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the way i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career, but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. oh, i protest against taliban rule in the african city of july, the bad at least 3 people are reported. dan. ah, i'm sammy say that this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up more cale cobble international app holders. us bed for the 1st crowds of people trying to leave afghanistan.
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heroes home coming for the co founder of the army, gone as a spotlight for them beyond group political leaders. and we, me to, for my child soldier now trying to come for sierra leone. think youngsters raising money to say line i owe a day after the tod yvonne reassured the world, people will be safe. under its rule. it's fine to report to the open fire and protest as the report 3 people were killed that the demonstration against the groups takeover of the city of people were marching in the streets chanting and carrying the african flies. video of the event lately showed thought of on fire is firing in the air and hitting processes with sticks from mcbride has the license from i think
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it's being seen is really since the taliban just assume power a couple of days ago as the 1st major active defines against them. just jot by there's a 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 have taken power, they have a very consciously being removing the afghan national flag and replacing it with the taliban flag. we've seen that a lot here in the capital, kabul, it's left a lot of people. i very upset, but people are by and large put up with especially here in cobble while it seems in july, the bad people have not put up with that. they've had, 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
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. 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 seemed the firing was more directed to the crowd resulting in death and injury. so it is very serious incident. there was another protest over the same issue, the, the removal of the national flag in the province of costs, that it again involves several $100.00 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 expected that well, feelings are running high, and there is a possibility of more protests than the possibility of more questions. yana gland is the general secretary of the norwegian refugee council. he says his main concern of the refugees who fear for their future our focus is on the internally displaced the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of on top of the millions before this latest
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emergency in the country. i mean, the, the, the international airport, which has all eyes on it now, will be organized by american forces is a lot of attention on what's happening. there are concern are the millions and millions who are now standing, who are very afraid of, of, of their existence in the future. hundreds of thousands where displaced the cost of the pricing because of the cross tire. but others will also to space by fear of what was now coming, and that could be less bloodshed. now, that could be because the, the, the conflict between the taliban and the african are 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
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a lot of work in and which reps counsel 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 the plight. but at the moment, most operations are in hibernation. there is, there are new rulers, it's really a period of a tremendous, you know, make changes. i've got his times deposed president, is in the united arab emirates. the foreign ministry says i shall connie and his family are in upper darby on humanitarian grounds. while the toddler bomb has taken charge of the country, we're still waiting to hear the makeup of a future. government taught bon says it will be inclusive. on wednesday, a member of the taliban political office and how connie was pictured meeting national reconciliation, chairman of de la bella and the former president. i mean to cut assign cobble.
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natalia bonds co founder and political chief has returned to afghanistan after finally but other arrived to a crowd of supporters in the heart, the birthplace of the tale. bon. but all the lead, the groups negotiators in talks with the u. s. and afghan government, earlier in the day, but all that met called those foreign minister before leaving where those talks had been held. it was freed from a prison in pakistan at the request of the us 3 years ago. the also taking power in cobble the african taliban is now in talks with the pakistani government. come on. hi. there has more on that from humble the crossing. a sunnier of won delegation comprising, or he knew of our leaders 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 budget on the prime minister budget on his dressing, on the point that this has to be an inclusive government. that taliban have already
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signaled that they will tolerate other religious minorities as rela, admitted richard, no one has gone to varman inclusive government. it is going to be important to see what kind of progress will be made and reaching a political settlement. and meantime, to budget on the foreign minister is planning to witness turkey and also a whole consultation red. but if for the stage such as iran 30 minutes, don rebecca don g gets on and also read the chinese counterpart buckets on has played a lead role. and facilitating the talk between the taliban and united states. it is acting as a facilitator. and of course what happens head, and if lama bots will be crucial, but it's also important to know that buckets on it, watching cautiously. the moves inside of varnished on the signs, a good defender for the diamond decades that the people of granite does have a rail volpe and reaching a political settlement to the one conflict. the british prime minister says the u.
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k. will do all it can 2 of us a humanitarian crisis enough can stand bars. johnson says he doesn't believe minute reaction against the taliban is an option. we made the comments while addressing the british parliament. it was recalled early to discuss the taliban take over. all of us can a stand. i think you'd be fair to say that the events you're not going to start to unfold in the claps has been possible given the, the taliban themselves predict what is not true. said you can't, government was unprepared or did not foresee this because it was certainly part of our planning of pitting. the very difficult logistical operation for the withdrawal of u. k. nationals has been under preparation for many months. mister speaker. i can tell the house that the decision to commission the emergency handling center at the commissioning of that said that took place a 2 weeks ago. mrs. b. jonah hall is in london with more now this
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is a country deeply invested in afghanistan up to 20 years. of that nature mission, the coast of 2nd senior partner in the nato alliance. after the u. s. it was an opportunity for us 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 that we've seen strong questions. also, the government, about it preparedness for all of this post johnson and his foreign secretary were 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 kind of a coalition without the united states to stand strong enough to stand and head off prevent. what in effect happened?
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the government has tried to talk up the positives, the successes that have been they 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 stopped, double the number now they're hoping to bring back 10000 at a rate of around a 1000 to day. according to the home secretaries, fatah, galani is the champ person for the afghan. stan women's council, she says the top to bottom should explain what version of islamic floor plans to apply and as soon as possible. i am not afraid from the top of the box, but i want from the tunnel on to beat him soon as possible. security piece to call
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the war in a thought for the asking moment is very, very important part is to stop the war in killing is she could be and sick on the thought of on should to explain which kind of share your d bringing up on stuff because people get woman did a muslim, we are a 100 muslims. we are not afraid for them, but by the name of chevy us. but we want to be sure. what do you say about the woman's right? we want to see a good now do you just talking about woman like very nicely but it currently but we want to see what you are doing. what does program for the future for the african woman? i'm not actually i'm fighting. i want to speak to fighting for peace for democracy, for woman. like for you my right foot, i am a lead. good woman. i was more did for decade for my country did on the say
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now is nice about one month i i, i try to leave, i stay with the whole, we are working. we are just working for p days more. wholeseller had an al jazeera woman coming here. she lives in n y b. u closes, ranks with lithuania to stop refugees from afghanistan and iraq and entering through ballard. tough to find widespread vaccine access. part of the us health care system of buckling under the high number of covey. 19 patient. ah, ah. hey there, here's her weather update in a minute 15 and we're starting on the subcontinent where we're going to have brain
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move back in towards the northwest. so new delhi has had an abundance of sunshine, but that changes on friday. all of this to say there's been about in 9 percent. a rainfall deficiency in monsoon range across the indian that takes into account from june 1st to august 16th, where we do have some aggressive on sooner. moisture is toward the foothills of the himalayas, both for new paul and blue tan. you will be in the line of fire on thursday after asia pacific and it has been nonstop range here for the better part of a week week and a half another. 80 millimeters of rain scooped up. but we start to see that rain wind down as we head toward thursday less concentrated, and there are still landside alerts in play, but i think thursday these will be dropped q, chicago, coo and horseshoe islands. as that rain starts to fade away, pretty much anywhere from vietnam to the east china sea. we seen some clusters of cells produced anywhere from 50 to about a 100 millimeters of rain. and, you know, checking in on borneo, we've got heavy concentration of rain here. but also forced to the ways the and
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some thunderstorms for jakarta, with a height of $33.00 degrees. that sure whether see you soon. the who's joined the debate, do not have vaccines reaching those who are most of the needs and amplify your voice. it allows a diverse community how an array of different story, no topic, it's off the table. it's such a tough ethical debate where there is an obvious discrimination in systematic discrimination of play. people are thursdays or new wasted. this stream where a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera. oh
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the welcome back. you're watching. i'll just time to recap our headlines now. the thought of on 5 is that reportedly open fire on protest is in east africa. city of jet out about 3 people were reportedly killed and several others wounded. us troops open fire in the air and cobbled international airport. as panicked crowds scrambled to leave the country. the us says the tale bond is agreed to allow face passage or civilian. press shotguns have been protesting outside parliament to demand. the government does more to help people seeking asylum. the prime minister says the u. k. will do all that can to avert to humanitarian crisis. lithuania says its concern. better is his president will open a migration route for afghan sling taliban rule. thousands of migrants and refugees
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have recently entered e u. countries from bella. ruth, the european union will report that they offer more money and board offices to help stop the search stuff. voss and reports from the border between the through any and bella, luce they were promised to easy way into europe and paid hundreds of even thousands of dollars for the dream that quickly was on facebook and on social media. like the borders of garcia, you can process or something together with his relative 17 year old ali. yes. him from iraq as detained in a campbell luther wayne ya. after crossing the border from barrows, they were picked up with thousands of voters by border guards in recent month. they tell us how they could easily enter battles and received help to regionally away and border the gateway into the european union. every people had charge, very sought children,
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and babies and women. this is in europe and a woman coming here with children. but it's in the reason why. because you're coming here because you want it alive. lithuania recently started to push people who showed up at the board, back to barrows in return than the russian troops stopped them from entering on this footage, released by lithuanian border guards. a group of 35 iraqis are seen stuck between the 2 sites. lisa wayne eventually allowed the migrants in an accused bella, or oceans 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
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a weapon against the european union in general. and particularly sienna, 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 fans 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 latest atlanta to north sky. i was living in exile in lithuania, or just the you not to give in to local shanker, what the regime is doing is blake mailing european union. this gratian situation, and the answer should be even stronger. you can be blackmailed by regime. the
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number of migrants arriving at the board has decreased since iraq stopped at slides to barrows, but the situation remained. stands warning, shots have been hurt from the battle of wish and sight steadfast and al jazeera vilios lithuania, now peruse, foreign minister, has resigned less than a month after the new president federal castillo is sworn in, hector, be hard. quit amid outrage over comments he made about nom group that killed tens of thousands during the 1980s in 1900 ninety's. during those protests on sunday opposition support is also called for the president to resign. they say the cabinet is full of inexperienced ministers. custio's back of say, the cabinet represents the marginalized pool in haiti, heavy rain brought on by a tropical storm as complicated the search and rescue mission off the saturdays earthquake. 92000 people were killed and thousands more of the left homeless. many
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waiting for help. john holman reports from like high the off the math of storm grace in the south west of haiti. damper wasn't quite as bad as fit, but some spent that they bailing out their houses and getting the water out because this is the only space we have to do if anything, we can't live in water. when we feel after shocks, we have to be able to move out of the house quickly. those were the ones who still handhelds. others had spent the night in the field in the rain, victims of saturday's earthquake 1st above the earthquake, then this. and i can't even get a tarpaulin. i asked god to take my life there still, there. still more or in hospital. the quake left more than 9000 injured. this young man was in too much pain to talk. murray was with her young daughter. her leg got sworn up but not broken. i've been with her. she's saturday yesterday. she was going to be operated on,
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but they wanted to amputate the lake. i don't want that. if there was a government, she wouldn't be suffering the way she and she's talking about the late president assassinated in july, a political crisis. the proceeded to quake it came at the worst possible time international aid organizations trying to help national authorities with the relief effort. now we've been here but it's been hard to get a m personnel to the earthquake zone. that's because the stretch of the only road into the area is being fought over by gangs in the same way again, helping way, way and coming by can reduce the flow of support for the disaster area. and help is needed at the rubble of one of the main hotels in town. a crowd of people gathered, reuben,
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some victor is telling me that in the 2010 with quake block felt and permanently injured his hand. in this latest one, he says his house fell down. these 2 brothers helped to try and pull people out of the rubble, despite the fact that their house to have been destroyed. we are victims as well, but they were the worst off. i have a chance to be alive, even though i'm injured. thanks to god. we didn't get badly hurt. so we could help out. the other local authorities and international organizations have commented on the resilience of these people. but there's a sense of disbelief over the long series of misfortunes. to many the question comes when we'll have to get a break, john home, and how does it a located in now the us is battling a surgeon coby 19 cases, particularly in southern states with low vaccination rates. louisiana,
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as governor warns the state health care system is approaching breaking point. hi, jo. castro reports from baton rouge, one of the worst effected areas. let's go his bed up a little bit. 62 year old bobby burdette has just emerged from the coven 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 covert cases in louisiana. only 39 percent of the state is fully vaccinated. that's strictly individual decision and i the governments and, and anybody else. but there's, according to the louisiana health department, the unvaccinated make up more than 90 percent of hospitalized cove with patients on
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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 patients 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 every day. we continue to admit the same amount of people, if not more. so we'll get to a point where we're unable to patch it together. a federal disaster team is working with states hospitals to relieve the strain, but doctors say what they also need are more people getting the vaccine. a recent
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uptick in 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 this place, 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 a great time left with family. a gift denied to some 700 people were day who continue to die of cove. it in the us. hydrogen castro,
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al jazeera, baton rouge, louisiana housetraining officials, a warning current of virus cases of not yet peaked in the city of sydney and said people should price themselves for more death. several areas of experience, a surgeon infections driven by the delta variance. the state of new south wales reported a reco daily increase of more than 630 cases in the past 24 hours. the government has announced heavy fines and more policing to enforce a lockdown in place since june. according to the data, we have, every person who has the virus is spreading it to at least more than mumford now for us to know that we've reached out take that con, continue. so what the daughter is telling us in the last few days is that we haven't seen the worst of it. and the way that we stop these is by everybody staying at home. new zealand has reported 9 new cases of code 19 taking its total
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to 10. now, the government announced the 3 day locked down from tuesday when the 1st case was announced. before this week they had been no local infections for almost 6 months. all the new cases, all the delta variance and have been linked to the outbreak in australia. i need everyone to think about what it would be like to receive a call. if you do, we need you to be at home, not out putting others at risk. we very unfortunately need only to look at new south wells who today have reported 633 cases. $92.00 were active in the community while inflicted level 4 restrictions, the to protect everyone. a project led by a former child soldier during sierra leone. civil war is helping save the lives of children with life threatening illnesses. the project raises money to send kids abroad for treatment. i meant adriece met some of the volunteers on the streets of
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free town volunteers from the sic, picking project was the speech of frito looking for help. 3 times a week, they hit the st. visit wash center's bus stations and market soliciting donations to help be the medical bills of children or serious element was conditions cannot be treated by local hospitals. the project is co founded by a former child soldier for fort jordan several years. civil war is a condition that requires a minimum of $15000.00 united fit dollars in a country where the average income, you know, on a very, very low, less than a $100.00. a lot of my colleagues was for less than $100.00. and so you can imagine, if you have to raise a $150000000.00 in the union amount,
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which is $60000.00, it will require a very long time. he admits that raising funds for the children was hard and at personal cost for many volunteers. here his team is trying to raise $16000.00 to fly out 9 year old janet coloma. janet is suffering from many gilmer, a slow growing tumor that threaten him to cover her face and head. the child's mother is delighted, but how for her daughter could just be month away after so many years. good mother, good to go. although her siblings go to school, janet doesn't. we pulled her out because we realized she's subjected to taunts and bullying by other schoolmates because of her condition. and she can't walk that far . runjun in the past 4 years, more than 60 children have been flown abroad for treatment by the fundraisers. one of the success stories is to yet or id bussey was had to cardiovascular operations
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in india. and can you show change his condition has improved like i labored, breathing is gone. i really thank god for the improvement. done work for the organization says it wants to do more, but successfully submitted. and those who need help to maybe help with struggling to treat come on elements like malaria. many poor families look to organizations like the ticket for the help. but it takes several months to raise enough funds to take one child on many occasions helped him too late for some children. how many read algebra? so you tell ok, and let's take you through some of the headlines here now just 0. now. the thought of on 5 as opposed to the open fire on.
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