in the top stories of the week here on our tea, italy temporarily exemptions citizens of neighboring san marino from needing coven possible if they've had russia sputnik v vaccine. despite the jap not being recognized by the e. u. all the program, we speak exclusively to son marino's. health minister we have some data from the guarantee of the at the cmc we are closer to a 100 percent off a few cmc evaluations homes bind to the ground apocalyptic theme. the devastating wildfires raging throughout the world from turkey and greece to russia and america also in the program a jail taco who exposed abusive conditions of the prison. he then is denied

telephone access to his lawyers, his wife, bride's move and active retaliation. bureau presence lawyer, the child that she can only let him speak to them as they have upcoming court the deadline. whereas she's not applying that requirement to any of the other. i money on the top stories of the week and of today. welcome to the weekly here, we're not going to national. i'm real research. italy has temporarily exempted residents of san marino from needing cove and passports to travel that of a tiny countries sitting entirely with an italy's borders. it's almost completely immunized its adult population using russia. sputnik v vaccine, which is not on the use of over list of brussels recently agreed to accept coven

job certificates issued by san marino and vatican city. but only the ones, it's given. the green light to the passes. allow free movement between those 2 non e. you states on the block, however, with the sputnik vaccine, it's still not given approval. well, we had a chance to speak with the nation's health minister. our green boss is eric nice from you, but only forward to people in summary. know that naked by pfizer. so the people and it is 94 percent of our population that's will be seen as the problem to move into italy in the service or italy bar restaurant or c m. ok. and the order flows space flow space. so we are now working with

the italian government to, to find a solution to this problem of the use of sputnik v and san marino. surely, it has an efficacy rate of more than 91 percent. 2 percent of those inoculated suffered side effects with less than half of that figure, carrying in people over 60, the health minister added that all those job with sputnik and san marino have developed antibodies against cobit will have some strategies about the ccsp of the vaccine. we have some day, some back guarantee of the fees and see we are closer to a 100 percent off a few cmc and so all our people different off antibodies and which is splitting

be maxine ation after one week from the start of research on those is what maybe we started to, to, to free our, our, our accounts and, and now we have people in, in the roof and some are called from turkey to america and russia to italy, devastating wildfires, or raging throughout the parts of the world in greece this week for example 2 people were killed in fires, searching all across the european country. me the the

many people were forced to leave their homes outside the great capital. mass evacuations are being carried out on the nearby island of every year, with hundreds of people playing the info via boat on friday, the nation. so it was struggling to contain more than $150.00 wildfires. and prime minister was that a heat wave has ton grief into a powder come well described as the worst and decades. huge blades are also causing havoc in toki as well. at least 8 people have been killed and around. 10000 evacuated,

emit extreme. wildfires burning all along the coastline popular tourist destinations by both of them and my motto had been hit one local describe the scene. there was raining ashes on saturday, a heavy rain for at least some relief the parts of the country. well, meanwhile, there were some a surreal scenes in california. this week, one town in plumas county looked like an apocalyptic hollywood movie, attended dr. agitation and strong winds of the dixie fire be named a rip through greenville remains of homes and abandoned cars. totally bought out or come inside. a building stating from the gold rush area were destroyed, including a school, the hotel, the church, and the museum. but just there also rushes siberia has been hit hard by huge wildfires. there were large daily evacuations of villagers with fire fighters battling and photos while in the russian republic of korea, fires blanketed large areas in thick smoke

but a computer engineer is currently serving a prison sentence in america. if a hacking a hospital, a modeling off israel says he did that to draw attention to a custody battle between the facility and the parents of a child being kept without consent. and mister got his val recently turned to us after he was denied telephone access to his lawyers. ah, mister, gotta tell us wife claims communication with his lawyer was cut off shortly after he wrote an article published on our team website. in the p. c. describe cases of miss trees went out the prison he's being held in the authorities. those say that at the end of the day, his lack of phone access was simply down to changes in that coven policies with active his wife isn't satisfied with that explanation. they read all of his mouth, so they had a heads up on what was coming. they shouldn't at legal privilege mail,

but i guess, i guess they were aware. he had multiple attorneys who were trying to get in touch with him for meetings about strategic matters. he answered an appeal and they're like just and other stuff in court and they just can't reach him. they're telling him that they can't francere voltage that bureaus. prison lawyer is telling them that she can only let him speak to them if they have upcoming court deadlines . whereas she's not applying that requirement to any of the other inmates. we contacted officials and leading rides, organizations for that, take the european court of human rights and human rights watch both. so they con, comment. well, let's take a look back for now and see how the situation unfolded me . i please let me know. right now i

need to feed my family with me. she has been totally medically abuse, finally, common sense prevails. ah, i just don't know how it's really happening because it doesn't feel like it's, it's real good to be home in the news

. the we told the geopolitical analyst, patrick senningson and barrett brown, a journalist who was himself in prison in connection with a data leak. marty himself, over throughout the entire was imprisonment, has been rejected against 4 other particles. he's written or lawsuits. he has filed against a system against individual wardens and so forth. having done for years and feds myself, the prison. the us for my activism and having written, calling from prison. i've been in prison where there wasn't a lot. i've been in prisons where, you know, i was, i was pulled off the phone. what was doing interview media,

interviewing and putting the show for doing that interview and then release after investigation. you know, 2 weeks later i was re arrested because these orders in 2017 for getting interview device after i got out of prison. no one has been involved in activism should be tried in the us, nor gosh, where they are. they just did that. the record of the us saw it on this is just a mentally vile. the harm should be proportionate to the sentence, not the potential harm. and increasingly, what we see, certainly in the us justice system, is this kind of trend of symbolic convictions and symbolic sentences, whereby the politicization of the justice system and what used to be due process is become increasingly politicized. and i think we can see that in so many different cases, especially with the area of cyber crime or hacking,

it seems that and i think maybe this just really speaks to the ability of hackers or hacked of ists to threaten the power structure which has become increasingly dependent on digital networks, we only have to look really at the julian assigned case as, as the sort of top level sort of case in this area. he is absolutely a political prisoner and it's not so much about what he did. it's about what he represents and the ability of an organization to get around the powers of the state. mm. well, it's a bit of a stock warning from the us. it's a special invoice for i've gotten us on, says the country's descending into a situation of catastrophe. so serious that it would have few parallels this century. i mean, while the u. s. and the u. k. o that citizens to just get out of afghanistan. as

late as taliban offensive in the country sees the terra group making sweeping territorial gains after a series of rapid advances in rural areas. in the last number of weeks, the insertions are now targeting some big cities as to the northern part of the region here. talking basically about conduce that will become a fall and the 3rd provincial capital seized in the last 3 days. the taliban has taken the governor's office and the police headquarters battle is still ongoing. in some parts of the city. according to reports, 14 people killed, including women and children more than 30 people have been injured. and there are scenes of destruction in conducts with buildings and ruins, or a lay. meanwhile, at least $700.00 former taliban fighters were released after the group captured another regional capital that shut up a gun that's in the north of the country. and this happened just on saturday. that is despite us heavy bombers being sent to the country to strike at various taliban

positions of surges are happening all along the northern regions right here. you can see where she kissed on it and took medicine as well. that worried about border security threats at the moment as heavy fighting between security forces on the taliban in another northern african province that of coon are over here, is left around 50000 people in the region displaced in the last 60 days with dozens of families from coo and off found shelter in a local school. a women and children making do and cramped classrooms with pretty rough conditions. we spoke to the refugees. i know wasn't, we had a good life in our village. we had everything with you to the fighting between security forces and the taliban. everything has been destroyed. the bottom line off isn't the county been detect our area and we had to flee a village. we saved only ourselves without any belongings or clothes. now we are living in this school building many kim, this is young connection usage,

a taliban block, texas all village around 2 months and was heavy fighting with leather homes due to the fight in and out of hunger after working for tonight we arrived here. we spent the 1st night in the park, then we came to the school. here we are facing problems. getting word, you know, in the meantime the capitol is now in itala bands. sites with a number of attacks targeting government figures. a combo was just seeing the funeral of the countries media chief, he was actually just shot dead during a raid on friday. when i spoke, person for the group says it hadn't punished him for his quote, deeds claiming it had sent a special unit to carry out his assassination. of the killing came days after another talking to taliban, sold the afghan defense when this is home in the capital capital. well let's learn more about this situation right now. coughing like the local journalists allow thought, wadi i, thanks for coming on the program with us here. on this sunday are naughty international. we've been doing a big discussion of the northern territories showing the map of i've gone on and

various taliban offences. can you bring us up to speed below our buddy? you know, so far. one of the fall of condos city where the taliban have been able to take control of most of the city as well as government buildings come in. quick succession. the city of fall upon which is the capital of the province just next door also fell to the taliban. when the governor, the police chief and head of intelligence department, they abandoned the city. the forces from the area who are fighting against the taliban for weeks. also left, so it is, you know, having a dominant impact in the spill over impact of these major provincial capital falling now has a serious security consequences for a city, missouri show you, one of the, one of the biggest business hubs, a city on the border with the g. apologies on the border with those bikes. and what

we're also hearing from one officials in a place like condos and they're also strikes by the americans, as well as by the african government. the costs of this war for ordinary ones for businesses, is simply too much. so whether you talk about a 1000000 in watermelon farm, i includes our business man. everyone is losing. we also heard from the tall about issuing a statement in the city of telephone, instructing its fighters not to take revenge, not to torture, a new one, and not to go to people's homes. dot com is a city which was the home or former normalized leaders and commanders who fought against the taliban in the 1990. that was one of the main basis to come out of my food in 1st 2001 i find this time it was one of their strong holes. these are also provinces that have provided soldiers to the african national security forces. but the worry of ordinary ones, even in

a place like cobble is quite clear here is what some cobbler residents spoke to me earlier. today. john of the americans made a bad decision because they left abruptly and paved the way for the taliban to launch an immediate attack. the taliban don't differentiate between the government and public property and infrastructure. they burned down by the old in the current situation. the withdrawal of americans is pretty very costly for us guns. the fighting has gained the property. it spread with high intensity across all of our guns. i'm going to school at one time when the americans came to afghan histone, they came to defeat terrorism. but 20 years have passed and the americans haven't defeated terrorism. instead, terrorism has strengthened, regional and global terrorism has turned of can. it's down into a hub of terror. the people of afghanistan being looted and mercilessly kills and public infrastructure is being destroyed. but i wanted to ask you,

because ultimately we have all these stories here about taliban fighters taking certain cities and regions and certain parts of afghan us on. but the taliban also is a political unit as well. in fact, members, there was a taliban delegation that recently was welcomed to china a week or so ago the taliban is apparently trying to gain a political credibility, political attraction as well. what is the general feeling among the people about canister on about the way the taliban is behaving with these military offences? when we have to remember that the top or bottom we're able to take control of more than $200.00 districts center than more areas. after the american announced that they were drawing material from upon this done in the absence of a comprehensive infirmity of these 5 in the absence of a credible in meaningful peace process. this is why the americans, for staff can government to release 6000, all of our leaders and fighters from prison when the americans were having their

own withdrawal deal or the taliban. so the african government was never part of those negotiations. then you had this dynamic where you had masser and religion, tribal elders would go and negotiate the surrender of soldiers. so much of the territory and ground did fall without resistance or without a single shot being fired in most cases. i think then what emerge was taliban brutality, you know, the harsh way of them governing whether you talked about, you know, video is appearing, showing, whipping or you know, beheadings in other instances. or you reports of people being executed in prisoners who are taken captive or later on killed. but i think now you're seeing, you know, people standing up to the taliban in some areas. these are former northern lights leader than commanders. not necessarily only in north,

in other parts as well. that gets mile hahn is fighting against them. now, 4 weeks actually in the city, hit odd. as well as the african government and then the americans are carrying these strikes. but it is important to point out that the more attacks you have inside major provincial capitals, which have been now the target of taliban violence. you are talking about hundreds and thousands of ones who are living in the cities. so at least 900000 outlines have been displaced according to one stands. and if in in human rights commission, we will have lost their homes. people have lost their harvest, people have lost their businesses. and we are only seeing that days urban attacks are becoming more and more regular for the taliban. so for the time being, this level of violence is quite simply too much. it's unbearable for one civilians, especially the women and children lowing. you know, in place like condos and elsewhere,

we do know that civilians were caught in the cross fighting and fighting or the victim. so you know, the cost of this is just way too much for one's painting. a very grim picture of the current situation in major parts and major regions of augusta and local journalists of allow saudi. thank you. well, let's go live, not a kennestone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war. joining us here on the international thanks for coming. unable to hear the program, you just heard the report that from bill outside of water, you've heard the reports on our team to national as well. i've got install, major regions, look to be falling to pieces in the wake of the us withdrawal. what is the future and the, the current situation and the future for this country? now, do you think while i think that if the taliban ends up taking power in kabul by itself or in a coalition with other parties and is able to form

a stable government in afghanistan without having a civil war in that country. i think that not only afghan of stan, but also asia will be turning a page all of asia because it will mean that the u. s. is not physically there in the center of asia bordering on the country of its rivals, what it perceives to be its rivals, namely russia, china, india, iran. so the, the people of afghanistan will be able, once again, to be able to determine their own future. they will be able to engage with their neighbors in energy transfer, such as pipelines they will be able to they will be able to get involved in trade deals with for example, the chinese belt and road initiative and their neighbor to the south pakistan can

you can when you're raising good good plants in for the future, i've got this tom, you know about the mineral wealth for example, and all sorts of different minerals in that country as well. but it's sharing these borders. well. these northern borders now with a southern border of russia and it was breakfast on tajikistan and all these caucasian countries down there. america now is bringing in the big, heavy bombers to have bombing the taliban across the northern region. you go to what one that russia must have some serious concerns right now that america is bucking out of afghanistan while the americans are continuing their bombing in order to try and halt the taliban in advance. but it's not working. and they're trying to prop up their government in kabul, such that the taliban might find it useful and important to make a coalition government with them. we'll see. the important thing to remember is that for the,

from the point of view of the entire world is that the reach of the u. s. empire is shrinking. they are going to have to leave afghan, the stand that's not to say that they're not going to try and metal. they're not going to use drawing attacks. they're not going to cause sabotage and other issues inside of ass down the stan. but the fact is that like the british who are playing the great game with afghanistan of century and a half ago and were forced to leave. so now the u. s. empire has failed in try to subdue afghanistan, and they couldn't, couldn't continue. it's illegal occupation because it was unpopular from the very start with the afghan knees and it was a violation of international law and sham pretext of $911.00. the $911.00 attacks on the us were not a they didn't fool anybody in the world for more than a few months. we know that the us was in there for geo political reasons. and now that it's getting out and having to because it has to concentrate on other areas of

the world, we can see that the u. s. empire is weakening and the from the russian point of view having the us out of their, from the chinese point of view, having the us out of there from the iranian point of view, having the us out of there are all good things actually banned from the point of view of the afghani people who live for 20 years under a government of war, the brutal government warlords and drug lords and phony government in terrible it probably means a new day and hopefully a good day where they have more, more influence over though their own lives in a ken and interaction and hopefully hopefully a good day. as you say, it's an optimistic outlet, but they also now potentially look to be living the future under the possible grip of the taliban. now it's the taliban, just to remind you one more time. the talent is not just a militant organization. they are a political wing as well as i was saying to to be outside water a few moments ago,

a delegation of a telephone recently welcomed in china. do you think the taliban could use the mineral resources in wealth of afghan? asked on to gain political credibility with certain governments around the world. i think that the taliban if it wishes to stay in power in a coalition or by itself enough, ghana stand. it has to deliver to the afghan people. the afghan people have suffered tremendously in their standard of living has declined, especially the women, too, among the lowest in the world. afghanistan has many natural resources, including lithium, as an agricultural resources, etc. and it can, it can if it's able to trade freely with its neighbors and have good relations with his neighbors, it could become part of the belgian road initiative. it could, there is an oil pipeline that's almost

a gas pipeline that's almost complete. it has, it could tie itself into the economies of the region as for the mutual benefit of all, from the hamilton coalition to stop the war, can stone joining? i say, a life on the international, a very insightful discussion. we appreciate it. thank you for your time. you're welcome, lori. thanks a lot. i thank you for your time and thank you for joining us here for the sunday weekly program on are you in to national i received a web back soon with oh i, i mentioned that i saw that you know more than a month near lock and arctic and when i got back,

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