in egypt, and uganda, and on and on. so it's absolute hypocrisy. and of course, things are going to get worse in afghanistan. that's been the case for 20 years, but it was going to be even worse, the longer it took for the united states to get out. and now of course, it's not getting outage, it's going to exclusively air war. and it also needs the cooperation, doesn't it? of russia as well in trying to sort of calm tensions in that part of the world. how do you think russia and also china for that matter, will respond to the rhetoric that's being used again. labeling them is the, you know, the major threat that exists to the united states. i think they ought to denounce it and not imitate it. they ought to insist that the united stat

the other 2 led into tajikistan. under rebecca, stung the more us troops which had been in the country for 20 years now packing the bags. joe biden has defended, sending them home while leaving the country to face what he himself is called, the strongest taliban for 20 years. the us president says the simply nothing more for washington to do not mission accomplish, commission was accomplished in that we get to scott some in widen, and terrorism is not emanating from that part a little. we achieved those objectives. that's why we, when we did not go to afghanistan to nation bill, and it's the right and the responsibility of afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country. well, here's what i've canister looks like now in terms of who controls what talib on areas are in read to. they cover an estimated half of the country, though the group itself claims to be in control of 85 percent areas in yellow are contested regions with the focus of green showing where the government hold sway wi

in the past week, the group was also taken crossings that lead into both tajikistan and was becca stones. meanwhile, us troopers, which have been in the country for 20 years, are packing their bags. joe biden has defended sending them home while leaving the country to face. well, he's called the strongest taliban in 2 decades. the u. s. president says there's simply nothing more for washington to do. now, mission accomplish permission was accomplished in that we get scott some and widen, and terrorism is not emanating from that part of the we achieved those objectives. that's why we, when we did not go to afghanistan to nation bill, and it's the right and the responsibility of afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country. so have a look at this. here's what i've got on looks like right now in terms of who controls what taliban areas in red cover. roughly half of the country that the group itself claims to be in control of 85 percent areas in yellow are contested with a pockets of green showing whether government still holds from sway. with the u. s .

some of them are taking refuge in neighboring countries in tajikistan, in other places, we are not in the situation to ignore the reality, which is a hard reality. but the me and the moment of our ending of all mission and i've got the sun would have come eat at the perfect moment for that. no, it isn't. it is a great solution. no, it isn't. it is one of the options that we have on our hand to continue to help i'm going on. yes, it is. that's, and i'm, i'm encouraged of the fact that also are the international plays, not only nato, not only the u. s nothing of the okay, not only in germany, really what turkey, the gun is on the coverage international dialogue on that. it's not a great tribute when the best that joe biden can say about your mission is that it hasn't failed yet. you think, withdrawing all the troops and leaving the country to be overrun by the taliban enhances your partnership with that kind of stuff. i'm not sure how you work that out. we need to continue to support the ongoing afghan lead piece process. you say what process is that? you know perfectly well that i have

envision of suffering of our people, to see the countries which we helped to achieve. peace like tajikistan upon the sun was instrumental and to in achieving that settlement between, between 2 sites in project or start and to see them develop, developed and to see the opportunities which are that for the people of afghanistan and for the region. and we cannot utilize it because of the continuation of the what it is disappointed. one day more as one missed one more missed opportunity. but it takes what sites it cannot happen with the goodwill in intention of one site. that's what i was going to come towards because it takes 2 parties to reach. so you say that you've presented the options military military solution is not viable, it will not be in peace. but the situation on the ground is the developer not making advances. they've taken no more than $200.00 out of the $400.00 districts and have gotten this done. their surrounding population centers and provincial capitals. and they seem to have not moved from the demands whether it was the release of prisoners, whether it was the listing from

and the key northern province at the porta, with the tajikistan just felt that while just last week, the group's fighters entered afghanistan. second big city can to haul around here. a pentagon spokes pass inside the u. s. is watching these developments with concern as american troops continue by rapid withdrawal from the country. while the escalating situation is dragging the nation farther into a humanitarian crisis with cobble calling upon european countries to hope deputations of ass counting migrants for the next 3 months. thousands of off counties have been forced to abandon their homes as the taliban continued their fences. all i'll village was rounded by the telephone. there is nothing we can do to tell them captured our homes. we have been displaced. we have faith in such on just a moment. my children live by the road. what should we do? as a mom? several years in a government should help us. our children are hungry and thirsty. our homes are under the control of the taliban and we cannot go there. i lost my cow in a calf, my home and all my good. then what i am suffering y