last thousands of our program award winning documentary debt need to describe to you choose dot com forward slash al jazeera english. me the talking tough. the tyler bond says foreign forces must not extend that withdrawal be on the august 31st deadline running low crucial medical supplies. in food, a dwindling a cobble apple while many wait to be relocated. ah, i'm tommy. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up on the brink, lebanon's government looks at drastic measures to ease its fuel shortages. if the

economy teeters the top drug regulator in the u. s. gives his full approval to 5 this curve at 19 jav could open the door. the new vaccine mandate. ah, we begin in afghanistan. we're taught a bond spokesman says the group will not extend the deadline for the withdrawal of western forces. the arm group is warning of consequences if us and allied forces do not withdraw by the august 31st deadline. thousands of troops are deployed in cobbled to evacuate the citizens and vulnerable afghans that have been chaotic and desperate scenes of the falls over the last week, and at least 20 people have been killed. charlotte, venice begins coverage with this report on the situation. a cobble airport were up in north k to cobble international airport. this is where most people off to come

to and in recent days has been closed because of what the us is is security threats from isolate. but the most people here, the biggest threat is dehydration is a stand page and it's constant gunfire to actually get to this point so they have to run the gauntlet. first. we move through taliban special horses, they know, and as the battery 313, and they control the perimeter of the if you, if you can get past them and convince them that you deserve to be able to get to this point and get on a flight one of these evacuation flights then you in the zone which is held by asking for some of the last campuses in the country, there will be, are ones in the you're to they a funded by the c i a, i may have come to this area as a bridge between the taliban and the mirror can they are also doing chicks and holding security. and essentially what is a no man's land. once you get past them, you end up where we are now,

which has no security forces around. and it's just thousands of people gathering weighting and being overlooked by width and security forces. who essentially hold the key to the gate and we'll decide whether these people need photometry or the pentagon says is determined to finalize its evacuation mission enough gamma stand before the end of the month, but didn't rule out extending the deadline if necessary. we are well aware of the of the stated desire to buy the taliban to have this mission completed by the 31st of august. i would tell you that we 2 are still planning on completing it by the 31st of august. that is the mission that we've been signed by the commander in chief assigned to us, and that's what we're trying to execute it. our fisher has the latest from the white house, john kirby who speaks for the pentagon. he says that they're absolutely convinced they will walk towards getting this done by august. the 31st start with their

mission and the intend to implement it. they're talking about the numbers that they're getting out of the country at the moment. they said that 11000 were evacuated by the us in the last 24 hours, 16000 in the last 24 hours with the u. s. and other allies as well. the problem they've got a they don't know how many americans are in there. they keep talking, but thousands. if you go into a country like afghan is down, the u. s. embassy would like you to register with them, but not everyone does that. so they don't know how many of the they don't know how many actually want to leave there. maybe some people who are intending to stay. and so that complicates the whole issue. here's another thing that complicates the issue. they want to get all these people out as quickly as possible because of their safety. also, militarily, it looks good and they want to leave afghanistan in the way that you're biting, said you would, on august the 31st. but every day, the kiosk continues to be broadcast on american tv networks. joe biden finds his

approval ratings, flipping their 63 percent of americans support the president's decision to pull american troops out. afghan is done, but only 47 percent. thank he has done a good job when it comes to actually doing that. the problem seems to be the lack of joined up government that you're biting with, elected on the idea that he would be the competent face of american government. so as long as this crisis continues, it hates that image. and as attention focuses on the evacuation efforts, the world health organization is wanting of a why the humanitarian crisis. it says 500 tons of critical medical supplies, a stuck in the u. a because of a hold on a cobble apple. richard brendan is the regional emergency director for the eastern mediterranean office of the world health organization. he says the international community focus on cobble is excusing the monetary in crisis across afghan. even before the fall of the government,

afghanistan was the 3rd largest humanitarian operation in the world with the 18400000 people in native, she had turn assistance. and right now, our ability to bring it in to respond to that need has been a lot because all commercial aircraft have been stopped coming in into the airport. we have 500 metric tons of medicines and supplies. you know, logistics, helping you buy that. would you to come in last week, even prior to current events and we've been trying for days and days now to to, to transport them in i think it's a combination of issues. i don't think those who are running the air operation want to have commercial flights coming in and i'm unloading supplies and trucks coming into the airport with the heritage security concerns. but if we, if we can't take advantage of all those empty planes flying in to into couple

airport, we need assistance to find an alternative option. we haven't been able to find planes right now to, to land, perhaps in kandahar or missouri sharif. we are shaking many trees, we are pursuing as many options as we can, but we still haven't been able to bring those supplies in with us regulators have granted full approval to 5 the biome tags, cobra 19 vaccine. the john had received an approval for emergency use in december, since then hundreds of millions of 5. the vaccines have been administered globally, or the pentagon will now require all 1400000 members of the us military to be vaccinated by mid september defense secretary lloyd austin, ordered the mandate. now let us regulators have given the 5, the vaccine full approval go live now to and the galaxy miami tell us

more. so what practical difference does the, can we call the upgrade in approval give the vaccine effort. well, essentially this is about public confidence. it's thought that many of those people who so far haven't received any vaccine work, perhaps waiting for this kind of food and drug administration approval. remember this was the emergency approved in december last year. normally takes the f d a a year or longer to do this. they've done it in 6 months out, according to kaiser family foundation, paul of people who aren't vaccinated, a 3rd of them say they would now do that. given this f d a approval, which means essentially the f d a received tons and tons of data look through all the cases and confirm what most of us knew all along with this is a very effective vaccine. so in places like louisiana, mississippi here in florida, and texas 2 states that account for about one in 4 of the new cases from the delta

various it's hope that will make people now have the confidence to go and get vaccinated as this delta vary continues to rip through the entire country schools of course have just started, but it also means that large employers, local governments, and states may now mandate that their employees have to get vaccinated before they return to work. so it is potentially, i think, a tipping point and getting the 84000000 also americans have not yet been vaccinated to get them to go and do that. and the not all authorities across the us have been, shall we say keen on vaccine differs from state to state. city to city. is that capacity there even if people suddenly now want to go get vaccinated? i mean, i think it is, it is literally everywhere. a lot of these places that are offering vaccinations have been standing empty, but i have to say over the past few weeks and some of these particular states that have been hesitant, there has been a fairly sharp rise in vaccination rates,

i think as they see people close to the get l or die and they realize is a delta very is a real threat. so if people do suddenly flood forward to try and get the vaccines, now the capacity is there for them. but in states like florida, where i am now, there are 17000 people hospitalized from the delta veterans as we speak something like almost 50000 cases over the weekend. we know most of those infections are from the unvaccinated. the president will speak on this matter. sure. shortly, and i'm sure he's going to encourage everyone now that the f t a has approved pfizer for people age 16 and over to go and get the job. right. thanks so much and galico. now new york city will require all public school teachers to be vaccinated when classes start next month. the mandate applies to some 150000 teaching and non teaching staff. previously, public school employees have the option of opting out with weekly cove at 19 tests

. new york city has the largest school system in the u. s. with more than a 1000000 students. new zealand has extended its nationwide locked down until friday, the prime minister just under the and says more certainty is required. now, as the country struggles to contain the spread of the delta variance, she says it's unlikely. new zealand has reached the peak of the outbreak. a 107 infections have been recorded since the 1st case was identified on tuesday. delta has changed the rules of the game, but we've changed our approach to with hot and dilute levels. why didn't our contact tracing require more, my squaring, and we are testing more people. it is absolutely possible to get on top of this. we just need to keep it up and ensure that we not and restrictions any longer than we need to be. and today's here will allow the partial reopening of restaurants and moles in some areas, including the capitol from tuesday, it single day,

italy of new coded 19 infections has fallen to its lowest level in more than 2 months. the country had just under 17400 new cases on sunday. that's down from a high of nearly 50000 daily infections in july. the hopeful sign for one of asia's hardest hit countries. indonesia cove at 19 death rate remains one of the highest in the world with an average of $1000.00 fatalities each day. millions of people in vietnam's commercial hub, hope you've been city above from leaving their homes for at least 2 weeks. for lease and soldiers have been deployed to enforce the country's most severe coat with 19 restrictions, yet, infections are soaring. at least 737 people have died in just 24 hours. and the highest since the pandemic began. still ahead on al jazeera will tell you what one of the most polluted cities in the world is doing to help residents freeze

a little easier and but as festival goes ahead and for longer this by the current, a virus lockdown. ah hello there. let's have a look at the middle east and levant, and it's hot dry and it's relatively quiet across the region. now, temperatures have dipped down slightly, but they are going to pick up in the days to come in particular for iraq across more than areas of saudi arabia and full time that the humidity will still be there . now further in the south, it does look cooler around those coastal regions and we are expecting the showers to intensify across western areas of yemen. edging up into western areas of saudi arabia, we could see a storm or 2 here. now that join up with the showers across and heavy storms across

that central bound of africa, we've seen them grow for the open rift valley. and as we go into choose, they will have some heavy for the cross, the central african republic and into southern parts of sudan. but it is going to get rob a heavy, a lot of that rain for coastal areas of cameroon. but it's really in the west that we are seeing the wet and windy weather develop around areas of sierra leone. liberia, as well, from heavy downpours expected here on wednesday, that was, we moved to southern africa. the temperature is not going to pick up for maybe a but swanner and bob we as well, it will sell africa and they'll be sunshine in cape town. on wednesday, before the wet weather arrives. the a tail of 2 presidents, venezuelan military defectors, me american mass, and reese, ah, and to bizarre,

he had told daisha attempt at regime change in the bond of every in republic of venezuela. people in power, the bay of pigs on al jazeera. ah, the ah, welcome back here launching out just 0 time to recap our headlines now. the pentagon press secretary is maintaining the us, is focused on completing evacuations from i've gotten a stand by the end of the month in the past 24 hours alone. over 10000 people have been lifted from ca, level the tone of onset. they will not extend the deadline for less than 40 to

leave afghanistan, the us president is under pressure to keep american troops on the ground beyond august, the 31st to continue evacuation. the world health organization says 500 tons of medical supplies. when i scan the stand off stuck in the u a because of the situation a combo level, it says critical supplies will run out in 10 days. colleague, so have a law saw from al jazeera arabic has been inside cobble and hold his account of the ongoing situation. there mendez him about him because we are reporting from inside cobbles. hum it cause i international airport. and this is the last line separating taliban fighters from the us and foreign forces to my left as a taliban fighter from bother 313 task force which is assigned to secured the airports parameters. behind me are the us forces and this barbed wire separating

the u. s. forces deployed inside the airport and taliban fighters. us troops are currently organizing the evacuation of the withdrawing forces. in addition, there are also sorting out the afghan citizens holding visas to foreign countries. and those who are working with the u. s. forces over the past years. over there at the top of the screen, you can see afghan citizens standing in a single file. they were brought in here a while ago and shuttle busses during the pre coordinated process. closer to us are us and foreign troops who are overseeing the process. that building is the main departure terminal of the airport, through which the foreign forces and eligible afghans evacuees are expected to leave. over the past hours, we have heard a plane taking off roughly every 15 minutes. those planes are carrying the foreign

troops along with authorized afghan citizen. this is how things are processed at tommy casa international airport. the only exit point out of the capital, kabul us vice president, come on, harris says in singapore, to reaffirm washington's alliances in the asia pacific region. harris met the singapore in president and prime minister. they discussed a number of issues including disputed islands in the south china sea, the crisis in me and mark and the situation in afghanistan. there is no question there will be and should be a robust analysis of what has happened. but right now, there is no question that our focus has to be on a vacuum rating, american citizens, afghans who worked with us and vulnerable afghans, including women and children. that has to be our primary focus and where we are

placing our attention on the issue of f canister. and to that end, we have seen a successful drawdown of the embassy. and thankfully, without any american casualties. the issue of the south china sea, in the rival claims in the region on the agenda to florence louis reports from calling them for us. vice president kamala harris's visit to southeast asia, is part of a u. s. outreach to asia. now in a news conference on monday in singapore, vice president harris talked about the us as commitment to a free and open in the pacific region, and particularly to maintaining freedom of navigation in the south china sea. this is a body of water which is important, not only because it's a trade route, but because it's resource rich and china has laid claimed to large parts of it. there are also several countries in the region that have competing claims over the south china sea. and it's increasingly turning into a security flashpoint,

partly because china has grown more certain it's claims. and partly because china views the freedom of navigation operations conducted by the u. s. navy, in the south china sea as provocative. now come, la harris's visit is intended to signify 2 countries in the region that the u. s. is committed to keeping a rule based international order and in keeping the south china sea open. now part of the u. s. policy will be about strengthening ties with countries in the region, so the u. s. can be seen as a counterweight to china's growing influence. now, how is china viewing this visit? while china's official sin one news agency portrayed at harris's visit as a drive to contain china. and it also describes a us approach as outdated cold war thinking intended to create division and confrontation. now one of the things that harris will have to contend with during her visit is answering questions about of gonna start collapse and answering

questions about us as credibility and commitment and keeping its foreign policy promises. china says it's closely following developments enough kind of stan. it's foreign ministry says most chinese nationals have safely returned home. the government says it's prepared to work with a tale. bon katrina, you has more from beijing. china has been maintaining close communication with the taliban in the lead up to its takeover of afghanistan. china is really concerned about how this is going to play out for china and for the region. it's looking at this as one possible opportunity for aging, for example, looking at maybe expanding its economic investments in the country, looking at some minerals or resources in the country that wants to really stay close to the taliban in case it can make the most of those oppertunity, but at the same time, china is really very anxious about this situation. it does want to see the country

become a hotbed for extremism and for terrorism, especially because china shows the very small border with i've gone a son. and in the past, separatists have used this border to enter china's shins young region. so trying to really wants to look at what it can do to play a role in afghanistan reconstruction, so that it might help to maintain stability in the region, but also so it can protect and potentially expand it or an interest. and at the same time, while china says it's looking to work with the taliban, it's also looking at this opportunity as basically a p opportunity to criticize the us and point out that this is an example of us failure and us unreliability in the region. now russian president vladimir putin, his warning about the threat of iceland afghan. stan, he spoke to central asian leaders that a virtual summit express concern. the group was still active and could gain a foothold. the leaders agreed to coordinate and secure their borders. the head of

has, the law says fuel from iran will soon be arriving in lebanon. fuel prices jumped by 70 percent off to the government, further reduced to subsidy on sunday level, and is going through its worth economic crisis in recent time. fuel imports from iran could ease the problem. that would be a violation of us sanctions. governance, economic crisis is getting so bad. the government is announced. students will only be allowed to attend schools for 4 days. what management has done must be the result of failure to make fuels available in the subsequent soaring prices. it is decided to allow schools to open 4 days a week, only, especially as the educational system so permits. the 5th day of the week will be dedicated to online school and to follow up with those students who are supposed to do more educational task than the reports on how the sal shortage of fuel is impacting commuters. and they route for week 7 on has been experiencing severe fuel

shortages. it is paralyzing. the country and the economy. people wait for hours in line outside gas station, the most of the time fuels is not available. the reason for this crisis is that living on is an economic turmoil. a few months ago, the government decided to subsidize fuel in order to avoid a social explosion. but now the central bank says it has run out a foreign currency reserve. the government subsidies policy has been criticized because what has happened is that a black market has been created and many are smuggling cheap. fuel anti go, it's a neighboring period. the government is trying to call the crisis by gradually lifting a subsidies, but it is not working soft. yeah, measures are not. the solution has been law, which holds political power along with this allies in lebanon, is now planning to import fuel. from iran. it's

a decision that has been criticized because how important you run in oils could lead to sanctioning the state as well. and just this is going to lateral that the state is not involved. but at the end of the day is part of the system. and many are criticizing this new as a way to show that that they are not part of the problem has been portrays itself as outside the state. when, along with its allies, they control the state. many will say the only way for the sustainable solution is for those who hold the little part to politicians agree to carry out reforms suffice corruption, structural reforms needed to resolve lebanon's deep economic crisis. but doing that would mean that these political parties, in one way or the other are committing political suicide because they lose their control over the states. one of the world's most polluted cities is experimenting with a new technology to improve its quality. india is council,

new delhi opened its 1st smoke power on monday in winter, the cities pollution often rises, the hazardous levels popping in the talent reports this brightly colored imposing structure in the heart of new delhi is the city's latest attempt to fight air pollution. the 24 meter tall outdoor air purifier has 40 funds which filter the air around it. the pilot project cost taxpayers nearly $3000000.00. and this is result of an order issued by the supreme court in 2019. so gothic order, the copy got written, the smoked all over, beautify it within a one going to radius. we had experiment with the new technology and will continue to monitor the dollars. performance daily has previously taken 7 step to address its pollution problem. these include batting called power plants, limiting the number of vehicles on the road and stopping construction during peak

pollution season. despite this, the city is engulfed by smug every winter as its air quality breaches, hazardous levels, or double. i feel many issues because of the pollution. it's hard to walk on this tree to my health also worse, and i end up taking many medicines those days. so if i need to get lost or do i've heard about the smoke terrace in china and other countries. i haven't seen one in delhi, but i am glad it was installed. it may bring down the pollution levels here. while the government plans to study the impact of the smoke tower for 2 years, experts warn it may not be effective. you require the thousands of be, you know, for every nook and cranny of the city to be able to sort of really make tangible difference. your kind, i mean, and that's insane amounts of money. we shouldn't be popping it in with that at all . next month. another mark tower is set to become functional in one of deli,

most polluted neighborhood. emissions from vehicles and industries are the leading cause at pollution, issues that experts say new technological innovation, but also social and political will to tactless. talk me miss and i'll just lead are usually a centuries old, but his 1st of all has gone ahead. mr lanka, despite the 10 day nationwide lockdown, hundreds of performers and shall animals took part as they've done for generations . no fernandez sent this report from the city of candy. a feast for the senses and the spit it this majestic crossed up elephant stepped out of the sacred temple of the 2 interlock because his capital candy on his back, a casket housing a relic, said to be the tooth of the founder of buddhism delta. no good. there is a big cause in say, lanka, material of religion. and he maybe will, if they think that these are the festivals like debate,

i haven't done to blister gone to the blessed people of the country and blessings is what the country desperately needs. as cool with 19 spreads rapidly, daily deaths have reached almost 200 new infections more than 4000 a day. after month, warnings were medical experts. the government has imposed a 10 day locked down nationwide. but the festival is going ahead, as he did centuries ago, having been written about by the chinese pilgrim for him in the 5th century. the only thing missing the thousands of people who usually flocked the parade route every year. this time, 55 elephants are taking part in the 10 day parade. to honor the sacred to hundreds of reformers, don says jugglers, musicians, and 5 readers will also take part. many have done so for generation like sarah

a good night at the money they can go amongst the media. can i do this task happily? i really enjoy taking part in the festival. the joy i had being involved is a 12 year old. i still have today. how do you sunday marks the final stage of the festival known as the dollar, the para, as it draws to a close, many hope that it's brought some respite from the misery of corbett 19 fernandez, or just the ra candy. ah, let's take you through some of the headlines here now just here. now the pentagon press secretary is maintaining the u. s. is focused on completing evacuations from i've gone this time by the end of the month in the past 24 hours alone, over 10000 people have been lifted from cobble airport. we are well aware.