of the lebanese community and australia once upon a time and punched on out there. ah, investigating the use and abuse of power across the whole now jazeera me this is al jazeera. ah. hi there, i'm kim fidel. this is the new law firm coming up in the next 60 minute. we are very much focused on making good obligations to those who stood with us against us media report say, washington has gone, relocating afghan interpreters to help truth during years of conflicts of battle

getting more intense. 5 a day. the rebel region being bombarded by syrian government for trinity as president says, billions of dollars that we don't from the country. if you facts the president of the national television station, cynical is just received a new shipment of vaccines, but many say it's not nearly enough that hospitals are full capacity. about the same as before, to kind of 19 scale tokyo, what's the entire straight clinic thing into isolation? it comes off to a 2 time world champion. sam kendrick is ruled out of the game of the positive for corona virus. ah, us media reporting the evacuation has been gone of thousands of africans who helped the united states in the past 20 years. it's part of a special immigration program that will also see the family members moved america,

the thousands more still waiting to hear when bell leave. shall a bells report from cobble 3 years ali was a translator for the us army in his own province at home. and in may, he took a bus to cobble for an interview at the us embassy, and his waited suits thing at this guest house. last week he was approved for evacuation, but he has heard nothing more. when i wake up in the morning in the morning to check it again, but there was nothing. so i called to my other friends, but nothing happened. and he said they be patient. ali is one of about $20000.00 africans who replied for a special immigrant visa. those who worked for at least 2 years for the us government or military eligible. the process has been long and advocate to say, increasingly confusing. a lot of people have received, offers to relocate them and evacuate them safely out of the country. the problem

we're seeing is that these people are responding to the letters. and at this point there are some that are saying it's been a week. it's been 7 days and it had no response back as to tell a bon take more territory. the stakes arising from many of those who worked with foreign forces, all of my relatives and other people who are living in our area. they know me like this guy was interpreter and they will tend to talk about like, there are some people that they will tell like he was a linguist. i will not go never to that again. i will marry work to the translator for the us department of defense and state she 1st applied for a visa in 2017. her application is under review. it's really difficult survive here . and every down way thing if, if i gave any emails for the location and evacuation, but unfortunately, we don't have con approval yet, so it's making me hopeless. who knows?

i will get it or not. in a statement the taliban suit. africans who have worked with foreign forces should not be scared. it sees it hopes interpret his stay to serve their country. and if they do, they will not be threatened by the group interpreters we spoke to found that hard to believe is not a threat to thrash on thought of them. we cannot guarantee our lives with them. they cannot trust them. security is tight with the u. s. embassy refusing to release any information about who is on the flight when they will call them or arrive in the united states in order to protect those who are leaving us. with these mikes, expected to continue for the next month. the word, any information, further evacuation and showing that balance. sarah alan fisher has more now on the resettlement from the white house. well, we know that the 1st flights are on their way the 1st one left camilla round

lunchtime. they are heading to dulles international airport, which is just south of washington. and the 2nd flight is on its way to london. they will probably align part once they arrive here in the us. they will be taken to fort lee, which is an army camp in southern virginia, that is where they will be processed for their s i v as they call them special immigrant visa. now initially there was around $4000.00 afghans and their families who would expect to go through this process. other countries have taken some of those numbers. so it's expected that the us will be dealing with somewhere in the region of $2500.00. and they can't process them in afghanistan quite simply because they don't have the resources, the able to do it here and 20, blinking as well as your bike has acknowledged that the us does or debt to these people and has to treat them properly. the united states has committed to helping those who helped us during our time in afghanistan over the last 20 years.

and indeed, we've had very brave afghans who stood with with us, with our soldiers, with our diplomats, mostly as translators, and interpreters. and as a result of that service benefit from the possibility of securing a visa to come live in the united states were actively engaged in that process. and notably in relocation planning for those brave afghans and their families. some of the us wanted this to be managed process. we know the deadline, we know that the us troops are going to be off gonna stand by the end of august your byte and said he wanted to be by september. the 11th has been brought forward . what the didn't want was a desperate rush at the last minute. everyone remembers the famous scenes of the u . s. embassy, inside going at the end of the vietnam war, where people were being lifted off the roof by helicopters. we wanted this to be much more managed, much more dignified,

and that is why these flights are starting to arrive in the us. well, let's just take your closer look at that operation to relocate those afghan and to produce we've been telling you about the u. s. loans to operation allies refuge to evacuate around the $18000.00 interpreters contract is and security guards. thousands of their family members have also applied for the special immigrant visa program. on friday, canada announced a similar scheme. several 1000 people are expected to be eligible. but it's a slightly different story and the u. k. former defense officials were related to the government asking it to do more to relocate africans who helped british forces . they say a number of applications for relocation have been rejected. i am abolla, said he, he worked as an interpreter for the u. s. army in afghanistan. he was relocated to the us as part of the special immigration visa program. he now serves as the programs ambassador at no one left behind

a not for profit groups. he joined us on zoom now from houston. thank you for your time. so you've gone through this process yourself. so i guess you understand how difficult it is. just give us an idea of what these people are going through. well, thanks for having me. i got might be like one year actually nobody was i was despite a complex, i mean a, a department can be part of the security side of the games within 9 months. i believe in been the day or the are people waiting all the for your interviews for the past 3 years and it really hurt our allied it really our lives in bank. yeah i'm, i'm wondering if you can explain to us the kind of that the danger, i guess, that the people who are left waiting in afghanistan waiting for their visas to be processed or sort of danger do they face because this is not an abstract risk is it

interpret as and other workers have worked with the u. s. a last lives as a result of their work. oh, actually, and violence. and i want to use a live scan in already but. ready you know, well documented, at least 300, you know, interpreter have been killed from 16 and blessed as well. if you go, you know, by the time and all our allies were eligible $45.00 be, you know, or less in a dentist. you know that taliban are counseling it's dave and there are certain color allow for the thing that us for if it's not what do you make of the way that the us is evacuating is going right now the way that it's happening and the speed with which it's happening well. busy first of all, we,

we believe and we trust we embedding process. mr. biden said $2500.00 families would be a bach awaited to very for the a. and what do you see as far as the walk we used to live in virginia tonight. but again, besides give it in and fully use whether that'll be enough again, a fan and a might take them to the us for you, maybe doctor or mine and eagles, angela supposed to be. and that's one issue. the other will issue is the find out the family. there are thousands of other interpreters in word or will have their live family or working with the us army in the us force and again again. but they are not eligible for it because they will not have either in a continent or, or

a recommendation letter with our to one of the do we know requirement of the process and, and the 3rd to be that can be, you know, get super wide there are not answering replying emails, most of the i'm because or they don't want to. okay. so it's not obvious. they are straightforward process, a lot of hoops to jump through and a lot of anxious people waiting. i'm wondering what support is there for relocation for these people once they actually reach their final destination? of so what is their final destination? there are some agencies like no one left behind. we are here, l families. there are other recent government agencies who, you know, where they, they provide them the health in need and in a year. all right. hey, thank you very much for your time. ah, i'm a dorothy, they're

a former interpreter for the us army and i've got a son from the no one left behind, not for profit. thanks for having head on the new, including lebanon's, unprecedented economic crisis forces home for of thousands of children to go to bed hungry to climate experts in the u. k. who are sounding the alarm about extreme weather events. they become more common and enforced china foot on a world record performance in the olympic food story coming up later in the program . a at least 800 people are dead as a battle intensifies full control of a rebel controlled neighborhood in southern syria. government forces have surrounded an area in the wrong, which has been besieged for more than a month. it's home 240000. people have been cut off from food and medicine. rushing

back to government troops want opposition fighters to surrender their weapons and allow military checkpoints to be set up. has an update from russell, so dar and it's tumble and neighboring turkey. now just early in the morning, we have seen that the student government have initiated a massive military operation on the toner of that which is a part of the greater district. and so far, the reports of the casualties are just coming where we want to be the place that is that way, the more selling from the regime is confirmed and 9 off the region, 14 members also being killed by the rebel forces. on the other hand, the rebel forces claims that they have to the control of several checkpoints, in the eastern and western side of, of dera, and also at pan belong to the regime has been fears and decide that 25 members of the regime forces also has been kept captive by the by the rebel

forces so far also the rebel forces and the people of there are trying to block. busy the roads and burling, the car wheels to stop the regime advancing into the city. so the, how the clashes are still going on. but so far it seems that the massive attack from the regime has been repelled for now. i'll buck he is member a member of freedom for dental campaign. he joined us on scott from malmo, thanks for your time of joining us here on the alter there a news. so you're in touch with people in that all. what are you hearing? thank you again. for having me today. indeed, as my colleague said in the interview in the morning that the people who are living in the season 55 days ago and around 55000 civilians are still living in under siege. forced by the iranian forces back by a regime militias will we are talking about 11000 families, 12000 of them,

women and children. indeed, the concern, the continuing and indiscriminate shillings are targeting the civilians and 18 civilians have been killed. and from the early morning until this moment, we are talking about my stock that has been kept by a bomb indeed in the city which is a village closer there on. but they're out about this are struggling on trying to defend the civilians and stop the attacking your resume forces by back by the iran, the militias. indeed one medical point was only available in this city. and for the time being, it was out of service because of the shilling is unintentionally charged. that is men from the beginning indeed to kneel down. but there are people because they had refused the election that took place a month ago. and they as a,

as the response of that, the regime is coming to make a revenge against the civilians. so that are, that are invalid. okay, that's what i want to ask you as a reporting earlier, rushing back, government troops wanted opposition, fight is to surrender their weapons. how does civilians feel about what's happening? would that have been a better option? well indeed, and that's the last of the settlement that took place in the middle of 2018 between the regime and the rebels. and the russians, as i've gotten get into they had agreed to to keep the rifles, the rifles only the rifles with variables. and we are talking about only 10, so people who have these tribal rifles and they are using them to defend their wives and children. and that was an agreement between both parties. i mean, if they want to surrender, then the people who are saying we will not give our people who protected and who is

a protecting us right now. we will not surrender if you want us to a fact, if you want to evacuated, be fighters, then all should be evacuated to a safe place. they send the people that are all together this morning, send a message, a statement to the war, filling them. if you need or if you are forcing us to evacuated, the fighters who have disciples, been all of us, the 55000 people. we need an evacuation from that. so what you're talking about just there for our international audience who may not be familiar. is that draw boycotted the the elections in may, which sore aside return for another 7 years in office with with 95 percent of the vote. since then there's been a seizure on the people there. what impact is that each having in terms of getting food or medicine in yes indeed, that humor,

terry and situation is very difficult for all the civilians living in this area because they are living on the seas as i told you 55 years ago. so no more foods, no more medicines, that's all. and as i told you that the medical, the only medical facility was targeted and the people who are insured are now dying because of the lack of the medicine doctors who are not able to do that with the lack of tools on the medical medical. nice indeed indeed, as a response, as i told you as a response, yes sir. and resume is punishing that people are because they take a stand against these fake elections. they both cut the elections that they said we will not be involved in such a sector ad play. that's we, we are able to survive by our sales and we don't need any redeem institution in our areas. and as the response of that, this is a business that has started. indeed, the people that are asking for

a humanitarian corridor, they are insisting to, to, to ask the international community, but united nation to facilitate this and this military and corridor where they can insure people, they can have an access for medical assistance. all right. hey, thank you very much for your time. giving us a picture of what's happening there in debt are mother and i'll bulky, the member a member of the freedom for did our campaign. i think it's trinity as president is vowing to crack down on corruption. he's demanding the return of billions of dollars he says was stolen from the public and is offering a settlement. the money stolen from the town is young people must be restored. a decision will be made to take measures against the perpetrators who have taken these public funds. we will deal with these people in a proportionate manner. sy, it has also dismissed the chief of the national tv station days after freezing parliament fucking the prime minister. and assuming executive pose fam kimball isn't eunice with more. while one can walk around most streets of the capital,

soon as things on the surface appeared to be business. as usual, most shops are open, cafes are open, people are to be found on the street. and there had been no protests, unlike the protests that he just saw on sunday after the president turkey, the 3rd entering measures. and also on monday, particularly in front of the seniors in parliament, built under the surface tunisia in experiencing overlapping chrisy. and it's worth noting also that some of this business as usual look, may also come from the fact that there's a now earlier curfew starting at 7 pm since monday, as well as the presidential decree, banding gatherings of more than 3 people on the street. in addition to that, there's been a recent poll done which indicate very high support among tunisians for the president's actions on sunday. and since now the country is also sufferings, multiple crises at the same time. and those include

a prolonged economic crisis with high unemployment and few opportunities, as well as severe health crisis. howard largely by the, the cobit pandemic where now to need to has one of the highest per capita death rates and all of africa due to covered 19 as well as political crisis out of stalemate and inaction. so there's a lot of anxiety among people wondering what the next political steps will be. and if and when the tunisian prime minister, who is sacked, will be replaced. hundreds of thousands of children are going to bed hungry and live, and on a report by faith, the children found more and more parents are unable to pay for food and medicine. it's worse for syrian refugees in lebanon, 9 out of 10 families, and living in extreme policy. the report says the gap and finances needed to buy banks of goods has grown by 550 percent in the past year. earlier we spoke to up by the arm from save the children, he paints

a grim picture of what thousands of children endure and living on. it is a tragic situation for thousands and hundreds of thousands of children. and by the way, from all backgrounds, we're not talking about just one with group or one nationality. one background we are talking about to graphically, demographically and overall dark and very, very tough situation. just to give you an idea of how these children are living take today, and just to give you a breakdown of meals, for example, for any ordinary child. now in, in babylon. for breakfast, the children do not have the basics. they cannot afford things like change. for example, now i hear from parents that they children are now mixing water and time to have breakfast for for lunch. for example, the children are relying on a boil is boiled potatoes and a small dish of solid even grains, lentils rise out of reach for the saudis. dental simply doesn't exist for many families. baby milk doesn't exist for many. for many babies. now i hear people are

mixing water and little sugar because sugar is also on affordable. these pieces, i mean, you would be forgiven to think that i'm reading here a passage for much of because a story and 19th century. this is 21st century lebanon, a country that has been, you know, used to be a middle income country. now, particularly these families that have been, and middle income category are falling down. and john, and now we are talking about people who need 550 percent more money just to survive . an inquiry and malta has held the government responsible for the murder of a prominent journalist. daphne 0 was killed by a car bomb in 2017. the inquiry blamed the government for creating a culture of impunity. prosecutors believe the top business been organized a murder, but he denies any involvement. crazy. routinely exposed cronyism and sleeves among multis, elite climate scientists and the u. k. say record levels of high temperatures,

increased rainfall and sunshine were recorded in 2020 and then warning that extreme weather events in person will become more common from the gable has more the is this the new normal facing the u. k. a climate warning that is now all to real from severe flooding to more extreme heat, unusual for these isles, a pattern the country is struggling to cope with the shift in the baseline. what we regard as normal, whether that is changing. and we, we say a lot of these examples in data, for example, 34 degrees celsius recorded in 7 of the last 10 years. the, the 50 years before that there was 7 times in the previous 50 years before that. so something that was relatively unusual is becoming much more common. since the start of the last century,

the sea levels have already doubled from $1.00 to more than 3 millimeters a year. in the past 30 years alone. not only have the u. k warmed by point 9 degrees celsius. it is also become 6 percent wetter. on paper that may seem a small difference. in reality, this is the effect. the infrastructure is simply unable to cope and there is no quick fix incite in the face of the elements. sea level will not be possible to reverse on, on a short time. so there is a commitment to sea level rise as started, which will consist over many, many hundreds of years. even if we stock all c o 2 emissions today. it is possible why the phenomenon of extreme weather across the continent. recent floods in western europe have reached devastation and rivers in germany, search to levels not seen in hundreds of years. the protection of

a very clear that with essentially more heat energy system and the water that we are light, each storming us more extreme events, which are eventually wetter dryer. eventually, i mean dry and predictions around sea level. it's inexorable rise up the races own to find a solution as quickly as possible. the u. k. and italy will host the cop $26.00 climate change conference in glasgow later this year. set against a climate crisis that i've seen all manner of extreme events around the world. the u. k. calls the summit, the world's last best chance to repair the damage caused by increased carbon emissions. but there is little detail as of yet what plans the world's 20 major economies have to prevent a further increase in dangerously extreme weather conditions. so when you go out

there are still ahead on algebra. yeah, the company that won't sugar. wall street, who's doing it again as it goes public? i'm under richardson at the tokyo olympics. find out why we decided to turn a show that looks like this into issue. looks like that. ah, hello, thank you for tuning in here, sir. weather forecasts for the middle east. we've got some brisk winds at times for kuwait and boxed into that humidity for cats are on friday. if we go around the array be and see where it's that southwest spawn soon, that we're dealing with really whipping up the waves. and so for coastal sections

of oman could see wave heights around 4 meters high. those winds are also swirling around the sand and dust across much of oman. so the risk of dust and sand storms is in the forecast on friday. also a fierce wind for a southern areas of pocket st on impacting karachi. so the risk of sand storms here as well, but toward the north, we've got rain falling so low hor, a high 33 degrees for you on friday. as we check in on turkey, we've been keeping tabs on the wild fire burning in on talia province. still high heat here, 41 degrees in toward the northeast corner of turkey. heavy rain once again in the forecast for our harvey, which is still trying to recover from devastating flooding. central africa storms where we would expect through ethiopia, sudan, south sudan, juba. height of $33.00 degrees, further toward the south for madagascar, the northeast corner of the island. we've got some heavy rain in the forecast for you that your weather update catch later. the

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0, i was just reminded about top stories, the song government troops and cells and syria have surrounded a rebel controlled neighborhood in the area that all been besieged for more than a month times. $40000.00 people have been cut off from food and medicine committee as president is accusing politicians of corruption, demanding the return of billions of dollars. he says the stolen from the public site has also dismissed the head of the national television. us media report say gun interpreters and help us forces are on their way to america along with their

family members. thousands more still waiting. and i've gone on to see if and when they'll become eligible for special program.