has in many ways driven the arms race parties are much more like the british parties. now there are fewer regulation to own a tiger than their our own dog. how can this be happening? we see, take on us politics and, and that's the bottom line in a diverse range of stories from across the globe, from the perspective of our networks, journalists on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera, ah, hello, i'm emily anglin. this is the news allen live from joe ha, coming up in the next 16 minutes, the final fight for afghan. a stone. i'm sure strength reporting from the entrance to the punches valley where the fighting is escalating between the tale bond and what's been described as the last bastion of opposition. to the rule. european

union says it's ready to engage with the afghan taliban under certain conditions, but one, recognise its governments. japan is said to get a new prime minister after she hired a student, said he will step down of later of the governing party. plus what happened today was despicable. it was hateful, it was wrong. a man on a security watch list. several people in new zealand supermarket, the prime minister says the attack was, i feel inspired. i'm joining us for to be for investigates, braces abuse and england plays during a woke up qualifier. they were targeted by chance and had objects thrown at them during that full know when the hungry imputed awe. we became in afghanistan, where fighting is escalating between the taliban and

a resistance group. in the pantry of valley. the mountainous enclave is about 150 kilometers north of the capitol cobble. it's been the only province to hold out against taliban road despite being entirely surrounded by national resistance. front is a multi ethnic group, made up of militias and former afghan security for members. dozens of people have been killed on both sides in raising days. charles stratford has more from a village near the pen. she behind me, you'll just about be able to see the town of goulburg hall. now that is the entrance to the punchier valley, the only entrance to the punchy valley civilian population and 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 by the taliban are in 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 of many locals telling us how terrified they are. they say the fighting started about 4 days ago. and as i say, 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 valley. they said that they sold a group pulling in weapons, bringing weapons into the area in and around the time that the taliban took control were 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 to the soviets. whenever able to take it the tale bond 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 ultimate masoud, the son of a very famous fight against the russians in the eighty's. we know that there have

been negotiations in the last few days. obviously they have fallen by the wayside now. they have failed. the european union has set hand conditions for ties with the taliban as western powers. consider how's, when gauge with afghanistan's new rule is the ones to have what it calls a presence in cobble to oversee more vacuum patients. if security measures are in place, but foreign policy chief joe set the burrell, it says that doesn't mean the block will recognize the taliban. british foreign secretary dominic rob echoed those sentiments earlier on a visit to pakistan. he also announced the you can use increasing a to help us get his tons neighbors deal with refugees. and pakistan's foreign minister says his country would support any afghan government that's backed by the people barcus on said it's for of hands to decide about the future. we will engage with a,

a government that has the backing of the people of our father stop. our focus is on the duper level thought is fine. we want to help the people of the stocks because they have suffered if suffered for decades. as i'm a binge of eighty's in peshawar, i impact has done with more on that meeting in as i'm a bad. there is a lot of emphasis on partisans facilitation. that's something that was discussed between dominic rob and foreign minister shop with gracie. they also discuss about how the u. k. can help approx on to cope with this crisis. you heard that before, and this 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 a gun to some 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 that focus 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 focused on the role that it is playing in trying facilitate some sort of a peaceful transition in they've gone to sun. let's get the latest on the e u foreign ministers meeting and speak to rory, challenge in london. hello, there, rory. the $27.00 nation block discussed a coordinated approach to the taliban. what does that look like? you know what? i think the e u is trying to adapt to the new situation in afghanistan with an approach of a kind of wary pragmatism. and that means that rather than the individual countries going back to their embassies and reopening their embassies. if the

security situation allows the e u wants to establish a kind of joint presence there, a unify presence of all the 27 member states to coordinate their activities in afghanistan as much as possible. and they will use that if and when it is established to oversee evacuations, and to ensure that the new afghan governments, when it's formulated, fulfills its commitments, now checks the borrowers. very men saying that this does not mean that the e u is recognizing taliban governments. it's what he described as an operational engagement and that operational engagement would increase. if the e u judges that the taliban behavior is, is being meeting a benchmark. it's standards. laurie,

the international assistance is all conditional. what more did the pharmacist have to say about that? well, i think they have several concerns and probably points one and 2 on that list of concerns is that i've got to stand and go back to being a platform or a base for the export of what the european union would consider to be terrorism. to other countries, the other thing that the was very concerned about is that there isn't a huge back sliding of afghanistan's commitment to internationally recognized human rights standards. those are probably the 2 main things that the was concerned about. but there are other things as well. there are things like the flow of people out of afghanistan, the you, although it is their housing, or basically making home to those who want to flee

a kind of song at the moment. it does not want to see huge accidents of people from afghanistan, like it's sort of 5 to 10 years ago when the situation in syria deteriorating rapidly. and there are huge flows of migration into europe. that's something that he was very concerned about happening again. it also doesn't want to see a huge flow of drugs coming out of afghanistan and organized crime. so those are the benchmarks that is going to try to hold the taliban to or challenge. thank you so much for that update live for us in london, and we are expected to hear from the a you minutes is a little later this allen will bring that to you. live officials from contracts, foreign ministry have landed in cobble. it's seen as another step towards getting the a back up and running and ready to receive much needed. i kata and turkey have already sent technical chains to help restore operations. we hope our

efforts will speed up the full or at least the gradual re operation of the facility . this will help more flight into cabal airport. after the diplomatic course, we need to continue to talk with the taliban to iron a certain political issues, namely to ensure the peaceful transition of power, comprehensive political reconciliation, and above all, to restore the country's peace and stability. the u. s. says it lifted a total of more than $120000.00 people from cobble, but many afghans who applied for a special visa, including interpreters, who worked with american forces have been left behind. some say they were basin as they tried to get to the port. charlotte ballad has moved. this woman was an interpreter for the us department of state and defense enough canister. first 5 years. she tried and failed to get a 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 our lives have been evacuated. she says she and her family were beaten

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, in the people that the unit you want and, you know, trying to tell everybody that isn't here. even, you're a kid, you're young, you or whatever they were just trying to harm you. oh you 0, assume the 0 units as they moved the physician 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 us often. symbol is

not the n v s good in even call them forget about controlling the total ca operation in one day they have the answer to the american people. the 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. linda, married with 3 young children. she did not have the necessary $25000.00 to pass out . the escapades corroborated her claims with 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. the seeing all the 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 10 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 while they who helped foreign forces for years have been left behind. charlotte, bella soldiers, era campbell, a taliban spikes, men says china has promised to keep its embassy in afghanistan open and to increase aid. a chinese government say that wants to play

a role in the reconstruction of afghanistan, but hasn't given many details. katrina, you found this report from by jean? what honest foreign ministry has posted a statement on its web side 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 in 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 intends to do that. but no doubt the baiting 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 leader 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 as well as this transition, china's embassy in cobbler 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 u. s. should not just cut and run that. it has responsibilities in the country and should help contribute to its economic rebuilding as well. and andrew, small as a senior transatlantic fellow with the gym and marshall fund of the united states as your program is, is china stands to gain a lot by working with a new afghan administration. suddenly, over the long term, china was able to get some of the mines that it's already committed to potentially

be i'm at copper mine, 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, 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 be some smaller scale investments. but those longer 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 the 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, wendy moore, head on this new dow, including struggling to dry out the northeast and states of america cleanup. after tropical storm ida swayed through climbing dozens of live truss secure ourselves 1st to be able to get back to the country. we'll have a report on why thousands leaving leaven on in search of opportunities abroad. and novak junk of its continued chase for a calendar grand slam after us. and i will have all those details and more information i officials in new zealand say, a man who stab several people at a supermarket was being closely monitored by intelligence agencies,

play shot and killed the attacker who wanted at least 6 people in oakland. wine hay has the latest and afternoon shopping in new zealand. largest city was interrupted by a burst of gunfire and sirens. i'd soon emerged that police shot and killed a man who had walked into a supermarket in the west of oakland and detect shoppers with a knife. he said this woman came out, goes guy, and then i went down to the other end. there was an old gentleman in the 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 lankin 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 a passive, that monitoring and surveillance that shot and killed him within. i'm told the space of roughly 60 seconds of the a take starting. there were also restrictions in place in oakland because of a covert 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, terrence killed 51 people in 2 mosques in christ church. the prime minister said it wasn't clear a 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. japan prime minister. yes. she hired a suit and says he won't seek re election as leader of the governing party this month. it's. it's the same for his replacement to just a year in office. so good to go over after form. later she resigned last september, sighting poor health to the approval writing has since dropped below 30 percent as a nation struggles with its worst way of clover 19 infections. a general election is expected next year. micro pen is president of the she gets news agency and independent japanese new service. he says, sue has struggled in the face of growing criticism. the fact that he's out as prime minister in the season is not, is not much of a surprise at all. although the, you know, the timing that it would happen. you know, within about 12 hours of him saying he was going to run. so like last afternoon he confirmed that he would be running for the presidency of the party. and then in the

morning he said, i'm not running. so that part was a little bit surprising, but he was, you're basically in the middle of a political crisis and wasn't able to overcome it. suda was never able to move from that number to position where essentially he was, you know, the right hand man, the enforcer, the person who would go and sort of, you know, knocked together bureaucrats and terrify them to get done with the government. want to get done, but then you become the number one man. you become the prime minister. and a big part of your job is communication. it's creating a career man, a connection with the japanese people. and on that score. suga was just never showed a spark. you never showed any ability and essentially for the entire year, every time at a local election came up, the ruling party was losing. so it was clear, he just didn't have that touch of, of connecting with the japanese people. that's what he was really missing. parts of the northeast in us cleaning up after remnants of hurricane are to keep the region

with reco breaking rains to be flooding is reported over 400 kilometers, stretch from maryland to new york. flood waters have submerge subways, damage times, and kind of power to millions. new york's medical, the historic weather event, the city is under a state of emergency rescue. workers are still looking for victims of the storm which killed at least $45.00 people. the death toll was highest in new jersey. christian salumi is the ne, woke up the flooded cities and impassable streets. many had to be rescued as the remnants of hurricane ida 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 rain fall. serious flooding caused the complete

shut down of the subway system. the new york borough of queens suffered the most fatalities in the city, at least 12 resident dying as water flooded basement apartment. 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 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 malacca 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 and basement apartments and motorists, on roadways that quickly turn to rivers. more than 20 centimeters of rain fell overnight in some areas. that's as much as weekly balls in the entire month of september. when i start this man, we spoke to

a new jersey had stopped in his truck to take a video with water and the street suddenly began to rise the river. all the sudden i looked down the road and it was like a river coming towards me. and me and my daughter my 12 year 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 changes 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 in congress return 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. kristen salumi al jazeera new jersey before hitting the ne, in st. ida touched down as a hearken in louisiana killing at least 9 people. president biden is set to travel there later on friday to assess the damage. let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly hole could la joining us from washington. they say hello there. kimberly, what are the president's plans when he arrives in louisiana? the u. s. president. set to leave the white house where he will travel to louisiana, the 1st spot where we know that hurricane either hit and then carved to pass up to the northeast of the united states. so he'll be looking for the damage and what the damage and how it has impacted people. they're not only on the ground, but he'll also be taking an aerial tour. he'll meet with the governor of that state because it's really important because this is affected such a large area of the united states and some of this response be coordinated. it's

important for the us president take, take a look at that. not only to make sure that that happens, but also because he needs to make sure that there is no delay and getting the aid. and so that's one of the reasons that the u. s. president will be touring the area because the number of people affected is enormous. a 1000000 people when this hit without power, a 1000000 or rather half a 1000000 people without water and much of that has not yet been restored. it still could be weeks. and as you travel up the united states, the flooding that we've talked about has a really cost and enormous loss of life. so this is important for the us present. take a look at. he says, not only because he wants to see it 1st hand, but he wants to be able to continue to press some of the private insurance companies as well that are using as he called some of the fine print to deny the claims that people need to rebuild and pick up their lives and kimberly,

it's not just hurricane of it's causing damage. we've seen severe weather events across the united states over a race and weeks. how much pressure is on the bottle and administration to do something about climate change. enormous pressure on this precedent. not only did the u. s. president make this a campaign promise to address compet chair climate change, but he's called it an accidental threat repeatedly. and we've seen that july with one of the hardest on record in a 142 years. but wildfires out in the united states and the on the west coast of the united states are burning for longer seasons and they're also burning hotter. and this is a real concern, so the us president has made this promise not only to his democratic supporters, but to young people who consider this to be a primary issue. they want to see the biden administration do more. you heard their christmas lewis package, the president is pushing congress to pass and implement his infrastructure bill so,

but in fact, there can be a bolstered infrastructure from the united states to withstand the pressure of climate change, but also to address the root causes of climate change. right now, the democrats control congress that control the white house and his supporters are demanding action. well, there is this legislative advantage in order to enact real change. appreciate the update the kimberly hawk at live for us out of washington d. c. and japan could also say, flooding in the days ahead. he's jeff with your world, whether updates. hi, again, nice to see you. thanks for joining in. we are locked into wet weather across southern sections of japan. we do have weather alerts in place. let's talk about them, northwestern, kyushu northern chicago, southern sections of hon. you and also the risk of seen some land sides for northwestern areas of hawkeye. to give you a wider look right now, because we've got more rain starting to wind up through the yellow river valley out toward the yellow sea. i think this is going to impact the korean peninsula.

probably by about tuesday, firehose of what weather from one end of the base then called to the others. so this is affecting southern sections of mia mar and thailand. plenty of sun know across the malay peninsula, sumatra and java. next stop. we're going down under and the southerly buster. you can really see how far inland it's going. adelaide. 15 degrees just the other day. you were at 31. and now it's got to talk about that. what whether from the northern territory queensland into new south wales and victoria, diving down to the tasman c pers 19 degrees on saturday. so new zealand high pressure in charge. it's trying to keep this what weather away for as long as it can. so we look at the 3 day forecast in wellington. sure it's going to be breezy, but the rain looks like it won't move in till about monday, with a high of 14 degrees. that's it for me. see soon, still ahead on al jazeera. i do not have any hope. i don't know why some families in india is at some stage, are frustrated with the government and accused of filing them. mexico cranks down

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