[000:00:00;00] the the taliban unleashes the hail of bullets to a crowd of people raised the gun national flag assembled millison to replace the cross country with violence. the only show of resistance is $10000.00 afghans. soldiers reportedly raleigh in the north of the country, under the leadership of the vice president, the claims he's our sons with them at leader funds they've already rescued back areas near cobbled 20 years in 3 trillion dollars. later a u. s. political commentators share his thoughts on whether the war was worth it

about. we invade the inner cities of america and we bring health care to those people. we bring shelter to those people. we bring medicine, those people, we bring counseling to those people. how about we invade america? and we start trying to help america. ah . hi there. thanks so much for joining us. you're watching arty international. 3 people have been confirmed, killed in the can city of july about for taliban fighters. open fire on a protest against the group seizure of power a dozen more were injured. it comes just a day after the medicine found to bring peace to the country. the open fire to people who started taking down the groups, black and white banner and flying the african national flag instead of resistance

to the taliban takeover has been limited. those similar protests have been seen in other provinces. so the something needs to be close. for example, where people also sit down the taliban donna from the main square and hoisted the old african flag telephone flight. his open fire soon enough, but no casualties have been reported. mostly reset to the telephones, power grab is forming in the countries north. first, been reported around $10000.00 african army soldiers of rallying in punches province is the only regional. i've got a sound that is still contested. it was an outpost of telephone resistance in the 1990 and was never captured during the civil war. those who held out during the soviet invasion, pancillo province, is located within a valley of steep mountains that form a solid natural defense. spearheading the resistance that now is the afghan, 1st vice president, umbrella sally. unlike us nato,

we haven't lost spirit and see enormous opportunities ahead. useless caveats finished joining the resistance select says that he is now off canister legitimate, acting president. after his former boss fled the country amid the taliban advance on cobble. he has fought the telephone before and was also in charge of spying on the militants leading the national security director to. he's rallying resistance together with another key figure, masoud, the son and namesake of prominent african warlord, that oppose the 1st taliban rule. he's what my suit was saying in june about defending afghanistan. they're going to fight for the rights of the people. they're going to fight for the rights of women, and they're going to fight for many other values, the church and you look and we achieve the past to see that you're the 1st line of defense. we are defending europe, you're defending division, and i've been fighting, not just for themselves, but for everyone. videos has started to emerge on line of the ass can resistance forces. hey,

you see the troops flying the green white flags of the northern alliance. this was formed after the taliban 1st came to power back in 996 the group until the us led invasion. that's bringing jonathan steele and international affairs commentator. good afternoon, jonathan. i've just spoken a bit about the, the gathering resistance in the, in the north. do you think that this is a substantial force? does it have what it takes to, to actually tackle the telephone? what did you teach, remains missing how strong this is going to be. but teachers of moment it's sort of symbolic and away because the amount of one control of the country, pretty much all of it in this sport, small pockets of resistance could be remaining there. and they couldn't develop, decides can i think doomed in the, in the short term not get very big. i think one big question will be whether any

foreign countries don't recognize north and line. so any other resistance group and to try and ostracize. and i'd like to try to could i was going to ask you if you thought the spirit of resistance would spread to the regions, but i wonder, will a lot depend on that group of $10000.00 to say truth if they all think very quickly, presumably that that would snuff out at any resistance elsewhere that i'd been deficient or they'd be ignored. i mean, they're not in a strategically important part of the country in terms of a border with any foreign country. they're in isolated value, of course about it does lead, eventually down towards goggles and then on in terms of distance and on that far from campbell. i think we talked about who probably ignore them for the time being while they turn try and show that they control cobble and come to her and her out in the big cities in missouri. she read in the know the been other onto taliban

protest seen in several cities. it feels like it's a symbol of resistance, but it also feels slightly like a cry for help. do you think help will come from outside of the country? when i say that it's really important to, to see what, what the, what develops he wrote in the northern lions was in existence before in between 9 $196.00 in 2001 because various countries including russia, helped in green semi arms and so on and the taliban was only recognized by 3 countries focused on non dire beverage and saudi arabia we looked at the moment, is a ton of it's going to be recognized by other countries. puting perhaps crushing, including china, cured in iran, and pockets done so. it very much depends on how this resistance, if it's going to fall away or develop whether it's recognized by the outside powers . and is there any nation that would even be willing at this moment in time to, to, to offer any support. we just see the u. s,

pulling out presumably other countries with extremely reticence, to get involved in such a complicated scenario. many countries including russia and china, worried about their islamic extremist movements and terrorism coming into the country. and they look on the taliban to try and hold that back into promise not to develop links because group soldiers to come next. and they've already developed in the past those groups. so i think at the moment to the circus from the big neighboring states, to try and influence and taliban to control his terrorist movements rather than to try and topple them in these foreign countries trying to top as a ton of them. do you think we will be likely to see if there is any support from other nations? it'll come in the form of the channeling of money and weapons but it could come to that, as i say, no,

no lunch in the past 25 years ago. 30 years ago didn't have support from, from the russians, and the other countries purchased on not, not like a song but other countries. russia particularly i think at the moment it's very unlikely that russia will do that. jonathan, appreciate your time. i guess jonathan steele, international affairs commentator. okay, thank you. and the fights promises to be a bloody one. the taliban has got his hands on the high tech arsenal, with billions gifted by americans to the african army. us national security adviser faced some embarrassing questions about the weapons left behind. those black hawks were given to the taliban. 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 by. 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 tell about find as have been parading around, cobble showing off the new made in america, rifles and humvees, leading jimmy to has some advice for washington. how to avoid that humiliation. he shut it without she returns the philosophy is going underground program. you want a u. s. intervention a military intervention. tell me about which country you want the u. s. intervening . and i think it's about, i mean, because a lot of people are saying we need to stay and get them to help the women. i say, how about if the united states takes about 3 or 4000 troops and invades los angeles and brings health care and medical aid, and shelter to the 60000 homeless people in, in los angeles. how about we invade the inner cities of america? and we bring health care to those people. we bring shelter to those people. we bring medicine, those people, we bring counseling to those people. how about we invade america?

and we start trying to help america. when is, when is america going to care about the women? and, you know, one out of 5 kids in america lives in poverty. so if you want to help people, why don't you give women and children want to have women, a living wage in the united states give them health care and give them an education . ironically, that's what the government of gavin ended up until we invented the taliban. if you took that there are 600000, according to statistics, are 600000 homeless people in america. lot of those are women. lot of those are children. now if you gave them each a $1000.00 stipend a month, a $1000.00 a month to go get housing. that would cost $7200000000.00 a year. 7.2000000000. you know, we've been spending 2 trillion dollars or the last 20 years, 300000000 dollars a day to kill people to get it then. so the united states ever really cared about women. they could spend

a $7200000000.00 to do. i'd take care of the homeless people in the united states, give them a 1000 that they won't do it. so yeah, joe biden, nancy pelosi job humor. mitch mcconnell, all the leaders and both parties, they know that they're, that one out of 5 children lives in poverty in the united states, along with their mothers. and they don't care on this unverified video shows asking women pleading with us garza cobble app or to let them in marriage into the western countries of prioritize getting their own nationals and of the country. first, with crowds of afghans cubic outside the perimeter, it's now been confirmed us troops. 5 warning shots is quoted, crowd control measure. the area surrounding the apple though, is being patrol by taliban inside. as it was open fire to disperse crowns,

though they are not reportedly shooting at the people long queues of also formed outside embassies and cargo made of people hoping to escape. francis moved his embassy to the port to speed up processing, and to ensure greater safety for those trying to flee. okay, let's go live now to a local journalist in afghanistan belongs, so our insurance, me on the line. good afternoon. see below, let's start with those. anti taliban protested. seems to pop up around the country according to reports. and how about in the capital cobble, any sign of discontent that to i think it's important to clarify. they're not under taliban approaches. all this is i one's going to install the african national flag and saying that, you know, this should stay where it is. we have a massive emotional attachment it,

this is the sign up our national assemble. we did see in the city of july about, for example, in the heart of the city, the residents bringing down the white flag which belongs to slamming emerett of harness than you saw similar scenes in the south eastern province of pose. although the organ fires later on, in fact several members of the taliban themselves held the africans live and then the situation was under control. and we have to really remember that the people do have a massive amount of attachment and love for the flag for the white flag which are present, you know, the taliban. they also have their own supporters. so perhaps i've one need to come together and agree on on that, and it sort of gives you an idea how such details will be crucial as of on trying to move ahead and form an inclusive government or a future government. and the road to political settlement ahead will be full of challenges. if you are the taliban,

you would have not expected this 20 years ago. today, the different one is on there, the younger generation people have access to the social media. you will have access to facebook and internet so we will have to see what is the official position of the alibi about this issue right now, which is actually growing slowly but surely. yeah. and car will we have been able to get more details of taliban arresting people who are driving pickup trucks in the town on flag. and it turned out actually they were not a member of the movement. so this is a major headache for the taliban soldiers trying police the city a city i don't know, a city that's too complicated. and this vacuum, some people have just thought ok, this is the time. let's go and pick up some vehicles and weapons on for more officials at the taliban have been shedding their what's up number, the number of cell phones asking residents to basically get in touch if they saw

such incidents. and they have been rather swift and quick in terms of responding to those. i also was looking at a video of a female presenter. she used to work for radio, television, of honest. now it's the the name is changed to sherry radio, television, which was the old name of this under the taliban. and she has been prevented from working. she says, so that's also creating a lot of reactions on social media. and you can imagine the new reality for the thought about 20 years ago. no one could speak and had access to social media. today they can, and i want to start watching in the world is what, what about the reports of this alliance? some say maybe $10000.00 strong under the garden for the vice president forming in the north. is this critical information? do you think? what we know is the audio message from the former vice president emsella sally

saying that since the president fled in all this gave them constitutionally the right to be the president in that he's inside of one a son. so we'll have to see. and the way more evidence of that, but you have to really remember the taliban, i've got the upper hand, the control of the entire country, the managed to secure the master enders without a fight. they got control of not only financial capital provinces, but also ample amounts of weapons. and it's too early for me to talk about figure is, or the strength something that i haven't seen, something that i haven't been able to confirm. what we do know that i'm or less come out and said that is what he intends to do. and i'd like to just find out a bit more about what's happening at the airport. we've seen scenes a chaos over the last couple of days. as it sounds. it sounds like the taliban control everything outside of the airport and that us control forces have got the

power within the airport and the 2 parties seem to be leaving each other alone. is that this, this scenario that and we've also heard more reports of gunfire. i don't know where that came from. when i was speaking to one residence and also a family member. they were telling me both that members of the old one unit formerly under the african intelligence service, cause of terrorism, pursued team those. they're known now broad by the american to the airport to provide security and perhaps eventually they will also be flown out to the us, open fire on and killed one as one community. and i was trying to jump blast for trying to get into the airport. and we also heard accounts of alibi and beating people was stakes and gotten, but on this side, you know, so this is you know, a torture. this is suffering, this is tell chaos. but the situation at the airport is getting better by the day. and we have to also put this into the context,

the americans and other countries or doing this evacuation in the 11th hour. they may have the control of the airport. they may have the control of the air space, but people simply don't feel secure to leave the homes and other parts of the cities in cobble and other provinces to go and leave the country. hello, thanks so much for being is the latest on the situation. nervous really helps to build the picture. ballasa warri local jernace enough gonna stand this speaking to me that now speaking about the tele bonds, political leader and co founder molar. abdul gone in florida. he has now returned from exile. lavonne affiliated media showed him being greeted with she is by crowds as the most of the played in kandahar borrowed all who was arrested by pakistani security forces in 2010 and kept in custody for years. he's now expected by some to become the next leader of a found this done. while another ton about his amanda. he was seen sunday storming

the presidential palace in the capital turned out to be a form of detainees. the notorious guantanamo of a prison on his to meet your parent, takes a closer look at his and other similar cases if the situation and i guess that wasn't already a disaster showcasing the shortcomings of u. s. 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. guess seriously, of all the people, the u. s. torture in guantanamo. this was one of the guys deems thought, really dangerous, and let go meet goal am 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 maintained that he was called

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 a taliban commander, leading the take over a couple. so either the us intelligence was, well not really intelligent and lena taliban radical, full one over them and lie his way out of the hands of the ca, or it was the time to spend and get mo, that actually radicalized the simple shop keeper into a taliban. fanatic, it does not say for detainees were innocent. indeed, because he lived and have 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 intel 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 is a whole list. 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 they would be held in to tar far from again, 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 they're 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 the us 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, 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 if you need talent and ability, and now he's no less than the current leader of isis reply thing, albert 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. now, 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 americas seems to be fighting problems itself created and so many that doesn't even come as a shock. we do know that more than 90 percent of all the people rounded up and taken to guantanamo and tortured and held him solitary and held under terrible conditions for years. us had absolutely no evidence on or the evidence was completely mistaken and distorted. and that torture is really real and it is created oceans and oceans of hate. and bog from base bar gram air force base. there was major prison there where that held thousands of prisoners for years. that creates great hatred among anyone who's ever been through a system like that or their family members. and it is why the government finally completely collapse. you can parliament's been recalled from it some a recess to debate. the situation in afghanistan including repack chasing people

and taking in refugees. britain is place to resettle 20000 afghans. they were only $5000.00 in the 1st year the withdrawal ended soon. chaos left money and pays incensed the reputation of the west to support democracy across the world has suffered recent offence not gonna stand shading the west trying to impose just a weston example of democracy possibly was a route that we should reconsider. we look at many options with the speaker, including the potential for staying longer ourselves. factoring complacency from our government was our intelligence really? so whole what would, what would i do differently? i wouldn't follow the phone sexual failed, shattering now shop. take the time instead of doing everything the con, to get these people to what does everything that mean that evacuation had to go ahead . we get this done in

a expeditious fashion as we can y'all sacrifice deserves better than this. and so to the people they say on lives on their lives for that hello. when i'm can i hope it will support just 5000 in the 1st year. what the 15000 men to do? i know round and wait until they've been executed. k officials are working, run the hundreds of thousands of british people of flowed talk going to send to serve the private to flew to avoid public service. this is off the mac marketing point, rafael, the filing system. the politicians decided to withdraw. the politicians must be responsible for the consequences. during the debate inside parliament protest is gathered outside to condemn the government's response to events in afghanistan. among those who gathered to a people with family trapped in the country, some carried sign saying afghans been left to be butchered, focused as a demanding more people be brought sooner to the k u case. former opposition leader

was also in the ground. i'm hoping that the government will both explain the chaos of the evacuation would agree on a much larger number of refugees. counties this come to the support for them, dropped the anti refugee record pretty battelle has been dish with the past few months. bubble give us something thing. taking a learn the foreign policy lesson. britain, after all, is the chances of training the afghan i. britain, after all, set up a training call to the army and the result has not been a good we heard from 30 behalf easy, the daughter of a british national stuck in afghanistan. she told us that british officials have done little to help bring back her elderly mother from the country. her mother's a 79 years old, fragile disabled woman was previous for history of a stroke. and she is currently going through severe arthritis and which is waiting for a surgery. and so she cannot travel without a wheelchair access. and she has services from the airport on freshman issue was

knocked out twice at the airport by crowded passengers trying to get into these flights and other civilians who was trying to play a role. so pressure and she wasn't able to afford the flights because of her medical condition when she attended in the office was on couple on threat. surely she was constantly being dismissed by the guard. i tried literally bombarding their treasure accounts as social media current trying to get their attention to and bear in mind and pay attention to my mother's condition when, personally, and every time i contacted them, i was given the same call continues on, the embassy was insisting, and encouraging all citizens to trying a commercial life which are fresh and may be full, been suspended because of the us troops are trying to control the airport. okay, that wraps up our latest coverage on the situation in afghanistan. we will of

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