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11 and government looks at drastic measures 3, the fuel shortages, the, the economy teeters and the top drug regulator in the u. s. gives his full approval to 5 this code 19 job which could open the door, the new vaccine mandate. and in sports and gymnast simone biles is named the most marketable athlete on the planet. and in france, ugly scene during a football match involving nice and more say, more on that story later in the news, our ah, we begin in afghanistan. well taught a bond spokesman says the group will not extend the deadline for the withdrawal of western forces. todd yvonne as warned of consequences if us and allied forces do not withdraw by the august 31st deadline. thousands of troops are deployed in cobbled to help the evacuation process flying out us citizens and at risk

afghans that have been some chaotic and desperate scenes at the airport during the past week. at least 20 people have been killed. the us president says the pace of relocation is accelerating. he hopes not to extend the deadline, but he hasn't ruled it out. and as attention focuses on the evacuation effort, the world health organization is warning of a wider humanitarian crisis. it says 500 tons of critical medical supplies is stuck in the u. a. e, because of the hold up a cobble apples and elsewhere enough kind of sounds, taught a bond, says it sent 5 to punches to push back against anti taliban forces. shell about us begins our coverage with this report on the situation at cobb lab port brought the north gate 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 says is

security threats from isolate. but for most people here, the biggest threat is dehydration is a stand page and it's constant gunfire. to actually get to this point, they have to run the gauntlet. first, we move through television, special forces, they know, and as the battery 313, and they control the perimeter of the if you can get past them and convince them that you deserve to be able to get to this point and get on the fly out one of these evacuation flights then you in the zone which is held by asking for some of the last campuses in the country, they will be, are ones and twos. they are funded by the c. i a and they have come to this area as a bridge between the telephone and the american. they are also doing checks 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 is just thousands of people gathering

weighting and being overlooked by width and security forces. what's actually hold the key to the gate and we'll decide whether these people leave. the country or the pentagon says it's determined to finalize its evacuation mission in afghan this time before the end of the month, but didn't rule out extending the deadline if necessary. we are well aware of, of, of the state of 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 women signed by the commander in chief assigned to us, and that's what we're trying to execute it rather than jordan joins us now from washington, d. c. so rosin and what kind of message are we getting from washington, especially following that warning from the taliban. well, the us is not ruling out. the possibility that it might, it extend the us military presence in afghanistan after august 31st. and that's

because the u. s. has said that it is committed to getting all us citizens and those afghans who worked with the us government or with us organizations out of the country. certainly the fact that they were able to get some 11000 people out of the country in the last 24 hours, raises the possibility that they may be able to complete that mission before august 31st. but anything can go wrong. and so even though the secretary of defense lloyd austin, has suggested that the time is not yet right to have that discussion with the president who would have to authorize that extension. no one in the u. s. government is taking that possibility off the table. what has not been addressed is whether this matter has come up directly between the taller bond and us officials, particularly the special envoy, so many little thought who has been engaged in political discussions with the

taller bon leadership. certainly this is really right now, a matter of someone making an announcement on television and another person on television making a counter or response to that announcement. all right, thanks so much. rosalind jordan, a group of african refugees have arrived in northern virginia as part of the u. s. evacuation operation. the evacuees are being temporarily. how's that the dulles expo center in chantilly before they've taken fully taken to military basis? some critics of raise concerns about homeland security and the swift vetting process. go live now to phil laval. he's at that dulles expo center in chantilly. so what kind of reception are they arriving to fill? well, it's a very private reception. so let me show you what's happening. this is the x percent here, most of the sales off, as i say, it's private to stop the camera saying what's happening,

but we've had buses arriving and becoming fairly suddenly, the last few hours, maybe real, for each housing around about 50 or so migrants all ages both sexes. a few moments ago we saw a young family out of this discount. here the father resumed the father was holding a very small child. on what we assume was the mother was holding a small packet belonging. i'm not. you think it's probably all they have got here. now, these buses are being arriving fairly steadily. we've had about a few over the weekend, probably about 5 thinking about maybe 1300 migrants in but as of today, everything rumps up another good. not just because president bite it has, if i invoke this emergency ation act, which essentially compels a number of the american carriers, the likes of hawaiian, united, delta american to lend their planes and their stuff to this asset. now, these planes is about 18 of them. can 6 airlines, they're on low for about $1.00 to $2.00 weeks. they're not flying to cobble. that

is the domain of the military and a few other select partners. what they're doing is they're flying to these reception centers in places like germany, bahrain, actually, korea. it's like $26.00 different countries, joe biden said yes, but i have now contributed to the massive effort to bring the refugees in because plan is just get them out of afghanistan. get them out of cobb will get them out of harm's way, get them somewhere safe, and then they can bring in to begin the process of bringing them here to the united states. now what they do is they landed dulles international airport, which is about 8 miles or so from us here. they are taken to a separate area of the apple terminal where they are greeted by interpreters. and then they are brought here. this is just a layer of a place. this is somewhere for them to rest of their heads, get a bite to eat, go to the restroom, just take stock of where they are, and then they will go on further. i'm going to bring in august. now this is vanessa who works for a local muslim support group and not only as an african interpreter that was at the airport. but it's also got herself and is helping with the effort to bring supplies

to these people. so there's a lot to talk about here, but i guess 1st of what you were the for yesterday, these people have been through the most unimaginable experience just to get a sense of the things that they were telling you when they arrive. so i was specifically with what family and you know, it's really hard going for them to just get up and leave everything behind. not know where they're going. really not even being able to communicate with people who are transporting them. they did not speak english at all, so i was happy to be there and give them some sort of support so that whatever they were going through, at that point, they were able to get income communication from someone they had said that, you know, the husband was a smoker and he said, you know, for 67 days i haven't had a smoke. and he said, i'm doing pretty good at this point. but he was like, i'm getting to that point. so again, just the basic needs of what they need wasn't being met. up until now and when they landed they, they were very happy. but of course their precautions being taken at the airport. i

was part of the court with 1900 trans translation team. so our job was just to help facilitate translation while they were getting their testing done. and then once they clear that, then the ones who weren't of citizens and who are in green card holders were being shifted here to the extra center. so the give you any indication of what it was like for them getting into the whole the talent did they, i mean, how do they are possible about right? so, you know, initially when they had started getting people on the plains was difficult for them . they were home, they went there from what he told me was like in the middle of the night, it took a whole 24 hours for them to get on the plane. people were being trampled on, it was complete. chaos. no one knew where people were going, families were being torn apart. people were missing. i'm sure you saw the video of the little girl who was trample non and she ended up dying. yesterday 20 more people were dead. it's just her experience for him to even get out. he. he was very grateful that he got out and his whole family was able to get out. it was him, his wife, and as for kids,

you see the pictures of these refugees right here and we've seen a lot of families, but there are so many unaccompanied children as well. did you get a sense of how big the problem is? i think the problems going to be huge. we didn't get any numbers on box, but i think they're doing pretty good job and making sure that they're facilitating safety and precautions for their children because they're unaccompanied and a lot of them don't speak english. so the federal government is doing a really good job and make sure people are there to translate for them and to keep them safe and sound while they're here and then figure out who is going to be foster parents for them. there's a lot of people in the muslim community who are foster parents were applying to bring those kids into their homes. and then there are other families here who wants to be foster parents. so they're trying to go through the process as quickly as they can. thank you very much for coming circles really appreciate it. so as we said, a lot of our company children were funding surviving here, but there was a sense of relief for them, obviously. but this is not by any means their final destination. many of them don't

know where they're going. they may never have even be to the united states school. they don't know where they will end up. all they do now is for now. they all say, all right, thanks so much phil. the u. s. has evacuated nearly 37000 people from afghanistan since the taliban takeover, but thousands more desperately wanting to get out. take a closer look at who's cleared for resettlement in the u. s. the initial special immigrant visa program requires afghans and their families to prove they've worked for the us military, all the embassy for at least 2 years. the program was expanded area this month. it now applies to a larger group such as those who worked for us funded projects and joe's and media outlets. women and minorities who took on high profile roles and government and public life for the greatest risk. there are also eligible for urgent seizes. let's bring in the last of the key. he's a special immigrant visa ambassador at support group. no one left behind. it was

previously an interpreter for the u. s. army, enough canis. done. you joined us by skype from houston. good to have you with us. so let's start, 1st of all with the evacuation process. once they leave afghanistan, clearly they don't going directly to the us. where did they go? how long do they stay there for before the, you know, or recycled in the us. thanks for having me. after being evacuated, they're going to be in one of the us territories, whether germany cutter or any of the other territories. they will stay in there for a while and then they'll be brought to one of the army basis and ok. and what happens after that? how long does it take for them to get their visa situation sorted out? well, they, there are different type of status as they have most of them. some of them actually,

they will have the green card in or set of their set of them. and some of them that are not have a status yet, there will be in the military base for a while in order to let them know what the status is and what will happen to what they normally stay here for, for quite a while. how all the locations chosen for where to satellite guns? because of course, we've heard some voices in the u. s. peakley on fox news, which are against the idea of sampling afghans at all in the us. well, some of them, they know people here, let's say for instance, that person knows somebody here after the are processing, they get connection with them and they're going to the final destination of what those, what nobody. but those with no connection here or they don't know anybody. so there will be sent to one randomly to one of the ladies because they have no toys. we are

to go. busy but after being the process will be one way city is that like selected for the presence of other african communities, are they being put kind of together or how you know what's, what does it look like? well normally african they like to be in a community where they live, where they are again folks. there are in many states like euston, texas, sacramento, virginia, northern virginia, and some of the other seattle. there are many african communities, most of them preferred to be there. so do they get a choice basically? is that how it works? obviously, yes. you know, if, if you want to go to one of these eddies, or wherever you want to go, you, you can interesting, it was kind of process exists to help them adjust and settle. it's obviously a very different world in the us,

won't be at all resettlement agency use all in all over the face. be reasonable. i'm an agency, they are there for them to help refill in the get connections. you know, they can dream a life in here. they can feel american dream. all right, thank you very much for coming on. i'm a go last, dicky. it's a pleasure. speaking with us. regulators have granted full approval to find the biome tags covered 19 vaccine . the job had received an approval for emergency use in december, since then hundreds of millions of 5. the vaccines have been administered globally . if you're one of the millions of americans who said that they will not get the shot when it's until the has full and final approval of a f d a. it is now happened. the moment you been waiting for us here is time for you to

go get your vaccination and get it to day. today, the pentagon will now require all 1400000 members of the us military to be vaccinated by mid september. the defense secretary lloyd austin ordered the mandate now at the us. regulators have given the 5, the vaccine, full approval go lifetime the galaxy, miami to tell us more about this. so andy, tell us what practical difference now the full approval makes. well essentially what the president is hoping for, and health officials across the country is that this is the boost in confidence that the vaccine hesitant may need. there are plenty of people out there who before the f d. a approve this drug just refused to get it. there were people with other reasons too who may never get it. but according to a kaiser family foundation, paul around a 3rd of the people they talked to, would get this vaccine once it was approved by the federal drug administration. and

that as now happens. so i think the hope is that in places, particularly like here in florida at texas, louisiana, mississippi, where the vaccination rates have been pretty low. that that will now encourage people to go forward and get the job. of course, the hospitalisation is across the country have been ramping up for weeks now, and they are overwhelmingly unvaccinated people who are being treated in intensive care units. so the message from the president in the last few minutes was look, you have the science, you have the data, you can see the results from yourself. now it's time to shed away any doubt and just get vaccinated. and if we do see a lot of people suddenly want to get back safe now, is that a lot of capacity out there to handle any southern surgeon vaccination demand? well, there's been a pretty big surge over the past few weeks. anyway, i was just listen to the president speak, he said vaccination rates and those low vaccination rate states,

they're up about 56 percent the 3 days in a row. they hit a 1000000 people a day that obviously needs to continue. but it seems clear that the facilities are there in place for people who simply walk from that house. i mean, actually the president just said within a few kilometers of anyone's home in this country, there is some way that you can now get vaccinated. of course, they're always going to be people that will never tell the line that will never believe the science, but hospitals in the midwest. down here in the south of the united states, i really filling up with people who haven't got vaccinated nor even increasing amounts of children being vaccinated. so this is potentially a tipping point. also, i think for employers this is a big plus because they can now insist and mandate that their employees have to get vaccinated if they want to continue working. so i think what the by the administration is hoping is, this is the tipping point. they need to really begin to tackle the delta vary and i think so much galico 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 as previously public school employees have the option of opting out with weekly cove. at 1910 new york city has the largest school system in the u. s. with more than a 1000000 students, new zealand has extended its nationwide long down until friday, prime minister, just under the and says more certainty is required. now, as the country struggles to contain the spread of the new delta variant, she says it's unlikely new zealand has reached the peak of the outbreak. under the 7 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 restrictions any longer than we need to be in. denise here will allow a partial reopening of restaurants and moles in some areas, including the capitol from tuesday. it single day, italy of new covey. 19 infections is 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. it's a hopeful sign for one of asia's hardest hit countries. in denise, his covert, $900.00 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 ho min city, a bog from leaving their homes for at least 2 weeks. police and soldiers have been deployed to enforce the countries most severe cove at 19 restrictions. yet, infections are soaring,

and at least 737 people have died in just 24 hours. the highest since the pandemic began a centuries old, but his festival is gone. ahead, ensure lanka despise, attend a nationwide locked down, hundreds of performers and show animals took part as they've done for generations. now fernandez, send this report from the city of candy, a face to the senses and the spit it this majestic crossed of elephant steps out of the sacred temple of the 2 interlock. because his capital kennedy 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 cross lanka, material of religion and the material. if they think that these are nice festivals like debate, i haven't done to blister gone to the bliss. a feeble of the guns and blessings is

what the country desperately needs. as covey 19 spreads rapidly daily deaths have reached almost 200 and new infection. more than 4000 a day. after month, the warnings were medical experts. the government has imposed attend a lockdown 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 bought. many have done so for generation like sarah, economic at the money, how they can go amongst i put in me because 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 someday marks the final stage of the festival known as the up arrow. as it draws to a close, many hope that it's brought some respite from the misery of coven 19 fernandez. just the ra candy. i had an al jazeera, one of the most polluted cities in the world, is trying something new to help president read a little easier film on the wheels will tell you about the initiative cheering up children in golfer and the african team was the out. the paralympics, but they will be recognized with the opening ceremony more detail later. 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 the temperatures have dipped down slightly, but they aren't going to pick up in the days to come in particular for iraq across more than areas of saudi arabia and folk, a car 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 is joined up with the showers across and heavy storms across that central band of africa was seen them grow for the open rift valley. and as we go into choose, they will have some heavy for the cross 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. some heavy down pool is expected here on wednesday. that was, we moved to southern africa. the temperature is not going to pick up from maybe a book swanner and bob we as well, it will sell africa and there'll be sunshine in cape town on wednesday before the wet weather arrives. the i'm a like of us in the south of india and find out call me back in this cave, brought in a good tempered mining operation to a grand corona virus wept across the world with devastating effects. and it's widely believed to be connected to the legal wildlife slave. here in vietnam, we did a rec center for some of the worlds most threatened to animals and joined the call for an end to the global wildlife earth right on al jazeera joy. africa wanted to trade and investment in south africa into african trades gives you access to more

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it will not extend the deadline for western forces to leave afghanistan. us president joe biden is under pressure to keep american troops on the ground beyond august 31st to continue evacuation. the world health organization says 500 tons of medical supplies for kansas. dana stuck in the u. e because of the situation at kava level. so critical supplies will run out in 10 days. a law colleagues will have a loss from al jazeera, our because been inside cobbles airport. his account will be ongoing situation. melinda, 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 or the u. s. forces and had a 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. oh, take you to the us now. state department spokesperson is talking, that's listening to what he's saying, where we are getting us citizens on flight home, and we are running biometric and biographic background checks on africana back before bringing them to the united states. or having them relocated to a 3rd country,

all told 26 countries on 4 continents are contributing to this effort. one of the largest air lifts in history, a massive military diplomatic security, humanitarian undertaking. a testament to the power and purpose of the united states and our allies. i want to provide an update on american citizens. we've helped thousands of americans, we've cobble already. we contacted americans still in afghan, a stand by email, by phone, by text to give them specific instructions. we have developed a method to safely and efficiently transfer groups of american citizens onto the field. for operational reasons, i'm not going to go into further detail on this. many people have asked reasonably why we cannot provide a precise number of american citizens still in countries. let me explain. when americans have come to f ganna stand over the years, we asked them to register with the embassy many of left with.