happening now, we're trying to get this one done to the killed people and that it kills people. now it vertically, both rise with the people's voice bono jazeera, ah, holding the powerful to account. as we examine the us, his role in the world on al jazeera, ah, ah, the comp us military officer admitted to a strategic failure in afghanistan and tells congress he favored keeping a small force there. ah, fully back to you boy, watching al jazeera life from joe. also ahead. i'm sorry. i'm

sorry for what was done to you. well, and is ation valves to punish staff accused of sexually abusing people while working in democratic republic of congo for donation parties joined forces against the president, accusing him of a power grab and warning that he could walk a civil war. and we are live on the spanish island palm when lava for monday, abrupt king volcano has just reached the shores of the atlantic. ah, thank you very much for joining us. a strategic failure. that's how a top us military officer has described the end of its 20 year war in afghanistan, general mark, milly, and secretary of defense lloyd austin, testified at congressional hearings, which focused on the key arctic withdrawal of troops and the taliban take over. last month. article have report from capitol hill are the ones in unusual move,

the top military brass walking a fine line, but up here into public good question. their boss, us president version of events in afghanistan. buddy, how you doing president joe biden had said he couldn't recall any military adviser recommending he troops in afghanistan before he ordered the withdrawal. the top military bosses appeared to contradict that won't share my personal recommendation of the present, but i will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion in view shaped my recommendation. i recommended that we maintain $2500.00 trip enough gamma stance at the white house responded. i would note today in the testimony that was given by secretary austin by general milly, they made clear secretary austin specifically said if he stayed there a pot force posture of 2500. certainly you'd be in a fight with the taliban and you'd have to reinforce from the senators dooley narratives over which president is to blame for the chaos. donald trump, who made

a deal with the taliban to take troops out, or president biden, who set the date for removal. anyone who says the last few months were a failure, but everything before that was great. clearly hasn't been paying attention because of the date, certain rather than a conditions based withdrawl because of a decision that was made by our president. because of that, we laugh american citizens behind. so what went wrong this year and didn't produce any real answers, but the military admitted here something did we help build a state mister chairman, but we could not for donation the fact that the african army that we and our partner strained, simply melted away in many cases without firing a shot took us all by surprise, and it would be just honest a claim. otherwise, the pentagon is conducting its own review of its action. but some senator say that's not enough. they're calling for the creation of an independent commission that can look at what went wrong, not just at the end, but during the entirety of america,

the longest particle have al jazeera washington. and the taliban says it planned to implement a constitution from nearly 6 decades ago. i've got some new rulers want to apply it only if it doesn't conflict with their version of islamic law. the current constitution was drawn up with the help of the u. s. in 2004. but the taliban says he doesn't want to foreign interference. hash him had borrow has more not from couples. the taliban seem to be trying to extend an olive branch to the international community. i think, look, we could have rec, to the constitutional declaration of 1998 with a tati benway and power here up. got it said is that we chose to go for the 1964 constitution white basket 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 is a copy to that confusion. 1964. 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 $1000000.00, 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 a new parliament. though the parliament, sorry, or decide that this provision is in conflict with a shady law and therefore it has to be it has to be changed and have a new lava from the comm brave year have ok now on the spanish island of la palmer has now reached the atlantic ocean. these are live pictures where a huge cloud of toxic vapor and gas has been released into the air as the lava

mixes with sea water. as spain has declared the island in the canary, a disaster zone, more than a week after the reception, the government set to aside an initial $12000000.00 to help rebuild hundreds of homes destroyed by love, i live to nicholas harko is in panama for bring us up to speed with what's been happening in the last few hours make well, as you mentioned, the much anticipated thermal shock. it's currently taking place with this lava 1000 degrees celsius hitting the ocean. what surprising folly is despite the technology available, the satellite image of the computer, that technology well the, the, the vulcan ologist here did not anticipate in which area the volcano, the lava would flow in it, it flowed into a beach called beach perdita and, and they hadn't anticipate that it would fall in that area. they didn't have, does it say that it would arrive so quickly? we were told a couple of hours ago. don't worry. it won't hit the ocean until tomorrow morning.

in fact, when we 1st arrived, they said it will arrive, it will hit the ocean on the very 2nd day of this a reception. but now despite the, the, the technical, technological advancement it has now. right. so what's happening now on the coast? well, you have plumes of smoke going up into the air we were just on the port moments ago . and the spanish gorgeous sea build pushed all of the people that were there to watch the spectacle. out of the porch. they have told people to stay on lock down to wear goggles, cover their mouth, stay close as much as possible, not exposing your arms because in the air is north of gas is such as sulfur dioxide down there. monitoring the level of sulfur dioxide from these toxic gases also is hydro chloride, and in other gases emitted by this volcano white s

a spectacle may come in. we're looking at the live pictures there behind you. and also those being fed by the agencies and it's quite impressive. but of course this has been going on for a week now and it's had a huge impact on people's life. absolutely, i mean yes, it is an incredible and unique spectacle. and researchers from around the world are coming to the on the la paloma to, to try to understand volcanoes in what's happening to our planet right now. but for those, the living here, this is a sight of morning they've seen powerfully how the lava suddenly destroyed homes, don't just people's homes, generational homes, their land, the livelihood memories suddenly taken away by this swell of love. by that you see . and you can see right behind me, the crater is somehow there's, there's 2 bricks in the crater. there's one, a fuse one where there's hot, liquid mach about flowing in adding to the fit. 57000000

metric cube of lava was in poured out 2 out of this crater. and next to it is this, this plume of gas going up into the air. now the authorities right now are quickly monitoring the situation and trying to figure out what is this, how is this affecting the population? take a look at this report. it is down these cliffs that a lava fall is flowing towards the atlantic for the cuba, the family. the worse could not be avoided. josie, marty, construction, worker listings in horror to the advancing lava. the home he built with his hands, the ones of his parents, sister, aunts and uncles. all gone. last is all that has been gained from disruption. he says he told them we don't mean he's fighting night. we want the bed lying. tammy is a part. we've all in pain suffering from this disaster. while the airport has reopened,

commercial flights are grounded, a thick layer of ash hangs over the island. the authorities are asking people to stay in doors where goggles masks and avoid the coastline. will not be the problem that people are facing is irritation in the respiratory tract and the eyes. and of course, the contact with the ash, with the skin is extremely noxious. with the law of reaching the ocean, there is a sense of panic amongst tourists. stranded on the island. no. on the east side. it was a little bit better. now it's it's worse, i guess. so. yeah, of course we're concerned. yeah, i think it's time to leave the island now. yeah. the shoreline of the palm eyes. what marine biologist describe as a hot spot of diversity, home to pilot whales, manta rays and blue sharks, species that are about to encounter explosive and hot lava destroying some of their habitats from above the extent of the volcanic activity and its subsequent damage

becomes visible. vulcan ologist had predicted that there would be interruption, but had not anticipated its magnitude. they said, since this all began, the island has increased in land masses. as if rivera, with this rupture is pulling the island of paloma out of the ocean. it appears the 120000 year old island is going through a growth spurt, but in its path, it's destroying people's lives as if it's reclaiming. it's right over this land. nicholas hawk algae 0 does a corte la palmer. the head of the world health organization is promising reforms and accountability after allegations of sexual abuse. 5 workers send to fight the bowler epidemic in democratic republic of congo. view and agency has apologized to victims following a reform, which is described as harrowing and heartbreaking report detailed, at least a few cases of abuse by w. h. r. employees and aid workers separate investigations into the same allegations have been launched by unicef and international organization for

migration. i'm sorry. i'm sorry for what was done to you by people who are employed by w jo to serve and protect you. i'm sorry for the ongoing suffering that this event must cause. i'm sorry that you have hard to really to relieve them in talking to the commission about your experiences. earlier we spoke to pass, the more bella model is the founder and executive director of action and development initiative for the protection of women and children. she says, humanitarian aid workers must protect the most vulnerable, not abuse them. as you may know, do you said you are the victim by cold sheets for so many years for more than to be kate and joe acceptable, that you might italian can be people or picture picture

expeditions on women and children as on. i think i believe as human italian we have to protect women and children. we have the responsibility to protect women and children. and in the do you have, you have, we have seen women that children are the more vulnerable and do more of the war and the coffee we have in region for many years. and do one or the money will be all of exploitation and you have to be punished for what they have done on women and children. i think most of the time the people who are doing such

as asking use mostly the power, you know, to try to use children and women. you know, most women and children have for our bow. and they tried to use their, their ability to exploit and abuse them. my organization at professional work with the u. s. t r in territory where we are currently alive, most of the community on how they can shape this kind of sexual petition and abuse by you minute, terry, and or either going ahead on al jazeera, canada's catholic bishops offer money to support initiatives for indigenous people who survived abuse in this course they ran

ah, the trees are changing color, the season is changing. you can see the cloud coming in from the pacific. and that's a long time bringing rain and even some spoke to british columbia and further south . and this is clad of the northeast in my circulation thunderstorm, with stillness and a halter of the desert southwest in the mountains. but the nice tongue of clear sky warming over the central plains right up into the heart of canada where the capital is. catherine will see quite possibly assist you on tuesday, which only fairly gets down to wald. it's average is 15 on wednesday and thursday. now that slow change in temperature drop is because this weather is marching in from the pacific, as is 1st to france. at the same time, we've inducing moisture and walk of the plane stays the to come together. you get

some pretty big thunderstorms in those conditions. hence the orange in the forecast . that's potentially super cells. nasty things potentially damaging and slowly batching into the heat, but not moving it out. the way in. for example, minneapolis at $27.00 degrees as a still tongue. i was was it was them. so is above average in minneapolis 27. so for cross persist, they dropped and 22 by saturday, but apart from occasional, thunderstorms is not a dramatic change is just still warmer than average. the l g 0 recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts full cabana dot tossed by the security council to mediate between arabs and israelis. his death would prove one of the darkest days in the quest for peace in the middle east.

killing the count on l. j. o. a watching al jazeera, a recap of our top stories. lava from country view have ok now on the spanish island of panama has reached the atlantic ocean is a huge cloud of toxic vapor and gas will be released into the air as the lava mixes with sea water. rain has declared the island in the canaries. a devout does all the world health organization is promising reform and accountability after dozens of allegations of a view fiction abused by workers tend to find people in democratic republic of

congo. the agencies head has apologized to victory, and america's military officers call the end of the 20 year war in afghanistan. a strategic failure stream questioning from tentative. the military's top ross admitted that taliban forces advanced far more quickly than they anticipated was for me on that. and i was hearing on the withdrawal from afghanistan. let's speak to mark, came it, who's served as assistant secretary of state for political, military affairs under the george w bush administration. thank you very much for being with us, mr. commit. we heard a very bleak assessment from top pentagon officials on the afghan son exit today. they called it a logistical success. but it strategic failure. isn't there a contradiction there? what are your thoughts on what you heard today? or don't think at all. we talk about a tactical victory, we're talking about a very short term event that has limited qualities,

limited success on the other hand of strategic failure as we're talking about here . i think we've got to stand back and realize that we bought inside about camera span for 20 years. we went into file kinda, we defeated all kind of, we brought in blogging to justice. but with this collapse that we're seeing and i can expand right now candidly, all of the successes and all. ready of the effort that we put into afghanistan has now been reversed, and it's very likely they're all kind of come back into afghanistan and set up sanctuary. safe haven training bases will be back where we were 20 years ago. the contradiction also lies in what we're hearing from the biden administration versus what the generals are saying. both the senior generals today made said they made clear recommendations that iran 2 and a half 1000 troops could stay gone. it's done. and there's some confusion about whether the president actually received this advice or whether he chose to ignore

it for some biden has said in the past that he doesn't recall anyone giving him advice. do you think this, this hearing is damaging to president by? clearly differences in the advice he is said to have been given and what he actually did. well, let's be very clear. the general's made the recommendations probably in a national security council meeting. the president may or may not have been there. but in any case, his own staff had the responsibility brief, president biden, on the conduct of those meetings. and those recommendations came from his military respect for defense. so either president biden was not informed or which. ready some of its people ought to be held responsible for he was inform, misunderstood what the commanders on the ground in the u. s. military was saying, it certainly at down beat assessment from the general about their capacity to stop

any threats that it made from afghanistan from now on general mili said it would not be harder to protect americans from terrorist attacks from i've got his son. how concerning is that to you and you know who, who stands to gain from this? well, as i said, the worst possible outcome would be, the taliban allowed al qaeda, isis k, and other terrorist words to come back into afghanistan and take advantage of uncovered spaces within afghanistan to set up training camp site and plot future attacks in both europe and the united states, so that's the greatest change in our ability to control that. i think we're saying it briefly. mr. kim, at how useful are the are these hearings and what lessons can we draw from this? yes, i think they're very useful for the american public that they hear not through the media, but directly from the commanders on the ground. and in the pentagon,

what was done, why it was done, and why these decisions were made. thank you very much for talking to us. mark kim, it's joining us there from washington opposition. politicians, indonesia have worn down call for widespread protest and less. the president reverses more to seize power for political parties, have formed a coalition to oppose kai said who they say lost legitimacy after carrying out what they called a coup last week. so you denounce it, rule by decree and ignore part of the constitution. bernice smith has more from tennessee where the dina 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 could 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 president saeed, who last week announced he'd rule by decreed 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 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 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 embody

the will of the piece? so if he is with, with the will of the people, if he is expressing their will have people, he has no authority or for elections and then 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 different mac rises that we are going to see the ethics of it's in the upcoming weeks and months. 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 technicians that are social problems, economy, etc. in the 2 months since case fight seized power,

political parties and civil society groups here, say 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, al jazeera jonas haiti's, foreign minister says he plans the call presidential and legislative elections for early next year. i and all, he dissolved the electoral council responsible for organizing a vote in november. instead, he says a referendum on the current constitution will take priority and dismiss allegations, his attempting to cling to power a t with plunge into a political crisis in july following the assassination of president. you've anomalies while he's had been ruling by decrease in 2019 leaving the country without an elected president or parliament. the re government is buying 3 war ships from france in a military deal worth 3 and a half $1000000000.00 that even seen as a boost to the french defense industry. after the loss of a multi $1000000000.00 submarine order from australia. grace is building up its

armed forces amid tensions with turkey over gas exploration whites in the eastern mediterranean. lisa bound to us in a city, laska, new european must leave behind and i. e. v t. when we're under pressure from powers who harden their approach, we must react and show that we to have power and the capacity to defend ourselves, and show that we won't give way to any escalation in this is making ourselves respected. secondly, among the united states is a great historic ally in the eyes of our values and they will remain so. but we are obliged to note that for the last 10 years, us who focused on themselves and the strategic interests. some of the pivoting towards china and the pacific diesel russia has launched a new criminal case against jail opposition leader next in a volley. the prominent company in critique is being investigated on suspicion of forming and leading an extremist group. a ration court has already outlawed nevada,

these anti corruption foundation, as extremist, and he remains imprisoned for parole. violations of armies, allies are also under investigation. they say the case is absurd. if he just went to some dominate him, this is undoubtedly a form of political pressure. as we've never been any kind of extremist, we took part, an 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. and the story 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, engaged in voter fraud, but that isn't enough. they also need to clear out the political failed. it's not the message, it's a direct blow statement saying you are enemy and we will crush you. witnesses and russia has recorded highest number of daily corona virus fatalities. since the

panoramic began 852 people died in the last 24 hours and more than 20000 new infections where confirmed daily cases started climbing earlier this month after millions of russian students went back to school and university health authorities see the tight and controls around mosque wearing to try to solve a 4th wave. canada, as catholic church has pledged $30000000.00 to help survivors of the residential schools. it ran for the government more than a century. it comes days after the church apologize for the 1st time for its role in the residential school system. more than 150000 indigenous children were forced to be removed from their families and sent schools across canada. many were subjected to physical abuse and forbidden from, from speaking their native languages. breen, while it is a lawyer and former counsel for the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls,

he says the pledge should be viewed with caution. in 2005 as part of the truth and reconciliation and to determine how to settle claims by residential school survivors. the candidates federal government hired private investigators to identify alleged abusers. and by 2013, they had identified over 5300 different abusers. but the government has never brought criminal charges against any of them. and part of that, i believe is that the canadian government is complicit in the genocide. that was residential schools. and if it complicit in the ongoing constitutional apartheid the canada operates under. and the fact that the attorney general refuses to bring about a special prosecutor to investigate residential schools and to investigate other acts of genocide and apartheid in canada. in my mind is another indication that the

canadian government is attempting to limit its culpability. and the fact that the attorney general has to rent consent to bring these types of investigations shows that the government is in a conflict of interest. why would the attorney general ever started investigation that could lead down a road of implicating the attorney general and the federal cabinet? i don't think it would happen. ah, hell again, i'm fully back the ball. with the headlines on al jazeera, america's top military officer has called the end of the 20 year war in afghanistan, a strategic failure during questioning by senators on capitol hill. defense officials admitted that taliban forces advance far more quickly than anticipated. radical haine has more from capitol hill the term of the 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 you.