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this time around. they are unable to help each other because they're all from some flowers to peanuts. we meet the italian problem is trying to adapt to changing i'm trying to get drunk with this for me. a soccer sounds more known as the world pet number to reach in the last 16 and me so that have been seen of defiance and sporadic violence as millions of africans the independence day. yes, in the eastern city of de la, but 2 people were injured when telephone fighters fight into a crowd of people at a rally. well in the bad at least 2 people were killed during an independent se demonstrations that elsewhere, somewhat muted celebration to be taking place. with protest as using their national

flag as a symbol of resistance to the taliban. applicable international airport children were hosted up and passed through crowds is families tried to flee. the countries such as the united kingdom say it will be unable to evacuate unaccompanied minus one security official estimates. 8000 people have been flown out since sunday thousands more struggling to just get to the airport. there are concerns taliban checkpoints. a blocking access, the u. s. and you, nations have demanded safe passage for those who want to leave taliban afghans waiting outside without documents at the airport to return home. and the hiring scenes of chaotic evacuations from google airport has led us president joe biden, to rethink the timeline of the withdrawal of american troops. he's pledged to keep his forces on until all american citizens are out of the country. well, my kind of standing by with more and what the president said 1st, let's go to charlotte. well, as his life was

a couple of monetary events and the 1st will just tell us more about the violence that we're seeing. well, in the painted stay is usually a day of celebration and going to it mocks of the time that they in the british rule, back in $919.00. traditionally, you would see people out on the streets carrying the republic flag, which is red, green and black playing music, celebrating we saw a list of that in cobble. traditionally the, if you seen the celebrations, have been in july le bad. where king, i'm going to, la hon, who push the brits out at that time is buried celebration still carried on today. although as crowds gathered the telephone tried to disperse them and that's where we for problems where they shot into the wrong crowd. some people were injured, there was another instance improved on a side of bad where we understand at least from residents, that someone actually stab to telephone fleischer and then they shot to dismiss the

crowd. again, there was a stamp, a couple of people die. people were injured beer, but in cobb where it has been relatively quiet, most of jude in saying that the taliban using this is an opportunity to talk about independence of held a press conference. they also put out a blog post in it. they said we have defeated another superpower in the world, on the end of this re, of independence from british rule. and just before we came on, there was a heavy volley of gunfire, celebration re guns, fire for this new independence that they are claiming, coming from the hill behind me. and thousands of people still desperately trying to get out of the country. what are the scenes like at the airport? well as the coming increasingly difficult to find out because the taliban of actually expanded the security perimeter around the closed airport road and the end put ship points eva ins trying as they try to kind of work through this crowd control. because the thousands upon thousands of people who are trying to get to

the airport trying to get on some of these evacuation flights. on monday they were completely overwhelmed. and you may remember images of people flooding onto the tarmac and the evacuation flights having to hope then they were images. people trying to push through the telephone, trying to disperse them by shooting and the other, or even images of telephone places, whipping people. so now just this afternoon eventually pushed that from or throughout the chicken diseases and trying to find out who was actually eligible to go through and to be able and who was just trying they base to get through. when i talked to the taliban and say, you know, how are you going to work through this? because it's really not a good way to be shooting into crowds and, and whipping people when they say, well, so we want to hear from america about what they plan to do. because this is also the problem. they're inviting these people to be able to get on planes. they really not being clear and the messaging, and now there are thousands of people flooding here, and we're trying to secure the perimeter. so there is a kind of dynamic here at the moment between the telephone and the americans as

they try some tiny lee to work on security and provide this, these evacuation, or even maybe touch on the incapable. we can get that us perspective knowledge cross over to washington dc. my kind of standing by at might, the u. s. has as thousands of citizens still there enough, get this done and getting them all back is a priority. oversee very much. so, president biden has said, does much in an interview, the 1st interview he's given to a major us network, and he's revealed a surprising factor piece of information. and that is, he says that us forces will remain there for as long as it takes to get all the americans resident in afghanistan out. we are talking about some, 16000 americans, all the estimate. now what is not known is whether they are in the airport complex or whether some of them outside that code and that has been established by the

taliban a few miles away from the airport. so this is a critical issue because that raises the question of if the president is to keep his word, how are they going to get those americans to the airport, let alone afghans who you marry, can this one to evacuate those work for the americans in the past or for n g o, i understand in a number of cases, africans, nationals who have been approved for evacuation are simply unable to get to the airport. they are being told by state department get to the airport and we will process you back very difficult to get to the airport without caliban cooperation. but president by didn't remains fixed on the position that he could not to blame for. busy the withdrawal, he says that it was necessary, he would have no regrets about it whatsoever. this is how the interview went. 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, 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. now it's a sign up the domestic criticism of the, by an administration that congress has called for several briefings in the coming week. first of all, the gang of 8th that senior leaders of congress they want to confidential reaping. the lead of the house is asked for at least 3 separate briefings, including a telephone conversation with all the members of the house. so the fight and

administration likely to come and close drilling over the course of the next 7 days are my thanks for that. that's the picture in the us. and let's have a head over to europe and the use foreign policy chief says efforts are on the way to evacuate 300 afghans. we're still trying to make it to couple. edward joseph l confirmed that about 400 guns who works with the e. u and their family members have been evacuated to europe up until now or else at the block has a moral duty to get as many out as possible. just catastrophe. data and people for there were some barriers, incredibility. one for the developing of international relations. was it punish evil? was you preventable? many gauge. it's a nightmare because you know, even just tonight, the 1st $100.00 than 6 members is always the repair unit. integration has landed in madrid. we cannot take all i got people out of the country. hundreds

of people rallied in greece, call on the government there to do more for afghans. john's roughness is that a protest in athens? well, the key demands by the protesters who are all africans, members of the greek african community. many of them asylum seekers is for the government to speed up the process of approval as ask an asylum application, but also to facilitate the exit and the transfer of asylum africans who are still in canada and who wished to come to europe in order to escape the rule of the taliban either because they are people who work with allied forces and that's all for other reason. they're extremely worried about their relatives that keep in mind . they don't hold out hope of the taliban take over the road. they can view both the minister and the migration minister has appealed to europe to good lloyd.

does it work to prepare to support frontline state 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 the ordeal of walking across turkey and then taking boats across the well for millions of afghans is not just a political future of their country, which is at stake. but also the economy. one of those per nations is heavily reliant on foreign aid. and it's been clear how the taliban can govern without international recognition. it's national monetary funds says it because of the lack of clarity. it is halting about $460000000.00 in new money reserves that were due

to be made available on august the 23rd. the african central banks assets were nearly 9 and a half $1000000000.00 in their laws. she held outside the country. officials in the united states say the taliban won't be able to access any cash held the canister. the central bank government says it won't be easy for the taliban to govern an edge . mel muddy who's left. the country says poor afghans will be hardest hit by rising food prices, the afghan current. cbf connie has depreciated by about 6 percent. since the taliban sees couple after the taliban took control of afghanistan, prices of daily consumer items have been rising. before things were much cheaper now they are about 4 times the price of this province has been under taliban concert for the last 3 months. at that time, there was peace and business was good after this tale about took control of all of

our understand we are facing difficulties in our businesses, but we hope that taliban will control the situation with p soon. well, it's in now from vibe, said his head of the international relations department at card on university. and he thinks to taliban will have to meet certain conditions to get international aid . the primary target of this upgrade is the common man. and now if started on or under pressure on there you go. nice and international assistance does not load up one is done. this would not only put the taliban and problem, but the uncommon men and organ rekey. by the way, it was for more and more there was that is already for us and pub with the that will go up really. you can 1000000 people are in dire need of assistance. you manage are in the system that would go up. you have some did back we had before on most for 100000 people and they were in

a situation that will go up. so i think they're offering the hardship in the country on the be on the 38000000 people are well, it will be go part of the into the next stage. the international recognition will come under conditions and then on has to meet those conditions conditions. i believe the 1st condition for international rico mission as we e. and as we hear from the international community is that the taliban has to have a broad base all inclusive. ready government, a bomb explosion and pakistan print job province is killed at least 3 people and left dozens of others. injured, happened in the south eastern district following the guard. she had muslims in the

area with targeted while observing the secondary. sure. no group is claims responsibility. to put them on that ahead of these are including in search renew, prime minister malays is longest for ruling policy seems sets returned for me mondays resignation more. kobe the cases in new zealand. but a breakthrough in tracing the origins of the outbreak. and i've got to sounds perfect as faith and uncertain future. so we'll have that. it's for me say yes, the number of code 900 cases in new zealand has more than doubled to 21 1st locally transmitted infections in almost 6 months. prompted a nation wide locked down this week. cases of the delta, very into being linked to an outbreak in australia. wind, hey, as cove at 9 teens, reemergence in new zealand means the streets are empty. again, the government ordered a nationwide lockdown following the discovery of the delta strain and the largest

city auckland's, the prime minister jacinta rod doing his testing shows that it was brought into new zealand from australia. i can now report from the how genome sequence analysis that our current positive cases are a close match to a recent return, a from sydney. it's likely to have leaked from a quarantine hotel and investigations around a way to find out how you feel in decision to lockdown after just one case of the delta variants made headlines around the world. but the prime minister said they only had to look to australia to see what could happen if they didn't go hard. and early on thursday, australia recorded it's worth numbers since the pandemic began with 754 new cases most are in the state of new south wales where the government opted for a slower, softer lockdown to try to contain the latest outbreak when it's 1st case emerged on june, the 16th it took 10 days for the state to introduce restrictions. i appreciate what

we're going through is difficult, but every state in australia will have to come to terms of the fact that when you get to a certain level of vaccination and start opening up, dale to crepey in australia and new zealand are among the slowest in the developed world to vaccinate the people you zealand is trying to speed up the process and it's decided to make defies of vaccine available for 12 to 15 year olds. this is not a decision we have taken lightly. many of us appear in south south and take this judy of making decisions about other people's children extremely seriously. but it is safe. and it's the right thing to do. new zealand, which still only has a handful of cases, is now in a race to try to contain the new outbreak while vaccinating as many people as possible. wayne hey, al jazeera towed on a new zealand iran screw of ours outbreak has now claimed the lives of more than 100000 people. with radium medic say, the real toll is like to be far or own has been battling its 5th and worst wave infections fuel by the delta various there be at least 31000 infections confirmed

in the last 24 hours and 4, sorry, 564 death, while current of our cases have searched to record high in malaysia with nearly 23000 new infections recorded on thursday. let's, despite the country being locked down since mid may, the health ministry says 98 percent of those who tested positive have displayed mild symptoms. and the number of new corona virus infections in south korea as serge past 2000 for a 2nd time, is struggling to contain a wave of outbreak during the countries summer holiday driven again by the delta variant. tough restrictions have been imposed in the capital. so government is expected to extend the cubs on friday. i the president says he disagrees with the world health organizations warning against giving kind of our booster shot. his comments come off to the white house, unveil plans to offer boost jobs for mid september. people will be eligible 8

months off to receiving the 2nd job, joe biden says he and his wife will both be getting. the booster shot. lavelle reports now from washington, dc. afghanistan for days now back to issues at home for joe biden. cases still rising, especially long the own vaccinated for cove, it's hardly a welcome distraction. delta is out of control here. i frankly, it's a tragedy for people who are dying and who will die, who didn't have to, and even some who are vaccinated. panicking about vaccine into protection. again, sorry coby to inspection begins to decrease overtime. but this time at least there's a plan to offer a 19 booster shots to fully vaccinated adults 18 years and older. the worst kept secret in medicine. but welcome use a wealthy, if not healthy nation loads of vaccine supply demand. this remains a 10 demik of the unvaccinated. not so much forget the booster. some haven't even

had the 1st shot yet. i think we need to concentrate on those who haven't yet gotten a vaccine because we still know that those persons are most risk for serious infection, including ha, hospitalisation, and death. and then this, the issue of masks, part of the problem have in the united states is the complete mishmash of rules. and here's why the cdc says that regardless of vaccination status, if you're inside a public building, you should wear a mask. but that is just advice, it is not the law, whereas if you're in a federal building, like for example, a passport office, you have to wear a mass, but then again, you could be inside a federal building and a mosque, free state. and regardless the vaccination status you come out, you can take this thing off with no repercussions. it is confusing at best. texas is one of those states. it's governor greg roberts, still refusing to enforce masks, even though he just tested positive. in fact, southern states being head hard, it makes you feel like it's helpers like you can,

whatever you do, you can help your patients, louisiana, more than 3 times the national average of infections, florida. i'm mississippi almost as bad. 10 people in their thirties have died from coven 0 vaccinated, and that's before you even look at what's happening internationally. the question why give boosters here? when some countries don't even have enough bus jobs were pending to handle extra life jackets to people who already have life jackets while we're leaving other people to drug without a single life check. that's the reality. and so the u. s. prepared to job again, 3rd times a charm for those who wants it. the big battle getting some to start with shot one and delta rages on regardless fill of al jazeera washington. while the push for boost of vaccines in the united states follows a new study from researches at the university of oxford. it found that the pfizer estrogenic vaccines offered good protection from the delta variant, although efficacy does drop off for a few months. let's get more on the research that took place,

joining for months with his her a walker, who is professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the university of oxford and chief investigative for the code 900 infection survey. so good. see that? thanks for joining us. what in your view is the chief takeaway of this report as far as the public's concerned, they really important for me, but even though the vaccine don't doing quite as well as they did again. for the 2 days, she's going to take all still giving good protection against the class, and that's true whether or not you've hard coded before. so even if you've had code before, you'll still get after protection. if you have to back thing. now you all right, so what we also found is that initially the pfizer vaccine, how to grade your effectiveness about 15 percent, but that did go over time, 2nd, back to nation. whereas after that, it started a little bit lower, but she and i'll study, we don't have any acronyms because it's changing over time. the changes we saw were

too small to be statistically set out. so by 4 to 5 months, the, to vaccines look fairly similar balls, but still giving really good protection against. and so there isn't a major cause for concern in terms of protection from infraction. so if you think it's important to note that obey the vaccine lose is a degree of efficacy. it still is at and a good effective rate of prevent yeah, i think what, what is important for people to understand and ready? your previous piece is different without is the fewer people get how you get off the back tonight. and we've dealt with the people who do have the same amount of virus and their lives. and as people who haven't been box night, you have a much smaller chance of getting it. but if you do, it looks like you've got the same amount of virus. it looks like you've got the

same amount of miles and sense we, we can't make a hospitalisation ready to study all the studies show you the hospital relations are so much. but the critical point is because it looks like you've got the same amount of virus. there's at least the same potential for that tonight you people to pass it on. so if you do get coded to being back tonight, the really important messages you need to take care not support the own 12 does not sustain e pulse to all right. and what does this add to the debate? sorry, try to jump it. what is all this add to the debate about boost the japs. i remember based about stocking people hospitalized and dying. yeah. but they're not about stopping in fractions per site or about stopping the serious consequences. what we're showing is, at the moment, the vaccines are still getting ready, good protection against infection. we'll all study suggested we need to keep looking at this very character that we don't know what's going to happen over the

next couple of months. we've only 4 people for 3 or 4 months or less 2nd dose in the u. k. and we really need to see what happens, but it may stabilize out. we just don't know, web based as might be needed if we start have adoptions and protection about hospitalisation. but again, although to suggest that the to baxley may not actually be the same, that may actually be different reasons to use these in the, to and it should be about stopping hospitalization. and that it shouldn't just be about about malta infections and it shouldn't just be about dropping on people. do you levels which are no worry people, but actually, they mean system doesn't t base and stuff. it doesn't me. the point about to mean memory is that when you see correct for us to get and they need system springs interaction, you don't need all the time. you just need them. when you are facts he's being developed that will the target that will target the delta very specifically,

but it doesn't really care that they need it. so remember, the fact that we using now are actually against the original. we actually, we do see that people who have coded before and haven't been back to also have protection against adult. so that might things we go so ready if you like, while fall. and they're clearly giving protection against l to will be maybe not quite as much as the problem is, developing a specific back against bell teresa, what happens if it changes can so you know, lots of time went into developing back things against the base of areas we have hardly any issue around now there's still a bit. so it's quite difficult to say that that's necessarily a good, a good choice strategy, particularly giving how false this far as can mutate and just completely change the game away or observe walker good to, to get your expertise on this. appreciate that very much sir walker from the university folks. and thank you. hey teas. prime minister's promise not to repeat

past mistakes. his concerns grow over the slow pace of a mint. the victims of last weekend's powerful earthquake. more than 2000 people are known to have died. so made has arrived in the hardest hit city of la k, but as yet to reach rural communities near the earthquakes at epi center. as john holding the 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. 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 thought 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. we continued the villages wanting to show us 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 flowing 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 all victims. the district head is very clear about what florence requires. and then stop pulling water and food. 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 is frightening crowd into the street. they already have little left apart from each other, john home and i'll just either thrown hated,

well hate. he has also been hit by a tropical storm grace, which is now strengthened into a hurricane. it is now affecting mexico. and let's say from jeff with your world, whether update hey there, here's an update on grace. i don't want to keep your hanging, so we'll show you later on friday, out toward the be of can, peachy, may. we can slightly into a tropical storm, but it is on a collision course with central mexico. and potentially this could once again make landfall as a category one hurricane dumping upwards of about 300 millimeters of rain, flash flooding. certainly a big concern here. we are also keeping tabs on tropical storm honory as it moves up the atlantic could impact new england and the canadian maritime provinces. but this is out toward monday. so check back with us. we will, can.