i'll just say that will be bringing you a press conference was being held at the pentagon, led by john covey, the focus school there for the white house saying that he was not giving details of any stretch assessments within castanan, saying that there was ongoing communication with the child on at cobble airport airport, as it was evacuations, continue. he said the focus is to get as many people out as fast as we can. he said there is a whole panoply of security concerns in afghanistan when he was questioned about his statement that he made a few days ago with a couple at that time was in no immediate danger. kirby said in the moment when i set it, based on what we knew at the time, it was true. i want to bring in brett brewer and he's a former us diplomat and former director of global engagement in the white house was under president obama. he's joining us on skype from washington, d. c. it's good to have you with us back on all 0. when i ask you about the situation in afghanistan, of course, let me just ask you about that press conference. first of all, how do you think the, the mood is i

and this movement, i won't speculate about what it's going to look like. beyond that, that was john covey, the pentagon spokesman, we've heard from the pentagon that to cobble airport operations have resumed for evacuation. flights of pentagon said that and a c 17 and landed earlier on monday with marines on board. and another c. 17 was expected to land at later in the day, john kirby was saying that over the next 2 weeks he said we could get up to 5000 people out a day that seats on military and commercial planes. that's the, that's the hope. once things operations get underway properly and we had also, well, you were listening to another briefing from the state department saying that the state department of the us negotiators in doha still continue to engage with the taliban. in the meantime, the us citizens, to shelter in place, not travel to the apple. that's pretty patty calhane who's not that pentagon. so this is kind of distant slightly, isn't that with the pentagon saying that the airport operations seem to be resuming . but meanwhile, the state department still saying, asking us

covey 19 vaccination campaign. but in the midst of its political turmoil and an earthquake, which is devastated parts of the country, southwest region, that campaign has now stored john home and has moved from the capital porto prince . another person in haiti vaccinated this time, it's thought to call do mess a get that he's in the vast minority firstly because vaccines took so long to get here. haiti's campaign only began in july and now because even though they finally arrived, few seem to want them. the u. s. supplied half a 1000000 jobs under the kovak mechanism. only 20000 have been applied. why, in part it's because of this. the empty covey board that dr. colleen shows us in the non for profit guess gear hospital. i suppose at one point you would have thought that this would be full of people. it was full last year. it was full. now it is very calm. we don't have any admission. haiti's health ministry says only around $600.00 people have died of cobra. 19. the infection rate is also far lower than in many of the places. nobody knows exactly why. but since the pandemic isn't taking off, neither is the vaccination campaign. far down inside of business that reall

john home and i'll just get a hold to bring. a parts of australia's most popular states have begun nightly curfews to contain the latest outbreak of covey. 19 new south wales has been struggling to limit the delta variance outbreak under the countries so called 0 co good policy in neighboring you zealand. the government is hoping to increase its vaccination rates during another nationwide lockdown as well. hey, reports enlarge parts of sidney. the streets and now off limits at night. around 2000000 people have been ordered to stay home from 9 in the evening until 5 in the morning. the curfew covers areas of city most affected by the latest outbreak of the covert 19 delta variance. any one called violating it could be fined and ordered to isolate for 14 days. but as the new restrictions were coming in, the leader of new south wales was already talking about easing some for people who are fully vaccinated. that's now around 30 percent of the state's population. obviously 1st and foremost, priority is to protect human life until it's fairly as possible while we do that. but we also have to accept that there's been no fatal nation on the pl

organizations flowing into help. covey may, for whatever reason, continue to swerve around this caribbean nation. if so, it will be the 1st piece of good fortune haiti's had in a long time, john home, and i'll just get a hold to bring still ahead on al jazeera, funny safe on us. well, we hear from african refugees who just arrived in virginia and ties that bind while the us trying to reassure allies in the south east asia. ah, ah, it's time for the journey with sponsored my cattle airways. hello. there is plenty of sunshine and dry weather across much of the middle east, and event we are expecting temperatures to pick up for iran, for pots of saudi arabia and in could tie if we look at dough, how are we going to see the temperature pick up by the time we get to thursday and some of that humidity will ease as we move to coastal areas, we're seeing some spotty showers around yemen and into oman. but heavy showers can be found in the west, creeping up into saudi arabia and those join up with a shower across the horn of africa. we are seeing some heavy storms brewing in the central african republic, edging into the democratic republic of congo. and we are seeing some heavy storms

organizations flowing into help. covey may, for whatever reason, continue to swerve around this caribbean nation. if so, it will be the 1st piece of good fortune haiti's had in a long time. john home and i'll just get her to new york has its 1st female governor capital a hotel has taken her out of office in a brief private ceremony. she replaced and drew como resigned off the sexual harassment allegations. a new initiative is helping bring a little joy to the lives of children in garzon, a cinema boxes rolled into town. man, it's come with a message of hope. jimmy wolf has more one by one. these children climb stairs, garza knew cinema bus, eager to see what film awaits them inside the cat. infinity of all was really nice with lots of adventures. and it's the 1st time of rush to moving about . the new initiative is supported by the european union and run by a local charities. it offers a range of films designed to promote peace tolerance and non violence. both the cinema cinema bus has an indoor and outdoor screens, interest screenings can accommodate 60 people, as well as the physically impaired. the outdoor screen can be adapted to different sizes and can accommodate up to

organizations flowing into help. covey may, for whatever reason, continue to swerve around this caribbean nation. if so, it will be the 1st piece of good fortune haiti's had in a long time. john home and i'll just get a hold to bring still ahead on al jazeera, funny, safe on us soil. we hear from african refugees have just arrived in virginia. ties that bind what the u. s. is trying to reassure allies in se asia ah, hello there. we've seen some severe weather across parts of north america. in particular for the u. s. those north eastern states saw the arrival of tropical storm on re, as it made land for in rhode island. but we've also seen historic flooding in tennis. see, this was the scene there, the rain has stopped, but we saw some record rain fall to the west of nashville. in humphreys county, we had $430.00 millimeters for in 24 hours. and that led to very severe flooding. now it's keeping dry for much of tuesday, they're the wet weather can be found in the florida. panhandle and northeastern states of the u. s. are continuing to see the heavy falls on from on re, as it works its way from most massachusetts out to see it could impact eastern areas of canada. now we are

organizations flowing into help. covey may, for whatever reason, continue to swing around this caribbean nation. if so, it will be the 1st piece of good fortune haiti's had in a long time. john home and i'll just get a hold to prince. roughly 5000000 people in yemen on the brink of salvation with conflict, no closer to peace. according to the un, it's on the secretary general for humanitarian says. 2 thirds of the population relies on aid to meet that daily needs. the young about a tearing appeal for nearly $4000000000.00 is only about half funded. more than 20 people, 20000000 people in yemen need humanitarian and assistance and protection. that's about 2 thirds of the population. and it continues to be quite an astonishing figure. but out of all those needs, there is perhaps one overarching humanitarian priority. and that is to stop the famine today. about 5000000 people are just one step away from succumbing to famine and the diseases that go with it. 10000000 more are right behind them. famine isn't just a food problem, it's a symptom of a much deeper collapse. as you know, in many ways it is, all of yemen problems rolled into one that demands a comprehensive response. a

covey. 900. next, since now there are calls to make jobs mandatory for all health employees when he refusing to get the vaccine well continued to catholic patients, as john 100 reports now from chicago to work at rush university medical center, there's a new rule, get the jab, or get another job, i think it's the right thing to do. we are in health care, we should be maintaining how and we shouldn't be putting our patients at risk. and even though the risk of transmitting covert from health care worker to a patient is low, it's not 0. there are strict exemptions or religious or medical reasons, but in general, health care workers are now required to practice what they preach about 70 percent of us adults, or at least partly vaccinated recovered 19. it's 60 percent if you include the children under 12 who are not eligible for health care workers. the numbers are similar though at rush they've now reached 85 percent. were trying to decrease transmission of the delta variance. so you come here and everybody's vaccinated. done. you're less likely to leave with the virus rushed and the vanguard of a growing movement. nearly 15000 hospitals, about one in 4 acr