told by the people who lived well, let me give, i just found another box this year on al jazeera, we understand the differences of cultures, the cost, the amount of what moves we've been using. curren, does that matter to you? i the fact that the afghan army that we in our partners trained simply melted away in many cases without firing a shot, took us all by surprise. but us defense secretary lloyd austin acknowledges miscalculations over the chaotic end to the war. and i kind of stone personally recommend taliban says it will bring back a constitution from almost 60 years ago. but only the parts that don't contradict its version of islamic law.

ah, to this is down to here. a live from london was coming out to news. you know, position parties form a coalition against the president after he gave himself power to rule by decree. and spain declared a disasters triggering financial support for an island devastation by 9 days of volcanic eruptions. ah, the top u. s. military commander has called the end of the 20 year war in afghanistan, a strategic failure, general marchman, he was speaking on the 1st of 2 days of congressional hearings over the chaotic american withdrawal and taliban takeover. last month. many, along with defense secretary lloyd austin and the head of central command, kenneth mackenzie, of a question by senators. the biden administration has been widely accused of being

unprepared for the full of cobble senior officials of admitted the taliban forces advanced. far more quickly than anticipated. we helped build the state mister chairman, but we could not for donation. the fact that the afghan army that we in our partners trained simply melted away in many cases without firing a shot, took us all by surprise. and it would be as honest a claim, otherwise we need to consider some uncomfortable truce 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 collect effect caused by the deals that the taliban commanders struck with local leaders in a wake of the doha agreement. and that the agreement itself had

a demoralizing effect on afghan soldiers. now the taliban says it's trying to reinstate a constitution from nearly 6 decades ago. i've kind of songs that you would want to apply the 964 charter but only where it doesn't conflict with strict version of islamic law. existing constitution was drawn up with the help of the united states in 2004, but the chairman says it won't know for an interference in a minute. doesn't the constitution was adopted by i've got a songs last came home. it's a here shar, making the country constitutional law k for almost a decade before he was overthrown in 1973. it gave women the right to vote for the 1st time and opened the doors for their increased participation in politics. the king could dissolve parliament, but parliament was allowed to pass no confidence votes in the government. and islam was the state religion. but it wasn't mandatory clergy row was limited in several

areas of society including judicial proceedings. maharaja more from couple, yvonne seemed to be trying to extend an olive branch to the international community . by thank luck, we could have rec to the constitutional declaration of 1998 with a tati 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 for constitutional 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 states that the king has the right to dissolve the parliament and appoint the prime minister. under the current situation, it says that the supreme leader of the taliban, the middle war,

meaning the commander of the faith, will have better law, will ultimately have the final say, he could be the one to fire the government and point to any parliament. zillow of the parliament, sorry, or decide that this provision is in conflict with a chevy or law, and therefore it has to be, it has to be changed. prominent afghan position says his home has been destroyed by the taliban. and jamal ma says, and his family members of the group detonated explosives their property, and none of the cars and all the valuables were taken of us despite the taliban, reassuring former government officials, when it sees power last month that there would be no retribution. and i had been part of efforts to draw the taliban out of a district and persuade a young adults to join us back forces he since gone into hiding look at more now and the hearing in congress on the us withdrawal from afghanistan. patrick l haine is at capitol hill in washington,

dc was one of the senate committee here from the us military officials. well right now, the senators are mostly hearing the senators speak. this is really become a political blame game kind of hearing. we're seeing democrats a lot, donald trump, when he was president, he made a deal with the taliban. he promised the withdrawal of forces. so this is on him. you're hearing republican say, joe biden made the decision to continue with that. feel to set a date for withdraw. i did that without getting everyone out 1st and really there the military has been asked some tough questions, but we're not really getting a whole lot of answers we did here. for me, the chairman, joint chiefs of staff, mark, milly, say that there was an intelligence failure. and he said one reason for that could be, could be that they withdrew advisors from those units 3 years ago. again, that would have been under the trump administration, and he said, you can't really tell if people are willing to fight. if you're not around them, we can count tanks and we can count guns for we can't know the willingness to fight

unless we know the soldiers. so that's really the only clear indication that the military is starting to realize what went wrong in this absolutely chaotic withdrawal. and one question that came up again was whether or not biden was told to keep behind 2 and a half 1000 troops. and this was a very unusual moment, usually you hear pentagon top ross say i keep my conversations with the president confidential, but they were asked about this and they said, i won't tell you what i said to the president, but i'll tell you my personal belief is that 2500 troops needed to stay in the country. why is that important? well, biden was asked and an interview a few months ago. did any of your military advisors ask you or tell you the chief 2500 troops in country? and so the gen talk to you the what else spokes person was asked about that today. here's a response. there was a range of viewpoints as was evidenced by their testimony today that were presented to the president that were presented to his national security team as would be

expected. as he asked for, he asked for a clear, clear, i'd didn't ask them, not to sugar, could it what their recommendations were? it was also clear and clear to him that that would not be a long standing recommendation that there would need to be an escalation to increase in true numbers. it also need, it would also mean war with the taliban and it would also mean the potential loss of casualties. the president was just not willing to make that decision. he didn't think it was in our, the interests of the american people or the interest of, of our troops. so what they're pointing out there is, the implication was, were you told to keep $2500.00 troops in the country and then it would be stable? and they point out the other testimony, especially from the secretary of defense, he has been pointed out. he's been pointing out. he said that after the deal was made with the taliban, if the us went back against that, they couldn't fight the taliban with the 2500 troops. that they would have to send more forces. and that they believe more american casualties would happen. so the white house trying to clarify what seems to be a bit of a distinction,

but we'll probably hear more from the pentagon, tried to clean this up in the days ahead. as you go ahead and thank you very much indeed. ah, opposition politicians in june as you have warned, they'll call for widespread protests unless the president reverses, moves to seize power for political parties, have formed coalition to oppose guy aside. they say last legitimacy on carrying out a qu last week. so i had announced he'd rule by decree and ignore parts of the constitution. kind of smith's reports from genus subpoena and the presenting united front against the president. they say is illegitimate for political parties, a warning chi side, but he must back track on his decision to seize executive power. 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 pub already been held against president saeed, who last week announced he'd rule by decree and ignore parts of the constitution. but after he sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament in july, on monday to unity as foreign minister told the un general assembly that the president was acting with the will of the people that were in was unhappy, too dangerous situation, threatening our country and community is attribute it to a deeply rooted political polarization and a social comic and health crisis. this is why the president of the republic to interfere and take a series of exceptional resolutions and measures based on our constitution to put the contra back on the right path towards democracy and all the largest political

party. and nada says the president should call elections to prove, he has a mandate. why should one person says that he can a buddy the will of the piece? so if he is with, with the will of the people and if he is expressing their will have people, he has no authority or for elections and let the people decide local and international human rights groups. a warning of a slide towards authoritarianism. while the development in july were broadly popular to month own, people are growing frustrated by what they see is a lack of progress. analysts say that could work in the new coalitions favor with the typical mach prizes, but we are going to see the ethics of it's in the upcoming which and non they 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 conditions that are social problems, economy,

etc. in the 2 months since case fight seized power, political parties and civil society groups here, the president hasn't approached any of them. now they say they're reminding him again that they're here and that he should talk to them and listen. bernard smith, i'll just 0. jonas. spain declared the island of la palmer, a disaster zone 9 days after the caribbean. ok now began interrupting the government's 1st package as a marked more than $12000000.00 to help rebuild homes and replace furniture and essential goods. while the 600 houses and banana plantations have been destroyed, and the volcanoes library is expected to hit the cold water, the atlantic ocean shortly on nicholas ac, is live for us in panama. so what happens when the lava hits the water? well, that's it. we no one knows when that is going to take place is actually moving quite

slowly right now at, at the rate of 10 meters an hour and it still has 900 to 300 meters to go before it hits the ocean. when that will happen, there will be what we call a thermal shock, the ocean, that's around 14 degrees celsius and the 1000 degree celsius lava we'll contact. we'll create these valcall neurologist, vulcan ologist, sorry call lays is of toxic chemicals that will go up into the air. create this cloud, toxic chemicals that we're talking about here is sulfur dioxide, chlorine, and other hazardous chemicals that will, that will kind of rise up. there will also be explosion as if someone's dropping popcorn on the popcorn. on the pan, where we expect lava rocks exploding up to a 100 meters up into the air, but this is happening very slowly and the vulcan ologist that are observing this

situation. want to be cautious at the same time. they don't want to create panic towards this population. there are so many people living around the area, but they want to express caution. so they've asked people to stay in doors, wear glasses, mouth cover, cover themself, essentially all the restrictions that we're putting plays doing. cobit 19, are back in place to try to protect the population, added to the difficulty of trying to understand when that thermal shock is going to happen is the wind factor. the weather is going to change in the next couple of hours with a wind blowing south, invisible, further effect, the ash cloud and the movement of the lava. lauren, it's a huge uncertainty for people living there. still at least getting some indication that some financial help is on its way to i mean, we are on the edge of your bed and madrid feels very far away brussels even further

. so the announcement made by the government of madrid that there's going to be some help. $20000000.00. it's something that comes to or as a relief for many people living on this island. but still, it's not enough. i mean, people have lost not just their homes, their livelihoods, generations of homes have been destroyed and well, this is a spectacular site for people to observe this volcanic eruption. it's also a side of morning where we've seen people look at this site and we, i mean people have lost everything and i've spoken to some people who say that they cannot sleep at night. the more there's this rumbling, the more there's fear that there's more destruction to come with, their environment irreversibly altered by this volcanic eruption come. rivera, it's called the old summit, is 120000 years old. and in terms of volcanic activity, it's a younger piece of land. and since this volcanic activity started on sunday,

the experts have observed that the and has actually gained atlanta. and that's a normal phenomena that we're seeing in the long run. it creates a rebalance for the earth in the short run, though, it creates disaster for the people who are living on the path of lava flow of lava we've seen just moments ago. plumes of smoke as the banana plantations went up in flames. as the lava continues to edge slowly towards the ocean with authorities here keeping a keen watch on what's going to happen next. lauren nicholas hack. thank you very much. indeed. still to come this half hour. i'm sorry. wild household nation apologize is up to 21 of its workers are accused of sexually abusing people during an outbreak off the james bond faces mission. yet the latest

w 7 film from is in london. can he faced ah, the inevitable march into autumn continues through europe, huge swirl of cloud as it most of the european plane is changing with cold front after cold frances, the gradual drop in temperature increasing claire and wind. notably, yes, and this will all work its way eventually down to the warmth and through into the existing warmth in eastern europe. not a where it's good to go. this is the forecast for wednesday. the rain over the water haven't gone through the british charles during tuesday, but you see outbreaks of blue all the way down through towards the balkans temperature dropping down from the early twenty's to the teen is still nice and warm in good part of the south. all the way through portugal and spain, but i think we're fine on thursday. i'm strong development. the wind,

the come down the road valley makes western med quite stormy. not so much in thunderstorms, or in the strength of the wind and the roughness of the sea. and the blue over the balkans being tempted to dropping their more and more showers. but the real 10 events is here. once again, we've got almost visit conditions in iceland, wind and rain. resolve is all and to get good towards denmark on the rest of southern scans when you take away the temporary wolves that wednesday will provide the big picture on wednesday of thirst. i should say still this name for march dropping temperatures with vienna. now that is 60 the l just a world reveals dramatic pictures from cancer in may 2021. i've lived there for a number of years and if there is nowhere safe and god's account done to his really missile attacks. and for time of why we're

tired to the families, businesses and media organizations, simply blown up girls a 60 minute warning. oh no, just 0. ah ah, one of the top stories you'll notice here, america's top military commander has cooled the end of a 20 year war in afghanistan, a strategic failure during questioning by senators on capitol hill, the military's top bras admitted the taliban forces advanced far more quickly than anticipated opposition politicians engineers here have worn cool for widespread protests unless the president tracks on this decision to seize executive power for

parties to form the coalition against case tired, accusing him of carrying out a cruise and spain declared the island of panama, a disaster zone. so $12000000.00 can be marked for rebuilding houses. okay. no nava is expected to hit the atlantic ocean shortly, releasing a huge cloud of toxic vapor and gas. the world health organization is promising reforms and accountability over allegations of sexual abuse by staff. the board to the democratic republic of congo. the un agency has apologized to the victims following an independent panel report, which is described as harrowing. reading the findings detailed, at least 80 cases of sexual abuse by age workers during the boat outbreak from 2018 to last year. in edge perpetrators include both congolese and foreign nationals and at least 20 w h o employees. 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 really to relieve them in talking to the commission about your experiences. when a student top military to says the transitional government took over during the 2019 who needs to take a more active role and tempted crew last week is worse and tension is between the military and the government civilian faction as him, mormon reports from cartoon. it was supposed to be a speech for the graduates of his para military rapid support for says what's on tuesday, the deputy head of to dance sovereignty counsel once again turned his attention to the civilians in the transitional government a week after and attempted coup tension between the military and civilian type of

administration remains at an all time high. i didn't know how to do the, the blame us. we're part of the partnership. politics are based on things i don't like, but i have learned my lesson. i'm a military man. the council was created to have all the decisions, 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. for dance transition government came to power, month after former president, alma and bashir was overthrown in april 2019. but our sharing administration was intended to lead the country into democratic system by early 2024. but tensions between the ruling political coalition that forms the civilian side and the military have race concerns about the future of the partnership. for months, political parties have demanded reforms in the military. they see like other institutions. the army contains members loyalty. she said jane and needs to be restructured. that angered the military and the attempt has for the fields calls

forward through form. and i haven't seen we are committed to evaluating this transitional period. we are capable of amending it, but it's only us who will amend it because we are the ones representing, you know, other person can change this equation. we're upwards between the 2 sides, has been followed by the army withdrawing protection from the committee form to dismantle the former ruling party and fight corruption that led to protest in the capital to ensure support for the civilian leadership. the sudanese professionals association with spearheaded anti government process that led to the overthrow of president bush. you called for an end to the power sharing agreement. the un has urged both sides to preserve the partnership. we know has it shut our car? this partnership model is a unique approach which can lead sedan to a complete democratic transition of civilian rule and peace. i urge all sides to tone down on the media rhetoric and to focus on dialogue and cooperation. political

differences are natural, but there must be cooperation for the sake of the country. while tension between the 2 sides remain both who let protests against the former government have cause for more demonstration against the military. they say that despite any shortcomings among political parties, they still want to ensure that civilians have the upper hand in running the country and not the military people. morgan august 0 to the greek government is buying 3 will ships from france, an image deal worth 3 and a half $1000000000.00 signed in paris during a visit by greet prime minister. the echoes me to texas. it's the 2nd between the 2 nations. this year. in january, greece bought 18 french fighter jets, race is building up its armed forces. i'm attentions with turkey. over gas exploration writes in the eastern mediterranean deal comes almost 2 weeks after france lost a multi $1000000000.00 submarine order from australia is beyond less than an 8th.

the europeans must long and i even when were under pressure from powers who hardened their approach, we must react and show that we too have power and the capacity to defend ourselves and show that we won't give way any escalations on decision making us always respected. secondly, the united states is a great story ally, the allies of values and they will remain so. but we are obliged to note that for the last 10 years, the u. s. is focused on many interests of pivoting. today, china and the pacific, the met, not the russia, has recorded highest number of daily coroner's fatalities. since the pandemic began . 852 people died from covered 19 in the last 24 hour reporting period. and more than 21000 new infections were confirmed. daily cases started climbing early this month after millions of russia students went back to school and university, the moscow authority,

se they'll tighten controls around mosque wearing to try to stop a 4th wave. 31 percent of the population that we've actually had so far. russia is launched a new case against jailed opposition needed alex and of only the prominent criminal critique is being investigated on suspicion of founding and leading an extremist group. a russian court has already outlawed nevada, these anti corruption foundation as extremists, and he remains in prison for per over the violations. melanie's allies are also under investigation. they say the case is absurd. if they just need some w, this is undoubtedly a form of political pressure as we've never been any kind of extremist, we took part in elections, participated, and peaceful protests against injustice. we worked on investigations that received dozens of millions of views on youtube about the corruption of officials will make a person and has in circles to so it is the fact that this happened a week after the elections shows. this is

a clear blow in response to the small voting that we organized thing gauged in voter fraud, but that isn't enough. they also need to clear out the political failed. it's not a message, it's a direct blow statement saying you are enemy and we will crush you. the british army is now in standby to help with fuel deliveries as a country see long queues, petrol stations. professor de many stations are closed after running out of petrol, and the government says a shortage of truck drivers triggered the crisis, which has been made worse by drivers panicking. they'll run out of fuel from mr. bowers. johnson says the situation is improving. it will be some time before things return to normal. john hall has more from london. the government has said on tuesday that there are tentative fines of the situation, stabilizing with more fuel reaching for court will be it not enough yet to have an effect on queues. and you can see a busy petrol station in central london here behind me. and cars certainly still

queueing up to fill their tanks to the government. and the industry believe that much of this has been exacerbated by panic, buying people, putting more fuel into their tanks. but they absolutely need that once they stop doing that, the situation will ease within a matter of days. the problem is you can't lay all of this at the feet of public behavior. of course, this is firmly within the overall supply chain. disruption caused by a shortage of drivers, in this case, fuel tank drivers that he's having knock on effect across the economy. why the shortage of drivers? well, a consequence, both of brakes it and cosy, meaning a lot of european drivers have gone home and not come back and poor work and a conditions in this country meeting british workers on having to fill the gap. the government is doing it says what he can and number of schemes and incentives on the way among them. and easing of immigration rules a temporary 3 month visa to try and lose some of those european drivers back. wholly inadequate. the industry says who would give up

a job in europe to come here for just 3 months and all of this accumulates to mean that while on monday they were heavy denials. on tuesday, the government admits the army is on standby to help with some of its fuel tank isn't fuel tanker drive isn't when you add that to the accumulation of other circumstances, warnings of emergency drive as emergency service is no longer being mobile. the price is going up prices and supply across the economy affected by all of this. add to that even the suggestion of the army getting involved. and you don't spell crisis any better way than that. and the long delayed premier of the 25th james bond movie, no time to die is taking place in london. on dr. daniel craig is the star attraction that the roll out, but hope and his 5th and final outing as the famous secret agent, the premier, was postponed 3 times during the pandemic on the box office performance of no time to die as seen as vital for the recovery of the struggling cinema industry in the

grand scheme of things and to close down the list of priorities. thought this is really, really needs to be seen in the cinema. and i'm just incredibly grateful to m g m and about the whole empty morning time view on our website. the address for that is out there dot com. and you can watch a slide by clicking on the orange live icon under 0 dot com. ah, what's up stories on how to 0? the told us military commander has called the end of the 20 year war and canister on a strategic fadia. and his 1st congressional testimony following the chaotic american withdrawal last month. the ministries top ross being questioned by senators on capitol hill. the button in administration has been widely accused of being

unprepared. the full of cobbled senior officials have admitted the taliban forces advanced far more quickly than anticipated.