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the, the chaos and confusion a couple put enough dryness dawn as us pulls out its remaining off on verified figures. so crowds of people running across the fields in a desperate bid to get out of the concrete by clinging onto american plains. at least 7 people have reportedly been killed in the on the un security council holds an emergency session or don when represented going thing could no human rights violations in the country. the taliban have already started house to house searches in some neighborhoods, registering names and looking for people and their targets list in the us president is expected to give his foster speech off the heavy blow to washington. reputation
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will be following what he has to say. the keeping you in the loop all hours of the day. this is autumn. international live from moscow. hello and welcome. while we're going to continue our special coverage, this monday will be dramatic events that have been unfolding in afghanistan over the last 24 hours. when the taliban has now declared an end of war in the country, i saw through its flight effectively captured every single major city, including the capital couple means that after nearly 20 years, the entire nation is now back under control of the militant group. there on confirmed report stating and the 7 people have been killed at the capitals appoint a warning. you may find the following images obsessing the. c body as can be seen on
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the ground, the app. what this morning, the images came off, the unverified video emerged online, reportedly capturing the moment us troops opened while they cooled. preventative fire up the port. it's not confirmed if it led to the deaths of those people in the us soldiers say they only shot into the at some reports suggest the victims may have been killed in a stampede. as people are rushing towards planes to get out of the country. well this right here is how the apple looked earlier on sunday night. the only part of the entire city that still remains of the taliban hands 1000 can be seen death. brittany, searching for an opportunity to leave commercial flight, have again been suspended. often they would temporarily reviewed the airport is now the only option to get out of the country is on board of post. i'll said to be under taliban control. there's one of the taliban is a huge concern for those who have been walking for the coalition forces over the
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years. so want so that some have been taken desperate measures to leave the country . another warning you may find the following, footage, obsessing on verified footage on social media claim to show someone falling from a plane as it was taken off from cobble at port. it's claimed on line that the past had been hiding in the under carriage of the croft. however, as all the objects, we're also seen falling from the plain. it's not yet been confirmed when someone was killed. and a local news agency called taller says taliban militants have stormed its office in cobble. they entered the compound and seized the weapons of security staff are on my colleague, neil harvey heard from a local john this about the latest developments in afghanistan. now that the taliban is empower taliban are very adamant and quite publicly so that there isn't a necessity and that no one would be targeted. no one would face in their
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traditions. the thought of on hold to instructed their fighters not to go inside people's homes. i was looking at a statement under twitter page of how much i had the official spokesman riding that some people who had gone in and collected armored vehicles and weapons and other stuff. what identified. and no one has the permission to go inside people's homes that everyone should feel secure inside their homes. what we have to see in weight is how the thought about transition. now, from fighting into governance into politics. we have to remember. taliban are no more of the shadow government. they've got to control and we are still not clear what sort of government we might be looking at. you know what that government might look like, who will be part of it? will it only be the taliban? but there's also talk of curfew tonight, for example, this top off, you know,
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majors preventing looting and careless in the city. this is still a city of at least 6000000 people who are, you know, thousands of streets, and then they're got, exceeding that how many cars i didn't actually board where, you know, hundreds of ones including women and children. tried to get on to any plan that they could and they were fired by the american forces. dad, at least 5 fatalities. more than 50 people of a wounded and on the parameters of the airport, it is all about who are present. so it is not only chaos, but it's also try to, you know, that's how i want to looks after 20 years of massive investments by the us and other than blood integration just a few hours ago. the total news agency said on twitter, this office has been seized by members of the taliban. do we know what the situation is there now? was told was the office of one of the most popular and b television station. i
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saw the taliban coming in collecting the weapons that the government had provided for the prediction team of the law over the years because there are various risks, you know, but the tone was very polite and these taliban promised to low employees that they will provide security so no one is complaining, it is just the development which the laws, you know, employees including the ceo of movie group. most certainly has confirmed on the printer page. the un security council has health and emergency session over on a star with the countries and voice. speaking of the taliban conducting how such is saying that lives are in danger. representatives of other countries also expressed concern for the well being of the people in the region and those who want to leave it watches on voice stress. the importance of addressing potential threats that exist in the country. when we spoke with, we are still concerned by the ongoing presence of terrorist, french,
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and spanish stone, which can spill across the borders in the threatened security of neighboring countries in central asia of concern. also the flows of refugees across the border . it's created an additional burden for jackie stone, was becky down around and pakistan. not to mention the risk of fighters infiltrating the region by pretending to be refugees. as the 15 member body that leads to the united nations convened there heard from antonio gutierrez, the un secretary general, who emphasized the need for the security council to use all tools at its disposal to deal with the global terrorist threat as it relates to afghanistan from there we heard from the special envoy for afghanistan have described the crisis in the country. we've witness time and again how taliban have broken their promises and commitments in the past. we have seen gruesome images of parliament, math executions, of military personnel and target killings of civilians and kandahar and other big cities. mister president,
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we cannot allow this to happen in cobbled which have been the last refuge for many people escaping violence and parliament, revenge attacks. cobble residents are reporting that parliament have already started house to house searches in some neighborhoods, registering names and looking for people and their target list. it's also important to note we heard from the u. k. representative who emphasized violations of human rights and atrocities committed by the taliban. emphasizing that it may be necessary for the u. k. to cut off its assistance to afghanistan due to these violations and they would not want to aid the taliban or help enable it's atrocities. meanwhile, the representative of the united states took the floor and spoke of the united states as if it was a champion of human rights with deep humanitarian concerns for the afghan people. here's what we heard from the u. s. representative. we need to all. busy do more and the time to step up is now. we urge f ganna stands neighbors,
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and others in the region and beyond to give refuge to be temporary or permanent to africans attempting to flee. and together, we must do everything we can to help afghanistan's to help afghans who wish to leave and see refuge. now, many observers in the international community heard these words is somewhat hypocritical. arguing that the way the united states handled the current situation shows that there is a kind of lack of concern to us. they could, by all means be preventing this humanitarian moment is big moment of desperate concern. but united states is doing nothing now. jen, saki, the white house spokesperson is currently out of her office, and joe biden has been silent and on vacation now, joe biden is expected to speak later today, but he has been pretty silent. the situation in afghanistan has boiled over and there's been a torrent of criticism on social media and elsewhere of the by,
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in ministration for how they're handling the situation in cobble. here's some of what's been said, president biden's decisions have a link toward and even was equal to the humiliating full of saigon in 1975 were 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. there was a huge foreign policy failure with general m, if occasions to sheriff 7 month into this administration, everything points to complete collapse. now at this point, the meeting has concluded we are in many countries are raising their concerns about humanitarian issues resulting from this situation and the pending fall of cobble. so the current moment the international community seems deeply concerned. all eyes were on the security council as they met, but all eyes globally seem to be on afghanistan as the crisis there develops, with
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a lot of questions being asked about the united states, its intentions and what will be the future of the country. well, let's cross live now to so you saw that compelling nicole science 1st at the american university of car. very well. welcome to our program. well, jumping right in. i mean, let's be honest. the ton of bon is a terror organization in the eyes of most of the wold is our a fed that i've counted on could now become a safe haven for terrorists. i don't think you can repeat the history in the same way, like in the early ninety's when they became victorious and they took over at that time and 994 when taliban emergent, they began to host and give asylum to altos, organisation, today the world is different, for example, china today is very strong. the russian federation is very strong. denise,
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both of taliban, not a week and there will be fully aware of what is happening up to his who went to afghanistan on the bon and the pod that the wage, the biggest still is operation in history on 911 is no longer able to be back in, in ever had a stand up it seems today are most secure then before and so i don't think that this is going to be repeating the history in the same way. but what we have would happen definitely is that an extent is too big for the appellate body alone today. and so most likely you will end up with a long period of instability and civil war and trouble inside the country. and i don't think it will spill over except sou, if you, jeez, and people on a year and there. but i don't see that you will get the same scenario of 2 is exporting big operations like what happened in 2001. now back in
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july, we heard from top us officials, including in 5 president boynton and the secretary of state that it would be kind of in no wild will the taliban overrun the country. was it a surprise for you to see how this all turned out in the end? i'm not surprised about one thing that when the said that we will was door, there was nobody to feel the vacuum. and i think that americans had this idea, formed the experience in japan and germany after world war 2. and we saw that this is a society ready for western liberal, secular, democratization. this is not true. and so we saw the collapse of that. but any all me that the american invested millions of dollars to build similar to what happened to the iraqi all me in feeling to defend elmore. so again this isaac
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attacks and so we saw something very similar. those people have their own doctrine and the tribal in culture. you cannot push a society from the stone age from the cave time to the more than the world and you will get western style democracy. this is totally unlikely is absent. but i think the waste of money, and now when they realize that that this money was going down, that the in the was do was always managing, even though with all well in a more peaceful civilian way. you have to also remember that this was the one was an agreement that happened in potter was the taliban. and it should have been more smooth and controlled. just as like a big defeat, a military defeat for the american. and it reminds everybody off what donald trump said, doing his electoral campaign,
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that american intervention in the middle east produced nothing but field states, iraq, libya, syria, and now ever understand. and that tells you again, why why the americans intervene in this way. the, the saw nations do not. we give you patients, especially in developing countries, the exam of germany and japan is not applicable in the middle east gate thing. looking at what the american comment was that they said, you know, the title on isn't going to over run off down a storm than it did. that. it shows that actually 20 years and they still don't have an understanding. although the intricacies of what's happening on the ground, this is unfortunate despite the fact that america has a very advanced that centers of research and many workers in understand and be began to know what is the culture and, but this is again, apply by religious society that is very difficult to penetrate and they were under
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estimating capability. and although estimated the power of the army that we had created, and that's why we ended up in this situation. again, they have to restart the, the steps and the policies that they had taking. and the way they had was doing that reminded everybody of the failure of american military intervention in many developing countries like say going faith now. it's very similar defeat and also like an eoc a lot also with doing because they have failed to do to produce a democracy, a feeble, secure county. iraq today is a failed state, not electricity, nor water, only k. s a militia everywhere. but what did they do? with syria did they produce as can they may be and all the democracy, all you know impoverished the country destroyed the country. america is very good in destroying nations, but not building addition. what we really appreciate coming on to the program
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sharing your incite your analysis, and course your take on this. this will fight you to subject political science professor at the american vesting copyright russia's largest airline. our flight has said that 2 flights will temporarily stop flying over the territory of afghan, asked on until audrey through school. that's what the company says. meanwhile, roches diplomatic mission continues to walk as normal in kabul about despite most foreign embassies, clothing that the russian on boston, the gotten military that used to god. it's compound, have gone taliban fighters and now in the place. and he told us that today, everything is calm in the capital. when we operate has normal, there is no reason whatsoever for any changes. we work at full speed because it is calm, at least it's common, the capital. even schools for girls are i hope there is a school near our embassy. now the taliban is going round campbell and taking everything under its control. they are taking responsibility for everything. in particular, they imposed a curfew to prevent loosing and set up
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a hotline for citizens to report crime. for 20 years. washington has been fighting here. a large number of locals, including the taliban, considered its an occupation. washington had initially pledged to complete its pullouts by the 1st of may. it deceived the african people who noticed it many wonder why great power behaves like last. and why have they now sent an extra 6000 troops? i can't speak for them, but apparently the americans are fearful of certain possible implications. meanwhile, us president biden is point to break his file on the phone, the chaos in afghanistan off to take me some time off over the weekend. thought to the u. s. administration again, increase the number of troops that sending into afghanistan to help get american citizens out. an additional 1000 troops on now being deployed on top of the $5000.00 read t allocated over the next 2 days. helicopters on plains was seen flying over the african capital,
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as nato thought to ensure the safe evacuation of foreign citizens. hundreds of americans have already left the country. thousands of others are trying to follow suit the u. s. embassy and the capital loaded slide off to all staff. what transferred to the now just reminder, the war claimed the lives of almost $2500.00 us soldiers with many of the colleagues now questioning what it was all for to us veterans, including one that helped reopen the u. s. embassy and cobbled back in 2001, shut the foods well at this point for, for all of them, the men and women of our country have served in afghanistan, who have lost friends to move and seeing 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,
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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 to our 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 i until committee knows very well that it, most of it was based on falso, in been imagining imagination, the veterans on iraq, the veterans of afghanistan, all of us veterans ought to be going to our congress to say no more wars because every one of these conflicts as they ended up not only with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of millions of citizens of the countries we've gone into being dead or wounded. but certainly the veteran population of the united states that
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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 is 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 afghans 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 a u. s. government on in any of this anyway. is tragically going to happen. but can rather over in washington d. c, a large crowd gathered outside the white house. people was voicing that concerns
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over the fall of the afghan government and the troop withdrawal. saving waving us down flags and holding signs, proclaiming america betrayed to the afghan people that demanding the country opens its borders to them. immediately ali, our tv son of join my colleagues, were to say in the studio to discuss how the ton of bonds triumph is being viewed in the us. all we can do is just speculate as to how trump would have could have, might have handled the withdrawal would have been better, would have been worse. there's no way of telling because trumps no longer president and printed the president is a joe biden. and of course, it's difficult to whitewash this whole thing because and to make it look like a success which they are trying to do right now. because just think of it, the americans, they've been present and i've gone to a new just short of 20 years. that's 2 decades. if you're an american teenager in 19 going on 20, it means you never remember. you can't physically remember the country before before the us invasion. you've lived your whole life in
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a country where the u. s. was always present and you've heard that such statements and such promises against the taliban made by all sorts of us politicians. thanks to our military. generalize and brave fighters of afghanistan. taliban regime is coming to an end. we broke the tale bonds momentum. we built strong afghan security forces. we devastated outside of leadership, taking out over 20 of their top 30 leaders. the path to peace is now set before that. i have plans on afghanistan that if i wanted to win that war, afghan is stand, would be wiped off. the face of the earth would be gone. it would be over and literally in 10 days. and i don't want to do that. i don't want to go that route bond take over that canister. now inevitable is known because you have the afghan troops have 300000 well equipped as well as crypt his. any army in the
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world and an air force against something like 75000 tale mon. it is not enough. so this is the sort of people who were living in panic and rushing to the airport. they were panicking because for all these 20 years they've been promised the taliban has no, no fighting challenge, but it will be wiped out eradicated, obliterated, you know, all sorts of fancy words. what happened? well, we all know what's happened instead. i mean, the biggest, the best metaphor here is i've gotten not african, but talib and troops posing next to humvees, next to black hawks, all the best equipment in the world. and you know, worked few years ago, all they could mount was a machine gun on a truck and now they're mounting. let. is it going to weapons? when aircraft, not only did the us fail to dismantle the taliban as they had promised? and because it was largely a war on the taliban, but they emboldened it. they both stood. it's military capacity by an order of
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magnitude because the army essentially just gave them gifted them with some of the most advanced and powerful military equipment in the world. the taliban now has an air force over the past 2 decades. america has sent so much military hardware and getting on and so many suitcases of cash. you would imagine off the 20 years of old military equipment and all the money that the african soldiers will be able to actually defend the country. but apparently, after all of this, they can't. while they did get their training, they did receive that fancy weapons. but the thing is, you also have to have the willpower to fight, and apparently this is what they will lacking. and i mean, i've read a lot of accounts of like for me and i've been war veterans who took part in the training. and there's all sorts of stories claiming that, well, they just, they just didn't one they were trying to be. they were trying to make policemen and military out of people who were rent a carpet best. so this is,
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this is what they've been doing. yes, they're worth 300000 soldiers trained and equipped. but we've learned through, i guess, throughout this onslaught by the taliban. i guess all journalists around, well, they've learned that to ask a question like how long will they be able to hold? the city is wrong. it just rather will they hold the city of at all. will they try because so many cities and towns they just, they just, they didn't fall. it's wrong to say that they fell because they never try to stand . they never try to make a stand. so this is what they've been doing. a lot of a lot of a lot of those 300000. they just lay down on some, joined the taliban. some just said you can, you can have that because they can leave a more or less the same life, but without having under the taliban, but without having to risk their lives. so this is what the u. s. has failed to do . i mean, they just, they didn't, they didn't motivate because it was a war because the united states and they wanted the war on the taliban. the i've gotten, has been didn't the, because this whole situation proved that they didn't want to fight the taliban. i
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mean, otherwise they would have now that they had to every, every single, every single chance to but still nonetheless, the united states authorities, the incumbent president and his team, they're trying to actually make it look like a success. the inability of asking security forces to defend their country has played 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 just moved. well, in fact, that wasn't billions of dollars, it was closer to 2 trillion dollars. this is what the, how, how different experts estimate the cost of more of us when the taliban, if you factor in inflation and such things with interest rate. but yes,
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so according to these states secretary blinking, they succeeded. but again, i don't want this to turn into a lecture on history, but back in 2001 the united states, the entered have got to spend trying to hide to hunt down some, a ban ludden over 911 terrorist attacks. of course, have they captured us on the lot and back then maybe they wouldn't have been and i've got to spend 20 years on, but well he fled if he managed to escape. so a very achievable and well clear gold turned into something into let's re educate the whole country and teach them to fight the taliban, which we had previously by the way. well, it established and funded and trained as well. obviously. well, the taliban turned out to be the turned out to be much better students than the regular african army. steven raj, as a form, a u. s. navy intelligence officer says he can't help the tool parallels with psych on the goal was to ensure that the app in government was strong,
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that it was a nation where the people were free. it was a nation, ruled by a constitution and not ruled by any dictator or a terrorist organization. so the goal was never achieve. 20 years of work was put into that we have seen is a for caster feet. how do you leave all of these people behind the aft and the citizens to, to, to be met with the baby, torture and murder. this reminds me of saigon. i was in the air force during the time saigon fell. and when i see helicopters in bul landing on rooftops in an airport and giant us air force planes, having a refugees board, those planes reminds me of saigon and when we see its history repeating itself. so there is no bright future, obviously for again it's spam, but until we make a change in our nation with regard to our foreign policy, we don't have a much of
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a bright future either. still had this silence from cherry fight and over what's happening in afghanistan as a found the broker. he's giving a speech a bit later on around 15 minutes scheduled off to attending to the white house from his weekend retreat will be following. not on many more updates off the shall bring the oh, i use what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation. let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy.
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