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the moon the still watching the week a hair on auto national tail disarray and call black for the week off to the taliban. sweat to pow in afghanistan, purportedly and now it's closed for the next 2 days to evacuate. those right hand side, thousands of tests really trying to flee through the country the only order despite the devastating advance of the taliban, there is some resistance against the men among the groups, protesting the take co boss, ask out women favoring that future under the new regime the chaotic pull out by the western coalition also needs a general gift and sergeant including advanced weaponry from across to knob and vehicles to biometric identification systems.
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ah, it's sunday through the weekly here on our tea. a breakdown of the stories that grabbed headlines of the past 7 days. godaddy with us. well, as you probably expect, the taliban sweeping offensive through afghanistan to seize power has dominated on new cycle throughout the week. the latest is that the u. k. ministry of defense says at least 7 civilians was killed this sunday, a couple of port as large crowds continued to gather that in a desperate attempt to flee the country. the chaos scenes of fam peeves and crowds have been coming in from us since the 1st day . the militant group announced its total control over the territory. however, citing the u. s. military, local media reporting that the apple will be shot in the next 48 hours to evacuate
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. those who have read, he made it inside or border crossings. are now run that by the insurgents heavily defended that. putting comp will remain the only place i reach on their way to meet the country. on saturday, the pentagon said some 17000 people had been lifted out this week alone, including around 2500 americans. on the same day, the u. s. embassy and cobble issued a lot for citizens to avoid the airport unless there were specific instructions from the american government goes. it was donald breaks down the last 7 days at the afghan capital's main transport hub. a warning you may find some of the upcoming content disturbing the past few days have been an ultimate exercise in white washing for the white house. the beverly collapse of ganawe's done following the us withdrawal happened as people were being shot, desperate of gunny scaling jets,
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some even tragically falling off the shaggy to their deaths. and as a curator 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 foot 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 plains. there are 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
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steps under the taliban. i've been, 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 couple. airports. 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 taliban as far they've allowed them to go through 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 beaten by the television. this is unacceptable, and we made it clear to their designated taliban leader by joe biden, is far from the only person taking the flag when of dentist and collapse to us, vice president campbell, a harris went abruptly silent. that's despite previously heralding herself as one
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of the luck motive is before the pull out to date. this is her only comment on the evacuation chaos were 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 bare before local staffers who risked their lives working for their military. and after that, relatives of a do, each of villa correspondents have been killed by the hardliners as they are right now trying to find the report to him self. chancellor angle americo had to openly admit that the african nation building experiment was a mistake. i just didn't succeed and parent accomplished as we had planned, that is a realization. and the middle one is terrifying for the millions of afghans who supported the more free society. and who with the support of when they've gone
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strong for democracy, cation and women's rights. and made important progress. prisons, foreign secretary is edge to step down. as the media alleged, he did not help. i'm going to interpreters for the u. k. army escaped the country before the taliban takeover and possible revenge attacks. and all of this is happened with smaller scandals. 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 to go out and collect up 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 u. s. which after all,
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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, 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 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 was lucky enough to get effect on an evacuation flight. we heard from a gentleman national, his current stock in the country with this african fiance. and i just, 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 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 arrive 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 originals of all of our documents in our hands. let us finally leave this caliphate give me and my fiance permission
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to enter germany. and while confusion reigns, be beyond in the city of complet, self daily life has a little book ground to hold. a local john. this took on a tour of the african capital. also several days that they call, we'll see the capital of a gun to some fall into the fall of. and it seems that the sales receipt is quite sharp that we are seeing you here. they're all clues debunk the restaurant, the supermarket, that all crews. and if you see this region here, it's a completely acquired 3. if you compare with that, yes. before we do the math before, before it's all about capture the city, it was a very rock city. it was the use areas, in fact, the very russian area of color. but now it's very looking very why we will our majority. this person does not make a model in the press kind of fraud. i told the people and cover that they are protected by the ton of on
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w w. i'd also say that i'm thinking about leadership. i have all that to the fighters that they don't have permission to enter for any houses or to any to search either houses, both they, they are not allowed to enter and the houses are inquiring on the government. people know i'm a year and a check point of a ton of money and public. i booked us with the commander of the check point. that's how they can shorter security, 3 people on what they are saying. what people call up. my name is above the rock mancha chime. i'm the much a hit in the land, the camera move, and it has been 18 or 20 years that we've been in the mountains. now we've captured capital city. i hope you are not set and we have not great the problem for the capital people. no, i see the shops and markets are closed. what's a message to the shopkeepers and owners of the market? look as i do what a good will given them freedom. they should come and open their shop. there is no problem for them. is the fight in finished and have dennis them fighting has
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finished and again, this done, there is no g had anymore before this has gone to her. now we should come together and save our country. this is one of the cobble international airport get lots of people are just gathered here to get charles to get inside of the airport. quite a few of the security forces that they don't give permission for anyone to get inside of the airport. now i'm going to interview with one of the guys who is waiting for long time. it is good, but did he put in find the child to get inside of the airport? so how long have you been behind this gate? it's been around 3 days. there were people that stormed the airport with a certificate for an english course. people went with electricity bills, but those of us with the real documents couldn't get inside. i have my special immigrant visa, which has been accepted and approved, but i still can't get inside. getting in the face of overwhelming offensive by the last some ass down. people have been rotting across the country to show that
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resistance to the taliban regime and cobbled crowds march through the streets denouncing to take her out of the country. they chanted unto ton upon slogans and carried off down the flags that has become a symbol of defiance. all this on verified fidel purports to show a taliban fight to seizing african flags from a man in the street. and now you're going to see slapping him in the face. women also took part in the protests that fed they are among the most threatened in today's taliban controlled afghanistan. since the takeover st. adverts and cobble showing women's faces hopping, painted over several shops and beauty. silence have also closed that doors out of fear of possible reprisals from local say, women have practically disappeared from the streets there knew very small number, daring to come out of full despite the tele bonds promises to respect women's rights. but it seems that many afghans don't trust those was
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we don't want to go back 20 years. they used force against us and broke our smartphone. and they told us that you can not freeze your flag. they told us, go and sit at home, your women be ashamed who forced to protest against him 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, voice here, surely a talk to the mayor of kabul about the current situation on the ground. they are in touch with me. they called me and they informed me that i should continue. my job 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. busy it says women can perhaps even get an education. we have educated women, we have women who can provide services. we have women can,
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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 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 to 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
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bloodshed thing got. 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 20 years ago. so there is a given take that has to take place. but it looks like any kind of push back again to the new regime will face and extremely well armed force. because the tunnel by now has access to a high tech weapons and was millions of dollars originally gifted by the americans to the ask me the us national security adviser answered some tough questions about all the items that are not behind. those black hawks were not 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 by. certainly
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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. and foot head starts come to light throughout the week. taliban fighters have been seen parading around kabul, showing off the new american made rifles and humvees. washington is still attempting to estimate the amount of work in technology that fallen into the hands of the group. and todd didn't soap injury the tunnel bonds also created a photo opportunity. one of its special command units decked out and us gear, recreated my clinic world war 2 photo soldiers raising the american flag. comedian and jimmy toll has some advice for washington on how to avoid such humiliations. and he shuddered with action returns. you're not going underground. do 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
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a lot of people are saying we need to stay in afghanistan to help the women. i say, how about if the 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 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, plenty of women, a living wage in the united states, give them health care and give them an education. ironically, that's what the government up gamma ended up until we invented the taliban. if you took, so there's 600000 according to statistics or 600000 homeless people in america. a
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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, but 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 lot in the person has dismissed until idea by western countries to place refugees from afghanistan in central asia. according to the proposal they would have the us
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european fees is processed before traveling on to the final destination. the president statement came during the forum with members of russia's ruling party while joining in the future. now to discuss, this is thought he's done a quarter. i'm the question about gun migrants is need discussed. europe briefing itself for a repeat of the 2015 crisis. what president putin's take, right, well, like you said, i mean, he spoke out against this western suggestion that african refugees basically hang around in limbo and central asia until they receive these western visas that they don't know when they're going to get them. if they're going to get them, i mean, nobody knows what, how long that's going to take. we should also remember that a lot of afghans who collaborated with the us lead alliance and afghanistan were promised visas as well. and a lot of them didn't get them interfering reprisals from the taliban. so the k off that's ensued from the situation is something that the russian president has said that is directly tied to russian national security. so let's say it would take
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a listen. what if any western partners frequently raised the question of accommodating african refugees in central asian countries before they get to us visa or some other one? so you can send people without a visa to these countries to our neighbors, but they don't want to take them with the visas to their own countries as quite a humiliating approach to the issue. now put in statements come amid preparations for tomorrow's collective security treaty organization. this is an organization that has 3 of its men and member states being catholic, stan, curb, cur, kurdistan, antique a stand. these are all central asian countries that you know would be effected in the case of a large influx of refugees, especially tajikistan, which actually shares a common border with have can a stand. and there's also another problem. we don't even know, you know, if there's going to be an influx influx of refugees, if all of them are actually going to be refugee, this is kim. so when we don't,
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once militants disguise those refugees appearing in our country, the horrors we are witnessing now, and i'm going to stand these horrors were on our territory not so long ago. no one wants to repeat of that. that's why we don't want those elements coming from there that we will not. now what vladimir putin was talking about when he said when he was talking about these problems being on the territory of the russian federation, not so long ago. he's talking of course about the early, 2, thousands and the after 2010. the country had suffered from several islamic terrorist attacks that obviously the russian people and, and the people of central asia as well. don't want to see repeated ongoing chaos, enough canister on has implications for the region to the rest of the while. that was our teens. don't bring off that story. meanwhile, the telephones political nita and co found ma labs will connie broader has no return from exile. taliban affiliated media showed him being greeted by cheering
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crowds getting off the plane in kandahar. florida, who was arrested by pakistani security forces in 2010 and captain custody for years is now expected by some to become the next new drawback. galveston. what another taliban commander who was seen on sunday forming the presidential part of the capital, turned out to be a formal deep pena and a tourist one panama bay ortiz to me to park, takes a closer look at his, in other cases. if the situation and i guess that 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. yes. seriously, of all the people, the us 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,
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he was captured by us forces on suspicion of being a taliban security officer. during his time and get more re, honey maintained, that he was called 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. his sick father won an appliance store and couple fast forward to 2021 and he's a taliban commander leading the takeover of couple. so either the us 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 it's been and get know that actually radicalized the simple shopkeeper into a taliban fanatic, he did those my tell you for detainees were innocent. indeed, because he lived and they've got to 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,
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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, so 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 they would be held in guitar far from, again, a san, regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be we still get an american soldier back if you felt captain period full stop yet somehow they're 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 withdrawal from janice. then earlier this year we'll see. then there are the isis super terrorists, for example, leap in from us all, but daddy,
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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 the song. but if you meet talents and ability and now he's no less than the current leader of isis, replacing all. but 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
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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 americas seems to be fighting problems itself created and so many that doesn't even come as a shock. we call from the collapse of the country. questions of being all says to how the well equipped ask me will so easily swept aside. we discussed the issue with a panel of guests. so despite all of america's fire power, despite all of america's allies, the united states was really doomed from the very beginning. they did not understand what it was getting involved in the 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 the military blunder and the history of the planet. i don't think any coalition company should ever, ever again,
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work with american. this is her teachers. you don't need to have the main to understand, but you need to remove your staff from an embassy and to secure a b s. and then leave the countries, but to do it backwards is completely in unheard of. it's been has been taught. so it, it feels if 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 and insecurity. the corruption of the outgoing western support the government on perhaps it's not even, it's not actually welcoming new telephone, new mindset that it can't be worse than the previous income. and that was backed by the western powers. and without those factors in place, this rapid boss could not taken place. you've got some corrupt warlords, and you've got to corrupt government officials and business men who have their own
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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. should teach actually has went wrong. it's not, i think this is me, america is strategic foreign policy completely irrelevant night. and it's, it's just sad. it's just, i've been sorry for the civilians left behind. i'd be sorry for the ask on people. it just seems pointless the whole lot being a waste of time. that's how things are looking and i'm fixing the company. i'm next to all document. she gives a crash course and the clumps. b, u. s. a saw what were sitting tofal. ah,
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americans love buying homes. ah, this was a funded mental part of how our political leadership and our country large understood the bargain. you get a whole and then you know, rebel right, as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. be really interesting to dial back and think about the longer, deeper history of what housings meant in the united states. not just that old question of the american dream, but the bigger question of who the dream has been for the media, a reflection of reality in
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a world transformed what will make you feel safer type relation for community. are you going the right way, or are you being that somewhere? direct? what is truth? watches in a world corrupted you need to defend. ah, so join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah ah. you know, mr. moses when you said that i could put it up before google or.

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