oh, the taliban celebrate sweeping gains across i've got this done, including the border crossing of the us president confirms that america will be out of the country by the end of next month, leaving it to fend for itself. you know, mission accomplished them. right. and the responsibility that can people alone decide their future and how they want to run their country. while as refugees continue to flee the country and sick a new life in europe to brutal right for murder, of a 13 year old in austria, at the hands of an african migrant. once again to see issue of immigration in the spotlight. the winds of discord in belgium over french

plans to build off shore turbines as high as the ice and tower we hear from coastal communities. the tennis was far from blown away by the idea. if this has any impact on the territory, why is it not the inhabitants to the side? why is someone in making that decision? ah other things? joining him on, on the international we begin enough gun, a stem with the taliban has the making further territorial gains. his fighters were film firing shots from a pickup truck celebrating the militants latest land grub. the . 6 when the jubilation is over, the catch of the town of islam, carla,

and the border with iran, cities and social media, purportedly show taliban militants taking down the afghan flag from the local customs office. the 3rd such border crossing the group has taken interest the past week. the other 2 led into tajikistan. under rebecca, stung the more us troops which had been in the country for 20 years now packing the bags. joe biden has defended, sending them home while leaving the country to face what he himself is called, the strongest taliban for 20 years. the us president says the simply nothing more for washington to do not mission accomplish, commission was accomplished in that we get to scott some in widen, and terrorism is not emanating from that part a little. 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. well,

here's what i've canister looks like now in terms of who controls what talib on areas are in read to. they cover an estimated half of the country, though the group itself claims to be in control of 85 percent areas in yellow are contested regions with the focus of green showing where the government hold sway with the president saying america is achieved its objectives in the country critics decry the price that's been paid me. oh, i a i the

her the what, the us military moving out in a hurry i can install is already facing new challenges. afghans have been seen selling plunder, to us good stuff to looters ransacked. what was america's may military base and budrum us troops slipped out of the field in the dead of night without notifying the local forces, according to ask and officials dependent on those denied those kinds and says that the african military was well informed of the withdrawal. nevertheless, locals living and working near by are worried about what might come from them. they got everyone who's worried about how long the uncertainty will continue. no one is doing business, the markets, and the people that work there have been badly affected. business has collapsed

because there is no stability before when the us didn't plan withdraw, things were stable, but the instability is increased since they left. i ma'am, re clear the yes had contracts with market owners here and we used to purchase from them that withdraw will affect our business. we can buy any goods because there are transportation problems. british troops have also now wrapped up their mission and ghana stand. according to the u. k. prime minister. most of them have already left the country a fact that filed some of his own pace. as a result of all british troops assigned to me because mission and i've got this done on returning home and for obvious reasons, i will not disclose the timetable of departure. i can tell the house that most of our personnel have already left will say thanks to prime minister coming in, giving a statement himself. this is an enormously personal issue for me. but he can, he explained to me. how does britain's foreign policy work in

a country like african? it's done. if persistence isn't persistent, if endurance doesn't endure, then how can people trust us as an ally? how can people look at us as a friend? let's get reaction to this now. phone gram house, he's a former royal air force pilot. he served in afghanistan. he also found a justice for troops could turn you on, graham. what was your personal reaction when you 1st heard about the u. k. being being done enough? canister will be realistic. i think it was an inevitable point to land, but the underlying examination was told to go on your documentary, that correctly asks what is persistent mean in the eyes of the great british people as well as allies on the line. and it is useful to go back in time to our sex, to state the defense of the time in the you k,

dr. reed is his position in the deployment of u. k. troops was that we were there to help the reconstruction effort. that was 20 years ago, he said, quoted, he would be perfectly happy if we left without firing a shot. that was in the year 22001 in 2019. after a brutal campaign over 20 years, most of my adult life repeated operations in deployments over at kennestone and iraq, where the consequences flows through the mediterranean into europe, into the u. k. it hasn't been contained at all. the sco president in 2019 prison ghani said more than 45000 barrels of his own security forces have been killed since he was redoing 201445000 of his own. and that really goes back to, i guess in the 2015

u. k. parliamentary examination or they are going to pay where we recognized ourselves that you had a strategy, a poor implementation plan of that strategy. poor execution of the policy, an unclear exit plan, and really no understanding of the strategic cool environmental situation that we deployed into. and that's been really the case for 20 years. so it's, i guess it's an inevitable situation of, of what i would suggest as a failed campaign, despite the way parliament would wish to address fed up, especially the u. s. i understand why you would feel you need to trust. reality is to day the, the future looks problematic. best for. busy the state you talked about that was only like a lack of a plan from the u. k. a side actually just the case of it being the case just because it's following america's lead and then it follows america. when they decide

to pull out, i wouldn't say it's quite as rigid as that as a relationship. it's, it's our strongest ally. we'd like to think that works both ways, but certainly from the u. k and the evidence in the public domain is overwhelming. the u. k. we can't speak for the u. s. book for the u. k. our own ability to examine the problem to understand the problem and to find a solution over 20 years. we've proven to fail that based on our strategic goals and the situation and the outcome that we currently have. it might be the case as cbs today records. we have to wait to the future to determine the success that that's arguably kicking the can down the road. the evidence in 2015 impala suggest to the u. k. military and the u. k. parliament failed, not only our own troops, our own country,

but the guns that that's the evidence from the independent defense committee. so the telephone has still got a good hold on the, on the country territory. they've got a fair chunk of it, joe biden in bars. jones said there's nothing inevitable about taliban reclaiming the entire country. what's your opinion? i guess you could go back to a bite in the prime minister. clearly saying is the on the one hand, ethically it's right for us can to determine picture that that will happen. it's just a future may well be particularly unstable. brucell takes us back to the medieval period of time without the democratic will or the democratic infrastructure being in place. the security forces were established to create it. and i think to be realistic, we need to wait and see what the future holds. but there's tom to have you said we've had 20 years,

20 years with trillions of dollars trying to this campaign and to achieve what we've achieved in 20 years, which is unclear. as a military guy myself i've, i'm somewhat ashamed that ashamed of that. how does this leave? the reputation is an ally. pulling outlines was that you'd have to ask our allies for that lens. i think i think it's, it saddens me if i just look at a key bit of the i can requirement from up to view and the road was creating an environment that gives oppertunity inequality as can people, especially women. they have been, i guess, some successes that you can measure in that regard. but in our own forces in the u . k. you know, our own, before we set a benchmark overseas in foreign lands,

you know, our own united kingdom of forces. women who serve in the u. k. forces can be subject to brutal rate in our own forces by our, our forces, and nothing happens, nothing that's somewhat distant in our own country of our own stand evidence today empowerment we don't seem to be able to translate that in terms of being a force for good in the eyes of our allies when arguably we call our own house and an order. and that's really why we felt that the solution to all of these problems in the armed forces in the ministry, defense impala, you need more rigor, you need more examination, and you need more independence and independent defense authority, which could be established right now. and you k paul, we think that would absolutely bring operational gains to the u. k. today, it would bring financial gains for the k, and it would absolutely create an enhanced the reputation of the united kingdom

overseas today. we could do that today within the given parliament to do that today . graham, really interesting to get your thoughts on this. always. well, we had just wrapped up the interview. we've lost lost connection. we've created that greenhouse, my guest from royal air force pilot. he served in afghanistan is also the founder of justice for troops. now, in less than a week's time, the u. s. military operation will come to an end enough canister, whichever way the future plays are they will effect lives both inside and outside the country. according to recent estimates, the exodus of african refugees will bodies on the rise considerably. the number is thought to be closing it on 3000000, putting an incredible strain on countries forced to cope with those newcomers. germany, france, romania, top. the list of countries taking in the most africa, migrants in australia, a 5th of all refugees and now from afghanistan. and the large numbers are also bringing a host of problems. some of them gruesome as really, patricia now reports. imagine you're in charge of a country shocked by

a creepy race scare. the victim who died had just become a teenager. the suspected rapists are young and again refugees. you've got no choice but to take action. if you don't, the public won't get it. and that's if you're lucky, if you get too tough on those who escape misery and war back home in their home countries, political opponents will give you a p r b t plus that will raise some liberal u eyebrows. let's hear from the man who's lately been facing this precise challenge . sebastian kurtz, the chancellor of austria of bit often i find it intolerable for people to come here, thing seeking protection and then commit cruel, and barbaric crimes in austria. politically, this means for me that we will stick to our line with me. there will definitely never be a whole to deportation to stun or a watering down of asylum laws for asylum seekers. who permits crimes. what exactly did he mean by barbaric ah?

and austria, more than 4 percent of all rapes, an 8 and a half percent of all murders are committed by afghans. of course, not all refugees are thugs, but e statistics in 2020 show that afghanistan citizens have the highest number of asylum applications in austria. and for 3 years in a row, they also are the 2nd largest group of asylum seekers arriving in europe as a whole, right after serious, some are worried that higher numbers of refugees could mean more potential trouble . i want to be clear, u. s. military mission can stand, continues to the end of august, where the future of ghana stand looking marquis b. it's only natural that

a new wave of refugees from there is expected in europe. it's obvious that austria can close its borders. it has already regularly tightened it's asylum policies recently. the justice minister for the green party says more such steps wouldn't be right for the country. the asylum law has already been tightened in recent years. oh, laws, often enough options, but we just have to apply them in a consistent manner. moreover, and 29 king, the european court of justice ruled that you members have no right to the port a refugee even for committing a serious crime. if he or she prove that live by home would be in danger. all of this does seem to tie the hands of chancellor kurtz, who like you've heard, is in favor of different patients for criminals. the minister of interior from mr. kurtz is party has locked horns with the greens justice minister saying he will push for more rigid migration and repass ration rules. at the level. the

e u silence system is not working. migrants who committed criminal offenses have to be the portrait immediately. while the advocates of the harsh approach towards refugees in the austrian government are teaming up with colleagues from hungary and the czech republic, the iraq recei doesn't exactly paid the way for quick changes in a solemn rules. certainly, they won't be as quick as joe biden's, keen of ganeth stand, pull up the silent system as we have it in europe is just a way to turn illegal immigration into legal immigration when the illegal immigrant arrives in any country of europe. and he, he says asylum, asylum immediately becomes illegal immigrant in the european asylum procedure, which usually takes place is a general problem which your console was want to measure. so at least the mini stick minister of interior. miss denise has now admitted that the asylum system up

to europe and union is a disaster. but austria and the government has done nothing to change that or to avoid it. because austria through the premiums of the european union, has collaborated in creating the system. we didn't send $11.00 single africans, african home for years in austria, not one and hundreds we know austria, for example, have a quote of about 50 percent, the austrian citizen in the long run. this is a problem because it tracks and facts migrants from older 3rd world. meanwhile, austrian feminist have been having the same issue. they've accused local media of a racist reporting. they say that vilifying migrants, a group of activists, even storm the offices of a local newspaper and confronted the journalists. we can find video of that story. and more at

r t dot com. the troubles blowing in over frances plans to build off shore wind farms with turbines as high as the length of 3 football pitches. belgium is lost, legal action against the move after locals. outlander objections, harris nevertheless has the wind didn't sales the president of the commission for energy regulation even suggested opponents should have the energy cuts off. charlotte dubin ski travel to the area to find out more may look calm, but a storm is brewing. and it's a huge one. france plans to build an offshore wind farm just off the coast here. the turbines would be as high as the eiffel tower, around 300 meters tool. so they'd be pretty imposing. the idea has caused a fury in neighboring belgium so much so that the q e u countries affect to go head to head in court as belgium threatens to

sue a complaint will be launched with the european commission because our country has not been consulted about the location of the area, while european directives require it independently owned the french belgium board of that anger is palpable. since it is very close to the boarders. about 10 kilometers, it will be very visible from our beaches. this landscapes and the feeling we have of liberty and seeing the seeing to horizon is actually our main product. that is why people come to our shores. that is why people buy property with an ocean view. it's because as he does horizon, they don't come to the fantasy windmills for francis a very important project. i understand that. but that doesn't mean that you have to put all the burdens with the neighbors and take all the advantages as a nation. so as you've heard that there is really strong opposition to this wind

farms from the belgian side, but say you're not alone in this, we're about to cross the french border, where there are protesting groups who have been opposing this windfall ever since. it was suggested that if you do a little bit of research, you will find that this project is planned in the heart of the natural habitat, which is supposed to be a safe space for the species living there. and it's also a historic site of operation. dynamo, meaning that this project also does not respect history from, says president, mat, call and have set himself up as this defender of the environment. now he won't strong to have 40 percent of its energy to come from renewable sources. so wind farms that by 2030, now those wind farms are crucial kogan no idea. and the pressure is also mounting off. the high council for climate in france says that the country is going to miss

its greenhouse gas emission targets that failure would be embarrassing. but we didn't foam like the one that's planned for here are not popular with everyone. looks like we launched a petition. and despite that, when the minister came to don cack and we tried to meet her, she refused to talk to us. and then she came to tell us the details of a press conference. she told us that this project will be carried out no matter the opinion of the locals. if this has any impact on the territory, why is it not the inhabitants to the side? why is someone in paris making the decision locals here have even demanded a referendum over the project, but that has been completely dismissed by the state france. he's also ignoring the, please from its fellow e. u. member. the government is determined to conduct offshore wind farm projects. will of course, continue the dialogue with our belgium and france to take into account the concerns

. but the fact is that the dunkirk park is strategic for the implementation of our energy program. and that we must not waste any more time. however, that could be scuppered, not only has the french military now decided on new restrictions and constraints as to where wind farms can be built. but the senate in france is also just adopted a measure that could allow local meds to veto such plans. meaning that frances idea to be greener than green could soon have the wind knocked out of them. charlotte diva ski for all, see on the french belgian border used to be upheld his literature is most fearing and diamond to racism. but now to kill a mockingbird has been taken off the syllabus at one school in scotland for being 2 racist ne volleyball cooks and are cancelled. culture is killing the classics. is

only the most inspirational book of all time. a present surprise when it was originally van for it wound depiction of racism and sexual violence. but now one school in scotland has a bond to kill him walking by harper lee for another reason. the anti racism classic is now deemed braces to because it plays into a white savior. narrative. the name of when i say band, i mean more like cancel the teachers than jane gillespie hopeful in algebra. i've stopped teaching it to students as part of an effort to the colonize the curriculum and stein backs of mice and men and being cut to for it, racial stereotypes and frequent use of b and was sure to it's not, not there. but when i tell ok, i get the whole white savior thing in to kill them off. bad i really do. in fact, it's a great topic for discussion in say an english class. and i also get that just one

percent of students that study english literature at g c. s. c. that's the exam that kids take at the age of 16 in the u. k. study a book by a person of color and just 7 percent of students in gfc study, a book written by a woman that is abysmal. and by the way, that research is going to be provided to us by penguin books, u. k. who could take a leaf out of their marketing and disclose how many of the editors are non white for female for that matter. look, i'm not saying that stay a reading list. couldn't use a refresh load. you know, white kid make up about 34 percent of students in the u. k. and they ought to see themselves and their experiences reflected in the canon. but why does the colonizing the curriculum mean killing off to kill a mocking by fresh research by frank lungs?

has found that overhaul, some people under the cars stopped talking to someone that actually stopped a relationship with someone because they disagreed with their political views. sure . no, thank you. so i guess i'm sweet enough. throwing out a classic because it doesn't conform to modern standards. feel somehow connected to children in this course with more common sense and view and the decision to move hopefully feminine novel from the reading list, albeit from just one school so far is making people angry. i think it's very wrong for a few people to hold everyone as hostage in the important about the book is that they portray the unwritten truth of the time. we have this white liberal christ david turns out to be re said to me, right? this is the 2nd american story. they cannon of literature is fluids that all myriads of that, that were plastic, that didn't age well with then retired into here and see but huge to kill

a mockingbird be one of them. let's discuss that in the classroom. new tool that predicts how long patients in long term care are likely to live in developed by canadian research, is the calculator titled respect and to improve the quality of palliative care. those behind it say that it will allow people to spend more time with their relatives. their respect calculator allows families and their loved ones to plan. for example, i can help an adult child blend when to take a leave of absence from boys to be with a parent or decides when to take the last family vacation together. the applications are already being trialed in canada. the developers say is designed to help sick elderly people who are often deprived of sufficient care in the final years of their lives. but it's race a number of ethical issues such as patient consent and the attitude of medical work is towards them. we put the development of a debate,

the so called calculate the fear if these are dangerous and eventually because it gives mister legion of saying good. why ability to some, some that these in truth little more than yes, talk. an educated guess is you, i guess, i mean this tool is, is a development from tools that are already used by, by doctors to help anticipate, to identify when patients might be reaching the end of their lives. and to help those individuals make important decisions. but used to go predictions and easily be wrong and individual cases based on the life using the us model. and that is all days you are going to die shortly. so that's not bother about trying to save you these technology i fear might encourage the approach. well, like,

like any, any medical test, it has to be used wisely and interpreted in the light of other information about a patient. and so these sorts of concerns about unreliability actually suggest we should be using this tool rather than what people might already be. doctors might already be using which are less accurate predictors of when somebody might be reaching the end of their life. we don't have any reliable tools. and these, you calculate that is not liable to, to predict the time of death. and so you will need to have a proper find is do have you need to have some humility agonize that there are some things you simply cannot st. typically, brittany, i appreciate your company here in our to i'll be back with updates on top stories in half an hour. ah

ah ah hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things considered. i'm peter lavelle last me and appears to be near washington's 20 year effort to nation building garrison was always going to end this way, a complete and total failure. it is doubtful. the corrupt government in kabul will last long after the american withdrawal have dennis and remains broken and the american people poor and no one is held to account.