the the . c chaos and confusion and i've gone on a couple of board as the us pulls out its remaining staff on verifying video, showed crowds running across the field in a desperate bid to cling onto the us military plains and leave the country. at least 7 people have reportedly lost their lives. our mission afghan spam was never supposed to been nation building. turbine has given the 1st speech to take over left america's international reputation in tatters. however, some remarks raised eyebrow efforts to blame the afghan government similarly contradict things previous statements. un security council. meanwhile, hose that emergency session over, i've got to start with representatives voicing concerns over the persistent terror

threats in the country. we are still concerned by the ongoing presence of terrorist threats and f, dennis done, which can split across the board as the threatened security of neighboring countries in central asia the life from oscar. thanks joining us on our teams and i shall. i'm daniel hawkins. welcome to this rundown. we continue our special cover today with a dramatic event taking place in afghanistan over the last 24 hours where the taliban has now declared an end of war. and software fight is effectively captured every major city, including the capital cobble. after being overthrown on a us invasion 20 years ago, when a group is now back in control of the entire nation. other on confound report, states, at least 7 people have been killed at the capital of their port. a warning you may find the following images distressing.

the bodies can be seen on the ground at the airport this morning. the images come off drawn verified video emerged on line, reportedly capturing the moment us troops open. what they call the preventative fire at the airport. is not confirmed if it led to the death as the us soldiers say they only fall into the air. some reports just, they may have been the victims of a stampede of people rushed towards plains to try and get out of the city. well this is how the airport looks earlier on sunday night. it's the only part of the city that still remains out of a ton of i'm tons of thousands can be seen desperately searching for an opportunity to leave. commercial flights have again been suspended. also they were resumed. the board is now the only option to get out of the country as water both said to be on the taliban control, where the return of the medicine group 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 warning you may find the following footage. distressing. this isn't verified to video on social media claiming to show someone falling from a plane as it was taking off from kabul. it claim not a lie that the person that had been hiding in the undercarriage of the cross. however, as other objects were also seen falling from the plain, it's not been confirmed whether somebody lost their life or local news agencies as a kind of an storm in itself. it's in kabul, but listen reported to event and talos compound and seized weapons from security staff. but also already a couple based journalists explains more the 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 time we do have some developments 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 son and on the fall of, of kind of on to the taliban more than a day off for events unfolded lighting. washington achieved scope. we want to have can stand on was 20 years ago with clear goals. get those who attract us on september. 11th, 2001 and make sure i kind of could not use afghan a stan 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,

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 had 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, and contingency, including the rapid collapse we're seeing now. and 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 against something like 75000 taliban? it is not inevitable. now joe biden also 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 a 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

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 where we go live now to has benedict, the former executive director of the libertarian national committee. thanks for joining us. good to have you on the program today. joe biden has repeatedly called for up, going to start to get the u. s. assistance. it requires why the u turn now years . why, as biden asking for afghanistan to get the assistance it's asked for, i'm not sure if you're talking about more assistance today or you're talking about in the, in recent history. well, joe biden called previously called for troops, surgeon of going to san on his pledge to give the government what it requires to to

stabilize it. yet it seems that the us or, according to jo, bonded at least they must now starting their own 2 feet and deal with the, with the taliban take over on their own. yes. okay, so a president biden has long supported too many military interventions overseas, including in afghanistan and iraq, and he is occasionally changed his mind on those issues. we certainly have to put a lot of blame for what's going on today on president biden. but i think you have to put most of the blame for what's happening today. on former president george w bush. he's the one who 1st authorized going in to afghanistan. he spent 7 years establishing an occupation force, someone call it nation building. some would call it other things, but he got the momentum going with the american military there. and made it clear

to anyone that questioned the american military president there, that they were not supporters of americans, and that they were in effect supporting terrorists. so that certainly worked on senator biden and biden, you know, he's always been pretty pro, military pro intervention. he's never been an anti war type of democrat or liberal . and so he's, he shares plenty of blame and i think you have to, you have to put the blame on what's going on today, not just on military and political leaders, but i would put it on most americans. and i would even go as far as placing plenty of blame on the left us democrats who were all too eager to go out and protest the wars when president obama was running for office. as soon as obama one election, the left us to any war movement faded away and was content to sit at home and worry

about themselves and other things rather than the tragedy that was sure to happen in afghanistan. the average perils drawn between the u. s. withdraw from going on and withdraw from the norm on the surface of things, but perhaps a more accurate one would be the withdrawal from iraq. when is limit groups gain territory in the, in the vacuum that was left off of the u. s. withdraw, do you see similar risk happening here with going to start becoming a potential breeding ground for al qaeda and other radical groups? do you think biden just isn't taking this risk into account? you know, it's hard to know what is going through biden's mind because he does change his mind on, on strategic issues. and he doesn't have any clear set of guiding principles when it comes to foreign affairs. so yes, there is certainly a risk that there will be a vacuum of power and the people that we may think are bad are going to come into

power and might support terrorism. is to be expected. is to be pretty. you know, a lot of us who thought it was wrong to go into afghanistan and the 1st place also expected when we leave. it was going to be bad. otherwise, you know, and that's why you don't want to go in in the 1st place. so, yes, i think our 20 year war on terrorism is likely to generate more terrorism. how do you expect those images that are going around the world now? all of the chaos in call. but on the criticism, the widens receiving to effect is the approval rating. we've already seen his approval rating going down, and that's not surprising. here in america, when terrorism happens and the president responds with military action, the approval ratings go up. and that happens whether it is a republican or democrat in office. there was

a time when i think it was over 80 percent of americans were in favor of invading afghanistan and were happy with the way we were dealing with afghanistan. i think many of those same people change their minds over the years, but now when they see, oh, it's difficult and there's, there's chaos on the exit. they're wanting to feel like maybe they didn't make the wrong decision when they were supporting this, this, this invasion 2 decades ago. so yeah, i think you'll see biden's approvals go down. i think it will be temporary. i expect, you know, i don't know if it's going to be one year or many years, but it's the right thing for the american military to leave afghanistan. for 20 years. they tried to establish some type of stable government and that was a bad idea. and it proved to not work

a lot of countries prefer biking over trunk, their less scared of buying than they were of president trunk. i'm scared of both of them at times, but i don't see this. you know, if you're looking purely on political terms and long term world affairs, i don't think this is likely to hurt biden, but you know, it's possible to see into the future. if things turn around and start looking better for the afghan people. then a lot of people will start praising biden for having the courage to change his mind and get the american military out of their according to polls, a majority of democrats and such a majority of americans support the u. s. at 3, withdraw from the country, but equally, all of them across the now criticizing of boston for losing the entire country, which nobody could have predicted, of course, would happen quite so quickly. quite so dramatically this indicative of a crisis and the democratic party very well. you

know, we always talk about crisis happened in the democrat or the republican party, and yes, it is somewhat of a crisis. but the crisis happened a long time ago when democrats stopped supporting and non interventionist military policy when, when democrats were all in favor of going into iraq and going into afghanistan and when they supported hillary clinton and obama, when we, when the united states military got involved in libya and other places, they already lost the logical battle. they are in a crisis happens. so this is just another symptom of bad policies within the democratic party. and the democratic party losing the good things that it ever had that it stood for. so they will be in crisis, but they will probably get over it because i think their hatred of republicans, you know, that's the way it is here in america. the republicans and democrats have each other so much that they'd rather just focus on hating the other team then. then the

introspection, you know, looking at what we could have done differently. course, i'm a libertarian, and i, i see both sides equally negatively. and i'm not going to say, libertarians are perfect or on perfect, but i just see the hatred between the 2 parties driving most of decisions and a lot of what people say on television and on, on the commentary. and certainly happening today when people are criticizing. president biden, for how this withdrawal is gone. they're not really thinking about what other way could have things happened or what could have gone down differently even in the short term. they're just focused on scoring political points. show a more interesting to see how this would affect the domestic politics in the u. s. was benedict form executive director of the libertarian national committee. thanks for coming in the program. so thanks for having me. now. meanwhile, additional us troops continue to be sent. i've got to start that softer by merely

increase the number he was sending to help get american citizens out an additional 1000 to now being deployed on top of the 5000 already allocated over the next 2 days. helicopters and planes were seen flying over the african capital, as nato seeks to ensure the safe evacuation of foreign citizens. hundreds of the us citizens have already left the country and thousands of others a trying to follow suit. the u. s. embassy in the capital load its flag after all software transfer to the full of the war, then the lives in was through and all 1000 us soldiers with many of their colleagues. now questioning what it was all for us veterans, including one that helped reopen the u. s embassy and cobbled back in 2001 share their thoughts with us. 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's 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 the biden and trump, and george bush and obama were hoping to accomplish that was kept a secret from our troops. our 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 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 a tall 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 un security council has held an emergency session over afghanistan with the countries invoice highlighting the taliban conducting house searches saying, and lives in danger. representatives of other countries also expressed concern for the well being of people in the region and those who want to leave rushes invoice, stressed the importance of addressing potential threats that exist in the country. those properties we spoke with, we are still concerned by the ongoing presence of terrorist, french and spanish stone, which can spit across the borders in the threatened the 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, stand around and pakistan. not to mention the risk of fighters infiltrating the region by pretending to be refugee and one here, a leader who's given a speech on the situation. and i've got astonish french president,

him out of all micron. the countries embassy has been shifted to the airport and campbell and macro, this mobilized his air force to help the evacuation of french citizens, or to use pul asleep, exclaim. 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 doesn't want a gunny son to become a sanctuary for terrace. yes. 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 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 i know such a long time ago, a letter was wishing to the european commission in which a number of countries stated that they have the right to port of guns without the correct paperwork back to afghanistan. subsequent to that several countries backtracked. 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. on the 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 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 is 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 african 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 such situations. so conclusion may to not succeed in afghanistan, stuff i'm belong to. it's now we're given that car to can no longer carry out the attacks against the united states from of canis done as they did on the 11th of september, 2001. but everything that has followed hasn't been a successful and hasn't been achieved in the way we had planned. now you'll notice

there that merkel here's 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 party at the moment is on evacuation as it is within other european countries. and on monday we did see these slides getting on the way with france, placing a power sheet, bringing home and evacuating both french citizens and asked guns who have been assisting the french government. meanwhile, the 1st box of british troops arrived in cobbled on saturday to safeguard nationals and help me locate former guns stuff. $600.00 soldiers are expected in total. although other european states having a lot q, a think van nationals under spending diplomatic missions, denmark and norway are temporarily shutting best. shad compelled germany and finland also closing their facilities, citing the deteriorating situation and more than 60 countries of cool that are

going to start to ensure the safety of those who want to leave. given the deteriorating security situation, we support a work into secure and call and all parties to respect and facilitate the safe and orderly departure of foreign nationals and afghans who wished to leave the country . those in positions of power and authority across have gone east on their responsibility and accountability for the protection of human life and property. and for the immediate restoration of security and civil order. the u. k is foreign secretary has been slammed for not cutting his holiday short earlier as a taliban will seizing. i've got to stop. don't it. rob returned to bush and only on sunday correspondent shoddy. i was dashed, the reports from them. well, the questions 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 says the person should be incredibly proud of what is the chief in the region, obviously in light of his complete tale. bon, take a very questioning response. indeed. today, the prime minister is posting a cobra meeting. that's a meeting where the cabinet should all be attending, but the foreign secretary dominic rob is nowhere 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 really sparked and instigated 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, staggering that the foreign secretary was still on holiday, while f 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 sewers.

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 carefully but the very fact and speed of this taliban take many people point to the defeat 1st. militarily. politically, the sounds 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 government, this is completely humiliate 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 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 catastrophic. 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 assist the british army during the occupation already around 300 people have been for in fact 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 as well. what we do know is the military side of the port in the british side, where the british planes are in the airport at this point in time. secure how as the defense secretary ben wallace here in the united kingdom speaking, how are you today? in a radio interview became a very, very emotional. he even became quite choked up. some people will get back and we

will have to do our best and countries or processes people. why do you feel it? so personally mr. wallace can undersold because it's 20 years of sacrifice is what it is. parliament is being recalled back from some a recess. that's on wednesday, i think i'll be speaking of everything from the war on terra's gender and foreign policy in the 1st place to the very fact that 5 weeks ago the prime minister of foreign johnson said to the tale, bon takeover would be out of the question. all this me, that is actually wrong at this point. so many people will be questioning the prime minister on all of that. but what about the intelligence that provided this nato, ex, this in the 1st place? and crucially, what will happen sort of these refugees over the last 18 years, millions of people in australia, so i have been displace, and now we are set to see quite undoubtedly another refugee crisis,

and as much pressure here in the united kingdom to provide 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. and most of all, of course, 50000 civilians died during this 18 year occupation, 500 british troops and many people. question. what was it for seraph on the south coverage of the unraveling situation in afghanistan? we have been following closely and as much in the site as we can from people on the ground is what is analysis from exports globally, will continue to do so over the coming hours and days they shoot here on the nation . the

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