the moon the, as the taliban makes sweeping games enough, dennis dana and joe biden admits the group is at its strongest in decades. but the u. s. president is still taking american boots off the ground by the end of next month. the accomplish that we gather scott, some of the lawn chairs him is not emanating from that for the serving themes of a felt harm. and belgium is migrants who go to extreme in their fight for asylum, although authorities and they won't be blackmail. britain granted the u. s at the right to try again to extradite julia sancha. however, one of the whistleblowers oldest friend leaves washington's attempts will ultimately fail to feel is an attempt to pro long inevitable.

the inevitable is the freedom of julius ah, my broadcasting lab, direct my studios in moscow. this is art international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories. now 16 people were killed and dozens more injured in fighting between the african army and the telephone in the city of kandahar on saturday. that's according to local officials . this comes as fighting has been intensifying across the country with the taliban making big territorial games. and while the u. s. president joe biden has conceded the group is now at its strongest in 2 decades. he is still defending the decision to pull american troops out your view with making this decision for the last 20 years worth. we went for 2 reasons. one

to can you blame him up to 20 long years and no victory? anyone would struggle to on? why? so the $47000.00 civilians could be killed so that only half the population could live in poverty. so the country could lie and ruins faced with ugly reality. is it any wonder the bite and decided it was fine the time to come home? i will much send another generation america toward i can stand with no reasonable expectation of achieving the different outcome. oh, there was no missing, accomplish permission was accomplished in that we get scott some and widen, and terrorism is not emanating from that part a little. we achieved those objectives. well, not quite all carnita and might be gone. but the taliban is ascendant. advancing so

quickly that and now claims to control 85 percent of afghanistan and the country view as nato allies having jumped ship, its people have been left to fend for themselves or calling them. they've 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 u. s. didn't plans withdraw, things were stable, but the instability is increased since the last. i mean, i'm very clear the yes had contracts with markets owners here and we used to purchase from them the withdraw will affect our business. we can buy any goods because there are transportation provo, some have already fled to neighboring. patrick, it's dawn and iran, but that might not be an option for long. the ton of bond controls 2 thirds of the border with tajikistan and recently captured the crossing to iran, meaning the on many escape routes left. an especially dangerous prospect for those

who worked with foreign armies favoring for their lives there. now cooling on washington to get them out. one of the monday gave us a recommendation. they've not only my life my time tonight at all done with really when we don't have an issue we have now we want to take any decisions or united nation or whatever. you call yourself humanitarians. but what kind of humanitarian saw you left me here after? i worked 10 years for you. russia is also worried that the fighting will spill over into its territory. so it's arched restraint promised to jesus tom, back up on the board and maintains dialogue with the taliban and the country that created this whole mess. just opt in left.

oh, i the i up to left in the dead of night without what apparently the washington claims that local officials knew that withdrawal was eminent. the very next day newton was seen plundering 5 grand base funny american souvenirs left behind. with this hasty exit parallel for being drawn with another opening us as for, for was vietnam wage, a war on terror, realize that the tree is impossible in could deal with your enemy found in your

eyes and get the hell out of that. well, let's just hope the carpool doesn't fall as quickly as south vietnam did. to biden at least has faith. is a tale bon take over that gas that now inevitable? no, it is none. is that what the goal was 20 years ago? that devastation, no plan for long lasting peace. i hope that the government wouldn't crumble as soon as the u. s. left. how many more countries will be put through this vicious cycle before the us finally learns its lesson. united states is a far very global empire. we are absolutely totally addicted to war. our economy cannot survive unless we are either actively engaged in war or preparing for war. and so there is obvious parallels between afghanistan and

vietnam. when i was in vietnam, i was only met mom. so i was seeing the rapid disintegration of american involvement in vietnam. so i was seeing the homicides the suicides, the ramp, and heroin addiction shit out among the american soldiers within our own, you obviously at that point and $97071.00. we were questioning, why were we ever in vietnam, you know, because a lot it was thought that we were there to preserve peace and democracy and in the united states government. but that was all a lie. everything was a lie in the same thing is true for the war in afghanistan, you're going to see a lot of a rack and app dentist and better is probably committing suicide. there's a lot of that we're going to drink and drugs themselves and death because they're going to ask themselves, what's the point of me ever being in rack or hundreds

of undocumented migrants are on hunger strike in brussels in a bid to press the authorities to grant them asylum, some have even stone, their mouth shut to show that they have no say. on wednesday the government officials met with protesters. no agreement was reached, but the union representing migrants says some progress was made. officials now say fighting economic exploitation is one of their priorities. they say that there are a 150000 living here illegally. and the $200.00 people that decide to stop eating should be regularized individually. what would be the result? a week later, you get 202020000 people who would do exactly the same round a 1000000 migrants entered the u and 2015 and were blamed for terror attacks and sharp increases in crime. some migrants who have been in belgium for more than a decade say that their a silent appeals have still not been processed or to charlotte. kaminski reports now from brussels. indigo long term migrants across brussels,

taking action into their own hands and rooting in some extent to extreme measures to demand their rights seem assigned attempts in sewing up their own lips. just to the shocking moves the migrants have taken to show just how serious they are. while we've been have 3 people have needed urgent care. some for men and women taking part in this protest have been in the country for more than a decade. and they say that they have simply had enough of government in action. there's also criticism that brussels and even europe as a whole, have been so hesitant and imposing any kind of rooms for their situation, leaving them no choice. i have started this and i have to continue to the end. i've lost 15 kilos, but i am ready to lose another 15 or 20 just to be legalized. some other people

that lives even more. my buddy carry me recently swallowed a razor blade. he had to get an emergency operation for other people. so the lips, always actions of one goal. to show that we really need the documents. i am the nipple guy, but my chinese not never, don't understand the poly. kennedy speaking the police and day so does the things. so my child is, is property of belgium. just give me one for me. then i can walk. and i can give to put my child, the belgian government says it won't change policy. it's frustrating. we are trying to help people as much as possible to get their dos is to be treated as fast as possible. but of course not every undocumented person, not every person who is here can stay in belgium. the hunger strike is not going to help issue of undocumented migrant isn't just confined in belgium in

front of also being processed stage to call attention to the thousands who are also in a similar situation. the in the news but is a regular is a shouldn't real solution in some other countries. of course the e, u, spain, portugal and italy, that's the route that's been pursued. however, that too has caused problems. italy is trying to grant access to around 600000 undocumented migrant. but the process has been proved with allegations that permit a being issued arbitrarily with collective regulators ation. 9. that is only meant the new influx of illegal immigrants doesn't work for political action is

their old responsibility is not that of the government or citizens of this country . if our government gives it opens the book for more actions like this for a new wave of immigrants coming to our country. since you are the picture, let's together make your situation more her oral than is already used. wrongest ortiz all refusing to budge those supporting the protesters say that off the 6 weeks, the situation is now very desperate. the undocumented people who have been in hunger strike, especially though staying and one of our campuses have reached you been point where they can irreversibly put the health a great risk where you grab that public authority to remain deaf to their ques, which will continue to support stay faithful to our humanist commitments and our sense of justice. yet, despite all of the focus on migration, at an in new level, there's still no coherent strategy, which many think will only make the problem worse. the problem is,

is huge. it is without any doubt. the biggest problem facing belgium and the european union right now. every single domain is under enormous pressure because of mass migration. i'm talking about public safety policing and migratory services, but also about things like education, housing, and the judicial system. if we decide to ignore the rules because people go on hunger strikes that we're setting a horrible example. the migration law in belgium is not strict at all. so if your application to get red residence papers is rejected, that means you, you really don't deserve them. and you have to go hope the problem is that the belgian government isn't doing enough to make sure that these illegal migrants who have their application regret your objectives effectively go. in many countries, they are, they are put on a plane back to their country of origin. but in belgium,

they just received a paper that says they have to return home a former police officer, maybe new york's next mer. after winning the democratic nomination. he was picked despite a year of black lives matter protests whose stated aims included the funding. the police in the city crime is sewing with new york state governor andrew cuomo declaring a gun violence disaster emergency of the new mayoral candidate is eric adams. he served in the police for 22 years and is currently the brooklyn burrow president at the forefront of his platform is a commitment to combating gun crime. he supports police reform, but as against the funding, the force if black lives really matter, it can only be against police abuse and has to be against the violence that's sitting apart our communities. people want to feel safe. right now they don't feel safe. crime is happening all around them. shootings are up, robberies are up,

homelessness is up. they see in the subway. they don't feel safe in some ways. they see it out in the streets, in their homes, in the neighborhoods, and they want to feel safe. so this gentleman ran on a platform of public safety and making people feel safe in their resume with them. and that's it. you know, the, to find the police movement has been a large failure. demonizing and attacking cops has been a failure and people are ready for change and hopefully this is the catalyst of some sort of change. and it is not just new york polling shows concerns about violent crime, r at a 4 year nation wide, high with homicide rates. climbing across us. chicago's mayor has asked the president for help after the city. so it's bloodiest weekend over independence day . me when more than 100 people were shot. policeman zig arkham again says the public is demanding action, but leaders aren't listening to violence is right in people's faces. you can put

all the crime statistics out there. say your crime is going down. you can have all the feel good moments, but people know what they see. they know the here. and you can't deny that. so people definitely want to change. they want some sort of action to be taken. they want to feel safe. that was all about public safety. now you're not going to convince someone that just finished watching someone get rob's or know about shooting is going on in the neighborhood that they're safe. they want something done. italy is the official winner of the euro. 2020 football championship. that is after they beat england $32.00 and a tense penalty shoot out. needless to say, italian supporters. while back home could not be happier. the thousands of ecstatic italians, whether the 3 of rome to celebrate what is only the 2nd time italy has won the

setting off fireworks and probably waving the italian. the overall picture in england is much more subdued as fans come to terms with the results. however, the 10th final did spark clashes near wembley stadium with around 45 people being arrested. this according to british police, are he shot edwards dusty reports from a very disappointed london. deborah sarah, no money was to relate tonight. of course england have now lost the year for 2020 the final. it's been a really, really interesting night. london is poor a right now. the rain is pouring down and the front is a downpours. i feel it was heartbreaking to be the way it was just an expected with the goal at the very beginning and expected ways. i think we'll have that in one day. like we've really had,

like just looking for everyone considering the last. yes guys. absolutely guys. you know, my district, i got to finally 55 is still going to be proud of him for what i changed. 3 pennell just terrible news through a lot of pain in my life. work through family situation like punching me in the north again. but again, in this country and every dia, but i think the one that i bought, i bought jonesy show, came popping up in front of me, but i think well, go to a final progress and the phone got cut off. we went, well, we lost in penalties against italy, it was so close and it felt like for the entire much thing with dominating thing is

to leave. and in the 2nd of things were changing from what and actually in the 2nd half of extra time. and really father actually was coming back very, very strong, but still the english was alive and kicking. i was here right now in pub, in west london. and it really felt like it was coming home. it devastating to say that is absolutely not the case. but what can we say? we have the experience players, we have lots of sterling realist. we had them all, but still it just didn't come to fruition tonight. for many people in central london is more launch in the whole of england. still some more optimistic saying some point eventually it's coming. the 3 england players who missed penalties in the euro. 2020. that final have been targeted by racial abuse online. the football

association has condemned the abuse directed towards the players, while the metropolitan police has launched an investigation calling the situation intolerable. 6 months after the us, jumping out a little bit year there, 6 months after the u. s. last it's been to have whistleblower julian assange extradited. u. k. court has granted washington the right to appeal. the judge is reported to have agreed with 3 of the 5 justification sent us admitted. while the bite administration is apparently now prepared to let assange serve any prison sentence in his australian homeland, but his partner claims he already has that right. stella morris this week, and also gave her reaction to the granting of the appeal from outside the court. i was able to speak to julian now about the decision and you know, it's mixed because on the one hand it's been 6 months and we haven't had any news.

so it's like an endless purgatory. but at the same time it doesn't here. and julian's very unwell, he's happy when, when he went with our eldest this morning. and so it's not representative when i see him because obviously it's a, it's a one rest fight. he get off. but even belmont prison is a horrible place. he won his case in january. why is he even in prison? why is he even being prosecuted? there is no legal case against him. all. there is an indictment based on life. washington wants a songs to face charges of hacking and espionage which could lend him a sentence of 175 years if convicted in january, a british judge ruled against his extradition over mental health issues in 2001, 900. he was forcibly removed by police from the ecuadorian embassy in london, after quito terminated his 7 year asylum there. with you, weeks editor in chief christian robinson says,

the share length of the entire process is shameful. well, it's a great disappointment for julian songs and for all of 1st that this is continuing . one would hope that the united kingdom courts would to recognize how ridiculous this case is and not grant the appeal. this means that this will drag on for some time for a prisoners to have to wait in a prison cell 6 months for half a year. just to get a decision of whether the appeal is allowed to to his opponents or not, if rages, this decision comes only a week after it is revealed that the indictment against julian does not have a leg to stand on. the key witness has retracted his testimony and says basically that testament, which was cited by the business judge numerous times as

truthful allegation doesn't hold true. it is a fabrication and the americans now know it and they're still continuing on this track. this appeal is an attempt to pro long the inevitable. inevitable is the freedom of julian. if he does not get his freedom, it is such a load to our society and what we believe in that it is almost amount to turning off the light. so this must come to an end, and i can fence in my bones that it will be coming soon. meanwhile, australian m. p. 's are urging president biden to drop the us government's extradition appeal. the strategy and citizens want juliet assigned to be free. his treatment violates the convention against torture and its persecution threatens journalists worldwide dropped

us president joe biden has urged vladimir putin in a phone call to crack down on ransomware hackers operating on russian territory. but despite the white house admitting it has no new evidence suggesting that moscow has anything to do with the recent spate of cyber attacks that has not stopped much of the western media from pointing the finger at so called russian hackers or cheese. but i got to have comments in recent weeks, months rushman, hackers of have keeping you gotten to overdraw. and at least if a slew of us media reports about cyber attacks or american entities and corporations. if that is to be believed, credit in gremlins at work, obviously obvious that is only to the us media. we're not, we're not certain the initial thinking was it was not rushing gums,

but we're not sure yet. the media seem to know something that neither biden nor the f, b i, nor an array of intelligence agencies. something that they don't know because where the media is crying, russia, the politicians in the experts are much less sure. listen carefully to the language that officials to use it. they are saying russia tax, anything. what president biden can, and i expect will do. his demand. russia live up to its obligations and prevent its territory for being used for these criminal acts in once. russia to be a productive member of the international community. he could certainly arrest and try these criminals in russia or hand them over to stand trial elsewhere. pundits ah, saying it's russia, they, they couldn't possibly know with it's russian government hackers or criminal russian hackers or even if they're russian. not of the white house itself doesn't know. but there you have it. russian government, hackers,

breach the computer systems of the republican national committee last week around the time. irrational and criminal group, unleashed a massive france where attack, according to 2 people, familiar with the matter. it's the strangest thing. usually it's the, it's, the professionals are that people that they report to the government that tells you if they believe that someone was attacked, it could even be the victim. they would, they would know. but in this case, the republicans, which the media has were attacked even they say they weren't. over the weekend, we were informed that synnex a 3rd party provider had been breached. our team worked with microsoft to conduct a review of our systems and after a thorough investigation, no r n c date was accessed. what pundents usually do is they right sensational headlines. the caching on your clicks. fabulous, medium makes money right ads. so even counter from brush collusion, hooked skill down the list of the bunked, russia, hackers,

stories and you'll see we only learned that they were made up after that generated millions of clicks. but there is also an agenda, the vested interest to keep painting russia back to make sure that relations never rebuilt russian group are able, the same group that took down j. b. s. hacking into software manager, casea ramps of demand came from a criminal organization, likely based in russia. we're learning details of what appears to be a new russian cyber attack. the targets were us and foreign government agencies. we can guess why they keep doing this 1st and foremost, the fortunes that have been made, scam, or greg about russia from billions of clicks and media side. so enormous cash injections for the pentagon made possible only by hysteria about russia and of course old habits die hard after a century of bashing russia in all its forms. the american media just can't shake

the habit. well, they don't have really any idea. they're simply surmising where these attacks are coming from. they don't have any way of sourcing these attributions. because this is merely, these are merely face of a baseless assertion. there could be a major cipher event coming up in the near future, and they want to have a ready, a ready scapegoat in russia for some reason. i mean, there are all kinds of indications that something is of foot in terms of cybersecurity. it's merely a kind of a, a troth to constantly say russian hackers it's, it's just the common trope that they're throwing around without any evidence whatsoever. that does it for me, for this hour. and in fact, that there's a for the entire weekly for this week. but don't worry about 31 minutes. south taylor, my colleague will be here to take you through of fresh and new look at your new

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