of course we cover major and global offense, but our passion lives and making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like how buying libya and her region and so many other. we go to them, you make the effort. we care with oh, i trapped between the taliban and uncertainty desperate afghans wait and hope for the chance to be lifted out of the country. i made the decision. the buck stops with me . i just us present his question over his administration's handling of the afghanistan withdrawal and pledges to evacuate all afghans who worked alongside us forces. ah,

hello, i'm sorry, i'm new jersey in london. you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program . 40 were so hospitals struggle to treat the wounded after another devastating earthquake in haiti, and 3 prime ministers in 3 years. now the major change in malaysian politics. ah. hello and welcome to the program. well, as the taliban seeks to consolidate its rule in afghanistan, it's been trying to project an image of business as usual friday, pres. well across the country, the 1st since the taliban took control fighters joined civilians in mosques. i will call for unity and know in full dress codes, but not everyone is convinced by the new taliban or fears for the safety of journalists, a family member of an editor working for german public broadcast deutsch avella was shot in killed,

and another seriously injured nato. says any future government must allow unhindered humanitarian access and safe and orderly 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 says there are at least 5000 troops at the airport, helping to get people out. but thousands are still waiting despite the constant threat of arm taliban fighters. charlotte felice, now it's circling in front of carbo international airport. the gates are closed. the taliban with a common did us weapons and vehicles runs security. no one can get through. even filming on the street is not allowed. the taliban has dispersed crowds of people. they know wait for the down airport road. this is my father certificate. it's there

. we meet is toola. 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, they beat us. and i know i saw women under people's feet and a stamp. and i saw a dead body taken from the airport and put in a 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 telephone patrols. people plead their case for evacuation raising paperwork to the tower, but they are asked to move on. afghans complain, americans have fired towards them. also not what. we're even scared of bringing our

documents with us every day. we're here because we want to do something. we can done them, favors a now we're left here with our future. what i could buy a day or so every day. the numbers 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 evacuation. there were thousands more foreign nationals and africans who worked with other nations, also waiting for flight out. more than a 100000 people have been evacuated with how of, on the 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 ultra 0 cobble. well, us presidents, as significant progress has been made, lifting citizens and the vulnerable out of compo, joe biden, sad. the past week has been heartbreaking, and the mission remains dangerous. make no mistake. this evacuation mission is dangerous and evolve risks to armed 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 the taliban working to ensure civilians have safe passage to the airport. well, john henry and lie 1st in washington, and i know the president focused a great deal on the operational details around the evacuation effort. but did we hear anything about seeking reassurance or reassurances or exerting pressure on the taliban in terms of its treatment to the afghan people and, and human rights in the country? he has certainly been asked repeatedly about the difficulty in getting not only us citizens out of afghanistan, but also those afghans who have risked their lives by working as translators, and in other jobs really assisted the u. s. military. and he was where he was pressed on that repeatedly and the president essentially said he got some bad information. first, when he was asked about it, he said there was

a consensus that the taliban would not be able to sweep in control afghanistan, particularly cobble as quickly as they did that. there was little analysis that suggested afghan troops would simply lay down their arms and allow the taliban to come in. but of course, as we all know, that is what has happened. and when a reporter said, in fact, the state department did have one report that suggested that could happen. biden said, well, i went by the consensus and the consensus suggested that that would not happen. but he has been very vocal in defending his administration's position. there was a not only a briefing by biden himself, but there was also one of the pentagon as well. the administration has been very aggressive in trying to respond to rather heavy criticism that biden simply was unprepared. and the u. s. government was unprepared for what has happened in the chaos around the airport. and so he emphasized that there are 5800 troops there in

the past 5 days alone, they've gotten 7000 people out of afghanistan, many of them us citizens. some people who are afghans under this special immigration program and others, people from other embassies, reporters, and that sort of thing. and he says, those flights have continued despite a pause. today when there just weren't enough people places rather for those people to go. and so those flights have continued and we won't seen video of people. there's a woman handing her baby over the fence. well, he elaborated, or rather that is the pentagon, elaborated on exactly what happened there. apparently that baby was sick, the woman handed her baby over. it was treated at a hospital within the base and then sadly handed right back over this the fence to its family. although apparently the baby was treated and is now well. but there were a number of people who are outside of the base. the us troops have reportedly rescued

some of them just coming outside of the airport. sorry, not the bass, the airport. and just without crossing television lines carrying them over, there are also reports that more than a $150.00 people have been rescued by helicopter, by us forces going out and bringing them in. but meanwhile, biden continues to take criticism for simply being unprepared for the chaos that ensued and the rapidity with which the taliban took over. thank you very much. john entered in washington. well, the nato members, of course, have been holding emergency talks on how best to help those in need. the secretary general again, stolen bug told algebra that evacuations may continue into september. we have communicated clearly to it's all a bond that they should, the provides a safe passage for everyone who wants to leave the country. and especially when enable them to go to the airport so many dollars and especially in the

states i have had, well, i will called operational 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. it's not actually one of the reasons it was important to have the meeting today to address these to get that 3rd allies and also listen to do not did states on all the laws who are on the ground, the cobble airport. and now he reported earlier, there are growing fears for the safety of afghan journalists with coal system to be evacuated. committee to protect journalists is warning that women are particularly at risk. it says since the taliban took power. 2 prominent female journalist have been far from their jobs, homes of media work because of all set and rated and others were attacked. we're covering protest this city of gyla bad. earlier i spoke with suddenly fanny about this, he's the chief executive of moby media group. says it's still too early to tell if

media freedoms will be 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 area is controlled by a different militia. you know, there's a tolerable, grew from 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 itala bond because they're trying to consolidate their rule over the country. they're trying to win hearts and minds. they're trying to entice political opposition figures to joined 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 the media policies. you know, the media 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 has

taught 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 afghan, a son to the 1990 s o u. s. officials of announced that countries in europe in the middle east have a great a temporary shelter. people evacuated from cobble, a slights resumed earlier on friday. we did pause flights earlier today, leaving ball y. we adjusted resources and personnel to ensure a temporary capacity issue at one of our stop over locations. although flight

operations have resumed and u. s. military flights to cut and other locations are departing and other and departing can bull as we speak right now. and then cats are continues to take in a vacuum vacuum from afghanistan with additional flight scheduled in the coming days. in the past 72 hours more than 300, mostly female students. more than 200 media personnel have been evacuated to don't watching algebra live from london much more still had on the program, the us hospitals having to improvise because people are refusing to get the covered vaccines. ah, the hello there. let's start in australia where things are looking largely fine and

drive is plenty of sunshine across central and northern areas. the thing a few showers, kissing that coast of queensland before the wet weather. we have to move down to the south wet and windy weather on the way for perth. we've got a front moving in and that's going to bring rain there for much of the weekend. we're also seeing some brisk winds, some showers, and the odd storm affecting victoria and tasmania. we are going to see some very strong winds. we've got a wind warning out for parts of tasmania and look what that does to the temperature in melbourne as that wet and windy weather comes in. we are going to dip down well below average by the time we get into next week. but for the really unsettled weather. well that's the come for new zealand. it is looking why are on saturday but come sunday the south island is going to be inundated with a bit of a winter re mix, creeping in. and we are going to see some isolated showers up in the north island. but as we go to east asia, it's very wet. indeed for the korean peninsula, we are expecting some very heavy rains to for here we could see some flooding. and

that's going to move its way up into north eastern areas of china in the days to come. that sure weather update the on county because the thought of on the economy can be of the financial crisis that the u. s. blogs access, black gamma stands with the billions of $1.00 and $7000000000.00 lawsuit against the mining giant behind brazil, dead list environmental dissolved counting the cost on al jazeera. ah bolden unfold stories from asia and the pacific on 20. o

a. welcome back. i'll main story now. more gunfire, it's been heard and stuff. it's used to push back huge crowds, gathering their cobbles. apple for the 5th day. the us and nato pledge to accelerate the number of evacuations. present jo, buying this page to also expedite the 2 or afghans who work alongside us forces. he says that significant program has been made in the so far, but there are also growing concerns inside the country for the safety of afghan john left, the german broadcaster deutsche of alex has a family member of one of its janice was shot dead. also following other stories around the world, including in haiti when operators of southern haiti's only medical oxygen plans are appealing for help after it was severely damaged and last saturdays of quake and

facility supply. several hospitals to mon, for cuz you know, sword this month, driven by the covered pandemic and casualties from the whites which killed more than 2000 people. thousands more seriously injured hodges there is john holman sent us this report from a hospital in the city of la kai and a warning that might find some of the images here. disturbing. the came across sun who's moon, the immaculate conception hospital in the cave. his toes and sco we're fractured, he's wanted more than 10000 people who were injured in saturday's earthquake and hate the idea such that 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 hospital 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 for that. 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. there are hold up getting supplies in, says timothy ward,

the us thought to come to help. we have a lot of different facilities or different organizations that are trying to bring in the supplies. but they are having a hard time getting him on site. so there's a lot of the little bit of political stuff as far as getting through customs and everything and which i understand they don't just want things putting in without checking. there's also problems in getting get and 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 telecom is being fought over by gangs appropriate to here is 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 since saturday from today. sorry. it's been a huge problem how to coordinate the combo. and the quick was almost a week ago. but the need to deal with its consequences remains. john joins is live now. he is in the haitian capital force of friends. and so at another

devastating of quake in a country where there is no stability or security, you were with the prime minister earlier on. what did you have to say about the situation in this country right now? yes we were and what we asked him is about the part of the freight zone that we visited, the major cities to them like in jeremy, the been affected but far more so a smooth villages around the epicenter. we went one in which virtually all of the buildings were collapsed. it really was quite a terrible scene. and so i asked him, why is the aide not reaching that part of the country? the epicenter, the head of the village, actually in the epicenter said, yes, you bring up the prime minister. talked to him in the prime minister, told him to wait. what the prime minister said to us, is it that trying to get

a that i'm sorry, the head of the civil protection in hate to be said to us because the prime minister wants that question. he handed it over to him, said that they are trying to get help to those villages, but it's sometimes difficult to coordinate and, and, and to get it into the more remote areas. i think the message and the question that would be if we could get to them why was in the haitian government able to, we also spoke to the haitian prime minister about another big problem. and that's gangs that control and a battling over ready part of the route between pull to prince and be quite disasters own. and it's meant that a lot of aid has to be listed there. and people have to be lifted out because they can't travel on that road. it's too risky. the prime minister hasn't wanted to talk about too much the most he's done is allude to a security situation. but when we asked him point blank about it, he said that he thinks that situation is getting better. they do have a plan, but they couldn't reveal it to us at a press conference. right?

i mean, they need a more than anything else and these affected areas don't they particularly doctors needing medical supplies. is there any talk then of the humanitarian car door to try and get through these areas that are held by the gangs? yeah, that's something actually the united nations has come out and said we negotiate and we're trying to make sure that we can get through with talking to these people. they've actually st convoys for sofa of vehicles that have managed to arrive a few of the journey. we took to as well, have bravely made that trip and managed to get that way as well. so i think it remains to be seen how that plays out. how willing the gangs are to allow that a for perhaps a sign of how willing they are. it's an orthopedic surgeon, one of the few in haiti was kidnapped just the other day, not on that route but import a prince and he was about to operate. so that may not be a sign that, that, that,

that, that, that willing to negotiate. and it's certainly been a problem even before the earthquake of n g o is not able to have hospital field teams in that part of the country because of the problems that route. so it's a huge problem. there's also a problem of actually getting aid in. that's what doctors have told us that it's getting caught up sometimes in customs. so definitely things to resolve here. thank you so much from the haitian capital, puerto friends john home and reporting to us. we go to developments in malaysia now . the country has a new prime minister. it's 3rd. in his many years, a small sabri alcove was appointed after receiving support from the majority of m. p. 's, he succeed way. adeena, seen who resigned when his handling of the pandemic lost him support. foreign st. louis has more now from qual is maya subway. echo is malaysia 9th prime minister. he was appointed by the constitutional monarch to turn up to la salton shop. after securing backing from a 114 members of parliament in

a 222 c lower house, his appointment means the new ruling alliance is made up of the same parties as the previous administration led by mood in yes and he resigned on monday after losing the support of 15 m p, the transition means the united malays national organization or know, 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 a corruption scandal. current president died, 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 mph, including we didn't who are part of a new reformist government that had room for less than 2 years switched sides. analysts say they don't expect much policy to change. it's going to be 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 lockdown has been ineffective in curbing rise in cases and public anger has grown . at the time of the announcement of is miles subways, 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 sabri holding the same level of support as we had in gaston when he came into power last year. some analysts say a new administration does not necessarily mean a more stable government. florence louis al jazeera qualify for new covered cases of region all time high in the state of mississippi health officials say patients are overwhelming hospitals. field hospitals of open now and parking garages and 20000 children are in quarantine. a week after school's reopened areas . heidi joe castro has more the singing river hospital in gulfport, mississippi is bursting at the seams. haitians are being treated in hallways and hospital administrator tiffany murdock is just trying to make it work

a couple of hours before we can take are the state of mississippi is reporting some 3500 new code cases a day, its biggest surge since the start of the pandemic, only 36 percent of residents are fully vaccinated and its the unvaccinated now feeling hospital. it frustrating period yet that towards the individual personal patient. no, because we're at work and look at them as they're coming in. they have a problem. we have to fix it. we're going to take care of you, no matter right. but now you're like learning your science from facebook and that's frustrating with the regular overflow with the patient, a hospital 3 weeks ago created. second, i see you room used to be for people recovering from surgery. the fact that we've been very sick of the patient, delta very changed everything. i mean it, their younger sticker one day they'll have

a chance that 24 hours later it's white it out like for pneumonia. it's just i've never seen anything like it. tessa williamson was hospitalized for 13 days and had to deliver her 1st baby a month early while tethered to an oxygen machine to help with her breathing. she hadn't been vaccinated because at the time it was recommended for pregnant women. i am that 7 year old active patient with no co morbidities that, oh, you know, if they got coded, they would be fine. and it wasn't the case. i was this close from innovation and i see you. i was this close from not being able to come home with mom, brand new baby girl. the family is doing well though tessa remains on oxygen. her case hit the staff hard because tessa works in the hospital. her admittance inspired 30 co workers to get vaccinated so that it can happen to them. and another

one told me, you know, it's not just the 25 year old that we just rolled in and had to innovate because they couldn't breathe for 35 year old that we had to activate because they're long collapse. after rising hospitalization, arise in death, usually follow. no amount of vaccination now will immediately stop that process. and so it is feared in mississippi. still darker days are to come over pneumonia and waited for heidi. jo. castro, al jazeera gulfport, mississippi. ah, but continued to follow the situation in afghanistan where more gunfire has been heard and stung grenades used to push back huge crowds, gathering their cobbles at port for the 5th day. thousands of people are there daily hoping to flee afghani.