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life from oscar. thanks for joining us on the weekly here. daniel hawkins. wherever you are today, welcome through the program of the ton of sweeping offence. if you have going on to seize power, has dominated news line throughout the week. thousands of people are still stuck. couple effort trying to flee the country. the chaotic scenes of peeve and trouts have been telling in the 1st day the militant group without its total control over the country. all border posts and now run body insurgents. the heavily defended airport and cobble remains the only place out of their reach. and the only way to leave the country on saturday, the pentagon said some of 17000 people had been left out this week, including around 2 and a half 1000 american. on the same date, the us embassy cobble issued an alert for citizens to avoid the airport unless

there were specific instructions from the american government to go there. he goes down or breaks down the last 7 days at the afghan capital was main transport hub. wanting to view, as you may find some of the upcoming contents distressing. the past few days have been an ultimate exercise in white washing for the white house. the beverly collapse of ghana is done following the us with drool happened as people were being shot, desperate of gunny scaling jets some even tragically falling off the shaggy to their deaths. and as of a q a to in chief biden searched for excuses, and he initially went for the statue of limitations defense. we've all seen the pictures. we've seen those hundreds of people packed into a c 17. we've seen afghans falling. there was 4 days ago, 5 days ago, it was actually 2, but that's not really the point. anyway. it was the fact that service dogs booted

planes and flew to freedom while crowds fought for axis on the runway below. and the us ambassador to the un didn't seem to mind. we are in a process of trying to get people out and our friends and allies are not hanging off of planes. there aren't many things that can make a loving parent to give away their infant child to complete strangers in military uniform. yet this option turned out to be preferable to having the baby learn 1st steps under the taliban. i've done, women took the groups, promises to treat them fairly with a huge pinch of salt too. but to take them is a tool order even for american nationals who were beaten and rude to the cobble airport. contrary to jo biden's claims, we have no indication that they haven't been able to get in trouble through the airport. we've made an agreement with the, with the tale bond as far they've allowed them to go through it and they're

interested in that to go through. so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are carrying an american passport are trying to get through to the airport . we are aware that some people, including americans have been harassed and even hidden by the taliban. this is unacceptable and we made it clear to their designated teller bun leader. but joe biden is far from the only person taking the flack when i'm going to stand collapse to us. vice president campbell harris went abruptly silent that despite previously heralding herself as one of the motives before the pull out to date, this is her only comment on the evacuation chaos. we are closely monitoring the situation in afghanistan. oh, priorities to continue evacuating us citizens, special immigrant visas applicants and vulnerable guns out of the country. the german authorities are scorched for evacuating beer before local staffers, who risked their lives working for their military and up to that relatives of

a do. each of villa correspondents have been killed by the hardliners as they are right now trying to find the reporter himself. chancellor angle merkle had to openly admit that the african nation billing experiment was a mistake. i just didn't succeed and weren'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 on straw for democracy indication and women's rights, and made important progress. prisons, foreign secretary use edge to step down. as the media alleged, he did not help. african interpreters for the u. k. army escaped the country before the taliban takeover and possible revenge attacks. and all of this is happened with smallest scandal. like the possibility that the evacuation might not be free for

americans. and amid all of this, it appears the u. s. leadership still does not have a single clue how to contain the fall out of this disastrous withdrawal. i cannot promise with the final outcome will be we don't have the capability and collect of large numbers of people. 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 us, 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 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 operational. however, not everyone's lucky enough to get a seat on that commission flight. we heard from a german national, who's currently stuck in the country with his fiance. i'm a german citizen. throughout the day, i stay in constant contact with the german foreign ministry and the german ambassador to couple. and 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 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 married abroad once we arrive 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 and my fiance permission to enter germany. thousands of coalition soldiers lost their lives in a 20 a conflict in afghanistan, and particularly upset at the rapid fall of the western back government in couple when the resurgence of the taliban of british veterans and families whose loved ones died. but some questioning is all those sacrifices warned vain accusing the us and u. k. governments of bazzi the withdraw. we spoke to the mother of fall and british

soldier, sean bennett, who was killed in a firefight with ton of admittance back in may 2009. he was just 22 years old. his mother's unit been, he told us about the emotions he's been feeling since last sunday. why does i'm very on the outside able to do that. they've been able to come in and do what they have been able to do. a lot of people are asking, you know, was the worst that i question now and since sunday, reflect joyful and don't think any of the mums and families that have lost loved ones. they have really been able to comprehend best. i know that when my son was told he was killed save, and women and children and the man that he was mentioned at a time along with his own una. and i will be for effort grateful to him and so cried that at the end of the d has late was given to try meet as punchy bad to start the tile from being able to rule the neighbor to cause head or anyway,

as the light went off down and within 24 hours, they have just walked in and took over. it's just looted to me, need to explain why the fight is true so rapidly between the key and america beneath. explain why this is that mean? i personally would like an inquiry into why that happens like us in the face of the overwhelming offensive bodies living, some african people have been running across the country to show their resistance to the side of an regime in trouble. crowds march through the street, the nelson to take over the country, a shanty, the anti taliban slogans, and carried afghans flags that have become a symbol of defiance. with this and verified video reports to show a taliban fighter seizing afghan flags for a man in the street before hitting him in the face. and women also took part in the project so feared there among the most threatened in today's ton of out of control

of going to stone seems to take over st. adverts in the capital. so we're in faces have been paying for over several sharps and beauty. suttles have also close their doors out of fear of possible reprisals. some local say we would have almost disappeared from the streets with only a very small number, daring to come out. despite the talents promising the respects women's rights, it seems. many afghans don't have confidence in those words. we don't want to go back 20 years. they used force against us and broke our smartphones. and they told us that you cannot raise your flag. they told us, go and sit at home. your women be ashamed of the one who fools to protest against them to show the world that the taliban government does not have any value. not just for us, it has no legitimacy in the world. my colleague, real research,

i spoke to the mayor of cob, all about that situation on the ground in the country. they are in touch with me. they called me and they informed me that i should continue my job or seems to thumb that the taliban is perhaps putting on a bit of a p. r stunt at the moment, the taliban saying that they want women to have the opportunity perhaps to even get a job. it says women can perhaps even get an education. we have educated women, we have women who can provide services. we have women can, can be part of the economy. therefore it's only logical for itala by government our, for any government to make sure that we take advantage of that the issue of women has to be dealt with in the context of human rights. and islam, of course, within that context, there are freedoms. we cannot deny that from the women of upon us one, do you think the lack of resistance, even the lack of blood spilled, suggests that actually strong support for the taliban within the country. there was a little bit of both for support for paula bon resentment of how things were

managed. this satisfaction among racket, rank, and file and the ministry executed forces to not to fight because they didn't want to fight or something unknown. the everything was defined around individuals rather than systems. therefore the motivation to fight for a person or persons was not enough for the people to fight. therefore there was no bloodshed. thank god. do you think mister mayor? the people of cobble are going to accept taliban rule. both sides have to come to grips with reality. and naturally tolerable will also have to come to grips with reality that up on the sun is not the same as 20 years ago. so there is a given take that has to take place as part of a drive to promote more moderate means. the televisions also reportedly urging women to join the government. and after the full of cobble and about official,

sat with a female present for an interview with hollow news and ask and tv station, we are to discuss the future of press freedom in the country with sidewalks. any isn't sherman a new and chief executive of a group which overseas, taller news upon the tile of trying to win hearts and minds. they're trying to convince the political stablished, people outside the tal on movement to join and support the taliban movement that are trying to secure international support. so i think it's a bit early. it's a bit too early to judge us to what the long term intentions are. there will be a transitional government know that they may be more restrictive and eventually they'll be in emeralds. it's a tolerable have better ways of freedom of speech is not just on reporting on facts . i mean they, they believed that gods on their side. and the holy koran is the constitution and then they can never be challenged. and in time,

they will need to be need to get channels and we'll see how much capacity they have for criticism. when that happens, there are many who want to stay on and continue their work and some who wish to get that. i mean, what the taliban do in the, in the coming weeks will determine what people do in the years. i had this, this sort of this, this middle class, this youth balls, you know, 60 percent of off kind of centers under the age of 20. and they can, they can make or break the country and they leave, we lose our educated class. so really it's up to the taliban in terms of how they behave and their behavior is going to impact what people do in the months ahead. meanwhile, a possible threat. the televisions power grab, is forming in the countries north videos, appeared on line this week of resistance for his gathering. there, you can see the troops flying green and white flags of the northern lines. it was formed off the thought of. and 1st came to power in 996 and for the group until the us that invasion is reported 210002 africa. all the soldiers are now and punch ship

province. elyria is the only reason of the country that still contested. it was not boast of resistance to the taliban in the 19 nineties and was never captured during the civil war. it also held out during the soviet invasion upon your problems, is located within a valley of steep mountains that forms a solid, natural defense. spearheading the resistance then now is the afghan 1st vice president bureau solid. unlike us nato, we haven't lost spirit and see enormous opportunities ahead. useless caveats of finished joining. the resistance, sallow declared himself up going to stones legitimate acting president after his former boss fled the country and the tunnel bands advanced on cobble. he thought that before and was also in charge of spying on the militants leading the national security directorate and other key figure is helping them run the resistance together. my food, the son and namesake of

a prominent afghan war old but oppose. the 1st taliban rule is what my food 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 and they're going to fight for many other values. the church and you look at you from the past to see that you're the 1st line of defense. we are defending europe. you're defending division. and africans are fighting not just for themselves, but for everyone. international relations experts we heard from war divided over how much of a challenge the resistance was for the taliban now? well it remains machine. how strong this is going to be, but it was a moment to sort of symbolic way because a ton of banners, one control of the country, pretty much all of it and this is still small pockets, resistance could be remaining there and they couldn't develop designs can doomed in the, in the short term, not get very big, but i think one big question will be whether any foreign countries don't recognize

north and line any other resistance group. and to try and ostracize. and i'd like to try to been given that once in a bunch of district, has a history of standing up against any kind of a sort of guardian rule legged with the soviets, later to the civil law. i'm the one that is a good chance that all those were forcing the on the one rally around the literacy of i met some assume some masoud at the moment i'm given that to the vice president stared back and he's making this defined claim he's going to be very, i'll under mental in terms of going listening, that particular opposition, which was in there pretty slowly coming together while any kind of pushback against and he was, he will face extreme when he went on force. thought about now has access to high tech weapons off for worth billions of dollars and originally gifted by the americans to the afghan army,

the us national security adviser. also some questions about the arm that have been left behind. those black hawks were given to the tall one. they were given to the african national security forces to be able to defend themselves. we don't have a complete picture, obviously of where every article of defense materials has gone. 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 hand it over to us at the airport in photos that come to light throughout the week. tell them and i just haven't seen parading around, cobbled show off. the new american made rifles and humvees working from the citizens to estimate the amount and weaponry and technology that fall into the home of the group. and to add insult to injury the taliban is also taken advantage of a photo opportunity. it's a special commodity unit recreated and conic world war 2 photo soldiers raising the american flag. median jimmy door has some advice for washington on how to avoid

such humiliation. share it with action returns, he ought, he's 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 afghanistan to help the women. i say, how about united states takes about 3 or 4000 troops and invade los angeles and brings health care and medical aid. and shelter to the 60000 homes, 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 gavin than did up until we invented the taliban if you took. so there are 600000, according to statistics are 600000 homeless people in america. lot of those are women. lot of those are children. now if you gave them each a $1000.00 stipend a month, a $1000.00 a month, to go get housing. that would cost $7200000000.00 a year. 7.2000000000. you know, we've been spending 2 trillion dollars or the last 20 years, 300000000 dollars a day to kill people and get it then. so the united states ever really cared about women. they could spend a $7200000000.00 to do or take care of the homeless people in the united states. give them a 1000 that they won't do it. so yes, joe biden, nancy pelosi jobs humor. mitch mcconnell, all the leaders and both parties,

they know that they're, that one out of 5 children lives in poverty in the united states, along with their mothers. and they don't care. the. meanwhile, the taliban se political leader unto founder was idle ghani barbara has not returned from exxon taliban affiliated media, showed him being greeted by cheering crowds, getting off the plane. and can the ha loretta who was arrested by pakistani security forces in 2010 and kept in custody for years is now expected to by some to become the next leader. we're going to stop. one of the thought about commander who was seed on sunday storming the presidential palace in the capital and out to be a form of the tiny at the notorious guantanamo by prison. cam ortiz, to be to power, takes a closer look at his and other similar cases. if the situation of gaston wasn't already a disaster showcasing the shortcomings of u. s. foreign policy and appetite for regime change. well, it turns out one of the taliban leaders who gave

a celebratory speech from couples presidential palace was none other than a former guantanamo detainees. who was released as a quote medium risk. guess seriously, of all the people, the u. s. torture in guantanamo this was one of the guys deems thought, really dangerous, and let go meet goal am roo honey. one of the 1st detainees at guantanamo in 2002, he was captured by us forces on suspicion of being a taliban security officer during his time and get more money, maintained that he was, quote, a simple shopkeeper who tried to help americans. so some 5 years later or 8, according to ronnie he was released on the promise that he just wanted to help is sick father won an appliance store and couple fast forward to 2021. and he's a taliban commander, leading the takeover of football. so either the u. s. intelligence was, well not really intelligent and let a taliban radical pull one over them and lie his way out of the hands of the ca,

or it was the time to spend and get mo, that actually radicalized the simple shopkeeper into a taliban fanatic. don't matter if a detainee were innocent. indeed, because he lived and they've got to stop and was captured on or near the battle area, he must know something of importance. well, apparently all the torture and human rights violations that get mall, and other us detention centers turned out to be all for nothing. sure, they apparently got some good intel out of some of the detainees. but on the other hand, the ones that they let go went on to became terrorist leaders. yeah, ronnie isn't the only detain eastern terrorist boss. there's a whole list there is the 5 taliban leaders that obama swapped for an american desert, or these leaders were promised to never see a battlefield again. and that would be held in guitar far from again, a stand regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be. we still get an american

soldier back if you seldom kept it period full stop yet somehow there. now apparently the masterminds behind the current take over a couple. one of them is even a part of the official delegation of the taliban. he even took part in negotiating the us withdraw from again then earlier this year. we'll see. then there are the isis super terrorists, for example, leap in from us all buck daddy, the former leader of isis. he was captured in 2004, held in detention at a u. s. facility in iraq for 10 months. let go and went on to have a successful career and terrorism becoming the head honcho of the big bad, isis. he was a street thug. when we picked him up in 2004, it's hard to imagine we could about a crystal ball, then that would tell us he'd become head of isis. yeah. if only you could have seen that coming anyway. and then there's this guy who was a valuable inform and during his time, at the hands of us intelligence,

our that was a song. but if you meet talents and ability, and now he's no less than the current leader of isis replacing albert, daddy turns out he was just using the us to get rid of the competition for the top spot amongst terrorists. another big wolf's, this is kind of beginning to seem like a trend. now, basically, not only did the us fail to recognize dangerous radicals when they were right there their hands, they apparently even managed to embolden and help radicalized people who probably wouldn't have posed any threat if it weren't for having an encounter with some american intelligence officers. in the end, america seems to be fighting problems itself created. and so many that doesn't even come as a shock. are we calling from the collapse of the country? questions are being asked as to how the, what a crypt i've got an army was so easily up the side. we discuss the issue with a panel of gas. so despite all of america's fire power,

despite all of america's allies, united states was really doomed from the very beginning, did i say, did not understand what it was getting involved in united states culturally, was so ignorant of conditions inside afghanistan that we thought the war and the completely inept way from the beginning. this is mean the biggest military blunder and the history of a half the planet. i don't think any coalition company should ever, ever again, work with america. this is hurts, reaches. you don't need to have the main to understand. but you need to remove your staff from an embassy into secure bias and then leave the countries, but to do it backwards is completely in unheard of. it's been, has been fought. so it, it feels like someone has, has done this with no knowledge whatsoever of the area. a large number of african only people, especially outside the cities are sick and tired of war instability. an insecurity . the corruption of the outgoing west to support the government. and perhaps it's

not even, it's not actually welcoming is tyler bond, or perhaps in a mindset that it can't be worse than the previous incumbent that was backed by the western powers. and without those factors in place, this rapid advance could not taken place. you've got some corrupt warlords, and you've got some corrupt government officials and business men who have their own pockets effectively stolen. the money that was supposed to go to supplies for the military and the supposed to go direct reconstruction programs to help the afghan people, who were they going to fight for. they didn't believe in many of the leaders in the military who were also stealing. and they didn't believe in the government, which was in very, very corrupt. this was not planned. strategically has went wrong. it's not anything . this has made america's strategic foreign policy completely irrelevant. and it's,

it's just sorry, it's just, i've been sorry for the civilians left behind. i'd be sorry for the afghan people, it just seems pointless the whole lot being a waste of time up next thought is commentary presents across schools and look out for the soviet union examining the key moments and figures of the time. the cave you is your commentary, takes a closer look at a tobacco industry and its promotion of electronic product despite the apparent risks to held back in 30 minutes through us again. that was the now we have e cigarettes, i just heard that it was a healthy alternative to cigarettes. do we trust tobacco companies with their message that these new products are actually going to reduce? are these, these are making the tobacco have been worse? ah the

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