c. u and security council has unanimously adopted a resolution allowing humanitarian aid into afghanistan. a council voted to apply a sanctions exemption, meaning government and aged agencies can now send money and goods to the country for the 1st time since the taliban to power. millions of afghans desperately need food and medicines. kristen salome reports from the united nations. look as by the un security council, paved the way for more aid to afghanistan unanimously, passing a us sponsored resolution, explicitly stating humanitarian assistance and other activities that support basic human needs and afghanistan are not a violation of international sanctions. china supported the resolution after pushing back against an initial draft, requiring case by case aid exemptions. thank you. thank you for the current situation in afghanistan is critical stage fixing monk to pull our troops on complex challenges. the most important task is to help africa understand, mitigate the humanitarian crisis, the soonest and to stabilize unrestored economy will hold in the u. s. insisted the un emergency

in other news, c, u end security council has agreed a resolution to allow aid into afghanistan. humanitarian support will be exempt from sanctions aimed at the taliban. the u. s. and international institutions had frozen billions of dollars to pressure the new government. more than half the population is facing extreme levels of 100. the deaths all from major flooding in malaysia has risen to at least 33 days after it began. almost 70000 people remain in shelters. malaysia's most densely populated state felony or is the worst effected and rescue teams in myanmar searching for at least 70 people missing after a landslide. at a g mine, there were swept into a lake in northern good chin state. one person has died. those are the headlines on al jazeera. i'll be back with more use after africa direct stay with us. ah, we'll just wait for you. oh. let ya got him up even if i had been to be i mean now when i see my god need go lazy im guinea aguirre, shall we pick up in that in talk was friday night. we very give it a good come of any, any bigger didn't end up lose. michael, by me i will more. it was yet night daddy aid. do you know of anybody we got got by book mark i s

c, p. u, a, for 2 reasons. one to invoke it, snap back sanctions clause, which means that the united states could go to the security council at any time and snap back sanctioned, not just from the united states, not just for the, for the europeans, but for china and russia as well. the other reason that the united states these, the j, c p o, a is useful, is that it's a useful platform to, they would say, discussed, but perhaps more accurately, to pressure iran on other issues like it's missiles, regional developments and the like, okay, i'd like to bring you in, i'm it was as easy. you're a specialist on or on foreign policy. these are the 1st talks in 5 months, the 1st sense around elected. it's new president. what, given everything we've heard from, from our contributors up to this point, what is it that go all the sides to the negotiating table to revive these talks? now actually, 1st of all, i should say that i'm not quite optimistic to this rhonda talks because as we just hear from from our colleagues and also we've been seeing, you know, in the form of the statements made by different sides during the talks. actually what i can see