the the breaking news this morning here on the international. after an absence of nearly 2 decades, the taliban announces it is back in total control of i've gotten a thought following the capture of the country's capital. on the sunday, it came off to a week of rapid territorial gain. by the mean time is in russia to evacuate every american citizen from the country. the us puts a brave face on his 20. he mentioned that the public official is advocating the to withdraw. and refusing any claim, this is a repeat of the infamous exit from psych gone in the vietnam war. european states also evacuating that national from cobble and raising concerns about a possible flood of refugees, coupled with a new terror threat. and other news here went off. he's

a national on this monday morning. a huge earthquake in the caribbean nation of haiti kills at least 1300 people and leaves local hospitals are struggling to cope . ah, it is just to offer, am here in the russian capital. this is the international enroll receive. we do start this monday morning with the dramatic events that have been unfolding, of course enough. gonna start over just now. the last 24 hours is where the taliban has now declared an end of war in the country. it's offers fighters, effectively captured every major city that includes the capital cobble. it means that off at nearly 20 years, the entire nation is now back under control of the militant group. the

we can show you some images now from cobble international airport are the only part of the city that still remains out of the taliban hands. well, at least for now that is thousands can be seen desperately searching for any opportunity to flee the city. a commercial flights have resumed after they were suspended for a while on sunday evening. at the airport, it is not the only option to get out of the country as old board posts are said to be under control of the taliban. meanwhile, insurgents have seized the presidential pilots in cobble off, the president, ashe, rough ghani fled the country. taliban says it will shortly declare and islamic emma wrote of afghanistan, one representative of the group still viewed as a terrorist organization by most states around the world, has already addressed the nation with the people. i'm going to be diplomatic institutions that function properly for the past 20 years should continue to function as

a representative of the afghan people. i ask you to continue your work and to establish diplomatic relations with the people, the process of power transition if peaceful and ongoing. my great request to the people of coble is to come to the workplace is open markets and shops. local and international organizations are requested to continue their activities as long suffering people solely needed. where did the people walk up in the morning and they thought that it's all about already be and i'll just of the call. and there is a plan that they want to call those people rush away a day. we just went to the bank. so they went to the, to the market, to buy food. there was a lot of crowd of traffic people is just that you could, you saw the people who are in the car and the motor by, by the door door out to solve the problem. but in the afternoon with a ton of money into the city, look why there was no more more and more people. the 1st people blame on their

america because the people are changing or people are saying that in fact, i've gotten them handed to a tyler bond one year ago when americans and dad talked about how the time. i've got it from 100 over 2 to the top of and from that time, american did not have a government gun people. they always that lead to ton of the province that led to the district of that it did not try to prevent the fall and capturing of the district and capturing of the 1st people played on blending on america. and the 2nd people are blaming over a month, which was that lead by any on sunday, after rounds of talks precedent, us rough ghani resigned. it's something he confirmed on his facebook page. he said the move was to avoid bloodshed, and his departure was part of

a peace deal proposed by the taliban. now conflicting reports addressed, he's now in one of 2 neighboring countries are the cheapest on all is becca st. on . however, both countries deny all of those claims. now the taliban ram top is offensive in april. this of course was following jo biden's confirmation that he was pulling out american troops. and as you can see here with the numbers in just a matter of months, the group has successfully swept across the entire country just for a moment here on the program. let's take a look now at how all of these events unfolded. the b i

the the are have a look at this video for you right now. he reportedly showing inmates released by the taliban from the country's largest jail. earlier. they also see by grab military prison located just 25 kilometers north of the capital. a reports claim about $5000.00 convicts was set free. mostly taliban fighters, ready to join the assault. we can show you more pictures as well. at this point

right now, circulating on line, it's the privacy sure. the taliban setting up a road block between july about and couple people driving through report, leaving checks, documents with men without beards being asked if a muslim meanwhile, the us, the ministration, has again increased the number of troops at sending into afghanistan to evacuate american citizens. an additional $1000.00 to now being sent on top of the $5000.00 already allocated over the next 2 days. a hundreds of americans have already left the country and thousands of others a trying to follow suit. meanwhile, helicopters and planes were seen flying over the ask on capital, as nato sought to ensure the safety evacuation of foreign citizens of the u. s. embassy and the capital load its flag off, the old stuff was transferred to the airport back at home in washington, d. c, a large crowd gathered outside the white house. people will voicing that concerns

over the fall of the afghan government of the troop withdrawal. they been waving africa and flags and holding signs, proclaiming america betrayed the afghan people and demonte the country opens its borders to them immediately. well, let's learn a little bit more about this now argues that he was don off drawing us life. it's monday morning here in the studio. good morning to you. we go to. so the former us president donald trump, he's already cut out. he's already weighing the issue. he's, he's called a disgrace. he says joe biden has to resign, but it was trump though, wasn't he? he was the one though. he reached a deal with a taliban back in february and agreed to pull out us troops. so how are these events i guess being viewed in america right now? well, donald trump, of course, right now he's doing what he does best. he gloats and mocks and there, well he made a whole career out of it. so, i mean, this is the perfect time for him to put all the blame to pin all the blame on joe biden. but what he's saying, regardless of how much he contributed to the whole situation, that is unraveling right now when i've got to stand what he's saying right now.

well, i'm afraid his correct because think about it, the americans, they have been in a dentist and just short of 20 years. there's a whole generation of young of guys who don't remember physically, a country without the presence of us soldiers. if you're 19 going on 20, you just don't remember any other life other than under the americans. and, you know, with the american presence, so 20 years, some experts put the estimate as trillions, not trillion, but trillions of dollars when it comes to the cost. and that's just the, just the, just the money cost of the war for the united states. of course, if you add inflation and if you add the interest rate into the equation. so and now we have these pictures, pictures of agen troops, not even african troops, excuse me, but taliban talib militants posing next to humvees, posing next to the most advanced military guy in the world, posing next to helicopters just a few years ago. all they could mount was

a machine gun on a truck. now they are literally mounting laser guided weapons on aircraft. so not only did the united states fail to will cripple the taliban to get rid of the taliban. they grew. it's military might exponentially because it expanded by an order of magnitude with all the tropi weapons that they have captured. as the admin forces us trained to have good forces withdrew from the country. there's also enemy to speaking of these african american soldiers. either they did not have any support or maybe for any other reasons. but those and verified footage circulating around the internet showing how the locals are pelting them with the rocks are pelting fleeing. i've got soldiers with rocks, if the video is showing indeed what it purports to show then. well, it's not clear what the locals are really angry about if they're with the taliban, or if they're angry at the soldiers that the abandoning them essentially. and

nobody could see no, nobody in america could predict such a swift failure of the african military and security force. not, not, not a long shot. i mean, the 1st it was, i've got to stand in june. the us intelligence predicted that have canister would fall in within 6 months. then 6 days ago they said that they've got to standard capital would fool in about 90 days. well guess what? yesterday the taliban entered cobble. so not even the us intelligence could predict such a swift downfall the inability of asking security forces to defend their country has played up a very powerful role in what we've seen. we invested the international community invested over 20 years, billions of dollars in these forces, $300000.00 of them with an air force something the taliban didn't have with the most modern, sophisticated equipment. and unfortunately, tragically, they have not been able to defend the country. and i think that explains why this

has moved as quickly as it's moved. well, it's very hard to defend the man and how the americans handled their withdrawal because it was somewhat obvious that the moment the u. s. troops start to leave, the taliban would rise. it would raise its had one so once again, but again, but this whole situation has just told journalists all over the world that the question as to how long can the city held? it's a wrong question. it's not the one you ask. you just ask, will this city be held will the, will the defend the city at all? because in many, many cases they did not even put up a fight. this is the soldiers. they just, they just handed over the weapons and well opened the doors for the taliban militants. ali bon, take over that gas there now inevitable. it is none. because you have the afghan troops have 300000. well equipped as well as crypt is any army in the world and an air force against something like 75000 tale. mine

is not inevitable. so well he's right. the, the going to security forces did have some 300000 men, all well equipped, but just all these meant they didn't want to, didn't want to fight. well, not all, of course, but i mean, the majority of them, they just didn't want to fight. what you got, it's been going on for years. you know, a lot of people around the world analyst and pundits have compare us to on or even iraq without a vietnam. certainly over the last few days by the administration is phase claims. it is going through a new vietnam also that of the in from a pull out from site gone. is it a fair comparison or is it just politic and it's very difficult not to compare that because the images, they are just too similar. i mean, i think we can show a show the 2 pictures. i mean have a look at this. i mean, this is, it's very, it's very similar. and so to the left, i think you have, you have trouble right now to the right of pictures from saigon in,

in vietnam. so of course, to the bite and administration they want to, they want to distance themselves as much as possible from that. but when you have the u. s. president, when you have joe biden, few days ago saying nobody will pick up americans from the rooftops with helicopters and then a few days. this is literally his quote. and when this happens, literally just that you have american, people picked up from the rooftops of the embassy with a helicopter, or at least you have a helicopter flying above the bas, any. it's very, very difficult not to draw comparisons. and of course, the internet is buzzing, buzzing with this cooling cobble, joe biden's side gone. so, so americans, of course, are still trying to say to save face and they are trying to white portion. and in fact, the state secretary is cooling, this whole pull out a success i will listen to when we succeeded in achieving those fundamental objectives and the idea that we would sign up for remaining there in the midst of the civil war for another 510 or 20 years was simply not in the national interest.

so it wasn't the national interest, but biden is saying that they achieve what they have pursued. and that is to kill those people that orchestrated 911. but some have been logged in was gone down back into 202011. so it's but so the african would by the way he was killed in pakistan, not of ghana. and so again, this is difficult to play this card because yes, the did, and i've got to stand in 2001 under the pretext of hunting down been ludden. but when he escaped, that whole, very, very achievable, goal suddenly transformed and transpired in something much less achievable as to restructure. and well, we train the whole country and just to make a cultural revolution in that country, so to speak. and obviously, 20 years on this whole situation in cobbling with the taliban right now. it is proving that it was simply impossible and it was a very, very bad cold i had with the latest on this breaking news or an opportunity

national eagerness. john of thank you for the war, claimed the lives of almost 2500 us soldiers with many of their colleagues now questioning what was it all full of the u. s. veterans including one that helped to reopen the u. s. embassy in kabul in 2001 share their thoughts well at this point for, for all of the men and women of our country have served in afghanistan, who have lost friends, who, who seen people injured, have gone through terrible emotional and physical trauma. as a result of this service and had hope that in some way they were helping afghanistan for all of these people. most of them are sad, some are angry, but really they're sad and they're asking the question, and i think it's been reported widely. why, why was, why were we there? what were we really doing? because we did not achieve any mission that was sold to our soldiers. jar, young men and women who served there. what they were told they were doing was not,

i'm sorry, it was not the mission that was accomplished. ok. we didn't accomplish that mission, whatever mission that biden and trump, and george bush and obama were hoping to accomplish that was kept a secret from our troops that troops were told of very positive things about the future. but again, a stand and none of it was true and, and i until committee knows very well that most of it was based on falso vin imagining imagination, the veterans on iraq, the veterans of afghan to stand, all of us, veterans ought to be going to our congress to say no more wars because every one of these conflicts has ended up not only with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, millions of citizens of the countries we've gone into being dead or wounded. but certainly the veteran population of the united states that continues to suffer suicides at $22.00 a day and long term mental problems that affect not only them personally, but their whole families and their communities. it's something that our us congress

and our politicians ought to be held accountable for forgetting us into these endless wars the when was for the defense contractors of the united states of america. they got really rich and those apt and that, that helped them on a high level, not really rich, but those that actually implemented the projects didn't get rich and now the, the retribution and retaliation from it's all a bond who said you'd never should have been working with the u. s. government on in any of this anyway, is tragically going to happen. the thing right now here at the national has just come in to the studio, tara moscow. unverified footage, though, reportedly showing us troops opening fire at kabul international airport, where they've been deployed to secure the safety of people desperately trying to

flee the country. well, in the meantime, the 1st batch of british troops arrived in kabul on saturday to safeguard nationals and help relocate for my african staff. we understand $600.00 soldiers are expected in total. meantime, other european states have also been evacuating that nationals and spending diplomatic missions. a denmark and norway are temporarily shutting the shad compound germany and finland closing death facilities, citing the deteriorating situation and more than 60 countries of cold on afghanistan to ensure the safety of those trying to leave given the deteriorating security situation, we support a work into secure and colon all parties to respect and facilitate the safe and orderly departure of foreign nationals and afghans who wish to leave the country. those in positions of power and authority across of dentist on their responsibility

and accountability for the protection of human life and property. and for the immediate restoration of security and civil order farthest across bar correspond. and paula slid, joining us on this monday morning. paul, if you would take us through europe's reactions so far to the situation in afghanistan. well, i think it's fair to say that the ultimate reaction here is one of shock you have, for example, france, which is similar to countries everywhere expressing that its immediate power. she is evacuation. we have heard from the french president that their immediate and absolute priority in the coming hours will be the securing of french personnel and african citizens who are there on the spot. and we're talking here, particularly about guns who've been assisting the french government. the 1st flights are slated to happen to date monday, and this comes as the french military has been sending reinforcements to the united

arab emirates, to help facilitate with the evacuation process. now such a fast win by the taliban has raised both eyebrows and voices as to a rethink if you like. i in terms of countries, policies of engaging in was taken. listen. i uploaded the u. s. defeated vietnam. i'm sick and by the routing of galveston. it is time to think things over before embarking on debt and worse, because if war doesn't solve anything, defeat changes everything. now it's not just fonts, but we are hearing better comments, being expressed by countries everywhere as to what are the long term benefits if any, of engaging foreign forces in afghanistan this is completely humiliating for the west. we assembled the most incredible, technologically advanced lines. the world is ever seen and were being defeated by

an insurgency that armed with a k 40 sevens and p. jeez. this will be the biggest own goal made by the west. so far this century, the humanitarian disaster that's about to unfold will be kansas straw fake. the migration challenges will be huge. we will see further terrorist attacks. now the stage there is no clear statement as to where the countries plan to recognise the taliban as the official government. we have heard from the u. k. prime minister by johnson urgent countries not to recognize the taliban by lack creek bilaterally. what johnson wants to see happen is a united position by like minded countries in terms of interacting with the taliban . he believes that this will be a way to prevent afghanistan lapsing into a breeding ground for terrace. it's interesting that bar johnson should say that paula considering a china recently welcomed delegation of taliban officials in the young gen if i'm

not mistaken. paul, i wanted to ask you about the migrant situation. we've seen reports in recent days about people fleeing scanners, dawn and essentially heading nor do you think europe can handle another wave of migrants or refugees. this is a huge problem and we've already heard from human rights organizations. i probably see unfolding and i've kind of stuff has the potential to become a major humanitarian crisis. take a look. it is that the clock has run out on how long we can wait to dub, the complete overhaul of europe's migration and asylum rules. we need. now the problem is that you, it hasn't adopted a united position, particularly in terms of what to do with african refugees, has made their way to europe and actually don't have sufficient papers to have been granted refugees. faith is here and we did see a number of countries saying that they planned to send these refugees back subsequent to that we saw countries change the mind. so it's, there's

a lack of closing to here in europe in terms of what to do. certainly speaking to people on the streets, they are very hesitant about having another major wave of refugees coming into europe already. you have the african refugees population making up the 2nd largest refugee population here, numbering around the 10 percent, and that's after the syrian refugees tonight, french time, 10 at 8 o'clock in the evening. the french president, emanuel mac kron, is due to address the nation in terms of frances policy on the current developments in afghanistan, without the engine see what macro and it says this evening, off his policy as i live in paris. thank you. while, while most of the foreign diplomatic missions are closing in cobble of the russian embassy is one of the very few of those chosen to stay and remain operational. we've managed to get a comment directly from the russian ambassador to afghanistan. it was a power vacuum, a significant of course,

there's gas fire in the city armed looters. we know about the smell of burning. the important thing is that the taliban as they themselves promise are interested in a peaceful transition of power. they guarantee the safety of for an embassy, including our embassy. we have significantly reinforced our security in advance. now there are no threats or diplomats our property will continue our work here in a calm and normal manner. in other news today here with autism, national nearly 1300 people now known to have been killed. dr. a huge earthquake struck the caribbean island of haiti on saturday. the powerful trema brought down homes, churches, and schools with more than $6000.00 people injured hospitals are overwhelmed with many, just running out of supplies. it's feared and approaching tropical storm. that's due to sweep through the region on monday night could only worsen the situation. ah,

ah ah, the i just about wraps up the news program for this half hour here on asi, international, nearly half past 8, monday morning here. and it's been about 24 hours or breaking user on this channel, the future of afghanistan. what will it be? we'll tell you more in half an hour. ah, the

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