[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, well, that board sees more calles, us military uses tear gas to dispose crowds of people desperate to flee the country . a 1000 to remain strong enough, got lost on governments around the world are facing criticism for the flow reforms to the crisis. we hear from one german national, who's begging for rescue for both him and his afghan feel we have let us finally leave this caliphate. give me my fiance. permission to enter germany. 10 south of afghan soldiers are reported a rallying in the east of the country under the leadership of the vice president who insisted he's now the country's legitimate caretaker leader.

ah, around the world around the clock. this is national live for moscow. we got a full program of your stories today for days on from the taliban. dramatic return to power and i've gone on and chaos continues at cobbled international airport as people try to flee on wednesday, hundreds crowded airport barriers. the report suggest the u. s. military station to the airport, used to gas, to disperse crowds, and nothing of the entrance and thousands of people were seen sitting on the ground waiting for a chance to be evacuated with the possessions laying all around with us guns, queuing at the perimeter. it's not being confirmed us troops sipping firing warning shots that's quote, a crowd control measure. now the following on verified video showed jessica and women at the airport,

pleading with us gods to let them in. the pentagon says that has to defend the field because thousands could overrun it, putting their own forces at risk. america and other western countries are prioritizing, getting their own nationals out 1st. meanwhile, taliban fighters and checkpoints surrounded the board on wednesday. the pentagon now admit fits facing difficulties. getting people out we don't have the capability to go out and collect of large numbers of people. we're really working hard to get as many people through as possible, and quite frankly, we're not we're, it's obvious. we're not close to where we want to be in terms of getting the numbers through. so we're going to work that 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. the u. s. was caught unawares and i think once again, they have failed to analyze what the situation was. it really puts on full display, the delusions of the u. s. which after all has been in afghanistan for almost 20

years, consuming, according to some estimates, 2 trillion dollars. this money has not gone to the benefit of the afghan people, obviously. and this whole enterprise has been very bad for the american people as well. many us soldiers have died. the good thing about exposing the delusions of the us empire and the neoconservative to run you foreign policy is that it's going to make them harder to continue. so there needs to be a lot more criticism and exposure of what the reality is versus what are the promises and the, the false estimates by us intelligence officials cobble lab orders still overcrowded, with the people struggling to flee. while the list of countries conducting rescue operations seems quite long, the number of those who have actually managed to leave isn't so big. these are some

of the problems people face. of the u. s. doesn't have enough troops to guard the board or provide security along taliban checkpoints. now some countries have security doubts about taking in refugees, and they are well fair enough, as well. preoccupied with the return of their own citizens. of the u. s. has evacuated the largest number of national so far, and plans to rescue 22000 refugees by the end of august. as the u. k, the authorities are brought back more than 300 british citizens and over 2000 to ask guns. germany which was slammed for only taking 7 people on his 1st plane out of cobble as now helped almost a 1000 more. let's learn more. our cross live super lynn, the feeder, all of joining us here on the program. peter, there's a criticism. the countries simply not pulling that weight and much more needs to be done. well, what we've been hearing here in germany from the interior ministers of the 16

states that may cope the federal republic is there petitioning holes. the hope of the federal interior minister saying germany needs a new african refugees program. that's something that they want the same put in place, the official message, or the message coming from the top of government here in berlin low, is that they want to see african refugees. how's been looked after in neighboring countries to of canister countries like a ron and pakistan as well? what we've heard from angular merkel though is she says there are lessons that must be learned from what's happened enough gunn, phone. these are elements at this point. i can say that we have, nor did she sell a goals, and we have to discuss more lessons we have learned from this than well, german evacuation flights continuing to leave the airport in cobble as of thursday morning, around 900 people had been taken out on lowes plains, but not before they'll germany

a vacuum waited from 665000 cans of beer and 340 bottles of wine. the common for some criticism for doing math before people were put on those planes. when it comes to the job of getting people out though. a it's an ongoing process, while germany has no intention, it would seem at the moment, certainly of recognizing the taliban as the legitimate rulers of afghanistan. berlin is in direct contact with the group in order to try and facilitate, allowing those people it wants to see get on its plains to allow them to get to the airport in cobble and get on those flights. now we'll be looking to see how wider international pressure affect things like that because we've heard that the international monetary fund, the i m f, has just said that they're not going to allow the taliban to have access to some $440000000.00 worth of, of reserves of monetary reserves. we're also looking at how it's being perceived in the why the european sends a lot of you politicians desperate to avoid

a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis. what we've, what we've heard from the likes of a manual mark on the french president, this him saying that his country needs to be protected from those who are seeking refuge. austria has said that camps need to be set up in neighboring countries to i've got us down to detain those people who've already previously been expelled from the european union to stop them. essentially, trying to get back in to the you, when it comes to greece, which is one of those countries that is an entry into the european union for refugees and migrants. well, they're saying they're not going to see 2050 repeat itself. very strong words coming out of athens is they say absolutely no way is that going to happen? they're in fact threatening. they'll send people back to turkey, which is in turn say no way they can't take any more refugees coming over these particular routes. president, one, they're saying fences and walls will be erected. earlier this week,

anglo medical german chancellor said that there was a lack of union when it came to the european union and mutters of asylum the commission. however, it is also repeated saying that the whole asylum policy across the e, you really needs to be locked out. but the thing is, we knew we needed to be looked at at least 6 years ago. not a lot being talked about. but since the commission as well, those saying refugees need to avoid those routes that had been used since 2015, 16 to get in to the european union. all of them. we should avoid irregular routes, dangerous routes that are of that facilitated by smartness. instead, we should engage in legal, safe ways for people in need of international protections to come to the opinions. well, it's not just those people that have been referred to is illegal,

a regular that are having issues at the moment. those that have right says it would be to get out of cobble airport on some of those planes are also at a loss how to do that right now. our colleagues at rp shut german language system service, spoke to one german passport holder, one german citizen who told us his situation. and i just, i'm a german citizen. throughout the day, i stay in constant contact with the german foreign ministry and the german ambassador to couple. i received an email saying that one can enter germany, only one is a family member of a german. my fiance is such a person, but she's not being recognized in the official status, and she's a citizen of afghanistan. we hope to leave the country as soon as possible on one of the evacuation charter flights. of course we're very worried about what's going on. we haven't gone out since the day before yesterday since the taliban set up checkpoints all around the city. were also worried that they could find out that i'm a foreigner or that in the future our situation make it worse. if they find out that my fiance is engaged or got married abroad once we arrived safely in germany,

will of course have no more reason to fear for our lives. we live in a free and democratic country. that's where i want to return to. that's where i belong. i'm calling on the government and the german foreign ministry to let us finish all the paperwork in germany. we have the originals of all of our documents in our hands. let us finally leave this caliphate. give me my fiance permission to enter germany, the deputy chairman of the left parliamentary group and have been to stock under a home co believes the german government has actually been masking the reality of the situation. and i've gone on for quite some time. there's a lot of high progress here at the moment and just for duration, we have to see if it is a complete disaster. what we are witnessing even and the beginning of this year, the government created to picture in our parliament that there is now

a full democratic state enough time there is lively, severe society and all these nato involvement success. all this is, of course, is hypocrisy it's. it's page, it was for 4 years painted a picture which is not in line with reality, which we can see, you know, i think we should take and bring refugees who are in fear of life. but at the same time, i think it's necessary to really talk to the real power in afghanistan, the taliban to go to negotiations to negotiations as well. concerning the refugees and not to break all diplomatic ties.

the u. k. now i protest gathered in london on wednesday condemning the u. k. government's response to events and i've gotten on the call for those feel stuck there to be brought to the u. k as quickly as possible. the door of a british national, stuck in august on a saturday behalf easy told us officials have done very little to help my mother's a 79 years old, fragile disabled woman was previous sure. 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. and freshman issue is not on the twice at the airport by crowded passengers trying to get into these flights and other civilians who was trying to flee couple so pressure. and she wasn't able to afford the flight because of her medical condition when she attended in the office and the couple on stress,

surely she was constantly being dismissed 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 contacted them, i was getting the same call continues on. the embassy was interesting and encouraging. all citizens to try and a commercial life which on question may be full, been suspended. the hasty withdrawal of forces has seen a significant amount of us and nato weaponry and equipment ending up straight in the hands of the taliban. the following footage, i recently emotional line from cobb chosen abandon headquarters of the international security assistance force nato mission. and i kinda saw have a look right that you can see. staff seemingly smashed to all the computers, leaving bits and pieces all over the floor. they were apparently destroyed to

prevent sensitive data from getting into the wrong hands. in a recent interview with a b c news, the u. s. president admitted he knew that would be chaos, and i've got his tom, but he said it was on avoidable. i don't think it could have been handled in a way that there we were going to go back and hindsight, look, but the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos and suing. i don't know how that happens. the decisions seem to have caused by and rather a lot back at home is approval ratings are in the tank all time low right now. it's kill him up and reports the chaotic scenes and cobble have certainly not been good for the white house. the approval rating of joe biden has now dropped to less than half only 46 percent of americans say they liked the jobs that the new president is doing. now. the events in afghanistan have certainly been a factor because prior to them he was at 53 percent. so

a 7 percent drop seems you have resulted. some polls are now showing that joe biden handling of afghanistan is less popular than george w bush's handling of afghanistan. and we now have a situation where a senator bob menendez, representing the u. s. foreign relations committee of the senate. he's coming forward with this statement. 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 floored negotiations with the taliban. and the biden administration's florida execution of the us withdraw. the committee will seek a full accounting for these shortcomings. now, republicans are being far less forgiving. they say that jo biden's decision to rapidly pull out of afghanistan is harming the united states, discrediting the country, hurting relations with allies. there's been a fire storm of anger from the republican side of the aisle this biden

administration. so they plan for every scenario. they told us to day prior that koval. ready cobble was not imminent, he told us less than a month before that this would never happen yesterday. hope president biden would accept responsibility and explain how he would fix the catastrophe and of galveston instead to blame tis 3 predisposes and the ap guns afford beside our troops. for 20 years, thing pointing won't solve this crisis boaters 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 biden cause into serious question. his ability to carry out his duties as commander in chief, the president's failure to acknowledge his disastrous withdrawl provides no comfort to americans or afghan partners whose lives hang in the balance. now to add insult to injury, there are millions, if not billions of dollars of weapons were talking gun ammunition tanks,

helicopters that have simply been abandoned. these were weapons that were given to the u. s. trained afghan forces and they seem to have been left behind. and from what jake sullivan, who is the national security advisor to joe biden, says it's pretty unlikely that the taliban is simply going to hand them over at the airport now. nancy pelosi stepped up and defended the president on this point. i command the president for the action that he took. this is what happens when you withdraw some stuff. some equipment is left there. now joe biden stands by his decision. he says that there would not ever been a good time for the usa to pull out of afghanistan. this would have resulted at any point in which this happened. he says he did the right thing. polls are showing americans are not pleased. there is also some outrage in the international community, not a good day for the white house. as politicians of course, get busy playing the blame game of what happened in the recent days. our sister tunnel r t. america, but the issue up for debate, former president george

w bush issued a statement on this. he said that he felt, quote, deep sadness at the return to power by the taliban, and called biden's withdraw. these are all quote, he said, a mistake and unbelievably bad. we really began to lose the war in afghanistan in 2003 when he diverted attention to iraq. and instead of focusing on afghanistan, as we got deeper, deeper into iraq, afghanistan became known as the forgotten war. and people were wondering what's going on with that war ended by the way. and that allowed taliban to begin to creep back in. and because all resources, all attention was thereby focused on iraq trying to trying to nation building and regime change. nation building, which were really, really crappy at rather by the way. and we need to get out of that business altogether. and we, we fail. we failed in both countries. now we've got nothing but total disasters in

both countries and over $60000000.00 worth of expenditure, not to mentioned the treasure of life and limb of countless americans and others that have been lost. and it's just, and it's a tragedy, as, as might just say that there are nato invoked article 5 that you know, and an attack on one member state is an attack on all. so at what point should they have returned to their original mission of keeping afghanistan secure? you know, we've seen these heavy handed interventions by the u. s. and nato and western european countries like in libyan syria. and i've had, you know, disastrous consequences. so, one would hope this, my situation, f canister might be a wake up call. you know, these military interventions don't work affectively and cause a lot of hardship and suffering for the population of these countries who have to solve their own internal political problems. most international legal scholars,

the war and afghans was illegal because the taliban never directly sent to 9 alone hijackers to bomb the trade center and there are no legal basis for that war. so the swift advancement made by the taliban is a failure of the afghan forces. i mean is that kind of tone deaf and simply just punting responsibility. the us cannot and should not try to deflect blame for what's happened there at the end of the day. we are the ones who invaded that country. we're the ones who over through the government there and replaced it with, with our own. and so when we suddenly decide to leave and everything goes to crap, we're ultimately responsible for that. you cannot, you cannot shock blame in this situation and ultimately all falls back on the united states of america for the devastation that being rotten, that country right now, the ousted gun president. i saw the gun who defended his decision to resign and flee. cobble on sunday, in his 1st public address and leaving gonna blame the failure of the peace process

for the taliban snatching power. he also rejected rumors, he run away with hundreds of millions of dollars stuffed into suitcases. despite reports, he had taken so much, he couldn't fit all the cash and his helicopter to them near the. please welcome to come 1st. if i had stayed there, it would have led to bloodshed in council with the telephone and their national and international colleagues. had said clearly that while i'm there, they won't see any peaceful course. if i had stayed there, the president of august on would once again be hanged before the very eyes of the guns and the big, shameful and historic disaster will happen once again. i was forced to leave a dentist on with one set of traditional clothes, a vest and the sand off it was wearing. i didn't have the intention to flee and abandon the country, and i'm going talk to return back to afghanistan and continue the fight. it's all about and take over has not led to the wide spread bloodshed, but many feared public resistance to the groups return has so far been very limited

. there have been some protests against changing, for example, the national african flag to the taliban. black and white that we understand, some militants killed and injured several protesters earlier on wednesday when they open fire on the crowd. however, the demonstrations can't necessarily be viewed as anti taliban, as people have been waving the national flag to mark the countries independent. stay in 5 beds. the guy right there, he climbed up a lamp post to fly in front of a sharing crow. now, farther to the south and the city of cost, people also took down the taliban, dinah from the main square and hoisted the old house can fly instead of taliban fighters, as we understand, did open some fire, though no casualties were reported. well, let's go straight to cobble and join local join. let below was joining us here on the program. good to see you below was still seeing videos of chaos at the cobble international airport. what is the situation that now the apple,

but also in the capital as well, can you update us please? all this is very much an effort and the $11.00 to thousands of americans and other international citizens of ones who have dual citizenship. se, forget about the thousands of other ones who need to be reset and under these various schemes. and we have seen slightly more order from time to time at the 100 cars international airport. but the overall reality of the distilled chaos people on one hand are sharing the taliban. on the other hand, the affair being shot by a unit off off on special forces that as a history of working closer to the american, they're trying to keep order. because these people are also big in numbers, including women and children. i was speaking to one family who said that they had received drinking water from the americans, but still they have been waiting for days and residents who reside closer to the common cause. i'm ashley aboard. also report and

a number of people are also turning up without any documents, thinking that anyone can go to, you know, canada the us or europe. but the question has to be asked, you know, why did it lead to this chaos and the last minute, because this was just all very abrupt. if this in the process of digging less and it's a year ago, 6 months ago, the situation would be quite different. we also know that the former i've gotten government led by assertion wind, the hard to complain not only to the americans, but also to a number of european countries that if such a large number of hotlines were evacuated, that will trigger a crisis of confidence. now, the former government would have said that from the confidence you know, their offices in cobbled behind last. but the reality is that this generation of problems is extremely vulnerable in the,

in the absence of an evacuation. at least that's how these the say find the taliban, misty and all. but we do not want to stay. we have been exposed. people know that a village in a district level. so we'll have to see how that works. i was speaking to a number of people who reached out to me. i don't know where they are in cobbler city in the rest of the country, but they said decently, don't feel safe to go to the airport. and a human can quarter has to be established. we'll have to see how that and in cobbled city itself, comments here in the thought of on soldiers, the thought of an official, the managed to crack down on people what introducing themselves. the taliban fighters appearing at the homes of former officials and politician, collecting guns and weapons so thought about are beginning to try to police. the city of a city of 6000000 people with a lot of complex and complicated streets, neighborhoods, alleyways. we have to really remember the 1000 south taliban foot soldiers from

across the country were in carville are not trained for policing. these are fighters who are fighting the most bloodiest fighting, then attach and remote valleys, hamlet, villages, district and provincial captors allow. i wanted to ask you because we've been getting some reports here about a possible resistance movement that's been gathering in the mountainous pan, g or province. we've been showing footage for there are reports of 10000 to afghan soldiers in this province. apparently trying to form a front to go against the taliban. is there any credibility to these reports and, and does this afghan army in the pansy province to depose any real threat to the taliban? well, we'll have to see how many numbers there are ones we see evidence. the former vice president sally had announced that he's now the president will have to see what strength can he draw? how many fighters there are and what sort of at a distance could they put,

but the dollar amounts and the press conference by their spokesperson, that they do not see anyone as the enemy, as far as they're concerned, that the war is over and everyone should come back so i would like to refrain from assuming anything i know as much as you know, in terms of the announcements by, by that front. and we will have to see how they can come out of the situation. but i'm running very low on time here. very quickly, my last question for you. clearly the taliban took the country with hardly a single drop of blood being spill despite. well, the media says, does the taliban actually have support among the general african population? well, the thought about did decide, you know, very, very bloody battles and a member of the attacks, again on the river valley and those where, you know, both sides really went all in including alaska got. but it is also true. they managed to set a secure masa renders. they do have support among the population. they do have

a strategy of offering insurance securing surrenders of governor than other officials. and i think a number of other factors also contributed to the fall of these places without a fight. but it was a remarkable letter taliban got into the city of probably like in no time. and there was not even a single bullet fired against the local journalist below our side was joining us live here on our team to national thank you very much, we appreciate the update. thank you. while meanwhile, as we were just discussing with below that there was a possible threat to the taliban power grabbing the countries east. now it's reported unconfirmed. one might say at the moment around 10000, the african army soldiers are rallying in the pan g. a province is the only region of i've gotten a star that's still contested. it was an outpost of taliban resistance and the 1990 . it also held out during the soviet invasion upon year problems is located with a valley of steep mountains that form

a natural defense and spearheading the resistance that now is the afghan 1st vice president. i'm a ruler sally. unlike us nato, we haven't lost spirit and see enormous opportunities ahead. useless caveats finished joining. the resistance was delay has declared himself. i've gotten a legitimate acting president after his former boss fled. he has ford is the mists before and been in charge of the national security directorate and other key figure is helping him raleigh, the resistance of my food. he's the son, namesake of a prominent african warlord, who opposed the 1st taliban rule. and my soda spoke back in june about defending his country. 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 at you from the past to see that you are the 1st line of defense. we are defending europe, you're defending division,

and i have cancer fighting, not just for themselves, but for every one of my food has now urged western countries to provide a weapons and ammunition and videos of side of the emerging on line of the resistance forces or this is supposed to be one of them right here. these are soldiers on the motorcycles flying the green, white, and black flags of the northern alliance of politics. profess melinda mithra told us whether the alliance still poses any real threat to the taliban within the funds to valley. the punch a district has a history of standing up against any kind of italian rule noted with the soviets. later to the 7 law, i'm the one that did a good job. so all those who are watching the on the one or rally around the literacy of i met some assume some of the moment i'm given that vice president stared back and he's making the claim he's going to be very i'll under