u. u s u n. and katha know many of those diplomats in addition to getting the talk started, think that the best atmosphere for the talks is to have a cease for the taliban reluctant to have a c spot. at this stage, they say the proposals that the afghan government have put on the table so far are unacceptable. they won't not want reconciliation, but they won't start entering. they won't come come n harbor c spied and we will continue our government as it is. so that's the also not realistic approach not to pragmatic approach. it is necessity that all avalon should have are, should eagerly upon i knew god meant and that was meant what replace the new this couple administration. and that's what it meant will be acceptable for us. and to add that up months, another taliban spokesman later clarified those comments, making it clear that the taliban is not demanding the president should have gone. he is removed or stands down before a ceasefire. that's not one of the conditions that demanding before a cease for al jazeera understands what the taliban want. in order to have a cease for, for them to a greek, to a c swap would be for all the prisoners being held by the african government to be released and that will be difficult. moved by president gun, he got a lot of christmas last time. he released prisoners and also for all of those taliban members that are listed by the un under the sanctions committee to be de listed your secretary state anthony blanket and is that iraq's foreign minister in washington dc topping the agenda. the potential withdrawal of combat troops by the end of the year. this may allow the us military to take on an advisory role, including training and arming iraqi forces to fight iso friday's meeting is to lay the groundwork for president jo biden's in person meeting with iraqi prime minister and stuff. roe call me on monday or from patty co haines state department, iraq foreign minister came here to the state department to meet with the us secretary of state. and they spoke to the media, but they didn't really make any news that's expected to happen on monday when her ex prime minister heads to the white house to meet with us president joe biden. they're expected to announce that they will take all us comment troops out of iraq by the end of this year. but the foreign ministers been telling the press that he still needed the us military to do intelligence and surveillance. do training to fly for air power. air power is in fact combat. and that's pretty much what us troops are doing in iraq right now. and sources in the putting on or say they don't expect that the numbers going to change very much right now. they have 2500 troops in you in iraq, but they're not only supporting the mission in iraq. they're also supporting the $900.00 or so troops, us troops that are in syria. so we are respect that mission is going to change very much. this is being seen widely as a political move to try and help the racks prime minister in the run up to the next election. we'll check whether next to and then hospitals 11 and on the britain kit running out of fuel within hours, putting the lives of patients at risk. we'll find out how 3 d printing revolution and luck, risk all revolutionizing pills and how they work and the human body. ah hello, nice to see you. there's no change across the weather in the middle east. we're still dealing with some high heat, particularly around the gulf kuwait's 49 degrees. we've got a slight shamal wind here, so we're seeing a northwest wind gusts about 4050 kilometers per hour. we do have some rain moving across much of yemen, and our southwest monsoon is giving us some rain as we would expect to see in sola, for example, on saturday. next, i want to take you to turkey, where the black sea region has just been hammered with some heavy rain. we've also seen as a result of this land slides at home, going down right there. and unfortunately, it's looking like much of this heavy rain will continue on saturday, toward that southeast corner of the black sea. next, we're going to go to africa and check on the tropic street here, and we've got storms coming and going. but what's a bit unusual is the storms are lifting further to the north and falling across the sou hale region. so we do have some rain in the forecast for juba on saturday with a high of 32 degrees. further to the south. we had some soaking rains for the eastern cape port. elizabeth picked up 50 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. but look at this on saturdays, things start to dry out and we've got some sunshine with the temperature of 21 degrees. the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. or small, continue change all around the shape, my technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business. ah the me. without the where these are the top stories. after a year delay the tokyo 2020 summer lympics of officially opened with a low key ceremony and nearly empty stadium. japanese tennessee soccer was given the honor of life, indian, and big coltrane. the president of the games said she hoped they will offer to piece for being a funeral of have the fascinated president joke normally used to taking place in his home town of compassion. he was shot dead at his residence in the capital more than 2 weeks ago. and a member of the taliban think shedding team said there'll be no lasting teeth. and i've got this done until a new government is installed and cobbled at all sides. the cree on. so hail shaheen says the taliban doesn't want to monopolize power in a while . lebanon's hospitals are running out of fuel. the economic crisis is led to pound cups that can last up to 20 hours a day, and that is putting lives at risk. as the pandemic righteous on st reports from beggars. these generators are a lifeline for hospitals in a country where state electricity cuts last most of the day, but they're running low on diesel fuel. lebanon is an economic and political turmoil, and the state is nearly bankrupt. doctors warned the health sector is close to collapse with all the what's going on with the shortages, whether in human resources, whether in medications, whether in supplies, and on top of that now fuel electricity and more of a case is coming in. i'm believable that the hospitals are still able to it's not just hospitals bakeries to say if they don't receive diesel fuel in a few days, they will have to close the state electricity company has all but stopped providing power. already the sector was crumbling from years of neglect, but in recent weeks rationing has been severe. we rely on tandal. there is no electricity and i can't afford to pay private generator. many no longer can afford basic food since the local currency crashed. prices have increased by 50 percent this month alone. the price is very controlled by many factors, including the exchange rates or the dollar depending on the black market prices for fuel and for diesel. you know, we have market, we have to have electricity, 247. the black market has taken advantage of states subsidies on basic goods including medicine, many of which has been missing for months. many blame this for the crisis on the 11 . something. when we started, i think they would be out of market. it was one of the number one and even if they were the company, but they would be the source on the market. merchants have been blamed for hoarding supported goods or smuggling them to neighboring syria or other countries. mama lacy is element, we can't find any med since there's no electricity. food is so expensive. every aspect of life has been affected by the unprecedented economic and financial meltdown. water supply is likely to be affected by the collapse of the power grids . the united nations says water pumping could gradually seize within 4 to 6 weeks. the country is falling apart, its blamed on decades of corruption and mismanagement by a political class still in power. the solution, many se requires a government ready to fight just that, that their elders either beirut. few of the covert headlines in tunisia, reporting more than $1500.00 deaths in 24 hours, which is a new record. and also registering just under $50000.00 infections. the countries become the epi center of a surgeon, cases in se, asia field, by the highly contagious delta there and rapidly rising cases of lead to a declaration of emergency in the strait in state of new south wales, half of the country's population has now been put into lockdown as the outbreak spills over into other states. state home orders in sydney are likely to be extended beyond the current and date of july 30. a neighboring new zealand has suspended corn jean for travel with all of us ready for 2 months. the so called travel bubble was already paused for 3 states, new southwell, victoria, and south australia is the prime minister. just send her order and his warning of an increased risk to travel us now clean up operations surrounding the central chinese city of young joe, which was hit this week by the worst flooding. the region is seen in recent history . of the cities in the region are under red, alert as rescue teams search for survivors. katrina, you reports from juncture the rain and john joe may have east, but flood waters are still submerging major highways. just one reminder of the devastating storm which struck central china earlier this week. teams are working hard to pump and clear water line areas. the city is more than 7000000 residents are struggling to resume normal life. many neighborhoods like access to running water authorities have set up temporary out the water stations. the gen says he's grateful he was safe at home. when to rental rain lashed, the city would have got history, whether it's safer to stay indoors, that's the lesson i learned. then just things happen unexpectedly, people need to be more cautious. this kind of tragedy could helping avoid a lot of people are still coming to terms with the loss of life and loss of livelihood caused by what authorities have described as the worst. on 4000 years, many businesses remain closed. internet and phone connection is unstable. john, jose famous clock tower is frozen at 5 pm. the time electricity was cut off during the height of the storm on tuesday, getting around. the city is still very difficult. be entire subway system remain closed with tunnels full of water. taking us away during the storm was extremely dangerous. hundreds of people were trapped encourages as flash, floods quickly filled the underground system. in keeping with chinese tradition offerings had been burned at the entrance to the station to honor the 12 people who died under ground commute as a sharing harrowing details of their experiences. waiting for rescue team to arrive many beliefs they would not devise. in rural areas. some were rescued after 3 days of being stranded. the army has been sent to reinforce vulnerable dance and reservoirs meteorologist say the worst weather has passed. and many here are waiting patiently for government disaster relief for the flood waters to recede and for the sun. finally, retired, retreat you all to 0. jo. monsoon reins of triggered land slides in west in india, killing at least 44 people flooding left thousands of people stranded with parts of marashi state badly hit the down ports of east. but rescue teams have been struggling to reach areas cut off by the flood forces from new delhi, elizabeth her on reports on the rescue operations in the areas hit by lance lights . officials are hopeful because after the at least 35 deaths from 3 landslides, i'm not sure that's what my daughter was phase lead of. the chief minister of talk today has said and around 30 people are missing. he also said that the national disaster response force has been having a lot of difficulty reaching some of the worst effected areas because of the damage to rows and to bridges. but because the flood waters are now starting to receive and that heavy rain has slowed down somewhat, they hopeful that everyone involved in the rescue efforts, national disaster response for that also the army, the navy, the coast guard on going to be able to get to the people who remain stranded more than a 1000 people have been rescued in different parts of my austria. many of them have been from rooftop from the top on top of buses on highways shipping, the coast and town of chaplain, which is home to about 70000 people. that is where the rescue efforts focused on now, half of it is flooded and that's in the district of magazine which see the heaviest rainfall in july in 40 years now elsewhere in mud, austria, and the financial capital min. by in fact, another 2 people have died an 8th injured off, the house collapsed off the heavy rains and over the last week and seen 30 people die in and around by because of the heavy rain. that's the situation in austria, but we're also seeing heavy flooding in a couple of other different states in the country. most notably in the southern states of felon gonna, we're hearing meteorologist is saying that the 30 centimeters of range is called an impact on garden capital. high above that, that's the highest rainfall in july and hydro bob in 10 years that the flood gates of the main reservoir swan saga have had to be have had to be released for the 1st time. again in a decade. now the sort of damage was seeing the destruction due to flooding due to land flies. it is common during the season when the flood really affects the foundations of structures which are often poorly built. but we're also hearing from scientists that the frequency and the intensity of the monsoon of heavy rains is increasing because of climate change. and advise that a former us president donald trump is due to appear in court for a bail hearing. thomas barrack is charged with working as a foreign agent on behalf of the united arab emirates, prosecutors that he failed to register as a lobbyist and tried to influence u. s. foreign policy to benefit the u. s. e. he is also accused of lying to the f. b i international body of seeing the pe steel that ended the bosnian conflict in the 1900 ninety's has now banned the denial of genocide. both me and serv. officials have refused to accept the massacre of more than 8000 bosnia and revenue was in fact, genocide. now, genocide denies will face up to 5 years in prison. the new law also forbids the glorification of war crimes. criminals even talked to ms. savage has more from sarajevo. in the recent years we've been witnessing a campaign of open and blatant genocide, denial both by the buzzing sales but also republic of serbia. that's find the bugs in public. there was a push towards international community and it's office of high representative to bring into power a law in criminal genocide, denial, which is basically what happened today. now there are 2 factors, probably that played an important role in this happening. first of all, there is in the recent y