and the taliban is under way the u, as in boy has met with diplomats from china, pakistan and russia, and other meetings involving diplomats from the u. s. a. u. india. and kata are also taking place. pauls have opened in zambia as presidential and parliamentary elections. president edgar long who is expected to face a strong challenge from his opposition rival was up against him for the 3rd time. soaring unemployment and corruption are among voters biggest concerns. i room tulsa has the light. it's from appalling station in lusaka, usually with elections when pulling stations open, you see lions getting shorter and shorter and shorter, but this one seemed difference. this falling say the other pulling physically seen in lieu soccer. people still keep dreaming. in most people who register to vote in the selection are young people, people under the age of about those before and more than 7000000 people have rated to vote in the election. the last election you looking at about 4000000 people. so they seem to be from more kinds of interest in the killer poll written results or maybe friday afternoon, maybe friday evening. but either those are the only

u. s. m. boy has met with diplomats from china, pakistan and russia, and other meetings involving diplomat from the u. s. a. u. india and guitar are also taking place. we'll go to mohammed, jump jim shortly, who's covering diplomatic talks here in the hop, but 1st, let's cross live to charlotte fellows in cobble. hello there. charlotte, thanks for joining us. it's almost getting to a point now where we should talk about what areas the taliban hasn't captured. what's the latest way? you yes, every day it seems we wake up and there's another provincial capital that has fallen to them. we understand that the governor of gods and he actually did a deal with the taliban for him at least to receive safe passage and to get out of there. and then very soon after we got confirmation that the fishing had fallen to the telephone. there has been video circulating so by the taliban showing the gulf gaping safe passage moving out of gas ne, towards cargo. he was filmed at the telephone chick point. he even had a taliban, if schools helping him move through these type of telephone areas. and just in the last few minutes i've got c

u. s. a. u . india and guitar are also taking place. will go to my home a jumped him shortly who's covering those people in. medic talks here in dough. but 1st, let's cross live to charlotte bell as in cobble. hello, the charlotte. tell us about the significance of the light is prevention capital being taken by the taliban? he said 10 provincial capitals and just 7 days. but to put that into context for year. the last time they managed to get a provincial capital was 5 years ago, and they're only held that briefly. so it really shows you how quickly they are moving to get pain in just a week. that governing is especially significant. it is the 2nd biggest city they have managed to catch this week. behind condos. like you said, gateway to the south. you had to drive through the a to keep going to southern afghanistan. and now they've managed to cut that off. the governor. we understand he may have done a deal with the taliban. there was videos of him going through. got me into the neighboring province of war, death, onto his way to cobble

a u. s. outreach to asia. now in a news conference on monday in singapore, vice president harris talked about the u. s. his commitment to a free and open india pacific region, and particularly to maintaining freedom of navigation in the south china sea. this is a body of water which is important, not only because it's a trade route, but because it's resource rich and china has laid claims to large parts of it. there are also several countries in the region that have competing claims over the south china sea. and it's increasingly turning into a security flashpoint, partly because china has grown more certain in its claims. and partly because china views the freedom of navigation operations conducted by the u. s. navy, in the south china sea as provocative. now come a la harris, his visit is intended to signify 2 countries in the region that the u. s. is committed to keeping a rule based international order and in keeping the south china sea open. now part of the u. s. policy will be about strengthening ties with countries in the region, so the u. s. can be seen as a counterweight to china's growing influence. now, how is china viewing this v

u. s. u india and as far are also taking place. more on the talks in a moment. first less spring in charlotte, bella will give us an update from cobble on the situation on the ground and the taliban gains. got to me as you said, the 10th provincial capital in just the last 7 days to put that into context for you. they hadn't been able to secure a provincial capital in 5 years. and now they've managed to get $10.00 and $7.00 days. so that shows you the amount of momentum that they have not gotten me is especially significant. it is the 2nd largest city that managed to grab this week and it's the gateway to the south. if you're going to leave car, will you drive about 3 hours hitting south and you gotta go through gus needs. and now they've managed to get that, that you can't really get south from cobble without going through there. and it's under telephone control. they managed to do the same by taking the province of glenn a few days ago and cut off the nor so ca, becoming increasingly isolated people here becoming increasingly worried about what that means as,

a 3rd day of talks in cut out involving the taliban and representatives from afghanistan government. the u. s. envoy has met diplomats from china, pakistan and russia. other meetings with diplomats from the u. s. u india and also taking place us get more on the talks now with my jim jim who is life for us in the hallway. those talks are taking place. so mm hm. a day, 3 of 3. any progress made so far has and there been no official statements that have been made thus far today with regard to all the delicate diplomacy that has been going on. it is unclear what exactly is being discussed. these are closed sessions that are happening just behind my left shoulder down that hallway. that is where the meeting is currently going on between the delegation of the taliban and the various special envoys that have assembled here, including us special envoy for afghanistan, all my lives at and the pottery, special envoy, doctor butler and bonnie. now, what we do know thus far today is that just a few hours ago, there was a meeting between the african government delegation and the envoys that are here. that meeting lasted about an hour and a half, as it was expected to the meeting. that has been going on between the