this isn't my story. it's the story of my friend jesus. she told us that she didn't want to be here. she didn't want to live anymore. was too hard. a survivor dedicates her life to educating and saving others from suicide. we are the ones that are dying, where the ones that are losing our friends and therefore we have to be the ones that will stand up and solve it because no one else is going to. where there is a witness documentary on a just you know, oh i had i had them. speaker in da, how the top stories on edge zeta fighting is escalated between the taliban and a resistance group. in the pan she valley in afghanistan. the mountainous enclave is about 150 kilometers north of the capitol. cobble. the region has been the only province to hold out against taliban rule. the us secretary of state will visit katara on sunday for talks on afghanistan. antony blink and says the taliban must stick to its promises. in order for sanctions to be president joe biden has

recognised the u. s. must do more to prepare for future storms trip to louisiana. hit by harken ida, he said, investing an infrastructure would save lives and money in the long run. storm was killed at least $63.00 people across 8 states and left hundreds of thousands without electricity. kristen salumi reports from new jersey more than a day after ida barrel 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, its submerged vehicles, and pushed up against the doorways, trapping for people inside. people who lived on the 2nd floor got calls from neighbors below. the lady over you. she called my mom, she was like, oh, you know,

you open the door, we couldn't open a door because the water was so high. 6000 here have now been evacuated after the fact. nearly 12000 or without power, because water and i came up here on the water, got as high as many cabals, front porch emerging, the lower levels, 6.3 feet. by the time he got the flash fled alert, the water was already rising. he's lived here 20 years. we've had a little bit of water, but like anywhere else. but this was extreme, like never in my while, the streams and dissipate 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 the storms are happening with greater frequency, 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 when no generator. because see the power line is down. i can't get out of my car to my car to do anything. and everything, no gas, no meth, 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 hard and us infrastructure to future storms coming in, seen. all pulls down. well, you know, we build back better. i mean, you know, we know if it's underground, it's called a lot more money. but guess what? it says you have on more money, long term damages from ida are still being assessed, but expected to be in the billions of dollars. kristen salumi al jazeera elizabeth

new jersey. the u. s. government 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. last month, the victims families accused us of deliberately keeping documents under wraps. they say the papers prove saudi arabia aided al qaeda attack is the european union and astra seneca have reached a deal to end a legal battle over slow deliveries of code. 19 vaccines. pharmaceutical john will now deliver 300000000 doses by march next year. as agreed a year ago, the democratic republic of congo says it once compensation after a diamond mind league killed at least 12 people. the spill in late july's, for to have come from the wastewater dam of neighboring angola, the largest diamond reserves. those are the headlines right now and i just data it

shadow world. ah, me. oh, i, when we stumbled down the saudi alms deal. we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years. heinous punch found, has been the hall of many of the great world events of the past 30. i was always pleased to see him. what i wish prime minister should consider salary as a strong friend, and would be willing to support the kingdom with whatever the kingdom needs and of discussion from their own. everything else was technical. he explained to mrs. such

that this was a deal with saudi arabia, and therefore things were done differently. they wanted 43000000 pounds worth of weaponry. that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. the vast majority, our most people understand is brian, the, when an executive goes to bribe before an official, he says to himself, look, i've taken a lot of risk to take this $5000000.00 that i'm paying to the prime minister of x, y, z. it makes an arrangement with prime minister of x, y, z, i'll hand over the 5000000, but you take half of that 5000000 and you send it to the following bank account and switzerland. i've got nothing, it's money. i don't mind paying bribes simple addition. it's part of the deal. the thing about politicians is they're very much like prostitutes, but only more expensive. from the 1950 s all the way through the

1970. the cia and the u. s. military were engaged in covert actions throughout central america throughout africa, really throughout the world where they were assassinating populace leaders. they were backing up the right way, military winters for being an army desk was like the contrary. nicaragua, battalion 316 and 100. and there were the spade of assassinations across the globe, individuals operating in the shadows and never having their names called are able to leverage the power of the military and the foreign policy apparatus for their own personal pecuniary ins. mm. our war on terror begins with that,

but it does not in a very war on terror is irrational. it's like saying, a war on war. war on violence won't know since you slipping into this possibility of confir picture war now, or you can re assuring us and we kept believing him because you don't want to think your prime minister is deceiving you in the route to want nothing more serious when the theory is brought up, it launched his investigation into all the crimes that we were uncovering. it turned out that many of these alms deals had been forced through by tony blair personally heated, dedicated arm salesman. whatever was a dispute ever in government, he was not the onset of the serious fraud office got to the brink of uncovering the

secret swiss bank accounts by which b a was funnelling money to the saudi royal family. the swiss said we're going to notify the bank account holders band are flew to london, a bless swung into action. ah, he ordered the serious road office to close down their investigation. prince bandar said if the investigation continued, they would withdraw national security cooperation, which would lead in the words of prince bandar to blood on the streets of london. the story we've been banging away at the more than 5 years. suddenly everybody woke up to it because everybody could see was a huge cover up scandal. the spectacle of british prime minister closing down a criminal investigation present reasons. were you aware that your governor was approving payments to a friend of president bush's as part of the british?

aerospace is kicked back system. is that why you suspended a fraud inquiry? when tony blair down to talking about national security interest that's supposed to be a com trumps or all of that, i don't believe the investigation is that it would have led anywhere except for the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship or our country in terms of fighting terrorism in terms of the middle east, in terms of british interest that says things actually stuff. and it seems to be a very expensive way of organizing broad payment as well. because out the military equipment and just money, the lat came to south africa, specifically to lobby that be the british weapons manufacturer. one the biggest contract on our deal.

and the option that they presented was 2 and a half times more expensive than the pain that the south african apple actually wanted be a new system. real performance, real advantage as mondell was about to step down from public life. his successor toggle and becky made the decision to spend around $10000000000.00. what we're quite scarce public resources on this weaponry that we didn't need rather than provide life saving cation for the almost 6000000 south africans who had been living with h. i v o h the primary reason for these deals was that around 300000000 dollars in bribes were paid to senior politicians and

sadly to the african national congress, the a n c. my own party i was called in by a senior member of a n c's national executive council. he said to me, look angry. this is a battle you cannot win. because this money bribes. we used to fund on 1999 election and almost immediately i'm off to make a statement to the press that says there's nothing to investigate. so it's all in and i looked at him and i said, no, it's not i wouldn't be able to live with myself if i stopped this investigation. but at the same time, i'm also realizing that this is the end of my political career. the headed to the government of the sales people in chief of their countries, large arms contractors. and this is the template used by large defense contractors

around the world. i companies like be and i don't nice effects to be part of the government, but respectively above the law, corruption is not merely a dirty little detail on top of the arms trade. it's actually in a lot of cases, what drives the international arms trade. many of these deals would not happen if they did not provide opportunities for personal enrichment. i would be offended if i thought we had the monopoly or corruption trim. i mean, to rush out there for $26000000.00 every year. i was being dragged out right at the last 2nd i'm going to still fe,

remind everyone that this guy is a war criminal. but can i just say, actually on the record. but he said about iraq and j. p. morgan is completely and totally untrue. i've never had a discussion with them. now. i'm not suggesting that there was a phone call between j people than in black. that's actually what happened with j. p. morgan and the consortium of other banks did in fact prop the whole iraq economy to the tune of about 2 and a half 1000000000. not 20000000000 other than 6 months after he left office on the signed by j. p. morgan for $5000000.00 every year. i was just trying to enlighten the public that there was corruption involved and not just bad decision making. i'd like to find out how this gentleman managed to access the court. there must be a back door in because they don't go out for tea a time and there was a court room directly underneath the court room. the play was in and it was left on not. so i went through that run up 2 floors by the fire escape and then to the, to the door that called itself. by this time my heart was pounding like, you know, really going mad. and i actually lost my courage for the moment i went and sat down

in a low in the bathroom. i found jane's toilet, but i did not. she ring my mother and say, listen, i'm here. what should i do? you think i should still go in? my mom said yeah, go and you will get another chance and i think that's it. i mean, augustine said that hope has to be from dollars, anger and courage, anger the way things are encourage to see that they don't remain the way they are. either way. the way you can serve 2 sets of principal is privilege and power justice. and the more you make compromises with those who serve privilege and power, the more he diminished capacity for justice and trust. and i think that the rebel seeks to keep those who have power fearful

color. they have been unable to re lease a, just a flimsy well. but if, if he has anti mac on the mom or dad, we will see that potentially thought it available for the year. so i showed it to fish philosophy was good now. man's in. well, i don't, it's not as william salon the color, no, not come to my pocket can be my hope of george bush and washington cited the middle seat of college of bush con teacher, or how that i'm going to look at it piece. that's what we want. freedom and who

wouldn't want to think when i know where to huffy and ga, push them and the kids are that are like and the other kids but in the shop and they said it's not good, but i got him if you want to much, how would it be for me and emily key, how about of that up? what was i let me allow to be a diamond. how about and how will it's hard to hit julia george bush and emily come to is what i can make so much that we had the end up being developed on it. but it was actually john nanette, again let miss george bush belong. but the idea of allow

them to me, the guys were like, you know, the whole and the sort of the guy it's not, it's none at all. let me come pick up my, i'm going to be a fee that was a para for him to come. so he bought it, so what, what are the building blocks that i didn't know can know in just a de go on move hammock

i'm going to reach the sourcing of the time the record paragraph. one of us authorities say, call them one still us officials said, said one us justice department counter terrorism official column 2 officials said to us, authorities say us official said, that is official said the officials confirmed american officials complained. they said us official us officials crest call them 3 us authorities said jordanian official said, you know, off to please we haven't finished yet. several us officials said call them for us. officials said several american officials said officials say, say us officials, but us and who will say one us counterterrorism official said, i'm not joking where it is. that is the journalism you're getting fed. i sometimes think the times in new york times who be call american official say i denounced the call when later i publicly veneer times issued me

a formal britain reprimand, which is what you get before your fire under union rules to stop speaking out against the war i'd been the middle east bureau chief, i mean i've been in iraq been 7 years the middle east. how can you come out of gaza and not be angry? what's been done to those people? how can you come out of the sudan salad or dozens of other places i've been and not be angry. ah, i've seen the bodies a lot of children, which i can't forget. ah, especially haven't done it for years and in the

a 1000000 and alone. and that's what killed people i fully get. why people blow their brains out. it's really how and i don't use love the kind of hallmark multi, you know, we all got to love each other. i'm saying that the only way you're healed from those experiences is by re establishing a connection with that kind of power with another human being. and if you can't do that, you don't survive and i have friends who couldn't do it. they're not here anymore. it's you know, the power of love to transcend time looks like a ga u. b to alpha $38.00 that we used to have on our loaches

a mini gun and fired $4000.00 rounds per minute. that's one of the manifestations of the national security state, especially in the, in the sort of apple j. it's arrived at today is that it destroys diplomacy. it destroys the will to diplomacy and it destroys the skill for diplomacy. if you're wrong, if you're a small state, like we were for 150 years, in essence, these are these spain, france, england, and even russia. you gotta be exclusively good diplomacy. you've got to be able to talk yourself out of lots of things and make deals, and compromises and so forth. but if you're the world's hageman, you don't deal with anybody. you smack your military and you smack them on may

3rd of 2000 and the ambassador of switzerland to delivers a letter from yvonne to the united states in that letter. the volumes essentially offer negotiations to open up the nuclear program for full transparency. the proposal came in, i happened to see it because a copy was also given to a member of congress that i worked for at the time. he sent it over to the white house and called rove call ro called back down. and he said that he found the proposal intriguing. he wanted to know if it was genuine, were promised to put it in front of the president. i would call karl rove, a dear friend. i've seen a man of far sighted courage. put america on a war footy and protect us against a brutal enemy in a dangerous conflict that will shaped his 2 centuries. no form of response was given to the iranians at all. i'm grateful to have been witnessed

a history. and the argument was that whatever could come out of a negotiation with the audience even more can be achieved by simply removing the regime and ross in a way to sum up the arguments. however, the principal in the bush administration said that we simply do not talk to evil. and is tony's any said former central command commander, if you like the rock, you will love iran. that is a 10 to 14 year 3 to $4.00 trillion dollar invasion at the end of which the world western asia will look not much different than it does right now. it will still be internal still be in chaos, and 70 plus 1000000. iranians will hate our living gods. i was in the pentagon and i went to see the under secretary defense. the idea is that wolf which shared with

me and charter cheney in 919 to package down re tool and thought about him went to the white house brief people like presidents, america needs a new strategy or force for region change. so here this idea springs back up again in 2001. i went through the pentagon in november, 2001, and one of the general said, sure, i got this ma'am on which we're going to go after 7 countries in 5 years. i says that a class right memo, he said, yes sir. we're going to start with the rack and then we're going to move to serial . lebanon, libya, somalia, sudan, and iran. i think it's highly probable the administration has already made the decision to go to war against iran. there already us troops inside iran want to repeat that.

there are already us troops inside iran that u. s. as long had his eyes. so i'm trying to impact regime change in iran and much of what you've seen the us doing with regards to iran has been on a, on a cobra level. we've seen a report in new york or by seymour hersh that a us are told in the us. marines were operating in the blue sky, missouri, and curtis regions of iran. have you ever heard of that report? i've never heard of the report. i've never read the article, nor do i intend to do you have any christian as to whether or not you as the us, him, bass it or i don't have any interest as to whether or not us marines are actually operating in iran right now. i said i had not heard of the report and i didn't intend to read the article in the new yorker. if i gave you this article right now walked over, would you look at it? i don't think so honestly, congressman, because i don't, i don't have time to read much fiction. we have teams inside

iran, and these include joint special operations forces. most the lead command unit. it has been given executive authority by the president and as many as 12 countries to go in and kill. we're talking about high value targets. they're operating now and they go into a countries outside of the war zone, outside of that ghana, san, and outside of iraq. but i'm telling the american see i station chief or the american ambassador. they go in sterile and they killed people to work and sort of the dark side, if you will spend time in the shadows intelligence world. a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly without any discussion using sources and methods. that are available to our intelligence agencies. me. the doctrine that has endured from bush to

obama is that the world is a battlefield. and that united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operation lethal operations. regardless of what international law says, the, what is president obama's response to that? how is he going to deal with it? he embraced the very covert shadow forces that a decade earlier had only been talked about in hushed tones and the pentagon. not just as the implementers of a policy that said, we should decapitate tara networks and engage in preemptive strikes. but they became the policy itself. in when freedom of the press is under threat. you know, you just because i thought, genuinely about your thoughts towards the making government step outside the mainstream. there has been a implement here just some of access port shift the focus,

the pandemic that's turned out to be a handy little pretext, the prime minister if it clamped down on the press, covering the waves. the news is covered. so listening post on i just gotta work out their existence. it's launch as a principal presenter. and as a correspondence with any breaking the story we want to hear from those people who would normally not heard on the international news channel. one moment i'll be very proud of when we covered the depaula wake of 2015, a terrible natural disaster. and a story that needed to be told from the hall of the affected area to be there to tell the people story was very important at the time to more than a decade of civil war, life remains a challenge. sincerely. we followed the citizens of this war to a nation as they pushed their limits for supplies. risking

sierra leo on al jazeera. ah hello, i'm had them seeka in the how would the top stories on are you 0 fighting is escalated between the taliban and a resistance group. in the pan she valley in afghanistan. the mountainous enclave is about 150 kilometers north of the capital combo. it is the only province to hold out against tyler bon room and us secretary of state will visit katara on sunday for talks on afghanistan, antony blinking says the taliban must.