the the happening now we're trying to get people killed people and it kills people. now it medically both rise with the people's voice. oh no jazeera the. ready news i'm learn tater, on the top stories on how to 0. i taught us ministry commander has called the end of the 20 year war, and i got us on a strategic failure. general mark minnie was speaking on the 1st of 2 days of congressional hearings. over the chaotic american withdrew and taliban takeover last month. many, along with defense secretary lloyd austin and the head of central command, kenneth mackenzie, being questioned by senators. the button administration has been widely accused of being unprepared for the full of campbell. senior officials have admitted that taliban forces advanced far more quickly than anticipated. we help build a state,

mr. chairman, but we could not for donation. the fact that the afghan army that we in our partner strain simply melted away in many cases without firing a shot, took us all by surprise, and it would be just honest a claim. otherwise, we need to consider some uncomfortable truths that we didn't fully comprehend. the depth of corruption and poor leadership and the senior ranks that we didn't gras damaging effect effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. that we didn't anticipate. the snowball collect effect caused by the deals that the taliban commanders struck with local leaders in a wake of the doha agreement. and that the agreement itself had a demoralizing effect on ask and soldiers. patrick elaine is more from capitol hill . the term of the joint chiefs of staff mark, milly, say that there was an intelligence failure. and he said one reason for that could

be, could be that they withdrew advisors from those units 3 years ago. again, that would have been under the trump administration and he said, you can't really tell if people are willing to fight. if you're not around them, we can count tank so we can count guns for we can't know the willingness to fight unless we know the soldiers. so that's really the only clear indication that the military is starting to realize what went wrong in this absolutely. chaotic withdrawal fighting was asking that interview a few months ago. did any of your military advisors ask you or tell you the chief 2500 troops in country and so that jen talked either. what else spokes person was asked about that today? here's a response. there was a range of viewpoints as was evidenced by their testimony today that were presented to the president that were present into his national security team as would be expected. as he asked for, he asked for a clear, clear, i'd didn't ask them, not to sugar, could it what their recommendations were? it was also clear and clear to him that that would not be

a long standing recommendation that there would need to be an escalation to increase in true numbers. it also need, it would also mean war with the taliban and it would also mean the potential loss of casualties. the president was just not willing to make that decision. he didn't think it was in our, the interest of the american people or the interest of, of our troops. so what they're pointing out there is, the implication was, were you told to keep $2500.00 troops in the country and then it would be stable? and they point out the other testimony, especially from the secretary of defense, he has been pointed up. he's been pointing out. he said that after the deal was made with the taliban, if the us went back against that, they couldn't fight the taliban with the $2500.00 troops that they would have to sunday more forces and that they believe more american casualties. what happened? opposition petitions. in june, as you have warned, they'll call for widespread protests. and this the president backtracks on a decision to seize executive power for parties have formed a coalition against katie said, accusing him of carrying out a crude. last week,

the president announced a rule by decree and ignore parts of the constitution and says it's planning to reinstate a constitution from maybe 6 decades ago. kind of sounds new rulers want to apply the 1964 charter, but only where it doesn't conflict with their strict version of his law. existing constitution was drawn up with the help of the united states in 2004 and says it wants no foreign interference. in spain is declared to the island of la palmer disaster. so 9 days after the volcanoes began erupting the government's 1st package is a $12000000.00. to help we build homes and replace furniture and essential goods. will the $600.00 houses and banana plantations have been destroyed? to stay with us out, the world is up next more news after that ah

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to from gaza to israel. those provocations involve the evictions from shake terra neighborhood in the east jerusalem. and then there were the right wing demonstrations, given police protection and israel that march through east jerusalem neighborhoods shouting slogans to the effect of death to the arabs and very provocative for leading to palestinian resistance. and. and then finally, and perhaps most importantly, the entry of israeli security forces to the compound and mosque in the last days of ramadan, interfering with the worship in this place that is considered

as sacred sites. as part of this operation, israeli war plains bombed and destroyed for tower blocks in garza city. palestinians lived and businesses were based these towers were in garza's, busy remote neighborhood. brimell is a commercial district and a residential area where media organizations and international agencies also have their offices the funny and the lady at the bottom of the actual actual module. then we're going

to have to take any time at the 120 and then i let them know that madison anyone when move in and let me let me just look at that because of the month of the month month to remind you how your coffee medina because pilot must my sister her how are the little bottom and you and i would love the deal more often a little bit. so can you see her the month to month? i'm testing the ada and a half of us get amen. and it's the end of the fall, jetta, you will have that. you have the cosign brigades and sariah. you could have an underground network underneath the gaza strip. at this point that's been built for 15 years, they have the capacity to keep their military operations. and they're planning

separate from the largest civilian area in the gaza strip with the least military benefit. because remodeling the furthest from the border if it's the most densely populated area of an urban of the urban environment. it militarily makes no sense. oh, i demolish towers were attracted to businesses because of the services they provided. company requiring stability, rented office space there, knowing that electricity, water, and other essential services were relatively reliable, day and night. ah, the hand id tower was known for its c view. at house service, hotel style, a pump and a health club, media organizations,

technology businesses and residential apartments. jo had a tower. how's the headquarters of several media organizations, including the palestinian national news agency and other tv stations were also restaurants, offices and apartments. ah, i'll shut up towel was in the middle of the busiest street. in garza, it contained dozens of shops, import, and export officers and some local media awe . and there was algernon tower with a bureau of ounces. he remediate network and the us media agency associated prints were based on a low floor or a range of business offices while the upper floors house, residential apartment i, all these towers are normal during

the german whole nother localized, but we've moved them and me a couple of minutes getting my model muslim copy and how we get off the ship, what will be at them and then my new math and let the how one of them had to i knew that it was the inability of the because i'm telling you fast enough to hold up of the dish or was it that you couldn't have a sure? what is the matter with an yet much like a year old? mcafee the media? well, what i'm going to let the public way a lot. i'm heading up was my little while back remy heads, euro mediterranean, human rights monitor based in geneva. it conducted an investigation into these attacks in gaza and came to broadly the same conclusion is the people on the ground

at the time that the 4 towers had no military purpose whatsoever. however, these railey army disagreed, claiming the buildings were being used for military purposes. so where does the truth live? why with these talents singled out bombs and destroyed. this is exactly one of the of the questions that have has to be asked by whatever inquiry that should be held. what was the primary goal of these attacks? was it really to, to damage military objects that were in those buildings, or rather a show of force to intimidate the gas and population. and if the laughter and it does seem like the latter, and in the latter, that's an illegal attack. and that's unlawful and might amount to work on

the fact that missiles from israeli jet struck the towers, undisputed. but what isn't clear, if the reason behind the attacks or the process of how exactly a building is selected for destruction? one man who may have an idea is younger on both skillet. he's a retired israeli military commander who worked at the special operations officer at the central command of the israeli army. when we know the 1st one, we know that there are you that there are going to vision, or there is a direct tv. and one of the buildings or structure there is a term structure in guzman. so 1st we start with our intelligence unit and we want to find out if there is a civilians and not in whole civilians in the building or around the building.

second, if we know that there is a civilians there and we use many kind of ways to check this out. so we warn them, 1st of all, we call them and we ask them to leave the house. so the, the only one that will be hit it, it will be only terrorist place and not civilians or any other people that are most of all i'm not at some of them. i'm not in that tony. so just the joke got the me, i, there was my love model when, as, as engine via us, my dear to those that as a bad person who had you know, and mom nice and when i was muffled,

john said that as fun gets in law. but the law tonight and bob musical justin, bob, hard to sort of those to the voters among and like i said, the ones are not that as much them that i will, i will be will if you want to, when linda that on that as one mod john, the me, israel has always presented its military operations as those conducted by the most marle army in the world. but anyway, let's look to scrutinized its behavior from an object of point of

view understands this to be propaganda or public relations design to convince the world of something that's essentially not true or eat. and really the reverse is true. i had the law humans, it was the law. let me

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that's all come in my desk and it's high and she'll send him out of us and she'll she'll let you shoot off so that she that is the it, she's my katrina at our office, she had a little drama and most ah, these really army often produces videos about how mass, the palestinian group that has governed garza since 2006. these videos say that hamas uses civilian facilities in garza as what it calls human shields. and this claim is used by israel to justify attacks like those on the 4 towers in garza and other palestinian target. the 1st responsibility on the

was the come us using the people there as a human shield once the hiding behind the people. so the main thing that you should, those, that maybe the bulb is smart, we use a smart bunk, but the bombs have no values and they have no more out. if you don't want to distinguish between terrorist and non terrorist people, especially when the terrorist use the people of the human shield and high b, i had a problem in the future with any new she was doing the full driver. the scene was still out for the cleaning. he was delicate, near this movement. quickly. welcome home. a do show you will i in and but any latina going on to stay there for me? and then what did you get the city there is

a wide there, argumentative being presented by israeli spoke. be exposed to people. and that is that god in general, was taken hostage by the hum us and that you know, and that we are fighting an enemy that is, that is hiding in any civilian areas. let's take that argument face value. let's, let's talk about the hostage situation. if guns are hostages, then you should allow yourself to do what you would be doing. if either of these were hostages, would you target a whole house with several combatants or terrorists and kill, or the israelis that are being held hostage is there. i mean,

if either i really want to, to argue that that line that the gardens doesn't sit in population was taken hostage by the home us. well, it should treat this situation as a hosted situation after bombing, the 90 al gyla and al joe, how to towers the israeli army gave its justification for the action it claim those towers house amass intelligence officers. it also accused him as of using, i'll shoot up tower for what it called terrorism purposes. the motors july ability because kind of look at the latest it but how much matter kind of what there was some on little at this the last, the last the israel has claims,

at least in one case that i know that how much offices and to be precise hamas intelligence was housed in one of the, of the towers. however, there is another principle of international law of warfare, and that is the principle of proportionality. it's not enough that the target is legitimate. if the expected results of an attack is massive damage to civilians and civilian objects, that outweighs the military advantage of of erasing the military target. then the attack is also legal.

in military turns, the principle of proportionality concerns, the obligation to weigh military objectives against the risk of harm to the civilians. armies around the world have the use of advanced weapons technology. some guided missiles are able to limit the damage they called, while others are highly destructive. and that includes those used to bomb the residential and commercial towers and garza. this choice of missiles gives the attack of the option of creating a targeted explosion in one part of a building or launching a high impact miss south strike capable of destroying an entire tower block. the israel has precise munitions and bombs that make the notion of a mistaken strike, almost impossible to believe. in other words, these missiles and bombs, they're so sophisticated in they're targeting and are linked to the gps system as

to guide them precisely to their intended targets. the user in the past has shown that it has this capacity in estimation attacks or what is called by israel targeted killings. we had seen instances where missiles were shocked at a specific window, specific how apartment specific room in part to the human and financial cost of the aerial attacks on the garza towers. the me hey, yeah, check out what's going on. what's going on here?

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