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ah ah, the law cale susan desperate parents trying to pass the children to us soldiers hoping to get them a better chance of the new line the military uses to get to disperse those math thing is the feel thing at risk of being over run thousands arranged stranded enough to sound governments around the world are facing criticism for the slow response to crisis from german nation begging for rescue. in amazon scan, fiance, we have let us finally leave this caliphate give me and my fiance permission to enter germany. ah
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. mother, thanks so much for joining us. this is anti international the tele buttons declared the creation of these nomic edwards, of afghan, is down the same name they use of the country when they were last in power for days on from the telephones. dramatic return chaos continues to cobble international airport as people try to flee. one say hundreds, crowded, the berries and fences. babies have even been seen being passed over the crowds towards us soldiers station to the airport with parents hope to give them a better chance of being evacuation gung far as been heard. coming from taliban checkpoint, rotate them until sunday mid kayla and the 4 dozen more been injured. reports suggest us military use tear gas to disperse. the crowds massing at the entrance. dozens of people who seem sitting on the ground with a possessions laying around. the guns of cute,
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the perimeter is now being confirmed that us troops have been foreign warning shots as quote, a crowd control measure. and here's an and verify video that shows africa and women at the ample pleading with us gone to let them in. the pentagon says that it has to defend the field to dis, thousands could overrun it, putting their own forces at risk. america and other western countries are prioritizing, getting their own nationals out. you want taliban fighters and checkpoints surrounds at the airport on wednesday. we've had to go now with many suits facing difficulties, getting people back 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,
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they have failed to analyze what the situation was. it really puts on full display of 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 neo conservative to run u. s. 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,
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comp level still over crowded with people struggling to flayed while the list of countries conducting rescue operations seems quite long, the number of those actually managing to leave isn't very big. and these are some of the problems that people face. the u. s. doesn't have enough troops to guard the airport or to provide security along television checkpoints. some countries of security dance about taking in refugees and more pro 5 with the return of their own citizens. the u. s. as evacuated the largest number of national so far plans to rescue 22000 refugees by the end of august. as to the k, the authorities of so far brought by more than 300 british citizens among 2000 the africans. germany is which was slammed for only taking 7 people on his 1st plane out of cobble is now how almost a 1000. it's all of it picks up a story. well, what we've been hearing here in germany from the interior ministers of the 16 states that make up the federal republic is there petitioning whole stay hofer,
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the federal interior minister. thing germany needs a new african refugees program is the official message or the message coming from the top of government here in berlin low is that they want to see african refugees housed and looked after in neighboring countries to galveston. countries like around 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 on the phone. these are still missing at this point. i can say that we have nor did she sell a goals and rehab to discuss the lessons we have loan from this. german evacuation flights are continuing to leave the airport in cobble as of thursday morning, around 900 people had been taken out on those planes, but not before. they'll germany a vacuum 265000 cans of beer and 340 bottles of wine. the common for some criticism for doing math before people were put on those planes. we're also looking at how
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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, 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 you when it comes to greece, which is one of those countries that is at 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, as they say up really no way. is that going to happen there? 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.
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president, one, they're saying fences and walls will be erected the commission as well. those saying refugees need to avoid those routes that had been used since 2015, 16 to get into the european union. 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 protection to come to your opinion. well, it's not just those people that have being referred to is illegal or 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 that are p german language system service, spoke to one german passport holder, one german citizen who told us his situation. been though just not. i'm
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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. she's a citizen of afghanistan. we hope to leave the country as soon as possible. and one of the evacuation charter flights, of course, were 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 are situation. mike, you worse if they find out that my fiance is engaged or got married abroad once we arrived safely in germany, we'll 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 regionals of all of our documents in our hands. let us finally leave this caliphate give me and my fiance permission to enter germany,
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or the deputy chairman of the left parliamentary group in the bundle talk under a 100 co believes that the german government has been masking the reality of the situation in afghanistan for quite some time says a lot of high poker see it at the moment and the situation we have to see 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 a full democratic state enough time there is lively, civil society and all these nato involvement success . all this is of course, is hypocrisy. it's. it's page, it was for 4 years of painted a picture which is not in line with reality, which we can see, you know,
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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 tardy benz to go to negotiations to negotiations as well. concerning of the refugees and not to break all diplomatic ties. like his be now see, marcia baba co hill who's a former judge. she fled up again. this time for britain after the taliban had tried to kill her. thank you so much for coming on to speak to his marcia. just take us through. if you would please, what happened to you back then? why did you become a target of the taliban? thank you so much for having me. in 1994,
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i established women organization because when i became a judge and just to go down to court against women, that lead me to think about how can i help this women and i launch a w s. u to help women and empower them. so my job was not popping up with a dollar bond with society when the ton of on human power in 1998 on a home re my she became and my house gabriel, our front door. you know, man, that gun serious the it coming it is searching our house and say and tried to make tiny with my mother with my sisters. but that is what i was hiding in 2456 hours. when the list is on, i did,
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she should leave to so we live the dentist on the 1st time and i came into pakistan and started a new life. the 2nd time, again in 2007, the tried to kill me on, on 9 me over in a car with me for it. and always i had no estimates for life less than a warning me they'd be able to kill me, but my mother decided to, i have to me, this was the most was the in my life when i left my country my, my family age of 43 is not the tree there you're in your life. it's been well over a decade since she left afghan,
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this done. what would you say is the comparison between the taliban, the fact that that drove you away and this new taliban that we're seeing come to power now to be honest on mine said is the same and it wouldn't be it would be not change. guess their strategy in the mattresses they can deal and is the same people. i think they are more dangerous than before. the telephone now of surprise. many people with promises to respect women's rights. do you believe them or do you think this is just a front the putting up and he's not going to translate into reality and just to making people to the media in making
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to bring attention to the media, to the world, the change, but for me and for my, you know, women activists and chemist on a do not change of evidence against the telephone and the stop when you're not going to work and, and want to change her clothes and not keep them from says just this is the war isn't all the election it seems as though the television blends and payoffs skills of the last decade or so. they, they even put up a spokesperson, deliberately speaking in english to get the attention of the forum. mediate, do you have concerns that might actually influence some people when the over i think that people can about the language of care about why you are doing and people
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who care about your strategy. and how can you, when you are when we look back. so i think it is 2008 when you you fly than you got to the u. k. how much assistance did the u. k. government give to you back dead and do you see them offering the same kind of assistance? the people who need it playing afghan is done now. when i arrived in d, u. k. reno, i had the oldest order ever received from the kids to very good support. and my case was very easy case. i got my status about maybe 2 months. i think the question was independent bundle. it's fairly positive and i feel that will be a good time for people in the chemist on, especially for women and activists. and how do you think things are going to
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develop your homeland now enough gown is done and do you think that any international intervention is required? i do think this is depend of the polish of the color one. and how does this community dealing with them? they should have done so marcia, really appreciate your time. my guest is our marcia barbara cocktail, who's a former judge in flood off on the stand for britain for fleeing the taliban. now the hasty with the role of forces has seen a significant amount of us and need a weaponry and equipment and up in the hands of the taliban is footage recently emerging online from cobble which has abandoned headquarters of the international security assistance force. as a natal admission the, as you can see, stuff so many smashed computers to pieces, leaving the bits all over the floor there apparently destroyed to prevent sensitive
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data getting into the wrong hands. in a recent interview with a b c news person, jo bought emitted that he knew that the case and if counted but said it was unavoidable. i don't think it could have been handled in a way that there were going to go back in hindsight, look, but the idea that somehow there is a way to have gotten out without chaos and suing. i don't know how that happens. the decision seems to cost barton back home, his approval rating said an all time low l m o p s. date of 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 lives it 53 percent. so a 7 percent drop seems you have resulted. some polls are now showing that joe biden was handling of afghanistan is less popular than george
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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 floor execution of the u. s 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 by den ministration said they plan for every scenario. they told us today prior that koval
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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 in galveston. instead, he blamed his 3 previous asses and the absence of ford 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 calls 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 tank 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
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sullivan, who is the national security advisor, 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 you some stuff. some equipment is left there. now joe biden stands by his decision. he says that there were 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. petitions play the blame game of what happened in recent days office the channel on t america put 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,
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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 and by the way, and that allowed tele bond to begin to creep back in. and because all the 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 the, 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 gotten nothing but total disasters in both countries and over $60000000.00 worth of expenditure, not to mention the, the treasure of life and limb of countless americans and others that have been lost
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. 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? we've seen these heavy handed interventions by the u. s. and nato european countries like libyan syria, and i've had no disastrous consequences. so, one would hope this, my situation, f canister might be a wake up call, that these military interventions don't work effectively 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 leave the war and afghans was illegal because the taliban never directly since 911 hijackers to bomb the trade center and there are no legal basis for that war. so
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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 shut blame in this situation and ultimately all falls back on the united states of america for the devastation that being ra met. country right now. i'm still africa, president. chef gone, is defended. his decision to resign and flee. cobble in his 1st public address since leaving gone, he blamed the failure of the peace process for the taliban snatching power. you also rejected rumors that he has run away with hundreds of millions of dollars stuffed into suitcases. despite reports, he took so much he couldn't fit it all in
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a helicopter to them. you're here before you're welcome to come 1st. if i had stayed there, it would have led to bloodshed and campbell, 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 would have. and once again, i was forced to leave the 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 abandoned the country, and we talked to return back to afghanistan and continue. the fight of the taliban take over hasn't led to the widespread bloodshed, many feared public resistance to the groups return so far been limited. there been some protests against changing the national african flag to the taliban. black and white legions killed and injured several protests on wednesday when they open fire on the crowd. but the demonstrations can't necessarily be viewed as anti taliban.
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this people have been waving the national flag to mountain countries independence day, or man was seen columbia lamp post to fly the flag in front of the cheering crowd. i will serious. so the turbans power grab is falling in the countries east, so it's reported that african army soldiers of rallying and pansy province, the only region of afghan history that is still contested. it was an outpost, it's about resistance in the $900.00 ninety's. it's also held out during the soviet invasion, and g province is located in a valley of the mountains that fall may solid, natural defense. rest for a minute has been meeting with the libyan counterpart in moscow, where events and kind of stand came into question. how do you think it's dawn up? has details. the russian foreign minister said live rove has meant his libyan counterpart, who is by the way, the 1st female foreign minister for libya. in fact, she has just left from the seconds ago. you can see one of the vehicles of
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entourage still being in the background. of course, if you can. so the meeting has just wrapped up, but of course there was a lot to discuss on libya. the topic of, of guide has done came close to sealing the spotlight, especially given that so many parallels can be drawn between the 2 countries. i mean, libya and i've got a son of course, and circle average of answering the question of my colleague of my colleague. he has kinda laid out most schools vision and his vision as to how they will proceed to build relations with. because we'll have a listen. you see the seek of when the whole of afghanistan was engulfed in a civil war, we advocated the need for an urgent transition to dialogue with the participation of all the opposing afghan forces. and now when the taliban have in fact taken power a couple, if we were in favor of a nationwide dialogue that will allow the formation of a representative government, which will then work out agreements on the final settlement. the country with the
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support of the afghan people. so essentially circ elaborate has said that in his opinion, russia remains very consistent to what it has been saying all along, even before the taliban seized power and gas is done, according to him, moscow will be seeking an inclusive government. this comes of course, against the backdrop of resistance, already emerging enough gunnison resistance against the taliban regime, the taliban power grip over the country. the right lease to hold spots one to the north of capital, where the form of vice president is taking up bombs and saying he will not sit together with taliban. he will not allow the taliban dominate his country and another one further in the north where another resistance figure cor, even already has cooled on the us and western allies to provide weapons to him and his handful of fighters so that they could fight back and at least show the taliban the through force,
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perhaps that they are not the only political power in the country and that other voices have to be heard. including on the most high profile level. while among the resistance figures is the form of vice president to cease now the countries can take a leader is also the son namesake of a permanent cam warlord who opposed the 1st taliban rule. we got reaction from the former african interior administer. he believes that the taliban is unlikely to attack a national hero. the find the most, who did that respected figure, that kind of considered a national hero. maybe random see that to me, but the majority of people see that. right. so it's been, since it was fun, she sensitive media and hispanic. so what i understand that to the cautious they don't want to stall me. they want to continue negotiating. there was correction, there was production for quite
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a while in deployment and promotions. people who are not getting their salary, we're not getting their means. and also there wasn't the item you were getting a friend up where with the internal war the wanted a peaceful solution to the problem of political nations, of the problem. so corruption combined with the increasing feeling within the army. this is, this is actually not there. why, why, why should they fight raps for coverage for they salvage me for updates on what's happening in ghana founded that even this time the ah,
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