for those who are managed to cross the border, say it's not because conditions have improved back home. they say it's going to continue to be targeted because of and many properties are being reported. and when they come taking refuge conditions here. um, id ah, at the president's desk the taliban is back in charge and cobble, a spokesman tells al jazeera it's ready to peacefully assume control of the country at last 20 years ago. cutting to the whole muslim nation of 5 dentist on. i'd like to congratulate you for this victory. president, chef connie fleas, foreign diplomats are lifted out and many had for the borders. want next for the millions in afghanistan, who fear taliban control? ah,

hello, i'm mariam demising and watching algae 0 live from london. also coming up on the program, the search for survivors often us quite kills more than 700 people in haiti. it's a race against time until a major storm hits and indonesia struggles with a surge of covered 19 deaths among the youngest in the country. ah, welcome to the program and continuing coverage of the conflict in afghanistan. it's $230.00 in the african capital cobble. we've been monitoring pitches within the past few hours of taliban fighters in side. the presidential palace at the desk that once belong to the elected president of sheriff ghani. he has now fled the

country and less than 12 hours. after arriving on the outskirts of the city, the armed insurgents say they are back in control. you say they are now more moderate force promising to respect women's rights. but the scenes unfolding and cobble of causing concern across the country and in capitals around the world. well, the taliban leadership surrounded by dozens of armed fighters earlier on address the media from the country seat of power or the below human upon the miss miller, her rough mind that we have come to our victory and we'd like to assure our residents names have been given to us, we would like to ensure the security of the people and also one of the taliban co founders has congratulated his fighters and the people of cobble, well about a doubt, posted this on social media. miss miller, her 9. now mother who and i said, yeah, not a silly will cut him to the whole muslim nation of janice don. i'd like to congratulate you for this victory,

especially the residence of cocoa. we were not expecting to get to where we are now at this speed. almighty god has given us this exemplary victory. arrogance is not going to lead someone to this kind of victory. we have a great responsibility, and we are being tested now as to how we can serve on nation, the security, the livelihood. responsibility is how we can provide all of this in the same way that god has given us this victory will be able to provide security stability to afghans so that they can have a proper life. as we see these dramatic events unfolding and cobble has also been this exodus from afghanistan that's continuing that kale to exceed that the made international airport is both foreigners and afghans tried to flee. a pentagon official says the president joe biden has authorized another 1000 us troops to go to cobble help evacuate thousands of us and afghan civilians. germany is also one of the countries now and trying to evacuate it. citizens from the capital. i'll do

there is rob mcbride is income, but he has more on reaction in the capital. it has been an incredible day after what's been an incredible, a few weeks in the complete transformation of africa. this done, i mean the day began with the city basically being undersea. your people knew that we were heading in that direction. since the fall of all of these provinces, we saw the build up of this mentor. as the taliban seem to get the support of the various factions, of which there are many in afghanistan, we saw them at grabbing equipment and brand new humvees and vehicles. we saw them opening up prisons, but letting out taliban prisoners who then apparently joined the cause, joined by other people who seem to switch side so they get it with this has been building people here in cobble. they've been watching all of this with growing on ease and that it's sort of culminated with a beginning of this sunday looking at the city on the siege and then report

starting to emerge of taliban fighters actually coming into the city itself. and you could sense that kind of a palpable increase in the level of tension. we were out in the streets, watching people drawing money out of atm that were empty or trying to get into banks and get money out. i didn't increase the amount of clamor to try to get hold of us dollars and they simply, in most cases were non or people who are going to stores to buy things. and suddenly it increased their pay. so it increased the whole tension level throughout the day. and gradually into this evening, we have now seen taliban figures and characters out on the streets. whereas we have insurance at the start of this sunday that they would hold back. they would not come into cobble itself, but then on the pretext, right or wrong that, that was looting going on and has been cases of looting in cobble. we see those taliban people on the streets taking over largely the jobs that had been until now done by ordinary policemen. in many cases those policemen simply changing the

uniforms for civilian clothes and drifting away. and it's easy when we talk about the taliban to think of one big organization like a big army or a big civil service with different tiers and structures, etc. and it isn't really like that. yes, there is a taliban leadership and a command, but especially as you get down to more localized levels that is more splinter than there are different groups, etc. so you know, you have to look at it to that. what the taliban will do in one part of the country may be different to the taliban in a different, another part of the country, but it doesn't seem to have different faces. and, you know, in other parts of afghanistan, there are reports during the, especially the past few weeks. and months of this increased up surgeon in violence of fighting between it and government forces of various atrocities, human rights abuses, war crimes being carried out by some units of the taliban. i mean that just pay

appear to be the telephone. evidence of that uploaded to social media, which many human rights groups international organizations have said should be investigated. and these war crimes should be investigated that the people held to account. i think we're probably going to see a different face of the taliban hearing terrible because of course, this is a fumble, a public stage, these fomo public and easily visible to the outside world that it was 20 years ago . thanks to communications and the rest. and so they will, i think there is a sense or an expectation we could of course be wrong with we've been so surprised by what's taking place thus far. but there is an expectation that they will be acting differently. they will be behaving if you like, because they will realize that this is more of a world stage. the world is watching them and seeing what administration they will create. mean a sheriff as an african rights activist who has been raising funds and organizing

emergency food and supplies for despite families and combo. she joins us via skype from toronto. thank you for taking time out to speak to us. obviously you have family and friends and honest on. tell me about the women you've been in touch with that. how are they feeling now? are they afraid? they're very afraid they feel very abandoned then i'll be i'll be very clear in how i frame with dealing with abandonment. it's not a sense of we need the international community to guide us and to give us money and to help us help us enter the faith is of work and education. it was the promise of security that they could do. the promised that there was a common enemy that they would be protected from. they feel very hurt. and we were speaking earlier about the long running historical, brutal repression of the has our community in afghanistan. and we have seen also

women who have been the main target of taliban violence women that was speaking to now how are they? what do they tell you about the situation? i suppose it depends where they are in the country. while they think that we may have the tiniest window of time to get out as the taliban are on their best behavior because they're on the world stage. there is not a single person that i've spoken to that had any genuine hope that anything would be conducted differently than it was the 1st time around. for people that are not familiar with the country or it's history. tell us more about how the taliban view women and how they treat women. oh, i thought human human not to be seen not to be heard, not to participate, not to seek medical attention. not to not to me. i contact with any one of the

probably even within their family, but did love to lock them up and pretend they didn't exist, not how be retreated for a very long time. it was a great head against that they trusted the space to be safe enough. they claim to now be respectful of the rights of women. is the taliban in 20? 20. want to change group 4. do you think they're capable of doing so? i don't think they're capable of it and i don't think that they're even behaving like they're capable of it. as far as i've heard from friends, we're speaking to people from canoes, who are the internally displaced. when that when could you sell from kandahar they aren't treating anyone any differently than they did the 1st time. in fact, they're seeking out anyone who has been vocally against them and in this period, women are being not women are being forced into marriage, which is really just a polite way of saying abused. tell us more about that. there have been reports of

women being forced to marry taliban commanders, but of course when we use the word marriage, that in many ways is misleading. what do we mean by that? absolutely. wild if kidnap and its actual slavery. i don't know how else to to be explicit about it, but what would anyone think of someone being forced out of their home, nav, antique, and you belong to a commander? mean a sheriff. thank you for joining us from toronto and best of luck with your work. thank you. and the secretary of state, meanwhile, has been defending his country's role in the conflict following. the withdrawal of us troops, of course, might kind of joins us live now from washington. d. c for more on that. anyone from the white house tonight, mike?

well, president biden is a can david for the week. he did hold a video conference in the course of the morning, the white house releasing a tweet with the photograph of the president in casual attire, holding a video conference with the national security leaders, his vice president, as well as the us representative in doha. but the administration continues to push back against criticism of its pull out from a stand or rather the way in which the pull out has been effected. and the secretary of state tony blinking, rejected comparisons of the situation in couple. now, with what happened in 1975 in saigon when us forces had to conduct a forced evacuation of the embassy in saigon following the war in north vietnam. this is what tony blinking at to say. let's take a step back. this is manifestly not saigon. the fact the matter is this. we went to afghanistan 20 years ago with one mission in mind. and that was the deal with the

people who attacked us on 911. and that mission has been successful. we brought a lot to justice a decade ago, al k to the group that attacked us has been vastly diminished. its capacity to attack us again from afghanistan has been right now, does not exist. and we're going to make sure that we keep in place in the region, the capacity, the forces necessary to see any reemergence of the terrorist threat and to be able to deal with it. so in terms of what we set out to do and f canister, and we've done it well, president biden continues to say he does not regret the decision to withdraw us forces, but also continues to argue strongly that he was put in his position by the former president and the p steel that donald trump concluded in may of last year and which he agreed to leave as counties done by may. this year when president biden took office, he extended that deadline to the end of august. but still no doubt,

among many observers that whereas the president might have an argument about continuing with the withdrawal, the way in which it has been conducted has created immense problems, raising questions about the bite and administration's intelligence capabilities. given the fact that they did not predict, and in fact the president himself denied that there would be the taliban over running the country within days of the us withdrawal, or even before that withdrawal is conducted. one last point, sources within the d o. d say yet another 1000 soldiers are being sent to couple from the 2nd airborne. this will bring to 6000 the number of us troops stationed in couple at present, this a far greater number than the us presence in the city in recent years. thank you very much, mike hanner in washington dc. going to continue on coverage and situation in afghanistan this out as the taliban suite to power, they have entered the gun capital cobble and the country's presidential palace

taking power some 20 years after the u. s. innovation, also there were hundreds, gather there right next to the tank. god only knows what happened to them as been in the tragedy flapping in dozens of people killed in a fuel tanker explosion. ah, ah, hello there for much of a strain. we've got high pressure in charge and that's keeping things rather fine and why across those central and northern areas, the heat is really coming through for darwin. we are expecting if you coastal showers along the coast larrys of queensland and new south wales as well as western parts of australia. but they will be a lot of sunshine coming through for pat. and we'll see the temperature in the early twenty's. so it's going to be rather fine and dry there for the wet and windy

weather we have to move to tasmania and to victoria we are seeing some powerful gusts of wind, some heavier raines. yeah. and some snow in parts of tasmania. it is going to ease on choose day for the more unsettled weather will have to move across the tasman see to new zealand and we have got a weather front bringing a real wintery mix to the south island. we've got some severe gail warnings out for parts of the south island. you can see that snow kicking, you know, cross central areas. as we go into choose day. it's going to be the north island that sees a lot of the really wet weather and it's a similar story for eastern parts of asia. we've got some really intense rains on the way, for se, in areas of china and southern parts of japan, where a mudslide and flooding alert remains that sir, update the metal gasket,

a breathtaking tropical paradise where its former protectors are now wanting to vary. we follow their journey as they put their lives on the line. breaking. it's all medical on out the euro. oh, a main story this our taliban fighters are inside afghanistan presidential palace entering the capital after a brief offensive. the group says it once

a peaceful transition of power, and they claim to be a moderate force promising to respect women's rights, scenes unfolding in the cobble are causing worry and concern across the country. and i've got to sounds, president nash, i've gone a has left cobble sources from insecurity, say the lead is back, is done with his wife, his chief of staff and national security advisor. the government has urged for com in the pentagon officials as us president joe biden is authorized in the 1000 us troops to go to cobble to evacuate thousands of us and afghan civilians. u. s. has been flying its diplomatic stuff out of the city. while there is diplomatic editor, james base has moved from the united nations on really how the u. s. departure is being received on the world stage. this i think, is going to be a big blow to the power and prestige of the united states. i don't think you can

really look at this despite secretary blinking saying that their operation in afghanistan last 20 years was a success. there's no other way of seeing this is a catastrophic foreign policy failure. i think it was a failure on a number of fronts put aside whether they should have left afghanistan the way they left afghanistan. it seems to see i did not predict that the taliban would do anything at this speed on the military front. clearly a failure because of all the money that was spent by the us. an estimate of $144000000000.00 in the recent government report. lots of that money was on the us training the african military. i think one of the problems there is that they created a system where they worked hand in hand. and in some ways, the us military were like the offices and the african military were like the soldiers. but when you removed the u. s. and nato forces, the african military couldn't fight and certainly didn't want to fight because of the psychological blow of the u. s. pulling out which i think,

even in the pentagon, they had not really expected. president biden to follow through all. and i think the u. s. also were looking at a map of afghanistan, which had provinces. districts on it. the taliban looked at a map of that had the tribal divisions, and i've got to start on it and they managed to work those tribes. they managed to find the right power brokers so that they were able to take province of the province. and in many cases, there wasn't much of a fight. of course, at the provincial capital that valid taliban also took control of every major border crossing in the country. the last to be seized was the crossing toward come one of the largest gateways between afghanistan and pakistan. come all hide reports on that now from islam of eyes, hitch rated at the end of the hive of bars. down of tor come the border and i did the dream li, crucial. however, budget on her clothes that border because of go over restriction now dated backlog on both sides where door that there was no fighting or the single bullet fired

attached to remain between the dollar bond. and the avalon border police that rela, the outbound national army who left the door come after the dollar bon gay man. so indeed, everything quite normally as far as the security situation is concerned. by plugging on, i've got a rare that up for a long conflict, and i've run it on that day would be a dream of refugees sporting across the border. also, the fact that the closure of this border could also mean shorter. jade and populated centers of runners. don garbers, jayla bodka at some point there will be an agreement to or to open this white quarter door. but it should be remembered that the taliban 1st came into power against the war, large meeting out of trucks or deeds against the people. there was a popular uprising that is how the dollar bond were able to creep across the

country with local support. people who were fed up with the warlord shadlee was large, were brought back by the americans to help them against the dollar bond go. their writing was on the wall, the dollar bond was going to succeed at some point by default against overwhelming . org. and i've got from what we have seen, it appears that they have learned mistake from their mistake of the boss. and if they're not careful, and they do not give into that, the reservation that the people have about how they're going to govern, then they could have problem. sure. indeed, dash range like the ability and for the 1st time and decade, did it hope that a political schedule, man, maybe at hand, something that the guns have been waiting for for decades. what's tend to have now many people are spending a 2nd night searching for loved ones missing since saturdays powerful of quake. at

least 700 people were killed with the number expected to rise. making it was, the catastrophe comes during a period of political instability with a tropical storm. now on the way, catchy lopez, how diane has the latest in mountains of rubble, patients look for survivors. within moments, businesses, homes, and lives all shattered by the magnitude 7.2 or the damage is devastating. especially in a country that sounds pretty much from the last earthquake in 2010 and its recent political security breakdown with hospitals overwhelmed and haunted cities legitimately in the key. some victims were taken to the capital court prints for medical assistance rescue team c. there has been unforeseen challenges, a landslide triggered by the earthquake block me to roots and humanitarian work received gang activity. just one of the capital is also complicating efforts by the

asset. a lot of damage was caused by this earthquake, people in the capital don't know what is happening in the city of la k is devastate . dr. my lady is still struggling to come to terms with the assassination of his president last month and a worsening coven. 19 pandemic. the prime minister says he's brushing a to the affected areas where cooling for a lot of solidarity, but it needs to be highly structured. so that won't be experienced in 2010 is not repeated. more than 200000 people were killed in the 2010 earthquake. and now more than a decade later, saturdays tremor, his bringing back painful memory that 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 extent of the damage the government has declared

a 11 state of emergency as a trying to find out the extent of the damage. katia, a little bit of again, al jazeera, a fuel tank or is exploded in northern lebanon, killing at least 28 people, and leaving many more with her sick buns, happened as the only distributed illegally stored petrol to local residents who had flocked to the area with the promise of his gas resource ali hashim is following events from southern lebanon. another, some off agony 11. next close enough, a fuel tanker in the northern town of flail has added to an already 10 situation for millions of beneath people on the other, on a theme for your vital i consider the spy roots sickened. explosion. what happened is not small. people have been incinerated, some are still missing. god knows how many. this is a crime and i think every criminal, every smuggler is a traitor. all i wanted to run away. there were hundreds gather there right next to

the tank. god only knows what happened to them. the explosion happened when lebanese army personnel were distributing feel, after discovering a hidden fuel tanker that contains thousands of medical teams in the area have been overwhelmed. most of the injured had to be transferred to neighboring cities for treatment. and the country with no functioning government and it was stated economy and a di health situation. if you're crisis, is now leading to hours of way to get better stations. i've been here for a couple of hours. i'll probably stay for 3 or 4 hours in order to fill my bag with foam petrol. the only one you're thousands of thoughts. not just where i am. everywhere in the queue in front of petrol stations to get a basic commodity that no one can reach. you, i've been waiting for 2 hours,

i'm not even sure whether i'll be able to get petrol or not. i've been here for 5 hours. look, it's empty. i might wait another 3 or 4 hours. every month, i go through this 5 or 4 times. lebanon has been through challenges in the past, but many say what their expediency, no political economy can social and rest, will be difficult on the actual, i just thought something. indonesia is struggling with one of the worst corona virus outbreaks in the world. and it's increasingly claiming the lives of children will then $1200.00 children have now died. jessica washington reports on this now from tongue. drunk in indonesia sicken regency. yet another young life has been lost to cope with 19 funeral workers have come to take this coffin to the cemetery. inside is the body of

a 2 month old baby. her name is maria. she died in hospital almost 3 hours from her family's home. now her parents have returned to their village, the approval. we came back here from the hospital because our child is dad and i live all they have. are they memories of maria? they don't even have a photo of their daughter. i stay at home and rest because i'm always thinking about my daughter who died. as indonesia covered crisis continues, even the youngest have not been spared. and in many parts of the country, children may also be suffering from a 2nd disease or medical condition which heightens the risk of stunting or amount nutrition will have an impact on a child immune system. so if they get infected, it's likely to hit them harder. flow vaccination dr. outside major cities is also

putting young people in danger. as many children contracts the virus from family members, people fit children not affect and kids and die. but right now we have a lot of children died as the delta variant continues to spread across indonesia won't children of falling ill each day. every week, hundreds of entities and children died from 19 most so under the age of 5 does increases. so to just demand for small child size fields for the country, young victim of the panoramic to beta still cannot believe her grand daughter shall over is gone. she was just 4 years old. she was kind and cute and everyone liked her. i'm sad, she left me behind. i still want to take care of her would gone to slide it, otherwise i shall over. never got the chance to ride her new bike,

hers like thousands around the country was a childhood cut short by the pandemic. jessica washington out to 0 tongue room and alliances, zamiah's opposition parties of cold on president edgar longer to concede election, defeat supporters of the opposition to kinda hit your layman, gathered in the capital lusaka results. show him ahead. it's the 6 time the 59 year old has run for the top job job, and the 3rd time he is challenged and his claims devote his corrupt results, are expected by monday. the main story this how we've been following the dramatic developments in afghanistan over the past 24 hours. and now taliban fighters are inside the presidential palace and at the desk that belong to the elected president assured.