and you say, we'll take the time and put extensive thought into reporting from under reported areas. of course we cover major global events that are passionate lives and making sure that you're hearing the stories from people in places like how was find libya and her region. and so many others, we go to them, you make the effort, we care, we have a taliban battle fighters in ne afghan, it's done in a bit to take over the last talkative resistance against the group. we're looking at what actions, what policies? any new afghan government pursues us secretary state anthony blink and express his concern about the formation of a ton of bond govern. ah,

i'm hadn't think of this edge, is it alive from the also coming up. us president joe biden promising federal aid to louisiana as he surveyed damage from oregon ida, a toxic leak from a diamond mine and angola kills 12 people in democratic republic of congo. and now it wants compensation. ah, a fighting is escalating in afghanistan between the taliban and a resistance group in the pen she of valley. the mountainous enclave is about 150 kilometers north of the capital campbell. it's been the only province to hold out against taliban rule. charles strafford reports from gold behind the gateway to the region. smoke rises over the town of gould, the hall, the entrance to the punchier valley in northeast af galveston. needed the soviets,

during the 1980s war, nor the taliban had ever managed to control, is mountainous region. around 100 kilometers north of cobble a shells lands nearby on the bound fighters ready the weapons. men in this village say they have driven their wives and children to safety. they angry. i'm scared. i know not good under the americans betrayed us. president grannie betrayed us to you left us under the canons 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 stuff, i think it's all about dr. american military vehicles and pick up trucks taking fighters to and from the front line. thousands of men like these across off gun histone have no little else, but conflict and war all their lives. in general, on a federal mission general and the fighting started 3 days ago. now we've taken

a lot of areas 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 external and r f is believe 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 lead masoud. his british military academy trained and the son of a sharma suit who fought against the soviets. and the taliban was assassinated by a clyde or 2 days before the 911 attacks in 2000. and one 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 equipment 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 tracks. they say a heavily mind 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. ha ha. 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 them as we left and go to her. 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 thinks people's homes, both sides are 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 his stone or the u. s. secretary of state will continue his diplomatic mission in doha. on sunday he says this concern about what the new taliban government will look like. roslyn jordan has moved from washington dc. the reason why secretary of state answer the blanket is going to doha. he says, is to consult with the country leadership about efforts to reopen afghanistan's national airport. he's also going to be meeting with us embassy officials who are still trying to process the paper work for those afghans who want to leave their country and start a new life in other countries, particularly here are the united states. but one thing that isn't going to be on

the table, at least right away, is the matter of whether to grant a quick recognition to what the taliban says will soon be the new government and cobble. here's the secretary's explanation why. earlier on friday, i have to tell you that as important as what the government looks like is more important still is what any government does. and that's what we're, that's what we're really looking at. we're looking at what actions, what policies, any new afghan government pursues. that's what matters the most so or the expectation is to see in passivity and government. but ultimately the expectation is to see a government that makes good on commitments. that the taliban made particularly when it comes to freedom of travel when it comes to not allowing us to stand to be used as a launching ground for terrorism directed at,

at us or any of our allies and partners when it comes to upholding the basic rights of the african people including women and minorities when it comes to not engaging and in reprisals. these are the things that, that we're looking at. and again, not just us, many countries around the world blink. and we'll also be visiting ramstein air base in germany, where he's going to meet with afghans who have already left their homeland and are looking to resettle in other countries. it's part of his effort. he says, to show that the u. s. is still very much committed to the welfare of the afghans who worked with the us government during the 20 year long war taliban co founder milan delani bought a daughter is expected to lead the new afghan government, which will be announced soon. he says, improving the economy is a top priority. the products come from matter regarding the government that we will form. it will include all factions of the african people. i want to assure people that we are doing utmost efforts to improve their living conditions. the government

will provide security because it is necessary for economic development, not only rough canister on the whole world, we are able to provide security. we are able to overcome other problems. we will not spend any effort to reach our objectives. a u. s. president joe biden has traveled to the state of louisiana for a 1st hand look at the damage wrought by horak and ida. torrential rain brought widespread flooding and powerless cut to a 1000000 people cause more flooding as it moved to the north east. new york, new jersey and pennsylvania, the worst his states there, 49 people have been killed in the region. let's go live now to christmas. salumi, who is in elizabeth, new jersey forces. so question, just tell us a little bit more about where you all yes, i'm in new jersey, which was the hardest hit state in terms of italy is 25 people at least were killed here by raging flood waters. and the death toll could rise even further,

as several people are still unaccounted for. you can see behind me there's no flooding now, but at the peak of the event, the parking lot behind me was completely covered in water. and the cars that you see behind me were completely covered in water. and we have seen similar scenes around the area, cars washed away, people trying to salvage what they can out of their homes and basements, and sadly the loss of life. again, 25 people here in new jersey and 4 in the apartment complex that you see behind me more than a day after ida barreled through the northeastern united states, many parts of new jersey are still under water. but in elizabeth, where the floods retreated, it leaped cars, flooded homes and death in its wake. the water rose so quickly at this new jersey

apartment complex. it caught many people off guard. it's merged vehicles, and pushed up against the doorways trapping for people inside. people who lived on the 2nd floor i got calls from neighbors below. the lady will be you. she called my mom. she was like, oh, you know, you open it up. we couldn't open the door because the water was so high. 6000 here have now been evacuated after the fact, nearly 12000 or without power, because the water line came up here in the water got as high as many cabals, front porch emerging, the lower levels, 6.3, feel water. by the time he got the flash fled alert, the water was already rising. he's lived here 20 years. we've had a bit of flooded but like anywhere else. but this was extreme, like never in my while the streams are trying to support stuff. you've seen the movie stuff that's going on down south in new orleans. i got that. we're by bodies

of water, but not here. we're in the middle. a city, new jersey governor still murphy says it's clear where the blame lies as we continue to contend with the reality of climate change. it is no surprise that these storms are happening with greater frequency and greater intensity. this conversation is one that we will continue having probably for the rest of our lives in the state of louisiana, where i'd 1st made landfall on sunday. the death toll was lower, but hundreds of thousands of people across the state remain without power. i'm had no air, no power, no generator, because the, the power line is than i can get out of my car to my car, to do anything and everything. no gas, no, nothing. and i want to cry. on friday us president joe biden came to see for himself some of the worst effected areas. and he had knowledge the need to harden us infrastructure to future storms coming in, seen, all pulls down. well, you know,

we were billed back better. i mean, you know, we know if it's underground, it's called a lot more money. but guess what? it says have more money, long term damages from ida are still being assessed, but expected to be in the billions of dollars. and what is so surprising has them is talking to people who've lived here for long periods of time . and none of the people that i spoke to had ever experienced anything like this in the neighborhood. so when the flood alerts started coming and they came late after the rain had already started and the rivers had started crusting. people said they weren't really sure what to do or where to go. and because they hadn't experienced this before. even people who had been here in 2012, which was the last major storm to hit new york in new jersey,

super storm sandy that caused billions of dollars of damage and resulted in improvements to infrastructure. but a lot of those improvements were targeted along the coastal areas to prevent title, flooding, and so on. they weren't the infrastructure here in new jersey and new york as well is not meant to handle so much rain in such a short period of time. and what we saw was record rainfall in a very short period of time. and so when they talk about improving infrastructure, that's what they are focusing on. now. yes, certainly was an unprecedented storm and a lot of ways. christian salumi live 1st there in elizabeth new jersey. thank i still ahead on edge 0, under pressure from survivors and victims families, u. s. president orders declassification of the 911 documents days before the 20th anniversary. they say they're protecting the loss of their land. she laid them

a few cheap people declare war on forestry companies and that she lay in state. ah hi there your headlines for the america is right here right now and the leftovers of what was hurricane ida mostly pushed out toward the atlantic after drenching parts of a bind to canada with more than a 100 millimeters of rain. off we go to the west coast of the us and our winds are finally starting to die down across california. that's allowing fire crews to get the upper hand. the colder fire about 25 percent contained right now. it is wet across the coast of british columbia. and we start to see that leak into vancouver on saturday with a high of 21 degrees. very what, whether across areas of the yucatan peninsula, down to guatemala, out salvador honduras. and we have seen landslides in northern and eastern areas of

guatemala. unfortunately, the rain just keeps coming. south end of south america will remain unsettled, really from the pacific rate through to the atlantic as our storms flare up with that daytime heating, i just amplified the energy that we have available further toward the south temperatures have fallen big time as we looked toward porthos lake re 23 degrees. we've got wet weather, swooping through paraguay into 7 eastern sections of brazil, montevideo you've got a height of 14 degrees on saturday. that's it for me. enjoy. we'll see you soon. ah. ah, they wanted 43000000 pounds worth of weaponry. that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. there was no hope of any more because there's always a small car. most people for really,

really good live in athens. we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function. war shadow on al jazeera, the oh, a hello. again, you're watching. i just remind locked up stories. this out fighting is escalated between the taliban and the resistance group in the and she valley in afghanistan. the mountainous enclave is about 150 kilometers north of the capital. com. it's the only province to hold out against cantavon who us secretary of state will visit, cuts out on sunday for talks on us again. it's on entity, blink,

and fest baton bon. must stick to its promises in order for sanctions to the president, joe biden has acknowledged the us must do more to prepare for future storms, tool agrees, yanna hit by hearken, either he said, investing an infrastructure would save lives and money in the long run. the 49 people had been killed. the u. s. government consumed could soon release classified files from the september 11th attacks. president joe biden has ordered a full review of the documents days before the 20th anniversary. any which can be declassified will then be made public within 6 months. last month, the victims, families accused us of deliberately keeping documents under wraps. they say the papers prove saudi arabia aided al qaeda attack. what house corresponding, kimberly, how it has moved? essentially, as we approach the 20th anniversary of those attacks on the pentagon and the world trade center in new york, september 11th attacks, the families of the victims,

about 16 to 1800 of them, depending on which count you use have been pushing for the declassification for quite a while and what they were saying is in the recently released letter is that they don't want president biden to visit new york city to commemorate that 20th anniversary of those attacks unless fulfils a campaign promise. in that campaign promised that he made was to essentially kick off the investigation the review that would allow for the release of documents. the family is allege could potentially expose saudi arabia in some form or fashion to the september 11th attacks. so in advance of the 20th anniversary of the us president has now signed this executive order. what this does is essentially a direct the f b. i begin this declassification process related to the 911 attacks that again, the families allege has a link to the saudi government,

or at least saudi officials. now i in terms of how this move forward, what we know is this will allow for at least an access to what until now has been kind of secret department of justice files that have the investigation of federal investigation. but of never seeing the light of day by the public. so what does executive order does is it will essentially begin that review process that will allow for these documents to potentially be released over the next 6 months. but it's important to note, it's not just the families of victims that have been pushing for this. increasingly we've seen members of congress including members of the presence own democratic party. in fact, the top sen. bob menendez recently saying that the u. s. government needs to know who is a friend, who is a foe, and they are also alleging that there are connections to saudi officials and the 911 attacks. and that's why this really start to gain momentum. so we'll be watching very carefully to see what comes out of this review of declassification

process in the next 6 months. but for now, joe biden has made good on a campaign promise in advance of the 11 attacks the 20th anniversary by signing this executive order that could potentially reveal documents. families have been pressing to see for a generation kimberly, how could there will, let's bring in hilary. man leverett, now to talk more about this, she is a former white house national security council and state department official. she joins us live for mclean. virginia, thanks so much for being with us. so what do you think of these files could reveal this? well i'm, i'm not sure to be, to be honest, either either files that are 20 years old in many cases or more than 20 years old. which so interesting and important to understand about files and documents collected and kept by the us government at the time is that they go over to administration of 2 different political parties. some of these files go back to the

clinton administration to a democratic administration wanting which i worked. the next set of files go into the bush administration. again, another administration in which i worked for both clinton and bush in their white house and their national security council and both administration made mistakes. some of them are documented in the 911 commission and some are not. some are not matters of national security. some are just matters of embarrassment that would embarrass officials or people who are in government at the time. so there are a lot of different things that are kept in these files. i hope for the family sake that they are not too disappointed, but some of the details that may come out may be pretty mundane, but very embarrassing for officials at the time. is it the right thing to do in your view and is, is this the right time to be doing it is way overdue. there is no reason to have kept these files classified. that i knew when i was either in the clinton administration or in the bush administration. there of course,

were mistakes in the states and intelligence mistakes and now a mistaken judgement. but those, all the american people had a right to see and understand what happened and why, who did what and when there's really no reason to keep them classified. even though in president biden, executive order that he issue today. there is a little bit of a loophole that he's keeping for himself or the u. s. government to preserve some documents that they say are of such enormous significance to national security. it'll be interesting to see what actually does come out and what it's withheld. i wanna ask you about the potential saudi connection or is because i think it was nearly all of the i think it was a 217 of the 19 hijackers were from saudi arabia. little bit less than that. based on your experience of working in those administrations, i mean, should the saudis be worried about this? well, in some ways yes. and in some ways, no, i mean,

certainly with 17 so many of the hijackers being from saudi arabia there has got to be more information there that have not come out. that would be embarrassing if not to the saudi government, to at least the families and people who know who knew those saudis who are involved . but there is, there isn't one enduring question which i had when i was in the u. s. government never got an answer to and to this day, 20 years later, i still don't understand which is why did the u. s. government to get so many saudis, out of the united states on airplane right after $911.00. when the aerospace was close to everybody else, i was in the white house at the time and i didn't know the answer to that and 20 years later, i don't know the answer to that. that's something i'd like to know. and i think it probably could be embarrassing to the saudis, but i really don't know. good to speak with you. hillary man, leverett, joining us there from mclean, virginia. thank you. thank you very much. our machinery belonging to forestry companies have been set on fire in southern chile,

as indigenous people demand the return of ancestral lands. they say they've lost faith in the political process on latin america, editor, lucy newman, spent a day with a father and son trying to protect their land from loggers, in the auto con year region. this is disputed territory, a wilderness were gun battles between militarized police and indigenous. my pooty rebel groups are frequent this sign reads, territory and recovery forestry companies out of the way. we've come to meet marcello medina and his 16 year old son grandma were fighting to take over this land. let us know if any way this land belonged to my grandfather and was taken from him and we've come to recover it with my son. and i have been living here for a month, but the rest of the family gave up because they're afraid that someone might be injured, jailed or killed by militarized police. i think so. he blames the forestry company

that legally owns the land for burning his cabin 3 times volume. we want the forest companies to go back to where they came from. but because this is no poochie land, it's in the marines of clear and eucalyptus trees. part of a lucrative forestry industry that sucking up most of the water. but at the top of the hill there's noises. it's what's left of a native forest at once covered south central chile replaced by imported species like eucalyptus and pine. the forest is brimming with moss ferns and other plants used for making my booty medicine for some money and says, this is used for dine wool. and this weaving baskets we ever put way for us. my food said the native forest is life. that's why we protected him. we have a spiritual relationship with him. it's as important as water. but outside of this magical forest, the land conflict is becoming more violent. taking the lives of scores of my food,

chip, police and julians, who believe they've been equal right to live and work here. while my pushes make up more than 10 percent of the population. i know the poor segment of society far away in the capital and indigenous not poochie linguists. a lisa langon is presiding over to the constitutional convention, something unthinkable just a few years ago. it's meant to send a message that a new constitution can lay the groundwork for a plural national state and dialogue with those who are fighting for not tone him is not which you nation once which, but militant leaders like one be tune, reject the entire process or the alone he got hell without the only exception would be if the convention discuss territory and autonomy for them, the poor people, the nation. but that's difficult to imagine. well, what can you then we'll go to the us. why should i believe the country that killed and invaded message p june tells me he won't respond to a summons by a prosecutor of investigating him for alleged in legal possession of weapons of war

. instead, he plans to drop out of site, perhaps in the mighty in native forest or in the increasingly vast areas her south central chile that the julian state no longer seems to control the sea in human al jazeera, my year old chile, a security locked down by authorities in indian administered kashmir is now in his 3rd day police, a blocked and patrol streets after the death of separatist liter say that he sha delani. he advocated for kashmir, self determination and merging with pockets on phone services have been restored, but limits restricting movement and internet use remain in place with the whiny as record. it's ambassador to china following a dispute over taiwan in july. if the, when he became the 1st european union member to allow taiwan to set up an office under its own name rather than chinese type pay, which is often used by other countries basing, we acted angrily by recalling its ambassador john of use self governing taiwan. as

part of its territory, ethiopia military says it has stopped and attempted rebel attack targeting the renaissance dam on the blue nile. it happens close to the border with sudan and the c o. p and colonel says troops guarding the area killed 50 fighters, an injured 70, others. if the open government has been fighting rebels in the northern te good region since november, local military officials say the attackers are linked to rebels in t grey. the democratic republic of congo says it once compensation after a diamond mind leak killed at least 12 people. the spill in late july is for to have come from the waste water dam of neighboring angle is largest diamond reserve, the official se polluted a tributary of the congo river, making thousands of people ill luck. i took a diamond. mine has said it immediately sought to repair the league and reduced the pollution. good luck with the fact that the end goal in government recognized what

happened that had taca. and that can talk a mine and also recognize the spill. for us, it was good. now we are at the assessment stage. i can't give you the costs now because of the limitations of my mission, which was sampling and research. really just a refile shimoda is the director of the congo basin water resources research center . he says it's still not clear what kind of contaminants polluted the river or what the longer term consequences may be given us be actually, you know, are drinking. so that's what this does give us and this is, will leave us. so what that the body does that and what can we do that the munition to people? and this is actually what we've been getting and we still how we can see that happen immediately in the mid done. but also this would be addition from the source of the depletion. so from what countries

from the out see. and also i'm going to, this should go to the source of the depletion and this to get. so that's what you're expecting. and we hope that the government is willing to talk about it. and this is really for me to see what does to management and management be you know, why are going to look at the top stories now? fighting has escalated between the taliban and a resistance group. in the pan she has valley enough canister on the mountain. us enclave is about a 150 kilometers north of the capitol. cobble the region has been the only province to hold out against taliban who and the us secretary of state will visit, cut out on sunday for talks on our canister,

antony blink and says the taliban must stick to its promises. in order for sanctions to be president joe biden says the us must do.