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the ah, the desperate afghans who cling onto a military plane, taking off from cobble film deal deal on his phone, his fate is unknown. some homes are plunged to the death one of the taliban commanders, he gave victory speeches from the african capital, presidential polish, spent years as a detainee. guantanamo wood, the terrorists. now the de facto leaders of afghanistan, we speak to the group about recent development. the withdrawal of us troops had to be carried out in a strictly organized manner. the world can see that the territory of afghanistan is now under the control of the atlantic em or you reality enough. galveston is making
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you, you. lead is anxious over a potential migrant crisis to point people slee, the country for your belong to everything that has followed, has not been as successful, and has not been achieved in the way we have planned. we must anticipate and protect us against major irregular. my great 3 flows. ah good evening. thanks for joining us here on the didn't. we'll seize a chaos and if can stand after the taliban takeover of the country gunshots were heard at the international airport in cobble, as people scramble to flee the new regime. some tried to scale perimeter walls and fences to reach evacuation flights. some dragging their children over the barbed wire that all reports a taliban fight, shot
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a man who scaling the war. but we can't confirm or deny that for now. 7 people who've been confirmed killed though at the board in just 2 days. the satellite imagery taken on sunday captured, turn all in and around the hubbub, thousands a tron attempted to flee due to a lack of petro locals, reportedly abandon the cause by the roadside fields expensive in cobble right now, and difficult to find some who reached the apple was so desperate to get out. they went to follow suit cling to plains that were taking off. this video was filmed by one such person. busy who took the risk is unclear what the fake was. this is the video has the most online. it's hope that he was one of the lucky ones who survived that others weren't so lucky. her there's unverified and disturbing video that has emerged on line. it appears that some of those who held onto a u. s. air force plane fell to the death and reported human remains were found in
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the landing gear of the us military transport aircraft following its flight from cobble farms. i mean, she was seen left in luggage racks in the car. park of the post locals were abandoning the weapons, attempting to flee. yes, local journalist should know jeff as the the about the situation on the ground. there we go. the room of the one. i just thought it says the housing public safety also, they are locked in for the government people every day said that you're looking for the journalist and, and call it was a shocking use for everyone even for me. and for the shop. i left my office on a red flag place, but i immediately denied the deputy of belie but i noticed the found out i'm the leader of all of us. well, how much money he made? and you said that the cobbler people are safe to talk about the particular of the
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cobbled people and down those groups of the title of natalie on fight permission to enter out of the people. and one of the telephone commanders who's giving a victory speech from inside the presidential palace soon after the militants had taken the african capital, it's emerged through the full details. america's infamous guantanamo bay prison camp. columbia honie was born in 1975 recruited by the taliban. in the 1900 ninety's, eventually joining the moving circle, ministry of intelligence in 2001. he was detained by us forces in cobble and subsequently sent to guantanamo bay, where he was among the 1st detained niece. now that he remained incarcerated till 2007 at the terminal and he was deemed by use intelligence to be a medium level threats to america and its allies, and was expected to join groups dedicated to attacking us forces in afghanistan if he was released and yet the americans did release it in the end,
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addressing the review panel, ronnie reported, and he was an ordinary shopkeeper who just wanted to return to i've got this done to care for his sick father and fresh videos. and i said to be a women protesting in cobble that demanding their rights, be respected to work, to education and political participation. the taliban meanwhile is urging women to join the government as he spoke with the group still class by most countries in the world as a terrorist organization. so i think the answer to this question is really obvious. the world can see that the territory of afghan austin is now under the control of the islamic state, the islamic emerett waste war against the occupation in order to create an independent islamic state. it was claimed that there were 20 different terrorist groups, perhaps more or less operating in afghanistan. but when he is lambing amorous announced to see far a few years ago, not
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a single shot was fired. and then the islamic emirates struck an agreement with the u. s. there were rumors in the media and reports that different groups when conflicts over this agreement. but the truth is that no one broke this agreement, then the groups joined, the taliban and the invaders announced their departure. then more more groups began to join the merger. dean will know joe biden appears confused in some of his statements. withdrawal of us troops had to be carried out in a strictly organized manner. after signing the agreement, we told the us that the withdrawal should take place in a strict order to an agreed shed. jewel, we told them that at every meeting, and then when they postponed the withdrawal for 4 months or longer, we told them the same. i don't know why there is this chaos and confusion and tension why the dramatic events took place at global airport. the scenes course pains all afghans and also cause fear in those trying to leave the country.
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they're not exposed to any danger because they are in our homeland, among their people. we strive to make the future for the people and the country worthy. we have no desire to take revenge on these people. we strive to ensure that all people united despite all the challenges we want to build a new country and make our people have a decent future. we have issued a number of decrees including the decrease concerning those translators who collaborated with the occupying regime for one reason or another. the past is the past. they don't have any problems right now. pictures of also merged those lucky enough to make it onto applied on sunday though they were them met with another trust people. this time on board 640. we said 2 packets inside this particular u. s. jet and the pentagon says is preparing to accept 22000 asylum seekers. u. s embassy in cobbles, also been evacuated with stuff fleeing in a helicopter to the airport, fled to comparisons being made on line to a similar evacuation. it was 50 years ago during the war in vietnam,
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washington noticed that there are no parallels to events in saigon. let's take a step back. this is manifestly not saigon. we're working to make sure that our personnel are safe and secure. we're relocating the men and women of our embassy to a location at the airport. it's why the president sent in a number of forces to make sure that as we continue to draw down our diplomatic presence, we do it in a safe and orderly fashion. we discussed the ongoing situation that with former u. s. navy intelligence officer steven rogers and says he can help with parallel with what happened in vietnam. the goal was to ensure that the app in government was strong, 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
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was put into that we have seen is a to cast her feet. how do you leave all 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 trouble landing on rooftops in an airport and giant u. s. air force planes having 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 a spam. but until we make a change in our nation with regard to our foreign policy, we don't have a much of a bright future. even the present button broke his silence on the crisis mold in the day after the taliban
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took control. he claimed the us mission in afghanistan was never about nation building. our mission ab gaston was never supposed to been nation building. it was never supposed to be created a unified, centralized democracy or only by last interest. and again, stan remains today. what has always been preventing a terrorist attack on american homeland. but his statement came in contrast to previous comments, like in 2002 by and said, the failing to establish a solid national government in afghanistan might create a lawless, safe haven for anti america terrorists. kellum often takes a closer look at the president's conflicting history. with the conflict, when you look at what's happening in afghan a stand, you can hardly say that joe biden is blameless. he supported the war 1st in congress and then his vice president. and now he says that his decision for a sudden withdrawl is correct to many,
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it looks like he has absolutely no clue what he is doing. what in his mind, it all makes perfect sense. we want to have gans dana was 20 years ago with clear goals. get those who attract us on september, 11th, 2001. and make sure, okay, i could not use afghans stan as a base from which to attack us again. we did that. now some are remembering how wishy washy joe biden was when it came to the obama white houses decision to take out the lot and eventually praise the decision when it fit the overall narrative and emission that will go down to the annals of intelligence and special operations some of america's most gifted security professionals tracked down osama milan after the trail had gone cold. the jo, what do you think? and i said, you know, i didn't know we had so many economists around the table. i said we
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o demanded direct answer. mister president, my suggestion is, don't go, we have to do 2 more things to see if he's there. now biden looks a little shaky when you look over other foreign policy decisions as well when it comes to iraq. he voted for the war and he pushed the false claims about weapons of mass destruction, but now he's for withdrawing their to as vice president, he supported prime minister ma leaking and many of argue that he ended up emboldening ice when it came to libya, biden was very outspoken in supporting the overthrow of what was at that time, one of the most stable and economically prosperous regimes on the african continent now says that one was a big hoops as well. starting to look like biden doesn't really know what he's doing on the global stage. this is something his critics have been pointing out quite loudly in recent years. i think biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy. a national security issue over the past 4 decades. remember,
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our biden campaigned for office by calling out donald trump says unpredictable and untrustworthy when it came to us foreign policy. well, recent moves in afghanistan are certainly not an argument in joe biden favor. you know, it's hard to know what's 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. yes it's, it's 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 the crisis happens. so this is just another symptom of bad policies within the democratic party. and the democratic party
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losing the good things that had ever had that it stood for almost 20 years of us involvement in afghanistan is taking a heavy tell on millions of people. it's also not been come to us taxpayers. we've had to foot the bill for one of the country's most expensive was in history, is to look at the extraordinary cost of the campaign. on my orders, the united states military has begun, strikes against the al qaeda, terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. we will win this conflict by the patient accumulation of successes by meeting a series of challenges with determination and will and purpose the the
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the the wealthiest country in the history of the world. and yet we have the higher trial poverty rate, almost any country on earth. our mission and ghana stand was never supposed to been nation building me while you lead is a growing increasingly worried about how the situation is developing. they fear the chaos could spread to europe with a huge influx of refugees. angler mcelroy, in countries neighboring afghanistan to take on refugees. the french presidents and german chancellor were among the 1st a voice concerns devante. c. p. we must anticipate and protect ourselves against
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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. stuff unblocked as it is now, given that okay, can no longer carry out attacks against the united states from gannon, as they did on september 11, 2001 with everything that has followed has not been successful and has not been achieved in the way we have plans as well, despite her concern at the ensuing crisis and potential impact could have on europe . the german chancellor found time to attend a film premier in berlin came despite criticism. the country's only managed to safely evacuate 7 of his nationals from cobble to date. and even before reason events, the number of afghans through the country each week estimated the 10s of thousands that's expected to grow. faced with the crisis america authorized. busy half a $1000000000.00 in immediate aid to african refugees. the disease piece oliver
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explains the vast majority of those migrants won't be washington's problem. europe has watched on in horror at the speed at which 20 years of nato occupation of afghanistan was turned around by the taliban advance sit down north triple a. p. it is a challenge for peace and international stability against terrorism and those who supported smith and i found some of this is an extremely bitter development liter. dramatic and terrifying. now have to concentrate on the rescue. we don't want anybody a bilaterally recognizing the taliban and we want to united a position amongst all the like minded. as far as we can get one, as hundreds of thousands of people have already fled their homes. and i've got to stand and many more are expected to do the same here in germany. the man who's looking to replace angle, a miracle as chancellor says, we can't be allowed to let recent history repeat itself. we have to give our 1st
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joint european and trans atlantic response this week. the mistakes in dealing with a serious civil war must not be made again. 2015 should not be repeated. the us quitting galveston and the return of the taliban is set to see a rise in both seeking sanctuary. but just where these people are going to go, there is already around 3000000 off gun people displaced in iran, over 2000000 of whom are undocumented. to ron has suggested that it could set up more refugee camps on its eastern border, but that would require funding with eyes looking towards the a you for help. pakistan is home to 1400000, registered african refugees and asylum applicants. but along with turkey, which is housing over $3000000.00 syrian refugees, islam about an anchor, a king to work together to stop more arrivals. take your turkey is facing a growing wave of africa migrants transiting through iran. we will continue efforts
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to enable the return of stability in the region beginning with afghanistan. and to do that, we have to pursue and strengthen our cooperation with pakistan. e. u. member states are very aware that europe is a destination of choice for many fleeing. i've got to stop so much so that earlier this month, 6 member states put their name to a letter warning house stopping deportations back to afghanistan would be viewed stopping return since the wrong signal and is likely to march of 8, even more of going citizens to leave their home for the you. many hope the 2015 refugee crisis was a warm, soft not to be repeated event. it would seen that reality may have different plans . right now we know that up to 5000000 guns thinking to leave their country. and that would be much more than we have seen and 2015,
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the overwhelming majority. what do we know from the poem in germany and continental europe? don't want to see a new wave of mass migration, especially not from afghanistan where people off to 40 years of war. 6 for them it's extremely difficult to, to integrate into the very liberal and feminine european societies. so there is a consensus from the center to the right. don't let them in and don't agree with the 2nd 2015 with the taliban now. effectively controlling against and rushes expressed cautious. optimism regarding the movements ability to maintain law and order. moscow has also indicated it hopes for the formation of inclusive power transition structures. in the country, stopping short though of recognizing the taliban as of yet. but the missouri, we've said this on multiple occasions already. we're in no hurry to recognise the
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taliban, just like all the other countries. to say that we will now take some unilateral political steps. would be premature. it's just the russian foreign ministry also described the situation unfolding in afghanistan as the natural results of the us and native true withdrew. drawing parallel with other western lead interventions over the past 2 decades, critic se washington's lengthy operations and the country had been playing directly into taliban hands down of explains. they've done it finally from siri and libya, them at least to venezuela and cuba and latin america. washington has a decades long history of failed attempts to bring anti government militia is to power. and at last they've crack the code in afghanistan with the taliban. apparently, all they had to do is instead of aging them, they should have just fought against them all. this time, thanks to our military and our allies, and the brave fighters of afghanistan,
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taliban regime is coming to an end. there is little doubt that our greatest military challenge right now is afghan. stan, we must reverse the tale, bonds, momentum, and deny of the ability to overthrow the government. our troops will fight to win. we will fight to win. it all started so well. the us invaded the taliban, fled to the mountains. the us trained and trained and train the new african army, spend billions on supplying it with more noms. we spent over a trillion dollars. we trained and equipped in afghan military force. with some 300000 strong. we gave them every tool they could need. all of us in vain only for the taliban to seize all the equipment. as soon as i've got to stand fools, which strengthen their already solid position in the country,
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the comprehension of the situation on the ground was also far from what you might expect from the country, deeming itself the military and intelligence superpower. the united states currently lacks a comprehensive strategy to gates reconstruction efforts in afghanistan. it also lacks overarching plants with clearly defined metrics to guide its work in a number of key areas, such as anti corruption, connor narcotics, health, education, gender rule of law and water. all this lead to the inevitable corruption, the thriving within the security forces, very glaring ineffectiveness, and as a result, lack of trust to the us backed institution from locals. the african population perceives places predatory bandits and calls them the most hated institution in the country. around 30 percent of the recruited place of deserted weather, issued weapons to set up their own private checkpoints, and extort money from travelers. various sources report of the telephone calls were
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a preferrable alternative, and that they were perceived as accessible, fast and less corrupt than the government established courts. so when the us says something like this, that force proved incapable of defending the country. and that did happen more rapidly than we anticipated. is it that big of a surprise? i mean, really well, but at least this time america is meddling actually lead a militant group. even one recognized as terrorists by many states to gain total control over a country of galveston who failed. the united states failed and they failed to train the ocoee and military. but to be honest, this isn't even the 1st time where we've in something like this. remember how much the united states invested in, in nation building and iraq and how the iraqi security forces web. at 1st sight of islam extend, it was very obvious to me. as soon as you know,
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you 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 this either. this is what happens when you try to impose a western concept of them, but democratization onto a culture that has absolutely no concept of it. i mean, they didn't, they never had an army there before, and they, they were more involved in insurgencies and whatever. then we tried to build an army. this was totally alien to them. so none of this is surprising. and many of us very early on were saying this is a, a prescription for disaster. and this outcome is very dismayed. on the one hand, i feel very badly for the asking people because they have really taken the brunt of,
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of this miscalculation both by their own leadership and by the united states government. because it's alive to the can capital. now local journalist belongs, so are join me below. welcome. how would you describe the situation now in cobble? while this com and live is picking up slowly, but surely it's not the same cobble that it used to be in the traffic jams, the hustle and bustle of life. but some shops and more and more areas were open leg, which are shops in a big crease, a reasonable shops. i was still wondering, you know, when will atm machines work? this is a very new cobbler than the one. the taliban was forced to leave about 20 years ago . we're also expecting to hear from the taliban spokespersons. i'd be much, i had you know, one of the most probably elusive figures in the world of the spokespeople for, you know,
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insurgents. so we will have to hear more and perhaps there will be clarity this talk of the taliban, wanting to have a government that is inclusive. the political leadership is aware of how much international legitimacy will matter because they have been exposed to their trips to various parts of the world and through the doha political office. the taliban have been also exposed to the highest actual on many government, many powerful government in the world. so we will have to wait and see at the same time. that's all about. and i've also been trying to go after looters, people with arms who are turning up outside of gaves, of former officials, parliamentarians and taking their armored vehicles and weapons. this has been going on now for like several days. some of it has been members of the taliban. others are like people who are just taking advantage of the situation. and in fact, what i'm talking to you from several streets away from me. i heard gunshots. then i
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inquired the read it and said that those was arrested people who wanted to steal from several homes. so they are also dealing with the population and cobble that has access to facebook and twitter. and which is why the taliban continued to share their what's up numbers for the complaints commission. the head of intelligence for the taliban for cobble city appeared in a video message. that is something that would have never happened. these figures were always on a target list on the list and he was sitting inside. what was the former headquarters for the african intelligence service? so these are events unfolding at a very fast pace and the world is watching. you know that when people are watching, how will this transition from fighting into governance? develop? the taliban seems of a new look to it and it's making promises of a more moderate life under authority, including more freedoms. for women,
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they say, did the people in afghanistan believe that well, so far the taliban have been able to secure my surrender from districts to the provincial capital and quicktime without any resistance. and cobble perhaps is a different case because it's the capital. there will be an understanding among detail about the nature of the social fabric and something goes, but we will have to watch in see what the future brings. is it really a massive change for the taliban? the realize that okay, this is how it's going to be or this is just temporary. we don't know that. but at least for the time being the taliban continue to insist publicly that they missed the offered. everyone will be honored that no one will be tried or prosecuted. there will be no abbreviation or revenge killings and we have seen, you know,
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the master renders a host protection for, for example, a counterterrorism pursued team as it was known, felt by the central intelligence agency, the ca, we saw master vendor of them like, you know, hundreds of them definitely surrendering through tribal mediations and the thought about i've given them letters and said ok past is the past. now you have to go back to your home villages. so if i'm honest and can you hold such surrender deals in such insurances that they've offered? i think that is part of a process that i would call could heal the wound of the last 20 years. we have to really remember the last 20 years both. busy sides have lost their family members, both sides and like, you know, lost their friends at the very highest echelons of both the government as well as the taliban. so let's see if i can move from it's painful
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