eyes, if it's fearless and this re to make it germany goes to the poles and elections the, the i'm going to merkel replace after 15 years in power. what will the results mean for german and european union, september on al jazeera. oh, i know, i'm emily. i'm going into her with adult stories here and al jazeera fighting, and i'm going to stop is escalating between the taliban and the resistance group in the pen. she valley north of the capital cobbled. it's been the only province to hold out against taliban rule despite being entirely surrounded child straps. it has more from a village, neither pen, she veiling. behind me, you're just about be able to see the town of goulburg hall. now that is the entrance to the pantry valley, the only entrance to the punchy, about a civilian population in the thousands. when we arrived there was a lot of smoke. there was a lot of artillery being fired at that town. we understand that the child by the

taliban are in control of it, but they have been responding as well in the last 5 minutes or so. again, more artillery heavy machine gun fire being heard. we've spoken to locals in the area of many locals telling us how terrified they are. they say the fighting started about 4 days ago. and as i say, they say that is especially bad at night. it has been escalating. they also say that the resistance, this group called the n r s that are in control upon ship valley. they said that they sold a group pulling in weapons, bringing weapons into the area in and around the time that the taliban took control were pushing towards taking control of cobble preparing themselves for they spite. now, bear in mind that this valley is historically known for its, for its strong resistance. the soviets, whenever able to take it, the tale bond have never been able to take it. it is 95 percent plus tasha

population of around 10150000. the resistance is being led by a man called off. mate masoud, the son of a very famous fight against the russians in the eighty's. we know that there have been negotiations in the last few days. obviously they have fallen by the wayside. now. they have failed. you cases, it's boosting. aid for afghanistan's neighbors is idea with refugee slain the country. dominic rob was speaking in pakistan's capital is i'm a bad where he's been in talk to the government a some a been jervey who's in peshawar. impact is done as more on the farm and is making there is a lot of emphasis on pocket son's facilitation. that's something that was discussed between dominic rob and foreign minister with grocery. they also discussed about how the u. k. can help boxed on to cope with this crisis as you heard the before. and this and making the case for progress on we've, we've been speaking to him in the last few weeks. and he told me as well that fox son has been hosting

a number of refugees. millions of them rather in pakistan without recognition from the international community. dominic rob today assuring him that there has been to be somewhere around $40000000.00 of additional funding for a gun to some neighbors to help a facilitate the guns and others coming to these countries. there were also a lot of other issues that were discussed in this meeting focused on in the united kingdom by dr relations. this is the issue of a foreign action task force about the finances for terrorist funding and all of those issues coming down to words focused on the role that it is playing in trying facilitate some sort of a peaceful transition in i've gone to sun, tell the news now in their reports of heavy fighting in the libyan capital between arrival armed forces it's believed the worst classes in sibley for a year happened near a military bank. libya has been divided between 2 rival administrations supported

by armed groups and foreign governments has been unrest in the country since now. pricing tumbled one like daffy in 2011 police and new zealand have shot and killed a man after he stamped 6 people at a supermarket. while the guns calling and i fell in spite attack authority, say the man was a shrunken national, who was on a security watch list, 3 of the injured are in a critical condition. us president joe biden has promised federal help for north eastern states. after remnants of hearken, otta hit the region with reco breaking rains. the flooding is reported over a 400 kilometers stretch from maryland to new york. at least 45 people have signed . those are the headlines. i'm emily angland. speak around for shadow world. bye for now. i.

me. the oh, i, when we stumbled on the saudi alms deal. yeah, my mom's the, we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years. heinous punch found, has been the hall of many of the great world events of the past 30. i was always pleased to see him when i was prime minister to consider salary as a strong friend and would be willing to support the kingdom with whatever the kingdom needs and of discussion from their own. everything else was technical. he explained to mrs. such that this was a deal with saudi arabia, and therefore things were done differently. they wanted 43000000

pounds worth of weaponry. that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. the vast majority, our most people understand is brian, the, when an executive goes to bribe before an official, he says don't. so look, i've taken a lot of risk to take this $5000000.00 that i'm paying to the prime minister of x, y, z. the makes an arrangement with prime minister of x, y, z, i'll hand over the 5000000, but you take half of that 5000000 and you send it to the following bank account and switzerland. i've got nothing in some money. i don't mind paying bribes to position it's part of the deal. the thing about politicians is a, they're very much like prostitutes, but only more expensive. from the 1950 s all the way through the 1970 the cia and the u. s. military were engaged in covert actions throughout central america throughout africa,

really throughout the world where they were assassinating populous leaders. they were backing up right way military hunters. fun. being an army desk was like the contrary. nicaragua, or a battalion 316 and 100. and there were the spade of assassinations across the globe individuals operating in the shadows and never having their names called are able to leverage the power of the military and the foreign policy apparatus for their own personal pecuniary ins. ah, i our war on terror begins with that. but it does not in the very war on terror is irrational. it's like saying,

a war on war war on violence won't. it's notion, you slipping into this possibility of confir picture war how are you? can we assuring us and we kept believing him because you don't want to think your prime minister is deceiving you in the route to want to know more serious when the theory is brought up, it launched his investigation into all the crimes that we were uncovering. it turned out that many of these alms deals had been forced through by tony blair personally, he's a dedicated arm salesman with every was a dispute ever in government. he was, the onset of the serious fraud office got to the brink of uncovering the secret swiss bank accounts by which b a was funnelling, money to the saudi royal family. the swiss said,

we're going to notify the bank account. holder's band are flew to london, a blessed swung into action. ah, he ordered the serious road office to close down their investigation. prince bandar said if the investigation continued, they would withdraw national security cooperation, which would lead in the words of prince bandar to blood on the streets of london. the story when been banging away at the more than 5 years suddenly woke up to it because everybody could see was a huge cover up scandal. the spectacle of british prime minister closing down to criminal investigation, present reasons. were you aware that your governor was approving payments to a friend of president bush's as part of the british? aerospace is kicked back system. is that why you suspended a fraud inquiry? when tony blair down to talking about national security interest,

that's supposed to be a calm that trumps all of it. i don't believe the investigation is that it would have led anywhere except for the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship or our country in terms of fighting terrorism in terms of the middle east, in terms of british interest that says things absolutely stunning. it seems to be a very expensive way of organizing broad payment as well because out the military equipment and just turn out money. the black came to south africa specifically to lobby that be the british weapons manufacturer. one the biggest contract on our deal. and the option that they presented was 2 and a half times more expensive than the pain that the south african apple actually

wanted be a new system. real performance, real advantage as mondell was about to step down from public life, his successor toggle, and he made the decision to spend around $10000000000.00 quite scarce. public resources on this weaponry that we didn't need rather than provide life saving cation for the almost 6000000 south africans who had been living with h, i v o h. the primary reason for those deals was that around $300000000.00 in bribes were paid to senior politicians and sadly to the african national congress, the a n c. my own party i was called in by

a senior member of a n c's. national executive council, he said to me, look angry. this is a battle you cannot win. because this money a bribes. we used to fund on 190909 election. and almost immediately, i'm off to make a statement to the press that says there's nothing to investigate. so it's all in and i looked at him and i said, no, it's not i wouldn't be able to live with myself if i stopped this investigation. but at the same time, i'm also realizing that this is the end of my political career. the head, this is a government of the sales people in chief of their countries, large arms contractors. and this is the template used by large defense contractors around the world. let me companies like be and i don't nice effects to be part of the government,

but there is actually above the law. corruption is not merely a dirty little detail on top of the arms trade. it's actually in a lot of cases, what drawings for the international arms trade. many of these deals would not happen if they did not provide opportunities for personal enrichment. i would be offended if i thought we had the monopoly or corruption, the trim, i mean, made a rush for $26000000.00 every year. i was being dragged down to the last 2nd. i'm going to still fe. remind everyone that this guy's walk him can, i just say, actually on the record, but he said about iraq and j. p. morgan is completely and totally untrue. i've never had a discussion with them. now, i'm not suggesting that there was

a phone call between j. p. morgan and black, it's actually what happened with j. p. morgan and the consortium of other banks did . in fact pro pop the whole iraqi economy to the tune of about 2 and a half 1000000000. not 20000000000 other than 6 months after he left office. blair, from a signed by a j. p. morgan for $5000000.00 every year. i was just trying to enlighten the public. there was corruption involved and not just bad decision making. but i'd like to find out how this gentleman managed to access the court. there must be a back door in because they don't go to the t at the time and there was a court room directly underneath the court room. the player was in and it was left on not. so i went through that run up 2 floors by the fosgate. i'm in to the, to the door that called itself. by this time my heart was pounding like, you know, it's really going mad. and i actually lost my courage. for the moment i went and sat down in a low and a bathroom. i found the toilet that i did actually ring my mother and said, listen, i'm here. what should i do? you think i should still go in?

my mom said, yeah, go and get another chance and i think that's it. i mean, the augustine said that hope has to be awful daughter's anger and courage, anger at the way things are encourage to see that they don't remain the way they are. either way, the way that you can serve 2 sets of principal is privilege and power justice. the more you may compromises with those who serve privilege and power more diminished the capacity for justice and trust. and i think that the rebel seeks to keep those who have power fearful color. they have been

unable to re lease a gym for free. but if well that the fee has anti mac on them, or we will see their potential with it available for the year slash mcduffy buffer. if was good now gentlemen, why not as william salon get up? oh, no, not too much to be at home and hope of george bush and washington cited them in the college of bush con teacher, or how that i'm going to look at it piece. that's what we want. freedom and

who wouldn't want to think when i know where to huffy and ga, push them and the kids are that are like and the other kids but in the shop and he says nobody would get him if you want to much, how would it be followed me and emily key, how about that one was i let me allow to be a diamond. how about and how will it's hard to hear julia george bush and telling us or not. and every country was what i can mix and match that we had the end up being developed on it. but it was actually john nanette, again, let me george bush below. well, what do you think of allow them to me the

well, i can know the whole and the sort of again, it's not it's none at all. and i me, come, but i'm about all my i'm going to be a para for him comes to tell me he bought it. because the big cobra likely that i didn't know on the low decide the go on the move hammock. ah, i'm going to read you the sourcing of the time, the report paragraph, one of us authorities say, call them one still us officials said, said one us justice department,

counter terrorism official column 2 officials said to us, authorities say us official said those officials said the officials confirmed american officials complained they said us official us officials, crest column 3 us authorities said jordanian official said no last to please we haven't finished yet. several us officials said, call them for us. official said, several american officials said officials say, say us officials, but us and who said one us counterterrorism official said i'm not joking where it is. that is the journalism you're getting fed. i sometimes think the times new york times who be call american official say i denounced the court when they are publicly bonaire at times it shouldn't be a formal written reprimand, which is what you get before your fire under union rules to stop speaking out against the war, i'd been the middle east bureau from and i'd been in iraq,

been 7 years the middle aged. the how can you come out of gas and not be angry? what's been done to those people? how can you come out of the sudan salad or dozens of other places? i better not be angry. ah, i've seen the bodies a lot of children, which i can't forget. ah, especially i mean years in the bill and it alone and that's what kills people. i fully get why people move their

brains out. it's really how and i don't use love. the hallmarks multi, you know, we all gotta love each other. i'm saying that the only way you're healed from those experiences is by re establishing a connection with that kind of power with another human being. and if you can't do that, you don't survive and i have friends who couldn't do it. they're out here tomorrow . it's the you know, the power of love to transcend time. c like ga u. b to alpha $38.00 that we used to have on our loaches a mini gun and fired $4000.00 rounds per minute. one of the manifestations of the

national security state, especially in the, in the sort of apple j. it's arrived at today is that it destroys diplomacy. it destroys the will to diplomacy, and it destroys the skill for diplomacy. the wrong thing. if you're a small state, like we were for 150 years, in essence of these, of these spain, france, england, and even russia, you gotta be exclusively good diplomacy. you've got to be able to talk yourself out of lots of things and make deals, and compromises and so forth. but if you're the world's hageman, you don't deal with anybody. you smack your military, you smack them on may 3rd of 2000. that's the ambassador of switzerland to delivers a letter from the wrong to the united states in that letter. the volumes

essentially offer negotiations to open up the nuclear program for full transparency . the proposal came in. i happened to see it because a coffee was also given to a member of congress that i worked for at the time. he sent it over to the white house and called rove called ro callback. and you said that he found the proposal intriguing. he wanted to know if it was genuine, were any promise to put it in front of the president? i would call karl rove, a dear friend. i've seen a man of far sighted courage. put america on a war footy and protect us against a brutal enemy in a dangerous conflict that will shape this new century. no form of response was guaranteed, the iranians at all. i'm grateful to have been a witness to history. and the argument was that whatever could come out of negotiation with the audience,

even more can be achieved by simply removing the regime in iraq in a way to sum up the arguments. however, the principal in the bush administration said that we simply do not talk to evil. and is tony's any said former central command commander, if you like the rock, you will love iran. that is a 10 to 14 year 3 to $4.00 trillion dollar invasion at the end of which the world western asia will look not much different than it does right now. it will still be internal still be in chaos, and 70 plus 1000000. iranians will hate our living gods. i was in the pentagon and i went to see the under secretary to fetch. the idea is that wolf which shared with me and charter cheney in $9019.00 to package down re tool and thought about them went to the white house brief people like presidents, american, each new strategy or force for region change. so here this idea springs back up in

2001. i went through the pentagon in november of 2001, and one of the general said, sure, i got this memo and i was going to go after 7 countries in 5 years. i says that a class right memo. he said, yes sir. we're going to start with iraq and we're going to move to serial. lebanon, libya, somalia, sudan, and iran. i think it's highly probable the administration has already made the decision to go to war against iran. there already us troops inside iran want to repeat that. there are already us troops inside iran that us as long had its eyes and trying to impact regime change in iran. and much of what you've seen the us doing with

regards to iran has been on a, on a cobra level. we've seen a report in new york or by seymour hersh that a us so are told in the us marines who are operating in the blue sky, missouri, and kurdish regions of iran. have you ever heard of that report? i've never heard of the report. i've never read the article, nor do i intend to do you have any christian as to whether or not you as the us ambassador. i don't have any interest as to whether or not us marines are actually operating in iran right now. i said i had not heard of the report and i didn't intend to read the article in the new yorker. if i gave you this article right now walked over, would you look at it? i don't think so honestly, congressman, because i don't, i don't have time to read much fiction. we have teams inside iran and these include joint special operations forces. most the lead command unit is been given executive authority by the president and as many as 12 countries to

go in and kill. we're talking about high value targets. they're operating now and they go into countries outside of the war zone. outside of that ghana, san, and outside of iraq. but i'm telling the american ca, stationed chief, or the american ambassador, they go in there and they kill people to work and sort of the dark side, if you will spend time in the shadows intelligence world. a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly without any discussion using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies. me, the doctrine that is endured from bush to obama is that the world is a battlefield. and the united states has the right to go into any country around the world to conduct what they call kinetic operation,

legal operations. regardless of what international law says, the, what is president obama's response to that? how is he going to deal with it? he embraced the very covert shadow forces that a decade earlier had only been talked about in hushed tones in the pentagon. not just as the implementers of a policy that said we should decapitate tara networks and engage in preemptive strikes. but they became the policy itself in when freedom of the press is the threat in, oh, you just cause thought genuinely about your thoughts towards the making government step outside the mainstream. the has been a all is implement. here's just some of access points that shift the focus, the pandemic that's turned out to be a handy little pretext. the prime minister clamped down on the press covering the

waves. the news discovered the listening post on the agenda with more than 200000000 cases. the curve of 19 worldwide governments of asking to fight fresh wave of the virus a new barrier. there had been a 3rd and the number of people working vaccination appointment from human cost to the political and economic lot. i'll just bring you the latest on depend demik. this'll have vaccinated more than 1100 people here, all of the migrant farm workers, people on home testing because they think that there is the risk to democracy, special coverage. and i'll just, sarah around the world to powerful entities are working to manipulate and influence the controls. faking algorithms that are being developed and designed to push the content that says click me every click, we make value. that's sort of what, what ends in the 3rd of our 5 last series raised in mexico, examining how the propaganda and prop shape contact. all hail the algorithm on just

the o. hello, i'm emily anglin, inter, how? with the top stories on al jazeera fighting in afghanistan is escalating between the taliban and a resistance group. in the pen, she valley north of the capital cobbled insane the only province to hold out against taliban rule. despite being entirely surrounded, the u. k says it's boosting aid for f going to stands neighbors as they deal with refugees. flame the country dominic rob was speaking a short while ago in pakistan's capital is lam a bad where he's been in talks with the government.