the people in its national security. the not useful is pushing for the united nations security council to condemn iran. and what is worth noticing is that is that this is the 1st known fatal attack that has happened on commercial shipping in the region. that is the means to rein intentions, but i must mention also that israel has repeated time in the past. been suspected of carrying out any ran. and on the iranian commercial vessel. not quite clear cut and simple as it seems. that was a pool of reporting from television. anything? well, a whistleblower in the us has been sentenced almost 4 years in prison for leaking classified information about american drone program, while solving the background that base in afghanistan a decade ago. daniel ho helped identify target for fascination when he returned home in 2013. he had secret details about the driving program with john this from the intercept online news site revealing the true extent of civilian casualties in the middle east and africa. and mark hail pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents, which revealed that 90 percent of strikes have actual

. >> earlier today, the united nations security council held a meeting on afghanistan following the fall of the afghan government to the taliban. here's a portion of the meeting. >> i think the secretary -- i thank the secretary-general. i now give the floor to the president of afghanistan. you have the floor. >> excellency, mr. secretary general, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. and q for this opportunity to speak on the situation in afghanistan and for india's leadership of the council during this critical period. we welcome this hearing on the situation in afghanistan and thank all the council members for their roles in organizing the session. mr. president, today, i'm speaking on behalf of millions of people in afghanistan whose fates hang in the alilance and are faced with an extremely uncertain future. i am speaking for millions of afghan girls and women who are about to lose their freedom to go to schools, to work, and to participate in the political, economic and social life of the country. i am speaking for thousands of human rights defenders, journalists, civil servants, and

i would like to thank the united nations secret data, in particular, the united nations security council division directorate for the support extended to us during our presidency. and thank you. hi, amanda from al jazeera english. regarding today's resolution, how confident are you that this resolution will send a signal to the taliban to make good on the commitments that have been made regarding things such as safe passage of afghan nationals foreign nationals. and also how long are you prepared to wait to see that the taliban makes good on those commitment? and if they don't, what other measures might you consider? i think it would be useful to take more than one question at a time. the thing with press justice india given the security situation, now we have gone to start after the icici attack on the board and the counter strikes me over the u. s. as a regional country. how does interview the security situation and also the senior, the liberal leader share home or the boss has said that it once the group one so very important. india is very important for the continent and that the gro

so now is the time that the international community, united nations security council, through region all the players in the region and international lawyers must be the attention of you said that you can sort of will have your emergency meeting in regarding the up going to issues. i think it must be done in the international community through united nation must i bought sites to come to get the aim to sort of them which and dr. barracks i bought realistically. can they do though, because there's been 20 years of foreign interference in afghanistan to try and get consensus. and we're back at the stage where i've got some walls in 2001. yeah, if we look to the past the, to the history of i've done this and i've got a son was published in the modern i've got some right now, 247 by much i don't need to go, i'm going to find is the traditional country in the listen to each other and also the transfer of power in the agreement between the security forces in the top. one forces also was mediated by the elders. because what side are i've done? i hope guns will understand the situation in the

bombings in afghanistan, and the united nations secretary general has already announced a special meeting of the u.s. -- a special meeting of the united nations security councilo discuss the situation in afghanistan. i think there is a willingness and maybe increased pressure on all of those nations, trying to come up with some kind of plan to see how they can move forward in the situation that seems to be rapidly deteriorating. rapidly deteriorating because what we have now is the taliban putting a lid on the situation in afghanistan, and you had these breakaway splinter groups like isis-k, which took responsibility for the attack today, reporting a direct threat to the taliban and their leadership of the country. it is simply because this is a soft target. thousands of people are around the airport. isis-k, which has a much more radical approach toward what islam should be, sees many of these afghans trying to flee the country as traitors, so it wants to attack them. it wants to attack or in forces inside the taliban lesson, so it was an easy target. the taliban have retaliated by saying they were not involved and condemning the attack. we have a situation

the united nations security council is holding an emergency session today to discuss the ongoing crisiscountry. this comes as taliban fighters are attempting to seize three provincial capitals, kandahar, herat and lashkar gah. the taliban has also taken responbility for a major attack tuesday as of the home of afghanistan's defense minister in kabul that killed eight people. on thursday, the european union condemned the recent taliban offensive and demanded, "an urgent, comprehensive and permanent ceasefire." in recent days the united states has stepped up air strikes targeting the taliban in an effort to support the afghan military. this all comes as the united states is on pace to whdraw its ground troops by the end of august. we go now to kabul where we are joined by journalist matthieu aikins. in 2013, he won a polk award for exposing u.s. war crimes in afghanistan. he has a book coming out on refugees in february. it is great to have you back. if you could start off by describing the situation on the ground as what i believe the u.s. now says they have pulled out 95% of their troop

early in the united nations security council was warned . of a dangerous turning point in the conflict. ah, uncle santa maria here and how they see the world news from al jazeera. 2 people have been arrested in new york accused of plotting to injure or indeed kill me in mars, and basses to the united nations. and still opposes the military gentle. and we'll take you on board one of the aircraft trying to bring turkeys wildfire emergency under control. me. so ask anniston festival where the taliban says it has captured a 2nd city in and intensifying campaign against the government. in a statement beyond groups of it took control of chabot gun, capital of the northern province of giles john. this video suggests taliban fight has seized several government buildings, including the police headquarters and a prison that the african government denies. the area has been captured on saturday that the taliban did take another provincial capital. this is that owns at the same time as the un security council was being warned, the conflict is entered a mo

in a moment of the 1st christmas. salumi has more on that security council meeting from the un headquarters we heard from the special representative for afghanistan to the united nations. deborah lyons and she painted a very bleak picture and said urgent action was needed on the part of the security council to avoid a very, very bad situation. getting even worse, she questioned the taliban commitment to a negotiated settlement, given the ongoing attacks on urban areas and the impact that that is having she talked about a 50 percent increase in civilian casualties, are increasingly worse humanitarian situation with almost with more than half of the country in need of some sort of aid hospitals in some of these areas that are being attacked or at full capacity. roads are being blocked, food can get in and human rights violations are also increasing exponentially, particularly an area is held by the taliban. we're hearing things like the summary executions, the flogging of children, child marriages, and so on. and the special representative laid out some very clear steps that the international community could take, that she said would help the situation, including a stat

then the international community led by the united states and approved rather sanctioned by the united nations security council. and where even those countries who did not see eye to eye with the united states on many issues at all, or like russia, like china, like iran, the all welcomed and supported the decision of the united states. and then it's, i stepped off kind of some and when did a change, when did you feel it? and this led to immediate success within a month and a half because i've got people who walked in the strapping and we've begun to look forward with tremendous hopes towards a better future. and it did work. everybody helped tonight's his helped russia helped the mister wood helped many, many other countries around the world helped. we'd only shed on educating our people boys in those we began to draft a constitution that was very valuable and got approval of south can people into mechanical solution, acculturation with rights. the constitution would opportunities for construction where it was mandated that woman should be at least 27 percent of the, of the members of africa, parliament and it

is leading the continued diplomacy to ensure safe passage for any american, afghan partner or foreign national who wants to leave afghanistan. just yesterday, the united nations security council passed the resolution that sent a clear message to both the internet -- of what the international community expects the taliban to deliver on moving forward, notably freedom of travel, freedom to leave. together we are joined i over 100 countries who are determined to make sure the taliban upholds those commitments. it will include ongoing efforts in afghanistan to reopen the airport as well as overland groups allowing for continued departure, and we are going to deliver medicare and assistance and people of afghanistan. the taliban has made public commitments broadcast on television and radio across afghanistan -- for anyone wanting to live, including those who worked alongside americans. we don't take them by their word alone, but by their actions. and we have leverage to make sure those commitments are met. let me be clear. leaving august the 31st is not due to a deadline. it was designed to save american lives. my predecessor, the former president, signed an agreement with the tal

but early the united nations security council had been warned of a dangerous turning point in the conflict. ah, we can all santa maria here and.

the question is, where is the united nations security council? r: let me put some of those points to john packer. the point about -- this junta is signaling it's getting ready to cremate up to 3000 bodies per 24 hours. that his death on an industrialized scale. 230,000 people have been displaced inside the country to get away from what the junta has been doing. some of the borders have been closed, so they can't cross the border into some of the neighboring countries and they can't go back to places they might call home. is it fair of me to say the kind -- the country is in freefall, in a completely unique situation that we have not seen before, even by the standards of what has been going on historically in myanmar? >> i think that is correct. there's a few elements to this. there is the egregious and is, and it is hard to overemphasize the atrocities, but we are seeing that the junta is kind of turning the instruments of state against its own population. remember that the legitimacy of authority here derives not only from the will of the people,

garrison free itself than the international community led by the united states and approved rather sanctioned by the united nations security council. and where even those countries who did not see eye to eye with the united states on many issues at, on the ward like russia, like china, like iran. the all welcomed and supported the decision of the united states and its allies to come to the garrison. and when did it change? when did you feel it? and, and this led to immediate success within a month and a half because i've got people wanted that success trapping. and we've begun to look forward with tremendous hopes towards ability to and it did work. everybody helped the knights, this helped russia helped them. mister wood helped many, many other countries around the world helped. we'd only shed on educating our people, boys and girls. we began to draft a constitution that was very valuable and got approval of staff, can people into more critical station culture. she would writes a constitution with opportunities are considered where it was mandated that woman should be at least 27 percent of the, of the members of africa, parliame

the adoption conflicts. and these are risk lawrence, emanated from united nations security council resolution referring that particular conflict to the international criminal court. and the united nations security council did that after an investigation conducted by international lawyers appointed by then you entered to general. and those lawyers investigated the situation in full and drew conclusions that general tight had been committed. war crimes are be committed and drew a link between the militia, the gender, the old, and the governmental sudan, which was headed by omar. but you know, the thing and given, as i said that this, this warrant was issued several years ago more than a decade ago. how much of a challenge is it going to be relying on evidence that fall back, checking the lists of witnesses to see how many are still alive and how many of them are still able to recall accounts in detail and so on. there is, there is that reality that the prediction to see where the witnesses, the interactive with the evidence material, evidence that they've collected would have to be viewed if and when she's han

then the international community led by the united states and approved rather sanctioned by the united nations security council. and where even those countries who did not see eye to eye with the united states on many issues at, on the ward like russia, like china, like iran, the all welcomed and supported the decision of the united states and then and its allies to come to garrison and when did a change, when did you feel it? and, and this led to immediate success within a month and a half because i've got people watching the strapping and we've begun to look forward with tremendous hopes.

ah, the united nations security council has met to discuss the escalating violence in afghanistan as the taliban continue there offensive and sees territory. the head of the un assistance mission in afghanistan warned members to take urgent action and prevent the country from descending into a catastrophe. a piano stand is now at a dangerous turning point. a head like either a genuine piece, negotiation or a tragically intertwined set of crises and increasingly brutal conflict. combined with an acute humanitarian situation and multiplying human rights abuses. i do believe that the security council and the broader international community can help prevent the most dire scenarios. but it will require acting in unity and acting quickly. the taliban made major gains on friday. pictures released by the arm grew, show its fighters near the airport in san jose to they captured that southern city . it is the 1st provincial capital to 4. in the months long taliban offensive. there's also been more fighting in another southern city. lush got a got which the taller bond is trying to capture. on

there's the united nations security council, where a retail can stop anything back in the united states, no space in the international community. it goes and does what it wants everywhere . as for forest johnson, sending an aircraft gallery and to china, it's patrick. it's to show loyalty. it's to show we, we will be with you always. i mean, blair was even worse than johnson and sucking up to the americans and they are very nervous. now having left the you that the keep are in europe as far as the u. u. s. is concerned is not mr. cruz retail. it's germans. it's been that behind the scenes for some time smell is sort of even open. that is the country with which the us is really interested in maintaining a very close relationship. when they take for granted, germany across has over this russian nordstrom to deal at the moment. yeah. you see the problem with the german government has been there for some time, as long as us troops stationed in that concrete. i mean, think about it. the war ended in 1945, the west port in well known nazis and fascists and key positions in the army and intell

the un high commissioner for human rights, michelle bachelet, she wants the united nations security councilber nations to focus like a laser beam on human rights in afghanistan. she says there are credible reports of serious violations of human rights. she even mentioned summary executions, new restrictions on women since the taliban took over. she says, "i call on all states first to create safe pathways "for afg ha n refugees. "second, to unite and make sure there is a fundamental red line "for the taliban over their treatment of women and girls." will russia be very actively supporting that? well, i can say that president macron of france has suggested that permanent members of the security council will be preoccupied in the coming days with the issue of afghanistan, with all sorts of crisis over it, with all parts of crisis over it. human rights is only one of them. humanitarian assistance is the other. evacuation, preventing of terrorism. so there are many, many aspects of this crisis which is worsening, and we are not alien to the idea the security council will play a role in it. but

international community that its territorial integrity should be restored, and we have the united nations security councilions adopted in 1993, which reaffirmed azerbaijan over nagorno-karabakh and all our regions outside, which was occupied. i think we should move towards peace, and, i mean, this is not an easy process, but the first step is the limitation and demarcation of the border. dareen: right. okay. so does this step that the armenians are asking the russians to deploy along the border, does it forward the prospects of peace? >> yeah, well, first of all, again, we should mention that the russians are already guarding the armenian border with turkey and iran now. it's kind of the third border with azerbaijan. the armenian can invite russians. it's very sovereign territory. but we believe that first should be the limitation, because where russians exactly will stay, you know, we are not in favor of getting some other foreign troops. i mean, we already have russian peacekeepers in nagorno-karabakh, but on our border, we would like to guard our border ourselves, and we are capable of that. i think fi

the united nations security council held an emergency meeting on afghanistan on monday and the sexual general and totally good terrorist called on the taliban to respect human rights and offer amnesty. he said he's particularly concerned about the violation of the rights of women and girls. the international community must be united and utilized all available instruments to ensure the following. first, we must speak with one voice to oppose human rights in afghan is done. i call upon the tale abandoned all parties to respect and protect international humanitarian law and rights and freedoms of all persons. we are receiving, chilling reports of c, v, restrictions on human rights throughout the country. and i am particularly concerned by accounts of mounting human rights violations against the women and girls of afghanistan, who feared to return to the darkest days. out of the math to get us a james space has more from the united nations. the statement calls for immediate cessation of whole hostile it is, but it also calls for talks for, to reach and let me quote, a new government that

the development came a short time after the united nations security council adopted a resolution callingllow safe passage for anyone left in the country, who still wants to leave. in a moment we'll be speaking to barbara plett usher from washington but first live to our chief international correspondent lyse doucet who's live in kabul. a significant moment at the end of a scramble of the last fortnight. fix, scramble of the last fortnight. scramble of the last fortnight. scramble of the last fortnight. scramble of the last fortnight intensified security measures in the last few days and in the last hour, the kind of gone far but i'm sure all of our viewers can hear. it is why i am wearing a helmet tonight. this guy were full of red tracer fire, machine gun fire, bullets being fired in celebration. america's longest war has finally ended here in afghanistan. there will be a long night of celebration by taliban supporters. they will hail, notjust the departure of the last american soldier from afghanistan, the last of what they describe as a foreign occupation, but they hey lead as the defe

leading the continued diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any american afghan partner or foreign national wants to lead afghans. in fact, this yesterday, the united nations security council passed the resolution that sent a clear message while the international community expects the tale bond to deliver on moving forward, notably, freedom of travel, freedom to leave. together we are joined by over $100.00 countries that are determined to make sure the tale bon appalls, those commitments. it will include ongoing efforts and i can stand the reopen the airport as well as over land roots allowing for continued departure for those who want to leave and deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of afghan . stan, itala bon, has made public commitments, broadcast on television and radio across app can stand on safe passage for anyone want to leave, including those who worked alongside americans. we don't take them by their word alone, but by their actions. we have leverage to make sure those commitments are met. let me be clear. lay me august. the 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. it was designed to save american lives. my predecessor, the former president, signed an

the afghan capital cobble. despite the violent building this year, it took months for the united nations security council to convene an emergency meeting to admit the dire situation on the ground. even a country that has tragically known generations of conflicts. afghanistan is in the throes of yet another k. u optic and desperate chapter. an incredible treasure the for its long suffering people forgotten, he's done his spinning out of control and warning fellows another day of key gains by the taliban, claiming on friday that it had taken the 2nd largest city kandahar. you're looking at exclusive video from the islamist medicine groups that had seized hundreds of weapons and vehicles, as well as large amounts of ammunition in the city. meantime, the us embassy in the capital is urging all americans to leave immediately. diplomats were also reportedly directed to destroy sensitive documents and computers before they left. so this map shows the situation right now. currently the taliban has taken hold of strategically cross crucial locations, very close to the capital. these limits ramped up their offensi

leading the continued diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any american afghan partner or foreign national. who wants to lead afghans? in fact, yes. yesterday, the united nations security council passed the resolution sent a clear message, while the international community expects the tale bond to deliver on moving forward, notably, freedom of travel, freedom to leave. together we are joined by over $100.00 countries that are determined to make sure the tale bon appalls, those commitments. it will include ongoing efforts and i can stand to reopen the airport as well as over land roots allowing for continued departure for those who want to leave and deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of afghanistan. the tale bond has made public commitments, broadcast on television and radio across app can stand on safe passage for anyone want to leave, including those who worked alongside americans. we don't take them by their word alone, but by their actions. we have leverage to make sure those commitments are met. let me be claire, the lady august. the 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. it was designed to save american lives. my predecessor, the former president, signed an

know, an emergency meeting of the united nations security council has taken place. ambassadors are urging the taliban to honor its promises of amnesty and human whites. as it again takes power of kenneth sends representatives to the outgoing government, said it was hard to believe the owns group, would deliver on his punches. we're extremely concerned about parliament, not honoring the promises and commitments made in their statements adore her. and how that international fora, we've witness time and again, how taliban have broken their promises and commitments in the past. we have seen gruesome images of parliament, mass executions, of military personnel, and target killing of civilians. in kandahar and other big cities. mister president, we cannot allow this to happen in cobbled with us. also addressed the council and said they're ready to retaliate against those who put their evacuation efforts at risk. all afghan nationals and international citizens who wish to depart must be allowed to do so safely. president biden has made clear that any action that put us personnel or a mission at

the people in its national security. now is what is pushing for the united nations security council to condemn the incident. the united states has said that it is investigating the message and that it is considering what appropriate next game should be taken while europe and other countries also say that they looking at the matter. for me, that was paula. bring us up to date on that developing story. many things portable season well, in the meantime it says seeing more drama at the tokyo olympics, stall us tomorrow, summer and bibles has sensation. he pulled out of 2 more finals for us. she withdrew from the gym, gnostics team event on tuesday, and afterwards from the round competitions to focus on her mental health. it's now left to see whether or not she'll participate in the coming weeks finals. and some of the say the move dissolves praise. all those claims she's let down teammates, when they needed her the most i say put mental health 1st, because if you don't, then you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. so it's okay. sometimes the even set out the

in just a few short hours ago, the united nations security council passed a resolution that enshrined that responsibility. laying the groundwork to hold the taliban accountable if they rename. so the international course on this is strong and it will say strong. we will hold the taliban to their commitment on freedom of movement for foreign nations. visa holders at risk atkins. formal. we will work to secure their safe passage. this morning i met with the foreign ministers of all the g 7 countries, united kingdom, france, germany, canada, italy, japan, as well as cutter turkey, the european union, and the secretary general was needed. we discussed how we will work together to facilitate safe travel out of afghanistan, including bi reopening campbell civilian airport as soon as possible. and we very much appreciate the efforts of cutter and turkey in particular. to make this happen . this would enable a small number of daily charter flights, which is a key for anyone who wants to depart from afghanistan report. we're also working to identify ways to support americans, legal, permanent

the northern province of judge john that the government denies that now in front of the united nations security council discuss the situation and i've got this down there was concern expressed about the safety of children in areas controlled by the taliban and stuff a been that massage is the chief for field operations at unicef, afghanistan, and says that the conflict was since children could end up paying a heavy price, we have preposition supplies, when described as files unfolding. the violence was increasing across the country so we could position supplies in our 11 offices engage with part of the conflict to ensure that children's rights are protected. but the conflict, so once across the country, there is no time for us to be there when the need us children are missing on there, i mean is ation facts in children are pushed away and the nutrition needs are being neglected. children, especially in less time ago, that's a place where polio on them are dissing on their shops and paying a heavy, heavy price. since the beginning of the year. 460 children have been killed, a 1200 have been injured. and

some decisions needs to be taking immediate b as to be by the united nations security council, especially does people must be accountable while they were signing agreement with taliban, with those from specially they providing wet can. but the taliban at the moment we can see they are having a different type of weapon. and they're one question to re, are getting more stronger than before. it's because politically, they got a large face to face and all say military, they got a lot of power, and lots of foreign fighters are fighting enough. got it. i think it's very important for the human growth and are women's rights activists not got a such, not all lee to raise their voice, but also to share their consent. what do you to national community about the war crime is happening at the moment and i've got to stop. and especially when it comes to sexual library, they are taking ribbons in the young girls at the place at during the war, which is that a give all international local law, make law in sharia and custom and tradition. and that's why we women got to pay for the p for the piece above b

then the international community led by the united states and approved rather sanctioned by the united nations security council.