to day after problems with an engine cooling system, delayed lift off last week, space coast spectators will be again packed along these florida shores. shall stratford al jazeera chaney is taken off on the chan gong space station. i've completed that 1st space walk. mission lasted 6 hours of the pair, climbed out of the air lock into space or trying to cause it's like an old set up pumps and adjusted cameras. outside a new lamp module for the station, john has been expanding the station since it was launched into orbit lost here. meanwhile, 2 russian cosmonaut sub started a 6 and a half hour long international space station space, walk o leg out of my of, and dennis mcvey, of a continuing installation work on the european space agencies, robotic albany, ruins, playstation is a research lab in lower i thought bit and host international crews of astronaut syria here. ah,

it's good to be with us. hello, adrian finnegan, here in doha, the headlines on al jazeera, at least 47 people, including a prominent cleric, had been killed in a bomb explosion in afghanistan. the attack happened during friday prayers in the biggest mosque in the western city of her at witnesses say the pro taliban cleric. would you brockman on saudi at his group on their way to the musk? amanda been detained off to try to shoot argentina as vice president, as she was greeting supporters at her home in point us out. as she ducked as soon as she saw the pistol, the man was grabbed by some of her supporters. the president has declared friday a national holiday in response to the incident. the u. n. 's atomic want stokes, as the 2 of its inspectors will stay at the zappa asia nuclear plant on a permanent basis. on thursday, the team said that they're worried for the integrity of the facility in southern ukraine. cnn eula. since mid july, the ukrainian armed forces using western weapons have been regularly attacking the

infrastructure of the separation nuclear power plants are sometimes held arguable key if creates a real threats of a nuclear catastrophe in europe. according to international law, this is nothing but nuclear terrorism. i responsibly state that we do not have any heavy weapons on the territory of the nuclear power plant and in the surrounding areas. i hope that the i e a commission will be able to see that themselves. i miss a caught and mamma sentenced the ousted leader on santucci to 3 years in jail for electoral fraud in 2020 the military rulers. so they found evidence of at least 11000000 cases of votes of fraud in the election that sue cheese party one. however, independent observers didn't find any major irregularities. she's already been jailed for 17 years on separate charges, including corruption, and be on mass jointer as also jail britons for the ambassador to the country for a year. over a visa breach, vicky bowman was arrested a week ago. a husband is

a prominent artist and activists and was also sentenced to a year in prison for helping her breach immigration rules. and those, the headlines for these continues here on al jazeera after the stream. coming up next surely, just going to the polls in a historic attempt to change its constitution. 50000000 people are eligible to choose between the welfare state and strength and rights, or to keep a constitution adopted under the dictatorship of augusta. finishing julie referendum on al jazeera. hi anthony ok. on this episode of the stream, we are going to be looking at how afghans who flight to united states of ferry. so we need to recap on what happened in the past 12 months. so let us start in august

of 2021. on the 15th, the taliban completed its takeover of afghanistan. just 15 days later, u. s. troops complete their withdraw ending a 20 year war. in september of last year, 76000 afghans may well be more, were evacuated to the us, and temporarily placed in military bases. and that brings us right up to date to where we are now. we're thousands of afghans are struggling as they remain in legal limbo in the united states. i know you are going to have questions, so you tube is active. the comment section is life right now. be part of today's discussion. ah, it is good to say allah lineup of afghans telling us what it has been like in the past year for afghans he fled to united states hello, rash, nickina. hello. so thankful for you, showing your experiences with us

r r r i shout welcome back to the stream. can you might, i would. it's who you are. what you do. hi everyone, and thanks for having me on. again, my name is ashley, i'm a community organizer. currently based out of los angeles, but what i do is build community and for the past year or so that has meant welcoming almost 80000 of our new neighbors. people like and hello nickina. welcome to the story. would you introduce yourself to tell them who you are and, and how you got to the united states in a sentence if that's possible? cuz we're going to explore that story in more detail in a moment. hello everyone. thank you so much for having to me and your program. i came last year from again, the phone actually was mother died like i left up going on in 21 of august, 2021. and i do have 2 days after that,

i use it to albany for 7 months. and then if i could go to virginia by month, and michelle comes from center and then the community or extraordinary journey. thank you again for joining us on the show. and hello, welcome to the stream. we do tell our audience, who you will, what you're currently doing in your new home of the united states. thank you very much for me for having me in your program today. i am hello, am i to me? i am women's rights advocate and joining a to the from the area i came to the united states just like nickina last year on august 21st i got into the airport in cobble and i got here around 23rd of august. i've been advocating for the rights of my people right

now in dc. i've been advocating for the women's right and the people who are left behind that kind of stuff. we are asking on this program, guess how guns bearing in the united states, the ones who fled from afghanistan and now trying to make america their home. if you had to use a word, what work would you use to describe this past year? the work you've been doing it's been extremely challenging. it's been a year full of challenges in which we have welcomed $80000.00 people. you know, it's really hardening to see 80000 people from my home country, but they are here. and quite honestly, they face tremendous challenges and during $49.00 states include and plus washington, d. c. but the amount of difficulties they face as they try to integrate and start to new life has been disappointing. and we have not seen enough support for our community has been left to actually get american community itself and in the

african diaspora to help new arrivals integrate, find jobs, find housing, and find affordable housing, find affordable health care. and that's been tremendously difficult allows you could put some, some buttons will not work that are actually use which is challenging. can you tell us one aspect of your relocation that is incredibly challenging that you're still trying to navigate right now? well, if i go with myself, the experiences that i had a sense last august was the experiences which i have never experience and was the worst experience of my life. the experience of getting out of afghanistan was traumatic in a very hard and difficult to explain. in, in 30 minutes, but i can say that since i came to the u. s. a, i have been dealing with the broker. i think

a barriers that have that happened there and i'm struggling to get over with it. for example, it was really hard for me to get a social security number or a work permit and or apply for asylum. and now imagine that i'm someone who knows english who knows about the culture of usa who have travelled a lot of countries. but imagine 79000 people who arrived to the usa and they have, they don't have a slightest idea about any of those. and they face all these problems and do not know how to solve all of them. all new to this. so empathy, where people are watching an understanding that it must be really difficult. so for me says, of course it's not going to be easy, even americans aren't finding it easy. the american government should do more. they a cause in these, this problem. anyway, the kina,

how much help are you getting from the u. s. government? because at some point when you move, there's a certain amount of money that you get and then how long does that money? it asked. thank you so much. i want to add some motion. this is regarding hello john shawn, i think last year it was a dark here with the people up against thought. i'm also for do people who can she like me to tell people i was waiting for the cases in other countries in the cubs like i was i, b o, vanya, and many other countries, they're biting for process the cases people came to the united states and she was me the hard for me, like as a woman activation, i've got his dog, what my leaders and also as a prosecutor for in the nation offline. and 2nd, for my law, it was hard for me to pull off and leave all of my achievements. and most of my all

of works in again it's on, i'm just get one backpack and also left the country. and it was really not easy doing my thing. it was just one week to talk to about all of the country and was i wasn't, i've got a couple h once in a strict flow tro miles for all of us. and we didn't know what happened to our futures and our families. then when i enter today, and it was also easy because the crowd are most of the sheltering and the people that i entered today. i stayed night without food. and also without anything you can imagine like sheet and there was a crowd of people you can we children and also one man, man. no, it's korea the can you describe this so vividly this, this whole choose this a nightmare that continues to revisit you because i'm thinking now. ringback one

year later, but it still stay with you. can you forget that moment? of course not. i think it will be it will all of my life. i can forget that they, that the i'm glad, and also that guy told me to call but that they, i was in my office and i had like to call a month to go over the country. and it's still, i remember it's like a nightmare for me, but i'm thinking about my not pulling up kind of they don't have to go to school today because of asian. every day i woke up with the news from a guy and also like the what was going on and up going on regarding the woman i want my life. i also want to add on, and i totally agree that the trauma of couple of days of the fall of our son is going to stay with every single ask and for the rest of their lives. it's

a moment, it was a day that the not only lost their country homelands, but they lost their families, their friends, their jobs, their entire life, wherever they were, they have to start everything from 0 again, whether it was very to cation there resettlement their work, everything but then when we came to the us, as people who are allies to the u. s. became to the us, but we have to, we, we have to and we are told, struggling with a lot of things that are happening. and starting from one thing at a place for solve to continuing to go at our jobs, it's extremely hard, extremely challenging, but i martin chat assured that there are a lot of people who care. there are a lot of organizations who are trying their best to make it easier for the,

for the new arrivals to continue your lives as smoothly as possible. i'm just looking at what adam is saying on youtube. i must say, i'm pretty sure i would struggle if i was sent to afghanistan and had to learn how to live there compared to the way that i lived in the united states. so there's the challenge of learning a new culture or of the bureaucracy of that new culture. and to day we got this headline. and let me show it to you here on my laptop. the u. s . ends one immigration pathway for afghan evacuees shifting to long term strategy. so the way that the gainer and hello got to 90 states is caught humanitarian parole . it's not a typical way for asylum seekers to get citizenship. it's an emergency measure that emergency much it is stopping on october. the 1st we reached out to several people in our big network and asked them what impact that might have all ash? will you have a listen to this?

and i love you to pick up off the back of these videos siggler. this sounds like another way of closing the door on vulnerable afghans. so all we hope that africans can come here through fast pathways that lead to permanent status. we are concerned that the government is choosing not to use one of the pathways that could quickly bring people to safety. so as amount spent about the end of operation allies welcome in the end to the africa and humanitarian pro program is absolutely devastating. it's devastating for those where you've been working to evacuate recently, afghans for over a year, but it's really devastating to the afghans people left behind. the humanitarian pro program is not perfect. it could be a lot better, but it's been the only tool available to risk afghans to get them out of harm's way and onto a path of safety with the governments now proposing those atkins do is turn a program like the s i b program that are limited in scope and already severely backlogs. i'm really concerned now that the risk afghans that we've left behind are

not going to be able to survive long enough to take advantage of the programs to the government is now trying to push them into. this is going to be an absolute catastrophe. yeah, i hear that here and i woke up to the news this morning and it's hard to contain my anger to it to be quite fair because the pathway that existed for africans to come to this country at risk afghans, people like the game and hello john, who stood by america for the past 20 years. you know, that pathway was barely open in the 1st place aside, the program, you know, folks who work with the united states military went visa program. yeah. correct. under 74000 people in that pipeline who are still awaiting processing and eventually evacuation relocation to united states. there. $66000.00 mediterranean pro applications of which only $123.00 out of $66123.00 have been accepted while the government doesn't ministration has collect the $20000000.00 in

fees from our african american community. one that is deeply under resource by the way. and so it's, it's, it's, it's deeply frustrating to see the ministration closed the door that was barely open at risk and vulnerable africans. and in the 1st place, i went to at some point, so no rush, whatever i was saying. there's also the discrimination which is going on among the crime in refugees and african refugees. and it would be if i don't mention it, i wouldn't. i'm not mentioning it, because i'm quite criticizing or i'm, i'm putting the blame on a few quain in the future is the way that atkins were brought into the united states were the process itself was humiliating and, and the policies which were made towards atkins were shaming to the african tours,

standing by the us, the government of yours and trying to implement the use policies in ghana for 20 years. and these are the allies who stood there to protect all americans who went to afghanistan. and now they have come to, you would say, but they're being treated differently than the you can your reference refugees and they're being discriminated against, which is not i don't think it's fair. yeah, i want to be getting what? hello john paid. i am like kind of when i listen on, i was not sure i didn't know, but i go i like, you know, i enter today and i didn't know my future. i'm also my distance. my destination like the next destination. and then i went to bill house, so they'll have the mental body building the one month. i see the piece on money of

the people with the comedies and some of the doors will probably listen. i've got it. and they came like me alone. so david and also on the trauma the depression and if at that time we didn't know what will happen for our future nation based. and again, i was so sorry i just as this gives me one moment cuz we're getting lots of comments from our audience as well. what is your current status? he's going to be sense of not knowing what's going to happen in your future. what's your current status living in the united states right now? so after the one month, so when the beach has came to the to the other one. yes. so they finished. i came to the genia. and then back time i said one month, one month and there's welcome from center in virginia. i'm trying to finish my paper, work in biometric and other things. so i'd love all the local country. we love

like friends, property, everything all of us. she said like we're b chrisy, i'm very welcome to like, you know, for michelle or our paperwork. so now i think there's also the hospital do people who are living in camps like they are, they don't have like, you know, that i to go outside of the camps and they are in the ration. and also they are really well. and they don't know what's happened, the future. oh, which country i except them, i'm the list i think they had like they used for not bring it to the united states . i'm trying to put the properties and also many of the children and also show the school and they don't know what happened to the future. this is the basis for i'm also trauma for all of us. little country on one side and also being in this long process that all the time we see the difference between ukrainian. i'm also refugee mac. now we're not the only person who's seen that difference between what

afghans are going for and what ukrainians are going through. i want to introduce you to achieve a mini, he is part of a group of investigative journalists. he spoke to a program called democracy now quite recently, and he made it very clear that there was a distinct difference between ukrainians. so thinking of science and ask gods, let's take a look. why are people paying $575.00 for an application fee when ukrainians are they are offered a different program where they, there is no fee. i mean, that comes down to a decision made by the biden administration to say, for afghans this is the, this is the path for humanitarian parole, but for ukrainians, this is the path for humanitarian for all the discrepancy or the idea that here's a program that rolled out months after the departure from cobble and it's only, it's still only being applied for ukrainians. whereas afghans are still in this, you know, state of limbo. i just think

a lot of people in this community in the diaspora, legal advocates, and they just have a lot of questions to hello. i want to take you back to nasty ly. i'm gonna give you the exact date. this is july, the 8th. this is u. s. president joe biden, making a promise. haven't listened to this promise. tell me what you think about if he's delivered on it. we're also going to continue to make sure that we take on an afghan nationals who work side by side with us forces, including interpreters and translators, for message to those women. and men is clear. there is a home for you in the united states if you so choose and we will stand with you just as you stood with us when i listen to this as speech of a jo, widen, last year when to when he was delivering to speech. i then, and as i came to the u. s, i see how all these promises are not full thought,

let alone b a, everything that he said. but her not even close to all those people who stowed by the usa were brought to the usa. and even if those who came to the usa, they're still struggling with a legal status. as our, as john said a few minutes ago, people who are applying for humanitarian pro visas from afghanistan, only 100 around 100 of those applications were accepted out of 66000 applications. but when we look at that asylum case is, is the same thing going on with asylum. he says, people who hold applied for asylum cases are more than 40000 people who came at recently from afghanistan. and the only applications were accepted were around 200 70. 0, how, how was, how did that explain the situation?

um, it says that people who came here with humanitarian pro visas, their visas are going to expire next year. and they have no other way to settle here, either they have to go back or apply for asylum, and these asylum, a meetings, i am an asylum, and here i got my asylum approved. and i'm one of the luckiest ones. ah, but my asylum interview. it's the started at 8 am and at the end of a 3 pm, it's a long interview. and they how they ask you a lot of questions and they ask you for a lot of documentation to prove what you're saying is right. but these people who came to the u. s. a, they only came with one backpack like myself. and so many people burned. their documents spurned their pictures and all those that they could prove it that they

were right. and just because they were scared of taliban and there and they were scared for their lives. but and hello john. i would, i would add that, you know, like people, brenda documents, but the united states has adjusted parole and given a pathway to immigrant and diaspora populations in the past, it's done. so for the cubans it's done. so for iraqis, it's done. so for the vietnamese and right now and from the congress, does bipartisan bicameral legislation that would fix this problem. so people like, you know, and how long do not have to undergo their trauma once again at a us asylum process by where they can just fill out an application with no fees. and that they can start their life and journey here in america. so that the home that is called are actually for if i may just jumping a for a bait, just add a little bit more to what you're saying. the afghan adjustment could solve all the

issues pretty much in a today. how often can we say that this is an instant solution? earlier we spoke to chris, and this is what she told us about that. the bottom line is that the u. s. made a promise for protection and struggling to keep that promise. having yeah, can just wanna get our new and neighbors. some real support to apply directly from their presence, just like the u. s. is done. where every other modern, kind of back to me. these are the allies of america has longest war and they deserve more than red tape and your credit adjustment and how we keep our promise, how we look to our values. and it's how we stand by those who stood with us. so a new chief gas minor says they deserve askance, deserved us citizenship. they helped nato against the taliban. they risk their lives, r u. s. way so much tax income for the military, that it is involved in producing refugees abroad instead of supporting us citizens

. and they are very few refugees that the u. s. has to support. i'm just wanting just very briefly in the last one minute of i shall allow have you been treated in the us, the bureaucracy sounds hellish. but how about the people? well, 1st of all, i want to add, i wanna say lake erm to mona road. this comment that i hope that the i use government thought the same way that you're thinking right now i regarding the treatment or from the american citizens. i was surprised and shocked with the great treatment that we received from the people of us. i myself stay where the hoss family right now. they are so lovely, so heart warming in. so kind a to me and from the 1st a day, which was on january that i am staying with them. i till now. and i more allow that

is yeah, that is where we're going to leave it on a more positive note. but the bureaucracy and the legal system has to be sorting out for afghans who are currently in legal limbo in the united states. thank you. hello, nickina. all ash and all of your comments and questions on youtube. i see you next time. take care. ah. in columbia, transforming open ways to building blocks we use is to for a same there waste left of the war. we can finish day. i was in charge of fishing that the america me just 10 years and in singapore critical farms and living buildings, anything you do on land, on the ground, doesn't make sense to do that. a pile on a building now can, we might have not just decorative, but can we make it biologically productive. earth rise?

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