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for booking vaccination appointment from human cost to political and economic food, i'll just bring you the latest on the pen demik. this will have vaccinated more than 1100 people here, all of them migrant farm workers, people on home testing because they think that there is a risk to democracy. special coverage, and i'll just sarah. oh i the scales continues. a couple airport has thousands tried to force their way onto evacuation flights after the taliban takeover. and in the meantime, they tried to control the crowds and back doing that by shooting guns in the air by using water cannons and vibrating to push them back. i.
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i know madison, this is the 0 live for me. also coming up, monks on the covered fun line some but us and thailand are taking matters into their own hands to do with the corona virus. as us inflation jumps to its highest level and decades of warnings of low wages and income inequality. ah, we're going to get enough kindness done. there's less than a week to go before the deadline to complete evacuations. panic is growing among thousands or still trying to get on the flights at capital airport. but the u. s. is telling its citizens not to go to the airport because of a security threat. we're going to have more on that from alan fisher in washington, dc in a moment. first this report from charlotte bellis in couple. the count donna is on as us and foreign forces. now i only have until tuesday to get out and with means
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the end of evacuation. like from here outside the airport, there is people rush, see if they can get on a flight. we understand your with and the telephone have a deal that the telephone are only about to let people have torn past pieces and you have paper was that did it? was it going to have an 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 got to got an offer on the father of everybody's going. so i'm going to my house. they won't leave me alone. my wife says get down there. why are you so lazy? i leave the house every day, so my wife stops hastily in a way to control the crowd and try to figure this out. they've been looking for paper work at different locations around, and then putting them on the boxes. these people are actually about to be on the slide and they have prioritize to get through. and in the meantime,
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they are trying to control the crowds and keep people back wanting to the fossil 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. 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 have to end. and we know that the numbers, the number of flights will decrease in the day it's going for that countries on and a lot of these people are trying to get through into the airport today over to
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washington dc. now his alan fisher, the u. s. embassy and cabal has received a specific and a serious threat. and so they've told americans not to gather at the 3 gates at the airport, and those are making their way. they are not to come at the moment. the threat comes from isis k, which is the militant groups off shoot in afghanistan. it is canada, a number of attacks throughout the course of this year. and just the we can jig sullivan, who's the national security advisor here in the u. s. described i saw k as an acute and persistent threat. jewel bite mentioned them when he was talking on tuesday. he said that that threat is there an essentially saying to the taliban, you need to make sure that this group does not do anything to derail the operation . it's under way at the airport, particularly if you want us troops out of afghanistan by august the 31st.
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the pentagon said it would consider sending the military u. s. military into parts of cabal to try and rescue americans who were stuck. that know becomes a more favored option because they simply don't want americans around the airport because it has long been considered as a potential target for bombing or attacks by any eye on group. and you'll know that joe biden asked for contingency plans from both state and defense. he received that briefing on wednesday morning. that was all about what would happen if the had to extend the deadline beyond august the 31st. this is very much a fluid situation. those plans are being updated. they'll not have to be looked at again. given this serious threat from ice or key to americans and cabal. turkey has begun evacuating its military personnel from cobble airport. but taliban is
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reportedly asked for technical help from anchor to help run the airport, but it once is troops out of the country. before the august 31st deadline, turkey has been part of the nato's mission in afghanistan and has hundreds of troops station there. the in the secretary general says all steps are being taken to keep operations running as i've got to stand faces. a mounting humanitarian causes the agency has air lifted, some stuff from combo to cause stun. when a temporary office has been set up, my car has more from the united nations. the un says a 3rd of its international staff have now been relocated from a gun is done to its temporary base in context on. in addition, it says a number of gun nationals have also been brought out of the country. though there are no specifics as to the exact number. the stocks have been told to work from home unless it's necessary for them to go into un offices to complete their work. you in secretary general health, what is called as
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a virtual town hall with you and stuff in the course of the day. he is said to reassure them that the u. n. is doing everything it can to protect their safety. but he also says that it's necessary for us to carry on its activities and i've gone is done with a view to the mounting humanitarian crisis. the un spokesmen confirms that they will be a substantial staff in country, but would not be drawn on the exact number that is needed for the us to be able to continue its operations. all of that is still being worked out right. we are ongoing with a number of programs that we've talked about. debris of p, eunice f u n h c r w h ho obviously, as the situation stabilizes or we will have a better idea of what we're able to do with the humanitarian needs are. and what the staffing is, will be that we need to run those programs. and most importantly,
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the funding that we will need to earn this program that being a number of reports about discontent among un staff about the lack of action in terms of protecting their safety. the un spokesmen refuses to comment on the specific allegations, but he did confirm that a number of letters had been received from various unions, which are being considered by the secretariat. nobody here is electra and transitional justice at the american university of afghanistan. it says the international community must persist in engaging with the taliban. you have to set up an understanding. the major feeling here with regard to negotiations is the communication off expectations. so often times 2 opposing parties don't know what the other and expects of them so that rationality is very limited from time to time . so it's very important to engage with the taliban and to communicate with them as
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to what are the expectation. what is the recognition or the condition on for them to understand exactly what the red lines are? and again, this is an opportunity for the fall bond with regards to conflict transformation. once you enter a post conflict society, you have the opportunity to rebuild to recreate society, 3 of the flaws that existed before and one of the major gaps here is the gap of trust. again, the taliban cannot hold people hostage if they want their skills. they need to establish a government soon, because they need to give people a counterfactual. you know, people are trying to go abroad, but they need to have a counterfactual in upon a son to stay for. they cannot stay for an unknown future. that is full of fear of retribution. so taliban really need to start addressing these points if they hope to stop these people from leaving willingly. mexico was accepted as 1st group of
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refugees from afghanistan, more than 100. people arrived overnight on 2 separate flights, mailed off a load reports from mexico city. this is the moment afghan refugees were 1st greeted by officials in mexico city on tuesday night. there were rival follows what mexican authorities have described as a difficult journey across 6 countries. in the pre dawn, hours of wednesday, a 2nd flight arrived with more than 100 other afghan nationals, many of them journalists and other media workers seeking refuge in mexico. all of whom were welcomed personally by mexican foreign minister, marcello, but at we might be very far away from what is happening in afghanistan. but the human cause, the protection of the values that we identify with the mexicans, have led to a commitment problem. so they can be in mexico when it comes to rolling out the welcome meant for refugees. mexico has a long tradition. this, historically, mexico has been a top destination,
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especially for people who are fleeing political situations. as was the case with chile, argentina, and spain. mexico has always been an important and welcoming nation across mexico. many are expecting the country will welcome more africa and families in the days ahead. probably shelters like this one near the outskirts of mexico city. see their doors are open to anyone seeking a safe space and a meal, not the nameless, but if it is, yeah, we don't discriminate. if people want to come from afghanistan or anywhere else, they will be well received. the arrival of refugees from afghanistan also spotlights. how mexico is already hosting a growing number of displaced people from around the world who are seeking asylum. so far this year, mexican officials have recorded more than 64000 asylum applications. and data suggests that 2021 is on pace to set a new record for the number of people seeking asylum in the country. some experts have warned that mexico,
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the ability to care for every 1 may be limited due to the growing populations of migrants and refugees, fleeing crises in haiti, venezuela, in countries and central america. mexico is one of only a handful of latin american countries, including sheila and costa rica that have offered a commitment to aiding refugees from afghanistan. monroe raf alone al jazeera mexico city. some afghan nationalists arrived in uganda under the deal arranged by the united states. official said the evacuees will only stay in the country for a short while before being resettled. elsewhere, the group of $51.00 men, women, and children were subjected to security screening and covered 1900 quarantine procedures. uganda as agreed to request from the u. s. to temporarily taken 2000 afghans still ahead on all 0, thousands of indigenous people protest in brazil as a supreme court case threatened to limit their rights to the central land and
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a toxic relationship. we look at how organized crime groups have turned romania into europe's dumping ground. ah, ah, it's too late for the journey to winter sponsored like cattle airways. hi again, we're talking about the 3 h's across the middle east, hot, humid and hazy. so let me show what's going on. we do have a wind blowing down from the rock through to the gulf. that's shamal when and on thursday we could see those got up to about 45 kilometers per hours, so that spins around the sand and dust. we do have high humidity for places like cats are though. right? we talked a humid and hazy relative humidity, 85 percent. so your core temperature is 42. but it will feel about $52.00 and will lock into that pattern for the next several days breezy conditions across southern
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areas of pakistan, karachi, so sand and dust storms that concern here. 39 degrees will be the high in the hor, on thursday. we do have some energy moving across the bulk ins, but i don't think that it's going to push into is stumble. so we look at the next 3 days, a mix of sun in cloud, and your temperature is actually above seasonal. and we'll get into the breezy conditions on saturday, tropics of africa. we have our storms through ethiopia, and also galvan and cameroon rate, through to western africa, whether france lands into the western cape. we'll see winds in cape town, about 72 kilometers per hour. this is thursday, look at saturday, brings a cool pool of air. we've got snow in the suit to to contend with. sponsor, cut on airways, on air or online. the parts of the debate, or pacific people, the ocean, is our identity and the source of well being. we are the when no help a get off the table, it's a shooting atmosphere. people are demoralized,
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they're exhausted, and many health care workers are experiencing p t. s. d like symptom, jump into this dream and julian global community. if you're online on youtube right now, you can be part of this conversation as well. this stream announces era, ah, ah, ah, you want, you know, it is either a reminder about health stories. this governments are racing to evacuate. people from the scanner is done with less than a week to go until all the audit troops leave. panic is going among photos, and we're still trying to get on flights. had couple airport. but the u. s. embassy in capital is asking american citizens not to travel to the airport. it's advising
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those already there to leave immediately because of a security threat. mexico has accepted its 1st group of refugees from a gun. it's done more than 100 people have arrived overnight on 2 flights. supporters of bolivia jailed former interim president jenny, 9 years have been marching through the streets of la paz, demanding, her release, medic say, and yours is in a stable condition. she tried to take a long life. she's been charged with genocide over the death of protesters in 2019 indigenous activists in brazil waiting for the supreme court to make a quarter show ruling on rights to the ancestral lands. members of 170 groups or in the capital brazilian to hear the decision rights to appeal against the states view . the tribes can only claim land if they live there or made their claim before the law came into force. 30 years ago. indigenous people say many of their communities had been expelled decades before. some of the mob,
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our people were decimated. we were 1000000. and now we are very few. many of our people can't even say who they are anymore. this invasion was huge and this time limit must be removed. we cannot pay with our lives. once again, i have is outside of the supreme court in brasilia. it's been a very, very long day. there was a screen set up here behind me where they were listening to the supreme court justices vote, but instead of voting on the indigenous issue, which is which should have been addressed today. early in the afternoon, they started talking about the central bank and a proposal to make it independent from the government. and so during the whole afternoon, you had all these different indigenous people. just camp out here listening to this, to this wrong session in receipt. but they were chanting, they were praying,
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they're waiting for it to end because next in line comes the decision on, on their, their, their issue which is who have the right to claim indigenous land. only those that have that word there until 988. so what happens to those that were expelled from the land before that? this land is, is tied to also be environment. because by allowing a commercial agriculture or illegal mining by making it easier for land grabbers. it also contributes to deforestation. also, even if people don't occupy the indigenous lands, they're encroaching these reservations and they're poisoning like the water. the fish are no longer the can no longer eat their staple food, which was fish because it's poisoned with mercury. so they're all these different issues which are dress the columbia thought he say,
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they've seized more than 1.2 tons of cocaine from a dissident on group. they say to farmers under columbia, and we're transporting it on a boat headed towards central america. the group allegedly responsible there's an offshoot of the fog gorilla organisation formed by those who rejected a piece, deals with the government. and as you see, the sock, with the heavy blows of fog dissonant, tough lost over 42 millions because you avoided the trafficking of the distribution of more than 3000000 doses of drugs to countries in the region. romania has become a dumping ground for most of europe's illegal waste. government officials have told to 0 that criminal organizations within the country have made it a big business. and who simmons reports to me because i asked this site was registered as a recycling center. yet it became a mountain of waste mixed with building rubble ignored by local authorities for more than 10 years. until now, i think a lot of plastic domestic waste may be
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induced to other ways in that part. the new head of romania is national environment agency, octavian. but chombo knew nothing about it until sewage pipes beneath the tip collapsed a few weeks ago, flooding a suburb of bucharest, aside from the acrid stench, and the colossal scale of its tip and others like it. romania now has an even bigger problem with illegal waste. go east to the black sea port of cause time to and rubbish is a criminal commodity with millions of dollars. and a determined prosecutor here is taking on the car, sells the model for problem of illegal waste trafficking is compatible with the drug trafficking to you don't. it's faces overwhelming challenge, but he did smash warner daisha plan to import a shipment of toxic waste from italy. so called business men were involved and they attempted to bribe local officials, way bills from other european consignments,
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like these show recycling sentences destinations. but instead they go to basic consideration sites all landfill dumps. pollution on a big scale. this is part of one consignment from the u. k. host of cop 26. the you and global warming summit due in november, need sa says the u. k is incorporating enough on getting prosecutions. i wish to have a more collaboration of, of, from the barbara for british shorter it is. we are fighting against any crimes and any crimes regarding not romania and not going to beat them. in my opinion, it's a huge problem for all the planet, october on. but sean, who says his investigation team is poorly paid and it faces intimidation from criminals, exposing your family, your life. it's a problem. it's a big put out of the mound. but john, who's besides symbolizes
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a different era of ways, crime now to war by matthew cartels, bribery, corruption, here and overseas. and there's pollution never seen before. coupled with inaction and apparent indifference in other european states. andrew simmons al jazeera, bucharest, a rapidly expanding bush. far as threatening homes and businesses in san bernardino in the u. s. state of california. 55 to say, windsor, making it difficult to contain people living in the area have been advised to leave russia. central regions are battling extreme wildfires that are fueled by an unusual heat wave. dozens of firefighters and more davia were trapped after being surrounded by flames. they managed to escape off to bulldozers, cut down trees and stopped ablaze from spreading. heavy rains of left several communities in columbia under water rivers swelled inundating towns and destroying plantations. the reigning seasons already killed dozens of people and damaged
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thousands of homes. got the thing where you the houses flooded and water up to your neck. my mother in law also lost everything her chickens also drown. we need the government to help us. we're like a ghost town together with them for every time there's a wet season. we have this problem, year after year until the national government makes a final decision on a dime. we will always continue to have this problem. a landmark case accusing indonesia as president and top government officials of failing to co pollution in jakarta has been delayed for 7th time. it was filed in july 2019 against president shaka, with doctor hart as governor and 7 on the officials. 2 lines. government says it's going to receive 61000000 doses of the aster seneca vaccine later this year, for many may, can come soon enough. just 9 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated against covered 19. the slow rollout has led some ties to help the most vulnerable
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scott either reports from bangkok. his saffron robe disappears beneath the whites of his medical protection suit. as problem a ha prom punk prepares to head out. the buddhist monk lead a volunteer team organized by his band cock temple to one of the many poor communities suffering from thailand's worse cobra. 1900 outbreak since the start of the pandemic book, why? but when it comes to taking care of patients and access to basic public health, this is something that should have been taken care of by the government. we all know the coven 19 situation entirely, and is very severe. not everyone has had their inoculations. many people have fallen through the cracks and have not received any help. his team administers wrap a test for those who can't afford them. 2 lines means positive in this crap household. 6 of the 12 people tested positive for cove at 19. but it's not just those being neglected by the government's covered 1900 medical response plan, who are suffering the economic impact and some of thailand,
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industries is so deep. they are turning to the court to hold the government. accountable. bar massage parlors are big business and thailand. at least they work before the pandemic. the industry used to bring in over a $1000000000.00 a year, but now more than 80 percent of the businesses are closed for good. putting more than 200000 people out of work. in the repeated times, the government has tightened. code 19 restrictions sparse and massage parlors. top the list of closures they've been closed for most of the year without any compensation from the government. a group of massage parlor owners and misuses filed a class action suit in civil court seeking $6000000.00 and compensation. was your high yeah, this case is very many victims have been damaged by similar actions and the people damaged by these actions of the government should be compensated at the same time. this is sold, they don't care to risk filing individual suits and possibly getting different of the the prime minister's office and the ministry of public health. both refused our
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interview requests. as the government tries to keep up with its delayed vaccine program, new infections will continue to increase and the lockdown will likely remain as well the reliance on volunteers to come to the aid of the communities that need the most help. got either al jazeera, bangkok, the u. s. state of new york has revealed that more than 12000 corona virus deaths went unsupported down to a former governor cuomo, the new governor copy cultural says it brings a number of deaths in the state to more than 55000 the previous records that excluded those who died at their own homes and other locations commer resign following a sexual harassment scandal. earlier this month is face criticism for under reporting corona virus data. 24 hour confuse being put in place. and then jerry, the city of jaw softer gunman killed at least 36 people showing right. and mainly christian community. please say 10 suspects have been arrested,
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has been growing tension in recent weeks following the killing of dozens of muslims in the city. a u. s. federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of dylan, roof racist motors at a black church. 9 people died when rufe was flight open, fire and worshippers at a church in charleston. in 2015 roof is the 1st person in the us to be sentenced to death for a federal hate crime. the man involved in a plot to kidnap the governor of michigan state has been sentenced to 6 years in prison. a group of 14 men planned to duct, gretchen, whatnot, from a vacation home last year. it was in retaliation for covered 1900 restriction since she had imposed. sy harvard is the 1st to be sentenced, and the only suspect to plead guilty. inflation is on the rise in the u. s. reaching its highest level in decades, that's forcing up the cost of living and it's hitting people who and lowest wages. hard. alexander reports from east brunswick in new jersey. it's another day heading
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into work for brian. cool us and it's no easy commute to get to his job as a banquet server. it's 160 kilometers, almost 2 hours each way from his home and east brunswick, new jersey to his job in atlantic city. he doesn't do it by choice, but out of necessity. it's the only job he can find where he makes enough income to survive each month. but barely. people, i don't always think realize what it's like to have to live on half a penny. you know, i call it sometimes splitting penny. brian is one of an estimated 125000000 americans who live paycheck to paycheck. it's now even made harder by writing inflation. for many years the inflation rate in the us hovered around 2 percent. but it's been steadily increasing this year to where it's now about 5 and a half percent the highest. it's been since $990.00 food, rent, energy,
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new cars. those are the sectors that have seen the biggest price jump. and economists say, it only takes a slight increase in inflation to cause a huge impact. the perception that inflation is a problem could lead us to make some very bad choices in terms of the economy. if we, god forbid, raise interest rates right now. well, unemployment is still elevated. that could be a real economic disaster and anti poverty advocate say inflation is only a small part of a bigger problem. the income inequality that has been growing over the last few decades is really that the key concern. we've had wage stagnation in this nation since the early 19 seventy's and wages have for decades not kept up. we have the high increases in cost of living for brian, he faces a new challenge. his landlord raised his rent. he can no longer afford it,
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so he'll be evicted next month. like taken to the well, because i can't afford to lose. i don't belong. you know, it's a really nice place, but now you know, only because i can't afford it. he says if he can't find anywhere else to live, that car he drives to work will also then become his home. gabriel is ando gc to east brunswick, new jersey. ah, this is all of these are the top stories, governments of racing to evacuate. people from of janice done with less than a week to go until all foreign troops leave. panic is growing among fans and we're still trying to get on the flights a couple airport. but the u. s. embassy in cable is asking american citizens not to travel to the airport. it's advising those already there to leave immediately because of a security threat. allen session has more from washington dc. well,
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