[000:00:00;00] ah ah, saturday morning here in moscow, you're watching the weekly here. we're not in to national headlines this sunday. then car bull is not the only major afghans city to resist the taliban. rapid advance as the insurgent group claims it sees the country's key to the city of de la without a fight. well, to talk to a local correspondent, the signals. god, not great, but we'll try and catch up with him. in the coming minutes there was on going through to fighting and we could only save ourselves and flint cobbled. there is no food and no water. this families have very worried because they have no idea what to do. many other families,

also flood and living in that conditions. developing story to tell you about from 11 in the morning at least 20 have died and dozens injured in a gas tanker explosion in the countries north. we got reaction to that. what could have been behind it next? another developing story this morning. distressing images in over night from haiti has more than 300 people a dead after a 7 point. 2 magnitude quake shook the caribbean nation, leaving another 2000 injured a series of off to shops and rocking the country. ah, hello, good morning life martin has actually world news sent here moscow. this sunday's kevin. oh, really recapping some of the biggest stories of the week that we brought us to do on a sunday i'm briefing as you heard what's happening right now. and there's a lot of it to start one of our main stories, the latest developments,

and i've got to stand with tracking that. and the latest is that the coming days are going to be really crucial in the volatile history of that country with the taliban. now taking control of most of it, the while afghan officials say the militant group has captured the key city angela bad . now, cutting off the country's capital to the east allies are going to be on the capital this weekend. it means that cobble is now the only major city enough canister to resist, similar to groups, territorial sweeps of unconfirmed reports say the taliban is just 11 kilometers from the capital. and that was an hour or 2 ago may have changed since this built on the rapid gains by the taliban for the week on friday they took, i've got to stand 2nd largest city canada. the is a mis militant groups. they get, sees hundreds of weapons and vehicles along the way as well as large amounts of ammunition. meantime,

the u. s. has started evacuating embassy stuff from the country. what he's saying here are american choppers landing and taking off from the consulate, 5000 troops had been sent that to get them out to promote swirl, so reportedly directed to destroy sensitive documents and computers before they left. rod i mentioned in the headlines were trying to talk to the local correspondent there. the signals are great i believe, but powers sub a wound low correspond on the line and cobble where you can hear me. i live on the air. it's kevin in talking to you. good morning. so the key question this weekend. how likely is it the car ball will fall to the taliban? sir? thank you very much. well, according to the news, the situation is certain as the live on captured some more province since or since days such as come the province mazata,

shed eve and eastern gel about you and there are about 30000 families are just the lead due to the clashes between security forces and the title of on in. busy the not in the provinces last day regarding today is the pupil have why you because of this is. busy no peace and alone situation of the target on capturing the. busy big cities such as come to my city, why the taliban and according to read for several weeks ago, the false book office had at least 6 to 7000 apple against daddy and. busy picking fast forward to flee the country and partly long run pages across the country. and i was journalist aside. you're also

a resident of cob. well, we've been reporting or a but so show a view is pictures and in a few minutes of the people that couldn't afford to fly out, they came from the other cities that have been taken over by the taliban to try and escape to try and seek safe haven and cobble now we're hearing kabul may go, or at least these, that the tell about a very close to it. what is the feeling on the streets and carnival this morning? these people you, are you afraid? what is the feeling? yes we, we, i myself, i'm afraid and that's well as the pupil enough gang. some are afraid because of the parlor long as they are so near to that call. we'll see maybe 20 kilometres so far from the city such as their their existence and the car will just be a lot more treated from the that they have captured on district also including

company and also my down was which is so near to the city. so people are worried they are getting phosphor to feed. busy against on but those who are displaced in cobb world, they, they will remain tear and they haven't received any eat yet, or any food or drinking law. so yet we're hearing as well. there's been blackouts, power cuts, the tricity going off the sides from the people you're saying there that have come for safety and i haven't been looked after. how are you being look tough to your family, your neighbors? what's the government doing? what's the, what are the officials in cobble doing to protect you and to keep the taliban out? as far as you know? well, there is no any support from the government officials yet about the us can journalists

. so we are worry about that we work with john national, lead, newsy genesis, and with to, with, with, with other like an adult agencies and other that can be done for, for journalists. so i'm very scarce. yes. what, what, what does it mean if the taliban takeover cobble? how does it happen? what, what happens to the general public? is it the case if you don't put up a fight, when you do it, they say the leave you alone who was as while civil. so as i think the thought long came to cobble, so there they will, they will have their own policy about the media on publishing. so we must follow the if you, if we remain hell enough gala song so we must follow their their. busy their rules and regulations,

so we don't have any options as they can. government doesn't tough for take us, get journalists. and recently we have lost a lot of my colleagues. busy such as. busy the head of the a p he's, he was somewhat a, he was my, my friend, he was friend to my family and also we are also a fam, a journalist that's my broad does and ankles or journals too. so i just laid down your for, for, for especially for the taliban is saying, colleagues over it because sister channel with talking to them just yesterday and there was saying we all what i've got to stand people one they want to see. is that correct? as far as your concerned, your neighbors, your friends, the people that you know does cobble want the taliban, the well,

according to the news and according to the reaction stuff, citizens bit, they don't. they don't want to give up to the level. so then don't want to live on and cobbler and according to the other cities and residents like dissolving problems, they were very happy and they will fall of on the final thought. why do you think apparently on the face of it, this is caught the united states made so everyone off they didn't realize that the taliban would spread so quickly from controlling was just a 5th of the country. not so long ago. couple of months ago to much more than 3 quarters now. and if cobble goes why is there been such little resistance to them? they say it's been relatively easy. yes, according to the new as the tar live on capture, linger heart problems. so without any clashes or wait, okay, any,

any. busy fans or so the tyler gone can capture was. so is the of this. so now the columns and this and, and and so the district that this is district to the college. and i think what i'm trying to say will people in cobb will put up a fight or not? no, no, no people will large fights against the tyler bond because the people of cobble, as i know them, they don't want to fight powers sub a wound. local journalist from cobble. thanks for making the time with everything else going on around you to talk to us and please stay safe and update us if you can in any safety in the coming. i was coming days. thank you. thank you very much . thank. okay, right. well, i got hit next for the latest page, his strongly africa and capital. we've just been speaking to him that where people live, as i mentioned,

desperately seeking shelter up to fling there from the taliban, advance. but how long they'll be in that position remains to be seen this weekend. they now face harsh living conditions, as mentioned there, correspondent to reporting about with us and also acute to shortages of water and food. mar tamala from i 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 province due to have the fighting. many other families also fled and live in, in that conditions. if the situation continues like this and have gotten it and then 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 back in july us president joe biden said it was highly unlikely the tell him would over on the country,

but the current situation shows those predictions were far from accurate. obviously, artillery patricia looks next at the outcome of the 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 and 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 research acted as a force, a step away from taking over the whole country pretty much

use the mothers myself and some people of the town car condos, and babylon province came here to the park, we have all fled to fighting. there is no food and no water. the family said very worried because they have no idea what to do. i have been just placed from telecom city, the telephone killed my son. they took all the belongings from my house and had fire damage transferred me. 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 the doorstep of capital couple 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 episode 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, do you see any parallels between 5th withdraw and what happened vietnam with some people feeling went on what? 0 the tell yvonne is not this out. the north vietnamese army. they're not, they're not remotely comparable. in 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. 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 help drawing the unfortunate parallels either the latest news of the drop down into 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 $975.00, 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 armies, occasions to sheriff 7 month into 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 this. i mean the compassion when the soviet stuff that's going to sound and 900 can i meet the co soviet government did not collapsing in this way. in fact, it took some 2 years before any major cities fell to the majority of being was harris saying, major cities 41 off the other 2 to the taliban before the americans. and even for the last, which gives i think, credit to compact things. it shows how, how much less successful impact americans have been 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 a clarity. the americans of fail did more thing that got less to do with the daughter of miss underestimation of the taliban shying as it is to do with 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. the next another develope story to brief you on 20 people have been killed in 79, entered in a gas tanker explosion of the north 11 and a warning. you may find these following images coming up. no disturbing. so it seems a number of people still reported missing to on top of it,

red cross medics transporting victims to local hospitals. the cause of war set off up last is still on known their number of theories. but none of it confirmed former lebanese prime minister side rear is called on the countries president to step over the incident. drawing a parallel to the massive explosion in beirut a year ago and the upheaval of political upheaval and the financial problems i've got are cetera ever since i spoke to a local journalist about the situation in the country on this incident right now this weekend. if the gas tank or that was reportedly transporting fuel into the city is probably crossing through according to what i'm hearing today and local reports. it's possible. busy that this truck was smuggling fuel and the neighboring countries, namely, sera here. this is according at least to local residents who do report having seen someone firing directly at the 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 mass because we don't have fuel the way 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 listed 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. it's just over a weakness year on a verse is a massive explosion leaving that's an understatement at the port bay road. no calls for the president to step. should he go and what difference is that going to make? just like what happened with the port explosion, they had promised answers upon 5 days after the explosion and over a year. and we still have no answer as to what happened and what caused that

devastating port 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 was 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 is 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. another the story series of after shocks rocking the caribbean nation of haiti this weekend. i was off for a deadly quick left, more than 300 people dead, forcing the government to declare

a state of emergency across almost half of the country goes without saying, but a warning. you may find the following images about the company screens. no disturbing thought quake which was also fell to neighboring countries, brought down buildings and left rubble strewn throughout the street. almost 2000 people were injured. it comes as haiti continues to face political instability, months after the assassination of president job and maurice, and then on top of all the weather people saying they are predicting a tropical storm is headed that way. in the coming days. well, that quake struck about under 50 kilometers from the capital, put a prince. it was even more powerful than the one back in 2010. that one hit very close to the heavily populated city and killed around 300000 people. then you may recall very different picture, but this still devastating nonetheless. now this weekend, an expert we heard from says an effective warning system is difficult in places like haiti in this quick have similar characteristics,

twit devastating trauma that occurred 11 years ago. fortunately, the time it didn't happen near the capital populated city port to print as it did in 2010. however, we still see its effect in his use of damage to infrastructure. for an early warning system to work and unit 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 and well populated places that isn't an effective warning system which would give people time to prepare the death toll climbing to 13. and then explosion in karachi and southern pakistan on saturday night, 6 children and 7 women killed their report, say a hand grenade was thrown a pickup truck that were traveling in as they returned from a wedding. the motive is still unclear at the moment. authorities are looking at a number of theories including

a possible terror attack. you can see investigators at the scene looking back at some of the stars they brought you in the week. meantime, now we reveal the issue that the mainstream media is being picked up on much in the 1st of a series of reports launched by r t. we looked at the issue of transgender convicts abusing female prisoners in countries around the world. saskia taylor's been investigating a rising number of such cases which had been done 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 are being numerous complaints from inmates there being a number of recent cases that might explain that worries me

ah, they get in a full erection who locked in this room 247 with the man. and there is nothing you can do about it. the nobody cares about us. we ain't danger here. there were never love mails with full mail and that to me, sharon shall worse with us in a group shower room. yet no men can share our showers. me. she's a proven sexual predator. 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, 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 here incarcerated. say that 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 what 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 met. 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 and california department of corrections and rehabilitation. these are basically heterosexual men, runing the superintendency for the trans community to be safe. and now they have a big 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? junior ripley began, and not only to the transgender community, to, to people who have, have been going through their transgender, their, their changes, your di, legitimize them, and you're actually going to start to demonize them by using them, and they are using them as a good commit. violence against women, very long time. women obviously felt unheard. 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 sex prisons because, you know, when you read a lot, a lot of trans inmate say i don't feel safe anywhere. so how do we make sure that everyone does feel safe? yeah, 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 it's 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 hasn't a bunch of women that you can take too much? that's not okay. i'll tell you is keeping close tabs on developments in the spare and you can be sure that will be returning to this topic in future broadcasts. me ask you to tell them that special investigation in the week and that's wrap for now . the latest braking and developing world news were across for this sunday, as well as some of the most important stores he brought you in the week as well. here in moscow. my name's kevin o in thank you for watching this addition of the weekly me