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making waves in the black sea tension in europe. over a series of incidents between nato and russian horse and conservationists raised the race to save sierra leon's mountain chimps from the growing threats of illegal logging. and i'm with hardy, with sports, manchester united share the point with south hampton. and could this be the final bout for boxing legend, many pack you out, the 42 year old return to the ring and defeat? ah, we begin in afghanistan. what people are still scrambling to leave a week off the cobble fell to the taller bon. at least 20 people are reported to have been killed in the chaos at the airport over the past week. the british military is calling conditions. extremely challenging. caught up on fighters have been manning, checkpoints around, cobble airport, and blocking people without documents from entering the u. s. says 17000 people

including afghans, americans and other national, have been flown out, but many are still stranded. american commercial airlines have been ordered to provide planes to help speed up evacuation efforts. we 18 aircraft won't go to cobble, but will instead transport afghans who already been flown out to their final destinations . the cha stratford landed at cobble airport in the past few hours and sent us this update. we are on the side of the apple. i'm seeing huge lines of people. these people have, haven't already had the papers process. we learned about an hour ago, long lines of afghans climbing on to military, call me to, to call around the world. i could play related to south africa play. we know the straight in italy flight earlier today. there is a sense of

a call shouldn't be in the location we are. but as you can imagine, a lot of tension, your case will come in this unity, we speculate that these are wanting shots. it's been reported at least that things have been a little bit more orderly today, certainly compassion to, to, to with exchange. we've seen in the last few days we've been speaking to people who i've been queueing up some of the things that i've said. trudy brady, pretty big. one guy, you've worked with western media. many is very articulate. say he disliked this is being a brain, right? because he was an incredibly sad time for, for, for afghan and stuff. but he said that he wasn't prepared to give the probably bomb benefits

a rub. mcbride is also in the afghan capital. he has the latest on the political discussions taking place there in kabul city itself, the political negotiations go a pace, and there are expectations that in the coming week we will hopefully see some kind of breakthrough where the cheap one of the senior taliban officials molar. but he is here with his core group in cobble. we know that in the coming days he will likely meet with me because i a former president. and also i've done that up dollar . he is a very influential figure from this last administration. now, before those talks happened, which presumably will lead to the setting up of this new government, both cars, i end up meeting with other taliban officials here in kabul. it, it was all very young here. it is all very nice. it seems behind the scenes there seems to be paving the way for this new government to take take power here. nearby taliban are also saying that they are reaching out beyond cobble to some of the 20

or so of afghanistan's $34.00 provinces to former governors, to bureaucrats. government officials, really with the same message, trying to ease, trying to ease tensions. ease. fee is here which do exist still across the country . one week when we came telling officials that you don't have to pledge allegiance to the taliban, we're not going to demand that. you do that if you want to leave the country. so they say you can do that all aimed at trying to repeat these messages about the inclusiveness of this new government acceptance. but of course, you know, we keep saying a lot has to be matched with actions. and there are a lot of a lot of very skeptical people here. we're not gonna stay until the you to the us. now, heidi ho castro is in washington d. c. for us. so heidi, the administration there has been coming under a lot of criticism over the last few days of the way they've handled these evacuations from cobble. what's the latest?

the hearing that has a brother boat rather than biden's advisors have been speaking to the press this morning, sharing the updated numbers of evacuation. they said 25000 us national and afghans have been evacuated. this is a board american flight, as well as coalition flights since august 14th the day before cobble fell in all in the last 24 hours. the white house says some 8000 people have been evacuated from cobble and now the president taking this latest action and activating the civil reserve air fleet, which will include 18 commercial aircraft that will be used to take those evacuees on the 2nd leg of their journey if you will, once they've left cobble on the military flights, they will then be transported to their final destinations on these civilian aircraft. and yes,

the administration has been confronted with fall out over the devastating scenes outside of cobbled airport with the british defense ministry reporting. some 7 afghan civilians dying in that mass of people. and one of the former us translator telling the new york times that among those dead are her 2 year old is her 2 year old daughter who was crushed outside of the hospital. so devastating scenes as the president now prepares to again, address the nation on this issue this evening. yeah. what do we expect to hear from him? because this is only spoke publicly on this a couple of days ago, didn't a that's right, and he was quite defensive. he said that the u. s. is committed to getting out all us citizens and afghan allies. however, he said that this mission was not open ended. those were his words. on friday this

morning, though, his advisors have paved away for his remarks later tonight, taking a more nuanced tone. we heard from secretary of defense, lloyd austin, saying that the u. s. was looking at creative ways to get out all americans. he alluded to the air lists using military helicopters that helped some 400 or so. americans get past the taliban lines and the final few meter is to get to the airfield. he also said that as the end of the month, troop withdrawal deadline approaches that the defense department would be making a recommendation to the president and whether not to extend that deadline. and the white house is national security advisor, jake sullivan said that the president would be open to such a recommendation. were it to be made. finally, the white house of announced that president biden will be meeting virtually with g 7 leaders on tuesday. all right, and i'm and joe castro live 1st there in washington. thanks heidi now,

victoria fontaine is a professor, a piece studies at the american university of afghanistan. she left the country in the past few days and joins us now from paris. thank you very much for being with us. so talk to us 1st of all about your experience there and did the struggles when you went through to, to get out of the country. well, i've been trying to get to the airport on those sunday sunday, the 16th i believe, of august. it was impossible to get to the airport on that day because of the knocks and the preparations of the us saw me to actually a present the evacuation that on tuesday morning. we were put on the house arrest by the colored by the local taliban commander who threatened to arrest us if we were to leave the compound where we were. and so it took us 2 days to negotiate our

exits. there were large sums of money exchanged and, and through a large amount, all of the equipment left behind in order for us to be able to leave for the airport. what, when you say equipment, what, what, what sort of equipments, military equipment, helmets, body armor, weapons ammunition radios. just before we were able to leave, that was on friday morning after many ours of negotiations. we was search for one time over some insurance. and they were basically over their way deal with an author of the not being that could help me. so we essence of the taliban, the security assets of the taliban. have you been able to communicate this whole with some of the people that you worked with there who are still there?

can, can you talk about that at all? yes, we are receiving a lot of communication from both our stuff, faculty and students. worried about some of the searches that are taking place in their neighborhoods by the taliban has not been any direct threats, but they are how said he's being carried out to to figure out who is working for who, who has worked for who, who has, who had links, latest coalition forces and, and then people are placed on the lease and they were afraid that when the eyes are made and where there is going to be the beginning of a, these ways or where the captions against the people in against them. so what your overall reading then of the way afghan a stand is likely to be governance onto the title bar. because from a lot of what you said there, it doesn't appear that they are honoring their pledges to,

to govern fairly and not to harm anyone who, who worked with the previous government. i think that they are gestures of winning, less willingness to change and accommodate the current political situation. i'll give you one example. after we left $24.00, there was an incident where the local mentor for another large sum of money to niece, the canine dopes of the compound where i was. and so that the generators was switched off and that's amount of money was demanded within a few hours. of the dogs would die and at this point, we reached out to one of the lead the sheep offices of the taliban. and they were extremely concerned about what had happened. and they promised that they would

investigate what had happened and that they would remedy. and so the dogs were reduced and i think it really shows that the reason understanding that an insurgency has to turn into a governing body that has to accommodate the rest of the political scene, can extend and that has to find a way forward. and to me, even though this was really a terrifying incident at the same time, this showed a realization that i've gotten this that needed to change and, and that the taliban also needed to move from, you know, that extortion, extortionist mash. yeah. you know, abound type insurgency, movement to a political movement that needed to reckon with the rest of us. can you stand with the population of us getting them? so in that sense, it was quite a positive move. and i think that, you know, there is a window here for reconciliation to occur for change to political change,

to materialize into good governance. and for some of the fears with going to be an if you had to be know the to move forward. it's been a 40 year conflict that window is there, and i certainly hope that different political elements within afghanistan are going to be able to come together and decide the best course of action moving forward. could to speak with you victoria font and talking to us. they are from paris. appreciate your perspective. thank you. a former u. k. prime minister tony blair has criticize the u. s. military tool saying it is not in the interest of afghanistan or the west who blair sent troops that 20 years ago after the 911 attacks actually bought a lot of what president biden has done since becoming president. i mean, i have a great respect and admiration for him as a person, and i understand he inherited disagreement of february 2020 which,

which was very difficult. and i also understand if you're a political leader, you're under political pressure. people. people want the engagement to end, but we've got to realize we were in a situation where our engagement was dramatically different from where it was 10 years ago, never mind 20 years ago. and where we could have managed the situation and the problem with what, what's happened now, and this is, this is my worry is it's not just about the african people and our obligation to them. and, and obviously you feel, i mean, distressed when you see where you see people realizing what they're going to lose as a result of the taliban coming back into power. it's not just about the have can people, it's my us now security. the current prime and u. k prime minister barak johnson has called an emergency g 7 meeting to discuss the crisis in afghanistan. he says he wants coordination to ensure safe evacuations . and to prevent the humanitarian crisis with go straight to london and speak to

poor brandon. so pull, it's pretty clear that coordination is something that's been lacking somewhat so far in this evacuation of what is, what is the prime minister hope to achieve with this back to the started last week when the telephone 1st swept in chicago and it was a couple of days it was tuesday by the before president biden actually picked up the phone and started calling world leaders. so this announcement, the tuesday will be a virtual summit of the g 7 is actually just putting a date on an intention that was made last tuesday when they said by and johnson that that would be an imminent meeting of the g 7. virtually that said, though, the announcement from boris johnson about this g. 7 summit had some quite pointed words. i think depending on how you choose to interpret them, he said it's vital. the international community work together to ensure safe

evacuations and prevent the humanitarian crisis. and you could pointed those words work together and underlying them perhaps because the have been accusations and criticisms of the way that the american draw down from afghanistan has proceeded. for example, you've got your opinion foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, saying it's mathematically impossible for the americans to get all of that stuff out. 15000 american citizens on some 526-0000 afghans who have depended upon them as well, that the intention is to try and get them out. joseph burrell says that mathematically impossible, and just real went home to say, he complained to the americans that the overly strict way that the u. s. troops around gobble f, a port of manning. the checkpoints means that other european countries are unable to get their african dependence in and through unsecurely unsafe. so america's actions not just lack of coordination, but actually obstructing and causing problems for the european and nathan allies.

and the other thing, i mean not just totally black criticising, but also lord rick, it's a former u. k. security, a national security adviser on sunday saying it's been a humiliating period for the u. k. i'm afraid we've learned that the us president joe biden has put us paul ahead of nato alliance, solidarity, and britain hasn't counted much for much in that decision. so real sense that the united states has done what it needs to do for itself, but at the same time it has rather, you know, trashed, the solidarity that it's enjoy previously with nathan g. 7 missed g 7 summit on tuesday will be an attempt to repair that. or i pull brand life for us there in london. thanks for plenty more. ahead on this news, our frustration over a lack of food and shelter. we hear from survivors of 18 earthquake as the number of dead rises plus the 3 government says children will

not go back to school this year. but some think that's the wrong decision. any of that, nathan? take it away. i almost broke my hand with what provides this outburst from one of the world's top players details later in the pool. ah, well, let's go ahead. the 1st is really as strikes, have again pounded the besieged garza strip israeli security forces say hamis sites were targeted over night. they include weapons, storage, and manufacturing facilities. israel has deployed more troops to the gaza board offense of the latest israeli escalation. followed cross border gunfire. earlier on saturday, at least 41 palestinians, and israelis soldier were engine during a protest near the border. a 13 year old palestinian boy was shot in the head and

critically injured. a you'll know is say it has this update from god. today the policy in sections held a press conference to respond to these air strikes, saying that they would send a message, a clear message to the israeli forces in government that their popular activities are going to try taking place in the gaza strip from today. according to a certain plan and vision that the policy instructions have agreed on and they have invited the policy is to widely participate in these activities. they said that these activities will keep going on until the reconstruction of the gaza strip is implemented and the siege is fully listed on godsa. and then they will not. they will not allow what they use railey army to continue its aggression on an

armed pavilion like what happens in the violent trial yesterday on his side, minstrel. not till the benefits. prime minister of israel said that the will hold any person who is going to be threatened to the forces or. 1 a settlement accountable for any kind of violence. reacting from the gaza strip and israeli government commission has started hearings into a fatal stampede that a jewish pilgrimage site. in april 45 people were killed and mount. marilyn joined the lag boma holiday. natasha name has moved from west jerusalem. this is been described as the deadliest civilian disaster in israel's history. 45 men and boys were suffocated and trampled in a narrow tunnel during an also orthodox jewish pilgrimage. on sunday,

a state commission began a hearing into the death and to make sense of whether or not the death could have been prevented. for years, tens of thousands of worshippers flocked to mount marin in northern israel. a police commander testified that over the last 30 years there had been no attempts made at limiting the crowd size. and if there had been, it might have caused a bigger disaster. and yet for years and is really government watchdog had deemed mount marin dangerous. there had been accusations that former prime minister benjamin netanyahu failed to curb the crowd size due to pressure from ultra orthodox leaders. this hearing is open to the public. it will involve calling numerous witnesses upon completion. the state commission will present its findings to the government. if there is evidence, a crime has been committed, those findings will be passed on to the israeli attorney general. her tension is

growing between russia and nato in europe. after a series of incidents between the military forces. moscow says nato spy planes have stepped up. attempts to gather intelligence in the black sea region. andrew simmons spend a day with british war force, a pilot station in the romanian coastal city of constantia. ah, they call them q r a's quick reaction alerts from the physical sprint to the thrust of take all within minutes. these nato fighter jets can intercept or track russian warplanes is the latest incident, the top left of this cockpit, or russian fighter jet, intercepted of the romanian coastline. it's close with the room for mistakes. tens of meters would seem quite close to $21.00 that's on initiated since a relative procedures. it's totally normal. it's been set to in that range. but raffles, commanders, there's nothing normal about what's happening. probably in my senior since then

we've had, i think anytime you fly inside a flight, information region of another country, not following the norms without flight plan, then i think it's not the sorts of behavior we'd like to see in the special community in the, at their own stand by 247, and when the alert comes fast moving is an understatement. when this plane gets airborne, it could fly it up to 28 kilometers a minute. the nearest russian air base is less than 280 kilometers away. it's in crimea, which was illegally annexed by russia in 2014. that's the main reason for added tension in the black c. j. your broader. those in june, british naval maneuvers and related to nato, led to a confrontation with russian forces. washington tell her story. i will continue. may recognize there are

less than a week ago, a russian military commander said nato surveillance, including spy planes, have nearly tripled since 2019. russia sees what nato calls in homestead policing neighboring states as an escalating dress. romania is buying u. s. built at 16 to upgrade its apples room in and out for start growing and the big process of modernization and the we will not finish with the 16. we will continue to develop and to upgrade the remaining force. that is brinkman ship appears to increase a long sonnet as the danger of one small mistake causing more hostility, even from complex systems. just 0 constant remaining of a brief port, a is a strategy of rasmussen, global political consultancy from he says, these provocations are not out of the blue. i think there are 2 things. the a one

these days, a general pattern of, of escalation, especially coming from russian forces. and this since 2014, since the, when russia indigo. next crimea. however, it's true that over the last few months and especially this very summer, you see a particularly hot summer. and i think this is because there are some political events looming ahead which russia does not like. on monday, the crimea platform, which is a summit called veined by the ukranian president with western heads of states to assert ukraine's right on on the crummy on a peninsula. the next day ukraine would also be celebrating its independence day. and then finally, in default, you will have elections, general elections in russia. and if you look at the past 20 years of, of putting rule every time you have some elections looming ahead, he likes to do

a bit of saber ripening. he likes to increase the pressure to, to wave the nationalistic flag. so i think this is what we have seen now. how the german counts langler merkel has sought to reassure ukraine that it will not be affected by the construction of rushes, nor strain to pipeline. on a visit to kiev, she told the cranium president, germany will not allow russia to use the pipeline as a weapon. under a new deal between the u. s. in europe, the plant plan will carry gas from russia to the u without passing through ukraine . president. redeemer is the lensky says, the agreement is a threat to his country and the region. now still ahead on i just, you know, the, the conflict of the ancestral land in brazil. indigenous people are preparing to march on the capital lives shattered by land mines. we hear from victims in

columbia with a number of casualties is on the wrong and the olympian limbic champion power to the boston 100 meters for 33 years. more on that is ah ah hello there, let's look at the weather across the middle east on levant, and it's hot, it's dry and it is pretty quiet temperatures all where we expect them to be from much of the region apart from oman, we are seeing the temperature down slightly in moscow. that's thanks to southerly windsor to kicking in over the next 2 days. but it will pick up from wednesday for the wet weather. we have to move to western areas of yemen within showers, with the odd storm, and those join us with heavy thunderstorms across that central belt of africa. and

this was the scene in, in north eastern areas of the democratic republic of congo cuban province saw those torrential rains lead to flash flooding. and some of those floods edged into the border of uganda. we could see more of those floods. but in the west, as the rain fall heavily here, come tuesday, now for southern areas of africa, much of the wet weather has eased on that eastern coast. but we are seeing some showers across las sue to mister, we're coming in at 18 degrees celsius. but there's plenty of sunshine elsewhere, cape town at $22.00 degrees, but the temperature is going to dip down and the wet weather is going to arrive by the time we get into tuesday and natural weather update. the who's the talk to al jazeera roll. did you want the un to take and who stop

to we listen, you see the whole infrastructure in guys being totally destroyed. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on our sierra the city of cobble has experience so much. i'm here for decades and they says another change to get used to, and one that's far from easy situation. for now, it's not clear. the people are just lost and confused. there are deep rooted fears about the rows of basic price to particular for women and girls. despite assurances from the taliban and about returns true punishments for certain crimes. everybody will be safe, nobody's kid will be kidnapped again to rental. now together that feeling that way forward into the new reality ah.