he was also in afghanistan when the taliban fell. 20 years ago heidi joe castro gauging reaction for us out of the bureau in washington 1st to rob mcbride in cobble. so rob, clearly the message from the government seems to be your safe, nothing to worry about business as usual. well that is that the hope at least and i hope of all the citizens here of cobble as we get into this very tense sunday evening at a continuing day of extraordinary developments here. all the focus the attention to the balances on the presidential palace. these continuing negotiations between taliban government negotiate is also us to go see a to that, to try to come up with some form of deal that would allow a peaceful transition. and what that would look like it is a deal that would still have to go to doha, where there's talks taking place to be ratified. so a tense way to we get into the hours of darkness here in cobble as we do. so there are other concerns in the residence of cobble. yes, the, the streets are tense but relatively quiet. although the had been off a lot of activity, bro jams, people moving

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we're hearing from id, joe castro is, is this over to politically? i think that film see, will continue but, but not on the, on the topic in issues that we had hating about from to the us government or even from some of the leaders. i don't think there'll be much discussion on genuine power shooting well will be discussed, effectively, terms of surrender. i think damned on which the con title bond will assure some type of security to do leaders of the public who want to return to the country. you want to live in the country. i would like to go exists with a ton of on and on bad. my sense to the us government as well as allies will, will push the dollar bond. but the question is, will the dollar bond be deceptive? until now? the taliban have defied most of the commitments to the us government. i think they said that they were not interested in the military solution, but what we're seeing playing out easy is a military solution to unfortunately, taken much of the country, even though you know the bloodshed has been, has been fairly minimal. so in that

we can speak with heidi joe castro, she joins from washington, d. c. i d, joe biden. last long to saying that's going to be no circumstance, you see people being lifted off the roof of the embassy if the united states from afghanistan. how is the point host explaining to the scenes in campbell with some very taurus tortured messaging as you can expect? it we had underneath blink in the u. s. secretary of state. speaking with us media, calling this evacuation of the u. s. embassy, ordered and deliberate. was saying that the comparisons between this and the fall of saigon are completely inaccurate. and that's just by giving orders to embassy staff in the us, civilians and, and diplomats to destroy property there before they leave the building, including us flags to avoid their use as probably propaganda when they inevitably fall into the hands of the taliban. and also now the decision to leave this embassy completely empty. they're not saying that the embassy has fallen. however, blink and did say that now, all of the staff, the remaining core diplomats will continue to

the challenge will be convincing those who refused vaccines even for themselves. heidi joe castro al jazeera new orleans, louisiana. ah, hello, i'm emily anglin, with the headlines on al jazeera, joe biden says the us, he's on track to complete evacuations from cobble by the august 31 deadline. but he's asked the pentagon and state department to prepay contingency plans, in case it needs to be extended. we are currently on a pace to finish by august the 31st. the sooner we can finish the better each day of operation is brings at risk to our troops. but the completion bog is 31st depends upon the tale bond. continuing to cooperate and allow access to the airport for those who are trans, we're transporting out no disruption to our operation. earlier the taliban said it will not allow western troops to remain beyond the august 31 deadline. the group also said it is now stopping afghan from going to campbell airport. that will bank has suspended aid to afghan, has done signing deep concerns about the situation name. it is provided $5300000000.00 to the country since 2002 and has $27.00 on

well, let's get the reaction i'd over us now with heidi joe castro and washington d. c. heidi just give us an update on the situation from the us perspective. how are those evacuations progressing? and is there a plan to get more people in the short about a time that remains shore secretary lincoln speaking with fox news, who the, he's a secretary of state said that over the last 24 hours, there were $8000.00 more evacuations. from cobble. this is as the as the, the defense department has activated the civilian reserve air fleet. c which common dears, in a sense, 18 commercial air craft to assist in this operation. those commercial aircraft coming from united american and several other carriers will not be flying to cobble. rather, they will be taking evacuation on the 2nd leg of their journey if you will, taking them out of the bases and the other staging areas in cutter and other surrounding places where they have escaped to now wide off. and the secretary of defense was on a b c. news this morning saying that the u. s. is looking at quote, creative ways to reach tr

let's head across the us now we can speak with heidi joe castro in washington, d. c. i d let. let's start off with this evacuation mission, because mathematically, it is a challenge to get tens of thousands of people and the few days that are remaining has there been any development there on how america's plumbing to get all of the people they've promised to take out of the country yes, this morning, the defense department activated the civilian reserve air fleet. now what this means is that in addition to the 150 u. s. military aircraft that have been taking americans and refugees out of cobble . now that will be augmented by an additional 18 commercial aircraft. they will not be flying into cobble itself. rather they will be helping passengers get through the 2nd leg of their journey, which is from those safe havens. the staging areas where they've been immediately put after escaping cobble. now these are again 18 commercial aircraft. they're from united airlines, american and for other smaller us airliners. and this will aid in what the us have said are the 17000. some peop

maybe we're going to talk to heidi joe castro, because heidi to the us secretary of state anthony blinking has been speaking was been saying that's our peter. he's been speaking on the morning talk shows here defending the administration's actions, even as they are ongoing, calling the u. s evacuation of the embassy and cobble ordered and deliberate pushing back on the concerns. and the criticism that that you has us has has been directed toward it. that this has been a chaotic process with helicopters, transporting personnel to a camp out within the international airport. for their security, he did confirm that's happening. he said that the, the embassy staff, which is both civilian and diplomatic, is be moved to ensure they can operate safely and securely. and he says that the u . s. has told the taliban that there would be a swift and decisive response if this evacuation is interfered or there's any interference with us personnel. he also try to defend the criticism that this is reminiscent of the 1975 evacuation of saigon we've seen already on social media comparisons of the 2 images o

all right, and i'm and joe castro live 1st there in washington. thanks heidi now, victoria fontaine is a professor, a piece studies at the american university of afghanistan. she left the country in the past few days and joins us now from paris. thank you very much for being with us. so talk to us 1st of all about your experience there and did the struggles when you went through to, to get out of the country. well, i've been trying to get to the airport on those sunday sunday, the 16th i believe, of august. it was impossible to get to the airport on that day because of the knocks and the preparations of the us saw me to actually a present the evacuation that on tuesday morning. we were put on the house arrest by the colored by the local taliban commander who threatened to arrest us if we were to leave the compound where we were. and so it took us 2 days to negotiate our exits. there were large sums of money exchanged and, and through a large amount, all of the equipment left behind in order for us to be able to leave for the airport. what, when yo

for now we're going to head across to heidi joe castro. she joins us live from washington, d. c. hygiene years watching this earlier in the day will live gasping for breath, the sights of helicopters, the air lifting us embassy star 1st. certainly when that was specifically probably wouldn't happen by the us president. i'm are those stuff. are they safe? what is the state of the us embassy, right? know, in afghanistan, all in fact the u. s. embassy in cobbler has just issued a security alert saying that the security situation is in couple is changing quickly, including at the airport. their reports of the airport taking fire, it reads, therefore, the embassy is instructing us citizens to shelter in place. now this security alert does not confirm that the, the reports of fire on the report on the airport in fact happened. but they are cautioning us citizens to take this measure. and yes, throughout the last few hours we have seen helicopter, after a helicopter, evacuating the civilian in dip. diplomatic staff, the u. s. citizens from the u. s. embassy to a more secure what is a

a week after school's reopened areas . heidi joe castro has more the singing river hospital in gulfport, mississippi is bursting at the seams. haitians are being treated in hallways and hospital administrator tiffany murdock is just trying to make it work a couple of hours before we can take are the state of mississippi is reporting some 3500 new code cases a day, its biggest surge since the start of the pandemic, only 36 percent of residents are fully vaccinated and its the unvaccinated now feeling hospital. it frustrating period yet that towards the individual personal patient. no, because we're at work and look at them as they're coming in. they have a problem. we have to fix it. we're going to take care of you, no matter right. but now you're like learning your science from facebook and that's frustrating with the regular overflow with the patient, a hospital 3 weeks ago created. second, i see you room used to be for people recovering from surgery. the fact that we've been very sick of the patient, delta very changed everything. i mean it, their younger sticker one day they'll have

should warn you that some of the video featured in this story may disturb some viewers, either joe castro reports now. the 1st aurora cannon is 3 and battling cove it inside in oklahoma hospital. her mother is a nurse who says she likely pass the virus to her daughter from an unvaccinated patient. the mother posted these videos on social media to show the world the price her young child is paying. writing. if you choose not to be vaccinated, you've made a choice for my daughter to your choice lead to my innocent child being hospitalized . pediatric intensive care units across the southern us are filling with children, diagnosed with cove. it who are too young to be vaccinated themselves. these patients sometimes can't breathe and we have to help them. we have to help breathe for them. since the delta vary and took hold, it's been dizzy here at children's hospital, new orleans and louisiana. a state where vaccinations are among the countries lowest. oftentimes we get to work and before we can even put our bags down, we hit the ground running for the day, and we're in and out of rooms all d

hi, joe castro, the reporting on that breaking story out of a t v. a washington o at the taliban take city to city and f canister on the president and frank ghani has made his 1st public comment. in days he appeared in a brief video filled in kabul. which being encircled by taliban fighters, defiant donnie bout not to give up on what his country has achieved in the past 20 years to an accident. i am not going to allow this imposed war now, nation to lead, to more bloodshed, and to losing the gains of our last 2 decades and damages to our public goods and infrastructure. because of this, i've carried out widespread comprehensive consultations with representatives of the people and leaders by hand without international partner, in consultation to be carried out in a speedy manner. well sherona cobble is one of 2 provincial capitals to fall as of saturday, making 20 in all over the past week taliban video does appear to show inmates been released from a shower in a prison with offensive grinding on people, a scramble, scrambling for safety. the u. n is

c u beds occupied heidi joe castro reports from baton rouge and louisiana. one of the worst effected staying up a little bit 62 year old bobby burdette has just emerged from the covey intensive care unit at our lady of the lake hospital in baton rouge, louisiana staff have nicknamed him there miracle patient. most havent been leaving the i see you alive. i feel really well mom breathing has really gotten under control. burdette was never vaccinated and says he still has no regrets. his wife also tested positive. they're part of a dramatic surgeon covert cases in louisiana. only 39 percent of the state is fully vaccinated. that's strictly individual policies and the governments that ain't anybody else. but there's, according to the louisiana health department, the unvaccinated make up more than 90 percent of hospitalized covert patients. with nurse laurie douglas has been carrying for them, many of whom are young and otherwise healthy. she says most do tell her they wish they'd gotten. the vaccine is to know that this was preventable and that this didn't need

cause i and chief negotiator, daughter abdulla us president joe biden is due to speak on the situation in about half an hour's time. highly. jo castro explains how his administration has been handling criticism of the withdrawal and the evacuation mission. advisors of the president have been speaking to the press this morning defending the us exit with the defense secretary lloyd austin, saying that there was no way that it could've been predicted that the afghan government would fall in just 11 days and say now the us military was looking at creative ways to get americans out that included using helicopters to transport some $350.00 americans into cobble airport yesterday or tropical. so monrai is battering a stretch of the northeastern coast of the us, just hours after being downgraded from hearken. fishermen and business owners have been making last minute preparations, securing their boats and boarding up shop fronts. millions of people on long island and southern new england embracing for potential flooding and extended power outages. and israel has bombed parts of the gaza strip in an overnight as strike. it says it targeted m

valerie castro joins us from new orleans. good morning >> reporter: joe, good morning we're along the mississippi river where conditions are mild this morning a different story from yesterday when hurricane ida made landfall before noon as a category 4 storm. things have calmed down. we are waking up to more than 1 million people without power across the state the city of new orleans also without power. electricity went out at 6:00 last night entergy called this a catastrophic failure of their transmission systems they account for 800,000 outages at this point. here in the city of new orleans, they are having issues this morning with the 911 system calling it technical difficulties there working to restore that service yesterday, president biden issued a disaster declaration from fema headquarters and the first death from hurricane ida reported the sheriff's office said someone was killed by a fallen tree in kenner, the medical center with damage as the roof ripped off the building no injuries to patients. in st. bernard parish, you see the difference in