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to punish staff accused of sexually abusing people, working in democratic republic of congo. lava from interrupting volcano on the spanish island of la palmer has reached the shows and the atlantic ocean and the lady jane fallen film premiers in london waves. panama is hoping 8 o 5 or surgeons for the pending ah a strategic sally. that's how a tom u. s. military officer has described the end of its 20 year war in afghanistan. general mark miley and secretary of defense lloyd austin, testified at get at the congressional hearings which focus on the coyote withdrawal

of troops and the taliban take over. last month, petticoat hain, reports from capitol hill. in unusual move, the top military brass walking a fine line, but up here into public good question there, 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. i 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 trips and afghan 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 at a pa 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 since 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 withdrawal because of a decision that was made by our president. because of that we laugh american citizens behind. so what went wrong? this hearing didn't produce any real answers, but the military admitted here something did. we have all the state mister chairman, but we could not for donation. the fact that the african army that we in our partner strained, simply melted away in many cases without firing a shot, took us all by surprise, and it would be dishonest to claim otherwise, the pentagon is conducting its own review of its action,

but some sen 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, more political have al jazeera washington. my him, it served as assistant secretary of state for political military affairs. he says it will be crucial to understand how president bonham missed the general's recommendations. the general's made. the recommendation is probably 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 that came from his military and secretary defense. so either president biden was not informed for 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 and was

saying, i think we've got to stand back and realized so we thought inside about can span for 20 years. we went into file, we defeated all kind of, we brought in lightning to justice. but with this collapse that we're seeing in our span right now, candidly, all of the successes and all of the effort that we put into afghanistan has now been reversed. the worst possible outcome would be the taliban allow the al qaeda isis k and other terrorist groups to come back into afghanistan and take advantage of uncovered spaces within afghanistan to set up training camps 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 general milly was saying limits in afghanistan, the taliban says he plans to implement a constitution from nearly 6 decades ago. afghanistan's new rulers will applied

only if it doesn't conflict with their version of islamic law. the current constitution was drawn up with the help of the us in 2004. the taliban says he doesn't want foreign interference. harun rocky me is an assistant professor of law at the american university of afghanistan. it says this decision is an act of good will from the taliban. i believe that it was announced to meet an external condition imposed by the international committee or expected by some members of the internet or community as a precondition or normalizing relationship. basically an olive branch extended to the world community, although the content and the significance of, as i think is based much in doubt, given all the, all the limit that comes to it. given that a critical review that are made emerett, given that it would be no been up, right,

institutional would accompany the adoption of the constitution. but it seems like it is just meant to need some external conditions imposed by some country. and i think that explains why it was made in that context and why would made on permanently in a meeting with one of the major internal policy. and i think we walk on, given the, what we know about critical viewed, recognize the right of all of that is including women, the right to be elected, the right to bode derives to education and all the issues that are critical, controversial right now. and so we welcome development. however, we do not understand this document as it limits under power. they do believe that all those rights going to be subject to the limitations of area, but they don't have an institutional arrangement the way to know you had to operationalize and implement those restrictions in

a way that would account the views of the taking, checked on the views of the public would be politically conflict, the public as well to the rest of the daisies in the head of the world. health organization is promising reforms and accountability after allegations of sexual abuse by work is sent to democratic republic of congo or to 5 ball. you. an agency has apologized to victims following a report which is described as harrowing and heartbreaking. it detailed, at least a few cases of abuse by w h o employees and i work is separate investigations into the same allegations have been launched by units if and the international organization for migration. 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 hard

to really to relieve them in talking to the commission about your experiences. but this is the 1st time you went. agencies have been accused of sexual abuse that have been more than 800 allegations of sexual exploitation or abuse reported in un missions globally seems 2010. the most infamous case was a child. 6 trafficking ring set up by a sure lang can un pays gape is in have between 20042007. since 2014 many abuses have been reported in the central african republic. former un secretary general ban came men coded a cancer in our system. the code blue campaign by the aides free world groupies calling for accountability for the abuse. it says the un regularly is handled cases as sexual exploitation, polar donovan, co director of the a free world group says the largest allegations of sexual abuse in democratic

republic of congo need to be passed onto the place. the world health organization has no authority to investigate criminal allegations of any kind. and it's preposterous that they should wait after receiving reports of abuse by their own personnel until the farm dose investigations, to bidders, and hired a firm and appointed their own commission. and done some very basic. what's the commission itself called prima pharmacy, or on 1st impression investigating to determine whether or not crimes had been committed. this is, this was not a criminal investigation, and it should have been from the very outset turned over to, to legal authorities who can actually conduct criminal investigation. there's never been any accountability through a process like the one that w h o undertook and then never will be because it's simply not possible. the w h o

cannot hold people criminally accountable, but also the, the w h o itself has been implicated. so the, these commissioners who were again selected the heads of the commission were selected by the head of w h o himself and and then. busy they conducted their investigations through people . a firm that was hired by w h o japan will soon have a new prime minister. it's ruling liberal democratic party is choosing and you later after prime minister your she had a suca said he wouldn't stake re election these alive pitches the party members ahead of their voice. there are full candidates with the winner leading the party into november's general election. su there is stepping down after just a year in office. he faced a strong criticism over his handling of the pandemic and the cost of the olympics. for more on this story were joined by friday, saturday. who is live for us in tokyo?

hello there friday. how much does the public puppy popularity come into play when party members vote? for example, the poll show the public really favors tara conner. that's very true. most thoughtful binion pulls up, showed that sort of corner is the most lucky candidate in the selections. but it seems that the fraction politics will play a role in deciding who is going to be that either of the party and we're going to become the new japan. but i missed that there is very close race now between for your, from your tissue who is the former minister of japan and who is the finance minister, the minister in charge of the installation process. and he has repeated look of the success in this process to himself and these policies. and this is why he's getting all this attention, not only in the tech support and the general,

but the kids are very active on social media. he's one of the most follow petitions on twitter, on the, on youtube channel, which is very frequently there. but this close race might be decided in the 2nd run off because we are not expecting to see the majority taken by any of the 4 candidates for an off. the session is held after a few hours from now, the faction politics may play a role and it seems to fictitious who is very popular among the veteran devi, members of democratic party members. maybe he will be the next time mister if he couldn't convince. can file members so 47 on the of them with space in the on off. so very close race but, and hold. i'm not on that is on. that's what should be announced within

a couple of hours. once we do get those results, take us through the process after the window is announced, particularly ahead of those elections in november. well, by for the b m. jeff on time. well, most certainly we're going to know who is the winner and 5 pm. press conference, d v. headquarter info. cool. we're going to hear off his policies and because of just a few days before to prepare for the new session. the apartments will be held for an extra inefficient on monday and the new, but i may be indoors in a session there 1st in the lower and more powerful, know what, how slow chamber and then he will be also endorsed and higher chambers and japan. we'll see with the new premise that we're going to hit the country during probably

a few months until the elections are so be called because by the end of october, the 3rd of the cut and the parliament would be, it would be ended. we would see if we can stay on the top of disposition in japan. we appreciate your update. thank you very much. fatty salim, i there for us live in tokyo. still ahead on al jazeera fall, she museum parties join forces against the president, accusing him of a power grab a morning that it could cause civil war and wrapping up its weapons program. no, korea says he has been newly developed hypersonic song. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day at 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle airways, boated world's best airline of 2021. the winds died down through most of the

radiant finance. this is on wednesday, but down the red sea and emanating really from the black, caesar's cooling trend of wind has knocked temps very much down. did you receive? it might start to induce more showers in the southwest. the saudi, the same as possible around among, for the same reason and on shore breeze. otherwise, it's a dry and sunny picture, but not all married sudden pakistan the next day or so, this circulation could turn into a named tropical cycle. and even if it doesn't, is a tropical depression, already abuse yet more flooding in karachi. in fact, most of sudden pakistan and it keeps moving west was to cross the border into a run. now, what does it do out of that you may, was the answer to why? well, many forecasts may will take it towards the cursor. men, muskets by sunday, shows it here. dusty normally wind and persistent rains that might be heading in that direction as one to watch rather closely. therefore, central asia, the winds coming out of the interior is a cold wind attempts will start to drop already we've got in the forecast watch

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the hello, you're watching al jazeera, i'm emily, angling a reminder about top stories. this, our america's top military officer has called the the end of the 20 war and chemist on a strategic failure. during questioning by the dentist, the military bosses admitted taliban forces involved in con, much faster than anticipated. the world health organization is promising were full and accountability after dozens of allegations of sexual abuse by work, and then to find a bowl in democratic republic of congo. the agencies have has apologized to victim and japan will soon have a new prime minister live pictures out of tokyo. it's ruling that liberal democratic party is choosing a new lady from 4 candidates after prime minister. she had to say that he wouldn't

speak reelection north korean stay media says the miss, all the country has fired on tuesday, was a newly developed hypersonic miss film. these images reportedly show the launch the media says scientists, confirmed the navigational control and stability of the weapon. hypersonic missiles move faster than standard ones, making them much harder for defense systems to intercept lynn and petro is a specialist in korean affairs and the senior electra at the international college of management in sydney. he plays the technology from the miss. l came from russia or china while it's the cutting edge of technology in defense. and it's not only north korea who is developing at the number of countries who believe that it's the future of defense system. so it's not surprising that north korea is also following suit and investing into this technology. and i believe that they

learned. busy perhaps from russia, from china, the, the states which of very actively promote this new technology. and it's super, super funny technology assumes that the, the vehicle should travel at least 5 times faster than the speed of the sound. the speed of travel is equal to one mile per 2nd. so certainly it's a very powerful weapon. the north koreans are very proud to deliver the 1st successful test, which it was not even detected by watchers in the south korea or japan. they. there were difficulties in establishing what type of rocket this was until this morning when korean central new agency confirmed that it was the super sonic vehicle named a hoss on 8th, the new type of the new generation of north korean missiles came junglin,

the leader of korean workers party, it is very important to, to demonstrate that we'll send the message both across the pacific and just across the demilitarized zone in the you on the korean peninsula that north korea is prepared to talk. but the stakes are going to be very high. lava from the volcano on the spanish island of la palmer is now reached the atlantic ocean bays pictures and live pictures rather where a huge cloud of toxic vapor and gas has been released into the air. as the love of mixes with the water, spain has declared the island in the canaries. disasters on will then awaken to be your option. the government set aside an initial $12000000.00 to help we build hundreds of homes destroyed by lava. nicholas hark has the light, it's from la palmer. the much anticipated thermal shock. it's currently taking place with this lava the 1000 degrees celsius. hitting the ocean authorities right

now, are quickly monitoring the situation and trying to figure out what is this? how is this affecting the population? 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 port. i have told people to stay on log down to where 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 . now they're monitoring the level of sulfur dioxide from these toxic gases also is hydro chloride, and in other gases emitted by this volcano. his one solid wall of state control is cracking as the country faces its worst economic and political crisis. since the collapse of the soviet union, new law is have gone into effect,

allowing small and medium size private businesses to operate and trade with the world for the 1st time. a latin america editor, lucy, and human has this reports. for more than half a century, cuba communist economy has been frozen in time and not running nearly as well as these iconic vintage cars digging back to before the 1959 revolution of the phone. but now at last, the government is opening the door for cubans like carlos miguel british to start small to medium sized private companies with up to $100.00 employees. when he hourly business is the director and founder of the lenny. a software company that until now has been unable to expand an exported products. looking personally who really this will give us legal status as a company before we have to use our own name and capital. now we can have partners and hopefully access loans and trade internationally as a private company. 53 years ago, fidel castro eliminated all vestiges of private businesses. eventually,

as the economy floundered, individual entrepreneurs, we're allowed to open family restaurant and friends rooms, which could be opened or closed at a whim. but in july, unprecedented match demonstrations against economic hardships. convinced communist party leaders to finally move forward with wider reforms, a recognition that their model of total state control of the economy had failed to deliver the goods. you're going to get sick sick. they are made. i think that of kiva really wants to achieve concrete results, has to move towards a vietnam style mixed economy. we aren't vietnamese, but it's what we're able to deliver, the goods and services and jobs that people are waiting for. it's a novel idea in cuba, but entrepreneurs like carlos, we get paid his face problems, such as obtaining finance in the country, the bankrupt by passing red tape. and above all,

increasingly tough us. he could make sanctions every day or not somebody gonna know solomon, do us economic embargo doesn't just punish the state sector, even as a private businessman, no us bank will transfer money to me here. i can't use online platforms that are vital for the development of my business are fledgling private sector is, is blocked by us sanctions as cuba state run sector. so we're at a tremendous disadvantage. but despite all the difficulties, he's counting on the same cuban ingenuity that has kept these cars going for so long to help his island nation swim through these unchartered waters to see in human al jazeera, the colombian government says it's killed a top commander from the national liberation army rebel group, and help idea romero and known by his ideas as savvy and headed the western front is death is a major blow to the last standing rebel group in the country. alexander when p. s. he reports this video released by colombia army shows soldiers carrying on

a stretcher by the yellow me at or better known by his alias, bob young. he was one of the top military commanders of the ellen or national liberation army, the largest standing rebel group in columbia. he was captured a monday after being injured in a military bombing 10 days ago in the northwest of the country. he died in a hospital in the city of calcium tuesday whether the idea there was a little after 10 days of searching by land and river, as evidenced by the work carried out by our security forces. he was located yesterday, wounded, covered with bushes and vegetation. it was very close to the place where the aerial operation took place last week. subbing was the leader of the 11th western war front in the region of chicago. one of the group strong colds, and one of the country's most wanted men. he was the alleged mastermind of many mergers and kidnappings and responsible for the displacement of thousands of people

. despite some respite brought by the 2016 piece deal between columbia government and 5 rebels, the country has seen a surgeon violence. the yelling, this is in factions of the fire can remaining paramilitary groups are fighting for control of remote areas and profitable illegal mining and drug trafficking. pub, yonce, killing is a success for the right wing government. the president, even do a creepy cut the cord with promise to improve security, something that has proven elusive. young fabian was the most important leader of the l and in colombian territory. it is a decisive blow to this criminal structure fabian's arrest validates the impeccable work. columbia as heroes carry out every day, and we will not rest until we dismantle all these criminal networks. the ellen was founded in the 19th sixty's as a leftist rebel group, inspired by the cuban revolution,

with 2300 combatants in an extensive support network in cities. it continues to routinely attack soldiers in oil pipelines specially close the border with venezuela, where most of its commanders are believed to be hiding. attempts at peace negotiations with the group of so far failed. the death of yan is a major blow to the organization, but not the last stroke. i listened on the al jazeera, the long delayed premier of the 25th, that james bond movie, no time to dies taken place in london bond. the active daniel craig is the star attraction. he faced and final acting as the famous sacred agent. the premier was postponed 3 times because the corona virus, but cinnamon thing, shut down, juice the pandemic. the industries hoping the latest installment of bond help it were cover in the grand scheme of things all over the low down the list of priorities thought this is really,

really needs to be said in the cinema. and i'm just incredibly grateful to m g m and about the whole film critic rebecca perfect says the popularity of the bond film franchise will give the cinema industry a much needed boost people from lots of different generations of grown up loving bones that always interested to see what the next bond will be, and obviously this is daniel craig, final outing as well. i think robbie malik, who saw the visit in miss lacy french, i just said that the premier, the boned, really the backbone when it comes to historic phil franchises is what we look to as that kind of stella movie. lots of people go, they love, they're excited about. so it's everything from the gadget to the actors, the new actors that come in to the franchise, the celebrity. oh, my direct visit, take on the role as well. it got the whole package really, even before the pandemic, we were starting to see some form of decline and send them all because the

experience is just was there and was the money in a lot people's opinion. now the positive thing is, is that a lot of the u. k. cinemark associations been quoted as saying that the biggest consumers of online home content for me, the, the, also the most frequent been them all go is as well. so, you know, we don't wanna lose them all streaming or anything like that. but i do think that you know, you can go and feel that you already get your money back. we're going to bring more people back into the cinemas. ah, hello. you're watching out 0. these are the top stories this our america's top military officer has called the end of the 20 year war, and kenneth done. a strategic failure during questioning by senators on capitol hill. defense officials admitted that telephone forces advanced on cobble faster

than anticipated petticoats have, has more from capital hills determined during chief of staff, mark milly say that there was an intelligence failure. and.