the risking is sierra leo on al jazeera ah, holding the powerful to account as we examine the us, his role in the world on al jazeera. ah, hello, and barbara farrah, london. these are the top stories on al jazeera, the leader of the resistance movement, and of kind of stones punch here, valley is calling for a national uprising after the taliban said it now controls the last province opposing its rule. vessels raged for days in the mountainous region, north of campbell, charlotte bellis reports now from the african capital. the pan shear valley,

a land. the taliban has never controlled until now. this was the last pocket of resistance to the group's rule in afghanistan. less than a week after the last us troops deposit the taliban, nelson, it controls every corner of the country. as the taliban a prison in pen g, a province were engaged in the purging pension. the capital pension was under the control of the taliban. the enemy suffered a lot of damage, but we did not suffer any damage. after the taliban took cobble, 3 weeks ago, full no vice president, umbrella selah flayed to pen schear. joining local resistance leader, ahmed masoud, another soldier to refuse to surrender. they call themselves the national resistance, runs the group, and the taliban fluctuated between faxing and negotiations until talks broke down last week. pay a home, but i am a little high. but now delegations went there. they received negative answers and

they couldn't resolve matters through negotiations and dialogue. so the islamic emory decided to send military forces. busy to get rid of this violence, nest of terrorism from the taliban launched an offensive into the valley with communications down both sides, launched a propaganda war, claiming de, we're winning the fight for another target. we're in our positions and fighting is ongoing with the enemy has been exterminated. i took this weapon from a television fighter motor dead bodies are spread out on the ground. the pantry valley was used to successfully resist. soviet forces in the 1980. and the taliban in the 1990 s and early 2000. and one of the united states biggest allies during that era was northern alliance leader on the charm. as soon as he was assassinated by a kind of suicide bombers 20 years ago, 2 days before the 911 attacks in the united states, his son armored masoud, was the face of this generations resistance to the taliban. a voice nor was sent

out by his spokesmen on monday o jazeera could not verify when it was recorded. how much panama, my dear countryman, wherever you are, inside or outside of canister. i want you to start an uprising to whatever you can do, stand up and raise your voice less than nobody knows where the 3rd escaped to and where the other resistance leaders laid. also, still, they remain hopeful they can transplant their uprising from pen sheer to neighborhoods across the country. the taliban meanwhile remains triumphant. charlotte bellis al jazeera, called us secretary of state anthony lincoln and defense secretary lloyd austin, has met the mayor of katherine doha to discuss the ongoing efforts to evacuate remaining us citizens from dana stone. earlier of lincoln release. the statement thanking catherine for supporting the us lead evacuation operation. and officials

have confirmed that the us has arranged the 1st safe departures of americans since the troops withdrew 4 people left via an overland route guinea. now, the military rulers, there has bar the officials from leaving the country after detaining the president and toppling the government on sunday. who leader is summoned cabinet ministers and told them to hand over their passports and official vehicles. they also promised to set up a transitional national unity government. a man hunt is under way for 6 palestinian inmates who've escaped from a prison in israel. they dug up tunnel under the bow, a prison just north of the occupied west bank 5 are members of the slimy you had movement. while the 6 is that katie, as a baby, a former field commander, associated with the fat that parties. those are the headlines coming up next to the human cost of the global arms trade. that's next on shadow world. thanks for

watching. i'll see you in half an hour. bye bye. with the. ready ah, i, when we stumbled on the saudi alms deal, the moms, 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 to himself, 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. he makes an arrangement with prime minister x, y, z. i'll hand over the 5000000, but you take half a 1000000 and you send it to the following bank account and switzerland. i've got nothing. it's money. i don't mind paying bribes to position. it's part of the deal . the thing about politicians is very much like prostitutes, but only more expensive from to 50 is all the way through the

1970 the cia and the us 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. funding an army desk was like the contra nicaragua or a battalion $316.00 and. and they 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, our war on terror begins with that. but it does not in

the 30 very war on terror is irrational. it's like saying, a war on war. war on violence won't know since you slipping into this possibility of confir picture war the now are you leg reassuring us and we kept believing him because you don't want to think your prime minister is deceiving you in the route to more than 9 more serious when the theory is brought of 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 not 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 holders found are flew to london, a blessed swung into action. ah, he ordered the series for august that closed 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 we've been banging away out for more than 5 years. suddenly everybody woke up to it because everybody could see was a huge cover up scandal. the spectacle of british prime minister closing bout a criminal investigation presented beasen. 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 started talking about national security interests, that supposed to be a com, the trump, so all of it, i don't believe the investigation is deli, 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 actually stuff and 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 won 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 air force actually wanted be a system real performance. real advantage as mon della was about to step down from public life. his successor toggle and becky made the decision to spend around $10000000000.00. what we're quite gas public resources on the 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 aids the primary reason for those deals was that around $300000000.00 in bribes with 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, andrew, this is a battle you cannot win. because this money 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 i and i looked at him and i said, no, it's not i wouldn't be able to live with myself. if i stop this investigation. but at the same time, i'm also realizing that this is the end of my political career. the henderson 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. i companies like be and not nice are effectively part of the government, but they're effectively 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 drives 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 of corruption from, i mean to rush out there for $26000000.00 every year. i was being dragged down. right. to the last 2nd i'm going to

still fe, remind everyone that this guy's a walk. him and 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 blair. that's actually what happened with j. p. morgan and the consortium of other banks did. in fact pro pop the whole iraq economy to the tune of about 2 and a half 1000000000. not 20000000000 other bit nervous that day. then 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 that there was corruption involved and not just bad decision making. 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 to so as far 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, augustine said that hope has to be from dollars, anger and courage, anger at the way things are encourage to see that they don't remain the way they are. way. the way that you can serve 2 sets of principal is privilege and power justice. the more you may compromises with those to 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, if he has anti mac or good, then we will see that potentially thought it available for the year. so i show it to free the free c was good. now gentlemen, why not as william salon took over cologne? no, not to be a man. hope of george bush and washington cited them in the college of bush. look on the 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 they said it's not good, but i got him if you want to much, how would it be for me and emily key, how about of that up? what was i let me allow to be a diamond. how about and how will it's hard to hit julia george bush and telling us or not. and every country was what i can make so much that we had the end up being developed at it. but it was actually john nanette, again, let miss george washburn. well,

would you allow them to me the like you know, the whole and the the sort of the get through for us not it's none at all. and i, me can about my going to be me. does it had honor that for him comes to the bottom with the because the likely that i did know con, low in just ready go on, move hammock. ah,

i'm going to reach 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 counterterrorism 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 law 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 l a times in new york times who be call american official say. i denounced the call to invade iraq publicly. veneer times issued me 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 chief, i mean i've been in iraq been 7 years. the middle east. the how can you come out of garza 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've been and not be angry. ah, i've seen the bodies a lot of children, which i can't forget. ah, me. especially, i mean, years in the

hell is in a 1000000 alone, and that's what killed people i fully get why people blow their brains out. it's really how and i don't use love the kind of hallmark multi, you know, we all got to 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 like

ga, u. b to alpha 38 that we used to have on our loaches. a mini gun that fired $4000.00 rounds per minutes. 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. if you're a small state like we were for 150 years, in essence, these are these spain, france, england, and even russia. you gotta be exquisitely 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 edelman, you don't deal with anybody, you smack your military, you smack them on may 3rd of 2000 and the ambassador

of switzerland to delivers a letter from the wrong to the united states in that matter. the volumes essentially offer negotiations to open up the nuclear program for full transparency . the proposal came in. i happened to see it because 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 colorado callback. and he said that he found the proposal intriguing. he wanted to know if it was genuine, were promised 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 footing and protect us against a brutal enemy and a dangerous conflict that will shapes us 2 centuries. no form of response was given to the iranians at all. i'm grateful to have been

a witness to history and the argument was that whatever could come out of a negotiation with the audience even more can be achieved by simply removing the regime in iraq. in a way to sum up the argument. 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 defense. the idea is that wolf which shared with

me and charter cheney in 919 to package down re tool and thought about them went to the white house brief people like presidents, america needs a new strategy, a forceful wishing change. so here this idea springs back up in 2001. i went through the pentagon in november, 2001, and one of the general said, sure, i got this ma'am. on my face. we're 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 then 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. the 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 i, 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 curtis 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, station chief, or the american ambassador, they go in there and they kill people. i love to work with 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 has 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 gauge and preemptive strikes. but they became the policy itself in eye witness accounts and head start. events from arab israeli conflict and sinai. witness dissident 1st hand from beginning to end to espionage and the occupied west

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players reveals the inner workings of an organisation telling the name to many as the blood alliance. inside this, in a la carte house part, one of the key parts investigation, people and power on out his era. ah hello and barbara, sarah, london, these are the top stories on al jazeera, the leader of the resistance movement of kind of stands. punchier valley is calling for a national uprising after the taliban said it now controls the last province of posing its rule. battles raged for days in the mountainous region north of cobble. the area is known for successfully resisting both soviet forces and the taliban in the ninety's. charles stratford has more now from the african capital. there has been

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