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the me ah, desperation at kava levels, people attempt to climb on bold planes off the solid bomb takeover. now all flights have been cancelled off to taking charge in cobble taliban leaders and 5th people have nothing to fear. ah, i'm tammy say down the boundaries there alive. from the hall, so coming up more body, the pulls from the rabble off to
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a powerful earthquake and have at least $1300.00 people have been killed and malaysia's prime minister and resignation to the king buddy all day in the job. for now, i took the tardy bon 10 days to take over the country and emotions of ranging from astonishment to fear of what lies ahead. the armed group is now in control of afghanistan. it's promised a peaceful transfer of power and an inclusive government. for many people are not convinced there have been chaotic scenes that cobble international airport with large crowds of people desperate to get out the country. but all flights have now been cancelled for at least the next few days. were taught a bomb, took power late on sunday night gathering cobbles, presidential palace is fighters, rolled up the national flag and posed for pictures. hours earlier, president shavani fled the country line upon the miss miller. her rough mind
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roughly, 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. events have sent shock waves around the world, not least in the united states whose military has been in afghanistan for 20 years . pressure is mounting on politicians to explain how the country fell so quickly. sharla bellis is live for us in cobble and shot. let's start with the situation at the airport last time we told the gun fire reports even though some people have been killed. what the situation like there was some trying to verify how these people have died. they were there was chaos in the last 24 hours of people trying to get on planes trying to get out the essentially overwhelmed the airport security. thousands of people flooding onto the tarmac clamoring to try to get on
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the plane, their stories of, of people just pushing past and sitting on a plane and waiting for a pilot to show up to fly them out. we understand is on the security of international forces. so there are some questions about with the international forces were involved in the death of the civilians as they were trying to leave or whether or not they were simply crushed in the stampede. now because of this, all flights have been cancelled, civilian flights have been cancelled at least the international forces have taken over the air traffic control and they just are in the military flight coming in and out. let's actually evacuating international personnel vac trading americans. and then also evacuation people who have worked africans who worked with embassies and their associated with international groups. and people who made work has interpreted that type of thing as far as what's happening in cobbled city. well, pretty quiet the many taliban on the streets and the chick voice they
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enforcing as they say security. we understand about a 1000 telephone, special forces units arrived last night, the pores on court and for security. they are in the presidential palace as you said. and we understand that later today that will be holding a news conference where hopefully we can find out more about how they plan to govern how sounds government will look, who will be in charge. they say that they are taking over the ministries today, putting people in different positions to start running the country. when you listen to charlotte, the statement by the official in the presidential palace who handed over, i guess you could say the keys to the tale bond last night. it's a, there was some level of coordination and agreement. how much of an agreement is dale? has there been so far for a transfer of power? is that clear? at this point?
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there had been negotiations about a transition plan. and as i understand the presidential palace was coming up with a transition plan, which was essentially just going to hand over power to the telecon, maybe that throw them some crumbs in the way that the telephone just had the military dominance. at the, at that point today and so could pretty much pulled a shot. they were made to give that transition plan to tell yvonne and doha, who would choose whether or not to accept it. but all of that fell apart when gone the fleet, the country and the telephone. we left with all the cards and they just marched into town. and any government officials i've spoken to since have said we've just left the office and we just hiding at home. and keeping a low profile, so as far as a formal transition that never actually even choice with the telephone. it just rolled in and taken the reigns. all right, thank you so much. charlotte. better buxton is allowing some freight through a keyboard crossing with afghanistan. the total home crossing was closed on sunday
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after being seized by the taliban. come on. hi there is val with this update. there's been a problem off the oven, tyler bond dog. got door. com and that was because they were a new game at door. come show the movement of the traffic was effect date and i've called a major logistic good supply line to have one. it's on however this morning we have been seeing avalon truck late in red, kil, come by gray, and melons. i've been crossing into pockets on however, on the buckets on side, the traffic that is supposed to be moving into a granite on carrying meat. poultry commodities are stuck because of the backlog and a border closure yesterday. but we are, we believe that the board is now open for goods transport moving, although that is a backlog, as you can see, hundreds of truck,
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bog ad decades golf dot com and trying to get a garage because of the long jobs that have been created. because of what happened yesterday, but we are getting report that the situation in july, the bought in the eastern provinces is slowly coming back to normal people coming back to their job. their business says, and it is an expectation that did it meeting going on today. the park, it's on the prime minister, has called a meeting of a cabinet to make the decisions likely that the border will remain open now because of the humanitarian crisis unfolding and caused by so all signs off. that debt is gradual movement across the board. once again in the coming out, the un security council is expected to discuss f ganeth. stan diplomat say they've been proposing a draft statement which would threaten sanctions and a firm that a taliban lead government would not be recognized. his diplomatic attitude,
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james phase. here are the un, they are following the situation extremely closely. the un security council will meet on monday to says scott, what's been going on the very fast moving and fluid situation in afghanistan. i'm told the secretary general antonio terrorist will be briefing himself the security council about what's been happening on the ground, what they understand about the taliban plans and about the security situation as foreign diplomats are leaving from cobble airport. the u. n. are not evacuating at this stage, i'm told that you and staff are confined to the bases. they are not going anywhere . they're not carrying out any work, no humanitarian work by the un at this stage. clearly, it will be interesting to hear from all members of the security council. remember, 6 of the 15 security council members had troops in afghanistan at some point. there are other key players to listen to. certainly russia and china will be worth
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listening to in the security council meeting. and of course, all eyes will be on to thomas greenfield. the u. s. representative of the security council trying to explain the us his position right now and what the u. s. is going to do after what nearly every different matter i've spoken to says is a catastrophic foreign policy failure by washington. china is a permanent member of the security council has been following the situation in afghanistan closely. let's go to katrina. you joins us now live from beijing. so what kind of signals are we getting from beijing on events, enough kind of fun. well state media having a bit of a field day by saying that this is a complete failure of us policy, enough honest on many channels here are referring to the day that us troops fled saigon at the end of the vietnam war and making comparisons to both incidents now
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the chinese government has for many weeks being critical of the u. s. is hasty. withdrawal from of gone is done, but today on monday, the woods from the foreign ministry, spokes person where more measured, she called on the tele bond to protect the chinese people. in chinese interest in afghanistan, the chinese embassy is still operating and functioning in full in cobble. and while most chinese nationals have fled the country, some are still remaining. the beating has also cold enough. gone, stolen and gone, is done. and the telephone to build a peaceful, transitional government. and also it says that it's keeping close communication with the taliban during this very unpredictable time. now paging itself has been preparing for this moment. at the end of july, it welcomed a team of tale bon representatives to change in to meet with china's foreign minister one e. and during that meeting, beijing repeated its policy of non interference that encouraged dialogue. it also
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encouraged the taliban to pursue a moderate islamic policy, and it said that it was willing to play a role in the reconstruction off of afghanistan. now it's not certain exactly what it means by this, but china is watching closely to see how the cards fall in the country. it's interested enough. gone on for 2 reasons. mainly one is economic investment. afghanistan is a porton for china's built in rhode initiative because of its location. it's the fastest way china can access south asia and the central asian countries. china is also, i'm going be resources in afghanistan. it's mineral resources of copper. and the taliban in 10 are also interested in chinese investment. the beijing has made it clear that will not invest in the country while it's still very unstable. and the most important reason, i think wind paging is interested in what's happening on the bron enough going to san is because of the security ramifications for china. china shows a narrow border with afghanistan, and in the past week,
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separatists have entered the ssion jung region. and in the eyes of aging caused instability the so it's off the taller bond to promise that it will not allow of gone assigned to become the breeding ground for these vices and told on they have promised this to beijing. so china will be watching closely to see how that plays out, and whether the told on are able to keep that promise. all right, well, leave it there now. thanks so much. still ahead on al jazeera, the celebrations into the night, like the new president and pet who's president has any recently taken office already protest calling for his resignation. ah, ah, it's time for the journey with sponsored by kettle airways.
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the me. welcome back and watching. i'll just time to recap our headlines now. all flights out of the afghan capital cobble of been cancelled for at least the next couple of days. the crowds have been scrambling to get on flying out of the country. also the taliban thieves control of the council caught a bomb to cove a power late on sunday night gathering a cobbles presidential palace fights is rolled up the national flag and post the pictures our earlier as the industrial bonnie fled the country. the situation has sent shock waves around the world, not least the united states military has been enough kind of them for 20 years. pressure is mounting on the conversations to explain how the country fell so quickly. now,
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white house officials have been done that the speed of the time the bonds take over president joe biden was at camp david on sunday, getting regular briefings from his national security team. he's been facing criticism for sticking to a plan initiated by his predecessor, donald trump. when the u. s. military mission enough gamma stan, secretary of state anthony blink and insist though the u. s. has achieved its mission. enough gown is done. he rejects comparison to the vietnam war when american troops made a k all think exempt from what was then called saigon in 1975. 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. our cater, 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
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sure that we keep in place in the region. the capacity, the forces necessary to see any reemergence of a terrorist threat and to be able to deal with it. so in terms of what we set out to do in f canister and we've done it. but for many the events in cobble, mark and unexpected end to america, the longest war party call hain looks back at 2 decades of us boots on the ground and the president to sent them there. most people will likely remember why it started not the arrow of assume a demand that held in turnover of some good norton and alco unanswered a few weeks later, the a method bombing campaign, along with a small force of around $1000.00 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
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nation building with big promises of lessons learned. we know this from not only intelligence, but from the history of military conflict in afghan and stan, it's been one of initial success followed by long years of floundering an 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 constitution was 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 and 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
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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 law 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 group and not attack us troops a full withdrawal, 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 talent would not immediately take over. he was
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wrong sunday and more than $5000.00 troops to hastily evacuate the embassy. now growing questions of what will happen to the women and girls of afghan, a stamp, 20 years of bloodshed and battles, of promises and unimaginable pains of encouraging signs and said that 2 decades of war and still questions of what was won amid so much that was lost pettengill hain, l 0 washington. malaysia's prime minister ma had jania c in his handed in his resignation to the king. and the telephone's address, he said he's stepping down because he lost his majority in parliament. but he won't be leaving office straight away. florence louis explained some color, pull his hand in his resignation, and the pallets of issued a statement saying the king has accepted not just weighed in. yes, in resignation as prime minister, but also the rest of his cabinet. but weed and yes and stays on as can take
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a prime minister until a permanent successor is found. now, still likely to be a period of political uncertainty in malaysia because there is no obvious success as to who should be the next prime minister. now and a malaysia's constitution, the king will appoint the person who he thinks is likely to command the confidence of the majority in parliament. but as i said, there is no obvious success, that there is no politician who is able to come up and say that he has got the numbers, the majority number in parliament. so that could harold a period of political uncertainty. now the other option that was open for the country was for elections. the prime minister, the outgoing prime minister, having tended his resignation, could have advised the king to dissolve parliament and call for snap election at the palace in its statement on monday, said that is not an option at this time. because more than 80 percent of the parliamentary constituencies in malaysia are still considered. corona virus
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hotspots now at least for palestinians have been killed during an operation by israeli forces in the occupied westbank. police say they were attacked during a mission to arrest the suspect linked to a mass in the city of janine 3 other palestinians were injured in the exchange of fire. it's the 2nd time in as many weeks with no rest warrant operation has led to death. latasha aim has more from western the palestinian authority and math or calling for a general strike to mourn the deaths of these young palestinian men. the ministry of health is confirming for men have been killed, ranging in age from 19 years old to early 20. the palette sitting in our authorities are saying that there was a pre dawn raid inside a refugee camp in jeanine on monday morning. they're saying that an undercover is really security team of israeli security forces rated a home inside the refugee camp. they arrested one man. there was
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a violent confrontation between palestinians and the israeli security forces, leaving 4 men at least 4 men dead. janine has become a flashpoint. it's a place where palestinian resistance to the israeli occupation often turns violent . the large refugee camp there has many people who have weapons and there are members of groups such as hamas. earlier this month, another palestinian was killed during a similar raid in jeanine rescue teams in haiti searching for survivors after saturday's powerful earthquake in while the country is also bracing for a tropical storm. many, 1300 have been confirmed dead also the magnitude 7.2 tremor, thousands more injured. hospitals are overwhelmed. some patients are being treated out in the open and adding to worry about their safety tropical storm. grace is
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expected to hit have later on monday. really, i want to tell the population that we are going through a difficult situation. this is the moment to unite to have a greater national unity a great to solidarity with the victims. let's forget quarrels and come to the 8 of those in difficulty. at m. e l is an economist and professor at keesa university in puerto prince, he says strong leadership is critical for haiti right now from very can to, to, to earthquake. and in those corners, the barely very difficult we, i mean the haitian people really need to break and why we think is good time for us to really ring, you know, better leadership, you know, people back can really make good planning and also raise a wireless. and then in the preparedness of the country, you know,
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you can prove with those disaster who happen to prepare that that can help you to minimize the damage even before the disaster the economy was terrible. actually to using the roll was negative, come into grow and was around 40 percent of the population in for insecurity lack of jobs and other people leave the country be leaving the country for the last 2 years. because of the games activity. so it's going to be more difficult in the south. but if we, you know, make sure that this time, not only going to do many quickness firms that are going to build capacity, trend people, and then give them the resources created to type business. give
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love, i couldn't we got to be that could be different. does that now thousands of people of march through the streets of lima, demanding the resignation of peruse, newly elected president pedro castillo zango. but some of his political appointments, opponents fear his candidate will implement policy similar to those that have failed in venezuela already on the sanchez reports. well, there's growing discontent among many through the us here. they do not want to give the president of the benefit of the doubt. he's been over 2 weeks. you know, they are angry because they say there are people investigated. you government for apology for terrorism and corruption, and that is unlikely to change. so what do you think when we are against the government? because it doesn't represent us, they have links to terrorists and we don't want terrorists or communists in the country. you know what?
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i think i still have not made any signals that he will change his a prime minister, who is being investigated for our policies for terrorism. sounds like it's a rise of the cabinet, gets ready to go to congress. to say that when the legislative will seriously begin to clash, 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 and he can't be the only one deciding our future. many moderates make, making the same low re sending the message. 2 the private property will be respected, concerned about the currency to aiden, and have met the provincial government, the people who need most help in the country. now the approach never mind stealing our nothing less than him and recreate it from the presidency
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that have been celebrations in zambia, where opposition leader came, the dilemma has been declared the winner of last week's presidential election. the tycoon successfully campaigned on using his business, experienced to turn around the struggling economy. hold on with us or has more from the soccer di they will worth a damn be an opposition. neither guy in the heat. lemme has waited years to hear what they said. he should emma to be president elect or the republic of zambia. his defeat of incumbent president ed gallagher came when i try for the top office and his supporters are ecstatic. i the candidates when an outright majority of them both, which means there will be no one. but now the daughter task of turning around the
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economy begin. this country has got a lot of challenges. the challenges wish to be and people in their collective wisdom have decided to lump on the show does of this one man. but we must be quick to say that this one man is equal to the touch zambia. it was more than $12000000000.00 to external companies and linda's. the high cost of living, rising unemployment, and poverty will be concerned for voters president. it is promising to turn around the economy, saying he can attract investment, tax debt and corruption. the majority of registered voters will young people and they turned out on the election day. and in some areas, the tunnel was even higher, 90 percent. and this is really
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a cry out by the people of them that they want to be noted. they don't want to be sidelined by any government prisoners, london. so the election was not free and fee of incidents of violence against the ruling. patriotic fine party agents in 3 provinces. he limit the porters reject that. they want the president elect, sworn into office as soon as possible, had matessa officer, the sucker. ah, let's take you through some of the headlines here now and you are now all flying out of the afghan capital cobble have been cancelled for at least the next couple of days. crowds have been scrambling to get on flying out the country. also talk about seize control of the capital. the number of people dive in the rush to get out. charlotte bellis has morphin cobble. was trying to verify how
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these people have dies. there were, there was chaos in the last 24 hours if people try.

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