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so tell about members have been seen alongside civilians for the 1st friday press since the group took control of afghanistan. taliban had earlier issued guidance to mom's across the country, saying they should use the sermons to appeal for unity. people go report a thing more worshippers, unusual. no dress code restrictions were enforced as it had been on the previous taliban rule. what guns wanting to free the country? they're facing several obstacles, including taliban road blocks and problems with paperwork. this was couple apple just a short while ago the the, the the the feel pretty. cale taken nato saying about 800000 people had been evacuated since the taliban took over on sunday. the us moved 3000 people on thursday,
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including those waiting for visas. and native foreign ministers holding talks on the situation and how to deal with the taliban going forward. and let's be now robin bride is standing by for thinkable. so robot, the situation at the air force is more chaotic. it remains a very volatile situation just as we came on we. we still have gunshots occasionally coming from the, from the airport. we also heard a loud bang. it sounded like it could have been some sort of explosion. we're not quite sure exactly what it was, but it seemed to be coming from that direction of the airports. but yes, it still remains very chaotic, very volatile. still, lots of people thronging around the apple perimeter wanting to get inside. at times the taliban will try to get people to come post them away from the terminal. they've issued an order that people shouldn't be that i should just go home. they also put in place roadblocks to try to stop people load to try to screen people
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that are the people getting through if they've got the right paperwork. but there is a suspicion, despite assurances a passage that some of the thousands of people who believe they are eligible to go through and get only evacuation flights with a us or with, with other, with, with other nationalities that they might be being screened by the taliban. that they might be looking for individuals that they, that are connected with the previous regime. so there is this constant fear or suspicion that they might still be looking for people to target for reprisals. despite taliban denials of that, they be us trying to step up the pace of accusation. we know that that they're talking about from this weekend evacuating far more people they. they lay on more planes and more facilities. but as they do so, the civil aviation authority here is really waiting to see when they might be able
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to put on commercial flights. but we haven't had a commercial flight here where you could actually buy a ticket, go along, check in and get on a plane since last sunday. and the civil aviation authority will only be able to do that. they say once the us, which is in charge of the terminal, allow them to do that. but it, it does seem as though it's very split john's about happening while the us is concentrating on the evacuation exercise. and then so with the president joe bite and talking about possibly extending this exercise beyond the 31st of august deadline and keeping us troops on the ground to keep evacuation people. it may well be that we won't see any commercial flights till after that. so it remains a very confusing situation. very distressing for people that run about teams has been along that near the port on the apple road. you get various groups of people still waiting or everyone with their own story to tell. they spoke to the son of a contractor who worked for us company on
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a base in southern afghanistan. that's son said that something came along and only had was a photocopy of his father's contract that he thought that was going to be enough to get it in. get him into the terminal. well, it wouldn't, and it certainly wouldn't be able to get on a flight. there again, someone else day by was a full but special forces from the military who may well be working alongside the u . s. military who may well have had a case had to, to get on board a play, but they have no idea about who we should contact. the fact didn't know that there was a military gate gate that he could go to. so still all around the airport, a lot of confusion and really the misinformation and lack of communication is all that is making the situation worse. right? we're going to be speaking somebody in a couple of minutes who's trying to get out in the processes. they've been through meanwhile, what all but kale says happening. it's been the 1st friday presence of taliban took over. how's that worked out that has been relatively uneventful over various
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concerns ahead of time that maybe that would be a very high profile presence by the taliban. that maybe they'd be standing on the doors of mosques, imposing a strict dress code that hasn't, that hasn't happened. what we have seen is the taliban has been urging the moms on that friday prayers really to incorporate into that sermons this message, to appeal for unity telling people not to flee. there is no reason to flee countering what they call negative propaganda. i think they taliban does realize the huge significance of muskets and minds in front of a late fee is here. in fact, going back a few days just after the taliban took control of one of the late afternoon leading, pres here, another most nearby up. and one of the most important most here in cobble we heard drifting across the sermon, just after prize from the mom saying that there was no reason to fear the taliban.
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so that message is being passed on by the man they packed at the most important boss, k, the police chest, the most they may most in cobble. we know that several 100 of the people attending day at the end of press all pledged allegiance to the islamic emerett and also supporting the the taliban. or a rob, thanks for the time being room abroad. in cub all, rob talking is telling us about her how hard it is to get into the airport. couple . joining us now from the city via skype was a former translator for the u. s. army in afghanistan as she's withholding her identity for safety reasons. first up, please tell us about your experience. what has happened when you went to the thank you for questions and i have really 10 and my heart, which i, which is more word i can describe how i feel right now at this moment. actually,
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i'm sort of my country above the distance myself and my family to really it's really disappointing me. while i see all these allies are moving around. they have no right now at the moment. the walking everywhere. they are knocking. ok, we've lost connection there with the boy. you understand it is quite difficult to get that connection. we can actually let's try and get back. i think me the signal has come back up. i'm hoping you can hear me again. you would just tell me about your friends understand you've tried 2 or 3 times to get into the airport. tell us . well yeah. i tried. i thought the time i tried 3 times to get an answer to the airport. and the 1st one i tried to get inside, it was fall above an outside deal. it has to get it inside, but the door was closed. we were not able because of the rational, the people too many people on the street. they were trying to get an inside, and because of those rush, most of the people were killed,
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the children official war and the they were, the target was killed, most of the people were harmed. on the 2nd day, i tried to get through the military military base from out there the come on from class about way while i one day or they should sit on the people on the street. and no one were asking about our decorations, whether we are eligible or not. i saw most of the people even the don't have vascular i national identity. the question is why did village all these people to get an inside and those people who are like me and the trip it, we have all do detriments why we are left behind. and i mean, how long listen to our why, how long did you work for the us army as a translator and have they given you documents to get out of the country? i here for 5 years. yeah, i had all my deafness together in but she never asked me for any revise the commission. any of did mention because everything was completed and i was expecting
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that they will do the evacuation and not the way, but i never expected to be like this. this respectful for us, for their i get my life if they were supposed to do like does, why did, they should tell us at the 1st. so we could do something to us, at least a good, good country. but right now, airport, this block, you cannot go to the country right now where it will be there, should sure this system out. and they should have all the nbc numbers, those case numbers, which they are all the applicants. and if they can call us right into the airport, is it the taliban? ed when you, when you get an inside because of rash, up to too much people in the street, did they try to control our did this ordering and all this stuff? so they let us to get an insight telephone way to me to get an insight, did it and say, i knew james, they actually have course they would do their on board like is trina and all these
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monitoring but, but it didn't harm anyone. dillard has to get an insight, but due to all these, the rush of the people, most of people were heart. i am self. my says god and jerked in among those people because there was lot of people trying to get an insight. i was close to the gate of the military, but unfortunately, military didn't care about that. no one after the men didn't care. if i have a kid in my arm, they, they didn't pay attention. they never listened to your wife. so what are you going to do? are you going to keep trying? i don't know, i don't know, but i'm just, i'm just losing my mind. i don't know what i do. i just, i can. if the lis well i think we, we've lost the signal again that to couple but getting a very real picture of the challenges and how funny i must be trying to get out of the country. that was a,
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a u. s. translator for me. yes. translator who translated from the us army, trying to get out and she's tried 3 times and so far has failed 3 times. well, german broadcast, don't vela says that a family member of one of its journalists was shot dead during a house to house search rights groups and governments to step up efforts to evacuate and to protect journalist enough going to stay on the committee to protect journalists, is morning that women are particularly at risk. it says since the taliban took power to prominent female journalists have been bought from their jobs and they document the homes of media workers rated and others attacks while covering recent approaches in july about what's happening. darwin is a news presenter at the national f got channel r t a world and she says she was turned away with your eye for work with anybody, alicia, that i went inside the building today for the 1st time since the top one had taken over to see if anything had changed despite wearing a job and showing that i was carrying my id card and i was told by the time of on
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that the regime has changed and that i should go home as well. so butler is the program coordinator at the committee to protect janice. he joined his live now from washington. d. seems to be welcome to the program is all very troubling this. and what we've just heard by name is an isolated incident. tell us more about the kinds of things that you're hearing while we're hearing very similar stories and you know, including people who get into the airport, your journalists, who we thought were able to go, didn't have the right documents and then were sent home after waiting. you know all day inside and you know, and other similar cases to one in which you just described, which people try to get to the gate with all the papers that go back multiple times many days. and they can't get through either the taliban checkpoints and then the grades when they reach them are not necessarily open it's. it's an enormously frustrating situation, obviously. and what about journalists just trying to carry out the continue with their jobs, enough kind of stuff. that's very interesting because, you know,
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the tolerance folks in 2 days ago said that they were going to respect the free and independent press unders laid down conditions. and we've seen the very prominent news program until the news that continuing to operate, including sending out their, their women reporters and having women use casters. but on the streets it can be a very different story. it is not clear that the taliban are, you know, militants who are on the streets in cobble or elsewhere around the country are getting that message. and they seem to have a lot to themselves. and so they are attacking journalists and beating journalists . and of course, we know that certain journalists are being sought out by the town of on their homes have been searched. we know one case where a journalist was actually in the house at the time you ran out the back when the
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towel on arrived. and they fired after him, he managed to get away. other journalists have received fund threats. very prominent women, a journalist was told, you know, your time is up and she is gone into hiding. we've been trying to get her out so far, unsuccessfully. she has not been able to get through. you know, these barriers, do you think it is changing? you know, that. right? yeah, i was just gonna say, do you think there's a question of different approaches being applied depending on where you are that that maybe one approach maybe more lenient, depression, say, cabal, competitive more rural areas of the country? yes, i think that's probably true. although, you know these checkpoints around the airport or have been particularly belligerent, this is the, is the right word. you know, the, i am sure you've seen that the new york times washington post and wall street journal managed to get there. i can stop out of the country and there was, this is during the new york times today explaining, you know, how they did that. and it was partly by having their own people inside the airport
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coordinating to get them through the gates. and there's still a bit of a mystery about how they did it, but it creates hope that it is possible for the journalists to get through the college and checkpoints and the gates and get out of the country. so should more effort be being made to help journalists and media representatives get out. absolutely. i mean we, we as my point of view and this is speed at which the us government and the british government and the german government are approaching this. these issues have been, it's been way too slow. journalist, our have been an important part of the effort over these years to build democracy in afghan austin, that effort to build democracy, failed miserably. but the press journalists got a very active media sector. and these people should not suffer because the taliban has, you know, has come to power and western governments just need to step up the efforts to get
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them out there. they are the true allies of this whole effort that the effort has failed. but we need to protect these people, lots of stories of journalists and organizations being targeted, including the german broadcast touch vela, who've been saying that a family member of one of his janice was shot dead during a house to house search ship. have you heard anything about that? what would you know about? well, we just know what bella has been saying and but you know, this is a particularly agree just incident. but we know of other cases where the taliban are searching house. the house for people. unfortunately, have not resulted in the murder of family members, but this is extremely ominous. you know, these journalists have a record over the years of broadcasting critical stories about tal of on it's many scrubbing social media profiles to try to hide it. but you know, it's all about, they know these people and they know what they have done. and despite assurances from the taliban leadership that there will be no retribution. we're not seeing
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that message. get through to our bon militants on the ground. all right, steven butler, appreciate your time on this disturbing story. thanks very much. steven butler from the committee to protect you on a site and your facebook twitter in linkedin has tightened security across their platforms to protect users in afghanistan, facebook because out of the tool, allowing them to lock down their profiles with a single click. people who aren't friends but be able to see that timelines or photos and twitter, it says it's working with partners to fast track requests to remove archived tweets . ah, malaysia has a new prime minister is 3rd in his many years as well as separate cope was appointed after receiving support from a majority of m. p. 's. he succeeds medea then? yes, in who resigned on monday. how's his coalition fell upon rose louis reports now from
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quality. is maya sabri, i hope is malaysia's 9th prime minister. he was appointed by the constitutional monarch. so turn up de la fulton after shop, after securing backing from a 114 members of parliament in a 222 seat lower house. his appointment means the new ruling alliance is made up of the same parties as the previous administration led by mill. you didn't? yes. and he resigned on monday, after losing the support of 15 am piece. the transition means the united malays national organization or um no will be in an even stronger position because it's miles sabri is the parties vice president. i'm not, you know, at the drivers of the ruling correlation, a position which has been competing for the last one and a half years. been, it came back to government again, you know, rule the country for more than 60 years before it was voted out in 2018 because of
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a corruption scandal. current president of the have committee and former premier, not you brought up a fighting corruption cases in court and deny charges against the the party returned to par last year when several m. p 's including we didn't, who are part of a new reform is government that had room for less than 2 years. switched sides. analysts say they don't expect much policy to change if most operators, bethany a very experienced politician. but perhaps not the most inspiring one. you want that's actually the, based off the last government because he was giving the daily briefings on and then combat efforts and san malaysia is tackling its worst wave of corona virus with one of the highest number of daily new infections and deaths in the region. a state of emergency and a locked down have been ineffective in curbing rise in cases and public anger has
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grown. at the time of the announcement of is mild. sotheby's appointment, nearly 350000 malaysians had signed an online petition to protest against his leadership. the king has said any new prime minister must demonstrate majority support by holding a vote of confidence in parliament, which is set to reconvene next month. but with is miles sorry, holding the same level of support as we had ingestion when he came into power last year. some analysts say a new administration does not necessarily mean a more stable government. florence lee al jazeera quality port in a state home order is being imposed on vietnam's, her g min city for monday. now accounts for 80 percent of the countries, 7000 code, 1900 deaths. a lockdown measures in the capital of hanoi have also been extended by
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2 weeks, yet not contain the virus until late april, but is now seeing a rapid rise in infections and death. its vaccination rates is one of the lowest in asia. the philippine government is easing current of ours restrictions in manila, despite reporting reco daily high and new infections. capital has been locked down for 2 weeks, but restrictions will be partially lifted on saturday. more than 17000 new cases were recorded on friday. and for the 2nd day in a row in malaysia, new corona virus cases have searched a record high of more than 23 and a half 1000. that's despite the country be in the lockdown since mid may, the health ministry says 98 percent of those you've tested positive only displayed mild symptoms. more than one and a half 1000000 cases have been recorded. australia and new zealand have seen cases increase while thailand has now passed. 1000000 infection reports from bank of
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australia's biggest city city seeing a surge of new cobra. 1900 infections will now be unlocked down until the end of september. people in the worst hit suburbs or faith a nighttime curfew. the cities, 5000000 residents, are now required to wear face mass outside. the wider state of new south wales has had 3 consecutive days of more than 600 new cases with drug everything as piece. and now it's time to bunk down and i can't stress that enough. any time all of us to bunker down, take the said seriously as we can, although the so many of us have the vast majority have this 3rd wave in australia, fed by the delta virus made its way to new zealand this week. the nation was living free of covered 900 for 6 months until tuesday, when a case was discovered linked to the outbreak in australia. a snap national lockdown was extended until midnight next tuesday, after more cases were detected in several cities. 11 new cases were recorded on friday. we just don't quite know the full scale of this delta outbreak.
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all and all that tells us we need to continue to be cautious and that we need more time before the complete picture. we need to change our c things with one of the worst covered 1900 outbreaks in asia. on friday, tyler marked 1000000 cases. since the start of the pandemic, until april the nation was able to minimize the spread of virus 97 percent of all covered $900.00 cases have occurred in the last 5 months. vietnam has also successfully contained the virus until late april, but a surge of infections in recent weeks has forced officials to put the largest city hotel men into lockdown from monday, as tokyo prepares for the start of the paralympics next week. concerned grows as the city is also seeing a surge of new cove in 1900 infections. that's overstretched. hospital organizes admit that the games will be held under difficult circumstances. they'll be using the same code 1900 playbook implemented during the olympic games focusing on frequent testing and limited movement with the high vaccination rate and few new
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infection. singapore has started to relax. it's covered 19 restriction, this allowing some to head out and enjoy a break. for us, we definitely feel safe. we're all wearing our mass except when we're eating the tree. and the back to me is so high here. everyone here is needed. so we felt like it was a no risk situation, so we're happy to be here and indulgence many others in the region. hope they soon will also be able to enjoy got either al jazeera, bangkok or let's get a check as well. whether or not his jeff. hello, good to see. here's her headlines for the americas, an update on grace looking to make a 2nd land fallen central mexico. were there a cruise area, again, potentially as a category one hurricane, bringing with it storm surge about a meter meter and a house so that the ocean being picked up and shoved into the shoreline will move across central areas that mexico and exit out toward the pacific coast, next, i want to take you toward new england and look at the lashing boston. got these
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were remnants of what was tropical storm fred, producing scenes of flooding here. and it's a 12 punch, because now we are tracking tropical storm henri as it moves up late sunday into monday looking to make a potential landfall in new england. this could become a hurricane, but we can to a tropical storm. nonetheless, we will keep tabs on it for the desert southwest are flood watches has now been dropped, but we could still see some storms flare up here and very breezy off coast here, but it is whipping up the winds toward northern areas of california, where of course, we've got the dixie wildfire burning the largest in the us, some big storms erupting over bolivia. torrential rains and whipping winds, producing scenes like this. but toward us on the on our temperature at 32 wasn't quite record breaking, but still warm to be sure. lead aaron l 0, an attack in northern became fast, so kills doesn't violence escalate in africa to hello region. belly,
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infrastructure to deal with the human way and toxic chemicals to bring you more reward winning documentaries, and live on air and online. ah ah. okay, and you know what y'all are? might about top stories and members of the taliban have been seen alongside civilians for the 1st friday. president young group took control of afghanistan earlier it issued guidance, urging moms to unity that 7 guns wanting to flee the country, facing several obstacles, including telephone rope blocks and problems of paperwork. nathan has about 800000
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people, have been evacuated since the taliban to go on sunday. let's take this story and we can speak now to a former royal marine commanded pen father joining us from couple he's attempting to help people free the capital. he's also found, or i should say of another animal rescue charity in a couple pen falling. thank you for your time. by way of context, perhaps you could just spare. we'll set the scene for us. what were you doing in afghanistan and what have you been doing? and since the taliban take her we've been running and i know well, sorry for the last 25. those including the that's those. ready areas and then we run them projects to reduce our space like that's making the mainly new t n space dog also. so helping the book.

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