covered, so listening posts on the us is always of interest to people around the world. people pay attention to what is on here, and i'll do this very good that bringing the news to the world from here. oh, i there out. the last us troops leave afghanistan, ending america's longest from ice withdrawal signifies both the end of the military component vacuum ration, but also the end of the nearly 20. your mission that began and fantasy, and shortly after september 11th 2000 arg hello money. this is there a lie from joe was so coming off,

fireworks and gum fight in kabul. the taliban celebrate the departure of the us saying history has been made. thousands of gowns remain behind the un security council adults. the resolution urging safe passage for them in the news more than a 1000000 homes without power and the u. s. states of louisiana, the remnants of parking i moved in last ah, it's just gone midnight gmc, that's 4 30 am in the ass gown, capital, and the last american troops have left kabul. mocking the end of 20 years of war in afghanistan on the confirmation from the pentagon comes after 2 weeks of chaos on the grounds. the last c, 17 transport plane took off nearly 5 hours ago clearing afghan space before the

announcement was made. i'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from afghanistan in the end of the military mission to evacuate. american citizens are country nationals and vulnerable afghans. the last c 17 lifted off from hammered cars, international airport on august 30th this afternoon. at 3 29 pm east coast time. and the last manned aircraft is now clearing the air space above afghanistan. while the taliban hail the departure of us troops describing it as a historic moment saying, i've got to stand, has now gained full independence. and there was celebrated gum fight and fireworks heard across kabul. the thousands of people still want to leave the country. the un security council has adopted a resolution to let them go safely. but it's not known if the taliban will comply. more than a 110000 people have been evacuated in the past 2 weeks,

but those left behind include many who worked as u. s. allies. well, we have to correspondence covering this story for us to sign a moment. we'll get reaction from washington dc with gabriel alexander the last 10 to rob mcbride, who is in kabul. president j bought and keeping his word to withdraw from afghanistan on by the 31st of august. but of course it's come at a cost, took us through the events the last few hours. that's right. i mean, it's interesting in a couple of hours from now it will be dawn here and people in cobble people across . i've got this done. we'll start to wake up to what is a new reality that for the 1st time in 20 years? no. us soldiers on african soil. this is obviously being welcomed by the taliban and the taliban supporters. but for many people here in afghanistan, they will be trepidations about what the future holds. the departure of the

americans in such a sudden fashion, the victory and the ascendancy of the taliban equally as suddenly here, inhabiting control of cobble and the rest of the country. with the collapse of the form of government and really looking ahead to a very uncertain future now solely in the hands of the new taliban governments. all of this started to unfold really quite quickly, late monday, through into the early hours of tuesday morning here local time. that's been growing speculation with the continuing pace of the evacuation flights with so much activity in the air of a cobble with lumbering transport planes taking off from the airport and, and heading off out of afghanistan just when this evacuation exercise would be completed. and just after midnight local time, so it was actually on the 31st of august here in afghanistan,

the date set to the deadline by the us administration. for the end of this evacuation that we started to get word on social media through emails, through different method messaging. the last craft it was confirmed, had already taken off with departing africa. that space and then began to celebrate to re gunfire around cobbled volleys of shots fide into the trace, racing up into the night sky. and all of that. so of the aircraft that we had been hearing for i was in days previously leading up to this air, really gone really quite quickly that the us presence of gone and we heard confirmation that the taliban have now taken complete control of the airport from has been much reaction yet from ordinary afghans now that the americans are completely out of afghanistan, it is really

a mixed picture throughout africa in parts where it is the stronghold of the taliban, such as in parts of the south of the country. but also you have to be said, given the, the broad sweep of the taliban this time around a parts of the west of the country and in the north, it will be welcomed by many people as a change in government. people have had enough of the previous government in places like capital, which has had a far more worldly outlook, which is benefited. it can be said from the past 20 years of foreign influence. here there have been advances in civil society and so on. there is far more skepticism, far more concern and worry just about the what the future holds. and we have seen this with the way that people have besieged the airport, trying to any way to get on a flight out of here. the way people have been heading towards the borders and i think to be blinking. the us secretary of state is summed up many of the concerns here of no ordinary africans,

really with these healthy dose dose of skepticism about the taliban intentions and their motivations. moving forward saying it's not so much their words that the softer approach of the taliban compared with the taliban that we sort of 20 years ago. they will really be judged by their actions calling upon the taliban. here in afghanistan to be true to their word. when it comes to guaranteeing safe passage for people who still want to get out of afghanistan, but still have to have the cooperation of the afghan war. now. taliban government to give them the paperwork to do that and so on. so it really remains to be seen where we start from here, this evacuation exercise with all of its trauma with all of its chaos. it's been one episode. the new episode really starts from this day. the 31st of august, the 1st day of the, of the, of the post american chapter in this long story of afghanistan.

many, thanks for that, rob mcbride there for us in campbell. well, as we were hearing that from rob, we did indeed hear from us sexual estate, antony blinking in the last hour or so. he says he is working with the new afghan government that will serve the country's national interest. we need with a ton of under the past few weeks to enable our evacuation operations going forward . any engagement with the taliban government and the ball will be driven by one thing only or vital national interest. if we can work with new asking government in a way that help secure those interests, including the safe return, my fears the u. s. citizen has been held hostage in the region since early last year. and in a way that brings greater stability to the country in region and protects the gains for the past 2 decades. we will do it. but we will not do it on the basis of trust

or faith. let's bring in gabriel elizondo, who is in washington dc. gabriel, the military effort. now complete the focus now is on the diplomatic efforts. and we had that from us secretary of state onto the blinking outlining. what exactly that would involve took us through what he had to say. well, there is a lot that came out of blinking address there. i mean, he talked about the diplomacy side. he said that the u. s. well, where the u. s. doesn't have a physical presence anymore in afghanistan, there will still be some diplomatic channels open. they'll be moving their diplomatic mission to doha. cut are now. and they said that they're still going to be working diligently to bring home what they think are a little less than $200.00 american citizens still in afghanistan that want to get out. and he said he expects that the taliban will fulfill their both public and private pledges to allow anyone that wants to leave afghanistan to do so. as part

of that, he said that they are going to be working with allies. he cited katara and turkey to help reopen the airport in cobble to allow for some potential private charters to get operating in and out of there. in the future. the big picture of all of this is the pentagon, announcing that 823000 civilians were evacuated from afghanistan in the last couple weeks. it makes it the largest single largest air lift, orchestrated by the united states in history from the united states to 6000 us citizens as well. and interestingly enough, kenneth mackenzie, the centcom commander, was very complimentary towards the taliban saying that they were in his words, very helpful. especially in the last few days in securing the perimeter of the airport to allow the us to pull out of the airport and do their evacuations over

the last 2 weeks. bottom line know is as of this moment, the u. s. completely has 0 troops or diplomats in afghanistan as we saying now ending this 20 year war. indeed, a very historic moment many things about gabriel and his under that 1st in washington dc. well, as we mentioned earlier, the un security council adopted a resolution to let people who want to leave ask honest on do so safely, but it's not known. if the taliban will go along with this. the u. s. hopes the resolution will protect people's rights to leave afghanistan, no matter the reason. consistent with the right to leave any country including one's own, everybody must be allowed to safely leave afghanistan for whatever reason, when ever they want, by air or by land. this is the utmost,

this is of the utmost importance to us. the u. k. says the taliban must uphold commitments. it's already made to ensure i've gone to san doesn't become a breeding ground. armed groups are going to stone can never again become a safe haven for terrorists. we have condemned unequivocally the attack on cobble airport last week. and we reiterate our condolences and sympathy to the bereaved and to the injured. a coordinated approach will be vital to counter any extremist threat emanating from afghanistan and we called on the taliban to uphold their commitments contained in the doe har agreement. still ahead on al jazeera, we look back at the different strategies by the u. s. during 20 years of war in our

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we could see flooding possible land slides and mud slides here. now that pushes off into japan, it's going to turn things rather cool for tokyo as while we got the temperature sitting in the mid twenties. by the time we get to wednesday, the wet weather will arrive from the mid week. now when you move to south asia has been very wet in the north east. we have seen some severe flooding across the sam state and in northern parts of bangladesh. the rain needs a slightly here on tuesday, but it does pick up across at western coast. we have got some amber warnings out for heavy rain here. down in the south though, it is looking a lot. dwyer, some sunshine breaking through. for up in the north though, we have got thunderstorms for delhi and those expected to last well into the weekend that weather update. sponsor cut on airways. that light emitted from history kept alive only in the family tales of those justifying, had to release for people who didn't seem to these damaging story. as the polish

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of the taliban hail the departure of us streets describing it as a new start man and saying i've got a game full independent started pretty damn fine, far away, half across a couple thousands of guns still wants to leave the un security council has adopted a resolution to let them go safely. it's not known if the taliban will have to go have takes a look at the decades of different strategies and goals by for us presidents most people will remember how it started. i feel like you're all of a sudden a demand, the taliban turnover, osama bin laden and al qaeda unanswered a few weeks later. a massive bombing campaign, along with the small force of around $1000.00 and special forces, soldiers and ca,

agents combined with the northern alliance in afghan, a stand and the taliban fell. within months. the u. s. along with its allies turned to nation building with big promises of lessons learned. we know this from not only intelligence, but from the history of military conflict in afghan stan, it's been one of initial success followed by long years of floundering an ultimate failure. we're not gonna repeat that mistake critic say that is exactly what happened as the u. s. turned more attention to the war in iraq. the us announced an end to major combat operations in afghanistan in 2003. a constitution was written elections followed. a new president, a new legislature with women taking positions of power. but as the years passed, the fighting continued. and as the taliban fought back and civilian casualties

mounted, a new us president had to make a decision. go bigger or go home. or overarching goal remains the same. us president, brock obama decided to send in an additional $70000.00 troops. then 30000 more by 2010, around 100000 us troops would be in afghanistan. in may of 2011 solid in london was found and killed in pakistan. but the war continued obama promise to bring most us troops home by the end of 2016. and then a new us president took over. a hasty withdraw would create a vacuum. the terrorists, including ices and al qaeda, would instantly fill. president donald trump announced an open ended deployment, but eventually signed a deal with the taliban. if they promised to keep out terrorist groups and not attack us troops, a full withdrawal will happen by may of 2021. but then yet another new us

president was sworn in, and president joe barton announced the war was ended. most american forces would leave. he promised it would be an orderly exit. unlike vietnam, the tale vaughan is not the south, the north vietnamese army. they're not, they're not remotely comparable terms of capability. there's going to be no circumstance for you to see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the united states from afghanistan. it is not at all come from . but his critics say this is actually worse than vietnam. as the taliban search, the u. s. deployed more than 5000 troops to the airport. chaos in the streets as the taliban took over the country and the capital after just 11 days, the airport overwhelmed as thousands tried to flee some desperately clinging to the outside of a u. s. cargo plane only to plunge to their death. the airport later secured the united states military decided the best solution was to work with the taliban,

which was then in charge of deciding who stays and who goes into the airport. but then suddenly, americans were told to stay away from the airport in attack was imminent, and it came to suicide bombers believe to be isis k. more than 170 afghans dead. along with 13 members of the us military says americans service members who gave their lives overuse word, but it's totally appropriate. here were heroes. the evacuation continued the promise to get every american out. every afghan who helped us broken us. officials say they will continue to try and get everyone out, but they say a will not be a job for the military. but the state department likely using the only leverage really has money that the taliban needs 20 years of bloodshed and battles of promises and of unimaginable pain of encouraging signs and setbacks

to decades of war and in the end, a hasty, some se, humiliating retreat for the united states leaving afghan, a stand like it was and the day the war started with the taliban back in control. but now better armed with us weapons. and it is the taliban who hold the power to decide the fate of tens of thousands of afghans who helped us only to be left behind. as the last us troops had at home, patty calling al jazeera washington. hospitals in the us say to louisiana have been forced to evacuate dozens of patients. so to hurricane ida knocked out power to many areas, including the city of new orleans. i made land full on sunday, but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm for cost to say it's still poses a threat as it moves ne, into the state of mississippi. phil laval has moved from that. this is what the effort to get power back on in louisiana. it looks like we're actually across the

board and mississippi where we've got hundreds of trucks, electricity repair trucks, by all being lined up to go across brackets, louisiana, some of the ready because this is i major, major outage is just a localized issue. all of new orleans is without power, some 1000000 residents. the power went off about 6 o'clock just as the storm came in, and it is being described as a transformation failure at the head of the boss of the power company says that the grid is 100 percent mush buy down power lines down, telephone line, and this is a real issue, this is not just about people not being able to charge that phones. people all living people are stranded rather in the house. so she didn't leave. they have no air conditioning. this is louisiana, it is war. if i could very hot it's humid, it's the end of august, and it's always warm at this time of year. so for those people who are stranded at home, the power really needs to come back home, which is why here in mississippi,

they are doing everything they council and hand. i get the lights on the sockets working, i guess they paid in california. thousands have been forced to leave the resort city of lake tahoe. as wall fund moves closer, we called the fire, which broke out on august. the 14th has already been through more than 700 square kilometers, destroying hundreds of buildings. so i just say climate change has made the region warmer in the past 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme. and wildfires more destructive. the mount who killed 4 people in several asian rums farm near the u. s. city of atlanta could face the death penalty. roberts are in long admitted to the matters in cherokee county. the keys of killing for more people in a neighboring county. the facts in march raise awareness of rising violence against people of asian descent in the united states. georgia has the worst

corona virus infection and death rate in the world health care system that is close to buckling, that the government has a reopen the country for tourism to help the economy. critics say, if it's going to stay open, people must be encouraged to get vaccinated. open force, your walk reports from tbilisi, queuing up to the vaccines. this converted sports hall is being used to administer around 3000 shots a day. no chat is beneath the weight. is over, my uncle died actually with my, with the me and my friends and my family are scared to each other freely. we will be looking for so yeah, we will be more safe and we will be more able to see each other. georgia has the worst reported rates of corporate 19 infection and death per capita in the world. intensive care units are almost bo, this field hospital stands ready to take patience. yet only around 13 percent of

georgian adults have been fully vaccinated. many more are reluctant to do so. really a lot of they remember how this nurse died last year, shortly after encouraging others to take the astrazeneca vaccine. and they're listening to the orthodox church. these priests compare the vaccination program to a nazi science experiment. the prime minister himself a devout man, only recently got vaccinated. following public criticism, i blamed government of georgia and the prime minister to be not active in this process. they could have conduct more aggressive, more active campaigning support of explanation process. but they haven't done it. i put that to the ministry of health. they said we are actually working more actively and we are trying to educate people and to help them decide on getting

a vaccine considering what her benefits already is. and we want to respect their decision at the stage with georgia death and infection rates topping the global char. your thirties are scrambling to react one of the solutions if the public will come to the vaccination, clearly bring the clinic to the public. this mobile service offering vaccinations is just being rolled out. there's no appointment needed yet. many remained skeptical or misinformed is woman told me she had coffee 900 twice and wasn't allowed a vaccine. this by the to be said she wasn't either wild health guidelines suggest otherwise. this man said he'd give it a try. people in georgia are getting vaccinated, but not fast enough yet to bring the pandemic here under control of in 1st year walker al jazeera,

typically see rallies have been held in bugs dashed to support relatives demanding justice for hundreds of missing people. a human rights watch report says security forces are behind many of the 4th disappearances. tons of chatter boats now from deca. i surely breaks down as she describes the moment for 23 year old son was picked up by an elite police unit in 2013 to this day there is no trace of him. i want to live. my son was picked up by the rapid action battalion from the shoes in the area of darker. we went to all relevant tours to witness account and proof, asking for help. but they said they have no knowledge about him instead of harassing us and claim that our son is at home. my son was not involved in politics . the pain is too much to bear. human rights observed, say a security forces and bung with dash, have long committed,

great human rights abuses, including under previous governments, other family members of the disappear people along with many others. i've gathered here at the bank of the national press club in the capital city back to protest against disappearing their calling on the government to release activists and members of the opposition. i've been sick or to me. several local and international human rights organization. recently our top un officials, donors and freight partners to step up measures to whole senior bangladesh. the security forces, members accountable for many hold seems to be all they have now had my husband. so he was picked up by police in plain clothes, near the central jail. he was involved with opposition, student politics, whatever he might be. i just want him returned the band with home ministry and the rapid diction battalion did not respond to our 0 request for an interview day. all

the family members organized by mere dog got together to protest against the enforced disappearances of our family members by this fascist government. we want them to return the disappeared people and that justice is served. according to bangladesh, she human rights group, nearly 600 people have been forcibly disappeared by the security forces since 2009 . while some have been relieved. many others have become victims of extra judicial killings. scores are still missing me in june, 2019 my father smiled. her son was picked up from his shop and met put any of that. it has been 3 years. we have no news of our father a 3rd. it is not paying any attention to our jiquez. all i want is my father book. and you report by human rights watch documents, the details of 86 people missing in bangladesh, years later, many of their love land still don't know their fate. and no one has ever been held

to account can be charged re, i was just, dr. china has cut the amount of time children can spend gaming on line to 3 hours a week. the media says game is under the age of 18, will only be able to play between 8 pm and 9 pm on friday as well as weekends and holidays in response to growing concerns over gaming addictions. ah, this is out there are these you top stories. the pentagon has confirmed the last american troops have left kabul, marking the end of 20 years of war, and i got this done. the last c, 17 transport plane took off 5 hours ago.