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ah ah the telephone on the handle on a crowd off the people raise the afghan national flag a symbol. the militants have reclaimed across the country with the show. resistance has 10000 council. just report to the raleigh in the north of the country onto the need to ship the bike president who insists he's an hour down. it's called video summit. nita, it's claims they've already rest is back. there is nicole. the talk about pay codes are read an old world in europe, whether amounting says possible, repeat the 2015 a migrant price 20 years and 3 trillion dollars in late
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a us to commentate to says his board on whether the war was, was about we invade the inner cities of america, and we bring health care to those people. we bring shelter to those people and we bring medicine, those people, we bring counseling to those people. how about we invade america? and we start trying to help america ah, walking around the clock to keep you in the loop. this is all international as always a warm welcome. good, happy with us. i'm focusing on afghanistan today. 3 people are confirmed, killed in the city of gelata, bad town upon fighters. open fire on a protest against the group. seizure power a dozen more. what injured it comes a day off to the medicine vowed to bring peace to the country. the. the fire was opened off,
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the people thought to take down the groups, black and white on us and flying the afghan national flag instead. public resistance to ton of our takeover has been limited. so similar protests have been seen in other provinces. for example, for the south in the city of cost, people also tore down the town upon spot from the main square and hoisted the old flag instead. town upon flight as open fire as soon enough, but no casualties have been reported. local john, this belongs to worry, says the militants are under greatest routine these days with everything ending up on 9. one's going to install the african national flag. if you are the taliban, you would have not expected this 20 years ago. today it's a different one and then there's a younger generation people have access to social media. so we will have to see what is the official position of this other bond about this issue right now. this
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is a major headache for the taliban soldiers trying to police the city a city. i don't. busy know a city that's too complicated and vacuum. some people have just thought ok, this is the time. let's go and pick up some vehicles and weapons from former officials at the taliban have been shedding at their what's up numbers, the number of cell phones asking rigid in to basically get in touch if they saw such incidents. and they have been rather twist and quick in terms of responding 20 years ago. no one could speak and had access to social media. did want to start watching and the world is watching. in the meantime and will ferrell threat to the telephones, power grub is forming in the countries north. it's reported the rob, $10000.00 african. all the soldiers are rallying and pun ship, provence. it's the only regional, the chemist on that still contested and it was an outpost over the tight upon resistance in the ninety's was never captured during the war. it was so held out
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during the soviet invasion. punch problems is located within a valley of steep mountains. the form of solid natural defense spearheading the resistance and now is the afghan 1st vice president, umbrella sala. unlike us nato, we haven't lost spirit and see enormous opportunities ahead. useless caveats of finished joining the resistance fall or has declared himself off out of songs, a legitimate acting president after his former both fled the country. and the telephone's advance on cobble, he has wont be islam of before and was also in charge of spying on the militants meeting. the national security directorate and other key figures, helping him, riley the resistance together. that's mud. my sued the sun and namesake, all the prominent gown warlord, that opposed the foss taliban rule. here's what my suit was saying. back in june about defending his homeland. they're going to fight for the rights of the people. they're going to fight for the rights of women,
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and they're going to fight for many other values. the church and you look in the achievement, the pastor ticket, 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. and videos have already started marching on line of the resistance forces. here you can see the troops flying the green white flags of the northern alliance. this was formed off to the taliban at 1st came to power in 1996 and the group until the us led invasion was pro live. now to me, i'm a lender, mr. ms. rob, professor of politics at lancaster university. good to have you on the program. the 1st thing i want to ask you would talk about this resistance gathering in the north . in your opinion, is it enough to take on the taliban? is it even close enough? well then to get some so got the gun she had taken by surprise with the lightning
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speed to which the taliban was all over the country. now, since that reckoning has sunk in people realizing that they help to do something about it, i'm given the funds to valley the punch a district has a history of standing up against any kind of a guardian rule legged with the soviets native, with the $700.01, so that is a good job that all those you are pushing the on the one will rally around the literacy fall, but i met some assume some of the machine at the moment. i'm given that to the vice president stared back and he's making these defined claims. he's going to be very, i'll under mental in terms of color saying that for to get up produce and which was in there for it is slowly coming together, addressing, especially with the case of dollar bonds undermining the nostril flag. i'm flying, it's on plug in said in several different districts of the country could. does this
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mean afghanistan could potentially be heading towards another civil war? i would be surprised because we have seen one of the has been an attempt at centralized prodigy, a trying to impose its rules of dance are not necessarily participated in that lesson building process. in fact, in the last 20 years, although i did not accepted, there was a kind of on declared civil war that was going on in august because the alternative isn't a lot. but 30 of the government was very porous. so what we are going to witness in the weeks, months and years to come in on stage in bo doesn't there's probably an increase of government that is promising to their stablish. then we'll see the fax numbers and the fighting which has been the hallmark of gone politics to take over. once again . do you think that there's any chance that the foreign powers would assist the
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resistance with money with weapons, even with political support or endorsement or is that kind of stuff now, a place where they consider that's going to be a regional conflict. it's got nothing to do with us anymore. well, they're already in regional bowers. we're just waiting to see as to how $1.01 is going to be having john suffers interaction with the kind of interest it is, for instance, hard is going to gather data is going to be very cross treated the way they have been treated in the past. in the boston semi funder mentalism again as massacre, genocide in many contexts. and also let's not forget that india is looking just ohms after having been kicked out of them after 20 years. so are kind of participation in the gun development process. so it would be more than happy to drop off any kind of registers that is that through money or otherwise, let's not forget don norman launch, which was led by the father of the current leader. i'm a machine, i'm much i'm
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a was being financed by iran, soviet union at the time and india. so i wouldn't be surprised if such are kind of regional participation in creating a and i'll put you some from within against $1.01 to explain base on. one looks like off to his of wor, no peace is going to come to the ask on people that they dissolve. of course in the coming months and years, we appreciate coming on to the program and giving us your thoughts. i was, i'm a lender, missouri professor of politics, lancaster university. thank you. and the flight promises to be a blood t one. as you are discussing the taliban, how's going to towns on the high tech office was billions gifted by the americans to the afghan army. the us national security adviser faced some rather embarrassing questions about all the weaponry that's left behind. those black hawks were given to the taller one they were given to the african national security forces to be
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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. taliban fighters have been parading around kabul, shutting off that you made to america, rifles and humvees collegiate and jimmy door has some advice for washington on how to avoid such humiliations. anesha do with action returns, you're not going underground. 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 in that guest and help the women. i say, how about 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 homes,
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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 to 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 give women a living wage in the united states? give them health care and give them an education. ironically, that's what the government up ganeth ended up until we invented the taliban. if you took, so there are 600000 according to statistics or 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,
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we've been spending 2 trillion dollars or the last 20 years, 300000000 dollars a day to kill people and get it then. so the united states ever really cared about women. they could spend a $7200000000.00 to take care of the homeless people in the united states. give them a 1000 that they won't do it. so yet joe biden, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, 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 . ah, as for danced on itself is international airport in the capital for more scenes of tales on wednesday? yeah. that's unverified video shows oscar weapon up the hub p thing with us, gods to let the men america and all the western countries are prioritizing,
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getting that nationals out. meanwhile, with crowds about sounds cuing outside the premises. it's now being confirmed. us troops fight warning shots. it's quite a crowd control measure. the area surrounding the apple bow is being patrolled by taliban fighters who also open fire to discuss the crowds that not reportedly shooting at people. long queues have also formed outside different embassy syn cobble made up of people hoping to escape. france has moved to the capital that port to speed up processing and ensure greater safety for those trying to flee. full outreach has beyond afghanistan, sport as several european nations are refusing to take, can refugees from the country ripping wide open old divisions over mass migration with many faring, a repeat of the crisis of 2015, one more than a 1000000 people came to europe on teams port a clear picks up the story,
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an increasing number of european leaders all saying that they refused to accept as gun migrant. they biggest concern, of course, is that they don't want to see a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis. so you have, for example, austria, which said it is against migration. the interior minister said that the bulk of the population in afghanistan needs to remain in the region. at the same time, hungary is refusing to take in refugees. it says that it's citizens won't pay for the floor decisions of the united states. now, as opposed to vignette, it has to wait for this that it will take him 5 refugees, not 50, not 500, not 5000, but 5. how many times in the last 3 days have we heard you of him need is saying the right things, expressing compassion, talking about human rights and justice and love. but the reality is quite different . and at the same time, we hearing your opinion leaders literally weeping over woman's rights,
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but it all seems to be fancy p r, because the overall sentiment is one that we will not want immigrant. we are not going to offer a helping hand. and certainly this is seen by the action. for example, if you look at germany, the bone and government has come under fire for using its military ships to bring $65000.00 can be. now this as hundreds of gun, particularly those that assisted the german government and the families have been left behind in afghanistan. they haven't been gone to the visa and they still haven't been evacuated. the german president said that the african turmoil, shame, the waste, the images of desperation at campbell airport. shameful for the political west. we are experiencing a human tragedy for which we share responsibility. merlin must do everything it can to bring our people and all ask who stood for years by their side to safety. now an
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increasing number of germans all worried about an influx of refugees. more than 2 thirds of the population had said that they all concerned that the country could see a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis in france. you have the french president, emanuel mac kron who gave a speech and has also come under fire for using the irregular migration micron disorder and france. he mainly wants people to stay there. he doesn't give a damn about anything. it is important for him that no one comes to us. what about the right to asylum? what about these children? these women, these men fleeing the terror of the taliban? france must not stand aside. congress actions and needed not. ringback for those pictures of desperate us guns, trying to get on to a plane and getting to cobbles, made a port. it was reported that the americans had saved seats on the plains full military
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dogs. so people have been left behind, but the dogs have been taken out of the country. now all of this comes ahead of important election here in europe. just next month. you have germany holding its general election. and then at the beginning of next year, you have from holding a presidential election. and this issue of my going is going to be a hot potato, which is why you have many politicians here freaking over the whole issue of migration. new pe, parliament has been recalled from its summer recess to debate the situation after starting treating report, treating people and taking in refugees. person has pledged to resettle 20000 africans, but only 5000 in the 1st year. the withdrawal and you and chaos left many m p. 's incensed the reputation of the west to support democracy across the world has suffered recent offence. not gonna stand. shane the west trying to impose just a weston example of democracy possibly was a roots that we should reconsider. we look at many options,
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which is because 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, shutting. now, shop, take the time instead of doing everything i can to get these people to what does everything that can mean that evacuation 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 got people they say on lives on their line for that when i'm for the whole it will support just 5000 in the 1st year. what the $15000.00 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 have flown to serve the prime to
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flew to avoid public service. this is off the mac marketing point for our fail to find them. system the politicians decided to withdraw. the politicians must be responsible for the consequences. while parliament was debating inside, protest has gathered outside to condemn the government's response to the current abundance among those what people with family trapped in the country with some carrying sign saying as counts have been left to be butchered. the protesters are demanding more p. p. people be brought sooner to the u. k. one also in the crowd, the verses ex opposition anita. i'm hoping that the government will both explain the chaos of the back to ation. would agree on a much larger number of refugees, counties this come to this dropped the anti refugee rhetorician, present battelle has been with the past few months. a bubble of give us coming thing, thinking to learn the foreign policy lesson. britain, after all,
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is returns to the training, the african i. britain, after all, set up a training cool to the army. and the result has not been a good idea. we heard from free but have easy, the daughter of a british national stock in afghanistan, she told us, british officials have done little to help bring back the elderly mother. my mother's a 79 years old, fragile disabled woman was previous history of a stroke. and she is currently going through severe and authorized and which is waiting for our surgery. and so she cannot travel without a wheelchair access. and she has services from the airport and freshman issue is not say the twice at the airport by crowd passengers trying to get into these slides and other civilians who was friend lee couple so pressure and she wasn't able to afford the flights because of her medical condition when she attended the office was on and the couple on threat. surely she was constantly being dismissed
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by the guard. i tried literally bombarding their twitter account, the social media current, trying to get their attention to and bear in mind and pay attention to my mother's condition. unfortunately, every time i've contacted them, i was given. the same call continues on. the embassy was insisting and encouraging . all citizens to trying a commercial flight which on question may be full, been suspended because of the us troops trying to control the airport. as the chaos continues over in the us, joe biden's previous remarks have come back to haunt him. in a comment made a decade ago when he was vice president, he brusquely and courtly dismissed any humanitarian objections to withdrawing from the country, noting the same been done in vietnam without too great appellate cost. well now he says the ass gotten mission was net for about nation building comments he made 20
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years ago. so just otherwise you costano reports. 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 were down, they would never have done so while us troops remainder 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
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thirsty warlords, drug traffickers and terrorist. when the us failed to swiftly hand down, been locked 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 peace will only be achieved when we give the afghan people the means to achieve their own aspirations. pace fees will be achieved by helping afghanistan develop its own stable government. but to do that meant to break the spine of the traditionalist african 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
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me the the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet we have the higher trial poverty rate, almost any country on earth. critics, even brandon, the ex president of august, and as for ghani, a us protege, he is a familiar figure to the american establishment. while washington's european allies
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also didn't have any illusions about what exactly the aim of the mission was. i list the things didn't succeed and aren't accomplished as we had planned. the realization and the bitter 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 indication and women's rights and made important progress. moreover, the right volumes of books studying us nation building. and i've got to stand one's literally called exactly like that word for word. but the bite and team refuse 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
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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 left at the taliban mercy. while the ruling leads in washington, too busy writing, revisionist history, job biden's decision to plot of off down installment triggered the collapse of the cobbled government seems to have cost him daily back home. would the u. s. president's approval, rating sharp, p hitting, and time. know well for me on this, we're joined now by ortiz, caleb moore, penn. straightened from new york. caleb correlation might not mean causation, but biden's, popularity has been pretty badly dented,
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has an end sure. at this point, as media is showing the chaotic scenes from cobble in the aftermath of jo biden's decisions, it appears jo biden's approval rating has gone down. it's actually now at the lowest point since he was inaugurated only 46 percent of the us public approve of joe biden. and his handling of the situation as president, and that's down from 53. so a 7 point drop, it seems that has taken place in the aftermath of events in cobble. now we have a situation where another poll actually shows that. busy jo biden's handling of the situation in afghanistan is less popular than george w bush's handling of the situation and ghana stand when he was president. now we have a situation where the, the administration has, has been widely called out. republicans and democrats are criticizing biden for
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always handle this. us democratic senator bob menendez even issued this statement, sees a member of the senate foreign relations committee. here's what he said. the events of recent days have been the combination of a series of mistakes made by republican and democratic administrations over the past 20 years, including the trumpet, ministrations, flord, negotiations with the taliban. and the biden administration's floor execution of the u. s. withdraw. the committee will seek a full accounting for these shortcomings. now, the republicans are being less forgiving of joe biden, calling him out, saying that he bears full responsibility of what has been happening in the country, and basically accusing joe biden of undermining america's image. this biden administration, so they plan for every scenario. they told us to day prior that coble cobble was
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not imminent, he told us less than a month before that this would never happen. there should be top to bottom accountability at the pentagon and within the administration for this disaster that this stunning failure has been met with silence from president biden. cause into serious question, his ability to carry out his duties as commander in chief. now one of the main issues being raised is the 1000000, if not billions of dollars worth of u. s. military equipment that has just been abandoned in the country. we're talking about tanks, ammunition, rifles, helicopter. this equipment has been left behind and some worry about whose hands it may fall into. and furthermore, we have the national security advisor james sullivan. he says on tuesday, the taliban might be willing to hand these things over at the u. s. airport. joe biden says that u. s. allies don't seem very concerned about these developments. i commend the
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president for the action that he took the, this is what happens when you withdraw you some stuff. some equipment is left there . mouth joe biden says he stands by his decisions regarding afghanistan, that there was no good way to pull out of the country. no matter when the decision to pull out took place. there was going to be problems like what we're currently seeing now. but public opinion seems to see it otherwise i, it seems like joe biden is being widely castigated. many democrats, many republicans just seeing his handling of the situation in cobble and his response to the situation as simply being improper. it's like he didn't know what was going to happen. it's like he is wishy washy and undependable. this is not a good moment for the new president of united states. joe biden was mark might not care about the cale. and i've got to stop talking about care about chaos at home. but midterms coming up next year, of course probably going to go on a charm offensive. try went over some days, voters thought was k 2 open reporting from new york, many banks and.
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