o the headline turn off international us the president joe biden admitted to taliban is stronger than has been in 20 years, but insists that doesn't mean i forgot the san will fall to milford, that the claims america mission in the country has been accomplished. and it's time to go, virus is refusing to reveal to algeria the locations of radioactive waste thumbs, 6 decades on from colonial france, conducting nuclear tests for news host tucker carlson claims the n s a spied on his communications and lead private email to journalist alleging that it's all because he tried to get an interview with the russian president. ah,

welcome to your program here on the international we come to your life from moscow on this thursday now just after 11 pm. so mission a completion, that's the us presidents verdict when america's longest ever war. that prepares to pull this last troops out of afghanistan and we achieved those objectives. that's why we, when we did not go to afghanistan to nation bill and it's the right and the responsibility of afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country job. i also admitted that the taliban military might, with a 20 year peak, adding though that it wasn't the inevitable. the group with takeover cobble wine, president's remarks come off the sweeping territorial gainer by miller, texas. and i love it. this is one of the numerous

hot front lines between taliban fighters and i've gotten forces. the army is on the back foot with over a 1000 soldiers recently fleeing across the border to to jacob st. on the latest estimate is that the taliban now controls a 3rd of ghana st on well, let's course live now to scott ricka for what united nations weapons inspectors in iraq and ex marine corps intelligence officer, ortho and analyst. thanks for joining us here in ocoee international today. you've heard the story. joe biden is basically saying, mission accomplished, although we have heard that before, joe biden did say that america's chief objective in, i've got this done, was to quote, bring osama bin logged into the gates of hell been lot was killed about a decade ago. why has the us not withdrawn sooner? do you think? first of all, joe biden has a, a memory issue. i would say if, if he says that our so function and intervene in afghanistan was to bring been

locked into the gates of hell. if that was our job, then we didn't need to decapitate the taliban. we didn't need to install a government with our hand picked proxy cars. i as the president, we didn't need to go through a fake lawyer to go the tribal council, to legitimize this man. we didn't need to spend 20 years building national institutions including a military and police force. so if, if all are all we want to do is kill been lot and in the mail, if we could have done all of that much sooner without undertaking that, which we did undertake by and can say otherwise. but the reality is we were involved in nation building, we did build a nation in afghanistan, a failed nation. and now we're abandoned. mean it, you know, i will be the last person to argue in favor of

a continued american military presence. but we need to be honest with the people, with their neighbors, the regional neighbors and the world. what we did for the last 20 years was fail. we last and now we should be looking to the international community. especially afghan stands regional neighbors for assistance in helping come up with a solution to me and that we're a mission accomplished that we, we did what we wanted to do and now it's on the ask and people to, to fix this mess. that's just disingenuous. well, mr. read when you talk about it being left on the afghan people, but vital had said that the taliban is now at its strongest point militarily in 20 years, adding that was it that didn't mean they would necessarily take over the country to share his optimism nationally, not the government is corrupt, it has a military service that is composed of conscripts who are not willing to die for this cause. i mean it to be,

there's nothing about current african government that's worth dying for there. there's potential or, you know, maybe some good to come on down down, down the road. but the bottom line is, it's a corrupt government. it doesn't represent the people. and this is why the tell bond is that a 20 year high, i mean to tell about as a reprehensible. ready islamic excrete extremist organization, and the fact that they are at a 20 year high does not speak highly of the government we formed. if we can form a government that is competitive with the tell about amongst african tribal society . then we have failed egregiously. the tell about should not be this popular. okay, are there any way when, but you do you think mr. richard? was it always just about terrorism with us on the british and various nato partners being involved in, in afghanistan? was it always about terrorism or whether other interests, perhaps, mineral,

or economic interests? for example, i remember when trump came to office, when he 1st came to office, he dropped the moab bomb and i've gotten us on the mother of all bombs. and there was some stories circulating at the time that it had nothing to do with bombing terrorist tunnels and was more about making open and available. a huge lithium deposit that was found in afghan has done so. so all the economic contracts there as well, perhaps to help explain why certain countries of state as long well, i mean there are ican nomic interest and why are we leaving? i mean, if it's truly a trillion dollar cash of lithium, another rare metals. and that's something worth fighting for, that's where dion for, i mean, that's in america's interest. we should be staying in defending our access to these critical risk. never been about minerals. this is a, this is, this is a false hood. united states doesn't know why we were in afghanistan. that's one of the reasons why we're getting out. the mission has been nebulous. you know, we were supposed to be a big counterterrorism operation. turned into

a nation building operation. did a nation sustainment operation, a large part of the american military tremendous over the past decade, had been these provisional reconstruction efforts where we send in a military unit, we give them a whole bunch of money, cash money. and they go in and they build schools. they build infrastructure, they, they try to build governance at the local level. they every single one of them failed, failed immediately egregiously. but there was never any support, but to pretend that we weren't engaged in nation building is just a false that we were engaged in an attempt to build a nation. but it was, it was how hard it was. you know, i'm sustainable because we didn't allow it to be sustainable. when you transfer out your military command every year, year and a half years and bring in new people, you guarantee failure because the people that were there in the succeed, the people coming in say, hey, we're going to succeed,

but they're starting all over and they fail and we repeat this for 2 decades guarantee there's a fee guarantees, a lack of success and the people are going to pay the ask. and i mean that's where our hearts should go out to. well, the paying for this, but also they've been paying for this for, for generations now. as we know, afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. the soviet union experienced french, the british. many countries have tried to have their way in afghanistan. now here is america leaving off the roughly 2 decades, and we're getting stories here at odd sea of afghans gotten government soldiers fleeing taliban fight. he's even fleeing over the border to tajikistan, which of course is a long rushes southern border. where does russia now stand with america? vacating afghan nest on? i think russia has a very big problem. because if the tell about when rapidly like it looks they're going to do this will empower not to moderate elemental tell about who are engaged

in negotiations about, you know, a, a co governance with the current african government. but the more radical elementary the tell about who believe in the re establishment of the, the emory. and if they, if they empower themselves to this rapid victory, they will start looking towards their neighbors. remember, it's not just a border the former soviet republics who's making stan g a n t against and minister and shared with the dentist, and it's a common population base. and if cad jiggs are radicalized in afghanistan, they can carry this radicalization over into dad, jacob stand in that can carry over into russia proper. that's the true security risk for russia. so russia has invested interest in seeing some sort of stability arise out of the american withdrawal. and i think russia like everybody else is,

is on their back 3 wondering how do we respond. nobody expected the united states to collapse in this dramatic fashion. and yet we have mr. i'm just running low on time. and my last question for you would be some people worry about a vacuum being left in various countries when, when will power leave certain regions of the? well, give me a, give me a time table here. it shows you will, if you will, the next one or 2 years, 3 years maximum. what is the future of afghanistan? first of all, we can count. i believe we can count the longevity of the government a matter of weeks or months after the august 31st withdrawal of american troops. the question is, will there be an element in afghanistan that can solidify into a regional resistance against the telephone, like the northern alliance was in the, in the decade after the soviet withdraw. if that is the case, then afghans dad will devolve into

a civil war that will be as bloody or bloodier than the one they experience in 1990 . scott ritter, a former un weapons inspector in iraq, an ex marine corps intelligence officer and analyst joining us life. and i see we appreciate it. scott, thanks for your time. thank you. and thank you for your time as well as afghan forces continue to flee. the taliban offensive a neighboring tajikistan face, the militants will push their offensive into its territory. a video has emerged on social media, apparently showing a taliban fighter raising the group's flag on a bridge over the pans river, which forms a significant part of the border. i purchased on which is a part of the russia lead collective security treaty organization has asked moscow for assistance in dealing with the threat. and we spoke to the chief of the joint staff of the organization. really just after meeting the concrete ministry of defense, its board, a trip command and other competent bodies. and after visiting parts of the state

border and observing what was happening there with our own eyes, we reached the conclusion that things were developing very rapidly. a month ago, members of the taliban, a terrorist organization, outlawed, and russia started taking control of parts of the state border from the side of a dentist. firstly, they seized 3062 kilometers. by the beginning of july, they taken 700 kilometers. by the time we arrived, they take control of almost the entire state border, 1344 kilometers. they seize it by stealth because there was no serious fighting in the north north eastern provinces. adjoining to jake has done years of french nuclear testing, and algeria as part of the sahara desert have left a lasting impact on locals and the environment of 6 decades on and the radioactive off tomorrow still remains with algeria denouncing paris over its refusal to share whether nuclear waste is buried. i

hurry for france since this morning is stronger and proud. ah. the 1960 is franz, carried out 17 nuclear tests in the sahara. but according to our area, it made no effort to clean up the site, so pay compensation to any of the victims who suffered from radiation. this report now from paris with charlotte duban sky. your g re and government is stepping up the fight. it has accused frances refusing to hand over important information regarding the sites france refuses to hand over top graphical maps to determine the burial sites of the polluting, a radioactive or chemical waste which have still not been discovered. the radiation victims have already died due to no medical conditions and causes

but of those to still survive just a single algerian has been compensated. the french authorities should at least recognize these crimes then move on to compensation. the jeering people are still counting the victims of radiation and the nuclear tests. many children are still born with congenital deformities due to the variation. so it makes sense that all these victims deserve compensation hospitals to treat the kansas caused by radiation should be built at the very least. another crime still effect in these people is the denial of these events, the downplaying and suppression of them. that time france submitted a false report, the un, which said that the area where the test would be carried out was uninhabited, deserted, and isolated. in reality, it was an area inhabited by people. there were coastal areas with a waste, these palm trees and various animals. this is the sly, and they also said that these would test another french themselves amid these,

when you click solutions, not test and from these explosions, the radiation was not limited to the julian deserts, but spread to the african jungle and even europe. the current french president has off for a commission of memories in algeria, but it's really, it will focus on the torture, the disappearance, and the hundreds of thousands of deaths that occurred during the war for independence. and not on those nuclear tests. algeria was the only place that france carried out such deadly testing. an independent investigation recently criticized fall and damage in hiding the devastating impacts of the nuclear explosions that it carried out the majority of which were in french hall. anesha. it said in that report, the radiation levels were up to 10 times higher than those that had been estimated

by the countries own atomic energy commission. back in 2016. you can't erase 60 years of state propaganda, denial, intimidation, contempt, and arrogance. with a wave of the hand, that pressure led to talk at the start of july to assess the impact that those detonations had the strongest remains completely firm that there was no cover up. so far that only branch has been extended to algeria. that is likely to great with the fall out of those nuclear tests, still polluting relations between l. g. s. and paris. charlotte people sky artsy in paris. meanwhile, a woman who claims her life was severely affected by similar nuclear tests in french. polynesia says franz should pay for the damage is done to generations of locals. my grandparents died of cancer,

my mother's sister had cancer. early age of 27, i was diagnosed with chronic leukemia, which is a radiation indeed disease that he has had fallen nations are very nice. so for us to cited to conduct tests in volunteer asia because the local did not see anything wrong with the exercises ended in 1997, but they left enormous damage. there is a lot of misinformation they're trying to solve in size, many locals and i'll talk about their diseases. today. my symptoms are ruining my life. i raise the should the, you and the international level. we have thousands of people in the eighty's do i talk about the radioactive impact on the population when you're nothing. and today our surroundings are contaminated and damaged. i have the throttle pay off all the factors, bowen, asians, and be punished by an international court. because now we are a small country taking on big frans fox news host tucker carlson claims. the n s a spied on him uneven leaked his private e mails to journalists. in the mails he reported discussed arrangements for an

interview with vladimir putin is all correspondent caleb. now according to axiom z, tucker carlson was communicating with 2 intermediaries trying to set up an interview with russian president vladimir putin shortly before. busy he accused the national security agency, the essay of the united states of spying on him. now tucker carlson has confirmed this report on wednesday. he spoke up confirming it and went further saying that the essay had actually leaked emails in the hopes of discrediting him. here's what the fox news host had to say. why would they do that? well, the point of course was to paint me as a disloyal american. a russian operative then called that before a student of the kremlin a traitor doing the bidding of a foreign adversary. now gets even more interesting because we had a situation where the n s a actually responded to tucker, carlson. tucker carlson has never been an intelligence target of the agency and the

honesty has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air. we target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the united states with a limited exceptions. and if they may not target a us citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting. what's interesting to note is that it's not clear who the to it immediate aries work, but if they were foreign national, not us citizens, then the n. s a. and they would not have had to get special permission in order to spy on their communications. according to their procedures. now at this point we've got long standing critics of the n. s. a speaking up, we've gotten to land greenwald, shining in and giving his perspective, here's what he had to say. everyone should want to see the evidence about whether an essay, spite on conference emails and leave them. that's how we will know for sure whether it happened. but you have to be staggeringly naive or willfully ignorant to think. and i say ca haven't always done exactly this and still do. now, there are

a number of journalists and news anchors in the united states who have interviewed russian president vladimir putin. so the question is, why was tucker carlson single doubt and subject to surveillance? at this point? the n. s. a reputation as a result of the edward snowden revelations and many other things that had been brought to light is certainly once again in question. now it seems tucker carlson is taking them to taska and many people who had meyer or watch tucker carlson are asking themselves questions about the new surveillance culture in america. the host of america is on contact program. chris hedges says it remains to be seen whether carlson's claims are true that they do seem to fit neatly into a rather familiar patton. i would begin by saying the n. s a as deny the claim. but it's pretty clear from the climate that especially with

a democratic administration, russia has been demonized, although china is a close 2nd for all sorts of internal problems within the united states. we have had now going all the way back to the director of national intelligence report in 2017. this ridiculous claim that left wing uneven right wing critics. of us capitalism, imperialism the political system are agents of a foreign power that has become the knee jerk response. and so what you're seeing is if it's true, what tucker carlson says, well, we certainly know it's true that he's reached out for an interview with the president of russia. but if it's true that the essay essentially use that attempt at a very legitimate and i would argue important journalistic activity to a brand him, an agent of a foreign power. what you're seeing is a kind of ratcheting up of this attempt to use russia as an excuse or

scape goat to mask the unrest and internal problems that the binding ministration, quite frankly, is not addressing in any serious way. so i had a few in the program here and see if the grim pandemic milestone of 4000000 covert depth reportedly reached the world health organization. amidst vaccines losing the race against new strains, a story and more just a mind. oh i i i me

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this evening program from moscow? olympic coast city? tokyo has bind spectators from attending this summer's games. it comes off at japan's capital, declared a state of emergency over covert issues. on wednesday, it posted almost a 1000 new infections of the olympic opening ceremony shuttles for the 23rd of july . that has been widespread opposition to the games in japan, with kohls for them to be postponed, or entirely counsel for look out for the russian and chinese vaccines. thus, the warning from france is a europe minister who's concerned e. u. member states might consider green lighting jobs that don't have the blocks approval. his words caught mister delta a variant of cope. it is spreading around the world, forcing governments to implement strict measures and ramp up the vaccination programs. really vixon. it's important. the vaccines which allow entry to our territory a limited to the for, we're sure about and certain countries which are looking to recognize vaccines like

the russian and chinese ones. we're saying no, the european medicines agency has so far approved for vaccines. that's 5 modern astrazeneca and johnson and johnson crushers sputnik shot is among those currently under review. the process has gone on for 4 months already. but the e u. i'm baffled with russia recently claimed the delay is nothing political and moscow remains optimistic. finance, it's clear that there may be different positions if it's clear that so far the european agency has not recognized us but next job. but we assure that for the prejudices beside those of a political artificial lot in nature and eventually we will succeed. and the russian vaccine will be recognized when we spoke with marcelo del narly founder and chairman of the swedish professors and doctors for human rights. he says, the e m a is dragging its feet over sputnik v as authorization for political reasons is

neither logic nor in willing to go on. not as he goes, sort of bert considering the sectors of the relation of not just being in. when i said, if we compare it safety feature, so it seems that it's no clinic, i used to be cation. the blog is for me, those are the asians by, for instance, the french minister. there are the, are not all need to do for you, but it clearly tried to ignore or even discuss the russia and thank you of the masses from the perspective of the western powers. but they are not primarily an issue of public health or of human rights for all, for all people trying to stay healthy, it is purely competitive enterprise. it is not a corporation and there were a few should. it should have been established between scientists, why fi solutions for the pandemic monster grim milestone with 4000000 people. now

having reportedly died from cove it and if the delta strain becomes the dominant variant of the virus, the world health organization has sent us stock warning to countries that might be hoarding vaccines. bucks him nationalism where 100 full of nations have taken the lion's share, is morally indefensible. and an effective publican strategy against a respiratory virus that's mitigating quickly. and becoming increasingly effective at moving from human to human violence are currently winning the race against bucks ins. because of inequitable vaccine production and distribution. according to the world health organization, the delta strain will dominate all other variance globally in the coming months. it was 1st detected in india in october last year as since spread through a 100 countries. and now dozens of countries are implementing new restrictions on travel bands to stop the spread. and we supposed to talk to enjoy the grover and

a and e consultant about the dangers of mutation. is by far the most common experience now. and to point in it is next to impossible. there will be new addition. we don't know where they will come from. not a good come from any part of the world. so far. all the mutations are still sensitive to vaccines, at least look at extent, but you know, you never know you might get the mutation which escapes the current unless everyone is able to control the spread. otherwise, no one is actually safe. i suspect. good, good. think many years for us to get used to it, find the best vaccinations. prevention strategies this pandemic. we keep spreading to be able to pick that scenes to all humanity or at any of our stories you think

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