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[000:00:00;00] ah, i'll just 0. when you want me with this is al jazeera ah hello, i'm sammy. say, dan, this is the news out live from coming up in the next 60 minute. the protests against tale bon rule in july, the bad at least 3 people reported dad more chaos.
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the cobbled international airport, the us force is trying to defer the crowds of people trying to leave the hero homecoming for the co founder of the tardy bonnet. the focus shifts to the group, political leaders and anger and frustration, and have a tropical storm make life miserable for many who just divide the devastating us like i'm john, go with the sport. the international parent and pick committee president says he's hot over the plight of to african athletes sucking, cobble un. unable to compete in tokyo. ah, a day after the taliban reassured the world, the people will be safe. under its rule, its fighters have reportedly opened fire on protesters. the,
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the rob reports 3 people have been killed that the demonstration against the groups takeover in the east and afghan city of july. the bad people marching in the streets chanting and carrying the afghan flag. video of the event lay to show taliban fighters firing into the air and hitting protesters with thanks. let's go live now to rob mcbride. he joins us from the african capital. cobble, rob, what's the nicest we're hearing out of july, bob? yeah, they said it was a particularly ugly incident, not i think it's being seen as really since the taliban just assume power a couple of days ago as the 1st major active defines against them. just jot about this very important city. it is east of here towards the border with pakistan and this protest began over the national flag. now since the taliban taken power, they had very consciously been removing the national flag and replacing it with the
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taliban flag. we've seen that a lot here in the capital cobble. it's left a lot of people. very upset to people talk. been describing to us very teary eyed have they, they've really does. it really does hurt them. it drives home the fact that they have lost power. they have new rulers here, but people have by and large, put up with specially hit in cobble. well, it seems in july, the bad people have not put up with that. they have the, has been a protest. people kicked back and pushed back against this several 100 people took to the streets proudly waving the afghan flags. they marched on a square apparently and put the flag back up after have been removed by the taliban . this resulted in a clash with the taliban themselves. initially we understand taliban fighters began firing in the trying to disperse the protesters, then it seems the firing was more directive to the crowd resulting in death and
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injury. so it is very serious incident. that was the protest over the same issue. the removal of the national flag in the province of costs that it again involves several 100 people. so it is the motive issue here, and it does come at a sensitive time. this is the eve of afghanistan's independence day when we might expect that well, feelings are running high. there is a possibility of more protests than the possibility of more classes. also some disturbing image is coming out rob of us soldiers firing in the air, but very close to families. kids, infants, mothers. if they try to disperse what's happening at the apple? that's right. i mean, it remains a fairly confusing bullet tile situation. i mean, we have seen some images, both that video and also still images of us forces heavily armed, cut, the confrontation with a crowds of people who swarmed into the airport and we're trying to get on to
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flights. gradually they were clear, but i think we are still seeing the points at which us forces are coming a meeting where that in confrontation with some of these crowds, people still wanting to try to get on flights. i mean that's on the military side of the field. 2 where the evacuation of us citizens, that the big operation being organized, especially by the us, but also with that allies in nato pot this that is ongoing. and also on the civilian side of the airport, on the commercial side, we are still waiting to see whether commercial flights will resume when that will be. but that is more in control of the child about the taliban or outside the terminal. try to keep people away. in fact, we were down that earlier on wednesday i didn't really is a very changeable situation. that times there are small crowds. it doesn't seem to be that he kid and then crowds will build l. search forward towards this barrier.
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that's been paid by the taliban. and then we, while we were that there was some heavy volleys, have gum fi real, automatic fire being fired into the air. it causes the people to stampede back through vehicles and through families who are sitting that it gets very chaotic. it has to be said. and then while all they do is going on, there are also other taliban wandering around with, with sticks and also show whips casually whacking people out of the way, trying to get people to move away. they sort of move on, but then just move down the sidewalk, stall, congregating again and again. a bit later on. taliban come along and walk again, trying to get people to move on. so it's, it's sort of this ongoing rolling disorder or at times chaos, chaotic disorder. but it, so it's a kind of continues the tell about it's very conscious of this does not send very good optics, especially given this is what day 2 or 3 of them being in charge. and in fact, if you get out to camera,
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they are very quickly on to you. we saw one crew being taken away and detained, or heard of other crews been detained for a few hours. so they really don't like this being shown to the world. but you do still see people waiting that people have been waiting since sunday when the 1st people started descending on the airport trying to get on flight. did you hear some very tragic stories? a lot of people don't have tickets. they don't have passports. they just shaking that chance to, to see if they can get something. but there are people that who tell us they had all of their papers. they had passports ready. they used to work for a foreign contract. they had a place for they have a place on the evacuation plight, but they tell us they have the last se documents or is often has the case. and we have a lot of anecdotes of this that a lot of criminals mixed in amongst this pickpocket seats. who will be stealing bags amongst the chaos, and some people are left there. been that for several days of lost that paper have apparently legitimate reasons and they have seats that they could take to get out
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of the country. but i've lost the ability to do that, and i have nothing else to do, but just sit there and wait. project situation, thanks so much. ron mcbride there. now rob was telling us just how many afghans are desperate to get out of the country. and joining us from, although now is young eglin, the general thinker tree of the norwegian refugee council. good to have you with us . clearly, foreign horses, afghanistan struggling there with the evacuation. is there a role to play for n jose and organizations like yours to try and help with evacuations and resettlement? our focus is on the internally displaced the hundreds and hundreds of thousands on top of the millions before this late this emergency in the country. i mean, the international airport, which has all eyes on it now, will be organized by american forces is
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a lot of attention on what's happening. there are concern are the millions and millions who are now stopping, who are very afraid of, of their existence in the future. there are also remember millions of refugees in iran and pakistan that are also watching the drama of a gun is done when you're minute, terry. and with that for the most vulnerable. a lot of people were displaced by the latest rounds of fighting as the tommy bon we're getting closer to cobble now. but most of the major fighting at least is, is over. is this offering an opportunity for internally displaced people to go back to the villages and towns? what, let's hope so. hundreds of thousands were displaced because of the pricing because of the cross high. but other slow, so just based by fair,
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what was now coming and that could be less blood shift. now that could be because the, the, the conflict between the taliban and the african made the previous african army and the international pulses seem to be over. and that should enable people to return to their homes. we're doing a lot of work in and which reps the council to secure house land and property for the displaced and poor returning refugees if anyone not coming so that they can have a new and durable solution to flight. but at the moment, most operations are in hibernation. there is, there are new rules, it's really a period of a tremendous, you know, make changes. all right, so people are returning home. yes. and you say a lot of operations are in hibernation. so what's happening to the hundreds of thousands of people who are displaced right now inside afghanistan? are you able to give them any support?
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are you able to do any operations to help them? you know, in some parts of the country we, we never discontinued our relief and we are hoping to restock work in the coming days. we have done surveys of the camps around a couple into which houses and thousands were coming in recent days. many did not have brought anything with them. so what we had, we have shit. we will do much more of that. but of course we need full access polar protection in operations. we need to taliban to give staff, male and female, freedom of movement. that can be no interference, then we can operate and we're not leaving what went hot tripping over each other out the door here. we're trying to stay locked work and i've gotten this done. we
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will remain there in many years to come. i'm sure you've had contacts and dealings with the taliban before in the past, but now with them as the rulers of afghanistan. what sort of a response? are you getting? what kind of an experience are you getting in interacting with the taliban as rulers and, and asking and putting forward requests for the sorts of things you just mentioned . freedom of movement, for example, for male and female staff who indeed we have now for years had contact, but local taliban commanders, as we have been active boats and ton of bung control areas. and but, and of course, even me also in the government control areas and it was possible to also operate and taliban control. there is no d. c, but possible. it, we're not the payments knock on the door on many of up of premises and operations and offices in, in the 15 provinces where we operate that have been taken over by taliban forces.
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and in all of these they have said, we want you to continue. we know you as a neutral and independent organization, you should help and will be innocent. tell us what we can do to help you. so that is promising, but it remains to be seen. for example, when we have full freedom of movement for a female stuff, can we do go center cation all over? can we do our work without interference? the coming weeks and months will be crucial. ok, thank you so much angland there for talking to us. thank you. how the us says the tale of on has agreed to allow safe passage for civilian struggling to leave afghanistan. american officials insist order has now been restored. cobble at fort president, joe biden has continued to face criticism. as mike hannah explains from washington
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d. c. evacuation operations are once again under way 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 $6000.00 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 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 weren't to complete this drop down by august 31st. and that which now includes the drop down of american cities
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pulling out of american citizens and drop down over embassy personnel. so that's what we're focused on, that's the timeline we're on. and it's the secretary made clear to to leaders even as originally 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. 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 onslaught. and we would have taken casualties. american men and women would have been fighting and dying once again in afghanistan. 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
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a huge failure of intelligence. thanks so much everyone. the criticism and the questions are likely to continue for months to come. my can i just era washington? now the british prime minister says the u. k. will do all it can to of, to humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. bars, johnson says he doesn't believe military action against the party bond is an option . he made the comments while addressing the british parliament. it was recalled early to discuss the tiny bon take over all by scanning. stan, i'm sure if you'd be fed say that the events you're not going to start on told in the claps has been passed. wasn't even the, the taliban themselves predict what is not true, said you can't, government was unprepared and did not foresee this because it was certainly part of our planning of pitting. the very difficult logistical operation for the withdrawal of
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u. k. national has been on the preparation for many months mister speaker. i can tell the house that the decision to commission the emergency handling center at the airport with missing of that said that took place a 2 weeks ago. mrs. speaking on jonah hall joins us now live from london. so what was parliament hoping to achieve with this debate? well, you know, this is a country deeply invested in afghanistan up to 20 years of that nature mission. that was the 2nd senior partner in the nato alliance. after the u. s, it was an opportunity for employees to have their say to discuss what has happened to talk about what little this country can perhaps now contribute to help. in the aftermath, we've seen some extremely moving point in, sometimes bitter and angry interventions from empties some of them veterans of that campaign. in afghanistan, we've seen strong questions. also, the government, about its preparedness for all of this post johnson and his foreign secretary were
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on holiday. as these events unfolded and escalated towards the end of last week. we've had questions about the failures of western intelligence to be able to predict what would happen and questions about where the more could be done to form some out of a coalition without the united states to stand strong enough to stand and head off prevent. what in effect happened? the government has tried to talk up the positives. the successes have been, have been offered by the government of a double, the annual amount of international humanitarian aid going into afghanistan, despite cuts elsewhere, $300000000.00. it is set aside not to be given to the taliban, of course, but to be given to humanitarian organizations under un bars. johnson has asked for the un to lead a humanitarian mission in the region. this talk of resettling refugees to talk about bringing back afghan support. stop, double the number now they're hoping to bring back 10000 at a rate of around a 1000 a day according to the home secretary. so you had bought a johnson talking about a nation afghanistan,
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c id on this countries consciousness saying he would do everything to support all those who helped the mission and i've got a sense. but even as he spoke, no matter what m p 's made of that outside a group of afghans residents in the u. k, protested some of them, former support staff themselves, others with family still enough guy who had fulfilled those roles. who said not, not enough, has been done, and they didn't believe that this government was simply going to sweep aside the obstacles that have been in place. that a press prevented a number of those people in recent weeks getting the visas that they've applied for because of this countries over strenuous asylum policy rules and all of this together, you know, all of these questions are asked very few answers forthcoming. as we've seen in other nato capitals and remember the, the motion here is simply this, that this house has considered the situation in afghanistan. it's not seeking to do any more than that. frankly. what else more can be done?
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what about those plans for resettlement of afghans in the u. k. where do they stand now? already coming under criticism is the answer to that from m. p. 's inside the house, a scheme and resettlement scheme announced by the government that the government claims is the most generous reset them and scheme in its history. they're looking to bring in $20000.00 afghans most in need, including particularly women and girls over the next $5.00 to $70.00 is $5000.00 to them to come in over the course of the next year critic saying it's simply not enough. it is not ambitious enough. the timescale is far too long. they point to countries like canada that he's bringing in $20000.00 people in a year alone. and one of the fab stock is questions posed to the government. was this? why don't are all the others that don't make it in, in the 1st year, supposed to do 15000 people waiting up to 5 years to be allowed in the u. k. whilst they are supposedly deemed to be at risk of their lives. from the taliban. again,
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onset came that not. all right, thanks so much, jonah, how many us veteran soldiers who served in afghanistan have been watching the taliban take over with dismay, nearly 2 and a half 1000 us service members died and was become known as the longest war. now many are asking what it was all for christian salumi reports from new york. the taliban, quick takeover of 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,
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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 us president joe biden defended the decision to withdraw from the u. s. is 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 seen an afghan stance for 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
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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 as 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. afghanistan's neighbors are closely watching developments. russia has begun a month long joint military exercise with jake is down near its afghan border about a 1000 soldiers youth tanks,
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artillery and helicopters. russia has promised military assistance to x o. v at nations in central asia, if they face attacks by om groups from afghanistan, because extent gets done and said you can stand are all part of moscow, lead security packs. and after taking power in cobble, the afghan taliban is now in talks with the punk stony government come on, hider has more on that from home border crossing a sunnier of delegation comprising, or he knew of our leader in august on, at the moment. they've already had an important round of dogs with the country's military leadership. they've met the budgets on the prime minister budget on a stretch thing on the point that it has to be an inclusive government. that taliban have already signaled that they will tolerate other religious minorities as well as admitted richard. no one has gone to varman inclusive government. it is
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going to be important to see what kind of progress will be made and reaching a political settlement. and i mean time to budget on the foreign minister planning with turkey and also a whole consultation red. but if for the stage such as iran, 30 minutes on really big it's on g gets on. and also read the chinese counterpart buckets on has played a lead role. and facilitating that dog between the taliban and the united states. it is acting as a facilitator. and of course what happens head. and if lama bots will be crucial, but it is also important to know that the buckets on it watching cautiously moved inside of varnish on the signs, the good that window for the diamond decades that the people of granite does have a rail volpe and reaching a political settlement to the one conflict, mexico is bracing for it could be its 1st hurricane of the season. is jeff with the world, whether hello, thank you for tuning in. here's an update on tropical storm grace and you know,
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i gotta tell you, could potentially make landfall as a category one hurricane right through here in the you could 10 peninsula, which of course is a tourist hotspot. places like can coon, let's try it out. as it keeps moving me, we can a bit through the bay of can peachy and strengthen for a potentially 2nd landfall as once again a category one hurricane along that east coast of mexico tracking the leftovers of fred, their racing through new england quite as soaking for upstate new york into massachusetts on thursday in nowhere else were seen some soaking ranges toward the desert southwest. this is mon sooner moisture flash flood warnings in play watches i should say through utah and also parts of arizona. at times we will see those storms flare up. now for canada, much need it. rain for the west coast through the canadian prayers. this is a cold front. so when it pick your temperature will drop on friday, the temperature is not dropping for south america. in particular, for a sophie on 39 degrees,
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i've got to show you the next 3 days because this potentially could be record breaking stuff up to 41. on friday the average is $25.00 and we've got a mix of sun in cloud in the forecast enjoy. that's it for me see soon. so i had now just sarah, the woman coming here with children, bridges. and the reason why be you closes, rang with lithuanian self refugees from our scanning and iraq entering through valerie fly chairs the type of the iraqi city of kind of a law as it marks a short on i can be fighting depression struggling to keep my fault i can become violent even towards mom, children and the top quarterback release is a hard hitting message on the dangers of concussion and children. that's coming up with joe in this for
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a global community on al jazeera. oh i watching out, is there a time to recap our headlines now? the thought of bonfires is that open fire on protest is in the eastern city of general. about 3 people were killed and several others wounded. the coalition troops the fight in the air cobbled international apple to panic, crowns scrambled to try and leave the country. the us has been taught,
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yvonne has agreed to allow the safe passage for citizens and civilian prison. shotguns have been protesting outside the u. k. parliament to demand the government do more to help those seeking asylum. prime minister barak johnson told paul the u . k. will do all he can to, to humanitarian crisis. lithuania says it's concerned by the roost is president will open a migration route for africans. fleeing taught a bond rule. thousands of migrants and refugees have recently entered e u. countries from barrows and the european union will reportedly offer more money and board officers to stop the search service and reports from the border between the through and the and bella. ruth, they were promised to easy way into europe and paid hundreds of even thousands of dollars. i dreamed that quickly it was on facebook and on social media they said like the borders of garcia,

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