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pushing to western areas of africa and other, whether front slamming into the western cape, impacting cape town. so winds will be a big issue here, and that's going to pull a rush of cool air right across south africa in the days to count. but let's talk about those winds for cape town, gustin up to 72 kilometers per hour on thursday. that sure weather season the book she does with it, very glamorous. it's part of our whole job to, to our very, very special occasion. and for that people who spend money, everything because they do it is going to be longevity. they don't have to come in and tell me things alone, my dear. and i'll do their joy applicant lunches,

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refused requests from u. s. allies to delayed truth withdrawal from afghanistan to allow more time for evacuation. huge crowds of desperate africans have continued to gather outside couples the air force. meanwhile, the u. s. department of defense is saying it will prioritize the evacuation of truth over civilians. as of august 31st deadline approaches. sarah, currently 10000 people waiting for the next slide out at couple apples on us secretary of state anthony blinking is due to give a briefing any minute now at the faith department focused on afghanistan. and we'll be bringing that to you live here on out to 0 as well to the pandemic now. and beijing has accused washington of politicizing efforts to trace the origin of quivered 19, who? whitehouse is currently preparing a declassified version of report by us intelligence agencies. the public release,

it said, though to be inconclusive in part due to a lack of information from china on astray, leah's face of new south wales, meanwhile, has set a new hi daily cove. at 19 cases and thailand's death toll from the virus has crossed 10000. the vast majority of that, just in the last 4 months. the surge comes as vietnam receives some vaccine help from the u. s. and taiwan has started using its own job for the virus. it's got hybrid takes a look at the region from bangkok. more than half of us julia is 25000000 people are in lockdown. hospitals in its largest city sydney, are under severe pressure as its home state of new south wales sets. a new daily covered 1900 infection record of 900. and 19 this after 2 months of lockdown, health officials emphasizing that, the way to counter the search is through vaccination. the solution easy now. and i urge everyone in those local government areas who have access to that vaccine to

feel those appointment vacancies and get a vaccine. if we get those high levels, the modeling shows, we will change the reflective, and we will see a decline in cases neighboring stake. queensland has paused arrivals from declared hotspots including new south wales, official se quarantine hotels are full across the tasman new zealand has reported the highest number of cases in its delta outbreak. most cases are in auckland, but the entire country isn't locked down. it's stepping up. what's been criticized as a slow vaccination rollout. nobody wants to be in lockdown. and the beast way that we can return to enjoying the freedoms that we have paid for much of the last year is to get very high levels of vaccination. the hospitals in japan are also struggling with a search of new infections brought on by the highly transmissible self. the variant 90 percent of tokyo's critical care beds are occupied. the country has expanded its

state of emergency to 8 more prefecture, is making a 21 in total. that'll cover nearly half of all japan's prefix years. and despite restricting movement in vietnam's largest city hotel, men in july covered 1900 infections have continued to climb. soldiers have been deployed to enforce harsher curbs implemented this week. hope him has accounted for half a vietnam's total covered $900.00 cases and about 80 percent of the depths on her visit to hanoi on wednesday, us vice president common harris announced the united states will be donating 1000000 doses of the pfizer vaccine. only 1.8 percent of people in vietnam are fully vaccinated in taiwan this week, president sign when launched the role of a domestically developed cove in 1900 vaccine. she received her 1st dose of the medicine jap that was given emergency approval by regulators last month. it uses a piece of covered 19 to trigger the body into mounting and immune response. the move profit, strong opposition within the medical and scientific community, because large scale and long term studies were bypassed. for the 1st time since may,

no new domestic cases were reported in taiwan. on wednesday, 40 percent of the islands population has received at least one dose of a cove in 1900 vaccine. scott, either al jazeera, bangkok on south africa as unemployment rate has now hit a record high of 34 percent. with more than 7800000 people, jobless, there are concerns. the situation will only get worse with the economy severely affected by the current of iris pandemic. miller reports now from janice back. despite being africa was most industrialized economy. so africa has had an unemployment rate of more than 20 percent the last 2 decades. and now it's at its worst at the 24.4 percent. so africa last more than half a 1000000 more jobs in the 2nd quarter of this year, taking the total number of unemployed to 7800000 people. and they are concerned

that that's unemployment grateful only worse than as the continues. so africans, now it's 5 hundreds, they all of a national lockdown because of the covert. 19 pandemic. many businesses have been badly affected, and more jobs have been lost. economists are concerned about the slow pace of recovery, and they say that if it's a job creation, most likely won't have an impact in the short term. as south africa continues to battle a shrinking economy. so africa, the economy is really shrunk by at least 7 percent. adding to south africa's bose is large scale corruption according to estimates. it costs the country, at least the city $1000000000.00. it's severely impacted, state owned enterprises, the economy, as well as invest the confidence. this is alexandra township in the north of johanna. and it's in communities like this, one poor community where the high number of job losses of the most. in july they

were riots and looting in alexandra and other places in the provinces of halting and was going to tell and be economic impact was devastating. many people lost their job. they are stored on the streets which remain close. people here shop owners trying to rebuild, but it will take some time, informal traders outside saying that their business has been decimated. they're not making less than half of what they made before. and they're struggling to make a living. they say they don't know when it will improve its estimates. so that's south africa. last at least $3000000000.00 due to that, andre. and while economists say they are signs of economic recovery, it's woke up and they take some time before people in communities like this. feel. the benefit of that, while the director of the african centers for disease control says the crb at 19

vaccine rollout across the african continent hasn't gone as well as planned. doctor john and kanga song told my colleagues a hell rather than the countries that had originally committed to support the co backs initiative ended up buying most of the vaccines on the market. the roll out. busy of the cupboard 900 vaccine on the continent has been to this appointment as we speak today. less than 2 percent of the legible population in africa has been a fully vast net, which is very unfortunate. if you recognize that we have to ease immunize up to about 70 percent of our population, and we are less than 2 percent. that tells you that we have an incredibly long journey to go to get to where we have to be. it has been challenging for africa because we did not produce factions. we were hoping and relying

on the cove us in facility, which is the mechanism that was set up by gobby. we're had organization coalition for epidemic preparedness. innovation was the kofax scheme and sort of the un auspices, a disappointment or a failure because it hasn't really helped africa in the way it should have. the implementation didn't really follow through it because of what i just explained earlier. that there countries that mid pledges committed to supporting cobra, ended up buying most of the vaccines. and you can watch the full interview with dr . kanga song on talk to al jazeera that will be at 430 gmc this saturday. now police in the towns and in commercial capital doris alarm have killed a gunman, who shot 3 offices and the security worker. 6 other people also injured in that attack outside the gates of the french embassy. police say they're trying to

identify the attacker and his motive. when morocco is foreign, ministry is calling, algeria is decision to cut diplomatic ties completely unjustified. the algerian foreign minister accused were about to hostile actions and listed a number of grievances including rockers. reasons, recognition of israel relations have been strange for decades now over the disputed territory of western sahara. while the u. s. supreme court has ordered the biden administration to reinstate a controversial program for asylum seekers and rule that ending the remain in mexico program violated federal law. the trump. here a policy requires asylum seekers to wait in mexico while the applications process. but severe backlogs. mean, many people are stuck living in camps for a month. leon, fresco is a former us deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration. he says this ruling opens up new challenges for the biden administration. well,

the truth of the matter is the leeway is going to be up to 2 different kinds of parties. the 1st are the plaintiff, and the litigation, which is texas, that missouri meaning if they believe that the bind administration is not implementing that quickly enough. they can fool for sanctions in the lower court, and then it will be up to the court to decide whether the buy them in that region is acting in good faith in implementing the program. so this is going to be for new people moving power. so nobody is going to have to be reported because of this. but what this is going to do now is if there are people from 3rd country, from that mexico meaning central america, america, africa, because there's lots of different kinds of people now showing up on the other border. if those people are placed back into mexico, then the question is, what is mexico going to do? because mexico does not have to respect the american judicial court ruling. and so this could set up a potential diplomatic crime about mexico deciding not to accept people that

america trying to remove back at the mexico that are not mexican national. the have the truck, them, it is rage. and ultimately they resolve this by threatening the large tyrant by mexican good. i don't know of the, by the ministry, it is going to do that. or the court would force them to do this in order to accomplish this program. because that's certainly not the kind of thing. oh, well let's take you now to a live event. us secretary of state and the blinking is giving a briefing at the state department on the air lift from afghanistan. let justin, let me begin with my profound appreciation for our diplomats and service members who are working around the clock at the airport and campbell and a growing number of transit sites. to facilitate the evacuation of americans, their families, citizens of allied and partner nations, afghans we partnered with us over the last 20 years and other afghans at risk.

there undertaking this mission under extremely difficult circumstances. with incredible courage, skill, and humanity. since august 14th, more than 82300 people had been safely phone out of cable. in the 24 hour period from tuesday to wednesday, approximately 190-0000 people were evacuated on 90 u. s. military and coalition flex. only the united states could organize and execute emission of the scale and complexity. as the presidents make clear, our 1st priority is the evacuation of american citizens. since august 14th, we've actuated at least 4500 us citizens, and likely more, more than 500 of those americans were evacuated in just the last day alone. now,

many of you have asked how many us citizens remain an afghan. stan, who want to leave the country based on our analysis, starting on august 14, when our evacuation operations began, there was then a population of as many as 6000 american citizens in afghanistan who wanted to leave. over the last 10 days. roughly 4500 of these americans have been safely evacuated along with immediate family members. over the past 24 hours, we been in direct contact with approximately 500 additional americans and provided specific instructions on how to get to the airport safely. we looked at you regularly on our progress in getting these 500 american citizens out of afghanistan for the remaining roughly 1000 contacts that we had who may be americans seeking leave. afghanistan were aggressively reaching out to them multiple times

a day through multiple channels of communication, phone, email, text messaging, to determine whether they still wanna leave and to get the most up to date information, and instructions to them for how to do so. some may no longer be in the country. some may have claim to be americans, but turn out not to be some a choose to stay. will continue to try to identify the status and plans of these people in the coming days. thus, from the list of approximately 1000 we believe the number of americans actively seeking assistance to leave i can understand is lower likely, significantly lower. having said that, these are dynamic calculations that we are working our by our to refine for accuracy. and let me, if i can just take a moment to explain why the numbers are difficult to pin down with absolute precision at any given moment. and let me start with americans who are in

afghanistan and we believe want to leave. first, i think all of you know, the u. s. government does not track americans movements when they travel around the world. when americans visit a foreign country or if they reside there, we encourage them to enroll with the u. s. embassy. whether they do or not is up to them is voluntary. and then when americans leave a foreign country, it's also up to them to de enroll. again. that's a choice, not the requirement. particularly given the security situation that can stand for many years, we have urged americans not to travel there. we've repeatedly asked americans who are not going to stand to enroll. and since march of this year, we've sent 900 separate messages to americans enrolled with the embassy and campbell, encouraging and then urging them to leave the country. we've amplified those direct messages on the state department website. and on social media,

we even made clear that we would help pay for their repatriation. and we provided multiple communication channels for americans to contact us if they are in afghanistan and want help in leaving the specific estimated number of americans in afghanistan who want to leave, can go up as people respond to our outreach for the 1st time. and it can go down when we reach americans. we thought we're and i can't stand who tell us they've already left. there could be other americans and i began to stand who never enrolled with the embassy, who ignored public evacuation notices and have not yet identified themselves to us . we've also found that many people who contact us and identify themselves as american citizens, including by filling out and submitting repatriation assistance forms or not. in fact, us citizens. something that can take some time to verify. some americans may choose to stay in afghanistan. some were enrolled and some who are not,

many of them are dual nationals and they consider i can't stand their home because of their for decades or who want to stay close to extended family. and there are americans who are still evaluating their decision to leave based on the situation on the ground that evolves daily. in fact, that evolves hourly. some are understandably, very scared. each has a set of personal priorities and considerations that they alone can weigh. they may even change their mind from one day to the next, as has happened, and will likely continue to happen. finally, over the past 10 days, we've been moving hundreds of american citizens out of afghanistan every day. in most cases got into the airport by us. in some cases, getting there on their own, in other cases, with the help, the 3rd countries or private initiatives we cross check our list against flight manifests against a rival records against other databases. there's usually

a lag of about 24 hours for us to verify their status. so when you take into account, all of these inputs that we use to arrive at our assessment of the number of americans still in afghanistan and want to leave. you start to understand why this is a hard number to pin down at any given moment and why we're constantly refining. and that's also why we continue to be relentless in our outreach. since august 14th, we reach out directly to every american enrolled with us in afghanistan, often multiple times. hundreds of counselor officers locally employed staff. here in washington, dozens of embassies and consulates around the world are part of what has been an unprecedented operation. their phone banking, text banking, writing and responding to emails, working around the clock to communicate individuals with americans on the ground.

since august 14th, we've sent more than 20000 emails to enrolled individuals. initiated more than 45000 phone calls and used other means of communication cycling through and updating our list repeatedly. we're also integrating information in real time. that's provided to us by members of congress by non governmental organizations and us citizens about americans who may be an afghan to stand and want to get out of these contacts or how we determine the whereabouts of americans who may be in f canister and whether they want to leave, whether they need help and then to give them specific tailored instructions on how to leave with real time emergency contact numbers to use. should they need it. now let me turn to the number of americans who been evacuated. as i said, we believe we've evacuated more than 4500 us passport holders, as well as their families. that number is also

a dynamic one. that's because in this critical stretch, we're focused on getting americans in their families on the plains, out of afghanistan as quickly as possible, and then processing the total numbers when they're safely out of the country. we also verify our numbers to make sure that we aren't inadvertently under counting or double county. so i want to flail that out because i know it is a fundamental question that so many of you had and it really merits going through the, the information, the explanation. so you see how we arrive at it. while evacuating americans is our top priority. we're also committed to getting out as many i can't risk as we can before the 31st. that starts with our locally employed staff. and the folks who've been working side by side in our embassy with with our diplomatic team. and it includes special american visa program participants and also other afghans at

risk. it's hard to overstate the complexity and the danger of this effort. we're operating hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isis k attack. we're taking every precaution, but this is very high risk. as the president said yesterday, we're on track to complete our mission by august 31st, provided the taliban continue to cooperate and there are no disruptions to this effort. the president has also asked for contingency plans in case he determines that we must remain in the country pass that date. but let me be crystal clear about this. there is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who decide they want to leave to do so. along with many afghans who has stood by us over these many years and want to leave and have been unable to do so.

that effort will continue every day past august 31st. the talk about it made public and private commitments to provide and permits safe passage for americans. for 3rd country nationals and afghans at risk going forward, past august 31st. the united states or allies and partners, and more than half of the world's countries, a $114.00 and all issued a statement making it clear to the taliban that they have a responsibility to hold to that commitment and provide safe passage for anyone who wishes to leave the country, not just for the duration of our evacuation relocation mission, but for every day thereafter. and we're developing detail plans for how we can continue to provide consular support and facilitate departures for those who wish to leave after august 31st. our expectation, the expectation of the international community is that people who want to leave

afghanistan after the u. s. military parts should be able to do so. together, we will do everything we can to see that expectation is met. let me just close with a note on the diplomatic front in all more than 2 dozen countries on 4 continents are contributing to the effort to transit temporarily how's or resettle those who we are evacuating. that didn't just happen. it's the product of an intense diplomatic effort to secure detail and implement transit agreements and resettlement commitments were deeply grateful to those countries for their generous assistance. this is one of the largest airlines in history. a massive military, diplomatic security and humanitarian undertaking. to test him or both to us leadership and the strength of our alliances and partnerships will be relying and building upon that strength. moving forward. as we worked with our allies and

partners to force a unified diplomatic approach to, i can stand that was a point. the president underscored in yesterday's g 7 leaders meeting on afghanistan. and it's one that i and other senior members of the state department have made in our constant communication with allies and partners in recent days to ensure that we're aligned and united as we move forward. not only when it comes to the immediate mission, but also on what happens after august 31st on counterterrorism, and manager and assistance on our expectations of the future as can government that intense diplomatic work is ongoing as we speak. and it will continue in the days and weeks ahead. so i talked a lot about numbers so afternoon. but even as we're laser focused on the mission, we know that this is about real people. many scared, many desperate. i've seen the images. i've read the stories,

i've heard the voices so much of that reported by you and your colleagues. so courageously. like many of you, i read the report of the translator whose 2 year old daughter was trampled to death on saturday. while waiting outside the airport. i've got 2 small kids of my own reading that story and others was like getting punched in the got all of us at the state department and across the us. government feel that way. we know that lives and futures starting with our fellow citizens, including the lives of children, hang in the balance during these critical days. and that's why everyone on our team is putting everything they have in this effort. thanks very much and have to say questions. thanks mr. secretary for coming down and doing this on your 2 things really briefly,

i'll try to be as brief as possible to think on the numbers of the american citizens. does it? does that include green, cardholders, healthy, ours, and if it doesn't, or does it? you know, it does, it does. okay. is there a way to get this number? hospital. ok. but have l. p r's also been contacted? you know, and what about the applicants? people who are, we are, we are in contact when we get number, all of those we've had, if you don't, and then i'm sorry, that is okay. i don't expect you to have all of them. but then, you know, since this whole thing began, there's been a lot of criticism of the administration. ready over how it handled it, and there's been a lot of pushback from people within the administration about the hand that you were basically don't or what you say you were dealt by the previous administration in terms of the deal. ready with taliban in terms of the s id program in terms of the broad refugee program. but you guys have been in office for almost 8 months. it's been 5 months since the present.