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i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career, but no country is alike, and it's my job to shed light on how and why me, i me this is al jazeera. ah, hello, there i'm the stars the attain. this is the news are live from our headquarters here in the coming up in the next 60 minutes, the race to leave afghanistan evacuations, pick up pace of countries, scrambles fly out troops and civilians by tuesday. the sooner we can finish the better us president biden. meanwhile, has refused to delay the withdrawal, saying there is a risk of attacks against foreign soldiers. thousands of indigenous protests to gather the brazilian capital. as a supreme court case threatened to limit their rights and fest for land
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palestinians and gaza resume protests at the border with israel days of the dead. the clash with israeli forces and i'm devin. ashwin force around international football, intensifies fif, is urging english and spanish clubs to release a plan for world cup qualifies and is written to the u. k. government asking for special exemptions. it's kind of in 1900 travel restrictions. ah. western powers rushing to fly out there, citizens and vulnerable afghans from couple airport. the u. s. says more than $10000.00 people though are still waiting to be evacuated. britain is saying it will need every hour up until that august. 31st deadline for foreign troop withdrawal. fall from says it's mission may finish as early as thursday. now on tuesday, u. s. president joe biden refused request by g 7 allies for an extension of that
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deadline, insisting that forces must pull out to prevent the risk of attacks. the taliban takeover has also prompted the well bank to freeze its aid payments to afghanistan . it's expressed concerns about its impact on development, especially for women. and now the wild food program is saying a combination of drought conflict and covered 19 means millions of africans could soon face starve ation. mon unicef is warning that 10000000 afghan children already in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. charles thompson has the latest force from couple the closer we get to this august, the 31st deadline is a more chaotic, seemingly becomes around the airport. we had a team down on the southern gate earlier today and come back and describe scenes of a panic and kale. so they said that the taliban will have to fire in the air to keep people back. they will using tear gas. they spoke to one woman who said that
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she had all the necessary papers. she had a western visa in her passport. and she said that she was terrified, but was prepared to take the risk of a bullet. if it made her getting on a plane, she said that things were complicated by the fact that there were a lot of people in and around that southern gate who didn't have the requisite paperwork. the taliban say that people can cross, but they have to have a visa or a western passport or some sort of official invitation from another country in order to pass those checkpoints with respect to other areas around the airport. the tale bond seem to be acting on what they promised last night, which was to try at least to prevent people going to the airport. and they set up checkpoint, a check point around 5 kilometers, back from the northern gate. that gate is the scene. we've seen those huge crowds in recent days and sporadic violence. it's a similar situation on the eastern gate as well. well,
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more than 80000 people have now been phone out of afghanistan since the taliban takeover. charlotte, bella has been talking to afghans. we're trying to leave outside couples international apples because donna is on as us and foreign forces. now i only have until tuesday to get out. and with that means the end of evacuation like outside the airport there is people rush, see if they can get on fire like we understand the you with and the telephone have a deal that the telephone are only allowed to make have foreign passport has be and you have paper, what was it going to going to i'm here without documents because a lot of people that went to the us on evacuation flights were civilians. so i thought if civilians are going and i served in the army, i should be eligible to go to think. i think it's enough on the far last. everybody's going. so i'm going to my house that won't leave me alone. my wife says get down there. why you so lazy?
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i leave the house every day, so my wife stopped hastily in a way to control the crowd and tried to figure this out. they've been looking for paper work at different locations around and then putting them on the sauces. these people are actually about to be on the slide and they are prioritize to get through . and in the meantime, they are trying to control the crowds and keep people back wanting to the boss. we can come through doing that by shooting guns in the air, by using water cannons and by beating people to push them back to the close of the gate 3 times. but because of gunshots and shouting, it makes everyone scared. since i'm a woman, i don't have the courage to push past them. i'll do my best to get out. even if i get shot, i will continue trying to get inside the airport. that's now the telephone se, but anybody who wants to get through and wants to leave and has the paperwork that would allow them on the flight can do so. but they also tell us they hurt people.
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they say that these people, many of them who are highly skilled, would be an asset to the country going forward and that they hope that they say. but in the meantime, with only 6 days left for the flight at the end, we know that the number is, the number of flights will decrease and the day is going for that. but the crunch is on and a lot of these people are trying to get through into the airport today. well, our white house correspondent, kimberly how it is standing by. but 1st let's cross live to rosalind jordan. she's at the state department with secretary of state anthony blink, and you to speak there very shortly. now rose, we heard from the pentagon earlier, so 10000 people are still waiting to be evacuated. is the us actually confident that us going to plow? well, according to officials at the pentagon and at the state department, they are confident that they can get the remaining 10000 or so people that they believe are at perhaps the most risk of being harmed by the tall bond.
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they believe that they can get them out of the country before the august 31st deadline. and of course, so the re priority is to make certain that all us citizens are able to get flight out of the country, but time is running short. they're just about 6 days left, but certainly this is a situation that is top of mind. especially for the pentagon, which is actually overseeing the actual flight in and out of cobble international airport. john kirby is the paragon spokes person. but we will continue to evacuate, needed populations all the way to the end, if, if, if we have to and we need to, if, if you're in a vacuum that we can get out, we're going to continue to get, get you out. so in those last couple of days, we will begin to prioritize military capabilities and military resources to,
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to move out. that doesn't mean that, that if, if you're in a vacuum and, and you need to get out that we're just, we're not going to try to get you out. but that we will have to reserve some capacity in those last couple of days to prioritize the military footprint leaving . now of course, this all assumes that plains don't break down, that there isn't some weird storm that interferes with flight operations at the international airport. and there's also the question of whether all of the people who are eligible to be evacuated from afghanistan right now can actually get to the airport, even though the us president joe biden says that august 31st is the deadline. and that is, of course, the deadline that the tall of on wants the us to adhere to. he has told both officials at the state department at the pentagon to have contingency plans ready extensively if they need to extend that evacuation past august 31st. whether or not
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the taller bond would go along with it because of factors that get in the way of these last days of evacuation is a whole other matter for discussion. very complex situation. the ross jordan in washington d. c. for us. thanks so much for us. well, let's now speak to our white house correspondent, kimberly how's it? she's also joining us from washington d. c. kimberly, to say this has been a tough week for president biden. would be an understatement. can you talk us through some of the laces fall out that were saying, especially now that he's said that he is going to stick to this deadline? well, he has already had international criticism and pleading from g 7 liter just one day ago to extend that deadline, which he's holding firm on. but he's also getting that pressure domestically from members of congress. and it's not just the expected republican critics, but also members of his own democratic party. in fact, one of each voted democrat and republican congressmen traveled to afghanistan the
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highly controversial overnight trip to take a look at the evacuation. and now they have been chassis, but the house speaker nancy pelosi saying that this is not only dangerous, but other criticism has included that they've taken the seed on a plane that may have been used by one of the evacuees now. they're defending their actions saying that it was necessary and congress has right, and a duty to conduct oversight on the executive branch has the white house and joe biden. and they have been highly critical. both of these men, given the fact that they are veterans of the us military and they say that all the intelligent signs were there, that this was going to be what it has become and that is a debacle. they say that they fear if this deadline of august 31st is not extended, could cost afghan and potentially american lives. so they're highly critical, even as the white house is pushing back, saying that those that need or want to get out,
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we'll be able to get out by this deadline. but at the same time, in just an indication of how much pressure this white house is under, we've seen for another day, the press briefings delayed here at the white house. yet again, we're waiting for the press secretary to answer report questions. we should also point out that when it comes to the polls domestically, one of the latest pulls has the approval rating of the president dropping given those optics that we're seeing of those crowds that have stormed the airport cobble airport. the latest number is putting the president's approval rating at 41 percent . disapproval rating is 55 percent. well, white house correspondent, kimberly how can the thanks so much kimberly. well, we can now speak to him as well. he is a former finance minister for us kind of done and also a former ambassador to pakistan. he joins us now from the afghan capital cobble mrs . as well. thank you very much for your time today. i know it's a busy moment for you. i recall you served as former president cars i as finance
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minister, if i'm right for 6 years. i know mr. cousin has been meeting with senior taliban officials. have you been a part of those discussions? yes, very much. so. i turned about to 4 days ago. i was away from cobbler when i started finding i immediately returned. and now i'm part of the discussion with the color binding also between us that includes a candidate for me for the sunday enough for dr. de la la. i'm curious about the tone of these discussions because from the outside, the taliban does appear to want to avoid that international. i felician being seen as a pariah state. they've been making statements saying they want an increase of government women to stay at work that sound more progressive than previously. do you personally believe that these statements, all sincere while 1st fall dead has not been at least
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a formal and seated discussion between taliban, the been on the bottom of the future because it seems like a 1000 dollar bond. we're also overwhelmed by the fall of cardboard. and then quite a bit of internal discussion to ask you to but given the numerous sort of statements that you should, not only after the fall of the problem, but before that i did the food into government and reasoning about in the past 40 years, they have learned from mistakes up other than those of their own that monopolized there's no power is not sustainable, and it's not to benefit that benefit either. so that makes it believe that certainly be a one, but to what extent did in the rest of the country there, how fully in that hand there was one day to shed. it's our job to persuade them
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that they will have to be enough flexible, that that is started. spite satisfied the rest of the political science. so they, they become part of the future political settlement and that we get the standard but set up here. so you mention internal discussions there, i know the taliban has struggled with unity before and i imagine the more progressive that tries to sound the more divisions might appear within its ranks. we've already seen them cool for working women to stay at home until it can rain and train its own fighters. you concerned about in fighting breaking out. i'm not too much concerned about in by thing, but i'm pretty could be confident it could be different. people with respect to the future of the country. how check their want. did they want to keep the atomic emitted that name or timing emitted. those used to be or to what
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extent it will have to be open. no shad, given like a said they have taken it's all, i be sure that the discussion are taking place but at the end we whole be understand the difficulties with respect to which there would be able to govern this country if they go alone about it. well, speaking of governing difficulties and amid all about creations, the taliban has been calling for skilled people to stay on and develop. afghanistan, including, i believe some of those who served in the previous government is the, the appetite to actually do that. can their safety be guaranteed? well, right now, this is for my finance ministers. talking to you. i'm in cowboy. i returned to cobble after the fall of the cobb was that did not even coordinated my return with the taliban. and he had, i'm, i'm in my home speaking failure to you. i go about
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a wondering the cities having my meeting, having been from discussions, having sharing my video views on the app and international media. so if i don't see it, why should so many other young educated africans who are not in the senior position in the government either fear. so it's a bit hyped. it's a bit exaggerated. i think. certainly i would say the fear on the mindset of the youngsters or, or the educated lead, but then i would say it's a bit rate and then via the whole, i would the deposit of the you need to educate it by this number. i have not taken place because the future of this going to what, how dependent on them so, so i'm disappointed in fact, what was happening
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a couple year for now when you have any past week or so, let me then ask you a question as a form the finance minister, we are already seeing aid and funding being cut to afghanistan. how do you see that playing out? well, not a bit. well, i think we are already innovated, died, economic situation. and if we go down this path, you could expect a very sort of non hardship way more than what is already is i certainly am concerned about no doubt. well in that case i do feel i have to ask you, so would you then ever consider serving and taliban lead government? if they did manage to produce one, the unified various groups. i was only in the set up that comes
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out of a political settlement that has the international meeting that actually just to me see and as i hill while they're a former finance minister for ghana, found also a former ambassador to pakistan speaking to us live from the afghan capital couple, so thank you so much for your time with us here announces era while meanwhile, turkey has begun evacuating its military personnel from cobbled airport. but taliban has reported the asked for technical help from anchor to run the airport. but once its troops out of the country before the august 31st deadline khaki has been part of the nato mission in afghanistan, it has hundreds of troops stations there. while there is still plenty more head for you, this news out including the u. s. top court reject the biden administration's attempt and an immigration policy that forced asylum seekers to waste mexico and
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$23.00 time grand slam champion. serena williams pulled out of next week's us open with a torn hamstring that's coming up with jemma enforce. ah, palestinians in garza have again been protesting at the border with israel and follows the killing of a 32 year old palestinian man by israeli forces on the weekend. one israeli police officer was also injured. i'm us and all the groups and gaza are trying to renew pressure on israel to break it siege on the region. even outside has all the latest force from gaza. things were actually very much expected to erupt here today, but it seems that it just shouldn't pressure has led to the non escalation of the situation here until now. we have at least 10 injuries,
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which is very much lower than prior. what happened this week where at least 4 to one palestinians were injured at 2 in critical and one died this morning of his sustained injuries. today we have 3 people asleep by live ammunition, while the rest of the injuries were rubber, bullets, and through and doesn't afford by gas counts. so the israeli of forces has had really a, let's say, hold themselves today and not really use excessive force with a policy and protest years despite what we have heard in, in, by media or use really need that they will use the most excessive force that they could to prevent any palestinian from approaching the sun, also her mas as a part of de escalate. think deploy doesn't need
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security members to prevent the palestinian protestors from approaching very much close to the fence or reaching the sense itself. now moving on and rounds. parliament has approved all but one of new president abraham rice. he's 19 cabinet picks and be rejected. his choice for the education portfolio and the president will have to put forward another candidate. right, you see who is considered a conservative hotline, a one elections back in june with a low voter turnout. he's inheriting a severe economic crisis that's been made west by the curve in 1910 demik on brazil . supreme court is due to make a decision about allowing indigenous communities to reclaim last ancestral lands. thousands of people have set up a protest campus. you can see in the capital brazilian ahead of that ruling rights group appealed a states interpretation of the law which recognizes claims only if tribes live in
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1988 or filed claims before then that's the year the country's democratic constitution was adopted. but indigenous people say many of their communities were expelled from their lands. decades before marianna kev spoke to lucas kravon, who is an indigenous rights activist. he works with the articulation of indigenous peoples, l. brazil who organized this protest canton, he explained the significance of this case. this is the most far some judgements in the history of indigenous people because it will define the saddles, the jury, the saddles of the indigenous land here in brazil. and now we are how can i say we are defending the indigenous rights specially that territorial rights? often these channels, they are origin narrowly. what it means they, they become, they, they have been created before even before the creation of the state of brazil. so
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because of that they have a b, i really, really, really strong protection by our constitutional law. now what happens if the supreme court does not agree with that? what, what happens if the judgement comes out differently? yeah, what is in the game is that we are vote, they are analyzing, i said that it's called market them for i'm not sure if there is a regulation in english for that. that defines the indigenous people just have their right to their lands. if they were there in the date, all 5 of october of $98.00, which is the same date, they're the same at the same date of the promulgation. i'm not sure if that doesn't work right off the constitution, the troll course law of resume. yes. now if, if, if that happens, so people that were felt from their territory and were not there in 1988,
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they may lose that and some of them are hated areas can also be taken away from them. so what was, what will the indigenous people do in this time? we are trusting in the judgment of the supreme court of him, brazil, and we cannot expect them. what happen if the judgement is not me in the way that we are expecting it's going to be had as indigenous cause her suffered so much? since $988.00. is this the worst moment for the indigenous people? it is what the worst moment for di, digital. it's hard to say that because now we have the indigenous golf course. we are facing a lot of attacks, especially by the federal government in brazil. but in the other way, indigenous people. i think we can, we, i don't think we for a lot of solidarity around the road around here in brazil. you the defense
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something additional. right. so there is no plan be in case of the and if the cream court, the fence, the voting or if it doesn't, if it takes longer to decide or a bit votes again, what you would like to be the verdict. there is no plan b, no a if the voting is not happened today, we will keep doing what we are doing. it's like to looking for these and getting attention of this, this judgment. and that's, it will be the same point that is in defense of the indigenous rights. and if they vote against it, now we don't, we don't, i cannot answer this question now because there is no answer now. well, that's spring and see the munos. he is the senior brazil research at human rights watson. he joins us now from south palo. see that the timing of this court ruling is also very critical. as i understand that there's a bill also moving through congress around the same issue. whereas that process.
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yeah, that's right. i mean, now we, we have seen these for years pressure on the right wing, press enter, brazil and large land owners trying to prevent indigenous people from, from obtaining legal recognition for the traditional lance ease. they were not there. on the saturday, friday, the 8th of october, 1988, which is absolutely absurd. i mean even if they have been expelled from that lands you, they have been from the lions before that they wouldn't have their key sickly on that date. then they will have no rights and they have been trying to pose these, you know, these law through congress. he was approved by a key key committee recently and he's, you know, he's moving forward on ease. you know, he's not to be try is very dangerous, not only for in the, you know, right, but also for the preservation of the,
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of the amazon. because indiana, indiana territories are the territory that are better price preserve in the amazon . so they mark a tune. i'm advocating line to the people. he's also a way to preserve the amazon. so i believe the country brazil is now examining $237.00 indigenous lands for demarcation. that's quite a significant number. how many of those cases would be affected by this ruling? potentially while he's saying how to say, because, you know, land land owners, eastern rolling is seen, favor of these are to be try to cut off date of 988. then we call. so we can see, you know, a big number of lawsuits by land owners trying to reclaim land say, oh wow, you know, you know, proven that indian people, what are they are on that date? you know, so it will be, it will be, it will have terrible, terrible impact on, on,
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on the, you know, right. and on their preservation of environment we've, you know, terrible consequences for the planet actually because of the role that the amazon green forest plays in, in capturing car. one. of course you mentioned president both in our house, obviously and siding with agri, business over indigenous groups throughout his term as we've seen now. given the economic challenges that brazil is facing, how the other brazilians feel about his approach. well, you know, it's hard to say, i think the indiana people have a lot of support. you got seen the images there. there. you know, more than 6000 in the, you know, people in brazil right now from, you know, from all around the country. they have taken buses there. i know, you know, i visited a lot of in the, you know, communities in the amazon doing our work research. and they, you know, they take them 2 or 3 days to get there because it is so critical. and i think they have a lot of support in the, in the, you know, public because, you know,
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the alternative is these land, you know, they marketed and allocated to the, you know, people is really destruction. you know, you are going to see, you know, capital right. is the forest on the ground? you know, forest fires a will be at the satar for the environment. he's immune was there the senior brazil research at human rights watch. thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and insights with us on our 0. so thank you. now a u. s. a federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of dylan, grief for racist matters at a black church. 9 people died when ruth, whose white opened fire on worshippers at a church in charleston back in 2015. his lawyers appealed his death sentence in may, but judges rule that his crimes qualified him for the harshest penalty. roof is the 1st person in the u. s. to be sentenced to death for a federal hate crime. while sri lanka is police chief has vowed to bring all
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perpetrators behind the 2019 easter bombings to account after his force was accused of not conducting the investigation properly. cd wick rama rodney admitted that some of the officers assigned to the investigation one sarah, more than 700 suspects have been arrested so far in connection with those attacks that left more than 260 dead. well still ahead few here on out of here a toxic relationship. we look at how organized crime groups have turned romania into europe dumping ground. and it's a great start to england in the 3rd cricket test against india. and that will have, will be asking for you ah.
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