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watchdog raises the alarm off. the north korea is reported to have restarted operations at its main nuclear plot. and as for the much anticipated w lan, messy f o, p s u has finally happened. the odds and time legend coming off the bench on sunday night. we'll have his highlights later and then use our ah, the us action evacuations are in that final hours as it winds down. it's 20 emission in afghanistan. last few flights are taking off from cobble airport. several rockets will fly towards the facility a few hours ago. i saw the wing and i've canister has claimed responsibility somewhere intercepted by an anti missile defense system. the us troops are the last to leave among the international forces. more than 110000 people,

including afghans at risk, have been flown out in the past 2 weeks. but thousands of afghans remain stranded. the looming humanitarian crisis in afghanistan, i said emotion a flurry. of diplomatic efforts, secretary of state anthony blinking will hold a virtual meeting with several allies and regional powers, including katara and turkey, while france and the will urge the un security council to create a safe zone in cobble to protect humanitarian operation. they are seeking to involve both russia and china, who are permanent members of the un security council. we have 3 correspondence covering all the latest developments in afghanistan. charlie angela is live in london for us. alan fisher in washington, d. c. but 1st, let's go to charlotte bellis in cobble. so charlotte, what's the latest the we're hearing on those attacks in the airport in the fall out from that. so the rocket attacks have in this morning i still has just claimed

responsibility. they say that they shot 6 petition office would be a force. residents told us this morning in the area where they were shot from that there was a car that these rockets were, came from a trunk and the direction of the fort about 4 kilometers to the waste. at the end of the runway. one had a building, another we understand land is inside the open area inside the perimeter. and then the ram and the missile system managed to intercept several more. and i can tell you, i heard it this morning at around 645. it's a distinctive thunderous, echoing across cobble as it intersect to these rockets. in fact, it was actually installed in early july by the form of africa and government and by the americans because they were worried about the taliban, sending rockets into the airport against them. now of course the taliban is in charge and the rock, this rocket and missile system is defending the town of on against i phone. and

those evacuations from, from the airport winding down. now as we get to the final hours. how's that been going? certainly on the time in now, oh cor diplomatic sof has been removed. naming just from us troops remained only a few less on the ground. the white house this morning actually said that those rocket attacks were not going to interrupt beer evacuation mission. they would continue on. what had c 17 landing taking off all day now, but it is certainly coming to the tailing. only 1200 people evacuated yesterday. put that into context. 21000 were evacuated the week before, so certainly slowing down now. the last us troops are in this one pocket of the import, surrounded by the telephone and the us board and a cover for them to protect them. and these last hours they've been a 5 digit circling about us for a few hours now. and i understand to be $52.00 bama is on its way from cut off.

shot a thank you, shot a bellis in cobble force. let's bring an allen fisher, who's in washington dc. some 1st off, alan. what are you hearing from your and about those evacuations? how smoothly it's been going and in particular, the coordination with the taliban look that there is no doubt that the americans would like to close their eyes and suddenly this be wednesday or thursday with the final hours of this operation carried out and no further loss of life either on the american side or of an afghan civilians. of course, we saw in the last 24 hours that the targeted someone they said was going to send a car bomb towards the airport. under reports that the number of civilians, including children, were killed. the americans want this to happen really as smoothly as they can over the next few hours. the whole idea is to get as many americans out, those, the green card holder was a resident. and those that have the special immigrant visas. and those considered at risk of the americans can fill,

evacuate their obviously working with other nations as well. just in case the british of the french of people that also need to know that they have finished their operations. and then it's about getting the trip. so they will be the final ones to leave, but you remember that up until the last minute the americans have said they will continue to evacuate people that are at risk. so really the just want to get through these final few hours and then they will be able to say that the mission in afghanistan after 20 years is finally over. and there is this, this understanding that people can leave off to the 31st the u. s. saying it, it has some, some leverage on that with the tyler bond. what exactly does that leverage involved? well if you, i think countries around the world say they've come to an agreement with the taliban, that they will continue to allow people who have the relevant papers to leave the country. even after august, the 31st and jim sullivan said that the united states has leverage to make this

happen very unspecified leverage. but we know that taliban are desperate for international support and international aid. we know. have you spoken to one analyst here loop. the taliban didn't move into power with some level of local support. and that is because that many afghans thought the previous government was corrupt and crime was out of hand. and they're hoping that the taliban might be able to do something about it, but it's much easier to launch insurgency than it is to run the country. and so the taliban acknowledge that they need international help. and so that is the leverage that the united states and others are going to use. it's going to be about getting international aid is making sure that current state can flow into the country. it's about even simple things like diplomatic recognition. the problem they've got is that there are very few countries trust the one of the taliban. they want to see how the act rather than what they say. here's another problem that they've got with

had the difficulties of people who have the documentation showing up and then around the airport and then being turned back by talib fighters. and the problem there is that while the hierarchy agree on one thing, it doesn't always filter. they don't have that administrative network that you do, perhaps in an army like the u. s. army, so that is a problem as well. so there could be difficulties with it. but the us seems to think the after august, the 31st. if someone has been given permission to leave, they will be able to leave and the taliban will stand by that. but of course, the proof is always what happens rather than what is that certainly is for the moment to alan fish. a live 1st there in washington. let's talk to charlie angela in london now. so charlie, what more we hearing about all of these various diplomatic efforts? yes. a series of international meetings planned to, as alan said, hold the taliban to account and make sure that they stand firm and that commitment

to allow those people who want to leave a safe way out of the country and the prime minister boris johnson. this is an absolute priority. so in a few hours the u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking will host a virtual meeting with key allies and g 7 partners to try and work out who is going to run the pool so that civilian flights can resume and they're going to be bringing in turkey. and cats are, who are considered to have more influence than most on the new taliban administration, u. k. foreign minister, dominant. rob is also expected to set out some basic principles for how the u. k. will engage with the taliban on approved pragmatic basis and he's expected to underline the need for the taliban to stick to those counter terrorism commitments that they made in doha. and then later tonight in new york, they'll be a un security council meeting to discuss creating that safe stone. you mentioned in

cobble to allow people access to the whole. now this is a proposal put forward by britain, france, and germany. it's one that we have seen in other operations and president, my call is meant to be throwing his weight behind this. but crucially, they're going to need the backing of russia and china to other countries who expected to have a lot of influence with the taliban. going forward, so we all seeing on multiple front diplomatic push as those military efforts. and charlie angela in london. thank you. katara played a huge role in the global evacuation efforts. and it currently hosts tens of thousands of afghan evacuees. both carter and turkey are important regional plays with some influence in the future of afghanistan and what that future may look like under the taliban. let's talk to matthew bryce, who is a senior fellow at the atlantic council and served as a u. s. diplomatic join us via skype now from budrum. thanks so much for being with

us. so let's talk about katara and turkey, 1st of all and the role that they play in all of this. because this is largely with that without those 2 nations. this is largely seen as kind of west and dominated efforts. so how important is their involvement in all of this in, in, in that respect? well, i think it's really important. i mean, 1st of all, turkey and cuts are have been cooperating on a whole number of issues. i mean, economically business, but also defense insecurity with turkey having a military base and contract. and yeah, i mean, the united states, it's so painful me for me to say, but has completely discredit itself as a, as a significant player in afghanistan and, and it's sort of dragged along. it's nato allies will. and so you see the flurry of diplomacy that your correspondent was just talking about a moment ago, which came after everybody's already pulled their troops out and it has is, you know, turning out the lights behind them. so the whole situation is backward. so turkey

and kaltura, yeah, they have special influence with the spanish, with the i don't want to just say with a tale, but turkey has a long standing relationship with, with the afghan, jeff chemistry, people. and you know, there are previous people from that were opposed to the tyler bond that sought refuge in turkey, even former warlords. and then, and then turkey has play the essential role in defending or how costly international airport and is willing to continue, continue doing that. has played a crucial role in humanitarian evacuations. there's a big story out today about how $11.00 comes to the vacuum. we gave birth on a turkish airlines flight just the other day. and then car has been receiving thousands, tens of thousands of iraqis from afghanistan. so this is the big moment for turkey and cut our 2 step into how to put a vacuum of credibility at as far as the u. s. and the european powers, you know, it was mentioned as well earlier by a correspondent alan fish that they are taking

a sort of wait and see approach in their dealings with the taliban. and that will important, you know, international recognition that the taliban are seeking that it's all about what they do rather than what they say the same, the right things. but they need to see proof of that. how do you see that going forward then? well, you know, it's to be expected that for sure, washington is going to try to be very careful feeling that it's really been humiliated by what's happened and then europe and allies also so that they can say we, we cannot say we trust the taliban. they don't, they shouldn't give, give in history. but they're in this perverse situation of being totally dependent upon the taliban for the security of their troops who remain, especially in the u. s. s. the, the residual ones are extra traded and also of whatever americans and europeans remain behind unable to be evacuated along with. of course we have danny citizens who helped the united states and the coalition all these here. so wait and see

approach is what they're, what there has to be. it's just, it's a shame that not only that, it's come to this with the diplomacy happening ex post facto. but also that the focus of that diplomacy, understandably right now, is very much on just getting people out, getting europeans and that kind of stuff. people out. what has to come into the discussion or is, is strategic stability in the region. and the fact that an unstable janice then leads to tremendous instability throughout central asia, south asia, a lot of american commentators are saying, well, you know, the u. s. is getting out president biden's ending a war. but the conflicts going to continue the ramifications for pakistan in its radical population elements and western china and throughout the former soviet states of central asia are huge. and somebody's got to fill the leadership vacuum left by the united states to figure out in a strategic way how to restore a sense of stability. and it's gonna have to be somehow taking the tall about,

into account. good to speak with you. matthew bryce, thanks will be with honor. thank you aplenty. more ahead on this news out including the hurricane i the back during the u. s. fated. louisiana. were live in new orleans with tens of thousands of people without power . also ahead, new zealand, extend code 19 locked down and its largest city while relaxing restriction for the rest of the country. i'd like to find out who came out on top after an epic final round that the b m. w championship ah, kill. that's going to have the 1st for the 1st time in a decade, palestinians and israelis have held high level talks, palestinian president bus, speaking to israel's defense,

mister ben against for more than 2 hours in ramallah. john says they discuss security and the economy of the occupied west bank and gaza meeting follows israeli prime minister natalie bent natalie bennett, visit to the united states, where he met president joe biden. natasha, my name is in west jerusalem. prime minister natalie bennett is already down playing the meeting. he's saying there was no quote diplomatic process with the palestinians, nor will there be one. huh. the group that governs the gaza strip is condemning the meeting. say that is or characterizing it as a political failure. we've reached out to the palestinian authority or the p. a for comment we have yet to hear back from them. is this meeting is happening as there are nightly protesting clashes between palestinians in the gaza strip and israeli soldiers. since last week, 2 palestinians have been killed and in and israeli soldier shot in the head. anger

is simmering over the fact that israel has been slow to allow desperately needed aid and reconstruction materials into the gaza strip. so while there might be a pivot in terms of engagement, been a decade since my mood, a boss, the president of the palestinian authority has met with such a high level member of the israeli government. do not expect a pivot in terms of policy. rather, it's in keeping with what this new government in power since june has said it would do. there are size north korea has restarted its main nuclear reactor to produce weapons fuel. the atomic aid agency says it's observed the discharge of cooling water from the plant indicating it is in use. us officials say the development under scores. what they say is the urgent need for dialogue and diplomacy on the nuclear zation. but for now to carry off, he is the head of the verification and security policy coordination office at the

international atomic energy agency. he joins us via skype now from vienna. thanks very much for being with us. now. if these reports are to be believed and north korea has restarted some sort of this part of its nuclear weapons program, why are they doing this now? well, thank you. just a small correction. i'm the former head of verification at the a while and january this year, the north korean leader kim young and announced that the north korean nuclear program would now focus on miniaturized thing. and standardizing the nuclear warheads that north korea has, and also to make nuclear warheads or medium range ballistic missiles and also make fuel for nuclear submarine. so this report by the, i suggest that the young be on back knox reactor, which is

a platonic production reactor, has been in operation now since july. they also report that at the same site, it's a, it's a location, a facility to extract to tony m from the fuel rods of the reactor. so the reactor has about 8000 you, right? then they would use somewhere around 6 kilograms of weapon usable, plutonium? well, 1st of all, thank you for correcting me on that to your i slew the right. of course, my apologies. do you of course, the former you are in the form position in the i. e. a i want to ask you though is the u. s. at this point, when they say that they, that there is an urgent need for a diplomatic solution to this, what sort of a position are they in right now to, to focus on that with, with what's going on in the canister moment? yes. unfortunately, the bite in administration has been slow off the mark on the north korea while of

course they were dealing with the renewal of the strategic reduction with russia, which happened in february. the resumption of talk with iran on the comprehensive plan of action. fighting with will bit and also there were draws problem of not is done. so these are a number of important programs. but unfortunately, it seems that the united states prohibition position has not changed. which is calling for north korea to completely eliminate its nuclear weapons without offering a compensatory package that would provide incentives for north korea to do so, such as the removal of all the un security council sanctions, food assistance and so on. i want to ask you about this a more broadly. de, there is this, there is this view that no matter how you, you handle north career in these negotiations, no matter how, how hard you try to push them, whether it's with sanctions or anything else. north korea will never give up,

it's nuclear weapons program. they did the idea that this is the only call that they really have to play on the international fronts. and that's, that's, that has to be, has to be recognised, has to be confronted all of these discussions. what do you say to that? while there's a lot of credibility in that line of thinking, however, that would be an arrangement with north korea where it degrees not to expand its current nuclear weapons capability, not to expand its ballistic missile capability, not to resume testing of nuclear weapons, not to resume guessing long range ballistic missiles and perhaps to scale back the extent of its nuclear program somewhat. so that would be a major accomplishment. it is absolutely correct. that's the all demand for complete, irreversible verifiable disarmament of north korea's nuclear program has never

worked at. it's not like if you were good to speak with you. tara grove, thanks me was thank you. a corona virus lockdown is being extended in new zealand. biggest city, oakland for 2 more weeks, restrictions are being used for the rest of the country. one woman with a preexisting medical condition has died after receiving the pfizer vaccine health ministry says she suffered a rest side effect the causes, inflammation of heart and health officials. in the australian state of new south wales are wanting october could be the worst month of its covert $900.00 outbreak. its premier says extra precautions are being taken october is likely to be our worst month in terms of pressure on the system. and that's why we gearing up for that. we have been for nearly 2 years. can i say again a hospital system is under pressure? we will need to do things differently. of course we will, where we need to manage things differently. we're in the middle of a pandemic,

of course, but will we cope? of course we will. a syrian government forces are increasing a tax on the southern city of the activists there, posted these images showing the moment missiles hit, one of the main mosques in a residential neighborhood. thousands of people have fled the heavy shelling in the past few days. the city was under a blockade in june, off the people refused to surrender weapons and allow forces to such houses of people on the u. s. gulf coast are waking up to damage towns flooded streets and no electricity. that's after hearken. either made land for new in new orleans as a category for storm. late on sunday either has been downgraded to a tropical storm before cost is warn. the danger is not over. more flooding is expected as the storm moves north. by n b, c j gray joins us live now from new orleans. so j bring us up to date on

what's happening there now. well, the damage here is severe and it is very widespread. we've got sunrise here, we've got some sun so we can see what's happened. i want to show you some of the damage just behind us. here you see a roof that was pulled away from a building thrown into this area of the french quarter and pulling down with it a street sign that had a traffic light attached to it. if you work up that twisted metal that was holding that sign up, you can see the balcony here and the wind pulled away the shutters and pushed open doors not only year, but across the entire 1st quarter across the entire new orleans metro area. windows have been shattered and bone out. if you look up on the balconies here and you can see people along the balconies and some of these areas where the windows have been blown out. it is a just a mass down here. and again, really across the entire region at this point,

power one of the most severe problems. there is no power in the metro area of new orleans at this point, more than a 1000000 people without power. and that's because the transmission lines 8 of those lines that bring the electricity into the city there on the mississippi river . right now, they've got to be extracted, they've got to be repaired. that's gonna be a very difficult task. one that is sure to take quite some time and of course miss her can come. and coincidentally, on the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina, which was the worst was hearken to have hit that area. is there a sense i know, i appreciate it. it's quite early to tell at this point, but is there a sense that as bad as this has been it could have been worse. yeah. well yeah i think the technical issues that led to katrina were salt and this storm prove that look, katrina was a water issue. the levies gateway and the flooding is what caused the big problems

here with ida. it was the when the, when it is what really caused the issues here, but the levies for the most part of health here. we know of a few breaches with water pouring into some communities. but overall they've done a good job. the pumping system that pumps this water out of the area and into like punch trainer into the mississippi river. they've been flawless. they've been getting water out and away. and so flooding, not as big a deal, especially in the new orleans area. not, not as intense, certainly as katrina and really not a problem at all. it's the wind damage from this storm. nbc j gray in new orleans. thank you. j as time for the weather. his kara, hello, they let scott in south asia and for india, we've seen severe flooding across some states in the northeast. that's thanks to heavy monsoon rains. we've had more than 250000 people effected by the flooding, but not just here. it's also in bangladesh. we've got rivers above danger levels,

and we've seen flash flooding in the north and north central areas. we could see more of that as those rains continue to fall, but they really do pick up across the west coast of india on tuesday. we've got amber alerts out for good. you're right state and con can and go where we could see some flooding of those 2 rental downpours kick in. but for the south, it is looking a lot finer, but a few showers coming in to sri lanka and up in the north is wet weather for new delhi. and it is looking west for the north of pakistan from when stay. now it's looking very wet as well across the central areas of china as we move to east asia, may you fund is passing those pockets of torrential rain to the east. so shang don . providence is likely to see some very heavy falls. we could see flooding here, and by wouldn't say the korean peninsula is going to be inundated with rain. that is going to move towards japan. there was sunshine ahead of this, but the wet weather is going to kick in from the mid week. i still ahead on the

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a combo airport as the last us flights take off before tuesdays departure deadline . i still cases it was behind the attack. the us says the airport remains operating us holding a virtual meeting with allies and key regional partners, turkey and casa, are discussing the future of the country. 5 permanent security council members, also meeting separately to talk about the continuation of a f. as western allies leaves the country. let's talk now to kristen salumi, whose life from the united nations headquarters force in new york. so chris, in an action packed day at the you and what are we expecting? absolutely. while the world's focus has been on efforts to evacuate people from cobbles, airport, the united nations has been very concerned about humanitarian access for the people who are being left behind in afghanistan. there are some 3 and a half 1000000.