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abuse allegations during the abolla outbreak and democratic republic of congo. grilled about the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. us defense officials face sharp questions from sentences and spain declares the island of la palmer disaster zone. as a volcano continues to you lava don peter, famous with the sport you a for drop, a legal fight with boss, atlanta, ram driven events of their attempts to form a breakaway, the gan detention center to the champions league. as you may see, you said to return to p. s junior. they take on manchester city. ah, now a group of political parties and you nivia has announced a coalition to oppose the president. the group says, can you say it has lost his legitimacy, accusing him of a qu. last week,

you'll recall, the president announced he will by decree, and ignore parts of the constitution. alexia bryan reports went to dina, and presenting a united front against the president. they say is illegitimate for political parties, a warning chi said that he must backtrack on his decision to seize executive power . all they'll call widespread protests against him to be or if the president has taken everything he has canceled everything. even the institution for sorting out these problems like fighting corruption, all these entities have been closed by the president. there's no parliament. there's no committee for overseeing laws. there's no government. yeah, demonstrations have already been held against the president said last week announced his rule by decree. and ignore parts of the constitution. that's after he sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament in july. on monday, june, as he is foreign minister, told the un general assembly that the president's actions unnecessary for the

country security that he was acting with the will of the people that were in without happy to dangerous situation. threatening our country and community is attribute to a deeply rooted political polarization and a social comic and health crisis. this is why the president of the republic had to interfere and take his shoes of exceptional resolutions and measures based on our constitution to put the contract back on the right path towards democracy. all the largest political party enact said the president should call elections to prove he has a mandate in after isn't in the newly formed coalition, but has spoken out strongly against his measures, describing them as a qu. why should one person says that he can embody the will of the piece? so if he is with the will of the people and if he is expressing their will have people he has the authority or for elections and let the people decide local and

international human rights groups has condemned sides actions warning of a slide towards authoritarianism. while the developments in july were broadly popular, 2 months own people are growing frustrated and what they see is a lack of progress were planned for reform. analysts say that could work and then you coalition favor. we did the pick me cries and we are going to the ethics of it's in the upcoming woodson non they would seize maybe the opportunity to show that unfortunately even by a power grab even by gathering or the powers prison fight is unable to find the real crisis of the technicians that are social problems, economy, etc, with an economy on the verge of collapse, many say without political action, the situation can only get worse. alexia bryan al jazeera. well that's,

i'll speak to correspondence john smith, he is in tune as for us then, and it does feel like this is becoming a bit more of a sustained movement despite president sides. popularity. do you think things are escalating? i think what seems to be happening is that the president had been given 2 months grace if you like to deliver on promises. junior, was in such in such an economic mess the political system wasn't delivering on the economy on reforms to the economy. and so they would seem to being given this chums but haven't done anything. there's no economic plan put for there's no government, no cabinets appointed. so there's enormous frustration, but nothing seems to have happened in the last 2 months. and so now even a party that was in favor of what case i did 2 months ago in this part, he's saying you've got to talk to us, you're not talk to as a tool in the last 2 months speak to us. we still want to talk and work this out

despite she's talking is coming together today. they're suddenly the isn't broad agreement on the way forward, even within the powerful enough the policy. presumably those divisions only going to become more for now. well and after itself, yes is a seriously divided the rest of the there's been another civil society group has a coalition rather of civil society groups has spoken out today the same time as these political parties got together. and this group says that there warning the presidents of a danger of going to fall in taking over they say, taking over power without saying how long it's gonna take. these groups are particularly fed up, they say because of the failure to tackle corruption. there was a promise to arrest and prosecute, very powerful, corrupt individuals. that was a major complaint here in june. easier the corruption but nothing has been done about that. and they're worried that because the president is failing to do this,

he's sliding down the more thorough terry and root. and again, that trying to stop stepping to say to the president, to talk to us instead of with all the latest for us from the ground in june. thank you so much fun. now the head of the world health organization is promising reforms and accountability of allegations of sexual abuse by staff deployed to democratic republic of congo. tedra said hannah gabrielle says, apologize to the victims and said the report by an independent panel made harrowing reading it found there were at least a few cases of sexual abuse by aid workers during the response to an outbreak from 2018 to just last year. the ledge perpetrators include both congolese and foreign nationals and at least 20 w h o m. we we individual, indeed, humbled, horrified and heartbroken by the findings of the inquiry. i'd like

also to thank all the women and girls who have come forward and given evidence to the investigation and thus have given us the basis on which to take action individual which has been necessary. i'd like to indicate that as w to leadership, we apologize to these people, to the women and the girls for the suffering that they have had because of the actions of our staff members and people that we have sent into the community to help in a very difficult situation of an epidemic. well, there's plenty more i had here the news our including to down the top military need addresses, deepening divisions and transitional government. he says and needs to take a more active role. some students in nigeria is born, states are taking their final exams, but violence has kept many of our classrooms and the n b a season is now just 3 weeks away and 19 vaccinations. also dividing opinion pizza will have you in

ah well right now us senate is drilling a senior defense officials about the withdrawal of military forces from afghanistan and the collapse of the african government defense secretary lloyd austin, joined chief of staff channel mach millie, and the head of central command, general kenneth mackenzie, are old testifying the biden administration has been widely accused of being unprepared for the fall of couple. senior officials have admitted that taliban forces advanced far more quickly than anticipated. we helped build a state, mr. chairman, but we could not for donation the fact that the afghan army that we in our partner strain simply melted away in many cases without firing a shot, took us all by surprise and it would be dishonest to claim. otherwise,

we need to consider some uncomfortable truth that we didn't fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership and the senior ranks that we didn't gras damaging effect effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. that we didn't anticipate the snowball effect caused by the deals that the taliban commanders struck with local leaders in a wake of the doha agreement. and that the doha agreement itself at a demoralizing effect on ask and soldiers. oh, well those proceedings are continuing right now on capital hill. let's listen but to the families of those who have been deployed over and over again into iraq and afghanistan over the course of the last 20 years. they are relieved that america is now turning the page and rejecting the notion that we should be a nation in permanent war. second, the effort to evacuate more than 120000 people to safety under chaotic

circumstances was remarkable. i visited dulles expo center. the principal arrival point for about 80 percent of the afghans i also visited fort lee. the 1st of the $840.00 that process f. cancel and i visited with afghans our troops, the many federal agencies working together, n g o c, a competent and compassionate service. on the american side and the deep gratitude among africans made a deep impression on me. we should do all we can to make that transition to a safe life in america as productive as possible. my chief criticism in question is this, why did the afghan security force and civilian government collapse so quickly? and why did the u. s. so over estimate their capacity, the 2nd half of the question why we overestimated their capacity is very important to any who have said, we couldn't see this coming the members of the committee. no, that's wrong. and immediate collapse may not have been the most likely outcome, but we have heard for years, particularly from the intel community that d estimates of afghan strengths were way

too optimistic. i believe the us government had a good evacuation plan, but it was premised on an afghan civilian and military government that showed high resistance to the taliban. and so we did not adequately plan for the real possibility of a quick collapse. we need to explore both military and interagency decision making processes to understand why we were unrealistic and how to correct that going forward. but the most important part of the question is why military we had trained for 20 years at a cost of $100.00 plus $1000000000.00 collapse. so quickly, i can think of 3 reasons for after, after i put them on the table, i would like each of you beginning with general mackenzie to address the question and we can, we can do it when we come back after lunch. first, the lightning collapse may show that our training was insufficient and that it did not permit prepare the afghan military to defend the country on their own. that should have been our goal, but we failed to accomplish. and if so, how much we change our thinking about training for an military's 2nd. the lightning collapse may not prove that the n s f were poor fighters,

but that they were demoralized. did they lack confidence in their own political and military leaders? where they demoralized by a 2020 piece agreement between the u. s. and the taliban that didn't even include the african government. mr. chad like to introduce the peace agreement for the record. well, jackie, us and allied funding deep in a culture of corruption that long predated our involvement. even the best fighting force may give in if they have no confidence in their leadership. sir, the lightning collapse may show that we want to things for afghans that afghan leadership did not want for themselves. we celebrated gaines in public health and women's education, and we assume that afghans would bite to preserve those gains rather than allow the taliban to take over. in other words, we thought we knew what africans wanted, what they feared, and what they would fight for. but was our belief, though, well intentioned, incredibly naive. we can't get one 3rd of americans to take a coven vaccine or accept the results of a presidential election. do we really think we can transform the culture of another

nation? so to each of our witnesses, when we return in the 2nd round, i will ask you this question. why do you believe the african military and civilian government collapsed so quickly with that? are you sure? well that's bringing on a call hand. she is watching proceedings for i think, in washington, do some very tough question that today, including some, as we've been hearing pointed ones about intelligence failures and i imagined also about civilian casualties. they did bring up that drone strike, which is when it 1st happened. general mark, milly said was a right to strike. it turned out that it was an aide worker and can ask inside, including 7 children on intelligence. i thought this was somewhat news or the general milly said that the intelligence was a complete failure. and he pointed to perhaps why he said, look, we can point to how many guns and how many claims and how many helicopters and humvees we've given them. but we don't know what the hearts of the soldiers are,

unless we have advisors on the ground with them. and he said we stopped putting advisors with them for 3 years. so another thing he said is one of the lessons they're learning and perhaps they try to make the military too much like the american military and trying to give them high tech equipment. perhaps that's not what was needed. asked for exactly how the pentagon though, didn't to come in the pentagon, like to say they have a plan for everything. we just heard the secretary of defense admit that they never table top exercises, how they plan tabletop exercises, that they never had one where showed the complete collapse of the taliban. so lots of pointed questions being asked for. the big one they want to know is how many americans are still enough to stand there trying to point the finger to date and just heard from us. senator said, no, i'm going to need those numbers by the end of this hearing. so a lot of questions so far a lot of blame game going on. we see people saying that donald trump made to deal with the taliban and so he was doomed mission from that point on. and then

republican, just say, look with joe biden was responsible for the drop down that was just so chaotic and something embarrassing and watching those proceedings for us on capital health. thanks so much passing. while meanwhile, enough canister, the taliban says it's planning to implement a constitution from nearly 6 decades ago. now, i've got some new rules one to appliance only where it doesn't conflict with their version of islamic law. the existing constitution was drawn up with the health of the us back in 2004, but the taliban says once no foreign interference, customer barra has won out from companies. as the taliban seem to be trying to extend an olive branch to the international community by think look, we could have rec to the constitutional declaration of 1998 with a toddy benway and power have got it done is that we chose to go for the 1964 constitution. why vasquez situation in particular?

because it's widely seen as the constitution that pays away focus. situational is democracy protective. the rights of expression, the right, the freedom of expression of the freedom of thought, established independent institutions with an independent judiciary. however, there's a cap yet to that constitution, $964.00 states that the king has the right to dissolve the parliament and appoint the prime minister. under the current situation, it seems that the supreme lead of the taliban, the middle war, meaning the commander of the faith, will have better law, will ultimately have the final. he could be the one to fire the government and point to any parliament zillow of the parliament. saudi or decide that this provision is in conflict with a chevy or law, and therefore it has to be, it has to be changed. well, that's my feet hurt, jennifer latavia sh village. she's

a non resident senior fellow at the atlantic council eurasia center focusing on central asia and afghan stone. she joins us now from pittsburgh. jennifer, this is a constitution that grants women the right to vote. but given that the taliban says they'll eliminate any elements that they disagree with. what do you think it's actually going to look like? i don't think that they are implementing this constitution to give them the rights to vote. and they've been very clear that they don't think that democracy is the way forward. they're implementing this constitution to get political recognition simply to establish a political order. but without a constitution it would be very hard for them to have a government. so this constitution becomes very important for them instrumentally to get that kind of international recognition. and they've said that they'll be able to cherry pick the parts of the constitution that they believe contradict or contradict their rule. and they've been pretty clear about democracy is not being symbolic of where they think the country needs to go. there have been

a lot of promises that taliban will best time around. would take a more inclusive form, but they're obviously still know women in the k take a government, does this move as you suggest? get them more of the legitimacy that they crave in the eyes of the wild, or does that potentially backfire? i think it gives them a framework, a framework for governance. it creates, you know, as the correspondent just said, is the story from causal said. it gives the head of a tall upon the right sort of the power of a king. and he can then allow the government to create laws and dismiss laws as, as he sees fit. so it really gives authoritarian power this, you know, did create a constitutional monarchy. it wasn't a democracy. so, you know, i don't think it, it does much in terms of changing much on the ground, but it does give a framework for law as, and i think this is just an incremental step that they're trying to, to use to get this recognition. so if they are cherry picking parts of the constitution,

then who right now decides what to keep and what to get rid of. it's the senior leadership, and they're using this as a bargaining chip with the international community. so they're using gender rights . they're using inclusivity is something that they can bargain with, with the international community in order to get aid. this is a very dangerous game that they're playing. because on the one hand, they're selecting this constitution, not the 2004 constitution. they're going back to this constitution because they say that the 2004 constitution was created by the puppets, the puppet government. it was created by the international by the united states and foreigners. so the 1964 constitution, there is more pure the danger with using women's rights inclusivity as bargaining chips to get international aid is the taliban are then going to fall prey to the same trap that they use the gun and government of their positioning themselves before international donors and changing their position based on what aid that they can receive is create

a huge opening for groups like isis and others who will then accuse the taliban of becoming puppets to the foreigners because they're using this to get leverage for aid. well done, if there is a commission that was meant to be formed next year, i believe, to draft a new constitution. how does that all fit into this process? could we potentially see that entire constitutional process abandoned after this happens? no, this is actually an old play. in fact, the united states adopted this 1964 constitution in 2001 right after the taliban government collapsed. the previous taliban government. and so for 3 years, the 1964 constitution was used as a constitutional framework in afghanistan before the 2004 constitution was established. and what that does is it allows the framework of government to continue. it allows the center to continue a point. ministers continue to point to provincial governors and district governors . the same way that the 1964 constitution did. in fact,

the 2004 constitution was hardly a departure from this 964 constitution. there were many things that these 2 constitutions had. they were quite similar to one another and that they were both very authoritarian and nature. so this is not a good sign going into the next few months. very interesting indeed, jennifer latasha, really there, and nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council, you raised the center. thanks so much for sharing your expertise with us on out there. thanks for joining us. jennifer, thank you. one of sir dawn's top military leaders says the transitional government that needs to take a more active role. general mohammed hummed under gala has frequently accused the government civilian faction of failing to govern effectively. but opponents accuse me of trying to seize power and one the administration dissolved and attempted coup last week has watson tension between the 2 sides. i didn't know that you'd be the

blame us. we are part of the partnership. politics are based on things. i don't like, but i blurred my lessons. i'm a military man. the council was created to have all the decisions. and after that they said it was a counselor consultation only. but if you are a counselor for consultation, you can oblige people to apply and implement your decisions. well, it's peter correspondent mohammed, though he joins us. and now from cartoon, the 100, the situation really appears to be destabilizing even further. could this transitional government actually be falling apart? while it, sir, what every sit on is, is asking themselves of the moment, the differences between the different wings of the sovereign council, the governor said, done, run very deep and they're not just started. now they start that from the onset disagreements, all the military reforms, among other things. but the attempted to last week seems to have accessibility,

the whole tuition and also the with the role of the security detail of a key committee, which is part of the transitional process. which deals with the fight against corruption and also recovering not just the assets the state. last during the long period that the government of the former president bush, it was in power. and also that a company of the finances that were looted from the government had a security detail withdrawn. and that has taken the tension between the 2 wings of the sovereign counsel to a new law. of course, there is the acquisitions that is being leveled against the military members of the sovereign council up to and including that they're not willing to handle the power to the prime minister handbook in terms of the rotational leadership

of the transitional console, which is currently under the general, the, for the hon. these also the issue of whether the elections and the whole process is on the right course. of course that i'm done . they're going to say, yes, it's on cause the civilian members will say, no, it's not on all these is happening at the time when the people of sudan are facing immediate problems, including gulping and flesh in the past year. the student is pound as really wiccan some say up to a 1000 percent against the u. s. dollar. and these a basic, the shortage of the most basic of commodities and services here in to don mama to do their, with all the latest for us from the ground in cartoon that thank you ma'am. on our

spain has declared the island of la palmer, a disaster zone, due to a continued volcanic eruption that the cobra v. a whole volcano displaced nearly $7000.00 people since last week saying has approved and initial a package of around $12000000.00. they're all fans though that the law that could reach the c releasing toxic gases, nicholas' hoc is in the palma, with the latest 4th. you can see the explosive nature with a lava, not liquid magma flowing in one direction down the slope. and then these gases are reaching 4 kilometers up into the sky explosive and one point a few system in the other with a cone being fragile, lies by these intense volcanic activity. it's acting like a pressure cooker. and so this plume of cloud is going for kilometers up into this guy and was the airport of la, paloma isn't officially closed, all commercial flights have been canceled, giving the, this situation here,

and i just want to take you down the lava flow just behind me and to show you what is really causing concern, the billowing behind me in the distance is not only houses being destroyed by the flow of love of we can see how closely its edging towards the ocean and right below where there is a plume of smoke, is a cliff, and that's where the experts believe it or later today they might be a lava fall waterfall, but a lava fall plunging into the ocean. this lava that's a 1000 degrees celsius, plunging into the cold atlantic. remember that below here is precious wildlife. it's considered a hot spot of diversity. you've got pilot whales, you have the blue sharks, all these species that attract so many taurus to the island of palm. it's often describes that the hawaii of europe for its diversity 100 pounds government has

announced it will lift a corona virus state of emergency. that's now that in place since april as the number of cases and deaths falls prime minister, you're sure he, they pseudo says restrictions in 27 out of the countries 47 prefecture would end on thursday. the decision comes a day before the ruling liberal democratic party select and you needed to succeed suga, who announced his intent to resign earlier this month. still ahead here on alto, they're trying to put on a show with some of its most advanced aircraft technology and weapons on display in july. and we go inside afghanistan. cricket training come to look at the future, the national team and players on the taliban. that's coming up with pizza and the me

hello, good to see you. here's her weather up. they turn the middle east and we've got plenty of sunshine to go around the up to a higher $38.00 degrees. but i want to get you rate to southern parts of pakistan. this is leftovers of what was psychotic storm, gulag through india. look at it, cutting across the northern portion of the arabian sea, it could re intensify into something said chronic. either way, it is going to throw some torrential rain. so karachi water logging is likely going to be a big concern here. recent conditions through the boss 1st, the g and into the eastern med is stumble. we could see wind gusts in the city to about 50 kilometers per hour on wednesday. the rainy season not going to extend into south to down, but the threat for flooding will extend beyond that rainy season. finishing probably the threat of flooding will continue, persists right through until february of next year for their toward the south, disturbed weather for coastal sections of south africa. the su to into durbin,

and those winds will pick up as well. let's talk temperature. so i'm putting the colors on here, the darker the color, the higher the temperature from southern and gold right through to central, most and big. and johannesburg we can include you in this, but thunderstorms are going to cool the atmosphere here to more average temperatures. later in the week, few soon, the l just a real world reveals dramatic pictures from girls in may 2021. i lived there for a number of years and if there is nowhere safe and god account done to his really missile the tax on for time of why we're tired to the families, businesses and media organization.