15 years after its dependence nation is deeply divided. every time with serbia asunder, pilot from italy has proved that tunnels on just for trains and cars, stereo carstairs become the 1st person in the world to fly a plane through 2 tunnels. and incredible feet took place in turkey. after taking off in the 1st tongue, only flew through the 2nd. i never speed of 245 kilometers per hour. whole flight lossing, just under 44 seconds. ah . metro stories and 0. the 1st civilian flight has left couples airport. since the taliban took a ref canister on the runways haven't been operational since the final us troops withdrew last week. but repairs have now been carried out with the help of technical teams from cutter and turkey. and it's hoped crucial. a deliveries can begin soon. ation experts say international airlines unlikely to resume flights to

cobble until airport security is guaranteed. fighting is continuing in the pan. she valley. it's the last area, not on the taliban control. after unconfirmed reports, it had taken control on friday. the national resistance front, which is made up of militias and former african security force members, says it successfully pushed back the top bounds attempt at taking the territory of telpa and maintains it now controls all of us kind of stone. holla, the fact that there is no doubt that the circumstances we face that difficult. we face attacks by our call to terrorists and the taliban, who backed by pakistan. but we defending our homeland and the resistance continues the enemy, his stuff with casualty. we've also taken casualties today we faced the tax by the enemy, but we remain in complete control of the situation. the sally that coalition fighting with the rebels in yemen, says it has intercepted and foiled

a ballistic missile attack on the oil rich eastern region of saudi arabia. growing more on that story as we get it. lebanon's deepening economic crisis has led to a thawing of relations with syria over fuel import. do the highest level official lebanese is it since serious civil war began 10 years ago? has led to a deal to import power. egyptian gas will be imported to jordan and used to make electricity, which will then flow through the syrian grid to lebanon. food and fuel shortage is a crippling lebanon's economy. protested in bangkok demanding the prime minister resignation hours after he went to parliamentary confidence. vote. demonstrators accuse approach not sure, and his government of corruption and miss handling the current of ours response. do stay with us if you can. the listening posted up next one years after that news

news news. the paper bill here on the yard, we understand that there has been a plane crash on the southern tip like that was like a 2nd place and never again going to be the same new york will not be the same and it will not be in the history on the nation has carnage. me. there was an eat those that took cold that, you know, this terrible attack was a big threat to the country and that somehow we were all in this together, the government and the press. the response ought to be appropriate to what is in

fact, the 2nd pearl harbor, the climate after $911.00. and meant that if you spoke out against the calls to invade iraq or the war on terror, your committee and career suicide. this is about good versus evil. this is about people who want to destroy us, our civilization, and our way of life. 911 basically created a world in which the united states was able to present itself as a force of good fighting against this international axis of evil. states like these and their turn down lives constitute an axis of evil. behind that rhetoric is a reality which is filled with death and destruction for people in the middle east and central asia and south asia. we need to put people on notice that if they harbor terrorists, they are going to get a legacy has been creating more terrorism. actually, we've got

a long way to go in order to achieve our objective in america has no interest in fighting an endless war. in afghanistan, war than enhances the conditions that produce what is supposed to eradicate. we wanted to fight a war against in and when i could win that war in a week, i just don't want to kill 10000000 people. i know my decision will be criticized. but i would rather take all that criticism, pastor's decision on to another president in the united states, yet another one, the war that can never really end. the one did not have to be a visionary to realize on september 11th, 2001 that the united states was about to change. a strike at the heart of the world's only superpower, almost $3000.00 american lives lost in a single day. will have that effect. what was unforeseen was,

how many people in countries that had nothing to do with the 911 attacks had been affected by what the bush administration called on to the people who have never set foot in the west have seen their own countries to change their own rights, freedoms lives restricted. the invasion of afghanistan and iraq turned from temporary interventions into long term occupations and were skills dominating needs . in 2000 today, taliban fighters took control of the capital cobble. it was a crusade as president george w bush once called. we've never seen this kind of evil before, but the evil doers have never seen the american people started with the white house forging alliances on the airwaves ever in print. and in intellectual circles. one

of the intellectuals who was brought into the white house to help frame the war on terror is bernard lewis, who are not. louis is famous for pointing the tom clash of civilizations. they want to turn this into a religious war. a war of islam against what they see is the, the world of the unbelievers and in the world of the unbelievers, obviously the americans come 1st. another person who was brought in is freed secaria. at the time was the editor, international edition of new suite of the war takes place and it goes well, which i think it probably will. you will also see at the end of this war that saddam hussein was indeed a murderous tire. and there will be stories that will be evidence and in that sense, you will, you will. this will, will look better in history perhaps than it does today. 911 gave a new lease and a new life to orientalist ideas and even orientalist scribes. this man can

world view of good and evil in a way allowed for the bush administration's notion of this. lemme call to replace actually the space that the evil empire of a soviet union had occupied before. and so the idea really was that it was the role of the united states to go in and civilized these peoples. and what these intellectuals did is they wrapped up and made it palatable for the 21st century. it was a time when the line separating american journalism from those in power faded away or was willingly crossed november 29th, 2001 was a case in point. it is a day that has stuck to for read the car. and robert caplin, a writer who worked at for the atlantic, both attended a meeting, organized by the deputy secretary of defense, paul wolf, for a gathering, a hawk's planning, a war and messengers who knew how to sell

a brainstorming session that capital. and now would mit produced a forceful summary of pro war arguments at the time? the most significant talking point of the meeting with that the united states had to find a way to change the regime in iraq in supporting the iraq war. i build my own test as a realist and have never ceased to remind by readers of that over the last 20 years . i attended no other meetings about the iraq war. and it's correct to say that meeting such as this one, provided an intellectual veneer to the policy that emerged. what rankles me is that with a few exceptions, the people who were writing robustly in favor of the war in iraq, they're the editors of some of the most important publications in the united states

. right now. they're my friends. i don't wanna single them out, but none of them paid a price not no $1.00. i supported the war because i was a journalist who had gotten too close to my story. i had made several trips in the 19 eighties and i had never experienced tyranny. like i did in saddam hussein's iraq, so i said to myself, what's worse than this? nothing could be worse than this. well, i found out in the years since the invasion that the anarchy in iraq after saddam cell was much, much worse than the tyranny under his rule. whether caught up in a rush of patriotism or addicted to the ratings that rise when broadcaster is bang, the drums of too much of the american media bought into the big allies on iraqi w. m. d. 's terrorist sleeper south than the us and saddam hussein's fictional

links to our kite new studios were flooded with ex military officers turned front men for weapons manufacturers urging us to attack iraq, presented as experts were more like profit here at the pentagon, played a ordinating role in getting them on the air, let's turn to retire. general, joseph ralston, also jeremy general bernard trainer. he's a retired marine corps lieutenant general air force lieutenant general tom mac. and ernie who is with us in our foxes, were briefing room. they were beltway band, former pentagon officials, who make out like bandits when they go into the private sector and then work for military contractor. this campaign is brilliant, it doesn't involve any collateral damage, no villages, no urban warfare. and it was a scandal that david barstow of the new york times uncovered. he brought in the

minutes of the meetings between rumsfeld and the military experts who were going on tv was a completely orchestrated program inside the pentagon, giving talking points to the experts who would go on the media to shape public opinion. ah, anti war perspectives were marginalized, in some cases censor, the new york times was not the only us media outlet to turn into a conveyor belt for a false narrative. but because of its reach and influence at home and abroad, it helped set the news agenda. jill abramson was the times, is washington bureau chief chris hedges, his beat at the time was outside, the media was complicit in, perpetuating this mit. you can't make a war on terror. that's o t ology. it's impossible. and yet we reacted we drank from that very dark elixir

of nationalism. you have to remember after the attacks of 911, the bush administration perpetrated on, on purpose this kind of fear and how they ended up passing the patriot act in the 2002 authorization use military force actor. so you had fear, but then you also had american chauvinism, and that was a very deadly mix, that an essence blinded the new york times as an institution. it wasn't just one or 2 reporters, right after $911.00. i remember the director of the cia george tenant, calling me i was the washington bureau chief for the new york times. and on that call, enlisting my agreement that the times would not do any reporting or disclose and of intelligence sources and methods. he just talked to the washing and posts,

and he ticked off the networks and everybody had agreed. and the times ended up giving huge play some seriously flawed news stories that were based on for rocky defectors, who turned out to have very little information of value about the current state of affairs in iraq. me in 2004, the times published an editorial may a copa of sorts admitting that some of its coverage, leading up to the iraq war was not as rigorous as it should have been. it said editors who should have been challenging record, pressing for more skepticism, were perhaps too intent on rushing scoops into the paper. the auditorium ended with a promise to continue aggressive reporting aimed at setting the record straight in the us military on leave,

a massive series of air strikes on baghdad and other cities in iraq. and it was both shocking and awesome, as it was promised to be swept the nation after the events of $911.00. so much so that journalists felt that they could not ask critical questions. cbs anchor, dan, rather who went on the letterman show and who said george bush is depression and he makes the decisions. and you know, there's just one american wherever you want me to tell me where and he'll make the call. talk about and media that have completely given up their autonomy, fox news, and rupert murdoch's empire with consistently in favor of the war on iraq. in fact, all his editors about a 180 of them took a pro war 9 in the lead up to the iraq war one, oregon. saddam begins. we expect every american to support our military and if they

can't do that, to shut on color or audiences, we're led to believe the iraq war would be over in months. if not weeks and months . our patients will be one of our strengths that american troops would not end up meyer there or in afghanistan, which the us invaded to funk down to summer. been loudon and al qaeda and where a decade after ben latins assassination american forces remained. when the biden administration finally entered the afghan, establish, and last month american news companies featured many of the same voices. obviously, this is an unmitigated disaster column. we did, our dc defense contract around they had advocated for the invasions and the subsequent occupation were now arguing that the us was leaving afghans at the mercy of the taliban. and abandoning american interest

on time 911 also birth a new generation of security centric films and television shows produced to trade unfair. the pentagon and the cia have long had an informal symbiotic relationship with all supplying movie makers with military hardware or turning this by agencies headquarters in virginia into a film set in exchange for state friendly screenplays. 2 months after 911 in november of 2147 talk, hollywood executives met with bush advisor, karl rove in los angeles, to discuss patriotic plot lines. the industry could craft rove later, said it was about showing that the war in afghanistan was not against the law, but against terrorism. that distinction would be lost on most filmmakers,

and eventually their audiences. there was 24. it's centered around a counter terror prism age and by the name of jack bower. and every season is based on 24 hours of trying to avert this terrorist plot. i walker day, oh, torturing people sometimes killing them. but the audience is led to believe that he has no choice, but to do all the real quick things. so that show was fantastic, a popular and played a very big role in terms of creating a terrorism mindset. season for the show 24 had an ad campaign with a muslim family that looked very suburban americas did. please me or not.

i can't even tell you the shock i thought when i saw that i'm here to tell you that i think that many people die because of it very drones up being dropped because we are the unionized countries i invaded because we are the human eyes because people do not have empathy with brown people. the whole land, which took over from 24 round from 2011 to 2020 and marked a shift from the kind of shoot him a cowboy narrative off 24 into obama smarter war on terror. all the muslim characters, nefarious and terrible, except for one of the agent who is in iranian american, who proves her loyalty by being extremely patriotic. but your current state of mind makes your loyalty to him and to the agency, a very live issue. call the director, not to worry. she's a good muslim, right? that showed how cultural knowledge of the enemy,

good intelligence and diplomacy were important in terms of winning the war on terror. of course it also justified extra judicial killing. it justify torture and all the rest of it. so now you've got the air for the muslim who is a c h and but nobody stopped and asked for hold it. you know, is this now human? i think us are you making us, you know, like everybody else got farsi speakers with experience and international finance. i had to help wake him be, tell him we really those about how damaging it was for american coaches to be center, but not a single movie about how damaging it was for the people down after 911, any nuanced discussion of the islam of the world or what it means to be muslim is vanquished. and what we get in fact,

are just these empty slogans and cliches that take the place of real understanding or knowledge. so you get films like american sniper butcher, you've got to get on the avenue the entire premise of the film that these people are terrorists who savagely attack innocence. they're not defending their own country from invasion, kind of mind to move. it feeds very pernicious stereotypes. there are very few films that actually show a nuanced portrayal of what context make tears impossible. what drives young men to become tears. there are examples of film by morgan. maybe i use voices of god.

is the policy and film paradise? no. it's not a coincidence that the psalms on american, these films show the complexity of the socio economic and geo political climate that push certain young men into the hands of terrorists. organizations find a span of course films, articlemodel, d. right. and these are multinational corporations that are interested in profit, and they want to produce what sells in a way. but oftentimes, it rhymes with the official discourse and narrative of the state. after so many years of you need dimensional reductive depictions of error muslims and the middle east accordion says have been conditions to expect certain kinds of

bad guys. i stabbed him, the blood was those one and it sprayed everywhere which may explain why the new york times, incidentally, winning podcast, 2018 california with sexual essential character who went by the elliot abu, who told the times he was an islamic states soldier and furnished the paper with tales of violence, and barbara had staggered multiple times. he put him on the cross to leave a dagger in his heart. the podcast was downloaded millions of time, but the story turned out to be a hoax. abu safe, a real name is sharon challenge. he is a fraud, a scientist who sold a fictional tale 2 times reporter, with many color market one she would eventually,

when a peabody award for the paper was forced to admit it got it wrong. blaming and institutional failure, 16 years after acknowledging the failings in its post 9 coverage. promising to be more rigorous, the new york times had done it again. but the pod remains on line with this spring . the time has concluded that the episodes of cal feet that presented a child to his claims did not meet our standards for accuracy. and the times stood by telemarketing, his journalism hasn't called into question before describing her final report. and so since muslims are demonized it's, it's very easy for the media to embrace stories however false that cater to that stereotype of muslims and the new york times did precisely this. when

put out the caliph based on the testimony given by an imposter, it was completely untrue. but it catered to that stereotype. it was lurid. it was salacious. it was audio snuff, poor people being crucified and stabbed in the heart, and the blood was everywhere to help it. i just do, i'm a fake killer. now. i didn't give him a chance to repent, stabbed him. but because of the long denigration of muslims with both within popular culture and within the media, it was believable. those stereotypes that play unfair are uneasy for the politicians. filmmakers and news networks that acted as travel agents for the war on terror discourse, political leaders, the world over have adopted vac right. in some cases have copied and pasted the legislation to surveil and ultimately sites. ready their own opposition?

i speak to someone who was always against this. sandra jean, i always wanted to see the end of dictatorship. but i, like many iraqis did not want to see the destruction of an entire society and the dismantling of institutions that took a 100 years to bill. we did not have terrorism before 2003, and we did not have car bombs. we have not have malicious running around killing people. the war on terror and the atmosphere it created has generated so much unnecessary fear amongst so many citizens. so as to become a very convenient tool to completely crush any kind of legitimate political opposition. the fear narrative has become far more pervasive since $911.00. yeah. it was

a terrifying and then the whole country watch thousands of people die on that day. but we remained in a perpetual state of, of the year. there were always new threats that were being played. one of the key accomplishments, i think of the war on terror is really to create a world that is a lot scarier in people's minds than it is in reality. what is really alarming for people who study the war on terra and who have a sense of the actual threat posed by islamist or jihad. this group is the extent to which this threat has been overblown and over inflated not just in the united states, but around the world to justify various course of policies. once you make people afraid, you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. remember,

we are the most watch, spied upon photograph, monitored population in human history. and when your government watches your 24 hours a day, you can't use the word liberty, you'll have the relationship of a master and slave. and that is the real legacy of 911. the global citizens persuaded by political leaders and news organizations to fear unseen enemies have surrendered some of their basic civil rights in the name of staying safe. in september of 2001, the bush administration called the downing of the world trade center, an attack on freedom. however, 2 decades later, you've come to realize that the actual sustained attack on freedom lies in so much of what has happened since. it is a war on dressed up disguise as

a war, one who news news, news news . yeah, it shows the world and change the us forever. but after a vengeful war and africanist on how much has changed and at what cost? al jazeera looks back on 20 years since the $911.00 attacks on accounting, the cost china designs on the indian ocean bay. james investing millions enforcing laws through lunch in august on can india account to china?

geo. political and economic might last a referendum in berlin. district for landlord of tens of thousands of whole accounting, the cost on our sierra. ah hello. lauren taylor and under the top stories are now to 0. the 1st civilian flight has left cobbles, effort since the taliban took over afghanistan. repairs have now been carried out with the help of technical teams from cutter and turkey, and has helped crucial aid deliveries can begin soon, retorted getting the reports african food and airplane cobble international airport bound for the northern city of missouri sharif.