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and challenging perception and personal endeavours in epic struggle with the colossal sacrifices in individual journey witness showcases, inspiring documentary change. the one on al jazeera ah, the us send more troops to secure the evacuation the combo airports after sizes of desperate people, storm the mac. we cannot and must not abandon the people of us counties than the un secretary general calls on the taliban to respect human rights group promises to form an inclusive government. ah,
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come and have them. i have been and this is just about my life and also coming up were bodies pools from the rubble last year, a powerful earthquake in haiti. at least 1300 people have been killed. i'm felicia prime minister has handed his resignation to the king. but will continue to run the country for none. ah, the us is temporarily suspended. evacuations are over. galveston, after chaos campbells airports. thousands of people rushed onto the tarmac. desperate to escape taliban room. your sources say they shot 2 gun and dead to taking fire. the pen to them who sent another sons and trips to secure the airport, bringing the total number to point their to 6000 bright has the laces. so in the situation the taliban, we know, has set up
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a cold 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 airport itself, as they continue to conduct this evacuation exercise of an embassy personnel. the families also the us citizen. they have been using their weapons. in fact, it's been confirmed by the pentagon, that there was an exchange of gunfire early monday to demand as they describe them were killed. now 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 that side. now it's impossible ever to get to the bottom of exactly what some of these incidents were, what really took place, but it just gives you an idea of the,
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the real tense situation that you have the u. s. military there on one side, you have the taliban heavily armed on the other between them this you to the volatile crowd of hundreds, if not thousands of increasingly desperate passengers offering the possibility that they could well be more clashes 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 are genuine travelers. they have tickets, they have all the paperwork, they had plains booked and we're hoping to get on flights of the taliban was taking over. but of course, there was a surge that they had hundreds or thousands more people desperate to get out of resulting in these chaos 16th. and thus it is that the united nations of hers, the taliban, to honor its promises of amnesty and human rights. as it again takes her, the taliban fighters over ran all over the canister, big cities and little over
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a week before entering combo on sunday nights. factory general antonio good terrace opened the meeting and cold for the protection of civilians. the international community must be united and utilized all available instruments to ensure the following. first, we must speak with one voice to oppose human rights. enough gone is done. i call upon the taliban and all parties to respect and protect international humanitarian law and rights and freedoms of all persons. we are 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. ambassador representing afghan a sense. i'd go in governments that it was hard to believe the taliban would deliver on its promises. we're extremely concerned about parliament,
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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 killings of civilians, in kandahar and other big cities. mister president, we cannot allow this to happen in cobbled china has warned the taliban again sheltering what it calls terrorist organizations use long war gd, test organizations such as i saw cader and the eastern standard lunch movement have gathered and developed in ghana posing a serious threat to international and regional piece. again, some never again become a haven of terrorist. when this is the bottom line that must be held firmly for any future political solution. we hope that the taliban will deliver on its commitments
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and make a clean break with terrorist organizations. for diplomatic editor james bays has more from the un. he didn't go that far, but he said that russia would interact with the taliban, was the word he used and he said that the taliban had brought back public order. and as you say, no point in panicking because a blood bath has been avoided, so reasonably reduce justin's there. that russia thinks the situation is somewhat stabilized, but not. and any indication at this stage or diplomatically, what russia will do with regard to the taliban. and whether they recognise the taliban was reminding you that when the taliban were the government enough kindest . on the end of the 1900 ninety's and 2000 until 2001 after after 911, they didn't have international diplomatic recognition. they were only recognized by 3 countries by saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, and pakistan,
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and of the un seat stayed with the representative of the old government of afghanistan and not with the taliban. now will that be different this time? i think it depends very much on whether countries like russia and china is big players, members of the, the p 5, the 5 permanent members of the security council decide to recognize the taliban this this time around. and what would happen at the un is it would then go to something called the credentials committee of the general assembly. and then the general assembly itself may vote on whether the taliban actually take the seat in new york. but i think there's a possibility, and remember we've seen delegations of the taliban going to both moscow and to beijing in recent months. i think there's a possibility. those 2 countries are likely down the line to recognise the taliban government in kabul. now,
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china's special envoy to have chemistry has met with iran, foreign minister jared's reef into her on many civilians and african soldiers fled across the border into iran. china recognizes the on group last known, held official talks for the high level delegation, including the telephones co founder and deputy leader, chunky ally jones long she johnson. john. china has always respected up janice and sovereignty independence and territorial integrity and has not interfered into kenneth internal affairs has always followed a friendly policy towards all afghan people. china respects the rights of the african people to decide their own future and their own will. china will continue developing good neighborliness and friendly relations with that piano stand and playing a constructive role in afghanistan, peace and reconstruction. katrina, you have more known from aging. said media having a bit of a field day by saying that this is a complete failure of us policy in afghanistan. many channels here are referring to
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the day that us troops fled saigon at the end of the vietnam war and making comparisons to birth. incident. now the chinese government has, for many weeks, being critical of the u. s. is hasty withdrawal from afghanistan, but today on monday, the woods from the foreign ministry, spokes person where more measured, she called on the taller bond to protect the chinese people in chinese interest. enough, honest on 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 aging has also cold and gone is done and the taliban 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 bond representatives to changes to meet with china's foreign
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minister one e. and during that meeting, beijing repeated its policy of non interference that encouraged dialogue. it also 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, of cornerstone. 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. focused on is allowing some freaks through a key border crossing with afghanistan. the talk i'm crossing was closed on sunday after being seized by the taliban. ca hunter is there and sent us this update. this is day 0 line that they're white. one it's done from budget on. as you can see, the dollar bon flag is now flying. where the flag was flying a few days ago, a few days ago, the national army said that they were defend this border crossing at all costs. but the dollar bond to get go, well, we're down fighting a chart. then our control,
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there's major logistical supply line. and do an honest on ag, we have seen that a number of truck from the side have been allowed to cross over carrying fresh vegetables and fruit budgets on the trucks are also beginning to move. it is expected that within the next 48 hours, the border will be fully open. budget has already said it has no favorites and honest on and will deal with anyone who kept to the people. the buckets on the foreign minister had been meeting the one leaders stressing the importance of a peaceful resolution. 31 conflict. but this is indeed a historic moment. it is after 20 years that the taliban have been able to raise their flag at their gay border crossing. the taliban is promising to form an inclusive government. charles stratford takes a look at some of the most powerful members. he may have important political and
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military rules in any future administration. in 2015, the afghan government announced the tale bonds. former leader mueller, oma, was dead. the senior taliban commander confirmed the man who supported and gave shelter enough gun. it's done to a samo. ben ludden had died 2 years earlier in a secret location. will oma had been in hiding since soon after the 911 attacks? the son molar mohammed? yes. who is believed to oversee the tale bones, military operations, and has been repeatedly proposed as an overall leader of the armed group. during numerous leadership tussles, you coup reportedly turned down the offer and proposed this man instead high, but toler, oakland zada isn't islamic scholar, often described as the movements supreme leader. he took over the groups leadership when his predecessor act on one sword was killed in a us drone strike. in the afghan pakistan border in 2016. he has
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a sovereignty over the tale, bonds, political, religious, and military affairs. and he's from one of the most powerful costume plans. another prominent telephone leader is mueller of gold gone, the bought a doll. he's played a leading role in negotiations in doha that have tried to reach a political settlement and lasting peace in afghanistan. florida is one of the co founders of taliban and his head of its political office. he's believe to have been one of molar omar's most trusted commanders. florida was captured in 2010 by security forces. in the southern pockets, donnie city of karachi was released in 2018 another important figure in the doe hall negotiations, and someone expected to play a major role in the town. yvonne's leadership share mohammed abbas stomach was i, he's a former deputy minister in the taller bonds government before its removal during the us led invasion in 2001 and this is sarah. you didn't, connie?
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he leads the powerful connie network, a group that is overseen, this harley bonds, financial and military assets across the border in pakistan. the connie network has been blamed for various attacks, enough gun histone including this one on the serena hotel in cobble in 2008. it was also blamed for at least one of the reported 6 assassination attempts. and the former president of afghanistan from it cause i shall stratford to 0, say the roach as a professor at the national defense university and also a former nato operations director at the joint chiefs of staff. he says time will tell if the u. s. mission was worth it or not. we never fully addressed corruption within the afghan government. and what we've see 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.
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what we're seeing is this idea that you can build a modern military without having a corresponding civilian government and the, it's like painting over rust. i mean we, we had a civilian government that was fundamentally corrupted, tribal tried to built the 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. 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 ruge. then they can reverse that, just through brutality. still to come here on al jazeera funeral is held in the occupied west bank for palestinians killed cheering and israeli rage stretched thin again. hospitals in the philippines struggle to cope with a record search of 19 cases.
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ah hello great su. here's her weather story for the middle east. we are dealing with her. she's all when coming down from iraq impacting the gulf states. kuwait and cats are so that means that the sand and dust is swirling around, but this is a dry wind. so our relative humidity down to 65 percent over the last little bit. it's been in the eighty's or our heat index 49. but look at this by friday, the wind switch around and we crank up that heat into the 50 across pakistan. it is largely dry. we've got some showers squeaking in up against the border with are gone. it's done on tuesday or it take you to west jerusalem right now where we've got this wildfire that has exploded. we have had tinder dry conditions here and high heat as wall temperatures that we're looking at on tuesday for ramallah,
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a high of 30 degrees, starting to dry out cross the black sea coast for turkey on tuesday. certainly, good news is that clean up continues the tropics of africa. heaviest pulses of rain really got ball and cameroon breakthrough into nigeria on tuesday. and if we go a bit further south, it's unsettled for the eastern. keep keep town 16 degrees but some sunshine to be had for johannesburg. at 17, in cape town, the rain is always going to be near over the next few days. on friday, a high of 16 degrees. c said the if you were looking at this from the outside, you would really wonder what was going on, what, what is this is a religion that they have an in depth exploration of global capitalism on our obsession with economic growth. this is still the center of capitalism. there is no limit. i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to bake as well. and we don't want to be so
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realistic in the well, we would rather have a fantasy growing pay on al jazeera oh the me to 0 quick reminder. over hope stories. this are the us is temporarily suspended. evacuation flights. i to the canister. after chaos i've couples. air force, thousands of people rushed onto the tarmac, desperate to escape television rule. us forces say they killed 2 gun after taking fire and bass. it is that the united nations reverse the taliban so onerous
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promises of amnesty and human white african envoy called on the world to pressure the group to form and inclusive governments. of the taliban has begun the process of forming a new government after taking control of the presidential palace in campbell. the group captured nearly all major cities in the last 10 days. well, emotions in afghanistan, arranging from astonishment to fear of what lies ahead on the streets of the capital arm taliban fighters are becoming a regular site, says rob mcbride report, some come from the city of cobble has experience so much up people for decades. and this is another change to get used to, and one that's far from easy to go most of our customers because most of the got the situation from now, it's not, no one can say what's happening at all. the people are just lost and confused. in the space of one romantic day,
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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 checkpoint concrete blocks, various normally gods carrying automatic weapons and 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 of a child to know yet i don't know the law whatsoever used to fear us now seen them would your ideal and that we are from the soil. i don't want to stand to be destroyed, but there's widespread nervousness about what this do taliban rule will look like. many base decisions shops remain closed that the raw signs of life returning to normal ammonia. if this piece,
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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 to return to cruel punishments for certain crimes. but many still remember life under the previous telephone government being at least a crime free. for the most part, one of the board with the board, everybody will be nobody's kid will be kidnapped again for rent. with the, with a sudden collapse of the african government. the people have cobbled 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 couple, mr. you some other use now and the death toll from saturday's powerful earthquake and hazy has jumped to nearly 1300. rescue seems to taking through rebel in
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a desperate search for survivors. they are undergoing pressure as a stuff, a tropical storm approaches. thousands of people are injured, leaving hospitals, overwhelms our firm. really this, i want to tell the population that we are going through a difficult situation. this is the moment to unite, to have a great, a national unity, a great to solidarity with the victims. let's forget, i'll quarrels and come to the 8 of those in difficulty. well, that's what i mean as an economist and professor care univers, jane porter, prince. he says strong leadership just critical for hasty right now from very can to, to, to earthquake. and in those corners, the me 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
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a wireless. and then in the preparedness of the country, you know, you can prove with those disaster who happen, but needs to prepare that that can help you to minimize the damage even before the disaster. the economy was terrible. actually to using a roll was negative becoming to 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
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capacity, trend people, and then give them the resources created to type business. give love, i couldn't we got to be that could be different. does that a funeral has been held for would have for palestinians killed showing rage by his really forces in the occupied west bank. i really say there were attacks to renew peroration to rest the suspect to homo's city of janine 3 other palestinians were injured in the exchange of farm. it's the 2nd time and recently that in his really arrest operation does lead to deaths. latasha game has more form at west jerusalem the palestinian authority and math or calling for a general strike to more in the depths 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 20. the palette sitting in our
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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 a violent confrontation between palestinians and the israeli security forces, leaving 4 men at least 4 men dead. janine has become a flash point. 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 geneva, malicious prime minister here, dena seen his hand in his resignation to the king in a televised address. he said he's stuffing dying because he lost his majority in
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parliament. but he won't be leading off a straight away for louis explained some calm per. he's handed in his resignation and the pallet that they should 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, it stays on as caretaker, prime minister, until a permanent successor is found. now the 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 under malaysia's constitution, the king will appoint the person who he thinks is likely to come on 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,
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having tended his resignation, could have advised the king to dissolve parliament and coal for snap elections. but the palace and 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 hotspot. hospitals in the philippines are feeling the strain of a 3rd wave of cold with 19 infections. us despite a locked in and around the capital manila, far below reports. hence 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 in the philippines to their limit. the philippine general hospital,
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the country's largest public health institution has stopped accepting don coffee, 19 patients of the problem if 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 cobit admissions 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. more people die more than half way through a 2 week lockdown and its capital region. the philippines continues to see a spike in corbett, 900 cases. but this current wave of the bar isn't limited to manila. elsewhere in the country. the number of infections is rising as well. area we need dudley spam and he lives in chasm province. more than 100 kilometer south of manila,
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his father tested positive for covey 19 before there was even talk of 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 probably does. so just leave the hospital premises and maybe try the provincial hospital when we arrived there. the doctor, surprisingly discouraged us to even try re locked their dudley's father, survived. but had he waited a few more days to be admitted? doesn't we says the story might have turned out differently. but tough experts hoary the situation could get worse. it seems like it's not slowing down at all in the past when you do a lockdown or a c q, maybe about a week later you'd see some slowing down, but we have not felt that manila streets aren't as empty as one would imagine
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during the locked down 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 as spelt barn to below al jazeera manila. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines for us as temporarily suspended evacuation flights of canister done after chaos and couples, airports, sizes of people rushed onto the tarmac. desperate to escape taliban rule. you are forced to say they shot 2 gun and dead to take you farm with bright has more from campbell the taliban. we know.
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