much higher than advertising researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close. extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than any one thought. ah, taliban stages. its 1st news conference, promising women's rights media freedom and amnesty for government officials. evacuation flights review met cobble airports a day off to thousands of people, tried to flee the taliban takeover. ah. this is al jazeera life was coming up, sheltering on the makeshift cover. now people in earthquake hidden a t,

a facing flash floods brought on by a tropical storm and the hunt for few food and mention in lebanon. word economic crisis disrupting every aspect of life. ah, hello, the taliban has about to respect women's rights. forgive those who fought against it, and insure us galveston doesn't become a haven for other groups. the promises were made in groups, 1st news conference season control of the entire country and just over week televisions, lightning advance, stunned the afghans and the world. and it's been on the public drive to reassure international powers and a fearful population. but many afghans remain skeptical. charlotte bennett begins our coverage from couple of years in the shadows. the taliban spoke. son's face was finally revealed. w. hula moved your head fronting for the 1st telephone press

conference in 20 years. and 7000 us forces scrambled to evacuate americans on military plains. the telephone coded and historic movement. as the club i should take into freedom is the right of all nations. the outcome people by using their legal rights after 20 years of war were able to take the freedom to clean the country, or the patient occupiers whole. the group could not reveal who lead the country much ahead. sid talk the ongoing for an inclusive political system. and promised all afghans rights will be respected. there's a lot of concern about whether women will be allowed to work. that girls can still go to school. what assurances can you give to women and girls that their rights will be protected with? i had the stomach emerett is committed to the right of women. within the framework of sharia are we may have the same rights that going to be working shoulder to shoulder with us. we want to assured international community that will be not this

combination against women. but of course we think of a religious framework. but after use a for trust is hard to come by on day 2 of taliban rule and couple. there were few women on the streets as a woman. should i be scared of the telephone? not know what it is? no. why should you be scared of us? you should never be afraid of us. to tell him on his asked everyone in carnival to continue their lives as usual and keep going to work. it is also declared an amnesty for all those who were to say aimless forgiven, and the embassies and foreign nationals should feel the telephone has sought to portray itself is more moderate than during its $900.00 ninety's rule. yet people are wondering if this really is the telephone 2.0. what's the situation and capital is really good. now, the taliban,

here we have taken control of security and we will hold it until the end of the telephone have made a number of statements that on the surface, the reassuring. but that actions speak deeper than words, submit it very early. now it's very fluid. it's very hard to say what is happening exactly. you to tell a bonner in high spirits and defiant afghanistan's days as a battlefield over much ahead city hope people start fleeing and state to the assets for the nation. the move on. we have pardon everyone. all those who have fought against us, we don't want to repeat of war. we want to do away with the factors of conflict for these law make, i mean, rate of i've got this done, does not have any conflict with anybody. we want the fighting to end. would you have stated journalists should remain free and independent to critique the group so

i can improve one journalist off. can you say you can forgive everyone? what do you think the victims have the gives you the africans on all sides. there is a lot of he like ahead to charlotte palace to 0 cobble. the us says the taliban has agreed to allow safe passage for civilians struggling to get flown out of cobble, but president dro buttons. national security advisor did acknowledge report that some afghans were being turned away. we've been beaten by the taliban. meanwhile, biden and the u. k. prime minister barak johnson have agreed to hold a virtual g 7 summit next week to discuss a common strategy for us on why canada reports washington evacuation operations are once again underway at 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 us soldiers in place to maintain airport security, the pentagon insisting that order has been restored. right now. we're looking at one aircraft per hour in and out of h k. o, 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, some 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 drop 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 as this morning at 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. arguing that the alternative was escalating u. s. involvement in another countries civil war was unfolded over the past month, has proven decisively that it would have taken a significant american troop presence. multiple times greater than what president biden was handed to stop a taliban onslaught, and we would have taken casualties. american men and women would have been fighting and dying once again in f. can't stand both republicans and democrats, subbing 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. this sharp criticism to the president's position to resume his vocation, spending only a few hours at the white house to address the american people before returning to

camp. david, thanks so much everyone. the criticism and the questions are likely to continue for months to come. my cannot just era washington. many us veterans who served in afghanistan have been watching the taliban take over with dismay. they need to know 1000 american service members died in what's become known as the longest war. now many are asking what for to do as christians or new report? the taliban quick take over. the afghan government came as little surprise to many who served there in the us military. but the incredible scenes of people storming the airport prompted, strong reactions, horror, shame, terror fear, mat zeller remains close to afghans. he worked with as a combat adviser to the afghan army, and continues to fear for their safety. this is the arctic exit that they feared, and that so many of us tried to warn about,

and just no one listened. it fell on deaf ears in the by the ministration, and they now owned the asco. they were warned and warned and warned. and they just did not pay attention, they didn't care at the white house. on monday, u. s. president joe biden defended the decision to withdraw from the u. s. as longest war which has cost the lives of nearly $2500.00 americans service members. and more than 2 trillion us dollars, he also acknowledge there's been missteps. the cesar scene in afghanistan, their gut wrenching, particularly for our veterans, our diplomats humanitarian workers, for anyone who has spent time on the ground working to support the afghan people. the u. s. withdraw was time to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the attacks in september 11. the goal of dismantling al qaeda was successful. but removing from power the taliban gave them safe haven fruits. trickier taliban would have waited

and waited. another 20 years if we had stayed there even longer as a marine miles lagossi videotape these scenes of combat for the military as well as us troop involvement with afghan civilians. more than 47000 of whom were killed. in addition 266000 african military and police, after leaving the military lagossi, made a documentary with the footage, calling us objectives into question dark and you know, ominous and uncertain. as afghanistan's future is right now with the taliban taking back over, it's important to remember that it was just as bad while we were there. nevertheless, it seems like this play out. surveys show that support for the withdraw. once widely supported by americans is slipping. kristen salumi al jazeera new york ah

not a powerful earthquake in haiti and now having to cope with a truck, those tropical storm. heavy rain lashed makeshift shelters in the southern city of kai, one of the worst areas, many 2000 people and known to have died in saturdays quake, thousands more were left homeless. many say they're still waiting for aid from the government to arrive. i've got a problem, ma'am. i have to bad guy and it's not good here. my home was destroyed. i have nothing. my home 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. john hohmann has this update from the airport in photo print. we've been speaking people on the ground, including our colleagues over in the car, which is one of the major cities that was hit by this great. and in the end, it seems that that was and as far as we know so far, too much flooding or lines slides, which was the big worry about this. but we still have, as you mentioned,

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 quake. so the relief efforts ongoing, as you want to tell you as well, we're actually at the airport now in full to print. 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 prince, to get the air in the south west of the country. there's 2 gangs baffling over it. close to port to print. i'm not smith, it's really hard to get down that road since that it's being flown in. we've seen the u. s. coast guard. we just saw actually quite a big playing coming from the air force of chile. so different countries of bringing their right into the pool and then it's been taken out by the fall in shop . it's helicopters for a place to try and get to that region. still to come out to 0,

the migrants promised a better life abroad and turned into political poems. a quarter of a 1000000 teachers are on strike inter lanka. they want to be paid on a pall with others in the public sector. ah, the who's the hello, you're whether story begins right here right now in asia pacific and we've got to talk about these storms training over the southern sections of japan. when we talk about training storms, it's essentially just parked in this area where you notice moisture. and we can certainly see that when we look at the tally through this city and q shoot, 364 millimeters of rain in the past 24 hours. typically for the month of august you would see about a $180.00. so all of that to say, double your average monthly rainfall in just 24 hours and the heavy falls will

continue on wednesday when you see yellows pop up. you know, that's not good news. and this is certainly running the risk of more land slides and mud slides in the region for se, china, glen dong and fuji and provinces. the rain is starting to pick up here as well. and you know, for borneo, we've seen intense rain for brunei and that will continue on wednesday. some thunder storms in the forecast for jakarta, with the high of 33 degrees down under. we go when we've got some rain sweeping into western australia, but of cloud deck building for the se, portion. but i want to take you to new zealand as we end this weather broadcast. the bulk of that heavy rain has pushed away some lingering showers still for the north island on wednesday. that sure weather see you soon. ah ah, when i think of my niger, i think of potential. when i think of potential, i see what be, what is not i think of young people literally take them to the island and do

something that they can be part of. tell me the possible. i think it other challenges i believe is the child in the country. alex, my name is ben. gotcha. so and this is my my, my dear on i'll do there. ah o. a self storage 0 is 1st news conferences taking control of our kennesaw. the taliban is declared, it wants peaceful relations with other countries. the group insists it will offer amnesty to anyone who worked with the government or foreign forces. survivors of

a powerful earthquake and hatred. now having to cope with a tropical storm, heavy rain lashed make shelters, and the substitute one of the worst areas in for new cases is covered 19 have been confirmed in new zealand. as a country begins a snap, 3 de locked down. it brings the total number of cases to 5, all confirmed to be the delta variant. the case that triggered the lockdown was detected in oakland, and authorities are working to trace its origins. new zealand has closed its borders to travelers and had not had lockdown in more than a year. united states continues to battle a surgeon code cases, particularly in southern states with low vaccination rates. the governor of louisiana has warned the states health care system is approaching the point of major failure with a number of cubic patients in hospitals reaching in new hi. there's hydro castro

has school, has been 62 year old bobby burdette has just emerged from the covey intensive care unit at our lady of the lake hospital in baton rouge, louisiana staff have nicknamed him there miracle patient. most havent been leaving the i see you alive. i feel really well mum breathing has really gotten under control. burdette was never vaccinated and says he still has no regrets. his wife also tested positive. they're part of a dramatic surgeon co cases in louisiana. only 39 percent of the state is fully vaccinated, that strictly individual decision, the governments and ain't anybody else. but there's, according to the louisiana health department, the unvaccinated make up more than 90 percent of hospitalized covert patients. with nurse laurie douglas has been carrying for them, many of whom are young and otherwise healthy. she says most do tell her they wish

they'd gotten. the vaccine is to know that this was preventable and that this didn't need to happen. and that, you know, there is a girl who without her mother anymore, that a man doesn't have his brother any longer. so big brother to turn to and i was like, not a heart wrenching with coven patient billing hospital beds. major hospitals in louisiana are no longer accepting transfers. emergency rooms are seeing ways of up to 10 hours, and patients with other emergency conditions, even heart attacks have sometimes been turned away. we're already rationing care in every day. we continue to admit the same amount of people, if not more. so we'll get to a point where if we are unable to patch it together, a federal disaster team is working with the state hospital to relieve the strain. the doctors say what they also need are more people getting the vaccine a recent uptake and vaccinations as promising,

but not enough. every person who comes into the hospital and is not vaccinated is a failure. on our part. it is our job as medical professionals to educate people and we haven't gotten our education out. and in the absence of that, there's misinformation, misinformation, distrust in government and misplaced confidence. are all heard was to getting the vaccine among louisiana fiercely independent population. as for burdette and his wife, even a near death experience in the hospital, hasn't convinced them to get the shots. for now, they'll focus on recovery kit will eventually get to where mom mean systems up to where i can start seeing people and hugged the heck, i'm great time left with family, a gift denied to some 700 people were day who continued to die of cove it in the us hydrogen castro al jazeera, baton rouge, louisiana lebanon faces

a severe fuel shortage that's paralyzing life and endangering patients as hospital struggle to cope. businesses also scaling back operations or shutting down completely. the country is in economic turmoil. they know how to reports from beirut. there is bread only when there is fuel. a resource that is now scarce. lebanon's economic crisis is getting worse. the state barely provides electricity. many bakeries that can't afford the rising costs to power generators have had to close. lack of levins in them as there is no bread, few diesel electricity, no medicine, but the officials who are fighting for their interests live in homes that lead their generators are working. they have humiliated to people a lack of fuel when there are difficulties pumping water and distributing it. every aspect of life is

affected by what is being described as living on words, 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 hospital rely on generators. a few days ago, they almost ran out of fuel further stretching the little medicine and resources. they have patients' lives are at risk. if machines stop working, to make sure that we have identified 3300 critical items that are critical for life, saving and 25 percent out of stock and the count and we cannot find any of those items in the country. we cannot treat people without energy,

we cannot 3 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, often left out of love. sometimes there's no diesels for private generator, so we can't work. and when there's diesel, we only get 3 hours of electricity today with the united nation says at least 78 percent of the $6000000.00 people are now poor. the economy has all but collapse. so have basic services yet politicians continue to struggle for. our webinar has been without a functioning 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 eda balte. if you're in your,

has accused better russian need an exam de luca shank of orchestrating the arrival of more than 4000 migrants and asylum seekers in recent weeks. out of revenge for e u sanctions. you datas slap the better russian regime with sanctions after lucas shanker forced lithuanian plain to land in order to arrest one of his opponents, said boston reports from the border of issue and yet, and banners. they will promise way into europe and pay $200000.00. all 3 that was on facebook and on social media, they says like, the bottle is free now. of garcia. you can process or something together with his relative 17 year old ali. yes. him from iraq. is detained in a cabin, luther wayne after crossing the border from that. they were picked up with thousands of voters by border guards in recent month. they tell us how they could easily enter better bruce and received help to regionally the way in border gateway

into the european union. every people had charge, very sought children. i'm the baby and woman. this is in europe and a woman coming here with children. but it's in their present why? because you're coming here because you want to live this way. you recently started to push people who showed up at the board of battles and the turn the russian troops stop them from entering. on this footage, released by lithuanian border guards, group of 35 iraqi. that seems concise. lisa wayne eventually allowed the migrant in an accused bella russians from illegally crossing its border. the the playing deadly games with the human rise lives is acceptable and has to be condemned. unfortunately, people whom we consider to be victims in that situation. i used by lucas

shanker regime as the tool as a weapon against the european union in general. and particularly cna, because of its very strong political position in an effort to stop the influx of migrants and asylum seekers. lithuania has been constructing a barrier on its 670 kilometer long border with barrows. these are desperate people who have become victims of political conflict. far away from home. their presence here, this gateway into europe, shows how vulnerable district use fence on asylum seekers and migrants has become. the e u. s. had more than 100 border troops and pledge 37000000 euros to helpless away near that usually only sees a fraction of these arrivals. to deal with the crisis, bella russian opposition lead us cut lana to north guy. i was living in exile in lithuania, or just the you not to give in to local shanker, what the regime is doing is mailing european union with this gratian situation.

and the answer should be even stronger. you can't be blackmailed by regime. the number of migrants arriving at the board has decreased since iraq stopped it slides to barrows. but the situation we main stance warning shots have been hurt from the bad wish and sight steadfast and al jazeera failures. lithuania, for the 1st time, the u. s. is declared a water shortage at its largest reservoir, triggering mandatory cuts to some western states. like me on the colorado river of 40000000 people. farmers in arizona expected to see the biggest drop in supply. the region is struggling with a drought and record high temperatures. firefighters battling to contain a fast spreading wildfire in the southern french tourist region of var. thousands of people have been evacuated from the area since a fire broke out on monday. officials say it spread through about 50 square kilometers of forest water dumping planes and helicopters will be used to try to

down the flames. strong winds, hampering efforts to put out forest fires in the central spanish province of villa . the fires broke out during regular breaking heat wave and a battery more than $5000.00 tech t as teachers and lanka have gone on strike to demand better pay as part of the industrial action. also refusing to teach online or help students prepare for exams . it's left hundreds of thousands of pupils unable to get the guidance they need. now fernandez reports from chromebook i shawnee, i mean are you trying to stay on top of their school work? the sisters who attend the government school in colombo as public exam in a few months. but their teachers have stop conducting online classes as part of the trade union action, demanding better pay longer naval adler day i'll be, it's difficult to study the syllabus by ourselves. there's a lot to cover, especially with the final exam from any of the bar then good i. the martini,

the girl mother, sita walks as a maid, 3 days a week. the father of the builder. they say they cannot afford to pay private fusion for any of their 4 children up again in the go. it's families like us day wage earners that are the worst effected in mind. we only have school or online classes to rely on. that's why we're worried. she lanka, salon teacher's union is on an indefinite strike, which keeps them away from online teaching exam preparation, paper correction and the duties it says 25 years of waiting for better pay is more than enough doc off the lowest. the teachers are se, obviously, like this is truly an embarrassing situation. just salaries are more than double the speed here. we say increase our salaries and when the government won't do anything about it, we will continue to struggle to do success. if you have agreed that the salary disparity between teachers and other government employees must be address that the

government says he just didn't have to wait for the proper procedure to get the wage hike from 11. i'm going to the procedure is the budget. we've already begun to make plans present the necessary documents as part of the budget. this issue has to result through the budget and be presented in that framework. but the teachers are not buying it. d. c, the government is spending millions of dollars on unnecessary projects and can easily sort out the teacher salary issue if there is a way to do so. recent we have seen some of the not just demonstrations by the 250000 strong union heavy hand just released action during the corona's. i had a stan demik tourist and quarantine for testers, has drawn criticism from the teachers and affiliated train union. on doing a log me model, going to again, the government is trying to suppress us. we will not be college and we will take

our struggled forward while the government fights teachers on salary differences that have lasted for decades, students in over 10000 government schools like the one behind me, bear the brunt of the work stoppage. students like shawnee and minority will be hoping the strike will be over soon, so they can carry on with their study. fernandez, i'll just the ra, colombo ah . top stories are now to 0. first news conferences taking control in afghanistan. taliban indicated once peaceful relations with other countries. the group is being keen to show new face to the world, doing inclusion and education for women and religious tolerance. a group consists, it will offer amnesty to anyone who worked with the government or foreign forces.