your network al jazeera oh we're going to do everything in our power to get all americans out and our allies. okay, i'll take the evacuation of couple airports. forces us president joe biden to really face pulling our troops by the august 31st deadline. resistance builds against the taliban. a northern afghanistan as political talks continue a couple over transfer of power. ah, hello, i'm madison with views on i'll just live from joe. have also coming up, flocking holmes and no aid insight. i'll just eat a travel. so the epicenter of haiti's, devastating earthquake, it's killed,

more than 2000 people. more people here are telling us that this time around, they're unable to help each other because they're more wildfires fuel device. strong winds range across parts of europe, prompting thousands of people to leave their homes, and farmers in gaza lose years of painstaking work. after is really air strikes, destroy the crops ah, i've canister on it should be celebrating it's anniversary of independence. instead . the focus is on the countries future under taliban rule. how doing scenes of chaotic evacuations from couple airport and lead us president joe biden, to rethink the timeline of the role of american troops. he's tries to keep his forces on until all american citizens around the country on the grounds that are already pockets of resistance against the taliban rule in the north. and in some

cities on wednesday, at least 3 people were killed in july about julian protests against taliban leadership. former president jeff gaffney has also emerged for the 1st time since fleeing the country. he's now in the u. a. e, but american officials say he is no longer a figure in afghanistan. other political leaders such as former president hammock cause i, i try to negotiate with the taliban about a transition. for now, the taliban faces a tough road to governance. the international monetary fund has suspended the countries access to funds and the by ministrations also frozen $9500000000.00 in us bank accounts. that's nearly all of the central bank of canada stands reserves, which all about us is life for us in trouble. charlotte, this is a very different type of independence day for kansas met it is, i mean, traditionally you see the republic flag, the red, green and black flag on soldiers in the streets, people driving around with loud music,

celebrating waving the flag. we're seeing less of that today, but really be a p seems for the celebrations are usually in july, but where king almond han who pushed the brit south in 190900. he's buried there. and so usually that's where we see the biggest celebrations and they are actually happening today. yesterday they were purchased there and then some other provinces around that area because people wanted to be able to wave the flag on independence day and the telephone had taken it down and replaced it with their own flag. there was an exception made by the nega, how governor, that they would actually allow these independence day celebrations to continue with the old flag. and i've seen pictures this morning of hundreds of people out in july about celebration that are all going smoothly except celebration if you will, at least in carnival. there's also the religious holiday assure happening today. usually that it is actually quite a dangerous time because the sheer population that celebrates that awesome in

afghanistan on that day by iso taliban, his promise to secure the minority community care and ensure that nothing happens to them on this day as, as they mock. sure. but we'll have to see today how successful they are and protecting that population. now it's also worth noting that this still a hot hot point, if you will, at the airport, where there's still a lot of clashes, the telephone firing and the air. thousands of people still try to get to the airport for these evacuation flights, and you can only describe it as chaos people desperately trying to get on these planes. various nations seem to military flights and they are pushing incredibly hot and the telephone, trying to secure the perimeter. but it's very hard for people who actually have valid paperwork and are entitled to get on these flights to make the case to the taliban. but they are actually allowed through when there are so many thousands of

people trying to push through. at the same time you were talking about those independent celebrations, the issued a celebration of going on in july. but of course, as we just mentioned, that's also appears to be a growing center for some sort of resistance to the taliban described to us what's happening with regard to regard to that there is a resistance movement building in the province of pan schear, which is just north of cobble, how successful it will be, remains to be seen. it's made by the former vice president sala. now he actually says that was gone. he gone as, according to the constitution that he is actually the president now, and he is helping to what he says me, this resistance movement and build it up. he's in partnership with ahmed masoud, the son of the child, the sort of big northern alliance leader from back in the day, who actually pains a opinion pace in the washington post this morning. and what she asked for western support and trying to build this movement off and get for all this,

this group that is gathering and pan shear. now president ghani himself so that he wants to return, he addressed afghans last night from the united arab emirates where he has settled . he addressed them by your facebook. here's some of what he said. must get the money deduction and they should if i stayed, i would have witness bloodshed and couple, couple should not be turned into another yemen or syria over power struggles. so i was forced to leave i left with just a waste coat and some clothes. the personality assassination against me has been ongoing, saying i have taken money with me. the accusations are baseless lies, but you can even ask customs officials, they are basically are gonna be pushing back there because they have been a lot of conversations, at least in kabul about how he missed. very diplomat saying that he live with a lot of money that he took cause for pushing back there, trying to reestablish his reputation and also saying he wants to return to get this

done. and that he's in conversations with some of his core team and also people like former ceo dillard villa, the former president hom, had caused by continuing to talk to them. and we know those, those personalities. also talking with the taliban negotiation, i was seeing if there was enough to connie who was in the telephone political commission about folding in to your telephone government. charlotte, thank you very much indeed that charlotte bell is talking to us from capital one. as we mentioned, joe biden said, he's committed to keeping us troops in afghanistan until every american is evacuated, even if it meant maintaining a military presence beyond the august 31st deadline. here's what he told a b. c. news. all chips are supposed to be up by august 31st. even if americans in or afghan allies are still trying to get out, they're going to leave. we're going to do everything in our power to get all

americans out and our allies. does that mean troops will stay beyond august 31st? if necessary? it depends on where we are and whether we can get ramped these numbers up to 5 to 7000 a day coming. now, if that's the case will be they'll all be out because we've got like 10 to 15000 americans in the country right now. right. and are you committed to making sure that the troops stay until every american who wants to be out? yes. which will be the secretary of defense. it says his troops don't have the capacity to operate beyond the perimeter of cobble airport, top american military commanders who be speaking for the 1st time since the african capital fell to the taliban, defended their actions. seeing intelligence did not indicate the african military would collapse. so quickly, party go hand reports from the pentagon. the top military leaders in the us face the press and make promises. and we are the united states military,

and we fully intend to successfully evacuate all american citizens. want to get out of afghanistan, all american citizens who want to get out of afghanistan, they are a priority number one, but then these leaders admit, they can only do that if the taliban let them. and right now there are widespread reports of people being denied access to the airport. we don't have the capability go out and collect of large numbers of people's bar. they say they are negotiating with the taliban to allow americans and credentialed afghans to pass. but say the number of us troops there means they can only focus on keeping the airport safe and was another 2000 people evacuated on tuesday. there are still tens of thousands of us citizens and we need to get out. how did this happen? the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says no one saw this coming the timeframe of a rapid collapse that was widely estimated in range from weeks to months and even years following our departure. there was nothing that i or

anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army in this government in 11 days. the consistent mind from the pentagon has been this is not the time to look at what went wrong, but instead to focus on the mission. but with growing outrage from both republicans and democrats, it's likely congressional hearings could start as early as next week, for what many are calling a humiliating, catastrophic failure. patty, calling al jazeera at the pentagon, united nations says about a 3rd of its stuff will be leaving off kind of stand because of the volatile situation there is despite growing calls for the un to step pop, its diplomatic efforts. insiders believe that maybe a window of opportunity to influence the taliban, but they're wanting. it has to be done quickly. is a diplomatic at a james base who spoke to a veteran un mediator. the un has had an active mission in afghanistan for over 30

years. with only a handful of embassies now operational in cobble, and the us and its allies, all of the airport handling evacuation flights. the international organization is perhaps the best place to step in the taliban spokesman. viola mature hid has promised the new government that is inclusive, but at the same time govern buys lemon law. diplomat say the us needs to try to broaden that pledge veteran mediator like abra. he me was the only un official to ever meet the taliban found a mullah, omar. he led the bon process in 2001 that chose hamad cause i enter him president, that he told me the us now needs to step up to you and said to be there, definitely nothing can be done internationally without the un and the u. s. has been absent a little bit too long. they should really, you know, raise their profile very, very much. yes, it is time for the romance. and again,

i'm strong player them out when they get out. if they won't do they come tomorrow, declared the government. you know, they're all right for one week for 2 weeks. one months want to yet. but if you don't have a really aggressive government, then you know the saga gun is time for 40 years. 50 years actually. when we read you more, which content, how diplomats, and even some senior un inside is have told me the united nations should show more energy, urgency, and ambition. when dealing with afghanistan, there's a feeling that there's a narrow window for diplomacy, but it might not last much longer. james bays al jazeera at the united nations, a bomb explosion and pakistan's punjab province is killed at least 3 people and left dozens of others injured. it happened in the se in district one,

shia muslims in the area will charges this fall observing the 2nd day of a shooter. no group is clean disposability, saturdays, earthquake, and haiti has no killed nearly 2200 people and tropical storm grace that hit days afterwards is hampering rescue efforts. some aid has arrived in the hottest hits city, the k in more rudely. it is closer to the epicenter of the quick entire communities have been flattened as john home and forts. this is the as yet little known center of haiti's dissolves design to i was from the city that captured attention following subsidies, earthquake things, a worse. we drove through 10 kilometers of countryside in which most of the houses were simply destroyed. we stopped when we saw this building in the village of florida. how's the communities, hospital, church and school for 50 for years on saturday. in a heartbeat it was gone on sunday fell up. now we're trying to find to at least

find the 10th to help the kids back to school. so they don't miss the year. the for on district chief says 98 percent of the houses have went down to. judith was washing clothes just like when we met her. when her house collapsed behind her i saw the us moving and we started running. there were 2 people inside. fortunately they managed to get out now she and her family of 9 homeless, just like most of the community here. some lives have been lost to rahman and so been son was out in the fields with his dad when he was killed by a landslide. set off. by the way. i feel terrible. every time i'm taking care of the animals, i think of him because he enjoyed doing that yesterday would have been he's 14th birthday. they showed us a photo of him and abruptly it caused an outpouring of grief.

7 we continued the villages wanting to show us all they've lost. i asked a nice cast stone by the ruin of her house if the community got any international aid. no, no vocal urgency. there's many a teams flying into haiti and heading to this region, but it seems the help has yet to filter down to here and it's needed. you go from house to house in this community. there's 123, and 4. and they're mostly destroyed. and what people hear, it's telling us is that this time round, they're unable to help each other because they're victims. the district head is very clear about what floor own requires. and then stop pulling water and foot 10. so the most important thing, he says that he's already talked to the prime minister, who asked him to wait. meanwhile, fresh off the shots, continue through the town. a powerful one while we visited this frightened crowd

into the street. they already have little left apart from each other, john home and l just either thrown hated at east 47 people in book in foster have been killed in an attack on a convoy. it happened near the time of our binda were civilians and security forces were targeted. the government says its troops killed at least 50 fighters. this whole region has seen regular attacks by on groups linked to isolate and ada. still ahead and also here are the delta various forces, new zealand into locked on. the government says it's linked to a trail. yeah. the 2nd largest wildfires in california history. you have a utah in their path. thousands of fleeing from their homes. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored like cattle airways.

hello there. it's thursday, august the 19th. here's her weather headlines and we've still got this disturbance stalled out over scandinavia. it is a low pressure system, so that travels in a counter clockwise rotation. it is feeding in wet weather and also windy conditions as well. particularly for ne germany, northern poland, the baltic states, sweden and finland. we could see those guys as high as 85 kilometers per hours, so the potential to produce some damage here off to iberia and our temperatures have fallen here. but we have concern over this batch of wet weather in and around barcelona. in fact, it could produce about 40 millimeters of rain in a single hour. those are the types of conditions that lead to flash flooding. now across the balkans we haven't been able to say this for a while. temperatures below average, sophia, bucharest. in belgrade, you're about a degree or 2 off where you should be for this time of the year after the mediterranean, in through the boss for us, we have a run of rain and some winds for its temple with a high of 29 degrees on thursday when this weather broadcast in africa and toward

the west, we've got some really big storms as we head toward senegal, the gambia rate, through into sierra leone. so free town, a high of 26 degrees on thursday. that sure weather sponsored call cut on airways. the taliban has reclaimed but us withdraw began news earlier in 2013 and 14 witness follow the unit of the afghan national army as they commenced the onerous part of confronting with taliban without making support of a trail of young men fighting for their country while knowing each day could be their la, i've got to stand own battle on a job here. oh,

the me. what, you know, just a reminder of our top story, this up us president joe biden says, forces to stay on and on until all american citizens that are being chaotic seems a couple airports with african desperately trying to leave after the taliban seems the capital l 2200 people are known to have died in haiti's wake with rescue efforts hampered by bad weather. entire communities have been raised in rural areas . new the episode corona virus cases have surged to record high in malaysia within 23000 new infections recorded and thursday. let's despite the country being in lockdown since

mid may, the health ministry says 98 percent of those who tested positive have displayed mild symptoms. really as 2 states for the large numbers of people have reported records daily infections, new south wales, confirmed 681 cases in 24 hours neighboring victoria has reported its highest counties in september. the state's largest city, melbourne is in lockdown as is in the entire state of new south wales. these illinois has reported 11 new cases of covered 1968 total to $21.00. the government announced a 3 day nationwide lockdown from tuesday. the 1st case was announced this week and hadn't seen any local infections for almost 6 months. over new cases of the delta variance would be linked to an outbreak industry. the number of new corona virus infections in south korea has surged past 2000 for a 2nd time off restrictions have been imposed capital sold. the government is expected to extend the curves on friday. the us president says he disagrees with

the world health organizations warning against giving corona virus. booster shots, joe biden says, his government is capable of looking after its own citizens, as well as helping the world is coming. come off to the white house, unveiled plans to offer boost to jobs from mid september. people will be eligible, 8 months after receiving this 2nd job. while, while some might be thinking of getting a 3rd vaccine shot others in the u. s. don't want to get the 1st. rob reynolds explains more than $20000000.00 us students are headed off to college. this year, there's a new item on the curriculum. coven, 19 vaccine mandates. more than $700.00 colleges and universities now say students must be vaccinated, or face repeated. coven testing and forced social distancing, or even be barred from campus. colleges are desperate to prevent a replay of last year's damaging campus shut downs,

and other outbreak would be extremely disruptive. we're risking another evacuation from college campuses in the fall and it will have an even greater impact on those who are already the most vulnerable in our society in the politically hyper charge debate over vaccines in the us. there are naturally those who refuse to comply. riley o'neill, a student at loyola marymount university in los angeles, is one of them. it goes back to the idea that i should be able to choose whether i get the vaccine or not. and if i'm going to be coerced into doing that, i doesn't feel like a free choice to me. very much feels like oppression. he has sued the university over it's vaccine policy. if he refuses the shots, he could attend loyola marymount, but would have to undergo repeated testing and observed social distancing with

other students. o'neil's lawyer was quick to frame the issue in political terms. there is going to be this continued divisive effort by the laughed by the progressive side of this nation to try to create this division between the vaccinated and the vaccinated. so far legal efforts to overturn college vaccine mandates have fallen flat. a federal appeals court recently ruled against students during the universe the of the indiana over its vaccine mandate. one of the judges wrote, people who do not wish to be vaccinated can go elsewhere. and the supreme court has upheld that ruling. o'neill seems unconcerned that unvaccinated young people will get infected and spread the virus to more vulnerable people. quite frankly, my age group isn't nearly as affected by coven 19 as,

as older generations are. that's a problem says higher education authorities. part of our educational responsibility is to talk to people not only about their rights, but also their responsibilities and liberal education. america's historic mission of educating for democracy requires that we in part, that message. now more than ever, survey show the overwhelming majority of college students approve of campus vaccine mandates. rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles, $1000.00 more people to find homes in the state of california as wildfires spread towards several times and cities. the largest wildfires moving towards the city of susan built and just south of there. another blaze is threatening the state. capital sacramento, the fires scorched tens of thousands of hector's and destroyed hundreds of homes in bronze. at least 2 people have died and wildfires burning near the french riviera. more than a 1000 firefighters battling the flames. thousands of people in the region have

been told to leave, and firefighters in spain are still trying to control a major forest fire them. authorities are using drones to help them track down hotspots and avia in catalonia. a fire burning north of the greek capital is dangerously close to homes via and 6 other villages have been evacuated. cruise had thought the fire was under control, but it erupt again and strong women's and also battling another fire sides of athens. in bolivia, pfizer bones through more than 250000 heck, there's in the santa cruz regions. early august. parts of the agricultural heartland have been destroyed. cuba has introduced tighter controls on the use of social media, including a band on content deemed as insulting to the state. the new law comes a month after cuba, so it's most widespread anti government protest. decades rallies were largely organized by a social media but demonstrators angry about food shortages and power outages. the

government exists, the law only targets so called cyber terrorists. in argentina, tens of thousands of people who rallied over high unemployment and better living conditions, trials, and brought traffic to a standstill. essential bonus that is organized, say, more than 70000 people took part across a 100 locations. they want to pressure the government to do more to tackle rising poverty. the countries struggling with economic downturn made it worse by the corona virus pandemic. many farms in garza were destroyed by the recent 11 day war with israel. the cost is estimated more than $200000000.00. it slides job losses and it's pushing up food prices. in the i'll say it reports from gaza as he inspects what's left of his life project up to lab halima finds himself speechless. this was the hydroponic form built by his family,

who's worked in agriculture, hearing gaza for 25 years. it allowed them to grow everything from seeds, fruits and vegetables, even when they were not in season. it was all but destroyed during israel's latest bombing nearly 3 months ago. so how did the importance of this project lies in providing food in the off season? increasing production. this project supports 12 family including mine. these families have now lost their livelihood after the bombing of the farm. upper limit projects which coast approximately $120000.00 to build covers in area of 3700 square meters. it provides agriculture, dennis t and a crop e l that usually requires 3 times the area needed in conventional agriculture. the, these early bobbing in may destroyed more than 80 percent of upper limit project. he says he hasn't been able to obtain the air popping devices that he needs because

of puerto restriction, political as a result of the bombing the pipes. as you can see me are completely broken or have holes in them. it's led to the crops to die. farmers in the gaza strip to leave these really a could patient is deliberately targeting and destroying the lance in order to force the stress to import vegetables and fruits from israel and employment traits here exceed 70 percent in agriculture remains one of the most important sources of income and livelihood. for many palestinian families, got this ministry of agriculture save hundreds of factories of vegetable forms in greenhouses have been destroyed. this has happened as a result of direct targeting or through the interruption of irrigation water, as well as the annual submerging of lands by sewage water. when, of course these really patient aims to destabilize food security in the gaza, strip the economy and increase and deepen the siege imposed in the gaza strip. the

international committee of the red cross and other international organizations have been working for many years to assist farmers in gaza despite the challenges posed by the israeli occupation. there are innovation a project for, for young farmers or young engineers who are interested in bringing in new techniques like the hydroponic technique. and this is the beauty about the diverse expertise of, of the population. and farmers in this area, the i c, r. c said it's done all it can to help the farmers year, including replacing solar panels, especially in paltry farms. but for farmers like up a halima, it will take a lot more to repair and replace his family's life work and one day bring back their crucial social income. human seed al jazeera,

gaza. ah, this is all. these are the top stories us president joe biden. the sizes forces put, stay on enough canister on until all american citizen is out. there have been chaotic scenes. a couple airports with afghans, desperately trying to leave after the taliban seized the capital. shallow balance is in, coupled with more on those trying to resist taliban rule. well those parties yesterday wilson justin jalal about those. a few other provinces whose focus mainly on the flag, the fact that taliban has taken down the flag. usually i've, i've been here and independent states before and the flag is everywhere. so you're not seeing that so much. now.