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the next breakthrough in our efforts to reduce food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. and i'm devin ash, with bought it seems we'll have to wait a bit longer to see the messy make. his day beat for paris is in training with his new teammates that reports that he won't join them for that game in the french league on friday. me how kind of sound marked independence day on thursday would small demonstrations around the country. and while the african flag was flown in defiance, the symbol of resistance to taliban control, the threat of violence and reprisal was never far away. at least 2 people were killed in protest and sat above with more injured as taliban fighters fight into crowds in july about who were flying the africana not telephone flag. the scene at cobbles airport remains chaotic. people scrambled over was to try to get on evacuation. floyd's is believe,

17 people were killed by gunfire or in stamp speeds. the u. n. is warning, the aid workers need access to the afghan people to look out for their rights and deliver food supplies. well, mcbride begins the coverage from couple at cobble airports main terminal. this is prime control taliban style. follies of gunfire. scatter people in panic. the that's another gate. even more desperate scenes as the airport continues to be besieged. and at the side of the airport, where the us military evacuation is taking place, private defense contract is there. use. take us at the british embassy compound, long lines gathered daily to apply for special visas with promises from the taliban of amnesty. for those who worked with foreign forces and safe passage to the airport, but many doubt the taliban promises fears, raised bites,

treatment to protest is wanting to retain the national flag. deadly classes with taliban fighters have taken place in the city of gyla bad with emotions running even higher as afghanistan celebrates independence day. there have been further confrontations in the city of a sad about. the violence of this in dependence day has raised tension in what is already a very highly charged that with a bike co incidence. it comes on the same day as assure us, the most important day in the calendar. the ritual of the here by the minority has, are a community i targeted in the past by i still bombers. the commemoration this year is also overshadowed by the current people and concerns the community may face further alienation and re taliban government. made a lot of that as i see it,

if the government is going to be dominated by just one ethnic group, it makes us worried that the country could slip back into civil war and destruction on the streets of cobbled. there are signs of life returning to something like normal with more business opening and hope for a new start. but now you as, as on the go that everyone was tired of the previous government. people are hopeful for whatever is coming and the business will be better, but the views of a nervous population remain make it better for our future if the countries free of all these troubles in his fortune squat another to each other. if we don't want to go back to the previous taliban era, when young people would have to follow the strict dress code or get with more taliban patrolling the streets, there's also been the return of a familiar site traffic police in their distinctive uniforms, back on duty a small comfort for a population, a need of any kind of reassurance right now. rob mcbride, al jazeera couple,

united nations is calling for an inclusive government in afghanistan. secretary general antonio terrace. those they've communicated with the taliban. but he hasn't yet spoken to them. personally. i'm, i mean, i'm ready to speak myself when it is cleared. with whom should i speak for what purpose? i was in close contact yesterday the day before yesterday with the deputy prime minister near the phone offensive katara. we are following the katara initiative and supporting it. let's hope that there will be away forum and an inclusive government in afghanistan. meanwhile, president joe biden has said that us forces will stay and i've got this down until all americans are evacuated. mike, hannah has more now from the white house. well, president biden said in the course of the day and interview with a local us network, that there was the possibility of extending that deadline. he said that every

american citizen is going to be evacuated from a couple and his forces will remain in place until this is the case. this is the 1st suggestion from any aspect of the bio and ministration that there is a, the end to the timeline that it is, in fact, a loose deadline, determined by how many people evacuated now on that particular tax state department says over the course of the day that it has evacuated some $7000.00 people to this point. it adds that there are a nother 6000 people that couple airport who have been processed and ready to go out and transport flights. they do not specify what the nature of these people are, whether they are embassy workers, american citizens, or indeed african nationals who were working full of the us and have been granted single immigration visa's. the state department also says that added state

department personnel being sent to kuwait and to cut to help process those seeking to enter the united states. this in reference once again to africa, nationals, as i said, those who worked for the u. s. and also a number of n g o. lead is for example, who are seeking exit from afghanistan. aust, repeatedly the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has said that the us forces somebody do not have the capability to be able to move out of the airport in to couple proper to be able to school those within the city itself. who have not been able to get through that ring of taliban around the international airport. so this is a major issue because looking at the arithmetic estimates were that there was some 16000 us citizens in couple we pad, department saying that 7000 people have left and other 6000 people are waiting to process at the airport. now we do not know how many us citizens are still outside

that airport region. and importantly to, of course, we do not know how many afghans who would be eligible to take those evacuation flights in couples. city, we do know that there are many in that category who are elsewhere in refugee camps in pakistan, for example. but the key to get out is obviously at this moment to get to couple airport which is impossible for many to do state department not giving any indication how people are going to be assisted to get to the airport through the taliban lines. rights groups are urging governments to step up efforts to evacuate and protect journalists, and if enough kind of stuff, the committee to protect journalists is warning that women up and see clearly at risk. since the taliban to power. they say media outlets of either closed or self censoring, and some journalists who have quit frantically deleting their online presence and trying to leave the country or shut them down as a presenter of the national africa channel r t a world,

she says she was turned away when she tried to go into work with anybody, alicia, i went inside the building today for the 1st time since the top one had taken over to see if anything had changed to spite wearing a job and showing that i was carrying my id card. i was told by the time of on that the regime has changed and that i should go home. international observers have expressed doubts over the taliban promise to observe the rights of women and girls . shine bassinger to the united nations is calling for swift action. we've all heard the purported assurances from the taliban, that the rights of women and girls would be respected. what we hear from women on the ground does not bear this. i wish. the past records of the taliban does not bear this. the security council must listen to african women, and it must cheat them. now is the time for the council to stand with the women and girls of afghanistan or from on the situation of going to so we can now speak to

mary clark, vice president of global programs at women for women international. maurice, based in washington dc, enjoying says via skype. very, thanks for giving us your time 1st. can you give us a sense of what you're hearing, how women's lives being immediately affected either directly or indirectly by the taliban take over? sure. you know, i was really struck just a moment ago about talking about the self censorship. and it reminded me immediately of something that one of our senior staff said here is a woman whose fears she has been organizing for women's rights. she has been leading our empowerment programming throughout the country. and she, she went outside on the streets the other day. and she realized in his job that she was probably save her number. and another woman who is at a fierce advocate for women to attend to university and leads are activist and

advocacy networks. and she was hearing the taliban coming door to door and her pride diploma diploma. that was the 1st to graduate from university. it made her father a true believer and in women's rights to education. and he himself became an advocate for women's education. she decided that she was afraid if the taliban entered into her house that they would see that diploma and know she's educated or find her id card for women for women. so 1st she put it in the trash thinking it could be hidden. and then she wondered what if he would, if he searches my trash, so she put it in her oven and she burned it. this prized diploma. so that feeling of fear that can also self fence or women is real. another certain sectors of a certain korea is one imagines public facing jobs. for instance,

where women are now feeling that they just simply can't leave the home. they've got to give up with careers or risk consequences. another one of our staff spoke to that feeling and she talked about how she felt like her whole identity is connected in with the work that she does that are supporting women's rights. if she can't do that work, what's her identity? what's the identity of women? and kenneth them if they can't live out their rights. but my worry is that is that we are quite focused in some of the wealthy nations around the world. and being sure that we can protect the people that worked in our embassies or that supported our military. but that we will forget about the fact that the people who are on the front lines for fighting for women's rights, the women who actually won all of that political space that women have had enough ghana stand in the last 20 years. they 2 are on the front lines and they are really at risk. would you make me, would you, would you make these assurances coming from the taliban that women can still

continue to have a role in public life or be it within, within sherry a little you know, it's actually seems to be quite mixed in our experience. so the taliban hasn't been a completely homogeneous actor at the moment, so we have seen even district to district within the same province, very different based on the taliban. so in one district we saw in one province where we worked. when their flag went up, they issued a statement on their letterhead and included the new rules, including that women could not leave the household without a male relative in the neighboring district. in the same province, the taliban entered our training center where we have also demonstration farm. and the gardener was the only person there because we are all sheltering in place as the big transition and up people happens. and they asked him, do you work for

a women's rights organization? and he said, yes, he told them where we worked and that we work with the poorest most marginalized women in the world in afghanistan. and they sat down, the gardener fed them lunch and they assured him that we could continue. so i think it's going to actually in reality play out to be a bit different depending on where in the country and even district by district. because this is not a homogeneous group, but i can tell you for sure that i have not yet spoken to one of my colleagues or any other african women that are not afraid. we've heard from britain's defense secretary, we've heard from the defense secretary, the united states. they both talked about the need to work strategically and diplomatically with the taliban. large the to ab evacuation. but one can imagine if you want to keep these n g i was working, if you want to be able to continue assisting women,

it's in to some degree. these efforts will have to be directed through the taliban . can you imagine working with them communicating with them to continue upholding women's rights? the truth is, is that at district or, or prevention level, the tell about and has been present even if not in control for the entire time that women for women has been working in afghanistan. and because we deliver our program through african staff and we align it with koran, we have an incredible acceptance in the community. in fact, local religious leaders and other civil leaders have been the ones that have warned us when we've been in danger. that have given us a sense of security when we can continue operating throughout this last several months of people. so our hope is that we can negotiate as we can in order to keep working because the important thing is that we are not leaving. we are not going to abandon the women in afghanistan,

but i can tell you that we at the same time, are deeply worried about a rollback of women's rights in that country. record vice president of global programs that women for women international. thank you very much. thank you. coming up and out of here, this news, our african refugees call on the greek government to provide a safe haven, but has it already welcomed enough? it's looking like it returns a power for a political party that ran malaysia for 6 decades. afghanistan's crickets a space, an uncertain future. gemma will have on that in the sport. ah, for the aid is finally reaching rural parts of haiti devastated by a powerful earthquake on saturday. hundreds of people in comparison have been waiting for provisions and cued up for handouts for the un. the delivery with

delayed for months line blocked the main road leading into the area. many haitians made homeless by the disaster with sleeping out doors when tropical storm grace hit just days after the quake. artichokes continue to cause panic in the country southwest nearly a week after the earthquake killed more than 2000 people. total homan visited the hardest hit city of la kai and nearby villages. 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 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 tent 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 do deep was washing clothes just like when we met her. when her house collapse behind her i saw the earth 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 romano and so been son was out in the fields with his dad when he was killed by a landslide, said of by the quake. 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 a nice cast stone by the ruin of her house if the community got any international aid, no, no, vocal origin. 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 and then stop all in water and food for 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 al jazeera, thrown hey, to a new study into the most commonly used coven. 19 vaccines as found, their success rate dropped against the delta variance over time. scientists at oxford university say the 5, the job is initially more effective than the astrazeneca sean. but his efficacy also declines more quickly with both roughly equal after around 4 to 5 months. this decline is more pronounced in those over the age of 35. the scientists say the vaccine still remained the best protection against the fire with sara walker led the study and says this isn't a cause for concern. the really important finding is that even though the vaskins aren't doing quite as well as they did against sal for they 2 days, she's going to take all still getting good protection against her. and that's true whether or not you've hard coded before that even if you've had cope before,

you'll still get after protection if you have to back thing. so what we also found is that initially the fire of the had a bit greater effectiveness about 15 percent, but that did roll over time to 2nd nation. whereas astrazeneca started a little bit lower. but she, you know, study. we don't have any evidence that it's changing over time. the changes we saw were too small, the statistic research out we, we caught this hospitalization several ready to fill in our study. all the studies show the hospitalisation to 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 and 80 people to pulse or so what should the nation do when it has too many vaccine doses? one dutch doctor is fighting the government's plans to destroy them. 90000 unused astrazeneca doses that being stored by the countries regional health authorities.

but demand for that vaccine is low only around one in 10 given out in the netherlands on astrazeneca, especially after early concerns about blood clots. the country's already fully vaccinated, more than 6 in 10 people. so the dose is set to be discarded according to local rules, but if it's correctly stored in a refrigerator between $2.00 and $8.00 degrees celsius, each dose loss up to 6 months. and in that period, the netherlands has received more than 3300000 astrazeneca doses, and administer just 2400000, a shortfall of nearly a 1000000. so a petition has been launch calling for the government to rethink the move and instead send out the 1st 90000 to namibia where just 3 percent of people have been fully vaccinated. well, let speak to the doctor. the heart of the campaign will to shroud to join says via skype from laden in the netherlands. i know according to the w, a show course the, the entire continent of africa,

only 2 percent of people have received 2 doses. given the f. what do you see as being the, the ethical, justifiable reasons that the dumps government are giving for, for destroying these doses? i can be very short. none. there's no ethical reason not to distribute those factions to, to africa, especially to namibia where we have the cold chain which is very suitable for the acidic effect faxing and not for the price fixing. so my, my question was to immediately he sent defects. he used to namibia where we have a team which helps to me and then we been government with the, with the 1st 70 or 75000 fractions which are given within a week. so we are able to, to do the fax nation campaign with the $90000.00. also within a week we have the,

we have the logistics, everything is ready and they are not given. so that's why i launched the, the, the petition which is already been signed and the petition is going at this moment . firewall. it has a spreading range of about 2 and there are 2. so it's going very, very fast. and how receptive of the actual therapy to this growing pressure? well, we are increasing the pressure and they're still talking about it. and in the meantime, the expired day is coming. we still got about 10 days for sending it to in the media. and then afterwards, the effect since i expired. i mean, given the, the rank seen hesitancy surrounding the astrazeneca job, which has been very much the case of multiple countries, not just benevolence over the past few months. why isn't the dutch government

releasing these? i'm wanting vaccines early enough so that they can be used in time well, considering donating fractions due to a 2nd doctor which is prohibited, we are not allowed to give defections to another party than our own patients. and secondly, which was the, as to most important reason that the dutch doctor, they are not able to, to, to guarantee the quality of our cold chain. which makes me very angry. because now our government, deducting the the quality of their own fascination campaign, would you think that all of this says about the willingness of western governments to fairly distribute vaccines globally to those who need it most,

most we've been told repeatedly from the world health organization that we're all in this together, when all fail safe until every last one of us has received at least one dose. well, this is a major whom unitarian problem. and i think and most, most people agree that this is the 2 biggest medical crime against humanity at the moment. it's a medical crime because we have depend demik. we know how to, to, to, to cope with a pen demick. but we don't do it. and especially in africa, of all continents has got such a low affection asian rate that in history. people will see also caused by the by, by the modern communication that this is a very big crime. and people will lose their parents and grandparents. they will blame us and it's a very,

very big crime to crime against humanity. auto to speak to us from the netherlands . thank you very much. ok, thank you for giving me the opportunity. now in other news key, as government has introduced tighter controls and the use of social media bonding, false news and anything, it says could damage the country's prestige. but it's theresa by reports is the power of young people to organize online that concerns the communists leaders. these were the largest protest in queue wine decades. thousands took to the streets last month to demand food medicines and freedom. young people using the internet, managed to organize protests nationwide. but now the government is doing everything possible to prevent them from happening again. and new decree announced this week to control social media will put people like junior darcy at risk of getting out of

all these new laws come to reinforce the prohibitions that already exist and legalize things that were been done outside the legal framework. such as the cops of the internet service, it is a threat to freedoms and citizens, right. what is known as the queen? 35 bands, the spread of false news or messages and content considered offensive. it also says that those who have attempted to subvert the constitutional order will be considered cyber terrorism. the government says the new decrease an attempt to protect the population and fight the spread of fake news. appropriate will lead to go to the ruling, the ne, in cuba, the internet is defended as a space for debate, exchange reflection expression, complaints and proposals from the population. assume that this model will demand an adequate, respectful, ethical, and truthful use of these communication channels. 2 years ago, cuba introduced the use of mobile internet at times of economic difficulties that

have been exacerbated by the pandemic and us sanctions. it's become a direct threat to the government. the videos like lis, i run example system has collapsed. patients need help. we need help. we don't want our patients to die. even though cuba has managed to produce at least 2 successful vaccines against colvin. 19. on tuesday, a group of human doctors use the internet to denounce the health crisis that exists in the country. and from now on the spread of videos like this one could be considered an attack against speedo cast was revolution was when i mentioned once again, cuba is seeking absolute control of a monopoly on internet access and telecommunications and is also formalizing digital repression. it is seeking to limit the space where people can access information freely. cuba is in the middle of a massive economic crisis, and discontent is on the rice. while the government rushes to carry out the forms,

it is also desperately trying to control descend. several and jesse to still come on. now just there, this news on clearing the st. slager says it's begging bad will cut crime, but will it stop many for making the only living they can honestly climate change how italy's farms and vineyards are adapting and innovating in response to a warming world. and in sport will tell you about one of the most controversial moves you can make in europe, ian football details coming up whichever ah .