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the moon, the pat lines this our here on a new video is emerged from the song capital showing the desperation of people fleeing the return of the title about the group brief, the media author as power grab promising it speaking, no revenge. and i've got women take the street to defend their rights to switch the tile about pledging to keep protect it. i'll be within the limits of islam. on the program, we discussed the situation with the head of the country's largest media company. it's all about trying to win hard and long ways to go before we can say that. receptive to women and television all to equal between the full not kind of the european union admitted that money and efforts to train the army were old and vain . we gauge reaction of all around the world after one has been going on. the whole
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politicians throughout the world that had a city of which was the everybody just got something to say what's happening over there. and to reveal the taliban commander who gave a victory freed from cobbles, presidential palace was in fact, a former long time resident of guantanamo bay. ah . as the world turns 247, this is archie into national with me. we'll re sushi. let's get straight into your wednesday news stories. first, this morning, more scenes of chaos from afghanistan. it's of course, following the taliban take over a hundreds of afghans including women and children who are seen queuing up outside cobble international airport. on tuesday, i hope to be evacuated. a large group of locals could be seen waiting along
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a barbed wire petitions holding their remaining documents as plains took off in the distance. one of us wait for the british and for the americans, and i have my documents with me right here for these 10 years. i work with them. now i'm in danger. as you can see, the enemy is here and that is clear to everyone. they must have vacuum me from here as soon as possible. i come here 3 or 4 days in a row. there is nothing to eat and the people flee because of hunger. i have worked 6 or 7 years in the back room at base. and now i fled my village and comfortable. i don't have a house and i want to flee. price about it. some try to scale perimeter walls of the airport to reach any evacuation flight. there are unconcerned reports. a taliban fighters shot at least one man trying to climb a wool around to stand 7 people who've been confirmed, killed at the board in just the last few days. now some of those who reached the airport was so desperate to get out there resorted to clinging to the airplane.
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this video was filled by one of those taking such a risk. it's unclear what his fate was for though, because the video made it on line some think he might still be alive. so a number of bodies were filmed, falling from the aircraft, understand, and investigation is now under wayne. meanwhile, the taliban staged its 1st news conference since its stormed cobble. a spokesman for the group promised an amnesty for those i scanned to work for the coalition forces. it was in fact, one of a number of pleasures made. i want to give assurances to all competitors, those on the positions side as interpreters involved in military actions or those who helped civilian sectors. we have granted them all amnesty. we don't want to take revenge on any one and those youths who are talented and from the soil. we don't want them to leave never. they are a valuable asset. they must stay in the country, god willing, and according to sherry law, we will that women work and participate in activities. women are the main symbol of our society. we respect them. women will participate in different sectors of
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society. although according to this area law. meanwhile, the fresh videos emerged to be of women protesting in cobble at among their rights are respected, including work, education and politics. a promising to protect women's rights within the limits of his law. the taliban says that will allow them to get an education and to get a job. and to supposedly prove that new ways, there was a rather unprecedented event. a taliban official sat down with a female presenter for an interview with tolo news, a local tv channel. it is all part of a p r campaign by the taliban to present a more moderate side to the world. earlier, my colleague niel harvey discussed the new approach with the head of the country's largest media company. at the time of trying to win hearts and minds, they're trying to convince the political establishment people outside the tolerable movement to join and support the taliban movement that are trying to secure international support. so i think it's a bit early. it's
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a bit too early to judge as to what the long term intentions are. there will be a transitional government, none of that. they may be more restrictive, and eventually they'll be an emerett at the top on have better ways. so long ways to go before we can say that they're receptive to women on television or to equal opportunity for math kinda sense. how do you feel about freedom of speech in afghanistan? the moment you kind of the optimistic may be feared the worst when the taliban came into power. but how are you feeling at the moment? i'm? i'm feeling neither. i think it's too early and we can't have to assume that they have changed for good freedom of speech is not just sunk, reporting on facts. i mean they, they believed that gods on their side. and then the holy koran is the constitution . and then they can never be challenged in time. they will need to be need to get channels and we'll see how much capacity they have for criticism when that happens
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. too, too, too early. and we have months and months ahead of us to see if they actually their, their actions match the words. it's understandable. we sent an awful lot of people fleeing heading for the airport. it's been tragic at times, watching the people that tends to get out. have you had any real stops saying look, you know, we just not comfortable with this we, we want to go? yes we have and there are many who want to stay on and continue their work and some who wish to get that. i mean, what the taliban doing that and the coming weeks will determine what people do in the years. i had this, this sort of this, this middle class, this youth was in the 60 percent off. got in front of them of the age of 20, and they can, they can make or break the country and if they leave, we lose our educated class. so really is up to the top line in terms of how they behave and their behavior is going to impact what people do in the months ahead.
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well, the new look taliban has also failed to convince the use foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, who called a dialogue with the group to prevent a humanitarian crisis, but also making clear dialogue doesn't mean international recognition. taliban, of course, is still listed as a terrorist organization by much of the world and morale. let me have it all. the time and effort invested in the country over 2 decades has regrettably all been in vain. everyone has been surprised. they did fall in a few days on, i mean we had to spend a lot of money and a lot of effort drain. and so fast enough shot dish is that even the balance has been priced right. you have to re, your leaders are growing increasingly wired about the situation and i've gone on faring the chaos could very well wind its way to europe in a deluge of refugees. first have to discuss how to accommodate people in neighboring countries and then move forward. the next step would be to look further
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afield, but a european solution would certainly be difficult. we haven't yet managed to create a comment as our policy. now, despite miracles, concern about the human crisis and the potential impact that this could have on europe, she did manage to find time to attend, to form premier in berlin. and despite the criticism that so far, gemini had only evacuated 7 of its national from cabal. at the same time, a number of leaders are very pessimistic. you have, for example, the check president my list as women who had said that nato failed in afghanistan and its legitimacy has now been brought into question. the distrust towards nato from a number of member countries will grow up to this experience because they will say, if you failed and again, it's done. whereas the guarantee that you won't fail in any other critical situation. at austria, it has cold on neighboring countries to have gone on to set up people taishan centers as a way of handling immigrants that are attempting to flee the taliban. austria,
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of course, is maintaining a very hard line stones when it comes to immigrants. you then have turkey, which has been the final stages of building a 295 kilometer roy along its border with iran to prevent african refugees from entering that country. the nato secretary general said the priority for nato was as follows. nato's focus right now is to ensure the safe departure or personnel from ally the important countries. and of the africans who have helped us store to make admitted that europe was surprised at the speed of the political and military collapse of the cobble government. it was something that they had not anticipated. he also said that he was frustrated that after years of international assistance, the results were to quote him, not better. we spoke with international affairs unless richard met her,
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who believes the use priority and i've dentist on was never really about human rights. we've known for decades now that the war and again a sand his last, it was last from day one that this government was never going to work. and yet a series of us generals and nato officials lying about the capacity in capability of the afghan government that they set up. and the security forces who they pumped full of weapons to make money for the arms industry at the taliban have of course territorial control. they don't have what is, of course, the western legitimacy just yet neither from the un and, nor from and just certainly not from the u. s. and the u. k. was egg on their faces because they've been telling us for 20 years that they're trying to set up a government there and they have failed miserably. because the whole thing was a racket to make money for the weapons industry was never about nation building or about delivering democracy was while making money for the private sector. it's that simple. you the western world, they claim it's about human rights. they say that recognizing a taliban government, a potential taliban government is contingent upon human rights. but again,
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i find this hard to believe. i think the real factor is not human rights for them. it's whether it's profitable, whether it's convenient for their foreign policy objective. i think the most important thing to see how russia, china and iran deal with ghana, stan and, you know, consider ties with with them. not necessarily the united states alone because obviously the taliban have, you know, they've called their bluff. meanwhile, the german army has been lifting afghan evacuees to safety. some were taken, the neighbouring was breakfast on a 3 special lift. kinds of flights had been arranged so far. the 1st on monday though it was slammed for only taking 7 people. german foreign ministry defend the flight, defended it, saying the chaotic situation of the apple meant it was impossible to get anyone else on board. also british and asked about q e of arrive on a military plane and the u. k. prime minister bars johnson announced the new resettlement scheme for afghan citizens. the 1st year of which we'll see the u. k. taken around 5000 people, mainly women and children. well,
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we quit to people in london and new york about what the wealth witness. and i've got us on over the last few days the home politicians throughout the world should be shrewdly hanging their head in shame. what's happening? it's absolutely disgraceful. with cd effects, no only was everybody, not just a gun to some european america. everybody was and it has created a great deal of difficulty for people working there. and obviously for the native, a people of afghanistan, it's a shame what's happening over there, but have dentist and they've been fighting for a 102 years. the fact that we've been over there for 20 years, we really haven't stabilize the country. there's no reason for us to be over there . my biggest are the women that are left behind. i know what is that you know the taliban regime saying that they will allow women to have the freedom that
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they've enjoyed 20 years. but i don't believe it may concerns about what impact the return of the taliban will have on people's lives. the red cross, it says it'll keep it, stop that and continue providing assistance to all sides. recently the 8 organization reported that since the start of june is treated 40000 people injured and fighting that while the figure for august alone, so far as 8000 charities directly for ager on the pacific says more than half of all casualties have been women and children on the recent fighting, you know, in the country and in the recent days we've been seeing a number of ensured must have been correct or people injured in us because that's fighting down leg. got it right and created huge you monitor in need. here are deeply you back a bit more from the fighting over the years here at the concern is really much on
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the women and children that are making more than half of the casualties such that we have we receive, you know, we're, we're supporting because i can understand the reason for safety and this is not something that we are denying. however much of the remedy that we have had over the years and he's already known. and we've been working in pregnancy controlled, pretty banking for iris. so i'm very much going to be that we can continue working with these are very much the wants of neutrality, independence. and it's very crucial, particularly at this moment that we're not going to dish and stand by there was, i mean they are all that dramatic events of the past few days. it's only recently come to life that one of the taliban top commanders who stormed the presidential palace in the capital, was actually a former resident or the toria. one ton of a prison is correspondent dmitri power. if the situation and i guess that wasn't
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already a disaster showcasing the shortcomings of us foreign policy and appetite for regime change. well, it turns out one of the taliban leaders who gave a celebratory speech from couples presidential palace was none other than a former guantanamo detainees. who was released as a quote medium risk. yes. seriously, of all the people, the u. s. tortured in guantanamo, this was one of the guys deems thought, really dangerous, and let go meet gold roo honey. one of the 1st detainees at guantanamo in 2002, he was captured by us forces on suspicion of being a taliban security officer during his time and get more money maintain that he was, quote, a simple shopkeeper who tried to help americans. so some 5 years later or 8, according to ronnie he was released on the promise that he just wanted to help is sick father won an appliance store and couple fast forward to 2021 and he's
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a taliban commander leading the takeover of couple. so either the u. s. intelligence was, well not really intelligent and let a taliban radical pull one over them and lie his way out of the hands of the ca, or it was the time to spend and get know that actually radicalized the simple shopkeeper into a taliban fanatic. don't matter if a detainee were innocent. indeed, because he lived and they've got to stop and was captured on or near the battle area, he must know something of importance. well, apparently all the torture and human rights violations that get mall, and other us detention centers turned out to be all for nothing. sure, they apparently got some good and fell out of some of the detainees. but on the other hand, the ones that they let go went on to became terrorist leaders. yeah, ronnie isn't the only detain eastern terrorist boss. there's a whole lift. there is the 5 taliban leaders that obama swapped for an american desert. are these leaders were promised to never see a battlefield again. and that would be held in could tar far from again,
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a stand regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be we still get an american soldier back if you seldom kept it period full stop yet somehow there. now apparently the masterminds behind the current take over a couple. one of them is even a part of the official delegation of the taliban. he even took part in negotiating b u. s. withdrawal from janice. then earlier this year. we'll see. then there are the isis super terrorists, for example, leap in from us all buck daddy, the former leader of isis. he was captured in 2004, held in detention at a u. s. facility in iraq for 10 months. let go and went on to have a successful career and terrorism becoming the head honcho of the big bad, isis. he was a street thug. when we picked him up in 2004, it's hard to imagine we could about a crystal ball,
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then that would tell us he'd become head of isis. yeah. if only you could have seen that coming anyway. and then there's this guy who was a valuable inform and during his time, at the hands of us intelligence, our, that was the song but unique talent and ability. and now his no less than the current leader of isis replacing all. but daddy turns out he was just using the us to get rid of the competition for the top spot amongst terrorist, another big wolf's. this is kind of beginning to seem like a trend. know, basically, not only did the us fail to recognize dangerous radicals when they were right there their hands, they apparently even managed to embolden and help radicalized people who probably wouldn't have posed any threat if it weren't for having an encounter with some american intelligence officers. in the end, america seems to be fighting problems itself created and so many that doesn't even come as a shock. while they're taught about, it's not only got his hands on former us prisoners,
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but also it's weaponry. biden's and national security adviser admitted american arms have been captured by the militant, although others suggest that they will either left or gifted. those black hawks were given to the tall one they were given to the african national security forces to be able to defend themselves. we don't have a complete picture obviously of where every article of defense materials has gone, but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the taliban. and obviously we don't have a sense that they are going to readily handed over to us at the airport, written comments by us official show washington. it was shocked by the speed in which the taliban stays a total ralph of the country and it remains unclear exactly what to do next. even well drawn plans don't survive 1st contact with reality. this is happen more rapidly than we anticipated here i, there is chaotic situation in cobble where we don't even have the establishment of
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a governing authority. when you're at a point where things are happening more quickly than anyone would have anticipated, then you're going to have some chaotic scene slash you listen to us officials discussing f ganna. stan, they don't seem to be providing real information and seem to be emphasizing that they don't have a clear picture of the answers. the questions they're being asked. we are seeing us officials try out an old tried and true method, slap on some sanctions and hope everything works out. i am not going to go into the full planet panel play of things that we can do, but there are obviously issues related to sanctions. there remains to be seen whether or not the taliban really cares about us. sanctions, however, washington has made clear is not going to sacrifice any more american lives on the altar of democracy in afghanistan. however, national security, advisor sullivan did make clear. he cares deeply about afghan women, truly deeply. my heart goes out to ask in women and girls in the country today
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under the telephone. so amid confusion, as the global community looks on the situation in afghanistan as a lot of questions for us leaders about what they did know and didn't know and what's going to happen in the future. i'm sure everyone is totally reassured by these answers that have just been provided by washington officials. president bible has struck a rather defiant tone about her decision to pull troops out of. i've got this done, but it's claims that the mission was never about nation building to stand in stark contrast to the promise has made 20 years ago. as eager as john off now explain. it didn't take long for the taliban to fill in the power vacuum left after the now infamous us pull out, defending the withdrawal. president biden pin. the blame on the african government . political leaders of afghanistan were unable to come together for the good of their people unable to negotiate for the future of their country. when the chips
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were down, they would never have done so while us troops remained that can stand, bearing the brunt of the fighting for them. america's mission and i've got to stand was never supposed to have been nation building, says president bite and in 2021. the alternative to nation building is k. s. senator biden retorts in some parts administration. nation building is still a dirty phrase, but the alternative to nation building is chaos. a chaos that churns out blood thirsty warlords, drug traffickers, and terrorist. when the u. s. failed to swiftly hand down ben loudon in 2001. the mission shifted towards remodeling the country into an ideal society that does not breed terrorists. george bush used the exact words nation building when looking back, flashing back at american efforts in the country. we know that true police will
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only be achieved when we give the afghan people the means to achieve their own aspirations. piece phase will be achieved by helping app ganeth stand, develop its own stable government. but to do that meant to break the spine of the tradition list, have good society and implants, a new one from reconstruction and aid efforts to overseeing the formation of the new african state army. us trained, of course, and that did not come cheap. the me the the
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real the wealthiest country in the history of the world. and yet we have the higher trial poverty rate of almost any country on earth. critics, even brandon, the ex president of a gunnison after a gummy a us protege. he is a familiar figure to the american establishment while washington european allies also didn't have any illusions about what exactly the aim of the mission was. things didn't succeed and weren't accomplished as we had planned. that's the realization and the big one is terrifying for the millions of afghans who supported the more free society and who with the support of western states. strong for democracy, dictation and women's rights, and made important progress. moreover,
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the right volumes of books studying us nation building in gunnison one's literally called exactly like that word for word. but the bite and team refused to capitulate and just admit defeat. instead, they're trying to hide their intentions behind the abstract facade of the war on terror and branding it as an actual success. we succeeded in achieving those fundamental objectives and the idea that we would sign up for remaining there in the midst of the civil war for another $510.00 or 20 years, was simply not in the national interest, killing bin laden 10 years ago is arguably the only achievement the u. s. has to show for its mission and i've got to stand other benefits which the country well did enjoy under the u. s. protectorate, like an improvement in women's rights, a lower infant mortality rate and more children going to school. all of that is now
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left at the taliban mercy. while the ruling leads in washington, too busy writing revisionist history. we spoke with us on a combat veteran corey males, and he says they were always to clear objectives to the mission in afghanistan. one was to eliminate the terrorist threat to, to rebuild the nation. what went wrong, the minute the americans thought that we were in the business of nation building. what we went over there to do in the very beginning and i was part of that was to eliminate the terrorists who are responsible for the $911.00 attack and also stop at being a safe haven to terrorism that have been done and perfect that with cpr operation irregular warfare, a symmetric warfare, and spent operation forces with dick, with the support of the intelligence communities. basically going out putting together h b t packets. we then got into this ship of nation building and they wanted to continue to perpetuate this idea that we need to stay there and arm and build and defend and help create a democracy. you know,
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because we're american are arrogant. see that every other country needs democracy like us just never ends when it comes out. it's dan. this was a lot. busy of plans to begin with, and i tell all my bitter and brothers and sisters who are out there, but it was the suits, not the boots who is responsible for this failure, the taliban and all of the terrorists networks. and then we had to watch as americans, but they had the time they never had to leave and they knew they could wait us out . or that's our wrap up of the hours coverage of the unwrapping situation in afghanistan. thanks for joining us here on our team. to national we will continue to keep a very close focus on that part of the world, both online and on the meantime, your program returns at the top of the the the
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