the gun he's done, he's spinning out of control. the u. n. is alarmed at the deteriorating security situation in afghanistan with the taliban making a rapid territorial gain following the u. s. withdrawal. the militant group is now reportedly only 50 kilometers away from the capital, coupled with the us lead alliance, leaving the country afghan nationals who, who have risked their lives assisting for military's now fear violence, retaliation from the research and taliban, we speak to one former translator who worked with both british and american army, he has asked for his identity to be concealed for his safety and that of his family . for me to leave the details on what the interpreter was served to partition american forces, it will be the african interpreters, the whole previous course, and

a powerful blast terraces through a passenger bus in the town of veronica and western russia, leaving 2 dead and 220 injured because it isn't yet known, we hear from an eye witness who rushed to help survivors. in a minute off to the last, i heard children scream, people please help me. didn't rush to the bus and jumped in through the window which had already been shattered. ah, alright broadcast, you wanted direct from our students in moscow. this is our teacher national. i'm showing thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. you know, the un secretary general is raising grave concerns as afghan astounds government is quickly losing control over the country. following the u. s. troop withdrawal taliban is making sweeping territorial games with its militants now reported to be

just 50 kilometers from the capital couple. the un chief is desperately urging all parties to refrain from harming civilians. even a country, the test, tragically known generations of conflicts. afghanistan is in the throes of yet another k. u optic and desperate chapter. an incredible treasure the for its long suffering people forgotten, he's done his spinning out of control. on friday, the telephone claimed that it had seized afghanistan's 2nd largest city. come to her. you can now see exclusive footage from there. the islamist milton group said it seemed to hundreds of weapons and vehicles as well as large amounts of ammunition during the operation. u. s. embassy in cobble is urging all americans to leave immediately going so far as to offer loans to those unable to afford plane tickets home. and to use any available commercial carriers on the map, you can see the situation in afghanistan right now. currently,

the taliban has taken hold of strategically crucial locations very near to the capital. islamists ramped up their offensive back in april, after the u. s. president announced that he was pulling out troops at the times of milton group held less than a 5th of the country. now they control more than half local journalists below sar. worry, told us that the people in cobble are feeling how the people in trouble are feeling right now. the people of special the people of cobble are exceedingly disappointed in a lack of literary strategy that should have prevented what is now a very be moralizing friend for the african soldiers entire unit. even a brigade in cor commanders are entering to the color one, not putting up a fight. many people in the city of chicago. today that i spoke to told me that why did their sons got killed when they were sent to the more corners of this country?

and this was the end result. when you had the western embassies list, the cobble is not safe for when you hear them deploying forces, saying that this is specifically to evacuate their own, you know, citizens. it does not instill confidence in the african government during the african peoples. i'm sure that the presence of thought cobbler province in within the city is now an open secret. and what is a city like car, but it's panic. it's chaos. you know the memories of the 1990 s, very fresh. when i went to a very dark period, i must also highlight another point that cobbler had no electricity. so those fears are real the risks and. busy the people are quite tragically don't. busy have a hole in the future of this country that is crumbling for the time. meanwhile, an initial deployment of us forces has arrived in cobbled to protect evacuating

embassy staff with most of the $3000.00 total troops for the mission expected in the coming days. and amid the swirl of helicopters at the embassy observers are comparing the scene. the last chopper out of saigon, which marked the end of the vietnam war. senior republican lawmaker, mitch mcconnell says it looks like america is getting ready for the fall of couple just but just a month ago, president joe biden dismissed the vietnam parallel. you see any parallels between this withdraw and what happened to vietnam with some people feeling what? 0 the tale vaughn is not this out. the north vietnamese army, they're not, they're not remotely comparable terms of capability. there's going to be no circumstance for you to see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the united states from afghanistan total failure. i think that there's any other way you can possibly measure some by means of compassion when the soviet stuff that's going on. and on one connection, i need the pro,

soviet government did not collapsing in this way. in fact, it took some 2 years before any major cities fell to my job being was here is saying, major cities pulling one off to the other 2 to the taliban before the americans have been for the left, which gives credit to compact things that shows how how much less successful in fact, americans have been in building a stable government and i've kind of stamina service one, the service didn't exactly do a good job. so therefore, i mean, clearly the americans have failed. this thing, this is got left to do live, the daughter of miss underestimation of the taliban. shang, as it is to do with underestimation of the will to fight the government forces. i mean, simply put, the government forces collapse very little will to, to, to fight. and so it's really a moral problem when the government forces more than the strength of the taliban and british forces are also withdrawing. but the country's defense secretary is

already gravely warning that afghanistan is on the brink of collapse, calling the u. s. decision a mistake. ben wallace says the tele, bon militants clearly have momentum across the country in afghanistan is heading toward civil war predicting as well that the battle scarred nation will again become a breeding ground for al qaeda. reporting next from outside, the british defense ministry. years shot it edwards dusty, will all options on the table. that is the latest from the u. k. is defense secretary brand wallace, as he tries to prevent an all out civil war in afghanistan as the u. k. begins to retreat troops out of the country now, ever since us taliban p still. what we've seen is nature allows have all begun to retrieve what flashes this power political vacuum in the region, seeing the tale from totally taking control and tipping that balance of power. now not only will a poverty of course increase on political destabilization,

but what's a key worry is terrorism could also still be on the rise, and that's why the u. k. the funded secretary is now saying that pulling out of the region is a huge mistake. now we were in this position where we talked about how clearly to manage across the country. united states are leaving that with an honest yesterday we are leaving alongside them. and that leaves a, as you say, a very, very big problem on the ground. developing with the taliban failed states around the world need to instability lead to a security threat to off on our interest. we. we are very clear about that, that fly that the west has to learn that you don't fix problems. you manage problems. pro button wallace has also said that the united kingdom may act if asked on a star again began to hobb a terrorism, particularly if it pose an international threat like it did arguably some 18 years ago. but many auntie will activists that the way the foreign policy has never been about to humanitarian mission,

nor was it about democracy and only ever saw the land become the place of conflict and battle ground giving rise to the taliban. and what we see now is the tale around all accelerating the dominant. many areas are now falling to the tale bottom as a particular ring around kabul. at this point, many people question and all you, whether or not the type, i will go directly to try and seize carpool, and according to the united nations, the gun will, has now entered its more destructive phase with casualties. climbing over one and a half a 1000 in the past 4 weeks alone. and all of this really has cause a lot of anger. here in britain, even with many m. p. 's, some of which have even served in the connie occupation over the last 20 years. them incredibly angry and all of that pulling out is a complete mistake and a huge failure. the operation broke was worse. it took families apart,

left children orphans and parents to cry alone. the decision to withdraw is like a rug pulled from under the feet of our partners. that's why i'm angry. it's wasteful and unnecessary. and why is it personal? because i've seen what it costs and what sacrifices are being thrown away. and i know who's going to pay for it. we will. well, it's actually a pretty desperate time for the united kingdom is actually sending in around $600.00 troops to try and get british nationals out. c, l, a short term basis rescue mission if you like. but for those in afghanistan, both citizens simply call and guess how this is incredibly tragic and scary time for all of them as a taliban relentlessly takes over. but ultimately, for nato allies, britain and america, the last 20 years ending up like this is incredibly humiliating because they tried to rebuild it. unsafe allies, the region and now. so it seems as though with the telephone take over, the country could be worse off us. and as the u. s. lead alliance withdraws. afghan

nationals who helped the foreign troops now fear reprisal from the taliban. a group of africans who had assisted the u. k. forces rallied on the streets of cobbled demanding protection from the british government. 600 british troops are being deployed to protect you. k nationals as well as they evacuate, as well as support the relocation of former african staff. we spoke to a former african interpreter who worked for british and american forces. he is asked to remain anonymous out of fear for his life. my family has listed to it's in the past, sometime i am be home was attacked twice. my father has been given warnings and threats many, many times my. my dad's name was called that his life will be severely at risk because she offered no one but 2 of her sons against the italian.

recently, one of the interpreter, his father was caught in a province. he was beaten very badly. and he was asked to ask his son, who, who is an interpreter, to come in, trace the issue the cause of detail upon recently, one of the interpreter who used to be an interpreter for the american special forces was assassinated by the time of the interpreters who have served for years and years or stems enough kind of tracing risk and benches. however, you could government instead of serving deadlines, bringing them to live in peace and safety with their kids. or they are making excuses and new conditions put in place only to reject their cases. all i'm hearing from my colleagues is the big cases have been rejected, rejected. there was a number of cases which were told,

but they were good to go. they were even given in there was sent an email confirming that when they were ready for the flights, they are told that they can re, to, to, to the you, to my brother, book office, water interpreter for the collision of forces. my brothers still enough to understand the british government is making a false accusations and excuses to withhold. not only my brothers visa, but many interpreters who genuinely need the british governments help and ot up to a very high risk or strongly believe the detail above 100 down every are going to interpreter who's so if the partition american forces, it will be the african interpreters or who paid the ultimate force. as the conflict sharpens, the un warns that nearly 400000 civilians have already fled their homes this year

with a particular spike since may many are heading to cobble to flee the telephone, but are living in extremely precarious conditions. here are just some of the heart wrenching stories from refugees. i mean just from telecom, the taliban killed my son. they took all the belongings from my house and set fire to demonstrate the punch me in the mouth, causing my teeth to fall out. they demanded my son, and i told them that he's a school teacher. she recently became a teacher and had not even received his salary yet, had a class has broke out and we were taken hostage in the fighting, went on for about 6 to 7 days that we couldn't go outside to do anything we managed to escape. and now we are displaced but displaced afghans who seek asylum may not be welcome in the you as well with the block currently at loggerheads over what to do with the refugees and those fleeing violence. next r t policy or delves into what happened to brussels open door policy. your

opinion is less than what to do with african refugees seeking. assigned them. in the letter to the european commission, civil countries insisted they have the right to forcibly support those whose cases have been rejected. they vote that not to deport them, would motivate war refugees, to flee to europe. we would like to highlight the edge of need to perform returns both voluntary and non voluntary to afghan. a stan stopping return sends the wrong signal and it's likely to motivate even more afghan citizen to leave the home for the e u. the situation in afghanistan is deterioration by the all whenever it comes to the us and nato prepaid to what's called a proof that the end of the month after decades is on war. situation is so bad that the netherlands, germany, and france have decided to cause the deportation to be for now. the

situation in afghanistan is likely to change and events for the coming period are so uncertain that i have decided to introduce a more atoria on debt partition decisions and departures agrees, or stress belgian and denmark standing firm. they want the rejected, assign them because the e u is not really and does not have the capacity to kind of another major migration crisis. why haven't you guys are waiting, make up around 10 percent on asylum seekers there. the 2nd largest group off the syrians and for a continent still scarred by the migration crisis of 56 years ago. there was a feeling of a feeling of having been they before. and has your opinions worried. they might be on the verge of a fish refugee crisis. those people who are here from a gun is done, they are not my. they're a few use and asylum seeker. and that is why it is very important to remember at

all best in countries have signed humor a convention refugee convention. and they are duty bound to has anyone, not only of guns, but syrians are anybody who come to the, to their country? and as far as them, because you are in the country, are any conflict personnel to to the life. so i think than the western countries say, oh, we don't care if you go home or we do for them. i think this is a violation of human rights and we should do that kind of thing. so because the program, the bbc has condemned to russia decision to expel their veteran. moscow correspondence, while the kremlin has explained the case as a symmetrical response to take a closer look after a short break. this is our trash and ah,

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only personally, i'm going to i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk this is your media a reflection of reality in a world transformed what will make you feel safe for tyson lation community? are you going the right way or are you being that somewhere? direct?

what is true? what is faith in? in the world corrupted, you need to defend the join us in the depths. will remain in the shallows ah, in the welcome act. this is art international. now the kremlin has explained its refusal to extend to the accreditation of the bbc's veteran moscow correspondent as a symmetrical response to britain's discrimination of russian reporters that says u. k broadcaster denounced the decision to expel sara rainsford, who has been in the job for the past 7 years or 2 that are some of the comments. essentially, the russian foreign ministry has refused to renew the work resolved. well, sir,

arranged for a correspondent with b. b. c, him in russia and she will apparently have to leave the country by the end of this month already. but according to the spokeswoman of the russian foreign ministry marie as hard as they took this step in response to the actions of the case for an office, have a listen. the anglo saxon media group dismissed multiple warnings by the russian foreign ministry. that relevant measures would be taken in response to london's fees that put downs target. and the russian correspondent in the u. k. were published statements on a regular basis, or for in the british side to stop prosecute in russia, journalists. so here's the thing, the so called tenants of reciprocity has long been a cornerstone of russian diplomacy. in fact, for the past several years in playing terms, it means that if any country in the world takes hostile steps against russia, something that russia doesn't feel is just and doesn't feel it's right than russia

and moscow reserve the right to respond accordingly to basically mirror reactions and do something very, very similar. so this is what the russian foreign ministry is saying happening with well, sarah reins forward. according to the russian foreign ministry, several russian journalists back in 2019, failed to get work visas in the u. k. but one of them, for example, didn't, i didn't have the visa renewed and another one simply didn't get one at all. and so for the past several years since 2019 the russian foreign ministry of russian diplomats have been pointing at these situations to the u. k. authorities saying that this wasn't right, but that all, all of that i should say fell on deaf ears. and so russia has decided to take this step. at least this is the position of the russian foreign ministry. and of course, the b, b. c is quite better, they've called this step an attack on the freedom of press. the also call this, they've also urged the russian foreign ministry to reconsider their decision. and

also the pledge to, to well reporting on russia's affairs impartially. but when russian journalists weren't allowed to work on the u. k. soil, that was all fine. it was fine for years. it wasn't an attack on the freedom of press. but when the b, b, c, probably the face of the u. k. journalism all over the world gets stung and gets well the same treatment gets the same dose of the same medicine. that's different. independent journalists, martin summers thinks that the problem is that western countries want to see russia as an enemy. well, you've got to think about it from a sort of psychological warfare point of view from the, from the western side. what they want to see in media is lots and lots of discussion about how bad russia is. so you got the defender h miss defender, sales in disputed waters. there's got to be some anti russian

media story every week. and in that sense, in a state, you can argue that the russians are playing into their hands here by britain. you know, she's not just knowing of these are renewed, but on the other hand, it's because relations also paul, that we've reached this point, me to do something to it to, to improve relations. but it's hard to see watts when there's such a loss of ingrained hostility, mostly on the western side. i mean, they won't, they won't russia as an enemy. and they make that pretty clear explosion has ripped it through a public bus in the western russian city of verona is killing 2 women and injuring 20 other people. and i witness who rushed to help. survivors told us what he saw. why not? but i slot a minute, i a minutes after the blast i heard children scream, people please help me to rush to the bus and jumped in through the window which had already been shattered. once inside a thorn 11 or 12 year old girl,

she was stuck between 2 seats. at that moment the guy came to help me. first we got the girl out. i'm sure her ribs broken, given how tightly she had been stuck. he made several attempts to stand her up with what she couldn't and started fooling after her. i'll go back on the bus. there was a woman in a green dress. her legs were severely hurt. her legs had been blown off to above the knees. we took her out and puts her on the ground. it was appalling. inside. you could see legs quality parts scattered around, but you don't focus on that as you battle to say human lives. the human life is the most precious thing on us. i didn't analyze anything at the moment of rushing to help. i acted instinctively. what self can you do when you hear children screaming, moaning my heart told me to do that. i understand this would shock, ordinary people, they'd seek to avoid such things. i've been to war, i'm sort of used to it. my help went hung on there,

but i actually right now warning that the falling report begins with a st camera video of the actual blast and it contains some rather distressing images. now, a split 2nd before the incident and then debris flying out from all sides. then a fire. at the time it is believed the bus had around $35.00 passengers on board. and as the blast hit, many of those who are still able to move fled and did so quickly. further, disturbing images of the explosion show an injured person lying on the ground among the debris. russian authorities have opened a criminal probe and are looking into a number of possible explanations with no version singled out so far or he's done quarter has been following the tragic events aftermath. as you can see behind me, whatever was left of the blast has already been cleaned up, traffic is already moving normally on the street. again, you can also see behind me a bench where there are some flowers. this is the bus station right next to where the explosion take took place. people put flowers,

they are overnight in memory of those who died in this tragic event. now, as for what caused this explosion, the investigative committee is looking at several different theory. so the main version it's looking at is that either the diesel boss was filled with the wrong fuel or a gas cylinder had exploded on board. there were other people that were saying that the driver per potentially was being negligent and that it was his fault. while the police have said that an earlier theory that it was a terrorist attack, has now been deemed unlikely. projectiles such as pieces of wire on nails, things usually used. an explosive devices were not found. those injured were mostly hand by fragments of flying glass. however, the chance that it could be an explosive device can still not be ruled out. right before the bus exploded, it was fully filled all with a total of $35.00 people on board. and 2 people were killed, one of which was a woman who brutally had her legs blown off in the explosion. it was certainly

a tragic thing to see. as the driver explained, after the fact miss diane and the phone, we were still, people were getting on the bus, the traffic light turned red. people got them from the cross walk. i started driving off then the last happened, broken glass smoke. and i couldn't understand what happened at people help to evacuate, so that there are people who are seriously injured. shortly after this tragedy took place, the regions governor called for a full inspection of the entire region public transport vehicle. now that inspection has since concluded and came up with no new problems connected to any of the regions, the transport vehicle. but again, like i said, this investigation is continuing, its continuing to try to find out what exactly caused this explosion. and we'll bring our viewers the latest details as they become available. does it for me this, i'll be back in about 32 minutes with another phone. fresh local news. this is our international

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