corner, every house here has someone who has made it to the top of ever. it's not just one, but several time program that has been your i to not punitive you today on algebra . ah, fighting is intensifying between the taliban and a resistance group in afghanistan and she had valley. ah, hello, i'm emily and gwen. this is al jazeera alive from joe. how are coming up? european union says it's ready to engage with the ask and taliban under certain conditions by one recognize it, government and man on security watch list. several people in new zealand supermarket, the prime minister says the attack was isolated fire and japan is set to get

a new prime minister. yoshi hide a suit said he will step down later of the governing pansy. ah. begin in afghan. this down we're fighting is escalating between the taliban and resistance group in the pantry of valley. the mountain is enclave is about 150 kilometers north of the capital campbell. it's been the only province to hold out against taliban rule despite being entirely surrounded. the national resistance front is a multi ethnic group, made up of militias, informa afghan security for members. dozens of people have been killed on both sides in recent days. child straps, it has more from a village near the pen. she is. behind me, you're 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, about

a 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 by the child 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 is 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 on ship 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 they spite. 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,

but 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 they have been negotiations in the last few days. obviously they have fallen by the wayside now. they have failed. the european union, meanwhile, has said our conditions, the ties with the taliban as western powers. consider house who engage with afghan astounds new rule is the a you wants to have what he calls a presence in cobble to ever say more vacuum patients. if security measures are in place, but foreign policy chief jo separate, berella 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 u. k is increasing a to help african stands neighbors deal with refugees. and pakistan's,

foreign minister says his country would support any african government that's backed by the people barcus on his head. it's full of hands to decide about the future. we will engage with a, a government that has the backing of the people of the farthest on. our focus is on the level of fun. we want to help the people of the song because we have suffered if suffered for tickets. as i'm a binge of eighty's in peshawar in pakistan with more on that making in as i'm about there is a lot of emphasis on focus on facilitation. that's something that was discussed between dominic rob and foreign minister shop with gracie. they also discussed about how the u. k. can help pucks on to cope with this crisis. as you heard the

before mr. 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 on has been hosting a number of refugees. millions of them rather in buckets fund without recognition from the international community. dominic rob today assuring him that there has been to be somewhere around $40000000.00 of additional funding for a gun 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 focus on in the united kingdom's bilateral 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 have gone to sun. let's get the latest on that e u foreign ministers making and cross live tory challenges in london. hello, there, rory. the $27.00 nation block discussed

a coordinated approach to the taliban. what exactly does that look like? what i think be you like many western organizations and governments is scrambling to try to make sense of this new situation in afghanistan and work out what influence, what clouds it still has in the country given the fall of the governments and the victoria of the taliban. i think the year has come up with this policy of a kind of wary pragmatism. and it is saying that although it will not recognize a new taliban government, it will have what it calls an operational engagement with it. and that means that to say, rather than all the different countries, the opening up the embassies again, it will have if the security situation allows a joint e presence, and this will help them oversee the evacuation of afghans who wants to leave the country. afghans at risk and also to try to make sure that the new taliban

government fulfills what the calls its commitments. and it says that there are certain benchmarks that it wants to hold the needs of man government to worry what are those benchmarks? those so called conditions want more to foreign ministers, have to say about that. well, i think there are a couple of ones that are primary in terms of the ease importance. and one is that the, the, that africa must on, does not, once again become a platform or a base for what the you consider to be the export of terrorism around the world. and the other is human rights. the wants to make sure that the taliban in particular adheres to the standards of women's rights and the rule of law and freedom of the media and those kinds of things. it does have other concerns as

well, like the outflow of people. it doesn't want a huge exodus of refugees putting pressure on the e u. and the same way that refugees from syria did 5 or so years ago. and it's worried about drugs and organized crime and human trafficking. the big question of course, is whether a new taliban government gave us 2 hoots about was the you things on whether it will think that these benchmarks are important at all. it probably will come down to money and the e. u has said that it suspending at the moment is development assistance to the african government. although it has pledged about $1400000000.00 worth in money over the next $3.00 or 5 years. that is the kind of thing that might make a difference to the taliban. we certainly interesting, over the coming days, weeks and months. thank you for that update, rory rory johns live for us in london. the us says it lifted

a total of more than $120000.00 people from cobble from any afghans who applied for a special visa, including interpreters and worked with american forces have been left behind someday. that would be 10. as i tried to get to the airport, charlotte balance 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 your allies 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 unit. 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 into position at the airport, seemingly with immunity one day after the taliban took control of cobble in 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 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 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 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 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 in exchange, they would be evacuated. thousands of the militia and the families were prioritized for evacuation the taliban. quickly filling the voyage, 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 bellis al jazeera cable to the rest of the day's news, and there are reports of heavy fighting in the libyan capital. tripoli between rival armed forces is believed to be the worst class she's in a year, which happened near a military base. libya has been divided between 2 rival administration supported by armed groups and foreign governments. there's been a rest in the country since in uprising toppled. why my good daffy in 2011

officials in new zealand say a man who stamped several people at a supermarket was being closely monitored by intelligence agencies. play shot and killed the attacker who wounded at least 6 people in oakland. wine, hey, had selected an 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. he said this woman came out. okay. and then i went down to the other end, there was an old gentleman in 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 spice 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. 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, you zealand phil head on al jazeera, struggling to dry out. the cleanup is underway. him of the north east in the united states. after a tropical storm. ida sweep through killing at least 45 people and the making a come back to 40 years to the live. so spend a hello there. let's pinpoint where i think we'll see our most intense monsoon rains across the sub continents. we still got this circulation over good, right? so that's going to amplify rainfall amounts, right through in to harass drive as well. if you go closer round the bay,

have been gall, pretty much jaundra per dash rate through to taylor gonna we've got heavy falls and look at this fire hose of rain really from one end of the bay, a been called to the other, affecting the m r. and thailand, in time we've got plenty in the way of sunshine across the malay peninsula. sumatra . same goes for java, but concentrated rain for borneo. and through the ways the heaviest rain will be relegated for northern islands and also the southern islands of the philippines in and around, devoured, devoured has a high of 33 degrees on saturday. and our plumb rains really do in a number for southern sections of japan. we do have weather alerts in play, also our next batch of what weather winding up across the yellow sea, or the yellow river valley into the yellow sea. now in terms of those weather warnings, we've got heavy rainfall warnings for northwestern q. shoot northern chicago and southern sections of honshu and then also the risk of seam, landslides for northwestern sections of hoko. tokyo has the high 25 degrees on

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hello. you're watching l 20. i'm emily. angling a reminder of stories is our fighting and that's kind of stand is escalating between the taliban and the resistance group and the pen. she valley north of the capital. cobbled. it's been the only province to hold out against taliban road is by being entirely surrounded the cases. it's boosting i've ref gonna fans. neighbors as i feel with refugees fleeing the country. dominic rob was speaking in pakistan's capital, islamic, where he's been in talk with the government and police and new zealand have shot and killed a man after you've tapped 6 people at a supermarket. and what the government's calling and i fell in spite attack. already say the attack was on a security watch least japan's prime minister. yes, she had a suca says he won't say gree election as leader of the governing party this month . it sets the stage for his replacement after just

a year in office. so good to go over after formulated sheet, so i resigned last september, signed in full health. so approval rating has seen strong below 30 percent as a nation struggles with its worst wave of curve 19 infections. a general election is expected next year. michael penn is the president of this. you get through news agency and independent japanese new service. he says, sue, that has struggled in the science of growing criticism. the fact that he's out as prime minister in the season is not it's 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 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, knock together bureaucrats and terrify them to get done what 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. i mean, he answers plunged into a valley and west in iran, killing at least 16 people. it happened in the kurdish speaking quarter stun region . a survivor says she jumped from the window when she realized the vehicle was out

of control. it's unclear what caused the crash. iran has one of the worst road safety records in the world. northeast and parts of the united states, the cleaning up after remnants of hurricane ida hit the region with wrinkled blanking rains. severe flooding is reported over 400 kilometers stretch from maryland to new york. flood waters have submerged subways, damage homes, and cut of power to millions. yokes may hold it a historic weather event. the city is under a state of emergency rescue workers as to looking to victims of the storm, which is so if i kill it at least 45 people, the death toll was highest in new jersey where christian salumi followed this report. the ne woke up to 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 rainfall. 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 turned to rivers. more than 20 centimeters of rain fell over in some areas that as much as typically falls in the entire month of september . when i say that this man we spoke to in 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 on the road and 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 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. congress returns this month. i'm going to press further action on my bill bag

. better plan. that's going to make historic investments in, 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 and security, locked down by authorities in indian. administered cash. me is now and it's 2nd day . police have blocked, patrol straits after the death of separate as late as ali delani. he advocated for cash means self determination and merger with pakistan, me astray alia heaps, record levels of new carpet, 19 cases and deaths. while new zealand sees its thumb is declining. after a surge from the delta variance, meanwhile, south korea has extended social distancing measures ahead of

a holiday there. and taiwan gets its 1st batch of 5 vaccines. he's got high la with a look at the current situation across the asia pacific region needed vaccines arrive in australia's new south wales state as it marks its worst day of the pandemic with a record 1431 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 or 5 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 australia 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 variant, a large drop in new cases from the previous few days, we need to continue to keep those testing rights up to give us the confidence that we are 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. or, you know, we barely see people on the street. if our profit was about $1700.00 per day, now it is about a half, we can barely pay the rent and don't think social distancing measures are affected . 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. beijing 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, north korean later, kim jung own, has ordered topic corona virus restrictions across the country. after turning down some vaccines, offered by the us back to kofax program on tuesday units, if that north korea proposed it's allocation of about 3000000 sino vac shots be sent to severely affected countries. instead, some experts believe that country may want to other vaccines while questioning the effectiveness of sun back and ask,

present to come. the columbia health ministry has said the new clothes. 19 muse strain has spread to 43 countries in regions. the very end, which was 1st identified in the country in january, is being closely monitored by the world health organization. experts have warranty . it could be resistant to vaccines, but for the study is needed. there is excitement among avar fans after the swedish supergroup announced its releasing its 1st music in 40 years. i b l. them voyages follow up to 991 recording the visitors to try have been released dancer ahead of him. in november, a virtual version of the band using specially created advertise. we'll begin a series of concepts in london next few days. funding is a music journalist. he says, the anticipation around the new songs is proof of the gross enduring popularity.

the 1st thing is that arbor started about $72.00, they 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 and has 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 1900 and said, you know something we can make a play. and we could write one with all the ada songs and put it onto the stage and launch and became of the biggest success in the west and have done that ever. and so we just make a 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 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 to know what the charge meant. something between 83 and 87 or whatever. they have 7 or 8 single. i'm a 7 or 8 of those went to number one of the charts. they 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 lightning object. it's all technological wizardry at the state of the art merchant video from black stop and david bowie that were made. that guy's doing that, the guy who made the 6 part series hon on tv that guys produced us like it's a really big team and they will get this right. there's no question about the challenges the are, these are the top stories. this, our fighting in afghanistan is escalating between the taliban and resistance group in the pen. she valley north and the capital cobbled. it's been the only province to hold out against taliban roll despite being entirely surrounded. the european union has set out conditions the ties with the taliban, the ones to have what it calls a presence in cobble to oversee more evacuations. if security measures are in place, but foreign policy chief joseph of burrell, it says that doesn't mean the block.