i truly don't got to push it when you get it, then be a fee your room to ah, this is al jazeera ah hello, i'm barbara sarah. this is the al jazeera news, our live from london. thank you for joining us. coming up in the next 60 minutes in afghanistan, taliban government takes shape and talks begin to reopen cobbles, international airport claims of bribery and brutality. ask an interpreter as i say . there were blocked from leaving, cobbled by special units funded by the u. s. government areas of the northeastern

us submerged by the remains of hurricane ida. more than 20 people have been confirmed the dead. and remembering the greek composer who came to symbolize political resistance making the rockies has died at the age of 9 p. i'm devin ash, with board qualifying for the 2022 world cup in cas. i'll continue with european champions italy how to i surprise a one draw by bulk area me. we begin the news that we're enough. galveston, we're just days after the final us troops left the country. the taliban is expected to soon announce the formation of a new government. what form that administration takes could define the way the country's new rulers engage with the world. the u. k. government says it has no plans to recognize the taliban government, but is ready to engage directly with the group. foreign secretary dominic rob was

speaking in the after talks with catherine foreign minister mohammed vin. up to rahman. funny, also in the agenda, how to reopen cobble airport jamal shell has more from the the country from a number of non tiny confirm that a technical team from his country was deployed to. i've kind of spun off 24 hours ago. they're there to assess how to get that airport up and running. obviously, a lot of it was destroyed either by the huge amount of crowds who descended on it or intentionally by the occupying american forces as they left there. so it does require some sort of reconstruction or rebuilding, but the more important one is who is going to be running it was going to be man and gets into that the country. foreign minister said that his government was in talks with the turks as well as obviously to talk about the new rotors on the ground to

come up with some sorts of a mechanism. although that deal hadn't yet been finalized. he did indicate or point to the fact that they do expect something to be agreed within the coming days, which was corroborated to such an extent by word we're hearing from sources inside of kind of son who said to taliban are hoping that domestic flights will be resuming in the next few days and possibly international flights within a week or so, a senior resource told me that the initial flight, but i thought would be helping to operate would be either humanitarian or evacuation ones. that is their main focus for now. not necessarily civilian once. left canister, the new government will face any calling me on the brink of collapse. prices of essential goods including food and few will have sword. while the us says frozen about $10000000000.00 in national reserve, mostly held abroad, nearly half of garrison's population already rely on aid. well, before the taliban took over afghanistan,

90 percent of the population lived in poverty and with the flow of international aids trickling into a stock. 38000000 afghans are now facing food shortages. the un says it's stock pile of emergency food for hundreds of thousands of afghans will be exhausted by the end of this month. and with winter approaching, the un says it needs a $200000000.00 to feed the most vulnerable. it needs a total of $1300000000.00 for its overall 8 effort. plus the world health organization says it needs medicine for hospital food for malnourished children and supplies for coven 19 measures. the w h o stress that hospitals across a gun is found could soon run out of supplies. shall stratford has been to one of the busiest facilities in the capitol cobble and sent us this report. we went to a dialysis ward here. people being treated on dialysis machines, the doctor's very concerned these factors, a world bank funded project,

they haven't received any money for about 3 months now. that means none of the stuff are being paid. they're running very low on vital equipments and medicine in that department. one doctor said that if the people they're being treated do not get treatment on on a regular basis, they could die within 2 weeks. they also spoke about the fact that some medicines had arrived this morning, but only enough for a week. they were delivered by the organization medicine, cell phone chair, and they were actually for the emergency not the dialysis. not the dialysis department here refill scenes as well. one poll elderly woman on a stretcher, choking on on her own blood in a terrible state and did the elevators don't work simple things like that. she was having to be taken up on a stretcher for stories to the war to be treated so horrific and worrying scenes

that we also went to the college department. now this department is funded or was funded by the former government a similar scenario that the budget had been signed off by the government, but they haven't seen any money yet. big concerns there that the tale bond. we're not going to sign off on this money for whatever reason, whether it be seeing that that money could be used in, in a different sector. again, salaries hadn't been paid and death rates, mortality rates going up all the time. anyway. certainly people dying from cancer, again because of what people say is the mismanagement of funds that should be put towards raising greater awareness. many of the people coming to this hospital with stage 4 cancer and in a terrible state. so the situation here certainly is this hospital, and as i say it is the largest and that's gonna start is anything to go by the health in this country. he's hemorrhaging. and there are serious concerns of the

withholding of international money. could make things even worse. for more the humanitarian situation in afghanistan, we can speak now to layla matter. she's the advocacy and media director at the norwegian refugee council, and joins us live by skype from walls will. madam, thank you so much for joining us here in alger 0. i don't know if you could hear a correspond in their child stratford from a medical center in couple really painting a di or picture of everything that that's, that's needed and how the situation can get a much worse very soon. i know that the norwegian refugee council is temporarily suspended. the top ration are posted, but from the people on the ground, what are you hearing? are the most pressing needs as you've been reporting and as we hear on the ground, i mean, this is the country that's edging ever closer to the brink of the major humanitarian disaster. you've already been reporting about the health situation. the food crisis

is extremely dire. one and 3 people in the country facing emergency level, the food and security, and people we speak to on the ground. tell us exhausted stories about how they had to sell farm land and move into displacement camps just to try to survive. many families have gone into major depths just to feed themselves and their families and with an economy in free fall the way it is. we only expected to get worse, especially because the drought that is in the country is likely die intensify later in the year, causing even more food insecurity. not to mention of course, that kind of that is a cold country and without being able to provide enough humanitarian aid and prepare for the winter, we expect even the even worse and more dramatic seems to be seen from capstone. unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of focus on trying to get the air for a capital international airport reopen, which of course, might help with some of the aid. but what would you say the priorities right now? what would the folk, what should the focus be?

for us, there are 3 clear humanitarian imperative priorities at the moment. first of all, we need to make sure that we are allowed by the authorities to access those that are in need. equally that were able to deliver sued water, shelter, and connotation to all men and women boys and girls equally. at the same time, we're looking to the international community to massively, escalade its resources and human carrying contributions to of ghana fan. there are organizations like mine that are on the ground, ready to stay and deliver and even escalate and gala our efforts. but we need to see a major escalation in the humanitarian resources as well. and then finally, the countries in the region need support from europe, from elsewhere, from the world to make sure that they can keep their borders open. they've been shouldering the responsibility. you know, the majority, millions of afghans for many, many years have been in neighboring countries like iraq and afghanistan. and they need support to be able to keep their borders open while europe, of course,

needs to also share the responsibility and find ways to give, ask and safe passage so that they can have their pilot claims considered in europe as well. then we do refugee council, like we mentioned a little earlier, has temporarily pools that work in f ganeth, and i understand you're waiting for assurances by the authorities that you'll be able to to help the population. what kind of assurances are you waiting for me? hopefully we over the next few days should see what form the new taliban government takes. what is it that you want to hear from them? that will make you feel that you can resume the work you used to do. we've received positive signals from from the taliban that we will be able to deliver aid and that we can do so equally that both are male and female staff will be able to do so and that they will be able to serve both men, women boys and girls equally when it comes to education and otherwise, of course we're waiting to see if that plays out in reality, but we are hopeful that we will be able to do so with these kinds of assurances

that we need also, that we will have hindered access as i said that we can deliver a based on needs alone and that we won't need to discriminate in any way based on gender or ethnic group. ela mater advocacy and media director, the norwegian refugee council speaking to us from oslo. madam, thank you for sharing your views with us. well, the taliban is still facing armed resistance in the pan, she are valley the mountainous and cleave is 150 kilometers north of cobble. and it's kind of stands most important stronghold of armed and p. taliban forces since the capital fell, it's been the only province to hold out against the group. the area also resisted taliban rule during the 1900 ninety's. it's been more fighting after talks between the 2 sides of failed to reach a settlement. dozens of people have been killed. robert friday's name ca bullen has more now on the situation in pan sheer valley. its stand off and the clashes have

been continuing. the taliban and its units pretty much have the whole valley surrounded. they also are saying that they are putting pressure on the pockets, by pressuring various strategic points around the valley for their part, the resistance force inside the valley, say they have been putting up a fierce defense claiming to have killed and injured scores of taliban fighters. but the fighting continues and especially with the breakdown of talk now talks have been ongoing for days now and trying to find some peaceful resolution of some sort of way for the resistance to surrender as resistance has given way throughout. throughout afghanistan, this remains basically the only pocket of arms resistance now to the taliban. but according to the taliban, they've been holding towards with the lead at the, sued the leader of the resistance. and they say that the reason for the breaking

down what completely irrational demands from the sued and the resistance fighters that he is leading. they say that for example, they, they have demanded that is part of any peaceful resolution of this. the 4th be allowed to hold them, hold onto all of their weapons. now that isn't too outland days, but then according to the taliban, this group is also demanded a 3rd of the representation in the taliban new government, which does seem to be a big ask as given the fact that this resistance group really is relatively small compared to the northern alliance, which was its precursor, the punch in the valley as the whole, to traditional resistance in afghanistan, it was where the northern alliance was based at 20 years ago. that with the help of the united states, sweat the taliban from power. but you got to say that this force a 2021 is much smaller force. it is nothing like as powerful as the northern alliance. so it seems inconceivable that the taliban at this stage is going to give

much in the way of concessions. and there is every indication that these classes will continue and could well intensify. the us says it air lifted more than a 120000 people from cobbled before the withdrawal deadline. but many afghans who applied for a special visa, including interpreters who worked with american forces, had been left behind some say that they were beaten as they tried to get to the airport. charlotte bellis reports from couple this woman was an interpreter for the us department of state and defense enough canister for 5 years. she tried and failed to get a lifted. that makes me hopeless because we serve for the youth. government been saying the social media, we are helping our allies, how many of our lives have been evacuated. she says she and her family would be and pushed back from the airport gates by us funded militia. no one is in

d. s 0 units. they were laid by the ca, my family members got injured because of the people, the in the people that the unit you want and due to, they were trying to tell everybody that isn't here even, you're a kid, you're young, you're of whatever. they were just trying to harm you. oh, you 0. assume the 0 units as they moved into position at the airport, seemingly with immunity one day after the taliban took control of cobble and recently 0 units have been widely accused of human rights abuses, conducting violent night rates and acting with impunity. it worst nightmare and a lot of those guys were just bounty hunters. they were paid sa sense. symbol is not the n b s couldn't even call them forget about controlling the

total ca operation in one day they have the answer to the american people. do you is put them in charge of the ports, northern perimeter to separate western forces from the telephone, the militia members, band filming, so we recorded on our phones. this is how they treated people trying to leave. the choosing appeared to be the preferred method of crowd control. the interpreter told us they would later li, if she paid them $5000.00 us dollars for each family and married with 3 young children. she did not have the necessary $25000.00 to pass out. the escapades corroborated her claims of bribery. they all confirmed the us funded units. let people into the port with our identification or valid paperwork. i was the witness . i was watching them. we were just, we were just hopeless to seeing all these people have been evacuating from the same did. the taliban took over this area from the 0 units on saturday morning. we spoke

with him earlier in the week and we were told that they were from the 03 from can to, from the 02 in the east. and from the 01, in carville. they told us that they were here to create a buffer zone between the tele bonds and western forces and that an exchange, they would be evacuated. thousands of the militia and the families were prioritized for evacuation the taliban. quickly filling the void, interpreters and other us allies are angry. that militia members were flowing out well. they who helped foreign forces for years have been left behind. charlotte bellis al jazeera couple. coming up on this news hour from london. life under the taliban. angela bad. no more security at the football, but far fewer women in the streets were literally watching children

dying before very madagascar and families eat bugs and mud in an effort to survive. one of the world 1st climate change in due family and in ford, find out why this italian golf for had reason to celebrate, enroll ah, at least 25 people have been reported dead in the northeastern united states after the remnants of hurricane ida hit the region with a record breaking rain, philadelphia was one of the cities that's been worst hit with flooding, reported over 400 kilometer stretch from maryland to new york. the city of new york is under a state of emergency because the salumi joins us now from new jersey just across the hudson river from new york city. so question, what is the situation where you are when you know it's interesting, barbara,

the rain stopped before the sun came up. but all day long governors across the northeast, including here in new jersey, have been taking stock of the damages and the death toll. as you said, at least $25.00 have been killed in connection with the storm event. ranging from maryland to pennsylvania, to new jersey to new york. we know that there were 9 people killed in new york and 8 here in new jersey as a result of flooding. and some cases, the rain came down so hard and so quickly that people were trapped in the basement level apartments and couldn't get out in time. and other cases, vehicles were trapped in the roadway. you can see behind me some that have yet to be rescued from from a flooding situation. when cards were being swept away and all over social media, we've been seeing videos of dramatic rescues water pouring into subway stations in

new york. at some point, the new york subway system shut down completely as a result of this rare occurrence and has been slowly coming back online during the day. but damage they are still being assessed and requests being made to the federal government for assistance. so a very dramatic situation, the full extent of the damages is only just beginning to be weighed. we heard from president joe biden today as well, and he took the opportunity to link these dramatic events to climate change. this was this, the storm hit, the ne, 3 days after it 1st made landfall in the southern united states in the state of louisiana where they're still dealing with power outages and damages. as a result, we've got wildfires of an unprecedented scope on the west coast that are also

happening. president biden promised the american people that help was on the way the federal emergency management administration would have funds available to help families and municipalities that suffered. but he said, we need to do more to guard against this in the future. and he promised to push for more funding from congress and his build back better bill, which was submitted after the corona virus pandemic, to basically hard infrastructure to storms like this, which are expected to become even more and more frequent as a result of climate change. just to put it in perspective, more than 20 centimeters of rain fell overnight in new york. more than 10 centimeters and just one hour. normally you get 20 centimeters of rain for the entire month of september. that record record was set for one hour

of rainfall more than 10 centimeters. and that was more than double the record that was just set a week ago. so it tells you the intensity of the storm here. certainly a very unusual and not something that the northeast is used to dealing with in terms of hurricane no, really shocking figures their christmas. and we me with the latest from new jersey . kristen, thank you. well, like many around the world, people in sri lanka have struggled during the past year. basic food prices have gone up and foreign currency has become scarce. so the government is taking action to ease the burden from millions of families. mental fernandez has more from colombo, sugar, sugar everywhere, but not a green to buy has been the complaint from consumers in lanka. the government says, this is one of the reasons hoarding by trade is to create an artificial price

increase on wednesday, government officials rated warehouses in colombo. they said would not registered with the consumer affairs authority and see $32000.00 metric tons of sugar bumper. and the stock, so we made available to the public. we distributed through government retailers at an affordable price range like this to acquire hidden stocks, follow president good or bad roger boxes, decision to impose a state of emergency and introduce regulations on a central food supplies. under these rules, authorize officers will be able to take steps to provide essential food items at concessional rates to the public by purchasing patty rice and sugar, including guaranteed prices, or based on customer value on imported goods. to prevent market irregularities, consumers have had to deal with increasing prices as a result of a weakening sheila and ruby and inflation. on thursday,

many q to government retail shops to buy this and shows at cheaper rate. seeing again a local not got that it's very difficult. i usually buy 3 killers of sugar and lentils which last me one month. but now they're only giving us one kilo at a time and i can't stretch it. the government's decision to invoke as seat of emergency has had mixed reaction. q is like this one to buy sugar, milk, powder, lentils, and other essential are becoming a common site. i should learn to struggle to balance consumer demand with increasingly dwindling. foreign exchange is of the government says the state of emergency will help, but others are worried among them. it may so monday, in an opposition m p, who explained his reservations to geneva the poly if you want to entirely in the hands of the president who becomes the parliament himself in the sense that he can

make regulations that override ordinary laws his only subject to the constitution saw aggregating those powers to himself with the history of emergency room. this country has had for a long time, immediately alarm bells ringing in i is important to see they're not happy with the latest developments, but declined to comment on record as a government work to address bigger economic issues, including debt repayment, inflation, growth, and having its currency many here just want their central goods at an affordable price. manip fernandez, jazeera, colombo, the island nation of madagascar has endured 4 years of drought brought on by one of the world. first. the climate change induced famines. the you and says at least 30000 people are at the highest level of food insecurity,

with fears that that number could rise dramatically. that's because there are more than 1000000 people experiencing some form of severe food insecurity. forced to eat locusts wild leaves and cactus fruits, highlighting the inadequacy of climate change. madagascar actually produces a fraction of one percent of the world's annual carbon dioxide emissions. but it's suffering some of the worst effects with unreliable rains and crop failures. the well food program is warning of a severe humanitarian crisis. unless urgent action is taken. it is southern that a gas go in the families are eating the texas flowers. they're eating mud or eaten locust just to survive, and they're barely survive in this role that i'm looking at. it is heartbreaking. him live literally watching children dying before very own eyes who's got a hill,

the innocent people in southern man. and guess if we get the support we need the funds we need, we can stop the suffering or for more surely sacral from the united nations. wilford program joins us now via skype, from johannesburg in south africa. madam, thank you for joining us here on our to 0. so a variety of factors that we understand climate change is one. but what do you think has led to madagascar to this point? very severe drought, barbara, year after year, this is now the 4th year where the farmers were entering into what we call believing season. so this period between planting and harvesting, and these people who live off the land survive of the land have been displaced by, by droughts, they've lost their livelihood. they've had to sell everything. and you know, the sheer desperation that we just heard as well from executive director david beasley. i was with him on his mission back in june and i stayed,

and i spent time in the, in the, in the grant, sued in the south traveling around meeting families. these families who have lost, who have lost everything and whatever they depended on for their livelihood. and of course, that we've covered with the country being locked down, perhaps they were looking for seasonal labor toys. and that hasn't been any taurus for the last 18 months. so very critical time. the people in the south, the communities who depend on what they have on whatever little land they have, which unfortunately, and sadly, it's just not they don't reaping, you know, any benefit from. i mean, you mentioned people in the south because it is the south of a gas guard that tends to be a poor. and for example, unicef has also said they've complained of decades of poor governance in that

particular area. it's also an area that has been used to drought, but never in the way we've seen in the past years because he used to be sometimes months of drought. but never years if you noticed a stark difference in this aspect recently. absolutely, and i mean, severe drought, you drive on roads in this, in the south and it's just cracked earth and the sandstorms that swept across land that once would have been, you know, you know, plentiful, you know, 30 land where they were, they could grow their crops and what we're seeing is, you know, just with those that have dried up, there's never enough rain, it's never the white sort of rain. and that's obviously having a profound effect on people, especially children. and as you mentioned, june assessed, we're working very closely on the prevention and treatment of severe acute mon

cushion and the worrying image that you see a children who are, who are very thin, who are underweight and the projection that half a 1000000 children may be severely underweight by next april. 8th, also of great concern. if we don't get into shifts food into their stomachs. you know what movie day the, forgive me for interrupting. i mean, we mentioned the sort of inequity of climate change. we're madagascar itself, of course only made some small percentage of the world's carbon dioxide emissions. but what else can the world food program do? i mean, obviously, you know, more donations and help for people there. but on the practical, immediate level on the ground, what is it that you can and are doing? absolutely. so water management is critical working closely with the government on water irrigation. making sure that water is a priority in the south so that we can also.