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ah ah. ready the news this is al jazeera ah hello, i'm having to think of this is the news out live from the coming up in the next 60 minutes. if i'm them at the red line will be the tell you on statement of women and girls. you and top human rights official says there are credible reports of summary executions and serious violations by the tolerable pressure grows on the
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us and its allies. to extend the deadline to withdraw troops from afghanistan, while thousands skills desperate to get out. for most people here, the biggest threat is the stamp, is the hydration and gunfire. philippine president rodriguez, the chair to whose term is ending agreed to run for vice president. next year's election. also a report from a t where a coven, 1900 vaccination campaign. as stalled, after devastating earthquake and political turmoil at december to the support of the tokyo paralympics for fit to get under way. the 1st refugee team turns at schools towards those fleeing afghanistan. we'll hear from them in the next hour. ah, hello, it is just after 10 g m t. let's begin with the worst thing situation in afghanistan, the united nations human rights chief, has accused the taliban of serious violations. michelle butler says there are
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credible reports of summary executions of civilians. bachelor has urged the on group to commit to the rights of women and ethnic and religious minorities. she's also cold on the un human rights council to closely monitor the color bonds actions . we have also received credible reports of seated violation of international military law and human rights abuses taking place in many areas under effective taliban control. they include among others, summary executions of civilians and all the combat. members of the gun national security forces restrictions on the rights of women, including the right to move around freely and girls, right to attend school. i was on the stands diverse, ethnic and religious minorities are also at risk of violence and refreshment. of the leaders of the g 7 nations are scheduled to hold a virtual meeting to discuss the crisis later on tuesday,
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under pressure from allies us president joe biden expected to decide on whether to keep american troops in cobble beyond the august 31st deadline. but the taliban has warned against any extension of that date on the ground, more people are continuing to show up at cobble airport hoping to get out. while charles stratford is in a cobble with the latest on the evacuation efforts there, the dean barber is in london to tell us about that critical g 7 meeting. but 1st let's go live to natasha butler, who is in paris force. so natasha, we heard some very strong words at that meeting in geneva, the you and hcr then we yes, we heard from the high commissioner for human rights act as special session of the us human rights council in geneva, an emergency session call to really focus on the human rights situation in
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afghanistan, as i said, owning speech by michelle ballet, and she painted the very green picture indeed of the human rights situation in afghanistan. she said that her office has been inundated in the past days and weeks with reports of human rights abuses. she says that outside, for example, of the capital carpool in some of the remote areas, girls are being told that they can't go to school. women are being forced to stay at home. she talks about human rights defenders scared for their lives, trying to flee an incredibly grim pig was painted by michelle furshly, who said that the human rights council call on the taliban to hear the international rules international law to uphold the rights of people in afghanistan, women girls, minorities, active is people who worked in the past for the media or for the former government
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. and she also said that all violence must stop on all sides. we also heard during this council session that began a few hours ago in geneva from afghan delegates, the former african. i'm back to the, to the un, given you very impassioned, a speech talking about the situation urging the it's not from community to and not to turn away to actually put into place real actions on the ground. not just words because the situation is so serious, not just now, but will continue to be so in the future, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding as we speak. the people have gone a son, in particular, the thousands of human rights defenders. journalist academics, professionals, civil society members and former security personnel who was the backbone. and we hope still will be of a contemporary, undemocratic society on whose lives
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a livelihood, what they deserve. your full support here at this council, at least your moral support. to be frank with you, you are failing them, but now they not next month, not next march. you have the chance to redeem yourself. please take it, please and shore the session habit could about and strong outcome. please do not leave the tomorrow or the next month. money, i speak to an honest on all they do share. let me know been and how about tomorrow and are worth moment recall on you to do better. well, delegate for the human rights council are expected to adopt a resolution at the end of that meeting. but what are some of the delegates, particularly those to afghan? because the you heard there have been pushing for is a fact finding mission,
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a un fact pointing mission, which would mean that you and workers would be deployed in afghanistan to document any abuses and hold those responsible accountable. it is something that international organizations, including human rights watch, has been calling for over the past few days. we'll have to wait and see whether or not that is part of the final resolution. natasha, thank you. was to now to the latest developments inside afghanistan. now channels strafford is live for us in cobble and charles the top taliban government slowly taking shape. now we're hearing some new appointments. well, i think it's early to say that the taliban government is taking shape is very important to to know that this information is being put out by reuters and they're quoting and use agency called casual a local use agency. and these appointments we understand are acting appointments. they are no way reflect any at this stage,
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potential future government. but according to the news agency quoted by roy is taught about to point to, to new acting, finance minister, man called cool god, he is a will be understand was a famous military commander in helmand province. it's also being reported about a point you didn't acting interior minister. my uncle saw the abraham again, a famous come on who we've been told was very close to the former tolerable and leader. and the acting intelligence chief apparently has also been appointed a man called g pool, who at this stage we are making calls to work firm with these appointments have, have, having to be made and to get more information. certainly about that. what speed report is the acting intelligence chief? it was a fully recognized taliban, a painting consultations with the president. here i'm, it calls,
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i am the former chief negotiator on behalf of sharp gall and de la de la in recent days to try and flash out the beginnings of negotiations for a full government, a full administration. we understand that those negotiations ongoing, but when you speak to analysts, the fundamental concerns that they have along with human rights abuses and rule of law or rule. so financial ones. and it's interesting that an acting finance minister has reportedly been appoint you today because there are real concerns about whether the tall yvonne have the experience around this country to deal with the very great financial needs and challenges that places. lot of discussing charles about the ongoing evacuations. there's that g 7 meeting coming up later today. and whether they will extend the deadline of august 31st for the us to, to get out completely what,
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what's the latest we're hearing about the situation and in college. right. now will the evacuation is continue. the americans yesterday saying it was the greatest number of people been evacuated in one day yesterday. they're also saying that up to 200 planes are being, are involved in this effort. and as you say, we're going to close that by the day towards the august 31st deadline. we know there is pressure on bite and we understand there's increasing pressure by other nato members. that kind of pressure, which we were expecting to see at the g 7 summit later, the taller bond, as we know, cordele was the 31st rate a line and they have all the consequences. but let's remind ourselves that the deadline for the withdrawal of us made for strong. this country has already been changed twice and the toilet ball and are looking for some sort of international legitimacy. despite the rhetoric of saying this being a red line and threatening consequences,
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it remains to be seen as to how forceful they would be when they are trying to be taken very seriously. as i say, by members of the international community. and they are in such dire need of money and money that remains locked up. the us having frozen around 9000000000 in u. s. accounts. and that's afghan cash charles trafford in cobble, thank you. will spain is warning, it will have to leave people behind in afghanistan, while germany is foreign minister suggested it may take longer to get people out beyond the end of august. it is the 1st native country to publicly say it is in talks to keep cobble airport open for evacuations into september. since if you admitted was added to cairo under them, we are in talks with the us in turkey in order to keep column opperation to make civil evacuations. if these people are possible, we will have a role to keep discussing that with the taliban. the doing say because they will have a special role in that. let's talk now soon. a dean barbara who is live in london
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for snow. so nadine, looks like the g 7 leaders are divided on that extension of the deadline. what's likely to happen? what has in this virtual g 7 meeting of the leaders of industrialized nations? that's the us, the u. k. canada france, germany, italy and japan meeting under the chairmanship of prime minister boris johnson. but it's also attended virtually by the nato secretary general young stilton berg and the united nation. sexy general antonio. good terrorist a. beyond what happens right now in terms of evacuation, very big questions that they're expected to talk about. the 1st is, if and when to recognise the new taliban administration. in kabul, the 2020 agreement signed by the trump administration, actually explicitly states that the taliban is not recognized by the united states
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as a state. beyond that, there are questions of whether in fact there should be renewed sanctions on the telephone to pressure them to commit to the human rights commitments. we've been hearing what the un human rights chief has been saying about violations, reports of violations coming in already. so whether to try to pressure them to step up and meet those commitments and also commitments on international relations. but in the short term, yes, that is pressure on president biden. the u. k. would like to keep it 1000 or so military post to know in couple keep going. they would like a few more days beyond the deadline of next tuesday, but ben was the defense minister in the last 3 hours. i said that is unlikely. and that the u. k. will not be able to do anything. if the u. s. does withdraw on that
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deadline. the shadow foreign secretary of the opposition labor party here in the u . k. is urging bars, johnson not just to come up with a plan, not just to push president by didn't on ellis, but for a longer term plan, including to help countries such as pakistan which have already received millions of african refugees over the years and expected to receive more in the near future, she says that boris johnson can play a leadership role in trying to get the 7 nations to try to agree, some sort of assistance plan for the region that involved. thank you. how the taliban insists it will allow civilians to leave afghanistan, even off the foreign forces withdraw. but many afghans are skeptical and continue to arrive at cobble airport, hoping to get out. shawna bellis reports from their sales people at cobble airports going nowhere beyond the gauge of playing us. president biden promised
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would take them away, but it shops, so they giosel from position the criteria who is most recent by the telephone from all, i don't know the last. the last, my mother has been some idea port for the last 6 days, but the rest of our family still kind of side because of all the people at the gate on north amount of them. this is the north gateway. most people are asked to enter through, but in recent days it has been closed because of what the us is is security threats from iso. but for most people here, the biggest threat is a stampede. is dehydration and gunfire down a pool than 20 people have been killed in the last week in and around the port again, if i'm living here with my children right now, i'm scared of the crowd and all the gunfire. there's no information the us shouldn't have announced anything if they weren't able to take people out on the road to the north gate. this is where the taliban prisons ends and ask in special
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forces. begin. specifically, india is 0 units. the 2 are separated by a piece of string. ah, the 0 unit span filming, so we record on our phones. all other african security forces surrounded, but they did not 0 units of funded by the ca and accused of night rates and human rights abuses pop out of the us. there is a lot of danger here. the india 0 units, they're doing a lot of firing. they threaten people. a lot of people are wounded. the us put them in charge of this stretch of road to separate western forces from the taliban. still, as we filmed the taliban drove past unhindered at be a poor gun. fire has been the main cause of injuries. these were the 0 units last week, shooting appears to be their preferred method of crowd control. the taliban has
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also moved in some of its most feared fighters. the buttery 3. 13. it is a special forces wing associated with the powerful her connie at work. they now securing the perimeter of the airport. people are trying to reach evacuation flights because they say they are scared of the taliban gate. it's the taliban. they must get through 1st, followed by 0 units in a mall, a stretch of land. the us says it is flying out tens of thousands of people for their protection, but 1st, making them cross a dangerous road to safety. charlotte bellis al jazeera couple. plenty more ahead on this news, including our continuing coverage on afghanistan. we'll hear from the afghans who've escaped, holla, bon rule. to start a new life in the united states. and in sport, there is a surprise leader in the english premier league. peter will have that story on the from
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a philippine president when we get to chad has accepted his parties endorsement to run for vice president next year to 10 to 6 year term in office will end next june . he cannot legally run again, but opponents say his bid for the vice presidency is an attempt to claim to power despite international criticism, detect a remains popular among filipino voters or jean and seen us. franco is an associate professor at the department of political science for the university of the philippines deal, man, she joins us live now from kay's on city in the philippines. thanks very much for being with us. so what do you, you make this decision then? is this a way for him to sidestep the constitution and remain in power? yes, definitely. and i think mrs. strongest challenge to the not sure
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that we have gained since the ouster of mark, what's the 1900? 86. so what can be done to push back against that? well, i think now opposition should manage to unite and fight. i mean have a single candidate so that you know, they can consolidate all their resources to prevent their, their, from, from winning. how i mean, given what's, what's happened over the last few years in the time that, that he has been president. how, how strong you think are the, the institutions in the philippines right now. when all these me, the very bad ministration has not showed has not shown any restraint in terms of expanding their, their power. and it's, it's unfortunate that we,
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you know, he's, our administration has been a, a check back in terms of consolidating our democracy. and yet, he remains very popular among filipinos, many filipinos. why do you think that is? well, i guess because he talks like a regular guy. he talks nonsense, graphic language that communicates very well to his base. and he's, he's a populous so he likes to, to tell people what they want here. what are some of the things that he's done to cement? that's that population that populist mantra, when it's unfortunate that the war on drugs seems to be something that generally, generally, filipinos have been very supportive of media because the stigma. there's
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a huge stigma against drug addicts in the philippines, even in low income communities. nowhere a lot of the extra judicial killings have transpired. so it's, it's unfortunate, but i think that is the way the war and drugs has been the linchpin or the ankle or on which his administration admin in administration has latched on could to speak with eugene and seen us. franco, thanks so much for being with us. thank you. me a parts of australia's most populous fate had begun at knightley curfews to contain the latest outbreak of coal with 19 new south wales has been struggling to limit the delta vary outbreak under the countries so called 0 covert policy in neighboring new zealand. the government is hoping to increase its vaccination rates
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during another nation wide lockdown as white hey reports in large parts of sydney, the streets and now off limits. at night. around 2000000 people have been ordered to stay home from 9 in the evening until 5 in the morning. the curfew covers areas of city most affected by the latest outbreak of the covert 19 delta variance. any one chord violating it could be fined and ordered to isolate for 14 days. but as the new restrictions were coming in, the leader of new south wales was already talking about easing some for people who were fully vaccinated. that's now around 30 percent of the state's population. obviously our 1st and foremost priority is to protect human life until leave as freely as possible while we do that. but we also have to accept that there's been no psycho nation on the planet that's escaped. the delta strain that's escaped having cases and we just have to be real about that. but the handling of the situation by new south wales has increased tension with the leaders of other states
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. they say the virus must be suppressed before lockdown can be relaxed. sidney was slow to impose restrictions at the start of the outbreak leading to cases in other australian cities. and new zealand. new zealand has one of the lowest infection rates in the world, but like australia, it also has a low vaccination rate, which is partly why the government says it will continue with its strategy of trying to eliminate the virus while speeding up vaccinations before beginning to open its borders early next year. in response to new zealand foods positive cases in 6 months, prime minister jacinta roger ordered a nationwide lockdown. it was introduced last week and has already been extended until at least friday in the largest city oakland. its been extended until the end of the month. it's a tough time for businesses like fledgling events, company, red herring, but polling suggest there is public support for the government strategy of short,
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sharp lock downs. we're just had a crazy amount of time that were covered in the country, which is allowed for us to run our we're going to have mass gathering up by that. although, right now, no, i do. we just know that if you do, just wait for it to get stamped out with in the long run, with cases rising each day, the prospect of having those mass gatherings anytime soon seems a long way away. but the government believes if the latest lockdown is working, the numbers could begin falling in the next few days. wayne, hey, al jazeera toner, new zealand id was one of the last countries in the americas to begin a cove with 19 vaccination campaign. but in the midst of its political turmoil and an earthquake, which is devastated parts of the country southwest region, that campaign has now stored john home and has more from the capital portal prince . another person in haiti vaccinated this time,
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it's thought to call do mass failed to get that. he's in the vast minority firstly because vaccines took so long to get here. haiti's campaign only began in july. and now, because even though they finally arrived, few seem to want them. the u. s. supplied half a 1000000 jobs under the kovacs mechanism. only 20000 have been applied. this why? in part it's because of this. the empty covey board that dr. colleen shows us in the non for profit gas gear hospital. i suppose at one point, you would have thought that this would be full of people. it was full last year. it was full. now if it is very calm, we don't have any admissions. haiti's health ministry says only around $600.00 people have died of cobra. 19. the infection rate is also far lower than in many of the places. nobody knows exactly why. but since the pandemic isn't taking off, neither is the vaccination campaign for down inside of the business that really is
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present in haiti. and if it's not present, there is no need for them to get vaccinated. in this market, the streets were to the faces there. many don't believe in cove, it or mistrust. the vaccines like him, i don't where because i believe in god. i don't believe in what people say the human being lives all the time. they never speak the truth. that's why i only believe god. we took to do been new because he was one of only a handful of people we saw covering up i believe in science, who i believe in my mask. he told us the limited public health campaign. another reason vaccination is to would have done little to convince others. this is one of the few post. today we've covered the we've been able to find here in the capital port, the print i want medical experts say to us is the gold and window of opportunity could be being missed,
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because people now could be being vaccinated before mode. thirdly, strings is coded possibly take whole here in the country. the government has other things on its mind. not least recently assassinated president followed up by a major a quake in the country southwest. the latter could yet turn into a super spreader with hospital full and a multitude of foreign organizations flowing into help, or coven may, for whatever reason, continue to swim around this caribbean nation. if so, it will be the 1st piece of good fortune haiti had in a long time, john home, and i'll just get a hold to bring that ahead on. as soon as he has political crisis deepens, nearly a month after the president dismissed the prime minister and suspended parliament. and how much the law is set to miss out on egypt latest woke up, qualify again, find out why with pizza in sport. ah
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ah hello, it's tuesday august the 24th here, sir, whether headlines and we do have a vigorous disturbance pulling in to northern parts of scandinavia with some cascading rain and howling winds. now the british shells high pressure is over here, so this is acting as shield and deflecting this system over at northern areas of scandinavia, i'll tell you what the winds 50 kilometers per hour, easy, and we can expect them to gust higher. we do also have some concern over rain falling towards southern areas pulling into the czech republic. in fact, there is a red weather alert in play for this for southern poland. it's just been dropped for the check republic, but still the very real risk here. i've seen some flash flooding when you consider about 80 to a 110 millimeters of rain within a short period of time, after greece and turkey. and we do have a fierce wind blowing through the boss for us that's going to impact this symbol.
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we can trace it right through to the eastern med and it's kicked down temperatures in alexandria, egypt by good 10 degrees below where you should be. also below average temperature . as for portugal in spain, lisbon at 25. we do have some showers for the interior spain on tuesday, and heavier pulses of rain along western africa, particularly southern gonna into the ivory coast. i be john a hiv 26 degrees on tuesday. ah, the frank assessments, by where it is what it is. again, freedom suppressed again. freedom of expression is a weapon against human life. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story or now jazeera september honor theera as morocco records would be impacted with 19 the country votes and parliamentary elections that will shape the future. while the listening post dissects the media, how they operate,
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