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ah, ah, you're watching the weekly and are 10 to national this breaking news in the headlines this sunday morning, the taliban and says the afghan capital cobble says the country's interior ministry . in the last few minutes, the military rapid advances swept the country, taking every major city. it was ongoing, brutal fighting, and we could only save ourselves and fled to cobbled. there is no food and no water . the families are very worried because they have no idea what to do. many other families, also flood and live in, in that conditions found another developing story coming in as well from lebanon, at least 20 people have died and dozens injured in a gas tanker explosion in the countries north and distressing pictures in with another developing story from haiti, that came in last evening. more than 300 dead. they're off for
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a 7.2 magnitude quake shoak, caribbean nation, leaving another 2000 injured a series of off to shocks in a rocking the country this sunday. ah . hi there. lo, from our international world news age to hear moscow this sunday's kevin, oh him with the recounting some of the biggest stories that we brought you in an awful lot happening right now. as you heard the breaking news enough canister 1st and that's cover that for you. where the interior ministry says in the last few minutes the taliban has now entered cobble, which means the military now control every major city in the country following a rapid and decisive offensive. it comes just an hour off, the us special envoy to have got to start off is a miss not to enter the city. the
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are going to get to reactions that coming up in the coming minutes and hours. but this is building on the rapid gains by the taliban throughout the week. on friday they took up the gun this time, 2nd largest city kandahar, the miss militant group saying it sees hundreds of weapons and vehicles and a large amount of ammunition in the city on route. meantime, the u. s. has started evacuating the last day or so embassy stuff from the country you seeing that there are the pictures, american choppers landing and taken off from the council that 5000 troops were sent there to help get them out. diplomats are also reportedly directed to destroy sensitive equipment and computers before they left. not a minute too soon by the looks of that breaking news this. so the taliban is reportedly controlling every border post across the country. and the only way to get out of afghanistan is through cobble airport power, shall boons local journalists. and he's got the latest the people have, well,
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you know, because of there's always no peace and situation of the solid law and capturing the. busy big cities such as come to my daughter's city, why he got into the reaction stuff cover 51 bit. they don't. they don't want to give up to the level so then don't was thought of on and i myself, i'm afraid and that's well as the pupil enough get some are afraid because of the car long as they are so near to that car will see that is know, and so forth from the government officials yet about the us can journalist. so we are worry about or that was from national news news, the genesis and with, with, with, with other like agencies and other. this can be done far for
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journalists. so i'm very good or i will give them the breaking news a can say that these are actually low pictures and not with the latest we've got through at the moment just a little while back from the africa and capital capital, where people are desperately seeking shelter of the fleeing, they're from the tell about advance but you know that's all changed. we heard they were facing harsh living conditions and acute shortage of food and water. but given the news that officially the taliban have now entered carbo. when don't know the, a scale of how much influence and penetration they've got there at the moment. but things not looking good for those people you're seeing on the screen when they're to try and get away from them. mom 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 light from the here. i tell them you to have the fight in many other families also fled and
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living in bad conditions, elicitation containers like this in afghanistan, 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 back in july. you, as president joe biden said, it was highly unlikely, the teller would overrun the country. well, the current situation shows those predictions were far from accurate understatement, artillio patrol and can looks at the outcome of those 20 exhausting years of military adventures that lead to this just pictured. the timeframes really have a proper think about it. i was 12 when americans 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
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central asian country a failure. coalition servicemen were dying even more way more local lives were lost. so what are 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. use the mother myself and some people of the town car, condos, and babylon probably came here to the park. we have all fled to fighting. there is no food and no water. the families to the very worried because they have no idea
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what to do. have been displaced 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 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, lost in death and injury. thousands of american personnel got to fight for
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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, you see any parallels between this withdraw and what happened to vietnam with some people feeling went on with the tale. yvonne is not this out in the north
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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 going to send for bob can help drawing the unfortunate parallels either the latest news of a further drop down into the embassy and a hasty deployment of military forces seem like preparations for the fall of couple better than biden's decisions have a link toward and even was equal, did the humiliation fall of saigon in $975.00 who basically gave up on the african government not just now,
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but all the way back to the start of these talks. what president biden did was to embrace it, he owns it. there was a huge foreign policy failure with general armies, occasions just show of 7 month into this administration. everything points to complete collapse. anyway. the whole pull outs 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 presence. and again, as 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?
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i think i think there's any other way you can possibly measure this on. i mean the capacity when the soviet sets up going to sound and none change can i meet the process 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 falling one off the other to have a taliban before we americans. i mean, for the laugh, which gives credit to compact things that shows how, how much less successful impact americans have been in building a stable government. and i've kind of, i'm going to say we didn't do a good job there for clarity. the americans have failed. this thing that got less to do with the georgia had a missed underestimation of the taliban. shang, as it is to do under estimation of the will to fight the government forces simply for government forces collapse. very little will to, to, to fight. and so it's really
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a moral problem when the government forces more than the strength of the taliban. the i can tell you we're gonna go full hour on this and get more common coming in about what's happened. that breaking news in cobble wearing that the taliban are entering on all sides is the latest i'm saying they're more on the coming minutes. but over neighboring pockets, the death toll climbing to 13 in an explosion in karachi earlier in a southern pakistan, i'm saturday night 6 children, 7 women killed. the report saying a hand grenade was thrown of the pickup truck that was travelling. and as they returned from a wedding, the motive why still and clear at the moment of throat, he's looking at a number of theories including a possible terror attack for that thought from confirmed. you can see investigators at the scene. they're trying to make their assessment of what's going on. that's bring in political, endless job. it ran out of it. hey, there,
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speculation this could be a terror attack, but far from confirmed. what are the other possibilities then? well, i think it could be possibly a push to an immediate bug on the security forces. launch a position against militants in the northern nor driscoll focus on and sometimes a dalrish operator. they try to personally have a shuttle vendor dog with the officials who were involved in a position against him. but at this particular point of time, it appears that if one particular family has been targeted, this family might be belonging to some officials. so again, police is investigating to determine whether it was an act of data or whether it was simply a bushel enemy, which is marshal unusual in north west of focus on, in and out of pocket on city of clergy with a large number of which 2 families are centered but let me give you a broader picture. since this, the city is after 2 days are falling in the longest on there, there has been
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a slight shortage in debtor attacks in pockets on and before this particular incident, there had been at least $2.00 for tax. one was on the chinese engineers in the know the focus on and another was in the heart of pockets on which is the issue. 50 of lot those $2.00 that actually linked with india and ramp auction and talks with that in the india has been behind it. that is underlying message behind the scene has been dot. it is a combination of the u. s. and india new a new emerging allies, new or used strategic alliance. and on the other hand, there's another your strategic alliance between china and focus on what are having a mega billions dollar. this project the, this economy quarter dos projects which lives from which start from barcus on and news to an issue and the europe. so this is a project i guess, which americans have expressed your concerns. and the china believes that the americans have been trying to block it and be bored pockets on and,
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and china suspect that it is a combination of india and the u. s. which are conducting data set out to log this merger a lot of brilliant road in sheer to china has undertaken. and a lot from that i will share that. no, that is the reason that we have seen that the child not heading why to dollar bonds in the region of giving a clear signal to the america that they stand by the dollar bond. de china was a stable government, no matter who did that. maybe maybe the fall bomb, which has a history office stablish and a piece of understand. and i think china is having a lot of dies with, with a collarbone. and there is a stronger possibility that a lunch day they, they become fully in charge of one song, which is maybe a matter of, there's probably trying not to be the 1st country to recognize them. all right, now i want to ask you talking about going to start next door and breaking news as
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i'm sure you heard, i'm sure you know yourself is that the taliban are very close to or have entered cobble. i'm seeing a new line coming in the last couple of minutes in the telephone of issued a statement. i can't confirm or deny this, but it, it's, it says city, a newsletter from a trusted source. so they've instructed the fighters to stay at the gates of cobble and not to enter the city until a transition takes place. the statement further going on to say, we don't want a single, innocent african civilian to be injured or killed, as we take charge, but we have not declared a ceasefire. so how are they going to be greeted in kabul? they've not met resistance along the way so far from these other big cities. they've taken the course cobble was the the prize if you like. are they going to be welcomed in cobble? are they hoping that is going to be an, an easy trip from the outskirts to the center? will they take control, or is there going to be a lot of fighting? a lot of people know what,
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what's your estimation of what the next i was likely to bring in? are you surprised by that taliban statement that well, this seems to be a general dollar monster when given the fact that the issue are similar steamers they don't want to blood bought a dealing of machines of carbon creating are off condition for the frog, for the blue good show going to government to design and shutting down, and that has been the check pattern about the fall bond. this doctored basically surrounding the of this started capturing the surrounding regions of all the check was and now they have come to the gobble, which means they are going to create conditions where president going would be forced to design over the conditions would be created that did would be a simple rendered, an i don't foresee a blood bought because that has not been the better of the dollar bond. in most of the cases. they have captured these, these, these cities by having negotiations with the governors, by using this long scholars convincing them that it is a time to surrender. and because of the fact that generally perception of nissan is
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and what the fall bond believes that they have defeated americans. so it is not that difficult to feed what they call the puppet of the americans who have lost everything in a furnished on its own. a bad spin, a mediator in the past. is there anything is what i'm about can offer now to try and keep things calm. you say you think it's going to become, but i mean, what's happening to the army, they're loyal to the government, to the modem and what's, what's gonna happen. so i should have gone in date what president of gunny was under pressure from the us to resign because this could possibly salvage americans . the little bit of some sort of jealousy sort of trying to perspective might of have because it is that americans have been lying very confidently. and as a result of which we have seen that they left behind our colonial structure, which has fallen like a horse off guard, nobody was expecting that the tall bond would recapture of nissan. so soon back to
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reflect that the americans had no strategy of that reflects that americans had never wanted a piece in the longest. it really isn't really that much of a surprise to us as we are saying that one of our commentators was saying yesterday, the last thing you want to do is give the enemy a clue that you're pulling up 2 months before you actually do it. of course they're going to try and spread for the taliban as they've done. surely, the americans must have known. this is going to happen after 20 years of so many lives. last i think us inspector reporter going on, which is a study of 770 as long dark flush, everything. it says that the bend oregon has been portraying our rosy picture that it is. everything was in a song and it was a, they were, they were lying and it was on when unreasonable war americans had last too long ago and delight and lied. and at the end of the day of their life that it was going to
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take over the entire social is about to leave around the shop. so that is why they have left or left their own work to it's all been gone and still put onto the mostly of dollar bond. so thought on dealing with them must be fully provided and there they don't desist. i don't expect that present shows any government. what does, if he's going to resign? maybe today or maybe tomorrow is afghanistan in how can we put this better? the more stable hands that it was for the last 20 years with america in the given the outcome that we're seeing today, then how will africa and i can i can confidently for she and mark my words. thought about would be peaceful a funny song alanis on would be peaceful under taliban rule because that has been the history off the top going on under column on the from 996 to 2000 to 2001 of the people, the people wanted america says, no, we had a telephone representative. yes, they obviously would say this. he said no,
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people do want this. this is why this is why you know a pushback or not that much pushback so far because people were tired of the last 20 years. and they want something imposed on them by america, or nato, whoever, in the west that they, that they don't want. so they welcome us. is that true or false? you know, they're, they've been lying on the international media out that the people to hear all about the fact that they have to kind of understand within days and weeks reflects their day enjoy the public sporting on it is the only rest a nice society largely in a station in kabul, they've been been projecting a night of that. the people who are all a mom, i have seen the images which suggest that the people look about. they don't know the top are also shown were also being shown. of course, the way that they ruled the way that they deal with things. a lot of people around the world, especially in the west, we'll consider that to be very barbaric, but the people really want that enough gone this then. meghan have get 200000
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people on this on their tens of thousands of the children and women, barbaric look at the data that we have. and clearly the flash that most of the people in the song had been killed by the u. s. it strikes, but nobody is ready to call them as a terrorist because it is a, it is a government thought about isn't requisition, nobody is going to project them, project generator. so you can, anybody can see anything of you install a bond and that will be considered as a fact better. but now we have seen, with our own eyes that the people in the longest thought and most of the, of the most of the longest on have welcome dollar bomb that reflects what, what they stand for. and i can foresee very clearly that once we are in thought, it would be able to restore peace, something regional countries launch something, bucks on the china launch and something past us or doesn't want not so long ago we had america saying that should try to make friends with the taliban,
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it's not ever possible. it's one thing to make friends. it's another thing to be taken seriously. politically, will they be rober? they're trying to be friends with the dollar bond at a time and they have lost their hands. so i think i'll feel more comfortable with the, with the china, with a rush over the buckets on the, on asking as compared to the, to the u. s. c. it was because of the because of the fact that focus on facilitate it really did a piece deal. oh, written about it because i had there been a piece deal. i think the what is happening now with us. we're going to government . same thing would have happened with the american troops. so american, i think they, at the end of the day, they rely that they need to have a shift exit. and that is the reason they had they, they had abusive with it, with the taliban and american diplomat themselves admit it was a slender deal. couple of days ago the african government was offering a power sharing deal with a taliban. i was not going to go anywhere and i was it certainly to go nowhere then be all about nordic and literally they're going to militarily,
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really going on. why would day have a deal with the government? who is the rule is not beyond few speech in company when government is not really under, under his control situation has changed altogether. know what went wrong for him? tough question. may people what? what went wrong from godaddy? i think i shall go dependent too much on his u. s. c. and his u. s. has proven that it has turned out to be not framed of anyone when, when their firms needed them, their deserted them, their deserted pockets on, and they have no, have it used to be alliance with the reduced auto with india. and similarly it has a history of dealing with the other countries. so that is why i think most jewish has completely changed. i for she glitter all of this year and good to all of china, focus on perhaps some level of dog in on. i don't foresee any bigger one off of the u. s. a. in the longest on other than recreating is stuff from bessie's. java could
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talk. she's so much more about this. thanks for your time. we go way over. so to leave it, go from your political on this job and run it. thank you for your time. come back. talk to you soon. yeah. have a nice day and you will get back to this. her main story. the taliban, we think is the outskirts may be holding back, but the news is that they're about to take, cobble or have taken it. we're going to come back to that, we're going to go full. i'll bring you the latest as we get in there. but there's a lot of news around today. let me take a, do some more stories. and of the developing 120 people killed and 79 injured. and a gas tanker explosion in the north of lebanon. a warning. most pictures coming up some disturbing pictures. sorry to say, but it goes with the situation here. a number of people still reported missing red cross medic transporting burn victims. the local hospitals, the cause of loss as yet unknown number theories going around. but nothing confirmed for my lebanese promise. sad rary though, calling on the country's president to step down over the incident during
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a parallel of course the country has been under the cost so much the last 12 months throwing a parallel to the massive explosion apocalyptic it was called bay root a year ago. that level, that place not looking much better now and the financial hardships there, the hardships that people are going through generally. so call for the president to go with or we will not. we don't know. i spoke to a local journalist about the situation in the country generally. and this incident right now it's the gas tanker 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 in the neighboring countries, namely theora 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,
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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 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 hike, because of the subsidies being listed on fuel lebanon is completely in the dark. and as i'm saying here, i'm running on generator, but i don't know what time it might cut off. and it's just over a weakness year anniversary of 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, the port explosion they had promised answers upon 5 days after the explosion and over a year on we still have no answers 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,
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thousands of others. the people have 11 on 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 to 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 you thought we had really hit rock rock bottom. we wake up the news like this. and hate waking up to me like this. next. it says of after shocks rocking the caribbean nation of haiti. i was off for a deadly quick lift, more than 300 dead forcing the government to declare a state of emergency across almost half of it. warning and may find again, i'm sorry, it goes with the story of the following pictures,
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disturbing. so that quite coaches also fell to neighboring countries, brought time buildings and left rubble strewn throughout the streets. almost 2000 people were injured. he comes this. haiti continues to face political instability, a lot of poverty, 2 months after the assassination of president jovan al lease. it says struck 150 kilometers from the capital port. a prince. the quake was even more powerful than the one that struck back in 2010. but different outcome this time, that one hit very close to a heavily populated city and killed around 300000 people renders. no, an expert we heard from says an effective warning system still to this day is difficult . in places like haiti in this week has similar characteristics to a devastating trauma that occurred 11 years ago. fortunately, the time it didn't happen near the capital, most populated city poor to print as it did in 2010. however,
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we still see it effect and here use of damage to infrastructure for an early warning system to work. since the 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 effect of warning system, which would give people time to prepare. it's 11 30 in the morning. moscow time this sunday watching the weekly normally we're going off and recap and the news of the weekend, the top stories and so many top stories. today, we're going to go full because there's a big breaking story. the african interior ministry saying the taliban has entered the country's capital. no, it was expected. it seems, had happened while the group claims it has ordered its fighters. so the other side of this not to enter the city but to stay at the outposts. there the gates of the if you like because they said they don't want bloodshed negotiations.
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