tv News RT August 16, 2021 7:00pm-7:31pm EDT
7:00 pm
the who's the. c chaos and confusion that i've got on a couple airports as the us pulls out in remaining staff on verified video, show crowds running across the field and i'm desperate to cling onto the us military plains and leave the country. at least 7 people have reportedly been killed and our mission and dana stand was never supposed to been nation building, bought and has given his 1st speech since the thought about takeover left america international reputation in tatters. however, some remarks raised eyebrows efforts to blame the afghan government. similarly contradicting previous statement to the un security council halls in emergency session over. i'm gonna start with representatives voicing concerns over the
7:01 pm
persistent terror threat and the country still concerned by the ongoing presence, the terrorist threats, enough damage done which can spread across the borders, threatened security of neighboring countries in central asia. the i says, yawning us tonight on our team finacialow, daniel hawkins. whether you are welcome to our continuing special coverage today with the dramatic events that have been going on in afghanistan over the last 24 hours. while the taliban have not declared an end to the war that's offered to fight is effectively captured every major city, including the capitol cobble, also being overthrown and a us invasion 20 years ago. the medicine group is now back in control of the entire nation. whether on confirmed report stating at least 7 people have been killed at the capitol is therefore a warning. you may find the following images distressing. the
7:02 pm
bodies can be seen on the ground at the airport this morning. the images come off, the unverified video emerged on line reportedly capturing the moment us troops opened what they called preventative fire at the airport is not confirmed if it led to the death of the us soldiers say the only shot into the air report suggest they might have been victims of a stampede as people rushed towards plains to get out of the country. this is how the airport looked earlier on sunday night. it's only part of the city of the still remains out of the town about $100000.00 can be seen desperately searching for an opportunity to leave. commercial flights have again been suspended after they will resume the airport is now the only option to get out of the country as a border post said to be on the taliban control where the return of the taliban is a huge concern for those who been working for the coalition forces over the years, so much so that some have been taking desperate measures to leave the country
7:03 pm
warning you may find the following images distressing. or this is on verified footage on social media claims to show people falling from a plane as it was taken off from cobble airport. it's claimed online that the person had been hiding in the carriage of the crop. however, as other objects were also seen falling from the plain, it's not yet confirmed with a somebody last life. well, the local news agency, so the taliban stormed its office in couple minutes and reported to of entered talos compound and seized weapons from security. saw below worry a couple based journalists tells us more. it's a massive embarrassment. it's a hard break. it's a tragedy. and it's also the end result of what the last 20 years, all the money, all the investments looked like. on the other front. we do have some developments
7:04 pm
of senior taliban leader. i'm in a meeting with a former president because i am chairman of the law. the law, the taller bonds position publicly through statements is that everyone will be safe . no one will be harmed and also instructed fighters not to go into people's homes and not to bother anyone, but we still don't have any clarity on when the government will be formed. what type of government id will be us president joe biden is finally broken his silence on the fall of the going to start to the taliban more than a day after events unfolded. i mean, washington achieved in scope. we want to have gant stand on was 20 years ago, with clear goals. get those who attract us on september, 11th, 2001. and make sure our car could not use f ganeth stand as a base from which to attack us again. we did that. we serv really degraded al qaeda in afghanistan. we never gave up the hunt for osama milan,
7:05 pm
and we got him. that was a decade ago. the recent speech from joe biden has certainly raised some eyebrows. at 1st he was saying that the collapse of the afghan government in the face of the taliban was not inevitable. but then later it seems like he's saying that it was a national security team. and i've been closely monitoring the situation on the ground and began to stand and moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every constituency, including contingency including the rapid collapse receive. now, bon take over that gas that now inevitable is none. because you have the afghan troops have 300000 well equipped as well as crypt has any army in the world and an air force? again, something like 75000 taliban. it is not inevitable. now joe biden also
7:06 pm
said that the mission of the united states and afghan stan was never a nation building project. quite an interesting remark makes you wonder what the purpose of the us occupation of the country has been for the last 20 years. here's what he said. our mission and ghana stand was never supposed to been nation building. it was never supposed to be creating the unified centralized democracy. this has critics of joe biden, wondering about his reliability and credibility when it comes to foreign policy. this is certainly not the 1st time that joe biden has zig zag when it comes to international issues. he was at 1st major supporter of the invasion of iraq, then later was opposing it and took moves that may have strengthened the i feel terrorists during his vice presidency under morocco. bama. many of pointed out that he was a vehement supporter of us intervention in libya before later admitting that it was a big mistake and a big disaster. so
7:07 pm
a lot of questions are now being raised. people look at the situation in afghanistan and say that joe biden is pretty much to blame for a catastrophe. and there seems to have been a lot of miscalculation and mismanagement, and lack of planning on the part of us forces. and the commander in chief may have a lot of explaining to do about what's happening in the country. meanwhile, additional us troops continued to be sent to have gone a thought off to biden increase the number he was sending for help get american citizens out. an extra $1000.00 and now being deployed on top of the $5000.00 already allocation. over the next few days, helicopters and planes were seen flying over the kind of capitalized nato seeks to ensure the safe of occupation foreign citizens. hundreds of americans have already left the country and thousands of others are trying to follow suit. us embassy, and the capital load it flag off the all software transferred to the walk and lives of all my turn off 1000 us soldiers with many of their colleagues. now questioning what it was all for to us veterans,
7:08 pm
including one that helped reopen the us. i'm with him cobbled back in 2001 shanda thought well, at this point 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 afghan stand 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 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 the biden and trump, and george bush and obama were hoping to accomplish that was kept
7:09 pm
a secret from our troops. i troops were told of very positive things about the future. best can't stand and none of it was true. and, and i until committee knows very well that it, most of it was based on falso vin imagining imagination, the bedrooms 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 has 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 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
7:10 pm
america, they got really rich and those afghans that, that help 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. un security council. i held an emergency session over. i'm going to start with the countries envoy holding the taliban conducting house searches saying lives in danger. representatives of other countries also expressed concerns for the well being of people in the region and those who want to leave rushes on. voice stress, the importance of addressing potential threats that exist in the country prison we spoke with, we are still concerned by the ongoing presence of terrorist threats and f canister on which can spread across the borders in the threatened security of neighboring countries in central asia of concern also the flows of refugees across the border.
7:11 pm
it's created an additional burden for jackie stone. was becky's down around and pakistan not to mention the risk of fighters infiltrating the region by pretending to be refugees. one here of a leader who has given us faint financial ation and i've kind of thought is french president and monro micron. the country's embassy has been shifted to the airport in cobble and microns mobilized. his air force to help will be back to ation. the french citizens unties fall asleep, explains a short time ago we heard from the french president in manuel crohn in a televised a trace to the nation and very much what was anticipated is in fact what he said. and that was that he does not want a gun. he's done to become a sanctuary for tell us yet again, of course, the hot potato for france and the rest of the european union is the issue of the migrant crisis. people here certainly do not want to see a repeat of the 2015 crisis that happened. you have
7:12 pm
a situation in fonts where us comes, make up the 2nd largest refugee population. and there is division amongst european countries in terms of what to do with those guns who've reached these shores, but don't actually have the correct paperwork in terms of being recognized as refugees. and such a long time ago, a letter was wishing to the european commission in which a number of countries stated that they had the right to port of guns without the correct paperwork back to afghanistan. subsequent to that several countries backtracked. so you have this division with in europe in terms of what to do, but they doesn't seem to be division in terms of the fact that the european union does not have the capacity to handle another major migrant crisis. taken. listen to what the french president has to say. the phone was on t. c, p. we must anticipate and protect ourselves against major irregular my great re flows that would endanger those who use them and feed trafficking of all kinds. we
7:13 pm
will therefore take the initiative to build without delay, a robust, coordinated, and united response that will involve the fight against irregular flows. now, but the witnessing is a change from the previous positive approach from the blocks major powers. when it comes to dealing with refugees and asylum seekers, the german chancellor, anglo merkel also talked to the floor and she was extremely bitter. she said that it was quite clear that countries had not managed to build a country enough gunny stand with a democratic structure. she said that there was no connection between the afghan security forces and the local african population. and she also questioned whether or not they had achieved anything by intervening in the country. in this way, she said that they need to look at other ways of dealing with sex situations. so conclusion, nato did not succeed in afghanistan, stuff,
7:14 pm
i'm belong to it. now we're given that car to can no longer carry out attacks against the united states. from again, it's done as they did on the 11th of september, 2001. but everything that has followed hadn't been a successful and hasn't been achieved in the way we had planned. now you'll notice there that merkel is the reference of $911.00, which is actually a little bit silly because it was saudis who were involved in the $911.00 plains. and at the same time the taliban is not the same as our kinder. but certainly here in france, the poetry at the moment is on evacuation as it is within other european countries . and on monday we did see these slides skating on the way with france, placing the power sheet, bringing home and evacuating both french citizens and asked guns who have been assisting the french government for let's get logged out to save rooms, associate professor of political science at northeastern university. boston. mike,
7:15 pm
thanks so much for joining us today. good. having the program you as president joe biden said it and speech that the u. s. was expecting the taliban to try and take over the country. if this was the case, if it was all vs, they would try to advance and take over so many cities and on the capital as well. why is this created so much confusion and chaos among the international community, particularly in the united states? i think that the expertise sions were off, i knew very well that the afghan government, in the afghan military were very weak. and that essentially the trillion dollar effort by the united states to engage in nation building and democracy promotion in afghanistan had been a failure. and meanwhile, over the past few years, even we've seen the tower be and get even stronger. whereas the government was seen as sort of a stooge government that didn't have any would, should emit, wasn't seen as legitimate among the young population. and so it was very obvious to
7:16 pm
me as soon as the united states said that it would be withdrawing that this was essentially the same thing as hinting the keys to the towel them. but i truly do not believe that the american public understood this. and i'm not even sure that the bite in administration understood the seed. if you look at his remarks over the past couple months, he's been counting the strength of your military and how it compares positively to the taliban. he said explicitly that there wasn't going to be the saigon moment where are embassy would become, you know, imperiled. and so i don't think he understood the strength of the taliban relative to the military, which we been so separately. backing up of speaking of backing up, the military western military official said the collapse of the afghan government
7:17 pm
reflect widespread disillusionment among the counties with gandhi's government. but very little is set about the u. s. trading and in the other western powers news, i was trading of afghan soldiers. there's been a bit of a blame, gave me as with some same is the responsibility of the gun all me bear. the failure is on their shoulders for this. who is to blame? you for the fact the africa all me effectively gave up the country pretty much without a shopping. fine. honestly, i see this as a distinction without a difference. the practice is that the united states, his entire strategy was based on building up the military had we poured something like $88000000000.00 into the atkin military. and the taliban just car through the country like butter there. you know, there were a lot of shots, even fired there were mass surrenders and into fractions and sort of
7:18 pm
negotiations. so, but so, so who failed the united states failed and they failed to train the uk in military. but to be honest, this isn't even the 1st time where we've seen something like this. remember how much the united states invested in, in nation building and iraq and how the iraqi security forces. word at 1st sight of reform extent turned out that there were all sorts of ghost soldiers on the payroll that it was loaded. and it's not clear where our money meant, where our money was, except for enriching, corrupt people. and that was true both in iraq, afghanistan, so, so the failure is both on the us military side. long, many that show the joint chiefs of staff told senators on sunday that the taliban takeover poses a real clear a terrorist threat to us security that must have been known before the thought
7:19 pm
about this takeover of cobble surely. yeah, i mean the core truth is that i think that americans and all the race to tell them you've been taking over cobble, even committing some, you know, optically very bad humanitarian conditions in that country. and that's very different. and then if there were another mass casualty terrorist attack from afghanistan outside of sort of the region and certainly against the u. s. or the us . and so this is why it's really a very critical question as to how will the cow a b on rule wait to after all, that's the reason why the united states, you know, invaded afghanistan, right after 911 in the 1st point. and so the truth is, is that this remains an open question. what we do know is that the taliban has not
7:20 pm
been open or clear in cutting its tides from o kite. that it will not come strongly out again though it says that it will do everything to prevent attacks against the west. but does that mean that the taliban will separate relations without car you don't? i doubt it. and so. 1 how the towel band relates to other frankly, even more extreme groups when it comes to transnational terrorism. and that includes both al qaeda ice, if that's really the key question, which i'll be focusing on next. abraham is associate professor of political science at northeastern university boston. thanks for joining us in the program today, could savvy with any kind of. meanwhile, the 1st batch of british troops arrived nicole ali on saturday to safeguard
7:21 pm
nationals and help me locate former staff. $600.00 soldiers are expected in total. other european states have been immaculate in van national than for spending diplomatic missions, denmark and noir temporarily shutting bare shed compound germany and finland the closing back facilities. citing the worsening situation and more than 60 countries, of course. and i've kind of thought to ensure the safety of those who want 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 janice done their responsibility and accountability for the protection of human life and property. and for the immediate restoration of security and civil order. the case, foreign secretary has been slammed for not cutting his holiday short earlier as a ton of and was seizing. i've got to stun dominic robertson's britain. only on
7:22 pm
sunday. all correspondence shouted ed was dashed, the reports from london. well, the question here in the united kingdom is, where is the government and where is the leadership in responding to the crisis in the stone? in fact, the last time we heard from the prime minister of ours johnson last week, he said the president should be incredibly proud of what is the chief in the region? obviously in light of this complete, tiny bon, take a very questioning response. indeed. and today, the prime minister is hosting a cobra meeting. that's a meeting where the cabinet should all be attending, but the foreign secretary dominic rob is known to be seen as he's on holiday. and obviously it's his job to try and deal with these international issues, particularly in regards to foreign policy that has respond to instigate as a whole host of criticism against him. so the foreign secretary to go a while during an international crisis of this magnitude is nothing short of a shameful. i think it was amazing,
7:23 pm
staggering that the foreign secretary was still on holiday, while i canister was collapsing to the taliban. you've got to be on duty during that sort of period where we're so deeply and intimately involved in it. we haven't heard from the foreign secretary and about a week despite this being the biggest single foreign policy disasters and suez. so i don't know what the foreign office is thinking over, say the united kingdom has been part of this nature occupation over the last 18 years, the brit 1st. and initially when to under the international pretense of a pro, humanitarian and pro democracy mission. however, all you believe, but the very fact and speed of this taliban take as many people point to the defeat for minutes early. politically. the sound is a very humiliating time for the west and that foreign policy because the west has always predicated its entire regimes on being the most robust. and it's not just on to will activists that have this point of view. but even some tory back benches in
7:24 pm
government, this is completely humiliate for the west. we assembled the most incredible technologically advanced lines. the world is ever seen and whipping defeated by an insurgency that armed with a k 40 sevens and all 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. we know over the weekend, 600 troops deployed as a rescue mission to try and get these people back safely. that includes british nationals, but also gone is that help assists the british army during the occupation already around $300.00 people have been fund back. the idea is around 122-1500, throughout the next few days till the total $4000.00 and brought home. but we've seen absolute chaos fixing. cobble. what we do know is the military side of the
7:25 pm
port in the british side where the british planes are in the airport on this point in time. secure. however, the defense secretary ben wallace here in the united kingdom, speaking how it is today. and a radio entity became, is very, very emotional. he even became quite choked up. some people will get back and we will have to do our best. and so countries, the processes, people, why do you feel it? so personally mr. wallace can undersold because it's 20 is a sacrifice is what it is. parliament is being recalled back from the summer recess on wednesday. the speaking of everything from the war on terror as gender and foreign policy in the 1st place to the very fact that 5 weeks ago, the prime minister boris johnson says that the takeover would be out of the question of this lee. that is actually wrong at this point. so many people will be
7:26 pm
questioning the prime minister on all of that. but what about the intelligence that provided this nato acts this in the 1st place? and crucially, what will happen? so all of these refugees over the last 18 years, millions of people in australia, so i have been displaced, and now we are set to see quite undoubtedly another refugee crisis, and as much pressure here in the united kingdom. he provides safe and legal passages, but in light of quite a hostile context from the home office in terms of its refugee processes. there's a lot of criticism against the government at this point. so what we'll see on wednesday is a huge array of persons. most of all, of course, 50000 civilians died during this 18 year old patient 500 british troops. many people, question, what was it all for the soul for this house coverage of dan robinson situation in afghanistan, we have been following it closely, getting as much inside as we can from people on the ground as well as analysis from experts globally will continue to do so over the coming hours and days,
7:27 pm
stay tuned here with us and all the international the ah, my recent studies, 90 percent of all the money printing for all these different programs never leaves wall street. right, so it just stays on walter still saying here's an infrastructure bell, roads, tunnels, bridges, and they the 2000 paid bill, the numerator, all the things where this one he's supposed to go. and then they passed the bell. then they authorize the money to be printed and then they sent it for distribution to wall street, a lot bases on a, b, c that very clearly in the money velocity chart, which is always going toward 0, that never goes anywhere listed on the wall street balance sheet and they use it to buy expensive property land. and that's been the story now for more than 20 years.
7:28 pm
ah, is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safer? tyson lation community. you going the right way? where are you being direct? what is truth? what is in the world corrupted? you need to defend the join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, now we have just heard that it was
7:29 pm
a healthy alternative to figure out how do we trust tobacco companies with their message that these new products are actually going to reduce? are these, these are making the tobacco? of course the the news the with with ah hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle . unfortunately, we are witnessing a trend in media and they go from one news fiasco to another. the weapons of mass destruction story, the russia gate hoax, hunters, laptop,
7:30 pm
the app can bounties tail. and now the possible cobit lab leak story. why does anyone in their right mind, even tune in any more the the cross talking the media. i'm joined by my guess, john verbally in new york. he is a political analyst, as well as a former foreign correspondent in russia. in graphics. we have tom, verbally, he is a contributor with real americas voice. and in los angeles, we cross who pi e, and he is a corporate strategic planning and independent economic analyst or a gentleman cross talk roles in effect, that means can jump anytime you want pie always go to the person that got up early as for their program and that's you can hear exactly on the other side of the world as me. as i said in my introduction, what are people tuning what we know the ratings are really, really down. but i mean, in my introduction, i just gave you the easiest stories that they.
23 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on
