to stablish mon, still wielded in the new south africa, my father died for this of people empower investigation on al jazeera. ah, me fighting is intensifying between the african taliban under resistance group in the passenger valley. the only province still holding out. ah, you're watching all your life from headquarters in delphi and navigator. also ahead . european union says it's ready to engage with the afghan taliban under certain conditions, but won't recognize its government. a man on a security watchlist dab several people in a new zealand supermarket. the prime minister says the attack was i so inspired

japan as to get a new prime minister after yes he does to go said he will step down as leader of the governing par seat. ah, we begin an update on a stone. we're fighting is escalating between the charla bon, under resistance group and upon your valley. the mountainous enclave is about 150 kilometers north of the capital couple. it's been the only province to hold out against the taliban rule despite being entirely surrounded. charles stratford reports from global har. the gateway to that region. smoke rises over the town of gould, the hall, the entrance to the punchier valley in northeast af galveston. neither the soviets, during the 1980s war, nor the taliban has ever managed to control his mountainous region around a 100 kilometers north of cobble. a

shells lance nearby taliban fighters, ready their weapons. men in this village say they have driven their wives and children to safety. the angry. i'm scared. i'm going to go not go down to the americans betrayed us. president grannie betrayed us to you left us under the cannons and tanks, and we can't stop either side fighting. how much can they kill their brothers? how much can they kill their fellow guns? they have to stop fighting. the china bound drive american military vehicles and pick up trucks taking fighters to and from the front line. thousands of men like these across gun histone have no little else, but conflict and war all their lives. phil and younger, federal mission, younger, honest than the fighting started 3 days ago. now we've taken a lot of it is up there by the antenna. we have no issue with the civilians. we are

here to defend the rights people are staying in their homes. the national resistance front of afghan estoppel and r f is believed to be several 1000 strong and made up of mainly ethnic tragic fighters and former afghan army soldiers. the group was led by this man led masoud. he's british military academy trained, and the son of a sharma suit who fought against the soviets. and the taliban was assassinated by uh, clyde 2 days before the 911 attacks in 2001 of the sued is demanding the taliban form an inclusive government which guarantees the rights of all africa, stones, ethnic minorities, including ethnic tactics, who make up around a quarter of the country's population. the fighting started after 2 weeks of negotiations with the taliban collapsed. we have a lot of equipments with ourselves. we will descend from our relief from our territory until we have one blood, one drop of blood in our buddy. so we will resist,

will be modified here. talking about fight is edge of a slope along trucks. they say a heavily mind f as we were getting ready to go live. another shell landed close by the taliban, his block phone networks in the valley. there are growing fears about the estimated a $150000.00 people living inside and many entirely bound controlled areas around gold. the hall. the big concern is that my suits forces are coming round on the mountain ridges. a trying to surround this area in order to isolate golda, her love and we live in global heart. but now we are leaving today came from cobbler to collect our belongings. i already took my family out of the fighting is ongoing dental shelf. he think people's homes on both sides, shutting them on the wall. i've got families,

flea for their lives in one of the last pockets of resistance to holly bon rule. charles strafford al jazeera, near goober hall, i've gone a stone. the european union has set out conditions for ties with the taliban as western powers. consider how to engage with. i've got to stand new rulers that you, once it wants to have what is called a presence in capital to oversee more evacuations is security measures are in place with foreign policy. chief joseph ro says that doesn't mean the block will recognize the taliban to have been basket, become chill on coordinating the contest with italy, events with the telegrams with the new government vanish. 10, including with jain, you presence, ink of all coordinated. but there's that and i to service if the security conditions allow for it from that we should support the departure

of nation nosy to be a nation, not that i still there and i've gotten and risk while the british foreign secretary dominic rob echoed those sentiments earlier on a visit to pakistan, he also announced the u. k is increasing 8 to health of data stunned neighbors deal with refugees. pakistan says would support any afghan government that's backed by the people seeking it. the eastern economic form, rushes president, latimer, putin accused america on the west of abandoning their allies and said they should learn lessons from the disaster of 2 decades of conflict. it took a test for them, some of the to it's a catastrophe because the americans very pragmatic people spent more than $1.00 trillion dollars on this campaign over the years. and what is the result zeroed? if you look at the number of people who have been abandoned in afghanistan, who have been working for the collective west, the u. s. and their allies been, it's a humanitarian catastrophe as well. well, the u. s. says it airlifted

a total of more than a $120000.00 people from travel. but many afghans who applied for a special visa, including interpreters who worked with american forces, had been left behind. some say they were beaten as they try to get to the airport. charlotte bellis has more from the afghan capital. 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 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 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 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 off and symbol is not the n. v as good and 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 of bribery. they all confirmed the us funded units. let people into the port with our identification or valid paperwork. i was the what if i was watching them? we were just, we were just hopeless to seeing all the people i've 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 0 to 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 day, who helped foreign forces for years, have been left behind. charlotte bellis al jazeera couple. dozens of women have demonstrated outside the presidential palace in capital i. they are calling on the taliban leadership to protect women's rights. one card read a society in which women are not active as a dead society. a television official recently promised there would be a place for women in afghanistan, government, but not in the cabinet. might not be saw in the last 20 as we the women have taken part in all aspects of life, shoulder to shoulder with men. therefore,

no one can eliminate us. we not only oscar is lima camera government, but also all the international community, especially women from other countries around the world to support us. officials and new zealand say, a man who stab several people at a supermarket was being closely monitored by intelligence agencies. police shot until the attacker who wounded at least 6 people in auckland. the prime minister says these for lincoln national had been an eyesore sympathizer. we have reports 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 stayed. this woman came out. okay. and then i went down to the other end. there was an old gentleman in the main line on the ground. he got 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 team 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 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 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, who had on out of here all struggling to dry out the clean up is under william parts of the northeastern united states officer, a tropical storm ida suite through one pregnant palestinian woman found herself in person after a dispute at an illegal, subtler ah ah! done and dusted another hot one in the box across the middle east. we'll repeat

that on saturday. so here's your details still have 43 degrees. we've cranked up that humidity and q weights. we've got a high 47 degrees for you, fill out some showers in the forecast. we may see some storms pop up through the alpha jar, mountains in northeastern oman. same goes for areas of yemen, spilling into the he jazz mountains in saudi arabia. monsoon moisture may leak into southern areas of pakistan impacting karachi, they've sand and does come down from turkmenistan rate along that border with off gone is done and you drawn on saturday off to turkey, our brains are p d or petering out. so cross the black sea region toward the northeast. this sample has a high 26 degrees through central africa. wow. what a drenching for to allah. more than a 100 millimeters of rain. and still, we're seeing that line up those heavy falls on saturday for their toward the south temperatures. really bouncing back nicely. south africa through butts, wanna namibia and also in bob boy. but our next system is pulling in to the western

cape. so those winds will wind up and we've got some rain, so we'll see gus to about 40 kilometers per hour on sunday. that's it for me. thanks for your company. the frank assessments, by way it is again freedom, surprising informed opinions. what you saw happening is come months if it was $40.00 to $1.00. petune is the critical debate that we are here. it's not between kula and any other group that we have concrete here between 34 years re running that even people in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on our jazeera oh, the

the hello again, the stories on algae 0, they're our fighting and i've done this done is escalating between the taliban under resistance group in the valley, north of the capital capital been the only province to hold out against taliban rule. the site being in harvey surrounded the european union has set out conditions for a time with the town of bon. you wants to have what it calls a presence in capital to oversee more evacuation. if security measures are in place, police and new zealand have shot and killed a man after his job 6 people at a supermarket with a government calling an eyesore inspired attack. already say the attacker was on a security watch list. us president joe biden is heading to the state of louisiana

for a 1st time look at the damage wrought by hurricane idle. torrential rain brought widespread flooding and power was cut to a 1000000 people after the storm hit on the u. s. gulf coast last weekend. it caused more flooding as it moved to the northeast. new jersey, new york and pennsylvania are the worst hit states. 45 people been killed in the region. japan's prime minister, yes, she hid. suca says he won't seek re election of leader of the governing party. this month it sets the stage for his replacement after just one year and office su got took over after former leadership, so i be resigned last september sighting for help. soon as approval rating has since dropped below 30 percent of the nation struggles with its worst wave of cobra . 1900 infections. a general election is expected later this year. michael penn is president of the she gets the news agency that's an independent japanese new service. he says suga 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. pseudo 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 in and sort of, you know, knock 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 soon ago 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. their reports of heavy fighting and the libyan capital. tripoli between rival armed forces and leave the worst crashes in a year. happen near a military base, libya has been divided between 2 rival administration supported by arm groups and foreign governments. there's been unrest in the country since and uprising toppled mama to get duffy in 2011 syrian official said their forces shot down is really massage headed towards its capital. state media reported and is really attacked, targeting, damascus, launched in an area southeast of lebanon. neither military provided further details

on the security locked down by authorities in india administered kashmir as now and it's 2nd day. police have blocked in patrol street softer. the death of separate the leader say at the shaggy lani. he advocated for a customer of self determination as well as merging with pockets done this way now . has recalled it's ambassador to china following a dispute with china over taiwan. in july, lithuania became the 1st european union member to allow taiwan to set up an office under its own name rather than chinese type. k, which is often used by other countries facing, reacted angrily by recalling its ambassador china views self governing taiwan as part of its territory in the european union and astra seneca have reached the deal to end a legal battle over the slow deliveries of code with 1900 vaccine shots. the pharmaceutical giant will now deliver 300000000 doses by march next year as agreed

a year ago. that you accused astrazeneca of acting in bad faith when it provided doses to the u. k. from plants in europe before fulfilling orders for the block. the columbia health ministry has said the new covered 1900 strain new has spread to 43 countries and regions. the variance, which is 1st identified in the country in january, is being closely monitored by the world health organization. according to the health ministry, 39 percent of the confirm cases under treatment were infected by new australia is seeing record levels of new cove in 1900 cases on death. while new zealand numbers are declining after a search in the delta variance. meanwhile, south korea has extended social distancing measures ahead of a holiday there until one gets its 1st batch of pfizer vaccines. here scott hiler will look at over 19 the situation rather, across the asia pacific region needed vaccines arrive in australia,

new south wales state, as it marked 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 jobs arrived in sydney, 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 fortnight 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 cables, hospitals, and how many people we have vaccinated as quickly as possible. more than half of a stella is under a stay at home order, along with sydney, melbourne in the national capital camera have been in week long lock 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 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 decide 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 code, 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're 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, the north korean leader kim jong has order tougher restrictions after turning down some vaccines offered by the un back kofax program. on tuesday uniform, unicef said north korea proposed its allocation of about 3000000 syntax shots be sent to severely affected countries. instead. some experts believe it may want other vaccines while questioning the effectiveness of sin back an astrazeneca, a pregnant palestinian woman has been released from an is really prison. after a public outcry and hard antique had been detained since march awaiting trial and

with her baby due next week, she's hoping to avoid returning to prison. that's also the name reports from the occupied westbank. the fear of giving birth shackled to a hospital bed without having a loved one to hold her hand filled on her l. d. g. thoughts while in prison. she is mom to an 18 month old daughter. is expecting to deliver a son next week. on thursday and it's really judge siding the risks of coven 19 put her on house arrest while she awaits trial. of humble band. while i was only thinking about hollywood recovered from giving birth alone with no one by my side, my husband, no one from my family. those were the hardest moments play on the top of the leak is charged with a salting. it is really settler and possession of a knife. her family says she suffers from depression. last march, she says she was feeling distraught, went for

a walk and wandered into an illegal settler outpost. l. d g says she doesn't remember much beyond being beaten. she thought she'd be transported to a hospital for treatment. instead, the pregnant woman spent nearly 6 months in prison. l b case is on common. human rights groups have documented only 10 palestinian women giving birth and israeli prisons since 1967. the last baby born was in 2008 l d g case caused an uproar among palestinians with less than 2 weeks before she is expected to give birth. her attorney was able to convince the court that keeping a depressed pregnant woman in a jail cell was not the only option or if you live month is robert montgomery. we submitted a convincing alternative to prison guarantees from a doctor to follow up social services to help the family to monitor her 247 and

cache bailey. l. d equal undergo court ordered therapy and just now hoping she can reconnect with her daughter who hasn't called her mommy yet. soon she'll also be juggling caring for her newborn son. and so ally on is god willing, i will make up every moment i was gone. she'll automatically on to my feelings as her mother, he called l. dks trial begins in november. if she's convicted. the israeli prison service will allow her to keep her son behind bars until he turns to natasha . good name al jazeera from the occupied west bank. the number of people leaving lebanon to look for opportunities abroad is at an all time high. a new report is warning. the rate of mass exodus is leading to a severe brain drain. people lose hope in their countries. future. 3rd hierarchy says more from baby this seems way new, visiting the square and they route one last time before he leaves for germany. it's

a he spent day and night a month protesting with hundreds of thousands of others against the government and rampant corruption. for the ruling political class in lebanon at 3 months, and i think they kept on creating crisis the cmos off the scholarship. he's one of the many young professionals and activists to leaving lebanon for good, almost everybody who was involved in the revolution. those were the front lines and leading the movements we all have the same thoughts to help secure ourselves 1st to be able to get back to the country. it's really break the heart to see that all the young people who were the key of the chains trying tirelessly desperately to get the visa. there are twice as many lebanese living abroad and in

the country itself. now even more relieving as people struggled to make. and me generational chrome or is what people have lost their suffering from right now. so many lol see is a root blog claims on systematic corruption was just too much to bear. never on has no functioning government. economic and health care systems made was by the pandemic. of all collapse, but i was leaving the country. they say they've lost the very little hope that they want. has new findings by the american university of bay route show 3 quarters of lebanese. you want to immigrate the world bank estimate the economic crisis could take a couple more decades to recover. and experts, one of the long term impact the latest brain drain will have on the country. it's very way that's actually the professional losses i leaving those who are you the economy? oh, in the society it's actually doctors, nurses, each of rank design. it goes on the 1st to leave and they are leaving and done go

1000. and that's actually would mean that the economy is going to collapse even further. and travel agents say they're receiving an unprecedented number of calls. and we're seeing an increase in people booking flights out of lebanon on a one way ticket with no return, especially those that already have residence is abroad, but a chosen to live here, such as students or those relatives and other countries. and difficult because like none of my friends have remains and i don't have any more family there in the scene said most of his friends like dory of left for europe. he sat to be leaving his home and family behind. but he's looking forward to the future, he says with new opportunities abroad, the ones he fought for, so tires 11 on the foreign for you to coming and i'm sure you don't degrade. gotta fight it. i'll just 0. they route like ah.