the headlines are not an optional quitting a country when your opponent is at its strongest power levels are drawn between the us, pull out the gun on and the vietnam war made reports from recaptured territory. taliban is once again imposing severe restrictions under should we? law? russia insinuates that germany had the bombs knowledge of what would happen to alexi nova only this reveals that berlin off the o. p t. w. to said that a team of poison experts on the very day the criminal critic fell ill on board a plane inside russia. a whole topic in the u. k. chefs could be banned from boiling lobsters alive under a new animal welfare bill that would recognize them as capable of feeling pain. with the issue of putting on him was that and

can feel pain and stuff that i actually looked to be honest about. they had to say in reality, based about bobby bobbing fish. i bought a pair shoes . i thought the one that hold on sunday morning here at moscow. this is the international welcome to your stories. the taliban has been making further territorial gains in afghanistan, including a major border crossing points with iran and now talk, menaced on reports, suggest the groups imposing strict shari'a low rules similar to those deployed when they were lost in power 20 years ago. including forbidding women from leaving a home without a male companion. it comes as america pulls all of his troops out of the country in the very near future prompting echoes, as well as i should say, a conflict that many have talked about for years. a conflict, a drug,

the america down decades ago, the comparison of afghan us dawn versus vietnam with saskia taylor. it only took 20 years, 47000 civilian deaths and 2 trillion dollars for the u. s. to finally realized that i've got to stop has the right to determine its own fate. i will much send another generation america's toward i can stand with no reasonable expectation of achieving the different outcome. we did not go to afghanistan to nation bill and is the right and the responsibility of the afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country. a st saving way of saying, but nothing has been achieved into decades. i'm backing out of the yes nation building promises made all those years ago. piece will be achieved by helping i've got to on train and develop its own national army. and peace will be achieved

through an education system for boys and girls, which works to one of the many pledges that nobody came through. forgotten about as the u. s. army hastily packed up and flew out. having struck the deal with the very enemy, it invaded to annihilate and leaving no long lasting peace plan. but hey, as a ton of bon recap, to waits of territory. and these washington sending its best wishes to its abandoned allies. in kabul, we're going to stick with you, do our best to see to and you have to and so america's, for as a war rap stop with its enemies, surging back to ascendancy, its allies vulnerable and 1000000 still desperate for that piece. they were promised. all those years ago, travel 4 and a half 1000 plummeted east. and you'll find the cause of a number of americas as a was vietnam. yes,

the u. s. was then saving the people from the red terra. not the taliban, tara. but really the parallels a striking, starting with time old promise of freedom stability and democracy. first, the vietnamese with our help and that's about all the allies really making any progress. is there a ford movement? the reports, i see, make it clear that there is certainly there is a positive movement towards constitutional government. the people wanted elected responsive governments pretty quickly that positive energy fell apart. and washington realized that victory was impossible ring about. and so, just as in our gun asked on ink to deal with the enemy and how to get rid of in the 1st place, the communist in north vietnam. and after years of effort, we negotiated settlement, which made it possible for us to remove our forces with honor and bring home our prisoners. though, at least unlike president biden, today,

who dodges questions about the guilty conscience? president ford had the decency to just cross out the words with the owner in his final speech. i wouldn't days off who afghan asked on the u. s. pulled out soon after that speech leading the allies with you guess it promises that wouldn't never come true. so pledges were given to us that the united states will retaliate swiftly and vigorously to any violation of the agreement. we consider those pledges the most important guarantees of the paris agreement. those pledges have now become the most crucial ones to us survival. 2 years later, south vietnam abandoned of the 2 decades of american presence was con, could by it's more than neighbor with the taliban, claiming to control 80 percent of afghan lands by 25 percent less than when the us invaded. there's a growing that cobble won't even last 2 years. they say history is the greatest

teacher. but if that's the case, why has the us lot nothing? and how many of the countries will have to lie in ruins before it finally does. when asked by a journalist, joe biden insisted, there's no similarity between the us withdrawals from vietnam and not gone just on the president said he believes the taliban is not as strong as reports suggest is takeover of the nation is quote, not inevitable. meanwhile, a former african interpreter who ought to be identified as a rafi for security reasons. told us about the persecution people like him faced from the taliban since 2001. the narrative was that the taliban or terrorist for against dollar bond, whatever was from day one today, murder. the americans before running away released some 6000 of these terrorists. they have already struck deal that another $7000.00 of these terrorists will be

released now or who will be left behind to pay for the declines. the americans off committed the americans being enough to understand wasn't a crime. then why would you run away like that? and leave interpreters and those will worked alongside you interest. russia has raised concerns about germany's power and clairvoyance over what happened to criminal critic, alexia valley. last year, it notes that berlin asked the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to send them a team of poison experts on the very day. the opposition figure fell ill on an internal russian flight. and long before it was even clear, he would even go to germany for any type of treatment you could have done off explains so the russian foreign ministry is trying to make sense of some new information that came to life in a fresh o p c, w. report in the document, the agency is detailing it's operation last year. in one of the paragraphs,

it lays out the timeline of its involvement in handling the suspected poisoning of election. a volley is this bit. at the request of germany, on the 20th of august 2020, the secretariat deployed the team to perform a technical assistance visit in relation to the suspected poisoning of a russian citizen. so according to this report, the o. p. c. w. having received apparently all ready, the official request from germany on the 20th of august, it had already assembled and even deployed a team of poison experts to germany on the 20th of august. the thing is that was the very same day when the whole world had learned about the situation with the russian opposition figure. he felt sick on board of a plane. early in the morning, the plane made an emergency landing in one of russia's siberian cities. and that's where election i've only received 1st treatment. he was in a critical condition. it wasn't until the 2nd half of the day. in fact,

it was evening even in europe already. when angela merkle entered, manuel mac cron. they both stepped forward and the german chancellor offered her help of germany's help to bring election of only back to his feet. and this is something that doesn't sit right according to the foreign ministry because how did the agency the o. p c, w, have time to get the request, assemble and deploy a team of experts, everything on the same day. and it even says a german is request. can you imagine how much time is needed to prepare an application from a state to the o. b, c, w with a request for assistance in the investigation of chemical weapons poisoning and germany must have had at least something in his hands to have grounds for contacting the p. c. w. but here's the thing, the russian diplomats had the opportunity to ask this question to the head of o, p c, w, and a representative of germany. so when the russian side asked,

how did the agency manage to be so remarkably efficient? the response from the o p c, w had was silence, but then the representative of germany chimed in and here's the recollection of events by the spokeswoman of the russian foreign ministry, maria the harbor. she came up with an ingenious idea and leaped mistress that was in the presence of dozens of foreign representatives in her opinion. it was a typo which annoyingly hadn't been corrected in time, but the head of the o. b. c. w remained established silent, and then something completely unimaginable happened. the german permanent representative said, she remembered everything on august 20 miracle met with the crone in bread and so and they both expressed their readiness to provide medical assistance to volley. so again, that was the account of murray as of the spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry, but perhaps one of the dozens of foreign diplomats who were apparently also present

at the meeting could confirm or well contradict. deny this recollection of events, but the russian side is adamant they will be demanding answers and not just on says, but something backed by proofs and documents. high end shuts in the u. k. could be having to change their ways as the country plans to ban boiling lobsters alive as possible times to activists from cross station compassion. who say the animals feel pain. there is more than enough evidence about the ability of this senses if captivating, creatures to feel pain and suffer the undergo pole in treatment in the food industry. the government also intended to recognize crabs, octopuses, and squid as capable of pain as part of the animal welfare bill, which initially only applied to vertebrates. a few countries i've already ban voiding love to the live switzerland, norway. i new zealand alternative is include stunning, the lobster 1st,

either with electricity or ice or killing it mechanically. now, some scientists though, argue that crustacean nervous systems are differently built and incapable of pain, claiming that the bodies respond merely reflexively to stimuli. a critics of the bill also argued that it will be detrimental to fishermen whose income depends on that lobster catch odor in the program and put the issue up for debate with our panel of guests showing compassion to more species that does. but a good thing, isn't it? a lot of concerns have been raised about this bill that there are going to be many unintended consequences in terms of what we mean for fishermen, for full food production for the final cost to the consumer. and i think there's also a question of why it is being done. now. we have a global and domestic pandemic that we are still struggling to get through. there is going to be a huge economic pool. now from it kate's over to you,

forgive me for being devil's advocate, but what's next? cockroaches, when would you know me, go on what this land titles us and right now it tells us that animals with a nervous system and can feel pain and stuff. you know, we think that this is a really big step forward for the most. it's not just that, but a sentence by recognizing that, you know, not just and crabs and other stuff and dr. plugs concealed pain. the government is, is going to van, protect them with other animal welfare legislation, which will mean that they can no longer be killed in an inhumane way. transported handled, you know, in an inhumane way. seaford becomes incredibly dangerous because of coming into bonds. then what happens is it becomes impossible to eat it so they get their outcome. i actually would much rather sit and be honest about those. i'd say me out to be about bombing bait fighting, fish and bonding all forms of slaughter for the purposes of study, something the post. you know,

this isn't about binding the thing. animals obviously piece of would like to live in a world where people are killing and consuming animals. but this isn't going to make it illegal to eat, not just in cramps. you know, it requires the bill will require a policy make it take on and needs into account while i think it should be locked up to the consumer. and i think it is a good thing that we now have much better information sense of the products we are, we have, it makes them a lot more expensive for the, for the average consumer. and so predictions are the sorts of wealth measures will increase. the final cost of products by about 20 percent. it's not for the government to tell us what we should or shouldn't be having. you know, this is the 21st century. the people should be in charge. yes, the pivot needs to be in for it, but they also need to know that these animals and their son and most people when they find this information out, will align their morals with their actions. i'm ok if

it is purely a public information campaign, then we don't need these measures to band practice is we don't need these the press the fishing industry and we don't need these, these measures fine products. if it's just about the science, we can lay the science before the public and leave the public to decide if you just keep information to the consumers and let them make their own decision. then the right decision will come about. and that is what, what that is, the point about somebody gave a direct bomb. the problem is the only tried to call only try because now remember something that's really important. fishing has been a major part of british political dis, tolls. you know, these industries have been really downtrodden by the european union, and now they have the ability to come back. why on earth would we be signing that? i mean, it certainly will make a difference because what we're saying is these animals are being formally recognized as being sent to you and which means that it's not ok anymore to dismember them alive, just to spike them in the head. you know, we're saying actually we can't do that anymore. we have to treat them the same way

that we would see any other 70 and animals. you know, we would drop a calf into a boiling pulse of water and watch it die. people, animals. ok that's, that's where humans, that's what we do. some people don't like it, but some people do. and so, rather than than suggesting the consumption, meat and food is akin to all impacts. let's accept that. there are differences in the use and in franchise people to make those differences induce not by banning what they can have, not by massively increasing the cost of things. so the chorus in society can't afford to the things they like less inform the public. but let's not control the public. i think it was billed to come here on the program, including bagging the drum for inclusion and the quality. a senior u. s. federal agency goes, woke, but find this off and hot water off the photo shopping disabled people onto the front cover office diversity reform and that sort of more just a moment the

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world, the politics sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me the, the news the. it's good to have with us. it was an attempt to display its diversity credentials, but it's ended up having exactly the opposite effect. a recent report on inclusivity by a major u. s. federal agency included a photo on its cover showing smiling office staff from all walks of life. but eagle items of as soon spots, not always as it seems to matri, poke among them. how do you convince people that you actually practice what you preach? well,

if you're the u. s. office of the director of national intelligence. apparently you do a bit of bad photo shopping, at least if you go by the cover of the o d and the latest report on diversity inclusion and equity. the intelligence community should reflect the diverse make up of america and demonstrate that well fostering an environment where every professional can succeed. promoting diversity, equity and inclusion is fundamental to always, mccracken values and critical to meeting the isis mission, physics work every single day. it didn't take long for people to notice that the cover was in fact, the picture from shutter stock. literally titled portrait of multicultural office stuff standing and one. what's more, it was doctor to include a woman in a wheelchair and a blind guy with a guy dog problem is these 2 were photoshop in sol, easily that half the internet noticed is a blame guy. you've brought

a shop and you, missouri analyst, law. you cloud for the shop, the blind guy and dog in there, talk about virtue signaling. because nothing says national intelligence light pen t virtual signaling with the shutter stock photo. while our enemies laugh it's all woke speculatively. you might wonder why they didn't just actually take a picture of their actual staff if they're so diverse. but perhaps that's because the o d and i just isn't as diverse and inclusive a place as they would like you to think. it just won't be on the front cover. inside the report itself, there, the figures suggest that since 2019th women have seen no change in representation whatsoever. while minorities gain just half a percent of people with disabilities, even less than that, it's almost as if they're not really going all in on hiring people based on skin color and gender. perhaps shockingly, merit and qualifications that they're actually after. but then again,

even the us intelligence community has to keep up appearances, especially under the biden administration. maybe that's why the us media has been kind of silence on the story. after all, can't have people thinking that the current administration isn't woke enough the united kingdom will no longer prosecute migrants who enter the country illegally. that's off the updated guidance from the government department responsible for prosecuting criminal cases in england and wales. the crown prosecution service stated that those entering the country by seal laurie may not have a choice and how they traveling could actually be victims of oak exploitation. it also said that immigrants should not face criminal charges for entering illegally unless they are involved in other criminal activities. the move has certainly proven controversial, is what britons form immigration policy advisor had to say the crown prosecution service has just said to come to britson advert to every would be illegal immigrant

in the world and to the organized crime gangs, and people. traffic has he facilitate them? some believe the decision will only encourage would be illegal. immigrants to head straight for britain. so far this year and estimated $6000.00 migrants of cross the english channel, which is already 3 quarters of the total for 2020 rub until broke our leader of english democrats. part he told us he was concerned about the consequences. the move will have for the u. k. we at the moment got no control. people coming in. realistically. we don't know anything about their backgrounds. we don't know where the criminal's or what, what they are all terrorists, even. we are not. we're not properly exercising any control and that's a great failing on the part of the state. there are enormous times people who, who come as a result of it over the years. and of course, one of the consequences that is that all our facilities would re,

medical the roads, even the question of housing, you know, that they're all plugged up and then we need, we, as a result of immigration, we basically need to build something the order 10000000 houses in southern england . and so the government now telling us, and that means of course that, that's basically a to new, greater london that have to be built. and that is definitely going to be damaging to what we like to think in the lives which is agreement doesn't land in italy. gee, 20 finance ministers met for a summer during which they approve a tax reform for multi nationals that aims to stop the use of tax havens. however, the meeting was maud by classes between environmental and social justice activists . and of course, local police. over a 1000, we are the tide protestors took to the streets of venice. the demonstration

initially started off quietly but descended into violence. when a small group broke away from the approved protest area, demonstrators could be seen throwing flat at police and blockading a street as offers. as in full rod gary attempted to disperse all the crowd. the strict covert rules have left thousands of australians locked out of their own country. the situation is not being made worse with the already low number of those permitted to return being cut dramatically at the same rules. don't apply though to the world of sport, which are seen homesick nationals talk of being of trade and abandoned by their own government. recently, australia, welcome the french rugby team for a game that took place on wednesday. as despite board is still being closed and only australian citizens and their family members allowed to enter. officials claim the arrival of the players was approved by the state government and doesn't affect those australians trying to get back. we've heard from i 24 news course, one sarah coats who like the citizens is outraged by the seeming double standards.

if a trailer and citizens are efficiently locked out of the country than anyone else should be as well, that should be the government's 1st priority to get these people who do want to come home home. it's in addition to the french rugby team, there are also being numerous cameras play is. zach ephron and his brother, they've been allowed into the country. they don't even citizens, and they didn't have to do a quarantine. so this policy has a lot of us trailing extremely fed up. in my case, i'm actually at the point where i don't even water go home. even if i was able to, at this point, i feel like scream, lee let down by the country and by the morrison governments. the foreign affairs department says around 34000 australians right now trying to get home. but new covey rules mean only 3000 to a week are allowed to fly in. that's half the level of the previous camp. now the

strict policy comes to meet fears of a new outbreak with the delta strain currently spreading across parts of australia . plains of flying almost empty into the country. some planes were forbidden from carrying any passengers, while others were allowed limited numbers depending on the destination. at the same time ticket prices have skyrocketed. flight to london, for example, now is 6 times more than before. a sarah code again says despite a government promise to take a case by case approach, it hasn't been making many concessions. i actually had a very special circumstance late last year in november, my father suddenly passed away and i was unable to go home. i still haven't been able to go home and i know many other people who been in the same position as myself, who have applied for the sort of special circumstance re entry sort of permits. but i have not been granted them at all. if indeed i hadn't had chosen being able to go

home at that point, i would have been forced to do 14 days mandatory quarantine in a hotel facility. the government still has an introduce to any quarantine special belt quarantine facilities in australia, or it's had nearly 2 years to do sorry, and pay than $3000.00 out of your own pocket before you're allowed to actually enter the community. so even if you are one of these lucky people that are granted a special sort of request to come back to the country. if say a family member is sick or die in or has passed away, you aren't able to go and visit them in the hospital, nor you allowed to go to the funeral. you are forced to be taken by police to a morgue to view body. sorry. it's really a tough time for a lot of a lot of people or that's your news program for this half hour here on r t international. thank you for joining us here. we come to live from moscow. the program continues in half an hour with my colleague, daniel, who gets the

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