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oh. ringback me in i a dire situation of cobble airport as the us and its allies struggle to evacuate tens of thousands of afghan personnel and their families as the taliban solidify that, hold on power. and it's leaders, me to call back to discuss how to form a transitional government. ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm noisy, and you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program, abused by i still now shunned by the own community. we have the plight of young
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u. z. the women in iraq rescued from the old group. i and new york to come together to celebrate the city opening up despite a new threat from the virus. ah, welcome to the program. well, it's now 6 days since cobble fell without a fight to the taliban, and still people are desperate. a scrambling to escape reports at least 4 people were crushed to death as they tried to force themselves into the app ports. the white house says it's removed about 17000 people in the past week, but european union has criticize the evacuation effort. you foreign policy chief joseph brow claimed the u. s. security at the airport was overly strict, and preventing afghans from entering. he warned that it was mathematically
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impossible for the us and its allies to fly out the 10s of thousands of afghan personnel and their families by the promised august study. first deadline away from the airport. there are signs of normality, with ministerial offices opening for the 1st time since the taliban takeover. wrong bride begins our coverage now answering the taliban coal to turn up for work. most government employees arrived at their offices for the start of the working week to be met by a new set of gods for the taliban. it's another important step toward securing power. we are quite pleased that there has not been any looting or anything and the people are beginning to, to be confident and going back out and resuming their normal lives. and hopefully, in a very short period, we will, we will back to complete, you know, complete normally the,
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the streets have been getting busier every day. but then expected reopening of the bank didn't happen. only the cash machines were working with a maximum withdraw limit of $200.00. there are some of the ones that actually i was told to come to the bank concert today, and i would get my money. i don't have any money left. most of them out and i saw these banks are holding many people salaries and everyone has been here several times, but gotten nothing. plans for a new government continue. one clear sign of that. the taliban political chief mother of the guy he bought a has returned to the country. but taliban is holding talks on ways to make its government more acceptable to people here and to the international community, but insisted has no time for elections all the while. the country is still reeling from the upheavals of this past week. the most pressing crisis is still the chaos
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the cobbles international airport, with pictures uploaded to social media, showing more people bloodied and injured as thousands try to leave the country. in contrast, doctor jeff action worry and his colleagues at the ministry of public health could only report an eventful end to their working day. each other bought a book out of each one of them pretty well. nobody should see the country. what this is their country. no matter how beautiful other countries may be, they will feel like a slave in this place. the 1st day back at their desks. and for these work is at least so far so good. rub, mcbride al jazeera couple us president joe biden has been in meetings with his national security team discussing the afghan crisis. american citizens have been advised not to travel to campbell due to security threats. the pentagon says it's a rapidly changing situation. the situation in cobble are not in the whole cities,
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fluid and dynamic. and you have seen the images over the last 24 to 40 hours yourself, of the situation outside the perimeter of the airport. and it changes it changes almost by the hour and it changes in locations around the airport. it's very, very fluid and dynamic. and so i don't want to speak for the state department obviously, but, but, but like our military commanders, they are going to make decisions in real time about what's in the best interest of, of innocent civilians that, that have need to get to the airport. and we want to get inside the security gate or pakistan foreign minister has told the al jazeera is government is determined to help bring stability to i've gone a stone sharma would crazy appeal to the taliban to form an inclusive government. but he rejected accusations that august on has aided the group undermining its neighbors sovereignty box on has been blamed enough. you know, we've had enough of bashing. we've had our share of bashing. i mean, you know,
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stop scapegoating a box on for internal failures. now, i was shocked euro when i was sitting in dash gun listing to assure funding when he said, oh things have gone wrong because 10000 infiltrators have been sort of have been pushed into a central pocket file. i greatly, it was the most absurd statement made by anyone. and everybody was listening. the question is, you had it force of 300000 korean people. you know, you had air cover. you had, you are the most. you know, you're well equipped clean. but you didn't have the will to fight with all the developments in you officials are visited a spanish military airport being used as a hub to receive afghans flown out of kabul. the evacuees are expected to spend several days at the camp for health and security screenings before making the
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journey to other european countries. me distress that humanitarian assistance must continue and i've gone, it's done. and those thing the taliban should be helped to safety. in europe, shin the guns fish. that's legal, a vague, it is very important that we offer legal options to those who have to flee afghanistan because of their convictions. because they have worked for us because they are women's rights activists. or because they are journalists, we must now offer them safe ways to leave the country and be accepted. ah, 18 government is facing growing criticism as it struggles to get a to victims of a powerful of great that killed more than 2000 people. that would desperate scenes in the hot hit city of la kai as people scramble for supplies. a we call many in rural areas still waiting for help. the government says it's following processes,
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but there are security issues out there as john holman spoke to leaders about the crisis in the capital ports of france. patient prime minister re riding and his 1st press conference since in earthquake writ through the country southwest 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 lies in we went to last year and they said they haven't had anyone 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 might to his head of civil protection. we are formulating a response or mechanism is in action. evidently,
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we have some issues related to security, but we are doing our best to accelerate the process. but it's not just the village is 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 not even 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 either? like i said, our response is ongoing yesterday. i know there was distribution in lake guy using our methodology. it may happen that you didn't go to where we were distributing. but there's a huge problem with distribution that the prime minister had so far, only vaguely alluded to something that we're talking about. there's a stretch of the road from here to like tie, which is really difficult to get a down because it's controlled by gangs. what is your government doing to try and figure out that road and also to try and stop those gangs?
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they've also kidnapped and orthopedic surgeon over the last couple of days. what does your government doing about the 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. at best, perhaps we had learned different, different things to take the leadership to build the institutions capacity. i would love to say that there are no gaps. there are. this is a different situation, requires a different response. seeing will be believing for the many watching on those desperate homeless and still waiting for help. john home and i was told to prince
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hundreds of children in iraq warranty, as the the mothers are either living as orphans or have been separated from them. others in addition to isolate trust, as he does, he does say the children born to iso fight is can't be part of their religion. minority community says the world and its own government isn't giving enough attention to their suffering. some. bon jovi reports now from the hook in northern iraq. humans birds keep her happy. but 20 year old, yet he the survivor went through hiring ordeal when she was abducted by ice and fighters and bought and sold multiple times before her release. punish if not, not so dish of to i had adoption. no, i have witnessed it all the violence, the beatings, the rape, and all kinds of embarrassment. death was better than all these kinds of suffering . and they were scared to come back. we were told that our families would never accept us despite the fact that everything that has happened to us was by force
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against our will. and without our consent, many of the girls say the community has refused to accept their children born as a result of rape by ice and fighters. we spoke to multiple women and girls who wouldn't speak a camera about how they had to leave their children. asthma says it was day hard over the i had to choose between my child for myself or return to my family and community. after thinking i decided to abandon my child, it was very difficult decision. suzanne suffered, runs a program to rehabilitate these women. and some of the children who returned your phone call at one home. honestly, these women hardly have any choice. they only have difficult decisions to make. they can just decide if they bring their children here. it is hard to deal with the consequences for any mother to bring her children here and try to raise them in the close community. this would have been even much more difficult. hundreds of
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children have been born to women abused by ice and fighters in addition to social pressure. usually these can only carry their religion if both parents are these and according to iraq. you know, if the father is wisdom than the child carries the same religion. the plight of the children doesn't and there many of those who have returned are struggling to reintegrate. this is the day when his family was destroyed. 21 year old shark has edge that on his skin with burning cold and ink. in contrast to the howling wind outside the tent, it is complete silence inside. you see the brother and sister a meet and a mirror. don't talk much. the children were abducted along with their parents by iceland 2014. we tried to ask her to talk. a meter says she remembers many things, but she doesn't want to speak to them yet. after being kidnapped from iraq, the eventually ended up in turkey. just last year they were reunited with their older brother and sister. now they cannot speak their mother tongue and unable to
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join school in northern iraq. the only bit for shadow to communicate with them is through a translation app. he struggles to provide for them because he has no work and no prospects let them run and we wish we can leave the country and migrate. my sister mirror wants to go to school everyday. she asks me either put me in school like the rest of the kids will take me outside of iraq. the whole day, the family is searching for their parents orphans born twice and are being raised by strangers and thousands of iraq. the and syrian children are growing up without future prospects in a world which seems to have ignored the suffering some of and down to 0. the hook northern iraq. and watching out their life from london still had on the program face to face with the taliban. we sit down with the group to learn that plans are gone, it's donna and anger in china over the clam, down on sexual assault congregations and the workplace ah
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hello. their extreme heat across southern europe in recent weeks has helped fuel wildfires in the region. and the latest one which is burning in the south of france is at risk of spreading as strong changing winds kick in this weekend. now. hut and why conditions persist across the south on sunday, but up in the north, it is looking wet and windy a thanks to a weather system that swirling to the east. so we're going to see some heavy rains for the netherlands, for belgium, for germany, and across the region. we could see some flooding and those rains are going to intensify across poland, check republic and austria into next week. but for scandinavia, it's fina and dry. a much of that wet weather has pushed off to the east. and as we look to the southeast for greece, it does dry up though we are seeing some strong winds kick in across the islands,
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the southern parts of italy. it's hot and dry up in the northwest, seeing the wet weather and the remains hot and dry for southern areas of france, which is fueling those wild fires. but we are really seem to heat build across the iberian peninsula. we're expecting the temperature in court about to peek up to 40 degrees celsius on monday and we will see plenty of sunshine with that. that should weather update the news or job the year for you in a kidney. so not so much hutch or the yeah, but my i got a really diverse culture explored through its music system. bul songs of the city
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are now to 0. 0 the me welcome back. a look at our main story now. thou reports up to 4 people, crushed to death as many on gatherings and desperately trying to get out of i've got it done. the year says it mathematically impossible to evacuate everyone by the august 31st deadline. as the taliban propensity point, it's new government and i've got astonish, political chief of on a borrowed dar has returned to the country. there is a sense of normality resuming in combo with more people in the streets and many offices reopening. and our headline is our government is facing criticism and
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struggles to get a to us quite victims. a desperate scenes, any hot hit that you have as people scrambled supplies. so more on our top story now. i'll just there is charlotte palaces spoken exclusively with abdulla car policy from the taliban cultural commission. groups 1st official interviews since it took over a couple a week ago. you revealed more about the taliban. the vision for the future. all is well, i will. i will miss. well, i don't care how bulky revealed his face for the 1st time. on tuesday. at the tele bonds food press conference, he translated the spokesman, debbie hula much ahead, but remains without an official title. his role is one of many still to be decided in the new government. concentrations are ongoing, and of course it is going to be an inclusive system.
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he said the talks include whether the capital will remain in couple or move to the groups. birthplace of kandahar loki acknowledged a couple. a port remains a flash point. blaming the united states, the rushing to evacuate thousands of people. we talk then we have a release, a working relationship of with the americans about the security arrangement. and the outside check posts are in our control and insight as under the control of the united states forces and in constant contact with one another. he acknowledged, lack of trust between people and cargo, and the taliban. blaming it on the distant created by decades of conflict. it is very unfortunate for people to be rushing to the airport the way they are at the moment. i think it would have been much better because we have announced
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general amnesty for everyone. the security forces from senior to the junior level. and this fear, all this hysteria that has taken place as unfounded. it's now been 7 days since the telephone entered cobble and moved bulky said, its leaders didn't intend to make. the developments were so fast that all people were taken by surprise. and when we entered cobble and it was not pre plan because we announce initially that we do not want to enter cobble. and we want to reach a political solution before entering, cobble and making a joint and inclusive government. but what happened was that the security forces left and they abandoned their places and we were forced to force to ask our forces
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to enter and take over security syncing. there's been concern over how the telephone will govern and a press conference this week. the group said women will work shoulder to shoulder with men, but within the boundaries of sri a law, the point of contact with precisely that we come to an agreement about what those rights actually entail. shari'a law is known to everyone and there's no ambiguity about the rights of women, the rights of men, not only women, but also the rights of men and children. and right now we're at a situate situation that hopefully during the consultation there will be clarifications about what those rights are. the telephone is also reported to have conducted rights on hose targeted killings and harass government and civil society figures. the telephone denies the claims but said it is investigating cases of criminality. the former priority as, as discipline in our own ranks and not enforcing laws on
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others but enforced and get on ourselves 1st. and then given it as an example for the rest of society to follow suit. so we are the 1st ones. and now members, members, if they are involved in such things, will be the 1st to be prosecuted. some taliban leaders remain on international watch lists and under sanctions, including the groups deputy leader, surgery, dean, connie, as the us leaves us get a song and the taliban into the government. i asked his thoughts on the term terrorist. well, i don't think people believe we are terrorist, i think is just the war on terror. it was just a term coined by the united states. and anyone that did not fall in line were labeled terrorist bulky said, the telephone wants to move force, hope stakeholders, both domestic and international,
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can cooperate on common interests. as the group takes the reins of government, many ask grants will be hosting it can and will execute such a vision. charlotte bellis out there a couple. well, in other developments, greece has completed a 40 kilometer extension of its border wall with turkey and use. the violence system is also in place to start potential asylum seekers trying to reach europe. taliban takeover of of afghanistan as res. fears of a repeat of 2015 refugee crisis or in all the news is 41 palestinians have been injured when the israeli army fire to protest is demonstrating near the gods. the border protested were reportedly hauling fire bombs from behind the strips. border fence demonstrations had been taking place weakly over the forced expulsion of palestinian families from sharon. now china's me to movement is back in the spotlight following too high profile sexual assault cases there. one is a case bought by an employee against her boss of the tech giant alibaba. the other
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a rape accusation against chinese canadian pop star chris wu. katrina, you has more from paging. 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 the social media after management failed to act on the baba, human resources team were slow and indifferent, so they didn't take it seriously. i was shocked because alibaba is such a big, famous company, and i'm also use it because these incidents happen again and again. one public outrage around the case prompted a police investigation. alibaba fired the many question and also several executives for miss handling her complaint. the incident came the week after the arrest of
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chinese canadian celebrity, chris, whoop. 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 portion of severed ties with ruth. and they have been caused to him to be deported. both incidents have turned the spotlight on cases of sexual assault and misconduct in chinese workplaces. it's also given birth to the countries me to movement, which has been stifled by authorities in recent years. she concerns of sparking social unrest. the might, is a woman's rights activists who's 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 during business event. ali baba has a serious problem. i would say there's a culture of hunting women are using women as sexual resources. this phenomenon
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also exists in many of the big companies state enterprises and even n g o c d 's. in recent years, china has introduced laws dealing with domestic violence and sexual misconduct, but active estate the poorly defined and difficult to enforce police 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. right. 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. khatri you all to 0 dating new york is holding what's being called a homecoming concert on saturday to celebrate his reopening after the worst of it. corona virus outbreak, york was the city hardest hit by code 1900. in the united states, kristen sumi looks back at how far the city has come and how far it still has to go
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. it was a scene notable for what it lacked. a city famous for its energy at a standstill. the only hustle and bustle taking place in a hospital, overwhelmed with patience. new york lost more lives and more jobs to the corona virus pandemic, than any city in the united states. even bringing the lights down on broadway. the new yorkers tried to keep their spirits up through the darkest days, a knowing that the show must eventually go on. the city began to reemerge this year slowly at 1st as the winter's 2nd wave ebbed, and summer came. people returned to the streets. i'll be cautiously in a bid to bring more people back to the city. this week began implementing
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a policy that's rankled so many other parts of the country. requiring proof of vaccination to enter into our restaurants, museums, and other venues. restaurant owner, jeremy des, welcomes the move. i felt i won the lottery when i was, it was my turn to get the vaccine, and i don't understand why everyone doesn't feel the same way. you'll need to back seen to come here as well. the stage is set in central park for what's being billed as new york's homecoming concert featuring some of the biggest names and entertainment to celebrate the city's return i. it's part of a huge publicity drive that includes this star studded video aiming to revitalize a city hard hit, not just by the virus, but also economically by the shut down people we spoke to agreed that the city still has some way to go to get back to its former glory, they're still closing down a lot of the restaurants by 10 o'clock pm,
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so that you know, the city that never sleeps doesn't sleep at 10 o'clock. and i said, i don't think you're going to ever go back to what it was. but it's become a new york. yeah, we're always modifying the library. it may not be fully back yet, but the city can count on it's hardest to put the whole world in a new york state of mind. kristen salumi al jazeera new york rain has fallen at the summit of greenland ice sheet for the 1st time on record. high temperatures of triggered extensive melting across the islands. ice is being lost. the rate 7 times greater than usual from mid august, signed to states and other warring sign of accelerating climate change station was erected in 1989. and so in a staff during the summer time and no one there had seen rain until until this past
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week we have atmospheric data. you know that kind of, we can infer conditions and that indicates no rain rain since those records begin in 1950. so it's a, in our records, it's a unique situation. ah, our main story to south, the reports of up to 4 people being crushed to death as afghans desperately trying to get out of cobble. why outside, it's removed about 17000 people in the past week. but the european union has criticize the evacuation effort. foreign policy chief joseph bureau warned it was mathematically impossible for the us and its allies to fly out with tens of thousands of afghan personnel in their families. why the promised august 31st deadline? is the taliban proposed to appoint its new government and i've got his son,
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