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a new barion, there had been a 3rd and the number of people working vaccination appointment from the human coast to political and economic pool out. i'll just bring to the latest on the pandemic. 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 0. i me. this is al jazeera ah. hello sir. hello robin. you're watching the all the news. i like my headquarters here in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. the us and its allies, a warning people look to go to cobble apples fighting a possible attack from iso. i'm so interested to in the future to serve my
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people. they left up got a son just before the taliban took over. we had the hope, saw the gun girls robotic team for that country. thailand battles. it's with current research, with more than a 1000000 infections of strange new zealand report, more delta various cases. also brazil's indigenous people fight for land, right under weight judgement. they took court deliberating a case that could end protection on some native land. the same story sports news pip, guardiola hint he will leave manchester city in 2023. that was coming up later this nice our ah welcome to the needs of people hoping to leave. i've got this thought a still trying outside cobbles, apple. despite warnings of a possible attack, the united states, australia and the united kingdom have urged people to stay away because of what
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they say is an imminent threat from an ice, a linked group in the country. over the course of the week, the credibility of the reporting has reached the stage where we believe that there is a very eminent, highly lethal attack possible within a couple. and as a consequence, we've had to change the traveler weiss to advise people not to come to the apple, but thousands ought to leave before western forces. turn their attention to troop withdrawal and pull out for good. friends says it'll end civilian evacuations on friday. hungry has already finished its withdrawal. meanwhile, agencies have warned of an impending humanitarian crisis because of the shortages of food and medical supplies. there's a lack of critical staff after several left on nato flight. get the very latest from charlotte allison. she's been monitoring events for us in the capitol, and charlotte di warnings of even an attacks really have many people on edge in and
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around the apples. we had heard of the potential isis attack earlier in the week, but no one really took it seriously. it came from the us is just a possibility because of how fluid it was around the airport. how many people were crowding around and how hot it was to look after the security within those crowds. but now, many nations coming out saying that this is a credible threat. i talked to the telephone about it this morning. thank you. she had any more lights on any intelligence of what you're hearing. and i said to me that they understand i full of planning, car bombings and around the airport for maximum damage. and that means that everybody is being told not to go to the poor even though are these evacuation like starting to lower the or a few planes taking off. and of course they all have to aim by tuesday. so the clock is ticking on getting these people out. the new strategy seems to be with if you can't go to vehicle because of this i school threat,
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it appears that they're using special forces to try to extricate people from various areas of around cobble, the stand that the 1500 us possible hold is still in council that they want to get out by tuesday and then many, many thousands of other people who have baez's have green cards, may be allowed to get on the evacuation flight because they've been an interpreter and their family members. so those instances, they appear to be putting people on buses and shaking their documents to make sure that they are allowed on the plains and been trying to move the buses through cobble and streamlined them in coordination with the taliban to try to get them through the checkpoints and make sure that they're not lingering outside the airport while the race is still in play. i must say though, that where these buses stopping to put it to get everyone on board like this, happening at our hotel, for example. and there are hundreds upon hundreds of people gathering, hoping to get on some of these buses and in and self creating quite
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a dangerous situation with molds who quite desperate to get on the flight to excel . but of course, money is another big issue right now. the country is rapidly becoming cash strapped as international lenders and finances withhold funds after this taliban takeover. i mean, then you will forward t's need cash to run a country and what one does, how they get into get it and day the money. i mean, we talk about the airport is a crisis point, but it is more of a crisis point for foreigners and for people who are eligible for the slides for everybody else, the 40000000 ask and it's money is the crisis point. prices are starting to go up on through the you in saying that prices as a starting to rise, especially in the south. but supplies are running low. the you in saying that they are running out of emergency supplies. that goes from the, with the will food program or the world health organization that are starting to
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run out and the prices are starting to rise. the currency is in trouble against the us dollar. banks have been closed for the last 10 days. just opening gifts today and there were hundreds of people lined up trying to get money, and that was kept at $400.00. and a lot of people worried because the world bank, the international monetary fund, the us itself has frozen the reserve banks funds in the states and for how the telephone is going to pay for everything. whether the government employees or nurses, or teachers. it's still very much up in the year because these funds are essentially being used as leverage to make sure the taliban does respect. right. but the problem is, if they don't get the money, then it puts millions of people's lives in jeopardy charlotte bell as soon as got some thanks very much for the update. well, several countries already wrapping up their evacuations. partly because of the security concerns, frances prime minister says it'll stop evacuating people from cobble apples on friday. almost 2000 and french nationals napkins have been flown to france. that's
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get more on this. charlie angela is mine for us in our london broad consent. it's not just france, that's actually you might say halting any potential flights coming out of i've got this done. no. were expecting to see the last few flights to the netherlands take off within the next few hours. the government saying was told by the us to evacuated, remaining embassy and military personnel immediately, but they are missing that some dutch nationals and others eligible for relocation could be left behind. belgium and denmark's last flights have already left cobble wrapping up their evacuation efforts with the danish are administered saying it is no longer safe to fly in or out of cobo new hud. the case armed forces minutes to that james heat me talking about this threat of an attack causal apple, which he said could come with an hours. he said it is a severe,
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critical and not being overly cautious. and he's saying that the u. k is evacuation s that is now concentrated on the ask interpreters now those who helped government forces during that time that is estimated, there are still around a 1000 eligible relocation left in the country. and his advice is that if they haven't been given a personal call to go to the airport, to find another way to leave the country safely, and that might mean going to a border crossing. the defense minister ben wallace is also advising people to redirect thing. there are very few places left on. those british rescue flies. we know the foreign office workers. 2 inside the airport, i've been working around the clock. they are still processing hundreds of visa applications. and we're also following up on report, the 50 jewel citizen, african, and british nationals who reportedly stuck outside of the port on wednesday. and
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you can obviously under an immense amount of pressure to complete its mission in afghanistan. and obviously the optics are awful. prime minister boris johnson will be doing a photo opportunity at a military base to day. but already there are burning questions. why we are seeing such chaos a shambles when the deadline was well known in advance and the thing is not pointing at the foreign office. it's not pointing at the, you know, the civil servant is pointing out political leaders and now is not the time for the blame game that's going to be a lot of questions to be on. that was to be off to the 31st child angel in london. thanks very much. let's cross over now to patrick cockburn, he's a columnist an independent at the independent newspaper and author of several books including the rise of islamic state joyce going from cork in island. good to you. this is k been on the program. how credible is it that i still are live a while in afghanistan, and where is this intelligence coming from?
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well, let me present. the un says they have 15022200 fighters there. where the intimate information is coming from probably from an informant or intercepted communications. but this is a very chaotic situation. so having definitive information like lace is almost impossible at the moment. is it just a convenient you might say, as a moment to have like a bogeyman available for both the taliban and full nato and nato allies to say, you know, there was this other dark falls at work sort of distract you might say, or frighten the locals their own inadequacies of trying to handle what's going on inside and outside of the apple. that's an interesting point. one of the things that the u. s demanded from time to time during the negotiations
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. in doha was that the taliban shouldn't have an open door for al qaeda or all kinds of type organizations like eyes which they agreed to. but 1st, to present situation, it might not be easy for them to do anything about it. when you are at the airport, i mean all you need is a truck with explosives on board and difficult to stop. but there is one important point about the taliban that i think people missed out on which is before 2001 ton about needed to al qaeda. some been logged in, provided money, provided, fanatical fighters for the front line. and of course pay assassinated with $2.00 suicide bombers, the leader of the northern alliance, ackman shots, masood. so this was the tell about no longer need in alliance with al
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qaeda. and it's much in their interest indeed that they shouldn't have one. whether we talk about post 2001 or a pre 2000 post 2001 just from international viewers in terms of the way that isis is made up. i mean, you know, we mustn't perhaps think of it as a legitimate force, an army that is controlled by central command. many experts i've spoken to in the last couple of days have talked to, i still being very isolated right now. and it could be just the old suicide bomber here. all that is that the source of isomer we're looking at it. so it is the, the suicide bomber here. and there can do an awful lot of damage, you know, particularly against soft targets. it appears to be in them that attack this. she has are a school in cobble earlier in the year, killed $85.00 school children. there was an attack on the hospital. you don't need things are difficult to do with a couple of suicide bombers. who don't have any expertise of them. will blow
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themselves up. may be quite so far, but the taliban did release many iso operatives inadvertently in those prison prison releases. do you think the taliban are going to have to deal with iso in some shape or form sooner rather than later? i think they will love to 11 a great victory and they want to accept the power of all of their canister. their will say want acceptance by other countries, you know, for reasons we've just been hearing about now they need a, they need food and so forth. so it's in their interest to say we are the barrier against you may not like us, but those that could be was to come so much in their interest to do that. at the same time, they the taliban and i sold them to to do appeal to the same constituency. at
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various points where interchangeable some of the i so many of the leaders a fall and former taliban. so you to have these 2 different processes. an impulse for the taliban to crack down, which is a very strong but at the same time, high school isn't so far different from their own organization. it's about 3 to ponder on because they've been sworn enemies. so they say for many years fighting you might say a puppet government in cobble supported by the west. so how does the current situation then change the way i saw if they all well organized and funded from acting successfully in a taliban control? the chemist on, you know, will they see the taliban now as much as the enemy as the west because they have a different sort of islamic ideology. when i saw, you know, as we saw in iraq and syria tends to think of practically, everybody has an enemy from itself and he's prepared perfectly prepared to kill them. and we have countless examples of that. some of this might well be so i mean
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they will read. you said this isn't about victory. isn't as pure as the taliban claim. so i think they will contest it. but there's also good reasons why the taliban should try to suppress them, or at least present themselves as the barrier against isolate and use that as leverage with foreign states in order to get recognition, to get age and so forth, which is what happens in the coming days for the baby, patrick cape, and thanks so much for joining us from cork, an island. thank you. thank you. now the secretary general has all that solving taken to keep operations running as have gone on faces a mounting humanitarian crisis. the agency has lifted some stuff from cobble to context on where a temporary office has been set up might kind of has more from the un. the un says a 3rd of its international staff have now been relocated from
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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 stuff have been told to work from home, unless it's necessary for them to go into un offices to complete their work. the secretary general held what is called as a virtual town hall with you and stuff in the course of the day he is said to reassure them that the un 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
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ongoing with a number of programs that we've talked about. debris of p units, 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, 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 u. n. spokesmen refuses to comment on the specific allegations, but he did confirm that a number of letters have been received from various unions which are being considered by the secretariat. well, the 3 in dr. richard brandon. he is regional emergency director at the world health organization office for the eastern mediterranean, joins me now via skype from car,
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a good, happy with the stock on the program. is there a moral dilemma sort of when it comes to helping us guns under these unique circumstances? an internationally recognized and band group is now in control of a country desperate for supplies. now it's a, it's a, it's a huge challenge. you know, we've been saying that the eyes of the world been been focused on the evacuation operation out of couple airport. but what's lost in all of this is even prior to the recent events, afghanistan with wells, 3rd largest humanitarian operation. and now we're seeing those needs escalate. and once the evacuation is completed, we're going to be left with an enormous humanitarian need an enormous humanitarian task. and i think all humanitarian agencies where we've struggled to get aid in over the last couple of weeks, i think from the world health organization perspective,
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we have some good news. we're getting some support from the pakistan government right now. but the hard work is, is really just beginning for the humanitarian agency. i know you're not support latisha and you are humanitarian. so difficult to speak on the politics of this. it's also intertwined. it's hard for the viewer pants not to pull it apart, but who you think you're talking to the pakistan is right now, but who else you're talking to? to get 18 because it was a stuck into by the un secretary general as appeal for safe passage of humanitarian work as access to those areas that need it most. if you don't know what the no, but let me also tell you that a flight landed at kandahar pores with doctors from m s. f who've arrived with islamic emerett visas on their passports. they've come in from dish and so inevitably you might be the w h o and other agencies like m s f, all finding away in all finding a way to communicate with those are in charge of the country right now. yeah. well,
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1st of all, in, in se 1st question, i mean, we've been dealing with the us. we had generous office from the u. k. in spanish governments to bring in through cable. you know, as, as your early story indicated, the logistics insecurities context just didn't allow to bring those supply the supplies in that way. so we're, we're going to bring in with the pakistani through another airport and bizarre, bizarre research in terms of our own presence we, we have a presence in every province across the country. we have stuff, national staff working every day. although we evacuated 6 of our staff last week, we still have 5 of our international stop. 5 most senior staff, still in campbell, directing our operations out distributions of a central supplies, a monitoring of that health situation. now technical guidance. we're working on
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code still. so the operation is continuing, and as soon as the situation allows, we'll be able to search in additional stop. but where on the ground where working every day. and we're able to monitor the situation every day from our staff and or 30 for problems. i just want to bring in a statement that's been made by, by the principles of inter agency standing committee, the i a s c on it's going to stand which w i chose, part of it was issued on the 19th of august. and part of it says today we reiterate our commitment to promoting the rights of everyone. and i've done this on, including women and girls, important gains made in recent years, including on gender equality and girls. access to a quality education must be preserved. that is also part of the politics of the country because the taliban will not form will not from what we have to take you to, especially when it comes to domestic policy. i mean, whatever that is in the future, i mean, should it be tied to aid?
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so hi, how find a tightrope or you and other aid agencies walking when it comes to wanting to deliver aid, but it seems to have conditions attached to it. yeah, the conditionality use will be watching those very, very closely. indeed, because of course, if you come back on the most vulnerable a likely to suffolk, we are very conscious of the vulnerable groups in afghanistan, particularly women and girls and children and their rights. and we will be doing all that we can to ensure that they have access to health services that they have access to health education and that their, their rights to health and other rights are respected. but you know, and to that, to that extent, we at provincial level and incredible where, wherein,
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in communications with the health authorities, you can count on w h. i, when you, when partners to be amongst the best advocates for women and girls and other vulnerable groups in the country, but not only advocates will be delivering services as well. we take these responsibilities very, very seriously. and just finally, and i want to come back to the regional lay neighbors can help both agencies and the country of palestine itself focused on is certainly keeping some parts of its border length open, its allowing its nationals to come back into the country and ask guns to head back into have gun us and how important all those land borders, not just the pocket on the land borders, but the iranian ones as well. i think i think land borders will become increasingly important as a source of delivering. i mean, there's a lot of movement across the board is across the region all the time. the, the promote economies as well. you know, we won't have an interest in,
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in the economy in afghanistan, getting back on the street as soon as possible. this will be one of the biggest challenges because all the objectives that we have for development and humanitarian issues will depend on it on, on the strong economy as well. so the board is for a whole bunch of reasons. public health, economic, social familial security, many maintained their operation is going to be vital. and from a public health perspective, where i was concerned about the spread of disease, of course, kind of a job. big priority right now. so working with a board us and making sure that they functioning is k. absolutely. dr. richard brandon, it's good to get your insight and thanks very much for your time. you know, how busy and how valuable it has at the moment. thank you. thank you very much. thank you plenty more here on the out there and these are including i can't afford
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to missouri. i don't want struggling to make ends meet the challenges facing millions of americans as inflation continues to rise. delay to get an alignment. judgment on pollution in jakarta is put on hold for a 7th time and yet more high profile plans announced that withdrawal from the last tenant grand slam. peter will have the list and the story in schools in thailand is facing its was quote of ours outbreak with more than a 1000000 infections. the government says it'll received 61000000 astrazeneca shots later this year. but just 9 percent of its population has been fully vaccinated. what's called hydra reports and bangkok volunteers and helping the vaccine roll at 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
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a volunteer team, organized by his cock temple to one of the many poor communities suffering from thailand's worst cobra. 1900 outbreak since the start of the pandemic, bowpoint. 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, industries is so deep. they are turning to the court to hold the government. accountable. bar massage parlors are big business in thailand. at least they work before the pandemic. the industry used to bring in over a $1000000000.00 a year,
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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. coven 19 restrictions, spots 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 toward the the prime minister's office and the ministry of public health. both refused our 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
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most help. got either al jazeera, bangkok, australia has reported a daily cove in 19 rec, cold war than a 1000 new cases. the 1st time since the start of the pandemic. the majority of infections when the most popular state of new south wales and the delta variance has been blamed. the rise and infections and deaths. officials have been urging more people to get vaccinated an zealand prime minister just and then has defended her government's cave in 1900 elimination strategy. the country is dealing with its largest outbreak yet with more than 270 delta infections. critics, i tried to stamp out the various could be a losing battle, but all done says it's still possible. nothing at the moment a piece to us to be necessarily unexpected. but we do need to be incredibly vigilant. you will have heard, i say many times before, delta has changed the rules of the game and that's why we changed our game plan. no
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one wants to be locked down for ever. and i can tell you now that is not our intention is we have new toes for managing carpet and we will use them. but for now, what we vaccinate elimination is the goal. and we can do it. catherine bennett is the chair in epic mil logy, the institute for health transformation at the can university in melbourne. and she says, no straining, vaccinations will be crucial to controlling the outbreaks and moving away from 0 covey approach were on target by the end of october to to be at 70 percent vaccination rates in that community. so if that continues, then we've core out to where we were. but in fact, we could have been a lot further along and prevented the large case now that we're seeing now, particularly new south wales. has we got those back to nation right up that bit sooner because really will start to say in the latter part of next month, the vaccination at levels where it will start to really support what we're trying
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to do with those public health measures. after that point, we want to get the case numbers down, particularly new south wales because it really is overloading that, to try and isolate capacity. so i think we're going to stay locked down in various forms in place until way we really do hand over to those explanation levels. and that's probably not going to happen in october. that's probably not in the so we'll see, i think a gradual shift to transition to where we can rely more on those fact same levels. so i think this is going to be a process that then transitions us out of code is 0 thinking, which is where we got to in these last few months, much more into that. how we live. we've covered that particularly trying to get those levels up. so we can handle g or, and not rely on lockdown. will japan is suspended 1600000 doses of the maternal maxine after reports of contamination of the jobs distributor, identified particle matter and it's vials more than a week ago. but japan and then
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a said no safety or efficacy issues have been identified and the suspension was just a precaution. government is this that will have little effect on the countries vaccine rollout.

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