about people's lives being lost. the me the watching the way clear off into national and the headlines this sunday morning than cobble is now the only major african city to resist. the taliban is rapid advance as the surgeon group claims it sees the countries key east and city of july the bod. without a fight, it was on going through to find thing. and we could only stable cells and fled to cobble. there is no food and no water, they families have very worried because they have no idea what to do. many other families, also flood and live in, in that conditions. there's a lot going on this sunday morning to tell you about developing the story from lebanon at least 20 have died. we think and doesn't, was injured in a gas tanker explosion in the countries, nor will tell you about that next distressing. and which is coming in from haiti again, another developing story and last evening the

300 people dead out for a 7.2 magnitude. quake ship the caribbean nation, leaving another 2000 injured some shock and a series of after shops in the rocking the country. ah, hello, they were good morning to just turned at 9 in the morning. here in moscow, life mart internationals world news send to the sundays, kevin, and with the recapping some of those biggest stories of the week, we brought you. i'm briefing on what's happening right now, and a lot of it let's, we're going to start off canister. first of all and which we've been covering closely the whole week. you'll know if you've been watching and the coming days will be crucial in the volatile history of the country with the taliban. now taking control of most of it, i've got officials say the miller group has captured the key city of july le bad

cutting off the country's capital to the east. it means that cobble is now the only major city and i've got to stand to resist the militant groups. territorial sweep, so far and confirmed reports say the taliban is just a 10 or 11 kilometers know from the capital. this builds on the rapid games while the telephone for the week on friday. they took half going to stand 2nd largest city canada. is miss militant groups that it sees hundreds of weapons and vehicles as well as the large amounts of ammunition in that city. meantime, the us embassies reportedly started evacuating based off from the country. 5000 have been sent to help get them out. diplomats were also reportedly directed to destroy sensitive documents and computers before they left. and now here few latest pictures from africa and capital this morning. cobble where people are desperately seeking shelter, often trying to flee their to escape the taliban. but no, there might be there as soon as he was saying that no face harsh living conditions

and an acute shortage of water and food mob from all of my came from the northern jo john province. there was ongoing, brutal fighting and we could only save ourselves and fled to cobble with lead from the heroic proven you to have the fight in many other families also fled and live in in that conditions. if dissertation continuous like this in galveston, they want us to return. they should support us and give us weapons so we can defend our country as we have lost our family members during the case of war. now as african women, we should get weapons and fight. we talked for the latest developments, no, going to stay with ken stoney from the hamilton coalition to stop the war. and couple journalists below. so worry the fact that the americans need almost 5000 us troops just to quit thousands of 5 lines in the embassy. it tells you where on the sun is after 20 years of massive investment in blood and

treasure, not only by the americans, but also by the international community. and every time you hear to these countries tell the citizens to leave us on as soon as possible, especially cobble those type of messages. it is terrorizing ones who are really very fearful of what could happen. we heard a lot of gotten fired from the police here. yeah. it's in p d 12 where the biggest prison is and everyone thought that this was a tyler bon attack inside the city of cobble. so it did terrorize the local population, especially when i had a couple years. we're flying over the prison. then we were going to officially that there was a problem in the counter narcotics wing of the prison. so you can imagine the impact of what is happening around the country. so it's not

a success story. and it's also not the time you know, that the americans could blamed africa and needed africa. leaders could blame, you know, the americans. i think everyone has lived down the avalon people, and now we can see even more bloodshed and sufferings if the sci fi does not come any time. so clearly, washington is, did miscalculate and it scrambled to increase troop levels. to compensate for that, the u. s. should never have been, and nato should never have been in afghanistan in the 1st place. this was a unilateral and illegal invasion and occupation that took place without the approval of the un security council. now today, a, the united states, a staging a withdrawal, a retreat from afghanistan, and they're doing it in a unilateral fashion. again, they didn't use the help that they could have called upon from russia, china,

india, iran and pakistan. and those regional and, and asian powers to organize an orderly withdrawal and the creation of a stable government in kabul. that one that might have been a government of national unity or a power sharing arrangement or coalition government. instead, the u. s. deliberately left mass back in july, you as president joe biden said it was highly unlikely the taliban would overrun the country. but the current situation shows those predictions, but far from accurate portraying can next this morning. it looks at the outcome of those 20 exhausting years of military adventures. just pictured the timeframes really have a proper think about it. i was 12 when america sent its soldiers to again a stand for the taliban to be dealt with. for 20 years for 2 decades,

washington was splashing exorbitant amounts of cash on this grand attempt to give the troubled central asian country a favor. coalition servicemen were dying even more way more local lives were lost. so what do we got now? 20 years versus what a couple or a few months in which the taliban respected as a force, a step away from taking over the whole country pretty much me . the mother myself and some people of the town car condos, and babylon provinces came here to the park. we have all fled fighting. there is no

food and no water this summer. so very worried because they have no idea what to do . i have been displaced from telecom, said she, the telephone killed my son. they took all the belongings from my house and set fire to demons transferred news. but if you think all this is a huge surprise, which came out of nowhere. sorry, that's not really the case. right after the u. s. pull out announcement in april. the taliban instantly proved it's not just ready to but they want full control and they're practically at the doorstep of capital to bowl now. but at this point, the government there won't be able to rely on a helping hand from washington. african leaders have to come together. we lost thousands at last death and injury. thousands of american personnel got to fight

for themselves. uncle sam is pulling out, but some of the troops have to stay or even be sent back to secure the likes of fleeing us. diplomats but watch out for the wording because according to washington, this is not an evacuation. this is not abandonment. this is not an evacuation. this is not the wholesale. busy withdrawl, what this is, is a reduction in the size of our civilian footprint. this is a draw down of civilian americans 46 years after one of the most humiliating episodes in the history of us overseas operations. the falling of south vietnam and the capital saigon. joe biden already had to answer questions about the vietnam defeat. flashbacks, did you see any parallels between this withdraw and what happened vietnam with some

people feeling went on watching 0. the tele, yvonne is not this out, the north vietnamese army. they're not, they're not remotely comparable in terms of capability. there's gonna be no circumstance for you to see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the united states from afghanistan. this kind of confidence by the president has done little to convince those who have come up with lines that you can see right here. the journalists can smell a replay of saigon, the growing numbers of politicians turned critics of the of ghana send for bob can't help drawing the unfortunate parallels either the latest news of the drop down into the embassy and a hasty deployment of military forces seem like preparations for the full of couple president biden's decisions have a hurtling toward and even worse, equal to the humiliating fall of saigon in 1975,

who basically gave up on the african government not just now, but all the way back to the start of these talks what president biden did was to embrace it. he owns it, it was a huge foreign policy failure with general army secretions to sheriff 7 month entered this administration. everything points to complete collapse. anyway. the whole pull out may end up as an immense reputational issue for the biden administration, for the u. s. as a whole, it's very likely to tarnish the entire 20 years of coalition present. and again, it's dan, but take a moment to think of the price which the afghans are paying and are to pay. and the foreseeable future, the number of locals displaced is set to reach 3500000 this year. war is war. the decimal will only keep on rising. the whole crisis puts neighboring countries in jeopardy. you just can't help asking the same question. what was all

of it for these long and controversial 20 years? total failure? i think i think there's any other way you can possibly measure by means of compassion when the soviet stuff that's going to sound in one connection. i meet the pro, soviet government did not collapsing in this way. in fact, it took some 2 years before any major cities fell to the majority, being a terrorist saying, major cities for the one off the other, 2 to the taliban before the americans. and even for the left, which gives credit to compact things. it shows how, how much less successful impact americans have been in building a stable governance. and i've kind of stamina. soviet say we didn't do a good job with the therefore clarity the, the americans of failed dismally. i think this has got less to do with 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 developing store this sunday morning, 20 people have been killed. 79 injured in a gas tanker explosion in the north of lebanon. there are pictures coming up. you may find them disturbing that we want to know when they come. a number of people are reported missing red cross medics, a transporting burn victims, local hospitals, the cause of the blah sports set it off. still not. no. there are some theories, but it's not confirmed. for my lebanese prime minister sat her aries calling on the country's president to step down over the incident. i the last straw kind of thing . drawing a parallel to the massive explosion in bay root a year ago, just lost hours folks, local journalists by the situation, the country and what's happened now. it's the gas tank that was reportedly transporting fuel into the city of probably crossing through. according to what i'm

hearing today and local reports, it's possible that this truck was smuggling fuel into neighboring countries, namely, sera here. this is according at least to local residents who do report having seen someone firing directly at this gas tanker. now this has often happened knowing that a lot of smuggling have been taking has been taking place, especially throughout that area on their way to syria. a lot of fuel hasn't been smuggled. i mean it's such a terrible mess because we don't have fuel the way. busy it is in lebanon. we are plunged in the dark generators are struggling to keep up, and now with a lack of fuel and the price types, because of the subsidies being lifted on fuel lebanon is completely in the dark. and as i'm staying here, i'm running on generator, but i don't know at what time it might cut off this just over a weakness since the year on a massive explosion leaving that's an understatement in the port of bay road. no

calls for the present to step down. should he go or what the differences are gonna make? just like what happened with the the port explosion they had promised answers. upon 5 days after the explosion and over a year on, we still have no answer as to what happened and what caused that devastating part of explosion that killed over 200 lives here in lebanon, and displaced hundreds of thousands, not to mention injured. thousands of others, the people of lebanon, at least the ones. the revolutionary wise definitely wants and overhauled the entire political class, starting from the president downwards. they want an entire reform, an entirely different government that will be able to run this country the way it should properly be run. because at the moment the government has been so inefficient ever since the beginning of the crisis, all they've been doing was to throw the blame at one another, just trading blame and doing absolutely nothing. the crisis has been spiraling down or ever since,

and things keep getting worse just when we thought we had really hit rock rock bottom. we wake up the news like this. and hate waking up 2 big problems this morning. a series of after sharks rocking caribbean nation, i was off for a deadly, quite less than $300.00 dead. forcing the government to declare a state of emergency across almost half the country. a warning and may fund the following images disturbing. the coming to us in the last few hours, the quake which was also felt in neighboring countries, brought them buildings and rebel strewn throughout the streets. almost 2000 people were injured. it comes as haiti continues to face political instability, months after the assassination of president john l. no. e se a tropical storm is also expected the in the coming days to make matters even worse . while striking just a 150 kilometers from the capital,

that quake was even more powerful than the one back in 2010 that killed 300000 people. devastated the nation and spoke to a humanitarian crisis. an expert we heard from told us an effective warning system is really difficult in places like haiti in this week have similar characteristics to a devastating trauma that occurred 11 years ago. fortunately, the time it didn't happen there, the capital may populate to report to print as it did in 2010. however, we still see it effect and here use of damage to infrastructure for an early warning system to work sent units detecting from us should be near the, at the center of the population should live farther away, giving them valuable seconds to react. but in places like haiti and california quakes occur in well populated places, that isn't an effective warning system which would give people time to prepare in another developing new store. this morning, the desk told, claims to 13 and an explosion in karachi in southern pakistan. it happened saturday

night, 6 children, 7 women killed the report, say, a hungry aid was thrown at the pickup truck. there were traveling in as the return from a wedding. the motive is still unclear at the moment, but the local counter terrorism department suspects a terror attack. you can see investigators at the see this week we revealed an issue that the mainstream media isn't picking up on in the 1st of a series of reports. launched by our to international we look at the issue of transgender convicts abusing female prisoners in countries around the world. saskia taylor was investigating a rising number of such cases which have been dubbed by women's rights activists. a horror show. oh i and phones over where to house sex change prisoners are particularly high in california with our being

numerous complaints from inmates there being a number of recent cases that might explain that worries me ah ah, they're getting a full erection to lock them. this room 247 with the man. and there is nothing you can do about it. the nobody cares about just we in danger here. there were never love males with full mail and that to me, sharon showers with us in a group shower room yet now men can share our showers. me.

she's a proven sexual creditor. haven't committed multiple crimes against women. yet the state of washington had no problem moving him into women's facility. ah, oh yeah, i had the chance to speak to penny nance, who is the ceo and president of the concerned women for america activist group. now she's worried to some male inmates might change gender identity, sympathy, so as to take advantage of incarcerated women. when someone simply identifies as a woman in that predators are willing to say anything to get access to women and to hurt them further. i recently read a statistic that said in the united states, about 84 percent of women who incarcerated se, but at some point in their life they've already been sexually assaulted. these are women who are already very troubles. there's no excuse in which

a person who is the biological male or about logically female, should be victimized in prison. if the prison system would take the issue of safety more seriously than that, then that concern would be match. i again, there's no excuse for allowing someone to be victimized in prison. there must be common sense met and used in dealing with people who are. they're locked away, they cannot leave, and we must take measures to keep them say, cases of alleged abuse of women by tons. the people in jail have left some incense in light of a controversial bill passed in california at the start of the year. the law that's trans inmate's request to transfer to facilities, but align with that gender identity effectively allowing male prisoners to move to female jails. since the laws passed around $300.00 such requests have already been

submitted. and as of june this year, non have been rejected by your forty's, california is the latest us state of adopted such legislation, similar and may housing policies also exist in connecticut, new york city, massachusetts, and new jersey and women's rights groups are alarmed that all the parts of the country might follow suit. the definition of trans janda is dangerously inclusive in california department of corrections and rehabilitation. these are basically heterosexual man, ruining the superintendency for the trans community to be safe. and now they have a bigger pool of potential victims. males cannot self declaring themselves out of maleness, the yes, shouldn't fall, kelly for you here into this horror. can you think that there is a concern that heretic stories like the ones that are merging, that they can do pretty irreparable damage to an entire transgender community? doing ripley, the damage, not only to the transgender community, to, to people who have, have been going through their transgender, their,

their change of your de la, jeremiah them. you're actually going to start to demonize them by using them as a class. where do you think that is a good commit violence against women? it's very long time women obviously felt on hud. they felt forgotten about they felt use they felt vulnerable then they became empowered. and now suddenly it feels like a trend is going in the opposite direction. is that how it looks to you? there has been of drive to be the most possible inclusive in california, specifically. and here's where we're running into issues. we're not protecting women, we're not protecting those who were born women. and we have to understand that there is a distinction between those who identify as women and those who are genetically women. this is katie such a complicated issue. so what's the solution here? is that single flex prisons because you know, when you read a lot, a lot of trans inmate say i don't feel safe anyway. so how do we make sure that everyone does feel safe?

yes, we have male prisons, we have the no person. that's how it's been because we know that that works better, but maybe having other facilities for individuals that identify as trans making sure there is better security for some of these people. i don't know, maybe even looking into their medical records, not just taking somebody from california. i'm going to said basically you can get a piece of paper and check a box and then be how's the bunch of women that you can take too much? that's not okay. are you keeping close tabs on developments in the spare and you can be sure that will be returning to this topic in future broadcasts. me . and then we brought you this to is one of the most infamous symbols of the vietnam war agent, already extremely toxic herbicide in the fall in used by the us military in that campaign. but then the chemical course of suffering, of hundreds of thousands of people in the lasting effects of passed across generations. a warning letter of some upsetting images coming up.

ah me, i was born in 1975. and i was missing both my arms at the elbow down and my left leg from the knee down. the hospital that i was born in. that never seen anything like that before. so they weren't sure if i was going to live or die. and it's made my life pretty cold growing up because i had to adjust to everything. ah, they were just following orders. they weren't arguing that they weren't gonna spread. they were commanded by the officials to spread. so they had to do what they

were told to do. i several major court cases against me every single one day when i'm not sure why they won't take responsibility, but as it is right now, over 8000000 people have died from the effects of aging. and there's countless numbers of people, more of them are disfigured into form and they have cancer, tumors. you can't even really name them all because of just so many. ah, the me, my mom live in the veteran. my disability would be a 100 percent over and they would take full responsibility for, but since it was my dad, they said that there is no way that he kind of affected the veterans. kids and the veterans themselves have serious health issues. and medication is like outrages

me, like i know several of my friends that are children of vietnam veterans and with the illnesses that they have. they literally spend thousands and thousands of dollars a month out of their own pocket, because the government will even supply the medication they need for the illnesses . and they've gotten from the exposure horrors from years gone by. still leaving them out to this day. do all it was a weekly or, and i'll say with me, kevin, in thank you for watching our progress. the one that makes no, certainly no borders and the number t's as emerged. we don't have authority. we don't actually, the whole world needs to take action and be ready. people are judge

crisis who we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenges paid for the response has been massive. so me, good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we need together in the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interest. while you see in this, these techniques is the state devising message to end essentially destroy personality of an individual lifetime. means this is how one doctors, theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against the prisoners deemed

a danger to the state. that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation, psychological torture, disseminated within the us intelligence community, and worldwide among allies for the next 30 years. been to the victim say they still live with the consequences today. now we have e cigarettes. i just heard that it was a healthy alternative to figure out how do we address tobacco companies with their message that these new products are actually going to reduce these cigarettes or making the tobacco tours. ah, me the

me a turn. welcome to all the parts in the beginning was the war than the war was with god and the word was god. this opening phrase from the gospel of john is often cited by atheist emphasizing the significance of language in the abolition of the human species. but in spite of or perhaps because of the power of their words, humans have always tried to regulate. if censorship inevitable, especially in this day and age, and especially when it comes to politics. while to discuss it, i am now joined by jonathan zimmerman, professor of history education at the university of pennsylvania. i'm author of free speech. why we should give a damn, profess.