President general Center Rally behind his call to policy electronic Voting System. Me ask Gandalf Montez rushing and reinforcement since the military struggles to stop a rapid advance of the taliban. The group has targeting several provincial capitals. Taliban forces have already seen large tracts of rural territory and key bordeR Crossings. Of the announcement of foreign troops withdrawing. Afghanistan by september. One major focus of the taliban offensive is kandahar, and ask honest on the 2nd largest se. Ive been a series of rocket attacks on the main airport. Fly in and out west suspended. 5 people were killed in a mortar attack. And hundreds of government forces have been deployed and harassed. The economically important city in the west. ThE United Nations Compound was attacked on friday, and at least one Security Guard was killed by using residential houses and by wearing normal clothes, they crossed the frontline to enter areas. And when faced with resistance, they leave. The taliban are not a great power. Theyre just fighting in a scattered way. They make people worry and lower their spirit. Theyre sick of discretion is War Inheritance and everything has become more expensive. People are 50 war yet. And the Security Situation is franchise in last can gaul at the capital of Helmand Province the taliban . The inside part of the City Mercury is planning to launch a counter offensive. Hospitals have been targeted in the fighting out the mask as to james bass at joined us now live from campbell said james took us through what will we know to be happening and these 3 fighting hotspots . Yes. Well let me start with kandahar and the report. So over night, the fighting has continued fighting down by the Border Area between ive got a son park, hes done in spin bolduc, thats a place thats been control for some time now. By the taliban fresh crashes that would seem the government still trying to remove the taliban from that areas for fresh fighting that most worrying. I think for the african government, those the fighting continues within the walls of Canada City in a number of areas in kandahaR City, wE Understand that theyve been as strikes that by the african force overnight. Now the african military, we didnt have a response from the taliban saying that 35 taliban were killed over night. The other very worrying figure we have, which comes to doctors. It may weiss hospital is that 18 people were injured overnight, including women and children. 3 dead said the civilian casualties continue to mount canada field. The government saying that Theyve Made Repairs to the runway. The flights can resume, but we checked with airlines for now there are no flights going from cobble of the capital to the 2nd city of afghanistan. And Laska Golf Fighting continues right in the heart of the city in the capital of a Helmand Province. Again, the taliban are there and there are houses in the center that presents a big problem for the african forces because they do not want to have civilian casualties. Have been pressure strikes overnight in parts of laska, but trying to get rid of the taliban from those houses in the center is going to be a very majoR Challenge for the special forces and commandos, becausE Urban wolf, somewhere like last guy is the most difficult source of fighting with any military can conduct someone we havent looked at recently for some time. The east of africa got a storm 9. Get ha, province the province at july about as provincial capital in action. WE Understand its been a taliban attack on the government that talking about, claiming that they killed 10 soldiers and police. And finally, to the west herat, the 3rd city of afghanistan, perhaps a little comma there. But still some fighting on going around the city and an attack on the Airport Road between herat city and the port overnight to tell about Attack Briefly that that is a road that sometime a few days ago we talked about actually held that and elsewhere in the Province Shouldnt done base, which was that important base for the americans, a nato that been attacks there over night. So a busy night worrying and i think for the ive gotten they still are facing attacks in multiple places across the country. Not clearly. And we are expected to expect to be hearing from the president sharp gone in later. Todays going to be addressing parliament at some point once he like you to be thing. Well, i think thats the big question. All were going to hear. I struck connie basically ignoring whats going on and same business as usual, which has been the sort of tone from the government that try not to worry people, but certainly the public hearing this news. And a lot of what happens from now in africa, assault is not just based on the military facts on the ground. Its pay based on perception because many of the places, particularly north africa, stuff where the taliban took control in recent weeks. It was actually the african military laying down the roms and surrendering. And so you need, i think if youre going to fight the taliban and you are, i should have gone to find a way to boost the morale of your people. I should have got, he has announced that hes going to boost the salaries for the security forces. Its not clear whether were going to get some sort of new strategy from the african president announced. I know there are many in the international community who wants him to firmly comE Up with a new strategy and announce a new strategy. But for now, theyre waiting times based reporting that from cobble thanks very much. James. International olympic committee says a barish and lim pin, who has she was taken to take his hand to port against will is safe in the hands of japanese authorities sprinter, christina, to move the sky alleged her olympic team tried to remove her from japan. Of she criticize heR Coaches, she was due to compete, says a and the full by 400 read a event that she hadnt trained for. She says she was ordered to pack her bags on sunday after she publicly complained. Mister, im asking the international olympic committee for help. Theres pressure against me and theyre trying to get me out of the country without my permission. So im asking the i o. C to get involved in this. A full battery should limping swimmer and opposition activists. His voice to support for hes been the guy, im scottish, that w b. I would say this is a blatant injustice and im President And Violation of human rights and through. They tried to take an athlete out of the olympic village and bought them from the country just because of their opinion and position, correspondent and directions and hyphenated from take care. Right now, Semen Oscar should have been competing in the 200 meters, at least took care games. Instead, we have whole, shes at a hotel near the airports here in tokyo, olympic officials saying guys, i spoke to her last night saying that you speak to her again this morning and they showed her, she does feel safe and secure what a pace to have happened. Is that a, a group of other, other risk athletes were leaving the Athletes Phil H last night had competed here in tokyo and she was amongst grave. And the 1st of the, she became aware that she was leaning against a will. I was when she arrived at the airport and immediately went out to seek out help from child care police, lets say now for a minute the rti spokesmen marketers spoke to the mattress athlete. Christina simon simon, new sky directly last night. She was with the apple store, it is the airport and was time accompanied by a Staff Member of tokyo 2020. She assured us and has assured us that she feels safe and secure. She spend the night at an Airport Hotel in a safe and secure environment. The i see in tokyo 2020. We continue the conversations with her. And the japanese Will Thought is to determine the next step. In thE Upcoming days, she was upset and had criticize officials within the team because she was also been asked to take part in the 4 by 4 and youre me to re line. She said, thats an event she hadnt practiced for train for us because of the competence of officials back in valerie, she failed to put other athletes through the required anti doping tests prior to the games. That for those athletes hadnt been able to compete moment the limits what the R C can do. But there is somebody from to care 20 with them all with her. Also representative from thE Un Refugee Agency and in constant contact with her. But the main point is shes not less okay. I just in this country, it is not on her way back to the others. And a lawmaker from a japanese centre left party is urging fellow politicians to be sympathetic to heR Case. A very muscle thought planned to contact the foreign ministry, national Police Agency and immigration department that they can confirm directly with mrs. Who many sky her wishes. Japan as part of the convention relating to the status of refugees. And im so i hope to call them to fairly adhere to the principle of non resume and my handling this case. The mexicans have voted in a referendum which if passed could lead to investigations of 5 former President S. I think corruption has been a promise of president under his manual. Nope. Has over to encourage his supporters to take part, but criticize election officials to, to few polling stations. More than 40 percent of registered voters must take part for the result to be binding to confirm the most important that the important thing is ending. Impunity in this country. Its been going on for far too long. There has to be justice. There has to be democracy. In this up. What about . We are in disagreement with President S. They leave and leavE Us with nothing. Another president comes in and they leave him with all the responsibility. Ahead of the election, officials that the process would itself be free from corruption, whispered pretty man, or is it gets incorporated on the puppet . OuR Consultation will be carried out within the technical specifications of quality, professionalism, and personality and legality. Its expected that the results would be obtained of a maximum of 24 hours after the close of receiving the ballot tabulations, and as an omen, as president , a latin american consultancy, a symmetric, as she says, the referendum as a way for present lopez overdue to distract from his own failings, where hes holding it because it invigorates his base and a mexicans are exhausted of corruption. Right. So what hes saying is hes trying to seek these corruption prosecutions. It goes his predecessors who are from a very well established political qualities. And he is for more than now which is a newer political party and its basically sort of a leftist ploy against the right. But actually its unnecessary because you can just prosecute people foR Corruption once they are out of the presidency. So the, hes holding it really to distract from his mishandling of the pandemic. And from the fact that the economic development has not been there, even despite his sort of changing major infrastructure projects like the airport and, and that he keep centralizing, power around sort of a certain lease. There are his lead and centralized power around the oil company. So he is not actually deliver what he said he would do, which is anti corruption and improvement in the living standards of the pool, an increase of delivery of services to the pool, and actually murder rate. Despite the pandemic is as high as it ever was under the drug cartels to the president to seeking the so called prosecutions against. Already their statute limitations have already run out. And in fact the, the wording is very vague. Its like, do you want reparations from victims by people who have, you know, from people who have roamed the people of mexico from before. And of course anybody would answer yes to that. But there is no Set Mechanism to very strange political ploy. I dont think that it will actually lead for any benefits for the mexican people. Fella had hair on the out of their leading cobra. 1900 vaccine make a fire or in mcdonough high cut, the price of the jobs to E U. Countries and holiday cruises to the historic canal the venice could soon be a thing of the pas. Ah ah hello, thanks for being with us. Its all about the blazing sunshine across the middle east stand high temperature. So rehab, weve got you in for 43, q 848, and here in doha high of 44 degrees. Plenty of sunshine to go around where it has not been sunny is for northern areas of pakistan in the hor, 60 millimeters of rain. This area has seen flash flooding, and same goes for as long as the body and you know what, on monday that rain is still falling in this region. Settled toward the south karachi, a height of 33 degrees were keeping tabs on that while the fire burning in antalya province. This is what crews arE Up against and you know, the weatheR Conditions i think will complicate matters here. For example, were going to walk our temperature into the fortys, so theres the city of antalya. The fire is burning, just east of there. And this is what the next 3 days looks like. Lock it in to 40 and then those winds will cost up to about 25 kilometers per hour. Its also got low humidity, which is also not helping but that firefight foR Central africa. Weve got storms bubbling up as we head toward gabon and cameroon. On monday, and if i take you towards south africa, weve got some scattered showers for Port Elizabeth into durban as wall with a high of 20 degrees. That sure weather update. Well see you later. The where total technology can help tackle the spread of coven 19. But our tech solutions, the best solutions we are starting to something that seems like its in public health, very quickly becomes about measuring what data is being collected. Whereas its being stored highly re, looks at the limits of the potential of otheR Creative ways to deal with the issues we face, track it when tech to go viral, episode 3 of all have locked down an algae 0. Ah, the me again, youre watching Al Jazeera, his reminder of our top story. This, our afghan forces are fighting St Battles against the taliban, and several kind of ports has been hit by rockets. The runway has been repaired, but there are still no Flight School situations. Also for john and laska gosh, and only reinforcements have been deployed in harass international olympic committee renovation. Olympian christina, when a guy is safe in the hands of japanese or thirties, she says her Pick Team tried to force her to leave. Japan obviously, publicly criticized heR Coaches and mexicans advised in a referendum which if pos could lead to investigation, to 5 former president s, more than 40 percent of registered voters must take part for the result to be binding the border, the brazil, present, jebel sinner. I took the streets across the country on sunday. It was a show of support for his proposal to replace the electronic Voting System with paper ballots. The next is election. When he got to get reports from red as narrow. The thousands of brazilians rallied in support of brazil, President Jadem Ball some out there backing his plane that brazil current electronic Voting System is not to be trusted. Dont feel that i believe Fall Scenario was elected president in the 1st round of the 2018 elections and not in the 2nd round. Like the official results say, low make isnt judge, just must respect the will of the people who want paper ballots, not just digital one, washington going also follow the president has offered no evidence of problems with the current system that has been used since 1996 but his supporters believe him, they want to Paper Print out of every digital ballad cast, and theyre putting pressure on congress and the supreme court to change the system. But 11 political party in many brazilians question both scenarios, intention. Getting who says the people want to change the x running, quoting once they pay the site to us, what the majority of brazilians wanted. It wasnt, this is just the Governments Way of distracting the people from what is really going on. Like the more than 500000 debt by covered 1900 recent polls shobel. So now to Faces Defeat by former president with the national ruler, the silver. If the contest next Years Election in both scenario has repeatedly said he will not step down. If he thinks there is fraud, had any idea this is happening after the opposition has stage 4 nationwide project calling. 7 for president , right, you are not as well. So not as popularity has waned in the face of increasing inflation, unemployment and poverty. Re, analysts believe he is following in the footsteps of former us president donald trump most and i was trying to do the same thing that trump has gone on in the election united states. He wants to have the elements necessary to claim that 2 axis were read and tried to validate them. Resilient still have to wait more than a year to cast their votes. But both on out of supporters and opponents already testing each other on the st. Monitor and give just 0. Rio de janeiro. 15 soldiers have been killed in an Ambush And Southwest knee jam. Defense officials say 6 soldiers and missing following the attack in the Territory Region near the border. The king has minute change, has ground forces this touching the area for the traces that suffers frequent attacks by islamic state and ill kind affiliated groups. The speaker of tunic is frozen parliament. Russia good news. She has been transferred to a military hospital. Ive been no details released as to why a 2 year old of head of the parliament largest party in order. He spent a week in house to last month off to Contracting Kind of 19. It comes a week after President Chi Fade froze, parliament and sees government power. Washington has vowed to make what it says will be an appropriate response to the attack on him is rainy, operated tank off the coast of amman, us and u. K. Have joined the israel in blaming iran for thursdays strike. To ron has denied any involvement to people were killed on the M V. Masses street. When it was hit by what appears to have been a drain strike. He was actually stay on the bank and said it for the passing of belligerents from iran. Me 2 of the biggest coded 19 vaccine manufacturers, pfizer and madana, reportedly increasing the prices of jobs for the E U market. The vodka has the details is perhaps an unwanted reminder of all the cash flows in the business dealings that underpin the global vaccine rollout. But it is a reminder, of course, that this is essentially a business that needs to be kept afloat and pharmaceutical companies all out to make a profit, whether its a large profit or small small profit. And of course, that raises a whole raft of different ethical questions as well. But according to the latest contract between Pfizer Medina and the european union, they will be a Price Hike for the shots in the imminent future, according to figure thing. But like financial times, the new price for probably a short will be 23. 00 up from 18. But then i will go up to 25. 50, up to up from 22. 00. 60 this of course the countries are very keen and anxious to stamp out the spread of the delta vary. It also comes at the time in which countries in the E U and beyond the e. U. A mulling the possibility of administering a 3rd dose of bruce the job to improve efficacy so far. Only israel has approved use of a 3rd dose, a Booster Job in the over 60 with the research is happening here in thE U. K. In britain and otheR Countries may well follow suit, and all of this, of course, means the potential wind full for both and pfizer as well off the phase 3 trials. Both of these vaccines have been proven to be more effective than their rivals than the Astrazeneca Job and the Johnson And Johnson jobs. So essentially, both of these companies have a captive audience in the european union. European commission, just to remind you, of course, was accused early on of not acting quickly enough when it came to the vaccine rollout. And what its doing now is proving that its willing to throw an awful lot of money buying a Premium Product that is proven to work across the board. According to one figure who was close, the negotiations said he says that the companies to capitalize on their Market Power and deployed thE Usual form, a rhetoric essentially the Vaccine Work time to ramp up the price. Well then 600 people have been arrested in berlin after anti locked down. Protest turn violent, police say some protest, harassed and attacked them. Authorities did not approve the demonstration, citing rising code of 900 cases. Busy the 1000 still defied the 15 Syria Crew members on board a Thinking Congo Vessel neaR Caroll. She have been rescued. 3 remain missing back downs, navy and maritime security. Agency coordinated the rescue efforts. High tides and strong winds pushed the ship towards the coast on thursday. The vessel which belongs to syria was carrying cargo from india to somalia when it sank. A search for the 3 missing crew members is underway. At least 8 people have now died in the fire that have raised across turkey for the past 5 days. So because her glue has more from a stumble, the once Green Hills of maurice had turned into this hectors scorched Land And Smoke everywhere as 5 fighting helicopters, dallas, the flames. The fires here are mostly contained now, but the damage they left behind is immense. It on solid man. Ive got this trick. This farmer found a newborn baby goat. His named it miracle. Didnt pick that of him. John, im only worried about these animals. If i died, it wouldnt matter what i was really just being evacuated. I couldnt leave and i asked my parents if i die, he shall we die together with these animals. And they said yes. So we stayed. I wish those animals survived and i was dead and his date, and i dont know. The innocent kicked out of the volunteers have joined the firefighters working across the Southern Region like College Student re Harm And Natalie has accepted district. Great, thank you. All seniors in our village survive the fire except for my 82 year old grandfather got poisoned by the smoke trying to put up the fire. I dont want other senior di torres said to be moved from some of the hotels and more less popular district of boardroom. As the fires spread down the hill towards the sea shore, the government suspects our sin, but experts believe excessive heat and strong winds are likely to cause. Climate change is also crucial factor. Turkey so devastating floods in its northern black Sea Region earlier in july who could furnish for many years. The mediterranean has never seen such dry weather as in the last 20 days. Meteorologists have actually worn fires, unavoidable in the next 15 days and may continuE Until september. The fire was started and maurice has mouse french, other locations. The government has been criticized for a shortage of Fire Fighting Aircraft other by john iran. Russia and ukraine have sent equipment in personnel, but Turkeys Forester Minister warns the Humidity Level is going down in the coming days, which means more attention and measures are needed to put out the fires in turkeys southern greenhouse and ease the pain of those who have lost everything, seeing them cuz solo Al Jazeera, i stumble firefighters have been battling large wildfires that have destroyed homes and forms in southern greece. The blaze of spreads after breaking out near Pap Trust on saturday. In the 300 firefighters and 2 water bombers have been deployed to control the inferno, temperatures are expected to reach 44 degrees celsius. The Heat Wave continues across the region. And it has also been baffling. Wildfires around the Tourists Resort of pet scarborough. 800 people have been evacuated from their homes after a large blaze, and near by Nature Reserve has had in fire. Authorities say they have battles and 800. 00 fair ups across the country. Over the weekend launch. Cruise ships are now banned from entering the center of venice. Environmentalists have been pushing for the move for years. And im rainy. Has us Report Picture Postcard perfection. Tourists are back in venice, but they wont be arriving anytime soon on large Cruise Ships. It follows years of debate about banning mega Cruise Ships to protect Venuss Lagoon Ecosystem that that be became much more heated with the arrival in june of our 90000. 00 ton ship. The government finally announced the band in july, after threats from unesco to place venice a World Heritage Site on its endangered list. The italy is promising to cover last wages for thousands of workers who rely on the Cruise Industry to keep them afloat. Nobody movie ever. We hope the government comes up with a way for us to continue a subsidy might last a year or 2, but this decrease has ships, Wont Pass through any more. We need certainty for our Future Today now, which is right in the heart of Venice Passing by saint mark square. And its this very artery to which the huge ships will no longer be able to pack. But that doesnt mean theyll be completely blocked from the venetian lagoon. The plan is to have large Cruise Ships into the lagoon through a back Channel And Dock at the mainland industrial port of ma together. The problem is the Port Isnt ready to receive crews. Passengers like City Council or medical gas by the net, they grew up along denniss canals. He welcomes the band but sees it as a distraction. Because the visible part of the iceberg visible deeper is the big ships about the many other programs. And the big ships are not the only one and what are the problems like that the city is dying them in terms of being the living, the place where the tickets are living in the side and not having to commute them to get the job which cannot give it a chance to lead them to see where we are just to meet them, may control as part of an organization that lobbied for the band. She seated as part of a larger push to focus on long term sustainability. All of that would be done not to ship to focus away from accommodating tourism to really fulfilling the needs of the local residents who fans also on the value of a very city of the lagoon and on the well being of the whole environment. Here the venice rose as a commercial powerhouse centuries ago to the great benefit of its people, finding a balance that keeps coffers full and residents from fleeing will take more than banning Cruise Ships from its waters. Adarine Al Jazeera venice. Ah, this is algebra. These are all top stories. Afghan forces fighting St Battles against the taliban and 3 cities. Kind of what has been hit by rockets the runway has been repaired, but there are still no flights