we got to see the damage. this is different from what we saw in 2010 here in haiti when most of the damage was in port-au-prince, a much more crowded city. this is a very wide area, which is why you re seeing death tolls so high. we visited a luxury hotel in the area. this hotel had collapsed. clearly there were bodies inside the rubble, according to the authorities we spoke to. unfortunately at the scene we also saw people looting, taking metal, air-conditioners, even a dresser in one situation. many of these areas haven t covers from previous natural disasters and now dealing with this one. hospitals in the area are in bad shape, basically overrun with patients. they didn t have a lot of capacity before and now they re dealing with yet another natural
to tajikistan originally. he essentially said, and i paraphrase here, he did all he could for his country but was faced with a choice of essentially sticking around or facing armed taliban trying to get into the palace. well, those armed taliban did eventually get into the presidential palace and allowed a camera crew from al jazeera arabic in with them. one of the gentleman responded in english saying he had been in guantanamo bay for eight years. and at moments, they simply fell silent and just wanted the world to see them armed inside the corridors of what had been the afghan government backed by the united states powers. so just to explain the noise you re hearing above me at the moment, jim, what s been remarkable tonight, the occasional crackle of gunfire, yes. but a besistent noise of u.s. helicopters here. over the years i ve been here, i haven t heard this much air traffic. it s clearly a bid to protect
numbers and death rates during the pandemic. how this won t contribute to a spike in cases. just extraordinary events playing out in cuba. patrick oppmann, thank you. so, let s big deeper on the crisis in cuba with nyu history professor ferrer. she s also the author of cuba and american history. professor, thank you for being with us. glad you could join us. i want to play some sound from a protester skirting the internet blockade. he believes this is going to be a turning point, a new chapter in cuba s history. he says people are no longer afraid of the regime. here s more of what he shared with me. you want to put me in prison? i m already in prison. i can t walk around the streets. i m already in prison.
as they re eligible, because that is our way out of this pandemic together. we can now hear from we can now hearfrom our we can now hear from our health correspondent. the health secretary is described these measures as a strength and package of support that is being extended to areas on the northwest that have seen a real spike in cases linked to the delta or indian variant of covid i9. basically, that means the whole of greater manchester and all of the areas covered by lancashire county council. now, what this means for people in these areas as they have been asked to minimise travel in and out of affected areas. they have been asked to meet outside wherever possible rather than inside, and everyone is being urged to get a covid i9 test. now, i think people in the northwest will greet these measures with a weary site of resignation, but also of recognition because some of these areas haven t
our health correspondent dominic hughes is in manchesterfor us. so, the health secretary has described these measures as a strengthened package of support that has been extended to areas in the north west that have seen a real spike in cases linked to the delta, or indian, variant of covid 19, and that basically means that the whole of greater manchester and all of the areas covered by lancashire county council. now, what this means for people in these areas is they ve been asked to minimise travel in and out of affected areas. they ve been asked to meet outside whenever possible rather than inside, and everyone is being urged to get a covid 19 test. i think people in the north west will greet these measures with a weary sigh of resignation, but also of recognition because some of these areas haven t been out of some kind of restrictive measures for weeks and weeks, almost since the pandemic began. just a few weeks last summer, areas were free of restrictions. but the government will p