ah, al jazeera, i went down to the pit, me with the petition focused on the foreign minister needs and some about where they're going to stay on top of the talks agenda. ah hello rahman, you're watching all their life. my headquarters here also coming up. i'm sure start the reporting from the entrance to the punch valley where the fighting is escalating between the tale must be described as the last bastion of opposition to the room. several people have been injured in new zealand for 9 back at a supermarket. the prime minister says it was isis inspired. japan is set to get

a new prime instruct sheet of sucrose that he would step down as lead off his governing policy. ah, look into the program we have done this time. we're fighting is escalating between the taliban and the resistance group in the punches valley. the mountainous anc leave is about 150 kilometers north of the capitol cobble. it's been the only province to hold out against the taliban. despite being entirely surrounded the national resistance front as a multi ethnic group, made up of militias and format, guns, security force members. dozens of people have been killed on both sides in recent days. charles rockford has more for the village, close to the valley. behind me, you'll just about be able to see the town of goulburg hall now that is the entrance to the punchy valley,

the only entrance to the punchy valley civilian population in the thousands. when we arrived there was a lot of smoke, there was a lot of artillery being fired at that town. we understand that the child bond, the child a binary control of it, but they have been responding as well in the last 5 minutes or so. again, more artillery heavy machine gun fire being heard. we've spoken to locals in the area. many locals telling is how terrified they are. they say the fighting started about 4 days ago. and as i say they, they say that it's especially bad at night. it has been escalating, they also say that the resistance, this group called the n r s that are in control of punch. if they said that they sold a group pulling in weapons, bringing in weapons into the area in and around the time that the taliban took control or pushing towards taking control of cobble preparing themselves for this fight. now, bear in mind that this valley is historically known for its,

for its strong resistance. the soviets, whenever able to take it, the tale bars have never been able to take it. it is 95 percent plus tasha population of around 10150000. the resistance is being led by a man called masoud, the son of a very famous fight against the russians in the eighty's. we know that they have been negotiations in the last few days. obviously they have fallen by the wayside now. they have failed. now got his own future was one of the topics discussed during a meeting between the british and buck astonish foreign ministers. dominic rob says the u. k is boosting aid for his fans neighbors. as they deal with refugees fleeing the country and his pockets on the counterpart sharp moved crash. he says that he'll stand with any african government that's backed by the people. there are certain compulsions that we have to do, but that perhaps you don't have to, for example, the duty crossings for about 20 to 25000 people in mobile times.

it's a huge number can be brought to where we got can we get them? yes, me shot at the risk that our organizations are there that are not friendly to you, us and anyone. so we have gotta give start as read it back after trade goes to pakistan. you keep that is open and close them. and if you do them are contributing to a humanity in crisis over that. right. and if you have to prove the bill dropped to anyone who is in charge in gauging with that authority is a compulsion that we have to deal with. so recognizing these challenges barcus on said it's 4 of hands to decide about the

future. we want to gauge with a, a government that has the backing of the people of our fathers stock. well, i saw a bunch of it is impish. our bug has done has more on the foreign ministers meeting . there is a lot of emphasis on partisans facilitation. that's something that was discussed between dominic rob and foreign minister with gracie. they also discussed about how the u. k. can help approx on to cope with this crisis as you heard the before and miss and making the case for progress on we've, we've been speaking to him in the last few weeks, and he told me as well that fox son has been hosting a number of refugees, millions of them, brother, in pakistan without recognition from the international community. dominic rob today assuring him that there is going to be somewhere around $40000000.00 of additional funding for going to son neighbors to help facilitate the guns and others coming to these countries. there were also

a lot of other issues that were discussed in this meeting back on in the united kingdom by dr relations. this is the issue of a foreign action task force about the finances for terrorist funding and all of those issues coming down to words based on the role that it is playing in trying facilitate some sort of a peaceful transition in a gun on a telephone spokesman says china has promised to keep its embassy and i've got this done open and to increase aid. the chinese government says it wants to play a role in the reconstruction of the country, but it hasn't given many details. katrina, you has more from beijing. what on his foreign ministry has posted a statement on its website confirming that the phone call took place in that statement. it was quite brief. it affirmed the friendship between the 2 countries and at wish the people of afghanistan well and going forward and rebuilding their country. but it was quite scans on details. this message by the taliban could be

its way of putting a little bit of pressure on aging. perhaps, to keep its promises. aging has said that it will play a role in the economic reconstruction of the country, but it's been quite vague as to how it tends to do that. but no doubt, the paging doesn't tend to play a role here because it does have some existing investments enough gone us on that. it probably wants to protect. it also has very extensive investments in neighboring pakistan. so it is looking at the economic potential of the country and the impact on the region at large. now china as a major player, was one of the 1st to recognise the taliban as a legitimate political force. we had tele bond lead up to gunny bar, actually visit china in late july, and he met with china's foreign minister one e and throughout this whole process throughout the keiko of as well as this transition. china's embassy in cobble has remained fully open and operational. no paging has been very critical of the us say that it's hasty with the role was to

blame for the chaos caused in the country. but at the same time, china has said that the us should not just cut and run that. it has responsibilities in the country and should help contribute to its economic rebuilding as well. the andrew, small as a senior transatlantic fellow with the german marshall son of the united states asia program. he says china stands to gain a lot by working with a new african administration suddenly over the long term, if china was able to get some of the minds that it's already committed to potentially be. i'm not coppermine some of the lithium investments and other things that are all significant resources that china is one of the actors that is keen to step in and benefit from it. and the level of revenue that could accrue to taliban to, to a fee traffic. and government would be very significant, but as many years away, in fact, before, that really translates into meaningful resources for whoever is in power. so you have a short term question which is in the immediate economic crisis and the immediate

aftermath of a new government. what is, what sort of measures he's trying to, willing to take in those circumstances kind of doesn't do large scale aid. it will provide aid modest to provide humanitarian assistance and it's not going to bail out a new government. and they may do some smaller scale investments. but those long term investments even will depend on that, being enough stability in the country in security, in the country for these to turn into something that's economically viable channels and wants to make sure that it's a government sufficiently politically stable, that they can make these long term best, there are some limitations to what china is really going to be willing to do economically, even if it's continues to be happy. and the taliban came to be able to send these signals to china's willing to swing in on scale. now the us says it's i lifted a total of more than a $120000.00 people from cobble the many afghans who applied for a special visa, including interpreters, who worked with american forces have been left behind. some say they were beaten that they try to get to the airport. charlotte bellis has the story. this woman was

an interpreter for the us department of state and defense enough canister. first, 5 years. she tried and failed to get in lifted. that makes me hopeless because we serve for the youth government. they say the social media, we are helping our allies, how many of your allies have been evacuated? she says she and her family were beaten and pushed back from the airport. gates by us funded militia, also known as n 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 to do. they were trying to kill everybody to didn't get even you're a kid, you're young, you or whatever. they were just trying to harm you. oh, you 0. assume to 0 units as they moved into position at the airport, seemingly with immunity. one day after the taliban took control of cobble.

enrique and 0 units had 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 us off and symbol is not the n. v as good in even call them forget about controlling as a total ca operation in one day they have the answer to the american people. do us 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 shooting appeared to be the preferred method of crowd control. the interpreter told us they would let her leave if she paid them $5000.00 us dollars for each

family member. 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 get. 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 cobble, they told us that they were here to create a buffer zone between the telephone 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 in other us allies are angry. that militia members were flowing out well. they who helped foreign forces for years have been left behind. charlotte, bella soldiers, era, capable. officials and new zealand say, a man who stab several people as a supermarket was being closely monitored by intelligence agencies. please shot and killed the attacker who is at least 6 people in oakland. when he has the latest and afternoon shopping in new zealand. largest city was interrupted by a burst of gunfire and sirens, i'd soon emerge that police shot and killed a man who had walked into a supermarket in the west of oakland and detect shoppers with a knife. this woman came out, okay, and then i went down to the other end. there was an old gentleman, european main line on the ground. he said, it didn't take long for the police and the prime minister to label it terrorism and to reveal details about who the attacker was. the sure lincoln came to new zealand

10 years ago. and for the past 5 years had been a person of interest to security and intelligence agencies. and because of that, police say they were able to stop the man before he attacked more people. the attack began at $240.00 p. m, and was undertaken by an individual who was, i know, one threat to new zealand. the individual was under constant monitoring. and it was the police surveillance, tame and special tactics group who were passive, that monitoring and surveillance that shot and killed him within. i'm told the space of roughly 60 seconds of the attack starting there were also restrictions in place in oakland because of the cove at 19 outbreak. meaning there were few shoppers inside the supermarket. the normal new zealand has been on alert for attack since march 2019 when australian white supremacist brenton. terrans killed

51 people in 2 mosques in christ church. the prime minister said it wasn't clear if friday stabbings in oakland were revenge for what happened in christ church. but the police say that confident this was a one off and that the attacker was acting alone. wayne, hey, al jazeera toner, new zealand will still hail. now there are struggling to dry out the clean up is underway in parts of the northeast in the united states. after tropical storm, either sweep through killing at least 45 people are making it come back out of a re unites up to 40 years to the didn't light stores after the break. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways.

hello. nice to see you were locked into soggy conditions across southern areas of japan, all has to do with our plum rains. moving in, and this is what we're up against earlier into southern areas of south korea. more than a 100 millimeters of rain within 24 hours. so now all of that action here we go into japan where there is the risk of land sides, mostly toward areas of northwestern hall, kado, but still queue to chicago hon. you all seen drenching rain. now this is a few days out tuesday, but this is really when our next batch of what weather moves in across the korean peninsula to want to put that on your radar. as we go a bit further toward the south, heavy pockets of rain for central areas of vietnam, right down towards the south and for the philippines are heaviest, rain will be relegated toward the northern islands and also the southern islands. devout getting up to 33 degrees on saturday, you know, for under pradesh, tailing gonna, those will be our heaviest falls for india on saturday. but if i give you

a wider look, because still around good rates, we have this circulation, amplifying rainfall amounts. seen that steady rain through buffer stress as while. and i do think some mon sooner moisture will leak into southern areas of pakistan affecting karachi on saturday. that's it for me. see you soon. sponsored cut on airways. ah, they wanted 43000000000 pounds worth of weaponry. that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. there is no hope of any more because there's always a small cobble of people for really, really good lives. in athens, we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function war shadow on al jazeera. ah ah

ah, look back you're watching on earth me so robin the reminder of our top story is fighting and have done it on is escalating between the taliban and a resistance group in the bunch valley north of the capital cannibal. it's been the only province to hold out against the taliban despite being and timing surrounded. the u. k says it's boosting 8th. got it sounds neighbors as they deal with refugees fleeing the country. dominic rob was speaking in buckets, songs capital is some about where he's in. talk with the government, police uneasy lint of shot dead, a man as he stepped 6 people at a supermarket in what the government's calling an icicle inspired attack authorities say the attack was on the security watch list. now years president

joe biden has pledged federal help for northeastern states after remnants of hurricane ida hit the region with reco breaking rains. so the flooding is reported over 400 kilometers, stretch from maryland to new york, flood waters of submerged subways, damaged homes, and cut off power millions. at least 45 people have died. new york city man called it a historic weather event. the city is under a state of emergency. kristen salumi has the latest from new jersey. the northeast woke up to the flooded cities in impassable streets. many had to be rescued as the remnants of hurricane either made their way north, more than 3 days after 1st making landfall. thousands of kilometers away in louisiana. there were even tornadoes, seeming to catch heavily populated big cities like philadelphia, off guard, with record rainfall. serious flooding cars the complete shutdown of the subway system. the new york borough of queens suffered the most fatalities in the

city, at least 12 residents dying as water flooded basement apartments. the 1st crisis for new york's new governor, the human loss, which is hard to imagine that people simply in their cars, in their homes, in their basements that come to a, the ravages of a brutal storm. and their families must just be in such pain this morning. in new jersey, governor phil murphy was out early thursday. visiting the town of the leak, a hill hit by those tornadoes, which left devastation normally associated with the southern united states. the ferocity of the storm took many by surprise trapping families in basement apartments and motorists on road ways that quickly turn to rivers more than 20 centimeters of rain fell overnight in some areas. that's as much as typically falls in the entire month of september. when i sat, this man we spoke to in new jersey had stopped in his truck to take

a video like this. water in the street suddenly began to rise the river. all the sudden i looked down the road in louis. it was like a river coming towards me and me and my daughter, my 12 year old with me, and we just panic. i put in a 4 wheel drive and just backed out real quick before it summers my truck, northeastern governors and president biden say the trail of destruction left by ida is yet more evidence of climate change is impact on weather systems across the united states. and bite and says the country needs to prepare for more to come. we need to act. and congress returns this month. i'm going to press further action on my bill bag. better plan. that's going to make historic investments and in electrical infrastructure. modernizing our roads, bridges are water systems for those left, counting the cost, divide as destruction, relief can't come soon enough. christian salumi al jazeera new jersey,

the japans prime minister sheet. a suga says that he won't seek re election of leader of the governing party this month. it says the stage for his replacement after just one year and office. so you get took over after formerly editions of a resigned last timber fucking for how to get approval rating has dropped below that he percent of the nation struggles that it's west wave of kevin 1900 infections. and the general election is expected next year was while a strain it is seen reco levels of new coded 19 cases and death. new zealand numbers are declining after a surge from the delta variant. meanwhile, south korea has extended social distance in cubs ahead of the holiday, and taiwan gets his 1st batch of fines. the vaccines skyler. with a look at cobit 19 in the asia pacific region needed vaccines arrive in australia,

new south wales state, as it marks its worst day of the pandemic with a record 1400. 31 new covered 1900 cases, and the most deaths in a day. at 12. the half a 1000000 pfizer jabs arrived in sidney. the country's largest city. the shipment came from singapore in a swap. arrangement. australia will deliver the same amount back to singapore in december. a similar deal has been struck with the u. k. that will bring $4000000.00 more pfizer vaccines to australia this month. the next fort not is likely to be worth in terms of the number of cases. but as i've said, it's not the number of cases we need to be focusing on. but how many of those cases end up in our intensive k will to hospitals, and how many people we have vaccinated as quickly as possible. more than half of a stillia is under a stay at home order, along with sydney, melbourne in the national capital camera have been in week long walk downs. and in new zealand, some progress in its battle against the outbreak. fueled by the delta variance, a large drop in new cases from the previous few days. we need to continue to keep

those twisting rights up to give us the confidence that we're catching any kind of that, that may be in the community. and then finally decided that these results today are encouraging. but as doctor medical ne, his seed, the job is not done. we must continue to be vigilant and get on top of this ap rec, this low cobra, 1900 outbreaks across south korea. officials there have extended social distance in curves for a month. this ahead of a thanksgiving holiday later in september. the toughest curves are in the greater sol area where many small businesses are suffering. well, you know, we barely see people on the street. if our profit was about $1700.00 per day, now it is about half, we can barely pay the rent and don't think social distancing measures are effective . my family has been running this business for more than 40 years over 3 generations. and we are facing the war situation now. it's so hard. taiwan received its 1st shipment of the 5 biotech vaccines this week,

930000 out of 15000000 doses acquired by tech company and a charity. political pressure from china has made it difficult for taiwan to strike deals directly with vaccine companies facing views, self rule, taiwan as part of its territory. the recent deal was made with a china based distributor. after months of negotiating, scott either al jazeera mexico's present address. manuel lopez overdose says that he'll answer, cooperation from president bind in dealing with the increasing numbers of people heading to the us border for his days of violence. as mexican national guard tried to break up a caravan of migrants from central america and palo has more from mexico city. these are mexican national guard troops carrying out reeds in southern mexico in the dark and in the pouring rain. the images show agents rounding up migrants and asylum seekers. many of them women and children. those who avoid capture express confusion about what to do next to me. i'm yearly, i was afraid and i had

a feeling dismiss, could happen and look, that's why i want to turn myself in because i grabbed my husband and my 2 children . i don't want to go on by myself. the confrontations between asylum seekers and immigration authorities have escalated in recent days. in one instance, government agents were caught on video violently kicking migrants. the un has since called on mexico to do more to ensure the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. appoint mexico's president address during his state of the nation speech on wednesday and see, not samuel did it just the human rights of migrants have not been violated. the exceptional case from a few days ago went to migration offices, kicked, hasn't citizen, was dealt with on that same day. the officers were relieved to change on thursday. president lopez over, also called on more cooperation from the us to help improve conditions in countries of origin. for migrant us cello voice a letter present. next week i'm going to send

a letter to president bowden because we cannot just be arresting and detaining people. we must address the root causes. people don't leave their towns willingly. they don't abandon their families because they want to do it out of necessity. the international organization for migration says 2021 could set a new record for the number of migrants entering mexico. mexico right now is experiencing a very complex migration situation. in the 1st instance, we have a large number of people who are crossing into mexico and passing through mexico. and some examples are in the 1st period of the 1st half of the year. you can authorities have identified 3 times as children. they're entering into mexico at that same period a year ago. international immigration policies are also undergoing changes like re implementation of the so called remain in mexico program, which keeps asylum seekers outside the us while their cases are being process. the

program was 1st put in place during the trump administration. mexican immigration officials say talks will soon be held with the united states to address policy questions. but experts say action is needed now to ensure the rights of tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers. the international observers also warned that migrant shelters across the country are at capacity, and there is concern that rising tensions between authorities and asylum seekers desperate to continue their journey north or making a serious problem even worse. when, when did up a little, al jazeera mexico city no as excitement among other fans, and i kept myself as one of them after the swedish supergroup announce it's releasing its 1st new music in any 40 years. ah, the album boys. they followed to 1981 withholding the businesses to try and have not been released the head of it stadium,

the vendor and the virtual version of the band using specially created advertising will begin to stay with the concept in london next year, day funding is a music journalist, he says, the anticipation around the nissan is proof of the groups enduring popularity. the 1st thing is that amber stars is about 72. that kind of broke up an $83.00 though never officially and there for the rony around for 10 or 11 years. the music has so last hasn't been so pervasive. and so everywhere, over the last 40 years, that may be something like this is inevitable. remember, somebody got together around the end of the $900.00 and said, you don't think we can make a play. and we could write one with all the songs and put it onto the stage and launch and became one of the biggest successes in the west. and have done that ever since we said that movie, out of that became the highest grossing movie in the u. k. after the time ever made about half a 1000000000 at the box office. so they had another movie about as well. in other words, it's just the gift that keeps on giving because remember when singles used to mean something and getting number one of the charts meant something between 83 and 87 or

whatever. they have 7 or 8 single of a 7 or 8 of those went to number one of the charts like they're just part of who we are. just remember when i made songs, people believe that the songs were about them. this thing now there's about 80900 people working on us from george lucas's industrial lighting project. it's all technological wizardry at the state of the art merchant videos from black strap and david boy that were made that guy's doing that. the guy who made the 6 part series hon on tv that guys produced. you're like, it's a really big team and they will get this right. there's no question about the me you want you to there with me. so robin reminder of all top stories fighting and have got his phones, escalating between the taliban and the resistance group in the punch in the valley, north of the capitol cobble. it's been the only province to hold out against the taliban despite being in tiny surrounded the u. k. says it's boosting aid for going to sounds neighbors as the deal with refugees fleeing to the country. dominic rob

was speaking.