algae 0 well goes on a mouth watering, cut and re journey from spain to them and leave to discover the hidden history behind some of the region. bad luck, diffuse favoring the ha on out. did the ah, haunting images of desperate guns trying to escape after an abrupt taliban takeover may have sucked the world. that us president joe biden remained defiant and president of the united states america. the buck stops with me. deeply saddened by the facts we now face. when i do not regret my decision in afghanistan, people live under the new reality of taliban rule with their fighters taking over

roads checkpoint. ah, for watering al jazeera life for my headquarters in del hi, i'm getting obligated also ahead. pay to braces for more devastation with a tropical storm looming after an earthquake left more than 1400 people dead. and the u. s. declare is the 1st ever water shortage at its largest artificial reservoir, and that could make the worst route of the century even worth. ah, hello, we begin and have gone as dawn where millions of people are waking up to another day of taliban rule. and they, chaotic and to america, the longest war. on monday, there were harrowing scenes of desperation on chaos. that the couple airports, hundreds of afghans run onto the tarmac, some clinging onto a wings of

a u. s. military plane. several people fell to their death as it took off, and as the world watched the fall of gala stand to the taliban at the white house, us president joe biden is confronting the biggest crisis of his presidency so far. in his 1st address after the taliban seas capital by defended his decision to pull out troops and blamed the african government on the military for the crisis from washington. here she hop returning joe biden attempted to keep public opinion focused on a promise kept up to 20 years. the u. s. was finally leaving galveston. i stand squarely behind my decision. after 20 years, i've learned the hard way that there was never a good time withdraw us forces. but neither the president or any administration official has been able to address the chaotic matter of that

withdraw. despite biden's proclamation that the buck stopped with him, he lashed out both of the africa military and the african political leadership that fled even saying the u. s. and wanted to evacuate more people earlier, but was stopped by couple. i know there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating africans civilians sooner. part of the answer is some of the afghan did not want to leave earlier. still hopeful for their country. important because the afghan government and his supporters discouraged us some organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, a crisis of confidence at the pentagon officials insisted that they had role played every eventuality. there wouldn't be drawn whether that included such a swift taliban takeover or whether such a possibility had been communicated to the president. plans are not always perfectly predictive and you as is well known military maximum,

that plans don't often survive 1st contact and you have to adjust in real time. depending on says, it expects the $2500.00 us troops and cobbled at the airport to be supplemented within 24 hours, up to a 1000 more and says the apple operations have resumed. in addition, the u. s. has more than $700.00 africans who were eligible for special immigration . visa had left the country over 48 hours, bringing the total to almost 2000. the president's opponents have been swift to deliver a withering commentary. honestly, ministration looks to me like i couldn't organize a 2 car funeral and maybe it's not too late. i hope out for the president to put in enough troops in around cobble to at least get out all the americans. and as many of the afghans as possible who are our friends, who are interpreters who were lot, but on whom we were a lot all. busy of age years, it is a sad day, but the united states of america. however, when pressed mcconnell,

as with many others in washington, suggested his favorite option was a permanent military presence enough kind of stone, which would be against the wishes of a majority of americans. biden's administration appears to be hoping that eventually the chaos of the last few days will be forgotten. and instead the president will be seen as the commander in chief who finally brought america's longest war to an end. jabber times the al jazeera washington for off guns both at home or abroad, the pace of the taliban to take over has been shocking. many outside the country say they feel helpless and anxious for their loved ones at home. these pictures show some of the desperate moments of people doing anything they can to leave their country. military planes have resumed operations to evacuate. people hundreds have already been flown out. but many african refugees around the world are looking at the situation with concern. miss taylor, miss kid, we rushed to the border and cross the here in terms of my entire family or live at

the other side of the border and i'm lost and i don't know what to do, how i left everything behind my house shop and was just trying to look because right now everyone is worried where the situation is going to stand. i spoke to my family members there yesterday and they are very worried and they have no idea what they will do. i'm not from the how this is saying how don't feel i have my friends didn't know about the young generation. they wanted to have money, but not enough on the diplomatic for the united nations security council has held an emergency meeting on i've gone on the secretary general. and so when you get there as cold on the taliban to respect human rights and offer amnesty, he said he's particularly concerned about the rights of women and girls. the

international community must be united and utilized all available instruments to insure the following. first, we must speak with one voice to oppose human rights enough, john 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 severe 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 or to promise to get her to james bay's reports on what else emerged from that meeting. the statement calls for immediate cessation of how hostile it is, but it also calls for talks for, to reach and let me quote, a new government that is united, inclusive and representative, including the full equal a meaningful participation of women. so they're calling for fresh negotiations,

an african lead process leading to a new inclusive government. now will the taliban accept that? and what leverage do the security council have of the taliban? certainly we heard to from the ambassador of pakistan. he wasn't invited to the security council meeting, became brief reporters and many a crumb told us that he believes that the taliban are talking about some sort of inclusive government. and he thinks that that is definitely a possibility. what is clear is that there are some of the key political leaders who were allied with the government in cobble, who are still that. i think the only leverage that the international community has of the taliban right now is the whole issue of recognition at the meeting of the security council. the african ambassador was the ambassador that was appointed by the government that no longer exists the town. but i'm sure would like to have the seat at the united nations and be recognized by all the countries of the world that i think is the own thing. the international community have to try and convince the

taliban to broaden government governance and bring in other figures or america's major european allies who are part of the us, lead nato operation in afghanistan have express shock. i'm concerned about the events in kabul. many of them are scrambling to evacuate their own staff and nationals because it's i know a kenneth, this is an absolutely bitter development. bitter for the many africans, the very active along the way. better efforts were obviously not strong enough. it takes a lot more time than we thought we weren't gonna stop for 20 years. and in this time it did not work. so we have to say that our efforts were not successful. stuff love again. you don't know what the who does not get this done, cannot become again the century for terrorism. that it was, it is a concern for international peace and stability against a common enemy with terrorism and those who supported with regard to this, we will do everything of russia. the united states and europe can corporate

efficiently. because our interests are the same. he was on the streets of cobble arm taliban fighters, patrolling the streets or the new normal. i'll just there is robert bride is there and sent us this report. the city of cobble has experience so much up here 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 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, life on the streets feels completely different. states 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 guards 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 or whatever used to fear us. they've now seen them. would you id 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 businesses and shops remain closed that the raw signs of life returning to normal money. if 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 punishments for certain crimes. but many still remember life unto the previous taliban government being at least crime free. for the most part,

one of the bottom was evil. everybody will be saying 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 their way forward into their new reality. robert bride al jazeera couple still ahead on alta, 0 scorched earth from siberia to morocco will have an update on some of the world's most journeys wildfire and orphans by the pandemic. children and chilly are left on the road with no caregivers or income, but more support could be coming. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle

airways booted world's best airline of 2021. hello, a great to see. here's her whether story for the middle east. we are dealing with her shamal when coming down from iraq impacting the gulf states to wait. 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 are heat index 49. but look at this by friday, the wind switch around and we crank up that heat into the fifty's 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 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, while temperatures that we're looking at on tuesday for ramallah, a high of 30 degrees, starting to dry out cross the black sea coast for turkey on tuesdays. certainly, good news is that clean up continues the tropics of africa. heaviest pulses of rain really got ball and camera room rate through into nigeria on tuesday. and if we go

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 weather sponsored by castle airways voted world's best airline of 2021. if you are 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 as smaller and smaller. we don't want to be so realistic in the way we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al jazeera. oh,

the me kind of again, the top stories on how 0 u. s. has reopen capital airport after chaotic scenes for the temporary suspension of evacuation flights. thousands of people rushed onto the tarmac, desperate to escape taliban rule. he was president joe biden has strongly defended his decision to pull out troops saying, and endless military deployment has no solution. he also said that us troops should not be expected to fight when asked and forces were unwilling to do so themselves. heavy rains on lashing or lashing parts of haiti as a tropical storm looms and the reports of flooding and some areas hit by saturdays, devastating earthquake. more than 1400 people have died. rescue teams are searching

for survivors. john holman, has more from port au prince. haiti is still reeling from such things, earthquake every day, more bodies have found and the death toll continues to rise. but even in the country, more than those already last, another potentially ruinous problem has arrived. tropical storm grace with the risk of flash floods, landslides, and yet more obstacles hampering the search for survivors. it's a fresh challenge for the government and 8 organizations already struggling to get helped with disaster area down the road. gangs of battling over the u. n. is allocated $8000000.00 to help pay to the prime minister, didn't make it for the sea front town of lic, hi, $1.00 of the worst affected cities. then even on food. when i arrived in the south of the country, we saw the destruction. many houses are destroyed, rescue teams are working to find victims and survivors in the rubble. one thing i noticed was the dignity of the people despite the situation. they are affected book

resilience, they fight survive. but even before the storm, the scenes with desperate fulfilled spruce with survivors, forced to shelter with the few belongings they have left. well, debbie, up at the earth quake, i didn't feel well when the football field, our home was destroyed, we can drink the water, and many people are staying here. crisis on top of crisis. last month the country's president was assassinated, gang violence continues. and in the midst of the cobra, 19 pandemic. pate. he's only just begun it's vaccination campaign. many hero, so still traumatized by events, further back the 2010 of great the cute hundreds of thousands of people in port to prince and in the cap. so many people have been sleeping out in the st. worried about the off the shots from this quite well, they're not going to be able to do that now. the so me to pay to suffering the bad news, keep them coming home and how does it for the 1st time the u. s. has declared

a shortage at its largest water. reservoir triggering mandatory cuts to some western states. lake mead on the colorado river serves some 40000000 people. farmers in arizona are expected to see the biggest drop in supply. nevada will also face cutters will the nation of mexico, the region is struggling with a drought and record high temperatures. well, key reservoirs in the western us are now it only 40 percent capacity. lake meet is one of them. it's a man made lake that's critical to the water supplies of las vegas as well as other large cities. the lake has not been at full capacity since the early 19 eighties. and earlier this year, measurements put it already 3 meters lower than the level that officially triggers a water shortage. let's speak to j lunches, the co director of the u. c. davis center for watershed sciences, sciences and

a professor of civil and environmental engineering. he's joining us from davis, california, thanks for speaking to us on al jazeera. so how bad is the water shortage, and what essentially is a drought in the west of the us? this is one of the worst drought years we have on record and it's probably one of the most extensive years extensive geographic extensive drought years on record as well in california is the 3rd dry last year and more than 100 years of record in terms of precipitation, it's a 2nd, really dry year in a row. last year was also dry, but not quite as dry as this one. so the reservoir levels are all quite low. temperatures from global warming are much higher than they have been historically. and so both for this drought and for the previous drought, we have much more evaporation of water from the landscape before it can reach the reservoir, which makes the reservoir is extra low for this low amount of supervision. right?

and i suppose this might be a bit of an obvious question, but i'll ask it anyway. why is this happening now on a seemingly larger scale than in previous years? we've had some very large geographically extensive belts in the past. $1130.00 is a particular. so this is not completely unusual, but i, i'm, it's, it's pretty well documented that the warmer temperatures throughout the globe and throughout the west have made a moderately severe drought even more severe. and make a severe, any severity of drought more severe. just because less water that comes from precipitation makes it into the reservoirs, right. and i know that you've outlined some steps for california to take to sort of be better prepared to talk us through those. and also, what is this droughts in water scarcity mean for people living in these areas? well, for the most part,

the major cities are pretty well prepared for this route. so far they've invested, we have drought here quite often. so we've done our city water supplies and our ground water act refers and reservoir systems to handle droughts about like this one, maybe for another year or so from, for most of the sayings where most people live and we're, most of the economy is the agriculture sector. is the most vulnerable sector in the west and in california. and it is about 3 percent of the, of the regions economy that are going to hit my charter. but fortunately, the rest of the economy should be fairly healthy. and when we hear the drought emergencies have been declared in some states, what does that mean in terms of the help that can be offered to the states from, from the governments? well, that's the state and federal governments are investing in programs to help farmers

to help small towns that have their water supplies drawing up and have rural households whose wells are drying up. okay, we'll leave it there. thank you so much jalen for joining us from california. very welcome. good. i now, firefighters in north america are trying to stop to fire that have destroyed large parts of forests. they started on saturday as a heat wave. scores should be country temperatures. every $49.00 degrees celsius authority, se they managed to prevent the fires to reaching residential areas. so far, crews are also battling to new fires near the greek capital. several villages have been evacuated, south, east and northwest of athens. hundreds of wildfires have scorched large areas of land this month, but the government has called its worth ecological disaster. in decades,

while in russia, forests in siberia are being destroyed. authority say a 163 wildfires are birding and yet they have destroyed dozens of homes and livestock shelters. smoke has covered the region and it's also drifted as far as the north pole. in argent, argentina's president gilbert fernandez is under pressure after a photograph of him circulated, showing him celebrating the 1st lady's birthday last year. during karen, a virus restrictions, hundreds of people, her play stones with the names of co, with 1900 victims on the steps of the government house and bought a fiery in the vial. picture the president, the scene with a dozen gas for the presidential residents a year ago when a strict lockdown was enforced. 110000 people have died from the virus and urgency . now, iran saw a record number of daily covered 1900 death says new restrictions are imposed. more

than $650.00 deaths were announced on monday. and more than 41000 new cases were reported. cities across iran have entered a 6 day lockdown as the delta, very dr. the 5th wave of infection in chile, more than 2000 children have lost one or both parents to go with 19. so congress is proposing a law to allow family members or others to take charge of the youngsters, or latin america editor lucy newman. reports would have done this modest home and back, but a so which one? happy one that was before the entire fabric that theodore family. port coven, 19 last year. first the grandparents have put into intensive care. then the ambulance came for 40 year old karen, theodore, a paramedic mother of 3 and the main caretaker, a young, the hooky. yes you,

i'm really that's what she told me. she was going to die that she knew it because she worked in the hospital as an many gillian households, there is no father in this story. helen was 20 for 23 days. she cared for her 5 year old brother, 15 year old sister. then one night they called to say that my mother wasn't doing well. and at $545.00, she fainted and she died. they don't say my you. for years they were left on their own. all 3 children have been suffering from depression and severe anxiety. the sand is income has disappeared. the worst of all says helen is the absence of professional emotional support to deal with the trauma, trait of summer love. we are isolated. there are thousands of us out there. but no one knows for sure how many. because for the government are invisible, it wasn't until a few weeks ago that an investigation revealed that there are at least 2029

youngsters who've lost one or both parents. most of them from low income families. i get a course latin america. 30000 or more has an orphaned but have fallen under the radar like 2 countries, chile is moving full speed ahead to deliver a 3rd dose of the call with vaccine starting with the senior citizens. the focus now is to boost people who immunity and the economy. yet the faith of thousands of young people who've lost one or both parents does not seem to be the government's priority. right now. congress is to be giving to discuss in orphans pension. but experts say an all inclusive program on a case by case basis is necessary that include psychological care for the children and relatives who can hopefully care for them. and guarantees that children won't be separated. come up with seen, how is it possible that one and a half years into the panoramic we hadn't seen this crude reality before. thousands

of children has lost their loved ones, not just in chile, but in the entire world. the fabric children are lucky to at least have their elderly grandparents still recovering from the virus. but until now, no government agency has knocked on their door to offer help. to see a newman al jazeera, valparaiso hospitals in the philippines are under strain. health authorities reported more than 14000 cases on sunday at 2nd highest daily increase. that's despite locked down in and around the capital or below reports romanella. the 10th 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 philippine general hospital, the country's largest public health institution has stopped accepting don corbett, 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 covey. the admissions made us realize that weekend to 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 half way through a 2 week walk down in its capital 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 dudley spam

and he lives in chasm province. more than 100 kilometer south of manila, 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 health experts, warry, the situation could get worse. it seems like it's not slowing down 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 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, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, the u. s. has reopened caballo airport after chaotic scenes for a temporary suspension of evacuation flights. thousands of people rushed onto the tarmac just for it to escape taliban rule. in his 1st address and the taliban assume control of travel. the u. s. president joe biden conceited events unfolded quicker than expected, but went on to blame afghan forces for the takeover.