me, ah ah, hello, i'm down, jordan and i'm with the top stories here now just hear a us president joe biden has defended his withdrawal of troops from afghanistan, cooling the evacuation and extraordinary success. he faced criticism over the chaos . the past few weeks. gannons done rapidly fell on taliban control, but biden blamed afghan forces for collapsing far more quickly than expected. allan fisher reports now from the white house, my fellow americans, the war in afghanistan is now over. joe biden brought an end to america's involvement, and it's longest war 20 years, which still lives cost money and damaged america's image in the world. war to

remove the taliban, which again sits in power and kill or left for the simple decision. either follow through on the committee may by the last administration and leave afghanistan. or say we weren't levy and commit another tens of thousands more troops. going back to war, that was the choice, the real choice between libby or escalating, he promised all americans who wanted to leave would be evacuated before the u. s. military where they went somewhere between one and 200 are still they are stranded . but biting insists not forgotten, and for those remaining americans, there is no deadline. we remain committed to get them out if they want to come out . but the president pace is growing criticism from political opponents. and even though is on his own site, the say he fail his leadership, fail, america, fail,

the lives have got to stop the accountability needs to be there. but most importantly, americans need to be able to be brought home. this cannot be our history. this cannot be where this ends. we will not allow it. whitening says he did the best job possible after the previous administration. never mentioning, come by name, sign to deal to pill, trips out without political assurances. and to the new threat group behind last week, suicide attack at the international airport. there was this warning, isis. k. we are not done with you yet. the air left organize been carried out in such a short space of time was undoubtedly a military, diplomatic, and humanitarian success with americans left behind it for very little america has questions to ask about this involvement in afghanistan. questions that are obvious and difficult, you'll buys and has been politically damaged by what has happened over the last few

weeks. he didn't start the war, but what happened at the end? well, hang over the remainder of his time and often. allen fisher. i'll just see it up at the white house. you know, the u. k says it's in direct talks with the taliban to secure a safe passage for british nationals and afghan allies remain there. the talks in both and you can officials and senior taliban members taking place in doha. britain's mission came to an end on saturday. it's learn more than 15000 people out in the past 2 weeks. when the taliban expressed disappointment at the departing us troops for disabling planes in the helicopters and destroying equipment at campbells airport, the group also said it wanted to attract foreign investments. run an inclusive government. in other news honeycutt ida has left hundreds of thousands on the us gulf coast without drinking water and electricity. louisiana governor called the destruction catastrophic. restoring power could take weeks and he's 4 people died. you have federal court documents show that one of 2 former

u. k. nationals accused of being part of an eyesore cell will be guilty to criminal charges on thursday. alex on dakota was expedited from iraq last year to face trial, and the u. s. is accused of involvement in the beheadings of western hostages coaches. part of our group dubbed the beatles by their captives because of their british essence. and the reports, the syrian government and local leaders from the rebels held city of that i have reached an agreement for a 3 day cease fire due to start on wednesday. the government forces have recently ramped up their offensive to take that up, including blocking the supply of food and medicines. in a spate of rebel attacks on army checkpoints in neighboring towns. but those were the headlines. the news continues here now to 0 after witness stage events of watching. the news

me who i the last images i found long after she was gone, where images of her childhood they were taken in late 943. it a refugee camp, your mound, column, and gera. the footage was meant to be edited and narrated, over for war time newsreel for the village of women and children in this still reappeared in africa. after disappearing into siberia, they might have sought. the camera was capturing their story the newsreel was

never made. the images were sent to london and sat on a shelf for 75 years. for me who grew up hearing about this place. it was a story that had spent a lifetime hearing ah, the 1st thing i can remember about my post grandmother is a voice i was 4 years old, laying on the floor in montreal and looking at a world map. she hovered over me and whispered about where she grew up before it ever understood that she was from poland. and what that meant. i knew that she lived in east africa as a refugee as i get older,

she told me about being deported from poland to the soviet union when it was 11 years old. and if 10 years wandering displaced, she spoke to the bearing family in siberia, catholics down in iran. or i was surrounded by women like her telling the same stories. oh, but i didn't pay much attention to them. the 1st time i picked up a video camera, i was 15 and my grandmother walked into friends getting back 1st. okay. got you and i found the blank wall, which was all that anyone seemed to know of her story. then when i was 19 university, i wrote a pause refugees in africa. a professor challenged my history though. he never read

about it and asked me to check my sources. the flowers going to be on their way? no. yeah, they are now. it's okay. well i was one, portland east berlin and my family name is carrie was 22 brothers and assisted me. part of us haven't done parents both sites, but they were living separate. and what was said is that each of you can tell me where life was located in the village where you're born in poland.

and what was you can tell me the name of the village and what kind of community it was like. well have to, it was or had the call or those still, vic and everybody live for their own land. so it wasn't, wasn't a village which is house next to each other. this is everybody live on his own land . and i can't really say much because i don't remember much from poland. i remember more from the time they took us to say video, that part a member oh i

oh, they took us february 10th saturday, pick up my grandparents with didn't we just so hadley to the window because the day was very cold and they blocked our door so my mother was crying and begging them to, she wanted to see her parents,

they just took them, both of them put on their slaves and over them my way. about 2 hours later they came for us. one of those soldiers told my parents, you'd take whatever you can. what are you going? you're going to need it. and my father will they, when they take us to c. o. o, from 940 to 41. the soviet union emptied eastern point. 2000000 people considered hostile to talk you patient, and use them to create new colonies to force labor across siberia. the children like my grandmother, were too young to work, were sent to school to be transformed into the next generation of soviets. while their parents were used as for laborers and forests,

cotton fields and mine she described to me as a prison, where there was, there were new fences around the camps. but if you walked away from them, you'd be surrounded by millions of square kilometers of siberia. the 1st time i went back to the village and my family was from i had to realize that it wasn't even in poland anymore. at the end of the 2nd world war, it borders had shifted 300 kilometers west as if the entire country had been lifted up by the war and displaced. which is how i ended up in dollars. when russia land claim by 7 different countries in the last 100 years, making it hard for anyone to find their ancestors

at the border. my bags were search by soldiers who asked me what i wanted to film. and i told them where we were from. but i didn't even know where that was the under the field, bella, ruth, of the ruins of hundreds of villages occupied by the soviet union at the beginning of the war. burnt down by the nazis in the middle of it, and then bulldozed by the soviets. when it was all over i was going directly past my grandmother had been born. but i wouldn't know that for another year. the a year later, i went back with an old polish map. it seemed to lay the world in my grandmother's memory onto the landscape. but half of the villages on it had been erased. and

those that were left bella russian names which is why instead of a place called this through vic, i was in re johnny, a neighboring town where my grandmother had been baptized for the 1943. and we will, you know, you can, when you said you can on the 31st of all a 3rd. will you guys even when you that you used to lose? you don't, you don't know where they need to live for that. just give me a rough, was me if i, if they try see bottom sheet and i use sheep, no, you have to go through a lease,

going round for boys. you position at greenwich. ah ah, i looked around for days trying to some anything connected to my family. and now only a few hours before you're planning on leaving the country. i was turning down a road towards the village. they had been deported from more than 70 years earlier . ah . what was the question when you're off? because i was

just sure with the judgment on those who want to know did you get a chance to look or just use the divide? yeah. you tend to put in, you know, the quarter was actually it was the last one you want because you get a, get him, you and you can yes. even though the good evening, susan. this. sure. his sure his thought is, you know,

find out that there's an yes oh guys. will you be as i'm with her to know that he is a guy in a bit of you know, have any idea because now you get to know. yeah, they do. a doors show here. was who saw the yeah. the sun smell, they would. yeah. they would. yeah. nick, there was for janik. eula. yeah. kasha and paul dick with the baby. interesting me scott harvey. about this. just bear with me when you get this

have a good time. yeah. you well that's a lot. yeah. i mean that's if i didn't get the call details that i get from the old and let's go to get us to come for you to get a plan. what would you tell you pay them well? yeah, shuffled now you too well and again, i know it's not the way let all should know was silbert. did you live on the stream on this side of my side or i think on this side you are yeah. feel part of like they were living much give you to. we're marion, we're close going this way. we drove like this in the return on the road and we

came. and they said that all of this land here belong to get it. yeah. what does it take when i showed you a picture of the parlor through that low, it was a little bit too fast for me and the excitement and little bit i to the press little bit. it's nothing there was really nothing ah, ah,

the poles were given papers, releasing them from thousands of forced labor camps across the barrier. the irony and being liberated is that they were even more honorable in inside the camps with their train tickets, clothing, food, money, or support the ways of starving deportees needed to make their way alone, to where the polish enders army was forming in the southern part of the soviet union or i i oh,

i in 2 years after disappearing into siberia as for slavers, the deportees reappeared again in iran as refugees the wonders upon the face of the earth. fields from poland during the end of one of the most amazing marches in history. 3000 weary miles, they've walked to find a haven refuge in american and british newsreel like this one, film polls arriving in iran. the refugees in them were real, but the scenes were all staged. these films also shifted the facts. the british

american newsreel is claimed that the polish refugees for victims of the nazis, not of the soviets, from one little town and poland, a 1000 men, women, and children planned from the nazis into russia. when the not the followed they pushed on through mountain and desert, 3000 miles to persia haven in iran on the field. behind the scenes though, the british were helping the polish government in exile gather testimony. but what the polls that survived in 16 years before alexander such an eton would even start reading, grew leg archipelago. 118000 post citizens in iran were testifying about the repressive force labor system and soviet union. but their voices would almost totally disappear.

i while they were recovering in iran, one of the 1st things the refugees did was posed for a family photograph. why would refugees rush to get their picture taken? maybe to show their families spread out in other places that they were alive. in the looking at these women and children, maybe it was to prove to themselves as well. the deportees had no images of siberia, but these photos captured in iran feel like monuments to what they survived. this photo taken into from is the earliest image of my grandmother's life. all of their family, photographs from poland had been lost during the deportations. my great grandmother is 36 years old. her son is 10. i. grandmother is barely 12

attraction of a 2nd into iran is of a fragment of family in the middle of war. when everything else was gone, memory was the one thing that could only be taken with their lives. the student will drive so much to them and that's got them tonight. yeah. nothing. yeah. he was asking mary

stanley suave. all he was born stand swell was 1900 of our faith lum. ted blue. i know you forget its 1942 we were living. said be too late for that was 942 beginning of 1944 and then when and does not do one. yeah. yeah. we spend an hour or 2 to whack. i'm supposed to. i mean that's on it to yes ma'am. to forward to being today and i and the nice people to one that's do you have to pay

yeah, because i have the papers be that when we arrived to east africa, when near the, in the 1943, we did shit up front. just been just a bit about on that anyway, she actually been in the 19 for she's not the managers but she won't appear william, i don't know when you logged into the data, but the updated, the thing is not

easy to look into in the morning and then i'm going as a back to the toes trying to figure that no, no, no, good day to say reset my 1111. and here it says live here. ok. is that one m b date? 1943. looks like 43 and i don't know. i want to look my handwriting found so you can get on with them. i know they flag this. i don't know. i'm not know.

oh me. ah, if they couldn't agree on the things they live through together. i wasn't sure what i was supposed to remember. coming into the world, nothing but a handful of documents. their history mostly existed in memory when they had different memories of the same events. what did it mean for the history on the debate. pacific people, the ocean, is our identity and the source of well being. we are the ancient when no help, they get off the table shooting atmosphere. people are demoralized, they're exhausted, and many health care workers are experiencing p t f. d like symptom, jump into this dream. and julian,

a global community. if you on line on youtube right now, you can be part of this conversation as well. this stream announces era in countries like mine, people have been killed to be we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public war. this was a deal with saudi arabia. things were done differently. saudis, and other areas when they came to britain to be all to help the problems deals along your rum. so this meeting, saddam, is it that interesting there, i am. shadow on al jazeera. i've always been a hands on chandler working asia and africa. there'd be days where i'd be choosing and editing my stories in a refugee camp with no electricity. and right now where confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced. and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise. because that's the only way we can try to solve any of these problems is together. that's

well 0. so important. we make those connections, use the hello. i'm down, jordan in dough with the headlines here on al jazeera us president joe biden has defended his withdrawal of troops from afghanistan, gordon, the evacuation, and extraordinary success. he's faced criticism over the chaos of the past few weeks. as i've got this done rapidly fell on the taliban control, the biden blamed african forces collapsing far more quickly than expected. we succeeded what we set out to do, and i can't stand over a decade ago. and we stayed for another decade. it was timed and this war.