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evacuate all afghans who worked alongside us forces on the front line of media freedom. we look at increasing concern over the safety of afghanistan's journalists. also coming up on the program, 40 results, hospitals struggle to treat the wounded after another devastating earthquake in haiti, and 3 prime ministers in 3 years. another major change in malaysian politics and i'm li, harding, and sports rap on the dol joins roger federer on the sidelines for the rest of the season. the spaniards that comes to a foot injury and will not play again this year, which means he'll miss out on the upcoming us open. ah. hello, welcome to the program. well as the taliban seeks to consolidate its rule in africa

on its been trying to project an appearance of business as usual, friday prayers were held across the country. the fuss and the taliban took control . fighters joined civilians in the mosques. l cause for unity and no and for stress codes. but not everyone is convinced by the new taliban. there are fears for the safety of john les a family member of an editor working said german public broadcast at deutsch avella was shot and killed. and another seriously wounded nato is now saying that any future government must allow unhindered humanitarian access and safe and oddity evacuations. because even his report spread of what might be the beginnings of an african army, fight back. government forces. regaining control of 3 districts in the northern province of babylon, people are continuing to flee us president joe biden has been speaking out saying that there are at least 5000 troops at the airport, helping to evacuate people. but thousands are still waiting despite the constant

threats of arm taliban fighters present. charlotte palace has our fort circling in front of carbo international airport. the gates are closed. the taliban with a common did us weapons and vehicles run security. no one can get through. even filming on the street is not allowed. the taliban has dispersed crowds of people. they know weight further down airport road. this is my father certificate. it's there. we made it to la. his father worked as a god for to us contractors. your father is hi. hi, i didn't i, he comes here every day to plead his father's case for evacuation. and i don't want to go out on the gate. i am scared. but what can i do? the taliban run after us. they chase and they beat us and i saw women under people's feet in a stamp and that i saw a dead body taken from the airport and put in the car. and then we have no other option when i don't know what the,

the telephone is in charge of securing the airport and protecting us forces and evacuated from being overrun. they a forceful in their crowd control, relying on gunfire and beatings to disperse. the thousands who gather us forces can be seen around the perimeter. just meters from tele bomb patrols. people play their k through evacuation, grazing, paperwork to the tower, but they are asked to move on. afghans complain, americans have fired towards them also. now they've got a notice or even scared of bringing our documents with us every day. we're here because we want to do something done. them favors a now we're left here with what i give a day or so every day. the numbers, the vaskins looking for an exit swells. hundreds gather outside the british, french and canadian embassies hope spruce. but rumors spread faster. most wisdom besieged have closed, but they don't know that. $20000.00 applicants have applied for us special

immigrant visas, including their families, they estimated $70000.00 to eligible for evacuation. there were thousands more foreign nationals and africans who worked with other nations. also waiting for flight out more than 800000 people have been evacuated since the town of on, on sunday. and still the us is expanding its eligibility criteria and doubling the number of evacuation flights and this weekend. yet many people tell us they are too scared to come to the airport because it would mean passing telephone checkpoints. then, for those that do attempted, they braced the crowds and gunfire, and the disappointment that they would likely be left behind charlotte bellis al jazeera cobble. well, us president has said significant progress is being made in terms of lifting citizens on the vulnerable ouse of campbell. joe biden said the past week has been heartbreaking, and a mission remains dangerous. make no mistake. this evacuation mission is dangerous

and evolves risks to our forces and has been conducted under difficult circumstances. i cannot promise what the final outcome will be, what it will be that it will be without risk of loss. but as commander in chief, i can assure you that i will mobilize every resource necessary. and as an american, i offer my gratitude to the brave men and women of the us armed forces are carrying out this mission. are incredible. as we continue to work the logistics of evacuation were in constant contact with solid bon working to ensure civilians have safe passage to the airport. john henry is following us joins us live now from washington. and john, did we learn any more about why washington didn't anticipate the current situation as swift taliban takeover of the country in the uncertainty and chaos that ensued when it withdrew from the country. so hastily well,

that is the key question here in the united states and it's affected joe biden's approval ratings. so that's why he has been out there so much and been more responsive on this issue. he was asked by a reporter about that and he said that he was relying on a consensus that almost nobody, he said, thought that the taliban would come in so quickly and that the afghan forces would lay down their arms within a matter of days and simply allow the taliban to come through, but that is what happened. a reporter pressed him further and said there was estate department report that said that might happen. and the president shot back that he was relying on a consensus of reports about that we are getting some more information about that american effort because every agency here is, is offering what it can to try to defend the administration's response. you had the president out today, there was also a pentagon briefing as well. they said that there are now $5800.00 us troops

at that airport. they have evacuated something like 7000 people in just the past 5 days. and the president promised that if you aren't american in afghanistan and you want to get out, they will get you out. he was asked if that was the case for afghans who had helped the americans in the war effort. and the president was a little more equivocal about that. if you're in this special immigration program, he said they would certainly honor that there have been questions about how many people who are trying to get out or actually cooperating with the u. s. effort. there have been apparently no hostile actions within the last 24 hours, but that evacuation process was stopped for 6 or 7 hours. and that is because some of those people were being taken to a weigh station in guitar and that, that had become full into their trying to bring food. the u. s. military is trying

to bring food and others of to that base to make sure those people are taken care of. but that has delayed the evacuation every with just days to go. there are reports that the u. s. has actually gone outside of the airport to rescue people. in the pentagon briefing, it was made clear that there was apparently some officers or some soldiers who were able to come out and take people without passing through the taliban lines. but there have also been reports that helicopters have left the airport and have picked people up. so we're still learning a little more about this. but the president is struggling to answer that question you asked. and so far, not entirely to this at its faction of most americans where the press corps, it seems. thank you very much for washington. john had ran all the latest. meanwhile, nato members have been holding emergency talks on how best to help those in need is extra general un stoled humbug. told al jazeera evacuations may continue into

september. we have been able to evacuate the thousands of people over the last days and the situation at the airport is so much better now than it was on the in the beginning of the week. but we really recognized that the huge hall sca that remains to be done and that was the main issue discussed at the meeting it today. the reality is that actually we have many allies for offer to host to receive afghans. people coming out from going on. we have many planes enough columnist on the cobbler airport or in the region. the main challenge was to get people to the airport on into the airport. so we have communicated clearly to all of us that they should provides a safe passage for everyone who wants to leave the country. and especially when enable them to, to go to the airport. so many dollars and especially in the states they have had,

well, di will called appraisal tactical, compact with, with all the bonds to make sure that that happens. we have seen some progress, but still it is a very difficult situation outside the airport. it's very unpredictable at the meeting today. many allies express the need to extend the deadline to the timeline beyond the 20 and 31st of august. and that's because they see that with the current pace, we will not able to get all the people who want to get out by the end of that timeline. i'm concerned about told you have seen the last weeks, including the very rapid collapse of the african security forces on the political leadership. when we made a decision to end, then they threw us us and they took precedence in i've gone this on, we were where are the risks of all the bomb the returning back to the

very rock, the false collapse over over all the political leadership and the security forces that was not anticipated, and that of course has created some additional problems. so the problem you are faced with today, then i think it's extremely important to remember that the reason why we went into afghanistan was to prevent of comes down from being a safe haven national, terraced after the type of tax organized from i've gone on against not the states, 911-2001. for trinity, ezra prevented any attacks on the need to other countries organize from of gone on . and now it is simple to do what we can to preserve those gains. as he reported earlier, there growing fears for the safety of afghanistan's journalist was called for some to be evacuated. committee to protect journalists is warning that women a particular risk. it says the taliban to passes the taliban to power. 2 prominent female journalists have been borrowed from their jobs. the homes of media workers have also been rated,

and others were attacked while covering protests in the city of july. also earlier i spoke with sam was say me the chief executive and founder of moby media group, the largest media company in afghan stone, which owns taller years. he says it's still too early to tell if media freedoms, we completely eroded, but the signs are not good. there's a disconnect between what the leadership saying and what you see on the ground. you don't have this conventional military, the sort of standard talib on police force on the streets of cobble, every areas controlled by different militia. you know, there's a tolerable group from the banner, sean, and where we are. and then next door, there's a group from host and they look different, active friends, they dress, dress different, and they may even have different demands or expectations. so the journalists are actually really fearful. and they, they just confused as to how to view the situation on the ground. this is a very strange period of the taliban because they're trying to consolidate their

rule over the country. they're trying to win hearts and minds, trying to entice political opposition figures to join them. so i don't think they're going to shake things up too much. i wouldn't get to get this less affair. thing could be a short term thing. we have to wait for them to come up with a media policies, meet a commissioned a religious commission and so forth will probably issue all sorts of decrees and directives for both the media and women's role at the workplace. educational facilities are and so forth. so, you know, we have to be patient, wait and see. i mean, it's looking back at what they did in the nineties and also what, what they're doing today. you can't be too optimistic, but we'll have to wait and see. could you envisage a situation where perhaps foreign journalists, there is this divergence between foreign journalists being allowed a bit more space under certain conditions and then domestic media having to operate

under a completely different set of rules. i think that's exactly right. i mean, they understand that they need to engage the world. they need money from the international community. they can, they cannot survive enough. they're just sort of the did the sort of isolation is tyler. one of the 1990s. so they're much more charming with the international community in international media, but for the african right, i think for now they're very patient and i'm not sure how long the last the population has gone. expectations are much higher than they used to be. there's a middle class now that didn't exist in the 1900 ninety's. you have a young aspirational population majority of which on the under the age of 20. so that's what you know, people protesting. yes, they just because of the flag, are there women protesting because of their rights? this is a totally different off garrison to the 1900 ninety's a while. so the program is saying the combined effects of war and drought have one

in 3 afghans. that's around 14000000 people at risk of severe or acute hunger country is facing its 2nd severe drought in just 3 years. and around $2000000.00 children, a malnourished we production, is fallen by 40 percent off. one of the dr. periods, in almost 30 years, aid work has warned that with drought, the pandemic and ongoing conflicts, food security situation is going to get worse. we have the devastating impact of the conflict. in addition, the country is, ruffling, was a drought very severe. dr. seconds in 3 years they'll be a fees on the grind assisting like we have for the last 60 years. we're hoping to get up to 14000000 people, luckily urgently require 200 minutes to be able to do that. i'm going to bring you much more and i've got to start shortly. also, plenty of all the stories to follow. we're going to look at letting the fusions warning from the west for the west to learn from russia's mistake. also, the complex where the illegal fishing in the gulf of california,

where this danger fish could be worth more than a kilos of cocaine. and in full will tell you what pep squad, viola had to say when asked about his interest in signing his fine next down. ah, now the operators of southern haiti's only medical oxygen planter appealing for help after it was severely damaged and lost at today's earthquake facility supply. several hospitals. the mon, for oxygen has sold this month, driven by the pandemic and casualties from the earthquake, which killed more than 2000 people, thousands more seriously injured. john holman, brings us this report now from the city of la k, and a warning that you might find some of these images disturbing. the came across sun whose moon, the immaculate conception hospital in la k,

his toes and sco were fractured. he's wanted more than 10000 people who were injured in saturday's earthquake and hated idea. i ran out to try and open the gate, but a cement block fell off the roof of the neighbor's house and onto my head a foot long week. stuff at local hospitals have been struggling with that huge influx even as many deal with their own life changing problems. i'm see my mom, my house has collapsed. we are sleeping in the street on saturday when i got here, i saw how many people were in need. and so i decided to work, and i've been here every day. many of the patient sustain outside for fear the hospitals themselves could collapse me off the shots. some have cracks ready, but the doctors and nurses have managed to keep order in this hospital immaculate conception what they're telling us into this shortened saw medicine equipment, but they're just about coping with the flow of people coming in. but the chronic

lack of medical equipment is serious. the thing that really means it's thing that or about auto video, like i said like this, you just kind of thought that we need to say the same. they desperately need more materials to treat fractures and broken bones. without them, the hospital's a little more than waiting rooms for the seriously you before they can be airlifted to pull the prints for their or hold up getting supplies in, says timothy would the us thought to come to help. we have a lot of different facilities or different organizations that are trying to bring in with supplies, but they are having a hard time getting him on site. so there's a lot of a little bit of work for stuff as far as they get through customs and everything and which i understand they don't just want things putting it without checking. there's also problems in getting get personnel to the disaster zone, even once it's in the country. that's because the stretch of the only road from the

cap to the case is being fought over by gangs from corporate to here. it's kind of 8 our 3, the u. n is also taking part of that. they are seeing how they can send convoys. that the 1st day in saturday from to today. sorry. it's been a huge problem how to coordinate the combo and the quake was almost a week ago. but the need to deal with the consequences remains and john joins his lives now this time from the haitian capital, puerto friends. and john worth noting, this is a country that was already struggling to recover from the devastating quake of 2010 on top of massive socio economic and political problems as well. you were at the prime minister's news conference. what did he have to say about all this? initially, he didn't have too much to say. he welcomed the president of the united nations to

try and help them out with this disaster. but then after that, they opened up for questions, and we actually asked him all about what we've been doing in the last week, which is going into the design designs and checking what's happening, especially in the smaller villages, away from the largest cities. and basically what they've told us is that they have received no government help. one village leaders said the actually phone up the prime minister and asked for help. and the prime minister told him to wait. he told him to wait. well, 98 percent of the houses in his village, florida were completely flattened. so i put that to the prime minister and said, well, what's the answer to this? he didn't answer the question. he gave the mike to his head of civil protection on the head of civil protection, basically said we're getting things as quickly as we can. we've got logistical different difficulties. we've got difficulties also with security on the route. so we do have a plan and little by little will be able to get into the villages. bear in mind

that it's now a week on more or less from almost a week on since the earthquakes are it has taken them for some time. i also awesome about security situation. the fact that on the road, the road going from pull to prints where we are the capital to the does office own gangs have actually battling for control of a section of that road. which means that most state isn't going through that most states having to be elevated. so obviously that's a much slower drip, drip drip. the prime minister did decide to take that question. he said that they were improving the security situation at the moment and that it's better than it was this coming just at the point when just a couple of days ago, one of haiti's fuel for pd surgeons was actually kidnapped by gangs rents. and so obviously that situation isn't completely resolved and they said that there will be trying to deal with it as we go forward. but it's very serious, right? to. so then access to the, to the area from what you say,

it's being complicated by political turmoil, but also gangs sees in control of these important routes. what is that you were just in the disasters? and we saw your report at the, the hospital that people laying injured and is doctors trying to treat them. what else can you tell us about the situation in the disaster time? yes, exactly. the doctors are doing the best they can. and actually, the situation that i just mentioned really does refer to them as well as you saw a piece there waiting desperately for the materials that they also need to bind up fractures to carry out surgery that rather than having to lift people into pool. so prince, we also actually went over in that same city like high we went to a camp if you can call it that's been set up in the football stadium that and there's not tense, they just fix that people have put blankets and if they're very lucky top pull in on to try and protect them from the rain that's coming in the nights at the moment

. these are people made homeless, by the way, more than 130000 families have been made homeless by this great. and so we also asked the government, why are you doing more in that situation in la kaya ok, you can get to these remote villages, but that's a major city. they responded that they have been distributing food, but we might just not have seen it. it might have been at another point in the city . so we come from the earthquake. i think the basic message is that there's a lot still to resolve here. the international aid is trying to get in. there's complications apparently and getting it into the country and then along that route and there's a lot of people still waiting for help. thank you very much, john hallman, very important. thank you for your reporting on this story. when there was a massive e humanitarian challenges in northern ethiopia, there that the head of us come into my return agency saying that a work is in the tig why region a close to running out of food to distribute us ha,

samantha power accused ethiopian government of deliberately, obstructing humanitarian aid to millions of people in this war to region. he says, food supplies will run out within a week. this is a nice our life from london to live for you on the program for steam beaches on the threat of development. why locals? angry but charity own government is saying the have to go ahead look at the current of ours miscalculation that led to a computer ship chip shortage and caught in call production and in sport. well, number one actually thought the powers in the semi finals in cincinnati will have more on that trunk. ah hello there. it's still a story of hot and dry weather for southern parts of europe in the days to come.

but in the north it is looking wet and windy if we look to the northwest for the british isles and got some heavy rain to come in the coming days, particularly across those central areas of the u. k. and as we go into sunday, that will push across into belgian, the netherlands, and germany really sharp and thunder. downpours expected for the check republic. we could see some flooding here. but further north, it does look finer and dryer for much of scandinavia that wetter and windy weather has pushed off towards finland and to western russia. now it is looking cooler and wet for grief. over the next few days, we are going to see some showers kicking in and temperatures dip down slightly and across the black sea region, we've got a few showers continuing here. but further south, it is looking hotter and dryer for cyprus. we've got the heat coming through with nick a see a coming in at 41 degrees celsius. and this is similar story for the iberian peninsula. we are going to see the heat continue, temperature climb, and quarter by is going to see the temperature reach up to 40 degrees as we go into

the weekend. but by the time we go into the mid of next week, it is going to dip down and things will feel slightly cooler, but they'll be sunshine. ah ah, they wanted 43000000000 pounds worth of weapon. that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. there is no hope of any more because there's always a small car. most people for really, really good lives. in athens, we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function. war shadow on al jazeera, with more than 200000000 cases because of 19 worldwide government abutting to fight fresh wave of the virus and newberry. and there had been a 3rd and the number of people working vaccination appointment from human cost to

the political and economic pool out there. when you the latest on depend demik, this'll have vaccinated more than 1100 people here, all of them migrant farm workers. people on home testing because they think that there is the risk to democracy, special coverage on i'll just, there are oh a welcome back. i'll main story. more gunfire is benign and stung grenades used to push back huge crowds of people gathering their cobbles airport for a 5th day. the u. s. and nato pledge to accelerate the number of evacuations. and us present, joe biden is also obliged to evacuate all afghans who works alongside us forces. he

says, significant progress has been made in the fall. but there are also great fears for the safety of afghanistan's journalists, germany, both cost deutsche of that. a says, a family member of one of its journalists was shot dead. and as we see these events unfold in the country with the taliban now in control. questions remain over what lies ahead and what form any government could take. earlier i spoke to my shaw cat was, i'm a senior diplomat who worked with the african ministry of foreign affairs. and i start by asking him how taliban forces was starting to govern in combo. if you look at our, in the city of cardboard tyler burn on every ria, you can see them in the streets on the roads in the past and everywhere they are there. but it was just flying to is that they are knocked had often people are asking any questions or busted. people remain

sad because behavior would be 9. like in the ninety's, they had the same tools that they have and the law and order. for example, they don't have specific uniform if you look at around getting the same clause, like many people or so people remain concerned because any, anyone in the benefit of the situation that poses that poses specific challenges in terms of their being a lack of accountability because you were just talking very about different groups of taliban monitoring, different areas, very difficult to identify them because they're wearing plain clothes. what does that mean for the population in those areas? there's been a lot of issues. for example, schools are stated,

the government offices are closed, no public services and they're not in uniform. so we don't know.