taken on a different form, people died for they fly. this is no game. it's business makes the cocoa bomb is hopefully be swinging high across the valley. facing days on every journey. they'll gamble with their lives, just one living. risking it all on al jazeera. ah . grilled about the chaos withdrawal from afghanistan. us defense officials, all facing shop questions from sentences. ah, hello there. i'm talking again. this is all of your life and they're coming up announcing a coalition against the president of political party is banned together in june. as

as the leadership, we apologize to these people are women and the go for the suffering that they have had a strong action, a w h. leadership reforms, the sexual abuse allegations in democratic republic of congo, and spain declared the island of la palmer disaster zone. as a volcano continues the feudal smoke. ah, well right now us senators are grilling senior defense officials about the withdrawal of military forces from afghanistan into the collapse of the afghan government defense secretary lloyd austin. as you can see, that joint chiefs of staff chairman walk many and the head of central command, general kenneth mackenzie roll, testifying, that's listenin. you made all these, it was your plan, you even acknowledge it was your plan and your plan. so do you do all these things

before we got our civilians out? i mean, when in the history of this country, have we ever had the u. s. military and have a plan that we will take our military out 1st before we take our civilians? i can't imagine that when you, when you say civilians are you, are you, are you talking about this american citizen now? the american citizens would come out, once noncombatant evacuation is declared. and until that point, typically we don't evacuate all the citizens in the country. but we didn't hear, there's american systems still there and we continue to remain engaged and, and work to, to get those services out center. why would you propose a plan that didn't get all american citizens out? i just can't imagine ever in the history this country or u. s. military would propose to leave a country with our citizens coming out 1st. i mean, is we,

have we ever done that before? all of the american citizens wouldn't leave sen unless there was a non combatant evacuation. and you know, that the plan was to leave the embassy there to continue to address the needs of our american citizens, to engage with the government. and so that was a part of the plan, not again, the plan was never to evacuate the american citizens and leave the embassy there. didn't bother you. and the president went on national television, said that he would not leave until all american citizens were. we'll take it out. did it bother you that when he said that because it clearly is not true or not truthful. now, senator, i, you know, you, you heard me say several times that we're going to work as hard as we can for as long as we can to get every american citizen out that wants to come out. and where we continue to do that to this day, robert in time. but one thing i want,

when we have the next round, i want to understand what decisions would you make differently today to save those 13 lives of, of service men and women that we lost at the cobbler fort. so, but thank you very much. thank you mister chairman. senator, if i could come out on your 1st opening comment. if i may go ahead, sir. i'm sure. i am happy to lay out every detail in all the intel to you as an individual to any other member or to a committee or anything you want on these chinese goals at your convenience. thank you. thank you. thank you centers, scott, center duckworth, please. thank you mister chairman. i share my colleagues concerns about the rapid lapse of the afghan national defense and security forces and the afghan government and the failure of all intelligence. we need some answers after investing 2 decades, nearly 2 trillion dollars, and most importantly,

the lives of almost $2500.00 of american troops. our nation must conduct a thorough and honest review of the united states government involvement. and if dennis stand since the september 11th 2001 terrorist attacks for the sake of current and future generations of war fighters, we must capture the hard lessons from afghanistan to ensure that these lessons are not forgotten or worse, repeated on a future battlefield. this is our moral responsibility as a nation. gentlemen, all 3 of you have been involved in the war in afghanistan, multiple times in multiple different capacities throughout your careers. secretary austin, what's the situation on the ground? and i've got a sent over the last few months influenced by previous decisions made over the course of several years. i absolutely believe that senator ice, the foremost among those decisions is the, is a doha agreement. i think that that severely impact that the morale of the military thank you. so can also, if that's the case,

is it possible to have an intellectually honest lessons learned exercise that only looked at the most recent events in ghana sound of the last couple of months or must any effective review look at the whole 20 years since september 11th i think you have to look at the, the entire 20 years center. i think there are some great lessons learned that that, that we're going to take away once we do that. but yeah, i believe you gotta look at the entire time spent. thank you. i agree that an effective review must be comprehensive. after all the one i've got to stand was shaped by 4 different administrations and 11 different congress. no party should be looking to score cheap, partisan political points off a multi decade nation building failure. that was bipartisan in the making. instead, congress should authorize a long term effort solely devoted to bringing accountability and transparency to the canister war and lessons to be learned. that is why on thursday i will be introducing the afghanistan war study commission. my bill would establish

a bipartisan independent commission to examine every aspect of the war, including the political and strategic decision, so transformed a focus military mission into vast nation building campaign. importantly, this commission must produce actionable recommendations designed to guide the development of real reforms. just asked the 911 commission's work inform congressional law making efforts into years after its publication. surgery often would you agree with me that such an independent, long term study could serve as an effective complimentary effort to the more targeted lessons learned reviews that d o. d always conduct, particularly in shedding light on how congress and civilian leaders from not multiple government agencies can do a better job in defining the scope of military missions and actually enforcing legal limitations on the use of force. i would, and i did the point that you're making it needs to my view as it needs to be an

inner agency approach to this. thank you. and i do want to note that my family and i were in cambodia until the very end. i'm an american, i was born in china, but my father worked for the united nations and to answer my colleagues question my father chose to stay as long as possible to help the cambodian people as long as possible. and he left after american troops had left the american ambassador stayed behind after american troops had left them. in fact, after the last military transport had left. i know this because my father was on the last military transport to leave cambodia and ambassador had to travel overland . so yes, we do leave americans behind, but this is all tied to neil operations and how that is plaid, which is why i think it is so important that we have an independent investigation. maybe the failure here was that we didn't have a neo plan in place and we didn't activate it before our troops left. but if that's the case, we need to learn that. so i would ask for my colleagues to consider this independent

commission. we put somebody in charge of it was not in a decision making capacity during the 20 years, make it, make it non partisan. and let's get those lessons learned. so we don't make the same mistakes over and over again. our troops deserve better, and a families of the 2500 american troops who laid down their lives to protect independence constitution, who followed the lawful order of all of those presidents. they deserve better than partisan fights. we need to get some answers. thank you. you're back, mister chairman. thank you center. well, you've been listening that to democratic senator tommy duckworth, he's also a retired army national guard, the tenant colonel, the latest to question senior defense officials on capitol hill today. well, let's bring in our correspondent patty call hain. she's watching all of this for us in washington dc. patties. we've been saying some very pointed questioning today on everything from civilian casualties to intelligence failures and as we've been hearing also to the us evacuation. exactly. but what we're seeing,

and we often see this with the senate, but this is kind of routine ethic proportion. christine senators, really, i think posturing for the cameras looking to campaign as in the future. they're really trying to play the blame game here. now you see democratic senator say, look, this is done from small, he made a deal with the taliban. he said a deep withdrawal. he developed her demoralized the afghan army when he made that deal. not including the african government republican say, no, this is on joe biden. he did a date specific withdraw. he, if there's time for, for the chaos that we saw at the airport, they're saying that it hurt america's credibility across the globe. what we're not seen is really any answers the military. obviously, this is the 1st time the brass has been open in public before the senate committee, and they have said that there were clearly intelligent failures. general mark, millie said that he believed that because they pulled advisors out of the units 3 years ago. they couldn't actually tell how willing the military was going to be to

actually fight. but at the same time, he's facing questions now that no one's enough get a chance. can you really protect the homeland? here's what he had to say. but we must continue to protect the united states of america and its people from terrorist attacks coming from afghanistan, reconstituted al qaeda or isis with aspirations to attack the united states is a very real possibility. and those conditions do include activity in ungoverned spaces, could present themselves in the next 12, the 36 months. that mission will be much harder now, but not impossible. and we will continue to protect the american people. now he is facing more criticism than you usually see for chairman of the joint chiefs, the staff. and that's because in a new book by bob woodward, he painted the picture that mentally was very much concerned about donald trump. and his final day is that he reached out to his chinese,

kind of hard twice to reassure him that the us would not attack china and that he would give him a heads up. he is defending that decision saying the trump administration knew it, they ordered it. he informed everybody on the discussion and that this is part of his job. he also addressed questions about the nuclear coast, and he said that speaker putting it before she called him to say that she thought that was unstable. wanted reassurance about the nuclear code to how they would use . he said again, it's not my job to diagnose mental health of us president. i was simply doing what i'm supposed to do and talking to the staff that are involved in that process so that they would know that i need to be informed. so he's trying to camp down criticism, you're seeing republicans really try to paint this as him to him define legal orders. he's really trying to get ahead of that criticism. actually call her and that keeping an eye on happening for us on capitol hill. thanks so much patty. well, meanwhile, in afghanistan, the taliban says it's now planning to implement

a constitution community 6 decades ago. i've got a strong new rulers want to apply it only though, where it doesn't conflict with the version of islamic law. existing constitution was drawn up with the help of the us back in 2004, but the taliban says at once, no foreign interference. now moving on and a group of political parties and you nivia has announced a coalition to oppose the president. the group says case night as last 2 legitimacy accusing him of a cru, alexia bryan, for what had been presenting a united front against a president. they say is illegitimate for political parties. a warning kai said that he must backtrack on his decision to seize executive power. all they'll call widespread protests against him. 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 president said last week announced had 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 at the president's actions unnecessary for the country security that he was acting with the will of the people that i mean when i was unhappy, too dangerous situation, threatening our country and community is attributed 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 a series of exceptional resolutions and measures based on our constitution to put the contract back on the right path towards democracy. and 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 people? so if he is with, with the will of the people and if he is expressing they will have people, he has no authority or for elections and then people decide local and international human rights groups has condemned sites, actions warning of a slide towards authoritarianism. while the developments in july were broadly popular to months, own people are growing frustrated and what they see is a lack of progress or plan for reform. analysts say that could work and the new coalition favor we did the pick me crisis, but we are going to see the ethics of it's in the upcoming which and not the would seize maybe the opportunity to show that unfortunately even by

a power grab even by the 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. now the head of the world health organization is promising reforms and accountability after allegations of sexual abuse by staff deployed to democratic republic of congo. charles at hon. i'm deborah yes. s apologized to the victims and said the report fund independent panel made a harrowing reading and found there were at least 80 cases of sexual abuse by aid workers during the response to a bold outbreak from 2018 just last year. i'm sorry. i'm sorry for what was done to you by people who are employed by w joe to serve and protect you. i'm sorry for the

ongoing suffering that this event must cause. i'm sorry that you have a hard to relate to relieve them in talking to the commission about your experiences. 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 gulf for the suffering that they have had because of the actions of our staff members and people that we have sent into the communities to help in

a very difficult situation of an epidemic or guinea military we have for their members from running and the next election. a transitional council is to decide when that poll will be held. that's charter says that military lead and mama you doing boy will be president until a civilian government is elected. the boy has been under pressure to hold elections after the military crew on september 5th. well, there are more than 10000000 children out of school in niger area because of a lack of facilities. a lack of teaches an ongoing conflict that but now new schools have been built and born stays, and attendance is increasing. and across the country, 9000000 pupils and are benefiting from a free school meals program and address reports from my glory. after years of disruptions, these high school students write their final examinations. 6 years ago, most of them were either displaced persons camps on the street. what little hope of

completing high school they were forced from schools like these attacked and damaged by the armed group book was idea. ology is to fight western education and influences, schooling became completely impossible even we didn't do that time because most of the infrastructure schools had become comes. then we had to roll in at that time, what was called education on that emergency. gradually we much out of that, you might just see face and now we are walking towards the stabilize ation piece. is a challenge. so much of the infra structure has been destroyed. you know, once it becomes a disaster, it exceeds coping capacity. this is now the face, of course, in northern nigeria, sport, nor state the epi center of the conflict, old structures rehabilitated and new ones constructed dozens of stores, buildings like this, have been built tubs of as many out of school children as possible. still tens of

thousands more unable to access education. the government is unable to construct or rehabilitate schools in areas whether a significant threat from both schools enrollment is up. but the few gaze nowhere near what it was before the conflict again, the united nations children's fun says more than a 1000000 children. what targeted for enrollment in the 1st 4 months of this year. but less than half that number. why able to attend class? because of the lack of facilities and security concerns experts, one that i get in government to prioritize safety, security of both width or children to be enrolled. that the most important thing that dash is security should be guaranteed. and that of their teachers. you can just give indication to those in the above areas,

neglecting those in it. so those in the us now of it are going by because they not fit in that is a short of this year. what many schools in nigeria north classified as vulnerable to attacks by armed groups. some parents in burma worry about putting the lives of their children at risk. it reach out to 0. my degree nigeria halter the pandemic now and more than 60 percent of people and rich countries have now received at least one dose of the vaccine. but in developing nations, it's only 2 percent. the head of the world trade organization says the international community must address this inequality. the rebounding growth trade is only across countries and regions as access to the 19 vaccines. 100000000 people have been pushed into extreme poverty, mostly in south asia and south sahara and africa. while nearly 60 percent of people

in developed countries are fully vaccinated. in africa, the goes belly 4 percent. this is devastating for their lives and livelihoods of africans. it is morally on acceptable, and i knew various spread as direct to the health and economic recovery everywhere . 100 pounds government has announced it will list a corona virus state of emergency. that's now been in place since april as the number of cases and deaths for prime minister yoshi he days. suga says restrictions and $27.00 out of the countries $47.00 prefixes would end on thursday. the decision comes a day before the ruling liberal democratic party selects a new leader to succeed zuka who announced his son to resign early of this month. how the u. s. as a short range missiles hast by north korea is a threat to the international community. now, as that miss all was being fired on tuesday, phil young's ambassador to the un was telling the general assembly that nobody

could deny it the right to test weapons, kim song called only us to give up its hostile policy towards the nor my young. if the this was to see the accordion was the most prolonged and long lasting war in board come to an end. and if it is really desirous of a piece of re consolation on the korean peninsula, they should take the 1st step was a keeping up. it's a hostile policy against a t p p by stopping permanently the joint military exercises and the deployment of all kinds of those pro, teacher rappers which are leveled at a t p k in and around to the korean peninsula span has that had the island of la paula, a disaster zone due to a continued volcanic eruption there. the crew, the coon gravy, a volcano has displaced nearly 7000 people since last week you can see it's still erupt. thing right now, spain has improved an initial aid package of around $12000000.00. there are fears

that could reach the c releasing toxic gases. people on the east coast have been ordered to stay indoors. nicholas hock has mon you can see the explosive nature with a lava not liquid by flowing in one direction down the slope. and then these gases, routine 4 kilometers up into the sky explosive. and one point a few. sift 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, the 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. we can see how closely it's edging towards the ocean and right below where there is a plume of smoke is a cliff. and that's where experts believe 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 palm. it's often describes that the hawaii of europe for its diversity. now the british government has put the army on standby as fuel pumps in the u. k. are running dry, there aren't enough truck drivers and that means deliveries of fuel and other items

of slowed people have been tearing off at petrol stations, many which have run out. and the transport minister has asked dr. is not to panic. buying, one of sedans, top military leaders, says the transitional government needs to take a more active role general and the $100.00 has frequently accused the government civilian faction. and failing to govern effectively, opponents and use the army of trying to seize power and want the administration dissolved. i didn't know what that should be. they blame us. we're 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 decision. and after that they said it was a counsel for consultation only. but if you are a counsel for consultation, you can oblige people to apply and implement your decisions. or thousands of who he, rebels and pro governments holders have been killed and fighting in yemen. they are currently battling for control of merit. the last northern city held by pro

government fighters claims, hundreds of thousands of people who fled conflicts and other areas of the country. who stepped up their efforts to seize marrow back in february and at least 2 people have been killed in bomb attacks in the syrian city of jara blurs. one blast was near the city council and another just outside the town. 18 people have also been injured. opposition control. jar blue says regularly targeted by armed groups. the american r and b singer. all kelly has been found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering offences. after a 6 week trial in new york, he's one of the most prominent people to be convicted of sex offences. since the meeting movement began, victoria gating be a report. so he was one of the biggest r and b recording artists of a generation pop up and now are kelly face suspending the rest of his life in jail . after being found guilty on all counts at a trial in new york,

today's guilty verdict forever brand r kelly as a predator who use his fame and fortune to prey on the young, the vulnerable and the voiceless. for his own sexual gratification. the attorney who represented many me 2 survivors, says kelly is the worst abuser of them all. today r kelly has been convicted a very serious federal crime. mister kelly, who wants described himself as a quote, genius and quite so one of my clients who testified is nothing but a convicted felon. the 54 year old singer had faced accusations of sexual assault against young women and children for decades, but seemed almost untouchable. the music industry and the media now stand accused of turning a blind eye to allegations made against him for far too long. i would say that he was definitely protected. the boys and girls that he did, you know,

sale and right. and i would say because he was protected by not only right, everybody around him, producers, the music industry is so everyone knew this is going on and they protected him so it didn't stop it. increase all kelly will be sentenced. next may and faces decades behind boss victoria gate and be al jazeera. while canada's catholic church has pledged $30000000.00 to help survivors of the residential schools operated until the 1990 s. schools like this one in british columbia separated indigenous children from their parents. catholic bishops have apologized after the discovery of more than 1000 unmarked graves of children near their fine well staying in canada and 33 of 39 minus trapped underground and eastern canada

have now been rescued. an accident on sunday had damaged the elevator system. none of the men what injured there is a conveyance system or what's commonly known as a cage that carries employees on one level. and then often below that elevator or, or conveyance system we, splain, equipment and materials underneath it. and we had a large piece of equipment lung underneath the conveyance system, and it just lodged causing damage to the shaft and making the conveyance system in operable. ah, hello there. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. us senators have been grilling senior defense officials about the withdrawal of military forces,

rough canister, on the collapse of the african government defense secretary lloyd austin, told them the collapse of the afghan only took them all by surprise.