besides texting people that you are five minutes away when you have not even left the house. thank you, ellen. you are very welcome. ♪ hi, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i am robyn curnow live in atlanta. ahead on cnn, afghanistan in the only professor vince not to be under the taliban control. uighurs relocated in afghanistan to china are fearful. we have that story. and anger growing of london airport, thanks to covid checks. ♪ live from cnn center, this is

cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. great to have you along this hour, thank you for joining me. we begin the show in afghanistan where taliban fighters trying to seize north of kabul. the rugged district is home to antitaliban forces. the only territory not under taliban control. both sides claiming successes. cnn can't independently verify the accuracy of those reports. in the capitol, afghans being stopped for cash, most banks as you can see remained closed are limiting withdrawals. there are words that kabul airport have resumed some operations. qatar ambassador witnessed the

first flight taken off. >> let's talk about the fi fighting, how critical is it and what's going on there? >> it is very important to watch what's happening, this is about 90 minutes drive, panjshir valley, it is not under the taliban control. you can say both sides are quite a success. what we do know independently there is an international aid charity that runs a hospital in panjshir valley. the taliban reached the village where their hospital is situated. which was a long way into the valley. it does seem like the taliban penetrated at least some of the ways. last night the president was in the valley and made a statement

to the world, he called on the united nation and the international community to try to stop the onslaught. >> and meanwhile while where you are in kabul, what's the economic situation? we have been seeing people desperate for cash. all the banks open, what's the situation economically? >> the banks are open. the situation is still desperate. i tried to pass one bank, there were one long crowds. there were tealiban guards tryig to keep order. they were hitting people and whipping them with sticks. it is $200 per week. a lot of people who work for the government and so son, the government have not been paid for two months. things are very difficult for a lot of people.

>> and with that in mind with the uncertainty of the political situation of the security situation of the economic situation, what came out of the meeting with pakistan intelligence and what do their president tells us about the relationship between the taliban and pakistan. >> pakistan is very concerned that any security in afghanistan will spill over in pakistan. of course there is also beyond that, there has been accusations and pakistan is turning a blind eye and keeping it a safe haven. pakistan denies it. the afghan government do believe it did have some kind of support from pakistan so there could be -- it has led a lot of people

to believe there may have been true all along. >> ben farmer there. thank you for your reporting. i want to go to ivan watson, he joins us from hong kong, he spent many decades reporting from afghanistan. good to see you, you heard ben on the ground in kabul, what is the next step for the taliban? >> well, the announcement of the government which we have been told is imminent but still really has not been declared as of this time. ben was talking about the economics situation, the taliban has inherited one of the poorest countries in the world. and, there are currency problems right now. there was a step forward that the main currency exchange in kabul was reopened on saturday

for the first time in more than two weeks. the government says it was a good sign. he's relieved afghan currency seems to be holding its current value right now. >> how will a taliban government run a country and what will its fiscal policy be and the formal government relied on international aid for more than 70% of its budget. that's according to the world bank. we are hearing from pakistan officials speaking to cnn that two of the names had been raised for potential finance ministers are both individuals that are currently under international

sanctions. big questions that the taliban will have to face and then there is the other question about vulnerable communities and the rights of women for example and we saw on saturday of a small protest of people trying to assert their rights and some of those women claimed in kabul that they were flogged and beaten by taliban fighters. take a listen to one of them. >> translator: together with a group of our colleagues, we wanted to go near the formal government for a protest, before we got there, the taliban hit women with electric tasers and they used tear gas and they also hit women on the head with gun magazine. there is no one to ask why. >> women are one of the communities in afghanistan are

feeling vulnerable right now. a taliban official after that protest and the allegations of violence there went onto accuse the women protesters of deliberately trying to cause problems and adding that these people don't represent .1% of afghanistan. i have been speaking to members of another minority in afghanistan that feels very uncertain and vulnerable right now, take a look. >> reporter: during the final frantic day of the evacuation, a woman films desperate family waiting under the sun for a plane out of afghanistan. look at these poor people she says. this is a difficult, sad situation, very painful. >> reporter: she's speaking a language that's foreign to

afghanistan, uyghurs. she moves from china's region more than a decade ago after marrying an afghan. she made it to this flight where she speaks to cnn on quarantine on condition we don't identify her. she fears the taliban can hurt her in-law in afghanistan and the chinese can target her relatives. >> uyghurs are facing genocides. if i go back to china, they'll torture and kill me. many are terrified by the taliban take over. >> i am represented -- >> nazri was born in afghanistan

in 1976. >> what scenario are you worried about right now? >> there are a lot of familyies in afghanistan are leaving afghanistan. they are afraid from china because the taliban wants to deal with china. they are afraid to send them back to china. >> since 2016, china detained up to 2 million uyghurs. and yet beijing has been courting the taliban. china's talk diplomat held talks. this week a taliban spokesperson calls for a closer tie with beijing. >> we look forward to build a strong relationship with china because it is a rapidly developing country that can support afghanistan. >> reporter: more than a dozen uyghurs detailing deportation

from other countries back to china. over 851 uyghurs within 22 countries. china's foreign ministry told cnn the report was published by a separatist organization and not worth the response. that calls for comfort for this uyghur family. >> we are afraid to go back after hearing about the oppression in our homeland. >> uyghurs is caught in a hard place. millions are facing an uncertain future. >> reporter: the taliban have announced a general amnesty for anybody who works with the

former western back government. it called all people to go back to work and rebuild the country. so, a big question whether this is a kind of reform or modern taliban or whether they go back to the days of public executions in sport stadiums. one way to try to disciple that is to watch vulnerable minorities maced on religion, ethnicity and gender how they are treated in the weeks and months to come. >> thank you very much, ivan wat watson. america's top general is feeling angry. he spoke with losing soldiers killed in action as well as the wound dsed and the grieving families. the general visited with troops and he praised them for their

roles. take a look. >> you guys did an incredible job. all of you. everybody. the army, navy and marine and air force flying out. 124,000 people, that's what you sa saved. >> the u.s. air force there who helps overseeing the withdrawal of the troops. the commander describes a fast-moving operation. the final five planes were in and out of kabul and under three hours. when the flights were loaded, all those planes were in the air within three minuteminutes. the commander spoke with cnn what it is like to be the last plane out of afghanistan >> you focus on your mission and individual tasks and you focus on success and you focus on doing your part of the mission as well as you possibly can. >> i was able to see in front of

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week after increasing for two months, that's according to the world health organization but some country avoided severe outbreak. new zealand reported its first covid death in six months along with 20 new cases and neighboring austria is battling its worse covid wave of new infections on saturday. in the u.k., officials with london airport are lashing out, passengers waited hours to get through immigration. the home office says covid health means longer wait time. they are waiting to deploy at the airport. u.s. officials are keeping an eye on a new covid strain, the new variant was flagged as a flag of a variant of interest by the w.h.o., officials don't

believe it is an immediate threat. cdc's number shows mu accounts half of 1% of u.s. cases by comparison. the delta accounts for 99%. and hawaii is taking no chances with covid over this labor holiday weekend. cases fled up there with hundreds of patients hospitalized statewide. while they are not imposing any mandates. the governor warns the burden that covid was placing on hospitals and asking the public to enjoy the holiday safely. >> because of covid, the hospital systems akrscross the state is in danger moving towards the worse case scenarios. if that happens, we have heard from our healthcare leaders that people may not receive the care they need and certainly some may die. >> our choices today and over

this weekend can help prevent the worse case scenario for our healthcare system. please act spon bli this holiday weekend and moving forward as we battle this highly transmissible covid-19 delta variant. do it for the sake of your family, our community, and our state. >> going straight to honolulu where i am joined by dr. carol. doctor, good to see you again. i want to get your take on how bad the situation is where you are in hawaii. >> hey, robyn, thank you for having me. i would say the situation is dire on two of our main islands. oahu, all of you are icu are full. 224 people needing icu care and

only 223 beds available. our oxygen lefvels that we have in our hospitals of the amount mast been used skyrocketed 2050%. we are having trouble and there is a worldwide shortage of getting oxygen tanks anywhere in the world. we are having to ship in oxygen by boat or plane and so it is a dire straights on several of our islands at the moment. >> i think you were one of the doctors of the healthcare leaders who gave testimonies to politicians on how bad it is. why do you feel you need to do that? doctors like you being heard. >> yeah, there is a recent article covered by the ass associated press, we are crying for r mandates. heart attacks and kidney failures and severe infections, when you don't have an icu bed

to admit a severely sick patient then everything backs out to the emergency department. we have people wait for days, all of our elective surgeries cancelled. it is not going to harm you if you don't have it today. that's mastectomy and heart-valve replacement and people who have cancer can't get those tumors removed and they'll have to go to chemo therapy. there is a lot more ramifications and our dentists are not able to do their procedures for special needs kids because they have to be put on oxygen so it is a wide effect. >> what are you seeing when you see visitors or travelers coming into hawaii for labor day and holiday vacations. >> it is a tough place for hawaii to be. i think most of the world knows

hawaii is a largely tourist dependant-economy. when we have this many people arriving and many, are only taking one prescreening test and many of the country and islands using many tests where travelers come here don't quarantine and there is only one test which catches about 30% or m40% of people. you get the situation of where we are and especially of the explosiveness of delta variant. what it also means is there is a huge percentage as a population who is like dry tinder. it is taking off and our department of health says weeks ago, our islands are on fire and our government has not done anything, our lieutenant governor have not isnstituted things we feel need to be. >> how are you dealing with compassion fatigue especially

when sick people come into your emergency room tested positive for covid and they are unvaccinated. as a doctor, is this proven to be difficult to deal with? >> it is trying. i would say it is tough when you know there is something that could have prevent somebody suffering in this way or perhaps losing their life. >> you know, it is trying on all of us. you know i would say three quarters of the people who come in who are unvaccinated and in total of 85% of our hospitalizations at the moment. three quarters of those unvaccinated person are sorry that they did not get the vaccine. and the others say that we are part of a conspiracy which you have to take off and roll off your shoulders and do what you are there for. >> every person should get the treatment that we are there to give. >> we are going to continue to

march on. >> well, thanks for your work. thank you for all that you are doing. dr. o' carol there. brazil is suspending beef exports to china. the animals are in different brazilian city. there is no risk to human health. it does add though this version of the disease happens spontaneously in cows. it is not clear when exports to china's biggest meat product resumes. >> i'm robyn curnow. everyone else i am going to hand you over to richard quest for "quest world," enjoy.

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stations. thousands are trying their luck elsewhere by moving to shelters outside the city. >> reporter: it has been several days now since hurricane ida made it through the city. it is the after math is wearing on them. not having power which means no ac in the middle of what is a very hot time here in the gulf coast especially in new orleans where the heat index is so high. residents say it is unbearable. many come out here right outside the convention center and over here there is a line of coach buses that have lined up to pick up people up to 2200 vak evacuees through a day. they go through the process and they get on the coach bus and they get taken out of the city to shreveport or texas. listen to one woman who says she has to evacuate now.

>> it just smells bad in there. and sitting in molds. >> reporter: is it hot? and you don't have any food? >> i have no food. i don't have no food. i had to throw it out. it is rough and we have so much heat. >> reporter: they went to assisted living facilities and nursing homes to reach out for special need cases. they'll have convention center opened for the next couple of days to take more people in need. >> cnn, new orleans. in louisiana, seven nursing home patients are dead. five of those deaths are storm-related. they were among hundreds of people evacuated to a warehouse

and reportedly having major problems including failing sanitary condition. the state attorney general is launching an investigation on that. a man surrendered. the sheriff says it started when the suspect by passed the gas line and confronted by the person he cut-off. the friday's shooting underscores the challenges law enforcement faces after hurricane ida. ida brought catastrophic floods to the northeast killing at least 50 people. new jersey, people are looking for six missing people including two college students swept in the storm. the families say they were best friends. in pennsylvania, historic flooding there along with several tornados.

at least four people died. you can see from these images. more than 800 bridges across the state will require inspection and polo sandoval is in philadelphia. >> reporter: if you wonder where most of the water are flooding, you are basically looking at it here. you can see pennsylvania, department of transportation have worked around the clock and into the schuylkill river here reaching flood stage a couple of days ago. we have seen the water level here dropped considerably and that signals at the end and perhaps a start of another which clears out all the debris that's left behind. give you an idea of what this river river carries into this portion

here. now the big question is when and how will the city of philadelphia will clear spaces like this out. really, there are bigger concerns in neighboring new jersey which is where we saw and i heard people there in the garden saying the last couple of days yes, many families are grieving and many families who lost their homes all together and the question of when they'll be able to pick up the pieces and move on, that's still up in the air, you will want to hear from president biden as he makes the time to visit early next week and certainly a big spotlight on him. millions of americans are waiting to see what will happen next. >> thank you for that. we are monitoring this

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next saturday marks 20 years of 9/11. joe biden plans to go to all three of the sites. he could meet a long standing demands of family members of the victims. >> reporter: president biden is preparing to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack by visiting each of the memorial site next saturday. the white house announced plans for the president and first lady to visit the 9/11 memorial in new york city. this comes after president biden signs an executive order directing the justice department to conduct a review to declassify documents relating to investigations into the 9/11 terror attacks. the president had been facing

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commemorate thousands of people who died on those attacks on september 11th. >> cnn, delaware. the man who killed robert kennedy in 1968 could soon be released in prison. sirhan is recommended for him to be paroled. others in the family poseoppose. we got the latest from natasha chen. >> reporter: the possible release of the man who assassinated robert kennedy 53 years ago is dividing the family of the candidates and senators. >> reporter: in june of 1968, kennedy's ten children lost their father when sirhan sirhan shot him at the hotel in los angeles. his 11th child was not born

until later that year. now responding to the recommendation to grant parole to her father's saassassination. can you be considered rehabilitated when you won't acknowledge your role and the crime itself. 24-year-old at the time, sirhan, a palestinian was set to be outraged to send military planes to israel. he was convicted and sentenced to death but his sentence was commuted to life with a possibility of parole after california did away with the death penalty in 1972. >> at a parole hearing, his memory of the was hay zy. >> how long did you have the gun? >> i don't remember it. >> i was confronted and i have

to take responsibility for that. >> and nearly five years after the assassination of his own brother, president john f. kennedy. >> how did you feel what you did? >> the most horrible thing any human beings can do. >> reporter: two robert kennedy's children supported his relief. douglas kennedy attended last week's hearing and robert f. jr. wrote a letter saying in part, i believe based on his own commitment to fairness and justice that he would earn courage this board to release mr. sirhan because of his impressive record of rehabilitation. >> sirhan had been denied parole for 16 times.

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about her remarkable career. >> jessica, you're now a 29-time paralympic medalist. you're going home with a full set of medals from tokyo. how are you going to reflect on your experience here? >> it's uncleel. i don't think it has really hit me yet. i like the sound of 29 paralympic medals. that sounds so insane to me. just thinking about this journey that i've been on since i was 12 years old and finding out about the paralympic movement. >> you were just 12 at your first paralympic games, the youngest on the u.s. paralympic team. what has kept your drive and motivation after all these years? >> what has really motivated me is going back to that little 12-year-old girl who never gave up. even when days get tough, and i've definitely had a lot of the tough days. even with the postponement. just going back to her, how she would never give up, so why am i going to give up? >> you were born in russia with a rare health condition. how did that impact your

childhood? >> i was born with sedorhemomylia. i was born with three toes, amputated at 18 months old so i could wear prosthetic legs. there are parts manufacture my childhood i can't remember because they were so incredibly painful. got the right leg done, go back into the left leg. as soon as i got the left leg done and started to learn how to walk again, it was back to the right leg. it was a constant -- it was constantly overcoming. in some crazy way i thought it was somewhat of a punishment, right? i was adopted. it's very real to feel abandoned. and even though i was in such a loving family, i was adopted into a family with a total of six kids -- you still kind of feel like, what did i do wrong? everyone had legs. no one else in my family had to get surgery. it was survival and it set the tone to never give up. >> how did that constant barrage of obstacles, how does that fuel your swimming today? >> as an amputee, i'm still in pain every day. my legs hurt.

i think that's something that comes along with being an amputee. it's so funny i picked a sport where every day i'm going to be so challenged, in pain, feeling the burn in my shoulders. but at the same time i think to me it's such a comfort. just that pushing through to know that no matter what i go through, i can overcome it. >> you've talked about being just exhausted after the rio olympics. what happened there and how did you bounce back? >> i was totally burned out. i had two shoulder injuries. i had a really bad eating disorder. i'd never really dealt with that before. i lost about 20 pounds. i was really sick, i was really weak. mentally, physically, emotionally. it was something that i felt i had to get through it but so incredibly challenging. when i got back, it was the first time i truly felt depressed, sad. i didn't like the word depressed. back then it felt like such a bad word. we talk a lot about the post-olympic blues. but after six months, i was

still feeling down, and just like a failure. i knew i needed help. >> a key conversation at the tokyo olympics was athlete mental health, simone biles talking about pressures elite athletes face. how did you relate to that? >> after rio, seeing a counselor, a therapist, talking about mental health -- coming into these games i felt more prepared than ever, but at the same time still having a hard time. mental health is such a journey. it doesn't change overnight. i know that when i get home there's going to be a lot of processing. not being too hard on myself. i think coming here, i realized for the first time truly how loved i am as a person. that no matter my outcome, i was going home to a husband who loves me, a family who loves me. that was enough. that was just as worthy or just as successful as a gold medal, to me. >> so the 29 medals are incredible, but you realize you are more than just those 29 medals. as incredible as it is. >> i'll look at them. i'll celebrate. i'll let people wear them, hold them.

everyone has been a part of this journey with me. after i celebrate, i will probably put them in my medal basket, in my closet, get ready for paris. >> thanks to selena wang. beautiful story there, beautiful interview. china is telling broadcasters and online media companies to make sure the people they show reflect the values of the communist party. the move bans programs that idolize celebrities and even regulates the appearance of performers. here's will ripley with details on that story, will? >> reporter: her face lighting up screens in china for decades. xiao wei, vicki xiao, one of china's highest-paid household names. at least, she was. government censors yanking her movies and tv shows from streaming platforms without giving a reason. >> it doesn't matter how big you are in china. you can be a very big celebrity,

but the government is not afraid. no one is above the law, basically. i think that is the signal here. >> reporter: her agent did not respond to cnn's request for comment. xiao's name on a list of "misbehaving" celebrities circulating on social media. the list includes arguably china's most famous and reportedly highest-paid actress. fined nearly $130 million in 2018 for tax evasion. the same charge levied last week against another canceled actress, xung schwang, $46 million fine. she did make 20 million bucks for a romantic drama. in a nation where hundreds of millions barely make $140 a month. >> you can't get too high, you can't get too famous, you can't get too wealthy. >> reporter: president xi jinping is pledging to redistribute wealth, a policy believed to be popular among

many chinese young people. the nation's top internet regulator also targeting celebrity fan clubs. state media comparing them to cults, susceptible to the influence of hostile foreign forces. authorities announced measures to clean up chaos caused by fan obsession and cut off the capital chain behind the phenomenon. the cyberspace administration of china promising to protect online political security and ideological security. the beijing leadership calling on celebrities to promote patriotism, morality, above all, the communist party's ideology. >> you've got to be cleerngs wholesome, make sure you hang with the right people, and paying your taxes, a very narrowly defined what's good and what's not appropriate by beijing. >> reporter: those who don't comply, experts say, risk being

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