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online, she openly criticized the decision of the team and they tried to do it undone, which is of course and, and nowadays, impossible to men of sky. i had originally planned to fly directly to walsall from tokyo, but a polish government. sol says she changed her plans almost at the last minute for security reasons. timothy sky a went to the olympics to run fib yellow roof. but now she and her family are on the run from it. dominant came out, jazeera berlin, ah. pop up the our on of the are, these are the top stories, the number of recorded cases of code 19 around the world is now more than 200000000 . according to the johns hopkins university tracker, it took a year to register the 1st 100000000 infections, but that figure has doubled in 6 months or than 4000000 people have died from the
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virus. i understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the delta von and but we can not. and we should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it. while the world's most vulnerable people remain unprotected, are the headlines. nathan, lebanon, of u. t. a gas against protest outside parliament, the country, month, one year since the massive explosion at the port of bay root demonstrated gathered to demand justice for the more than $200.00 people who died. they want authorities responsible for the block to be held for the accounts. wildfire and turkey have now spread close to a coal fired power plant on the se in coast. the government says the main units of the chemical plant have not been damaged. the facility in the last year,
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the resort town of bertram has been evacuated. at least 8 people have been killed and dozens of wildfires across turkey. in afghanistan, the security forces are fighting defensive battles of the taliban pushed to capture regional capitals. the afghan air forces had taliban fighters advancing on her art kandahar unless she could go with ground troops repelling attacks from multiple fronts. more special forces arrived in helmand. as a taliban been fighting in the heart of provincial capital, lush ago? at least 10 people have been killed and 20 injured after an overloaded ban crashed in the u. s. state of texas. it happened on a remote highway near the mexican border authorities. a 30 migrant workers were traveling in that van. it was only designed to carry 15 people. police also say the van was speeding. ok, those are the headlines. this are on al jazeera, the latest edition of inside story is next. something was going to change as
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anything really changed. this is systemic violence that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against the variance know what to say. so we are all saying we're looking at the world as it is right now, not the world. we like it to be, the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line, when i was just around the fight for i've got a son as inching towards the capital coupled taliban says its latest attacks or government leaders. not the start of a new campaign, coupe, this me to return to full scale war and have peace taught, become pointless. this is inside story. ah, ah. and welcome to the program. i'm the clock. the taliban is gaining strength across afghan. this time quickly taking territory as foreign troops leave after 20 years
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of war. afghan forces a struggling to hold back fighters surrounding provincial capitals in the south and in the west and cabal which has been spared. the worst of the violence is now looking vulnerable. gunman detonated a car bomb and 5 shots near the defense ministers home in the fortified green zone . the taliban is warning of more attacks when government leaders, the united nations, is urging all sides to protect civilians and says the intense fighting could trigger a new humanitarian crisis. charlotte bellis is more now from couple. the taliban have claimed responsibility for this attack. outside the defense ministers home in cobble it says that it was carried out by its martyrdom brigade, which is a dedicated unit under the taliban military of trained suicide bomb is it says that it deployed a car form outside whose home and in multiple gunmen who tried to storm the residence civilians were hurt and killed in this attack. and in the statement that followed from the taliban, they said this is the beginning of the tellers,
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hoary operations against key figures and leaders of the cargo administration. so significant escalation for beam and concerning for residence in calvin, that perhaps the telephone may start to do more bombings like this. and it may put their security in jeopardy by getting caught up in these type of telephone attacks . the staff in helmand and lash cargo, they really use the center of fighting between the ask and army and the taliban. it's been heavy for a number of days now, but today local say it is certainly the worst with move on. bob mintz from the air and st. history fighting as the ask and government tries to re take control of the city that also believes to evacuate credibly dangerous to civilians who are now being told to leave their homes and go into an active wars or across the country. other cities are also under pressure, is to tell about, pushes for gaining more territory and was significant military momentum. charlotte
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bellis the inside story? well, i'm going to sons president blames what he calls the u. s. is sudden troop withdrawal for the escalating violence in his address to parliamentary this week. nash ref, connie said that washington pushed from negotiations great doubt and ambiguity and assist the taliban is not committed to peace. there was any, was yet law. the situation which we are facing is true to the southern decision to withdraw. i told the american president that a respect your decision because he was his decision. but i knew that this will have some consequences and the crisis management we put on afghan yet, ah, or a list of the discussion bring in our guest said joining us on skype from kimball. it's victoria fountain, a professor p studies at the american university of afghanistan in pittsburgh. we have calling clark, director of policy and research the su, fun group also from couple in afghanistan for him, said to his head of the international relations department at card on university.
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welcome all to the program at victoria. i'd like to start the 1st few there right now in afghanistan, feeling it living it. tell us what it's like, what's the atmosphere like, what people thinking? whereas is heading well. many quite concerned about the security situation. a lot of my colleagues now are trying to confirm that the same time the fact that sound okay, right, did not fall into the hands of the time. that's why it says the night condition. and then even been quite some holes so only nor mitigate the fear that the population of reverend centers knew nothing to net to tell you been taking one of those urban centers, of course as laska and for him said to thousands, a trap to afflict their lives in alaska and held them province as a taliban,
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you know, continue their advances bodies on the streets and overall, it is a very troubling situation, isn't it? indeed it is. according to the report, 2400 people are only just yesterday. and there are $47.00 in depth and almost $118.00 or more than that, the dividend rather the in helmand. and this is almost the same day that the on here is going on. although the city is not yet completely under the hold of the taliban, but the government is, is trying to put up a risk and i believe the better, the better is still continuing and had a month and call and over there in pittsburgh, in the united states. what's your sense of direction of travel here? is african has done heading over the precipice? are we heading for full scale war? i really hope not, but the view from the state seems to be that of and you know,
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this is something that myself and a lot of other folks in the broader counter terrorism community have warned against when the president announces withdraw in april with really no contingency plan for what comes next and to rely on the taliban to be part to be any meaningful part of a. a piece agreement i think is, you know, is, it's not you, frankly. right? when we get onto the piece, talk to in a 2nd. but let's just look 1st at areas of taliban control and television has taken more territory in recent weeks. and it has it anytime since it fell from power 20 years ago in may controlled about 20 percent of the country and not shown here in purple. but as u. s and other foreign troops pulled out taliban fighters wrapped up their attacks . and in the last 2 months, half of the country has fallen under the groups rule. it is a critical test, of course, for the african government. as the fights is advanced and surround, now the capital kabul this week,
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the tell about moved into the center of the cities of lashley guards. we've just been discussing and kandaher. so victoria, given all of that, how do you assess the taliban tactics here? which seems to be pretty much avoiding full scale confrontation, but then there is also the slow simulation of areas targeting cities and also talk to the local economies. i think for them because they are quickly losing us and hostile lines. they are now seen by the local traditions as taking the populations of puppies or noticed again from china, you know, to, to gain power. and that's why the piece of the deafening seeking was working. now i think he's now actually moving for the ccs and harvest. is something that keeps the balance of the support in some areas again. and now we have this new strategy,
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the circle denounced martin brigade attacking government lead. it's victoria, what do you make of that? well, make sense for us to actually leave off the top of the national security for a strike of low to 40. however, this is something that has, that has to be there hasn't been a complex attacking capital for the past 3 months. and so why would expect one would hope that the government has ensured the future? of course, as we know, this is danny presented without much of the details as the i think what does that impact? so we would hope that now they have them and they've been have provided security for their talk. all right, well, we heard from president gone a little bit earlier, blaming the us withdrawal for this escalation, calling clock. do you think that withdrawal is
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a miscalculation by the us president biden? i do, however, i think it's a miscalculation from the point of view of african stability. it's probably a shrewd calculation in terms of us domestic politics. this is a popular move among large swats of us population, and it's one of the few areas that i can think of where there's bipartisan support, the trump administration, was moving toward withdrawal as well. and president biden continued that. you know, the, those and opposition seem to be, you know, folks like myself or others and, you know, academia or, or think tanks or the policy world that are warning of catastrophic consequences. in terms of al qaeda, rebuilding and network and call it in assessing the prospect for this withdrawal. this with withdraw would they have anticipated what has happened this sudden escalation and kind of dominance. i think they've likely mapped out
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multiple scenarios knowing that this was going to be one and probably had a strong chance of being one. the u. s. is banking on this being contained to have gas then, but i think that, you know, this instability is likely to spill over into other parts of the region. and if it heads in the direction that it appears to be heading, if it continues for some time years, even if it's something then that would present a problem for the united states situation where they may reconsider sending troops back in i think it depends what happens if you look at some kind of external operation or spectacular terrorist attack in the west, the pressure will be immense for the us and its allies to do more than they're doing now. if the problems may remain contained largely within afghanistan. again, i think, you know, the, the conversation and the zeitgeist, in the beltway these days is, it's all about great power, competition, china, russia, you know, after 20 years, people, and seeing few results. people want to leave the global war on terrorism behind.
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and this is emblematic if i'm seductive in a couple how different, how different is this scenario that we're seeing here in 2021, 29996 when the taliban last took over africa stun. what the situation is different in so many, but you have the taliban being the government and you have the nato alliance of the country of fighting the taliban. and now you have a government who is loading in all and you have the taliban who i think the government i'll go a lot of these other. i'm back at the northern alliance as a, as the opposition had little edited with themselves. and the taliban were almost only 95 percent off on a while. and now the government is controlling half of the country and almost more than $200.00 districts are with with taliban who is now an opposition. and
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apparently it seems that they have taken the decision of attacking urban centers, although the government is talking to consolidation and got the ability to hold it back all. but apparently it seems that the taliban are still having the momentum. so what is not, what have not changed for the people off of one is done is that in back into those in the one that was a battle and, and i want to tell them that they don't war. and now in 2021 minute battle going on in the province is and i want to warn you jump in that. do you think the taliban has the potential to take over the whole country again? ah, it's the nick. the thing is that the taliban current battle begins, particularly after me. one is nominally because of this unity vacuum that was
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related at the last pages of the withdrawal. so and the government was honest with the retreat. so this strategic recreate. and the thought about heard, cannot be interpreted as the space of the taliban militarily. but what is now and i critical to both both sides because the taliban are going now to cinders and the government is putting up, defended, or trying to hold them all for the truth of both military things are yet to be victoria. i can see you again to come in. next. i would say that the urban centers william nike to be taken by the ban. here i did not force thanks to us at support. and he told that he could continue for the time to fund, but or so, there is an enormous amount of the popular uprising against the bank in support of
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the national security for people rank of people, regular people taking up arms. they are not all the country that are very nice for to kind of been hand like the times you reach. and so i would say that the people have been quite lucky now they definitely have taken advantage of a security for it. but at the same time, some of those weeks and that's where or district that's what captures now are being used. and i don't think that they can go much further than what they call a clock. the thing is television needs. and once this international legitimacy to keep flying apart from anything else, and so that would prevent them from bidding for complete take over wouldn't. yeah, i don't think they need a complete take over of the car, sorry to you know, to, to exert their influence. we've seen it already, but again, i don't think you know,
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the taliban is ever going to break with groups like al qaeda and their ilk. especially if the violence continues to tell them will need al qaeda to reinforce its ranks. and he may tell about, in the tell about exerting their influence. what does that actually mean? because they say they have the best interest to afghanistan at heart. and at the same time, they believe that and his last state structure would be the most beneficial for the country. so what would it mean? in terms of constitutional view? we know very limited about the economy because they are not that expensive when it comes to the issue with all they have all the information is of the one i'm a game, right. and now apparently it seems that they are talking about his lunch. and by the way, you're really asking, what do you mean? how would you enter all the issues if they've been to these
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things back? so their constitutional reviews are very limited and really you really don't understand and what, what exactly do you mean by the system? but if, if we are talking about the taliban at one point, you told me when they were ruling up one of them at that time, a lot of things were limited. but does freedom of the woman is participation in public domain. another woman education on guard division 5, if, if you know that the taliban has changed and now we are to create a taliban to one, you don't mean the new we're going to probably been where they are somehow tolerate and realistic. and as well as international engagement with international community, then i think people would be at ease, but if the remainder were back in 1919, i think that would, that would be that was gonna be followed because a lot of people have changed
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a lot since that time but i do those in one because you have emerging id. you have you have people who are educated, you have people gone and while you know things have changed. so i think it's about are they on the $990.00 they would also find it difficult to study. you will be large young population of the day on is done right. and victory. is that something that you would agree with? the taliban are saying that they're committed to the piece prices and they will maintain at the civil rights that have developed in recent years. you concerned about whether or not that's true? absolutely. yeah, i'm not pretty concerned. i know it's not true. they have already set the traces, crimes the headman probing in kandahar i have a student who lost 2 of her coffee or so we have colleagues
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in different parts of the country who have orders that they have already closed and goes down because they they want to we accept you wanted to use them. so actions speak louder than words and as far as what crimes and to take down the consent to happen to be. and what about the piece talks calling clock in pittsburgh? what are the implications of this latest escalation, as far as the piece towards concerned here, and i think the door door talks are done. i mean, we're well past the point of no return for thinking about some kind of a negotiated settlement. we can't take the tell them at their word. clearly they're not operating in good faith, just as many predicted myself the entire time. you know, i largely looked at the negotiations as somewhat of a smoke show were of near to allow the united states to extricate its forces under
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the top cover of some kind of political negotiation. but it's never really been about that. and clearly it isn't now for him said to the doe, how talks it done, do you agree? i would say would respect that. we still have a chance to talk what i believe is the standard plan at the end of the day would return to the equalization to reach a political system with the government. but tell that, i believe the research strategy is to maximize their power because this maximization would help them spring and get a position at the negotiation table. because there are some limitations on the taliban in which the fee. if the over take up a minute. terry does legitimate the international recognition and most importantly, as i have all the international assistance for the government for the develop into something that the taliban know that they won't be able to do it unless they do
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harm in from the international community and the dimensional community would definitely not be available if the table are in the military. so they are constellation of the moment might be capitalized over the mike and that has been created mid maximize our power and the goal without acquisition to the negotiation, particularly when, when the policies and come on where the environment changes and battle is difficult. right. victoria, what do you think is room for further progress of the piece? don't when the member that the don't remember the recall agreement of the united states of them the so between the government and the taliban hasn't really started. and so there definitely are some cause for within the african states. meaning, you know, the larger for the next society to engage in some form of the dialogue and stop the
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bottom that we definitely be there. and, and i see that needs to be capitalized on from the side call. and what about regional players? and presumably this telephone escalation is not in the interest to say in darrow or pakistan said not to have complete. tell about control, how do they, what do they bring to bear on the, in this equation? i think all the players in the region, right, the iranians, the russians, chinese indians, pakistan is they all have their own desired outcome. they all have their own priorities. and those don't align, we're going to see a lot of jostling for power. we're going to see attempts that, you know, patronage and proxy warfare. i think, as this situation develops. and typically from, from my study of insurgencies, the more entities involved the longer something last. so that's not a good son,
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so call him what your gut feeling about where this is heading. i think, you know, heading into 2022, we're going to be looking at an afghanistan that is controlled by the tell that in large portions of the country not entirely. and at that time, i think we're likely to see the growth of transactional jihadist groups like al qaeda like others that but my main concern, my main fears that i've canister, and once again turns into a magnet for foreign fighters. and there's a flow or immobilization to the country, which then again, acts as a force multiplier for many of the most dangerous terrorist groups there. and victoria, what's your sense of the impact of this on the regional stability? and indeed, i should say, for from my 2012 and just for the life of the state, every definite vacuum has been created or not. before i left the country.
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there are so many groups that one has enough and makes it easier for me to say for them, which is fine to do my chinese make innovation without neighboring countries, but that they say, we know one for, for the service and the front you say between you know they will run a very forth and so from that perspective, again, mickey, then offense and, and definitely not. we can about the security vacuum created at the moment or at the moment. okay, can you set the message for the sub like beach and then we'll be on face. said we got about the just about 30 seconds left for you to onto this. what
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is it, what is that for sure, i got what, what card can you play to try and sort this out? i think the president still has a card he has at a power and doesn't have he has. he's been a re also has the company not the law and by the people that are coming in the border of the government and he has the bad day back in the us in terms of price. i think these are the options that the president how, but it also depends on how he will be implementing the assets and options that they give me and about how united against are and everybody will have to leave the find that out. appreciate that. also, victoria thornton and colon clock, they're in pittsburgh. thanks guys. thanks very much indeed. and thank you for watching. you can see this and all our previous programs again at any time by visiting our website out to 0 dot com. and for further discussion,
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