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it's unable to evacuate children who are unaccompanied. president joe biden says us forces could stay only not going to start until all american citizens are out. even if i means missing his august. the 31st deadline for troops to leave. more than that in a moment. first let's go to it, but this is life for us and a couple. and so shall we have this independence day coming just days after the taliban to control of the country. and we've seen these, these pockets of protests and violence. oh yeah, they have, they have been a few incidents. the biggest one happening, the thought about where it's unclear really what has happened. we know 2 people have been killed and 8 people have been injured. but it's unclear how they were killed and injured from residence accounts. they say that somebody actually stab to tell a bon pfizer and in the chaos to tell a bon started shooting. and then there was a sam page and now we have 2 people killed an 8 inches. there was also

a similar incident in july of just east of cobble where a crowd gathered as the 2 people were shot by the telephone there. i mean, in kabul, it seemed relatively quiet, actually. i mean, i've been here during independent stays in the past, and usually the traffic is very heavy. people have the republic flag, which is the green, red, and black flag out of the cars, soldiers waving the flags, people singing this loud music. there's really very little event today there's been isolated, crowds moving, waving the flag, and that has been allowed by the telephone. there has been some isolated protests where people have been chanting. the flag is my identity and follows purchased yesterday. in other parts of going to some predominantly in the east where people very fears that the taliban has taken down the republic flag in many places and raised and said they are in flag. and so people are resisting that. i'm really pushing back and the taliban has been allowing that for,

for the most part and manga, for example, the governor. they're saying it's fine. you can, you can carry on and use the flag and celebrate like you normally would. or it's a quiet dish around the city. what about the airport? we've been seeing conic scenes. yeah, that's been happening since essentially since president ghani slade on sunday afternoon. people panicked and have started flooding the airport. and these evacuation flights picked up various countries. same thing in the military, plains and, and thousands upon thousands of afghans just making a run to the airport, trying to get on some of the things. evacuation flights. the tele bonner, securing the perimeter at the moment. and the main problem is in the crowd control technique, which is predominantly shoes in the air and width, people to push them back. and the problem with that is that many of these people do actually have valid documents and are entitled to get on some of these evacuation

flights. but they're having a hard time getting past the thing. she was telling the front line to get to the flight and a lot of people just too scared really and going hard of other people sleeping around the airport system. a lot of payoffs and ocoee as, as people try to get on them and the taliban try to push them back to taliban. also admitting that since sunday 12 people have died in kabul night are also confirming that number and i sleep some time in a hospital today. and can confirm that some of those did actually come from the airport and its perimeter. leave that for the moment. that's the latest in couple of minutes reporting that. let's bring out gas talent masoud. he's a strategic affairs analyst and joins is from some of us colored masoud. so this timing of independence day. so soon after the taliban take, i was always like to be something with flash point. do you think it's, it's something that's likely to develop well, it could, because you know that out

a lot of people in the city and specially in kabul and other places where they are very cotton by the world, live on. and also that never like them to impose that rule on them. so i think they will wind up and then, and i think it would take a turn if that's all they want to be very hard from them. so i think it's a very common in the money because there are in the city the people who just then the hulu off that i live on. but at the same done on i have been imposed on them because of the fact that they had really support. and also the military completely collapse the military again. so i think at the moment they want to have who somehow the them and

the telephone leadership will also have to model their behavior in order to understand what about this, this resistance movement in jan share province? we have masoud calling for support. he was writing an opinion piece of the washington post and date. do you think is likely to get that kind of support that he needs? well, i think that, you know, he is wanting to resist, but i doubt very much if that will. and i think with all him on the launch going to yeah, but i think he is lying so that he's still one of those who have been able to live on supremacy. but when you have that, i'm and i think that they'll be able lower because it's ready to have this pocket in

a place where practically the role of the ones on is under their control. so how looking ahead perhaps, to the medium term, how do you see it once these evacuations a through at the airports and that settles down, might the international community change their shoes on the parents, acceptance of telephone rule? yeah, i agree that i knew that that really be a level of acceptance because that is no other. busy than that, and the fact that the previous government and and did not have the support of the area that need and also within the city is that limited lead. so i think considering all that, think that there is no other alternative but to sort of model late or improve behavior that's all of on either. so that and more,

you know, sort of behavior and conduct themselves in a more civilized. that is the only thing i think, and then obviously they have this thing that they could quote because no one has gone or that the moment it is an absolute crisis at the same time. you know, it also is facing what diplomatic. so i'd be considering all that, that the volleyball leadership will have some flexibility as well. so there will be next ability on both side. and i think that will be some in the range but, and we would see, and i think that some over a few you will find that that will be better existence. and how critical is it for the survival of this or the success? i should say that taliban rule that they they include in the government,

members of the previous government. well, that could be helpful, but i think more than the previous men because of numbers. and they're also very cramped and they have a legacy following them. so i would say that it would have been much better if they would have chosen people who have would have to take, but had not, it had not been so in that period of time. and this would take much younger people in the cabinet rather than those or people who have so really every regina and have brought on that name. all right, appreciate that. thanks very much indeed for speaking to sir. thanks a lot. and now the u. k. defense minister has defended the head of the british army for suggesting the taliban may have changed in the past 20 years and was said, referring to the group as the enemy would inflame an already volatile situation.

there's absolutely no point provoking the people who are currently running the country. and i think the best thing we should say about the taliban is to say, well, 2 things. first of all, last time they lost power where they have the community moved in. it didn't last long, and they've been out of 20 years. and i'm sure they've learned that lesson, but secondly, we will judge their actions, although i was let's be now to jenn, i'll live in london and jenna pretty care is situational round, isn't it? and how western governments deal with the taliban amid all of this critical yes, absolutely. i'm sure that's the notebook. so the foreign policy decision making going all going on in nato capital's at the moment looking to what happens next beyond the sort of acute phase that we're in. now, the evacuations after the remaining foreign troops have left the airport. how do

they go about trying to restore some sort of stability to kind of stand and importantly, particularly for you nations? how do they avoid a massive refugee exodus bars? johnson made the point in parliament on wednesday that this country, he said, still has a deep and lasting commitment to the african people. presumably, that must mean more than humanitarian aid, it must mean more than refugee resettlement schemes. presumably it means finding a way to deal with the taliban in the long term finding away in the long term to develop leavers of influence in order to somehow hold them accountable. the current policy is and he said it in parliament yesterday again that the u. k. urging all countries to us to refrain from recognizing the taliban in power to judge them by their actions rather than their rather willy rhetoric. at the moment development funds have been diverted away from cobbled towards un organisations on the ground.

and there is a sense, as i said, of just slightly holding back and not crossing that line. as we heard from ben wallace there, the defense secretary into unnecessarily provoking the taliban by, for instance, describing them as the enemy. now ben wallace went a step further. he held out the possibility of closer ties. let me tell you quickly what he said. there are a lot of countries around the world where we have embassies, where we entirely disagree with their ideology and foreign policy. and our role there is to try and challenge that or influence that what that is is the u. k. defense secretary holding out the possibility of a future, british diplomatic presence inside taliban controlled afghanistan. interesting. all right, janet, thanks for that jehovah in london. let's head over to greece now to athens, where john's roughness is lie for us. and where protest is, according for rapid assign to improvements for the thousands of afghans already in greece. john, tell us more about said the protest. this demands that the, well,

the key demands by the protesters who will ask members of the greek after community . many of them asylum fee is for the government to speed up the process of approval as afghan asylum application. but also to facilitate the exit and the transfer of asylum africans who are still in the canister. and who wished to come to europe in order to escape the rule of the taliban either because the people who work with allied forces enough for other reasons, they're extremely worried about their relatives. that's the key tomorrow they don't hold out. hope of the taliban take over the road. they can, that's a done deal. what cation of european leaders and how they're likely to respond to this kind of demote well,

one example is the way in which greek liter, because it was both the foreign minister and the greek migration medicine has appealed to europe to good lawyers to prepare to support frontline states like greece, which has often in the last 6 years, been the main conduit or asylum seekers from asia, into europe, and to protect and support countries like greece. but also to throw a direct line of assistance to the african people. possibly allowing them to apply for asylum from safe countries and not to have to go undergo ordeal of walking across turkey and then taking boats across the a g and a process which is often resulted in casualties. of course, politics are big possible that greece currently has roughly 20000 afghan

asylum seekers. that is 4 times as many as the next largest group who are the syrians and consider that that's almost half of the total number of asylum applications files last year. so the africans are a large contingent and the great government is concerned that they are going to be a growing contingent. remember also that the conservative government elected 2 years ago and the platform of bringing immigration under control. and they've managed to lower the arrivals increase and they've managed to speed up the processing of a symptom applications. and to also lower the total number was 77002 years ago, 40000 last year. and just $15000.00 in the 1st 7 months of this year, that's an achievement of which this government is particularly proud and is constantly advertising these figures. they do not want to see this political achievement rolls back out by the disaster unfolding. and i've got a sam dropping in i've been sent for much while, as we mentioned,

joe biden says he's committed to keeping us troops in afghanistan until every american is evacuated in an interview with a b. c. news he was pressed on whether he'd be willing to extend a deadline at the end of this month. 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 out. if that's the case, 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. top us military commanders have tried to defend their actions in afghanistan,

speaking for the 1st time since triple. it fell to the taliban. they said intelligence did not indicate the african military would collapse so quickly as you call have reports. now, from the pentagon, the top military leaders in the us faced 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 to go out and collect up large numbers of people from barnes. they say they are negotiating with the taliban to allow americans and credentialed afghans to pass. but say the number of us troops there mean 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 our 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 and 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, said, don't use our including such when you prime minister, the laziest,

longest running policy seems to return to fully mondays resignation. farmers in gaza lose years of work up to is really as dr. has joined their crops. because coming up to kind of stones cricketing phase and uncertain future jo will have more ah no problem. and it says promised not to repeat past mistakes as concerns grow over the slow pace of aid meant the victims of last weekend's powerful earthquake. more than 2000 people known to have died. some aid has arrived in the hottest hit city of lift k, but it's yet to root rural communities the adequate represented as john holman reports. 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. thunder fellow, now we're trying to find to at least find a 10th to help the kids back to school. so they don't miss the year for 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 the homeless, just like most of the community here. some lives have been lost to romano 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. we continued the villages wanting to shows all they've lost. i asked the nice cast stone by the ruin of her house if the community got any international aid, no no vocals. and so 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 $4.00, and then mostly destroyed. and what people here are 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 will out. $1010.00, stop pulling water and foot. what a 10 for 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 i'll just see the throne hated at least 47 people in a bikini foster had been killed in an attack on a military convoy. happened near the town of i've been to where civilians and security forces were targeted. government says its troops killed at least 50 fighters during classes. a whole region has seen irregular attacks by on groups linked to isis and arcadia. at least 5 people have reportedly been killed in fighting in northern syria on wednesday, the kurdish lead sir in democratic forces says that a woman and child died when turkey bacteria in fight is shell. the area of i bought

a c. kurdish fighters laid to show the northern ton of african killing 3 people. that's according to the u. k. bay syrian observatory for human rights. many farms in garza were destroyed during the war with israeli may the cost as estimated at more than $200000000.00. it's led job losses and it's pushing out food prices. side reports now from growth. as he inspects what's left of his life project up to lab halima finds himself speechless. this was the hydroponics 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 had 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 p 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 border restrictions. but as a result of the bombing the pipes, as you can see me are completely broken or have holes in them. it's lead to the crops to die. farmers in the gaza strip to leave these really a 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. and 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 forums and greenhouses have been destroyed. this has happened as a result of dire targeting or through the inter option of irrigation water, as well as the annual submerging of lands by sewage water when her that of course stays really patient in the stabilizer. 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 hydroponics 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 here, including replacing solar panels, especially in poultry farms. but for farmers like up a halima, it will take a lot more to repair and replace his families, life's work, and one day bring back their crucial social income. human seed al jazeera, gaza sled harold 0 in the most popular states, proposes a controversial to child policy which could make women even more wonderful and from some files to be done as we meet the italian palmer is trying to adapt to changing climate plus a long standing babe ruth record is broken in major league baseball, which i will have to detail this.

ah hello, there it is. thursday august, the 19th tears or 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 white weather and also windy conditions as well. particularly for ne germany, northern poland, the baltic states, sweden and finland. we could see those gusts as high as 85 kilometers per hour. 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, them. belgrade, you're about a degree or 2 off where you should be for this time of the year after the mediterranean, and through the boss for us, we have a run of rain and some winds for its stumble, 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 the news the taliban has reclaims, i've got to stand by us. withdraw began years 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 native support of a trail of young men fighting for their country. while knowing each day could be

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