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the truth, your government is full of nacley, she said, that's how the article should start 60 years on we revisit the report is still risking their lives late. may bring another outbreak. violence of more versus with you on the rewind, the deadly beat on algebra. me trap between the taliban and uncertainty desperate. wait and hope the child to be lifted out of the country. i cannot promise a final outcome will be what it will be that it will be without risk of loss. president biden wants the evacuation that that is risky, while promising every effort to bring us citizen allies her. ah,
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other money by this is l 0. live for the also coming up. fully equipped, hospital struggle to treat people off to the greg and haiti, which is killed more than 2000 people. last high profile accusations involving the tech joint on it, bob on a pop song bring renewed attention to china's me to me . the u. s. president is promising to make every effort to evacuate. all americans and allies safely, as thousands of people struggle to get past taliban checkpoints to make it to couple. airport. joe biden says the evacuations are among the most difficult lives in history warning. he cannot predict the final outcome, the nato chief as describing the situation outside couple airport as very di and difficult. he says any future government must allow unhindered humanitarian access
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and safe and orderly evacuations. the committee to protect journalist is warning that women are particularly at risk of taliban persecution and says since the taliban took power, 2 prominent female journalists have been barred from their jobs. meanwhile, friday prayers were held across the country the 1st since the taliban took control . vices joined civilians in mosques, and there were cause for unity and no and full stress codes. my kind of has more on the u. s. reaction with this report. washington. beyond the grim scenes around couple airport u. s. is continuing to ramp puppets efforts to evacuated citizens. it's also send more state department officials to kuwait and cutter to process special immigrants . these as president biden has reiterated his commitment to st. evacuate every american citizen who wants to leave, along with thousands of guns who worked with the us. he's also described the last
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week as heartbreaking, and warns 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. it didn't take long for the politics of the african crisis to come into play. republican representative, my grudges issued a statement, accusing bite and once again ignoring reality on upcoming stun. he continues, there are thousands of americans and taliban controlled territories around the country, and the biden harris administration cannot provide an accurate accounting of how many americans are left. a pentagon spokesman confirm that some us troops with
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still on their way to help secure a couple of 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, but still no indication as to hall free passage 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 his administration for the grilling they are likely to face when congress reconvenes to be briefs. next week.
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my kind of, i'll just sarah washington. well, i found the facing major obstacles as they tried to leave the country, including taliban roadblocks, and problems with paperwork. charlotte bellis has a report from couple circling in front of cobb international airport. the gates are closed. the taliban with a common did un 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 toya. 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
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people's feet in 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 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 play their k through 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 vaskins looking for an exit swells. hundreds gather outside the british,
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french and canadian embassies. hope spruce. but rumors spread faster. most wisdom besieged have closed, but they don't know that 20000 applicants have applied for us special immigrant, baez's, including their families, to make sure 70000 to eligible for evacuation. there were thousands more for a national 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. for those that do attempt it, they brace for crowds and gunfire, and the disappointment that they will likely be left behind charlotte bellis ultra 0. cobble years president. find cutters, amir and
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a call for the country support and getting people out of afghanistan cutters. among 13 countries that have temporarily agreed to host evacuees, the us as a dozen more have agreed to serve as transit points. those evacuated to kathy and kate, more than 300, mostly female students and 200 media pass. no more flights of being planned for the coming days. and american ed base and germany's and also been used as a temporary transit point for our cameras evacuees. hundreds of them arrived at the rom, seeing base from katha hall, plain expected over the next few days as the base has the capacity to house up to $5000.00 people. germany has also been sending its own plane vacuum, a citizen stuck in stone. meanwhile, u. k. prime minister boris johnson, says britain will work with the taliban on evacuations if necessary. what i want to assure people is that our political and diplomatic efforts
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to find a solution for afghanistan working with the taliban. of course, if necessary, we'll, we'll go and our commitment to afghanistan is lost. respect for my british royal marine commander penn fathering who is attempting to help people flee the capital. he says last week has made him ashamed of his country. last week they said just become mandatory and disaster. it's all about it and the americans and british have launched the worst plan evacuation in the history of any military operation. i think just thousands of thousands of africa and trying to get in to get on a flight out there and it is going to be voided. and we, we've just made it so much worse. it's just,
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it will be me to leave my wife. i start to have nationals, they're actually amazing people. they didn't want to leave that country, immigration, they were, they would be feel that we gave them screens and aspiration and then literally to president united states. absolutely read those green. i think the world. busy is going to absolutely the right to see the desperation of sadly we're old witness. now there's risk that, that place that was day one when desperate know the last couple of that brought to sound that run my ready to go. i hate to say what we're going to say the british the american night. every country should
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say. but what they've done for this country. we have sacrificed so many people bring in securities, this country just to bring the taliban back to our shop bass. i'm ashamed to read british and what we have just done through the app in some parts of the world. the telephone's takeover of afghanistan is being celebrated. members of one of the strongest groups and syria took to the streets in support of the taliban. the convoy went through and let one of serious last rebel held areas of the 10 years. its been a week since a powerful earthquake had haiti killing more than 2000 people and injuring thousands more efforts to provide aid to the region have been played with problems and many families all now in a desperate situation. the prime minister ariel henry, who's been in charge of the country since president juvenile moist was assassinated, spoke to the media for the 1st time. john holeman was that the patient prime
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minister re riding it his 1st press conference since enough quick writ through the country, south west, leaving more than 130000 families homeless. we have a lot of questions about his government's handling of the disaster, especially why a week later, a still not getting to the many destroyed villages close to the epicenter. one of the regions has been completely flat and this last bill we went to last year and they said they haven't had any one from the government coming up for them made when they took he told them to white to that. why are they not getting a sooner since 98 percent of the houses are destroyed? but the prime minister chose not to answer the question. passing the mike to his head of civil protection, we are formulating a response or mechanism is in action. evidently, we have some issues related to security, but we are doing our best to accelerate the process. but it's not just the villages
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lacking aid. it's the cities too. and we also went to like a, an in the cave as a camp full of people just know, even though it just sticks with top pulling above in the area, presumably you can get to. but they also said they haven't seen anyone from the government. why haven't they received any help, peter? like i said, our response is ongoing yesterday. i know there was distribution in the guy using our methodologies. it may happen that you didn't go to where we were distributing but as a huge problem with distribution that the prime minister had so far, only vaguely alluded to something that we're talking about as a stretch of the road from here to like ty, which is really difficult to get a down because it's controlled by gangs. what is your government doing to try and fill up that road and also to try and stop those gangs. they've also kidnapped an orthopedic surgeon or the last couple of days. what is your government doing about
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the market? the 1st thing to say is that the southern route is better now. we're working hard to make it permanently safe, so people can circulate without any risk. also the press conference, the deputy secretary general of the united nation. what the journalist asked could be done to stop the mistakes made off the monstrous 2010 quaker when the rebuilding process was flawed. fast, what we had to do different me different things to take the leadership to build the institution capacity. i would also say that there are no gaps. there are gas, this is a different situation, requires a different response. seeing will be believing for the many watching on and those desperate homeless and still waiting for help your home and how does it put the prince still ahead on al jazeera, we delve and the science behind india is the world's dna code, 900 vaccine,
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illegal trade that's in venturing a radical point in mexican, which is why conservation group blame the government. us china. ah hello there, let's look to the middle east and levant, and it's hot. it's dry and it's rather dusty. but temperatures across the region are where we expect them to be for this time of year. apart from syria, we're seeing a lot of heat here. and if we look at the 3 day for damascus, we've seen the temperature touch. 41 degrees. by the time we get into sunday, so well above average, but elsewhere it's looking cooler in oman and in yemen as well. for the u. a thanks to a southerly wind that's blowing in and kicking in quite a lot of dust with it. so lots of hazy sunshine around for the wet weather we have
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to go to the west of yemen. we could see a couple of thunderstorms break out here and they joined up with some really wet weather across that central band of africa. we've already seen flooding in at a spec, abba as ethiopia see some really heavy rains, kicking and storms are going to brew well across to the west. and as we go into sunday, it's going to be cote d'ivoire, and liberia that see some very heavy falls. we could see some flooding here for southern africa, though it's the eastern areas of south africa that has seen a wet weather. it's going to get rather wet on sunday for durban. but for cape town, the sun comes through and temperatures are going to pick up by the time we get to sunday. ah, the taliban has reclaims, i've done. it's done. but us withdraw began years earlier in 2013 and 14 witness follow the unit of the afghan national army as they commenced the onerous
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part of confronting with taliban without native support of a trail of young men fighting for their country. while knowing each day could be their la, i've got to stand own battle on a judge. o a, watching out their minds top stories this power us president joe biden is promising to make every effort to evacuate all american allies safely. but instead of occupation have been among the most difficult, ellis in history. gunfire was used to push back huge crowd gathering near
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the committee to protect genesis warning that women of the at risk of that since they took power to from the female genet, have been bought. and that job that fell from a powerful at craig with nearly 2200 southern haiti's, only medical oxygen plant damage hospital struggling to treat. the growing number of corona bar in australia has recorded a new daily record of corona, virus infections with nearly 900 cases. but despite the spike restrictions to stop, the spread of the more infectious delta ovarian have been met by protel. and he's been coughing and he locked down demonstration, and sidney. the health ministers called the rally selfish and urged for people to be considerate at the border community. india,
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it has improved. what it says is the world's 1st dna vaccine, against current of ours, for emergency use. the vaccine make a good deal, a health care claims the job has 67 percent efficacy to prevent cove in 1. $900.00 symptoms will be administered in 3 doses without needle for people over the age of 12. previous dna. vaccines have worked well in animals, but not in humans. doctors, your i'm kim is director general of the international vaccine institute. he says you in a vaccine can be manufactured much faster than conventional once the dna vaccine technology has a tremendous advantage. it can be made very quickly. so if a new very, or to come up within a few weeks, companies like, like that is, can below or other dna companies like, you know, you could come up with a sequence, test the vaccine and animals and then rapidly begin to roll out the new various vaccines, so again, the names of fast technology,
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it has some advantages of global health and that it's storage capabilities are $2.00 to $8.00 degree. so refrigerator temperature, which is very useful and then also the fact that it's needed free. so there are some interesting advantages, and i hope that we'll see more of the sex scene made and we'll get important information on how it works outside of a clinical trial. you know, in a clinical trial, we control everything. when you introduce of accident into the real world, you really need to collect information about how that vaccine is working against the most important things, severe infection, hospitalization, and death. we call that effectiveness and impact, and that's what all vaccines for covert should have. this opens up new opportunities for vaccines in general, as well as a potential preventive measures for cobit. the 2nd reason, the reason it's important is that like them brought holden activated vaccine. this vaccine was developed in india by the indian scientist in an indian company, and could contribute 100000000 or 200000000 doses of vaccine to fight against
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code 900. now hopefully that amount will increase. you covered 900 cases have reached an all time high in the u. s. state of mississippi health officials say patients, overwhelming hospitals, temporary beds being set up in parking garages and 20000 children and non quarantine. just a week after school reopened. hardy jack hester, has mon story, 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. it's the biggest surge since the start of the pandemic. only 36 percent of residents are fully vaccinated and it's the unvaccinated now filling hospital. is
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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. 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 has a overflow with the patients a hospital 3 weeks ago created. second, i see you through 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 check for a 24 hours later. it's white it out like whole pneumonia on the side. it's just, i've never seen anything like it. tessa williamson was hospitalized for 13 days and had to deliver her 1st baby
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a month early while tethered to an oxygen machine to help with her breathing. she hadn't been vaccinated at the time, it was 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 was 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 for 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. the 35 year old that we had the extra day. because there long's class, after a rise in hospitalization,
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a rise 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 pneumonia and waited for heidi. jo, castro, al jazeera, gulfport, mississippi. russia has classified an independent television operator as foreign agents. tv doors has been added to the list of organizations, critical of president vladimir patients, administration status and she says the decision is unfair and plums. you challenge it. the channel has been operating on line behind a paywall, several jenise working in russia. i've also been listed as foreign media agents a month ahead of harlem entry elections. to high profile accusations of sexual assault have brought china's me to movement back into the spotlight. chinese canadian comstock chris wu is on the investigation of being accused of rape. it
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follows an outcry. evan alleged rape at tech john alibaba. katrina, you report from beijing. the video of a woman protesting in her workplace canteen reviewed hundreds of millions of times in chinese social media. the employee of tech giant alibaba had been silenced after accusing her boss of raping her during business trip last month. security cameras recorded her supervisor entering her. tell her several times. the women took to social media after management failed to act. alibaba human resources, him were slow and indifferent. they didn't take it seriously. i was shocked at because alibaba is such a big, famous company, but i'm also used to it because these incidents happen again and again. one public outrage around the case prompted a police investigation. alibaba slide the many question, and also several executives for miss handling her complaint. the incident came the
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week after the arrest of chinese canadian celebrity chris lou, the pop singer, actor and variety showed judge has been accused of luring under age women for sex. more than a dozen brands, including louis the tall and portia have severed ties with ruth, and there have been cause for him to be deported. both incidents have turned to spotlight on cases of sexual assault and misconduct in chinese workplaces. it's also given a bruce to the countries me to movement, which has been stifled by for she's in recent years, she's concerned of sparking social unrest. the might, is women's rights activists who is detained in 2015 for protesting about sexual harassment on public transport. she says women working for chinese companies often suffer harassment and are forced to drink jo, business events. it will. alibaba has a serious problem. i would say there's a culture of hunting women or using women as sexual resources. this phenomenon also exists. many of the big companies state enterprises and even
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n g o c d 's. in recent years, china has introduced laws dealing with domestic violence and sexual misconduct. but activists say that poorly defined and difficult to enforce. police are often reluctant to interfere with what are traditionally seen as private matters. alibaba says it's reviewing company guidelines and has set up an emergency hotline for employees rights group. say they hope the alibaba and chris were scandals will encourage more victims to come forward. and for employers to change their work cultures, katrina, you all to 0 dating black market demand for an exotic fish found in mexico's gulf of california is endangering of rap boyce fishermen. blame the crisis on the government's mismanagement of environmental policies, money or apollo. has this report fishing his hard business in san felipe it aside from the punishing heat,
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tougher fishing restrictions have force many here to tighten their belts load in. so garcia, the local fisheries association says fishermen are being collectively punished for criminal activity in the protected waters of the upper gulf of california. must go to fill up if we know there is illegal fishing, but we've been fighting for 30 years to keep our fishing permits and maintain our cooperative. it isn't fair that we're being lumped in with those who do not respect the 0 tolerance policy. the no fishing boundaries along with a ban on gill nets were put in place to protect a rare porpoise that lives only in these waters. it's known in mexico as the vector . but many believe the laws aimed at protecting lucky does have failed to stop illegal fishing. spurred by a high demand for another rare species, dubois other boys, the fish that has us gallbladder, which is this black balloon that allows the fish to move up and down in water that
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has a very high value in china through legal trafficking. so people are fishing for by using governance, killing bucket does to traffic to extract the bladder and traffic gets to china through a night of states to, to our goal bladders have become so sought after even drug cartels are said to be in on the action. these specimens are quite small, but we're told that a single, full grown to of a swim bladder can be worth more than a kilo of cocaine. in an effort to disrupt the to swab a black market, trade conservationists are bedding onto to our by farming the well intentioned, some worry these efforts may not be enough to save the endangered vector and it's local fishermen who seem to be paying the price. it's important to recognize that legal fishing is important for many communities in mexico and the upper gulf form. yes, that there are alternatives for legal fishing that we need to support
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a local legal fisherman in the area and our economy culture tips for them. and i would express our concern because of the decrease in budgets from the federal government for environmental institutions and mexico that we've been seeing since 6 or 7 years back. experts agree. the problem requires action by the governments of mexico, the us and china to crack down on the trafficking of endangered species in the upper gulf of california. many hope whatever the solution may be. it will strike a balance between conservation and the livelihoods of fishing communities. manuel rap, hello al jazeera san felipe and mexico. ah .

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