the gun he's done, he's spinning out of control, and the u. n. is alarmed. the deteriorating security situation in afghanistan with the telephone making rapid territorial games following the u. s. withdraw the militant group is now reportedly only 50 kilometers from the capital problem. with the us lead alliance leaving the country after nationals who have risked their lives, persisting for and military now fear violent or retaliation from the resurgence. hello bon. we speak to one former translator who worked with both british and american armies. he has asked for his identity to be concealed for his safety and that of his family post from the believe the details on what had down every been interpreter who served to partition american forces. it will be, the african interpreters will be until the course and

a powerful blast tear through a passenger bus in the town of roneesh in western russia, leaving 2 dead and 20 injured because it is not yet known. we hear from an eye witness who rushed to help survivors. the minutes after the blast, i had children scream, people, please help me to rush to the bus and jumped in through the window which had already been shattered. ah, are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow. this is our into international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. right now, the un secretary general is raising the grave concerns as afghanistan's government, as quickly losing control over the country. following the u. s troop withdrawal. the taliban is making sweeping territorial gains with its militants now reported to be just 50 kilometers from the capitol cobble. the un chief is desperately urging

all parties to refrain from harming civilians. even a country that has 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 are forgotten. he's done is spinning out of control . on friday the taliban claimed that it had seized. i've got to stand 2nd largest city kandahar you can now see footage from there is a mis militant group said is see hundreds of weapons and vehicles as well as large amounts of ammunition during the operation. the 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 use any available commercial carriers on this map . here you can see the situation on the ground in afghanistan right now. currently, the taliban has taken hold of strategically crucial locations very near to the

capital. the islamists ramped up their offensive back in april, after the u. s. president announced that he was pulling out troops. at the time the militant group held less than a 5th of the country. now they control more than half local journalist below. so worry told us that the people in couple are feeling right now. the people, especially the people of cavalry seemly disappointed in a lack of literary strategy that should prevent in what is now a very moralizing friend for the african soldiers entire unit. even a brigade in war commanders are entering to call it one not putting up a fight. many people in the city of cobbled today that i spoke to told. busy me that why did the sons got killed when they were sent to that? a more corners of this country? and this was the end result when you had the western embassies citizen, the cobble is not there 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 for the presence of taliban around cobbler province in within . the city is now an open secret. and what is a city like cobbler? 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 cobblers have no electricity. so those fears are real risks. busy and the people of a span, quite tragically, don't have a hole in the future of this country that is crumbling for the time. be. 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 this world of helicopters, at the embassy observers are comparing the scene to 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 cobble, but just a month ago, presidential bind dismissed the vietnam parallels you any parallel between 5th withdraw and what happened to vietnam with some people feeling when watching 0. the tele, yvonne 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 going to 1009 connection, i need the pro civic 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 was

saying, major cities 41 after the other, 2 to the taliban before the americans have been for the left, which gives, i think quite a good comparison. and it shows how, how much less successful and button 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 there for clarity, the americans have failed dismally. i think this is got less to do with the georgia center miss underestimation of the taliban. shang, as it is to do it under estimation of the will to fight the government forces. i mean, simply put the government forces collapse. they've shown 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. british forces are also withdrawing, but the country's defense secretary is already gravely warning that if can stand is on the brink of collapse. calling the u. s. decision a mistake. ben wallace says tale bon militants. clearly have momentum across the

country and i'm going to stand 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 here is shot edwards, dusty for options on the table that is the latest from the case defense secretary friend wallace, as he tries to prevent and all our civil war and african son is the u. k. begins to retreat troops out of the country. now ever since us taliban peace deal, what we've seen is nature. have all begun to retrieve what flashes this power political vacuum in the region, seeing the tale, been totally taking control and tipping that balance of power. but despite was obviously a situation as deteriorating by the minute the u. k. prime minister boris johnson says that britain should be proud of what's been done there for the last 20 years. i must say, i don't believe it was in vain,

because i do think when you look back at what has happened over the last 20 years, there was a massive effort to deal with a particular problem that everybody will remember after 911. and that was successful. now not only will a poverty of course increase on political d stabilisation, 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. we were in this position where we talked about how 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 lead to instability lead to a security threat to off on our interest. we were 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 stone again began to harvest terrorism. particularly if it posed an international threat like it did arguably some 18 years ago. but many on to activists argue that 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 conflicts 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 of you, whether or not the type i will go directly to try and seize kabul and according to the united nations, the african war has now entered. it's 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 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 seat of our partners. that's why i'm angry. it's wasteful and unnecessary. and why is it personal? because i've seen was 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, a 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 it seems as though with the they found take over the country could be worse off than us. and as the u. s. lead the alliance with draws afghan nationals who helped the foreign troops. now fear reprisal from the taliban. a group of afghans who had assisted u. k. forces rallied on the streets of cobble demanding protection from the british government. 600 british troops are being deployed to protect you. came nationals as a valued 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 has asked me to remain anonymous out of fear for his life. my family has listed to it's in the fall, sometime my m b 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 he offered no one but 2 of his 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 will, 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 to the interpreters who have served for years and years, austin's enough chemist. i'm tracing risk and benches. however, you can 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 that there were good to go. there were even given in there was sent an email confirming that when they were ready for the flights, they told me that they can return to the youtube or my brother book office for trip to, for the coalition forces. my brothers still enough to understand the british government is making false accusations and excuses to withhold. not only my brothers visa, but many of the interpreters who genuinely need the british governments help and

are very high risk or strongly believe that the taliban will hug down every or been interpreter who serves 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 spikes and may many are heading it to cobble to flee the talbot. but are living in extremely precarious conditions. here are just some of the heart wrenching stories from refugees. i have been displaced from telecon city. the telephone 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. yeah. had a cautious bro. call times we were taken hostage in the fighting, went on for about 6 to 7 days,

but we couldn't go outside to do anything we managed to escape. and now we are displaced, but just place to after hans who seek asylum may not be welcome in the you either with the block currently at loggerheads over what to do with refugees. and those fleeing violence are tease policy or next donald into what happened to brussels open door policy. the european union is less than what to do with african refugees teaching. 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 more 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 when it comes to the

us and nato prepaid to what's called a at the end of the month. after decades, long war situation is so bad that the netherlands, germany and fans have decided to pause the deportation. can 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 more atoria on deputation decisions and departures. or spread belgian and denmark standing firms. 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 of asylum seekers? there. the 2nd largest group off the syrians and for a continent still scarred by the migration crisis of 56 years ago. it was

a feeling of a who, a feeling of having been they before, that has your opinions worried. they might be on the verge of a fish refugee crisis. those people who are here from a gun is time, 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 our personal tend to to the life. so i think then the western countries say, oh, we don't care if a wider, if you go home or you do for them. i think this is

a violation of human rights and we should do that kind of thing. the kremlin has explained its refusal to extend to the accreditation of the bbc's veteran moscow correspondent as symmetrical response to britain's discrimination of russian reporters. that's as the u. k broadcaster denounced the decision to expel sara rainsford, who's been in the job for the past 7 years, hard years john of well shed light on the controversy. essentially, the russian foreign ministry has refused to renew the work resolved. well, sir, rains ford, 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 groove dismissed multiple warnings by the russian foreign ministry. that relevant measures would be taken in response to london fees

that put downs target and the russian correspondence 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 plain 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 the actions and do something very, very similar. so this is what the russian foreign ministry is saying happening with . well, sarah range 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, 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 and attack on the freedom of press. they've also called 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 journalist martin summers thinks that the problem is that western countries want to see russia as an enemy. well, you 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 defend ms defender sales in disputed waters. there's got to be some anti russian media story every week. and in that sense, in the state, you can argue that the russians are playing into their hands. here by burton, 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, 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 is an enemy. and they make that pretty clear. an explosion ripped through a public bus in the western russian city. varone is killing 2 women and injuring 20 other people, and i witness who rushed to help. the survivors told us what he saw. why not? but i slot a minute. i a minutes after the blast i her children, screen people, plea for help. i mediately rushed to the bus and jumped in through the window which had already been shattered. once inside, i saw an 11 or 12 year old girl. she was stuck between 2 seats. that moments ago came to help me. first we got the girl out. i'm sure her ribs were broken, given how tightly she had been stuck. we made several attempts to stand her up, but she couldn't and started falling 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, body parts scattered around, but you don't focus on that as you battled to save 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 on sort of used to it. i helped, i went hung right on your warning that the following report begins with st. camera video of the actual blast and contained some rather distressing images. a split 2nd before the incident and then debris flying out from all sides that 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 were still able to move fled and quickly. further disturbing images of the explosion show and injured

a 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 single down so far. or tucson 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 there 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 bus 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 and explosive devices were not found. those injured but 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 was diane and the phone. we were still, people were getting on the bus, the traffic light to read. people got them from the cross walk. i started driving off then the last happened, broken glass smoke. i couldn't understand what happened. people help to evacuate others. 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 it came up with no new problems connected to any of the region. the transport vehicles, but again, like i said, this investigation is continuing, its continuing to try to find out what exactly cause this explosion. and we'll bring our whereas the latest details as they become available. the un conference for members to re commit to the fight against racism and seen a phobia may turn out to be a complete failure after france and 9 other countries called off their participation, citing anti semitism concerns to kill them up and explaining. the un has been sponsoring world conferences against racism for over 4 decades. these are not the place you would expect anti semitic slurs, but now that issue threatens the event itself. concern to the history of anti semitic remarks made at the un conference on racism. the president of the republic has decided, fraud will not participate. and the follow up conference to be held this year. and

france is just the latest country to announce they intend to boycott canada, the united states, the united kingdom have already announced they are not going. so what's the issue? israel critics say it's become a platform for unfair criticism of the country. they don't like the language of declarations that equate zionism with racism back in 2009 ronnie and president my mood, i'm a dinners, yard was interrupted while he addressed the event giving a speech lamb basking israel as a racist settler stayed. and furthermore, using some language about the holocaust that many found to be deeply insensitive in the name of gone to the compassionate system as before you may, he was sort of on his process. number of delegates walked out during the speech which was condemned by the un secretary general,

undermining the conferences. and that's just by the conference producing the durban declaration and program of action committing countries to tackle racism, racial discrimination, zeno, phobia, and intolerance. now the current un secretary general antonio gutierrez, says that only a continued proactive approach can fight racism. so now the question is will the absence of so many major countries ruined the conferences positive potential? caleb martin r t new york. 31 and a half minutes. that's when i'll be back your headlines. this is our international . got that with me. the number is a 6 day marathon of creativity, multi cultural festival. and the biggest variety is the competition for

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