To three hours a week. Hello and welcome to the programme. It is some storm that reverses the flow of the Mississippi River Hurricane ida landed a category 4 hurricane and blew through South East louisiana with such force that at times they recorded sustained winds of over isomph. Today the Search And Rescue teams were fanning out across the state to assess the scale of the damage. And it is widespread. There have been reports of people climbing into attics to escape the rising waters flood. The rising waters. Its not as bad as katrina, which devestated New Orleans 16 years ago it would appear the levees, barriers and pumps have done theirjob but still, there are i million people in and around the city without any power, and they will be for some time. From New Orleans heres our correspondent, neda tawfiq. This was the force of Hurricane Idas wins. A Hospitals Roof was lifted off by ease by the gas. Low lying areas were overwhelmed by the tidal surge. This footage from a Fire Station i
A number of attacks across the country during this year. Certainly the airport was considered to be a vulnerable target. Its something that the americans are aware of. Undoubtedly during the conversations with the taliban, its something that has come up. In fact, you remember that just on tuesday, Joe Biden essentially saying to the taliban, you have got to keep an eye on isis. K u. S. Secretary of state, Anthony Blink and says about 1500 americans may still be waiting evacuation from ive gone on. He insist diplomatic efforts will continue beyond August 31st, including engagement with the taliban. The taliban, whether we like it or not, is in control largely in control. The country certainly control is the city of couple and its been important to work with them to try to facilitate and assure the departure of all those who want to leave. And that has actually been something that weve been been focused on for from the beginning of this operation. Because as a practical matter, it advanc
Youre watching all their life from headquarters and im getting navigator also coming up. Thousands of indigenous people protest in brazil as the supreme Court Case threatened to limit their rights to throw Land Fuel or his appointment vacancies, and get a vaccine. Australians are urged to get vaccinated against hope of 19 as the government struggles to contain an outbreak. Ah, hello was less than a week to go before the deadline to complete evacuations that cobbled Airport Panic is growing among the thousands trying to access flights before next tuesday. The massive Evacuation Effort has picked up pace. The u. S. And allied forces have flown out more than 88000 people from have gone on since the taliban takeover. But some foreign troops have already started to leave as the operation enters its final phase. Charlotte bellows reports from Couple Count Donna is on as the us and foreign forces. Now i only have until tuesday to get out. And with that means the end of evacuation, like from h
There is still a massive crutch of people who need to get out. Theyre waiting. Clarissa ward has been at the airfield and says not one flight has left kabul in the last eight hours. Lets get to kylie with the Breaking News. The u. S. Is pretty urgently examining other locations that they can fly out the Evacuation Flights. Because most of them have been going to qatar. They are now close to capacity there. So theyre looking at other locations. Including in europe, including potentially germany for the flights to go. What this tells us is that capacity is hampering these evacuations. You cant get these people out if these flights have nowhere to go. Of course, telling that on the ground Clarissa Ward hasnt seen any flight take off from the Kabul Airport in the last eight hours. One thing complicating this is the fact that the u. S. Was in discussions with multiple countries to relocate afghan sieves. Thats just one group of the afghans theyre going to be flying out of the country, becau
Flying out to Third Party countries. And also looking for other places to fly some of these evacuees. That is what led to a pause. The White House described it as a brief pause. Our Clarissa Ward and team on the ground in kabul described this as an eighthour delay. Hardly a brief pause. It gives you a sense of how difficult this process is to bring people in, fly them to the countries and process them. That caused a bit of a backup. A significant backup, actually, but the White House is saying that President Biden will announce that the flights are resuming. They will resume. The order has been give ton start the flights up again. But the question here is is the State Department, is this Government Bureaucracy working as fast as it needs to here . Thats one thing on the minds of officials here at the White House as theyve been meeting with the president and others, trying to get some of this backlog unjammed, if you will. Thats been a challenge of the morning. This is just the airport