[000:00:00;00] i al jazeera when i write down to the r g. the afghan president, us rep ghani, has left the country. it comes shortly after he promised to take responsibility for the people of cobble. the taliban is assuring a nervous capital. it will not attack, but many fear of what the groups return will actually mean. ah, i know that i'm pizza

w watching l 20 live from also coming up more than 300 people killed after a big earthquake fitz west of the haitian capital. puerto prince and i'm seeing bas robbie in greece for residence of area island, are coming to terms with the environmental as well as the economic impact of the worst wildfires. the country in decades ah again astounds president ash ref county has gone. he's left the country as taliban leaders pushed for what they say is a peaceful transfer of power in cobble hours early. and mister ghani delivered a televised message promising to take responsibility for the security of the people of cobble. was there clear need that the national director of security alongside the police and i've gone army take responsibility for the security of all citizens . i have asked the difference minister and then to the minister to convey that message. it is our responsibility and god willing we will get that out in the best

possible manner. anyone who's disturbing the law and order a teens of looting, should be confronted with full force. well, taliban fighters have been ordered to wait on the outskirts of the capital despite no threat of imminent attack. there are worries on the streets of cobble about what the taliban return will mean for the people of cobbled foreign embassies, are evacuating this staff with helicopters going between those buildings and the airports, us officials and are working from that airport terminal. while some you staff have moved to a safer quote, undisclosed location, overshadowed by a brutal rule of the past, the taliban is offering reassurances about the kind of government it will lead. it says women's rights will be respected. and those people who work for the governments will be offered an amnesty life now to cobble and our correspondent rob mcbride. so he decided to go, i guess we'll hear him at some point saying for the great to go to the country,

rob. yeah, it's quite, quite a shock. i mean, we've been expecting all day that to see developments with regard to this transition of power. the story has been so far that he has been held up in the presidential palace busy in negotiations with his own people. and of course, with the negotiating teams, including the taliban in dough hire about an acceptable transition which everybody i think by now, except that would not necessarily involve him being involved. certainly the taliban wouldn't want to be a part of any new administration with ash ref, county, but the shock has come that he has actually left the country all together in this and now he's done so he does beg the question, where is this transition agreement up to is even, is that, is that a transition agreement for negotiating doha to, to agree to, to consider. so it really adds to the uncertainty as we get into this sunday evening hearing,

cobble. we know what i can tell you what we do know. we know that most of the country is in the control of the taliban. right now. add to cobble is surrounded and the big question is, who actually is in charge of cobble itself? it has to be said that yes, it's very tense here. there is an easy tension, but things that do remain thankfully if relative become on the streets, the police and the army are on the streets. people are moving about this evening. so, but there are concerns i've been, we've had in the taking of the provinces and the area around cobble again will prisons being open. this has been something that we've seen throughout the conflict in recent weeks. as the taliban of advance number of prisons have been breached in prison is allowed, allowed out, there was a large prison back room at base. this was the former base for us, and nato forces that prison contained

a number of ice or prisoners. prison was overtaken, the doors were open to a nother prison. this is poly, jackie, this is the prison that says the cobble region, with many more criminals or people serving time. again, the doors were open of that prison. so there is that certain amounts of unease in the capital this evening. none the less, the taliban has insisted that its fighters stay on the outskirts that they do not go in. they haven't stressed, they don't want to see bloodshed. that should be a peaceful transition of power. and as we've heard during the day from both the minister of the interior and also the defense minister for afghanistan, they to have a guarantee that there will be security here in the capital. and i guess the people of afghanistan as well as the outside world, rob and the region. indeed, we need to know the makeup or the nature of this interim administration, government or council. and i suppose that's the explanation behind a taliban delegation report of the coming back to cats are because if they behave

like politicians in their minds that's clear into, in their minds, they maintain some semblance of credibility and accountability because they're kind of behaving like politicians. they're not behaving like warlords. yeah, they have to do that. i think to get that acceptance, especially from the international community because of course people, as soon as you mentioned taliban will be thinking about a taliban of administration, of the late ninety's and through till 200-2001 which does fill many people with dread you talk to people here in the streets of cobbled, certainly people who remember that time, they remember it with a definite sense of dread. it's very awful memories of that time despite assurances from the taliban, that there are guarantees now for women's rights for the education of girls and so on. there are still very deep concern. in fact, when we were out in the streets earlier this sunday and we started to get

notification that the taliban had in fact approached the outskirts of the city and that some fighters were being reported. some, some of erroneous lee, there was some scam messages going around that they would telephone fight is walking around inside the city, which wasn't the case. but it does give you a sense of the nervousness here about about the name taliban that people were concerned. and when you talk to people, there is a certain many people don't want to see a return of that, especially in cosmopolitan parts like like cobble but there is an acceptance also from people that are given that gains in recent years, recent months. and now what happened at the moment that certainly they will be by a very part and parcel of a future administration. there is an acceptance until recently people were talking about yes, we have to shad power with the taliban. that was until a couple of days ago. but given the predominance now and the dominant, dominant that the dominance of the taliban in the country, you have to ask yourself what kind of power sharing that taliban is going to share

power with whom it does seem as though they have the upper hand in any negotiation that fall from him. rob, you'll keep us posted, i'm sure. in the meantime. thank you so much, robert bright, our correspondent, the reporting on that developing aspect of cobble. well as we've been telling you, the u. s. has been relocating its embassy staff. as the taliban encircled the city, the secretary of state anthony blinkin says core staff will be moved to a safe location. we're moving people out of the embassy to a location at the airport. that's happening right now. my job, my number one priority is the safety and security of our people. and we've adjusted along the way as i said, we started in order departure from our missy way back at the end of april. and we've done that systematically, progressively, and we've adjusted depending on what was actually happening on the ground. and that's exactly what we're doing now. so no american is in the embassy. we've essentially close the embassy. it sounds like you don't want to say no, we're going to have a, we're going to have a, we're going to have our core diplomatic presence. and in effect, an embassy at

a location at the airport. how did you, castro, following that story for us out of the bureau in washington? heidi, yes, clearly the us administration says this is not saigon light. but u. s embassy staff being ferried around on helicopters and getting out as quickly as they possibly can. doesn't look like a huge success story. that's right, peter, and you heard the strained messaging from angelie man to the link in the u. s. service area state this morning, essentially confirming that the u. s. embassy and cobble will no longer have personnel, essentially, there will be a small embassy within the airport. his words with that core group of diplomats who will work to continue processing visas for those afghans who aided american troops and are now trying to flee the country. he also said that the president focus remains foremost on the safety of getting out those american civilians and

diplomats and pushing back on criticism coming also from members from us politics, including republicans have called this disaster that would preventable anthony blinking saying that the u. s. had accomplished its mission in afghanistan and its 20 year war in having prevented another 911, like a terrorist attack, stemming from afghanistan, and that it simply is no longer in the u. s. interest to remain in the country. he also did issue a stark warning to the taliban, saying that any interference and this evacuation effort with us personnel would be met with decisive and a decisive and swift response coming from those $5000.00 us troops, who were quickly deployed, a 1000 of whom were quickly redeployed back into afghanistan when the situation rapidly deteriorated. but of course, there is still much concern,

much criticism stemming toward the bio administration that why didn't they see this coming? apparently they had been given bad intelligence that it would take some were around 18 months for the taliban to capture the country. now as that is happening before the very eyes and just weeks, the question is, why didn't they see this coming? and could this have been prevented? heidi, thank you very much, heidi to cast the in washington to hill shaheen. is the international media spokesman for the taliban. he says, fighters of taken most cities surrounding the capital but have not entered cobble as yet piece for transport is very important because it is a fighting problem. property will be, will be that many people will be hard on which we do not want that. so it is very important for that and that that thing is i. 5 mean we do not see that the summer,

the forces they have going that we see they have stopped fighting and they have joined in all problems in the majority of the problems that. 1 they have joined. 1 forces and they have ended or they come with the weapons and it would have changed and they are their name. 1 just so the proper steps will be taken in pure job for for how the will be invaded in the we will be, i will, we will be waiting what i pad the piece for truck, but facebook transfer. we will see we will see that in future. but our policy and our intention is that's our fault. we'll wait at the gate up until we we saw a piece for transfer, a city well as he been following the events in kabul city, cobble province. and broadly speaking of canister,

you'll know the events have been moving very quickly. day to day events are moving our to our now the taliban said on record, they said publicly they said in an interview with this channel that they would not tell their fighters to enter cobble city. they have rescinded that because they say that the afghan security forces have in effect turned tail and left or they have begun the process of leaving or standing themselves down from their jobs that their roster rotate through a taliban spokesman telling the reuters news agency that they have now ordered their fighters to enter cobble, to prevent loosing. that's all we know on that developing aspect of this story. we'll get you more on that just as soon as we can. our correspondent, my how much i'm doing reporting extensively, of course, on the long wanting talks here to help in the taliban and the afghan government, he's keeping the company here in the studio as ref. connie has gone. how does that impact the discussions that we think might even take off again? refresh discussions to morrow into her. at the moment peter,

a lot of confusion as to what exactly the agenda is going to be. what we know is that there is a, a delegation of african government negotiators that is on root. they are expected to be in tomorrow. what's not known as, who exactly is heading. that team of negotiators. there's been some speculation that perhaps it's a new team, a team that could start off with a fresh sleep with the, with their counterparts, the members of the taliban delegation. there's other speculation that says that it's dr. de la de la. he's the head of the high reconciliation council in afghanistan, and the fact that there is so much confusion as to what exactly is happening. the fact that even members of some of these delegation aren't quite sure what is going to happen to me are really shows you that the key arctic nature of what's going on right now. last week, we covered 3 days of afghan peace talks here in durham. the diplomats who were all here, a lot of the special envoy for afghan stan, they all wanted to see a way to put the inter african piece process back on track the last time there was

a meeting of the inter african piece dialogue was mid july. this is a process that was initiated here in doha last september and it really ran out of momentum. and one of the reasons it ran out of momentum was because people didn't have leverage over the telephone because the taliban was already starting to gain ground even in mid july. so last week you had 3 days of talks really what the diplomats wanted was to be able to come up with some kind of joint statement which they offered a pathway forward to try to get the inter african piece process back on track. that didn't happen. what you got was a statement at the end of it, you know, asking people to cease violence, saying that any government seized by force by the taller bond would not be recognized internationally, but not much else. and so that made people wonder what exactly is going to happen next. now we know also is that the us special envoy for afghanistan is all mesa lives on has remained and since the close of those talk. so it seemed as though there was a lot of behind the scenes meetings behind closed doors, but we don't yet know what it's going to lead to going forward. but there is a chasm, isn't there that there's

a big distance between what the taliban prepared to accept because they, they've been in the ascendancy for several weeks months now. right. and what, whatever it is. but the, the remnants of whatever's left of the afghan government can bring to that process because it wasn't lost on anyone at the beginning of the entire process. going back to september, you're talking right? but the categories were talking to the taliban. but the taliban was saying, anyone from the government know for guess it proximity talks? yes. maybe you can ping pong around with messages, but we're not sitting down with them. so they would never sort of fully engaged in the process because the taliban wouldn't allow it. that's right, and you know, that kind of goes last week, there was an interesting day, the 2nd day of talks, there were meetings on the sidelines of these international talks. and the meetings were held by the extend the troika, countries that russia as us as china and pakistan. these are countries as it's moscow initially group. these are countries that meet intermittently to try to consult on how to get the peace process back on track and f canister,

and at destroy meeting you had both the taliban in one session. and then the african negotiators. the government negotiates in another session, give their plans on how the peace process could go forward. the afghan government delegation said that they would accept a mediator. the taliban delegation said they would not accept a mediator. so again, really at loggerheads and the fact is you can't really find common ground. so even then when you couldn't find common ground that was before, couple wasn't circled by the taller bond. how exactly are you going to find common ground right now? how does this process go forward? nobody really knows at the south mom a jim, jim, thank you so much. she'll keep us company. i'm sure of the coming hours. let's talk again to my summer, formerly afghan ambassador. and he was also advised that to the former ceo of afghanistan of della he joins us from washington. mister ambassador, good talk to you again, sir. since the last, our last 2 hours, when we spoke 2 hours ago, events have moved very quickly. did asked ref ghani,

take the right decision here by leaving the country. well, he took a decision that should have been taken a long time ago in my opinion, but he did it in my opinion. not in the right way. he should have resigned. we don't know exactly what he has left behind as he dined is the piece of paper as the advocate it is. ready he transfer or how is the transfer of power going to take place now? is he left a vacuum which can be problematic if there is no agreement on how to move forward in detail about decide to enter the city. you see what, what you was supposed to happen was that when once mister returned from your house, he had a very clear message from the colleague i had demanded that mister, i need resign so that they could sit down with all the other players in agree on a political roadmap that does not happen when you deleted until he left the country

today. so there are a lot of details we still don't know. he worked very closely down the years with abdullah abdullah. we understand he will be front and center here in class are either tomorrow or the day after that when it comes to these reinvigorated discussions between the taliban and some sort of skeletal core representation. for whatever's left of the afghan government, what's the silver bullet that abdullah abdullah can bring to that process to get both sides to agree on the form on the nitty gritty, the detail of whatever the interim administration slash government council, whatever it's called, whatever that will be all very much depends on who, who will represent now and how cobble is going to act as

a side because that size now obviously as being used to be and his team from the palace, including the 1st vice president. so that create the constitutional issue as well. we don't know what has what has happened to 2nd vice president where he is. but obviously the 6 succession system in place. but as far as the high is concerned, it all depends also on what baton bon wants. if the toner gone wrong, it brought the solution, which is what they indicated. then i think mr. abdullah, mr. cause i delegation that just went to his lama to the made up of see project was back and i was our leaders and they will play a role and they will sit down to call him on, which is what they're going to ask for all along. and mr randy was the one blocking it and they can sit down and, and draft something for the future of the country. work on the constitution. we're going to enter a period, make sure this stability, make sure that the security for the people and make sure the celebrate cor rights

are respected. can i ask you the same questions to ask one of our guests in our last news? our program is what we're seeing now. a 20 year failed experiment because at some point in the future, if the taliban wants to build on credibility and accountability, by definition, it's got to hold elections. and the idea of the taliban holding free and fair elections. and then winning a mandate to govern the country. that's unimaginable the unimaginable, surely, even for someone like you, you know, who's so plugged into their thinking and the thinking of all the desperate groups that make up the mosaic of afghanistan. i'm cautiously optimistic. i watch the evolution of the collarbone as well as the pollution ended lucian,

of the other political factions. over the years. i think the total bone or countries what some people say are not at some level the same tall, a bon as they were 20 years ago. i think that they have learned a lot of lessons along the way we hope, and we will have to push them to negotiations and talk an intro africa. and they really inter africa and process to agree that the african peoples voice matters. that the rights of women and girls matter that certain freedom to liberty, the africans, and enjoy including freedom of media and association. so on matter. so we have to sit down and as owners of the country have good discussion, we have to come to an agreement. if tolerable catalogue and i don't think they will try to impose being well by force, because they know what happens when data, when that force is used. we have seen that happen over and over a little bit. the last 43 years and one is done with the communists with the

majority with economy. busy and also in some ways with the post 911 period where a lot of mistakes were made and we have to learn from all of that very briefly. so there is not, can i suggest to you a trust deficit when it comes to how the people of your country view the taliban? there is literally 0 trust. why should people trust the taliban given their track record there is trust in different pockets of society towards the parliament poor. come ask as it doesn't really matter with the living with tolerable under industry system because their lives haven't changed either way . one way or the other. so we haven't been able to reach a great majority of africans, rule african africa was hurt by injustice by violence, by corruption,

all these years age. and we've lost that skype line there to, oh my son and but it was a compelling conversation. i guess we've had to say, we definitely got a good sense of where he thinks the country is, hopefully heading next. we will move on to wrap up some other top stories for you. people in haiti scrambling to pull survivors from collapse buildings after a powerful earthquake. it struck about 160 kilometers west of the capital. puerto prince, more than 300 people are known to have died, but that number has been climbing quickly. catcher, lopez, or young, has more in mountains of rubble. patience, look for survivors. within moments, businesses, homes and live all shattered by the magnitude 7.2 earthquakes. the damage is devastating, especially in a country that's already suffered so much from the last earthquake in 2010. and its recent political and security breakdown with hospitals

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saturday's tremor is bringing back painful memories. i was leaving my business and i felt the movement. it felt like the earth was moving. i saw that everything was falling. when i got home, i saw the dent of the damage. the government has declared a 11 state of emergency as a tries to find out the extent of the damage castillo. this is a young algebra era. india's prime minister, his mom independence day, with a warning. the corona virus pandemic is far from over there and remotely address the nation from mocking 74 years since independence from british rule, he told the crowd, the code 19 vaccination campaign is gaining momentum despite a slow rollout. how we have been able to keep the majority of us citizens from global 19 because vaccines were made here and were available. but this is not

a time to come back. it's not about being satisfied and saying it was not a challenge. so i'm just thinking the shut the door, the progress in the future as christy's worth wildfires in decades abroad under control, the scale of the environmental and economic impact is becoming clearer out just as a bus robbie spoke to a residence, trying to come to terms with the destruction on the badly hit island of area the after 2 weeks of apocalyptic scenes, fires in greece, still burning, and environmental and economic reckoning on a national scale. now begins. during the early days of the crisis, a mayor in the attic, a basin in north athens describe the devastation from fires as incalculable. greece as prime minister has since promised to put things back the way they were. i'm really sorry to break the bad news, but this is our life from now on. and we still have to do everything possible because if it gets worse,

this is going to get completely out of control. the united nations are mentioning and extension point for humanity. if we reach a certain point of temperature rise, so it's dangerous, it's complicated, it's not going to go back to whatever normal we thought we had some decades ago. this is a new normal, but we still have a lot of things to do on the prevention of the patient and mitigation of the issue . fire damage, property loss, entire communities displaced serious immediate effects. but in the long run, this will be the new normal, increasingly intense summer wildfires. it spells disaster for the countries vital tourism sector just starting to recover from the corona virus pandemic. the effects of the wildfires on via are being felt all over the island as well as on the mainland. once christine beaches were for weeks surrounded by smoke clouds and

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community has been screaming about climate change for years. for the global ecosystem, there is no going back. climate threat is now a cost of doing business. that is here to stay. zane basra b o 0 on greece's area island. thousands of people are being told to leave their homes in the us state of utah. as a fast moving wildfire burns north of salt lake city, the so called polly's canyon fire, burned across more than 1000 texas. up to 8000 homes are in danger. ah, just gone 1430 gmc, your top stories. afghanistan's president, as ref, ghani, has left the country as taliban leaders push for a transfer of power in cobble. it happened hours after he delivered a televised message, promising to take responsibility for the security of the people of cobble robert