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thousands of people and behind the death of many more exceptional access to some of its key players reveals the inner workings of an organization telling the known to many as the blood alliance. inside this in a la carte house part, one of the key parts investigation, people and power on al jazeera. ah, me. this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm fully back to bo, this is the news. our analogy here, a line for my headquarters in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes, the taliban announces part of it can take a government, including the acting prime minister, foreign ministers, and other key roles will be live in the afghan capital, capital,
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cost foreign minister provides assurances that cobbled airport should open to passengers within days for those wishing to arrive or leave afghanistan. also this our frances highest court rules that the country's biggest cement company could be investigated for paying off ice or inferior to keep its 3 running. and al salvador becomes the 1st country to adopt bitcoin as an official carriage. the but economists say is too risky. and it's for novak jokers survives and early scare at the us open. he will number one news as a said, but stays on core. so when a calendar year, a grand slam ah thank you very much for joining us. we've just learned the names of the men who will be leading. i've got a chance, new transitional government. it's a major milestone as a tiny ban works to restore order off the country and ensure that basic services
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continue uninterrupted. taliban spokesman is abbey who language? i have read the names in a press briefing just minutes ago in the afghan capital, they included cabinet members were, can't take a government dominated by the group sold god. now this announcement comes as top us officials are in the country, capital, doha, to discuss the future of, of afghan. he's found us secretary of state or to be blinking. the defense secretary lloyd austin, have been in doha talking with country officials. they say evacuations of risk afghans and americans from cobble will continue. well, we have to correspondence with us on this news. our mohammed jump june is here into high with the latest on the different matic activity. but 1st we go to cha, stratford life for us in cub charlie. finally, the long awaited announcement the kind of ban spokesmen announcing the name. some of the names in this can take a government, talk us through what we've heard the details and what this could mean.
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we yes, the announcement of an interim government with more announcements of other ministries to be expected, according to the thought about spokesperson, missouri have very interesting though, you say most of these names certainly in the top positions, are very much members of the old guard. i mean, i'll read through some of those names to you. the acting pm is going to is buller mohammed hudson romani now he was deputy pm for the china bomb in 1991. we also had mentioned dropped. i a bay now. apologies. charlie, can you hear me? charles stratford, can you hear me? are we have lost connection to chance transfer there in campbell, we will go back to him and get more details about this. k take government that the taliban has dressed announced some of the names as charlie mentioned. really the
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old god of the taliban. not all the ministry positions have been announced yet. let's bring in mohammed john june, who's in doha forest way. there's been intense diplomatic activity on afghanistan. of course, the us defense secretary, as well as the secretary of state in doha. today's speaking with katerina officials, before we talk about what came out of both faults, how will they be receiving? you think this new afghan government, the caretaker government that's been amounts of course, international community. i talked about wanting an all inclusive national government and i've got to stand. will these early announcements meet those demands and expectations? well that's the big question at this hour fully. in fact, before us secretary of state lincoln, in us defense secretary austin lloyd, actually made it to do how it was made clear to the press that they were not going to be meeting with taliban officials here in doha. throughout the day,
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at various stops, it was also made clear that the us delegation was still engaging in some way with the taller bond. but they did not go into the specifics as to who exactly from the u. s. was engaging with whom from the taliban and how exactly that communication was being facilitated. of course, as you mentioned, the us many other western governments, the corporate government, they have all urged the taller bond to form an inclusive government one that could lead to recognition by international actors. and it's just not clear at this stage . if this interim government that's been announced is actually going to meet that i tyria, there is a lot of pressure on the taller bond to put forth names that would be acceptable to international actors, to international player, so that they could more fully engage with this taller bond government and perhaps
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even recognize the taliban government. but right now at this hour, it's just not clear what the u. s. and other countries are going to make. one of the reasons this is so crucial is not just for the actual recognition of the taliban government, or perhaps the recognition of the top on government going forward. but also because of the humanitarian situation, i've counted in many un agencies, many age groups over the course of the last week, have been issuing dire warnings about the looming humanitarian crisis in afghanistan, saying that it can become an all our humanitarian catastrophe. and that's one of the reasons people want to see the aid begin to go in more regularly to afghanistan . that's one of the reasons why shift mohammed, when i bought mine at fannie foreign minister today said it was such a priority in his press conference this morning. with secretary blinking that the work on the hammer cars, the international airport in cobble be completed now he was hopeful that it could be completed within the coming days. it could be fully operational rather soon. but that's one of the reasons they want to make sure that that airport is operational
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so they can so that they can continue to get 8 flights into afghanistan and to deliver even more aid in the coming weeks and months. poly mama, thank you very much for the moment. mama john john live here into her. let's go back to child stratford in kabul for as charlie as mom it was saying that. busy the big question today is whether the names announced by the tiny band spokesman for this can't take a government will be acceptable for the international community. just remind us again of some of the positions that have been announced and what they indicate as far as the direction the taliban want to take a fantasy on it. well according to the sound spokesmen, these names are very much focused on some bringing back some sort of stability to this country. it's all about security in order for, according to the taliban spoke them basically starting again. but it's also very interesting to know that most of these names certainly in the top positions,
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are very much members of the old god. starting with the acting prime minister mohammed husband romani he was a deputy pm during the time of our lead is leadership in 1991 the acting deputy pm boulevard. of course, the chief political officer, very much involved in those discussions and negotiations that we saw in joe hall over the last few months. and he was one of the co founders of the taliban. we understand very close to below omar, one of his respected commanders. he was imprisoned in 2010, and then released on demand by the american so he could participate in trying to bring some sort of peace settlement to this country. then we have the acting defense minister, amolla, coo, he's actually the son of oma. and again,
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a very respected commander in the charlie bomb, i think perhaps arguably, one of the most controversial appointments at this stage is the appointment is acting interior minister that surrounds connie, a member of the so called her connie network network, the west accuses of being behind a number of large terrorist attacks, a man with a lot of blood on his hands. so it remains to be seen as to what sort of rich reaction we're going to get. not only, and i've got to stand, but of course, from, from the wider world when, as we mohammed the john june in conscious saying it's what he's so important at the moment is that this government, even though it is nature him, administration is at least accepted to the extent where we can see a continuation, or at least a build out of see more humanitarian aid come into this country because it's the
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you and it's as told us, you know, we are at the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. here, half the population needing humanitarian aid. but yeah, very a very interesting series of names. right. but not all ministry of them. hope charlotte bon spokesperson that this will be enough. right. sorry for carol. yes, i was going to say not all, many, several positions, as you said, have been appointed. there was also the question of the place of women in this, in this government. what do we expect as far as that? obviously they're still making announcements. have they said as a spokesman said anything about women's roles in this government? well, according to the spokes person, and as we heard in that press conference, he said, when addressed by a journalist as to what role women would have in any into a, in any, whether be an interim government or a future permanent government. and he said that there were
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a lot of ministries get to be announced than it was in those ministries that he hinted that women's rights would be addressed. however, he did not outright say that any women were going to be appointed to those ministries is interesting when you speak to analysts, what they are speculating as to the future role of women in any administration. many will say that they are doubtful that women will have any position of real authority in itala on government. because according to what they say, they will say that the tolerance particular interpretation of sherry a law will not allow that. so that question remains open. it's also important to say that, you know, a lot of these names develop, the majority of them actually question. not taking into consideration, arguably, critics would say, the vast great ethnic diversity country. and it was interesting to his comments about the punchy of value,
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which we know predominantly tragic ethnic minority. he said he had no problem with the charging people whatsoever. and that they would be included, their voices would be included in, in any future administration. but there doesn't seem to be any clear indication yet as to whether that is actually happened. okay, charlie, thank you very much for the moment. charles stratford live there in a combo with the initial reaction and details of the new caretaker government in afghanistan. let's discuss this further with oh, by doing that, by here who's a political analyst at a lecture at the american university of i've gotten his son and he's joining us via car from campbell, thank you for being with us. so it's taking over 20 days $23.00 days for the taliban to announce the caretaker government. and the big question until today had been whether this would be an inclusive government or a taliban specific government. so what are your thoughts 1st on the names, the nouns. so far a few things get obvious here.
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one is that the amount of time that was spent wasn't spent on discussing or negotiating inclusivity or potential power sharing with other political parties that time was spent on knowing how to split back to high amongst their own ranks. the few facts that you're 1st mentioned with regard to the absence of woman with regards to to we are position that are offered to non person leaders. and then the idea of the country and shoot 50 off declaring and in term government in a situation where the pilot bond have total victory and they have obsolete power. i really think that this formation that they have announced their cause for international recognition newspapers because much of the names indeed are. are the old god of taliban for post, like interior minister,
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defense ministry is the son of the founder of the taliban. more not omar. the caretaker ministry that jumped out at me was this ministry for or the propagation of good and prevention of evil. that would mean i imagine a strict enforcement of sharia law because those who lived under taliban move, i imagine, must be worried about this. well, if he tried to be optimistic about it may be, it is a ministry that concerns itself with ruling out all of the fees and monitoring the new value, waiting as to whether a specific government policies fall in mining with their vision of roles or their understanding of religion and worst case scenario would be that they will have a physical source that will during the streets and point out any violations off the moral to that is set forth that would include a lot of micro leasing and
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a lot of international scrutiny as well so we'll have to wait and see as to whether the other one are actually going to do that or not. and what's also significant in all this is the word take care taker. i think the taliban, i guess allowing for the fact that this is a work in progress. i think on the pilot buns, bart, it is meant to appease the west. it's meant to show them not there yet hope for inclusive system. and a system that can be accepted by the west, the taller body would use this as an excuse saying that the current circumstances within the country and how rapidly applied to spawn fell to that meant that they didn't have time to negotiate with different entities. as to forming a more inclusive and a more internationally acceptable system and that they have to go to the space. however, if you look at the history of the sub continent and countries within the 3rd world,
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often time caretaker government stay for years. if not for decades, so there's that apprehension as well. yeah. no mention interestingly of of the key players who are part of the negotiations for the inclusive government at least not yet. and i'm thinking here of names like abdul abdulla or former president tommy cause i what do you make of that and do you think there is still room for them in this k take government? i think there was a certain level of understanding and people had predicted that such major figures within the previous review will not be accommodated even if the top to bottom more than towards, than inclusive set up in the set up. or that's included other members from their parties rather than them themselves. the only way that they could have accommodated
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them. what if they did, we did a hi steve counsel in which they had accommodated the leaders of different parties under the emir. and they're still time maybe they do announce the state council of yet. but yeah, again, the thought of bon how they missed her. what inclusive with the ment and they just need it wasn't even inclusive on natal bonds on park if you look at it in cities as well. so i really don't understand the thinking behind office. and so i imagine this would be disappointing for the international community. what about for ordinary afghans to be in cobble and in other parts of the country? how will they view this care? take a government in these early, early announcements anyway, and also what, what are going to be the more search and priorities right now. even for the politically pathetic in a lot of fun. they couldn't help, but just bringing up a world for a movie,
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movie sub or lost in the list off the cabinet that was announced. that meant that everyone who has been appointed is a member of the father bond, but doesn't mean that they have the merits that satisfy the office that they've been given. but i guess the contract actually they're not announcing any government . so as long as they're administrative offices, that they're filled, that the time the bottom start seeking governance here, say it's really important because as you saw, the demonstrations, people are anxious and the sooner we thought about start getting used to their government tools. the better for a lot of stuff. so this is better than not having a government altogether. all things sudden done. thank you so much for talking to us by doing that by her and sharing your use with us. so by doing that by her joining us save from cobble and later on the news ira we will be speaking to the head of the world food program. enough janice,
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done about aid and funding. as the basics run out. also ahead a call to arms. mars shadow government declares a people defensive war against the military june. and in for the fairy tale run continues at the us hoping for this british teenager detail coming up later. ah. in other world news, frances top criminal court of appeals has ruled against one of the country's largest companies, over allegations that it funded i saw in syria. the court overturned a ruling not to formally investigate cement, make fos for complicity in crimes against humanity. the company continue to operate in northern syria between 20122014. despite the threat of ongoing, including iso in the region, and speak. tron correspondent, in paris. natasha butler. natasha. how significant is this ruling today?
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and what does it mean for was fern a big blow to the fall chaise reputation? judges from the highest court effectively overturning this 2019 ruling. and what that means is that it pays the way in the future for the french cement, make a to possibly be investigated for complicity and crimes against humanity over its actions. a northern syria at the height of the civil war. now to be clear, that doesn't mean the far she is under investigation right now, but we'll just say it is in the future. another court will concede and decide whether or not such an investigation can go ahead. but as i said, a huge blow to lithography is reputation. really this case centers on the fact that between 20122014, the father kept the cement plant running in the law to syria in
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a region that came under the control of isis. now a force is accused of paying armed groups including i for some $50000000.00 in protection money to keep the called running. now, activists and engineers have fed and former employees as well. have said that the false knew that the risks were high of keeping the fact you running in that region because they graduated before install. but their theory and stuff were left there to keep working some kid knocked. others were killed by on groups. again, including iso. now the force is always denied the accusations it has admitted in the past. executives in front of admitted some mistakes were made, but they say that it was mainly the syrian managers on the ground who are making decisions at the time. akasha, thank you very much for that. natasha butler live in paris. as salvatore has become the 1st country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal candidates,
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the president has declared to it the future of a country. but economists are wanting that using the valid time and unregulated crypto currency is a risk, john home and reports from as aunty as serving town where a bit coin pilot projects could forecast. what's the head? this is where are some of those big coin experiment? the gun was on site a small town with 3 years ago in anonymous donor, a local people digital bullets with the crypto currency. now the country is expanding. the experiment nationwide it will run is another option alongside the current currency us solar. we traveled 12 on tape to find out how the pilot program has gone, what it could mean the rest of the country. we found plenty of. infuse, just like 70 percent of people in el salvador doesn't have a bank account. he's big coin. well, it's a way for him to put some money aside there, but i have a low income. i don't move much money. the little i have,
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i spend on food. so with bitcoin, i can save up and that's the big coin is going up in value, is seen as smooth savings going to the problem is the big point swings down as well, at times heavily of the people here are set up with that as a p c, it's tough because it's unstable. for example, if you take a surf class and pay with bitcoin, i can accept it. the next day it goes down and there are losses for me. it's the same for the bar, the shop everywhere. and imagine that volatility nationwide, one of the poorest countries in the americas, it can make the government's decision, seemed like a blind bet. a recent survey shows many people here might not take that, that 2 thirds say they don't want to be paid in bitcoin. and the facilities, the government hardly putting together the new currency, might not convince them where you want to cash out your big quizzes, the actual dollars. you have to use one of the special atm and the government says it's setting up $200.00 of these across the country. so let's see. do this.
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ok, and then the money should come out. the only ticket here is that these actually charge about 5 percent of commission to do the service. that's already been enough to put some notes on. why not just use dollars. one group who might see the benefits of the system, commission, or know a criminals who will see an unregulated but state sanctioned currency within us. but i've been one of the advantages of bitcoin is deana committee. but for regulators, that's one of the risks. so the worry is that el salvador turns into a fiscal paradise for those who want to launder money from drugs or corruption. the president has been emphasizing the positives big coins will bring jobs, financial inclusion, and investment. he says, especially as salvador will be the 1st to use it. the question is, will the country become a trailblazer will simply sink john one reporting there from out of salvatore?
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let's discuss this further. now, with our and van veer don't, who's technical editor of bitcoin magazine, he joins us by skype from f salvatore's capital san salvador. thank you very much for being with us. now. i understand that the launch of bitcoin today. now, salvador had a bit of a snag. what happened to what's up? can you hear me, aaron? yes, yes, i'm hearing you fine. yes, i was saying that i understand that there were some teasing problems today with the launch of bitcoin. can you tell us what happened? i'm not sure what you're referring to be honest, but firstly, i just walked through the mcdonalds and i made a payment with bitcoin and it was smoothly, it worked smoothly, worked fine. while apparently that it's not because there was a lot of demand and the government had to pause it at some point. oh, really? i didn't hurt it. okay. it's early in the morning. i'm not towards it. okay,
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so tell us how excited people are about this. it's, it's a device, it's topic in the country. of course the item just makes it tells them there's a lot of after just there and you'll find that just in other parts of the country. there's also critique. it is a device, a topic. some people aren't happy with the monday, the part of the law, so by law, merchants are actually obligated to accept bitcoin that has been trying to track some critique. the government is investing some money and making it all happen. so the taxpayer money that's attract some critique, but some of the critique is also. ready i would say uninformed, you know, people. ringback are complaining that they can buy a whole bitcoin while that's of course not necessary. you can buy a fraction of a bit going to so, and also the opposition, the opposition parties. they are taken sort of the controversial nature of this specific law as
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a focal point. of criticism on the pure kelly government itself and other policies in implementing. so in that sense, it's not really about bit point. okay. do you think this, this will make a difference on, on building confidence. as you said, they've been protests and some of them have shown no signs of kind of resistance. rather for this moves by the government there's been some protest i been through the process. they seem to be fairly small. however, there is a larger part of the population just just unsure about what is going thing is or how they should deal with it or how. yeah. so, so that's going on. so just tell us a bit more of how about how this is going to help salvador in the long run with it to the canada problems. right, so there are a couple of arguments for to bid for law. a big one is cutting down the costs for maintenance. so remittance is actually a huge part of the g d. p of the culture,
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like 20 percent people for sending money home to family and friends in el salvador . and right now, if they have to use traditional western union money, graham types of surfaces, they take a fairly big cuts and that you know, all, altogether that's hundreds of millions of dollars lost just a friction. and with bitcoin, it's basically free to send money to the country and if people can spend it here, you know, that's also basically for you. so that's huge cost that could benefit the country. there's also a lot of people in the country, they have no access to financial surface, no credit cards, no banks. so now for the 1st time they can make electronic payments. it could also offer, it could also attract investments or start ups to the country. you know, right now the country doesn't have much, often the economic appeal, but with the bids going to grow and bid, but industry could get a foothold here. so it could track that,
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and possibly it could decrease the dollar dependency off the country right now. the country uses the us dollars that uses the currency of united states of america. and especially over the last year we've seen a lot of financial stimulus happening in america. so whether that's similar checks or popping up, you know, failing airlines, india. i'd say at least that benefits america, people, but a country like l software is not benefit from that at all to south towards aren't getting the stimulus checks, but the dollar is being the value in that sense. so in a kind of preferred way this country is paying for the stimulus that's going on the united states. so maybe a bit going could help decrease dependency on the us dollar. and that way, thank you so much for talking to us about this. and van drum from the bitcoin magazine, joining us from out of salvatore. thank you for having me. sit ahead on al jazeera, we go to germany 1st moto show to open its doors to the public interest,
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thought of the pan demik. 90 percent of the population need urgent help any feel good t grey region but the well food program says it has no more supplies and in sport, brazilian police open an investigation into the argentinian football is accused the breaking point team will they will i hello good to be with you, plenty of hot sunshine across the middle east, in some temperatures, while above average, that includes 4 q 848 degrees will take a closer, closer look in a sack, hang tight, but also some sand and dust being swelled up. ne of saudi because we've got a bit of a shipment going on here. also some storms bubbling up through the western mountains of yemen, into the heat, as mountains in saudi pharmacy. we would talk about sac, you weight, and here's the situation. some fairly breezy conditions. got about 60 kilometers
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