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ah, ah ah, this is al jazeera ah. hello tina. this is the out there news out from london coming off the taliban stage, the 1st news conference promising women's rights media freedom. i'm the stay for government officials and evacuation flights. review my cobb lab, bought a day off to thousands of people, tried to flee the taliban takeover. sheltering on the makeshift cover. now people
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in earthquake hit t t. a facing flash floods pro tony by a tropical storm us because the 1st water shortage, largest artificial reservoir, and that could make the worth drive to the century even more severe. and i'm devin ash with 4 have kind of sounds parlor pick team chief appeals to the international community to health is actually one of those is hi fonda fight. as a kid who does data, you haven't given up type of competing despite being stuck in cobble. ah . the taliban avowed to respect women's rights. forgive those who fought against them. and insure f canister doesn't become a haven for other armed groups. they made the promises and the 1st news conference, since astounding takeover of the countries capital and major cities. they've pledged inclusion education for women, religious tolerance, and media,
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freedom within the constraints of islamic law. and lead is also say amnesty will be offered to anyone who worked with a government or foreign forces. many afghans remain skeptical and they've been reports of human rights abuses in other cities captured by the town of on the move on to hum food opportunity. we have pardoned anyone, all those who had fought against us. we don't want to repeat of war. we want to do away with the factors of conflict. so the, some, a camera to that kind of san does not have any conflict with anybody. we want the fighting to end out showing balance was not that news conference and asked the 1st question about human rights for women and children. you funny mot. what i hit the design camera to kind of stand is committed to the rights of women within the framework of shari'a. already have the same rights. they can work in different sectors on the basis of our rules and regulations, in education and health and other areas where they are going to be work and shoulder to shoulder with us. what we want to assure the international community.
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there will be no discrimination against women, but of course, within our religious framework, the world mcbride has and his from campbell, it was very significant. i mean, this really was almost like a quino telling, setting out the tone and the china for the, for the forthcoming taliban government. and i think what we were getting with what the taliban wanted to, to get with the softer, more acceptable face of taliban rule. and a that we started with in quite a triumphal, it's way quite uncompromising, talking about the grand terms about the emancipation of the country after 20 years expelling the forward as, as it was put, talking about this being a proud moment. i think actually given a sudden collapse of the governments and the suddenness with which the taliban suddenly found themselves inheriting this country, i think they could be excused to crow. but very much this was been aimed. i think not only at the afghan journalist and reassuring people have really beyond that
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kind of sound, the international community here work stream li, skeptical, even cynical about the taliban as an organization that with memories of what happened 20 years ago, with more recently the way it's acted in negotiations, for example, meant to have had negotiations directly with the government device rep gunny, which didn't happened, although the taliban says it's not their fault. they were acting in good faith. there is a lot of suspicion about the taliban. and then more recently, in the conflict that we have seen the some of these really nasty, isolated incidents by groups of taliban fighters allegedly involved in war crimes which international organizations, human rights groups said should be investigated. so it was really the international community which i think needed to be convinced. so in addition to these very important messages, which we were expecting about assurances on the rights of women about maintaining
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a healthy media media culture for example. although, oh, be within the framework or dictates of sharea, whatever that means and on who defines exactly what those are. so that's more problems for the future. us as the time and have agreed to allow the safe passage for civilians struggling to get to l lifted from cobble but present or by national security adviser did acknowledge reports that some of the guns were being turned away. we've been beaten mob taliban. meanwhile, american agencies are moving records of african employees to protect them from retribution. my counterparts, washington evacuation operations are once again underway at a couple airport. the nato partners of the us scaling up their presence and the u. s. department of defense says within the next 24 hours, there will be up to $6000.00 us soldiers in place to maintain airport security, the pentagon insisting that order has been restored. right now. we're looking at
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one aircraft per hour in and out of h kaya re predicted our best effort could look like 50029000 passengers departing per day. we have had no ha style interactions, no attack, and no threat by the taliban. the deadline for complete withdrawal of forces and civilians is still the end of the month, a date set by president biden. earlier this year, the commander in chief made it very clear that we were to complete this draw down by august 31st. and that which now includes the drop down of american cities pulling out of american citizens and drop down over embassy personnel. so that's what we're focused on. that's the timeline moran. and it's the secretary made clear to to leaders even as recently is this morning. time is of the essence. and we all, we all share a sense of urgency here. the bite and administration continues to defend the decision to go ahead with the withdrawal,
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arguing that the alternative was escalating us involvement in another countries civil war was unfolded over the past month, has proven decisively that it would have taken a significant american true presence multiple times greater than what president biden was handed to stop a taliban hotspot, and we would have taken casualties. american men and women would have been fighting and dying once again in afghan. stan, both republicans and democrats being highly critical of the manner in which the withdrawal is being conducted. arguing that the chaos that has ensued constitutes a huge failure of intelligence. their sharp criticism to the president's position to resume his vacation, spending only a few hours at the white house to address the american people before returning to camp david. and thanks so much everyone. the criticism and the questions are likely to continue for months to come. by cannot just era washington
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had the taliban political office in castles, capital. doha is heading back to get his tongue will be on the bardon lead to groups. negotiations in peace talks with the u. s. and african government. he defaulted after meeting, got his foreign minister on tuesday, talks between the taliban and former african officials will now be held domestically instead of indo huh. what significant parts of afghanistan where the taliban enjoy support from certain ethnic groups? the talk of border crossing which focused on is one such place, it is now reopened and there's no rush of people trying to leap to flee us camel hyder explains the man border crouching red, rain run at dawn, and buckets on the door is now open for business truck have been travelling and board direction. they will appreciate that. as de talib honored wants across the country, tens of thousands of refugees read for across the border and to budget on the
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ground. reality is ready. different people living floated up august on the border. all the way from hillman province to noticed on up in the not mostly pushed to tribe. they have got really come the taliban. they have the taliban rule and bought . and what we saw at this border crossing that instead of tens of thousands of on coming across the border, we saw hundreds of off ones eager to cross the border and go back to the country. most of the people that we spoke to a half are elated and uber learned, read the fact that the taliban up back in, fall off. they, on the other hand, do not agree with the international community. and they see a ray of hope for a large being of launch settlement among norma and forgot to what we welcome to taliban becky, neck and his tongue as they are the true heroes of the country. and none of them can bring lasting peace to this war. to them country destroyed by many tumble among
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the shallow kenneth stand in ruins from the last 4 here. firstly, we were made homeless by russians and then the americans. but thank god, finally we've got freedom from their invasion. we trust the taliban and hope they will bring peace, stability, and progress to this country. while the situation on the border was not returning back to normal, there were frantic diplomatic effort. you're trying to port the leader on the same day, but i read that dollar bon, the former foreign minister of runners on so loud in rob bonnie, it didn't budget on a long way. you're not gonna need a head of the parliament and auto mall amongst that group here, present the minority community. what buckets on i'd be telling the dollar bond is that the b and the government, which didn't do it all the new group cover. it's done, therefore to offer the rail vault for the 1st time and do decades for
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a long beach for $31.00 conflict. what the budget done is i've been saying that dollar bond did have to be an inclusive government dollar bond. voluntary and now i'm there. and said that there will be no retribution, even for those people who been working with the american care. donnelly, as a senior vice president for crisis response, recovery and development at the international rescue committee, joins us live from new york. thanks very much for being with us. i wondered if you could outline 1st what the humanitarian situation is at the moment you're not going to stop. so it's important to start with recognizing that the monitoring situation has been severe for quite some time. we opened this year with almost 3000000 people displaced across the country. an additional $550000.00 people. ready or more have been displaced since the beginning of the year. tens of thousands of them recently as a result of fighting across the country. many of them arriving into campbell,
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where they've been housed either with family, i'm putting additional burden on, on those extended families or in public buildings where they're struggling to access facilities. afghanistan in recent years, separate not just from the effects of conflict, but also from a drought which has caused significant hardship across the country. so, really serious, underlying humanitarian situation, exacerbated by recent fighting and displacement and the current situation. uncertainty, risks, deepening the humanitarian needs across the country and what all the, the areas of greatest need. so we're in the process of assessing needs and capital in particular for those duly display families. we understand people have really acute needs in terms of shelter. being able to afford or provide shelter for themselves and their families being able to access basic necessities, including food, very focused on water as a critical need. we can't forget that the covert pandemic is still affecting kind of stone. and so public health measures,
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in particular to keep people safe in times of displacement are also high in our priority list. now we have an held the 1st news conference they talked about working with international organizations. and you had any contact so far yourselves . and if so, you confident that they will allow you to help people. we've seen an encouraging preliminary signs on the ground that the telephone authorities are open to working with humanitarian organizations. international rescue committee has worked and since 1988, continuously. we worked under multiple regimes, we work through multiple cycles of crisis, and we've always found a way to work with different actors in order to serve the people about kind of stand. that's really our mission. we're focused on helping all of the millions of outcomes in need of humanitarian assistance. and we're hopeful that we'll have access to do so and be able to work alongside our humanitarian partners and all of the authorities on the ground to be able to deliver assistance. and how difficult is it to, to ask for money for a situation like afghanistan,
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given the kind of the international will to pull out of it if you like. i think the international responsibility to the people who are going to stand doesn't end with the international presence, the presence of international forces on the ground. i think there is a humanitarian commitment that must be maintained to support the people have done. now is the time for international donors to redouble our efforts to support humanitarian work inside afghanistan. that that effort has to continue. organizations like ours are on the ground. we're committed to staying and delivering. we've been there for many years working in deep partnership with african communities across the country. now is the time for donors to renew their support to organizations like ours and ultimately to be getting people will be reluctant. so if they think that the money is going in any way towards the taliban given the time and history in the past though, the conversations that we'll have to have with our donors were committed to delivering principles, humanitarian assistance, ensuring that
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a region so those most in need and that the way we deliver our work doesn't serve any political agenda. that's a commitment we have across the world, every country we work in. and we have important safeguards to be able to do so. ultimately, we believe that by responding to the needs of communities and they, i dennis them by working closely in partnership with them. we can assure that assistance reaches those who need it most. and we're confident that we'll continue to be able doing enough custom. karen donnelly, from international rescue committee, thank you very much for joining us. thank you. thank you much more had to still on the out there and use our we explain why careless state in india is still caught in a way of code 19 infections that hit the rest of the country months ago. the hunt for few food and medicine in lebanon, where it's normally crisis is disrupting every aspect of life and tennis. don socker breaks down in tears. a news conference before her lay his tournament for
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explain why i live as of a powerful earthquake and hate you. now having to cope with a tropical storm, heavy rain lashed makeshift shelters in the southern city of k, one of the worst hit areas. many, 2000 people are known to have died in saturday's quake, thousands more were left homeless. many say they're still waiting for a for the, from the government to arrive. i've got your part, ma'am. i have to bad guy and it's not good here. my home was destroyed. i have nothing my call yesterday they distributed aid, but i wasn't able to get anything. it rained last night. we couldn't sleep, we have nothing to eat. i don't home and has this update to the near porch and porter print. we've been speaking to people on the ground,
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including our colleagues over in the u, which is one of the major cities that was hit by this. and in the end, it seems that that was and as far as we know so far, too much flooding or land slides, which was the big worry about this. but we still have, as you mention, a lot of people sleeping out in the open even because they're worried about what might happen in terms of off the shots food. because that house is with damage and destroyed. we've also got a lot of people in hospitals about 6000 people injured apart from the more than 1400 people that side in the crate. so the relief efforts ongoing as you want to, as well, we're actually at the airport now in full to prince and we're here because this is basically the hub of everything that's trying to get to that region at the moment. basically the main road out to full, to print, to get the air in the south west of the country. there's 2 gangs baffling over at close to port to print. i'm not smith, it's really hard to get down that road since that it's being flo name. we've seen the u. s. coast guard. we just saw actually quite
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a big claim coming from the air force of chile. so different countries are bringing their right into the pool and then it's been taken out 5 year for in shop. it's helicopters for a place to try and get to that region. now, for new cases of 219 have been confirmed in new zealand as the country begins a snap 3 day locked down. it brings the total number of cases to 5, all confirmed to be the delta variant, the case the trigger, the doctrine was detected in oakland and authorities of working to trace its origins. new zealand has closed its borders to travelers and has not had lockdown in more than a year. we have made decisions on the basis that it is, be sure to start high and go down levels rather than start to load not contain the virus and see it move quickly. we've seen the die consequences of taking too long
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to act. and other countries, not least our neighbors just as we successfully stayed home and saved lives last year, i'm asking the team of 5000000 to unite once more to defeat what is likely to be this more dangerous and transmissible variant of the virus. india has administered more than 8000000 doses if covered 19 vaccines in the past 24 hours as part of the campaign to get all eligible adults inoculation by december. 30 infections fell 225001 tuesday. the last level since march. about half of the cases coming from southern states such as carola is probably me town, fought the major shopping sheet in care a lot. i love what our district is unusually deserted for this time. of the state is in the middle of them, its biggest festival and shopping season been the crishna is leaving america garland used for own decoration. after months of closure,
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vendors like cobra finally allowed to set up shop. but celebrations have been muted, and demand has been slow because of rising covered, 900 infections across got it. the amount of the, let me do government should decide sometimes allows to open. sometimes they want us to close to poor people like us to, if they ask us to shop shop off to own him, will be great trouble. once praised but controlling the pandemic, carola has now become the cobra, 1900 hotspot in india. the local government has eased restrictions with the festival and state police have been deployed to enforcement mandates and prevent crowding. there are rules requiring shop us to either get a negative p. c r test or show proof of vaccination. but shopkeepers say, these are hard to implement an effective business during peak season. the business is becoming really difficult. since the band to make started, we have been forced to shut the shop. and even when the markets open,
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the police come soon and we have to request them to let us run our shop. so we can make some money with a high number of infections, experts say carola and india as ne austin in 2nd wave of the pandemic, which could lead to a surge in other states. roughly 9 percent of all indians have been vaccinated across the country list. we see about 60 percent of the population vaccinated and 80 percent em blue red. we cannot really say that india is safe because it's been a large focus on what back to the population in different parts of india. and they would actually be there variance with this. but despite a high vaccination rate, careless positivity rate is above 15 percent prompting the central government to give more than $30000000.00 to strengthen its health services. pardon him at the al
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jazeera new delhi, ivory coast has detected its 1st case of the abolla virus in 25 years. countries health minister confirmed infection of a woman who travelled from neighboring guinea. the 18 year old has been hospitalized in the capital. b joan. the world health organization has sent a boat of vaccines to ivory coast 12. people have died from the 4 months long. a boat outbreak in guinea, lebanon faces a severe fuel shortage. the paralyzing life and endangering patients as hospitals struggle to cope. businesses also skating back operations or shutting down completely. the country is in economic turmoil. st. reports from beirut. there is bread only when there is fuel. a resource that is no scarce lebanon's economic crisis is getting worse. the state barely provides electricity.
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many bakeries that can't afford the rising costs to power generators have had to close local that. that means in lemma 0, there is no bread, few diesel electricity, no madison, but the officials who are fighting for their interests live in homes that are lead their generators are working. they have humiliated to people. a lack of fuel means there are difficulties pumping water and distributing it. every aspect of life is affected by what is being described as living, worst, financial, and political crisis. but there is no work in the country you work one day and sell a couple of things that as other days we sell nothing and nearly bankrupt state, it's failing to secure people's basic needs. there isn't enough imported fuel and a corrupt system is blamed for allowing what is available to be smuggled across the border into syria. even hospitals rely on generators. a few days ago,
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they almost ran out of fuel further stretching the medicine and resources. they have patients' lives are at risk. if machines stop working, make sure that we have identified 3300 critical items that are critical for life saving and 25 percent out of stock and the country. and we cannot find any of those items in the country. we cannot treat people without energy. we cannot treat people if we don't give them the right medication. what is happening now is totally unacceptable and unbelievable. businesses in factories have also been affected. luffy got about sometimes there's no diesel for private generator, so we can work on when the diesel, we only get 3 hours of electricity today and with the united nation says at least 78 percent of the 6000000 people are now poor. the economy has all but collapse,
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so have basic services, yet politicians continue to struggle for power 11 on has been without a function in government for more than a year. so there is pressure to address the financial collapse. people have started to attack officials, homes, incidents of violence are becoming more common. as lebanon's tragedy continues to unfold. the fear is worsening conditions could lead to a security breakdown that there else is ita, bailed out there, alive from london. still a hedge. wildfires sweep through one of frances most popular tourists region 14000 to flee the migrants from us to better life abroad and turned into political corns in the conflict between ben roost and the you and he miss the touch your and infix with kind of it the world's best go for convince. didn't have it. that story coming up in court. ah
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. lose. hello, thank you for tuning in. we still have a weather maker over scandinavia. it's turning up a lot of trouble. we go in for a closer look at these heavy bouts of what weather across scandinavia, and look at the winfield associated with it. you know, for the northeast corner of germany, amber weather alert in play. we could see wind gusts up to about 90 kilometers per hour. now this system is also driving down a lot of wet weather through western russia, central parts of ukraine, moldova, and into romania. and folks got to tell you some of these storms could be quite intense on wednesday. now onto the temperature story, look at this cross iberia cordova, the 37 degrees. that's about a good 10 degrees cooler than what you were on the weekend. and for turkey, largely dry conditions across the country. just toward that northeast corner, we could see a scattering of showers, but this will allow people and opportunity for the clean up across the black sea
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region. we have seen heavy pockets of rain for molly's capital, a week or 2 ago picked up 50 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. and look at this on wednesday, we see those storms toward that southwest corner of molly pushing into senate goal and the gambia banjo has a high of 29 degrees on wednesday. that's a snapshot of your weather. thanks for tuning in fees to use as the resurgent taliban retakes, i've got his don, female activist john list, and even school goes on to threats. 11 east investigate the fight for stones women on al jazeera, investigative journalist, and government panic. they didn't have the infrastructure they needed. they promised results in 5 days. but it's been a year examining the headline. is this another potential flash point for conflicts,
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voices from different corner? every house here has someone who has made it to the top of ever. it's not the one but several time program that has been your i to tentative you today on algebra. ah, do you want to help save the world? need into your own? ah ah ah, one of the top stories 0 is fast news conference and taking control of afghanistan,
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the taliban is declared at once. peaceful relations with other countries who consist it will offer amnesty to anyone who worked with the government or foreign forces. survivors of a powerful earthquake in haiti and now having to cope with a tropical storm. heavy rain lashed makes shelters, and the southern city of one of the worst areas of new zealand was returned to lockdown for the 1st time in more than a year. 5 new 19 cases triggered the fresh restriction. ah, yes, president joe biden, and the u. k. prime minister burse johnson have agreed to hold a virtual g 7 summit next week to discuss a common strategy for afghanistan. metallic bonds returned to power signifies a controversial end to the west involvement, including nato's 20 emission. they chose chief has blamed us kind of sounds
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collapsed government for failing to fight the taliban. but for the alliances european members threatens a repeat of the refugee flux. that shook the e u in 2015 turner hall false among nato allies in europe. there is a feeling of deja vu. the looming threat of an afghan exodus recalls the influx of more than a 1000000 refugees in 2015 most fleeing war in syria. many, even then from afghanistan, it was a movement of people that reverberated politically strengthening right wing support across the continent. direst consequence of the taliban takeover of f county sent for europe. now, with the repeat, the distributed saunders of getting install, he's got more destabilization of afghanistan. risk is causing a regular migration to europe. france, as i've said, has and will continue to do its duty for those who are most threatening to him and, but afghans in times to come will need to muster their strength in europe cannot
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