several times the program that open your eyes to not punish you today on algae there. ah . taliban takes control of us can install the presidential palace off the see thing the capital over running most of the country. president national, gone, a fleas to as back is down office government collapses. he says it wants to avoid bloodshed ah, from doha. also coming up, a taliban spokesman tells al jazeera, those who worked with the government on the military will be offered amnesty. the celebrations in zambia opposition leader hockey. and he to lemme

winds a closely contested presidential election. mm . we begin in afghanistan where millions of people are waking up to morning, fraught with uncertainty about future effect country. on sunday, the government supported and nurtured by the united states. although western countries for nearly 2 decades collapsed, it's the combination of a week that saw the taliban take one provincial capital, often another moving with increasing speed. as night fell in the garden capital on sunday taliban fighters entered the presidential palace, rolling up the national flag. and posing for pictures behind president asked rough gaudy desk are the below human upon that i didn't miss miller rough manner of him. we have come to our victory. we'd like to assure our residence names have been

given to us. we would like to ensure the security of the people god himself fled the country a few hours earlier flying to neighboring is becca stone. in a statement he said he left to spy of the country, father bloodshed. and the taliban are now in effective control of the capital and virtually the entire country. but the u. s. and all the foreign forces are still at cobble airports working to evacuate both their own citizens and gowns who have supported them. charlotte better begins coverage with this report from cobble after 20 years, it was a hostile departure for the united states from its cobble embassy. as the telephone reached, the city limits helicopters very staff to cobble international airport. those who remained bern sensitive documents, while black hawks and apache helicopters circled the capital monitoring for

telephone fighters on the ground. as they released flip over the green zone president trust connie was recording what would be his final statement. he and his co team slate the country shortly after. it was, there is a clear need that the national director of security alongside the police and the gun army take responsibility for the security of all citizens. i have asked a difference minister and into the minister to convey that message. anyone who disturbing the law and order of looting should be confronted with full force before gone lift. cobble. the afghan government had been negotiating with the taliban for a political settlement, but its leverage had weakened with every loss on the battlefield. way. in just 9 days, the telephone took control of every major city except cobble. by sunday morning, its fighters surrounded the capital,

holding districts inside cobble province. so it is a popular uprising and all the proper, probably his order with. so they should understand and know the ground realities and the set in the to submit to the will of the people. there will be a government which will be acceptable to all as the telephone prison still around the outskirts of cobble beyond groups. military commission sent this message to its fighters. smith, landra, monterey. congratulations to your room, but no one should into cobble. you do not have permission to enter. if someone enters, you cannot plead ignorance. yet by sunset, the telephone flag was raised inside. cobbled city tell a bonfire whose was seen driving around on motor bikes and pickup trucks and humvees greasing the people the afghanistan from carry

a ministry carried on. undeterred, stating it remains in charge of the city security guard. the security of the city is guaranteed and it is not going to be attacked. the agreement is that there is going to be a peaceful transfer of power to a transitional. government do not be influenced by any propaganda. couple is safe, rest assured that will not be any problem and cobbled yet, but after the tele bonds rapid march across afghan stone, that was not a chance for us. or it would seem. president ghani, was willing to take charlotte bellis al jazeera, cobble. the us and other countries are now racing to evacuate their diplomats and other nationals from the country. my kind of live in washington d. c. let's go straight to him. what are you hearing? what is the latest in terms of us efforts to get the staff couple well, the state department spokesman that prices just denounced that all personnel have

been evacuated from the embassy in couple. he says that they are now at the couple international airport and that us troops have secured the perimeter of that airport . now, earlier the state department said that the american citizens and those who worked for the americans will be evacuated over the next 48 hours a. not the 1000 troops on the way from the 2nd airborne that will increase the number of us troops around that airport to some 6000. now, in addition to that, there's also some full 1000 troops who are now stationed in kuwait. as a quick reaction force should more reinforcements be needed to conduct the evacuation state. department says, as well is that american citizens who have been living in couple will be evacuated as long with embassy stop. and as i mentioned, those afghans who's been working for american forces a many of them will go to kata where a, another,

1000 us soldiers have been deployed to process the single immigrant visa. so the process, according to state department, is one that will take over the next 2 days would appear 24 to 48 hours, all the operations being protected by the us troops stationed around the international airport. clearly the speed of the top takeover took the american by the prize. was that a failure of intelligence? what is the view from the white house right now? well, president biden, just over a month ago was saying that it was exceedingly unlikely that taliban would quickly over run the country and take control. well, that is exactly what happened. clearly the speed of the taliban response came as a great surprise to american intelligence. and of course questions are going to be asked in the next few days about why this was not predicted why the whole situation

appeared to take the us by surprise. given the fact that they had to stop the massive evacuation process as a kind of need your reaction rather than as any form of long term planning. president biden himself is at camp david. in the course of the day, he held a video conference with a number of people including his vice president, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the u. s. representative to i've gotten, he's done. who is at present in cutter. so president biden, continuing his vacation at camp david as a situation continues to go under way in couple no indication yet of whether he will be returning to washington in coming days or remain at camp david and continue to monitor the situation there. but there has been great criticism from both sides of the aisle. republicans and democrats have been critical of the biden administration. not necessarily for the decision to go ahead and withdraw us forces,

but by the lack of planning that appears to be in terms of the process that led, nobody expecting or predicting that the taliban would now be in control of the country, even as us citizens are still in station now sheltering in couple airport. my kind of their 1st in washington dc. thank you all the fall of cobble brings to an end a to decade experiments in nation building on the part of the u. s. honest allies particle have has a look at how response the 911 attacks grew to become what americans call the forever war. most people will likely remember why it started not the arrow of a demand that held in turnover of summer, been norton and al qaeda unanswered a few weeks later the

a method bombing campaign along with the small force of around $1000.00 in special forces, soldiers and agents combined with the northern alliance in afghanistan, and the telephone fell within months. the u. s. along with its allies turned to nation building with big promises of lessons learned. we know this from not only intelligence, but from the history of military conflict in afghan. stan, it's been one of initial success followed by long years of floundering and ultimate failure. we're not gonna repeat that mistake critic say that's exactly what happened as the us turned more attention to the war in iraq. the us announced an end to major combat operations in afghanistan in 2003. a constitutional written elections followed a new president, new legislature with women taking positions of power. but as the years past cracks

from the coalition and as detailed and fall back in civilian casualties mounted along that of the armed forces, opinion turned, a new us president had to make a decision, go bigger or go home. or overarching goal remains the same us president brock obama decided to send an additional $17000.00 troops. then 30000 more by 2010. around 100000 us troops would be enough. ghana stands in may of 2011. some of the lawn was found and killed in pakistan, but the war continued. obama promised, bring most us troops home by the end of 2016. and then a new us president took over. a hasty withdraw would create a vacuum. the terrorists, including ices and al qaeda, would instantly fail. president trump announced an open ended deployment, but eventually signed a deal with the taliban. if they promised to keep out terrorist groups and not

attack us troops a full withdraw, what happened by may of 2021. but then yet another new us president was sworn in, and president joe biden decided to keep the deal and leave only a small true presence. he said the child would not immediately take over. he was wrong, sunday and more than $5000.00 troops too. hastily evacuate the embassy. now growing questions of what will happen to the women and girls with afghans stand, 20 years of bloodshed and battles, of promises and unimaginable panes of encouraging signs and set back 2 decades of war and still questions of what was one amid so much that was law pettigrew hain alpha 0, washington mat seller is a u. s. fashion off the afghan war, and co founder as no one left behind, which is a non profit organization. he says, president body needs to do more to evacuate those who helped america during the war . and i know what the non veteran feels like. i know what it feels like from my

country to betray a fundamental promise that people like me looked, are afghan war time allies in the i and made we have been trying to warn the, by the ministration about this coming disaster for months and no one listened to us there the islamic emerald of afghan this day. and now has more black hawk helicopters than a $166.00 nations on the planet taliban to point know is going to be so much worse than the taliban of the ninety's. and they were the ones who help alti to perpetrate 911. this is a disaster of epic proportions. and that's not even taking into account now the hundreds of thousands of afghans who are going to be hunted down and systematically murdered by the taliban because they supported our efforts there for the last 20 years. i am deeply ashamed of my country. what i am proud of, of my people, because despite of our government's failure, we are still trying to mount the largest evacuation that we can muster. the president, the united states, joe biden,

must order the u. s. military. that is now uncommon to secure the airport entirely . we then must open up a secure corridor so that we can begin evacuating our afghan war time allies out of afghanistan, not just from cobbler, but from every city where they still reside there over 44000 who are on the outside of cobble and other cities the reports from them now are heretic. there are public executions going on in kandahar in the stadium. women have been told that they cannot leave their homes in herat. and in mastery sharif, they're going door to door looking for anybody who worked with us military, which is by the way, report that we're hearing city wide, including and cobble still ahead on al jazeera in the dental office. saturday that quake in haiti is rising on an approaching and tropical storm is threatening rescue evans. ah, ah,

it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by cattle airways. hello there we seen record breaking amounts of rain fall across parts of east asia . and there's more weather to come for china and japan. and we've seen flooding, not just across the central and south west in areas, but also up in the north east. and we are expecting that rain to continue to fall. it's going to be heaviest around those south eastern areas. so food jang, and when dong expected to see some torrential rains over the next few days. and as for japan, we'll have a look at that. we've got the may, you for continuing to post those pockets of to rental rain across can you show island down into honshu. we have got the highest alert remaining here for possible mud slides and flooding. and it's not only here that we are going to see those incredible amounts of rain fall, but also in the korean peninsula, we could see more flooding up in north korea. now we moved to south asia. it's in

the northeast that we're seeing those monsoon rains for heaviest dishes, likely to see some flooding as those rains kick in. and they're fueled by a tropical low in the bay of bengal. it's kicking a lot of rain up into bangladesh and pole. and bu, time, we could see flooding here, but for the hotter, dry weather, we have to move to the north west with plenty of heat coming through for new delhi sponsor cut on airways. ah, you can a 3rd risk of extinction in vicious plan to rid the nation. and if the president sites one at any events, the guy on out in the me morning allow government al jazeera as a you know, i

a you're watching out as a reminder, thought, help stories. this alex, the taliban has taken over the presidential palace and the gun capital couple comes at the end of a surprisingly quick offensive during which the fire just took the most of the country. taliban says once a peaceful transfer of power, president, awestruck on a hot sled, the country were chaotic scenes that come port as others would say, try to leave the u. s. and other nations still have forces working to evacuate. the citizens and afghans who have supported them and the taliban says it's holding

talks to form what it calls an open, inclusive islamic government spokesman says the group will respect women's rights, allowing them to work and get an education, as long as they wear a job or thomas johnson is a research professor feet national security fast department of the naval postgraduate school. he's also the author of taliban narratives. the uses and power of stories in the galveston conflict. he joins us on sky from monterey in california. many, thanks for your time. you have studied the taliban extensively. let me 1st get your reaction to those dramatic images of the tell about in the presidential palace posing very calming confidently as president awestruck gone. he's death. did you expect this turn of events and what do you read into the actions? i was an overly shocked. we've made the united states as well as capital,

has made many, many mistakes over the last 20 years that allow this to happen. and i can get in those some of those specifically like, but i'm not surprised that this has happened. it's happened quicker than i thought . but i'm not surprised at all that the taliban are at the presidential palace looking at head. we have to look back. have the taliban, do you think changed in 20 years? and if so, how can we expect that to play into the actions in the coming days and weeks? well, i believe sincerely that the taliban of 2021 are not the taliban of 1. 996 or the taliban of 2000. and one, you got to remember that for years they've had shadow governments and many of the provinces in afghanistan, and they set up actual administrative structures. i've seen those structures. so when they 1st came to power in 1996,

they had absolutely no governing experience or administrative experience. the great to, to i facade exclusively was they had a 6 person sure. controlling cobble. and none of them could speak diary. and of course, i use the link of franco in cobble. so i think the major change that's occurred is they're more sophisticated and i think the minister better, i think that's the major change. and also the really, i believe, looking for international recognition, you say more sophisticated, if more sophisticated, possibly more dangerous. oh, they're extra. yeah, they're extremely dangerous. i'm. i'm merely suggesting that there are more sophisticated relative the possible governance and administration. i'm sure, i mean, i'd say anything relative to how they will treat people,

and especially those people that can't get the capital and the international air force international airports that work for the united states or capital in or many forward operating bases that are in rural afghanistan. there's a great deal of concern about the taliban next steps in terms if, how they will treat women. will they allow them to go to school? would they allow them to work? as you say, the taliban? a craving? this international legitimacy? do you think that will influence the actions when it comes to the rights of women? will i think it will, but your guest is almost as good as mine. they lied to as many times over the last, you know, over the last years. and even in the so called of peace negotiations, but i know that the taliban because i've spoken to telecom man commanders, i know that they recognize that if they don't give women at any rights at

all, it's going to really push them back as far as the international community is so i think that's what they'll do is they'll allow, at least in the metropolitan areas, possibly work outside of the home. and they'll hand education for young girls and young workmen. but what that education looks like is problematic. i think it will basically be more religious islamic education that you would find in more of a hard core. me address. then general education really interesting to talk to thomas jefferson research professor as the national security department at the naval postgraduate school next. but on telephone narrative, thank you. thank you. turning now to the days of the news zombie as opposition leader hockey and he to lemme has defeated incoming president. edgarland grew in its presidential election electoral

commission without the result softer plays in vote counting that will partly due to massive turn out and complaints about on verifying results. however, matessa has more from the sucker. will president elect have a day to lay my one and out right majority more than 50 percent of the vote, which means they will be in no run off. most people who voted were young people of them is under the age of about 35. and they said this was a protest vote. a protest for hope. a protest for change is it basically was about the economy. the tide by the poor said he kindly, the rising cost of living high inflation, high unemployment, and that's why they chose to change the governments he lemme who's a business man has promised to turn around the economy. he's promised to tackle them be of the high date and also to tackle issues such as corruption. president edgar langley came out a few days ago saying that he felt that the selection was not free and pay at least

some of the problems that some of his supporters were intimidated by the opposition . and he said, at least one person was killed. and he said that voting was disrupted in areas that were his position strongholds. international observers have said that generally voting was generally lost. the piece for the issue was in the campaign period where they saw that the opposition parties low restricted in campaign and they couldn't access certain areas and they couldn't access the media. so what happens makes people waiting for the, you know, the race and it could be pdc and perhaps in a couple of days and in the real work start for he my he now has to tackle the stag with the car. me try and secure a lot from the i may try to lay of the fear of investors who want the money, the, the loan that has to pay back in. yes, you night that haiti's government says the death toll from saturday's earthquake

has now risen to almost 1300 hospitals are overwhelmed in rescue teams and desperately trying to search for survivors. it's a race against time as the country is about to be hit by a tropical storm cut, lopez heard a young the latest in mountains of rubble. patients look for survivors within moments, businesses, homes and lives all shattered by the magnitude 7.2 earthquakes. i don't know 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 overwhelmed and hearted cities, legitimacy in the key. some victims were taken to the capital port prints for medical assistance rescue team c. there has been unforeseen challenges. a landslide triggered by the earthquake blog, major roads, and humanitarian workers,

c gang activity. just one of the capital is also complicating efforts by that 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. it is devastate primary doctor. 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 is rushing aid to the affected areas of the, the city 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, 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. i got home,

i saw the extent of the damage. the government has declared a one month state of emergency, as a tries to find out the extent of the damage castillo. this is a young algebra era. thousands of people have marched through the streets of lima, demanding the resignation of peruse, newly elected president petal castillo. there was an go over some of his cabinet appointments. mariana sanchez has more. well, there's growing discontent among many through here. she did not want to get president of the benefit of the doubt. although she's been over. do we know they are angry because they say there are people investigated government for apology for terrorism and corruption? and that is unlikely to change because i think, you know, we are against the government because it doesn't represent us. they've links to terrorists and we don't want terrorists or communists in the country. well,

president, cathy have not made any signal that he will change. he's a prime minister who is been investigated for apologies for terrorism. sounds like the rise of the cabinet gets ready to go to congress. confident i'm going to say that's when the legislative will seriously begin to clash. not be to his attitude is not correct or if we would do things right, we would give him more time. but one day he says, one thing that changes any can't be the only one deciding all future. many moderates making mistakes slowly sending the message. 2 the private property will be respected, concerned about the currency, to wait in and have met the provincial government to the people who need most help in the country. now the approach that never wanted ceiling or nothing last week and recreated from the presidency. the canadian prime

minister just intruder has called a snap general election for september 20th. he says, his liberal party needs a new mandate, as the country recovers from the polemic. the vote was called 2 years ahead of schedule. today's party lost its majority in the last election in 2019 forcing it to enter a coalition. we've had your back, and now it's time to hear your voice. the decisions your government makes right now will define the future. your kids and grand kids grow up in. so in this pivotal consequential moment, who wouldn't want to say, who wouldn't want their chance to help decide where our country goes from here. the prominent coalition of pro democracy grapes in hong kong is disbanding. civil human rights front helped organize huge rallies 2 years ago in

a statement as late as said, beijing sweeping crackdown on december. the city had left the movements with little future. international says it's a warning sign and that all the groups are likely to fall. awesome. on all our stories on our website, the address is al jazeera dot com to check it out. aah! i money inside and dough all. he had lives on al jazeera, the taliban has taken over the presidential palace, miasca, and capital couple comes at the end of a surprisingly quick offensive during which the fighting took over most of the country. the taliban says at once a peaceful transfer of power more now from rome. the grind in couple this has been a day that yes began. 2 with the encirclement.