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[000:00:00;00] ah, ah hello, welcome, this is autumn international, nice from moscow not you were just getting started. this news. i was breaking news from the american capital, washington dc. now the area near the library of congress on capitol hill. of course, the central politics in the country has been rated police on the f. b. i are investigating reports of a truck filled with explosives. this is very much alive and developing situation. what do we know? we know that a black pickup truck apparently pulled up on a pavement on the driver. thought to be a man who re roseberry told an office that he had a bomb and what appears to be a detonator. non negotiations ongoing. we know that capital police are trying to
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deal and trying to break down the tensional situation so far. it's being reported, he said the offices can shoot him, but he's got enough explosives to blow up the surrounding 2 blocks just to level them. those were allegedly, his was no, he claims that he's not out to harm anyone. and his logic is that he, if he wanted to harm anyone, he suddenly wouldn't be telling people about the weapons that he, a party has not truck. not why he's chosen the sport. what his goal is, is unclear though. reportedly he declared that he's kind of here to address joe brought bite and the u. s. president. and he's also here representing the american people, now dialogue between himself and the office is not clear yet. we're just getting snippets as they come through. but what we have hired a couple of lines from him such as i want to go home. i want to see my wife. he's also had, interestingly, we're living in a free country, joe. and if you want to take me out, take me out. but that's going to blow up those 2 and a half blocks. and i don't want that joe,
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for he definitely seems to be directly addressing us president, definitely a 10th time in washington as the city of cor, 4 of american. the world is watching. also what's going on and it's dawn may be they are linked when not sure something that this man re roseberry has referenced. he seems to be repeating, but he wants to go home, just like people in afghanistan want to go home. this is, of course, after all the images are coming through comp lapse of those people scrambling amid the tunnel on takeover. now there's work with also claiming to be warning that the patriots will come, who these patriots all when they'll come on clip and that he also said the fight didn't, will be in trouble then. so that was a stand off at the moment between britain, the capital police threatening to detonate a bomb. we don't know whether he does indeed have these explosives, whether those objects are real device, whether it's just some sort of package made to look like it. that is footage coming
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in some of that on verify. we're not sure what appears to be in the past and the live stream of the event. now what's also interesting is that facebook has actually shot down his page and that's all to a 30 minute video emerged of him that he'd posted off him sitting in the car behind the wheel of the pickup truck on the sidewalk. and he was already beginning to rank about all of these things, quite unused. of course, folks facebook to so quickly react to videos. i mean, we saw, of course, we'll remember newsheel in the christ touch mask about in live stream was on was on facebook. so she was 24 hours afterwards. so negotiations in washington ongoing very tense were not clear exactly what it is that the suspect one side is something that is unclear. like i said, facebook has shut down the account of re roseberry, but he claims that he's got appointment is caught. definitely seems this is on everyone's radar. what we also don't know is what the extent of the damage potentially could be. what we do know though,
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is that there is some research at the moment in washington. there, aren't she? very few politicians in washington at the moment, but there are, of course, it is watching the still people around so potentially could be home if he did indeed explode something he has. yeah. so he is a we, there is concerned the he is a real threat not bluffing at the same time over new york. by the way, there seems to be a bit of a tense situation. time square has been evacuated over a suspect, suspicious object at this moment. we don't know whether there is any connection between those 2 events. we don't know whether the washington threat is real. whether it's just the renting of a man, we don't know what the threat in new york is real. we don't know whether there is any way connected, but that is an ongoing situation. those 2 cities, major cities, of course, on the east coast of america. so this is very much a developing situation. we will be keeping
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a keen on it all those updates coming in at the moment. i want to bring in actually someone who is owns a fair relocation is far better than me. what's going on all these thousands of kilometers away? joining us now all to produce that. let me, alston, he's out the scene. let's see. we've been trying to sort of piece together what is that going on, but what your, what are you hearing on the street? what's going on? so a man in the pickup truck stepped out of his vehicle and claimed to have a bomb and what appeared to be a detonator in his hand. local police capital, police responded immediately and are trying to negotiate with him and make sure it's a safe and peaceful negotiation. now we don't really know much or why he's on his motive or his identity, but we're hoping to find out soon. as of right now, the library of congress and 3 other capital buildings have been evacuated. and again, this is the 1st evacuation since the since the january 6 insurrection. i see. i know this is definitely you can see very,
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very little information on the ground. we're trying to sort of gather what we can, but it does seem pretty tense situation between that man and the capital pace. i'm sure you're going to hear more of what's going on from the scene that was leslie olson all to produce off reporting from dc. many thanks. one the meantime. so these are the scenes right now. washington doesn't seem to suggest that too much is going on, but you can see that police call over that like class. he was saying the building have been evacuated. the fust it's occupation since the january 6. 9 insurrection but there is all the scenes at the moment. the com that does seem to undermine slightly what we're hearing, that this is a very well potentially scary situation without re rose bri, posting about his plans pension to level those surrounding blocks. of course, the u. s. capital, whether it's politically motivated, any of his motivations. unclear at the moment he has not expressed those or do you
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see hasn't conveyed those to the police officer, but he is such you negotiate and they're trying to lower the temperature of that discussion. we don't are too much about this man. this in fact seems to be the fuss reference to him that we are hearing, but he appears to still be that on that side walk in washington d. c. so these are, i believe the screenshots that we're showing, these are of course the inside of his car. i mean, what we do know is that if it is politically motivated, this is somewhat strange time to pick washington d. c, being a political, political city is now on some research that doesn't appear to be any politicians, either in congress or the house of representatives. this is something that actually the buildings manages told us. he said, no, that's the off to people here. the home could be done to those, like i said,
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facebook shut down the page of that individual adds to the atmosphere. i mean, you can see it's looking really quite quiet as well as we said, not sure what's going on, but they negotiations between that mod re prefixing and his pick up. drop potentially with explosives, trying to go shake with capital. police. seems to be the main goal to try and bring down the temperature to make sure that no one comes to any harm. we again are not aware of whether his claims are true, whether those explosives are real, whether it could simply he's threatening to do it. like i said, he keeps talking about joe and joe biden, about patriot. so that definitely some seems to be some thoughts of disappointment . or some sort of ops, not sure with the political establishment with the politics, potentially of joe biden. again, visa, just a lot of new piece of information coming together. we're trying to piece it
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together, but that is the moment. the situation in washington d. c. now what we also have just got information about is some 3 year old footage from washington appears that re roseberry how to you tube channel. he kept. so if i was saying talking about being a patriot in youtube channel could seems to seem a self styled patriot on a full on trump support, which would perhaps suggest why he's not too pleased with jo biden's presidency. we know that a lot of trump supporters feel that trump's election victory in november 2020 was stolen from him. that potentially could be the cause. but also he did mention afghanistan about people in afghanistan being able to go home. potentially the unraveling chaos in afghanistan could be a reason why you come out trying to show his discontent with the political
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leadership. i also just want to quickly, we're tom, since we've got the all to produce, let's see. all right, on the saw, leslie, is there any more information coming on here? i do understand that it's a developing situation. i probably will know that police are not going to be giving you too much information that pretty busy at the moment. but you actually, what can you see around you? do you see police negotiated with roper, in the call? well, currently there's no negotiations around me. we're actually in a safe space right now, just in case there's something to happen. but we have heard from different people that were around the area when he did come out of the vehicle that he did just run out of the vehicle shouting that he had a bomb and throwing money in the air, which and you could see if you look online and, and are 2 rates later. there's pictures of the money all over the ground and there was local students that were going to classes business and going to work. just alarmed and scared and please immediately responded. and now they are doing negotiations and just hoping that they will be safe negotiation and absolutely no
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harm. i know that the police said that they're trying to evacuate the area was not successful. all there. any people around with that kind of, often with the fence like this, people tend to crowds around as a sort of spectacle is what's going on at the moment. of course, there's always people that are going to be a spectacle. there's people watching around looking for the next press conference and just trying to figure out what's going on. but the law makers and the people inside the capital have been evacuated. people have been evacuated from the library of congress, as well as 3 other building. and many of the streets in dc are blocked off because they want people out of the area and they're trying to keep it as safe as possible . well, let's see. thank you so much for bring off that late. i'm sure that we're going to be returning to some point. one things become a bit more clear. we'll see, you know, the developing story many thanks. that was that. let the alternate 14 from d. c. so just a quick recap before we move on to the rest of our bullets in the area near the library of congress on capitol hill in the u. s. capital has been to a to police and the f. b. i are investigating reports of a truck filled with explosives. it appears that amount would re, roads for pulled up on
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a sidewalk. he's trying to negotiate with police. we don't know what he wants. we don't know why. he's that he keeps talking about joe biden wanting to address 2 boys, and he gets talking about patriots to whether those explosives are real. when not sure appears also, there's a sensor on his call windows that could potentially detonate the explosives if they were breached. also reports the claims fees and coins of fragmentation that would of course cause maximum damage if indeed the bomb threat is real to that is what's going on. of course, we'll be showing all the latest pictures as they come and be you can see that quiet seed at the moment, probably not quite conveying what seems to be a very tense situation. meanwhile, i also want to talk about something that's happening a bit farther north and so on. the east coast of america time square in new york has been a fact you waited, it's actually the latest video from the scene. as you can see,
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the areas been closed off. now new york city police out in washington are advertising the public to avoid the suspicious iras hair. it's time square. as they said, that could be a bomb bomb, apparently might look like a cookie tin, but we're not sure if the object is a real device but created piece trying to be safe side. it is a very busy city. a lot honked comes to a lot of people, so there is a 2 situations on ruffling. and those 2 parallel major cities in america will be following the update and will bring them as soon as they come to while the taliban has declared the creation of the atlantic emerett of afghan, installing the same name they used for the country when they were lost in power for days on from the time of the dramatic return that have been of fresh scenes of chaos that cobbles main airport as people try to flee on wednesday, hundreds of crowded, its barriers and fences. young children were passed over people's heads and
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desperate parents on us gods to accept them and bring them to safety. gunfire has been hard coming from taliban checkpoints since sunday and he's 12 people have been killed. and the calles at the airport dodson moore has been injured report suggest the u. s. military use tear gas to disperse, proud to maxing out the entrance. dozens of people were seen sitting on the ground with that possessions lying all around had been confirmed. but us true did 5 warning shots as quote, a crowd control measure of this unverified figure shows. i found women at the apple heating with us on to let them in. the pentagon says, have to defend the sealed to 1000, to go run it, putting its own for the red america and other western countries off. prioritize, of course, getting nerve nationals out. the pen can admit the facing difficulties. getting
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people 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 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
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well. many us soldiers have died. the good thing about exposing the delusions of the u. s. 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. nation security council has wrapped up a session devoted to issues of terrorism on the thread it poses to stays off task. amazon fell into the hands of the town upon the situation in that country was high on the agenda among this because of the session was deborah mirage. and he saw does chief of presidential programs under ask on president tom ed, cause i he made an impassioned plea for help de hold most inter when to alert and mitigate an a couple it big humanitarian tragedy. and to the end you
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must overcome. it's usually approach by declaring your situation as engine humanitarian crisis, onto to chapter 7, provision of the united nation charging. this should include serious and urgent deliberation, to declare carbonic as safe and protected by a un peacekeeping missions. this would love the opposing faction to come to an inclusive political settlement while working to mitigate the unfolding catastrophe . well, for more or less, i'm not doing life, i ought to caleb moore pennies in new york frosts k to can you bring us up to speed on what other statements were made at that session? sure. at the meeting of the 15 member body, that leads the united nations, we heard dire warnings from the afghan and boy talking about the threat of terrorism and how the situation in afghanistan threatens the global community. now
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what was interesting is when we heard from the representative of the united states, it seemed like a very different message. the us representative did not play up concerns about the situation in afghanistan, but seemed to kind of downplay the potential threat only reflecting on the possibility that if terrorists were to set up shop in afghanistan, this could somehow result in the plotting of terror attacks in the united states, a very interesting method, let's take a listen. we will hold the taliban accountable for its commitment not to allow any terrors to threaten the united states or its allies from afghan soil. and as i said earlier this week, we all, we must all work together to ensure afghanistan cannot ever, ever, again be a base for terrorism. now folks will recall how the situation in cobble is kind of capturing the attention of the world . there is
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a number of people surrounding the airport begging for the opportunity to leave the country, fearing the taliban and their return to power. but the united states is scrambling to evacuate its own personnel and its own citizens. let alone people in afghanistan who fear for their lives amid the return of the taliban, the us department of defense as admitted that it basically doesn't have a breakdown of who has been on the evacuation flights and that there they are. maybe it does not know, basically how many americans are still trapped in cobble. now, at the un security council, the message of the united states would seem to not really be concerned about the implications of their sudden withdrawl from afghanistan and the, the implications for the world. that message did not go down so well with various international figures. here's some of what we heard criticizing the us approach, leaving the country abruptly after 20 years. mostly, but i did just consider the tragic events in september,
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the 11th 2001 and for the past 20 years of genesis was full of american. the nato troops, military instructors and advises as officially declared go, was to fight terrorism and to prepare african security forces to take part in this fight, as well as tremendous human and financial resources were expanded on this. and what's the bottom line? one sporting, instruct us and troops left all 20 years worth of efforts were nullified overnight if no one was willing able to fight for the valleys imposed by foreign policy. has a gun to stan, cease to be a terrorist and drug threatened, certainly not. but it's now up to the new abbey and authorities and the conference neighbors to deal with that. now the western troops of left the african people having to deal with an even bigger pile of probably on the i'm going to me got always would you teach in the schools now the meeting wasn't solely devoted to ghana. stan at focused on the threat of terrorism around the world, and a lot of time at the meeting was devoted to discussing the continuous,
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more mation and presence of the ice hill terrorist group around the world. there was concern about the continuous bomb attacks and terrorism in different parts of the world. the attacks on civilians and military camps in african states. it was also touched on what would be done about the ice l foreign fighters who continue to be held in custody in syria and iran and iraq. how would they be dealt with? how would they be processed and dealt with. also there was some concern about the fate of children being held in detention camps with their parents. these children who are held and associated with ice hill. so that was the focus of the meeting. the focus was on the world situation, the threats of terrorism, a lot of different countries spoke up. that was the meeting of the un security council. many buying reporting from course are very famous in, in new york, that was caleb more per month. yep. i was for a time to operate news, still a developing situation in washington. so let's just recap what's happened. the area
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near the library of congress on capitol hill has been a fact. you waited police on the f. b. i are investigating reports over truck filled with explosives. so the details that we have so far, the man in the pickup truck is a, is a 50 year old called re roof rate for he's from north carolina. now he pulled up on the pavement and apparently he told an officer that he had a bomb. i'm what appears to be a detonator, and i want us to hear exactly what it is that the police said about what is going on. the driver, the truck told the responding officer on the scene that he had a bomb, and what appeared the officer said, appeared to be a detonator. mighty go shaders, or hard work. while those negotiators all still hard, walked out, we had just little water go from our producer. now we're not quite sure what it is that when negotiating had, because where he's at least on his videos that he actually posted on facebook as he was driving to the site,
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didn't really say what it was that he was going not to do. though what is interesting is that apparently news is coming out. he has told an officer that there are 4 other bombs in different areas around d. c. and he said that the resolution is about to start. jo. we don't know whether this is true. these are just reports that are coming through, people are trying to get these tip, but some piece that altogether. but that is one of the things that is floating around at the moment. so the offices are trying to negotiate with him. he is repeating things like we're living in a free country. joe, we're also patriots. it doesn't. he seems that he is talking about paint trips a lot and he said something about the revolution is about to start. now of course people have been taking into who re rose bree is not that much has been found. however you tube channel has been found, and this is something apparently that he posted around 3 years ago. let's take lesson ashes. the ashes dusted the man fired. well listen,
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donald trump carolina still be with us so looks like we have a trump support to that. my god die hard, potentially. that could be why he's talking about i want to speak to joe, and he definitely has a bone to pick with joe biden. us present 4th and lot of people in the u. s. at the moment of the brain to pick with joe biden, regarding the unraveling situation that's kind of so that is something out you that has referenced, he said, i want to go home just like the people. and i've got to stop want to go home. but again, we don't know what his motives are. we don't know if the situation of john stone is what pushed him to come here. we don't know what he wants from the off says we don't know even if he has a serious intention to harm anyone. he himself claims that he has no intention to cause any harm to anybody. he said, what kind of idiot would of course come and warn a police officer? he's got explosives and his call. kind of, you lose the element of surprise. what we also do, you know, is that facebook has shot down his page thoughts off the videos of him. like i said, driving to that site,
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nick half to hell in the american capital. saw cist why he appeared to be sort of running about various things. not too much logic again, we don't know what it is that you want. what i do want to do is go straight to the site to so we can join our tea producer, let me olson, who is at the scene. let's see. i know things are changing, minute by minute, have police go anywhere and then go stations with this man making bomb threats. as of right now they have not said that they have gotten anywhere or know what his motive is. we're still just finding out what we do know is for the people. see, we're afraid what was going on. you know you, students were going to classes. people were going to work. they see him jump out of his vehicle claim to have a bomb and start doing money. many women and a student from madison university, madison, wisconsin, a city bob. she stated that she was just hustling to her class and then she saw this man and she was actually one of the 1st people to put something online and
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report about it. now. is it clear what exactly he want? yeah. have you heard any rumors at all? he didn't mentioned wanting to get joe by to an on the phone. yeah, i mean it's the same rhetoric as before, the very anti government, very, very pro trump and very anti bite. and he was screaming and shouting, you know, it's about a revolution about something that's about to happen. we are still unsure what his intentions were with those calls are anti government claims, but we're still waiting for more information. now is a much sense of panic. where you are, i mean, we've been looking at the live pictures. it does seem quite calm, but i keep saying that i think that definitely undermines or doesn't quite convey the sense of tension at the moment. i think this is quite a serious situation. the smell of the capital police. is there any sense of panic or stress where you are? i mean, not currently around because we are very blocked off the city and streets are such shut, streets are shut down. but you know, there's always
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a sense of panic. i mean it's 911. it's right around the corner, so there's been speaking up of security and police officers around the dc area. but you know, the public honestly has been going back to normal. they're not really aware of what's going on if you know, you know, but right now it's pretty, pretty calm. police have tried to calm everyone in the area and make sure they know what they need to know. and we're just waiting for more from them on final thing i want to ask you some how white an area has been caught and off he said that you're quite far away, but have they really tried to shut down that whole perimeter? absolutely. so you could say all of capitol hill, it's basically shut down. you can't see if you are in a car. i mean, obviously you're allowed to walk on the street. they will stop you, but they are barricades for cars to get through. routes are being changed. you cannot go to certain streets right now. i'm on constitution and 1st said completely blocked off. as you see there's police officers behind me. so yes, it's very shut down and they're minimizing the people that are coming in and out of this area. okay, well thanks for talk. obviously we know the capitol police is going to be on high
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a lot given what happened on john read the 6. we know the the police was puffed up . even beat up. probably even done. so i'm sure this is going to be something that i'm going to take very serious, that was less yours to many thanks. quick recap, ongoing situation in washington. you look at life pictures from the scene as we have from last me. the whole area around capitol hill has been court and off there is a man in a pickup truck. veritas hardy. behind that tree, claims the explosives that could level 2 and a half blocks very little about that. my node and he is a trump supporter. he's got a bone to pick with joe biden, whether his claims are true. what his intentions off, what he wants. we don't know the police are investigating that is the situation, washington d. c. and we will be bring you the updates as they come the
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in the ah, me well come to the alec salmon show where we focused on the license to be drawn from the cottage. dramatic events, enough gone the sun after 20 years on cooler to light support. they've got to start government collapse with indeed, much of the embarrassment and humiliation of the usa britain underneath to allies. today we take the action from the white toast, the house of commons, and from the movement of the moment the taliban themselves. do we ask old os gone hans and experience commentator repeated over and by when the real significance by invest weeks, extraordinary developments. after full,
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we can hold up in comp. david, this is how joe biden explained the way the chaotic scenes from couple. the developments of the past week reinforced that any u. s. military involvement, i guess, and now was the right decision. americans cannot and should not be friday, you know, war and dine in a war that afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. the president was making the best of a bad job. but you can defense actually been wallace was more emotional when he broke down on a local radio station. men and women of our armed forces are risking their lives in doing that. but that is the right thing to do. they bridge the law is about 20 years and you know, the very least that obligation has to be is many of the people to the pipeline as possible. but i think i also said it's, and it's a really big part of the read to me that some people get back some people and get
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