a rich and diverse culture explored through music and songs of the city, and now to 0. a lot of the stories that we cover high the complex, so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can. as i'll just recall, respondent will be strive to do me ah, trapped between the tall, a bon and uncertainty desperate afghans waits and hope for the chance to be lifted out of the country. i cannot promise with the final outcome will be what it will be that it will be without risk of loss. president biden warns the evacuation effort is risky while promising. every effort to bring us citizens in afghan allies. com ah,

i'm hasn't seen this is live from the halls are coming up. poorly equipped hospital struggled to treat people after the earthquake in haiti and the 3rd prime minister in 3 years. another major change in malaysian politics. i or the u. s. president is promising to make every effort to evacuate to all americans and afghan allies safely as thousands of people struggle to get past taliban checkpoints to make it to cobble airport. joe biden says the evacuations are among the most difficult lives in history. warning, he could not predict the final outcome. the nato chief is describing the situation outside cobble airport as very dire and difficult. it says any future government must allow unhindered humanitarian access, and safe and orderly evacuations. the committee to protect journalists is warning

that women are particularly at risk of taliban persecution. it says, since they took over 2 prominent female journalists have been borrowed from their jobs. and friday prayers were held across the country. the 1st since the taliban to control fighters joined civilians in moscow, they were cause for unity. and no we enforced dress codes. my can has more on the u. s. reaction with this report from washington. beyond the grim seems around couple there for us. it's continuing to ran puppets efforts to evacuated citizens. it's also send more state department officials to kuwait and cut to to process special immigrant. these as president biden has reiterated his commitment to sake be effect. wait. every american citizen who wants to leave along with thousands of guns who worked with the us. he's also described the last week as

heartbreaking, and warns the mission remains dangerous. make no mistake. this evacuation mission is dangerous and evolves risks to armed forces. and it's 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. it didn't take long for the politics of the afghan crisis to come into play. republican representative, my grudges issued a statement accusing by dint of once again ignoring reality on upcoming stun. he continues, there are thousands of americans and taliban control territories around the country . and the bite and harris administration cannot provide an accurate accounting of how many americans are left. a pentagon spokesman confirm that some un troops with

still on their way to help secure a couple airport. the total number is slightly rise to more than $6000.00. the main focus is on security at the airport and making sure that as the general said, that that air operations resume and continue as unimpeded as possible. but clearly we will be prepared and postured if, if we had to do something additional. but i won't speculate right now the, but still no indication as to how we hostage will be guaranteed. well, those were not able to get through the taliban cordon around the airport. president biden has cancelled a plan trip to his home in wilmington and his staying on that the white house through the weekend to continue to monitor the situation. thank you very, very much. and also perhaps to prepare members of administration for the grilling they are likely to face when congress reconvene to be brought up next week. my

kinda sierra washington. well, afghans are facing major obstacles as they try to leave the country, including taliban road blocks and problems with paperwork. charlotte bell, us reports from common circling in front of cobb 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 wait for the down airport road. this is my father certificate. it's there. we meet is 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 i saw a dead body taken from the airport and put in a car and 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 evacuation from being overrun, they are 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 taliban patrols. people played their cakes for evacuation raising, paperwork to the tower, but they are asked to move on. afghans complain, americans have fired towards them also. now they were even scared to bring their documents with us every day. they were here because we want them to do something for us because we've done them favors and now we're left here without a future day or every day. the numbers, the vaskins looking for an exit swells. hundreds gather outside the british, french and canadian embassies,

hopes brutes. 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 measured $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 18000 people have been evacuated, withheld lavonne over 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. 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. as we mentioned, taliban members have been seen alongside civilians for the 1st friday prayer since

the group took control of afghanistan. tyler bon issued guidance to a man across the country, saying they should use the sermons to appeal for unity. people in couple reported, seeing more worshipers than usual. rob mcbride has more from couple, the pres went ahead and they were relatively uneventful. there were concerns that possibly the taliban was going to have a high profile presence. may have been on the doors of last in insisting the people that have to a strict dress code. that wasn't the case. but the taliban has urged him to pass on the message that people should should really be looking for unity. they should not leave the country, they should pass on that message and also to correct what the taliban called a negative propaganda, whatever that made. so it looks as though the, the taliban does recognize the important, the importance of

a mom's in trying to lay the fears of the population. something else which is worth pointing out the way that's been happening this friday outside of cobble. 1 is potentially some resistant armed resistance to the taliban. that if the perpetrators of this would have you believe this is the start of the fight back? although it remains to be seen just how serious they said this is the country's defense minister, general bas mil bahama day. now it has to be said he still claiming to be the, the defense minister by default because the taliban hasn't chance to appoint his success to get their own defense minister. so it's more like the forward defense minister, but there has been some fighting in the province of baghlan. that's to the north of cobbled and claims by this resistance movement led by this former defense minister that they've taken 3 districts and that the province of baghlan will soon be captured. it's a bold claim, but it is a backlit is close. interestingly that to the punch valley, now the pantry valley is traditionally the hot bed of resistance to the taliban. it

was during the 1990. it was where the northern alliance that was that strong, cold weather, 2000 to want fight back, supported by the american took place from. so this, according to the roll, general bits miller holiday. it's the start of the fight back by his forces. it remains to be seen though, just how far this might go, or whether it could indicate that once again african is done, could be in for a phase of a longer simmering low intensity conflict, of course, which it has been used to. now for decades. a cutter is among 13 countries that have temporarily agreed to host evacuees from afghanistan. katara is immune, and the u. s. president has spoken about the situation. the us says a dozen more have agreed to serve as transit points those evacuated. katara include more than $300.00, mostly female students,

and $200.00 media personnel. more flights of being planned for the coming days. an american ad base in germany is being used as a temporary transit points for afghan evacuees. hundreds of them arrived at ranch, dean bass from katara. more planes are expected over the next few days as the base has the capacity to house up to 5000 people. germany has also been sending its own planes to evacuate citizens stuck in afghanistan or the death toll from saturday's earthquake in haiti has risen to nearly 2200 people quite damaged a number of buildings, housing critical services, among them, southern haiti's, only medical oxygen plank. and that's res. fears of a worsening humanitarian crisis. the country struggles to contain an increase in corona virus cases. the organization of american states has held a virtual meeting to discuss the situation. haiti's prime minister, rio henry addressed the media for the 1st time since the earthquake,

just as john home and has more from puerto prince. and she was the only international tv crew that we got to ask him a couple of questions which was useful after spending most of this week in the disasters. and the 1st thing that i asked him, he mentioned last, which is a part of haiti in the southwest. it's really just been absolutely destroyed. it's a chain of villages going along a road. and as you go kilometer off the kilometer, the flattened, the village have 9 said 9 to 8 percent of the buildings in for on his town have been destroyed. so i asked him why has an aide reached regions like this in towns like this. you yourself sites have been completely destroyed. he didn't actually want to answer that question. he just kind of the mike onto his head of civil protection. who said that they're trying to get the a different department. they're having problems and logistical security. and from there, they'll get them on to the more remote villages,

but they are arriving that actually the heb 9. when we went to that village said he did actually phone the prime minister personally. and the prime minister said, you need to wait. so that's the situation with one of the thing that i asked him was something that he and his government have wanted to talk about that much. it's been a big elephant in the room. and that's the fact the along the only road from pull to prints where we are the capital woods. the disasters are in the south west. there's a stretch of it that to going to battling over. and it's very hard and very risky to get anything through. and as a result, most of the aid has to be lifted into that region. so i asked him, what is your government trying to do to make sure that that road is secure and that the problems that he said the road is better now that that will, that they do have a security plan that they couldn't tell us in the press conference, but the things that already approved of villa had all magazine the hospitals in the us having to improvise because people are refusing to get covered 900 vaccines

fears for sierra leon environment. those plans are made percentage, christine beach into an industrial harbor. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day of 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways booted world's best airline of 2021. hello there severely wet weather has dominated the story across east asia recently. i'm no more rain to come over the weekend. you can see the heavy cloud cover behind me in that satellite image. we are going to see some torrential downpours across the korean peninsula. on saturdays, we take a closer look. we've got a weather system moving from east china, across the yellow sea and into south and north korea. korea. we are likely to see some flooding rains on possible mud slides with that system. and as we go into sunday,

it's moving pretty quickly to the north east of china. so it's going to be g ling and the owning provinces that are likely to see flooding from that system. and also the far east of russia now was moved to south east asia. we have seen flooding in malaysia. that's off the waterfall serge, thanks to heavy rain while the rain has eased as we go into saturday, it does pick up though, for the philippines we are expecting some shock. thunderstorms in manila, by the time we get into next week and for south asia, the wet weather has shifted west. it's new delhi that continues to see those really heavy down port and funder storm. not only here though, to be central and western areas, see the wet weather to the weather. sponsored by cattle airways, boated world's best airline of 2021. more than 10 years after the global financial crisis, you've taken home more than $480000000.00. your companies now bankrupt our economies in the state of crisis. i have a very casey question,

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the committee to protect genesis warning. the women are particularly at risk of taliban persecution. it says since they took power, 2 prominent female journalists have been far from their jobs. the death toll from a powerful earthquake in haiti on saturday has risen to nearly 2200 people. and with southern haiti's only medical oxygen plant damage, hospitals are struggling to treat the growing number of corona bar stations. of the head of the u. s. government humanitarian agency says, aid work is in ethiopia is to grow region are close to running out of food to distribute u. s. h e. samantha power cues, the c o. p and government of deliberately obstructing humanitarian aid to millions of people in the war tone. region. power says food supplies will run out within a week

or india has approved. what it says is the world's 1st dna vaccine against corona virus for emergency. use a study by the vaccine make could deal a health care claims. the job has 67 percent efficacy to prevent coven 19 symptoms . it will be administered in 3 doses without the needle for people over 12 years old. previous dna vaccines have worked well in animals, but not in humans. a new code 19 cases of least an old time high in the u. s. state of mississippi. how fishes their patients are overwhelming hospitals, temporary beds are being set up in parking garages and 20000 children. and now in quarantine, a week after schools reopen heidi joe castro has moved the singing river hospital in gulfport, mississippi is bursting at the seams. the waiting room is full. well yeah, patients 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 her. the state of mississippi is reporting some 3500 new cobit 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 filling hospital. is it frustrating period? yes, 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. you have to fix that. we're going to take care of you. no matter. right . but now you're like running your science from facebook and that's frustrating with the regular and had to overflow with the patients a hospital 3 weeks ago created. second, i see you room used to be for people recovering from surgery of the staff. we've been very sick over patients. 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 whole pneumonia on the 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 wasn't recommended for pregnant women . i am that 27 year old active patient with no co morbidities that, oh, you know, if they got coded, they would be fine. and that wasn't the case. was this close from innovation? and i see you, i was this close from not being able to come home with my 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 in today because they couldn't breathe for 35 year old that we had to activate. because they're long's class after arise and hospitalization, arise in death usually follows no amount of vaccinations now will immediately stop that process. and so it is feared in mississippi still darker days are to come over pneumonia and waited for id, jo, castro, al jazeera, gulfport, mississippi, a stay at home order is being imposed on vietnam's hotel min city from monday. it now accounts for 80 percent of the countries. 7000 covered 19 deaths lockdown measures in the capital had only been extended by 2 weeks. vietnam contained a virus until late april, but is now seeing a rapid rise in infections and depth. it's vaccination rate is one of the lowest in

asia. the philippine government is eating corona virus restrictions in manila, despite reporting a record daily high in you infections. the 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. malaysia has a new prime minister. it's 3rd in his many years. it's my is somebody who was appointed after receiving support from georgia t of m p's. he succeeds in law, he didn't. yes. seen who resigned on monday, after his coalition fell upon florence louis reports from quality is maya sabri, i hope is malaysia's 9th prime minister, he was appointed by the constitutional monarch to turn up to la salton after 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. 's, the transition means the united malays national organization or um no will be in an even stronger position because it's miles i b is the parties vice president. i'm not, you know, the driver 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 who the country for more than 60 years before it was voted out in 2018 because of a corruption scandal. current president said 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 most certainly a very experienced politician. but perhaps not the most inspiring one. you will eventually the face of the last government because he was giving the daily briefings on and then the 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 have been ineffective in curbing rising cases and public anger has 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 its mile sabri, holding the same level of support as we didn't get in 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 quality port, or the u. k. and united states have impose sanctions on several russian officials and entities on the 1st anniversary of alexi navarro. these poisoning the opposition figures suffered from a near fatal nerve agent attack. a year ago. western intelligence agencies believe russian secret service officers poison the valley. he was treated in germany and flew back to russia in january, where he was arrested. a german champ, langler merkel, has used a final official visit to russia to ask president, let me put him into freedom, the valley from prison. the russian leader refused

a request saying his jailing was not political valid. these poisoning strained relations between the 2 countries. leaders also discussed the situation in ukraine . i'm the attorneys. oh, of course we also talked about the distressing situation of alexi, nevada, the from our perspective also the sentence to a penal colony on the basis of an earlier verdict, which the european court of human rights has classified as manifestly disproportionate for us is unacceptable. and i once again called on the russian president to release a lexi nevada. and i've also made it clear that we will stay on the case face if you would like us for the person of interest. you mentioned, he wasn't sentenced for his political activities. but for the criminal offense regarding foreign partners, as for political activity, no one should hide behind it for carrying out business projects. moreover, in violation of the law, of people living around one of west africa is key eco tourism sites say they are

fighting for survival. black johnson beach is just outside sierra leon's, capital, freetown, and his fame for the marine life and surrounding rain, forest, and wildlife. now the government wants to build an industrial harbor there. many jewish reports the dis, catch, begins to arrive in the hour to be a marine protected area of free town fish traders, and by is eagerly await, from butter. kudos. sting, rays to crustaceans much externally and fish is consumed looking. but the bulk of the catches hold by $40.00 off the coast fisherman whittaker, all my says the new project will change that the sub will out of value to our, our product, to the call to you. you know, for the past the, i've been by the guy from experts now i can market with mix up of

every blessing because i have an activities on the market. this is where the government wants to cite behalf of an area with whites and beaches and pristine forest. well, it's all, almost been it and told me bunder was property. sit on 3 acres, a piece of real estate vows to keep the government pressure get so it describes the plan to take over the property as a desperate land grab about his name. i don't think they want to do. yeah. they want to do different things. that's why they want 258 gods. because if they want to do about boys not to, i'm going to cause suddenly insufficient. marine resources has an estimated value of $400000000.00 a year, but the country lacks the capacity to extract the maximum you can make benefit from it. the government says the project will allow certainly on a country with fewer resources, to process and package catch,

rather than send it to neighboring countries. and i use this will create jobs and more revenues. but could you say the location is wrong? they want that if the project goes ahead, it could lead 20 ecological and human disaster. despite the warning, the government says its mind is met up. no, not going to change on my. we are just going to do the 10 doctors good for this content. that is correct for this content that future generations will say, oh, this people did. this thing for us they can on the benefits of the proposed project was never in doubt for both its proponents and no point. but activists blamed the government for much of the confusion surrounding it because our civil society, we are more concerned about the environmental impact of the project. first of all, when you had about the time, it didn't come from any official source because government was kind of comfortable to open up discussion to bring interesting discussion around the table with augusta

investments. we know why no chinese book, i got the black joke to be. the 55000000 project will be executed with a grant from china. the government of standard yard and fisherman insisted the benefits far outweigh the risk in abundance. it is out of the question. what landowners connecting international legal action against their own government. this could be a long grow out battle between the 2 sites. i mean, he's got the committee please. how would you see that? like johnson sierra leone. ah, that's going to look at the top stories us president joe biden is promising to make every effort to evacuate. all americans and afghan allies safely by the says, the evacuations a been among the most difficult air lifts in.