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aah! al jazeera ah ah, all the news pay off combo airport people trying to leave afghan, the sun, a scene trying to cling to a u. s. military plane. taxis along the tarmac. we cannot and must not abandon the people of afghanistan. the un secretary general colon from the international community to oppose the taliban takeover over the guns. ah,
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how am i doing this is i'm just like to go home. also coming up, a funeral was held occupied by site for one of the palestinians killed during and israeli wage. stretched thin again, hospitals in the philippines struggle to cope with a record search and cooper 19 cases. ah, well, we begin with the scenes from coble airport, which should the lens desperate people are willing to go to to get out of afghanistan. video from the airport shows crowds running along a taxing us military aircraft, some even clinging to the science or commercial flights from the airport to be canceled the telephone and said combo on sunday nights completing its takeover of the country. well,
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earlier us troops far shots in the air to stop people trying to boards military aircraft. we know they killed 2 armed men. taliban is also the foreign shots in the air near the air fortune an attempt to discourage people from entering or people have been seen trying to climb up on boards to port in commercial jets before the lights are stopped. us and other nations are urging the taliban to let people leave freely. if they won't see, let's get more from rob mcbride's he joins us live from kabul robe, desperate scenes being broadcast from cobra this morning on shares on social media . what's the situation like at the airport? right? no. i mean that chaos does continue into this monday evening impact a couple of hours ago as we were starting to get into the hours of darkness and the darkness was falling. we started to hear quite a bit of gum by coming from that direction. single shot. no. so suppose the magic
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fire either from the airport road or from the airport itself. now the taliban, we know, has set up a code and try to stop more people from getting into the terminal day was we know have been using warning shots to try to keep people away. similarly, the u. s. continued the military, contingent of a very large force inside the fort itself, as they continue to conduct this evacuation exercise of an embassy personnel. the family is also the us citizen. they have been using their weapons. impact has been confirmed by the pentagon, that there was an exchange of gunfire early monday to demand that they describe them were killed that we know from sources that those men were in fact to taliban fighters and from another. i witness who's told us that in fact those 2 taliban were helping with the crowd control on best side. now it's impossible ever to get
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to the bottom of exactly what some of these incidents were, what really took place, but it just gives you an idea of the, the real tense situation that you have the us military, that one side you have the taliban heavily armed on the other between them, this huge the volatile crowd of hundreds, if not thousands of increasingly desperate passengers offering that possibility that they could well be more classes the longer this goes on. so it's very tense situation here inside the terminal and all across the field and the runway are still many people. now a lot of these people, we know genuine travelers, they have tickets, they have all the paperwork, they had plains booked and we're hoping to get on flights at the taliban was taking over. but of course there was a surge. they had hundreds or thousands more people desperate to get out of resulting in these chaos exceeds some colleagues of ours. have been along the port advantage point looking down inside the app. the apple and looking at the runway as
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darkness was falling, and still seeing crowds of people 1000000 go round on the runway itself. and also seeing that some helicopters, a couple of apache attack helicopters that are used by the us with this tactic of hovering very low over the runway, seemingly trying to get people to move off the runway hovering, just a couple of meters, either to allow one of these giant transport plays to either take off or allow one of these plays to land potentially. so it does seem as though by this evening, at least the operation to evacuate and still use these transporters goes on ok, rob mcbride, they're on the chaos that continues. say it sounds like and couple, well thank you. know, an emergency meeting of the united nations security council has taken place. ambassadors are urging the taliban to honor its promises of amnesty and human whites. as it again takes power of kenneth sends representatives to the outgoing
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government, said it was hard to believe the owns group, would deliver on his punches. we're extremely concerned about parliament, not honoring the promises and commitments made in their statements adore her. and how that international fora, we've witness time and again, how taliban have broken their promises and commitments in the past. we have seen gruesome images of parliament, mass executions, of military personnel, and target killing of civilians. in kandahar and other big cities. mister president, we cannot allow this to happen in cobbled with us. also addressed the council and said they're ready to retaliate against those who put their evacuation efforts at risk. all afghan nationals and international citizens who wish to depart must be allowed to do so safely. president biden has made clear that any action
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that put us personnel or a mission at risk will be met with a swift and strong military response. the united states promises to be generous and resettling afghans in our own country. and i'm heartened by the pledges we've seen from other nations to do the same. let's bring in rosalind jordan though he joined for his life for washington verse. the ambassador that i was staying with president biden has made it clear that it's any efforts to interfere will be met with force. but have, see, we haven't heard from the president since leading up to the the fall of cobbled and since then half way. well, there was a statement released by the white house on late saturday night and which joe biden reiterated his rationale for pulling us forces out. and we're essentially honoring
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the commitment which his predecessor, donald trump mate with the tall bond. a year ago. we are expecting to hear from the us president joe biden, later on monday from the white house where he is going to address the american people and explain why. in his view, leaving afghanistan is the right decision. his national security adviser said earlier on the morning breakfast showed here in the us that the president was faced with a number of bad choices. and he took the one that basically protected us troops and was just said to talk to us more about the reaction back there in the united states . as he mentioned, we are set to hear from the president and just a few hours time and, and many will be closely watching about a 9 smith the given the scenes that are coming out of afghanistan given the us in the country for 20 years. and now looks like it's cutting and running and
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leaving its responsibilities behind. i was playing with the u. s. public. however, the reaction to these events. well, it depends on which part of the american public you're referring to. if you're talking about politicians here in washington, the reaction is falling. the long part of the lines. democrats largely support the president's decision to pull out. although there has been some criticism about whether the administration is doing enough to protect the vulnerable women, girls, ethnic, and religious minorities in afghanistan. republicans for the most part, are very critical. they are calling this the president fi gone moment, referrals to the 1975, pull out from what was then south vietnam. however, once you get past the politicians and from afghan war veterans who also think that their sacrifices have basically been wasted, most of the people in the united states are much more preoccupied with
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a nother more existential threat. the cobit 19 pandemic cases are soaring a, across the country, not just in one state or another. and that is where the real concern is. finally, there was some recent polling done and more than 7 out of 10 americans approved of jo biden's decision to pull us forces out about kenneth stan once and for role. so again, it depends on the audience, but it's very much a split reaction. it has indeed will be fascinating to see exactly which will be in the us president will be addressing when he speaks at 1945 g and c will be covering that. of course, for jordan, i'm sure you're going to be watching that very closely. but i wasn't jordan, thank you very much. indeed. the un secretary general, antonio terrorist is urging the taliban to protect the lives of african people. and he's asking council members to help suppress the threads, paused for the armed group. the international community must be united and he lies
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all available instruments to ensure the following. first, we must speak with one voice to oppose human rights. in afghan is done. i call upon the taliban and all parties to respect and protect international humanitarian law and rights and freedoms. of all persons receiving chilling reports of c, v, restrictions on human rights throughout the country. and i am particularly concerned by accounts of mounting human rights violations against the women and girls of afghanistan, who feared to return to the darkest days. and china has won the taliban again. sheltering bonnet, coals, terrorist organizations use long war gd, test organizations such as i saw cader and the eastern standard atlantic movement have gathered and developed in ghana, posing a serious threat to international and regional peace. again, nathan, never again become a haven of terraces and this is the bottom line that must be held firmly for any
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future political solution. we hope that the taliban will deliver on its commitments and make a clean break with terrorist organizations. a spring and david wrote, she's a professor at the national defense university and also a former nato operations director at the joint chiefs of staff. and showing says once again that by skype for washington, d. c, a great for have you with us once more, we've been hearing several different viewpoints of what's been happening in kabul. there's the chaos on the grounds. chaos in the airports, the concern from international diplomats and we're a bite to hear from the us presidents. it's the, i'm not going to ask you to look into the future, but given the difficult position that joe biden is saying that i would you much and he's going to be looking to pitch his remarks. is it likely the administration will consider any of this mistake, or is the us really committed to getting over gonna stand as quickly as humanly
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possible? the latter war than the former? i think that what he'll say is probably something along the lines of look i was delta, very bad hand. i played it as best i could. and i think you'll also say, i'm a bold, decisive leader who ripped a band aid off rather than taking the easy choice and allowing us to stumble on indefinitely. so i think that he has no choice but to aggressively confront this while at the same time, he will make remark, similar to what we heard from the other un representatives about the importance of respecting human rights. but he's on the back foot here. this is a horrible situation. you know, we have the scene. so atkins, holding on to u. s. air force planes, and that's falling off as the plains take off. so he's, he's, he's definitely on the back foot here. and i think that this partisan divide is something that predates these images in the next few days. i think that he will find himself in a very,
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very bad political situation. even his supporters have said that this was a mishandled situation. even those who want to leave from afghanistan say, this was not the way to do it. you are a military man. you were a former nato operations director. we heard the german candidate for chancellors saying that this is a, was a disaster by name. so in the u. k, you've had several former service men who are not members of parliament. absolutely trashing the u. k. government's inaction on this for a military man yourself. i heard you. are you responding to what you've been seeing from the military prospectuses, and what a veteran saying to they feel like their sacrifice has been in vain and this was just a colossal waste of blood and treasure? well, i'm sure that there's some who feel that way. i don't speak for all veterans,
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but you know, when i was in afghanistan, part of my job was to take allied nations that were considering establishing provincial reconstruction teams to include the senior german military representatives to these new provincial reconstruction teams. and then later on, you know, i was don rumsfeld, guy at the nato summit, where afghan stan decided to, or nato decided to take on the mission. so i'm sure that you know, people spinning it negative would give me personally a great degree of culpability. but look, what we saw was we never fully addressed corruption within the afghan government. and what we've seen here is not a military defeat. we've seen us failure of morale, a collapse of government, where forces decided not to fight because they had no confidence in their leaders. so really what it shows it's difficult for them when they rely on us air power and not us air power. 5 is pulled out from under them. well they,
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there was an effort. there are significant if you look at the satellite, those of our sri, there's a lot of aircrafts that just stay static and who are defended. but yeah, i take your point. what we're seeing is this idea that you can build a modern military without having a corresponding civilian government and the like painting over russ. i mean we, we had a civilian government that was fundamentally corrupted, tribal. we tried to build a modern military to support it. perhaps we ignored the clouds, which imperative that you have to have the people, the military, you know, and, and the government. and it failed. i, i don't know. i think that, you know, the coming weeks will determine whether it's worth it or not. there has been a fundamental transformation of society in afghanistan. there's levels of education and empowerment of women. but if the taliban behaves the way they did before, it's sort of a central ation coming rouge. then they can reverse that just through brutality. but if they have changed a little bit, then, you know, maybe it was,
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i mean time will tell time will tell in deeds. and i'd say that ro, jerome agreed to get your thoughts in your analysis at once again, a valuable insight from what it was like in may. so at the time we do appreciate it . thank you very much indeed. to keep it here on al jazeera, also still to come more bodies or pools from the rubber washer powerful earthquake and hazy the vessel billy, 1300 say. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day of 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways, boated world's best airline of 2021. hello, thank you for tuning in the southwest monsoon. not is active toward the west coast of india, so we'll get some breaks in there, particularly toward the north, new deli, a mix of funding cloud for the next 2 days. allowing your temperature to get pretty
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close to 40, where the rain will be intense is india and states as we hit toward the dish right down to entre pradesh. the darker the colors, the more intense the rain is being filtered in from the base, been gall, and up against the himalayas. in baton. we can also expect some heavy falls after asia pacific. great now and this weather front has just been slamming the south coast of japan. we know millions of people force from their homes. and this island east of hon choo scooped up more than a 100 millimeters of brain over the past 24 hours. i think we can expect much of the same on tuesday. this plume of moisture impacting q shoes, chicago, and haunt you. but i actually think the bulk of it will stay out toward the sea of japan. we do have some dry spells for central areas of indo china. this includes bangkok, so mix of sun in cloud in the days ahead. and as we go further, south southeast asia, still some heavy pockets of rain impacting per day. and for the philippines, because our southwest monsoon is not as active, that rain backs off just
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this is out of the record mind off the top story for you know, thousands of afghans of bushed on the tarmac of councils. international airports, many are desperate to escape taliban rule. these 2 men talking short by us troops, ambassadors that the united nations 1st the telephone to honor its promises of amnesty even like this. it takes her once again, going to a boy hold on the world to pressure the group to form inclusive government on the streets of the capital, warm taliban fighters becoming regular sites from mcbride reports. and i for couple the city of cobble has experience so much upheaval for decades. and this is another change to get used to. and one that's far from easy to go most of all of our customers cuz most of the got the situation for now. it's not, no one can say what all the people are just lost and confused. in the space of one
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romantic day, life on the streets feels completely different. this is one of the most obvious signs of the transformation that taken place in literally overnight. the whole of the center of cobbled is protected by these 45 checkpoints, concrete blocks, barriers, normally god carrying automatic weapons and armor humvees with heavy machine guns on this morning. nothing. the people have been getting used to the novelty of a new force in charge. the subject of intense curiosity as taliban take up checkpoint, duties on the roads. cha to know yet i don't know the law or whatever used to fear us. they have now seen them. would you d and that we are from the soil. we don't want to get down to be destroyed, but there's widespread nervous dis about what this do taliban rule will look like. on many businesses and shops remain closed that the raw signs of life returning to
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normal. and you heard about this piece, then everyone will benefit the businesses of the workers. there are deep rooted fears about the erosion of basic frights, in particular for women and girls, despite assurances from the taliban and about a return to cruel punishment for certain crimes. but many still remember life unto the previous taliban government being at least crime free for the most part of the vote on me with everybody will be nobody's kid will be kidnapped again around with a sudden collapse of the afghan government, the people of cobbled and new leaders have been thrown together faster than any had expected. now get together that feeling that way forward into the new reality, robert bride al jazeera, cobble. as for you, some other use from around the world now and the death toll from saturday is powerful earthquake and haiti has jumped to nearly 1300. rescue teams are digging
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through the rubble in a desperate search for survivors. they want to go and pressure the tropical storm approaches. thousands of people are injured, living hospitals, overwhelmed offense. really these, i want to tell the population that we are going through a difficult situation. this is the moment to unite to have a great national unity, a great to solidarity with the victims. let's forget quarrels and come to the aid of those. and difficulty is really media says a rocket far from garza has been intercepted, split the country's iron dorm defense system. sirens have been funding in the city of steroids in southern israel. it would be the 1st rocket long since the seas far between israel and us was agreed in may. a funeral has been held for one of for palestinians killed during the read my israeli forces and the occupied westbank. i please say there were attacks during the operations
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arresting suspects, links to hum us in the city of to nime 3 other palestinians were injured in the exchange of far. it's the 2nd time in recent weeks that israeli arrest operation has led to death. the sasha name has more from western them. the palestinian authority and her mass are calling for a general strike to mourn the deaths of these young palestinian men. the ministry of health is confirming for men has been killed ranging in age from 19 years old to early twenty's. the palestinian 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 at home inside the refugee camp. they arrested one man. there was a violent confrontation between palestinians and the israeli security forces,
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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 janine turkeys. defense ministry says 4 of its soldiers have been killed, spy explosives, in northern iraq. the blasts in the hook province, $1.00 to $2.00 of the soldiers took his military, blamed the attacks on a kurdish armed groups. a former leader of cambodia has come a rouge governments is appealing a life sentence handed to him. for genocides among vic, you some funds defense team asked to you and back to court to overturn the 2018 ruling. they say they were insufficient reasons for the sentence and that it
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violated a legal framework. the 90 rule is one of the last surviving members of the communist government. at least 2000000 cambodians for kills from 1975 to 1979 under the command sam b as going leader at garland who has conceded defeats and congratulated his successor. there was celebrations when the business tycoon was declared. the winner of last week's election. the. okay, to be mad to see susan, goodbye margin the nearly 1000000 volts. that pushed him past the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a bonus. you know, faces the daunting task of turning around and be struggling economy by the time before you today to say change it to the
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both of them yet they're both of them via and through them. the people that have prevailed, i think that's very important off by itself in the philippines are feeling the strain of a 3rd wave over covert 19 infections. else authorities reported more than 145 cases on sunday. if 2nd highest, fairly increase that's despite so lockdown a 9 to run the capital manila ought to be low reports. the tense have sprung up in hospital grounds all over manila and its surrounding suburbs. patients and their relatives are having to wait under the heat to get into emergency room or endure days in big ship towards coffee. 19 is back with a vengeance and is pushing hospitals and the philippines to their limit. the
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philippine general hospital, the country's largest public health institution has stopped accepting don corbett, 19 patients of the problem. we have a lot of non corporate patients who also are filling up our bed and so that will demand more nurses and doctors to take care of them. so this rapid increase in the number of cobra missions made us realize that we can serve both the situation at the philippine general hospital reflects what the health department has been reporting daily infections of more than 12000 were nearly a week. it more people die more than halfway through a 2 week lockdown and its capitol region. the philippines continues to see a spike in corbett, 900 cases. but this current wave of the virus isn't limited to manila. elsewhere in the country. the number of infections is rising as well. area we need douglas spam
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and he lives in ken province. more than a 100 kilometers south of manila. his father tested positive for covey 19 before there was even talk up a locked down. yet they say it took the 3 days to find him a hospital that had a bed in one of the hospitals. my dad was just in the parking lot. the hospital staff prodded us to just leave the hospital premises and maybe try the provincial hospital when we arrived there. the doctor surprisingly discouraged us to even try or lost their dudley's father, survived. but had he waited a few more days to be admitted? does we says the story might have turned out differently, but tough experts, warry, the situation could get worse. it seems like it's not slowing down at all in the past when you do laugh don't r a c q, maybe about
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a week later you'll see some slowing down, but we have not felt that manila st aren't as empty as one would imagine. during the lockdown, more businesses are allowed to operate and more people are out and about. but health department officials say it could take weeks before the impact of this walk down is spelt barnaby low. i'll just hear manila ah, this is al jazeera and these, all the headlines. thousands of afghans have washed onto the tarmac of cobbles, international airports. many are desperate to escape telephone room, at least 2 ons men of the shots by us troops. oh, commercial flights from the airport have been cancelled, but my pride has more from kopel. the taliban, we know, has set up a cold and tried to stop more people from getting in.

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